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  • Adventure Time: The Lich delivers one to Finn during Escape from the Citadel.
    "You are alone, child. There is only darkness for you, and only death for your people. These ancients are just the beginning. I will command a great and terrible army, and we will sail to a billion worlds. We will sail until every light has been extinguished. You are strong, child, but I am beyond strength. I am the end, and I have come for you, Finn."
  • In American Dad!, Klaus gives one to Steve in Roger after they prank him.
    Allow me to impress upon you the severe mistake you have made. For years my conduct has been largely benign. And yet, without provocation, you have severed our détente and forced me to unleash upon you the vengeful flames of a thousand suns. You shall curse your mothers for the day of your birth. So, go now, go, and begin your life of fear, knowing that when you least expect it, the looming sword of Damocles will crash down upon you, cleaving you in twain and as you gaze upon the smoking wreckage that was once your life, you will regret the day you crossed the WRONG FISH!!
  • Archer: Do not mess with Sterling Archer's daughter.
    Archer: So here's the thing, Farooq. I don't know about any stories, but whatever badass shit that you heard I did? You really need some context, because pretty much my whole life, pretty much right up until this minute my default setting has been half-assed. (cracks knuckles) But that was before I had a child. A child you threatened to harm. A child, I just realised, who's probably on her way up to the roof so Aunt Pam can swat at biplanes! So imagine, as I literally beat you to death - Hang on... Yeah, literally - that a giant hand has turned my dial from half-assed to quadruple-assed!
  • Aqua Teen Hunger Force gave us the Memelicious boast from Carl, when, after stealing the Foreigner Belt from the Mooninites, the Mooninites state that Carl can't use it since he doesn't have the instructions. Carl's response?
  • Avatar: The Last Airbender has a ridiculous amount of these.
    • Iroh gets a great one when he's been captured by Earth Kingdom soldiers and Zuko breaks him out. The fact that it's still badass in spite of Iroh being in nothing more than underwear and chains truly is testament to just how much ass this man can kick:
      Captain: Surrender yourselves. It's five against two. You are clearly outnumbered.
      Iroh: That's true. But you are clearly outmatched.
    • Zuko delivers one in his A Day in the Limelight: "My name is Zuko, son of Ursa and Fire Lord Ozai! Prince of the Fire Nation and heir to the throne!" It has the intended effect on his opponent... but unfortunately it also has the side effect of making the people he was defending hate his guts. Whoops.
      • Made worse by the fact that these people were rooting for him while he was fighting the Earth Kingdom soldier.
        Earth Bender: Surrender yourselves! It's five against two. You're clearly outnumbered.
        Uncle Iroh: That's true. But you are clearly outmatched.
    • Something memorable from Azula's first speaking moment in the 2nd season..
      Azula: Well, then, maybe you should worry less about the tides, who've already made up their mind about killing you, and worry more about me, who's still mulling it over...
      • This was actually part of a sequence of "sides", which are lines written for actor auditions, but not part of the actual script. The dialogue was so good that the writers put it in the show.
    • Quite possibly the most awesome one in the series happens after Azula out gambits Long Feng and turns his own men against him, thus taking over an entire city with just herself and two "friends". She delivers this badass quote:
      Long Feng: You have beaten me at my own game.
      Azula: Don't flatter yourself. You were never even a player.
    • There's also Toph's line after inventing Metalbending: "I am the greatest Earthbender in the world! Don't you two dunderheads ever forget it!"
    • Bumi's taking back his city of Omashu; "I didn't escape. Everyone else escaped."
    • In the Sequel Series, The Legend of Korra after Amon resists bloodbending a terrified Tarrlok asks what he is. To which Amon simply responds, "I am the solution."
    • And who can forget Korra own Establishing Character Moment? Keep in mind she's four and is already bending three elements.
      Korra: I'm the Avatar! You gotta deal with it!
    • Vaatu gets a good one in the two-part episode "Beginnings".
