Times where the good guys reject the villain's claims by telling them to shut up in Western Animation.
- Action Man (2000) has an instance of the hero giving a defiant rebuttal to the villain's rant occur in the Grand Finale two-parter "The Ultimate Doom".Dr. X: We are alike, you and I! We both seek to push human potential to its fullest. With the power we both possess, we are that potential! We are the future! We are Neo Humanity!
Action Man: Let's get one thing straight, Doc. You're nuts! - In Amphibia's penultimate episode, each of the main three heroines get their own moment calling out one of the main villains.
- Andrias tries to tell Anne that it's pointless to fight, since everything she loves will eventually crumble to dust anyway. Anne responds that living for a thousand years alone and miserable is far worse.Anne: So what? I'm supposed to give up? Stop feeling things? Like you? Honestly, I pity you! A thousand years of suffering. Of burying your feelings. Of hating yourself. That must've been hard.
- Darcy gives Sasha several Not So Different Remarks, drawing on Sasha's history as a Manipulative Bastard and Control Freak. While Sasha doesn't refute these points, she also makes it clear that she has no patience for talk because saving Marcy is much more important than her own feelings.Sasha: I know what you're trying to do, and it won't work. [...] It doesn't matter what she thinks of me. I'm here to save her and to stop you.
Sasha: I am not that person anymore! - Finally, the Core tries to get Marcy to accept becoming part of the Mind Hive because returning to the real world will mean facing the reality she tried to escape in the first place and the consequences of her betrayal. Marcy is tempted, but refuses to run from the consequences of her actions.Marcy: NO! Only a coward would hide away in this place. Well... I reject this sick fantasy, and I reject you!
- Andrias tries to tell Anne that it's pointless to fight, since everything she loves will eventually crumble to dust anyway. Anne responds that living for a thousand years alone and miserable is far worse.
- This happens with Megatron and Optimus in the last episode of Beast Wars.Megatron: Oh well, come on, let's have it. The usual "destiny and honor" speech.
- In "Code of Hero", Megatron was speechifying about how Dinobot had no hope of defeating him (which, given that Dinobot just burned up all his reserves and taking massive quantities of damage fighting through Megatron's minions while Megatron had not yet done a thing, not to mention he's got massive upgrades which makes him even more resistant to damage, makes a pretty good point). Megatron asked "What can you possibly do?" Dinobot's response? "Improvise". As he takes his stick, creates a makeshift hammer, and smacks Megatron to the ground.
- Ben 10: Alien Force: In "Time Heals", as Charmcaster keeps going on how she's going to kill Gwen again, Gwen karate-kicks her to the ground mid-speech and tells her she needs to stop saying that.
- Ben 10: Omniverse has two of them:
- In "Trouble Helix", when eleven years old Ben defeat Malware for the first time, Malware immediately boasts that he will be back:
- Then Azmuth delivers one to Dr Psychobos during his murder attempt:Azmuth: Psychobos, stop this madness!
Dr. Psychobos: That's DOCTOR Psychobos to you! Can you now see the superiority of Cerebrocrustaceans over Galvan?
Azmuth: I can see that I don't care. That trying to prove which of our species is superior is a waste of time, energy and resources.
- A variation combined with Pre Ass Kicking One Liner occurs in Danny Phantom: Spectra is giving Danny a Break Them by Talking. It is succeeding. Then, there was Jazz.Jazz: Excuse me. I don't know this kid, but I hope it's okay if he gets a second opinion.
- "The Million Dollar Ghost" contains a rare villain-to-hero example: Having learned by now how best to get under his Arch-Enemy's skin, Danny taunts Vlad about how "bitter and alone" he is after losing "the love of your life" to Danny's father. Vlad responds by grabbing his wrist and delivering several seconds of agonizing Electric Torture.
- DC Animated Universe:
- In Batman: The Animated Series, Ra's al-Ghul explains his wonderful plan to save the world by wiping out most of humanity. Batman responds with a note of wonder in his voice. "Yes... I can see it all clearly now for the first time. You are completely out of your mind."
- A small one happens in Batman Beyond when Kobra leader Xander tells Max of his plot to turn all his men into dinosaurs and drop a bomb that will incinerate the world so they have extra heat to live on. She responds accordingly:Max: I think I finally get it now.
