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** Even more badass because we see Wednesday actually roasting two guys who tried to subdue her in preparation to feast on them.
** There's also his speech in Addams Family Values when Gomez tries to go to the police to get Fester back.
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* ''[[Beowulf (film)|Beowulf]]'' -- "I am Ripper... Tearer... Slasher... Gouger! I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength... and Lust... and Power! [[This Is Sparta|I! AM! BEOWULF!!]]"
* Gene Hackman's call-and-response boast near the beginning of ''[[Crimson Tide]]'' counts.
* ''[[Unforgiven]]'':
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'''Will Munny:''' That's right. I killed women and children. Killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned. }}
* ''[[Gladiator (film)|Gladiator]]'':
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* The third ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movie had this, when Michael Caine intimidated a [[Mook]] this way.
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** And he ''does''!
* ''[[The Last Dragon]]'' has badass villain Sho'Nuff do a call-and-response boast with his crew, which goes something like this...
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'''Sho'nuff 's Goons''': Sho'nuff!
'''Sho'nuff''': Am I the prettiest?
'''Sho'nuff 's Goons''': Sho'nuff!
'''Sho'nuff''': Am I the baddest mofo low down around this town?
'''Sho'nuff 's Goons''': Sho'nuff!
'''Sho'nuff''': Well who am I?
'''Sho'nuff 's Goons''': Sho'nuff!
'''Sho'nuff''': Who am I?
'''Sho'nuff 's Goons''': Sho'nuff!
'''Sho'nuff''': I can't hear you...
'''Sho'nuff 's Goons''': Sho'nuff! }}
* In the initial training duel of ''When the Last Sword is Drawn'', the narrator's opponent is given an armored headband in case the narrator misses and actually hits him. The opponent tells the narrator he should wear one too, but the narrator responds, "I won't need it."
* In ''[[Secondhand Lions]]'', Hub (played by Robert Duvall, no less!) has a speech of this type:
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** Also in the story of Hub and Garth's adventures in Africa:
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'''Young Hub:''' "[[Suddenly Voiced|Your life... is mine]]." }}
* In ''[[Brick]]'', Brenden Frye offers up a pretty good one when squared off against half a dozen potheads. Notable in that this is the only time he does this.
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* [[Buddy Holly]] and Death trade some good ones before their final fight in ''[[Six String Samurai]]:''
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'''Death:''' Death.
'''Buddy:''' Cool.
'''Death:''' If I were you, I'd run.
'''Buddy:''' If you were me, you'd be good-looking. }}
* The [http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=WLKVt8Q8lp4 trailer] for the film ''[[Taken]]'' is built around the main character's calm threat, very effectively delivered by Liam Neeson.
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** This used to be the quote topper for the [[Badass Boast]] main page.
* ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'' had a great example of this trope when Sam Flynn invades Clu's headquarters:
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'''[[Big Damn Heroes|Sam Flynn]]:''' I am not a program. My name's Sam Flynn... (''cue the [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|off-screen ass-kicking]]'') }}
* Liam Neeson's been getting a lot of these. In the film version of ''[[The A-Team (film)|The a Team]]'', Hannibal and crew, after having broken out of various detention facilities, walk onto the rear of a C-130 and asks, "Do you know who I am?" "You're Hannibal Smith." "Do you know what that means?" "You're, uh, taking the plane?" "Bingo." Cue aircrew leaving the plane without offering any resistance.
* ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' had a great one:
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'''V:''' No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I'll no longer be standing, because if I am... you'll all be dead before you've reloaded. }}
** Don't forget the lines just before that:
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'''V:''' The only thing that you and I have in common, Mr. Creedy, is we're both about to die.
'''Creedy:''' How do you imagine that's going to happen?
'''V:''' With my hands around your neck. }}
** Pay extra attention to that scene and you'll notice that Creedy [[Oh Crap|takes an appropriate step backwards]] during the boast... Oh yeah, and it ends with this exchange;
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'''V:''' Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an ''idea'', Mr. Creedy, and ''ideas are bulletproof''. }}
* Ratatouille's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSoHkadTAxc Anton Ego]
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* ''[[X-Men (film)|X Men]] 3'': "Don't you know who I am? [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|I'm the Juggernaut, bitch]]!" [[Ascended Meme|Taken from the "humorous" internet shorts.]]
* A badass boast was pretty much a prerequisite to be a cowboy in ''[[Tombstone]]''.
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** And one for Doc Holliday too.
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'''Doc:''' {{[[[Guns Akimbo]] draws a second gun}}] I have two guns; one for each of ya. }}
* Pennywise/IT in ''[[IT|Stephen King's It]]'' is practically made of this:
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** "And when his eyes go dead, the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I've done to him."
* Bully Hayes in ''[[Nate and Hayes]]'', also serves as a [[Badass Creed]]:
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'''Clerk''' (nervously: Yes, I suppose I am.
'''Hayes''': Good, 'cause I am one. And a damn good one. Oh, I never flew the skull and crossbones, that's for your fictioneers. But I have sought pleasure and profit in every port known to man, without regard to any man's law. That's not to say without morals and standards. I've got morals and standards. I've never killed anyone who didn't have it coming, I've never cheated an honest man, I've never pillaged and I've never raped. }}
* John Herod ([[Gene Hackman]]) in ''[[The Quick and the Dead]]'': "This is my town! If you live to see the dawn, it's because I allow it!"
