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A common way for a character to announce him/herself in an intimidating manner. It doesn't matter whether he's a good guy or a bad guy, as long as the character is {{Badass}} enough to live up to this claim. That is, unless people are spoofing this line (often by the second character describing his ''actual'' worst nightmare).

* This is said in ''{{Mulan}}'' by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=693T6K6igNk Mushu]] as a ''Batman'' reference.
-->This probably actually refers to ''48 Hours'', where Eddie Murphy actually says the quote, making it a self-reference.

* Also spoofed in ''Loaded Weapon 1'':

* The tagline for the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Dark]] [[CompleteMonster Eldar]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' is "They are not your worst nightmare -- they are your EVERY nightmare!"

** The exact same sequence occurs between Payback and Bruce Wayne in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''
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* ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDP8zru0FPE episode 5, "Pretty Poison."]]

** The exact same sequence occurs between Payback and Bruce Wayne in BatmanBeyond.

* Lampshaded and discussed in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'': Socrates says that the line is not even ''remotely'' threatening [[DeadHorseTrope since it's been so overused.]]

* The tagline for the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Dark]] [[CompleteMonster Eldar]] in ''Warhammer40K'' is "They are not your worst nightmare -- they are your EVERY nightmare!"

* ''{{Sandman}}'''s Merv Pumpkinhead: "Lady, I'm your worst nightmare. A pumpkin with a gun."

* Used for comical effect in an episode of ''[[HermansHead Herman's Head]]'' where Louise (Yeardley Smith, better known as the voice of Lisa Simpson) says it to a tyrannical boss two heads taller than her.
* In the MysteryScienceTheater3000 episode "Teenage Caveman" the bots have a squirrel say this to the title character when he has rather more trouble catching than he should.

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* "Welcome to the castle of nightmares! I'm your greatest nightmare!" So says the {{final boss}} of ''{{Shikigami no Shiro}} 3''.
* One of Anders' battle cries in ''DragonAgeII''.

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'''Randy:''' Phew! Cause if coyotes ever develop flight and eye laser technology, it's game over, you know?

* [[McBain "Your worst nightmare, butt horn!"]]

* This is said in ''{{Mulan}}'' by [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4bZBtP6FhM Mushu]] as a ''Batman'' reference.

* ''TalesFromTheCryptKeeper'': One story has a woman tangling with three {{CIA}} agents. She has killed two of them (not bad for a housewife) and faces the last agent, woman to woman. The housewife tells the agent, "I'm your worst nightmare. I'm a woman with ''balls''!" The agents acts dismissive about it. [[spoiler: The housewife ends up revealing that s/he's the male rogue CIA agent they're looking for. S/he easily kills off the agent]]! She clearly wasn't kidding when she said that!

** Spoofed in ''{{UHF}}''.

A StockPhrase for a character to announce him/herself in an intimidating manner. It doesn't matter whether he's a good guy or a bad guy, as long as the character is {{Badass}} enough to live up to this claim. That is, unless people are spoofing this line (often by the second character describing his ''actual'' worst nightmare).

* "[[SoulSeries I will show you the greatest nightmare!]]"

* [[SoulSeries I will show you the greatest nightmare!]]

** Spoofed in ''{{Discworld/Hogfather}}''. Teatime uses this line on a guard, but his would-be victim wants to know ''which'' nightmare that would be. When it's clarified that he means, "The one where the man appears out of nowhere and kills you stone dead", the guard relaxes and points out that ''that'' nightmare isn't particularly scary. Then Teatime kills him stone dead.
** ''[[{{Discworld/GuardsGuards}} Guards! Guards!]]'' has: "Someone out there was going to find out that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge."
* Sidorio from ''{{Vampirates}}'' [[BadassBoast describes himself]] as the sort of thing your worst nightmares "[[UpToEleven wake up screaming about]]."

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