History Main / EvilGloating

* In ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein2009'', Blazkowicz comes across a Nazi officer standing in front of a [[spoiler: Veil portal]]. His gloating is interrupted when he is rather violently KilledMidSentence by [[spoiler: a giant, mutated abomination that telefrags him.]]
** Continued in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheOldBlood'', with Rudi giving a long villain speech gloating about [[CurbStompBattle how badly the free world is losing]] in the face of the hyper-advanced Nazi war machine. And then there's also the newspaper report telling of how the Nazis actually made slaves of the Allied troops captured in the catastrophic D-Day landings and used them to build a giant museum dedicated to the Nazi's defence. Talk about rubbing the salt in.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' has Marluxia mocking Sora and Co. before one of their final fights:
--> ''Imbeciles...You would knowingly shackle your heart with a [[TitleDrop chain of memories]] born of lies? You would be one who has a heart, yet cast aside your heart's freedom? You turn from the truth because your heart is weak--You will never defeat me!''
* In ''Franchise/MassEffect'', it turns out that even The Reapers aren't immune to evil gloating. [[spoiler:Sovereign tells you that there's nothing you can do to stop him and the other Reapers from wiping out all sentient life in the galaxy. It also claims that you're just a tiny insect compared to it and that you have no way of understanding its nature, and yet there it is delivering its evil speech. Subverted at the end of the third game; it turns out he was lying like a rug about his motivations.]]
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Mordin's loyalty mission features an enemy krogan who will gloat at you [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUTiDfPfBUY on and on]] if you don't take the Renegade Interrupt option. Which will be available for his entire rant. The gloating goes on so long it's got to be some sort of record.
* [[TheDragon Lord Crump]] does this in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' near the end of Chapter 2 when he traps Mario in a cage and snatches the [[PlotCoupon Crystal Star]], not realizing Mario has been CursedWithAwesome at your last destination, and can therefore escape his silly prison (of course, then he have to free the others).
* In ''VideoGame/SongBirdSymphony'', the BigBad reveals himself to the innocent PlayerCharacter through this.
* ''VideoGame/ZeroWing'' has the rather infamous scene with Cats phoning into the heroes' ship's huge viewscreen to gloat about how [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs all their base are belong to him]], and that they are on the [[YouAreOnTheWayToDestruction way to destruction]].
** Incidentally, a better translation to the page image's quote would be: "Make the most of the little time you have left."

* Subverted in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' where Ratchet throws a wrench at the BigBad Dr. Nefarious as soon as he opens his mouth to gloat. Strictly speaking, he throws his wrench at the remote control for his uber weapon just about to target Veldin. Nefarious just stood in the way.
* In ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'', ALL the villains do this. [[OmnicidalManiac Gig]] also does this from time to time, despite being on [[SociopathicHero your side]]. The best example of Evil Gloating comes from [[spoiler:Levin, aka Raksha the World Eater]].
-->[[spoiler: '''Levin''']]: You don't like that I've learned all these fancy new words? Well tough shit! I'm feeling verbose!

* SHODAN does this a ''lot'' in the ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' series. In both games she taunts the player that she is superior to you in every way because [[AIIsACrapshoot as an AI construct]], SHODAN has access to more human information and more control over machinery that any human on Earth could ever even conceive. She also explains how being an organic life form makes you inferior and in the second game, she says that the only thing she likes about you are the cybernetic implants she gave you. She especially does this as you traverse the levels trying to find her, but when you show up for your showdowns with SHODAN her taunting amounts to nothing more than mere BossBanter.

* Several ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' raid bosses do this, especially if you start wiping. Kael'thas and Malygos have raised it to an art form.
** Arthas is so incredibly fond of this that it prevents him from actually accomplishing anything. [[YouHaveNoChanceToSurviveMakeYourTime He shows up and gloats at you]],[[TakeYourTime then just goes away and lets you interfere with his plan]].
*** [[INeedYouStronger He is allowing the players to advance themselves and even allow them to interfere with the Scourge's plans all to get them stronger so he can kill the players once they reach him in Icecrown Citidel and raise them as uberpowerful generals and use them to]] [[TakeOverTheWorld overpower all resistance and take over the world.]]
*** And after he succesfully does the above... He proceeds to gloat enough to allow Tirion Fordring to summon HeroicWillpower and ruin all his plans in one strike.
** Keal'thas also does this in the Frozen Throne Campaign, where he tells Arthas exactly what his and Illidan's plans are, though in that case he is far less of a villain. [[spoiler: It does, though, help cause the plan to fail in a similar manner as other villains. Once Arthas knows the plan, he takes a faster route to the Lich King, and arrives in time to organize the forces and fight back.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'''s Gravemind. 50% EldritchAbomination, 50% Evil Gloating. 100% MagnificentBastard.
-->"''Now the gate has been unlatched,''\\
''headstones pushed aside;''\\
''corpses shift and offer room,''\\
''a fate you must ABIDE!"''
* ''VideoGame/TheDarkness'' "Awwww, what did they do, Jackie? What did they do to [[spoiler:Jenny]]?"
* In the third ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' game, [[spoiler: Dahlia Hawthorne lays bare the sheer contempt she feels about the Fey clan and Phoenix; she's dead, having been channeled by a medium, so she believes she's beyond punishmment. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Boy, is she wrong.]]]]
* In ''VideoGame/CliveBarkersUndying'', [[spoiler:Jeremiah]] attempts this, but is interrupted. [[spoiler:By a scythe.]]
* As the resident EvilGenius in, well, ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'', you can naturally do this while your enemies are being tortured. Be warned that super agents can escape as you gloat over their misfortune.
** In the Website/{{Facebook}} game based on the above, the LoadingScreen says "Monologuing..."
** You can gloat over any captive, a process which earns you a point of notoriety; super agents, however, are the only ones where assigning them to be tortured will ''automatically'' cause your Evil Genius to wander over to laugh maniacally at them - a process which can be exploited by moving them a long distance from the torture chamber, causing the super-agent to just sit there waiting for your arrival before the pain actually commences.

