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{{quote|"''I will maintain a realistic assessment of my strengths and weaknesses. Even though this takes some of the fun out of the job, at least I will never utter the line 'No, [[Title Drop|this cannot be]]! I AM INVINCIBLE!!!' ([[Tempting Fate|After that]], [[Critical Existence Failure|death is usually instantaneous]].)''"
|''The [[Evil Overlord List]]'', #24}}
[[Stock
The equivalent Japanese phrases are "masaka" and "sonna bakana". Such words are used so much in anime, it's fairly common to hear "this can't be!" in English dubs. Monsters in [[Toku]] are prone to yelling this just before they explode.
This phrase is most commonly said by arrogant characters when the tables turn on them, especially [[Smug Snake
Oddly enough, a heroic character can also utter this when something shocking or horrible happens revolving around him/her or those close to it. Such a phrase may even be a sign of a [[Heroic BSOD]]. The phrase can also be uttered by one character as an expression of surprise when another character ''actually'' succeeds in doing something that no one else has ever been able to do in the past.
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{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* Tsuna is clearly beating Xanxus towards the end of their fight in ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]''. Xanxus is ''not'' happy about this and says such things like, "Not possible! This is impossible!"
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** ''"Over 9000? That's impossible!"''
* Almost every friggin villain in ''[[Saint Seiya]]''.
* Several of the earlier antagonists of ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' (particularly Hiei) say this or something similar when the heroes defeat them, mostly since the heroes are nearly always the underdog anyway. The last time the heroes get enemies that do this is a few times the [[Tournament Arc|Dark Tournament]], though (after which most of the enemies are either [[Spirited Competitor
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', these are {{spoiler|Charles'}} last words, quite understandably as {{spoiler|he was immortal and dying only because Lelouch managed to ''mind-control God''}}.
* The dub of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' had Queen Beryl yell this right before she <s> died</s> [[Never Say "Die"|was banished back to the Negaverse]].
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* In [[Naruto]], like many other anime, this is said a lot, but Pain just loves saying it.
** The same Shinra Tensei that destroyed the entire home village was rendered useless by Naruto ''twice'', leading to that phrase.
*** Naruto, while in his [[Demonic Possession|six-tailed fox form]], not only blocked it with a massive amount of chakra, but he ''reflected'' it, hurling Pain into a cliff
*** He also resisted the attack a second time after coming out of his rage... using a hundred shadow clones.
** Pain's final resort to containing 6-tailed Naruto didn't work. Naruto broke out, with Pain saying "I can't believe it." upon seeing him in his [[Body Horror|skinless]] [[Darkest Hour|eight-tailed state]]
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** In anime episode 197, Espada #7 Zommari Rureaux says "This cannot be happening" while Byakuya Kuchiki is attacking him with his bankai.
** In chapter 420, {{spoiler|Aizen's [[Villainous Breakdown]] during his final battle with Ichigo.}}
* In part 2 of [[Zelda Manga|the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time manga]], Ganondorf says these words after being defeated by Link for the first time:
{{quote|'''Ganondorf''': Impossible... I can't... Dark Lord Ganondorf cannot be defeated... by this boy!}}
** Of course, Ganondorf isn't the only one who mutters such a phrase when beaten - other villains also like using this trope when they get bested by Link.
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** In a much later episode, Len says such a phrase again while he's fighting Mikihisa, Yoh's father, in a match to prove his worth and determine whether he will stop or continue searching for the grains of rice scattered across the desert by him. When Len makes many futile attempts to hit Mikihisa after recreating his copies from his spirits using faster and stronger versions of his Rapid Tempo Assault, he simply says "Impossible...!" before the Mikihisa copies move in to attack him from everywhere around him while saying "Use your Oversoul (Furyoku in the dub) to see."
** Also, in the finale, Hao doesn't actually say anything when he's defeated, but the shocked expression on his face when he and his Spirit of Fire are cleaved in half by Yoh and Amidamaru, who were both given everyone's power and support, just before the fire spirit explodes and takes out Hao with it, suggests that he can't believe that he lost to those two.
