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* ''Fanfic/TheVerySecretDiary'': Tom Riddle unloads a plethora of [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal truly, twisted taunts]] on Ginny, calling her a dumb fool for not figuring him out sooner.

* In ''Anime/SherlockHound'', Moriarty mockingly bids a goodbye to Lestrade every time he's close to catching him.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanEndgame:'' The Joker whipping out his phone and showing a captured Batman footage of the one way to cure the city of poisoning, a reservoir of [[HealingPotion Dionesium,]] as the Bat chokes on poison gas...is the only reason he loses. [[spoiler:Because the Batman choking is Dick Grayson, and Bruce Wayne's already on his way there.]]

* This is usually par-for-the-course in salt fics involving Lila Rossi's downfall for ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', where she will drop the act upon people realising what she's truly like and gloat to them about how easily they fell for all her lies, how easily they believed all her malicious slander about Marinette, how she hates Ladybug and all the other "self-righteous, goody two-shoes heroes"... and usually turning out to have [[EngineeredPublicConfession gloated whilst she's being recorded or observed by authority figures with the power to punish her and who aren't happy about being fooled]]. This trope is lampshaded in the fic ''Fanfic/{{Missing}}'', where Chloe (who'd had her lackey Sabrina call her while she was in the principal's office with him, Lila's mother and several police officers) remarks on the fact that her tendency to do this when she thinks she holds all the cards has just cemented her downfall.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', Episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZaDCEs7EbA "Venom Returns"]], Cletus Cassidy gloats briefly about how everyone is going to die in 30 seconds due to a bomb he strapped to his belly, only Spidey takes advantage of this by taking the bomb off his stomach by force (and surprise) and throwing it at the sky, saving everyone.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'':

** Main villain Syndrome grew wise to the same ploy when Mr. Incredible meets him.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': During the Future Trunks Saga, Zamasu seizes virtually every opportunity to go off on AGodAmI speeches and {{Motive Rant}}s, constantly taking the time to remind Goku and the Z-Fighters of his belief that he's a "true God" and how there's nothing they can do to stop him. Eventually, he admits that he doesn't actually care if anyone listens to his gloating; he does it simply to [[TheFightingNarcissist hear himself talk]]. [[spoiler: By the time Future Zamasu and Goku Black [[FusionDance fuse together]] and the Merged Zamasu starts to go off on another MotiveRant, Vegito is sick of listening to the gloating and [[ShutUpHannibal cuts him off with a punch to the face]].]]

'''Shazam:''' Are you making some, like, [[BuffySpeak big, evil-guy speech]] right now or somethin'? You're like a mile away from me, and there's traffic and cars and stuff! [[RealityEnsues All I see is mouth-movin'!]]

* In ''Anime/MaiOtome'', when [[spoiler:Tomoe]] confronts Arika after acquiring her [[EvilCostumeSwitch new battle suit]], she wastes no time bragging about her involvement in [[spoiler:Miya's disappearance, Erstin's leg injury, and Arika's costume damage]] right before she and three of her companions attack. However, she was only ''supposed'' to capture Mashiro and get back to base as quickly as possible to avoid drawing attention.

* In ''Manga/YumekuiMerry'', Hercules ''loves'' to do this since he's a Large Ham. It helps that he's strong enough to tank enemy attacks while barely breaking his train of thought. John uses this against him in the big fight by baiting Hercules into gloating, then ending the daydream since it was in John's yard, to throw Hercules off mid-gloat.

--->'''Faora:''' "A quick puff, Superman-- So I can keep you just where I want you on a cushion of SuperBreath as I tell you about Dyr-Ynn -- the dreaded "Phantom Touch of Death"! All it takes is a precise force applied to a secret pinpoint spot on your body -- and zip! You're dead!"\\
'''Superman:''' (thinking) "Glad the braggart's taking time to explain all this! The effects of her last blow are wearing off--!"

--->'''Reign:''' "Why am I telling you all this, Kara Zor-El? Because I want you to know... who it is that kills you today."\\
'''Supergirl:''' (thinking) She keeps talking, just watching the fight like it's all for her amusement. But I stopped listening a long time ago. I'm too busy trying to stay alive.

* ''Videogame/TheDarkness'' "Awwww, what did they do, Jackie? What did they do to [[spoiler:Jenny]]?"