* In ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'', Veger taunts Jak right after [[spoiler: Damas]] dies, taking exceptional glee in telling Jak that he was [[spoiler: his father]] and that he died without knowing.
* In ''VideoGame/Metro2033'' 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:
--> ''One thing I like about the bad guys. There's always a lot of discussions before they get around to pulling the trigger.''
* In ''VideoGame/AlanWakesAmericanNightmare,'' Mr. Scratch, Wake's HumanoidAbomination EvilTwin frequently lords his near-triumph over Wake, particularly in his video messages, whether thrilled over a recent kill, showing off his weapons or contemplating how easily he'll manage a KillAndReplace in Alan's life due to his perceived superiority.
* [[spoiler:Flowey]]'s boss dialogue in ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'' is made of this trope, and to a possibly greater extent, [[spoiler: Asriel Dreemurr as the God of Hyperdeath]].
* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': The mission "Missing on a Star" ends with [[spoiler: the leader of the bad guys gloating that the Doom Ray will doom the Moshi world. Thankfully, it resolves come the next mission.]]
* In ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'': [[TheSociopath Penelope]] smugly gloats she had already been planning to kill Sly and Murray in order to harvest Bentley's potential, make billions in weapon designs, and TakeOverTheWorld. "No matter - once Cooper's out of the way, he'll see things ''my'' way! Poor Bentley. He's kinda cute when he's being dumb".

** In both the anime and manga versions, the 9th Espada, Aaroniero Arruruerie, fights Rukia, breaks her sword, and skewers her with his trident. He ''pulls her closer'' so that he can gloat effectively. This is when Rukia pulls out her third ''Shikai'' which reforms her sword ''through Aaroniero's head'' instantly killing him. Sure, Rukia's sword reforming and her subsequent rescuing are major {{Deus ex Machina}}s, but in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', readers lost count long ago anyway. And that's not even going into Sosuke Aizen, who just loves to listen to himself talk, going by the fact that he has on a few occasions taken the time to fill the good guys in on every little detail regarding exactly ''how'' bad he's screwed them over. During his final battle with Aizen in the {{Deicide}} arc, it got so bad that Ichigo got sick of it and flat out stated as such while interrupting one of the latter's monologues. In the [[spoiler:Fullbring]] arc, [[spoiler:Giriko]] breaks into this when DrunkWithPower...which gets him [[spoiler:killed by Kenpachi.]]

* ''Fanfic/{{FIRE}}'': During their final battle with Captain America, Red Skull decides to reassert his "repulsive bastard" credentials.

** In the pages of ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA'', 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 aside:

** [[spoiler:'''Madara Uchiha.''' The majority of what comes out of his mouth is this constantly brags about how superior he is to everyone else.]]

** Main villain Syndrome starts this, but grows wise to the same ploy during his first encounter with Mr. Incredible.

* The ''TabletopGame/DiscworldRolePlayingGame'' enforces this trope by offering dark lord characters their own Code of Honour disadvantage -- which includes the rule "if your enemies are defeated and helpless, engage in some token gloating and then ignore them while you get on with important matters". Note that, on the Discworld, NarrativeCausality ensures that villains who act this way are generally guaranteed to survive their many defeats, in an equally stereotyped way -- and the game supports this too.

* Being built on MadScientist tropes, monologuing to a bound captive is a way to regain Mania in ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression''.
* In ''TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors'', at one point the module suggests that the ''DM'' engage in evil gloating if the party falls for one particularly sadistic trap.
* ''TabletopGame/TimeLord'', the 1990s licensed ''Series/DoctorWho'' RPG, gave villains a negative "Gloating" skill. If they captured a player character, they would be forced to roll against it, and if they "succeeded" they would waste time monologuing.
* In [=TSR=]'s ''TabletopGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'', indulging in this is one way for villains to earn extra Karma (the game's combination of {{luck manipulation mechanic}} and {{experience point}}s).
* Parodied in ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' with the ''mutant power'' named "evil villain soliloquy that stops time while it's going on". Yes, it literally freezes an action scene to give the bad guy time to gloat.
* Cheapass Games' ''Before I Kill You, Mister Spy...'' (formerly ''James Ernest's Totally Renamed Spy Game'', formerly ''Before I Kill You, Mr. Bond'') is built on this trope. Players are SpyFiction {{Supervillain}}s who score points by creating a SupervillainLair and then luring spies into it. The points scored for a spy increase exponentially if you "taunt" them before killing them, but of course, doing so carries the risk that the spy will escape and destroy your lair.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': One example from the Banquet of the Golden Witch, Beatrice: [[spoiler:"And for you, just as expected, it's 'tears please,' and you're down!! I~diot, what a truly simple person!!"]] That said, it's not a good idea to [[VillainBall make the person you're trying to get to sign something feel like crap]]. It's used [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech far more effectively]] in the arc just before it. "[[red:You are incompetent!]]" [[spoiler:Turns out this was an InvokedTrope as Beatrice is trying to lose and does this to avoid a SpringtimeForHitler.]]

