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- Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin has this in spades.
Gin: Now you'll see why I'm called "the Shooting Star"! |
- Mazinger Z and its sequels (Great Mazinger, UFO Robo Grendizer, Mazinkaiser, Shin Mazinger...) provide plentiful examples:
Sayaka (Mazinger Z manga): What are you saying, Papa? Are you saying we should let it run wild even more? I can't do that! Even if Aphrodite gets destroyed...! I will fight...! I´ll take down that demon that's destroyed our town!! |
- And in Mazinkaiser Kouji and Tetsuya got the next exchange:
Kouji: Very well. I'll deal with the Mechanical Beasts. |
- And in the Shin Mazinger Zero manga, Mazinger was chained and inmobilized by a Mechanical Beast as another was trying to impale it:
Kouji: But... I won't lose! Mazinger Z will definitely not lose! |
- To Aru Majutsu no Index provides a very good example with the Accelerator:
"I strive for something beyond the strongest, that challenging me would be the most ridiculous thought ever, that fighting me would be an unforgivable sin!". |
- And another for Accelerator:
"This is not a negotiation. It is not a suggestion, not a trade, not a petition, not an agreement, not a compromise, not a surrender. This is my victory march, you stupid bastards!" |
- Acqua of the Back has:
"Pick any unreasonable fight with me and I will shorten your lifespan." |
- Fiamma of the Right has:
"I am Fiamma of the Right. If that isn’t enough of a hint for you, then you really need to rebuild your intelligence agency from the ground up." |
- From Touma himself:
"God, if the world really goes by your rules, then I'm gonna smash that illusion apart!" |
- Another from Touma, in the rematch with Accelerator :
Does a Level 0 like me really seem that incredible?! Hero? Villain? Stop kidding around! Can’t you save someone if you’re not standing at that spot?! In front of your eyes are people that don’t wish to cry that are crying! In front of your eyes are people that can only clench their teeth while struggling and can’t even say the words ‘please save me’! Is that not enough!! Just step up already!! You don’t need special positions or reasons!! With these, you can step up and be a shield for them!! |
- Yet another:
Accelerator on Kakine: Between me and you, there is an impassable wall. |
- And another:
Fiamma, just before all his plans crash and burn: I'm about to save this world. Therefore, I have no more use for you. Feel the glory, meatbag. Your value as a human being, obediently let me have it. |
- And the answer of Touma before crashing Fiamma plans:
Our world is not so weak that it needs to be saved by a bastard like that. |
- Kyon from Suzumiya Haruhi. You've gotta hand it to him. In the 1st book, Melancholy, he nearly got killed by Ryoko. In the 4th book, after nearly being killed by her a second time due to a humongous in-universe Retcon, he threatens the Integrated Data Sentient Entity into not deleting Yuki. This is the IDSE, who's nothing but data, and cannot be detected. Kyon threatens it by convincing it that he can provoke Haruhi by saying that he is John Smith. It works.
- Obviously the above failed to capture the sheer awesomeness of his boast. Let us reiterate. He tells a superintelligent alien god to back down. And it does. "If anything happens to Yuki Nagato, I will unleash hell."
- Parodied in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. Patrick Corlasawar in the 1st episode claims to be unbeatable throughout 200 simulation battles in front of The Stoic Setsuna, only to be easily cut down by the latter. And he spends the rest of his lifetime being Team Patrick.
- Specifically, he gets cut down while boasting. The attacks do not stop his mouth. He finishes just before he hits the ground.
- He repeats this throughout the show in almost every apperance, still being either defeated before or just after he finishes his boast and/or promises a win to his commanding officer.
- The Lord of Nightmares, from Slayers NEXT, introduces herself this way.
