Line #51 Main/SoLongSuckers


1	->''"If it becomes necessary to escape, I will never stop to pose dramatically and toss off a one-liner."''
2	-->-- Rule #58 of the EvilOverlordList
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4	This time it sure looks like it's over: the heroes have been captured by the BigBad, who is [[EvilGloating gloating]] and enumerating the ways he's going to kill them. But wait! [[BigDamnHeroes Someone]] (or [[DeusExMachina something]]) suddenly shows up, a [[TheMole defector]] reveals himself or the heroes [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee put their plan into action]], [[VillainExitStageLeft giving them the chance they need to escape]] and leaving the foe staring at them as they run off while delivering a final taunt: "So long, suckers!"
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6	[[SubvertedTrope Subversions]] may or may not ensue, depending on whether the character performing the So Long Suckers is a hero or a villain (it's way more likely in the latter case).
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8	For when this trope backfires, see CrossingTheBurntBridge. For the opposite, in which a character runs away from another, but for ''the opposite reason'', see ScrewThisImOuttaHere.
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10	Compare WeWillMeetAgain. HighDiveEscape is a sub-trope.
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17	* In a Geico commercial, Skeletor bids ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' He-Man, She-Ra and Man-At-Arms "Catch you on the flip, suckers!" while the villain [[VillainExitStageLeft makes his getaway]] after distracting the heroes with the product's pitch.
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21	* ''Anime/NadiaTheSecretOfBlueWater'': As Nadia, Jean, and the QuirkyMinibossSquad are escaping from the Tower of Babel.
22	* ''Franchise/LupinIII'': Almost all stories end with Lupin taunting Zenigata.
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26	* The cover of Creator/MarvelComics' "What The?!?" #26, where Peter Porker, Spectacular ComicBook/SpiderHam, says "Sayonara, suckers!" (He jubilates too early, as the cover [[GroinAttack hints]].)
27	* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/TheCondemnedLegionnaires'', as grappling with the villain, Kara tries to melt her mask to find out her identity. However, Satan Girl slips out of her grip easily and flies off as taunting Supergirl about being unable to catch her.
28	* ''ComicBook/TheTick'': After losing a fight, some ninja actually reads from a paper labeled "Parting Threat"... then Tick throws a chimney at them.
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33	* In the ''[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]]'' ParodyFic "Farce Contact", linguist Hoshi Sato causes a diplomatic incident when she translates "I grip your [[OctopoidAliens tentacle]] in farewell" as "So long suckers".
34	* ''ALIEN!!!'' The Emergency Homophobic Hologram gives this trope as he orders the ship's computer to download him electronically into the EscapePod, leaving the crew trapped on board the ''[[Film/{{Alien}} Nostromo]]'' which is about to self-destruct. The computer, in a HeroicBSOD because it's going to be blown up with the ship, flat-out refuses to comply.
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42	* Done almost word-for-word in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs''. As the [[spoiler:townspeople prepare to evacuate]], the Mayor rides up and declares "I have an important announcement... see y'ah, suckers!" [[spoiler:and jumps onto the first boat... [[TooDumbToLive which he proceeds to eat]].]]
43	* Turned into an OverlyLongGag in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe1'', when Gru's Minion successfully snags the shrink-ray but repeatedly ''fails'' to get out the way he came, thanks to this trope.
44	* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1''. After being defeated, Syndrome gets to his airborne jet and gloats about how he is sure to escape and will return to claim Mr. Incredible's son someday. [[ShutUpHannibal Mr. Incredible takes this opportunity to throw a car at him]], which results in his death.
45	* Bing Bong says this in ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'' when trying to run from Joy who was chasing him after throwing a green memory sphere as a diversion. It fails because he bumps into a cart of memories.
46	* When [[spoiler:Lotso]] [[MoralEventHorizon leaves Woody, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of Andy's toys to die in the incinerator]] at the end of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', he tells them, [[spoiler:"Where's your kid now, Sheriff?"]], in this tone of voice.
47	* In ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'', as the submarine travels through the Sea of Monsters, at one point, it narrowly escapes being swallowed by a vacuum monster, after which George says this phrase to the monster.
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55	* Pre-teen juvenile delinquent Audrey (played by Creator/JodieFoster) says this word-for-word after being liberated from jail in ''Film/AliceDoesntLiveHereAnymore''.
