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5	[[quoteright:320:[[ComicBook/GreenLantern https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/big_why.png]]]]
6	[[caption-width-right:320:Because they hate you, I thought you understood this already.]]
7
8	->''"Why, Lisa?! WHY?! WHY?!"''
9	-->-- '''Johnny''', ''Film/TheRoom2003''
10
11	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. Might imply a RageAgainstTheHeavens.
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13	This used to be a popular trope during dramatic scenes, but nowadays it's a DiscreditedTrope, usually played for laughs.
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15	A SubTrope of BigWordShout.
16
17	A SisterTrope to BigNo and BigWhat.
18
19	Compare BigNever, BigOMG.
20
21	Contrast BigYes.
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23	Here is a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jooSuwGqfS8 compilation]] with a lot of examples.
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25	'''NOTE: Do not PotHole to this trope just to complain about something. It will be deleted.'''
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27
28	!!Examples
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30	[[foldercontrol]]
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32	[[folder:Advertising]]
33	* In one Progressive ad, the [[AnimateInanimateObject box]] does this when he climbs up to the top shelf of a freezer in a supermarket only to find that the box of waffles he grabbed was whole wheat.
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36	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
37	* ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess''. Raquel has 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.
38	-->'''Raquel: (tearfully, while cradling [[spoiler: Pacifica's]] lifeless body)''' "[[LittleNo No...]] why? WHHHYYYYYYYYY??!?"
39	* [[spoiler:CoolBigSis Yuuri]] from ''Manga/SchoolLive'' acts this way in chapter 27 after things go FromBadToWorse when [[spoiler:a rescue helicopter crashes and burns in front of the school.]]
40	-->Why? Why did things end up like this? Why!? '''Why!?''' There's nothing! There's nothing we can do about any of this, is there!? [[DespairEventHorizon I can't... do this anymore...]]
41	* ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'': Ryuji lets one out in Chapter 68, when [[spoiler:Ayumi leaves]], accompanied by ManlyTears.
42	* ''Anime/ZoidsChaoticCentury'': When [[KidHero Van]]'s Blade Liger [[NoSell pierces through]] the Death Saurer's [[WaveMotionGun Electric Particle Cannon]] and then goes through the Death Saurer itself, this is all what Proitzen can say before it explodes along with him:
43	-->"Why?! Why?! [[ThisCannotBe Why did I have to be defeated by these insects]]?! WHYYYYYYYYYYYY?!"
44	* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': This is the reaction Rosalie has [[spoiler:when her ex, Chris, coldly killed one of her (Rosalie's) younger charges. After Marika, said charge, is [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe sheared in half by a massive sword]] and incinerated in the explosion of her [[HumongousMecha Paramail]], Rosalie immediately flies into an UnstoppableRage as she attempts to avenge her by killing Chris]].
45	-->'''Rosalie:''' [[spoiler:Marika...]] [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOO!]] [[ThisIsUnforgivable How could you?!]] [[spoiler:'''''CHRIS,''''']] '''''WHYYYYYYYYYYY?!!'''''
46	* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': During the Chimera Ant arc, [[spoiler: Gon]] belts out one of these during his epic FreakOut over having to wait for [[spoiler: [[TheSadist Neferpitou]], who he needed to save Kite, to heal [[MoralityChain Komugi for Meruem]]]].
47	--> [[spoiler:'''Gon''']]: ''Why are you helping her anyway?!'' After [[ColdBloodedTorture all the things]]...''chokes'' '''''[[FateWorseThanDeath That you did to my friend]]''''' '''''[[spoiler: Kite?!]]''''' ''Why...?!'' ''[[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening aura explodes]]'' '''''WHYYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!'''''
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50	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
51	* ''Animation/{{Akis}}'': In "Why Oh Why", Akis and her family watch a television program showing a woman screaming "WHY?!" [[SkywardScream towards the sky]] after her loved one has died. Akis' father bets she can't act as well as the woman in the program, triggering the plot of the episode when Akis actually takes him up on the challenge.
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54	[[folder:Comics]]
55	* In Issue 40 of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] ''Franchise/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 straight "Why?"s, each bigger than the last.
