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A Camera Trick where the camera is placed directly over the actor, pointing down, while the actor looks up into the camera and screams. The camera pulls away, while SPIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNING!

(...maybe without the spinning.)

This can be done to show intense anguish in the character, implying that they are screaming at the sky because there is nothing on the planet to hold responsible, possibly cursing some diety. This is especially likely if they are screaming phrases rather than pure noise.

If the cause for this is as simple as running out of Cheesy snacks, the trope immediately becomes comedic.

See also Big No, The Scream, Say My Name.

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Examples:

Advertising

• MORRRRRRRRRRRRRTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAL KOOOOOOOOOOOMBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!!!!!!!

Anime and Manga

• Ghost In The Shell Stand Alone Complex: "MOTOKOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
• Used by Hayate with the Big No in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's after Vita getting executed in front of her breaks her thoroughly.
• Ed in the Fullmetal Alchemist anime: "QUIT JERKING ME AROOOOOOOOOUND!"
• Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann anyone? "ANIKIIIIIII!"
• In Digimon Adventure, Myotismon unexpectedly did this once with a fit of maniacal laughter. Lovely face that guy has...
• Lord Darcia in Wolfs Rain.
• One happens in the final arc of Sailor Moon. Sailor Moon is shouting No at the time so it doubles as a Big No.

Film

• GORDON'S ALIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
• For some reason, people think that Kirk screaming "KHAAAAAAN!" in Star Trek II was like this. It wasn't (It's a close-up of Kirk's face if you're wondering, cutting to a long shot of the moon he's on/in), but parodies of it do this.
  • The 2009 Star Trek movie has an actual example of this trope, though - Nero screaming "SPOOOOOOOOOOOCK!" during his Villainous Breakdown.
    • This also interrupts Nero beating the stuffing out Alternate-Kirk, who sits up with a faint glimmer of recognition as Nero launches into it.
• One does this in The City Of Lost Children.
• John Belushi's character screaming after the beer bar is taken away in Animal House.
• Iconic movie example: In the film adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, just after realizing the error of his ways, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) screams out in the rain. The "STELLA! STELL-LLAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" is done with this camera angle and has become one of the most famous one-word lines in movie history.
• Pirates Of The Caribbean does this in the second movie, Dead Man's Chest: "Damn you, Jack... SSSPARRROOOWWWWW!!!!" complete with the pullaway camera angle from above (and Davy Jones spraying seawater).
• Performed by Cindy (Anna Faris' character) at the end of every one of the Scary Movie series, although usually punctuated by her being run over.
• Bartleby does this near the end of Dogma while laughing maniacally.
• In Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet, the line "I am... FORTUNE'S FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!" gets this treatment.
  • "WILLIAAAAAMMM!" William Thatcher also does this, screaming his own name, at the end of A Knight's Tale.
• Parodied in the movie Charlies Angels with Matt Leblanc howling "DAMN YOU, SALAZAAAR!" at the soaring camera while his girlfriend lies dead in his arms. And then we find out they're shooting a movie within the movie.
  • Don't forget that the scene takes place at the end of a montage showing the romantic B-plots of the other two angels, furthering the assumption that the girlfriend is Lucy Liu.
• Ferris Buellers Day Off combines it with Distant Reaction Shot.
• The My Favorite Martian movie does a variant of this, as it is executed during Elliot Coleye's Evil Laugh at the height of his One Winged Angel act (initiated by one of the Martians' "nerplex").
• This was done three times in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
• FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
• In Detroit Rock City, school security mook Elvis does this when the boys cross the school property line and leave the range of his powers.
• The Room.
  Johnny: You are TEARING ME APAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART, Lisa!

Live Action TV

• Seinfeld parodied this three times. The first time was George yelling "KHAAAAAAN!" after realizing his life must be dedicated to the Susan Ross foundation. The second time was Elaine yelling "SUUUUUUUUUUZIE!" after realizing her life must be dedicated to the Susie foundation, a fake character she initially made up to avoid troubles and later "killed" her to avoid exposure. The third time was George screaming "TWIIIIIIIIIX!!" after people ate up his candy lineup, which he set up to catch his candy's thief in a car dealership.
• The Klingon death ritual first seen in StarTrekTheNextGeneration invokes this, roaring into the sky to warn the afterlife that a Klingon warrior is on their way.
• Jon Stewart does this a lot on The Daily Show, and was especially gratified when the scientist found to be supplying rogue regimes with nuclear technology was actually named A.Q. Khan. They once even subverted/failed to do the shot.
  "How does a glissando make sense there? Am I introducing a toaster?"
• Duncan does this once in the Highlander series, when he screams Darius's name after finding his dead body.
• Like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report also has engaged in this trope occasionally. ("MANILOWWWWWW!!!")
  • Also "RAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIINNNNN!!!"
    • "BENNEEEEEEEETT!!!"
    • "RICKLLLLLLLLLES!!!"
    • "Vigoda?"
• Along those same lines, who can forget Conan O'Brien's tortured scream... "BOOOLLTEEEENN!"
• Wade in the first season finale of Sliders: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