"I am darkness beyond blackest pitch, deeper than the deepest night. I am the Sea of Chaos...the source of all chaos. That is how you describe me. I am...the Lord of Nightmares." |
- "Throughout the sea, men speak of my strength, greater than any living man. A vast crew of eight thousand men follow at my back! Know fear, for I am CAPTAIN USOPP!": A subversion from noted liar and coward Usopp, of One Piece.
- "I travel the seas of the world, obliterating every enemy in my path. I can't count how many ships I've sunk. People fearfully call me Lord of Destruction. Remember my name well. CAPTAIN USOPP!" He's rather fond of this trope
- Later on, he develops his own theme song and a Superhero identity to go with it named Soge King.
- And yet, stories he told Kaiya during his introduction, such as fighting a giant woman, have happened. Maybe it's not so much a boast as a prediction.
- Don't forget the giant goldfish that he claimed to have followed around the seas—only to encounter one when leaving Little Garden.
- After the timeskip, he notes how far he's come. "I've really degraded as a liar. Now, I can actually do these things!"
- Later on, he develops his own theme song and a Superhero identity to go with it named Soge King.
- Ahem: I AM WHITEBEARD!!!
- No description needed. Just his name.
- Even Luffy has done this. "There is no one in the world who can beat me, because I am a rubberman!"
- At Thriller Bark: In response to "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down": "No one can hammer me down, because I'm a rubber man!"
- At Enies Lobby: "We have ten thousand men guarding this island! This is the greatest fortress of justice in the world!". "Yeah, and I'm alone, so GET OUTTA MY WAY!"
- The Arlong fight has a rather fun Self-Deprecation variant. Luffy explains to Arlong that he lacks all of the most basic skills a pirate should have, leading Arlong into asking why someone like him would have an entire crew following him. The answer? Because what Luffy does specialize in is beating the everloving shit out of guys like Arlong.
- And there's a lot more where that came from, too numerous to list.
- "I travel the seas of the world, obliterating every enemy in my path. I can't count how many ships I've sunk. People fearfully call me Lord of Destruction. Remember my name well. CAPTAIN USOPP!" He's rather fond of this trope
- In Princess Mononoke, Eboshi has many qualities of a Lady, but humility is not among them. Which she makes perfectly clear when she accusses the emperors own elite soldiers of being cowards during the final showdown.
Now watch closely, everyone. I'm going to show you how to kill a god. A god of life and death. The trick is not to fear him. |
- It even works, but it does not turn out as she suspected. Not at all.
- Kamina is very fond of doing this in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
- His first one goes something like this:
Kamina: I'll tell you who I am, so listen up with those big damn ears of yours! In Giha village, Team Gurren's name resounds with notoriety! And its ruthless, indomitable leader - with the flame of a man's soul burning at his back... is the Great Kamina! THAT'S WHO I AM! |
- Then the combining of Gurren with Lagann to create one of the titular mechs...
Kamina: Remember this, Beastie! Combining is when two fighting spirits COLLIDE! It sets a man's soul on fire. COMBINING OF COURAGE: GURREN LAGANN! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?! |
- Simon also becomes quite skilled at it, too. As in spending the last episodes with ALL his lines being of that kind. While fighting god-like enemies.
- He gives an excellent one after Kamina dies.
- Simon also becomes quite skilled at it, too. As in spending the last episodes with ALL his lines being of that kind. While fighting god-like enemies.
Simon: My bro has died! He's no longer here! But! Here on my back and here in my heart, he lives on as a PART OF ME! If you're gonna dig, dig to pierce the heavens! Even if it's my own grave I'm digging, I keep going! Once I've dug my way through, that means I've won! Who the hell do you think I am? I'm Simon! Not Kamina or bro! I'm ME! Simon the Digger! (enemy gunman attacks, it differs based on the manga, anime, or movie) Finishing move! Giga... Drill... BREAAAAAAAKEEERRRRRRR!!! |
- When this page was first in YKTTW, Kamina was going to be the Trope Namer.
