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"That was a sarcastic clap. The space between the claps means sarcasm."

The heroes have been engaging in heroism, battling countless Evil Minions and/or giving a Rousing Speech.

Cue the slow, rhythmic, sarcastic clapping from the Big Bad or a less idealistic hero. He is non impressed (sneering "Bra-vo" is optional). Extra credit for starting to clap while slouched in a nighttime corner, then sauntering, notwithstanding clapping, into the light. Tin also be done by villains or heroic characters who are not function of the cadre hero group (by virtue of existence rugged and edgy loners), peculiarly Sixth Rangers.

This is normally used to mock the hero(es). Either because their deportment so far are bereft to finish the bad guy, have failed (often spectacularly) and only advanced the villain's calendar or simply made things worse.

This clapping may be the residuum of an flare-up of applause from genuine supporters.

The golf clap is sometimes substituted past the Sissy Villain.

Non to be confused with the Slow Clap. Compare Sarcasm Mode, of which this is frequently a non-verbal form.

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Examples:

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    Advertising

• The red Yard&Thousand guy does one when Optimus Prime flings a trailer full of strawberry peanut butter M&Ms into the distance.

    Anime and Manga

• A pitch video for the (canceled) 2d season of Hellsing had Alucard shooting everything up, then the next Big Bad clapping slowly. The OVA, which rebooted the series, features him.
  • In the manga, the Major has a tendency to applaud his enemies when they seem to be doing well (although knowing him, it could be that he is genuinely impressed).
• In Negima!?, Eva does this in response to Negi casting a spell to see spirits, just he doesn't realize she's being sarcastic.
• Nagi in episode 16 of My-HiME, foreshadowing The Reveal immediately later.
• Pegasus does it to Kaiba in Yu-Gi-Oh! later Kaiba reaches his brother in the dungeon of Pegasus' castle.
• Mao from Code Geass is fond of this.
• Minagi from Air did this later on Yukito showed off his puppeteering skills.
• Romeo gets one in episode 14 of Romeo X Juliet afterward an earnest spoken communication to his new, cynical charges at a mine.
• Greed from Fullmetal Alchemist does this, both earlier and after he shares a torso with Ling Yao.
• Szayel does this to Renji during their boxing in Bleach, saying its quite an accomplishment that Rukia and an Espada killed each other ^note Despite existence grievously wounded, Rukia ultimately survives after getting medical attention while doing battle. Renji, of course, is horrified later hearing the news.
  • He also does this to Ishida when the latter asks him if he'south an Espada.
    • In the anime, Ichigo did this to Ishida later catching on to his tailing him from school from back in the latter'due south introduction arc. Ishida, who could sense his tail'south presence from the go-go, didn't give a damn.
  • Kisuke Urahara (Mr. Hat-and-Clogs)'s slow clap, which is sometimes done in sarcasm.
• In a flashback episode, Izaya from Durarara!! does this to Shizuo the first time they come across, right after Shizuo'due south laid waste to an entire soccer field total of punks. Manifestly, Shizuo is not impressed.
• Jirōbō from Naruto, in the anime only, gave 1 after the Sasuke Retrieval team bankrupt through his Globe Dome Prison, praising his enemies' resourcefulness despite being "scumbags". Kiba and Naruto were not amused.

    Comic Books

• Exemplified and mocked in Gold Digger where the villain Fauntleroy engages in this (complete with optional "Bra-vo.") and Brianna responds with "Durrr...await at me mom! I just figured out how to clap sarcastically! Durr!"
• Freddie Femur takes it to the adjacent level in one of the "High School" issues of Strangers in Paradise upon hearing Katchoo'south poem, This Mask I Wearable.

    Comic Strips

• In one Calvin and Hobbes strip, Calvin makes a theatrical production out of choking downwardly a small-scale bite of his dinner, declaring afterward that it nearly killed him. Cue sarcastic clapping and calls for an encore from both of his parents.

    Fan Works

• Precious stone of Darkness: During the confrontation in Midnight's lair at the climax of the Jump City Arc, she does this after Cyborg gives her a Kirk Summation, maxim that it was very moving, and that she'll post information technology in memorium on the Internet for him. Then Slade does it from the shadows later the Titans beat Midnight, putting her example to shame.
• Opheliac : Azula does this to Aang, complete with mocking dialogue, after Ozai escapes prison and begins to gather supporters.
• This Bites!: Mr. 3's entrance in Chapter 19, afterward Cantankerous' "The Reason You Suck" Oral communication to Tashigi.
• The New Adventures of Invader Zim: Norlock does this to "congratulate" Dib, Steve, and Viera after saving them from Tak during the Epic Neglect of their first mission as a team.
• Let the Galaxy Fire: When Rhaegar orders Visenya to go to the North and bring her twin sister Baela back, she replies by clapping very slowly.
• In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Lexi Luthor engages in some in one case Izuku finally pieces her identity together from all the hints she dropped him.

