This Is Gonna Suck / Western Animation

He shouldn't have taken off his dog mask...

Instances of This Is Gonna Suck in Western Animation.

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• The Amazing World of Gumball does this in 'The Dress' when Anais hears Gumball's idiotic plan and remarks: "This plan reeks of failure." Also in "The Wand", when Mr. Robinson tries to wish away Mrs. Robinson's haircut with the toy wand and fails, he wishes that he hadn't said that.
• Angel Wars: A demon who was inhabiting a human's mind had one of his Combat Tentacles wrapped around an angel's Hover Board against his will. The angel took a moment to show this to him, and this was the demon's reaction.
• In the Animaniacs episode "Bumbie's Mom", after Slappy Squirrel has cheered Skippy up from the trauma of Bumbie, on the plane ride home they watch the in-flight movie, which turns out to be Old Yellow. Slappy gives an Oh, Crap! face when we hear the titular dog being shot, and then she flatly comments "Uh-oh," not amused by what's about to happen (Skippy bawling loudly again.)
• Carl in Aqua Teen Hunger Force, where he opens his front door and finds himself staring down an army of Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future robots. The last intelligible thing he says is, "You have got to be freaking kidding me."
• The Batman: In "Grundy's Night", Batman discovers that "Solomon Grundy" is actually Clayface. Pursuing the villain, he notices where his target has run for cover:
  Batman: A shapeshifter in a wax museum. Great.
• Batman Beyond: In "Terry's Friend Dates A Robot", Terry's classmate Howie gets a robotic girlfriend. Unfortunately for him, she's so devoted to him that she'll try to murder anybody who so much as looks at him in a suspicious manner. When Howie tries to tell her "we can still be friends...", Terry can only facepalm before she literally explodes.
  Howie: Wrong thing to say?
  Terry: Is it ever the right thing?
  • Towards the end of "Mind Games," which sees Terry fighting a cabal of evil psychics, he asks the little girl they had kidnapped for information on one of his opponents:
    Batman: What's the creepy lady's power?
    Tamara: I don't know, but they call her Bombshell.
    Batman: Oh, that's encouraging.
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold:
  • Batman gets one. Upon realizing that, not only is B'wana Beast, who has the power to combine two non-human animals into a single entity, going to try to combine three, he's going to combine them with Batman himself, his only response is:
    Batman: [deadpan] Oh, no. [turns into a griffin.]
  • Joker also gets a humorous deadpan one in "Game Over for Owlman!" where he serves a Wild Card for most of the episode. At the climax of the factory fight, Batman pushes Joker and Owlman together, prompting them to bicker due to differing personalities...until the smoke clears and they realize that Batman positioned them under a giant hot wax sprayer.
    Joker:[looking up, drolly] ...drat. [both are instantly covered in quick-drying wax as Owlman tries to strangle Joker.]
• In Beast Wars, one of Rattrap's catchphrases is a resigned "We're all gonna die."
  • While the usual response to that is an annoyed "Shut up Rattrap!" from everyone else, the final episode had the Ark being pulled up by the reactivated Nemesis into what looked like a gigantic bladed shredder:
    Rattrap: We're all gonna die.
    Rhinox: Yup.
  • The episode before that had The Chew Toy Waspinator dragged into yet another misadventure. While ever the complainer, this time he invokes the trope:
    Waspinator: Waspinator feel much damage coming.
  • In the Season 1 episode "The Low Road," Megatron is horrified to recognize what is about to happen when an 'energon discharge virus'-infected Rhinox turns tail to him, having spent the better part of the episode eating wild bean vines. It's still one of the funniest moments in the series.
    Rhinox: Oog... wild bean vines... hard to digest.
    Megatron: Do not turn your back on me, Maximal scum!
    (The Maximals, realizing the situation, back away nervously and move upwind. Even Dinobot.)
    Megatron: (finally realizing, covering his face in abject horror) Oh no... not that! AUUUUUUGGHH-
    (Cue Distant Reaction Shot of an enormous blue atmospheric bloom of energon vapor the size of Africa.)
