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** {{spoiler|And Touma's answer before crashing Fiamma's plans:}}
{{quote|{{spoiler|Our world is not so weak that it needs to be saved by a bastard like that.}}}}
 
== ''[[Discworld]]'' ==
* From ''[[Hogfather]]'', when Susan meets the first Bogey Man; "I was the dark in the cave! I was the shadow in the trees! You've heard about the primal scream? That was...''at me!''"
** Also from ''[[Hogfather]]'':
{{quote|'''Teatime''': I am no thief. But if I were, I'd be the kind that steals fire from the gods!"
'''Susan''': We already have fire.
'''Teatime''': There must be an upgrade by now. }}
* ''I can see your house from up here.'' -- Callus Tacticus
* "''Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?'' Who watches the watchmen? Me. I watch him. Always." and "Call me...the Guarding Dark. Imagine how strong I must be." -- the Watchman.
* His Grace Sir Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is MADE of this trope, but very laconic about it. From ''Jingo'':
{{quote|'''Sam Vimes''': Think of it (shipwreck) as the lesser of two evils.
'''Captain Jenkins''': What's the other one?
'''Sam Vimes''': Me. }}
* And again, [[Badass|Vimes]], from ''[[Men at Arms]]'':
{{quote|'''Assassin:''' Who the hell are you?
'''Vimes:''' THE LAW, YOU SONS OF BITCHES. }}
* From ''[[Thud!]]''
{{quote|As far as they are concerned I AM far reaching consequences!}}
* Vimes' inner watchman also gets one in ''[[Thud!]]'':
{{quote|I am not here to keep to darkness out. I'm here to keep it in. Call me... the Guarding Dark. Imagine how powerful I must be.|He then backs it up by throwing the 10,000 year old quasi-demonic pan-dimensional ''thing'' of vengeance that's been trying to possess him out of his head, becoming the first person to survive it.}}
* One of the gods gets one in ''[[The Last Hero]]'':
{{quote|'''The Lady''': I am the one in a million chance.
'''Cohen''': Oh yeah? Who're the others?
'''The Lady''': I am those also. }}
* Possibly the greatest was forgotten by many due to it being a subversion<ref>(it was a job interview)</ref>, but --
{{quote|'''{{smallcaps| Death}}:''' '''{{smallcaps| I USHERED SOULS INTO THE NEXT WORLD. I WAS THE GRAVE OF ALL HOPE. I WAS THE ULTIMATE REALITY. I WAS THE ASSASSIN AGAINST WHOM NO LOCK WOULD HOLD.}}'''}}
* Granny Weatherwax is Badass (since she bears more than a passing resemblance to Vimes, this is not surprising) and comes up with one of these, combining [[Badass]] and [[Genre Savvy]] in Maskerade.
{{quote|-->'No.'*steady tapping noise* Salzella looked around.
'No one would believe Walter Plinge. Even Walter Plinge gets confused about the things Walter Plinge sees. Even his mother was afraid he might have murdered people. People could accept just about anything of a Walter Plinge.' *trapdoor opens beside Salzella.*
A pointy hat appeared slowly, followed by the rest of Granny Weatherwax, with her arms folded. She glared at Salzella as the floor clicked into place. Her foot stopped tapping on the boards.
'''Salzella''': Well, well, Lady Esmerelda, eh?
'''Granny''': I'm stoppin' bein' a lady, Mr Salzella.
*glances up at the pointy hat*
'''Salzella''': So you are a witch instead?
'''Granny''': Yes, indeed.
'''Salzella''': A bad witch, no doubt?
'''Granny''': Worse. }}
* ''[[Interesting Times]]'' averts this, where the tomb of the founder of the Agatean Empire says nothing about his accomplishments, but simply his name, One Sun Mirror. The reason being that it was unthinkable that anyone could be standing in that place and not know who he was.
 
 
== ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' ==
* "My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk."
* Injun Joe gets one too, when he tells the skinwalker exactly what he's going to do with him. And then proves it, in spectacularly awesome fashion.
* Harry may not have said it, but he realized what other people were thinking: "They were dealing with something far more dangerous than me, Harry Dresden, who's battered old Volkswagon was currently in the city impound. They were dealing with the potential dark lord nightmare warlock they'd been busy fearing since I turned sixteen. They were dealing with the wizard who had faced the Heirs of Kemmler riding a zombie dinosaur, and emerged victorious from a fight that had flattened Morgan and Captain Luccio before they had even reached it. They were dealing with the man who had dropped a challenge to the ''entire'' Senior Council, and who had then actually ''showed'', apparently willing to fight - on the shores of an entirely too creepy island in the middle of a freshwater sea."
* (paraphrased from ''Dead Beat'') "You don't get to threaten my friends again...Here's the deal: I've got two Knights of the Cross backing me up. I've got the Winter Queen offering me power. I've got Fallen Angels tripping over themselves to convince me to turn into an instrument of their power. And I'm telling you this: if you ''ever'' threaten any of my friends again, I will ''take'' their offers, and before the dust is settled, I will ''unmake'' you. So, you don't get to threaten my friends to get to me ever again. Got it?"
