Shut UP, Hannibal/Western Animation

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Examples of a Shut UP, Hannibal reaction in Western Animation include:

  • South Park: The episode "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" (which is just what it sounds like) has the head of NAMBLA protesting that he's being discriminated against, and Stan and Kyle's replies is a lot like this.

Kyle: Dude, you have sex. With. Children.
Stan: You know, we believe in equality for everybody, and tolerance, and all that gay stuff, but dude, fuck you.

  • Totally Spies!!: Apparently abused by the characters against revenge-seeking antagonists, in the form of "You're only doing this for revenge!"
  • This happens with Megatron and Optimus in the last episode of Beast Wars. See the page quote.
    • In "Code of Hero", Megatron was speechifying about how Dinobot had no hope of defeating him (which, given that Dinobot just burned up all his reserves and taking massive quantities of damage fighting through Megatron's minions while Megatron had not yet done a thing, not to mention he's got massive upgrades which makes him even more resistant to damage, makes a pretty good point). Megatron asked "What can you possibly do?" Dinobot's response? "Improvise". As he takes his stick, creates a makeshift hammer, and smacks Megatron to the ground.
  • In the second season finale of X-Men, Mr. Sinister gets plenty of self-righteous speechifying about the future out of the way while he has his audience chained to a wall. Eventually, the tables turn, punctuated by an optic blast from Cyclops. This doesn't stop him from weakly defying Scott's repeated request to leave his friends alone.

Sinister: I can't... I won't... the world needs-- (gets cut off by another blast)
Cyclops: What was that? I don't think I heard you right!

    • He gets it again about two minutes later. Trying to pull himself together, Sinister grumbles that "the future" (his future) can't be destroyed so easily. Jean Grey responds with a calm "Yes, it can" and a well-placed shot of telekinesis. This is appropriate, since he was trying to effectively breed a new race from the two of them.
  • In the Justice League Unlimited episode "Divided We Fall", The Flash got a most awesome Shut Up Hannibal against the robot Evil Knockoff created by the Big Bad.

Alternate Flash: Slacker! Child! Clown! We have no place here among the world's greatest heroes!
Flash: Says you! I've got a seat at the big conference table. I'm gonna paint my logo on it!
(Flash punches through Evil Flash's chest and vibrates his arm at Super Speed; explosion ensues)

    • The Flash did it again later in the same episode when Braniac/Lex Luthor taunts him on the fact that he was all that was left between total destruction. Flash then begins to pound Luthor over, and over, AND OVER, stripping Braniacs tech from Luthors body with each blow.
      • Made all the more awesome when you realize that Flash was doing this by running around the Earth at 25,000 miles PER SECOND as he hit Luthor time after time.
  • In Batman: The Animated Series, Ra's al-Ghul explains his wonderful plan to save the world by wiping out most of humanity. Batman responds with a note of wonder in his voice. "Yes... I can see it all clearly now for the first time. You are completely out of your mind."
  • In Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, the Joker takes rather badly to Terry's Break Them by Talking and gives a rather angry rebuttal by tossing grenades at him, which knocks the superhero out.
    • Which is then subverted when he grabs Terry and starts to choke him, telling him to laugh it up now.

Terry: Ha...ha. (pulls out Joker's killer buzzer and proceed to shock him)

    • Another small one happens in the series when Kobra leader Xander tells Max of his plot to turn all his men into dinosaurs and drop a bomb that will incinerate the world so they have extra heat to live on. She responds accordingly:

Max: I think I finally get it now.
Xander: (he smiles)
Max: You're crazy! All of you! Certifiable in need of medication!

Jeepers: You want to see something strange and mystical?
Freakazoid:NOOOOOOO!!!!! GET OUTTA HERE WITH THAT WATCH!!! LAY OFF THE POOR BEAVERS, WILL YA?!? SHEEEESH!!! YOU'RE A CREEP! GO AWAY! WE WERE ALL HAVING A GOOD TIME UNTIL YOU SHOWED UP, JEEPERS!!! UUUUUUUUGH! GO HAVE A COFFEE, WITH CREAM OR SOMETHING! BECAUSE I'LL TELL YOU SOMETHING: THIS IS A HAPPY PLACE!!!!!!

