"you bitch" moments

In the 80s it seems like pretty much every big American action movie needed a "you bitch" moment, which I'm defining as the moment in a movie like Alien when the protagonist confronts a seemingly implacable "other" and unloads an earthy, American retort right in their face

The other two that immediately spring to mind:

- Indiana Jones faced with a bedevilling swordsman just shoots him
- Macready dumping whiskey into the computer when it beats him at chess in The Thing

But I feel there are many others! And maybe not just restricted to American movies, and maybe not just restricted to the 80s. What are they?

"Consider that a divorce"

damn i was hoping this was going to be about women slapping each other on tv

Spicoli to Mr. Hand: "You dick!"

(Does that count?)

"Consider that a divorce"

― Ashley Pomeroy, Thursday, August 14, 2025 1:56 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ha ha ha....you think this is the real Quaid? It is! *hail of machine gun fire*

does "Wolfman's got nards" count?

Pat ‘n Peg

arnold did this a lot iirc

I cut up a ton of Arnold samples for a mix I did recently and yes like half of his best lines are directly before shooting someone, he's truly the king of this, nobody comes close

his version always had this mix between being "funny" and .. not really funny at all but dead-eyed and arrogant. i guess that was the point haha.

not quite but reminded of

Bill: You ditched Napoleon?
Ted: Deacon, do you realize you have just stranded one of Europe's greatest leaders in San Dimas?
Deacon: He was a dick!

“Yippy-ki-yay, motherfucker!”

For some reason the "...clever girl" line from Jurassic Park comes to mind, but that's like an inversion of this. An earthy expression of respect before getting mauled

Will Smith's "Welcome to Earth!" in Independence Day perhaps fits better, along with the various insults he throws at the Bug in MIB

Many of the Arnold ones are said after he kills someone, not before. Cf. "Stick around."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVR476WHmR8

'Right turn, Clyde!'

"I may not know my flowers, but I know a bitch when I see one"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOZY7e5XN6s

(I know the character he's referring to isn't an alien/otherworldly force, but the clip is too good not to post... maybe the "implacable other" in this case can be botanical identification, truly a force to be reckoned with)

'Say hello to my little friend!'

I cut up a ton of Arnold samples for a mix I did recently and yes like half of his best lines are directly before shooting someone, he's truly the king of this, nobody comes close

― frogbs, Thursday, August 14, 2025 2:09 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

"i have diplomatic immunity!"

"it has been revoked"

oh wait that was danny glover in one of the lethal weapons

the arnold one i was thinking of was "you're luggage" from eraser

A personal favorite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZz3oz9R1VM

UK posting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HELofmbpDM0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX86iNTjCzg

The "you're fired!" moment in Robocop?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILPbQvh8ol4

"smile, you son of a...!"

not the same thing but I love when Harrison Ford goes “NO TICKET” after tossing the nazi out of the airship in last crusade

Fav Arnold definitely SEE YOU AT THE PARTY, RICHTER!!!

dog latin, I shared Pat ‘n Peg wayyyyyy upthread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-9fOvcbOhY

3 mins 50 seconds into this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqXJVOYcqMs

Apologies suzy. Great minds. And in my case: late minds

"HEEEERRRRRE'S JOHNNY!"

“Yippy-ki-yay, motherfucker!”

― Andy the Grasshopper, 14 August 2025 19:18 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

my first thought, but im not totally clear on the question tbh

boxedjoy coming through with the goods!

for a lot more of that kind of thing btw https://www.instagram.com/jeffreymixed/

That Bold And The Beautiful clip was *mwah*!

Spock vs boombox punk.

"my lawyer liked that" in scream 3 prob a good one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WowT4Cumgc8

Wargames - Barry Corbin as General Beringer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FogV4Qv8p8

"For some reason the "...clever girl" line from Jurassic Park comes to mind, but that's like an inversion of this. An earthy expression of respect before getting mauled"

And also "to be... or not to be" from Star Trek VI. And I mean yes it's also from Hamlet.

I'm struggling to think of an appropriate moment from one of the Trek films. Wrath of Khan has some great lines from Khan, but from what I remember he delivers "from hell's heart I stab at thee" to himself. In Undiscovered Country Kirk and co aren't able to communicate with the chief villain. The rest of the film has some top writing though. "Well fly her apart then" was Sulu's most epic moment in the entire franchise and it was just one line.

There's "smile, you son of a bitch" in Jaws. At this point I was going to do a comedy bit in which I write about Jaws as if it was a paranoid male reaction to 1970s-style feminism - with the shark's killing of children being a metaphor for abortion and its devouring of Quint as simultaneously an expression of fear of castration and also forced homosexuality - but the world of academia has beaten my by several years:
https://www.enotes.com/topics/steven-spielberg/criticism/spielberg-steven-vol-20/jane-e-caputi

And I mean yes it's also from Hamlet.

Also see The Last Action Hero.

Mike Hammer: So long baby.
Charlotte: How could you?
Mike Hammer: It was easy.