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{{quote|''"And you know what Hell is, folks...it's Andy Gibb, singing 'Shadow Dancing' for ''eons and eons'', and you have to wear orange plaid bell bottoms, and sit next to the Bay City Rollers--'How you guys doing?' 'This is gonna SUCK!'"''|'''[[Denis Leary]]''', ''No Cure for Cancer''}}

* In the fourth episode of ''[[Mnemosyne]]'', Rin grapples {{spoiler|Android Ruon}} and throws herself out of a flying airplane. What she probably didn't count on is that they are flying straight [[Turbine Blender|into the plane's turbine]]. But her reaction? "''This'' may be too much even for [[Immortality|me]]..."

{{quote|'''Integra''': [[Casual Danger Dialog|You made it. Congratulations.]]<br />

* [[Lupin III: theThe Secret of Twilight Gemini|The Secret of Twilight Gemini]]: This effectively sums up [[Ms. Fanservice|Fujiko's]] reaction to being left alone at [[Effeminate Misogynistic Guy|Sadachiyo's]] mercy; particularly when he announces that the "fun's" about to start.

{{quote|'''Sadachiyo: (evil grin)''' [[A Taste of the Lash|"We're going to have SUCH a good time."]]<br />

* Often done briefly in ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'', where Tomoya and Sunohara will get a second to realize their imminent demise after provoking Kyou in some fashion. See the fake-love-letter prank from After Story episode 23, the reaction to Kyou as a magical girl in the clubroom, and brief facial expressions shown when they realize she's coming at them with a flying kick or throwing a dictionary at them.

** Also when he finds out Grandma Ben is {{spoiler|Queen of the Valley}} - "My life is gonna suck, isn't it?"

* An issue of ''[[Justice League of America]]'' has the league facing down a new alien menace. [[Batman]] has a plan, but it is rather dangerous for [[The Flash]] (it involves him basically [[Riding the Bomb|riding a missile]]). When Flash shows up, Batman starts to explain the plan, while putting a companionable hand on Flash's arm. "He's touching me. Batman is touching me...[[This Is Gonna Suck|I'm gonna die, aren't I?]]"

* In issue 40 of ''[[The Simpsons (Comic Book)|The Simpsons]]'', Krusty the Klown is taping a show at the family's house. A stick of dynamite is lobbed through a window by Fat Tony's goons, and Homer tries to solve the problem by putting a vase over the stick and ''sitting on it''. Krusty just shuts his eyes and plugs his ears, thinking, "Oh, ''this'' won't be pretty. But I gotta admit, it's ''already'' better than that ''sketch'' was ''ever'' gonna be."

== Films[[Film]] ==

* The live action movie remake of ''[[George of the Jungle (film)|George of the Jungle]]'' features George -- whoGeorge—who incidentally thinks that hitting the tree at the end of the swing is ''[[Too Dumb to Live|proper vine-swinging technique]]'' -- attempting—attempting to psych himself up for the epic distance he has to travel at the film's climax. "This biggest swing in jungle history. Will hurt very much... But George have to do it." The swing is so long that he builds up enough velocity to actually knock [[Efficient Displacement|a George-shaped section of bark]] off the ''other side of the tree''. Ow.

* ''[[The Incredibles]]'': Prior to catching a train -- literally -- intrain—literally—in the first section of the movie, Mr. Incredible winces appropriately. And near the end of the same movie, Syndrome also gets [[Oh Crap|a moment of this]] {{spoiler|right before the convertible Mr. Incredible himself tosses at him knocks him into the [[Turbine Blender]] of his Manta plane.}}

** ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' contains an extended [[This Is Gonna Suck]] sequence when Luke and Han are being ferried out to the Sarlacc pit for execution:

** Also, in the second film of the series, Jack Sparrow utters the word "bugger" at least three times. The first time is an [[Oh Crap]] moment; the second time, it's used when Jack is dangling from his leg by a rope attached to a bamboo pole stuck between two high clifftops- just before the pole gives way - and it's a [[This Is Gonna Suck]] moment.

* In ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'', when Andy's toys are first sent to the daycare, they get in place on the floor for the toddlers to find them. Buzz notices, with a sense of trepidation, that the more veteran toys are scurrying to find a hiding place. The door bursts open, and Rex is thrown to the side. Cue Buzz quickly flipping his helmet up just before a kid snatches him up.

* In ''[[Next]]'' (2007), Frank Cadillac ([[Nicolas Cage]]) can see a bit into the future. Right before he gets punched in the face, he mumbles "Incoming."