- Hell, almost everybody in the show does this before (and sometimes during) a big fight, usually ending with some variation on "JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE!!!" Every single time it's a Crowning Moment of Awesome - and often a Crowning Moment of Funny - and each one more awesome than the last. Heck, there's even a multi-person Badass Boast in the final episode. And it is sweeeeeet.
Simon: Don't underestimate us! We don't care about time, or space, or multi-dimensional whatevers... We don't give a damn about that! Force your way down a path you choose to take and do it all yourself. That's the way Team Dai-Gurren Rolls! |
- And in the final episode...
Anti-Spirals: How... how can this be? WHERE ARE YOU DRAWING ALL OF THIS POWER?!? |
- It's a slightly lesser example comparatively speaking, but no less epic...
Jorgun and Balinbow: Who gives a damn about galaxies? Our stomachs... are way bigger! |
- Oh, who are we kidding? Gurren Lagann might as well be called "Badass Boast: The Anime."
- The Wolkenritter of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha rattle one off when they return for the final battle of the second season.
Signum: We are the guardian knights who gather before our mistress, she of the Night Sky. |
- Vita gets one all on her own in StrikerS, "I am the iron knight Vita, and this is the steel count Graf Eisen. There is nothing in this world we cannot destroy," which also gets turned back on her in the most heartrending scene in the series when she begins to despair thinking she cannot live up to it.
- And then heartWARMING when she does indeed live up to it.
- Vita gets one all on her own in StrikerS, "I am the iron knight Vita, and this is the steel count Graf Eisen. There is nothing in this world we cannot destroy," which also gets turned back on her in the most heartrending scene in the series when she begins to despair thinking she cannot live up to it.
Hayate, holding the bloody and near-dead Vita: The iron knight Vita and the steel count Graf Eisen. There is nothing in this world they cannot destroy. |
- "The Nanoha that you've always looked up to is an undefeated Ace who will not lose to anybody."
- Cell from Dragonball Z gets one in the Final Battle of his arc: "I am the end of the Universe!!"
- Goku gets a heroic one earlier on, against Frieza.
Goku: I am the hope of the universe! I am the answer to all living things that cry out for peace! I am protector of the innocent! I am the light in the darkness! I am Truth! Ally to good, nightmare to you! |
- The version in the redub Dragon Ball Kai is better (and also the first time Goku uses his full name in an English dub):
Goku: I'm a proud Saiyan who calls Earth home, and I'm here to defeat you. I am the warrior you've heard of in legend, pure of heart and awakened by fury, that's what I am. I AM THE SUPER SAIYAN, SON GOKU! |
- Subverted when Vagabond's Yoshioka Denshichirou tries to use his lineage (as son of Yoshioka Kempo) against the intimidating and highly-skilled Sasaki Kojirou, only for Kojirou's companion Ito Ittousai to point out that not only does Kojirou probably not know who Kempo is... but Kojirou's deaf. (Later on against Miyamoto Musashi, Denshichirou admits that he used to do this to intimidate.) Used much more effectively by Musashi later, who otherwise usually avoided this:
Swordsman: You bastard! I'll kill you! |
- From Code Geass:
Lelouch: I am Zero. The man who leads the Black Knights, who challenges the Holy Britannian Empire. The one who holds the entire world in his hand. |
- And let's not forget:
Lelouch: My name is Lelouch vi Brittania, eldest son of Empress Marianne, the prince who was abandoned by his empire. If anyone wishes to stop me, let them try. If there is anyone who can go beyond my despair. |
- Lord Jeremiah Gottwald (a.k.a. "Orange boy") gets one as well when fighting Anya:
Jeremiah: Memorize this! Memorize Jeremiah Gottwald! Commit it to memory, because that's the memorable name of the man who has defeated you. |
- Lelouch is full of these. For another one, right after he regains his memories in the first episode of R2:
Lelouch: The world has to change, and I will change it. |
