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{{trope}}
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
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]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
* [[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
* ''[[Ghost in
* Ryuuji in the Festival Arc of ''[[Toradora
== [[
* 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
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(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) }}
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(Barracuda arms himself)
''...was the thought that came to mind.'' }}
* ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]''; this is basically Ramona's reply when Scott first asks her out - justified, as it's not exactly safe. When it becomes clear he is ''not'' kidding, she gladly tells him what is required - fight and defeat her previous boyfriends. And girlfriend.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Adventures in Babysitting]]''
* ''[[Fantastic Four (
* ''[[Megamind]]''
* ''[[
** 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]]''
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* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]: Prince Caspian''
* ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]''
* ''[[The Thing (
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** Made even funnier when you realise later that Palmer, the man who uttered the line
* In ''[[From Dusk
* ''[[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.
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== [[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.
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* ''[[Harry Potter]] and the Goblet of Fire'', when Dumbledore announces that the Triwizard Tournament is being held at Hogwarts.
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'''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* }}
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* ''[[The Bold And The Beautiful]]'' (soap opera)
* ''[[Gossip Girl]]'' episode "Seventeen Candles"
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[The United States of Tara]]'' episode "Aftermath"
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?
* ''[[
* ''[[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 ''[[
* ''[[
* 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 ''[[
* ''[[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, [[
** [[
* In 2011 at Vengeance, [[
** This isn't the first a superplex delivered to the Big Show resulted in disaster as [[
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* In 2014, [[Paul Heyman]] demanded that Brock Lensar be part of history at [[Wrestlemania]] because he had it
* 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 especially occurs when moves normally have done [[The Undertaker]] is performed by another wrestler. [[Dwayne Johnson|You]] know [[Edge|who]] [[Randy Orton|you]] [[CM Punk|are]] [[Triple H|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, the audience thought Alicia Fox was going to trip over Naomi, only for the 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 these 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.
* Upon Bayley completing her [[Face Heel Turn]], while the audience responded in shock, while Charlotte Flair, yes the daughter of [[Ric Flair]], just stood there in complete silence, wondering on what just happened.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Blood]] 2: The Chosen'':
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'''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.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda
* ''[[Portal (
** ''[[
*** "{{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.
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* 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
* 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
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* 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.
* ''[[
* Travis Touchdown in ''[[No More Heroes]]'': "Ya gotta be shittin' me!"
* Kyle Katarn in ''[[Star Wars: Dark Forces
* 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 ''[[
* * 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?
}}
* In the remake of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. Tifa says this word-for-word upon the party confronting the Abzu, Don Corneo's demonic attack beast.
== [[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?
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has a scene built up for two pages as the British Royal Princesses [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200504 are informed] their presence is requested at the ceremony named "Hail the Heroes of the Galloping Waves". One [[Not Again|rolls eyes at]] having to wear "those outfits", the other reminds her these are "emblematic of the fleet"… When we get to see what "those outfits" are, Agatha's reaction is "you have ''got'' to be ''kidding''". This managed to stun her ''after'' she had to wear a mermaid suit with starfish bra once.
== [[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 ''[[
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'''Moriarty:''' You've got to be kidding me.
''[[Stuff Blowing Up|*Balcony explodes*]]''. }}
* Yami in [[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
** 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
** It has become the closest thing he has to a catchphrase, always uttered when something extremely stupid happens to or around him. [[Surrounded
* 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
** [[Let's Play]]/Chorocojo had a similar reaction after finally managing to catch a Weezing in ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver
* In ''[[The Mercury Men]]'', words to this effect are said by Edward on several occasions.
* Sun Wukong says this in V3E12 of ''[[RWBY]]'' when, after a long and difficult fight, upwards of a dozen students of various academies manage to take out two Atlesian paladins -- only to have a third one show up heading toward them at a full run.
== [[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.
* ''[[
* Jackie, in ''[[
* In the ''[[
** 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
* In [[Batman:
* In [[Kim Possible
*In the '''[[The Simpsons (
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Notably, the unofficial catchphrase for [[
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** 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
* Pretty much the reaction anyone has when they hear disturbing news, especially if it [[It's Personal|
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