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Where Is Your X Now?

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Where Is Your X Now?	comment	A Stock Phrase said by the villain when he has a character at his mercy, "Where Is Your X Now?" Usually done in an attempt to crush said character's spirit. Whether or not this works depends on the amount of cynicism of the work in question. In less cynical stories, X in question will ultimately show up and save the daynote Usually at the last possible moment. It could come in the form of Divine Intervention, or a Big Damn Heroes moment. The point is the villain is proven wrong, and the character's faith in X was rewarded by rescue. In more cynical works, the villain is ultimately proven correct. The character believes X is coming to save them in their Darkest Hour. They wait, and wait for X to come rescue them. Nothing will break their spirit. Suddenly, out of nowhere, X has arrived for them... But wait! No... It's just the villain playing a cruel joke on them. The truth is X isn't coming. The character is completely alone. The villain may even call them out on this, telling them that their belief in X has made them stupid. Perhaps the most recognizable use of this trope is the phrase, "Where Is Your God Now?" So tell me, my little troper, where are your examples now? ...um, right here.
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: During the episode "Homer Loves Flanders", Chief Wiggum asks Ned Flanders "Where's your messiah now?" when he arrests him. (This is a Shout-Out to the supposed The Ten Commandments example, with the joke being that Wiggum's voice is based on Edward G. Robinson.)
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_35bceb50	comment	Hamlet asks such a question of his dead friend Yorick, the former court jester. In this case, it isn't intended as mockery, but rather a sobering expression of nostalgia:
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_3b34143f	comment	In the Harry Potter fanfic "Fallen Angel", after Robert has been captured by an (absolutely crazy) woman, she is stupid enough to upset his friend. A definite example of Big Damn Heroes on Katherine's part.
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_4c949405	comment	A coloring book of The Hair Bear Bunch had Peevly railing on the bears to shape up or ship out. Hair presents an animal Bill of Rights, which Peevly takes and tears up.
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_63230cb	comment	During Dead Zone Abridged, Garlic Jr. accentuates his punching Kami with "Where. Is. Your. God. Now?!"
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_6d10ab0b	comment	Shao Kahn, in the beginning to Mortal Kombat 9, as he beats Raiden around like a ragdoll.
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_6ea7c33b	comment	Altered Carbon: The Dragon is a character called the Ghostwalker who worships the Meths because they can actively grant the prayers of those who serve them. When the Ghostwalker has Ortega at his mercy, he tells her that her neo-Catholic mother prayed to God when she died. "Where is your God now?" Ortega makes a point of reminding the Ghostwalker of this before she Real Deaths him.
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender:
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_8192cba	comment	Toy Story: Used by Sid in the original film when "playing" with Woody. "Where are your rebel friends now?" Possibly a Shout-Out to Star Wars. Used by Lotso in Toy Story 3. After Buzz and Woody help to save Lotso from being shredded, he then returns the favor by not only refusing to turn off the incinerator, but by then taunting Woody. "Where's your kid now, Sheriff?".
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_82c5dce1	comment	When Elijah competes with the priests of Baal over whose god can light their sacrifice, he makes fun of the other priests using lines similar to this trope. Some of the Psalms have this kind of line being said by Israel's enemies to the people of Israel about their God.
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_a0ae470	comment	Used by Lotso in Toy Story 3. After Buzz and Woody help to save Lotso from being shredded, he then returns the favor by not only refusing to turn off the incinerator, but by then taunting Woody. "Where's your kid now, Sheriff?".
