# Most ominous-sounding threats made by people in movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2009, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764 "2009-09-27T18:41:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/21 "2009-09-28T02:27:06Z")
Clint Eastwood always has a bunch of good ones: Heartbreak Ridge “Well, well, well, well. I’m here to tell you that life as you knew it has ended. You all may as well go into town tonight. You may as well laugh and make fools out of yourselves. Rub your pathetic little peckers against your honies or stick it in a knothole in the fence but whatever it is, get rid of it. Because at 0600 tomorrow your ass is mine. Now it’s my will against yours and you will lose. So don’t forget, 0600. That’s six o’clock in the morning for those of you who don’t habla.” Unforgiven "I’ve killed women and children. I’ve killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I’m here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you done to Ned. " "Any man don’t wanna get killed better clear on out the back. " ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/22 "2009-09-28T02:32:16Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > “I’m going to tear off your head and shit down your neck” - some guy from Trading Places. > [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Dan Aykroyd, yes, but the quote comes from _Doctor Detroit_. Weird. I could have sworn it was Jack Nicholson in _A Few Good Men_. Or was that “Tear out your eyes and \*%&$ your skull?” ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/23 "2009-09-28T02:40:25Z")
I’m pretty sure the quote originated in _Full Metal Jacket._ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/24 "2009-09-28T02:42:01Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > “Paybacks a bitch.” > Independence day. Paybacks a bitch, ain’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/25 "2009-09-28T03:32:22Z")
My Favorite: _Beverly Hills Cop_, the scene where Eddie Murphy and his friend have been caught in the warehouse with the villian’s drugs: Axel Foley: If you hurt her, I’m gonna kill you. Victor Maitland: That would be a neat trick. I like implied threats. I read _Get Shorty_ a long time ago and I remember Chili Palmer saying he never makes direct threats. He lets his victims fill in the gaps with their imagination, making his job of getting info/money from them all the easier. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/26 "2009-09-28T03:34:43Z")
“Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. _He_ is behind me. _You_ are in front of me. If you value your lives, _be somewhere else_.” : Abassador Delenn, _Babylon 5_ “Please accept my assurances that no personal animosity of any kind is intended towards any of you. Nonetheless it appears, unfortunately that I must now go forth and destroy your respective worlds. Perhaps you would like to draw straws, to determine where I might best start.” : _Tuf Voyaging_ [QUOTE=Stephen King] “You’re the one don’t understand. You got a week. and if you haven’t got at least thirty pages of manuscript, I’ll be coming for you, hoss. Only it won’t start with you-that’d be too easy. That’d be entirely too easy. I’ll take your kids first, and they will die slow. I’ll see to it. I know how. They won’t know what’s happening, only that they’re dying in agony. But you’ll know, and I’ll know, and your wife will know. I’ll take her next…only before I take her, I’ll take her. You know what I mean, old hoss. And when they’re gone, I’ll do you, Thad, and you’ll die like no man on earth ever died before.” [/QUOTE] _The Dark Half_ [QUOTE=Jim Butcher] “This never happens again,” I said quietly. “You try to get to me through other mortals again and I’ll kill you.” Mavra’s rotted lips turned up at one corner. “No, you won’t,” she said in her dry dusty voice. “You don’t have that kind of power.” “I can get it,” I said. “But you won’t,” she responded, mockery in her tone. “It wouldn’t be right.” I stared at her a full ten seconds before I said, in a very quiet voice, “I’ve got a fallen angel tripping all over herself to give me more power. Queen Mab has asked me to take the mantle of Winter Knight twice now. I’ve read Kemmler’s book. I know how the Darkhallow works. And I know how to turn necromancy against the Black Court.” Mavra’s filmed eyes flashed with anger. I continued to speak quietly, never raising my voice. “So once again, let me be perfectly clear. If anything happens to Murphy and I even think you had a hand in it, fuck right and wrong. If you touch her, I’m declaring war on you. Personally. I’m picking up every weapon I can get. And I’m using them to kill you. Horribly.” [/QUOTE] From\* Dead Beat\*. ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/27 "2009-09-28T03:41:26Z")
