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* Ximena lets out several of these in ''Film/ElCid'' when the exiled Spaniards discover her with her husband in the barn and beg him to lead them once more. She's clearly screaming at the top of her lungs, but we barely hear her over the cheers and Rodrigo's exultant ''"Spain! Spain!"''
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* In the DS version of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', Cecil does this upon finding the King of Baron (i.e. his foster father) had sent him to unwittingly raze a defenseless village with his package.
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* In ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriorsGundam'', a great big, agonized '''"WHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??!!!!"''' is [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Uso Ewin's]] reaction to getting shot down in battle by the player.
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* Music/ElvisCostello's "Welcome to the Working Week" from ''Music/MyAimIsTrue'' has a repeated one:
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* When Professor Farnsworth discovers that his experimental monkey Gunther has escaped in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Mars University", he shouts "Why? WHY? Why didn't I break his legs, why?"
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A character is confronted with great misfortune. He is struck by bad luck at the least convenient moment, someone close to him suddenly got shot or died or he lost a precious object forever. Cue to him or her screaming the word "Why?" up to the sky in a SkywardScream, complete with LargeHam and {{Narm}} fashion. Often a sign of VillainousBreakdown, HeroicBSOD, BreakTheCutie and StartOfDarkness
This used to be a popular trope during dramatic scenes, but nowadays it's a DiscreditedTrope, usually played for laughs.
A SubTrope of BigWordShout.
A SisterTrope to BigNo.
Compare BigNever, BigOMG.
Contrast BigYes.
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!!Examples
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* ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess''. Raquel has [[TearJerker a heartbreaking one]], near the end, when [[spoiler: Pacifica dies, despite her attempts to save her.]] It's preceded by a LittleNo, before she breaks down and screams at the heavens.
-->'''Raquel: (tearfully, while cradling [[spoiler: Pacifica's]] lifeless body)''' "[[LittleNo No...]] why? WHHHYYYYYYYYY??!?"
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* In Issue 40 of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'', the Guardians of the Universe tell Hal Jordan to [[TurnInYourBadge turn in his Power Ring and uniform]], since he being replaced by [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Alan Scott]]. Hal reacts with a BigWhat and rants about how invaluable he was for the Guardians up until then, ending with three consecutive "Why?"s, each bigger than the last.
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* A part of a BreakTheHaughty moment in ''Film/{{Thor}}''. The title character does this when he realises that he can't lift Mjolnir anymore and that his father has well and truly banished him.
* In the final scenes of ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'', Steve grabs his land-developer boss and screams at him for having relocated the headstones of the cemetery on which his haunted house was built, while leaving the bodies. His rant of accusation ends with a furious double example of this trope.
* PlayedForLaughs by Wayne, while carrying a burnt, unconscious Garth in the [[MultipleEndings "unhappy ending"]] of ''Film/WaynesWorld''.
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* This was practically Kenan's CatchPhrase on ''Series/KenanAndKel'', used whenever one of their schemes goes pear shaped. As seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1geHuoc7_8 here]], it's sometimes used by the other characters as well.
* PlayedForLaughs on ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun''. Dick considers telling Mary that he and his family are aliens. The only thing is that the Solomons have just seen a sci-fi movie featuring an AlienInvasion, so they stage a simulation to how it would go. After Dick tells Sally (posing as Mary) he's an alien, she "dies". While cradling her "corpse", Harry lets out a Big Why that would do Creator/WilliamShatner proud.
* A CatchPhrase for Captain Binghamton on ''Series/McHalesNavy'' -- "Why me?!? Why is it always, me?!?"
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The Toys/TeddyBear that the little girl brought to [[IWishItWereReal life with a wish]] in the "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E08WishfulThinking Wishful Thinking]]" episode tries to kill himself by [[AteHisGun blasting his head off with a shotgun]] and discovers that it won't kill him. Cue big why.
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* The Music/{{Queen}} song "Under Pressure" features Freddie Mercury screaming the word "Why".
* "Tell Me Why" by Music/TheBeatles from ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' could also count:
--> ''Tell me why-I-I-I-I''
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* In ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'', [[spoiler: Taranza screams this after Queen Sectonia blasts him for not following her orders properly. It's what lead him into realizing he was fighting for the wrong side.]]
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* In ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'', two of Aoi Asahina's voice clips usually follow a pattern of a slightly-more common little 'why' followed by a rarely-used big one when she's sufficiently disturbed. Most notably happens when [[spoiler:she discovers Sakura dead in chapter 4]].
