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* The final issue of ''[[The Ultimates]] vol 3'' gives us the worst [[Bond One-Liner]] imaginable. After a robot calls the Wasp "the mother" ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]), Ant-Man, her ex-husband, destroys it and shouts "If she's the mother...'''I'm the mother-fucker'''!" [[Memetic Mutation|Do Not Want!]]

* In ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'' Rorschach kills a mook trying to arc weld his way into Rorschachs cell by standing on the bed and smashing his toilet with his foot so that the water would reach the poorly insulated arc welder and shock the guy. In [[The Film of the Book]] this was changed to him smashing the mooks head into the toilet and ''then'' shocking him, but the follow up line was the same.

** Also from this same issue, after Rorscach has just finished using a restroom {{spoiler|to drown Big Figure}}:

'''Rorschach:''' Hrm. Good advice. Sure there are many who'd agree with you. }}

* The formula for a [[The Authority|Midnighter]] line seems to be taking a well known saying and substituting the word "me."

'''Midnighter''': [[Shout-Out|People shouldn't be]] [[V for Vendetta|afraid of their governments.]] They should be afraid of me. }}

* ''Greyshirt'' once fought a man suspected of beating his wife at the newspaper presses where he worked. Long story short, the guy falls into the machine, with hundreds of papers being covered in his blood. When asked for comment, Greyshirt said "I guess now we know what's black and white and red all over."

* [[Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy|"We're having roasted cheese for dinner tonight!"]]

* [[The Sarah Connor Chronicles|The Secret Diary Of Cameron Baum]] chapter 6 where Cameron killed a thug by smashing his head with a door, but not before telling him a joke John told her earlier.

The man does not laugh. He lacks a mouth. But his brains are everywhere. }}

* Happens in ''[[White Devil of the Moon]]''. Jadeite has just been obliterated by a Divine Buster after [[Wedding Smashers|attacking Kyouya Takamachi's wedding in an attempt to assassinate Nanoha]]. Nanoha's sister Miyuki wipes her swords, which are covered in youma blood after the battle, off on her ruined bridesmaid's dress and says, "Does anyone ''else'' have a reason why these two should not be wed?"

* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality]]'', [[Memetic Badass|Neville]] gets a good one as he takes on Ron in the Three Armies Arc.

== Film - Animated ==

* Used in ''[[Igor]]'' by Dr. Schadenfreude when investigating the recently-deceased Glickenstein's castle.

'''Schadenfreude''': I don't think he had ''a hand'' in it. * Camera pans to Glickenstein's dismembered arm on the floor* }}

* In the 3D ''[[Horton Hears a Who]]'', Horton is being pursued by Vlad the Vulture, and in one scene escapes by sending Vlad off on a [[Tree Buchet]], quipping, "This is where I get off," as he does. This is then hung with a lampshade when he remarks that he usually doesn't think of those until sometime later.

* ''[[Batman: Mask of the Phantasm]]'' has Joker delivering a death threat to a foe's apartment via phone... At the same time as a remote-controlled plane bombed said apartment to smithereens. {{spoiler|Unfortunately Batman was in said apartment to snook around and managed to divert the plane with a Batarang, but it ''would'' have been a straight example for the intended recipient.}} The telephone used for the threat is intact enough for the Joker to deliver the following gem:

*** Bond has another about his near-death by poisoning when he comments "That last hand almost killed me." while stting back down at the poker table.

** ''[[Quantum of Solace]]'' got meta:

'''M''': [[Genre Savvy|"Damn it, he killed him!"]] }}

** In ''[[The Living Daylights]]'' Bond slashes his shoelaces when the villain is hanging onto his foot out of the back of a plane, sending him plummeting to his death. "He got the boot." Later, Bond detonates an explosive charge, collapsing a statue of Wellington onto the guy and crushing him against a diorama of the Battle of Waterloo, just so he could say "he met his Waterloo".

*** Also in this very movie, Bond gets hit in the stomach and the ''Bad Guy'' quips: "How's that for a punchline?"

** ''[[Goldeneye]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|stuck a lampshade on it]]:

'''Q:'''(Chuckling) Along with the rest of him. }}

*** After {{spoiler|killing [[Murderous Thighs|Xenia]] [[Combat Sadomasochist|Onatopp]]}}, Bond mutters, "She always did enjoy a good squeeze."

*** Lampshaded again by [[Sean Bean|Alec]]:

** A rather interesting example, in ''[[Licence to Kill]]'', James has just sent a bad-guy to his gruesome, messy death in a crushing machine, one he is currently hanging over. When the movie's [[Bond Girl]] Pam Bouvier shows up to save him, she asks if he is alright. His response? "Switch the ''bloody'' machine off!" It's unique since--given context of the scene--it's almost surely unintended on Bond's part.

