(from the dub of Z) On the last episode...of DRAGON! BALL! ZEEE!
Hiei in YuYu Hakusho: "DRAAAGOOOOON! OOOOOF! THE DAAAAARKNESSSSS, FLAAAAAME!!!"
Also, Yusuke's "GO! TO! HELL!!" as he defeats Doctor Kamiya.
Trigun has Legato losing his composure. KILL!! HIM!!!
From Gankutsuou: "TAKE. THE HAMMER STRIKE. OF REVENGE!"
Tower Of God - Lurker uses this while killing Nia.
"You see, I hate guys like you the most. The moment you enter this world you become a bad guy. Don't pretend to be a good guy. Because you END! UP! LIKE! THIS!"
Father Anderson in Hellsing: "ALUCAAARD! VAMPIIIIRE!"
There are a few other examples, notably Jan Valentine in the manga: "Therefore! All! You! Bitches! Can you just fuck off and die!" (And yes, it was actually written this way.)
And Jan in the anime: "BEWARE...THE...MILLENNIUM...!"
In Hellsing Ultimate 2, Jan Valentine performs the famous Konami Code: "Up! Up! Down! Down! Left! Right! Left! Right! Bringin' the motherfuckin' death, by Konami."
Alucard: "Guess what I just caught? I caught you....Rip....Van....Winkle...."
Gai Shishioh of Gao Gai Gar announces all of his attacks in this way to some degree. But when it's time to really bring out the epic, there's only one thing to say: "HIKARI! NI!NAAAAAAAAAAAAAREEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!" (Translatable as "BE! COME!LIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!!" And then the hammer comes down).
Used in the finale of Death Note: Near, finally starting to sound bitter in his confrontation with Light, makes liberal use of periods to make his deduction nice and clear. "Light Yagami... You. Are. Kira."
I! AM! JUSTICE!
SAKUJO! SAKUJO! SAKUJO!
MACH GO! GO! GO! in the original Japanese version of Speed Racer.
Bottle Fairy. New Year WILL! <sting> NEVER! <sting> COME! And it doesn't! Until the next episode.
Bleach subverts this. Most of the time, yelling "BANKAI!" does not come with emphasis. But Ichigo, in some medias, does put emphasis in form of "BAN! KAI!!"
Mayuri's release when fighting Uryru was a rather understated "Ban. Kai." This made it creepier.
Isshin likes to do this as well. "GOOOOOOOOD! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOORNING! IIIIIIIIIIICHIGOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
In the dub of Episode 13, when Tatsuki attacks some Hollow-controlled students to protect Orihime, she yells "WHAT THE HELL- ARE YOU- PEOPLE- DOING?!"
Justified, since Tatsuki is fighting at the time, and making sure that even as she talks, she breaths properly for each hit.
Chapter 403 also gives us Ichigo's response to Aizen's new form. "What...the fuck...is that..."
In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Joseph Joestar's catchphrase in Part 3 is rendered as "Oh! My! God!" In the video game based on that arc, he screams it as his death cry but there are no audible pauses.
In Azumanga Daioh, there is "RUNNER UP! RUN! ER! UUUUP!"
Can there be an example of Punctuated! For! Emphasis! in one word instead of three? Well, if you're IIIIIIIIIIIZAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAA-KUUUUUUUUUUUN from Durarara, then yes. Yes, there can.
Super Atragon: Captain Hayate is prone to saying his Catch Phrase this way, "UNDERSEA-BATTLESHIP RA, ENGAGE!!!"
In Haiyore! Nyarko-san, Mahiro is disgusted by the "chicken" that Nyarko serves him. She offers to make him a BLT sandwich the next day and then starts striking Sentai-like poses that form the letters and shouting B! L! T!. Which unfortunately stands for Byakhee-Lloigor-Tsathougga.
Advertising! and! COMMERCIALS!
As is the case with many tropes, this one's even been used in advertising. Case in point? "Hot! Juicy! Burger!"
Used memorably in an ad for ADT Security Services, by a man who is very enthused that he can go on vacation! And finally! BE ABLE TO RELAX!!
Visually done with pretty much every action movie trailer in existence: HEADS(random trailer footage)WILL(more random trailer footage)ROLL(even more random trailer footage)
This summer... Don LaFontaine IS... Announcing Things Dramatically.
TI...MO...TEI note Timotei is a European shampoo brand that was also sold in Japan. The now famous scene from Lucky Star (which itself spawned an equally famous meme) has Konata mocking the Japanese commercials.
NOT! HAPPY! JAN! (fellow Australians will remember an ad for the yellow pages in which a company member forgot to put an ad in the aforementioned book and the manager/boss/whatever opens the window to see the member running away form the building and yelling out the line)
In chapter 17 of Lightning and Thunder, Voldemort got a little testy with Harry's attempts at stalling during the Philosopher's Stone confrontation. "I. Need. The. Stone."
In chapter 5 of The Change, Draco Malfoy was exhibiting creepy stalkerish behavior and Hermione led him back to the Slytherin table, stating "Stay there. Leave. Harry. Alone." In a later chapter, Fudge came to the school to see Harry and when he refused to give a reason, McGonagall said "Stop. Right. There."
In chapter 3 of A New Addition, Harry fled to Grimmauld Place after discovering Ron and Hermione were homophobic and when Snape and Draco Malfoy found the latter two on the Quidditch pitch Snape grabbed Ron's robe and said "Have. You. Seen. Harry. Potter?"
In chapter 10 of Night Flight, after getting a reluctant Zabini house elf to agree to obey his orders Harry added "And afterwards I don't. Want. You. To punish. Yourself."
In chapter 16 of Passageways, McGonagall became fed up with Dumbledore's manipulations in Harry's life. "So again, I say to you Albus Dumbledore: LEAVE. HIM. BE!"
In chapter 4 of The Heir, Harry was annoyed by Ron Weasley's stalker tendencies and snapped "We. Are. Not. Friends."
In chapter 12 of His Angel, Cedric kept trying to push Harry into taking the Triwizard cup and Harry finally snapped "I. Don't. Want. It."
In chapter 10 of Coexistence, a pre-1980 Voldemort tried to Imperius Harry, whose spirit was temporarily possessing his mother's body into killing his own grandfather, only to be told "Like I said. Over. My. Dead. Body."
In chapter 10 of Taking Back What Is Mine Snape found out that Dumbledore didn't give Harry any basic Occlumency instruction before Snape's lessons and raged "I. Am. Going. To. Murder. Albus. Dumbledore!"
At the end of Chapter six of Magnetism!, Rainbow Dash has had enough of everyone thinking her wing is broken, so she yells, "My! Wing! Is! Not! Broken!"
Families: When Twilight goes Mama Bear to protect Spike from the teenage dragon gang: "Get. Away. From. My. Son!"
Red Lightning has Double-D deliver a beautiful speech that's constructed ENTIRELY! LIKE! THIS! When he gets to the clincher, he managed to get a freaking ARMY of deranged Super-Psychos to shut up and listen to him.
Sadly averted in the original 300 graphic novel, and former Trope Namer. No emphasis was placed on this sentence when Leonidas kicks the messenger into the well. Just, "This is Sparta."
In fact, there seemed to be a lack of "passion" by all the characters in general. It was almost as if they were going through a routine they had grown weary of.
In Alan Moore's Supreme, the unseen villain The End speaks everything like this, each word being afforded its own speech bubble. For example, when addressing some lesser rogues gallery members: "YOU." "ARE." "SPECKS." "GO." "AWAY." They promptly fled the room.
Justified in The Long Halloween, as Catwoman is currently trying to kick the ever-living crap out of Batman for foiling her first attempted robbery of the Maroni family:
In #124 of The Avengers, Black Panther does one to an incarcerated supervillain when he needs instructions on how to use his weapon:
Black Panther: Van Lunt, I swear to you that lives of everyone on this planet are at stake! We — Need — This — Weapon! Van Lunt: Well—, when you put it like that—! I guess... I won't be needing it anyway.
The DCU supervillain Dr. Light delivers one in Identity Crisis when he realizes the full extent of the Cerebus Retcon.
Near the end of Empowered, volume four. Combined with "World of Cardboard" Speech, and delivered while the title character is laying the smack-down on Fleshmaster:
Empowered: Unlike you, _____, I do this stupid, stupid job because— Empowered: BECAUSE Empowered: THIS Empowered: IS Empowered: WHAT Empowered: I Empowered: AM!!!
Peter Parker: I'd. Like. To. Have. A. Cup. Of. Coffee. Right. Now.
In one issue of Batman The Brave And The Bold, he gets a distress call from General Immortus. When he gets there, he finds Ancient Greek troops, with red capes, spears, and everything, have captured the General. They attack him.
Batman: THIS-IS-NOT-SPARTAAA! (chestkick)
The Flash villain the Turtle speaks like this. "I... heard... about... his... mother... in... the tabloids... Golden..." "Glider, Golden Glider! Cripes, old man, talk!"
