Ah Catwoman So We Meet Again

"I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. Nosotros meet again at terminal. The circle is now complete. When I left y'all I was but the learner, at present I am the master."

Well, Troper, we meet once again... for the last fourth dimension!

A standard phrase when the hero has just walked in on the operation of a villain whom they have met earlier, implying that the villain recognizes that their clashes have become a recurring element.

Commonly followed by a recitation of their earlier fight(due south) (in case the viewers have forgotten where they should know this guy from), and a Merely Between You and Me where the villain explains to the hero only why he has the advantage this time (oft referencing what went wrong with their previous programme and how they incorporated that into their current Evil Plan).

Of course, if spoken past an Unknown Rival, the response is usually "Have we met before?"

Come across also We Will Run into Again, which is used as goodbyes rather than as hellos. Compare Evil Gloating, Affably Evil. Contrast We Gotta Stop Meeting Like This.

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    Advertising

• Said by agent Richard Latham (Rowan Atkinson) in a Barclaycard ad spoofing Spy Fiction.

    Anime & Manga

• Played for laughs in Nutrient Wars!. Later on their competition ends in a draw, Takumi Aldini dramatically declares to Soma that We Will Come across Again. Cut to them sitting next to each other on the double-decker.

  Soma: Hey. Nosotros meet once more.
  Takumi: Close up! Don't talk to me!

• Kirby: Correct Dorsum at Ya! uses this trope quite a few times. Examples:

  Meta Knight: [to Chilidog/Wolfwrath] So, we meet again. Simply this fourth dimension will be different. This time, merely 1 of the states will survive.

  Quixano/Sir Gallant: [to Kazeguru/Windwhipper] So, nosotros meet again. You bested me last fourth dimension, merely this time, I volition prevail!

• Vampire Hunter D. In the 1985 film, Rei Ginsei says this to D when D arrives at Count Magnus Lee's castle. They had met earlier when Ginsei visited Doris Lang's subcontract.

    Comic Books

• An upshot of Teen Titans Become! opens with "Kwiz-Kid", a Riddler wannabe trying to print Kitten, contacting Robin and opening with this line. Robin points out that they've never met.

    Comic Strips

• In Brewster Rockit: Space Guy!, Dirk Raider to Brewster Rockit. No surprise, as he'south a Darth Vader parody. Notably when the both of them meet... at the supermarket.
• Parodied in The Far Side when an unremarkable-looking duck greets a man, newly done upward with it on a tiny desert island, with "So, Professor Jenkins!... My one-time nemesis!... We run into again, but this time, the advantage is mine!"

    Fan Works

• "So, We Meet Again" is the championship of a fan-art where Discord is doing a Blofeld impersonation... with Fluttershy every bit Right-Hand Cat.

    Films — Blitheness

• Kung Fu Panda:

  Tai Lung: I accept come home, Master.

  Shifu: This is no longer your abode, and I am no longer your chief.

• Toy Story ii:

  Zurg: And then, nosotros see once again, Buzz Lightyear, for the last time.

    Films — Live-Action

• Doctor Sind said this during the ending of Captain Berlin – Savior of the Earth, merely has all the same to make a second advent.
• Galaxy Quest: The second fourth dimension Sarris speaks to "Commander Taggart" through the coms, he starts with "Nosotros meet again, Commander." The first time, Jason Nesmith had no idea he was facing a real alien warlord, but this time around he'south fully aware of it and is rather unsettled.
• Indiana Jones: Toht has this to say when Marian runs into him over again in Raiders of the Lost Ark:

  Toht: We meet once again, fraulein.

• Mystery Men:

  Blueish Rajah: Well, well, well, if information technology isn't our old friends, the Red Eyes? Proficient evening gentlemen; we weren't expecting to run across you lot over again so... spoon!

• Mocked in Spaceballs, Solitary Starr says to Nighttime Helmet:

  Lone Starr: Helmet! At concluding we meet, for the offset time, for the last time.
  [whispers to cocky, repeating the line] Yep!

• Star Wars: A New Hope:

  Darth Vader: I've been waiting for you, Obi-Wan. We come across once more, at last. The circle is at present complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master.

• Terminator 3: Rising of the Machines

    Gamebooks

• In the Lone Wolf series, said by Archdruid Cadak in book fourteen, The Captives of Kaag, referencing the previous book.

  Cadak: So we meet again, Lone Wolf.

    Literature

• In Robert E. Howard's "The Cherry Citadel", Conan the Barbarian greets Tsotha at the end with this.

