Basic Trope: The boss talks to the player character(s) during the Boss Battle.
- Straight: Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy Dave disses the party when they fight him."I'll knock you down!"
"Your aspirations are irrelevant!"
"My patience runs thin... I'm ending this, now!" note
[at less than a quarter health] "No... No, I'm unstoppable, you worms! UNSTOPPABLE, DO YOU HEAR ME?!" - Exaggerated: Each of Dave's line is a paragraph or so. His lungs capacity is superb."Vermins! How short-sighted of you to bare your blades before I, Dave! I have walked east and west, north and south, and yet not a single warrior remained standing when faced by my might! There is no hope you will walk away from this battle alive! This is not even a battle, this is where I crush you like insects! Behold judgment from the mighty!"
- Downplayed: Dave has lines to say, and they consists of one or two words."Begone!"
"You fools."
"Oblivion awaits." note
[later in the fight] "Just DIE!" - Justified: Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy Dave is an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy, and he want everyone to know it.
- Inverted: The party members tell Dave how much he's a monster.Alicia: "You Monster!! I shall avenge my people with your death!"
Bob: "Why, Dave? You were the guy I wanted to be!"
Eric: "Ser Dave! It appears that none of the virtues remain within you!"
Charlie: "You're about to get what's comin' to ya, you son of a bitch!" - Subverted:
- Double Subverted:
- Parodied:
- The banter is made of Flowery Insults.
"I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed Chickaboo food trough wiper!"
"I fart in your general direction, you silly Troperian Knnniggits!" note
"Your mother was a rainbow-feathered Chickaboo and your father reeked of bunnyberries!"- You get an Action Command to bash Dave's face in every time he opens his mouth.
- Zig Zagged: Dave is very talkative in the first half of the battle, then goes silent when he Turns Red as then he realizes that the party is a threat.
- Averted: In a fully-voiced game where everyone calls their attack, the boss battles are noticeably devoid of banters.
- Enforced: The writers want to make sure you know that Dave is unlikable.
- Lampshaded:Bob: "I'm not here to listen to your nonsense, Dave!"
- Invoked:
- Exploited: Bob makes each strike when Dave is Bantering, giving him a slight element of surprise.
- Defied: Dave fights the Good Guys, and doesn't start bantering until they're so weak they can barely hear him.
- Discussed: "Like all big villains, he's takes the time to have a conversation in a life or death battle."
- Conversed: "A lot of the bosses in this game are shouty..."
- Deconstructed: Dave is so busy taunting Bob that it leaves him wide open for a counterattack.
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