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Times where the good guys reject the villain's claims by telling them to shut up in Animated Films.


  • Disney likes this trope, especially the Disney Animated Canon and Pixar:
    • The Great Mouse Detective has this crossed over with "The Reason You Suck" Speech with Basil's usage of the Queen Victoria robot to tell Ratigan where to go:
      Basil: Most assuredly... you insidious fiend. You're not my Royal Consort! You're a cheap fraud and impostor. A corrupt, vicious, demented, low life scoundrel. There's no evil scheme you wouldn't concoct. No depravity you wouldn't commit. You, Professor, are none other than a foul stenchus rodentus, commonly known as a—
      Ratigan: (grabbing the Victoria robot to silence) DON'T say it!
      Basil: (popping out)sewer rat!
    • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney):
      Frollo: The sentence for insubordination is death. What a pity. You threw away a promising career.
      Phoebus: Consider it my highest honor, sir.
      • Frollo receives a similar treatment in the climax at Quasimodo's hands.
      Frollo: (as Quasi advances menacingly on him with a dagger) Now, now, listen to me, Quasimodo—
      Quasimodo: No, you listen! All my life, you told me the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!
    • Hercules swiftly gives one to Hades once he escapes from the River Styx with Megara's ghost on his way to revive her. Hades berates Hercules for his heroism — and is promptly punched in the face for it.
    • The Emperor in Mulan refuses to concede Shan-Yu's apparent victory over him.
      Shan-Yu: I tire of your arrogance, old man. Bow to me!
      Emperor: No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it.
    • In Home on the Range, Alameda Slim's attempt to buy the farm is thwarted when he is exposed, but he is not about to accept defeat: "You think you've won?! It's ain't over till the fat man sings!" So he tries to hypnotize the barn animals by yodeling, but tone deaf Grace kicks a cowbell into his mouth, muffling him into silence, after which the sheriff hauls him off to jail.
    • In Frozen (2013), Anna stops Prince Hans from killing her sister, Elsa, but at the cost of her own life — she becomes a frozen-solid statue, which shatters Prince Hans' sword he intended to use to kill Elsa. Then Elsa manages to control of her powers and thaw out Anna through the Power of Love. Hans is quite perplexed to see them both alive.
      Prince Hans: (to Anna) Anna? But she froze your heart!
      Anna: The only frozen heart around here is yours.
      (punches him in the face so hard it knocks him into the water)
    • In A Bug's Life, Flik shuts down Hopper's bullying. Made more impressive by the fact that Hopper has just had Flik beaten within an inch of his life. And even more impressive that it's an "Eureka!" Moment for Flick near the end. Unfortunately, it also causes Hopper to have a Villainous Breakdown.
      Hopper: Let this be a lesson to all you ants. Ideas are very dangerous things. You are mindless, soil-shoving losers, put on this earth to serve us!
      Flik: You're wrong, Hopper. Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers. I've seen these ants do great things. And year after year, they somehow manage to pick food for themselves and you! So-so who is the weaker species? Ants don't serve grasshoppers! It's you who need us! We're a lot stronger than you say we are. And you know it, don't you?
    • The Incredibles:
      • Discussed early in the film, when Frozone relates the time that Baron von Ruthless had him captured and at the mercy of his death ray, but instead of finishing him off, launched into Evil Gloating about how weak Frozone was in comparison. It's not stated, but the implication is that Frozone proceeded to escape and punch von Ruthless' lights out mid-speech.
      • Mr. Incredible tries to invoke this during his first confrontation with Syndrome, getting Syndrome to launch into a Motive Rant with the aim of distracting him long enough to lob a tree at him.
        Syndrome: See, now you respect me. Because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there are people, whole countries, who want respect — and they will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? I invited weapons. And now I have a weapon that only I can defeat, and when I unleash it—
        [Mr. Incredible lobs a tree at Syndrome, who dodges it and freezes Mr. Incredible]
        Syndrome: You sly dog! You got me monologuing!
      • A straighter example occurs at the film's climax. Syndrome launches into a Villainous Breakdown rant, swearing to keep pursuing the Incredibles and trying to kidnap Jack-Jack to raise him as a villain; Mr. Incredible responds by throwing a car at Syndrome, knocking him into a plane's jet turbine and killing him.
    • Cars:
    • A particularly epic example comes from Toy Story 3, after Woody exposes Lotso's lies to Big Baby. Lotso proceeds to justify his rule by saying all toys are plastic meant to be forgotten by their owners, so Big Baby grabs him and throws him into the dumpster.
    • In Turning Red, this is downplayed. Mei's mother asserts that Mei's rebellion against her isn't really the true her but merely the result of Toxic Friend Influence. Mei retorts "THIS IS ME!" and bites her.
  • Ralph Bakshi's Fritz the Cat gives us Fritz's response to what the revolution was about.
    Revolutionist: Me and you have been assigned to blow up the power plant. That's all I care about. The revolution. (Turns the radio on)
    Fritz: (Turns the radio off) You are full of shit! All you care about is a reason to hurt, to destroy, to blow up! You don't know what a real revolution is! None of you sons of bitches do!
  • In Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber Insects, 4-DAC calls a lot of Zin's more inane villainous shenanigans out as being illogical and dangerous. While ostensibly under his control, no less.
  • Megamind: When Megamind confronts Titan during his Psychopathic Manchild rampage throughout the city, he wastes no time in calling him out on it and telling him off as he starts taunting him.
    Titan: This is the last time you make a fool out of me!
    Megamind: I made you a hero. You did the fool thing all by yourself!
    (Titan furiously punches Megamind to the wall)
    Titan: You're so pathetic. No matter what side you're on, you're always the loser.
    Megamind: There's a benefit to losing. You get to learn from your mistakes.
  • In ParaNorman, when Norman confronts the Witch (AKA: Agatha) about torturing the Puritans, she tries to justify it as "they hurt her." Norman points out to her that she's becoming no better than them, especially since they've already been through enough punishment and they've felt truly remorseful for they did. He also doesn't hesitate to call her a bully for it in spite of her denials.
    Norman: You're just like them, Agatha!
    The Witch: No, I'm not!
    Norman: You're a bully!
    The Witch: No, I'm NOT!
  • Persepolis has a scene where Marjane interrupts one of Momo's rants on the futility of life to shut him up.
    Momo: What's the point? It's all bullshit anyways. Life is a void. When man becomes conscious of that void, he invents politics to give life meaning—
    Marjane: Bullshit! Life isn't absurd! It's not pointless. Some people give their lives for freedom, you pretentious prick.
  • In The Powerpuff Girls Movie, the Chemical X-juiced giant Mojo Jojo takes the girls captive and tries to persuade them to join him, telling them they are outcasts like he is. But the girls break free and battle Mojo, explaining that he is the reason that they came back to right what they had wronged earlier.
  • In The Secret of NIMH, we get this during the fight scene between Justin and Jenner in the climax.
    Justin: It was you! You did it! You killed Nicodemus! That was no accident!
    Jenner: Yes. I killed him. He wanted to destroy everything! I've learned this much; "take what you can, when you can".
    Justin: Then you've learned nothing!
  • In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Bowser, after having been brought to Brooklyn and being furious that Mario has foiled his evil plans, tells Mario that he "just doesn't know when to quit!". Mario, having heard these words from others earlier in the movie, gives him a simple "Yeah, I've been told that before."


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