Narm / Western Animation

Western cartoons can often be silly, even when they're trying to be dramatic.

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Works with their own pages:

• Batman: The Animated Series
• Spider-Man: The Animated Series
• Star Wars Rebels
• Young Justice (2010)

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• G.I. Joe:
  • G.I. Joe: The Movie introduced an Ancient Conspiracy named Cobra-La, prompting the battle cry "Cobra-La-La-La-La-La" during the finale. (The writers have since claimed that Cobra-La was intended as a stand-in title for the Ancient Conspiracy in early drafts of the script, but they were later forced to keep it due to Executive Meddling.)
  • The hamhanded delivery of Duke's last words after being bitten by one of Serpentor's snake staffs.
    "GO ... JOE ..."
• The Monster High episode "Fright On" seems to be a serious take on racism, with Van Hellscream and Crabgrass trying to start what amounts to a race war between vampires and werewolves to get the school shut down; just for good measure, they also try to murder several prominent characters in a rather unpleasant manner. This features several "Narm!" moments, including Frankie's realization that Crabgrass is imitating Bloodgood by watching her drink with her finger, which she only suspects after hearing Crabgrass-as-Bloodgood call Nightmare a "stupid animal"; funnily enough, she seems to ignore Crabgrass' terrible acting (calling Frankie "Francine", which Bloodgood never does), inability to duplicate abilities (Bloodgood almost never wears her head in her office, something Crabgrass literally cannot imitate) and just plain out of character acting (keeping Nightmare shackled to the wall).
• Ralph Bakshi made an Animated Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings in 1978, a time when he was in love with the technique of rotoscoping. He filmed much of the movie in live-action and then traced over it, creating an odd-looking form of animation. The result of this process is, depending on your point of view, either a cavalcade of creepiness or a perfect storm of Narm:
  • Many of the character designs are poorly conceived, and by that we mean they're more than a bit of a fucking mess. While John Hurt's vocal performance as Aragorn is considered one of the film's strongest aspects, a lot of people found his stereotypically-Native American appearance and Magic Skirt (and quite obviously going commando under it) off-putting. Likewise, Boromir and his ridiculous horned helmet didn't go down well, and Treebeard looks more like a weird, nude and balding dwarf (or as one commenter put, a cross between a boiled chicken and broccoli) than an ancient tree man. Nothing comes close however to the pathetic Balrog — it looks like a man in a cheap lion costume with butterfly wings attached onto it.
  • Whoever played Gandalf in the reference footage must have been instructed to overact as much as possible. He doesn't get through a single sentence in his monologues without flailing his arms about like a madman. Indeed, he looks like an extra in a Harold Zoid movie; and Frodo often looks like he wants to run away.
  • Near the end, there's a brief genuinely effective dramatic moment as Frodo wistfully looks forward to ending the quest, and wonders if he'll ever be able to have a normal life afterwards. Then Sam responds by walking off and whistling.
  • When Gandalf shows up at Frodo's doorstep earlier in the movie, Frodo starts jumping around and flailing his arms like some sort of fangirl at a concert.
  • There's a scene in the reference footage when the characters are running through the wilds where badass woodsman Aragorn trips over the scabbard of his own sword and faceplants into the dirt — see it here.
• This song from Rankin-Bass' take on The Return of the King: ''Where There's a Whip, There's a Way''. It's catchy, though.
  • Merry's over-the-top reaction to Théoden's death is priceless.
  • The Witch-King. The scene has good dialogue, but it is ruined because the Witch-King sounds like a robot.
    • It's not just that he sounds like a robot, it's that he sounds like Starscream.
    • Here is the clip in all its glory. Highlights include one of the hobbits carefully explaining why Éowyn was there, and the Witch-King's overwrought pronunciation of the word "Me".
    • Merry apparently stabs the Witch-King in the ass. The video-game sound effects don't exactly help either.
    • Also, Éowyn is animated as saying her last line in that scene quietly, but the voice actress shouts it out.
    • Speaking of shouting, Sam can't seem to stop doing it in this version.
      THE GARDENS OF MY DELIGHT!
• Bakshi's Wizards:
  • The battle scene was rotoscoped over the ice battle from Alexander Nevsky — which was a classic silent film. It's about as theatrical and overly expressive as you'd expect from a silent film.
  • Weehawk's furious cry of "SLUT!!" when he runs into Elinore, who had betrayed them and killed Peace while under mind control. "Traitor" or "backstabber" probably would have been a lot more appropriate, but they also wouldn't have been as unintentionally funny.