Xander: (he smiles)
Max: You're crazy! All of you! Certifiable in need of medication!- Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker: The Joker reacts rather badly to Terry's Break Them by Talking and gives a rather angry rebuttal by tossing grenades at him, which knocks the superhero out. Which is then subverted when he grabs Terry and starts to choke him, telling him to laugh it up now.Terry: Ha... ha. (pulls out Joker's killer buzzer and proceeds to shock him out of Tim Drake's brain)
- Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker: The Joker reacts rather badly to Terry's Break Them by Talking and gives a rather angry rebuttal by tossing grenades at him, which knocks the superhero out. Which is then subverted when he grabs Terry and starts to choke him, telling him to laugh it up now.
- Superman: The Animated Series:
- After Darkseid has beaten up Superman and demands the Earth to surrender:Darkseid: People of Earth, I am Darkseid, lord of Apokolips. Here is your savior, cowed and broken. I have crushed him as easily as I have crushed all who dared to oppose me throughout the cosmos. I am power unlike any you have ever known: absolute, infinite, and unrelenting. You have no choice but to prepare for a long dark future as my subjects and my slaves.
Dan Turpin: ...In a pig's eye! - At the end of the three-part pilot "The Last Son of Krypton", Superman confronts Lex Luthor. Luthor gives a speech about how he owns Metropolis and that Superman should be working for him. Lex loses his cool when Superman responds with a simple "I'll be watching you, Luthor."
- In "In Brightest Day", when Sinestro tries to take the power ring from Kyle Rayner, the new Green Lantern:Sinestro: You cannot run from me, Green Lantern. I never give up!
Kyle: (blasting him) You never shut up, either.
- After Darkseid has beaten up Superman and demands the Earth to surrender:
- Justice League Unlimited:
- In "Divided We Fall", The Flash gets a most awesome Shut Up Hannibal against the robot Evil Knockoff created by the Big Bad.Alternate Flash: Slacker! Child! Clown! We have no place here among the world's greatest heroes!
Flash: Says you! I've got a seat at the big conference table. I'm gonna paint my logo on it!
(Flash punches through Evil Flash's chest and vibrates his arm at Super-Speed; explosion ensues) - The Flash does it again later in the same episode when Braniac/Lex Luthor taunts him on the fact that he was all that was left between total destruction. Flash then begins to pound Luthor over, and over, AND OVER, stripping Braniac's tech from Luthor's body with each blow. Made all the more awesome when you realize that Flash was doing this by running around the Earth at 25,000 miles PER SECOND as he hit Luthor time after time.
- Lampshaded earlier in the episode "Wild Cards".The Joker: Even you can't disarm one of my bombs in time!
Flash: Shut up!
The Joker: What kind of retort is that!? You're not even trying! - The "World of Cardboard" Speech itself is an example: as Darkseid rampages through the ruins of Metropolis and asks why the heroes continue to fight against him, Superman decks him and shows he was holding back all this time.Darkseid: You [Batman] still try to fight? Can't you see this is hopeless?
Superman: (Pins Darkseid to a wall by the throat) That man won't quit as long as he can still draw a breath. None of my teammates will. Me? I've got a different problem. (Punches Darkseid through the wall) I feel like I live in a world made of cardboard, always taking constant care not to break something, to break someone. Never allowing myself to lose control even for a moment, or someone could die. But you can take it, can't you, big man? What we have here is a rare opportunity for me to cut loose and show you just how powerful I really am. (hits Darkseid so hard he's sent flying across Metropolis)
- In "Divided We Fall", The Flash gets a most awesome Shut Up Hannibal against the robot Evil Knockoff created by the Big Bad.
- In the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Little Ed Blue", Ed acts unusually moody due to having a rock in his shoe. When Sarah, who regularly bullies Ed, tries to talk down to him as usual, Ed shouts at her to back off, scaring her shitless.Sarah: Ed! You listen to me, mister! You can't kick me out! I LIVE HERE TOO!!
Ed: SO MOVE!! - A fan favorite moment from Freakazoid!, seen here
:Jeepers: You want to see something strange and mystical?
Freakazoid: NOOOOOOO!!!!! GET OUTTA HERE WITH THAT WATCH!!! LAY OFF THE POOR BEAVERS, WILL YA?!? SHEEEESH!!! YOU'RE A CREEP! GO AWAY! WE WERE ALL HAVING A GOOD TIME UNTIL YOU SHOWED UP, JEEPERS!!! UUUUUUUUGH! GO HAVE A COFFEE, WITH CREAM OR SOMETHING! BECAUSE I'LL TELL YOU SOMETHING: THIS IS A HAPPY PLACE!!!!!! - Less eloquent but as effective, Hulk Vs. Thor shows Loki interrupted in mid-rant by Thor's hand around his throat. A "Shut Up, Hannibal" via sign language?
