r/Comebacks • u/Any_Activity4784 • 1d ago
r/Comebacks • u/Stefanzah22 • Nov 14 '25
Megathread for comeback collecfion
This subreddit is planning into making a collection of hundreds of great comebacks! You can add them here in the comments, and they will be selected for our collection. The end date is unknown, but open for minimum a week. Comebacks from other posts might also get added. The collection will be posted and pinned. It can get updated even after the end date, so don't worry if you came here late!
r/Comebacks • u/PretendImportance811 • 1d ago
Comeback request Why do you have no kills
Or why you bottom fragging (the score leaderboard)
r/Comebacks • u/Last-Rule-6344 • 1d ago
Got sick at work
Basically threw up in the bathroom, got some on my shoes but didn’t notice till it was to late. Mind you I’m in a area where there are Staff members and clients. So I go to my Facebook account and notice a few staff members pointed out how I smelled apparently so I didn’t take it personal. Now this got way out of hand I’m irritated by how back stabbing this was. I’m past that now. I’m single, pay my bills, live in a Trailor house with a small pest problem “mice” and to be honest I should of done bought clothes for myself but I have kids and bills. Kids are my best friend’s so they get most but back to my ask! What is a Good comeback for a Overzealous, overweight, double wide, hating b****, who is trying to make my life harder than it really is? I’d sure like some memes about it but I also want to keep it going cause I had enough, I’m a stuck up for myself from now on
r/Comebacks • u/Iknowyoulikeit3 • 2d ago
Comeback request Comeback for-
“You must be selling feet pics”
r/Comebacks • u/Portmanteaustada • 3d ago
"Must be nice have an extra break."
I work in education and we have a fall break. At the last minute the district where I work changed the calendar so that my kids' fall break no longer aligned with mine. I had to use all my personal days to go on a trip we had scheduled and was effectively gone for almost two weeks.
This bitch doesn't know that, but she's always got something to say. I know this morning will be no different. She has made all kinds of offensive comments about people when they are pregnant, grieving, sick, it doesn't matter. If I see her today and she makes some kind of oblique comment like "must have been nice to have an extra week off" I want to have something in my arsenal because it's none of her business.
r/Comebacks • u/Suspicious_Look_7755 • 3d ago
I'm tired of being asked if Im pregnant(Im not), help me respond please.
Honestly, I do understand that I kind of do look pregnant, sure. But I recently found out its actually my liver thats causing it, and Im still in the process of figuring it all out. Its scary, and the questions of when am I due or am I pregnant are both uncalled for and tiring. Part of me wants to respond "Im not my livers just failing" but I know thats rather dark, and really I dont know the full condition yet, it might still be reversible. Though strangers that have already pissed me off with the question Im not interested in explaining all that to.
Im tired of the question throwing my day off, and just want a quick response that maybe makes them think twice the next time they want to ask someone that.
r/Comebacks • u/Neat-Sea-7000 • 4d ago
Comeback request How would I approach this?
At work my supervisor would jokingly start talking to someone as you walked by and say just how much he dislikes you before turning back to you and apologising "I didn't see you there". He does it for fun and there's no malice behind it, he'd does it with everyone. Got any lighthearted comebacks
r/Comebacks • u/Think-Ad3624 • 4d ago
Getting called an asshole.
It’s better to be an asshole than a whole ass.
r/Comebacks • u/Big-Fix1084 • 4d ago
Comeback request Comeback for “can’t wait for ai to take over your job”
My job has constantly being scrutinised as the most vulnerable to ai by people who have no idea what we do and they constantly keep saying can’t wait for ai to take my profession
r/Comebacks • u/thephantomstranger22 • 4d ago
What would you say if someone said * sorry i thought you was somebody i knew?
r/Comebacks • u/ukendtBorgerlig827 • 6d ago
How do you reply to people, embarrassing them back when they say “No one asked / i didnt ask” to something youve said?
r/Comebacks • u/emrecamp • 6d ago
Comeback request My husband says to me...
"You're smarter than that" when he feels I've asked a stupid question or don't catch on to something fast enough. What can I respond with?
r/Comebacks • u/Altruistic_Wish7208 • 9d ago
Comeback request Comes backs for disability
I have a disability it’s a neurological condition that affects how I talk among other things but I can only open my mouth so much to talk. Which is very small and I kinda mumble Some people don’t know that about me and will say sarcastic well if you opened your mouth more to talk we could understand you. Or say I hate how your mouth moves when you talk it’s so weird. I don’t want to tell everybody that I have this problem because they will judge even more. Sometimes I will say what I have to try and educate but sometimes I just want to embarrass them for being so rude about it. What’s is a good comeback?
r/Comebacks • u/Any_Activity4784 • 10d ago
Best comeback to: does your girlfriend pegs you?
r/Comebacks • u/PhoebusAbel • 11d ago
Comeback request My name is too white for my skin color and place of origin
Ok.
I am a guy from a notorious Latin American country. I also have a tanned skin color.
Right now I live in Europe.