Since my movie quote memory storage is low, all I could come up with was “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!” —Princess Bride So I checked a few sites and found these gems: “The fact that you’ve got ‘Replica’ written down the side of your gun and the fact that I’ve got ‘Desert Eagle point five O’ written on the side of mine should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence. Now… Fuck off!” (Snatch) “Wendy…darling… light of my life…you didn’t let me finish. I said, I’m not gonna hurt you… I just wanna bash your brains in!” (The Shining) “And just about the time I’m comin’ out of jail, hopefully, you’ll be coming out of your coma. And guess what? I’ll split your fuckin’ head open again. ‘Cause I’m fuckin’ stupid. I don’t give a fuck about jail. That’s my business. That’s what I do.” Casino “I will PT you until your assholes are sucking buttermilk!” - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey), Full Metal Jacket You and that other dummy better start getting more personally involved in your work, or I’m gonna stab you through the heart with a fuckin’ pencil. Do you understand me?" —Midnight Run And this one from science fiction, from Roger Zelazny, I think — arough quote from memory: May the beasts who dwell in the bottom of the sea, whose bellies are circles of light, recall with great pleasure the flavor of your marrow. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/28 "2009-09-28T03:43:45Z")
Oops; I forgot it was supposed to be _ **movie** _ quotes. I read a lot more than I watch. Well, TV is close I suppose… ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/29 "2009-09-28T04:59:04Z")
Riddick Slam Guard: You’ll kill us… with a soup cup? Richard B. Riddick: Tea, actually. Slam Guard: What’s that? Richard B. Riddick: I’ll kill you with my teacup. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/30 "2009-09-28T05:35:16Z")
Anton Chigurh: What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss? Gas Station Proprietor: Sir? Anton Chigurh: The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss. Gas Station Proprietor: I don’t know. I couldn’t say. [Chigurh flips a quarter from the change on the counter and covers it with his hand] Anton Chigurh: Call it. Gas Station Proprietor: Call it? Anton Chigurh: Yes. Gas Station Proprietor: For what? Anton Chigurh: Just call it. Gas Station Proprietor: Well, we need to know what we’re calling it for here. Anton Chigurh: You need to call it. I can’t call it for you. It wouldn’t be fair. Gas Station Proprietor: I didn’t put nothin’ up. Anton Chigurh: Yes, you did. You’ve been putting it up your whole life you just didn’t know it. You know what date is on this coin? Gas Station Proprietor: No. Anton Chigurh: 1958. It’s been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it’s here. And it’s either heads or tails. And you have to say. Call it. Gas Station Proprietor: Look, I need to know what I stand to win. Anton Chigurh: Everything. Gas Station Proprietor: How’s that? Anton Chigurh: You stand to win everything. Call it. Gas Station Proprietor: Alright. Heads then. [Chigurh removes his hand, revealing the coin is indeed heads] Anton Chigurh: Well done. [the gas station proprietor nervously takes the quarter with the small pile of change he’s apparently won while Chigurh starts out] Anton Chigurh: Don’t put it in your pocket, sir. Don’t put it in your pocket. It’s your lucky quarter. Gas Station Proprietor: Where do you want me to put it? Anton Chigurh: Anywhere not in your pocket. Where it’ll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin. Which it is. [Chigurh leaves and the gas station proprietor stares at him as he walks out] ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/31 "2009-09-28T05:37:05Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > It wasnt Shakespeare, but of course his delivery was golden. Speaking of Shakespeare, _Henry V_ is gold: The Duke of Exeter explaining to the King of France what will happen if he doesn’t surrender the crown: _Bloody constraint; for if you hide the crown Even in your hearts, there will he rake for it: Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming, In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove, That, if requiring fail, he will compel; And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord, Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy On the