56	[[/folder]]
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58	[[folder:Fan Works]]
59	* [[PlayedForLaughs Played for laughs]] in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'' after Germany, Italy, and Japan marathoned all 37 episodes of ''Anime/DeathNote'' for 13 hours straight.
60	-->"NNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE?!"
61	-->"DDDDOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTEEEEEEE?!"
62	-->"WHY?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?!"
63	* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'' has [[https://youtu.be/PsWj_RKbkxU?t=609 a good one]] when Kains hears Yolko dragged a stranger into a plot they were weaving.
64	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
65	** In ''Fanfic/BirthdayBreakfast'', Lincoln says, "Whyyyyyy?" when the twins fight on their birthday because he thinks he's failed at making them happy. He's wrong--- they ''like'' to fight.
66	** In ''Fanfic/NicelyDone'', Lana's only reaction to her side of the twins' room getting cleaned up by Lola is a long, drawn-out "WHYYYYYYYYYYY?!"
67	[[/folder]]
68
69	[[folder:Film]]
70	* In ''Film/{{The Nutty Professor\|1996}}'', Buddy does this to Carla when she's about to ditch him for showing up late to their date.
71	* After a murder spree that presumably starts long before the action in ''Film/{{DeathProof}}'', Stuntman Mike is perplexed when the girls finally turn the tables on him.
72	* 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.
73	* In the final scenes of ''Film/{{Poltergeist\|1982}}'', 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.
74	* PlayedForLaughs by Wayne, while carrying a burnt, unconscious Garth in the [[MultipleEndings "unhappy ending"]] of ''Film/WaynesWorld''.
75	* Denny at the end of ''Film/TheRoom2003'' while [[spoiler:mourning over Johnny's body after he commits suicide]].
76	* 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!"''
77	* Frankenstein's Monster bellows out an impressive one in ''Film/VanHelsing'' to the angry mob at the beginning of the movie, stunning all of them into silence.
78	* In ''Film/FiftyFirstDates'' this appears to be Lucy's reaction when [[spoiler: she learns her father and brother have been repeating the day's events over and over to conceal her brain damage]].
79	* Deja is shot at the climax of the film ''Film/HigherLearning''. As she lies there, gushing BloodFromTheMouth, she manages to wail out a wrenching version of one of these. It's her last word.
80	* ''Film/GodsNotDead'': After failing to change Radisson's mind with Powerpoint presentations explicitly detailing how much his religion "triumphs" over atheism, at least in his own opinion, {{manchild}} Josh gets reduced to just demanding "Why" over Radisson's refusal to believe in God.
81	* ''FIlm/TheMermaid'': When Liu Xuan escapes from the merfolk - including a vengeful mer-octopus who wants to ''strangle'' him via tentacles - and seeks the police for help. The police doesn't buy it ([[CassandraTruth obviously]]) leading to Liu letting out a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-lRdR0AlSw "WHY?!!!"]] (Being a Hong Kong movie, it's one of the few lines in English).
82	* ''Film/MommieDearest'' has Creator/JoanCrawford screaming "Why" after she found a second wire hanger in Christina's closet.
83	* One of many {{Narm}}-filled scenes in ''Film/TheLonelyLady'' involves Jerrilee editing an actress' longwinded speech down to just "WHY? WHY?"
84	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei lets out a couple lamenting her situation right before her friends show up outside her window.
85	* ''Film/UrbanLegend'': [[spoiler:When Brenda reveals herself as the killer]], Natalie asks Brenda about the reason.
86	--> '''Brenda''': ...Well, I guess you can say I'm a little...nutty.
87	--> '''Natalie''': Why?
88	--> '''Brenda''': ''[impersonating Natalie's whimpering]'' Whyyy? Whyyy? (finally in anger) '''''WHYYYYY'''''? Still haven't figured it out, have you?
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91	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
92	* ''Series/KenanAndKel'': Kenan used it whenever one of their schemes goes pear-shaped. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1geHuoc7_8 As seen here,]] it's sometimes used by the other characters as well.
93	* 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.
