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A when it comes to reactions, but a simple one. Although it is just one word, the way in which it is pronounced can speak volumes about how absurd (or mundane) the situation can be, simply by how and where the inflection in a speaker's voice (if any) is used. In written speech, it's supplemented by the punctuation following it.
For an example:. 'What?' Standard reaction when someone notices that someone spoke to him, but didn't hear well what was said. Common in the real world, little used in fiction as it goes against. 'What?' Standard reaction, used in everyday speech; slightly rising inflection (clarify what someone said, being asked a favor, etc.). 'What?!'
Sharper inflection indicating a level of surprise (, etc.). ' An accusatory or intimidating statement; 'I'm in your face, what are you going to do about it!?' , or in defense against accusatory stares if the speaker believes that whatever earned them those glares was normal. ' et al; New levels of absurdity have been hit (Variations on the length of the word and (ab)use of? As needed; this is the one most often used for comic effect) That's below. You've just been witness to something so, so (or possibly so mind-crushingly terrifying ),.
And that's exactly how it's written, too: 'what' with a period at the end. One of the best parts of the dubbed episode 'Electric Shock Showdown!' Surge's Flat What after Pikachu nullifies his Raichu's Thunderbolt by grounding its tail.
Kyon pulls one after Haruhi announces the SOS brigade will be hosting a movie screening at the culture fest in episode 20 of. And when Yuki tells him she's an And when Asakura tells him she's going to kill him. He seems pretty fond of this and the. has a knocked-out Sugisaki Ken trying to cross the river of Hell to reach his 'harem'., who happens to be passing by on her ferry, responds to this bizarre scene with a flat 'Oi.' After he passes her. In a chapter of, a spin-off, Kouji and are together inside the cockpit. During the battle Minerva lands on Kouji on a very awkward and embarrassing position.
Sayaka, and who has just arrived and destroyed three Mechanical beasts in a fit of jealous rage, sees him, and they - after displaying tremendously comical stares - try to explain it is not what it seems, and Minerva is not human but she actually is a Super Robo created by Dr. Kabuto to be Mazinger-Z's partner. Sayaka's reaction?.
In, Ami, Kitamura, and Minorin do a flat what after Ryuuji tells them that he and Taiga are going to run away and get married. In Yankee-kun to Megane-chan ( in the American release), Izumi reacts this way after the student council finds a necklace that claims to grant three wishes. And Chiba immediately suggests wishing. In the last episode of, after Sernia and Tomomi hfe had one of their biggest battles ever over a ticket to the amusement park Try Aqualand for a date with Akiharu (won by Sernia), the guy is so that he completely misunderstands their enthusiasm, and gives the other ticket to Tomomi as a 'sort of consolation prize'.
Cue absolutely deadpan Flat What from Tomomi, followed by some verbal abuse from most of the named cast, and topped with an earth-shaking double from BOTH Tomomi and Sernia.: This is Nozomu Itoshiki's standard reaction to whatever most recent, outlandish explanation was.: Russia mixes one of these with a creepy, intense stare when Stalin informs him that the White Sea-Baltic Canal he spent a year breaking his back digging is. In one particular / episode, (or, more accurately, one of his shadow clones) has this reaction to Tenten summoning what appears to be.
In, in the midst of discussing Aura's wish to marry Canale, Ayace decides to bluntly let everyone know that Canale is his lover. While the others' reactions vary from awkwardness to surprise, Aura simply says '.what.' .
Uryuu Minene aka the 9th, a terrorist of some repute, of does this when the police officer Nishijima proposes to her while they were on the run from other police officers. He even had a ring. Shinji gives a very amusing one in chapter 612 of when Soifon gives Yoruichi's little brother, Yushiro, pocket money.:. Kaneki gives one after meeting Dr. Kanou, who reveals that Manager Yoshimura is deeply connected to Aogiri. Namely being the father of its leader.
Saiko from:Re gives one after Haise announces that. In the anime adaptation, Koro-sensei panics and does one when his students, having exploited a loophole in his offer to let them destroy one tentacle for each top score they took in finals, inform him they want to claim their 'prizes' while the class is on the island vacation they also won for their top scores. The reason this frightens Koro-sensei senseless?
He's severely weak to water, which clogs up his tentacles and slows him down.: Kuroyukihime has this reaction when Haruyuki tells her that he went through with her suggestion to cable link with his childhood Chiyuri.: This is Tanya's reaction to Tasha being a boy. In chapter 120 of, this is reaction after Kaguya finally admits that she's in love with Shirogane. This is Doctor Nemesis's reaction to an unexpected teleport in the one-shot Blind Science.
A particularly amusing example from. A Mexican god of death tells to a very young Lord Fanny that she has to give her body/soul to a passage to the next level of her ritual to become a witch. She doesn't want to. So she offers the god a joke.
