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* In the first anime for ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', upon being told that Negi had just [[Brought Down to Normal|depowered]] [[Willfully Weak|himself intentionally]], thus becoming [[The Load]], one female character bellowed a loud "Naaaaniiii!!?"

** Also from the manga:

"[[Balanced Harem|Everyone]]:" YOU WHAT!? }}

* In episode 14 of [[Azumanga Daioh]], Nyamo's "[[What Did I Do Last Night?]]" ends with a big WHHAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!?

== Fan Works ==

* In ''[[Turnabout Storm]]'', [[Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright]] collapses without warning right in his office, and while he's paralyzed and unable to move or see, he hears an unfamiliar voice talking to him. Once he gathers the strenght to wake up, he finds out he's not in his office anymore. Then he sees the source of that voice...

'''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Twilight Sparkle:]]''' ''Hey! You're a human aren't you?''<br />

'''Phoenix Wright:''' ''Yeah, I'm a human... [[Beat|*beat*]] WAIT, '''WHAT!?''''' }}

* [[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'s Vegeta has this reaction to finding out that {{spoiler|Dodoria's a woman.}}

'''Vegeta:''' ...'''WHAT?!''' }}

 

* In the first ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'' movie, Kraven does this when he finds out that "Selene's pet" (Michael) was bitten by a werewolf. His [[Big "What?"]] has the unfortunate side effect of waking up [[Oh Crap|Viktor.]]

* In ''[[Ali]]'', this is Cassius Clay Sr.'s reaction when his namesake son informs him that he'll no longer be known by his father's name.

'''Cassius Clay Sr.:''' What? You...you ''WHAT?!?'' }}

* In the comedy ''Clean Slate'', the hero lost his memory of his testimony for the mob, but taped what he could remember before he forgot the rest of it. Then he found his girlfriend accidentally taped over it, and did this trope.

* ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'': The Chief Blue Meanie after the Flying Glove misses at clobbering Old Fred:

** And before that, when Max says "yes":

* Happens in ''[[King Kong]]'' after Ann and Jack escape the jungle and the crew prepares to leave the island.

'''Englehorn:''' What?! }}

* ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'': 3 of them: [[Funny Moments|when the Beast learns Belle isn't coming to dinner (as ordered)]], Congsworth's reaction [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|when the Beast releases Belle to go find her father]], and the enchanted objects reaction when Cogsworth tells them.

* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'': Jafar uses this after Iago suggests he marry Princess Jasmine.

** That reaction probably has more to do with the way in which he initially worded it, though:

'''Jafar''': Marry the shrew? I become sultan? The idea has merit... }}

 

== Literature ==

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny|This little gem]] from ''[[Animorphs]]'': The team is on their way to plant a nuclear explosive so as to open a space-time rift to get out of the Cretaceous ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]). Ax, [[The Smart Guy|the local genius alien]]<ref>He's not as much of a genius as he should be, he was paying more attention to the hot girl in front of him during class than to the teacher</ref>, is in charge of placing it.

'''Jake:''' WHAT!? WHAT!? WHAAAAAT!? }}

* There's one of these in basically every one of the "Froggy" children's book series.

'''Froggy''': Whaaaat? }}

 

** And the other way around. See ''Voyage of the Damned.''

** From ''The Five Doctors'':

'''Castellan''': '''WHAT?''' [[Dull Surprise|No, not the]] '''mind probe'''. }}

* Both forms are running gags on ''[[Titus]]''; the big what is often used by Christopher as a reaction to the crazy thought patterns of those around him.

* The "Say What?" [[Mad Libs Catchphrase]] of ''[[Hannah Montana]].'' It was always said very specifically, "[General Description] say whaat?"

* An episode of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' uses a different word, but has the same effect. The ladies are listening to a woman give a eulogy at a funeral. The woman's mentioning all the wonderful things the deceased has done (which shocks them, because they all knew the woman as a total witch.) Then they realize she went into the wrong funeral: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ocZ57tgWr4 Bea Arthur's delivery is what made it a CrowningMomentOfFunny (at 1:15).]

'''Dorothy''': '''WHO!?''' }}

* On ''[[Boy Meets World]]'', Eric lets out an epically huge "what" after he learns that Mr. Feeny is retiring.

* [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] invoked this trope (''WHAT?'') as a heel in 2001, when he was acting strangely, saying "what?" during promos in order to repeat what he had just said. He first did this in [[Real Life Writes the Plot|real life]], when he was leaving a bored answerphone message (see [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOeZtJuiLUU this video on its origins]). Later he used it as an intimidation tactic, [[Misaimed Fandom|it caught on with the fans]] (''WHAT?'') and quickly became so popular (''WHAT?'') that they chanted "''WHAT?''" during the National Anthem (''WHAT?'') [[Heel Face Turn|and made Austin a face]] in the process (''WHAT?''). It quickly became an [[Overly Long Gag]] (''WHAT?'') and would be used on other wrestlers (''WHAT?''), particularly [[Kurt Angle]]. (''WHAT?'')

