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McLeach: Your bird's dead. Someone shot her; shot her right out of the sky.
Cody: NO!!!
The moment when a character realizes that something awful has happened, or notices that something awful is about to happen, and screams "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" it can also be used when a character is angrily refusing to do something.
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. 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 as a psychotic (by going catatonic), a monster (by cracking a grim joke), or a potty-mouth (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 Narm and a Discredited Trope, though a good actor can still pull it off. Some variants still have credibility, including a shorter but still intense "No", and a panicked "No no no no no!" Or you can just go for the simpler Skyward Scream. 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.
Language matters a lot. For example, Big No is commonly played straight in Japanese media, due to the equivalent iya's higher screamability. * It literally means "unpleasant"... but is usually translated "no" when in line with this trope. But not very common in Russian, due to the equivalent nyet's very low screamability.
When a villain screams the Big No, it's usually as his plans are crashing down around his ears. And also usually the last thing he ever says.
Often combined with a Futile Hand Reach.
Large Hams will pull one out a Giant No if given the opportunity.
A Sub Trope of Big Word Shout.
Compare/Contrast with Big "YES!", Little No, Big "NEVER!" and Rapid Fire No. Has a Sub Trope cousin, Slow No. See also Death Wail and Howl of Sorrow. Not to be confused with a certain mecha series with a similar-sounding title.
See here for a side-by-side comparison of a LOT of Nos. Here's two more with a ton more famous ones. And see here for a hilariously useful Instant-Noooo.
The thing that makes this trope so effective is the fact that most people identifying the word "no" with something going wrong. So when we hear a character screaming with a very loud "nooooooooo!" it really gets to us. People with different psychologies are not as effected by this and may view the scene as comical instead of as the emotional moment it may be intended as. When this shot of a character exclaiming negatively while in slow motion, the scene may be even more dramatic (although this is usually a sign that the character is dying).
Examples
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Advertising
- 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"!
- A Geico caveman commercial has one of the cavemen giving a silent Big No after seeing the motto "so easy a caveman can do it" on a wall of televisions, shouting up at the sky as he finds Redemption in the Rain and then running through a flock of Disturbed Doves, while 3 Doors Down's "Let Me Be Myself" plays. This was all re-edited from the song's actual music video, which used the Geico caveman to Narmtastic effect, but the commercial's condensed version Crosses the Line Twice into hilarity.
- There is a literal Big No for the Stop Sex Trafficking logo as seen on the side of this bag: http://www.thebodyshop.ca/newbagforlife.html
- Parodied in an advertisement for the Samsung Epic 4G. An officer of a civil-war army receives a letter, and utters a Big No upon reading it. The parody is that the note is then shown to actually say "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" for an entire page.
- An advertisement this troper saw at a movie theater for related discounts had a Roman-looking soldier approach his general in a tent, handing him a letter. The general opens it an immediately yells "NOOOOOOOO...!" Cut to a view of the letter, which is just the word "Nooooooooooooooo" spread across the letter in cursive.
- In the 1995 Cap'n Crunch Berries commercial, a black teenager yells the Big "NO!" when he is told that the store is out of Crunch Berries.
- A fat man inside a teenager's stomach screams "NOOOOOOOO! NOOOOO!" when his fridge is empty in the 1997 Taco Bell commercial.
- JC Penney's newest advertisement which can be seen here on YouTube shows numerous shoppers yelling "NOOOOOOOO!!!!" upon seeing sale prices in other stores; as this troper found out later, the advertisements announce JC Penney's discontinuation of accepting coupons after February 1, 2012.
Anime & Manga
- In any Hot Springs Episode, when the females have discovered the fact that they are being peeped on, they will do this in unison.
- 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.◊ It seems that every episode he was being given a larger chop of ham, until he got the whole frigging pig in episode 19 (AFROOO!! NOOOO!!!).
- Wouldn't ''you''? You die the first episode. You spend a number of episodes as a sex slave for a cosmic anomaly, and then you find out someone else is hitting on your sexy wife.
- Used straight in Record of Lodoss War by two characters at the same time.
- Used in Trinity Blood at the climax of episode 22.
- Sonic X:
- Used 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.
- Though the series engages in more and more towards the end, the biggest of Big Noes in Neon Genesis Evangelion are one by Asuka at the end of her Mind Rape, one by Shinji after realizing his Mecha has been used by his father to crush the Entry Plug loaded with his unconscious best friend, and one by Maya Ibuki (who spends most of End of Evangelion freaking out) after Giant Naked Rei's hand passes right through her entire body. Some of these were dubbed into English as inarticulate yells, probably to avoid being straight-up Narm.
- Being as the Japanese usually used for the Big No, "ie", sounds like a scream anyway, it only makes sense to translate them as such.
- Used in Nadia The Secret of Blue Water by the title character, twice in the final episode first when Emperor Neo sacrifices his life to free her from Gargoyle's control, and, even more heartbreakingly, when Gargoyle kills Jean by making him fall to the floor. (Nadia eventually revives him with the Blue Water.)
- 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.
- Also used in the episode "Ogremon's Honor" by Mimi when Leomon dies
- Liar Game plays this straight with Ms. Kosaka upon her defeat.
- Mai-HiME 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.
- Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
- Ill Girl Hayate has a huge, primal one near the end of the second season. Considering how it punctuates a particularly nasty Break the Cutie moment, the overall effect is quite chilling.
- In the fourth Megami sound stage, Shamal gives one in a more light-hearted moment when Agito inadvertently shows Hayate a cake from Nanoha's parents' cafe that was supposed to be a surprise (as part of celebrating the tenth anniversary of Hayate recovering) due to being unable to read the kanji on the box.
- Fate has one in the one-shot "Second Mother's Day," when she worries that when Vivio doesn't give her a gift for Mother's day, she will soon stop seeing her as a mother and eventually no longer recognize her.
- Quattro gets one of these off just before Nanoha's Dungeon Bypass Wave Motion Gun gives Quattro the honor of being the face of the 'Oh, Crap' page.
- Gundam Wing
- Duo gives 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!"). 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.
- And earlier than that, Wufei also had a Ch'k'sho!" moment after his encounter with Noin.
- 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.
- The king (or rather, queen) of this trope is - surprise, surprise - Kinon. When Rossiu is about to shoot himself in the head, Kinon screams out a teary DAAMEEEEEEEEEEE!!! which stops him dead in his tracks - just in time to receive a Get A Hold Of Yourself Man punch from Simon.
- Fullmetal Alchemist
- The second Greed gets one of these in the manga and second anime after the revived and amnesiac Greed unknowingly kills the last living member of the former Greed's Quirky Miniboss Squad. Ling, who's body the current Greed is inhabiting, asks What The Hell Anti-Villain, causing the old Greed's memories to resurface, with the new one letting out a screen-filling, gut-wrenching, Big No.
- Hohenheim pulls an inarticulate scream of despair and horror after he figures he's the Last of His Kind (The last human alive in Xerxes, his country, to be exact) and has become a living philosopher's stone.
- In chapter 107, Ed lets out a Big No when he realizes Al is sacrificing his own soul to restore Ed's real arm and save him from Father.
- Episode 45 of Brotherhood sees Large Ham Alex Armstrong giving big no after big no. He's fighting his sister, Four Star Badass Oliver Armstrong.
- Bleach
- Kon does one in episode 15.
- In anime episode 79 (the Bount arc), Uryu Ishida has one after Yoshino is killed.
- Shinji does this in the flashback (Turn Back the Pendulum) arc.
- In anime episode 217, Charlotte Cuuhlhourne does one just before he's killed by Yumichika's sword.
- In Chapter 349, 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.
- Toshiro Hitsugaya in chapter 392 when he realizes he's stabbed Momo and not Aizen in the chest.
- In manga chapter 459, Ichigo Kurosaki when Kūgo Ginjō steals his Fullbring.