A god of death answering with a flat what its just priceless (mostly because a lot of readers were asking themselves the same). The Devil's response when nonchalantly comments that the candles made booze out of holy water. The booze the Devil just drank, and the candles that Constantine promptly kicks over. At the end of the first issue of, Morpheus is being summoned somewhere and declares that he is Dream of the Endless and he is prepared for whatever comes next. Then he sees all the different facets of himself from throughout the universe in one giant meeting and goes 'What.' Daniel flinched slightly at something and put a hand to the side of his head. Alright, before half my children jump in with suggestions, Im going to head them off with at least one of my own; You need to stand right up, put your right hand on your hip, your left hand in the air, and start signing the Im A Little Teapot song while Asuka throws pies at you and I play the accordion. Shinji stared at him.
Asukas head came up off Shinjis chest and joined in. What, they said flatly in stereo. Chapter 74 provided a rare non-humorous example. Keleria blinked, feeling about as intelligent as a suffocating fish, 'what.' . Draco Malfoy has this reaction in when told that Harry needed a bit of cash, after using the money he'd stolen from his own Gringotts vault to buy a gift for Hermione Granger. Exactly which part of that the Flat What is in response to is left to the reader.
Harry also ends the first chapter with one. In, people occasionally exhibit this reaction when the protagonist issues some strange command, like telling Branka to make golem-sized pickaxes. Continuing the tendency marked by, Kyon in gives a Flat What when Haruhi announces that, due to Kyon inadvertently making her believe he was upset with her, and asks Yuki to hold him down. In the fanadventure, Karkat does this thrice after finding out that Eridan, on top of breaking into (and locking Karkat out of) his private quarters, has been using his Trollian account to troll his friends, and single-handedly rescuing from the hands of one of Karkat's best (and certainly closest) legislacerators. A in, whenever someone from the universe is exposed to the over-the-top martial-arts 'bullshit magic' of the setting or just about anything that.
Becomes really hilarious when a Reaper does it. Admiral Hackett's reaction to seeing raptors escaping from the crew quarters (read: a private tropical beach) is a simple 'Oh god what the fuck'. Presumably many readers had a similar reaction when Hackett started beating the crap out of said raptors and even suplexing one!.
uses this on occasion. A notable example is when Haruhi gets crushed by a blimp. Fanfic writers can get these when they get a review to a long-finished story. It can also be about the only response possible to a request for a continuation of a very definite one-shot, or a reviewer who is reviewing. Something else entirely, you hope, given that the piece they reviewed is a look into the local 's fantasies.
And the review is for a. In this is Hermione's reaction to Luna's statement that pudding, according to her mother, 'can be served for medicinal purposes for poison consumption and for irritable bowels.' . Happens in Ewar's Tale once, when the signature characters meets a pair of bats that he thought were spirits, the Author seems self-aware too for some reason. In, a has this reaction when Arthur states he would never bring his manservant out hunting or on campaign with him. In, this has become the characters' stock response to anything absurd enough to break their thought processes, such as Skarmory's ability cancelling out Flandre's. Marisa eventually lampshades this.
You know you want to.' . Several characters in the fanfic demonstrate this reaction, usually to unexpected information. Brendan seems to be a particular cause for them, one notable example being when he caught Domino off-guard by turning her attempt to fight into an impromptu dance with her. In the oneshot, this is Shaula's reaction when Medusa, after and continually mocking her and hitting her when they meet again as adults, demands that Shaula help her with one of her experiments. In, Takara Tsukuda can only react to Monokuma's appearance with this.
In fanfic ', Tattetale has this reaction when a notorious, psychopathic serial killer breaks into her loft and tells that he wants her team's services 'in helping a young woman come to terms with her sexuality!' .
In a fic ', Taylor has this reaction when tell her that, when she manages to get out of the time loops, she'll become another goddess. The only actual way for you to end the loops is if you were to ascend to a full admin.
In order to do that, you need experience. Fortunately, you can gain plenty of that in the loops. She gives me a smile, The closer you get towards the endpoint the greater control youll have over your own loops. Eventually, down the road, you will get out of the loops. The three goddesses bowed to me again, smiles on their faces.
And on that day, we will welcome you as one of us. What. Understandably, this is reaction to the Illusive Man telling her to turn Shepard into a man/woman/robot/werewolf/gun hybrid note He wants Shepard to be given laser eyes and a vagina and be turned into a werewolf in. Celestia tends to induce these in whenever she decides to, such as reacting to entering the room by loudly declaring her plot foiled and teleporting away with Siesta, with whom she'd been having tea.:.
Chapter 14, following and Cross' tearful begging to stay on the crew. Cross: (mentally) what.
(out loud) What. Chapter 25. Several times.
Chapter 32, during the accidental landing in G-8, when the crew realizes that Vivi and Carue are being pampered in luxury by a barrack of overly-chivalrous Marines. Chapter 38, Sengoku goes from to when he realizes the island the Straw Hats plan to pillage and burn is Enies Lobby. Poor Hayato in when Harry crashes his training camp on a bike, pursued by Squalo insulting her and Skull riding an octopus. Then you have Mukuro in Chapter 17 when Harry is replaced by her future self who s the Estraneo Famiglia, offers him chocolate - his favourite kind! - and a kiss on his forehead then manages to talk the Vindice into letting her go.
