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->'''T-Rex''': Wow! [[Fanfic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences The plants are nice and the birds are singing and the sun is almost down from the top of the sky.]] What a beautiful day!

* In HarryPotter Deadly Hallows this could be the way to describe the reaction of the Good Guys when they think [[spoiler: Harry died]].

* Done by the fandom in ''{{Homestuck}}'' in reaction to [[spoiler: Jade's semi-omnipotent super-powerful dog, Becquerel, prototyping himself with Jade's kernelsprite, thus giving BigBad Jack Noir access to all those nifty omnipotent powers...

* {{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}: Everyone in Neo Domino City when [[spoiler: [[PersonOfMassDestruction Aporia]] is formed]].
** [[spoiler: Then when they think it's all over, [[ItGotWorse the sky cracks, and the Ark Cradle appears in the sky]].]]

* The grand finale of ''DeathNote'', where [[spoiler: team member Light is outed as the mass murderer Kira that the team have been hunting.]] Their reaction is mostly this strong because [[spoiler: Light's reaction to Near's accusations is to take an EvilLaugh and make it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8VYy_TUpA0 quite thoroughly his own]].]]

* The grand finale of ''DeathNote'', where [[spoiler: team member Light is outed as the mass murderer Kira that the team have been hunting.]] Their reaction is mostly this strong, as picture above again, because [[spoiler: Light's reaction to Near's accusations is to take an EvilLaugh and make it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8VYy_TUpA0 quite thoroughly his own]].]]

* The grand finale of ''DeathNote'', where [[spoiler: team leader Light is outed as the mass murderer Kira that the team have been hunting.]] Their reaction is mostly this strong, as picture above again, because [[spoiler: Light's reaction to Near's accusations is to take an EvilLaugh and make it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8VYy_TUpA0 quite thoroughly his own]].]]

* The grand finale of ''DeathNote'', as seen in the picture above, where [[spoiler: team leader Light is outed as the mass murderer Kira that the team have been hunting.]] Their reaction is mostly this strong, as picture above again, because [[spoiler: Light's reaction to Near's accusations is to take an EvilLaugh and make it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8VYy_TUpA0 quite thoroughly his own]].]]

* In ''DoctorWho'', the entire world goes into panic when [[spoiler: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgZzCrpqT5E "EXTERMINATE"]] is broadcast over and over on the public airwaves.

* In ''DoctorWho'', the entire world goes into panic when "EXTERMINATE" is broadcast over and over on the public airwaves.

* In ''DoctorWho'', the entire world goes into panic when "EXTERMINATE" is broadcast over and over on the public airwaves.
** Also in "The Time of Angels", when the Doctor and his team realise [[spoiler:that every one of the statues in a 6-storey maze full of them is an Angel. And they're waking up.]]
** And in "The Fires of Pompeii", when Vesuvius explodes.

* In ''{{Airplane}}'', this happens because the stewardess is asking if anyone knows how to fly a plane. In the sequel, it's because [[MustHaveCaffeine they're out of coffee]].
* A planetwide version happens offscreen, but sensed by Obi Wan Kenobi in ''StarWars: A New Hope'': "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."
* During the TDA special of ''TotalDramaIsland'' Courtney loses control of DJ's bus which is headed towards a cliff, the camera then cuts to everyone in the bus either making OhCrap faces or screaming in terror. Except [[DissonantSerenity Izzy]] and [[TheStoic DJ's mama]] that is.

* In 2006, Australia had finally qualified for the soccer World Cup after years of just failing to make it. Then, when the draw was made, most of the nation did this when we were drawn in the same group as Brazil. (On the other hand, the coach and team themselves said they were looking forward to the challenge. In the end, the score in Brazil vs Australia was only 1-0, and Australia made it into the second round.)
* ''SuperMarioBrosZ'': Episode 6, when [[HeroKiller Mecha Sonic]] shows up. And again, when he does [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNPAQ3H1szY this]]. Luigi's OhCrap expression is particularly [[CrowningMomentOfFunny epic.]]
* After all the characters of ''{{Buffy}}'' suffer magic-induced memory loss, they collectively freak out (all in the same shot at once) at seeing two lowly vampires at the door, because they have forgotten they're superheroes.
** Providing us with this [[http://www.jetwolf.com/hof/hitlist/buffy/005.jpg hilarious image]].

* In the WheelOfTime, the tenth book, ''Crossroads of Twilight'' could be essentially summed up as 800+ pages of every channeler on the planet going through an ''epic freak out.'' Granted, it's because they're sensing enough of the One Power to "crack the world like an egg," and they don't know whether it's being used by the good guys or the bad guys.
** Though, eventually, several characters get tired of freaking out, and basically state that if the beacon of power was going to destroy the world, it would have done so already.
** Very little ended up happening in that book anyway.
* This trope was the result of the [[WorldOfWarcraft original]] LeeroyJenkins' charge into the Upper Blackrock Spire Rookery.
* At the end of {{Jaws}} 3D, when everyone sees the shark heading their way.

