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Pitiful Worms
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Bugs are small. Bugs can be annoying. And bugs are easily squishable, given the right tools. So what better way is there to insult an opponent you don't want to be bothered with anymore? By comparing them to a bug (or worm, or maggot, or something else that crawls along the ground and can easily be stepped on), of course. This is a favored technique among very powerful and/or very arrogant villains to intimidate their opponent or devalue their abilities before their climactic battle. More savvy heroes tend to shrug this off as lame posturing, but a bad guy will still throw this in from time to time, if only to make himself sound cool. This can be hammy, especially if you stop to think of what that would actually look like if it were a normal human saying it to an actual bug. Note that some Worms are less pitiful than others. See also the Drill Sergeant Nasty, who uses this as a "motivational" tool ("You call that an insult, maggot?!"), If a character thinks of everyone this way, that's Humans Are Insects. Also compare Your Little Dismissive Diminutive and Dehumanizing Insult. |
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: Yuga can barely finish a sentence without calling everyone around him worms and insects. | |
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Watchmen: | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Ghidorah has called humans, including a brave Bone Singer who communicated with it long ago when it was frozen, "insects". Vivienne, having been reborn as part of Monster X alongside San, is a heroic case: she isn't immune to mentally calling Alan Jonah and/or his men (who caused her and San a lot pain) "insects" when she's sufficiently enraged and is acting. | |
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Matilda: The Child Hater Miss Trunchbull compares squashing children to destroying insects. | |
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A Bug's Life is about ants, so the antagonist Hopper has to go one step further with his insults. | |
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Non-villain example from GoldenEye. Natalya tells off her former partner Boris, who has joined Trevelyan. | |
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Wonder Woman (1987): The 100th issue has the White Magician mockingly refer to Diana and Artemis as fleas. In the seventh Annual, a Cyclops insults Inspector Indelicato by calling him a mosquito. |
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Granga from Star Fox 64 has two variations of this: | |
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The 44th issue of Hardware (1993) has Hardware called an insect by a K'lumnii guard. | |
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Samurai Jack: In the Grand Finale, Aku outright calls Jack's allies "insignificant insects." | |
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The SuperMansion episode "Let's Talk About Rex" has Blazar taunt the League of Freedom by comparing them to ants at a picnic. | |
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In Bleach, the Espada Barragan Luisenbarn is fond of this, repeatedly calling his enemies ants and insects even when he's not the one fighting them. | |
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In Disney's Hercules, Pain and Panic, minions of Hades, use this trope on themselves, to demonstrate their unworthiness compared to their boss. | |
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Amalgam Universe: Spider-Boy Team-Up has Kang the Time-Conqueror refer to Spider-Boy and Spider-Boy 2099 as insects, resulting in the two young heroes correcting him. | |
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In A Certain Magical Index, Teitoku Kakine calls Accelerator a worm at one point before trying to kill him. | |
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Doom Patrol: The seventh issue of the 1987 series has Shrapnel dismiss Karma, Rhea and Scott as gnats that are in his way. | |
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Double meaning in C'mon Digimon, where Bun is both a weak monster (bug as in small and easily squished) but is also believed to be the result of an error in the v-pet(bug as in glitch). Similarly, in Digimon V-Tamer 01, Neo Saiba does compare opponents to bugs (small, easily squished) but considers Taichi and Zeromaru to be bugs in that they aren't squished when they are supposed to be (errors in the system). | |
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On Angel, Illyria, oh so much. An Old One from when demons ruled the earth, used to being worshiped by millions or billions of beings, she was not especially impressed with the twenty-first century. Insects, vermin, and muck were all ways she described humanity. | |
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In Taran Wanderer, Morda attempts a Forced Transformation on Taran into a worm, considering other animals not lowly enough. (He fails because Taran is unwittingly holding his Soul Jar.) | |
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In Haven, the villainous Mara is several centuries old and sees herself as superior to ordinary humans. She boasts to the heroes, "You're less than insects to me." | |
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Dr. Batrachian from Shadow Man: "You ant! You piece of excrement! You NOTHING!!" | |
