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{{quote|''Fallacy of the Talking Killer. The villain wants to kill the hero. He has him cornered at gunpoint. All he has to do is pull the trigger. But he always talks first. He [[The Reason You Suck Speech|explains the hero's mistakes to him]]. Jeers. [[Evil Laugh|Laughs]]. And gives the hero time to think his way out of the situation, or be [[The Cavalry|rescued by his buddies]]. Cf. most [[James Bond]] movies.''|[[Roger Ebert]]'s [http://academic.sun.ac.za/forlang/bergman/tech/glossary/ebert_glos.htm Movie Glossary entry.]}}

{{quote|''Fallacy of the Talking Killer. The villain wants to kill the hero. He has him cornered at gunpoint. All he has to do is pull the trigger. But he always talks first. He [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|explains the hero's mistakes to him]]. Jeers. [[Evil Laugh|Laughs]]. And gives the hero time to think his way out of the situation, or be [[The Cavalry|rescued by his buddies]]. Cf. most [[James Bond]] movies.''|[[Roger Ebert]]'s [http://academic.sun.ac.za/forlang/bergman/tech/glossary/ebert_glos.htm Movie Glossary entry.]}}

{{quote|''When you have to shoot, shoot - don't talk!''|'''Tuco''' summarises, ''[[The Good the Bad And The Ugly]]''}}

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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.

Or perhaps this is the place where they finally have a chance to get [[The Reason You Suck Speech|all the reasons they despise the hero personally]] off their chest. Any [[What the Hell Hero|mistakes]] the hero makes are also fair game for villainous gloating. At any rate, while this is a villainous staple on par with a hero and [[In the Name of The Moon]], it's still one of the things the [[Evil Overlord List]] strenuously warns against, as any villain caught gloating is sure to be either killed or foiled. In their defense, it's really ''[[Evil Is Stylish|fun]]'' and gives you that warm evil feeling in the black pit of your soul when you utterly [[Heroic BSOD|grind your opponent's face into the dirt.]] Unfortunately, most villains fail to [[Villain Forgot to Level Grind|grind hard enough]]. But how could anyone appreciate the brilliance of your scheme unless you explained it to them?

Or perhaps this is the place where they finally have a chance to get [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|all the reasons they despise the hero personally]] off their chest. Any [[What the Hell, Hero?|mistakes]] the hero makes are also fair game for villainous gloating. At any rate, while this is a villainous staple on par with a hero and [[In the Name of The Moon]], it's still one of the things the [[Evil Overlord List]] strenuously warns against, as any villain caught gloating is sure to be either killed or foiled. In their defense, it's really ''[[Evil Is Stylish|fun]]'' and gives you that warm evil feeling in the black pit of your soul when you utterly [[Heroic BSOD|grind your opponent's face into the dirt.]] Unfortunately, most villains fail to [[Villain Forgot to Level Grind|grind hard enough]]. But how could anyone appreciate the brilliance of your scheme unless you explained it to them?

Another way this could easily backfire is that it goes hand-in-hand with [[Engineered Public Confession]]. A [[Genre Savvy]] hero can use it as an easy way to reveal the Chessmaster or [[Manipulative Bastard]] to the world and bring [[The Plan|their plan]] crumbling around them.

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This goes hand in hand with [[Evil Plan]], where it's practically required to give the hero and viewer exposition of just what the heck is happening. Expect the villain to let out an [[Evil Laugh]] and start to [[Trash Talk]] about how the hero(es) are powerless to stop his [[Evil Plan]]. It can greatly surprise them when the hero interrupts with [[Get It Over With]].

[[Unsportsmanlike Gloating|Heroes tend to not gloat]], which is why villains facing a [[Sword Over Head]] will usually either be [[Save the Villain|allowed to live]] or killed without [[Bond One Liner|(much)]] [[Kirk Summation|fanfare]]: Compare [[After Action Villain Analysis]].

