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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! — Almost Everyone On This Page
"In real battles, I think people probably respond to trauma either by going catatonic or with black humour. But in movie-land, when a friend is wounded, the Deep Magic says you have to yell his name. (If his name is "No!", that means he's actually dead.)" — Andrew Rilstone
The moment when a character realizes that something awful has happened, or notices that something awful is about to happen, and screams "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" If the character is rushing to prevent the something-awful from happening, a slow-motion effect can be employed to draw out the tension of the moment, sometimes to the point of drawing out the "No" into a comical bass growl. (Editors with more foresight will combine this trope with the one that indicates a character in shock by muting the soundtrack.) This trope is very susceptible to becoming Narm, but does raise the question of exactly how a character should handle a crisis without coming off like a weakling (by going catatonic), a monster (by cracking a grim joke), or too crude to allow on air (by swearing one's head off).
Used both seriously and for comic effect. Very common on sitcoms. Sometimes the Big No ends the episode with a Cliff Hanger.
Nearing the point of becoming a Discredited Trope. A little more commonly played straight in Japanese media, due to the equivalent iya's higher screamability.
Occasionally the character will shout something other than "No!" — usually shouting the name of the character that something bad is about to happen or has just happened to. This is slightly less discredited. A shorter but still intense "No" also seems less absurd than a drawn-out howl. If nothing less than a howl, expect a Skyward Scream.
When a villain screams the Big No, it's usually as his plans are crashing down around his ears and is usually the last thing he ever says.
Large Hams will pull one out a Giant No if given the opportunity.
Contrast Little No.
Examples:
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Anime and Manga
- Pedro from Excel Saga is infamous for doing the Big No at least Once An Episode. And when I say a Big No, I mean it.◊
- Used straight in Record Of Lodoss War by two characters at the same time.
- Used in Trinity Blood at the climax of episode 22.
- Used in Sonic X at the climax of episode 3 by Amy Rose, Sonic's self-appointed "girlfriend".
- Shadow the Hedgehog does this in episode 61 while trying to defeat the Metarex ship.
- Used in Neon Genesis Evangelion by Asuka at the end of her Mind Rape. And by Shinji after realizing his Mecha has been used by his father to crush the Entry Plug loaded with his unconscious best friend - both are more of an inarticulate yell, actually.
- In Digimon Adventure, Hikari does one when Wizardmon dies, leading to the activation of her crest. It was strangely cut from the dub.
- Equally as strange, the clip was shown in a brief flashback in a later episode, except during a voiceover narration, so her voice was not heard.
- Mai-HiME is has more than a few instances of this happening. Of course, what with all that's going on in that series (especially later on), the characters can be forgiven for yelling Big Nos.
- Ill Girl Hayate has a huge, primal one near the end of the second season of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Considering how it punctuated a particularly nasty Break The Cutie moment, the overall effect was quite chilling.
- Gundam Wing has Duo give a massive one when Trowa destroys Deathscythe (of course, since this is a shounen series, he's actually allowed a Prime Time Friendly curse, i.e., "Ch'k'sho!").
- And earlier than that, Wufei also had a Ch'k'sho!" moment after his encounter with Noin.
- The rather well-known story is that Duo's English VA, Scott McNeil, created the very memorable yell by thinking about the time his wife ran over his motorcycle with the family minivan. "NOOOOOOO" indeed.
- McNeil is so well remembered for this that he takes requests for the Deathscythe scream at cons.
- In Robotech The Shadow Chronicles there are two moments - first when Commander Tailor dies and then when Alex Romero sacrifices himself. This one is especially strong.
- Simon from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann performs a variation on this trope, instead shouting " ANIKI!!!" when he believes Kamina has been killed by Thymilph. Kamina, however, stays alive just long enough to make a Heroic Sacrifice in the form of the Giga Drill Breaker.
- In Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series, Tristan gets one that the credits cut off after Joey tells him that they have to go back to school now that the tournament is over.
- The second Greed gets one of these in the Fullmetal Alchemist manga after he unknowingly kills the last living member of the former Greed's Quirky Miniboss Squad. The old Greed resurfaces, asks What The Hell Anti-Villain and the new one shouts out a screen-filling Big No.
- However, also avoided in the manga when Scar wakes up to find his brother's arm attached in the place of his own. Delivered in the style of the big no, he instead screams "WHAT IS THIS" to a rather chilling effect.