  Lexi: [slowly clapping] And the last equus caballus crosses the stop line.

• In The Last Son, Emma Frost does this when she first encounters Superman, after he easily makes short work of her students and Shinobi Shaw, while saying "Very impressive".

    Pic — Animated

• In Beowulf, Unferth does this because he's drunk and unimpressed by Beowulf's boasting and doesn't know whatever meliorate. Beowulf finds it hard to contend with a drunk.
• The Lion King 1½: While giving Timon the low-down on the basics of sentry duty, Uncle Max goes into a bluster virtually the dangers that surroundings them. Cue Timon resorting to this trope, simply for Max to stop him.

  Timon: (clapping slowly) Bravo, Uncle Max! Fashion to sell it to the inexpensive seats.
  Uncle Max: (grabs Timon's hands) Applaud now, sonny male child, but effort clapping when you don't have any hands.

    Film — Live-Activeness

• Raiden in Mortal Kombat: The Movie. He was a practiced guy, only thought the good guy heroics were sadly lacking compared to the threat they faced.
• Two Distant Strangers: How The Reveal happens. Carter is locked in a "Groundhog Solar day" Loop where he keeps getting into a confrontation with Officeholder Merk of the NYPD, which always ends with Carter getting killed. Finally Carter simply asks the cop to take him home. Officeholder Merk drops Carter off, they shake easily, and part equally friends...until Officeholder Merk raises his easily over his head and starts slowly, sarcastically clapping. Information technology turns out that Officer Merk knows exactly what'southward going on with the loop, and is "applauding" Carter for working so hard to survive. After he's done clapping, Officer Merk shoots Carter In the Back.
• Theron does this after Gorgo's speech to the Spartan senate in 300.
• In Mary Poppins, Mary offers up a sarcastic three-clap directed at Bert's.. imaginative.. "high-wire act".
• In The Dark Knight, The Joker offers a slow clap to Gordon once he'due south appointed Commissioner. This was an ad-lib by Heath Ledger.
• Bough in The Breakfast Club after Claire does her putting-on-lipstick-with-my-cleavage play a joke on.
• In Call up the Titans, Denzel Washington'south character humiliates two of the white kids to put them in their place subsequently they try a depression-fundamental coup of sorts just equally the team is about to exit for football campsite. He starts it off by announcing them to the oversupply of parents as Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis and doing a lone Sarcastic Clap in the bad-mannered silence that follows.
• In Central Fright, "Aaron" (Edward Norton) eerily does this at the end of the motion-picture show , when the attorney Martin Vail (Richard Gere), and us, the audience, discover that Aaron has been faking his separate personality/insanity for the entire motion-picture show- he is actually sane. However, having simply been found Not Guilty of murder, by reason of insanity, he cannot exist tried twice for the same law-breaking (double jeopardy). Therefore, even though Vail now knows the truth, he's powerless to do anything, as Ed Norton's character mocks him creepily from his cell, because he's only gotten away with murder.
• In The Count of Monte Cristo, Abbe Faria does this when Dantes realizes the reason Villefort burned the incriminating letter and imprisoned him right after acquitting him of the charges.
• Blackheart does this in the Ghost Rider film after Johnny transforms. True to the trope, he does it while strolling down an aisle into the light.
• The Lion in Wintertime has Henry doing this to Eleanor.
• Mr. White does this to Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs subsequently the latter starts describing why he went on a civilian shooting spree during the heist. Mr. Blonde claps along with him with a grin on his face.
• Afterward Wu Luan's play in Legend of the Black Scorpion, the emperor claps, signalling that the audience may applaud. Simply what happens immediately post-obit shows that he got his nephew's challenge and is going to kill him.
• In the 2010 version of The Karate Child, Master Li orders Cheng to hurt Dre's leg, and Cheng complies. Subsequently one of Mr. Han'south cupping treatments, Dre decides to finish his match with Cheng, whereupon he is greeted with applause from Master Li.
• Castor Troy in Face up/Off does it to Dr. Walsh when he discovers his confront is implanted to his Arch-Enemy Sean Archer which left him faceless.

