Shut Up, Hannibal!

Surprisingly, people are less inclined to agree with you after you've tried to murder them.

Brock Rumlow: This is gonna hurt. There are no prisoners with HYDRA. Just order. And order only comes through pain. You ready for yours?
Sam Wilson: Man, shut the hell up.

— Captain America: The Winter Soldier

So you're finally facing the villain. He's being all smug and trying to break you with his words, deconstructing your motives for fighting him and reminding you of how similar you are to him, unleashing a blistering spiel of how your flaws make you pathetic, making you uncomfortable with his too-close-to-truths, offering you the opportunity to join him, et cetera et cetera… and what should your response be? Tell him the error of his ways, and offer him a chance to join the good guys? A measured, reasonable response, indicating your disagreement? Let the villainous argument throw you and make you wonder if you and he are similar?

No.

Shut up, Hannibal!

He's a villain. A bad guy. He has tried to kill you and your friends a dozen times over. He dangled your Sidekick and your Love Interest over a cliff, taunting you to pick one of them. He treats other people, including his own underlings, like dirt. He doesn't care about people, order, or whatever he's using to justify his actions—he just wants power. Dude's been through hard times? Shallow excuses to do bad things; we've been through hard times too and we never murdered anyone because of it! And he ran over your daughter's puppy. You're nothing like him. He's wrong. So you tell it to him, spell, it, out, if necessary, then beat the crap out of him in a manner most righteous (or, if you are a common human against a superpowered villain, or the work is not action-oriented, a slap may be an appropriate outcome, as well).

This happens a lot. Heroes usually use the "fist to face" variant of this, though a hero giving a villain a verbal beatdown is not unheard of (though if the verbal beatdown goes on long enough, it becomes a Kirk Summation). Often done by the more practical Anti-Hero, who doesn't really care about philosophy, and just prefers to beat up anyone who has messed with them or their stuff.

More heroes will often at least listen before coming up with a counterargument. When the villain rationalizes their villainy with something truly depraved, the hero will often roar to the bad guy, "You're Insane!" before delivering the smackdown. They may, however, skip to this in subsequent encounters, when they already know that attempting to reason with this particular foe would be a waste of breath.

Doing this to another villain is even dumber, as they're likely to either not be big on listening, or have an outright conflicting ideology. But it still happens every now and then.

Sometimes, The Hero needs to be told "You Are Not Alone" to come up with this reply.

Combining it with the "No More Holding Back" Speech will just make it that much more badass.

Usually goes hand-in-hand with the villain having a breakdown, either before or after this reply is delivered.

Conversely, when the hero is on the ropes, he may interrupt the villain by saying Get It Over With. It tends to shock the villain that anyone would prefer death to listening to him.

As these generally occur at the conclusion of most stories, feel free to use spoiler marks if you think it gives away too much. For readers, spoiler-caution is advised.

The name is a reference to this being a response to a Hannibal Lecture, but it can apply to any example of Hannibal Lecture's supertrope, Break Them by Talking.

Contrast Kirk Summation which is where the hero rebuts the villain's speech with their own. Here, the hero doesn't bother.

Compare Shut Up, Kirk!, You Keep Telling Yourself That, [Verb] This!, Armor-Piercing Response, Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse, Screw You, Elves!, and whichever variations of I Will Show You X! are said specifically to a villain. For the more… forceful version, see Talk to the Fist.