- In Chapter 349 of Bleach, Orihime gets one that spans two pages after Ulquiorra uses his Cero to blow a hole in Ichigo's chest. Not only that, she even needs to take a breath before continuing with it. (oh...ooohhhh...).
- Sailor Moon. A lot, but particularly in the last episodes of the first and last seasons when all her friends seemingly die.
- Lelouch has one when he is beaten in chess by Mao. He used his geass to wipe his memory of the plan which counted on him losing the game. No, not that game.
- Fushigi Yuugi also makes use of this trope during the showdown between Tamahome and Hotohori. Of course, any girl would say this if the guy who just proposed to her and the guy she really loves are kicking each other's ass...
- In Dragon Ball Z Super Buu's big no rips a hole in a dimension. And you had the nerve to call it lame.
- In an Onsen Episode, when the females have discovered the fact that they are being peeped on, they will do this in unison.
- Chitose utters these quite often when having to deal with his self-proclaimed mothers on Happy Lesson, but the entire Biology class gets one when the lesson of the day is: "Dissection - Live chicks".
Commercials
- A tongue-in-cheek instance was used in commercials for the "Geek Squad" technical support service broadcast in late 2004.
- A recent Snickers commercial had an interesting subversion: A Viking, after learning a store had no Snickers, initially does a Big No straight and while doing so, throws a garbage can at a car to get his point across. After learning that they had dark chocolate Snickers, however, he does the exact same thing as before... except with a "Big Yaaaaaaaay"!
- Parodied in a Commercial for Corn Pops, we see a box sitting on a ledge overlooking the San Francisco skyline, someone knocks it over, and tries to grab it before it falls, in slow motion along with the obligatory "Noooo!!!", only he fails, and the camera pulls back to show us that the ledge was only 3 feet off the ground of a hill overlooking the skyline. The man reaches down and retrieves the box.
Film
- Virgil Brigman lets out a "NOOOOOOOO!" in The Abyss after Lindsey drowns herself so he can tow her back to the rig.
- Aliens, when Ripley is dreaming that she has been impregnated by a facehugger Alien.
- Delivered to great comical effect near the end of the Alvin And The Chipmunks movie.
- This is done to great comedic effect near the end of Austin Powers.
- In Back To The Future, Marty does this when seeing Doc get shot by the Libyan terrorists. However, he adds on by saying "NOOOOOOO! BASTARDS!!!!" It then turns out at the end that Doc was wearing a bulletproof vest.
- He does it again (without the "BASTARDS!!!!") in Part II, when he discovers that Biff Tannen has changed history and married his mother.
- In Batman Returns, the Penguin screams a Big No when he receives a letter from Batman saying the children do not wish to attend.
- Mos Def does it in Be Kind Rewind when all of the video casettes in his store were erased.
- Ator from Cave Dwellers is mocked on MST3K for shouting "No!" while helplessly tied to a stick.
- Constantine. After Constantine makes an ash out of Balthazar, the mysterious Big Bad Gabriel appears. After Balthazar asks her to resurrect him, she instead uses a wind to blow him away. He yells "Noooooo!" just before his remains crumble to dust.
- Used, complete with Slo Mo, in Dead Poets Society.
- The Devils Advocate: Al Pacino screams "NOOOOOOOOOO" when Kevin shoots himself. Great because it's delivered in Pacino's understated acting style.
- Done straight by the villain Zeebad in Doogal as he is pulled back into imprisonment.
- In the Dungeons And Dragons movie, Riddley Freeborn's "NOOOOOOOOOO!" when Snails dies.
- The anguished slow-mo scream of the protagonist in the Dungeons And Dragons movie, upon seeing his Sidekick friend Snails stabbed to death (after heroically attacking a villain all by himself), drew involuntary laughter from a movie-going audience at a cinema in Germany. It didn't help that Snails the thief was clearly supposed to be the Plucky Comic Relief but failed miserably, except at becoming the proof that even in Fantasy, the black guy dies first.
- Parodied in Evil Dead 2, when Ash finds that the only bridge to leave the haunted shack is totally destroyed. "No... Oh God no... no... NO! NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Of course, that's not te only example in the film.
- In many cases, it's the character's final line of the movie (there are even cases where it's the final line of the movie: here, Wesley Snipes' Jungle Fever, the telefilm Christmas Every Day...).
- Some of the Star Trek movies use the Big No at least once:
- All the Star Wars movies uses the Big No at least once:
- A New Hope: Luke gives a Big No when Darth Vader kills Obi-Wan.
