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[Chi-Chi walks over to Super Buu and slaps him despite Piccolo's warnings not to provoke him]
Chi-Chi: You savage! Do you even care that you killed my oldest son!? You look at me when I'm talking to you!
[everyone can only gawk in open horror at what they're seeing]
Super Buu: Do you like eggs?
[a stunned Chi-Chi is turned into an egg by Buu, then is crushed under his foot as everyone (especially Goten) watches in horror]
Dragon Ball Z, "Time Struggle"

Fan Works

"SILENCE!"
At that word from Mars, even Hippolyte shut up.
But Fury didn't. "You overstuffed, tin-plated, dorkless big bag of stinkwind," she began. "I'll shut up when I wanna shut up, not when some dumb smokeass tells me to—"
"Lyta," said Wonder Woman, clapping a hand over her daughter's mouth, "shut up."

And just like that, the Sound ninja belatedly realized that maybe it hadn't been such a good idea to provoke the human WMD.

Shinji: The "other" as you [Leliel] call her is the master of the world of physical combat, something you disdain, but are you powerful enough to take me, a master of the mind?
Shinji: [thinking] In retrospect, perhaps such taunting was a bad idea if Rei's commentary on the method of attack used by the Fifteenth Angel is correct.
Asuka: Idiot!
Shinji: Hey! I had no idea the situation would evolve like this!

Deep breath. Be polite to deities, for they are short-tempered and quick to transmogrify.
Percy Jackson, Son of the Western Sea

Kaō: [thinking] I had thought that the progenitor of the demon race would be a man of noble stature. But I find he's nothing but a fool who is never satisfied with our efforts?!
Muzan: "I had thought that the progenitor of the demon race would be a man of noble stature. But I find he's nothing but a fool who is never satisfied with our efforts?" Those are your thoughts?
[the other 4 Lower Ranks gawk at Kaō in open horror]
Kaō: [thinking] He can read my mind?! This is bad!
Muzan: You DARE to criticize me? [proceeds to grab Kaō by the feet with his tendrils and hoist him in the air]
Kaō: FORGIVE ME, MASTER MUZAN! Please! Please, show me mercy! I'm sorry! I'm so very, very sorry!
Muzan: I think not. You spoke out of turn and dared to think yourself my superior? That warrants death.

Films — Animation

Galvatron: Unicron! Answer me! See this? The Matrix! I now possess that which you most fear. [gets down as Unicron lets out a roar] You will do my bidding or taste my wrath! [struggles and fails to open the Matrix]
Unicron: You underestimate me, Galvatron. [Unicron transforms into robot mode] For a time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet Cybertron. But now, you shall witness its dismemberment!
Galvatron: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! [Unicron smashes the surface of Cybertron with his hand]

Films — Live-Action

[while Force-choking Admiral Motti, who'd just derided him and the Force]
Darth Vader: I find your lack of faith disturbing.

"How do you shoot the devil in the back? What if you miss?"

Light: I'm not gonna give the Note to you or anybody else, and if you FUCK WITH ME AGAIN, I'm gonna put your name in it!
Ryuk: [Bursts in laughter] You could try... but I warn you; there are four letters in my name. The most anyone's ever gotten were two.

Literature

"You hopeless idiots. Where do you think you are? This isn't a church. This isn't America. And it's not Philosophy 101! This is Everworld, you blind, stupid, ignorant, willful jackasses. You simple-minded, narrow morons, these aren't gods you argue about. You fight them if you have the power, and if you don't, then you do what they say."
Senna Wales, Everworld

Marco looked more abashed than proud. The smart remark had just popped out of him. I don’t think he’d consciously planned to poke fun at a being who could not only annihilate Marco, but all memory of him, his family, and his ancestors, going back through a thousand generations.
Animorphs 26: "The Attack"

Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus. [Latin for "Never tickle a sleeping dragon."]
Hogwarts's official motto, Harry Potter

Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo You Fool!!
Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit

A man is best advised to consider carefully before he quarrels with a magician and still more with a king. But when these two characters are combined in one person, Why! then the peril is multiplied a hundred times.
Jonathan Strange on the wrath of the Raven King, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Live-Action TV

Simmons: What are you gonna do, sucker me to death?
[Dalek suckers him to death]

If the Continuum's told you once, they've told you a thousand times. Don't. Provoke. The Borg!