• In An American Tail, there's Fievel's absolutely bizarre facial expression when he sees the giant wave coming at him. He's supposed to be terrified, but it looks like he's having a seizure or a bad acid trip.
  • Fievel tries to sing "Somewhere Out There" and has trouble hitting that note on the word "pale" in the first verse. This can spoil other versions of the song.
• Spider-Man: The Animated Series has a few.
  • Christopher Daniel Barnes usually did a fine job as Peter/Spidey... until he needed to be serious and dramatic. Then he went from Spider-Man to Spider-Ham.
    Symbiote Spidey: GET BACK HERE, SHOCKER! SHOCKEEEEER! YOOOUUU CAN'T ESCAPE MEEEEE! I'LL CHASEYOUTOTHE ENDS OF THE EAAAAARTH!
  • The best ones are in "Enter The Green Goblin," starting when the Goblin starts holding a mock trial and running like mad from there. Goblin's oddly high-pitched voice makes most dramatic things spoken by him funny by default, which is probably why they had Goblin do more malevolent baiting later and Osborn do most of the dramatics.
    "NOOOOOO... STTOP STAAAAAARING AT MEEEEEEEE! NEEEED MY... strength back... NEEEEED MYYYY... strength..."
  • Then of course, there was Morbius.

    "I NEED MORE PLASMA!"

    • This version of Morbius, it's worth noting, looked and sounded uncannily like Tommy Wiseau.
  • The 2nd part of "Hydro-Man Returns" has 'MY SUIT is torn!' No incorrect punctuation. That's how it came out.
  • In the second Insidious Six episode, there's a scene which has Shocker fall into a water tank after his suit rips, and so he has to get rid of it before it blows up. The next we hear of him is his ranting to Doctor Octopus on a walkie talkie:
    "My suit! My beautiful suit!"
  • How about this one from Alistair Smythe?
    "Get away from MY BEAUTIFUL machine!"
  • Rhino would like you to know that he's lookin' for da Whizzer.
    • From the same set of episodes, the Thunderer's strange moan-like "scream". It's a wonder how that's not a meme yet.
• In The Batman vs. Dracula, Bruce Wayne deduces Alucard's true identity by writing his name on a tray with lipstick and holding it up to a mirror. Alfred gasps. Cue the scary music. This was supposed to be dramatic and following the "show, don't tell" rule of storytelling; it ended up looking childish and silly because the viewer already knows this. And surely a full grown adult can reverse spell Alucard in his mind.
  • The Penguin feels the need to announce that he is bleeding when we can clearly see it (for once). Since blood hadn't shown up on this show before, the writers must have wanted to point out that they could do that now.
  • The Batman also has "The Man Who Would Be Bat," in which Bennet is spit at with a sticky substance by Man-Bat. Astonished, he yells, "What is this?" And he asks it in a way that suggests he wants to know what got spit onto him.
• One Very Special Episode of Static Shock is quite narmy. Richie was shot in the leg and cried, "It hurts, it hurts! It's not like on TV shows, it really hurts!" It's sad because the rest of the episode was powerful. Except for the part at the end where Static addresses the viewing audience.
• Todd McFarlane's Spawn has one when Chapel is boinking his girlfriend, suddenly remembers killing Al, and suddenly starts yelling out "I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY!" at a volume that puts both Leonidas and BRIANBLESSED to shame.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Late in the episode "The Beach," the team of villains start bickering around a campfire - essentially swapping backgrounds and explaining why they're so maladjusted. This is hardly meant to be taken seriously. But Zuko decides to complain about why he can't worry about bad skin, points to his head, and shouts, "My father decided to teach me a permanent lesson... on my FACE!" The camera goes into a bizarre close-up where Zuko's chin is somehow twice as large, and the entire moment almost seems like a non-sequitur.
  • 'The Blue Spirit' was meant to be a dramatic episode, but Aang keeps making this◊ one◊ goofy◊ facial expression◊ when he's screaming in fear that could kill the mood the episode was trying to create. It looks more like a comical take than being profoundly scared. This seems to happen to him a lot throughout the series.
  • Aang's pure emotional turmoil at the thought of "killing" a watermelon. It represented how he felt about his apparent need to go against his beliefs and kill the Fire Lord., and it's okay for him to feel conflicted about killing Ozai. But this was just a melon.