The kid is left speechless and frankly, can you blame him for it?. When Sola-Ui worries about Berserker - suspected to be Achilles - allying with Lancer for personal motives in, Kayneth playfully suggests to let Lancer handle crafting the alliance. Needless to say, the Servant does not appreciate the joke. In: The Soft World, John traps a number of adventurers neck-deep in mud and Ringo goes to talk to them.
One of the adventurers says to him, in effect, Hurry up and torture us and get it over with already! To which the Ringo responds: Y'what?. In the / crossover Mandy has this reaction when she finds out Alex, Clover, and Sam are spies, and have been, 'Since freshman year.' Harry: It isn't that I thought it was worth it, it's that I wasn't willing to go back to nothing. This pain was something, even if it was pain, and anything was better than nothing.
But now.now I miss nothing. And I don't want to hurt anymore. Draco: Nothing is over-rated. It keeps your head clear and it keeps people at a distance but you'll never be happy. You can't be happy when you have nothing. Awards and galleons and large houses with empty rooms can never fill the spaces inside of us that ache against our will.
Some of us choose this path. You don't have to be one of them. Harry: You seem fine with it. In this is Draco's reaction to Harry's comment that Hermione spelled him and Ron to look and feel seven months pregnant for a week after Ron made an unwise remark about Hermione's own pregnancy. In this is Ron's reaction to a Hufflepuff ducking into his, Harry and Draco's compartment to escape some flying quills. In this is Draco's reaction to Harry's statement that his golden anaconda familiar got the defensive runes on its body by protecting him from his abusive Muggle relatives.
In this is Abraxas' reaction to Harry appearing in Malfoy Manor after Draco wishes for him to be there. Dumbledore: You have been to Grimmauld Place, my boy. Could you feel it? With all the other dark magic in that house? You want me to pick out just one item?. In this is Ron's reaction to Harry being Sorted into Slytherin.
Atem in gives this response when Yugi informs him almost everyone in Japan can read (in Atems time, this was restricted to scribes and certain members of the upper class). In, Izuku gives this response when the Caucasian man he'd electrocuted by accident introduces himself as, who is. In this is McGonagall's reaction on learning that Dumbledore and Grindlewald were lovers. In this is Harry's response to giving birth to twins after believing he was pregnant with only one child.
In this is Harry's reaction to being given a toy owl after Draco learns that he received no birthday or Christmas presents while growing up. Iago: To think we gotta keep kissing up to that chump, and his chump daughter for the rest of our lives. Jafar: No, Iago.
Only until she finds a chump husband. Then she'll have us banished—or beheaded! Both shudder. Iago: Oh!
Wait a minute! Wait a minute! What if you were the chump husband?.: Red Puckett delivers one in reaction to seeing.: The Bog King does this when his princess hostage starts singing about how much she loves him, even though this is the first time they've actually met. She's been but he doesn't get it until after she's halfway through the song. Elizabeth in, when Jack uses his vote to make her the Pirate King. General Bethlehem from pulls one of these when a village refuses to open its gates to his army.
He doesn't take it well. The best Flat What in history belongs to Kevin Spacey in when Guy Pearce expresses doubts about the Nite Owl case. Somehow, manages to pull out one in, a silent film. His deadpan face is like a physical Flat What.
in drops after shoots CIA Deputy Director Atwood when Turner confronts him in his home.: Zorg's response when he learns one of his lackeys failed to take Korben Dallas' spot on the plane.: After Jack explains to Marla Singer that Tyler Durden is a separate personality that he's only just been made aware of, she delivers one that manages to be both. In response to 'I want you to hit me as hard as you can.' . Trinity says this to Neo in when he says that Morpheus thinks he's something he's not. In, Ben responds with this when his dad tells him he doesn't have the Silence Dogood letters.
this is Diane's initial reaction when Wayne tells her that his shrinking machine zapped their kids. It becomes a sharper ' as she realizes the implications.: The Nethers squad commander, after Preston kills two of his men. There's a fantastic example in after Spottswoode tells Gary that he will have regained his trust if he performs oral sex on him. Another example comes earlier on, when Gary, in 'disguise' as Ahmed, is sat in a fleeing jeep with some terrorists, who have turned around and started driving towards Gary's teammates.
Gary: We're, we're gonna what?.: The first evil-ex 'boss battle' is already beyond absurd to everyone present in the scene, from Matthew Patel's crashing-in appearance to Scott surprisingly fending him off in fantastical fashion, but when Patel breaks out into a Bollywood-esque number (with demon hipster chicks) in the middle of the fight, a disbelieving Stacy Pilgrim can only manage a 'what.' . Toward the end of after Joe is speaking with the Alien, and the Alien sets Joe down very nicely and starts to leave Cary delivers an extremely confounded Flat What. In, an officious type Colonel confronts Pvt. Joker about his peace sign necklace and helmet which reads 'Born to Kill'.
