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** "CREDO!"
** Torquemada of course couldn't be worse:
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* "I am the [[Gender Bender|mother]] of Odin's stallion, Sleipnir. I am the father of Fenrir [[Sadly Mythtaken|Sun-Eater]], and of Hel Half-Rotted and of Jormungund the World-Serpent. I am Loki Scar-Lip, Loki Skywalker, Loki Giant's Child, Loki Lie-Smith. I am Loki, who is fire and wit and hate. I am Loki. And I will be under an obligation to no one." -- Loki (duh) ''[[The Sandman]]''
** And, from the same world: "I am of the People, man. My teeth are sharp enough to cut bone. I can run on four legs as well as two. I am kin to dwarrow and nightgaunt. I owe allegiance to none and I fear no man born. I want the woman." -- Vassily of the People
** Also from the same world, the Furies/Kindly Ones/Erinyes/Eumenides/whatever have a lot of these. Probably the best example is: "''We have no nightmares. We are the hounds of Hades. Gods fear us. Demons fear us. We have hounded kings and angels. We have taken vengeance on worlds and on universes. We are the Kindly Ones. We are the Eumenides.''"
** [[Neil Gaiman]] is good at these. During the first ''[[Books of Magic]]'', [[Zatanna]] takes [[The Chosen One|Timothy Hunter]] to a party attended by a wide variety of powerful evil magicians. We are led to believe that everyone at the party is either [[Affably Evil]] or a [[Punch Clock Villain]] on their off time, or both, until the party's host announces Tim's presence and announces that a hefty price has been put on his head ("Which need not be attached to his body"). Things are pretty tense until all of a sudden, [[Hellblazer|John Constantine]] appears in a doorway, and everyone stops to watch him calmly light his cigarette.
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* From the [[Marvel Universe]], a variant: the badass [[Thank Your Prey]]:
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* The robotic Manhunters' [[Badass Creed]] doubles as a [[Badass Boast]]:
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** To which John Stewart replied:
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** They had another one before they all made a [[Face Heel Turn]] and [[Turned Against Their Masters]]:
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* ''[[The Crow]]'', explaining himself to a cop: "I am pilot error. I am fetal distress. I am the random chromosome. I am complete and total madness. I am fear."
* ''[[The Authority]]'': "I've already played this fight in my head a million times, from every angle. I know every move you'll make and how to counter it. I know how to kill you. You've already lost, you just don`t know it yet." Eventually, he starts handing it to people on a card.
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** To which Captain Atom had the perfect [[Badass Boast]] in response: "[[Always Someone Better|Why don't you try that shit with me..."]] (Hint: it doesn't work out too well for Midnighter. Or Apollo, for that matter.)
** The [[Big Bad]] of the "Shiftships" arc has one hell of a boast, which he delivers while [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb-stomping]] Midnighter:
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* [[Spider-Man]] in ''Avengers: The Initiative''. "Not gonna happen. Know why? Because I'm Spider-Man. And you're just a dollar-store version of the Lizard. See, I beat down guys like Doc Ock, Sandman, and Venom all the time. And you're just not in their league. Oh, I'm going to win."
** From ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]'', a quick one:
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'''Spider-Man:''' (giving Reed a flying kick) [[Shout-Out|Spectacular]]. }}
*** Usually, however, Spider-man inverts it, as his baddass boast typically starts the instant he shuts up.
** In ''Amazing Spider-Man #369'', ol' Webhead says this to his latest foe:
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* 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]]:
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* ''[[Watchmen]]'':
** Rorschach: "None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked in here with me."
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** A pillar in his lair bears this line from an old poem {{spoiler|I am Ozymadias, king of kings. See my work ye mighty and despair.}}
*** {{spoiler|The irony, of course, is that it's taken from a [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] poem showing how great works crumble over time.}} In the original context it becomes:
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My name is Ozymandias, king of kings.
