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Defensive "What?"
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Basically, when someone says or does something outlandish or offensive for whatever reason, only to realize that everyone is staring at him, while he evidently didn't think whatever he said was that odd. Could be because he just said the dumbest thing anyone has ever heard in their lives, because it was horrifically offensive, or maybe even because he just spouted an unexpectedly inspired bit of brilliance and doesn't realize it yet. Related to Big "WHAT?!" and Flat "What". Can be used to lampshade an Out-of-Character Moment. Often overlaps with Funny Background Event. |
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Black Mage in 8-Bit Theater does this a lot, whenever he's caught doing something awful. | |
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Shrek: At the start of the first movie, The Big Bad Wolf says this when he is caught sleeping in the title character's bed. And again in the second movie when Prince Charming finds him in Fiona's bed. |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: When Ami's minions don't believe that she's only a magical human instead of some demonic being, she says "What?" while being defensive: | |
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A Study In Situations: In one drabble, Holmes nearly gets run over saving a child. When Watson glares at him, not appreciating the scare, he asks "What?" and questions Watson's sense of adventure. | |
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In Jurassic World, after Owen and Claire had talked about their failed first date, Claire asks him who would wear broad shorts on a date. Owen gets rather defensive about it. | |
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In Supernatural season 12, Crowley gets one when he offers the Winchesters assistance: "What? I help." | |
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Also occurs in Counter Monkey, when recounting Zeus finding his daughter Athena in bed with one of Spoony's characters. This response results in him being thrown off Olympus. | |
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In Star Wars: The Clone Wars, evil senator Tal Merrick openly declares he's going to blow up a starship, killing countless people, knowing that Satine and Kenobi cannot kill him due to their "pathetic ideals." Cue a lightsaber exiting his chest courtesy of Anakin, who doesn't share their reservations. Obi-Wan shoots him an accusatory look for this, only for Skywalker to point out he just saved everyone on-board. | |
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Belkar Bitterleaf from The Order of the Stick also does this quite a bit, especially when caught doing or saying something entirely in-character for him, like murdering an innocent gnome for his pack mule. Definitively a Heroic Comedic Sociopath trait. | |
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In Turning Red, Mei says this in an Aside Comment when we witness Ming evidently playing with Mei's Tamagotchi. | |
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Mario Party 3: This is Daisy's excuse for laying the Bitchslap from Hell on Bowser. | |
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As does Fuzzy in Sam & Fuzzy. Probably goes with Heroic Comedic Sociopath territory. | |
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In Dragon Ball Z Abridged Episode 36, Gohan does this when Piccolo glares at him after Dr. Gero berates Android 19 for using "dodge" as a complicated subroutine. It ties into the Running Gag that Gohan has never learned to dodge attacks, and that's why Piccolo has to frequently save his bacon. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Darcy Lewis does this after zapping Thor with her tazer — with Jane Foster and Erik Selvig staring at her in horror: In Avengers: Endgame, Bruce Banner experiments time travel with Ant-Man as the guinea pig. After a series of hilarious mishaps which make it clear that the experiment was a failure, Bruce elatedly declares out loud "Time travel!", to which Captain America simply shakes his head and leaves. |
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In The Venture Brothers, when Phantom Limb tranquilizes Brock for insulting Dr. Girlfriend. | |
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In Monstrous Regiment, Jackrum gets defensive after laying out the bouncer in the camp seamstresses' tent. | |
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Steven Universe: In "It Could've Been Great", Peridot gushes about what Homeworld's colonization of Earth could have been like and blames Rose Quartz's rebellion for the Cluster being planted within the planet to destroy it. The Crystal Gems are not happy at these insults to their leader and, following a near-violent confrontation, Peridot wonders what the big deal is. | |
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Destroy All Humans!: This happens when Cryptosporidium fails a mission and is called out on it by his superiors. | |
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Mass Effect's Kaidan, when having his infamous Covert Pervert moment. "It does sound like something that you'd find on an extranet fetish site. [beat] ...what?" | |