* In [[Touhou|Touhou Musoukakyou: A Summer Day's Dream]], Reimu freaks out and has her [[Berserk Button]] pressed in a "
{{quote|'''Reimu''': Wh-wh-WHAT?! H-How can it...! U... U-u-u... U-u-u... WHERE THE HELL IS MY DONATION BOX?!?!}}
* Uttered by Vajramon in ''Digimon Tamers'' when he is destroyed by Renamon in her ultimate form, Taomon. "What's happening? This can't be!" The entire episode Vajramon was infatuated with her but disgusted that she preferred to defend humans and have a human tamer rather than join Zhuqiaomon in his quest to destroy them. Vajramon, as well as Zhuqiaomon and the other Devas, viewed humans as inferior, and was even more put off that her ultimate form resembled a human in appearance.
** Makuramon also says it when Beelzemon destroys him. May not have been the strongest Deva but he lasted the most episodes out of any, besides Antylamon, who survives up to the final episode and the end of the movie set afterward due to her [[Heel Face Turn]].
** Apocalymon back in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' has this reaction when the Digidestined use [[Heroic Resolve]] to not only reassemble themselves after he digitized them but allow their Digimon to Digivolve to their strongest forms without their crests.
* King Gorge says this in [[Fighting Foodons]] when Chase and Palator overwhelm and destroy Devouron, making it his last few seconds of being an [[Evil Overlord]] before [[Defeat Means Friendship|being redeemed]] by them.
* Sirica of ''[[
{{quote|'''Sirica''': ...It can't be. It's Kirisakin the great monster!
'''Meta Knight''': Kirisakin is here to reclaim the Galaxia sword. We must stop it! }}
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* Matthew Patel in the first volume of ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'': "This is impossible! How can this be?!" promptly before Scott causes him to [[Money Spider|explode into coins]].
* [[The Joker]] screams exactly this trope name in ''Batman: The Devil's Advocate'' after he learns in court that he's just been found guilty of multiple counts of first-degree murder, and now will almost certainly get sent to the electric chair. (He'd assumed that he'd always be thought too insane to ever be convicted by a jury, let alone receive the death penalty.)
* In ''[[All Fall Down]]'', {{spoiler|AIQ Squared}} says something to this effect moments before his downfall.
== Fan
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1197160/1/Shining_In_The_Darkness "Shining in the Darkness"], a [[Golden Sun]] fanfic by Feonyx:
{{quote|"Impossible," breathed Felix.
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* These exact words are used in ''[[Damnatus]]'' when {{spoiler|the daemon that the radical cultists were trying to imprison escapes, thanks to the heroes [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|gatecrashing the binding ritual]].}} Perhaps a subversion in that it is uttered not by the villain himself but by one of his mooks.
* During [http://dekomaru.deviantart.com/gallery/36845316 Part 3] of ''[http://dekomaru.deviantart.com/gallery/36300764 The Greatest Gift]'', Hazel {{spoiler|Trixie [[Complete Monster]] of a mother}} gets this when {{spoiler|Trixie starts to overpower her in the [[Beam-O-War]] between the two.}}
* ''[http://fav.me/dd7ow55 Case of The Missing Technology]'' has this exchange when the hacker finds out what happened to [[Spice Girls| Melanie C]].
{{quote| I was able to make out some of the facial expression, which gave my advantage as it could help detect a familiar one. I finally got where things were kept frozen, but I wasn’t expecting what I found inside. I noticed a familiar face, took a picture, loaded the image program, and analyze the image.
"OH MY GOD” I said.
“She…” Foster said.
“If they’re still talking about a homicide, we got us something.” I said.}}
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fic ''[[The Parselmouth of Gryffindor]]'' has this exchange between Parselmouth!Hermione and the Horcrux inside Salazar Slytherin's locket:
{{quote|{''Hah!''} said the defiant Horcrux. {''Nothing a schoolgirl can do could harm me. Do your worst. You surely cannot cast the Fiend's Fire… and the only living Basilisk is—''}
{''In America,''} finished Hermione.