• "I GAVE MY WHOLE LIFE TO PORN! AND HE DOES IT IN ONE DAY! ONE!! DAY!!!"
• In the TV movie finale of Prison Break, T-Bag does this. "SCOOFIEEELD! SCOOOOOOOOOFIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELD!"
• Parodied in an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway? During a game in which the comedians had to portray certain characters while being in a newscast, Ryan was assigned a character of a self-centered actor about to give his "Oscar-worthy performance". Ryan finished off his bit with his character bellowing his last line as he looked up towards an overhead camera—while he spun instead of the camera. The audience burst out into applause at the end.
• Danish... Scum... DANISH SCUM!
• Used in an episode of The Big Bang Theory. After realized that Wil Wheaton tricked him into losing a card game, Sheldon screams "WHEATON!" as the camera zooms out. A somewhat odd example, in that the moment resembles the actual scene from The Wrath of Khan instead of the Beam Me Up Scotty version.

Video Games

• Used by the Joker in Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe's DC story mode after Captain Marvel tells Superman and the four DC villains the name of the Original Generation Big Bad (Dark Kahn, a merger of DC's Darkseid and MK's Shao Kahn). Though the camera is above him, it cuts thrice, each one more distanced from him (and echoing his voice) rather than pulling away smoothly. Then Deathstroke tells him to shut up.
• The first major turning point in Star Ocean 3 ends with Fayt screaming "WHAT THE HELL AM I!?!?!"
• Super Mario Galaxy's WELCOME! WELCOME NEEW GAAAAAALLAAAAAAXXXYYYYYY!!!
• In Warcraft 3 in the scene when Grom Hellscream kills Mannoroth there are some pretty dramatic screams, that however being wordless don't quite qualify as Big Nos, and at the end of the scene, following Grom's death, a very powerful Khan Scream.

Web Comics

• "LOLCAAATS!" and "SMITHYYYY!!!!"
• A running gag in PvP.
• Featuring Talking Guinea Pigs: "DAMN YOU, FOURIER!"

Web Original

• The Nostalgia Critic has this reaction when he meets The Angry Video Game Nerd NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERD. Each time he says it, he draws it out longer and longer. The most recent time he was interrupted with a punch to the face.
  • This was also used in his review of Saved By The Bell while recapping the oil drilling episode. When he announces the evil culprit behind Becky the duck's death, he dramatically looks up and proclaims "OIL!" complete with a spinning camera pull away shot.
• Also used on That Guy With The Glasses by Angry Joe, in the parking lot of a Chick-Fil-A when he realizes that it's Sunday and the place is closed.
• PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMPKINHEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAD!

Western Animation

• The Critic.
  William Shatner: Hello, I'm William Shatner and this is Celebrity 911. Tonight, we devote the entire hour to police calls involving James Caan...(makes face) 'CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
• In the season 3 finale of Jackie Chan Adventures, the last scene show the demon Shendu, petrified again, yelling "CHAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!!" as the "camera" pans out.
• Leela does one of these in the Futurama episode "Love's Labors Lost in Space" after waking up from a night of pity sex with Fake Ultimate Hero Zapp Brannigan, who is himself a parody of William Shatner.
  • Also Nibbler in the Futurama film Bender's Big Score: "Doooomed!"
• "STAMOS!"
• Parodied in The Simpsons with Rainier Wolfcastle's "MEN-DO-ZAAAA!"
• "Stroker And Hoop" parodied this with the character Stroker screaming "KHAAAAAN-ja" after being swindled and taken to a mental asylum by a woman, pretending to be an alien, (though later revealed to be a real alien) named Khan'Ja.
• Demona from Gargoyles mixes this with a Big No when she discovers her planning got her own clan brutally killed, complete with her falling to her knees and raising her hands to the sky.
• DAMN YOU HASBROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Music

• The whole process is described in Razorblade Sigh by Gamma Ray.

Memetic Mutation

• DEVIANTAAAAAAAAAAAART!
• "LIEFEEEEEEEELD!!!!!" was quite often used on scans_daily, with "LAAAAAAAAAND!!!!" being a close second.
• '''SAKURAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI!
• 4 CHANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!

Fan Work

• In the 40k machinima "a Day in the Life of a Commissar", Commissar Steeve does a skyward "big no" when he's told there's no coffee left (except Decaf).

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