56	* In ''Film/{{Bananas}}'', Creator/WoodyAllen's character Fielding Mellish says this and gets knocked out a moment later.
57	* Some years earlier, in ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'', he (Woody Allen, that is, playing Jimmy Bomd) is at a Latin American firing squad -- his last cigarette is a concussion bomb he throws at the shooters. He climbs the wall chuckling "So long, suckers!" -- and lands on the other side in another country, in front of a firing squad for another guy.
58	* Troy, one of the minor antagonists in ''Film/TheGoonies'', uses this phrase when he sends Brand flying off the road at high speed.
59	* {{Narm}}ful example in ''Film/MortalKombatAnnihilation'', as Scorpion teleports out with a cry of "Suuckeers!"
60	* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'': "Gentlemen, this is the day you will always remember as the day you ''almost'' caught Captain Jack Sparrow." Hilariously, the only time [[CatchphraseInterruptus he's allowed to say the whole thing]], he ''gets caught''.
61	* A textbook example occurs at the end of ''Film/TheRocketeer'', complete with one-liner and swift ironic death. "I'll miss Hollywood."
62	* In the second ''[[Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed Scooby Doo]]'' movie, a prisoner is shown in flashback delivering this line as he escapes from jail... only to [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat fall to his death from the roof]]. [[spoiler:Only he's NotQuiteDead...]]
63	-->'''Prisoner:''' So long, suckers! ''[escape-wings begin to fail]'' HELP ME, SUCKEEEEEEEEEEERS!!!
64	* The last lines of ''Film/ProblemChild 3: Junior in Love'' by Junior.
65	* {{Subverted\|Trope}} in ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd''. When Creator/JamesFranco is being ascended into Heaven, he gloats to Creator/DannyMcBride and his gang of cannibals of his departure. However, this naturally backfires on Franco as he is both rejected from Heaven and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath eaten alive by [=McBride=]]].
66	-->'''Franco:''' [[IShallTauntYou Go to hell, [=McBride=]! Fuck you! Ha, ha! Suck my dick!]] ''(the beam that was dragging him up to Heaven disappears and he falls to the ground)'' What happened? What did I do? Take me back!\
67	'''[=McBride=]:''' I'll tell you what happened, Franco. You don't get to get sucked up into heaven because you were being [[TheNameIsBondJamesBond petty; Tom Petty]]. [[PreMortemOneLiner You may not have invited me to your party, but you're the guest of honor at mine.]] ''(chews up Franco's face along with the other cannibals)''
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71	* In the ''Literature/HIVESeries'', at least some of the protagonists do this at least once per book except in the first and seventh.
72	* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'', Greebo (in his [[HumanityEnsues human form]]) taunts an angry mob from the back of a moving carriage. Unfortunately, since he's too busy taunting to steer, the carriage hits a curb and he ends up falling off.
73	* ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'': After the peach has been surrounded by sharks while floating in the ocean, one of the party calls out "Goodbye, sharks!" when they succeed in their plan to airlift the peach out of the water with five hundred tethered seagulls.
74	* Averted in the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' novel ''Back To Before'': while making an otherwise-classic fire-escape exit up a building side, Marco and Rachel realize stopping to taunt their pursuers would be a Bad Idea and keep climbing. (Good thing, too, [[spoiler: that's about when the [[DeathRay Dracons]] came out...]])
75	* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' book ''Towers of Midnight'', when Mat [[spoiler:escapes the land of the 'finns using the weapon they had given him. "Looks like the game can be won after all...Tell the foxes I'm mighty pleased with this key they gave me. Also, you can all go rot in a flaming pit of fire and ashes, you unwashed lumps on a pig's backside. Have a grand bloody day."]]
76	* In ''The Programmed Man'' (1968), TheEmpire was tracking one of a rebellion's top agents. But when they captured him, although he was supposedly [[PsychicPowers able]] to [[{{Teleportation}} teleport]] across even interplanetary or interstellar distances, they discovered he was actually a brainwashed Imperial agent, specifically, the man they'd ''thought'' was coordinating the pursuit. Meaning the ''real'' rebel agent was aboard their warship, accessing their most critical secrets. When confronted, he laughed and confirmed his identity -- and the Imperials remembered his power ... just as he demonstrated it by getting away.
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80	* In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', Trent pulls off a good one when he introduces the Dino atvs to the team, rigging one that the Black Ranger rides, and then escaping in his own while saying "Later, Suckers!"