* In ''Changes'' Harry makes a simple boast to Mab: that she is the ''least'' of the evils that are offering him the power he needs to battle the Red Court, and she needs to decide quickly whether she wants him on her team. This is ''Mab'', ''[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Queen of Air and Darkness]]'' herself.
** A few chapters later, we have Murphy ({{spoiler|who has temporarily taken up the holy katana Fidelacchius}}) stare down no less than fourteen [[Physical God]]s. What comes next was not exactly her [[Badass Boast]], but rather {{spoiler|the Almighty [[God]] Himself}} speaking through her. Does not at all detract from the badassery.
{{quote|"False gods! Pretenders! Usurpers of truth! Destroyers of faith, of families, of lives, of children! For your crimes against the Mayans, against the peoples of the world, now will you answer! Your time has come! Face judgment Almighty!"}}
* The entire epilogue of ''Ghost Story'' involves Harry {{spoiler|discovering Mab kept him alive to serve as her Knight}}, and is summed up as him telling her "Yeah, I'll work for you, but on my terms. ''Deal with it.''"
* Harry enters the battlefield where the entirety of the Winter and Summer Courts of the Fae are fighting, and has to charge the sections where the most magic is being thrown around. Around him, his allies and enemies let out choruses of really kickass warcries. His? "I don't believe in Faeries!"
* After fighting the Ghouls in the flashback in Turn Coat, he leaves one alive so it can carry his warning back to the rest of the Ghouls, that there would be no mercy for their kind from Harry. He tells it that if they ever try their gambit again, he'll kill every single ghoul that exists.
* "Lasciel doesn't live here anymore." Boy was Nicodemus surprised.
* Ebenezer threatening Lara in Turn Coat. He told her that if she touched Harry, he'd send her shoes back to her family. Because that would be all that was left.
* "The end is nigh!" {{spoiler|Wizard Peabody}}
* Harry thought that Lara was boasting about her seduction skills, but after getting a kiss to fuel one of his spells in a pinch, he had to admit that it wasn't boasting.
** Minutes later, he threatened her to destroy her if she ever tried a gambit like the one they'd just survived.
** He also asked for some Listerine.
 
== Other works ==
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{{quote|"I'm Captain Trenchard! The Dagger of the Sea! I've sailed the Straits of Darkness on Midwinter's Day! My ship's the Raptor and I've taken her into the Seven Lower Hells, drunk ale with Kahooli and sailed home again! My mother was a sea dragon, my father was lightning and I dance a sailor's jig on my victim's skulls! I fought with the war god and kissed death herself. Men tremble at my shadow and women swoon at my name and no one lives who can call me liar!"}}
* The panserbjorne (armored bears), Iorek and Iofur, in ''[[His Dark Materials|The Golden Compass / Northern Lights]]'' start their duel to the death with a ritualized series of proclamations: mostly what they'll do if they win, but also to show off their badassery to the other bears.
* [[Dresden Files|"My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk."]]
** Injun Joe gets one too, when he tells the skinwalker exactly what he's going to do with him. And then proves it, in spectacularly awesome fashion.
** Harry may not have said it, but he realized what other people were thinking: "They were dealing with something far more dangerous than me, Harry Dresden, who's battered old Volkswagon was currently in the city impound. They were dealing with the potential dark lord nightmare warlock they'd been busy fearing since I turned sixteen. They were dealing with the wizard who had faced the Heirs of Kemmler riding a zombie dinosaur, and emerged victorious from a fight that had flattened Morgan and Captain Luccio before they had even reached it. They were dealing with the man who had dropped a challenge to the ''entire'' Senior Council, and who had then actually ''showed'', apparently willing to fight - on the shores of an entirely too creepy island in the middle of a freshwater sea."
** (paraphrased from ''Dead Beat'') "You don't get to threaten my friends again...Here's the deal: I've got two Knights of the Cross backing me up. I've got the Winter Queen offering me power. I've got Fallen Angels tripping over themselves to convince me to turn into an instrument of their power. And I'm telling you this: if you ''ever'' threaten any of my friends again, I will ''take'' their offers, and before the dust is settled, I will ''unmake'' you. So, you don't get to threaten my friends to get to me ever again. Got it?"
** In ''Changes'' Harry makes a simple boast to Mab: that she is the ''least'' of the evils that are offering him the power he needs to battle the Red Court, and she needs to decide quickly whether she wants him on her team. This is ''Mab'', ''[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Queen of Air and Darkness]]'' herself.
*** A few chapters later, we have Murphy ({{spoiler|who has temporarily taken up the holy katana Fidelacchius}}) stare down no less than fourteen [[Physical God]]s. What comes next was not exactly her [[Badass Boast]], but rather {{spoiler|the Almighty [[God]] Himself}} speaking through her. Does not at all detract from the badassery.
