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This is a [[Stock Phrase]] said, often by the [[Only Sane Man]] or [[Deadpan Snarker]], when they've just heard about the [[What an Idiot!|stupid]] or outlandish [[Zany Scheme]]. In some cases, it is not even a scheme that they are snarking at, but the [[Surrounded by Idiots|sheer idiocy of their world]]. Compare [[My God, You Are Serious]], which may follow it if said [[Only Sane Man]] actually believed that the person in question was kidding.

It may also be a reaction to something bad happening, making it somewhere between [[Oh Crap]] and [[This Is Gonna Suck]]. Conversely, it may be a reaction to the characters being challenged by a ridiculously weak opponent... possibly leading to a reveal that the opponent [[Took a Level In Badass|isn't so weak after all]].

[[Truth in Television]], naturally.

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== [[Anime]] ==
* ''[[GetBackers]]'' episode "The Animal Transformation of the Beastmaster" 
* [[Meta Guy|Chisame Hasegawa]] tends to utter this in some form or other in [[Mahou Sensei Negima]].
* Kyon from ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi|The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', at least in the dub.
* Anytime you hear the phrase "Joudan ja nai wa yo!" screamed in ''[[Ranma ½]]'', particularly by Akane, is basically this, as it literally translates into you "You've got to be kidding (or joking with) me!"
* ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'': during the Tachicomatic Days section of episode 3 of Stand Alone Complex, the Tachicoma utters this when it looks up to see a huge tank about to land on it.
* Ryuuji in the Festival Arc of ''[[Toradora!]]'', when  {{spoiler|he finds out Taiga's father won't be coming to see her in any of the school's activities.}} 

== [[Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Final Crisis|Legion of Three Worlds]]'', this is Superboy-Prime's reaction upon discovering the 31st Century's Superman Museum.
* People have often said this about ''[[The Punisher]]''. He himself has said it only twice in [[Garth Ennis]]' run:
** In "In The Beginning", Frank has to fight Pittsy the mob enforcer for over a dozen pages. The nutcase manages to blow off one of Frank's ribs, then attempts to tear a lung out through the hole. Frank retaliates by throwing him out a fifth-story window onto a metal picket fence. Then jumping out after him and ''[[Goomba Stomp]]ing'' him, driving three fence spokes three inches through his torso. Two pages later, Pittsy not only manages to tear the fence loose, '''but goes looking for Frank with it sticking out of him.'''
{{quote|'''Frank Castle''': ''You have to be fucking kidding me.''
(Gives Pittsy a [[Boom! Headshot!]]. With a shotgun. At arm's reach.)
''Next step's a reflex action. So's the next one. Got to be.''
([[Gross Up Close-Up]] of Pittsy's shotgunned face) }}
*** Pittsy of course dies, but the reader doesn't get to see if Frank had to shoot him '''''again.'''''
** In "The Long, Cold Dark", after Frank had captured his nemesis [[Scary Black Man|Barracuda]], shot, beaten and electrocuted him<ref>His balls, specifically, wired to a car battery. For around 45 minutes. Frank ''did not'' like him</ref> and left him wrapped in iron chains in the boot of his truck while he attended to other matters. It's all too much for 'Cuda, who just snaps, [[Breaking the Bonds|breaks the chains through sheer strength]] and barrels out.
{{quote|'''The Punisher''': ''"You have got to be fucking kidding me."''
(Barracuda arms himself)
''...was the thought that came to mind.'' }}

== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Adventures in Babysitting]]''
* ''[[Fantastic Four (film)|Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer]]''
* ''[[Megamind]]''
* ''[[Child's Play (film)|Bride of Chucky]]'' 
** And before it, ''Child's Play 3'', when Chucky scares a man who he was just about to stab into having a heart attack. "You have ''got'' to be fucking ''kidding'' me."
* ''[[Enchanted]]''
* ''[[Escape to Witch Mountain]]'' (1975) 
* ''[[Kalifornia]]''
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: Prince Caspian''
* ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]''
* ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]'': Also doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] in an otherwise horrific scene, in which  {{spoiler|the Thing-mimic of Norris detaches its head}}..
{{quote|"You have got to be [[Precision F-Strike|fucking]] kidding!"}}
** Made even funnier when you realise later that Palmer, the man who uttered the line {{spoiler|is also a thing!}}
* In ''[[From Dusk till Dawn]]: Texas Blood Money'' Robert Patrick managed to cram even more profanity into the phrase when a ''total eclipse of the sun'' makes containment of vampires in a bank during the day impossible.
* ''[[Bon Cop, Bad Cop]]'' uses it as {{spoiler|the villain's [[Famous Last Words]].}}
* In [[The Lion King]] 1-1/2, Banzai mutters this in response to Timon and Pumbaa juggling and breakdancing while attempting to buy time.

== [[Literature]] ==
* In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] book ''[[New Jedi Order|Enemy Lines 2: Rebel Stand]]'', Han and Leia are trapped in prison, awaiting what looks to be their final meal before they're shipped off-system to [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|the Yuuzhan Vong]]. Instead of breakfast, Han's blaster, Leia's lightsaber, and an assortment of other useful items pour through the food tray slot courtesy of a complex plan by R2-D2, and the obligatory line is Han's reaction.
{{quote|'''Leia''': "This is my favorite prison ''ever''."}}
* ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Goblet of Fire'', when Dumbledore announces that the Triwizard Tournament is being held at Hogwarts.
{{quote|'''Fred Weasley:''' You're ''joking''. (crowd laughs)
'''Dumbledore:''' I am not joking, Mr. Weasley, though now that you mention it, I did hear an excellent one over the summer about a troll, a hag and a leprechaun who all go into a bar -
'''McGonagall:''' *clears throat* }}

== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[The Bold And The Beautiful]]'' (soap opera) 
* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' episode "Seventeen Candles" 
* ''[[Monk]]'' episode "Mr. Monk Gets Cabin Fever" 
* ''[[Smallville]]'' episode "Odyssey"
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': Colonel Jack O'Neill, in the first manner explained. It's his [[Catch Phrase|signature line]]!
* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' 
* ''[[Scrubs]]'': JD has been know to say this on occasion. 
* ''[[The United States of Tara]]'' episode "Aftermath" 
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' 
* ''[[Angel]]'' episode "Redefinition" 
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' in a couple episodes, one by Donna, another by {{spoiler|the part-Donna Doctor clone}}.
** It's actually Donna's [[Catch Phrase]].
** Also, when the Ninth Doctor ends up on a futuristic version of ''[[Big Brother]]'', "You have ''got'' to be kidding."
* The protagonist of the US remake of ''[[Life On Mars]]'' gives a quiet "No way" upon waking up in the 70's and seeing the World Trade Center still standing.
* John Crichton on ''[[Farscape]]'', more than once. Not always very sensibly either: once he says "Aeryn, honey, you have got to be kidding me" on the discovery that she objects to serious drug abuse. And no, he wasn't [[Sarcasm Mode|being sarcastic]].
* ''[[The Office]]'': Kevin reacts this way to Jim's declaration that he's single and Pam saying that they're "good friends" at the start of season 4.  {{spoiler|He's right.}}
* On ''[[Monster Garage]]'', a variation ("You've gotta be kidding me!") was used almost [[Once an Episode]] by The Big Schwag during the final challenge.
* Dillon from ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' reacts this way when he opens up a refrigerator, revealing a cannon primed and ready to blast him—just so [[Crazy Awesome|Dr. K]] can ''prove a point''. [[The Dragon|Tenaya 7]] also reacts this way [[Ironic Echo|later in the episode]] when the same fridge cannon is about to blast her and end her [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]. A later episode also has Tenaya utter the line when she sees the ridiculous-looking Nozzle-Bot that [[Big Bad|Venjix]] created.
* ''[[Wire in The Blood]]'' (TV special): Dr. Tony Hill literally says this when set up and busted for possession of cocaine in his car (after he has pried around too much for the Texas locals). Unusually, ''everyone else'', including the cops, also acknowledges how ridiculous the charge is, but they go through with the drop-charges-if-you-buzz-off-now spiel nevertheless.
* ''[[Burn Notice]]'', 5x10, when a duped bad guy sees Michael, out of cover and alive.

