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"And you know what Hell is, folks...it's Andy Gibb, singing 'Shadow Dancing' for eons and eons , and you have to wear orange plaid bell bottoms, and sit next to the Bay City Rollers—'How you guys doing?' 'This is gonna SUCK!'"
A variation of Oh Crap and Casual Danger Dialog. Sometimes leads into a Bolivian Army Ending. The Deadpan Snarker's equivalent of the Obi-Wan Moment. This trope refers to situations when the character realizes he's screwed, but groans instead of gasping. Inevitably followed with the lucky character just lowering their head and bulling through the punishment (or bending over and taking it, if they're really screwed). If they come out on top, the result is nearly always a Crowning Moment of Awesome, but this trope specifically refers to the "Oh, great" reaction before the pain begins. Operates on the same principle as understatement. Bystanders may offer commentary. If they make it through, they may shout " I'm Okay!" at the end, even if they're obviously not.
Not to be confused with one's opinion on a movie. And not that, either.
Examples
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- An M&M commercial had Red demonstrating a new variety or feature by putting his partner Yellow inside a blender. Right before he switches the blender on, Yellow mutters in a low, resigned voice, "This is gonna hurt, isn't it, Red?"
- One for pretzel M&Ms has one of the candies complaining about having a large pretzel put inside him. Cue said pretzel appearing on screen saying, "I'm not too thrilled about this, either." The commercial ends with the pretzel cracking his knuckles and saying, "All right, let's get this over with."
Anime & Manga
- Sidoh the Shinigami in Death Note. Poor guy lost his notebook, and to retrieve it...
Sidoh: So I guess I have to go to... the human world.
Ryuk: Yep, that's right. Have fun.
Sidoh: ...Well that sucks.
- From the Dark Tournament semifinals in Yu Yu Hakusho, Bui from Team Toguro is fighting Kirenja. Kirenja unsheathes a BFS, and makes a comment about Bui deserving an extra-large sized defeat. Cue Bui summoning an axe into his hand, one so large and heavy that it makes Bui's feet crater the arena.
Kirenja: Oh, damn.
- Yusuke actually says "This is gonna suck." in episode 35 of the dub.
- In the fourth episode of Mnemosyne, Rin grapples Android Ruon and throws herself out of a flying airplane. What she probably didn't count on is that they are flying straight into the plane's turbine. But her reaction? "This may be too much even for me..."
- Hellsing Jan Valentine, when he bursts in on the Round Table conference to find Integra and the other members calmly facing him with anti-vampire weaponry.
- The Secret of Twilight Gemini: This effectively sums up Fujiko's reaction to being left alone at Sadachiyo's mercy; particularly when he announces that the "fun's" about to start.
Fujiko: (deadpan) "I'll bet."
- Rally utters this when pinned down by gunfire on a warehouse catwalk in the first ep of Gunsmith Cats:
Rally: This sucks.
- In the English dub of Digimon Tamers, Impmon tries to take on a Deva all by himself, and of course gets his ass handed to him. The Deva throws him away, and Impmon shouts "THIS IS GONNA HUUUUUURT!" just before hitting the pavement.
- That same line is used in the 4Kids dub of One Piece during Luffy's second fight with Crocodile...by Crocodile, right before Luffy sends him flying into a smallish stone building and knocking it down.
- Also used in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX during Jaden and Aster's duel with Serena and her clone, right before an attack hits them.
Comicbooks
Films
- The live action movie remake of George of the Jungle features George — who incidentally thinks that hitting the tree at the end of the swing is proper vine-swinging technique — attempting to psych himself up for the epic distance he has to travel at the film's climax. "This biggest swing in jungle history. Will hurt very much... But George have to do it." The swing is so long that he builds up enough velocity to actually knock a George-shaped section of bark off the other side of the tree. Ow.
George: ...George don't feel so good.
- The Incredibles: Prior to catching a train — literally — in the first section of the movie, Mr. Incredible winces appropriately. And near the end of the same movie, Syndrome also gets a moment of this right before the convertible Mr. Incredible himself tosses at him knocks him into the Turbine Blender of his Manta plane.