** [[Goldfinger]] has a henchman [[Thrown From the Zeppelin|dispatch a reluctant investor]] by first shooting him in the backseat of a car, then driving said car into a junkyard where it is crushed into a steel cube. "He had a pressing engagement."

* Parodied in the ''[[Austin Powers]]'' films, where Austin uses [[Hurricane of Puns|one of these after another]] until told to stop. He usually even admits he went a little too far when so admonished.

* A bit of [[Lampshade Hanging]] takes place in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'' during the following exchange:

'''Danny Butterman:''' You're off the fucking chain! }}

** In the commentary, Simon Pegg admits that Jessica Stevenson (who co-wrote and co-starred in their sitcom ''[[Spaced]]'') later came to him after seeing the movie herself and told him he should have used the pun, after Lurch falls into the frozen-pea-filled freezer, "Rest in peas."

** Lampshade hung again after the heroes have watched the villain manage to escape after all their efforts...only to {{spoiler|crash his car into a tree less than 100 yards away}}, thanks to {{spoiler|judicious use of swan}}.

'''Danny Butterman:''' You don't have to say anything at all. }}

* The movie ''[[Speed]]'' has Keanu Reeves' character battling Dennis Hopper's [[Big Bad]] on top of a speeding subway train. Hopper has the advantage, battering Reeves around and strangling him while talking about winning because he's "smarter". Reeves then pushes his head upwards as a low-hanging light comes up, cleaving the villain's head right off. He then utters the line "Yeah? Well I'm taller!". Later, after rejoining his companion who asks where the villain is, he simply replies "He lost his head."

** After shooting a gun with a thumbprint scanner with a hand that he cut off from a dead mook: "That's what I call a hand job."

* Surprisingly enough, the 2008 ''[[Speed Racer (film)|Speed Racer]]'' film contains THE GREATEST ONE LINER IN ALL OF FICTION.

'''Pops''' More like a ''non''-ja. }}

* ''[[The Untouchables]]'': Eliot Ness throws Frank Nitti [[Car Cushion|off a rooftop and onto a car]]; a few minutes later:

'''Ness:''' He's in the car. }}

* ''[[American Gangster]]'': after basically executing a rival who had demanded 20% of Frank's business, he takes his money and puts a few bills in a jar next to the dead body.

* Steven Seagal in ''[[Above the Law (film)|Above the Law]]'' while covering a half dozen or so Mooks.

'''Seagal:''' You're right. But I'll get an 'A' for effort. }}

* Brother Gilbert gets off a few Bible-based examples in ''[[Dragonheart]]''.

* Played with in ''[[Lethal Weapon]] 2'' when Murtaugh is attacked by an assassin in his home. The fight rolls into the garage where Roger picks up (you guessed it) a nail gun. However, after slaying the assassin, he averts the trope by remaining silent. Then ''another'' assassin shows up who is similarly dispatched. He then ''subverts'' the ''aversion'' with, "Nailed you both."

** You can't very well mention ''Lethal Weapon 2'' and not refer to this immortal exchange:

'''Murtaugh:''' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|It's just been revoked]]. }}

** The Big Bad himself gets one in ''Lethal Weapon 3'': "[[Cement Shoes|Now we have a relationship we can build on!]]"

* There are a few of them appearing in ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|TMNT]]'', eventually leading to this conversation after a character has taken a fall:

'''Leonardo''': Mikey, remember our talk? }}

* ''[[Hudson Hawk]]'' has a few of these as well. The butler gives the [[Corrupt Cop]] his "cut" via blades in his sleeves. Later, Hawk decapitates said butler and remarks "Guess you won't be going to that hat convention, Alfred!"

* Completely averted in ''[[Cobra]]'', at the end of the film. Stallone's character, Cobretti has just {{spoiler|impaled the Night Slasher on a hook that eventually carries him into a furnace where the villain burns to death.}} Considering all the crap this guy has put Cobretti through by this point, it's quite surprising to find that he says absolutely nothing, just watches in silence.

* Parodied in (what else?) ''[[Dogma]]''. Bartleby and Loki are intimidating a board of directors, and one of them reaches for the phone to contact security. Loki hurls a switchblade that impales the phone:

'''Loki:''' Oh, come on! That was great! }}

** There is also a parody of the ''Indiana Jones'' one-liner mentioned elsewhere on this page. Spoken by [[Kevin Smith|Silent Bob ]] of all people.

* ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' (2007)

'''Megatron:''' No. (''[[Black Dude Dies First|tears Jazz in half]]'') I want ''two''! }}

** Optimus Prime gets one in during ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]''. In the grand finale, {{spoiler|after thoroughly wrecking The Fallen and dropping his corpse to the ground, he quips "I rise...you fall." Not really much of a pun on the way he dispatched The Fallen, but rather a pun on the name "The Fallen".}}

** "Decepticon punk."

* ''[[Star Wars]] [[The Empire Strikes Back|Episode V]]'' gives us this one from Darth Vader after choking the subordinate who loses the ''Millennium Falcon''.

* A non-lethal example occurs in the movie ''[[Chocolat]]''. Josephine, after hitting her abusive husband in the head with a [[Frying Pan of Doom|frying pan]], utters:

* [[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back|Applesauce]], [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|bitch]]!

* The final scene of the action movie ''[[The Last Boy Scout]]'' has the two leads discussing future use of Bond One Liners.

* ''[[Terminator 2]]'': After finally killing the T-1000, the T-800 is walking towards John and Sara, and says "I need a vacation!"

* [[Toxic Avenger|Toxie]] is one of the all time masters of the bon mote:

After rolling a [[Mook]] into a ball:''After a long day of crime fighting, I like to play a little basketball.'' }}

* How can we forget [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Freddy Krueger]]?

* [[Evil Dead|Ash Williams]] is good at these, too:

* Alex noted the [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|former Angel Madison Lee}} "is so fired" after dying amid flames in the second ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' movie.

* We can't forget about ''[[Undefeatable]]'', can we? "We'll keep an [[Eye Scream]] out for you, Stingray." "Yeah, [[Eye Scream|see]] ya!"

* Indiana Jones gets one in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade|The Last Crusade]]''. While his father is being accosted by a Nazi officer, Indy tosses the officer through a window while disguised as a porter, then explains himself to the shocked passengers with:

** This is followed by a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when all the passengers suddenly start rushing to show their tickets...

** This is parodied in the film [[Dogma]], after Silent Bob throws the bad guys out of the moving train.

*** No it's not-- when Rufus says he can get get "him" (meaning Jay) into Heaven, Bob takes it to mean him (or both of them) and says "thanks"

* ''[[The Long Kiss Goodnight]]'', also an [[Ironic Echo]]:

* The film of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', derided as it often unfairly is, pulled off this undeniable zinger:

'''Pike:''' (stakes Grueller from behind) "And now, you're a coat-rack." }}

* ''[[The Fifth Element]]'': "[[Aggressive Negotiations|Anyone else want to negotiate?]]"

* A villainous variant occurs in the [[Show Within a Show|movie-within-a-movie]] in ''[[Home Alone]]'', after a gangster guns someone down who'd been asking for his owed money.

* In ''[[Under Siege]]'', after killing Strannix, Ryback tells him to "keep the faith".

* In another [[Steven Seagal]] film, ''[[Hard to Kill]]'', Seagal's character stabs the villain in the chest with a broken pool cue, after which he says "that was for my wife. Fuck you and die."

* From the 1992 movie ''Kuffs'' after one of the two heros shoots a mook in front of his companions. With a shotgun.

'''George''': Well, now we know he can add and he can subtract, so...who wants to be next, here? }}

* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' a random pirate is about to kill Will: "Say goodbye!!" Something causes a shop sign to swing down and knock the pirate into the shop window, killing him. Will: "Goodbye."

* ''[[Man on Fire]]'': Creasy does Bond proud multiple times, especially with this indirect example:

'''Creasy [[Bilingual Dialogue|(Interrupting in English)]]''': ''Forgiveness is between ''them'' and ''God''. [[Omniscient Morality License|I'm just here to arrange the meeting]]'' }}

* In ''[[Bowfinger]]'' Eddie Murphy's character is an action star going through a script that would have him say, "I enjoyed meeting you, Cliff," after throwing a guy off of a cliff. Of course he doesn't like the line because he feels its too cerebral and [[Viewers are Morons|the audience won't get it.]]

** Better than a lot of Schwarzenegger's lines.

* ''[[Judge Dredd (film)|Judge Dredd]]''. After [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|wiping out a room full of gang members single-handed,]] Dredd approaches the last guy alive, citing the various crimes he's committed over the course of the action sequence while listing the years the guy's going to get. He ends it with "killing of a Street Judge". The following then occurs.

