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* The commercials for Raid pest killers have been doing this for years, with whatever TalkingPest in the commercial shouting "RAAAAAAAAAAID!" before dying.

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* ''Advertising/RaidInsecticideCampaign'': The commercials for Raid pest killers have been doing this for years, with whatever TalkingPest in the commercial shouting "RAAAAAAAAAAID!" before dying.
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* The music video for "The Boy Is Mine" by Music/{{Brandy}} and Music/{{Monica}} has an understated one at the end, in which the two-timing boyfriend [[CockFight both girls are bickering over]] knocks on the door of one of the girls' apartment---and discovers ''both'' girls are waiting for him there. The last shot is of his dismayed expression.
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This is the polar opposite of ObiWanMoment, when despite the bad situation someone still manages to look composed. May result in a HeroicBSOD for a heroic character, or even a VillainousBreakdown for a villainous character. Nine times out of ten, this will immediately follow "WhatDoesThisButtonDo". The remaining tenth follow some other [[TemptingFate temptation of fate]]. Also a very common reaction when a villain, normally TheChessmaster, VillainWithGoodPublicity, or ManipulativeBastard, realizes they've just been the victim of an EngineeredPublicConfession.

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This is the polar opposite of ObiWanMoment, when despite the bad situation someone still manages to look composed. May result in a HeroicBSOD for a heroic character, or even a VillainousBreakdown for a villainous character. Nine times out of ten, this will immediately follow "WhatDoesThisButtonDo". The remaining tenth follow some other [[TemptingFate temptation of fate]]. Also a very common reaction when a villain, normally TheChessmaster, VillainWithGoodPublicity, or ManipulativeBastard, realizes they've just been the victim of an EngineeredPublicConfession.
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* In a general live performance sense, this is fairly common, for obvious reasons. Just a few of the things that can invoke it:
** You're the singer, and you've just forgot your lines or you've came in at the wrong place or you've fallen to VocalRangeExceeded. Or, alternately, you're one of the other members of the band and you ''notice'' the singer is in trouble. Similar for guitarists making major errors (or having lied about their skill level beforehand), and ''really'' a problem if the drummer or rhythm guitarist is the person having issues keeping the beat - that often induces a small version of MassOhCrap with all the other band members realizing just how bad the song's going to sound and how bad the gig is likely going to be.
** Someone has gotten sick or injured onstage or in the audience. This one easily turns into MassOhCrap as well, for obvious reasons.
** One of the band members' sound output is failing somehow. Worst is if it's one of the guitars (including the bassist), or the keyboardist, because that carries the possibility that the instrument itself failed (though it's usually only a loose connection) - and while most venues do carry extra mics for a singer to use in a pinch (or can patch him/her directly into the PA system with a lapel mic or a smartphone if set up for it and all else fails, though this is often avoided because it will make the singer ''much'' louder than the band), most don't have a stray electric guitar or bass or keys lying around, and even if the person has a backup, the show has to stop to set up his/her gear again for the new instrument.
** For a VisualKei band or other act that uses a lot of stage makeup, special effects, and the like, a SpecialEffectsFailure. If said SpecialEffectsFailure involves pyro, OhCrap and MassOhCrap are the ''best'' outcomes.
* [[Music/{{Vocaloid}} Gakupo]]'s reaction in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV99NZmurVA Madness of Duke Venomania]] when he realizes just who the "girl" in his arms really is, [[spoiler:just before being stabinated by Karchess, who dressed himself up as a woman to save Yufina, one of the Duke's harem, and take revenge on him]].
* When German pop act Music/MilliVanilli performed live on MTV in 1989, everything was going well until their hit song "Girl You Know It's True" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udS5qBrBFqE started skipping during the chorus]] (unfortunately, there don't seem to be any videos on Youtube that aren't either dubbed over or butchered), revealing that it was prerecorded and that Milli Vanilli were lip-syncing all along. The two continued dancing and "singing" along before ThatSyncingFeeling set in and they realized that the gig was up. This was the beginning of the end for the band.
