Oh No! Were Sorry

"It'southward that moment of dawning comprehension I alive for."

The moment at which a grapheme realizes that something really, REALLY bad is most to happen. Either that, or it already has and they are in big problem because of it. They may not ever say anything in particular when they do, but fifty-fifty if they don't, the wait on their confront clearly conveys to the audience their realization. This moment oft features stronger language, and is when they truly realize that things are well-nigh to royally hit the fan. Sometimes the kickoff few notes of Fryderyk Chopin's Funeral March are used as background music to highlight how grim the situation is.

Sometimes, even the audience can accept this moment when they realise just how bad a situation is for a character and the character hasn't yet realised.

There are lots of ways to react to moments like this. Characters may often exclaim stuff forth the lines of "You Accept GOT to Be Kidding Me!", "I Want My Mommy!" or sometimes fifty-fifty "This Cannot Be!". Other characters might emit a Loud Gulp instead. A few might say their Catchphrase but in an uncertain voice. Some might even freeze in fright completely. On the other paw, other characters few others may react more with despair rather than total-on fear. A few others may await to their equipment for a solution. And finally, for some, it is the crowning moment of despair.

The effectiveness of this moment can be affected by the difference between their usual competence and confidence levels and how completely they are boned. Characters with low cocky-esteem or who are constantly crying out in terror are hard (just not impossible) to make this trope work with, and may react more along the lines of This Is Gonna Suck. But that arrogant, so far unbeatable supervillain of a sudden realizing they're near to have his or her ass royally kicked? At present nosotros're talking!

Can occur if one protagonist has been luring the other one into a trap, or if they only have some shiny new skill. Or they may simply exist a lower-level villain who's only had the very bad luck to exist confronted with a hero impossibly out of his or her league and is nigh to be on the wrong end of a Curb-Stomp Boxing.

On occasion, they will be discussing the situation when they realize either the total import of it, or worse, that it's about to happen to them. Can also occur if a grapheme speaks ill of another in a language they think the latter won't understand, but to discover out, much to their horror, that the latter too speaks it.

This is the polar opposite of Obi-Wan Moment, when despite the bad situation someone all the same manages to look composed. May issue in a Heroic BSoD for a heroic character, or even a Villainous Breakup for a villainous character. Nine times out of ten, this will immediately follow "What does this push button exercise?". The remaining tenth follow another temptation of fate. Too a very common reaction when a villain, ordinarily The Chessmaster, Villain with Good Publicity, or Manipulative Bounder, realizes they've simply been the victim of an Engineered Public Confession.

When this trope becomes literal, that's Bring My Brown Pants—as Nib Cosby once said, "first you lot say information technology, then you lot do it!"

When virtually of the cast available in the scene does this expression, it's a Mass "Oh, Crap!" moment. If someone tries to explicate the situation to someone else, and realizes half-fashion through their own explanation they're in real trouble, it'south Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!. If the person making the realization doesn't effort to explicate and says nothing simply "Run," it's time to Run or Dice. If you realize y'all're in problem later your explanation, or if someone tells you lot something really bad is about to happen and "Oh, Crap!" isn't your start reaction, it's a Delayed "Oh, Crap!". When you try to salvage some face by putting on a happy confront, you make an "Oh, Crap!" Smile. When y'all pretend to realize yous are in problem only to mess with your opponent, it's an "Oh, Crap!" Fakeout. When your primary reaction is resigned credence of the state of affairs, information technology's This Is Gonna Suck.

Run across too Broad Optics and Shrunken Irises. Say Your Prayers may be involved equally role of this reaction.

Contrast "Hell, Yes!" Moment, the exact inverse.

Warning: High risk of spoilers.

No Real Life Examples, Please!

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Other examples:

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    One-act

• From The Frantics skit "Ti Kwan Leep":

Primary: Take you learned nothing from the lesson of Ed Gruberman?
Student: Yes Master, I accept learned ii things. Offset, that acrimony is a weapon simply to one'due south opponent.
Chief: Very expert.
Student: And secondly — get in the outset shot. Boot to the head! [whoosh]
Master: You missed.
Student: Um.. yeah.

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    Myths & Religion

• All the way dorsum in The Bible. Specifically, the Book of Esther. More than specifically, when Haman realizes he's inadvertently ordered the expiry of the Queen, whom her husband the Rex values enough to have been willing to offering up to half his own kingdom at her request.
• An fifty-fifty older example occurs in the 18th volume of The Odyssey: Odysseus, posing as an old ragamuffin, is challenged to a fist-fight by an actual beggar, Iros, who is big, but neither potent for his size nor really a fighter. After vainly trying to dissuade Iros from this, Odysseus finally agrees to the fight and girds his loins for the fight. And so the watching suitors and Iros see the muscles on Odysseus' legs, chest and arms...
• When the title character of Oedipus King finally figures it out, making this Older Than Feudalism.