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A Memoir by Lady Trent: One of the tablets Audrey and Kudshayn translate is called the "Worms Tablet" because it refers to humans as worms compared to the Draconeans who wrote the tablet. The Worms Tablet and two others turn out to be a forgery to stir up anti-Draconean sentiment. | |
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Wizpig of Diddy Kong Racing enjoys calling the racers "worms." | |
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What was Darkseid's reaction when Batman gave him a flying kick with enough force to actually make him stumble a bit in the Grand Finale of Justice League Unlimited. One pithy word before firing the Omega Effect: | |
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In All Tomorrows, one of the human colonies conquered by the Qu were forcibly turned into "Worms", which look like somewhere between inchworms and naked mole rats. They eventually evolve into the Snake People who form a civilization. | |
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Father in Fullmetal Alchemist once said humans are so insect-like compared to him that they don't even deserve his contempt as his homunculus give. | |
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The Night Unfurls: Both versions of the story feature a few moments where the uber-powerful Kyril compares other people to insects, making him a rare heroic example. In the original version, Kyril encounters Shamuhaza a second time and calls him, now as an insectoid Eldritch Abomination, "small and insignificant" in his Badass Boast, as if he is mocking Shamuhaza for turning into an actual bug to fight him. Not that it matters anyway, as Kyril himself is a great one with far more power and experience. The following narration says it all: In Chapter 4 of the remastered version, Kyril internally remarks that he doesn't bother sparing Hicks, one of Vault's compatriots, any attention because he sees him as an insect. In Chapter 6 of the remastered version, Kyril is reminded of vermin upon witnessing a group of Black Dogs molesting Chloe, their depravity being similar to how tainted Yharnam's people were. In the remastered version, The Rat, a demonic entity, sees the existence of Alicia, Maia, and Kaguya (all humans) as lower than an insect's. |
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This exchange from Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals: | |
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In Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2: Martian Dreams, many of the Martians refer to humans as worms, even non-maliciously. This is revealed to be because they are all plant-based beings, as are the majority of Mars' lifeforms, and the only native animals are a few varieties of worms, all primitive and hostile - "worm" is the only analogue they recognize. Quite a few of the friendlier Martians are even delighted and intrigued by the novelty of civilized and advanced "worms". | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Early in the film, Frollo outright compares the Gypsies to ants. For emphasis, while explaining his genocidal intentions to Phoebus, he squishes an ant nest. | |
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When confronted for the first time in Dragon Age: Inquisition, the Elder One informs the Player Character that they are "a gnat" - he sees them as nothing more than a nuisance, albeit a very effective one. | |
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Along with "bakufu's dogs," this is one of Kazama Chikage's favorite ways to address the Shinsengumi in Hakuouki. | |
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Dragon Ball: In the Latin American dub, Vegeta's insult of choice, is to call his opponents "insecto". This is even after his Heel–Face Turn. Dragon Ball Z: Cementing his status as the Big Bad of the story arc, Frieza often delivers insults like this to his foes. His theme song in Kai also has lyrics to this effect, describing his subjects as worms and insects before him. Dragon Ball Super: Zamasu, the Future one, outright describes the mortals as "insignificant worms" at one point. Which is all the more jarring for him when he's nearly trapped by the Evil Containment Wave, forcing him to acknowledge that Goku and Co. do pose a threat to his and Goku Black's plans. |
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In The Dresden Files, this is fairly stock. So much so, that if the monster of the week doesn't do this, then they're savvy. Like Cowl. Or Kincaid. Notice, they're both probably at least a little bit human. | |
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Supernatural: The Angels that adhere more openly to Fantastic Racism deride humans as either monkeys or maggots. Zachariah, a higher-tier and particularly smug Angel tops it by describing Dean as "nothing but a maggot inside a worm's ass". Death compares Dean, and all humans, to microbes. Unlike the Angels, he doesn't seem particularly arrogant or racist about it. He's simply so old and powerful, that all living things are beneath him. |
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Ragnaros the Firelord from World of Warcraft and Hearthstone is fond of saying things like, "Die, insect!" Even in Hearthstone's Whispers of the Old Gods expansion, where world gone completely down the crapper inspired him to undergo a Heel–Face Turn and embrace the Light... He still shouts "Live, insect!" at whoever he is healing. | |
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The Justice League Action episode "Inside Job" had Lex Luthor refer to the Atom as a gnat when the hero took his kryptonite ray. | |