Tommy: So you know the prom is next week? I was wondering, if you don't have a date already, maybe you want to go with me? Carrie: What. features two 'tip montages' narrated by Luis, whose that the only thing Scott has to say by the end is '.What.'
.: When Begbie goes picking a fight in a restaurant just for fun and a massive suddenly erupts, the rest of his fellow drug addicts just stand on the balcony overlooking all this mayhem with this reaction on their faces. In, Tony Stark is getting his ass kicked by the until a superpowered Pepper Potts comes crashing. Attributed to as the epigraph to the fourth part of.
In The Zigzag Kid, Nono says 'What is this' instead of asking, because he's too shocked to 'wrinkle his voice at the end to make a question' when he finds out his friend the is also his grandfather. occasionally punctuates 'what' without a question mark. In, this is the reaction when a character casually mentions that she is speaking to the airship. Note that this and are by the same author. In Vetinari is talking with Leonard of Quirm about Leshp, the island that's just come up out of the sea, and Leonard casually mentions he did some sketches there once. After leaving the room, Vetinari thinks for a moment, turns around, goes back into the room and flatly asks Leonard, 'You did what?' The island reappears and sinks back into the sea periodically, but at that point Leonard is the only living person who knows anything about it.
tends to quickly bolt out one if he hears something over the course of his show that's weird or otherwise catches him off-guard. Frequently, and on their respective shows in response to stupid world events. Barbara Walters interviewed Herman Cain as one of her most fascinating people of 2011 and gave this when he answered a question about theoretical cabinet positions with he would like to be Secretary of Defense.
This from a man who admitted (and demonstrated) he didn't know squat about foreign affairs. In, this is Lord Sugar's response to Karthik's boast 'Give me a laptop, I'll make you a billion-dollar company.' For context, this was following the defeat of Karthik's team by over £40,000. uses this fairly regularly. Perhaps best demonstrated in.
Blackadder: Right Baldrick, let's try again shall we? This is called adding. If I have two beans, and then I add two more beans, what do I have? Baldrick: Some beans.
Blackadder: (pause) Let's try again, shall we? I have two beans, then I add two more beans. What does that make?
Baldrick: A very small casserole. Blackadder: Baldrick, the ape creatures of the Indus have mastered this. Now try again. One, two, three. Baldrick: Four! Blackadder: So how many are there? Baldrick: Three.
Blackadder: What. Baldrick: And that one. Blackadder: Three. And that one.
So if I add that one to the three, what will I have? Baldrick: Oh! Blackadder: Yes. To you Baldrick, the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?. In, Kate (Catherine Tate) insists that Ellen (Ella Kenion) guess how old her salsa instructor thought she was. Ellen guesses 42, prompting a flat 'what' from Kate although you can still tell she was restraining her anger.
Abed's Dad: Fine! You want to raise him? You raise him!. This was Troy's reaction when Pierce brought his late mother's essence (a lava lamp) to class.:.
The Fourth Doctor was very fond of saying 'what'. The Tenth Doctor gets in at least one of these per season. Often combined with a. His first use of it may have been in, when the Cyber-Leader reveals the Cybus Cybermen didn't build the Void ship that broke the barrier between universes. Also used in his first encounter with Donna Noble (at the end of series 2's final episode and again, when the same scene is replayed at the start of ), when she suddenly, inexplicably appears out of thin air inside the flying TARDIS and starts berating him. Used exquisitely in, and the mini-episode (which reuse the same scene). The prow of (what looks like) an antiquated (read: early 20th century) ocean-liner smashes through to the interior of the TARDIS (while the TARDIS is in space!) and the Doctor, as any sane man would, responds in surprise.
And then repeats himself for emphasis. Finally, upon discovering that the ship is, in fact, the Titanic, he finishes off in a perfectly flat 'What.' . Martha does one in, when she learns that a ten-mile trip on 'the motorway' in New New York will take six years. In, this is Young Amy's reaction when the Doctor tells her that the blue box he crashed in is actually a time machine.
Eleven's flattest one was probably in. Amy: I made Charlie, so, in some way, I made that painting too! Bob: But honey, by that logic, I made that painting too.
Amy: Oh really? So you carried that painting inside of you for nine months?. 's Captain Tidwell reverses the usual scenario by using the Flat What as his go-to response to other people's reactions to his odd comments.: Don Draper is fond of this. Peggy has two when Stan confesses that he's in love with her.: Sam the American Eagle looses a fine one on learning that his requested concerto would be played by The Electric Mayhem. Sam is rather famous for these.
He has a particularly beautiful one while reading 'The Ant and the Grasshopper'; he reads the traditional Aesop's fable until he reaches the last line. Sam: And so it was, dear listeners.
That the Grasshopper drove his sports car to Florida, and the Ant got stepped on. In, this is Pam's reaction in the Season 2 finale when Jim confesses his love for her. In the 2010 adaptation of, Mrs. Hubbard interrupts Poirot's by calmly saying that she saw the murderer, eliciting a '.Quoi.' .
