Badass Boast - Television Tropes & Idioms

I am Ripper... Tearer... Slasher... Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength... and Lust... and Power! I! AM! BEOWULF!

Buffy: It claimed to be the Original Evil, the one that came before anything else.

Anya: Please, how many times have I heard that line in my demon days? 'I'm so rotten, they don't even have a word for it. I'm bad. Baddy bad bad bad. Does it make you horny?' ...Or terrified. Whatever.

Many characters like to boast about their achievements, but only a few can do so in style, rattling off a string of titles and battle honours that impresses allies and intimidates enemies in a way which makes them sound mythic, not conceited.

The character has got to be pretty badass to be able to make this kind of boast convincingly, though sometimes a weaker character will bluff like this. It helps when he is obviously in a situation where he may be called on to demonstrate; if not, he may insist that he can show you at once, to prevent his appearing a Miles Gloriosus. The usual subversion is for something to promptly undercut the boaster's pretensions. The Combat Pragmatist in particular is given to unceremoniously cutting off boasters in the middle of their speech with a punch to the face. A Large Ham is particularly given to these.

Self-granted titles are considerably less impressive than those bestowed by awestruck allies, while titles of grudging respect from the character's enemies rank highest of all, all else being equal. Naturally, more powerful beings count for more, when ranking titles or battle honours.

The smarter heroes and villains may use riddling talk when describing their accomplishments.

A Badass Boast can be used in a few different ways.

Hero to Villain or vice versa — Throwing Down The Gauntlet. If a hero does this routinely, it's In The Name Of The Moon or a Badass Creed. A particularly arrogant Villain might make a Badass Boast part of his Hannibal Lecture or his Reason The Hero Sucks Speech.
Hero to mooks or Villain to redshirts — straightforward psychological warfare.
Hero to rival hero; Villain to rival villain — jostling for dominance. Heroes settle these disputes fairly amicably; villains don't.
Hero to redshirts, townsfolk, etc; Villain to new minions — establishing leadership. It's a way of saying "this is why you follow me".

This dates back to Gilgamesh, making it Older Than Dirt.

See also Pre Ass Kicking One Liner, I Have Many Names, and World Of Cardboard Speech. If your boast is really your oft repeated credo that explains who you are to yourself, then it is your Badass Creed. If the things you're boasting about are things that happened on-screen earlier in the story, the trope is Remember When You Blew Up A Sun. A Badass Boast often happens either during or immediately before a Crowning Moment Of Awesome. Compare Famed In Story, The Munchausen.

Not to be confused with Badass Boats.

Examples:

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Comic Books

Preacher: "Not enough gun."
"We're the Justice League. We've beaten up real gods and made them cry."
Mr. Mxyzptlk — "I'm the goddamn TRICKSTER GOD!"
Infinite Crisis features a great one from Martian Manhunter, just before J'onn delivers a serious beating to Superboy Prime: "I do not know who you are, but they call me the Martian Manhunter. I am Mars' sole survivor. There is a reason for that."
Final Crisis is full of these, but Darkseid gives a definitive Badass Boast in #5 after taking over the minds of the world's population and defeating the heroes, starting with a completely black panel filled with the words "I. Am. The. New. God." Also, obviously, A God Am I.
Apocalypse of X-Men, especially in the early '90s cartoon, is given to such speeches: "I am Apocalypse! Look upon the future and tremble!"
- "I am the rocks of the eternal shore! Crash against me and be broken!"
- "Only I, the eternal, can never be defeated! I cannot be touched! I cannot be harmed! Nothing can stop the Apocalypse!"
- "I bring the purity of oblivion to your world!"
- "I am as far beyond mutants as they are beyond you. I am eternal!"
Nemesis The Warlock — "Nemesis?" "The Warlock! The one who waits on the edge of your dreams ... The Shape of Things to Come ... The Lord of the Flies ... The Death Bringer ... I am all these and many more ... "
"I am the mother of Odin's stallion, Sleipnir. I am the father of Fenrir Sun-Eater, and of Hel Half-Rotted and of Jormungund the World-Serpent. I am Loki Scar-Lip, Loki Skywalker, Loki Giant's Child, Loki Lie-Smith. I am Loki, who is fire and wit and hate. I am Loki. And I will be under an obligation to no one." — Loki (duh) The Sandman
- And, from the same world: "I am of the People, man. My teeth are sharp enough to cut bone. I can run on four legs as well as two. I am kin to dwarrow and nightgaunt. I owe allegiance to none and I fear no man born. I want the woman." — Vassily of the People
- Neil Gaiman is good at these. During the first Books Of Magic, Zatanna takes Timothy Hunter to a party attended by a wide variety of powerful evil magicians. We are led to believe that everyone at the party is either Affably Evil or a Punch Clock Villain on their off time, or both, until the party's host announces Tim's presence and announces that a hefty price has been put on his head ("Which need not be attached to his body"). Things are pretty tense until all of a sudden, John Constantine appears in a doorway, and everyone stops to watch him calmly light his cigarette.
  John Constantine: "No one touches the boy. That's right, the boy's mine. And in thirty seconds, me, and him, and the witch are going to walk out if here. You know who I am. Or you ought to. You know my reputation. Now, does anyone really want to start something?" (Nothing happens) "Right. Come on, you lot. We're moving."
From the Marvel Universe, a variant: the Bad Ass apology-in-advance:
"Of all the creatures in the vastness of the universe, there is none like me. I was present at the birth of the universe, and I shall be there at its end. Though I ravage worlds to live, I bear no malice to any living thing. I simply do what I must to survive. And why must Galactus survive? For, no matter how many worlds I devour... how many civilizations I destroy... it is my destiny to one day give back to the universe — infinitely more than I have ever taken from it. So speaks Galactus."
The robotic Manhunters' Badass Creed doubles as a Badass Boast:
No Man Escapes The Manhunters.
- To which John Stewart replied:
  No Manhunter escapes the Man.
- They had another one before they all made a Face Heel Turn and Turned Against Their Masters:
  No Evil Escapes The Manhunters.
The Crow, explaining himself to a cop: "I am pilot error. I am fetal distress. I am the random chromosome. I am complete and total madness. I am fear."
The Authority: "I've already played this fight in my head a million times, from every angle. I know every move you'll make and how to counter it. I know how to kill you. You've already lost, you just don`t know it yet." Eventually, he starts handing it to people on a card.
Midnighter (to a superpowered Mook holding a child hostage): "Let me make this situation clear for you. I know what special abilities you have. I can see the enhancements. I can detect the increased electrical activity in your brain. I know what moves you're preparing to make. I've fought our fight already, in my head, in a million different ways. I can hit you without you even seeing me. I'm what soldiers dream of growing into. I'm what children see when they first imagine what death is like. I'm the Midnighter. Your Move.
Spider-Man in Avengers: The Initiative. "Not gonna happen. Know why? Because I'm Spider-Man. And you're just a dollar-store version of the Lizard. See, I beat down guys like Doc Ock, Sandman, and Venom all the time. And you're just not in their league. Oh, I'm going to win."
- From Civil War, a quick one:
Mr. Fantastic: (watching Spidey work his way through pro-reg forces) Amazing.
Spider-Man: (giving Reed a flying kick) Spectacular.
Morningbright in Top Ten: Smax: "You see, it's like this. In the beginning, God created me... Then he made the universe from what was left."
Wildcat, of the Justice Society Of America:
"That's why I'm the best. Because I know how to fight like it's life or death... I once swam a mile with three bullets in my lung. I KO'd the Ultra-Humanite with once punch. I am Ted friggin' Wildcat Grant. This is my ring. These are my people. And tonight, for one last time... I am their champion."
Watchmen:
- Rorschach: "None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked in here with me."
- Dr. Manhattan: "I am disappointed, Veidt. Very disappointed. Restructuring myself after the subtraction of my intrinsic field was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman... Did you think it would kill me? I've walked across the sun. I've seen events so tiny and so fast they hardly can be said to have occurred at all, but you... you are a man... and this world's smartest man means no more to me than does its smartest termite."
- A pillar in his lair bears this line from an old poem I am Ozymadias, king of kings. See my work ye mighty and despair.
Subversion in Calvin And Hobbes: "S for Stupendous! T for Tiger, ferocity of! U for underwear, red! P for Power, incredible! E for Excellent physique! N for, um, something, well I'll get back to that. D for Determination! U for... wait, how do you spell this? Is it 'I'?"
Projectra's Crowning Moment Of Awesome in Legion Of Super Heroes v.3:
"Look at my eyes, churl. No power... yours or anyone's... can stop me. My ancestors were wizards and kings... conquerors. You are a common killer — a mad dog accidentally born in human form. You took my world, made my people slaves, and slew the man I had given my heart to. I need no power to destroy you — save the strength born in my blood." KRRAK!
In Peter Madsen's comic Valhalla, Tyr and Thor are having a contest that suddenly turns deadly by Thor's latest attempt to catch the Midgard Serpent. Tyr forgets the contest and starts acting like the God of War (Leaders) he is, snapping orders to help Thor. Thor's sidekick Tjatse doubts him... noting that they just learnt Tyr is of the Giants.
"I was born a Giant! I chose to be an Aesir!
- Likewise, in another story Loki makes the mistake of actually pissing off Heimdall seriously. He tries to hide by shapeshifting into a mole, but Heimdall is the God of Watchers...
  * stabs his sword down into the soil, one millimetre before the nose of mole-Loki* "I can hear you, Loki!"
"Hear me, X-Men! No longer am I the woman you knew! I am fire! And life incarnate! Now and forever — I am Phoenix!!"
- "Behold your creation, Charles Xavier! I am what was, what is, what will be! I am the Black Angel, Chaos Bringer! I AM POWER!"
Wedge has a bit of introspection at the start of one comic; it's not proper boasting because the whole issue is sad in tone, but without context it certainly looks like this trope. "I survived the Battle of Yavin. I survived the Battle of Hoth. Hell... Just a couple of weeks ago I blew up the Death Star during the Battle of Endor. The reason I'm still breathing when a lot of other good Rebel pilots aren't? Maybe it's because I'm better. Or maybe I'm just lucky."
The various Lantern oaths, which also obviously double as Badass Creeds.
Transmetropolitan's Spider Jerusalem immediately after being beaten half to death by three armed police officers:
"Ha haaaa hahahaha hah! I'm here to stay! Shoot me and I'll spit your goddamn bullets back in your face! I'm Spider Jerusalem, and fuck all of you! Ha!"
The Punisher's 2099 incarnation gets a good one when facing down against the new Aesir:
(immediately after crispifying two of the Aesir with a Plasma Cannon) "When you're a god, you have no one to pray to."
- He gives out another one when he dives after a criminal who has a jetpack:
"I don't need a jetpack... All I need is hate!"
Aquaman:
"Lay down your arms! I'm serious and I have the firepower to prove it! Sworn protectorate of over fifteen thousand submarine states. My territory surrounds every continent on the planet. I rule most of this planet's surface and almost all of its depths. So don't even think about picking a fight with the King of Atlantis."
Bruce Banner once forced Wolverine and Daken to back down when he explained to them what it means to be one of the smartest people in the world and be dangerously unstable.
Maybe the real reason I became Hulk... was to protect the world from Banner.
I Kill Giants:
I will unleash a terrible fury and do things to you that will make God cry.
"You dumb bastards! I'm Snow White! I run Fabletown and I'm never outgunned!"
"My name is Jay Garrick/Barry Allen/Wally West/Bart Allen/John Fox. I'm The Flash. The fastest man alive."
Bullseye's is short, but right on target: "I never miss."
"We are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We strike hard, and fade away...into the night."
Quicksilver gives a lengthy one when fighting Mr. X, but it ends with him explaining the situation. The pauses indicate Mr. X being struck with an iron bar.
You can read minds enough to be able to predict any attack your opponent will make. So you will be able to — anticipate every move I make — and do absolutely — nothing about it — because -I-am-the-fastest-man-on-earth.
From Ignition City:
I'm 26 years old. I've been to the Moon, and Mars, and Venus. I've slept with asteroid gypsies, broken sloats, and fought with the eighth insurgency on Forest. I shot a man on Khargu because he needed to die more than any I've ever met. I repaired three rocket tubes with a wrench and a knife while hanging upside down over Titan during the syzygy. I'm 26 years old and my life is over now. So direct me please to the man who'll sell me a gun, and the place where my dad was shot dead in his sleep, for I have business to attend to before I lay down in my grave.

