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--> '''Frieza:''' [''after laying into Goku at full strength''] Well, now! Satisfied?
--> '''Super Saiyan Goku:''' [''getting back on his feet''] Is that the best you can do?
--> '''Frieza:''' What?
--> '''Goku:''' I ''said'', is that the best you can do?
--> '''Frieza:''' WATCH YOUR TONGUE! [''charges at Goku...right into a punch that makes him spit blood'']

* ''{{Sharpe}}'s Sword''

'''Iorek:''' Yes. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome That is all]].

* ''Music/TheProtomen'' song "Vengeance" has VideoGame/MegaMan give the "Is this the best you've got?" version when making his way through Wily's hoards. And it is [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome AWESOME!]]

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' has [[{{Tron}} the Master Control Program]] say this as part of his BossBanter.

* ''TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''

* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': Thor yells "Is That The Best You Can Do!?" after a barrage of attacks by Ultron, only for the automaton to chuckle and send entire legions of Ultron Sentries at the Avengers.
--> '''Captain America''': [[YouJustHadToSayIt You ''had'' to ask.]]

Demonstrated in [[http://current.com/shows/the-rotten-tomatoes-show/92121441_screenplay-clich-is-that-the-best-you-can-do.htm this Rotten Tomatoes Show clip]].

* The ''HeckleAndJeckle'' cartoon "Log Rollers" has Heckle taunting Powerful Pierre:

--> '''Captain America''': You ''had'' to ask.

Often said defiantly, only rarely despairingly. Usually said by a person that abides by TheLawOfDiminishingDefensiveEffort. If it's followed up by NowItsMyTurn, you better hope [[ThisIsGonnaSuck you have your legal affairs in order.]]

* [[VideoGame/StarFox Falco]], in Sector Y, if you can't hold off all the one-shots says exactly this. [[LostForever Enjoy not going to Aquas]].

* ''VideoGame/AtlasReactor'': This is [[TheBerserker Rask's]] and [[ProudWarriorGuy Titus']] general attitudes towards being attacked.

* Iofur Ragnarson to Iorek Byrnison in ''HisDarkMaterials'':

* In ''BatenKaitos'', a few characters (usually Kalas or Xelha) say something like this whenever they successfully block an attack.

* ''Film/ThreeHundred'': Stelios (Creator/MichaelFassbender) shouts "IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO?!" to the first wave of Persian footmen as they hopelessly try to break the Spartan phalanx.

* ''Film/ThreeHundred'': Stelios (Creator/MichaelFassbender) shouts "IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO?!" to the first wave of Persians when it doesn't manage to even move the Spartan phalanx.

* Marv's LastWords in ''SinCity: The Hard Goodbye'': "Is that the best you got, you pansies?" This is after the electric chair ''failed to kill him.''

* "That all you got, George?" Muhammad Ali said this to George Foreman in round 8 of the Rumble In the Jungle, where Ali famously used the [[DefensiveFeintTrap rope-a-dope]] strategy to conserve his own energy while George Foreman used up all of his. Foreman [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh realized at this point that he was in trouble]]; shortly after, Ali knocked him out.

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* In the famous 'Rumble in the Jungle' match between UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli against George Foreman, Ali kept taunting George with this line to keep punching him, all while barely counterattacking. Turns out it was a RopeADope[[note]]TropeNamer, even[[/note]], George recalled that at some point Ali said the same "Is that all you can do?" and all he can think of was [[OhCrap "Yep, that's all I got..."]]
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* ''RurouniKenshin''

--> Draco: Is that the best you can do?