In, this was Koragg's reaction when Nick rode in to battle on Koragg's own, Catastros. Previously, Koragg had been the only one able to tame and ride Catastros. Murder trial, pretty routine for lawyers, prosecutors, and judge, obviously guilty defendant. And the surprises everyone with a verdict of Not Guilty. Helen does this, then delivers an epic to the jury.: In 'A Scandal in Belgravia', right before they go to visit Irene Adler, Sherlock asks John to punch him in the face.
This is his response. In, Emily launches one when Katie tells her she does have to ask her who she sleeps with.:. Cameron Mitchell of says 'what' with varying inflections so often that he's been accused of using it as his.
Obviously, at least one Flat What has come up. While she doesn't actually say it, 's facial expression just screams this upon Sheppard telling her in a matter-of-fact tone what the last two digits of McKay's password mean. For reference, the password is 68. Note 1643: 's birth year. 1879: 's birth year.
1968: 's birth year. Sheppard: It's the Ultimate Answer to the Great Question of. (slowly turns back to her own computer). In, Jackson's reaction at being demoted to co-captain. Alongside Scott.: After a bad night, Doc does the math on how much they make on each run.
Faith's response to the $13.85 is a Flat What. Both forms are running gags on; the flat what is often used by Ken Titus, usually toward an unseen observer of his behavior. At the end of, when the team finds out that because of the blood transfusion, Rex is as immortal as Jack, Jack, Gwen and Rex let out three Flat Whats in a row. Doubles a to the examples above.: Jenna's reaction upon learning that John Gilbert is Elena's father. In one episode of, Neal. When Peter finds him, Neal's still in the bed (singing, no less) even though he freed himself a while ago. The real time strategy game Age of Mythology features several flat whats.
The griefing group 'W-Hat' takes its name from a containing a, used in much the same way as the Flat What. In, a very flat 'What.' Is spouted by Tear in a pub conversation where a very drunk Charme says, unflinchingly, that she became a thief out of necessity, but eventually grew to like the whole 'being a murderous thug' thing. In 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody, Alice pulls one after being defeated by Remilia in the latter's story. Remilia Scarlet:, you. Control dolls.
Alice Margatroid: What. Remilia Scarlet: Hey, Sakuya, that makes no sense! Bring up the next!. In the of, this is most possible characters' reaction to.
A very flat what appears in the intro to /: Revenge, when a truck driver notices that has lit a bunch of barrels on fire in the middle of the road for no apparent reason. Dodgy voice acting may be to blame.
This is Qualstio's reaction to seeing Tatzylvurm in. And in a, this is Rami's reaction to seeing the same creature in. Raz of gives a perfectly flat 'What.' When the true identity of The Phantom is revealed. Rightfully so, because it's Jasper.
Nick from is full of these. The tsundere AI,.Mute, from fires of a bunch of these over the course of the game. Upon waking up for the first time as a zombie in as part of the special challenge path Zombie Master, and seeing your gravestone, this is your response. One of the post-battle skits in has this. Big Massif: BEEF! Lil' Massif: FOR!
Big Massif: TWO! Both Massif Bros.: BEEF STEW! Starlow: What.
In the most recent, Laharl has one of these after, the angel who came to, reveals herself to be his Little sister. In, this and tends to be Alistair's standard reaction to the Warden's eccentric hiring policy for, especially in the case of an assassin who had only moments before. Morrigan delivers one when Flemeth reveals she's sending her with the Warden's party. Subverted later on, when it's revealed this was actually their plan all along.
As per her role as one of the of, Makoto has uttered this trope a few times. The most notorious involved the absurdity of the casting in her gag reel ( ), but she has done it in canon - namely, after heading off with Noel to get some food after first contact with. Roland: We're out of the vault hunting business.
Lilith: Too many tentacles. Wilhelm: What.
In, this is Undyne's reaction when you try to hit her to restore her pride during a Pacifist Run. You can choose to fake a hit, but even if you don't, you will be incapable of summoning enough intent to harm her to deal more than 1 HP of damage. Undyne, upon realizing this, is reminded of someone else equally innocent (most likely Asriel) and decides that she can't bring herself to hurt you either. Proves that this reaction can even come from a like Link. After smashing the Spider boss Arhmogohma three times with the Dominion Rod, the creature finally convulses and dies, bursting into smoke.
Link gives a triumphant flourish of the Master Sword, only to gape in disbelief when the smoke clears to reveal the boss's true form. Conker: Nice hairdo.:.
The Expiration Date short has Engineer switch from happy to terrifyingly angry with just this trope after hearing that Soldier teleported bread. Some videos use the Spy as a and chop the 'What' from his response lines into a short statement of incredulous disbelief. Showcased nicely.
