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== Films -- Live-Action ==

* Vizzini calls the Man in Black this in ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]'':

* ''[[Star Wars]]'' villains seem prone to this:

"You fool! [[I Know Karate|I have been trained in your Jedi arts by Count Dooku!]]" - General Grievous, shortly before getting his ass kicked by Obi-Wan Kenobi. }}

* Makkabeus in ''[[Damnatus]]'', in a last ditch attempt to stop the heroes from [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|dooming the planet]]:

* Before he {{spoiler|falls into the abyss}} in [[Movie of the Book|Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring]], Gandalf yells to the remaining members of the Fellowship, "Fly, you fools!"

** Earlier, he also made the following remark due to Pippin's curiosity in the Mines of Moria giving their position away, "[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fool%20of%20a%20took Fool of a Took.]"

** Later, Boromir uses it when Frodo {{spoiler|refuses to give him the Ring}}: "You fool! It is not yours save by a happy chance! It could have been mine! It should be mine! Give it to me!"

* [[Mr. T]]'s immortal line from ''[[Rocky III]]'':

* ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' had Frank order a [[Large Ham]] by saying "Quake with fear, you tiny fools!"

* [[SLC Punk!|"SINK! SINK, YOU FOOL!"]]

* ''[[The Ten Commandments]]''

** Nefertiti later does it in a more teasing way to Moses "...You stubborn, splendid, adorable fool..."

* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'': The Wicked Witch yells it at her henchmen as they're chasing the main characters around the castle.

* In "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", this is Professor McGonagall's reaction to Fudge refusing to believe {{spoiler|Voldemort has returned}}: "You fool! {{spoiler|Cedric Diggory}}! {{spoiler|Mr Crouch}}! These deaths were not the random work of a lunatic!"

* Susan Calvin in [[Isaac Asimov]]'s "Little Lost Robot":

* At the climax of the second ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' series, Hawkfrost informs Brambleclaw that he is a fool... ''and'' stupid.

* "Fool" shows up a lot in ''[[Animorphs]]''. It's treated as the ultimate slap in the face when Alloran tells off Seerow for giving the Yeerks technology. Visser Three likes to yell "Fool!" and its variants at his underlings a lot, also. Usually about three seconds before [[You Have Failed Me|offing the sucker.]]

*** Or to be more accurate, when they kept agreeing with ''his'' (deliberately) incorrect answers.

* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''. One of the favourite sayings of [[Mad Scientist]] [[Large Ham|Dr. Chaotica]] from the [[Show Within a Show|holoprogram "The Adventures of Captain Proton!"]].

'''Chaotica:''' [[Large Ham|"ffffffoooooo]]''[[Large Ham|OOOOO]]'''''[[Large Ham|OOOOOOOOOLLLLLL!]]''' [[You Have Failed Me|You shall PAY for your incompetence!]]" }}

** Another one in [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Next Generation]]: The Enterprise encounters a stranded Klingon vessel who doesn't know about the truce with the Federation.

* Star Trek: The Original Series episode ''Day of the Dove''. Kirk has just explained to the Klingon captain Kang that the Enterprise is under the control of a creature that feeds on hate and wants the Klingons and humans to fight for its entertainment for the rest of eternity. Kang decides to fight Kirk anyway, at which point his wife Mara exclaims "You fool!".

** Later, Kang himself admits "Only a fool fights in a burning house."

== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==

* In a stand up act done by [[Bill Cosby]], he recounts how he and his friend "Old Weird Harold" went to see a horror movie marathon and had to walk home after dark. They were frightened by the sudden appearance of a wino and beat him up before running away. Bill imagines the wino making an accident report:

"Yes, there was a little kid riding on top of a tall skinny one and he was beating him with a stick saying, 'Faster, faster, you fool, you fool!'" }}

* Shao Kahn's signature catchphrase from ''[[Mortal Kombat 2]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFfxgn1EkWc YOU WEAK PATHETIC FOOL!]

* [http://u63r.deviantart.com/art/FOOLISH-FOOLS-153654697 Franziska von Karma] from ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' took this to new levels by not only turning it into a [[Catch Phrase]], but making it [[Department of Redundancy Department|redundant]] to the point where every few sentences would be something along the lines of "Foolish fool with the foolishly foolish ambitions of a foolishly foolish fool..."

'''Franziska:''' ... You're so foolish, you've even made me sound like a foolhardy fool...|'''Edgeworth:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|(We got your point about three "foolishes" back, Franziska...)]]}}

** [[The Rival|Edgeworth]] gets at least one instance of this as early as 1-2, in response to {{spoiler|the bellboy revealing, on the stand, that Edgeworth instructed him not to reveal that there were two people at the hotel}}.

* ''[[Dragon Quest I]]'': "Thou art a fool!"

* Robotnik, in ''[[Sonic Adventure]]'', says it a few times:

That's right, fool! You make it all too easy! [[MacGuffin Delivery Service|All I had to do was wait for you to bring it to me!]]<br />

You fool. Away, before I make mincemeat out of you. }}

* There was a ''[[Mother 3]]'' example, Alec to Lucas.

* ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'': Chef [[Punny Name|Torte]] doesn't like it when your party stands on his cake.

