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12->''If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you're going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat. They'll watch you squirm. They'll put off the moment of murder like another man will put off a good cigar. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.''
13-->-- ''Literature/MenAtArms''
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15Gloating. Monologuing. It's what villains ''do.'' Maybe they "[[SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb set up us the bomb]]" and are calling to rub it in and take credit. Perhaps they've just [[MacGuffinDeliveryService snatched the MacGuffin]] from the hero's very hands and insist on staying ''just out of reach'' to taunt. Maybe the villain finally has the hero at his mercy and just ''has'' to taunt him one last time before shooting him.
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17Or perhaps this is the place where they finally have a chance to get all the reasons they despise the hero [[ItsPersonal personally]] off their chest. Any [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech mistakes]] the hero makes are also fair game for villainous gloating. At any rate, while this is a villainous staple on par with a hero and InTheNameOfTheMoon, it's still one of the things the EvilOverlordList strenuously warns against, as any villain caught gloating is sure to be either killed or foiled, as in the end his gloating always ends up giving the hero that little bit of extra time or information that helps him counter the villain's EvilPlan. In their defense, it's really ''[[ComplexityAddiction fun]]'' and gives you that [[EvilFeelsGood warm evil feeling]] in the black pit of your soul when you utterly [[HeroicBSOD grind your opponent's face into the dirt.]] Unfortunately, most villains fail to [[VillainForgotToLevelGrind grind hard enough]]. But how could anyone appreciate the [[JustBetweenYouAndMe brilliance of your scheme]] unless you explained it to them?
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19Another way this could easily backfire is that it goes hand in hand with EngineeredPublicConfession. A savvy hero can use it as an easy way to reveal the [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] or [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bastard]] to the world and bring [[ThePlan their plan]] crumbling around them.
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21This also goes hand in hand with EvilPlan, where it's practically required to give the hero and viewer exposition of just what the heck is happening. Expect the villain to let out an EvilLaugh and start to TrashTalk about how the hero(es) are powerless to stop them. It can greatly surprise them when the hero interrupts with GetItOverWith.
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23[[UnsportsmanlikeGloating Heroes tend to not gloat]], which is why villains facing a SwordOverHead will usually either be [[SaveTheVillain allowed to live]] or killed without [[BondOneLiner (much)]] [[KirkSummation fanfare]]: compare AfterActionVillainAnalysis. Instead, heroes expect the villain to do this, so there may be a HaveYouComeToGloat moment.
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25This is one of the most well mocked villain cliches, but is very much an UndeadHorseTrope. For one thing it gives a villainous character a great chance to ''act'' and flesh out their character a little more. For another, it's both TruthInTelevision and a very appropriate FatalFlaw for the prideful, narcissistic characters who often become villains.
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27If they've just finished owning TheHero, this may have been preceded by OminousAdversarialAmusement and is sure to become TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, but don't worry, a ThwartedCoupDeGrace is coming up. If they are making their speech [[NiceJobFixingItVillain only for their opponent]] [[TalktotheFist to use it as an advantage]], that person was most likely CaughtMonologuing, and might even be KilledMidSentence. May overlap with TrashTalk. See also VillainBall and DidYouActuallyBelieve Has some similarities to the MotiveRant.
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29Creator/RogerEbert coined the Trope as "The Talking Killer" in his book ''Little Movie Glossary''.
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31!!Evil Gloating Subtropes aka The Index Of Monologuing-Related Tropes You'll Read Soon Enough
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33[[index]]
34* AndYourLittleDogToo: The villain boasts that they'll harm someone the hero cares about to prove how nasty they are.
35* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: The villain boasts that as long as evil exists, they'll never be dead for good.
36* BondVillainStupidity: Can easily overlap with this, with the gloating possibly causing the villain to snatch a defeat from the jaws of victory.
37* BreakThemByTalking
38* CaughtMonologuing: The opponent on the receiving end of the speech utilizes this as a distraction.
39* DidYouActuallyBelieve
40* DontMakeMeDestroyYou
41* EvilLaugh: The villain laughs maniacally.
42* FateWorseThanDeath
43* GlovedFistOfDoom
44* AGodAmI
45* HannibalLecture
46* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: The villain has captured the girl and makes it clear they intend to have their way with her.
47* ILied: A villain admits to have lied to a person to manipulate them.
48* IntercomVillainy
49* JustBetweenYouAndMe: Where the villain has the hero captured and at their mercy and therefore sees no harm in explaining their EvilPlan.
50* KneelBeforeZod
51* LaughWithMe
52* MonumentOfHumiliationAndDefeat
53* MotiveRant: The villain goes on a rant on why they did what they did.
54* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine
55* NothingCanStopUsNow
56* PostRapeTaunt: A rapist gets a rise from someone close to their victim by claiming that their victim enjoyed it.
57* PrepareToDie: Uttered prior to [[CombatPragmatist simply shooting]] the hero.
58* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech
59* ReminiscingAboutYourVictims
60* ResistanceIsFutile
61* RevengeRevealStory
62* StoryboardingTheApocalypse
63* StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred
64* TakingYouWithMe: As the villain dies, they try to ensure that the hero dies with them.
65* TalkToTheFist
66* TauntingTheTransformed
67* ThisCannotBe
68* ToThePain
69* UnwittingPawn: The villain reveals that they had been secretly manipulating someone to advance their goal all along.
70* VillainousFaceHold
71* TheWarHasJustBegun
72* WeCanRuleTogether: The villain makes the offer that the hero can join him/her in his/her conquest.
73* WeMeetAgain
74* WeWillMeetAgain: The villain responds to being defeated by vowing that they'll return to have their revenge against the hero.
75* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied
76* YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive
77* YouWillBeSpared: When the villain's plan is to kill a bunch of people, they state that they plan to kill one person last or leave them alive to suffer the loss of the other people slain.
78* YoureNothingWithoutYourPhlebotinum
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82!!Examples:
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87* A Advertising/{{Geico}} [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=85SvVn3cpl0 commercial]] has a villain capture a hero, strap him into a death machine, promise a swift demise... and start a detailed [=PowerPoint=] presentation on his plan, causing the hero to groan and roll his eyes. The villain gets to phase 20 and pauses to use the restroom.
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91* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'', sometimes Wolffy will give the goats an explanation to whatever is his plan to catch and eat them.
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95* In ''Literature/{{Baccano}} 1934 -- Alice in Jails'', Ladd goes on a brief monologue about how stupid it is when people indulge in this trope... [[HypocriticalHumor While indulging in this trope]], [[HypocrisyNod which he is both thoroughly aware of and rather amused by]].
96-->'''Ladd:''' And therefore, as such, in light of that revelation, I'll say that one is enough, and since that one is of course myself, I want you all to shut up. You're boring. Swallow those words and take them to the afterlife yourself if you want them delivered there so damn much.
97* ''Manga/BirdyTheMighty'': Averted hilariously in episode 5 of ''Decode'''s first season, in which Birdy punches Kinzel's mecha, the [[MeaningfulName Amubis 777]] (yes, like Anubis) in the middle of his explanation of why it is so awesome and will own her (to which he responds, "You oughta listen until I'm finished!").
98* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' features [[ThoseWackyNazis a Nazi]] bursting into a room occupied by the series' resident AxCrazy ActionGirl Revy. The Nazi then starts yammering on at length about his [[BlingBlingBang Luger]] and how he's the only one capable of "taming it". What he fails to notice as he flaps his trap is [[FailedASpotCheck Revy calmly reloading in front of him]]. By the time he's ready to fire, Revy shoots him in the gut.
99-->'''Revy:''' ''[BANG]'' [[LampshadeHanging Shut the fuck up. Can't you see I wasn't even listening? I mean were ya tryin' to sell me the damn gun or what]]?
100* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
101** In both the anime and manga versions, the 9th Espada, Aaroniero Arruruerie, fights Rukia, breaks her sword, and skewers her with his trident. He ''pulls her closer'' so that he can gloat effectively. This is when Rukia pulls out her third ''Shikai'' which reforms her sword ''through Aaroniero's head'' instantly killing him. Sure, Rukia's sword reforming and her subsequent rescuing are major {{Deus ex Machina}}s, but in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', readers lost count long ago anyway. And that's not even going into Sosuke Aizen, who just loves to listen to himself talk, going by the fact that he has on a few occasions taken the time to fill the good guys in on every little detail regarding exactly ''how'' bad he's screwed them over. During his final battle with Aizen in the Deicide arc, it got so bad that Ichigo got sick of it and flat out stated as such while interrupting one of the latter's monologues. In the [[spoiler:Fullbring]] arc, [[spoiler:Giriko]] breaks into this when DrunkWithPower...which gets him [[spoiler:killed by Kenpachi.]]
102** In ''Literature/BleachCantFearYourOwnWorld'', [[BigBad Tokinada]] {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s that it's incredibly stupid to explain your {{Evil Plan}}s aloud given anyone could be listening in, but also comments he just can't stop himself, because he enjoys seeing [[{{Troll}} his victims' baffled faces]] as he explains his [[XanatosGambit rather circuitous schemes]].
103* While the manga and anime adaption of ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' disagree on quite a few things, there's one thing on which they agree: [[BigBad Aion]] ''loves'' to gloat.
104* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Although he's an AntiHero, Lelouch is ''very'' fond of doing this to a poor hapless victim to his CompellingVoice before using it. In R2 C.C. lampshades it which Lelouch dismisses; he apparently can't pass on an opportunity to be [[LargeHam dramatic]].
105* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
106** "Sayonara, [[spoiler:Raye Penber]]."
107** "I am Kira." Just so he could see the look on [[spoiler:Naomi Misora]]'s face moments before his ArtifactOfDoom kicked in.
108** [[Characters/DeathNoteLightYagami Light Yagami]] also gloats evilly at the end of the penultimate episode. While it wouldn't have changed the outcome had he not done so, it was pretty reckless of him, and he only did it as a matter of pride to show how confident he was that he had successfully tied up all remaining loose ends.
109** The look on [[spoiler:his face when L dies]]. Hell, in the anime, Light went so far as to literally ''dance on his grave'' while gloating about his victory.
110** And then in the manga [[spoiler:Light gloats one last time when he thinks Ryuk is writing his enemies' names down]]. [[OhCrap It backfires badly]].
111* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': In "[[Recap/DigimonAdventureE17TheCrestOfSincerity The Crest of Sincerity]]", Cockatrimon takes time after intercepting Mimi, Sora, Biyomon and Palmon to gloat about how he's captured the other kids and [[TakenForGranite petrified the other Digimon]], and about how he's going to capture them too. This gives the heroes the time to come to grips with the situation, costing him the element of surprise and, when he finally gets around to attacking, allowing them to dodge his {{Eye Beam}}s and flee. If he'd attacked as soon as he saw them he might have won then and there, but...
112* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
113** Frieza ''really'' likes to play with his food when he fights, and always takes the time to rub in his enemies' faces how puny and weak they are compared to him. The most notable example is in ''[[Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF Resurrection 'F']]'', when after Goku is [[spoiler: shot InTheBack by Frieza's [[TheDragon second-in-command]] Sorbet]], Frieza decides to torture Goku slowly and painfully while rubbing in his face how stupid he was to show him mercy a second time. His gloating leads right to his downfall when, in an attempt to twist the knife even further, he tries to goad Vegeta into killing Goku for him by offering him a high-ranking position in his army; Vegeta refuses, saves Goku, and beats Frieza to a pulp.
114** Cell does this a grand total of three times:
115*** In his first form, Cell takes the time to tell a wounded Piccolo about his origins and goals after attempting to absorb him. It bites Cell in the ass when Piccolo reveals that, though Cell had partially absorbed his arm, he was faking being on the ropes to get Cell to talk, then and promptly regenerates his arm. Which Cell should have known Piccolo could do, since ''he has the exact same power, inherited '''from''' Piccolo''.
116*** After [[BatmanGambit successfully]] [[FlawExploitation manipulating]] Vegeta into helping him absorb Android 18 and becoming perfect, he takes the time while curb-stomping Vegeta to rub it in his face, mockingly thanking him for doing so and outright stating that he ''never'' would have been able to reach his perfect form were it not for Vegeta's arrogance and stupidity.
117*** After returning from his near death experience and killing Trunks, he spends several minutes detailing how he returned, acquired Instant Transmission, and despite Goku's attempt to stop him, is stronger than ever. To rub more salt in the wound, he rubs in the Z-Fighters' faces that Goku [[SenselessSacrifice sacrificed himself for nothing]] and mockingly thanks him.
118** ''Anime/DragonBallZTheTreeOfMight'': Turles gloated a lot at first. He gets angrier as the movie progresses and more or less drops this by the final showdown.
119** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': During the Future Trunks Saga, Zamasu seizes virtually every opportunity to go off on AGodAmI speeches and {{Motive Rant}}s, constantly taking the time to remind Goku and the Z-Fighters of his belief that he's a "true God" and how there's nothing they can do to stop him. Eventually, he admits that he doesn't actually care if anyone listens to his gloating; he does it simply to [[TheFightingNarcissist hear himself talk]]. [[spoiler:By the time Future Zamasu and Goku Black [[FusionDance fuse together]] and the Merged Zamasu starts to go off on another MotiveRant, Vegito is sick of listening to the gloating and [[ShutUpHannibal cuts him off with a punch to the face]].]]
120* ''Manga/DreamEaterMerry'': Hercules ''loves'' to gloat since he's overly dramatic. It helps that he's strong enough to tank enemy attacks while barely breaking his train of thought. John uses this against him in the big fight by baiting Hercules into gloating, then ending the daydream since it was in John's yard, to throw Hercules off mid-gloat.
121* ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'': In the first season, Cromwell, the villain behind it all, starts to gloat about how he'll never be defeated as long as he has the ring. [[spoiler:Before he can finish the sentence, Guiche sneaks up behind him and hits him on the head with a big stick. "So, who is this guy?"]]
122* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': This is a pretty common behavior of the homunculi, due to their massive arrogance.
123** Envy absolutely loves using this to make people squirm. Unfortunately for him, he admits to killing [[spoiler:Hughes]] in front of ''Roy Mustang'' of all people. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Not terribly hard to guess what happened after that]].
124** Greed and Lust both indulge in ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy (the latter because she didn't plan to leave them alive anyway), Wrath often monologues about humans being weak, and Pride is a SmugSnake because of his habit of threatening people and bragging about his superiority. Unlike most examples of ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy, they didn't really say anything that could make the good guys pick up on a weakness. They had to figure that stuff out on their own.
125* In ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', [[UncannyValleyGirl Ryoko Asakura]] does this when she [[spoiler:attempts to kill Kyon so she can watch Haruhi's reactions. She was literally a second away from killing Kyon when Yuki saved him. If Ryoko hadn't taken the time to explain why she wanted Kyon dead, she presumably could have killed him before Yuki even arrived.]]
126* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', Zorin Blitz really likes doing this. However, it proves to be her undoing when she calls Pip Bernadotte an 'insect' and mocks him and the Wild Geese, while a blind and mutilated Seras is crying over his body. Understandably, Seras doesn't take it very well. To the extent that she paints the walls with Zorin's head.
127* ''Manga/HenkyouNoRoukishiBardLoen'': After thinking he won, Kaldus Coendera monologues to Bard how he'll be [[spoiler:the father of the future king and]] will be able to tax the rest of the Shigwentsa as much as he wants, while blaming Tersia family for Aidra's death, so Bard should [[WeCanRuleTogether join him while he can]]. Bard calmly tells that [[spoiler:his imposter prince doesn't have the one identifying trait required, and Kaldus realizes he just completely screwed up.]]
128* ''Literature/HumanityHasDeclined'': Relentlessly parodied: the [[spoiler:[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext skinless chickens]]]] gloat about their EvilPlan to the heroine, but she's too busy [[PaintingTheMedium adjusting the subtitles]] to pay attention.
129* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': Hakudoshi's demise is a direct result of this trope. While fighting Inuyasha's group, he decides to openly brag to them about how he plans to betray Naraku. Unfortunately for him, Naraku overhears the whole thing and promptly recalls the Saimyosho and disables Hakudoshi's barrier, leaving Hakudoshi to his fate of being sucked into Miroku's [[PowerOfTheVoid Wind]] [[PowerPalms Tunnel]].
130* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'': Evil characters like to gloat when they are in a position of power.
131** DIO describes being fully synchronized to Jonathan's body and regaining his full strength as "the greatest high" and sees that he almost feels like singing.
132** Kars fully enjoys describing the sun and his position as the strongest being on earth after using the Stone Mask on himself.
133** Kira gloats about how he has luck on his side, saying his full name in public. [[spoiler:Then Josuke surprises him...]]
134** More down-to-earth than most, but Pucci, after [[spoiler:killing everyone but Emporio and cornering him in Green Dolphin Street Prison]], still takes the time to expose his motivation and how his plan works to the helpless Emporio.
135** Valentine confidently dares Johnny to use his last Steel Ball and nails, knowing that he cannot use the Super Spin without a horse.
136* ''Anime/{{K}}'': The Colorless King does this in the murder video, one of the many indicators that the case isn't as simple as it looks and that Shiro, the kid in the video committing the crime, might not be the real killer.
137--> '''Shiro:''' Think about it. Why would I commit a crime and then purposefully identify myself in the video?\
138'''Kuroh:''' [[GenreBlind Because you're evil and you want everyone to know it.]]\
139'''Shiro:''' If that's true, then I must be a pretty dumb villain.
140* In ''Manga/KarakurizoushiAyatsuriSakon'', the villain of the Noh Arc just had to explain the entire plot.
141* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': Ragyo Kiryuin does this every time she's near victory, constantly taking the time to remind her adversaries of how worthless and incompetent they are compared to her. Unfortunately for her, [[spoiler: Ryuko and Satsuki know how to take advantage of this]].
142* In the ''Manga/LiarGame'', everyone does this after they believe they have successfully tricked their opponents, particularly if it was the protagonists Nao and Akiyama. However they are usually OutGambitted seconds later in a [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome humiliating defeat]].
143* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'': In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', Quattro, SmugSnake that she is, does some big time gloating as she forces the main character to fight against [[spoiler:her daughter]]. In retrospect, [[OhCrap this probably wasn't]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill a very good idea]]. She probably got this from [[MadScientist Jail himself]], since he did gloat about the power of his Combat Cyborg and Gadget Drone technology. In Jail's case it is justified, as he has already proven the might of his creations by [[spoiler: [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs successfully destroying Riot Force 6 HQ and crippling the TSAB Ground Forces HQ]]]] and simply felt rubbing his victory to everyone's faces, topping it off with an EvilLaugh.
144-->'''Jail:''' Mid-Childa Ground TSAB members, did you like it?
145* In ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'', the main character gloats every time he beats an enemy — often accompanied by ironic torture.
146* ''Anime/MarvelFutureAvengers'': When it looks like her team of Avengers are about to be executed. Captain Marvel asks Leader what the "Emerald Rain Project" is. In his hubris, Leader is more than happy to tell her.
147* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'''s version of Milverton is absolutely insufferable explaining things. He spends pages rubbing in Sherlock and William's faces that he believes he has outwitted them (he hasn't). For whatever reason, even with their guns pointed at him, they simply let him keep talking.
148* In ''Anime/MyOtome'', when [[spoiler:Tomoe]] confronts Arika after acquiring her [[EvilCostumeSwitch new battle suit]], she wastes no time bragging about her involvement in [[spoiler:Miya's disappearance, Erstin's leg injury, and Arika's costume damage]] right before she and three of her companions attack. However, she was only ''supposed'' to capture Mashiro and get back to base as quickly as possible to avoid drawing attention.
149* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
150** Despite being a very intelligent and shrewd man, Kabuto Yakushi has a terrible habit of gloating before fallen enemies when he thinks (and usually does) he has the upper hand in a battle.
151*** A good example is when he fought Tsunade in order to "convince" her to heal Orochimaru's soulless arms. He began kicking her while she was in her hemophobia-trauma-shock and taunting her for ''"bringing shame to the name of Sannin. Which Orochimaru has brought glory and power to!"'' (or something along those lines).
152*** He also seems to do this whenever he and Naruto manage to meet up in battle. Since Naruto has a short fuse on anything involving Sasuke, it's not even a challenge to get him riled up by Kabuto's taunts.
153** Hidan is very good at this, which greatly annoys his partner Kakuzu.
154** [[spoiler:Madara Uchiha. The majority of what comes out of his mouth is this constantly brags about how superior he is to everyone else.]]
155* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
156** [[spoiler:Chao]] does this to Negi's friends after sending them a week into the future when she'd already won the battle by sticking a note gloating about her victory on the side of Eva's resort.
157** Evangeline is also fond of evil gloating, especially when she isn't doing anything evil. She probably wants to remind everyone she most definitely has ''not'' gone soft.
158* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The villains love this trope. Played with in that their gloating usually doesn't bring about their fall, Luffy's [[RightMakesMight endless willpower]] does... [[SubvertedTrope except when it doesn't]].
159* ''Anime/PokemonZoroarkMasterOfIllusions'': Grings Kodai, the BigBad, is shown to have a massive ego, so it's only natural that once he thinks he's won by [[spoiler: absorbing the Time Ripple]], he proceeds to give a [[NothingCanStopUsNow Nothing Can Stop Me Now]] speech, believing he's won and there's nothing Ash can do to stop him now. [[spoiler: [[OhCrap Then time starts reversing and he discovers that not only was the Time Ripple he just absorbed an illusion created by Zoroark but that Karl, a reporter traveling with Ash's group, has caught his entire]] Evil Gloating session on tape. Cue start of HumiliationConga ending with that [[EngineeredPublicConfession same footage airing on the TV network that ''HE owned'']].]]
160* ''Anime/SherlockHound'': Moriarty mockingly bids a goodbye to Lestrade every time he's close to catching him.
161* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'':
162** During the Fairy Dance arc, Sugou brags to Asuna about his belief that Kirito is too scared to enter ALO to save her in an effort to demoralize her. It backfires; Asuna ''knows'' that Kirito is more than strong enough to enter ALO if there's any chance of saving her, and knowing that he's still alive helps her HeroicResolve.
163** Sugou does it a second time after Kirito defeats him in ALO and proceeds to attack him in real life in revenge. When Kirito tells him he's finished and should just turn himself in, Sugou smugly brushes him off, stating that countless organizations would want his work and shelter him from the law. After Kirito overpowers him and leaves him unconscious in the parking lot, Sugou's gloating in that regard is proven wrong; he's arrested and incarcerated for his crimes.
164* In ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'', during their fight, Jake taunts Barnaby that [[spoiler: he has a secondary power, which was unheard of]]. He doesn't reveal anything more than that, but had he not chosen to gloat, [[spoiler: [[NiceJobFixingItVillain Kotetsu wouldn't have figured out WHAT that power was]].]]
165* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': One example from the Banquet of the Golden Witch, Beatrice: [[spoiler:"And for you, just as expected, it's 'tears please,' and you're down!! I~diot, what a truly simple person!!"]] It's not a good idea to make the person you're trying to get to sign something feel like crap, but it turns out that [[spoiler:it was done on purpose as Beatrice is trying to lose and does this to avoid a SpringtimeForHitler.]]
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169* ''ComicBook/AllFallDown'': [[spoiler:AIQ Squared]] lays out his entire scheme to the confused and outraged IQ Squared.
170* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': In "Pastoral", Team Carnivore tells Roustabout that their bosses will take him apart to figure out how their experiments worked on him.
171* ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'': Despite having spent most of his scenes in the story complaining about being in a hurry to complete his scheme, Edison still spends three pages monologuing to the captive Robo about what he's doing, which gives Tesla time to track them down and turn the tables.
172* ''ComicBook/BatmanEndgame:'' The Joker whipping out his phone and showing a captured Batman footage of the one way to cure the city of poisoning, a reservoir of [[HealingPotion Dionesium,]] as the Bat chokes on poison gas...is the only reason he loses. Because the Batman choking [[spoiler:is Dick Grayson, and Bruce Wayne's]] already on his way there.
173* ''ComicBook/{{Blacksad}}'': At the end of ''Somewhere in the Shadows'', the murderer Blacksad's hunted down, [[spoiler:Ivo Statoc]], goes on a bit of a rant about how superior he is to the emotional and volatile Blacksad, taunting him about [[YouWouldntShootMe how he doesn't have the stomach to shoot him]]. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Statoc, his taunting - and the smug smile he gives Blacksad afterwards - is enough of an outrage [[PullTheTriggerProvocation to clear up Blacksad's doubts about killing him]], and he blows a hole through Statoc's forehead.]]
174* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Dastardly & Muttley]]'' story "Truce or Consequences" (Gold Key Hanna-Barbera Fun-In #10), Dick Dastardly lures Yankee Doodle Pigeon over to the enemies' side during a 24-hour truce, hypnotizes him, and makes him pose for pictures depicting him as a traitor. When Yankee Doodle comes to and realizes what has happened (with a KneelBeforeZod moment between Yankee Doodle and Dastardly after the following):
175-->'''Yankee Doodle Pigeon:''' You cad! I accuse you of violation of the truce!\
176'''Dastardly:''' ''[smugly]'' So? Sue me! In just thirty seconds, the truce will be over and ''you'' will be A.W.O.L.! What do you suppose they'll think of ''that?''
177* ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'': Sometimes happens, usually done by [[VillainProtagonist the title character]] but sometimes by [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Ginko]]. They do it ''after'' the plan has been completed, with Diabolik doing it from safe distance.
178* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': ComicBook/DoctorDoom ''loves'' gloating. ''Fantastic Four #258'' provides a particularly glorious example:
179-->'''Dr. Doom:''' No one rivals Doom! NO ONE! Doom is supreme! There is no power on Earth, no intellect in all creation to equal mine!!
180* ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'': Charybdis reveals he's had a PowerUp and starts kicking Plutonian's butt, saying that as Plutonian was NighInvulnerable he'd never learned to fight properly. Plutonian then reveals why he turned evil in the first place.
181-->'''Plutonian:''' And do you know [[JustBetweenYouAndMe why I just told you all that?]] So you'd [[YouTalkTooMuch stop lecturing me]] about sucker punches! ''(sucker punches Charybdis)''
182* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':
183** In the pages of ''ComicBook/JLA1997'', the Key rants (basically to no one, since only his nonsentient robots are around to hear him) for about a page about how brilliant he's made himself through the use of brain-altering chemicals, and how it's allowed him to finally beat the JLA. It ends with this aside:
184--->'''The Key:''' Oh, and make a note of an interesting side effect of my expanding consciousness. I can't stop talking to myself.
185** ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost'': When Max has Jaime captured he spends a lot of time waxing about his plan, how everything is going according to it, and calling Jaime stereotypical Latin nicknames like Hombre.
186* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': The BigBad in the album about oil in Oklahoma rants that, because Lucky Luke missed him with the last bullet, he is going to kill him now. If he hadn't done it, he could've succeeded.
187* ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'': Defied in issue 30. Bubble Man nearly starts a smug rant towards Mega Man and his allies but gets shut up by an annoyed Metal Man.
188-->'''Metal Man:''' Do. Not. Tell. Them. ANYTHING.
189* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'':
190** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue1To4 The Return of Queen Chrysalis]]", as Chrysalis begins to describe what will happen should the Mane Six miss the deadline, a fillynapped Scootaloo blurts out that she's about to reveal her evil plan to the heroines. Annoyed at the interruption, Chrysalis cuts off communication.
191** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue32To33 Night of the Living Apples]]" Twilight, after the main six are captured, asks Bad Apple what he intends to do. He answers that he plans to gloat.
192--->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' What are you going to do?\
193'''Bad Apple:''' ''Gloat!'' There will be ''much'' gloating!
194** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue43To45 Ponies of Dark Water]]", Twilight's flowchart for taking over Equestria has, as its penultimate step, "GLOAT!" in big bold letters. She duly indulges in this at the end of the comic, boasting about her genius, how she predicted everything that happened and how none of the other characters have a chance to stop her... right before she falls for the old bucket-over-the-door trick and gets the evil washed out of her.
195* Subverted in the ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' story "Might and Power": [[TheDragon Morgan Fairfax]] is about to illustrate the plan to Paperinik to show off his genius, but [[BigBad Grrodon]] cuts him off because "I know it perfectly, my soldiers don't care about it, and PK will soon be too absent to appreciate your genius!"
196* ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons:'' It's given a LampshadeHanging in one of the ''Radioactive Man'' comics, when the hero turns evil and insane after a brush with death. As he's beating up his fellow heroes, he rants that now he gets why villains always start gloating about their plans: Because it's ''fun''.
197* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
198** ''Series/{{Smallville}} Season 11''. ComicBook/LexLuthor ''could'' have learned all of Superman's secrets by merely keeping his mouth shut and letting his equipment do its thing after [[spoiler:secretly dosing Supes with radiation that allows his satellites to track his every move]]. But as soon as the satellite comes on line, Lex demonstrates it to Superman, in order to gloat about how screwed he is. And based on a comment he makes later in regards to increased Superman sightings, at the time Lex didn't even consider that Superman had a SecretIdentity!
199** ''ComicBook/WhoTookTheSuperOutOfSuperman'': As soon as he engages Superman, Solarman can't help but gloating about his sunlight-collector suit giving him power enough to beat Superman and becoming the biggest criminal around. And then he gloats over how much of a rush is getting by beating Superman around, not realizing Kal-El is using his own life energy to overload his powered costume.
200--->'''Superman:''' "The longer this clown talks, the less likely he'll be to use the energy he wastes boasting against me!"
201** In ''ComicBook/SupermanBrainiac'', the titular villain captures Superman and then lays out his entire scheme: going to Earth, stealing one city and destroying the planet by turning the Sun into a super nova.
202--->'''Brainiac:''' I will be everything there has ever been, Kryptonian. I will be evolved into perfection.
203** In ''ComicBook/WhoIsSuperwoman'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} has just unmasked the titular villain and demands answers. Superwoman isn't dumb enough to confess why or on whose orders she murdered Agent Liberty, but she still gloats about killing Supergirl and then framing her for the crime. Supergirl proceeds to beat Superwoman to the ground.
204--->'''Superwoman:''' Now that you're here on Earth someone else can play the role of Agent Liberty's Kryptonian murderer.\
205'''Supergirl:''' But the hard drive image--\
206'''Superwoman:''' Was easily dealt with, along with records of its existence. And with the good Inspector counting feathers on his wings in Heaven no one will be able to point the finger at me. I'll make sure that you are the one who's blamed. Unfortunately for you, you won't be able to tell them otherwise as you'll have suffered a "mysterious disappearance".
207** In ''ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything'', Batman, Robin and Wonder Woman go in the Fortress of Solitude and stumble upon a comatose Superman. Instead of attacking while they're distracted and with their backs turned, Mongul greets them, introduces himself, explains what he has done to Superman, and smugly declares he'll take over the world after killing them one after the other.
208** At the end of ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', Worldkiller-1 boasts that Supergirl's heroic sacrifice has failed to destroy him, and now that she's dying she can't stop him from taking over her cousin's body. And then he dumps her body in the Sun... which is the ''worst possible way'' to dispose of a Kryptonian.
209--->'''Worldkiller-1:''' A noble sacrifice, but in the end, you accomplish nothing. I touched your mind. I glimpsed your memories. I saw your cousin, Kal-El. Superman. He will serve my mission just as well... and he won't have a Red Ring to stop me.
210** ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'': When he finally appears, Mr. Mxyzptlk gloats about killing Superman and proceeds to chase after him and Lois... instead of merely wishing Superman out of existence.
211--->'''Mr. Mxyzptlk:''' "Now, two thousand years later, I'm bored again. I need a change. Starting with your death, I shall spend the next two millennia being evil! After that, who knows? Perhaps I'll try being guilty for a while. Did you honestly believe a fifth-dimensional sorcerer would resemble a funny little man in a derby hat? Would you like to see how I really look?"
212** In ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'', Darkseid and his Servants are inclined to ceaselessly declare the inevitability of his eventual triumph.
213--->'''Darkseid:''' "When I am done, everything that lives shall live only if it is as I wish it to be."
214** In ''ComicBook/{{Crucible}}'', [[TheDragon Roho]] loves gloating over his inevitable victory before running away.
215--->'''Roho:''' I will take my wounded and cede this battle. But it is only one in a greater war. One you and Crucible '''cannot win'''.
216** In ''ComicBook/TheGreatPhantomPeril'', Faora's calculated and brutal poking of Superman's pressure points leaves his body paralyzed, but instead of striking the {{coup de grace}} she drags Superman around while going on about how great of a martial artist she is and how skillfully she manipulated gullible Mr. Porter into releasing her. By the time that she finally decides to give the killing blow, Superman's paralysis has worn off.
217--->'''Faora:''' A quick puff, Superman-- So I can keep you just where I want you on a cushion of SuperBreath as I tell you about Dyr-Ynn -- the dreaded "Phantom Touch of Death"! All it takes is a precise force applied to a secret pinpoint spot on your body -- and zip! You're dead!\
218'''Superman:''' ''[thinking]'' Glad the braggart's taking time to explain all this! The effects of her last blow are wearing off--!
219** ''ComicBook/TwoForTheDeathOfOne'': [[EvilSorcerer Syrene]] claims the massive sorcerous power of the Runestone of Merlin, and instead of destroying her enemy Lord Satanis at once, she starts gloating about killing him slowly and painfully while casting low-level spells to play with him. Before she can drop a meteor swarm on his head Satanis has figured out he can survive if he takes over Superman's invulnerable body.
220--->'''Syrene:''' It is over! The power filtering through Superman's body has killed him while making me the greatest sorcerer who has ever lived. And now, my dear husband, to deal with you! My father, Ambra, possessed the fabled Runestone created by Merlin, but you killed him to take the Stone as yours. But before you could claim it and before he died, he sent the Gem hurling into the past. Well, now I have reclaimed my family heritage. The Stone and its powers are mine! And with it I shall kill the man who slew my father!
221** ''ComicBook/LastDaughterOfKrypton'': At the beginning of the final battle, Reign stands aside and gloats while her Worldkillers gang up on Supergirl, instead of joining her soldiers in dogpiling the Kryptonian to kill her quickly.
222--->'''Reign:''' Why am I telling you all this, Kara Zor-El? Because I want you to know... who it is that kills you today.\
223'''Supergirl:''' ''(thinking)'' She keeps talking, just watching the fight like it's all for her amusement. But I stopped listening a long time ago. I'm too busy trying to stay alive.
224** In ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'':
225*** Harry Hokum has captured a depowered Supergirl, and instead of killing her, he brags about torture her and cut her up before ordering his men to drag her to a cell. In the way, Supergirl finds a way to get her powers back, escape and begin wrecking his base.
226---->'''Harry Hokum:''' You won't be so defiant when I break you down for spare parts. And I'll be far less forgiving.
227*** As she is being dragged to a cell, Supergirl taunts Splyce until the villain shoots an energy bolt at her. Splyce starts mocking her, unaware that her solar blast has recharged Kara, who is just pretending to be knocked out.