At the end of the episode 'Beach', Cardamon is attempting to unclog Bee's toilet. An assumed hour later, we see him fishing out a can of food lodged in the toilet. When it's out, he simply says. Parson: Lolwut.
uses this a lot, mostly by and (the latter involving an incident that almost completely broke his brain). It's important to note that Sarda (Barring Chaos. Who he turns into.) is the most powerful character in the comic and downright omnipotent as well as only about 30 seconds younger than the universe itself and due to a has already experienced this same event from his younger self's perspective. He just had his mind broke by a character who managed to resulting in wielding four bows, each with three arrows apiece loaded. The Lich reacts this way after Black Mage pulls a on him (discussing killing his son, Vilbert, right in front of him, on his own property, without even bothering to turn around to address Lich.). Pikachu: I have no idea what you're going on about.
Sounds too tough for me. Plus, I don't even know who you are. Mel: WAIT, WAT.: Part of a is that whenever something on TV mentions him in some fashion (the infamous 'McNinja Burgers' from, mayor Goodrich fingering him as the partner in the town's zombie defense system), the titular doctor will spend staring at the TV in surprise and saying 'What.'
. Also, this is how Dan McNinja opens his tirade against the pirates in the bar he's hiding in, declaring his intention to burn the place down on the way out.
A sort of extended variation of this trope is used for the doctor reacting to how Dan McNinja wound up on fire. Why did you light yourself on fire.' Punctuated as it was in the comic. In the Army of One storyline, to Franz Rainer defending himself against the McNinja clone horde, taking full advantage of the. And then there was that time the Doctor was shocked by his own.
This time with no punctuation whatsoever. In, Sucre from Bolivar after suggesting that maybe they shouldn't be fighting for freedom all the time. Which, of course, is a completely incomprehensible idea to. In the 'Snips, snails and Dragon Tales' segment where the members of the Order make up stories (read: Take famous stories from and parody them in a 3.5 context), Roy's retelling of has Hamlet (played by Roy) utter this when the play he set up to make Claudius (played by Xykon) admit to his father's murder gets. Slightly derailed (The leader of the theatre troupe was played by Elan, and the rewrite went slightly ).
Mort the ghost from does this one when Annie has her other undead friends scare the bejeebers out of him (as a roundabout way of apologizing) in strip. ( one is the setup for it.).
Diane from gets when she hears about traitors being the cause of the current mess she's in for the first time. One can only imagine she shares the same attitude her father (a dictator) has towards them. Mike of has been known to use it. In, to being told that Berthold could talk. Being psychic and thus differently-brained, Berthold couldn't get through to him. Liquid: Say, huh.
Why don't you levitate yourself up here? You can do that.
Psycho Mantis: Couple of reasons. First, it takes a lot of concentration, and getting blown up sort of threw me off a little. Second, there's a stalactite the size of a goddamned baseball bat lodged in my chest. Vulcan Raven: Psycho Mantis: What. Many webcomic artists attribute this to Ryan North of. Occurs in a couple of times.
comic is both named for, and delivers, upon Aric finding that the world contains an infinite loop. has a good one from. As well as from Faye. Dale provides an excellent response to a with one.
Mike Warner of! Had this reaction upon learning that. has one, as Joyce plans to. From installment of. : I love it when characters say 'what.' .
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demonstrates the appropriate male reaction to the. Alicia does one of these in. Nita's reaction to 'THE AWESOME (untested) POWER OF YOGIC FLYING' in the Giant Days.
In, ◊ to being told that Philia is her and Klepto's daughter. Avatar of does one in reaction to a. Nick gets one in when Trudy accidentally slips that she isn't the alternate universe self everyone thought she was. The nameless mercenary from reacts appropriately to rather. Unconventional technique.
Done hilariously by Zelda in ◊ of. of Michael Firman's Moe, accompanied with an extra-large speech bubble for emphasis. In the 'Crux's Climb' story arc of, Story asks Ito if he thinks she is happy sitting by the pool waiting for Crux, for which he answers 'yes'.
In, Marion reacts to the arrival of a unicorn. In, this is Vix's reaction to seeing. This is 's when he enters through a wardrobe.
Though it should be noted there's nothing special about magically entering a world with talking animals and fantasy creatures compared to what goes on in his comic all the time. In fact, his arrival. of: After dealing with Sydney's skittishness for several pages, they finally find out what she's hiding in the tube on her back. Seven unmarked orbs float into the air and do nothing. Maxima looks at this and says 'what.' It's so much less than what everyone was anticipating. Mike insists that Keith — a member of a race incapable of magic — once transformed him into a girl.
Natani: Wat.: (mild spoiler) eventually from Slick after a couple of. Schtein's reaction in when he's been told that he's been assigned to the garbage duty at the prison. This is Megaman's catchphrase in, almost beginning each comic strip with a flat 'what'. The tie-in webcomic 'The Naked And The Dead' has Miss Pauling drop one when Soldier's fiancee Zhanna tells her to 'stay away from her man' - in this case, because a) Miss Pauling is by, and b) Soldier is so much of a that only the similarly unstable Zhanna would really be that interested in him.