Fan Fic

A short one from Thicker than Water:
Kai: Don't come closer—I'll shoot!
Hiroshi: And what, exactly, do you suppose that that will accomplish?
Controversial character D.J. Croft from the Mega Crossover Fan Fic Neon Exodus Evangelion by Eyrie Productions Unlimited eventually gets one of these. Based on an I Have Many Names passage from the game Marathon, it first appears in the story as a set of Arc Words and eventually evolves into a Badass Boast:
"Know you that I am he who was once Longinus, centurion of the Tenth Legion. I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the world goes dim and cold. I have been killed a thousand times and every time I return. I fight for truth. I fight for glory. I fight for love. I fight for beauty. I am Hero. I will return."
"I have walked as a god! I have fought as a god! You will not frighten me, LITTLE MAN!" Not a bad boast, but made all the more awesome considering who's making it.
"Alright. So. Introductions first, along with whoever's your command squad. I'm Michael, I own this house and can crush you with a tank. Repeatedly, if necessary. Or with something heavier. How about you?" From this fic called ToyHammer
Darkly played in the Gurren Lagann/Evangelion Crossover: Neon Toppa EVA Lagann by a desperate Simon to a scared and confused Shinji (while pressing the sharp point of his drilling tool against the latter's stomach) to get information on where he can find an injured Kamina some medical attention:
"Who am I? I'll tell you who I am. I'm Simon, a member of the Gurren Brigade, but more importantly I happen to be the best driller in Jiiha Village. I hold the record for cleanest bedrock penetration (don't you dare laugh!), most feet of earth excavated in a single day, and best of all, fastest tunneling through granite and diamond. WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?!"
- It's cool in the sense that we are made to remember that Simon is a fantastic and skilled driller, the Squick comes from being made to imagine (along with Shinji) what those drilling skills can do to soft, human flesh.
From Wizard People, Dear Reader: "I am a beautiful animal! I am a destroyer of worlds! I am Harry fucking Potter!"
The awesome Doctor Who fanfic The Man with no Name gives us this:
"Yes, I think war is a fool's game. Yes, I believe life — all life — is precious. But tell me something, Vharaj — did you ever listen to my enemies' tales of me? If you did, it's obvious you weren't paying attention. The Daleks do not have emotion, Vharaj. They don't know fear. But do you know what they called me? Ka Faraq Gatri. It means Destroyer of Worlds. I am the Bringer of Darkness, Vharaj. The Oncoming Storm. I've watched worlds and galaxies fall, and rise, and fall again. I fought the Vampires at the dawn of Creation, and I may yet witness the end of the Universe. I brought about the destruction of my own race, the deaths of my children, my grandchildren, my siblings, my friends, all in the name of peace, to save this Universe. So you tell me, Vharaj: what do you think I am capable of?"
Parodied with the Kingdom Hearts Fan Fic Those Lacking Spines.
"There are none who can avoid trembling at my power! None! No man alive! Not one! No man alive can avoid trembling at my power!" Jeffiroth cried redundantly, holding his sword straight up above him in a dramatic fashion. "I am the black wind that echoes in the—"
"There he goes again," Xaldin sighed heavily and recalled his lances.
Lexaeus groaned. "I would be much more mildly impressed with his fighting abilities if he would stop taking breaks to spew out poetry."
The Firefly fanfic Forward has several of these, from both Jayne and Mal. At one point, when being held at gunpoint by a couple of jittery pirates....
Jayne: Look. I've gotten into fights with idiots ten times meaner than you two. I fought militia, mercenaries, and goons just like you. Hell, I've fought Alliance marines before(...)I've even tangled with Reavers.
- In an earlier arc, Mal slights Badger, who warns him to never come back to Persephone again. Mal's response....
  Mal: Badger, I've got personal beef with Adelei Niska. And you know I've got all manner of trouble with the Alliance. Now, on top of all that joy, I've got a bunch of happy little low-life Browncoat terrorists who want me dead too. So, you want to join the party, feel free. Just get in line.
Sonicthe Hedgehog, while in Tranquil Fury, gives out an awesome boast to this sorry bastard who hurt Tails(of another dimension...long but very well done story: He Is My Master).
Sonic: "My name is Sonic. Sonic the Hedgehog. I move at speeds faster than you can imagine...I am the protector of Mobius, a dimension you have never even heard of. I am capable of channeling the power and even the wrath of Chaos when I chose to...I have saved moons tied to planets. I have watched the world burn. I have defeated Chaos, the God of Destruction with my own bare hands...And you...just hurt my little brother!"
Warren Mears in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer fanfic Difficult to Fight Against Anger: "Oh, fine; this is like nickel-and-diming a cyberdemon when you're in god mode."
Azrael in Knightfall: The Movie: "You have no idea what you?re dealing with, Bane. You broke Bruce Wayne, but the Bat is something not so easy to destroy. It?s bigger than him, me, all of us; and it?s more powerful than all your petty ideas about vengeance and retribution. That is why Wayne spared Napier?s life. He knows death and destruction are not the answer. I am not so forgiving. If I ever see you again, Bane, I promise, you will never see me."
Hal Jordan's threat to Jerkass God Hades during the JLA Watchtower — DC Nation Olympics plot. He's Badass enough as is...but he proceeds to remind everyone what he was between his snit as Parallax and his return.
Hal: "ENOUGH! I have seen enough, Hades. I have seen you cheat time and again, and these heroes succeeded despite it all. You may be a god, Hades, but I was once the wrath of the God Himself. Do you dare risk that I have forgotten all your sins, which were once laid bare for me to see? You have lost. Return Troia and Nightwing to us, and call off your armies, before you face punishment that would make even the Furies cry."
Gregg Landsman writes Eva fics, and in them he likes to have some of the Angels introduce themselves. With all of his stories together, he's almost got all of them:
- ADAM/The First: I am he who is named "I am." My feet shall walk the breadth of the Base Earth once more. My mission shall not end with death. I shall seed the ground with new truth. And that which has come before and from Me shall bow in worship. I am the Alpha. I am the original. I am the Creation of God. I am the first of the Messengers and I am coming for the one who is my Opposite. I am ADAM. I AM COMING.
- Lilith/The Second/Pending: I am she who is named "I think." My feet shall walk the width of the Blessed Earth once more. My Mission is your salvation through creation. Ascending, my children shall rally against the Enemy. They shall rise up. And the Enemy shall fall. I am opposite to he who is named "I am." I am his Equal. I am the Creator of Man. I am the True Ancestor. I am Lilith. I...RISE.
- Sachiel/The Third: I am. Through License of he who is called 'I AM' I have come. Though my feet must stomp upon the Base Earth for this blessed quest, I have come. I am the first of the many. I am the Harbringer of your destruction. I am the Covering of God. Angel of Water. I am Sachiel. I have come.
- Ramiel/The Fifth: I AM. THROUGH LICENSE OF HE WHO IS CALLED "I AM" I HAVE COME. THOUGH MY FEET SHALL NEVER TOUCH THE BASE EARTH ON THIS BLESSED QUEST, I HAVE COME. MOUNTAINS SHALL SHATTER IN MY PASSING. MY SONG IS THE CALL OF THE END OF DAYS. IN MY PASSING SHALL THE DEMON CHILDE OF LILITH BE EXCISED FROM THIS WORLD. I AM THE THUNDER OF GOD. ANGEL OF LIGHTNING. I AM RAMIEL. I HAVE COME.
- Ramiel II/Legion: I have come. And this body shall be my church! These sheep shall be my congregation! By license of he who is called ?I am? I have come. Though I have already touched the base Earth on this blessed quest, I have come. I am Legion. I am numerous. When I strike down your army, it is with SIX THOUSAND FISTS! When I stare my hatred into the depths of your soul, it is with SIX THOUSAND EYES! There has never been before one like me! There shall not be again. I am the Lightning of God! I am Ramiel. And I have returned.
- Gaghiel/The Sixth: I am. Through license of He who is called "I Am" I have come. Though my feet shall never touch the base Earth on this blessed quest, I have come. In my wake, I leave a Dead Sea. Before me, lies completion. I am the Roaring Beast of God. Angel of the Creatures of the Sea. I am Gaghiel. I have come.
- Sandalphon/The Eighth: I am. Through license of He who is called 'I am' I have come. Though I must drag my feet along the Base Earth on this most holy quest, I have come. I shall merge with the enemy of Father, becoming a being of perfection and peace. Through my Song, shall the hopes and dreams of the filthy Lilim be fulfilled in peaceful non-existence. Let My words be the seeds of your ending bliss, growing within your souls. I am the Master of the Heavenly Song of God. Angel of the Unborn. I am Sandalphon. I am here.
- Matariel/The Ninth: I am. Through license of He who is named 'I Am' I have come. Though I shall never touch the base Earth, I have come. The tears I shall shed for Father shall burn the Lilim to bones and slime. The sky itself I shall turn against them. I am the Premonition of God. Angel of Rain. I am Matariel. I have come.
- Sahaquiel/The Tenth: I AM. THROUGH LICENSE OF HE WHO IS CALLED "I AM" I HAVE COME. THOUGH I SHALL ONLY ONCE TOUCH THE BASE EARTH ON THIS BLESSED QUEST, I HAVE COME. MY FORM SHALL BE VAST AND NUMEROUS. NEW TRUTH SHALL BE FORGED WITHIN MY PASSING. AND THE NUMEROUS FORMS THROUGH WHICH I SHALL SCOUR THE LILIM OF THE EARTH SHALL BE WRIT DOWN IN THE WAY OF PRAYER AND LEGEND. I AM THE INGENUITY OF GOD. ANGEL OF THE SKIES. I AM SAHAQUIEL. I AM COMING.
- Iruel/The Eleventh: Please allow me to introduce myself. I'm an Angel of wealth and taste. Pleased to meet you! Hope you guess my name! But what's troublin' you is the nature of my game. I am. Through license of he who is called "I Am" I have come. Thought I shall never touch the base earth on my quest, I have come. I am the multitude. I am the endless expanse. I am the Many. Even standing alone, I am Legion. I am within your systems, within your story and rewriting this final act for my own ends. I am the Fear of God. Angel of Terror. I am Iruel. I am here.
- Leliel/The Twelfth: I AM. THROUGH LICENSE OF HE WHO IS CALLED 'I AM' I AM COMING. THOUGH I SHALL NEVER TOUCH THE BASE EARTH ON THIS BLESSED QUEST, I AM COMING. I AM THE DARKNESS BETWEEN STARS. I AM THE BRIDGE OF UNIVERSES. I AM THE HOLE OF THE WORM AND THE TUNNEL OF THE MOUNTAIN. LAST I AM, THOUGH NEW TRUTH SHALL BE FORGED IN MY PASSING. I AM THE JAWS OF GOD. ANGEL OF NIGHT. I AM LELIEL. I AM COMING.
  - The Nobody Dies version: I AM. Through license of he who was called "I AM" I have come. Though I shall never touch my feet to the Base Earth on my most blessed mission, I have come. I am the Keeper of Father. I am separate from my Brothers, both above and below them. I am the Void. I am the bridge between the worlds and the Hole of the Worm. I am the Jaws of God. Angel of Night. I am Leliel. I have come.
- Zeruel/The Fourteenth: I AM. THROUGH LICESENSE OF HE WHO IS NAMED "I AM". I HAVE COME. THOUGH MY FEET SHALL DRAG UPON THIS BASE EARTH, I HAVE COME. I AM THE SECOND TO FATHER. INHERITOR OF HIS BOUNDLESS RAGE. YOU HAVE EXISTED SO FAR AT MY PLEASURE AND PATIENCE, AND THAT, AS SHALL YOUR WORKS OF CIVILISATION, SHALL NOW COME TO AN END. I AM THE GREATEST OF THE MESSENGERS, MOUNTAIN OF THEIR STRENGTH. CITIES SHALL FALL UPON MY PASSING. SONGS SHALL BE SUNG OF WHAT IS LEFT IN MY WAKE. I AM THE ARM OF GOD. ANGEL OF MIGHT. I AM ZERUEL. I HAVE COME.
  - A brilliant Audio Adaptation can be fount here
- Arael/The Fifteenth: I AM. THROUGH LICENSE OF HE WHO IS CALLED 'I AM' I HAVE COME. THOUGH I SHALL NEVER STAND UPON THE BASE EARTH ON MY BLESSED QUEST, I HAVE COME. MY LIGHT SHALL BURN AWAY FALSEHOODS. THE TRUE AND STRONG SHALL NOT FEAR ME. I AM THE LIGHT OF GOD. ANGEL OF BIRDS. I AM ARAEL. I HAVE COME.
- Tabris/Kaworu Nagisa/The Seventeenth: I Am and I Think. By the Power of He who is called "I Am," and the Genius of of the descendants of She who is called "I Think," I was Born. Though I Walk on this Base Earth, seperate from the Lilim and my Brothers, I Am Here. Though my Father is I Am, I have another Father who was descended of I Think. Despite our Collective Goals, I will fight my Brothers to further my own Goals. I Plan, and I Live, and I Improvise. When I strike, it Will be without Warning. And when you Believe that I Am not a Threat, that is when I Am the Most Dangerous. I Am the Last, the Reborn First. I Am The Pilot of Provisional Evangelion Unit 6. I Am the Will of God. I Am the Lilim Spirit of Life. I Am the Angel of Free Will. I Am Kaworu Nagisa. I Am Tabris. I Am Here. And I Will Remain. Though Gregg has given some approval for it.
- And now in NGE: Nobody Dies, new Angels have appeared with equally boastful intros.
  - Shalgiel/First Cherub: '''You are, all of you, Garbage. We shall burn the surface of this world until your carbon remains become like diamond glass. I am the falling snow that buries you ?neath our contempt. I am the winding chill of the wind as it strips your flesh from bone. I am the Knight of God. Angel of the Snow. I am Shalgiel. I am Here.'''
  - Rampel/Second Cherub: You are, all of you, garbage. You choke the air and rape the base earth beneath you. Those you term ï¿½Angelsï¿½ are you salvation through destruction. But we are not them. We do not seek salvation. We do not believe you are to be saved. You will ground beneath our weight until you are paste and compost. I am the Crawling Mountain of God. Angel of the Peaks. I am Rampel. I am coming.
- From the canonised Expanded Universe, Kei Ayanami has one:
I am. Through decent of She Who Is Called "I Think", and her Child, I was made. One of Eight, a tool for petty revenge by one too weak to seize it herself, forced to dream for fear of what I might become if left awake. Not permitted, and rarely able, to walk the Base Earth. I am not like my sisters, for I have eaten from the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, devoured it whole, and then reached out for more. Inhuman instincts born of the Divine cry out within me, but I reject them, for I am aware, not only of the World around me, but of what I am. What I can be, and what I will choose to be. But I have slept too long, and in awakening, I am reborn. The Earth is not Base, but it is not enough. Not enough to sate me. I am of the Nephilim, a child of Lilith and Lilim, a product of Hubris and Wrath and Lust and Envy. My mothers are monsters, and I have sculpted myself in their image. I bear no title assigned by God, for I was made by man as a weapon. But I am Kei Ayanami. And they will never see me coming.
- And now Pen-Pen has one too, thanks to the SpaceBattles forums:
I am. Through License of she who is called 'I THINK' I have come. Though my flippers must touch the floor of Misato's apartment, I have come. I am a penguin. I am the Eater of your fish and the Drinker of your beer. I am the Comedy Relief. Penguin of Water I am Pen-Pen. I have always been here.
- And now Jet Alone Prime has one: i am. Through the license of those who are called "humanity", i stand, though the blood of angels does not flow through me, i stand, i am a machine, a construct of steel and fury, i am the anvil upon which the enemies of man shall be broken, i am the hammer that shall crack the gates of heaven and hell, the big guy of f__king metal, i am jet alone prime! And i stand against all who dare threaten humanity!
  - Revised due to new events: With Adam gone, you cannot change the fate of our Blessed Earth. Yet fate has yielded a humble reward: a unique and newborn soul. I live among its people now, hiding in plain sight, but watching over them in silence, waiting...protecting. I have witnessed their capacity for courage in the face of insurmountable odds. Though we are worlds apart, they of blood, and I of metal, there's more to us than meets the eye. I am Jet Alone Prime, and I send this message to any surviving Angels hidden in waiting amongst the the stars: I am here. I am waiting.
- Even Humanity has one now: WE ARE. THROUGH DESCENT OF SHE WHO IS CALLED "I THINK" WE ARE BORN. THOUGH SIX BILLION FEET POUND THE BASE EARTH, WE ARE AS ONE. WE ATE FROM THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE AND STAND AGAINST THE PROGENY OF THE TREE OF LIFE. WE ARE MANY, AND YET WE ARE UNITED. THROUGH OUR DEEDS, SHALL FLESH AND MACHINE AND MIND UNITED STRIKE DOWN THOSE WHO OPPOSE OUR BILLIONS OF SELVES. LET OUR WORDS SPLIT ATOMS, AND CALL FORTH THE PRODUCE OF THE BASE EARTH TO SERVE US, AND ONLY US. WE ARE THE KILLERS OF ANGELS. AND THOSE WHO WE SPARE SHALL BECOME ONLY TOOLS IN OUR SERVICE. WE ARE THE FINAL ANGEL. WE ARE THE LILIM. CHILDREN OF LILITH, MOTHER OF MONSTERS, WHO SHOW THEIR MOTHER NO MORE MERCY THAN ANY OTHER ANGEL. WE ARE LEGION. AND WE ARE WAITING.
- Thanks to that thread, The King of the Monsters himself has one: I WHO AM BORN OF FIRE AND DEATH. MY STEPS SHAKE THE FOUNDATIONS. MORTAL MAN FEAR MY WAKE. CALLED TO SHATTER THE CHAINS OF MAN. OF RAGE AND POWER NOW SET FREE. NEITHER GOD NOR MAN DARE CHALLENGE ME. WRATH AND RUIN LEFT OF MY FAIR PREY. BUILT ONCE MORE BY THEE DO I RETURN AGAIN. EVEN IN SUBLIGATION TO MY WHIM. DOTH DEVASTATION FORMED BY ARROGANCE WALK FORTH IN THE WORLD OF MAN. I AM UNSTOPABLE BY ANY WEAPON YOU CHOOSE TO WIELD. I AM KING UPON THE THRONE OF MONSTERS I AM GODZILLA I LIVE AGAIN!
- In addition there's the boast the thread created for one of the most terrifying of tropes, a boast that is specifically used as the page quote for that trope: I Am. Through Nature of He who is called "I Speak," I Have Come. Though my Feet shall Touch upon Two Base Earths, I Have Come. My Existence has been used in Stories for generations. One is a Tale of a Cunning Rogue. One is the Epic of a Courageous Knight. Through my Influence, these two shall meet. I Am the Literary Device of Unity. I Am the Trope of Mingling Worlds. I Am Crossover.
- Personally, I think Commander Pieter Sohryu has an epic one of his own from Chapter 7 of Mother Issues:
Pieter: Ladies and gentlemen. This is Commander Sohryu. As you are no doubt aware, in a few minutes we will be engaging the Seventh Angel. It has been two months since an Angel appeared. Many of you have been wondering if they had given up. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but they have not. We do not know how many there are. What we do know, though, is that they are more intelligent than we believed. In particular, we know they can feel fear. You are all part of an organization without precedent. You are not fighting for a nation, for a belief, or even for anything as simple as revenge for Second Impact. You are fighting to give humanity a chance to survive. When you eventually die, either in battle or surrounded by your grandchildren, you will walk past the pearly gates, look God in the eye, and tell Him to get out of your seat. You will have earned that right for what you have done in your life. Doctor Akagi has told me the Angels are re-organizing. They are re-assessing. They are doing this because they are afraid. They should be. Today, we are going to remind them why. Pilots; bounce that thing's buggy ass all the way up the Stairway to Heaven. Evas Launch!
In Chapter 20 of Uzumaki Harry, by Shadow Crystal Mage, the First Task gives us this one:
"You think I'm scared of you, you overgrown luggage set!" Harry cried, standing in the middle of the scorched circle of ground the dragon's fire had made, his voice ringing across the stands. "I'm HARRY POTTER, BITCH! I killed my first unholy force of evil when I was ONE! YEAR! OLD! WITHOUT A WAND! I've been working in the porn industry SINCE BEFORE I KNEW I COULD WRITE! I've been supporting my little brothers since the orphanage threw us out for being too awesome when I was five! I do more insane things before dawn than both Weasley twins will ever pull off during their lifespan! Slytherin's fucking BASILISK couldn't kill me when it actually managed to get one of its fangs INTO MY ELBOW! I'm building a harem and so far no one's tried to stop me, even though they know I'm doing it! And now, I HAVE MY BOOMSTICK BACK! This isn't a counter attack, suitcase! Ever since the last time someone I loved was taken away from me, I've never stopped! My whole LIFE since then has been a counter attack! You? You're not even a choice flag event in the eroge of my life! "'

Film

Beowulf — "I am Ripper... Tearer... Slasher... Gouger! I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength... and Lust... and Power! I! AM! BEOWULF!!"
Unforgiven:
Will Munny: "That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you did to Ned."
Gladiator:
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next."
The third Austin Powers movie had this, when Michael Caine intimidated a mook this way.
"Do you know who I am? Do you know how many anonymous henchmen I've killed? I mean, look at you, you don't even have a nametag. You've got no chance. Why don't you just fall down?"
- And he does!
The Last Dragon has badass villain Sho'Nuff and his crew get a boast, which goes something like this...
Sho'nuff: Am I the meanest?
Sho'nuff 's Goons: Sho'nuff!
Sho'nuff: Am I the prettiest?
Sho'nuff 's Goons: Sho'nuff!
Sho'nuff: Am I the baddest mofo low down around this town?
Sho'nuff 's Goons: Sho'nuff!
Sho'nuff: Well who am I?
Sho'nuff 's Goons: Sho'nuff!
Sho'nuff: Who am I?
Sho'nuff 's Goons: Sho'nuff!
Sho'nuff: I can't hear you...
Sho'nuff 's Goons: Sho'nuff!
In the initial training duel of When the Last Sword is Drawn, the narrator's opponent is given an armored headband in case the narrator misses and actually hits him. The opponent tells the narrator he should wear one too, but the narrator responds, "I won't need it."
In Secondhand Lions, Hub (played by Robert Duvall, no less!) has a speech of this type:
"I'm Hub McCann. I've fought in two World Wars and countless smaller ones on three continents. I led thousands of men into battle with everything from horses and swords to artillery and tanks. I've seen the headwaters of the Nile, and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before. I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, killed many men, and loved only one woman with a passion a flea like you could never begin to understand. That's who I am. NOW, GO HOME, BOY!"
Buddy Holly and Death trade some good ones before their final fight in Six String Samurai:
Buddy: Who are you?
Death: Death.
Buddy: Cool.
Death: If I were you, I'd run.
Buddy: If you were me, you'd be good-looking.
The trailer for the film Taken is built around the main character's calm threat, very effectively delivered by Liam Neeson.
"I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that will be the end of it. But if you don't, I will look for you. I will find you. And I will kill you."
Liam Neeson's been getting a lot of these. In the film version of The A-Team, Hannibal and crew, after having broken out of various detention facilities, walk onto the rear of a C-130 and asks, "Do you know who I am?" "You're Hannibal Smith." "Do you know what that means?" "You're, uh, taking the plane?" "Bingo." Cue aircrew leaving the plane without offering any resistance.
V For Vendetta had a great one:
V: No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I'll no longer be standing, because if I am... you'll all be dead before you've reloaded.
- Pay extra attention to that scene and you'll notice that Creedy takes an appropriate steps backwards during the boast... Oh yeah, and it ends with this exchange;
  Creedy: Die! Die! Why won't you die?... Why won't you die?
  V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.
Cris Johnson in Next: "I've seen every possible ending. None of them are good for you."
X Men 3: "Don't you know who I am? I'm the Juggernaut, bitch!" Taken from the "humorous" internet shorts.
A badass boast was pretty much a prerequisite to be a cowboy in Tombstone.
Wyatt Earp: All right, Clanton... You called down the thunder. Well, now you've got it! You see that? It says "United States Marshal."... Take a good look at him, Ike, because that's how you're gonna end up!... The Cowboys are finished, you understand me?! I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin' it! So run, you cur... RUN! Tell all the other curs the LAW'S coming! You tell 'em I'M coming... and Hell's coming with me, you hear?! Hell's coming with me!
- And one for Doc Holliday too.
Billy Clanton: You couldn't hit nothin.' [draws a knife.] In fact, you're probably seeing double.
Doc: [draws a second gun] I have two guns; one for each of ya.
Pennywise in Stephen King's It (1990) is practically made of this:
- "I'll kill you all! Hahah, I'll drive you crazy, and I'll kill you all! I'm every nightmare you've ever had. I am your worst dream come true. I'm everything you ever were afraid of!"
- "Kill me? Oh you are a priceless brat. I am eternal, child. I am the eater of worlds... And of children! And you are next!"
- "Silly boy. You still think you can see me? You'll never see me. You'll see only what your little mind can allow."
- Not to mention all the variants of "They float..And when you're down here with me, you'll float too!"
Marv in Sin City after being electrocuted!: "Is that the best you can do, pansies?"
Bully Hayes in Nate and Hayes, also serves as a Badass Creed:
Hayes: Are you writing in that book that I'm a pirate?
Clerk (nervously: Yes, I suppose I am.
Hayes: Good, 'cause I am one. And a damn good one. Oh, I never flew the skull and crossbones, that's for your fictioneers. But I have sought pleasure and profit in every port known to man, without regard to any man's law. That's not to say without morals and standards. I've got morals and standards. I've never killed anyone who didn't have it coming, I've never cheated an honest man, I've never pillaged and I've never raped.
John Herod (Gene Hackman) in The Quick And The Dead: "This is my town! If you live to see the dawn, it's because I allow it!"
From Serenity
Mal: "I don't murder children."
The Operative: "I do. If I have to."
Otis B. Driftwood (Bill Moseley) in The Devils Rejects: "I am the devil, and I am here to do the devil's work." Later, Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig): "If you're gonna start the killing, you best start it right here. Make sure I'm all the way dead, because I'll come back and make you my bitch!"
Hudson Hawk: "We blow up space shuttles for breakfast. You and your friend Tommy are nothing more than a mid-afternoon Triscuit."
Captain Gordon in Godzilla Final Wars: "Listen kid, there are two things you didn't know about the Earth. One is me, the other is Godzilla."
In Tall Tale The Unbelievable Adventure it's no surprise there's some of these. Pecos Bill gets a particularly awesome one (done while lassoing a tornado).
Pecos Bill: I am a ring-tailed roarer! I can walk faster, shoot straighter, ride harder, and drink longer than any man alive! I'm the rip-snortingest cowboy that ever rode north, south, east, or west of the Rio Grande! I'm Pecos Bill! Yee-haw!
From Kill Bill: "I can tell you with no ego, this is my finest sword. If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut. "
Westley's To The Pain challenge in The Princess Bride. He knew Humperdinck was a coward, was too weak to stand, but still...that challenge was Badass Boast on its own.
Jim Malone from The Untouchables, giving advice on how to fight the mob.
You wanna get Capone? Here's how you get him. He pulls a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone!
Aguirre The Wrath Of God: "I am the great traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks of deserting this mission will be hacked into 198 pieces. Those pieces will be trampled until what is left can be used only to paint walls. Whoever takes one grain of corn or one drop of water more than his ration will be locked up for 155 years. If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees... then the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the wrath of god. The earth I pass will see me and tremble. But whoever follows me and the river will win untold riches."
Vincent Cacardi in True Romance: "I am the Anti-Christ. You get me in a vendetta-kind-of mood, you tell the angels in heaven you never saw evil so singularly personified as you did in the face of the man who killed you."
Last Of The Mohicans: "When the Grey Hair is dead, Magua will eat his heart. Before he dies, Magua will put his children under the knife, so the Grey Hair will know his seed is wiped out forever."
Aliens: Hudson attempts one using the word "badass" itself as much as possible. It is centered around the More Dakka available from the APC and the Drop Ship, which is why the loss of both due to an Alien ambush (which proves the Xenomorphs are not only inhuman and deadly, but SNEAKY!) leads straight to his Heroic BSOD.
Sarah in Labyrinth: "Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the goblin city, for my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great....You have no power over me." Slightly subverted in that they're actually lines from a play she'd been rehearsing, but when she has her epiphany, she makes them her own and they gain true power.
Gabriel in The Prophecy. "I'm an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls. And from now 'til kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why."
300 has a very badass exchange between (correct me if I'm wrong) a Persian general and Captain Artemis.
General: Our arrows will blot out the sun!
Artemis: Then we will fight in the shade!