* From "The Coward of the County" when some rapists get confronted by the boyfriend of their victim and think that they have him cowed, only to end up trapped in a room with him right before getting a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qi2m6NyUP0 But you could have heard a pin drop - when Tommy stopped and locked the door...]]"
* In "Dinosaurchestra Part 3" by Music/LemonDemon, the time machine which the narrator used to go back to the late Cretaceous period and start a [[ALittleSomethingWeCallRockAndRoll rock band]] with dinosaurs can't make the return trip, and then..."What's that rock way up in the sky?"
* {{Music/Gorillaz}}:
** In the music video for "Stylo", when 2-D and Murdoc realize that they are being chased and shot at by none other than [[spoiler: Creator/BruceWillis.]]
** The music video for [[WhamEpisode "The Lost Chord"]] has [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Murdoc sporting this expression]] throughout almost the entirety of the band's time at Plastic Beach, and it only gets worse as [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Poseidon emerges from the depths of the ocean]] [[spoiler:and begins to destroy it.]] Understandable, considering that Murdoc has been struggling throughout the entire season to prove to the band that he's becoming a better person, only to be unceremoniously thrust back to the place that [[DarkestHour practically serves as a monument to his worst mistakes and most cruel actions.]]
* In the beginning of "Welcome to the Jungle," a singer briefly and subtly says "Oh my...god," before any of the intro gets through.
* In the song "Get My Gun" by D12, Music/{{Eminem}} angrily threatens a fan with a gun:
--> Wassup, bitch?! ''(cocks gun)'' ''Autograph this! ([[ConvenientMisfire gun jams]])'' ...Oh, shit.
** Speaking of Eminem, the title character of "Stan" is recording the latest letter he's sending to his hero on an audio tape while his pregnant girlfriend is locked in the boot of his car and he's about to drive them all off a bridge to their deaths. He has a massive OhCrap when he realises ''just before the car goes over the edge'' that he's overlooked one fairly important point...
---> Well gotta go, I'm almost at the bridge now/Oh shit! I forgot! How am I supposed to send this shit out-
** Followed by Eminem getting one himself as he responds to Stan's previous letter, telling him that he needs to calm down before he does something crazy, like this one psycho on the news who locked his girlfriend in the trunk of his car and drove off a bridge:
---> And in the car they found a tape, but they never said who it was to/Come to think about it, his name was... it was you... damn...
* In "[[Music/FranzSchubert Der Erlkönig]]", the boy is increasingly terrified (and justly so) each time he tries to get it through to [[AgentScully his father]] that the Erlking is after him [the boy].
* [[Music/BlackSabbath OH NO! NOOO!]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4dpFjSFYX4&feature=related PLEASE GOD HELP ME!]]
** More or less mankind's reaction in the final verse of "Iron Man" when the titular time traveler, after being sealed away for centuries, is reawakened and proceeds to kill everyone.
* If you are or were a teenaged boy, you probably cringe when you hear the lyrics to the Everly Brothers’ “[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDv4fnwCSg4 Wake Up Little Susie]]”.
* The final verse of Music/{{Nickelback}}'s "Animals" has the main characters [[AutoErotica getting busy]] in the protagonist's car by the tracks. Everything's going well until the girl notices that [[spoiler:[[ParentsWalkInAtTheWorstTime her dad is right outside the car and has caught them in the act]]. And worse, the keys aren't in the ignition because they fell on the floor in the middle of it]]. Oh crap indeed.
* The narrator in "One" by Music/{{Metallica}} has this when he realizes that he lost his sight, speech, hearing, and limbs due to a landmine, but his mind functions perfectly so he [[AFateWorseThanDeath is a prisoner inside his own body.]]
