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Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die

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When a Rousing Speech... isn't.
A hero — or, well, anyone — is about to go risk their neck for something. A sidekick or other people begin "motivating" them, sometimes in song, by thanking them for the dangerous task they are about to undertake, which may cause their deaths, describing To the Pain what the hero might suffer and — really, it would be better if the hero hadn't heard this speech at all. Especially in comedy shows.
The trope is named after a passage from the song "When the Foeman Bares His Steel," from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance.
Compare with Unwanted Assistance, where good intentions don't outweigh the negative effects of the "help". Contrast with the Rousing Speech, which "Go, Ye Heroes, Go And Die" subverts... unless the listeners are from a Martyrdom Culture where a call to go forth and die heroically is a Rousing Speech played straight. Also contrast Suicide Dare, where the speaker leaves out the heroic part and just says "Go and die.", and Bravado Song.
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Smart Guy: Coach Gerber's attempts at a Rousing Speech are anything but.
From "Below the Rim," to the basketball players:
From "The Graduate," during his commencement speech:
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In Worm the collected Heroes and Villains are preparing to fight Leviathan, one of the incredibly destructive monsters known as an Endbringer. Legend starts to give a speech, but quickly veers into the fact that even if this is a "good day", that probably means about one in four of the people in the room is going to die.
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In A Bug's Life, all of the ant children put on an adorable pageant for the "warrior bugs", featuring a mural showing them getting massacred in battle, and then a school play where all the characters die dramatically. The "warrior bugs", who are in fact circus performers who had no idea they had been mistaken for warriors until this moment, are horrified.
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Buffy gives one in the final episode of season 5:
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Another non-death variation happened in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Will has bet a lot of money on his college football team and seeing their regular motivator/mascot Carlton isn't available he tries to fill in and proceeds to give a Rousing Speech to motivate the team urging them to give it their all since winning this game will be the greatest moment of glory of their lives... literally, because the chances of any of them going pro are slim to none and a fair number of them probably won't even graduate. Naturally, they get bummed out and lose despite Carlton returning.
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Théoden has a remarkably short one in the The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King movie. "No, we can't [defeat them]. But we will meet them in battle nonetheless." No wonder Aragorn took over the duties of rallying his troops in the next battle. The speech was originally Éomer's encouragement for a Last Stand in the book, which is why it boils down to "let's at least try to die heroically".
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Pooh's Grand Adventure: Owl sends Pooh and the others off into the Great Unknown with Adventure is a Wonderful Thing, a deceptively-upbeat little ditty about the dangers and misery they'll encounter on their journey.
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Two possible ways for Clickhole's What Hope Do We Few Have Against The Armies Of Byzantium to go; one dutifully accepting demise, the other manically embracing it.
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ralph's encouraging speech to a nervous Vanellope as they are on their way to the big race presumably has the opposite of its intended effect:
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The pilot of Community contains a non-death related variation; the Dean's Rousing Speech to welcome the new students in the pilot becomes one of these when he manages to lose the middle, which is unfortunately the bit that contains the 'Rousing' part. The rest is just a list of all the stereotypes (which, unfortunately, match our heroes quite closely) of the kind of 'loser' who attends community college. Naturally, no one listening is particularly roused.
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Dawn of War Soulstorm: Indrick Boreale's... attempt at a Rousing Speech features this.
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Admiral Fred gives one of these in Yellow Submarine just before The Beatles board the submarine. Fortunately, the Beatles are not fazed for more than a few moments.
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In Dilbert, any and all attempts made by the Pointy-Haired Boss to raise morale.
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin would commonly say speeches like this before preparing to go sledding. Hobbes would wisely ditch the sled soon afterward.
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In the Animaniacs episode "King Yakko", Yakko addresses his army with "I'm not going to lie to you. Some of you might not come back from this battle. And the rest of you? Definitely won't." Naturally, as he goes on about potential horrible death, the army abandons him.
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In Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen, the newly Face–Heel Turn-ed Kamen Rider Decade's speech to his forces consists of "You all suck except for the fact that you come back no matter how many times you're killed, so go out there and fight until you win!" Subverted in that it actually does seem to motivate them, and makes a lot more sense when they reveal that Decade is only pretending to be a villain..
