The greatest tacticians in space do n’t just use high - energy shaft and force shields , they apply psychology . And the good interstellar scag - down start with the applesauce talk before a individual blastoff is fired .
Whether it ’s Kirk mock Khan ’s superior intellect or Adama rumble into the space - earpiece , nothing improve a shootout in space like a good career - you - out speech . Watch our pastiche of clip , and then read our list of the 10 great taunts and shouts of rebelliousness in interstellar armed combat .
10 . Dr. Who , “ Bad Wolf . ”
9 . Space Battleship Yamato .
Desslok , leader of the Gamilons , test to beat out the runty humankind over and over again , but eventually lost his empire . So in time of year two , he decided to take retaliation on the crew of the Yamato , who defeated his ambitions . He finally catches up to them in an episode auspiciously titled “ Desslok ’s triumph , ” and impound them with his gunships . Then he surrounds the Yamato with magnetic mines before the man can fuel their famous Wave Motion Gun . And then taunts his adversaries mercilessly . “ Go on , take a shot . ” Ha ha ha ha . ( I eff it ’s sacrilege , but I really prefer this scene in the English nickname version . )
8 . Avengers#96 , part of the Kree - Skrull War saga .
The Avengers havedefeated an entire Skrull armadain an epical infinite battle — and then the Skrull emperor moth appears on a view screen and reveals that he ’s pull strings the Kree warrior , Mar - Vell , into creating the ultimate artillery , an Omni - Wave Projector . And then when it turn out that Mar - Vell is actually tricking the Skrulls , the emperor butterfly launches Plan Delta , which send an all - consuming bolide spiralling towards Earth .
7 . Serenity .
This one ’s a bit dissimilar . Chiwetel Ejiofor ’s Operative is mournful and bad after he slaughters dozens ( maybe hundreds ) of innocent to get to Mal . But he still needle Mal via the viewscreen , suggesting that all the carnage is Mal ’s fault . And he ’s successful in goading Mal to take heady action — just not maybe the action he was hoping for .
6 . Halo 3 , “ The Crow ’s Nest ” level .
The Chief and Johnsonreach the Command Centerand start nominate plans to attack Truth ’s army , but then Truth appear on all screens and says : “ You are , all of you , varmint . fawn in the grunge , thinking … what , I wonder ? That you might escape the come fire ? No ! Your world will sunburn until its airfoil is but glass ! And not even your Demon will survive to crawl , char , from its gob to mar the reflection of our transition ; the windup of our Journey . For your destruction is the will of the god ! And I ? I AM their instrument ! ” Okay , so that ’s not a outer space battle . But I love that speech .
5 . Battlestar Galactica .
It takes less than an episode for thing to go South between the Galactica and the newly discovered Battlestar Pegasus . Admiral Cain decides to execute the Chief and Helo , lead to a tense face-off complete with the whirly cam . Commander Adama evince why you do n’t sight with Galactica , with his terse “ I ’m getting my serviceman ” talk volumes . And then the phone comes down , because the quad battle is on .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGUCAWw62os
4 . Farscape , “ pop off Me , Dichotomy . ”
In the second season cliffhanger , Scorpius postulate over Crichton ’s brain via a nervous splintering , and the judgement - operate Crichton tricks Aeryn into letting him go . Shechasesafter his module in her Prowler , contribute to a harsh commutation . Scorpius asks her how the skull fracture is doing , and she jeopardize to shoot him down . “ Make no mistake . ” Scorpius / John replies : “ I consider you ’ll pull the gun trigger . I just do n’t consider – you ’ll hit anything . ” And then he locomote into a dive . Sadly , this is just a few moments before Aeryn takes her chair - dive into the fixed lake .
3 . Galaxy Quest .
Jason and Sarris have many great confrontations over the viewscreen , include the first one , where Jason thinks Sarris is just play , and the 2nd one , where Jason calls Sarris stupid and ugly because he retrieve the phone is off . But the dear , by far , is the last jaw - overlook confrontation . Sarris reminds Jason that he ’s a General , who ’s find out war and end that Jason ca n’t conceive of , and Sarris wo n’t blink no matter what . ( This fit is prolonged in the originalscript , actually . ) But Jason retorts that it does n’t take a expectant actor to recognize a unsound one , and Sarris is sudate . And then we get to the classic exchange , “ You cod . What you go wrong to realize is that without your armor my ship will deplume through yours like tissue paper paper . ” To which Jason responds : “ Yeah . Well what you flush it to see is … I ’m drop behind mines . ”
2 . Babylon 5 , “ Between The Darkness And The Light .
One of the most repeatable speeches in the history of quad scrap . I am going to start calling myself “ the right paw of payback ” and “ the boot up your ass ” in the same breathing spell now . Thanks to Michael and BcBeBop for pointing it out to us .
1 . Star Trek II : Wrath of Khan .
Star Trek pretty much perfected the art of hail - frequencies bravado , as early as “ The Enterprise Incident”‘s Romulan Sub - Commander Tal . “ Your ship is surrounded , Captain . You will surrender immediately , or we will destroy you . ” With Kirk responding , “ preserve your threat . If you get on this ship , I ’ll blow it up . You ’ll gain nothing . ” But Trek ’s chef-d’oeuvre of comm - taunt has to be TWoK , where Kirk keep goad Khan ’s poor marksmanship , until ultimately he entice him into a disabling nebula by laughing at his superior mind . “ We try it once your elbow room , Khan . Are you game for a replay ? ” The script say : “ Khan ’s eyes bulge . ” And they do .
This berth originally come out at io9 in a different form , back in March 2008 .
https://gizmodo.com/best-space-battle-smack-talk-369491
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