History OhCrap / Comics

* During her term as a Magistratus SheHulk defeated the villain Trycko Slatterus and made it impossible for him to use his gem of infinite power again. So he gave it to her arch-enemy Titania, making her capable of lifting small mountains over her head. This turned out to be a bad idea:

* Magneto gets a really good one in ''[[UltimateXMen Ultimate X-Men]]'': while he's taunting Colossus about how vulnerable his metal body is to his magnetic powers, Colossus is slowly breaking free, and though his taunts continue on, he still has this look in his eyes...

* The discovery in ComicBook/NewAvengers that Elektra is a Skrull and that Wolverine, Spider-Man and Comicbook/DoctorStrange weren't able to tell, leading to the possibility that anyone could be a Skrull and kicking off the entire SecretInvasion saga.

* Detective Comics #826: {{Robin}} gets caught in the middle of a gang shootout. His motorcycle is wrecked and he needs cover. A concerned citizen sees the fight from his van and calls Robin over.

* In ''ComicBook/TransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'', the stock response when the titular team members find out that they're fighting Overlord is "Oh crap". Even twin badasses Topspin and Twin Twist have this reaction.

* During George Perez and Creator/KurtBusiek's run on ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'', the heroes (which, at that moment, included Cap, Justice, Firestar, Hawkeye and newcomer Triathlon) were fighting a group of terrorists in an airport... A fight that was getting really, really tough for the heroes. Until, from offscreen... [[{{Thor}} "I SAY THEE NAY!!!"]]. Cue the bad guys crapping their pants so hard they switch their plan from "let's beat up the heroes!" to "let's blow up the building so that they'd be too busy protecting the civilians to catch us!".

-->--'''Barbe-Rouge''', many a time before ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and Obelix send yet another ship of his to Davy Jones' locker.

* The inhabitants of [[GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Knowhere]] have this reaction in ''ComicBook/MarvelOneHundredthAnniversarySpecial'', when Silver ComicBook/{{Galactus}} [[note]]Galactus merged with the SilverSurfer and with a greater hunger than before[[/note]] appears to eat them.

* Common in the ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' graphic novels, particularly because the villains tend to be so apocalyptically full of themselves ''before'' the shit hits the fan. Anton Arcane's stymied bafflement, when he finds out [[spoiler:it's not Alec Holland he's facing, but a pissed-off wood elemental]] is priceless, and it resurfaces in Hell when he learns just how long he's been there ([[spoiler:one day... so far]]). Likewise, Woodrue's expression as the Green breaks off their psychic link, leaving him powerless and bereft, is both haunting ''and'' an OhCrap moment.
* ''{{Red}}'' has a great one at the end, when Beesley is on the phone with Moses thinking he's won, and confidently telling him that unless he stops he will place an order to have Paul's niece murdered. [[spoiler:Then they hear a knock on the door behind them, and Moses calmly walks in with his cell phone and a gun having slaughtered the rest of their defenses... during the conversation.]] The look on his face is priceless

* When the Shi'ar first get introduced in ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'', a Shi'ar warship is pursuing the rebel Princess Lilandra when she flees to Earth. The ship's captain is informed about the recent activities of various other alien empires (such as the Kree and Skrulls) on Earth and is unconcerned, but then his subordinate tells him that the people of Earth have fought {{Galactus}} several times [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu and won]]. The captain immediately issued a panicked order to retreat before the humans have a chance to notice them.

* The inhabitants of [[GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Knowhere]] have this reaction in ''ComicBook/MarvelOneHundredthAnniversarySpecial'', when Silver {{Galactus}} [[note]]Galactus merged with the SilverSurfer and with a greater hunger than before[[/note]] appears to eat them.

* One ''Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}'' arc had a new gang making a lot of trouble, leading to Daredevil busting in the door to the warehouse they are using as a headquarters. The head bad guy laughs as he points out that he has over a hundred men armed with guns and swords in the room. He then notices that Daredevil has brought along [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]], [[LukeCageHeroForHire Luke Cage]], and Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}}.

* An amusing moment in ''CaptainAtom: Armageddon.'' Captain Atom goes up against Maul, from {{Wildstorm}}. Maul's power is that he can reconfigure his body mass and become a figure similar to the Hulk. Captain Atom can manipulate atoms, and he turns Maul back into his skinny scientist self.

--> '''CaptainAtom''': ''That's right. Uh oh.''

