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-->'''BigBad''': Don't you understand? It's for the good of the colony! ([[spoiler:killing all the worker ants]])\\

'''BigBad:''' ''([[spoiler:Shoved aside by Cutter]])'' [[spoiler: Cutter]], what are you doing?!\\

'''BigBad:''' You useless, ungrateful maggot! ''I'' AM THE COLONY!

* This trope is spoken by two of the FinalBosses in two of Franchise/FireEmblem games' final bosses, and another is used by a main protagonist in another game:

* In the final battle of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' when Chrom tells [[spoiler: Grima]] that he has come to end him, [[spoiler: Grima]] replies by saying "...ARROGANT MORTAL...I AM THE END!"
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', at the end of chapter 27 of the Conquest campaign [[spoiler:Possessed Takumi]] appears and states "I am betrayal!"

* ''Film/LesMiserables'' Subverted with inspector Javert. "I am the law, and the law is not mocked." But his identification with the law renders him powerless instead of all-powerful.

* ''Film/{{Napoleon}}'': After [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Vendémiaire saving the National Convention]] and being promoted to General-in-Chief of the Army of the Interior as a result, Napoleon states that as of then, ''he'' is the Revolution.

* Within ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'', "[[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem I am the rules]]!" is Gilgamesh's CatchPhrase.

*** "I am the law" is a CatchPhrase of Judge Dredd. Specifically, it's an expression of how he is the ultimate ''agent'' of the law, not that he [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem makes up his own laws]].

* Henry Peter Gyrich, government liaison for ComicBook/TheAvengers, had the {{catchphrase}} "I'm TheGovernment, mister!"

* In ''FanFic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'', [[BigBad Corona]] is [[CatchPhrase fond]] of saying "I am the Sun!"

** The title character's first words are his famous CatchPhrase PunctuatedForEmphasis. While his fellow Judges are crouching for cover in the middle of a blockwar, Dredd does a DynamicAkimbo while a microphone deploys in his helmet to relay his voice to his bike's PA system.

* The recurring CatchPhrase of the GreekChorus in Music/TheProtomen's first album repeatedly chant "We are the dead."

* Because I'm Wrestling/TheMiz.. .[[{{Catchphrase}} and I'm...AAAAAWWWWWESOOOOOOOOOOOOOME!]]'"

Not to be confused with ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem. Unrelated to IAmTheBand and IAmSpartacus. If it is literally true, see AbstractApotheosis.
See also AGodAmI, BadassBoast and ImYourWorstNightmare. Not to be confused with SpellMyNameWithAThe. A phrase like this is usually spoken with [[PunctuatedForEmphasis copious amounts of punctuation]]. Said phrases might also be lyrics to an IAmSong.

Not to be confused with ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem. Unrelated to IAmTheBand and IAmSpartacus.

* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'' episode [[Recap/TheFlash2014S3E7KillerFrost "Killer Frost"]], BigBad Savitar says he is "the future". [[spoiler: It turns out it was ExactWords: Full sentence was "[[MyFutureSelfAndMe I am the future Flash.]]" and we were initially let to think it was "I am the future, Flash."]]

-->'''Ainz:''' I am death! I am he who brings you DEATH!

* In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', Miho and Maho's mother, Shiho, who is head of the Nishizumi school of tankery, says this in Chapter 14 of the manga, in response to Miho's unorthodox tactics.
-->"The Nishizumi-style is a symbol of strength for Panzerkraft. Thus the Nishizumi-style itself is Panzerkraft."
* Within ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'', "[[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem I am the rules]]!" is Gilgamesh's CatchPhrase.

* A second-person variation is used in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''. [[TheRival Bakugo]], in a mock-battle against his teacher - who just so happens to be [[WorldsStrongestMan All Might]], the greatest and strongest hero of all time who never, ever loses - comes to the conclusion that All Might isn't just powerful, "He ''is'' power".

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "The Shadow War!", WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck has a voice modulator that changes [[TheUnintelligible his usual voice]] to the understandable BadassBaritone of Creator/DonCheadle. This allows him to spout [[BadassBoast Badass Boasts]] like:

* Charter Internet has introduced Timothy, who [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb691dPGQwA IS the Internet]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt''

* ''Series/LukeCage2016''. Luke goes to take on a couple of Cottonmouth's thugs who just shook down stripclub worker for her tips.

* ''Webcomic/{{Vexxarr}}'': During a meeting of SufficientlyAdvancedAliens.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' "Snakin' All Over," Gagdet is to meet up with a "securiy force" to help him protect a rare coin collection. He ends up meeting an old man who proclaims the he ''is'' the security force. Less egotistical than many examples of this trope, as he has been guaridng the coins all by himself for 73 years.

** Later invoked by Mr. Satan during his rather protracted introduction at the beginning of the Cell games, prompting Vegeta to literally ask Mr. Perfect Cell to kill Mr. Satan.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has Colette mark the beginning of her reign as [[YouAreInCommandNow the new Master of Paris]] by declaring "''[[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20170630 I am Paris]]''", which is no exaggeration considering that [[WetwareCPU the city is now an extension of her will]], just as it was with her father before her.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
** Used for a WhamLine in "The Search":

** In "The Circle," Kira discovers that Jaro Essa, a minister for Bajor's provincial government, is actually conducting activities for the terrorist group Alliance for Global Unity, or The Circle.
--->'''Kira:''' So, you're involved with the Circle.\\
'''Jaro:''' I am The Circle, Major.

** In "Skin of Evil," Picard quotes to Armus that "all spirits are enslaved that serve things evil." He replies "I do not serve things evil I ''am'' evil."
** In "The Offspring," when Picard tells Admiral Haftel that he's prepared to go to Starfleet regarding Haftel's order that Data must surrender his daughter, Lal, Haftel replies "I am Starfleet, Captain!" Picard, naturally, is not intimidated.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In the second episode the Emergency Medical Hologram says, "I am the embodiment of modern medicine." Unfortunately he doesn't deliver a MajorGeneralSong, as it's before he discovered opera.

* ''Series/{{BlueBloods}}:'' In "Identity," Season 9 ep. 21, the head of a social justice organization is recruiting Police Commissioner Frank Reagan's daughter Nicky for a job, apparently in order to use her as a mole into the Reagan family. So Frank gets the community organizer's brother a job with the NYPD in order to use him as "insurance". When the community organizer asks Frank if he pulled any strings to get her brother a job Frank responds, ominously, "I AM THE STRING."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}} "Speed. I am speed."''

--->'''Sara yells:''' I am the lucid dream. The monster in your nightmares. The fiend of a thousand faces. Cower before my true form. BOW DOWN BEFORE THE God OF DEATH!

* "[[EpicRocking I am the root! I am the progress! I'm the aggressor! I am the tablet!]] I AM! I AM! I AM! I AM! I AM! from ''Music/LouReed''

* Music/PanicAtTheDisco:''There's a Good Reason These Tables...'' - "Haven't you heard that I'm the new cancer?"

* Walter de la Mare's poem on UsefulNotes/{{Napoleon}} during his invasion of Russia.

* Creator/ArtemisiaGentileschi's ''Self Portrait as the Allegory of Painting'', depicting Gentileschi herself holding a brush and palette, was historically taken as a bold statement. Gentileschi was declaring herself the ''epitome of painting'' in an era where women were not usually independent.

--> '''Nixon:''' I am America. I'm a winner who lost every battle, up to and including the war. I am ''not'' the American nightmare. I am the American Dream. Period. That's why the system works. Because I am the system. ''Period.''