94	* ''Series/Batwoman2019''. When Mouse realises that Alice has just poisoned him despite everything they've been through together, his only response is an incredulous, ''"Why?"''
95	%%* A catchphrase for Captain Binghamton on ''Series/McHalesNavy'' -- "Why me?!? Why is it always, me?!?"
96	* In episode 51 of ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'', Alexi screams "Why?!" twice after being rejected by another director.
97	* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus: '' Kirk Vilb, the star of film-in-progress "Scott of the Antarctic," yells "''WHY??!''" when the producer says they'll have to lose the fight with the lion (because there are no lions in the Antarctic).
98	* In ''Series/BreakingBad'' episode "Down", Jesse's mom hurls a few at her son for being a meth addict who tried keeping his late aunt's house all to himself, instead of letting his parents take it away from him.
99	** Note that she doesn't scream a single "why?" once Jesse places a bid on the house when she puts it on the market but at the same time Jesse got his lawyer Saul to blackmail his mom into either signing the house over to Jesse for an amount where she gets NO profits ($400,000) since she spent the exact same much to renovate the house OR face litigations because the house used to contain a meth lab and Saul would be more than happy to press charges against her by contacting the nosy DEA.
100	* ''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.
101	* In the ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' episode "The Dress Is Always Greener", Eddie and Cory charge people to see a potato that looks like UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln, but when [[GranolaGirl Chelsea]] tries to put a stop to it, she bellows this trope when it breaks to pieces on hitting the floor. She lets out another one at the end of the episode when they find a potato chip that looks like Creator/VinDiesel and Victor eats it.
102	* In ''Series/{{Victorious}}'', on the episode "Who Did It To Trina?", Andre says this when he isn't allowed to leave Lane's room. This is a close reference to the first aforementioned example.
103	* Played for drama in "Goodbyeeee", the final episode of the fourth series of ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''. As the certain death of the main characters draws near, Baldrick laments that all his friends are dead: Sammy the spider, Katie the worm, Bertie the bird, everyone except Neville the fat hamster. When Blackadder solemnly tells him that Neville is dead as well, Baldrick snaps, and asks ''why'' the war is happening, ''why'' can't they all just pack it in and go home, ''why''?
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106	[[folder:Music]]
107	* The Music/{{Queen\|Band}} song "Under Pressure" features Freddie Mercury screaming the word "Why" [[IncrediblyLongNote for an absurdly long time]].
108	* "Tell Me Why" by Music/TheBeatles from ''Music/AHardDaysNight'' could also count:
109	--> ''Tell me why-I-I-I-I''
110	* Music/ElvisCostello's "Welcome to the Working Week" from ''Music/MyAimIsTrue'' has a repeated one:
111	-->''All you gotta tell me now is why why why why''
112	* The Music/BeastieBoys song "Sabotage" contains an epic MetalScream one from the King Ad Rock.
113	* The appropriately titled Music/AnnieLennox song "Why?"
114	* Music/LimpBizkit's "Boiler" ends with one.
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117	[[folder:{{Theatre}}]]
118	* In the musical ''Theatre/MerrilyWeRollAlong'', at the end of the 1976 scene, Frank's life has been ruined. He stands alone in his Bel Air mansion, and screams, "WHYYYY??!!"
119	* In the musical ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'' Jesus asks "WHYYYYYYYY?!?!?!" on a long and high note in the "Gethsemane" number.
120	[[/folder]]
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122	[[folder:Video Games]]
123	* 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.]]
124	* In ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriorsGundam'', a great big, agonized '''"WHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??!!!!"''' is [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Uso Ewin's]] reaction to getting shot down in battle by the player.
125	* 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.
126	* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'', Riku asks why the mysterious boy in the black cloak (Roxas) has a Keyblade. Said figure just gives him a BigShutUp and attacks him.
127	* In ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2 [[UpdatedRerelease Record Breaker]]'', should the player opt for the Human Adminstrator Ending in the ''Triangulum Arc'', the penultimate scene has the party collapse from exhaustion after defeating the BigBad. [[TheLancer Daichi]] wakes up and sees Yamato, Al Saiduq, and the Protagonist missing and realizes that [[spoiler:the Protagonist is planning on becoming a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Human Adminstator]]]]. He rushes to those three and begs the Protagonist to reconsider and, when they proceed to go through with their plan, just screams, "WHY?!"