  Brush Troy: Dr. Walsh! I was merely enjoying some of your, uh, greatest hits hither. Oh, and I promise you don't heed. I partook in some of your groovy painkillers. Yous know, this is fabulous work. This is... [sees the surgery videotape cease] Bravo! Bra-fucking-vo! [claps] Oh, god, this is excellent! Bravo!

  Dr. Malcolm Walsh: What practice you desire?

  Castor Troy: [claps his hands several times, causing Brush'southward bloody faceless face to announced reflected in Dr. Walsh's glasses] Accept ane goddamn estimate.

• Best Seller. The Villain with Good Publicity is giving a speech at a charity function. The hitman who used to work for him does this to become his attention then he'll come over and talk. Trouble Entendre follows.
• In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part ane, Katniss is filming a "propo" to stir up support for the rebellion, but is doing a terrible job of information technology. Following her wooden, stilted delivery of "People of Panem, we fight! We dare to cease this hunger for justice!", Haymitch enters...

  Haymitch: (slow clap) And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.

• In Captain America: Civil State of war, Clint sarcastically claps at the start of his "The Reason You Suck" Speech when Tony Stark shows up to speak to the imprisoned members of Team Cap.
• Done by the Dragon in Ladyhawke as Philippe the Mouse gets cornered past the Bishop'south posse.
• In two Peter Ustinov pic adaptations of Agatha Christie'southward Hercule Poirot stories, Expiry on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun, this is the killer's response to Poirot's exposition during the Summation Gathering - both times because they think he has no evidence.
• In the sequel of The Mighty Ducks, Coach Stansson of Team Iceland gives Gordon Bombay a sarcastic little clap subsequently whupping Team Us 12-i.
• In Avengers: Infinity War, when Gamora "kills" Thanos on Knowhere, the Collector starts to handclapping and is sneering "magnificent". This is actually a vision, as the reality has been distorted by the Reality Stone.
• Massacre at Central Loftier: When the bullies detect David trying to restore Rodney's automobile that the bullies destroyed, they clap and call him an artist.
• Hilariously done perfectly in Harry Potter and the Half-Claret Prince where the Gryffindors envoke a few half-hearted claps with disgusted looks on their faces when Harry correctly concocts Draught of Living Dead and wins a vial of Felix Felicis. Even Hermione and Ron are dumbfounded by Harry'south success.

    Literature

• In the Discworld book Monstrous Regiment, Sergeant Jackrum delivers at least one of these.
• In i of the Doctor Who Expanded Universe novels, the Physician attempts to rescue his companion from a pit in the basis past putting a ladder over the pit and... well, nosotros don't know what he meant to practise next; maybe he didn't either. The ladder falls in, as does the Doctor, and his companion claps sarcastically.
• Erast Fandorin: Murder on the Leviathan: Fandorin does this after Renate spins her story about how she killed Gauche because he was trying to impale her.

  "Bravo!" said Fandorin with a mocking smile, notwithstanding clapping his hands. "Bravo, Mme. Kleber. You are a not bad actress!"

• Sharpe: Sharpe'southward Hawkeye, French cavalry applaud the South Essex's parade-footing perfect maneuvers in a situation where everyone with whatever sense ^annotation Col. Simmerson, commander of the South Essex, not amongst them knows the cavalry would not assault.
• In Graham McNeill'due south Warhammer 40,000 Ultramarines novel Dead Sky, Black Sunday, when Leonid tells Uriel that he will join him and Pasanius in their expiry oath, Vaanes claps, slowly.
• In one brusk story, the main graphic symbol sees her adequately unpopular all-time friend give a presentation that doesn't go well, resulting in the teacher criticizing the friend for not having prepared well enough. The pop crowd then gives the daughter sarcastic applause, and afterward a moment, the main character joins in, thereby betraying her friend to join the "in" crowd.

    Live-Activity Goggle box

• Blake'south 7 has Avon doing this to Blake, with impeccable timing and a perfectly calculated, calm sneer. Have an blithe .gif ◊.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • In "Revelations", Xander knocks a tray of drinks out of the hand of a waitress, which cues a round of applause from anybody in the cafeteria (see Real Life).

    Xander: Cheers! We're here through Saturday! Relish the veal.

  • The same matter happens when Buffy drops a tray in "Earshot".
  • In "Schoolhouse Hard", a henchvamp is fighting Buffy and shouts for Spike to give him a mitt. Spike doesn't move except to handclapping after Buffy stakes the vamp, thereby giving him a different kind of hand.
• Community: Chang begins clapping, after saying "I agree". Of class, Jeff calls him out on this. After their chat, Chang starts doing it once more ("Seriously, do you have brain damage?").

