Evil Gloating: Difference between revisions

|[[Roger Ebert]]'s [http://academic.sun.ac.za/forlang/bergman/tech/glossary/ebert_glos.htm Movie Glossary entry.]}}

 

 

Gloating. Monologuing. It's what villains ''do.'' Maybe they "[[Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb|set up us the bomb]]" and are calling to rub it in and take credit, perhaps he's just [[MacGuffin Delivery Service|snatched the MacGuffin]] from the hero's very hands and insist on staying ''just out of reach'' to taunt. Maybe the villain finally has the hero at his mercy and just ''has'' to taunt him one last time before shooting him.

* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' villains just ''love'' this trope. Voldemort himself is easily the biggest offender, though nearly every major villainous character monologues at least once in the series.

** Finally inverted with ''Harry himself'' monologuing Voldemort at the very end. Of course Harry is in the lucky position of finally holding all the cards - to the point where it ''doesn't even matter'' that he tells Voldemort exactly how his shiny new weapon works.

{{quote|'''Witch-King:''' "Old fool!" he said. [[Trash Talk|"Old fool!]] [[Nothing Can Stop Us Now|This is my hour]]. Do you not know '''''Death''''' when you see it? [[Prepare to Die|Die now and curse in vain!"]] And with that [[Stab the Sky|he lifted high]] his sword and [[Flaming Sword|flames ran down]] the blade.

'''Witch-King:''' A cold voice answered: "Come not between the Nazgûl and [[Media Research Failure|his prey!]] [[Third Person Person|Or he will]] [[You Will Be Spared|not slay thee]] [[You Have No Chance to Survive|in thy turn]]. [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|He will bear thee away]] [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place|to the houses of lamentation]], [[A Fate Worse Than Death|beyond all darkness]], [[Body Horror|where thy flesh shall be devoured]], [[Mind Rape|and thy shrivelled mind]] [[Freud Was Right|be left naked]] [[To the Pain|to the Lidless Eye."]]

{{quote|'''NEXUS:''' "You have five minutes, Commander, and then it's ''[[Kill Sat|frying]]'' time! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"}}

* In ''[[Jak and Daxter|Jak 3]]'' Veger taunts Jak right after {{spoiler|Damas}} dies, taking exceptional glee in telling Jak that he was {{spoiler|his father}} and that he died without knowing.

 

== Web Original ==

** Also subverted earlier, as Dr. Horrible tries to get his gloat on but gets sidetracked by his romantic problems:

{{quote|All right. ''The wait is over. This, my friends, is my freeze ray, which, with the addition of the [[Unobtainium|Wonderflonium]] I obtained at my famously successful heist last week... I say successful in that I achieved my objective. It was less successful in that I inadvertently introduced my arch-nemesis to the girl of my dreams, and now he's taking her out on dates, and they're probably going to...''French kiss'' or something. She called him ''sweet''? How is he sweet?'' [long pause] ''Right, freeze ray!''}}

* ''[[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]]''

{{quote|411. It is bad form to shoot a god while he's monologuing. }}

 

** Subverted earlier with Elan's [[Evil Twin]] Nale: after Elan catches him with Haley in a compromising position, {{spoiler|Nale proceeds to gloat at Elan's stupidity at not seeing that Haley is evil and has been selling out the Order of the Stick. The catch is that none of it is true, and Nale is gloating about something that never happened,}} but since Haley is afflicted with [[The Unintelligible|aphasia]] at the moment, she can't defend herself against the evidence {{spoiler|at first}}.

** Nale even lampshades it earlier. He ''did'' gloat out all his plan. Only he did it securely alone, to the mirror, in order to get the urge out of his system.

* In ''[[Nip and Tuck]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20120528131243/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00666.html to be eliminated].

* In ''[[Endstone]]'', [http://endstone.net/2011/02/21/5-11/ describing how her siblings died.]

 

== Western Animation ==

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