You Got Spunk: Difference between revisions

* Though not specifically voiced, the villain in ''[[Live Free or Die Hard]]'' is obviously impressed by Lucy when she uses the phone call to her father to calmly inform him how many men he has left to kill.

* In ''[[Stuart Little]] 2'':

* ''[[Ever After (film)]]'': Le Peu, as he tells Danielle more than once, likes a girl with spirit.

* In ''[[The Sting]]'' Kid Twist is interviewing people to be in on the con that they are pulling when the guy he talking to is one that he saw get beat up by a cop for keeping his mouth shut. Twist asks him if he got the banged-up nose from the cop, when he says yes, Twist says, "You got Moxie, Kid" and hires him.

* The ''[[Darkest Powers]]'' trilogy

** A werewolf says this to Chloe when she asks about his leg, which she stabbed with a switchblade a few days earlier.

** And reiterates, when she tries to block him from finding (and killing) her [[Love Interest|friend]] [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl|Derek]], who is currently completely defenseless.

* Mariel of ''[[Redwall]]'': The title character is cornered by three searats and kicks one in the throat, killing him. The others don't use the exact usual words of this trope, but they come close. "A warrior maid, eh?"

* In the second ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'' book, Polyphemus says this to Clarisse, before trying to force her to marry him.

* The most famous usage is arguably [[Ed Asner]]'s subversion in the pilot for ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'', when his character, [[Lou Grant]], gives Mary the aforementioned compliment, only to follow it up by saying, "I ''hate'' spunk." This exchange was also used when Asner appeared on ''[[The Colbert Report]]''.

* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise|Star Trek Enterprise]]'' ("Borderland"). T'Pol and other crew members are captured by Orion slave traders, one of whom is played by enormous wrestler Paul "Big Show" Wight.

''(T'Pol delivers a well-aimed kick to a [[Groin Attack|sensitive area]])''<br />

'''T'Pol:''' I'm not for sale. ''(she's beamed away)'' }}

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':

'''Ken:''' You've got guts. [[Narm|I'd like to slice you open and play with them]]. }}

** Also:

* In an episode of ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'', the incompetent builder O'Reilly speaks of Sybil Fawlty, "I love a woman with spirit! I do! I do!" She beats the shit out of him.

* Played straight by the script and yet subverted by the performance in ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'': Kate has been captured (again) and is flailing about in front of Prince John who comments that she's "fiesty". However, Prince John was played by Toby Stephens, and therefore he comes across as bored rather than impressed at Kate's "spunk".

* ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'': Aunt Lily absolutely abhors the shady and manipulative Dwight Dixon. Dixon, on the other hand, is fairly amused by her hostility and refers to her as "my spicy cocktail."

* ''[[The West Wing]]'': Senator Lloyd Russell is attempting to soothe his just-fired adviser, Mandy Hampton. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it doesn't help:

'''Mandy''': I could kill you with my shoe! }}

* ''[[Dinosaur King]]'': Dr. Z says this to the heroes Max and Rex after they wreck his Alpha Bots.

* Volgin from ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' 3 says about the captured EVA: "She's got spunk."

* There's also a woman-to-man example in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 1'' from Wolf to Snake:

'''Wolf:''' Is that right? At least you've got spirit. }}

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'': "I tell ya, Kairi, you got a lot of ''guts'' jumping straight into the darkness like that."

* In ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]] Chapter 1: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal'', after Guybrush completes the three pirate newsmaking tasks, Davey Nipperkin becomes impressed and says:

'''Guybrush:''' [[Squick|Ew.]] }}

* ''[[Togainu no Chi]]'': Shiki becomes interested in Akira when he doesn't run, scream, or beg for his life like other participants. {{spoiler|On his route, [[Victim Falls For Rapist|this doesn't end well for Akira.]]}}

* Lobo does this to Lois Lane in ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]''--since he's [[Nigh Invulnerable]], he in fact ''encourages'' her to slap him.

* ''[[Johnny Dangerously]]'':

* In Disney's ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'', a gangster mouse says this followed by "I hate spunk."

* ''[[The Batman]]'', "Two of a Kind": [[The Joker]] brings Dr. Harleen "Harley" Quinzel back to his lair, were she proposes writing a tell-all book. He responds, "You've got moxy! I feed moxy to the hyenas." He sics the hyenas on her, only to have her yell "SIT!", causing them to... well, sit.

* On ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'', the villain tells Zatanna, while holding her at knife point, "You are most ''engaging'', my dear -- beautiful, impetuous... I could be persuaded to spare you if ''properly implored''..." ''CRUNCH'' Cut to Zatanna's heel crushing his foot.

* ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien]]'': When Captain Nemesis arrives to kidnap Julie, she (futilely) whacks him in the head with her tennis racket.

* Angelica from ''[[Rugrats]]'' was told she had spunk from a mafia-isque restaurant owner.

* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'': This is invoked by Eddy in the episode "They Call Him Mr. Ed" and by {{spoiler|his brother}} in [[The Movie]].

* One rhino in ''[[Babar]]'' had "You got spunk...[[It's X. I Hate X.|I hate spunk!]]" as his [[Catch Phrase]].