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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"When someone says '[[We Are Everywhere|We've got people everywhere]]', you expect it to be hyperbole! Lots of people say that. '''Florists''' use that expression. It doesn't mean that they've got somebody working for them '''inside the bloody room!'''"''
|'''[[James Bond (film)|M]]''', ''[[Quantum of Solace]]''}}
It is a staple of fiction, and indeed casual dialog, to exaggerate when describing something. Everyone has heard it before: "I'm gonna hit you into next week!" "I'm the biggest baddest guy in town!" "He's the size of a house." Of course we all know the people saying these things don't actually mean what they're saying. They're just using dramatic flair, that's all. It enhances the conversation or just makes it funnier. So when the [[Mighty Glacier]] tells his opponent that he's about to be punched through a wall, he can't actually do exactly what he just said.
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Usually part of a [[Badass Boast]]. See also [[Literal Metaphor]]. [[Literal Ass-Kicking]] is a subtrope. [["Not Making This Up" Disclaimer]] is a common variation.
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== Anime
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', [[Person of Mass Destruction|Evangeline]] don't have to exaggerate her threats:
{{quote|'''Evangeline:''' [[Evil Laugh|Ahahahaha!]] [[Heroic Sociopath|This is getting interesting!]] [[One-Hit Kill|I'll finish this with a single blow!]] Hold the [[The Dragon|sc]][[Quirky Miniboss Squad|um]] in place for me! ''([http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v36/c333/11.html cue one-hit freeze])''}}
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* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'': When Quentin Quire apparently died, Charlies Xavier realized that he was actually becoming an [[Energy Being]]. This is how he explained it:
{{quote|'''Professor X:''' Quentin Quire was liberated from his physical cocoon and born into a higher world at 4:32 this afternoon. [[Arbitrary Skepticism|I know how ridiculous that sounds]], but in this case we believe it to be the literal truth.}}
* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'': When Jody says he's going to "pull yore Goddamn head off so ol' T.C. can shit down yore neck", it's going to lead to T.C. saying "I better do my part. Either've you got any Kleenex, or'm I gonna have to wipe with my hand?"
* ''[[Dilbert]]''▼
** Alice will often follow through on her implausible threats, for instance when she stuffed Asok into his own shirt sleeve and punted him into the ceiling.▼
** She's also promised to "punch someone into next week" (or next <insert day of week here>), only for the last panel to show them emerging from a time portal. [[Recycled Script|Several times]].▼
** In another she threatened to punch a man so hard he'd have to drop his pants to say hello. The past panel shows a pair of arms sticking out of the top of a pair of pants, and Dilbert and Wally wondering what that odd "Melp, melp!" sound is.▼
* [[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]] once kicked Odie into next week. True enough, Odie didn't appear until the following Monday, when he fell on Garfield.▼
{{quote|'''Garfield:''' [[Brick Joke|Ah yes. I remember now. I kicked Odie into next week last week.]]}}▼
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* [[Hancock]] goes to prison and tells some prisoners to leave him alone or "your head is going up his ass". They don't leave him alone. [[Ass Shove|The first one's head goes up the second one's ass]]. And it is humiliating.
* In the live version of ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (film)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', when the narrator tells the Grinch "you have termites in your smile", he's being literal, as a close-up of the Grinch's smile shows. [[Squick| (Yuck.)]]
== Live-Action TV ==
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** ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler]]'' (Over 30 years)
** The ''[[John Carter (film)|John Carter]]'' film, in one form or another, for about ''70 years.''
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* ''[[Dilbert]]''
▲** Alice will often follow through on her implausible threats, for instance when she stuffed Asok into his own shirt sleeve and punted him into the ceiling.
▲** She's also promised to "punch someone into next week" (or next <insert day of week here>), only for the last panel to show them emerging from a time portal. [[Recycled Script|Several times]].
▲** In another she threatened to punch a man so hard he'd have to drop his pants to say hello. The past panel shows a pair of arms sticking out of the top of a pair of pants, and Dilbert and Wally wondering what that odd "Melp, melp!" sound is.
▲* [[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]] once kicked Odie into next week. True enough, Odie didn't appear until the following Monday, when he fell on Garfield.
▲{{quote|'''Garfield:''' [[Brick Joke|Ah yes. I remember now. I kicked Odie into next week last week.]]}}
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'''Nathan:''' I need a hundred beers. Exactly. Exactly one hundred. Thank you. }}
* Inverted in the ''[[American Dad]]'' episode "Moon Over Isla Island", where Roger has been duped into disguising himself and standing in for the dictator of an island nation, mistakenly thinking he's simply in in costume and the Presidental palace he is staying in is simply a 5-star hotel. When he is served dinner he doesn't like he describes in detail how the chef should be mutilated and killed, and unbeknownst to him his "order" is carried out.
* The ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' episode "Headhunters" has Dipper interrogating a ''really'' tough lumberjack named [[Testosterone Poisoning|
{{quote|'''Dipper:''' Where were you last night?
'''Manly Dan:''' Punchin' the clock.
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