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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbIlLmCID5g The 100 Best Movie Threats of All Time]
* [[The Addams Family (TV)|The Addams Family]] motto from the Raul Julia movies. ''[[Pretentious Latin Motto|"Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (We gladly feast on those who would subdue us)"]]''
** Even more badass because we see Wednesday actually roasting two guys who tried to subdue her in preparation to feast on them.
** There's also his speech in Addams Family Values when Gomez tries to go to the police to get Fester back.
{{quote| '''Gomez Addams:''' Has the planet gone mad? My brother, passion's hostage. I seek justice! Denied. I shall not submit! I shall conquer! I shall rise! My name is Gomez Addams, and I have seen evil! I have seen horror! I have seen the unholy maggots which feast in the dark recesses of the human soul! I have seen all this, officer. But until today, I had never seen ''you''!}}
* ''[[Beowulf (Filmfilm)|Beowulf]]'' -- "I am Ripper... Tearer... Slasher... Gouger! I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength... and Lust... and Power! [[This Is Sparta|I! AM! BEOWULF!!]]"
* Gene Hackman's call-and-response boast near the beginning of ''[[Crimson Tide]]'' counts.
* ''[[Unforgiven]]'':
{{quote| '''Little Bill:''' You be William Munny outta Missouri. Killer of women and children!<br />
'''Will Munny:''' That's right. I killed women and children. Killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned. }}
* ''[[Gladiator (Filmfilm)|Gladiator]]'':
{{quote| "My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."}}
* The third ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movie had this, when Michael Caine intimidated a [[Mook]] this way.
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* In ''[[Brick]]'', Brenden Frye offers up a pretty good one when squared off against half a dozen potheads. Notable in that this is the only time he does this.
{{quote| "Throw one at me if you want, hash head. I've got all five senses and I slept last night, that puts me six up on the lot of you."}}
* [[Buddy Holly (Music)|Buddy Holly]] and Death trade some good ones before their final fight in ''[[Six String Samurai (Film)|Six String Samurai]]:''
{{quote| '''Buddy:''' Who are you?<br />
'''Death:''' Death.<br />
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{{quote| ''"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that will be the end of it. But if you don't, I will look for you. I '''will''' find you. And I will ''kill'' you."''}}
** This used to be the quote topper for the [[Badass Boast]] main page.
* ''[[Tron Legacy (Film)|Tron: Legacy]]'' had a great example of this trope when Sam Flynn invades Clu's headquarters:
{{quote| '''Black Guard Program:''' Identify yourself, program.<br />
'''[[Big Damn Heroes|Sam Flynn]]:''' I am not a program. My name's Sam Flynn... (''cue the [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|off-screen ass-kicking]]'') }}
* Liam Neeson's been getting a lot of these. In the film version of ''[[The a A-Team (Filmfilm)|The a Team]]'', Hannibal and crew, after having broken out of various detention facilities, walk onto the rear of a C-130 and asks, "Do you know who I am?" "You're Hannibal Smith." "Do you know what that means?" "You're, uh, taking the plane?" "Bingo." Cue aircrew leaving the plane without offering any resistance.
* ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' had a great one:
{{quote| '''Creedy:''' What'cha gonna do, uh? We've swept this place, you've got nothing. Nothing but your bloody knives and your fancy karate gimmicks, we have guns!<br />
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'''V:''' With my hands around your neck. }}
** Pay extra attention to that scene and you'll notice that Creedy [[Oh Crap|takes an appropriate step backwards]] during the boast... Oh yeah, and it ends with this exchange;
{{quote| '''Creedy:''' Die! (''bang'') Die! (''bang bang'') Why won't you die!? (''bang bang bang click click'') [[Why Won't You Die?|Why won't you die?]]<br />
'''V:''' Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an ''idea'', Mr. Creedy, and ''ideas are bulletproof''. }}
* Ratatouille's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSoHkadTAxc Anton Ego]
* Cris Johnson in ''Next'': "I've seen every possible ending. None of them are good for you."
