Mass Oh Crap / Anime & Manga

• The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: In Chapter 145, Karane provokes this reaction from all the other girls when she reveals that Rentarou proposed to her in the previous chapter.
• The entire Band of the Hawk from Berserk get this upon realizing what Void and the Godhand mean by "Sacrifice" in regards to them all when the Eclipse goes down, a moment that only gets worse when everyone gets Branded for Sacrifice and the demons start closing in for the feast. Very much not played for laughs.
• In Code Geass, Lelouch gives an Oh, Crap! moment to the whole world (that includes some 90% of the cast, too) when he captures the Damocles and declares himself ruler of the world.
  • Of all people, Nina gives one to dozens of people when she shows up with the Ganymede, packing what is essentially a home-built nuke. The nuke is not actually operational but no one knows that at the time, resulting in Lloyd Asplund's shrill "IKENAI!!" when he sees the Ganymede and remembers just what Nina was working on. The second part of this particular Mass Oh Crap comes in the second season when a fully working version goes off...and vaporizes a spherical chunk of real estate into thin air. Then to hammer it in even further, the next one has a blast radius measured in the tens of kilometers. What allows Lelouch to pull his aforementioned global Oh, Crap! moment is getting control over an entire arsenal of these things. So yes, when it comes to Mass Oh Craps, Code Geass delivers.
• In Date A Live, when Tohka experiences a Sephiroth inversion at the thought that Shidou's going to die, everyone on the Ratatoskr immediately shows this reaction, in a very serious way. When all the sensors go haywire and waves of utter darkness start emanating from the site of a rescue mission, not many can maintain composure.
• Certain Doraemon movies will have Doreamon and gang collectively panicking in dire situations.
  • Doraemon: Nobita and the Kingdom of Clouds: When Shizuka, Gian and Suneo finds out the Cloud People's final solution of handling earth's environmental crisis being Project Noah - restarting The Great Flood to wipe out all life on earth.
  • Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld have the gang's first, unsuccessful attempt to take down Demon Lord Demaon, where the powerful overlord easily No-Sell all their attacks causing everyone to panic. Except their new friend, Miyoko, who's Defiant to the End and draws her sword.
  • Doraemon: Nobita and the Steel Troops: Doraemon and everyone else after realizing the hostile robot army had discovered they're invading a mirror world - and are now heading for the Portal Pool in the hills, where the real world is located.
  • Doraemon: Nobita's Drifts in the Universe has everybody, including their allies from the Space Knights, Lian and his crew, being shocked at finding out their friend Freya is The Mole.
  • Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth have Shizuka first, and then everybody else, when they realize their Guide-Mouse has been destroyed just as they're stuck in the heart of The Maze.
  • Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters have the entire population of the Wind Village losing it when Nobita, returning to the village after an encounter with the Yaakju and being informed of Mafuga's prophesized awakening, tells them everything he knew.
  • Near the climax of Doraemon: Nobita's Treasure Island, the citizens on said island (which is revealed to be an island-sized spaceship) all have worried looks when they thought they're hit by an eqrthquake. Turns out Captain Silver is about to activate his doomsday device to penetrate into the earth's core.
  • Doraemon: Nobita's New Dinosaur has the entire gang's reaction when they saw the huge pterosaur descending upon them from the clouds.
• Dragon Ball does this a lot. When Goku or his opponent powers up, Krillin and anyone watching will get really scared. Just like with the Big Eater thing, they never, ever get used to seeing this done, and stand gape-mouthed throughout the entire scene. Jeez, Krillin, at least make yourself useful and bring the guy some Gatorade!
• Dead serious one in End of Evangelion when Instrumentality starts. Repeated in Rebuild of Evangelion under slightly different circumstances.
• Sword Oratoria: The elites of the Loki Familia knew they were in trouble when they came across a Demi-Spirit on the 59th Floor. Their despair was heightened when it began to chant, but their fears weren't fully realized until after it had nearly decimated them with its first usage of super long chant magic, only to immediately begin the incantation of a second spell.
• Bleach likes this trope:
  • Aizen's reality-bending, Xanatos-piling shenanigans cause this several times. Chapter 364 and 376 are this trope for all the Shinigami. Then again in Chapter 392 where it turned out that the person Hitsugaya stabbed was not Aizen, but Hinamori.
  • Yhwach's Combat Pragmatist tactics in the Thousand Year Blood War Arc do this to Soul Society twice in quick succession. First, in Chapter 490, Yhwach's herald announces the invasion of Soul Society in 5 days ...then Yhwach begins the attack a few hours later. Second, in Chapter 546, Yhwach gets around his inability to leave his own realm for more than a short time ...by transporting Seireitei INTO his own realm.
