History Main / IShallTauntYou

* Used ''a lot'' in ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'' to varying amounts of success. One of the more famous examples has Zhuge Liang, wanting to bring his rival, Sima Yi, out of his defensive position, sends him a dress and women's make up with a note saying "If you are unable to fulfill your duties as a man, dress in this outfit and act like a woman instead." This example is notable in that it is the rare instance where Zhuge Liang ''failed''. Sima Yi just laughed and put on the outfit anyway, spoiling Zhuge Liang's plan

* In addition to the taunting-like moves in the video games (see that section), there are characters that are known to taunt others in the anime version of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''. The most frequent taunter is Ash's [=Treecko/Grovyle/Sceptile=] in the ''Advanced Generation'' era. In his earliest appearance, [=AG007=], he smacked his rear at Team Rocket's Cacnea, angering it into shooting his Pin Missile at the Team Rocket balloon and sending them blasting off. He also did "Nanny Nanny Boo-Boo" in his PokemonSpeak at Meowth in the Pikachu short ''Gotta Dance!''

* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', one of Gates's hobbies is trash-talking to the twins Xia Yu Lan and Fan, both of them being [[TheStoic not very expressive]]. Much to his satisfaction, Gates finally hits a nerve when [[DeadGuyOnDisplay he grabs the younger of the twins (deceased) and does some kind of sick drama/puppet show game just to break the elder sister]], It goes perfectly for him since when Fan loses her cool she lowered her guard and Gates ends her with few blows.

* In episode 4 of ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'', Shiroe purposely mispronounced Demikas' name twice ("demi-glace" and "delicious") to enrage him and get him separated from his main party. He continues doing this when he meets Demikas again in the second season, but in that case he was just being a {{Troll}}: there was no strategy behind it.

* ''LightNovel/TheMisfitOfDemonKingAcademy'': When Anos's mother Izabella is attacked by [[spoiler:Emilia in an attempt to steal Anos's sword]], the Anos Fan Union stand in her attacker's way, but are overwhelmed. Because the attack is motivated by hatred towards the hybrid Anos defeating Royals, the girls begin singing the cheer song they made for Anos. This enrages their assailant enough to start attacking them one by one, ignoring Izabella. This move buys enough time for [[spoiler:Anos to arrive, heal them, and put an end to Emilia's attack]]. The act earns Anos's respect such that he swears to remember their names for the rest of their lives.

* In the final battle of ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'', when LLENN and Pitouhui are one on one, LLENN gets Pito to open herself up to attack by mocking Sword Art Online. Pito, who's carrying a lot of baggage over SAO, charges recklessly and gets knifed multiple times by LLENN for her mistake.

* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'': Yuri Hyuga tends to taunt enemies in cut scenes, particularly Lenny, mocking the guy's intelligence until Lenny in anger [[IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou tells them exactly what they wanted to know]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', in the climax, Mei tries to distract a [[spoiler:transformed and out-of-control Ming]] by shaking her butt in front of her while her family tries to prepare and perform the ritual again.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', in the climax, Mei tries to distract a [[spoiler:transformed and out-of-control Ming]] by ShakingTheRump at her while her family tries to prepare and perform the ritual again.

* ''Literature/CodexAlera'': In ''Captain's Fury'', Tavi, dueling a considerably more skilled opponent, is able to defeat her by working out her mental weakpoint and talking her into a berserk rage. It turns out this runs in the family, as his aunt Isana pulls of a similar feat in Princeps' Fury.

'''Supergirl:''' ''"You think so, Faora—- with those looks and no personality?"''\\

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]]: The Doctor does this a lot, but in the Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''Camera Obscura'', he goes all out in one scene, mostly just to get back at Sabbath for making his life very, very difficult. He does [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace all]] [[TermsOfEndangerment kinds]] [[SillyLoveSongs of]] intentionally romantic things (well, Sabbath ''did'' [[OrganTheft steal]] [[HeartTrauma his heart]]), hides a whoopee cushion in his sofa, flops on his desk like a cat while Sabbath is looking at something, folds his papers up into [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]], sings to him, etc. Do not piss off the Doctor, or he'll teach you how it's done.

* In ''Literature/TheWitchlands'', when Leopold finds Vaness aboard her ruined ship after her run-in with Merik, he spends his visit aboard taunting her, likely to preserve his image of a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'', Batman (Terry [=McGinnis=]) delivers an epic BoringInsult to, of all people, the Joker. He successfully drives the clown [[VillainousBreakdown over the edge]], ''[[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine by laughing at him]]'' and calling his attempts to make the original Batman laugh silly. After all, the only thing worse for a comedian than a [[ToughRoom silent audience]] is TheHeckler. For all his snark about others' failings, being trash-talked at is the one thing the Joker won't tolerate. It is a brilliant IronicEcho to Joker's own taunting of the original Batman after finding out his identity, mocking him for being "a little boy in a play suit crying for mommy and daddy," with the insult being thrown right back at his face. The SmugSnake MonsterClown façade crumbles, and only the monster remains from that point on.

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* Examples in ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'':
** During their first duel, Valmont mocks Jackie about Captain Black whom he injured with the Dragon Talisman. Jackie's resulting anger makes him attack Valmont recklessly, and the crime lord gains the upper hand.
** A while later, Jackie returns the favor when he reaches Valmont, who's escaping on a barge with the gold stolen from Fort Knox. Jackie mocks Valmont while tossing the gold overboard, making Valmont to blast a hole onto the barge and sink it.

* Lelouch as Zero calling Jeremiah Orange in reference to his disgrace during season 1 of ''Anime/CodeGeass''.
* In ''Anime/CrossAnge'', during their fight in episode 24, Tusk brags about how he slept with Ange, a woman Embryo had been lusting after for most of the series. This causes Embryo to go completely berserk and forget about his Chessmaster tactics.

* Some games have pre-recorded taunts for use in-game, such as ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII'' ("All hail! King of the losers!", "Nice town. I'll take it.", "My granny can scrap better than that!").

* One time in 2005, Chris Masters was guarding Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Lita}}. Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield appears in the parking lot and mocks Masters on the [=TitanTron=], calling him names like "orangutan" and "monkey". Enraged, Masters runs out to the parking lot to confront him. JBL says he fell for it, then in the ring, Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr sneaks in and attacks Edge and Lita.

* ''Film/HappyGilmore'': Shooter hires a heckler who taunts Gilmore for many holes. After Gilmore is thoroughly riled up, he ends up venting on Creator/BobBarker, [[CurbStompBattle who cleans his clock effortlessly]]/

* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': In "Bullies", Valmont gets his hands on the dragon talisman, which provides the power of combustion, which he uses to rob Fort Knox. Jackie follows him, and remembering his own struggles with his BerserkButton (Captain Black's injuries by Valmont) throughout the episode, decides to press Valmont's BerserkButton by tossing gold overboard, while sarcastically asking things like "How much is this gold worth? A new Ferrari?" [[VillainousBreakdown Valmont loses it, fires at Jackie in a rage,]] [[WhatAnIdiot and proceeds to sink his own raft.]]