Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu / Video Games

• Dead Space 2: 11 words sum up the final boss fight Goddamn it, I trusted you! Fuck you, and fuck your marker!
• At the end of Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten, Valvatorez doesn't just subvert God's will by saving the Earth from divine annihilation - he rubs it in God's face afterward.
• A Doom mod called Brutal Doom features a near-literal example of this trope. One button is assigned a command 'offend'. Upon pressing that button the Space Marine rases the middle finger and yells out an insult. It actually sends some demons into a berserk mode.
• Dragalia Lost has this happen in High Jupiter's story in the past. During his quest to collect the Greatwyrms to fight against the Dyrenell Empire, Jupiter gave him a Sadistic Choice: kill a family member, or kill 1000 strangers. Aurelius decided to Take a Third Option: walk right up to the giant dragon that could vaporize him into ash....and slap him in the face like a spoiled child. Jupiter was so impressed by the guts it took that he signed on.
• One way to tackle the large Undead Ogre in Dragon Age: Origins's "Return to Ostagar" DLC is to have the Warden distract it, while the rest of the team tackles the very squishy Darkspawn necromancer keeping it (un)alive. It doesn't get you a badass killing animation, but it can be done with a massively underpowered party.
  • Dragon Age: Origins also lends itself to MMO-like tactics in most places, most notably with Flemeth. Since she never moves away from her starting position and her tactics are set up so that she will melee characters rather than spitting fireballs if it is possible, the easiest way to kill her is to take Wynne, either Sten or Alistair, Leliana, and a mage or archer rogue Warden along, have the warrior flip Flemeth off, have Wynne heal and buff the warrior, and have Leliana and the Warden spam Flemeth with ranged attacks.
  • Early in Dragon Age II, Hawke has repeated opportunities to be an incredible smartass toward Flemeth, confirmed in the previous game to be a Humanoid Abomination at the very least, and confirmed in this game to be capable of circumventing her own death. Flemeth actually seems to like Hawke better when Hawke mouths off at her.
  • Hawke can similarly deflate the ego of Hybris, a Pride Demon, in the middle of his Breaking Speech over accidentally letting him loose:
    Hawke: (deadpan) Summoned a horror. Of course. Why wouldn't I do that?
  • In the Legacy DLC, after releasing Corypheus, an Ancient Darkspawn that was originally one of the Tevinter Magisters that broke into the Golden City from the Grey Warden prison he's been sealed in for a thousand years, Hawke can snark at his confusion why the Deep Roads are in ruin and these slaves from the Imperium have the nerve to talk back to him.
    Hawke: You're a Darkspawn. Dark. Spawn. Ravaging the Deep Roads, spreading the Blight, does any of this ring a bell?
  • In Dragon Age: Inquisition, if the Player Character has low approval towards Solas, whose real identity is Fen'harel, the Dalish Trickster God, then they have already punched him and pointing out his hypocrisy during his hostile cutscene. And unlike his reluctance to destroy the current world in high approval, he has nothing to hold back if his stay throughout the Inquisition was unpleasant. It is also possible to have high approval on him in addition of befriending him, yet angrily disagrees with his plan and calls him a monster who is no different from Corypheus despite claiming otherwise. They will make it clear that next time they meet, only one of them will end up surviving.
• Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2: When the Player Character inadvertently interrupts Beerus's conversation with Goku during the events of Battle of Gods while fighting the Time Breakers, the God of Destruction gets quite miffed. Mira eventually tells Beerus to shut up, leaving Beerus gobsmacked that anyone would take such a tone with him. He then decides that Mira is interesting so he'll let them have a few minutes to fight.
• In Drakan, Arokh was not pleased at having been awoken by Rynn, especially just to rescue her brother. Rynn, obviously not amused at having her brother spoken so poorly of, talks him down. Only then was Arokh willing to listen to what she had to say because he was legitimately impressed at how she was willing to stand up to him despite the fact that he is a dragon that could have toasted her right then and there.
• Dwarf Fortress: It's probably wrong to use Hell itself, from which the insatiable demon hordes issue forth to ravage the world, as a garbage disposal, but if so, I don't want to be right.
  (Warning: TV Tropes takes no responsibility for any fun which may ensue from attempts to replicate this. Proceed at your own your dwarves' risk.)
• During the Final Battle of EarthBound (1994), Ness and his party are facing off Giygas, a Cosmic Horror who has become one of the go-to examples of Eldritch Abomination next to Cthulhu himself. Porky, his Dragon who may or may not have defied him at this point, not only insults him to his face, but talks about him almost as if he's a dog that he's trying to sic on somebody. That somebody happens to be Ness and his friends. Keep in mind that Giygas has gone utterly mad by that point, so he is just as much a danger to Porky as he is to the party.