However, over the past three years, when I encounter people from Austria or Germany, anywhere in the continent, and even more of course when I visit these two countries , and i have to introduce myself, i use my only real name that I have used for decades.
It happens that my name is not a common latino name like Jose, Julio, juan , pedro or the like. My name "sounds" english speaking for some standard. Because my older brother chose it for me before I was born and my parents liked it
The name according to him comes from a character of a tv show.. So , it is in the same list as Richard, Jennifer, Stefany, Jason, Brian, Henry, William that are also well incorporated in the names of people in my own country. Over there, they are common names, nothing crazy or strange.
The other thing is that my name appear in the bible with the same spelling I use, so in reality it is not an Anglo name.
So, back the comeback, I am freaking tired of people questioning if I am telling the true, or following up about "my real name" , or telling me that my name is not a "My country" name etc.
It is been 99% people from or in Germany or Austria
I need some ideas about what to comment in these situations .
r/Comebacks • u/Shackonthehill403 • 11d ago
Comeback to "you're being defensive."
A person I am close to uses this response for everything. Any explanation to a question especially the middle of an argument gets labeled as "you're being defensive," which to them is some kind of get out of jail free card. It's like if they say it enough it suddenly negates all of their rude behavior. Or they will make a false statement like "hey, you left the coffee maker on again," and I'll say "no, I never used it yesterday, remember I got a red bull." Almost guaranteed I'll here something like, "you don't need to get defensive, I was just asking about the coffee maker because you've left it on in the past." The past being like 6 months ago mind you. Oh and If I ever remind her to turn off the coffee maker or to do anything that vaguely sounds like a command or instruction I hear "you, dont need to have an attitude. Any help would be appreciated with the "being defensive"remarks. I understand their is a time and a place to not be but it's getting used in the wrong context and they think it's some end all be to every conversation even they are being a complete ass the whole time.
r/Comebacks • u/Floofchickenpeeps • 11d ago
Tattooo-comeback
So i recently got a hedgehog tattoo and the reason is quite personal so i dont want to tell people the reason i got it….what do i reply when asked why a hedgehog???
update: for everyone getting angry: i expect people to ask, i would ask as well. I just wanted a funny quick way out
r/Comebacks • u/swogglessploodecn6 • 11d ago
heres a pretty good comeback:https://i.imgur.com/IjA300u.jpeg
r/Comebacks • u/not_care_my_username • 12d ago
Comeback request What’s a sharp comeback when someone turns your hometown into a political argument?
A little background on me: I was born and raised in Hong Kong, spent my teenage years there, and later moved to the US for work and family life.
Like anyone who grew up in an internationally recognized city, whenever someone casually asks, "Where are you from?" or "Where did you grow up?", my default answer is naturally "Hong Kong."
To me, this is completely normal small talk. If someone grew up in New York, London, or Tokyo, they say the city—they don't rattle off the entire sovereign nation or territory. It’s just geography and identity; there's zero political statement intended.
Yet every once in a while, I run into someone who immediately turns a simple introduction into a confrontational trap by asking:
"Wait, isn’t Hong Kong part of China?"
It’s always delivered with this smug, provocative tone, clearly meant to put me on the spot, fish for a debate, or force some weird loyalty check during casual conversation. I'm completely sick of playing nice or giving polite geography lessons when people do this in bad faith.
I’m looking for a sharp, direct, shut-down comeback—something that calls out their rudeness, stings a little, and makes it unmistakably clear that the conversation is over. What would you hit them with?
r/Comebacks • u/No-Earth-5064 • 13d ago
I need workplace comebacks!
I am a female working in a very male dominated workplace. I’m an environmental inspector and spend a lot of time on construction sites with men who are either creepy or think I’m an idiot. I need comebacks for men who think they are smarter than me and comebacks for getting hit on/wolf whistles by creepy construction workers! Give me your best!
r/Comebacks • u/Left-for-dead-fan444 • 13d ago
Comeback request How do i make comebacks of my family
They made fun of me and how skinny i am,but they make fun of my abusive father
Here is a list of all of the people that makes fun
- A skinny woman that makes fun of my things she called my mother a hoe
2.a fat woman who bullys me and saids that im adoptid
Yada yada i need it ASAP bc i need it short or long and make it so they call my mother
r/Comebacks • u/Scarlet_Crimson7 • 13d ago
What is you juiciest school/workplace/personal Confessions?
Ik it's not a comeback, but I'm low-key bored.
r/Comebacks • u/No-Security-5715 • 14d ago
Comeback sharing Over where?
Let me start by saying that a lot of people do this, and I know it is not malicious by any means. To that end, I like to have a bit of fun with it.
I am completely blind. I have often asked where someone or something is and the automatic response is for someone to say, "Over there," and point. Of course, I have no idea where that is. My typical response?
"Can you please be mroe specific? There are 129,600 different variations of "over there." To which are you referring?"
360*360 =129,600
Since there are 360 degrees in a circle, and there is both height and width in three dimensions, that's where the number comes from, for those who don't get it.