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**** Also occurs after the rest of the gang arrives,when the mooks show up while Lorne is singing.
{{quote| '''Lorne''': Stop! In the name of love,/before you break my heart/think it ooh sh--}}
** A particularly good example has Wolfram & Hart, the evil corporation that has been trying to make Angel's life Hell and profits on people's misery, being trapped by Darla and Drusilla. Angel enters in an expected [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment, only to subvert it by saying he won't save them. The look on Holland Manners' face is brilliant. He pleads "People are going to die!", only for Angel to [[Ironic Echo|echo]] his earlier comments: "And yet, somehow, I just can't seem to care." It's the first major sign of Angel's descent, but it's hard not to cheer for the [[Laser
* In the ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' episode "Six of One", Cavil experiences this when newfound rebel leader Natalie reveals she's given some Centurions free will -- and they're not pleased about what Cavil is doing.
{{quote| '''Cavil:''' Say ''WHAT!?''}}
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* Sierra's rapist handler Joe Hearn in the ''[[Dollhouse]]'' episode "Man on the Street," when -- on the verge of assassinating Mellie -- he hears Adelle's voice on the answering machine: {{spoiler|"There are three flowers in a vase. The third flower is green." It's the last thing Hearn ever hears, as the sentence triggers Mellie's fighting imprint; she kills her would-be killer within 15 seconds.}}
** Also, {{spoiler|Adelle's reaction in "The Hollow Men" when Boyd plays a recording of the trigger phrase on an intercom, causing Mellie to shoot at Paul.}}
* In ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'', Mohinder disables [[Ax Crazy]] villain Sylar's superpowers in order to torture, [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|taunt]], and eventually [[You Killed My Father|kill]] him. {{spoiler|But when he pulls the trigger, the bullet stops in mid-air, and Sylar unstraps himself from the chair and stands up, having [[A Wizard Did It|mysteriously]] gotten his powers back. Mohinder freezes in place, and the look on his face when he realizes he's now at the mercy of an incredibly powerful [[Ax Crazy]] serial killer he's just spent the last hour torturing, belongs in the [[Oh Crap]] hall of fame.}}
** Sylar gets one of these too {{spoiler|on Kirby Plaza after getting several super-powered punches to the face looks up just in time to see Hiro teleport in ready to stab him.}}
** In Volume 3, The look on Bennet's face {{spoiler|after he realizes that Peter is no longer possessing Jesse.}}
** Similarly, in the end of Volume 4, {{spoiler|Sylar makes it clear he's no longer interested in humoring [[Big Bad]] Danko's orders. Danko casually stabs him in his weak spot, seemingly killing him. When Danko turns to walk away, Sylar rises up from the ground and looms over Danko, clearly very, very much annoyed. The look on Danko's face is ''priceless''}}.
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** And "again" in said finale, {{spoiler|when it looks like Sylar's plan to get close to the President so that he can shapeshift into him is about to succeed, we find out that he can't because it's actually Peter, who stole his ability earlier and in turn stabs Sylar with a tranquilizer. The look on Sylar's face shows that he's finally been owned after 3 seasons of fighting him with no clear winner, followed by a [[Badass]] quote from Peter:}}
{{quote| "You didn't think I took that one from you, did you?"}}
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*** "I was wrong!"
*** "I'm seein' in, but I'm not believin' it."
* In ''[[
* ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]''. Tenaya 7's reaction when she realizes that she's about to get her ass kicked by a [[Mad Scientist]] with [[Musical Assassin|a violin]] is truly a thing of beauty.
** ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' also gives us a few good ones. Rita's shocked "Huh?!" after the Mega Dragonzord vaporizes Mutitus, and a few "Uh-oh"s on some occasions when she sees her monster is about to die. In the third season her [[Dem Bones|skeletal]] brother Rito Revolto also delivers a priceless "Uh-oh" when he sees the Ninja Mega Falconzord about to pound him. Then in ''[[Power Rangers ZEO]]'' Rita and Zedd both have an [[Oh Crap]] moment when they see the Machine Empire arriving, and flee in Serpentera.
