Verb This



""Dodge this.""

- Trinity, The Matrix, just before a point-blank headshot on an Agent

You've Seen It a Million Times. We know this. But it's still a joy to watch.

A bad guy will taunt, cajole, or in some way try to deceive the good guy/s with big words, possibly flowery language, or good ol' fashioned Trash Talk. But the good guy/s will have none of it. Instead, they'll snatch a word out of the enemy's tirade, tack a hard, defiant, "THIS!" to the end of it, and unload on their enemies.

In lowbrow games of Volleying Insults, "this" is one's crotch, indicated with a gesture so the other doesn't miss the point.

Compare/Contrast with I Will Show You X, in using someone's own wording in a retort to them, except that I Will Show You X is more specifically about what the character saying it will DO, whereas in Verb This there's no "I" in it and it could just as easily be referring to some external circumstance.

Usually doubles as a Facing the Bullets One-Liner, Pre-Mortem One-Liner and/or Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner as well. Can be someone's Moment of Awesome if pulled off properly.

Compare Shut UP, Hannibal and Punctuated for Emphasis. Also, Talk to The Fist and I Will Show You X.

Anime and Manga
"Simon: Eat this!!!
 * Code Geass R2:
 * Transformers Energon: TF Wiki keeps what it calls the "pain count," each episode's uses of any piece of the series' repetitive dialogue. Turns out in the Japanese version only, someone will yell "Eat this!" before attacking at least Once an Episode.
 * Naruto Shippuden: Naruto says "Eat THIS!" before slamming a Rasen Shuriken in Kakuzu's back. Much later on, in the manga, he reacts to by yelling "Control THIS!" and.
 * To date, really any shonen anime uses this, if not alot. Just know that someone will eventually say "KURAE YAGARE!"
 * Or just "Kurae!", really.
 * From Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Simon attacks the enemy with a giant drill - just for a change - in a legendary display of Ham to Ham Combat:

Anti-Spiral: Nnneeeveeerrr!!!"

Comics

 * Ultimate Spider Man: "Define this, Fuzzball!" It was All Just a Dream in an Imagine Spot, though.
 * Subverted in Iron Man (v1) #279 - when Iron Man confronts the alien overlord Ronan the Accuser, his enemy at one point utters the perfect set-up line "None may defy the judgment of -" to which Iron Man responds with "Judge this!" and gives him all hell with his repulsors at full power (Normally enough to level, oh, a medium-sized office building). Unfortunately, this barely manages to make Ronan stagger a single step backwards, and he responds, seemingly even without sarcasm: "I find it... insufficient."
 * In Archie Sonic issue #74, the page image is provided after
 * Empowered: "Mong this, motherfucker!"

Fan Fiction
"Kuyou: Synchronize with that! Activating chibi-mode!"
 * Kuyou Suou in Kyon Big Damn Hero, when an Alternate Universe version of herself tries to force her to "synchronize" (read: being assimilated):

Film
"Worf: Assimilate this! (shoots recently severed and explosive nav deflector full of Borg Drones and a comm beacon of doom)"
 * Trinity in The Matrix. After watching an agent effortlessly dodge a hail of gunfire, she sneaks up behind him as he's preparing to finish Neo off, puts the barrel of her pistol right up to his head, and tells him to "Dodge this" right before blowing his brains out at point blank range. He does dodge it, mind you, but not in the traditional manner. His former host, on the other hand...
 * A similar example occurred in Reloaded, when Persephone asks Neo to kiss her, because she wants to "sample" the feeling of love again. Trinity responds with "Why don't you sample this instead?" and the gun comes out. Unlike the first example, however, she does not fire the gun.
 * And then, in Revolutions, the original scenario is repeated during the battle for Zion - Charra shoots the Huge Digger with a rocket launcher and "Dig this!"
 * A guy points out in a YouTube video showing errors in TheMatrix that there is a continuity error in this scene. Trinity points the gun at the guy's temple on the side of his head, but when she pulls the trigger, we see that the guy falls backwards...
 * Star Trek First Contact:

"Kano: Give it up, baby. I've studied all your moves.
 * Analyze This.
 * Analyze That.
 * Pledge This!: an awesome movie with super-actress Paris Hilton.
 * Mortal Kombat: Sonya vs. Kano:

Sonya: Oh yeah? Study THIS!"