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Bringing Up Father: Maggie calls her husband Jiggs "insect" whenever he does something she disapproves (that is whenever he breaths). In one strip, she hears him snoring on the armchair and slaps on it screaming: "Insect! Wake up!" Actually, it is a real insect, a bee, that promptly stings Maggies' already-big nose. | |
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In the original The Mysterious Benedict Society book, after realizing that the members of titular society are spies, the Big Bad Mr. Curtain refers to them and children in general as gnats that are easy to crush. | |
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Pokémon GO: Fitting his personality, Team GO Rocket Leader Arlo refers to the player as "vermin" in one of his prebattle quotes. | |
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In The Rocky Horror Picture Show (also in the stage play), the reprise of "Super Heroes" includes the line: | |
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Narberal Gamma in Overlord (2012), who hates humans and sees them as inferior to heteromorphic races, constantly insults humans by referring to them as various types of insects and other lowly creatures. She gets pretty creative in terms of the range of species she covers with these insults — at one point, she even calls an enemy a planarian. She does not tone the attitude down at all when she interacts with humans while posing as one herself, either. Fortunately, most people simply assume that she is a haughty and arrogant Ice Queen, remaining blissfully unaware that if it weren't for Momon's orders, she would not hesitate a second before slaughtering everyone in the room. | |
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The double meaning continues in Our War Game, where Kuramon is compared to a bug, in that Digimon are not supposed to directly appear on the internet, and a bug in that Taichi and Yamato's monsters are criticized for not easily squashing it like they should have. | |
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Digimon Adventure | hasFeature |
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New Gods: In issue 8 of Mister Miracle, the Lump at one point calls Mister Miracle a gnat. Issue 11 of Mister Miracle has one of Dr. Bedlam's animates call Oberon a "defiant flea". Kalibak is fond of calling people "earth-worms". |
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In Atelier Sophie: The Alchemist of the Mysterious Book, as you begin the battle with Luard, he declares "I possess the greatest knowledge in the world. Insects like you cannot stop me." | |
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Shade, the Changing Man: Issue six of Steve Ditko's original series has Khaos refer to some men trying to stop him as insects. | |
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In Avengers: Infinity War, Spider-Man lands several hits on Thanos using Doctor Strange's portal-spamming abilities. Thanos eventually grabs him and drives him into the ground while snarling, "Insect!" | |
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Inverted, in a bizzare way, in Path of Exile: Lady Dialla addresses you as "Not-a-cockroach" or "Unbug" because you're interesting and resourceful, unlike her enemies (who do get called bugs and roaches). She's clearly intending to be affectionate this way, in her own insane way. | |
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At the end of G.I. Joe vs. the Transformers: The Art of War, Serpent O.R. refers to Hawk as an insignificant flea during their final confrontation. | |
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There's also Luca Blight's rant from Suikoden II: | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Loki in The Avengers. Later, when Loki is thrown into a cell designed to contain the Hulk, Fury informs him he can be ejected into the sky at any time if he misbehaves, then says, "Ant, meet boot." In Avengers: Infinity War, Spider-Man lands several hits on Thanos using Doctor Strange's portal-spamming abilities. Thanos eventually grabs him and drives him into the ground while snarling, "Insect!" |
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Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness: Hex, Pandora, and Babylon can barely form a sentence without derisively calling humans and monsters "lesser beings." The dark Falla likes to refer to humans and other monsters as ants. In Act III chapter 41, Kuyou explicitly states that, as far as he's concerned, humans are the equivalent of ants and dirt. In Act V chapter 36, during the school attack, Jacqueline outright refers to the humans as "filthy bugs." |
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JLA/Avengers: The crossover begins with Terminus outright referring to the Justice League as pitiful worms. | |
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In the Black Swordsman arc of Berserk, which begins the story In Medias Res, Griffith/Femto makes his Big Bad debut by "greeting" Guts with, "Still squirming around in your pitiful existence, I see." taking note that he is practically a god at this point and Guts is a mere mortal. Guts "calmly" reminds him that if it hadn't been for the bullshit that Guts went through for his goals, Griffith/Femto would not have been in the position that he is in now. | |
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The Superman Adventures: The seventh issue has an enlarged Jax-Ur refer to the people below him as fleas. In the 28th issue, Kalibak calls Desaad a treacherous ant. The 66th and final issue has Kalibak refer to Luthor as a "stupid earthworm". |