* ''Manga/DeathNote'':
** "Sayonara, [[spoiler:Raye Penber]]."
** "I am Kira." Just so he could see the look on [[spoiler:Naomi Misora]]'s face moments before his ArtifactOfDoom kicked in.
** Light also gloats evilly at the end of the penultimate episode. While it wouldn't have changed the outcome had he not done so, it was pretty reckless of him, and he only did it as a matter of pride to show how confident he was that he had successfully tied up all remaining loose ends.
** The look on [[spoiler: his face when L dies]]. Hell, in the anime, Light went so far as to literally ''dance on his grave'' while gloating about his victory.
** And then in the manga [[spoiler:Light gloats one last time when he thinks Ryuk is writing his enemies' names down]]. [[OhCrap It backfires badly]].

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In both the anime and manga versions, the 9th Espada, Aaroniero Arruruerie, fights Rukia, breaks her sword, and skewers her with his trident. He ''pulls her closer'' so that he can gloat effectively. This is when Rukia pulls out her third ''Shikai'' which reforms her sword ''through Aaroniero's head'' instantly killing him. Sure, Rukia's sword reforming and her subsequent rescuing are major {{Deus ex Machina}}s, but in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', readers lost count long ago anyway. And that's not even going into Sosuke Aizen, who just loves to listen to himself talk, going by the fact that he has on a few occasions taken the time to fill the good guys in on every little detail regarding exactly ''how'' bad he's screwed them over. During his final battle with Aizen in the {{Deicide}} arc, it got so bad that Ichigo got sick of it and flat out stated as such while interrupting one of the latter's monologues. In the [[spoiler:Fullbring]] arc, [[spoiler:Giriko]] breaks into this when DrunkWithPower...which gets him [[spoiler:killed by Kenpachi.]]
** In ''LightNovel/BleachCannotFearYourOwnWorld'', [[BigBad Tokinada]] {{Lampshade|Hanging}}s that it's incredibly stupid to explain your {{Evil Plan}}s aloud given anyone could be listening in, but also comments he just can't stop himself, because he enjoys seeing [[{{Troll}} his victims' baffled faces]] as he explains his [[XanatosGambit rather circuitous schemes]].
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'': Quattro, SmugSnake that she is, does some big time gloating as she forces the main character to fight against [[spoiler:her daughter]]. In retrospect, [[OhCrap this probably wasn't]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill a very good idea]]. She probably got this from [[MadScientist Jail himself]], since he did gloat about the power of his Combat Cyborg and Gadget Drone technology. In Jail's case it is justified, as he has already proven the might of his creations by [[spoiler: [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs successfully destroying Riot Force 6 HQ and crippling the TSAB Ground Forces HQ]]]] and simply felt rubbing his victory to everyone's faces, topping it off with an EvilLaugh.
-->'''Jail:''' Mid-Childa Ground TSAB members, did you like it?

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'': Evil characters like to gloat when they are in a position of power.
** DIO describes being fully synchronized to Jonathan's body and regaining his full strength as "the greatest high" and sees that he almost feels like singing.
** Kars fully enjoys describing the sun and his position as the strongest being on earth after using the Stone Mask on himself.
** Kira gloats about how he has luck on his side, saying his full name in public. [[spoiler:Then Josuke surprises him...]]
** More down-to-earth than most, but Pucci, after [[spoiler:killing everyone but Emporio and cornering him in Green Dolphin Street Prison]], still takes the time to expose his motivation and how his plan works to the helpless Emporio.
** Valentine confidently dares Johnny to use his last Steel Ball and nails, knowing that he cannot use the Super Spin without a horse.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': One example from the Banquet of the Golden Witch, Beatrice: [[spoiler:"And for you, just as expected, it's 'tears please,' and you're down!! I~diot, what a truly simple person!!"]] That said, it's not a good idea to [[VillainBall make the person you're trying to get to sign something feel like crap]]. It's used [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech far more effectively]] in the arc just before it. "[[red:You are incompetent!]]" [[spoiler:Turns out this was an InvokedTrope as Beatrice is trying to lose and does this to avoid a SpringtimeForHitler.]]