228---->'''Splyce:''' "I may not be allowed to kill you... But I can do... this!" (fires an energy blast) "I have heard the legends about you and your cousin. So unearned. Who's the pathetic one now?"\
229'''Supergirl:''' (thinking) Tamaranean solar power. Not quite as smooth as Earth's. Don't react, Kara. Not just yet.
230** ''ComicBook/StrangersAtTheHeartsCore'': When Klax-Ar spots Kara, he demands she pays attention to him, and then he rants about his identity and backstory, his super-powerful vehicle's origin, and his plans to steal her powers, pry the Earth's location from her mind and then take over the world. Essentially he told her exactly what she needed to know to beat him up, which would have not happened if he had probed her mind from afar without drawing her attention.
231--->'''Klax-Ar:''' "I'll attack your greatest cities-- They will be helpless before me and you'll be compelled to accept my dictates! And this monument is the first to-- Huh--? The sled is faltering...?"
232** ''ComicBook/StarfiresRevenge'': When Supergirl is knocked out, tied up and dragged to her lair, Starfire guesses the alien hero has not been fully depowered, ergo she must be dealt with immediately before her powers come back again. Nonetheless, Starfire wants to convince her minions that Supergirl is no longer a threat; so, she slaps Supergirl around (which has the effect of waking her up), gets her untied, tosses her around for a bit, throws her into a support beam and then she decides Supergirl has been taken care of. As Starfire is turning her back to her, Kara recovers her powers.
233--->'''Starfire:''' Now, untie her-- I think I'll have some fun with her!
234** In ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman1961'', Lex Luthor's need to gloating does not ruin his scheme to murder Superman, but it ultimately leads to his downfall: he kidnaps Lois, Jimmy and Perry so they see Superman die, and he lets them go afterwards, gloating the whole time. As a result of it, when he is captured by Supergirl and dragged to Kandor to be trialed, the prosecutor can count with three eyewitnesses able to and willing to testify against Luthor.
235** In ''ComicBook/HowLuthorMetSuperboy'', Lex Luthor lures ComicBook/{{Superboy}} into a Kryptonite death trap. As Superboy is lying in agony, Lex leans over Superboy to gloat while waving a flask of Kryptonite antidote over his face. Superboy quickly exploits Lex's arrogance, snatches the flask from his hands and swallows the antidote.
236** ''ComicBook/TheStrangeRevengeOfLenaLuthor'': When villain Mind-Bomber holds Lena hostage and seeks shelter in an abandoned subway, Lena goads him to go on a rant about his childhood trauma, his hurt feelings and his impeding revenge with the result that Supergirl finds them and pushes the villain away from his hostage.
237--->'''Mind-Bomber:''' But you prevented that...And you'll pay for it!\
238'''Lena Colby:''' Incidentally, I've figured out how you gave Linda the slip-- You can't read her mind-- But you can plant ideas in it! So you made yourself invisible by telepathically willing Linda to not see you!\
239'''Supergirl:''' But that trick won't work any more, van Horne! Thanks for keeping up the chatter, Lena! I couldn't see you two-- But I could pinpoint the precise source of your voices with my super-hearing--
240** ''ComicBook/WayOfTheWorld'': After apparently taking down Supergirl and her allies, Dolok goes on about the inevitability of defeating someone who has mastered time instead of killing his enemies. Supergirl cuts off his rambling by calling him an idiot and having one of her allies to break her Kryptonite collar.
241** In ''ComicBook/EscapeFromThePhantomZone'', ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} goads Xa-Du into keeping rambling on about how he will wreck terrible vengeance upon her for ruining his plans until he spits out that he never intended to fulfill his promise of breaking his fellow inmates from the Phantom Zone. His minions immediately take exception to his lies and manipulations and turn against Xa-Du.
242--->'''Xa-Du:''' I know little of your language, picked up from my time in the Aethyr Switch's mind. But it should suffice to murder you in your own tongue.\
243'''Batgirl:''' Right. Keep talking.
244** ''ComicBook/ThePlagueOfTheAntibioticMan'': Rather than shooting Supergirl right after forcing Superman to leave his ship, Amalak rants and raves about his plans as she listens, believing her helpless. Then she breaks the chains tying her to a chair.
245** ''ComicBook/LetMyPeopleGrow'': After shrinking Superman, Brainiac takes a moment to gloat about annihilating him instead of annihilating him without further ado, giving Supergirl time to appear and run interference.
246--->'''Brainiac:''' ''"I have no idea what you hoped to accomplish with that ridiculous maneuver, Superman-- and, regrettably, you're not going to be here long enough for me to find out! That first shot shrunk you to the size of a mosquito-- But the blast you're about to receive will reduce you to absolute nothingness!"''\
247'''Supergirl:''' ''"I wouldn't touch that button if I were you, Brainiac!"''
248** ''ComicBook/TheSuperRevengeOfLexLuthor'': When Superman at last figures out Luthor is using psychological warfare to drive him crazy, he lures Luthor and Brainiac out by pretending he has completely lost his marbles, well-aware that they will be unable to resist the temptation to come out to gloat.
249--->'''Superman:''' ''"I realized that my crack-up was part of a conspiracy that you planned, Luthor. I smoked you out by pretending to go amok. I knew you rats would come here to gloat. So I was ready for you!"''
250** ''ComicBook/BrainiacRebirth'': Brainiac captures Superman and, despite allegedly removing emotions from his programming, he cannot stop himself from rambling on about being an evolved invincible being who will destroy all his enemies, reveling in telling Superman what caused his transformation, and choosing a slow method of execution when he finally decides to kill his prisoner. However, his gloating has given his minions time enough to prepare a revolt, which Superman exploits by breaking free while Brainiac is dealing with his rebellious slaves.
251** ''ComicBook/TheCondemnedLegionnaires'': After infecting the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes' female members, Satan Girl cannot resist the temptation to go to the Legion -who did not even know of her existence- and brag about her actions, so initiating a chain of events which would lead to her defeat and disappearance. Additionally, she gloats as telling Supergirl she will reveal her identity when she destroys her.
252--->'''Satan Girl:''' ''"Ha, Ha...So you thought I'm an android? Supergirl, you'd be amazed if you knew who I really am! I'll tell you as I destroy you!"''
253** ''ComicBook/BrainiacsBlitz'': Before shooting his newest weapon, Brainiac boasts that it is a time-travel raygun which will blast ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} into the far future where she will have no powers because the Earth's sun will have turned red. Alerted by his gloating, Kara dodges the blast instead of letting it hit her, as she might have done if Brainiac had kept his mouth shut.
254** "ComicBook/ThoseEmeraldEyesAreShining": Emerald Empress's successful ambush knocks the Legion of Super-Heroes out. Rather than take advantage of their unconscious state and kill them on the spot, she gets them brought to her base bridge, waits until they wake up in order to gloat and indulge in some petty bullying, orders her minion to execute them and then leaves the room.
255* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'':
256** A freshly returned Megatron starts gloating and boasting to Ratchet, who sarcastically quips whether he's going to start explaining his whole plan as well. Megatron just retorts that he has ''every intention'' of telling Ratchet what's going to happen.
257** During the ''Underbase'' storyline, Ratbat decided to start with some evil gloating to Danial and Hi-Q about his plan to take the Underbase's power for himself. [[TooDumbToLive Unfortunately, he chose to do this]] right in front of Scorponok, a WalkingArmory who was one of the largest and most powerful Decepticons, while Ratbat was one of the smallest. Unsurprisingly, this led to Scorponok deciding that the smaller 'Con had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness become a liability]].
258* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW'': Scorponok is addicted to this. Towards the end of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', he actually does refuse to finish explaining his EvilPlan, only for the Scavengers to point out that they're holding a mysterious artefact that can answer any question [[StatingTheSimpleSolution and can just ask that instead]]...at which point Scorponok decides that he's not getting his thunder stolen by a glorified Magic 8-Ball and goes right back to his monologue.
259* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' plays this straight, with a nod to the oft-fatal habit of monologuing, but adds a twist to the end. [[spoiler:When confronted by Rorschach and Night Owl, Ozymandias coolly explains (and details) his master plan to them. The heroes expect to be able to stop him yet, but he bluntly tells them that [[NoNonsenseNemesis he wouldn't be wasting his time talking to them if they still had a chance to stop him]], [[YouAreTooLate his plan was already completed about half-an-hour ago]].]]
260* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}: In ''ComicBook/AllNewWolverine'', Amber takes the time to brag about killing Sabretooth, Deathstrike, and Old Man Logan, and revealing her plan to kill the rest of them. After Laura reveals her new suit of armor from Muramasa.
261* In the ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]] story arc ''ComicBook/JudgmentInInfinity'', when Diana manages to lasso the Adjudicator's neck, he proudly states he can obliterate her and her Lasso in a heartbeat... ''instead'' of obliterating her without previous talk. It becomes his downfall when he is cajoled into keeping talking.
262-->'''The Adjudicator:''' Foolish mortal! Perhaps your lariat has some mystical powers over lesser beings -- But it is nothing but a piece of string to the Adjudicator. A heartbeat more, and your lasso will follow you and your hapless friends -- into complete and utter obliteration!
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266* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': The Many -- deranged, fanatical HiveMind that they are -- take some time boasting to [[AdaptationalHeroism Monster X]] during their battle at Yonaguni:
267-->'''The Many:''' ''E͏ven͟ if̶ ̴y͡ǫu ̶kil̢l us̷ ͡yoų'̕v͜e ǫnly̵ slash͞e̶d o͘ff o̶ne̷ ten̸d͝r͝i̡l of a s͏in̡gle͘ g͏rea̢ter̢ or͜ga͝nism̵.͟ [[spoiler: ̷So m͢an̴y sam͠p̴l̨e̕s. ͟ ̧S͞o m̕a̶n̸y people͠ o͟uţ ͠t͏her͏e͝ h̛op҉i̵ng̢ ̵to͜ ͞start a famil̨y҉, b͞ut can'͝t̛ ̛co͘n͏ceive̶. S͞o ͏th̴e͟y ͞re͘s̷or͘t to... ͝o҉utsid͠e a̕s̴si͘s҉t̡an̡ce̷. ͞ H̴ow ̸m̨an҉y g͟enerątion͝s wįll i̸t͡ ̸t͠a͟ke, do y̨ou͡ ̷thi͞nk̸,̴ ͞be͟fơre̢ ҉t͟he c̨ḩi͘ldre̶n͠ o͡f ̛the dra͠gǫn̷ ̸w͘alk̸ t̕h̨e ͝ci̢ty ̢s̛tr҉e͢et̢s i͟n̵ ͝p̛l̸ai͘n si̢gh͟ţ, ͝n̕o͜ ̡one sųsp͢ec̡t̵ing̸ ̢a th̴ing?]] ̶ H͞o͝w many mo͟re ̧frien̴ds͠ of yo̢u̢r͡s͟ m̵ight sti҉l̷l͘ be ̶end͘an̢ger͟ed̶? ͞''
268* ''Fanfic/{{Anthropology}}'':
269** Chapter 24:
270--->'''Discord:''' Enjoying your walk, Heartstrings? You're getting along quite well on just two legs, I see. Like any other human. You really are one of them, aren't you? I just wanted to stop by and offer my most sincere gratitude. If it weren't for you, ''Heartstrings'', I never would have found this place. And to imagine, you were right there in Ponyville the entire time! If I had known there were humans left, I wouldn't have wasted my time there. No, humans are far more fun. I'm rather fond of humans myself. I suppose we have that much in common, you and me. All that technology, right? And their hands that they use it with?\
271'''Lyra:''' W-where are you?\
272'''Discord:''' Oh, I'm exactly where I want to be -- here, in the human world. Can you imagine? A separate world, filled with millions of humans, and it's been right next door all along. You're really quite a lot of fun, you humans. And just look at how amazing this world is! Leave you alone for a couple thousand years and you accomplish all of this.\
273'''Lyra:''' How did you get here? How did you find me? What are you ''doing''?\
274'''Discord:''' I think you know ''exactly'' what I'm planning. You see, I've been terribly bored, like you couldn't even imagine. I've been in need of some good old-fashioned chaos. Or -- my mistake -- the humans here have all ''new'' ways to create chaos! I do look forward to this, I really mean that.\
275'''Lyra:''' There's more to humans than that. I've been studying them -- us. We're better than that.\
276'''Discord:''' From the looks of things, you've all made quite enough chaos without my help. We'll see about that. Well, I didn't plan to visit for long. Just long enough to drop in and leave you with something. You see, there's a whole world of humans out there waiting for me, and let's just say you'll be happier if you're not one of them. Do you realize that there are ''billions'' of you in this world? Not thousands, not even millions. I could find millions of you in just one city. And it's not too far from here, is it? Like I said, Heartstrings -- my sincerest thanks for your help.
277** Discord then goes ahead and turns Lyra back into a pony. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain He doesn't know what he's done, though.]]
278* In ''Fanfic/AvengersInfiniteWars'', Avengers such as Natasha and Scott express their disbelief at the cliché lines sprouted by some of the Sith.
279* Lampshaded in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9776859/7/Blaze-Into-the-Inferno Blaze: Into the Inferno]]'' when after capturing an initially reticent Bellatrix Lestrange, Harry quipped "Real villains always explain their evil plots."
280* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'':
281-->'''Thunderstorm:''' Oh, but of course! If there's anything I love, it's gloating!
282* ''Webcomic/DadVillainAU'': When first confronted by Viceroy, who's become [[RoleSwapAU the new Butterfly holder]] in the rewritten reality, Gabriel Agreste proceeds to gloat about how he [[TheBadGuyWins used his Wish]] to target the now-''former'' heroine Ladybug and ensure she suffered [[EvilIsPetty out of sheer pettiness]]. He's so keen to boast about his triumph that he [[DidntThinkThisThrough completely fails to consider]] that Viceroy might have ''his own'' vengeance in mind...
283-->'''Gabriel:''' I'm sure I know what you want -- you want a miracle wish to bring someone back, to save someone, to change your past in a permanent way. All you have to do is find the guardian of the Miraculous and take the Ladybug and Black Cat Miraculous--\
284'''Viceroy:''' I already know all about that, Hawkmoth.\
285'''Gabriel:''' Then maybe you're more interested in the specifics of my wish? I had to be careful you know, and you'll have to be too, if you want to change the past. You could easily make a "monkey's paw" mistake. All I had to do was wish for [[RevengeByProxy anyone Ladybug loved]] to suffer the effects of [[UnwittingPawn my wife's broken Miraculous]]. She's from a dead timeline, as you can guess, but you'll find those pesky guardians are well worth the bitter revenge I gave to them. You'll have your run-ins with "heroes" too, when you forge your fate. I suggest you release me and we can set up an accord-- ''(gets slammed into the ground)''
286* In ''Fanfic/DanceWithTheDemons'', Kobra gloats about killing Batman during their final battle, but his taunts are met with utter indifference. Batman ''really'' doesn't care what Kobra says.
287-->'''Kobra:''' You waste both of our times. Both of us know the wine of violence. Both of us know that this must end here, with a long and heady draft of it. I will toast your death with it.
288* {{Subverted|Trope}} in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Envy And Arrogance''. Arrogance soundly trashes the mane six and their allies. Then she launches into a long Evil Gloating monologue, which lets them recover and focus their powers. The subversion comes from the fact that she is quite obviously doing this on purpose - as she has outright stated that her boss' XanatosGambit will work better if they win.
289* Conquest loves to do this in ''Fanfic/FallOfStarfleetRebirthOfFriendship''.
290* ''Fanfic/FireDarkMark'': During their final battle with Captain America, Red Skull decides to reassert his "repulsive bastard" credentials.
291-->'''Red Skull:''' Do you think I am innocent of anything the Reich did? I shot down partisans and Allied soldiers. I tortured captives. I supervised operations, at times, in a concentration camp. My hands are as red as my skull, Captain. I would do it again. If I triumph, I will.
292* ''Fanfic/HarryIsADragonAndThatsOk'': Draco's gloating is so informative that Harry assumes he was being [[CouldSayItBut surreptitiously helpful]], and thanks him for the warning. Draco's face turns interesting colours as he tries to stammer out a rebuttal before walking away.
293-->'''Harry:''' He's quite nice if you think about what he's saying.
294* In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', Satan Girl has mastered this art, and she launches into a monologue as she is beating ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} up during their final battle.
295-->'''Satan Girl:''' Do you know what I'm going to do after I kill you, Kara? Do you know? Well, listen. I'm going to find my child. I'm going to raise him to be what neither Mordru nor I could be alone. A sorcerer with the genes and power of the greatest necromancer in the universe, plus the body and powers of a Kryptonian. He will be a scourge such as Mordru never dreamed of. And I will rule through him, and he will rule because of me. We will conquer as none have ever conquered. But it may take a little while to find him. So I'm going to do something first, just to get the kinks out. I'm going to find me a planet, one with people on it, lots and lots of people. And I'm going to kill them all. Then I'm going to another planet, and kill just, maybe, half of them. And I'll make the ones who live worship me. By the time I find my child, he may be the object of a new religion. Wouldn't that be nice, Kara?
296* In ''Fanfic/HereThereBeMonsters'', Dr. Sivana's master plan fails because he wastes too much time gloating.
297-->'''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}:''' I almost didn't escape. But all I had to do, in the end, was use my flight power to its fullest extent. For about an hour, to be precise. If you hadn't been so intent on making a long speech, you could probably have gotten me.
