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* Garma and Dozle Zabi in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]''. Garma attempts to crash his ship into the ''White Base'' while shouting "All glory to the nation of Zeon"; Dozle actually climbs out of the ruined Big Zam and fires a machinegun at Amuro and the Gundam until the Big Zam explodes, killing him.
* ''[[Naruto]]'': [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/naruto/v57/c537/1.html In this second panel], Kakuzu just ''has'' to lampshade Darui's [[Captain Obvious]] statement.
* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'': {{spoiler|Rika Furude, a normally perky little girl has been tazered and poisoned (with a syringe she'd brought herself, no less) by the local [[Ax Crazy]] [[
** {{spoiler|Rena also faces her certain demise this way later in the series, going as far as taunting her killer's plans, beliefs and aspiration to become a god - said killer puts a bullet in her very fast, suggesting that she really struck a nerve.}}
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** Sergeant Johnson in ''Halo 3''. When he was captured by the Brutes, Truth tried to force him to activate the Halos, because only a human can do it. When he refused, the Brutes attempted to force him to do it by physical force. He just punched their chieftain at its face, and then insulted it. Even when Truth himself attempted to force him to light the Halos, he remained defiant, even insulted Truth himself at his face while he's manhandled by the Brutes from behind.
* The [[Player Character|Lone Wanderer]] invokes this beautifully in ''[[Fallout 3]]''. When {{spoiler|captured by the Enclave,}} the Wanderer gets interrogated by Colonel Autumn, and you can defy him in three ways: you can play dumb, you can tell him in no uncertain terms to [[Precision F-Strike|go fuck himself]], or you can tell him a lie. The latter two are extremely satisfying (either from the insult or from hearing Autumn's resultant tirade), considering {{spoiler|it's his fault that your [[Liam Neeson|father]] dies.}} Fortunately, they survive.
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* Combined with [[Big Damn Heroes]] and [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by Zero in ''[[Mega Man X]]'', because he's that cool: In the second Vile fight, Zero went ahead to fight Vile. When X follows, he finds that Zero lost and is locked in an electric cage. An [[Unwinnable]] fight ensues. When X gets hit with Vile's paralyzer again, Zero catches Vile monologuing and breaks out, latching on to Vile's Ride Armor. He purposely overloads himself to destroy the Ride Armor, but Vile survives. X is understandably pissed and [[Heroic Resolve|breaks out of the paralyzer and refills]] his [[Hit Points]], then proceeds to hand Vile his ass.
* This is how Aelia meets her untimely end in ''[[Valkyrie Profile]]'' before you recruit her as an Einherjar.
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[
* Thief to Black Mage in ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'': "My only regret is that I didn't hate you ''more''."
* Ardsley Wooster in ''[[Girl Genius]]''. With a [[Call Back]] as a bonus: like Gil before (when he gone a bit crazy worrying for Agatha), Lucrezia called him "little man". That time he was intimidated, now it didn't work, even though Lucrezia was in "god mode" — he refused to submit and praised Albia right in her face. She zapped him, of course, it's not like he could do anything about this. Also, with extra drama: he was killed right before the eyes of Ms. Thorpe.
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''([[Beat]])''
'''Dan Turpin''': [[Shut UP, Hannibal|In a]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|pig's eye!]] }}
* ''[[Justice League]]''
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{{quote|'''Ichthultu:''' Speak to me, child of Thanagar.
'''Hawkgirl:''' Nothing to say! I have a ''[[Flipping the Bird|gesture]]'' for you, but my hands are tied. }}
{{quote|'''Dr. Moon:''' Tell me what you know.
'''The Question:''' The plastic tips at the ends of shoelaces are called "[[What the Heck Is An Aglet?|aglets]]". Their true purpose is sinister! }}
* In ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold]]'', Slug captures Wildcat and Batman, and begins lowering them into a pit so they can be eaten by mutant snapping turtles. Wildcat starts insulting Slug, stinging his pride enough to make him pull Wildcat back out so they can fistfight.
