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{{trope}}
{{quote|'''Evil Blah''': I have defeated Super Blah! Now nothing can stop me! I will [[Take Over the World]]! I am invincible! [[Evil Laugh|Ahahahahahaha]]... I can, umm...
'''Evil Blah''': ... what the hell are you doing here?
'''Zeeky H. Bomb''': [[Catch Phrase|Zeeky boogy doog]]!
|'''''[[The Demented Cartoon Movie]]'''''}}
The famous last words of any villain at the height of their power, just before the tide begins to turn in favor of the heroes and everything starts to go wrong for the villain, who can then only scream "[[Big No|Noooo!]] [[This Cannot Be!|This can't be happening!]]"
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Heroes, on the other hand, should avoid saying anything like "[[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]?"
A form of [[Tempting Fate]]. Compare [[Nothing Can Save Us Now]] and [[Retirony]]. Also see [[
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'': Curiously, [[The Dragon|Baron Ashura]] tends to utters that sentence in two types of situation: when [[Big Bad]] Dr. Hell is showing another of his [[Robeast]]s to [[Two-Faced|him/her/it]] (cue Mazinger Z obliterating the Mechanical Beast twenty minutes later); or when one of his/her/its schemes succeeds or is about of succeeding. Examples of the second use are when a Mechanical Beast has utterly trashed Mazinger Z, when he managed to steal a sample of Alloy Z...
** On the other hand, [[The Dragon|Great Marshall of Hell]] from ''[[Great Mazinger]]'' was more careful about using it. Seemingly he learnt his lesson {{spoiler|since he was a resurrected Dr. Hell}}
* It is ''disturbingly'' frequently used by [[The Dragon|Prince Garuda]] from ''[[Combattler V]]''. When he {{spoiler|blew [[The Hero|Hyoma's]] arms off}}, when he blackmailed the Japanese Government in blowing up the Nanbara Connection -the HQ of the heroes-, when he deceiving the Japanese police to get the Combattler team under arrest... Some would think he would learn NOT tempting fate after the first time.
* ''[[
* ''[[Code Geass]]'': Lelouch has this happen to him on an almost episodic basis; whenever one of his 'flawless' plans nears completion, Lelouch gloats to himself that, "All the conditions have been cleared." Within seconds, something goes terribly wrong, commonly due to something that Lelouch couldn't have possibly known about beforehand.
* [[Smug Snake|Quattro]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'', after managing to keep the [[Kill Sat|Saint's Cradle]] running despite the destroyed engine, triumphantly announces "We're not finished yet!". Then Nanoha spots her. Cue [[Oh Crap]] moment.
* ''[[Noir]]'': You would almost think it was deliberate that they were writing off the "Daughter of Corsica" while she was driving a jeep towards them with a handgun on the passenger seat. Especially since they repeated the claim while she was entering their base.
* Inverted with {{spoiler|Asuka}} in ''[[End of Evangelion]]''. {{spoiler|After waking from her coma and discovering about the connection between her EVA and her mother, this trope is in play. Asuka was fighting very well but three factors would ensure her defeat, the [[Timed Mission|cut power supply]], the [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose|Mass Produced EVAs]], and the [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]. Cue [[Heroic RROD]] at [[Finagle's Law|THE]] [[Nightmare Fuel|worst possible moment]].}}
* ''[[Pokémon: Zoroark: Master of Illusions]]'': Grings Kodai finally {{spoiler|absorbs the Time Ripple he's been searching after his [[Evil Plan]] seems to go off flawlessly.}} Having a massive ego, he just can't help going into one of these rants in front of Ash, telling him that he'll get away with it and there's nothing anyone can do. {{spoiler|Turns out [[Spanner in
== Comic Books ==
* The villain at the end of Terry Moore's run on ''[[Runaways]]'' reached the conclusion of his villainous plot, monologued about being unstoppable after having grabbed Nico's Staff Of One (in direct violation of [[Evil Overlord List|Evil Overlord rule 89]]), and ''immediately'' gets eaten by a [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|giant dragon that pops out of the staff]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150906233117/http://comicbookdb.com/graphics/comic_graphics/1/44/28341_20060209135243_large.jpg This] ''[[Incredible Hulk]]'' cover
== Fan Works ==
* Brute Chieftain Malwreckus from ''[[Enemy of My Enemy (Fanfic)|
== Film ==
* ''[[
* ''[[
** Of course, proving that karma often works faster in movies than it does in real life, the Death Star's destruction is heralded by Grand Moff Tarkin's refusal to abandon the station in their "moment of triumph".