[[Unsportsmanlike Gloating|Heroes tend to not gloat]], which is why villains facing a [[Sword Over Head]] will usually either be [[Save the Villain|allowed to live]] or killed without [[Bond One-Liner|(much)]] [[Kirk Summation|fanfare]]: Compare [[After Action Villain Analysis]].

If they've just finished owning [[The Hero]], this is sure to become [[The Reason You Suck Speech]], but don't worry, a [[Thwarted Coup De Grace]] is coming up. May overlap with [[Trash Talk]]. See also [[Villain Ball]] and [[Did You Actually Believe]]? Has some similarities to the [[Motive Rant]]. A particularly sadistic version of this is the [[Post Rape Taunt]], where a rapist taunts someone by lying about how his victim "loved it."

If they've just finished owning [[The Hero]], this is sure to become [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]], but don't worry, a [[Thwarted Coup De Grace]] is coming up. May overlap with [[Trash Talk]]. See also [[Villain Ball]] and [[Did You Actually Believe]]? Has some similarities to the [[Motive Rant]]. A particularly sadistic version of this is the [[Post Rape Taunt]], where a rapist taunts someone by lying about how his victim "loved it."

=== Evil Gloating Subtropes: ===

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* [[A Fate Worse Than Death]]

* [[And Your Little Dog Too]]

* [[And Your Little Dog, Too]]

* [[As Long As There Is Evil]]

* [[Did You Actually Believe]]

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* [[Gloved Fist of Doom]]

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]

* [[I Have You Now My Pretty]]

* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]

* [[I Lied]]

* [[Just Between You and Me]] (where the villain has the hero captured and at their mercy)

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* [[Motive Rant]]

* [[Nothing Can Stop Us Now]]

* [[No Mr. Bond I Expect You to Dine]]

* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]]

* [[Post Rape Taunt]]

* [[Prepare to Die]] (uttered prior to [[Just Shoot Him|simply shooting]] the hero)

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* [[Taking You With Me]]

* [[Talk to The Fist]]

* [[The Reason You Suck Speech]]

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]

* [[The War Has Just Begun]]

* [[This Cannot Be]]

* [[This Cannot Be!]]

* [[To the Pain]]

* [[Unwitting Pawn]] ("in my scheme all along!")

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* [[You Have No Chance to Survive]] (you are on the [[You Are On the Way To Destruction|way to destruction]]... sooner or later)

* [[You Will Be Spared]] (you will be killed last)

* [[This Is Unforgivable|You'll Pay For This]]!

* [[This Is Unforgivable!|You'll Pay For This]]!

== Anime and Manga ==

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** Evangeline is also fond of evil gloating, especially when she isn't doing anything evil. She probably wants to remind everyone she most definitely has ''not'' gone soft.

* The villains in ''[[One Piece]]'' love this trope. Somewhat subverted in that their gloating usually doesn't bring about their fall, Luffy's [[Right Makes Might|endless willpower]] does.

* One example from ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]]'''s Banquet of the golden witch, {{spoiler|"And for you, just as expected, it's 'tears please,' and you're down!! I~diot, what a truly simple person!!"}} That said, it's not a good idea to [[Villain Ball|make the person you're trying to get to sign something feel like crap]]. It's used [[The Reason You Suck Speech|far more effectively]] in the arc just before it. "{{color|red|You are incompetent!}}"

* One example from ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]]'''s Banquet of the golden witch, {{spoiler|"And for you, just as expected, it's 'tears please,' and you're down!! I~diot, what a truly simple person!!"}} That said, it's not a good idea to [[Villain Ball|make the person you're trying to get to sign something feel like crap]]. It's used [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|far more effectively]] in the arc just before it. "{{color|red|You are incompetent!}}"

* Okay... [[Pokémon Special|so you have a hostage and <nowiki>PE#1</nowiki> trapped in an airtight cable car, which you just flooded with water, leaving them without a way to breathe. To add insult to injury, you summon your pet shark and sic it on them, only for <nowiki>PE#1</nowiki> to summon a metal rhino to break its teeth off. Of course, they still don't have a way to breathe. Do you...]]

