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{{quote|'''Akane:''' What did you say, you little sardine?!
'''Ranma:''' Shut it, savage woman! }}
== Comic Books ==
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"The air is foul in your abode!"
"Your ego needs its own zip-code!" }}
== Fan Works ==
* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer
{{quote|"I am beyond houses today, git."
"Bastard."
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It was quiet for several minutes.
"Hippogriff fucker." Snape hissed.}}
* A truly classic example can be seen in the "complicated traditional word-war" in which Shampoo and Hilda the Chinese Viking engage during chapter 17 of the ''[[Ranma ½]]'' [[Original Flavour]] fic ''[[Girl Days]]'' by Rob "Kenko" Haynie. True to the trope, it starts out lame and goes south from there, aided by both girls' [[Hulk Speak|limited grasp of Japanese]]:
{{quote|Shampoo and Hilda were, well, not being particularly nice.
Not nice at all.
"Horny Girl."
"Stupid Amazon."
"Horny Girl."
"Stupid Amazon BITCH."
"Horny SLUTTY Girl."
...
"Stupid UGLY Amazon bitch!"
"Horny slutty GOOFY girl!"
...
"Stupid ugly SILLY Amazon bitch!"
"Horny slutty goofy FAT girl!"
...
"Stupid ugly silly nasty no-talent Amazon bitch!"
"Horny slutty goofy fat mean geeky girl!"
[[I Take Offense to That Last One|"Who you call geeky?"]]
"Shampoo call horny slutty goofy fat mean geeky girl geeky!"
...
"Stupid ugly silly nasty no-talent flat-chested Amazon bitch!"
"Horny slutty goofy fat mean geeky trampy girl!"}}
== Film ==
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'''Phillips''': Pus licker!
'''Ham Porter''': Fart smeller! }}
== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
* ''[[Year of the Griffin]]'' displays this with Felim and the Emir of a far off land. When they meet towards the end of the book, they begin yelling various insults at each other about how their maternal ancestors were different animals. (Your mother was a camel!) It is later revealed that {{spoiler|the two are brothers and insulting their own mothers, grandmothers, etc.}}
* ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'': something of a hobby among most of the main characters, Foaly and Mulch in particular.
* [[The Bartimaeus Trilogy|Bartimaeus]] and Nathaniel, nigh-constantly.
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* The [[The Icelandic Sagas|Icelandic Saga]] of Gunnlaug Viper-Tongue (''Gunnlaugs saga ormstungu''). A major part of the story is Gunnlaugur confronting his rival in front of the king of Norway and them doing the ancient equivalent of freestyle battle rapping to see who the king favours.
* Mudge gets something of a [[Moment of Awesome]] in ''[[Spellsinger|The Paths of the Perambulator]]'', when the world-saving heroes are trapped by a [[It Makes Sense in Context|magical cage built of insults]]. Only Mudge is a sufficient maestro of put-downs to volley the cage's slurs back at it, with each diss's intensity turned [[Up to Eleven]], until it disperses.
* In ''[[Bored of the Rings]]'', Gimlet and Legolam frequently trade lame epithets.
{{quote|"Elf-dog," hissed Gimlet, retrieving his beard.
"Pig of a dwarf," suggested Legolam.
"Toymaker."
"Gold-digger."
"Flit."
"Wart." }}
== Live-Action TV ==
* The entire concept of Rob Newman and David Baddiel's ''History Today'' sketches on ''[[The Mary Whitehouse Experience]]'', featuring two history professors insulting each other like schoolchildren; "That's you, that is..."
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Doomsday", the leader of the Daleks and the Cyberleader take turns insulting each other after the Dalek refuses an alliance. What makes this particularly fun is that both communicate in [[Robo Speak]]. Mickey sums it up: "It's like Stephen Hawking meets the speaking clock."
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* [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] ''and'' [[Invoked Trope|invoked]] in the very first episode of ''[[Welcome Back, Kotter]]'', in which Mr. Kotter contrasts the differences between the 1950s and 1970s versions of "The Dozens" by engaging Barbarino in an exchange of insults. (Kotter uses [[Your Mom|"your mother"]] attacks as examples of the 50s, Barbarino uses the immortal "Up your nose with a rubber hose".)
== Oral
* ''Flytings'' are found in [[Norse Mythology]], the most memorable being ''Lokasenna'' ("The Insults of Loki") in which Loki insults every single god in the pantheon, and is only quelled when Thor threatens to smash his head in.
** Another classic flyting is the exchange between Thor and Harbard the Ferryman (actually {{spoiler|Odin}} in disguise).