Jazz: Excuse me. I don't know this kid, but I hope it's okay if he gets a second opinion.

  • Samurai Jack was likewise shut up by a bounty-hunter who tells him "I got bills to pay, and I already addressed the envelopes." Jack begins to respond with a clever phrase, saying "I hope you haven't you haven't yet stamped the parcels which you--" but is cut off as the bounty-hunter punches him out, saying "consider 'em stamped."
  • Kim Possible's Crowning Moment of Awesome from So The Drama, when she interrupted Drakken's speech about how he cracked Kim's weakness; her own insecurities, especially regarding dating. Not quite a pure example, since he didn't know she was listening in, but she definitely had the "Shut up!" part down!

"You're right, Drakken. Boys, dating, that's hard. But this is easy. (Punches Drakken. Hard.)

Mojo Jojo: Can't you see? None of them will ever understand you the way I can. For we are kindred spirits whose powers spring from the same source. So girls, do not make me destroy you! For we are smarter! We are stronger! We are invincible! We have the power! We are superior to them! And we shall rule! All we have to do is work together. Girls, join me.
Powerpuff Girls: NOOOOO!
Blossum: We'd never join you! And it's because we are stronger!
Bubbles: Because we are invincible!
Buttercup: Because we have the power!
Powerpuff Girls: Because we've got to protect them from you!
Blossium: It's you who is to be feared!
Bubbles: Because you are a monster!
Buttercup: Because you are evil!
Powerpuff Girls: And you are...it! (pushes him off a skyscraper)

  • A particularly epic example comes from |Toy Story 3, where Woody exposes Lotso's lies to Big Baby.

Lotso: "Then she threw us out!"
Woody: "No, she lost you."
Lotso: "She replaced us!"
Woody: "She replaced YOU! And if you couldn't have her, no one could! You lied to Big Baby and you've been lying ever since!"

Yosemite Sam: "Any one of you lilly livered, bow legged varmints care to slap leather with me? In case any of ya get any idears, ya better know yer dealin with. I'm the hootinest, tootinest, shootinest, bobtail wildcat in the west! [fires guns raisng sam up] I'm the fastest gun North, South, East annnnnnnd West of the Pecos!....I'm the...."
Bugs Bunny: "Ahhhh, Shaddup!"

Darkseid: People of Earth, I am Darkseid, lord of Apokolips. Here is your savior, cowed and broken. I have crushed him as easily as I have crushed all who dared to oppose me throughout the cosmos. I am power unlike any you have ever known: absolute, infinite, and unrelenting. You have no choice but to prepare for a long dark future as my subjects and my slaves.
Dan Turpin: ...In a pig's eye!

    • At the end of the three-part pilot "The Last Son of Krypton", Superman confronts Lex Luthor. Luthor gives a speech about how he owns Metropolis and that Superman should be working for him. Lex loses his cool when Superman responds with a simple "I'll be watching you Luthor."
  • My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic: As polite and self-effacing as she was Fluttershy completely shut down every attempt on Discord's part to arouse resentment against her friends during the season two opener, ensuring that she could not be turned against them without a proverbial sledgehammer of mind-altering magic. Unfortunately, Discord could and did use that sledgehammer.

Twilight Sparkle: I'll tell you what we've learned, Discord! We've learned that friendship isn't always easy, but there's no doubt it's worth fighting for!

    • Princess Celestia actually fires off two Shut Up Hannibals in Part 1's Canterlot Tower scene. The first time, Discord tries to get a rise out of her with a Break Them by Talking; she shoots him down. The second time, Discord's in the middle of another one directed at the Mane Six; she butts in to order him to quit screwing around and answer her question. He tosses her a riddle and vacates. The blink-and-you-miss-it look on her face seconds later suggests she was indeed winding up a third Shut UP, Hannibal In case you needed her to validate her previous claim to being a Retired Badass.

Rainbow Dash: Alright, Princess!

Shopkeeper: I won't let you take away my discovery! I'm the good guy here!
Ms. Noceda: Yeah, a lot of bad guys say that. (And then belts him one.)

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