    'I just can't do it! I can't kill an innocent melon!'
• The Legend of Korra: Unalaq tells Korra he needs her to open the Northern Spirit Portal. Then when she learns he's evil, he tells her that was just a lie to keep her in line. So far, it works pretty well. Then he tells Eska and Desna that was a lie, and he actually does need her. Approaching the line, but still salvagable. Then it officially crosses into silliness when he says that actually actually, he doesn't need her after all. Finally, he goes ahead and tries it, and it turns out actually actually ACTUALLY, no takebacks we swear, he does need her. It's like watching an instance of Armed with Canon in real time.
• Captain Planet is this in spades:
  • Hitler keeps Captain Planet away. By staring at him. The explanation is that Hitler's hatred is so pure and strong, it's like pollution, Captain Planet's kryptonite.
  • "AIDS is the best thing to come along since the Black Plague!" "No way! AIDS stinks!"
  • Captain Planet gets mortally wounded just by getting splashed with a little dirty motor oil.
  • "If it's doomsday this must be Belfast": the episode that presented the Troubles as the Jets vs the Sharks, complete with lines like this:
    "You beat each other up over your names?"
    "Why not? 'Tis as good a reason as any".
  • The Israel/Palestine plotline from that episode is just as bad:
    "You Jewish oppressor!"
    "You Arab terrorist!"
  • The entire plot of the AIDS episode, from how everyone in town has no understanding of HIV, and automatically assume that it's contagious, shunning the poor boy with the disease. It turns out that it was all Verminious Scum's plan, but still. The scene where Captain Planet and the kid's coach chew out the town is incredible as well:
    "He's been FEEDING YOU LIES."
    "THAT'S RIGHT"
• This episode of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3: in which the Koopas kidnap Milli Vanilli:
  • In the episode, Kootie Pie Koopa threatens to turn Rob and Fab into accountants (no, seriously) if they don't do a concert just for her ... which apparently involves transforming them into well-groomed men in business suits. In other words, Kootie Pie Koopa wants to force Milli Vanilli to get real jobs, made funnier by Rob and Fab's hysterical reactions when the Koopa makes good on her threat. ^note Though considering what happened in Real Life after Milli Vanilli was unmasked, that likely would've been an excellent evil plan.
    "No."
    "Weh nuhds."
    "Weh dweebs."
    "This is tewwible."
  • Rob and Fab's attempts at voice acting. Without exaggeration, it sounds like they shoved them into a recording booth and gave them a single take to record their lines. The best part comes when they have to laugh and both of them end up flatly reading "ha ha ha ha" off the script.
  • In reruns and DVD releases of the Mario cartoons, copyrighted music had to be deleted and replaced with a generic tune. This applied to the Milli Vanilli episode; when they "sing" (those quotes work on so many levels), you see their lips moving but hear nothing but nondescript instrumental music.
  • The episode "Brooklyn Bound" has Mario and Luigi getting a chance to return to Brooklyn, but Mario begins having second thoughts. "Maybe we should stay and help the Princess," he tells his brother, saying it in a way that it sounds like he's saying they should "hump the Princess." It helps that Princess Peach responds by saying "No way, Mario!"
  • That the Super Mario World cartoon episode "Mama Luigi" is such a staple of YouTube Poop is in part due to Luigi's bizarre, wheeze-ridden voicing of lines like "Or is it the bagel?" and "Good thing I found a magic balloon!"
• Superman: Doomsday had a lot of odd moments; but the absolute winner in that category had to be a shirtless Lex Luthor beating on (what turns out to be a clone of) Superman with Kryptonite gloves, screaming at him for "leaving" him, which ends in Luthor essentially mounting Superman and saying "Who's your daddy?" If this was supposed to be an intense beatdown, it was marred because Luthor's dialogue made him come off less like Superman's archnemesis and more like his whiny ex-boyfriend. It's so wrong, it's either funny or creepy.
  • Even funnier is Lex's line in that scene; 'red and green. The colours of Christmas. And YOU are ON the NAUGHTY LIST!'
  • Made worse with the Cartoon Network version, in which they (inexplicably) removed most of the violence in the movie. Now, imagine the "Who's your daddy" scene without the entire beating scene to put it in context. Cartoon Network had problems with the violence, but was perfectly fine with a sweaty, seemingly nude Lex who apparently mounted Superman and just finished raping him patting him on the cheek affectionately and asking "Who's your daddy?" Narm at its best.