Religion & Mythology

Be not deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that will he also reap.

Tabletop Games

These has-beens look like such easy targets, don't they? Well, they're not. Avoid them. Avoid, avoid, avoid. It's tempting to trick them, but if you piss 'em off, they'll twist your head into a fucking balloon animal.
(Caveat the First: Sometimes they keep such cool stuff in their cobwebby old crypts that it's worth the risk.)
(Caveat the Second: If they catch you... well, you were warned.)
—Popular Ravnos opinion on the Tzimisce, Vampire: The Masquerade - Clanbook: Ravnos

Video Games

"You wish to see Godhood? I wish you to end."
Vlaakith, shortly before instantly wiping out the party, Baldur's Gate III

geeettttttt dunked on!!

Web Original

"Note to self: berating the invincible alien warlord is unwise."

Air Traffic Controller: Ha ha ha, hold on! Is someone holding an abortion costume contest?
Popsicle Pete: What is this beast that smiles at death?
Air Traffic Controller: Oh. Oh shit.
Pilots: Everyone run! Oh god, he has some kind of gun!
Popsicle Pete: Take the weapon. Betray the others.
Popsicle Pete: Where is the beast's smile now?

Webcomics

Thor: How do you like that, you deicidal maniac? Huh? HUH? Now who's so big and tough?
Loki: Dude, don't taunt the god-killing abomination.

Western Animation

Genie: Al, I know I said this before, but we're in a lot of trouble! That's Chaos! He's got more magic than any Genie. And he makes his own wishes!
Aladdin: And how come I've never heard of him?
Genie: Maybe he's got a lousy agent! Just don't make him mad.
Jasmine: Well, I don't care how much magic he has!
[...]
Jasmine: Those people weren't invited to be humiliated! I order you to leave.
Chaos: Order? To me!? Wrong move.
[Chaos makes Jasmine disappear from everyone's sight]
Aladdin: Jasmine! What have you done with her!?
Chaos: Oh, she's somewhere... underfoot.
Aladdin: The Series, "When Chaos Comes Calling"

Peridot: I told her off once. I can do it again. (Runs up to Yellow Diamond) Hey, Yellow Clod! Remember me?
Yellow Diamond: No. (poofs her)

Starlight Glimmer: Good choice! Not that you had one, heheh.
[Celestia and Luna fix her with a Death Glare]
Starlight Glimmer: ... I'm gonna stop talking now.

"Let's not antagonize the person with the all-powerful mystery rock!"

♪ Here's a tip you should never ignore — It's a bad idea to taunt a dinosaur! ♪
"Weird Al" Yankovic, Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, "Attack of the Weird Al-Osaurus"

(The Flying Dutchman tells SpongeBob, Patrick, and Squidward they are now part of his crew)
Squidward: Now you listen here, Mister. If you think I'm gonna spend more than 5 minutes on this dumpster, then you're crazy. I mean look at this place, (Squidward picks up a ghostly jockstrap) it's disgusting.
(While Squidward continues to complain and protest, the Flying Dutchman sighs before picking up Squidward)
Squidward: Oh, now what? I suppose you're gonna show me... (The Flying Dutchman upzips a pocket of space open) Oh, gee, that's very nice. What is this, some kind of magic act?
(The Flying Dutchman tosses a screaming Squidward into an Acid-Trip Dimension full of monsters as SpongeBob and Patrick look on in horror, then zips the entrance closed)
Flying Dutchman: Would anyone else like to enter the "Fly of Despair"?
SpongeBob: No! We know our place now, Mister Dutchman.
Patrick: We'll do anything you say!

Lobo: Yeah, I was hoping I'd get a piece of you before I left.
Lobo: Who's gonna make me?
Belos: Collector...? You're free! Just as promised!
The Collector: "As promised?" I remember someone throwing me off a bridge. I'm not angry though! Say, you wanna play tag? (drags Belos closer) I'm it. (slams Belos against a wall so hard he splatters)
The Owl House, "King's Tide"


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