History BadassBoast / LiveActionTV

** Buffy also gets another one in the very next episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]". Having fled Sunnydale, she's trying to abandon everything of her life as the Slayer, even to the point of going by her middle name, Anne. Then she gets tricked into falling into a hell dimension where demons are using humans kidnapped from Earth as slaves. To each slave, the slaver asks "Who are you?" then beats the captive until they reply "Nobody". The he reaches Buffy:

''' Buffy''' I'm [[TitleDrop Buffy. The Vampire Slayer]]. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome And you are]]? ''[[[HesBack Cue Buffy single-handly bringing down the entire operation]]]''

*** In "Absolute Candor", Elnor gives a stern warning to the crowd right after he decapitates a man who was about to kill Picard (English translation of the original Romulan):

*** As adorable as Elnor can be when it comes to his awkward social skills, when it comes to his skills as a warrior, he is full of bad-ass boasts. When Romulan soldiers are approaching his position in "The Impossible Box":

** The title character gives one to Lindsey:

** Hamilton also gets one. It backfires a bit.

-->'''Sam""": You can ask me any kind of question you want. The answer's gonna be the exact same – Screw you. You want to get mad? You want to get mean? I've been tortured by the Devil himself. So you, you're just an accent in a pantsuit. What can you do to me?

** Every time Elnor is on the verge of starting a fight, he asks his opponent to "choose to live," i.e. to walk away without fighting.
*** In "Absolute Candor", Elnor gives a stern warning to the crowd right after he decapitates a man who was about to kill Jean-Luc Picard (English translation of the original Romulan):

** In "Absolute Candor", Elnor gives a stern warning to the crowd right after he decapitates a man who was about to kill Jean-Luc Picard (English translation of the original Romulan):
--->''"I have bound myself to Picard as qalankhkai. Anyone who threatens him will be choosing to die."''
** For as adorable as Elnor can be when it comes to his awkward social skills, when it comes to his skills as a warrior, he is full of bad-ass boasts.
--->'''Hugh''': It will take a few minutes to shut everything down and hide this room again. Can you hold them off that long?\\

-->'''Harry Mudd''': Do you know how many times I've had the pleasure of taking your life, Lorca? 53. But who's counting? And it ''never'' gets old.

* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

** Two seasons later, [[Series/PowerRangersMegaforce Emperor Marvo]] just how insignificant the two Rangers are to facing him.
--->'''Marvo:''' You two are so pathetic, I don't even need to ''stand'' to defeat you!

* ''Series/{{Daredevil}}'' has one delivered by Wilson Fisk at the end of a monologue on the [[AsTheGoodBookSays Good Samaritan]]:

--->'''Crowley''' gets punched in the face: You're good... ''[stabs his opponent]'' ...but I'm Crowley.

** Averted or something (subverted?) in "Weapon": The eponymous Blake is a famous freedom fighter. He meets a man named Coser who says, full of hero-worship, "You're Blake! You're Blake!!" Blake says calmly, "Yes, I know who I am."
*** Although in that case the response because the 'Blake' is actually a clone programmed with Blake's memories.
** Also subverted in "Power". The chief of a primitive tribe is about to fight Avon in a duel, prefaced by the appropriate BadassBoast of his deeds. Only he has to consult his HypercompetentSidekick on how the challenge goes, then they get into an argument over his bodycount (the man who [[DisneyVillainDeath fell off a cliff]] didn't count because they didn't find the body). On finishing the spiel the chief mutters apologetically to Avon, "I have to say all that. Tradition."

** Subverted in "Amends," the episode where Buffy first meets the First Evil:

** Later, Buffy gives one of these to the First's Turok-han champion. In a twist, the champion doesn't understand language and Buffy knows it. The real audience is the watching potentials, who need some inspiration:

** This one is followed shortly by another speech to the Potentials, at the end of the episode:

** Buffy also gets a one-word Badass Boast toward the end of the second season finale:

** Buffy also gets another one in the very next episode "Anne". Having fled Sunnydale, she's trying to abandon everything of her life as the Slayer, even to the point of going by her middle name, Anne. Then she gets tricked into falling into a hell dimension where demons are using humans kidnapped from Earth as slaves. To each slave, the slaver asks "Who are you?" then beats the captive until they reply "Nobody". The he reaches Buffy:

** And then there's the time Willow and Andrew tried to get into a BadassBoast duel. Most of the scene is played for humor, but Willow's last line is deadly serious. One season before, she could never have pulled it off.

** In the episode "Choices":

** And hilariously subverted in the third episode of the first season:

** Ironically, Xander, after taking several levels in badass, delivers one of the best boasts in the series several seasons later, defending Tara from her abusive brother.
--->'''[[JerkAss Donny]]:''' Dad! You... You're gonna just...?! ''[stalking forward]'' Tara, if you don't get in that van I swear by god I will beat you down.\\

** Simon gives one about himself to the rest of the crew about just how smart... But he's talking about his sister River, and that's all just to establish a baseline so that when he tells them that she "makes me look like an idiot child", they can understand just how awesome ''she'' is.