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On the King of the Hill episode "Peggy the Boggle Champ", Hank tries to motivate a crying Peggy with a speech his football coach used to give: "Loser! You're a loser! Are you feeling sorry for yourself? Well, you should be, cause you're dirt! You make me sick! You big baby! Baby want a bottle? A big dirt bottle?" Naturally, all it does is make Peggy cry harder.
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Discworld:
In Jingo, Captain Carrot rallies his troops with a rousing cry of "If we succeed, no-one will remember. And if we fail, no one will forget!" Noted to be perhaps the worst battle cry since "Let's all get our throats cut, lads." It's a subversion, though, in that it actually works. But only because it's Carrot, who could have led a thousand armies into war under the battle cry of "Eggs! Milk! Bread! FLOUR!" It also fits a running theme of the book: leaders who got their men pointlessly killed are remembered forever, but ones who prevented bloodshed are quickly forgotten.
In Lords and Ladies, Shawn Ogg makes an attempt at a rousing speech with a number of problems, but which at one point assures the listeners that the fewer of them there are, the more glory there'll be per survivor.
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Nathan Explosion from Metalocalypse provides one in a college graduation ceremony in the episode, appropriately titled, "Go Forth and Die". In this case, though, it's him trying to make a decent speech but isn't eloquent enough to do so. He then ends up snapping and telling them that even though he's less educated than they are, he's still way richer than any of them will ever be and tells them that they'll all die anyways.
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja gives us this gem, wherein the titular Doctor encourages his army of rabble to become Cannon Fodder in order to be privileged to witness a lot of dinosaurs being punched.
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
"Bravely, bold Sir Robin" is the song of a bard on how Sir Robin will suffer (his eyes gorged out, his elbows broken, his bowels unplugged, his nostrils raped, and his penis...) in his heroics.
Another famous line:
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The Order of the Stick:
Elan's speech before the Azure City battle is a nice example of this. It parodies every well-known Rousing Speech in the book and actually builds to a pretty good heartening crescendo, until Elan makes one offhand observation that just deflates the whole thing at the speed of sound.
He gives another Sombering Oration later, filled with Brutal Honesty about the Empire of Blood. Haley subsequently points out that it was actually a sort of moral victory to make the oppressed people stop being excited about Bread and Circuses.
Subverted (and possibly defied) with Roy's drunken speech in strip 1187, which is just kind of "Go do whatever while I sleep this off before we go save the world." Elan's follow-up makes it inspiring when he points out that Roy (The Leader and frequent Only Sane Man) trusting for the rest of the team to do what they think is best is a sign of huge progress for all of them.
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In Jingo, Captain Carrot rallies his troops with a rousing cry of "If we succeed, no-one will remember. And if we fail, no one will forget!" Noted to be perhaps the worst battle cry since "Let's all get our throats cut, lads." It's a subversion, though, in that it actually works. But only because it's Carrot, who could have led a thousand armies into war under the battle cry of "Eggs! Milk! Bread! FLOUR!" It also fits a running theme of the book: leaders who got their men pointlessly killed are remembered forever, but ones who prevented bloodshed are quickly forgotten.
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In The Marriage of Figaro, the melody of Figaro's remarks to Cherubino, "Non più andrai" can be considered as this, explaining the joys of the soldier's life: no more women, no more dancing, but marching all day in big helmets and mustaches, foul weather, low pay, to the sound of bombards and cannons.
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During a Serious Sam 2 cutscene, the hero tries to give a rousing speech, but an enemy mook messing with the microphone cable manages to time his disruptions of the speech so that it turns into one of these. It still works.
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Azumanga Daioh: Right before taking the entrance exam for college, Tomo declares "All right, let's fail this thing!" Only Osaka remains cheerful.
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Kermit rallies the Happiness Hotel together to foil a robbery in The Great Muppet Caper, only to ruin everything by warning them of the probability of violence. Fozzie, of all people, is the one to get them all back on the band wagon.