*** Before that, we get the following line from Darth Vader himself: "This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of [[The Obi-Wan|Kenobi]]; it will soon see the end of the Rebellion."
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*** ... [[Fridge Logic|who were outwitted by teddy bears]].
** Hey! Don't underestimate the power of the bears.
* The best use of "I am in''vin''cible!" is delivered by Boris Grishenko ([[Alan Cumming]]) in the [[James Bond (
** ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' has an example compared to this in Tsubarov's demise, where Tsubarov is laughing and claiming that his mobile dolls couldn't possibly be defeated. His last words were "I am invincible." The difference is that his mobile dolls had just been destroyed by Wufei Chang and the room he was in was crumbling and ''clearly about to blow up'' due to Wufei's berserk attack on the base.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* A classic cinematic example occurs at the end of ''Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry'' {{spoiler|As their car speeds away, Larry declares, "Ain't nothing gonna stop us!" The car then broadsides a freight train and explodes.}}
* Subverted in ''[[A Bridge Too Far]]'': it is a ''Nazi'' officer who says in horror "Nothing can stop them now", the 'them' being the Allied tanks crossing the bridge he has just failed to blow up. As it happens they are in fact stopped later and we get a [[Downer Ending]].
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* A heroic version occurs twice in ''[[Tremors]]''.
** As Val and Earl are leaving Perfection for Bixby:
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[They encounter two dead bodies -- the first warning of the Graboid threat] }}
** After returning to warn Perfection about the murders, they head for Bixby again to get the police:
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[When they get to where a crew was doing roadwork, they find an avalanche blocking passage and a dead road crew] }}
* ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'' had a lot of these.
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** "You can't crush a cockroach!"
** The {{spoiler|AI system of the Alien's ship has a security system that functions just like DDR.}} After the AI declares her security code unbreakable, {{spoiler|Dr. Cockroach busts out the moves and unlocks the system.}}
* In ''[[Batman:
* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End'' as Mercer tells Cutler Beckett: "There's nothing that can stand against the armada, not with the Flying Dutchman at the lead." Beckett quickly replies: [[Genre Savvy|"Nothing we ''know'' of."]]
** {{spoiler|They did not know of Calypso.}}
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* ''[[The Last Starfighter]]''. Xur, the resident [[Big Bad]], receives an incomplete transmission from Earth saying simply "The last Starfighter...". He automatically completes the sentence himself: "...is dead. The last Starfighter is dead. Nothing Can Stop Us Now!" No prizes for guessing how that worked out for him.
* Uttered by Professor Z, [[The Dragon]] of ''[[Cars]] 2''. Cue Finn McMissile's arrival.
* The big song of ''[[
* ''The Man Called Flintstone''. When the Green Goose learns that the good guys' anti-missile missile isn't operational yet, he orders that his missile be prepared to fire and says "Nobody can stop me now!"
* ''[[Flash Gordon (
* [[Aladdin (Disney film)|''Aladdin: The Return of Jafar'']]: "Give it up, boy. You can never have my lamp, and there is no one here to save you this time." Cue [[Heel Face Turn|Iago.]]
* Loki gives one of these to Tony Stark just before the Chitauri invasion in ''[[The Avengers]]''. True to form, Tony never loses his cool.
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'''Tony:''' We have [[The Incredible Hulk|a
== Literature ==
* In ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'', (The book is even ''named'' ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'') Doctor Impossible has defeated the heroes and his nemesis and his [[Doomsday Device]] is working perfectly...