** [A] Keep an eye on them to make certain they don't do stupid shit or have a game plan if they do?

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** Same in ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'' ("Thanks for the advice!).

* [[Serenity (Film)|"Do you know what your sin is?"]]

** This actually is what causes {{spoiler|The Operative's defeat the last time he tries it on [[The Captain|Captain Malcolm Reynolds]], who pulls an ''epic'' [[Shut UP Hannibal]] on him.}}

** This actually is what causes {{spoiler|The Operative's defeat the last time he tries it on [[The Captain|Captain Malcolm Reynolds]], who pulls an ''epic'' [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] on him.}}

* Palpatine in ''[[Star Wars|Return of the Jedi]]''. "[[The Chessmaster|Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design!]]"

* In ''[[The Mechanic]]'', [[The Mole]] {{spoiler|Steve}} does this after he poisons {{spoiler|[[The Hero Dies|the main character]] and watches him die. [[Thanatos Gambit|He gets punished for it.]]}}

* ''[[The Untouchables]]'': Eliot Ness has chased Al Capone's hitman Frank Nitti to a rooftop.

{{quote| '''Ness:''' I'm going to see you burn, you son of a bitch, because [[~~Its~~ Personal|you killed my friend]]!

{{quote| '''Ness:''' I'm going to see you burn, you son of a bitch, because [[It's Personal|you killed my friend]]!

'''Nitti:''' He died like a pig.

'''Ness:''' What did you say?

'''Nitti:''' I said your friend died screaming like a stuck Irish pig. Now you think about that when I beat the rap. [starts to walk away when Ness grabs him and pushes him off the roof]]

'''Ness:''' [shouting] [[Shut UP Hannibal|Did it sound anything like]] ''[[Shut UP Hannibal|THAT]]''?! }}

'''Ness:''' [shouting] [[Shut UP, Hannibal|Did it sound anything like]] ''[[Shut UP, Hannibal|THAT]]''?! }}

* In ''[[Last of the Mohicans (Film)|Last of the Mohicans]]'' Magua, before [[Beat Still My Heart|eating his heart]] proclaims:

{{quote| '''Magua:''' [[Just Between You and Me|Before you die]], know that I will put under the knife your children, so your seed are wiped out from the earth forever.}}

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'''Syndrome:''' You sly dog! You got me [[Monologuing]]! }}

* In ''Film/{{Matilda}]'', the main villain gloats, just before the title character gets her final revenge: "In this classroom, in this school, I AM GOD!"

* ''[[The Avengers]]'': Loki ''loves'' to gloat, though he has a tendency to [[Shut UP Hannibal|underestimate his audience]].

* ''[[The Avengers]]'': Loki ''loves'' to gloat, though he has a tendency to [[Shut UP, Hannibal|underestimate his audience]].

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** It's never a good idea to do this in the Buffyverse, however, as it tends to signal a villain's defeat, usually because speechifying leaves them open to attack or buys the hero time to recoil. Villains like Rayne are aware of this, but can't seem to help themselves: "I really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the stay-and-gloat that gets me every time."

*** The First could pull this off because of the whole incorporeal thing. Though It was also an expert in [[Mind Rape]]

* ''[[~~I Carly~~ (TV)|I Carly]]'':Missy does this, allowing Carly to overhear and finally figured out that Missy was trying to get rid of Sam.

* ''[[ICarly (TV)|I Carly]]'':Missy does this, allowing Carly to overhear and finally figured out that Missy was trying to get rid of Sam.

* In the 6th season premiere of ''[[Stargate SG-1 (TV)|Stargate SG-1]]'', Anubis does this when he finds a way to overload the Earth stargate.