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The Superman Adventures (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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New Teen Titans: In issue three of volume one, Mammoth refers to Robin and Changeling as insects as he throws them across the room and gloats that they can't hurt him. During the Titans' first confrontation with Trigon in volume one, issue five, Trigon refers to the heroes as insects. |
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In the Adrian Mole book The Wilderness Years, Adrian decides that when two holidaymakers inform the group that they "love all living things", anything they have to say is irrelevant, because they equate his life to that of a lugworm. | |
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Tales of Symphonia: Magnius of the Desian Cardinals refers to his victims as "vermin", as seen when he performs a Neck Snap on a civilian who fails to call him "Lord Magnius". When fighting him he repeatedly calls the party vermin, especially when using his special artes. | |
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The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!: In "Mario Meets Koop-Zilla", King Koopa becomes the size of a skyscraper, and he calls Mario and Luigi insects. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: Voyager has Large Ham Dr. Chaotica in the Flash Gordon expy holodeck program The Adventures of Captain Proton. Gary Mitchell from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before" makes a similar threat as he's being beamed down to Delta Vega. |
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Wild Dog in Time Crisis 4 says the following to the VSSE, whose members he had to deal with in the entire series. He hams it up in the sequel with similar insults. In Time Crisis 2, Ernesto Diaz compares the VSSE to roaches. |
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Time Crisis (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light, Anubis has this to say to Kaiba, whom he's been possessing until he's finally strong enough to emerge in his own body. | |
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The Emperor from Final Fantasy II (especially as he appears in Dissidia Final Fantasy) loves using this trope. | |
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Final Fantasy II (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Final Fantasy IX: Facing the party for the first time, Beatrix tells Freya and Zidane, "I once killed a hundred knights single-handedly... To me, you two are nothing more than insects." | |
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Final Fantasy IX (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Kefka from Final Fantasy VI: "Such magnificent power! You are like insects to me!" | |
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Final Fantasy VI (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Used and then subverted in Xenoblade Chronicles 1, in which Egil apologizes for calling the party "bugs" earlier after they put up a surprisingly strong fight against him. He then proceeds to call them "worms" upon their next encounter. | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 1 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Batman: The Animated Series: In "Fire From Olympus", when Maxie Zeus sees Batman sneaking through his building's air ducts on his security cameras, he calls him a worm crawling through the dirt. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
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In Heart of Ashes, King Wilhelm of Dorwinion tries to assert his authority to Smaug while comparing him to a worm. The dragon-in-human-skin responds with a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech in which he turns the worm-comparison around. Smaug later calls Vathvael's people worthless worms when he attacks the city in the climax. |
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The Heart Trilogy (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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Amos, the preacher from Cold Comfort Farm, begins his church service this way before beginning his rant about the Fire and Brimstone Hell that awaits them all. | |
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Dragon Ball Super: Zamasu, the Future one, outright describes the mortals as "insignificant worms" at one point. Which is all the more jarring for him when he's nearly trapped by the Evil Containment Wave, forcing him to acknowledge that Goku and Co. do pose a threat to his and Goku Black's plans. | |
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Dragon Ball Super | hasFeature |
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G.I. Joe (2016) had the Decepticon Skywarp frequently refer to the Joes as "insects". | |
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Gary Mitchell from the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before" makes a similar threat as he's being beamed down to Delta Vega. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series | hasFeature |
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In Castlevania: Judgment, Dracula is quite fond of this. Some of his victory quotes have him call his defeated opponents insects. | |
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Castlevania: Judgment (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In Pony POV Series, Nyarlathotrot tells the heroes that ponies are less than bacteria to him. | |