• Ben 10:
  • In episode "Negative 10 Part 2", when Rojo and the Circus Freaks are tricked into attacking a hologram of the kids and realize too late that it's actually a bomb, Acid Breath simply deadpans "I hate those guys" before the device goes off.
  • An earlier episode, "Hunted", featured this with the bounty hunter Kraab. His cybernetic body disabled thanks to Grey Matter, he says this a few seconds before a water tower falls on him and SixSix:
    Kraab: I hate this planet.
  • In the Alien Force episode "Con of Rath", the Vreedle brothers have this response just before getting thrown off a space station by Rath:
    Octagon: This is gonna hurt, I suspect.
    Rhomboid: (after the fact) Well, that didn't work out so good.
  • In the flashback from the Omniverse episode "Weapon XI: Part 2", 11-Year-Old Ben has this reaction to Kevin getting a new mutant form from the Omnitrix:
    Ben: Annnnd here comes the crazy.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: In "A Mine is a Terrible Thing to Waste", Captain Pollution challenges his counterpart to a game of "Kill the Planet" — he'll cause destruction and Captain Planet will try to stop him. The Captain comments that he thinks he'll hate this game.
• Chowder:
  • In "Grubble Gum", Gazpacho has one when he looks up to see a city-sized ball of bubblegum, buildings and people falling out of the sky to crush him, along with the trapped title character cheerfully shouting "Hi, Gazpacho!" His surprised expression only lasts for a fraction of a second before reacting with a simple "I regret nothing" right before he gets hit.
  • In "At Your Service", Chowder tries to remove the mood fruit from Endive, but she catches him and ends up destroying a statue and emptying the pool in an attempt to shake him off. The moment Mung and Chowder land on Endive, she gets up furious, and Mung answers with a blank "This ain't gonna be fun."
• Code Lyoko: While what he actually says is "I promise never to complain about not having conflicts with my parents again," Odd Della Robbia's expression and tone as he waits for his Brainwashed and Crazy parents to toss him off the school roof screams this trope.
• One Curious George episode has an ending involving a wild skunk and a radio about to switch from smooth jazz to "highlights from the 1812 Overture". In a crowded elevator. Quoth the Man with the Big Yellow Hat: "Oh, no."
• In one Darkwing Duck episode, Megavolt gets a particularly whiny "Aww, this is gonna hurt," after being thrown off a roof.
• Happens frequently on Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines. Most notably when the Vulture Squadron's plane is turned invisible with Klunk's invisibility spray. It rains, washing the spray off and making the plane visible again, but the Squadron doesn't know it. Dastardly aims a cannon at Yankee Doodle Pigeon, who merely tips it back in their direction. Dastardly can only mutter "Oh, no!" before the Squadron gets blasted.
• Dave the Barbarian: Following a Hostile Show Takeover gone wrong, Chuckles maintains that he still has a chance to destroy his archenemies, until he discovers that the show has settled down to "The Heroic Adventures of Dave the Space Barbarian". He then amends this to a slight chance, before further information is provided:
  Space Narrator: Today's episode: Chuckles gets beat like a cheap drum.
  Chuckles: I'm doomed.
• In Donkey Kong Country episode "Booty and the Beast", this is Klump's reaction to his role in King K. Rool's Secret Weapon; being shot out of a cannon while tied to a bungee cord.
  K. Rool: Are you comfy, Klump?
  Klump: Um, no. This is a very unconventional way to invade enemy territory. A way that's sure to cause me pain, your majesty.
• DuckTales (1987):
  • "A Duck Tales Valentine": Launchpad hides behind a shield as a Threatening Shark charges at him and comments that he won't like what's coming;
  • "The Masked Mallard": After Scrooge (costumed as the titular vigilante) effortlessly thrashes Big-Time and Bouncer Beagle:
    Burger Beagle: I'm gonna get whomped, ain't I? (The Mallard nods impassively) Oh, darn.
• PsyCrow does this a lot in Earthworm Jim:
  PsyCrow: You're gonna hit me really hard now, aren'tcha?
  Jim: Yep.
• Family Guy:
  • In season one, episode two, Peter is watching an episode of Star Trek in which the captain is arranging a landing party.