      I lived ten thousand lifetimes before the first of your kind crawled out of the mud! It was I who broke through the divide that separated the plane of Spirits from the material world! To hate me is to give me breath. To fight me is to give me strength. Now prepare to face oblivion!
    • Wan gets in on the action a bit earlier:
      Haven't you heard the legends? I'm not a regular human anymore.
    • Most of Toph's dialogue when she shows up in Season 4 is either her telling Korra how badly she's failing at being the Avatar, or boasting at how awesome she is personally:
      Korra:You tossed me around like a rag doll all day...
      Toph: I KNOW! And I'm an old lady! Imagine me in my prime, I would have DESTROYED you!
    • And then "Operation Beifong", (after leveling a platoon's work of tanks.)
    Toph: (to Kuvira) "You give Metalbenders a bad name!"
  • Batman: The Animated Series: Batman: "I am vengeance. I am the night. I. Am. Batman!"
    • Harvey Bullock gets one of his own in "Vendetta": "I just want all the scum buckets and dirt bags in this town to know they better lay low, ‘cause Bullock’s back and ready to kick butt!"
  • Batman Beyond:
    • Derek Powers, aka Blight, delivers this one in his first super powered appearance while giving Mr. Freeze a beatdown: "And behold, I shall be a blight upon the land, and everything I touch shall wither and die."
    • Batman ties up the Repeller and explains his bonds are, "Titanium. The strongest alloy known to man. It's unbreakable." The Repeller replies, "Nothing's unbreakable if you apply enough force!" He proves it.
    • Terry McGinnis pulls this off in the second part of the two-part premiere of the series.
      Fixit: You're pretty strong for some clown who thinks he's Batman!
      Terry/Batman: I am Batman!
  • Spoofed in Batman: The Brave and the Bold in which Aquaman upon being asked by his wife to go see the museum of cheese he replies,
    Bah! I eat cheese for breakfast!
  • Megatron from Beast Wars, being the Large Ham he is, delivers one of these in the Grand Finale: "I am Alpha and Omega, Optimus Primal. Until the End of TIME!"
    • This was a call back to earlier on his A God Am I power trip, when he revealed that he took his name not from the Decepticon Megatron, but from the "Great Destroyer" in the Covenant of Primus (possibly Megatronus Prime, aka "The Fallen"). He's basically quoting a holy text and revealing he named himself the Angel of Death.
      "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I am that which was, which is, and is yet to come! And you will know my name is MEGATRON, when I lay my vengeance upon you!"
    • Almost everything he said in that episode was a badass boast. But the finale in Season 2 [The Agenda Part III] had two more badass boasts.
      • "So, we are now face to face, Optimus Prime. In one future you awaken and become the great leader of the Autobots. But time shall take a different track, now... computer! All available power to primary weapon! ... And now, Optimus Prime, in memory of the Decepticons... for the glory of the Predacons... for the Cybertron that is rightfully ours, and mine to rule! ... I unleash the storm of vengeance — farewell!"
      • "Say goodbye to the universe, Maximals! The future has changed, yessssss. The Autobots LOSE! Evil TRIUMPHS! And YOU...! YOU! NO! LONGER! EXIST!"
    • Earlier in season 2, henchbot Inferno was attacked by newly-decanted Quickstrike, and responds with "Fool! Pain is my friend! Allow me to introduce you!"
    • From the standout episode "Code of Hero", a boasting retort as Dinobot is in the process of beating the tar out of every single member of the Predacon team, taking heavy damage along the way.
      Quickstrike: So. What's a warrior without weapons, eh?
      Dinobot: A warrior still! (proceeds to beat him up with his bare hands)
  • In Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Ben Tennyson confronts the Forever Knights when they begin systematically hunting down and killing aliens (though they offer then a chance to leave the planet first, they're not very considerate about the aliens' ability to procure transport). He challenges the leader to a duel to get them to stop, but the leader goes back on his word. Ben's response is as follows:
    "Maybe you forgotten something: I'm Ben Tennyson, wielder of the most powerful weapon in the universe. I stopped the Highbreed invasion, I defeated Vilgax in hand-to-hand combat and I've beaten the Forever Knights more times that I can count. Here's what's going to happen: you're going to release these prisoners, you're going to crawl back to whatever hole you came from and you're going to stop hunting down aliens because if you don't, I promise, you'll regret it for the rest of your very short lives."