128	* Parodied in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction'', where Rusty Pete gives out quite a large "why" (with a hiccup in the middle) after [[spoiler:Captain Slag is killed]]. He imminently gets over the loss, and declares Ratchet as the new captain [[spoiler:so that he can later use him to revive Slag]].
129	* In ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', the G-Men attempt to pull this off when they're posing as grieving widows, but their lack of inflection causes it to come off as [[DullSurprise lifeless and lacking in emotion]].
130	-->'''"Grieving Widow" G-Man:''' I am a grieving widow. Why, God. Why.
131	* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel II'', the protagonist Rean screams this towards [[spoiler: Osborne who reveals himself to be alive, undoing everything Crow and the Imperial Liberation Front's whole revenge.]]
132	--> '''Rean:''' Why!? Why are YOU still alive! [[spoiler: Crow shot you! You're supposed to be dead!]]
133	* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'': The eternally unlucky, put-upon Kanbe says this often. Anytime life conspires to screw with him ([[ButtMonkey which is often]]) you'll hear him shouting "WHYYY?" at the sky. Rendered in Japanese as "NAZE JAAAA?"
134	* In the second installment of ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople'', known as ''Strong Badia the Free'', when Strong Bad wins his "battle" against a Taranchula standee, Strong Mad, who was controlling the standee, cries, "WHY, STRONG BAD, WHY?!?"
135	* Given off by Oil Man's Copy Robot upon defeat in ''VideoGame/MegaManPoweredUp''.
136	* In ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'', the Grey Mourner exclaims "WAI!?" every time you fail [[ThatOneSidequest the Delicate Flower sidequest]].
137	* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'', Heather shouts this to Claudia in regards to [[spoiler:why Claudia killed her father, Harry Mason.]]
138	* In certain ''[[Franchise/TheKingofFighters King of Fighters]]'' games, Sie Kensou's KO scream has him yell "NANDE YA!?"
139	* The ending of ''VideoGame/MarvelsSpiderMan2'' has Norman Osborn smashing up a room and screaming this after he is told that [[spoiler: his son Harry is unlikely to ever wake up from the coma he has fallen into after the death of the Venom symbiote.]]
140	[[/folder]]
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142	[[folder:VisualNovels]]
143	* In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', 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]].
144	* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' [[PlayedForLaughs plays it for laughs]] when Nick sees [[spoiler:the Phantom has a mask of himself]].
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147	[[folder:Webcomics]]
148	* Used in [[http://awkwardzombie.com/comic/egg-roll this]] ''WebComic/AwkwardZombie'' strip.
149	* Used by [[https://www.nuklearpower.com/wp-content/themes/comicpress-np/cal01.png a falling and injured Black Mage]] in ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater''.
150	* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': When Duane realizes his soul is tethered to his rotting, bug infested body, trapping him in a hellish existence he angrily asks his god why, furious and shocked.
151	-->'''Duane:''' [[https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch10/ch10_91.html Ssael-! Where is the MEANING?]]
152	[[/folder]]
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154	[[folder:WebOriginal]]
155	* In the first installment of ''Film/TheGamers,'' Nimble does one of these in a flashback to a previous session where his sister was murdered.
156	[[/folder]]
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158	[[folder:WebVideo]]
159	* In ''WebAnimation/{{Alphabet Lore}}'', Y ([[{{Pun}} of course]]) does this upon finding [[spoiler:X's dead body]].
160	* In ''WebVideo/DoomHouse'', Reginald shouts this, in the {{Narm}}iest way possible, after finding the cursed doll in his bed.
161	* Discussed in Creator/{{David Mitchell\|Actor}}'s Soapbox when he speculates on the quality of the third series of ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' and that it will consider this line being screamed by an animated turd standing on a Tesco logo.
162	* In ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'' in "How to Dump Your Girlfriend!", Anthony's girlfriend lets one out when she gets fooled by Anthony faking his death. Anthony then answers her, even though he was supposed to pretend to be dead.