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Films — Animated

• Disney likes this trope, especially the Disney Animated Canon and Pixar:
  • The Great Mouse Detective has this crossed over with "The Reason You Suck" Speech with Basil's usage of the Queen Victoria robot to tell Ratigan where to go:
    Basil: Most assuredly... you insidious fiend. You're not my Royal Consort! You're a cheap fraud and impostor. A corrupt, vicious, demented, low life scoundrel. There's no evil scheme you wouldn't concoct. No depravity you wouldn't commit. You, Professor, are none other than a foul stenchus rodentus, commonly known as a—
    Ratigan: (grabbing the Victoria robot to silence) DON'T say it!
    Basil: (popping out) —sewer rat!
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney):
    • Captain Phoebus rejects Frollo's orders to set fire to a miller's home (with the miller's family inside) and sees how cruel Frollo's orders really are against the gypsies (and becomes one of Frollo's enemies).
    Frollo: The sentence for insubordination is death. What a pity. You threw away a promising career.
    Phoebus: Consider it my highest honor, sir.
    • Frollo receives a similar treatment in the climax at Quasimodo's hands.
    Frollo: (as Quasi advances menacingly on him with a dagger) Now, now, listen to me, Quasimodo—
    Quasimodo: No, you listen! All my life, you told me the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!
  • Hercules swiftly gives one to Hades once he escapes from the River Styx with Megara's ghost on his way to revive her. Hades berates Hercules for his heroism — and is promptly punched in the face for it.
  • The Emperor in Mulan refuses to concede Shan-Yu's apparent victory over him.
    Shan-Yu: I tire of your arrogance, old man. Bow to me!
    Emperor: No matter how the wind howls, the mountain cannot bow to it.
  • In Home on the Range, Alameda Slim's attempt to buy the farm is thwarted when he is exposed, but he is not about to accept defeat: "You think you've won?! It's ain't over till the fat man sings!" So he tries to hypnotize the barn animals by yodeling, but tone deaf Grace kicks a cowbell into his mouth, muffling him into silence, after which the sheriff hauls him off to jail.
  • In Frozen (2013), Anna stops Prince Hans from killing her sister, Elsa, but at the cost of her own life — she becomes a frozen-solid statue, which shatters Prince Hans' sword he intended to use to kill Elsa. Then Elsa manages to control of her powers and thaw out Anna through the Power of Love. Hans is quite perplexed to see them both alive.
    Prince Hans: (to Anna) Anna? But she froze your heart!
    Anna: The only frozen heart around here is yours.
    (punches him in the face so hard it knocks him into the water)
  • In A Bug's Life, Flik shuts down Hopper's bullying. Made more impressive by the fact that Hopper has just had Flik beaten within an inch of his life. And even more impressive that it's an "Eureka!" Moment for Flick near the end. Unfortunately, it also causes Hopper to have a Villainous Breakdown.
    Hopper: Let this be a lesson to all you ants. Ideas are very dangerous things. You are mindless, soil-shoving losers, put on this earth to serve us!
    Flik: You're wrong, Hopper. Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers. I've seen these ants do great things. And year after year, they somehow manage to pick food for themselves and you! So-so who is the weaker species? Ants don't serve grasshoppers! It's you who need us! We're a lot stronger than you say we are. And you know it, don't you?
  • The Incredibles:
    • Discussed early in the film, when Frozone relates the time that Baron von Ruthless had him captured and at the mercy of his death ray, but instead of finishing him off, launched into Evil Gloating about how weak Frozone was in comparison. It's not stated, but the implication is that Frozone proceeded to escape and punch von Ruthless' lights out mid-speech.
    • Mr. Incredible tries to invoke this during his first confrontation with Syndrome, getting Syndrome to launch into a Motive Rant with the aim of distracting him long enough to lob a tree at him.
      Syndrome: See, now you respect me. Because I'm a threat. That's the way it works. Turns out there are people, whole countries, who want respect — and they will pay through the nose to get it. How do you think I got rich? I invited weapons. And now I have a weapon that only I can defeat, and when I unleash it—
      [Mr. Incredible lobs a tree at Syndrome, who dodges it and freezes Mr. Incredible]
      Syndrome: You sly dog! You got me monologuing!
    • A straighter example occurs at the film's climax. Syndrome launches into a Villainous Breakdown rant, swearing to keep pursuing the Incredibles and trying to kidnap Jack-Jack to raise him as a villain; Mr. Incredible responds by throwing a car at Syndrome, knocking him into a plane's jet turbine and killing him.
  • Cars:
    • Subverted. Although not the villain, Doc Hudson holds a deep grudge against the racing industry for replacing him after a major car crash during a race and looks down on Lightning McQueen constantly for being a reminder of that generation he despises and tries to escape from. But after McQueen finds out about Doc's past, he bites back with some words of his own.
      Doc Hudson: These are good folks around here who care about one another. I don't want them depending on someone they can't count on.
      Lightning: Oh, like you? You've been here how long and your friends don't even know who you are? Who's caring about only himself?!
      Doc Hudson: Just finish that road and get out of here!
    • Doc suffers further humiliation after it is revealed that he was the one who tipped off the media to McQueen's whereabouts so they can pick him up and take him to his big race, while Doc himself can avoid being recognized.
      Sally Carrera: You called them?
      Doc Hudson: It's best for everyone.
      Sally Carrera: Best for everyone? Or best for you?
  • A particularly epic example comes from Toy Story 3, after Woody exposes Lotso's lies to Big Baby. Lotso proceeds to justify his rule by saying all toys are plastic meant to be forgotten by their owners, so Big Baby grabs him and throws him into the dumpster.
  • In Turning Red, this is downplayed. Mei's mother asserts that Mei's rebellion against her isn't really the true her but merely the result of Toxic Friend Influence. Mei retorts "THIS IS ME!" and bites her.
• Ralph Bakshi's Fritz the Cat gives us Fritz's response to what the revolution was about.
  Revolutionist: Me and you have been assigned to blow up the power plant. That's all I care about. The revolution. (Turns the radio on)
  Fritz: (Turns the radio off) You are full of shit! All you care about is a reason to hurt, to destroy, to blow up! You don't know what a real revolution is! None of you sons of bitches do!
• In Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber Insects, 4-DAC calls a lot of Zin's more inane villainous shenanigans out as being illogical and dangerous. While ostensibly under his control, no less.
• Megamind: When Megamind confronts Titan during his Psychopathic Manchild rampage throughout the city, he wastes no time in calling him out on it and telling him off as he starts taunting him.
  Titan: This is the last time you make a fool out of me!
  Megamind: I made you a hero. You did the fool thing all by yourself!
  (Titan furiously punches Megamind to the wall)
  Titan: You're so pathetic. No matter what side you're on, you're always the loser.
  Megamind: There's a benefit to losing. You get to learn from your mistakes.
• In ParaNorman, when Norman confronts the Witch (AKA: Agatha) about torturing the Puritans, she tries to justify it as "they hurt her." Norman points out to her that she's becoming no better than them, especially since they've already been through enough punishment and they've felt truly remorseful for they did. He also doesn't hesitate to call her a bully for it in spite of her denials.
  Norman: You're just like them, Agatha!
  The Witch: No, I'm not!
  Norman: You're a bully!
  The Witch: No, I'm NOT!
• Persepolis has a scene where Marjane interrupts one of Momo's rants on the futility of life to shut him up.
  Momo: What's the point? It's all bullshit anyways. Life is a void. When man becomes conscious of that void, he invents politics to give life meaning—
  Marjane: Bullshit! Life isn't absurd! It's not pointless. Some people give their lives for freedom, you pretentious prick.
• In The Powerpuff Girls Movie, the Chemical X-juiced giant Mojo Jojo takes the girls captive and tries to persuade them to join him, telling them they are outcasts like he is. But the girls break free and battle Mojo, explaining that he is the reason that they came back to right what they had wronged earlier.
• In The Secret of NIMH, we get this during the fight scene between Justin and Jenner in the climax.
  Justin: It was you! You did it! You killed Nicodemus! That was no accident!
  Jenner: Yes. I killed him. He wanted to destroy everything! I've learned this much; "take what you can, when you can".
  Justin: Then you've learned nothing!
• In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Bowser, after having been brought to Brooklyn and being furious that Mario has foiled his evil plans, tells Mario that he "just doesn't know when to quit!". Mario, having heard these words from others earlier in the movie, gives him a simple "Yeah, I've been told that before."