    • Needless to say, they backed down after that, and haven't tried it since.
  • Big City Greens: Chip Whistler has said some of them:
    • In "Feud Fight", after Chip received backlash from the presents due to harming Cricket, a woman wants to buy something from the Green's stand, then Bill asks what happened, and Chip answers he happened:
      Bill Green: Well, sure! But what the heck happened to 'ya?
      Chip Whistler: Chip happened.
      Bill Green: Chip?
      Chip Whistler: Chip "Your worst NIGHTMARE" Whistler!!!
    • In "Coffee Quest", after Cricket and Gloria manage to escape from him and cross the bridge full of traffic in time (which Chip couldn't because he was in a van, while Gloria and Cricket were in a narrow sledge), Chip yells them that one day he'll run the Greens out of Big City and that they should mark his words.
      Chip Whistler: One of these days, Cricket Green, I'm gonna run your family out of this town. Mark my words: Big City is no place for the Greens!!!
  • Castlevania (2017):
    • Trevor tries one in episode 2 during a Bar Brawl, though it doesn't remain impressive for long:
      Trevor: I'm Trevor fucking Belmont, and I've never lost a fight to man nor fucking beast! ...Oh shit! (gets beaned with a chair)
    • Trevor gets a more heartfelt one in the following episode when protecting the Speakers from an angry mob:
      Trevor: I don't know any of you. But that doesn't matter, does it? My family, the family you demonized and excommunicated, has fought and died through generations for this country. We do this thing... for Wallachia, and her people. We don't have to know you all. We do it anyway. And it's not the dying that frightens us; it's never having stood up and fought for you. I'm Trevor Belmont. Of the House of Belmont. And dying... has never frightened me.
    • Again, in Episode 6 of Season 2, after butchering Hector's demonspawn:
      Trevor: When you get back to whatever steaming underworld shithole you came from, you tell them: there are still Belmonts up here!
    • In episode 9 of Season 4, the final battle, Trevor's boast faces a No-Sell, and he receives one in return:
      Death: Is there a point to this? Are you dictating your fucking obituary to me, Belmont?
  • Darkwing Duck:
  • DuckTales (2017) has this hilarious moment after Donald Duck gets a temporary new voice that makes him make sense.
    Mrs. Beakley: Get ready for the storm!
    Donald Duck: I am the storm.
    Mrs. Beakley: No, seriously, have you been saying stuff like this all this time?!
  • The Fairly Oddparents: The Crimson Chin eats evil for breakfast!
  • Futurama:
    • Zoidberg does this in the episode "The Silence of the Clamps":
      Zoidberg: My name isn't Slick, it's Zoidberg. JOHN F*** ZOIDBERG!
    • From the movie "Bender's Big Score":
      Professor Farnsworth: I can wire anything directly into anything! I'm The Professor!
    • And this gem from "Decision 3012", which has reached T-shirt immortality:
  • Gargoyles: When he's needled about his Mortality Phobia, David Xanatos manages to rally in impressive fashion.
    Xanatos: Nothing scares me, because nothing is beyond my ability to change.
  • Gravity Falls: Grunkle Stan gives one in "Scary-Oke" while fighting off zombies.
    Grunkle Stan: Alright you undead jerks, you ready to die twice!
  • In Jackie Chan Adventures, after Shendu is resurrected for the first time, after he acquires all twelve Talismans delivers a boast, which can also be interpreted as yet another trope.
    Jackie: Who... What are you?
    Shendu: I am the keeper of the Talismans. I am the Apocalypse of which Legend speaks! And I am, for once and for all, your executioner!