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In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Sacrifice of Angels" Facing a fleet that outnumbers their own more than 2:1, Dr. Bashir and Chief O'Brien decide it's a good time to recite "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (appropriately, the Federation fleet numbers about 600 ships). To their credit, they eventually realize that they're not being helpful:
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"When the Foeman Bares his Steel", from The Pirates of Penzance, is the Trope Namer. The policemen sing about how they could use some incentive. Then the women sing about how heroic they are to be facing certain death. Lampshaded by the leader of the policemen:
Towards the end of the song the police are working themselves up to it, and keep singing "Forward on the foe/we go, we go" (while starting to march offstage, only to turn around, march back and reaffirm that they really are going now; rinse and repeat). After a couple of iterations Major-General Stanley starts shouting "Yes, but you don't go!"
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Blindsight is about a spaceship sent out to examine an alien artifact. At one point, it turns out that the aliens may have been manipulating the perceptions and actions of the crew all along. The ship's captain, vampire Jukka Sarasti, tries to instill confidence in the crew by telling them that their human senses and sense of agency are largely illusory anyway, so this isn't that different. It doesn't really help.
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A rare successful example happens in episode 3 of Band of Brothers, after Speirs, the local Blood Knight, knocks some sense into a shell-shocked private. For what it's worth, Spiers applies this to himself as well, to great effect.
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In Mass Effect 3, if Javik goes to the Citadel, he'll attract attention from some civilians due to being a Prothean. When asked if whether or not they'll have a chance to defeat the Reapers, he'll bluntly tell them that if his people were wiped out then this generation has absolutely no shot at beating them. However if Shepard steps in, he'll turn the speech around and make a Rousing Speech instead.
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In Power Rangers Mystic Force, the Rangers are chatting about their upcoming hike through the dangerous Cimmerian Forest (presumably no relation to Power Rangers in Space's Cimmerian Planet.) Udonna sternly tells them of all the horrors that will befall them, ending with saying that the challenge won't be returning with the McGuffin, but returning at all. The point of it was that they should take what's coming more seriously, but the script went far enough to make it sound like she really shouldn't be sending them in the first place, if she's that sure the only people who can save both worlds form the Underworld are going to wind up as something's dinner.
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In Erik the Viking, Erik makes a dramatic speech about the quest he and his men are going on, mentioning the dangers they might face. He only succeeds in making the families of his crew start mourning their deaths before they even clear the dock.
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"La Resistance" from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. It's very inspiring for everyone except the three people it's supposed to be inspiring. (Also see Les Misérables under Theater, which is what this song is parodying.)
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Oxventure: At one point in the Dungeons & Dragons campaign, Dob the half-orc bard makes it his personal project to provide some Character Development to the recently dethroned "King" Lynton of Dunbridge - a former butcher's boy who tricked his way onto a small village's hastily assembled throne and spent his time on it being just kind of obnoxiously selfish and juvenile. One stage of this plan consists of enlisting Lynton into a very small rebellion, and then spouting an elaborately detailed metaphor about the importance of choking the machine on their bones. It goes so badly that even the other players aren't sure what, exactly, Dob was trying to accomplish with it.
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In Total War: Warhammer, a lot of Balthasar Gelt's speeches are to the effect of "I need this special title/magical artefact and here's why you should give your lives to help me get it". It has no effect on the morale of the troops present though.
Before the Final Battle in the sequel's Vortex Campaign, Tretch Craventail will deliver a speech to his troops on the monumental task ahead and the value their contribution (especially his) will have for the Under-Empire. He then adds that he's vitally needed for reconnaissance elsewhere, far away from the actual battle.
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In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Ghirahim gives a speech similar to this to his army before the final showdown with Link by telling them to die on Link's sword to slow him down so that Ghirahim can finish an important ceremony. The army knows that if they don't die on Link's sword, then they will die on Ghirahim's.
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Lexx:
Subverted in the Musical Episode, where the tale of a noble but doomed last stand genuinely inspires the heroes to do the same. The rousing finale:
In this case, they know that if they do not fight now, they will still suffer the same nasty death a short time later. If they fight now, they at least have a chance at hurting the enemy.
