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* 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!"
 
== Literature ==
* Subverted/parodied in two of [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' novels. In ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', Samuel Vimes mutters "The hell with it" after killing the villain in self-defense, because if he ''had'' been able to joke about killing someone, then it would have been too much like murder. In a later novel, ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', the narration indicates that if protagonist Moist von Lipwig had been "a hero," he would have thrown off a one-liner after tricking a monster into a gruesome death, but "since he wasn't a hero, he threw up."
** During the above statement where Vimes remarked about the distastefulness of the Bond oneliner, he did think of a few possible lines, and rejected them.
** Sorta played straight in ''[[Discworld/Guards! Guards!|Guards Guards]]'' After the Watch corner the villain, Captain Vimes orders Carrot to "throw the book at him". Carrot, who [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma|has trouble with metaphors]], literally throws his copy of ''The Laws and Ordinances of the Cities of Ankh and Morpork'' at the villain, causing him to stumble backwards over a ledge and fall to his death. Sergeant Colon remarks "What a way to go. Killed by a wossname, a metaphor," which Nobby Nobbs follows up with "Looks more like it was the ground."
* [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' novels are replete with these, some witty, some silly, all ''hilarious''.
** Appears most frequently in the third book with current villians' battle cries: {{spoiler|"Blood for the Blood God!" "Fine, he can have yours!"}}
*** Pity that that only serves the Blood God...
*** "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.}}
{{quote|'''Visser Three''': <Nothing like a good Antarean Bogg morph for.. taking a bite out of your enemies.>
** [[CSI: Miami|YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!]] }}
* ''Painfully'' subverted in the seventh book of ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]: [[Gaunt's Ghosts]]''.
* If this [[Star Wars]] example doesn't count, it comes seriously close. In Luke Skywalker's fight with [[Expanded Universe|Lumiya]], when she slips and falls, he grabs her arm. After saying "I'd never let you fall" he cuts her head off. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Awesome!]]
* Parodied in ''Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones'', when Alcatraz unleashes a [[Hurricane of Puns]] using the word {{spoiler|soul}} after {{spoiler|tricking the [[Villain of the Week]] into taking a book in the Library of Alexandria - which constitutes a contract to allow the Library's curators to claim your soul}}. All right, so it's not ''technically'' killing, but that's part of the joke.
* In ''[[John Dies at the End]]'', John gets several (of varying quality) after he "introduces" some wig-monsters to a folding chair.
** "Have a ''seat'', bitch!"
** "You've been sentenced to get the ''chair'', motherfucker!"
** "You wants the committee, asshole, then you best meet with the ''chair''!"
** "Anybody else want to donate blood to ''chair''-ity?"
** "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:
{{quote|"Happy Thanksgiving! Turkey's in the oven!"}}
* 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.
{{quote|'''Rowe:''' Because, you know, XKCD. They had this comic where they rated ‘potential action movie one liners’ from most-probable to least-probable, and when we find the Demons I’m dying to pull out my gun and just go... ‘Bangarang, ''motherfucker''.’ Like, from Peter Pan, the original novel. … seriously, that’d be so awesome.}}
** {{spoiler|(later)) }}
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Rowe:''' (puts the rifle against the Toralii's chest) Bangarang, ''motherfucker''. }}}}
* ''[[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."
** In ''Crocodile Tears'', {{spoiler|Desmond}} gets one after killing {{spoiler|Bulman}} and putting his cadaver into a bulldozer: "It looks like Bulman got what every journalist dreams of - a scoop."
*** Also, Nick Diamond from the Diamond Brothers Mysteries does this quite a lot.
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' "For my next trick, anvils!" - said after redirecting an [[Diabolus Ex Machina|entropy curse]] onto a vampire causing said vampire to be [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hit by a frozen turkey that fell out of a plane.]]
* 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:
{{quote|I hope those were baby teeth.}}
* In ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'', {{spoiler|Tyrion Lannister}} gets one after slaying his father, who sits on the privy.
{{quote|The oft repeated jape about his father was just another lie. {{spoiler|Lord Tywin did not, in the end, shit gold.}}}}
* 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)
* The villain of Mary Stewart's ''This Rough Magic'' is getting away, and a girl whose brother he nearly killed shouts that she wishes she could eat his heart. Then the boat he's escaping in blows up. The one person '''not''' surprised by the explosion, her fiance, tells her, "You wanted to eat his heart. I have cooked it for you."
 
