# Totally kewlest threats-with-backup **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 19, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-kewlest-threats-with-backup/568219 "2011-01-19T17:22:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-kewlest-threats-with-backup/568219/81 "2011-01-28T20:29:56Z")
> [@](#): > > tolkien has few good ones Of course, in both of those cases, while the threat seemed plenty good at the time, they found themselves both a bit lacking in actually backing them up. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-kewlest-threats-with-backup/568219/82 "2011-01-28T20:38:41Z")
**Guerrero** : Afraid we’re at an impasse. **Latino Thug** : We’re at a what? **Guerrero** : Impasse. It means we disagree without prospect of resolution. **Latino Thug** : You know, we came here to explain it to you, but you don’t seem to be getting it. Maybe the three of us can take a little walk out back to the alley. We can explain it a little better. So there’s no… impasse. **Guerrero** : I got to warn you guys, if this gets violent, I’m gonna fight back. **Latino Thug** : You think you’re gonna fight back? **Guerrero** : All right, maybe fight back’s a little misleading. I’ll take the beating 'cause that’s all you two amateurs are cleared to do. And then one night soon, I’m gonna break into your houses and kill each of you in your sleep. I’ll probably start with you, Alfredo. That way Steven here can have a few extra days with Marla and the girls. It’s only fair. **Latino Thug** : How do you know my name? **Guerrero** : Your employer keeps information on a drive he thinks is secure. It isn’t. Shall we? ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-kewlest-threats-with-backup/568219/83 "2011-01-28T21:00:38Z")
Another _Chronicles of Riddick_. Riddick trashes a room full of soldiers. Stepping out, he sees one last soldiers holding Keith David’s character at knifepoint. Riddick doesn’t even have to say anything, just glare, and the soldiers drops the knife and beats feet. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-kewlest-threats-with-backup/568219/84 "2011-01-28T21:16:33Z")
> [@willthekittensurvive](#): > > tolkien has few good ones > > The Witch King As pointed out, the Lord of the Nazgul didn’t manage to back up the threat. It’s better to look at more of the passage. > [@](#): > > **Eowyn:** “Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion! Leave the dead in peace!” > **The Witch King:** “Come not between the Nazgul and his prey! Or he will not slay thee in thy turn. He will bear thee away to the houses of lamentation, beyond all darkness, where thy flesh shall be devoured, and thy shrivelled mind be left naked to the Lidless Eye.” > **Eowyn:** “Do what you will, but I will hinder it, if I may.” > **The Witch King:** “Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!” > **Eowyn:** “But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Eomund’s daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him.” In this case, Eowyn was the badass, as the Lord of the Nazgul found out shortly thereafter. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-kewlest-threats-with-backup/568219/85 "2011-01-28T21:34:16Z")
And she’s not only a badass, but she’s a badass while using words like “dwimmerlaik”. Which just makes it even better. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-kewlest-threats-with-backup/568219/86 "2011-01-28T22:14:48Z")
**simster** , that one was pretty good. What is interesting is Guerrero is small in stature, short and skinny. The two thugs were large brutish guys. That scene plays out like the fight in the alley would be fairly one-sided. However, later episodes have shown him to be a fairly decent fighter despite the size difference. Ergo, we’re left with a minor plot discontinuity. One can fanwank it by saying Guerrero could have actually protected himself in the fight, but didn’t feel like taking hits when he could defuse the situation through other means. But I still kinda liked the original implication that Guerrero was more intellect than brawn, and was demonstrating how a wicked bastard uses his own skills to level the playing field. Why fight “fair” when a fight isn’t fair to begin with? Change the terms of the game. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2011, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-kewlest-threats-with-backup/568219/87 "2011-01-29T06:50:15Z")
> [@SandyHook](#): > > An actual event I witnessed many years ago when I worked construction. > > We had a genuine bad-ass on the job. He was a fair sized man but not really what you would call big, perhaps 35 or so. I was his working buddy for a while. During that time several men came by to ask how I was getting along with him. This kind of confused me for a bit because he never did or said anything that suggested I should be wary of him. > > One morning his wife, who was also working on the job, came over to where we were and told him someone had said something to her. She’d basically told him to kiss off but he wouldn’t give it a rest. > > At lunch he went over to where the man was and said, “You shouldn’t have spoken that way to my wife.” > > The guy got pale and fell all over himself saying, “I’m sorry. I had no idea she was your wife. I’m really sorry.” > He just looked at him for a moment and said, “I don’t accept apologies.” > > The other guy didn’t even wait to draw his check. That’s kinda terrifying. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2011, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-kewlest-threats-with-backup/568219/88 "2011-01-29T16:50:59Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > From _Doctor Who_ (“The Christmas Invasion”): > > \*\*By the ancient rites of combat, I forbid you to scavenge here for the rest of time. And when you go back to the stars and tell others of this planet, when you tell them of its riches, its people, its potential, when you talk of the Earth, then make sure that you tell them this… > > …it is defended! \*\* The one that really made my spine tingle was from _Forest of the Dead_: > [@The Doctor](#): > > You just killed someone I like, that is not a safe place to stand! I’m the Doctor, and you’re in the biggest library in the Universe. _Look me up._ But it really shouldn’t be surprising that the Doctor is capable of awesome threats. He is after all, as I heard someone describe him, the only thing in the universe capable of making a Dalek shit its pants. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2011, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-kewlest-threats-with-backup/568219/89 "2011-01-29T17:46:13Z")
“We deal in lead, friend.” And another: “I aim to misbehave.” ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2011, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-kewlest-threats-with-backup/568219/90 "2011-01-31T01:58:43Z")
Blondie: You see, in this world there’s two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-kewlest-threats-with-backup/568219.md?page=4)