• In The Elder Scrolls, there are a wide variety of divine beings who've been flipped off by mortals at different points in the series or in the backstory. Most of them pay for it dearly, but a few are able to get away with it. To note:
  • Hermaeus Mora, the Daedric Prince of Knowledge whose preferred form is an Eldritch Abomination mass of tentacles, eyes, and claws, is a frequent recipient. To note:
    • Mora was an Arch-Enemy to the old Nordic king Ysgramor. According to Nordic legends, Ysgramor outwitted Mora regularly.
    • The Skaal of Solstheim consider Mora their enemy, and have managed to keep their secrets safely hidden from him. The plot of Skyrim's Dragonborn DLC is revealed to be an elaborate scheme by Mora to get them.
    • In Skyrim and Dragonborn, the Dragonborn has the option of flipping him off several times, even venomously referring to him as a "demon". The only time he even slightly gets back for these slights is when Dragonborn tells him that his help isn't needed to find the last word of Bend Will from his realm, to which he politely explains that you would be searching for all eternity without his aid.
  • In the series' Daedric quests handed out by the Princes themselves, it is entirely possible to complete the quest in a way the Prince did not intend. Some reward you for your ingenuity, such as Hircine rewarding you for making his quest into a The Hunter Becomes the Hunted scenario.
• Fallen London, Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies (set in the same 'verse) will occasionally give the Player Character, or another character, the option of doing this, and will usually (for the player) be a one-ticket stop to a Nonstandard Game Over.
  • In both Sunless Sea and Sunless Skies the player can intentionally blaspheme against one of the gods of the Zee or the Skies, which makes their wrath fall on you and usually does bad things to you through new terror events or by killing off your crew. Or, if you annoy Salt, having parts of your legacy deleted.
  • The storyline of The Presbyterate Adventuress in Sunless Seas ends with her provoking a Master of the Bazaar or one of their kind into a fight, which kills her.
  • In Sunless Skies you can tell off The Traitor Empress/Her Restored Majesty to her face. The result of which is nothing (except for a major Terror hit), because she considers you so far Beneath Notice that nothing you conceivably do can possibly affect her.
  • In Sunless Skies the player can choose to mouth off to The Sapphire'd King, a Judgement, who will casually slay you, your locomotive and your entire crew at a glance.
• Shadow does this in Final Fantasy VI, when he pins Kefka between the components of the Warring Triad. This frees the party from Kefka's stasis spell but then they're knocked away and have to flee before the Floating Continent falls apart. If you wait until almost the last second, Shadow will catch up, unscathed from a one-on-one battle with the new god of the world.
• At the end of Golden Sun: The Lost Age, in the cutscene prior to the final boss fight, Jenna outright sasses The Wise One, a sentient Philosopher's Stone with enough power to redirect a volcanic eruption and which has just been referred to as "more like a god" by another character. To its credit, The Wise One doesn't take the bait, nor does it react to Ivan complimenting Jenna on the diss. It has more important matters to attend to.
  • In Dark Dawn, one of your goals is to get a feather from the Mountain Roc that is worshipped by the people of Morgal. You do this by bitchslapping it in the wattle. Sveta, a citizen of Morgal, complains that "one does not just pluck the feathers of divinity".
• A hilarious one happens in the tutorial of Heroes of the Storm, where Jim Raynor, just a mere human from a sci-fi background with no involvement in religious and knowledge about angel or devil, faces Diablo, a Devil figure and Abstract Eater, who reacts accordingly when he sees a mortal:
  Diablo: How tastes your fear, mortal?
  Raynor: I wouldn't know, I'm not sure you can actually taste fear.
  • Their next encounter, Diablo repeats that, pissing Raynor off and prompting him to 'school' the devil:
    Diablo: I shall feast upon your terror!
    Raynor: Oh yeah? Now, wait just a minute... Feast upon my terror? Now that's twice, man, let me school you! You cannot eat 'fear' or 'terror.' They're what we call emotions!
    Stitches (Diablo's ally): Mm-hmm. He right. No taste fear.
    Raynor: Y'see? Stinky here gets it!
• In Injustice: Gods Among Us, Aquaman combines this with Blasphemous Boast when he makes demands of Ares.
  Ares: You presume to command me?
  Aquaman: I do! And you will obey!
• In Kingdom Hearts II, Auron does this a couple of times to Hades, despite that he had offered to give him a second chance at life.
