Anime and Manga
I guess I just don't know what to call you. I was thinking about "monster", but I didn't want to insult the cards.
— Yami, Yu-Gi-Oh! 4kids dub, Duelist Kingdom arc.
I can't even call him scum...he's the shit beneath it!
—Sanji, One Piece
Kimeramon is not the monster, Ken, you are!
— Cody, Digimon Adventure 02
Fan Works
"Rude. Accusing. Signs of psychological weakness. No sense of social proprietary either. Interrupted a conversation that you were not involved in. Must be raised by wolves. Wait. No. Wolves have clear ordered social structure. Insulting to wolves. Apologies. Raised by maggots then."
—Veci, A Bird and a Beast
"Victarion Greyjoy, if you think you will simply be allowed to go to Pyke, then you have pease for wits. And to be honest, I am likely insulting pease with that assessment."
Hoster Tully, The King Nobody Wanted
Each time Catelyn had found that the charm Tony was famous for did not work upon her and he appeared to be little more than a braying donkey demanding attention.
'A donkey would be at least useful,' she thought.
'A donkey would be at least useful,' she thought.
"Well, I could have said you were related to a monkey's uncle. But I would be insulting the monkeys."
— Warren Worthington, X-Men: The Early Years
Boscha: If you ask me he looks like a total loser!
Skara: That's not cool Boscha! Think of how many losers you have insulted by comparing them to this idiot!
Skara: That's not cool Boscha! Think of how many losers you have insulted by comparing them to this idiot!
Film — Animation
Moe: What are you telling us? We're trapped like rats?
Russ Cargill: No, rats can't be trapped this easily. You're trapped like... carrots.
Russ Cargill: No, rats can't be trapped this easily. You're trapped like... carrots.
You piece of dirt! No, I'm wrong. You're lower than dirt. You're an ANT!
— Hopper, A Bug's Life
Film — Live-Action
Otto: Don't call me stupid!
Wanda: Oh right! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!
Wanda: Oh right! To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people!
"If a jackass had both your brains, he'd be a very dumb jackass!"
— Captain Cornelius Butt, Galaxina (1980)
Leon: If you couldn't stand [your family], why are you crying?
Mathilda: Because they killed my brother! What the hell did he do? He was four years old... I was more of a mother to him that that goddamned pig ever was.
Leon: Hey, don't talk like that about pigs; they're usually much nicer than people.
Mathilda: But they smell like shit.
Leon: Not true.
Mathilda: Because they killed my brother! What the hell did he do? He was four years old... I was more of a mother to him that that goddamned pig ever was.
Leon: Hey, don't talk like that about pigs; they're usually much nicer than people.
Mathilda: But they smell like shit.
Leon: Not true.
Literature
To say that [Rude Trevor Vargas] was an intemperate, murderous lunatic would wound the feelings of most intemperate, murderous lunatics.
People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.
Black: Praesi nobility has a regrettable propensity for stabbing.
Captain: And poisoning. And blood magic. Calling the Tower a snake pit is doing a disservice to snakes; they don't usually bite unless provoked. Some of the fuckers up there will have you killed for wearing robes that look too much like theirs.
Captain: And poisoning. And blood magic. Calling the Tower a snake pit is doing a disservice to snakes; they don't usually bite unless provoked. Some of the fuckers up there will have you killed for wearing robes that look too much like theirs.
David: Ignore Ray. If I said Ray was a Neanderthal, actual Neanderthals would thaw themselves from the glaciers just to make me pay for the insult. Neanderthal man was actually quite smart.
— Invasive
Live-Action TV
"Y'know, calling you an asshole is an insult to assholes."
— Grace Mallory to Billy Butcher, The Boys (2019), "Payback"
Wyatt Cenac: If they're not as evil as I think they are, they are STUPID. We're talkin' potatoes with mouths.
John Oliver: Not even potatoes, Wyatt; a potato can still power a digital clock.
John Oliver: Not even potatoes, Wyatt; a potato can still power a digital clock.
Harrow: I know him, and I think he's a psychotic lowlife.
Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community.
Mal: And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community.
— Firefly, "Shindig"
Rachel: Ever seen so much crap?
Chandler: Actually I think this apartment sullies the good name of crap.
Chandler: Actually I think this apartment sullies the good name of crap.
— Friends, "The One Where Heckles Dies"
Julia, on the other hand, is such a non-entity out here. I’m tempted to say she has a vanilla personality, but I feel like that would be doing a great disservice to the flavor vanilla. I mean, people actively seek out vanilla-flavored products. Children clamor to get a vanilla ice cream cone. Nobody is clamoring for anything Julia-flavored.