* Jen in ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'', while [[Curb Stomp Battle|beating up an inn full of warriors]], gets a pretty good one (loosely translated): "Who am I? I am the invincible sword goddess, armed with the incredible [[Infinity+1 Sword|Green Destiny]]. Be you Li or Southern Crane, bow your head and ask for mercy. I am the desert dragon. I leave no trace. Today I fly over Eu-Mei, tomorrow I’ll kick over Wudan Mountain!"
* ''[[X -Men (Filmfilm)|X Men]] 3'': "Don't you know who I am? [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|I'm the Juggernaut, bitch]]!" [[Ascended Meme|Taken from the "humorous" internet shorts.]]
* A badass boast was pretty much a prerequisite to be a cowboy in ''[[Tombstone]]''.
{{quote| '''Wyatt Earp:''' All right, Clanton... You called down the thunder. Well, now you've got it! You see that? It says "United States Marshal."... Take a good look at him, Ike, because that's how you're gonna end up!... The Cowboys are finished, you understand me?! I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it! So run, you cur... RUN! Tell all the other curs the LAW'S coming! You tell 'em I'M coming... and Hell's coming with me, you hear?! '''Hell's coming with me!'''}}
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'''Clerk''' (nervously: Yes, I suppose I am.<br />
'''Hayes''': Good, 'cause I am one. And a damn good one. Oh, I never flew the skull and crossbones, that's for your fictioneers. But I have sought pleasure and profit in every port known to man, without regard to any man's law. That's not to say without morals and standards. I've got morals and standards. I've never killed anyone who didn't have it coming, I've never cheated an honest man, I've never pillaged and I've never raped. }}
* John Herod ([[Gene Hackman]]) in ''[[The Quick and Thethe Dead]]'': "This is my town! If you live to see the dawn, it's because I allow it!"
* From ''[[Serenity (Film)|Serenity]]''
{{quote| '''Mal''': "I don't murder children."<br />
'''The Operative''': "I do. If I have to." }}
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'''Jayne''': -fires down the stairs with his machine gun-<br />
'''Vault Guard''': ... Ok! }}
* ''[[The DevilsDevil's Rejects]]''
** Otis B. Driftwood ([[Bill Moseley]]):
*** "I am the devil, and I am here to do the devil's work."
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* ''[[Hudson Hawk]]'': "We blow up space shuttles for breakfast. You and your friend Tommy are nothing more than a mid-afternoon Triscuit."
* Captain Gordon in ''[[Godzilla]] Final Wars'': "Listen kid, there are two things you didn't know about the Earth. One is me, the other is Godzilla."
* In ''[[Tall Tale (Filmfilm)|Tall Tale]]'' it's no surprise there's some of these. Pecos Bill gets a particularly awesome one ([[Crazy Awesome|done while lassoing a tornado]]).
{{quote| '''Pecos Bill:''' I am a ring-tailed roarer! I can draw faster, shoot straighter, ride harder, and drink longer than any man alive! I'm the rip-snortingest cowboy that ever rode north, south, east, or west of the Rio Grande! I'm Pecos Bill! ''Yee-haw!''}}
* From ''[[Kill Bill]]'': "I can tell you with no ego, this is my finest sword. If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut. "
* Westley's [[To the Pain]] challenge in ''[[The Princess Bride (Filmfilm)|The Princess Bride]]''. He knew Humperdinck was a coward, was too weak to stand, but still...that challenge was [[Badass Boast]] on its own.
** "Hello. My name is Iñigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
* Jim Malone from ''[[The Untouchables]]'', giving advice on how to fight the mob.
{{quote| You wanna get Capone? Here's how you get him. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone!}}
* ''[[Aguirre the Wrath of God (Film)|Aguirre, the Wrath of God]]'': "I am the great traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks of deserting this mission will be hacked into 198 pieces. Those pieces will be trampled until what is left can be used only to paint walls. Whoever takes one grain of corn or one drop of water more than his ration will be locked up for 155 years. If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees... then the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the wrath of god. The earth I pass will see me and tremble. But whoever follows me and the river will win untold riches."
* [[Christopher Walken|Vincent Cacardi]] in ''[[True Romance]]'': "I am the Anti-Christ. You get me in a vendetta-kind-of mood, you tell the angels in heaven you never saw evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you."
* ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (Film)|Last of the Mohicans]]'': "When the Grey Hair is dead, Magua will eat his heart. Before he dies, Magua will put his children under the knife, so the Grey Hair will know his seed is wiped out forever."