=== Magazines ===
== Live Action Television ==
* The magazine ''Slate'' features [http://www.slate.com/id/2169950/fr/nl/ the results of a contest] for reader-submitted Bond One Liners.
** The winner of that contest was "Flights of angels sing thee to thy rest, pissant."
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' both used and subverted this trope, as Buffy would nearly always have a Bond One Liner after (or just before) killing a baddie, but occasionally she would be mocked for using a stupid-sounding one, or the vampire would interrupt her while she was saying one.
** [[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.
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{{quote|Bugger. Now I have to wait for one of them to wake up.}}
* [[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!"
 
== Literature ==
* Subverted/parodied in two of [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' novels. In ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', Samuel Vimes mutters "The hell with it" after killing the villain in self-defense, because if he ''had'' been able to joke about killing someone, then it would have been too much like murder. In a later novel, ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'', the narration indicates that if protagonist Moist von Lipwig had been "a hero," he would have thrown off a one-liner after tricking a monster into a gruesome death, but "since he wasn't a hero, he threw up."
** During the above statement where Vimes remarked about the distastefulness of the Bond oneliner, he did think of a few possible lines, and rejected them.
** Sorta played straight in ''[[Discworld/Guards! Guards!|Guards Guards]]'' After the Watch corner the villain, Captain Vimes orders Carrot to "throw the book at him". Carrot, who [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma|has trouble with metaphors]], literally throws his copy of ''The Laws and Ordinances of the Cities of Ankh and Morpork'' at the villain, causing him to stumble backwards over a ledge and fall to his death. Sergeant Colon remarks "What a way to go. Killed by a wossname, a metaphor," which Nobby Nobbs follows up with "Looks more like it was the ground."
* [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' novels are replete with these, some witty, some silly, all ''hilarious''.
** Appears most frequently in the third book with current villians' battle cries: {{spoiler|"Blood for the Blood God!" "Fine, he can have yours!"}}
*** Pity that that only serves the Blood God...
*** "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.}}
{{quote|'''Visser Three''': <Nothing like a good Antarean Bogg morph for.. taking a bite out of your enemies.>
** [[CSI: Miami|YEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!]] }}
* ''Painfully'' subverted in the seventh book of ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]: [[Gaunt's Ghosts]]''.
* If this [[Star Wars]] example doesn't count, it comes seriously close. In Luke Skywalker's fight with [[Expanded Universe|Lumiya]], when she slips and falls, he grabs her arm. After saying "I'd never let you fall" he cuts her head off. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Awesome!]]
* Parodied in ''Alcatraz Versus the Scrivener's Bones'', when Alcatraz unleashes a [[Hurricane of Puns]] using the word {{spoiler|soul}} after {{spoiler|tricking the [[Villain of the Week]] into taking a book in the Library of Alexandria - which constitutes a contract to allow the Library's curators to claim your soul}}. All right, so it's not ''technically'' killing, but that's part of the joke.
* In ''[[John Dies at the End]]'', John gets several (of varying quality) after he "introduces" some wig-monsters to a folding chair.
** "Have a ''seat'', bitch!"
** "You've been sentenced to get the ''chair'', motherfucker!"
** "You wants the committee, asshole, then you best meet with the ''chair''!"
** "Anybody else want to donate blood to ''chair''-ity?"
** "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:
{{quote|"Happy Thanksgiving! Turkey's in the oven!"}}
* 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.
{{quote|'''Rowe:''' Because, you know, XKCD. They had this comic where they rated ‘potential action movie one liners’ from most-probable to least-probable, and when we find the Demons I’m dying to pull out my gun and just go... ‘Bangarang, ''motherfucker''.’ Like, from Peter Pan, the original novel. … seriously, that’d be so awesome.}}
** {{spoiler|(later)) }}
{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Rowe:''' (puts the rifle against the Toralii's chest) Bangarang, ''motherfucker''. }}}}
* ''[[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."
** In ''Crocodile Tears'', {{spoiler|Desmond}} gets one after killing {{spoiler|Bulman}} and putting his cadaver into a bulldozer: "It looks like Bulman got what every journalist dreams of - a scoop."
*** Also, Nick Diamond from the Diamond Brothers Mysteries does this quite a lot.
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' "For my next trick, anvils!" - said after redirecting an [[Diabolus Ex Machina|entropy curse]] onto a vampire causing said vampire to be [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hit by a frozen turkey that fell out of a plane.]]
* 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:
{{quote|I hope those were baby teeth.}}
* In ''[[A Storm of Swords]]'', {{spoiler|Tyrion Lannister}} gets one after slaying his father, who sits on the privy.
{{quote|The oft repeated jape about his father was just another lie. {{spoiler|Lord Tywin did not, in the end, shit gold.}}}}
* 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)
* The villain of Mary Stewart's ''This Rough Magic'' is getting away, and a girl whose brother he nearly killed shouts that she wishes she could eat his heart. Then the boat he's escaping in blows up. The one person '''not''' surprised by the explosion, her fiance, tells her, "You wanted to eat his heart. I have cooked it for you."
 