'''Koloth''': [[BadassGrandpa Yes. It. Does.]]

** This exchange from "Face The Enemy":
-->'''Agent 33''': I won't go down easy.
-->'''May''': That makes two of us.

-->'''Mack''': It's Gordon, right?\\

'''Angel''': ''[[GameFace [pops fangs]]]'' [[SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious Can you pick out the one word there you probably shouldn't have said?]]

-->'''[[JerkAss Donny]]''': Dad! You... You're gonna just...?! [stalking forward] Tara, if you don't get in that van I swear by god I will beat you down.
-->'''Xander''': And I swear by your [[SarcasmMode full and manly beard]], you're gonna break something trying.

---> '''Angel:''' Willow... can you handle Quor'toth?\\

---> '''Casey''': Lucky for me I'm a Marine.

---> '''Chuck''': Look, clearly you have no idea who I am since you only sent ten of your men to take care of me. So let me break it down for you: if you touch a hair on Sarah's head, I will do to you what I've just done to your men. Do you understand?

--> '''Fisk''': It's funny, isn't it? How even the best of men can be... deceived by their true nature. What the hell does that mean? It means that I'm not the Samaritan. That I'm not the priest, or the Levite. [[ThenLetMeBeEvil That I am the ill intent]]... who set upon the traveler on a road that he should not have been on.

--> '''Issac:''' I have a feeling that you're a different kind of animal. The question is, what kind are you, Dexter Morgan?\\

-->"Well, whoever they are and whatever they've come to do, it's just become a suicide mission. They started this fight, and we're going to finish it."

-->"Please let them know that if they can’t… I will rain hellfire down on them all. I will freeze their assets. Cancel their contracts. Cripple their business. And I have the power to do it, because I am the [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] hero who helped save Mother Earth from the cataclysm that Jules-Pierre Mao unleashed. Tell his children that government is more powerful than any corporation. And the only reason they think it tilts the other way is because we poor, public servants are always looking for some fat, private-sectors payoff down the road. But I’m not looking. And by the time they can pull the strings to force me out, it’ll be too late. Their family will be ruined. Their mother, the children, their children, all of them, pariahs! Outlaws! Hunted and on the run for the rest of their days until we find them, and nail each and every last one to the wall. Make sure you tell them that."

-->"This is the warship ''Rocinante''. You're aware of our capabilities more than anyone. We're escorting a vessel of refugees away from your AO. Any ship that opens fire on us will feel the sum total of our state-of-the-art Martian arsenal rammed up its ass. [[TakingYouWithMe We'll all die together]]. This is your only and final warning."

** John Crichton when he [[{{Recap/FarscapeS04E20WereSoScrewedHotToKatratzi}} strolled into an intergalactic peace summit at a hidden Scarran base with a nuclear weapon clipped to his belt]]:

---> '''Stark''': If you've got a deity you had better make your peace with it now, because I'm going to lead you to the other side real quick.

--> '''Santana''': First of all, anything you do became my business when you decided to toss that slushie up in my grill.\\

-->'''Sylar''': You'll get bored, after like a hundred years of trying to off me, watching all your loved ones drop like flies. You may eventually come to forgive me. Maybe you'll even love me.\\

-->"I could be unconscious and be able to kick the ass of a few rented punks from 1975."

-->'''Vandal Savage:''' [[BloodMagic This]] is the [[TheAgeless power]] [[YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive you have no]] ''hope'' of ''defeating''. [[{{Cult}} Everyone here]] is sworn to live and ''die'' at my command. Why? Because to them ''I'' am a ''god''! I ''pity'' you. You have no idea what it's like to have people ''willing'' to ''follow you up to the gates. '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Of Hell!]]'''''\\

(''Cue BigDamnHeroes'')
** "River of Time" is another example of Savage trading these with one of the Legends"
-->'''Savage:''' Who are you to stand up against me, [[LargeHam Vandal Savage, destroyer of empires!?]]
--> '''Snart:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Lenoard Snart]], [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments robber of ATMs!]]

---> '''Tommy Oliver:''' I may be old, but I can still pull it off. ''[[HesBack Dino Thunder, Power Up!]]'' ''[cue the CoDragons getting their asses handed to them]''

-->'''Julián''': Yes, but you have never been at the Carabanchel billiards. ''[[[UseYourHead headbutts]] Lope for the OneHitKO]''

-->'''Torquemada''': You are not the one to decide who burns in Hell!
-->'''Julián''': Well, are you?
-->'''Torquemada''': No. I just decide who burns ''here''.

--> Reese: "The guy that badge belonged to might have taken the deal, but I'm not that guy."
--> Thug: "Who are you then?"
--> Reese: "I'm the guy who shot him and took his badge."

* ''{{Series/Sherlock}}'': Sherlock tells Moriarty in no uncertain terms that if he harms his friends, Sherlock will burn him right back.
-->''' Moriarty:''' Sherlock, your big brother and all the King's horses couldn't make me do a thing I didn't want to.\\

** ComicBook/LexLuthor "I am the villain of [[ForegoneConclusion the story.]]"

** There were a couple of occasions where the team had to remind themselves of their kill tally so far. This was nicely turned around in "The Warrior," where another character does it for them:

** And in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', [=McKay=] lets off one in "Brain Storm"
--->'''[=McKay=]:''' Hey, I'm Dr. Rodney [=Mckay=], all right? 'Difficult' takes a few seconds, 'impossible' a few minutes.