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"So much for CoreFire. And so much for those wretched Champions!"
Then, right behind me, someone clears their throat, and I freeze.
"Well, almost." }}
* In ''[[Artemis Fowl
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':
** "Two To Go," in the finale the following occurs:
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'''Giles''': ''(appears behind her)'' I'd like to test that theory. }}
** The above exchange is repeated in an issue of the Buffy Season 8 comic, with a nice twist:
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'''Willow''': As a friend of mine once said... I'd like to test that theory. }}
** Cue literal [[Curb Stomp Battle]].
** At first it seems like a subversion, since Giles ''doesn't'' stop Willow. She beats him fairly soundly and steals the magical power he was using. But it's actually a straight example, because Giles' defeat was part of his [[Xanatos Gambit]] to get Willow to stop herself.
** An example of this presumed causation working its way into the text: the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Spiral". Dawn reassures Buffy that things can't get worse. Immediately, an arrow flies into their RV. Buffy tells Dawn, "This is your fault for saying that!"
* Near the beginning of the sixth season of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'', Gul Dukat has a particularly good one just before Sisko gets the wormhole aliens to destroy the Jem'hadar fleet. This is followed by a very bad villainous BSOD, worsened when one of Dukat's officers shoots his daughter Ziyal for betraying the Cardassian-Dominion alliance by breaking a group of terrorists out of prison. At the end, Dukat, having gone over the course of the episode from the effective leader of the Cardassian empire and one of the three most powerful beings in the Alpha Quadrant to a war criminal in a prison cell, has obviously cracked and is huddled up in the corner of the prison talking to Ziyal.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
** Lampshaded in "The Satan Pit":
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** A [[So Bad It's Good]] example from the original series. Outrageously accented [[Mad Scientist]] Professor Zaroff cackling "Nuzzink in ze vorld can shtop me now!!!"
** Or the Rani's "I have the Loyhargil! Nothing can stop me now!"
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*** Except for the bit where he manages to save all six billion people on Earth.
** One from the new series, "Journey's End":
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** To be fair, he
** In "Parting of the Ways":
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** [[Doctor Who
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* In the British automotive series ''[[Top Gear]]'', the team of presenters is frequently given an automotive
*** Wouldn't the example be an actual subversion, considering that Clarkson in each of these boat challenges, is the only one to actually make a seaworthy vehicle? (and I still think he capsized the "Toyboata" on purpose to allow him to use a more refined design in the next iteration, but I digress...)
** This has been [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in several episodes. In the first episode of the series' 9th season, (the episode in which Hammond returned after recovering from a serious brain injury sustained in a dragster crash), Clarkson ended his introduction to a challenge with the fateful words
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'''Richard Hammond:''' [''dramatically''] Oh, how I've missed the pang of dread every time you say the words "''How hard can it be?''" }}
** And in another episode later that season:
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'''Richard Hammond:''' ''Don't'' say that! }}
* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'': In the episode "Two For One", the Red Dragon Thunderzord is getting its skidplate handed to it by Lipsyncher, to the point where it can no longer stand. Lord Zedd proclaims, "Victory is mine." Cut to the other Rangers arriving on the scene and summoning their own Thunderzords to back up the Red Dragon.
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== Music ==
* The [[Nine Inch Nails]] album ''The Downward Spiral'' uses the line
** Both instances of the line also mark the two distinctive stages of the character's descent into insanity: Piggy's ending marks the beginning of his God-complex, and Ruiner's ending marks the beginning of his purely nihilistic side taking control. Adding even more irony to the situation is the fact that the line is cut short at the end of Ruiner.
** The recurrence of this phrase spills over in
** ''The Fragile''{{'}}s "We're In This Together Now" also features the phrase "None of them can stop us now".
** And then "nothing can stop us now" showed up on the back of Trent Reznor's ''wedding invitations'' (much to the horror/amusement of the fanbase).