[[Look on My Works Ye Mighty and Despair|Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.]] <br />
Nothing beside remains]] }}
* Subversion in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'': "S for Stupendous! T for Tiger, ferocity of! U for underwear, red! P for Power, incredible! E for Excellent physique! N for, um, something, well I'll get back to that. D for Determination! U for... wait, how do you spell this? Is it 'I'?"
* Projectra's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' v.3:
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* In Peter Madsen's comic ''Valhalla'', Tyr and [[The Mighty Thor|Thor]] are having a contest that suddenly turns deadly by Thor's latest attempt to catch the Midgard Serpent. Tyr forgets the contest and starts acting like the God of War (Leaders) he is, snapping orders to help Thor. Thor's sidekick Tjatse doubts him... noting that they just learnt Tyr is of the Giants.
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** Likewise, in another story Loki makes the mistake of actually pissing off Heimdall seriously. He tries to hide by shapeshifting into a mole, but Heimdall is the God of ''Watchers''...
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*** 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!!"
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* The various [[Green Lantern|Lantern oaths]], which also obviously double as [[Badass Creed|Badass Creeds]].
* ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'''s Spider Jerusalem immediately after being beaten half to death by three armed police officers:
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* [[The Punisher]]'s [[Marvel 2099|2099 incarnation]] gets a good one when facing down against the new Aesir:
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** He gives out another one when he dives after a criminal who has a jetpack:
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* [[Aquaman]]:
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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.
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* [[I Kill Giants]]:
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* "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."
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* "We are the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]. We strike hard, and fade away...into the night."
* [[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.
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* 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]]:
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* [[Superman Red Son|"Let our enemies beware: there is only one superpower now."]]
* [[Desolation Jones]] has a particularly memorable one:
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''[Rolls up his sleeve, revealing a biohazard tattoo]''<br />
[[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.<br />
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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.
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* From ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'':
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'''Lucifer''': Actually, it is in the Upanishads, but I applaud your ecumenical impulse.
'''Michael''': And the words the thunder said were Datta, Dayadvam, Damyata. Give, sympathize and control. I've always thought of that as one commandment rather than three.
'''Lucifer''': Why do I feel that this particular sermon is being preached at me? I can do control. Nobody is good at everything.
[Later]
'''Lucifer''': A sermon in the thunder, Michael? Thunder only has one thing to say: it tells us how close the storm is. }}
* A Hellfire Club mook has just shot Kitty Pryde, who just freed Logan and Colossus from power draining cages, with a stun rifle.
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* [[Marvel Adventures]], unlike the 616 universe, does not need wanton assholery to be badass:
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* In [[Marvel Star Wars]], Luke once deliberately activates an Imperial droid's capture programming with this.
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* 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;
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* ''[[2000 AD|Two Thousand AD]]'', ''Cabalistics Inc.''
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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.
In '''Kadath in the Cold Waste''' they knew and feared me. My true name is written on the walls of the tombs of '''Hidden Irem''', where no human eye has yet to read it.
In Carchemish and Ashur, in Kiran and forgotten Sarnath, in Luxor and Ib. On the shores of Hali. In the darkest abyss-cities of Shaol.
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".
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* [[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}}
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* [[Doctor Strange]] does these relatively rarely, so when he flexes his muscles it really gets your attention.
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* 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 [[Silver Surfer]] classic story [[Satan|Mephisto]] managed to give one, while fighting Galactus himself.
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* Palpatine from ''[[Dark Empire]]'':
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* From ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]'':
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'''Darth Krayt, Dark Lord of the Sith''' }}
* ''Marvel Boy'' had a great one:
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* ''[[Birds of Prey]]'': Barbara to Savant, after the latter broke out of Arkham. ''Over the phone''.
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'''Savant''': (trying to hide his face from a security camera) She's overestimating herself. She can't...I'm ''certain'' that...[runs away like a scared rabbit, without even bothering to hang up first] }}
* First thing the main character of ''[[Orc Stain]]'' says is:
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* [[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]].
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