- In Invincible (2021), the Mad Scientist Villain of the Week Sinclair starts to go on a Motive Rant about how his Unwilling Roboticisation was For Science! and "saving the human race from disease". Mark responds by backhanding Sinclair's jaw hard enough to dislocate it.
- In the first Season Finale of Jackie Chan Adventures, the battle between Jackie and Shendu goes back and forth, until Jackie manages to grab the Rat talisman, rendering the villain helpless:Shendu: I will have my revenge even if it takes another 900 years!
Jade: Pfft. No Rat means you're just a statue, and no Dog means you're not immortal.
(Activates Dragon Talisman, blowing Shendu to smithereens.) - Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters has an especially epic one in the Season 2 finale, as well as a rare practical use of the Power of Friendship. As Ray and the Choten are dueling, the Choten uses a spell to control two creatures at the same time, all while gloating about how naive Ray was to think befriending creatures could be a good substitute to controlling them. Ray answers by summoning five additional creatures and sending them all to attack him.Choten: You can't possibly control that many creatures at the same time!
Ray: I don't need to control them. They are my friends. - Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama, when Kim interrupted Drakken's speech about how he cracked Kim's weakness; her own insecurities, especially regarding dating. Not quite a pure example, since he didn't know she was listening in, but she definitely had the "Shut up!" part down!"You're right, Drakken. Boys, dating, that's hard. But this is easy. (She punches Drakken. Hard.)
- King of the Hill: The premiere episode has Hank listening to one of Dale's conspiracy theories on global warming, only to retort:Hank: Dale, you giblet-head, we live in Texas! It's already 110 in the summer, and if it gets one degree hotter I'm gonna kick your ass!
- In The Legend of Korra, Bolin cuts Zaheer's ranting Villainous Breakdown short by literally suffing a sock in his mouth.
- Unalaq calls Tenzin a horrible father for letting Jinora into the spirit world and asks what kind of father he is. Jinora responds with "Better than you".
- Baatar Jr. tells Varrick that once a discovery is made, people will do whatever it takes to share this knowledge with the world. Varrick responds with "You wouldn't notice a wolfbat making a nest in your butt!"
- Looney Tunes: In "Wild and Woolly Hare", Bugs Bunny interrupts Yosemite Sam's boasting:Yosemite Sam: Any one of you lily-livered, bow-legged varmints care to slap leather with me? In case any of ya get any idears, ya better know yer dealin with. I'm the hootinest, tootinest, shootinest, bobtail wildcat in the West! [fires guns, raising Sam up] I'm the fastest gun north, south, east annnnnnnd west of the Pecos!....I'm the....Bugs Bunny: Ahhhh, shaddup!Yosemite Sam: DID I HEAR SOMEONE SAY "SHADDUP"?!Bugs Bunny: (calmly) Yep.
- World War II-era Daffy-The Commando has a rotoscoped Adolf Hitler delivering one of his ranting speeches. In flies Daffy Duck, courtesy of being shot from a cannon moments earlier, who then proceeds to whack Hitler on the head with a mallet.
- My Adventures with Superman: In the episode "Zero Day - Part 2", Ivo has spent the entire season blaming Superman for ruining his life. Now, he's using a giant kaiju-sized suit to try and kill Superman, accusing him of "cheating" to beat Ivo and blaming Superman for all of his troubles. Superman finally has enough and retorts that Ivo's downfall is his own fault, and that Ivo himself chose to be a monster, with or without Superman in the picture. Even though Superman isn't human, he's still going to protect the people of Metropolis because that's just who he is, human or otherwise.Ivo: You made me into a monster!
Superman: You chose to become a monster, Ivo.
Ivo: Then what does that make an alien freak like you?!
Superman: Don't you read the paper? (uses X-ray vision to locate Ivo within Parasite and rams into him, removing him from Parasite and depowering the Kaiju) I'm Superman. - My Life as a Teenage Robot: Jenny gives quite the call-out to the Exo-Skin in "The Return of Raggedy Android" when she resists its control over her long enough to destroy it with a milkshake and return to her true normal self as a crime-fighting robot girl to fight the Space Bikers and save Brad.