* In the ''Manga/LiarGame'', everyone does this after they believe they have successfully tricked their opponents, particularly if it was the protagonists Nao and Akiyama. However they are usually OutGambitted seconds later in a [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome humiliating defeat]].
* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': This is a pretty common behavior of the homunculi, due to their massive arrogance.
** Envy absolutely loves using this to make people squirm. Unfortunately for him, he admits to killing [[spoiler:Hughes]] in front of ''Roy Mustang'' of all people. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Not terribly hard to guess what happened after that]].
** Greed and Lust both indulge in ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy (the latter because she didn't plan to leave them alive anyway), Wrath often monologues about humans being weak, and Pride is a SmugSnake because of his habit of threatening people and bragging about his superiority. Unlike most examples of ExplainingYourPowerToTheEnemy, they didn't really say anything that could make the good guys pick up on a weakness. They had to figure that stuff out on their own.
* ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'': In the first season, Cromwell, the villain behind it all, starts to gloat about how he'll never be defeated as long as he has the ring. [[spoiler:Before he can finish the sentence, Guiche sneaks up behind him and hits him on the head with a big stick. "So, who is this guy?"]]
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** Despite being a very intelligent and shrewd man, Kabuto Yakushi has a terrible habit of gloating before fallen enemies when he thinks (and usually does) he has the upper hand in a battle.
*** A good example is when he fought Tsunade in order to "convince" her to heal Orochimaru's soulless arms. He began kicking her while she was in her hemophobia-trauma-shock and taunting her for ''"bringing shame to the name of Sannin. Which Orochimaru has brought glory and power to!"'' (or something along those lines).
*** He also seems to do this whenever he and Naruto manage to meet up in battle. Since Naruto has a short fuse on anything involving Sasuke, it's not even a challenge to get him riled up by Kabuto's taunts.
** Hidan is very good at this, which greatly annoys his partner Kakuzu.
** [[spoiler:'''Madara Uchiha.''' The majority of what comes out of his mouth is this constantly brags about how superior he is to everyone else.]]
* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', Zorin Blitz really likes doing this. However, it proves to be her undoing when she calls Pip Bernadotte an 'insect' and mocks him and the Wild Geese, while a blind and mutilated Seras is crying over his body. Understandably, Seras doesn't take it very well. To the extent that she paints the walls with Zorin's head.
* In ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', [[UncannyValleyGirl Ryoko Asakura]] does this when she [[spoiler:attempts to kill Kyon so she can watch Haruhi's reactions. She was literally a second away from killing Kyon when Yuki saved him. If Ryoko hadn't taken the time to explain why she wanted Kyon dead, she presumably could have killed him before Yuki even arrived.]]
* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}} 1934 -- Alice in Jails'', Ladd goes on a brief monologue about how stupid it is when people indulge in this trope... [[HypocriticalHumor While indulging in this trope]], [[HypocrisyNod which he is both thoroughly aware of and rather amused by]].
-->'''Ladd:''' And therefore, as such, in light of that revelation, I'll say that one is enough, and since that one is of course myself, I want you all to shut up. You're boring. Swallow those words and take them to the afterlife yourself if you want them delivered there so damn much."
* ''LightNovel/HumanityHasDeclined'': Relentlessly parodied: the [[spoiler:[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext skinless chickens]]]] gloat about their EvilPlan to the heroine, but she's too busy [[PaintingTheMedium adjusting the subtitles]] to pay attention.