{''What? No! It—''}
{''That's <u>she</u> to you,''} said an acerbic Hermione, {''and if you are referring to the Great Basilisk of Salazar Slytherin, then yes, she is now my friend and currently on vacation in America.''}
{''That cannot be!…''}
{''Huh, people tend to say that a lot about my extracurricular activities,''} Hermione mused. {''I wonder why.''} }}
== Films -- Animated ==
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* ''[[Rock and Rule]]''.
{{quote|'''Mok''': You can't do this to me! I... AM... MOK!}}
* Hades is sure [[Hercules (
{{quote|'''Hades''':This is-- this is impossible! You, you, you can't be alive! You'd have to be a, a--
'''Pain and Panic''': A god? }}
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* '' [[WALL-E]]'':
{{quote|'''Auto:''' Not. Possible.}}
* In ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin: The Return Of Jafar]]'', Jafar's reaction when he sees Aladdin and Abu and Abis Mal fighting over his lamp and realizes that Aladdin himself avoided death by beheading thanks to the Blue Genie:
{{quote|'''Jafar''': The street rat? ''Still aliiiiive?!'' '''NO!'''}}
** To be fair, [[Why Won't You Die?|he sent him as far away as possible a few times and even tried to kill him a few times as well]], and yet to his shock and disbelief, Aladdin always came back and survived.
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{{quote|'''Scar''': Simba? Simba! I'm a little surprised to see you... (angrily looks at the hyenas) alive. (the hyenas gulp and back away)}}
* Subverted in ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]'' in which Milo is warned that Rourke is ''never'' surprised. Case in point: Milo and the Atlantians, which Rourke's company was supposedly sure were stranded in the city, pursue and attack them not as an army, but as an ''air force'' and the villain just happens to have his own fighter planes to counter that.
* In the finale of the 1986 ''Transformers The Movie'', Unicron in his death-throes is heard saying "[[
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'''Susan''': I see. It's ''you'' that this is being done to! It's not me at all. Not what it means to me. I can't do this to you? ''Oh, yes I can.'' }}
* Vizzini from ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'' is fond of the word "inconceivable" to explain things that should not go wrong but inevitably do.
{{quote|'''Vizzini:''' He didn't fall?! [[Catch Phrase|Inconceivable]]!
'''Inigo Montoya:''' [[You Keep Using That Word]]. [[Lampshade Hanging|I do not think it means what you think it means]]. }}
** Count Rugen displays a similar attitude. That rare villain who is both a [[Dirty Coward]] and a [[Smug Snake]], he keeps taunting the badly wounded Montoya as the Spaniard stubbornly blocks every blow from the Count's sword and [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|continues his quest for vengeance]] despite barely being able to stand. ("STOP SAYING THAT!") By the time Rugen finally realizes Montoya's status as [[The Determinator]], Inigo has cut him numerous times and has him begging for his life.
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** Considering ol' Vlad had just recently SENT a werewolf after Van Helsing et all, you'd THINK he might have considered this possibility.
* A rare heroic version comes from Luke in ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'':
{{quote|'''Vader:''' [[Luke, I Am Your Father|No, I am your father!]]
'''Luke:''' No. No. That's not true. That's impossible!
'''Vader:''' Search your feelings, you ''know'' it to be true!
'''Luke:''' [[Big No|Noooooooo! Nooooooo!]] }}
** Luke's [[Big No]] nails it. However, quite literal example of this trope is Obi-Wan Kenobi in ''Revenge of the Sith'' {{spoiler|discovering the records from the Jedi Temple where Anakin killed the younglings}}.
