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* The [[X-Men]] ''and'' their opponents are prone to these:
** ''[[Wolverine]]'', after the [[X-Men]] have been completely annihilated by the Hellfire Club: "Ok, suckers... you've taken yer '''best shot'''. NOW IT'S '''MY''' TURN!"
** Apocalypse of ''[[X-Men]]'', especially in the early '90s cartoon, is [[Large Ham|given to such speeches]]: "I am Apocalypse! Look upon the future and tremble!"▼
** "I am the rocks of the eternal shore! Crash against me and be broken!"▼
** "Only I, the eternal, can never be defeated! I cannot be touched! I cannot be harmed! Nothing can stop the Apocalypse!"▼
** "I bring the purity of oblivion to your world!"▼
** "I am as far beyond mutants as they are beyond you. I am eternal!"▼
** "Hear me, [[X-Men]]! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am fire! And life incarnate! Now and forever -- I am Phoenix!!"▼
** "Behold your creation, Charles Xavier! I am what was, what is, what will be! I am the Black Angel, Chaos Bringer! I AM POWER!"▼
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{{quote|You can read minds enough to be able to predict any attack your opponent will make. So you will be able to -- anticipate every move I make -- and do absolutely -- '''nothing''' about it -- because -I-am-the-'''fastest'''-man-on-earth.}}▼
:* Ultimate Quicksilver was really great in the first two volumes of ''The Ultimates''; after the US is invaded by a hostile army of foreign superhumans, he saves Hawkeye from the enemy speedster by dragging her along with him until she ''vibrates apart'', at the same time delivering what must be the fastest badass boast in history: "You want fast, Hurricane? I'll give you fast. What kind of limits did they take you to back home? Mach five? Mach ''ten''? I was hitting those numbers when I still had pimples. (...) Feel your bones rattling like you're on a freight train? That's molecules dancing. That's what happens when you ''threaten'' my ''friends''!" The kicker is that he apparently does saves like that all the time, but nobody notices it and few people believe it when he tells them because he does it so ''fast''.▼
:* A Hellfire Club mook has just shot Kitty Pryde, who just freed Logan and Colossus from power draining cages, with a stun rifle.▼
{{quote|'''Wolverine''': Sucker, you just made the biggest mistake of your life. *SNIKT* And the last.}}▼
:* [[The Juggernaut]] {{spoiler|or rather Colossus, after becoming the new Juggernaut}} gets one as his internal monologue, while fighting Null, Breaker of Stone {{spoiler|who is the previous Juggernaut, posessed by an Asgardian demon}}▼
{{quote|His lightning could incinerate armies. My bones crumble beneath his fists. He is stronger than me. He is faster than me. He is more powerful than me in all ways but one. He cannot stop me. How could he? I can't even stop myself.}}▼
:* In one ''[[X-Men]]'' comic, [[Doctor Doom]] captures [[Storm]] and uses a diabolical device to turn her to stone. A rather cruel act, as Storm is still awake and aware, and is known to have claustrophobia. When turned back to normal, her rage against Doom is such that she reminds readers more of the [[Dark Phoenix Saga|Dark Phoenix]] than Storm, telling him, "No place on earth can hide you from my wrath. No power or entity can protect you." To further emphasize it, the captions give her backup, stating, ''"Her breath is fire and ice, her voice is thunder. She is one with the entire planet... It's a progression the X-Men have never seen before."''▼
* [[The Mighty Thor]] hands these out like candy on Halloween. See his page for details.
* ''[[League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'': "I'm Wilhelmina Murray. I've seen off Count Dracula, Professor James Moriarty and the Martian Invasion of 1898."
* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'': "Not enough gun."
* "We're the [[Justice League of America|Justice League]]. [[Warren Ellis|We've beaten up real gods and made them cry."]]
* Mr. Mxyzptlk -- "I'm the goddamn TRICKSTER GOD!"
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** That reason had nothing to do with any kind of badassery, so it's pretty goofy. And he ''lost'' that fight as well!
* ''[[Final Crisis]]'' is full of these, but {{spoiler|[[Darkseid]]}} gives a definitive [[Badass Boast]] in #5 {{spoiler|after taking over the minds of the world's population and defeating the heroes,}} starting with a completely black panel filled with the words "I. Am. The. New. God." Also, obviously, [[A God Am I]].