* From ''[[Serenity]]''
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'''The Operative''': "I do. If I have to." }}
** Matched by Mal in the climax:
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** A more humorous example from the beginning of the film:
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'''Vault Guard''': I'm gonna need your authorization password!
'''Jayne''': -fires down the stairs with his machine gun-
'''Vault Guard''': ... Ok! }}
* ''[[The Devil's Rejects]]''
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* Captain Gordon in ''[[Godzilla]] Final Wars'': "Listen kid, there are two things you didn't know about the Earth. One is me, the other is Godzilla."
* In ''[[Tall Tale (film)|Tall Tale]]'' it's no surprise there's some of these. Pecos Bill gets a particularly awesome one ([[Crazy Awesome|done while lassoing a tornado]]).
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* From ''[[Kill Bill]]'': "I can tell you with no ego, this is my finest sword. If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut. "
* Westley's [[To the Pain]] challenge in ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''. He knew Humperdinck was a coward, was too weak to stand, but still...that challenge was [[Badass Boast]] on its own.
** "Hello. My name is Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
* Jim Malone from ''[[The Untouchables]]'', giving advice on how to fight the mob.
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* ''[[Aguirre, the Wrath of God]]'': "I am the great traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks of deserting this mission will be hacked into 198 pieces. Those pieces will be trampled until what is left can be used only to paint walls. Whoever takes one grain of corn or one drop of water more than his ration will be locked up for 155 years. If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees... then the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the wrath of god. The earth I pass will see me and tremble. But whoever follows me and the river will win untold riches."
* [[Christopher Walken|Vincent Cacardi]] in ''[[True Romance]]'': "I am the Anti-Christ. You get me in a vendetta-kind-of mood, you tell the angels in heaven you never saw evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you."
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* Sarah in ''[[Labyrinth]]'': "Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the goblin city, for my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great....You have no power over me." Slightly subverted in that they're actually lines from a play she'd been rehearsing, but when she has her epiphany, she makes them her own and they gain true power.
* From ''[[Chicago]]'', the lawyer Billy Flynn:
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* ''[[300]]'' uses the famous Spartan boast from Herodotus' ''[[The Histories|Histories]]'':
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'''Stelios:''' Then we will fight in the shade! }}
** The 300 last seconds of the movie are a big badass boast by ''[[Unreliable Narrator|Dilios]]''.
** But actually, we could say the whole movie is a badass boast from Dilios to the Spartan at Platae.
* In the 1952 version of ''[[Ivanhoe]]'', once Cedric gets his hands on a sword:
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'''Ivanhoe''': "All day and through the night!" }}
* The [[Archangel Gabriel]] in ''[[The Prophecy (film)|The Prophecy]]'':
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* Nada's famous line from ''[[They Live]]'': "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
* Vigo the Carpathian in ''[[Ghostbusters|Ghostbusters II]]'':
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* Auda Abu Tayi in ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'':
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* ''[[The One (film)|The One]]'':
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* In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', this is sort of done by proxy when the accountant is trying to blackmail Wayne and Fox, and Fox says:
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** When {{spoiler|Gordon comes home to his family after faking being dead, his son asks, "Did Batman save you, daddy?"}}
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* ''[[The Bourne Identity]]''
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** Ironically, he's immediately killed by a sniper.
* The 2008 movie ''[[Bolt]]''
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'''Bolt:''' You hungry?
'''Rhino:''' ''Starving!!'' }}
* ''[[Commando (film)|Commando]]''
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'''Arnold''': "I eat Green Berets for breakfast, and right now I'm VERY hungry!"
'''Cindy''': "[[Lampshade Hanging|I can't believe this macho bullshit!]]" }}
* ''[[Cars]]''
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* ''[[Happy Gilmore]]'', although it results in an [[Insult Backfire]]:
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'''Happy:''' ''You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?''
'''Shooter:''' ''...No!'' }}
** Hypocritically copied by ''[[Big Fat Liar]]''.
* Bizarre variant in ''What's Up, Tiger Lily?''
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* In the original, animated ''Transformers'' movie, after Unicron transforms from a predatory planet into a planet-sized robot: "For a time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet (sic), Cybertron; but now, you will witness - its ''dismemberment''!" For extra points, delivered by [[Orson Welles]].
* From ''[[The Dark Knight Rises]]'', coming from Bane.
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'''Bane:''' I'm Gotham's reckoning. }}
* ''[[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy]]'':
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* ''[[Highlander]]'': " I have something to say! It's better to burn out... than to fade away!" and also "Now you die!"
* There are a few in ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'', but Steve McQueen as Vin gets the best one, during the seven's first confrontation with Calvera:
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* From ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'':
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'''Tony Stark:''' We have a ''Hulk''. }}
** The exchange just prior certainly counts:
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'''Loki''': That was my plan.
'''Tony Stark''': Yeah, not a great plan. }}
** He tops it off with yet another:
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* ''[[Advent Children]]'':
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* ''[[Brave]]'':
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* Frederick Frankenstein has one in ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'' as he's about to bring his [[Frankenstein's Monster|Creature]] to life.
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