History Main / IShallTauntYou

** Similarly, in a comic book {{Flashback}} to her first confrontation with the Joker, Batgirl (the Barbara Gordon version) stops him from finishing off a wounded Batman by laughing at him, thus stalling him until the police arrive.
** Later, the Cassandra Cain version of Batgirl pulls a similar trick by walking away from the Joker in the middle of a fight and saying, "Bored. You're boring." (It helped that [[GenreSavvy she knew of Barbara's earlier gambit]].)

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Sometimes this is inverted as an IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight. See also DefiantToTheEnd, TeachHimAnger.

* During their match at the end of the Buu saga, [[DragonballZ Goku]] angered Oob into attacking him by insulting his parents and using racist pejoratives.

* The bad guy in JohnRingo's ''[[CouncilWars There Will Be Dragons]]'' tries to do this, then the good guy does, and does it a whole lot better.

* Also used in Star Trek: First contact. After the Borg have taken over most of the Enterprise, captain Picard stubbornly refuses to activate the self-destruct sequence and evacuate the ship. In what this troper considers Patrick Stewarts best acting ever, Lily proceeds to taunt Picard until Picard loses it and delivers a furious tirade against the Borg, which in turn makes him realize his hatred of the Borg is affecting his judgement.

* In ''MondayNightCombat'', finishing a taunt gives you $5, finishing a taunt practically immediately gives you $100, finishing a taunt soon after a kill gives you $50, and getting damaged while taunting gives you extra juice.

* There was an episode of ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' where Aang does this and makes Zhao set his entire fleet on fire, and later [[spoiler:Azula wastes the heroes' time during the eclipse by mocking Sokka about Suki]].

* While he doesn't often use it against his enemies, [[TMNT2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle]] Michelangelo, in true sibling fashion, knows that taunting is a hugely effective weapon againt Raphael, and will always use it when fighting him.

-->-- '''Sun Tzu''', ''The Art of War''.

* Some titles have pre-recorded taunts for use in-game - this troper particularly loves the ones in ''AgeOfEmpires II'' ("All hail! King of the losers!", "Nice town. I'll take it.", "My granny can scrap better than that!").
** {{Unreal}} Tournament games have these for the bots and players alike. The bots spout one after every kill, and you have the option of the game doing so for you as well.

* In ''{{Igor}}'', Dr. Schadenfreude does this to Eva to goad her into hitting him, which will active her dormant evil bone and turn her into an [[ImplacableMan unstoppable monster]].

* ''CouncilWars'' Dionys [=McCanoc=]'s pitiful attempts at taunting Edmund Talbot, and almost two pages of Edmund Talbot showing him [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome how it's done]].

* In ''PlanescapeTorment'' this is [[DeadpanSnarker Morte the Mimir's]] special ability - to taunt and hurl insults so enemies will drop whatever they're doing to chase him - this works especially well on the SquishyWizard (or at least it's [[RuleOfFunny Funnier]]).

* This is how {{tank}}s work in an MMO with any kind of hate/threat system. The tank "taunts" the enemy to make it attack the offender rather than to judge the situation correctly and go for the squishy wizard or the healer.

* The "Provoke" move in ''FinalFantasyX'' that anyone can learn forces the enemy to attack only the caster. the animations are different for each character, like slapping your ass (Rikku) to pointing at the enemy then to yourself (Wakka).

** Although this one works, it isn't by making Jafar angry; rather when Aladdin points out that that the Genie is still more powerful than Jafar is, Jafar realizes this is true and orders the Genie to change him. It's more taking advantage of Jafar's arrogance than playing off his temper.

* This is one of the most common tactics of [[{{Troll}} trolls]].

* Seto Kaiba of {{Yu-Gi-Oh}} loves this technique.

*** '''Domino:''' "I always forget (or just block out to spare myself the agony) what Wilson's most lethal weapon is... his mouth! He'll talk nonsense until you surrender or commit suicide."