** Hell, the Goa'uld as a whole love this. Not one of them'' ever'' passed up an opportunity to [[Kneel Before Zod|force SG-1 to their knees]] and make with the claims to [[A God Am I|Godhood]]. Anubis ''was'' really prone to it though. Even Apophis would probably regard announcing that [[Large Ham|"Your end of days approaches! You shall bow to my awesome power!"]] as a bit much.

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* In the episode of ''[[The Big Bang Theory (TV)|The Big Bang Theory]]'' entitled "The Vengeance Formulation," Sheldon makes foam fall on Kripke from the ceiling tiles in his office to get back at him. The plan [[Gone Horribly Wrong|goes horribly wrong]] when the president of the university and the board of directors are drenched with the foam too. Then, [[It Got Worse|to make matters even worse,]] a pre-recorded video comes on to Kripke's monitor. It contains Sheldon gloating about the "classic prank" that Kripke has just fallen prey to. He also gives congratulations to Leonard and Raj for helping him with his plan.

* Inverted in ''[[The West Wing]]'' when Secret Service agent Donovan is so busy gloating about how stupid a crook was to try to rob a store when the Secret Service was in town, that he doesn't notice the store clerk's very obvious eye rolling, trying to indicate that the guy he's caught has a partner.

* Crichton may be the hero of ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'', but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMO14pRRRk his speech in the season 4 finale] bears a close enough resemblance to a villainous monologue that it elicits a reaction of [[You're Insane]] from one of the bystanders.

* Crichton may be the hero of ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'', but [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMO14pRRRk his speech in the season 4 finale] bears a close enough resemblance to a villainous monologue that it elicits a reaction of [[You're Insane!]] from one of the bystanders.

* Subverted at the end of the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S3 E11 Utopia|Utopia]]", when {{spoiler|Professor Yana transforms into the Master and begins to run away with the TARDIS. He says "Now, then, Doctor! Oooh, new voice. Hello, hellooo, helllloooo! Anyway... why don't we sit down and have a nice little chat where I can tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me, I don't think!" Then he zooms back into the past leaving the Doctor, Martha Jones and Captain Jack at [[The End of the World As We Know It]] End of the Universe.}}

* "Boston" Rob Mariano had a tendency to do this on ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', during pretty much every episode he was on, on both Seasons 7 and All-Stars, a carryover from his time on ''[[Survivor (TV)|Survivor]]''.

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* The Witch-King in ''[[Lord of the Rings]]''.

{{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 [[Cowboy Bebop At His Computer|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."]]

'''Witch-King:''' A cold voice answered: "Come not between the Nazgûl and [[Cowboy Bebop At His Computer|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."]]

'''Witch-King:''' Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me

'''Eowyn:''' [[Prophecy Twist|But no living man am I!]] }}

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== Radio ==

* Satan likes his [[Evil Gloating]] in ''[[Old ~~Harrys~~ Game (Radio)|Old Harrys Game]]''. Several episodes have him place a bet with [[Wide Eyed Idealist|the Professor]] about how horrible humanity is, with the stakes simply being that if Satan's proved right, he gets to gloat about it.

* Satan likes his [[Evil Gloating]] in ''[[Old Harry's Game (Radio)|Old Harrys Game]]''. Several episodes have him place a bet with [[Wide Eyed Idealist|the Professor]] about how horrible humanity is, with the stakes simply being that if Satan's proved right, he gets to gloat about it.

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== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Wolfenstein (Video Game)|Wolfenstein]]'', Blazkowicz comes across a Nazi officer standing in front of a {{spoiler|Veil portal}}. His gloating is interrupted when he is rather violently [[Killed Mid Sentence]] by {{spoiler|a giant, mutated abomination that telefrags him.}}

* In ''[[Wolfenstein (Video Game)|Wolfenstein]]'', Blazkowicz comes across a Nazi officer standing in front of a {{spoiler|Veil portal}}. His gloating is interrupted when he is rather violently [[Killed Mid-Sentence]] by {{spoiler|a giant, mutated abomination that telefrags him.}}

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories]]'' has Marluxia mocking Sora and Co. before one of their final fights:

{{quote| ''Imbeciles...You would knowingly shackle your heart with a [[Title Drop|chain of memories]] born of lies? You would be one who has a heart, yet cast aside your heart's freedom? You turn from the truth because your heart is weak--You will never defeat me!''}}

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* In ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'', ALL the villains do this. [[Omnicidal Maniac|Gig]] also does this from time to time, despite being on [[Heroic Sociopath|your side]]. The best example of [[Evil Gloating]] comes from {{spoiler|Levin, aka Raksha the World Eater}}.