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** In "The Itch," House uses a gigantic tank of aerosol pesticide to [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|a single mosquito]] in his apartment. He turns on the spray, spots the mosquito, which he chases to his gas range. He swats at the mosquito, misses, and accidentally lights the stove. When House realizes that the flammable pesticide is still filling his apartment, he simply mutters an interested "Oh," before his apartment explodes. {{spoiler|[[All Just a Dream|It turns out all right.]]}}
* The simulation in the ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'' Season 1 finale had two beautiful Oh Crap moments made by {{spoiler|the Taliban insurgent when he noticed that he was about to be a casualty of friendly fire via RPG, and the last Taliban insurgent when he realized that the IRA insrugent had trapped him in a bus with a Nail Bomb in it}}.
* In the Season 3 [[Season Finale|finale]] of ''[[Primeval]]'' {{spoiler|[[Complete Monster|Helen's]]}} face as a {{spoiler|raptor}} interrupts {{spoiler|her}} [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] and [[Motive Rant]] to {{spoiler|give her a}} [[Karmic Death]] is a joy to behold. It's like the universe itself got to give {{spoiler|her}} a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]].
* This happens in the various ''[[Law and Order]]'' series quite often, considering how many [[Smug Snake|Smug Snakes]] swear they can beat the rap, and are then proven incorrect. The best was the closing statement scene in the episode "Life Choice" in which a fundamentalist nutjub got served by ADA Ben Stone rather magnificently.
** [[Law and Order SVU|ADA Casey Novak]] gets her CMOA in "Svengali", where a serial killer who thrives on his many fans has a fan who has been copying his work. He brokers a deal with Casey that if he testifies, she'll transfer him to a federal prison, which have much better accomodations than state prisons. After he testifies and his fan goes down, he's smirking at Casey, clearly thinking he's got the best of her, when she whips out this gem of a line:
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* Plenty in [[Supernatural]] what with the traveling the ''nation'' fighting monsters and pagan gods and such, and often barely winning.
** We get a pretty epic one at the end of season four, because it doesn't get much worse than {{spoiler|finding out that you've just accidentally unleashed Lucifer when you were trying to prevent exactly that.}}
** In season five, the gang has gone to considerable effort to get the Colt, which was the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] of the first two seasons and will kill anything. They sacrifice two of their own to get into a position to use it on Lucifer. [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Dean shoots the Devil in the head]]. Aaaaand...he gets back up. [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu|Whoops]].
** But in the final episode of season five, when [[Archangel Lucifer]] tells Sam and Dean he knows they have the one thing that can trap him, in such a confident way as to explain that's not a problem, Dean can't even ''try'' to mask this face.
** [[Oh Crap]] reactions all around at the end of season six. Raphael gets a quiet and terrified one when {{spoiler|she realizes that Castiel has absorbed the souls of Purgatory, [[A God Am I|becoming a new god.]]}} Ditto for the brothers and Bobby, who saw the entire thing, and were then told to {{spoiler|bow down or be killed}}.
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** Michael has a less subdued one in one episode when fighting a huge bounty hunter, who [[No Sell|ignores Michael's strikes]], staring up at him and letting out an "Ohhh damn."
* In ''[[Once Upon a Time]]'', Regina and Mr Gold plan to {{spoiler|frame Mary Margaret}} However, {{spoiler|Kathryn is found alive}}. When Regina confronts Mr Gold, she realizes he has made it all lead back to her. Her facial expression says it all!
** In that same episode, August pretends to be Mr Gold's estranged son, Baelfire, who {{spoiler|disappeared after being drawn int a portal. He and Rumplestitlskin were to go together, but Rumple chickened out}}. However, when Mr Gold figures it out confronts August and turns the tables on August. August knows he's messed up. Gold's face when August tried to control him clearly said "[[What an Idiot!]], this dagger doesn't work here!" because August is really {{spoiler|Pinocchio}} he knows who Mr Gold really is and what happens to those who anger! Mr Gold tells him "The chances of you surviving this encounter are pretty slim" and tells him he has to work for him if he wants to live. August clearly looks like "I've done it now!" at the end.
* The season 2 finale of ''[[Game of Thrones]]'' has a doozy at the end. Two words: [[Zombie Apocalypse|THREE Blasts]].
{{quote| '''Edd''': ''Three'' blasts... '''''RUN!!!!'''''
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