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Despair Speech
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One of the best ways to show that a character has crossed the Despair Event Horizon is to give them the occasion to perform a Despair Speech to show that their hopes are lost and that there's nothing else left to do. Expect Creepy Monotone if the character is portrayed as scary. Manly Tears are occasionally involved. The character is winding up their own lack of chances, desperation, and, sometimes, remorse for something they could have done or said before. If said character is a criminal, their confession can become a Despair Speech. Authors ought to be careful when using this: if it's done too much or badly, it becomes Wangst. Contrast Badass Boast. |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica Sayaka delivers one just before turning into a witch. Homura delivers one of these when she finally gives up and nearly becomes a Witch herself. A timely Cooldown Hug from Madoka just about averts the transformation. |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Vivienne Graham has this when she's in the midst of her Heroic BSoD over Dr. Serizawa's death: | |
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In the last issue of Runaways, Nico is given a choice of either signing up with Hunter Stein or taking the team to go out and look for Chase, who abandoned them. She chooses the latter, at which point Klara begs her to reconsider, pointing out that they have no money, no home, no allies, and no assurance that they'll ever find Chase (or that he'll agree to rejoin them if they do.) | |
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The old Hee Haw song "Gloom, Despair and Agony On Me" is a parody of this trope. | |
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The World of Kanako: The narrator gives one at the very beginning of the film, in which he dreams about being not human anymore so he can finally escape the bullies. | |
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The Entity gives one of these to Linkara in their second confrontation, revealing that it is still struggling with its own insignificance, outright begging its enemy to give it purpose. | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: The last words a character pronounces right before going ahead with their Better to Die than Be Killed act have an overlap with this. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Envy gives one after a Humiliation Conga of being reduced to a tiny parasite and called out on their jealousy of humanity by Ed. They break down sobbing when they realize they have been understood by a lower lifeform. Unable to live with the humiliation, Envy smashes their own Philosopher's Stone and ends their life. | |
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Every other speech in Hamlet. | |
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The Merchant of Venice opens with a scene which may be intended as a parody of this trope, in which Antonio speaks repeatedly about his own sadness and frustration without any obvious cause, much to the bemusement of his friends. | |
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Supernatural: Dean Winchester delivers one of these every three weeks. The most notable one is when he admits that he wishes he'd never been brought back to life and concludes "I should've stayed dead." Sam just mopes. Castiel gives lots of despair speeches, but he usually combines them with threats or acts of violence, so they end up being badass or funny rather than wangsty. Except in season six, where he gives a drawn out despair speech to God. Lucifer was also especially fond of the Despair speech, although he seemed to use it more as a tool to gain sympathy, manipulate unwitting humans, and justify his callous behaviour than as a genuine expression of despair. Luci's continual despair speeches are part of the reason that most of the other characters think of him as a bratty child. |
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In Neon Genesis Evangelion, Shinji is prone to doing this, particularly at the End. | |
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Suzanna in Girl, Interrupted gives a real Tear Jerker of a speech when she returns to the mental hospital after Daisy's suicide. | |
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Parodied in the "Rally the Troops" Destiny 2, contrasted by a true Rousing Speech. (He does manage to turn it into a rousing speech by mentioning loot.) | |
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Ganondorf gets a pretty epic one near the end of There Will Be Brawl. | |
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What is a Person Worth?: Lynn gives a big one to her grandfather about how she caused this mess in chapter 9: She gives another one during her breakdown in Chapter 21, this time in front of Lincoln. |
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The Nostalgia Critic has a good one in his first commercials special, made even sadder by some really aching violin music playing over it. He got another one in the Scooby-Doo review, wishing that just once he had friends to hang out with. |
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In The Sunset Limited, White gives an utterly damning speech about the futility of life. | |
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The "Life is like a box of chocolates..." monologue delivered by the Cigarette-Smoking Man in an episode of The X-Files is very cynical and nihilistic, even for him. | |
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Castlevania (2017): Dracula has a pretty gut-wrenching one once he hits his Heel Realization and lets Alucard put him out of his misery: | |
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Shakespeare's Richard II | |
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Denethor gives several of these in The Lord of the Rings; the most notable is the one he gives when he burns himself to death on his pyre. Eomer gets a subverted one during the Battle of Pelanor Fields. "These staves he spoke, but he laughed as he said them..." Frodo too, when the burden of the Ring in Mordor wears away at him: "I can't recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I'm naked in the dark. There's nothing—no veil between me and the wheel of fire." |
