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A speech made by the hero to the villain just before the climactic fight in which he points out exactly why what the villain is doing is wrong, and urges him to forswear his ways. The hero might acknowledge beforehand that this effort is probably not going to work, but he has to try; that's what makes him the hero. If it does work, he's Talking the Monster to Death, and might even get the villain to do a Heel–Face Turn. It can also be a case of Swiper, No Swiping! if the villain stands down with no drama. May be a piercing retort to a Breaking Speech. Expect lots of Scenery-Chewing. The villain will probably respond with a pithy one-liner. This makes it okay for the hero to kill him. The villain might also turn the tables with a Breaking Speech which may cause the hero to turn the tables again by saying Shut Up, Hannibal! or his own Breaking Speech until one of them is broken or they come to blows. Alternatively, this last-ditch effort not working will have the hero conclude that the bad guy is irredeemable, so it's time to stop trying. See also You Monster!, You're Insane! and "The Reason You Suck" Speech. A Patrick Stewart Speech rebuts the evilness by praising human goodness. It may also be a part of a "No More Holding Back" Speech. Different from the Last-Second Chance in that here the hero is trying to shame or reason with the villain to make him turn back, whereas in that trope the hero is offering the villain help, healing, or redemption. When the villain rejects this trope, you have a Shut Up, Kirk!. If the villain is already dead or defeated by then, it's an After-Action Villain Analysis. In Japanese works, this is usually a sign of Japanese Spirit, as competing ideologies, with the "better" one winning in the end, is part of the story structure. See also Corrective Lecture. |
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Megas XLR,: Coop's "three things that annoyed me today" speech in almost every episode. It's always said before the villain gets trashed, and just as easily subverted (such as him blaming an enemy for things that weren't their fault, often Coop's fault instead) or said by other characters (including the villain in one episode). Lampshaded during an Enemy Mine scenario: | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Madison Russell explains to Mariko in non-minced terms why her own dead mother Emma Russell sucked in Chapter 12, when Mariko hits Madison's Berserk Button. Mark likewise somberly chips in, and Ilene Chen adds a Humans Are Flawed speech. | |
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ParaNorman ends with Norman confronting the real villain, Agatha Prendergast, telling her that three centuries of bitterness over having been executed for witchcraft have hardened her into a mean, hateful bully just like her killers who's still torturing people who have either long since learned their lesson or were born so long afterwards that they don't even know who she is. Norman's speech triggers a Villainous Breakdown that manages to bring Agatha down from the ledge. | |
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Delivered in The Salvation War by Michael to Yahweh at the beginning of his coup attempt, though it's from a villain, albeit an Anti-Villain at this point, rather than a hero. | |
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Space Ghost in the Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Lawsuit" after meeting his old enemy Dr. Nightmare. | |
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The most prominent example of this in Duel Savior Destiny are attempts on Rubinas' part to talk down Lobelia, who is so bitter and resentful that she completely refuses to believe anything about how her friends valued her. When Rubinas points out that Lobelia was never resented for her abilities or appearance, she is instead met with claims of betrayal. | |
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In Ni no Kuni one of these is delivered by Oliver, not against the obvious villain, Shadar, but against Cassiopeia, the White Witch. | |
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In A Certain Magical Index, Touma Kamijou is fond of summarizing the villain's past and motivation and everything wrong with it before declaring, "I will break your illusion!" and then punching the villain out. Sometimes spoofed by Touma focusing on the wrong thing, like when Oriana Thompson attempted to brainwash the entire city, and Touma gave a summation condemning her for disrupting their festival. | |
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Magic Knight Rayearth: Umi gives one to Fluffy Tamer Ascot when he tries to yell at her for killing his "friends." After a slap, she points out that he is the one forcing them to fight the trio and doing so will make people more fearful of them than they already are. It works so well that he does a Heel–Face Turn and shows up in Part II by using his creatures to help the remnants of Cephiro's population... and he has a huge crush on her. | |
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In Batman: Arkham Knight, Batman gives Professor Pyg one of these on their way to the GCPD Lockup. | |
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Attempted (and failed) in The Simpsons by Lisa when Sideshow Bob tries to blow up Springfield with a nuclear bomb after failing to get Springfield to shut down all television broadcasts. | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: In the episode "Turn, Turn, Turn", after John Garrett is revealed to be the Clairvoyant, he tries to explain his motives to the heroes, only to get shot down by an unimpressed Coulson. In the Season 2 episode "A Fractured House", Coulson does this again with Ward, who has convinced himself that his Boxed Crook status makes him The Atoner for his actions as The Mole in the previous season (which also works as a Take That! against those fans who still support Ward) Coulson gets another in the Season 4 episode "The Man Behind the Shield", after the Superior rattles off the reasoning for his decades-long plan for revenge on Coulson for something Coulson doesn't even remember. |
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Lyrical Nanoha: Nanoha does this with all her enemies, which never works for various reasons. She then opts for unleashing raw firepower on them until they're in no condition to do anything but listen to her. | |