163	* Red of ''WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions'' lets one loose in response to ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' - specifically, that Odysseus' dog, Argos, dies ''immediately'' after [[IWillWaitForYou seeing his master one last time]].
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166	[[folder:WesternAnimation]]
167	* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', when [[spoiler: Morty is forced to kill Fart]], Fart gives him this.
168	-->'''Fart:''' Morty, why?! WHY?
169	* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'':
170	** In "Bad Influencer", one of Itchaboi's videos shows him tossing and turning in bed, followed by an ExtremeCloseUp of him with bloodshot eyes as he yells, "WHYYYYYYYYYY!!!"
171	** In "Impopstar", Keys yells, "Whyyyyy?!", coupled with SkywardScream, when he finds what he believes is Zillon Brax beheaded, but is really a mannequin in his likeness.
172	** In "Dirt Jar", in the first flashback when Bill tells the kids they're moving to Big City, Cricket screams multiple Big Whys rapid-fire as he and Tilly bawl over the news.
173	* ''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 it with a galvanized steel smoking pipe. Afterwards, Earl continually screams, '''''"WHYYYY?!! WHYYYYY?!!"''''', even as he's rushed to the hospital.
174	-->'''Earl:''' What are we gonna do, Chicken? WHYYYY?!! The skating competition is tomorrow. WHYYYY?!!
175	-->'''Chicken:''' Don't worry, (Clinches fist) We'll ''find'' a way to win! (Brings fist down on Earl's knee)
176	-->'''Earl:''' WHYYYYYYYYYYY!!!
177	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "A Nightmare on Killmotor Hill!", this is Dewey's reaction to seeing Huey's dream self is just Huey made taller... with the addition of a pair of creepily-long legs. Later Webby has a similar reaction to Huey adding freakishly-long arms to the mix, letting out a shout of "Oh, ''why''?" as Huey's arms flail about.
178	-->'''Dewey:''' Why, Huey? Why? ''Why, Huey?!'' '''''Whyyyyyy?!'''''\
179	'''Huey:''' Whatever do you mean? Nothing strange here, just a tall, distinguished, mature oldest sibling.\
180	'''Dewey:''' In ''what'' world does that description equal ''this''?!
181	* 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?''"
182	* Whenever Bugs Bunny tries to break up with {{Cloudcuckoolander}} Lola Bunny from ''WesternAnimation/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.
183	* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': In "All I Wanted Was a Slushie", after the R.E.G.I.S. MK. V destroys the last remaining Mega Slush restaurant and Coop beats it up, he makes the roof of his car go down to do this trope.
184	-->'''Coop:''' ''(sobbing)'' WHY?!?! '''''WHYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!!!?!!'''''
185	* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', season 4, "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese", Rigby shouts this three times when four geese ruin a sandwich he, Mordecai, and Pops were about to eat by knocking it to the ground and kicking dust on it and when the geese surround him and beat him up.
186	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. In the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E14BrotherFromTheSamePlanet "Brother From The Same Planet]]" Homer yells this as he dreams that Bart has turned into a skeleton. He then yells "WHY...? HOW...? WHEN...? WHICH...?"
187	* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E3Volcano Volcano]]", when Stan shoots Scuzzlebutt, Creator/PatrickDuffy lets out a BigNo and exclaims, "Why, God, why?!"
188	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
189	** In "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.
190	** In "Boating School", Mrs. Puff responds to [=SpongeBob=] crashing during the driving test with "Oh, [=SpongeBob=]! Why?" She says it in a deeper voice because she has inflated like a deployed airbag.
191	** In "Missing Identity", [=SpongeBob=] mourns the loss of his nametag this way. Or rather, he does it by shouting out "'''''[[GratuitousFrench PORQUOI?!]]'''''"
192	* Spike does this in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E8JustForSidekicks Just for Sidekicks]]". Also, being an over-reactive DramaQueen that she is, Rarity in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E3LessonZero Lesson Zero]]" when she lost her ribbon can be this.