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Saints Row has Troy lighting his signature cigarette off a recently killed-with-fire enemy's corpse. Made hilarious by the horrified reaction of his teammate. | |
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In one episode of Drake & Josh, after Josh misses his chemistry exam because of Drake, he points at Drake, only for Drake to play innocent and give this response, which Josh does not take very well. | |
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Girl Genius: Pulled by Klaus Wulfenbach (who is definitely not a Heroic Comedic Sociopath), of all people, as he's "walking" away from his hospital bed in a medical transport clank. When Dimo realizes that the self-powered coach they are using is being cannibalized by Agatha for her latest invention, just as they're trying to escape Parisian clanks, Agatha's sole response to his glare is a dismissive "What?" Then again, she's in the Madness Place, so it shouldn't be too surprising. |
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Rizzo lets these out on two occasions in The Muppet Christmas Carol, both times when he forgets something that would have been extremely helpful just a little earlier. | |
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ENA: At the end of "Power of Potluck", ENA is utterly baffled by a puppet-snake-dinosaur thing opening its mouth to reveal a crying man inside of it, which Moony defends by saying "What?". Then she stuffs the man into the square hole in the side of her face. It's that kind of series. | |
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Red vs. Blue: In season 15, when the Reds and Blues are explaining what they've been up to since Chorus: | |
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At the start of the first movie, The Big Bad Wolf says this when he is caught sleeping in the title character's bed. | |
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Odd Squad: In "Oscar and the Oscarbots", Olive comments that Oscarbot 24 might be at Club 24, a nightclub located downtown. When Oscar and Otto look at her suspiciously, this is her response: In "Bad Lemonade", when Odd Todd offers Olive and Otto a free sample of his lemonade, Olive smugly tells him that they wouldn't drink a single thing made by him. Of course, as usual, her smug attitude backfires on her, as she forgets about her Big Eater of a partner, who has a cup of the lemonade in his hand. |
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This is Chiri's reaction in Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei when the rest of the class reacts to her treating "juicing her sister" as something completely natural. | |
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Futurama: Robot Buddy Bender compliments Fry on his metaphorically robotic heart, and then compares it to his own physical human heart, to the dismay of the rest of the crew. He has to ask the question twice. Again in "Zapp Dingbat": |
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In Avengers: Endgame, Bruce Banner experiments time travel with Ant-Man as the guinea pig. After a series of hilarious mishaps which make it clear that the experiment was a failure, Bruce elatedly declares out loud "Time travel!", to which Captain America simply shakes his head and leaves. | |
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An unlockable cutscene in Jak X: Combat Racing shows Daxter and Tess drinking coffee, with Daxter turning to the audience and asking them "what". This was an intentional Take That! to the "Hot Coffee" GTA scandal. | |
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In The Rose of Versailles, Girodelle is discussing with Oscar about his proposal to her when he notices how Oscar is venting her nervousness: | |
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During Marvel's Civil War event, the Punisher of all people winds up in Captain America's anti-registration camp. When two minor super-villains show up and offer their support, Cap is on the verge of accepting, when the Punisher guns them both down. One panel of shocked looks from all the anti-reg heroes, followed by a panel of Castle looking at them, still-smoking guns in his hands, and asking "What?" Cap proceeds to beat the stuffing out of him. | |
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Courage the Cowardly Dog: "What did I do?" is one of Eustace's catchphrases, usually after receiving a rolling pin to the head by Muriel. | |
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Naru-Hina Chronicles: After Sasuke accidentally convinces Naruto to join the ANBU, Sakura frowns at her boyfriend and says "Oh... Way to convince him, Sasuke!" He replies with this trope. | |
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Darcy Lewis does this after zapping Thor with her tazer — with Jane Foster and Erik Selvig staring at her in horror: | |
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Robot Chicken lists the top ten things co-headwriter Doug Goldstein could have done with the $12,000 he blew on his timeshare. One example is putting a dollar in 12,000 g-strings. When he is seen doing just that with a male dancer, he gives a defensive what before explaining he ran out of chicks. | |