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Naruto does this to a lot of villains, from Haku to Gaara to Kurama, the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox. Part of the story's Aesop relies on this trope. The belief of his sensei, Jiraiya, was that there will come a time that "people truly understand each other". However, the entire shinobi world is built and perpetuated on a never ending Cycle of Revenge. During Naruto's fight with Pain, Pain questions if Naruto thinks that killing him, and thus continuing the cycle, will make things better. Naruto's answer to this is to listen to Pain's story, tell him why his Evil Plan is flawed and that there's a better way: even though he can't forgive Pain for all that he's done, he's still not going to kill him because he has that choice. Pain realizes that he's a Fallen Hero, and then immediately switches to Naruto's side. | |
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In The Last Hero, it takes the combined Kirk Summation arguments of Carrot, Rincewind, and the nameless bard to convince Cohen and his Silver Horde that blowing Dunmanifestin to smithereens isn't such a good idea. It works, but technically is still played straight, as it's not the moral objections of Carrot or Rincewind that ultimately convince them, but the bard's appeal to their vanity ("No one will remember you."). | |
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Dragon Ball: In Dragon Ball, Goku begins the final phase of almost every battle by offering his opponent "one last chance" to recant his evil ways. It seldoms goes deeper than that, because he's just a kid at this point. At the end of Dragon Ball Z, before annihilating Buu with the Spirit Bomb, Goku briefly reminisces about the events of the arc, and how Buu went from an mostly-innocent manchild to a ruthless killer after losing the battle against his inner evil, and says how Buu will now learn what it's like to have his own life taken away against his will. He also makes a wish that Buu will come back as a better person, so he can fight him again. This speech is dub-only. In the original, he instead says how incredible Buu was and continued to be a formidable foe with each transformation, which is why Goku wishes him to be reborn as a good being, so that they can fight again. |
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Harry Potter vs. Voldemort, round 4. Harry calls him "Riddle" and suggests he repent, before summarizing: "So it all comes down to this, doesn't it? Does the wand in your hand know its last master was Disarmed? Because if it does... I am the true master of the Elder Wand." | |
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Vash from Trigun sometimes engaged enemies in this because of his aversion to killing. | |
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The whole party tries to subject Duke to this at the end of Tales of Vesperia by offering an alternative to his plan. It doesn't work, so you have to kick his ass. | |
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At the end of the Father Brown short story "The Flying Stars", the titular priest-detective delivers one of these to the Gentleman Thief by admiring the ingenuity of his plot to steal some precious stones... before urging him to end his criminal career on this note of triumph rather than continue in his lawless ways, as he will inevitably end up Jumping Off the Slippery Slope at some point. And has in fact already begun to do so, as despite his pretensions of being a Lovable Rogue Just Like Robin Hood who never hurts anyone through his crimes, he has in fact ended up framing an innocent person to take the fall for his crime. It works; the thief not only returns the jewels, he goes on to reform his ways. | |
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As seen in one of the chapter prefaces in Gardens of the Moon, book one of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, High King Kallor once boasted to Warlord Caladan Brood of the many kingdoms he had raised, ruled, and then destroyed. He asked if Caladan Brood could understand what that meant. And Caladan calmly replied: "Yes. You never learn." | |
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In the series finale of 24 when Jack Bauer becomes a tragic Villain Protagonist in his quest to seek revenge against the one who's screwed him over for the last time, Chloe desperately tries to keep him from ultimately going through with it, as she's even reluctantly holding a team of agents on stand by to come in and take him down if she ultimately fails. She also happens to remind Jack that said person he's trying to kill is the head of the Russian government which will lead to Russia declaring war on the United States if he's assassinated and that the person he's trying to avenge would never want him doing anything like this. It ultimately works. | |
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit improvises one towards the Mad Doctor in the Epic Mickey fancomic The Shadow of the Blot, pointing out how the Blot's goal (destroying all life) is really different from the Doc's usual Card-Carrying Villain, kid-friendly Dastardly Whiplash-style villainy. And this one actually works, as the Doctor turns on the Blot and renounces to kill Oswald. | |
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In World of Warcraft, Tirion Fordring gives a Kirk Summation to the Lich King several times, including during the Argent Tournament and during the final fight with him in Icecrown Citadel. In ICC, Tirion offers a swift death for the thousands the Lich King has tortured and slain. The Lich King responds with a Breaking Speech, to which Tirion replies Shut Up, Hannibal! and shortly frozen in ice and taken out of the fight. At the end of Wrathion's questline in Pandaria he begins ranting about how Wrynn threw away a golden opportunity when he didn't use the Siege of Orgrimmar as an opportunity to subjugate the Horde. The previously silent innkeeper then berates Wrathion for completely missing the lessons of Pandaria: It is the conflict between opposites that makes them stronger; destroying one will weaken the other. Wrathion calls him an innkeeper and leaves in a huff. |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers does this between Jason and Tommy when Tommy captures Jason. | |
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In Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, the Templar Kenneth Abraham expresses his surprise that his enemy Antó was able to defeat him. Antó spells it out for him: | |