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_a5549ed0	comment	The Bible: When Elijah competes with the priests of Baal over whose god can light their sacrifice, he makes fun of the other priests using lines similar to this trope. Some of the Psalms have this kind of line being said by Israel's enemies to the people of Israel about their God. King Sennacherib of Assyria does this to King Hezekiah when he threatens to destroy Judah, saying "where are the gods" of the nations that he had conquered and suggesting that Hezekiah's God will not save him. It doesn't work well for the Assyrian king when, after King Hezekiah prays to God, he finds that 185,000 of his troops are all dead. From Psalm 42:1-3: And from Psalm 79:10. From Psalm 115:1-2. And from Joel 2:17: Strangely, God Himself invokes this in Moses's song in Deuteronomy 32:36-38, as a taunt against His own people in regards to the idols they have made or will make: And again in Jeremiah 2:26-28:
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_a77de360	comment	In an episode of Dilbert note episode 25, The Virtual Employee in case you're wondering, the group creates a fictional employee by the name of Todd, to keep an empty cubicle, by saying it belonged to Todd. Soon Todd's reputation begins to grow. As the group are enjoy the empty cubicle, the power suddenly goes out as Catbert appears:
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_a8b75e5f	comment	Fear Factory's "Pisschrist"
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_b1072514	comment	Forrest Gump: Forrest's shrimping business isn't going so well, not even after intense prayer. Lieutenant Dan proceeds to mock him, at which point Hurricane Camille makes landfall.
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_b183827e	comment	And again in Jeremiah 2:26-28:
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: After losing the battle of Blackwater, a pissed off Stannis chokes Melisandre, who promised his victory through the Lord of Light. "Where's your god now?" he says. She responds, "Inside you," and he releases her.
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_b6e12f99	comment	Throughout Pitch Black, devout Muslim Imam insists that God will provide for them. So when a sudden rain begins extinguishing the torches they've been using to keep the photosensitive alien locusts at bay, decidedly nihilistic career criminal Riddick mockingly asks him, "Where the hell's your God now?" This leads to an ironic inversion a few scenes later, when Riddick goes scouting ahead, returning with halogen lights and a clear path to a shuttle that can take them off the planet, Imam triumphantly retorts, "There is my God now, Mr. Riddick." Although these things are all but impossible to track accurately, some hold this instance as the codifier for this phrase's current memetic popularity.
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_b91fac15	comment	During the course of The Thin Red Line, the philosophic and idealistic Private Witt occasionally tells the more hardened Sergeant Welsh, about a spiritual revelation Witt had, and how there is beauty and Light despite the horrors of war. Near the end of the film, as Welsh stands over Witt's grave after Witt's Heroic Sacrifice, Welsh asks him "Where is your Light now?"
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_bb8b80ae	comment	30 Days of Night: Marlow says what amounts to "Where is your God now?" in a subtler form.
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_be68ee29	comment	If Dark Pit beats Pit (and only Pit) in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, he will utter "Where's your goddess now?".
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_d9d745ed	comment	In the third book of The Ruby Red Trilogy, Emerald Green, Alcott asks Gwen where the Kurucs who are supposed to protect her are now. She realizes that they're probably still in the basement and won't come to her rescue any time soon.
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_ded39939	comment	And from Joel 2:17:
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_e1ec0e62	comment	In Grand Theft Auto IV, Dardan threatens Roman for owning him money. As he's about to possibly kill him, he asks "Where's your Russian friend now, huh?", referring to Roman's loanshark, Vlad, Roman's cousin Niko steps in just in the nick of time to save him.
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In "Who Are You?", vampires take over a church despite their traditional fear of religious iconography, and announce they're going to start killing the congregation and see who turns up to save them. Faith does.
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_e45432dc	comment	Stephen Lynch's song "Craig" (about Jesus' hard-partying Jerk Jock brother Craig Christ) squeezes this into the last verse:
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Where Is Your X Now? / int_fae48d18	comment	In The Prayer Warriors, Percy Jackson asks "Where are your false gods now?" to some Dirty Communists in "Threat of Satanic Commonism," after attacking and killing one of them.
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Pitch Black / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?
The Omega Code / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?
30 Days of Night / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?
Book of Exodus / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?
Book of Isaiah / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?
Book of Jeremiah / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?
Book of Psalms / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?
Books of Kings / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?
La Fuerza Series / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?
The Book of Mormon / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?
Amon Amarth (Music) / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?
Spinnerette (Webcomic) / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?
Cars 3 / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?
Toy Story 3 / int_eef9a51d	type	Where Is Your X Now?

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