* In the final battle of the third BlueBeetle against the villainous Reach, the bad guys' command ship is collapsing all around main villain the Negotiator and hero Jaime Reyes. Now, the Reach are the never-defeated Evil Commercial Empire who worry even the Guardians of the Universe... and this plucky teenager has done what nobody ever did: bring them down essentially with the power of Heart. But just as the conflagration threatens to consume them both, time-travelling hero ComicBook/BoosterGold appears and drags Blue Beetle out. Reyes reaches out to the Negotiator to save him, too, which leads to the pertinent moment: the villain tearfully whispers'' "We never stood a chance..." ''

** Superman does it again quite memorably in the Elseworlds alternate universe story ''RedSon''. Towards the end of the story, an entire platoon of Green Lantern Corpsmen attempt to subdue Superman by simultaneously using their Green Lantern rings to construct a massive safe around him and make it impossible to break out of. They assume their plan is perfect... until Superman basically punches his way out, shattering their creation, as one of the Corpsmen screams "Oh my God!". After freeing himself, Superman then points out the stupidity of attempting to use a thought-based weapon against ''someone who can move at ten times the speed of thought,'' (in this story, Superman is portrayed as having his Pre-Crisis levels of power).

* The inhabitants of [[GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Knowhere]] have this reaction in ''ComicBook/MarvelOneHundredthAnniversarySpecial'', when Silver {{Galactus}} [[note]]Galactus merged with the SilverSurfer and with a greater hunger than before[[/note]] appears to eat them.

* The inhabitants of [[GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Knowhere]] have this reaction in ''ComicBook/MarvelOneHundredthAnniversarySpecial'', when Silver {{Galactus}} [[note: Galactus merged with the SilverSurfer and with a greater hunger than before /note]] appears to eat them.

* In ''ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusade'', Wiccan has this reaction when he goes up against DoctorDoom, because he knows that he's utterly outclassed and that Doom is most likely going to kill him. This happens in tandem with him having [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee fanboy moment]] over the fact that he's actually fighting ''DoctorDoom''.

*** This is the standar reaction of anyone who meets Rorschach.

* The Franchise/GreenLantern {{Arc}} "[[ComicBook/SinestroCorpsWar" has plenty of these moments, but the absolutely best one comes in the GrandFinale when [[spoiler:the GreenLantern [[TheChosenMany Corps]] use the artificial planet Warworld for a ColonyDrop on the Anti-Monitor]]. The look of ''panic'' on a cosmic level villain is [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome absolutely priceless]].

* A ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' example occurs after Darth Wyyrlok has concealed [[spoiler: his murder of Darth Krayt]] for many issues, tricking everyone into believing he's just in stasis. Darth Nihl and Darth Talon go to the stasis chamber and find [[spoiler: Krayt's empty armor levitating, with his body utterly vanished.]] Wyyrlok, a cold, calculating and infallible schemer for the entire series, goes [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wyyrlok completely twitchy-eyed, flat-out dumbstruck]] when Darth Nihl reports this.

* ''[[Franchise/ The Amazing Spider Man]]'' #230 features an epic battle between Spidey and [[ImplacableMan the Juggernaut]]. Webs does everything he can to stop Juggs, and finally steers a gasoline truck straight at the unstoppable one. An ENORMOUS boom results. Spidey has his Oh Crap moment as [[OutOfTheInferno a figure slowly appears in the flames]] and Juggernaut [[UnflinchingWalk continues advancing, completely unharmed]]...

* This is the typical reaction the average citizen has upon realizing he/she's in the presence of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker. He is even feared by almost every other villain and hero in the DCU. He is quite simply the most [[TheDreaded dreaded]] villain of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s RoguesGallery and one of the most in comics as a whole. When a guy with no superpowers causes as much or more panic than cosmic menaces like the Anti-Monitor or {{Darkseid}}, you know he's an evil, ''evil'' guy.
* ''[[SpiderMan The Amazing Spider Man]]'' #230 features an epic battle between Spidey and [[ImplacableMan the Juggernaut]]. Webs does everything he can to stop Juggs, and finally steers a gasoline truck straight at the unstoppable one. An ENORMOUS boom results. Spidey has his Oh Crap moment as [[OutOfTheInferno a figure slowly appears in the flames]] and Juggernaut [[UnflinchingWalk continues advancing, completely unharmed]]...

* {{Deadpool}} is driving a monster truck down a highway (don't ask). When his foe, Bullseye (dressed as Hawkeye) launches a missile from a stinger straight at him. Deadpool gives an "oh shit" moment, before turning it into a Crowning Moment of Awesome, when he simply rolls down both windows, brakes hard, slides to the left, and lets the missile pass through the cabin, '''and out the other side!''' Then he drives back, crushes Bullseye's leg under one tire, and then pulls out a chainsaw. ''Chainsaw!'' '''FOR THE WIN!!!'''

* Despite being a NiceGuy, {{Superman}} is more than capable of inspiring this reaction when he has to. Some examples from ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'' include Superman frightening away some 30th century villains after hearing that [[spoiler:they [[BerserkButton killed Lana]]]], and later did the same to [[spoiler:Mr Mxyzptlk by pointing the Phantom Zone projector at him, causing him to panic and try to get away, which results in a fatal PortalCut.]]