'''Dredd''': Death... Court's adjourned. }}

* Happens twice in ''[[Pineapple Express]]''.

** Also a [[Brick Joke]] as Dale would say that to everyone he delivered subpoenas to, which was the whole reason Dale ended up outside Ted's house in the first place.

* [[Die Hard|John McClane]] has a few: "Thanks for the advice, pal. " (in reply to "Next time you have a chance to kill someone, don't hesitate."), , [[Catch Phrase|Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!]], and "Damn hamster!"

** Hans says in the first: "I wanted this to be professional, efficient, adult, cooperative. Not a lot to ask. Alas, your Mr. Takagi did not see it that way... so he won't be joining us for the rest of his life." (which was actually a [[Throw It In]])

* In ''[[The Rock (film)|The Rock]]'', after shooting a rocket at a mook ([[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|"Well, I only bring it up because, uh, it's you. You're the Rocket Man."]]): "How do you like how ''that'' shit works?"

* Just how long has this trope been around? In ''In Old Arizona'', one of the Best Picture nominees for 1929, the Cisco Kid has this to say after arranging for his cheating mistress to be killed:

* ''[[The Good, the Bad and the Ugly|The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]'':

* In ''[[The Golden Compass]]'', Ragnar Sturlusson is beating up Iorek Byrnison, taunting him with, "Is that all, worthless cub!?" Iorek suddenly [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|punches his lower jaw off and bites his throat]], quipping, "Yes, that is all!"

** [[Lampshade Hanging|Brought to the attention of the audience]], when Willow tries to do a [[One-Liner]] in the first episode of season three ("Anne"), and when it doesn't work out, she explains that Buffy always says something clever, and she thinks it throws the bad guys off their guard.

** Also parodied in "The Zeppo", when Xander tries to pull off a Buffy-style one-liner.

** Tara gets one, but she doesn't go for humor.

** Near the end of the two-part series premiere, in a dark nightclub, about to be killed by a vampire, Buffy shouts out "But there's one thing you forgot about... SUNRISE!" and throws a microphone stand through a nearby closed window. As the vampire cringes in anticipation of his death, she explains "...It's in a couple hours, moron" and beheads the vampire. How fun.

** In the Season 1 ender, Buffy knocks Giles out to keep him from facing death in her place - she then tells Ms. Calendar: "When he comes to, tell him...I don't know, think of something cool and tell him I said it."

*** Although this just might be considered a pun in itself...

** On the show, [[One-Liner|one liners]] are apparently the trickiest part of programming a life-like [[Robot Girl]]. Willow's attempt to (re)program the Buffy-bot to mimic the real slayer's style fails miserably, resulting in lines of gibberish after a successful slay.

** Averted in the following episode when the real Buffy knocks down the demon biker's leader in an apparent [[She's Back]] moment...and [[Came Back Wrong|then says nothing at all]].

** Subverted slightly in the series finale, after Buffy {{spoiler|kills Caleb by splitting him in two with her new scythe}}. When Angel asks her where he is, she replies "He had to split", immediately after which she almost bursts out into laughter.

** In "The Two Doctors", he killed a cannibal followed it by quipping "Your just desserts" over his food-obsessed opponent's corpse. He later told his companions that the villain had been "moth-balled".

** In "Day of the Moon", After {{spoiler|slaughtering a roomful of Silents}} [[Action Girl|River]] gets asked what kind of doctor is she.

* Parodied in an episode of ''[[She Spies]]'', where D.D. and Shayne spend several minutes trying to guess what one-liner Cassie will use after dealing with the villain of the week.

* ''[[Dollhouse]]'''s Ms. De Witt, with British accent and deadpan delivery, was begging for one of these. She finally gets one in "Getting Closer", after {{spoiler|Boyd}} shoots {{spoiler|several of Rossum's men}} in De Witt's office. Her only comment? "I think we can both agree that that carpet is finally done for."

* Subverted in the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' episode ''Danger! Death Ray'', which has the bots continuously chiding the Bond-esque hero of the movie for an inability to come up with any but the lamest of Bond One Liners (when he remembers to say anything at all).

'''Crow:''' Oh, COME ON! What about "He really ''fell'' for me"?! "His hopes are ''crushed''"?! }}

** In ''Secret Agent Super Dragon'', another lame spy film on MST, Joel explains how all spies have to go through a training regiment that includes a class on "Post-kill puns".

