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* ''Of course'' [[Doctor Doom]] plays this every chance he gets.

* From ''Legion of 3 Worlds'' #2, when Mordru is angry at Super<s>brat</s>man-Prime's appearance:

'''Mordru''': What? }}

* In [[Sandman]], Desire starts in on Dream for banishing Nada to hell, earning a cold "You...dare..." from Dream. Desire's totally unimpressed.

* In one of the ''Avengers'' Heroic Age comics where the Avengers are battling Apocalypse, Iron Man traps him in a forcefield. Cue the following exchange

'''Iron Man''': I dares. }}

 

* In ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'', the [[Big Bad|head Blue Meanie]] asks [[Who Dares?]] bring music back into Pepperland. [[The Dragon]], Max, first answers, "Rachmaninoff?"; this gets him blasted and stomped. He next suggests "Guy Lombardo?"

* In the movie adaptation of ''Hogfather'', {{smallcaps|Death}}'s [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] against the Auditors.

* ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' has a(n [[Anti-Hero|anti]])heroic example. During the final confrontation with Oogie, Jack bellows "How '''DARE''' you treat my friends so '''shamefully!?'''" in the most righteously indignant way possible.

** [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Bonus points]] for it being {{spoiler|a [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]]}}.

* The Cave of Wonders in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'': "Who disturbs my slumber?"

* Dracula's first line in ''[[The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires]]'' after he is woken from his slumber:

* [[Conan the Barbarian]].

* In more a [[Shout-Out|homage]] to this trope than anything, at the start of the climax of ''[[Megamind]]'', as the titular character finally realises it's {{spoiler|worth risking everything to correct his mistakes}}, the [[Heel Face Turn|former Supervillain]] announces his presence in the most dramatic, villan-esq way possible...

YOU '''DARE''' CHALLENGE '''''MEGAMIND?''''' }}

 

* ''[[Baldur's Gate|Baldurs Gate 2]]''

** [[Magnificent Bastard|Irenicus]] says this exact line when you interrupt his [[A God Am I|plans for ascension]].

'''Player Character:''' ''I'' dare! }}

** He gets an earlier one [[Curb Stomp Battle|while slaughtering the Shadow Thieves]] after you escape from [[Fan Nickname|Chateau Irenicus]]:

* [[Runescape]]

'''Dragonkin:''' We dare. }}

* [[Warcraft|"Who dares defile these ancient lands? Who dares the wrath of Cenarius and the night elves?"]]

** [[World of Warcraft|"Who dares awaken Archaedas? Who dares the wrath of the Makers?"]] Apparently daring the wrath of things [[Who Is This Guy Again?|isn't actually all that daring]] in the Warcraft universe.

** Subverted in the Blood Furnace:

* {{spoiler|Doopliss}}, the doppleganger from ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' asks something like this when you confront him and your deceived allies.

** From the same game, {{spoiler|Gloomtail}} also gets one of these moments when you enter his lair in the final chapter.

* ''[[Tekken]] 6'': [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Feng Wei]] asks this to anyone who crashes his private training grounds.

* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', Commander Shepard has the option to [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|headbutt a Krogan rival]]. Even better is that the watching Krogan Shaman finds it ''hilarious''.

'''Shaman''': ''[laughs loudly]'' I '''like''' this human! [[Asskicking Equals Authority|S/He understands!]] }}

* ''[[Disgaea]]'': "What fool dares awaken me, the great Laharl?"

== Literature ==

* Voldemort, twice, in the last Harry Potter novel, when Harry {{spoiler|calls him by his real name ("Riddle") during the [[Final Battle]].}} It's always met with the same derisive response:

'''Harry:''' Yes, I dare. }}

* The [[Troperrific]] Doctor Impossible shouts this repeatedly in ''[[Soon I Will Be Invincible]]'', especially during the climax.

* Lucy, now fully undead, calls this out in some versions of ''[[Dracula]]'' after the heroes stop her just as she is about to feed on a child.