* In the 2012 [[Marvel Cinematic Universe|MCU]] [[The Avengers (2012 film)|''Avengers'' film]] movie, Loki has this reaction after being captured and realizing he's about to get a visit from Thor.

== [[Literature]] ==

* Standard reaction for the characters of the ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]: [[Gaunt's Ghosts]]'' books whenever a Chaos superheavy tank, daemon, or similar threat shows up.

* ''[[HitchThe HikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy]]'': Arthur Dent's catchphrase: "So this is it. We're going to die." Thoroughly [[Lampshaded]] as a [[Captain Obvious]] Moment.

* In Chris Wraight's ''Battle of the Fang'', the Space Wolf called Blackwing ejects from his heavily damaged scout ship seconds before it blows up. Drifting away from the blast, he soon finds himself in the path of one particularly large piece of fast-flying debris. He has just enough time for three thoughts, the last of which is basically "This is really going to hurt.". Cue plasma drive shaft smashing into armored Space Marine at a couple hundred mph.

* The first chapter of ''[[Heralds of Valdemar|The Black Gryphon]]'' ends with Skandranon Rashkae taking a crossbow bolt through the wing and going into an uncontrolled crash landing (Somethingsomething he apparently did many times during his long military career according to the later books). The absolute last sentence of the chapter is "Oh, ''sketi'', this is going to hurt."

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', episode "The Beast Below":, Rightright before The Doctor and Amy are {{spoiler|going to be vomited up by a giant space whale}}:

** Also, during ''[[Space Mutiny]]'', as the hero is running away from a wrecked space craft screaming, "It's gonna blow!":

* ''[[Stargate SG-1|Stargate SG 1]]'' ("Prometheus Unbound"): During the fight scene between Daniel and {{spoiler|Vala}} on Prometheus, she pulls out a Zat gun (a stun gun, basically) and points it at him. Knowing exactly how much getting hit by a Zat shot sucks, he just says "Oh, crap".

** Considering that the entire crew of Moya pretty much ''survives'' on [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] or just plain luck, this tends to be the reaction of any sane person in any situation they come across (so you can count out Stark... and John on a bad day...). Just pick a season finale. Any finale.

** Heck, there was a series of ''episode titles'' prefixed "We're So Screwed Trilogy".

* ''[[Grey's Anatomy|Greys Anatomy]]'': Meredith Grey says exactly this when she realizes that Owen's trauma certification exercise involves treating two dozen mangled dummies strewn across the parking lot, [[Rain, Rain, Go Away|in the rain]]. She's right.

* Frequently invoked on ''[[Myth BustersMythBusters]]'', verbatim in one case when Tory figures he has been [[Got Volunteered|"volunteered"]] by Grant and Kari to be the experimental guinea pig.

* A few contestants on ''[[Wipeout 2008]]'' have said this verbatim before attempting an obsticle.

== [[Recorded and Stand- Up Comedy]] ==

* Part of an old routine by Canadian comedian Mike MacDonald. He thinks that death during skydiving due to parachute failure would ''suck'', because after a couple of minutes you'd get tired of screaming. Then what? "Oh, ''God'', this is gonna hurt...how did I let those jerks talk me into this?!" [''shakes fist at the sky'']

* [[Christopher Titus]] has a [http://www.mytopclip.com/play.php?vid=19679 story]{{broken link}} about falling into a bonfire, and being conscious while the doctor treats him. Couldn't feel it though... at the time.

* And of course the [[Denis Leary]] quote above.

* In ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons|D&D]]'', this would be anytimeany time the DM asks you to make a save...with your weakest save. Examples include Fortitude involving some form of expensive-to-cure poison or disease, Reflex and a lovely pit of spikes...and Will is you losing your mind.

** If you see the Dungeon Master smiling... or in certain cases, chuckling. There are plenty of cases where that will chill you.

* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' is just as bad as 40000''40,000'' when given some of the war machines. The first thing that comes to mind is one of the spells from the Lore of Zeetch list that whose strength is equal to 2d6. Since the max characteristic test is 10, if the strength rolled is a 11 or 12 it will instant kill a whole unit, no saves allowed. I personally saw a Tzeetchen sorcerer kill a unit of 400 point sof orks, plus standard bearer and general, in one move. It wasn't pretty.

* This is the Player's reaction to a possible certain death in ''[[Fallout 2]].'' If your character critically fails a skill check in the Enclave base, he has a possibility of "successfully" setting off the timer for a nuke... [[Oh Crap|for 5 seconds.]]