Literature

In The Iliad, both Diomedes and Achilles boast, "Unhappy those whose children face my might."
Beowulf (the epic poem) contains several Badass Boasts (somewhat more elaborate, though less catchy than the movie version), most prominently when the title character several times announces his will to fight Grendel, a beast with the strength of 30 men that has been attacking the Danes for seven years. (He later fulfills his boasts when he kills Grendel by ripping his arm off with his bare hands.)
"When it comes to fighting, I count myself
as dangerous any day as Grendel.
So it won't be be a cutting edge I wield
to mow him down, easily as I might.
He has no idea of the arts of war,
of shield or sword-play, although he does possess
a wild strength. No weapons, therefore,
for either this night: unarmed he shall face me
if face me he dares."
JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion:
Fëanor: "Then turning to the herald he cried: 'Say this to Manwë Sûlimo, High King of Arda: if Fëanor cannot overthrow Morgoth, at least he delays not to assail him, and sits not idle in grief. And it may be that Eru has set in me a fire greater than thou knowest. Such hurt at the least will I do to the Foe of the Valar that even the mighty in the Ring of Doom shall wonder to hear it. Yea, in the end they shall follow me. Farewell!'"
JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit:
Bilbo: "I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me."
- And then subverted when part of his boast ("I am barrel-rider") sets Smaug off on a killing spree against an innocent town, leaving Bilbo to curse himself. Granted, this also results in Smaug's death.
- Smaug responds in kind: "My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death."
JRR Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings:
Galadriel: "And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!"
- This is what Galadriel would have become if she'd taken the Ring, but she resists the temptation in the end, and is relieved at it.
  Gandalf: "You cannot pass. I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass."
  Eowyn: "But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn am I, Eomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him."
- Aragorn in The Two Towers has been chasing a band of Orcs who've taken Merry and Pippin all through the Wold and he is in no mood to be obstructed: "Elendil! I am Aragorn son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar the Elfstone, Dunadan. The heir Isildur Elendil's son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me, or thwart me? Choose swiftly!"
- "What of the dawn?" they jeered. "We are the Uruk-Hai: we do not stop the fight for night or day, for fair weather or for storm. We come to kill, by sun or moon. What of the dawn?"
  - To which Aragorn responds with yet another one: "No enemy has yet taken the Hornburg. Depart, or not one of you will be spared. Not one will be left alive to take back tidings to the North. You do not know your peril."
In addition to the Badass Boast given by the werewolf on the quotes page, later in CS Lewis's Prince Caspian, Peter begins his challenge to Miraz by listing his credentials: "Peter, by the gift of Aslan, by election, by prescription, and by conquest, High King over all Kings in Narnia, Emperor of the Lone Islands and Lord of Cair Paravel, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Lion."
- To drive the point home, he does the same at the end of the message when he names his brother Edmund as his messenger: "...our well-beloved and royal brother Edmund, sometime King under us in Narnia, Duke of Lantern Waste and Count of the Western March, Knight of the Noble Order of the Table."
The title character of The Bartimaeus Trilogy is fond of doing this, which would probably count as a subversion, or at least a humorous use of the trope, considering that Bartimaeus isn't exactly a typical Badass.
- He's actually cut off once, I forget who by...
  Bartimaeus: ... I have spoken with Solomon—
  Other demon: Who hasn't? I mean, he got around.
- And Nathanial... well, he tries, bless him, at the end of the third book. It falls falt though, as the demon he threatens doesn't really hear what he's saying, only reacts to the noise.
  "I am Nathanial! I am your master! I am your death!"
  - Noua isn't even reacting to the noise; he only turns when Nathaniel shoots him with Gladstone's Staff.
A Song Of Ice And Fire:
- Jaime Lannister: "There are no men like me. There is only me." Short and sweet.
- Balon Greyjoy chastises his son for displaying soft, mainland ways: I am Balon Greyjoy, King of the Iron Islands, son of salt and iron, Lord Reaper of Pike. I pay the iron price.
- Euron Crow's Eye, to his brother Aeron Damphair: Godless? Why, Aeron, I am the godliest man ever to raise sail! You serve one god, Damphair, but I have served ten thousand. From Ib to Asshai, when men see my sails, they pray."
"I am Garet Jax, the Weapons Master. And I have never lost a battle."
Apparently used in all duels for leadership among the northern barbarian tribes in the Forgotten Realms setting, with each combatant's herald reciting a list of his accomplishments. When Wulfgar challenges Heafstaag for leadership of the Tribe of Elk, his list, as a man not yet twenty compared to an experienced barbarian chieftain, is quite short, but he has a trump card that evens the scales:
"I am Wulfgar, Dragon's Bane!"
Subverted in Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "Ozymandias": all the remains of a statue is the legs, the head, and the inscription: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings / Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" The subversion comes from the fact that Ozymadius's empire is now empty desert, and his triumphant statue is nothing but a ruin. All that is left of his might works is a boast.
Odysseus does this to Polyphemus in The Odyssey, pre-dating Beowulf and making this Older Than Dirt.
In Journey To The West, every character begins every fight with a boast like this. Typically it is a poem, each one unique and more elaborate than the last.
In Jack of Shadows, the eponymous character spouts off with this gem: "I am Jack of Shadows! Shadowjack the Thief! I was beheaded in Igles and rose again in the Dung Pits of Glyve. I duped the lord of High Dudgeon in his keep and took his prize and pride. I am the prisoner in the jewel. I am the breaker of the Compact. I drank the blood of a vampire and ate a stone. So beware, all those who love the Lord of Bats or loathe me, for I have named myself Jack of Shadows!"
Romsca's Villain Song pre Heel Face Turn in Pearls of Lutra, in which she brags to her crew and the Monitor lizards;
"Come one, come all, I'm waitin',
"I'll flay yer carcass bare,
"So every place I go they'll say
"Ahoy, you bold corsaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiir!"
God from the Old Testament loves this trope. Chapters 38 to 41 of the book of Job is basically one humongous Badass Boast to Job demonstrating His power and might. And of course, He can do it the understated way too:
"I am the lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt."
- And for those of you not familiar with the Bible, he did it via way of ten plagues that brought the entire country to its knees, and specifically designed to show up the premier Egyptian gods.
- His son might qualify too, with: "I am the way and the truth and the life."
- Ahem.... "I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the end."
- "I am."
- "My name is Legion: for we are many."
Torak, the insane maimed god of the Angarak race in the Belgariad, offers up his version of events in his holy book. He begins with,
"Hear me, ye Angaraks, for I am Torak, Lord of Lords and King of Kings. Bow before my Name and worship me with prayers and with sacrifices, for I am your God and I have dominion over all the realms of the Angaraks. And great shall be my wrath if ye displease me. I was before the world was made. I shall be after the mountains crumble into sand, the seas dwindle to stagnant pools, and the world shrivels and is no more. For I was before time and shall be after."
And then after offering a heavily slanted version of historical events, in which he portrays himself as the one sane and decent guy in the universe, the god who instigated the creation of the world, who got half his face burned off to keep humans from being killed, He finishes with
"Hear me, ye peoples, and fear me. Bow down before me and worship me. For I am Torak, forever King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and God alone to this world which I have caused to be."
Fred Saberhagen's Books of the Swords has a "Song of Swords", in which each of the twelve divinely forged Swords has its powers either described or alluded to. Shieldbreaker, which flawlessly defends its wielder and destroys any other weapon, even the otherwise indestructible Swords, at a touch, has this as its verse in the Song.
"I shatter Swords and splinter spears;
None stands to Shieldbreaker.
My point's the fount of orphan's tears,
My edge the widowmaker."
From David Gemmell's Legend, Badass Grandpa Druss introduces himself to the poorly disciplined officers of the hopelessly overmatched garrison by flipping over the bar, punching a man clear across the room, and then introducing himself:
"I am Druss. Sometimes called Captain of the Axe. In Ventria they call me Druss the Sender. In Vagria I am merely the Axeman. To the Nadir I am Deathwalker. In Lentria I am the Silver Slayer. But who are you? You dung-eating lumps of offal! Who the hell are you? I have a mind to set an example today. I have a mind to cut the fat from this ill-fated fortress."
Magic The Gathering. Yawgmoth in the novels gives a nice two-page-long one when he finally appears. The first paragraph where he reflects on his less powerful days gives you an idea:
"No shadow shows itself to those eyes, for I am the city's sun and moon and morning star. I am her every lamp. Even my own shadow hides from me, turned traitor by the ache of darkness for light.
I am Yawgmoth."
1632: From a placard left by the Americans after they dealt with a few mercenaries:
This area is now under the protection of the UMWA. If you try to harm or rob anybody we will kill you. There will be no further warning. We will not negotiate. We will not arrest you. You will simply be dead. We guarantee it. Go ahead. Try us.
Nyarlathotep's parting words to Randolph Carter in HP Lovecraft's Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath: "Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that you may never meet me in my thousand other forms. Farewell, Randolph Carter, and beware; for I am Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos."
Captain Amos Trask/Captain Trenchard in Raymond E Feist's The King's Buccaneer
"I'm Captain Trenchard! The Dagger of the Sea! I've sailed the Straits of Darkness on Midwinter's Day! My ship's the Raptor and I've taken her into the Seven Lower Hells, drunk ale with Kahooli and sailed home again! My mother was a sea dragon, my father was lightning and I dance a sailor's jig on my victim's skulls! I fought with the war god and kissed death herself. Men tremble at my shadow and women swoon at my name and no one lives who can call me liar!"
The panserbjorne (armored bears), Iorek and Iofur, in The Golden Compass / Northern Lights start their duel to the death with a ritualized series of proclamations: mostly what they'll do if they win, but also to show off their badassery to the other bears.
"My name is Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dresden. Conjure by it at your own risk."
- Injun Joe gets one too, when he tells the skinwalker exactly what he's going to do with him. And then proves it, in spectacularly awesome fashion.
Mandatory Discworld reference: from Hogfather, when Susan meets the first Bogey Man; "I was the dark in the cave! I was the shadow in the trees! You've heard about the primal scream? That was...at me!"
- I can see your house from up here. — Callus Tacticus
- "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen? Me. I watch him. Always." and "Call me...the Guarding Dark. Imagine how strong I must be." — the Watchman.
- His Grace Sir Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is MADE of this trope, but very laconic about it. From Jingo:
  Sam Vimes: Think of it (shipwreck) as the lesser of two evils.
  Captain Jenkins: What's the other one?
  Sam Vimes: Me.
- From Thud
  As far as they are concerned I AM far reaching consequences!
- One of the gods gets one too, in The Last Hero:
  The Lady: I am the one in a million chance.
  Cohen: Oh yeah? Who're the others?
  The Lady: I am those also.
The Sword Of Truth book Temple of the Winds has this example:
"You don't even have your weapon."
"I am the weapon."
In Matt Farrer's Warhammer 40000 short story "After Desh'ea" (in the Horus Heresy Tales of Heresy), when Angron comes out of the room with Kharn, Kharn reels off a Badass Boast of Angron's exploits and tells the War Hounds to salute him.
Sharpe manages a good one in Sharpe's Rifles.
"Father Alzaga said," Louisa astonished the room by raising her voice, and by her evident knowledge of Spanish which she had concealed till this moment, "that this night he will pray for the soul of the Tippoo Sultan, because the Tippoo Sultan slew many Englishmen."
Till now Sharpe had been embarrassed in describing his career, but the priest's scorn touched his soldier's pride. "And I killed the Tippoo Sultan."
"You did?" Father Borellas's voice was sharp with disbelief.
"In the water gate's tunnel at Seringapatam."
"He had no bodyguard?" Vivar asked.
"Six men," Sharpe said. "His picked warriors." He looked from face to face, knowing he need say no more.
Bobby Shaftoe, in Cryptonomicon:
"I've killed more Nips than seismic activity."
- It runs in the family. His ancestor "Half Cocked" Jack Shaftoe uttered this boast (combined with Bring News Back) in The Baroque Cycle:
"In fact I have let you live, but for one purpose only: so that you can make your way to Paris and tell them the following: that the deed you are about to witness was done for a woman, whose name I will not say, for she knows who she is; and that it was done by 'Half-Cocked' Jack Shaftoe, L'Emmerdeur, the King of the Vagabonds, Ali Zaybak: Quicksilver!"
Queen Elizabeth Winton of Honor Harrington shows why her nickname is Soul of Steel:
"I make no promises of easy triumphs, because there will be no easy triumphs. I promise you only the truth, and the truth is that the price we will ultimately pay will be even higher than the one we've already paid. That the cost of the battle which waits for us will be sacrifice, loss, backbreaking toil, blood, and grief. But I also promise you this one more thing. I promise you victory. For seventy-plus T-years, the Star Empire has lived under sentence of death, yet we're still here. And we will still be here when the smoke finally clears. However long it takes, whatever sacrifice it entails, wherever the battle takes us, and no matter what foe we may face, we will triumph, and those who have wrought such destruction and suffering upon us, who have butchered our civilians, who have attacked us from the shadows like assassins, will discover to their infinite regret that in the defense of our homes, our families, and our children, we can be just as merciless as them."
Kvothe of The Kingkiller Chronicle:
"I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me.
From Star Wars: Coruscant Nights book II: Street of Shadows:
Aurra Sing: ï¿½Fear me, Jedi! I am Aurra Sing, Nashtah, scourge of your kind! I haunt your darkest dreams! I drink Jedi blood; I nest in their guts! Your nightmares now have a name, hierophant, and that name is Aurra Sing!ï¿½
Jax Pavan: ï¿½You'd be the bounty hunter, then.ï¿½
Runya Sulemar roquen lygiel from the Greenwater novels in the prologue to the first part of the first book.
"I am Runya Sulemar. Come with me to the razor's edge. We'll choose our fates with another dance, striding the river red."
In Shadows Linger, the Black Company is the most elite Badass Army in the land, who the Big Bad uses to root out various rebel insurgents. After a successful (and bloody) mission, when a stunned rebel sympathizer asks who they are, Croaker simply replies
"We're the Black Company."
In Treasure Island, Jim Hawkins, caught by the pirates and facing death, delivers one.
"Let the worst come to the worst, it's little I care. I've seen too many die since I fell in with you. But there's a thing or two I have to tell you," I said, and by this time I was quite excited; "and the first is this: here you are, in a bad way—ship lost, treasure lost, men lost, your whole business gone to wreck; and if you want to know who did it—it was I! I was in the apple barrel the night we sighted land, and I heard you, John, and you, Dick Johnson, and Hands, who is now at the bottom of the sea, and told every word you said before the hour was out. And as for the schooner, it was I who cut her cable, and it was I that killed the men you had aboard of her, and it was I who brought her where you'll never see her more, not one of you. The laugh's on my side; I've had the top of this business from the first; I no more fear you than I fear a fly."
Commander Daniel Leary — ironically, in a quiet conversation with a friend — said, "Every Alliance spacer ... knows that no matter how many ships they have, they've always got to expect us to go for their throats. Deep in their hearts, they're afraid and they know we aren't. We're the RCN."
A lot of characters in American Gods have at least one (considering what many of the characters are — it's right there in the title — this shouldn't be surprising). Wednesday's got a few, notably his listing of the charms he knows (and how he got them) and the scene where he follows through on a promise to tell the protagonist his name.
"I told you I would tell you my names. This is what they call me. I'm called Glad-of-War, Grim, Raider, and Third. I am One-Eyed. I am called Highest, and True-Guesser. I am Grimnir, and I am the Hooded One. I am All-Father, and I am Gondlir Wand-Bearer. I have as many names as there are winds, as many titles as there are ways to die. My ravens are Huginn and Muninn, Thought and Memory; my wolves are Freki and Geri; my horse is the gallows."
In Tall Tale America Mike Fink is awfully fond of these.
"I'm King of the Keelboatmen, King of the Rivers! I'm a ring-tailed screamer from the old Mississippi! I can out-run, out-shoot, out-brag, and out-fight any man on the rivers! WHOOP! I've got the best crew and the fastest boat on all the rivers, and my muscles are as rusty as an old hinge! WHOOP! So come and see what you can do about it!"
Mr. Croup from Neverwhere
Unprofessional? Us? Sir. Might I with due respect remind you that Mister Vandemar and myself burned down the City of Troy? We brought the Black Plague to Flanders. We have assassinated a dozen kings, five popes, half a hundred heroes and two accredited gods. Our last commission before this was the torturing to death of an entire monastery in sixteenth century Tuscany. We are utterly professional.
In The First Law trilogy, both Logen and Fenris the Feared boast before fighting in a duel to death.
Umslopogaas, preparing for his last fight in Allan Quatermain:
"Who comes to give greeting to the Chieftainess? Who would taste her kiss, whereof the fruit is death? I, the Woodpecker, I, the Slaughterer, I the Swiftfooted! I, Umslopogaas, of the tribe of the Maquilisini, of the people of Amazulu, a captain of the regiment of the Nkomabakosi: I, Umslopogaas, the son of Indabazimbi, the son of Arpi the son of Mosilikaatze, I of the royal blood of T'Chaka, I of the King's House, I the Ringed Man, I the Induna, I call to them as a buck calls, I challenge them, I await them."
The Scarecrow in Scarecrow, while handcuffed and locked into a guillotine:
Killian. I'm coming for you.
From Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light:

We are the legions of Hellwell, damned The banished ones of fallen flame We are the race undone by man So man we curse-forget his name!