    Captain Kirk: Alright, Men! This is a dangerous mission, and it is likely one of us will be killed. The landing party will consist of myself, Mr. Spock, Dr. Mccoy, and Ensign Ricky.
    Ensign Ricky: Aw, crap.
  • After Peter gets booted off the Patriots Football time and transferred to the London Silly Nannies. After he sees what kind of team they are his expression as follows:
    Peter: Aw, Crap.
  • In "Spies Reminiscent of Us", Peter, Joe and Quagmire decide to perform an improv routine. From the very first brainstorm over their group name, Peter's idiocy and Quagmire's finicky attitude to the routine tells Joe right off the bat how things will go down:
    Joe: I can already tell this is not going to be fun.
  • In the crossover with The Simpsons, when Peter and Homer were fighting in Kang and Kodos' ship, the ship is heading right for the Springfield Gorge.
    Peter: I think we're gonna make it!
    Homer: Trust me, we're not.
  • In "Family Gay", Peter recalls the time he predicted the ending to Wild Hogs in a not-so-subtle Take That! to its quality:
    Peter: This movie's gonna suck.
• Freakazoid!:
  • The Lobe, surrounded by a vast arsenal of his own weapons on the verge of exploding, turns to the camera and deadpans: "It's the waiting around that kills me."
  • Freakazoid had one of his own upon realizing he'd just accidentally reactivated a nuclear bomb.
    Freakazoid: Allow me to be the first to say "ouch".
• Futurama: Bender's reaction to something unpleasant that's about to happen is usually a dry "Well, we're boned."
  • "Fry and the Slurm Factory":
    Bender: I can't see what's happening, are we boned?
    Leela: Yeah, we're boned.
  • This has developed to the point that it's become a Running Gag that Bender gives such a line long before there's any real danger.
    Bender: ABANDON SHIP!
  • Inverted in "Parasites Lost":
    Professor Farnsworth: Anyhoo, your net-suits will allow you to experience Fry's worm infested bowels as if you were actually wriggling through them.
    Dr. Zoidberg: (cheerfully) There's no part of that sentence I didn't like!
• Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5: This is Zemerik’s reaction when he sees Krytus restored to life in the Season 1 finale. After flipping out with a Big "NO!", his only response then is to dejectedly say “We’re doomed.”
• In Jackie Chan Adventures, Jackie has this as a Catchphrase.
  Jackie: Bad day, bad day, BAD DAY.
• In the middle seasons of Johnny Bravo, this was practically a Catchphrase of Carl's as well as Johnny on occasion.
  Carl: This won't end well.
• Justice League:
  • In the episode "Hereafter", Batman is standing toe-to-toe with Kalibak, who taunts Batman by saying there's no way Batman can beat him. Bats simply replies "I'm not trying to beat you. I'm trying to stall you." When Kalibak asks what for, that's when Superman hovers in down behind him. Kalibak manages to say "Aww-" before getting smashed halfway down a city block and into a building.
  • A similar thing happens when Gorilla Grodd realises his mental attacks have little to no effect on Superman... right before Supes flicks him into the air.
  • In "Date Night" Black Canary is chasing Huntress and The Question on a motorcycle. When Question leaps his car off a giant ramp, Canary moves to follow; Green Arrow looks away and mutters, pained, "This is so unnecessary."
  • In "The Once and Future Thing (Pt. 2)", one of the Jokerz (a gang from the Batman Beyond-era Gotham) gets deposited by a time-travelling supercriminal back in the prehistoric era for his betrayal. He gets ready to tangle with a Tyrannosaurus, declaring how he'd be running the place soon enough...when he sees the dino-killer asteroid coming into Earth's atmosphere. His response is nothing more than a dejected, "Ahh, phooey."
  • In "This Little Piggie", Circe reacts to seeing that Zatanna has telekinetically thrown a piano at her with a quiet "oh no" just before it hits.
• Kaeloo: In the show's first episode, "Let's Play Prison-Ball", this is Mr. Cat's reaction to realizing he pushed Kaeloo past the limit and is in for a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
• Kim Possible:
  • Ron Stoppable in has a variation of this trope line when he sees something that could very well do the duo in (but, to him, looks freaking awesome), saying, "That would be so cool if..." followed usually by "it wasn't going to hurt us."