81	* ''Series/DoctorWho''. Given the sucker-waving ArchEnemy of the Doctor, this was bound to come up some time. At the end of "Asylum of the Daleks" gives a final taunt to the Parliament of the Daleks before ducking into the TARDIS.
82	-->'''The Doctor:''' You know, you guys should really have seen this coming. Thing about me and teleports: I've got a really good aim. Pinpoint accurate in fact. Or, to put it another way: ''Suckers!'''
83	** Clara pulls this on the Time Lords in "Hell Bent."
84	--> '''Clara''': You really are thick, aren't you? The Doctor is back on Gallifrey. Took him four-and-half-billion years to get here. What do you think he's going to do now? [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound VWORP VWORP]] Why, he's stealing a TARDIS and running away. Bye!
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88	* Music/ReverendBizarre used this exact trope name as the title of their final album.
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92	* [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Odysseus and the Cyclops]]: As Odysseus is escaping the now-blind Polyphemus, he yells that his name is "No one". When the other cyclopses come to help, Polyphemus tells them "No one has blinded me!". So they think he got drunk and put his eye out somehow.
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96	* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', if you use the Flee command with Tidus to run from a battle, he'll spout a quick one-liner while the party escapes.
97	* The FinalBoss fight in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' is an extended version of this trope. [[spoiler:Gordon Freeman must chase the fleeing Wallace Breen as he rides a [[AppliedPhlebotinum Dark Energy]]-fueled teleporter to the top of the Citadel; the final portion features Breen gloating rather extensively while Freeman tears apart the device bit by bit using stray balls of Dark Energy. "When the singularity collapses, I will be far away from here -- in another universe, as a matter of fact. You on the other hand will be destroyed in every way it is possible to be destroyed, and even in some, which are essentially impossible!" Boy, is he surprised when you blow his ride apart.]]
98	* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' has a particularly humorous moment of this where Liquid Ocelot childishly mocks Snake as he flees to his command ship.
99	%%* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' has a... musical version of this, to say the least.
100	* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'', Dr. Nefarious pulls this in the final boss fight. He falls to the ground begging for mercy, and Ratchet falls for it believing he's given up, as Dr. Nefarious quickly escapes shouting "Suckers!", much to Ratchet's irritation.
101	* At the end of ''VideoGame/SilentScope'', the BigBad escapes by boat, but pauses well out to sea to shout some taunts at the hero... unfortunately for him, the hero has OneBulletLeft. Of course, a shot like that is one in a million...
102	* ''VideoGame/ViolentStorm'': When Joe, the boss of the second level, gets defeated, Red Freddy taunts the heroes with the trope name as he leaves them behind on the train car he disconnected from the main engine.
103	* After a while in ''VideoGame/XCOMUFODefense'', the aliens do this to your Interceptors with irritating regularity.
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107	* WebAnimation/HomestarRunner says this word for word after tricking himself into eating a pinecone. ItMakesSenseInContext. See the Strong Bad e-mail [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/secret_recipes secret recipes]].
108	** Homestar also says this to the King of Town after tricking him out of his secret blend of eleven herbs and spices that Homestar needs for Marzipan's Halloween potion. See the [[HalloweenSpecial Halloween toon]] [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Halloween_Potion-ma-jig Halloween Potion-ma-jig]].
109	* In Episode 4 of ''WebAnimation/DrHavocsDiary'', we have Brock Mason shouting "Adios, fuckos!" before leaving Havoc's lair.
110	* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Goku offers to let Vegeta go if he's sorry.
111	-->'''Vegeta:''' I'm sorry. Yep. Totally sorry. I just feel terrible. ''[...]'' Yes, I'm very, very, very sorry.... ''[ship door closes]'' that you're all still alive! ''[flies away]'' SUCKERS!! HAHAHAUCH ow ow, it hurts to laugh.
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115	* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0067.html This]] ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' strip.
116	* Parodied in [[http://www.graphicsmash.com/comics/killroyandtina.php?name=killroyandtina&view=single&ID=5270 this]] ''Killroy And Tina''.
117	* When Lance [[http://www.goldcoincomics.com/?id=64 finally encounters Blake]] in ''Webcomic/GoldCoinComics'', they duel. After Blake loses, he flees after not explaining anything about his presence there.
118	* Dr. Shlock in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/020807 tries to pull an escape after a long storyline of failed escapes]], using a [[SmokeOut smoke bomb to disappear in a literal puff of smoke]].
