This Can't Be Happening (Green Ideas)

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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). Smith: What? What did I just say?.. No, no, this isn't right. This can't be right... GET AWAY FROM ME!

The Yankees are an afterthought, their season now defined by the pursuit of mediocrity. They are ordinary, the very last thing they ever want to be. They lead the American League in attendance for the fourth nonpandemic season in a row, but their descent makes you wonder how much longer they’ll be in demand.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.

Getting swept by those guys is definitely tough,” Kiner-Falefa said, adding later, “This can’t be happening.”

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Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom; After you've defeated Deimos he proclaims "No! No! No! This is impossible! I am destined to conquer, to rule! How can I have possibly been beaten by whelps like you?" I would have loved to meet the characters in this book. I would have wanted to meet them because they both remind me of how I am sometimes. Like one time I was at camp and we played pranks on people almost every night. I found that they were really realistic because they act like normal teenage boys who like to goof around most of the time. That last one is in serious peril. The Yankees lost for the eighth game in a row on Sunday, 6-5 to the Boston Red Sox in the Bronx. They are 60-64 this season, slipping ever closer to the first losing season for the franchise since 1992, the year Aaron Judge was born. Necromantic Anti-Villain Vayle counts as well. When she realizes that Artix recognizes her as the same Vayle he saved during their childhood, she gets a big surprise and reacts with such a phrase as "Impossible! This cannot be that little boy I met during the..." Power Rangers Samurai: This is Serrator's reaction to Xandred leaving the Netherworld and coming after him. A major plot point was Xandred's inability to leave the Netherworld due to an (incomplete) sealing spell placed on him by the previous generation. Turns out the nature of that spell is that he can't leave the Netherworld for very long. The decay that happens to all Nighloks in Earth conditions just happens to him really fast. At this point, no one - us, or the other characters, except maybe the scholar Octoroo - knew that if he was willing to pay the price, he can come out and play for a minute or three... and he's so insanely powerful that even when severely compromized, that's long enough to thoroughly maul the Rangers and anybody else who pisses him off enough to come out. Cue the previously unthinkable sight of Serrator - a Diabolical Mastermind, and The Heavy since Xandred doesn't usually do much, and someone who proved to be very powerful in combat - running for his life. Of course, the time it will take Xandred to recover from that means Serrator came out of this ahead. Knowing Serrator, maybe he'd planned on that.

After Haschwalth reports to Yhwach that his time outside the Schatten Bereich is running out, Yhwach retorts that he should have plenty of time left. He cuts himself off when he realizes that Aizen used Kyoka Suigetsu to mess up his perception of time during their meeting in Muken. The reaction to the horrible, horrible truth on God Mode: Master Chief is actually Duke Nukem in disguise.

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Machvise when Hajrudin, the giant he's trying to crush with a 10,000 ton belly flop, sends him flying upward into Doflamingo's Birdcage. At the start of their fight, Hordy Jones gets this when he realizes just how powerful Luffy really is when he drops half his forces with Conqueror's Haki alone. It's played with a little in Zidane's standard defeat quote. Despite him saying the trope word-for-word, it isn't delivered with the usual hammy defiance of the line. Instead, Zidane actually sounds very surprised and scared as he says "W-what? ...This can't be—"

The Immortal Game: Terra gets this twice. First, when the Elements of Harmony are reignited during the Second Battle of Ponyville, and then when she realizes Twilight's succeeded in defeating Titan. George Monbiot is passionate about the climate crisis and preserving what we have left of our natural world. I thought a number of these essays, the strongest ones, were quite thought-provoking, and made me consider the climate crisis more deeply. I think his strongest work is where he's offering his own experiences of climate change and his own grief about the decline of the natural world. Where he's reporting the speeches or efforts of others, this book isn't as strong, but, with those essays, he does capture a moment in time in the fight to save the natural world. In Mobile Fighter G Gundam Master Asia says this as Domon achieves Meikyou Suishi and actually starts landing hits on him. Matthew Patel in the first volume of Scott Pilgrim: "This is impossible! How can this be?!" promptly before Scott causes him to explode into coins.The equivalent Japanese phrases are "masaka" (まさか, often translated as "no way!") and "sonna bakana" (そんなバカな, often translated as "incredible!" or "that's impossible!"). Such words are used so much in anime, it's fairly common to hear "this can't be!" in English dubs. Monsters in Toku are prone to yelling this just before they explode. Gravelyn, oddly enough, counts as well. She reacts with "Im... im... impossible!" when Noxus and Vordred take control of all of her undead soldiers. He doesn't actually say anything, but when Matrix dents Megabyte's chest with a punch in ReBoot's season 3 finale, the look on Megabyte's face needs no words.