A friend came up to me and said he would be joining my Drama class. This guy is insanely... well, he's the only kid in physics class with a "Questions Limit" on him for the year. My reaction was exaggerated "WHAT."

My most recent one: this was my reaction when my sister told me why that one dude on the show I'd never watched was called "The Situation".

Who the heck calls themselves that without that reaction?

You'll hear a number of different flat whats out of this troper: there's the disbelieving, I-require-confirmation what, as well as the say-that-again what. The most dangerous is what I call the Jafar what - when you go from zero to explain-yourself-right-the-fuck-now volcanic rage in the space of one word.

This troper said this when he had heard on a fourm that ThePirateBay's newest plan is to launch a server into space to avoid the law.

THAT IS AWESOME

I just spent about a minute sitting here and just staring at that sentence. That's how awesome it is.

what is this i dont even

I express myself like that quite often. Most recent example from a conversation between me and my girlfriend: ->She: They're making an Ocean Dub of Kai now. O_o ->Me: wat I justify my reaction by saying that we already have too many editions of DB Kai as it is.

This troper often deals with that after oversleeping. Here's how it goes: ->Roommate: Are you going to work today? ->Me: Yeah, why? ->Roommate: What time do you have to be at work? ->Me: Noon ->Roommate: It's 11:30 ->Me: WHAT? ->Roommate(enunciating it louder and slower as if I am deaf): It's E-LE-VEN-THIR-TY. ->Me: WHAT??? ->Roommate(enunciating it louder and slower, clearly ignorant of the {{FlatWhat}}: IT'S. E. LE. VEN. THIR. TY.

I work as a Maths tutor. I get this a lot. Both from students who don't get it and fellow tutors when marking work and trying to figure out exactly what said student was thinking.

This troper does it rather often. It usually goes like this: ->Classmate: *Says something that I'm sure was perfectly innocent in context, but really shouldn't be taken out of context* ->Me: I just started paying attention now. What?

A FlatWhat was this Troper's reaction when he read the page on this wiki about Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. ThirtyGambitPileup and Mindscrew so BeyondTheImpossible, ''I actually refuse to recognize Tsubasa as canonical in the CLAMP universe''.

What.

I once spent three hours running around my department at uni at the behest of one of the postgrads in my lab. On returning to the lab, I was informed by another postgrad that said supervisor was currently at a conference in Hawaii. Guess what the next word out of my mouth was...

Just finished a seemingly-normal book where the happy ending is thanks to thousands of ''bees'' flying over and stinging the bad guy who was about to kill the protagonist. Bad guy is not only dead; he looks like someone ''set him on fire.'' The bees also miraculously and completely healed the protagonist's debilitating illness. There was no reason, no evidence that this was even remotely possible. And no one in-universe seemed to find this turn of events odd. Honestly, I barely even registered my own FlatWhat, my brain had shut down due to the absurdity of it all.

This interesting exchange between my friend and I about a Hetalia doujin: #QUOTE# Friend: "So Alfred ate Francis at the end! #QUOTE# Me: wat

This trope is my first impression of human sexuality class.

This troper has a friend who she has recently talked into watching Yu-Gi-Oh (and only the 4Kids dub). Said friend is not so good with the...stranger pairings, so... #QUOTE# Friend: Hey, what's the pairing name for Joey and Yugi? #QUOTE# This troper: That depends. Is Joey possessed? #QUOTE# Friend: What? Oh, I dunno. Does it really matter? #QUOTE# This troper: Yes. #QUOTE# Friend: ...wat.

From one of my friend's drawings: #QUOTE# "You know what we need?"\\ "What?"\\ "A giant, talking bunny."\\ "What."

This troper's response to this news story.

Tropers/{{Excel-2011}}. I prefer a loud, uninflected "'''Why.'''" while holding up or pointing at something that puts me in this reaction.

This is the reaction I had upon seeing an anonymous review on a FullmetalAlchemist fanfic in which the reviewer stated they blamed Trisha Elric for Al losing his body.