- Sailor Moon. A lot, but particularly in the last episodes of the first and last seasons when all her friends seemingly die.
- In Code Geass, 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 makes use of this trope through Miaka, Tamahome, Miaka, Chichiri, Miaka, Yui, Miaka...
- Dragon Ball Z
- Super Buu's Big No rips a hole in a dimension.
- Earlier in the same season (in the original and English dub), Bulma let out one upon learning that Vegeta had been killed by Buu.
- Even earlier, in the dub only (he screams "Goku" in the original), Krillin uses one when it becomes clear that Goku is going to sacrifice himself to take Cell away.
- In the dub, Trunks seemed to have mastered the Narm of the Big No, with lines like "If they let that android free, it will be the end of all of us! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" (Lampshaded in this fanvid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HOAETv_nVo) and not too long after "FATHER! hurgh, NOOOOOO! FATH-ER!"
- But Trunks also has a decidedly non-narmy Big No in the dub of his OVA when he finds Future Gohan dead. In the original Japanese, it's a simple Skyward Scream.
- Earlier than the other times, Goku lets out one of the biggest Big Nos ever: after defeating Frieza on a crumbling Namek, Goku tries to escape on Frieza's ship, but unfortunately, the ship was damaged and plummets into a fissure to dissolve in lava, leaving our hero with no way to escape.
- Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei subverts this by having one of the girls peep on their (male) teacher, and when they knock over the privacy wall and each side gets a good eye-full of the other, only he screams, much to his consternation.
- 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".
- Satoko plays this straightforward the anime-exclusive "Disaster Awakening" chapter of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni Kai when she sees the bodies of her schoolmates in the aftermath of a disastrous toxic gas leak that wiped out virtually the entire population of 2,000 people in her village other than herself.
- In the first Inu Yasha movie (both the English and Japanese versions) Kagome lets out a rather chilling one after being forced to shoot Inuyasha by the Big Bad Complete with lack of BGM and echoes. It is used rather effectively though.
- In History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi, during a financial crisis, Miu has the masters of Ryouzanpaku give lessons to small children. Kenichi is amused to see the straight-faced (but cruel) Akisame being run ragged by the hyperactive kiddies, but enacts this trope when he later sees what kind of effect his teachings have.
- At the end of the first ep of Nyan Koi!, Junpei lets out one in its full Engrish glory.
- In the manga version of Prétear, Himeno lets out a Big No when she realizes that her carelessness has led to Shin's life being drained away.
- In K-On, Mio lets out one of these after her on stage... accident. Involving a "bowl of rice".
- The sixth volume of the King of Thorn manga devotes a full page to a Big No by Shizuku when Kasumi dies.
- Pokémon
- Dawn does one after reliving her Pikari incident in the middle of a contest.
- Pyramid King Brandon also does it whenever he disproves of something.
- Mars has one when Cyrus throws himself into the new universe Dialga and Palkia have created just as it's starting to disappear.
- In Transformers Armada, Optimus Prime lets out one when Smokescreen is killed.
- s-CRY-ed has the main character, Kazuma, shouting this trope involving the death of a character.
- In episode 11 of Ghost Stories Satsuki yells this when her brother says he put a Creepy Doll in the trash can and she remembers when the doll called her to say it's at the trash can.
- School Days
- Sekai yells this in the last anime episode when Kotonoha and Makoto kiss in front of her.
- In episode 10 Nanami becomes extremely upset when a sex tape of her and her boyfriend is shown to many classmates as a cruel joke after the festival and she does a Big No before collapsing to the ground in tears.
- In season 2, episode 6 of Girls Bravo, a cross-dressing Yukinari screams this at one point.
- Melfina of Outlaw Star screams "NO!" in episode 17 which stops Harry's hacking attempt on her.
- In chapter 52 of Mirai Nikki Yukiteru does this when Yuno asks him to kill her.
- In the final scene of the last episode of Monster we are treated to a flashback of Nina's and Johann's childhood where their mother is forced to give one of them up for an experiment. The two hold onto their mother's hand begging her not to let go, and their mother hesitates before handing over Nina who proceeds to scream "No!" in horror as tears spring from her eyes.
- Gankutsuou: Victoria Danglars does this in the 8th episode before fainting.
- Halo Legends: Specifically in The Duel'' Fal discovers the dead body of his wife and lets out his "NOOOOOOOOO".
- His inflection makes it a bit difficult to tell, but it seems more like an inarticulate Skyward Scream.
- Used in Karin (also called Chibi Vampire) in conjunction with Big OMG when Winner sees his most recent test score. Link
- In Hidamari Sketch, Miyako seems to inspire a number of these.
- Golden Gash/Zatch Bell has this.
- Recently in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds there was Yusei's BRUNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
- Actually, he has two of them. In the same episode.
- A majority of the regular cast in episode 10 in the Air Gear anime let out a huge "NOO!!!!" after Akito kisses Ikki.
- Rosario+Vampire: Kurumu in chapter 41 of the second manga season. See it here and here.
- In the first episode of Future GPX Cyber Formula ZERO, Asuka lets one out when she sees Hayato lying down on the ground with his car completely destroyed after his car crashed down from the track with him in it at the English Grand Prix.
- In Air when Misuzu dies, her mother figure shouts out "MISUZUUUUUUUU!"
- In Kannazuki no Miko, Himeko releases two when Chikane rapes her. The English is even better.
- Princess Princess: Sayaka in episode 7 after Yuujirou kisses Tooru.
- Axis Powers Hetalia: Chibitalia when HRE tries to make him a part of the Holy Roman Empire.
- Romeo X Juliet: Juliet when Romeo dies.
- Reimei No Arcana: Nakaba wakes up screaming this when she has a dream foreseeing Caesar getting killed. She has another one when her hair is dyed black.
Comic Books
- In the series Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, Big Bad Haazen has one of these right before getting annihilated by the combined firepower of an entire fleet of warships.
- In a flashback in the Thunderbolts 1997 Annual, Melissa Gold (in her costumed persona of Screaming Mimi, possessing sonic powers) obliterates a portion of forest, liquefies the ground around herself, and destroys her vocal chords upon the death of her boyfriend Angar, by falling to her knees and screaming for 48 minutes straight, until she shreds her vocal cords and can't do it anymore.. She gets better.
- In an issue of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic (#135), this is Sonic's reaction to the apparent (and brief) death of his father, represented by him screaming helplessly with a big "N" and "O" to either side. It... doesn't really work. Points for trying, though.
- In the original Transformers comics, Prowl got a classic one in response to the second death of Optimus Prime.
- Sillage: Nävis, at the end of the first book.
- Batman's reaction to the death of Jason Todd.
- In Batman: Year One, Gordon's reaction to his infant child being dropped from a high bridge. Luckily, Batman saves the day.
- Inverted by Black Bolt. He may only whisper "no", but the extreme volume of his voice would make the whisper loud enough to blow up a planet.
- In an issue of Valiant Comics' The Legend Of Zelda, Zelda points out Link's defeating Ganon is pointless because "You don't have to join Ganon! You've become Ganon!" You can guess Link's response.
- In The Darkness, Jackie Estacado when he learns that he Can't Have Sex, Ever.
- In Final Crisis, Overman's reaction to finding out his beloved cousin Kara Kant/Overgirl is dead. Since he's German, he goes "Neinnnnnn!"
- When Jane Foster is killed (don't worry, she gets better) in The Mighty Thor #371, Thor spends an entire page smashing stuff up while shouting "NO!". He ends up kneeling in the wreckage, saying one final, very small, "No."
Fan Works
Films — Animation
- Disney movies, of course, often tend to have these.
- Basil lets out one in The Great Mouse Detective when he discovers that the bullets don't match, meaning Ratigan has evaded him yet again.