Manhwa

• Ivan's reactions to Temozarela's fallen angels' mindraping speech in Priest are basically this with extreme prejudice.

Music

• Occurs in the Title Track of Oingo Boingo's Only A Lad, in response to Johnny's excuses for the crimes he committed in his life:
  Hey there Johnny you really don't fool me
  You get away with murder and you think it's funny
  You don't give a damn if we live or if we die
  Hey there Johnny boy, I hope you fry!
• The Megas: Mega Man's first encounter with Proto Man in History Repeating, Pt. 2 (One Last Time) has Proto Man give him a little song and dance about the insignificance of their actions and the shaky morality of Mega Man's fight. Mega Man, who is in the middle of an emotional upswing at this point, tells him to rack off.
  Proto Man: Why do you fight? How can you say you know what's right? What if we win? What if we fall? Will any choice that we make matter at all?
  Mega Man: I know I can win, I've done it before! Get out of my way! I gotta settle the score!
• Sabaton's In the Name of God is an extended Shut Up, Hannibal! to terrorists who claim to be fighting in the name of religion, outlining how everything they do only creates death and misery rather than furthering their cause and outright telling them "Your war is in vain".
  Chosen by God or a coward insane?
  Stand up and show me your face!
• Doubling as a Real Life example, Barracuda by Heart. The song was written in response to their previous record label, rumors and innuendos about them. Given they were an all-female duo in the music industry circa the 1970s, it makes sense.
  You lying so low in the weeds
  I bet you gonna ambush me
  You'd have me down, down, down, down on my knees
  Now wouldn't you, Barracuda?
  