Ian Chesterton: You're treating us like children!
The Doctor: Am I? The children of my civilisation would be insulted.
The Doctor: Am I? The children of my civilisation would be insulted.
Diane: Do you know the difference between you and a braying ass?
Sam: No.
Diane: A braying ass would.
Sam: No.
Diane: A braying ass would.
— Cheers
Prince George: Last night I was having a bit of a snack at the Naughty Hellfire Club, and some fellow said I had the wit and sophistication of a donkey!
Blackadder: Oh, an absurd suggestion, sir.
Prince George: You're right. It is absurd.
Blackadder: Unless of course, it was a particularly stupid donkey.
Prince George: If only I'd thought of saying that.
Blackadder: Oh, an absurd suggestion, sir.
Prince George: You're right. It is absurd.
Blackadder: Unless of course, it was a particularly stupid donkey.
Prince George: If only I'd thought of saying that.
— Blackadder the Third
Bailey: Talking to [London] is like talking to a tractor!
Zack: That is an insult to tractors everywhere.
Zack: That is an insult to tractors everywhere.
I would call House Republicans a clusterfuck, but a cluster implies some sense of unity. They're more like a scatterfuck. I've seen more organized groups of seagulls fighting over a potato chip.
— Late Night with Seth Meyers, on the October 2023 House Speaker election
Newspapers
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes.
Many of you voted for the dung beetle, the mosquito, and the leech, all of which were inevitably compared to Congress. I'm sorry but that's a low blow: Our research indicates that no dung beetle has ever accepted money from a savings-and-loan operation.
— Dave Barry, on readers' choices for an Official National Insect
This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels.
You report in "Biden Denounces States for Lifting Orders on Masks" (front page, March 4)that the president likened the decisions to "Neanderthal thinking."
President Biden unfairly besmirches the Neanderthals, who were in the business of inventing tools for survival, not rejecting them.
President Biden unfairly besmirches the Neanderthals, who were in the business of inventing tools for survival, not rejecting them.
— Doyle Stevick, in a letter to The New York Times.
Real Life
"Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn’t any. But this wrongs the jackass."
Stand-Up Comedy
"I hate when women compare men to dogs. Men are not dogs. Dogs are loyal. I’ve never found any strange panties in my dog’s house."
Tabletop Games
I would say that our Bureaucrats are no better than vipers— but I shouldn't insult the vipers.
— Murat, Death Speaker; Flavour text for the Aysen Bureaucrats Magic: The Gathering card.
Magic: The Gathering card.Video Games
To call you a thoughtless cur is an insult to curs.
—Tamar of Georgia, Civilization 6
"There are those who say that this man gibbers like a deranged rock ape. The rock apes will take offense at this slur."
—Description of the "Deranged" trait, Rome: Total War
Raised as cattle? Not at all! Cattle are worth so much more to their owners. This is callous, even for the Seven.
— Fane, Divinity: Original Sin II
"You Fool! What were you thinking, charging right into an enemy's trap? Are you just a boulder that rolls down on whatever hill it's on? No, even a boulder has more sense!"
— Sothis, Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Agent Fordham: (referring to Harold MacDougal) This man was thrown out of Yale for degeneracy.
Agent Ross: Which should tell you something.
Agent Ross: Which should tell you something.
Vixen: You won't be hurting anyone else.
Red Hood: Heard that speech a thousand times.
Vixen: Calling you an animal is an insult to animals.
Red Hood: Heard that speech a thousand times.
Vixen: Calling you an animal is an insult to animals.
Yusuke: I still haven't reached the state of brainwash! Can someone tell me what sort of things I said while I was in this condition? It might be worth starting with copying what I said.
Futuba: Marie made you call yourself an "inconsequential, dirt-poor brat".
Yusuke: What?! How... How could she?!
Makoto: Hey, it's okay. You shouldn't take what she says to heart, you know that right?
Yusuke: Dirt is the source of all things beautiful and nutritious. I won't allow anyone to insult it like that.
Futuba: Marie made you call yourself an "inconsequential, dirt-poor brat".
Yusuke: What?! How... How could she?!
Makoto: Hey, it's okay. You shouldn't take what she says to heart, you know that right?
Yusuke: Dirt is the source of all things beautiful and nutritious. I won't allow anyone to insult it like that.