- The Empire Strikes Back: Luke responds to Luke I Am Your Father, in a fairly predictable way.
- Return of the Jedi: A robot screams as his feet are ripped by another machine.
- Phantom Menace: Echoing Luke in A New Hope, Obi-Wan does a Big No when Darth Maul kills Qui-Gon.
- Attack of the Clones: Obi-Wan again, when Anakin charges recklessly in to fight Dooku. Also, Yoda hears a Big No from Qui-Gon's ethereal voice as Anakin slaughters the Tusken Raiders.
- Revenge of the Sith: Anakin/Vader, upon discovering that Padme is dead.
- Darth Vader's usage of it at the end of Revenge of the Sith was criticized by many fans (and, subsequently, memed to death). Some voices just can't handle the Big No, and audiences found out the hard way that James Earl Jones' is one of them. Do Not Want indeed.
- Parodied in this I-Mockery feature.
- Parodied in this strip of Digi-Comic.
- Qualified as Narm even before the Memetic Mutation.
- Played agonizingly straight in the first The Lord Of The Rings movie, though it wasn't nearly as stale when the source material was written. (Not that the source material specified a "big no", but...)
- Gimli's Big No when he discovers the tomb of Balin actually dissolves into blubbering. Frodo also has one upon Gandalf's death.
- There's another Big No in the third movie, right at the climax, when Frodo succumbs to the lure of the One Ring while standing on the edge of the Crack of Doom. It's actually two smaller "no"s, then followed by what might be the biggest "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" this troper's ever heard as Frodo puts on the Ring, alerting the Big Bad to his presence.
- Another in the third film is screamed twice by Eomer upon the discovery of his uncle King Theoden dead and his sister Eowyn almost dead on the battlefield. Here it is one of the rare effective moments of Big No.
- Yet another in the third film is Legolas in the final battle When Aragorn's about to be killed by a troll. It's definitely in the extended cut and the trailers.
- According to this, yelling "NOOOOOOO!" is the distinguishing characteristic of the hero from Battlefield Earth. His first Big No occurs less than two minutes into the movie.
- The Lion King: Simba screams it as Mufasa falls to his death in a well-done and dramatic way.
- That Big No was overlapped with a second Big No with Simba's flashback in the same movie, right before adult Simba jumps back onto Pride Rock.
- And again in the sequel, in which he has a flashback/dream sequence- two "Big No"s in a span of 11 seconds!
- The Mummy Returns: Imhotep, the titular returning mummy, actually slides on his knees into the frame to deliver one (in ancient Egyptian, of course) when the other Big Bad for the film is defeated. To compound it all, he was kinda late. So blatant, it has to be some self-aware parody.
- Definitely a parody. Rick O'Connell delivered a much better and more believable one earlier in the film when Evy was stabbed.
- Spider-Man 2: Yelled by Otto Octavius when he wakes up and finds that his tentacles - which have a mind of their own - killed all of the doctors who were about to operate on him while he was unconscious.
- The third movie has it when Eddie Brock sees Spider-Man is throwing a bomb at the Venom symbiote.
- Terminator 2 had the best Big No ever, when Sarah Connor sees the good terminator walk out of the elevator. Not knowing he's good, Sarah falls down, but first has a look of disbelief on her face. Then as she runs the other way, her screams build up in volume until she finally lets out her Big No.
- Delivered straight in Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix when Sirius Black falls through The Veil in the Death Chamber. Harry screams it. In a twist, the scream is given silently, with the score playing over it.
- This after, in the Goblet of Fire movie, Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort delivers a painfully straight (and horribly delivered) triple threat of Big No, Skyward Scream AND camera spinning when Harry got away...again.
- Subverted by Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast: "Nonononono NO!"
- In Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, we get to see not one but two characters deliver the "Big No", combined with firing their weapons wildly, in very short succession.
- Parodied in Mirror Mask: "NOOOOO! I DON'T WANNA BE A WAITER!"
- Parodied in the endings of Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2. In the former, as the Final Girl screams, she is ran over by a car. In the latter, the Final Girl meets the psycho again. She does the Big No, he does a Big Yes... and gets run over by a car.
- Merlins Shop Of Mystical Wonders features a truly glorious NOOOOOOOOO!", complete with slow-motion running towards the camera.
- In Sweeney Todd there is a Big No issued by the titular character after he is informed of his wife's rape. Rather effective due to it blending in with his wife's screams at the end of the musical number/flashback, "Poor Thing."