* In ''[[Mortal Kombat: Deception]]'', if knocked from the roof of the Sky Temple, Havik screams the trope's name before going splat on the ground.

** id Software's next game, ''[[Quake (series)|Quake]]'', tells you [[This Is Gonna Suck]] without any words: the difficulty and episode are chosen by a small hub level. The entrance to the Hard difficulty is past a cracked bridge over a pool of lava (yes, it's possible to fall in and die ''before choosing the difficulty level''), with some thrashing people nailed to the walls nearby. And the entrance to Nightmare difficulty is deliberately hidden: {{spoiler|First, you have to pass through the Hard hallway to the Episode Select room, go to the Episode 4 room, and jump in the pool of water. If you want to play episode 4, you just drop down, and beneath the water is a [[Buffy-Speak|non-water place]]. There is a rail positioned so that if you move in a certain direction while under water, you'll land on the rail instead of on the ground beneath, and the rail leads to the Nightmare difficulty portal.}}

** The reaction of both the characters and the players inany nytimetime anything happens to draw the Horde, though the ones that fit the trope most are the [[Hold the Line]] sections where you have to make a metric asston of noise to advance.

** Basically the music when a Tank pops up. The term "oh shit" tends to be endlessly repeated in between reloads.

* ''[[Thief|Thief 3: Deadly Shadows]]'' had Garrett lamenting his task:

* ''[[Serious Sam|]]'': Sam's]] reaction to a wave of about a bazillion explosive kamikaze zombies rushing towards him. "Uh-oh."

{{quote|Rather unexpectedly, dark stormclouds roll in from the north, blotting out the sun. There is a sudden crash of [[Dramatic Thunder|thunder]], and you hear, somewhere close by, a bestial howling that sends shivers down your spine. Adrenaline pumping, you try to pinpoint the source of the noise. You hear it again, closer this time, and this time... in stereo? Your stomach turns to ice -- could it be...?<br />

* ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' has one of the best non-vocal [[This Is Gonna Suck]] moments ever. Just two (glowing) eyes conveys Black Waltz's realisation that lightning magic+wooden airship=loss of control+mid-air explosion. You get a single shot of his eyes just as he works this out. It's [[Crowning Moment of Funny|BRILL]][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3vlsC-k1tU&t=1m4s IANT.]

* Online play against a skillful [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue|Iron Tager]] player. Especially when the [[Meteor Move]] comes...

* In ''[[StarcraftStarCraft II]]'', during the mission 'The Dig', Jimmy reacts like this when he realizes the Tal'darim are sending Phase Prisms at him.

* In ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'', if Alex Mercer charges an attack near a Marine, there's a whole ''catalogue'' of sound bites for that Marine to say – every one a variation on [[This Is Gonna Suck]].

* ''[[StarcraftStarCraft II]]'' has a warning from the Adjutant during the final mission that only counts as this if you have ample personnel and security to deal with it. If you don't, it's [[Oh Crap|the other trope]].

* This trope is actually name-dropped in ''[[Ghost Recon|Ghost Recon: Future Soldier]]'' as {{spoiler|a sandstorm hits during a mission in Africa}} by [[Deadpan Snarker|one]] of the [[Badass Crew|Ghosts]].

** Higgs--andHiggs—and almost everyone else--getselse—gets one [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100906 here] as someone gets his sparkiness on.

* Subverted on ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', by the eponymous character on [https://web.archive.org/web/20090901193828/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=52&issue=14 this page]. He gets a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] off it and the following page. The [[Alt Text]] provides absolutely no comfort anyway.

** And Dominic has [https://web.archive.org/web/20140912083208/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-12-13 one of his own] shortly after.

* Not said, but you just know that [[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Red Mage]] is thinking this in the last two panels of [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/08/13/episode-1162-semantics/ this comic].

* One ''[[Something *Positive]]'' strip discusses the apparent bad luck with which Davan's family seems to be plagued. The account of one ancestor who died while working in a lumber mill when one of the saw blades slipped its moorings and went hurtling towards him simply shows the ancestor noticing his impending demise and thinking, "I do believe this will sting."

* ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]''-- When—When Bob and Jerry notice that the world-destroying bomb they've been fighting over has just started ''ticking:''

* Megaman, in ''[[Bob and George]]'', is taken over by an evil virus, beaten up, nearly trampled to death, his blaster arm explodes, is forced to shove what's left of his arm into another robots intake tubes, catches on fire, suffers full-body 6th degree burns, has his three remaining limbs turned completely to ash, and finally [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/060917 glances his behind him and realizes] "*sigh* This is gonna hurt."