  Hades: Did you forget who you're talking to?! I am the lord of the dead!
  Auron: No wonder no one wants to die.
  Hades: YOU ARE FIRED!
  • Not long after this, we get Team SDG escaping Cerberus. As the door closes, the three of them give one final insult through mocking faces.
• As of Mass Effect 2, Commander Shepard has managed to piss off the entire Reaper fleet to the point where they're all after him/her personally.
  • Shepard got their attention by killing one. And then coming Back from the Dead after their counterattack killed them the first time. And then beating them again, in what could even be a zero-casualty Curb-Stomp Battle depending on player choices.
  • It gets to the point that the otherwise nearly unflappable Eldritch Abomination Harbinger finally acknowledges to Shepard that s/he has actually put a dent in their plans.
    Harbinger: Shepard, you have become an annoyance.
  • Not just the Reapers, though they certainly out-Cthulhu anything else in the series. Shepard has essentially made a career out of flipping off every Cthulhu s/he comes across, which is often followed up by punching them out.
  • In Mass Effect 3, Shepard can pull off one in the Rannoch mission.
    Shepard: Never mind, I'll tell them myself.
• Any MMORPG you can name uses it as a game mechanic. The Tank serves as the one flipping Cthulhu off, while the DPS goes to town punching out Cthulhu, and the healer makes sure the tank is able to KEEP flipping off the big bad.
• You can do this in any version of the Monster Hunter series. Step 1: Find a monster way above your level in an urgent quest or a scripted invasion scene. Step 2: Pick up a rock or a paintball or something similar. (To really troll, use a Dung Bomb) Step 3: Throw it at the monster's face and run like hell. It doesn't usually do anything useful though. Try using one of the taunting gestures after getting its attention with a tickling item throw.
• Mortal Kombat X gives us Cassie Cage, daughter of Johnny Cage. She's more than willing to make fun of the attire of Shinnok, Lord of the Netherrealm, to his face.
  Cassie Cage: Your wife mind you wearin' her clothes?
  • Of course, her dad also takes a shot at the fallen Elder God:
    Johnny Cage: Grandpa.
    Shinnok: I will rip your insolent tongue from—
    Johnny Cage: Yeah, yeah, shut up.
• Mortal Kombat 11 gives the Joker a badass moment against Sindel. She smugly tells Joker that he "may have the privilege of serving [her]". Joker only responds with a loud, mocking laugh, like she'd just said something ridiculous and stupid. It's enough to get the Queen Bitch of Outworld to completely lose her cool.
• At the end of Paper Mario, after Bowser beefs himself up with the power of Kammy's machine and the Star Rod's invincibility, Twink flies straight at him and bonks him in the back of the head, making him look around in confusion long enough for Mario to get his 11th-Hour Superpower.
• In Planescape: Torment, one of Morte's moves is "Litany of Curses", where he sends the opponent flying into a blind rage by insulting them. When you do this to a random mook, it's funny; when you manage to make a powerful witch older than the Nameless One himself attack you with her bare hands, it's awesome.
• The entire point of the move Taunt in the Pokémon games. Almost with the right animation, but not quite.
• Towards the end of Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones, as Zurvan, the God of Time, is about to make Farah his winged queen, she asks him for a request, and as he comes closer, hoping for her to kiss him once more, she spits in his face. His response?
  Zurvan: You impudent pig! I offer you life eternal, and this is how you respond? Oh, I shall enjoy changing you. ^note He doesn't get to do it, though, as soon as he sees the Prince arriving.
• Right before facing off a huge pirate mini-boss in Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty, you are prompted three options after his Any Last Words?. One of them is "Yeah, you're in need of a bath".
• In part of the backstory in Rift, Asha Catari dies, and Regulos informs her that he intends to make her his avatar upon Telara. She tells him to get bent...and then, she comes Back from the Dead.
• At the very end of the Sliske's Endgame quest in Runescape, you are summoned by Jas, an Elder God and one of the creator's of the game's universe. One of the options is to insult it and call it squidface. Needless to say, doing so does not end well.
• This is a rotating job among the party members in any given Shadow Hearts game. Probably the best is when Covenent's Anastasia interrupts Orobas to ask what he plans to do once he manages to Take Over the World. He has no answer. Another awesome one is from Yuri to Neo Astaroth. What does Yuri say to the Eldritch Abomination that regained its full power and is about to destroy Japan?
  Yuri: I wish you'd shove it. You know where.
  Neo Astaroth: ......