* Played fairly straight in one ''[[Star Wars]]'' novel, where Mara Jade strolls into the lair of the [[Big Bad]] to save the main character in a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment:

'''Mara Jade''': [[One-Liner|Who ]]''[[One-Liner|cares ]]''[[One-Liner|is more like it]]. }}

** In the ''Hand of Thrawn'' duology, the booming automated voice whenever someone enters Thrawn's personal {{spoiler|cloning chamber}}:

 

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* Every Go'auld in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' play this straight; naturally O'Neil mocks them for it every chance he gets. Eventually, by the episode ''Zero Hour'' it becomes:

'''O'Neill''': Ba'al, come on! You should know. Of ''course'' I dare mock you. }}

* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]. [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S2 E14 Innocence|Innocence.]] The Judge, an invincible demon summoned to destroy the world, asks this when Buffy shoots him with a crosssbow. [[Muggles Do It Better|What follows]] is the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] that all others in the series is measured by.

* And in the spin-off ''[[Angel]]'' when Angelus gets annoyed at how the Beastmaster is [[Hearing Voices|booming away in his head]].

'''ANGELUS:''' Defy who? A big scary voice? Whoa! Hey, I got one of those, too. You wanna hear it? (cups his hands over his mouth) You can kiss my vampire ass! }}

 

== Web Comics ==

* A Penny Arcade strip had a book containing the lines:

** ''Fuck yes.''

* In the ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' prequel "[[Start of Darkness]]":

** Also, when Haley summons Celia. (Celia's sick of her mom summoning her to ask why [[I Want Grandkids|she doesn't have any grandkids yet]].)

* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' Ysengrin demands this of Renardine after seeing him in his wolf form. After Renardine's response is to mock Ysengrin's appearance, then his [[Green Thumb|superpowers]], the [[Alt Text]] mentions "The answer is yes".

* [[Played for Laughs]] in [[Blip]], when Liz [[Insulted Awake|insults]] Hester awake.

'''Hester''': (Suddenly awake) '''''WHO DARES?!''''' }}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* A ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch had George W. Bush discover he was a Jedi. He then used his lightsaber to vandalize the Lincoln Memorial only for it to rise from the ground and reveal a hibernating Abe Lincoln underneath...

'''Bush''': Well who dares defy the...daring...of his dare?...jerk? }}

* Aku of [[Samurai Jack]] is particularly good at this, playing it utterly straight in his first confrontation with Jack...only to subvert the trope much later on when he's visited by a group of gangsters that don't merit the full [[Who Dares?]] speech.

* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' had a very large hippo-woman whose [[Running Gag]] was berating Rocko the [[Accidental Pervert]] with '''"HOW DARE YOU'''", delivered in a way that bordered on [[Nightmare Fuel]].

* In ''Legacy'', series finale of ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'', [[Superman]] and [[Darkseid]] have finally come to blows in the climax of the series. As Darkseid mercilessly devestates Superman with the [[Eye Beams|Omega Beam]], Superman manages to get close enough to finally lay hands on his foe. However, unlike many of the entries on this page, Darkseid really is [[Physical God|that powerful]], and regards Superman's blows more with confusion than anything before he [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu|grabs Supermans fist, crushing his hand]] as Darkseid drags the Man of Steel to his knees.

* Darkseid gets into it in ''[[Superman/Batman: Apocalypse]]'' as well, when Batman blackmails him.

* Memorably parodied in the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode ''This Little Piggy'':

* Not villain-ish, but a few episodes of [[The Backyardigans]] invoke this trope. A good example, in ''High Tea'':

'''Pablo:''' And Pablo. }}

* ''[[My Little Pony]]''

** In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "Dragonshy", this is said ''to'' the dragon, signifying Fluttershy's [[Let's Get Dangerous|shift]] from [[The Load]] to [[Beware the Nice Ones]].

* In a '[[What If]]' future episode of ''[[Ben 10]]'', Kevin thought it would be funny to attack Ben's son mid-battle. [[Berserk Button|Big mistake.]]

 

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