In Mighty Avengers #23, when Iron Man shows up to lead the new Mighty Avengers at Wundagore (which is being besie7ged by Chthon in Quicksilver's body), an upset Hank Pym (now the Wasp) demands a good reason to allow Tony Stark ("the man who fought Captain America in the Civil War. Who sent the Hulk to outer space and pitted him against the world. Who gave the Skrulls all they needed to invade the Earth") take over. His response:
Pepper Potts:(throwing a fit in her office at Stark Enterprises) WHAT - DO - YOU - WANT - ME - TO - DO?! (tosses her chair on a control panel on a wall, which opens and reveals the Rescue armor)
Joss Whedon gave us this moment with Colossus in his run of Astonishing X-Men: "I am not made of steel. Rage! I am made! Of! RAGE!"
In Judge Dredd's "Judgement Day" arc, Johnny Alpha delivers this line to Sadu while blasting zombies:
Sadu, how many times do I have to tell you? I'm *blam!* on *blam!* your *blam!* side! *blam*.
This is how Swamp Thing's drawn out, slow speech pattern is represented.
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross got Gerard Butler to introduce each guest in this manner. "THIS! IS! MICHAEL! MCINTYRE!"
Avatar: "They have sent us a message. That they can take whatever they want. Well, we will send them a message. That THIS! THIS! is OUR! LAND!"
"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!!!" from, well... Beowulf. Not actually a case of Follow the Leader, since filming was completed before 300 was anything more than a blip on the horizon, and even then, it's presented more as a satire on this sort of machoness than anything else. And arguably justified by the fact that he's got to pace his breathing while he cuts off Crispin Glover's arm with a wooden door.
Made more amusing because of the way he says "Beowulf"...very quickly and anticlimactically, when it's expected that he'll hold out the final word a la "SPARTAAAAAA!"
Giant: MANY... HAVE... ASKED... Valentine: Many have asked where the Charm is, yes? Giant: ... WHERE... Valentine: The? Giant: ... THE... Valentine: Charm is? Giant: ... CHARM... Valentine: Is? Giant: ... IS. BUT... WE... SADLY... Valentine: No! Not sadly! Happily! As in, "We're gladly going to give it you really quickly"? Giant: ... SOLEMNLY... Valentine: No adjectives! Giant: ... GUARD... THE... Valentine: Charm? Giant: ... BOX.
Valentine himself does this a few scenes later, but it's actually because he's struggling for the right word.
Valentine: STUPID... BUILDING!
This is justified, in that the giants, being so big, are slower, so their speech is slower too. And also Deconstructed, since instead of sounding awesome, they sound incredibly dumb and Valentine is visibly annoyed at how long they take to talk.
"Punch — that — shit!" in Hot Fuzz. That coming from a model police officer on duty who has previously made a point of donating 50 pence to the swear box for every S-word used.
"Remember me, Eddie?! When I killed your brother, I talked... JUST... LIKE... THIIIIS!": Judge Doom in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, only his voice gets higher, not louder.
He may not have gotten louder, but it still is creepy.
"I. DONT. WORK. FOR. TOONS!"
"Oh. My. God. It's. DIIIIIIPPPP!!!!!"
"...shave...and a hair..cut..." *crash* TWOOOOO!!! BITS!!!!
From GI Jane: "SUCK... MY... DICK!" Made into a Moment Of Awesome by the fact that a shorn-haired and yet STILL uber-beddable Demi Moore (yes, a woman) is shouting it — and into the face of a Badass, Super Soldier of a NAVY SEAL who's acting as The Obi-Wan (and just spent the last two minutes beating the shit out of her with her hands tied behind her back).
Film/Hellboy: As Hellboy falls down a vent while beating the snot out of Sammael: "You! GOD! DAMN! MONSTER!!"
- "I remember that for 100 years we have fought these machines! I remember that for 100 years! they have sent their armies! to destroy us! and after a century of war I remember that which matters most... We are still here! ... .. THIS IS ZION! AND WE ARE NOT AFRAID!"
Woody also does this when he rescues Buzz from Sid the toy-destroyer, completely freaking Sid out in the process.
"So. Play...Nice!"
From the Harry Potter series: "Life. Isn't. Fair."
"Don't. Lie. To me."
"You. Don't. Know."
"Don't. Call. Me. A. Coward!"
"Mr. Potter... Our. New. Celebrity."
"Pity. Clearly fame... isn't... everything. Is it... Mr. Potter?"
"You were seen by No. Less. Than. SEVEN. Muggles."
In case you haven't noticed, virtually every line by Alan Rickman as Severus Snape is done in this style of diction. No one's complaining.
EXPECTO PATRONUM!!!!!
SHUT UP!!!!! SHUT! UP!
As much of Harry's dialogue in Order of the Phoenix. There is a reason fans called him CAPSLOCK!Harry. (Granted, Harry is known to have a bit of a temper, and he was going through a LOT of crap that year.)
The Incredibles: "WHERE! IS! MY! SUPER! SUIT?!?"note WHHHYY do you NEED to KNOW!?
Another quiet one from the first film; "Wait to lift the curse [until] you've killed Norrington's men. Every. Last. One." (on each pause, he drops a coin)
Indiana Jones: Mola Ram!! Prepare to meet Kali. IN HELL!!
The Wicker Man (Good version). "THEY! WILL! NOT! FAIL!" Spoken by Christopher freakin' Lee.
"I! believe! In the Life! Eternal! As promised to us! By our Lord! JESUS! CHRIST!"
Ed Singer (Jeffrey Tambor) in Muppets From Space: "DON'T! LAUGH! AT! MEEEE!"
The Elephant Man: "I! AM NOT! AN ELEPHANT! I AM NOT! AN ANIMAL! I! AM A HUMAN! BEING! I! AM! ... a man."
"Where — is — he?"
Tony Jaa's Tom-Yum-Goong (The Protector): "WHERE! IS! MY! ELEPHAAAAAAANT!?"
Citizen Kane: "I'm CHARLES! FOSTER! KANE! I'm no cheap, crooked politician, trying to save himself from the consequences of his crimes! GETTYS! I'M GOING TO SEND YOU... TO SING SING! SING SING, GETTYS! SIIIIING! SIIIIING!"
Repo! The Genetic Opera: In "We Started This Op'ra Shit," the Maestro uses this combined with a Metal Scream for "EVERYBODY EVERYBODY TES!!! TI!!! FYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!"
In the movie Matilda, Ms. Trunchbull says "In this school, I! AM! GOD!" Of course right after that audacious statement she pretty much flips inside out when the heroine tips a glass with a newt in it via telekinesis allowing the creature to artfully land on the Trunchbull's chest. Hilarity Ensues.
Die Hard With A Vengeance: "Look, if you have to shoot me, then you go ahead and you shoot me! But I have! To answer! THIS! PHONE!"
Men In Black: "You see this? Huh?! N-Y-P-D! That means I will KNOCK! YOUR! PUNKASS! DOWN!"
"The only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO! NOT! KNOW ABOUT IT!"
American Beauty has a few examples by Lester. One where he's doing bench presses and when Carolyn threatens to put him on ice somehow, he says, "That's... What... You... Think!"
Another is after he throws a platter against the wall at dinner:
"Don't. Interrupt. Me. Honey."
The third time is when he's flirting with Carolyn on the couch in the following dialogue:
Carolyn: You're gonna spill beer on the couch. Lestor: (Gets up) So what? It's just a couch. Carolyn: This is a $4,000 sofa, upholstered in Italian silk. It is not just a couch. Lestor: (Whacking couch with a pillow) IT'S! JUST! A! COUCH! This isn't life! This is just stuff! And it's become more important to you than living! And honey, that's just nuts. (Carolyn walks away) I'm trying to help you!
The Nutty Professor with Eddie Murphy, of all movies. The climactic scene where Sherman Klump and Buddy Love battle for control of the same body. Buddy Love: "You can't beat me!" Sherman Klump: "YES. I. CAN!"
The infamous Mortal Kombat: Annihilation has Shao Khan saying, "Earth is under attack, and It! Is! GLORIOUS!"
From Star TrekIII: "I! HAVE...HAD! ENOUGH OF...YOU!" spoken by (oh, justguess) while kicking the Klingon Big Bad off a cliff.
Blue Velvet: Heineken?! Fuck that shit!PABST! BLUE! RIBBON!
It's inherent in the Decepticon command structure, apparently, as Megatron announced himself similarly upon thawing out in the first film. "I! AM! MEGATRON!!"
Well they have been calling him NBE 01 for decades.
Done deliberately badly in Snatch by a pawnbroker in a mask trying to tough-talk someone tough.
Also done back to the pawnbroker in the mask by the person they're trying to tough-talk. (complete with pointing to where it's written: "All. Bets. Are. Off.")
Shrek: The whole exchange in which Shrek is trying to explain ogres to Donkey.