▲* Apocalypse of ''[[X-Men]]'', especially in the early '90s cartoon, is [[Large Ham|given to such speeches]]: "I am Apocalypse! Look upon the future and tremble!"
▲** "I am the rocks of the eternal shore! Crash against me and be broken!"
▲** "Only I, the eternal, can never be defeated! I cannot be touched! I cannot be harmed! Nothing can stop the Apocalypse!"
▲** "I bring the purity of oblivion to your world!"
▲** "I am as far beyond mutants as they are beyond you. I am eternal!"
* ''[[Nemesis the Warlock]]'' -- "Nemesis?" "The Warlock! The one who waits on the edge of your dreams ... The Shape of Things to Come ... The Lord of the Flies ... The Death Bringer ... I am all these and many more ... "
** "CREDO!"
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{{quote|"I'm sorry, you think defeating me is that simple? Have you seen my resumé? I've fought mutants, gods, aliens, technomalogical wackjobs, street hoods... Hell, I fought my own costume. You think it's that simple? Bring it on."}}
* Morningbright in ''[[Top Ten]]: [[Smax]]'': "You see, it's like this. In the beginning, God created me... Then he made the universe from what was left."
* Wildcat, of the ''[[Justice Society of America]]'':
{{quote|''"That's why I'm the best. Because I know how to fight like it's life or death... I once swam a mile with three bullets in my lung. I KO'd the Ultra-Humanite with once punch. I am Ted friggin' Wildcat Grant. This is my ring. These are my people. And tonight, for one last time... I am their champion."''}}
* ''[[Watchmen]]'':
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[[Look on My Works Ye Mighty and Despair|Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.]]
Nothing beside remains}}
* Projectra's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' v.3:
{{quote|"Look at my ''eyes'', churl. No power... yours or anyone's... can stop me. My ancestors were wizards and kings... ''conquerors''. You are a common killer -- a mad dog accidentally born in human form. You took my world, made my people slaves, and slew the man I had given my heart to. I need no power to destroy you -- save the strength born in my blood." [[Neck Snap|KRRAK!]]}}
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{{quote|*stabs his sword down into the soil, one millimetre before the nose of mole-Loki* "I can ''hear'' you, Loki!"}}
*** Loki is ''very'' fond of [[Badass Boast|Badass Boasts]] in that comic. All the stories that feature him (which are the majority of the stories) has him praising himself at every chance he gets and more often than not ending up getting called on it or having circumstances prove him wrong.
▲* "Hear me, [[X-Men]]! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am fire! And life incarnate! Now and forever -- I am Phoenix!!"
▲** "Behold your creation, Charles Xavier! I am what was, what is, what will be! I am the Black Angel, Chaos Bringer! I AM POWER!"
* [[X Wing Series|Wedge]] has a bit of introspection at the start of [http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1498235.html one comic]; it's not proper boasting because the whole issue is sad in tone, but without context it certainly looks like this trope. "I survived the Battle of Yavin. I survived the Battle of Hoth. Hell... Just a couple of weeks ago I blew up the Death Star during the Battle of Endor. The reason I'm still breathing when a lot of other good Rebel pilots aren't? Maybe it's because I'm [[Ace Pilot|better]]. Or maybe I'm [[Plot Armor|just]] [[Born Lucky|lucky]]."
* The various [[Green Lantern|Lantern oaths]], which also obviously double as [[Badass Creed|Badass Creeds]].
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* [[Incredible Hulk|Bruce Banner]] once forced [[Badass|Wolverine]] and [[Axe Crazy|Daken]] to back down when he explained to them what it means to be one of the smartest people in the world ''and'' be dangerously unstable.
{{quote|Maybe the real reason I became Hulk... was to protect the world from Banner.}}
* ''[[I Kill Giants]]'':
{{quote|I will unleash a terrible fury and do things to you that will make God cry.}}
* "You dumb bastards! I'm Snow White! I run [[Fables|Fabletown]] and I'm ''never'' outgunned!"
* "My name is Jay Garrick/Barry Allen/Wally West/Bart Allen/John Fox. I'm [[The Flash]]. The fastest man alive."