* Pretty much ''everything'' [[AIIsACrapshoot NEXUS]] says in ''VideoGame/{{Warzone 2100}}'' is some sort of gloating.
--> '''NEXUS:''' "You have five minutes, Commander, and then it's ''[[KillSat frying]]'' time! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

* In ''{{VideoGame/Metro 2033}}'' you get catured by the Nazis and they decide to just execute you on the spot rather than draging a badly beaten up prisoner with them. While the gun is pointed at your face, there is still enough time for two stranger to sneak up on the Nazis and kill them with knives. Then they come to check on you and one of them lampshades the situation for all it's worth:

* In ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' story arc ''ComicBook/JudgmentInInfinity'', when Diana manages to lasso the Adjudicator's neck, he proudly states he can obliterate her and her Lasso in a heartbeat... ''instead'' of obliterating her without previous talk. It becomes his downfall when he is cajoled into keeping talking.

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' plays this straight, but with a nod to the oft-fatal habit of monologuing, but adds the already infamous twist to the end. [[spoiler:When confronted by Rorschach and Night Owl, Ozymandias coolly explains his master plan to them. The heroes expect to be able to stop him yet, but he bluntly tells them that [[NoNonsenseNemesis he wouldn't be wasting his time talking to them if they still had a chance to stop him]], [[YouAreTooLate his plan was already completed about half-an-hour ago]].]]

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':

* In the WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures fic ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'', Jade sometimes lapses into this, but is aware of it, being the savvy villain that she is, and tries to avoid it most of the time. Finn, Valmont, and some other characters also do this at multiple times throughout the story, and it usually doesn't turn out well for them.

* ''FanFic/TheVerySecretDiary'': Tom Riddle unloads a plethora of [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal truly, twisted taunts]] on Ginny, calling her a dumb fool for not figuring him out sooner.

'''Shazam:''' Are you making some, like, big, evil-guy speech right now or somethin'? You're like a mile away from me, and there's traffic and cars and stuff! [[RealityEnsues All I see is mouth-movin'!]]

* ''Blog/MiraculousRewrites'':
** This trope is pointedly averted with Hawk Moth; unlike in canon, he doesn't engage in private theatrics, being more of a NonNonsenseNemesis.

* In ''Creator/AynRand'''s ''Literature/TheFountainhead'', the villain Ellsworth Toohey engages in a villain's gloating, fitting all the standard criteria. He describes in detail how he is going to take over the world and what a terrible place he is going to make of it, and emphasizes that he is not doing it for any personal benefit but merely ForTheEvulz. He also gets ranting about how the book's hero Howard Roark is going to get beaten up and mistreated in prison. However, Toohey is not able to address this gloating directly to Roark himself, who considers Toohey beneath contempt and refuses to pay any attention to him. Rather, he has to make his gloating to a weaker character, Peter Keating, whom Toohey already very thoroughly destroyed. In the end, Roark manages to get the jury to find him not guilty, so he does not go to prison and Toohey is denied seeing him suffer - though by the end of the book, Toohey remains at large and concentrating as ever on his wider aim of taking over the world.

* This is usually par-for-the-course in salt fics involving Lila Rossi's downfall for ''Miraculous Ladybug'', where she will drop the act upon people realising what she's truly like and gloat to them about how easily they fell for all her lies, how easily they believed all her malicious slander about Marinette, how she hates Ladybug and all the other "self-righteous, goody two-shoes heroes".............. usually turning out have gloated whilst she's being recorded or observed by authority figures with the power to punish her and who aren't happy about being fooled. This trope is lampshaded in the fic ''Fanfic/Missing'', where Chloe (who'd had her lackey Sabrina call her while she was in the principal's office with him, Lila's mother and several police officers) remarks on her tendency to do this when she thinks she holds all the cards has just cemented her downfall.

** ''Series/{{Smallville}} Season 11''. ComicBook/LexLuthor ''could'' have learned all of Superman's secrets by merely keeping his mouth shut and letting his equipment do its thing after [[spoiler:secretly dosing Supes with radiation that allows his satellites can track his every move]]. But as soon as the satellite comes on line, Lex demonstrates it to Superman, in order to gloat about how screwed he is. And based on a comment he makes later in regards to increased Superman sightings, at the time Lex didn't even consider that Superman had a SecretIdentity!

