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* ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles'': After Sasuke accidentally convinces Naruto to join the ANBU, Sakura frowns at her boyfriend and says "Oh... Way to convince him, Sasuke!" He replies with this trope.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei says this in an AsideComment when we witness Ming evidently playing with Mei's {{Toys/Tamagotchi}}.

--->'''Leela:''' No, no, listen. It's time to get on with your life.
--->'''Morris:''' But she ''was'' my life.
--->'''Bender:''' [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Awwww]]. ''(everyone looks at him)'' ...What?

* ''WebAnimation/{{ENA}}'': At the end of "Power of Potluck", ENA is utterly baffled by a puppet-snake-dinosaur thing opening its mouth to reveal a crying man inside of it, which Moony defends by saying "What?". [[RandomEventsPlot Then she stuffs the man into the square hole in the side of her face]]. [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext It's that kind of series]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', when Phantom Limb tranquilizes Brock for insulting Dr. Girlfriend.

* ''Franchise/MassEffect'''s Kaidan, when having his infamous CovertPervert moment. "It does sound like something that you'd find on an extranet fetish site. ''[beat]'' ...''what''?"
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'' has Troy lighting his signature cigarette off a recently [[KillItWithFire killed-with]][[BuffySpeak -fire]] enemy's corpse. Made hilarious by the horrified reaction of his teammate.

* An unlockable cutscene in ''[[VideoGame/JakAndDaxter Jak X: Combat Racing]]'' shows Daxter and Tess drinking coffee, with Daxter turning to the audience and asking them "what". This was an intentional TakeThat to the "Hot Coffee" [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto GTA]] scandal.
* ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'': This is Daisy's excuse for laying the Bitchslap from Hell on Bowser.
-->'''Daisy''': What? He was in my way...
* ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'': This happens when Cryptosporidium fails a mission and is called out on it by his superiors.
-->'''Orthopox:''' Crypto!\\
'''Crypto:''' ''(exasperated)'' What?!?

* During Marvel's ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'' event, Characters/{{the Punisher|FrankCastle}} of all people winds up in [[Characters/MarvelComicsSteveRogers Captain America]]'s anti-registration camp. When two minor super-villains show up and offer their support, Cap is on the verge of accepting, when the Punisher guns them both down. One panel of shocked looks from all the anti-reg heroes, followed by a panel of Castle looking at them, still-smoking guns in his hands, and asking "What?" Cap proceeds to beat the stuffing out of him.

* During Marvel's ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}'' event, ComicBook/{{the Punisher}} of all people winds up in ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's anti-registration camp. When two minor super-villains show up and offer their support, Cap is on the verge of accepting, when the Punisher guns them both down. One panel of shocked looks from all the anti-reg heroes, followed by a panel of Castle looking at them, still-smoking guns in his hands, and asking "What?" Cap proceeds to beat the stuffing out of him.

* Rizzo lets these out on two occasions in Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol, both times when he forgets something that would have been extremely helpful just a little earlier.

* ''Radio/TheNewsQuiz''

* The first ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' has Troy lighting his signature cigarette off a recently [[KillItWithFire killed-with]][[BuffySpeak -fire]] enemy's corpse. Made hilarious by the horrified reaction of his teammate.

** Also occurs in WebVideo/CounterMonkey, when recounting Zeus finding his daughter Athena in bed with one of Spoony's characters. This response results in him being thrown off Olympus.
-->'''Spoony:''' ''What?'' She came on to ''me!''

-->-- '''Mad Dummy''' (after taking a job as a training dummy), ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'':
** At the start of the first movie, The Big Bad Wolf says this when he is caught sleeping in the title character's bed.
** And [[CallBack again]] in the second movie when Prince Charming finds him in Fiona's bed.

* During Marvel's ''ComicBook/CivilWar'' event, ComicBook/{{the Punisher}} of all people winds up in ComicBook/CaptainAmerica's anti-registration camp. When two minor super-villains show up and offer their support, Cap is on the verge of accepting, when the Punisher guns them both down. One panel of shocked looks from all the anti-reg heroes, followed by a panel of Castle looking at them, still-smoking guns in his hands, and asking "What?" Cap proceeds to beat the stuffing out of him.

* ''VideoGame/MarioParty 3'' gives us Daisy's excuse for laying the Bitchslap from Hell on Bowser.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': In [[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheShisnoTrilogy season 15]], when the Reds and Blues are explaining what they've been up to since Chorus:

[[RuleOfThree WHAT?]]\\

* In one episode of ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'', after Josh misses his chemistry exam because of Drake, he points at Drake, only for Drake to play innocent and give this response, [[RantInducingSlight which Josh does not take very well]].

* In ''Film/UndercoverBrother'', shortly after the heroes have seen the black army general's newly-released commercial for [[BlandNameProduct General's Fried Chicken]],[[note]]for context, the general was originally supposed to announce his bid for the presidency after being released from his military service, but threw the heroes a curve-ball when he instead announced he was going to open a new chain of fried-chicken restaurants. Turns out, he was being brainwashed by TheMan as part of the evil organization's plot to keep the black race down.[[/note]] the BROTHERHOOD's token white member, Lance, walks past with a bucket of fried chicken from the new restaurant while humming the theme song from the commercial. Cue everyone staring at him and him responding with this trope.

* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' has Percival asy it [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2007-02-18 here.]]

--> '''Otto:''' What? It's free.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'': In "The Last Voyage", when Lloyd looks at Cole when he's [[ThemeTuneCameo whistling the theme tune]], Cole responds "What? It's catchy."

* In one episode of ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'', after Josh misses his chemistry exam because of Drake, he points at Drake, but Drake just plays innocent and gives this response, [[RantInducingSlight which Josh doesn't take very well]].

* In one episode of Series/DrakeAndJosh, after Josh misses his chemistry exam because of Drake, he points at Drake, but Drake just plays innocent and gives this response. Josh [[BewareTheNiceOnes gets enraged by this and nearly tackles Drake in return]].