"Nobody sucks the life from my penguins except me!"
— The Ice King, Adventure Time
Otter: He can't do that to our pledges!
Boon: Only we can do that to our pledges.
Boon: Only we can do that to our pledges.
"What the hell are you doing?! This is my class! I do the ass-kicking around here!"
—Coach Buzzcut to Mr. Candy when the latter was about to beat up Beavis and Butt-Head, Beavis And Butthead.
(heavy arguing between Touya and Shindou, Shindou storms off)
Customer: That Shindou really needs to learn his place. A mere first-dan shouldn't argue against the young master.
Akira: (enraged) No matter how good you are, you're a first-dan when you start off. Don't look down upon Shindou just because he's a first-dan! (strides away indignantly)
Customer: That Shindou really needs to learn his place. A mere first-dan shouldn't argue against the young master.
Akira: (enraged) No matter how good you are, you're a first-dan when you start off. Don't look down upon Shindou just because he's a first-dan! (strides away indignantly)
Kei: Why did you help me back there?
Yui: Because the only one allowed to make fun of you is me!
Yui: Because the only one allowed to make fun of you is me!
Janis: This is Damian. He's almost too gay to function.
(Later)
Damian: (outraged) Too gay to function?!
Janis: It's only okay when I say that!
(Later)
Damian: (outraged) Too gay to function?!
Janis: It's only okay when I say that!
—Mean Girls when Cady repeats the above to Damian.
Kyousuke: I hate hearing someone other than me badmouthing her!
—Oreimo after Kirino mocks Manami.
Alice: Nobody touches my PROPERTY! And Oz is my manservant - therefore, he is my property!
Cox: All I remember is we were both making fun of our kids, and bam, he stuck me with Ted.
Jordan: No, you made fun of your kid, he made fun of his kid...and then you made fun of his kid.
Jordan: No, you made fun of your kid, he made fun of his kid...and then you made fun of his kid.
Wolverine: Cyclops might be a jerk, but he's our jerk!
—Secret Wars (1984) response to Hawkeye.
You can't be mean to my Waddle Dees! Only I can be mean to my Waddle Dees!
—King Dedede, Kirby's Epic Yarn
Even she, when she was with her sharpest tongue, had called him Loki Cowardson more often than not, drawing a chuckle from Fandral and a bemused head shake from Volstagg each time she had done so. Thor often told her to save her bite for the battlefield in such moments - for he was always as quick to shield his brother as he was to jab his own taunts. But, such was the way of siblings.
—Narration, "Steel in Your Hand,
a Thor fanfic
a Thor fanficNo one takes the piss out of Light apart from me.
We earn the right to pick on Greendale every day by going there. Our school may be a toilet, but it's our toilet, and nobody craps in it but us.
—Jeff Winger, Community ("Basic Rocket Science")
No one beats up on Odie but me!
—Garfield, June 12, 1981
Poor Odie. He faces a life of torture, neglect and degradation...Hey, nobody gets to mistreat my dog like that except me!
"Neither personally nor auctorially did I feel sorry for Nixon during the days of Watergate and his resignation. After all, he was simply acting out his Big Loser nature and, in the process, he turned being a Big Loser into a perfect triumph by managing to lose the presidency in a way bigger and more original than anyone else had ever lost it before. That takes gumption. No, I only began to feel sorry for him when the late, much-dreaded Fawn M. Brodie, a certifiable fool, wrote one of her pseudo-psychobiographies of him and plowed him under as if he were a mere Thomas Jefferson in pursuit of mulatto nymphets. Enough is enough, I said to myself; do not inflict this Freudian horseshit on Nixon—my Nixon."
"If we were fighting, get out of the room. But if we were teamed up against a common target, we were lethal. Our first time on his show, Howard Stern never knew what hit him. He picked on one of us, and we were both at his throat."
—Roger Ebert on Gene Siskel
"...And lemme tell you something, Rams Twitter: You don't get TWO hashtag mottos. You can't #DefendOurTurf and be #SackCity. Pick one. Both mottos are outright lies anyway. You play in the EJ Dome. No one defends the EJ Dome. An asteroid shower could hit the area, and that Dome would be the last place people would fortify."
