Big No

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Which basically means "Do not want."

McLeach: Your bird's dead. Someone shot her; shot her right out of the sky.

Cody: NO!!!

McLeach: What do you mean, "no?" You calling me a liar?
—The Rescuers Down Under

The moment when a character realizes that something awful has happened, or notices that something awful is about to happen, and screams "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" It can also be used when a character is angrily refusing to do something.

If the character is rushing to prevent the something-awful from happening, a slow-motion effect can be employed to draw out the tension of the moment, sometimes to the point of drawing out the "No" into a comical bass growl. This trope is very susceptible to becoming Narm, but does raise the question of exactly how a character should handle a crisis without coming off as a psychotic (by going catatonic), a monster (by cracking a grim joke), or a potty-mouth (by swearing one's head off).

Used both seriously and for comic effect. Very common on sitcoms. Sometimes the Big "NO!" ends the episode with a Cliff Hanger.

Nearing the point of becoming Narm and a Discredited Trope, though a good actor can still pull it off. Some variants still have credibility, including a shorter but still intense "No", and a panicked "No no no no no!" Or you can just go for the simpler Skyward Scream. Occasionally the character will shout something other than "No!" -- usually shouting the name of the character that something bad is about to happen or has just happened to. This is slightly less discredited.

Language matters a lot. For example, Big "NO!" is commonly played straight in Japanese media, due to the equivalent iya's higher screamability.[1] But not very common in Russian, due to the equivalent nyet's very low screamability.

When a villain screams the Big "NO!", it's usually as his plans are crashing down around his ears. And also usually the last thing he ever says.

Often combined with a Futile Hand Reach.

Large Hams will pull one out a Giant "NO!" if given the opportunity.

A Sub-Trope of Big Word Shout.

Compare/contrast with Big Yes, Little No, Big "Never!" and Rapid-Fire "No". Has a Sub-Trope cousin, Slow No. See also Death Wail, Big OMG, and Howl of Sorrow. Not to be confused with a certain mecha series with a similar-sounding title.

See here for a side-by-side comparison of a LOT of No's. Here's two more with a ton more famous ones. And see here for a hilariously useful Instant-Noooo.

The thing that makes this trope so effective is the fact that most people identifying the word "no" with something going wrong. So when we hear a character screaming with a very loud "nooooooooo!", it really gets to us. People with different psychologies are not as affected by this and may view the scene as comical instead of as the emotional moment it may be intended as. When this shot of a character exclaiming negatively while in slow motion, the scene may be even more dramatic (although this is usually a sign that the character is dying).

A closely related trope is Say My Name, which is often substituted for this.

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Examples of Big No include:


Music

  • Most songs here.
  • A particularly hilarious one happened in the song "MacArthur Park". The man is lamenting a cake:

 "And I'll never have that recipe again. Oh NOOOOOOOOOO!"

    • Admittedly he is not lamenting a literal cake. He's lamenting losing a lover who was perfect for him. It's a metaphor, but as Dave Barry put it, "It's still a really stupid metaphor."
    • "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Jurassic Park", being a parody of "MacArthur Park", also has the NOOOOOOOOOO! In the' video, a T-Rex is about to eat Weird Al, so it fits.
  • A Preposterone-fueled one is found in the song "BEER!" by Psychostick.
  • In the Lemonheads' song "The Great Big No", one would expect an uncommonly large "No", but there is only a moderately drawn-out "No".
  • Don't Forget The Lyrics featured The Tide Is High by Blondie, seven missing lyrics:

  "I'm not the kind of girl/ Who gives up just like that/ Oh noooooooo "

  • The Pink Floyd Rock Opera The Wall has one of these in "Another Brick in the Wall Part 3".
  • "Cassie" by Flyleaf starts with one. It's actually a Big Yes, although on the album version its only in the bridge of the song.
  • The video to Disturbed's "Inside the Fire" starts out with one of these.
  • Ozzy gets a couple of these in Black Sabbath's "Black Sabbath."
  • Linkin Park's song "Blackout" contains several big nos along with a couple of surprise f-bombs.
    • "Faint" has Chester roaring "no" to kick off the bridge.
  • The Body Count song "The Winner Loses" has Ice T telling the story of a friend who was addicted to cocaine. The friend's life was lost. Noooooooo! 2:45


New Media

  • When Wookieepedia, the official unofficial Star Wars Wiki, was going for their first Featured Wikia of the month on the Wikia main site, there was some consternation when they discovered they were losing to WikiFur, the Furry Fandom's Wikia. This sent them on a wild scramble for more votes. The furries, to their credit, played up their role of villain with the following message on the Wikia boards. "Join us, and together we can rule the Internet as Wookie Fur!" Wookieepedia made the only appropriate response. If only Chewie, rather than Vader, had delivered the last Big No of the saga....
  • The website http://nooooooooooooooo.com helpfully provides a Big No button for use "in dire situations".
  • The reaction of manga-addicts everywhere when Onemanga announced it was going down.


Professional Wrestling

 Hulk: HELL! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

  • Almost parallel to the rise in popularity of Daniel Bryan's YES! mantra, the fans began chanting NO! every time they saw something they didn't like, and alternated between YES! and NO! when a face and a heel (respectively) traded blows in a slugfest.


Puppet Shows

  • A few of these come from the main female character from Team America: World Police when her fiancé is shot by a terrorist about five minutes in.


Sports

  • Among fans of the Minnesota Vikings, KFAN radio announcer Paul Allen's painful cry of "NOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOO!"[2] as Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Nate Poole caught a pass from Josh McCown to knock the Vikings out of the playoffs, will forever live in infamy. Along with many, many other disappointing moments in the history of the franchise. Making it even worse, the Cardinals were 3 and 12 before that game, and the Vikings started the year with a 6-0 record on the way to a 3-7 finish the rest of the way. Nowadays, all you need to do to relive PA's Big No is listen to KFAN for long enough; they have it on their soundboard and use it on a semi-regular basis.
  • Game 5 of the 2010 NBA Western Conference Finals. Series tied 2-2. Lakers up by 3 over the Suns with a minute to go. Every possession at this point is crucial. After a missed shot, Pau Gasol grabs the rebound from four Phoenix Suns players and manages to throw the ball out to a wide open Ron Artest. Instead of using up some clock, Ron chocks up and fires off a three-pointer that clangs off the rim. Not only was the crowd at Staples Center audibly crying out "NOOOOOOOO", so were the radio announcers.
  • The late Chicago Cubs radio commentator Ron Santo was known for unleashing these when, as was often the case, things went badly for the team. Perhaps the most famous example of this took place during a 1998 game against the Milwaukee Brewers, when Cubs left fielder Brant Brown caught and then dropped a fly ball on what would have been the final out of the game, allowing the Brewers to score three runs and win 8-7. Santo's agonized "NOOOOOOOO!" can be heard here.


Tabletop Games

  • The Mystara supplement The Five Shires actually turns this trope into a defensive weapon for classic D&D halflings. Within the boundaries of their homeland, halflings threatened by spells can cry "No!" once a day, sacrificing some of their life force in the process, and potentially negate the impending spell's effects. Things like this happen when Ed Greenwood writes your gaming material....
  • Every gamer ever after a high level, carefully munchkined, self inserted, or valued for some other reason character dies. For best results, have them role a one, resulting in falling on their own sword. Or quarterstaff.


Theater

  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? features one of the best Big Nos of all time, when Martha cries out "Nooooooooo!" after George finally announces their fictional son is dead. Elizabeth Taylor in the film version makes a magnificent cry that has to be seen to be believed.
  • In The Phantom of the Opera, it is fairly common to hear one when the Phantom snaps during the "All I Ask of You" reprise. Depending on the actor, this can be a literal Big No, several small ones, and/or an inarticulate cry of rage.
  • When Mimi dies of consumption at the end of La Boheme, her boyfriend Rodolfo rushes to her side sobbing and crying her name.
  • At the end of Rent, when it appears that Mimi is dying, Roger sings out a rather long "NOOOOOOOO!" to segue into "Your Eyes". Thus adding insult to injury.
  • Bill Francouer's Babes in Toyland gives the Big No to Barnaby and his henchmen, the villains of the show, shortly after their defeat sequence.
  • In the musical version of Ragtime, Coalhouse Walker does a ridiculous big NOOOOOOO! when he finds out Sarah died, followed by a nice long angry reprise.
  • Some versions of Miss Saigon actually go out on this trope, with Chris cradling Kim's corpse and letting out a great big "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" which continues for a few seconds after the curtain falls. Other versions thankfully replace this with an actual closing number.
  • In the version of Hamlet in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, the scene where Hamlet kills Polonius involves Polonious, in 'slow motion', saying, "NOOOOOOO, iiiit wiiiill huuuurt, ow, Iiiii toooold yoooou."
  • In Parade, in "That's What he Said," in which a man makes a vivid (and false) testimony about the lead raping and murdering a 13-year-old girl.