Shrek: For your information, there's a lot more to ogres than people think.
Donkey: Example?
Shrek: Example? Okay, uh... ogres... are... like onions!
Donkey: (sniffs the onion and recoils) They stink?
Shrek: Yes. No!
Donkey: Oh, they make you cry.
Shrek: No!
Donkey: Oh, you leave them out in the sun and they get all brown and start sprouting little white hairs.
Shrek: NO! LAYERS! Onions. Have. Layers. Ogres! Have layers. Onions have layers... You get it? We both have layers!
Donkey: Ohh, you both have layers! Oh. You know, not everybody likes onions. Cakes! Everybody loves cakes! Cakes have layers!
Shrek: I. Don't. Care! What everyone likes! Ogres. Are not. Like cakes.
Donkey: You know what else everybody likes? Parfaits. Have you ever met a person, you say, "Hey, let's go get some parfait," they say, "No, I don't like no parfait"? Parfaits are delicious.
Shrek: NO! YOU DENSE! IRRITATING! MINIATURE BEAST OF BURDEN! Ogres! Are! Like onions! End of story! Bye bye! See you later!
Also: "I LIVE ALONE! MY SWAMP! ME! NOBODY ELSE, UNDERSTAND?! NOBODY! ESPECIALLY USELESS! PATHETIC! ANNOYING! TALKING DONKEYS!!!"
The Brave Little Toaster: "So...it's back to that stupid static again. You think I don't know what's going on here? I knows what goes on in this cottage. It's a conspiracy, and everyone of you low-watts is in on it! Just because you can move around, you think you're better than I am! I'm not an invalid! I was designed to stick in the wall! I like being stuck in this STUPID wall! I can't help it if the kid was too short to reach my dials! IT'S MY! FUNCTION!!!!!!!!"
Ben: (to Debbie) Look, Debbie. You are high off your ass if you think you're coming into that room. If you take one step towards that door, I will tell security there's a crazy chick in a pink dress snatching up babies, ok? So don't even try to come into that room, that's my room now. That little area with the Pepsi machine, that's your area. My room, your area, stay in your area, stay out of my room, back... the... fuck... off.
Hogfather: And that leaves us with one final question. Have you been naughty... or... nice? Ho! Ho! HO!
Men at Arms: Silas Cumberbatch, a new recruit to the Watch, speaks this way. Justified in that he's a former town crier.
Although Not With The Same Intensity, All Of The Golems Of Discworld Are Implied To Speak Like This All The Time.
In The Dresden Files: I. Am Not. Yoda. Since the main character who was saying that had exploded a rubbish bin out of sheer rage at his stubborn, mouthy, disobedient and at risk of the dark side, apprentice, who had just complained about an assignment, saying that Yoda would never have made anyone do that.
"Fuego. Pyrofuego! Burn!"
Also seen in the final battle in Changes, in a duel of wills between Kukulcan, the Red King, and Harry.
Not with punctuation marks, but toward the end of the second book of Taylor Anderson's Destroyermen series, the destroyer Walker tries towing a much larger ship to safety. That cuts their speed severely, the enemy's guns are getting the range, and they can't maneuver to dodge. The engineer tells the captain they don't have enough fuel, the Bosun tells the captain it's no use, and the captain says, "We Are Not Leaving Anyone Else Behind." Then the captain of the ship they're towing cuts the line to let Walker get away.
From Metro 2033, when Artyom doesn't understand about Che Guevara:
'"Comrade. Ernesto. Che. Guevara." The commissar rapped the seperate syllables. "The great. Cuban. Revolutionary."'
Early in Aunt Dimity: Detective, Dimity's reaction when Lori first informs her of Prunella Hooper's death, rendered in letters that take up nearly half the page: "MURDER? IN FINCH?!?"
American Idol: Simon Cowell. "What. The Hell. Was That?"
Drake & Josh: Josh. "I repeat things for emphasis. EMPHASIIISSSS!"
A villainous example, done fairly quietly and far more effective as a result, from the Doctor Who episode "Utopia":
"I. Am. The Master."
And this one, which was just a bit louder: "HERE! COME! THE DRUMS!!!"
EX-TER-MI-NATE! The Daleks Turn It Up To Eleven by emphasizing every single syllable, and it's made them icons of British TV. And the Dalek Emperor says that yes, actually, this is blasphemy.
"THOSE. WORDS. ARE. BLASPHEMY!"
"DO! NOT! BLASPHEME! DO! NOT! BLASPHEME!"
E-LE-VATE.
The League did this they called it the Shiva Blast
Davros, the Daleks' creator, taught them how to talk this way, so naturally he does it himself. Big Finish Doctor Who has one of the more epic examples: "I! Will! Not! Cower! I! Will! Not! Die! I! Will! Not! Die! This! Is! Not! The end! This! Is! Only!THE BEGINNING!"
"YOU! WILL! TELL! ME!"
"I! WILL! SHOW! YOU! THE FOLLY OF YOUR WORDS! DOK-TOR!"
In "Father's Day": "Jackie Tyler, do as I say! GO! AND CHECK! THE DOORS!"
In "The Christmas Invasion", the Sycorax leader and the newly-regenerated Tenth Doctor both speak like this: "I DEMAND TO KNOW. WHO. YOU. ARE!" "I. DON'T. KNOW!"
Jesse: DO - NOT - ASK - ME - ABOUT - MY - DRIVING - TEST - CAPISHE?!
In "Scrubs", CCB stands for "Super. Chocolate. Bear".
Again from the 2008 finale, the absolutely epicMoment Of Awesome from Dalek Caan, of all characters, ends with:
"And I decreed: No! More!"
The 1996 Eighth Doctor TV Movie gave us "THIS! IS! AN! AMBULANCE!" from the Master.
WHO! AM! IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII??????????????????!!!!!!
The same film gave us "I! AM! THE DOCTOR!"
And who could forget - "THERE ARE! NO! MACRA!"
From "The Idiot's Lantern";
Mr Connelly: I! AM! TALKING!
Doctor: And I'M! NOT!LISTENING!
In the classic serial "The Three Doctors", Omega, who is one of the largest hams what ever hammed, even by Doctor Who standards, speaks pretty much all of his lines this way. "I. AM. THE. CREATOR. OF. TIME. LORD. SOCIETYYYYYYY!"
Donna pulled this off when she first saw the Doctor again in "Partners in Crime", although we only see her mouthing the words(through soundproof glass): "Oh! My! GOD!" followed by, "This! Is! BRILLIANT!"
The End of Time gives us this, combined with a Crowning Moment of Awesome AND a Heroic Sacrifice from the Master, of all people: "YOU DID THIS TO ME! ALL OF MY LIFE! YOU! MADE! ME!! ONE! TWO!! THREE!!! FOUR!!!!"
As he comes back to life: "NEVER! NEVER! NEVER DYING! NEVER DYING!"
Lucy Saxon gets hers in this dueling Punctuated! For! Emphasis! with the resurrected Master:
Master: DON'T! YOU! DARE! Lucy: TILL DEATH! DO US PART! HARRY!
"By the ancient rites of combat, I forbid you to scavenge here for the rest of time. And when you go back to the stars and tell others of this planet, when you tell them of its riches, its people, its potential, when you talk of the Earth, then make sure that you tell them this... IT! IS! DEFENDED!"
Flesh and Stone: "LIKE! ME! FOR! INSTANCE!" Matt Smith can yell with the best of them.
The Vampires Of Venice: "WE! ARE! VENETIANS!!!"
Amy's Choice: "THIS VILLAGE! IS SO! DULL!"
The Pandorica Opens: "Could you lot just stay still for a minute, 'cause III! AAAAM! TALLLLKIIING!"
Victory of the Daleks: "YOU! ARE! MY! ENEMY!" (each word punctuated by the Dalek in question being pummled by a big wrench) and later "I am the Doctor, and YOU ARE! THE! DALEKS!"
The Daleks in that episode as well: "WOULD! YOU! LIKE! SOME! TEA?!""I! AM! YOUR! SOLDIER!" and "YOU! DO! NOT! REQUIRE! TEA?!"
Rory gets an excellent one in A Good Man Goes To War: Where. Is. My. Wife.
Bonus points for this being delivered in Roman uniform
Even more for managing to scare the living crap out of the Cybermen.
I am The Last of the Timelords! The Laws of Time are mine! And They! Will! Obey me!
From "The Equalizer": LEAVE! THE LADY! ALONE! and YOU!.. ARE!!.. SCUMMM!!!
"WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE!" Somewhat less Badass than other examples, at least until someone spins $5000 or so.
Johnny Gilbert's announement of "THIS! IS! JEOPARDY"
Also, "And now, here is the host of 'Jeopardy'... ALEX! TREBEK!"
This came full circle on the February 22, 2012 episode, where each clue had Johnny Gilbert reading a famous phrase beginning with "This is…" in the style of the intro. Naturally, one of them was indeed "This! IS! SPARTA!"