poor souls for whom this hungry war Opens his vasty jaws; and on your head Turning the widows’ tears, the orphans’ cries The dead men’s blood, the pining maidens groans, For husbands, fathers and betrothed lovers, That shall be swallow’d in this controversy. This is his claim, his threatening and my message;_ Henry, demanding the surrender of Harflour: _Therefore, you men of Harfleur, Take pity of your town and of your people, Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command; Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace O’erblows the filthy and contagious clouds Of heady murder, spoil and villany. If not, why, in a moment look to see The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters; Your fathers taken by the silver beards, And their most reverend heads dash’d to the walls, Your naked infants spitted upon pikes, Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry At Herod’s bloody-hunting slaughtermen. What say you? will you yield, and this avoid, Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy’d?_ But my favorite, largely thanks to Kenneth Branagh’s delivery, is: _We are glad the Dauphin is so pleasant with us; His present and your pains we thank you for: When we have march’d our rackets to these balls, We will, in France, by God’s grace, play a set Shall strike his father’s crown into the hazard._ The way he snaps off the T in “set” gives me shivers every time. ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/32 "2009-09-28T06:02:46Z")
“You will see me one more time if you do good. You will see me two more times if you do bad. Good night.” -The Cowboy from _Mulholland Dr._ That entire movie gives me the willies. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/33 "2009-09-28T14:04:43Z")
Who are you? What’s you’re name? Do you have a wife? A girlfriend? Because if you do, I’m gonna find her. I’m gonna hurt her. I’m gonna make her bleed, and cry, and call out your name. And then I’m gonna find you,and kill you right in front of her. Phillip Seymour Hoffman from MI:III ---
**Author:** ![Ronald\_C.Semone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cc9497/32.png) [@Ronald\_C.Semone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ronald_C.Semone)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/34 "2009-09-28T14:36:51Z")
The OP asked for “ominous” quotes. Most of those mentioned so far are scary perhaps, but not ominous. For ominous, nothing can beat “I’ll be back.” ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/35 "2009-09-28T15:03:01Z")
There’s a movie starring Dennis Quaid that’s a poor imitation of _Seven_ called _Horsemen_, but there’s one chilling line. One of the victims is lying in a masochism/torture device while her daughter is telling her exactly why she’s killing and torturing her. When she’s finished, the daughter says matter-of-factly, “You’re going to drown now.” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/36 "2009-09-28T15:10:14Z")
_“And your little dog, too!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/37 "2009-09-28T15:14:37Z")
“All right, Clanton… you called down the thunder, well now you’ve got it! You see that? It says United States Marshal! Take a good look at him, Ike… ‘cause that’s how you’re gonna end up! The Cowboys are finished, you understand? I see a red sash, I kill the man wearin’ it! So run, you cur… RUN! Tell all the other curs the law’s comin’! You tell 'em I’M coming… and hell’s coming with me, you hear?.. Hell’s coming with me!” -_Tombstone_ ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/38 "2009-09-28T15:32:55Z")
"If you hold back anything, I’ll kill ya. If you bend the truth or I think you’re bending the truth, I’ll kill ya. If you forget anything, I’ll kill ya. In fact, you’re gonna have to work very hard to stay alive, Nick. Now, do you understand everything I’ve said? 'Cause if you don’t, I’ll kill ya. " Rory Breaker in Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels. ---
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From the Simpsons of all things: “If you don’t do what I say I’m going to do something. And I don’t know what that thing is, 'cause nobody doesn’t do what I say.” ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/40 "2009-09-28T15:44:32Z")
> [@Ronald\_C.Semone](#): > > The OP asked for “ominous” quotes. Most of those mentioned so far are scary perhaps, but not ominous. > > For ominous, nothing can beat “I’ll be back.” As long as it’s the quote from the original Terminator. After all, there can only be one. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764.md?page=3)