- The infamous 1983 film The Lonely Lady seems to think this trope automatically equals brilliant writing. Roger Ebert probably said it best:
The movie's whole plot hinges on Pia's ability to rewrite a scene better than her jealous writer-husband. When the star of her husband's movie weeps that she can't play a certain graveyard scene, Pia whips out the portable typewriter and writes brilliant new dialogue for the star. What, you may ask, does Pia write? Here's what: She has the grieving widow kneel by the side of the open grave and cry out (are you ready for this?) "Why? Why!!!" That's it. That's the brilliant dialogue. And it can be used for more than death scene, let me tell you. In fact, I walked out of this movie saying to myself, "Why? Why!!!"
- The Kentucky Fried Movie has a random CIA mook shout this when he's reassigned to... Detroit. '"NO! NO, NOT DETROIT! NO! NO, PLEASE! ANYTHING BUT THAT!! NO! NO!!"'
- Raiders of the Lost Ark. While the Nazis are sliding the stone block to seal off the Well of Souls (with Indy and Marion inside), Marion yells "Noooo!". The sound is abruptly cut off when the block slides into place.
- Played straight with the end of Heavenly Creatures.
- In WALL-E, Eve does this multiple times, once with her voice when WALL-E fires her laser arm by accident and a few times with a movie scream whenever something bad happens to WALL-E. May be Lampshade Hanging.
- Auto manages a couple as well, despite being "played" by a voice synthesizer. Seems Macintalk puts a lot of emotion into that one word for some reason.
- Shia La Beouf inverts this trope in a number of his movies by instead letting out numerous little No's. See Here
- In Tropic Thunder Tugg Speedman lets out one of these after killing a panda in self defense, and it's hilarious.
- In Se7en David Mills build up to one of these after being informed that it was his wife's head in the box. "What was in the boooox? You're a liar! No! NO!"
- The Abbé de Coulmier (Quills) achieves a massive Big No, bordering perhaps on Huge status, upon the Marquis de Sade's suicide. The Abbé's No is so big that it in fact incites a chorus of Big Nos from the asylum's inmates, which echoes off the mildewed walls and bathes the watcher in the uncensored vocal epitaph of the Abbé's bitter moral defeat.
- In Superman, Superman lets out a Big No when he is shocked when Lois Lane died in the earthquake.
- Toy Fare magazine's Geek 100 rated this #6, as "the most agonized scream ever recorded on film."
- In The Godfather, Part 3 Al Pacino gives a huge "NO", complete with faded soundtrack when his daughter is shot.
- When Art Lean is killed by Goro in the Mortal Kombat movie, the Big No is screamed by Sonya immediately upon his death, and then issued by Johnny Cage when Shang Tsung proceeds to consume the guy's soul.
- Said by Dr. Frank N Furter in Rocky Horror Picture Show as he flees from a laser-wielding Riff Raff.
- Parodied by William Shatner in Invasion Iowa, writing 13 O's on his cue card.
- In the Watchmen movie Nite Owl lets out a classic Big No complete with falling to his knees upon seeing the disintegration of Rorschach.
- Derek Zoolander has one of these when he sees his (even more Too Dumb To Live than he is) friends die in a tragic using-gas-pumps-as-water-pistols accident, not very far into the movie. (The "no" starts a bit earlier, when he sees a cigarette arcing towards his friends in Slo Mo.)
- Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers has several, all said in a row when Loomis realizes Laurie's daughter (whom he's been trying to protect) has been corrupted by Michael and has murdered her foster mother with a pair of scissors at the end of the film.
- Legend (1985). Darkness yells "Nooooooo!" when he's blasted out into space by the sunlight.
- Mulan. Shan-Yu yells "Nooooooooooooo!" when Mushu fires a big rocket at Shan-Yu.
- Used twice in the X-Men Origins: Wolverine, both times by Logan; first time after he kills his father and the second time when he finds the dead body of his girlfriend.
- In the regular X-Men trilogy, Wolverine does it after killing Jean Grey.
- In the 2007 TMNT film, Raphael lets out a Big No after the bad guys have kidnapped Leonardo.
- In the original movie, Donatello, Michaelangelo and Raphael let one out as the Shredder is about to kill Leonardo.
- Played for laughs by Will Arnett in Hot Rod. Must be seen to be believed.
- Sol lets out a Big No after Eden escapes him on the train (after having first escaped his prison).