 Conley: He said no, no, and his eyes were wild and his face was red he said NOOOOOOOO!"

Leo: NOOOOOOOO!

  • Lucy has one of these in 13 when Brett asks Kendra out.
  • Parodied in Urinetown.
  • Also parodied in Bat Boy the Musical.
  • In Spring Awakening some Melchiors have been known to pull out this trope in the graveyard upon finding Wendla's grave, and off-Broadway Melchior used to have one in the reformatory after learning that Wendla is pregnant.


Video Games

  • Bob Page lets one off in the New Dark Age ending of Deus Ex.
  • In Baldurs Gate, if you have Khalid and Jaheira in your party, Khalid will yell one of these if Jaheira is killed.

 Khalid: Ja-Jaheira! No! Noooooooo!

  • Breakers Revenge: Condor's KO scream. "NUUUUUUUU!!!"
  • Cammy's KO scream in Street Fighter Zero 3 and Street Fighter IV -- "NOOOOOOOOO!!"
  • Gilgamesh lets out one of these when he's banished into the void by his Bad Boss in Final Fantasy V. More seriously, Krile delivers one when her grandfather Galuf dies.
  • Cecil lets out a big WHY? in the DS version of Final Fantasy IV after he destroys the Village of Mist. It's followed a few lines later by a nicely dramatic "No".
  • Celes does one of these in Final Fantasy VI if Cid dies.
  • Montblanc in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance had this moment after fulfilling the request involving a townsgirl wanting to confess her true feelings, who actually doesn't exist, and in turn were a whole Moogle clan out to defeat him waiting in Materiwood. Only in the English version, though. The Japanese equivalent to this Big "NO!" is "?????Gethbot (talk)!!" (reads "Hidoikupo!!") which means TERRIBLE, KUPOOOOOO! with an addition of a This Cannot Be! before that.
  • Auron in Final Fantasy X let howl one when he finds that the sacrifice of his friends, Braska and Jecht, was for absolutely nothing and tries to unleash his fury on Yunalesca. Just to get beat, literally, to death. A "remembrance" echo as soon he saw Tidus having the same reaction over it he remembered what happened that time.
  • Eliwood does this twice in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Sword, first when his father dies and later when he realizes the dragon he just killed was Ninian.
  • Frequent in Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney. Villains are particularly prone to breaking into a Big "NO!" when Phoenix destroys their alibis.
    • Damon Gant does it twice -- and that's before he actually slips into a Motive Rant.
    • Actually parodied at one point when The Judge does the Big "NO!" -- and then stops and wonders why, since he's not the one in trouble.
    • Another particularly amusing one is when Matt Engarde shouts something to the like of "No!!!GuiltygUilTYGUILTYguiLTYgUiLty!!!" complete with alternating caps while ripping his face off.
    • In the same case, Phoenix lets out a Big "NO!" if you present to the judge at one point a piece of cloth with Ema Skye's fingerprints on it too soon. This makes everyone believe Ema really did accidentally kill the victim in the incident two years ago, making the trial impossible to win and you're notified that you eventually lost.
      • Ema herself let's off one when it is implied that She inadvertantly killed the very person she was trying to help.
      • So does Edgeworth, when he finds out he has unintentionally used forged evidence.
    • In Trials and Tribulations, when Edgeworth, who immediately caught on to how terrible being a defense attorney really is, just got through breaking three of Larry Butz's phsyche-lockes, being miserable the entire time through. It seemed he was about to get to the bottom of what Butz was hiding when suddenly he's encountered by five more! Cue the Big No. At that point, he decided to just take Butz as a witness.
    • Godot does such a moment in Case 2 of Trials and Tribulations WHILE DRINKING COFFEE. (This was notably not a Spit Take; he did this while chugging the coffee as fast as he could.)
    • Also, he also does the same thing in Case 3.
  • Stages in Elite Beat Agents and Osu Tatakae Ouendan are touched off with the rescuee screaming in anguish (with the Big "HEEAALLLLLP!"/"OOOUUU-EENNN-DAAAAAN!", respectively), prompting an arrival and a dramatic entrance from the titular Big Damn Heroes.
  • Marcus Fenix in Gears of War 3 when he realises that Dom Santiago is about to sacrifice himself in order to assist his team's escape from the pipeline. Cue the sounds of the battle fading away to reveal an instrumental of Gary Jules' "Mad World".

 Marcus: "Dom! What the fuck are you doing?!"

Dom: "Pullin' the plug on 'em, Marcus! Jump, will you?! Do it!"

Marcus: *realises what Dom is about to do* "DOM!! NO!!"

  • Max Payne breaks into the Big No right at the end of the opening level when he finds out that he was too late to save his wife.
    • This was parodied, along with everything else concerning the first Max Payne, in the Show Within A Show "Dick Justice" in Max Payne 2.
  • Seiken Densetsu 3: Angela finds out her mother wants to sacrifice her to unseal some magical stones. She shouts this at the top of her lungs, and manages to finally release her power, teleporting outside the castle.
  • Star Fox:
    • When Fox gets killed in Star Fox 64. Peppy and Falco don't use the Big No to a huge effect like everyone else does, but Slippy lets out a normal Big No.
    • One of the bosses does it too.
    • Subverted in Star Fox Assault by Wolf in Mission 7, where Fox rides Wolf's Wolfen. When Fox fails to protect the Wolfen, Wolf utters a soft, short "Curses." as his ship explodes, while Fox falls down screaming.
  • Snake shouts a Big "NO!" in Super Smash Bros Brawl if he's knocked out of the stage as a twinkle in the sky.
    • Peach goes "Noooo!" when she turns into a star too.
    • As does Sonic. In both the Japanese and English versions.
  • In Dynasty Warriors, Sun Ce can die in Da Qiao's DW4XL stage. Right after he dies in her arms, she throws her head back and gives a really big NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!, complete with 360 camera action above her. Cue Roaring Rampage of Revenge. [3]
  • Several variants of this trope in Dynasty Warriors 6, most in response to the same character's death. Your choice of player character determines exactly who is around to witness said death and shout their particular version of the Big No.
  • No slow motion but a really big NOOOOOO! can be seen from Garrett in Thief 2 (of Thief series) when Viktoria sacrifices herself in Soul Forge.
  • Sam and Max Freelance Police:
    • In the final episode of Season One, Sam lets out a normal Big No when Hugh Bliss separates Max's bliss and renders him kind and passive (the horror!), not to mention totally useless in helping to thwart Hugh's brainwashing plot.
    • Sam has two more in Season Three. The first is when Max's brain is stolen, and the second is just before Max transforms into an Eldritch Abomination.
  • In Heavenly Sword, Nariko yells this as Flying Fox throws Kai down with a noose around her neck, apparently killing her instantly. Although as it turns out Kai wasn't dead and eventually recovered.
  • Near the end of Myst III: Exile, Woobie Saavedro does a less drawn-out version of this trope when you trap him behind the ice shields on Narayan. Repeatedly. In a dramatic, tormented, heart-wrenching manner. He does it again when you go to retrieve the MacGuffin from him, only this time, it's even more of a Tear Jerker.
  • Half-Life 2: Alyx has a big one at the end of Episode Two when she sees her father horribly killed in front of her.
  • Super Mario RPG: A disproportionate amount of Smithy's dialogue is either a Big No or a Written Roar. I believe at one point he exclaimed something that was a mix of both.
  • Francis has one in Super Paper Mario after Peach nukes his laptop. "NOOOOOO! MY GRAPHICS CAAAAARD!"
  • Some of the characters in the Mario Kart series let out a Big No if they fall off the track.
  • Averted in Tomb Raider Underworld, when Lara's Doppleganger shoots Alister, Lara goes over to him, when he actually dies, Lara just utters a sharp 'Dammit!', then carries his body out of Croft Manor, now on fire.
  • Star Ocean: Till the End of Time: rather often. Fayt pulls at least two, when Ameena dies and when his father dies. There are undoubtedly more, as well as Albel's particularly memorable example of the Written Roar.
  • Folklore. Within the first two minutes of the opening clip. By the boat driver.
  • Kingdom Hearts:
    • Sora's going to do his Heroic Sacrifice. And everyone around him goes "NOOOOOOOOOOO! SOOOOOOOOOORA!!!"
    • In Chain of Memories: Reverse Rebirth, the Riku Replica gives one it's decided to have Naminé give him a false set of memories and make him forget that he's not the real Riku.
    • Demyx gives one of these when you beat him. "Nooooo waaaaayyyy!"
  • The good ending of Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice: After the final battle, Mao puts up with Aurum's speech before pulling out his sword and preparing to behead the Super Hero... before deciding that he'd be better served as a research specimen. Aurum is naturally distraught at this last-minute rejection of the death he always wanted.