Colleague: Now, now. Calm down - come look in my office. Some of it may still be in the trash. W-well, it was quite large; I had to throw most of it away!
Ross: You-you-you-you. Threw. My. Sandwich. Away? My sandwich?! MY!! SANDWICH!!!!
Freddie's countdown in iCarly: "In Five. Four. Three. Two..."
And in some episodes when Carly and Sam describe the sketch they're about to do. ex: "MESSING! WITH! LEWBERT!"
Tsch, where is your history? Who can forget Higgins's perfect enunciation of "Oh. My. GOD!" in Magnum, P.I.?
Stilgar in the Children of Dune miniseries, in response to being told that Alia has placed a bounty on his head: Well I say unto you! Send. Men. To summon. WOOOOOoooooorrrrrmmmmssssss. And we shall go to Arrakeen. To collect it. Also, in response to Muad'dib relaying an alliance offer from the spacing guild: "We haven't forgotten about the Guild...how they BLACKMAILED us for SPICE!". In fact, Stilgar's actor in the 'Children' series (different from his actor in the first miniseries) delivers enough of these lines to qualify as a Large Ham.
Then there was The Prom, where Buffy is arguing with her friends because they want to help her fight the loser who wants revenge rather than attend the party.
Oz: Buffy, it makes sense to... Buffy: Have. A nice. Time.
Her Death Glare, and the fact she threatened to kill everyone on the face of the planet to make sure the prom goes ahead, makes them skedaddle.
Special Guest Richard Waugh (aka Albert goddamn Wesker), when repeatedly questioned about the whereabouts of his mother, eventually loses his patience.
Mark: What's the next class? Sid: Drama. Mark: Right. Drama. Coursework. Fucking perfection. Or else! Sid: Why are you talking in very short sentences? Mark: EMPHASIS! Drama! Fuck off.
Commercial for Life Alert® (the device made famous by the "I've fallen and I can't get up" commercials): A very old lady emphasises, "All. Senior. Citizens. Should. Have. Life Alert." (though given that she's on oxygen, this may also be because she only has enough breath for one word at a time)
Babylon 5: No more! No more of you! No more Nightwatch! No more hostages! No more LIES! Not on my station! Not on my watch! NO MORE!
McCoy: Now, isn't that a thought? Here we are, antibodies of our own galaxy, attacking an invading germ. It would be ironic indeed if that were our sole destiny, wouldn't it? Kirk: Antibodies! AN! TI! BO! DIES!
The Therapy Buddy from American Inventor: Everything. Is. Going. To. Be. All. Right.
In the "Harper vs. Harper" episode of Mama's Family, Thelma and Naomi are arguing over a broken vacuum and a burnt rug. The judge gets increasingly agitated by their antics and delivers several lines WITH! LOTS! OF! WORD! EMPHASIS!:
When Thelma tries to call Vinton as a witness:
Naomi: He's my witness!
Thelma: He's my son!
Naomi: He's my husband!
Judge: IT! IS MY! COURTROOM!
After a subject diversion about Thelma's Aunt Minnie:
Judge: I don't care about your Aunt Minnie!
Thelma: Well, neither did Uncle Dooly. I think that's what pushed the woman right over the edge...
Judge: I only care... about getting this case settled... getting you OUT! of my COURTROOM! and OUT! of my LIFE! Now you tell me! WHAT! HAPPENED! WITH! THE! CLEANER?!?!
After Thelma tries to demand the money from Naomi:
Judge: Now, I will not tell you again! LET! ME! HANDLE! THIS! CASE!
There are other examples from the same episode. One wonders how that judge fared sanity-wise after the Harper case...
The "Thin Ice" episode of The Sweeney: "That's. Not. My. Dog!"
It's heard in the intro sequence to the "Word of Mouth" segments on Turner Classic Movies. At the very end, you can hear a voice say, "Damn. Good. Actress."
The Oprah Winfrey Show: YOU! ARE! GOING! TO! AUUUUUSTRAAAAAAAALIA! Subject to much Memetic Mutation among Australians, since this particular clip was replayed pretty much everywhere by almost every channel for a while in the leadup to Oprah's actual visit.
Even Sesame Street, when Telly Monster is struggling to use a bubble wand for the first time: "I will blow a bubble! I have to! For this! Is! Bubble-Fest!"
In "The Monster's Three Wishes", after Cookie Monsters wastes his wishes on "big, bigger, and biggest" trucks, he's left without his desired million cookies. That leaves him with only one option... "EAT! TRUCK!"
Jack Horkheimer Star Gazer: The titular Jack Horkheimer would like to remind everyone to "keep...looking...up!"note He didn't say it this way exclusively however. This mainly occured in the early 1990s.
The Newsroom. In tonight's top story, Will asked Mac not to tell anyone the story of why they broke up. Then she accidentally sent an e-mail, explaining in some detail what happened, to the entire office...
Will McAvoy: You know how sometimes something happens in an instant that's so astonishing you just... shut down?
MacKenzie McHale: Of course, that's understa–
Will McAvoy: THAT DOESN'T! FUCKING! HAPPEN! TO ME!
Lampshaded later with "You are a member of the worst period generation period ever period!"
Alice in Chains: IF! I! WOULD! COULD! YOU!? (From "Would?").
When Rock Band charted the song, every single word was counted as its own phrase/section.
Metallica's James Hetfield, boldly pushing back the frontiers of science, has managed to pronounce every syllable of a word as its own sentence. A word with one syllable. "YEE-EEE-EEE-AAA-AAA-YYY-AAA-UUH!"
And how about "BLOOD! WILL! FOLL-LOW! BLOOD! DY! ING! TIME! IS! HERE!" (From "Damage, Inc.").
Hell, he manages to make a one-syllable word into two sentences:
CREEEEEEEEPING! DEEEAAAATH-AH! (Not surprisingly, from "Creeping Death").
His last line in The Day That Never Comes: "This, I swear! This, I swear! THIS! I! SWEARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!" In the booklet of the album, that last "THIS, I SWEAR!" is in even bigger letters for emphasis.
Also, the expansion of the word "empty" in "Cyanide", and "Shape-shiiii-fttttt" in "Of Wolf and Man".
Related: The very end of Tool's "Eulogy": "GOOD! BYYYYY....YYYY...YYYY...YYYYE!!!"
THIS! MEANS! WAR! ("This Means War!" by Petra), also the name of the album.
Garbage: THIS! IS! NOT! MY! IDEA! OF A! GOOD TIME! (From "Not My Idea")
Tool also has a more typical example with "Disgustipated", which is very disturbing:
"THIS. IS. NECESSARY! THIS. IS NECESSARY! LIFE! FEEDS ON LIFE! FEEDS ON LIFE!..."
PRY-ING O-PEN MY THIRD EYE! PRY-ING O-PEN MY THIRD EYE! PRY-ING O-PEN MY THIRD EYE! (From "Third Eye").
The character of Me (played by James LaBrie) does it awesomely at the end of "Day Eighteen: Realization" on Ayreon's The Human Equation album. "LET! ME! OOOUUUT!!!" Rage (played by Devin Townsend) also does a similar thing at the end of "Day Sixteen: Loser". "NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!"
Ronnie James Dio, at the end of Rainbow's classic "Kill the King". "OH! KILL! OH! KILL! OH, OH!"
Stratovarius's "Freedom": "So you will hear! My! Freedom! Call!"
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets in "Flee!": PAIN! DEATH! INSANITY! DEATH!"
WE BUILT! THIS! CITY! WE BUILT! THIS! CITY! ON ROCK! AND! ROLL! (From "We Built This City" by Starship).
Dream Theater examples: "As I Am" ("Take! Me! As! I am!"), "A Change of Seasons" ("I! WILL! LIVE ON! LIVE ON!", also the live version has James shouting "PLEASE! DON'T! GO!"), "The Test That Stumped Them All" ("Hoping to find the answers to the test that stumped! Them! All!"), "Octavarium" ("TRAPPED! INSIDE! THIS! OC-TA-VA-RI-UM!"). James LaBrie really likes doing this. Also from "The Dark Eternal Night": I! Am! The! LAST!
{{Queensr˙che}}: They love it.
Take Hold Of The Flame: "TAKE! HOLD!"
"CHILD! OF! FIRE!"
Neue Regel: "I! CAN! HEAR! THE! CHIMES!"
Chemical Youth (WE! ARE! REBELLION!)
The Needle Lies: "DON'T! EVER! TRUST!"
Eyes of a Stranger: "Why am I here? And FOR! HOW LONG!?"
Empire: "CAN! YOU! HEAR! IT CALLING!"
Enter Shikari: "SO! RRY! YOU'RE! NOT! A winner..." "WHAT! HAVE! YOU! GOT? To lose..." (From "Sorry, You're Not a Winner")
"GO! TELL! ALL! YOUR FRIENDS!" "THAT THIS IS! THE END!" (From "Mothership").