- Several characters in The Fall scream "NOOOOOOOOOO!" at one point — sometimes it's played for humor, sometimes it's played very, very straight.
- Chuckie bursts into the chapel with one in Rugrats in Paris.
Literature
- An unintentionally hilarious example is seen at the end of Marianne Curley's The Key, where Ethan screams it after his true love Rochelle takes a magic arrow to the chest for him. Rochelle, who is narrating the story and using present tense, is able to tell us that the last thing she hears before she dies is Ethan screaming "Nooooo!"
- In the first Wild Cards book (from 1986), Dr. Tachyon shrieks "Noooooooooooooooooo!" when he believes he has failed to prevent his friend Angelface from being shot.
- In George R. R. Martin's A Clash of Kings ship-captain Davos Seaworth unleashes one of these during the bloody naval assault on King's Landing, when he realizes that one of the other attacking ships is about to set off a particularly nasty trap.
- In the Whateley Universe, Phase did this once, upon learning something horrific about herself during powers testing.
- The Gaunts Ghosts novel The Guns of Tanith uses this at the climax when Mkoll kills Sagittar Slaith.
- Inversion: in Reaper Man, Azrael answers Death's request for more time with a big "YES." Literally big, that is; it's in an extremely large font size. According to [1], it was supposed to be near the top of a left page, so that it would surprise the reader when they turn the page, but not all printings did this.
- This trope, among other things, robbed Oz's death in The Lake House of much of its impact.
- To expand on the Harry Potter examples in the Film section, Professor McGonagall gets a big "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" towards the end of The Deathly Hallows, when she sees Hagrid carrying what she thinks is Harry's lifeless body. But don't worry, he got better.
Live Action TV
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Web Comics
- 8-Bit Theater once replaced the big "NOOOO!" with the big "FUUUUCK!".
- Though the actual sound was cut, The Simpsons Did It.
- Red Mage used this as Black Mage was about to burn the Rat's Tail they needed for the class change. He put on a levitation spell so he could do the slo-mo jump (but applied too much and was left hanging for a while), and did the Big No just to be dramatic.
- Dominic Deegan also has a big "FUUUUCK!" moment, too. Made all the funnier because it's rare to see him lose his cool like that.
- Tedd's father uses this in El Goonish Shive, when he's realizes he's said he'll pay for eight teenagers to eat pizza, while at a meeting far away. The person he's talking to thinks her ideas are being criticized. The comic is helpfully titled 'I Graduated from the George Lucas Directing Academy'.
- Subverted in the third panel of this strip of Sluggy Freelance, where a "little no" gives the dramatic impact a Big No is supposed to have.
- Vaarsuvius uses it in Order Of The Stick strip #504, titled That's a Surprisingly Common Reaction.
- Lampshaded in the first panel of the next strip, by Genre Savvy Elan:
Elan: "Hey, did someone in here just drop to their knees and scream, 'Noooooo'? I got a feeling...."
- Durkon gets one of these after tasting what is allegedly the "finest beer brewed in all the human lands."
- And the intermission comic, where..well just see for yourself.
- V does it again after an as-of-yet unnamed dragon swears to kill V's kids.
- Xykon, of all people, does it when his phylactery is nearly lost to the snarl.
Xykon: No no no no no no NO!
...
Xykon: YES!
- Captain SNES has had its fair share of them
- Dr. Wily does the traditional NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! When he realises he's in a catch 22 as the VP of Nexus and doing anything to ruin Nexus would cause Blues to torture him, meaning he would have to go against his nature and save it from the stupidity that was President Haggar.
- Alex Willams, replaces the Big No with the Big FUCK, and purposely extends it to buy time to think.
- He did a simple Big No before. It lasted something like thirteen comics.
- Shortpacked! gives us Robin's reaction to finding out that Felix Gaeta is portrayed by the same man that voiced Nightscream from Transformers: Beast Machines.
- Plays... oddly in Girl Genius webcomic, when Gilgamesh Wulfenbach is led to believe that Agatha was killed by a rogue clank. He begins the wind-up to a Big No before cold logic takes over. However, in a flashback to the same scene, Gil is in the classic 'Big No' pose. So it's unclear whether he did one or not.
- Many Girl Genius characters get a Big No, of course. Gil demonstrates correct form here.
- Candi presents the rare quixotically hopeful drunken ex-boyfriend version.
- Today Nothing Happened: This very wiki is responsible in this strip.
- Bob the Angry Flower has it at the end of this strip.