* A rather dark example from the second season finale of ''[[V-2009]]'' {{spoiler|"Now ''that's'' how you kill your mother."}}

* A variant from ''[[Flashpoint (TV series)|Flashpoint]]'''s first-season episode "Planets Aligned". The bad guy has a six-shot revolver, and has spent five, each shot causing the two SRU members chasing him to count it off: "That's three..." Two SRU members are trying to get him to stand down. In desperation, the gunman turns the revolver on himself.

* Played with in ''[[The Middleman]]'', after Wendy sneaks up behind a villain and injects him with tranquilizer:

'''Middleman''': Ah. }}

* In ''[[Farscape]]'', Aeryn probably has the best one. Minutes after she gave birth to a baby whom was basically a [[MacGuffin]] for the villains, she shoots the commander of said villains (a commander who subjected her to no small amount of pain in efforts to discover the identity of the baby's father) squarely in the head and deadpans "It's a boy. In case you were wondering." Do. Not. Fuck. With [[Mama Bear|Mama]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Bearyn]].

* In one episode of ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'', the Heroes have blown up a fuel truck. Hogan makes a comment, addressed to Klink, to the effect that the driver should have put up a "No Smoking" sign.

* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIfSQW499Xc this] ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'' sketch (at about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIfSQW499Xc#t=1m38s 1:38]) the two are discussing why they don't want to risk [[James Bond]] showing up - because he threw a guy who insulted him out the window onto a fence railing.

Mitchell: Well, right next to the railing was a rock crusher. It's pretty clear he'd wanted to say "what a crushing bore" but missed and was making the best of a bad job... }}

** A later episode reveals that [[Expy|Agent Suave's]] one-liners are provided courtesy of a couple of third-rate comedy writers in a van outside the mission location, who in turn get them from a big book called ''1001 Super-Spy Quips''. Unfortunately, this backfires on them when it's discovered they're also providing this service for the villain.

* In ''[[Community]]'' episode "[[Community/Recap/S2 E06 Epidemiology|Epidemiology]]" Troy gets out a few based on the costume of the person he just hit, before running out of ideas.

* [[Babylon 5|Marcus Cole]], upon beating the snot out of every single patron in a bar because he wants answers:

* [[Conan O'Brien]] has a lot of fun with [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s tendency to do this. Once, when asked what The Schwarzenator would say if he killed someone with a knife at a wedding (part of the US citizenship exam), he stated "Ay Nhau Prounhaunz You Man...Ahnd Naif!"

*** "Blood for the Blood God!" "Harriers for the cup!"

* In the very first ''[[Animorphs]]'' book, Visser Three {{spoiler|kills Elfangor by morphing into a monster and eating him.}}

** [[CSI: Miami|YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!]] }}

* ''Painfully'' subverted in the seventh book of ''[[Warhammer 40000]]: [[Gaunt's Ghosts]]''.

** "There's some dessert! With a ''chair''-y on top!"

* ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'' has Cindy announce the death of an Aviatet as he's thrown by an angel onto a burning high school parking lot this way:

* In the novelization for ''Revenge of the Sith'', the newly fallen Darth Vader uses several of these while killing the Separatist leaders. For example, when one cries, "We surrender! Please -- you're a ''Jedi!''", he responds "You fought a war to destroy the Jedi. (Stab) Congratulations on your success."

* Averted in ''[[Black Dogs]]''. After their first fight, Sadrao says "well, that was invigorating!". And the protagonist, Lyra, instead of some witty remark, just throws up.

* Summer Rowe the genius engineer in ''[[Lacuna]]'' wants a gun like all the rest of the crew so she can deliver an XKCD-inspired line.

** {{spoiler|(later)) }}

* ''[[Alex Rider]]'' series by Anthony Horowitz uses this all the time:

** Dropping a snowmobile on Dr Grief in ''[[Point Blanc]]'', "It looks like I sleighed him."

* Tamora Pierce's Lioness Rampant has one when after Alanna kills {{spoiler|Alex}} she asks "Is this what it means to be best?"

* Averted in ''[[Mystery Team]]''; {{spoiler|Duncan}} seems more stunned about killing someone than anything, and {{spoiler|Charlie's}} only quip is:

* In ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'', {{spoiler|Tyrion Lannister}} gets one after slaying his father, who sits on the privy.

* In ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' Mafia metal man "Loafers" keeps a notebook filled with these corresponding to the occupation of the target that he killed, including such gems as: "I'm just doing this because I knead the dough!" (After killing a baker, naturally)

== Machinima ==

* One of the ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' bonus videos, called "Sargeisms", was entirely dedicated to Sarge giving off large quantities of Bond- and [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|Pre Mortem One Liners]].