This troper actually ''aims'' to get this reaction out of people. Most recently: #QUOTE#'''Seiryu''': Hey. I'm gonna go down to the girls' house and sing KatyPerry until they kill me. Wanna come watch? #QUOTE#'''Friend''': ...What.

I had to combine this with precision f strike after seeing this BLAM http://megavideo.com/?v=I6EQZASR, I've never seen Axis Powers Hetalia before, I assume its not all like that though.

This was my reaction when I read that there was a $23,698,655.93 book about the genetics of flies.

Ths troper had ''two'' after watching the end of the Series/DoctorWho episode "Day of the Moon". If you've seen it, you'll know it was for a good reason.

Seconded.

This Troper's reaction when she learned of the million dollar iPod / iPhone application that 8 people bought before it was removed by the App Store. Literally, a flat "WHAT."

This troper's reaction when he heard that a Penny Arcade comic had been optioned by Paramount Pictures.

Seconded.

ThisTroper when she discovered LEGO: Grand Theft Auto was going to be a real game.

This Tropers reaction to YellowSubmarine. I watched it with my boyfriend at his house, and it opened to...Dancing shoes. We had to turn off the movie at the beginning of "Hey Bulldog" because I was to confused, and every five minutes would be me saying "Wut.".

In a recent game of {{Pathfinder}}, I played with an {{expy}} of Christian Weston Chandler in a quest to discover all the pieces of enchanted armor, with the three of us rotating DMing duties. "What." eventually became the CatchPhrase of the adventure. Some examples of this player's behavior that elicited such a reaction:

In his first act as a player, attempting to rob a prostitute and responding to their threats with sexual harassment. Upon being attacked by 7 knife-wielding whores, he ignored their flailing stabs and responded with more sexual advances.

Deciding that the Thieves Guild of the main city MUST be hiding in the sewers, based on no information whatsoever, and going hunting in the sewers for their headquarters.

Attempting to cause a distraction to allow him to steal an artifact during a solar eclipse that lasts for 10 minutes by running to a village an hour from town and setting a fire in a barn, then trying to run back.

As DM, creating a massively obese town baron who forces all of his guests to eat massive feasts with him and has his handmaidens attempt to give them sedatives so they can be raped. Upon leaving this town, the baron announced a massive drinking party/orgy for the entire town.

Blatantly telling the party the exact location for the next artifact to find with no effort or adventure beyond attempted rape.

Throwing 100 goblins across a bridge at us, and then skipping the entire battle scene, including the finale boss battle, because we told him that it would take too long to kill 100 goblins.

Insisting that he saw an NPC cheating in a drinking contest with a PC and ''throwing a knife at him''.

Attempting to skip various parts of the game, including attempting to insist that he forced himself into a baron's palace and was now running from the guards without bothering to try and roleplay ANYTHING about how he got in.

Trying to steal a boat by trying to shoot a guy tying up his boat with a bow. Without hiding or anything even vaguely intelligent.

Inventing various items (including a wallet full of counterfeit gold/covered in sleeping potion and a mousetrap in his pocket) without roleplaying acquiring them.

Constant attempts at godmodding [=PCs=] and [=NPCs=] because he thought the situations would be "funnier".

When being told that he was in a town where the baron was attempting to ascend to godhood through forced worship and it was EXTREMELY heavily hinted that talking about other gods or saints would get you in trouble, walking into a tavern and shouting "THE BARON IS NOT A GOD!" over and over until the guards came so he could ask them to take him to the baron (planning to offer his services as an assassin). He got the shit kicked out of him.

After being mercifully allowed to live through the beating due to insistence from his cousin, standing outside the city gates and shouting "THE BARON IS STILL NOT A GOD!". He got shot in the head. And so endeth the tail of Chuck the Elf.

When this Troper read THIS , the reaction was a big, flat "WAT". I only read it yesterday. And then I proceeded to fall over laughing.

Had a big one of these a few moments ago after watching the 3rd episode of season 4 of {{The Sopranos}} watching Janice Soprano fuck Ralphie Cifaretto in the ass with a vibrator.