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Ninjago: In "The Last Voyage", when Lloyd looks at Cole when he's whistling the theme tune, Cole responds "What? It's catchy." | |
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In Undercover Brother, shortly after the heroes have seen the black army general's newly-released commercial for General's Fried Chicken,note for context, the general was originally supposed to announce his bid for the presidency after being released from his military service, but threw the heroes a curve-ball when he instead announced he was going to open a new chain of fried-chicken restaurants. Turns out, he was being brainwashed by The Man as part of the evil organization's plot to keep the black race down. the BROTHERHOOD's token white member, Lance, walks past with a bucket of fried chicken from the new restaurant while humming the theme song from the commercial. Cue everyone staring at him and him responding with this trope. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Tedd frequently finds the need to use these. Here and here are good examples. Catalina Bobcat gets one here, oddly enough Susan seems to be a cause of these. |
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Team Fortress 2: In the Meet the Spy video, the BLU Soldier delivers one of these after shooting the BLU Spy. And in "Expiration Date", when the team thought they had teleportitis cancer, and then Demoman suddenly teleports in with a crate of beer: |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Legend of Everfree: After Pinkie Pie tosses a box of nails and everybody else panics, she lets out a defensive "What?" before realizing that they expected it to explode because of her newfound superpower. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the premiere episode, this is Pinkie Pie's reply to the others' stares after she eats a cupcake smothered in hot sauce. Rarity also does this in the episode "Lesson Zero", after the third time she dramatically declares "the worst possible thing". In the season 4 episode "Three's a Crowd", when Discord asks for a fainting couch, everyone turns to Rarity. |
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In the first Men in Black, K snaps off a defensive "What?" when J gets mad at him for being too trigger-happy with the neuralyser. | |
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The News Quiz: A frequent response by panelists when the audience judges a joke as too soon. Notoriously sports-averse Sandi Toksvig does this to the audience in the 2011 News Quiz Panto when, for plot-convenient reasons, she just happens to know about England cricketer Graham Onions. |
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Spoony does this during his review of Ultima VII, after recruiting a nine-year-old orphan and giving him a shotgun. Also occurs in Counter Monkey, when recounting Zeus finding his daughter Athena in bed with one of Spoony's characters. This response results in him being thrown off Olympus. |
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And again in the second movie when Prince Charming finds him in Fiona's bed. | |
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In Oathbringer: The characters find the body of the recently murdered Sadeas. Despite his Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, most of the characters are still disturbed that they were murdered, but Palona has no such reservations: | |
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At the end of the 2 Stupid Dogs episode "Love Doctors", Big Dog says "What?" in response to Little Dog yelling at him for burying Kenny Fowler. | |
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Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "the movies", when Strong Bad calls the King of Town out on sneaking "all-you-can-eat fajitas" into the movie theater, the King replies "What? This was all in my box of Milk Duds!" | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In one case, used to lampshade that Xander was the one to know some key bit of information. Cordelia got to use it too. |
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On Family Guy, Peter doesn't know where he'll get $50,000 he needs to keep the bank from taking his house. Quagmire offers a suggestion. | |
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Universe Falls: In "The Dinner Shack", this is Stan's reaction to the look he gets from the kids after an argument over the phone with Connie's mother. | |
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In one story of Facing the Future Series, when Danny gets an idea on how to rescue Danielle from the Guys In White, he stares at Jack, who lets out one of these. Turns out, Danny meant to use Jack's earlier failed experiments to Storm the Castle. | |
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Babylon 5: When the station fails to explode or disappear. | |
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In the Gravity Falls episode "Legend of the Gobblewonker", Grunkle Stan has this reaction when an ill-timed joke about the Awful Wedded Life falls flat. | |
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