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* From ''[[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]]'':
{{quote|[[Brian Blessed|GORDON'S ALIVE?!?!?!?!?!?!?]]}}
* Sir Galahad the Chaste in [[Monty Python and
{{quote|'''Galahad:''' This cannot be! I am sworn to chastity!}}
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== Literature ==
* Subverted in ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'': Doctor Impossible is a cape-and-mask supervillain who declares his nefarious plot to the world by saying "Greetings, insects!" But in quieter moments he reflects "No matter how good the science is, sooner or later, some Special Forces reject will scale the wall and punch you in the stomach." He only rejoices when there really does appear to be nothing between him and his goal. He's wrong, but doesn't seem amazed by it, or even, after thirteen tries, really surprised. Very disappointed, obviously, but it was always a possibility, and ''next time'' he'll win, no doubt about it.
* [[Manipulative Bitch|Senna Wales]], late in the ''[[Everworld]]'' series.
{{quote|'''Senna:''' It couldn't end here. It couldn't end like this. This was [[Dimension Lord|to be my universe]]. Everworld [[Take Over the World|was mine]]; it couldn't end like this.}}
* [[The Dragon|Ishamael]] says something along these lines each of the three times Rand "kills" him in the first three books of the ''[[Wheel of Time]]'' series. {{spoiler|He may have a point, though, since he survives the first two times and is quickly reincarnated the third.}}
* Subverted in ''[[Harry Potter and
* In most English translations of the Polish folktale "The Two Babies Cast Into The Water," the father of the two babies (who have been put through the [[Moses in the Bulrushes]] treatment by their [[Wicked Stepmother]]) screams exactly this trope when the stepmother lies to him that his former wife has given birth not to human children, but to a dog and a cat. (The two children survive their ordeal and grow up to become a [[Brother-Sister Team]], with [[Action Girl|the sister a little more competent than the brother]].)
* In [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Barrayar]]'' the villain's last words are "You're a Betan! You can't do--"
* In ''[[Septimus Heap]]'', this is about the reaction of DomDaniel when he sees Princess Jenna on top of the Dragon Boat's head when the Dragon Boat is attacking him.
* At the end of ''[[Historical Fiction|The Falcon Strikes]]'' by Mark Ramsay, the hero summons up strength beyond what's normally possible and breaks through a thick, tough door. The villain on the other side is so shocked that he simply says in a matter-of-fact way, "No man can do that."
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* In the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode ''[[Riding With Death]]'', a bad guy had just found out the main hero had survived what should have been a deadly crash. He exclaims, oddly, "This cannot beeeeeeeee? You're deaaaaaaaaaad?"
{{quote|'''Mike:''' ''No, I'm nooooot.''}}
* In ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' [[Hardboiled Detective]] episode "The Big Goodbye", the [[Holodeck]] crime boss exclaims, as he starts to de-rezz, "They can't do this to me! Don't they know who I am? I'm Cyrus Redblock!"
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* Dracula does this in just about ''every'' [[Castlevania]] game, sometimes mixing it up with an [[As Long as There Is Evil]] speech.
** After beating Dracula in the prologue [[Boss Battle]] in ''[[Castlevania: Symphony of the Night]]'', he yells "No... this cannot be! Aaaaargh!"
** Dracula's absolute best one is if he's beaten by Maria in the PSP remake of ''[[Castlevania: Rondo of Blood]]'':
{{quote|'''Dracula''': ''COMPLETELY'' impossible!! ''BEATEN''...by a ''LITTLE GIRL!!''}}
*** Then there's the instance Dracula charges his [[Sphere of Destruction]] after taking some damage from Shanoa in ''[[Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia]]''... only for her to interrupt him with the [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]] using his own power against him.
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**** Oddly enough, from the same game, Shanoa herself counts, as well. The fight with {{spoiler|Barlowe}} gives us the simple line "It can't be!" as {{spoiler|Barlowe uses the power of Dracula to free the Prince of Darkness from his prison.}}
** As the quotes link above shows, Graham and Dimitri also do this in the [[Castlevania Sorrow|Sorrow]] games.
* At the beginning of ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'', Dhaos shouts "Sonna... sonna bakana!" when the [[Bolt of Divine Retribution|Indignation]] spell is successfully cast at him; he says it again if you cast it on him during the actual game, at least in his first boss fight. And if you cast it at his cameo in ''[[Tales of Eternia]]'' {{spoiler|as Sekundes, Summon of Time}} and ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' in the coliseum, he says the same thing.
