History Main / LameComeback

** Scott is the king of this trope.

* ''ComicBook/{{Doom}}''

* [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] and [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Spoiler]] catch the leader of a gang who are selling guns to kids. Robin asks him who is supplying the guns and the thug tells him the tooth fairy. Tim tells him that he is going to be giving the tooth fairy a lot of business unless he starts talking. [[DeadpanSnarker Stephanie]] notes that was a good one.

* Subverted in the ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch about the party at Oscar Wilde's. James Whistler and George Bernard Shaw insult the Prince Of Wales and blame each other, only for each accused to soften the insult with a compliment associated with it. When Shaw comes up with "Your Majesty is like a dose of clap. Before you arrive is pleasure but after is like pain in the dong," and accuses Wilde of saying it, all Wilde can do is blow a raspberry. Everyone applauds.

'''Tommy:''' Your... Your brain has the shell on it.\\
'''Richard Hayden:''' Are you talking? ''Are'' you talking?\\

* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' contains an example that, due to the Dude's sheer unflappable laid-backness contrasted with Jesus Quintana's over-the-top arrogance, turns this trope into an artform, to the point where MemeticMutation has in fact made this an ''actual comeback'' that is successful. QUoted above.:

* Desperate Housewives: In one episode, Susan (per usual) is being very snippy and self righteous towards a professor, calling him out on being divorced three times. His reply “I’m sorry, haven’t you been divorced TWICE?” Her response? “Yeah well…..two is still less that three!”

->'''Jesus Quintana:''' You ready to be fucked, man? ...Dios mío, man. Liam and me, we're gonna fuck you up.\\

* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' contains an example that, due to the Dude's sheer unflappable laid-backness contrasted with Jesus Quintana's over-the-top arrogance, turns this trope into an artform, to the point where MemeticMutation has in fact made this an ''actual comeback'' that is successful:

'''Jayne:''' [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder Yes!]]\\

* In ''Film/{{Hook}}'', Robin Williams is a grown-up Literature/PeterPan when he engages in the verbal duel with Rufio. He quickly develops his own successful brand of insults, though. His opponent, Rufio, is eventually reduced to calling him "You stupid... you stupid ''man''!"

** The plot of one episode was George regretting not using a [[ComebackTomorrow good comeback on a guy who burned him]]. The comeback was "The jerk store called, and they're running out of you." (in response to 'George, the ocean called and they're running out of shrimp' because George was stuffing his face with shrimp) The others immediately point out how utterly nonsensical it is and try to give him suggestions for better comebacks, but he's so proud of this that he travels to a city he doesn't want to go to, and makes an ass of himself again, just so the guy will insult him again so he can make this comeback. After all that, the guy deflects it in two seconds with "what does it matter? You're their all-time best seller!". The best that George can come up with in response is 'Oh yeah? Well...I had sex with your wife!' to which George is told that his wife is in a coma. By the end of the episode [[HereWeGoAgain George is racing back to the airport having come up with yet another comeback]].

-->'''Bob Fossil:''' Hey Moon. What are you supposed to be, Zorro on gay night?\\

--->'''[[spoiler:[[Film/TheUntouchables Eliot Ness]]]]:''' You look like some kind of [[{{Hobos}} bindlestiff]].\\

'''Richard Hayden:''' Are you talking?\\

** In ''Dark Seed II'', Mike is given a lot of silly dialogue, but his flashback with Rita while under hypnosis is particularly noteworthy...

* ''Film/HerculesReturns'': Urses mocks Samson, trying to provoke him into a fight to see whether or not he's faking the loss of his strength. Samson's response?

* Lyle's inability to come up with a decent comeback is what drives his romantic interest in an episode of ''Series/{{Kingdom}}''.

'''Co-Worker:''' You think I'm not quick enough - guy thinks I'm not quick enough! Well I got news for you! I AM quick enough... Cock-Boy!

-->'''Shooter''': I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!\\
'''Happy''': You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?!\\
'''Shooter''': (''Extended {{beat}}'') ...No!

** When Kahn shows off his new gigantic SUV, but it's so big it won't fit in his garage.
--->'''Kahn:''' O yeah? Well, maybe, I park, garage, in SUV! Ahaha! ''({{Beat}})'' Kiss my ass!
** When Luann finds out Hank, Peggy, and Bobby are all addicted to smoking, she combines this trope with LiesDamnedLiesAndStatistics by saying that more people die of smoking than die of war in Vietnam on a daily basis.

** The plot of one episode was George regretting not using a [[ComebackTomorrow good comeback on a guy who burned him]]. The comeback was "The jerk store called, and they're running out of you." (in response to 'George, the ocean called and they're running out of shrimp' because George was stuffing his face with shrimp) He's so proud of this that he travels to a city he doesn't want to go to, and makes an ass of himself again, just so the guy will insult him again so he can make this comeback. After all that, the guy deflects it in two seconds with "what does it matter? You're their all-time best seller!". The best that George can come up with in response is 'Oh yeah? Well...I had sex with your wife!' to which George is told that his wife is in a coma. By the end of the episode [[HereWeGoAgain George is racing back to the airport having come up with yet another comeback]].

TruthInTelevision, you know who you are.

* Another gem in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', in the [[OurElvesAreBetter Dalish]] camp:

* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' contains an example that, due to the Dude's sheer unflappable laid-backness being combined with Jesus Quintana's over-the-top arrogance, turns this trope into an artform, to the point where MemeticMutation has in fact made this an ''actual comeback'' that is successful:

* In the Funimation dub of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Vegeta, during the losing half of his fight with Android 18:

* In ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', during the FinalBoss fight, if you let Rick the Adventure Sphere talk long enough, he will eventually ask if you have a "[[PreMortemOneLiner Cool Line]]" prepared for when you kill [[spoiler: Wheatley]]. After some unsuccessful attempts to think one up himself, he will try to {{invoke|dTrope}} one by asking Chell to get [[spoiler: Wheatley]] to say "You two have been a thorn in my side for long enough!", reminding you to do so as he is plugged in. Once all three cores are plugged in and the final part of the fight starts up, [[spoiler: Wheatley]]'s dialogue will have now changed slightly to include Rick's setup line word-for-word. Rick then delivers his "[[PreMortemOneLiner Cool Line]]". It's... a little underwhelming.

[[folder:Web Comics]]

'''Incubus King:''' Yeah, I have a question: why is your event[[note]]a butterfly hunting competition[[/note]] so fucking lame?\\

* ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6TheSeries'': In "[[Recap/BigHero6TheSeriesS1E08TheImpatientPatient The Impatient Patient]]":

'''Chaos King:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Shut up, you]]. / Yeah, you. [[OhGodWithTheVerbing Start with the shutting up now]]. / Then shut up some more.