"Miranda Frost: I can read your every move!
 * Team America World Police: "Hey terrorist. Terrorize this!"
 * Evil Dead II: "Swallow this."
 * Die Another Day:

Jinx: Read this! (pins a copy of The Art of War to her chest with a throwing knife) Bitch!"

"Colonel Thomas Miller: "Dematerialize this.""
 * The SyFy film Path Of Destruction has the colonel saying this during his Heroic Sacrifice:

"Rizzo: Don't start with me!
 * Grease has a particularly nice example. While Rizzo is freaking out because  we get this nice scene:

Kenickie: Alright fine, well how about I finish with you huh?

Rizzo: Finish This! (throws milkshake in his face)"

"Colonel Sandurz: Sir, shouldn't you buckle up?
 * Variation in Spaceballs: The villain, at first just passive-aggressively sniping at his overly cautious underling, finally decides he's had enough:

Dark Helmet: Ah, buckle this! Ludicrous Speed, GO!"

"Hicks:(inserts shotgun into mouth) Eat THIS!"
 * Aliens When an alien is trying to open to doors to the APC:

"Goodspeed: (shoves Deadly Gas pellet into mouth): Eat that, you fuck!"
 * Similarly, The Rock:

"Mother Superior: I am your Mother Superior! As I raised you from a child, I order you to drop that weapon and take your punishment!
 * So Bad It's Good slasher flick, Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2 has the following exchange before Ricky dispatches Mother Superior with a fire axe.

Ricky: No more punishment!

Mother Superior: You are being very very naughty!

Ricky: Naughty THIS!"

"Tony: Iron Man doesn't need a sidekick.
 * Iron Man 2:

Rhodey: Side...kick...this!"

"Badguy Mook: Go fuck yourself.
 * The Scorpion King: "Catch This!"
 * The first Blade movie.

Blade: (producing gun) Why don't you fuck this!"

""Grow those back.""
 * In Childs Play 2, Chucky takes out his aggression (and boy does he have aggression!) on a Good Guy doll by saying "Hug this!" before bludgeoning it.
 * A variation occurs towards the end of the third X Men film, Wolverine is fighting one-on-one against a mutant with regenerating limbs. After the third or fourth attempt at dismemberment, he changes tack and kicks his adversary in the crotch instead, remarking:


 * This might be a homage to "[verb] these!" being Wolverine's catchphrase in the 90s, as noted below.
 * In X-Men: First Class,
 * Spawn: Eat THIS!

Literature
"Marco: Negotiate this. *punches Visser Three in the face*"
 * The Animorphs like using this one.


 * In Halo: Fall of Reach, Captain Keyes tries to destroy a Covenant stealth spaceship with archer missiles. After the missiles are defeated, he mutters "Try and jam this." before running his ship into the smaller craft.

Live Action TV
"Buffy: So then she's like, 'It's share-time.' And I'm like, 'Oh yeah? Share this!' [mimes taking a milk carton out of the fridge]"
 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy vs. The Initiative: "Target has been contained!" "Contain this." PUNCH!!
 * From "Living Conditions":

"General Stall: We stare into the face of death!
 * From the first episode of NYPD Blue: "Ipso this, you prissy little bitch!"
 * Power Rangers SPD, against a mirror-themed villain: "Reflect on this!" [White Ranger smashes mirror, releasing trapped Rangers]
 * Doctor Who in "The Time of Angels": an image that holds a weeping angel becomes itself an angel . Cue Amy's "hold this" along with the most epic use of a pause button ever.
 * The Doctor himself had already done it in "The Sontaran Stratagem", shortly before bouncing a shuttlecock off a wall into a Sontaran's weak spot.

The Doctor: Uh-huh? Well, stare at this."

"Jack: Feel this. [repeatedly shoots the Dalek, to no effect]
 * Also done by Captain Jack in "Journey's End", after a Dalek makes some comment about not feeling anything.

[Later, once Jack has got himself a better gun]

Jack: As I think I said before... FEEL THIS! [BOOM!]"

"Turk: That was a finder's fee!
 * Upgrade this!
 * Scrubs has a subversion:

J.D.: Oh yeah? Well, find this!


