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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''Starsky:''' Looks like you just punched your last ticket, amigo.
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* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|(After slicing off someone's arms with a circular saw, dunking their legs in liquid nitrogen, incinerating their torso with a flamethrower, kicking their charred body into a refrigerator and condemning them to the bottom of the Arctic ocean)]] "Ouch."
 
Alternately, a [['''Bond One-Liner]]''' can be a snarky response to the now-dead enemy's attempted [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]], or an [[Ironic Echo]] of something they said to the hero earlier.
 
Note that while William Peterson's one liners on ''[[CSI]]'', David Caruso's one liners on the ''Miami'' sister show and Jerry Orbach's on ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' are often similar in content, they fail the test for this trope, as Grissom and Briscoe were never the killers, only [[Deadpan Snarker|snarkers]]. In general, see [[Quip to Black]] for cheesy one-liners right before a cut.
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== Comics ==
* Comic/[[Animesque|Amerimanga]] [[Lampshade Hanging]]: in ''[[Dirty Pair]]: A Plague of Angels'', Kei and Yuri reveal that their [[Heroes-R-Us|employer]], the 3WA, included a "Combat Quips" course teaching this trope along with the rest of their training.
* 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.
{{quote|'''Rorschach:''' Hrm. Never used toilet to dispose of sewage before. Obvious really.}}
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*** Max Zorin gets both in ''[[A View to a Kill]]'' when naming [[Thrown From the Zeppelin]].
** Bond is directly parodied in this Rob and Elliot comic : [http://www.robandelliot.cycomics.com/archive.php?id=310 ''It has to be the most depressing thing in the world for James Bond to just shoot a Guy.'']
** Oddly enough, in ''[[Die Another Day]]'', the [[Bond One-Liner]] goes to Jinx, who, when Bond enters to {{spoiler|find Frost dead, due to a stab wound in the sternum}}, she states "I think I broke her heart."
*** She gets two, actually: "I can read your every move!" [gets a knife (already run through a thin book) in chest] "[[Dodge This|Read this]]! [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|Bitch!]]"
**** Style points since the book was ''[[The Art of War]]''.
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*** Lampshaded again by [[Sean Bean|Alec]]:
{{quote|'''Alec Trevalyan:''' What's the matter, James? No glib remark? No pithy comeback? }}
** 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--givensince—given context of the scene--itscene—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."
* Every movie with [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] in it, except possibly ''[[Junior]]''. For example, "Consider that a divorce" after putting a bullet through the head of Sharon Stone (when she says, "You wouldn't kill me, I'm your wife," while grabbing a knife and preparing to stab him) in ''[[Total Recall]]''.
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**** It should be noted that the film's writer, Joseph Loeb III, would later go by the name of Jeph Loeb, and is, in fact, the writer of the awful Ultimates III one-liner mentioned above.
** ''[[Eraser]]'' has him shoot a rampaging alligator (don't ask) and utter the immortal line "You're luggage!" as he shoots it.
** Also in ''[[Eraser]]'', he parks {{spoiler|the limo containing the celebrating [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Corrupt Corporate Executives]]s}} on a set of train tracks just as the train is coming. When he gets back to his allies, he tells them "They caught a train."
** In ''[[Predator]]'' he puts a big ol' knife into a terrorist and tells him to "Stick around!"
** In ''[[True Lies]]'', after getting into a fist fight with a [[Giant Mook]] in a restroom, he places his head in a urinal and flushes, telling him to "Cool off."
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*** ''[[Last Action Hero]]'' parodied Bond One Liners into an art form. "Silent but deadly!"
*** "Hello? I've just shot somebody! I did it on purpose!"
** [[Total Recall|"SEE YOU AT THE PARTY RICHTER!!!!"" * Tosses severed arms off lift* ]]
** Notably averted in the ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' movie: no one-liners whatsoever.
** Subverted by''[[Jingle All the Way]]'' when he knocks out a reindeer. "You started it." I- is that it?
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* 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."