** Then in the US GBA version of [[Tales of Phantasia]]...
{{quote|'''Dhaos:''' [[Narm|It can't be!]]}}
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* Played straight in the first ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]''.
* These are the exact last words of Lu Bu in ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' 4 when you kill him.
* Also played hilariously straight in the ending sequence of ''[[Star Wars: Dark Forces|Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy]]''. [[The Man Behind the Man|Marka Ragnos']] entire dialogue is basically to show up, [[Nothing Can Stop Us Now|declare his invincibility]], get whupped and then scream his hammy, [[Narm
{{quote|'''Ragnos''': "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! This is IMPOSSSSIBLE! I shall return, Jedi! One day ''I will return'', AND AHNIHILATE YOU ALL!!!"}}
** You think that's [[Narm
* The last words of the [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Sacrifice]]'' is "What... Impossible!...".
* When you defeat Smithy, the [[Final Boss]] in ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'', he bellows, "It's not...possible...! I don't believe it...! I'm...finished...done for...!" This is followed by a [[Written Roar]], a [[Big No]], and [[Critical Existence Failure]], in that order.
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'''Axem Pink''': Can this be happening to the AXEM RANGERS? }}
* In ''Super Mario Advance'', Birdo utters such a phrase in [[Ambiguous Gender|her]] pink and red forms.
* Then there's the Shadow Queen of ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'', who mutters these words after being defeated:
{{quote|'''Shadow Queen''': Impossible... Unthinkable... How could I... I cannot be beaten by lesser beings such as these... and I had just been reborn into this world... I cannot... I must not... AAAAAIIIIYYYYEEE!!!}}
* Vigoro (and Piastol in the [[Updated Rerelease]]) of ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'' fame does this upon his (or her) defeat, complete with slow motion falling down in defeat. (Although the actual line they give is "How can this be?!")
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*** "My demise accomplishes nothing! The Master will have you! You will drown in your own blood! The world shall burn! [[Death Cry Echo|Aaaghh!]]"
** Archimonde in Caverns of Time
{{quote|"[[Little No|No!]]
*** "WUT!? UNPOSSIBLE!! You face Mogor now! Mogor destroy!"
*** The Lich King utters a very shocked, "Impossible..." after Tirion uses Ashbringer to shatter Frostmourne.
* In ''[[Star Fox 64]]'', both Leon (first encounter) and Pigma (second encounter) of Star Wolf exclaim "This can't be happening!" when defeated.
** Wolf himself also gets in on the action, yelling "No way! I don't believe it!" and "[[
* In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Adventure]]'', after you defeat the Egg Viper, Dr. Eggman says "No way! I can't believe this!"
** This same soundclip is also used when fighting the Egg Walker, and Eggman barks his disbelief every time you hit his machine's legs. Since the four legs are all meant to be hit in quick succession, this leads to [[Good Bad Bug|"NO WAY, I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!"]]
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Kefka: *double take*
Emperor: Don’t think of me too badly. As a final comfort, I’ll put you to sleep with your own magic.
Kefka: *[[Laughing Mad|erupts into laughter]]*
Emperor: What's so funny? *pause* No matter. It is only fitting that you die laughing. Firaga! *pause* Flare! *pause*
Kefka: *jumps around, acting jolly*
Emperor: Im... impossible... Why doesn’t the magic strike!! Meltdown! }}
* In ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'', almost every villain has at least one variation of this to cry upon their defeat, either when the final blow is dealt or when they collapse afterwards:
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** Iori Yagami's staple cry of defeat is "Konomama de wa owaranzo!" ("This can't be the end!")