* ''[[Alien (Filmfranchise)|Aliens]]'': Hudson attempts one using the word "badass" itself as much as possible. It is centered around the [[More Dakka]] available from the APC and the [[Drop Ship]], which is why the loss of both due to an Alien ambush (which proves the Xenomorphs are not only inhuman and deadly, but SNEAKY!) leads straight to his [[Heroic BSOD]].
* Sarah in ''[[Labyrinth (Film)|Labyrinth]]'': "Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the goblin city, for my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great....You have no power over me." Slightly subverted in that they're actually lines from a play she'd been rehearsing, but when she has her epiphany, she makes them her own and they gain true power.
* From ''[[Chicago]]'', the lawyer Billy Flynn:
{{quote| '''Billy Flynn''': "I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently."}}
* ''[[Three Hundred300]]'' uses the famous Spartan boast from Herodotus' ''[[HistoriesThe (Literature)Histories|Histories]]'':
{{quote| '''Persian''' Our arrows will blot out the sun! <br />
'''Stelios:''' Then we will fight in the shade! }}
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{{quote| '''Cedric''': "Show me a Norman throat! Can Saxons fight?"<br />
'''Ivanhoe''': "All day and through the night!" }}
* The [[Archangel Gabriel]] in ''[[The Prophecy (Filmfilm)|The Prophecy]]'':
{{quote| I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding ''why''.}}
* Nada's famous line from ''[[They Live]]'': "I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass. And I'm all out of bubblegum."
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* Auda Abu Tayi in ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'':
{{quote| "I carry twenty-three great wounds, all got in battle. Seventy-five men have I killed with my own hands in battle. I scatter, I burn my enemies' tents. I take away their flocks and herds. The Turks pay me a golden treasure, yet I am poor! Because *I* am a river to my people!"}}
* ''[[The One (Filmfilm)|The One]]'':
{{quote| '''Yulaw''': I am Yulaw! I am ''nobody's'' bitch! ''You'' are mine. I don't need to know you. You only need to know me. I will be The One!}}
* In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', this is sort of done by proxy when the accountant is trying to blackmail Wayne and Fox, and Fox says:
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{{quote| '''Wombosi''': If they want to kill me, they'd better kill me the first time! They'd better kill me dead! They'd better kill me when I'm in my sleep!}}
** Ironically, he's immediately killed by a sniper.
* The 2008 movie ''[[Bolt (Disney)|Bolt]]''
{{quote| '''Rhino:''' I eat danger for breakfast!<br />
'''Bolt:''' You hungry?<br />
'''Rhino:''' ''Starving!!'' }}
* ''[[Commando (Filmfilm)|Commando]]''
{{quote| '''Cook''': "You scared mutha-fucker? This Green Beret's gonna kick yo ass!"<br />
'''Arnold''': "I eat Green Berets for breakfast, and right now I'm VERY hungry!"<br />
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* ''[[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy]]'':
{{quote| '''Ron''': I don't know how to put this, but...I'm kind of a big deal. People know me. I'm very important. I own many leather-bound books, and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.}}
* ''[[Highlander (Film)|Highlander]]'': " I have something to say! It's better to burn out... than to fade away!" and also "Now you die!"
* There are a few in ''[[The Magnificent Seven (Film)|The Magnificent Seven]]'', but Steve McQueen as Vin gets the best one, during the seven's first confrontation with Calvera:
{{quote| '''Vin:''' We deal in lead, friend.}}
* From ''[[The Avengers (Filmfilm)|The Avengers]]'':
{{quote| '''Loki:''' We have an army.<br />
'''Tony Stark:''' We have a ''Hulk''. }}
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* ''[[Advent Children]]'':
{{quote| '''Rufus Shinra:''' So go on. Bring your Jenova's and your Sephiroth's. It won't matter. We'll do as life dictates and stop you every single time.}}
* ''[[Brave (Animation)|Brave]]'':
{{quote| '''Merida:''' I am Merida! And ''I'll'' be shooting for my ''own'' hand!}}
* Frederick Frankenstein has one in ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'' as he's about to bring his [[Frankenstein's Monster|Creature]] to life.
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