- From the Black Knights' public debut:
Lelouch: Wherever oppressors abuse their power by attacking those who are powerless, we shall appear again, no matter how mighty, how formidable our foe may be. Those of you with power: fear us! Those of you without it: rally behind us! We, the Black Knights, shall be the ones who stand in judgment of this world! |
- And when Zero makes his big return in Season 2:
Lelouch: So long as the strong oppress the weak, my rebellion will continue to grow! It begins today with the divine punishment I have wrought upon the inept and foolish Viceroy Carales. I shall fight, against all those who abuse their power! |
- And in the final epsiode:
Lelouch: Attention entire world! Hear my proclamation: I am Lelouch vi Brittania, Emperor of the Holy Brittanian Empire and your only ruler. |
Schneizel has surrendered to me. As a result of this, I am now in control of both the Damocles and the FLEIJA weapons, and even the Black Knights no longer possess the strength to oppose me now. If anyone dares to resist my supreme authority, they shall know the devestating power of the FLEIJ As. Those who could challege my military rule no longer exist. Yes, from this day, from this moment forward, the world belongs to me! |
Lelouch vi Brittania commands you: Obey me subjects! Obey me world! |
- In Naruto the title character gets quite a few, but one in particular stands out:
Naruto: It doesn't matter how strong my opponent is. If he tears off my arms, I'll just kick him dead. If he tears off my legs, I'll bite him dead. If he tears off my head, I'll stare him dead. If he gouges out my eyes, then I'll curse him dead! Even if I get chopped into pieces, I'm gonna beat Orochimaru and take my friend, Sasuke, back once and for all! |
- And Shikamaru of all people proves to be pretty badass, when he's willing to get OFF his ass.
"You and your god don't frighten me. You see, you and I believe in different things. You wanna know what I believe in? The Will of Fire. Right now, the god you should be worried about isn't your stupid Jashin or anyone else; it's me... because I'm the one who's about to pass judgement." |
- Chouza Akimichi gets one when Dan, Tsunade's old boyfriend, remarks how big Chouza has grown. His reply? "I'm about to get a hell of a lot bigger."
- Just let someone ask Jiraiya who he is.
A (Fourth Raikage): Damn Uchiha brat! I will teach you to fear my wrath. |
- Though Itachi Uchiha is usually a person of few words,he did make a pretty badass boast to kakashi back in part 1.
"For someone who is not of the Uchiha Clan, you have mastered the Sharingan well; however, not being one of us, you lack our physical strength, and that's something you can't copy. Why is it that the Uchiha Clan is known by all... and feared by all? I'll show you what the Sharingan can do when it's wielded by a true heir of the bloodline." |
- He gets another one in part 2:
Every Jutsu has a weakness. And that jutsu's[1] weakness... is me. |
- Sakura Haruno does not take Sasori namedropping Orochimaru very well.
"I will get you, do you hear me?! You can blow my limbs off. You can poison me 'till I can't move anymore, but I'm still going to get you! No matter what you pull, no matter what you throw at me, I'm going to make sure you tell me everything about Orochimaru! Is that clear?!" |
- Evangeline A.K. McDowell of Mahou Sensei Negima when she appears to kick the ass of some summoned Demon God:
Evangeline: I am the vampire Evangeline, Gospel of Darkness, evil mage without equal! All that lives must face death! I shall bring you peace! |
- Much later, Nodoka, of all people, makes one to the mage who erased Craig and Aisha.
Nodoka: I am Miyazaki Nodoka, Treasure Hunter and member of Ala Alba. My counterattack starts here. |
- And boy, does it ever.
- From Bleach
Byakuya: Disappear. My sword does not exist to crush insects like you. |
- After an enemy comments on the lack of security at 1st Division Headquarters:
Yamamoto: I am here. There is no better security than this. |
- Particularly of note is the number two Espada, Barragan Luisenbarn. Virtually every word out of his mouth is one of these.