 Mao: (evil laugh) Have you forgotten? I am a demon! Your logic won't work on me! TO MY LAB! (guess what Aurum says next)

  • Video games in general often use either this trope or Say My Name in place of the player-character's death scream. This is especially apparent in Sonic the Hedgehog games.
    • For example, in Sonic the Hedgehog 2006, Sonic and Shadow both yell "No!" (the latter much more dramatically) upon dying, while Silver cries "No... not now..."
    • In Sonic and the Black Knight, Sonic lets out a Big No when his sword Caliburn is destroyed by the Dark Queen.
    • In the same game, he also lets off a half-big No in the opening when Merlina warps them away before Sonic gets the chance to recover his second Chili Dog, however the subtitle is more shaped to that of a Big No.
    • Not to mention Elise's literally explosive Big No when Sonic is killed.
    • In Sonic Adventure 2, in the Dark Side story, Sonic busted the Restraining Bolt on the Egg Golem boss. After throwing a small fit, the Golem turned to Eggman and attacked him in dramatic slow-mo, accompanied by Eggman shouting in a deep voice, "NOOOO...!!!"
    • In Sonic Rush Adventure, when your craft takes on damage, Tails says "NO!"
  • Used during several points in Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, when Gabriel first meets Tetelo in the Bayou, when Wolfgang rips out his own heart so Gabriel can get the talisman, and after Malia sacrifices herself to finish Tetelo.
  • Team Fortress 2:
    • One of the achievements is titled "Dr. Nooooo". To accomplish it, you have to backstab a Medic who's about to deploy an Ubercharge; as that takes time to build up and would have rendered the medic invulnerable if he'd pulled it off, they probably would let out a Big No at their monitor.
    • Ironically, the Spy sometimes screams ""Jarate? NOOOOOOOOOO!", when he's hit by the stuff.
    • "OH NOOOOOOOOOOO!" - Courtesy of the Heavy.
  • King's Quest:
    • Interesting variation in King's Quest VI Heir Today Gone Tomorrow: "That's odd. Where did she..." (The floor drops out from under Alexander's feet.) "...GOOOOOOOOOO?!?!" Played straight later on by Cassima, who gives an anguished "Alexander, noooooooooooo!" if Alexander is killed by Shamir Shamazel in the endgame confrontation.
    • In King's Quest VII the Princeless Bride Rosella screams "Noooo!" after being trapped in a coffin underground. (And apparently yells loudly enough to be heard above ground.)
    • In the second episode of the Fan Sequel The Silver Lining, Alexander lets out a Big "NO!" just before being energy zapped by Manannan in a vision Graham experiences.
  • The Commodore 64 port of 1984's Impossible Mission rewards the player who completed the game by revealing the villain, accompanied by a digitized, plaintive "No. No. NO! The ZX Spectrum version (when it allowed the player to reach the ending, without tripping over the Game Breaking Bug) has the picture of the villain screaming "NOOOOOOOOO!" (in the image), accompanied by a shaking screen, white noise and stripy border. You can go to Speccy Spoilers and grab a copy of this ending to see it for yourself (for an emulator on which to run that file, just visit the base of that URL)...
  • The original Neverwinter Nights has Fenthick utter a beautiful exemplar at the end of the first chapter: "Desther! NOOOOOOOOOOO!"
  • The girls of Persona 4 are known for their terrible cooking skills; the boys called anything they cook Mystery Food X ever since their first taste. The boys were terrified to learn that the girls baked a Christmas cake to celebrate little Nanako recovering after getting sick from being kidnapped into the Midnight Channel. Kanji lets out a NOOOOOOO! when she tries the cake before they could. The cake was delicious.
    • You also encounter one in text form upon reaching a certain floor of the Void Quest dungeon.
  • Tatsuya does it at the end of Innocent Sin/in the flashback of Eternal Punishment (although it's never seen in Innocent Sin, it's shown in the flashback) in Persona 2. It sort of turns a really emotional scene into a big Narm moment due to the bad English voice acting.
  • Plants vs. Zombies uses this in the Game Over screen, which says "The Zombies Ate Your Brains".
  • In World of Warcraft:
    • Kil'jaeden says Noooooooooo! when defeated.
    • There is also a black dragon named Nihil the Banished that may spawn randomly during a quest involving warping nether dragon eggs. When he spawns right before the player, he will say something about world domination, but if the player uses the device again on him, he will be banished again while yelling NOOOOOooooo....
    • Archimonde's Last Words as wisps envelopes him as shown in Cavern of Time.

 "No! It cannot be! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

 "NOOOO!!! A curse upon you, interlopers! The armies of the Lich King will hunt you down. You will not escape your fate..."

    • Interestingly enough, the second-to-last boss in the Nexus yells "Nooo!" when he's engaged, rather than when he's killed.
  • Because it's basically a requisite for Star Wars, The Force Unleashed has Starkiller let one out during his Heroic Sacrifice in the good ending. He also does it twice in the bad ending (one when he sees all his friends are dead and one when he gets crushed by a space ship).
    • Before that, Kota lets one out when he realizes that Palpatine is trying to turn Starkiller to the Dark Side.
    • In The Force Unleashed II, Starkiller lets one out when he fails to stop Boba Fett's ship, which has Juno Eclipse captive, from taking off and escaping.
  • In Zork: Grand Inquisitor, when the player puts a Zorkmid in a vending machine, the snacks inside inch forward but don't come out, prompting a Big No from Dalboz (though he's a lantern now, so even if they did come out he couldn't actually eat them).
  • In Dark Forces Saga, General Rom Mohc gives a really good one upon his defeat.
  • If you manage to get a mod that changes all zombies in Left 4 Dead 2 to Jimmy Gibbs Jr, or manage to find a way to spawn him, Ellis shouts NNNNOOOOOOOO! when he sees his hero zombified. Its funnier that the other survivors don't care, like Coach saying sorry about the car and Rochelle saying Dibs on Gibbs or HOLY SHIT whats that.
    • Also, any time a Smoker grabs you in the first Left 4 Dead.
  • Homeworld: Cataclysm contains a particularly entertaining variation at the very end of the last mission, when the Naggarok, big bad and 'parent' of the game's nightmare fuel main enemy (aptly named the Beast), is destroyed. The "Nooooooooooo!" goes on for a good long while, even after the boss itself has been reduced to cosmic dust.
  • In Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares, you hear this when a ship bearing a leader is killed in battle, and the dead ship's owner hasn't researched Survival Pods tech, which allows you to retrieve a leader as long as at least one ship survives the battle.
  • Oddly enough subverted in Sega Rally Championship: When you lose, it's "GAME OVER YEEAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!"
  • Kilrathi pilots in Wing Commander II sometimes do this when they get shot down. So do some of the hostile human pilots in Wing Commander IV.
  • In the Quake series whenever you fall into an instant death pit.
  • Armed Police Batrider's announcer shouts "NOOO!" if you get a Game Over or miss a 10,000-point medal.
  • In The Godfather game, Monk Malone yells one after a string of smaller "no"s when Frankie Malone dies after being abducted by Tattaglia goons, even hurling a church pew by himself in his rage and sorrow.
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Zelda gets a pretty BIG one, after Anjean reveals to her what exactly the Big Bad is planning to do to her. Complete with a loud "IIIIIIIIIIIIIYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!", the only spoken word in the whole game's bank of voice-clips. (And, yes, "Iya" means "No" in Japanese)
  • Happens fairly often in Supreme Commander when you kill an enemy commander. The most memorable is certainly Marxon's at the end of the Aeon campaign.
  • Spyro the Dragon has one of these in A New Beginning, when Sparx is about to be stepped on ("NOOOOOO--AAAAHHHHHHHH!", he was breathing fire for the first time), and in Dawn of the Dragon when Ignitus dies.
  • Master of Magic intro movie ends with this.
  • Dark Messiah of Might and Magic includes a pretty corny one in the most illogical of the game's possible endings. If you cleanse yourself of Xana's demonic possession, then go ahead and decide to free Daddy Archdemon at the end of the game, Leanna responds to this with a big no.
  • In Chrono Cross, Radius screams an all-caps Big "NO!" after the evil power of the Masamune causes him to kill his best friend Garai.
  • Ace Dixon gets a few of these in Crimson Skies. The second and fourth times you shoot him down, you'll be thanked over the radio with this:

 Ace Dixon: NOOOO! Not again, NOT BLOODY AGAAAAAAAIN!

