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Cthulhu, you're in a whole mess of trouble. That is the true face of evil. You're dead, man.

Mysterion (to Cthulhu), South Park "Only an immortal can kill another immortal. Here's your prize! Take this curse away from me, you big pussy!"

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Insulting a being who is much more powerful than you.

May be used comedically to deflate an otherwise-impressive villain. Hard to be menacing when the Team Pet beans you in the head with a rock.

This rarely ever causes the target any real harm. At most this can distract or annoy the Big Bad momentarily, giving the other characters time to escape, prepare, or attack. Can provide The Load with an opportunity to redeem themself.

See also Blasphemous Boast, Rage Against the Heavens, Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter!, Heroic Sacrifice, Defiant Stone Throw, and Defiant to the End. If the person providing the distraction tries to make it last as long as possible to help his teammates, it's Holding the Floor. Sometimes literally involves Flipping the Bird.

Contrast Wowing Cthulhu where the character doesn't piss the godly being off but rather amazes them— that said, Flipping off Cthulhu may also Wow Cthulhu when said godly being actually likes their attitude.

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In The Thrilling Adventure Hour, Nightmares the Clown is an expy of the Monster Clown from It and a recurring nemesis of drunken mediums Frank and Sadie Doyle. Sadie, however, finds clowns hilarious and is incapable of taking him seriously. Instead, she constantly makes jokes about his being a clown and gets in the way of his feeding on fear. Sadie: He is walking towards me. Do not slip on a banana peel! (whisper) I secretly hope he does slip on a banana peel!

Frank: Sadie, please, do not taunt the nightmare clown monster.

Sadie: Or what? He'll get in his small car with all his other friends and drive away! Oh! They can use the high occupancy vehicle lane.

Nightmares: Really, I'm not that kind of clown...

In The Adventure Zone's Balance Arc, the big bad is a Universe-consuming dark dimension called the Hunger Merle, the party cleric, gained the ability to meet with its human embodiment, John, spent almost sixty years in diplomatic meetings with him, and ultimately told him to piss off. Merle: Kiss my ass, you sanctimonious bastard.

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Destroy the Godmodder is a prime breeding ground for this trope. It includes people flipping off the Godmodder himself, and anything else down the line. It doesn't always end well, like when Piono called TwinBuilder useless. Literally done during the original and no longer canon epilogue of DTG2 when Erelye flipped off the Narrative and Conflict, the two omnipresent and omnipotent forces of plot in existence.



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Warhammer: The End Times has perhaps the biggest example of all when it comes to the four Chaos Gods. First, it was Nagash, the most powerful of necromancers offering him a high position in his army of the dead and the chance to be a pillar in his ascent to Godhood. Then it was all four Chaos Gods offering him everything they could ever offer, up to the chance to be a Lesser God with a new golden body and unimaginable power and riches. Neither of them got anything from Settra the Imperishable when they made their offers to him, he spat upon both their offers and promised to murder them all for even daring to imply he'd ever be anyone's subordinate. Because Settra does not serve, Settra rules.

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