* In the ''HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' movie, after the [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Vogons]] announce to the entire earth that it is to be [[EarthShatteringKaboom demolished to make way for a hyperspatial bypass]], we get shots of various locations indicating that ''every single person on earth is '''screaming in terror'''''. This lies somewhere between [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]] and [[NightmareFuel utterly terrifying]].
** Becomes funny anyway when we cut to a paddock somewhere and find that the sheep are also bleating in terror.
* In ''{{Cerebus}}: Church & State,'' Cerebus has become (a very cranky) pope. His every word is therefore divinely true. At one point, a bunch of his followers are cheering him as he walks into his HQ. Cerebus interrupts them with, "ANYONE WHO ''MOVES'' BEFORE MOST HOLY COMES BACK OUT WILL SPEND ''ETERNITY'' SIPPING LAVA THROUGH AN IRON STRAW!" The next panel is a hundred frozen followers, and a hundred separate "Oh crap" thought bubbles.

* In ''FanFic/AnEntryWithABang!'', the marauding pirates get this reaction when they find out that Earth has nukes and [[PrettyCoolGuy isn't afraid of]] using them.
* In the movie ''Speed 2: Cruise Control'', there's several different shots of people looking out and saying "Oh, shit!", because they realize the ship is going to crash into a port.
* In ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}'' when [[spoiler: Judai's eyes turn gold after Mad King Brron 'killed' his friends in front of him and he begins to be as brutual as you can be in a card game,]] everyone watching the duel but Judai.
* PiratesOfTheCaribbean At World's End. At first when the pirates saw the first ship of the company they started cheering to attack, but they soon stop when the fog reveals the rest of the armada.
* FullMetalAlchemist had a couple of these in the manga and ''Brotherhood'', but the most memorable would be when [[spoiler: the [[BadassArmy Briggs troops]] subdue and capture 90% of Central Headquarters,]] and everyone starts celebrating. All of a sudden:

* A ''[[BeyondTheImpossible musical]]'' version of this can be seen in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YUAnhM4TY4 this]] CyanideAndHappiness short (don't care about the [[DeadBabyComedy inevitable]] alternate version).

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[[caption-width:400:The Kira taskforce [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor finally get their man]].]]

* In ''{{Airplane}}'', it's not the fact that the plane's pilot and co pilot have food poisoning, that a good percent of the passengers have it, and no one can fly the plane that causes this trope. Nope, it's that [[MustHaveCaffeine they're out of coffee]].

[[caption-width:400:The Kira taskforce [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor finally get their heart's desire]].]]

* During the TDA special of ''TotalDramaIsland'' Courtney loses control of DJ's bus which is headed towards a cliff, the camera then cuts to everyone in the bus either making OhCrap faces or screaming in terror.
** Even though the scene itself is more or less a serious one, it become [[CrowningMomentOfFunny hilarious]] if you pause the scream panel and see that while everyone else is terrified or screaming at the top of their lungs, [[DissonantSerenity Izzy is simply smiling pleasantly.]]

* ''DragonballZ'' does this a lot. When Goku or his opponent powers up, Krillin and anyone watching will get really scared.

* This trope was the result of the original LeeroyJenkins' charge into the hatchery.

* A rare RealLife version literally resulted in NORAD having its EmergencyBroadcast System privileges revoked. The EBS, originally designed to warn of [[NukeEm nuclear attack]], would have NORAD or the White House send out a weekly test. On 20 February 1971, a NORAD staffer accidentially [[http://stlradio.net/pages/ebsaccident.htm loaded the tape instead for an Emergency Action Notification]].
** To give some necessary context: an [[http://www.ae5d.com/ebs.html Emergency Action Notification]] was the EBS's own MassOhCrap It's TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt warning (thus being an example of this trope in and of itself). The only expected reason that an EAN would be issued would involve either nuclear weapons, alien attack, or something else that would count as ApocalypseHow.

** Followed by MassOhCrap by radio [=DJs=] and TV station operators who saw [[http://stlradio.net/pix/ebsaccident1.jpg this come in]]. (Did we mention that this was during the ColdWar during the ending days of the Vietnam War, when there WAS an actual discussion on whether nuclear weapons should be used in that conflict?)

** And this isn't the only time this has happened--the Emergency Action Notification MassOhCrap alert exists in the EBS's successor the Emergency Alert System, and there was an instance on June 26 2007 when [[http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=4786 an EAN intended for test circuits ended up being broadcast on live air in the Chicago metro area]]. (The hiccup was related to FEMA testing of a new method of sending Emergency Alert System messages over satellite networks. In this case, [[http://www.fema.gov/media/fact_sheets/eas.shtm someone at the Illinois emergency management agency forgot to reset a switch to the "test circuits only" setting]].)

* In the movie ''Speed 2: Cruise Control'', there's several different shots of people looking out and saying "Oh, shit!", because they realize the ship is going to crash into a port.
* In ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}'' when [[spoiler: Judai's eyes turn gold after Mad King Brron 'killed' his friends in front of him and he begins to be as brutual as you can be in a card game,]] everyone watching the duel but Judai.
* PiratesOfTheCaribbean At World's End. At first when the pirates saw the first ship of the company they started cheering to attack, but they soon stop when the fog reveals the rest of the armada.
* FullMetalAlchemist had a couple of these in the manga and ''Brotherhood'', but the most memorable would be when [[spoiler: the [[BadassArmy Briggs troops]] subdue and capture 90% of Central Headquarters,]] and everyone starts celebrating. All of a sudden:
-> [[spoiler: Bradley/ Wrath:]] *over the broadcasting system* [[OhCrap Hello everyone.]]