"Or my personal favorite 'You just got Sarged!'" }}

** Which is taken up again in Episode 3 of Revelation where Sarge and Grif is kicking Wash's ass and just about to shoot with his Shotgun against some exploding barrels saying ''You just got...) and flubbs it up by shooting before he is finished. He lampshades this with ''Goddammit I messed up my one-liner''.

== Music ==

* After gunning down Michael Young History, who was bragging that he was the "Coolest mothafucka in the world," his killer remarks:

* In the very old ballad "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight", Lady Isabel elopes with a knight and when they come to the seashore he boasts that he's drowned six king's daughters here "And thou the seventh shall be". But Lady Isabel tricks him and shoves him off the cliff herself, and depending on the version, says one of two things: "Six king's daughters hast thou drowned here,/Go keep them company." or "...and the seventh has drowned thee."

== Radio ==

* Also parodied in one of the "Party Planner" sketches on [[The BBC|BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Sound]]'' (and on the TV adaptation). When the two characters are trying to decide whether or not to invite [[James Bond]] to a party, one recounts an event from a previous party at which Bond threw somebody out of a window for saying that his cigarette case was "gay". The victim landed on a railing spike and was paralysed.

'''Webb:''' Well, the railing was next to a crusher. It was pretty clear that he'd meant to say "crushing bore", but had missed, and was making the best of a bad job. }}

* {{spoiler|Ford Cruller}} gets his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in ''[[Psychonauts]]'' when he turns the [[Big Bad]]'s main weapon ({{spoiler|super-strength sneezing powder that makes the victim literally sneeze their brains out}}) on him in the climax. The one liner? {{spoiler|Geshundheit}}. However, said villain survived.

* ''Blood Omen: [[Legacy of Kain]]'':

'''Kain:''' As are you. }}

** Kain reverses this in ''Defiance'', confronting Moebius after self-resurrecting sans his vampiric heart. Moebius tries to paralyze Kain, only to have his hand forcibly placed on Kain's chest. Kain follows with "I always was considered heartless."

* Many boss battles in ''The [[The House of the Dead (series)|House of the Dead]] III'' and ''4'':

'''Lisa:''' (after beating Death, on the [[Recurring Boss|2nd]] [[Determinator|encounter]]) "When a lady says no, she means it!"<br />

'''Kate:''' (after defeating The Star, who had challenged Kate and James to a "test of strength") "Looks like you're the one who failed the test!" }}

** Even more so in House of the dead Overkill, Where everyone (including the narrator) do this all the time:

* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', at the end of the level 12 quest. In fact, there are two versions, depending on {{spoiler|which side you defeated}}:

After {{spoiler|blowing up the frat house: You stare blankly at the destruction around you, then realize you're obligated to make a witty remark. "Remember, kids," you say as you strut off the field, "idiots and explosives don't mix."}} }}

** It is possible to both avert the lampshading and the trope itself in the {{spoiler|third}} ending ( {{spoiler|combining a flare-gun, 999 dead hippies and 999 dead frat orcs, defeating ''both'' sides}}). To replace it, there is a [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]], pointing out something both The Man and The Big Wisniewski have forgotten.

* The video game ''[[Gun (video game)|Gun]]'' uses this in Hoodoo Brown's death.

'''Colton:''' You were. }}

* In the original ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', (meaning the PSX one), Snake uttered this after shooting down Liquid in his Hind:

Snake: [[Badass|That takes care of the cremation]] }}

** Pumped [[Up to Eleven]] (like [[Mundane Made Awesome|everything else]]) in ''Twin Snakes'', where the line is delivered while Snake [[Unflinching Walk|calmly walks away from the explosion in slow motion.]]

** Even [[Up to Eleven|worse]] in the novelization of Metal Gear Solid, where just about every line of Snake's is a groan-inducingly lame one-liner.

* Interestingly, ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' contains a few of these. Pretty much any major Bosses will give some quips when they kill someone. While most are just general boasting, a few qualify. From Memory:

XT-002 (a giant robot [[Psychopathic Manchild|with the personality of a child]]): I guess it doesn't bend that way!... }}

* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'': The characters will drop their own Bond One Liners, independent of the player's input. This often happens when you kill the same player three times without being killed by them in response, earning a "Domination".

** The Demoman does this at the end of "Meet the Demoman," after blowing a bunch of BLU team mercenaries to bits with a massive sticky-bomb trap

* Parodied/lampshaded in the "Dashwood and Argyle" radio series in ''[[Fallout 3]]'' after Argyle dispatches a traitorous [[Femme Fatale]]:

'''Dashwood''': Your kung-fu skills are unparalleled old chum, but your comic delivery leaves something to be desired. }}

* In ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', [[Memetic Badass|Boone]] has one if you take him along to kill [[Big Bad|Caesar]].