---> '''Castiel:''' You should show me some respect. I dragged you out of hell, and I can throw you back in.

---> '''Zachariah:''' In Heaven I have six wings and four faces, one of which is a lion.

---> '''Lucifer:''' I will never lie to you; I will never trick you; you will say yes to me.

---> '''Castiel:''' Maybe someday, but today, you're ''my'' little bitch.

---> '''Castiel:''' The angel blade won't work, because I'm not an angel anymore. I'm your new God. A better one. So you will bow down and profess your love unto me, your Lord, or I shall destroy you.

---> '''Castiel''': You're just a man. I'm an angel.\\

** Crowley gets another one when he finally tires of [[spoiler: his mother]] Rowena manipulating him, and kicks her to the curb.
--->'''Rowena''': You can't...
--->'''Crowley''': [[SuddenlyShouting Oh yes I can!]] I'm bloody ''Crowley''. I'm the King of Hell! I do what I want, when I want, and I don't take orders from you.

** [[spoiler: Freshly-resurrected]] Owen Harper faces off against a security guard and rolls off a particularly badass talk-down:

---> "All I am anymore is a man looking for his wife and son. Anyone who gets in the way of that is going to ''[[PapaWolf lose]]''."

---> "You shoot me again, you best pray I'm dead."

--> "They're screwing with the wrong people."

---> "There's a machete with a red handle. That's what I'm going to use to kill you." [[note]]And he does![[/note]]

--->'''Rick''': You can do it right in front of me. You can take my hands. I told you already — I'm gonna kill you. Oh, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but ''nothing'' is gonna change that — ''nothing''. *whispers* You're all already dead.

--->'''Ezekiel''': ''END THESE SAVIORS AND THEIR ACCOMPLICES!! ALEXANDRIA WILL NOT FALL — NOT ON THIS DAY!!''

-->'''Leo''': You think ratcheting up the body count's gonna act as a deterrent?
-->'''President Bartlet''': You're damn right I...
-->'''Leo''': Then you are just as stupid as these guys who think capital punishment is going to be a deterrent for drug kingpins. As if drug kingpins didn't live their day to day lives under the possibility of execution, and their executions are a lot less dainty than ours and tend to take place without the bother and expense of due process. So, my friend, if you want to start using American military strength as ''the arm of the Lord''... you can do that. We're the only superpower left. You can conquer the world, like Charlemagne. But you better be prepared to kill everyone. And you better start with me, because I will raise up an army against you and ''I'' will beat you.

-->'''Toby:''' You know what, CJ? You tell Bert Coles that Toby Ziegler said there's a new sheriff in town.

-->'''Sam Seaborn:''' "You know what, guys? When I write something, I sign my name. Here, I'll show you." (grabs Joyce's desk blotter, dashing everything on it to the floor, and begins writing on it with a red marker)
-->'''Steve Joyce:''' "SAM!"
-->'''Sam Seaborn:''' "Do you have any idea how big a harassment suit you just exposed us to? She just... She works here. Which is more than I can say for either one of you." (he flips the blotter over so they can see what he has been writing. It says, "You're fired. S. Seaborn.")

* ''Series/WhoWantsToBeAMillionaire'', the American version. Contestant John Carpenter is going for the million-dollar question (the first contestant to do so). He hasn't even touched his lifelines, but when he's given the question, he decides to use his Phone-a-Friend lifeline to call his father:
--> '''John Carpenter:''' [[http://youtu.be/JSUmAGV2Uco Hi, Dad. I don't really need your help, I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to win the million dollars.]]

-->"I am the greatest gunslinger that ever lived. When I pull this trigger, things die."

''' Buffy''' I'm [[TitleDrop Buffy. The Vampire Slayer]]. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome And you are]]? ''[[[HesBack Cue Buffy single-handly bringing down the entire operation]]]''

--> '''Snart:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Lenoard Snart]], [[CrowningMomentOfFunny robber of ATMs!]]

** O'Neill has one that doubles a CrowningMomentOfFunny:

** Also subverted in "Power". The chief of a primitive tribe is about to fight Avon in a duel, prefaced by the appropriate BadassBoast of his deeds. Only he has to consult his HypercompetentSidekick on how the challenges goes, then they get into an argument over his bodycount (the man who [[DisneyVillainDeath fell off a cliff]] didn't count because they didn't find the body). On finishing the spiel the chief mutters apologetically to Avon, "I have to say all that. Tradition."

* Averted or something (subverted?) in ''Series/BlakesSeven'' "Weapon": The eponymous Blake is a famous freedom fighter. He meets a man named Coser who says, full of hero-worship, "You're Blake! You're Blake!!" Blake says calmly, "Yes, I know who I am."

* ''Series/ElMinisterioDelTiempo'':