"YOU'RE NOT! GETTING ANY! SLEEP! TONIGHT!" (From "No Sleep Tonight").
"THOU! SHALL! NOT! PASS!" (From "Juggernauts").
Four Year Strong might as well be called FOUR! YEAR! STROOONG!
"CAN YOU! PROVE TO ME! THAT YOU'RE NOT DEAD! AND! GONE!" (From "Nineteen with Neck Tatz"), "RISE! OR! DIE! HERE AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD!" (From "Maniac (R.O.D.)"), "SO LISTEN UP! IF YOU STILL FEEL! AND I STILL FEEL! THEN RISE UP! AND O! VER! COME!" (From "What The Hell Is a Gigawatt?" featuring Jay Pepito of Reign Supreme), "I! STILL! ALWAYS! LOOK UP TO YOU!" (From "One Step at a Time"), etc. etc.
Iron Maiden, "The Prisoner": "Run! Fight! To leave! It's tough!"
"RUN! TO! THE! HILLS! / RUN! FOR! YOUR! LI-I-IVES!" (From "Run to the Hills").
"TWO! MINUTES! TO MID - NIIIIIIIIIGHT!" (From "2 Minutes to Midnight").
"CAUGHT - SOME-WHERE - IN - TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!" (From "Caught Somewhere in Time").
"YOUR - TIME - WILL - COME!" (From "The Wicker Man").
Rhapsody of Fire, "The March of the Swordmaster": "Hail! Hail! Great swordmaster! March! March! Brave swordmaster!" And a spoken version in "The Dark Tower of Abyss": "This... Is... HELL!!!" And in Italian, from "Bloody Red Dungeons": "Luna! Rossa! Pianti! Paure! Rabbia! Ira! Urla! Torture!"
Scooter: "Move! Your! ASS!" (From "Move Your Ass!")
And "Gothic... doesn't... exist." (From "Fuck the Millennium").
HY-PAH HY-PAH! (From "Hyper Hyper").
HOW! MUCH! IS! THE! FISH?! (From "How Much Is the Fish?", strangely enough).
Stratovarius: "At! The! Speed! Of! Liiight...!" (From "Speed of Light") and "ZERO! THREE! ZERO! THREE! SIX! SIX!" (From "030366").
Metal in general, really. From Man O' War (which basically IS this trope, entirely accepting it into their being) to Black Sabbath to Gojira to Death to friggin' anything. Metal is Sparta, I guess.
To quote Bruce Springsteen from his Live in New York City DVD(toward the end of Tenth Avenue Freeze Out)"The heart-stopping, soul-shaking, earth-quaking, love-making, air-conditioner-shaking, history-making, legendary E! STREET! BAND!"
U2: UNOS! DOS! TRES! CATORCE!!!note Roughly (allowing for some mispronunciation), "One! Two! Three! Fourteen!" (From "Vertigo").
Of the "syllabic emphasis" kind: "EL-E-VA-TION!" (From "Elevation").
GO! SHOUT IT OUT! RISE UP! (From "Unknown Caller").
"Inside the Fire" by Disturbed: DE!VON! LIES! BE!YOND! THIS! POR!TAL! TAKE! THE! WORD! OF! ONE! IMM!OR!TAAAL!! (yes, that was tripple syllabic emphasis).
Living Colour: I! AM! THE! CULT! OF! PERSONALITY! (From "Cult of Personality").
Children of Bodom: Should I regret, or ask myself - ARE?! YOU?! DEAD?! YET?! (From "Are You Dead Yet?").
Christopher Lee in his Charlemagne concept album: I SHED THE BLOOD OF THE SAXON MEN! I SHED THE BLOOD OF THE SAXON MEN! (From "The Bloody Verdict of Verden").
Three Days Grace: I! HATE! EVERYTHING! ABOUT! YOU! WHY! DO! I! LOVE! YOU!? (From "I Hate Everything About You").
Break! Away from everybody! Break! Away from everything! If you! Can't! Stand! The way this place is! Take! Yourself! To higher places! (From "Break").
Industrial Metal masters, Fear Factory, employ this trope for almost all of the vocals in the first half of the song, "Fear Campaign". WHY? NOT? CHECK? IT? OUT? And experience the awesomeness
HATE! WAR! AND TER-ROR! MUR-DER! DI-SAS-TER! RAPE! DRUGS! AND VIO-LENCE! LOST! IN! OUR! FAIL-URE!
Viking metallersAmon Amarth make use of this more than once, with the song "Twilight of the Thunder God" providing a particularly fitting example:
"Twilight! Of! The Thunder God! Twilight! Of! The Thunder God! Twilight! Of! The Thunder God! Twilight! Of! The Thun! Der!! God!!!"
Death frontman Chuck Schuldiner loved this trope. His performance in "The Philosopher" turned the word "lies" into a metalhead in-joke.
A PATHETIC! EX-CUSE! FOR A HUMAN BEING! (From "Spiritual Healing").
Shontelle: Tell them I was happy/And my heart is broken/All my scars are open/Tell them what I HOPED! WOULD! BE! IMPOSSIBLLLLLLLLLLLE! IMPOSSIBLLLLLLLLLLLE! IMPOSSIBLLLLLLLLLLLE!IMPOSSIBLLLLLLLLLLLE! (From "Impossible").
Brutal Death Metal rightfully uses this a whole lot. A particular example might be Whitechapel with their fittingly named song "This Is Exile" (by the end of the song it becomes awesome how he uses THIS! TROPE!).
CAN! NOT STOP! THE HORDES! OF GHOULS! WORLD! GONE DEAD! SO FIRE! YOUR MISSILES AND ROCKETS AND LASERS AND RAILGUNS BUT NOTHING WILL SHORTEN HIS RULE! (From "Lich King III (World Gone Dead)").
THE ONLY WAY TO EVER BEAT IT IS JUST! TO! TAKE! THE! STAAAAAAAAIRS! (From "ED-209").
HUMAN HISTORY DIDN'T NEED YOU! YOU AREN'T WANTED! AND! ARE! DISMIIIIIIISSED! (From "Waste").
The Thrash Metal band Forbidden does an especially spectacular version in "March into Fire":
"I'll MAAAAAKE! YOU! FAAAAAACE! THIIIIIIIS! NOOOOOOOW!note Bleed it Out
"I'VE! BECOME! SO NUMB! I CAN'T FEEL! YOU! THERE!"note Numb
"YOOOOOOOOUUU! TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME! GO AWAY! YOU! TRY TO TAKE THE BEST OF ME! GO AWAYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"note Place for My Head
"PUT ME OUT OF MY MI! SER! RYYYYYYY! PUT ME OUT OF MY... PUT ME OUT OF MY FUC! KING! MI! SER! RRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"note Given Up
Rapper The Game has been known to start live performances of "How We Do" by repeatedly chanting "(Insert rapper here) can SUCK! MY! DICK!".
The chorus of "Bust It Baby, Pt.2" by Plies featuring Ne-Yo: BUSSST! IIIIIIT! BABYYYY!
Most of the bridge of Holiday by Green Day. Sieg Heil to the President gas man, bombs away is your PUN-ISH-MENT! Pulverise the Eiffel Towers, who criticide your GOV-ERN-MENT! Bang bang goes the broken glass man, kill all the fags that DONT! A-GREE! Trials by fire setting fires, is not a way that's MEANT! FOR! ME!.
In Over the Hedge, a Drill Sergeant Nasty demands 20 push-ups from R.J. and Verne. When Verne reveals his one push-up bra, which he uses to cover his alleged ears, the sarge asks, "WHAT? IS? HAPPENING?"
professional! WRESTLING!
Being filled with barely-dressed super-manly-men, Professional Wrestling has a number of examples:
Whenever DX is together, Triple H is bound to ask the crowd if they're ready. Then, he'll clarify for them that he did, in fact, ask "ARE?! YOU?! REEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAADY?!?!"
After the requisite Michael Buffer schtick was concluded, Shawn Michaels would without fail conclude with this exchange.
Shawn: "And if you're not down with that, then we got TWO! WORDS! FOR YAAAAAAA!!"
Crowd: "SUUUCK IIIIIIT!!!!"
I!! AM!! THE GAME!!
And I AM! THAT! DAMN!! GOOD!!!
"THE HEART! BREAK! KID! SHAWN! MICHAELS! LAYS DOWN! FOR ABSOLUTELY! NOBODY!!!"
Used by Pro Wrestler The Undertaker, though he doesn't shout each word so much as he treats each one like its own sentence. Oh, and he draws the last one. "Rest. In. Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeace."
Bob & Ray's "Slow Talkers of America" skit works similarly to the MirrorMask example above. Albeit in this one, in a nifty subversion of the trope, it's the relentless lack of drama that eventually sends the interviewer over the edge:
Bob:(as president Harlow P. Whitcomb) ... the STOA... the Slow... Ray: Talkers of America, right. Now, you— Bob: ... Talkers... Ray: Of America! Bob: ... of... Ray:America! Of AMERICA!! Bob: ... America.