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In The Wheel of Time, Mat Cauthon notes that he hates it when his troops sing songs like this when they pass through towns. Interestingly, his hatred stems from the fact that it causes his recruitment to go up massively making it that much more expensive to feed the army. The more brutal and gory the song makes war sound, the faster the recruits sign up.
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Johnny Got His Gun was pretty much a rebuttal to this kind of thinking. If you didn't get that from the lengthy tirade about what the dead would say if they could speak, go read it again.
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The first Shrek movie has Lord Farquaad giving a speech trying to inspire combatants in a tournament, saying that the winner will be given the chance to rescue the fair princess, Fiona. And then starts rambling on about a pecking order if the first hero should fall.
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The musical Les Misérables has about half of "Do You Hear The People Sing?", which could perhaps stand to go into a little less detail on the blood of the martyrs and whatnot.
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In Lords and Ladies, Shawn Ogg makes an attempt at a rousing speech with a number of problems, but which at one point assures the listeners that the fewer of them there are, the more glory there'll be per survivor.
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On British panel show Mock the Week, on the subject of "Bad things to do when leading troops into battle", Frankie Boyle offered these: Soon you'll be at home with your families! In a jar... on the mantelpiece..." and "Our best hope is that the enemy kills so many of us they become slightly depressed."
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In the backstory of A Song of Ice and Fire, the Storm Queen Argella Durrandon barred the gates of Storm's End after Orys Baratheon killed her father in single combat, intending to go down against the Targaryens fighting. Given that the Targaryens had dragons, her soldiers disagreed. The issue was resolved when they delivered her to Orys buck naked and in chains.
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In One Piece, Ace's beloved commander Whitebeard comes to try to save him from execution, and it turns into a massive battle. At a fairly dire turning point, Whitebeard puts forth this rallying cry: "Those who would stand with me, prepare to lose your lives!" His men stick with him. They don't all die, but the idea here is that they're making a Heroic Sacrifice to let some of the other pirate factions get away.
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In the Futurama episode "War is the H Word", Zapp Brannigan tells his troops, "Men, you're lucky men. Soon you'll all be fighting for your planet. Most of you will be dying for your planet. Some of you will be forced through a fine mesh screen for your planet. They will be the luckiest of all."
It's explained in the episode where Brannigan first appears that he defeated an army of killbots by discovering they had a built-in kill limit, so he threw "wave after wave" of his own men at them until they hit the limit and shut down. He later offers to put "wave after wave of men at your disposal," which prompts an unseen voice in his crew (who hear him saying this) to shout "You suck!"
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At the beginning of The West Wing episode "Election Day", in the moments before the polls open it is suggested that Josh Lyman, the Santos Campaign Manager, might want to say a few words to thank, rouse and inspire the troops. Unfortunately, Josh is in the process of allowing his own neuroses about the occasion to overwhelm him, with the result that his speech quickly derails into a rant about a key tactical mistake that someone he's already fired made months ago, followed by him ordering his staff to incessantly nag their friends and loved ones throughout the day to act as informal poll observers. And he forgets the whole 'thank you' part. Needless to say, the troops are neither roused nor inspired by all this.
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In the first book of the Sword of Truth series, Zedd invokes this by using it intentionally: He gets a mob that wants to burn him for witchcraft to convince itself that warlocks are powerful, evil quasi-deities, and then compliments them on their courage to fight such a dangerous foe. And then convinces them that he made their *ahem* "manhoods" disappear, as none of them want to admit they are gullible enough to believe him by checking in front of everyone else.
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In Peanuts, Charlie Brown is giving such a talk to Snoopy, who then shoves him off alone.
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Those Green Goblins in The Bard's Tale, in that case it overlaps with "The Reason You Suck" Speech, since its not entirely clear if its even supposed to be a Rousing Speech, then again... Yeah, oh how reassuring it is to hear them sing how the titular bard is not the chosen one and is gonna die. This goes on for an entirety of no less than 4(!) songs! Although in the final 5th one they finally acknowledge the truth (that one certainly qualifies though.
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Final Space: In Episode 6, Gary tries to give a rousing speech to Mooncake about their upcoming mission to the Lord Commander’s prison colony. But although he is certainly sounding enthusiastic, he absolutely doesn’t bother to hide how dangerous the mission will be. As a result, Mooncake flees in terror, leaving Gary and Avocato without backup.