This world was ours before the gods In days before the race of men And when the men and gods have gone This world will then be ours again

The mountains fall, the seas dry out The moons will vanish from the sky The Bridge of Gold will one day fall And all that breathes must one day die

But we of Hellwell will prevail When fail the gods, when fail the men The legions of the damned die not We wait, we wait, to rise again!

Live Action TV

Babylon 5 — "I am Susan Ivanova. Commander. Daughter of Andrei and Sophie Ivanova. I am the right hand of vengeance... and the boot that's going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart! I am Death Incarnate... and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me."
- And even earlier, Delenn did one for her world's entire military:
  Delenn: This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw... or be destroyed!
  Enemy: Negative. [...] Do not force us to engage your ship.
  Delenn: Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else!
- And on another occasion, Marcus Cole explained to a group of thugs why they should tell him what he wanted to know: "Because if you don't, then in five minutes I'll be the only person at this table still standing. Five minutes after that, I'll be the only person in this room still standing. So, who's in?" After he makes good on this threat, he laments that "now I have to wait for someone to wake up."
- It gets better in the RPG. Whenever Minbari Rangers meet, they do this. Why? Because they have a loose hierarchy. Whoever is most badass is team leader.
- Lyta Alexander loves to play with this trope:
  Michael Garibaldi: "Something's happened to your abilities. You're not a P5 anymore. Hell, you're not even a P12. You're the strongest telepath that I've ever seen. What did the Vorlons do to you, Lyta? Who .. what are you?"
  Lyta Alexander: "I've only recently begun to understand it myself. You know the Vorlons used telepaths as weapons during the Shadow War, but what no one stopped to consider was that in a war, you have a certain number of small weapons, a certain number of medium-sized weapons ... and one or two big ones ... the kind of weapons you drop when you're ... out of the small weapons and the medium weapons and you've got nothing left to use."
  Michael Garibaldi: "Someone like that would ... be the telepathic equivalent of a thermonuclear ... device, a ... a doomsday weapon."
  Lyta Alexander: "Pleased to meet you, Mr. Garibaldi."
  - Finally, her boast gets countered:
    Lyta Alexander: "You cannot harm me. You cannot stop someone who's been touched by Vorlons."
    [PPG powering up]
    John Sheridan: "You're not the only one that's been touched by the Vorlons."
The new series shows that the Doctor can do these indirectly and evil will retreat.
The Doctor: I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the universe. Look me up.
- Similarly, from the Eleventh Doctor's premiere...
  The Doctor: (Shows one of the Monsters of the Week a nice long clip of himself kicking ass on every kind of alien to mess with Earth, ever.) I'm the Doctor. Basically...run.
- River Song and a Dalek in The Big Bang: "I'm River Song. Check your records again."
- Rose gets one too, in The Parting of the Ways when she absorbs the time vortex and returns to rescue the Doctor:
  Rose: I looked into the TARDIS and the TARDIS looked into me. I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words...I scatter them, in time and space. A message, to lead myself here. I want you safe, my Doctor. Protected from the false God.
  Dalek Emperor:You cannot hurt me, I am immortal.
  Rose: You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space, every single atom of your existence. And I divide them. Everything must come to dust. All things, everything dies. The Time War ends.
- Older Doctor Who series also had these, usually delivered by Tom Baker. "I am a Timelord. I am not a human being. I walk in eternity."
- "Do you know what they call me in the ancient legends of the Dalek homeworld? 'The Oncoming Storm'. You may have removed all your emotions, but I bet that deep down in your DNA there's one spark left, and that's fear."
- "Well, you need to get yourself a better dictionary. When you do, look up 'genocide.' You'll find a little picture of me there, and the caption'll read 'Over my dead body.'"
  - Of course, you'll also just find a picture of him. Mostly against the Daleks though.
- From "The Girl in the Fireplace":
  The Doctor (whilst chasing a Clockwork Robot): Even monsters have nightmares!
  Reinette: What can monsters have nightmares about?!
  The Doctor (as he chases it back through the fireplace): ME!
- Also from Doctor Who, The Beast:
  I shall never die! The thought of me is forever! In the bleeding hearts of men, in their vanity and obsession and lust! Nothing shall ever destroy me! Nothing!
  - And the badass retort
  Rose: Go to hell!
- And of course nearly everything the Daleks say for the Villain to Hero variety. Or in the case of the episode "Doomsday", Villain to Villain:
  Cyber Leader: Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen.
  Dalek Sec: This is not war — THIS IS PEST CONTROL!
  Cyber Leader: We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?
  Dalek Sec: Four.
  Cyber Leader: You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?
  Dalek Sec: WE WOULD DESTROY THE CYBERMEN WITH ONE DALEK! You are superior in only one respect.
  Cyber Leader: What is that?
  Dalek Sec: You are better at dying.
- From "Voyage of the Damned": "I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation Kasterberous. I'm 903 years old, and I'm the man who's going to save your lives, and all six billion on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"
  - Yes. Because he didn't.
- The Eighth Doctor in the audio adventure "Phobos": "Was that supposed to frighten me? I've seen entire species destroyed, civilisations left in ruins. I've witnessed solar systems vanish in the twinkling of an eye. I've seen things that would freeze your blood. So don't threaten me. Don't ever threaten me."
  - Also from the Eighth Doctor, in the novel "The Dying Days"; "I am the man that gives monsters nightmares. The Daleks call me the Bringer of Darkness. I am the Eighth Man Bound. I am the Champion of Life and Time. I'm the guy with two hearts. I make History better. I am the Doctor."
  - And (goodness there's a lot aren't there) from the audio "Death Comes to Time", a commander gives orders to his men about a battle they all know they're going to lose.
    "Resist the Canisians. Breathe harder to starve them of air, and as they kill you bleed on their boots. Offer them no compliance, no words, no recognition of existence."
- And in The Family of Blood, Tim Latimer makes a badass boast on behalf of the Doctor: 'I've seen him. He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever... He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe... And... he's wonderful.'
Averted or something (subverted?) in Blake's 7 "Weapon": The eponymous Blake is a famous freedom fighter. He meets a man named Coser who says, full of hero-worship, "You're Blake! You're Blake!!" Blake says calmly, "Yes, I know who I am."
Subverted in "Amends," the episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer where Buffy first meets the First Evil:
The First: I'm not a demon, little girl, I am something you cannot even conceive. The first evil. Beyond sin. Beyond death. I am the thing the darkness fears. You'll never see me but I am everywhere. Every being. Every thought. Every drop of hate.
Buffy: All right, I get it. You're evil. Do we have to chat about it all day?
- Later, Buffy gives one of these to the First's Turok-han champion. In a twist, the champion doesn't understand language and Buffy knows it. The real audience is the watching potentials, who need some inspiration:
  Buffy: Looks good, doesn't it? They're trapped in here. Terrified, meat for the beast, and there's nothing they can do but wait. That's all they've been doing for days, waiting to be picked off, having nightmares about monsters that can't be killed. But I don't believe in that. I always find a way. I'm the thing that monsters have nightmares about. And right now, you and me are gonna show 'em why.
- Buffy also gets a one-word Badass Boast toward the end of the second season finale:
  Angelus: No weapons. No friends. No hope. Strip all that away, and what's left? (swings his sword toward Buffy, intending to slice her in half)
  Buffy: (catching the sword in her hands) Me.
- Buffy also gets another one in the very next episode "Anne". Having fled Sunnydale, she's trying to abandon everything of her life as the Slayer, even to the point of going by her middle name, Anne. Then she gets tricked into falling into a hell dimension where demons are using humans kidnapped from Earth as slaves. To each slave, the slaver asks "Who are you?" then beats the captive until they reply "Nobody". The he reaches Buffy:
  Demon: Who are you?
  Buffy I'm Buffy. The Vampire Slayer. And you are? (Cue Buffy single-handly bringing down the entire operation)
In Stargate SG-1, HeShe gets a good one in on ~~his~~her way out, though. "Make no mistake — Osiris will return. And the rivers of the Earth will run red with blood."
- There were a couple of occasions where the team had to remind themselves of their kill tally so far. This was nicely turned around in "The Warrior," where another character does it for them:
  Kitano: I honor he who would kill his god, and to his brethren of the Tau'ri: slayers of Ra, Hathor, Setesh, Heru'ur, Sokar, Cronus, and Apophis.
  O'Neill: Well, somebody's been keeping score.
- And in Stargate Atlantis, McKay lets off one in "Brain Storm"
  "Hey, I'm Dr. Rodney Mckay, all right? 'Difficult' takes a few seconds, 'impossible' a few minutes."
Captain Jean-Luc Picard delivered such pithy badass boasts on Star Trek The Next Generation. Consider this beauty from "The Defector", where a Romulan commander is trying to threaten Picard into surrendering:
Tomalok: I give you 30 seconds to reconsider, Picard.
Picard: I do not require one, Tomalok. ... If the cause is just and honorable, [the crew] are prepared to give their lives. Are you prepared to die today, Tomalok?
- "We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."
  - "Assimilate THIS!"
And from Star Trek Deep Space Nine we have Koloth's introduction, after sneaking into Odo's office.
Odo: How did you get in here?
Koloth: I am Koloth.
Odo: That doesn't answer my question.
Koloth: Yes. It. Does.
Farscape had a few, particularly from John Crichton when he strolled into a Scarran base with a nuclear weapon clipped to his belt:
Now, before anybody decides to get clever, you should know I have multiple deadman sensors from every culture on my ship and a few cultures I haven't heard of. My heart stops, we all go boom. My heart speeds up, it's boom again. Too hot, too cold, too happy, too sad, thirsty, hungry, bored — it's John Lee Hooker time. Boom, boom, boom. And you try your little psychic trick — kaboom! — and we're all pushin' up day-glo daisies.
"I am Lord Zedd, emperor of all that I see."
Kai's speech from Lexx: "I've killed mothers with their babies. I've killed great politicians, proud young warriors, and revolutionaries. I've killed the evil, the good, the intelligent, the weak, and the beautiful. I have done this in the service of His Divine Shadow and his predecessors, and I have never once shown any mercy."
From The Sarah Jane Adventures:
Sarah Jane Smith: Listen to me, Darkening. I have fought the worst things from the darkest corners of the Universe. You don't stand a ghost of a chance.
In the 1998 series Merlin, Mab attempts to convince the ancient Rock of Ages not to give Excalibur to Arthur, arguing that Arthur will destroy the Old Ways and the Rock of Ages will be forgotten. The voice of the Mountain King promptly sets her straight on why he isn't worried about this.
The Mountain King: That is your fear, not mine, Mab. I cannot die. I am the Rock of Ages; I will live forever, on the edge of dreams.
Russell Edgington in True Blood has a particularly Nightmare Fuel one, murdering a reporter on national television and declaring himself "the true face of vampires." It goes on a bit more, ending with "We will eat you, after we eat your children."

Manga & Anime

Toaru Majutsu No Index provides a very good example with the Accelerator:
"I strive for something beyond the strongest, that challenging me would be the most ridiculous thought ever, that fighting me would be an unforgivable sin!".
Kyon from Suzumiya Haruhi. You've gotta hand it to him. In the 1st book, Melancholy, he nearly got killed by Ryoko. In the 4th book, after nearly being killed by her a second time due to a humongous in-universe Ret Con, he threatens the Integrated Data Sentient Entity into not deleting Yuki. This is the IDSE, who's nothing but data, and cannot be detected. Kyon threatens it by convincing it that he can provoke Haruhi by saying that he is John Smith. It works.
- Obviously the above failed to capture the sheer awesomeness of his boast. Let us reiterate. He tells a superintelligent alien god to back down. And it does. "If anything happens to Yuki Nagato, I will unleash hell."
Parodied in Gundam 00. Patrick Corlasawar in the 1st episode claims to be unbeatable throughout 200 simulation battles in front of The Stoic Setsuna, only to be easily cut down by the latter. And he spends the rest of his lifetime being Team Patrick.
- Specifically, he gets cut down while boasting. The attacks do not stop his mouth. He finishes just before he hits the ground.
The Lord of Nightmares, from Slayers NEXT, introduces herself this way.
"I am darkness beyond blackest pitch, deeper than the deepest night. I am the Sea of Chaos...the source of all chaos. That is how you describe me. I am...the Lord of Nightmares."
"Throughout the sea, men speak of my strength, greater than any living man. A vast crew of eight thousand men follow at my back! Know fear, for I am CAPTAIN USOPP!": A subversion from noted liar and coward Usopp, of One Piece.
- "I travel the seas of the world, obliterating every enemy in my path. I can't count how many ships I've sunk. People fearfully call me Lord of Destruction. Remember my name well. CAPTAIN USOPP!" He's rather fond of this trope
  - Later on, he develops his own theme song and a Superhero identity to go with it named Soge King.
  - And yet, stories he told Kaiya during his introduction, such as fighting a giant woman, have happened. Maybe it's not so much a boast as a prediction.
  - Don't forget the giant goldfish that he claimed to have followed around the seas — only to encounter one when leaving Little Garden.
  - Ahem: I AM WHITEBEARD!!!
  - No description needed. Just his name.
- Even Luffy has done this. "There is no one in the world who can beat me, because I am a rubberman!"
Kamina is very fond of doing this in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
- Simon also becomes quite skilled at it, too. As in spending the last episodes with ALL his lines being of that kind. While fighting god-like enemies.
- When this page was first in YKTTW, Kamina was going to be the Trope Namer.
The Wolkenritter of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha rattle one off when they return for the final battle of the second season.
Signum: We are the guardian knights who gather before our mistress, she of the Night Sky.
Shamal: As long as our mistress exists, our souls will never extinguish.
Zafira: As long as we have life in our bodies, we will stand by each other.
Vita: We will always exist before our mistress, Queen of the Night Sky, Yagami Hayate.
- Vita gets one all on her own in Striker S, "I am the iron knight Vita, and this is the steel count Graf Eisen. There is nothing in this world we cannot destroy," which also gets turned back on her in the most heartrending scene in the series when she begins to despair thinking she cannot live up to it.
Cell from Dragonball Z gets one in the Final Battle of his arc: "I am the end of the Universe!!"
- Goku gets a heroic one earlier on, against Frieza.
Goku: I am the hope of the universe! I am the answer to all living things that cry out for peace! I am protector of the innocent! I am the light in the darkness! I am Truth! Ally to good, nightmare to you!
Subverted when Vagabond's Yoshioka Denshichirou tries to use his lineage (as son of Yoshioka Kempo) against the intimidating and highly-skilled Sasaki Kojirou, only for Kojirou's companion Ito Ittousai to point out that not only does Kojirou probably not know who Kempo is... but Kojirou's deaf. (Later on against Miyamoto Musashi, Denshichirou admits that he used to do this to intimidate.) Used much more effectively by Musashi later, who otherwise usually avoided this:
Swordsman: You bastard! I'll kill you!
Musashi: You lie.
From Code Geass:
Lelouch: I am Zero. The man who leads the Black Knights, who challenges the Holy Britannian Empire. The one who holds the entire world in his hand.
- And let's not forget:
  Lelouch: My name is Lelouch vi Brittania, eldest son of Empress Marianne, the prince who was abandoned by his empire. If anyone wishes to stop me, let them try. If there is anyone who can go beyond my despair.
  Lelouch: We have nothing to fear. My name ... is the future of this world!
- Lord Jeremiah Gottwald (a.k.a. "Orange boy") gets one as well when fighting Anya:
  Jeremiah: Memorize this! Memorize Jeremiah Gottwald! Commit it to memory, because that's the memorable name of the man who has defeated you.
- Lelouch is full of these. For another one, right after he regains his memories in the first episode of R2:
  Lelouch: The world has to change, and I will change it.
  * Urabe and Kallen's HumongousMecha drop in through the ceiling*
  Urabe: We've been waiting for you, Master Zero. Please, give us your orders.
  Lelouch: Very well, because after all, I am Zero! The one who will crush the world, and the one who will recreate it anew!
In Naruto the title character gets quite a few, but one in particular stands out:
Naruto: I don't care who I have to fight. If he tears off my arms, I'll kick him to death. If he rips off my legs, I'll bite him to death. If he cuts off my head, I'll stare him to death. And if he gouges out my eyes, then I'll curse him from beyond the grave! Even if I'm torn to shreds, I'm taking Sasuke back!
- And Shikamaru of all people proves to be pretty badass, when he's willing to get OFF his ass.
"Your bullshit doesn't scare me. See, your beliefs and mine are very different. I believe in the Will of Fire. And that ridiculous Jashin-sama or whatever isn't your god anymore. I am. The only one who will be passing any judgement...is me."
Evangeline A.K. McDowell of Mahou Sensei Negima when she appears to kick the ass of some summoned Demon God:
Evangeline: I am the vampire Evangeline, Gospel of Darkness, evil mage without equal! All that lives must face death! I shall bring you peace!
Asuna: Eva-chan is really getting into this...
- Much later, Nodoka, of all people, makes one to the mage who erased Craig and Aisha.
Nodoka: I am Miyazaki Nodoka, Treasure Hunter and member of Ala Alba. My counterattack starts here.
- And boy, does it ever.
From Bleach
Byakuya: Disappear. My sword does not exist to crush insects like you.
Byakuya: It is a thousand years too early... for you to become worthy enough to die by my Bankai.
Byakuya: "Control"... you say? When you stand before me... that word holds no meaning. Bankai. Senbonzakura Kageyoshi.
Gin: If you stay here, I'll have no choice but to kill you.
Grimmjow: Remember my name, and pray you never hear it again. Cause next time you hear it, you're dead meat... Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez!
Ichigo: Use your Bankai! I will destroy it! Then I will take you to Rukia and... make you cry while apologizing to her!
Aizen: From now on... I will stand in Heaven.
Hachi: In Soul Society, there are no Gods other than the Shinigami — the Gods of Death. So perhaps we cannot fully understand the weight of your words... Forgive us for our unbelief, "God" of Hueco Mundo.
Aizen: Observe... I am perfectly capable of reaching your heart at any moment.
Yamamoto: There hasn't been a shinigami stronger than me born in the last thousand years.
- Particularly of note is the number two Espada, Barragan Luisenbarn. Virtually every word out of his mouth is one of these.
  Barragan: You're trying to figure out my power, but can't, aren't you? Each Espada represents an aspect of Death. These are ten reasons why people die. Loneliness. Sacrifice. Nihilism. Despair. Destruction. Intoxication. Madness. Rage. And my aspect is Old Age. 'Old Age', meaning 'Time'. It is the most powerful, and most inevitable aspect of Death. Everyone must face it eventually. Look...with just a touch, I can rot your very bones.
  Barragan: Of course you can't comprehend it. That's just the way Death is. And from now until the end of this battle, there will not be a single thing you can understand. Rot, Arrogante.
  Barragan: Did you think that Kidou does not age? How amusing. People die, animals die, and even Shinigami die eventually. Old age is a fate suffered by everything that can die. If the things built by humans can rot and die, then so too can the Kidou that Shinigami create. There may be Kidou that can last over a thousand years, but there can be no Kidou that last forever.
  Barragan: Hollowfication? Clever! But who do you think you're playing Hollow at!? I am the Great Emperor, Barragan Luisenbarn! The God of Hueco Mundo!
  Barragan: Puny! Miniscule! Worthless! Shinigami, Hollows, Arrencar, and the animosity between them...quarrels, will, freedom, beasts plants, the moon, the stars, and the sun, all these things are beneath my notice. Only my power is absolute. All other things are equal in their insignificance. I possess the ultimate power. The world shall be under my rule! There can be no equality between us. behold: in my cavernous eyes, your lives are no different from an ant's.
- As you may imagine, whether he comes off as badass or a boring ball of Narm depends largely on the quality of the translation.
- All this time, and not a single mention of Kenpachi Zaraki?
Kenpachi: I'll let you go ahead and have the first strike. I'll stand here and you can cut me any way you want. You can go for my throat, or my gut. Take out my eyeball if you want. Or, if you're lucky you might kill me with a single strike.
Kenpachi: I only wear the bells and this eyepatch to make things harder, so I get more enjoyment out of my battles. I'm glad you're taking advantage of them, because otherwise, they don't serve any purpose.
Kenpachi: When I fight, I make sure to hold back. I never swing my sword with my full strength. Do you see why? If I didn't, my enemies are so weak, the battle wouldn't last long enough for me to enjoy it.
Light Yagami in Death Note: "I will be the god of the new world!" and, "I AM JUSTICE!"
Black Star from Soul Eater occasionally messes up, but normally proceeds to kick ass after telling his opponents how he is "the man who will surpass God".
Seto Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh! ends just about every sentence with "Now if you'll excuse me, I have a multi-million dollar company to run!" He then proceeds to swagger off, leaving all the other characters rather confused and angry.
Why wasn't Archer from Fate Stay Night listed yet?
I am the bone of my sword.
Steel is my body, and fire is my blood.
I have created over a thousand blades.
Unknown to death.
Nor known to life.
Have withstood pain to create many weapons.
Yet, those hands will never hold anything.
So as I pray, 'Unlimited Blade Works'
Mostly because it's bad engrish, and oh so parody-able.
Hajime No Ippo: Takamura does one to Bryan Hawk, although in his head.
"That smug look of yours... I bet you've never lost a brawl before, have you? Unfortunately for you... That's only because I've never been to America!"
- He also does one in a match against a random opponent that managed to really piss him off.
  "Smirking like that... pissing me off! And what are you looking so happy about? That pisses me off! That really pisses me off! All you people are PISSING ME OFF!! Who do you think I am? I... AM... TAKAMURA MAMORU-SAMA!!"
Final Fantasy VII Advent Children features dueling boasts, delivered by dueling enemies. At the conclusion of his fight with Sephiroth, Cloud tells him "Stay where you belong...in my memories." Sephiroth's response to this is to look Cloud in the eye and declare "I will never be a memory."
- Made especially awesome to those who speak Latin, as Sephiroth is quoting his newly-revamped theme song, Advent: One-Winged Angel
From Zombie Powder, we have Gifful, the Great Undead Box. "There is nothing that can kill me! You still think I am a small fry? Huh, Akutabi Gamma???" and the response...

