History Main / TrashTalk

Compare TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and EvilGloating. Frequently paired with IAmNotLeftHanded. See also PreAsskickingOneLiner, BadassBoast, BlaseBoast, IShallTauntYou, TauntButton, YouFightLikeACow, VolleyingInsults, and YearsTooEarly. Contrast CombatCompliment. If words are enough to stop the fight all by themselves, that's TalkingTheMonsterToDeath.

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' villain Shego's cutesy nicknames for "Kimmie" carry the implicit suggestion that she's just [[YearsTooEarly a little girl who should run along home instead of trying to fight with the grownups]]. (To be sure, some fans have [[FoeYay another]] [[LesYay interpretation]]....)

Compare TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and EvilGloating. Frequently paired with IAmNotLeftHanded. See also IShallTauntYou, TauntButton, YouFightLikeACow, VolleyingInsults, and YearsTooEarly. Contrast CombatCompliment. If words are enough to stop the fight all by themselves, that's TalkingTheMonsterToDeath.

Compare TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and EvilGloating. Frequently paired with IAmNotLeftHanded. See also IShallTauntYou, TauntButton, YouFightLikeACow, VolleyingInsults. Contrast CombatCompliment. If words are enough to stop the fight all by themselves, that's TalkingTheMonsterToDeath.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroANewBeginning'': The Conductor peppers his chase sequence with a barrage of train-related quips and insults aimed at Spyro.
-->'''Conductor:''' Care to punch your ticket, sir? First class... or death?

* The Pkunk in ''VideoGame/StarControl 2'' can only regain battery points by insulting their foes. ("Worm, idiot, fool!") If you ask them about this, they explain that, as a highly pacifistic society, aggression and combat doesn't come easily to them, so they must whip themselves up into an emotional frenzy in order to be effective.

''Optimus Prime'' of all people (or more accurately giant, alien robots) does this in Transformers Revenge of the Fallen during the forest battle.

*** Chapter 11: Michelle Pantielle, during his TrialByCombat.

* ''Fanfic/ThePrinceOfPonyville'': Blueblood, whenever possible. Cloud Kicker and Rarity both get a chance to partake, as well.

* '''VideoGame/WarhammerFantasy'': 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).

* ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'': Wulfrik the Wanderer being the VillainProtagonist, this trope is unavoidable. Every opponent he faces gets covered with abuse regarding their parentage, fighting ability (or lack thereof), and being a general disappointment to a ChallengeSeeker like himself. The problem is that he can't seem to stop and is equally as insulting toward the people who are theoretically his allies.

* Namor the Comicbook/SubMariner's penchant for high-falutin' trash talk is very similar.

* In Pre-Crisis days, [[FriendlyRival friendly rival]] Vartox would begin any scuffle with Comicbook/{{Superman}} by pointing out that Supes shouldn't even pursue the fight, because they both knew Vartox was more powerful — which was, in fact, ''true.'' Supes didn't win every fight, but he always came out on top in the end, or at least managed to [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talk Vartox down]] to end the fight. Helped of course by the fact that they were friends and there was always some external reason for the fight.

** VideoGame/MegaMan: "You fucking meanie, you ten-pound weenie, to get the world, you'll have to go through me! My name is Mega Man, but you can call be Rock, 'cuz I'll be rockin' yo shit, up and down the block!"

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

** This has been a stable of pretty much every sandbox game since ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity GTA: Vice City]]''.

->''"Hey, Viv, it's red, round, and weighs about six ounces."''
-->-- Cricketer '''Greg Thomas''' to '''Viv Richards''' on his miss-swings

->''"You know what it looks like, man, now go fetch it."''
-->-- Cricketer '''Viv Richards''' to '''Greg Thomas''' after hitting the next delivery out of the ground

* UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli, to the point of being a WarriorPoet at times. Boxer Ernie Terrell refused to call Ali by his Muslim name, always referring to him by his birth name of Cassius Clay during the run-up to their fight in 1967. Ali then humiliated Terrell, toying with him for 12 rounds while bellowing "What's my name? What's my name?"

* UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli, to the point of being a WarriorPoet at times. Boxer Floyd Patterson refused to call Ali by his Muslim name, always referring to him by his birth name of Cassius Clay during the run up to their fight in 1966. Ali then humiliated Patterson, toying with him for 12 rounds while bellowing "What's my name? What's my name?"

* ''VideoGame/Borderlands'', the majority of Vault Hunters' dialogue during combat are reveling in how awesome they are and dead their enemies are/going to be.

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* Happens before each match in the single player mode of the first ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' arcade game. The English version dials this up a notch, though not to the level of Mean Bean Machine's HurricaneOfPuns.

* Hodgins and Oliver during “The Head in the Abutment”. There’s a lot of science talk mixed in: