Favorite Sci-Fi Smackdown?

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-06-29 09:57pm

Watching one of my favorite SG-1 scenes as Thor drops in to put Senator Kinsey in his place ..... "Supreme Commander ...."

Got me thinking, what's your favorite scene in sci-fi where somebody gets put in their place like this? Of course Vader's 'apology accepted' comes immediately to mind, but what's yours?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-06-29 10:15pm

Let's see ...

From TESB: "You have failed me for the last time." - Darth Vader to Admiral Ozzel.
From ROTS: the look on Count Dooku's face when Palpatine says "kill him". And he finally realizes that for all his aristocratic arrogance and noble birth, he has been nothing more than a disposable pawn in Palpatine's game.
From "Soldier": the scene where that nasty little colonel is confronted and thrown off the ship. He actually pisses his pants.
From Babylon5: Mister Morden's head on a pike in the Imperial gardens of Centauri Prime.
From Star Trek: Q losing his powers and getting unceremoniously stabbed in the hand with a fork: the first of many indignities visited upon the Mighty Omnipotent Q which mounted until he eventually became suicidal.
From Independence Day: that annoying Secretary of Defense finally getting fired.
From "Aliens": Burke getting his comeuppance at the end, when he finally realizes that his web of bullshit has come crashing down on him. And of course, in the next scene he gets killed.
From "Ghostbusters": the EPA bureaucrat being put in his place by the Mayor of New York.
From "Demolition Man": the horrified look in the overconfident Cocteau's eyes when Phoenix, who has been programmed to be incapable of directly harming him, tosses his gun to one of his (unprogrammed) henchmen and says "will you please kill him? He's pissing me off."

I can't think of any more right now.

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-06-29 10:23pm

Darth Wong wrote:Let's see ...
From "Ghostbusters": the EPA bureaucrat being put in his place by the Mayor of New York.

"Yes, it's true ....... this man has no dick."

consequences · Post by **consequences** » 2005-06-29 10:24pm

oh, yeah, spoilers, for the Fifth Element and Firefly:

'A killer......A true killer, would have immediately asked what the little red button on the bottom of the gun was for *BOOM*' Zorg, the Fifth Element

The look on Zorg's face when the Mangalores activated their own bomb on the station, again from the Fifth Element

Malcolm Reynolds kicking the man into Serenity's engine in the second episode of Firefly.

Malcolm Reynolds shooting the cop in the first episode of Firefly while the man holds a gun to someone's head.

Hell, any time Mal does something unpleasant to someone.

That'll do for now.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2005-06-29 10:26pm

Farscape: When John finally is able to break free of Harvey's (Scorpius' neural clone) influence, and proceeds to kick his ass and chuck him in a dumpster.

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-06-29 10:36pm

consequences wrote:oh, yeah, spoilers, for the Fifth Element and Firefly:

'A killer......A true killer, would have immediately asked what the little red button on the bottom of the gun was for *BOOM*' Zorg, the Fifth Element

The look on Zorg's face when the Mangalores activated their own bomb on the station, again from the Fifth Element

... and Zorg 'firing' the guy who failed to impersonate Dallas and get on the starliner: "Sir, this will never happen again!" <pause> "I know ..."

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2005-06-29 10:48pm

Many of mine have been stated already, but I have to add the part in X2 when Magneto extracts the iron from that prison guard and starts kicking ass.

18-Till-I-Die · Post by **18-Till-I-Die** » 2005-06-29 11:14pm

"Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger..."
"No Mr. Bond i expect you to die! BWAHAHAA!"

God i fucking cant get enough of that scene.

bilateralrope · Post by **bilateralrope** » 2005-06-29 11:30pm

From the Babylon 5 episode 'Severed Dreams'

Delenn: This is Ambassor Delenn of the Mimbari, Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw or be destroyed!
Attack Fleet Officer: Negative! We have authority here! Do not force us to engage your ship!
Delenn: Why not? Only one Human captain has ever survived battle with a Mimbari fleet. He is behind me! You are in front of me! If you value your lives, be somewhere else!

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2005-06-29 11:38pm

Battlestar Galactica (season finale)

Adama: I'm going to have to ask you for your resignation, Madam President.
Roslin: No.
Adama: Then I'm terminating your presidency, as of this moment.
Roslin: Commander Adama, I will exercise the authority of this office until I am unable to do so, so if you want to stage a coup you're gonna have to come over here and arrest me.
Adama: I don't want any blood shed.
Roslin: Of course you don't, neither do I. Neither does the press. They're here, by the way.
Adama: ( Mutters to Tigh) the press...
Roslin: They're recording every minute.

End phone conversation

Not necessarily a straight putting into their place type thing.