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* This ended being the response at any [[Royal Rumble]] matches since knowing what order the wrestler would come or any surprise entrant is pretty much the guess of anyone.
** At the 2014 Royal Rumble, [[CM Punk]], [[The Shield (Wrestling)|The Shield]], and the commentators had this response when El Tortio, a midget wrestler, entered the match. This isn’t the first Punk had this reaction since he had the same response in 2011 when Hornswoggle did just that.
** [[Beth Phoenix]] and Kharma generated this reaction when the former entered in 2010 while the latter entered in 2012. As the result, they became the only other known WWE Divas after [[Chyna]] who entered in 1999 and 2000.
* In 2011 at Vengeance, [[Mark Henry]] delivered a superplex to [[The Big Show]] that got Booker T to shout out the name of the trope {{spoiler| when the ring collapsed as the result}}.
** This isn't the first a superplex delivered to the Big Show resulted in disaster as [[Brock Lesnar]] did the same thing in 2003 on an episode of Smackdown prompting this response from [[Tazz (Wrestling)|Tazz]].
{{quote|'''Tazz:''' Holy [[Precision F-Strike|(bleep)]]}}.
* In 2014, [[Paul Heyman]] demanded that Brock Lensar be part of history at [[Wrestlemania]] because he had it with[[Triple H]] playing mind games. Heyman had a contact signing in hopes of getting either [[Randy Orton|Orton]] or [[Batista]] since Triple H gave option of an open challenge … Somebody accepted the offer, guess [[The Undertaker|who did]]? Cue this reaction…
* When someone steals a finisher of another wrestler, this ends up being the response from watching including the wrestler whose move is done by another.
** This is especially occur when moves normally done [[The Undertaker]] is performed by another wrestler. [[Dwayne Johnson|You]] know [[Edge|who]] [[Randy Orton|you]] [[CM Punk|are]] [[Triple H (Wrestling)|out there]].
* Raw, March 31, 2014, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CblaVpAf7J4 AJ] and [[Jerry Lawler]] had this reaction when Naomi got tossed outside of the ring. Normally, in a lumberjack match, the other wrestlers that surround the ring have to toss another wrestler back, like how lumberjack handled feuds. When AJ notices the other divas leaving Naomi, she tossed Naomi back only for Natalya and Emma going after her. 
** Later in the match, audience thought Alicia Fox was going to trip over Naomi, only for former to quickly move her hands out of the way.
** When AJ is tossed out of the ring and heads to the announcer table and Tamina goes to protect her, Rosa Mendes decides there’s one way to handle the matter… [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]], prompting this response by JBL, Michel Cole, and Jerry Lawyer.
* When Nikki Bella was ordered to face the entire cast of Total Divas in a handicap on an episode of '''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2JAE_TzfJQ Main Event]''', Naomi and [[Natalya Neidheart|Natalya]] clearly were distraught because they felt what [[Stephanie McMahon|manager]] ordered wasn't right. After the match, they go to [[Pet the Dog|comfort Nikki]], only for {{spoiler| Cameron}} to push Natalya and [[Kick the Dog|kick Nikki]]. This prompted {{spoiler| Naomi}} to chase her, leaving Rosa Mendes, Eva Marie, and Summer Rae with expression.
* Pretty much the reaction [[Kane]] had when Damien [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHOYWg-bmw8 Mizdow] keeps copying what was happening to [[The Miz]].
*  February 16, 2015 episode of Raw, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l17vFtNZ_IA Summer Rae] had this question on her mind when Paige arrived dressed as one of the rosebuds, thanks to the Bella Twins taking her gear.
* Pretty much the reaction to anyone who saw Dean Ambrose showed up at the WWE headquarters, during a blizzard.
* [https://youtu.be/uKtoBTG6V3o Las Vegas Show Girls Match] resulted in this reactions since it was [[William Regal]] and [[Goldust]] in the match. Regal felt humiliated that he would have to be in drag, while Goldust went with the idea. The [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] had to go to [[Jerry Lawler]], who found himself laughing.
* Pretty Much, any cash-in prompts this response.

