History BadassBoast / ComicBooks

* ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}} Tim Drake makes it simple when Jason accuses him of lying in ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' #29, and even downplays things since he'd been following Batman ''and Robin'' for much longer than Jason guesses:

'''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}''': I '''''am'''''.

** '''Rorschach:''' None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked in here with me.
** '''Dr. Manhattan:''' I am disappointed, [[spoiler: Veidt]]. Very disappointed. [[NighInvulnerability Restructuring myself after the subtraction of my intrinsic field]] was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman[[{{Beat}} ...]] Did you think it would kill me? [[PhysicalGod I've walked across the sun. I've seen events so tiny and so fast they hardly can be said to have occurred at all]], but you... you are a man... and [[spoiler: this world's smartest man means no more to me than does its smartest termite.]]
** A pillar in his lair bears this line from an old poem [[spoiler: I am Ozymadias, king of kings. See my work ye mighty and despair.]]
*** [[spoiler:The irony, of course, is that it's taken from a Creator/PercyByssheShelley poem showing how great works crumble over time.]] In the original context it becomes:
---> [[spoiler:And on the pedestal these words appear: \\
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings. \\
[[LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.]] \\
Nothing beside remains, round that colossal wreck\\
The Lone and level sands stretch far away boundless and bare]]

--->'''Xadhoom:''' This is where you are wrong, Evronian! Look at me...I'm all alone,in the heart of a enemy base, surrounded by thousands of warriors. ''[[KillEmAll The party for me begins NOW!]]''

* ''ComicBook/SecretWarriors'' has quite a few. Perhaps the best is delivered by [[spoiler: Phobos to Norman Osborn after Osborn has just tried to bribe Phobos into revealing Nick Fury's location by giving him toy trucks. Realise that Phobos is both twelve years old and the literal god of fear, and that Norman Osborn is the ComicBook/{{GreenGoblin}}, and at this point is the head of the replacement for SHIELD, HAMMER.]] Cue this exchange:

* ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' gives a very laconic boast when faced with ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk during Creator/ChristopherPriestComics' run: When sidekick [[ThisLoserIsYou Everett K. Ross]] suggests to call in ComicBook/TheAvengers or an air strike, T'Challa simply asks: [[OneManArmy "Why?"]]
--> '''Ross:''' One of these times he's gonna say "[[SophisticatedAsHell Heck yeah! Call them puppies]]!" and [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness I'll run for my life]].

* ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne''

-->'''ComicBook/{{Oracle}}''': You've escaped, and you think the world's a huge place, and you can hide anywhere, right? I'm here to tell you...that world? I ''own'' it. ''Your'' world is getting smaller by the second. And you can't hide ''anywhere'' from me. Every database, every security cam, every police band has my fingerprints on it. Every moment you're out the noose pulls tighter. And Savant, just in case it's not ''crystal'' clear by now...''nobody'' messes with my ''partner''.\\
'''Savant''': (trying to hide his face from a security camera) She's overestimating herself. She can't...I'm ''certain'' that...[runs away like a scared rabbit, without even bothering to hang up first]

---> '''Saint Walker''': It is at full capacity, and will remain so, as long as I hope for your well-being. And I will '''always''' hope. Until my last dying breath.

---> '''Sinestro''': ''Nothing'' frightens me. I ''am'' fear.

'''Big Barda:''' [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} She]] needs out help.\\

-->'''Oracle''': They have eyes everywhere. They're listening to everything we say. I know that technique. I ''invented'' that technique. The reason I couldn't go with you to fight in the rocks to the north...? It's because I'm BARBARA FREAKING GORDON. Also known as '''Oracle'''. And I started fighting them ten minutes ago.