 
== Machinima ==
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** 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''.
** A less humorous example occurs in ''Reconstruction''. Washington takes Delta's advice that South Dakota no longer "hamper their progress" and points a gun at her. She starts to say "What are you going to do, [[Killed Mid-Sentence|shoot-]]" after which Wash says, "Yes. Good suggestion."
 
 
== Miscellaneous ==
* In LEGO's ''[[Bionicle]]'', [[Big Bad|Teridax]] [[Devour the Dragon|eats/absorbs Nidhiki]] in order to gain more power for his fight with the Toa Metru. Apparently [[Evil Former Friend|Nidhiki]] did not go down easily, because Teridax would later describe the event with, "I lost because I disagreed with something I ate."
 
== Music ==
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{{quote|"Ain't too cool now, is you, nigga?"}}
* 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 ==
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'''Mitchell:''' "Piercing bore"? There's no such expression!
'''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. }}
 
 
== Religion and Mythology ==
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** In the original Hebrew, the word for "donkey" sounds like the word for "heap" making a better pun.
 
== Toys ==
 
* In LEGO's ''[[Bionicle]]'', [[Big Bad|Teridax]] [[Devour the Dragon|eats/absorbs Nidhiki]] in order to gain more power for his fight with the Toa Metru. Apparently [[Evil Former Friend|Nidhiki]] did not go down easily, because Teridax would later describe the event with, "I lost because I disagreed with something I ate."
== Magazines ==
* The magazine ''Slate'' features [http://www.slate.com/id/2169950/fr/nl/ the results of a contest] for reader-submitted Bond One Liners.
** The winner of that contest was "Flights of angels sing thee to thy rest, pissant."
 
 
== Video Games ==
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'''Palutena''': [[Sarcasm Mode|Tentafool? Nice one Pit.]] }}
 
== Web Comics ==
 
* Black Mage from ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'' in [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/04/30/episode-840-new-guard/ this comic]
== Webcomics ==
* Black Mage from ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' in [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/04/30/episode-840-new-guard/ this comic]
{{quote|'''Thief:''' I don't think he heard you, BM.
'''Black Mage:''' He got the message though. }}
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{{quote|'''Ennesby''': Wow. they're like popcorn.
'''{{spoiler|Kathryn}}''': (whips out a pistol and [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|shoots them]] before they recover) Weak simile. These have to be popped twice. }}
* Backfires in [https://archives.sluggy.com/book.php?chapter=60#2009-10-30 this] ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' strip.
{{quote|You know, we totally feared you a second ago, and you go and ruin it by making a pun.}}
 
== Web Original ==
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{{quote|7. When I've captured my adversary and he says, "Look, before you kill me, [[Just Between You and Me|will you at least tell me what this is all about?]]" I'll say, "No." and shoot him. No, on second thought I'll shoot him then say "No."}}
* Newt exemplifies this trope amazingly in "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcFnvULy8zA How Aliens Should Have Ended]".
 
 
== Western Animation ==
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* 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}}.
{{quote|'''Chronos:''' Do you know what {{spoiler|killed the dinosaurs}}? [...] Well, Chucko does.}}
 
 
== Real Life ==
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