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In ''[[Munchkin]] Bites'', the text for Were-Muskrats is "+4 vs. Werewolves, who cannot BELIEVE this...".

== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Blood]] 2: The Chosen'':
{{quote|'''Telemarketer:''' Uhm, good morning, afternoon, evening, Mister Cal-Eeb. I'm with a market research firm and we're doing a survey on computer games, [[Blatant Lies|this call is not an attempt to sell you anything]]. First question: [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|are you currently or have you ever been a character in a computer game?]] 
'''Caleb:''' You've gotta be kidding. }}
** Caleb utters the line again at the beginning of the second chapter, when Gideon once again crashes the subway train Caleb was riding on into another one.
* ''[[Infamous (video game series)|In Famous]]'' has Cole say this when he gets a load of Sasha. 
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games]]'': "How about a kiss, for luck?"
* ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'': "You are kidding me. Did you just stuff that Aperture Science [[Expospeak Gag|Thing We Don't Know What It Does]], into an Aperture Science Emergency Intelligence Incinerator?"
** ''[[Portal 2]]'': "What, [[Why Won't You Die?|are you still alive]]? You are joking! You have got to be kidding me!"
*** "{{spoiler|Core Transfer}}? Oh, you are kidding me."
* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'': Lightning summoning Odin for the first time cues the following quote just before he tries to bisect [[Tagalong Kid|Hope]]. Bonus points for snarking her sudden role as the [[Badly-Battered Babysitter]] after they were separated from Sazh and Vanille prior to the summoning.
{{quote|''This cannot be happening.''}}
* Variations happen twice in ''[[Modern Warfare]]''. First, when Gaz hears that [[The Squad]]'s extraction point has just become compromised and they have to fight through a virtual army downhill to the secondary one ''before the chopper leaves without them'', he lets out the anguished: "Oh, he's gotta be taking the piss!" A few levels later, Price, Soap, and Griggs fight their way to the final bunker door [[Race Against the Clock|under extreme time pressure]] and the door begins to open veeeeerryyyy slooowlyyy. Griggs: "Oh, you gotta be shittin' me!" Cue [[Deadpan Snarker|snarks]] from Price and Gaz on the comms. In ''Black Ops'' Hudson says the quote verbatim when told the only way to escape a pursing Spetznaz hit-squad that wants him, his partner and their prisoner dead is to jump off the roof of the building they're all standing on. 
* In the very beginning of ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' the main heroine Jade finds out that the power company cut off power feed to her house for nonpayment. Oh, yeah, she finds it out ''when the defensive force field over her house dies in the middle of an alien invasion''. Jade is apparently a very polite and temperate girl so the worst she has to say over the situation is You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!. 
* Shepard utters this exact line in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'''s Overlord DLC when the huge satellite dish they just disabled starts collapsing. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|While they're still standing on it]].
** In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', the Reapers are going to ground, whiping the floor with their [[Wave Motion Gun|giant laser beams]].
{{quote|'''Garrus:''' ''"Did we just get shot at by a Reaper?!"''}}
* The ''[[Uncharted]]'' series uses this at least once per scene. Often said by rogueish protagonist Nathan Drake as he suddenly finds himself face-to-face with a tank, or a helicopter, or a slimy zombie-like thing, or a dude with a humongous gun. Or even just another wall that must be scaled.
* Zidane of ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' says this almost word-for-word when the Armodullahan appears out of nowhere in an enclosed space. To his credit, he does start running ''before'' saying the line.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'': The [[Bratty Half-Pint|Scout]] on the losing team sometimes says this.
* Travis Touchdown in ''[[No More Heroes]]'': "Ya gotta be shittin' me!"
* Kyle Katarn in ''[[Star Wars: Dark Forces|Jedi Knight]]'', when he sees just how far he's got to jump to get to his goal. The player probably had a similar reaction: it is a ''long'' way over a ''hell'' of a drop.
* In [[Killzone]] 3, after blowing up an oil rig and jumping to safety, the resulting wave towers over him, and he simply quips "...really?".
* Both AWACS Thunderhead and one of the allied tanks in ''[[Ace Combat 5 The Unsung War]]'' have this reaction in the "Desert Lightning" mission, after the enemy manages to sneak a ''battleship'' into the river near their fallen airfield.
* [[Tsundere|Sheena]] in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' is very fond of this line when she gets flustered, such as if Lloyd catches her playing with children and Luin and comments [[Capulet Counterpart|how cute this makes her look]].
* * The reaction of [[Gears of War/Characters|Marcus Fenix]] in the third game after shooting a chicken he finds at random once said chicken turns into a giant golden one.
{{quote|'''Marcus''': ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
}}