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* In ''WebVideo/DoomHouse'', Reginald shouts this, in the {{Narm}}iest way possible, after finding the cursed doll in his bed.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken''. In "A Couple of Skatin' Fools", to take Chicken and Earl out of the figure skating competition, Red Guy fractures Earl's knee by tapping with a galvanized steel smoking pipe. Afterwards, Earl continually screams, '''''"WHYYYY?!! WHYYYYY?!!"''''', even as he's rushed to the hospital.
-->'''Earl:''' What are we gonna do, Chicken? WHYYYY?!! The skating competition is tomorrow. WHYYYY?!!
-->'''Chicken:''' Don't worry, (Clinches fist) We'll ''find'' a way to win! (Brings fist down on Earl's knee)
-->'''Earl:''' WHYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
* One ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' cutaway has Peter tumbling down a cliff, plants and jagged rocks ripping at his clothes, until [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext he crashes naked and bruised through the roof of a house to land on a poor Mexican family's dinner table]]. The father asks "What is this?" in subtitled Spanish, to which his wife replies, "[[NonSequitur It is the answer to my prayers.]]" The father cries "''Por qué?''"
* Whenever Bugs Bunny tries to break up with {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Lola Bunny from ''Series/TheLooneyTunesShow'', she turns on the OcularGushers and bawls "Whyyy?" not so much asking for an explanation as to shame Bugs into recanting. Which always works.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', season 4, "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese", Rigby shouts this two times when four geese ruins a sandwich he, Mordecai, and Pops were about to eat by knocking it on the ground and kicking dust on it and when the geese surround him and beat him up.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. In the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E14BrotherFromTheSamePlanet "Brother From The Same Planet]]" Homer yells this as he dreams Bart having turned into a skeleton. He then yells "Why?.... Who?....When?.... How?..."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E3Volcano Volcano]]", when Stan shoots Scuzzlebutt, Patrick Duffy lets out a BigNo and exclaims, "Why, God, why?!"
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "Ripped Pants" when [=SpongeBob=] appears to have drowned [[spoiler:but is just setting up another ripped pants joke]], the lifeguard does a particularly hilarious one.
* Spike does this in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11JustForSidekicks Just For Sidekicks]]''. Also, being a overreactive drama queen that she is, Rarity in ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]'' when she lost her ribbon can be this.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' Steve shouts a mournful one whenever attacked by a vindictive crow in one episode:
-->'''Steve:''' Why, crow? Why?
* The ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' episode "Spaceman Sonic" gives us this [[MemeticMutation infamous]] quote from [[EvilIsHammy Dr. Robotnik]] as he yells at his minions. "WHY is my precious rocket-ship drifting off into deep space?! WHY am I reaching you at the coordinates of the abandoned space station?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?!"
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A character is confronted with great misfortune. He is struck by bad luck at the least convenient moment, someone close to him suddenly got shot or died or he lost a precious object forever. Cue to him or her screaming the word "Why?" up to the sky in a SkywardScream, complete with LargeHam and {{Narm}} fashion. Often a sign of VillainousBreakdown, HeroicBSOD, BreakTheCutie and StartOfDarkness
This used to be a popular trope during dramatic scenes, but nowadays it's a DiscreditedTrope, usually played for laughs.
A SubTrope of BigWordShout.
A SisterTrope to BigNo.
Compare BigNever, BigOMG.
Contrast BigYes.
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!!Examples
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* ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess''. Raquel has [[TearJerker a heartbreaking one]], near the end, when [[spoiler: Pacifica dies, despite her attempts to save her.]] It's preceded by a LittleNo, before she breaks down and screams at the heavens.
-->'''Raquel: (tearfully, while cradling [[spoiler: Pacifica's]] lifeless body)''' "[[LittleNo No...]] why? WHHHYYYYYYYYY??!?"
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* In Issue 40 of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'', the Guardians of the Universe tell Hal Jordan to [[TurnInYourBadge turn in his Power Ring and uniform]], since he being replaced by [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Alan Scott]]. Hal reacts with a BigWhat and rants about how invaluable he was for the Guardians up until then, ending with three consecutive "Why?"s, each bigger than the last.
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* A part of a BreakTheHaughty moment in ''Film/{{Thor}}''. The title character does this when he realises that he can't lift Mjolnir anymore and that his father has well and truly banished him.
* In the final scenes of ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'', Steve grabs his land-developer boss and screams at him for having relocated the headstones of the cemetery on which his haunted house was built, while leaving the bodies. His rant of accusation ends with a furious double example of this trope.