Barragan: You're trying to figure out my power, but can't, aren't you? Each Espada represents an aspect of Death. These are ten reasons why people die. Loneliness. Sacrifice. Nihilism. Despair. Destruction. Intoxication. Madness. Rage. And my aspect is Old Age. 'Old Age', meaning 'Time'. It is the most powerful, and most inevitable aspect of Death. Everyone must face it eventually. Look...with just a touch, I can rot your very bones. |
- As you can see, whether he comes off as badass or a boring ball of Narm depends largely on the quality of the translation.
- All this time, and not a single mention of Kenpachi Zaraki?
Kenpachi: I'll let you go ahead and have the first strike. I'll stand here and you can cut me any way you want. You can go for my throat, or my gut. Take out my eyeball if you want. Or, if you're lucky you might kill me with a single strike. |
- Light Yagami in Death Note: "I will be the god of the new world!" and, "I AM JUSTICE!"
- Black Star from Soul Eater occasionally messes up, but normally proceeds to kick ass after telling his opponents how he is "the man who will surpass God".
Black Star:Holy am I alone throughout heaven and Earth! I am the star! Got that!? |
- Seto Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh!! ends just about every sentence with "Now if you'll excuse me, I have a multi-million dollar company to run!" He then proceeds to swagger off, leaving all the other characters rather confused and angry.
- Hajime no Ippo: Takamura does one to Bryan Hawk, although in his head.
"That smug look of yours... I bet you've never lost a brawl before, have you? Unfortunately for you... That's only because I've never been to America!" |
- He also does one in a match against a random opponent that managed to really piss him off.
"Smirking like that... pissing me off! And what are you looking so happy about? That pisses me off! That really pisses me off! All you people are PISSING ME OFF!! Who do you think I am? I... AM... TAKAMURA MAMORU-SAMA!!" |
- Final Fantasy VII Advent Children features dueling boasts, delivered by dueling enemies. At the conclusion of his fight with Sephiroth, Cloud tells him "Stay where you belong...in my memories." Sephiroth's response to this is to look Cloud in the eye and declare "I will never be a memory."
- Made especially awesome to those who speak Latin, as Sephiroth is quoting his newly-revamped theme song, Advent: One-Winged Angel
- From Zombie Powder, we have Gifful, the Great Undead Box. "There is nothing that can kill me! You still think I am a small fry? Huh, Akutabi Gamma???" and the response...
- Listen, I don’t care what you guys do around the universe. This is my sword, and anywhere it can reach is my country! Bastards who come in and try to mess with my things... whether it be a general, whether it be space pirates, whether it be a meteorite... I’ll destroy them!
- Hellsing has quite a few:
Luke Valentine: "I was designed to surpass you in every way! I was born to be your death!" It does not end well for him. |
- Fairy Tail has had it's fair share
Natsu:"Mages of Fairy Tail, specialize in property damage!" |
- Even The Stoic Sousuke Sagara tries to drop one in the final episode of The Second Raid. Emphasis on tries.
Gates: You little shit! Just who in the hell do you think you are?! |
- Action Girl Ran Mouri does one around the end of a Non-Serial Movie of Detective Conan.
I remember everything now...how you shot Miss Sato...and how I won my karate championship! |
- Keima from The World God Only Knows has a good one during the Yui Goidou arc.
You Weiss inside of me... prepare yourself... even when I turned into a woman, I'm still the 'Capturing God'! |
- In Kara no Kyoukai, Shiki boasts that, "I can kill anything that exists- even if it's a god."
- Genjuro from Senki Zesshou Symphogear has a minor one in episode 10
Overcoming helples situations is our job! |
Okabe: I'll say it again. I am the Mad Scientist, Hououin Kyouma, and the world is in the palm of my hand! |
Elle (or pretty much any other SS user really): I am invincible, my Shadow Skills perfectly honed! The power of my blow... has NO EQUAL! |
- ↑ Impure World Resurrection