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Batman, of all people, gets a borderline one in Going Sane as he tries to tell his girlfriend that he's finally realized that the world doesn't actually need Batman and he can let that part of his life go (without actually admitting he was Batman). Subverted when she not only reveals she knew he was Batman, but the world absolutely needs him so he better get his ass in gear and go back to Gotham. | |
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In Red Dead Redemption, Dutch Van Der Linde gives one when confronted by John Marston, about how everything he's been fighting for in his life has been for nothing, lamenting the changes coming, while also being unable to stop fighting as it is in his nature. This followed by him dropping himself off a cliff. | |
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In The World's End, the main character Gary King gives one of these when he reaches the final pub of his pub crawl. It details all his lost hopes and explains that he is so obsessed with finishing the crawl as it's the only time he was truly happy and he has tried to commit suicide out of disillusionment of how his life wasn't as awesome as he was hoping it to be. | |
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There are so many examples in the Danganronpa series that it isn't worth the time to list them. In fact, driving people to make these is somewhat of a hobby for the despair-obsessed Monokuma. | |
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In Beavis and Butt-Head Do America, Beavis finally reaches the painful realization that he and Butt-Head will never score. While the moment was clearly meant to be a Tear Jerker, the passion Beavis puts into it along with the uplifting music in the background makes it double as a Moment of Awesome as well. | |
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In Dishonored, Daud gives this when you defeat him in a duel, stating that after assassinating the Empress, he felt that "something broke" inside of him and how he is filled with intense self-hatred at how rather than making something with his life he's simply chosen to use his powers as an assassin, a life he's grown tired of. In the end, he leaves his fate to Corvo's hands, seemingly not caring whether or not he lives or dies (despite his pleading for his life). | |
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In Aviary Attorney, Jayjay Falcon gives one after witnessing Séverin Cocorico's death in Act 4A. Coupled with his growing disillusionment with France's legal system, it's enough to push him into becoming a vigilante willing to dirty his own hands in order to serve his own brand of justice. | |
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Walter from Sterne. Leningrad has that effect on people. | |
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Pictured is Luffy from One Piece having an epic breakdown after losing all his friends and watching his brother die protecting him, when he was supposed to be the one saving him. Like the image caption says, sometimes all a speech needs...is two words. | |
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In the Moral Orel episode "Sacrifice", Clay gives one of these combined with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech; he rants and raves at his friends about their failures in love and life, but he is quite blatantly talking about himself too. He delivers another one in "Nature" that'tos equal parts tragic and unnerving. | |
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Lelouch from Code Geass near the end of Turn 20: "My name is Lelouch vi Britannia, I am the eldest son of Empress Marianne, the prince who was abandoned by his empire. If anyone wishes to stop me, let them try, if there is anyone who can go beyond my despair." | |
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The Bible: The Book of Job is full of these, mainly delivered by Job himself, making this trope Older Than Feudalism. In them, Job essentially curses everything that he can possibly name. Everything, that is, EXCEPT for God, no matter how bad the increasingly-severe punishments inflicted on him got, much to the dismay of Satan. The titular character of the Book of Jeremiah wished that he was never born to see the fall of Judah and Jerusalem. Jesus had a short one as He was crucified, asking why had he been forsaken. |
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Cabin Fever: When everything goes to hell, sultry college coed Marcy tells her friend Paul that she's all but given up hope of surviving, and just wants to go Out with a Bang. He obliges. | |
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Solid Snake gets one in the original Metal Gear Solid if you fail to save Meryl. "I'm not the hero you thought I was! I'm nothing!" | |
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Delivered during the final battle of Ending D in NieR: Automata by 9S, well over the Despair Event Horizon and suffering from an intense degree of Sanity Slippage as he vents his frustration at the meaninglessness of his existence and the fact that despite knowing that humans have been extinct long before the alien invasion he still yearns for their approval as it's been hardcoded into his system. | |
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The titular character of the Book of Jeremiah wished that he was never born to see the fall of Judah and Jerusalem. | |
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Hal Jordan got a few of these back during his Parallax days. | |
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Kingdom of Heaven: Sibylla gives one after discovering that her son contracted leprosy: Tiberias gives a small one to Balian just before the Final Battle: |
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Azrael gets one in a cut scene from Dogma, half Despair speech and half Motive Rant, explaining his Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum, how he would destroy the universe to escape Hell. | |
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In The Grizzlies, after the suicide of another Inuit student, Russ tearfully gives one to his student Miranda when she sees him packing to leave Kugluktuk. She gives him an epic speech in return, making him reconsider. | |
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First Blood: The final confrontation between John Rambo and Colonel Trautman ends with Rambo breaking down in despair at how his time in Vietnam left him traumatized for life and how everything since then has been a long downward spiral for him. | |