* PlayedForLaughs by Wayne, while carrying a burnt, unconscious Garth in the [[MultipleEndings "unhappy ending"]] of ''Film/WaynesWorld''.
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* This was practically Kenan's CatchPhrase on ''Series/KenanAndKel'', used whenever one of their schemes goes pear shaped. As seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1geHuoc7_8 here]], it's sometimes used by the other characters as well.
* PlayedForLaughs on ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun''. Dick considers telling Mary that he and his family are aliens. The only thing is that the Solomons have just seen a sci-fi movie featuring an AlienInvasion, so they stage a simulation to how it would go. After Dick tells Sally (posing as Mary) he's an alien, she "dies". While cradling her "corpse", Harry lets out a Big Why that would do Creator/WilliamShatner proud.
* A CatchPhrase for Captain Binghamton on ''Series/McHalesNavy'' -- "Why me?!? Why is it always, me?!?"
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The Toys/TeddyBear that the little girl brought to [[IWishItWereReal life with a wish]] in the "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E08WishfulThinking Wishful Thinking]]" episode tries to kill himself by [[AteHisGun blasting his head off with a shotgun]] and discovers that it won't kill him. Cue big why.
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* The Music/{{Queen}} song "Under Pressure" features Freddie Mercury screaming the word "Why".
* "Tell Me Why" by Music/TheBeatles from ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' could also count:
--> ''Tell me why-I-I-I-I''
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* In ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'', [[spoiler: Taranza screams this after Queen Sectonia blasts him for not following her orders properly. It's what lead him into realizing he was fighting for the wrong side.]]
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* In ''VisualNovel/{{Danganronpa}}'', two of Aoi Asahina's voice clips usually follow a pattern of a slightly-more common little 'why' followed by a rarely-used big one when she's sufficiently disturbed. Most notably happens when [[spoiler:she discovers Sakura dead in chapter 4]].
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* In ''WebVideo/DoomHouse'', Reginald shouts this, in the {{Narm}}iest way possible, after finding the cursed doll in his bed.
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* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken''. In "A Couple of Skatin' Fools", to take Chicken and Earl out of the figure skating competition, Red Guy fractures Earl's knee by tapping with a galvanized steel smoking pipe. Afterwards, Earl continually screams, '''''"WHYYYY?!! WHYYYYY?!!"''''', even as he's rushed to the hospital.
-->'''Earl:''' What are we gonna do, Chicken? WHYYYY?!! The skating competition is tomorrow. WHYYYY?!!
-->'''Chicken:''' Don't worry, (Clinches fist) We'll ''find'' a way to win! (Brings fist down on Earl's knee)
-->'''Earl:''' WHYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
* One ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' cutaway has Peter tumbling down a cliff, plants and jagged rocks ripping at his clothes, until [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext he crashes naked and bruised through the roof of a house to land on a poor Mexican family's dinner table]]. The father asks "What is this?" in subtitled Spanish, to which his wife replies, "[[NonSequitur It is the answer to my prayers.]]" The father cries "''Por qué?''"
* Whenever Bugs Bunny tries to break up with {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Lola Bunny from ''Series/TheLooneyTunesShow'', she turns on the OcularGushers and bawls "Whyyy?" not so much asking for an explanation as to shame Bugs into recanting. Which always works.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', season 4, "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese", Rigby shouts this two times when four geese ruins a sandwich he, Mordecai, and Pops were about to eat by knocking it on the ground and kicking dust on it and when the geese surround him and beat him up.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. In the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E14BrotherFromTheSamePlanet "Brother From The Same Planet]]" Homer yells this as he dreams Bart having turned into a skeleton. He then yells "Why?.... Who?....When?.... How?..."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E3Volcano Volcano]]", when Stan shoots Scuzzlebutt, Patrick Duffy lets out a BigNo and exclaims, "Why, God, why?!"
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "Ripped Pants" when [=SpongeBob=] appears to have drowned [[spoiler:but is just setting up another ripped pants joke]], the lifeguard does a particularly hilarious one.
* Spike does this in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E11JustForSidekicks Just For Sidekicks]]''. Also, being a overreactive drama queen that she is, Rarity in ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]'' when she lost her ribbon can be this.
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' Steve shouts a mournful one whenever attacked by a vindictive crow in one episode:
-->'''Steve:''' Why, crow? Why?
* The ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' episode "Spaceman Sonic" gives us this [[MemeticMutation infamous]] quote from [[EvilIsHammy Dr. Robotnik]] as he yells at his minions. "WHY is my precious rocket-ship drifting off into deep space?! WHY am I reaching you at the coordinates of the abandoned space station?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?!"
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