- Used pretty straight in Final Blasphemy here and later in the same issue.
- In Starslip Crisis, Zillion can't even do this right.
- In The Inexplicable Adventures Of Bob when Bob learns his roof is about to be destroyed a third time. It will happen many more times.
- From installment #64 of That's My Sonic!:
Knuckles: Whoa! Cool! I'm back in the comic!
Rouge: You mean to tell me that you don't remember a thing before this moment?
Knuckles: ...Uhm...no.
Rouge: We went to Vegas and got married!
Knuckles: *slow motion* NOoOOoooOoooOOooOOooOOo!!
- From Multiplex, sarcastically, from Kurt.
- Candice didn't appreciate his creative marriage proposal.
- Happens in Corner Alley 13 when Noelle notices that her café doesn't have any customers.
Web Original
- The end of the season 3 finale of AH Dot Com The Series: after it's revealed that they inadvertently overwrote the location of the Planet of the Nymphomaniacs in the ship's memory banks, the entire crew lets out a Big No so loud it literally echoes off distant galaxies and is heard in other dimensions.
- The Leet World's Chet usually greets the death of his drinking budy Player with a cry of "Player, NOOOOO!" However, since the show is set inside a Video Game, dead characters are usually back in action next round. A notable exception is when Player is injured by Ahmad's grenade, as this took place outside the challange levels where death is permanent.
- In Tales for the Leet's Romeo and Juliet, Juliet has an especially Big No after finding Romeo dead, taking three lines of dialogue to complete and ending with multiple !s and 1s.
- The Angry Video Game Nerd Replace "no" with "FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!" or other swear word.
- In the "Christmas Carol" episode: "NOOOOOOO! NO! NO! NO!", when the Ghost of Christmas Future shows him his tombstone, in the style of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.
- In the ZeroPunctuation review of Spore, Yahtzee delivers a deadpan Big No. Twice. Both times in his inimitably snarky manner.
So can his new game Spore possibly live up to that legacy? In short, no. In long, noooooooooooooo...(total length: 17 seconds)...ooo.
So I guess what I'm asking is, "Can brightly coloured monstrosities really compare to Batman?" Short answer, Nooooooooo...(interrupted by closing music)
- Julian and Tarquin from The Chin Review are really, really attached to their cheese and wine.
Western Animation
- Disney's Aladdin. Jafar, after he betrays Aladdin and realizes he doesn't have the lamp. Also, when he's sucked into a lamp in the ending.
- In Disney's Hercules, this is Zeus' reaction to learning his infant son has been kidnapped.
- Sev Trek: Puss in Boots (the Australian CGI spoof of Star Trek The Next Generation). Captain Pinchhard utters one of these, upon hearing that Measly Cruncher is going to save the Enterforaprize for the 47th time.
- Parodied in the Simpsons episode "Mayored to the Mob", in which bodyguard-in-training Homer practices his slow-motion dive.
Instructor: You call that a "No?" Drop down and give me 20!
Homer: NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Instructor: Better.
- Better yet, the part of the instructor was played by Mark Hammill, who should know his NOOOOOOOOOOOOO...
- Used straight in Simpsons episode "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson," when Barney discovers he holds the black pickled egg that means he's today's designated driver.
- Seymour Skinner does three in a row in the episode "Bart's Comet", each with increased intensity; firstly, when he discovers that Bart has managed to discover a comet, something Skinner has dreamed of for years, when he briefly left Bart in charge of his telescope whilst trying to capture a less-than-complementary hot-air-balloon depicting Skinner with a giant rear that Bart earlier released ("Noooo!"). Then, he realises that in his earlier grief he's released the hot-air-balloon, letting it float free to humiliate him further ("Noooo!"). Then, a paperboy drops the morning paper in front of him, with a headline reading "PREZ SEZ: SCHOOL IS FOR LOSERS": ("NOOOOOOOOOOOO!").
- Done yet again where Homer made Lisa so angry that she tells him that she's going to use Marge's maiden name (Bouvier) instead of Simpson. Homer drops to his knees and screams "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Then another girl walks buy and asks if he wants to buy some Band Candy. Homer's reply: "YEEEEEEEEEEEES!"
- Futurama, "Bend Her": After Bender fakes the death of his feminine alter-ego Coilette at what would have been her wedding to Calculon, Calculon goes "No! NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO! N! O! O! O!"