** The exact phrase "Nothing Can Stop Us Now" can also be found in the song Sunspots, from With Teeth.
* In ''[[
*
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''Holding out for free will
''The strong dare to echo
''Nothing can stop
''Nothing can stop us now }}
* Laibach's ''B Mashina'':
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''Thunder in us
''There is no force no money and no power
''To stop us now and change our fate
''Before we rise }}
* ''We Are All Made of Stars'' by [[Moby]]
{{quote|''People they come together
* Starship's ''Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now''.▼
''People they fall apart
''No one can stop us now
''{{'}}Cause we are all made of stars.}}
* "Only the Devil Can Stop Us Now" by Conquest of Steel. Granted, their protagonists are in [[Fire and Brimstone Hell|the one place]] where this particular encounter is not only possible, but in fact [[True Final Boss|expected]].
* "Empress" by [[Gamma Ray]], sort of:
{{quote|''My heart is crying out, the fever rising
''No one can stop me now, it's mesmerizing }}
* "Ghost Rider" by [[Rush (band)|Rush]]
{{quote|''There's a shadow on the road behind
''There's a shadow on the road ahead
''Nothing can stop you now
''Nothing can stop you now}}
==
* A rare non-villain example is found in ''[[Bye Bye Birdie]]'', where Rosie says to herself, "Oh, Rosie, nothing can stop you now!" Cue her fiance's mom walking onto the stage. Probably one of the funniest moments in the play.
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** But the Arbiter appearing at the same time near the control room sure did.
** In ''[[Halo]] 3'', after Truth's plans to cause galactic omnicide are stopped, Gravemind chimes in that his are still on track:
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* In ''[[
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* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Captain SNES]]'', the simple fact of saying "I'm Invincible!" leads to an instant defeat, to the point that ''[[Invoked Trope|tricking the opponent into saying it]]'' (such as saying "I'm Invisible" and waiting for them to correct) is a valid battle tactic.
* In
** As does Mopey [http://www.bmoviecomic.com/?cid=585 here].
== Web Original ==
* Used in ''[[Kate Modern]]: Precious Blood'', where it illustrates the villain's [[Villainous Breakdown|insanity]], since his plan consists of blowing up the building and [[Taking You
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'''{{spoiler|Terrence}}:''' See, that's where you're wrong, Steven. This is exactly how it's gonna happen. Nothing can stop me now. I'm invincible, Steven, you hear me? }}
* From the ''[[Evil Overlord List]]'':
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▲* [[Enemy of My Enemy (Fanfic)|Brute Chieftain Malwreckus]] adopts this attitude, laughing triumphantly as his [[Humongous Mecha|Scarab]] busts through Horizon's defensive wall... {{spoiler|and wanders right into point-blank range of some artillery cannons. Bang.}}
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** Parodied in"$pringfield", in which Mr. Burns and Mayor Quimby build a casino. Burns - who has become extremely germophobic - remarks "Nothing can stop me now... except microscopic germs. But we won't let that happen." It doesn't: even after Homer wrecks the casino, Burns returns to the power plant because he misses it.
** Parodied with reference to ''[[Westworld]]'' and ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' when the family are flown out to the [[The Itchy and Scratchy Show|Itchy And Scratchy]] Land theme park:
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* Subverted in the animated movie ''
* Was turned into a running gag on ''[[Drawn Together]]''. Every time Spanky says "Nothing can possibly go wrong!", something inevitably does.
* Goes double for humor of ''[[The Fairly
* At the end of the ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' episode "The Earth King" {{spoiler|the usually [[Genre Savvy]] Sokka says "Come on. What could possibly go wrong?". Cue cuts to different plot revealing ways it will, by Ba Sing Se being taken over by [[Magnificent Bastard|Azula]] and the Fire Nation}}.
* Somewhat used in the original ''[[Transformers]]'': The [[Combining Mecha]] Devastator always claimed to be unstoppable upon forming. Over the course of the series, he was defeated by everything from the Autobots to ''two of the cassettes''.
