Internet Tough Guy

"What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo."

- The (in)famous Navy Seal copypasta/Gorilla Warfare copypasta

Internet Tough Guys are people who will threaten anyone online who bugs them enough with physical or legal harm. These threats are always empty. These bullies couldn't fulfill most of these threats even if they wanted to. If you ever find yourself on the receiving end of these threats, just remember that most of these people are morons who wouldn't even be able to figure out your IP address.

Not surprisingly, Trolls love these morons. Rants, ineffectual threats, and anger being the stuff trolls live on.

Common Internet Tough Guy threats include:
 * Libel lawsuits (that would immediately be thrown out of court).
 * Lawsuits in general, even if the two parties live in different countries.
 * Bonus points if they threaten slander lawsuits instead.
 * Extreme violence against one or more people.
 * Extreme violence against the family of one or more people.
 * Calling people's parents (works best against the young).
 * When the ITG is also a Troll attacking the forum moderators/owners for suppression of the right to free speech (obviously this never works, as the First Amendment only protects against governments, as they'd know if they'd actually read it because "Congress shall make no law" is right at the beginning.)
 * A variation is when they threaten to use the U.S. Constitution or US statutes against non-American forum owners.
 * And, of course, it goes without saying that this sainted right is only for them and those viewpoints they express; they'll be quick as lightning to call for the banning of someone who expresses a viewpoint that they disagree with.

Compare GIFT.

Sometimes these threats can get really scary, though. There really are Axe Crazy people out there. And in rare cases, they actually can figure out where you live.