# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Red\_Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@Red\_Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/41 "2009-09-28T15:47:47Z")
From The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: “Oh, I almost forgot, he paid me a thousand. I think his idea was that I kill you. But you know, the pity is when I’m paid, I always follow my job through. You know that.” ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/42 "2009-09-28T15:55:35Z")
As you came We’ll show you what we do. Which,saying,me and my ex colleagues adopted when working. ---
**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, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/43 "2009-09-28T16:25:35Z")
Matrix: Reloaded Neo: If I were you, I would hope that we don’t meet again. The Architect: We won’t. Ghostbusters Dr. Egon Spengler: I’m worried, Ray. All my readings point to something big on the horizon. Winston Zeddemore: What do you mean, big? Dr. Egon Spengler: Well, let’s say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. Based on this morning’s reading, it would be a Twinkie thirty-five feet long, weighing approximately six hundred pounds. Winston Zeddemore: That’s a big Twinkie. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/44 "2009-09-28T19:19:34Z")
Not really a threat, but still ominous-sounding. From “They Live” (1988) Nada (Roddy Piper): I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum. From “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (1975): French Soldier (John Cleese): I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. Sir Galahad (Michael Palin): Is there someone else up there we can talk to? French Soldier: No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/45 "2009-09-28T19:37:12Z")
I’m surprised this hasn’t been posted yet. A personal favorite: \*What now? Let me tell you what now. I’m gonna call a couple of hard-pipe-hittin’ niggas to go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch. You hear me, talking hillbilly boy? I ain’t through with you! Not by damn sight! I’m gonna get medieval on your ass! ~Marsellus Wallace, Pulp Fiction\* ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/46 "2009-09-28T19:43:37Z")
From _Taken_: “I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/47 "2009-09-28T19:46:30Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > I’m surprised this hasn’t been posted yet. A personal favorite: > > \*What now? Let me tell you what now. I’m gonna call a couple of hard-pipe-hittin’ niggas to go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch. You hear me, talking hillbilly boy? I ain’t through with you! Not by damn sight! I’m gonna get medieval on your ass! > > ~Marsellus Wallace, Pulp Fiction\* Post #14 by **Fionn.** ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/48 "2009-09-28T19:54:12Z")
“Who is the woman?”—Kurgan, _Highlander_ ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/49 "2009-09-28T20:10:21Z")
> [@Tenar](#): > > Weird. I could have sworn it was Jack Nicholson in _A Few Good Men_. > > Or was that “Tear out your eyes and \*%&$ your skull?” That would be “I’m gonna rip the eyeballs out of your head and piss in your dead skull!” ---
**Author:** ![ArrMatey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrmatey/32/3522_2.png) [@ArrMatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArrMatey)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/50 "2009-09-28T20:25:44Z")
Wow, **Miller** , I came in here to do Henry V of all things, and someone beats me to it! So I’ll add the little one from near the beginning of **Tombstone**. Ed gets indignant about Doc Holliday’s winning streak. “Why Ed, does this mean we’re not friends anymore? You know Ed, if I thought you weren’t my friend…” (Holiday barely reveals his pistol) “I just don’t think I could bear it!” ---
**Author:** ![Mannish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Mannish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mannish)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/51 "2009-09-28T20:48:33Z")
“I promise you a day of reckoning that you won’t live long enough to never forget.” - Joe Sarno (James Caan), _The Way of the Gun_ ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/52 "2009-09-28T21:04:00Z")
Not a movie, but too awesome to omit: From the webcomic [_Penny Arcade:_](http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/10/) > [@](#): > > Don’t you say another goddamn word. Up until now I’ve been polite. If you say anything else — word one — I will kill myself. And when my tainted spirit finds its destination, I will topple the master of that dark place. From my black throne, I will lash together a machine of bone and blood, and fueled by my hatred for you the fear engine will bore a hole between this world and that one. When it begins, you will hear the sound of children screaming — as though from a great distance. A smoking orb of nothing will grow above your bed, and from it will emerge a thousand starving crows. As I slip through the widening maw in my new form, you will catch only a glimpse of my radiance before you are incinerated. Then as tears of bubbling pitch stream down my face, my dark work will begin. I will open one of my six mouths, and I will sing the song that ends the earth. Many more at the TVTropes page [To the Pain.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ToThePain) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/53 "2009-09-28T21:05:50Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Dan Aykroyd, yes, but the quote comes from _Doctor Detroit_. And copied by Swede in the Clint Eastwood vehicle _Heartbreak Ridge_ (AFAIK, the only Grenada War movie ever made). ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/54 "2009-09-28T21:30:06Z")
PROSSER: Mr. Dent, have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you? ARTHUR: How much? PROSSER: None at all. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/55 "2009-09-28T21:30:59Z")
From a most probably [never-translated French film](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096034/) : As the heroes are suspended in a crow cage (dunno the English word for that - it’s essentially what it says on the tin : a suspended cage where people are left hanging for the crows to eat them alive), their evil captor says this : - I regret I won’t be here to witness your slow agony, but you know how it is when one has my responsibilities. It’s a shame, really, because as soon as the Sun comes up, the crows start feasting on the eyes first. They seem to be fond of them. It makes a strange sound, a beautiful sound… hero, interrupting : Yeah, yeah, all right, we’ll see. - No. That’s the point. You won’t. But you’ll hear. Good night. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2009, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/56 "2009-09-28T23:17:57Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Dan Aykroyd, yes, but the quote comes from _Doctor Detroit_. I’m sure it was in Trading Places also - it was said by that goon who did the Dukes’ dirty work. I guess it’s just a popular threat. ---
**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, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/57 "2009-09-28T23:32:45Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > dunno the English word for that - it’s essentially what it says on the tin : a suspended cage where people are left hanging for the crows to eat them alive That’d be a gibbet. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764/58 "2009-09-29T00:52:12Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > I’m surprised this hasn’t been posted yet. A personal favorite: > > \*What now? Let me tell you what now. I’m gonna call a couple of hard-pipe-hittin’ niggas to go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch. You hear me, talking hillbilly boy? I ain’t through with you! Not by damn sight! I’m gonna get medieval on your ass! > > ~Marsellus Wallace, Pulp Fiction\* Tarantino lifted the “pair of pliers and a blowtorch” phrase from _Charlie Varrick_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-ominous-sounding-threats-made-by-people-in-movies/511764.md?page=2)