- The page quote refers to a more parodical approach to this; the bird McLeach was referring to was an eagle Cody befriended that McLeach was trying to capture. McLeach, after the above dialogue, adds "she could have been mine if it weren't for you," implying that the bird's death was Cody's fault for refusing to tell him where the bird was. It turns out that the bird was alive, but McLeach was just telling Cody the bird was dead to get Cody to go to its nest and, in turn, McLeach followed Cody there and waited for the bird's arrival.
- In the Disney English dub of Castle in the Sky, Muska, blinded by the Spell of Destruction, staggers through the now collapsing corridors of Laputa's underground labyrinth. This is the last thing he says. And as delivered by Mark Hamill, it's awesome.
- The Lion King has several:
- 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!
- Peter Pan. Peter Pan uses the Big "NO!" when he yells at Smee, "UNDERSTAND!!!" while he imitates Captain Hook's voice.
- Mulan. Shan-Yu yells "Nooooooooooooo!" when Mushu fires a big rocket at him.
- 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 Lady and the Tramp, Jock's howl for Trusty under the wheels of the dogcatcher's wagon count.
- In Disney's Hercules:
- This is Zeus' reaction to learning his infant son has been kidnapped. Since he's Zeus, the skies erupt with thunderbolts.
- Hercules himself does a particularly heart-wrenching one when Meg is crushed by a pillar that was about to crush him.
- Pixar in particular sometimes uses this too.
- 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.
- Toy Story 2
- Parodied during the elevator fight when the Al's Toy Barn Buzz Lightyear gave one after Emperor Zurg told him he's his father.
- Emperor Zurg does one as he falls down the elevator shaft.
- Toy Story 3
- Woody shouts this when he falls into the incinerator.
- Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade has one Big No by Fuse in a dream sequence.
- In Spirited Away, Yubaba says this when she realizes that her baby is gone.
- 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.
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children gives Kadaj a good one (of the primal scream variety) when he realizes that Jenova's head has been shot. And stabbed. And generally mutilated.
- Played for laughs in MirrorMask: "NOOOOO! I DON'T WANT TO BE A WAITER!"
- 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.
- Shrek 2: When Mongo, the giant gingerbread man, falls into the moat during the Storming The Castle sequence, both Shrek and Gingi do a slow-mo Big No.
- Done straight by the villain Zeebad in Doogal as he is pulled back into imprisonment.
- Chuckie bursts into the chapel with one in Rugrats in Paris. Which just happens to be his first word ever.
- In Help Im A Fish, Chuck lets out one of these when he thinks Fly is dead.
- In 9, 9 has a couple, complete with Futile Hand Reach, when 1 dies.
- Rocky in Chicken Run does one when he thinks Ginger has been killed.
- In Kung Fu Panda 2, Tigress does this when Po gets shot out of the fireworks factory by Lord Shen's cannon.
- Mikey does this in Recess: School's Out when T.J. tells him that Benedict is trying to get rid of summer vacation.
- Then again in the cafeteria later in the movie.
- Mother Gothel in Tangled. Followed by several Little Nos after Flynn/Eugene cuts Rapunzel's hair.
Films — Live Action
- Star Wars is particularly infamous for this. All the movies use the Big No at least once:
- A New Hope: Luke gives a Big No when Darth Vader kills Obi-Wan, although it's not drawn out.
- The Empire Strikes Back: Luke responds to Luke, I Am Your Father in a fairly predictable way. Parodied in this Irregular Webcomic! and also in Toy Story 2.
- Return of the Jedi: A robot screams as his feet are ripped by another machine.
- And now Vader screams twice in his redemption scene in the Blu-Ray edition. And so did the fans.
- Also Luke's "NEVER!!" Right before attacking Vader, when he realizes that Leia is his sister, and could potentially be powerful in the dark side of The Force.
- The 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 Padmé 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. It qualified as Narm even before the Memetic Mutation.
- Virgil Brigman lets out a "NOOOOOOOO!" in The Abyss after Lindsey drowns herself so he can tow her back to the rig.
- The Alien series:
- In Aliens, when Ripley is dreaming that she has been impregnated by a facehugger Alien.
- Alien 3: Bishop's "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" when Ripley decides to kill herself.
- Delivered to great comical effect near the end of the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie.
- Two in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
- Parodied when Austin is driving a steamroller toward a guard. The guard has plenty of time to move out of the way—Powers even beckons him to do so—but just keeps screaming "No!" instead and doesn't move a muscle.
- Austin does it just before leaping to push the underground drill's abort button.
- 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.
- Mos Def does it in Be Kind Rewind when all of the video cassettes 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 him to resurrect him, he instead uses a wind to blow him away. He yells "Noooooo!" just before his remains crumble to dust.
- Said by Ralphie in A Christmas Story when the mall Santa tells Ralphie that he can't give him a Red Ryder BB Gun because "He'll shoot his eye out" and then kicks him down the slide.
- Harvey Dent yelled it in The Dark Knight.
- In Dead Poets Society, Neil's father (played by Kurtwood Smith) gives an impressive Big No after finding the dead body of his son.
- The Devil's Advocate: Al Pacino screams "NOOOOOOOOOO" when Kevin shoots himself. Great because it's delivered in the understated acting style Pacino uses for this type of movie.
- In the Dungeons & Dragons movie, Riddley Freeborn's "NOOOOOOOOOO!" when Snails dies. The anguished slow-mo scream of the protagonist in the Dungeons & 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 Dude Dies First.
- In American theaters, Snails' death brought applause, something that The Nostalgia Critic himself noted, wondering if it was appropriate to celebrate at that moment.
- Used in Evil Dead 2, when Ash finds that the only bridge to escape the haunted forest is totally destroyed. "No... Oh, God no... No... NO! NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Of course, that's not the only example in the film.
- Parodied in The Musical. Ash receives several bits of bad news, and with each bit he runs to a different part of the stage, drops to his knees and screams. The less "bad" the news gets, the funnier the scene becomes.
- 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:
- The Lord of the Rings films have a whole bunch of them, most of them reasonably done:
- Gimli has a Big No when he discovers the tomb of Balin, which dissolves into mournful sobbing.
- Frodo also has one that doubles as a Slow No upon Gandalf's "death".
- Aragorn's scream upon thinking Merry and Pippin are dead in the second film (when he kicks the helmet) isn't quite distinct, but seems to be a Big No. Interestingly, Viggo Mortensen's tremendous howl of anguish here was actually because when he kicked the helmet, he broke his toe. They kept that take in because it was, as such, his best.
- Right at the climax of the third film, 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!" 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.
- Treebeard yells a forest shattering one upon the realization that Saruman has killed off some of the Ents
- Samwise also has one when Frodo gets hit by Sauron's eye
- 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 at least.
- 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, after he learns about his father's death.
- 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, sliding into frame about a second and a half after the stabbing. So blatant, it has to be some self-aware parody.
- Rick O'Connell delivers a much more believable one earlier in the film when Evy gets stabbed.
- In the 1986 movie No Mercy, Eddie Jilette (played by Richard Gere) threatened to shoot Alan Deveneux's arm off, Alan screamed it at Eddie pleading to not shoot.
- Plays for laughs in The Burbs, in what may be the film's most famous scene when Art and Ray find a femur bone that they believe belongs to their missing neighbor in fact, it belongs to one of their former neighbors.
- The Spider-Man series:
- Yelled by Otto Octavius in Spider-Man 2 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.
- The Harry Potter movies:
- 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 (one in very good taste), 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 unfortunately delivered) double threat of Big No and (apparently) Skyward Scream when Harry got away... again.
- Cedric Diggory's father also does one of these upon realizing what's happened at the end of this film.
- And he does it again in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 after Harry gets away from him by destroying Lucius Malfoy's wand.
- Ginny does this twice in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 when she thinks Harry's dead.
- Parodied in the endings of Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2. In the former, as the Final Girl screams, she is run 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.
- Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders features a truly glorious NOOOOOOOOO!", complete with slow-motion running towards the camera.