  • This scene, at 2:40 from Bioshock.
  • In Luminous Arc 2, Rina gave a big one after Steiner died in her arms.
  • In SNK Gals' Fighters, this is one of Yuki's moves. Very useful for offense and defense.
  • Sieg from Suikoden Tierkreis gives this on a few occasions, but a really big one comes out right after Dirk's death.
  • In the endgame of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, Guybrush and LeChuck do a nearly word-for-word recital of the classic scene from The Empire Strikes Back, which, naturally, includes the Big "NO!" It's every better in the Special Edition version, where Dominic Armato (as Guybrush) performs his lines exactly the same way as Mark Hamill did in Empire, up to and including the Big "NO!"
  • Resident Evil 2: "ADAAAAAAAA!" (Leon after Ada's Disney Death).
  • In Rosenkreuzstilette, if Spiritia loses a life while using Lilli, Lilli will scream "TIAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" in horror as Tia suffers an explosion-styled Critical Existence Failure. Since Lilli is friends with Tia, it's kind of in a "We Cannot Go on Without You" fashion, if you ask us.
  • Blaz Blue: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I won't lose!" (Bang Shishigami at the end of the second-to-last episode of Teach Me, Miss Litchi! in Calamity Trigger)
    • Noel Vermillion is quite fond of doing these as well, especially in her win quote against Arakune in Calamity Trigger.

 Noel: B-B-Bugs! Noooo! P-Please, don't come any closer!

      • She even lets one out in Rachel's Continuum Shift gag ending when she sees that Nirvana destroyed her marriage registration.

 Noel: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! My marriage registration!

        • Don't forget a rather chilling one at the end of Tsubaki's bad ending when Tsubaki dies
      • And one more for the road, courtesy of Makoto Nanaya after prolonged torture by Relius Clover.

  "NOOOOOOOO! Please... please stop it! STOP!"

  • A lot of Artix Entertainment villains tend to use these often when they're defeated, like Ledgermayne when it's being converted back into the raw mana from which it was made by the Supreme Arcane Staff and Kitsune when he ends up being sucked into and sealed away in a rift leading him back to the Yokai world, that while saying a variation of "This Cannot Be!" in the process.

 Kitsune: (as he is about to run into the rift) No! Not like this! It can't end like this! I won't go back to the Yokai world! NOOO Ooooooooooooo! (gets sucked into the rift)

    • Even Dr. Voltabolt in the Adventure Quest Worlds Mogloween events has one as well after his Dental Driller is destroyed.

 Dr. Voltabolt: Nooo! My beautiful machines! You haf ruined my planz!

Hero: Serves you right! You were trying to ruin Mogloween for everyone!

    • Blizzy lets out one after Lionfang performs his Kick the Dog moment of burning the gifts, and another one after he shatters the snow globe containing the Spirit of Frostval and lays bare his intent to make the world suffer for "surrendering to evil" by destroying Frostval (which, fortunately, can't happen so easily, as the Spirit returns to Lionfang's shock and disbelief to set things right again).
    • In the finale of the Doomwood saga, Vordred uses his dreaded Voiduminance Necrot-Morph spell, the same spell that he used to turn the Paladins of Doomwood undead, on Artix. Cue the Big "NO!" from the Hero. Fortunately, the spell has no effect on Artix -- but that's because Artix is the Champion of Darkness.
  • Portal 2: During the core transfer, GLaDOS yells probably the most epic autotuned NOOOOO ever.
  • Dragon Age 2: In Act 3, when Anders blows up the chantry, Sebastian lets out a narmy "MAKER NOOOO!"
  • Putt-Putt Travels Through Time: After Pep gets sucked into the time machine and gets lost: "Pep! NOOOOOOO!"
  • In the first Pajama Sam game, Otto lets one out as he goes down a waterfall.
  • Double Switch: Eddie yells this a few times when you trap him at the end of the game.
  • Klogg from The Neverhood utters a Big No TWICE during the good ending. First, he yells it when Klaymen is about to put the crown back on Hoborg's head:

 Klogg: KLAYMEN! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

 Klogg: "Son of a-! (gets knocked out of the castle by the cannonball and falls off The Neverhood) NOOOOO!!!

  Fiona: No-! No-! NOOOOOOO!

  • In one of Wario-Man's comics in Wario Ware DIY Showcase, the pudding says, "Who says pudding can't be cool?" And then, after realizing that pudding cannot be cool, the pudding lets out a Big "NO!"
  • Achaea has quite a verbose one when you get afflicted with Whispering Madness. "No! It cannot be true! I cannot accept it! I beg of you to make it stop!"
  • Final Fantasy XIII-2: Noel lets one off when he realises Serah is about to die from her seeress powers:

  Noel: No... Serah - not now, please! Serah, snap out of it! NO!


Web Animation

  • Grif of Red vs. Blue spends the last moments of the third season screaming "No-!" (seemingly for hours, as said by Donut.), after the Red Team returns to Blood Gulch after an endevour with O'Mally. This extends to the the entire first episode of the fourth season, with lots of ridiculous plans (devised by Sarge, who else?) that attempt to force him off the cliff he's perched on. The plans are, in order, allowing him to scream until he passes out.

 Grif: NOOOOO!

Sarge: Simmons! Find a way to get Grif back down here right now!

Simmons: Alright. HEY GRIF! SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GET DOWN HERE! WE NEED TO CHECK OUT THE BASE!

Grif: NOOO! NOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Simmons: I don't think he's listening, sir.

Grif: NOOO! THAT TIME I WAS ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION! NOOOOO!

Sarge: That does it, Simmons, go get him down now.

Donut: Sarge, if he keeps screaming like that, he'll pass out, and fall off the cliff!

Sarge: Cancel that order Simmons!

Grif: NOOOOOOOO!

Sarge: (sighing) Donut, get me a sniper rifle.

  • Strong Mad gets one of these in an encounter with Senor Cardgage on Homestar Runner.
    • Marzipan gets to say one after being forced to become Coach Z's girlfriend in a Halloween special. Since she read the cue card incorrectly, her first attempt sounds more like, "moo," with an "n," than, "no!"


Web Comics

 Elan: Hey, did someone in here just drop to their knees and scream, "Noooooo"? I got a feeling....

    • Durkon gets one of these in On the Origine of PCs after tasting what is allegedly the "finest beer brewed in all the human lands."
    • And the intermission comic, where... well just see for yourself.
    • V does it again after an as-of-yet unnamed dragon swears to kill V's kids.
    • Xykon, of all people, does it when his phylactery is nearly lost to the Snarl.

 Xykon: No no no no no no NO!

[...]

Xykon: YES!

 Professor Utonium: What's that you got there? Is that a... Wh--Th--P...P....

Buttercup: Parent-Teacher Conference...

Professor Utonium: NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!


Web Original

  • Necro Critic did this when he found out there was more to Ehrgeiz than just the terrible fighting game. This one lasted past his 30-second long end screen and continued even after stopping for air.
  • The end of the season 3 finale of AH Dot Com the Series: after it's revealed that they inadvertently overwrote the location of the Planet of the Nymphomaniacs in the ship's memory banks, the entire crew lets out a Big No so loud it literally echoes off distant galaxies and is heard in other dimensions.
  • A popular internet meme is RAEG, where a template comic strip is drawn on, with the ending of a grotesque face shouting "FFFFUUUU--" in situations like a no smoking sign, being caught watching porn, etc.
  • The Leet World's Chet usually greets the death of his drinking buddy Player with a cry of "Player, NOOOOO!" However, since the show is set inside a Video Game, dead characters are usually back in action next round. A notable exception is when Player is injured by Ahmad's grenade, as this took place outside the challenge levels where death is permanent. Lampshaded in the episode "Thunderhead" when Player breaks cover runs into the line of fire. Westheimer shouts "Player, No!" and Chet comments that it sounds better when he says it.
  • The Angry Video Game Nerd: In the "Christmas Carol" episode: "NOOOOOOO! NO! NO! NO!", when the Ghost of Christmas Future shows him his tombstone, in the style of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest.
  • In the Zero Punctuation review of Spore, Yahtzee delivers a deadpan Big No. Twice. Both times in his inimitably snarky manner.

 "So can his new game Spore possibly live up to that legacy? In short, no. In long, noooooooooooooo..."(total length: 17 seconds)"...ooo.