* The GreenLantern {{Arc}} "[[EvilCounterpart Sinestro Corps]] War" has plenty of these moments, but the absolutely best one comes in the GrandFinale when [[spoiler:the GreenLantern [[TheChosenMany Corps]] use the artificial planet Warworld for a ColonyDrop on the Anti-Monitor]]. The look of ''panic'' on a cosmic level villain is [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome absolutely priceless]].

* In ''TheUltimates'', SmugSnake Herr Kleiser seems to react this way every time he's caught flat-footed when something unexpected disrupts his plans. Which they do, spectacularly. Claiming to be the universal embodiment of order isn't always an advantage.
* ''{{Bone}}'' has a lot of these. The best are Phoney Bone's expression when he discovers that the people of Barrelhaven have a barter system and he just assaulted the most badass man in the village for no good reason, and the entire latter half of the Great Cow Race.
* Every villain who crosses Scrooge [=McDuck=] in ''Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck''. The best one comes after Soapy Slick has just finished his EvilGloating and [[KicktheDog insulting Scrooge's dead mother]] when he sees [[MassOhCrap the look on his goons' faces]]. Then he sees [[UnstoppableRage the look on Scrooge's face]].

** In the Don Rosa story "The Dream Of a Lifetime", the Beagle Brothers steal an invention from Gyro Gearloose that lets them enter Scrooge's dreams, where they can steal the combination to his Money Bin. Donald follows them into the dream, and manages to get the Beagle Boys out one by one, until finally, when the dream changes to Scrooge's gold prospector days in Klondike the last Beagle Boy has had enough, runs up to Scrooge, grabs him by the neck, and tells him to give him the combination. However, as Donald points out, the Scrooge he is now trying to extort is Scrooge from his {{Badass}} King of Klondike days...

* In the final battle of the third BlueBeetle against the villainous Reach, the bad guys' command ship is collapsing all around main villain the Negotiator and hero Jaime Reyes. Now, the Reach are the never-defeated Evil Commercial Empire who worry even the Guardians of the Universe... and this plucky teenager has done what nobody ever did: bring them down essentially with the power of Heart. But just as the conflagration threatens to consume them both, time-travelling hero BoosterGold appears and drags Blue Beetle out. Reyes reaches out to the Negotiator to save him, too, which leads to the pertinent moment: the villain tearfully whispers'' "We never stood a chance..." ''

* In ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', the wizard Shazam gets a rather darkly funny instance of this when he realizes that he's being overshadowed by Sivana's mechanical Rock of Eternity.

* In the original ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'' series, the kids encounter Old Lace, a deinonychus, in Gert's basement. Chase is convinced she's just a hologram, and to demonstrate, swings a broom at her, convinced it'll go through. It... doesn't. The next panel shows an OhCrap expression from Chase.

* A StarWarsExpandedUniverse example occurs after Darth Wyyrlok has concealed [[spoiler: his murder of Darth Krayt]] for many issues, tricking everyone into believing he's just in stasis. Darth Nihl and Darth Talon go to the stasis chamber and find [[spoiler: Krayt's empty armor levitating, with his body utterly vanished.]] Wyyrlok, a cold, calculating and infallible schemer for the entire series, goes [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wyyrlok completely twitchy-eyed, flat-out dumbstruck]] when Darth Nihl reports this.

--->Iron Man: "No weapons? No negator packs? I'm in trouble..."

--->Taggert (after Iron Man stops the Terminax and rips the Firepower armor apart): "I thought you said you couldn't get me out!"
--->Iron Man: "I lied."

* Common in the ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' graphic novels, particularly because the villains tend to be so apocalyptically full of themselves ''before'' the fit hits the fan. Anton Arcane's stymied bafflement, when he finds out [[spoiler:it's not Alec Holland he's facing, but a pissed-off wood elemental]] is priceless, and it resurfaces in Hell when he learns just how long he's been there ([[spoiler:one day... so far]]). Likewise, Woodrue's expression as the Green breaks off their psychic link, leaving him powerless and bereft, is both haunting ''and'' an OhCrap moment.

* During George Perez and Creator/KurtBusiek's run on ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'', the heroes (which, at that moment, included Cap, Justice, Firestar, Hawkeye and newcomer Triathlon) were fighting a group of terrorists in an airport... A fight that was getting really, really tough for the heroes. Until, from offscreen... [[{{Thor}} "I SAY THEE NAY !!!"]]. Cue the bad guys crapping their pants so hard they switch their plan from "let's beat up the heroes!" to "let's blow up the building so that they'd be too busy protecting the civilians to catch us!".

** The Punisher is also one of a ''very'' small number of people to have made The [[MonsterClown Joker]] [[http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/1/13800/462382-punisher_vs._joker_2_super.jpg practically brown his pants on-panel]].