Examples of Badass Boast in animated films.
- The Adventures of Tintin (2011):Tintin: Bad news Captain. We've only got one bullet.
Captain Haddock: What's the good news?
Tintin: We've got ONE bullet.
[proceeds to disable the seaplane strafing them with one shot] - Batman: Soul of the Dragon: Lady Shiva gives one to Lady Eve when she mocks Shiva for having lost her sword when she threw it.Lady Eve: Fool. You gave up your weapon.
Shiva: [assumes a fighting stance] I ''am'' the weapon. [proceeds to break Lady Eve's sword with her bare hands]. - Batman: Under the Red Hood:Red Hood: Those are the heads of all your lieutenants. That took me two hours. You wanna see what I can get done in a whole night? Make no mistake, I'm not asking you to kick in with me. I'm telling you.
- In Beauty and the Beast, Gaston is an Egomaniac Hunter and Large Ham whose existence seems to be made up of boasts, either done by him or on his behalf by his followers. Subverted in that he turns out to be a Small Name, Big Ego who loses when he goes up against the real badass that is the Beast.Gaston: When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large. And now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs, so I'm roughly the size of a barge!
- The 2008 movie Bolt:Rhino: I eat danger for breakfast!
Bolt: You hungry?
Rhino: Starving!! - Brave:Merida: I am Merida, firstborn descendant of clan DunBroch! And I'll be shooting for my own hand!
- Cars:Lightning McQueen: Speed. I am speed. One winner. Forty-two losers. I eat losers for breakfast. Breakfast? Maybe I should have had breakfast? Brekkie could be good for me. No, no, no, stay focused. Speed.
- Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children:Rufus Shinra: So go on. Bring your Jenova's and your Sephiroth's. It won't matter. We'll do as life dictates and stop you every single time.
- Frozen: Some of Elsa's lines in Let It Go, given the nature and extent of her powers.Elsa: I am the one with the wind and sky.
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Elsa: I'll rise like the break of dawn. - In the Rankin-Bass adaptation of The Hobbit, Smaug the dragon's boast to Bilbo gets an additional boost from being voiced by Richard Boone.
- The Incredibles:
- At the end of The Incredibles, the Underminer proclaims "Behold, the Underminer! I'm always beneath you, but nothing is beneath me! I hereby declare war on peace and happiness! Soon, all will tremble before me!"
- In Incredibles 2, the Screenslaver announces, "Supers are no longer in control. I am."
- Batman also delivers this beauty to his Evil Counterpart Owlman in the made-for-DVD Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. "There is a difference between you and me. We've both looked into the abyss. But when it looked back at us, you blinked."
- Ultraman gets a number of these, which straddle the line between Narm and awesome.
- Subverted in Justice League Dark: Apokolips War when Etrigan is up against the League of Assassins because he sounds bored out of his skull, fighting mere mortals who are no challenge to him whatsoever.Etrigan: Etrigan the Slayer is here, woe to you. (sword breaks on his face.) And you. (Etrigan picks up sword-wielding mook and tosses him into another mook) You also.
- Kubo and the Two Strings:Sister: I've crushed things that could fit this world on their fingernails. This victory brings me no honor.
Monkey: Then imagine how it'll feel when you lose. - Minions:Scarlet Overkill: You have NO idea who you're messing with! I am the greatest supervillain of all time.
Young Gru: [chuckles] Oh, WERE you? [chuckles even further] - Mulan:
- A random Red Shirt gets one at the very beginning, when the Wall has just been scaled by the Huns and he's facing down Shan Yu himself...and he's just lit the signal fire.Chinese soldier: Now all of China knows you're here.
- Only for Shan Yu to subvert it with one word:
Shan Yu: Perfect.- Near the end, after Shan Yu commands the Emperor to bow, the Emperor flips him off in magnificent fashion.Emperor: No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it.
- A random Red Shirt gets one at the very beginning, when the Wall has just been scaled by the Huns and he's facing down Shan Yu himself...and he's just lit the signal fire.
- Thrax of Osmosis Jones has this to say when another virus mockingly calls him the Ebola Virus.Thrax: "Ebola"? Let me tell you a little something about Ebola, baby. Ebola is a case of dandruff compared to me!
- The Wolf from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is first introduced as a bounty hunter who's after Puss, who gives the following boast when Puss warns him to back down. Considering who he really is, he's not speaking in hyperboles.Everyone thinks they'll be the one to defeat me. But no one's escaped me yet.
- Rango's boast to the townsfolk of Dirt. It's all a lie, but damn if it doesn't sound cool.You might say I'm from everywhere there's trouble to be found and hell to be raised. You might say I'm what Hell already raised up. They call me... Rango.
- Ratatouille's Anton Ego delivers a menacing one
to Linguini regarding his own love for food. - Sleeping Beauty villain Maleficent, right before going all One-Winged Angel: "Now shall you deal with me, O Prince... and all the powers of hell! Complete with reaction shot from Prince Philip, looking like he's just soiled his pants.
- And a little earlier: "You poor, pitiful fools, thinking you could defeat me — me, the Mistress of all evil!"
- Sonic the Hedgehog (2020):
- Sonic delivers one to Robotnik after he recovers from his Disney Death.Sonic: I think you have something that belongs to me.(Sonic proceeds to tap into his electric powers, nullifying the quill power from Robotnik's aircraft in the process)Sonic: This is my power. And I'm not using it to run away anymore. I'm using it to protect. My. Friends!
- Despite completely losing his mind after being stranded on the Mushroom Planet for seemingly 87 days, Dr. Robotnik makes a highly confident vow to return:Robotnik: Here's the sitch. Uninhabited planet. No resources. No supplies. No apparent way home. A lesser man would die here. (whips out one of Sonic's quills) I'll be home by Christmas.
- Sonic delivers one to Robotnik after he recovers from his Disney Death.
- Woody at the end of Toy Story:"Who you callin' busted, buster? That's right. I'm talking to you, Sid Phillips. We don't like bein' blown up, Sid. Or smashed. Or ripped apart. (Sid responds "We!?") That's right: your toys. From now on, you must take good care of your toys. Because if you don't, we'll find out, Sid. We toys can see everything... So play nice."
- In the original, animated Transformers: The Movie, after Unicron transforms from a predatory planet into a planet-sized robot: "For a time, I considered sparing your wretched little planet (sic), Cybertron; but now, you will witness — its dismemberment!" For extra points, delivered by Orson Welles.