--->'''Prometheus''': I've been waiting for you.\\
'''Batman''': I don't care what you've been doing. It's over.\\
'''Prometheus''': See, the information on this disk can be downloaded directly into my central nervous system. I have thirty of the world's greatest martial arts masters right here. And in just a few seconds, all their skills, all their physical prowess, will be mine. I can also reset my helmet lights to produce a disorienting strobe effect. I should tell you: the odds don't look good.\\
'''Batman''': For you.\\
'''Prometheus''': You think so? You think you're unbeatable? Maybe I should tell you something else: one of those thirty on my disk, Batman…is you… So don't patronize me! *proceeds to kick the living shit out of Batman*

---> '''Prometheus''': *something to the effect of "kill yourself and I'll save the innocents*\\
'''Superman''': Save these people first. Then I'll do what you want. You owe me that much.\\
'''Prometheus''': I don't owe you anything, you pompous monstrosity. You know who I am? I'm the ghost haunting your dream house. See, "justice" killed my parents. I was… pretty traumatized. I'm sure you understand.

---->'''Superman:''' "Let our enemies beware: there is only one superpower now."

---->'''The Spectre:''' (to Superman) You are powerful, my friend — but The Spectre is power — incarnate!

---->'''Superman:''' You're still standing between me and [[Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} my cousin]] — and unless you let me by you... I swear I'll go right through you!

--->'''Roho:''' "It's a shame you're gonna die here, girl. You never belonged at Crucible in the first place. Just like my idiot brother Tsavo. Just like all of the poor saps Amata recruited."\\
'''Supergirl:''' (eyes flaring up) "You're talking about my '''friends'''. And if '''you're''' any indication of who really belongs at Crucible--" (unleashing eye beams) "'''I'LL BURN IT ALL DOWN'''!"

--->'''Superman:''' "Get up, vermin! Do you understand what you did to me?"\\
'''Mongul:''' "Perfectly. I fashioned a prison that you could not leave without giving up your heart's desire. Escaping it must have been like tearing off your own arm... And now I'm going to kill you anyway."

** '''Rorschach:''' "None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked in here with me."
** '''Dr. Manhattan:''' "I am disappointed, [[spoiler: Veidt]]. Very disappointed. [[NighInvulnerability Restructuring myself after the subtraction of my intrinsic field]] was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman[[{{Beat}} ...]] Did you think it would kill me? [[PhysicalGod I've walked across the sun. I've seen events so tiny and so fast they hardly can be said to have occurred at all]], but you... you are a man... and [[spoiler: this world's smartest man means no more to me than does its smartest termite.]]"

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman''

--->'''Death:''' "Ah-- Two more supposed "immortals" to feel Death's tender touch! I shall-- Eh?"\\
''~Starfire's starbolt deflects Death's scythe~''\\

-->'''Namorita''': On your feet, Nitro. And don't try any of your stupid explosions because that's only going to make me hit you harder.
-->'''Nitro''': Namorita, right? Aren't you the Sub-Mariner's cousin or something? Well, I'm afraid we're not the bargain basement losers you guys are used to, baby... ...[[KnightOfCerebus you're playing with the big boys now.]]

-->'''Deadpool''': "''Wilson'' couldn't. ''Wilson'' wouldn't. ''But Deadpool's in the house now.''"

* Comicbook/DoctorStrange does these relatively rarely, so when he flexes his muscles it really gets your attention.
-->Hear me well, [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Bruce]]... Your anger means ''nothing'' to me. I am the '''SORCERER SUPREME'''. I could snuff the feeble flame of your mortal life with the ''merest twitch of a finger''.

--->'''Lead thug''': Now give us everything you got!\\
'''Wong''' ''(striking a BringIt pose)'': I offer nothing less.

* ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist got one at the start of his new Comicbook/MarvelNOW series, ''Iron Fist: the Living Weapon''.

--> Maybe the real reason I became the Hulk... was to protect the world from Banner.

-->'''Bruce''': You're passion, Hulk. But I'm will. You said it yourself. [[SuppressedRage I've bottled you up for years]]. Why stop now? You underestimated me, Hulk. Don't feel bad. Most do. What [[AbusiveParents he]] put me through as a kid -- you don't survive that by being weak. ''I'm'' [[BorrowedCatchphrase the strongest there is]].

-->'''Maestro:''' You're fighting the inevitable, Hulk. I'm simply the final product of natural selection. The strong survive. I'm the strongest. I survived. When you go against me, you go against the laws of nature.