Web Animation
It's like she isn't even from this planet. (Apologies to all aliens)
Webcomics
Faye: I like kids alright when they're old enough to be actual people. But I can't deal with the larval stage, like, at all.
Bubbles: Perhaps thinking of them as "larvae" is part of the problem.
Faye: Yeah, you're right, I'm bein' unfair. Plenty of baby bugs can take care of 'emselves just fine.
Bubbles: Perhaps thinking of them as "larvae" is part of the problem.
Faye: Yeah, you're right, I'm bein' unfair. Plenty of baby bugs can take care of 'emselves just fine.
Web Original
Loot boxes are gambling. Gambling in premium games you've already paid for, and it's fucking disgusting. And yes, I know it's not literally gambling, but functionally it's the same bloody thing, come on, you're giving Warner Brothers money to spin a roulette wheel for a chance to win something at the risk of getting a load of shit. Colloquially, I absolutely call it gambling, if nothing else for the fact that it further demeans and insults an economy that deserves only demeaning and insulting. But of course, those who argue that technically it's not gambling are correct.
After all, gambling is subjected to scrutiny, regulation and age restriction is it not?
After all, gambling is subjected to scrutiny, regulation and age restriction is it not?
"I am waiting on bated breath for your answer you sorry sack of lizard vomit. Oh, wait, that is demeaning to the lizard that projectile vomited all over me last week."
— Alyrium Denryle during an argument regarding Prop 8, StarDestroyer.net
during an argument regarding Prop 8, StarDestroyer.netEverything you need to know about David “the Rock” Nelson as a filmmaker is summed up by the fact that he likes to bill himself as “the Ed Wood of the 21st Century.” Quite simply, to make that claim on one’s own behalf is to misunderstand what Wood was all about. Although his name has been a byword for lousy filmmaking since the 1980’s, when Harry and Michael Medved dubbed him the worst director of all time in their Golden Turkey Awards, at no point did Wood ever aspire to such distinction. Wood made his movies to the best of his abilities, and if his abilities turned out not to be very great, it’s still no slight against the commitment and work ethic that he brought to bear in their service. Frankenstein Stalks, by contrast, represents something close to the absolute minimum of effort that it would be possible to expend while still producing what technically qualifies as a feature motion picture. Someone who understood, appreciated, and respected what Ed Wood put into even his shittiest and most worthless films, and who wanted to honor his example with their own work, would have written a damn script. They would have recruited some damn actors, even if they were just folks from the local community theater who were willing to work for beer on their days off. And they sure as fuck wouldn’t have been content to settle for how Nelson depicted the Frankenstein monster’s ostensible reign of terror. [...]
Everything I’ve just said is kind of beside the point, though, because this “Ed Wood of the 21st Century” business, inapt as it is, serves a practical function. It places — or at any rate, attempts to place — Frankenstein Stalks and the rest of Nelson’s work beyond the reach of critical evaluation. It gives Nelson an excuse to say, “Well of course my movies are terrible! Haven’t you heard? I’m the Ed Wood of the 21st Century!” The nickname is a bid to absolve Nelson of responsibility for putting in the kind of work needed to produce a film of any merit at all, and to make you the asshole for demanding to be engaged, impressed, or even just mildly amused. It’s dishonest and low, and it compounds the affront that Frankenstein Stalks was already committing simply by being this comprehensively bad and boring.
— Scott "El Santo" Ashlin on Frankenstein Stalks
Almost to a one, the contributors pull punches and dilute the political conversation to the weakest of teas so the people in the bar and riding the elliptical trainers at the gym don't have to strain to follow the Punch and Judy of it all.
What transpires during the paid contributor segments isn't journalism. It isn't politics. And it's rarely even entertaining. I'd call it the worst sort of tasteless soy filler, only that would be an insult to soy, which is nutritious.
What transpires during the paid contributor segments isn't journalism. It isn't politics. And it's rarely even entertaining. I'd call it the worst sort of tasteless soy filler, only that would be an insult to soy, which is nutritious.
— Jack Shafer, writing for Politico: "CNN Dumped Donna Brazile. It Should Keep Going."
: "CNN Dumped Donna Brazile. It Should Keep Going."So, basically, saying that this game should be burned is an insult to fire.
— Jason Sartin, in his review of F.A.T.A.L..
I'm tempted to compare the game to a crack dealer, because both Candy Crush and crack dealers get you started for free, and only start charging once you're hooked. But ultimately, I realized that the comparison is unfair to crack dealers. Crack dealers don't continue to bump up the prices as you get more addicted. That would be bad for business. But Candy Crush doesn't care.