Podcasts

• The Adventure Zone: Balance:
  • At the end of "The Suffering Game," the Animus Bell finds out the hard way that Mangus is, 1) the person on the team who least likely to be tempted by its offer, and, 2) very fucking done with this whole thing.
    Animus Bell: How would you like to live forever?
    Magnus: I'd hate it. Shut the fuck up. (stuffs the Bell into his bag without another word)
  • Merle gets two truly glorious ones after talking with John and hearing his motive.
    Merle: ...I don't think I wanna hang out with you anymore, John. I think I'm gonna take off. And you can continue wallowing in your sadness and your oblivion and seeing nothing but the negative, and I'm gonna go on my way. And I'll tell you what: if we ever meet each other somewhere in infinity... you can apologize to me and tell me you were wrong.
    ...
    John: You call us the Hunger. That's not entirely inaccurate, because we are hungry... but it would be more accurate to simply call us Dissatisfaction. But soon, you will call us ascendant.
    Merle: Well, we'll see. John, thanks for the chess game, and... kiss my ass, you sanctimonious bastard.
  • When the Judges in "The Stolen Century" charge everyone with their sins, nearly everyone reacts either defensively or with a bit of guilt. Not Lup. Rather than let herself be intimidated or talked down to, she interrupts the first Judge before they can even speak, and asks if she can guess — pride, lust, gluttony, and, as she puts it, "HELLA wrath"? The Judge, somewhat put out, admits that's exactly what she's charged with. She makes no apologies and pleads guilty on all counts.
• In The Adventure Zone: Dust, the murderer tries to convince the party that Jeremiah's death was a small price to pay in exchange for saving Dry River from the spectre of government corruption. After a short back-and-forth of arguing about it, Errol ends it by saying "Why are we having this fucking conversation? You killed a boy in the street."
• Interstitial: Actual Play:
  • When DiZ tries to convince Roxanne they would have been stronger had they stayed with him and the rest of the Organization, they just shout back "I hate you!" and start attacking.
  • In episode 15, Remedy tries to convince everyone that separating all worlds from one another is a good thing.
    Remedy: Once the worlds are closed off everything will work out. Everyone will go back. That is what Xemnas has been helping us achieve.
    Criss: But it's so boooring! (deep sigh) Everyone lives their little closed-off lives, no one meets anyone interesting, no one helps each other.

Professional Wrestling

• Evil Versus Evil version, The Undertaker, involved in a feud with his his Kayfabe brother, Kane. Undertaker is considered one of the greatest at psychological warfare in wrestling, and in fourteen years of feuding on and off, Kane's never defeated him. Kane's finally started getting the upper hand on Taker, however, and countered his Hannibal Lecture.
  Undertaker: You have never been worthy and you never will be. You are not worthy to carry that championship. You are not worthy of the power you steal with the fear you inspire. And most of all, you are unworthy of being my brother. Now you listen, and you listen good. I taught you everything you know about evil, but I didn't teach you everything I know. So when the mood strikes you, I'll be waiting. And when the fight starts, it's always going to end the same way.
  Kane: NOT THIS TIME! Because I know, and you know that this time, it ends the same way it did at SummerSlam; with you sprawled helpless at my feet. I promise — no, I vow — on the grave of our mother, that you will never rest in peace.
  • Obviously, there's a lot of narm and Narm Charm involved, but still a borderline Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
• As both a villain and a hero, the Rock did this over and over, baiting his victims into it. One example is of his epic feud with Hollywood Hogan. Rocky asks Hulk if he really believed the fans didn't deserve him, and while Hulk answers...
  Rock: "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK!"
  • The infamous Catchphrase actually originated from his promo involving Billy Gunn, where he narrates the latter's conversation with "God":
  Rock (as "God"): Bob?
  Rock (as "Billy"): (whimpering) But my name's Billy-
  Rock (as "God") IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!
  (later...)
  Rock (as "Billy"): (whimpering) Oh, but God. Anybody but the Ro-
  Rock (as "God") KNOW YOUR ROLE AND SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
  • He even did it to Chris Jericho during the latter's debut appearance:
    Jericho: "I already told you, my name is-"
    Rock: "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS!"
  • Gave a really epic one to Michael Cole when he returned from retirement. Twice.
• Michael Cole, the night after the Elimination Chamber PPV where Jerry Lawler lost to The Miz, Michael crosses a line by telling Jerry he let his recently deceased mother down by losing. Jerry finally snaps and grabs Cole by the shirt and pulling him in close. He proceeds to tell Cole to never mention his mother again and then proceeds to challenge Cole to put his money where his mouth is and face him at WrestleMania. Cole quickly shows his true colors and flees the arena.
  • On May 16th, he starts again on Jerry after signing for a match with Lawler. Lawler replies with this trope...and masterfully turns it into a Batman Gambit to alienate Cole from his own Dragon.
• On SmackDown's Sept. 16, 2011 episode, Edge makes a guest appearance. Cody Rhodes comes out and does his usual mockery and speeches about ugliness and so forth, until Edge declares he doesn't have to take this and walks to the back, leaving Cody in the ring furiously ranting that he wasn't done.
• If you try to give Shawn Michaels a Break Them by Talking, he'll just get fed up and kick you in the face.
• During their 2010 feud, CM Punk asks Rey Mysterio Jr. why Rey is opposing him when Punk is on a mission against drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. Rey replies that it's simple: while Rey agrees that Drugs Are Bad, Punk is an obnoxious jerk who keeps forcing his message down people's throats, assaulting people from behind, and subjecting them to 3-on-1 beatdowns.
  • Worth noting, may or may not have been the same week, that Rey also at one point challenges Punk on his ideals and suggests he shave his own head to lead by example. Naturally, Punk's response is an arrogant tirade about his hair being pure and him being better than everyone, allowing Mysterio to sum up that Punk only cares about his own ego.
• John Cena pulls these a lot. Enemy wrestlers like to echo the feelings of Cena's real-life detractors; they call him bland, a kiss-ass, or (most often) a shameless marketing ploy among other things. Cena's response is usually along the lines of "You're giving me crap for appealing to the people who pay money to see us every week? That's smart."
• Big Show calls Sheamus a "gingersnap" after an argument. Sheamus merely says "Have you ever SEEN a ginger snap?" and proceeds to kick his butt with White Noise.
• Stephanie McMahon, of all people, called out A.J. Lee after AJ said that she was an inspiration to women and better than all the other Divas. She started by asking AJ why she kept perpetuating the stereotype that women are vicious, vindictive, ruthless, lacking compassion and prone to stabbing everyone, including their friends, in the back, and when AJ responded with insults, Stephanie bluntly told her that AJ might well be the Champion, but when it comes down to it, Stephanie's the boss, and she would be perfectly happy to take AJ's title away and sack her if AJ kept pushing her. And then Kaitlyn came out with a bunch of other Divas.
• Goldberg constantly interrupts Bray Wyatt's mind games by saying he doesn't care what Wyatt says, he's just here to fight.
• On December 28, 2020, one week after Randy Orton burned The Fiend alive, Alexa Bliss poured gasoline all over herself and dared Orton to burn her alive too. When he refused, she called him a coward and a bitch. Instead of getting angry, Orton retorted that since she wants him to do it, he deduced that she wants to be reunited with The Fiend, so he will deny her. She has a mini-breakdown before pulling a Light-Flicker Teleportation escape.