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In Fate/Zero, Gilgamesh calls one of the Assassins a worm after slicing his head open with one of his flying swords. | |
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Fate/Zero | hasFeature |
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3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain: When the SWAT team shows up to help, Medusa says, "We'll just have to swat them like the bugs that they are." Her team then takes them out with an electric fence. | |
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In RosenkreuzStilette, in addition to claiming to be a god, Iris Zeppelin never miss an opportunity to call other people "worthless maggots". | |
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Daimos: When Raiza suggests that Richter turn to the humans for help after it's found out that Olban is a traitor, he vehemently refuses and compares the human race to worms. | |
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The 104th issue of Journey into Mystery had the Storm Giant Skagg refer to Thor as a tiny insect. | |
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Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid, in one of his first lines! | |
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Metal Gear Solid (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Final Fantasy: The Emperor from Final Fantasy II (especially as he appears in Dissidia Final Fantasy) loves using this trope. This comes back to bite him after his second major defeat — when he disbelievingly asks who the heroes are, Firion mockingly replies: "Just a swarm of insects." Kefka from Final Fantasy VI: "Such magnificent power! You are like insects to me!" Final Fantasy IX: Facing the party for the first time, Beatrix tells Freya and Zidane, "I once killed a hundred knights single-handedly... To me, you two are nothing more than insects." |
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In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, in the true ending as Rean prepares to purge Ishmelga so the party can fight him, he tells him, "PATHETHIC MAGGOT... CEASE YOUR POINTLESS STRUGGLE!!!" Rean is not impressed. | |
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Issue 31 of Titans (2010) has Osiris' internal narration refer to the people frightened by his rampage as ants. | |
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Professor Higgins in Pygmalion: | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Dio Brando does this a lot. For example, when standing on a floating rock about to fight the man in the funny hat. | |
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Albel Nox from Star Ocean: Till the End of Time. | |
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Due to his motif, Spider-Man's enemies often do this. Of course, if anyone is so foolish as to refer to him as an "insect", he'll be quick to remind them that he's actually an arachnid. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: The first issue had the Hulk swat aside Rick Jones while exclaiming "Get out of my way, insect!" | |
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In Fairy Tail, the dark guild Eisenwald refers to the members of the titular guild as "flies". They don't really make notice of it, except for Natsu who brilliantly gives the taunting Kageyama his comeuppance by punching him and naming the attack "Fly Punch". The Dreaded Black Wizard Zeref believes that the even more dreaded Black Dragon of the Apocalypse Acnologia chooses not to speak to humans (despite technically still being one himself) because he sees them are mere vermin. |
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In the 19th issue of the 2011 Legion of Super-Heroes series, Tharok gloats that the Legion are but fleas on a giant's arm. | |
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Epic example from 52. Mr. Mind, who appears in most stories as a tiny, telepathic caterpillar who needs the help of other villains to fight his enemies, has become the Hyperfly. Now the size of a planet, he chases down Booster Gold and Rip Hunter... | |
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In one issue of Batman: Arkham Unhinged, Bane has broken into the church where Cash, the medical staff and political prisoners are holed up. Cash confronts, and Bane says that he is an insect to him. Cash's pure badass response | |
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The Soldier from Team Fortress 2 often yells about maggots and spineless worms. (See Drill Sergeant Nasty above.) Lampshaded with one of the Halloween items, which is an actual maggot inside of his brain, which changes the lines to add him apologizing for the Insult Friendly Fire. | |
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Blackadder: Subverted in "The Cavalier Years", when Blackadder kills an ant to demonstrate the doom of the Blackadders. In "Amy and Amiability" in the third series, Blackadder explains the chain of hierarchy to Baldrick. |
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Blackadder | hasFeature |
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Galactus in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 will sometimes start the Final Boss fight by saying "You are not unlike an ant fighting the sun." He also says "Now I must squash you like the bug that you are!" when you beat him. Sure, he is. Also, Super Skrull says at the beginning of a fight: "I will crush you like the insect you are." |