- My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: As polite and self-effacing as she was Fluttershy completely shut down every attempt on Discord's part to arouse resentment against her friends during the Season 2 opener, ensuring that she could not be turned against them without a proverbial sledgehammer of mind-altering magic. Unfortunately, Discord could and did use that sledgehammer.
- Twilight gets an epic one the next episode. She weaponizes her normal And Knowing Is Half the Battle speech into this.Twilight Sparkle: I'll tell you what we've learned, Discord! We've learned that friendship isn't always easy, but there's no doubt it's worth fighting for!
- Princess Celestia actually fires off two Shut Up Hannibals in Part 1's Canterlot Tower scene. The first time, Discord tries to get a rise out of her with a Break Them by Talking; she shoots him down. The second time, Discord's in the middle of another one directed at the Mane Six; she butts in to order him to quit screwing around and answer her question. He tosses her a riddle and vacates. The blink-and-you-miss-it look on her face seconds later suggests she was indeed winding up a third Shut Up, Hannibal! In case you needed her to validate her previous claim to being a Retired Badass.Rainbow Dash: All right, Princess!
- Twilight gets an epic one the next episode. She weaponizes her normal And Knowing Is Half the Battle speech into this.
- From episode 26 of Ninjago:Overlord: You cannot defeat me! Where there is light, there will always be shadow!Lloyd: Unless my light is brighter!(cue massive Final Battle climax)
- The Owl House:
- At the Blight Industries expo in "Escaping Expulsion", Amity's mother, Odalia, tries to scold her for defying her orders by using a necklace to communicate to her, only for the former to single-handedly destroy the other half of said necklace. When Odalia tells her to stay away from Luz, Amity, finally having enough of the constant abuse and manipulations she had to put up for years, stands up to her mother while rescuing Luz from Blight Industries' latest product and for always trying to control her life at every turn. What really sells it is when Amity threatens to make the company lose all of their investors if Odalia doesn't let Luz and their friends back into Hexside.
- In "Elsewhere and Elsewhen", Philip Wittebane tricks Luz and Lilith into being bait for a monster so he can retrieve a treasure. When they survive and catch up to him, he's so confident in his ability to manipulate people that he tells them to their faces that he might give them what they want if they let themselves be used as bait again. Lilith responds by punching him in the face before leaving with her niece.
- Luz gives one to Emperor Belos in "King's Tide". He, having gone back to his original identity as the witch hunter Philip Wittebane, tries to persuade her to join him, as he thinks she has been manipulated and corrupted by what he thinks are the Always Chaotic Evil denizens of the Boiling Isles. Luz responds by pointing out how he talks a big game about "saving humanity from evil" when he's hardly human anymore himself.Luz: You are such a hypocrite.
- Near the end of "Watching and Dreaming", Belos, who is dissolving in the boiling-hot rain, tries to talk Luz into sparing him, saying she'd be no better than the "wicked" witches and demons if she lets him die, and that as a human she has to be "better than this." Luz's mentor Eda interrupts with "Well, we ain't!" as she, Raine, and King stomp what's left of Belos to death.
- The Powerpuff Girls have no time for any villain's shenanigans.
- One that deserves special mention is their reply to Mojo Jojo's (who just seemingly beat them in his One-Winged Angel form) Break Them by Talking in the movie:Mojo Jojo: Can't you see? None of them will ever understand you the way I can. For we are kindred spirits whose powers spring from the same source. So girls, do not make me destroy you! For we are smarter! We are stronger! We are invincible! We have the power! We are superior to them! And we shall rule! All we have to do is work together. Girls, join me.
Powerpuff Girls: NOOOOO!
Blossom: We'd never join you! And it's because we are stronger!
Bubbles: Because we are invincible!
Buttercup: Because we have the power!
Powerpuff Girls: Because we've got to protect them from you!
Blossom: It's you who is to be feared!
Bubbles: Because you are a monster!
Buttercup: Because you are evil!
Powerpuff Girls: And you are...it! (they push him off a skyscraper) - Another very ironic example: In one episode, a bump on the head made Bubbles think she was Mojo. Apparently, Mojo found listening to her imitation of his endless rants just as annoying the Girls found it when he did it, so he just yelled "OH, SHUT UP!" and clocked her with a steel beam. (Unfortunately for him, he went right back to doing the exact same thing, and didn't notice that he had knocked the sense back into her, and well, you can probably guess how it ended.)