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Despair Speech | |
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A very short one from Blackadder II (which is A Shout-Out to Shakespeare's Richard II): | |
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Despair Speech | |
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The Book of Job is full of these, mainly delivered by Job himself, making this trope Older Than Feudalism. In them, Job essentially curses everything that he can possibly name. Everything, that is, EXCEPT for God, no matter how bad the increasingly-severe punishments inflicted on him got, much to the dismay of Satan. | |
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Despair Speech | |
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True Detective: Detective Rustin Cohle is full of these, constantly going on about the meaninglessness of life. If it weren't for Matthew McConaughty's good acting, then it would almost get annoying. | |
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Despair Speech | |
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In Criminal Minds, some UnSubs do this while confessing. Hotch also gets one to no one in particular in the form of narration at the end of "To Hell... And Back". His soliloquy about how much everything sucks is interrupted by the Reaper breaking into his apartment and trying to kill him. Yeah. |
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Despair Speech | |
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Subaru from Re:Zero has an extremely long one. After failing multiple times to stop the Witch Cult from slaughtering everyone in Roswaal's territory, including his closest friends, Subaru gives up on saving them and chooses to run away instead. Rem tries to convince him of not giving up, only to provoke Subaru into invoking this trope. Doubles as an Heroic Self-Deprecation. | |
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The cop protagonist gives one for society at the end of The Stone Killer (1973), about how the police are fighting an unstoppable tide of crime and violence. It doesn't quite work as the cop is played by Charles Bronson, and even an unstoppable tide would find it difficult to erode his stoic features. | |
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Oersted gives a great one at the end of the Medieval Chapter in Live A Live after a terrible Trauma Conga Line causes him to embrace hatred and declare himself The Lord of Dark, Odio. | |
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Despair Speech | |
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Casablanca: Not a speech per se, but Rick's dialogue in his famous "All the Gin Joints" scene once Ilsa shows up smacks of this. | |
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Despair Speech | |
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Eddy of Ed, Edd n Eddy gets one in the Movie: | |
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Despair Speech | |
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John Carter's last words at the very end in Gods of Mars qualified as this, after seeing his wife being locked up inside an inescapable temple with an angry enemy ready to lunge at her with a knife in hand. | |
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Despair Speech | |
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Numbuh Five of Codename: Kids Next Door has one when she's about to give up and side with her sister. Thankfully, she breaks out of it. | |
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Despair Speech | |
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Most of the people still alive in Bastion's Keep at the beginning of Act IV of Diablo III have these to give following Leah's death and the unleashing of Diablo as the Prime Evil upon the High Heavens, but the most poignant of all is Haedrig's. | |
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Despair Speech | |
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He got another one in the Scooby-Doo review, wishing that just once he had friends to hang out with. | |
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Despair Speech | |
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Dragon Age II: If you side with the Mages in the endgame, Orsino delivers one after seeing so many of his fellow mages dead. | |
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Despair Speech | |
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Hope at the beginning of Chapter 11 of Final Fantasy XIII. In fact, most of the l'Cie just before their Eidolon battles. | |
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Coco: Héctor mourns to Miguel that he never should have left his family, and that now he has no chance to see his beloved daughter again, much less make things right with her. | |
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Mekakucity Actors: During Episode 10, Azami delivers one to her daughter about how foolish she was to believe that a marriage between a human and a monster like her could ever work out. She then disappears into her never-ending world forever. Near the end of Episode 12, Marry delivers one of these after the Clearing Eyes Snake possesses Konoha and nearly kills Kido, Kano, and Seto, and she resolves to reset time to prevent their deaths. She doesn't go through with it. |
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Brace gives one to Fortune in Dragoncharm, all the sadder because Brace has resented Fortune up until this point and desperately wanted to prove himself to... well, everyone, by keeping his sister safe. He believes he failed. | |
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In King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow, Alexander comes up with a Despair Speech while acting like a Drama Prince in front of Shamir Shamazel and the Pawn Shop Owner. It is the finisher in the speech, "I am... no... more..." after downing the whole "Drink Me" potion bottle that could tug at our heartstrings a bit... if we didn't know it was Faux Death. | |
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In Marshal Bass, the eponymous hero has one that doubles as a Badass Boast: | |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Horace Slughorn gives one of these when he agrees to give Harry his memory about the time he told Tom Riddle about the Horcruxes. | |
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