    Alive-Activity Idiot box

• Buffyverse:
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

    Harmony: So, Slayer, nosotros run into at last.
    Buffy: We've met, Harmony, yous halfwit.

  • Angel gets one of these with Sahjhan, a demon who brings Holtz to present fourth dimension to impale Affections in flavour 3. He considers himself and Angel to be rivals, but Angel doesn't remember him at all, thereby tipping him off that Sahjhan is the one behind his recent troubles. In Season 5, Sahjhan returns and it's revealed that his real motivation was to have Connor killed, every bit Connor was the only person able to defeat Sahjhan.
• Not surprisingly given the length of the series, it shows upwardly in Doc Who:
  • Fifth Doctor — "Earthshock":

    Cyberleader: And then, nosotros meet again, Doctor!

  • Fifth Doc — "Planet of Fire": Kamelion, in the guise of Howard, strolls into the TARDIS panel room.

    Kamelion/Howard: Doctor? We come across again.

  • 7th Doctor — "Silver Nemesis":

    Cyberleader: So, Medico, a new advent. Otherwise, our anticipation of your presence has proved entirely accurate.

  • Seventh Doc — "The Curse of Fenric": The crippled Judson, at present possessed by Fenric, stands up and reveals glowing green eyes.

    Judson/Fenric: We play the contest once more, Time Lord.

  • In "The Expletive of Fatal Death" (a parody created for the British charity organization Comic Relief), this is said by a Dalek to the Ninth Doctor (Rowan Atkinson).
• Become Smart. Max and 99 accept been captured by a Mad Scientist.

  Scientist: So Mr. Smart, nosotros meet again.
  Max: But nosotros've never met.
  Scientist: Oh? Information technology must have been your blood brother.
  Max: Merely I don't have a brother.
  Scientist: Would you similar me to make you ane?

• Spoofed relentlessly in the Horrible Histories World State of war Two POW sketch. It starts with Commandant Klinsman admitting that he and Squadron Leader Higgins haven't met earlier, "I simply like the way I sound when I say zat." Higgins proceeds to disappear every time the chief looks away, getting dragged back in each time.

  Higgins: So, we come across once more!
  Klinsman: Don't say zat, I say zat!

• Mock the Week — "Unlikely lines from Doctor Who"
• Power Rangers Jungle Fury:

  Grizzaka: And then we come across over again. The fear of the city has made me even more powerful than before.

    Music

• "Burn in Hell" by Judas Priest, as information technology's most the narrator somewhen getting a revenge on a backstabber:

  Scream in the dark. I've been counting the days.
  It's so amusing. To come across you lot again.

    Theme Parks

• This occurs in the old Jimmy Neutron'southward Nicktoon Blast ride at Universal Studios Florida, when Ooblar breaks into Jimmy's lab right in front of the protagonists, he starts with proverb, "Jimmy Neutron, my one-time nemesis! Nosotros meet over again!"

    Video Games

• Dynasty Warriors 4's duel mechanic includes this. Should yous have two characters who take dueled before in that particular salvage file run into each other, the enemy character will often event their claiming with a line like this.

  Jiang Wei: Nosotros encounter once again. Shall we go on?

• Concluding Fantasy: The multiverse-wandering Gilgamesh pulls this in Dissidia Final Fantasy after stumbling into the crossover state of war. Unfortunately for his ego, none of the protagonists he's met tin can remember him, since being summoned blurs their memories of their home-worlds. In fact, besides Bartz, it seems that HE doesn't recognise any of the other characters that he ran into before, either. His very first cutscene involves him searching for Bartz, and running into Squall, Zidane and Vaan; characters with whom he has had directly contact in their respective games. Zidane fifty-fifty goes as far every bit to say that Gilgamesh would await vaguely familiar to him if he had more artillery, which he did as "Alleyway Jack" in FFIX.
• Zant in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess drops a variant of the "for the last time" version right before he reawakens the boss Stallord.

    Spider web Animation

• My Little Portal: Trixie over again. The only difference between here and before is that according to DISCoRD, Trixie remembers Twilight while Twilight does non think Trixie.
• In Turnabout Storm, Trixie pulls this off towards Twilight as role of her Incoming Ham moment.

