'I Am God': 11 Characters Melodramatically Announcing Who They Are
The Monkees (1966)
Possibly the most brazen feat on this list: These guys actually wrote an entire song explicating who they were. Also, quite ominously, they also declare in song that they're the young generation and they have something to say. As it turns out, they didn't.
Batman (1989)
There are a lot of flaws in Tim Burton's first Batman movie, especially when compared to the newer Christopher Nolan films. But, not just one, but but both Michael Keaton's Batman and Jack Nicholson's Joker introduce themselves to other characters with overly dramatic flair.
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Sets the record for shortest time in-between "dramatic introduction" (I am a Jedi) and "nearly electrocuted to death" (So be it, Jedi).
Ghostbusters (1984)
One word: Zuul!
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"I am Mrs. Norman Maine."
Oh, she said, "This is Mrs. Norman Maine." Not quite as emphatic as I remembered.
“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.”
Yes!
Aw c'mon!
"Son, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow... savvy?"
Does Baldwin in Glengarry Glen Ross fit the criteria? Because, well, he doesn't actually say his name...
"What's your name?"
"Fuck you! That's my name. You know why, mister? Because you drove a Hyundai to get here tonight. I drove an $80,000 BMW. That's my name."
A W E S O M E !
Really, not "I am your father"?
Does it have to be a character?
"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the mighty one... Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
--Julius Robert Oppenheimer
I [i]am[/i] Iron Man.
"I'm a mushroom cloud laying motherfucker! Motherfucker!"