So I guess what I'm asking is, 'Can brightly coloured monstrosities really compare to Batman?' Short answer, Nooooooooo..." (interrupted by closing music)

 Nostalgia Critic: No... it's not true... it's impossible!!!

Darth Vader: Search your feelings, you know it to be true!

Nostalgia Critic: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

  NO! NOOOOOO!

 "Unfortunately for Junior, he's getting shipped to St. Understated, Thoughtful Conclusions Academy. Life's gonna be rough."

    • Also a quieter-than-usual (but angry) example as an opinion on planking.
  • The Annoying Orange: Orange at the end of More Annoying Orange and Cheese at the end of A Cheesy Episode.
  • Spoony reacts this way in the "Party Mania" review first to suffer an eternity of a party in Canada and the second time when he will lose his 'wiener'.
    • He mocks the use of one in Tekken: Blood Vengeance, arguing that they hadn't really reached the Noooooo! stage of a relationship given their three minutes of screentime.
  • NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
  • Two in Water Human, both very dramatic and ending abruptly. First, the Water-Human cries out over David Hasselhoff's corpse, before realizing that it's weird to angst so much over a guy he knew for less than a minute. Later on Water-Human and a prison warden cry over the Large Beetle, who claims to have a heart attack, but then reveals he was just kidding.
  • Chad Vader does this when he finds out that his girlfriend Libby has been deported, only for the Marshmallow Bandito to harass him.

 Chad: You picked the wrong day to mess with me, nerd! (beats him up)

 Marik: I'll just work on my tan. Wait. I'm a vampire. I no longer have a tan. NOOOOOOOO!

  • The end of the "Sloppy Roethlisberger" episode of EPICMEALTIME has Harley accidentally breaking and spilling an entire bottle of Jack Daniels, with this being the appropriate response from someone in the background.
  • A couple of times throughout Nakar's Let's Play Ultima series, but most memorably right at the end of Ultima VI.

 Beh Lem: "To be saying nooooooooooooo in slow motion!"

Death Cannon: *BOOM*

  • Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl: After Lenore dies, Ragamuffin shouts one while he begs to Lenore's corpse to not leave him.
    • The Ladybug from Last Dance of Ladybug also gives one after she was injured by a kid.
  • Twice in Two Best Friends Play. One was Pat's response to the thought of paying for all of Vampire Rain, and the other is when Matt found out they were going to play Shaq Fu.
  • Gronkh often shows this reaction, for example on various occasions when being killed in Minecraft, (most often by a creeper, for example here).
  • Shiny Objects Videos: In "Fishsticks", being the World of Ham that it is, a Big No was all but inevitable.
  • In the Eddsworld episode "Zanta Claws II", Tom has only recently gotten a present of reality eyes. Zanta however is about to kill the real Santa. Tom takes the shot while letting off one of these. The shot hits his eyes, reflects off them and hits a chandelier, crushing Zanta at the cost of his eyes.

  Tom: I hate Christmas...

 Lani: OH MY GOD A TANK!

Gan: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!


Western Animation

  • Used in the Teen Titans episode "Birthmark" by Raven when Slade shows her a vision of a destroyed world that she's going to create. Also used by Raven in the same episode when she refuses for a final time the party the others have planned for her birthday and destroys everything with her powers.
  • The Penguins of Madagascar are in love with this trope. Most come from Skipper.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants:

 Patrick: Maybe it's just because you're ugly.

SpongeBob: Ugly?! (sticks finger in mouth, slides it across his eyebrows) You gotta be kiddin' meh.

Patrick: Let us try the reflection test. (holds up a mirror in front of SpongeBob)

SpongeBob: (to reflection) Hi! (SpongeBob's reflection grabs a hammer and breaks itself after smelling SpongeBob's breath)

Patrick: Uuuuuuglyyyyyyy....

SpongeBob: OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

 (Homer gives a running dive with an unenthusiastic Big No)

Instructor: Well, your lunge was good, but I just couldn't believe your 'NOOOOOO'! You gotta sell it! Remember, your 'NOOOOOO' is what gets you paid! Now drop and give me 20!

Homer: NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Instructor: Better.

    • Used straight in episode "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson", when Barney discovers he holds the black pickled egg that means he's today's designated driver.

 Barney: (after noticing the others have normal eggs and slowly seeing he got the black one) NOOOOOO! (crushes the egg in his hand and holds his head)

Homer: (coming up to him) You got the black one.

    • Also used straight by Bart in "Black Widower".
    • Seymour Skinner does three in a row in the episode "Bart's Comet", each with increased intensity; firstly, when he discovers that Bart has managed to discover a comet, something Skinner has dreamed of for years, when he briefly left Bart in charge of his telescope whilst trying to capture a less-than-complementary hot-air-balloon depicting Skinner with a giant rear that Bart earlier released ("Noooo!"). Then, he realises that in his earlier grief he's released the hot-air-balloon, letting it float free to humiliate him further ("Noooo!"). Then, a paperboy drops the morning paper in front of him, with a headline reading "PREZ SEZ: SCHOOL IS FOR LOSERS": ("NOOOOOOOOOOOO!").
    • Skinner pulls a similiar one season 4's "Duffless".
    • Done yet again in "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words". Homer makes Lisa so angry that she tells him that she's going to use Marge's maiden name (Bouvier) instead of Simpson. Homer drops to his knees and screams "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Then another girl walks buy and asks if he wants to buy some Band Candy. Homer's reply: "YEEEEEEEEEEEES!"
    • And then there's the episode where the Flanders's get Bart, Lisa, and Maggie as foster children.

 Ned: Do you reject Satan, and all his empty promises?

Homer: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! (skin burns on contact with holy water)

    • "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?":

 Lisa: Dad, no! [The poisoned eclair] is going to kill you!

Homer: Eh, I've had a good run. (prepares to take a bite)

Lisa: No! (thinks) It's low-fat!

Homer: NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! (throws eclair)

    • And parodied yet again in an episode where Grandpa is a Sprawl-Mart greeter, and gets knocked onto an out-of-control shopping buggy.

 Grandpa: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-- (cut to show that he's headed for a stack of lawn gnomes) --OOOOOOMES!

    • In "Homer's Barbershop Quartet", Chief Wiggum lets out one that gets twisted into a wolf-type howl at the moon.
    • In the beginning of the episode where Bart made a new friend who was the daughter of Wolfcastle, Marge threw the Olympic Torch to the police and the police helicopter crashed and...

 Policeman 1: Are you okay?

Policeman 2: Yeah, im ok...(looks at extinguished Olympic Torch)"NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"

    • In the "138th Episode Spectacular", alternate clips are shown including another ending as to who shot Mr. Burns. When he fingers Smithers as the culprit, Smithers gives a big no then adds, "Wait a minute. Yes."
    • Played for Laughs in the episode where Marge gets a job at the Power Plant. Smithers is finished cleaning the unirals until...

 (Homer bursts in)

Homer: Oh, man! I really gotta-- (unzips fly)

Smithers: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

  • Many in Futurama. In particular, being a parody of melodramatic acting, Calculon the robotic soap-opera star is prone to do this sort of thing a lot.
    • "Bend Her" has two in one episode. Calculon is being interviewed on a talk show with Coilette as another guest (who is Bender who changed his robotic sex and invented his own country to win multiple fembot Olympic medals). When asked to set the audience up for the clip they are about to show from a new episode, Calculon responds "No, I think it's self-explanatory." The clip shows Calculon screaming "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!" (while a Pirate inexplicably cooks burgers on a barbecue behind him). After the clip, Calculon nonchalantly replies, "Funny story: The script called for me to say 'yes' but I gave it a little twist." Afterwards, "Coilette" ends up engaged to Calculon but has to call the wedding off before the sex change becomes permanent. After... she fakes her death of at what would have been her wedding to Calculon...

 Dr. Zoidberg: (in the middle of eating and nonchalantly) I'm a doctor. He's dead.

Calculon: No! NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO! N! O! O! O!