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In the Total War series, depending on the traits of your generals and the situation of the battle, they can give speeches ranging from inspiring and full of insults towards the enemy, to tedious and rambling, to depressed and defeatist, to rants about moon-men and funny hats.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
"Sonic Rainboom" sees Fluttershy trying to reassure Rainbow Dash, who is nervous about pulling off a difficult maneuver in her routine for the Best Young Fliers' Competition: "But Rainbow Dash, just because you failed the Sonic Rainboom a hundred thousand times in practice doesn't mean you won't be able to do it in front of an entire stadium full of impatient, super-critical sports fan ponies!" Rainbow Dash's reaction, as can be expected, is to panic.
Later in "Green Isn't Your Color", Photo Finish tells Fluttershy, right before her first big fashion show, "Nervous? Don't be ridiculous. You're only facing a large crowd of ponies who will be watching your every moves and silently judging you."
Fluttershy is kind of a magnet for these, since Rarity delivers one to her in "Hearth's Warming Eve". There are many ways to stop Fluttershy worrying about going on stage; talking about how many ponies are coming to watch is not one of them.
Poor Fluttershy can't catch a break. In Filli Vanilli, Pinkie Pie attempts multiple times to motivate her into embracing her talent for singing, unfortunately her attempted inspirational speeches go way overboard and end up horrifying Fluttershy. Rarity calls her out on it:
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Done in musical form on Galavant. After angering the evil queen and getting a price put on his head, Sid rallies a group of peasants into marching on the castle, while singing a rousing anthem of rebellion. Unfortunately, the lyrics primarily concern how hopeless their cause is, and devolve into increasing graphic descriptions of the injuries they can expect. By the time he reaches the castle, he's the only one who hasn't fled.
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Numbah Four has the same trouble trying to convince the other students to oppose the teenagers in an episode of Codename: Kids Next Door. (Using Brutal Honesty towards first graders about how dangerous something is rarely works.)
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In The LEGO Movie, Emmett spends a bit too long on the part of the Rousing Speech where he plays down his strengths, so that by the time he gets to the actual rousing part, everyone's lost faith in him.
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Jesus Christ Superstar:
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How I Met Your Mother: Barney gives Marshall a pep talk on picking up women. "Tonight isn't about scoring. It's about believing that you can do it, even though you probably can't."
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Paul McCartney gives one of these early in the Let It Be sessions. (Yes, one of these made a documentary.) It did not go over well.
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Ratatouille:
When Linguini gives his "inspiring" speech in preparation for the arrival of food critic Anton Ego, he depresses his kitchen staff so much that by the end only Colette can muster the energy to stand up straight. (It doesn't help that what he actually said was, "Appetite is coming, and he's going to have a big ego!")
Colette finally stops him and gives her own shorter speech, which moralizes them much better.
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In an episode of Frasier, after a run of bad luck that's been bad even by Frasier's standards, he's come to view himself as being cursed. Niles tries to motivate him by pointing out that curses don't exist, but his method of pointing this out accidentally turns into listing all the ways that Frasier's life sucks:
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In the Babylon 5 movie In the Beginning, the President of the Earth Alliance calls for volunteers to hold back the final Minbari advance to buy time for civilians to escape. A subversion in that, depressing as it is, the speech does motivate a last-ditch defense.
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Right before the climactic confrontation of Young Avengers vol. 2 is the following cheerful exchange:
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Ensigns of Command", Data attempts to deliberately do this as a form of Reverse Psychology. It doesn't work.
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 The Pirates of Penzance (Theatre) / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 Destiny 2 (Video Game) / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (Video Game) / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 Guardians of the Galaxy (2021) (Video Game) / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords (Video Game) / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion (Video Game) / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 Sunless Sea (Video Game) / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 Penny Arcade (Webcomic) / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 Smogon (Website) / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 A Bug's Life / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 The LEGO Movie / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 Wreck-It Ralph / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
 Yellow Submarine / int_5e5cf652
type
Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die