* ''Manga/{{Inuyasha}}'': Hakudoshi's demise is a direct result of this trope. While fighting Inuyasha's group, he decides to openly brag to them about how he plans to betray Naraku. Unfortunately for him, Naraku overhears the whole thing and promptly recalls the Saimyosho and disables Hakudoshi's barrier, leaving Hakudoshi to his fate of being sucked into Miroku's [[PowerOfTheVoid Wind]] [[PowerPalms Tunnel]].
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** Frieza ''really'' likes to play with his food when he fights, and always takes the time to rub in his enemies' faces how puny and weak they are compared to him. The most notable example is in ''[[Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF Resurrection 'F']]'', when after Goku is [[spoiler: shot InTheBack by Frieza's [[TheDragon second-in-command]] Sorbet]], Frieza decides to torture Goku slowly and painfully while rubbing in his face how stupid he was to show him mercy a second time. His gloating leads right to his downfall when, in an attempt to twist the knife even further, he tries to goad Vegeta into killing Goku for him by offering him a high-ranking position in his army; Vegeta refuses, saves Goku, and beats Frieza to a pulp.
** Cell does this a grand total of three times:
*** In his first form, Cell takes the time to tell a wounded Piccolo about his origins and goals after attempting to absorb him. It bites him in the ass when Piccolo reveals he was faking the injury to get him to talk and promptly regenerates his arm. Which Cell should have known Piccolo could do, since ''he has the exact same power, inherited '''from''' Piccolo''.
*** After [[BatmanGambit successfully]] [[FlawExploitation manipulating]] Vegeta into helping him absorb Android 18 and becoming perfect, he takes the time while curb-stomping Vegeta to rub it in his face, mockingly thanking him for doing so and outright stating that he ''never'' would have been able to reach his perfect form were it not for Vegeta's arrogance and stupidity.
*** After returning from his near death experience and killing Trunks, he spends several minutes detailing how he returned, acquired Instant Transmission, and despite Goku's attempt to stop him, is stronger than ever. To rub more salt in the wound, he rubs in the Z-Fighters' faces that Goku [[SenselessSacrifice sacrificed himself for nothing]] and mockingly thanks him.
** ''Anime/DragonBallZTheTreeOfMight'': Turles gloated a lot at first. He gets angrier as the movie progresses and more or less drops this by the final showdown.
** ''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]].]]
* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': Ragyo Kiryuin does this every time she's near victory, constantly taking the time to remind her adversaries of how worthless and incompetent they are compared to her. Unfortunately for her, [[spoiler: Ryuko and Satsuki know how to take advantage of this]].
* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'':
** During the Fairy Dance arc, Sugou brags to Asuna about his belief that Kirito is too scared to enter ALO to save her in an effort to demoralize her. It backfires; Asuna ''knows'' that Kirito is more than strong enough to enter ALO if there's any chance of saving her, and knowing that he's still alive helps her HeroicResolve.
** Sugou does it a second time after Kirito defeats him in ALO and proceeds to attack him in real life in revenge. When Kirito tells him he's finished and should just turn himself in, Sugou smugly brushes him off, stating that countless organizations would want his work and shelter him from the law. After Kirito overpowers him and leaves him unconscious in the parking lot, Sugou's gloating in that regard is proven wrong; he's arrested and incarcerated for his crimes.
* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' features [[ThoseWackyNazis a Nazi]] bursting into a room occupied by the series' resident AxCrazy ActionGirl Revy. The Nazi then starts yammering on at length about his [[BlingBlingBang Luger]] and how he's the only one capable of "taming it". What he fails to notice as he flaps his trap is [[FailedASpotCheck Revy calmly reloading in front of him]]. By the time he's ready to fire, Revy shoots him in the gut.
--> '''Revy:''' ''*BANG*'' [[LampshadeHanging Shut the fuck up. Can't you see I wasn't even listening? I mean were ya tryin' to sell me the damn gun or what]]?
* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': Although he's an AntiHero, Lelouch is ''very'' fond of doing this to a poor hapless victim to his CompellingVoice before using it. In R2 C.C. lampshades it which Lelouch dismisses; he apparently can't pass on an opportunity to be [[LargeHam dramatic]].
* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': In "[[Recap/DigimonAdventureE17CockatrimonTheCaptainOfIllusions The Crest of Sincerity]]", Cockatrimon takes time after intercepting Mimi, Sora, Biyomon and Palmon to gloat about how he's captured the other kids and [[TakenForGranite petrified the other Digimon]], and about how he's going to capture them too. This gives the heroes the time to come to grips with the situation, costing him the element of surprise and, when he finally gets around to attacking, allowing them to dodge his {{Eye Beam}}s and flee. If he'd attacked as soon as he saw them he might have won then and there, but...
* ''Anime/SherlockHound'': Moriarty mockingly bids a goodbye to Lestrade every time he's close to catching him.
* In ''Manga/KarakurizoushiAyatsuriSakon'', the villain of the Noh Arc just had to explain the entire plot.
* In ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'', the main character gloats every time he beats an enemy — often accompanied by ironic torture.
* ''Anime/MarvelFutureAvengers'': When it looks like her team of Avengers are about to be executed. Captain Marvel asks Leader what the "Emerald Rain Project" is. In his hubris, Leader is more than happy to tell her.
* ''Manga/DreamEaterMerry'': Hercules ''loves'' to gloat since he's overly dramatic. 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.
* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'''s version of Milverton is absolutely insufferable explaining things. He spends pages rubbing in Sherlock and William's faces that he believes he has outwitted them (he hasn't). For whatever reason, even with their guns pointed at him, they simply let him keep talking.

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* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'', sometimes Wolffy will give the goats an explanation to whatever is his plan to catch and eat them.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' plays this straight, with a nod to the oft-fatal habit of monologuing, but adds a twist to the end. [[spoiler:When confronted by Rorschach and Night Owl, Ozymandias coolly explains (and details) 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]].]]
* ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'':
** In the pages of ''ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsJLA'', 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 aside:
--->'''The Key:''' Oh, and make a note of an interesting side effect of my expanding consciousness. I can't stop talking to myself.
** ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueGenerationLost'': When Max has Jaime captured he spends a lot of time waxing about his plan, how everything is going according to it, and calling Jaime stereotypical Latin nicknames like Hombre.

--->'''Brainiac:''' "I will be everything there has ever been, Kryptonian. I will be evolved into perfection."

--->'''Worldkiller-1''': "A noble sacrifice, but in the end, you accomplish nothing. I touched your mind. I glimpsed your memories. I saw your cousin, Kal-El. Superman. He will serve my mission just as well... and he won't have a Red Ring to stop me."

* ''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. Because the Batman choking [[spoiler:is Dick Grayson, and Bruce Wayne's]] already on his way there.
* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'': {{Lampshaded}} and {{Invoked}} on a number of occasions.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue1To4 The Return of Queen Chrysalis]]", as Chrysalis begins to describe what will happen should the Mane 6 miss the deadline, a fillynapped Scootaloo blurts out that she's about to reveal her evil plan to the heroines. Annoyed at the interruption, Chrysalis cuts off communication.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue32To33 Night of the Living Apples]]" Twilight, after the main six are captured, asks Bad Apple what he intends to do. He answers that he plans to gloat.
--->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' What are you going to do?\\
'''Bad Apple:''' ''Gloat!'' There will be ''much'' gloating!
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue43To45 Ponies of Dark Water]]", Twilight's flowchart for taking over Equestria has, as its penultimate step, "GLOAT!" in big bold letters. She duly indulges in this at the end of the comic, boasting about her genius, how she predicted everything that happened and how none of the other characters have a chance to stop her... right before she falls for the old bucket-over-the-door trick and gets the evil washed out of her.
* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': In "Pastoral", Team Carnivore tells Roustabout that their bosses will take him apart to figure out how their experiments worked on him.
* ''ComicBook/{{Diabolik}}'': Sometimes happens, usually done by [[VillainProtagonist the title character]] but sometimes by [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Ginko]]. They do it ''after'' the plan has been completed, with Diabolik doing it from safe distance.
* Subverted in the ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' story "Might and Power": [[TheDragon Morgan Fairfax]] is about to illustrate the plan to Paperinik to show off his genius, but [[BigBad Grrodon]] cuts him off because "I know it perfectly, my soldiers don't care about it, and PK will soon be too absent to appreciate your genius!"

