Incoming

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A Stock Phrase where a character (often the Comic Relief) alerts the other character(s) of an "incoming" danger, often a large, falling object of some kind.

Expect an Oh Crap or two on the side.

This is Truth in Television as "Incoming!" is the traditional warning call for artillery shelling about to hit a unit's area. Since this is often the deadliest form of attack, the soldiers definitely have to find cover.

Not to be confused with the 1998 game of the same name by Rage Software.

Examples of Incoming include:


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Cris Johnson: [knows he's about to be punched by Liz's stalker] Incoming. [gets punched in the face]

Toby: [cough] Incoming.
Viola: Check out the booty on that blondie.

Scott Calvin: Santa rolling down the block in a PANZER! Well, kids, I... I certainly hope you have been good this year, because it looks like Santa just took out the Pearson home. Incoming!

Ironhide: INCOMING!

Jetfire: INCOMING!

Junior Asparagus: Incoming! Boysenberry at 3 o'clock!

  • The Matrix Reloaded. When a Squiddy throws a bomb at Soren's ship, a crewman yells "Incoming!". It doesn't help.
  • Star Trek VI, when the Enterprise is getting walloped by Chang's BoP:

Chekov: Incoming!

  • Gnomeo and Juliet has an "incoming!" followed by a flying gnome who lands lands hat-side down and the hat's point sticks in the ground.
  • Stripes combines this with an Oh Crap, when a poorly aimed mortar shell comes in on where Sgt. Hulka is training the recruits.

Live Action TV

Daniel Webster: Trouble.
Cully Barnaby: What?
Daniel Webster: Incoming. My dynamic dad.

TV's Frank: Frank! Incoming!

Video Games

  • C: The Contra Adventure. Sometimes when you make Ray launch a bomb in the third-person view mission:

Ray: Incoming!

Western Animation

Optimus Prime: Would it kill you guys to say something like, "Watch out," or, I don't know, "Heads up," or...
Ratchet: Incoming!

Web Comics

  • Lenny does it at the end of a Sunday special in The Wotch. Of course, if you had read Accidental Centaurs before, you knew he would say that, since he crosses over both 'verses.