• Sonic Unleashed has this in the form of a Mazuri kid beaning Eggman with a rock when he demands the Temple of Gaia's whereabouts. While the kid couldn't have known about what happened next at the time, it kept Eggman's attention on the people rather than Sonic, who was hurtling in at high velocity to take down the Egg Fighters standing between Eggman and the locals.
• In the Space Stage of Spore, you have the option of saying "Bigfatstupidaliensayswhat?" to an empire you're at war with, and it fits this trope when the enemy in question is the Grox. Doubles as But Thou Must! flip off Cthulhu because the Grox don't accept peace offerings.
• Star Wars: The Old Republic: The Sith Emperor is a complete and total Omnicidal Maniac, and managed to come to Ziost and possess most of the population into a homicidal rage. The only idea that ends up working? Invoking the trope by getting him so ticked off at the Player Character that he loses concentration and sends his possessed mooks into a non-lethal trap. It's cool when a Jedi Knight (who already knocked the wind out of him once) does it, but it's epic when a puny Muggle Smuggler is the one flipping the proverbial bird.
  • At the end of the first act of the Imperial Agent storyline, with the right words you can successfully talk Darth Jadus into giving up his plan to use doomsday weapons on the Empire. Everyone is absolutely speechless at how a mere spy is capable of getting a Sith Lord stated to be second only to the Emperor to surrender without so much as firing a single shot. The Dark Council, in particular, is so impressed that they have you brainwashed just for having the guts to threaten one of their own.
  • During the Shadow of Revan storyline, a Republic character regardless of class can at one point threaten Darth Marr, who is at this point the de facto leader of the Empire, by warning him not to try anything. He simply stares at you for a moment (seemingly in bemusement) before Theron awkwardly breaks the tension.
• Basically any time Amon comes to taunt Artanis in StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void. Every time, Artanis's response is a variation on, "COME AT ME, BRO!" Justified, as Artanis is in Tranquil Fury mode throughout the entire campaign. Due to Amon's machinations, Artanis is pissed, and he's going to make sure that Amon knows it.
  • If you thought Artanis was badass enough to call out Amon like that, wait until you meet Tal'darim First Ascendant (later Highlord) Alarak. He takes it up to eleven; whereas Artanis only delivers the flipping off as a response, Alarak taunts Amon constantly. At one point, Alarak flat-out, directly dares Amon to face him personally. Justified, as Alarak was pretty angry too throughout the campaign like Artanis, but for a different reason (Artanis has a score to settle with Amon after he forces Artanis to kill Zeratul, whereas Alarak is furious when he found out that the Tal'darim won't ascend into hybrid and will instead be killed off when Amon comes to cleanse the galaxy.
• Stellaris: Playing as a "Militarist" empire often gives you Badass Boasts in dialogue with other star nations. When the End Game Crisis species are involved, it becomes this trope:
  [to the Unbidden] "You picked the wrong dimension to invade."
• In Ultra Street Fighter IV, Hugo does this to none other than M. Bison.
  "I do not take orders from you. Now YOU listen!"
• In Tales of Phantasia, Chester holds back the Big Bad so that Cless and Mint escape from the past.
• In Undertale, Sans arguably does this to YOU at the end of a Genocide run. When you attack him for the first time (which he dodges, something literally nobody else can do), he delivers this remark:
  Sans: what? you just thought i was going to stand there and take it?
• Done twice in Warcraft III against Archimonde. Jaina gives him a short insult, and Thrall hits him with lightning before teleporting away.
• Queen Aszhara does this to N'Zoth in her "Warbringers" short. N'Zoth reaches out to her as she is drowning and tries to make her serve him. She first off calls the Eldritch Abomination "nothing", and when he tries to kill her for her insolence points out that without her help, he'll be the "god of nothing." So she talks him into letting her remain a Queen. He does almost let her drown as punishment, but ultimately transforms her and her people into Naga and lets her have a position of authority.
• The Big Bad of Wild ARMs XF was less than impressed when the heroes killed it. After all, As Long as There Is Evil it will still live! ...so they kill it again. It revives and wonders what the heck they're doing. So they kill it again... and again. And they're just going to keep doing it. It's so in shock at this that the person it's possessing takes control long enough permanently destroy both of them in a Heroic Sacrifice.
• Lara taunts Yakuza boss Takamoto in Tomb Raider: Legend during their meeting, despite him having several armed goons at his side. She keeps prodding him over a Noodle Incident that occurred between the two of them and attempts to use that as a bargaining chip to have him hand over the MacGuffin. While Takamoto does attempt to have Lara killed and then him trying to kill her himself later on, she outwits him and his men.

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