— Kevin Spence from this article of Game Skinny
everyone needs to stop calling rika a snake!!!!!
it’s an insult to snakes.
”These people aren’t terrorists. They’re insurgents. Their actions were not meant to indirectly sway policy by intimidating their political rivals into silence. They were meant to directly seize control of the government. Terrorism is too light a word for an occupying force claiming control of the capitol and attempting to abduct and murder the Vice President and Senate.”
— Tobias Drake on the U. S. Capitol rioters, The General US Politics Thread
"To say [Izuku] plays Bakugou like a fiddle would be wrong, because fiddles are not easy instruments to play. He plays Bakugou more like a dollar-store kazoo."
Kevin: Their friendship is developing into a poor man's E.T..
Mike: Ah, there's already a poor man's E.T.. It's called Mac and Me.
Kevin: Their friendship is developing into the poor man's Mac and Me.
Mike: Ah, there's already a poor man's E.T.. It's called Mac and Me.
Kevin: Their friendship is developing into the poor man's Mac and Me.
— RiffTrax on the friendship between a boy and a caveman in the movie Dinosaurus!.
Web Video
The only reason this film is not a sack of shit is that actual sacks of shit protested that the comparison would be harmful to their image.
The worst thing about CinemaSins Everything Wrong With series isn't that their content is a low effort clickbait garbage fire. It's that they somehow tricked their fans and themselves into thinking that garbage fire is art. Which lowers the bar for art, and for garbage fires.
I could have taken a shit on it, but even my own shit would be offended to lay on this loathsome piece of filth!
This game doesn't even qualify as shit; it's like the equivalent of shit taking a shit!
These guys have the wit of fifth graders. And not bright ones, either.
— Todd in the Shadows on LMFAO
The lyrics in “Emo Girl” are the kind of plastic-ass Bratz doll bullshit that anyone who’s listened to two Green Day albums in their life could smell is fake as a mile off; I feel bad comparing this to Bratz dolls. Like, that’s not fair to the Bratz dolls.
— Crash Thompson, "Worst Albums of 2022"
You know that South Park episode where they claim Family Guy is written by manatees? The manatees should be insulted!
First round pick decides to be a fucking idiot—crashes motorcycle in parking lot. (BUZZER)
First round pick decides to be a fucking idiot—gets into numerous confrontations with the law. (BUZZER)
First round pick decides to be Johnny Football—an insult to the term "fucking idiot". (AIR HORN)
decides to be a fucking idiot—crashes motorcycle in parking lot. (BUZZER)First round pick
decides to be a fucking idiot—gets into numerous confrontations with the law. (BUZZER)First round pick decides to be Johnny Football
—an insult to the term "fucking idiot". (AIR HORN)"Let me make one thing perfectly clear: this is not jumping the shark. I'll repeat that again. This is not jumping the shark. Oh, no, no, no, no. This is jumping the shark, coming back, shooting it in the ''balls, raping it, EATING ITS FLESH, CONSUMING ITS SOUL, MOUNTING ITS HEAD ON THE WALL,'' AND THEN DOING THE SAME THING TO TWELVE MORE FUCKING SHARKS JUST TO BE SAFE!"
"Instead, this season's main villain is Sendak, aka worst Zarkon, aka basically the Voltron equivalent of Malekith. Okay wait, that's a little to mean. I'm sorry. The Voltron equivalent of Ronan— No, that's a disservice to Ronan actually. The equivalent of the bad guy in Doctor Strange [Kaecilius]. No, the comments are telling me that they liked him. Dammit, you know what; He's just boring! That's it."
— Schaffrillas Productions, "How Voltron: Legendary Defender Crashed and Burned"
Jesus Christ, you're as predictable as a house tour
To call you surface level would be an insult to the ground floor
To call you surface level would be an insult to the ground floor
— Idubbbz, "Asian Jake Paul"
Western Animation
You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch
You have termites in your smile
You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch
Given the choice between the two of you, I'd take the seasick crocodile!
You have termites in your smile
You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch
Given the choice between the two of you, I'd take the seasick crocodile!
“You go through life, you try to be nice to people, you struggle to resist the urge to punch’em in the face, and for what? For some pimply little puke to treat you like dirt unless you’re on a team. Well, I’m better than dirt. Well… most kinds of dirt. Not that fancy store-bought dirt. That stuff’s loaded with nutrients. I – I can’t compete with that stuff.”
— Moe, The Simpsons, “Team Homer”
