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The worst insult conceivable to a villain who prides himself on the fact that he's a genius. He's called out on being boring, predictable, and overall, just not particularly interesting. This may very well send him into a berserk rage or even a total breakdown, particularly if he can't counter any of the points his enemy is making. Could be a case of Bullying a Dragon from a Fearless Fool, or the hero being Disappointed by the Motive. See also Shut Up, Hannibal! and Kirk Summation. If you're looking for actual boring insults, try Lame Comeback. If you're looking for a Fan Speak term associated with calling a work/character boring, see Eight Deadly Words. |
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Sherlock gets one in his final confrontation with Moriarty: There was a moment of this in "A Study in Pink." Cabbie Jeff Hope pulls a gun (really a lighter shaped like a gun) on Sherlock. Sherlock practically rolls his eyes. There's also a set of Sherlock reviewing cases to see if he'll take them, and telling potential clients he's either bored, or that they're boring. |
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In his final confrontation with The Lich on Adventure Time Finn says this regarding the Lich and how evil and malevolent it is. Plenty of characters in the show that Finn has encountered have all sorts of back stories or reasons for why they act the way they do, the Lich is ultimately nothing but hardwired destructiveness and anti-life. | |
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GoldenEye: Subverted when Bond faces Janus towards the end, Boris just smirks and Janus points Bond fails to understand the real plan. | |
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Inverted in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony; the absolute highest praise Kokichi Oma can give someone is telling them that they weren't boring. He reassures Kaede with this phrase when she's about to be executed. | |
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Bleach: If a fight is too easy, Kenpachi will tend to call it boring, like when he and Byakuya easily defeat Yammy or when he kills Giriko with one slash. After Tsukishima uses his powers to read Byakuya's past and memorize all his techniques, he repeatedly pulls the Nonchalant Dodge on Byakuya's attacks and calls him boring. Byakuya has to pull an Indy Ploy to defeat him. Gremmy pulls a Nonchalant Dodge on Yachiru's sword swing and calls her boring. |
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In Shawn Michaels and Chris Jericho's WrestleMania 19 match, after Jericho started using standard mat wrestling instead of his usual arsenal, Shawn mocked him by miming going to sleep. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts II, one of Xigbar's battle quotes in the first half of the fight is him taunting Sora with "You're putting me to sleep, bucko!" if Sora goes a long time without attacking him. | |
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In Batman: Arkham Knight, Two-Face uses this trope against The Riddler when they are locked in the same cell along with the other villains. However, since he suffers from a disorder that forces him to rely on a coin flip in order to come up with decisions, and he's talking to a narcissist with genius intellect who enjoys insulting others intelligence, this backfires hilariously. | |
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Angel derides Penn, a vampire he sired, for being so lacking in imagination that he's spent the last hundred years doing the same set of kills over and over again. He backs this up by accurately describing Penn's serial killer wall despite never having seen it. | |
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Honor Harrington: In Mission of Honor, this is invoked by a Manticoran official in the Spindle System, when they are hailed by an approaching Solarian fleet. First they take their sweet time answering the Solarian admiral's call, and then by the video call opening to reveal the Manticoran official reclining in his chair, reading a book, and having to be alerted to the Admiral's call by an aide, as if the approaching Solarian battle fleet was simply not worth noticing, compared to whatever he was reading. The Plan being to taunt the Solarians into firing the first shot of the inevitable battle, so that the Manticorans can dispatch the fleet while still claiming self-defense. | |
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The Joker has been tripped up by this insult repeatedly in various different Batman works; he usually likes to think of himself as unpredictable, chaotic, and something of an artistic genius, so pointing out that his evil plans actually tend towards being repetitive, uncreative and samey is something of a Berserk Button for him. On the other hand, Joker has also weaponized this (or attempted to do so) against Batman and other foes. The Cassandra Cain version of Batgirl, when fighting The Joker, suddenly walks away saying, "Bored. You're boring." This infuriates him so much that he's thrown off-guard and she is able to subdue him. Previously his Confusion Fu had been spectacularly effective, since Cass's fighting style revolves around reading body language to the point of Combat Clairvoyance. Since Joker's body language is gibberish, she was unable to fight him effectively until she angered him by calling him boring. In the Batman vs. The Incredible Hulk crossover, the Shaper of Worlds gives Joker some of his power, allowing Joker to re-shape the world with his imagination. Batman soon accuses Joker of being uncreative, to which Joker begins re-shaping the world in more chaotic ways, eventually straining his mind to the breaking point. Joker was once kidnapped and tied to a chair by a self-proclaimed sadist who started punching him in the face repeatedly. Joker was not impressed and mocked the man's lack of creativity, especially when the beating made his face numb and the man couldn't think of what to do next. The Joker tried to use it on Batman in the one-off Darker and Edgier comic Joker. When the two finally meet in the climax of the comic, the Joker goes on a rambling lecture where he talks about Batman's lack of style and how trite Joker find Batman's whole Terror Hero schtick. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker features multiple examples of this. In a flashback scene, the Joker does this to Batman after revealing that he knows that Batman is really Bruce Wayne: Happens at the climax. After the Joker reveals himself, Bruce radios Terry with specific instructions not to respond to the clown's gloating, as it's just what he wants. This is the proviso Batman used during the animated series whenever he fought Joker. Terry instead realizes that he likes to talk too, and mocks the Joker over his obsession with Batman, ending in a very mocking, condescending laugh that puts Joker over the edge. Terry even gives an Ironic Echo to Joker's line from the flashback: This is pretty obviously what Joker is thinking (and occasionally indirectly saying), during the interrogation scene in The Dark Knight. First he practically rolls his eyes when he thinks Gordon is going to do an old fashioned Good Cop/Bad Cop routine, then he criticizes Batman's lackluster attempts at physical coercion, and finally he winds up laughing in Batman's face after goading Bats into losing his temper. By the end he's outright cackling while taunting Batman about how all of Batman's physical strength and determination is utterly powerless to get Joker to reveal the locations of Harvey Dent and Rachel (Joker only reveals said locations because that's part of his plan anyway). Along the way he also chides Batman for trying to think/talk like a cop, which he definitely considers both boring and not Batman's true nature. |
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After Tony Montana makes it big in Scarface (1983), his wife Elvira tells him he's become boring because all he talks about is money. | |
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In The Shadow, this pops up while Lamont and Shiwan Khan have a chinwag at the Chinese restaurant. | |
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Will Graham tells Hannibal Lecter "I don't find you that interesting" in the pilot of Hannibal. He changes his mind very much afterwards. | |
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In Mystery Men, when The Shoveler, Mr. Furious and the Blue Raja first face the Disco Boys, they're less than impressed by their arsenal. Unfortunately for them, the superheroes — who exist in a world of Awesome, but Impractical — are not quite sharp enough to consider the fact that these weapons are actually Boring, but Practical: | |
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A major example happens in Of State. After Grimmel seemingly ambushes Hiccup and Toothless, Hiccup expresses disappointment at his new foe and brushes Grimmel off, commenting on how he's no different from the other hunters Hiccup has had to deal with in the past. He even goes as far as to guess Grimmel's backstory and motives. | |
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Dragon Ball: In Dragon Ball Z, Goku abruptly cuts off his fight with Frieza on the grounds that there's no longer any point to it: Frieza has become so weak and predictable that there's no challenge in fighting him. Frieza, who prides himself on being unbeatable, gets more belligerent and is quickly dispatched by one of his own attacks. In Dragon Ball Super, Goku gets this from Beerus because, despite Goku becoming a Physical God, Goku still isn't giving him an exciting fight. "YOU BORE ME! YOU BORE ME!" |
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Harry Potter: Voldemort's entire motive was always to be special. He achieved this in finding out he was a wizard, excelling both academically and socially, and becoming the most powerful dark wizard ever. His horcruxes were all unique, powerful and symbolic items. So it stands to reason that, during his and Harry's final showdown at the end of the seventh book, Harry continually calling Voldemort "Tom" — his original name that represented everything ordinary about him — hits his Berserk Button. It's a mannerism borrowed from Dumbledore, who always calls him "Tom" when speaking to him, and generally talks to him as less a terrifying murderer and more a schoolboy in detention. | |
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Done brilliantly in Homicide: Life on the Street. When trying to get a suspect to confess, Pembleton and Bayliss call him the "most boring man ever to enter the interrogation room" and list off all the types of killers they have encountered, saying that none of them were ever as dull as him. | |
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Jon from Garfield gets these a lot: | |
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In Queen of Thieves, "boring" is just about the worst criticism that Nikolai Stirling can dish out. When his Arch-Enemy Gerard confronts him publicly early in Nikolai's first season, Nikolai puts him in his place thusly: | |
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Kung Fu Panda 3: Po lets Kai know how bored he is with yet another villain rant: | |
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Counter Monkey: At the end of his "3d6 in Order" video, Spoony retracts part of a previous "Reason You Suck" Speech, where he'd called people who wouldn't try rolling 3d6 in order for stats "cowards", and amends it with this. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Vaarsuvius does it in this strip. His teammate Elan's Evil Twin Nale had invoked a Spot the Imposter situation and then attempted to take advantage of the Kill Us Both trope, hoping that would trick V into assuming Nale was the good twin and blast Elan in response. V outsmarts Nale, who is a massive Smug Snake with an equally big ego, by calling Nale's stratagems "tedious, unoriginal, and lacking in any truly keen insight". Nale is miffed by this description and gives himself away by attempting to defend them, earning a lightning bolt to the face for his trouble. | |
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Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker features multiple examples of this. In a flashback scene, the Joker does this to Batman after revealing that he knows that Batman is really Bruce Wayne: Happens at the climax. After the Joker reveals himself, Bruce radios Terry with specific instructions not to respond to the clown's gloating, as it's just what he wants. This is the proviso Batman used during the animated series whenever he fought Joker. Terry instead realizes that he likes to talk too, and mocks the Joker over his obsession with Batman, ending in a very mocking, condescending laugh that puts Joker over the edge. Terry even gives an Ironic Echo to Joker's line from the flashback: |
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James Bond: GoldenEye: Subverted when Bond faces Janus towards the end, Boris just smirks and Janus points Bond fails to understand the real plan. Done again by Bond in Skyfall. Silva takes a moment to express the power he wields with his hacking, showing how he can manipulate stocks and votes with the press of a button. Bond responds with the snarky quip "Everyone needs a hobby". Cue a nerve visibly popping on Silva's forehead. |
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Sam & Fuzzy: Hart uses this insult on Brain, claiming that entire motivation to hunt for The Pit simply as a way to extend his life is dull given the potential of what The Tar can be used for. He re-iterates the insult later, when he hijacks Brain and takes control of The Pit and essentially unleashes The End of the World as We Know It. | |
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This is pretty obviously what Joker is thinking (and occasionally indirectly saying), during the interrogation scene in The Dark Knight. First he practically rolls his eyes when he thinks Gordon is going to do an old fashioned Good Cop/Bad Cop routine, then he criticizes Batman's lackluster attempts at physical coercion, and finally he winds up laughing in Batman's face after goading Bats into losing his temper. By the end he's outright cackling while taunting Batman about how all of Batman's physical strength and determination is utterly powerless to get Joker to reveal the locations of Harvey Dent and Rachel (Joker only reveals said locations because that's part of his plan anyway). Along the way he also chides Batman for trying to think/talk like a cop, which he definitely considers both boring and not Batman's true nature. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: In addition to the Freeza example that existed in official canon, Gohan tells Cell that he's getting bored of him, which sends Cell into a fit of rage. Even better, Cell seconds before was attempting to calm himself down and "tone down the Freeza part" before Gohan called him boring. | |
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This is how "Stone Cold" Steve Austin pretty much deflated the rest of Lance Storm's WWE run. | |
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Birds of Prey (2020): Roman Sionis/Black Mask kidnaps Harley Quinn and ties her to a chair. He tries to threaten her with a To the Pain speech, but she keeps interrupting him and saying he's boring because she's heard all of them before. | |
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Die Hard. After Hans Gruber and his band of terrorists are revealed to actually be after $600 million in bearer bonds: | |