  "Yous tin can't talk and then do a slow-clap."
  "You don't know that!"

  • Lampshaded in "The First Chang Destiny".

    Chang: Sar. Cas. Tic. Claps.

• Corner Gas has an episode where Wanda and Davis both take pianoforte lessons from Emma, though Davis is much better at information technology. After Davis played a song in The Ruby, everybody applauded, except for a jealous Wanda. Davis, being Davis, misses the bespeak entirely:
• Doctor Who: In "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship", the Dr. does this after Solomon kills the fetch-playing triceratops.
• On Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, resident Jerkass Hank taunts the titular character, daring her to drop her prim and proper demeanor and tell him off. She finally does, giving him a blistering "The Reason You Suck" Oral communication. As she storms out, he applauds, declaring, "Slap-up. I didn't think you had it in you lot."
• In Friends we have this exchange:

  Joey: (to Ross and Chandler) I have to do something to repel this woman. Wait a minute, wait a minute - you guys repel women all the time!
  Ross: Hey, I've been married three times!
  cue Chandler'southward Sarcastic Clapping

• Game of Thrones:
  • King Joffrey claps sarcastically afterwards having a minstrel echo a treasonous song he had sung. The rest of his court is unsure whether they should be following him in applause or non. Then Joffrey asks the minstrel if his fingers or his natural language are more than of import to him.
  • Done by Walder Frey later Robb apologises for breaking his marriage pact.
• In the Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation 4-function episode "Unchain My Centre", Vam-Mi and her minions Bing and Chi-Chu give insincere applause when Venus de Milo botches an incantation that was supposed to fire a magic blast at them.
• Power Rangers:
  • Power Rangers Time Strength: The Quantum Ranger announces his presence for the start fourth dimension past slow-clapping his hand against his gun in mock-approval of the Monster of the Week. The steel-on-steel sound of his clapping has the added effect of demonstrating how well-armored he is.
  • In Power Rangers Dino Thunder, the Blue Ranger gives Sarcastic Clapping to a Monster of the Week who uses dance-related attacks.
• Rome. Marc Antony intimidates a senator into passing some radical legislation. Every bit the senator rambles on, Antony gives a dull handclapping equally a fashion of saying, "Fine, that's enough, you can close up at present." The few remaining politicians in Rome aren't suicidal enough to oppose the legislation anyhow, so they all dutifully applaud when the legislation is passed "unanimously".
• The Professionals. In "Human being Without A Past", Bodie thinks he's beingness followed, then does a handbrake turn, screeches to a halt in the center of the street and jumps out brandishing a pistol. There'due south no sign of his pursuer, and a line of people waiting at a nearby bus stop proceed to clap and Wolf Whistle.
• Sat Night Live had a skit called "The Sarcastic Clapping Family of South Hampton". The skit parodied the frequent use of this trope in Soap Operas, where every declaration, from the dramatic to the mundane, was met with the sarcastic ho-hum handclapping and a furious rebuke.

  Child: Mom, Dad, I got an A on my science examination today!
  *Both parents whorl their eyes, put down their magazines and first to handclapping*

• Scrubs:
  • Dr. Cox claps slowly to an ex-drug addict and he's stunned that he clapped sarcastically, commenting how sometime it is.

    "Are you seriously doing the clichéd sarcastic tiresome clapping? Because that is so 1980s."

  • He did a sarcastic clap to J.D. at 1 point for walking abroad in the middle of an argument. Ted walked up and randomly joined in.

    Ted: What are we clapping for?
    Cox: His dad only died. [slows downward and stops] Dammit.

• In The Shield, Dutch managed to outwit a dangerous serial killer, prompting a round of 18-carat applause from the residue of the Barn. At almost exactly the same fourth dimension, Shane Vendrell has managed to mess upwards a much easier case past having sexual practice with the pb suspect, prompting a round of Sarcastic Clapping from Vic.
• In Smallville, Clark'due south dwelling house has been trashed in a political party, and he has to clean it upward before his parents go abode. Fortunately, he has super-speed. He manages to clean the entire house in seconds, and then sits triumphantly by a fruit basket. Cue his father's Sarcastic Clapping behind him, and an Oh, Crap! look from Clark.
• Occurs in "The Ensigns of Control", the second episode of the tertiary flavor of Star Trek: The Next Generation, later Information'south spoken communication to human colonists in danger of being wiped out by the Sheliak. The colonists' leader immediately begins Sarcastic Clapping.
• In Supernatural:
  • Crowley is fond of this. Being a demon, he can teleport in and do it when you think no one else is around. One time, he switched out the "bravo" for a more obnoxious "...and scene." to end an emotional moment.
  • A witch catches Sam and Dean breaking into his hotel room. The witch uses this trope every bit Sam'south punishment. Sam afterwards discovers that he has spontaneously developed gonorrhea, aka "the handclapping".
  • The Trickster does this when Sam and Dean trap him and reveal that he's the Archangel Gabriel.
• The Untamed: Jin Guangyao does this during the concluding confrontation.
• Wizards of Waverly Place:
  • Justin does it one episode, after Max attempts to take out the garbage using magic and fails. (This is the episode just afterward Alex and Justin have been bounced back to level 1 wizard preparation.)