    • Done again by Calculon in "That's Lobstertainment!", when Harold Zoid (Zoidberg's over-the-hill celebrity uncle) is trying to make a movie that will guarantee him an Oscar.
    • In "Mars University", Gunther the genius monkey decides to get a degree in business with his now only decent intelligence. causing Professor Farnsworth to shout a big no.
    • In "Love and Rocket", Bender dumps the crazy Planet Express ship while she, and the main cast inside her, are being chased by a large fleet from Omicron Persei 8. Cue big, shrieking no.
    • "When Aliens Attack": Fry gets one off after a ship from Omicron Persei 8 blows up his sand castle, immediately after the Omnicronians blew up many world monuments gathered in the same part of New New York.
    • And Fry again in Into the Wild Green Yonder when Bender gives him back his game (he was playing Tetris) and Bender tell him he missed up the "L" formation he was making with the blocks.
    • Fry again in "Fry and the Slurm Factory", when Leela dumps the trough of pure Slurm he'd been eating from into the sewers.
    • Fry again in the episode "Time Keeps On Slippin'" when his love letter to Leela ends up being destroyed.
    • Fry yet again in "Benderama" when the "disfigured" giant, pushed over the edge by having his mother insulted and his therapist putting him on hold, defeats the giant nano-Bender facsimile and sends him crashing to the ground.
    • Bender in the episode Lethal Inspection when he learns he wasn't built with a back-up unit
    • In "Benderama", during an episode of the Show Within a Show "The Scary Door". A scientist builds a robot that does everything for him, including shouting "NOOOO!" when the irony of the Karmic Twist Ending sinks in.
    • In "The Duh-Vinci Code" when Fry accidentally destroys The Professor's Beard of Leonardo Da Vinchi only for him to find a hidden scroll in it a second later.

 Professor: No! Noooooo! But possibly yes.

    • Played with by Bender in "Silence of the Clamps" where, after delivering a Big No as he witnesses Calculon getting clamped into a misshapen mess in front of the Robot Mafia, describes the scene in hilariously full detail in front of the chief of police, complete with imitation of said Big No. When required to testify before a grand jury, he repeats his bit-by-bit exposition of the Robot Mafia's act, only to have the Big No reproduction interrupted by the prosecutor. He asks to let him finish, then lets out a brief "o" representing the end of the Big No, then says that he is, in fact, finished.
  • In a Robot Chicken sketch involving Archie and his friends dealing with deaths plaguing everyone, Moose lets out a Big Duh when Ms. Grundy is crushed by a car.
    • In the Star Wars Robot Chicken Special (3rd one), Vader slips on something, and falls. His hand gets stuck in the toilet, and the toilet flushes. Cue the: "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
  • Jackie Chan Adventures:
    • Shendu yells this after ending up possessing Valmont, instead of Jackie, which was what he intended. Almost all of the Demon Sorcerers scream this when they are banished back to the Netherworld through their portals. When they banish the Earth Demon, Jade hangs a lantern on it: "Here comes my favourite part. "NOOO!""
    • Uncle is also fond of the Chinese version "Iyaaaa!" -- usually just before smacking Jackie around the head for doing something stupid.
  • Parodied throughout the Drawn Together episode "Terms of Endearment", in which Captain Hero screams "Nnnooooooo!!" at least 7 or 8 times. At one point (as the camera pulls back... and back... and then back some more, to reveal just how big a problem he's facing) Hero screams the Big No three times in a row, with dramatic pauses in between.
  • Often used by Swat Kats villains such as Dark Kat and The Pastmaster when the heroes defeat them.
  • Done straight on a fairly regular basis in Re Boot. Bob, being shot into the Web at the end of season two, Enzo, after learning about Bob's fate, Dot in "Game Over" when it appeared that Enzo had been nullified (that scene, coupled with Megabyte's calm laughter, still gives this editor chills), and said twice by Megabyte in two episodes toward the end. This YTMND does a rather good job of pointing out just how often this trope is played.
    • Lampshaded in the musical recap at the end of the third season:

 Singer: But Megabyte betrayed Bob and

He threw him deep inside the pit.

The pit was closed,

and Bob was hosed,

and all that he could say was-

Actor Bob: Noooo!

  • The X-Men animated series:
    • A wonderful Big No can be found in episode 4 of season 2, "One Man's Worth part 1". The first occurrence is when Bishop shouts it as Professor X is assassinated in the '50s before he can found the X-Men, followed quickly by an epic Big No from Prof. X when he vanishes from the present. The episode ends with a repeat of the opening scene -- but this time, it's in slow motion for the last few lines of dialogue, including Bishop's Big No. Behold.
    • Also there's a Big No from Apocalypse at the end of the four part "Beyond Good and Evil".
    • As well as one from Wolverine in "Out of the Past: Part 2" when Yuriko was touched by the M'Kraan Spirit Drinker.
    • In addition, there's one from Cyclops in "Reunion, Part 1" when Sinister and his gang kidnaps Jean.
  • Another Big No scene sadly fails in X-Men: Evolution, when Nightcrawler reacts too slow to stop an angry Rogue from pushing Mystique's petrified body off a cliff and has to see it shatter into a thousand shards right in front of him, shortly after finding out that Mystique was his mother. Again, the scene would have been so much better without the slow-motion yell. When recapping that episode in the introductions to later ones, they put the "NOOOO" back at normal speed. It's much more effective.
  • Transformers
    • Optimus Primal gets quite a few in Beast Wars, most notably in the cliffhanger of the first season finale, and when the Axalon is destroyed in season 3.
      • Inverted with Megatron, as he usually says "Yesssssssssssssss."
      • Last episode of Beast Machines. Megatron's final word? "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
    • And in Armada, Optimus Prime gets one of these when Smokescreen dies.
    • Parodied in the "Bee in the City" script reading of Transformers Animated, with David Kaye using his Beast Wars Megatron voice (to enthusiastic approval from the crowd). Upon his defeat, he vows to return, ending with a Big Yes "YEEESSS!"
    • In Animated, the Autobots discuss having to leave, and Bulkhead wonders how Sari (human sidekick) will take it. Bumblebee says she's a big girl and can handle it. Cut to Sari screaming NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! at the top of her lungs.
    • Not to mention the episode "Nature Calling" when Prowl smashes Bumblebee's only battery, rendering him unable to see movies in the middle of nature. His "NOOOO!" was truly epic.
  • In The Spectacular Spider-Man, the Sandman gets one of these after seeing the results of his Transformation Trauma into a living sand being.
  • Littlefoot gets one of these in The Land Before Time IX: Journey to Big Water, as he watches Mo lead the swimming sharptooth away.
  • Used in American Dad by either Stan, Francine or Hayley when they believe Steve and Roger were killed by a lightning-struck treehouse. Rather effective due to how strangled and broken it sounded. Steve also gets a particularly good one.
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender
    • There's a slow-motion one from Zuko in the Grand Finale when Taking the Bullet for Katara. Cue "must run in the family" jokes...
    • It really does; Iroh has a (much less dramatic) one when he sees June get hit with her Shirshu's paralyzing tongue.
    • There's also one in the desert episode, right before Aang creates a giant mushroom cloud.
    • Parodied in the Who Would Want to Watch Us?}}? episode when Actress Aang lets out a nice 9 second "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" as she "dies".
    • Katara has one in the Puppetmaster when Hama nearly forces Sokka and Aang to kill each other using Bloodbending.
  • Danny Phantom
    • When Danny's family and friends (and teacher) are about to be blown up to their doom in an alternate timeline, Danny cries one out, complete with slow motion movement.
    • Vlad later gets one in another episode when his perfect clone is destroyed by Danny and his Opposite Sex Clone. For just one word, it's brilliantly acted.
  • In one episode of the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 series, Baxter Stockman lets out a big "WHY?" after Bishop brought him back from the brink of death (as a result of the events in "Insane in the Membrane"), which robbed him of finally resting in peace after everything he lived through in the series. It...comes across a bit narm-y.
  • Kim Possible
    • In "Stop Team Go", after using hundreds of mooks to destroy the gurken jar, Dr. Drakken puts the jar under a big laser beam, and he fires it. The result was a big crater on the floor, and the jar was unharmed. Cue Big No.
    • In another episode, upon learning that her very annoying younger twins have been skipped ahead and are now in the same high-school as her, Kim lets out a big no powerful enough to knock letters of the school sign out front, while she's indoors.
  • The Powerpuff Girls
    • "Daylight Savings": "PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCE?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
    • Captain Righteous and Lefty confront the Ministry of Pain in "Fallen Arches". The Captain lets out a big no as he runs towards Lefty who just hurt his hip. However, he hasn't reached his sidekick yet so he shouts it again.
  • Parodied in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Boo Boo Kitty", when Space Ghost's pet cat, actually a large balloon, slowly drifts towards a large safety pin. He screams NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!, runs out of breath, inhales, and starts again. After the balloon deflates, he promptly ignores the others when they suggest he could have easily saved Boo Boo Kitty from its untimely death.
  • Played for laughs in Metalocalypse, where Big Nos are Nathan's catchphrase, and he lets them out quite regularly. They are usually accompanied by the camera flying down Nathan's throat. One example comes when Nathan lets out a NOOOOOOOOOO! upon Nick Ibsen revealing Dethklok's parents.

 Nick Ibsen: You are all going to be reunited with your families.

