History PreAssKickingOneLiner / Literature

* In the final of {{Animorphs}} [[ActionGirl Rachel]] faces the whole crew of the enemy ship by herself. While in her White Bear morph.

* ''Literature/WatershipDown''. Bigwig's Determinator speech, "My Chief Rabbit has told me to defend this run, and until he says otherwise I shall stay here," scares the hraka out of the Efrafans, who mainly respect brute strength and have assumed up to this point that Bigwig ''was'' the Chief Rabbit of his warren. If he's not, there must be an even bigger BadAss Bunny around somewhere. Has emotional meaning as well, since Bigwig swore never to call Hazel the Chief Rabbit until the day he stops fighting.

* TheElenium's confrontation between King Wargun and [[KnightInSourArmor Sparkhawk]], when the King is pulling rank and Sparhawk doesn't feel like cooperating.

* The {{Sten}} series book ''Fleet of the Damned'' provides this: "We are now attacking a Tahn battlefleet. There are at least two battleships with the fleet. We are going to kill them." Ironically, Sten ''didn't'' consider this an example, and in fact felt it would be a waste of time to give an "England Expects." He was commanding an obsolete heavy cruiser, and [[spoiler:they ''did'' destroy one state-of-the-art battleship, and cripple the other beyond repair]].

** AND NOW THERE REMAINS ONLY ONE FINAL QUESTION -- HAVE YOU BEEN NAUGHTY... OR NICE?

* In perhaps the most out of place usage of the phrase ever, Claire DeWitt confronts a man involved in a murder she'd been trying to solve for 115 days, the murder of an ex-boyfriend and perhaps someone she even loved (were she capable). She figures out he didn't do it, gets him to turn in the real murder and then says, "Rob Scorpio. Today is the first day of the rest of your life." ''Then'' she pistol-whips and beats him until she's pulled off, breaking one of the guy's ribs in the process.

** NewJediOrder:

--> [[BugsBunny What's up, Drakh?]]

* In ''Summer Knight'', [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]] rushes into a battle against a faction of TheFairFolk, belting out, "I don't [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve believe in fairies]]!"

--->'''Shagnasty:''' You are not a holy man. You do not follow the Old Ways, or the Binding Ways. You have no power over me.
--->'''Listens-To-Wind:''' Don't plan to bind or banish you, old ghost. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears.

* Series/BabylonFive novel ''Out of the Darkness'': Garibaldi get one in when surprising the Big Bad.[[note]]''Midnight on the Firing Line'' established Daffy Duck as Garibaldi 2nd favourite thing in the Universe[[/note]]

[[Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant Come and have a go... If you think you're hard enough.]]

[[Literature/SkullduggeryPleasant Come and have a go... If you think you're hard enough.]]

* "Just going out to kick some arse, dear."

* [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Jason Grace]] in ''The Lost Hero'' has one badass and laconic enough to be worthy of a Roman Praetor; "My turn."

--->'''Shagnasty:''' You are not a holy man. You do not follow the Blessing Way. You have no power over me.
--->'''Listens-To-Wind:''' Don't plan to bind or banish you, old ghost. Just gonna kick your ass up between your ears. '''Let's go'''. [[ShapeShifterShowdown Which he]] [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome proceeds to do]].

* Steven Erikson's ''MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' - Memories of Ice

* ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'':

** This quote is echoed once again in ''StarshipTroopers''.

* Also in the fourth book, in response to an antagonist complaining about being made to chase all over the place for "two pathetic sneaks." the third protagonist present [[spoiler: Gaius Sextus]] who was hidden out of sight of the antagonist says "Three." Cue CurbstompBattle.