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Author: NubianSatyress

Nov 28th 2020 at 12:30:10 AM

Comic Books

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': The eponymous hero is one of the mouthiest and most tricky heroes in all of comics. Spidey is typically seen as middle tier on the power scale, so the way he deals with most of his villains is to get them angry enough to lose their composure. This is especially true of Comicbook/{{Kingpin}} and ComicBook/NormanOsborn, who are two criminal masterminds that take pride in putting on a FauxAffablyEvil and WickedCultured facade. But when Spidey gets under their skin, their civil mask goes out the window and they become raving madmen and more prone to making mistakes.
* ''Comicbook/{{Superboy}}'': Early in his adventures, Superboy (Conner Kent)  tended to be a lot more cocky and arrogant. This tended to work against most of his villains like Sidearm and King Shark because they underestimated him as just some punk kid pretending to be Superman. However, after suffering through a number of losses, tragedies and traumas, Superboy eventually lost this and became a lot more brooding and edgy himself.

Western Animation

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': To contrast the original ComicBook/{{Batman}}, Terry [=McGinnis=] is a mouthy teenager who likes to taunt his enemies, especially his ArchEnemy Blight, the CorruptCorporateExecutive that killed his father. It also becomes an ironic plot point in ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker Return of the Joker]]'' where the Clown Prince originally dismisses Terry as a poor knockoff because the "real" Batman was the straight-laced foil. Terry turns the tables by realizing he likes to [[IShallTauntYou talk trash]] as much as the Joker does, and this works because the Joker is so unused to being mocked that [[VillainousBreakdown he loses his temper]].