Defensive "What?": Difference between revisions

== [[Literature]] ==

* In ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'', Jackrum gets defensive after laying out the bouncer in the camp [[The Oldest Profession|seamstresses']] tent.

'''Jackrum''': ''[approvingly]'' Oh, you-- all right, I'd just given Madame the old 'quietus'... }}

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Babylon 5]]'': When the station [[It Makes Sense in Context|fails to explode or disappear.]]

'''[[[Beat]]], as Sinclair and Garibaldi wordlessly walk away.''' <br />

'''Ivanova''': What? Look, somebody's gotta have some damn perspective around here! Boom. Sooner or later. '''BOOM!''' }}

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': In one case, used to lampshade that [[The Fool|Xander]] was the one to know some key bit of information.

'''Giles:''' It's just somewhat unprecedented. }}

* Norm Peterson did this at least once on ''[[Cheers]]''.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In the ''Meet the Spy'' video for ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', the BLU Soldier delivers one of these after shooting {{spoiler|the BLU Spy}}.

* ''[[Mass Effect]]'''s Kaidan, when having his infamous [[Covert Pervert]] moment. "It does sound like something that you'd find on an extranet fetish site. ''[beat]'' ...''[[Defensive What|what]]''?"

 

* In the premiere episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', this is Pinkie Pie's reply to the others' stares after she eats a cupcake smothered in [[Blazing Inferno Hellfire Sauce|hot sauce.]]

* In ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', when Phantom Limb tranquilizes Brock for insulting Dr. Girlfriend.

* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' lists the top ten things co-headwriter Doug Goldstein could have done with the $12,000 he blew on his timeshare. One example is putting a dollar in $12,000 g-strings. When he is seen doing just that with a male dancer, he gives a defensive what before explaining he ran out of chicks.