298* ''Fanfic/LeaveForMendeleiev'': Less "evil" and more "AdaptationalJerkass gloating", but still, in this story Adrien is a more hard-core SecretChaser of Ladybug's identity and showcases that he would not be able to keep his damned mouth shut about them at all if it gets him any leverage for Ladybug to love him in the fic's version of "Lady Wi-Fi": the moment he believes that Chloé is Ladybug, he spends the rest of the episode crowing about how "the cat is out of the bag!" and gleefully calling Ladybug nicknames like "Clo-honey", and when Marinette ducks into a closet to detransform he stands outside going all "I know you’re in there, Chloé, come out already!" until Chloé [[ImStandingRightHere walks up to him and shows him she is not in there]], upon which he figures out that Chloé is not Ladybug and storms off angry about losing lis leverage.
299* ''Fanfic/LovedAndLost'':
300** After [[spoiler:Jewelius]] has the [[HeroWithBadPublicity disgraced heroes]] imprisoned, he reveals that [[spoiler: he orchestrated the invasion of Canterlot, [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder double-crossed the Changelings]] to [[ICanRuleAlone take the throne for himself]], and plans to make Twilight ([[CorruptTheCutie whom he has been manipulating all along]]) [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe his new queen]]]]. This ends up [[VillainBall leading to his downfall]] as it motivates the demoralized heroes -- [[MustMakeAmends who all desire to get back into Twilight's good graces]] -- to save their friend from his manipulations.
301** This happens again when [[spoiler:Jewelius]] reveals to Twilight that [[spoiler:her friends were [[CassandraTruth right all along about him being evil]]]]. This also proves to be a big mistake as it causes Twilight to have a massive JerkassRealization and motivates her to [[MustMakeAmends reconcile with her loved ones]].
302* This is usually par-for-the-course in salt fics involving Lila Rossi's downfall for ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', where she will drop the act upon people realising what she's truly like and gloat to them about how easily they fell for all her lies, how easily they believed all her malicious slander about Marinette, how she hates Ladybug and all the other "self-righteous, goody two-shoes heroes"... and usually turning out to have [[EngineeredPublicConfession gloated whilst she's being recorded or observed by authority figures with the power to punish her and who aren't happy about being fooled]].
303** This trope is lampshaded in the fic ''Fanfic/MissingMiraculousLadybug'', where Chloe (who'd had her lackey Sabrina call her while she was in the principal's office with him, Lila's mother and several police officers) remarks on the fact that her tendency to do this when she thinks she holds all the cards has just cemented her downfall.
304* ''Blog/MiraculousRewrite'':
305** This trope is pointedly averted with Hawk Moth; unlike in canon, he doesn't engage in private theatrics, being more of a NoNonsenseNemesis.
306** Played straight in "Anansi and Lugh"; upon being brainwashed by Anansi into playing the villain, Adrien monologues about returning the world to its natural state. Plagg, unaffected by said brainwashing, snarks at him over it.
307* ''Fanfic/PoniesOfOlympus: Atlas Strongest Tournament'': When the changelings reveal themselves during the final match of the tournament, [[TheDragon Aurelia]] goes into detail how they've been manipulating everyone in order to feed off of their skills and power, and will use it to conquer Equestria. [[EvilMatriarch Chrysalis]] sheds [[TearsOfJoy tears of pride]] on her artful delivery.
308* The ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27853170/chapters/68194306 Pulse and Void]]'' has the creepy torturer Fusion who starts this with Aizawa. He seems to be trying to provoke Aizawa to make a mistake by gloating about how he made Present Mic scream and bleed and dehumanizing him as he says he's taking him with as a pet and plaything. It's a fatal mistake because Aizawa is already enraged and though he tries to block it out, he ultimately channels his rage into the battle and saving Mic.
309* In ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'', Jade sometimes lapses into this, but is aware of it, being the savvy villain that she is, and tries to avoid it most of the time. Finn, Valmont, and some other characters also do this at multiple times throughout the story, and it usually doesn't turn out well for them.
310* ''Fanfic/TantabusMarkII'': Lampshaded; Daring Do (who is both an adventurer and an author) notes that absolutely everyone loves a good monologue, which is why villains still do it and authors still use it even when they're mocking the absurdity.
311* ''Fanfic/AnUnsungSong'': In "The Place of White and Gold", Licinius plans on doing more gloating, but still gets some in.
312* ''Fanfic/TheVerySecretDiary'': Tom Riddle unloads a plethora of truly, twisted taunts on Ginny, calling her a dumb fool for not figuring him out sooner.
313* Lampshaded in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8106168/6/Weres-Harry Weres Harry]]'' when Harry commented to Riddle's shade "You're monologueing. That is what the bad guy does just before everything usually goes to shite."
314* In ''Fanfic/WorstCaseScenarioClcman'', Vandal Savage states his intention to kill Robin, Artemis and Kid Flash immediately, but Robin distracts him into spouting an evil monologue. The narration notes that while this is "Supervillain Cliché #1", Savage probably invented it, and has been falling for it for centuries.
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318* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'': Darla gloats after screwing Danny and the other animals over. "Nice working with you, Danny! [[EvilLaugh Ahahahahaha!]]"
319* A couple of examples from ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': Kuzco turns back to gloat at Pacha as the latter hangs from the remains of a RopeBridge, and promptly ends up in the same predicament, while later Yzma's IronicEcho gloat is ruined by her lackey Kronk's CaptainObvious lampshading.
320* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'': [[TheSociopath Hans]] smugly gloats he had already been planning to kill Elsa in order to get the throne. "But then she doomed herself, and you were dumb enough to go after her!"
321* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', Ratigan causes Basil to have a HeroicBSOD by gloating about how he led Basil right into his trap, then describing his overly complex DeathTrap which includes a recording of Ratigan gloating through song.
322* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': Discusssed and lampshaded at how villains typically gloat over near victory long enough for the heroes to gain the upper hand.
323** {{Discussed|Trope}} by Frozone and Mr. Incredible when recounting stories of their glory days:
324--->'''Frozone:''' One more jolt of this death ray, and I'm an epitaph. Somehow, I manage to find cover, and what does [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Baron von Ruthless]] do?\
325'''Mr. Incredible:''' ''(chuckles)'' He starts monologuing?\
326'''Frozone:''' ''He starts monologuing!''\
327'''Mr. Incredible:''' Yep! ''(laughs)''\
328'''Frozone:''' He starts, like, this prepared speech about how "feeble" I am, compared to him, how "inevitable" my defeat is, how the ''(makes dramatic hand gesture)'' "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis World! Will soon! Be his!]]" Yadda, yadda...\
329'''Mr. Incredible:''' Yammerin'.\
330'''Frozone:''' ''Yammering!'' I mean, the guy has me on a platter and he ''won't'' shut up!
331** BigBad Syndrome starts this, but grows wise to the same ploy during his first encounter with Mr. Incredible.
332--->'''Syndrome:''' Turns out there are a lot of people, ''whole countries'', who want respect, and they will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? I invented weapons. And now I've made a weapon that only I can defeat, and once I unleash it I'll--\
333''([[TalkToTheFist Mr. Incredible hurls a log at him]]; Syndrome barely dodges it and quickly immobilizes him with his zero-point energy ray)''\
334'''Syndrome:''' Oh-ho-ho-ho, ''you sly dog!'' You got me monologuing!
335** However, this later leads to Syndrome's downfall as he [[spoiler:vows to get Mr. Incredible's baby son Jack-Jack someday, only for Mr. Incredible to throw his car at him, causing Syndrome to get his cape caught in the turbines, killing him in a huge explosion.]]
336* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'': After Evelyn has already successfully gotten Elastigirl under her hypnosis, she restrains Elastigirl long enough to shut off her hypno-goggles just so she can explain her EvilPlan and FreudianExcuse to Helen, and then turn the goggles back on and continue with her plan. To Evelyn's credit she does restrain Helen well enough that Helen cannot escape while she monologues.
337* Probably the one thing that defines Kaa of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Jungle Book|1967}}'' as a villain rather than just a hungry predator is his gleeful tendency to play with his food. He would have surely eaten Mowgli if he hadn't extended the whole thing to a musical number.
338* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie''. Being such an overdramatic villain, you'd expect this from Lord Business. Specifically at the point where Emmet and his friends witness [[spoiler: the death of Vitruvius at his own hands]] in the Think Tank, meaning now he is able to have his opponents at his mercy. But he isn't stupid to do this - none of them are able enough to take a shot at him. As in, all of the Master Builders have been imprisoned, [[spoiler: Vitruvius is dead]], Emmet is tied to the self-destruct mechanism's battery, Lord Business is armed to the teeth and not to mention his outfit makes it almost impossible to attack him. It doesn't do him any harm to gloat when everything's coming up great for him.
339* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', when Simba, still blaming himself for his father's death, is dangling from the edge of a cliff, Scar can't resist indulging in this and freely admits that ''he'' killed Mufasa. At this revelation, Simba pulls off his HeroicSecondWind and literally ''chokes'' Scar to get him to admit the truth to everyone else.
340* Ursula does this in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'' after she succeeds in hypnotizing Eric away from Ariel in her Vanessa guise. To her credit, she gloats only in the privacy of her room when Eric and Ariel aren't around but Scuttle still overhears her loud singing and is able to inform Ariel in time for them to crash her wedding to Eric.
341* ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'': Maleficent does this once she's imprisoned [[PrinceCharming Prince Phillip]] in her stronghold. Rubbing her victory in his face, along with her plan to [[KickTheDog keep him locked away for a hundred years and then set him free when he's ancient and wizened]], probably helped his HeroicResolve a great deal.
342* ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'': During the swordfight, both fighters throw out their back. Muntz is the first to recover, but instead of attacking Carl, he knocks him over and asks if he has any last words.
343* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', [[spoiler:this ends up biting [[BitchInSheepsClothing Dawn Bellwether]] in the butt; Nick and Judy [[EngineeredPublicConfession manage to catch a recording]] of her gloating about how she used Night Howler extract to [[HatePlague make predators go savage]], and how she exploited the ensuing [[FantasticRacism anti-pred hysteria]] to seize power]].
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347* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Film/{{Dredd}}''. Judge Dredd gets into a gunfight with a group of [[DirtyCop corrupt Judges]] while running low on ammo, and ends up getting shot by the last one, Judge Lex. Dredd tricks Lex into going into a monologue by asking him to "Wait". Lex cannot resist mocking an apparently terrified [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Judge Dredd]], but then Anderson [[ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind arrives and finishes him off]]. Dredd clarifies his statement: "Wait for her to shoot you".
348* In ''Film/AGirlNamedSooner'', Mam Hawes does this to Elizabeth, saying that Sooner is happier with her than back in town.
349* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': After Team Godzilla are captured and brought to him, [[Characters/MonsterVerseApexCybernetics Walter Simmons]] begins monologuing to them about his egotistical EvilPlan. He's so wrapped up in his own SmugSnake vision that he doesn't notice for a while that the heroes and his own staff are backing away from the display window behind him, at which point he's CaughtMonologuing and turns around to see a very much [[spoiler:[[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah Ghidorah]]]]-controlled [[Characters/MonsterVerseMechagodzilla Mechagodzilla]] about to kill him.
350* In ''Film/GoldenEye'', following an intense fist fight, Trevelyan is armed, Film/JamesBond is at gunpoint... and he stops to breathe and then say "You know, James? I was always better" before shooting - and he misses, because his pause gave Bond a chance to kick open a trapdoor and go down a staircase. (Creator/JamesRolfe used this as an example for WhyDontYaJustShootHim on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klltwoa6glE his "10 Worst Clichés" list.]])
351* ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'': A vengeful man catches up with Tuco ("the ugly" of the title) while Tuco is taking a bath. The pursuer starts ranting about tracking his quarry for weeks, and Tuco shoots him dead with the gun he has hidden under the soap-foam: "When you have to shoot.... ''[[StatingTheSimpleSolution shoot]]'', don't talk!"
352* ''Film/TheHungerGames'':
353** [[spoiler:Clove taunts Katniss about Rue's death instead of just killing her... and unfortunately, Rue's fellow District 11 tribute was listening.]]
354** Inverted by [[spoiler:Cato's rant at the end, which gives Peeta enough time to gain the upper hand, although Cato's intent appears to be to force Katniss to shoot him instead.]]
355* ''Film/IComeInPeace'': Victor Manning, the drug lord who killed Jack Caine's partner in the opening, later sends Jack a photo of himself with some half-naked girls to show that he's having a great time on his vacation in Brazil.
356* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'': With the HolyGrail in her hands, Elsa Schneider [[NearVillainVictory prematurely brags that the grail is hers to keep]] as she steps across the boundary that she was warned multiple times not to cross. This causes the temple to collapse and Elsa is unable to give up the prize, because [[DeathByMaterialism she's so sure she can reach it until she falls to her death.]] In the PC adventure game, Elsa is even less willing to accept defeat. After Indy's continued warnings about the seal, she says, "No! I don't believe it! I won't lose it now!"
357* In ''Film/LastOfTheMohicans'' Magua, before [[BeatStillMyHeart eating his heart]] proclaims:
358-->'''Magua:''' [[JustBetweenYouAndMe Before you die]], know that I will put under the knife your children, so your seed are wiped out from the earth forever.
359* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
360** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': Loki ''loves'' to gloat, though he has a tendency to [[ShutUpHannibal underestimate his audience]].
361** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': Ronan the Accuser has a habit of doing this. [[spoiler:It bites him on the ass at the end: by stopping to give a grandiose speech before annihilating Xandar he gives the Guardians enough time to improvise a plan to separate him from his planet-destroying MacGuffin.]]
362** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': {{Parodied|Trope}} and {{defied|Trope}} when Tony Stark asks Ultron what he's planning on doing with the Vibranium ore that he stole. Instead of going on a monologue, Ultron mocks Tony's attempt to play on his hubris and attacks him.
363** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': A heroic example is shown here, [[spoiler:as Thor has lodged Stormbreaker inside Thanos's chest, but instead of killing him outright, he takes time to savour the moment and tell him "I told you, you'd die for that." This gives Thanos the time he needs to do his BadassFingersnap and teleport away.]]
364** ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'': After defeating Fury in hand-to-hand combat, Talos takes a moment to gloat about his victory and comment about Keller's glasses. As he begins brushing off his hands, he's hit by a photon blast from Carol, who had just arrived on the scene.
365** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': This is the cause of the Goblin's downfall When his Spider-Man stops MCU Spider-Man from killing him he stabs the former and proceeds to taunt MCU Spider-Man again. This gave Webb-verse Spider-Man the opening to throw the Anti-Goblin Serum to MCU Spider-Man who then injects it to him. The Goblin's face as this was going on shows just how much he screws up.
366* ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'': Frank Langella, by far the best thing about this movie, gives [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOsHoqhbUIU a glorious villain monologue]]. In fact, if you ever watch this film, just watch the parts with Frank in it; the man is at the height of his craft and does it right.
367* In ''Film/{{Matilda}}'', the main villain gloats, just before the title character gets her final revenge: "In this classroom, in this school, [[AGodAmI I AM GOD]]!"
368* In ''Film/TheMechanic1972'', TheMole [[spoiler:Steve]] does this after he poisons [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies the main character]] and watches him die. [[ThanatosGambit He gets punished for it.]]]]
369* ''Film/{{The Princess|2022}}'': Julius engages in this as a show of power. [[spoiler:This gets him killed at the end of the film, when he has the Princess cornered and is one sword stroke away from controlling the kingdom, but can't help himself from giving a big speech while forcing her out into the courtyard to die in front of her subjects.]]
370* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', when Count Rugen (the Six Fingered Man) briefly has Inigo at his mercy after hitting Inigo with a throwing dagger, the sadistic Rugen takes obvious pleasure in the chance to gloat over a seemingly helpless Inigo.
371-->'''Rugen:''' You must be that little Spanish brat [[ScarsAreForever I taught a lesson to all those years ago]]. You've been chasing me your whole life only to fail ''now?'' I think that's the worst thing I've ever heard. ''[{{beat}}]'' How marvelous.
372* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': "Do you know what your sin is?" This is what causes [[spoiler:The Operative's defeat the last time he tries it on [[TheCaptain Captain Malcolm Reynolds]], who pulls an ''epic'' ShutUpHannibal on him.]]
373-->'''Mal:''' Hell, I'm a fan of all seven! But right now, I'll have to go with... '''Wrath.'''
374* {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Film/Shazam2019'', as Shazam and Sivana hover over the streets of Philadelphia facing each other... several hundred feet apart:
375-->'''Sivana:''' Enough games, boy! You think a pack of children can--\
376''[Shazam tilts his head in confusion]''\
377'''Shazam:''' Wait, ''what?!''\
378'''Sivana:''' ...you will beg for mercy as I feast on your heart. Slow--\
379'''Shazam:''' Are you making some, like [[BuffySpeak big, evil-guy speech]] right now or somethin'? You're like a mile away from me, and there's cars and traf--!\
380'''Silvana:''' ...I will have the world eating out of the palm of my han--\
381'''Shazam:''' ''[hands flapping like mouths]'' [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome All I see is mouth-movin'!]] I don't hear any--\
382'''Silvana:''' ...only I... have the power to unleash...\
383'''Shazam:''' ''[strains ones last time, then shakes his head]'' Oh, whatever. Screw it!
384* In ''Film/TheShrunkenCity'', the Ood surround Lori interrogating her on the bottle's whereabouts. Their leader then rejects her comment that the Ood have no right to kill innocent people.
385* In ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', Stephen Toblowsky's character gloats over the captured heroes. Unfortunately for him, it turns out they captured their stunt doubles.
386* ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'':
387-->'''Khan:''' I deprive your ship of power, and when I swing around I will deprive you of your life! But first I wanted you to know who it was who had beaten you.
388* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
389** Palpatine in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. "[[TheChessmaster Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design!]]" And shortly afterward: "And now, young Skywalker, you will die."
