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Villainous Vow
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A Badass Boast involves a hero or villain using their achievements or power to command respect or fear. Yet among villains, it's common to command the same just by swearing to carry out some nefarious action. This is distinguished from a regular threat by usually being aimed at someone other than the heroes they're speaking to. As with the quote above, the villain will sometimes swear to save the heroes for last after they're through terrorizing everyone else. All that matters is that the villain's not trying to get some kind of compliance out of their audience; they're shooting for an Oh, Crap! if they're not simply trying to pump themselves up. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This turns into Just Between You and Me when the bad guy starts giving away information that can be used against them. Contrast Heroic Vow. Related to, but differs from Pre-Asskicking One-Liner and Badass Boast. Examples |
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In His Dark Materials, Iofur Raknisson pledges, before fighting Iorek, that if he wins, he will hang his opponent's head and innards to the walls and make saying his name a capital felony. | |
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In The Silmarillion, Feanor and his sons swear to regain the Silmarils at any cost, and to destroy anyone who impedes their goal. The supplementary work "The History of Middle-Earth" gives the full oath as follows: | |
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Mostly seen in flashbacks, Slade Wilson in Arrow made a promise to Oliver Queen in the time they were stuck on the island after Shado was killed because of Oliver. Basically the "promise" is that he will come back to make him suffer and kill everyone he loves, including his mother, his sister and even their love interests, all of that because of the death of Shado, which made him crazy, not just because of the Mirakuru in his system. | |
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At the end of almost every episode of Miraculous Ladybug, Hawk Moth vows that he will not stop trying to defeat Ladybug and Chat Noir. | |
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Adam from RWBY swore to Blake that he would destroy everything she loves as revenge for her betrayal. | |
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Double Homework has one from Dennis: | |
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In Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab swears that he will kill the eponymous white whale Moby Dick at any cost, and will chase him to hell and back before he gives him up. It doesn't end well. | |
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In Doflamingo's backstory in One Piece, he, along with his father and brother, were hanged on a wall and tortured by the mob for being former World Nobles (who oppressed those mobs, even though Doffy's family himself would never do that). Doffy, unfazed but angry, screams to the mobs' faces that he'll endure the torture and then he'll kill them all, one by one. The mob got taken aback by this. | |
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Green Lantern: Just as the Green Lantern Corps, the other Color Lanterns have their own oath to invoke the power of the Corps, specially Sinestro Corps, Red Lanterns and Black Lanterns are the most fitted to this trope, since these three factions are eviler than the other Corps, especially the latter Corps. | |
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The Swan Princess has Rothbart. Upon being banished from the kingdom, he vows that everything King William knows and loves will be his one day. | |
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In Bayonetta, the Big Bad we're introduced to in the penultimate chapter reels off a half-dozen of these across every cutscene he has screentime in. | |
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In Daughter for Dessert, Cecilia promises to ruin the protagonist to get Amanda to see “the truth” about him. | |
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In the first book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, Count Olaf says: "I'll get my hands on your fortune even if it's the last thing I do!" It doesn't turn out well for anybody. | |
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Animorphs. The following quote establishes that this universe's version of Satan would rather spend its time slaughtering entire solar systems instead of killing the only being capable of standing a chance against it. | |
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Zordrak frequently made ones concerning his plan to invade the Sleeping World with nightmares in The Dreamstone. This didn't really stop it looking like a Felony Misdemeanor towards the heroes (who supplied No Holds Barred Beatdowns to his minions), so a later episode amped it. As the heroes were sneaking around his lair to get the dreamstone back, they overheard him devising his newer, far more menacing plans for it. | |
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In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Khan copies Ahab's oath from Moby-Dick almost exactly when swearing to destroy Kirk, replacing the nautical/marine words with space ones. | |
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Mission: Impossible III: Owen Davian gives one of these as soon as he wakes up tied to a chair, not caring one bit that Ethan Hunt and co. easily have the advantage over him for the moment. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: One of the Chaos Space Marine creeds goes: | |
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The Book of Mormon, scripture of the LDS Church, has stories of these and warns against them. They are called "secret combinations" often overlapping with Deal with the Devil. Cain is said to have started it. It warns that they are found among every civilization, even in the modern era. Probably a reference that includes government and business corruption, and organized crime. | |
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Following the final fight against the Masked Lumen in Bayonetta 2, he forces Bayonetta to her knees with sheer rage and swears on his soul that Loki will draw his last breath before him. Later chapters show us that, despite what he initially appears to be, he's more of an Anti-Villain. | |
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