  • In Chapter 577, nearly everyone in Soul Society, Shinigami and their enemies the Vandenreich alike, do this when Gremmy Thoumeaux summons a giant meteor to crash down on them. Fortunately, Kenpachi destroys it in time.
• The grand finale of Death Note, where team leader Light is outed as the mass murderer Kira that the team have been hunting. Their reaction is mostly this strong because Light's reaction to Near's accusations is to take an Evil Laugh and make it quite thoroughly his own.
• A huge one in the Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid finale. As Sousuke unleashes the full power of the Lambda Driver and blows away Gates, his teammates are like holy crap.
  • A smaller one is also in the first season finale. After defeating Gauron one last time, The Stoic Sousuke uses the opportunity of parting words to pull off a Precision F-Strike. Cue to everyone gasping loudly. Justified in that he never, ever swears — not even by accident — so him calling someone an S.O.B. is quite a shock for others.
• In Digimon, split screens of the whole cast staring in horror is pretty much standard procedure whenever last week's Finishing Move proves to be this week's Worf Barrage. Typically, one character after another is added to the split screen with a rapidfire choom-choom-choom sound effect until all are shown.
• The manga Little House with an Orange Roof has one of these after Shoutaro and Natchi realize they both got conned into buying the same house.
• In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX when Judai's eyes turn gold after Mad King Brron 'killed' his friends in front of him and he begins to be as brutal as you can be in a card game, everyone watching the duel but Judai.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: Everyone in Neo Domino City when Aporia is formed, summons his Machine Emperor and starts pelting them with lightning. Then when they think it's all over, the sky cracks, and the Ark Cradle appears, on a collision course with the city.
• Fullmetal Alchemist had a couple of these, but the most memorable would be when the Briggs troops subdue and capture 90% of Central Headquarters, and everyone starts celebrating. All of a sudden:
  Bradley/Wrath: *over the broadcasting system* Greetings. I'm back.
  • A more humorous one in Full Metal Alchemist 2003 where Edward hides in a crowd while duking it out with Mustang, not that it stops Mustang from unleashing a huge fireball at Ed and everyone else in range.
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • During "Attack of the Prehistoric Pokémon", Ash and Squirtle chase after a fuse, trying to douse it before it reaches a stack of explosives, while Team Rocket, the ones who set the explosives, is chasing them. All except Pikachu get rolled into a pile several feet away from the dynamite stack, and Pikachu panics and electrocutes the charges, setting them off himself instead. Everyone present realizes then just how doomed they are.
  • In "Facing Fear With Eyes Wide Open", Ash is trying to get his Oshawott to stop freaking out and closing his eyes whenever he goes underwater - the point of all this is that it will give Aqua Jet a non-zero accuracy rating. As a result of Scraggy agitating a bunch of Foongus, Ash and Oshawott are forced to go underwater and grab some seaweed to cure the resulting poison; needless to say, the local Tympole and their Palpitoad boss aren't willing to share. Oshawott is getting bombarded by Bubble attacks from every direction and attacking aimlessly in the process...up until he finally decides to give opening his eyes a shot. Once he realizes that there's no problem with his vision underwater, Oshawott effortlessly thwarts the latest barrage with one swing of Razor Shell. While a Tympole's eyebrows never really move, their facial expressions and the sound of their voices at this development literally scream "WE'RE FUCKED!!!"
  • Ash, Mallow, and Lana have one◊ when Disaster Dominoes result in Rowlet and Popplio getting swept away in a giant bubble.
• At the end of Smile PreCure! Episode 28, the girls all have a massive freakout over the scariest thing of all: the summer homework they've all neglected until it was too late.
• Toriko tops them all with a global Oh, Crap! Zebra getting released from jail made...the entire human world crap itself. A fortune teller told his Crystal Ball the word 'Zebra' and the ball wisely broke itself. The global economy nearly crashed. Predicted damages would be in the quadrillions of yen. A few small countries disappeared. This is just from the rumor that he would be released. To put it into perspective, Zebra was sent to jail for eating over two dozen species into extinction. An appetite like that would make any food-themed world panic.
  • The news of the Four Beasts' awakening causes a panic that dwarfs the upheaval caused by Zebra's release. The entire population of the Human World retreats to the center of the Human World, leaving the borders completely deserted. Wholly justified, since the Four Beasts are horrifically powerful denizens of the Gourmet World that prey exclusively on humans.
• Fairy Tail: Played for Laughs with Erza's first appearance.
  • Then later, everyone after Acnologia's arrival on Tenrou Island.
    • And again when Tartaros and the Dragon Slayers hear him headed their way.