-->'''Puck''': When I was eight, I hunted my first bear. Big grizzly. That was 1922, in the Yukon, and he kept us through a cold winter. In Spain, I fought bulls and fascists--and I let the bulls ''live''. In Nepal, I hunted the tiger god and killed all fear in me. I've fought queens of dreams and the world's secret master. I've fought demons in Hell and stolen their thrones--and those thrones haven't bound me. And it all comes back to one thing. I was eight, full of bear meat and adventure--and I made a ''vow'', Mr. Creel. I vowed I would live an ''interesting life''. I think I've done okay so far, eh?

--->"When humanity first looked into the night, ''my'' eyes looked back. When they learned to fear the darkness, it was ''me'' they feared. When they learned to fight for their lives and their loves and their children, ''I'' was their first enemy. Lay your claim to a thousand thousand worlds...this one is ''mine''! '''FOR I AM THE TIGER!'''"

--->"You're pathetic. You talk about caves, and fires, and how all humanity feared you...what about ''now'', tiger god? When humanity keeps you in zoos and parks? When we hunt you, or cage you, or raise money to help you? When we ''pity'' you? You're scared of humanity. What we've become. What we ''can'' become. And you want ''us'' to fear ''you''? I'm more feared now than you can ever be, old tiger. I don't need you. Your time is ''done''. I'm the beast that hunts in the darkness now. I'm the monster who even monsters fear. '''I'm the White Tiger'''. You want a deal? This is your deal: give me everything you have. ''Now''. Or crawl away and die and I'll do it without you."

--->'''Punisher''': "They laugh at the police. They laugh at the courts. They laugh at the judges. They laugh at the law. They laugh at the system. But they don't laugh at ''me.''"
* ComicBook/ThePunisher's [[Comicbook/ThePunisher2099 2099 incarnation]] gets a good one when facing down against the new Aesir:

-->"I don't need a jetpack... All I need is ''hate''!"

--> '''Micro''': I think you've gotten the wrong idea about me, Roth. First of all, I'm not what I look like. But that must be all too apparent right now. Second of all, my name is Micro, not Fat boy. The third thing is that I worked with Frank Castle for ten years. I helped him kill over ''800 people''. Anyone who knows him better than I do is long dead. I hacked computers to help find him targets. I customized his guns and ammunition. I put him in the right place at the right time to kill the maximum number of people; without me the body count for those ten years would be a fourth of what it is. I turned a lone gunman into a killing machine that runs at optimum efficiency. Because of me, what he does can truly be defined as ''war''. So when you watch him rack up a 42 dead and 7 wounded—that ratio pretty much tells you all you need to know."

** From ''Comicbook/CivilWar'', a quick one:

--> '''Wolverine''': Sucker, you just made the biggest mistake of your life. ''(SNIKT)'' And the last.

-->'''Regis''': I can see inside your head, white boy. Did you think your little fight enhancements would let you kill ''me''? You've never fought anything like me, boy. I am ''Regis''. I have been raping and killing better humans than you for half a millennium. ''That's'' it. ''Fight'' me. Try to ''hurt'' me. I've lost count of how many men's fingers and women's nails have shattered on my skin. Your mothers and sisters will bear my children. You cannot stop me. Burn Albion, burn Europe-- it won't matter. I am Regis, warrior king of this entire filthy planet-- and I will wipe myself with your skin when I'm done violating ''yours''.

-->'''The Spectre:''' There are heroes who fight crime [[Comicbook/GreenLantern with magic rings]], or with the powers they have brought with them from distant planets. But all these pale into insignificance beside the astral awesomeness of The Spectre.

--> '''Cleisthenes''': ''(to Echekrates)'' Lavish party, Echekrates. Your old partner, Promachus, never knew how to spend his money. It's a good thing you took it, then.

--> '''Isagoras''': We are stuck here for three days! Is this how you command? Get out and beat the crap out of them!
--> '''Kleomenes''': Shut up! You don't even know how to command your own ass!

--> '''Kynegeiros''': I was ten. Why I don't remember it?
--> '''The poet''': Because you are still ten.

--> '''The Athenian''': I am a member of the Parliament, Spartan. I have rights.
--> '''The Spartan''': You have the right to shut up. Do that.