390** In fact, this is a legitimate ''tactic'' for Sith. As a Jedi's connection to the Force depends on mental clarity, [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Dun_M%C3%B6ch/Legends Dun Möch]] was a form of psychological warfare using taunts and MindRape to [[BreakThemByTalking disrupt it]] and leave them vulnerable.
391* Near the end of ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'', Skynet can't help but explain the genius of its master plan to one of its unwitting pawns and smugly gloat how it has used him for its own purposes and tells him to accept his newfound nature.
392* ''Film/{{The Untouchables|1987}}'': Eliot Ness has chased UsefulNotes/AlCapone's hitman Frank Nitti to a rooftop.
393-->'''Ness:''' I'm going to see you burn, you son of a bitch, because [[ItsPersonal you killed my friend]]!\
394'''Nitti:''' He died like a pig.\
395'''Ness:''' What did you say?\
396'''Nitti:''' I said your friend died screaming like a stuck Irish pig. Now you think about that when I beat the rap. ''[starts to walk away when Ness grabs him and pushes him off the roof]''\
397'''Ness:''' ''[shouting over Nitti's scream]'' [[ShutUpHannibal Did it sound anything like]] ''[[ShutUpHannibal THAT]]''?!
398* In ''Film/{{Valentine}}'', the BigBad sends an unsympathetic remembrance card to the parents of one of his victims, signing his own name instead of his initials. Unlike most examples, this carries no negative effects because he's effectively [[{{Unperson}} erased himself]] after he turned 18. The real trouble is figuring out who among the main characters' circle of acquaintances is his public identity.
399* In ''Film/VanHelsing'', Aleera, the last of Dracula's brides, does this to Anna Valerious at various points. [[spoiler:The last time she does it, Anna catches a stake from another character mid-gloating and rams it through Aleera's heart right away. In her words: "If you're going to kill someone, kill them. Don't stand there talking about it."]]
400* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': While En Sabah Nur is in the process of [[spoiler:crushing Xavier to death on the astral plane]], the former brags about his victory to the latter.
401-->'''Apocalypse:''' It's over, [[spoiler:Charles]], you're finished. ''You're mine now''.
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405* ''Literature/AngiesFirstCase'': The Wolfpack are well known for calling the police after robberies to reveal which house they just robbed and what they stole.
406* A couple of times in minor ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' books, but most notably done by Tom's Yeerk in the final two books (narrated from different perspectives):
407-->"You appear to be experiencing some engine trouble, Visser," Tom said, gloating.\
408<The Empire will track you down and kill you for this, you do understand that, I hope?> Visser One said.\
409"Oh, I doubt it," Tom said cheerfully. "The Andalite fleet is rather close by. It's possible that I misled you on that point." He was all but giggling.
410* Pretty much every villain from the web fiction serial ''Literature/DimensionHeroes'' displays this trait to some degree.
411%%* The ''Literature/{{Duumvirate}}'' does this to UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden.%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample
412* The Creator/TadWilliams book ''Literature/TheWarOfTheFlowers'' features [[BigBad Lord Hellebore]] explaining to his rivals their imminent destruction through a {{Magitek}} television. Lampshaded when [[EnigmaticMinion the Remover]] complains about him wasting valuable resources to send them the message for no reason other than to gloat.
413* Williams also pulls this in ''Literature/MemorySorrowAndThorn'' in the part of EvilSorcerer Pryrates, who spends half of the climactic chapter gleefully explaining his plans to the now-helpless protagonists so everyone involved will know exactly how thoroughly they failed to stop him. For bonus style points, he works some of it into the summoning ritual for the [[BigBad Storm King]] -- and true to the trope, said villain promptly cuts off the gloating by demonstrating that EvilIsNotAToy.
414* At the climax of ''Literature/DarknessVisible'', the [[BigBad traitor]] who Lewis and Marsh have been chasing for weeks gives a BreakingSpeech that gloats over the destruction of London.
415* In ''Literature/NoGodsOnlyDaimons'', [[spoiler: the Unmaker]] taunts Luke Landon like this just before the climactic fight, to the point where Landon internally lampshades it with ThisIsReality.
416* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
417** This is a common feature of villains. Commander Vimes considers that an evil man always likes their enemy to know they've been beaten, thus giving them a chance to turn the tables, while if a good man feels he has to kill you, he'll do it with hardly a word.
418** Cats and witches also prefer an enemy who [[ToThePain knows they're beaten]]. A key difference is that cats and witches know the dangers of monologuing, so they instead just make sure their opponent is so good and beat that there's no question.
419* ''Literature/{{Coraline}}'' gets out of the Other Mother's clutches by fake-guessing that her parents are hidden behind the door that leads out of the world, causing the beldam to open it so that she can gloat about Coraline being wrong.
420* In the ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' novel ''The Eyre Affair'', BigBad Acheron Hades launches into a gloating soliloquy right when he has Thursday cornered. In the time it takes him to gloat, to the point that the narrative stops quoting him and just notes that he continues gloating. Thursday is able to [[spoiler:figure out his one weakness (silver) and shoot him dead with a silver bullet]].
421* ''Literature/BooksOfBayern'': In ''The Goose Girl'', Selia gloats for a few ''pages'' about how she's a better princess, how [[spoiler:Falada]] died, and so on, and how no one will believe poor Ani. She should have double checked behind the tapestries before she started...
422* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' villains just ''love'' this trope. Voldemort himself is easily the biggest offender, though nearly every major villainous character monologues at least once in the series.
423** After spending a whole year hiding among his greatest enemies and keeping a large part of his internal thoughts and beliefs hidden to the deepest recesses of his mind, with only a small part of them well-disguised enough (as the actions of the person he disguised as) to be allowed to slip, it comes as no surprise that [[spoiler: Barty Crouch's outburst is nothing short of grande where he reveals his role to Harry, brags about his importance to Voldemort and rants about the role he contributed to the Dark Order that will be imposed]].
424** Finally inverted with ''Harry himself'' monologuing Voldemort at the very end. Harry is in the lucky position of finally holding all the cards - to the point where it ''doesn't even matter'' that he tells Voldemort exactly how his shiny new weapon works. It's not even really gloating -- he's actually trying to give Voldemort one last chance to save his soul.
425* The Witch-King in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.
426-->'''Witch-King:''' "Old fool!" he said. "Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know '''''Death''''' when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!" And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade.\
427'''Witch-King:''' A cold voice answered: "Come not between the Nazgûl and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye."\
428'''Witch-King:''' Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me.\
429'''Éowyn:''' [[ProphecyTwist But no living man am I!]]
430* In Creator/RobertEHoward's "Rogues in the House" Nabonidus gloats about his use of ExactWords -- long enough for Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian to brain him with a stool.
431** In "A Witch Shall Be Born", Salome opens the story with explaining her plot and her powers to her sister the queen and gloating over her.
432* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
433** Harry Dresden [[LampshadeHanging frequently notes]] the tendency of villains to do this, and thinks that it must be part of his training. He usually uses the opportunity to seize the initiative in combat, but sometimes is tempted to do the same himself, usually to his cost. For the immortals, it's somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] since they live for so long that it can be easy to lose track of time spans less than a decade. The humans, though, are just [[IdiotBall stupid, arrogant jerks]].
434** Nicodemus subverts this trope by ''not'' [[JustBetweenYouAndMe spilling his plans when he has Harry tied up and at his mercy]], prompting Harry to comment that he must have read the EvilOverlordList.
435** In ''Ghost Story'', a villain actually uses this to their advantage -when she continually gloats about the situation in the middle of a fight with Dresden, he just thinks she's being stupid and attacks. He realizes a bit too late she was actually trying to trick him into [[CastFromHitPoints Cast From Hit Pointing]] himself to death.
436* In ''Literature/TheDarkLordsHandbook'' -the titular book instructs the dark lord to practice monologues but not to overdue it as Heroes have a tendency to take advantage of their lapse in attention and turn their defeat into victory.
437* Rasalom from ''Literature/TheAdversaryCycle'' and ''Literature/RepairmanJack'' books seems to enjoy this. He tends to still win, though. He's just that powerful.
438* In the Franchise/SherlockHolmes expanded universe novel ''Dead Man's Land'' by Robert Ryan, the killer thinks the gloating is the best part, as his revenge has been [[YouKilledMyMother years in the making]], but he always makes sure his victims are too weak or disabled to do anything about it. However by the time Dr. Watson confronts him, he's had his revenge and has no interest in explaining himself, telling Watson he'll die without knowing the answer.
439* ''Literature/ClockpunkAndTheVitalizer'' The Vitalizer dismisses the heroes' intelligence, Clockpunk's effectiveness, and the fact that he's perfectly capable of killing her if his plans go awry.
440* ''Literature/MeinKampf'' is a real life example of sorts. Yep, ol' [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Adolf]] couldn't resist gloating about his [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII future plans for Europe]] in ''a freakin' published book''.
441* Lampshaded twice in ''Literature/BestServedCold'':
442**
443---> Morveer, liking nothing better than a captive audience, could not resist explaining how it had been managed.
444**
445--->"Why is it that men pointing loaded flatbows always feel the need to gloat, rather than [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim simply letting fly]]?"\
446"Gloating's fun."
447* "Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado" is a monologue by a Villain Protagonist about how he buried a friend alive fifty years prior. In short, the entire story is an example of Evil Gloating.
448* Literature/DiogenesClub series by Creator/KimNewman
449** In ''Literature/ColdSnap'', the villain is an EvilGenius who has spent decades stewing over various perceived slights, including a defeat by the hero's mentor fifty years earlier. When he gets the hero and the hero's archnemesis (present in an EnemyMine capacity) in his clutches, he goes into a rant that lasts for over an hour. The story cuts away to another scene for most of it, and only comes back at the end when he starts getting into useful details about what he's actually done, with his two captives nudging him without him noticing into telling them everything they need to know. The hero notes that this is the sign of a second-class villain, as compared to a consummate professional like his archnemesis who will never give you advance warning of his evil plan -- as his archnemesis demonstrates shortly afterward.
450** Lampshaded in ''Literature/{{Swellhead}}'' when the title villain notes that [[GenreSavvy traditionally]] he's expected to explain his EvilPlan, but he doesn't feel the need. "I am not one of those inadequates who need the respect of his enemies. I don't mind toiling in the dark. My achievements are their own satisfaction."
451* In the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novel ''Literature/SpocksWorld'', the BigBad rubs it in Spock's face when it looks like Vulcan will actually secede from the Federation.
452* Subverted in ''Warp World'': during Ethan and Jett's final confrontation, Jett starts monologuing but [[spoiler: it turns out Alicia had actually put him and the entire room into a time loop while she assessed the situation]].
453* In ''Literature/{{Pact}}'', where declaring that you are going to do something and then following through holds metaphysical weight, the laws of the universe actually ''encourage'' gloating to your enemy before you attack them, because it allows you to get a greater benefit out of doing so and gather power to recoup what you lose in the attack. Savvy characters, however, do recognize [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim the value of a bullet.]]
454* When Clove catches [[spoiler:Katniss]] in ''Literature/TheHungerGames'', she decides to give her something to think about. Followed -- as usual -- by a ThwartedCoupDeGrace.
455* ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'': {{Subverted}} when [[spoiler:Blackmail]] finally gets around to talking; he keeps fighting all the way through his monologue.
456* Evingolis does it at the end of "[[Literature/KaneSeries Reflections on the Winter of My Soul]]". The fact is, he knows that spending some time on this will not change [[VillainProtagonist Kane]]'s situation a little bit—there is no chance of anyone appearing BigDamnHeroes-style and he is certain of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent his superiority]].
457* In ''Creator/AynRand'''s ''Literature/TheFountainhead'', the villain Ellsworth Toohey describes in detail how he is going to take over the world and what a terrible place he is going to make of it, and emphasizes that he is not doing it for any personal benefit but merely ForTheEvulz. He also gets ranting about how the book's hero Howard Roark is going to get beaten up and mistreated in prison. However, Toohey is not able to address this gloating directly to Roark himself, who considers Toohey beneath contempt and refuses to pay any attention to him. Rather, he has to make his gloating to a weaker character, Peter Keating, whom Toohey already very thoroughly destroyed. In the end, Roark manages to get the jury to find him not guilty, so he does not go to prison and Toohey is denied seeing him suffer - though by the end of the book, Toohey remains at large and concentrating as ever on his wider aim of taking over the world.
458* In ''Literature/DragonsOfRequiem'' it's rare for a villain who doesn't do this in front of the protagonists, given how over-the-top all the main villains are.
459* ''Literature/TheMarvellousLandOfSnergs'': After climbing up a cliff, Mother Meldrum begins gloating and taunting the royal soldiers instead of retreating to her secret cave, feeling safe because she knows she is out of their arrows' range. Unfortunately for her, Vanderdecken's men brought ''muskets'' (to be fair, she could not know about the existence of firearms).
460* ''Literature/TowerOfSomnus'': Anna constantly crows about how she's outmaneuvered Kat, how she's breaking the law so competently, and how Kat will never win. Kat keeps killing all her mercenaries and becoming more famous in the process.
461-->'''Kat:''' I tried to get her to stop explaining her plans. ''She didn't''.
462* Happens on several occasions in ''Literature/TriggerWarning''.
463** After taking over the campus library, the gunmen loudly explain their plans to the student hostages, including their motivations (collecting ransom money from the students' "privileged" families) and their escape plans.
464** While facing down Jake, Foster gloats about how both of them will die, since he's rigged the entire library to explode with just the press of a button.
465* Literature/{{Worm}} features a lot of [[VillainProtagonist villains]] and hence unsurprisingly this trope is seen in pretty much every one of them that can talk and one or two that can't. Even some of the heroes join in. [[spoiler:Though the Extermination Arc established that the most powerful entities for both sides [[ImplacableMan don't]] [[TheJuggernaut bother]] with it.]]
466* In ''[[Literature/TheScumVillainsSelfSavingSystemRenZhaFanpaiZijiuXitong The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System]]'', Shen Qingqiu setting his first quest to be on Easy Mode causes its villain to be not all that bright and to keep on monologuing at length instead of just killing the heroes after they capture them, which Shen Qingqiu mocks in his internal narration.
467%%* ''Literature/AngelOfDeath'''s Valthakar is fond of this trope.
468* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': The SmugSnake Highprince Sadeas repeatedly brags about his schemes to destroy the Kholin family to their faces, in public where they can't do anything about it. At the end of ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'', he tells Adolin Kholin that of ''course'' he'll begin his next plan of attack against Adolin's father and cousin, [[spoiler:but in private, so Adolin simply puts a knife through his brain.]]
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472* ''Series/AllMyChildren'': After Michael Cambias is [[OffOnATechnicality acquitted]] for [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping]] Bianca, he takes the time to gloat to the entire courtroom that he "[[IOwnThisTown owns Pine Valley and everyone in it]]," which pisses everyone off so badly that Michael's attorney is warned to get him out of the building before the crowd decides to become a lynch mob. Unsurprisingly, Michael actually ''does'' turn up dead soon afterward, and EveryoneIsASuspect.
473* "Boston" Rob Mariano had a tendency to do this on ''Series/TheAmazingRace'', during pretty much every episode he was on, on both Seasons 7 and All-Stars, a carryover from his time on ''Series/{{Survivor}}''.
474* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. In "[[Recap/AngelS01E11Somnambulist Somnamumbulist]]", a vampire that Angel once sired is monologuing away, saying that just because Angel has stopped being evil, doesn't mean he's going to stop as well. "It doesn't end, it just goes on and on." Cordelia does a WalkInChimeIn. "That's not the only thing that goes on, and on."
475* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':
476** ''Series/{{Arrow}}'':
477*** [[EvilTwin Black]] [[DarkActionGirl Siren]] does this ''a lot'', though it also tends to backfire on her, as it gives her enemies a chance to sneak up on her. Since her power is a sonic scream, she can't use it while she's talking.
478*** After Team Arrow uncovers his true identity, Prometheus just ''has'' to gloat about how well he's played them, how they can't stop him, and how he'll ruin Oliver's life.
479** ''Series/TheFlash2014'':
480*** In "The Man In The Yellow Suit", the Reverse-Flash murders all of the cops in the room except for Joe West, apparently just so that he has someone to gloat to.
481*** When Zoom has Barry defeated and wounded, what does he do? Show off his victory to the newspaper, the CCPD and Harrison Wells. After being outed as [[spoiler:the fake Jay Garrick, Zoom shamelessly gloats about how he fooled everyone and how he uses the facade to destroy people's hope]]. In retrospect, a lot of [[spoiler:the comments "Jay" made about Zoom, such as him being an "unstoppable demon with the face of death" and his constant (if accurate) warnings that Barry didn't stand a chance against Zoom]], come off as subtle Evil Gloating.
482*** Most of Savitar's dialogue consists of him gloating about [[AGodAmI his godhood]] and how he's going to kill Barry and his loved ones.
483*** The Thinker loves reminding Barry and Team Flash of how every failure they've experienced at his hands.
484** ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': Damien Darhk had plenty of gloating when he appeared on ''Arrow'', and nothing changed when he appeared on ''Legends''. When Darhk is about to kill Sara, he starts gloating about how he got his magic back and is invincible. No one else is impressed.
485--->'''Snart:''' Really? Now's the time for a bad guy monologue?\
486''[Sara escapes with Amaya]''\
487'''Snart:''' Damien, what did I tell you?\
488'''Merlyn:''' For what it's worth, I thought it was a very good bad guy monologue.
489** ''Series/Supergirl2015'': Lex is first introduced in a flashback where he is gloating to his sister about the fact that he turned the sun red to kill Superman. He is dismissive of the fact that humans can't survive under a red sun either. In the last episode, he invites his sister and mother [[spoiler:to the White House]] and says he's above gloating... and then spends the entire conversation gloating about how he's a VillainWithGoodPublicity who [[spoiler:controls the President]].