For bonus points, at the moment this is being said, Soldier is resting between waves of robots, which he has been fighting while naked and covered in honey,. Pick an image hosting site or image forum, any you can think of, that allows people to tag the images. Search for any images labelled wat or what, and that's Expect the results to cross over with and/or.: Ifi's reaction after reading The Capture. The 'LOL WUT' meme. Alternatively, 'Wat.' . In the long form, 'what is this i dont even' (sic), additionally, 'i'm 12 and what is this' is used in similar fashion.
In the long est form (verbose):. The unofficial wiki has an entire page devoted to this trope. Pretty much the primary catchphrase of the series review blog. Uttered by Ironyuppie in 'Casino Imperiale', after she finds out that Landshark beat her nemesis before she could. The RPGNet is fond of 'man what' (no punctuation) as a response to any completely brain-spraining statement. Notably inspired by and associated with (by those in the know) a certain photograph of Bob Marley in a state of absolute man what. The hive mind seems to have determined it actually came as a response to the Inferi from.
To the tune of 'The Happy Wanderer' (the 'Valderie, Valdera' song). The first post after that was a prematurely-launched post consisting entirely of 'man what'. NOTE: The absence of a period at the end of the previous entry is entirely deliberate and proper. The phrase expresses such a profound and utter state of confusion that it eradicates any and all punctuation and grammar within a radius of one post.
Inventing Swear Words 4 has a good example, right after Stag complains to the GM that every other class is more powerful with him, to which the GM responds with a 'What.' Made funnier by how Stag then demands that every class be nerfed except his, which is, without even a beat, followed by the GM teleporting him away. Very good one in The Fine Bros.' Kids React to Nyan Cat, at. used this to describe a scene from.
The scene in question has Utena jump down from a balcony, tear off her own dress to reveal her uniform, take a table cloth from a nearby table, then form a dress to cover her Anthy's. A staple in the commentaries at. Frequently goes hand-in-hand with 'Wait.' Lots of them.
The page quote is from, a truly insightful blog not for Twilight fans. It's become NothingNow's defacto in.
On various image-sharing sites, 'what' is used as a tag for bizarre, shocking, or absurd images, usually involving physical or anatomical impossibilities. Most Nearly all examples will be at the least, so seek them out at your own risk.
A very popular subject of.: There was an infamous death in v2 involving. Said character's post-game evaluation on the is, of course, one of these. During the production of on the talkhaus forums, this was 's reaction upon that had been made of Demo (the main character of ASMT and Raocow's own creation; a female with no arms, blue hair, and a face composed of a single giant eye). (otherwise known as the 'LOL WUT' pear), which probably deserves its own page. Smart Bitches, Trashy Books sometimes resorts to this, such as in a review of a (thankfully short) e-book called (NSFW, obviously. 's review of.
Nostalgia Chick: What. The Beast throws a piano at organ!Tim Curry Nostalgia Chick: What. EVER, please, for the love of God, END!. got one in when revealed that yes, he really did order twenty tons of dynamite. gave one in her review of 'Fatal Deviation', when out of nowhere, with no bearing to the plot, there's a naked man in a cowboy hat taking a bath outside. uses it so often, it ought to be classified as one of his But then, considering the nature of his show's content, it seems natural. Used as a tag on the imagesite Danbooru for those images that make no sense whatsoever.
A user was quoted as saying, 'Does it make your brain shut down for a second when you see it? Then it's a 'what' picture.' . On some 'booru' image sites there's also a 'no seriously what' tag, for when 'what' is not enough.
In review of one reviewer has already written the game off as a generic clone, when the second reviewer casually mentions 'and then there's your power to warp reality to your whims'. The first reviewer's response is of course 'What.' .
In Nakar's, during the parodic, Draxinusom utters the version of this upon seeing something truly bizarre. Gabe: 'I saw a special needs girl throw a goat on Friday.' . Yahtzee: 'What. Was that like a Mad Lib?' Gabe: 'No, no, this was a real thing that's happened in my life.'
. This video, simply named, discusses creative Javascript typing. (Peppered with pictures of Internet Wat Memes.). In the Staying Alive episode of, Paul Scheer is taking audience comments and has a Flat 'What.' Reaction upon hearing that there was actually a Staying Alive book. 's response to the final battle in Breaking Dawn Part 2.
has this reaction in the episode 'Anti Drug Games'. Drug dealer: Take one hit and you'll do anything to cop more. Steal from your mama. JonTron: ( concerned) H-Hey, man, did you get bit by a mosquito or somethin'.? Drug dealer: ( now transformed into a snake man) Do I look like the kind of guy who do that to a child like you? JonTron: Drug dealer: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
JonTron: WHAT? WHAT THE FUCK?. In The Man, normally unflappable, has this reaction to learning that Willem kidnapped and is keeping prisoner the girl he agreed to protect so he could 'be the hero.' .
