Rapid Fire No - Television Tropes & Idioms

Alice is about to do something on accident, or on purpose, that Bob and Charlie doesn't want her to do. Let's say "knocking over a priceless vase". If they use a Little �No�, they run the risk of Alice not hearing them and knocking it over. If they use a Big "NO!", they might accidentally startle Alice and actually cause her to knock it over. So what do they do? They go "Nononononononononononononononononono..." until either she stops, or knocks it over, causing it to shatter into tiny pieces.

This is not usually effective, as half the time, Alice will ignore them. In Comedy, the instances in which it does work are generally a Set Up to have the vase get smashed anyway, just after they were relieved that it wasn't broken. In Action and Drama, however, Alice is more inclined to listen to them, but may sometimes choose to do it anyway.

Essentially, this is to the Big "NO!" what the Cluster F-Bomb is to the Atomic F-Bomb.

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Anime

The Anti-Spiral from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann combines this with Big "NO!" at one point in his Hannibal Lecture:
"We say: no no no no nono nononononononoNONONONONONO! NOT! AT! ALL!"

Fan Works

Calvin and Hobbes: The Series: Calvin does it when he tries to "rescue" the MTM.
Dragon Ball Abridged: Vegeta pulls one of these when he realises that Goku is about to kick his ass.
Vegeta: This is the end Kakarot! You don't stand a chance! I put all my power into this attack! Now perish... WITH THE REST OF YOUR PATHETIC WORLD!
Goku: KAIOKEN...
Vegeta: Noooo...
Goku: ... TIMES...
Vegeta: No, no, no...
Goku: ... FOOOOUUUUR...
Vegeta: Nononononononono-(gets carried away by the blast)-FUUUUUUUUUUU-
My Little Mages The Nightmares Return: Nightmare Moon gives off a string of these when she realizes that she's about to lose.
Turnabout Storm: Phoenix Wright does it when he mistakes Applejack for Lotta Hart.
- Rainbow Dash also does it when Phoenix meets her in the detention center after the first day of the trial.
Turnabout Substitution: Apollo gives one when Ema claims Rhea is Apollo's girlfriend.

Film

Shia LaBeouf does this in almost every movie he is in: Transformers, Disturbia, Surf's Up. See here
- The Rifftrax commentators call this "Shia LaBeouf-ing" when other actors do it in other movies.
Don Logan (Ben Kingsley) in Sexy Beast: "No! No no no no no no no no! No!"
In Watchmen, Rorschach's Rapid Fire No when the police surround the recently-deceased Moloch's apartment.
This was a recurring gag in You Don't Mess With The Zohan.
Hitler does this in German in this clip of Inglorious Basterds.
In Cop Out, here.
Performed by Bit in the first TRON when Flynn is about to drive off the cliff.
Woody in Toy Story when the match goes out.
And then Flik in A Bug's Life when the offering stone falls and spills its contents into the lake.
Anakin Skywalker does this when Ahsoka Tano brings down a wall on him in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Shrek does this when trying to stop Donkey from watching the Duloc introductory animatronic again.
Donkey: Let's do that again!
Shrek: No! No! Nononono! (beat) No.

Literature

In Will Grayson, Will Grayson when the second Will Grayson found out Maura was posing as his online crush Isaac.
Will: no. no no no no no no no no no no no no no no. no please no what no no please no fuck no NO.
In the novelization of Superman Returns, Lex Luthor of all people does this when he discovers Superman is pushing his island into space.

Live-Action TV

When the MythBusters took on claims that a tattoo would explode in an MRI, Kari and Tory suggested that Scottie should get some super-metallic ink added to her arm before going into the machine, Scottie delivered one of these.
- Later, when they're attempting to re-test the Compact Compact myth, one of the semis they'd acquired for the test went off course:
  Jamie: [singsong] It's gonna go into the waaaater...
  Adam: Oh! Nononononononononononono...
  [slow-rolling semi collides with barrier]
  Adam: Yes!
Robin does this frequently on How I Met Your Mother. At one point, she answers the suggestion that she's dating Barney with sixteen nos.
- In the Gag Reel, it is Thirty Two nos in a row.
In Doctor Who, this is one of the Tenth Doctor's Catch Phrases.
Almost clich� with victims in murder scenes.
Dr. Cox on Scrubs has done this multiple times, out of anger.
Michael on The Office when Toby returns.
Practically ubiquitous in Friends. Every one of the main characters has done it at least once, and many of them multiple times.
Also, Jim from the The Vicar of Dibley. This is usually a Verbal Tic but occasionally played straight.

Video Games

Persona 4: Chie has more than a few when Yukiko is up to something.
In Portal 2, GLaDOS reacts this way when Wheatley attempts to initiate a core transfer.
- Wheatley gives one when the Announcer fails to get his sarcasm.
In Myst III: Exile, this is Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Saavedro's Madness Mantra. It gets worse as the game progresses.
Whenever you fail a mission in the first Destroy all Humans:
Pox: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, NO. Krypto, you incompetent buffoon.

Web Originals

The NONONO cat.
Angry Joe uses one in Suburban Knights, when he realizes the "free car" he thinks he won was just a ruse to get him in the Nostalgia Critic's house.
Joe: NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! Nooooo! Noooooo! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The Nostalgia Critic had one that lasted for about a minute in the middle of his review of Drop Dead Fred.
Linkara, in his review of "Mr. T Comics #2" had not one, but two rapid fire no scenes upon finding that Mr. T gets knocked out by "Stare Roy," a man pumped up on steroids.
When reviewing Caligula, The Cinema Snob reacts this way when he sees a flock of sheep onscreen with the title character. This is some fun meta humor for two reasons: he had reviewed Island of Death previously (which featured a man having sex with a goat in a similar setting), and Caligula is Brad Jones' favorite movie, so he's overreacting to a scene he's watched numerous times.
Jim of the Jimquisition did this as a form of Oh Crap when he was told that week's subject was the controversy of "The Definition of Art Games".
Dr. Rabbit lashes out one of these in Dr Rabbits World Tour.
Chuggaaconroy does this in his Super Luigi Galaxy Let's Play when he doesn't get everything in a volcano that's filling up with lava. Of course, he still doesn't get anything.
Happens often in Dragon Ball Z Abridged, usually when someone has an energy blast closing in on them.