* In ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', Wakka declares "This can't be happening," after the party views Jyscal's Sphere and learns that Seymour murdered him. He says it again after Auron states "We will protect Yuna from anyone, even a maester" and yet ''again'' if the player has Wakka use the Talk command to talk to Seymour during the battle. Later, Lulu declares "This...this cannot be!" when Yunalesca tells the party that there is no way to truly defeat Sin.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy X
* Legend Entertainment's ''Shannara'' gives {{spoiler|Brona}} a speech like that when you {{spoiler|attack the Ildatch with the Sword of Shannara:}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Brona:'''}} What is wrong? My magic! It is gone! I CANNOT DIE AGAIN! I... i... deeeeaaaad...}}
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{{quote|'''Tess Conway:''' Impossible! I'm immortal! ...I'm immortal!}}
* In [[Dynamite Headdy]], every time you defeat a Keymaster, you can hear someone (the [[Big Bad]]?) saying "I cannot believe it!".
* In ''[[Command
{{quote|'''Tanya''': No! This can't be happening! I...}}
** Also, even more spectacularly, {{spoiler|Cherdenko}} gets a different one in ''each'' campaign.
* In Nethack, if you sufficiently anger your deity, he will smite you with a bolt of lightning. If you survive, he will throw a wide-angle disintegration beam at you. If you '''still''' survive, he will simply say "I believe it not!"
* [[Metal Gear|No! It cannot be! NOOOOOOOO!]]
* In [[Fire Emblem]], every chapter has a boss which is stronger than most units. However, not every boss is completely vital to the plot, some are just random people of high rank in opposing armies. Every boss has a death quote, so there's a countless number of random bosses who use some variations of "
* ''Champions Online'':
{{quote|'''[[Evilutionary Biologist|Teleios:]]'''
** And then he explodes.
* Barbarossa's death speech in ''[[Valkyrie Profile]]''.
** A heroic example:
{{quote|'''Lorenta '''(after her DME hits 0): No!
* Uttered in ''[[Legend of Dragoon]]'' by Rose when, at the end of Disc 3, {{spoiler|"the emperor" reveals himself to be Zieg, another dragoon from the old, [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|old]] days.}} Of course, this isn't the [[It Got Worse|only "cannot be" moment]] LOD offers.
* Shiro Tagachi, after dying in ''[[Guild Wars]] Factions''.
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{{quote|'''{{spoiler|Ghetsis}}''': {{spoiler|[[Villainous Breakdown|What?! I created Team Plasma with my own hands. I'm absolutely perfect! I AM PERFECTION! I am the perfect ruler of a perfect new world!]]}} }}
*** {{spoiler|It happens to him AGAIN in the sequel, only this time it's even worse. N offering him forgiveness and trying to tell him why he has been wrong this whole time only sends him further into it to the point where he gives himself heart failure and we later find out he's gone catatonic.}}
* ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] A's Portable: The Battle of Aces'' has Material-L, Fate's [[Chaotic Evil]] [[Evil Twin|Twin]] who tends to scream the Japanese equivalent of "Bakanaaa~!" shortly before she ceases to exist.
* Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom; After you've defeated Deimos he proclaims "No! No! No! This is impossible! I am destined to conquer, to rule! How can I have possibly been beaten by whelps like you?"
* ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds]]'' has Chaos Shogun Kitsune, the fourth Chaos Lord, who is confident that the hero will have no idea how to deal with illusion, trickery and lies. Naturally, of course, in the final cutscene of the Yokai Island storyline, he receives a big shock when, while he's running around invisible leaving the hero trying to figure out how to defeat what he/she can't even see and rapidly swinging the Hanzamune Dragon Koi Blade around trying to hit him, the hero accidentally tears open a rift leading to the Yokai world in front of him. Unable to stop in time, Kitsune screams, "No! Not like this! It can't end like this! I won't go back to the Yokai world!", lets out a [[Big No]], and gets sucked into the rift, after which the hero closes it back up with the Hanzamune Blade, sealing Kitsune in the rift.
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*** And soon enough, {{spoiler|it's Noxus' turn. He's quite the [[Magnificent Bastard]] who turned all of her undead minions to his side, took her throne, and enslaved her. Almost everything up to that point has gone according to his plans. Then Chuckles attacks him out of nowhere and frees her, which is something he didn't expect. He receives a big shock and states this trope because he controlled all of her undead but couldn't accept that Chuckles, of all undead, couldn't be controlled by him. And that's because Chuckles himself was created by Gravelyn, not Noxus}}.
