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Killer No. 2: See you tomorrow love. I got a quick errand to run, a little thing called... death to deliver.
Momoko: Death? There's no messengers. It delivers itself. Usually in the most adequate way when dealing with impersonators.
Killer No. 2: I bet that sounds much better in Japanese.

“If he dies,” General Basilia said, “you will follow him shortly. Screaming.”
“Nine,” Anaxares replied.
“What?” she said.
“The number of times I’ve been threatened with death today,” the diplomat clarified. “Will we make it to ten before noon? It is an auspicious number, in Bellerophon.”

Regina: He doesn't need you confusing him
Emma: With all due respect, Madam Mayor, the fact that you have now threatened me twice in the last twelve hours makes me want to stay more.

Mindy: Listen here, Mandy! If you become captain [of the cheerleader squad], I swear I will never speak to you again!
Mandy: Well, I can't pass up that offer. I'll do it!
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, "The Wrongest Yard"

Hoss: I'm sending you back where you came from!
Grim: Really?
Hoss: Well...yeah!
Grim: Oh, happy day! (laughs) Fire away, mon!
Hoss: (stares in utter disbelief)
Grim: No, no, no, wait. This is my good side. (turns his head) Okay!
(cut to a visual metaphor for Hoss' mind showing a mouse running on a wheel, overexerting itself and collapsing from exhaustion)
Grim: (getting impatient) TODAY, MON!
Hoss: Aren't you...holding them kids hostage?
Grim: Those beasts?! I'm their hostage!
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, "Hoss Delgado: Spectral Exterminator"

Bug: Place projectile weapon on the ground.
"Sorry, little weirdo. Threats won't work on me. I can't go to hell. I'm all out of vacation days."
Burgerpants, Undertale

Zarya: I've got my eye on you, Omnic.
Zenyatta: And I shall watch your back in turn.

The Joker: (pointing a gun) Do you wanna die?
Ted the Bum: ...Kind of.
(Beat as the Joker makes an Aside Glance.)
Dr. Arkham: What.

Some Democrats threaten to move to Canada; Republicans, in a gracious gesture of reconciliation, offer to help them pack.
Dave Barry's History of the Millenium (so far), November 2004

Jarnaff: Here's how this is going to work. You're going to be helpful. And polite. Because if you don't, then I put a word in Sarque's ear, and you'll have the same thing happen to you as Morden's last two servants. We understanding each other?
Jarnaff: Excuse me?
Alex: Is there something wrong with your ears? Because I'm noticing that whenever I say something you don't like, you don't seem to hear very well.
Jarnaff: I think maybe you don't understand-
Alex: I heard. You want to blackmail me.
Jarnaff: You don't want to piss me off.
Alex: Or you'll do what? Go running to Sal Sarque? Tell him that the big bad Verus is being mean to you? Here's a little detail that you apparently didn't think you needed to know, Jarnaff: your boss and his friends tried to kill me less than a week ago. Little hint for you: if you're trying to threaten someone, make sure it's not with something you already failed at. And just so you know, this last month? While you were strutting around the War Room in your expensive shoes, I was being chased by assassins. So, unless you think you can be more intimidating than they were, I think it's time you left.
Bound

Fiona: I'm going to-
Rhonda: What- fire me? Oh, go ahead. See how many customers you have left when you do.

"I'll have your job for this!" Norton screamed. He was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flush. He had utterly blown his cool. His neck had turned a rich, dark red and two veins stood out, throbbing, on his forehead. "You can count on it, you... you Frenchman! I'll have your job and I'll see to it that you never get another one in any prison system in New England!"
Elliot: I don't think you understand the severity of the situation here, I am dangerously close to giving up men altogether.
Dr. Cox: Then on behalf of men everywhere, and I do mean everywhere, including the ones in the little mud huts, let me be the first to say thanks and yallelujah!

Beroul: You are fucking with what is mine. Tell me why or I'll use your fucking skull as a condom!
Constantine: That's the frowsiest threat I've ever heard. A skull's got holes in, you berk.
Hellblazer: All His Engines

Dove: I am going to murder your entire family.
Bayn: Please do.

Hiiragi: Senpai, if you won't leave your wife, I'll quit my job!!
Akamatsu: Um... ok. Yes. Please. Go ahead.
Hiiragi: What!?

Sauron: Now, I'll tear out your heart.
The Lich King: You will find nothing there!

Brainiac: They say you never miss.
Deadshot: Not once, not ever.
Brainiac: Then today, we make history.

Joker: Bane, give us a hug.
Bane: I will break you in two!
Joker: There'll be more of me to love!

Black Manta: You're about to get burned!
Green Arrow: Promise?

O'Sullivan: If you don't give me what I want, I will release proof that you are a homosexual.
Holt: I came out thirty years ago.
O'Sullivan: Ah, you're impossible!

Homelander: You release [the Flight 37] video, I will destroy everyone and everything.
The Joker: Good, glad you and I are on the same page.
Homelander: [eyes widen] What?
The Joker: You heard me. Good, have a blast, burn a school, eat a baby if you want, and live your heart’s twisted little desires! Ya know you want to!
[Homelander and Stormfront are stunned silent]
The Joker: Listen, Homeboy, I’m going to let you in on a little secret and some advice. The secret, I want you to do that. It’s my thing, I mean look what the first thing I did here was. Now for my advice, I know it hurts to have everything you have shattered like cheap glass, but don’t worry. You see when everything falls apart you tend to see the funny side in life. I know I did. Besides, you want to know something better than love and admiration, fear. I’ve had my issues with Scarecrow over the years, but he is right on the money with that. It is better to be feared than loved! Anyway, toodles!

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