• The Street Fighter cartoon has a scene of M. Bison watching Guile, Chun Li, and Blanka getting the crap knocked out of them by his mutants. He joyfully proclaims "This is DELICIOUS!" and then reacts to one of his mutants shoving Guile by squealing "Yes!" like a child on Christmas morning not once but twice while oddly heroic-sounding bagpipe music plays behind him. (This has consequently become a major piece to use in YouTube Poops.)
  • The music in that scene (and many others in the series) is actually a remix of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D minor".
  • Many, many other moments from the Street Fighter cartoon probably qualify, but an especially Narmy moment is Guile yelling "BISON!" while spontaneously combusting.
    Cammy (in the middle of her Heroic BSoD): EVERYTHING IS LIES, EVERYTHING IS LIES!!!!!!
  • Also Ryu and Ken being turned into the Ambiguously Gay Duo. A few choice quotes...
  Ryu: Oh, man. I just got slimed by Arnold the pig! That's it; I'm OUT OF HERE!
  Ken: Oh, Guile! That colour ith tho, you!
  • This exchange:
  Fei Long: Look at you, you've ignored your training and you've turned against all of your friends!
  Ken: And YOU... you're a LOSER!!
  • For the opposite of Bison's "Yes!", check out this clip of Guile letting out a Big "NO!".
  • There's also a scene where Bison is knocked into the computer, and the computer looks like it is eating Bison alive...
    • There is a part when Zangief knocks out Dee jay, who falls over. We get a close up of Dee jay's face that's supposed to be dramatic. Instead, he has his jaw hanging down, and is staring into space.
    • When Zangief proceeds to pick up Guile, Bison is floating in the background with his arms stretched out like he's being crucified.
• The brief Disney Death Danielle received in Danny Phantom, because Danny sounds like he's in a middle school play. He sounded so fake and stilted, as if he was glad about what happened.
  • And of course "Eye for an Eye" which is a treasure trove of Narmy quotes ("I'm rubbing your nose in this mess you made, Daniel, doesn't it smell yummy?" and "You forgot to take your supplements, have a dose of vitamin-ME!" for example).
• Pocahontas:
  • The lyric: "They're not like you and me, which means they must be evil!"
  • The European French equivalent of this line is rather childish too: "Since they aren't white, they have to be nasty."
• Plan Bee
  • The climactic fight scene between the worker bees and the Queen's guard. While probably intended to seem dramatic, the fight in fact comes across as very narmy; the music is overly dramatic and martial, and much of the fighting seems to consist of headbutting the opponent. The disturbing moaning also sounds like... something else. Meanwhile the Queen just sits there and stares, bug-eyed, at her regime collapsing around her.
  • After standing up to the Queen, Bing is being banished, and Queen's guard encircle him. Bing floats upwards with a daze look on his face, and the guards continue to advance inwards. The whole scene feels very strange.
• The early (pre-series) Raccoons TV specials are chock-full of Narm:
  • In The Raccoons on Ice, there's the entire scene where the Raccoons and Sophia Tutu sneak into Cyril Sneer's mansion to try to convince Cedric to play on their team against Cyril's. A particular highlight: When Cedric (who has a different, incredibly whiny voice in the specials) worries about getting into further trouble with his father, he whines, "I've already been grounded for a month... and no chocolate pudding!!!" The Narm factor is upped by Sophia's response:
    "Cedric, this is bigger than chocolate pudding!"
    • At the end of that scene, when Cedric chickens out after being threatened by Cyril again, Sophia responds by apparently dumping him on the spot, exclaiming "Cedric Sneer, your heart is as cold and hard as a hockey puck!" and taking away the picture of her on Cedric's nightstand. The delivery of the line, and Cedric's whiny sobbing afterward, make it pure Narm.
  • In The Raccoons and the Lost Star, any time Sophia Tutu opens her mouth is potential Narm. For example, whenever Sophia says something like "Oh no, how dreadful!" or "That's terrible!" in a moment meant to be sad...
    • When Cyril Sneer ambushes Cedric and Sophia to kidnap Sophia's puppy Broo and get his hands on the lost star, Sophia believes that Cedric led her into the trap (which he didn't know about) and returns his gift of chocolates, saying in the Narmiest way imaginable, "I'll never be able to look at a chocolate again!"