** {{spoiler|1=Imagine Vordred's surprise when he realizes that Artix was right about the Spirit Orbs that were once enslaved and are now free not being able to be re-enslaved as the Spirit Orbs cause his armor of skulls to self-destruct within him and destroy the ShadowReaper of Doom. And even better. Guess what word Vordred himself says...}}
* Also, villains in other Artix Entertainment games such as ''[[Dragon Fable]]'' seem quite fond of using this trope when defeated by the hero. For example:
{{quote|'''Drakath''': NO!!!! IMPOSSIBLE!
'''Hero''': [[You Keep Using That Word|You say that word a lot]]. }}
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** I-No also mutters such a phrase after being bested by May.
{{quote|'''I-No''': How could I have lost... Lost! To a little kid!}}
* ''[[
** Also, in Noel's Gag Reel in ''Continuum Shift'', Carl gets shocked when he sees Hazama eating the Kagutsuchi puffer fish simmered in peppers and spices as cooked by [[Lethal Chef]] Noel herself, which wiped out every other member of the Blaz Blue cast and left them puking in a mess so disgusting it had to be censored.
{{quote|'''Carl''': Im...possible! How can you possibly eat THAT?!}}
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* After you beat her in ''[[System Shock]] 2'', SHODAN says a calmer, more elaborate version of such a quote:
{{quote|''I don't understand... how could you have done this? You weren't meant to be so important... and now you think to destroy me? How dare you, insect? How dare you interrupt my ascendance? You are nothing. A wretched bag of flesh... what are you, compared to my magnificence?''}}
* In ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'', Iris Sepperin, a little girl of a [[Complete Monster]] in her own right who is so arrogant about her ''absolute power and unparalelled brains'' that she claims to have transcended humanity and have [[A God Am I|become a god]], panics in a "
{{quote|'''Iris''': Impossible! Where did all that energy come from!?}}
** Then, after Tia defeats her in the final battle, she mutters, "To think I'd lose to a single mage fighting by herself..." Of course, she doesn't realize that Tia actually won with the love and support that her friends gave her, and that it was because Iris couldn't believe in others nor love her fellow man that she lost.
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'''Grolla''': Die.
'''Iris''': ...I won't let that happen! }}
** Spiritia, oddly enough, counts as well. She says this when, after coming across Raimund Seyfarth's Devil Scythe Grassense, she realizes that Graf Michael Sepperin brought him [[Back
{{quote|'''Lilli''': You're kidding, right? He's a ghost!?
'''Spiritia''': I can't believe it...! The Count is even using the forbidden arts!?
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{{quote|'''Ganondorf''': The great evil king Ganondorf ... beaten by this kid?!}}
* [[Legacy of Kain|The Elder God]] literally moans "This cannot be," as one of his lines when Kain gets close enough to [[Eye Scream|slash him in the eye]].
* [[Zero Wing|The Captain]], when eloquently informed by CATS about the current status of [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us|all their base]] lets out a bewildered "[[Blind Idiot Translation|What you say!!]]", however correct translation of the original Japanese line is "
* From ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'', we get this gem, courtesy of [[Doctor Doom]]:
{{quote|Doctor Doom: "'''
* "You are wrong!
* In ''[[Star Trek Legacy]]'', this is invoked word for word on occasion by the commander of an exploding Romulan ship.
* Malefor at the end of ''[[The Legend of Spyro]]: Dawn of the Dragon'':
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* Used by the ''good'' guys in [http://www.bmoviecomic.com/?cid=324 this] ''[[The B-Movie Comic|The B Movie Comic]]'' strip.
* This was the reaction of the Fae Princeling in ''[[Tales of the Questor]]'' when discovered to his horror that he called [[The Wild Hunt]] on Quentyn. In that world, it is specifically forbidden by Lord Oberon himself to do so on a Raccoonan and to make matters worse, Quentyn's [[Skunk Stripe]] means he's favored by the White Stag, and such people cannot be hunted either. So, the Princeling is in trouble with two offenses simultaneously.