  • And, once more, when Ezra steps forward in the Pandemonium game. In a dungeon of 100 monsters, where each person is expected to challenge five or so, she challenges all 100, including an unbeatable monster. The reaction includes basically everyone introduced except the Big Bad.
    • Only Natsu and Grey are not doing this. They're LAUGHING!
  • Oh Crap doesn't begin to describe the looks of shock on everyones' faces when the Eclipse Gate finally opens and a dragon emerges. Followed by more dragons.
  • Almost entire Fairy Tail members go Oh, Crap! when Mavis starts crying.
• Mobile Suit Gundam SEED is very fond of the spit-screen version of this trope. Especially noticeable when ZAFT fires the GENESIS for the first time; pretty much the whole cast goes slack-jawed at the massacre.
• Happens in Naruto, when the real Uchiha Madara shows up and starts dropping asteroids on people.
  • Happens again later, when he frees himself from the Edo Tensei contract thus making himself, for all practical purposes, immortal and invincible, and shattering the last hope they had of getting rid of him.
• In the Hetalia: Axis Powers movie, the characters do this when they find out that England had put his home-made scones into the gift bags they gave the invading aliens.
• Hellsing gives this treatment to various characters but the most telling instances are when Waffen SS vampires tremble in fear of Seras and when two entire armies attack Alucard "lest something dreadful happen."
  • To clarify on the two armies: One of them is a series of Catholic Knight Templar crusaders who will kill anyone who has the slightest bit of impurity (this includes the dreadful crime of being a Protestant). The other is an army of satanic, vampire Nazis who will kill anyone who isn't a Nazi. They both agree that Alucard, who is about to unleash his full power as a vampire with his final Power Limiter release state, is first priority.
• Space Battleship Yamato: Dressler causes this three times, starting with the second season: the first time he merely needs to reveal he's still alive to cause the bridge crew of the Yamato to go from cheerfulness at their latest victory over the White Comet Empire to terrified horror; the second time the Yamato is about to start the final battle against the White Comet when Dessler shows up and starts teleporting starfighters before the ship, with the crew remembering with horror about the last time this happened; in the third season, by which time he had decided to ally with Earth, Dessler is informed that the warship causing trouble to some of his newest subordinates is the Yamato, and his barely restrained rage at discovering how they had attacked a ship they had been specifically ordered to not attack causes this.
• In Baccano! 1935-B - Dr. Feelgreed, the Daily Days collectively loses its shit upon the discovery that Claire Stanfield has started working for Huey Laforet.
• Hajime no Ippo: Date starts talking behind Takamura's back, while Sendo, Mashiba and his sister, Okita and Saeki agree. Only to find out that Takamura was in the same bar the whole time. It goes as well as you'd expect.
• Rosario + Vampire Capu2: In Episode 8, this is Kurumu, Mizore, and Yukari's understandable reaction when Tsukune unleashes Inner Moka to put a stop to their fight; Inner Moka proceeds to T.K.O. all three of them with a single kick.
• In Girls und Panzer, this is the reaction achieved (both by the characters and the audience) when the Maus makes its appearance.
• A serious example in the Attack on Titan anime when the Colossal Titan appears the second time.
  • The entire world as a whole has this reaction when the Rumbling begins in earnest.
• Near the end of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, The Book of Darkness starts charging up an attack, which the heroes recognize as being Nanoha's Starlight Breaker. They fly away as fast as possible.
• My Hero Academia does not play this for laughs when All For One shows up during the raid on the League of Villains. Midoriya and his friends are so terrified and filled with dread that they can't even move.
  • Then, later on? Shigaraki wakes up with All for One and all the quirks it was carrying ...and still has his Decay quirk ...and it's now ranged. He's also really, really angry. Every single professional hero fighting ...panics.
• Played for Laughs in Uma Musume. All of Team Spica have this reaction when they come across a pronounced curve during their training race, and they realize they're running too fast to stop. They keep running until they land on the ocean.
• Wild Knights Gulkeeva: Everyone reacts this way when Dancer activates the Devil's Core, a weapon capable of annihilating Earth. Even the Darknoids are freaking out.
• Kingdom: Qin's entire royal court freak out when they learn that all other six states are invading them. Even Ryofui loses his cool.
• Musuko ga Kawaikute Shikataganai Mazoku no Hahaoya: When the protagonists' trip into the Self-Administrated Zone turns into a fight, everyone but Merii freaks out when Lorem demonifies. For some, like Valentine and Isabella, it's because they didn't realize just how strong Lorem was, while others, like Garon and Isabella's father Ramon, know exactly how strong Lorem is.

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