119	--> ''Dr. Schlock:'' I hate long goodbyes, so ''see-you-never'' you deadweights!
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123	* In [[WesternAnimation/WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego the animated series]], Franchise/CarmenSandiego would do this OnceAnEpisode whenever the protagonists solved her heist and where so very close to catching her. See you next crime!
124	* Massive subversion in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E10VivaNedFlanders "Viva Ned Flanders"]]. Drederick Tatem, several goons, and miscellaneous Vegas types attempt to circle in on Homer and Ned to lay the smack down on them for deserting their Vegas-married wives. Homer and Ned then jump into a convertible, used as a prize at their casino. Homer just has time to say "So long, suck---" before they all catch up, which results in him and Flanders getting a massive beating from the assorted ensemble. HilarityEnsues.
125	** Said again by Homer in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E5WhenYouDishUponAStar "When You Dish Upon a Star"]], who follows it with "Eat my dust, suckers!" An annoyed Marge then says "Stop calling everyone suckers!"
126	** Similarly subverted in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E18AStarIsBurns "A Star Is Burns"]] where Bart trolls a parent-teacher group by showing them a slide of his butt, tries to escape after yelling "so long suckers!"... and is left dangling when the cord breaks.
127	** A combination subversion and straight-play happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' when Homer escapes from the mob. He yells "So long, Losers!" and salutes the mob and proceeds to jump into the sand box as he flips them off.
128	** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E2YouOnlyMoveTwice "You Only Move Twice"]], Homer yells "So long, stinktown!" when driving from Springfield.
129	** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E8LisaTheSkeptic "Lisa the Skeptic"]] Homer yells "So long, suckers!" before driving away with the stolen angel skeleton.
130	* Happens in every episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}'' -- even if the bad guys' team was on the brink of defeat, the BigBad was always able to transform his helicopter into a jet and escape.
131	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
132	** In the episode "Future Stock", [[NoNameGiven "80's Guy"]] becomes the new CEO of Planet Express. Farnsworth, as he quits, gives him his "business plan". 80's Guy points out that "this isn't a business plan; it's an escape plan!" And before you know it, Farnsworth is making his escape while shouting the trope name verbatim.
133	** In "Fear of a Bot Planet", Fry, Leela, and Bender escape from human-hating robots on the winch of the Planet Express ship. Fry shouts the line; the robots stand on each other's shoulders and almost reach the winch. Fry says: "Uh, hello, suckers!
134	** Used in another episode where Bender is given a letter telling him he's to attend a will-reading from his rich, dead uncle.
135	-->'''Bender:''' Well, I'm rich. ''(crumples up paper to the floor and begins walking out)'' Goodbye, losers, whom I've always hated!
136	* On ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' one CutawayGag shows Quagmire doing this when he thinks he's the one getting the SpinOff.
137	-->"See you later, bitches! Have fun with your stupid fucking [[CallBack giant chicken jokes]] and your [[RunningGag Conway Twitty]]... Hey, why's there a moving truck outside [[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow Cleveland]]'s house?"
138	* In a ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode, "Baby Face"; Timmy meets an adult who was left behind 60 years ago by his parents and since then, he's been trying to escape, saying this phrase word-by-word. [[SubvertedTrope He always gets caught]] until a wall gets broken and he finally escapes.
139	* In the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon ''WesternAnimation/HareLift'', bank-robber Yosemite Sam shoots this line to Bugs as he bails out of their crashing plane with his loot and the only remaining parachute. Unfortunately for Sam, he lands right in an open-top police car filled with angry officers.
140	** ''The Lyin' Mouse'' had a mouse whose tail is in a mousetrap pleading for his life to the cat, so the mouse spins the tale of ''The Lion And The Mouse.'' Touched by the story, the cat releases the mouse who gives a very sincere (maybe too sincere) "Thank you!" Just as the mouse is about to run back into his hole, he says "Sucker!" to the cat.
141	** ''From Hand to Mouse'' takes this trope up heavily, involving a mouse that shouts "Sucker!" every time the dumb lion releases him.
142	* ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'': In "Vacation Trip Trap," Dastardly has his two-week furlough approved. As he bolts out the door with his grip he bids a caustic farewell to the rest of Vulture Squadron:
143	-->'''Dastardly:''' So long, suckers! The pigeon is all yours!
144	* ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'': We have Mandy and "Later, losers!".
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