* ''[[8-Bit Theater
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': When the moon reappears in the sky, Zhao screams, "It can't be!" right before the Ocean Spirit [[Hoist by His Own Petard|drags him to a watery grave]].
* Screamed by Bane, almost word for word, as Batman finally overcame him in ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]''. "You can't do this to me! I am invincible! [[
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'': "But that's [[Buffy-Speak|un-possible]]!"
* In ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', of all the people who could have handed Vlad his head in ''The Million Dollar Ghost'', it is the [[Bumbling Dad]] Jack who does it, something that Vlad finds so vastly ''impossible'' due to his simpleminded personality (as opposed to Vlad's brilliance). He frustratingly rants about this as he is getting dragged into the Ghost Zone, [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|but the end results did have Vlad getting what he wanted which sets the stage for a latter episode]].
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* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexter's Lab]]''. This is Dexter's [[Catch Phrase]]!
* Played with numerous times with ''[[Kim Possible]]'':
{{quote|'''[[Harmless Villain|Dr. Drakken]]''': "It is impossible!"
'''Ron Stoppable''': "Actually, it's possible. Kim Possible. But that's a common mistake." }}
* He doesn't actually say anything, but when Matrix dents Megabyte's chest with a punch in ''[[
* On [[Jonny Quest]], in the episode "The Curse of Anubis," the villainous Kareem has the line, "No! It cannot be! The spirit of Anubis, walking, following me!"
* In [[The Powerpuff Girls]] episode "Members Only", the [[Monster of the Week|Villain Of The Week]] Mascumax says this word for word when brought down by the girls' combined attack, [[Cute Kitten|Ferocious Flaming Feline.]]
* ''Birdman'' episode "Vulturo, Prince of Darkness". Right after Birdman has his solar powers renewed by the nearby passage of a comet, the title villain says "No! It cannot be!"
* Perhaps one of the best examples of this trope was seen in ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' episode "Jack and The Assassins", when Jack defeated the sword-wielding leader of said [[Elite Mooks|Elite]] [[Mecha-Mooks]] by enhancing the power of his ancient sword [[Divine Intervention|with the aid of the gods]].
{{quote|'''Lead Assassin''': ''(as he is sliced in half by Jack's enhanced sword)'' Unbelievable.
''(He explodes)'' }}
** Somewhat Justified being he was [[Made of Indestructium|specifically designed so that Jack couldn't cut through him]].
*** Hence the reason it was so awesome.
* Lord Darkar's last words as, in the finale of [[Winx Club]] Season 2, the fairies perform a convergeance spell that banishes him to the chaos that spawned him where he will remain forever:
{{quote|'''Lord Darkar''': Noooooooo!!! This can't be happening!! Nooooooooooooo!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!}}
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'': Many, or some, villains are quite fond of using this trope when bested by the Turtles. Especially the [[Big Bad]], the Shredder.
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{{quote|'''Krang''': I am Krang, the all powerful! I have never been defeated! }}
* From the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode [[Darker and Edgier|"Screams Of Silence:]] [[Cerebus Syndrome|The Story Of Brenda Q."]]
{{quote|'''[[Complete Monster|Jeff:]]''' '''[[No Indoor Voice|WHAT THE HELL???]]''' '''''[[Disney Death|I KILLED YOU!!!]]'''''
'''Quagmire:''' [[
[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|(Quagmire crushes Jeff to death]] [[Car Fu|with his car)]] }}
* Happens once or twice in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', usually as part of a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
{{quote|'''Vlad Plasmius''' ''(post massive beatdown)'': [[Title Drop|This isn't possible!]] You're an idiot! ''An idiot!''
'''Jack Fenton''' ''(smugly)'': Maybe so, but I'm the idiot who beat ''you''. }}
* [[Big Bad|Nox]] from ''[[Wakfu]]'' says this so often that it's practically his [[Catch Phrase]].
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