Say Hello to My Little Friend

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A well-known Stock Phrase, it's a very specific Sub-Trope of both Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner and Let's Get Dangerous: a character produces something -- almost always a weapon when the trope is Played Straight -- and delivers this line. Naturally, the line is also employed in humorous and sarcastic contexts, where the object so produced may be inappropriate, unexpected and/or anything but dangerous, and may in fact be an actual friend to the character. And smaller than them.

The Trope Namer and Trope Maker is the 1983 film Scarface, in which Tony Montana (Al Pacino) delivers the line when unlimbering an M203 Grenade Launcher for use on his enemies.

Examples of Say Hello to My Little Friend include:

Fan Works

• The Celebrity Deathmatch fic Final Stand of Death has Twiggy saying the exact line, confusing Marilyn Manson and Bates just looks at him with a blank expression.
  • In Episode 4: Savio later says this upon getting a random baseball bat during a Bar Brawl, while many outside just watches on.
  • In Episode 16: Spur also says this when Zum was launched toward her and United, as she uses a steel chair like a baseball bat.
• In an Undocumented Features vignette found in the EPU Forums -- not so much a story as a scene that might come from one -- Captain Utena Tenjou announces the arrival of her starship backup in this way.
• Albus Dumbledore quite unironically says this when he petrifies Lucius Malfoy with an immature basilisk in the Harry Potter fic Harry Potter and the Power of Paranoia by "arekay". An author's note at the end of the chapter helpfully confirms that Dumbledore almost certainly has never heard of Al Pacino.

Film

• As noted in the main text, the Trope Namer is Al Pacino as Tony Montana in Scarface.
• In the 2016 version of Ghostbusters, one of the main characters shouts this out as she aims her proton beam to handle the malevolent ghost invasion.
• One of the goons in the first Kick-Ass film finds a rocket launcher while hunting down Hitgirl, and mentions that he always wanted to say it.
• One of the Ace Ventura films, the title character obtains a Smelly Skunk, which he calls "stinky little friend".
• In "Zom-B-Movie" segment of the film Chillerama, Cecil Kaufman says this as he's shoving a gun up the butt of a zombie.
• Beverly Hills Chihuahua has the leader of the chihuahuas confront a mountain lion with this phrase.

Live-Action TV

• In an episode of Kenan and Kel, after getting annoyed by two young boys with their water pistol, Kenan delivers the line as he whips out his super-soaker.
• Angie Tribeca, "Go Get 'Em, Tiger", Sniglet tells Tribeca to "say hello to my little friend", a Bengal tiger.

Video Games

• One of the powers of the Engineer, avatar of the god of architecture in the God Game Life Is Hard, is a top-level combat skill called "Say Hello to My Little Friend".

Web Comics

• Rusty and Co. in the Noir arc (Level 10) Mimic says this. It's Anti-Madeline.

Web Original

• A collection of video examples of this trope can be viewed on YouTube here.

Western Animation

• In the Beavis and Butt-Head episode "Die, Fly, Die", Beavis locates what happens to be a hedge trimmer after explaining he needs a better weapon to deal with the fly, and delivers this line
• In the South Park episode "Child Abduction Is Not Funny", Lu Kim shouts this as he brandishes his rocket launcher at the Mongolians.
• In The Boondocks episode "The Garden Party", Riley shoots down Ed with a gun while shouting this phrase. Given that he's a child, Riley ends up feeling the effects from the recoil.
• A restaurant owner in Bob's Burgers tells his guests to "say hello his little 'drink special'", while playfully using a bread loaf as a gun.

Other Media

• It's not hard to find T-shirts with this phrase along with an image of Al Pacino from the relevant scene of Scarface.
• It's just as easy to find T-shirts with this phrase and a picture of a garden gnome.