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Dastardly & Muttley]]'' story "Truce or Consequences" (Gold Key Hanna-Barbera Fun-In #10), Dick Dastardly lures Yankee Doodle Pigeon over to the enemies' side during a 24-hour truce, hypnotizes him, and makes him pose for pictures depicting him as a traitor. When Yankee Doodle comes to and realizes what has happened (with a KneelBeforeZod moment between Yankee Doodle and Dastardly after the following):
-->'''Yankee Doodle Pigeon:''' You cad! I accuse you of violation of the truce!\\
'''Dastardly:''' ''[smugly]'' So? Sue me! In just thirty seconds, the truce will be over and ''you'' will be A.W.O.L.! What do you suppose they'll think of ''that?''
* In ''ComicBook/AllNewWolverine'', Amber takes the time to brag about killing Sabretooth, Deathstrike, and Old Man Logan, and revealing her plan to kill the rest of them. After Laura reveals her new suit of armor from Muramasa.
* ''ComicBook/DoctorDoom'' ''loves'' gloating. ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' #258 provides a particularly glorious example:
-->'''Dr. Doom:''' No one rivals Doom! NO ONE! Doom is supreme! There is no power on Earth, no intellect in all creation to equal mine!!
* ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'': Defied in issue 30. Bubble Man nearly starts a smug rant towards Mega Man and his allies but gets shut up by an annoyed Metal Man.
-->'''Metal Man:''' Do. Not. Tell. Them. ANYTHING.
* ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons:'' It's given a LampshadeHanging in one of the ''Radioactive Man'' comics, when the hero turns evil and insane after a brush with death. As he's beating up his fellow heroes, he rants that now he gets why villains always start gloating about their plans: Because it's ''fun''.

-->'''The Adjudicator:''' Foolish mortal! Perhaps your lariat has some mystical powers over lesser beings-- But it is nothing but a piece of string to the Adjudicator. A heartbeat more, and your lasso will follow you and your hapless friends-- into complete and utter obliteration!

'''Mr. Incredible:''' ''(laughing)'' He starts monologuing?\\

'''Frozone:''' He starts, like, this prepared speech about how "feeble" I am, compared to him, how "inevitable" my defeat is, how the ''(makes dramatic hand gesture)'' "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis World! Will soon! Be his!]]" Yadda, yadda...\\

''([[TalkToTheFist Mr. Incredible hurls a log at him]]; Syndrome barely dodges it and quickly immobilizes him with his zero-point energy ray)''\\

* Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon:
** ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'': Maleficent does this once she's imprisoned [[PrinceCharming Prince Phillip]] in her stronghold. Rubbing her victory in his face, along with her plan to [[KickTheDog keep him locked away for a hundred years and then set him free when he's ancient and wizened]], probably helped his HeroicResolve a great deal.
** Probably the one thing that defines Kaa of ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967'' as a villain rather than just a hungry predator is his gleeful tendency to play with his food. He would have surely eaten Mowgli if he hadn't extended the whole thing to a musical number.
** In ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', Ratigan causes Basil to have a HeroicBSOD by gloating about how he led Basil right into his trap, then describing his overly complex DeathTrap which includes a recording of Ratigan gloating through song.
** Ursula does this in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' after she succeeds in hypnotizing Eric away from Ariel in her Vanessa guise. To her credit, she gloats only in the privacy of her room when Eric and Ariel aren't around but Scuttle still overhears her loud singing and is able to inform Ariel in time for them to crash her wedding to Eric.
** At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', when Simba, still blaming himself for his father's death, is dangling from the edge of a cliff, Scar can't resist indulging in this and freely admits that ''he'' killed Mufasa. At this revelation, Simba pulls off his HeroicSecondWind and literally ''chokes'' Scar to get him to admit the truth to everyone else.
** A couple of examples from ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': Kuzco turns back to gloat at Pacha as the latter hangs from the remains of a RopeBridge, and promptly ends up in the same predicament, while later Yzma's IronicEcho gloat is ruined by her lackey Kronk's CaptainObvious lampshading.
** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', [[spoiler: this ends up biting [[BitchInSheepsClothing Dawn Bellwether]] in the butt; Nick and Judy [[EngineeredPublicConfession manage to catch a recording]] of her gloating about how she used Night Howler extract to [[HatePlague make predators go savage]], and how she exploited the ensuing [[FantasticRacism anti-pred hysteria]] to seize power.]]
** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'': [[TheSociopath Hans]] smugly gloats he had already been planning to kill Elsa in order to get the throne. "But then she doomed herself, and you were dumb enough to go after her!".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie''. Being such an overdramatic villain, you'd expect this from Lord Business. Specifically at the point where Emmet and his friends witness [[spoiler: the death of Vitruvius at his own hands]] in the Think Tank, meaning now he is able to have his opponents at his mercy. But he isn't stupid to do this - none of them are able enough to take a shot at him. As in, all of the Master Builders have been imprisoned, [[spoiler: Vitruvius is dead]], Emmet is tied to the self-destruct mechanism's battery, Lord Business is armed to the teeth and not to mention his outfit makes it almost impossible to attack him. It doesn't do him any harm to gloat when everything's coming up great for him.
* ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'': Darla gloats after screwing Danny and the other animals over. "Nice working with you, Danny! [[EvilLaugh Ahahahahaha!]]"