    • In the episode prior to this, just as Shendu is resurrected, Valmont delivers a short, simple, yet equally badass boast.
      Valmont: Game over, Chan. Way over.
    • Hak Foo explains why he isn't using the superpower-granting talismans that he was given after Shendu's defeat: "The horse for healing? I am not so easily injured. The rooster for levitation? I already fly. The dog for immortality? There isn't a man alive who can vanquish me!"
    • Captain Black occasionally gives a few, including this memorable boast from "Black Magic".
      Tarakudo: Captain Black. We've never been formally introduced. I am Tarakudo. King of all Shadowkhan. You may bow.
      Captain Black: The only King I bow to is Elvis, and I don't see you wearing blue suede shoes.
  • At the end of "Twilight", the second season premiere of Justice League, the supervillain Darkseid lies buried under debris, trapped in an asteroid base nearing the end of its extremely powerful self-destruct sequence. To his growing dismay, his adversary, Superman, is convinced by Batman to teleport out - despite his initial intention of staying to ensure Darkseid's death with his own two hands. Witnessing this, and realizing that although he'll die Superman has been deprived of his desperately-desired revenge, he takes the last second before oblivion to sneer, "Loser."
    • And in part 1 of the series finale, "Destroyer", Darkseid lives again - and expresses his appreciation to those who have inadvertently caused his resurrection:
      Darkseid: Though your world will suffer slowly, I grant you a quick death.
    • Darkseid spits these out like hot fire. This is how he addresses the warring sides of the Apocalyptic factions seeking to take over in his absence (they immediately cease hostilities upon sight of him):
      Darkseid: Let the universe howl in despair, for I have returned.
    • His first meeting with Superman in Superman: The Animated Series deserves a mention, too.
      Superman: What have you done to [Kalibak]? I asked you a question! Who are you? Answer me!
      (Darkseid brings Superman to his knees using his Omega Beams)
      Darkseid: That is who I am. When the times comes, you and this pitiful planet will swear allegiance to Darkseid, or be destroyed.
  • Justice League Unlimited also had a huge subversion. When Doomsday came to Earth and fought with the Justice Lords, (an Alternate Universe Knight Templar version of the Justice League) he began a Badass Boast while doing a Neck Lift on the alternate version of Superman about how tough and indestructible he was... and then the alternate Superman lobotomized him mid sentence before Doomsday could finish.
    Doomsday: (Lord!Superman punches him) You think that can hurt me!? (stomps on Lord!Superman) My skin can withstand a nuclear explosion! (Neck Lifts him) My bones are... (Lord!Superman fires heat vision into his head) my booooones...
  • Livewire: "You can't stop me any more than you can stop wind... rain... or lightning!"
    Superman: (to Darkseid) Any minute now, Brainiac would explode. And guess what? You're going with him.
  • Darkseid: "Super or otherwise, you're merely a man, and I am a god." Also: "I am many things Kal-El. You couldn't begin to imagine half of them, but for now I shall take the role of executioner." And finally, "I hope you appreciate, Kal-El, that everything that happens from this point is on your head. The skies will rain fire, the oceans will boil, the streets will run red with the blood of billions. Only then, when your last pitiful hope is extinguished will I end your life. Let's go."
    • "I am many things, Kal-El. But here, I am God."
  • Lex Luthor, when told that only a twelfth-level intellect can retrieve the Anti-Life Equation: "Then I'm overqualified."
  • And this exchange between Wonder Woman and Superman while they and Green Lantern charge the flagship and support of an alien army that had defeated them before:
    Wonder Woman: Pretty bad odds.
    Superman: Yeah. They don't stand a chance.
  • J'onn from Justice League Unlimited's "Task Force X": "Ask yourselves, is being in here with me what you truly desire?"
  • When Amanda Waller orders Longshadow back to Cadmus, Batman denies her and there's a brief standoff.
    Batman: Not gonna happen. Longshadow's with us.