* "The Mariner's Revenge Song" by Music/TheDecemberists tells the story of a little boy whose widower mother was conned out of house and home by a traveling vagrant who eventually left them so destitute that she developed a fatal case of tuberculosis, but not before [[DyingWish begging her son to one day exact justice on the man: "Find him, bind him, tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters, drag him to a hole until he wakes up, naked, clawing at the ceiling of his grave."]] The boy spends fifteen years as a street orphan until he's taken in by a friary, but never loses his desire to exact revenge upon the conman, until one night he discovers that the man has become a ship captain. He joins a crew and sets sail in the hopes of finding him. One night their two ships finally cross paths, but before the narrator can do anything, both crews are [[SwallowedWhole devoured by a giant whale,]] leaving only the narrator and the conman alive. It's only right when the narrator is about to finally fulfill his mission that the conman realizes just what kind of death he's in for.
--> "It gives my heart great joy to see your eyes fill with fear
--> So lean in close and I will whisper the last words you'll hear..."
* In the Music/IceT song "Midnight" Ice-T, Evil-E, D, and Hen had just stopped two people from carjacking them. Ice then turns to see that the jackers had brought along a bunch of their friends.
-->''Looked to my left\\
There were two more carloads\\
Niggas in hats and hoods\\
In an attack mode\\
And they hadn't yet begun to fight\\
E hit the gas\\
It was one past midnight!''
* The Pharcyde's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKDrlVkLrvY "Oh Shit"]] sees each member of the group describe situations they were in that led to these moments. all of them PlayedForLaughs.
* "[[Music/TheWall Hey You]]", by Music/PinkFloyd. Here, the protagonist realizes what a large mistake he made after completing his mental wall, and in the process, isolating himself from society. The rest of the song details his attempts to [[TearJerker reconnect with society, but to no avail.]]
-->But it was only fantasy. The wall was too high, as you can see. No matter how he tried he could not break free. And [[GoMadFromTheIsolation the worms]] ate into his brain.
* The Swedish folksong ''Hårgalåten'' has a mysterious player arrives at a feast and start playing a strange tune no one can stop dancing to. At the end of the first verse someone notices his feet and exclaims: "''God saves us, [[TheDevil he has the foot of goat!]]''"
* The ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'' song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkNask_pMKo "It's Terror Time Again"]] by Skycycle is about running and being chased by ''real'' monsters. As the title indicates, the characters have a lot more to be terrified about than usual, as conveyed in both the movie stills and the song lyrics.
-->''Here comes the really scary part.''
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* In ''Theatre/TheTwentyFifthAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'', this is Barfee's reaction when he discovers that the sticky floor won't allow him to use his "magic foot" to spell the word.
** Chip reacts similarly when [[spoiler:[[SomethingElseAlsoRises he gets an erection right before he has to spell a word.]]]]
* In ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'', Franklin and then Jefferson realize that they're in serious trouble when Edward Rutledge asks for clarification about the anti-slavery clause in the Declaration. Franklin mutters "look out" when Rutledge first speaks, and Jefferson abruptly stands up when Rutledge starts to read it.
* ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica'': [[spoiler: Roy Cohn is halfway through gloating over finally managing to get Ethel Rosenberg to sing, when his heartrate monitor flatlines. He has just enough time to mutter "oh fuck," before collapsing.]]
* In ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'', the two missionaries exiled to UsefulNotes/{{Uganda}} are painfully realising that evangelisation strategies tailored to affluent First World countries are not likely to work here. As Elder Cunningham is explaining Mormon theology to the local Ugandans, he comes to the foundation myth of how the Lamite people fell from sin and became accursed in the sight of God. As he tells a story which is perfectly acceptable in Utah and which was born in nineteenth century North America prior to the Civil War, it suddenly dawns on him. ''He is not evangelising to white people''. The tale of how the first black people were born - given the mark of Cain because of their sinful state, and made lesser beings in all their generations - is not going to get him a round of applause and a handshake. Hastily, he rescues the situation by substituting ''Chinese'' for ''black'', which his congregation whole-heartedly agrees with. [[note]]The Mormons are painfully reassessing this aspect of their theology, together with their historical racism, and moving away from this. Still. Mormon missionaries still tend to be male; and definitely white-skinned.[[/note]]
* In ''Theatre/LaCageAuxFolles'', Albin habitually takes off his "Zaza" wig after performing "The Best of Times", and, suddenly realizing he's unmasked himself to the Dindons, says: "Oh, ''[[GratuitousFrench merde!]]''"
