History Main / TrashTalk

* The all-time king of this trope has to be ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. With the possible exception of Chad, Orihime and Shunsui, every single character--good or bad--in every single fight spends [[InactionSequence most of the encounter]] bragging about how great they are and how utterly worthless their opponent is.

-->'''Dalek: YOU ARE WEARING [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell-bottoms FLARES]]! YOU CANNOT CONQUER THE WORLD WITH DISCO FEVER!'''\\
'''Cyberman: Said the dustbin wearing a skirt covered in disco balls!'''

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* Franchise/{{Kirby}} enjoys doing this to his opponents in ''VideoGame/KirbysAvalanche'', insulting them in full sentences while sometimes also throwing in an IncrediblyLamePun.

'''19:''' [[MachineMonotone Registering Insult]]. ''[beep beep beep]'' Retort: [[CaptainObvious You are short and your hairline is receding]].\\

** In "Awful Orphan," Charlie Dog takes a phone call in Porky's apartment from a neighbor irritated with their noise under the threat a physical injury.

-->"Hey! My knife is super sharp and that's what counts! I'm gonna make you bleed copius amounts!"

** In 4.0, one of the [[SpoonyBard Bard's]] basic powers is to [[IShallTauntYou literally taunt your enemies to death]].

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': {{Literature/Wulfrik}} the Wanderer is a Chaos champion granted the ability to understand and speak every language ever (including animals), for the sole purpose of baiting them into fighting him so he can prove himself the better warrior. It ever gives him insults he has no prior knowledge of, such as insinuating he'd banged a CrazyJealousGuy's wife (when he'd never seen [[{{Gonk}} the wife]] in question or the man).

->''"Faker? I think you're the fake hedgehog around here. You're comparing yourself to me? Ha! You're not even good enough to be my fake."''
-->-- '''Shadow the Hedgehog''', ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''

---->'''GiantMook:''' Heh, so this runt is [[RedBaron Sir Kyril the Bloody]]? I'm gonna crush you flat, runt. Then I'm gonna have that [[KidHero boy and girl]] you brought with ya [[HarmfulToMinors sit on my cock while I play with them]].\\

* In ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'', several of Kyril's opponents do this. [[TheStoic He]] [[NoNonsenseNemesis doesn't care]].

* ''WebVideo/TheBuggerAnthology'': The Daleks and Cybermen diss each other in "The Bitch Fight of Canary Wharf" by mocking aspects of the other party's appearance.
-->'''Dalek: YOU ARE WEARING [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell-bottoms FLARES]]! YOU CANNOT CONQUER THE WORLD WITH DISCO FEVER!'''\\
'''Cyberman: Said the dustbin wearing a skirt covered in disco balls!'''

-->--- '''Shadow the Hedgehog''', ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''

See [[ArtisticLicenseHistory/ThreeHundred here]] for details how it really happened.

** This is a common Sith technique known as ''dun moch''. It's used to psychologically damage the opponent during combat, in order to gain victory over them. If your opponent is distracted or upset, he's easier to kill. And as an added bonus, if your opponent [[BerserkButton snaps]], it makes him easy prey for TheDarkSide. However, it should be used with some caution; successfully talking an opponent into [[UnstoppableRage giving in to their anger]] can be a bad idea, as [[spoiler: Count Dooku]] finds out.

* Every character in ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' trash talks their opponent to an extent, but Shao Kahn takes it UpToEleven by mocking not only his opponent, but the player as well:

** Of course, Riley is no novice in the art of trash-talk either: "Hey, [[TheBully ''Bitch'' Magnus]]! I called you a bitch [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment 'cause you's a bitch!]] What, you thought [[HonorBeforeReason I wasn't gonna come see you?]] You thought you wasn't gonna get the taste smacked out your mouth for trying to jack [[AwesomeMcCoolname Young Reezy]]? You better fall back, [[NWordPrivileges nigga]]!"