--> '''Echekrates''': Good countrymen, I have no idea where this young man ''(Leander)'' gets his intelligence… but I'll wager it's from the same place he got his oratory skills.

-->'''Xadhoom:'''"This is where you are wrong, Evronian! Look at me...I'm all alone,in the heart of a enemy base, surrounded by thousands of warriors. ''[[KillEmAll The party for me begins NOW!]]''"

-->'''Chamberlain:''' Boy, I have known ''War'' all my life. ''Conquest'', I am a conquistador. ''Famine''? Well...lean times are for the peasants, aren't they? And do I look like a man whose wants have long surpassed his needs? All I fear...is one thing. And it's the same thing you do. ''Death''.

-->'''Messenger:''' In the city are the ''armies of Heaven''. The House of Mao's Dragons and the Great State's Widow makers. Each child appointed at conception. ''Selected'' for service. They are born to serve and bred to ''die''.

-->'''Death:''' Good. 'Cause that's what happens next. ''Me''.

* ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'' has Shadow deliver one to Snively once he figures out what his true purpose is:

-->'''Helsingard:''' I did not bring ''ruin'' to an underground utopia pre-dating the dawn of ''agriculture'' solely for the purpose of ''not'' gaining ultimate power over the fabric of reality. Do not make me ''end'' you and implant the organ myself, Doctor. I no longer have the fine motor control for self-experimentation and time is of the essence.

-->'''Robo:''' Too risky. We don't know if consciousness would survive the experience and [[TemptingFate neither of us is crazy enough to risk annihilation to find out.]]\\

-->'''Carl Sagan:''' We are ''made'' of starstuff. Our consciousness, our ''intelligence'' is the machinery of the cosmos discovering itself. Our ''science'' will be its candle in the dark.

-->'''ALAN:''' I dropped you from orbit with a phone call. I tricked you into becoming a domestic terrorist with a few bytes of data. The offer to join me was a courtesy.

* ''Comicbook/TheCrow'', explaining himself to a cop: "I am pilot error. I am fetal distress. I am the random chromosome. I am complete and total madness. I am fear."

* The Doom Marine in ''Comicbook/{{Doom}}'':

* ''Comicbook/IKillGiants'':

--> I rocked the fretful baby gods to sleep before time started... and I am companion to the women who paste up the stars. The quarters of the world are bound unto my compass. I have taken tea with earthquakes. I know what the bee knows... and you really are a dreadful little boy.

--->Saint of Killers: "Yeah. ''Give me all the hell you got to spare.''"

--->Saint of Killers: "''Not enough gun.''"

* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}:

* ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'': Barbara to Savant, after the latter broke out of Arkham. ''Over the phone''.

** Rorschach: "None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked in here with me."
** Dr. Manhattan: "I am disappointed, [[spoiler: Veidt]]. Very disappointed. [[NighInvulnerability Restructuring myself after the subtraction of my intrinsic field]] was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman[[{{Beat}} ...]] Did you think it would kill me? [[PhysicalGod I've walked across the sun. I've seen events so tiny and so fast they hardly can be said to have occurred at all]], but you... you are a man... and [[spoiler: this world's smartest man means no more to me than does its smartest termite.]]"

** ''WonderWoman1942'': In ComicBook/JudgmentInInfinity'' ComicBook/{{Starfire}} utters a nice line when she engages the Horseman of Death:

** ''ComicBook/JudgmentInInfinity'': Starfire utters one when she engages the Horseman of Death:
--->'''Death:''' "Ah-- Two more supposed "immortals" to feel Death's tender touch! I shall-- Eh?"\\
Starfire's starbolt deflects Death's scythe\\
'''Starfire:''' If you can thrust, Rider, it's no faster than I can parry. And if somehow it is you who is responsible for the pain that Raven feels-- the Doom that hangs even now over her head-- You'll soon be sorry you ever set foot on any Earth.

* ''ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman'': In ''Gothamazon'' when Oracle tells Diana that she's going to have to think like Bruce to defeat the assembled Bat-Rogues after they manage to kill a bunch of civilians even after Diana's arrived on scene Di responds with:
--> ''"No. I will remain Diana. And Gotham will change to accommodate '''me'''."''

