History Main / TheComputerShallTauntYou

* In ''AgeOfMythology'' single-player mode, the AI will constantly taunt you as they cheat their way through the various ages with such gems as, "Only a civilization as advanced as ours gets to survive", "Your civilization has yet to discover fire or the wheel", and, [[JerkAss "May all of your villagers be eaten by wild animals."]] It makes you feel a lot better when you [[CatharsisFactor smash their base and army into pieces as they beg for peaceful surrender]], though.

* ''AvoidTheNoid''. Every time you die, the screen fades to a picture of a giggling noid, complete with sound effect of annoying laughter. Also, to complete the game you need to search certain phones. Pick up the wrong phone (indicated by a subtle audio cue) will show a picture of a giggling noid on the other side of the phone call. Cue annoying sound effect, then he presses a detonator and ''your phone explodes''. You die, see above for what happens next.

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* The ''Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion'' basically starts you out in a cell. You start the plot by walking up to the gate and listen to the guy in the opposite cell insult you for more than a minute, before finally advancing the plot. [[spoiler: You get to kill him later if you join the Assassins' Guild. Ah, revenge is sweet...]]

* Deadlock took it to a new level, allowing players to send fully voiced, 3D animated boasts/insults/complaints unique to your race at opponents. Some of these approached CMOF level.

[[caption-width-right:256:...bite me, fleabag.]]

* The other world leaders in the ''{{Civilization}}'' series are [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Civilization_Songhai_9361.jpg not]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Civilization_Hittites_2390.gif above]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/computertaunt2_558.jpg this]].

* ''MassEffect 2'': Harbinger ''will not shut up'' when in combat with you. He even taunts your party members specifically, and [[WeWillMeetAgain assures you it's not done]] when you kill his current host.

[[quoteright:256:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Duck_Hunt_game_over_6104.png]]

* ''TeamFortress2''''s Bots may randomly taunt at human players they have just killed, regardless of the conditions.

* The other world leaders in the ''{{Civilization}}'' series are [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Civilization_Songhai_9361.jpg not]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Civilization_Hittites_2390.gif
above]] [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/computertaunt2_558.jpg this]].

* As pictured above, the other world leaders in the ''{{Civilization}}'' series are not above this.

* ''[[{{Starcraft}} Starcraft: Brood War]]'' shows you a propaganda film made by the United Earth Directorate which claims that the UED forces have been decimating the pitiful Zerg in a CurbStompBattle. Then it hands you control of the Zerg.

* Playing the ChrisJericho storyline in ''[[SmackdownVsRaw Smackdown Vs. Raw 2011]]'', you have to wrestle one match with TripleH sitting in on commentary and contemptuously dismissing you as a joke throughout the whole thing. This provides incentive to go after him later on. (Although, since this is [[BaseBreaker Triple H we're talking about]], some players may not have needed any additional incentive.)
* The computer players in SuperSmashBros Melee and Brawl often use the 'taunt' move (there is an actual taunt move for each character) right after they've killed you. It can really motivate a person to kick their ass. Though to be fair the computer probably isn't doing it to be a dick, but to get special points by earning 'Instant Poser', a particular designation you can get if you taunt right after killing someone enough times.

-->'''Listen to the sound of your own extinction!'''
-->'''(EvilLaugh) Inferior tactics detected!'''
-->'''By the way, [[OhCrap missile launch detected]].'''
* The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion basically starts you out in a cell. You start the plot by walking up to the gate and listen to the guy in the opposite cell insult you for more than a minute, before finally advancing the plot. [[spoiler: You get to kill him later if you join the Assassins' Guild. Ah, revenge is sweet...]]

* [[TeamFortress2 Team Fortress 2's]] Bots may randomly taunt at human players they have just killed, regardless of the conditions.

[[caption-width-right:256:...bite me, mutt.]]

[[caption-width-right:256:some caption text]]

[[quoteright:312:[[{{Civilization}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/computertaunt2_558.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:312: Kiss my ass, [[TheVirginQueen Queen Elizabeth]].]]

* After finishing ''Super Monaco GP'' for the SegaGenesis once and continuing it with the best car, a Ayrton Senna [[{{Expy}} lookalike]] named G. Ceara shows up to tell you that "Your days are gone!!!". Indeed, the instant the race starts he'll [[OhCrap leave the player in the dust]] and he's [[ThatOneBoss almost invincible.]]

* In most battles against Dr. Eggman in the ''SonicTheHedgehog'' 2d games, anytime he manages to hit Sonic and his friends, he [[AsideGlance looks at the player]] and laughs.