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We Meet Again

So, TV Tropes, we meet again... for the last time!

A standard phrase when the hero has just walked in on the operation of a villain whom they have met before, implying that the villain recognizes that their clashes have become a recurring element.

Usually followed by a recitation of their earlier fight(s) (in case the viewers have forgotten where they should know this guy from), and a Just Between You and Me where the villain explains the protagonist just why he has the advantage this time (often referencing what went wrong with their previous plan and how they incorporated that into their current plot).

See also We Will Meet Again and You Haven't Seen the Last of X, which are used as goodbyes rather than as hellos. Compare Evil Gloating, Affably Evil. Contrast We Gotta Stop Meeting Like This.

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Advertising

Said by agent Richard Latham (Rowan Atkinson) in a Barclaycard ad spoofing Spy Fiction.

Anime & Manga

Kirby: Right Back at Ya! uses this trope quite a few times. Examples:
Meta Knight: (to Chilidog/Wolfwrath) So, we meet again. But this time will be different. This time, only one of us will survive.

Quixano/Sir Gallant: (to Kazeguru/Windwhipper) So, we meet again. You bested me last time, but this time, I will prevail!

Comic Books

An issue of Teen Titans Go! opens with "Kwiz-Kid", a Riddler wannabe trying to impress Kitten, contacting Robin and opening with this line. Robin points out that they've never met.

Comic Strips

Parodied in The Far Side when an unremarkable-looking duck greets a man, newly washed up with it on a tiny desert island, with "So, Professor Jenkins!... My old nemesis!... We meet again, but this time, the advantage is mine!"

Fan Works

Used in a Fan Vid mixing the famous Black Knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Star Wars, pulling straight away the line from Darth Vader.
In Turnabout Storm, Trixie pulls this off towards Twilight as part of her Incoming Ham moment.
My Little Portal: Trixie again. The only difference between here and before is that according to DISCoRD, Trixie remembers Twilight while Twilight does not remember Trixie.

Films — Animation

Toy Story 2
Zurg: So, Buzz Lightyear, we meet again, for the last time.

Films — Live-Action

Star Wars: A New Hope:
Darth Vader: I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master.
Mocked in Spaceballs, where Lone Starr says:
Lone Starr: So, Lord Helmet, at last we meet again for the first time for the last time.
Mystery Men:
Blue Rajah: Well, well, well, if it isn't our old friends, the Red Eyes? Good evening gentlemen; we weren't expecting to see you again so... spoon!

Gamebooks

In the Lone Wolf series, said by Archdruid Cadak in book 14, The Captives of Kaag, referencing the previous book.
Cadak: So we meet again, Lone Wolf.

Literature

In Robert E Howard's "The Scarlet Citadel", Conan the Barbarian greets Tsotha at the end with this.

Live-Action TV

Power Rangers Jungle Fury:
Grizzaka: So we meet again. The fear of the city has made me even more powerful than before.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Harmony: So, Slayer, we meet at last.
Buffy: We've met, Harmony, you halfwit.
Angel gets one of these with Sahjhan, a demon who brings Holtz to present time to kill Angel in season 3. He considers himself and Angel to be rivals, but Angel doesn't remember him at all, thereby tipping him off that Sahjhan is the one behind his recent troubles. In Season 5, Sahjhan returns and it's revealed that his real motivation was to have Connor killed, as Connor was the only person able to defeat Sahjhan.
Spoofed relentlessly in the Horrible Histories World War II POW sketch. It starts with Commandant Klinsman admitting that he and Squadron Leader Higgins haven't met before, "I just like the way I sound when I say zat." Higgins proceeds to disappear every time the chief looks away, getting dragged back in each time.
Higgins: So, we meet again!
Klinsman: Don't say zat, I say zat!
Get Smart. Max and 99 have been captured by a Mad Scientist.
Scientist: So Mr Smart, we meet again.
Max: But we've never met.
Scientist: Oh? It must have been your brother.
Max: But I don't have a brother.
Scientist: Would you like me to make you one?

Music

"Burn in Hell" by Judas Priest, as it's about the narrator eventually getting a revenge on a backstabber:
Scream in the night. I've been counting the days.
It's so amusing. To see you again.

Video Games

Zant in The Legend Of Zelda Twilight Princess drops a variant of the "for the last time" version right before he reawakens the boss Stallord.
The multiverse-wandering Gilgamesh pulls this in Dissidia: Final Fantasy after stumbling into the crossover war. Unfortunately for his ego, none of the protagonists he's met can remember him, since being summoned blurs their memories of their home-worlds. In fact, besides Bartz, it seems that HE doesn't recognise any of the other characters that he ran into before, either. His very first cutscene involves him searching for Bartz, and running into Squall, Zidane and Vaan; characters with whom he has had direct contact in their respective games. Zidane even goes as far as to say that Gilgamesh would look vaguely familiar to him if he had more arms, which he did as "Alleyway Jack" in FFIX.

Web Comics

Used in The Dark Intruder by D.I.'s soon-to-be Arch-Enemy, The Pyromaniac/The Waterman. Well, if D.I. doesn't mind too much.
A possessed toaster in Exterminatus Now. No, really.
Toaster: So, organic named Eastwood. We meet again!
From By Way of Booty Bay, a sub-comic of Supermegatopia, the strip "Cliffhanger"◊ has another parody. "It seems fate has once more brought us together." is said by... a crab. Not a Giant Enemy Crab, an normal-sized crab. But since at the time the protagonist is caught in a Literal Cliffhanger (with a dozen of his party members clinging to him), he's quite distressed, and indeed identifies the villain crab as "the Claw".
Girl Genius
- It shouldn't come too much as a surprise that Othar Tryggvassen (Gentleman Adventurer!) would say it; he's only nominally a hero anyway.
Othar: Wulfenbach! We meet again!
- Tarvek tries, too, but not very convincingly.
In Servants Of The Imperium, a Genestealer Magus who had previously possessed remotely psyker Lyle's mind says this when they're face-to-face.
Magus: So, we meet again psyker. Perhaps you wish for another lesson in psychic defense?
Darths & Droids, naturally, when reaching the meeting between Darth Vader and Obi-Wan from A New Hope, for once rather faithful to the original.
In Goblins, it's actually a good guy who says it:
Forgath: Psionic Minmax. We meet again. But this time, I'm not bolted to a wall.
Psion Minmax: Cliched dialogue is fun, isn't it?

Western Animation

Filmation's 1960's Green Lantern cartoon. Evil Star uses it when he meets the title hero in the episode "Evil Is as Evil Does".
The Herculoids. In "Mekkano, the Machine Master", Mekkano says it when he confronts the Herculoids.
In American Dad's "American Dream Factory", Haley tries to get in the way of Stan's plans again.
Hayley: Hello, Father. Wondering how I escaped from the basement?
Stan: (blas�) No, not really.
Hayley: (disappointed) Oh... But it involved training rats...
In an early episode of Family Guy, Stewie's first two teeth declare this to one another. Unable to actually conflict with one another, however, they just agree to bite his tongue.