These early books may not be as well-crafted as Korman's newer ones, but I love the enthusiasm, action, and humor that I haven't enjoyed as much as his current stuff. Maybe it's just the nostalgia. In Mo Willems's Edwina, the Dinosaur Who Didn't Know She Was Extinct, when Reginald's first plan to convince people that there is no Edwina because dinosaurs are extinct fails, he stands around, waving a sign in red letters reading "This is not happening." It doesn't work either. Don Krieg isn't too happy about getting his ass handed to him on a plate by Luffy towards the end of their fight and in response repeatedly shrieks that no one can defeat him. In Tales of VS., during Stahn's story mode, Khang screams this when Phillia decides to fight along side with Stahn against him. A heroic version of Joseph Joestar witnessing The World's power murdering Kakyoin. Dio stops time, but to Joseph's eyes, he's in a huge disbelief as Kakyoin is suddenly punched across the buildings despite all the traps they set on Dio.

Pica finding that Zoro is not an opponent you want to ignore when he slashes his giant stone form in half. The reaction to the horrible, horrible truth on God Mode: Master Chief is actually Duke Nukem in disguise. In the X-Wing: Rogue Squadron novel The Krytos Trap Wedge Antilles at first cannot believe what his fighter's sensors are telling him, that a Super Star Destroyer had just broken free from its underground confinement under a section of Coruscant's planet-wide city and is slowly lifting up into the sky. Asking for confirmation from the controllers, he is told that he is seeing what they are seeing. note The novel goes on to state that the liftoff devastated over 100 square kilometers and likely killed millions of people in the process. Also Commader Sazabi's reaction to being defeated and destroyed by Captain; "This..can't...be happening! I've lost! No! NOOOOOOOOOO!!" Subversion: In The Dark Knight, when Batman shows up to protect Dent from getting hit by an RPG, Joker's response is a simple " Hm!" Downplayed later in the film. When the two boats with passengers aboard do not blow each other up, Joker tosses aside his pipe club in anger, then mutters to himself: "Can't rely on anyone these days, you gotta do everything yourself..."Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world. Read more Look Inside Details

When Muzan notices Tanjiro wears the peculiar hanafuda earrings, it immediately triggers his worst fears of the one time a legendary slayer almost killed him; as the story later reveals Muzan and his top demon Kokushibo went on a manhunt to kill all of Yoriichi's Sun Breathing disciples over the centuries, they couldn't believe Sun Breathing was secretly preserved by Tanjiro's family without their knowledge as Hinokami Kagura, when Muzan killed the Kamados he did for the simple whim of testing if new demons useful to him would be born, he had no idea of who they really were.Megatron and the other Decepticons are caught totally off guard in the first chapter of R2 by the revelation that Lelouch is still alive, as the last time they saw him near the end of R1, he was seemingly dying from Megatron's Dark Geass. If one of the characters made a choice that had moral implications , would you have made the same decision Why? Why not? This book does not take a second to be funny or absurdist. It simply questions, again and again, what we do on a daily basis. It is entirely unrelenting in its stomp on our modern thinking. Before Gordon Korman took into account that he actually potentially created a series, he had written an epilogue at the end, with Mr. Sturgeon stating his thoughts about Bruno and Boots after the events of this book, and with Bruno and Boots having graduated. This epilogue was deleted in later editions of the book. The epilogue contains the first appearance of the idea that Mr. Sturgeon's tuxedo was replaced with a judo suit (by Bruno and Boots) on Founder's Day. The idea surfaces in The Wizzle War when Sturgeon sympathetically tells an ailing Wizzle that the students had once replaced his tuxedo with a judo suit on Founder's Day. [3] He continues to frustratingly rant about this in the Ghost Zone, but the end results did have Vlad getting what he wanted which sets the stage for a latter episode.

Several of the earlier antagonists of YuYu Hakusho (particularly Hiei) say this or something similar when the heroes defeat them, mostly since the heroes are nearly always the underdog anyway. The last time the heroes get enemies that do this is a few times the Dark Tournament, though (after which most of the enemies are either Spirited Competitors or Death Seekers). Wolf himself also gets in on the action, yelling "No way! I don't believe it!" and " I... can't... LOOOOOSE!" when he gets shot down. Played straight in Van Helsing, when the titular character starts transforming into a Werewolf( the only creature that can kill Dracula ), Dracula says just this. Considering ol' Vlad had just recently sent a werewolf after Van Helsing et al, you'd THINK he might have considered this possibility.In A Certain Crazy Christmas Special, Bad Santa says, "This can't be happening. What... What Are You?" to Touma right before the hero punches him out. This has made me want to read more by Monbiot. I think his role is to draw attention to the issues, rather than come up with the answers. He's a writer, not a scientist. But he does clearly care, and does present thoughts on how we might mitigate the worst effects of the crisis we humans have caused. If this book took place in a different place it probably wouldn’t have been as good. If it wouldn’t had been in a boarding school they wouldn’t have been able to play pranks on over night on their schoolmates. But since it is, they can do a whole bunch more than they could in a regular school. Machinesmith has kidnapped the President, stolen the codes for the "nuclear football" and ready to launch WWIII. Suddenly, through the flames of a downed helicopter, Cap, who Machinesmith had assumed was framed, exiled and on the other side of the world, strides out in full costume. The artifical computer brain can only offer "Im.. Impossible!" And finally Trebol when he gets too close to what he thinks is an incapacitated Law, only to get hit by his severed hand holding his sword thanks to his Ope-Ope powers and slashed across the chest.

This absolute flat-footedness and denial of reality is generally not found in villains who are Crazy-Prepared or capable of Xanatos Speed Chess. The Flash (2014): In "Flashpoint", the Rival says "That's impossible!" when Barry Allen manages to neutralize the two tornadoes Rival created. In 'The King of Fighters Maximum Impact'', Alba's defeat quote is translated in the dub as "How can this be?!?" Duke, on the other hand, gets a shout of "How can I...!". Early in The Phantom Menace, Nute Gunray shouts "This is impossible!" as Qui-Gon melts the blast doors to the bridge of the droid control ship.

Uttered in The Legend of Dragoon by Rose when, at the end of Disc 3, "the emperor" reveals himself to be Zieg, another dragoon from the old, old days. This isn't the only "cannot be" moment LOD offers. Graces seems to love this trope, since it is delivered word-for-word not just by Richard but by Emeraude and the Fodra Queen during the final fight with her as well. When Rei defeats Juda in Fist of the North Star, Juda cries out " Bakana!" (" Impossible!"). The moment is recreated if you use Rei's Fatal KO on Juda in the Playstation 2 game. Soifon in her fight with Yoruichi. She banked everything on the belief that, having spent a hundred years obsessively training, she would now be able to surpass Yoruichi. When she realises that she still can't defeat Yoruichi even though Yoruichi's skills have stagnated for a century, she screams this before dissolving in tears and revealing the real reason why she's so angry with Yoruichi.