{{quote|"False gods! Pretenders! Usurpers of truth! Destroyers of faith, of families, of lives, of children! For your crimes against the Mayans, against the peoples of the world, now will you answer! Your time has come! Face judgment Almighty!"}}
** The entire epilogue of ''Ghost Story'' involves Harry {{spoiler|discovering Mab kept him alive to serve as her Knight}}, and is summed up as him telling her "Yeah, I'll work for you, but on my terms. ''Deal with it.''"
** Harry enters the battlefield where the entirety of the Winter and Summer Courts of the Fae are fighting, and has to charge the sections where the most magic is being thrown around. Around him, his allies and enemies let out choruses of really kickass warcries. His? "I don't believe in Faeries!"
** After fighting the Ghouls in the flashback in Turn Coat, he leaves one alive so it can carry his warning back to the rest of the Ghouls, that there would be no mercy for their kind from Harry. He tells it that if they ever try their gambit again, he'll kill every single ghoul that exists.
** "Lasciel doesn't live here anymore." Boy was Nicodemus surprised.
** Ebenezer threatening Lara in Turn Coat. He told her that if she touched Harry, he'd send her shoes back to her family. Because that would be all that was left.
** "The end is nigh!" {{spoiler|Wizard Peabody}}
** Harry thought that Lara was boasting about her seduction skills, but after getting a kiss to fuel one of his spells in a pinch, he had to admit that it wasn't boasting.
*** Minutes later, he threatened her to destroy her if she ever tried a gambit like the one they'd just survived.
*** He also asked for some Listerine.
* Mandatory [[Discworld]] reference: from ''[[Hogfather]]'', when Susan meets the first Bogey Man; "I was the dark in the cave! I was the shadow in the trees! You've heard about the primal scream? That was...''at me!''"
** Also from ''[[Hogfather]]'':
{{quote|'''Teatime''': I am no thief. But if I were, I'd be the kind that steals fire from the gods!"
'''Susan''': We already have fire.
'''Teatime''': There must be an upgrade by now. }}
** ''I can see your house from up here.'' -- Callus Tacticus
** "''Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?'' Who watches the watchmen? Me. I watch him. Always." and "Call me...the Guarding Dark. Imagine how strong I must be." -- the Watchman.
** His Grace Sir Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is MADE of this trope, but very laconic about it. From ''Jingo'':
{{quote|'''Sam Vimes''': Think of it (shipwreck) as the lesser of two evils.
'''Captain Jenkins''': What's the other one?
'''Sam Vimes''': Me. }}
** And again, [[Badass|Vimes]], from ''[[Men at Arms]]'':
{{quote|'''Assassin:''' Who the hell are you?
'''Vimes:''' THE LAW, YOU SONS OF BITCHES. }}
** From ''[[Thud!]]''
{{quote|As far as they are concerned I AM far reaching consequences!}}
** Vimes' inner watchman also gets one in ''[[Thud!]]'':
{{quote|I am not here to keep to darkness out. I'm here to keep it in. Call me... the Guarding Dark. Imagine how powerful I must be.|He then backs it up by throwing the 10,000 year old quasi-demonic pan-dimensional ''thing'' of vengeance that's been trying to possess him out of his head, becoming the first person to survive it.}}
** One of the gods gets one in ''[[The Last Hero]]'':
{{quote|'''The Lady''': I am the one in a million chance.
'''Cohen''': Oh yeah? Who're the others?
'''The Lady''': I am those also. }}
** Possibly the greatest was forgotten by many due to it being a subversion<ref>(it was a job interview)</ref>, but --
{{quote|'''{{smallcaps| Death}}:''' '''{{smallcaps| I USHERED SOULS INTO THE NEXT WORLD. I WAS THE GRAVE OF ALL HOPE. I WAS THE ULTIMATE REALITY. I WAS THE ASSASSIN AGAINST WHOM NO LOCK WOULD HOLD.}}'''}}
** Granny Weatherwax is Badass (since she bears more than a passing resemblance to Vimes, this is not surprising) and comes up with one of these, combining [[Badass]] and [[Genre Savvy]] in Maskerade.
{{quote|-->'No.'*steady tapping noise* Salzella looked around.
'No one would believe Walter Plinge. Even Walter Plinge gets confused about the things Walter Plinge sees. Even his mother was afraid he might have murdered people. People could accept just about anything of a Walter Plinge.' *trapdoor opens beside Salzella.*
A pointy hat appeared slowly, followed by the rest of Granny Weatherwax, with her arms folded. She glared at Salzella as the floor clicked into place. Her foot stopped tapping on the boards.
'''Salzella''': Well, well, Lady Esmerelda, eh?
'''Granny''': I'm stoppin' bein' a lady, Mr Salzella.
*glances up at the pointy hat*
'''Salzella''': So you are a witch instead?
'''Granny''': Yes, indeed.
'''Salzella''': A bad witch, no doubt?
'''Granny''': Worse. }}
** ''[[Interesting Times]]'' averts this, where the tomb of the founder of the Agatean Empire says nothing about his accomplishments, but simply his name, One Sun Mirror. The reason being that it was unthinkable that anyone could be standing in that place and not know who he was.
* The ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' book ''Temple of the Winds'' has this example:
{{quote|"You don't even have your weapon."
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