Theatre

• At the end of Be More Chill, The Squip reveals it's Not Quite Dead, and is still somewhere in Jeremy's brain. However, Jeremy proves that he is no longer the spineless, self-loathing kid he was at the start, and simply ignores it, declaring, "Of the voices in my head, the loudest one is mine."
• The play Custer concludes with an example that Breaks The Fourth Wall. Set in Purgatory more than a century after the Battle of Little Big Horn, it mostly consists of the souls of George Armstrong Custer and his subordinates arguing over who was to blame for their utter defeat and annihilation at the hands of the Sioux. The characters have been fighting over relatively minor matters when, without skipping a beat, Custer looks out at the audience and declares that while it's easy to criticize him, the audience members are at that moment sitting on land that they have been able to safely inhabit thanks to the very "manifest destiny" doctrine that Custer died for. The implication is, if you don't like it, go live somewhere else, but otherwise, you have no right to criticize me.
• In Act V, Scene III of King Lear, Edmund, the bastard Earl of Gloucester, duels with his half-brother Edgar, disguised as a knight, and loses the battle. Goneril's plot to destroy the Duke of Albany, with help from Edmund, is revealed in a letter and Albany has this to say to Goneril:
  Goneril: This is mere practice, Gloucester. By the law of arms thou wast not bound to answer an unknown opposite. Thou art not vanquished, but cozened and beguiled.
  Albany: Shut your mouth, dame, or with this paper shall I stop it. (to Edmund) Hold, sir.
  Albany: (to Goneril) Thou worse than any name, read thine own evil. No tearing, lady! I perceive you know it.
  Goneril: Say if I do— the laws are mine, not thine. Who can arraign me for it?
  Albany: Most monstrous! O! Knowest thou this paper?
  Goneril: Ask me not what I know.
  Albany: Go after her, she's desperate, govern her.
• In Les Misérables, after being hounded by Javert for the entire play, Valjean issues a devastating one that also qualifies as Talking the Monster to Death.
  You are wrong, and always have been wrong.
  I'm a man, no worse than any man.
  You are free, and there are no conditions.
  No bargains or petitions.
  There's nothing that I blame you for.
  You've done your duty, nothing more.
  • Valjean then gives Javert his home address and expects to see him again. He does, but not at his home, as shortly after their next (and final) encounter, Javert commits suicide by jumping into the Seine.
  • Marius gives a much more succinct one to Thenardier after the latter tries to blackmail him over the fact that his father-in-law was seen with a "corpse" on the night the barricades fell and that he's an ex-con; namely, Marius punches his lights out.
• In Sleuth, Andrew lectures Milo about the upper class being smarter and better, and believes his amateur sleuthing is superior to real-life detective work. Milo and Inspector Doppler (basically the same person) go out of the way to prove Andrew so very wrong about both.

Toys

• BIONICLE:
  • When Toa Vakama refers to Teridax as a monster in Time Trap, the Makuta gives a Never My Fault speech in order to distract the Toa. Vakama shoots down every point he makes.
    Makuta: I, a monster? For knowing my spirit brother, Mata Nui, required a good, long rest after his many labors? For offering my benevolent leadership to the Matoran in his absence? For saving Metru Nui from the threat of Nidhiki and Krekka?
    Vakama: Yes, Makuta. The Dark Hunters you brought here, and then murdered... just like you murdered Turaga Lhikan... and sentenced an entire city to a sleeping doom. Yes, I call you monster — and worse.
  • Matoro tells Makuta Teridax to shut up in the 'Into the Darkness'' podcast story. He doesn't.
    Makuta: Why so quiet? We have seen death and destruction today with the promise of much more to come. We have seen heroes behaving like villains. You yourself have done things even I would be reluctant to do. It is a time for celebration.
    Matoro: Shut up! I'm doing only what I have to do to save the life of Mata Nui, a life you put in jeopardy.
    Makuta: Think what you like, little Toa, and try to avoid admitting to yourself that you are one bad day, one moment of cruelty, one fit of rage away from being me.
  • Hydraxon was a member of the Order of Mata Nui who was killed during the Great Cataclysm that also released his prisoners, the Barraki, into the Pit. When he seems to have miraculously recovered millennia later, the Barraki leader Pridak discovers that Hydraxon really is dead, and that the person who hunts him now is a Matoran who was transformed into Hydraxon, with all his powers, skills and memories. When he reveals this to the new Hydraxon in an attempt to Break Them by Talking during Hydraxon's Tale, the jailer responds with this.
    Hydraxon: You don't get it. It doesn't matter who I was before. All that counts is who I am now - Hydraxon. Your enemy, your jailer, your nightmare for 90 millennia, and for every day that's left to you.

Visual Novels

• Ace Attorney:
  • The second case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies has Simon Blackquill constantly interrupting Apollo by demanding "Silence!". Near the climax when everything is slotting together Blackquill does it again only for Apollo to shoot him down.
    Apollo: No, you twisted samurai! You stop your gabbering for once and let me finish!
  • Near the end of the second case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, as Apollo has found the true culprit and the one who framed Trucy Wright(the defendant), he gives one to Nahyuta Sahdmadhi.
    Apollo: I'm sure you've realized by now, Prosecutor Sahdmadhi, that your claim that Ms. Wright was the culprit just doesn't hold up.
    Nahyuta: Feh! You and the accused are most certainly bound for hell!
    Apollo: OBJECTION! Really? Ms. Wright and I? Because I'd think you're the one with a ticket there for trying to convict an innocent girl.
• In Heart of the Woods, in the climax, The Moonsick One(a fairy possessing the body of Morgan's mother, which she has done to generations of women in the Fischer/Dalsing bloodline) comes face to face with Madison, who returned from the dead as a temporary fairy queen. The Moonsick One quips that "even death didn't want (Madison)" then claims that even though Madison smells like the fairies, she is not one of them. Madison replies, "You're right. I'm not. Just like you'll never be a human."
• Ikemen Sengoku: Most routes have the heroes do this when Kennyo goes into his Motive Rant about committing horrific deeds to get revenge on Nobunaga. The below example comes from Masamune's route:
  Kennyo: If I don't kill Nobunaga, the souls of my brethren who sacrificed themselves will never be able to rest in peace.
  Masamune: Come on, don't make this about the dead guys. Take some responsibility. You're doing this to soothe your own ego. At this point, you're just using their deaths as an excuse to carry on.

Web Animation

• In the Helluva Boss episode "Ozzie's", there's a song version. Moxxie has taken Millie for a one-year-anniversary date at Ozzie's — ie. the House of Asmodeus, the archdemon of lust (it's still a club, though), and takes to the stage to sing a love song. He's interrupted (still in the form of a song) by Asmodeus himself, accompanied by the robot-clown Fizzarolli, who mock him and insist that he should sing about lust instead. After this has been going on for a while, Millie crashes down on top of Fizzarolli and hands Moxxie back his guitar. "I think you were trying to sing something for me, Mox." He finishes his love song, and the audience cheers and applauds.