- Also from Calculon in Futurama: the robotic soap-opera star is being interviewed on a talk show. When asked to set the audience up for the clip they are about to show from a new episode, Calculon responds "No, I think it's self-explanatory." The clip shows Calculon screaming "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!" (while a pirate inexplicably cooks burgers on a barbecue behind him). After the clip, Calculon nonchalantly replies, "Funny story: The script called for me to say 'yes' but I gave it a little twist."
- That, as well, is from "Bend Her". That's two Big No s in one episode.
- Done again by Calculon in "That's Lobstertainment!", when Harold Zoid (Zoidberg's over-the-hill celebrity uncle) is trying to make a movie that will guarantee him an Oscar.
- Being a parody of melodramatic acting, Calculon is prone to do this sort of thing a lot.
- In "Mars University", Gunther the genius monkey decides to get a degree in business with his now only decent intelligence. causing Professor Farnsworth to shout a big no.
- In "Love and Rocket", Bender dumps the crazy Planet Express ship while she, and the main cast inside her, are being chased by a large fleet from Omicron Persei 8. Cue big, shrieking no.
- "When Aliens Attack": Fry gets one off after a ship from Omicron Persei 8 blows up his sand castle.
- Parodied throughout the Drawn Together episode "Terms of Endearment," in which Captain Hero screams "Nnnooooooo!!" at least 7 or 8 times. At one point (as the camera pulls back... and back... and then back some more, to reveal just how big a problem he's facing) Hero screams the Big No three times in a row, with dramatic pauses in between.
- Often used by Swat Kats villains such as Dark Kat and The Pastmaster when the heroes defeat them.
- Done straight on a fairly regular basis in ReBoot - Bob, being shot into the Web at the end of season two, Enzo, after learning about Bob's fate, Dot in "Game Over" when it appeared that Enzo had been nullified (that scene, coupled with Megabyte's calm laughter, still gives this editor chills), and said twice by Megabyte in two episodes toward the end.
- This YTMND does a rather good job of pointing out just how often this trope is played.
- In the Spongebob Squarepants episode "Bubble Buddy", Spongebob does the big no when Squidward is about to pop the bubble with a needle. It goes into ridiculously slow motion, and he starts randomly messing with the vowel, making this a spoof as well.
- A wonderful Big No can be found in episode 4 of season 2 of the 90s X-Men series, "One Man's Worth part 1". The first occurrence is when Bishop shouts it as Professor X is assassinated in the '50s before he can found the X-Men, followed quickly by an epic Big No from Prof. X when he vanishes from the present. The episode ends with a repeat of the opening scene — but this time, it's in slow motion for the last few lines of dialogue, including Bishop's Big No. Behold.
- Another Big No scene sadly fails in X-Men: Evolution animated series, when Nightcrawler reacts too slow to stop an angry Rogue from pushing Mystique's petrified body off a cliff and has to see it shatter into a thousand shards right in front of him, shortly after finding out that Mystique was his mother. Again, the scene would have been so much better without the slow-motion yell.
- Optimus Primal gets quite a few in Transformers: Beast Wars, most notably in the cliffhanger of the first season finale, and when the Axalon is destroyed in season 3.
- And in Armada, Optimus Prime gets one of these when Smokescreen dies.
- Parodied in the "Bee in the City" script reading of Transformers Animated, with David Kaye using his Beast Wars Megatron voice (to enthusiastic approval from the crowd). Upon his defeat, he vows to return, ending with a big "YEEESSS!"
- In Animated, the Autobots discuss having to leave, and Bulkhead wonders how Sari (human sidekick) will take it. Bumblebee says she's a big girl and can handle it. Cut to Sari screaming NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! at the top of her lungs.
- In The Spectacular Spider Man, the Sandman gets one of these after seeing the results of his traumatic transformation into a living sand being.
- Littlefoot gets one of these in The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water, as he watches Mo lead the swimming sharptooth away.
- Used in American Dad by either Stan, Francine or Hayley when they believe Steve and Roger were killed by a lightning-struck treehouse. Rather effective due to how strangled and broken it sounded.
- Steve actually pulls out a very amusing Big No fairly often.
- Avatar The Last Airbender has a slow-motion one from Zuko in the Grand Finale when Taking The Bullet for Katara. Cue "must run in the family" jokes...
- In Danny Phantom when Danny's family and friends (and teacher) were about to be blown up to their doom in an alternate timeline, Danny cries one out, complete with slow motion movement.
- Vlad later gets one in another episode when his perfect clone is destroyed by Danny and his Opposite Sex Clone. For just one word, it's brilliantly acted.