* In ''Theatre/TheCatAndTheCanary'', lawyer Roger Crosby has one of these moments as his last line.
** As does Charlie, when he is unmasked by Annabelle.
* If he's not being a literal DeathSeeker, Rudolf from ''Theatre/{{Elisabeth}}'' initially reacts like this when Death and his Angels shows up for the Mayerling Waltz.
* ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'': "That was my wife you decided to-" ''[[PrecisionFStrike "Fuuuuuu..."]]''
* The last scene of ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' has a couple of these. Hamlet has one when Laertes informs him that he's been poisoned by the foil and he's got less than a half hour to live (a lot less, as it turns out). Claudius gets the next one when it becomes clear that the jig is up, Hamlet is finally sufficiently motivated to kill him, and no one's about to prevent it.
* Cinderella from ''Theatre/IntoTheWoods'' has her OhCrap moment when she realizes that the current trouble they're in is due to her throwing away the bean the Baker's Wife gave her.
* In what might be a "Crowning Moment of OhCrap", ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' has two of these when it dawns on him he might've taken the witch's truths a bit too literally...
** Or, more accurately, [[ExactWords not literally enough]].
* ''Theatre/MarginForError'' has Horst's panicked reaction as it dawns on him that the Consul wasn't joking about having him "rubbed out by a Jew" on his next mission:
-->'''Horst''' ''(His uncritical belief in his heroic destiny is suffering a terrible strain)'': You're trying to murder me! I won't have it! If Berlin's so hard up for a martyr, let them send one over! And they'd better send someone to kill him--\\
'''Consul''': Is the American Fuehrer not prepared to die for his Nazi principles?\\
'''Horst''' ''(Incoherent with fear)'': No!!! I mean--yes--I--I mean, I haven't finished my memoirs yet, I--\\
'''Consul''': The Fuehrer asks nobody to do what he wouldn't do himself.
* Enjolras in ''Theatre/LesMiserables'' gets one when he realizes that Les Amis are [[spoiler: about to get obliterated by the French Army because no one has come to their aid.]]
-->''The people have not stirred\\
We are abandoned by those who still live in fear\\
Let us not waste lives\\
Let all women and fathers of children go from here''
* ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' pretty much boils down to the title character causing a series of these reactions in everyone else. FallingChandelierOfDoom, anyone?
* Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd from ''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}'' has three: When [[spoiler:Richard]] unmasks him (forcing the title and its Be A PunchClockVillain Or Die Horribly curse onto him), one when he realizes [[PokeThePoodle his misdemeanors]] won't cut it and he has to cross the MoralEventHorizon or die, and again when [[spoiler:Dame Hannah]], the maiden [[TheDragon Gideon Crawle]] has kidnapped on his orders, [[spoiler:appropriates a {{BFS}} and challenges Ruthven.]]
* ''Theatre/SixTheMusical'' has both of the beheaded Queens realize the trouble they're in:
** Anne Boleyn: ''OH MY GOD GUYS, [Henry]'S REALLY GONNA CHOP MY HEAD OFF!!''
** Howard has one as Thomas Culpepper reveals he too wants her sexually:
-->'''Howard:''' ''He says we have a... connection..."
%%* ''Theatre/SpringAwakening'' has an entire song about this trope.