    Justin: [clapping] Ladies and gentlemen, the future family unit wizard.

  • And and so a moment later on, when Alex declares she's quitting the wizard competition.

    Justin: [clapping] Ladies and gentlemen, the Russo family quitter. We are an impressive bunch.

• In the Adam-12 episode "Dirt Duel," a group of cop-hating bikers testify up to a coming together. When it'south mentioned that a civilian helped grab a thief, everyone applauds. I of the bikers (played by Micky Dolenz) slowly claps.

    Music

• The Beatles song "The Standing Story of Bungalow Bill" from The White Album tells a story about a Great White Hunter who is actually a pathetic Momma's Boy. In the finish John and others applaud for him, definitely meant sarcastically.

    Other

• Something Atrocious forums have a number of sarcastic clap icons.

    Professional person Wrestling

• Seen in a Japanese match cited past Botchamania equally a rare case of a botch improving a match. A rookie wrestler is fighting a veteran who's made it clear he doesn't respect the rookie. At i betoken, the rookie climbs the ropes, only to stumble off the pinnacle. The veteran is confused for a 2d, and then begins to sarcastically applaud before mockingly signalling the crowd to cheer. That's when the rookie jumps and pins him.
• Triple H did this on occasion during his time equally a heel.
• Chris Jericho would also occasionally bust it out during his goofier days.
• Jushin "Thunder" Liger bankrupt into a round of Sarcastic Clapping after his opponent botched a swoop off the ropes and fell on his head.
• Héctor del Mar, WWE commentator on Castilian television, used a variation when his broadcast partner Fernando Costilla adopted a heel announcer role. Whenever Costilla requested applause for a heel, Héctor would respond by clapping just once.

    Radio

• Sometimes invoked on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: When a musical circular is so successful that the audience starts clapping in time, Jack Dee volition puncture it with a comment like "I retrieve the boring handclapping was a bit unkind."

    Theatre

• Chosen for in the final scene of Deed 1 of Damn Yankees. Applegate uses the tactic when he enters post-obit "Whatsoever Lola Wants", responding to Lola's failure to... uh... become what she wants.
• Avenue Q gives us the song "Schadenfreude": "Yous ever handclapping when a waitress slips and drops a tray of glasses?" "Uh-huh." "And ain't it fun to watch figure skaters falling on their asses?"
• In Pippin, this is the Players' reaction to Pippin's opening speech and vocal.
• In Tosca, as the heroine cries in agony upon hearing her lover being tortured, Scarpia gives a clap and says she has never been that tragic on stage. In some productions, he likewise applauds her after Vissi d'arte.

    Video Games

• In Lunar: The Silvery Star, when Alex and his gang defeat the Black Dragon, Large Bad The Magic Emperor "congratulates" them on taking out the terminal remaining obstacle in his attempt to Take Over the World. Turns out information technology was part of his plan all along to have the four dragons eliminated so that he could assert complete control over the goddess Althena.
• Revolver Ocelot did this in Metal Gear Solid two: Sons of Freedom, while stepping out of the shadows of Metal Gear Ray, subsequently hearing Marine Commandant Scott Dolph'due south motivational speech to the Marines.
• Salazar does this in i scene of Resident Evil 4.
  • And Excella does this to Chris and Sheva, and even has the "Bra-vo".
• Zead from Castlevania: Curse of Darkness does this twice: once when Hector starts gaining the power necessary to complete his quest, and once when he refuses to exercise so. Given the contradictory circumstances, ane may wonder if he knows anything nigh the proper utilise of sarcastic clapping (then again, there is trivial reason to acquire such nuances when you don't have pare on your easily.)
• Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening: Jester does this later witnessing Dante, Vergil and Lady fight each other. It's also when he reveals that he is Arkham and has been playing the 3 like a fiddle.
• Devil May Cry 4: Dante does this to express his disdain afterward seeing Sanctus unleash The Savior every bit a masquerade to save the citizens of Fortuna subsequently Agnus opens the Hellgate to the Demon World.
• World of Warcraft has the /golfclap emote for those times when a player wants to brand information technology clear he/she is unimpressed.
• Eggman Nega in Sonic Blitz Adventure (through text).
• In Vagrant Story Sydney, having already proven he's not terribly impressed with Ashley by responding to a crossbow bolt through the chest with "quite a scratch" drives the indicate home with a dose of sarcastic clapping later you vanquish the Minotaur. Fabricated a little stranger by the fact that the clapper has metal easily and isn't shown for a few seconds afterward he starts, making for a moment of confusion when an unidentifiable tink tink tink sound breaks into the cutscene.
• Damon Gant from Phoenix Wright: Ace Chaser complete with the Laughing Mad.
• General Raveshaw from Command and Conquer Renegade does this when he finds you attempting to rescue the scientists in the Black Hand mansion.
• About halfway through Geist your nemesis does this, and while possessing your trunk simply to prove off.

