History Main / DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu

[[caption-width-right:350:Nightmare Knight, you're in a whole mess of trouble. ''That'' is the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames true face of evil.]] You're dead, man.]]

* On February 24, the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a large Russian warship ''Moskva'' demanded the Ukrainian guards on the Snake Island to lower their weapons and surrender. The guards' response was "Russian warship, [[PrecisionFStrike go fuck yourself.]]". Since then, the phrase became popular worldwide, being used as a battle cry by the Ukrainian soldiers and even receiving its own commemorative postal stamp.

* Done to magnificent levels in the ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode "[[Recap/RickAndMortyS1E9SomethingRickedThisWayComes Something Ricked This Way Comes]]". Summer starts working in a weird little store run by a strange man who sells objects that grant the owner's deepest desire but at a horrible price (such as a man getting a cologne that makes him irresistible to women but makes him impotent as well). Rick immediately knows this guy, Mr. Needful, is the Devil, and his objects are all cursed. Needful tries giving Rick a microscope, but Rick is savvy enough to have the microscope analyzed and figures out it would've made him retarded (Needful said it would reveal things beyond comprehension). Rick then returns to the store with a device that analyzes Needful's stock and reveals what their ironic twists are before anyone buys them. Then he opens up a store across the street from Needful where he offers to remove the curses from the items without taking away the beneficial aspects (as in a pair of sneakers will make someone an expert runner without making them run forever). Rick trolls the Devil so badly [[spoiler:the Devil tries to kill himself]]. Bonus points to Rick for ''literally'' giving Needful the finger. With both hands. While dancing.

** There's the story of World War II General Anthony [=McAuliffe=], whose starving, freezing, surrounded, wounded, and ill-equipped troops were given a surrender ultimatum at the Battle of the Bulge. His one-word response: NUTS!
** Most of Churchill's famous 1940s speeches. When your air-force is outnumbered 4:1, your army has had to leave most of its heavy equipment on the other side of the Channel, and the wolf-packs are tightening the noose, broadcasting what is basically "Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!" so the whole world can hear, certainly beats holding a town when you know you are winning the war anyway.

Contrast WowingCthulhu, where the character doesn't piss the godly being off but rather amazes them -- that said, Flipping off Cthulhu may also Wow Cthulhu when said godly being [[RefugeInAudacity actually likes]] their [[YouGotSpunk attitude]].

* Done to magnificent levels in ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''. Summer starts working in a weird little store run by a strange man who sells objects that grant the owner's deepest desire but at a horrible price (such as a man getting a cologne that makes him irresistible to women but makes him impotent as well). Rick immediately knows this guy, Mr. Needful, is the Devil, and his objects are all cursed. Needful tries giving Rick a microscope, but Rick is savvy enough to have the microscope analyzed and figures out it would've made him retarded (Needful said it would reveal things beyond comprehension). Rick then returns to the store with a device that analyzes Needful's stock and reveals what their ironic twists are before anyone buys them. Then he opens up a store across the street from Needful where he offers to remove the curses from the items without taking away the beneficial aspects (as in a pair of sneakers will make someone an expert runner without making them run forever). Rick trolls the Devil so badly [[spoiler: the Devil tries to kill himself]].
** Bonus points to Rick for ''literally'' giving Needful the finger. With both hands. While dancing.

* In the WebAnimation/YouTubePoop ''[[WebAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmasWhoSkellingtonsRevenge Skellington's Revenge]]'', [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Soldier]] attacks the Black Hiver while shouting "Take your voodoo-rabbit ass back to Canada!" [[DoNotTauntCthulhu It doesn't end well for him]]]].

* Manta in one of the last episodes of the 2001 anime of''Manga/ShamanKing''. Piko-Piko hammer and all!

* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', while it didn't accomplish anything but make Vir out to be awesome (and set the stage for a little karmic justice later on), he does give Mr. Morden (and by extension the Shadows) a 50-story-tall middle finger telling him what he wants.
** For those who've never seen the series...
--->'''Morden:''' What do ''you'' want?\\

*** [[spoiler:Made more awesome later in the series when Londo presents Vir with exactly that near the end of the third season, and Vir does as he promised he would. Londo must have had hidden ears on that conversation.]]

** Later, in "Interludes and Examinations", Sheridan is trying to convince Kosh to get the Vorlons (themselves {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s) to intervene against the shadows. Kosh doesn't want to get involved, so Sheridan starts flipping him off. Kosh responds by telekinetically pushing him around, but Sheridan persists.

** Then, in "Into the Fire", Sheridan has drawn the Shadows into an area the Vorlons are about to attack. As soon as they see each other, they ignore the Army of Light also on site, so Sheridan decides to "get their attention" by detonating three nukes in their midst. Lyta Alexander, psychically probing them at the time, reports on their reaction to Sheridan's "wake-up call": "Captain...'''they're pissed'''."
*** Which is indeed, just to the the precursor races attention for the [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech verbal dressing-down of both of them]] that follows, ending with:
---->'''Sheridan''': Now get the hell out of our galaxy! Both of you!

* In the fifth ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'' movie, Enjou Tomoe, despite being Muggle Weight, tells off the BigBad. Shiki herself passive-aggressively says that because he did, she's going kill said BigBad now.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': And how does Commander Sisko greet the omnipotent, god-like, so-far-beyond-human-ken-one-can't-comprehend Q when they meet for the first time? [[TalkToTheFist By knocking him on his ass]], to Q's utter astonishment. And it works so well that ''Q never shows his face in the series ever again''!
--> '''Q:''' You hit me! Picard never hit me!