  • There are variations of it, with the most obvious change being in the So The Drama movie, when Ron comes face to face with the full size Diablo for the first time, possibly in response to the movie being the would've-been series finale.
    Ron: That would be so cool if it wasn't the last thing we were ever gonna see.
  • Draken's various "Oh, Snap!" moments occasionally fall into this territory. There is a particularly elaborate one in the climax of Odds Man In, as shown below:
    Draken: [With a tidal-wave of batter heading towards him] This is going to negatively impact third quota performance!
• In the Legion of Super-Heroes cartoon, where they're in their spaceship:
  Brainiac 5: This is going to hurt.
  [The whole ship explodes]
• Looney Tunes characters typically display this trope right before something bad happens to them.
  • Wile E. Coyote, being an Elective Mute, often holds up a sign saying "YIPE!" or something similar (like writing his will during a long drop) just as he's about to get hammered or take one of his very long falls. He even manages a completely wordless one when he simply holds up a tiny umbrella and winces while in the shadow of a falling boulder.
  • Daffy Duck usually lets out a feeble cry of "Mother".
  • Providing the subpage image is the short "Muzzle Tough". When Sylvester tried disguising full-body as a female dog as part of a plan to pummel Hector the bulldog to get access to Tweety, his suit and mask was so good it fooled a dog catcher. Inside the dog catcher's wagon, Sylvester tried to explain to the catcher that he was a cat and removed his mask in front of a bunch of dogs. Seeing the predicament he was in, Sylvester turned white and melted to the floor...
  • Bugs Bunny had went through this twice in one short. In "8-Ball Bunny", when he learns that penguins come from "the South Pole" and believes that's where Playboy Penguin wants to go, Bugs yelps "SOUTH POLE?! OOH, I'M DYYYIN'!". When they get to the South Pole and it turns out that Playboy is actually a captive penguin from Hoboken and that's his real home, Bugs yelps "HOBOKEN?! OOH, I'M DYYYIN' AGAIN!"
• In The Loud House episode "Cover Girls", the Loud children get this expression on their faces when Lynn Sr. and Rita tell them that their punishment for lying to Pop Pop would be having to go back to their activities while dressed as the sibling they were last covering for.
• In the Mickey Mouse (2013) episode "Movie Time", Mickey braves a huge storm to reach his house, only to see a huge tidal wave coming after he finally gets there. His reaction is a half-resigned, half-exasperated "Oh.".
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In "Spike at Your Service", Rainbow Dash convinces Spike to build a huge tower of rocks for her to smash through, thinking he'll give up before he's finished. But finish it he does, and Rainbow Dash comes to a grim realization:
    Rainbow Dash: Bad news, he actually ended up building the whole rock tower. Good news... (Beat) I've got a rock tower to knock down...
  • In "Sweet and Elite", Rarity switches between Canterlot's Garden Party and Twilight's birthday party when her friends catch on. They let Rarity attend the Garden Party...but only on the condition that they get to go as well. Rarity's reaction all but suggests it:
    Rarity: OOHHH NOOOOOOOO!
  • In "Lesson Zero", Twilight Sparkle becomes persistent in mailing a friendship lesson to Princess Celestia, and begins a search around Ponyville for anyone suffering a problem concerning friendship. Spike rightfully predicts the result:
    Spike: *sigh* This won't end well.
  • In "Inspiration Manifestation", Owlowiscious gives a non-verbal version of this reaction in the form of an eloquent Face Palm when Spike takes the titular cursed spell book from the ruined castle.
• In the PAW Patrol episode "Pups Save a Windsurfing Pig", Rocky, who hates water, does an annoyed Aside Glance before falling into the sea.
• Doctor Doofenshmirtz does this a lot on Phineas and Ferb. For instance:
  Computer: System Overload in progress.
  Doofenshmirtz: This should be fun...
  KABOOM!
• Used various times in Pinky and the Brain, usually by Brain, since Pinky is too oblivious to note the impending suck.
  Brain: This was... unanticipated.
