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This is a variety of Stock Phrase in which characters say something like "your little [x]" where [x] is their little description of whatever they're referring to.
Alternatively, the speaker's little use of this phrase can replace the word "your" with a word like his, her, their, etc. and/or replace "little" with a similar enough synonym.
Sometimes this can be used to indicate that such characters are Deadpan Snarkers, Smug Snakes, or both, especially if they use it frequently.
See also And Your Little Dog, Too!. Insignificant Little Blue Planet is a subtrope, at least on the cosmic level. |
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Hopper from A Bug's Life uses three of these in the same conversation. |
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StarCraft: |
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Might and Magic VII: Queen Catherine has been reluctantly convinced that instead of beheading him, she should exile Archibald to Clanker's Lab, or to quote Her Majesty: |
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The Adam-12 episode "Killing Ground" has a bank robber who makes fun of the police and their "little tests" and "little review boards." It turns out he's bitter because he wanted to be a cop, but was deemed too mentally unstable. Towards the end, he loses it completely and yells "LITTLE TESTS! LITTLE BOARDS!" over and over again. |
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Susan in Coupling does this a few times, usually when annoyed at Steve speaking with his friends. |
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The Simpsons often has Homer saying "Why you little—!" to Bart, before strangling him. |
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Used many times in Meet the Robinsons, especially by "Goob"/Bowler Hat Guy, but by others as well. |
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1776: Addressing Jefferson, Edward Rutledge refers to the Declaration of Independence as "your little paper there." |
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Captain Planet and the Planeteers: In "Don't Drink the Water", while telling Captain Planet to leave them alone if he wants Wheeler unharmed, Looten Plunder calls the teenager "[Planet's] little errand boy." |
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In Mogworld, Mr. Wonderful often calls the group "my little [x]" with x being a word or phrase vaguely appropriate for the situation. Lampshaded within the story, so he switches it up with "my tiny [x]," "my diminutive [x]" and so forth, to the point of having an open thesaurus on his desk during an interrogation. |
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The Transformers:
In "Autobot Spike", Megatron transforms and has Soundwave use him to shoot Bumblebee, who's in vehicle mode with Spike inside, in order to cause a diversion so the Decepticons can retreat unscathed. Bumblebee and Spike take the full impact, causing the Autobots to shift focus.
Earlier in the same episode, the Decepticons attack a rocket base, intent on securing the fuel for themselves. After chasing off the humans: |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
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Elphaba from Wicked not only gets the "Little dog" line but describes Dorothy as "That wretched little farm girl" and tells Glinda to get the truth into "Your blissful little blonde brain". |
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In Death: Eve in Vengeance In Death says in response to a ridiculous supposition at a media conference, "They belong in tiny rooms where they can be discussed by tiny minds." |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim:
Some characters will respond to the Dragonborn stealing items in plain sight.
When the Dragonborn is caught pickpocketing: |
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Closer: used semi-flirtatiously, semi-patronizingly: |
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In Coyote, during Chapter 3, during a U.A. faculty meeting to discuss Aizawa's causing his entire class to drop out in protest over his teaching methods on the first day (particularly how he expelled entire classes in the past), Principal Nedzu disapprovingly refers to the "little ‘logical ruses’" Aizawa plays on his class, such as claiming that he lied when he said he'd expel the lowest scorer on the Quirk Apprehension Exam. |
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The Wizard of Oz: |
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Daria has an example of Quinn referring to Jane's artwork as "her little paintings". Quinn doesn't seem to realize how condescending it was, though it doesn't pass by Jane without comment. |
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night has Dracula's most famous line of the game. |
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In the "Threeboot" version of Legion of Super-Heroes, Colossal Boy is actually an alien from a planet of giants whose super-power is shrinking down to human size. After getting into a minor squabble with his teammates, he chuckles, "I just can't stay mad at you little people. You crack me up." |
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Lean on Me has Joe Clark use this. |
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Team Fortress 2:
When the Demoman (who specialises with a grenade launcher and stickybombs) is dominated by a Spy, one of the Spy's possible lines is:
The Heavy does this a lot due to being the biggest mercenary around and his emphasize on size and power in comparison to the other classes. |
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In The Avengers, when Cap and Tony are squabbling aboard the Helicarrier, Thor laughs rather pompously and says, "You people are so petty! And tiny!" |
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In City of Lost Children, one of Essa's many condescending remarks to Tom is calling humans "your sad little species". |
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In Police Squad!, when Frank is minding a key-cutting shop in order to flush out a gang of extortionists: |
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The Warriors: |
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The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: Although Voluptua claims to be the only member of her race who has any respect for humanity, this never stops her from patronizing us as "you little critters" or Earth as "this little world. It's so fragile and cute." Jean has repeatedly called her out for once calling us "wildlife." |
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In My Dream Is Yours, Jamie Jam uses this against Ohlm in Chapter 4 when getting upset over forgetting her plan to attack the town due to her failed attempts to convey the concept of a "Knock Knock" Joke to the agent. |
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Star Trek: Voyager: The backup copy of The Doctor in reference to the Vaskan-Kyrian race relations in "Living Witness": |
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