* In ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'', Lucentio has [[PrinceAndPauper switched places with his servant Tranio]] for the purposes of a ZanyScheme. Eventually, Tranio is told to produce his father and gets a pedant to impersonate Lucentio's dad. Everything's going well until Lucentio's ''real'' father shows up, at which point Tranio, the pedant and Lucentio's other servant Biondello frantically deny knowing him and try to get him thrown in jail. Just when it looks as if this might actually work, Lucentio arrives on the scene:
-->'''Biondello:''' O! we are spoiled and--yonder he is: deny him, forswear him, or else we are all undone.\\
'''Lucentio:''' ''[Kneeling]'' Pardon, sweet father.\\
'''Vincentio:''' Lives my sweet son?\\
''[[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Exeunt BIONDELLO, TRANIO, and Pedant, as fast as may be]]]''
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* AT&T:
** A commercial entitled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90-cQTARgyk "Sisters"]] has one woman finally meeting her newborn niece, but slow upload speeds freeze her screen at the wrong time it appears she's giving a dirty look, accidentally snubbing her sister's daughter.
** Another commercial titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSW-F7QVbF0 "Super Fan"]] has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a super fan's]] video call lose connection, causing him to lose out on his chance to ask Creator/ElijahWood a question.
* Advertising/{{Geico}}:
** A commercial has [[AdvertisingCampaigns the gecko]] and an executive talking about the trust that Geico represents. The executive proposes one of those corporate trust-building exercises, in which he will fall backwards and the gecko will catch him. The gecko, being about 8 inches high, attempts to talk him down to no avail. The last shot is the gecko, as the executive begins to lean back, looking up: "oh dear ..."
** Another commercial where the Gecko is eating a bag of chips. The CEO commented he wanted to show him the first dollar he ever made. Cue the look on the gecko's face when he realized the dollar he used to buy the chips was said dollar.
* A Dutch insurance company has a long line of TV ads with the slogan "Even Apeldoorn bellen" (pragmatically translated to "Just call us") after someone has realized he has a problem (or in some cases, when only the viewer has realized it). Some of these ads require knowledge of Dutch language or culture, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcjLR8X2fwA but]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grB2nA09NPM&feature=fvsr some]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YZcFrBKKCk&feature=related don't]]. While it's doubtfull any insurance could help those people out of it, they do tend to make a wonderful SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
* The commercials for Raid pest killers have been doing this for years, with whatever TalkingPest in the commercial shouting "RAAAAAAAAAAID!" before dying.
* The [=GameStop=] bunny [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nku5riEKsTE has one of these.]]
* The Chips Ahoy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unrgBTWjM_U commercial]] where the human-sized talking cookie is at a little girl's birthday, having fun with the kids, but then asks:
-->'''Cookie:''' Where's the cake?\\
'''Birthday girl:''' [[TheCakeIsALie We're not having]] ''[[WhamLine cake]]''... \\
'''Cookie:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Uh-oh...]]
* An Advertising/EnergizerBunny [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSsxRPP4TaU commercial featuring Dracula]] resulted in the Count invoke this trope in a rather DeadpanSnarker fashion after locking himself out of his castle chasing the Bunny...''at daybreak.''
--> '''Dracula:''' Oh, ''great.'' *POOF*
* In the campaign "Advertising/NeverSayNoToPanda" (''Panda'' being a make of Arab cheese) almost everybody realises they've made a mistake once they say no to Panda Cheese and a giant [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6iHCFiSqIw Panda is standing over them]].
** Special mention goes to the dad in the grocery store the second time around.
* Two Advertising/MAndMs commercials come to mind:
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mBm40dJ1Q4 this]] one "Red" (aka "Milk Chocolate") is set up with [[EvilRedhead "Kristin"]] by "Ms. Brown" and Kristin locks the doors once she's alone with Red.
*** To people who talk about how bad the one with Maxwell and a human female in a car is; tell them about a [[FridgeHorror female actually hinted to be about to have SEX with a freaking piece of candy]]!!!!!
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-meYkyG8Nk This]] commercial has Creator/NayaRivera of Glee being wooed by "Red" only to lick the back of his head and make him realize she wants to eat him (and her girlfriends go the same way).
* In France, many commercials for a brand of candies called Kiss Cool had these moments. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PoSe8xKkww In one of them]], a man in a bunny suit who has to entertain children gets stage fright before he can perform. After eating the candy, he gains confidence and goes to see the kids chanting for him, only to realize said children were replaced by hunters. Cue OhCrap face from the guy, who slowly walks away.