In 's fourth season premiere, 'The Batman/Superman Story', can only manage a strained ' Whaaat' when it becomes clear his plans have been foiled and Superman is hovering just outside of his. does this occasionally, such as when she finds out Monique is a huge wrestling fan. In, the gang is talking about some strange creature, and Aang simply gives a perfect flat 'What.' . After Combustion Man blows up their campsite and starts a five-minute brawl, Toph Beifong has just one thing to say. 'Well, that was random.'
.: This trope is Butt-Head's immediate reaction to the (Hulk Hogan's WWE theme song), but once the video transitions from Hulk playing bass in front of the U.S. Flag to clips of him in WWF matches, he and Beavis get excited. In a 'Dial M for Monkey' cartoon on, the Justice Friends say this after Rasslor's big melodramatic speech. In Noah gives out one of these after watching the Japanese Total Drama Action promo.: Bender delivers this after being asked,. give a flat 'say what?' In 'Him Diddle Riddle' when they find that they have gone through white heat solving Him's riddles only to fail the last one, and now the Professor will pay. Full price for a pancake breakfast.
Even the narrator can't finish his. pulled one or two. Gusto Gummi had carved a wooden statue of a Gummi Bear that artistically parodied the Statue of Liberty, then it promptly got devoured by a super termite.:. Spike, who really should be used to this sort of thing by now, gets one in the episode ' when Pinkie Pie goes off on a tangent about how grudge rhymes with fudge while the two are announcing for a race. Lyra, upon learning that Bon Bon is actually Sweetie Drops, a secret agent of a monster hunting agent gone undercover by Celestia's orders after a bugbear they sent to Tartarus escaped could only respond with a series of these. In ', Fluttershy manages to induce one from of all characters during her first attempt to scare her friends. Doofenschmirtz: What?
You're wearing headphones? So you haven't heard a thing I've said all day. Vanessa: Why do you think I wear the headphones? Doofenschmirtz: So you're not mad at me for saying I'd rather have a son than a daughter like you? Vanessa: What.
Doofenschmirtz: Oh, nothing, nothing! (puts the headphones back in Vanessa's ears) put these back on. There you go. (leaves) Vanessa: Whatever. Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy: Princess Peach when Mario asks her if he can have a kiss after he rescues her. Used frequently on:. During the card game in 'Kid Nickels'.
Cap'n K'nuckles: I aint' bustin' my back for no barber's nickel! Flapjack: What. In the short 'Duck! Rabbit, Duck!' , after quips 'I guess I'm the goat,' Bugs holds up a sign reading ', and Daffy delivers this kind of 'What' right before getting shot by Elmer Fudd.: In 'Super Watermelon Island', Peridot reacts with one of these while Steven and the rest of the Crystal Gems are discussing the consequences of some rather strange events she didn't witness (including a fusion and one rather unusual incident involving watermelons). A variation of this is one of 's whenever something weird and/or stupid happens.
In the season 1 finale of, Magica DeSpell has weaseled her way into Scrooge's grounds in the guise of her nephew, and spends most of the walk up to Scrooge's front door loudly boasting of the awesome final conflict brewing between herself, unfathomably powerful sorceress of the shadows, and Scrooge McDuck, world's greatest adventurer, arch-nemesis and heroic figure of legend. Unfortunately, Magica is not aware that owing to a separate familial argument in the previous episode, Scrooge has been abandoned by his family, and subsequently is not in the best frame of mind for a battle.
Usage Note: When what is the subject of a clause, it takes a singular verb if the word or phrase that completes the sentence (the complement) is singular, as in I see what seems to be a dead tree. It is plural if a plural noun or noun phrase completes the sentence, as in He sometimes makes what seem to be gestures of reconciliation. Clauses with what as either subject or object may themselves be the subject of a sentence, and sometimes it is difficult to decide whether the verb of the main clause should be singular or plural. When the what in the what-clause is the object of the verb and the complement of the main clause is singular, the main verb is always singular: What they wanted was a home of their own; when the complement of the main sentence is plural, the verb is most often plural: What American education needs are smaller classes, though one also encounters sentences such as What the candidate gave the audience was the same old empty promises. When what is the subject of a what-clause that is the subject of a main clause, there is greater variation in usage. When the verb of the what-clause and the complement of the main clause are both plural or both singular, the number of the verb of the main clause generally agrees with them. When the verb in the what-clause is singular and the complement in the main clause is plural, one finds both singular and plural verbs being used.
Sentences similar to both of the following are found in respected writers: What drives me crazy is her frequent tantrums; What bothers him are the discrepancies in their accounts. When the complement of the main clause consists of two or more nouns, the verb of the main clause is generally singular if the nouns are singular and plural if they are plural: What pleases the voters is his honesty and his willingness to take on difficult issues; On entering the harbor what first meet the eye are luxurious yachts and colorful villas. Occasionally the choice of a singular or plural verb may be used to convey a difference in meaning. In the sentence What excite him most are money and power, the implication is that money and power are separable goals; in What excites him most is money and power, the implication is that money and power are inextricably bound together. See Usage Note at. What ( wɒt; unstressed wət).