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Franchise/WonderWoman and Medusa trade a few during their duel. A selection:
-->'''Medusa:''' You know '''nothing of pain!''' I would teach you more before your eternity of stone! I would fill your every breath with it! I would make it your food and drink! Such a poor showing Amazon! I've hardly broken a sweat!
-->'''Diana:''' Your lust for revenge has driven you mad, and if you know nothing of Athena know this; her champions would '''die''' a thousand times to save but '''one''' mortal life.

* From the first incarnation of the ''Franchise/IronMan'' villain Titanium Man:

** Princess Projectra in v.3:

* In ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'', Luke once deliberately activates an Imperial droid's capture programming with this.

* ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars2015'': Grakkus the Hutt explains how he's different from other Hutts.

* ''[[ComicBook/TheInhumans Maximus]]'' gets one as he rides into the Forever City to do battle in a massive tank.

* ''ComicBook/SecretWarriors'' has quite a few. Perhaps the best is delivered by [[spoiler: Phobos to Norman Osborn after Osborn has just tried to bribe Phobos into revealing Nick Fury's location by giving him toy trucks. Realise that Phobos is both twelve years old and the literal god of fear, and that Norman Osborn is the ComicBook/{{GreenGoblin}}, and at this point is the head of the replacement for shield, HAMMER..]] Cue this exchange:

-->"Lay down your arms! I'm serious and I have the firepower to prove it! Sworn protectorate of over fifteen thousand submarine states. My territory surrounds every continent on the planet. I rule most of this planet's surface and almost all of its depths. So don't even think about picking a fight with the King of Atlantis."

* Plenty examples in ''ComicBook/{{Democracy}}'':
** Cleisthenes:
--> '''Cleisthenes''': ''(to Echekrates)'' Lavish party, Echekrates. Your old partner, Promachus, never knew how to spend his money. It's a good thing you took it, then.
** Kleomenes and Isagoras have an interesting conversation when [[spoiler: they are trapped in Acropolis]]:
--> '''Isagoras''': We are stuck here for three days! Is this how you command? Get out and beat the crap out of them!
--> '''Kleomenes''': Shut up! You don't even know how to command your own ass!
** The poet towards his brother, Kynegeiros, when they discuss about the separation of the clans.
--> '''Kynegeiros''': I was ten. Why I don't remember it?
--> '''The poet''': Because you are still ten.
** A conversation between an Athenian Member of the Parliament and a Spartan general:
--> '''The Athenian''': I am a member of the Parliament, Spartan. I have rights.
--> '''The Spartan''': You have the right to shut up. Do that.
** Heck, even Echekrates:
--> '''Echekrates''': Good countrymen, I have no idea where this young man ''(Leander)'' gets his intelligence… but I'll wager it's from the same place he got his oratory skills.

* ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'': When discussing Tarsil the Usurper, who fought dragons in the past:
-->'''Thorn:''' You think he views us as a threat?\\
'''Gran'ma Ben:''' We ''are'' a threat.
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'':
** ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' has Scrooge giving off several.
*** One of the most awesome boasts comes when he faces down Flintheart Glomgold:
---->Villains of more noble ilk than you have made me cautious and resourceful and scrappy. But ''you'' just '''made me mean!''' (cue RedEyesTakeWarning).
*** Later, Scrooge came up with this one:
---->It will be a dark day when I give in to a mere ''superpower''! (after facing down Roosevelt´s Rough Riders).
** In the summer special '97 of ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'', the Evronians bait Xadhoom to one of their bases,and the commander declares the party is over for her. Her response?
-->'''Xadhoom:'''"This is where you are wrong, Evronian! Look at me...I'm all alone,in the heart of a enemy base, surrounded by thousands of warriors. ''[[KillEmAll The party for me begins NOW!]]''"

** In Season One, Bruce Banner gets one himself, against Hulk, and finished it off with a punch that knocks Hulk down.
-->'''Bruce''': You're passion, Hulk. But I'm will. You said it yourself. I've bottled you up for years. Why stop now? You underestimated me, Hulk. Don't feel bad. Most do. What he put me through as a kid -- you don't survive that by being weak. I'm the strongest there is!