    Amanda Waller: Safeties. [Cadmus special forces ready their weapons while Superman and Wonder Woman move in. Batman leans in and smirks]
    Batman: Mine are bigger than yours.
    Amanda Waller: [To Cadmus] Stand down.
  • This one falls in the gray area between Badass Boast and Pre Ass Kicking One Liner. The line comes from Aquaman, who's just been told that the grave of Solomon Grundy, who had a Redemption Equals Death moment saving Atlantis (and the rest of Earth), has been opened and the body is missing.
    Aquaman: Give me the names of those responsible. Then dig more graves.
  • Kim Possible (slightly subverted):
    Ron(reading Kim's webpage): "Kim Possible: she can do anything." I dunno, KP, it sounds kinda braggy.
    Kim: It's like a commercial, Ron. It's supposed to be braggy.
  • Korgoth from Korgoth of Barbaria manages to screw this up somehow.
    "I've dated girls uglier than you for breakfast!"
  • Often used by in Looney Tunes by Yosemite Sam — "the roughest, toughest he-man stuffest hombre that's ever crossed the Rio Grande. An' I ain't no namby-pamby." Karmic Trickster Bugs Bunny is never impressed.
    • Sam's line "An' I ain't no namby-pamby" was a dub-over of the original line, "An' I don't mean Mahatma Ghandi!"
  • The Looney Tunes short, "Wild and Woolly Hare":
    Yosemite Sam: "Any one of you lily-livered, bow-legged varmints care to slap leather with me? In case any of ya get any idears, ya better know yer dealin with. I'm the hootinest, tootinest, shootinest, bobtail wildcat in the West! [fires guns, raising Sam up] I'm the fastest gun north, south, east annnnnnnd west of the Pecos!....I'm the...."
    Bugs Bunny:' "Ahhhh, shaddup!"
  • Lampshaded in one episode of Mighty Max:
    Norman: I eat aliens for breakfast.
    Max: See? They're even part of his balanced diet!
  • Multiple times throughout Monsuno, such as this bit from an early episode:
    Chase: You were a danger to me, you were a danger to my friends, and if you don't get out of my way, I'm the one who's going to be a danger to you.
  • My Little Pony:
    • My Little Pony 'n Friends:
      • "Bright Lights" has a point where the ponies figure out how they might stop the Big Bad, but "that would take an army." Megan brings one: the flutter ponies. They get an entire song consisting of Badass Boasting as they deal with the bad guys who once stole the shadows and thus the Life Energy of an entire town in no more time than it takes to sing it:
        We are the Flutter Ponies — better run and hide!
        We can zig and zag and zoom up and down and side to side
        We are the Flutter Ponies, now you've met your match!
        Faster than a lightning bolt, we're impossible to catch!
        Too bad for you we found you, for soon as we surround you
        Your powers will melt away like butter
        Doesn't help to fume and sputter
        Nothing can withstand our Utter Flutter!
        Challenge the Flutter Ponies and you'll meet defeat!
        Onward, onward, Flutter Ponies — victory is sweet!
      • "The Return of Tambelon, Part 3": When the heroes lure Grogar out of his city and into an ambush, they expect him to be at least intimidated. He disabuses them of this notion by boasting that they definitely did not get him surrounded — he has them right where he wants them, before proving his point by sending them into a one-sided rout.
        Danny: "Give up, Grogar! We've got you surrounded!"
        Grogar: "He he! You're wrong, boy — I've got you surrounded!"
    • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
      • Parodied in The Return of Harmony" by Pinkie Pie:
        Pinkie Pie: You better THINK before you laugh at the PINK! (*pause*) ...ie Pie!
      • Played straight by Fluttershy of all ponies, whether it's towards a dragon that has defeated her comrades simply by waking up, a cockatrice that is actively turning her into stone, an Elemental Embodiment of chaos, or other foes:
        Fluttershy: You do not. Hurt. My. Friends.
      • "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2" has Princess Celestia declare that Queen Chrysalis revealing herself has done nothing but show her who she needs to fight to protect her subjects. But sadly she ends up losing the fight.
