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Orrex

(63,203 posts) Wed Jul 12, 2017, 08:30 AM Jul 2017

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When did the faux bad-ass phrase "I will end you" originate?

I'm just about certain that I never heard the phrase prior to Sam & Dean tough-talking a vampire in the acclaimed documentary series "Supernatural," but I've noticed it more widely spread since then.

One place I'm sure that I never heard it is in the 80s, though I've seen period pieces (including flashback scenes in Supernatural) in which the character say it. I even seem to recall it popping up anachronistically in "Stranger Things."

Maybe it was a regional thing that only gained wider currency in more recent years.

Anyone know where it came from?

This is important, dammit.

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When did the faux bad-ass phrase "I will end you" originate? (Original Post) Orrex Jul 2017 OP

It's been around at least since "Good Will Hunting" Tanuki Jul 2017 #1

Good find! Orrex Jul 2017 #2

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)

1. It's been around at least since "Good Will Hunting"

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Wed Jul 12, 2017, 08:34 AM

Jul 2017

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Orrex

(63,203 posts)

2. Good find!

Reply to Tanuki (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 12, 2017, 08:50 AM

Jul 2017

And Boston is so dialect-specific that I could see the phrase being in use there long before going viral.

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