The GAULS!
— Barbe-Rouge (many a time before Asterix and Obelix send yet another ship of his to Davy Jones' locker)
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- In the Asterix comics, there is a recurring pirate gang in which Asterix and Obelix always runs into during any travel through the sea. After the first beatdown, every single time the Gauls approach the pirates react in an Oh, Crap! way. In the newest volumes, they've got so used to getting a beating and having their ship sink, they resort to sinking their own ship themselves out of despair and at least avoid being beat down.
- In Asterix and the Goths, Rhetoric has been deceiving Chief Metric about what the imprisoned Getafix has been saying, as Metric will Shoot the Messenger. Then, when The Cavalry (read:Asterix and Obelix) arrives...Getafix: O great Gothic Chief, your interpreter is deceiving you! I never had any intention of showing you any magic.
[Metric is in too great a rage to speak]
Rhetoric: [terrified] He speaks Gothic [sic]. He speaks Gothic. - Then in Asterix and the Helvetians there is the moment when governor Garovirus realizes that Getafix didn't just cure the man he had poisoned, but gave him a few drops of the magic potion as well.Garovirus: Who's ready? What's ready!?
Centus: [storming out] I'M READY!
Garovirus: E...easy... now... quaestor Centus...
[Centus megaton punches him]
- In Asterix and the Goths, Rhetoric has been deceiving Chief Metric about what the imprisoned Getafix has been saying, as Metric will Shoot the Messenger. Then, when The Cavalry (read:Asterix and Obelix) arrives...
- 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.
- Done twice on the same page of Elfquest, when Savah discerns Cutter's and Rayek's worst fears for the Challenge of Heart. In issue #21, containing preliminary sketches from the previous 20 issues, Rayek even says "Oh, shit!" in place of the eventual dialogue.
- Played for Laughs a few issues later when Cutter and Skywise are trying to escape from Picknose and his family of trolls. Skywise grabs the sleep dust Picknose used to capture them and throws it triumphantly at the trolls... only to realize a couple of panels later that it doesn't work on them (turns out it only affects wolves and Wolfriders).
- From the last issue of Global Frequency: We are so fux0r3d.
- Hellboy seems to love this phrase, and most of his enemies get this when they realize things are going badly for them.
- Iznogoud: Iznogoud gets this look in several stories when he realises the scheme he has concocted to get rid of the Caliph is about to backfire on him, and he has no way to stop it. For example, in "The Jigsaw Turk", joke shop owner Dokodah Bey sells Iznogoud a magic jigsaw puzzle which, when the last piece is put in, causes the object of the puzzler's thoughts to disintegrate into 10,000 pieces. However, there is a piece missing, and Iznogoud has to retrieve a new one from the factory; several further misunderstandings lead the replacement to be thrown away as rubbish. While the vizier is rooting through the palace dustbins, Dokodah Bey delivers the missing piece, which he found in his shop, to the Caliph. Iznogoud finds the replacement missing piece and returns triumphant to his bedroom - where he finds the Caliph, about to put in the original missing piece and benevolently remarking that he's always thinking of Iznogoud. The vizier can only stare in panicked horror as the Caliph completes the puzzle and causes Iznogoud to disintegrate into a pile of jigsaw puzzle pieces.
- Every villain who crosses Scrooge McDuck in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. The best one comes after Soapy Slick has just finished his Evil Gloating and insulting Scrooge's dead mother when he sees the look on his goons' faces. Then he sees the look on Scrooge's face.Soapy Slick: Oops!
◊- There's two more in that same comic; after Scrooge gets done destroying Soapy's boat, he drags Soapy with him to the Mounted Police, where one of them says "Please mister, there's only 20 of us! Can't you at least wait until reinforcements arrive?" Then while digging for gold, he gets mad at the locals following and digging in his spot. This even causes the wild life to head for the hills.
- 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 Donald Duck story "Ghostdusting... ...for Fun and Profit", Donald tries to exorcise a ghost out of Scrooge's old hotel by detonating a keg of special gunpowder, which is supposed to blow up the ghost while giving just the tiniest harmless boom in the physical world. Soon after lighting the fuse he is explaining his plan to Scrooge, when suddenly Donald's nephews come running with the news that there's a priceless treasure hidden under the hotel... and it's protected by huge amounts of explosives right below the floor. Cue Donald making a face of utter horror before the hotel goes up in a colossal fireball.
