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A character is confronted with great misfortune. He is struck by bad luck at the least convenient moment, someone close to him suddenly got shot or died or he lost a precious object forever. Cue to him or her screaming the word "Why?" up to the sky in a Skyward Scream, complete with Large Ham and Narm fashion. Often a sign of Villainous Breakdown, Heroic B.S.O.D., Break the Cutie and Start of Darkness. Might imply a Rage Against the Heavens. This used to be a popular trope during dramatic scenes, but nowadays it's a Discredited Trope, usually played for laughs. A Sub-Trope of Big Word Shout. A Sister Trope to Big "NO!" and Big "WHAT?!" Compare Big "NEVER!", Big "OMG!". Contrast Big "YES!" Not to be confused with the regionalnote Mainly Massachusetts, and Connecticut. supermarket chain "Big Y". Or Super Why!. Here is a compilation with a lot of examples. NOTE: Do not Pot Hole to this trope just to complain about something. It will be deleted. |
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Sengoku Basara makes this into a Catch-Phrase for the eternally unlucky, put-upon Kanbe. Anytime life conspires to screw with him (which is often) you'll hear him shouting "WHYYY?" at the sky. Rendered in Japanese as "NAZE JAAAA?" | |
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In The Penguins of Madagascar episode "I Was a Penguin Zombie", Kowalski, Private, and Rico are mourning for Skipper, mistakenly believing he died of an infection, and Rico coughs up a picture of Skipper and screams "Why? WHY?! WWWWHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!" | |
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In Doom House, Reginald shouts this, in the Narmiest way possible, after finding the cursed doll in his bed. | |
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In the first installment of The Gamers, Nimble does one of these in a flashback to a previous session where his sister was murdered. | |
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The Simpsons. In the episode "Brother From The Same Planet" Homer yells this as he dreams Bart having turned into a skeleton. He then yells "Why?.... Who?....When?.... How?..." | |
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In the musical Merrily We Roll Along, at the end of the 1976 scene, Frank's life has been ruined. He stands alone in his Bel Air mansion, and screams, "WHYYYY??!!" | |
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In the second installment of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, known as Strong Badia the Free, when Strong Bad wins his "battle" against a Taranchula standee, Strong Mad, who was controlling the standee, cries, "WHY, STRONG BAD, WHY?!?" | |
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A character is shot at the climax of the film Higher Learning. As she lies there, gushing Blood from the Mouth, she manages to wail out a wrenching version of one of these. It's her last word. | |
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In Rick and Morty, when Morty is forced to kill Fart, Fart gives him this. | |
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Supernatural: The Teddy Bear that the little girl brought to life with a wish in the "Wishful Thinking" episode tries to kill himself by blasting his head off with a shotgun and discovers that it won't kill him. Cue big why. | |
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In Danganronpa, two of Aoi Asahina's voice clips usually follow a pattern of a slightly-more common little 'why' followed by a rarely-used big one when she's sufficiently disturbed. Most notably happens when she discovers Sakura dead in chapter 4. | |
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The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode "Spaceman Sonic" gives us this infamous quote from Dr. Robotnik as he yells at his minions. "WHY is my precious rocket-ship drifting off into deep space?! WHY am I reaching you at the coordinates of the abandoned space station?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?!" | |
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In Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, Riku asks why the mysterious boy in the black cloak (Roxas) has a Keyblade. Said figure just gives him a Big "SHUT UP!" and attacks him. | |
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American Dad! Steve shouts a mournful one whenever attacked by a vindictive crow in one episode: | |
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In Smosh in "How to Dump Your Girlfriend!", Anthony's girlfriend lets one out when she gets fooled by Anthony faking his death. Anthony then answers her, even though he was supposed to pretend to be dead. | |
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In Dynasty Warriors: Gundam, a great big, agonized "WHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??!!!!" is Uso Ewin's reaction to getting shot down in battle by the player. | |
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In the Chowder episode "Mung on the Rocks", an unsatisfied customer claims that he ordered a Super Happy Cake, but the cake is clearly depressed and lets out one of these. | |
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In Victorious, on the episode "Who Did It To Trina?", Andre says this when he isn't allowed to leave Lane's room. This is a close reference to the first aforementional example. | |
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In the Steven Universe/Uncle Grandpa crossover episode "Say Uncle", Amethyst trips over a letter "Y" (part of the words "RUN AWAY") and screams "WHY?????" into the sky. | |
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Parodied in Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, where Rusty Pete gives out quite a large "why" (with a hiccup in the middle) after Captain Slag is killed. He imminently gets over the loss, and declares Ratchet as the new captain so that he can later use him to revive Slag. | |