    Pinball

• Mousin' Around!: Both the playfield and the backglass prove one of the 3 mice panicking at the sight of a man looming in front end of them threateningly.
• Q gets one in Star Trek: The Adjacent Generation if you lot do well in the "Q'southward Claiming" mission.

  Q: Okay, that's enough!

    Podcasts

• Cool Kids Table:
  • In the Firefly game. As soon as Mickey gets the coordinates to the stranded Brotherhood ship, he realizes they lead right into Reaver territory and immediately reports it to Caleb and Roc.
  • When Alan asks the party to roll deception to deed natural in episode 16, the first things out of Shannon and Jake'south mouths after rolling are "oh no".

    Tabletop Games

• Exalted: It'due south been made explicit that this is going to be the general Yozi reaction to Heresy charms. When an Infernal creates "Swallowing the Scorpion" and snaps the tethers linking his shard to Lillun, the Phylactery-Womb will scream in pain - and information technology's effectually that betoken that Malfeas, the Demon Urban center, literally shits bricks.
  • In the second-edition cadre book, in the section on Limit Breaks, there's a picture of a female person thug, having just knifed a guy, looking very surprised to meet a hulking man inbound the Red Rage of Compassion.
• From Warhammer xl,000:
  • The reaction of an in-universe soldier to seeing a Chaos Champion being possessed by a Greater Daemon. Described in a few places in the background. I text box sidebar in either the Chaos Marines or Anarchy Daemons Codex describes an Eldar autarch'south reaction to seeing a Slaaneshi Champion being possessed by a Greater Daemon; his initial reaction is to resign himself to die fighting, but then its magic takes over and he stands there staring at it as it eviscerates him.
  • When the Imperium tacticians were trying to figure out how the Tyranid fleet was appearing at random locations far too quickly, and and then realized that the tyranid fleet was not coming at the milky way from the edge, just from below the milky way. You can see one single fleet's assault movements here (remember that this is one fleet, the Tyranids probable accept thousands).
  • The Eldar, who are an unabridged race of smug (but very competent) snakes, get one just about whenever they realize that the "Monkeys" or the barbarians are going to go down hard or win. Notable was at the Siege of Orar's Sepulchre, when they deployed the Avatar of Khaine, a shard of the soul of their god, and the most powerful fighter in a craftworld...then Marneus Calgar beat it to death.To be honest, information technology was written by Matt Ward, who is terrible at writing adept fluff) They retreated.
  • Probably this was the mental reaction of the Imperial forces after they constitute out that Legienstrasse (a woman who had been genetically modified with xenos DNA to absorb biomass through her pare and morph any natural weapon she needs and had consequently gone rogue, i.east a female person Alex Mercer) had singlehandedly wiped out an Assault Marine squad, the 1st Company Veterans of the Regal Fists, the Culexus Temple Grandmaster, and most killed Captain Lysander.
• The Warhammer Fantasy Woods Elves army book has a motion picture of Naestra, Arahan, and their dragon staring down a Dwarven Slayer, who has a priceless "Holy S***!" look on his face (although to be fair, he probably isn't complaining).
• Earth of Darkness: Every supernatural'southward reaction to the awakening of the Ravnos Antediluvian, a vampire- no, a monster that existed and ruled over mankind before the Flood, to eat all of his descendants. He dies afterwards fighting with three every bit godlike opponents, and surviving three spirit nukes to the face. It is this event, dubbed the "Week of Nightmares", that puts the final smash in the coffin, signifying that the The Finish of the World every bit Nosotros Know Information technology is finally here. Four years afterwards, other Antediluvians start to awaken...

    Toys

• In BIONICLE: Web of Shadows, King Sidorak and his Queen-to-be Roodaka are in battle with the creature Keetongu. Equally they go in for the impale, Roodaka suddenly bails out, and Sidorak realizes she didn't wound the Keetongu, she pissed it off. Congratulations, Sidorak, your second-in-command is The Starscream, and she's going to dominion your armies without you. Buh-cheerio.
  • Happens again in the Destiny War serial when Vezon uses the Mask of Dimensional Gates to teleport himself to the exact spot where Helryx and Keetongu are in trouble. He jumps out of the portal and so happens to come across the massive wave of subversive/mutagenic Energized Protodermis coming towards him.
  • Much, MUCH before in the comics, after the Toa Nuva overload the Bohrok-Kal with their ain ability, Gahlok-Kal says that its ability cannot be turned against it. And and so it notices the Exo-toa pieces flying at it, attracted by its own magnetic pull. Bohrok don't have facial expressions, simply you can FEEL the Oh Crap when it sees the hunks of metal flying at it.