193	* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "Tri-State Treasure: Boot of Secrets", Candace shouts this combined with a SkywardScream when she loses her chance at getting a rare Ducky Momo toy when the antique baby rattle she needed to trade was turned new by Doofenshmirtz's De-Age-inator.
194	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' Steve shouts a mournful one whenever attacked by a vindictive crow in one episode:
195	-->'''Steve:''' Why, crow? Why?
196	* The ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' episode "Spaceman Sonic" gives us this [[MemeticMutation infamous]] quote from [[EvilIsHammy Dr. Robotnik]] as he yells at his minions.
197	--> '''Robotnik:''' 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?!"
198	* When Professor Farnsworth discovers that his experimental monkey Gunther has escaped in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS1E11MarsUniversity Mars University]]", he shouts "Why? WHY? Why didn't I break his legs?!"
199	* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''/''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' crossover episode "Say Uncle", Amethyst trips over a letter "Y" [[ItMakesSenseInContext (part of the words "RUN AWAY")]] and [[VisualPun screams "WHY?????" into the sky]].
200	* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' episode "I Was a Penguin Zombie", Kowalski, Private, and Rico are mourning for Skipper, mistakenly believing he died of an infection, and Rico coughs up a picture of Skipper and screams "Why? WHY?! '''[[RuleOfThree WWWWHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!]]'''"
201	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball''
202	** In "The Secret", Gumball lets one out when Darwin informs him the only way to get out of a locked bathroom is [[ToiletTeleportation going down the toilet]].
203	** In "The Flower", this is Leslie's (the titular flower) reaction to Gumball's GreenEyedMonster SuperPoweredEvilSide [[FedToTheBeast covering him in slugs in the hopes of them]] [[EatenAlive eating him alive]].
204	** In "The Origins", Nicole does this in response to her alarm clock going off, which turns out to be Gumball imitating it, alongside Richard's yelling.
205	** In "The Ex", Tobias lets one out when he triggers a bomb that Gumball mistakenly planted in his house and gets sent flying.
206	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' episode "Mung on the Rocks", an unsatisfied customer claims that he ordered a Super Happy Cake, but the cake is clearly depressed and lets out one of these.
207	* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': Sylvia screams it in "The Pet", following a BigNo, when she thinks Wander was eaten by the alien (when it was really a teddy bear Wander gave it).
208	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': "What Have You Done?" ends with Finn [[BadBadActing "dying"]], causing Ice King to scream "WHY?!" at the top of his lungs, and his anguished howls reach all the way to the Candy Kingdom, curing the Candy People of their Freezer Burn Flu. After Finn feels hurt by how Ice King just dropped him after crying out in pain, Jake says he'd hold onto Finn for an eternity if he ever died, and carries Finn back home in his arms while [[ParodiedTrope yelling "WHY?!" and laughing]].
209	* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': In "[[Recap/WorkItOutWombatsS1E4SpecialDeliveryCampoutConfusion Campout Confusion]]," Zadie, forlorn over the ruined campout and burnt zucchini, shouts "WHY?"
210	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E20 The Lil' Patscals]]", when [[ShootTheTelevision GrandPat burns Patrick's TV]], he shouts, "[=GrandPat=], WHY!?" as a dramatic music sting plays.
211	* ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'': In the musical number "Happy Day in Hell", Charlie goes around singing about how everything is wonderful, but hell's reality occasionally interferes with even her pollyannaism:
212	--> ''...To the Cannibal Town, where they don't wear a frown, 'cause--''
213	--> ''Holy shit, oh my gosh, WHYYY?!''
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217	* Figure skater Nancy Kerrigan's reaction on Jan 6, 1994 when an assailant hired by the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding struck her above her right knee with a retractable baton. This was subject to plenty of jokes at the time (as were most aspects of the case), although Kerrigan's emotional reaction was pretty understandable and more than a little tragic in hindsight.
218	* After [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Plauché Gary Plauché]] shot his son's kidnapper and rapist in the head as he was being escorted through Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport in 1984, the officers who immediately restrained Plauché began crying out "Why? WHY, GARY? WHY?!" [[PapaWolf One could presume they were asking rhetorically.]]
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222	[[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Why, TV Tropes?!]] Why?

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