    • The scene where bad guys take Broo away from Sophia, and Cyril gets his hands on the star. Overly dramatic music plays; Sophia tearfully exclaims, "You leave Broo alone, you bullies!"; we see a menacingly grinning bear henchman from Broo's P.O.V., reaching for him, his shadow cast over Broo; and finally, Cyril taking the star from around Broo's neck and exclaiming "My star! At last!" as the music reaches crescendo. The whole bit is overly (melo)dramatic and instant Narm.
    • Sophia tells Cyril, "You're a beastly, horrible... BEAST!"
• X-Men: The Animated Series:
  • The female characters got ridiculously dramatic - especially Lilandra, Rogue, and Storm, who would go into a fit of "Aaaaarghhhhh" or "Noooooo!" at the slightest injury.
  • Some of the best unintentionally silly moments can be seen in these montages. Highlights include Rogue having No Indoor Voice, Wolverine acting like a cranky old guy rather than a Cool Old Guy, and -uh- Tableman.
  • "I now bind the Phoenix with the power of AAAAAAARRRRRGH!"
  • One of the narmiest moments in that series was the first appearance of Banshee, who sees the Professor falling into the sea, starts screaming and leaps off a cliff (which is how his powers work in the comics, but comes across as absurd when you can actually hear it).
  • Cable's classic "WHAT HAPPENED?!?!?!".
  • One of Cable's soldiers screams "Apocalypse is too strong for us to fight!" at the top of her lungs. It sounds like a lazy teenager whining about not wanting to complete her chores.
  • Colossus grapples Omega red and implores Storm to freeze them both before the villain could break free. Colossus's delivery of his lines were so hammy and over the top that it's hard not to laugh.
  • Bishop goes on a mission to kill the X-Men by shooting them with his gun. Except his gun was set on STUN during the attack.
  • One of the show's crowning moments of Narm comes from the cliffhanger ending of "One Man's Worth, Part 1," where the team fails to save Xavier from being assassinated, and in the last minute, everything inexplicably goes into slow-motion, making every character sound as if they're drunk, with unintentionally hilarious gold like Xavier's "WHAAAAAT INNNNN THEEEEE WORRRRRLD?" and Bishop's booming "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!".
  • Master Mold's death scene, when he's stopped from escaping his base because his power cord got pulled out of its socket.
  • There is a scene where Xavier is suddenly hit with a Mind Rape ray coming from outside the building he resides in. The way he protests "You are driving me insane!", however, doesn't sound like he is experiencing immense pain. Instead, it sounds exasperated, as though Xavier getting hit with a Mind Rape beam is just a Practical Joke set up to annoy him.
• In the Turtles Forever movie, after Ch'rell finds out that there is more than one TMNT universe, he cries "Turtles, Karai! Ninja... Turtles!" in a way that sounds like he just had a bad dream.
  • And every time, thanks to the never say die rule, does Shredder always say "Perish" in at least one of his sentences every episode he appears in, it just gets ridiculous.
• Teen Titans:
  • The Big Bad of the last season was literally a Brain in a Jar. After facing a demon lord with the power to destroy worlds, well... Also, his voice is either scary or Narm.
    • And if his voice wasn't this, his scream when Robin blows up the communicator he's attached to definitely is. It's too funny when somebody who uses a Stephen Hawking-like robotic voice screams.
  • The dialogue in "Aftershock". Seeing people say so many euphemisms for death in such a dark episode really puts off the mood.
• The Shredder's trial scene in the third season finale of the second Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has two rather Narmy things going for it: First, when the Utroms declare that they find C'hrell guilty as charged, C'hrell gasps as if he is really surprised that they didn't clear him of his charges, despite the fact that the Utroms just finished providing foolproof evidence of C'hrell committing numerous crimes. Second, when the Utrom guards are escorting the handcuffed Karai and Dr. Chaplin away, Karai yells: "This is not what I wanted, Leonardo! This is NOT what I wanted!".
• In Kirikou and the Sorceress, there is that scene where Kirikou pulls the skunk/badger/whatever out of the squirrels' burrow to protect them. The image of a very tiny little boy pulling a badger by the tail out of a burrow is funny.
• The intro to Widget the World Watcher. "Nature called, we didn't care!" sounds like "Had to go to the bathroom, but we ignored it and peed in our pants!"
• In the Legion Of Superheroes cartoon, Brainiac 5 shouts 'Superman!'. Unfortunately, it sounds more like 'SOOUPERMAN!'
• The Nightmare Before Christmas: "Jack has been blown to smithereens!" Even though the Mayor's understandably upset, he said that too hilariously.