* ''[[Daredevil
* "We are the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]. We strike hard, and fade away...into the night."
* From ''[[Ignition City]]'': ▼
▲* [[X-Men|Quicksilver]] gives a lengthy one when fighting Mr. X, but it ends with him explaining the situation. The pauses indicate Mr. X being struck with an iron bar.
▲{{quote|You can read minds enough to be able to predict any attack your opponent will make. So you will be able to -- anticipate every move I make -- and do absolutely -- '''nothing''' about it -- because -I-am-the-'''fastest'''-man-on-earth.}}
▲* Ultimate Quicksilver was really great in the first two volumes of ''The Ultimates''; after the US is invaded by a hostile army of foreign superhumans, he saves Hawkeye from the enemy speedster by dragging her along with him until she ''vibrates apart'', at the same time delivering what must be the fastest badass boast in history: "You want fast, Hurricane? I'll give you fast. What kind of limits did they take you to back home? Mach five? Mach ''ten''? I was hitting those numbers when I still had pimples. (...) Feel your bones rattling like you're on a freight train? That's molecules dancing. That's what happens when you ''threaten'' my ''friends''!" The kicker is that he apparently does saves like that all the time, but nobody notices it and few people believe it when he tells them because he does it so ''fast''.
▲* From [[Ignition City]]:
{{quote|I'm 26 years old. I've been to the Moon, and Mars, and Venus. I've slept with asteroid gypsies, broken sloats, and fought with the eighth insurgency on Forest. I shot a man on Khargu because he needed to die more than any I've ever met. I repaired three rocket tubes with a wrench and a knife while hanging upside down over Titan during the syzygy. I'm 26 years old and my life is over now. So direct me please to the man who'll sell me a gun, and the place where my dad was shot dead in his sleep, for I have business to attend to before I lay down in my grave.}}
* ''[[Superman: Red Son
* [[Desolation Jones]] has a particularly memorable one:
{{quote|Okay. Here's the thing. [[Feel No Pain|Pain doesn't bother me.]] Let me show you.
''[Rolls up his sleeve, revealing a biohazard tattoo]''
[[Playing with Syringes|This means I was tortured for a year.]] [[Mind Rape|This means I experienced death for a full year, twenty-four hours a day.]] You know what you learn from that? Death is easy. Death is ordinary. It is not special. Your life is not special. And, as part of the ex-intelligence community that the authorities keep trapped in Los Angeles, I am legally invisible.
[[Sociopathic Hero|I am incapable of caring whether anyone in this room lives or dies.]]
I'm not trying to scare you, I'm not trying to be the big man. I'm just saying: don't touch me again. }}
* In the ''[[Green Lantern]]'' prologue to ''[[Blackest Night]]'', with the introduction of Saint Walker, he reveals that his ring increases the power of Hal Jordan's ring.
{{quote|'''Saint Walker''': It is at full capacity, and will remain so, as long as I hope for your well-being. And I will '''always''' hope. Until my last dying breath.}}
* From ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'':
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[Later]
'''Lucifer''': A sermon in the thunder, Michael? Thunder only has one thing to say: it tells us how close the storm is. }}
* ''[[Marvel Adventures]]'', unlike the 616 universe, does not need wanton assholery to be badass:▼
▲* A Hellfire Club mook has just shot Kitty Pryde, who just freed Logan and Colossus from power draining cages, with a stun rifle.
▲{{quote|'''Wolverine''': Sucker, you just made the biggest mistake of your life. *SNIKT* And the last.}}
▲* [[Marvel Adventures]], unlike the 616 universe, does not need wanton assholery to be badass:
{{quote|"My name is Reed Richards. And ''these'' are [[It Makes Sense in Context|my toasters]]." *curbstomp*}}
* In ''[[Marvel Star Wars]]'', Luke once deliberately activates an Imperial droid's capture programming with this.
{{quote|"Yoda said it, Artoo: There '''is''' no try! Only '''do'''.. or do '''not'''! And '''I''' mean to do! [[Dynamic Entry|This can't stop me!]] '''Nothing's''' going to stop me! I'm '''Luke Skywalker'''... destroyer of the '''Death Star'''! I'm the one who dueled '''Darth Vader''' and lived to tell about it!"}}
* While "I'm the strongest one there is" is the Hulk's catch phrase boast, recently he's simplified it. When told he can't do something, or asked how he thinks he can do something thought impossible, he responds "Sure I can/Easy, I'm [[The Hulk]]."