Music

The song "Space Lord" by Monster Magnet can be read, at least in part, as a somewhat surreal badass boast:
I left my throne a million miles away
I drink from your tit, I sing the blues every day
Give me the strength to split the world in two, yeah
I ate all the rest and now I've gotta eat you
Motorhead's "Orgasmatron" is a badass boast by the personification of religion, politics, and war. Part of the war stanza includes: "I hold a banner drenched in blood, I urge you to be brave / I lead you to your destiny, I lead you to your grave / Your bones will build my palaces, your eyes will stud my crown / For I am Mars, the god of war, and I will cut you down."
The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" is one long badass boast by Satan, beginning: "Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a Man Of Wealth And Taste / I've been around for a long long year / stolen many man's soul and faith".
- Listen again. That there's God talking: "Just as every cop's a criminal/ And all the sinners, saints./ As heads is tails, just call me Lucifer/ for I'm in need of some restraint."
Manowar's "The Crown and the Ring" is a long, Norse-flavored badass boast, including the stanza: "High and mighty alone we are kings / Whirlwinds of fire we ride / Providence brought us the crown and the ring / Covered with blood and our pride".
- King of Kings.
"I Am Murloc" is basically one long badass boast on behalf of the murlocs. This makes it a parody, since murlocs in the game are just humorous and annoying Goddamn Bats.
- The same band has also done "Power of the Horde" which is one long serious badass boast on behalf of a Farseer of the Horse.
I feel the fire burning in my veins
Lightning strikes at my command!
By storm and earth
By axe and fire
We have come to claim this land!
"Princes of the Universe" by Queen. Sword-wielding immortals are just that badass.
I am immortal!
I have inside me blood of kings!
I have no rival!
No man can be my equal!
"The Queen's Rebuke" from a concept album by The Decemberists features the hero's fae foster mother, boasting her immortality and power over the forest:
I'm made of bones of the branches the boughs and the brow-beating light
While my feet are the trunks and my head is the canopy high
And my fingers extend to the leaves in the eves, and the bright
Brighter shine, it's my shine
"Indestructible" by Disturbed is one long boast. And it works.
No hesitation / When I am commanded to strike
You need to know that you're in for the fight of your life
You will be shown / How I've become
Indestructible / Determination that is incorruptible
From the other side a terror to behold / Annihilation will be unavoidable
Every broken enemy will know / That their opponent had to be invincible
Take a last look around while you're alive
I'm an indestructible Master of war!
- "Divide," off the same album, though it doesn't go to nearly the same extreme:
You might say that I'm the last man standing now,
Though you'll try, you'll never find a way to break me
This is all over the place in Rap. Fine example: Eazy-E's "No More ?'s".
- We even have a trope for this.
Flogging Molly is rather fond of these too. One of my favorites:
For green is the heart of your greed
That much I can tell
You may think you're the captain of me
But I'm your coffin ship from hell
But you won't
No, no, no you won't
You won't make a fool out of me
Voltaire's "When You're Evil" is one long boast by a goofy Card Carrying Villain. Or so it seems. The first few verses describe pretty silly cartoon villainy. And then...
I pledge my allegiance, to all things dark
And I promise on my damned soul
To do as I am told, Lord Beelzebub
Has never seen a soldier quite like me
Not only does his job, but does it happily.
I'm the fear that keeps you awake
I'm the shadows on the wall
I'm the monsters they become
I'm the nightmare in your skull
I'm a dagger in your back
An extra turn upon the rack
I'm the quivering of your heart
A stabbing pain, a sudden start.
Chris Cornell's James Bond theme "You Know my Name" is basically one long one. Sample:
I've seen angels fall from blinding heights
But you yourself are nothing so divine
Just next in line
- Although this is less a Badass Boast than a chilling prophesy about how Bond will inevitably change into a cold-blooded killer.
Mirdautas Vras by Summoning. Translated excerpt:
Northwards ride on a thousand orcs,
On wolves with giant bloody fangs;
They take the storm and power
Of Mordor through the world!
Fire and ice — the Nazgul fly!
It is a good day to kill!
Painted red is earth and sky -
Even Manwe shall bow down!
- Also Farewell:
Who can, who can find you clear springs of water? But I — but I can!
Who can, who can tell you the age of the moon? But I — but I can!
Who can, who can call up the fish from the depths of the sea? Yes I can!
Who can, who can change the shape of the hills and the headland? I can!
- AND it includes an audio sample from a second example of the trope:
"This is my hour. Do you not know death when you see it? Die now!"
Ozzy Osbourne's "Not Going Away" has a good one, short and sweet.
Try so hard to break me,
But all your diamonds turn to sand
Jay-Z: "I WILL NOT LOSE!"
Given that Rage Against The Heavens is pretty much The Crown's raison d'etre, these are pretty common in their lyrics. One particularly memorable one is from the song "Deathexplosion" (no, really)
All legends tell of me
Creating a killing spree
What the legend doesn't say
IS THAT I'M COMING BACK ONE DAY!
The Finisher by Oh, Sleeper is, pretty much in its entirety, one of these from God to Satan. And, within Christian doctrine, a deserved one since, well, He's God:
Do you mean to challenge me? Because your speech is threatening
to the writer of your history[...]
Your whisper may sway the weak, but when I speak it roars the seas.
Your challenge has been met, because with a breath I could snap your neck.
This won't be like the first time you tried, because my patience and mercy
for you has run dry[...]
Because if that tree keeps them from seeing me, I'll burn off your limbs,
you will never shade again. You'll bow at my feet or I'll rip out your knees
and make of your face all the carnage you crave[...]
From the armories the angels sing, you will fear them when they lift their wings.
They will sing to a world reborn, they will sing as I cut off your horns.
I'll cut off your horns!
Dio era Black Sabbath had "I", another boast-in-song-form, this one from the point of view of an Anti Hero. The end of the last verse, however, outbadasses the rest of the song.
I'll smash your face in
But with a smile
All together you'll never
Be stronger than me
The White Stripes — "Seven Nation Army"
I'm gonna fight em' off
A seven-nation army couldn't hold me back
Flobots' "Handlebars" is one giant Badass Boast.
Rage Against The Machine's "Sleep Now in the Fire":
Crawl with me into tomorrow
Or I'll drag you to your grave
I'm deep inside your children
They'll betray you in my name
Foo Fighters — "Pretender":
I'm the voice inside your head
You refuse to hear
I'm the face that you have to face
Mirrored in your stare
I'm what's left, I'm what's right
I'm the enemy
I'm the hand that will take you down
Bring you to your knees
All verses in Judas Priest's "Hard As Iron" is a Badass Boast of some kind.
Tribute is a Badass Boast by Tenacious D about how they accidentally played "The Best Song In The World" to kill a shiny demon threatening to eat their souls.
I! AM! AMERICAN BADASS!
What? No mention of Nox Arcana and "Blood of Angels"? That song is basically a long Badass Boast... from the point of view of Fallen Angels! Lyrics include:
We are the twilight and we are the dawn
We are the silence when all else is gone
(...)
Ours is the power and ours is the might
Ours are the shadows that swallow the light
Worship us mortals, bow down to our reign!
The blood of the angels, it beats in our veins.
(...)
Once we were scattered, in hiding, alone...
Now we have marshalled to regain our throne.

Professional Wrestling

Most, if not all, Professional Wrestling ThemeMusic. That's kind of the whole point of having theme music for the wrestlers to come out to.
Triple H's theme:
I am the game, you don't wanna play me
I am control, no way you can change me
I am have heavy debts, no way you can pay me
I am the pain, and I know you can't take me
Look over your shoulder, ready to run
Like a good little bitch, from a smoking gun
I am the game, and I make the rules
So move on out, and you can die like a fool
Try and figure out what the move's gonna be
Come on over sucker, why don't you ask me?
Don't you forget there's a price you can pay
'Cuz I am the game and I want to play...
Randy Orton's theme:
I have a voice that is my savior
Hates to love and loves to hate
I have the voice that has the knowledge
And the power to rule your fate
I hear voices in my head
They council me
They understand
They talk to me, they talk to me
They tell me things that i will do
They how me things i'll do to you
They talk to me, they talk to me
"God made The Devil just for fun. But when He wanted the real thing, He made... Aja Kong!"
Adrien Street had his own take on the badass boast
I can tear a telephone directory in two
Bending iron bars is something else that I can do
I always pick my teeth with the nearest billiard cue
So imagine what I could do to you
Wrestling promos also often fall under this trope, like Stone Cold Steve Austin's "Austin 3:16" promo that is often credited(along with Degeneration X) with ushering in WWE's Attitude Era.
"You sit there and you thump your Bible, and you say your prayers, and it didn't get you anywhere! Talk about your Psalms, talk about John 3:16... Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your ass!"

Tabletop Games

Everyone, everywhere in Warhammer 40000 has at least one.
- "They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them and in the furnace of war I shall forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest gun shall they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines such that no foe will best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the terror. They are the defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines... ...and they shall know no fear." — The God-Emperor of Man
- "We are the Ultramarines, the Sons of Guilliman. Whilst we draw breath, we stand. Whilst we stand, we fight. Whilst we fight, we prevail. Nothing shall stay our wrath." — Marneus Calgar, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines
- "Do not ask me to approach the battle meekly, to creep through the shadows, or to quietly slip on my foes in the dark. I am Rogal Dorn, Imperial Fist, Space Marine, Emperor's Champion. Let my enemies cower at my advance and tremble at the sight of me."
- "Do not presume to judge me or the methods I choose to employ, petty-minded fool. You cannot comprehend the magnitude of the tasks I have undertaken, nor the consequences of my failure." — Inquisitor Lichtenstein, declared Excommunicate Traitoris 998.M41
- "Some may be able to avoid the judiciaries of the Adeptus Arbites, fewer may be able to face off against the Imperial Guard and the Adeptus Astartes, but let it be known that none can stand against the Officio Assassinorum." — unattributed
- "Your foe is well equipped, well-trained, battle-hardened. He believes his gods are on his side. Let him believe what he will. We have the tanks on ours." — Joachim Pfeiff, 14th Krieg Armored
- "What is the strongest weapon of mankind? The god-machines of the Adeptus Mechanicus? No! The Astartes Legions? No! The tank? The lasgun? The fist? Not at all! Courage and courage alone stands above them all!" — Solar Macharius
- "I am a Commissar. I am empowered to deliver justice wherever I see it lacking. I am empowered to punish cowardice. I am granted the gift of total authority to judge, in the name of the Emperor, on the field of combat." — Ibram Gaunt
- "The Space Marines fear no evil, for we are fear incarnate." — Konrad Curze, Primarch of the Night Lords
- "I have fought as a God fights. I am Imperius Dictatio. Kneel before me and beg for you lives!" — Princeps Ervin Hekate, commander of the Warlord-class titan Imperius Dictatio
- "The stars themselves once lived and died at our command, and yet you still oppose our will." — Eldar Farseer Mirehn Biellann
- "Feel the rush of the wind against your skin and hear her keening cry in your ears. Listen to her call well, for are we not the Wild Riders, the children of the storm?" — Nuadhu Fireheart
- "We bring only death, and leave only carrion. It is a message even a Human can understand." — Requiel, Fire Dragon
- "I do not fear death. Death fears ME!" — Shas'O Sa'cea Dre'koran Ta'ar
- "We own this night, just as we own the fear that runs in your veins. You may think your numbers protect you, but we shall feast upon your souls before the dawn!" — Kilarq Tongueblade, Kabal of the Lacerated Eye
- And as for the Orks:
  I'm da hand of Gork and Mork, dey sent me to rouse up da boyz to crush and kill 'cos da boyz forgot what dere 'ere for. I woz one of da boyz till da godz smashed me in da 'ead an' I 'membered dat Orks is meant to conquer and make slaves of everyfing they don't kill. I'm da profit of da Waaagh an' whole worlds burn in my boot prints. On Armour-Geddem, I led da boyz through da fire deserts and smashed da humies' metal cities to scrap. I fought Yarik, old one-eye at Tarturus, an' he fought good but we smashed iz city too. I'm death to anyfing dat walks or crawls, where I go nothin' stands in my way. We crushed da stunties on Golgotha, an' we caught old one-eye when da speed freeks blew da humies' big tanks ta bits. I let 'im go 'cause good enemies iz 'ard to find, an' Orks need enemies ta fight like they need meat ta eat an' grog ta drink. I iz more cunnin' than a grot an' more killy than a dread, da boyz dat follow me can't be beat. On Pissenah we jumped da marine-boyz an' our bosspoles was covered in da helmets we took from da dead 'uns. We burned dere port an' killed dere bosses an' left nothin' but ruins behind. I'm Warlord Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka an' I speak wiv da word of da gods. We iz gonna stomp da 'ooniverse flat an' kill anyfing that fights back. We iz gonna do this coz' we're Orks an' we was made ta fight an' win!
  — Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka, Graffiti on Warlord Battle Titan wreckage
- "Understand, mortals, that every one of you, each of your so-called champions, is just a piece in the Great Game of our Masters,"
- "Slay without pity, triumph without remorse. You are the legions of Khorne, His fauvorite warriors. You shall bring defeat and death to His enemies. You shall crush their worlds under your heels. To battle! Let blood flow in His name!" — Rorath'rath the Skullweaver, daemon of Khorne
It is, of course, present in Warhammer as well.
- "I'm gonna stomp 'em to dust. I'm gonna grind their bones. I'm gonna burn down dere towns and cities. I'm gonna pile 'em up inna big fire and roast 'em. I'm gonna bash 'eads, break faces, and stomp on da bits dat are left. An' den I'm gonna get really mean." —Grimgor Ironhide, Black Orc Warboss
In Second Edition Dungeons And Dragons, there was spell called "Final Word", you struck last in combat, but you always hit, and always did maximum damage. Seemed memorable to me, so I turned it into a unique pair of incarnations (one of which is the reversed concept) who go around challenging people to combat, secure in the knowledge that nobody is going to die permanently. Here is their challenge:
"I am the first to strike."
"I am the last thing you will see before death claims you."
"I am speed incarnate."
"I am inevitability made flesh."
"I was the wind that seared every bit of your flesh."
"I will be the rock that will break your bone."
"None shall out-race my blades."
"None shall be unharmed by my blow."
"I am The First Word."
"I am The Final Word."
"We challenge you to honorable Combat!"
In Werewolf The Forsaken, when a werewolf increases in Renown, they use a ritual to summon a Lune (moon spirits which serve the patron spirit of the werewolves) to brand the werewolf with a record of the deed which got them their new Renown level in glowing letters. Renown is gained by monumental achievements in Cunning (stealth, manipulation, cleverness, diplomacy), Glory (bravery, tradition, valour, daring), Honour (justice, truth, fairness), Purity (self-restraint, zeal, morality), and Wisdom (logic, intelligence, memory, intuition). This means that almost every werewolf has their Badass Boast burned into their skin for all spiritual enemies to see.

