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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!"
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** "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-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''.
*:* 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."
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