490* [[Recap/BlackadderS4E4PrivatePlane The Red Baron]] in ''[[Series/{{Blackadder}} Blackadder Goes Forth]]'' does this. Subverted when Blackadder would rather be humiliated than die, lampshaded by ''CombatPragmatist'' and all-round cad Lord Flasheart simply cries "what a poof!" and shoots him on the spot.
491** [[Recap/BlackadderS2E6Chains Ludwig]] also qualifies, as Blackadder says:
492--->'''Blackadder:''' Typical master criminal; loves the sound of his own voice.
493* In the episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' entitled "The Vengeance Formulation", Sheldon makes foam fall on Kripke from the ceiling tiles in his office to get back at him. The plan [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]] when the president of the university and the board of directors are drenched with the foam too. Then, to make matters even worse, a pre-recorded video comes on to Kripke's monitor. It contains Sheldon gloating about the "classic prank" that Kripke has just fallen prey to. He also gives congratulations to Leonard and Raj for helping him with his plan.
494* Done successfully by Londo Mollari in the ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode "The Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place" [[spoiler: He explains to Lord Refa, via recording, his entire EvilPlan for no reason other than to grind Refa's face into his failure and imminent demise. Of course Refa is then horribly murdered by a mob of angry Narns and framed posthumously for treason, fulfilling the rant and the gambit both.]]
495* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Before he was wheelchair-bound, Hector Salamanca once killed someone close to Gus, so Gus dedicated his life to making Hector as miserable as possible. After he kills off all of Hector's former family and cartel associates, he makes sure to go to him personally and rub it in his face, knowing there's nothing Hector can do about it. [[spoiler:This need to gloat to Hector in person ultimately proves to be Gus's undoing when Walter wires a bomb to Hector's wheelchair, and the next time Gus comes around to mock him, Hector is able to exact [[TakingYouWithMe explosive revenge]].]]
496* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
497** Ethan Rayne likes doing this. And its the only thing The First Evil ever really did, being intangible. Angelus was good at it too.
498** In the Season 6 episode "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E14OlderAndFarAway}} Older And Far Away]]", Dawn has unwittingly made a wish to Halfrek, one of Anya's friends from during her time as a [[JackassGenie vengeance demon]], resulting in everyone who came to Buffy's birthday party, and anyone else who entered the Summers house, being mystically trapped within said house. At the end of the episode, she pops into the house to gloat about how they'll be trapped forever and how they deserve it for not paying attention to Dawn's pain and abandonment issues... but when she tries to dramatically teleport out, it turns out [[HoistByHisOwnPetard she's fallen victim to her own curse]], forcing her to break the spell so she can leave, much to her annoyance.
499* ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'':
500** The villains often resort to this, sometimes because the evidence is so thin that it's necessary to have the murderer confess so the audience can be satisfied that Castle and Beckett have the right person.
501** Averted in "Probable Cause". Someone frames Castle for murder. As Castle sits in a holding cell, they take the incredible risk of slipping into the police station to gloat. Except... it was all part of his plan to disappear. The Evil gloating gave Castle and Beckett the leads they needed to catch him, which was a necessary part of his BatmanGambit to be "killed" by Castle and Beckett.
502* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
503** The Daleks are prone to this, but do it to a noticeably greater extent with the Doctor than anyone else. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]", the Dalek prime minister suggests this is because they find the Doctor's hatred for them so ''beautiful'' that they can't bring themselves to destroy it; while in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]", the Doctor argues that they're always so frightened he has something up his sleeve that they don't dare just shoot.
504** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday Doomsday]]": The Cyber-Leader, managing to sound incredibly smug for an emotionless shell, engages in some towards the Doctor after Jackie and Yvonne are dragged away to be converted, claiming that the Doctor is proof of how emotions destroy.
505** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]": The Plasmavore doesn't confess to the murder of the Child Princess of Pantroval Regency 9, because confessing would imply she feels any guilt about the crime. No, she's ''proud'' of sucking a little girl's blood.
506** Subverted at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia Utopia]]", when [[spoiler:Professor Yana transforms into the Master]] and begins to run away with the TARDIS. He says "Now, then, Doctor! Oooh, new voice. Hello, hellooo, helllloooo! Anyway... why don't we sit down and have a nice little chat where I can tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me, [[{{NOT}} I don't think!]]" Then he zooms back into the past, leaving the Doctor, Martha Jones and Captain Jack at [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the End of the Universe]].
507*** In the next episode, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums The Sound of Drums]]", he does decide to indulge in some to the Doctor at the end, after having captured him, giving him a one-on-one NewEraSpeech.
508*** TheMaster subverts it again in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums The Sound of Drums]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords Last of the Time Lords]]", as the Doctor's self-righteous overthrowing of [[IronLady Prime Minister Harriet Jones]] after her actions in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]" [[NiceJobBreakingItHero directly allowed him to take her place]] as a PresidentEvil. According to WordOfGod, this was going to pointed out by the Master but it was decided that this sort of gloating — in addition to the abuse he had ''already'' heaped upon the Doctor — would be [[EvenEvilHasStandards overkill even for him]].
509** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime Partners in Crime]]": Miss Foster cheerfully explains her scheme in creating baby Adipose out of the fat of unwilling humans, a process that can ''easily'' be ramped up to convert the entire person, to reporter Penny Carter after capturing her. This also fills in the eavesdropping Doctor and Donna in on what she's up to.
510** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood Cold Blood]]": Silurian warrior Alaya goads [[MamaBear Ambrose Northover]] into [[spoiler:killing her with a taser]] by talking about the gruesome fate planned for her captured son, in an attempt to start a war between humans and Silurians.
511** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon Day of the Moon]]": The Doctor ''weaponizes'' the enemy's evil gloating (and [[MindControl suggestion power]]) by injecting a recording of a Silent arrogantly declaring "You should kill us all on sight" into the recording of the first Moon landing, thus ensuring that pretty much every human who lives from that day onward will receive that command.
512** "[[Recap/DoctorWho2019NYSResolution Resolution]]" features an exceptionally creepy scene where archaeologist Lin gets this from the [[spoiler:Dalek recon scout]] using her as a MeatPuppet.
513* ''Series/FallingSkies'' whenever the protagonists come face to face with an Espheni leader, they will gloat about their superiority to humans. However they redirect it to a human translator, as they don't speak English.
514* Crichton may be the hero of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMO14pRRRk his speech in the season 4 finale]] bears a close enough resemblance to a villainous monologue that it elicits a reaction of YoureInsane from one of the bystanders.
515* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
516** [[spoiler:Roose Bolton]] and [[spoiler:Walder Frey]]'s scene in [[spoiler:"Mhysa"]], when they are gloating the morning after massacring their enemies, though it is deconstructed as they are only gloating after their victims are ''thoroughly'' dead.
517** Tywin Lannister is generally not that vulgar in public, but there are exceptions:
518*** He also waits until his victims are dead when in a private moment he gloats by overseeing the re-purposing of an enemy heirloom (Ned Stark's sword 'Ice') for his own family with smug satisfaction, and throws the sword's wolf pelt sheath in the flames, celebrating the Lannisters triumph over the Starks.
519*** In the History and Lore videos, on King's Landing, he is positively proud of his cold and brutal betrayal of Aerys Targaryen, noting how the King "thought he was being clever" by keeping Jaime as a hostage against him. He also considers "The Rains of Castamere" as a quaint song and sends it as his go-to death threat to anyone who so much as thinks of resisting the Lannisters.
520** Reversed in [[spoiler:Oberyn Martell]] and [[spoiler:Gregor Clegane]]'s scene in [[spoiler:"The Mountain and the Viper"]].
521** After Tansy is torn apart by the hounds, Myranda remarks, "Not so pretty now."
522** Joffrey, which doubles as EvilIsHammy.
523--->'''Joffrey:''' If we want Robb Stark to hear us, we'll have to '''SPEAK LOUDER'''!
524** In Season 8, Euron tells Yara that the only reason why she's still alive/still has her tongue is because he wants someone to brag to. This winds up biting him in the ass when Theon sneaks aboard and rescues her.
525* Duncan won a couple battles in ''{{Series/Highlander}}'' because opponents stopped to gloat.
526** Consone had his blades at Duncan's throat after stabbing him in the stomach, then had to taunt Duncan about being born poor. It gave Duncan time to land his own stab in the gut and then take Consone’s head.
527** Grayson had Duncan disarmed and on his knees and hesitated taking his head to gloat about how Duncan would have won in a few hundred years more. This gives Duncan the chance to jump off the platform they were on down to the ground, grab his sword and get a HeroicSecondWind.
528* ''Series/ICarly'': Missy does this, allowing Carly to overhear and finally figured out that Missy was trying to get rid of Sam.
529* Talking about the doom they going to cause, their evil plan, their ego or something else is the staple of villains in ''Franchise/KamenRider''. The examples vary from hilarious to genuinely menacing.
530* Just about OnceAnEpisode on ''Series/{{Leverage}}'', the VillainOfTheWeek will go off on a rant, either to the Client, the team, or to the villain's own [[TheDragon "Bussey"]], about how they're justified in their actions.
531* In the season 1 finale of ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' "Gigashadow", His Divine Shadow spends the last few minutes of the episode revealing his true nature and goals to the main characters. He taunts them with their failure to prevent his rebirth [[spoiler:fueled by the sacrifice of nearly the entire population of the Light Universe]] and bids them extinction, capped off with an EvilLaugh. [[spoiler:This causes his downfall since he's so busy gloating that he doesn't notice the baby Cluster Lizard Squish when it ''eats his brain''.]]
532* ''Series/MyCountryTheNewAge'': Nam Jeon indulges in this while trying to strangle Bang-won, telling him that he'll gain power over the crown prince and will become the real power behind the throne. [[spoiler: It backfires on him when Bang-won survives.]]
533* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' uses this often. In "Murder 2.0" a serial killer uses a Website/YouTube site to broadcast his murders, all in the name of fame. The killer proves to be a real headache for Gibbs, and when the team catches them, they boast that they would still be famous when their identity was revealed. Gibbs makes sure that no details about the killer are released to the public because of "possible links to terrorism".
534* ''Series/OddSquad'':
535** The episode "Villains Helping Villains" lampshades this trope in the titular InstructionalFilm by having Jamie Jam, a well-known villainess in Odd Squad's RoguesGallery, advise villains not to gloat because while it's fun to taunt your enemies, gloating ultimately leads into you telling them where you'll strike next, where you've already struck, and what pattern you follow when committing odd crimes.
536--> '''Jamie Jam:''' Listen, I get how fun it is to brag about how much smarter you are than Odd Squad, and how they'll never catch you. I've even done it myself. [...] Great speech, right? Wrong. I told Odd Squad what I was going to do and ''where'' I was going to do it, which made it so much easier for them to ''catch me!''
537** A subversion occurs in the mid-season 3 finale "End of the Road" with resident BigBad The Shadow, where she says that the Mobile Unit isn't getting a long monologue, but rather a short haiku.
538--> '''Olizabeth:''' I bet you're expecting a big evil speech. But you're not ''getting'' one!
539--> ''[the agents are relieved]''
540--> '''Olizabeth:''' You're getting a poem instead!
541--> ''[the agents become unnerved again]''
542--> Olizabeth: Odd Squad is ''finished.'' And the Mobile Unit too. ''Boo hoo hoo,'' for ''you.'' Buh-''bye, Odd Squad!''
543** While most every villain in Odd Squad's RoguesGallery gloats to various extents, "Down the Tubes" puts a comedic spin on it by having Tennifer gloat, then get cut off by Orla excitedly talking about how fun TubeTravel is, and then go right back to gloating.
544** Backwards Bob, introduced in "20 Questions", is prone to doing this ''very'' frequently.
545--> '''Backwards Bob:''' Four questions left, for a three-digit code. Kids, ''welcome to Donesville,'' population: 3, plus me! I'm the mayor, Bobby Done. My family started this town ''generations'' ago! ''[chuckling]''
546** Odd Todd, the BigBad of Season 1, also does this often, even during a high-stakes court trial.
547--> '''Odd Todd:''' ''[after taking a sip of lemonade]'' Tastes. Like. ''Victory.'' ''[EvilLaugh]''
548* ''Series/OurMissBrooks'': Mr. Conklin likes to gloat.
549** In "Faculty Cheerleader", Mr. Conklin gloats to his daughter over his morning coffee. He considers the sight of Miss Brooks, appointed faculty cheerleader, tossing a baton up in the air and it hitting her on the head. [[spoiler: When Mr. Conklin decides to make himself faculty cheerleader, he's a victim of LaserGuidedKarma.]]
550** Mr. Conklin gloats to Miss Brooks in "Two Way Stretch Snodgrass" about his plans for the school football team, complete with EvilLaugh:
551--->'''Mr. Conklin:''' I just learned that Biff Mooney, one of the greatest college football players, is interested in a high school coaching job in this part of the country. I've already opened negotiations by mail, and it's a foregone conclusion that he'll accept my offer. Ah-ha-ha-ha ''[evil laugh]'', ah, I can't wait to see the expression on Brill's face when I tell him about it. Heh, heh, heh. ''[evil laugh]''
552* In the third season finale of ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', [[spoiler:Greer spends a minute or so gloating to Collier about how he'd manipulated all of Vigilance. He still kills Collier, accomplishing the goal of letting the gloat target die in despair, but that gloat ''does'' give Reese enough time to save Finch.]]
553* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': Both of the [[BigBad Big Bads]] [[BondVillainStupidity cause their own downfall by doing this]]:
554** Moriarty (BigBad of Series 1 & 2): [[spoiler:He gloats that Sherlock's suicide is the only way to save his friends from execution, but adds "I'm certainly not going to do it." This clues Sherlock in on the fact that the snipers can, in fact, be stopped another way: if Moriarty does it himself.]]
555** Magnussen (BigBad of Series 3): [[spoiler:Gloats that he's beaten Sherlock and reveals that his blackmail "files" cannot be stolen from him because they're ''inside his head''...which tells Sherlock that, [[TooDumbToLive if he put a bullet in said head, this would no longer be a problem]].]]
556* In the 6th season premiere of ''Series/StargateSG1'', Anubis does this when he finds a way to overload the Earth stargate.
557** Hell, the Goa'uld as a whole love this. Not one of them ''ever'' passed up an opportunity to [[KneelBeforeZod force SG-1 to their knees]] and make with the claims to [[AGodAmI Godhood]]. Anubis ''was'' really prone to it though. Even Apophis would probably regard announcing that [[LargeHam "Your end of days approaches! You shall bow to my awesome power!"]] as a bit much.
558--->'''O'Neill:''' Oh please.\
559'''[=McKay=]:''' Hello, Anubis? Your agent called, you're playing it ''way'' [[ChewingTheScenery over the top]].
560** And the Goa'uld wonder why the Tau'ri refuse to take them seriously.
561*** Indeed, the only ruling Goa'uld they do take seriously are Lord Yu (who is too old and senile to ham it up that much), and Ba'al (who has learned how to be AffablyEvil).
562* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
563** Demons are the only type of evil at first the brothers face who pull this one. Occasionally some other malevolent beastie will indulge but ''every single demon'' does it when most creatures just get right to the killing, or at least attempted killing, of the brothers. In the first season finale, the Yellow Eyed Demon does this. Dean lampshades it with "Just kill us, 'cuz I just can't take the monologuing." This just fuels the Demon's BreakingSpeech.
564** In later seasons, [[OurAngelsAreDifferent the angels]], fallen and [[VillainWithGoodPublicity otherwise]], demonstrate that they can't resist monologuing either.
565* Inverted in ''Series/TheWestWing'' when Secret Service agent Donovan is so busy gloating about how stupid a crook was to try to rob a store when the Secret Service was in town, that he doesn't notice the store clerk's very obvious eye rolling, trying to indicate that the guy he's caught has a partner.
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569* Deconstructed in ''Manhua/IronLadies''. While Yihuo was smart enough to leave a robot to trick Siyun, after gloating how he's going to take over the Merak dynasty and become something of a God-Emperor, Siyun reveals he just wanted to know his plans before ruining them. Cut to Dragon Empress tearing a hole through his fleet.
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572[[folder:Podcasts]]
573* A frequently exploited trope in ''Podcast/RedPandaAdventures''. Multiple episodes, such as "Barbarian at the Gates" and "The Doctor is In", open with the Red Panda seemingly at his enemy's mercy, only to eventually reveal that the Red Panda had long since freed himself and was simply egging his captor on to try and learn more information. If the villain isn't obliging on their own, the Red Panda gives them a little nudge with his hypnotic abilities.
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577* Satan likes his Evil Gloating in ''Radio/OldHarrysGame''. Several episodes have him place a bet with [[WideEyedIdealist the Professor]] about how horrible humanity is, with the stakes simply being that if Satan's proved right, he gets to gloat about it.
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581* ''Roleplay/DCNation'':
582** Played straight, then {{Lampshaded}} during the "J" plot.
583--->'''Eric Forrester:''' Nice of [[spoiler:Mr. Good Wilson]] to deliver you guys to me and my friends here like a pizza! You know, [[RetCon ten years is a long time to wait for revenge with a side of resurrection, even if seeing what happened to you guys after the whole Wildebeest thing was the greatest show on earth]]. It was funnier then shit watching all you kids self-destruct after that. So tell me, Titans, is that little black bird of yours still a virgin? No wait! I think I'll just download myself into Cyborg and then see what I can do about finding out personally! Meanwhile, say hello to my little friends!