Lord of the Abyss · Post by **Lord of the Abyss** » 2005-06-29 11:44pm

Besides many of the ones mentioned :

In DS9, Q puts boxing gloves on himslef and Sisko and starts punching; Sisko promptly slugs him. Q : "Picard wouln't have hit me !" Sisko : "I'm not Picard."

In Obsidian Butterfly a bad guy calls Anita Blake a bitch; she says "That's Ms Bitch to you" and shoots him in the head.

In the Vorkosigan story Labyrinth, Miles is taken hostage at knifepoint by a security commander, his mercenaries told to surrender... until Taura the 7 foot,fanged and clawed super soldier grabs him by the throat from behind and snarls "Drop the knife or I rip off your head and drink your blood."

B5 : "What are going to do, blow up the island ?" "Now that you mention it..."

Also B5 : "Only one human commander has ever survived combat with the Minbari. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else !"

From Tuf Voyaging, when the alliance against S'uthlam refuses to negotiate : "Pardon me, but I must now go forth and destroy your respective worlds. Perhaps you can draw straws, to see who goes first ?"

Also from Tuf Voyaging, : Tuf is confronted by Rita Dawnstar, who is riding a mind-controlled Tyrannosaur. Tuf has a kitten and a pistol. He says "You have an animal, I have an animal" and tosses to pistol to her. He says "Now you have a gun" and flees. She chases him, the T-Rex stomping and bellowing - and the plasma cannon at the next intersection vaporises woman and dino. "I had a gun too" he tells the kitten.

In Agents of Light and Darkness a bad guy uses a talisman to summon up a pair of demons to attack John Taylor. The demons look at Taylor, then each other and one say "John Taylor ? You want us to go up against John Fucking Taylor ?! Forget it, we don't do suicide missions." <Demons Vanish>

From March to the Stars when Prince Roger is told he can give up one of his people as a human sacrifice or they all die.
Roger "There's only one problem with you plan."
Sor Teb : "What"
Roger "You haven't seen me move."

From Narcissus in Chains : A wereleopard defys Anita Blake, gets a pard member hurt and calls Blake weak. She shoots her in the heart repeatedly with lead bullets, then calmly reloads with silver and points the gun at the wereleopard and says "Silver now, Elizabeth. Any more smart remarks ?"

From Thief of Time "Why does no one remember Rule One ?"

In the Mallorean, when Zakath asks Belgarion how he intends to leave. The annoyed Belgarion pull out the burning Sword of the Riven King and snarls "I was thinking of using this for a key. It works sort of like this !". He then blasts open the door, the foot thick stone wall around the door, and several walls beyond the door.

Lord of the Abyss · Post by **Lord of the Abyss** » 2005-06-30 12:04am

Sorry, some of those were fantasy. I let my enthusiasm carry me away.

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2005-06-30 12:14am

The last book in the Posleen series when the Georgia(I think) college fires a massive anti-matter cluster round onto the posleen. When they use Bun Bun to pop landers at close range. When O'neal jr. makes an anti-matter limpet mine and straps it on to the C-Dec.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-06-30 12:16am

Two from Farscape, spoilerized in case Stravo wanders into this thread:

Season 3: John Chricton decides to sabotage the PK wormhole project. Crais delievers a vindictive speech to Scorpius and then he and and the Leviathian gunship Talyn blow themselves up, destroying the PK command carrier that housed the wormhole project. John looks straight at Scorpius: "You'd better hold on to something."

Season 4: John drops a nuke down an elevator shaft, leading to the matriarch plant in Katratzi. A Scarran general who has been menacing the crew of Moya for the last half of the 4th season is checking on the plant, which the Scarrans need to survive. He steps into the elevator shaft with his honor guard, and confirms the safety of the plant. Then the nuke falls into his hand. Written on the nuke are the words "Hello There". Boom. Says Rygel: You blew up the bomb! Why did you blow up the bomb?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2005-06-30 12:24am

"I am a Lieutenant Commander in EarthForce. I do not take demands. If you request something, I will consider it."
"Very well, I request that you open a comm channel to EarthDome."
"Request denied. Have a nice day."

bilateralrope · Post by **bilateralrope** » 2005-06-30 12:29am

I am recalling this scene form when I last watched it a few years ago, so I probably have bits wrong

There is the scene in SG-1 where the rebel jafa arn't to happy that earth is suplying them with earth weapons instead of goa'uld weapons.

O'Neil get one of them to demonstrate a staff weapon against a target (Ithink its 3 out of 4 shots hit the target), then gets Carter to demonstrate their guns in full auto (bottom half of the traget is shredded), then in single shot (the rope holding up the target is shot through)

O'Neil holding staff weapon: "This is a weapon of terror, it scares the enemy"
holding earth weapon: "This is a weapon of war, it kills the enemy"

The rebel jafa then accecpte the earth weapons

Post by **Dalton** » 2005-06-30 12:32am

ST6: "Fire!" And Kirk's special torpedo tracks and hits Chang's BOP. Then the Excelsior and Big E start flinging more torps at him. That was fucking great.

Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba · Post by **Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba** » 2005-06-30 12:48am

Strykerverse, when Stryker's facing down a fleet of advanced and larger ships than his own singular ship. I don't remember his monologue exactly, but it went something like this:

Alien Admiral: Do not trifle with me and my ship, pathetic monkey-thing. We have crossed through dimensions, we have explored new realms and conquered them, we have enshackled Gods! And if you try to think you can beat us with fancy maneuvers and tricks up your sleeve, and get away with it, you're dead wrong. We'll destroy you, we'll destroy your world, your pathetic alliance, and then we'll enslave all the cowards who surrendered and spit on them before consuming their worthless husks. Understand that we'll do that, just after we blast your primitive piece of space debris to atoms. And afterwards, we'll laugh. We do this, because it's evil- well, it is to you ignorant pigs- and it's more fun than you'll experience in the rest of your soon-to-be very short and painful existence. End transmission.

Then, a whole battle later, Stryker gets his ass kicked, his ship is boarded, and then...

Stryker: You stupid fucking Illithid bastards. You fucking arrogant brainsucking monsters. You forgot one thing: Your advanced reactors use safe anti-Tachyon energy, right? Yeah, well our primitive cogs don't. We use fucking Hyperion conversion. So eat spatial rift, you sons of bitches. See you in those dimensions you were blathering about, I was miles away.

Then the Admiral just realises what's going on, as Stryker self-destructs his ship while going into Slipstream, collapsing space onto the alien fleet and their homeworld.

Best. Series Ending. EVER.

Lord of the Abyss · Post by **Lord of the Abyss** » 2005-06-30 01:14am

From The Bully and the Crazy Boy by Vernor Vinge.
A captured human Admiral under truth drugs tells the leader of a force of conquering aliens - who are both more advanced and smarter than humans how we can win. We're crazier than they are.

He tells the story of The Bully and the Crazy Boy, about a bully who keeps beating up this boy who keeps fighting and never surrenders no matter how bad he's hurt; until the bully can't take it anymore and runs away. He points out the incident where a human space station surrendered, accepted boarders and blew themselves up.

Oh, and those research ships coming to observe this final battle that will end the war ? He points out that their courses all converge to a single point - at near lightspeed. The resulting blast will, for a moment rival the Sun. "Let's see your damned shields stand that" says the Admiral.

The alien commander orders a course change and thinks about how the command ship - the only one that will survive - must get home and summon a larger fleet to destroy the humans. That's when the Admiral bit down on his hollow tooth, unleashing the berserker drugs. He rips free of his restraints - in high G -, grabs a weapon and kill the guards. He then runs out of the room, and the wounded commander has just enough time to wonder how the humans found out where the power room was before " the fury of unleashed atoms conquered all ".

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2005-06-30 01:16am

The last minute of the BBC series Blake's 7.

dworkin · Post by **dworkin** » 2005-06-30 02:02am

Evil Bond Strumpet "You won't shoot me. You'll miss me."
Bond shoots EBS
Bond "I never miss."

Master Chief "Let's stay focused. Halo. How do we use it against the Covenant?"
Cortana "This isn't some cudgel, you barbarian."

Darth Vader "Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force."

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-06-30 03:09am

The enemy cannot push a button if you disable his hand. (Zim - Starship Troopers)

Indiana Jones: ninja dude doing some fancy moves with his swords, Jones just shoots him and moves on. Its pretty cliché but pretty funny

+ a ton already mentioned

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-06-30 03:33am

Batman blocks a ninjas attacks then kicks him.
Just about everything mentioned so far.
Sidious bitchslapping the (Non Mace) jedi council members.
Maul just hitting Qui gon with the hilt instead of more fancy saber moves.

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2005-06-30 03:35am

Babylon 5, when Lord Reefa goes to arrest G'Kar on Narn, the moment he realizes that all of his guards were bought off by Londo. G'Kar then slips a datacrystal in his front pocket, requests that be found on the body, asks for the head to remain easy to identify, and walks away peacefully.

Then, the mob of narns beat the living daylights out of Reefa as he attempts to run, all while Gospel Music plays in the background, during the concurrent event on B5... That was utterly brilliant.

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2005-06-30 03:45am

Oh! After the main female Cybrid chucks the Shrike off a cliff and she starts lining Raul up to be next, her powers get shut off. Raul beats her, but she still works him over pretty good in the ensuing fight.