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

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' episode "A Creep from the Deep":

Stock phrase: "Is that the best you can do?" or "Is that the best you got?" Optional responses include "Not even close" (if the first speaker's been beaten to a pulp), "I'm just getting warmed up" (usually just before a devastating attack or counterattack), or "Unfortunately, yes..." (if the first speaker doesn't even have his/her hair mussed).

* ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'': "Mere" SuperSoldier Emil Blonsky [[BullyingADragon to the Incredible Hulk]]. Hulk responds by launching him into a tree with one kick, breaking most of his bones. After Blonsky becomes the Abomination, however, this is his reaction to the Hulk whaling on him with police-car-boxing gloves and punching him full-on in the face.

* In the ''ComicBooks/TheSupermanAdventures'', Superman has this to say to ComicBook/LexLuthor after his nemesis has just tried to kill him again: "Today, you thought you saw me at the limit of my power. Sorry, Luthor...I was only at the limit of yours!"

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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' episode "[[Recap/Ben10S1E9LastLaugh Last Laugh]]". [[PrehensileHair Frightwig]] to Ben: "Is that all you've got?" [[TemptingFate Never a good question to ask a superhero.]]

* ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'': "Mere" SuperSoldier Blonsky [[BullyingADragon to the Incredible Hulk]]. Hulk responds by launching him into a tree with one kick, breaking most of his bones. After Blonsky becomes the Abomination, however, this is his reaction to the Hulk whaling on him with police-car-boxing gloves and punching him full-on in the face.

* ''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.]]

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'''Mike Rowe''': It's not wise to taunt the Bering Sea.

* Happens a lot in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' when the Saiyans aren't at the level of the moment's [[BigBad big bad]]...or vice versa, [[Anime/DragonBallKai sometimes]].

* In ''Film/TheTwoTowers'', with the defenders holding Helm's Deep, Theoden asks "Is this it? Is this all you can conjure, Saruman?" Cut to some Uruks laying bombs in a drain the wall, detonating them shortly after, and successfully blowing a hole in the wall. In fairness, given the look on Theoden's face, he didn't seem to know gunpowder even ''existed''.

* Jack in ''Manga/YuGiOh5Ds'' makes this kind of statement when he believes he has won the duel against his opponent. This trope gets combined with TemptingFate for him during his duel with Kiryu when he thinks he's won (to be fair, he just manages to wipe out Kiryu's Life Points to 0 at that point, which normally ends the duel... except, this time, Kiryu has a duel combo strategy that lets him continue to duel even with his Life Points reduced to 0).

* ''Disney/TheJungleBook'': When Mowgli attempts to climb a tree with a large trunk, Bagheera scoffs "Is that all the better you can climb?"

* ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'': Franny during the food fight. "Surely ''that'' is not the best you can do."

'''Harold Krenshaw''': Doctor Door? Is that the best you can do? [[LineOfSightName I suppose if we were standing by that alarm you would've said Doctor Bell]].

* Pulled off once with panache in a [[Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse Global Guardians]] story. A mook, trying to take out the NighInvulnerable FlyingBrick superhero Stone, slams into the hero with a fully loaded tractor-trailer.
-->'''Stone:''' [''dusts his shoulder off and looks at the driver''] "That all you got?"

->''"After being abandoned by your alliance, several serious injuries, two separate mutt attacks, and near starvation and dehydration, never ask the Gamemakers if that's all they've got. They always, always, ''always'' have more."''

->''"I came into this arena to fight Sauron's champion. I AM STILL WAITING!"''
-->-- '''Talion''' after killing the so-called Uruk champion, ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar''

* ''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 [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic AWESOME!]]

* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'': Morgana

* ''Film/FantasticFour''