Basic Trope: A whole group of people realise they're screwed and react accordingly.
- Straight: The main group of protagonists is in a cave, when they hear a loud roaring noise and then a ferocious monster comes out of the darkness. Everyone gets an "uh-oh" expression on their faces.
- Exaggerated:
- Everyone, even the most stoic members of the group, starts having the most extreme fear responses you could imagine the moment they hear the monster. Meaning that this isn't the average Monster of the Week they run into.
- Everyone on Earth has a panic attack as news gets out about an impending Earth-Shattering Kaboom.
- Downplayed:
- They already look scared because the cave is known for being the home of dangerous monsters. When the monster comes, they look a bit more scared and a select few of them gasp out loud, but not much beyond that.
- Only about half of the team gets worried expressions.
- Everyone's faces merely say "This Is Gonna Suck".
- Justified: Well, wouldn't you be scared too if a monster came out and wanted to kill you and your friends?
- Inverted: There's already a monster there at the beginning of the scene, and when it's killed, everyone says, "Yay!".
- Subverted: The main villain sets the monster loose in the cave and watches for a reaction, only to be surprised when they don't react at all.
- Double Subverted: ...and then they start reacting.
- Parodied:
- The protagonists are all very young children and they react as though they've just realised their lives are in danger, but really the daycare workers told them it was nap time.
- The trope name is made literal by everyone experiencing Potty Failure all at once.
- Zigzagged: Alice looks scared, Bob remains stoic, Charles Screams Like a Little Girl, Dave holds onto Charles, and Emily instantly starts fighting the monster despite looking slightly nervous while doing so.
- Averted:
- The protagonists are never in any real danger.
- Whenever the protagonists are in danger, none, or only one or two of them, emote.
- Enforced: "We need to let the audience know that the protagonists are just as scared of the antagonist as they are!".
- Lampshaded: "Look at you lot showing fear like a bunch of scaredy-cats!"
- Invoked: The monster was roaring and leaping out like that deliberately to scare the team.
- Exploited: The monster attacks while everyone's distracted.
- Defied: "Nobody express any emotion..."
- Discussed: "...and we were all like, 'Oh no!'"
- Conversed: "I will never forget the looks on their faces when the cave monster thing came out in that scene!"
- Implied: We don't see the team while they're in the cave, but we hear a roar and then multiple screams, though it's unclear how many people are screaming and who the people are who are screaming.
- Deconstructed: While everyone's emoting, the monster jumps and attacks Bob.
- Reconstructed: ...Who instantly fights back. There's a difference between 'visibly afraid' and 'panicking'.
- Played for Laughs: Everyone's freak-outs consist of high pitched girly screaming and running around aimlessly.
- Played for Drama: While everyone's freaking out, the monster ends up severely injuring Alice.
Back to Mass "Oh, Crap!"