* In ''[[Universal Soldier]]'', [[Dolph Lundgren]]'s character gets shoved into a wood-chipper at the end of the climactic battle. When Van Damme's character is asked where he is, he simply shrugs and says: "Around."
* ''[[Shoot'Em Up (film)|Shoot Em Up]]'' is filled with Smith, the main character, muttering about things he hates--guyshates—guys over 40 with ponytails ("It doesn't make you look younger"), drivers who don't obey road rules ("Is it really so important that you get where you're going that much faster?"), and so on. The main bad guy, meanwhile, is clearly someone who feels empowered by his weapon, but is notably timid without it or when it's useless (such as when speaking with his wife)--even as he denies, as a supporting villain obliquely alleges, that he's a "pussy with a gun". At the end of the film, after Smith kills the man who's dogged him all the way through the movie, he reveals the thing he hates most: {{spoiler|A pussy with a gun.}}
** Smith offers the following advice to a mook after impaling him through the mouth with a carrot: "Eat your vegetables."
** 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."
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'''Bartleby:''' Will you ''please'' cut that out--
'''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)
{{quote|'''Jazz:''' You want a piece of me, Megatron?! You want a piece?!
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** This is parodied in the film [[Dogma]], after Silent Bob throws the bad guys out of the moving train.
*** Ironically, this line was [[The Silent Bob|Silent Bob's]] only line in the movie.
*** No it's not-- whennot—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]]:
{{quote|'''Sam''' [after killing an intruder]: Chefs do that.}}
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** 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.
** Also subverted for [[The Worf Effect]] when Buffy first fights Glory, who delivers her own [[Bond One-Liner|Bond One Liners]] ''while Buffy is punching her in the face''.
* Played with in an episode of ''[[Angel]]'', where Wesley, after impaling a demon which constantly laughs says, "Who's laughing now? ... Well, you. But I still win."
* In ''[[Lost]]'': Fake Locke (who just murdered two people as the smoke monster): "Sorry you had to see me like that"
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** 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".
** And again in ''[[Agent for H.A.R.M.]]'', which features probably the wussiest Bond clone ever who fails to make a single quip throughout the entire movie, a fact which Mike and the Bots are quick to admonish him for (along with his generally being boring and smarmy).
* Both a [[Quip to Black]] ''and'' a [[Bond One-Liner]], Horatio Caine of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' is told he is a dead man. He [[Instant Death Bullet|promptly kills]] the man who said that and replies "Join the club." Cue the theme music. ([[Mundane Made Awesome|YEAAAAAAHHHH!]])
** Weebl and Bob [http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/CSI/ make an entire episode out of lampshading Caine's one-liners].
* Occasionally used in the 60s spy series ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'', usually delivered by Napoleon Solo after he has dispatched a THRUSH [[Mook]]. Given when the series aired and its premise, very possibly a deliberate [[Homage]] to [[James Bond]].
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* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', after his twisted game of [[Russian Roulette]], Claire smashes a chair over [[People Puppets|puppetmaster]] Doyle's head and tersely says "Show's over."
* Garak in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' loved these. After snidely berating then gunning down an old rival Cardassian, he quips "A pity. I rather liked him."
** Garak, after being introduced to Dr Bashir's [[Shout-Out|very James Bond-like]] Holosuite adventure games, found himself wishing he'd been in that kind of intelligence service. Perhaps that's what gave him the idea to add the [[Bond One-Liner]] to his repertoire.
* 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.
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Homer: "Die, bad robots, die!" (laughs) "With a dry, cool wit like that, I could--"
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.
{{quote|'''Lana''': Sorry, Conway! You're... awww, wait, I had something for this...
'''Conway''': Is it something like, "You don't get off the ''hook'' this easy?"
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== 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.
{{quote|''"For God and country—Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo." After a pause, he added, "Geronimo E.K.I.A."—“enemy killed in action."''.<ref>Geronimo was the mission codename for Bin Laden</ref>.}}
* 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."
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