  • "THE KING OF HALLOWWEEEENNN HAS BEEEEENNN BLOOOOWN TO SMITHEREEEEENSSS!!!"
  • Anytime the Mayor is upset. He just can't do drama.
  • SKELETON JACK IS NOW A PILE OF DUST!
  • When Jack confronts Oogie Boogie, he's lying on a table in a pose that doesn't say badass and looked more like he's Ready For Love Making. And this is just after the Mayor's bit.
• Felidae: In the English dub, the voice actor for Francis is obviously trying his hardest to sound angry and upset in one scene, but it's just so pathetically done that it's hilarious.
  • "YOU!? But Kong, why YOU!?" Francis is probably just humoring Kong, but he sounds like he's cooing to a three year old.
    • "Youspoketoa MAN!?"
    • Anytime English Francis groans or screams. Subverted in the German version, where he actually sounds like he's in peril, and it isn't overdone.
• Monster House has an old man yelling at some kids to get off his property. He picks one of them up and threatens them with, "DO YOU WANT TO BE A DEAD PERSON?!"
• The Direct to Video BIONICLE movies contain a few such moments:
  • The classic opening scenes with Turaga Vakama's narration explaining the basic backstories behind each movie, using colorful stones to represent the major players. The visuals and music score both add to the sense of epicness, but then you realize: these are just rocks doing stuff in a sandpit.
  • Mask of Light starts with a scenic image of the village of Ta-Koro as the camera pans over the area to focus on a lonely Ta-Matoran, Jaller. Over Nathan Furst's beautiful music score, the first bit of character dialog can be heard: Jaller repeatedly calling for Takua in his vaguely surfer-accented, teenage-toned voice. "Tuh-KOO-aaah! Tuh-KOO-aaah!" The tone set by the intro is shattered.
  • When Hahli brings the news that Mata Nui has to be awakened, the crowd of gathered Toa and Turaga starts murmuring, unsure of what to do. Vakama, after a long session of stroking his metal-beard, decides to set things into motion (since this would be the most important event of their lifetime, after all), but Onewa promptly reminds him that marching into the Big Bad's lair might be dangerous (despite the fact that they have six immensely powerful heroes to aid them). Cut to the whole crowd suddenly murmuring again, with a confused Hahli looking over them. This was meant to be a serious scene.
  • The Skrall squad running in place at the beginning of the big battle in The Legend Reborn.
  • Whenua's infamous "'Cause that's what friends do" line from the third movie. It's supposed to sound comforting and inspirational, but given that it's a huge Out-of-Character Moment for Whenua, that he says it in response to the line "We'll find a way [to reverse our horrible mutations, fight off an army of Giant Spiders and rescue the imprisoned population of the city] together", his gruff voice in general, not to mention that the movie tried to be dark, it comes off as plainly corny and out-of-place.
  • Anytime Vakama Wangst will become this eventually for any viewer. At first it's understandable as he is suddenly thrusted into becoming a hero and doubts himself but by the end of the movie, he sounds more like Shinji than a Heroic Toa of Fire. His awkward voice doesn't help much. Some choice quotes
  'I'm a Crosswired freak!'
  I CAN'T JUST CHAAYYENGE!
  'I'll never be a real Toa!'
  'I'm THROUGH making plans!!'
  • According to the deleted scenes of the first movie, the demonic Rahkshi would have been revealed by just standing in the middle of the screen, one of them with its hands casually placed on its hips. The final cut wisely changed this a more dramatic, gradual reveal that only shows them in full when they're out attacking the heroes. Another deleted scene showed a Rahkshi stepping on a sports ball as a showcase of raw evilness.
  • "Da mighty Tuma!" from The Legend Reborn. Tuma's entire portrayal qualifies, really, also the fact that other characters consider him a genuine threat. Likewise the Skrall soldier who runs by the screen, stops to make a comedic squawking noise with his eyes wide, then runs off.
• In the episode of X-Men: Evolution where Rogue smashes stonified Mystique, Kurt's ridiculous Slow "NO!" basically ruins the entire scene.
• At one point early in Winx Club, Musa slaps Icy across the face in front of pretty much everyone from Cloud Tower. Icy is standing there, looking like she's either going to explode or scream, when Stormy leans in close, points at the handprint, and says something to the effect of "I can see her fingerprints on your face! Does it hurt?"; the line was actually supposed to show that Stormy has some empathy for her "sisters", but it comes off more as proof that she's the stupid one of the Trix. Note that this scene was changed when 4Kids translated the show, so it's not quite the same.