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In The Italian Job remake, this is the primary tone of the gang's first confrontation with Steve since Steve had previously thought them all dead. While Steve clearly thinks highly of himself for his "clever" betrayal plan (which pretty much involved hiring a bunch of guys with guns to show up at the rendezvous point) and his equally "clever" plan to safeguard the gold, the gang calls him out on the fact that in spite of being a multi-millionaire, Steve hasn't thought of anything the least bit interesting to do with his money. He just bought all the things everybody else said they would do with their share of the money (just like he joked he would during their conversation about what they each wanted to do). And, though they don't mention this, he basically lives his life watching TV and is so hard up for entertainment that he hits on who he thinks is the cable girl. Further driven home by the fact that, in the climax, it's revealed he still had almost all the original loot when the gang steals it from him. Which isn't all that surprising considering Steve regularly engages in Blatant Lies. | |
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In a Meta example, this is typically what rings as the death knell for a prospective wrestler, with an audience chat of "Bo-ring! Bo-ring!" either meriting a retool or "Good luck on future endeavors" for the wrestler(s) being hit with this trope. Hilariously, when the audience chanted this to Bo Dallas, he replied, "This IS Bo's Ring!" | |
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Mass Effect 2: The krogan like to judge people on the quality of their enemies. As a result, to say someone is boring or Not Worth Killing is the most deadly insult in krogan culture there is: "I'll do the genophage the worst insult one can do to an enemy. I'll ignore it." | |
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Gushing over Magical Girls: When Magia Baiser and Lord Enorme fight the first time, Enorme gives a rant about how she is destined to rule and that the strong take everything from the weak. Baiser stops paying attention halfway through and starts chanting "Boring" in her head. When Baiser wins, she mocks Enorme for fighting with no style or creativity except for smashing things despite essentially having an Imagination-Based Superpower. | |
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In one episode of Kaeloo, Kaeloo receives a letter from someone claiming to be a fan of the show and criticizing her for being "boring". She eventually gets sent into an extreme rage when she finds out that Mr. Cat wrote said letter just to annoy her. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V: Jack Atlas constantly calls other duelists boring due to seeing them as too weak to be a proper challenge. In his rematch with Yuya Sakaki, he keeps deriding him as boring until Yuya manages to summon a stronger monster in an unprecedented way, causing him to acknowledge Yuya as a Worthy Opponent. | |
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Used dead seriously in Transformers: Prime. In one episode, Megatron reveals that's he's been aware of Starscream's treachery since the start, but has tolerated it as long as it was entertaining. Now that he's become predictable, Megatron no longer cares to put up with it. | |
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Referenced in How to Train Your Dragon 2: | |
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In the Batman vs. The Incredible Hulk crossover, the Shaper of Worlds gives Joker some of his power, allowing Joker to re-shape the world with his imagination. Batman soon accuses Joker of being uncreative, to which Joker begins re-shaping the world in more chaotic ways, eventually straining his mind to the breaking point. | |
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This exchange from the season one finale of Star vs. the Forces of Evil. Oddly enough, Marco seems to hit a nerve here. | |
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In the JT Music song, "Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To", Ana Amari crashes the rap battle between Soldier: 76 and Reaper. | |
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Done again by Bond in Skyfall. Silva takes a moment to express the power he wields with his hacking, showing how he can manipulate stocks and votes with the press of a button. Bond responds with the snarky quip "Everyone needs a hobby". Cue a nerve visibly popping on Silva's forehead. | |
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In Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Spider-Man of 2099 essentially Trolls Doc Ock into having a Villainous Breakdown by responding to her boasts about how powerful and advanced her technology is with a disinterested "Meh". | |
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Resident Evil 5: Excella compares Chris to a broken record after he keeps demanding the whereabouts of Jill. Chris gets it several times on Wesker (who has a severe God complex) during the final battle: |
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In Dragon Ball Super, Goku gets this from Beerus because, despite Goku becoming a Physical God, Goku still isn't giving him an exciting fight. "YOU BORE ME! YOU BORE ME!" | |