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* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': [[spoiler:Clove taunts Katniss about Rue's death instead of just killing her... and unfortunately, Rue's fellow District 11 tribute was listening.]]

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'': With the HolyGrail in her hands, Elsa Schneider [[NearVillainVictory prematurely brags that the grail is hers to keep]] as she steps across the boundary that she was warned multiple times not to cross. This causes the temple to collapse and Elsa is unable to give up the prize, because [[DeathByMaterialism she’s so sure she can reach it until she falls to her death.]]
** In the PC adventure game, Elsa is even less willing to accept defeat. After Indy’s continued warnings about the seal, she says, "No! I don't believe it! I won't lose it now!"

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': Loki ''loves'' to gloat, though he has a tendency to [[ShutUpHannibal underestimate his audience]].
** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Ronan the Accuser has a habit of doing this. [[spoiler: It bites him on the ass at the end: by stopping to give a grandiose speech before annihilating Xandar he gives the Guardians enough time to improvise a plan to separate him from his planet-destroying MacGuffin.]]

** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': A heroic example is shown here, [[spoiler:as Thor has lodged Stormbreaker inside Thanos' chest, but instead of killing him outright, he takes time to savour the moment and tell him "I told you, you'd die for that.". This gives Thanos the time he needs to do his BadassFingersnap and teleport away.]]
** ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'': After defeating Fury in hand-to-hand combat, Talos takes a moment to gloat about his victory and comment about Keller's glasses. As he begins brushing off his hands, he's hit by a photon blast from Carol, who had just arrived on the scene.

* In ''Film/TheMechanic1972'', TheMole [[spoiler:Steve]] does this after he poisons [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies the main character]] and watches him die. [[ThanatosGambit He gets punished for it.]]]]

-->'''Rugen:''' You must be that little Spanish brat [[ScarsAreForever I taught a lesson to all those years ago]]. You've been chasing me your whole life only to fail ''now?'' I think that's the worst thing I've ever heard. *{{beat}}* How marvelous.
* Palpatine in ''[[Franchise/StarWars Return of the Jedi]]''. "[[TheChessmaster Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design!]]" And shortly afterward: "And now, young Skywalker, you will die."

* Subverted in ''Film/Shazam2019'', as Shazam and Sivana hover over the streets of Philadelphia facing each other... several hundred feet apart:

* ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'': Eliot Ness has chased UsefulNotes/AlCapone's hitman Frank Nitti to a rooftop.

** Frieza ''really'' likes to play with his food when he fights, and always takes the time to rub in his enemies' faces how puny and weak they are compared to him. The most notable example is in ''[[Anime/DragonBallZResurrectionF Resurrection 'F']]'', when after Goku is [[spoiler: shot InTheBack by Frieza's [[TheDragon Dragon]] Sorbet]], Frieza decides to torture Goku slowly and painfully while rubbing in his face how stupid he was to show him mercy a second time. His gloating leads right to his downfall when, in an attempt to twist the knife even further, he tries to goad Vegeta into killing Goku for him by offering him a high-ranking position in his army; Vegeta refuses, saves Goku, and beats Frieza to a pulp.

** In ''ComicBook/SupermanBrainiac'', [[ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} the titular villain]] captures Superman and then lays out his entire scheme: going to Earth, stealing one city and destroying the planet by turning the Sun into a super nova.

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' plays this straight, but with a nod to the oft-fatal habit of monologuing, but adds a 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]].]]

* ''Film/TheUntouchables'': Eliot Ness has chased Al Capone's hitman Frank Nitti to a rooftop.

* ''ComicBook/MegaMan'': Defied in issue 30. Bubble Man nearly starts a smug rant towards Mega Man and his allies but gets shut up by an annoyed Metal Man.

* In ''Manga/DreamEaterMerry'', 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.

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* SHODAN does this a ''lot'' in the ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' series. In both games she taunts the player that she is superior to you in every way because [[AIIsACrapshoot as an AI construct]], SHODAN has access to more human information and more control over machinery that any human on Earth could ever even conceive. She also explains how being an organic life form makes you inferior and in the second game, she says that the only thing she likes about you are the cybernetic implants she gave you. She especially does this as you traverse the levels trying to find her, but when you [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal show up for your showdowns with SHODAN]] her taunting amounts to nothing more than mere BossBanter.

* ''Film/MastersOfTheUniverse'': Frank Langella, by far the best thing about this movie, gives [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOsHoqhbUIU "the best damn villain monologue I've ever heard]]. In fact, if you ever watch this film, just watch the parts with Frank in it, the man is at the height of his craft and does it right.

* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': "Do you know what your sin is?" This is what causes [[spoiler:The Operative's defeat the last time he tries it on [[TheCaptain Captain Malcolm Reynolds]], who pulls an ''epic'' ShutUpHannibal on him.]]
-->'''Mal:''' Hell, I'm a fan of all seven! But right now, I'll have to go with... '''Wrath.'''
* Palpatine in ''[[Franchise/StarWars Return of the Jedi]]''. "[[TheChessmaster Everything that has transpired has done so according to my design!]]" And shortly afterward: "And now, young Skywalker, you will die."
* In ''Film/TheMechanic1972'', TheMole [[spoiler:Steve]] does this after he poisons [[spoiler:[[TheHeroDies the main character]] and watches him die. [[ThanatosGambit He gets punished for it.]]]]
* ''Film/TheUntouchables'': Eliot Ness has chased Al Capone's hitman Frank Nitti to a rooftop.
-->'''Ness:''' I'm going to see you burn, you son of a bitch, because [[ItsPersonal you killed my friend]]!\\
'''Nitti:''' He died like a pig.\\
'''Ness:''' What did you say?\\
'''Nitti:''' I said your friend died screaming like a stuck Irish pig. Now you think about that when I beat the rap. ''[starts to walk away when Ness grabs him and pushes him off the roof]''\\
'''Ness:''' ''[shouting over Nitti's scream]'' [[ShutUpHannibal Did it sound anything like]] ''[[ShutUpHannibal THAT]]''?!

* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', when Count Rugen (the Six Fingered Man) briefly has Inigo at his mercy after hitting Inigo with a throwing dagger, the sadistic Rugen takes obvious pleasure in the chance to gloat over a seemingly helpless Inigo.
-->'''Rugen:''' You must be that little Spanish brat [[ScarsAreForever I taught a lesson to all those years ago]]. You've been chasing me your whole life only to fail ''now?'' I think that's the worst thing I've ever heard. *{{beat}}* How marvelous.
* In ''Film/GoldenEye'', following an intense fist fight, Trevelyan is armed, Film/JamesBond is at gunpoint... and he stops to breathe and then say "You know, James? I was always better" before shooting - and he misses, because his pause gave Bond a chance to kick open a trapdoor and go down a staircase. (Creator/JamesRolfe used this as an example for WhyDontYaJustShootHim on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klltwoa6glE his "10 Worst Clichés" list.]])
* In ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', Stephen Toblowsky's character gloats over the captured heroes. Unfortunately for him, it turns out they captured their stunt doubles.
* In ''Film/{{Matilda}}'', the main villain gloats, just before the title character gets her final revenge: "In this classroom, in this school, I AM GOD!"
* ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'':
-->'''Khan:''' I deprive your ship of power, and when I swing around I will deprive you of your life! But first I wanted you to know who it was who had beaten you.
* Near the end of ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'', Skynet can't help but explain the genius of its master plan to one of its unwitting pawns and smugly gloat how it has used him for its own purposes and tells him to accept his newfound nature.

* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': While En Sabah Nur is in the process of [[spoiler:crushing Xavier to death on the astral plane]], the former brags about his victory to the latter.
-->'''Apocalypse:''' It's over, [[spoiler:Charles]], you're finished. ''You're mine now''.
* ''Film/IComeInPeace'': Victor Manning, the drug lord who killed Jack Caine's partner in the opening, later sends Jack a photo of himself with some half-naked girls to show that he's having a great time on his vacation in Brazil.
* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'': With the HolyGrail in her hands, Elsa Schneider [[NearVillainVictory prematurely brags that the grail is hers to keep]] as she steps across the boundary that she was warned multiple times not to cross. This causes the temple to collapse and Elsa is unable to give up the prize, because [[DeathByMaterialism she’s so sure she can reach it until she falls to her death.]]
** In the PC adventure game, Elsa is even less willing to accept defeat. After Indy’s continued warnings about the seal, she says, "No! I don't believe it! I won't lose it now!"
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': [[spoiler:Clove taunts Katniss about Rue's death instead of just killing her... and unfortunately, Rue's fellow District 11 tribute was listening.]]
** Inverted by [[spoiler:Cato's rant at the end, which gives Peeta enough time to gain the upper hand, although Cato's intent appears to be to force Katniss to shoot him instead.]]
* In ''Film/AGirlNamedSooner'', Mam Hawes does this to Elizabeth, saying that Sooner is happier with her than back in town.

** In later seasons, [[OurAngelsAreDifferent the angels]], fallen and [[VillainWithGoodPublicity otherwise]], demonstrate that [[NotSoDifferent they can't resist monologuing either]].

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': Hakudoshi's demise is a direct result of this trope. While fighting Inuyasha's group, he decides to openly brag to them about how he plans to betray Naraku. Unfortunately for him, Naraku overhears the whole thing and promptly recalls the Saimyosho and disables Hakudoshi's barrier, leaving Hakudoshi to his fate of being sucked into Miroku's [[PowerOfTheVoid Wind]] [[PowerPalms Tunnel]].

'''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'!]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Discusssed and lampshaded at how villains tyipcally gloat over near victory long enough for the heroes to gain the upper hand.

* WeCanRuleTogether: The villain makes the offer that the hero can join him in his conquest.