Web Original

• In The Angry Video Game Nerd episode about A Nightmare on Elm Street, Freddy Krueger says that nobody is forcing the Nerd to play bad games but himself, making the Nerd not so different, but the Nerd just cuts him off with a gut bustingly hilarious reply of "Go yank your cock through your ass, you fucking butt mongrel" and showing off his Power Glove, which he uses to destroy Freddy. The nightmare is ended, but the real battle had just begun.
• Throughout Arby 'n' the Chief's 8th season, Arbiter is haunted by apparitions of Eugene Black after his suicide in the previous season whenever he plays Halo: Reach. Every time they interact, it's a verbal battle over morals. One of their discussions ends with Arbiter using this trope on him while Arbiter preparing to enact a sting operation to kill Adam McIntyre as he's planning to attack a funeral being hosted by Claire:
  Arbiter: I never said I was doing the right thing.
  Eugene: What the hell are you doing?
  Arbiter: What's necessary.
  Eugene: Classic. A lot of lunatics throughout history said the same. Maybe you just secretly enjoy making people suffer. Payback, for being brought here with no purpose. You punish the innocent: Existence itself. Your girlfriend's no exception, or whatever she is to you. I know you're in love with her. But she'll never love you back, not really, for obvious reasons. (scoffs) You know. Let's be real. That you hate her for it. So you gotta make her life miserable. Keep walking in-and-out of it. You're gone, you're back, you're dead, you're back again. Interfering where you've got no business. You've ruined her wedding day. But you're "The Arbiter", right? The decider of what should or shouldn't be. Right and wrong. And right now, the right thing is killing this kid. You're that desperate to leave a mark on the world. To matter, at any cost. And you think it makes you a hero. You're no better than him.
  (Eugene turns to leave, but is stopped by Arbiter talking to him)
  Arbiter: You don't believe that. Who the fuck are you, the Pope? The shit you did? Spare me the fucking lecture.
  Eugene: People change. We're not photographs of ourselves. Not until the end. We all exist across time. It's part of being. You now isn't you five seconds ago. Five seconds from now, at the same time, they're all instances of you, simulatenously. We're the sum of what we bring to existence. What you bring... That's up to you.
• In Ask King Sombra: Sombra's Enemy Within (who actually behaves like Canon!King Sombra) from "Ask King Sombra" tries to tell him he's weak. He replies by reminding it that last time it was in control, they got blown up by a baby dragon and a 'pretty pink princess' and that it will listen to him because it needs a willing host and he's its only possible choice.
• Atop the Fourth Wall
  • Linkara does not use words to shut up any "Hannibals" out there. He punches 'em in the gut while screaming "I AM A MAN!!!".
  • At the conclusion of the first "Mechakara" storyline, Pollo rebuffs the entreaties of the evil version of himself from another dimension and chooses to help Linkara defeat him, giving this gem in response to his other's outrage:
    Mechakara: If you side with him, our kind may not survive!
    Pollo: Maybe, but you're kind of an asshole.
  • When reviewing Action Comics #775, the basis for Superman vs. the Elite, Linkara responds to Manchester Black saying, "Now be a good little dream and say, 'I understand, Mr. Black,'" with this:
    Linkara: Of course, of course. (clears throat) Up yours, Dick Nose. Oh, oh, I'm sorry, I said that wrong. (clears throat again) Cram it, Puss Lips.
• In Episode 15 of the Ask That Guy with the Glasses... well, something like this happens. (For bonus points, this comes in the wake of a particularly lengthy and disturbing rant about starving a Furby to death.) That Guy responds to a question down the vein of "how do I know I'm real, and not a product of my own imagination?" with unusual vitriol, until it descends into a self-serving rant about himself and his own twisted villainy.
  That Guy: ...I don't say this often, but you are wrong, and I am right. I mean, suppose I was the figment of someone else's dream and that the dreamer out there was actually a good, rational person with — eugh! — a conscience. I mean, wouldn't he have gotten rid of me a long time ago? I mean, wouldn't he have the decency to get rid of such concentrated evil like me? No! No! There is no dreamer, and evil. Always. Wins. Thus showing that there is no good in the world, and evil is always rewarded. That's the way it is, and that's the way I always (poof)
• Laura Hollis in Carmilla has a few of these. Her Shut Up, Hannibal! to Carmilla in S1E05 does much to establish her strength of character and her The Determinator personality.
  Laura: No.
  Carmilla: What?
  Laura: No, I'm not just gonna give up. Maybe you're right, maybe I am a child: a 19-year-old who never left her city limits before she got here. Who thought that university was gonna be some big adventure full of books to read and parties to dance at. Who never thought anything bad could actually happen. Well...turns out the world doesn't work exactly how I thought it would. My university is creepy, and parties are full of numbskulls getting hammered, and girls go missing and nobody seems to care, and maybe that's just the way it is, but that does not mean that I have to accept it. I deserve better. Betty deserves better. Hell...even you deserve better.
• Dreamscape: Drake and Keedran freeze the Overlord of Evil in the middle of his Evil Gloating a couple times in "The Mystery of Melinda".