** At the end of ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', Worldkiller-1 boasts that Supergirl's heroic sacrifice has failed to destroy him, and now she's dying she can't stop him from taking over her cousin's body. And then he dumps her body in the Sun... which is the ''worst possible way'' to dispose of a Kryptonian.

** In ''ComicBook/TheGreatPhantomPeril'', Faora's calculated and brutal poking of Superman's pressure points leaves his body paralyzed, but instead of striking the coup of grace she drags Superman around while going on about how great of a martial artist she is and how skillfully she manipulated gullible Mr. Porter into releasing her. For when she finally decides to give the killing blow, Superman's paralysis has worn off.
--->'''Faora:''' "A quick puff, Superman-- So I can keep you just where I want you on a cushion of SuperBreath as I tell you about Dyr-Ynn-- the dreaded "Phantom Touch of Death"! All it takes is a precise force applied to a secret pinpoint spot on your body-- and zip! You're dead!"\\

** In the pages of Creator/GrantMorrison's ''JLA'', the Key rants (basically to no one, since only his nonsentient robots are around to hear him) for about a page about how brilliant he's made himself through the use of brain-altering chemicals, and how it's allowed him to finally beat the JLA. It ends with this immortal aside:

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformers:''

--->'''Faora:''' "A quick puff, Superman-- So I can keep you just where I want you on a cushion of SuperBreath as I tell you about Dyr-Ynn-- the dreaded "Phantom Touch of Death"! All it takes is a precise force applied to a secret pinpoint spot on your body-- and zip! You're dead"!"\\

If they've just finished owning TheHero, this may have been preceded by OminousAdversarialAmusement and is sure to become TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, but don't worry, a ThwartedCoupDeGrace is coming up. May overlap with TrashTalk. See also VillainBall and DidYouActuallyBelieve Has some similarities to the MotiveRant.

* ''FanFic/TantabusMarkII'': Lampshaded; Daring Do (who is both an adventurer and an author) notes that absolutely everyone loves a good monologue, which is why villains still do it and authors still use it even when they're mocking the absurdity.

** ''ComicBook/BatmanEndgame:'' The Joker whipping out his phone and showing a captured Batman footage of the one way to cure the city of poisoning, a reservoir of [[HealingPotion Dionesium,]] as the Bat chokes on poison gas...is the only reason he loses. [[spoiler:Because the Batman choking is Dick Grayson, and Bruce Wayne's already on his way there.]]

-->'''Kobra:''' "You waste both of our times. Both of us know the wine of violence. Both of us know that this must end here, with a long and heady draft of it. I will toast your death with it."

* In ''Creator/AynRand'''s The Fountainhead, the villain Ellsworth Toohey engages in a villain's gloating, fitting all the standard criteria. He describes in detail how he is going to take over the world and what a terrible place he is going to make of it, and emphasizes that he is not doing it for any personal benefit but is doing Evil for The Sake of Evil. He also gets ranting about how the book's hero Howard Roark is going to get beaten up and mistreated in prison. However, Toohey is not able to address this gloating directly to Roark himself, who considers Toohey beneath contempt and refuses to pay any attention to him. Rather, he has to make his gloating to a weaker character, Peter Keating, whom Toohey already very thoroughly destroyed. In the end, Roark manages to get the jury to find him not guilty, so he does not go to prison and Toohey is denied seeing him suffer - though by the end of the book, Toohey remains at large and concentrating as ever on his wider aim of taking over the world.

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-->'''Rick:''' Name?
-->'''Ganon:''' I am Ganon! Lord of Evil! King of Darkness!! Weilder of the Triforce of power!
-->'''Rick:''' That's too long, I'll just put you down as "Angry Blue Pig". Abilities?
-->'''Ganon:''' I have apocolyptic powers that can destroy Hyrule and any lands that I wish to conquer!
-->'''Rick:''' I'm sorry, seems you don't qualify for welfare, you'll have to leave.
-->'''Ganon:''' What!? I am the Lord of Darkness! You will not get rid of me like some pitful moblin! I WILL BURN THIS WHOLE WORLD DOWN!!!
-->'''Rick:''' Yes, that's all well and nice, NEXT!!