Big No/Literature


 * An unintentionally hilarious example is seen at the end of Marianne Curley's The Key, where Ethan screams it after . Rochelle, who is narrating the story and using present tense, is able to tell us that the last thing she hears before she dies is Ethan screaming "Nooooo!"
 * In the first Wild Cards book (from 1986), Dr. Tachyon shrieks "Noooooooooooooooooo!" when
 * In George R. R. Martin's A Clash of Kings ship-captain Davos Seaworth unleashes one of these during
 * The Gaunt's Ghosts novel The Guns of Tanith uses this at the climax when
 * This trope, among other things, robbed in The Lake House of much of its impact.
 * To expand on the Harry Potter examples in the Film section:
 * Professor McGonagall gets a big "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" towards the end of The Deathly Hallows, when she sees Hagrid carrying . But don't worry,
 * Ron also gets an adorably melodramatic one in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Between that and the all-caps "AAAAAAARGH" he gets immediately preceding his Big No, the stretched-out drama takes up an entire line on the page.
 * Ron gets another one in Deathly Hallows
 * Starcraft: Ghost: Nova. The title character does one of these every other page, just about. The other pages, somebody else fills in for her.
 * In Warrior Cats, Bluestar (then Bluepaw) bursts into one of these when, complete with eight O's.
 * In The Hobbit, Gandalf tells Bilbo about Beorn and says that he is a 'skin-changer.' Bilbo expresses his thoughts by asking whether he meant 'furrier', to which Gandalf responds: 'Good gracious heavens, no, no, NO, NO!'
 * In The Belgariad, Ce'Nedra lets one out upon discovering that she has to marry Garion. Right in the middle of his Awesome Moment of Crowning.
 * Duck in Who Cut the Cheese? by Mason Brown when the cheese runs out.