  • In the same episode (again, in markets other than America), Stella has a bug up her butt for some reason (she's under a curse in America). She starts lashing out at her roommates whenever they say, well, pretty much anything, but seems to have no idea that what she's saying might be offensive to other people. You'd think she would figure it out after Musa storms out on her, but she has the same shocked "What?" moment every single time.
  • A lot of the speeches that Bloom makes. They're just so cliche, and sometimes so out of place, it's nearly impossible to take them seriously at all.
• Transformers:
  • Beast Machines had a definite Narm moment: the scene where Blackarachnia and Megatron were trying to one-up each other by reminding Silverbolt about what they gave him when they were trying to convince him to choose a side.
  • "I gave you X! I gave you X!" "We gave you X! We gave you X!" Sounds good enough for Broadway already, doesn't it?
    "You... gave... me... NOTHING!"
  • Also in the episode when the Maximals receive Spark boosts. Optimus goes to fight the Vehicons, and we get a slow-motion shot of him literally tearing through the Vehicons with the speed of light... and he makes these totally random, ridiculous-looking poses. Almost makes you wonder if the animators just got bored.
  • Transformers: Prime also has one- this video is supposed to promote Unicron, but after he says "I awaken" his shout... well, he honestly sounds like he stubbed his toe.
  • Every time, every continuity after the first movie literally every time Optimus dies; the Transformers Wiki even acknowledges this.
  • In the French dub of Transformers G1, it's hard to take Optimus Prime seriously because his voice is dubbed by the very same guy who does Brainy Smurf's voice. He has the very same annoying, obnoxious voice. And then, there's Bumblebee, also dubbed by the same voice actor, who has the same voice of Clumsy Smurf, stammering on every line like he did on The Smurfs. Really.
  • Part 1 of "The Return of Optimus Prime" in G1 has a Hate Plague-infected Ultra Magnus chasing Rodimus Prime. It apparently not only increased his hatred but also his haminess, since he starts screaming as loudly as possible, "You CAN'T escape, RODIMUS! I CAN track your GAS FUMES ANYWHEEEEEEEEEEEEERE!"
  • The lyrics to the German intro of Transformers: Animated. Apart from the clunky translation in general ("well masked robots" in place of "robots in disguise"), they had to insert a second "der" into the "Autobots kämpfen für den Sieg über... die bösen Kräfte der... der Decepticons!" verse to keep the tune, which rather makes it sound like the singer had to take a moment to remember the lyrics (in English, it would be akin to "Autobots wage their battle to defeat... the evil forces of the... of the Decepticons!").
  • In Transformers: The Movie, there's a scene in which Starscream gets his foot stuck between two armor plates as Autobot City transforms into combat mode. To avoid getting squished, he's forced to shoot his own foot off, then flies off screaming "Oww, my foot!" It stands out among the otherwise serious fight scene.
• Galactik Football had plenty, mostly due to some seriously Limited Animation (especially in the third season) and a pretty dodgy dub. There's a particularly hilarious scene in one of the last episodes when Sinedd's long-lost parents finally find out their son is alive and his mother gets an expression that can only be described as a startled fish pout. Which completely ruins what should have been a very dramatic and moving scene.
• Steven Universe:
  • One line of dialogue from "Keeping It Together", thanks to some awkward phrasing.
  Pearl: Garnet, we lost Peridot. Her fingers were too fast for us.
  • In "Lars' Head", we get a pretty awful case of Never Say "Die":
  Lars: You mean I was... away from life?
  • From the movie, Steven and Greg's fusion is given the rather awkward name Steg. Thankfully it's never actually said out loud, but it's still a pretty laughable name.
• The "Doug's Brainy Buddy" episode of Doug has him being jealous of his best friend, Skeeter, whom after taking an IQ test, ends up being a genius. After the two of them get into an argument in which he throws a book at him and walks away, he then yells at Skeeter "Just take your super brain and go to college! See if I care!" This is supposed to be in the heat of the moment and showing him upset, yet the animation of his body language makes it this trope, since his silly hand waving looks like a combination of Doug cupping the air and the famous "Bring It" hand taunt by "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.
  • The sound Beeyoouuu is narmful to the point of being Memetic Mutation and plays in the background even during dramatic moments.