** Also, as [[Future Me Scares Me|the Maestro]], he had this excellent villainous version;
{{quote|'''Maestro:'''
* ''[[2000
{{quote|In Akkad and Elam they called me '''Baarish-Shammon''', and when they threw their children alive into the fire-pits it was my name that was on their lips.
In Egypt - in the reign of the '''heretic pharaoh Nephren-Ka''' - they called me''' 'She Who Stalks By Night', '''and they dressed my statues in the flayed skins of slaves to keep me from their doors.
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In all these places, I was '''fear'''. I was '''despair'''. I was all this, and still so much more.
And you're still '''dumb enough''' to think you can beat me? }}
* The Wreckers from the various ''Transformers'' comics. There's a particularly good one in "Stormbringer".
{{quote|Lost cause? Of course it's a lost cause! That why we're ''here.''}}
▲* [[The Juggernaut]] {{spoiler|or rather Colossus, after becoming the new Juggernaut}} gets one as his internal monologue, while fighting Null, Breaker of Stone {{spoiler|who is the previous Juggernaut, posessed by an Asgardian demon}}
▲{{quote|His lightning could incinerate armies. My bones crumble beneath his fists. He is stronger than me. He is faster than me. He is more powerful than me in all ways but one. He cannot stop me. How could he? I can't even stop myself.}}
* [[Doctor Strange]] does these relatively rarely, so when he flexes his muscles it really gets your attention.
{{quote|Hear me well, [[Incredible Hulk|Bruce]]... Your anger means ''nothing'' to me. I am the '''SORCERER SUPREME'''. I could snuff the feeble flame of your mortal life with the ''merest twitch of a finger''.}}
* And the arguably scariest Dr. Strange villain of all, Zom (''How scary? He was imprisoned once by a coalition of beings including Dormammu and Eternity - which is the equivalent of God and Satan teaming up to take someone out''), after being freed from his dimensional prison: "Let the worlds within and the worlds without ''tremble'' in their orbits!"
* In ''[[Azrael]]'' Annual #2, a Legends of the Dead Earth [[Elseworld]], Brian claimes Azrael "defeats six monsters before breakfast. Sometimes he has them ''for'' breakfast. With milk and sugar. [[Metaphorgotten|And sliced strawberries, occasionally]]."
* The [[Secret Six]], explaining why a potential client should hire them: "Your enemies are our enemies, and most of our enemies are dead."
* In one classic ''[[Silver Surfer]]
{{quote|'''Mephisto:''' I am Mephisto! There is only [[God|One]] who can defy me! And compared to Him you are like smothering children in the furnace of the
* Palpatine from ''[[Dark Empire]]'':
{{quote|"I've played along with your Jedi dueling games long enough! Now you will experience my full potency... I live as energy... I am [[The Dark Side]]!"}}
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{{quote|''I could crack the thunder of a lightning bolt.''}}
* [[Judge Dredd]]: "The law is the law...and ''I am the law!''"
* After ending the ''[[Annihilation]]'' event by killing Annihilus with his bare hands, [[Nova]] had brought the event up on several occasions. At one point he threatened Blastarr by reminding him that he could easily repeat the act on Blastarr if he does not act diplomatically. But the most famous instance was directed at [[Iron Man|Tony Stark]].
{{quote|'''Nova''': I pulled him inside out and saved the universe. What have you done lately, Tony?}}
▲* In one ''[[X-Men]]'' comic, [[Doctor Doom]] captures [[Storm]] and uses a diabolical device to turn her to stone. A rather cruel act, as Storm is still awake and aware, and is known to have claustrophobia. When turned back to normal, her rage against Doom is such that she reminds readers more of the [[Dark Phoenix Saga|Dark Phoenix]] than Storm, telling him, "No place on earth can hide you from my wrath. No power or entity can protect you." To further emphasize it, the captions give her backup, stating, ''"Her breath is fire and ice, her voice is thunder. She is one with the entire planet... It's a progression the X-Men have never seen before."''
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