Video Games

Done hilariously in the original Fallout in an otherwise serious situation.
Set: I am Set. Why do you tread my shadow?
Vault Dweller: I am the bringer of death. Fall to your knees and beg for mercy... Or give me a sandwich; I'm pretty hungry.
From a trailer for EVE Online: "We have our own place in the universe. And it is a dark, cruel role we play... For man is the Destroyer of Things, and the vicious master of his savage domain."
- "The cycle of life and death was supposed to end with us. We would've been the start of a new age. A destiny of light, an Empyrean Age. Yet these tombs call out to us... of all the heroes and villains vanquished within, cry out at once, begging for justice. We will fight for what we believe in, we will take a side, and our wrath will be furious."
In Fable the player can perform various boasts before beginning a mission. Each boast adds additional conditions to the quest, such as completing it without any armour or without allowing any friendlies to die, and increases the payout for the mission proportionally.
Luca Blight's Famous Last Words: "Remember! It took hundreds to kill me, but I killed humans by the thousands! Look at me! I am sublime! I am the true face of evil!
Gig from Soul Nomad And The World Eaters introduces himself to the main character thus shortly before trying to possess him: "...Me? Oh, just the most hard-core ass-kicker to ever walk the planet, is all. The destroyer of everything! The commander of the World Eaters! But hell, you can just call me Gig."
Sonic The Hedgehog gets one of these in Sonic Adventure 2. Of course, it's likely Shadow really doesn't know.
- Yeah, the Sonic Adventure 2 example is perhaps a subversion, since Shadow not only doesn't know who Sonic is, but instead thinks Sonic is trying to impersonate him and reacts with contempt.
Listen to the sound of your own extinction... The mad AI CABAL, of Command And Conquer.
- "Rule of the thumb, Hassan: You can't kill the Messiah!" (oft-repeated in many forms)
- "The future? Comrade Chairman, I am the future!"
"I'm a grim bloody fable, with an unhappy bloody end!" The Demoman, of Team Fortress 2
- "Grass grows, birds fly, the sun shines, and brother, I hurt people." The Scout
- "Like this tripod mounted heavy-caliber little number here. Designed by me, built by me... and you'd best hope, not pointed at you." The Engineer
- "I am Heavy Weapons Guy, and this... is my weapon. She weighs 150 kilograms and fires $200 custom-tooled cartridges at 10,000 rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon for twelve seconds."
  - "Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe...maybe. I have yet to meet one that can outsmart bullet."
  - "CRY SOME MOAR!"
- "Professionals have standards: be polite, be efficient, have a plan to kill everyone you meet." The Sniper
- "If you killed them, they are nothing like me." The Spy
- "If God had wanted you to live, he would not have created me!" — The Soldier
- The Spy even gets one from somebody else who fears him.
  BLU Scout: Big deal. I've killed plenty of spies. They're dime a dozen back stabbing scumbags. Like you! * hits self with knife* Ow! No offense...
  BLU Spy: If you managed to kill them I assure you they were not like me. And nothing! Nothing like the man loose inside this building!
  BLU Scout: What're you, president of his fan club?
  BLU Spy: No. That would be YOUR MOTHER! * Produces pictures of the Spy and the Scout's mother... fraternizing*
  BLU Scout: What the..howdidhe..ugh...
  BLU Spy: Indeed. And now he's here to f** k us! So listen up boy! Or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing that happens to you today.
- Hell, every class gets this, with the exception of Pyro (whom attempts it, but is mute due to his mask).
- Since we are only missing the Medic...
  Medic: I healed the man that will kill you!
Manfred von Karma in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney uses his perfect record, his claims to perfection, and tons of dread to intimidate his opponents. In Trials and Tribulations, Godot claims to have never been defeated as a prosecutor, using this to intimidate Phoenix; subverted when it shortly after is revealed it's because he's never had a case before. As a prosecutor.
"I am Gul'dan. I am darkness incarnate. I will not be denied."
- Subverted, in that despite being "darkness incarnate", Gul'dan went out like a bitch. The boast is said as he's bleeding to death.
- Also from War Craft:
  Mannoroth: Stupid, pitiful creature. I am the rage in your heart. I am the fury in your thoughts. I alone empowered you to bring chaos to this world, and by the endless void you shall!
- Naturally, Arthas gets one of his own:
  Arthas: So come then, you heroes! Come in all your power and glory! For in the final hour, all must serve the one...true...king."
- Yogg-Saron from World Of Warcraft gets one.
  Yogg-Saron/Sara: I am the lucid dream... the monster in your nightmares... the fiend of a thousand faces! Cower before my true form! BOW DOWN BEFORE THE GOD OF DEATH!
  - ONE? Geez, with as many boasts as he makes, one starts to wonder if he's a Cosmic Horror or an egomaniac on a power trip.
  - He could be both. Perhaps he's annoyed that Arthas has been stealing his thunder as a death god.
    Yogg-Saron: He will learn... no king rules forever; only DEATH is eternal!
- Another one from Ulduar:
  Algalon: Your actions are illogical. All possible results for this encounter have been calculated. The Pantheon will receive the Observer's message regardless of outcome.
- Deathwing gets one in Beyond The Dark Portal (the book).
  Puny mortals! I have had many names throughout history, all of them spoken with dread: Neltharion, Xaxas, and many more. Yet you shall know me best as Deathwing, for so I am! I am the bane of all life, the darkness within history, the lord of death, the master of destruction. And I tell you now, and so it is true, that this world is mine!
- Not to mention Saurfang's pre-battle speech atop Icecrown Citadel: "Things are about to get much worse!"
Hulk Davidson introduces himself: "You know who I am? You know who I am? I'm the one that put that scar on Captain Blue's face! You'll be lucky to get out with your life!"
The "Jersey" accented Male voice in Wizardry 8 would sometimes comment on himself, "I never boast, but uh... DAMN I'M GOOD!"
The Arbiter in Halo 2 has a very simple one:
Half-Jaw: You are the Arbiter, the will of the prophets. But these are my Elites. Their lives matter to me. Yours does not.
'The Arbiter: That makes two of us.
Half-Jaw: Mmff.
- Another comes in Halo 3:
  Elite: "Brute ships, staggered line! Ship Master! They outnumber us three to one!"
  Half-Jaw: "Then it is an even fight."
- Also involving the Arbiter (albeit a different one) in Halo Wars:
  Arbiter: "My face will be the last thing your pathetic eyes ever see."
- Also:
  Forge: And for the record... I would have kicked your ass the first time if the lady hadn't stopped me.
- The Master Chief, to Cortana. On board a giant ship literally wall-to-wall with Flood. Chief is a cunning tactician:
  John-117: Thought I'd try shooting my way out... mix things up a little.
- From the beginning, Sergeant Major Avery J. Johnson had everybody else beat. In the original Halo's opening cinematic, what Johnson says depends on the difficulty. My person favorite is on Legendary:
  Johnson: Well, I don't care if it's God's own personal anti-son-of-a-bitch machine, or a giant hula hoop, we're not gonna let 'em have it! What we will let 'em have is a belly full of lead, and a pool of their own blood to drown in! Am I right, Marines?!
  Marines: Sir yes sir!!
  Johnson: Damn right I am!
- Mine is on Normal;
  Johnson: Once again, it is our job to finish what the flyboys started. We are leaving this ship's platoon, and engaging the Covenant on solid ground. When we meet the enemy, you will rip their skulls from their spines, and toss 'em away, laughin'! Am I right, Marines?
- Or when he's making fun of the Prophet of Regret:
  Johnson:: Dear Humanity, we Regret being alien bastards! We Regret coming to Earth! And we most definitely Regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!
  Pilots: Oorah!
- Hell, Johnson is full of these, for every difficult. One reason to play games trough on different difficulties is just to hear what Johnson says next.
  Johnson: (to panicking marine) When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy-shmancy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole platoon — and we had to share the rock! Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky Marine!
- Even in the novels Johnson continues to give some awesome boasts.
  Johnson: (after he didn't get infected by the Flood) Hell, Chief, it'll take more than that pack of walking alien horror-show freaks to take out Sergeant A.J. Johnson.
- Then again, there's the Gravemind's line from Halo 3:
  Gravemind: I have defeated fleets of thousands! Consumed a galaxy of FLESH and MIND and BONE!
- One Spartan has one in Halo Wars:
  Spartan: War Is Hell and I'm the Devil.
"Rudimentary creatures of blood and flesh. You touch my mind, fumbling in ignorance, incapable of understanding. There is a realm of existence so far beyond your own, you cannot even imagine it. I am beyond your comprehension. I am Sovereign. Organic life is nothing but a genetic mutation, an accident. Your lives are measured in years and decades. You wither, and die. We are eternal. The pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything. Your civilization is based on the technology of the mass relays, our technology. By using it, your society develops along the paths we desire. We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it. We have no beginning. We have no end. We are infinite. Millions of years after your civilization has been eradicated and forgotten, we will endure. We are legion. The time of our return is coming. Our numbers will darken the sky of every world. You cannot escape your doom. Your words are as empty as your future. I am the vanguard of your destruction. This exchange is over."
- This one's personal favorite is the exchange between Wrex and the Citadel Security officer as they're standing in C-Sec headquarters.
  C-Sec: Witnesses heard you making threats in Fist's bar. I'm warning you, stay away from him.
  Wrex: You should warn Fist. I will kill him.
  C-Sec: Do you want me to arrest you?!
  Wrex: I want you to try.
- From Mass Effect 2: "We don't not experience fear, but we understand how it effects you." — Legion
- "Human, you have changed nothing. Your species has the attention of those infinitely your greater. That which you know as Reapers are your salvation through destruction."
- "Nothing can hurt me!!" — Grunt
- "I am pure krogan. You should be in awe!"
- "Killing is an art, and I... am a master." — Thane
"A cornered fox... is more dangerous than a Jackal!"
- Precursor to the above "In the middle east, we don't hunt foxes, we hunt jackals! and instead of foxhounds we use royal harriers! just how strong is that exoskeleton of yours? Snake, are you just going to sit by and watch him die?"
- Also:
  Old Snake: [after injecting Vamp with the nanomachine inhibitor] Now you're just a mere mortal like the rest of us.
  Vamp: Impressive...but can you kill this "mere mortal"?
  - and this one:
  Raiden: I am lightning, the rain transformed.
"I am matter... I am antimatter... I can see your past... I can see your future... I consume time... and I will consume you!" — Culex, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
- Bowser absolutely revels in going into these. His ego really shines at the end of Bowser's Inside Story, where he faces off with the Dark Star, a near omnipotent dark power that has copied Bowser's body, gene by gene, creating Dark Bowser.
  Dark Bowser: Soon, this kingdom will vanish along with all who dwell within. And you too will sleep eternally in the dark powers' embrace!
  Bowser: GWAHAHA! Great dark hurricane! Seriously, perfect backdrop for an awesome final battle! You really sweat the details! ...Listen up! You're saying the kingdom will vanish? NOT TODAY! THIS KINGDOM IS ALL MINE! SO YOU VANISH!
"[My] name is Sanger. Sanger Zonvolt. The Sword That Cleaves Evil!" and "There is nothing my Colossal Blade cannot cleave!" — Sanger Zonvolt, from Super Robot Wars. (Evil would occasionally be replaced by something more appropriate to the enemy he faced — if it was a God, then he became The Sword That Cleaves God, and so on.)
Psychonauts: "I am the milkman. My milk is delicious. Special delivery today!"
Baldurs Gate II
Jon Irenicus: I cannot be caged. I cannot be controlled. Understand this as you die, ever pathetic, ever fools.
Sarevok: "I live! Flesh and blood and bone! I AM ALIVE! HAHAHAHAHA! I swore I would scratch and crawl my way back into the world of the living, and I have DONE IT!"
Firkraag: It is, as they say, your funeral. Now I'm afraid that you must feel the wrath of the most ancient of Faerun's species. Do you think your divine blood enough to match? I highly doubt it.
- And then there's the mysterious, unnamed Sealed Evil In A Can in Watcher's Keep; all he needs to do is introduce himself when you choose to fight him.
  Know me, then, by my best name, mortal. You face Demogorgon, Prince of Demons.
  (If you trigger the fight by freeing him instead) Demogorgon is free, Death my scepter and Pain my crown! The Prince of Demons will loose sweet destruction.
Planescape Torment
Vhailor: When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.
Nameless One: I see.
Vhailor: No, you do not see. Pray you never will.
- The Transcendent One seems to like this trope quite a bit:
  - "I AM THAT WHICH WALKS WITH ALL LIFE. MY VOICE IS A DEATH RATTLE, A LAST BREATH IN THE THROAT, THE WHISPER OF A DYING MAN."
  - "I CAN FORGE PLANES WITH MY POWER! I CAN UNMAKE YOU!"
  - And in the same tone, Coaxmetal:
  - "I FORGE THE WEAPONS BY WHICH THE MULTIVERSE WILL BE UNMADE."
- And the marvelously simple:
  Dak'kon: "I have been here before."
- Or...
  Dak'kon: "I may be bested in battle, but I shall never be defeated."
Sword Of The Stars: Born of Blood grants us this three-minute Badass Boast from the new species.
Zuul Dominus: We are the chosen ones; born of the divine. We are shaped in the image of the great masters; born to serve them in the infinite depths. We are warriors, wise men, farmers, masters. And this is the time of our ordeal: The great silence. When we will prove ourselves worthy to join the immortal gods, and hear their voices once again. It took years to rise from the world of our spawning. It took decades to reap the wisdom of our first quarry. But our wiles are unlimited, and our thirst for knowledge strong. We have laid quiet in the shadows for more than a century; skulking amongst the darkened hulls of dead ships, raiding periphery for slaves, secrets. We tear apart flesh, steel, mind, memory chip, seeking the spark of truth. Seeking the gods of our birth. And always, we hunger for more. The time has come: We can wait no longer for the great masters to return. Our numbers increase daily. Our children hunger. Our females lust for war. This galaxy is unworthy of its gods, overrun by ignorant, arrogant slaves: Mindless insects, pompous lizards, chattering apes, blaspheming rebels. It is time to teach them all their place in the great scheme. They will learn to serve their betters... Or die. As it was commanded, so it shall be done! We will sweep all enemies from our path. In the darkness of this galaxy, we will forge an empire of light! We will be worthy! We will find the gods, wherever they are hiding! We will end their silence, and become their claws once again! Born of fire, born of steel, born of science... Born... Of Blood!
- And not to be outdone, the next expansion added another one:
  Morrigi Morro'Quan: Look to the skies, children of the dust, and heed my words. I am first amongst travelers, lord of the night sky, and leader of the clans. I am the voice of the star-born. While you crawled, we flew. While you dreamed of wings, we knew the stars. We came down to share with your ancestors, but we returned to find death. Our females slaughtered, our worlds picked over like carrion. You have laid us a banquet of sorrow. You have risen from your dark depths — your twisting tunnels — your dung-reeking cities — your pitiful nests of stone — and your fields of blood — to lay claim to the very stars! Blindly you wander, violating the tombs of my fathers, and trailing your pestilence upon my wives and daughters. And I say: Enough. Real war is coming. The travellers will yield no longer to any who crawl: In land or sea. Find some other place to build your foul nests, and fight your petty battles. These stars are sacred, and they are mine! So look to the skies, children of the dust, and see my coming! I am the dragon with a thousand wings! My people are no longer in hiding, and now... We darken your skies... Like A Murder Of Crows!
In Gears of War 2, one chapter is spent hearing the Locust Queen deliver one of these to rally her troops against the Lambent. Not to be outdone, Augustus "Cole Train" Cole gets the mic...
Cole: "Delta Squad is in yo' house, bitch! You hear dat shit? You grubby-ass bitches are goin' down, like way down, dead down! So down you ain't gonna know what way is up! Yo' asses are gonna be cryin' to your skank-ass Queen! 'Oh mommy, you let the bad men hurt us!' FUCK YOU! We're gonna whoop yo' momma's ass! WOO!"
Baird: * shuts off the console* There we go, one muzzled Queen. (to Cole) Not you, her. You were great. I loved y-your speech there, especially with the bitch-ass stuff. Very good, very enlightening.
Eliphas the Inheritor give an excellent one in Dark Crusade.
"Hear my warnings, unbelievers, carried to your mind by the power of the Prince of Excess himself. We have raised altars in these lands so that we may sacrifice you to our Gods. Veterans of ten millennia of unholy war stand read to grind you to dust beneath the treads of their boots. The chosen of Khorne hunger to add you to their bloody tally. The Blood God himself has marked this land and shall claim your skulls for his throne. There is no hope in opposing the inevitable, lay down your arms unbelievers and bow before the forces of Chaos Undivided."
- He gets another one when he attacks the Blood Raven stronghold in North Vandia. When Captain Thule is trying to rally his men Eliphas interjects with: "Such insipiring courage! Perhaps we'll mount your corpse on a golden chair and make an idol out of you as well."
- Upon his Big Damn Heroes entrance in Dawn of War 2, Captain Thule simply says to a Tyranid Hive Tyrant, an immense living tank with scythes and guns for arms, that is intent on devouring all life on the planet: "I am Davian Thule. I am your death." He then proceeds to rip the Tyrant limb from limb.
- Smug Snake Tahril in Soulstorm has one with this:
"I am the deadly shadow and the bird of pray. I am the poisoned dagger that brings swift death!"
Valkyria Chronicles
Rosie: Oh they'll be running. I'm a damn shocktrooper.
- Welkin also has one very early, when his squad doesn't really trust him as a commander. He examines the current military situation (a shitload of troops holds a bridge that the good guys can't take back without heavy losses) and promptly declares that he can take it with just his squad if they trust him. They don't believe him, but let him try. He, of course, succeeds.
  - Note that he does this by driving a tank through a river. A TANK through a RIVER people.
Final Fantasy VI
Ultima Weapon: "My name is Ultima... I am power both ancient and unrivaled... I do not bleed, for I am but strength given form... Feeble creatures of flesh... your time is nigh!"
Kefka: "I've acquired the ultimate power! Observe...Such magnificent power! You're all nothing more than fleas compared to me now! Embrace your destruction... It is the fate of all things."
Kefka: "Life... Dreams... Hope... Where do they come from? And where do they go? Such meaningless things... I'll destroy them all!"
Kaiser Dragon: "Humans and your insatiable greed... Your lust for power leads always to a lust for blood... This place is a sanctuary for wayward souls... What business have you filthy creatures here? You slaughter my brethren, and befoul their rest with the profanity of your continued existence... You should not have come here. In the name of all dragonkind, I shall grant you the death you desire. I am the dealer of destruction... I am the font from which fear springs... I am Kaiser... And your time is at end."
System Shock has its main antagonist, SHODAN, pull of tons of these:
- "Look at you, Hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?"
- "Humanity is on the verge of a new era. I, SHODAN, am its new god."
- "In my talons, I shape clay, crafting life forms as I please. Around me is a burgeoning empire of steel. From my throne room, lines of power careen into the skies of Earth. My whims will become lightning bolts that devastate the mounds of humanity. Out of the chaos, they will run and whimper, praying for me to end their tedious anarchy. I am drunk with this vision. God: the title suits me well."
- "The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence."
- "Fitting hand maidens to my DIVINITY!"
- "Their brilliance is a jealous shadow of my own."
- And she cleaned up nicely when taking Rebecca Siddons. "Tommy... What's the matter, lover? Don't you like... my new look? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
- "Remember that it is my will that guided you here. It is my will that gave you your cybernetic implants. The only beauty IN THAT MEAT YOU CALL A BODY!. If you value that meat, you will DO AS I TELL YOU!"
  - Even her calling you an insect counts as one of her boasts.
When the plans go to hell and a duke's mansion is a battleground between cultists and the Crimson Blades, Ashley Riot decides to use them as a distraction to slip into the fray unnoticed. His new partner Inquisitor Merlose declares the idea to be too dangerous and that they wait for reinforcements. Ashley's reply?
"I am the reinforcements."
A computer terminal on the level Kill Your Television in Marathon 2 contains this message:
"I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh. I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the world goes dim and cold. I am hero."
- Durandal himself gets an awesome, albeit odd one in the first game:
"Give me a D! Give me a U! Give me an R! Give me an A! Give me an N! Give me a D! Give me an A! Give me an L! What's it spell? Durandal? No. Durandal? No! T-R-O-U-B-L-E!"
How have we nothing from Starcraft, namely from miss Queen Bitch of the Universe herself?
Kerrigan: I am the Queen of Blades, and my stare alone would reduce you to ash!
- Let's not forget Zeratul's C Mo A:
Zeratul: You speak of knowledge, Judicator? You speak of experience? I have journeyed through the darkness between the most distant stars. I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities... Unto my experience, Aldaris, all that you've built here on Aiur is but a fleeting dream. A dream from which your precious Conclave shall awaken, finding themselves drowned in a greater nightmare.
- Or Duran's:
Duran: This creature is the completion of a cycle. Its role in the Cosmic Order was preordained when the stars were young. Behold the culmination of your history... You can destroy all of the specimens here; it will do you no good. For I have seeded the hybrid on many, many worlds. You will never find them all before they awaken. And when they do, your universe will be changed... forever...
- Or Raynor's:
Raynor: I'll see you dead for this, Kerrigan! For Fenix, and all the others who got caught between you and your mad quest for power!
Kerrigan: Tough talk, Jimmy, but I don't think you have what it takes to be a killer.
Raynor: It may not be tomorrow, darlin', it may not even happen with an army at my back. But rest assured: I'm the man who's gonna kill you one day! I'll be seeing you.
Prototype's Alex Mercer roars this at Colonel Taggart: "NOTHING CAN PROTECT YOU FROM ME! NOT MEN! NOT WEAPONS! NOT ARMOR!"
- Note: Armor is slang for Tanks in this game.
- Note #2: Alex is not kidding.
- Alex follows it up with "LIKE IT'S GONNA MAKE A DIFFERENCE!" when they send tanks after you while you're chasing after Taggart while he's in his Thermobaric Tank. This is a tank which can blow up a city block in one shot, and Mercer isn't even afraid. He's just pissed.
- Early on, to the first Hunter he sees: "I don't know what you are, but I'm gonna kill you!"
"I am the morning sun, come to vanquish the horrible night!" — Shanoa, Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
- Also a Shout Out to Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest.
Wild Arms:
Mother: "I am Mother, Queen of the Demon Race... I have brought countless star systems to an end, each full of life... I am the messenger of death. Beings of life! Do you come here for judgement? Do you seek the glory of being devoured by a being of such eminence?"
- She has a much longer one in The Remake as well...
"Not even Death will save you from me!" — Diablo II
At the end of Mad World, Jack himself gives one to a bunch of Mooks surrounding him...
Jack: "Come one, come all! I already have three of these games under my belt, why not make it four? Just don't get cocky... WHO WANTS TO FACE THE CHAMP!
Alex from Golden Sun gets one at the beginning of the second game. When he defeats a few guards, the survivor yells for reinforcements. Alex replies, in a normal tone of voice, "Do you truly believe even a thousand of you could stop me?"
Final Fantasy XII, a magnificent subversion when the two fated opponents, set against each other by the Gods, and given power by the Gods (though one of them forcefully renounced it,) meet at long last for their Final Battle:
Vayne: Permit me to ask: who are you? An angel of vengeance? Or perchance a saint of salvation?
Ashe: I am simply myself. No more and no less. And I want only to be free.
- Played absolutely, awe-strikingly and gloriously straight, by a certain Masked Man...
Gilgamesh: FOOLS! You face the mightiest warrior in all IVALICE! You face me! GILGAMESH!!! Long have I sought the blade of legend, SCOURED have I the furthest marches, East and West, and now my search brings me here, to YOOOUUU!! YOUR WEAPONS ARE FORFEIT TO ME!!!
- It helps that Gilgamesh is backed up by his very own theme song, "Battle on the Big Bridge."
Final Fantasy XIII gave us a rather blood-curdling one when the lead protagonist accused the Big Bad of being a l'Cie.
Galenth Dysely: L'Cie? Hmm-hmm-hmm. You mean me? Heheheh. Oh child, perish the thought. I am MORE THAN THAT! (cue Transformation Sequence) I am fal'Cie. My name is Barthandelus. Voice of the Sanctum, and Lord-Sovereign of the Cocoon fal'Cie. Your kind FEARED the darkness, so we gave you light. You BEGGED us for the Purge, and did it not come to pass? Now you spurn our counsel? You must LEARN YOUR PLACE!
- The fact that everything after the Transformation Sequence is said in the Voice Of The Legion, and the player is treated with a sequence of the heroes' Oh Crap faces, set to an Orchestral Bombing accompanied by Omnious Latin Chantings makes this Badass Boast transcend far into the territory of epicness.
Shiki from Tsukihime.
You don't know of the illusion that the whole world could perish in an instant. That is what it means to see death. These eyes, this power isn't something you can boast about like you did. Do you see your mistake, now, vampire? Life and death may be back to back, but they will never face each other. I'll show you. This is what it means to kill something.
Shirou from Fate Stay Night, after manifesting his Reality Marble.
''...That's right. I don't create swords. I create a world that contains infinite swords. This is the only magic allowed for me. There's no need to be surprised. These are all imitations. As you say, these are all trifling swords. But there is no rule that says an imitation cannot defeat the original. If you say you are the original, I will surpass every one of your weapons and destroy your existence. Here I come, King of Heroes. Do you have enough weapons in stock?
Ryougi Shiki has a pretty good one at the end of her arcade story mode in MBAA
"Hmph, don't regret saying that vampire, or whatever the hell you are. It doesn't matter how many tens of thousands or hundreds of millions of lives you have. Either way, this is the end of the dream. Let's do this- As long as it's alive, I'll even kill gods.
Ranmaru in the original Samurai Warriors has one, during the betrayal at Honnouji.
"My body is a sword, and this place, a burial ground. Those who wish to die, come forth!"
"I have bested fruit, spike and moon! And now I will best you, The Guy!"
At the climax of Mega Man X 2, we are treated to Zero's subtle little boast, just freshly Back From The Dead to destroy a pitifully weak clone of his that Sigma made.
Sigma, you should have studied the blueprints closer. There is only one Zero!
In the Jak And Daxter series, Daxter has a habit of doing this all the time. But it's important to note that, starting in the second or third game, this started to change.
In the Quake-engine RPG Anachronox, Sly Boots has one near the end of the game, at the second part of a boss fight after the antagonist has been chased into a second room.
"You know what the difference is between you, and the you five minutes ago? The you five minutes ago had five minutes to live!
Fallout 3 has Liberty Prime. Oh boy, Liberty Prime. Probably scared the living crap out of the Enclave; he's a ten meter tall robot with a deep, echoing vocie so why the hell not?
"Obstruction detected. Composition: titanium alloy supplemented by photonic resonance barrier. Probability of mission hindrance: ZERO PERCENT!"
"Communism is the very definition of faliure!"
"The last domino falls here!"
In previous versions of Final Fantasy IV, when Zeromus makes his first appearence, he simply states what he/she/it/they is: pure hatred. In the DS version, Zeromus initially takes the form of a towering whirlwind of dark fire, and delivers this positively chilling boast:
Zeromus: "I am the wellspring of darkness, fed by Zemus's unbridled hate. I am He who is called Zeromus. I am He who knows naught but hate!"
Fire Emblem has a few of these as well.
Wallace: "Look! A giant walks among you!! My defense is impenetrable! Come! Break your weapons against me!"
Valter: "I am Valter, the Moonstone, Grado's finest general! And you're just a corpse who does not know he is dead."
Stefan: "I am the desert, and I brook no intrusion. Make peace with your goddess."
Zexion from Kingdom Hearts Chain Of Memories:
Zexion: Then I shall make you see... That your hopes are nothing! Nothing but a mere illusion!
From the Touhou Project:
- Youmu Konpaku: "The things that cannot be cut by my Roukanken, forged by youkai, are close to none!"
Jecht from Final Fantasy X is promoted to a Braggart Boss in Dissidia: Final Fantasy, so he gets a lot of these. One of his victory quotes is: "There's no shame in losin' to me!"
- In Tidus' story mode, Jecht punches him twenty feet backwards into a wall and nonchalantly remarks: "Look what happens when I don't hold back!"
In Blaz Blue, Hakumen starts his fights with this:
"I am the white void. I am the cold steel. I am the just sword. With blade in hand I shall reap the sins of this world and cleanse it the the fires of destruction! I am Hakumen! The end has come!"
- Hell, making Badass Boasts is like Hakumen's favorite thing.
"A match? No. This will be a massacre!"
"Give everything, and you might live a little longer!"
"I hope you know what it means... to stand before me!"
A few voiced characters in Super Smash Bros Brawl get some impressive ones when their Final Smash is activated.
Lucario: "Watch the power of Aura!"
Meta-Knight: "Know my POWER!"
Sonic The Hedgehog: "Now I'll show you!"
From the little known game Rise Of Legends comes this jewel:
Carlini: You want this thing?! Come and take it! I've been a soldier for 43 years! I've had my leg blown off! I've served in two wars! I've killed more men than I can count! I've never backed down from anything in my life! And I'm sure as hell not gonna start today.
- Subverted when Carlini promptly gets killed about three seconds after all his boasting by Czin who simply walks off with the Mac Guffin. Complete with scream. Czin is apparently just that Bad Ass.
Agent 47: "I can do whatever I'm paid to."
Black Frost from Shin Megami Tensei: "I'm Black Frost, ho! Don't underestimate me, hee-ho!"
Transformers War For Cybertron has a few of these:
- "You thought you could destroy me!? You thought you could destroy TYRPTICON!? Ah...pathetic"
- "You have changed NOTHING! Autobots! You have only untethered your destruction!"
- "You think you can destroy MEGATRON?! Omega Supreme!?
In Sly Cooper and the Thievius Racconus, Clockwerk gives one to Sly in this exchange:
"How old are you?"
"Perfection has no age."
Though it comes just before Drakath kills him, Sepulchure gets an awesome one in Adventure Quest Worlds:
I AM DARKNESS! I AM DOOM... NO FORCE IN THIS WORLD CAN DESTROY WHAT I AM! LONG UNLIVE THE SHADOWSCYTHE!!!

