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Anime And Manga
Goku: What's the matter, Frieza? I can't be harder to destroy than a planet, right?
Frieza: You... You... What are you?!
Frieza: You... You... What are you?!
"What are you? Why don't you bleed?!"
—Yura, Inuyasha
Film - Live Action
Carmine Falcone: [frantically loading his shotgun] What the hell are you?
Batman: [breaks open the limo's sunroof and pulls Falcone out] I'm Batman.
Batman: [breaks open the limo's sunroof and pulls Falcone out] I'm Batman.
Literature
McKracken: [after getting a Poke in the Third Eye] What are you?
Bob: Bob Howard, Detached Senior Specialist grade one, Q-Division SOE, at your service. Like I said, the Senior Auditor was unavailable so they sent me in his place.
McKracken: But you're not, you're not-
Live-Action TV
(The Doctor leans in to examine the writhing data coil)
The Doctor: What are you?
(data coil throws off arcs of electricity, making her back off)
The Doctor: OK, don't like questions...more the private type...I get that.
— The Doctor, Doctor Who, "The Woman Who Fell To Earth"
Video Games
"How are you doing this...?! You've ingested enough toxins to drive ten men insane! What... are you?!"
—Scarecrow, Batman: Arkham Asylum
Sole Survivor: Just... what are you, Nick?
Nick Valentine: You really don't know? I'm a Synth. Synthetic man. All the parts, minus a few red blood cells.
"How... How can this be? A millennium of prayer and the Eye's power combined- and still you stand? Who- What are you?"
—Archbishop Thordan VII, Final Fantasy XIV
Attack Carrier captain: WHO ARE YOU GUYS?!
Fox McCloud: We're Star Fox!
Attack Carrier captain: (as his ship explodes) YOU'LL NEVER DEFEAT ANDROOOOOOSSSS!!
Fox McCloud: We're Star Fox!
Attack Carrier captain: (as his ship explodes) YOU'LL NEVER DEFEAT ANDROOOOOOSSSS!!
"None have possessed the strength in previous cycles. Your own species could be destroyed with a single thought. But you are different. I have witnessed your actions in this cycle: the destruction of Sovereign; the fall of the Collectors. The Reapers perceive you as a threat. And I must understand WHY."
—Leviathan to Commander Shepard, Mass Effect 3
Red: ...I suppose...I can at least take some comfort...knowing I spilt your blood. It's still you against all of monsterkind. And one of them... One of them will kill you, ending this nightmare forever. Not even you are above death itself. [Beat]? Wh... Why are you laughing?? Wh... What... are you...?
Web Animation
Cackletta Soul: [after Geno was shoved down into Bowser's mouth and into Cackletta Soul's arena] Stupid puppet! How dare you choke me out?!
[Cackletta Soul performs a finger flick attack on Geno, which bounces off to a Sound of No Damage]]
Cackletta Soul: What the hell...?
Western Animation
Thrawn: What manner of creature are you?
The Bendu: One beyond your power to destroy.
Thrawn: It would not seem so.
The Bendu: You cannot see... but I can.
Thrawn: What? What do you see?
The Bendu: I see your defeat... like many arms surrounding you in a cold embrace.
[Thrawn, visibly unnerved, shoots him, only for the Bendu to disappear, laughing.]
The Bendu: One beyond your power to destroy.
Thrawn: It would not seem so.
The Bendu: You cannot see... but I can.
Thrawn: What? What do you see?
The Bendu: I see your defeat... like many arms surrounding you in a cold embrace.
[Thrawn, visibly unnerved, shoots him, only for the Bendu to disappear, laughing.]