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Bob's Burgers: Louise complains that one of the guests Linda invited to Louise's "surprise" slumber party is extremely boring, describing her as "red-headed wallpaper". It seems to just be a defense mechanism to avoid being invited to slumber parties because of her chronic bed-wetting problem. | |
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In Pony POV Series, Makarov unveils his goal of committing mass murders while making everyone think he is the hero. Shining Armor mocks him by pointing out he's ripping off the plot of Winny 4, and that killer did it much more effectively. Shining can also predict most of his speeches and gloating because they are ripped off from various fictional characters. | |
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In Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, the Phantom of the Bwahpera, a boss who sings an opera that tears down Mario, has an unused second act that taunts him about how little he and his companions hurt him, with two of the verses specifically stating that the boring plumber's blows are sleep-inducing. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX episode 94 has Judai ripping the Society of Light-possessed Asuka with this. In addition to calling her state boring, he called her uncool. | |
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Earth and Sky features a non-villainous example: part of the reason Pinkie Pie is so distraught in the first chapter is that after having to lecture her daughter Tootsie again, Tootsie told her she was "no fun anymore". | |
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Fate/Zero: Gilgamesh dismisses Tokiomi Tohsaka as boring since all he cares about is reaching The Root, which Gilgamesh dismisses as foolish since he only cares about material treasures and the here and now. | |
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Futurama. From "Anthology Of Interest I". | |
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Jujutsu Kaisen: When first meeting people, Aoi Todo asks them about their taste in women (a trait passed on to him by his former mentor, Yuki Tsukumo) as a way to get a grasp on their character. When Megumi gives what Todo considers to be an incredibly boring answer, he tries to kill him. Conversely, when Yuji flat out admits he likes tall women with big butts, which coincidentally happens to be the exact type of woman Todo himself likes, Todo cries Manly Tears, invents an entire flashback of himself and Yuji going to school together and declares that they are best friends. | |
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In Freddy vs. Jason, when Freddy from A Nightmare on Elm Street is finally forced to fight Jason from Friday the 13th in the real world, he quickly runs down a list of Jason's weaknesses, finishing with a boring insult in true Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking fashion. | |
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Game of Thrones: Young Cersei calls the witch Maggy this in "The Wars to Come". Olenna describes the High Sparrow's "man of the people" act as dull, but seems disconcerted when she realizes it really isn't an act. |
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The (real-life) critic Anthony Lane ended his review of Hannibal Rising by saying, about Hannibal Lecter: "He would kill me for saying it, but he's a bore." | |
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In Dredd, when Dredd delivers his verdict over the PA system, he makes a point that Ma-Ma, the sadistic drug clan leader, is a "common criminal." | |
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Boldores And Boomsticks: Yang enjoys sparring with Tapu Koko, but when he notices that she is not improving between fights and just keeps doing the same thing, he derides her as boring. She takes this to heart and trains between each fight, impressing him. | |
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Unsounded: When Duane brags that he has the magic to dissolve Litriya Shrine and everyone in it, Siya, who's much more interested in creative pursuits that will outlive her, flatly says, "You'd be so common, then." | |
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In Daria: Is It Fall Yet?, this is how Quinn's Private Tutor gets her to actually start studying. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Voyage of the Damned", after the Doctor learns that the villain wants to crash the Starship Titanic on Earth to get back at the board who seized control of his company. Capricorn spends most of his speech mugging and making faces, until he gets to the end... | |
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A Red Rose in the Blue Wind: Upon confronting Eggman aboard the ARK, Sonic interrupts his evil monologue and tells him that these repeated confrontations are starting to get old in their predictability. Eggman actually agrees, which is why he came up with the plan to start anew on Remnant. | |
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Ring of Honor and CZW had already scheduled joint events before Chris Hero provoked the latter promotion to invade the former. They managed to workout an agreement to be civil, rather than go the trouble of rescheduling the events, the fans however, did not and the CZW side would frequently chant "Boring" during the ROH matches. | |