• In the Ready Jet Go! episode "A Hammer and a Feather", Carrot tries to drop a chicken egg and an ostrich egg at the same time. Sydney's reaction:
  Sydney: I think I know where this is going...
• ReBoot affectionately parodies the Looney Tunes invocations in the episode "Between a Raccoon and a Hard Place." Just before getting steamrolled, Rocky the Rabid Raccoon says "This is gonna hurt!" As his squashed self rolls back into view on the steamroller wheel, it holds a sign reading "Told Ya!"
• One Robot Chicken sketch deals with Thelma & Louise, who are Not Quite Dead after they drive off the cliff. After talking themselves into a Hope Spot, they look up and spot a pack of wolves surrounding them.
  Louise: ...oh, hell.
• The Simpsons:
  • "A Star Is Burns": Chief Wiggum, upon realizing his tie is caught in Apu's hot dog roller, simply comments "Oh boy, this is going to get worse before it gets better."
  • When France launched a nuke at Springfield in the "Treehouse of Horror VIII" segment "The Homega Man", the camera follows the path of the bomb... directly into Comic Book Guy's stomach. After walking down the street complaining about a comic book, he looks toward the missile and simply says "Oh, I've wasted my life." Before this, Mayor Quimby gets his own: "I bet I'll get blamed for this."^note It was his fault
  • The "Treehouse of Horror V" segment "Time and Punishment" has Homer repeatedly bouncing from his current time to the prehistoric era, and was told about the butterfly effect and its dangerous effects on the timeline. Even minor infractions such as accidentally killing one insect or animal lead to drastic changes. On his second visit to prehistoric times, Homer tries desperately to avoid touching anything, seemingly succeeds and sits down in relief... on top of a lungfish. "Oh I wish, I wish I hadn't killed that fish!" Homer gets an even better one on his third visit, when he sneezes and inadvertently causes the extinction of the dinosaurs. After that, all Homer can forlornly get out is "Thiiiiiiis is gonna cost me..."
  • In "Selma's Choice", Bart sneaks onto a roller-coaster that he's too short to go on. But when the safety bar doesn't secure him because he's too short, all Bart can get out before the ride starts is "Well, that can't be good."
  • In "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em", Bart finds out that Principal Skinner is allergic to peanuts and uses it against him. At one point, he forces Skinner to put fireworks and cats in his pants, to which he says "This is not going to end well".
• In the Sofia the First episode "King For a Day", after James decides the answer to a snoring sleeping giant is fireworks loud enough to drown him out, Baileywick comments, "I have a bad feeling about this," and Sofia adds, "I have a worse one."
• South Park
  • Said verbatim in the "Super Fun Time" episode. This was in response to what was actually looking to be a boring and stupid field trip.
  • Also, in "Scott Tenorman Must Die", the boys are going to see Men in Black II. Cartman says "This movie better not suck ass." Kyle responds "It will."
  • In "Butt Out", which mocks Anti-Smoking groups. During the Butt-Out assembly, Kyle eventually turns to Stan and says exactly what the trope says.
• The Spectacular Spider-Man:
  • Our freaking spectacular, amazing, or sometimes adjectiveless hero himself gets one in the first Sinister Six episode when he first meets the titular supervillain team:
    Dr. Octopus: Now then, arachnid, Any Last Words?
    Spider-Man: "Homina homina homina" comes to mind.
  • In the second Sinister Six episode Spidey jumps on a frozen part of the sea luring his enemy, Rhino after him. Rhino jumps on the ice.. And realizes what he's just done, as the ice breaks beneath him he looks at Spidey and says: "...I hate you. So much." and he sinks straight through it.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • The classic Season 1 episode "Jellyfish Jam" features SpongeBob bringing home a wild jellyfish as a "pet", but the jellyfish ends up overstaying its welcome when it invites its friends to dance at all hours while blasting loud music. After his (and Squidward's) attempts to make the jellyfish leave fail, SpongeBob finally has enough and tries to take the music player out of his house. He and the jellyfish get into a tug-of-war... Resulting in the music player shattering on the floor. SpongeBob can only look up and let out a little "gulp", as it sinks in what's about to happen to him as the jellyfish deliver their equivalent of a Death Glare.