(a panel opens up, revealing the families of each of the five band members)

Nathan Explosion: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! You're going to pay for this!

Nick Ibsen: Pay for what? Journalistic integrity?

    • The bit on flying down the throat comes from the episode "Murdering Outside the Box". When Nathan learns that someone is embezzling from the band, he suddenly goes into the Big No sequence, and from the "down the throat" bit the show goes into the opening.
    • It also happens when Nathan, after having death-growled the entire works of Shakespeare to sell as an audiobook, learns that an extremely-inebriated Pickles "like...TOTALLY forgot to hit record, man." The strain of recording the growled version of "Hamlet" having taken its toll on Nathan's larynx, the Big No was rasped rather than screamed.
  • The Buzz Lightyear of Star Command episode "Plasma Monster" has Booster react this way when Plasma Boy's girlfriend tells him they can still be Just Friends.
  • Ace Lightning: The characters in this mixed media show are based on superhero stereotypes, so this was going to show up sooner or later -- except that it's not one of the CGI characters that do it -- it's a human, in the last episode, when he thinks Ace has been shot.
  • In Street Fighter, Guile gives one when Cammy defected to Shadaloo and gives Bison a big kiss. Note the Soundtrack Dissonance.
  • In Freakazoid episode "House of Freakazoid", Freakazoid is pressured to pursue a villainess through a sewer, but repeatedly refuses because he hates the smell of poo gas.

 Freakazoid: NO! A big N, followed by a little O: no!

  • Parodied in The Fairly Odd Parents "Wishology: The Exciting Middle Part", which ends with a big "Dagnabit!"
    • Played straight in the Fairly Oddparents: Shadow Showdown video game; Timmy shouts it after his TV breaks in the introduction, and again upon seeing he's missed the Crash Nebula season finale at the end.
    • And parodied in "Pixies Inc", where, after being foiled, the Pixies let out a big no--with no emotion.
  • Cow of Cow and Chicken did it in an episode while jumping to catch a coin. In slo-mo. With the entire world slowed down as well.
  • In the last episode of the third season of The Venture Brothers, Henchman 21 indulges in a Big No when the Monarchmobile explodes with Henchman 24 trapped inside, but is interrupted when 24's severed head hits him in the chest.
  • In Brother Bear, Kenai lets out the distant, bird-disturbing version of a Big No when he discovers he's been transformed into a bear.
  • In Batman Beyond, Derek Powers accidentally inhales a big gulp of his own nerve gas, and in the same second it takes him to realize what has happened to him, makes an appropriately horrified scream to this effect.
  • An episode of Family Guy has Peter be really upset over the loss of his pet parrot.
  • The Donkey Kong Country episode "Buried Treasure" contains this exchange when Klump's video conference interrupts K. Rool's computer game:

 Klump: General Klump reporting, King K. Rool sir! Y'read me, your high 'n mightyness?... Looking a little pale there, chief!

K. Rool: NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (smashes the computer)

Klump: (calling on the phone) Chief? You there, chief? Seems we had some sort of interference.

  • In an episode of Flap Jack, The Real Adventurer has the reaction to Bubbie telling him K'Nuckles is not a pregnant woman.
  • Invader Zim just loves to scream. The Big No is his favourite.
    • From the same show we also have the most epic Big No of all time as delivered by a random guy at a park bench who's soda can is being crushed by Mars.
    • And then there's two Big No's in the episode "Zim Eats Waffles".
  • South Park:
    • The episode "Jewbilie" does it four times in a row: First Kyle when Kenny makes a Heroic Sacrifice to stop Haman, then Haman when Moses escapes the conch shell, then anti-semetic Rabbi Garth screams it twice when he realizes his plans have been foiled.
    • The Movie:

 Kyle: (long speech) I don't want a fighter. I want my mom.

Soldier: (moved, sniffs) Poor little fella.

Sheila: NOOOOOOOOO! (wrestles rifle out of the general's hands and shoots Terrance and Phillip)

 Mormon: We were just about to do a play about how much stealing hurts you deep inside. Come join us. (the Mormons lift Saddam over their heads and carry him off)

Saddam: No! NOOOOOO!

    • "Something You Can Do With Your Finger" parodies the Star Trek First Contact example above, when Randy prevents Stan from being in his boy band. Incidentally, they actually use the sound clip of Picard's breakdown from the movie for that scene.

 Stan: Why can't I be in a boy band?

Randy: (firmly) Because I Said So.

Stan: Cartman said we're going to perform at the mall at three o'clock! My friends are gonna be pissed off at me!

Randy: (still pretty controlled) Let them be pissed off.

Stan: Dad, I don't understand. Just let me do this one thing and then I'll...

Randy: (inexplicably losing it) Noooo! NOOOOOOO! (smashes a glass dresser with his head)

    • In "The Last of the Meheecans", Randy does it again when he's confronted with what happens when Mexican immigrants performing menial labor all decide to move back to their birth country in a fit of nostalgia, using the same Darth Vader soundclip from Revenge of the Sith.
    • In "Marjorine" Linda Stotch lets out several blood-curling screams of "NO" when she thinks her son Butters has committed suicide by jumping off a building. She does it again at his funeral while throwing herself on his casket.
  • Rocko's Modern Life: Rocko and Heffer are on a bus tour of Paris with a bus driver who is determined to keep his passengers on the bus at all costs, so much so that he chases them around the city after they escape. By the time the two board a plane home, the bus driver delivers an epic BIG NO as the two fly off into the sunset.
  • Spider-Man: The Animated Series: Blade lets out a particularly narmtastic one of these in the season four episode, The Vampire Queen. And Spider-Man gives a particularly haunting one upon the death of the Mary Jane Clone.
  • Total Drama Island
    • Owen says a big no when a box of chocolates gets knocked into the water.
    • Also, Alejandro in the finale of the 3rd season gives out a Big No after he is put in a robot suit because he was burned by lava and trampled by most of the contestants. Al lets it out when he asks Chris if the prize money is safe, only to find out it was burned in the volcano. It's hilarious because it parodies the cheesiest moments in Star Wars history (which is seen in the picture above).
  • Phineas and Ferb
  • Parodied in the Musical Episode of Daria. Daria gives a Big No as Kevin accidentally locks the four of them out on the roof.
  • In one episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Robotnik lets out a Big No which is used extremely often in Youtube Poop. This video is also an Overly Long Gag.
  • Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic - Dante lets out a pained and enraged (and kinda narmy) big no as he beats on the Gates of Hell that separate him and his wife's soul.
  • This has happened more than once in Winx Club.
  • Mung Daal lets one out during an episode of Chowder.
  • Batman the Animated Series
    • Episodes "Pretty Poison" and "Eternal Youth", each near the end, have the villainess Poison Ivy saying this trope.
    • The episode "His Silicon Soul", near the end, has the cyborg Batman saying it after the real Batman fell to his death before Cyborg Batman committed suicide. Then it's revealed that Robin and Alfred see a light below which is Batman himself, who survived.
    • Used in the episode "Mad Love" by Harleen Quinzel after The Joker gets captured again and taken away from her which helps to show us her Sanity Slippage.
  • A few Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoons have this:

 Daffy Duck: All right. Let's get this picture started.

(Iris Out and THE END appears)

Daffy: Nooooo! Nooooo!