* In the original ''[[Command and Conquer]]'', [[The Starscream|Seth]] is Nod's Second in Command, giving the player briefings for the first half of the Brotherhood's campaign. He eventually plans to betray [[Dark Messiah|Kane]] and the player; in a briefing where he's about to send the player into a hopeless attack on the Pentagon, he claims "You see, power shifts quickly in the Brotherhood". Seth is shot by Kane about thirty seconds after this; shoving the corpse aside, Kane says "Yes... power shifts more quickly than some people think".

** Alternatively, ANYTHING said by the Commandos. "Real tough guy! Nice Faceplant! I've got a present for ya! Keep 'em commin!" etc, etc.

* ''Dystopia'': Players can use context-specific taunts after kills.

* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', [[Cowboy Cop|Renegade Commander Shepard]] gets rather a lot of these thanks to the interrupt system.

'''Shepard''': ''[[Destination Defenestration|[shoves him out the window of a skyscraper]]]'' ...How 'bout goodbye?<br />

[...]<br />

'''Shepard''':''[Faced with a krogan giving a long rambling speech]'' [[Shut UP, Hannibal|You talk too much.]] ''{{[[[Talk to the Fist]] shoots a gas line}}]'' }}

* In ''[[SWAT 4]]'', some of your squadmates have some one liners after finding a dead/incapacitated suspect along with normal chatter

''*after killing a gang member at the A-bomb nightclub*'' "I'm not much of a dancer, but neither is this one now." }}

* The James Bond games are naturally full of these. One, in ''Double Agent'', if you choose to push The Jackal off instead of shooting her to death, M calls asking what happened. Bond's response? "She's fallen for me."

* ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'': Niko Bellic (after killing his job interviewer): "I guess I didn't get the job."

* In ''[[Borderlands]]'' each character will automatically taunt any elite opponent or any opponent that dies to a critical hit after getting a kill

* As a [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] parody, naturally [[Ratchet and Clank|Clank]] has plenty of these in his [[Show Within a Show]] in ''[[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal]]''.

** As well as in the game ''[[Secret Agent Clank]]''.

* Chuck Greene from ''[[Dead Rising 2]]'' is pretty good at these.

''*boss is killed by zombie in a bridal gown*'' You may now kiss the bride. }}

** In Off the Record, Frank West delivers even more of these than Chuck did.

* JC Denton uses one in ''[[Deus Ex]]'', after casually blowing up Gunther Herman with his killphrase "Laputan Machine".

* Rico Rodriguez from ''[[Just Cause (video game)|Just Cause 2]]''.

''(blowing up a statue that the villain erected to himself)'' "Ouch! That's gonna hurt the big man's ego!" }}

* Caleb, of ''[[Blood]]''. However, he only gets specific when defeating bosses, otherwise they're usually generic comments on how much pain he's dishing out, or an [[Evil Laugh]].

* Everyone in the ''[[Unreal Tournament]]'' series excels at these: bots will automatically taunt after killing another character, and players can set it so they automatically taunt after a kill as well.

* ''[[Gears of War]]'':

* ''[[Vega Strike]]'' has a node in each [[Dialogue Tree]] for killing another unit. Mostly for flavour, but some are funny:

* At the beginning of [[Batman: Arkham Asylum]], Joker escapes from custody by strangling a guard with his handcuffs:

* ''[[Halo]]'' gets these for the player characters in Firefight mode, or for NPCs in Campaign and Firefight, sometimes preceded by a [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]].

* ''[[Tomb Raider|Lara Croft]]'' is full of these. Some notable examples:

'''Lara''': Happy retirement. }}

* Pit delievers quite a few in [[Kid Icarus: Uprising]], which, given [[No Fourth Wall|the nature of the game]] are lampshaded more often than not.

'''Pit''': Calimaried!<br />

'''Palutena''': What a sucker.<br />

== Webcomics ==

* Black Mage from ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' in [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/04/30/episode-840-new-guard/ this comic]

'''Black Mage:''' He got the message though. }}

* [http://www.th3rdworld.com/web-comic/Holiday-Wars/episode/Holiday-Wars-Episode-51 In this strip] of ''[[Holiday Wars]]'', [[April Fools' Day]] discusses one liners and then uses one as he defeats [[Labor Day]] in a fight.

** Gordito does this repeatedly in the chapter where they fight zombies. [[Lampshaded Trope|The Doctor tells him he's trying too hard,]] so he just starts saying them more quietly.