** "Skin of Evil" saw the crew out to rescue Troi and a crewman from a crashed shuttle and encountering Armus. He takes the shuttle crew hostage, while repeatedly harassing and threatening the landing party - including [[spoiler: [[MoralEventHorizon killing Tasha Yar]]]] [[ForTheEvulz just to demonstrate its power]]. When the crew discovers that they can beam the shuttle crew to safety if Armus is sufficiently distracted, Picard himself beams down to confront him - engaging in a debate and purposefully angering him.
-->'''Picard:''' You say you are true evil? Shall I tell you what true evil is? It is to submit to you. It is when we surrender our freedom, our dignity, instead of defying you.
-->'''Armus:''' I will kill you and those in there.
-->'''Picard:''' But you will still be in this place. Forever! Alone! Immortal!
-->'''Armus:''' AAAAAAARGH!!!
-->'''Picard:''' That's your real fear, never to die; never again to be united with those who left you here!
-->'''Armus:''' AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!
-->'''Picard:''' I'm not taking you anywhere. ''[beams out]''
** The Enterprise crew also treats the omniscient and omnipresent god like being Q as a mere annoyance despite the fact he has the ability to [[RealityWarper warp reality to his whim]] and make life an eternal nightmare for anyone who annoys him. One particular example is when Q is [[BroughtDownToNormal turned mortal as punishment]] for his interference with humanity where he is basically told to "die" by Worf.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' has "Coda," which sees a whole fantasy sequence set up by the '''alien personification of ''death,''''' that's designed to lure Captain Janeway into an afterlife, so the alien can feed on her body. This fantasy includes the alien itself taking the appearance of Janeway's father. Fortunately, Janeway is too much of a {{Determinator}} for even death itself to stand between her and ''Voyager,'' and tells them off in grand fashion:

** Also, Naruto himself likes to greet [[spoiler: the Kyuubi by demanding it surrender its chakra to him and calling it a "damn fox."]] Which is probably a little irritating to a superpowered being who can flatten a mountain [[spoiler:by swinging one of its nine tails]]. However, [[spoiler:this being is [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan sealed inside Naruto]] and would have to die with him]].

-->'''Peppermint Butler:''' You're one of those old-fashioned revenants, aren't you? You can't come in unless I invite you in! Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha! What do you think would even happen if you just walked in here, huh? You're so dumb, you sad old relic!

->"''If he'' (the Devil) ''wrestle against you to a fall through avarice, showing you all the Kingdoms at one instant and in the twinkling of an eye, as belonging to himself, [[KneelBeforeZod and demand your worship]], despise him as a beggar. Say to him relying on the Seal, [[BadassBoast I am myself the Image of God]]; [[TheDevilIsALoser I have not yet been cast down from the heavenly Glory, as you were through your pride]]; [[BadassBoast I have put on Christ; I have been transformed into Christ by Baptism; worship thou me]]. Well do I know that he will depart, defeated and put to shame by this; as he did from Christ the first Light, so he will from those who are illumined by Christ.''"
-->-- '''[[https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/310240.htm Oration 40, X]]''', 381 A.D.

--> '''Vaggie''': "I'm not going to let you hurt anyone here, you pompous cheesy talkshow shitlord!"

* ''ComicBook/TheTansformersMarvel'' series had Grimlock defying Unicron... by smacking him in the face with the Ark. His fellow Autobots didn't think it a wise move, but Grimlock simply sent them out to join the battle. This was preceded by Galvatron -- Unicron's own creation from another reality, brought into this timeframe to sow discord and confusion among the Transformers -- shooting his boss in the face. Galvatron got smacked away for his troubles but survived to fight another day.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. In "It Came from the Nightosphere", Gunther the penguin slaps [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils Marceline's father]] when he tries to steal Gunther's soul. [[spoiler: Though this gets turned on its head a few seasons later when it's revealed Gunther is [[SealedEvilInATeddyBear secretly a being]] [[EldritchAbomination as bad or worse than Hunson Abadeer]].]]

** In the episode “Veritas", Q drops in at the very end to challenge the ensigns to a duel. However, they've already went through enough mess for one day and Mariner tells Q to go away and they walk on, leading Q to follow them like a petulent child.
** In the second season episode “The Spy Humongous”, Mariner reveals she had an item the rest of the Lower Deckers missed “Anomaly Consolidation Day”. Tendi jokingly suggests taunting Armus, the creature from the ''TNG'' episode “Skin of Evil”, using it… which they proceed to do

* The ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' "Cell vs." short videos, where the final BigBad of the the series, Cell, takes on the stars or villains of various different anime, comic book, and video game series, often involves this. Cell is a nearly immortal PhysicalGod who [[FromASingleCell can survive and regenerate from almost any injury]], but most of these characters have ''no idea'' about the depths of Cell's capabilities, so they come in confident, even arrogant, insulting the monster and confident that he's just another villain they'll take down. A few are allowed to get away with it, usually because they realize that they have absolutely no chance against Cell and back down. Others get [[CurbStompBattle beaten into next week]], and one ([[Anime/DeathNote Light Yagami]]) pushes it until Cell actually kills him.

** {{Inverted|Trope}} with the advent of the ''ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' -- the behavior of [[spoiler:Doctor Octopus inhabiting Peter Parker's body]] was so off-kilter from what super-villains and street criminals had come to expect from Spider-Man that their perception of Spidey started to resemble the reputation Batman has in Gotham City's underworld.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' tend to do this to ''every'' monster that qualifies -- including their enemy Him, who may or not be the Devil himself -- usually right before they [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu beat the crud out of it.]] Their creator and father Professor Utonium also gets away with insulting Him at the end of "Him Diddle Diddle" by complaining about paying [[spoiler:for the villain's overpriced pancakes]] and chooses to leave and have breakfast with the girls elsewhere.

[[caption-width-right:350:Cthulhu, you're in a whole mess of trouble. ''That'' is the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames true face of evil.]] You're dead, man.]]