—Drew Magary, "Why Your Team Sucks 2014: St. Louis Rams"
"Why Your Team Sucks 2014: St. Louis Rams""It's not that we don't fight, butt heads, and generally piss each other off. We do. Like any sibling relationship. No, it's this. If you or anyone else ever hurts my sister, I will rip your intestines out, fashion a noose from them, and hang you from them while repeatedly punching you in your now-exposed kidneys."
Cristian was still the same old jerk/hero of an older brother, teasing her mercilessly about her taste in girls but then beating the crap out of anyone who gave her crap for being gay – including cousin Romero.
"You're a guest of the MacKenzie. We can insult you, but God help any other man that does."
—Murtagh Fraser, Outlander
"I will speak of my brother as I wish. You will not."
—Daemon Targaryen, House of the Dragon
"Listen, lady! NOBODY messes with my dumb babies except ME!"
Angelica Pickles, Rugrats in Paris
"You may think Gary is a bit of a cock – actually, he is a bit of a cock, but he's my cock. "
—Andy, The World's End
"Even though [Hori] teases Prez all the time, she gets angry when someone says bad things about him. I don't get Childhood Friends."
—Miyamura, Horimiya
Manny: Bernard! He wants to cut off my hair!
Bernard: How dare you?! Don't you lay a finger on this boy's head. Have you no respect?! He's mine! Get your own human plaything!
Bernard: How dare you?! Don't you lay a finger on this boy's head. Have you no respect?! He's mine! Get your own human plaything!
"You scarred him for life! That's my job!"
—Ma Beagle beating up Flintheart Glomgold after he makes one of her kids cry, DuckTales (2017)
"Back, you robots! Nobody ruins my family vacation but me! ...and maybe the boy."
— Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, "Itchy And Scratchy Land"
Vice Chancellor Bonaparte: But my strategy was flawless! Where could I have gone wrong?!
Dr. Vellian Crowler: Hmph... well, your first mistake was challenging me. And then, you had the nerve to call my worthless students worthless! Only I can insult those slackers!
Tyranno Hassleberry: He does like us!
Dr. Vellian Crowler: Hmph... well, your first mistake was challenging me. And then, you had the nerve to call my worthless students worthless! Only I can insult those slackers!
Tyranno Hassleberry: He does like us!
— Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, dub dialogue
"Nobody talks to June like that but me!"
—The Enchantress, when someone bullies, belittles, makes fun of, or is mean to June Moone, Injustice 2
Sub-Zero: Call me "Grandmaster".
Johnny Cage: Grandmaster Blueberry Ice.
Sub-Zero: Even a child has more discipline.
(later...)
The Joker: "Grandmaster Blueberry Ice", eh?
Sub-Zero: Only Johnny Cage may use that name and live.
The Joker: You're hardly intimidating, snow cone.
Johnny Cage: Grandmaster Blueberry Ice.
Sub-Zero: Even a child has more discipline.
(later...)
The Joker: "Grandmaster Blueberry Ice", eh?
Sub-Zero: Only Johnny Cage may use that name and live.
The Joker: You're hardly intimidating, snow cone.
This story structure has been done to death. Younger sibling is doing something harmless that older sibling doesn't approve of. Siblings go somewhere. An outsider criticises younger sibling for doing said behaviour. Older sibling gets mad and sticks up for younger sibling out of solidarity. Older sibling now accepts behaviour in younger sibling as if they never had problems with it to begin with. The end.
I don't find this realistic, and I don't find the change in the older sibling meaningful. They aren't accepting the behaviour because of its inherent harmlessness (or even benefits), they are merely switching sides, like they're the only one allowed to insult their sibling.
I don't find this realistic, and I don't find the change in the older sibling meaningful. They aren't accepting the behaviour because of its inherent harmlessness (or even benefits), they are merely switching sides, like they're the only one allowed to insult their sibling.
How dare you bully our brother!? Only we get to do that!
—Lori Loud, The Loud House, "Heavy Meddle"
Nobody takes my wife's mouth except me!
—Mr. Potato Head, Toy Story 3