 * beat*

Carla: You know you're supposed to grab your crotch when you say that.

J.D.: Wouldn't that hurt?"

"Centauri Beaurocrat: I'll be in touch. *ends call*
 * Played straight by Londo in Babylon 5:

Londo: Touch this. *Pokes himself in the ribs, where Centauri males keep their six... well, you know*"

"Opponent: Knew you couldn't do it, candy-ass.
 * Married With Children: Kelly is in an archery competition and is trying to shoot an apple off her brother's head. She's so touched that he volunteers that she realises she can't risk it and forfeits the game, congratulating her opponent on winning.

Kelly: ...Candy this. *shoots apple off Bud's head without looking, reducing Bud to a shell-shocked drooling mental case in the process*"


 * Young Blades: In the first episode, Gerard's response to "Kneel and kiss the dust [Mazarin] might deign to tread" is "Kiss this." Leads to him getting arrested and his father getting murdered in a stunning display of Disproportionate Retribution.
 * Breaking Bad: Walter White tends to use this when enraged. When quitting his job at the car wash, he tears several products off of the shelves, grabs his crotch, and shouts, "WIPE DOWN THIS!" before storming out.
 * In a later episode, he also shouts, while grabbing his crotch again, "I'VE GOT YOUR RESTRAINING ORDER RIGHT HERE! RESTRAIN THIS!"

Music

 * Madonna's "Die Another Day": "Analyse this!"
 * Korn's "Twisted Transistor": "Anaesthetise this, bitch."
 * Sex Pistols' "New York": "Kiss this!"
 * Michael Jackson's "Black or White" music video: "Eat this!"

Theatre
"Feargal: These are not just hands; they are defensive weapons.
 * Done self-consciously in Back to The Eighties.

Michael: Yeah? Well defend this!"

Video Games
"Silhouette: We will continue to resist you!
 * The fourth level of the first Marathon game is called "Defend THIS!" It is focused on activating the titular ship's defense mechanisms (which somehow aid you in the level before they are activated). Bungie has not forgotten this phrase, and has made it the name of an achievement in Halo 3 and there is a medal in Halo Reach called "Reload This!"
 * Near the very end of Destroy All Humans!, just after Crypto has defeated Silhouette, she goes on about how Majestic is all over the world, and as long as Majestic exists, they will resist the Furon invasion. Crypto doesn't think so, and proceeds to stomp on the fatally wounded human, to finish her off.

Crypto: Resist this. *squish*"

"Gruntilda: Revenge is mine, I cannot miss, let's see that furry fool dodge this!"
 * Banjo Kazooie's successor Banjo Tooie.

"LeChuck: Do ya mind? I be in the middle of an unholy ceremony here!
 * At the end of Headhunter: Redemption, Leeza shouts "Compute this!" to the AI final boss, before delivering the Coup De Grace.
 * At least two random bits of dialogue in Star Wars Battlefront 2 qualify for this. Rebel soldiers sometimes tell the Imperials, who have gotten in the habit of calling them "Rebel scum" frequently, to "Rebel scum this!", in a similar vein, Imperial Stormtroopers, when encountering Obi-wan, sometimes say "It's Obi-wan! Shall we put a disturbance in his Force?"
 * In Kingdom Hearts 1, Sephiroth LOVES to say this. Over. And over.
 * Also, the game seems to lampshade the fact that you heal constantly, having the late boss  say "Heal this!" before attacking you.
 * Dissidia didn't forget. "Dodge this." is the quote Sephiroth says before he uses Fervent Blow and sends several beams of light flying at you, and then he pretty much reappears in front/behind you to slash you again. And if he hits you with the attack? He'll just say "Here."
 * Funnily enough, he doesn't say "Dodge this." on the aerial version of the attacked, which is called "Godspeed". He says "Fly." and "Not there."
 * Following up on the Sephiroth example, Dissidia fighters frequently use Verb This in their battle quotes, mostly as "Take this!" but Lightning shares "Dodge this!" with Sephiroth. Golbez, however, is the only one who says "Endure this!" before he blasts you with electricity.
 * Prototype: "Regenerate this."
 * Tales of Monkey Island In Chapter 1:

Guybrush: Unholy THIS! * attacks*

Elaine: "Unholy this?"