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The plot of Brain Dead 13 stems from the villain, Mad Scientist Brain in a Jar Dr. Neurosis, taking offense to the hero calling him an "average mad scientist". | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus has the accountant who wants a new job because his job is drearily dull. The vocation counselor tells him that his records show how dull and unimaginative he is, and as these would be drawbacks in other professions, in accountancy such traits are considered positives. | |
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The Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Unnatural History sees the Doctor give one to a young boy who’s an agent of Faction Paradox and has offered to avert the current crisis in exchange for the Doctor’s companion Sam Jones; the boy has been trying to present himself as a threat, but the Doctor effortlessly guesses the general details of his backstory and dismisses him as nothing more than another monster broken by life who just wants to smash everything, no more special than any of the other monsters out there, and affirms that his companions are more than that. | |
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In Bully, Jimmy says this to Gary in an early cutscene in response to Gary once again harassing Pete by making constant digs at [Pete] being effeminate. This is implied to be a primary cause for Gary's Face–Heel Turn predicated on Jimmy being out to get him. | |
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The Cassandra Cain version of Batgirl, when fighting The Joker, suddenly walks away saying, "Bored. You're boring." This infuriates him so much that he's thrown off-guard and she is able to subdue him. Previously his Confusion Fu had been spectacularly effective, since Cass's fighting style revolves around reading body language to the point of Combat Clairvoyance. Since Joker's body language is gibberish, she was unable to fight him effectively until she angered him by calling him boring. | |
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On Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this was the catchphrase of Evil Vampire Willow, in the Wish!Verse, an alternate universe where Buffy never came to Sunnydale. Gets a Meaningful Echo several seasons later when Willow flays Warren alive in revenge for the Accidental Murder of Tara. Buffy does this to the Master during the first season finale when he tries to hypnotize her. Cordelia delivers one to Willow in the second episode of the series. |
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Heaven's Lost Property: Whenever people try to explain or discuss things, Tomoki usually responds by cutting them off and calling them boring. | |
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Non-villainous example. In an episode of Hello Cheeky, John describes Barry with the aside "He could make World War II sound boring", to which Barry responds by doing his impression of World War II — an amalgamation of accents, sound effects, and war songs. | |
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Malcom Tucker from In the Loop is one of these, as he demolishes Linton Barwick in his own inimitable style. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Awakening, one of Severa's Pre-Mortem One-Liners is "You're boring me!" | |
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Quagmire from Family Guy tops off his "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Brian by stating he could forgive Brian's faults if he wasn't such a huge bore. | |
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At the end of the film version of American Psycho, Patrick Bateman confesses several crimes to his lawyer, Harold Carnes, who mistakes his client for someone else and believes his list of audacious killing sprees to be a hilarious joke that was otherwise undermined by the fact that the perpetrator was "Patrick Bateman", whom he views as being too much of a dorky, boring and spineless lightweight to commit murder. Adding insult to injury, Harold goes on to say that the "joke" would have been perfect had the perpetrator instead been Timothy Bryce or Craig McDermott, both of whom are part of Patrick's friend group. Patrick is visibly bothered by Harold's remark that was obliviously aimed towards him. | |
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In Dragon Ball Z, Goku abruptly cuts off his fight with Frieza on the grounds that there's no longer any point to it: Frieza has become so weak and predictable that there's no challenge in fighting him. Frieza, who prides himself on being unbeatable, gets more belligerent and is quickly dispatched by one of his own attacks. | |
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John Morrison's fans gasped and hoped for the sake of his WWE career he was being in character when he pulled this trope on perennial WWE Champion John Cena. | |
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In YuYu Hakusho, when Bui begins his fight with Hiei by doing nothing but summoning axes, swinging, and throwing them, Hiei says he is boring. Bui then proves him wrong by unleashing his Battle Aura. | |
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