- In Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street there is a Big No issued by the title 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 the villain has him banished 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 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 Coulmier in 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 few quiet little nos, followed by a big scream of anguish, when Lois Lane dies 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: The 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 The 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.
- In Zoolander, Derek Zoolander has one of these when he sees his (even more Too Dumb to Live than he is) friends die in a tragic gasoline fight 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.
- 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, and when Iceman freezes the hallway between Logan and William Stryker.
- X-Men: First Class, young Eric Lehnsherr (Magneto), just after his mother is killed. In his anguished cry, he's actually screaming: "NEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIN", the German version of this trope.
- Played for laughs by Will Arnett in Hot Rod. Must be seen to be believed.
- Several characters in The Fall scream "NOOOOOOOOOO!" at one point — sometimes it's played for humor, sometimes it's played very, very straight.
- Queen Penelope has one in the film The Oddyssey.
- Lust in the Dust, after Abel Wood kills Bernardo's henchmen.
Marguerita: Accident?
Abel: They moved.
Bernardo: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Marguerita: Shut up, Bernardo.
- Judge Dredd
- The title character does this when former Chief Justice Fargo is mortally wounded by Junior.
- Judge Griffin does it just before the ABC robot rips his arms and legs off.
- A rare example of this being done well comes from The Elephant Man:
"NO! I am NOT an ELEPHANT! I am NOT an ANIMAL! I am a human BEING! I am... a man."
- In The Wicker Man (1973), this, along with a Big OMG, is Sgt. Howie's first reaction to seeing the titular edifice. The camera-work, buildup, and above all, Edward Woodward's believable delivery of the line removed any potential narm.
- In The Matrix, Agent Smith gives a brief one after Neo dives into his body and before he explodes.
- In Bridge to Silence, Marlee Matlin's character both screams and signs her Big No when told that her husband is dead. How to do a Big No in AMSLAN: Using your right hand, make a "bird's bill" with your thumb and pointer and middle fingers. Clap them together rapidly for as long as you want your Big No to last.
- Horror movie Skinned Deep has an example, with the Final Girl screaming "NOOOOOOOO!" repeatedly throughout the entire end credits.
- Freddy Krueger does a hilarious version of this in Freddy vs. Jason when he finds himself caught on a piece of construction equipment and being dragged straight into a thoroughly pissed-off Jason.
- A Big No occurs from Brian when both Bull and Axe fell in the firefighting movie Backdraft.
- One comes from Howard Payne when he finds out he was tricked by the relooping security camera set up by Jack Traven in the movie Speed.
- Deep Blue Sea has one Big No from Susan McCalister (played by Saffron Burrows).
- The movie Ricochet has several Big No's from Earl Talbot Blake (Played by John Lithgow) when Nick Styles (Played by Denzel Washington) goes crazy.
- Point Break has this trope by Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) when he sees Pappas (Gary Busey) gets shot in the back by a shotgun.
- Shutter Island features one from the protagonist in a flashback near the end of the film, complete with overhead camera shot.
- A Big No occurs from Duke (Apollo's trainer) in Rocky III, in which, near the end of the rematch, Balboa is making Clubber Lang angry enough to KO him; there's another Big No from Duke (in slow motion) in Rocky IV after Apollo Creed was KO'ed (killed) by Ivan Drago in an exhibition match.
- Soapdish. Montana Moorehead's reaction to her high school yearbook showing that she was once Milton Moorehead, of Syosset, NJ.
- Fatal Instinct. Ned Ravine after he thinks his skunk has been killed.
- Diavolo in Corpo a.k.a. Devil in the flesh: Giulia (played by Maruschka Detmers) says this trope after a diary is read to her by someone.
- Tombstone: Recently pointed out by The Nostalgia Critic, Kurt Russell's Big No is so Narmy it has to be seen to be believed. It comes with a cluster of Little Nos too.
- Of note: According to witnesses, this actually happened, and this example is more out of defiance than anguish or despair. It's not "No, you killed my [insert relative/acquaintance]!" it's "No, you bastards ain't killing me!"
- Anchorman: Ron Burgundy does this when a certain man punts Ron's dog Baxter over the bridge.
- Spaceballs. Princess Vespa, when she's threatened with being given her old ugly nose back.
- The Happening gives us a Big No courtesy of Mark Wahlberg, who screams it when someone he's known for an hour and a half gets shot.
- In The Boondock Saints, Connor McManus gets one after Rocco gets shot and dies.
- The Jensen Ackles flick Devour has got one in the end.
- Scott in Eurotrip when he finds out that Mieke is a girl.
- Potentially one of the more ridiculous examples occurs in the horrible Sleep Stalker, where the goatee-sporting lead character utters one with an ape-like inflection as he does it. It's worth seeing.
- In the Atlas Shrugged movie, Dagny gives a reverberating one when she reaches the fire at the Wyatt oil fields.
- Dr. Weir of Event Horizon gets one when Captain Miller activates the explosives of the bridge connecting the gravity chamber to the rest of the ship as it's about to go into the Cosmic Horror dimension that killed its last crew, sacrificing himself to save what's left of his own crew.
- Undercover Brother. A mook does this as Undercover Brother is about to stamp down on him. It then turns out that UB smashed a bag of potato chips instead.
- Kei does this at the end of Moon Child, when Sho is dying in his arms.
- Done hilariously in Silent Movie. Mel Funn, making the first silent movie in forty years, has the brainstorm of inviting reknowned mime Marcel Marceau. Calling France, he asks Marcel if he would to star in the picture. Marcel's response is the only audible line in the entire film; "NON!"
- When Mel Brooks called Marcel Marceau to ask him to say the line, he originally pitched it as just "NO!" Marceau replied that he would only do it if it was "NON!" instead. Why? Because it would make more sense for him to say it in French.
- Caesar gives a big one in Rise of the Planet of the Apes; also counts as a Wham Line. Why? It was his first word.
- In the beginning of Muppets from Space, Gonzo does this when he's excluded from Noah's Ark because he's the only one of his kind. Combines this with a Skyward Scream as the Great Flood begins.
Gonzo: Nooo! Noooo! I don't want to be alone! Nooo!
- Romeo in Romeo + Juliet, upon Mercutio's death.
- Film.Ever After: Danielle does one when Marguerite throws a book into the fire that was the last gift she ever got from her dead father.
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.
- The Gaunt's Ghosts novel The Guns of Tanith uses this at the climax when Mkoll kills Sagittar Slaith.
- 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 gets better.
- Ron also gets an adorably melodramatic one in Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban. Between that and the all-caps "AAAAAAARGH" he gets immediately preceding his Big No, the stretched-out drama takes up an entire line on the page.
- Ron gets another one in Deathly Hallows after he hears Bellatrix give Greyback permission to kill Hermione.
- Starcraft: Ghost: Nova. The title character does one of these every other page, just about. The other pages, somebody else fills in for her.
- In Warrior Cats, Bluestar (then Bluepaw) bursts into one of these when her mother is killed in battle, complete with eight O's.
- In The Hobbit, Gandalf tells Bilbo about Beorn and says that he is a 'skin-changer.' Bilbo expresses his thoughts by asking whether he meant 'furrier', to which Gandalf responds: 'Good gracious heavens, no, no, NO, NO!'
Live Action TV
Music
New Media
- 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....
- The website http://nooooooooooooooo.com helpfully provides a Big No button for use "in dire situations".
- The reaction of manga-addicts everywhere when Onemanga announced it was going down.
Professional Wrestling
Puppet Shows
- A few of these come from the main female character from Team America: World Police when her fiancé is shot by a terrorist about five minutes in.