From Adventures in Odyssey: During the "Darkness Before Dawn" arc, Richard Maxwell crosses paths with middle-management villain "Jellyfish". After being kept in jail about half a year longer than his sentence should have lasted, he isn't happy. As such, he informs him that apart from cleaning up his act, one thing hasn't changed:
And then there's Raoul with his Call Back to that line: "...but this time, clever friend, the disaster—WILL! BE!! YOURS!!!" Phantom contains relatively few spoken lines, but its melodramatic roots mean an unusual proportion of those that exist can be delivered in this fashion.
Anyone Can Whistle: "NOW — POINT — ONE!" This and several similar exclamations include the same musical Stings and vamp to fade.
The Fantasticks: "You're...standing...in...my...KUMQUAT!" ("SORRY!")
Lil Abner has this in the speech leading into "Oh, Happy Day":
"Think of the unbounded horizons of science, when we can make all mankind look!" (Sforzando) "Act!" (Sforzando) "Think!" (Sforzando) "Feel!" (Sforzando) "Hope, desire, dream!" (Sforzando) "Buy, sell!" (Tremolo) "Inhale, exhale!" (Sforzando) "Exactly like those specimens over there!" (Fast segue)
The last word of which is not just the only time NPC chat is increased in font size, but also increased in font size to eight times normal size and red.
It was also bugged for a long time, causing some raw code to appear as well, thus taking up far too much space. It rather ruined the dramatic effect of the line in question.
"WHERE?!! IS?!! MY?!! MOTHER?!!" from Tomb Raider: Legend, punctuated by a gunshot between each word. Also a Moment Of Awesome, as the target of the murderous rage happens to be both an old friend, and the source of the Eldritch Abomination you just spent the last 5-10 minutes killing. Then you get the answer and pistol whip Amanda before delivering this line:
Lara: From this moment, your every breath is a gift from me.
Silent Hill 4: The first time Henry drops his Catch Phrase, the captions see fit to put ellipses between each word, but the voice actor speaks the line without any such pauses.
Everything that comes out of Illidan's mouth in World of Warcraft. YOU! ARE NOT! PREPARED!
...Yet all throughout, my own heart, devoid of emotion, of empathy. I. HAVE. FELT. NOTHING.
If you keep clicking on the Dwarven Rifleman, one of his quotes is "This! Is! Mah! BOOMSTICK!"
And after that same boss delivers his deathbed speech he tells you to: SAVE. YOUR. WORLD.
Garrosh: I sent you to Stonetalon Mountains with an army. Your orders were to secure this land for the Horde. Instead, you laid waste to the land. Murdered innocents, children even... I spent a very long time in Northrend, Krom'gar. I learned much about the Horde at that time. While there, a wise old war hero told me something that I would carry with me forever... "Honor," Krom'gar, "No matter how dire the battle... Never forsake it." Overlord Krom'gar, you have disgraced the Horde. You have brought shame to us as a people. By my right as Warchief, I hereby relieve you of duty... * Garrosh Hellscream grabs Overlord Krom'gar.* YOU ARE DISMISSED! * Garrosh Hellscream throws Overlord Krom'gar off the ledge.*
The trope namer is parodied in the introduction quest to the Twilight Highlands zone, in which the player is asked to escort a (literal) red shirt Horde Negotiator to meet with the fel orc leader of the Dragonmaw clan. When the negotiator meets with the Dragonmaw warchief, the warchief rebukes him, leading to this exchange:
Negotiator: This is madness! Dragonmaw Warchief: Madness? This. Is. DRAGONMAW!!! *kicks the Negotiator into the bonfire behind him*
"I am... Deathwing. The Destroyer. T He end of all things. Inevitable! Indomitable! I! AM! THE CATACLYSM!"
Baldur's Gate 2 gives Minsc the classic line "Evil, meet my sword. SWORD! MEET! EVIIIIIIL!" and a line from the villain Irenicus: "Once my thirst for power was everything, and now I hunger only for revenge. And. I. WILL. HAVE IT!!"
Ghaleon of the Lunar series takes this trope as far as it will go as he tends to enunciate. every. possible. word. His voice actor even comments on it in the making of bonus video for Silver Star Story Complete.
Obey! Conform! Abstain! Ignore! Deny! Refrain! Cease! Appease! Shun! ... Avoid new sensations. Avoid all sensations! Avoid any sensation! Avoid unnecessary pleasantries! Avoid necessary pleasantries! Avoid libation! Avoid fermentation! Avoid all these in combinations. Save often! Floss regularly! Floss meaningfully! Floss athletically! Think happy thoughts! And above all, never forget: who is the boss of you! Me! I. Am. The boss. Of you! I. Am.' The boss. Of you! I. Am. The boss. Of you!
System Shock: Welcome to my DEATH! MACHINE! INTERLOPER!
Final Fantasy X-2: "Don't make me say this again... I'M! NOT! LENNE!"
Rikku: Think we need a password? Paine: How about "kick... its... ass"?
Ace Attorney: Do. You. Think. You've. Won? Well!? Do you, Mia Fey?
Heh... Heh... Heh... Heheh... That's. Just. Fine!
While on the topic of Ace Attorney, we have to mention this memorable parody from the third game:
Maya: Umm, would you mind taking a look at this? Basil: I'm sorry. That data is SuPer-Admin Restricted Desktop Access password-protected. Maya: SuPer-Admin Restricted Desktop Access password-protected!? What? This is madness! Phoenix: No, Maya, that is SPARDA.
The courthouse! (whipping) Must be! (whipping) Kept clean! (more whipping)
At the end of Perfect Dark, Elvis is looking for Joanna so they can evacuate the Skedar planet before his buddies come to bomb it. He finds her with one of her feet trapped under rubble, and asks him to lend her his Phoenix handgun.
Joanna: WILL - YOU - JUST... (shoots under the rubble at the unseen Skedar leader, who was holding on to her leg) ...let go?
Super Macho Man of Punch-Out!! fame seems prone to this in the Wii version.
WHY! DON'T YOU! LOVE ME!?! SUPEEEER! MACHOOOO! MAAAAAN!
Which leads to an aversion during the aftermath of the last Seifer battle, in which she gives a long, perhaps touching speech in a completely normal voice.
The last line of Assassins Creed II's not really the end since gameplay continues over the credits ending has Desmond Miles saying what we're all thinking: "What. The. Fuck."
Several of the boss after being defeated in Star Fox 64, but two quotes from Star Wolf members Wolf and Leon, respectivley: "I! CAN'T! LOOOOOOOOSE!" and "HE'S! TOO! STRONG!"
Macbeth train conductor: "I CAN'T! STOP! IIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTT!
One of the most surprising (and awesome) moments in World of Warcraft's second expansion, complete with epic voicework: "I AM MAL'GANIS! I! AM!ETERNAL!"
Blacksmith Ed of Demon's Souls does it if you talk to him, then leave without buying or upgrading anything. "Don't. Waste. My. Time." Not exactly the most cheery fellow, but you need him if you want to get any special upgrades for your weapons.
God Of War: "ZEUS! YOUR SON HAS RETURNED! I BRING THE DESTRUCTION! OF OLYMPUS!"
In Tales Of Monkey Island Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood, when Guybrush tells the Poxed Elaine about getting LeChuck out of jail once everyone is cured of the Pox:
Early "talking" pinball games (possibly with the exception of Gottlieb's Black Hole) could only talk this way, often resulting in Mad Libs Dialogue:
"GORGAR! SPEAKS!"
"ME! GOT! YOU!"
"THE-BLACK-KNIGHT-WILL-SLAY-YOU!"
"I-WILL-SLAY-YOU-MY-ENEMY!"
Space Shuttle: "READY, FOR, LIFTOFF!"
"PIN*BOT...CIRCUITS...ACTIVATED!"note By this point, it was now possible to include longer recorded voice samples, making its use in this game, and any other use of this trope in future machines strictly an artistic choice.
Super Mutants in Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas often do this. "CENTAURS! EAT! HUMANS!"(Tabitha on Black Mountain Radio)
Muv Luv Unlimited has both "Are you kidding me? Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me!!?" and "These are TS Fs we're talking about! T. S. Fucking. Fs!!"
web! ANIMATION!
Homestar Runner: Strong Bad's "sage advice" to Homestar in email 130: "DON'T! EVER! DRESS! UP! As The CHEAT! AGAIN! PARSLEY! SAGE! ROSEMARY! And THYME!"
This could also be a Punctuated Pounding, given that he's hitting Homestar over the head with a keyboard while he says it.
"CHANT! WORDS! TOGETHER!"
"Don't! Eat! Mah! CHICKEN WIIIIIINGS!"
The Horrible Painting, to Strong Bad: "Come. On. In here!!"
On the original Podstar Runner animation, showing an I Pod menu, at the end, Strong Bad finds himself inside the menu and pounds against the screen to get out, "LET me! OUTTA the! TINY! BOX!", then suddenly shatters the screen.