        Queen Chrysalis: Soon, my Changeling army will break through. First, we take over Canterlot, then all of Equestria!
        Princess Celestia: No, you won't. You may have made it impossible for Shining Armor to cast his spell, but now that you have so foolishly revealed your true self...*cue charge*...I can protect my subjects...from you!
  • The Owl House sees Eda Clawthorne sum up her cred as a witch thusly in the duel between herself and Lilith in "Agony of a Witch".
    Lilith: It's sad to see you slowing down, sister. Tell me: is it the curse?
    Eda: Maybe it is the curse. But then how pathetic are you, that you can't best me at my worst!
  • The Penguins of Madagascar, "The Falcon and the Snowjob":
    Skipper: Frightened? I eat fright for breakfast.
    Kowalski: With skeleton marshmallows.
  • Phineas and Ferb: In "The Belly of the Beast", Candace Flynn has really gotten into her role as captain of a ship, set out to bust her brothers:
    Candace: I've got a date with destiny, and it ain't gonna end with a kiss.
  • Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Bubblevicious" after she takes the simulator and thrashes all the simulated monsters:
    Bubbles: WHO ELSE WANTS SOME??!!!
  • ReBoot has a pair of these one after the other. First is Matrix right after sparing Megabyte.
    You took away my life. Destroyed my home! Caused nothing but pain and suffering to everyone I held dear! Surprised? Don't be, you're not worth it. Mainframe will always endure. Remember this defeat, this humiliation, and know that you can never win.
    • Megabyte responds to this by pushing himself off the building and then saying:
      No, you remember, boy. How I turned defeat into victory. How I left you with a dying system.
    • At the end of "Daemon Rising", the credits give an altered voiceover from Hexidecimal that goes as such:
      Hexadecimal: I infect the entire Net. I have spread through systems, peoples and cities from this place: Mainframe. My format... VIRUS! The Queen of CHAOS! HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA!
  • Rick and Morty's Rick Sanchez is pretty much a fountain of these. Ranging from the low-key ("If you touch me, you're definitely gonna die and there's no afterlife") to the bombastic.
    "You don't know what I am! You don't know what I can do! I'm Doctor Who in this motherfucker! I could be a clone! I could be a hologram! We could be clones controlled by robots controlled by special headsets that the real Rick and Morty are wearing while we're fucking your mother!
    • Morty Smith gets in a couple of zingers as well, both about himself and Rick
    Morty: If you think my Rick is dead he's alive, and if you think you're safe he's coming for you!
    Jerry: I'm Mr. Crowbar. And this is my friend, who is also a crowbar.
    Monster: That's... stupid.
    (Cue beating)
    Jerry: Yeah, well look where being smart got you.
  • The Guardian from Samurai Jack when he refuses to allow Jack to use the time passage:
    The Guardian: For countless eons I have guarded this magical power of time travel. All have been denied, from the mightiest of giants, to the tiniest of warriors. You see samurai, only one man has been prophesied to defeat me. And that man is the only man who can use this time passage. And you, my man... ain't that man.
  • The Secret Railroad had one in an episode that involved the train being in a prize fight:
    Mr. Passenger: We're going to float like a butterfly and sting like a 5-ton locomotive.
  • Spoofed in The Simpsons. Bart falls for Jessica Lovejoy, whose hair "smells like red Froot Loops."
    Lisa: Oh yeah? Well I eat Froot Loops for breakfast!
  • In Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Morbius taunts Peter for being late for classes the day the students start a science competition. In retort Peter references "the Tortoise and the Hare" parable to which Morbius imperturbably responds that "In my country we eat tortoises."
  • Spongebob Squarepants does this with a random fish in the front of the line proving he's tough enough to enter the Salty Spittoon.
    Reg: Welcome to the Salty Spittoon how tough are ya'?
    Fish: How tough am I? How tough AM I!? I had a bowl of nails for breakfast this morning!
