Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner/Comic Books
- In the indie comic Cool Jerk and HomoGal, Cool Jerk tries taglines with mixed results. For example, during a bank robbery: "Who are you?" "The substantial penalty for early withdrawal."
- Although the fight between Wolverine and Deadpool in Wolverine Origins has quite a few, there's also a notable aversion when Deadpool notes that the fight is on "for real" and is dead serious when Wolverine starts ditching the one liners and is kicking ass without them.
- Tacitly part of Robin's job, to the point that when a recently returned from the dead Jason Todd (ex-Robin II) and the Batman of an alternate universe team up in a fight, the following happens:
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Batman: You used to crack jokes at times like these. |
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- Midnighter does this a lot. Usually combined with a long-winded Badass Boast.
- Fantastic Four: "It's clobberin' time!"
- Incredible Hulk: "You're making me angry. You won't like me when I'm angry."
- Discussed Trope in Empowered. Thugboy thinks it's overrated, and Ninjette can't help—as she points out, this trope doesn't fit with Ninja stealthiness.
- Jesse from Preacher (Comic Book) gets a good one before going nuclear on a group of murderous fanatics:
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I owe you pissant white trash cocksucking sons of bitches all the hurt in the fuckin' world. So who wants to get his ass kicked first? |
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- Megatron delivers a fantastic one to Sentinel Prime in Megatron: Origins.
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"I've heard it said that we only gain wisdom through suffering... and tonight, I intend to make you very wise." |
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- In All Fall Down, the Ghoul delivers these, in the form of announcing the sin you're committing before he takes you out.
- Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire had a few.
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Hyraxx: Human! You belong to me. |
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- Subverted because the alien in question returns a little later and proceeds to thoroughly kick Buck's ass.
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