584** Later, after the Titans have put Forrester back on a hard drive.
585--->'''Nightwing:''' [[spoiler: Jericho]], come in... Good news, Forrester cleared you with a villain monologue so the door on the van is unlocked now.
586[[/folder]]
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588[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
589* ''TabletopGame/BeforeIKillYouMisterSpy'' (formerly ''James Ernest's Totally Renamed Spy Game'', formerly ''Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond'') is built on this trope. Players are SpyFiction {{Supervillain}}s who score points by creating a SupervillainLair and then luring spies into it. The points scored for a spy increase exponentially if you "taunt" them before killing them, but of course, doing so carries the risk that the spy will escape and destroy your lair.
590* ''TabletopGame/DiscworldRolePlayingGame'' enforces this trope by offering dark lord characters their own Code of Honour disadvantage -- which includes the rule "if your enemies are defeated and helpless, engage in some token gloating and then ignore them while you get on with important matters". Note that, on the Discworld, NarrativeCausality ensures that villains who act this way are generally guaranteed to survive their many defeats, in an equally stereotyped way -- and the game supports this too.
591* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Green slaadi are very arrogant and haughty, and tend to waste time boasting, gloating and blustering during combat when they should be paying more attention to what their foes are doing.
592* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': Infernal Exalted can reduce their Torment meters by doing something their Yozi patrons like. As it happens, She Who Lives In Her Name enjoys an impressive feat of Evil Gloating, meaning that a Green Sun Prince who wants to pursue his own agendas without losing control may well have to rant like a B-movie supervillain.
593* ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'': As the game is built primarily on MadScientist tropes, monologuing to a bound captive is a viable way to regain Mania.
594* ''TabletopGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'': Indulging in this is one way for villains to earn extra Karma (the game's combination of {{luck manipulation mechanic}} and {{experience point}}s).
595* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'': Parodied with the ''mutant power'' named "evil villain soliloquy that stops time while it's going on". Yes, it literally freezes an action scene to give the bad guy time to gloat.
596* ''TabletopGame/SavageWorlds'' Adventure Deck has the "Villainous Verbosity" card, which when played forces the antagonist to waste his entire turn gloating.
597* ''TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors'': At one point the module suggests that the ''DM'' engage in evil gloating if the party falls for one particularly sadistic trap.
598* ''TabletopGame/TimeLord'', the 1990s licensed ''Series/DoctorWho'' RPG, gives villains a negative "Gloating" skill. If they capture a player character, they're forced to roll against it and, if they "succeeded", they waste time monologuing.
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601[[folder:Theatre]]
602* In ''Theatre/PokemonLive'', "It Will All Be Mine" is basically Evil Gloating in the form of a song.
603* In ''Theatre/TheLittleFoxes'', Regina does this by telling her husband Horace that she hates him and expects him to die before long. [[spoiler:He does.]]
604* In the ''Theatre/{{Mrs Hawking}}'' play series:
605** In part one: ''[[https://vimeo.com/160544306 Mrs. Hawking]]'', Lord Brockton starts to, though his monologue is cut short.
606** It devolves into a ThisCannotBe when the tides turn.
607** [[spoiler:Mrs. Frost]] at the end of ''Gilded Cages''. To an epic extent.
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610[[folder:Video Games]]
611* In the third ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' game, [[spoiler: Dahlia Hawthorne lays bare the sheer contempt she feels about the Fey clan and Phoenix; she's dead, having been channeled by a medium, so she believes she's beyond punishmment. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Boy, is she wrong.]]]]
612* In ''VideoGame/AlanWakesAmericanNightmare,'' Mr. Scratch, Wake's HumanoidAbomination EvilTwin frequently lords his near-triumph over Wake, particularly in his video messages, whether thrilled over a recent kill, showing off his weapons or contemplating how easily he'll manage a KillAndReplace in Alan's life due to his perceived superiority.
613* In ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersUndying'', [[spoiler:Jeremiah]] attempts this, but is interrupted. [[spoiler:By a scythe.]]
614* Kane does this to the player midway through the GDI campaign of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'', [[strike:completely unaware]] probably aware that [[spoiler:GDI is FakingTheDead]].
615** Kane also gives a good one to [=Mike McNeil=] after breaking through the Hammerfest defenses in ''Tiberian Sun'' and stealing the sonic crystals, leaving behind a broadcast in which he glibly informs him that the sonic tank "will make an excellent addition to my collection", and that he is [[SarcasmMode sorry to hear]] that [=McNeil=]'s brother died a slow and painful death in the raid.
616* ''VideoGame/TheDarkness'' "Awwww, what did they do, Jackie? What did they do to [[spoiler:Jenny]]?"
617* In ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' Pious Agustus does this all the time. [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu Even to Mantorok!]]
618* As the resident EvilGenius in, well, ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'', you can naturally do this while your enemies are being tortured. Be warned that super agents can escape as you gloat over their misfortune.
619** In the Website/{{Facebook}} game based on the above, the LoadingScreen says "Monologuing..."
620** You can gloat over any captive, a process which earns you a point of notoriety; super agents, however, are the only ones where assigning them to be tortured will ''automatically'' cause your Evil Genius to wander over to laugh maniacally at them - a process which can be exploited by moving them a long distance from the torture chamber, causing the super-agent to just sit there waiting for your arrival before the pain actually commences.
621* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'''s Gravemind. 50% EldritchAbomination, 50% Evil Gloating. 100% MagnificentBastard.
622-->"''Now the gate has been unlatched,''\
623''headstones pushed aside;''\
624''corpses shift and offer room,''\
625''a fate you must ABIDE!"''
626* ''VideoGame/HandsOfNecromancy'' has a rare heroic example (well, AntiHero), but you're a Dark Sorceror fighting the forces of hell, and should you obtain a new spell or power upgrade at any point, you'll let out a chilling, villainous gloat that sounds like you're gleeful at the prospect of destroying your enemies.
627* In ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'', Veger taunts Jak right after [[spoiler: Damas]] dies, taking exceptional glee in telling Jak that he was [[spoiler: his father]] and that he died without knowing.
628* In one of the last stages of ''VideoGame/JediOutcast'', Fyyar goes off on a monologue, while Kyle casually finishes the objective he was performing before he was interrupted.
629* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' has Marluxia mocking Sora and Co. before one of their final fights:
630--> ''Imbeciles...You would knowingly shackle your heart with a [[TitleDrop chain of memories]] born of lies? You would be one who has a heart, yet cast aside your heart's freedom? You turn from the truth because your heart is weak--You will never defeat me!''
631* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'': After Link opens the Door of Time and draws the Master Sword, [[spoiler:he unwittingly ends up trapped in a seven year sleep as he is too young to wield it, leaving Ganondorf free to enter the Sacred Realm unopposed to seize the Triforce]]. Ganondorf makes sure to rub it in his face.
632-->'''Ganondorf:''' [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Yes, I owe it all to you, kid!]]
633* In ''Franchise/MassEffect'', it turns out that even The Reapers aren't immune to evil gloating. [[spoiler:Sovereign tells you that there's nothing you can do to stop him and the other Reapers from wiping out all sentient life in the galaxy. It also claims that you're just a tiny insect compared to it and that you have no way of understanding its nature, and yet there it is delivering its evil speech. Subverted at the end of the third game; it turns out he was lying like a rug about his motivations.]]
634** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Mordin's loyalty mission features an enemy krogan who will gloat at you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUTiDfPfBUY on and on]] if you don't take the Renegade Interrupt option. Which will be available for his entire rant. The gloating goes on so long it's got to be some sort of record.
635* In ''VideoGame/Metro2033'' you get catured by the Nazis and they decide to just execute you on the spot rather than draging a badly beaten up prisoner with them. While the gun is pointed at your face, there is still enough time for two stranger to sneak up on the Nazis and kill them with knives. Then they come to check on you and one of them lampshades the situation for all it's worth:
636--> ''One thing I like about the bad guys. There's always a lot of discussions before they get around to pulling the trigger.''
637* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': The mission "Missing on a Star" ends with [[spoiler: the leader of the bad guys gloating that the Doom Ray will doom the Moshi world. Thankfully, it resolves come the next mission.]]
638* Harvey from ''VideoGame/OctopathTravelerII'' loves to do this. He constantly feels the need to rub it in Osvald's face that he stole Osvald's research, Osvald spent five years in prison [[MiscarriageOfJustice for something HARVEY did]], and that he [[spoiler:used Osvald's wife and daughter for science experiments]]. This is largely due to Harvey's [[DrivenByEnvy massive inferiority complex]] with regards to Osvald; his need to one up him means that he needs Osvald ''to know'' that he one-upped him.
639* [[TheDragon Lord Crump]] does this in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' near the end of Chapter 2 when he traps Mario in a cage and snatches the [[PlotCoupon Crystal Star]], not realizing Mario has been CursedWithAwesome at your last destination, and can therefore escape his silly prison (of course, then he have to free the others).
640* Subverted in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' where Ratchet throws a wrench at the BigBad Dr. Nefarious as soon as he opens his mouth to gloat. Strictly speaking, he throws his wrench at the remote control for his uber weapon just about to target Veldin. Nefarious just stood in the way.
641* ''VideoGame/{{Rengoku}}'': In the second game Gryphus, both as a boss and in the backstory, mocks Gram for having emotions, while he patiently waits doing caluclations to defeat Gram each loop. When killed, he gives an EvilLaugh considering that [[spoiler:Gram has yet to remember the rest, which Beatrice expositions shortly]].
642* In the last quarter of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', Wesker's speeches are pretty much nothing ''but'' this, intermixed with his truly epic VillainousBreakdown.
643** Wesker truly is the epitome of this. He's got it so bad, it's to the point where he ''literally'' has a gun pointed straight at Chris' head, and had a perfect opportunity to just off him right there. Except... he ends up just gloating and trying to convince Chris exactly [[AGodAmI how wonderful of a God he will be]].
644* In ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'': [[TheSociopath Penelope]] smugly gloats she had already been planning to kill Sly and Murray in order to harvest Bentley's potential, make billions in weapon designs, and TakeOverTheWorld. "No matter - once Cooper's out of the way, he'll see things ''my'' way! Poor Bentley. He's kinda cute when he's being dumb".
645* In ''VideoGame/SongBirdSymphony'', the BigBad reveals himself to the innocent PlayerCharacter through this.
646* In ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'', ALL the villains do this. [[OmnicidalManiac Gig]] also does this from time to time, despite being on [[SociopathicHero your side]]. The best example of Evil Gloating comes from [[spoiler:Levin, aka Raksha the World Eater]].
647-->[[spoiler: '''Levin''']]: You don't like that I've learned all these fancy new words? Well tough shit! I'm feeling verbose!
648* ''VideoGame/StrikeCommander'''s final mission involves [[spoiler:shooting down Generalissimo Mendez]], the game's BigBad. During the fight, he will gloat over the radio and explain his actions in full, before switching to [[VillainsWantMercy begging for his life]] as soon as The Commander starts winning.
649** Immediately afterwards, a PostFinalBoss battle occurs in which [[spoiler:Jean-Paul Prideaux]] will similarly explain over the radio exactly who sent him to kill you and why.
650* SHODAN does this a ''lot'' in the ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' series. In both games she taunts the player that she is superior to you in every way because [[AIIsACrapshoot as an AI construct]], SHODAN has access to more human information and more control over machinery that any human on Earth could ever even conceive. She also explains how being an organic life form makes you inferior and in the second game, she says that the only thing she likes about you are the cybernetic implants she gave you. She especially does this as you traverse the levels trying to find her, but when you show up for your showdowns with SHODAN her taunting amounts to nothing more than mere BossBanter.
651* [[spoiler:Flowey]]'s boss dialogue in ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'' is made of this trope, and to a possibly greater extent, [[spoiler: Asriel Dreemurr as the God of Hyperdeath]].
652* Pretty much ''everything'' [[AIIsACrapshoot NEXUS]] says in ''VideoGame/Warzone2100'' is some sort of gloating.
653--> '''NEXUS:''' You have five minutes, Commander, and then it's ''[[KillSat frying]]'' time! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
654* In ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein2009'', Blazkowicz comes across a Nazi officer standing in front of a [[spoiler: Veil portal]]. His gloating is interrupted when he is rather violently KilledMidSentence by [[spoiler: a giant, mutated abomination that telefrags him.]]
655** Continued in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheOldBlood'', with Rudi giving a long villain speech gloating about [[CurbStompBattle how badly the free world is losing]] in the face of the hyper-advanced Nazi war machine. And then there's also the newspaper report telling of how the Nazis actually made slaves of the Allied troops captured in the catastrophic D-Day landings and used them to build a giant museum dedicated to the Nazi's defence. Talk about rubbing the salt in.
656* Several ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' raid bosses do this, especially if you start wiping. Kael'thas and Malygos have raised it to an art form.
657** Arthas is so incredibly fond of this that it prevents him from actually accomplishing anything. [[YouHaveNoChanceToSurviveMakeYourTime He shows up and gloats at you]],[[TakeYourTime then just goes away and lets you interfere with his plan]].
658*** [[INeedYouStronger He is allowing the players to advance themselves and even allow them to interfere with the Scourge's plans all to get them stronger so he can kill the players once they reach him in Icecrown Citidel and raise them as uberpowerful generals and use them to]] [[TakeOverTheWorld overpower all resistance and take over the world.]]
659*** And after he succesfully does the above... He proceeds to gloat enough to allow Tirion Fordring to summon HeroicWillpower and ruin all his plans in one strike.
660** Keal'thas also does this in the Frozen Throne Campaign, where he tells Arthas exactly what his and Illidan's plans are, though in that case he is far less of a villain. [[spoiler: It does, though, help cause the plan to fail in a similar manner as other villains. Once Arthas knows the plan, he takes a faster route to the Lich King, and arrives in time to organize the forces and fight back.]]
661* ''VideoGame/ZeroWing'' has the rather infamous scene with Cats phoning into the heroes' ship's huge viewscreen to gloat about how [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs all their base are belong to him]], and that they are on the [[YouAreOnTheWayToDestruction way to destruction]].
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664[[folder:Web Animation]]
665* ''WebAnimation/TheMostEpicStoryEverToldInAllOfHumanHistory'': The second episode is more or less dedicated to [[EvilIsHammy Ridiculously Epic]] doing this for an entire half an hour. Yes, really.
666* In one episode of ''WebAnimation/NoEvil'', [[BigBad Charles]] runs into Calamity, and opts to give her a little speech about how he'd love to have an audience, but she's just interfered too much and has to be taken out. [[CombatPragmatist She punches him in the stomach before he even finishes talking.]]
667* In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue [[WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy The Chorus Trilogy]]'', [[spoiler:Felix]] does this when he captures the Reds and Blues, despite [[NoNonsenseNemesis his partner]] telling him to just get on with killing them already. He calls it therapy for having to [[SurroundedByIdiots deal with their idiocy]]. Naturally, this bites him in the rear, since it gives [[ActionGirl Carolina]] a chance to save them. The Reds and Blues [[BatmanGambit take advantage]] of his love of this later on, getting him to gloat about how he'd been PlayingBothSides of Chorus's civil war... [[EngineeredPublicConfession while unknowingly being recorded]]. Finding that he'd been OutGambitted by the people he dismissed as losers sends him straight into SarcasmFailure.
668* In ''WebAnimation/BowsersKingdom'' episode 6, Ganon was trying to acquire welfare by giving an evil speech, but had to leave because, according to Rick Finklestein, he doesn't qualify for welfare:
669-->'''Rick:''' Name?\
670'''Ganon:''' I am Ganon! Lord of Evil! King of Darkness!! Wielder of the Triforce of power!\
671'''Rick:''' That's too long, I'll just put you down as "Angry Blue Pig". Abilities?\
672'''Ganon:''' I have apocalyptic powers that can destroy Hyrule and any lands that I wish to conquer!\
673'''Rick:''' I'm sorry, seems you don't qualify for welfare, you'll have to leave.\
674'''Ganon:''' What!? I am the Lord of Darkness! You will not get rid of me like some pitful moblin! I WILL BURN THIS WHOLE WORLD DOWN!!!\
675'''Rick:''' Yes, that's all well and nice, NEXT!!
676[[/folder]]
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678[[folder:Webcomics]]
679* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
680** After Elan defeats Lord Kubota and is about to bring him to trial, Kubota proceeds to gloat that he will never be charged, and that he will get off scot-free due to being an apparently MagnificentBastard. [[ShutUpHannibal Vaarsuvius disagrees]].
681** Subverted earlier with Elan's EvilTwin Nale: after Elan catches him with Haley in a compromising position, [[spoiler: Nale proceeds to gloat at Elan's stupidity at not seeing that Haley is evil and has been selling out the Order of the Stick. The catch is that none of it is true, and Nale is gloating about something that never happened,]] but since Haley is afflicted with [[TheUnintelligible aphasia]] at the moment, she can't defend herself against the evidence [[spoiler: at first]].
682** Nale even lampshades it earlier. He ''did'' gloat out all his plan. Only he did it securely alone, to the mirror, in order to get the urge out of his system.
683** He's so savvy about his Evil Gloating that the fact that he'd been monologuing to Elan for an ''hour'' and Elan hadn't escaped yet is what breaks him out of a LotusEaterMachine.
684** {{Invoked}} by Loki in his relationship to Thor. Mortal Belief defines him as untrustworthy and dishonest, so he literally ''cannot'' honestly explain his goals or actions to most of his peers. But since Thor is his arch-rival, honestly discussing the current situation and what Loki plans to do about it counts as evil gloating and is thus within the scope of Belief.
685* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' takes a stellar use of this trope when [[spoiler: Lucrezia Mongfish, in Agatha's body, turns Klaus Wulfenbach into one of her slaves and gloats about a wonderful Heterodyne-Wulfenbach alliance to come.]] Klaus even says, "Heard you gloat too many times." However, the self-congratulater is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard undone by her own pride.]] Watch it [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061206 here.]]
686** One of the previous Heterodynes was apparently plagued by the habit of gloating prematurely or decided to leave some advice to future generations and inscribed onto the stairs a list of things that must be taken care of before it's safe to [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100908 gloat]].
687* In [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2008-10-01 this]] ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'' strip, a captive explains that he knows the entire plan because the villain has gloated about it. Over and over and over and over and. . . .
688* Ludwig Von Koopa in WebAnimation/ADayWithBowserJr. He has an evil monologue in every episode in which he's appeared so far, even to the point of [[spoiler: being interrupted by Bowser who literally shuts him up in the middle of his monologue]]. Also Nerdy, to some extent.
689* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' Evil!Aylee likes to [[http://ads.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=011104 do this]] [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020716 now and then]].
690** So does [[http://pics.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=071220 Jane]].
691** For some reason, in the chapter [=bROKEN=], Bun-bun goes curiously GenreBlind and does this to [[spoiler:Oasis after trapping her, even though he's not even the villain in that situation. Of course, right then something new is revealed that makes it backfire.]]
692* In ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'' future Norman once went into a full explanation of how the "heroes" were all acting according to plan, so he could distract Tessa until he had his [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20010810.html gun pointed straight at her head]].
693--> [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20010813.html "Haha! That little routine gets them EVERY damn time! I swear it turns on a stupid switch in people's brains!"]]
694** And subverted [[http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20070205.html later on]] (chronologically earlier) by the [[MasterComputer Oracle]].
695---> Central: "So, aren't you going to tell me your plan in a long, self gratifying monologue?
696---> The Oracle: "No."
697* [[Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja Frans Rayner]] did this when he invoked a [[ConservationOfNinjutsu certain trope]] by [[spoiler: repeatedly cloning a clone of Dr. McNinja.]]
698--> '''Frans:''' Did I hear one of you ask how this glory can be real? I remember... when you stormed my mansion, and you alone cut through my army of ninjas... And I kept hearing... "He's just one man! '''He's just one man!"''' I didn't realize it until then, but that was how I defeated [[spoiler:all of your peoples]] in the 80's. I was just one man. And now I am just one man again! And I'm killing you! '''HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!'''
699* In ''Webcomic/TheDreamlandChronicles'', [[http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/page-739/ telling the dwarven king that his forebearers did support the other side, and he killed them for it.]]
700* ''Webcomic/{{Concession}}'': [[http://concessioncomic.com/index.php?pid=20080613 probably not a good idea to tell someone you're trying to kill that they have powers.]] I thought you knew better than that [[FourthWallObserver Joel]]
701* Subverted in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' by the [[AbusivePrecursors Gatekeepers]] when they captured Tagon and Brad's gate-clones.
702--> [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-04-04 "I'm under standing orders not to revel in the details of any nefarious plans."]]
703** Though General Levaughn Matsui Xinchub took every opportunity to gloat.
704** Tagon, although at least nominally heroic ([[OnlyInItForTheMoney insofar as the money is good, anyway]]), took [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-04-18 rather too much pleasure]] [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-04-19 in gloating over]] [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-04-20 Xinchub and Ceeta]] [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-04-22 after capturing them]], while explaining his plan to sell them into slavery. It didn't backfire on him immediately, but the eventual results did nearly cost him his life and the lives of his entire command several times, so it probably evens out.
705* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'': When the DM's latest villain is monologuing [[http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0530.html never interrupt!]]
706* ''Webcomic/{{Underling}}'' [[http://underlingcomic.com/page-twenty-eight/ invoked]]
707* ''Webcomic/{{Pibgorn}}'' [[http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2008/11/28/ Offers to explain all before crushing his head.]]
708** [[http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2009/11/02/ Don't you want to bask in your trickery, to gloat about it, revel in your superiority?]]
709* In ''Webcomic/{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/2011/02/21/5-11/ describing how her siblings died.]]
710* In ''Webcomic/MinionComics'', Von Gernsbach is challenged to reveal his evil plans, or at least gloat about how smart he is for not revealing them. Calling it the "Circle of Cliches, he opts for [[http://www.meetmyminion.com/?p=1017 "the ranting. The ranting, it is my greatest love]]."
711* In ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'', Calamitus has a nasty tendency to get caught up in this, allowing the good guys to surprise him.
712* In ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000910c Dr. Wily only explains because it's in the evil scientist ethics code.]]
713* [[Webcomic/APTComic Ammika]] does a session ("Ammika Explains") explaining this trope for the viewing audience and ends up monologuing herself, in a sense.
714* Lampshaded in ''Webcomic/ErrantStory'', in [[http://www.errantstory.com/2006-01-23/465 a particularly ironic way]]: it isn't just the good guys who are on the receiving end of this trope.
715-->'''Toren:''' But now, even with everything that's happened, I'm actually glad that I came here in some small way.\
716'''Ian:''' Y' gotta be... kid'n me ... he's actually stopping t' gloat.\
717'''Toren:''' It's been nearly two thousand years since I last killed an Errant. You have no idea how invigorating this has been for me.
718* The (unknown) main villain from [[http://ajcomic.com Average Joe]] is [[http://ajcomic.com/?p=167 apparently]] [[http://ajcomic.com/?p=456 fond of this]]
719* In ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty'', [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2009/01/25/groovy/ CK himself indulges in this when he reveals he's taken over the entire Cat System as his reward for his "heroism."]] [[spoiler: Of course, it's AllJustADream.]]
720* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', Doc Scratch indulges in this after all of his plans have been realized. The very last word he leaves behind before he dies?
721-->S u c k e r s.
722* ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES'', the Eater of Dreams is telling Frog, Palom and Porom that he's going to use his reality warping powers to take the next 10000 turns to torture the twins to a horrible death and make Frog helplessly watch. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, because of a Virus spell, EOD doesn't notice his own HP run out.]]
723* In ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'', The Beast loves doing this. The fact that this has let someone intercede to stop him from killing his enemies something like 4 times in under an hour, you'd think he'd learn by now.
724* In ''Webcomic/KidRadd'', near the end, the BigBad does this to the titular character ''while he's charging up his [[ChargedAttack Mega Radd]]'', an attack that they both know has [[spoiler:near-unlimited power and can easily take out anything in one hit]].
725* Mr. Bones from ''Webcomic/{{Kukuburi}}'' is a veritable monologue junkie. Even though he fails to impress the protagonist, he still monologues so much he ends up ''the MrExposition'' of the story, simply by virtue of getting to her before her proper mentor had a chance to do any mentoring.
726* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Not-Tengu is [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2013-07-15 baited]] into engaging in this while Diane goes to get help.
727* ''Webcomic/{{Dregs}}'': Von Willendorfer gloats about how brilliant his plan is so much, he even does it when there's no-one around to hear him.
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731* ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog''
732** Captain Hammer's gloating to the Doctor that he is going to sleep with the girl of his dreams, and later on, Horrible's [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome awesomely]] gloating counter in the form of "Slipping."
733** Also subverted earlier, as Dr. Horrible tries to get his gloat on but gets sidetracked by his romantic problems:
734--->All right. ''The wait is over. This, my friends, is my freeze ray, which, with the addition of the [[{{Unobtainium}} Wonderflonium]] I obtained at my famously successful heist last week... I say successful in that I achieved my objective. It was less successful in that I inadvertently introduced my arch-nemesis to the girl of my dreams, and now he's taking her out on dates, and they're probably going to...''French kiss'' or something. She called him ''sweet''? How is he sweet?'' [long pause] ''Right, freeze ray!''
735* ''WebVideo/Lonelygirl15'',
736** Edward Salinas broadcasts a video straight to TAAG's IP address for this purpose. (Don't ask how he got it)
737** The ''WebVideo/LG15TheResistance'' finale features a memorable instance of this: "[[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Hello, McFly?]] I'm EVIL!"
738* After Creator/MaraWilson got revenge on WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, she noted that the mocking he gave her old work will now happen to Critic for his old work. And there was OminousLatinChanting as she said it.
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741[[folder:Western Animation]]
742* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' character Colonel H. Stinkmeaner is quite possibly the king of this trope. Every single word he says is evil gloating. At one point he even dies, goes to hell and basically gloats that he is more evil than the Satan, to which Satan readily agrees.
743* Even [[FaceHeelTurn good guys gone bad]] suffer from this. In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' where Rhinox is turned into a Predacon and nearly takes over, this is what trips him up:
744-->'''Megatron:''' Even now, Rhinox, you're teaching me a valuable lesson...\
745'''Rhinox:''' Yeah? What's that?\
746'''Megatron:''' Sometimes Predacons gloat too much! ''[ZAP]''
747** Ironically enough, Megatron would subsequently forget this lesson, at one point gloating over a dying [[spoiler:Dinobot]] long enough to let his target improvise a weapon and hit him very hard with it.
748* Endlessly parodied in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', where [[HarmlessVillain Dr. Drakken]] just can't quit gloating, no matter how many times [[TheDragon Shego]] warns him about it. Of course, the otherwise savvy Shego lost when she was EvilOverlord because she gloated herself, angering [[ThisLoserIsYou Ron Stoppable]].
749** Amusingly, Shego ''wasn't'' going to gloat at first, and only decided to do so after Drakken goaded her into it.
750* Lampshaded and averted in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' "In Brightest Day":
751-->'''Kyle Rayner:''' Wait! Don't you want to talk first? You know, banter back and forth to show me your innate superiority?\
752'''Sinestro:''' No.
753* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'':
754** When Starscream wants to destroy Megatron by using his clones as bomb decoys, he just has to gloat instead of detonating the damn things, giving Megatron and crew time to get clear and let the Autobots save the city. In fact, in this series Starscream is addicted to evil gloating, spending time bragging instead of offing the people he wants to off, like Megatron.
755** This guy takes his evil gloating ''really'' seriously. He gets pissed off when [[KidAppealCharacter Bumblebee]] interrupts him.
756--->'''Starscream:''' YOU... INTERRUPTED... MY... SPEEEEEEEEEECH!
757** At one point, [[spoiler: he gets cloned, [[LiteralSplitPersonality each one of which represents a bit of his personality.]] One, Thundercracker, speaks entirely in evil gloating.]]
758** This is averted with Megatron (the only TF canon where it ''is'' averted, come to think of it), who stands over Optimus and gloats that he's going to finally destroy the person who left him as a head for fifty years [[spoiler:before turning right around and blasting the slag out of Starscream, the guy who actually did it.]]
759* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': The [[CreepyChild Delightful Children]] ''love'' doing this to their victims/enemies, especially to Numbuh One. Talking too much once means they get to keep their birthday cake... because [[spoiler:some nasty chicks have pooped all over it]] and the [=KND=] don't want it anymore.
760* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'', Megabyte gives a short speech to the entire city after taking over again. He even lampshades the expectation of evil speeches from the BigBad.
761-->'''Megabyte:''' Attention. As you are no doubt aware, the Principle Office is now under my complete control. [[LampshadeHanging You're probably looking forward to one of my erudite speeches about me, Megaframe, the new viral dawn, et cetera et cetera.]] But I'm afraid I'm going to have to disappoint you. There is no grand scheme here. This is about revenge. Viruses are predatory by design, and it is time for me to follow my function. Prepare yourselves... for the hunt!
762* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZaDCEs7EbA "Venom Returns,"]] Cletus Cassidy gloats briefly about how everyone is going to die in 30 seconds due to a bomb he strapped to his belly, only Spidey takes advantage of this by taking the bomb off his stomach by force (and surprise) and throwing it at the sky, saving everyone.
763* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
764** [[SmugSnake Mr. Burns]] is known for doing this, (Springfield's organized crime community is relatively less prone to it) but an especially [[KickTheDog sickening]] example is in Who Shot Mr. Burns part 1. [[spoiler:At the town hall meeting about Burns' plan to block out the sun, Bart is telling the people at the meeting about how his dog was crippled by Burns' oil drilling operation; Bart shows the town the dog's cast and everything, and Burns walks in at this exact moment and says ''"oh, those wheels are squeaking a bit; perhaps I could sell him a little oil!"'']]
765** Subverted when Homer ends up owner of the power plant:
766--->'''Homer:''' Mr. Burns reign of terror is over! And today begins my reign of terr...\
767'''Crowd:''' {{Gasp}}!\
768'''Homer:''' ..iffic management!\
769'''Lenny:''' Man, I thought he was going to say "terror"!\
770'''Carl:''' I didn't think he was going that way.
771** In one of Sideshow Bob's schemes to kill Bart, he places him restrained on a conveyor belt, which apparently includes the option of "gloating speed" for Bob to give a triumphant verbal bashing long enough for his family to arrive and save him.
772* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
773** Eric Cartman. Usually a sign that he's taking a giant leap over the MoralEventHorizon rather than just being a BrattyHalfPint.
774--->'''Cartman:''' Hahahaha ha I made you eat your parents.
775** In "Imaginationland", he finally has Kyle submit to his agreement to suck his balls, however he insists on making a huge ceremony and gloating endlessly in Kyle's face long enough for it to be interrupted three times over.
776* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' Robotnik claimed he'd rather not kill Sonic but keep him imprisoned just so he can subject him to this all day long.
777** His ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' counterpart, though more savvy, isn't immune to this either.
778* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE25TheClockKing The Clock King]]", we have two:
779** Clock King left a TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat message to Batman in a DeathTrap with a JustBetweenYouAndMe speech that ends with YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive
780** Clock King does it to Mayor Hill combined with a MotiveRant and EvilLaugh.
781** In her [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison debut episode]] Poison Ivy mockingly asks Batman if he's "afraid of cooties" after he tries in vain to spit out her [[DruggedLipstick poison]] following the ForcefulKiss she planted on him.
782* Aku from ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' absolutely loves evil gloating. He's already doing it mere moments after being born.
783-->'''Aku:''' Ooohhh... '''''YOU'''''. Thank you!\
784'''Samurai Lord:''' No, my intention was to destroy you!\
785'''Aku:''' Oh? HA HA HA. But it was ''your'' poisoned arrow and ''your'' hocus pocus that set me free! AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
786* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''/''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' crossover, Peter and Homer start a Giant Chicken-style fight over which beer is better (according to Homer and Moe, Pawtucket ripped off Duff). Both end up falling into a vat of radioactive goo, get [[RadiationInducedSuperpowers radioactive powers]], fly into the sky, and continue their fight aboard Kang and Kodos's FlyingSaucer. Eventually, Homer loses his powers and grabs on to keep himself from falling to the ground. Still powered, Peter starts telling Homer what he'll do to him... then he too loses his powers, laments talking for too long, and falls.
787* In the start of a ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode, Evil Gloating is [[InvokedTrope Invoked]], and [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] [[ExploitedTrope through being Exploited]]. Lex Luthor has Superman at his mercy, thanks to a chunk of Kryptonite, and could go any moment for the killing blow, yet he gloats about exactly how he committed his latest crimes, the list of people he bribed... And when Lex is finished, Superman gets up and punches Luthor, before revealing he was actually the [[ShapeShifter Martin Manhunter]] (who wasn't vulnerable to Kryptonite and was faking it all this time), and that the Justice League just pulled off an epic level sting operation.
788* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
789** Admiral Zhou is this when he kills the moon spirit.
790** This exchange from Toph:
791--->I am not Toph. I AM MELONLORD! MUAHAHAHAHA!
792* Zigzagged in the ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' episode "Strange Invasion". Zurg tries to be savvy by not gloating at all. However, he can't resist, and decides that while he ''will'' gloat, [[JustBetweenYouAndMe he won't give enough specific information]] on his EvilPlan for Buzz to act on. [[NiceJobFixingItVillain It fails]].
793* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "A Canterlot Wedding Part II" Queen Chrysalis does a lot of this. It leads to her undoing when Twilight Sparkle sneaks past her while she is SINGING about her success.
794* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has Bill Cipher:
795-->'''Bill:''' This party never stops! Time is dead and meaning has no meaning! Existence is upside down and I reign supreme! Welcome one and all to '''WEIRDMAGEDDON'''!
796* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': In "Return to New York, Part 3," Stockman takes the time to gloat that every component of his cyborg armor has its own backup power source. Donnie quickly realizes that this includes the ArmCannon the Turtles sliced off previously, and levels it at Stockman, who has just enough time to go OhCrap and try to escape before he's blasted out the window.
797* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
798** The Lich, voiced by ''Creator/RonPerlman'', begins his iconic monologue with the simple command, "Fall."
799* Zordrak of ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' often monologues in excess, which often has repercussions the odd time he takes an active role. In "The Knitted Balloon" he possesses Amberley, and leaves a bewildered Rufus convinced she's given the Dreamstone to his minions, he couldn't resist flying out her body to mock Rufus to his face however. His Urpney minions tend to avoid this, due to being cowardly enough that they [[PragmaticVillainy just want to get the job over with]]. At least a couple occasions this was reversed outright, with the Urpneys gaining the upper hand because ''the heroes'' engaged in some gloating about how pathetic they were.
800* Dick Dastardly does this with flair in "Camouflage Hoparoo," an episode from his own show, ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'':
801-->'''Narrator:''' As Yankee Doodle Pigeon breaks the morning stillness while flying another dangerous mission, he keeps a wary eye out for the vicious Vulture Squadron. Skippered by the deadly, diabolical, despicable demon of the skyways, Dick Dastardly.\
802'''Dastardly:''' You left out dashing and debonair! ''[evil laugh]''
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