* Dr. Drakken in ''[[Kim Possible]]'' is prone to this, to the point that his sidekick Shego [[Genre Savvy|will try to stop him saying it]].
* In a variation of this, ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' had one character die a couple episodes after discovering his own [[Plot Armor]]. Though technically speaking {{spoiler|it was his friend that said they were immortal, the one that actually died wasn't nearly as arrogant, and even called him out for [[Tempting Fate]]}}.
* ''[[Jem and The Holograms]]'':
** In "Totally Outrangous: Part 1 - The Beginning"
** Used straight by Eric when he's dealing with mob in "Intrigue At Indy 500", just after saying that, the host of the party announces that driver the mob was afraid
** Used straight again by Eric when talking to the Misfits in "Glitter N' Gold"—thought he doesn't get screw right after saying that.
** The Stingers in the team-up song, "Now", sings "Now, (now,) nobody can beat us".
* Another rare non-villain moment: during the ''[[The Backyardigans]]'' episode "Catch the Butterfly", Pablo, Tyrone and Uniqua sing a song called "How Hard Can It Be?" {{spoiler|as the coach, currently floating on a river, falls into pieces.}} Lampshaded during the song:
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'''Uniqua:''' ''Let's do just one more verse!'' }}
* In ''[[Captain Planet and
* ''[[Donkey Kong Country (
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*the barrel falls on him*
'''Krusha:''' He definitely said now this time. I heard him. He said "now." }}
* ''[[
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'''Stiletto''': And what is that, Barony?
'''Greenback''': That idiot narrator
'''Narrator''': And tune in next time for the next exciting installment of ''The Invasion of Colonel K''! }}
* ''[[
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* ''[[Teen Titans (
* Discord from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** And Nightmare Moon even gives a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X3Rj2uLPgk speech] on that.
** Queen Chrysalis gives a similar speech during the second season finale when she manages to {{spoiler|defeat the Mane Six and Celestia}} and is posed to take over all of Equestria. {{spoiler|Minutes later, she's defeated by the same [[The Power of Love|Power of Love]] [[Hoist
* ''[[
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** Two weeks after the Attack on Pearl Harbor, [[The Nazis|Goebbels]] wrote "We hardly find it necessary today to rely on a belief in our national invincibility to predict that victory is certain and inevitable." Then came [[Shocking Defeat Legacy|Midway, Stalingard, and El Alamein.]]
** The Allies expected the war to be over by Christmas after the Normandy landings.
** Herman Goering, Air Marshall of the ''Luftwaffe'', was heard to boast that the ''Luftwaffe'' would easily brush aside the British Royal Air Force and ensure uncontested German supremacy of the skies for a German invasion of Britain. Turns out, the RAF had other ideas.
* There was an indie band called Repliforce. Their motto was "No one can stop us" (this and their name are references to ''[[
* There have been several ships named ''HMS Invincible''. Of these, one was wrecked off the coast of Norfolk, another sank during a storm, and another blew up when exchanging fire with a German warship during [[World War I]].
** Subverted with the most recent ship to bear the name, which served 25 years as the flagship of the Royal Navy and was never even damaged prior to its retirement. It should also be pointed out that it belonged to the Invincible Class of Ships, which all made it to
* [[Napoleon]] had the following proclamation to the Belgians and the inhabitants of the (German) left bank of the Rhine printed after crossing the French border in 1815. The entire print run was captured by the pursuing allies after the battle of Waterloo (which took place on June 18 several miles ''south'' of Brussels and Laeken):
{{quote|The ephemeral successes of my enemies have detached you for a moment from my empire. In my exile on a rock in the sea I heard you pleas: the god of battles has decided the fate of your fair provinces.
Napoleon is in your midst: you are worthy to be French.
Rise up in masses, join my invincible ranks to exterminate the remnants of these barbarians who are your enemies and mine; they are fleeing with rage and despair in their hearts.|In the imperial palace of Laeken, June 17, 1815. Napoleon.}}
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