* Princess Sally in the third episode of ''[[Sonic Sat AM]]''. When she was captured by Dr. Robotnik, he demanded her to tell where Knothole is located. Sally's
* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 series)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', Splinter's master Hamato Yoshi was ambushed by the Shredder's men, unarmed, and outnumbered by more than ten to one, but he still wouldn't go down without a fight. And even though he ''did'' go down, he was willing to die before he told the Shredder anything, and his last words to the villain were to insult him, saying, "He who lives without honor will die without honor."
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'': Bart Simpson in the episode ''Bart The Murderer''. After he had accidentally ended up in the Springfield mafia's turf, he was taken and interrogated by them, believing that he was a spy. He answered their questions with "eat my shorts" and "don't have a cow". In this case, Bart's insults and tough guy act actually impresses the mafia, convincing themto give him a job as a bartender.
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** [[Badass Spaniard|Unsurprisingly]], this is something of an Iberian tradition. At one point in medieval Castile, a besieged nobleman's son was taken prisoner, with the threat to surrender or else his son died. Dad's response? To throw down a knife from the battlements for them to kill his son with. Bear in mind; [[Heir Club for Men|''this was his only son'']]. It's quite likely that Moscardo had this story at least partly in mind.
* When the British were surrounded at Arnhem, the Germans "offered to discuss surrender terms." The British commander's reply: "[[Badass Boast|I'm afraid we don't have the numbers to take all of your lot prisoner, old boy.]] [[Stiff Upper Lip|Was there anything else?]]"
* [[World War II]] has its share of these stories:
** When Paris was fully occupied during WWII, the French destroyed the elevator to the Eiffel Tower, for the sole purpose of making life difficult for the Nazis if they decided to raise their flag on the tower. Without an elevator, the Nazis would have to climb hundreds of stairs.
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannie_Schaft Hannie Schaft], aka The Girl With the Red Hair. A member of a Dutch resistance movement who orchestrated many assassinations and sabotage efforts against the Germans, she was eventually caught and shot. As the story goes, two soldiers were tasked in doing so, but the first only wounded her, despite shooting at close range. Supposedly, she told him, "I shoot better than you," before she was killed by his partner.
* Notorious [[Serial Killer]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy John Wayne Gacy's] final words - before his execution by lethal injection - were "Kiss my ass".
* Another serial killer who likely counts is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish#Trial_and_execution Albert Fish], whose ghastly crimes may have been even worse than Gacy's. (For those who must know the details, read the link. If you want an "abridged version", the movie ''[[The Gray Man]]'' is based on the case.) Before he was executed by electric chair, he penned a statement several pages long that he instructed his lawyer to read to the press; the lawyer refused to do so, stating "It was the most filthy string of obscenities that I have ever read" and later claiming to have destroyed it.
* Lawrence Russell Brewer was an unrepentant bigot, a member of both the Ku Klux Klan and Confederate Knights of America, who was convicted along with two accompices in 1998 of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Byrd_Jr. brutally torturing James Bryd Jr to death], dragging him behind a pickup truck before dismembering and decapitating him and then dumping the remains in front of a black church, an act that prompted Texas and the Federal Government to pass special hate crime laws. Sentenced to die by lethal injection, Brewer thought up a rather unique way to give the finger to the Texas Board of Corrections. For his last meal he ordered the following: two chicken fried steaks smothered with gravy with sliced onions, a triple cheeseburger with all the fixings, a cheese omelet with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, and jalapenos, a large bowl of fried okra with ketchup, a pound of barbecued ribs with half a loaf of white bread, three fajitas, a meat-lovers pizza, three bottles of root beer, a pint of vanilla ice cream, and a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts. They fulfilled the request to the letter, but he did not eat any of it. This angered Texas officials so much that they ended their 87 year tradition of providing requested last meals to prisoners.
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