Sports
- Among fans of the Minnesota Vikings, KFAN radio announcer Paul Allen's painful cry of "NOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOO!"*
It's a video game recreation of the play, with Paul Allen's commentary added in. Apparently, the original video was taken down. as Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Nate Poole caught a pass from Josh McCown to knock the Vikings out of the playoffs, will forever live in infamy. Along with many, many other disappointing moments in the history of the franchise. Making it even worse, the Cardinals were 3 and 12 before that game, and the Vikings started the year with a 6-0 record on the way to a 3-7 finish the rest of the way. Nowadays, all you need to do to relive PA's Big No is listen to KFAN for long enough; they have it on their soundboard and use it on a semi-regular basis.
- Game 5 of the 2010 NBA Western Conference Finals. Series tied 2-2. Lakers up by 3 over the Suns with a minute to go. Every possession at this point is crucial. After a missed shot, Pau Gasol grabs the rebound from four Phoenix Suns players and manages to throw the ball out to a wide open Ron Artest. Instead of using up some clock, Ron chocks up and fires off a three-pointer that clangs off the rim. Not only was the crowd at Staples Center audibly crying out "NOOOOOOOO", so were the radio announcers.
- The late Chicago Cubs radio commentator Ron Santo was known for unleashing these when, as was often the case, things went badly for the team. Perhaps the most famous example of this took place during a 1998 game against the Milwaukee Brewers, when Cubs left fielder Brant Brown caught and then dropped a fly ball on what would have been the final out of the game, allowing the Brewers to score three runs and win 8-7. Santo's agonized "NOOOOOOOO!" can be heard here.
Tabletop Games
- The Mystara supplement The Five Shires actually turns this trope into a defensive weapon for classic D&D halflings. Within the boundaries of their homeland, halflings threatened by spells can cry "No!" once a day, sacrificing some of their life force in the process, and potentially negate the impending spell's effects. Things like this happen when Ed Greenwood writes your gaming material....
- Every gamer ever after a high level, carefully munchkined, self inserted, or valued for some other reason character dies. For best results, have them role a one, resulting in falling on their own sword. Or quarterstaff.
Theater
Video Games
Web Animation
- Grif of Red vs. Blue spends the last moments of the third season screaming "No-!" (seemingly for hours, as said by Donut.), after the Red Team returns to Blood Gulch after an endevour with O'Mally. This extends to the the entire first episode of the fourth season, with lots of ridiculous plans (devised by Sarge, who else?) that attempt to force him off the cliff he's perched on. The plans are, in order, allowing him to scream until he passes out.
Grif: NOOOOO!
Sarge: Simmons! Find a way to get Grif back down here right now!
Simmons: Alright. HEY GRIF! SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GET DOWN HERE! WE NEED TO CHECK OUT THE BASE!
Grif: NOOO! NOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!
Simmons: I don't think he's listening, sir.
Grif: NOOO! THAT TIME I WAS ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION! NOOOOO!
Sarge: That does it, Simmons, go get him down now.
Donut: Sarge, if he keeps screaming like that, he'll pass out, and fall off the cliff!
Sarge: Cancel that order Simmons!
Grif: NOOOOOOOO!
Sarge: (sighing) Donut, get me a sniper rifle.
- Strong Mad gets one of these in an encounter with Senor Cardgage on Homestar Runner.
- Marzipan gets to say one after being forced to become Coach Z's girlfriend in a Halloween special. Since she read the cue card incorrectly, her first attempt sounds more like, "moo," than, "no!"
Web Comics
- 8-Bit Theater:
- The aptly titled Episode 400: "'Not Safe for Work, School, or Anywhere You Can Get in Trouble" replaces the Big No with the Big F, or rather the Big "FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF UCK!!".
- Red Mage uses this as Black Mage is about to burn the Rat's Tail they need for the class change. He puts on a levitation spell so he can do the slo-mo jump (but applies too much and is left hanging for a while), and does the Big No just to be dramatic.
- Darths & Droids has several of these.
- 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.
- The Order of the Stick
- Vaarsuvius uses it in 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 in On the Origine of PCs 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: The Game Masta 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!:
- Girl Genius
- Plays... oddly 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.
- Silent Hill: Promise: When Vanessa is grabbed into a pit by a...thing.
- 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 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.
- Right here in Elven Lacryment.
- Dragon Mango spoofs this when Pumpkin's father returns after a four-year journey into faraway lands and gives Mango a rare treat, called a "sweet swirl stick", which Cherry eats in one bite.
- Jason from Something Positive has a fairly unique one when realizing he's just turned down a 3-way with his wife and hot friend.
- Rhea of Slightly Damned's reaction upon learning that she cannot be reincarnated.
- Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi has the following conversation.
Professor Utonium: What's that you got there? Is that a... Wh—Th—P...P.... Buttercup: Parent-Teacher Conference... Professor Utonium: NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
- A Nooooo! that bursts out of the panel in Jayden and Crusader.
- Cale whips one out in this Looking for Group comic.
- DMFA has this beauty when a young Abel learns that extra lessons include extra homework.
- Penny Arcade: Gabriel provides this gem upon besting Tycho in a card game.
- Kirby unleashes one when Meta Knight takes his revenge on him here.
- Monica from Wapsi Square had a nice one when Phyx decided to "tag" Nudge.
- The Princess of Rusty and Co. when she found the White Knight crushed.
- Loserz parodied the original scene here.
- Dork Tower audible five miles away
- Chris in Sonichu does this when he learns that a Starbucks barista only went out with him as a joke. Apparently, this happened in real life.
- Nith from Whats Shakin discovers his home has been destroyed.
- ''Ménage à 3': Kiley here.
- Zii's reaction when Di Di tries to cut her hair into a mullet.
- Zii here.
- Kiley again here when she thinks Yuki is going to see her father in Japan when she's in a bad condition.
- Kiley yet again here.
- Mulberry
- Princess Pi
- Alpha Bitch Sam yells this after getting sentenced to community service as punishment for blowing up Piscataway Stadium.
- Princess Pi herself says this when the new princess, Gertie, makes her genie, Bottle Blonde, encase her own bottle in concrete, so that Pi could not make Bottle Blonde turn Piscataway back to normal.
- The Platypus Comix story "True Believers" had one after Mary Jane used a stolen stamp to give Joe Quesadilla a Ret Gone.
Web Original
- Necro Critic did this when he found out there was more to Ehrgeiz than just the terrible fighting game. This one lasted past his 30-second long end screen and continued even after stopping for air.
- 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.
- A popular internet meme is RAEG, where a template comic strip is drawn on, with the ending of a grotesque face shouting "FFFFUUUU—" in situations like a no smoking sign, being caught watching porn, etc.
- The Leet World's Chet usually greets the death of his drinking buddy 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 challenge levels where death is permanent. Lampshaded in the episode "Thunderhead" when Player breaks cover runs into the line of fire. Westheimer shouts "Player, No!" and Chet comments that it sounds better when he says it.
- The Angry Video Game Nerd: 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 Zero Punctuation 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.
- In the Whateley Universe, Phase does this once, upon learning something horrific about herself during powers testing.
- At the end of the Five Best and Worst Sonic Games countdown, Stuttering Craig does one, when he finds he can't turn off the music to Sonic R.
- The Nostalgia Chick does this on being exposed to the Christmas Shoes song in her "Top 10 Disturbing and Inescapable Christmas Songs" special. The Nostalgia Critic also shouts this frequently. A notable one is when he finally finds out that The Star Wars Holiday Special does, in fact, exist... and that he has to review it.
Nostalgia Critic: No... it's not true... it's impossible!!!
Darth Vader: Search your feelings, you know it to be true!
Nostalgia Critic: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
- In The Batterys Down Courtney has one of these when Jake says he's quitting musical theatre.
- Raocow did this seemingly unintentionally. Made extra hilarious by how loud, deep, and scary it is compared to his regular voice.
- Also from a Let's Player, Chuggaaconroy's occasional Epic No. To be fair, it isn't a long, drawn out "NOOOOOOOO" as much as a deep, harsh "NO!", which in context is a rejection, not the cry of despair seen in movies/other media. Chuggaaconroy parodies himself in this video at about 11:46. "And there's Luigi's Epic NOSE!"
