Big Word Shout



When anyone shouts a single word (repeat, one word) hard and loud (although that one word can be shouted more than once), for various reasons, as long as the reason is other than actually needing to shout. If someone is shouting because of a noisy room, someone is far away, or that someone is barking out orders, it doesn't count.

Often done for dramatic effect, actually Melodramatic effect, to the point this is rarely played straight anyway, due to the Narm potential.

If the word is someone's name, this often takes the form of a Skyward Scream.

A Sub-Trope of Chewing the Scenery.

A Super-Trope to:


 * Big No
 * Big Yes
 * Big "What?"
 * Atomic F-Bomb
 * Big "Never!"

Compare GASP, Say My Name, Calling Your Attacks, Metal Scream, Death Wail, Big OMG, Big "Shut Up!", Punctuated! For! Emphasis! (those three would be sub tropes, but use more than one word).

Not to be confused with Big Words.

Advertising

 * "SUUUURGE!" from one of Coca-Cola's attempts to enter the citrus soda market dominated by Mountain Dew.
 * "Cillit BANG!"
 * "POWERTHIRST!"
 * "SEGA!" (the Sega Scream) from commercials for the Sega Genesis and its add-ons, the Sega CD and 32X. Some commercials for Genesis ports of third party games used the scream.

Anime

 * Used many times in Soul Eater, with many contributions by none other than the resident ham, Black* Star. Also on a similar note "FOOL"
 * "BAAAAAN... KAI!" from Bleach. Japanese for "Final Release".
 * Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: TEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAA!!!
 * A few times in Dragonball Z. Example: after being beaten by the Androids, Arrogant Kung Fu Guy Vegeta vents his frustration by shouting "KUSOOOOOOOO!" ("SHIIIIIIIIT!") so loudly it crumbles the mountain he's standing on.
 * Akira: "KAAAAAANNNNNNNNAAAAAEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDAAAAAAAA!!!!!"
 * "TEEEEEETTTTTTSSSSSSUUUUUUOOOO!!!"
 * This is a trope that's not so unusual in anime, with two characters shouting their names back and forth like here. Inuyasha and at least one .hack series do it often, for example.
 * Neo Ranga "RANGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
 * Gundam "GUNDAM!
 * Turn a Gundam "UNIVAAARRRRSSSEEE!"
 * Code Geass RRRRUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSHU!!!!!!!!
 * S-Cry-ed HAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! *ad infinitum*
 * "RYUUUUUUUHOOOOU!!" "KAZUUUUMAAAAAAA!!"
 * One Piece: "GOMU-GOMU NOOOOOOOOOOOO......''PISUTORUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!'", etc
 * Fairy Tail: "Karyuu no...HOUKOOOOOOOOU!" and all variations thereupon.
 * The English equivalent: "Fire Dragon...ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!"

Comic Books

 * Superman: For the Man Who Has Everything: "MONGUL!"
 * Shazam "SHAZAM!"
 * Fantastic Four "RICHAAAAAARDS!"

Fan Fiction

 * Deserving "Dumbledorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre!"
 * Snape!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 * In an Omake chapter of the first story in Noir Ange, also known as My Destiny My Fervent Plea one of the main characters gets a little too hyper: "CUUUUUUU- UUUUUUUUUUUU - UUUUUUUUUUU- UUUUUUUUUUUUU- UUUUUUUUUU- UUUUUUUUUUU- UUUUUUU- UUUUUUUUUUU-UUUUUUUUU- UUUUUUUUUU- UUUUUUUUUUUUU- UUUUUUU- UUUUUUUTE!"
 * NYX!

Film

 * The 500 Days Of Summer: "PEEENIS!"
 * Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan: "KHAAAAAAAN!"
 * Spoofed on The Big Bang Theory as "WHEATON!"
 * Star Trek: "SPOOOCK!"
 * The Rocky Horror Picture Show: "BRAD?!" "JANET?!"
 * "SLUT!" "ASSHOLE!"
 * Dog Day Afternoon: "ATTICA!"
 * Scent of a Woman: "Hoo-ah!"
 * 2001: "HAL!"
 * The Graduate: "ELAAAAIIIIIIN!"
 * Rocky: "ADRIAN!"
 * Godzilla: "GOJIRAAAAA!"
 * Stand by Me: "TRAAAAAAINNNN!"
 * The Princess Bride: "INCONCEIVABLE!"
 * Léon: The Professional: "EVVVVVV-EREEEEY-OOOOONE!"
 * Flash Gordon: "DIIIIIIIIIVE!"
 * Italian Spiderman: "PENGUIIIIINIIII!"
 * Pirates of the Caribbean: "DOWWWWN!"
 * Dead Man's Chest: Jack ¡¡¡SPARROW!!!
 * Minority Report: "RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNN!"
 * Home Alone: "KEVIN!!"
 * Maniac "MOTHEEEEEEER!"
 * Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "NI!"
 * Superman Returns: "WRRRRRRONG!"
 * Donnie Darko "FUCK!"
 * Judge Dredd: "LAAAAAW!"
 * Pink Floyd: The Wall: "STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!"
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: "DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!"
 * The Little Mermaid: "POWERRR!" (as Ursula uses Triton's trident to get huge)