- In Mega Man (Archie Comics) Issue 4, Mega Man finds a teleporter in Dr. Wily's fortress that he hopes will take him to his lair without having to fight anymore. However, since this corresponds with the Boss Rush from the games, he instead teleports to a room with the six Robot Masters gathered around him, with smug smiles on their faces. He can only utter "Oh..."
- Mickey Mouse has a rarely used Villainous Harlequin enemy who in one instance reduces Mouseton to chaos in one day by a memetic joke which causes you to laugh hysterically and compulsively tell everyone else. He avoids hearing the joke himself and spread it using computers since he is by no means immune (the only ones who are seems to be a deaf woman and Minnie, who doesn't get it). The reader never hears it either, of course, only its beginning: "A guy enters a bar, and says..." After he has casually plundered every bank and jewelry store and is preparing to leave the country, he comes upon a newspaper where the front tells of how successful his crimewave is. He eagerly gets it from the newspaper salesman in suspiciously large beard and sunglasses and opens it to revel in his triumph, and reads..."A guy enters a bar, and says..."
- Preacher: In the flashback to Jesse's childhood, Jody and TC find his family and are about to take Christina back home... until TC realizes the situation is more complicated than it first appeared:Young Jesse: Daddy!
TC: Wait... "Daddy"? Aw, fuck. - Red (2003) 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. 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
- The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis: Someone from the Planet Express crew (it's not shown who says that) exclaims "Oh, space crap!" when the Nimbus appears.
- Sonic the Hedgehog:
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics):
- Near the end of the Death Egg miniseries, Sonic has just defeated his oversized robotic double, Silver Sonic. Robotnik decides go after him, wearing his Eggs-O-Skeleton powersuit. He flies up to where Sonic is, gloating on how he'll easily crush the blue blur...only to find that Sonic has climbed into Silver Sonic's empty shell, wearing it like armor!
- And just about everyone has one when, in Issue #224, the new Death Egg is seen hovering over New Mobotropolis.
- At the end of Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide, Sonic and Mega Man are set to utilize Chaos Control to fix the damage done to their worlds. However, Eggman refuses to remain beaten and decides to attack Sonic while he's preparing his own Chaos Control attack. Then, when Sonic launches it, Eggman hits it with a laser, distorting it! Sonic's last words before everything goes white is "'What did you just do?!"
- Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) features a number of examples from heroes and villains alike. At one point in Issue #8, Silver the Hedgehog even says this, word-for-word.Silver: It's almost like Neo Metal Sonic isn't hiding what he's doing any— [Finds out Neo has conquered Angel Island] OH, CRAP!
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics):
- Star Wars IDW: Occurs in the "Mirrored" story. Mirror Spock seems to expect that Mirror Kirk would turn on him, and that he might have convinced other members of the Enterprise to mutiny. However, it's only when Mirror Uhura tells Spock that she's cheating on him with Kirk and beams over to the Narada that Spock finally realizes he's been outplayed. His Not So Stoic reaction to Uhura leaving happens seconds before Kirk blows the Enterprise to bits. It's later inverted when Spock is revealed to be Not Quite Dead, and turns the tables with Uhura to kill Kirk.
- In The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers, 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.
- The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye:
- When Fortress Maximus takes Rung hostage, the command crew notice that Max came in while Rung was in the middle of providing a therapy session, and Rodimus expresses hope that the third person is a calm, sensible peacemaker. Then Blaster fixes the visual signal and all Drift can say is, "Oh, hell. It's Whirl."
- Killmaster's appearance on Necroworld. Swerve runs away screaming, Ten's jaw drops, and even Whirl - who can't make this expression because he doesn't have a face - is shown just staring up at his nemesis◊ in shock.
- The Transformers: Robots in Disguise: During the Revolution crossover event, a giant Dire Wraith tears off Thundercracker's arm in midair, and he complains that it's the one where he keeps his ammo. The Wraith is in the midst of calling him a "mechanical ogre" before realising that the key word TC just said was "ammo". Then there's an explosion.
- Courtesy of Warhammer 40,000's Deff Skwadron: Razguts (or whatever his name is) sees the squigeon (serving as a carrier pigeon for the enemy) flying into a hole too small for his fighta-bommer, too late for him to turn.Razguts: Just a few sekonds more... just a — aw frag.
KRUNCH - In Wild's End when the gang realizes Susan's shotgun is missing.Susan: Where's my shotgun?
Clive: Where's Alph?