    Visual Novels

• Ace Attorney has plenty of these, both heroic and villainous.
  • A villainous one is in Apollo Justice instance iv, when Kristoph Gavin gets told that the murder he all but just admitted to committing is being tried past a jury... that just saw his huge streak of gloating. Then there'southward Ace Attorney Investigations where Edgeworth gets 1 when Calisto Yew pulls a gun on him later he does the usual "corner-the-murderer" thing.
  • Matt Engarde in the final case of the 2d game, when he realizes he's a dead man either way. The look combined with their Villainous Breakdown is i of the best moments in the series. It was also funny before when Shelly De Killer does an Oh Crap through a radio. Complete with it falling apart multiple times and sweating oil.
  • Non that it tops the others, but in the fifth example of the first game, Damon Gant. He gloats for about 10 minutes about how horribly he's going to punish Phoenix, Edgeworth, Lana, Ema, Gumshoe, and every single person who tried to turn the tables on him using a very disquisitional item equally show. A minute afterward, Phoenix reveals i contradiction in the evidence that results in an Oh Crap moment where Gant literally screams at the very moment of realization that said testify all of a sudden makes the situation even worse for him.
  • Another spectacular one is at the very end of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, when Ga'ran is trying (and failing) to prove she has the spiritual powers needed to rule the land (she doesn't), and looks behind her to see her Praetorian Guard has just realized she'south a fake, and thus an usurper, and are aiming her rifles at her, fix to execute her for her deception. As brief as it is in the heart of the breakup, it'south spectacular.
• In the Danganronpa serial:
  • In general, most culprits have 1 when they're caught.
  • In Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, the second culprit has i when the body is discovered and they realize the scene was tampered with later they left.
  • In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Shuichi has a subtle one in the starting time trial right after he deduces that the culprit must have gotten the murder weapon, a shot put ball, from the warehouse. He is remembering that Kaede had a shot put ball when they left the warehouse.
• Double Homework has a couple of these moments:
  • The protagonist has 1 when he realizes that his counter-blackmail conspiracy with Dr. Mosely/Zeta against Dennis won't work.
  • Dennis besides has one when he realizes that the clean-up coiffure wiped his storage devices, nixed all of his online accounts, and destroyed all his possessions.
• Fate/stay night:
  • Gilgamesh vs Shirou at the end of UBW route. To his credit, a lot of the fright is more irritation at the fact that some no proper name brat just cut his arm off earlier he could even try using his Wave Move Sword. The "oh crap" gene of the realization he is losing is all the same partially deflected past how gigantic his ego is.
  • From the offset route, both Kirei and Gilgamesh get a moment of this in their duels with Shirou and Saber respectively. Kirei gets his when Shirou survives two curses containing ALL the evils of the world, ever; Past, Nowadays and Future. (To exist fair, Shirou did utilize Avalon to survive the second one), before Shirou runs up and puches his chest out via an explosive magical dagger. Gilgamesh gets his when Saber uses Avalon to block Ea, his Earth Breaking Wave Motion Sword, earlier she charges and cuts him in one-half with an Excaliblast. Gilgamesh gets quite a few of these, mostly when he realises that yes, there are people who tin can beat out him.
  • From Heaven's Experience, there is the moment when Truthful Assassin discovers that Passenger'south chain-dagger is lodged in his shoulder. Wall-slamming ensues.
• Hatoful Boyfriend gives you two options when Yuuya is confronted past Doc Shuu and he lies about having been with you a few moments beforehand. You can choose to go on with Yuuya's lie. But if you cull to tell Shuu that he's lying, Yuuya has just 1 thing to say...

  Yuuya: ...Shit.

• In Katawa Shoujo, Rin has this when she realizes that on Friday night, she just has i more solar day to consummate her landscape before the festival on Sunday.
• Several in Tune:
  • The protagonist'southward reaction when Bethany shows upwardly at the door of his new apartment.
  • Hank's reaction when he realizes that Bethany tricked him into giving her backstage access to one of Melody'due south concerts also qualifies.
  • By and large, any response from the protagonist that leads to a bad ending falls under this heading.
• In Sickness, this is said aloud by Suoh right before he almost passes out after his first solar day of training.
• Umineko: When They Cry:
  • Episode six: From "USHIROMIYA KYRIE CANNOT Salvage BATTLER" to "You told me I could make the detective proclamation whenever I wanted, right? ......Well, unfortunately, ...I am no longer capable of making that proclamation."
  • In Episode 3, this is Eva-Beatrice's reaction to Beatrice deciding to deny the existence of all witches, afterward which she panics but is held downwards past Ronove until Beato's denial burns her away.

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