    • The Friz Freleng cartoon Bucaneer Bunny has Yosemite Sam (a.k.a. Pirate Sam) say a couple of Big No's when Bugs attempts to throw a matchstick inside his pirate ship which is filled with gunpowder.
    • Also one near the end of the McKimson short "Sleepy Time Possum" in which Paw Possum, disguised as a dog, gets catapulted by his son.
  • The Bonkers episode "In the Bag" has Lucky Piquel say this trope when both Bonkers and Lucky are chasing the bag in his police car only to find that the brakes are missing.
  • Jimmy Two-Shoes: Beezy lets out one as Heloise beats him in a staring eyes competition.
  • Eek the Cat lets one out in the episode "Cape Fur", when he's being dragged off by JB for punishment after he hears about the Killer Rabbit on the news.
  • Happy Tree Friends, while not exactly a "No!", has the very drawn-out "Yarr!" in the episode Sea What I Found. Given the circumstances, it's obvious that he means no.
  • In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron Jimmy gets one when he travels to the future and he discovers that his future self married Cindy. And when it comes back from commercial, we discover that he screamed for four minutes.
    • Sheen lets out one in the interstitial shorts after his Ultralord action figure gets stuck in a tree. Also lets one out in Ultra Sheen when he witnesses Ultra Lord's defeat at the hands of Robo-Fiend inside the the video game
    • Hugh does this in "Attack of the Twonkies" when Judy takes Flippy from him and throws him to Jimmy so he can power up his rocket and send the giant Twonkie back into space.
  • A Tom and Jerry short revolved around a duckling imprinting on Tom and Tom taking advantage of this to attempt to cook the duckling. Near the end, the duckling realizes that Tom intends to eat him and prepares to take a long walk off a soup spoon into a bubbling pot, "If my nice mommy wants a duck dinner..." Tom utters a Big No as he catches the duckling. A "No!" made all the more impressive by the fact that Tom & Jerry usually don't have speaking voices....
  • Happens in an episode of Nightmare Ned by the Tooth Fairy when Ned wins a game of checkers against a giant tooth for ownership of his teeth.
  • Little Dog in the Two Stupid Dogs episode "Cat!" after Big Dog goes back to sleep without scaring the cat.
  • This is Johnny Bravo's reaction to finding out the Easter Bunny isn't real.
  • Wakfu
    • Adamaï lets out a Big No (with Skyward Scream) at the end of episode 16, after Grougaloragran teleports the heroes away to fight Nox alone.
    • Nox, as part of his Villainous Breakdown in the season 1 finale, when he realizes that his attempted Time Travel only brought him back twenty frigging minutes in the past.
  • Happens quite often in Dexter's Laboratory. One time in particular, when Mandark forces Dexter to shut down his laboratory.
  • The Death Kwon Do instructor in Regular Show gets three rather nice ones. First when he discovers Rigby stole the instructions to learn the Death Punch of Death, only to be interrupted by a student explaining the toilet was 'Death Kwon clogged', leading to another Big No. Then finally, when he discovers that Mordicai stole the Death Jump and Death Dump instructions, he lets out another Big No.
  • Scaredy Bat lets one out in an episode of Ruby Gloom.
  • Spike does this twice in the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic episode "A Dog and Pony Show", both times coupled with Skyward Scream: the first when Rarity is kidnapped, and another when he realizes he and the other ponies have gotten themselves lost in the Diamond Dogs' mine.
    • Nightmare Moon does it in "Friendship is Magic, Part 2" when the Mane Six activate the Elements of Harmony and blast her with them.
    • Likewise, Discord does it in "Return of Harmony, Part 2", when the Mane Six use the Elements to turn him back into stone.
    • It seems to be tradition for the big baddies to give one upon defeat, as the Big Bad of the second Season Finale, Queen Chrysalis lets off a very nice one just before being blasted clean out of Equestria by Shining Armor and Princess Cadence hitting her with a Heart Beat-Down. Her Voice of the Legion makes it especially nice.
    • In "Stare Master", Fluttershy's reaction to Applebloom suggesting the Cutie Mark Crusaders try to get coal-mining cutie marks is a very emphatic (especially for her) "NO!"
    • Scootaloo does this in "Cutie Mark Chronicles", when Fluttershy suggests singing another (cutesy) song.
    • The Cutie Mark Crusaders do this at the end of "Hearts and Hooves Day" when Big Macintosh and Cheerliee make the Crusaders think the two of them are still under the influence of the love poison.
  • In Veggie Tales, Larry the Cucumber did this when Archibald inserted "His Cheeseburger" in the jukebox. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..."
  • Johnny delivers one in Johnny Test. And then the ground shakes.
  • Richard in The Amazing World of Gumball, when told he has to get a job.
  • Princess Sally yells it in Sonic's bad dream when she is roboticized in Sonic the Hedgehog, episode "Sonic's Nightmare".
  • Utterd by Kabuto at the end of Tokyo Mater as a result of him losing to Mater in a drift race and is about to have all of his modifications pulled off his body by all of the other cars in Tokyo, who then laugh at him when Kabuto is finally naked.
  • Recess uses this a number of times, a few being "No...no...NOOOOOOO!!!!!":
    • "The Break In": Towards the end, by T.J. when he just broke himself out of detention and onto the playground, just as recess ended for the day.
    • "The New Kid": By Gus when his name is taken away and must be refered to as "New Kid"
    • "The Experiment": By T.J. and Spinelli when they find out they have to kiss each other to see what the effects were on the opposite sex.
    • "The Legend of the Big Kid": By Vince when he and the gang are looking for T.J.
    • "Mama's Girl": By Spinelli when no one will stop taunting her after she accidentaly called Miss Grotke "mama".
  • In Thundercats 2011 Lion-O performs one that overlaps with a Slow No and a Futile Hand Reach upon seeing his father King Claudus stabbed In the Back.
  • Green Lantern pulls off a gloriously hammy one when he's trapped inside a yellow smiley face time bomb in DC Super Friends.
  • My Life as a Teenage Robot: Vexus at the end of Escape From Cluster Prime, when Vega and her friends give Cluster Prime back their golden chips. Also, used in "Puppet Bride" by Mrs. Wakeman (along with a flying tackle) during a wedding between Little Acorn and Jenny.
  • Happens quite a lot on Adventure Time. In one episode, the Kid Hero Finn has to win a contest in order to win a kiss from his love interest, Princess Bubblegum. When one of the other contestants almost wins, he lets out a big no that reaches the level of a Sonic Scream.
    • Also lets one out in Mystery Train when Finn sees that Jake has been killed by the Conductor.
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Meatwad gives one when he finds out Shake ate Inside-Out Boy.
  • Transformers Prime has Knock Out doing one when Starscream punishes him in "Speed Metal".
    • Miko does one when Bulkhead almost gets beheaded in "I.M.I.".
    • Arcee yells out a "No!" when a replication of Unicorn was about to kill Optimus.
    • Megatron gets a magnificent one during "Orion Pax Part 3" when Jack restores Optimus's memories and the Autobots escape.
  • The Ren and Stimpy Show: In "Sven Hoek" Ren lets out a Big No after he sees that Sven and Stimpy ruined his collection of rare incurable diseases.


Real Life

  • EVERYONE.
  • Team Liquid when Savior's possible retirement was announced: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..."
  • A viral video showed a guy spoiling Harry Potter to a bunch of Harry Potter fans waiting outside a bookstore for the novel. One fan's reaction: "NOOOOOOOOOO! You Bitch! YOU BITCH!!".
  • In a video featured on many cop shows, a man being arrested for possession of marijuana screams "NOOOOOOOOO! Please! God Almighty!" etc., a.k.a. the Crybaby Criminal.
  • This will happen quite a lot during hot blooded Left 4 Dead expert campaigns whenever the last player left alive after the second Tank dies gets tackled by a hunter feet away from the rescue vehicle.
    • Or when a user gets his righteous Karmic Retribution in the form of a Karma Charger or Karma Tank. This troper's ears are still ringing
  • In 2004, a woman at a Dick Cheney rally was arrested and nearly charged for shouting five Big Nos in a row.
  • Youtube video: When a man finds out his cat's arms are missing -- "Egon? What happened to your arms Egon? Egooooooooonnn! Noooooooooooooooo!"
  • American senator Larry Craig shouted "NNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!" when the man he was propositioning for anonymous gay sex (by tapping his toes) in a Minneapolis airport bathroom revealed that he was a police officer. Later, he tried to claim that while he had been tapping his toes in the bathroom stall, he wasn't cruising -- he simply had a "wide stance" while using the toilet. This created one of the world's most epic political memes, but convinced nobody -- if his taps were completely innocent, why the Big No?
  • This girl's reaction to her boyfriend's prank of tampering with her shampoo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sercfn8YoD4
  • This trope is particularly popular with children about eight or under who aren't getting their way.
  • More interestingly than some of the above, the recent political unrest in Syria has lead for the Syrian Branch of the Muslim Brotherhood to call for you to shout a Big No?”
  • These young girls' reactions upon seeing David Cook win American Idol.
  • This man watching his football team losing a game that will result in the team falling out of the "A" league, big no is at 2:48 but you want to watch it all, it's hilarious. (it's in spanish unfortunately, there are subtitles that kind of suck but get the message across. Also, VERY NSFW, a lot of swearing and such). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSZ 3 JVW Dw 4 I
  • The youtube user Hamster Alliance let's out a hilarious (and completely understandable) one during his playthrough of Super Meat Boy. He also tends to degenerate into sad "I want to give up" laughter and random bouts of frustrated gibberish.
  • The shirt of ultimate disambiguation.

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  1. ↑ It literally means "unpleasant"... but is usually translated "no" when in line with this trope.
  2. ↑ It's a video game recreation of the play, with Paul Allen's commentary added in. Apparently, the original video was taken down.
  3. ↑ This is only in the Japanese version, though. The English version messed it up; even though the 360 camera action exists, the voice actress only gives a short "No...!"
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