Times where an antagonist rejects the heroes' attempt to reason with them in Western Animation.
- In Aladdin: The Series, a dialogue like this happens after Aladdin, Jasmine, and Genie are taken captive by the titanic Al-Muddie Sultan, a villain who apparently knows a lot of tricks used by humans (keep in mind, Aladdin's true intent here is to stall for time, and it ultimately works).Aladdin: Wait! Wait!
Sultan: [annoyed] Oh, you aren't going to beg, are you? I hate begging. 'Don't eat me! Oh, don't cook me!' I swear, all you people talk about is yourselves!
Aladdin: But I'm not begging! It's an honor to be consumed by such a great... personage as yourself.
Sultan: [sarcastically] Flattery? Oh, that's novel. Stick to begging. - Avatar: The Last Airbender:
- A rare good-guy-on-good-guy version occurs when Master Pakku is refusing to teach Katara Waterbending because she's a girl:Katara: What do you mean you won't teach me? I didn't come all this way so you could tell me no!
Master Pakku: No. - Also, as tensions mount, Katara drops a challenge to Pakku. After she walks outside, with Pakku following a moment after, he just brushes her off, pissing Katara off enough to whip him.Master Pakku: Fine. You want to learn so bad? Study closely.
- In "The Boiling Rock, Part 2", Mai intervenes, allowing Zuko to escape the eponymous prison, along with Sokka and the rest of the prisoners of war. Mai's friend Azula asks why Mai would do such a thing, then tries to kill her.
- A rare good-guy-on-good-guy version occurs when Master Pakku is refusing to teach Katara Waterbending because she's a girl:
- In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "The Clock King", the eponymous villain gives one to Batman after he discovers that the Clock King has a Misplaced Retribution against Mayor Hill. The answer could sound crazy to a normal person, but Clock King is a sociopathic Schedule Fanatic. Being punctual is all that he cares about.Batman: Give it up, Fugate! Hill committed no crime against you!
Temple Fugate: He did worse than that! He made me late! - Batman: The Brave and the Bold: In "Scorn of the Star Sapphire!", Wonder Woman tells Baroness Paula Von Gunther that her warlike ways will bring her nothing but pain and sorrow, and asks if they can start over as friends and sisters. The Baroness says her speech made her sick and punches her in the face.
- Inversion from the protagonists' side: Colonel K tells Danger Mouse to "shush" (a command usually directed at Penfold) in "Bandits, Beans and Ballyhoo!" when DM gropes for an explanation as to how the bandit El Loco smuggled himself into the heroes' headquarters.
- In Drawn Together, as Spanky comes face to face with Mickey Mouse, who is erasing politically incorrect cartoons from the past, including Foxxy, he gives a speech saying that the cartoons are part of their history, and while they are not a part that they're particularly proud of, denying them is "as dangerous as denying the Holocaust, or slavery, or the playful advances of your shop teacher.Mickey: [soberly] Gosh, you've really given me something to think about, Spanky... [reverts to his typical evil and maniacal voice] WHILE I KILL THESE POLITICALLY INCORRECT FREAKS! AH-HA HA HA HA!
- Gravity Falls: Rare Evil Versus Evil example in "Weirdmageddon". When Bill crosses over from the dreamscape, Time Baby warns Bill that if he keeps invading Mabel and Dipper's home dimension, it will destroy the fabric of existence. He also tells Bill to come quietly or suffer his wrath. Bills response is "Oh no, a tantrum. What ever will I do about that— How about this?!", before obliterating him.
- Hazbin Hotel: To shut his soul's owner Alastor up, Husk smugly points out Alastor sold his soul as well. Alastor doesn't take it well, and briefly drops his Affably Evil demeanor to remind Husk whose boss.Alastor: What did you just say?
Husk: Nothin'! I, uh…
Alastor: If you ever say that again, I will tear your soul apart and broadcast your screams for every other disrespectful WRETCH! …who dares to question me.