- In "Princess Buttercup", Princess has Blossom and Bubbles trapped after paying a gang of tough girls to befriend Buttercup and keep her away:Princess: Because a true superstar, me, knows when to go solo. After all, I'm pretty much the most beautiful, the most talented, the most powerful—
(Buttercup flies in and clocks her.)
Buttercup: The most annoying!
- One that deserves special mention is their reply to Mojo Jojo's (who just seemingly beat them in his One-Winged Angel form) Break Them by Talking in the movie:
- Regular Show: In "Eggscellent", after Rigby is in comatose after an allergic reaction to eggs, Mordecai and his co-workers are told that he may be on the verge of death. Benson then makes a couple of callous remarks towards Rigby's state, only for Mordecai to punch him in the face and give him "The Reason You Suck" Speech.Benson: Well, I hope you've learned something from this.Mordecai: What?(Mordecai punches Benson in the face and his co-workers try to restrain Mordecai)Benson: Mordecai, what are you doing?Mordecai: What's your problem?! This has nothing to do with work! He just wanted the hat!Benson: And look where it got you! That friend over there is only gonna get you in trouble!Benson: I have friends.Mordecai: No, you don't! Everyone only hangs out with you because you're our boss! Rigby only wanted to try and win the hat. He doesn't deserve to be put in a coma because of it.Benson: Where are you going?Mordecai: Back to the restaurant.Benson: Why?Mordecai: Because I made a promise to Rigby and I'm gonna keep it. That's what friends do for each other.
- Samurai Jack has a scene where Jack does this without saying a word. He's just defeated the Daughters of Aku and Ashi is left dangling from a tree. She launches into a rant about how she will kill Jack, and an unamused Jack simply untangles the chain she's hanging from and lets go, causing her to fall to a(n apparent) Disney Villain Death.
- South Park:
- The episode "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" (which is exactly what it sounds like) has the head of NAMBLA continually protesting that he's being discriminated against. Stan and Kyle reply:Kyle: Dude, you have sex. With. Children.
Stan: Yeah! You know, we believe in equality for everybody, and tolerance, and all that gay stuff, but dude, fuck you.
Kyle: Seriously. - "Splatty Tomato" has two examples:
- After being fed up with Heidi mocking him while she is dating Cartman, Kyle gives her an Armor-Piercing Response that leaves her speechless.Heidi: Oh, what's the matter Kyle? You don't want me around 'cause you had the hots for me and I shot you down?
Kyle: I would never have the hots for the person you are now. (Heidi is left stunned by his response) - When Heidi has a Heel Realization of her actions, Cartman (once again) threatens to kill himself to manipulate her into staying with him, but Heidi doesn't buy into it no more and breaks up with him anyway.
- After being fed up with Heidi mocking him while she is dating Cartman, Kyle gives her an Armor-Piercing Response that leaves her speechless.
- The episode "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" (which is exactly what it sounds like) has the head of NAMBLA continually protesting that he's being discriminated against. Stan and Kyle reply:
- In the Sonic Underground episode "Sleepers", Robotnik traps Sonic in a room and fires beams of vaporizing energy at him while taunting him. Sonic is not fazed in the slightest.Robotnik: Instead of "heir to the throne", you'll become the air that we breathe!Sonic: Yeah, yeah, whatever, round boy. [dodges another beam]Robotnik: Sooner or later, you'll get tired.Sonic: I'm already tired... of listening to you! Besides, this is a lame trap. I'm outta here![Sonic dodges a massive barrage of laser fire, which blasts a hole in the wall and allows him to escape]Sonic: I'm tellin' ya, Buttnik: you'll get yours!
- SpongeBob SquarePants:
- In "Pizza Delivery", an Unsatisfiable Customer makes SpongeBob cry just because his pizza didn't come with a drink (which he didn't even order), only for Squidward to immediately come to SpongeBob's defense and deck the customer with the pizza box.Customer: Another one? Look, I told your little buddy I ain't paying for that!
Squidward: Well, this one's on the HOUSE! (slams the pizza in the customer's face) - In "Born Again Krabs", the Flying Dutchman spares Mr. Krabs if he promises to be generous; he then begins giving away everything for free but has no money to pay the bills. When he learns this isn't a dream and it's literally happening, he starts taking back everything he gave which summons the Flying Dutchman, who is ready to take the crab to Davey Jones' Locker before SpongeBob sticks up for his boss and calls the Dutchman out.SpongeBob: Wait just a burger-flipping second!