== [[Web Comics]] ==
* This is Ginger's reaction in ''[[Collar 6]]'' when {{spoiler|Linda Knight}} shows up as her "training partner".
* ''[[Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger]]'' used this when after thoroughly mocking insane engineering of a ''[[Star Trek]]'' Federation it turned to ''[[The Cold Equations]]''. On page 126 a former crewmember of Enterprise ''[[Expy]]'' (reproduced in all the "best" details - ludicrous layout, force field airlocks, nonexistent computer security, handling of antimatter, and so on) was shown schematics of a shuttle involved in such a case, and ''[[Beyond the Impossible|even he]]'' gets... rather surprised by the [[Too Dumb to Live|unusual approach to reliability]] demonstrated therein.
{{quote|'''Dweebley''': Okay, I... What the? Oh, for - BWAHAHAHAHAH!! '''''Oh you can't be serious--'''''}}
* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'', when the elves are [http://yafgc.net/comic/2844-trek-interrupted/ threatening] Lewie the Lich. With... bows and arrows?

== [[Web Original]] ==
* The phrase is stated by Charlie in [[Charlie the Unicorn]] 2, when he finds out the journey to save the world from 1000 years of darkness was actually a trap to steal his television.
* The ''[[How It Should Have Ended]]'' version of [[Sherlock Holmes a Game of Shadows]] has Moriarty [[Crowning Moment of Funny|utter this phrase]] when [[Iron Man]] [[It Makes Sense in Context|shoots a tank missile at him]]. Made funnier if you've seen their version of [[Self-Referential Humor|Iron Man]]. Watch it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poDaiYKJFlo here].
{{quote|'''Iron Man:''' Tank missile!
'''Moriarty:''' You've got to be kidding me.
''[[Stuff Blowing Up|*Balcony explodes*]]''. }}
* Yami in [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]] in episode 30, "Sore", when his opponent appears to be none other than [[Saw|Jigsaw]].
** Not to mention when Yugi realizes that Jaden challenged him to a rap battle, and he accepted it.
** Or Yami's reaction in the pilot when he sees Kaiba's holographic duel arena. "Okay, seriously, you've got to be [BEEP]ing kidding me. Who wastes all that money on something like that?"
* Done by Washington in ''[[Red vs. Blue|Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction]]'' after he discovers that [[Crowning Moment of Funny|even the]] [[Big Bad]][[Crowning Moment of Funny|'s computer pronounces "E.M.P." as "ehmp"]].
** It has become the closest thing he has to a catchphrase, always uttered when something extremely stupid happens to or around him. [[Surrounded by Idiots|Which is a lot.]]
* Everyone's reaction in [[Suburban Knights]] when it was revealed that Malachite's Hand is  {{spoiler|in the same field that they started in at the beginning of the special.}}
* "[[Chuggaaconroy|YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!]] [[Big OMG|OH MY GOD!]] [[Pokémon|After all 30 of my Ultra Balls failed]], a ''Poke Ball'' caught [[Olympus Mons|it!]]"
** [[Let's Play]]/Chorocojo had a similar reaction after finally managing to catch a Weezing in ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver|Crystal]]'', wasting a ton of Ultra Balls on it before finally catching it with a Great Ball (made funnier considering Great Balls had literally ''never'' worked before that point).
* In ''[[The Mercury Men]]'', words to this effect are said by Edward on several occasions.

== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'' 
* This is Tak's verbatim reaction in ''[[Invader Zim]]'' when Zim, instead of figuring out that she's a rival Irken who's out to prove herself a better invader than him, concludes that her mistreatment of him over the past several days meant they were ''dating'', and so triumphantly "breaks up" with her.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Aang overcomes a Fire Nation vessel with some difficulty... then says this exact phrase on seeing the ENTIRE FLEET behind it!
* Jackie, in ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', frequently. 
* In the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003]]'' 2003 cartoon episode "Scion of the Shredder", Raph has tired himself out fighting a few Foot Soldiers while escaping on an elevator. Then, just when he's catching his breath, more Foot Soldiers show up. His response? "You've gotta be kidding me."
** This isn't the only moment he drops this - he says it quite often when he runs into trouble. For example, he even dropped it at least once in the Fast Forward episode "Home Invasion" when a machine that brushes his teeth and puts shaving cream on his face came to life where he thought he could get the privacy to read a newspaper.
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]] has Nightmare Moon utter [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSxD7ANFONM "You're kidding. You're kidding, right?"] when Twilight gives the [[Furry Reminder|do-you-want-a-piece-of-me ground kick]]
* In [[Batman: The Animated Series|Beware the Grey Ghost,]] Bruce Wayne realizes that a series of bombings are copied from the Grey Ghost show he enjoyed as a kid. After the actor who played him hands over the episode, which Bruce enjoys watching while searching for clues, until he finds out that the bombs were driven in toy cars, leading to a unbelieving reaction and Bruce to comment, well, You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!.
* In [[Kim Possible|"A Sitch in Time"]], Kim is incredulous when Shego summons Dr. Drakken to fight her. This leads to [[The Reveal]] that Drakken is now [[Future Badass|a mass of muscle]].
*In the '''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Fourth Tree-house of Horror]]''', Homer is sent to hell after selling his soul for a donut. A demon has Homer being force-fed donuts, only for him to come to this response [[Too Kinky to Torture|when Homer just keeps asking for more]].

== [[Real Life]] ==
* Notably, the unofficial catchphrase for [[Wild Weasel]] crews was "YGBSM", for "You Gotta Be Shittin' Me". To clarify, the Wild Weasels were Vietnam-era USAF fighter aircraft whose job was to act as bait for North Vietnamese air defenses, in hopes of [[High-Speed Missile Dodge|drawing their fire]], [[Dodge the Bullet|evading it]], and then [[Death From Above|destroying the antiair site]]. The phrase was supposedly coined as 
{{quote|"...the [[Oh Crap|natural]] [[This Is Gonna Suck|response]] of an educated man, a veteran [[Guy in Back|EWO]] on B-52s and the like, upon learning that he was to fly back seat to a [[The Ace|self-absorbed fighter pilot]] while acting as flypaper for enemy SAMs."}}
** This is, by the way, ''still'' US Air Force doctrine when they cannot locate the SAM or AAA site through other means. It's called SEAD duty (Suppression of Enemy Air Defense), and pilots are typically ''not'' happy to draw the short straw on it.
*** The original [[Catch-22]] revolved around this: any airman who tries to get out of flying dangerous bombing missions by claiming insanity is clearly sane enough to fly them, because he's trying to avoid doing so.
* Pretty much the reaction anyone has when they hear disturbing news, especially if it [[It's Personal|involves a love one]].

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[[Category:Character Reaction Index]]
[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]
[[Category:Surprise Tropes]]
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