* In the African epic ''Sundiata'' the eponymous hero does this with his [[Worthy Opponent]].
== Theatre ==
* Appears in the ancient Greek comedy ''[[The Clouds]]'' by [[Aristophanes]].
* Several examples from the works of Shakespeare:
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* In ''[[The Threepenny Opera]]'', Lucy and Polly try to out-do each other in the Jealousy Duet, while fighting over Macheath.
=== Musical and Opera ===
* The following from ''[[1776]]'':
{{quote|'''John Dickinson''': Are you calling me a coward?
'''John Adams''': Yes! Coward!
'''Dickinson''': Madman!
'''Adams''': Landlord!
'''Dickinson''': Lawyer!
Which, from there, leads to the two whaling away at each other with their walking sticks in a donnybrook that can only be broken up by gunfire. In Congress. Some things never change. }}
* In ''Keating! The Musical'' a song called ''On The Floor'' is a rap-battle of volleying insults between Paul Keating and John Hewson. It's all the funnier because all the insults are things they actually said.
* Gyorgy Ligeti's operatic [[Mind Screw]] masterpiece ''Le Grand Macabre'' has this embarassing scene where the Black and the White Ministers trade insults with each other—alphabetically, from A to W, because they cannot think of anything that start with X, Y or Z.
{{quote|'''White''': Arse-licker! Arse-kisser!
'''Black''': Blackmailer! Bloodsucker!
'''White''': Chalatan! Clodhopper!
'''Black''': Driveller! Dodderer! }}
* In [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s last opera, THE GRAND DUKE, the duet of Rudolph and Ludwig:
{{quote|Ludwig. Tall snobs, small snobs, rich snobs and needy ones!
Rudolph. (jostling him) Whom are you alluding to?
Ludwig. (jostling him) Where are you intruding to?
Rudolph. Fat snobs, thin snobs, swell snobs and seedy ones!
Ludwig. I rather think you err. To whom do you refer?
Rudolph. Ludwig.
To you, sir!
To me, sir?
I do, sir!
We’ll see, sir!
I jeer, sir!
(Makes a face at Ludwig.)
Grimace, sir!
Look here, sir –
(Makes a face at Rudolph.)
A face, sir!
The joke is that they are only PRETENDING to insult each other, to furnish an excuse for the "statutory duel" of the subtitle }}
* Also, in Gilbert's [[Cox and Box]], the duet "Who are you, sir?" followed by "Printer, printer"
== Video Games ==
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'''Imoen:''' Aw, gee. Thanks, Korgan! }}
== Web Comics ==
* [[Honeydew Syndrome]] shows this between Josh and Metis in the last scene of Chapter 5.
* [[Metanoia]] has Star and Zander doing this a few times.
* [[Misfile]] has a round of this between Ash and Tom before their last race.
{{quote|'''Tom''': Say, why don't you wear something sexy some time? I keep mistaking you for a boy. Maybe if you showed some cleavage I'd feel bad and go easy on you."
'''Ash''': Damn. Looks like my plan backfired. Everyone at school was saying you were into boys. Then again, I kinda like the boy look. You ought to try it sometime. Now shut up and let's race. }}
* [[Ozy and Millie]] had a friendly version of this in one strip, in one of their games: iambic pentameter slam.
* [[The Dreamer]] has Alexander and Beatrice do this [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|in spades]].
* In ''[[Rusty and Co.|Rusty and Co]]'', [http://rustyandco.com/comic/level2/level-2-17/ this is a pirate duel.]
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209183204/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1813 Seymour and Lil' E trade cynical and idealistic cliches.]
== Web Original ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130927224738/http://www.bash.org/?23396 The top-rated quote] on Bash.org is a somewhat meta version.
* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] and Angry Video Game Nerd do this in their first brawl.
* [[The Nostalgia Chick]], Nella and Tammy use the Wii FIT to insult the hell out of each other instead of just using it for exercise.
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'''Vegeta''': Pretty big talk, coming from a bipedal slug.
'''Nail''': Big talk, coming from a bipedal ''bitch''. }}
== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[South Park]]'' runs nuts on this trope, usually revolving around Cartman. After about season 4 or so, any scene featuring him and Kyle has about a 50% chance of devolving into an exchange of insults focusing on Kyle's Judaism and Cartman's weight.
* Ed and Edd exchange this in ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' over a hunk of rotting cheese Ed keeps in his jacket. But Ed's only insult he made was "STINKY HAT!"
== Real Life ==
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