• Slayer in Guilty Gear X does this equally his taunt.
• In the Anguished I'due south ending in Devil Survivor ii, after managing to activate the Terminal to Polaris, Yamato enters the scene with i of these. If yous have Joe in your party, he even comments "I know a sarcastic clap when I hear one."
• Yeager, from Tales of Vesperia, does this rather oft when praising the main party, along with his trademark "ja".
• Adachi in Persona iv does this when the party finally reaches him in his dungeon.
• Tales of Symphonia: Mithos: "Wow, that was an amazingly corny speech. Congratulations."
• Full general Lionwhyte in Brütal Legend does this when the heroes assemble earlier his tower. He even includes the "Bravo."
• Happens in BlazBlue when Hazama loses by time out. As if to mock you for not being able to knock him out earlier the timer runs out.
• The Boss of Saints Row two does this during a cutscene during the Brotherhood campaign. Why? Because s/he just stuffed Alliance leader Maero's girlfriend Jessica into the body of her car and positioned information technology to exist run over past a monster truck... that Maero was driving. The existent root of this result is that Maero offered a sleazy cut of the deal to the Dominate for a possible alliance betwixt the Saints and the Brotherhood, to which the Dominate did non take well and started a vicious entrada involving a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
• Portal 2: GLaDOS claims to have a Slow Clap Processor congenital specifically for this purpose. It's also 1 of the few things that remains with her when her consciousness gets transferred into a potato.

  GLaDOS: Oh, hi. And then. How are you holding up? Because I'K A POTATO. [Handclapping. Handclapping. Clap.] Oh good, my Wearisome Clap Processor fabricated it into this thing. And so we have that.

  [A brusque time subsequently]

  ... and yous simply put him in charge of the unabridged facility. [Clap. Clap.] Adept, that's still working.

• In one of Sheeva's fatalities in Mortal Kombat ix, she rips off her opponent'south arms, slaps him or her effectually with them earlier kicking the body downwards, and then flexes while using the arms to sarcastically applaud.
• In Dragon Age: Origins, after Arl Eamon's spoken communication at the Landsmeet, Loghain approaches, applauding sarcastically.
• Skyrim offers a particularly malicious one from Commander Maro after you neglect to assassinate the emperor.
• Happens in Borderlands 2 subsequently yous survive an initiation put up past The Slab Rex, AKA Brick. A Bandit named "Sarcastic Slab" appears and makes sarcastic comments while clapping for you. If you kill him, The Slab King volition commend you lot for information technology.
  • And when you deal damage to him, he just claps faster.
  • A later on mission for the Slab Male monarch has you meet with his lieutenant Rocko, who does much the aforementioned. Sadly, you can't kill him.
• In Star Wars: The Onetime Republic's first Republic flashpoint, a Mandalorian commander greets your party with a sarcastic clap. There's as well an emote named for him that lets your graphic symbol do this. "Insert Player Proper noun Here is so very impressed [with $target]."
• Magolor does it in Kirby's Return to Dream Land when he reveals he was Evil All Along.
• In Bayonetta ii, this is the titular grapheme's reaction subsequently watching Loki take out a group of angels by himself, granted this might be subverted since she did seem at least somewhat genuinely impressed with his skills beforehand (she is notorious for her snark, after all). This clapping animation is actually used for Bayonetta'south losing blitheness for her appearance every bit a Guest Fighter in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, looking equally snarky and sarcastic as ever.
• Destiny has this, first made well-known in their ice bucket challenge video. It eventually made it into the game equally an emote.
• Reaper of Overwatch has this as one of his emotes.
• The Strategist Knight Jasper does this when faced in Dragon Quest XI. And he even does the "Bra-Vo". This trope isn't going abroad whatever time presently.
• In The Witcher 3: Wild Chase, a potential outcome of the Hearts of Stone expansion has Geralt claiming Gaunter O'Dimm to a game of wits, and he wins. Equally Gaunter O'Dimm is existence banished back to Hell, he does this at Geralt while promising in Black Speech ^annotation Actually Creole French, Georgian and Ossetian that he cannot exist killed and will be dorsum sooner or later on.
• Liz of Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled does this in her podium animation if she places 2nd or 3rd.
• Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout has the Slow Clap emote, sold for iii crowns in the regular store rotation. When activated, your Fall Guy stares and squints while doing a slow, sarcastic adulation.
• In Breath of Burn IV, Marlok does this after the political party wins a battle against his incompetent bodyguard Kahn