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Levin'''}}: You don't like that I've learned all these fancy new words? Well tough shit! I'm feeling verbose!}}

* [[Eternal Darkness|Pious Agustus]] does this all the time. [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu|Even to Mantorok!]]

* [[Eternal Darkness|Pious Agustus]] does this all the time. [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?|Even to Mantorok!]]

* [[System Shock|SHODAN]] does this a ''lot'' in the [[System Shock]] series. In both games she taunts the player that she is superior to you in every way because [[AI Is a Crapshoot|as an AI construct]], SHODAN has access to more human information and more control over machinery that any human on Earth could ever even conceive. She also explains how being an organic life form makes you inferior and in the second game, she says that the only thing she likes about you are the cybernetic implants she gave you. She especially does this as you traverse the levels trying to find her, but when you [[Added Alliterative Appeal|show up for your showdowns with SHODAN]] her taunting amounts to nothing more than mere [[Boss Banter]].

* In one of the last stages of ''[[Dark Forces Saga|Jedi Outcast]]'' Fyyar goes off on a monologue, while [[Genre Savvy|Kyle]] casually finishes the objective he was performing before he was interrupted.

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== Webcomics ==

* In ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', after Elan defeats Lord Kubota and is about to bring him to trial, Kubota proceeds to gloat that he will never be charged, and that he will get off scot-free due to being an apparently [[Magnificent Bastard]]. {{spoiler|[[Shut UP Hannibal|Vaarsuvius disagrees]][http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0595.html .] }}

* In ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', after Elan defeats Lord Kubota and is about to bring him to trial, Kubota proceeds to gloat that he will never be charged, and that he will get off scot-free due to being an apparently [[Magnificent Bastard]]. {{spoiler|[[Shut UP, Hannibal|Vaarsuvius disagrees]][http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0595.html .] }}

** 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.

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'''Carl''': I didn't think he was going that way. }}

* [[Magnificent Bitch|Maleficent]] is [[Added Alliterative Appeal|malevolently magnificent]] at this in ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney)|Sleeping Beauty]]'' once she's imprisoned [[Prince Charming|Prince Phillip]] in her stronghold. Rubbing her victory in his face, along with her plan to [[Kick the Dog|keep him locked away for a hundred years and then set him free when he's ancient and wizened]], probably helped his [[Heroic Resolve]] a great deal.

* A couple of examples from ''[[The ~~Emperors~~ New Groove (Disney)|The Emperors New Groove]]'': Kuzco turns back to gloat at Pacha as the latter hangs from the remains of a [[Rope Bridge]], and promptly ends up in the same predicament, while later Yzma's [[Ironic Echo]] gloat is ruined by her lackey Kronk's [[Captain Obvious]] lampshading.

* A couple of examples from ''[[The Emperor's New Groove (Disney)|The Emperors New Groove]]'': Kuzco turns back to gloat at Pacha as the latter hangs from the remains of a [[Rope Bridge]], and promptly ends up in the same predicament, while later Yzma's [[Ironic Echo]] gloat is ruined by her lackey Kronk's [[Captain Obvious]] lampshading.

* ''[[South Park|Eric Cartman]]''. Usually a sign that he's taking a giant leap over the [[Moral Event Horizon]] rather than just being a [[Bratty Half Pint]].

{{quote| '''Cartman''': Hahahaha ha I made you eat your parents.}}