That example could in fact be considered a Spartan Staredown, since it involves two characters glaring at one another and exchanging Punctuated! For! Emphasis! lines until one backs down.
Mike from Sexy Losers: I...AM NO...ORDINARY...MAN! His delivery of this line was what elevated him from simple comedy to being actually sort of awesome. That is, if you look past the fact that he's masturbating and just see it from his own artistic perspective.
Gemini: You have the right to remain silent, you have- Platinum: Dozens of civilian hostages, why do you think I travel coach? Gemini: We will still bring you in- Platinum: Over a pile of corpses? Do it! Show you mother that no matter what you claim to be, You. Are. Just. Like. Me.
Sluggy Freelance ("The Research and Development Wars"): "Orbital. Weaponized. Dimensional. Flux. Agitator." It makes more sense in context than usual for this comic: Riff is referring to a Doomsday Device made by setting up a network of "flux agitators" that can not only be used as the ultimate weapon to blast absolutely anything on a world-wide scale into another dimension, but is also prone to rip the fabric of reality in the dimension where they are used, while parallel uses in different dimensions will have had caused a cross-universe disaster in the future from which he has returned. And all of that makes sense in context, too.
Nostalgia Critic (through a voicebox):You're. An. Idiot.
Rifftrax makes fun of this trope, especially while riffing 300.
Bill Corbett: Well, I think he certainly proved that THIS! IS! SPARTA! Mike Nelson: Yeah, his kids make fun of him cause when he's handing out stuff on the 4th of July he insists on saying, "THIS! IS! A SPARKLER!" Kevin Murphy: Or, when he's giving his car a tune-up and his kid asks, "Hey Dad, what's that small white thing with the metal at each end?" he always replies "THIS! IS! A SPARKPLUG!" Bill Corbett: Or, when he sits down to a meal of juice, toast, milk, and Trix cereal... Mike Nelson: Uh-oh, where's he going with this? Bill Corbett: And he looks at his bowl of Trix and he says, "THIS! IS! SPART OF A BALANCED BREAKFAST!" Kevin Murphy: Wow! Mike Nelson: You pulled it off; nicely done! Bill Corbett: Thank you very much.
Later, there's "This! Is! Dinner!"
And in the Twilight Rifftrax, "THIS! IS! Forks High School: Home of the SPARTANS!"
And from MobiusZero4'sDevil May Cry 3 playthrough, with commentary by both himself and the aforementioned Adam Schwartze (see it with commentary on ArcadiaComms and without commentary on the provided link to his channel):
this mildly nsfw thread on 34. the comments have absolutely nothing to do with the picture, it's all JUST this. Also a Crowning Moment of Funny due to a perfectly timed snipe halfway through the thread.
From "Forced Kin": YOU! HAVE! BROKEN! MY! DREEEEEEEEEEEAM!!!!!!!!!
Another one from "Meet the Beat-Alls": THE LOUDER YOU YELL, THE MORE PAIN IT CAUSES THE LISTENER! AND! THEIR! PAIN! IS! OUR! PLEASURE!!!
Yet another one from "Los Dos Mojos": And being the only Mojo Jojo in the world, I shall rule this world in which there is ONLY! ONE! MOJO JOJO!!!!
And another from "Child Fearing": IT'S! TIME! FOR!BEEEEEEDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!
Even Bubbles has one in "Bubblevicious": CUTE! LITTLE! BUBBLES!
Buttercup from "Octi-Gone" in a flashback scene as she is getting her noggin pounded into the pavement by a tentacled monster and Bubbles is more focused on her toy Octi:
"I warned her. DON'T...FUCK...WITH...WENDY...TESTABURGER!" (Scare Chord)
III'M! NOOOT! YOOOUUURR! FRIEEENND! BUDDYYYY!
"I....AM....SO....PISSED...OFF....RIGHT...NOWW!" From when Cartman sees that Stan and Kyle submitted a video of him having a tea party with his plush toys to a 'Funniest Home Videos' show. Followed with "I...AM...GOING...TO...* BEEP* ING...KILL...YOU...GUYS....SERIOUSLY!" and "HATE YOU GUYS...HATE...YOU...GUYS!!!"
"Breath! Short! Left arm! Numb! Can't go on ... describing symptoms much longer!"
The nurse from the episode of The Simpsons with the Hellfish treasure (punctuated with shotgun blasts:) THE RESIDENTS! ARE TRYING! TO NAP!!!
From the same episode. "You. Are. DISMISSED."
And Mr. Burns in a Treehouse of Horrors: "Bad corpse! Stop — scaring — Smithers!"
When Abe goes on a death race after promising not to, Homer: "Abraham J. Simpson.... You are never! driving! again! EVER!!!"
In another episode, Homer wouldn't let Grampa make a pit stop because he wanted to catch a TV special on F. Murray Abraham. When Grampa protested, Homer emphasized, "F! MURRAY! ABRAHAM!"
Afer Bart tricked Homer into eating fire and drinking lighter fluid. "WHYYYYY!!! YOOOOOU!!! LIIIIIITLLLLE!!!"
In the episode "A Streetcar Named Marge", Marge auditions for the part of Blanche Du Bois in Oh, Streetcar!, a musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire. After she fails her audition, Llewellyn Sinclair, the director, tells her that Blanche is supposed to be "a delicate flower being trampled by an uncouth lout". When he then sees a depressed Marge talking to Homer on the phone and agreeing to bring back some food for him, he grabs the phone and yells "Stop! Bothering! My! BLANCHE!"
From the Phineas And Ferb episode "The Chronicles of Meap: More than Meaps the Eye":
Mitch: I mean, seriously. Seriously! You're still not getting this! You're all trapped! On my ship! Forever!
Mister Miracle gets a good one when he, as a child, escapes from the X-Pit in Justice League Unlimited.
Granny Goodness: You think you're so special, Scott. That you're different from Granny's other children. But you're not. If anything, you're just a little.. slower. You see, they learned years ago that their lives are meaningless, that hope is a lie. And you just figured it out. Scott: No. You're the liar. There's always hope. Granny Goodness: You'll never escape. Scott:Yes. I. Will!
In the Justice LeagueGrand Finale, J'onn, Batman and Flash are trying to fly a spaceship parked outside Wayne Manor.
Batman:Well? J'onn:I have no idea how to fly this vehicle. Flash:What's this do? Frickin' Laser Beams make wall go boom, nearly killing Alfred. Batman:THAT'S. NOT. HELPING.
Beast Wars: After Rattrap spends most of the two-part opener complaining, snarking at Optimus Primal, and outright refusing to obey orders, Optimus finally loses patience when Rattrap tries to shoot Dinobot for "attacking" Rhinox:
Optimus: Ease off, Rattrap. It was an accident. Rattrap: Says you! Optimus: That's right, says me! You wanna question my orders (jabs his finger into Rattrap's chest with each word) ONE. MORE. TIME?!
Later on at the end of Season II:
Optimus: "TIME! ITSELF! IS ALL! BEING! DESTROYED!" Megatron: "YES! The Decepticons win! Evil triumphs! And you! YOU! NO LONGER! EXIST!!"
After Inferno sets some plants on fire, Tigatron freaks the heck out and screams "YOU. WILL. LEAVE. THE WILD. ALONE!" and punctuates each word with a gunshot.
Penn: Why are you always stealing ladies? Ice King: I'm going to make one marry me! Penn: That's. Stupid! Ice King: Your HAT. Is stupid! Penn: My hat! Is! AWESOME!
Lemongrab from the Adventure Time show talks like this a great deal of the time! "UNACCEPTABLE! CONDITION!!!" "THREE! HOURS! DUNGEON!!!"
Bertrand: *Pinning Danny* Aw look, the little loser ghost has a few baby helpers. Danny: *Eye twitches* Do! Not! Call! Me! A loser! *Kicks Betrand off*
In The Ant and the Aardvark short "From Bed to Worse", the aardvark says while whacking with his cane on the dog's leg cast: "DON'T! BE! A! WISE! GUY!"
The detention officer from Dexters Laboratory: "I... am... a... CRIMINAL!"
Invader Zim: "I WANT MY SLAW!" "YOU HAVE YOUR SLAW SIR!" I WANT MY SLAW!" "YOU HAVE YOUR SLAW SIR!"
In the Futurama episode "Jurassic Bark", after two humans, and a very lucky robot, all try to dive into lava against Professor Farnsworth's advice, he finally just yells "Professor! Lava! HOT!"
"TALES! OF! INTEREST!!"
"Because I! don't! like! being! used!"
Arthur's mom has a comedic one in the "Grandma Thora Appreciation Day" episode: "KIDS!! GRANDMA'S CAR BROKE DOWN!! AND SHE'S COMING!! IN!! THE HOUSE!!!"
"I TOLD YOU... NOT! TO! TOUCH IT!!!"
