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'''Bender''': ''"<small>NEVER</small>!"''|''[[Futurama]]'', ''The Day the Earth Stood Stupid''}}

 

 

Contrast [[Big Yes]].

 

* In the final battle between Simon and {{spoiler|the Anti-Spirals}} in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', Simon shouts "Take/[[Woolseyism|Eat]] this!" with a huge "never" as a response.

* In ''[[One Piece]]'' {{spoiler|when [[Knight of Cerebus|Kuma]] is about to finish off the whole crew on Thriller Bark, he offers them a chance if they give Luffy in. They all answer [[Defiant to the End|"NEVER!!"]] and get nuked by his attack}}.

 

* In ''[[The Smurfs]]'' comic book story "You Don't Smurf Progress", the waste disposal robot, who became the tyrant of the Smurf Village, shouts this when he tries to escape from the front door of his castle, but finds himself surrounded by the Smurfs that were once his captives, demanding for his surrender. He tries to use a secret escape hatch, only to be turned into furniture when Handy cuts off his escape with his furniture-making machine.

 

* In ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', Vader is about to say he will take Leia to the dark side or something else terrible would happen to her, [[Rage Breaking Point|thus taking the last family Luke has]]. He shouts this, cutting off Vader's sentence, before unleashing his [[Unstoppable Rage]].

* ''[[Home Alone]]'':

'''Harry''': (shakes head at Marv) }}

* ''[[Mortal Kombat (film)|Mortal Kombat]]'': Shang Tsung during the final fight.

* [[Robin Hood]]'s father shouts one of these at the begining of ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'' when the Sherrif and his lynch mob/cult asks him to join them.

* ''[[Toy Story 2]]'':

'''Woody''': Never! }}

* ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'': Belle says this after Gaston says he'll save her father from getting thrown into the asylum if she agrees to marry him.

* ''[[Enchanted]]'':

** For bonus points, her "Never" is so big, it [[Involuntary Shapeshifting|briefly makes her turn into]] [[Scaled Up|a dragon]].

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Joseph Lemaitre's ''French: How to Speak and Write It'' uses this trope in a comic illustration to make the introduction of the word "never" more memorable:

'''[[Damsel in Distress|Elle:]]''' ''Jamais!'' }}

 

* In [[Seinfeld]], Kramer has a jacket which used to belong to his mother's ex-boyfriend, and is refusing to give it back to him. Later, the boyfriend turns up pounding at Jerry's door demanding the jacket. Kramer responds with an over-dramatic "Never!"

* An episode of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' has a following dialogue:

O'Brien: Hear me out, sir. We leave the station, raise the Federation attack force and return. And in day, you should get rid of all your enemies. }}

 

* In ''[[The Lion King]]'' stage musical, Nala typically responds to Scar's propositioning with: "Never, Scar. NEVER."

* ''[[1776]]''

John Adams" "NEVER!!! NEVER!!!" }}

 

** Parodied in a video about the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' movies, when he has Jacob proclaim this about being asked [[Walking Shirtless Scene|to put on a shirt]].

** Done again in the ''[[Red Riding Hood (film)|Red Riding Hood]]'' review, when Gary Oldman's character refuses to reveal where his accent comes from.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfQhqaZNe1U&feature=related Episode 24] of ''[[Naruto the Abridged Series]]'', in response to being asked to turn some [[Heavy Metal]] music down.

 

* ''[[Futurama]]'' had a few.

** This exchange from ''Bender's Big Score''

'''Leela:''' [[Skyward Scream|NEVER!]] }}

** From "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid":

'''Bender:''' NEVER! }}

* ''[[The Simpsons]]''

** Spoofed in a scene where Homer is asked to do something that is only reasonable and not a big deal and then snaps "Never!".

'''Homer''': Never! }}

** In a [[Show Within a Show|play done by the characters]] involves George Washington (played by Ralph Wiggum) responding to Lisa's character's "couldn't we just give in to the British?" question with a big "NEVER!"

* The dialogue of the first few minutes of the first ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' movie ''Abra-Catastrophe'' goes more or less like this:

'''Timmy:''' ''NEVER!!!'' }}

* Seen in the original ''[[Adventure Time]]'' pilot. Pen (later Finn) shouts this while freeing himself from the Ice King's ice.

'''Pen''': NEVER!!!<ref>It [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|doesn't make sense in context either.]]</ref> }}

** And the time the keeper of "''The Enchiridion!''" tried to make Finn slay an [[True Neutral|unaligned ant.]]

** Speaking of the "''The Enchiridion!''"...

* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'', "I Have No Son": Ralph Bighead says "NEVER!!!", [[Overly Long Gag|several times]], VERY loudly, at the prospect of seeing his parents again.

* ''[[Dan Vs.]].'' "Baseball":

'''Dan''': ''*runs off*'' Never! }}

* Happens once in ''[[Danny Phantom]]''.

"NEVERRRRR!" }}

* Optimus Prime delivers a defiant "NEVER!" to Megatron in ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]'' in response to him saying "It's over, Prime!" before smacking him right in the face.

 

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