• The Greatest Heroes And Legends Of The Bible presentation of the account of Samson and Delilah arguably takes the low quality reputation of Christian entertainment to a whole new level of absurdity. While the animation and voice acting aren't exactly up to par, the big offender is that it reeks of Soundtrack Dissonance via one upbeat song which sounds eerily similar to Parachute Express' "Doctor Looney's Remedy" and/or Steve Goodman's "Go Cubs Go" spread out over several scenes no matter how bad the situation, making it not only hard to take seriously but also downright unhealthy for Christians to watch. You can catch The Cartoon Hero and guest reviewer The Rosenhacker exposing its Narm-ish qualities here.
• Food Fight has so many moments that it's hard to count all of them. One of them is the scene where Mr. Clipboard (voiced by Christopher Lloyd, who clearly knew the movie was terrible and turned in the single most memorable performance in the entire film) stomps on a bag of potato chips and Leonard mourns over them as if a soldier has been gunned down. The dramatic music playing doesn't help.
  Mr. Clipboard: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, LEONAAARRD!
• Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) took itself much, much more seriously than its sister show Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Despite this however, it wasn’t above some inadvertently silly moments.
  • In the two-parter Blast to the Past, the catalyst which causes Sonic to bemoan the war against Robotnik is the loss of two freedom fighters. Specifically, a generic horse and bear. It doesn’t help that these two characters only appear in this episode and are never seen or heard from again. Yet Sonic takes their loss exceedingly hard.
  • In Sonic Conversion, Bunnie is de-roboticised, but abruptly changes back to her original form. When she does so, she inexplicably disappears in a cloud of green smoke, dramatic music plays, and Sally frantically calls her name. The next shot is of Bunnie sitting on the floor with a dissonantly deadpan expression. Upon realizing that she’s back to being a cyborg, Christine Cavanaugh gives out a small whine which sounds more like she dropped her ice cream.
  • The Doomsday Project makes it abundantly clear that all of the Freedom Fighters across Mobius will band together to fight Robotnik. Half of the main cast stay at home and all the other Freedom Fighters are instantly captured, ultimately leaving everything up to Sonic and Sally. For the umpteenth time.
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) episode "Shreeka's Revenge" dips into pure, unadulterated Narm when the titular Big Bad has an overly hammy tantrum over her Ring of Power being destroyed. One moment she's wailing "Oh, no! It's melting! My precious power ring! Gone forevah!" in the cheesy delivery you'd expect from a villainess in a 80s Saturday morning cartoon, the next she's letting out a larynx-shredding screech of agony that sounds like Donald Duck passing a kidney stone.
  YouTube commenter: I like to think she screams like that because she's JUST realizing how much it hurts to have melting metal scald her hand.
• Obake from Big Hero 6: The Series is quite a memorable villain due to being a Manipulative Bastard and his ability to succeed even when his plans fail. However, The Reveal in the season finale that his villain codename is just his real name, Bob Aken, with the first and last letters taken off comes off as laughable and clichéd.
• Thomas & Friends: A lot of the series' unintentional hilarity in early seasons stems from the very... strange faces the engines make. "Thomas and the Breakdown Train" in particular has a rather serious scene of James being lifted by the titular crane after his accident that is immediately ruined by the Out of Nowhere cut to Thomas' infamous and downright bizarre "O" face.
• Molly of Denali: In-Universe, Molly and Tooey consider Mighty McMann using his powers to "defeat the snow" to be laughable.
• Gumby: In the 1957 episode "The Magic Wand", Professor Hocus-Pocus accidentally leaves his magic wand at Gumby and Pokey's lemonade stand. When the wand goes crazy and accidentally knocks Mrs. Gumba's good pitcher off the stand, Pokey calmly says "Look out" right before it smashes to the ground. Only afterward does Pokey actually show any concern...
  Pokey: (looking nervous) "Uh-oh! Your mother's good pitcher."
• The Smurfs (1981):
  • Smurfette can be considered this due to her girly girl beautician personality and occassional damsel in distress moments.
    • An example is "Haunted Smurfs", where Smurfette cries that she can't go on while the others are departing from the village.
  • The other Smurfs also had their fair share of narm moments, such as Brainy Smurf crying about being doomed when Hefty and Dreamy broke off the steering wheel of the ship in "Smurfs at Sea".
  • In "Hats Off to Smurfs", Vanity and Gargamel's deformed faces are more mockery than gruesome. But it's understandable, as the faces couldn't be so ugly as to scare children.

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