    Webcomics

    Web Original

• In The Gamer'due south Alliance, Vaetris, posing equally Ax in Alent, starts clapping in this manner equally she steps into the lite while she witnesses the captive Refan near succeed in seducing Irinthiel with his demonic powers. Withal, part of information technology is also her existence genuinely impressed past how speedily Refan has learned the demonic play tricks although she knows he'due south still no match for her.

  Vaetris: "That was quite impressive, Refan. You acquire chop-chop! And now, y'all see the hole-and-corner to true power...the power that the North only wishes they could harness. Anarchy without social club is nothing. Power without control is nix."

• The Nostalgia Chick does this to the rest of the Kickassia team after they're cheering about having beaten The Nostalgia Critic to expiry. It Makes Sense in Context.
• The Runaway Guys: Jon does this often in response to Emile'south antics. A plethora of notable examples is in their LP of the 2012 Wheel of Fortune game.
• The X-Axis review of the infamous "exploding communion wafers simulate the Rapture" Ten-Men storyline concludes "I'm not sure how you do sarcastic tiresome applause in print, only imagine it here."
• Cinnamon Bunzuh!: Ifi loves tedious clapping at whenever the Animorphs practise something idiotic.
• Kitboga is a scambaiter popular on Twitch and YouTube.
  • In "Ownership Hot Dogs Instead of Gift Cards (for Scammers)" he does this afterward the scammer completes the portion of the scam of claiming to accept accidentally transferred way too much money to his bank business relationship.

    Scammer: What are you doing? Are you clapping at me?

  • In "Scammer Loses Her Mind Over $10,000 Mistake" (a.k.a. "Exercise Not cut the Cards"), the scammer, Kelly, does this after Kitboga'south character, Dawn Dewitt (Granny Edna) states that she has finished cutting upwardly the last gift carte du jour.

    Western Animation

• Commander Zhao does this to the fire sage who betrays his comrades to assistance Aang and the others in Avatar: The Concluding Airbender.
  • Azula does it during "The Beach," when she dismisses everyone else's problems every bit mere "performances".
• Gutierrez does it when Freakazoid! removes the bracelet flop in the season 1 finale.
• Gravity Falls: Invoked outright in "Headhunters", by the truthful culprit of the beheading of Wax Stan, the wax statue version of Sherlock Holmes.

  "Applaud anybody, applaud sarcastically! (everyone claps) Uhhh no that sounds besides sincere, slower. (anybody claps slower) There we go, nice and condescending."

• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "Bravo, ponies, bravo! Harmony in Equestria is officially dead. Discord rules, Celestia drools."
  • The real kicker is that each clap of paw and claw is a sound that is anything but the sound of easily clapping. In order, information technology's a duck'southward quack, clack, a dog'south bark, a frog's ribbit, a squishing noise, a camera click, and a thunder clap. Justified in that he's the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony, after all.
  • Starlight Glimmer clops her hooves together this manner in "The Cutie Re-Mark, Part ii" during one time loop when Twilight attempts to shoot her with a capturing spell, simply to hitting the filly Rainbow Dash and prevent her from doing the Sonic Rainboom as Starlight planned to.
• Dr. Doofenschmirtz does this in the introduction of the Phineas and Ferb episode "Phineas and Ferb and the Temple of Juatchadoon", to make his entrance more dramatic. Minutes after, later his plan is foiled, Norm starts to clap slowly, and Doof says, "Way too soon for a callback, Norm."
• Rick and Morty: Evil Rick does this when he captures Rick C-137 (our Rick).