* A beautiful one from ''[[Breakfast of the Gods]]'', after {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|killing Count Chocula by summoning the sun]]}}:

'''Tony''': {{spoiler|Not much of a morning person}}, obviously. }}

* ''[[Ciem Webcomic Series|Ciem 3]]'' has Dolly Malestrom/The Earwig, after killing a band of pedophile gangsters, [[Kill Bill]]-style:

* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'': Not a death, but the same principle: after Antimony destroys the Enigmarons' [[Death Ray]], [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=180 Kat insists] (over Annie's protests) that the situation calls for a witty quote. The best that Annie can manage on such short notice is "I hope you like your... smashed... death ray!"

* Zola of ''[[Girl Genius]]'', when [[Grappling Hook Pistol|pulling]] her ass from the [[Death Trap]] of "[[Big Bad|the Other]]" <ref>it's important</ref> delivers one for each of the two she left behind:

'bye, auntie! I'll tell your other <ref>see?</ref> selves "hello" from you! }}

* Invoked but then subverted in ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' Haley is about to kill someone using a magic bow that freezes people, but Belkar interrupts her and says she needs to deliver an "Arnie-style one-liner" first. She starts to make one, only for another character to interrupt for an entirely different reason.

* After being struck with a medicine ball, El Chupacabre of [[Goodwill Heroes]] delivers a nice one, much to Jazz Man's dismay.

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', when {{spoiler|Kathryn}} fried the opponents' [[Powered Armor]] into flaking away.

'''{{spoiler|Kathryn}}''': ([[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|shoots them]] before they recover) Weak simile. These have to be popped twice. }}

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' has Eduardo Trinidad-Villa killed Tanya Bonneville by electrocution. His line?

** Bobby Jacks also pulls one out after setting off an unintentional chain reaction of events leading to the death of Michael Anders.

* The ''[[Evil Overlord List]]'', Number Seven, lists the only acceptable One Liner for villains:

* Newt exemplifies this trope amazingly in "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcFnvULy8zA How Aliens Should Have Ended]".

** Ranier Wolfcastle does this in real life. In the episode where his daughter gets a crush on Bart, Ranier says "Remember when I said I would eat you last? I lied." to a steak.

*** As he's scooping ice cream into a bin at a fat camp;

** [[It Makes Sense in Context|After killing the vengeful sapient scalp of an executed murderer]], Chief Wiggum quips "That's what I call a bad hair day".

** [[Lampshaded]] in the episode "Itchy and Scratchy Land": While the Simpson family is in Itchy and Scratchy Land the Itchy and Scratchy robots run amok and can only be killed by the flash of a camera. Bart delivers a one-liner and a Wolfcastle/Schwarzenegger spoof while Homer fails only seconds later.

Bart: "Who would have thought that our visit to Itchy and Scratchy Land would turn out to be our best vacation ever?" }}

* ''[[Archer]]'', despite being spy fiction, [[Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic|regularly averts this]], with the agents occasionally trying and failing to come up with a [[Bond One-Liner]] when the time comes. However, one-off character Conway Stern has a knack for them, much to the others' annoyance.

'''Archer''': Yeah, he's good at those. }}

* [[Adam West]] from ''[[Family Guy]]'': ''"Perhaps it was The Noid who should have avoided me"''.

* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Wan Shi Tong, a knowledge spirit gone rogue, is bragging about all the fighting styles he knows. [[Badass Normal|Sokka]] drops out of nowhere and [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|knocks him out by]] [[Throw the Book At Them|hitting him in the head with a heavy tome]], and quips "That's Sokka Style. ''Learn it''."

* While technically a three-liner, in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' Time villain Chronos executes a mook for treason by {{spoiler|sending through time to one minute before the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact}}.

== Real Life ==

* According to [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/08/110808fa_fact_schmidle?currentPage=all this New Yorker article], averted by the SEAL who shot Osama Bin Laden.

* Following his assassination of [[Abraham Lincoln]], John Wilkes Booth jumped from Lincoln's stall onto the stage (where he twisted his leg) and declared "Sic semper tyrannis" to the audience before running off ("Thus always to tyrants", the Virginia state motto and a claimed statement of one of Julius Caesar's assassins). It's also said that he added: "I have done it, the South is avenged!"

* When Molotov was in Berlin for a conference during the early stages WWII, the RAF bombed the city centre so the Russians would know that Britain was still fighting. Quoth Churchill: "We were disappointed not to be invited to the proceedings, but decided to make sure we were not forgotten."