- In one episode of the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Baxter Stockman lets out a big "WHY?" after Bishop brought him back from the brink of death, which robbed him of finally resting in peace after everything he lived through in the series. Considering the pedigree of his 4Kids voice actor, it comes across as being narm-y.
- Kim Possible, Stop Team Go. After using hundreds of mooks to destroy the gurken jar, Dr. Drakken puts the jar under a big laser beam, and he fires it. The result was a big crater on the floor, and the jar was unharmed. Cue Big No.
- In another episode upon learning that her very annoying younger twins have been skipped ahead and are now in the same high-school as her, Kim lets out a big no powerful enough to knock letters of the school sign out front, while she's indoors.
- Powerpuff Girls,Daylight Savings: "PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
- Parodied in the Space Ghost Coast To Coast episode Boo Boo Kitty, when Space Ghost's pet cat, actually a large balloon, slowly drifts towards a large safety pin. He screams NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!, runs out of breath, inhales, and starts again. After the balloon deflates, he promptly ignores the others when they suggest he could have easily saved Boo Boo Kitty from its untimely death.
- Played for laughs in Metalocalypse, when Nathan lets out a NOOOOOOOOOO! upon Nick Ibsen revealing Dethklok's parents.
Nick Ibsen: You are all going to be reunited with your families. (A panel opens up, revealing the families of each of the five band members.) Nathan Explosion: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! You're going to pay for this! Ibsen: Pay for what? Journalistic integrity?''
- Big Nos are Nathan's catchphrase, and he lets them out quite regularly. They are usually accompanied by the camera flying down Nathan's throat as he screams it.
- The Buzz Lightyear Of Star Command episode "Plasma Monster" has Booster react this way when Plasma Boy's girlfriend tells him they can still be Just Friends.
- Ace Lightning - the characters in this mixed media show are based on superhero stereotypes, so this was going to show up sooner or later - except that it's not one of the CGI characters that do it - it's a human, in the last episode, when he thinks Ace has been shot.
- In Street Fighter, Guile gave one when Cammy defected to Shadaloo and gives Bison a big kiss.
- In Freakazoid episode "House of Freakazoid", Freakazoid is pressured to pursue a villainess through a sewer, but repeatedly refuses because he hates the smell of poo gas.
Freakazoid: "NO! A big N, followed by a little O: no!"
- Parodied in The Fairly Oddparents "Wishology: The Exciting Middle Part", which ended with a big "Dagnabit!"
- Cow of Cow And Chicken did it in an episode while jumping to catch a coin. In slo-mo. With the entire world slowed down as well.
- In the last episode of the third season of The Venture Brothers, Henchman 21 indulges in a Big No when the Monarchmobile explodes with Henchman 24 trapped inside, but is interrupted when 24's severed head hits him in the chest.
- In Brother Bear, Kinai lets out the distant, bird-disturbing version of a Big No when he discovers he's been transformed into a bear.
Real Life
- When Wookieepedia, the official unofficial Star Wars Wiki, was going for their first Featured Wikia of the month on the Wikia main site, there was some consternation when they discovered they were losing to WikiFur, the Furry Fandom 's Wikia. This sent them on a wild scramble for more votes. The furries, to their credit, played up their role of villain with the following message on the Wikia boards. "Join us, and together we can rule the Internet as Wookie Fur!" Wookieepedia made the only appropriate response.
- If only Chewie, rather than Vader, had delivered the last Big No of the saga...
- A few years ago, an infamous online video began to spread, which showed a guy spoiling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to a bunch of Harry Potter fans waiting outside a bookstore for the novel. One fan's reaction: "NOOOOOOOOOO! You Bitch! YOU BITCH!!".
- In a video featured on many cop shows, a man being arrested for possession of marijuana screams "NOOOOOOOOO! Please! God Almighty!" etc. AKA the Crybaby Criminal.
- This will happen quite a lot during hot blooded Left 4 Dead expert campaigns whenever the last player left alive after the second Tank dies gets tackled by a hunter feet away from the rescue vehicle.
- In 2004, a woman at a Dick Cheney rally was arrested and nearly charged for shouting five Big Nos in a row.
- Since the United States 2008 Presidental and Congressional Election, the "Party of No" has become an increasingly common slang term for the U.S. Republican Party, because of being seen as as having very little political activity other than opposing U.S. President Barack Obama and the policies of the 2009 U.S. Congress.
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