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Whereas the Big "NO!" expresses displeasure or despair, the Big "YES!" can express extreme pleasure (such as charging up a boarding ramp and gaining superpowers), but it can also be used by Large Hams as a way of expressing joy, agreement, or if the ham is extra large, the reply to a harmless yes or no question.
Also can be used as a response to obvious or rhetorical questions in which cases it means, "Geez, you really think so, Sherlock?" or "Just do it already!"
It can be uttered quickly or drawn out, as long as it leaves an impression of some sort. Can be substituted with "yeah" or "yay." Foreign language examples are also welcome.
A Sub Trope of Big Word Shout. Might overlap with Metal Scream.
The Big Yes is often a major component of The Immodest Orgasm and the Power High trope.
Contrast Big "NO!" and Big "NEVER!".
Muruta Azrael belts out a big "YATTAAAA!" in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED (dubbed into a Big "YES!").
In context, this is because he's just found the means to commit mass nuclear genocide.
In Castle in the Sky, one of Dola's boys, Louie, as voiced by Mandy Patinkin, gleefully shouts this after Dola agrees to let Pazu and Sheeta accompany them. He follows this up with a "No more swabbin' the decks! Hooray!"
Hajime No Ippo: A big "YATTAAAAAA!!" is pulled by Ippo after he wins the japanese title.
In Bakuman。, the typical response of Mashiro and Takagi to getting serialization.
In Happy Yarou Wedding, Shouta gives several of these combined with a Happy Dance when he thinks Yuuhi's going to become his mama, and again when he learns Yuuhi will move in.
Masterminds, toward the end of the movie, when the Big Bad, played by Patrick Stewart, sees a light at the end of the tunnel, he assumes he's escaped, and lets out a series of increasingly larger Big "YES!"-es. Then he sees what actually lies outside the tunnel, a long drop into a sewage canal, and lets out a Big "NO!".
In Home Alone and Home Alone 2, Kevin would often drop a gleeful "YES!" after inflicting his latest amusing injury on Harry and/or Marv.
In "The Fifth Element", the David character screams "YES!" when Leelu finally stops Mr. Shadow and saves the universe.
Literature
In Reaper Man, Azrael answers Death's request for more time with a big "YES." Literally big, that is; it's in an extremely large font size. According to [1], it was supposed to be near the top of a left page, so that it would surprise the reader when they turn the page, but not all printings did this.
Frank Nelson on The Jack Benny Program had a very iconic "Yyyyyyees?" frequently imitated, and reprised on The Great Gildersleeve, and later parodied on The Simpsons.
Harry Kim in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Timeless" shouts this (here at 9:03) when he successfully sends the code to collapse the slipstream into the past, preventing Voyager's crash before the Delta Flyer exploded.
In House, M.D. during the Cuddy-centric episode, she gave a big "YEEESSS!!!" when she got the 12 percent increase from the insurance company.
In Doctor Who, The 10th Doctor was prone to exclaiming "OH YES!".
In the 5th series episode The Lodger, Amy actually says "Big yes!" after the Doctor defeats the mysterious threat upstairs.
in Babylon 5 Captain Sheridan does this, after an episode-long Xanatos Gambit to get the Independents to let his people escort their shipping pays off.
In the Family Matters episode "A Thought in the Dark", Steve belts out "Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes!" when Laura invites him to come along with her to a Dave Koz concert, thinking that she's finally given in to his romantic overtures after a steady string of rejections. She isn't - it's actually a prelude to a double-date where Laura is trying to set Steve up with Myra, a cousin of one of Laura's Guys of the Week.
Boy Meets World had several big "Yes!" moments, and in the series finale they had a Fully Automatic Clip Show of these moments right after Cory gives a big "Yes!" in the present.
In Top Gear, this is usually Jeremy Clarkson's doing.
Music
The first word in Lil Jon's song "What you gon' do?" is a loud "YEAH!"...though that's probably true of several songs by Lil' Jon.
Truly, it is hard to find an upbeat song that doesn't have a Big Yes in it.
The Beatles' early work includes a lot of "yeah yeah yeah"s and similar phrases.
Not just their early work; Paul McCartney caps the build-up to the big coda of "Hey Jude" with a number of ecstatic "yeahs", and then spends the next four minutes getting his freak on.