- In Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan is fighting Jango and dropkicks him off the platform... only to realize that he is actually tied to the guy. "Oh, not good!"
- Of course, every Star Wars movie, and a lot of Expanded Universe works as well, include the phrase "I've got a bad feeling about this".
- Lampshaded when a character replies with "Consider it indigestion and deal with it." (Coruscant Nights II)
- The Empire Strikes Back has Han Solo say something similar when he's trying to outrace the Empire:
Han: I think we're in trouble.
(C-3PO explains why)
Han: We're in trouble!
- Return of the Jedi contains an extended This Is Gonna Suck sequence when Luke and Han are being ferried out to the Sarlacc pit for execution:
Han: Together again.
Luke: Wouldn't miss it.
Han: How are we doing?
Luke: Same as always.
Han: That bad, huh?
- Die Hard: John Mc Clane is about to jump on a subway train from the sidewalk: "This is a bad idea!"
- Also in the first film, just before he jumps off the roof with nothing but a fire hose tied around his waist to hold him up: "Oh, John, what the fuck are you doing?"
- The Lord of the Rings:
"They have a cave troll."
- Theoden's expression immediately before being bowled over by the Witch King screams this trope.
- As does Gandalf's when a large number of trolls burst through one of the gates in Gondor in The Return of the King. Made particularly amusing by the fact that he'd just been giving the Gondorian soldiers a pep talk to the effect of "Whatever comes through that door, we'll take it down!"
- Batty in FernGully} gets one of these when Hexxus tries to crush him and Zack with falling debris.
- Armageddon had Bruce Willis lamenting his decision to stay behind on the asteroid to manually throw the switch on the bomb that will split the asteroid in two, saying "This was a smart idea".
- Armageddon has one of these every five minutes, and then doubles up after they actually get into space.
- Ghostbusters: "I like this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it!"
- Baby's Day Out: "Ha-ha, ha-ha... the kid's in the gorilla cage."
- Batman Begins has one of these for Ra's al Ghul when he realizes that Batman isn't going to save him. His reaction has this expression written all over it.
- If Hellboy says "Oh, crap", it's one of these moments.
- A better example might be during the climax of the first movie, in which Hellboy is about to be swallowed by the monster he's been fighting, right after setting his grenade belt to blow: "Oh, this is gonna hurt."
- What makes Hellboy the master of this is that he pulls one off AFTER he beats the monster: "I'm gonna be sore in the morning..."
- In Days of Thunder, during one race where Cole is heading in for a pit stop, he has to swerve to avoid another car that suddenly pulls out in front of him. This causes him to spin out and, upon realizing he's about to hit the pit wall head-on at what is, by pit stop standards, a fairly high speed, Cole says, "Uh-oh, this is gonna hurt."
- In Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, Epps has called for air support during a heavy firefight.
Epps: [to Lennox] "I hope these F-16s got good aim."
Lennox: "Yeah, why is that?"
Epps: "I told them to hit the orange smoke."
[orange smoke drifts into the shot, surrounding them]
Lennox: "You mean that orange smoke?"
Epps: "It wasn't my best toss, okay?"
Beat as both characters are silent, and the page title line can practically be seen going through both their minds.
- Epps gets another one earlier, when he sees the various Decepticons coming at their group of soldiers and Autobots:
"We're 'bout to get our asses kicked!"
- This from Lennox in the first film during the Mission City battle:
[Hears helicopter and turns around in time to see Blackout landing on top of a building]
Lennox: Oh, we're so dead.
- Will Smith's catch phrase ("Aww hell naw!") is basically this.
- Serenity gives us this exchange early on.
Wash: Well, if she can't get me some extra flow from the engines to offset the burn-through, this landing is going to get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting."
Wash: [completely deadpan] "Oh God, oh God, we're all going to die"?
Mal: [pulls down intercom speaker] This is the Captain speaking. We're having a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some turbulence, and then... explode.