* The Shadow Queen in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' likes to use this word a lot.

** Don't forget the "curse" chests!

*** WEE-HEE! '''[[Large Ham|FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLS!]]'''

* Commander Kielbasa to Roger Wilco in ''[[Space Quest]] VI'':

* Used in the original [[Myst]] and Myst IV by [[Magnificent Bastard]] Sirrus, the former as a number one in a [[Bad Ending]] (You've done the right thing. [[Evil Gloating|You stupid]] [[Department of Redundancy Department|fool!]] [[Evil Laugh|HAHAHAHAHA...]]), the latter as something of a number two: (No, you fool! {{spoiler|My performance was perfect!}}).

* Gen in [[Street Fighter]] Alpha: [[Gratuitous English|"You are big fool!"]]

** And in ''Blue Shift'': "You fool, you took too long!"

* ''[[The Curse of Monkey Island]]'':

* [[The Little Mermaid|Ursula]] is fond of this in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''. "Insolent fools!"

** Xemnas is even ''more'' fond of it, considering during one of his fights, he shouts "Cursed FOOOLS" at the party.

* [[The Hero|Emil]] pulls this on Marta in ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'' during her depression induced stupor regarding Ratatosk's Core and its possible effects on her. The "You fool" bit tips her off that it's really Ratatosk-Emil talking, not regular Emil.

* Garland from ''[[Final Fantasy I]]'' calls out the Light Warriors as impertinet fools right before the knockdown.

* In [[Diablo]] 2, Tyrael uses this when Marius takes Baal's soulstone. 'You... FOOL! You have just ensured the doom of this world!'

* Kerrigan in ''[[Starcraft II]]'' will repeat this phrase or a slight variant of it many, many times during the campaign.

* One of the bosses in the old arcade game ''Kid Niki: Radical Ninja'', the Mad Monk, uses this phrase as his primary weapon. He can say it softly and drawn out ("Fooooooooollll..."), extending across the top of the screen to drop Os on you; he can shout it out as a large kanji with which to crush you; or he can scream, "GET HIM, YOU FOOLS!" to summon some [[Mooks]] to take you out, or at least keep you distracted enough to fall for one of the first two.

* Lord Victor Nefarius, aka the Black Dragon Nefarian from ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' gives us this [[Genre Savvy]] line when he berates his incompetent minions:

** Subverted, though, by the time you face Nefarian himself, he has forgotten his own advice for your convenience.

*** [[Justified Trope|It makes sense]], though - when you're ''watching'' a fight, figuring out who the biggest problem is easy. When ''you're'' the one getting smacked upside the head by a guy wearing plate armor, but the guy in the dress is doing nothing visibly harmful to you, which would you reasonably go after?

* Used by the Spy in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' as one of his responses, upon dominating an enemy Spy. Given the air of sophistication and competence the Spy tries to maintain, he treats this this as a grievous insult.

* '''''[[Dawn of War|THE COWARDS! THE FOOLS!]]'''''

* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'', a Dunmer trapped in a [[Giant Spider]]'s web offers you a [[MacGuffin]] for cutting him loose. When he's freed, he yells the trope name ... [[Subverted Trope|then runs DEEPER INTO THE DUNGEON]]. If the player doesn't get him, the [[Our Zombies Are Different|draugr]] or the booby traps will.

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'': O'Malley, in his quest to over-do every single supervillain trait he could, delivered this line:

* Because the idiocy of his AI teammates, (At least in their inability to throw a flash grenade more than a foot into the room) this has become [[The Spoony Experiment|Noah Antwiler]]'s phrase of choice during his [[Let's Play]] of ''[[Police Quest|SWAT 4'']]. There's even [http://www.printfection.com/spoonyexperiment/SWAT-You-Fool-Womens-Fitted-Cap-Sleeve-Tee/_p_3707699 a shirt].

** Lampshaded once when Spoony does it to himself and instead says "Erm, me fool!".

* [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Foolish fools! There are no women in Yu-Gi-Oh!]] [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|There are only extremely girly men!]] [[Large Ham|And I am the girliest of them all!]]

** Speaking of Pegasus...

* Jeff and Adam of [[Lifes a Glitch TV]] are very fond of using this phrase.

* Most Disney villains have called either their enemy or their minions fool at least once, likely for similar reasons to the founding uses: Disney, having earned their reputation by providing family-friendly animation in the first place, court G and at most PG ratings instead of [[Avoid the Dreaded G Rating|avoiding them]]. So instead of profane insults you get a lot of "you fool!" and "you idiot!"

** ''101 Dalmatians'' (1996):

** [[The Lion King|"No, fool, we're going to kill him."]]

** The first line of dialogue from ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'' starts off like this, but is translated from Atlantean.

** [[The Little Mermaid|YOU]] [[Evil Gloating|PITIFUL]] [[Large Ham|INSIGNIFICANT]] '''FOOLS!!!!!'''

* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'': At the end of "Invasion of the Ferb Snatchers", Candace [[Once an Episode|once again]] fails to bust Phineas and Ferb, and she laments her apparent hubris in believing she could succeed in doing so.

** Also it echos the last line of the movie she was watching earlier in the episode.

* Commonly [[No Indoor Voice|screeched]] by the White Witch in the [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]''.