Live Action TV
""Marshaaaaaaallll!" "Lillllyyyyyyyy!" "Barneeeeeeeeyyyy!" "Stewaaaaaarrt!" "Naaaat-aaaaaa-lieeeee!" "Trudyyyyyyyy!" "Ranjiiiiiiiiit!" "Carl-The-Bartendeeeerrrrrr!" "Dude-from-my-bodegaaaaaaa!" "Steam-Cleaning-Coupon-Guuuuuuuuyyyyy!" "Moooooooooom!"
 * Bill Nye the Science Guy: SCIENCE!
 * "Yatta!" Hiro Nakamura, Heroes
 * Cheers: "NOOOOORMMMM!!!!"
 * Doctor Who: "EXTERMINATE!"
 * "MARTHAAAAAA!!!"
 * "DOOOOOOOCTOOOOOOORRRRR!!!"
 * Mystery Science Theater 3000: CROOOOOOOOOOW!"
 * "Mitchell!"
 * "Torgo!"
 * "CABOT!"
 * "Chief?"
 * "McCloud!"
 * "SQUANTOOOO!... :A Warrior's Tale ."
 * Gomer Pyle USMC: "PYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYLE!"
 * Monty Python's Flying Circus: "SPAM!"
 * Garth Marenghi's Darkplace: "NUUUURRRRSE!"
 * Seinfeld: "BRAAAUUUUUN!"
 * "TWWWIIIIIIIIIIIIIXXX!"
 * "SUUUUUUUUUUZ!"
 * Lost: "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLT!"
 * Entourage: "VICTORRRYYYYYYYYY!!!!"
 * Farscape: "AERYYYYYYYYYYYYYN!!!"
 * "CRIIIIIIIIIIICHTOOOOOOOOOOON!!!"
 * CAN I GET A HELL YEAH?!
 * The Colbert Report: KANYEEEEEEEEEEE!"
 * "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN!"
 * "MANILOOOOOOOOOOW!"
 * Never Mind the Buzzcocks: "BARROWMANNNNNNN!"
 * Top Gear: "POOOOOWWWWERRRRRRRRRRRR!"
 * Kenan and Kel: "WHHHHYYYYYYY?"
 * How I Met Your Mother made a joke based on showing clips of Ted trying to use this trope to convince everyone he knows other than Robin to go to a Weird Al concert with him:
 * Series/Highlander "DAARRIIUUSS! DARIUS!""


 * Dave Chappelle's impression of Lil Jon featured YEEAAAH!, WHAT?!, and OKAAYYY!

Music

 * Alice Cooper: "STEEEEVEN?"
 * Lil Jon: "OOHHHHHH-KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY!" "YEAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!"
 * Nirvana "PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIN!"
 * The Wall: STOP!"
 * Kaizers Orchestra and their: "HALLELUUUUUUUJA"
 * Or Handel and his (except that's more of a HAAAAALLELUJAH or, at the end of the piece, HALLEEEEEEEEELUJAAAAAAAH!)
 * System of a Down: GOODBYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

Sports

 * Latin American football casters: "¡¡¡GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!"
 * Korean Starcraft commentarots: "GEEEEEGEEEEEEEE!"

Theatre

 * A Streetcar Named Desire: "STELLLLLAAAAAA!!!"
 * Leonard Bernstein's Mass: "PA-CEM! PACEM! PAAAAAAAAAAA-CEM!" (sounds of holy vessels shattering)
 * Bells Are Ringing: "MOOOOOOOOOOM!!!"

Video Games

 * Metal Gear: "Snake? Snake? SNAAAAAAAKE!!!"
 * Tales of the Abyss: "REPLICAAAAA!"
 * Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: "HIDOIKUPOOOOOO!!" (in the Japanese version in place of the Big No.)
 * Sonic the Hedgehog: "MARIA!"
 * SEEE-GAAA!
 * Metal Wolf Chaos: "RICHAAAAAARD!!"
 * Ace Attorney: "OBJECTION!!" "GOTCHA!" "EUREKA!"
 * "HOLD IT!" "TAKE THAT!" ... "Zvarri!"
 * "NOT SO FAST"
 * Elite Beat Agents: "HEAAALP!"
 * And, of course: "OUUUUENNNDAAAAAANN!"
 * God of War: "ARIEEEES!"
 * "ZEUUUUUUUUUZ!"
 * Team Fortress 2: "MEDIIIIIIIIC!" (which the Medic sees as his symbol in a word balloon emanating from the person needing help)
 * See also: every voice command in Team Fortress 2. It's a World of Ham; even when something's said quietly, it still sounds awesome.
 * Resident Evil 5: "CHRIIIIIIIIIIISS!!!"
 * "SHEVAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
 * In Commander Keen Episode 1, most of the small levels have a Yorp statue near the exit bearing a telepathic hint. One level has a Garg statue instead, which says only "GAAARRRRRGG!"
 * Portal 2: "Space? SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!"