    Reg: Pfft, yeah, so?
    Fish: Without any milk.
    Reg: Go on ahead inside, sorry to keep you waiting!
  • Star Wars Rebels: "Twilight of the Apprentice":
    • Two in quick succession.
      Ezra: I don't fear you.
      Darth Vader: Then you will die braver than most.
    • Then there's Ahsoka vs Vader.
      Vader: Anakin Skywalker was weak. I destroyed him.
      Ahsoka: Then I will avenge his death!
      Vader: Revenge is not the Jedi way.
      Ahsoka: I am no Jedi!
  • In the Static Shock episode "They're Playing My Song", a crooked music producer gets arrested. As he's being led into the police car, he boasts, "You think I care about jail!? It will only give me more street cred! When I get out, I'll be a legend!" Static counters by saying that by the time he gets out of jail, he'll be old, which scares him.
  • Steven Universe:
    • Pearl gives Sugilite a verbal beatdown at the end of "Coach Steven" after spending a good portion of the episode saddened that she wasn't as strong as the latter.
    • "I'm Lapis Lazuli! And you can't keep me trapped here anymore!"
    • Pearl has this exchange after evading the law in "Last One Out of Beach City":
      Steven: That's the most scared I've been since you almost let me die! You're a criminal now!
      Pearl: "Now"? I've been a criminal for 6,000 years.
    • Jasper does this quite a bit. She's disappointed not to see Rose because she wanted to beat her into the ground.
    • From Garnet: "Time is like a river that splits into creeks, or pools into lakes, or careens down waterfalls. I have the map, and I steer the ship."
    • Garnet also gets an entire one in song-form, combined with a tribute to The Power of Love and "I Am" Song:
      This is Garnet, back together, and I'm never going down at the hands of you,
      'Cause I'm so much better
      And every part of me is saying, "Go get her!"
      • For another Garnet: “I am the will of two gems who care for each other. To protect each other from any threat, no matter how vast or how cruel. You couldn’t stop me 5,750 years ago, and you can’t stop me now.”
  • In the Super Best Friends Forever short "Grounded", when Supergirl is fighting Superman when the latter is trying to enforce the former's titular punishment, Supergirl cries out "You're not my father! You can't tell me what to do!" Superman's response? "No, but I'm Superman and you'll do as I say!"
  • Lobo's introduction in Superman: The Animated Series. "The name's Lobo. That's 'L' as in 'Lacerate', 'O' as in 'Obliterate', 'B' as in 'disemBowel', and 'O' as in... Eh, I guess I can use 'Obliterate' twice, huh, what do you think?"
  • Super Mario World: "Oogtar eat ghosts for breakfast!"
  • Teen Titans (2003):
    • Slade in the episode "Haunted" gets a particularly nightmarish one as he's beating Robin within an inch of his life.
      Slade: No, Robin, I won't stop. Not now, not ever. I am the thing that keeps you up at night. The evil that haunts every dark corner of your mind. I will never rest. And neither will you.
    • Cyborg gets a crowning example during his final confrontation with Brother Blood in "Titans East Part 2" after the former has had all of his limbs torn off, and angrily told Blood to take his offer and shove it.
      Blood: I've combed through your blueprints, peeled back your armor, stripped off your machinery, but still you defy me! Where in this vile contraption is the part that allows you to resist?!
      Cyborg: It's not in the circuitry, is it? It's not the machine that resists you! (blasts Blood off of him) It's me. My spirit! (starts deconstructing the Cyborg-Copies to rebuild his missing limbs) THAT'S THE PART YOU CAN'T BREAK! I don't need you to make me a man. I already am one!
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003):
    • Baxter Stockman delivers one to Shredder in "Return to New York Pt. 2", which normally is the equivalent of a death wish, though he was heavily advanced by his new mech suit.
      Stockman: You blind, ignorant, self-important fool! I didn't make this suit to help you, Shredder. I made it to destroy you! For every punishment you inflicted upon me, I will make you suffer tenfold! You will finally learn to respect my superior intellect!