Flying Dutchman: Who dares back-sass the Flying Dutchman?!
SpongeBob: That would be me: SpongeBob Back-SassPants. I say you got the wrong crab! This Mr. Krabs is the most generous, big-hearted, non-skinflinted crab in the whole sea!
Flying Dutchman: He'd sell your soul for a couple of bucks!
SpongeBob: I'd bet my soul he wouldn't!
- In "Pizza Delivery", an Unsatisfiable Customer makes SpongeBob cry just because his pizza didn't come with a drink (which he didn't even order), only for Squidward to immediately come to SpongeBob's defense and deck the customer with the pizza box.
- Star Wars Rebels: Thrawn, given his propensity for Break Them by Talking, gets hit with this more than once. Hera mocks his attempts at ingratiating himself with her, Kallus just hits him, and Ezra gives him a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech telling him how despite all his pretensions of culture, he's ultimately just a thief who doesn't make, earn, or even understand the art he takes from others. Kanan and Ezra also get the chance to talk back to Dark Side force users trying to lecture them into turning or else giving up, with perhaps the best coming from Ezra in the finale, when he tells Palpatine himself that he doesn't need anything from him.
- Steven Universe:
- In "Jailbreak", Jasper expresses disgust and disbelief that Ruby and Sapphire are fused into Garnet again, claiming that fusion is a cheap trick that weak gems use to become stronger. Garnet chuckles and proceeds to lay out exactly what fusion really is and how it makes her so much better than Jasper. Then demonstrates by kicking Jasper's ass. While singing. "Stronger Than You" is pretty much a Shut Up, Hannibal! speech in song form.
- In "Back to the Barn", after Peridot spends nearly the entire episode looking down on Pearl for being a made-to-order servant, Pearl gives her a hell of a right hook."That's right! I am a Pearl!"
- In "Crack the Whip", Jasper tries to demean Stevonnie for being a human/gem fusion. Stevonnie, who's royally ticked off at Jasper for poofing Amethyst and trying to shatter her has none of it."I don't want to hear anything you say (holds up Amethyst's Gem) unless it's "sorry".
- In Teen Titans Raven delivers one of these to Trigon. She then delivers a "Reason You Suck" Speech while repeatedly blasting him with magic in this epic scene.
- Happens in the second episode of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, when The Shredder says the turtles should join him because it was his mutagen that transformed them from their pet forms, hoping they'll ignore the little detail that he also turned Hamato Yoshi into Splinter, was actually trying to kill Yoshi and currently has Splinter tied and suspended from the ceiling. Naturally, Raphael has the perfect response: "Does the phrase 'go suck a lemon' hold any meaning for you?"
- Totally Spies!:
- Frequently used by the characters against revenge-seeking antagonists, usually in the form of "You're only doing this for revenge!" (often complete with deconstructions of any supposedly-good goals the villain has).
- Frankly a lot of villain's plans get shot down this way on the show. There's the option above, suggesting a way the villain could have used their issues/abilities for something not evil, and even, in a spectacular aversion of There Are No Therapists, suggesting self help books, hobbies, or therapy.
- Optimus Prime's defeat of Megatron in their fight in Transformers: Prime, where Megatron learns that Optimus was buying time for the other Autobots to destroy the space bridge, that would bring millions of undead Cybertronians to Earth.Megatron: Ah... Misdirection, Optimus. You would have made a fine Decepticon!*Optimus blocks Megatron's finishing strike*Optimus: I chose my side.*Optimus blasts Megatron point-blank*
- In the second season finale of X-Men: The Animated Series, Mr. Sinister gets plenty of self-righteous speechifying about the future out of the way while he has his audience chained to a wall. Eventually, the tables turn, punctuated by an optic blast from Cyclops. This doesn't stop him from weakly defying Scott's repeated request to leave his friends alone.Sinister: I can't... I won't... the world needs— (gets cut off by another blast)
Cyclops: What was that? I don't think I heard you right!- He gets it again about two minutes later. Trying to pull himself together, Sinister grumbles that "the future" (his future) can't be destroyed so easily. Jean Grey responds with a calm "Yes, it can" and a well-placed shot of telekinesis. This is appropriate, since he was trying to effectively breed a new race from the two of them.