- Let's Plays of I Wanna Be the Guy will often have this. Even the creator of the game himself has been pushed this far. Here's a much more dramatic one
NO! NOOOOOO!
- The Yogscast Let's Play of Minecraft resulted in this in the Shadow of Israphel arc, upon finding out that the airship crashed into and completely destroy the two players' Yogcave, complete with an epic zoom out.
- Five Second Films has a fourth wall-straining example (also counting as a case of Skyward Scream) in "Boarding School". Lampshaded in the description:
"Unfortunately for Junior, he's getting shipped to St. Understated, Thoughtful Conclusions Academy. Life's gonna be rough."
- Also a quieter-than-usual (but angry) example as an opinion on planking.
- The Annoying Orange: Orange at the end of More Annoying Orange and Cheese at the end of A Cheesy Episode.
- Spoony reacts this way in the "Party Mania" review first to suffer an eternity of a party in Canada and the second time when he will lose his 'wiener'.
- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
- Two in Water-Human, both very dramatic and ending abruptly. First, the Water-Human cries out over David Hasselhoff's corpse, before realizing that it's weird to angst so much over a guy he knew for less than a minute. Later on Water-Human and a prison warden cry over the Large Beetle, who claims to have a heart attack, but then reveals he was just kidding.
- Chad Vader does this when he finds out that his girlfriend Libby has been deported, only for the Marshmallow Bandito to harass him.
Chad: You picked the wrong day to mess with me, nerd! (beats him up)
- Marik Plays Bloodlines:
Marik: I'll just work on my tan. Wait. I'm a vampire. I no longer have a tan. NOOOOOOOO!
- The end of the "Sloppy Roethlisberger" episode of Epic Mealtime has Harley accidentally breaking and spilling an entire bottle of Jack Daniels, with this being the appropriate response from someone in the background.
- A couple of times throughout Nakar's Let's Play Ultima series, but most memorably right at the end of Ultima VI.
Beh Lem: "To be saying nooooooooooooo in slow motion!"
- Lenore The Cute Little Dead Girl: After Lenore dies, Ragamuffin shouts one while he begs to Lenore's corpse to not leave him.The Ladybug from Last Dance of Ladybug also gives one after she was injured by a kid.
- Twice in Two Best Friends Play. One was Pat's response to the thought of paying for all of Vampire Rain, and the other is when Matt found out they were going to play Shaq Fu.
- Gronkh often shows this reaction, for example on various occasions when being killed in Minecraft, (most often by a creeper, for example here).
- Shiny Objects Videos: In "Fishsticks", being the World of Ham that it is, a Big "NO!" was all but inevitable.
Western Animation
- Used in the Teen Titans episode "Birthmark" by Raven when Slade shows her a vision of a destroyed world that she's going to create. Also used by Raven in the same episode when she refuses for a final time the party the others have planned for her birthday and destroys everything with her powers.
- The Penguins of Madagascar are in love with this trope. Most come from Skipper.
- Spongebob Squarepants:
Patrick: Maybe it's just because you're ugly.
SpongeBob: Ugly?! (sticks finger in mouth, slides it across his eyebrows) You gotta be kiddin' meh.
Patrick: Let us try the reflection test. (holds up a mirror in front of SpongeBob)
SpongeBob: (to reflection) Hi! (SpongeBob's reflection grabs a hammer and breaks itself after smelling SpongeBob's breath)
Patrick: Uuuuuuglyyyyyyy....
SpongeBob: OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
- Also used in "Bubble Buddy", in dramatic slow-motion and with added vowel screwing around with.
- Several times throughout King of the Hill. Nearly always by Hank. One of the funniest parts of the show.
- 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.
- The Simpsons
- In the episode "Mayored to the Mob", bodyguard-in-training Homer practices his slow-motion dive. Making it funnier, the instructor is voiced by Mark Hamill, who should know his Nooooos...
(Homer gives a running dive with an unenthusiastic Big No)
Instructor: Well, your lunge was good, but I just couldn't believe your 'NOOOOOO'! You gotta sell it! Remember, your 'NOOOOOO' is what gets you paid! Now drop and give me 20!
Homer: NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Instructor: Better.
- Used straight in 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.
Barney: (after noticing the others have normal eggs and slowly seeing he got the black one) NOOOOOO! (crushes the egg in his hand and holds his head) Homer: (coming up to him) You got the black one.
- Also used straight by Bart in "Black Widower".
- 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!").
- Skinner pulls a similiar one season 4's "Duffless".
- Done yet again in "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words". Homer makes 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!"
- And then there's the episode where the Flanders's get Bart, Lisa, and Maggie as foster children.
Ned: Do you reject Satan, and all his empty promises?
Homer: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! (skin burns on contact with holy water)
- "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?":
Lisa: Dad, no! [The poisoned eclair] is going to kill you!
Homer: Eh, I've had a good run. (prepares to take a bite)
Lisa: No! (thinks) It's low-fat!
Homer: NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (throws eclair)
- And parodied yet again in an episode where Grandpa is a Sprawl-Mart greeter, and gets knocked onto an out-of-control shopping buggy.
Grandpa: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO— (cut to show that he's headed for a stack of lawn gnomes) —OOOOOOMES!
- In "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", Chief Wiggum lets out one that gets twisted into a wolf-type howl at the moon.
- In the beginning of the episode where Bart made a new friend who was the daughter of Wolfcastle, Marge threw the Olympic Torch to the police and the police helicopter crashed and...
Policeman 1: Are you okay?
Policeman 2: Yeah, im ok...(looks at extinguished Olympic Torch)"NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"
- In the "138th Episode Spectacular", alternate clips are shown including another ending as to who shot Mr. Burns. When he fingers Smithers as the culprit, Smithers gives a big no then adds, "Wait a minute. Yes."
- Many in Futurama. In particular, being a parody of melodramatic acting, Calculon the robotic soap-opera star is prone to do this sort of thing a lot.
- "Bend Her" has two in one episode. Calculon is being interviewed on a talk show with Coilette as another guest (who is Bender who changed his robotic sex and invented his own country to win multiple fembot Olympic medals). 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." Afterwards, "Coilette" ends up engaged to Calculon but has to call the wedding off before the sex change becomes permanent. After... she fakes her death of at what would have been her wedding to Calculon...
Dr. Zoidberg: (in the middle of eating and nonchalantly) I'm a doctor. He's dead. Calculon: No! NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO! N! O! O! O!
- 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.
- 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, immediately after the Omnicronians blew up many world monuments gathered in the same part of New New York.
- And Fry again in Into the Wild Green Yonder when Bender gives him back his game (he was playing Tetris) and Bender tell him he missed up the "L" formation he was making with the blocks.
- Fry again in "Fry and the Slurm Factory", when Leela dumps the trough of pure Slurm he'd been eating from into the sewers.
- Fry again in the episode "Time Keeps On Slippin'" when his love letter to Leela ends up being destroyed.
- Bender in the episode Lethal Inspection when he learns he wasn't built with a back-up unit
- In "Benderama", during an episode of the Show Within a Show "The Scary Door". A scientist builds a robot that does everything for him, including shouting "NOOOO!" when the irony of the Karmic Twist Ending sinks in.
- In "The Duh-Vinci Code" when Fry accidentally destroys The Professor's Beard of Leonardo Da Vinchi only for him to find a hidden scroll in it a second later.
Professor: No! Noooooo! But possibly yes.
- In a Robot Chicken sketch involving Archie and his friends dealing with deaths plaguing everyone, Moose lets out a Big Duh when Ms. Grundy is crushed by a car.