      Shredder: Stockman, I'll have your head for this!
      Stockman: No Shredder. I'll have yours.
    • Turtles Forever:
      • "What fools are these, so weary of life, that they take the name of the Shredder, MY NAME, in vain?"
      • Followed rather nicely with:
        Leo: If there's one constant in the multiverse, it's the Shredder's big fat ego!
  • Ultimate Spider-Man (2012)
    • After Spidey snaps him out of his nightmare in "Strange", Iron Fist gives a quality boast, which he then follows up with a punch that destroys nightmare!Shou-Lao and turns the entire dream realm into a white void.
      Iron Fist: I earned the Iron Fist. I use it to the best of my ability! I honor that power through my actions! And no one can take it from me! Not even YOU!
    • The episode "Blade" gets a pretty good one from the titular character:
      Blade: There are worse threats out here tonight than these things.
      Spidey: Like what?
      Blade: Me.
  • At the end of the Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? episode "A Higher Calling", Carmen and the Player have this exchange:
    Player: You didn't contact aliens.
    Carmen: Maybe not this time. But if I ever do, the stars of the sky won't be safe from me, Player.
  • Apocalypse from X-Men: The Animated Series has about 90% of his dialogue consist of these. One of the most notable is "I am not malevolent, I simply AM!" followed by him backhanding Cable or Bishop through a wall.
    • There's also his statement to Graydon Creed: "I am as far beyond mutants as they are beyond you. I am eternal."
    • "Beast, how many peoples have dreamed of my end? You are no closer than the Babylonians with their swords and fire sticks!"
    • "I am the rocks of the eternal shore. Crash against ME and be BROKEN!"
    • "There exists no freedom from me. There is only freedom THROUGH me."
    • "You have traveled over 50 centuries of time to stop me...when will you learn it cannot be done?"
    • "I know more of this world then you have even dreamed. That is why I must destroy it."
    • "I cannot be touched. I cannot be harmed. Watch me and tremble, for I bring the purity of oblivion."
  • X-Men: Evolution from Cyclops "We're the X-Men, Wolverine. We're not kids anymore. You trained us; and you know something? We're good... we're very good."
  • The Young Justice (2010) episode "Terrors" offers us two interesting subversions:
    Amanda Waller: (Sadly, she really cannot sustain her words) Belle Reve's walls are thick enough to hold Superman. We know - we've checked. No one's ever escaped Belle Reve. No one ever will.
    The Riddler: (It does not sound so awesome... until the end of the episode). No one can say the Riddler goes where he's not wanted.
    • Superboy delivers a bellowing one to the aliens in "Failsafe".
      Superboy: ALRIGHT YOU GLORIFIED TRESPASSERS! YOU WANNA SEE HOW A REAL ALIEN FIGHTS?!
    • Black Beetle gets a simple but effective one. When told that if he cooperates the Team will go easy on him, he just starts laughing.
      Wonder Girl: Listen, ahh...Black Beetle! You're totally outnumbered. Open those doors, and we'll go easy on you!
      Black Beetle: You... will go easy? On me? Hehehe hahaha... HAHAHAHA!!
      Bumblebee: Oh, that is not a good sign.
    • Later, when the Team have taken down all of the Reach save for Black Beetle:
      Aqualad: You are alone!
      Black Beetle: I am sufficient.
    • And played straight by Doctor Fate in "Revelation" when The Joker makes his mass Taking You with Me attempt via lots and lots of Joker venom spores.
      Fear not! Fate has intervened!
  • Sausage Party: Gum states one when he regenerates after being shot by Darren.
    “Matter cannot be created or destroyed, human. You have made a fatal error in judgement. Let me educate you.”
  • Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur: Shaggy of all people gets one, when he is hypnotized to be brave and stands up to a biker gang:
    "This can go two ways, punk. One, you walk away. Two, I walk on your face."
Then he actually follows through.

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