* Advertising/JohnJameson, when he comes face-to-face with a giant octopus while saving a lost barrel of his whiskey, and after chopping open a dam to flood Dublin.
* A very dark instance of this occurs in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EVbuMm-Njo 2002 commercial]] for [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's]] Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights. It starts off with "The Caretaker" deciding which tool he will use to dissect his victim alive with, via "eenie meenie minie moe". When he gets to the final "moe", the victim silently does this reaction.
* In a 2014 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4xsY_ieVSc Walgreens]] Christmas commercial, a mother and father are eating the cookies they left out for Santa, when they glance out the window and [[RealAfterAll see the big man on the roof of a neighbor's house]]. They get this trope and then race out to replace the cookies they ate, making it just in time.
* Glock. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td4pSnVegZY Somebody ''really'' picked the wrong diner...]]
* If you're not playing UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn, then the moment Advertising/SegataSanshiro blocks your path is your cue to utilize this trope. Because afterwards, you're not going to leave without bruises of him beating the crap out of your for not playing the console. (Don't worry, he'll leave a Sega Saturn next to your body so you stop being in his hit list)
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* Many, ''many'' endings in ''Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure'' books result in your death [[FateWorseThanDeath or worse]]. A good portion of these are accompanied by a detailed drawing of your OhCrap moment, the actual moment you leave the planet, or both. Any book in the series illustrated by Judith Mitchell is guaranteed to invoke this multiple times, even when you're not necessarily at a "death ending". These occur so often that entire websites have been established to showcase the worst ones. Another fair sample can be found [[http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/2010/09/9447/ here]].
* In the ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' book ''Literature/TheWarlockOfFiretopMountain'', the eponymous FinalBoss will have one if you use [[spoiler:the Eye of the Cyclops]] against him.
* ''Literature/LoneWolf'':
** While many of Lone Wolf's enemies give an Oh Crap reaction when the hero inevitably derails their schemes, the Darklords you face in Book 12 are great examples. After spending the entire series struggling to stop their forces from destroying everything, seeing these ancient incarnations of evil voiding themselves in fear when they realize Lone Wolf can actually kill them is ''extremely'' satisfying. The best one out of all of them is Archlord Gnaag's expression of "panic blazing madly in his eyes" [[spoiler:moments before being atomized by the Sommerswerd if Lone Wolf brought it with him]].
** BigBad Ixiataaga in Book 17 has a similar reaction when he realizes Lone Wolf has a weapon that can kill him. His panic [[spoiler:causes him to use nearly all of the power of the Deathstaff in a HUGE energy blast in the hopes of killing Lone Wolf instantly. Provided Lone Wolf survives the attack, Ixiataaga is then stuck trying to fight him with an uncharged Deathstaff. [[ThatOneBoss Still pretty strong, however.]] ]]
** A good one from Vonotar the Traitor in Book 3, ''The Caverns of Kalte'':
--->"{{Who dares}} disturb me?" he hisses, rising from the Brumalmarc throne, his eyes searching for an intruder. Upon seeing you, he emits a horrified gasp and fumbles for his black staff. He has the look of a criminal who has been discovered in the act of some dreadful crime.
** Lone Wolf himself throughout the series reacts with fear every time he encounters the horrifying Crypt Spawn. It really doesn't help that they are a favorite summoned minion of the major villains. He also reacts badly to the Mech-Wulf in Book 19 -- the sight of an enemy devoid of any actual life or even un-life scares the hell out of him.
* Appears in the ''Literature/NintendoAdventureBooks'' on occasion as well. ''The Crystal Trap'', where Zelda must go on a FetchQuest to find the elements to free Link from the titular CrystalPrison, is probably the best example. Several of the endings have Zelda awaiting a terrible fate ([[QuicksandSucks sinking in quicksand]] or becoming a sitting duck for enemies) for failure to have the correct item.