* In ''[[The Adventures of Shan Shan]]'', when learning Shan Shan is being recruited to help save the universal balance, Backpack's reaction is "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130703080739/http://shanshan.upperrealms.com/view.php?pageid=038&chapterid=1 We're all gonna die!]"

* In ''[[Erstwhile]]'''s "All Fur", the king wishes to marry his daughter. Everyone else is appropriately horrified, but he's the king. So the princess sets him to several [[Impossible Task|Impossible Tasks]]s...but he then performs. This trope is [https://web.archive.org/web/20130826194327/http://www.erstwhiletales.com/allfur-03/#.Ty_hl1yDsy4 her face in the last panel].

** It's a general rule that you can usually tell how bad the movie he's reviewing is by his behavior in the opening. This ranges from banging his head on his desk to forget the movie (''[[A Kid in King Arthur's Court]]''), bursting into tears in the middle of his opening [[Catch Phrase]] (''[[Tank Girl]]''), laughing uncontrollably (''[[Cool as Ice]]''), and ''trying to run away from the review'' (''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]'').

* ''[[Bad Movie Beatdown|]]'': Film Brain]]'s reaction to the knowledge that ''[[On Deadly Ground]]'' not only starred, but was directed by, [[Steven Seagal]] was "This is gonna hurt, isn't it?"

* When [[Noah Antwiler]] sits down in front of the camera for an episode of ''wrestlewrestle'' and all he can say is "This is gonna suck" you know [[TNA]] Impact was really ''really'' bad this week.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100914203710/http://punditkitchen.com/2009/10/07/political-pictures-tornado-gonna-suck/ This image] (of a tornado). Yes, it is.

* ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog|Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]]'':

* ''[[Proton Jon|]]'': "Okay, what do we have here? We have--A HUNDRED SECONDS?! Oh, mother fuck, this is not gonna be good!]]"

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' does this in 'The Dress' when Anais hears Gumball's idiotic plan and remarks; "This plan wreaks of failure."

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Chief Wiggum, upon realizing his tie is caught in Apu's hot dog roller, simply comments "Oh boy, this is going to get worse before it gets better."

* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20090201145509/http://current.com/items/76366122/iraq_speech_outtakes.htm this] ''[[Supernews]]'' clip, President George W. Bush has to announce the latest plan for the Iraq War after a succession of failed plans... and he whines during the practice run about just how much [[This Is Gonna Suck]].

* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force|Carl]]'': Carl, where he opens his front door and finds himself staring down an army of [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past from the Future]] robots. The last ''intelligible'' thing he says is, "You have got to be freaking ''kidding me.''"

* In the second Sinister Six episode of ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man|Sinister Six episode]]'', our freaking [[The Adjectival Superhero|Spectacular, Amazing, or sometimes adjectiveless hero]] jumps on a frozen part of the sea luring his enemy, [[Dumb Muscle|Rhino]] after him. Rhino jumps on the ice.. And realizes what he's just done, as the ice breaks beneath him he looks at Spidey and says: ".. I hate you. ''So'' much." and he sinks straight through it.

** [[Affectionate Parody|Affectionately parodied]] in the ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'' episode "Between a Raccoon and a Hard Place." Just before getting steamrolled, Rocky the Rabid Raccoon says "This is gonna hurt!" As his squashed self rolls back into view on the steamroller wheel, it holds a [[Talking with Signs|sign]] reading "Told Ya!"

* ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batmanand the Brave And The Bold]]'': Batman gets one. Upon realizing that, not only is a character who can only combine two non-human animals going to try to combine ''three'' {{spoiler|he's going to combine them with Batman himself}}, his only response is:

* ''[[Freakazoid!]]'': The Lobe, surrounded by a [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|vast arsenal]] of [[Hoist by His Own Petard|his own weapons]] on the verge of [[Stuff Blowing Up|exploding]], turns to the camera and deadpans: "It's the waiting around that kills me."

* ''[[Family Guy]]'': After Peter gets booted off the Patriots Football time and transferred to the London Silly Nannies. After he see what kind of team they are his expression as follows

* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2 E3/E03 Lesson Zero|Lesson Zero]]", as Twilight Sparkle trots off to find some friend she can help in order to be able to send a letter to Princess Celestia about it, Spike predicts, "This won't end well."