From the 1942 movie Sweater Girl, "I Said No" involves a woman debating whether she should give in to a man on her doorstep.
Till at last, I confess, I said "Yes, yes, yes, YES!!!" That's how I subscribed to Liberty magazine!
"Yeah!" by Canadian country music singer Paul Brandt. The title says it all.
Professional Wrestling
Batista's famous theme music, I Walk Alone by Saliva, begins with it. YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
Matt Hardy's theme music, Live For The Moment by Monster Madness, begins with OH YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
Bobby Heenan's "YES! YES! YES! YES! HE DID IT!" after Ric Flair won the Royal Rumble in 1992 appears in the new Botchamania opening.
Ever since Daniel Bryan won the World Heavyweight Championship in late 2011, he's been one to celebrate wins, be they non-title or otherwise, by repeatedly screaming, "YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!"
Videogames
Raven from Tales Of Vesperia does an epic one, when given the prospect of Judith wearing even less.
"Oh yes!! OH GOD, YES!!!"
At the end of every regular battle in the PSX version of Final Fantasy V. Killing those low-level squirrels must be very exciting.
Half-Life 2 gives one to Alyx when you destroy the dark fusion reactor.
Elite Beat Agents has Commander Kahn giving you a thumbs up while screaming "YEAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" everytime you got through an entire mission without failing a single section.
Homestuck has a running gag involving this, in which something happened that the character really wanted to do, usually accompanying a Silliness Switch. "Yes. HELL yes. HELL FUCKING YES."
M. Bison from the American Street Fighter cartoon exclaims "YES! YES!" when the destruction of the Street Fighters seems imminent, and it has become a popular source for YouTube Poop.
Along the same lines, in the Galaxy Rangers episode "Shoot Out", the Queenof the Crown was on her feet cheering when she had three Rangers in chains and the fourth had been shot.
Megatron of Beast Wars was quite fond of a more refined version of this, yeeesss.
And while we are on the subject of Transformers, we probably should include Optimus Prime from Transformers Animated as he does this while testing out a jetpack for Ratchet towards the end of season 3.
Duff Man from The Simpsons usually shouts "OH YEAH!" whenever he appears.
In another episode, Homer broke Lisa's heart by betting on her loss in a crossword contest. He does give an appropriate Big "NO!" when she says she'd no longer be his little girl, but gives an equally appropriate Big "YES!" when asked if he wants to buy band chocolates 3 seconds later.
A Big "YES!" turns into a Big "NO!" very quickly for Jafar in Aladdin when he thinks he has the lamp but then checks his pockets and realizes Abu stole it.And Aladdin himself, after his first kiss.
In an episode of Total Drama World Tour, Tyler gets one of these when Lindsay finally recognizes him and remembers his name. Of course, being that they're in the Alps at that time, he causes an avalanche.
Parodied on Mad with the X Meets Y parody CSiCarly (a crossver between CSI: Miami and, of course, iCarly). It turns out that the YEEEEEAAAAAH!!! is actually coming from Horatio standing on Freddie's foot.
In the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic episode "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", Twilight Sparkle does this during her flashback when Princess Celestia offers to personally tutor her in magic, excitedly shouting "Yesyesyesyes!" over and over again as she jumps for joy. After the cut back to present day, we see Twilight has apparently gotten a little too caught up in her story and is doing this in front of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
Rarity does it in "The Ticket Master", when talking about what she would do if her Prince Charming proposed to her: "Of course, I would say... YES!!!"
Inverted in "Sonic Rainboom", in which Rainbow Dash tries to teach Fluttershy the "elements of a good cheer". She's hoping that she'll cheer her on at the Young Flyers Competition, but since Fluttershy is a Shrinking Violet...*BIG INHALE* Yay. Later played straight when Rainbow Dash actually does manage to pull off the Sonic Rainboom, causing her to scream "A SONIC RAINBOOM! SHE DID IT! SHE DID IT!"
Very much done among fandoms once something is done and/or announced that makes the fandom rejoice.
Some tropers will use this at times, and Pothole it to this page. It tends to be a sign of natter, though, so you should probably delete it if you see it.
Sports. 'Nuff said.
Announcer Marv Albert in particular has a distinctive "Yes!" He even guest spotted on Pinky and the Brain so they could trade "YES!"es.