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In the DS version of Final Fantasy IV, Cecil does this upon finding the King of Baron (i.e. his foster father) had sent him to unwittingly raze a defenseless village with his package. | |
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Cow and Chicken. In "A Couple of Skatin' Fools", to take Chicken and Earl out of the figure skating competition, Red Guy fractures Earl's knee by tapping it with a galvanized steel smoking pipe. Afterwards, Earl continually screams, "WHYYYY?!! WHYYYYY?!!", even as he's rushed to the hospital. | |
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Elvis Costello's "Welcome to the Working Week" from My Aim Is True has a repeated one: | |
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In Regular Show, season 4, "A Bunch of Full Grown Geese", Rigby shouts this three times when four geese ruin a sandwich he, Mordecai, and Pops were about to eat by knocking it to the ground and kicking dust on it and when the geese surround him and beat him up. | |
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When Professor Farnsworth discovers that his experimental monkey Gunther has escaped in the Futurama episode "Mars University", he shouts "Why? WHY? Why didn't I break his legs, why?" | |
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In The Nutty Professor, Buddy does this to Carla when she's about to ditch him for showing up late to their date. | |
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In Psychonauts, the G-Men attempt to pull this off when they're posing as grieving widows, but their lack of inflection causes it to come off as lifeless and lacking in emotion. Which is hilarious. | |
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In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, the protagonist Rean screams this towards Osborne who reveals himself to be alive, undoing everything Crow and the Imperial Liberation Front's whole revenge. | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball In "The Secret", Gumball lets one out when Darwin informs him the only way to get out of a locked bathroom is going down the toilet. In "The Flower", this is Leslie's (the titular flower) reaction to Gumball's Green-Eyed Monster Super-Powered Evil Side covering him in slugs in the hopes of them eating him alive. |
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Ximena lets out several of these in El Cid when the exiled Spaniards discover her with her husband in the barn and beg him to lead them once more. She's clearly screaming at the top of her lungs, but we barely hear her over the cheers and Rodrigo's exultant "Spain! Spain!" | |
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Denny at the end of The Room while mourning over Johnny's body after he commits suicide. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants, "Ripped Pants" when SpongeBob appears to have drowned but is just setting up another ripped pants joke, the lifeguard does a particularly hilarious one. In "Boating School", Mrs. Puff responds to SpongeBob crashing during the driving test with "Oh, SpongeBob! Why?" She says it in a deeper voice because she has inflated like a deployed airbag. |
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Scrapped Princess. Raquel has a heartbreaking one, near the end, when Pacifica dies, despite her attempts to save her. It's preceded by a Little "No" before she breaks down and screams at the heavens. | |
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After a murder spree that presumably starts long before the action in DeathProof, Stuntman Mike is perplexed when the girls finally turn the tables on him. | |
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Spike does this in the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Just for Sidekicks". Also, being an over-reactive Drama Queen that she is, Rarity in "Lesson Zero" when she lost her ribbon can be this. | |
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Frankenstein's Monster bellows out an impressive one in Van Helsing to the angry mob at the beginning of the movie, stunning all of them into silence. | |
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In the final scenes of Poltergeist, Steve grabs his land-developer boss and screams at him for having relocated the headstones of the cemetery on which his haunted house was built, while leaving the bodies. His rant of accusation ends with a furious double example of this trope. | |
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In the South Park episode "Volcano", when Stan shoots Scuzzlebutt, Patrick Duffy lets out a Big "NO!" and exclaims, "Why, God, why?!" | |
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One Family Guy cutaway has Peter tumbling down a cliff, plants and jagged rocks ripping at his clothes, until he crashes naked and bruised through the roof of a house to land on a poor Mexican family's dinner table. The father asks "What is this?" in subtitled Spanish, to which his wife replies, "It is the answer to my prayers." The father cries "Por qué?" | |
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In Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Taranza screams this after Queen Sectonia blasts him for not following her orders properly. It's what lead him into realizing he was fighting for the wrong side. | |
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In Breaking Bad episode "Down", Jesse's mom hurls a few at her son for being a meth addict who tried keeping his late aunt's house all to himself, instead of letting his parents take it away from him. Note that she doesn't scream a single "why?" once Jesse places a bid on the house when she puts it on the market but at the same time Jesse got his lawyer Saul to blackmail his mom into either signing the house over to Jesse for an amount where she gets NO profits ($400,000) since she spent the exact same much to renovate the house OR face litigations because the house used to contain a meth lab and Saul would be more than happy to press charges against her by contacting the nosy DEA. |
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