Husk: Understood.
Alastor: Lovely. - In the Justice League Unlimited episode "Question Authority", the Question goes to kill Lex Luthor to prevent him from becoming President and creating a Stable Time Loop which causes Superman and the Justice League to become totalitarians. Long story short, Luthor laughs at him, beats him up, and tells him he has no intention of being president because his real goal is to get superpowers by putting himself in another Amazo body that he designed after seeing the blueprints for the original.Luthor: "President"... Do you have know how much power I'd have to give up to be President?
- In the Kim Possible episode "Go Team Go", Hego cluelessly assumes that Shego just needs a little inspiring talk to come back to the good side:Hego: No, I don't believe it. You may be a cranky smart mouth, prone to excessive violence, but deep down, you are still a member of Team Go... a hero.
Shego: Hego, I quit your stupid team years ago and after I quit, I went to work for a guy who wants to Take Over the World.
Kim: It's true.
Hego: But deep down...
Shego: I. Am. Evil. Have I made myself clear? - Almost every time Twilight Sparkle of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fame gets a chance to, she always delivers a speech about The Power of Friendship to the current Arc Villain before or as they're being defeated. Starlight Glimmer, in midst of her Villainous Breakdown, does not indulge her, first by interrupting her with a Big "Quiet" and then giving a Motive Rant and magic blast when Twi actually finishes.
- In one episode on Ozzy & Drix, the villain Strepfinger corners Ozzy in part of the lung with a gun (well, what passes for a gun in this place) Ozzy shouts at him not to fire it, because if he misses, he'll blow a hole in the wall and they'll be sucked outside (and the place they're in is the equivalent of the top of a skyscraper). The villain simply says, "Well then... I'd better not miss..." before trying to shoot him anyway. You can probably guess what happens...
- Samurai Jack:
- Jack was once shut up by a bounty hunter who tells him "I got bills to pay, and I already addressed the envelopes." Jack begins to respond with a clever phrase, saying "I hope you haven't yet stamped the parcels which you—" but is cut off as the bounty hunter punches him out, saying "consider 'em stamped."
- In "XCVI", a now elderly and wheelchair-bound Scotsman keeps Aku from chasing his retreating daughters by spending 45 uninterrupted seconds trash-talking him, calling him a coward for hiding from Jack for 50 years. Aku's only response is to get a bored look on his face, and then vaporize the Scotsman with his Eye Beams.
- South Park: In the Coon/Cthulhu/Mysterion saga, after Cartman/The Coon allies with Cthulhu, Kyle points out that he can't possibly make a claim to being the good guy anymore. Cartman/The Coon simply shouts "Nuh-uh!"
- Star Wars Rebels: Ezra gets one from Darth Vader at the Sith temple on Malachor.Ezra: I don't fear you!
Vader: Then you will die braver than most. - M. Bison from Street Fighter cartoon delivers one when confronted by Chun Li.Chun-Li: Monster! You killed my—
Bison: Yes, yes, I killed your father. What is it with you women, anyway?! I killed my father too, and you don't hear me whining about it! - Steven Universe: The Movie: Spinel interrupts Steven's No More Holding Back Song by spiking him about a thousand yards back down onto the injector, screaming that he "can't make everything better by singing some stupid song", which, fair point, he can't. However, that missed the point of the song: he can't make her change, she has to actually want to change and take responsibility for herself.
- Megatron does this to a speechifying Optimus Primal in the second episode of Beast Machines, by pointing out that his failure to purge himself of his organic Beast Mode pales in comparison to Primal's failures.Primal: Look at yourself, Megatron. See the thing you despise the most. Cybertron will never be pure so long as the beast exists within you. You've failed.
Megatron: No, Primal. You have failed. You're still too late to save your people. Billions of Transformers. Their extinguished sparks are on your hands!
Primal: What have you done with them?!
Megatron: Perhaps if you'd won the Beast Wars, things would be different. Who's to say?