Web Comics

 * Real Life Comics: "LIIIIIIIIIZ!"
 * Irregular Webcomic: "KIIIIIIRRRRRRKKK!!!". And it links to this very page!
 * El Goonish Shive:
 * "SKIRRRRT!"
 * "JACKASSES!" (Bonus points for being heard in space.)

Web Original
"Critic: "JUST...EX...PLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIINNNNN!!!!!!" Critic: * Leans back in his chair and breathes a sigh of relief, before doing a Double Take as he looks outside to see a leveled city and emergency response teams running around.* "Er..... Sorry.""
 * "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!!"
 * Youtube Poop: "AFRICAAAAAA!"
 * The Spoony Experiment: "PHANTASMAGORIA!"
 * "BETRAAAAAAAYAL!"
 * "PUMPKINHEAD!"
 * Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series: "KROOOOOOOOOOOZE!!"
 * Dragon Ball Abridged: "DOOOOOOOOODGE!"
 * Five Second Films: "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!"
 * Bad Movie Beatdown: "SYMBOLISM!!!11!!"
 * When co-reviewing Sucker Punch with Jesu Otaku, it became "FEMINISM!!1!OMGBRILLIANT!11!!"
 * Other reviewers have tried to use the phrase. When reviewing Nukie, The Cinema Snob tried to get Mat to do the bit, but it was early in the morning and Mat had a funeral to go to. He ends up doing a half-hearted version of his own.
 * The Nostalgia Critic ends up destroying all of Chicago during his review of Quest for Camelot. He keeps demanding that the movie explain what is going on ("EXPLAIN MOVIE! EXPLAIN!") until his frustration finally erupted in an actual atomic explosion.
 * shows a nuclear blast leveling a city*

""And one of them has the greatest superpower of all, GUUUUUUNS!""
 * "NNNNEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDD!"
 * Whenever he begins his Christmas themed episodes he shouts "Chrisma-a-a-s!!" followed by a mantra of that word while decorating his set.
 * "CAAAAAAT!" (and, in one review, DOOOOOOG!)
 * This anguished review of Boku no Pico: "YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" Censored but still NSFW.
 * Nothing will stop Captain Hammer from finishing his villainous Hero Song. "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!"
 * 90s Kid of Atop the Fourth Wall ended a sentence with one. He also usually introduces himself with "DUUUUDE!"

"Linkara: WHY?! Why make a comic about the Kool-Aid Man?!"
 * Then there's the beginning of the: "Adventures of the Kool-Aid Man" review.


 * College Humor created "Powerthirst," a spoof advertisement for a made-up energy drink. About half of the runtime of the video (and of the sequel) involves a man with steroids in his voice shouting random catchwords like a drill sergeant.
 * Two Best Friends Play: "AMMMMEERRRRIIIICCAAAAAAAA!!!!"

Western Animation
"Dib: ZIM! Zim: WHAAAAT? Dib: ZIM! Zim: WHAAAAT? Dib: ZIM! Zim: WHAAAAT?"
 * The Tick (animation): "SPOOOOON!!"
 * The Flintstones: "WILMAAAAAAA!"
 * The Jetsons: "JETSOOOOOOON!"
 * Transformers: "STAAAAAARSCREEEEEEEAM!"
 * Beast Wars: "MEGATROOOOOOON!!!"
 * Alvin and The Chipmunks: "AAAALLLLLLLVIIIIIIN!!!"
 * The Hunchback of Notre Dame: "SANCTUARYYYYY!!!"
 * The Simpsons: "MENDOZAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!"
 * "SKINNERRRRR!!!!!!!"
 * "BARRRRRRTTTTTT!!!"
 * Batman the Animated Series: "HARLLLLLLLEEEEEEYYYYY!!!"
 * Avatar: The Last Airbender: "HONOOOORRRRRRRR!!!"
 * "LEEEEAAAAVE!"
 * My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: "FOREVERRRRRRRRRR!!!"
 * Adventure Time: "UNACCEPTABLLLLLLLLE!!"
 * Jem: "ERRRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIC!!!!!"
 * Batman the Animated Series: "HAAAAAAAAAARRRRLLLLLEEEEEEEEYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!"
 * Aside from the expected Metal Scream, Metalocalypse featured Doctor Rockzo the Rock n' Roll clown's Catch Phrase of "I do COCAINE!"
 * Invader Zim is full of this, not surprising as it's set in a universe of ham