    Web Comics

• From By Fashion of Booty Bay, a sub-comic of Supermegatopia, the strip "Bewilderment" has some other parody. "It seems fate has over again brought u.s. together." is said by... a crab. Not a Behemothic Enemy Crab, a normal-sized crab. Only since at the time the protagonist is defenseless in a Literal Cliffhanger (with a 6 of his party members clinging to him), he'due south quite distressed, and indeed identifies the villain crab equally "the Claw".
• Used in The Dark Intruder by D.I.'due south presently-to-be Arch-Enemy, The Pyromaniac/The Waterman. Well, if D.I. doesn't mind too much.
• Darths & Droids, naturally, when reaching the meeting betwixt Darth Vader and Obi-Wan from A New Hope, for one time rather true-blue to the original.

  Darth Vader: I have been waiting for you lot, Obi-Wan. We meet again, at last. The circle is now complete.
  Obi-Wan Kenobi: Anakin...
  Darth Vader: You killed Anakin. My name is Darth Vader. You lot consider yourself a paragon of radiance. Simply when I emerged from your shadow, I saw the damage yous had wrought. Expect, Obi-Wan. Everything your light touches is corrupted forever. [ignites saber] But I accept a unlike lite for you now. When you lot left me, I was the lowest of the low. Now I am the master.

• A possessed toaster in Exterminatus Now. No, really.

  Toaster: So, organic named Eastwood. Nosotros come across again!

• Parodied in Freefall, when Sam is trying to consume a "soup sandwich" in Zero-G, and the transport accelerates.

  Sam: Ah, inertia. My ancient enemy. One time once again nosotros run into face to face.

• Girl Genius:
  • It shouldn't come too much equally a surprise that Othar Tryggvassen ( Admirer Adventurer! ) would say it (twice); he's only nominally a hero anyway.
  • Tarvek tries, too, with Krosp, but not very convincingly.
• In Goblins, information technology's really a adept guy who says it:

  Forgath: Psionic Minmax. We meet again. But this time, I'm not bolted to a wall.
  Psion Minmax: Cliched dialogue is fun, isn't information technology?

• Irregular Webcomic!:
  • The very first line in the "Cliffhangers" theme is this:
  • There would exist many, many variations on this line as the comic progressed.
• In The Order of the Stick, it'south also a adept guy who says it, in a magnificent Big Damn Hero moment. (Note that, beyond obscure hints, it's also the outset time we become the confirmation those 2 actually met already.)
• In Servants of the Imperium, a Genestealer Magus who had previously possessed remotely psyker Lyle'south mind says this when they're contiguous.

  Magus: So, we run into again psyker. Possibly you wish for some other lesson in psychic defense?

• Sinfest:
  • The Grim Reaper says information technology... to Jesus. Well, Kung-Fu Jesus, if the following scythe versus bare easily fight is any indication.
  • Later, Porno-Man is the one saying it, upon seeing Cleo siting on a booth with the sign "PORN IS TOXIC".

    Porno-Human: And so... we meet again, unbeliever.

    Spider web Videos

• Used in Lawmaking MENT when Lelouch meets Euphemia while in disguise as One. As Euphemia doesn't know who One is under the mask, she tells him they haven't met still. Lelouch tries to pass it off as having been speaking figuratively, which, every bit Euphie points out, nonetheless doesn't piece of work.
• Used in "Episode 3½", a Fan Vid mixing the famous Black Knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail with Star Wars, pulling straight away the line from Darth Vader.
• Subverted in episode 9 of None Slice when Jesus (Mihawk) shows up at Baratie.

  Jesus: We come across once again. Only this time... for the start time.

    Western Blitheness

• In American Dad!'south "American Dream Manufactory", Haley tries to get in the style of Stan's plans again.
• Birdman (1967) episode "The Empress of Evil". When Birdman meets Medusa (who he has fought before) he says "So, Medusa, we meet again". She responds "Yes, and for the final and final time."
• Danger Mouse says this to Businesswoman Greenback, who has Penfold under mind command in "'Cor! What a Picture".

  DM: And then. We run across again, tyrannical toad!
  Greenback: And you will soon be cat's meat, White Wonder!

• Villain-to-villain case: in the Duck Dodgers episode "Enemy Yours", Commander X-2 (Marvin the Martian) says it to his Arch-Enemy... Doctor Woe. Y'all wouldn't believe how much Duck Dodgers is vexed to not being consider his arch-enemy, or fifty-fifty a worthy opponent.
• In an early episode of Family Guy, Stewie's offset two teeth declare this to one another. Unable to actually conflict with one another, even so, they only agree to bite his tongue.
• Filmation's 1960s Light-green Lantern drawing. Evil Star uses it when he meets the title hero in the episode "Evil Is as Evil Does".
• The Herculoids. In "Mekkano, the Automobile Main", Mekkano says it when he confronts the Herculoids.

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