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** Pretty much every time Hobbes pounces on Calvin, Calvin makes an Oh Crap face just before impact. One strip doesn't even show the impact, jumping directly from Calvin's deer-in-the-headlights "Oh no" to the aftermath.

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** Pretty much every time Hobbes pounces on Calvin, Calvin coming home, Calvin makes an Oh Crap face just before impact. One strip doesn't even show the impact, jumping directly from Calvin's deer-in-the-headlights "Oh no" to the aftermath.
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** Pretty much every time Hobbes pounces on Calvin, Calvin makes an Oh Crap face just before impact. And it's always hilarious.

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** Pretty much every time Hobbes pounces on Calvin, Calvin makes an Oh Crap face just before impact. And it's always hilarious.One strip doesn't even show the impact, jumping directly from Calvin's deer-in-the-headlights "Oh no" to the aftermath.
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There are lots of ways to react to moments like this. Characters may often exclaim stuff along the lines of "YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe", "IWantMyMommy" or sometimes even "ThisCannotBe". Other characters might emit a LoudGulp instead. A few might say their {{Catchphrase}} but [[AlternateCatchphraseInflection in an uncertain voice]]. Some might even [[DeerInTheHeadlights freeze in fear completely]]. On the other hand, other characters may react more with [[ThisIsGonnaSuck despair]] rather than full-on fear. A few others may [[GonnaNeedMoreX look to their equipment]] for a solution. And finally, for some, it is the [[HeroicBSOD crowning]] [[DarkestHour moment of]] [[DespairEventHorizon despair]].

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There are lots of ways to react to moments like this. Characters may often exclaim stuff along the lines of "YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe", "IWantMyMommy" or sometimes even "ThisCannotBe". Other characters might emit a LoudGulp instead. A few might say their {{Catchphrase}} catchphrase but [[AlternateCatchphraseInflection in an uncertain voice]]. Some might even [[DeerInTheHeadlights freeze in fear completely]]. On the other hand, other characters may react more with [[ThisIsGonnaSuck despair]] rather than full-on fear. A few others may [[GonnaNeedMoreX look to their equipment]] for a solution. And finally, for some, it is the [[HeroicBSOD crowning]] [[DarkestHour moment of]] [[DespairEventHorizon despair]].
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There are lots of ways to react to moments like this. Characters may often exclaim stuff along the lines of "YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe", "IWantMyMommy" or sometimes even "ThisCannotBe". Other characters might emit a LoudGulp instead. A few might say their {{Catchphrase}} but [[AlternateCatchphraseInflection in an uncertain voice]]. Some might even [[DeerInTheHeadlights freeze in fear completely]]. On the other hand, other characters few others may react more with [[ThisIsGonnaSuck despair]] rather than full-on fear. A few others may [[GonnaNeedMoreX look to their equipment]] for a solution. And finally, for some, it is the [[HeroicBSOD crowning]] [[DarkestHour moment of]] [[DespairEventHorizon despair]].

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There are lots of ways to react to moments like this. Characters may often exclaim stuff along the lines of "YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe", "IWantMyMommy" or sometimes even "ThisCannotBe". Other characters might emit a LoudGulp instead. A few might say their {{Catchphrase}} but [[AlternateCatchphraseInflection in an uncertain voice]]. Some might even [[DeerInTheHeadlights freeze in fear completely]]. On the other hand, other characters few others may react more with [[ThisIsGonnaSuck despair]] rather than full-on fear. A few others may [[GonnaNeedMoreX look to their equipment]] for a solution. And finally, for some, it is the [[HeroicBSOD crowning]] [[DarkestHour moment of]] [[DespairEventHorizon despair]].
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** Also happens when Hobbes is hiding on a tree limb and drops a single snowball in front of Calvin to get him to look up -- so he can see the full payload of snowballs Hobbes is about to dump on him from above.

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** Also happens when Hobbes is hiding on a tree limb and drops a single snowball in front of Calvin to get him to look up -- so he can see the full payload of snowballs Hobbes is about to dump on him from above. The last panel supplies the page quote.

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