** [[The Undertaker]] was able to counter the "WHAT?" chant on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyKPySrEdK0 a 2002 episode of Raw]:

'''Undertaker''': [[Crowning Moment of Funny|I'll tell you what,]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|why don't you say "what" if you like to]] [[Brother-Sister Incest|sleep with your own sister.]]<br />

'''Crowd''': ''WHA...BOOOOOOOOOO'' }}

** As did [[Hulk Hogan]]:

'''[[Hulk Hogan]]''': --cha gonna do, brother, when Hulkamania runs wild on you? }}

** As did [[Roddy Piper]], who reacted as if the audience was asking him a question, ''every'' time.

** More recently, '''[[The Miz]]''':

*** And when teaming with R-Truth, he gave us this gem.

'''The Miz''': I got this. ''[Looks at R-Truth, completely dumbfounded]'' What? }}

** And [[Vince McMahon]]:

* [[CM Punk]] tried to do this when [[Vince McMahon]] apologized to him. However even after several invites the crowd didn't bite.

 

* In [[Show Within a Show]] of [[The Drowsy Chaperone]], this is [[Funny Foreigner]] Aldolfo's reaction to the slightest inconvenience or unexpected answer. It appears to be a trademark of his fictional actor, the [[Large Ham]] Roman Bartelli, as he is heard to do the same in the [[Values Dissonance|massively racist]] other show, Message From a Nightingale.

* This is a [[Running Gag]] in Urinetown, used possibly to greatest affect in this reveal...

The Poor: WHAAAAAAAAAAATT? }}

 

== Video Games ==

* Courtesy of [[Norio Wakamoto|Lord Wakamoto]], [[Evil Overlord|M.]] [[Street Fighter|Bison]]'s Japanese [[Death Cry Echo]] in ''[[Street Fighter IV]]'' is the What to end all Whats.

* In ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door]]'', this is Professor Frankly's catchphrase. Usually given after the events of the last chapter were explained to him so he can act as [[Mr. Exposition]] for the next. It's delivered from outside his house in the form of a speech bubble that fills half the screen.

* In ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series, when the trials gets high-paced someone shouts it every couple of seconds.

* Used [[Egregious|gratuitously]] in ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z: Burst Limit'', 'WHAT!?' is the response from almost every character in the game, to almost every event that occurs in the game

* ''[[Resident Evil]]'' ([[Resident Evil 1|the first game, to be exact]], courtesy of [[Fountain of Memes|Barry Burton]]):

* ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'': Sam does this in episode 205: "What's New, Beelzebub?" when {{spoiler|they discover that Brady Culture likes Hell}}, but prefaces it with "Forgive me, my mouth is too parched for a [[Spit Take]]".

* The last screen you see in ''[[Star Fox 64]]'''s ending is {{spoiler|the team's bill to General Pepper for their services}}; do sufficiently well (i.e. score enough kills) and the sight of this [[Shockingly Expensive Bill|prompts]] General Pepper to say "Wha?" in a tone of utter shock.

* [[The Reveal]] right before the [[Final Boss]] of ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]''. It really [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM7Y_GQ_1DU has to be heard] for the [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|full effect]]:

The Kid: "'''<big>WHAT</big>'''" }}

* Revolver Ocelot utters a hilarious, surprised and [[Large Ham|hamatic]] "WHAAAAAAT?!" when Cyborg Ninja cuts off his hand in ''[[Metal Gear]] Solid: Twin Snakes''.

* ''[[Blaz Blue]]'': Ragna the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Bloodedge]] drops these a LOT in gag endings, with the English voice-actor's delivery being especially priceless. Case in point:

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYHRqGA71YQ "WHAAAAAT?! Where the hell did THAT come from?"]

'''Bang''': WHAT DID YOU ''SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY''?! }}

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlENVMnNQdM "What in the HEEEEEEEEELL?!"]

* Apparently ''[[Bruno the Bandit]]'' used to do this so often that the author started to put "too surprised to yell the obligatory what" at the end of the strips when they didn't for a while.

* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0490.html from Eugene].

'''Roy:''' In lieu of Paradise, can I just get a picture of the exact expression on his face? }}

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' provides a double example [http://egscomics.com/?date=2008-08-08 here.] And an even bigger one [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-12-09 here].

== Web Original ==

* Happens to [[The Nostalgia Critic]] when reviewing the [[Mind Screw]] that is ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]''.

** "What!? Pumpkin? P-Pumpkin? What? What? What? Pumpkin, What!?"

** Likewise, he uses this ''several'' times during his review of ''[[Sidekicks]]'', the biggest being when [[Chuck Norris]] fights alongisde the main protagonist.