Insult Backfire / Animated Films

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• Beauty and the Beast: Belle achieves this with Gaston due to him not knowing what the word means. "Primeval" meaning "ancient" or "primitive"; Belle was comparing Gaston to a caveman. Although Gaston is such an overly macho boor he would probably take it as a compliment even if he did know what it meant.
  Belle: Gaston, you're positively primeval.
  Gaston: Well, thank you Belle.
• Aladdin features a variant on this; Aladdin calls Jafar a "cowardly snake", which Jafar decides to interpret literally and transforms into a giant snake.
• Quest for Camelot has this where the evil knight Ruber reveals to Lady Juliana his plan to invade Camelot
  Juliana: You're mad!
  Sir Ruber: I'm so glad you noticed! I've been working at it for years!
  • At the climax, as Ruber (with Excalibur fused to his arm) attacks Arthur.
  Ruber: Say hello to your new king!
  Arthur: You're no king!
  Ruber: You're right. Perhaps I'm more of a GOD!!!'
• Kung Fu Panda
  Tai Lung: You can't defeat me! You're just a big, fat panda!
  Po: I'm not a big, fat panda. I'm the big, fat panda!
• The Road to El Dorado, amidst much Flynning:
  Miguel: You fight like my sister!
  Tulio: I've fought your sister, that's a compliment!
• Peter Pan
  Captain Hook: Scurvy brat!
  Peter Pan: Thank you, captain!
• In The Simpsons Movie, after the Simpson family escapes from the dome enclosing Springfield:
  EPA Official: I'm afraid we lost them, sir.
  Russ Cargill: Damn it! Well, then you find 'em, and you get 'em back in the dome! And to make sure nobody else gets out, I want roving death squads around the perimeter 24-7! I want 10,000 tough guys, and I want 10,000 soft guys to make the tough guys look tougher! And here's how I want them arranged: tough, tough, soft, tough, soft, soft, tough, tough, soft, soft, tough, soft!
  EPA Official: (Pause) Sir, I'm afraid you've gone mad with power...
  Russ Cargill: Of course I have. You ever tried going mad without power? It's boring. No one listens to you!
• Megamind
  Audience: Boo! Boo!
  Megamind: Booooo! Yes, I can play along too!
• Rango
  Beans: Go to hell!
  Rattlesnake Jake: Where do you think I come from?
• Robots
  Bigweld: Gasket, you're a sick, twisted, evil robot.
  Madam Gasket: I try.
• The Nutcracker Prince
  Clara: Why, you're cruel and mean.
  Mouse King: Your flattery won't stop me.
• The Lorax (2012):
  The Once-Ler: Aw, how nice to see someone undeterred by things like reality.
  Ted: Thank you.
• A major one in Monsters University.
  Johnny: They're always hiring in the mailroom.
  • And later, the two protagonists DO end up working in the mailroom and it turns out it was their start to greatness.
• From The Sword in the Stone:
  Madam Mim: I find delight in the gruesome and grim.
  Arthur: Oh, that's terrible!
  Madam Mim: Thank you, my boy.
• In The Hunchback of Notre Dame, when Frollo tells Phoebus he "threw away a promising career" by defying orders to burn down a miller's home, Phoebus replies "Consider it my highest honor, sir."
  • One could make a case that this example overlaps with Defiant to the End, as Frollo is about to have Phoebus executed when this exchange occurs.
• From Adventures in Zambezia:
  Weaver: You're a monster!
  Budzo: Thank you. One does what one can.
• Rock and Rule: Megalomaniac rock star Mok has coerced Angel into singing for him by torturing her friends/bandmates:
  Angel: You're totally crazy!
  Mok (with a truly creepy expression and vocal tone): Thank you. Shall we go?
• Ratatouille:
  Rémy: You didn't think I was gonna stay forever, did you? Eventually, a bird's gotta leave the nest...
  Django: We're not birds. We're rats. We don't leave our nests. We make them bigger.
  Rémy: Well maybe I'm a different kind of rat.
  Django: Maybe you're not a rat at all.
  Rémy: Maybe that's a good thing.
• In an earlier version of Turning Red, Mei was going to run for class president against Tyler and the debate would have involved Tyler attempting to insult Mei by calling her "such a nerd" which she embraced with pride.
• In Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose, the villains, Dread Baron and Mumbly, are begging to come along with Yogi and his crew.
  Dread Baron: If you have one tiny ounce of human mercy in you, you'll take us away with you! You do, you do, I know you do!
  Yogi: No, I don't. But I've got a couple quarts of better-than-the-average bear common sense.
  Dread Baron: Then you'll take us?
  Yogi: No way! It reminds me that you're a sneaky, no-good, lying, conniving stinker!
  Doggie Daddy: And those are his good points.
  Dread Baron: Oh, thank you. Heh heh. You forgot untrustworthy.
• In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, during Bowser's fight with Mario, the former tells the latter "you just don't know when to quit". Mario replies that he's been told that before. This is a Meaningful Echo to an earlier scene where Peach tells him not knowing when to quit is a good thing.
• In the Animaniacs Big Damn Movie Wakko's Wish, Brain disapproves of Pinky's Interspecies Romance with Pharfignewton the horse and tries to talk some sense into him.
  Brain: Pinky, that is a horse. You are a mouse.
  Pinky: Oh, Brain, don't be so intolerant. Why can't the horses and the mice learn to live together in harmony, along with the fairies and the wood-sprites and the bean-sprouts?
  Brain: I stand corrected, Pinky. That is a horse. You are an imbecile.
  Pinky: Thank you.

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