  • In "The Lost Mattress", Patrick speaks in this sort of manner when he realizes his and SpongeBob's code name "Worm Bait" is not a desirable option, just before the guard worm rounds on them.
  • In "Waiting" when SpongeBob finally gets the Kelpo toy in the mail and Patrick "breaks" it, Patrick begins asking SpongeBob in a worrying tone if he's okay, prior to the sponge's Rage Breaking Point.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Temporal Edict", Ransom has this reaction, mid-Captain's Log, when he sees that the Cerritos's high-profile diplomatic mission to Cardassia Prime has been cancelled and realizes that Captain Freeman will be furious at this slight.
  Ransom: First officer's log, stardate 57501.4. The Cerritos is en route to Cardassia Prime for the most amazing reason. Captain Freeman is going to be instrumental in brokering peace between the— uh, wait. Just... reading a little message here. Yada yada yada... oh. Oh no. The captain is not gonna be happy about this.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "On the Wings of Keeradaks", Wat Tambor's reaction to seeing that his lab has been strewn with explosives is a relatively subdued "Oh, no." Cue the door to his lab being thrown at him.
• Steven Universe: In "Change Your Mind", Rhodonite's reaction to stepping off her ship to see the last thing she ever wanted to see, namely, all three Diamonds in person waiting there, is to deliver the Gem equivalent of "well, we're dead" in tone of total resignation.
• On Supernews President George W. Bush has to announce the latest plan for the Iraq War after a succession of failed plans... and he whines during the practice run about just how much This Is Gonna Suck.
• Titan Maximum: Has it in the first episode when the caretaker of the Aviation Disaster Museum was about to be killed by a destroyed plane:
  Caretaker: (looks up) Oh this is ironic as hell!!!
• Tom and Jerry: In "The Dog House", has Tom and Jerry's usual chase sabotaging Spike's attempts to build his dream dog house. At one point, he gets desperate enough to put the house in a tree, only to have Tom come after said tree with an axe after Jerry climbs it. Spike looks grumpily as the tree falls down, unmoving from his place, and all he says is a deadpan "Timber."
• Transformers: Animated: In "Sound and Fury", when Bulkhead decides to participate in the piñata-breaking at Sari's birthday party, Prowl deadpans "This will not end well." Cue destruction.
• In Ugly Americans, Randal says this in a drawn-out way when his father finds out he's been lying about being a zombie.
• The Venture Brothers:
  • In the episode "The Incredible Mr. Brisby", Doctor Venture, tied up in a sack, hears Brock Sampson, who's just been drugged, hit the floor, and responds by calmly saying, "Tttthhhat doesn't sound good."
  • In another episode: "Oh crap, Myra's back."
• In Villainous, at one point, Dr. Flug weaves past the external security system and all its guns...only to be laser-painted by the internal security system as soon as he gets in the door. His response is simply to quietly fold into a Troubled Fetal Position, essentially saying this without words.
• Wakfu: Nox has such a moment during the fight against Grougaloragran in season 1 episode 17, just before the Dragon uses his Breath Weapon on him at point-blank... with enough power to wake up all the volcanoes of the island.
  Nox: Ehehe... well, at least it won't hurt much. (closes eyes)
• In A Fine Feathered Frenzy, this is the expression on Woody's face when he realizes he'll have to marry Gorgeous Gal.
• In the X-Men: The Animated Series episode "Slave Island", Master Mold attempts to escape the destroyed dam and incoming tsunami of water before he realizes the flaw in his plan:
  Master Mold: I AM STILL PLUGGED IN!
• Yin Yang Yo! had Yang say this word for word while Yo was training him in the "Super Secret Training Shed." In response, Yo told him that he was probably thinking of the "Super Secret Shedding Train," which is a train that somehow makes any of the Anthropomorphic Animals that ride it to shed all of their fur.
• During a season 2 episode of Young Justice, Captain Cold flash freezes an entire city block so he can rob an armored car. What he wasn't aware of is that he froze an area where seven members of the League and team were having a get-together. When they make the scene, he doesn't even pretend he has a chance.
  Captain Cold: I'm completely doomed, aren't I?

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