Guybrush: Yeah, I know, but he didn't give me much to work with..."


 * And in Chapter 4:

"Max: Unholy THIS!
 * Also referenced in Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse Episode 4 - Beyond the Alley of the Dolls:

Sam: What's that, little buddy?

Max: I don't know. I heard it in a video game."

": Withstand this!"
 * Persona 4's Bonus Boss.

"Hiro: Dodge THIS!"
 * Enkindle THIS!
 * Hark a Vagrant: "Handcuff THIS"
 * Lunar Eternal Blue Complete, Hiro when using a sword technique.

""(to Demoman) Blow that up, cyclops!"
 * Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Dark Phoenix's fireball spam. "Dodge THIS!"
 * Also said by Morrigan in her Finishing Shower Hyper Combo, which here is a Macross Missile Massacre instead of the Beam Spam from previous games.
 * In Team Fortress 2, several of the Scout's domination lines are in this form:

"(to Sniper) Snipe that, ya frickin' coward!"

"(to Spy) Disguise dat!""

Web Comics

 * Questionable Content: Marigold tries, but doesn't get any better than "I'll wash you more than twice a year!"

Web Original
"Metron: By sparing that shitty game, you have demonstrated the advanced restraint of mercy.
 * A College Humor short named "Cell Phone Reunion" where iPhone and Black Berry start fighting. At one point, Black Berry says, "At least I know what I'm hitting. Look at you. Ooh. Touch-screen. Look at my touch-screen. I've got something you can touch." *grabs crotch* "Right here!" *points at it with his other hand* "Dial this up!"
 * Near the end of the Star Trek episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd, the Nerd is ready to blast the NES game to bits with a gun, but after a few seconds he decides not to, saying that the game designers "did the best they could, given the circumstances" but should get their entertainment someplace else. Then we get this exchange with a Metron that even surprises the Nerd:

AVGN: Mercy this, motherfucker! [shoots the Metron]"

Western Animation
"R.E.G.I.S. Mk. V:
 * Coop from Megas XLR, during his fight with the R.E.G.I.S. Mk. V, who refused to stay down no matter how much Coop wailed on it.

Coop: Mock this! (slams random button on controls)"

"WWWYZZERDD.com: But it comes in this decorative tin!
 * Less heroic example: Cyborg from Teen Titans, telling his robotic counterpart (he was disguised as "Stone" in order to infiltrate H.I.V.E. Academy) "Booyah this!"
 * Can't forget Robin during the Apprentice arc. "MOTIVATE THIS!"
 * Or Starfire when she saved her friends from the Cironielian Chrysalis Eater. "Devour THIS!"
 * Frylock vs. WWWYZZERDD.com in Aqua Teen Hunger Force

Frylock: Decorate this! (blasts tin out of WWWYZZERDD.com's hand with his laser eyes)"

"Megaton: Oh well, come on, let's have it. The usual "destiny and honor" speech...
 * A spoof trailer for the sequel to The Passion of the Christ in Family Guy: "Passion Of The Christ 2: Crucify This!"
 * The Batman vs. Dracula has Alfred essentially recreating the Matrix example by shooting Dracula in the head with Batman's vampirism-cure needles and saying, "Bite this!" It doesn't work.
 * Transformers: Beast Wars: In the series finale, Optimus Primal and Megatron face off on the bridge of the Nemesis.

Optimus: Speech this! *punch*"

"PC Santa Claus: Ho ho ho!
 * Spoofed in Re Boot's episode Firewall.

Killer snowman Enzo: Hohoho this!"

"Frida: "Install this!""
 * For Wolverine, it's "[Verb] these." Here instead of in Comic Books because while he probably says it at least once in everything, it was practically a Catch Phrase in the 90s 'toon.
 * A Sentinel orders Gambit to stand aside in order to "apprehend" Jubilee. He punctuates his reponse with a playing card to the face.
 * Finn in Adventure Time exclaims, "Chew on this!" in the episode, Slumber Party Panic!. It's become one of his well-known phrases.
 * Done in El Tigre by Frida Suarez when she is told to install a censor.

"Private: Detect THIS!"
 * Private gives us this little gem after Kowalski tells him how good he is at detecting things:

Real Life

 * The program Hijack This has an appropriate title as a response to computer hijackers.