- In the Star Wars Robot Chicken Special (3rd one), Vader slips on something, and falls. His hand gets stuck in the toilet, and the toilet flushes. Cue the: "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
- Jackie Chan Adventures:
- Shendu yells this after ending up possessing Valmont, instead of Jackie, which was what he intended. Almost all of the Demon Sorcerers scream this when they are banished back to the Netherworld through their portals. When they banish the Earth Demon, Jade hangs a lantern on it: "Here comes my favourite part. "NOOO!""
- Uncle is also fond of the Chinese version "Iyaaaa!" — usually just before smacking Jackie around the head for doing something stupid.
- 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.
- The X-Men animated series:
- A wonderful Big No can be found in episode 4 of season 2, "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.
- Also there's a Big No from Apocalypse at the end of the four part "Beyond Good and Evil".
- As well as one from Wolverine in "Out of the Past: Part 2" when Yuriko was touched by the M'Kraan Spirit Drinker.
- In addition, there's one from Cyclops in "Reunion, Part 1" when Sinister and his gang kidnaps Jean.
- Another Big No scene sadly fails in X-Men Evolution, 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. When recapping that episode in the introductions to later ones, they put the "NOOOO" back at normal speed. It's much more effective.
- Transformers
- Optimus Primal gets quite a few in Beast Wars, most notably in the cliffhanger of the first season finale, and when the Axalon is destroyed in season 3.
- Inverted with Megatron, as he usually says "Yesssssssssssssss."
- Last episode of Beast Machines. Megatron's final word? "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
- 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.
- Not to mention the episode "Nature Calling" when Prowl smashes Bumblebee's only battery, rendering him unable to see movies in the middle of nature. His "NOOOO!" was truly epic.
- In The Spectacular Spider-Man, the Sandman gets one of these after seeing the results of his Transformation Trauma 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 also gets a particularly good one.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- There's a slow-motion one from Zuko in the Grand Finale when Taking the Bullet for Katara. Cue "must run in the family" jokes...
- It really does; Iroh has a (much less dramatic) one when he sees June get hit with her Shirshu's paralyzing tongue.
- There's also one in the desert episode, right before Aang creates a giant mushroom cloud.
- Parodied in the Who Would Want to Watch Us?}}? episode when Actress Aang lets out a nice 9 second "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" as she "dies".
- Katara has one in the Puppetmaster when Hama nearly forces Sokka and Aang to kill each other using Bloodbending.
- Danny Phantom
- When Danny's family and friends (and teacher) are 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
- In "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.
- The Powerpuff Girls
- "Daylight Savings": "PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
- Captain Righteous and Lefty confront the Ministry of Pain in "Fallen Arches". The Captain lets out a big no as he runs towards Lefty who just hurt his hip. However, he hasn't reached his sidekick yet so he shouts it again.
- 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, where 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. One example comes 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!
Nick Ibsen: Pay for what? Journalistic integrity?
- The bit on flying down the throat comes from the episode "Murdering Outside the Box". When Nathan learns that someone is embezzling from the band, he suddenly goes into the Big No sequence, and from the "down the throat" bit the show goes into the opening.
- 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 gives one when Cammy defected to Shadaloo and gives Bison a big kiss. Note the Soundtrack Dissonance.
- 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 ends with a big "Dagnabit!"
- Played straight in the Fairly Oddparents: Shadow Showdown video game; Timmy shouts it after his TV breaks in the introduction, and again upon seeing he's missed the Crash Nebula season finale at the end.
- 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 Bros., 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, Kenai lets out the distant, bird-disturbing version of a Big No when he discovers he's been transformed into a bear.
- In Batman Beyond, Derek Powers accidentally inhales a big gulp of his own nerve gas, and in the same second it takes him to realize what has happened to him, makes an appropriately horrified scream to this effect.
- An episode of Family Guy has Peter be really upset over the loss of his pet parrot.
- The Donkey Kong Country episode "Buried Treasure" contains this exchange when Klump's video conference interrupts K. Rool's computer game:
Klump: General Klump reporting, King K. Rool sir! Y'read me, your high 'n mightyness?... Looking a little pale there, chief!
K. Rool: NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (smashes the computer)
Klump: (calling on the phone) Chief? You there, chief? Seems we had some sort of interference.
- In an episode of FlapJack, The Real Adventurer has the reaction to Bubbie telling him K'Nuckles is not a pregnant woman.
- Invader Zim just loves to scream. The Big No is his favourite.
- From the same show we also have the most epic Big No of all time as delivered by a random guy at a park bench who's soda can is being crushed by Mars.
- And then there's two Big No's in the episode "Zim Eats Waffles".
- South Park:
- The episode "Jewbilie" does it four times in a row: First Kyle when Kenny makes a Heroic Sacrifice to stop Haman, then Haman when Moses escapes the conch shell, then anti-semetic Rabbi Garth screams it twice when he realizes his plans have been foiled.
- The Movie:
Kyle: (long speech) I don't want a fighter. I want my mom.
Soldier: (moved, sniffs) Poor little fella.
Sheila: NOOOOOOOOO! (wrestles rifle out of the general's hands and shoots Terrance and Phillip)
- "Probably": God gives Saddam Hussein an even worse punishment than sending him to Hell: sending him to Heaven.
Mormon: We were just about to do a play about how much stealing hurts you deep inside. Come join us. (the Mormons lift Saddam over their heads and carry him off)
Saddam: No! NOOOOOO!
- "Something You Can Do With Your Finger" parodies the Star Trek: First Contact example above, when Randy prevents Stan from being in his boy band. Incidentally, they actually use the sound clip of Picard's breakdown from the movie for that scene.
Stan: Why can't I be in a boy band? Randy: (firmly) Because I said so. Stan: Cartman said we're going to perform at the mall at three o'clock! My friends are gonna be pissed off at me! Randy: (still pretty controlled) Let them be pissed off. Stan: Dad, I don't understand. Just let me do this one thing and then I'll... Randy: (inexplicably losing it) Noooo! NOOOOOOO! (smashes a glass dresser with his head)
- In "The Last of the Meheecans", Randy does it again when he's confronted with what happens when Mexican immigrants performing menial labor all decide to move back to their birth country in a fit of nostalgia, using the same Darth Vader soundclip from Revenge of the Sith.
- Rocko's Modern Life: Rocko and Heffer are on a bus tour of Paris with a bus driver who is determined to keep his passengers on the bus at all costs, so much so that he chases them around the city after they escape. By the time the two board a plane home, the bus driver delivers an epic BIG NO as the two fly off into the sunset.
- Spider-Man: The Animated Series: Blade lets out a particularly narmtastic one of these in the season four episode, The Vampire Queen. And Spider-Man gives a particularly haunting one upon the death of the Mary Jane Clone.
- Total Drama Island
- Owen says a big no when a box of chocolates gets knocked into the water.
- Also, Alejandro in the finale of the 3rd season gives out a Big No after he is put in a robot suit because he was burned by lava and trampled by most of the contestants. Al lets it out when he asks Chris if the prize money is safe, only to find out it was burned in the volcano. It's hilarious because it parodies the cheesiest moments in Star Wars history (which is seen in the picture above).
- Phineas and Ferb
- Parodied in the Musical Episode of Daria. Daria gives a Big No as Kevin accidentally locks the four of them out on the roof.
- In one episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Robotnik lets out a Big No which is used extremely often in Youtube Poop. This video is also an Overly-Long Gag.
- Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic - Dante lets out a pained and enraged (and kinda narmy) big no as he beats on the Gates of Hell that separate him and his wife's soul.
- This has happened more than once in Winx Club.
- Mung Daal lets one out during an episode of Chowder.
- Batman: The Animated Series
- Episodes "Pretty Poison" and "Eternal Youth", each near the end, have the villainess Poison Ivy saying this trope.
- The episode "His Silicon Soul", near the end, has the cyborg Batman saying it after the real Batman fell to his death before Cyborg Batman committed suicide. Then it's revealed that Robin and Alfred see a light below which is Batman himself, who survived.
- Vakama does this in BIONICLE: Legends of Metru Nui after he sees a vision of the city being destroyed.