In World Of Quest, the titular Quest has used it a few times. On the other hand, the villain Lord Spite has OVERused it to the point of hilariousness as he tends to make his "scary speeches" too long.
In an episode of Spongebob Squarepants revolving around Pearl's birthday, Pearl gives her father Mr. Krabs a list of what she wants, but as expected, Mr. Krabs is too cheap to get any of it. Pearl winds up humiliated and yells at her dad:
"Daddy, how could you?! I! GAVE! YOU! A LIST!!!"
"MY NAME'S! NOT! RIIIICK!!!"
"Is this the Krusty Krab?" "No. This is Patrick." Another call "Is this the Krusty Krab?" "No This is Patrick!" Another Call "Is this the Krusty Krab?" "NO! THIS IS PATRICK!!!"
"What I learned in Boating school IS... BLANKETY. BLANKETY. BLANK!"
"YOU ONLY NEED THREE! MORE! WOOOOOORDS!"
And probably the best one, in "A Life in a Day". Spongebob: "THIS! IS! LIIIFE!"
In the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Prom-ise Her Anything", Elmyra fails to grasp what Montana Max is saying with his "The Reason You Suck" Speech, so he simply screams, "I DON'T LIKE YOU! READ MY LIPS: I. DON'T. LIKE. YOU!!!!"
Also by the end of the short, 'A Walk on the Flip Side':
Monty: I! HATE! RABBITS!
The Ren & Stimpy Show: POWDERED! TOAST! MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN! Complete with flashing background and dramatic pose.
From "Insomniac Ren":"For the last time! I! Want You! To Be! QUIET!"
SHAMPOOOOOOOO! MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN! with Stimpy as shampoo man.
IIII!!! HAAATTTTE!!! LIIIINNNTLOOOAAAFFF!!!
From Stimpy's "I Like Darren!" rant in "Mad Dog Höek". "HE... IS... NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!"
Another one has him drinking coffee, spitting it out and shouting "This. Is. Decaf!".
In fact, one episode featured four sketches with him shouting like that, playing at random times. Another one showed him at a party, informing other guests, "This. Is. MARTHA!!" and another had him eating dinner and proclaiming, "This. Is. SCRUMPTIOUS!"
The American Revolution based parody gives us lines like: "Fear not, American! FOR TONIGHT! WE DINE! IN! VIRGINIAAAAAAAAAAAA!" and "British!? THIS! IS! AMERICAAAA!"
"Let us cover a few BASIC! ELEMENTS! OF! DRIVING!"
I! Am! The CHEESE!
On the Darkwing Duck episode "Just Us Justice Ducks," Negaduck, having just destroyed S.H.U.S.H. and now jumping on Darkwing's prostrate form: "THIS! IS! THE! HAPPIEST! MOMENT! OF! MY! LIFE!"
After Hades notices Pain wearing Hercules-brand sandals: "What. Are. Those?" and then "I've got 24 hours to get rid of this... bozo... or the entire scheme I've been setting up for eigh...teen...years... goes up in smoke... and YOU... are WEARING... HIS!MERCHANDIIISE!!"
"Of all the worst things that could happen, this is The!Worst!Possible!Thing!!
One pony has her beaten, though:
Fluttershy: How dare you? How. DARE! YOU?! ... You may have huge teeth and sharp scales and snore smoke and breathe fire... but you do not — I repeat — you do NOT. HURT. MY. FRIENDS!
The "300 Ponies" parody trailer has her saying the former trope namer line in place of the above. It works perfectly.
And Mr. Robinson rant in "The Poltergeist" about the Wattersons ends with his trying (and failing) to break their vacuum cleaner while shouting "BUY! CHEAP! BUY! TWICE!"
In a House of Mouse short, Goofy goes to a baseball game and gets a seat in the nosebleed section. The signs on the four highest bleachers read "HERE'S! YOUR! DUMB! SEAT!"
Madagascar: "I don't want any of you... ...on my! TURF! AGAIN!!!"
Ice Age: "Survival! Of the! Fittest! I don't think so."
The Smurfs: Grouchy Smurf from The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol: "I! HATE! HATS!" And before that..."I! HATE! CHRISTMAS!"
The Danger Mouse episode "The Wild Wild Goose Chase" ends with DM having been beaten mentally by Baron Greenback, with our hero capping it off with a good shout of "I....HATE...THAT...TOAD!!!"
Bugs Bunny from the cartoon "Hareless Wolf," in which said wolf is presumably chasing Bugs around a tree, but Bugs has stepped aside as the wolf is chasing himself:
Bugs: (as the wolf comes around each time) HEY! DOC! WHAT! ARE! YOU! CHASIN'! AROUND! THE! TREE!?
Garfield and Friends had the second opening, "We're Ready to Party", which was first enunciated as "We're! (We're!) Ready! (Ready!) To! (To!) PARTY!". Also, in the episode "Good Mousekeeping", Garfield is trying to nap while Jon keeps nagging him to get rid of the mice that have invaded. An exasperated Garfield eventually shouts "Let! Me! Sleep!" He still eventually has to catch the mice, though.
Shark Tale has this exchange, after Angie finds out Oscar lied about being the Sharkslayer.
Oscar: Don't take it personally, come on, I lied to everybody! Alright, look, I'm sorry, I totally betrayed you. But listen, I just got one little problem I gotta take care of.
Angie: Oh? What's that?
Oscar: SHARKS! Are COMING! To GET ME!
When Lenny accidentally catches Oscar in his mouth during their staged fight, Oscar emphasises "DON'T. SWALLOW."
Earlier in the movie, just before Oscar actually becomes the Sharkslayer.
*Oscar': Any shark! Try to mess around! In Oscartown! Is going down!
BACK! OF! STEEL! SHOULDER! OF! STEEL! TRANSVESTITE! OF! STEEL! SET! OF! CARDBOARD!—Courtesy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show audiences.
Gordon Ramsay has pretty much his whole screen image built on this sort of thing — he gets quite passionate about food (and irritated by idiots). Just like the Hell's Kitchen example in Live Action TV.
Nearly... Everything that... William Shatner... Ever said. He... Speaks... in a... very... Staccato manner.
Lampshaded by himself in a onstage at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, when he said (punctuated by the words appearing on a screen behind him) - "And I don't talk like EVERY! WORD! IS! ITS! OWN! SENTENCE!"
Back before Teleprompters were common, P J O'Rourke observed that politicians would read out their prepared speeches this way, interrupted by page-turning at the most inconvenient possible moment: "We are in a position! To mandate large expenditures! By both state and local governments! But we are not!" rustlerustlerustle "Giving them financial aid!"
Sometimes happens in various chatrooms only to be kicked out for flooding if entered word per word.
Many people recite prayers in this manner. "For the kingdom! and the power! and the glory! are yours! now! and forever! A!-men!
Similarly, some Southern Gospel preachers. "And the LORD! SAID! that you will be SANCTIFIED! by the BLOOD! of JAY-ZUZZ!"
"JAN! KEN! PON!" ("Rock! Paper! Scissors!", and even other three-syllable phrases)
The traditional way to start a race or other competition: "READY! SET! GO!".
Said in countless variations when a movie begins filming a take: LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION!
A common misconception, actually (or, at the very least, a very outdated one). It generally goes something like this: "Rolling." "Sound speed." "ACTION!"
"On the count of three: ONE! TWO! THREE!"
"FIVE! FOUR! THREE! TWO! ONE! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!" ("Should auld acquaintance be forgot...", etc)
For American Football, as popularized by Howard Cosell and Chris Berman: "He could! Go! All! The! Way!"
A famous quote made by this editor's old GM. Now seen in various forms through the internet: "The. Bear. Eats. You."
Don't! Buy! Thai! was a grass-roots boycott organized in part by Andrew Vachss in the 1990s, encouraging people to boycott products that are made in Thailand in protest of the spread of child prostitution in that country. The boycott lost steam around 2000.
Satoru Iwata introducing the Nintendo 3DS at the Nintendo E3 2010 conference:
Ex-president of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (2001-2010) said, regarding allegations that she had spoken with Election Commissioner Virgilio "Garci" Garcillano on rigging the votes of the 2004 election in her favor, I. Am. Sorry.
The advertisting slogan for California Pistachios: "Big. Open. Pistachios."
In a well known, nasally, British accent, Robin Leach of "Lifestyles... of the Rich. And. Famous."
Rep. Anthony Weiner during an incensed and impassioned speech ended with saying his opponent, "Instead of [...] defending [his] colleagues in voting no on this humane bill, [...] should urge them to vote yes, something the gentleman HAS! NOT! DONE!"
The motto of the Bundeswehr, the armed forces of Germany, is "Wir. Dienen. Deutschland." (We. Serve. Germany.)
After a particularly bizarre set of polls were released during the 2012 election, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight tweeted in exasperation "The. Polls. Have. Stopped. Making. Any. Sense." Context can be seen here.