[Just after that on a different part of the ship]
Jayne: Are we gonna explode? I don't wanna explode.
- Of course, that scene is mostly a joke about Star Trek: TOS, in which Spock would say that something was about to get 'interesting'. Then various other characters would 'define' it...
- From Pirates of the Caribbean.
"Oh... not good."
- Also, in the second film of the series, Jack Sparrow utters the word "bugger" at least three times. The first time is an Oh Crap moment; the second time, it's used when Jack is dangling from his leg by a rope attached to a bamboo pole stuck between two high clifftops- just before the pole gives way - and it's a This Is Gonna Suck moment.
- Hannibal. After being handcuffed to Clarice Starling, Hannibal Lecter holds a hatchet above her wrist (after she refuses to give him the key) and says, "You know, this is really going to hurt." He then cuts off his own hand. (Averted in the book.)
- In National Lampoon's Animal House, when the gang enters the black night club, and everyone inside is instantly silent (including the band), Otter leans forward and says, calmly, "We are going to die."
- Captain Nesmith of Galaxy Quest gets one of these after realizing that "Gorignac" was not the multi-eyed pig-like monster that he was managing to outsmart, but rather the 40 foot high rock monster that was forming behind him.
"Oh darn."
- The Muppet Christmas Carol; at the start of the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come sequence;
- Jason X features one female protagonist being sucked out into space through a tiny jagged hole. She laments, just before losing her grip, "This sucks on so many levels!" Also doubles as a handy commentary of the film itself.
- Notting Hill; Hugh Grant's character is climbing over a fence in a most inept manner; he exclaims "Ohh, this is going to be very unpleasant." He then bangs his shin and swears wholeheartedly.'
- In Cannibal! The Musical, the juvenile character Humphrey uses the exact phrase before crossing the Green River.
- In Toy Story 3, when Andy's toys are first sent to the daycare, they get in place on the floor for the toddlers to find them. Buzz notices, with a sense of trepidation, that the more veteran toys are scurrying to find a hiding place. The door bursts open, and Rex is thrown to the side. Cue Buzz quickly flipping his helmet up just before a kid snatches him up.
- In Iron Man 2, when Tony and Rhodey/War Machine are enjoying their victory over the Hammer drones, Ivan Vanko arrives wearing his own suit of armor. Rhodey's response? "Oh, this ain't gonna be good..."
- In Next (2007), Frank Cadillac (Nicolas Cage) can see a bit into the future. Right before he gets punched in the face, he mumbles "Incoming."
- In We Were Soldiers, Sergeant Major Plumley lays it out for the surrounding younger (and many wounded) troops as their HQ is about to be overrun by the NVA:
- In Over the Hedge, the Verminator, just before he and Gladys and Vincent are zapped by the Depelter Turbo: "Prepare for a lot of stinging!"
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows features an extended battle on a train, culminating with one Mook accidentally dropping a grenade without a pin into a bag full of grenades. The poor bastard has enough time to look up at his mate and wince.
Literature
Live-Action TV
Music
- This sums up Dr. Light's feelings in the first half of the song "Here Comes The Arm" from The Protomen's The Father of Death.
- The Sarah Mc Lachlan song "Hold On" has a line "Hold on, hold on to yourself, this is gonna hurt like hell". It's referring to emotional pain rather than physical, but the message is the same.
Stand-Up Comedy
Tabletop Games
- A standard reaction to a certain group of circumstances in Warhammer 40,000. A partial list is as follows:
- In D&D, this would be anytime the DM asks you to make a save...with your weakest save. Examples include Fortitude involving some form of expensive-to-cure poison or disease, Reflex a lovely pit of spikes...and Will is you losing your mind.
- Anytime the Barbarian starts to rage. Doubly so if he's a Frenzied Berserker.
- A monster casually walks up to you. Assume the worst.
- If you see the Dungeon Master smiling...or in certain cases, chuckling. There are plenty of cases where that will chill you.
- All tabletop horror games can and will mess with your characters in the worst way. Embracing the horrors just makes it suck less...temporarily.
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