  Rick C-137: The irksome clap? Really? Kind of played out, dude.
  Evil Rick: Not in this dimension, it isn't. In fact I invented it. Nobody else has ever even washed it here earlier.
  Rick C-137: [sarcastic clapping] Well, la-dee-da.
  Evil Rick: Hey, that'south mine!

• Homer's brain to Homer in The Simpsons episode "The Concluding Temptation of Homer".
  • Bart does it to Lisa when she becomes student body president, just Homer and Marge accept trouble grasping the very concept.
• Plankton does it to Spongebob and Patrick when they return with King Neptune's crown in The SpongeBob SquarePants Flick.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Programme of Dissent", after Hardcase figures out how to control the Umbaran fighters, but blows up half the hangar in the process, leading General Krell to order them locked downwards:

  Jesse: [walks upwardly, clapping] I thought the programme was to blow up the supply transport, not destroy our ain hangar.

• Invoked in the starting time episode of Ugly Americans. After Mark expresses empathy for legal immigrants at a staff meeting, Frank starts clapping sarcastically. Marking's partner Leonard joins in, and the two argue over whether Leonard was actually clapping sarcastically or going for a dramatic wearisome edifice applause. Twayne has to shout "Stop clapping!"

    Real Life

• When plates or glasses are dropped and broken in restaurants and school and summertime camp cafeterias and dining halls, the typical response is for anybody to flare-up out in applause. Some restaurants even institute this as a policy for their staff. The idea apparently is to turn an otherwise embarrassing gaffe into a fun little tradition, humorously implying, "I Meant to Do That!"
  • In State of israel it is besides common to hear someone saying "Mazel tov," referring to the custom of breaking a cup at Jewish weddings.
  • Military members get similar handling in a mess hall. Dropping a plate of food will earn y'all auspicious, chanting, wild applause, and someone volition likely go upward to get you a fresh meal, all in the spirit of good-natured mockery.
  • At Texas A&M, wild applause is the customary response to someone accidentally trying to leave via one of the burn exits, which sets off the dining hall'due south fire alarms. Meanwhile, dropping a tray gets yous a resounding cry of "PICK IT Upwardly!"
• Some people play the "Last Clap". Sometimes, participation by other, unseen players carries the "adulation" minutes into the next performance.
• Tends to occur in Football matches, when a player is given a yellow or scarlet card and disagrees. Most likely because more extreme reactions can pb to very hefty punishments. Just like the Cristiano Ronaldo case pictured above. David Beckham also did it, and he got expelled from the game, although it was later proven that he did not intend to insult the referee.
• Slow Clap for Congress.
  • On a related note, Firm Speaker Nancy Pelosi's memetic "applause" at President Trump'south State of the Spousal relationship accost.
• During the 2013 National Tv Awards, Martin Freeman did a hilarious version of this when Downton Abbey shell Sherlock (in which he stars) for Best Drama. He wasn't even clapping, he was airclapping!
• At Baseball games, the crowd will sometimes sarcastically clap and cheer if a pitcher finally throws a strike subsequently a long cord of assurance and hits.
  • Too, it happens in basketball games if one team goes on a long scoreless streak that finally ends.
• Performance Hawkeye Claw began with intensively-trained Delta Force Operators embarking on an ambitious scheme to end the Iran Hostage Crisis and ended with them evacuating a burning EC-130 at an early stage in the mission. Heading back to the Usa, the operators got on an shipping whose coiffure main who didn't know them and gave a verbose presentation on how to evacuate in the event the plane defenseless fire. Co-ordinate to Col. Charlie Beckwith's memoirs, the singed, smoke-scented operators gave the man a standing ovation.
• Subsequently the 2017 Cleveland Browns went 0-sixteen on the flavour, the fans were understandably frustrated with the result, especially since the Browns had already gone 1-xv the previous year. Their response? A parade to celebrate their team's "perfect" season!
• In February 2020, French actress Adele Haenel walked out of the César Awards after Roman Polański (who has been a fugitive since 1978 when he fled the Us after he pleaded guilty to drugging and raping a xiii year former girl) won Best Managing director while sarcastically clapping and saying, "Bravo to the pedophile!" on her way out of the edifice.
• At the do session for the 2017 Four Continents Effigy Skating Championship, the journalist mistakenly announced Japanese figure skaters Yuzuru Hanyu and Shoma Uno as being from China. When they got to "Boyang Jin, from China!" (which was right), Hanyu and his passenger vehicle Brian Orser laughs and claps.

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