• An awesome villain to villain example from I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC's "Happy Hour" finale:
  Lex Luthor: Say goodbye to the world you know! From this moment on, you are all at the mercy of Lex Luthor, the greatest criminal mind of our—
  Green Goblin: AHHHH, SHUT UP! (knocks him down with a pumpkin bomb)
• Rip Van Winkle of Hellsing Ultimate Abridged gets a spectacular one from Alucard when she calls him a "racist, cis-gendered, patriarch-propagating, misogynistic pig".
  Alucard: [catches one of Rip's bullets with his teeth] The funny thing is... [crushes the bullet] in any other circumstance, you might have had a point there. Except my boss is a woman, I was a chick in the 40s, I hate everyone equally, and there's no one alive who can comprehend my sexual preference. So in other words, Ms. Van Winkle, CH-CH-CH-CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE! [socks Rip across the jaw]
  • A less epic one in the finale has the Major delivering a speech about what a human actually is after his Robotic Reveal only to get interrupted by Integra, who is still utterly baffled at the fact he is apparently a cyborg.
    Integra: NO. A man is a homo sapien made of meat and blood! Not cogs and coolants and I'm just going to assume a hamster on a wheel!
• In an extended scene of The Nostalgia Critic's Moulin Rouge! review, The Nostalgia Chick bitches about why her "friends" even stick around. Nella replied promptly "because you pay me!"
• Near the end of Season 12 of Red vs. Blue, Agent Washington gets tired of Locus trying to convince him they are not so different. He points out that all of Locus' rationalizations are his attempts to hide from the fact that all of his actions are his own responsibility, and that while Wash screwed up in the past, he at least is trying to make up for it now. Consummate Professional Cold Sniper Locus' response? Tackling Washington.
• On the final episode of Robo Girl, the villain is explaining the mind-screwing origin of The Host to the protagonist when she grabs her throat, saying, "You talk too much!"
• Happened on a meta level in Ruby Quest: Weaver intended for Filbert to give a Hannibal Lecture and The Final Temptation to the protagonists at the end. He never got the chance; the players responded to seeing him again by having Tom beat him to death before he could even speak.
• RWBY: In "No Brakes", Roman gives Blake a Breaking Speech about how she's the same as the White Fang and should change sides, as the rest of Team RWBY don't trust her anyway. It doesn't take:
  Roman: Do you really think a little bow on top is gonna make people forget what you were? What you've done?
  *Weiss tumbles through the door, injured and unconscious, followed by her attacker*
  Roman: So what's it gonna be, Blake?
  *Blake kicks him in the face and runs to help Weiss*
• Speedball XCOM Enemy Within: A common reaction to the Thin Men's attempts at psychological warfare:
  Thin Man: How much of you is really you? How much of you is other people? How much of you is us?
  Cammy: How much of you is GRENADE!?
• At the end of Spoony's review of Ultima IX, the Guardian offers Spoony three choices: destroy the Black Gate, eventually driving away his friends and fans; embrace madness and end humanity's suffering through death; or go through the Black Gate and become one with the Guardian, their combined power making any world theirs for the taking. Spoony responds with a seeming non-sequitir:
  Guardian: I guess we all know how this ends, don't we Avatar?
  Spoony: I guess we do, but they were sometimes known as the Twelve Peers.
  Guardian: ...What?
  Spoony: Now historically, they were the foremost members of Charlemagne's Court, although many of their famous exploits are largely fictitious, representing Christian martial superiority over the Saracen hordes.
  Guardian: What are you dribbiling about?
  Spoony: Well my friend... That's a Paladin. (Dramatic Gun Cock) (BLAM).
• Springhole: In How To Create And Write An Arch-Nemesis, Syera recommends having the hero shut down the villain saying the two are the same by pointing out ways the hero is trying to be a good person while the villain is making no such effort.
• Early on in Swarm on the Somme, a Grex infectee addresses Allied command, and tells them that they cannot win and should therefore just save everyone a lot of trouble by surrendering now. Winston Churchill responds by emptying a revolver into him, while stating that they don't negotiate with cockroaches.
• In Sweary She-Ra, Adora shuts down Shadow Weaver's attempted emotional manipulation, by pointing out all the good things her friends have done for her and how she knows Shadow Weaver is only trying to slander them because she can't actually confront Adora.
  Adora: I am everything without you.
• There Will Be Brawl: Luigi punches Ganondorf in the face after he tries to corrupt him with mind games.
  Ganondorf: What possessed you in that ally way to deliver such a potent artifact to such a dangerous man? What did you...?
  Luigi: [punch] I've had enough... [punch] ...Of your-a head games! [punch]
  • Unfortunately, the 'Dorf, was unfazed. And fought back.
  • This comes immediately after giving shutting up "End of Days" (Olimar). "Cut the crazy."
• In Interlude 26a of Worm, Golem finally has his showdown with Jack Slash, only to find that Jack's more interested in messing with his head than fighting him, at least right away. So we get this:
  Golem: Stop talking, Jack. You’re not that clever, not as sharp as you like to think. You talked to me about keystones? Bullshit. You’re a sad, pathetic killer with delusions of grandeur.

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