- A few Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons have this:
- The Chuck Jones Warner Brothers cartoon Duck Amuck:
Daffy: All right. Let's get this picture started. (Iris Out and THE END appears) Daffy: Nooooo! Nooooo!
- The Friz Freleng cartoon Bucaneer Bunny has Yosemite Sam (a.k.a. Pirate Sam) say a couple of Big No's when Bugs attempts to throw a matchstick inside his pirate ship which is filled with gunpowder.
- Also one near the end of the McKimson short "Sleepy Time Possum" in which Paw Possum, disguised as a dog, gets catapulted by his son.
- The Bonkers episode "In the Bag" has Lucky Piquel say this trope when both Bonkers and Lucky are chasing the bag in his police car only to find that the brakes are missing.
- Jimmy Two-Shoes: Beezy lets out one as Heloise beats him in a staring eyes competition.
- Eek! The Cat lets one out in the episode "Cape Fur", when he's being dragged off by JB for punishment after he hears about the Killer Rabbit on the news.
- In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Jimmy gets one when he travels to the future and he discovers that his future self married Cindy. And when it comes back from commercial, we discover that he screamed for four minutes.
- Sheen lets out one in the interstitial shorts after his Ultralord action figure gets stuck in a tree. Also lets one out in Ultra Sheen when he witnesses Ultra Lord's defeat at the hands of Robo-Fiend inside the the video game
- Hugh does this in "Attack of the Twonkies" when Judy takes Flippy from him and throws him to Jimmy so he can power up his rocket and send the giant Twonkie back into space.
- A Tom and Jerry short revolved around a duckling imprinting on Tom and Tom taking advantage of this to attempt to cook the duckling. Near the end, the duckling realizes that Tom intends to eat him and prepares to take a long walk off a soup spoon into a bubbling pot, "If my nice mommy wants a duck dinner..." Tom utters a Big No as he catches the duckling. A "No!" made all the more impressive by the fact that Tom & Jerry usually don't have speaking voices....
- Happens in an episode of Nightmare Ned by the Tooth Fairy when Ned wins a game of checkers against a giant tooth for ownership of his teeth.
- Little Dog in the Two Stupid Dogs episode "Cat!" after Big Dog goes back to sleep without scaring the cat.
- This is Johnny Bravo's reaction to finding out the Easter Bunny isn't real.
- Wakfu
- Adamaï lets out a Big No (with Skyward Scream) at the end of episode 16, after Grougaloragran teleports the heroes away to fight Nox alone.
- Nox, as part of his Villainous Breakdown in the season 1 finale, when he realizes that his attempted Time Travel only brought him back twenty frigging minutes in the past.
- Happens quite often in Dexter's Laboratory. One time in particular, when Mandark forces Dexter to shut down his laboratory.
- The Death Kwon Do instructor in Regular Show gets three rather nice ones. First when he discovers Rigby stole the instructions to learn the Death Punch of Death, only to be interrupted by a student explaining the toilet was 'Death Kwon clogged', leading to another Big "NO!". Then finally, when he discovers that Mordicai stole the Death Jump and Death Dump instructions, he lets out another Big "NO!".
- Scaredy Bat lets one out in an episode of Ruby Gloom.
- Spike does this twice in the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic episode "A Dog and Pony Show", both times coupled with Skyward Scream: the first when Rarity is kidnapped, and another when he realizes he and the other ponies have gotten themselves lost in the Diamond Dogs' mine.
- In "Stare Master", Fluttershy's reaction to Applebloom suggesting the Cutie Mark Crusaders try to get coal-mining cutie marks is a very emphatic (especially for her) "NO!"
- Scootaloo does this in "Cutie Mark Chronicles", when Fluttershy suggests singing another (cutesy) song.
- Discord does this in "Return of Harmony" when the Elements of Harmony turn him into stone again.
- In Veggie Tales, Larry the Cucumber did this when Archibald inserted "His Cheeseburger" in the jukebox. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..."
- Johnny delivers one in Johnny Test. And then the ground shakes.
- Richard in The Amazing World of Gumball, when told he has to get a job.
- Princess Sally yells it in Sonic's bad dream when she is roboticized in Sonic the Hedgehog, episode "Sonic's Nightmare".
- Utterd by Kabuto at the end of ''Tokyo Mater'' as a result of him losing to Mater in a drift race and is about to have all of his modifications pulled off his body by all of the other cars in Tokyo, who then laugh at him when Kabuto is finally naked.
- Recess uses this a number of times, a few being "No...no...NOOOOOOO!!!!!":
- "The Break In": Towards the end, by T.J. when he just broke himself out of detention and onto the playground, just as recess ended for the day.
- "The New Kid": By Gus when his name is taken away and must be refered to as "New Kid"
- "The Experiment": By T.J. and Spinelli when they find out they have to kiss each other to see what the effects were on the opposite sex.
- "The Legend of the Big Kid": By Vince when he and the gang are looking for T.J.
- "Mama's Girl": By Spinelli when no one will stop taunting her after she accidentaly called Miss Grotke "mama".
- In Thundercats 2011 Lion-O performs one that overlaps with a Slow No and a Futile Hand Reach upon seeing his father King Claudus stabbed In the Back.
- Green Lantern pulls off a gloriously hammy one when he's trapped inside a yellow smiley face time bomb in DC Super Friends.
- My Life as a Teenage Robot: Vexus at the end of Escape From Cluster Prime, when Vega and her friends give Cluster Prime back their golden chips. Also, used in "Puppet Bride" by Mrs. Wakeman (along with a flying tackle) during a wedding between Little Acorn and Jenny.
- Happens quite a lot on Adventure Time. In one episode, the Kid Hero Finn has to win a contest in order to win a kiss from his love interest, Princess Bubblegum. When one of the other contestants almost wins, he lets out a big no that reaches the level of a Sonic Scream.
- Also lets one out in Mystery Train when Finn sees that Jake has been killed by the Conductor.
- ATHF: Meatwad gives one when he finds out Shake ate Inside-Out Boy.
Real Life
- EVERYONE.
- Team Liquid when Savior's possible retirement was announced: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..."
- 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., a.k.a. 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.
- Or when a user gets his righteous Karmic Retribution in the form of a Karma Charger or Karma Tank. This troper's ears are still ringing
- In 2004, a woman at a Dick Cheney rally was arrested and nearly charged for shouting five Big Nos in a row.
- Youtube video: When a man finds out his cat's arms are missing — "Egon? What happened to your arms Egon? Egooooooooonnn! Noooooooooooooooo!"
- American senator Larry Craig shouted "NNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!" when the man he was propositioning for anonymous gay sex (by tapping his toes) in a Minneapolis airport bathroom revealed that he was a police officer. Later, he tried to claim that while he had been tapping his toes in the bathroom stall, he wasn't cruising — he simply had a "wide stance" while using the toilet. This created one of the world's most epic political memes, but convinced nobody — if his taps were completely innocent, why the Big No?
- This girl's reaction to her boyfriend's prank of tampering with her shampoo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sercfn8YoD4
- This trope is particularly popular with children about eight or under who aren't getting their way.
- More interestingly than some of the above, the recent political unrest in Syria has lead for the Syrian Branch of the Muslim Brotherhood to call for you to shout a Big No?”
- These young girls' reactions upon seeing David Cook win American Idol.
- This man watching his football team losing a game that will result in the team falling out of the "A" league, big no is at 2:48 but you want to watch it all, it's hilarious. (it's in spanish unfortunately, there are subtitles that kind of suck but get the message across. Also, VERY NSFW, a lot of swearing and such). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSZ3JVWDw4I
- The youtube user Hamster Alliance let's out a hilarious (and completely understandable) one during his playthrough of Super Meat Boy. He also tends to degenerate into sad "I want to give up" laughter and random bouts of frustrated gibberish.
- The shirt of ultimate disambiguation.
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