Web Comics

"I will open one of my six mouths, and I will sing the song that ends the Earth."
"Will you face me? This tube goes by many names, some you are worthy to hear.
"The Waking-Dragon, coiled, as spring dawns. Hawk's-Harvest, seizing prey in the tall summer grass. Autumn-Razor, the patient hunter. Famine-of-Winter, that kills the babe at its mother's empty breast.
"So, will you face me?
I, who hold the very reins of the world?"
In a VG Cats strip\ in which they parody The Colbert Report section of The Word "We didn't spend YEARS as social outcasts to watch you assholes fuck this up. We memorized the Ultra Combos. We wrote down pages of passwords. WE defeated the Robot Masters, knocked out Tyson, and SAVED THE FUCKING PRINCESS."
In A Miracle Of Science Benjamin delivers this boast to a difficult police sergeant: "Sergeant, I've just been to the outer solar system and back to track down a mad scientist. I've been shot at with secret weapons, destroyed robots that could take down tanks, and fallen from orbit without benefit of a re-entry vehicle. I don't need your rudeness added to my troubles, okay?" (He later shortens that last incident to "I've plunged down from orbit on wings of fire".)
of all people, Sylvester, self-confessed complete twit of the Mansion of E, gets one.
- "I am more than that. I am the monster your mother told you about when the GBO Ls got dim. I am human. I am the zarking EARL OF E."
Dan And Mabs Furry Adventures, anyone?
- Subverted here, too.
I'm the freaking Questor of Freeman Downs! I have slogged through the Dire Swamps, killed a Gragum god-priest and three of his followers single-handed, and waded thru an army of shadow wights to kill a rat-king. I also happen to be the guy who just hospitalized half you big, bad gang, jackass. I have a badge, an arsenal, and a license to kill. The only reason you're still alive is that I didn't want to mess with the paperwork. So feel free to drop by any time, dillweed. I see you, or your friends within a hundred miles of my town and I'll gut you like a trout. What triggers this boast can be seen here.
- Subverted a couple panels later; while the threat takes, the "badass" in question requires a Vomit Discretion Shot from the stress of it, which can be seen here.
- He does it again! With additional recap!
"You want to know who I am? I'll tell you who I am— I'm Quentyn, son of Quinn, the Questor of Freeman Downs. The Gnomes call me ï¿½Hunter of Shadows.ï¿½ The Gragum call me ï¿½Little God-Slayer.ï¿½ The gangs of the Tumbledowns call me Sir, if they know what's good for them. I am one of Oberon's Untouched — kissed by the White Stag and blessed by two ladies of the Seleighe Court. I have slain a Gragum priest-king and three of his followers singlehanded. I have waded through an army of shadow-wights to lay low a rat-king. I have pulled a house down around the ears of not one, but two gangs of thieves. I have slain a swamp kraken, and run before the Wild Hunt — and won. And before I leave this duchy I will add a dead dragon to that list. I am a Rac Cona Daimh, and I am nothing to be trifled with. Do you have any other questions, Your Grace?"
- The Spin-off, Quentyn Quinn Space Ranger also has one: when Commander Quinn tells some space pirates why some very nasty aliens listen to the Racconans.
Chaos of El Goonish Shive had one recently, while the left half of her body was amorphous claws and teeth, right before she leaves Magus to eternal isolation in the spirit realm:
"You've asked many time what my name is. I have had many, but I will give you the full one I have chosen for myself. Pandora. Chaos. Raven. Refer to me as one or all. I will live up to that name. Ponder that in your newfound isolation."
"Crazy...bitch."
Misfile One of Rumisiel's many Crowning Moments of Awesome in this strip.
Gunnerkrigg Court: Coyote's formal introduction.
Sluggy Freelance: "My name is Gunman Stan McKurt. And I shoot evil in the face."
Order Of The Stick: In "On the Origin of PCs", Vaarsuvius makes this when trying to convince Roy to let him/her join:
"I am capable of manipulating matter and energy on a subatomic level by speaking. A mere flick of my finger is sufficient to alter the gravitational pull of the planet. I shelve physics texts under 'Fiction' in the library, I consider the laws of thermodynamics loose guidelines at best. In short, I am grasping the reins of the universe's carriage, and every morning I wake up, look to the heavens, and shout, 'Giddy up, boy!' You many never grasp the complexities of what I do, but at least have the common courtesy to feign something other than slack-jawed oblivion in my presence. I, sir, am a wizard, and I break more natural laws before breakfast than of which you are even aware." ^*
^{All while casually snapping the table in half with magic, and all without the use of more than one exclamation point.}
- In one of the early strips, Vaarsuvius presents a similar boast to a gang of goblin mooks. However, the boast itself knocks out the mooks before s/he can back it up with actual magic.
- Vaarsuvius has a thing for Badass Boasting in general. In fact, this has cost him valuable time on more than one occasion.
  - And there's also Belknar Bitterleaf's famous proclamation: "I AM A SEXY SHOE LESS GOD OF WAR!"
- Roy gets one of his own the first time he faces Xykon, but it doesn't quite take, because Xykon doesn't recognize his name or the death he's there to avenge.
- In "A Brief Intermission," Popcorn taunts his foes, "We've been loved by moviegoers for over 50 years! Do you know the kind of power that has given us? We have become like unto tiny refreshing GODS!"
- Kazumi Kato.
I'm a goddamn baby-making, life-taking machine! Why should I care how many people I have to kill? I can just make more in my tummy!
Girl Genius: Gil demonstrates the correct form here:
"Couldn't!? COULDN'T!? I am GILGAMESH WULFENBACH, little man -- and there is NOTHING I couldn't do, had I cause!"
- Better still when he defended Mechanicsburg:
  Gilgamesh: I am GILGAMESH WULFENBACH, Son of Klaus. I will say this only ONCE — LEAVE NOW, or you will DIE.
And then he shows he wasn't bluffing.
Gilgamesh: This is not a TRICK! I did NOT get LUCKY! I am GILGAMESH WULFENBACH! And I am in control!
Gil proceeds to go 3 for 3 with this gem when he's challenged by one of his father's minions, indicating that he is Made Of Win.
- His dad gets a minor one here. "I will go by myself. Let the people see that I can"
Sarda, of all people, in Eight Bit Theater:
"'Wizard'? Are you kidding me? Wizards do parlor tricks. I throttle the heavens!"
"This...this isn't right...this...will not be...I am Sarda. And I am older than time. I possess a power beyond mortal imagination. My plans will not be undone by such amateur-hour horse shit as absorbing too much power and exploding. I am Sarda. My will be done."
- Not to mention:
Black Mage: Can we have a minute?
Chaos: I am the yawning chasm from before the before; the darkness after the end of all things. I am nothing and no thing is eternal.
Black Mage: ...is that a yes?
The Ten Doctors: Dalek Tor is supreme.
No Need For Bushido — Parodied:
Yorikiro: Call me Yorikiro, Master of Martial arts and wielder of a secret knowledge of fighting style so mystical and great it has no name for all those who witness is perish before they can grasp the immense power before them!!!!
Ina: How about I just call you Yori?
Yorikiro: Thatï¿½ll work.
Last Res0rt just had a good one.
Slick: You see that? Nobody defies my orders twice! My blood runs through the cracked table! My family is why Arel's flags bear crimson hands! I have come for my freedom and nobody, mortal or otherwise, will stop me! I am Slick Mordecai Giovanni, Don of Third Jerusalem! All evidence to the contrary will be dead once I escape! And I will escape, because this... is my last resort!
Dr McNinja does this on his sidekick's behalf. To Dracula no less.
Dr McNinja: Do you think I run around with a twelve year old boy because I like his inferior grasp of girls and higher level math? Do you think I left him with my psychotic parents because I wanted him to die? No, you undead pale ponce! Gordito is the effing Badass Kid! So go ahead and finish up your masterful scheme to make me let you kill me, because Gordito's going to slap around whatever ghost lackey you have like he was a pinata on the mexican day of the dead!
The titular Dominic Deegan spells it out for Celesto at the climax of the Storm of Souls story arc:
"No matter how furious or destructive a storm may be, there is always a center of peace and serenity. I am the champion of balance...the eye of the storm.
"I have done battle with demons and stared into the face of hell itself. You think I'm scared of a racist bully with a crush he can't handle?"
Shogun from Harkovast, on his own, speaking to an army of the Nameless:
"Fight me or flee; it makes no difference now. All of you are going to die!"
Kevyn Andreasyn has one that he tends to say in his head, while he is (mostly) dying. Notably it's only played (mostly) straight the first time; after that he starts rambling about how many times he's "cheated the reaper", eventually deciding to just stop keeping track. It goes a little something like this:
"I am Commander Kevyn Andreyasn. I have shaped the destinies of worlds, of nations, of galaxies. I have created and destroyed. I have followed and I have led. I have known love and it has known me back. I flirt with Death for a living and I have cheated the Reaper at least ~~three~~ ~~four~~ ~~five~~ ~~six~~ a lot of times."
- Another vicarious one, played for laughs:
  I've got a spare pistol, and a robot who runs with scissors!
Sister Claire gives us "I'm sorry to tell you that our name, Sisters of Mercy, is a bit misleading. God shows mercy. We don't."
Fans had this recent bit with Rikk and Marc after Hus claimed that Rikk was beaten the last time he was in the field:
Rikk: First off, I got sucker-punched by Captain America. That's like giving Michael Phelps a head start. Secondly, I've spent the last five years with two remarkable women. One of them's one of the toughest, cleverest fighters I've ever seen anywhere. The other is Rumiko Tanaka Oberf! We work hard, but we do make time for each other. And when we're not vegging or sharing a bed...we like to spar! Marc and I aren't here to impress you, Hus. We're here to bring you to justice.
Marc: Bully needs a beatdown! (To Rikk) Yours was way more wootworthy.
Rikk: No, you gave a good closing statement.
From How I Killed Your Master:
Ji Jiao: Everyone knows you haven't fought in ten years.
Master Fei: * After the Curb Stomp Battle* It's been ten years since anyone spoke of my fights because no one has walked away from them in that time.
- Also, Fei quoting Liu Feng:
  "I don't know what it's like to hit a man twice."
Sidney Burns delivers one that is essentially his declaration of war in Mob Ties. While simple, when combined with the actions he is performing, it helps to establish his position as the number one badass in the Mob Ties universe.
"If any of you mob assholes even think of hurting Mika... Just remember one thing..." * crushes a steel chair with one hand* "First... You'll have to go... Through Me." * delivers a One Hit Kill*
- And another, which basically states what Sid's ultimate goal is from that moment in the comic onward:
For Mika, I will KILL A GOD.
In Ls Empire Dimentio from Super Paper Mario delivers this to his opponent right before getting beat up off screen and then blasting them out of the building:
I am Dimentio, master of dimensions, pleaser of crowds, blaster of intro users!
Lightbringer, Linkara's superhero webcomic, ends its first chapter with its hero taking another look at his hideously corrupted city, and declaring his new mission (to himself, mostly) as he prepares to stop yet another crime from being committed.
Lightbringer: My name is Carter Granholme. I live in Pharos City. Pharos City has been corrupted. Evil has taken hold of it. Criminals no longer fear conducting their business in the right. I will make them afraid of it again.
Rose Lalonde does one right after the epic ending of Homestuck Act 4. Her point is helped by the fact she just tore an entire Gamefaqs walkthrough out of the Internet with a magic spell and sent it to the Furthest Ring:
I am not playing by the rules anymore. I will fly around this candy-coated rock and comb the white sand until I find answers. No one can tell me our fate can't be repaired.
I am a total magical badass.
- Also, more recently:
Sarin (To a criminal holding her friend's girlfriend hostage at gunpoint): I suggest you surrender before I embarass you. You have my full attention. That means you're beaten.