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Doctor Who: In "The Ultimate Foe", the Valeyard hurls this sort of insult at Glitz: "Insect! Microbe!" In "Empress of Mars", on seeing her first human, Iraxxia the Queen of Mars asks, "What manner of fleshy worm are you?" |
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Children under the influence of the Dark Spore in Digimon Adventure 02 get an attitude of superiority to normal humans, and often compare anyone who's not them to "insects". | |
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In two of the endings of Who's Lila?, the killer, the titular Lila, refers to the members of the Lawrence Fraternity as worms, and thinks of them as worthless beings to exploit. | |
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In Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, the first boss hams it up with this little exchange: | |
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Loki in The Avengers. | |
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In Brütal Legend, Doviculus calls Lars an insect. | |
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero: The Final Boss tells the party THERE REMAINS NO REASON TO ALLOW YOU INSECTS TO LIVE ANY LONGER. | |
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In The Stronger Evil, Shendu calls Tarakudo a worm as a part of his Badass Boast when the petrified Demon Sorcerer repels the flying head of an Oni King. | |
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, one of the curse chests gloats this way after cursing Mario: | |
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Sigma from Mega Man X 2: "You are merely a bothersome insect, Mega Man X! It is about time that I crush you beneath my heel!" | |
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Warrior Cats gives us a hilarious example in which a young apprentice makes up a weird dream that goes something like this "I was walking through the forest and ShadowClan cats were EVERYWHERE! And the river was running with blood, THUNDERCLAN BLOOD! I went to tell somebody in the camp but there were no ThunderClan warriors anywhere and a ShadowClan cat is all like 'We can crush ThunderClan, because ThunderClan are no more powerful then a swarm of beetles, and Beetles can be crushed,". | |
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The fourth issue of All-Star Superman has Superman compare humans to bugs swarming in the sun while under the effects of Black Kryptonite. | |
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In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Fate boasts at one point, "You are as an ant before an elephant." | |
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In The Bridge, Grand King Ghidorah often calls his opponents things like cockroaches and worms. Megalon points out he actually resembles a giant cockroach. | |
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in Fire Emblem: Awakening, this is the Fell Dragon Grima's favorite insult to anyone that opposes him. | |
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SHODAN from System Shock also likes to use "insect" as an insult. Of course, this is one of her nicer threats... | |
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Dragon Ball Z: Cementing his status as the Big Bad of the story arc, Frieza often delivers insults like this to his foes. His theme song in Kai also has lyrics to this effect, describing his subjects as worms and insects before him. | |
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Sword Art Online: Throughout the Fairy Dance arc, Sugou Nobuyuki/Oberon sees himself as the god of ALfheim Online, and thinks so little of Kirito that he calls him, among other things, a "cockroach", a "piece of trash", and "scum". | |
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H'el on Earth: H'el refers to the Teen Titans as insects. | |
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Rurouni Kenshin: Jin-e tends to call weak fighters and non fighters bugs. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager has Large Ham Dr. Chaotica in the Flash Gordon expy holodeck program The Adventures of Captain Proton. | |
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Fantastic Four: Galactus has a tendency to refer to those who are lesser beings in his eyes as "gnats", "worms" and the like. | |
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A Link Between Worlds: The Novelization: As in the game, Yuga is literally incapable of opening his mouth without comparing everyone around him to worms and insects. | |
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Rotti Largo from Repo! The Genetic Opera: | |
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In Babylon 5, the Vorlons and Shadows take this attitude towards the younger races, humans included. Kosh is our main window on this ("The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."), and he's actually way more engaged with us than the rest of his race. | |
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In Hellsing, Zorin Blitz talks about swatting Pip Bernadotte "like a fly", which makes Seras angry enough to take a level in badass. | |
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Voltes V: Haughty Noble Prince Heinel loves doing this. Over the course of the series, he compares humans to "worms", "hornless bugs" and "insects". In the final episode, he calls Zambajil a "maggot" before flinging a dagger at him. | |
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Crops up a lot in various continuities of Transformers. It helps that Decepticons usually don't think too highly of humans for the most part. | |
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