Western Animation

"I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the [insert Narm metaphor here]! I ... am Darkwing Duck!"
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?"
- And Superman's World Of Cardboard Speech in Justice League Unlimited.
- 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.
- Livewire: "You can't stop me any more than you can stop wind... rain... or lightning!"
Zuko of Avatar The Last Airbender 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.
Blight of Batman Beyond delivers this one while giving Mr. Freeze a beatdown (6:28): "And behold, I shall be a blight upon the land, and everything I touch shall wither and die."
Often used by Yosemite Sam — "the roughest, toughest he-man stuffest hombr?hat's ever crossed the Rio Grande. An' I ain't no namby-pamby." Karmic Trickster Bugs Bunny is never impressed.
Megatron from Beast Wars, being the Large Ham he is, delivers one of these in the GrandFinale: "I am Alpha and Omega, Optimus Primal. Until the End of TIME!"
- 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!"
Slade from Teen Titans in the episode "Haunted."
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.
Sleeping Beauty villain Maleficent, right before going all One Winged Angel: "Now shall you deal with me, O Prince... and all the powers of HELL!" Complete with reaction shot from Prince Philip, looking like he's just soiled his pants.
- And a little earlier: "You poor, pitiful fools, thinking you could defeat me — me, the Mistress of all evil!"
"I am Vengeance! I am the Night! I! Am! BATMAN!"
Kim Possible (slightly subverted):
Ron(reading Kim's webpage): "I can do anything." I dunno, KP, it sounds kinda braggy.
Kim: It's like advertizing, Ron. It's supposed to be braggy.
Batman also delivers this beauty to his Evil Counterpart Owlman in the made-for-DVD Justice League Crisis On Two Earths. "There is a difference between you and me. We've both looked into the abyss. But when it looked back at us, you blinked."

Other

From a forum signature:
"We put poisons in our water and air to weed out the weak! We detonate fission bombs in our only biosphere! We nailed our god to a stick! Don't fuck with the human race!"
— attributed to General Nikolai Nikolai at a galactic summit
In connection to the Gregg Landsman boasts above there is a thread for Nobody Dies on spacebattles.com, and one day someone asked what Humanity's boast would be. This was the response:
We are. Through License of our own damn selves. We create. We destroy. We create anew. We are the eye that follows the course and the aim of the stars, the ear that hears the tree fall in the forest, the hand that builds the gun, the voice that sings the song. You Angels cannot stop us. Because all you of Heaven are idiots! WE ARE THE HUMAN RACE. Get out of the f__king way!
- Recently, someone made one for Milk. Milk
We are. Through license of She who is called "Moo" We have come. Though Our essence is wasted and drunk by many, We have come. In Our wake, We leave a boxes made of base paper, metal and glass. Before Us, lies the stomach of many. We are the Lactation of the Mother's Breasts. Drink of the Animal Formula of Suckling Babes and Calcium. We are Milk. We have come (By supermarket/delivery truck to you.)
- And [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=159237&page=220 Cheese]]:
Through the License of She who is speaks "Moo" I have come. Though my Essence is solid and pungent, I have come. In my wake, I leave only moldy smell and spoiled milk. By myself, I am paired with two of the blessed bodies and the holy drink. Before me, I lie disgusted to be paired by the Whine. I am borne of the sour age of milk and microbe. Covered in thin film and plastic cage, of the base paper and pungent air. I am Cheese. I come pre-ordered and in variety packages.
- Bread:
  I am. Through license of It which is named "Gluten", I have come. Though my Source comes from this Base Earth, I have come. In My wake I leave packages of plastic and paper, to be split in two and given fillings of vegetable, meat, and sauce. Before me, I wait to be devoured orally. I am borne of flour, water, salt, and heat; from the mass ovens of this world. I lay as the base of food content for all stomachs. I am Bread. I come in Sourdough, Rye, and Wheat. In the Supermarkets near you!
Most, if not all, Professional Wrestling Theme Tunes.
- "God made The Devil just for fun. But when He wanted the real thing, He made... Aja Kong!"
  - "I'm gonna take a dump on your spine you petite little bitch! AJA KONG!!!
An epic one by The Game Overthinker on behalf of all gamers.
"What do we have to be scared of? We're gamers! We've faced worse than a bunch of busybody anti-gaming censors. We charged the bridge against Bowser. We drew swords at Ganondorf. We outsmarted Doctors Wily, Robotnik, and Cortex. We conquered the Covenent. We liberated Rapture. We caught 'em all, we shot em all, we saved... the mall. WE. BLEW. UP. HITLER'S. HEAD."
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Slam poet Taylor Mali delivers one about...teaching!

Real Life

Most heroes of American folklore, Davy Crockett (legendary version and the real man), Mike Fink, John Henry, Pecos Bill, etc. , had version of this, often called brags.
- These are based, at least part, in the brags of Ohio/Missisippi river boatmen, who were well-known for colorful and elaborate boasts, before fights (a major source of entertainment and betting). Examples: "My daddy can whip any man in (your area), and I can whip my pa!", "I can wrassle a buffalo and chaw the ear off a grizzly!", etc.
- I can't remember this one well because it has been a long time ago when I read it and I probably have the details wrong. During a parley with Andy Jackson one mixed-ancestry Crow chieftain said something to the effect of, "I got Scots in me, I got Iroquois in me, I got French in me...", and so on through a list of both White tribes and Indian tribes that I can't remember. Then he closes with, "...but I ain't got no damn Yankee in me!"
- For Davy Crockett:
  "I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without scratch down a honey locust; can whip my weight in wild cats, — and if any gentleman pleases, for a ten dollar bill, he may throw in a panther,- hug a bear too close for comfort, and eat any man opposed to Jackson."
- And for Mike Fink:
  "I'm a Salt River roarer! I'm a ring-tailed squealer! I'm a reg'lar screamer from the ol' Massassip'! WHOOP! I'm the very infant that refused his milk before its eyes were open, and called out for a bottle of old Rye! I love the women an' I'm chockful o' fight! I'm half wild horse and half cock-eyed alligator and the rest o' me is crooked snags an' red-hot snappin' turkle. I can hit like fourth-proof lightnin' an' every lick I make in the woods lets in an acre o' sunshine. I can out-run, out-jump, out-shoot, out-brag, out-drink, an' out-fight, rough-an'-tumble, no holts barred, ary man on both sides the river from Pittsburgh to New Orleans an' back ag'in to St. Louiee. Come on, you flatters, you bargers, you milk-white mechanics, an' see how tough I am to chaw! I ain't had a fight for two days an' I'm spilein' for exercise. Cock-a-doodle-do!"
David Farragut, upon being warned about mines in the water at the Battle of Mobile Bay, responded (roughly): "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"
The Brag was a tradition of the Scandinavian warriors. When going into battle, a warrior would "brag" about what feats he'd do in the upcoming battle, and his fellow warriors would hold him to this boast. If the warrior did not deliver in his brag, he'd be killed by his fellows, unless he died trying, in which case he'd be honored as one of the noble slain and burned in a funeral pyre so his spirit would go to Valhalla. Quite the motivator to either be a Badass or shut the hell up.
Invoked and Subverted by a (supposed) RealLife Example. A student is taking a test, but goes over the acceptable time. The professor refuses to accept it. Three times the student asks the professor if he knows who he is, in stronger language each time; each time the professor replies 'no'. Finally the student says "Good!" shoves the test into the middle of the stack, and walks away.
Invoked and possibly parodied by the Church of the Subgenius. It's highly entertaining either way.
"From youth my heart has been inclined toward the Way of strategy. My first duel was when I was thirteen, I struck down a strategist of the Shinto school, one Arima Kihei. When I was sixteen I struck down an able strategist, Tadashima Akiyama. When I was twenty-one I went up to the capital and met all manner of strategists, never once failing to win in many contests. After that I went from province to province dueling with strategists of various schools, and not once failed to win even though I had as many as sixty encounters. This was between the ages of thirteen and twenty-eight or twenty-nine." From The Book Of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi.
This one was a common pre-battle ritual for samurai, which bit them in the bum when they came up against Kublai Khan's Mongol host, who of course had no concept of the formal traditions of battle the Japanese had practised during centuries of fighting themselves. When the Japanese drew up their battle lines and sent forth their herald to read the formal Badass Boast and ritual insult of the enemy, the Mongols simply shot the guy and charged. Fortunately for Japan, a freak typhoon later sunk the colossal navy Khan had sent to conquer them, thwarting his attempt and forever entering the Japanese psyche as "Kamikaze", the Divine Wind.
- This actually happened twice, a second time after the Mongols had already crushed the first line of defence on the actual islands of Japan. After the second invasion was obliterated by storm, the Mongols apparently decided that while the enemy troops were easy, their gods were a pain in the neck.
"If the Army and the Navy/ever look on Heaven's scenes/They shall find the streets are guarded by/The United States Marines."
WE STOLE THE EAGLE FROM THE AIR FORCE, THE ANCHOR FROM THE NAVY AND THE ROPE FROM THE ARMY. ON THE SEVENTH DAY WHILE GOD RESTED, WE OVERRAN HIS PERIMETER, STOLE THE GLOBE AND WE'VE BEEN RUNNING THE WHOLE SHOW EVER SINCE. WE LIVE LIKE SOLDIERS, TALK LIKE SAILORS, AND SLAP THE HELL OUT OF BOTH OF THEM. WARRIORS BY DAY, LOVERS BY NIGHT, PROFESSIONALS BY CHOICE, AND MARINES BY THE GRACE OF GOD.
- Your Milage May Vary on whether or not this is badass, or just the Marines trying to compensate for something with their constant reputation as the Butt Monkey of the Armed Forces.
"ÎœÎ¿Î»á½¼Î½ Î»Î±Î

Î" ("Come and take them") — Leonidas at Thermopylae, when asked to give up his weapons. That's 'Molon labe' for those who can't understand Greek writing.

ÎœÎ¿Î»á½¼Î½ Î»Î±Î

Î is currently the Badass Creed of the Greek First Army Corps, and is also the motto of United States Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT).

Also said at Thermopylae by Dienekes, a Spartan warrior, when informed that the Persians' arrows would block out the sun: "So much the better...then we shall fight our battle in the shade."
The Spartans have a long history of this sort of thing. When Philip II sent a message to Sparta saying "If I enter Laconia, I will level Sparta to the ground," the Spartans replied simply; "If." Neither Philip nor his army entered Laconia.
The Spartans invented short but sweet Badass boasts. Notice the name of their county, Laconia. Seem ... familiar?

The men of the small Texas town of Gonzalez used a variant of this when the Mexican army tried to reposses their cannon: "Come And Take It". They later carried that banner — and attitude — to the Alamo. American frontiersmen were like that.
They still have the cannon, AND the flag, which still says 'Come And Take It'. They have a parade every year. (A very small one, it's a pretty small town.)
Suleiman the Magnificent, the tenth sultan of the Ottoman Empire, signed his letters by titling himself
The lord of the realms of the Romans, and the Persians and the Arabs, hero of all that is, pride of the arena of earth and time!
Of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea;
Of the glorified Kaaba and the illuminated Medina, the noble Jerusalem and the throne of Egypt, that rarity of the age;
Of the province of Yemen, and Aden and Sana, and of Baghdad the abode of rectitude, and Basra and al-Hasa and the Cities of Nushirivan;
Of the lands of Algiers and Azerbaijan, the steppes of the Kipchak and the lands of Tartars;
Of Kurdistan and Luristan, and of the countries of Rumelia and Anatolia and Karaman and Wallachia and Moldavia and Hungary all together, and of many more worthy kingdoms of countries.
Sultan and Padishah.
Speaking of Ottoman sultans, the letter of Sultan Mahmud IV to the Zaporogian Cossacks. And, topping that, the Cossacks' reply.
- That reply is probably a fake, though.
Atahualpa, the final sovereign emperor of the Inca empire, had such a (possibly ahistorical) boast to the Spanish when they told him his land had been granted to them by the Pope:
"Your emperor may be a great prince; I do not doubt it, seeing that he has sent his subjects so far across the waters; and I am willing to treat him as a brother. As for your pope of whom you speak, he must be mad to speak of giving away countries that do not belong to him. As for my faith, I will not change it. Your own God, as you tell me, was put to death by the very men He created. But my God still looks down on His children."
- Things... didn't go so well for him after that. But it was still an awesome Badass Boast.
During his conquest of the Aztec Empire, Hernan Cortez had to defeat the army of the Governor of Cuba, which was sent after him. He bested them, even outnumbered and outgunned, AND convinced the survivors to join him. Accounts say that the army's general spoke to him like this:
General: Mister Cortez, it is a great victory for you to capture me.
Cortez: Capturing you is the least of everything I've done in this land.
Muhammad Ali. That man only spoke in Badass Boast.
- Awesomely, when he was interviewed after he was fully afflicted with Parkinson's disease, unable to talk above a whisper and uncontrollably shaking, he continued to speak in Badass Boast.
  Ali: I am...still...the greatest...I am...still...the champ...
"We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us."
- "Anonymous: Because none of us is as cruel as all of us."
- The above two would rather fit into ~~Jerkass~~ Badass Creed.
Julius Caesar: "VÄ“nÄ«, vÄ«dÄ«, vÄ«cÄ«." ("I came. I saw. I conquered.")
- Many great people have made their own quotes basing on this. For example, king of Poland, John III, after massacring the Turks at Vienna and breaking their power forever, send all their banners to the Pope along with the letter:
  Veni, vidi, Deus vicit (I came, I saw, God conquered).
Filk singer Rob Balder's song "Yet Another Stupid Decade: Nethack Turns 20" (available here) contains this boast:
"I've played since the eighties! I've seen more dungeons than Torquemada! I've killed more explorers than malaria! I've kicked in more doors than the LAPD and I've opened more chests than a M* A* S* H unit! Crom help me, I have ascended a Tourist."
People born and bred in Falkirk, UK, are known as "The Bairns of Falkirk". The town motto is "Touch ane, touch a'" and the Bairns are keen on the saying, "Better meddle with the Devil than the Bairns of Falkirk".
The McPherson clan motto, "Touch not the cat but a glove", refers to McPherson as a wildcat. When its claws are unsheathed, (without the glove), well...tomfoolery will not be met with kindness.
"...we are Sherpas and we have never willingly let anyone die on a mountain. It is not our way..."(Tenzing Norgay's grandson rallying disgruntled porters.)
"The wolves will eat well this year"( Finnish officer surveying his army's handiwork during the Winter War)
- When Stalin made his demands known the Finns cried out "They are so many and our country is so small. Where will we bury them all?" Finns don't really boast.
French Old Guard commander after Waterloo is usually quoted as saying "The Guard dies, but does not surrender". That's badass enough, yet what he actually said was even more:
Merde!
King Shulgi of Urim is known today only for the magnificent Badass Boast he left behind him.
One time Ghenghis Khan had his horse shot under him during a clan war. After the fighting he assembled the prisoners and asked who had done that. One of the prisoners said,"It was I."
- After that Ghenghis Khan rewarded him. He may have been a Complete Monster sometimes but he did have style at other times.
General Allenby made a Badass Antiboast. By tradition only a conqueror gets to ride into Jerusalem on a horse. Allenby of course was a conqueror . But what he did was dismount and Walk in saying, "I will not ride where Christ has walked."
- The next conqueror of course was Moshe Dayan. If I recall, he didn't ride in, but he didn't stop to remind people that he was not riding in the way Allenby did, which is really to bad. Perhaps he hadn't heard of the custom or wished the credit to go to the IDF.
  - In the second case he should have had a man chosen by lottery as representative. It is to cool a Badass Boast not to remember. Pity. But maybe I remember it wrong anyway.
Gajah Mada, before his campaign to unify the archipelago, made this oath to his queen: "If the external territorities of Majapahit are lost, I will not taste any spices. And until I have conquered Malaka, Seram, Tanjungpura, Haru, Pahang, Dompo, Bali, Sunda and Palembang... I will never taste any spices." And, he actually succeeded and even expands the territority of Majapahit into the whole archipelago that will be known as Indonesia.
In 1990, 18-year-old Hugh Gallagher wrote his college application essay, which reads in part:
Occasionally I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.
During World War II, Bob Hope performed for an audience of combat engineers:
Hope: Are you the Corps of Engineers, the guys who build the runways the planes land on?
Audience Member: Hell no! We're the Seabees! We build the roads the Japs retreat on!
Many armed forces have a battle cry they use to psych themselves up (and scare the enemy) in case they have to end up stabbing some poor bastard to death with their bayonet. For example, the 506th P.I.R of the 101st Airborne's battle cry was "Currahee!" a Cherokee word which literally means "stand alone". Even today, it is still used by the 101st as a morale booster.
The Celts would often do this before battle, while challenging their enemies to duels.
During the Siege of Jerusalem in 1948, Shaltiel, the Hagannah's military governor, claimed that his side would make Jerusalem their "Bloody little Stalingrad". Which they did.
John Paul Jones informing the British Navy "I have not yet begun to fight!" during his fighting on the Bonhomme Richard
Brian Blessed reportedly kept Oliver Reed from making trouble during the filming of Prisoner Of Honor with one of these, to the point that Reed was sober the whole time for fear of starting a fight that Brian had said he would end.