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In the climax of Superman: Brainiac, Superman gives Brainiac one of these during their final fight on Brainiac's skull ship: He then blasts Brainiac through the wall of the ship, where he lands in an Earth swamp and immediately freaks out at the contact with its myriad micro-organisms. |
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In the Fallout: New Vegas DLC story, Dead Money, the Big Bad, Father Elijah, will launch into a Breaking Speech if the player calls him out on his crimes, accusing the Player Character of being a greedy soul who got tempted by the Sierra Madre's treasures. One of the possible retorts reads thus: | |
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Create Your Own Fate: Kanril Eleya delivers one to an Undine infiltrator she helps capture at the end of the second act, in her typical ill-tempered style. | |
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In Undertale, if you take the Genocide route, the Final Boss gives you one of these during their battle, accusing you of going this far "just because you think you can, and because you 'can', you 'have to'." In the second chapter of Deltarune, Ralsei pulls one on the Queen, which actually works and causes her to change sides and start helping the party. |
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In Digimon Adventure, Angemon and Angewomon make absolutely sure that Myotismon has no remorse for any of his evil deeds before killing him. | |
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Professor Dumbledore delivers an unusual one to the Alizors in Chapter 76 of The Parselmouth of Gryffindor, which, behind the general rhetoric, is less about the fact that they are doing wrong (as while the extent to which the end justifies the means is debatable, the attackers have very valid reasons to be attacking) and more about the fact that their strategy is nonsensical and they'll get slaughtered if they try to fight it out there and then. It is, of course, answered with a curse in his direction from the leader. | |
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Labyrinth played it as a key plot point, as it was her destiny to deliver her "Give me the child" speech. Foreshadowed and all. | |
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In Pokémon Adventures, this is what Diamond does to every villain he's ever encountered before resorting to fighting them. It may not work for the villain, but it sure does inspire everyone else who hears it (even Dialga and Palkia, in one instance!). | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Thor gives Loki one during their climactic final battle in the first Thor, and later again in The Avengers where he says of the Chitauri invasion: "You think this madness will end with YOUR rule!?" Thor pulls it on Loki a third time in Thor: Ragnarok, where he points out that Loki's constant betrayals have, ironically enough, made him predictable, drives the point home by showing that he'd anticipated and prepared for Loki's inevitable backstab, and tells Loki that while he is certainly the God of Mischief, he has the potential to be so much more. This time it works, and Loki ends up saving the day, albeit by causing Ragnarok. |
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At the end of the Monster Association saga in One-Punch Man, Saitama delivers one to Garou after the Hero Hunter delivers a Motive Rant about how he aimed to unite the world through "Absolute Evil" and forcing humanity to stand together against the ultimate villain he wanted to become and derided Saitama as a fake hero for treating heroism as a hobby. | |
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Thor pulls it on Loki a third time in Thor: Ragnarok, where he points out that Loki's constant betrayals have, ironically enough, made him predictable, drives the point home by showing that he'd anticipated and prepared for Loki's inevitable backstab, and tells Loki that while he is certainly the God of Mischief, he has the potential to be so much more. This time it works, and Loki ends up saving the day, albeit by causing Ragnarok. | |
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Fallout: The final boss commits suicide if you can convince him that his plan isn't feasible. | |
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Yesterday Upon The Stair: When Midoriya shows up to confront Hero Killer Stain and save Iida and Mr. Native, the villain starts talking about his mission to kill all the heroes he deems unworthy. Midoriya immediately shuts him down and explains how short-sighted and stupid his philosophy truly is: | |
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Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act IV: In chapter 24, Moka sums up her feelings towards Hokuto: | |
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Slightly inverted in War of the Gargantuas through the monsters themselves. Sanda tries to "talk" (through gestures) to his brother, Gaira not for them to fight. Gaira however, being a more wild and savage clone of his brother doesn't listen and continues provoking Sanda to fight, which they ultimately do, to the death. | |
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Not a villainous example, but Wedge Antilles, on a world of Proud Warrior Race Humans, repeatedly hints at his disgust for a moral system that revolves around killing for honor. The native fighter acting as his guide falls for him, sees that she has no chance, and tries to go through honorable suicide-through-combat. He stops her when he sees what she's doing, and they have an exchange where he tries to convince her not only to stay alive, but to see and move past the flaws in her culture's beliefs. The Star Wars Expanded Universe has many, many examples. Basically, any time a New Republic-era Jedi faces a Sith, expect a Kirk Summation. |
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Po of Kung Fu Panda tries to reason with the villains in the first two movies: He tells Tai Lung why Tai wasn't ready to have the Dragon Scroll. It doesn't work, showing that he is beyond redemption. He told Shen he didn't have to be defined by his past, that he can choose what to be now. Shen agreed. Unfortunately, he chose to be the bad guy. |
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Also used in Mass Effect 3, where Commander Shepard may attempt to convince The Illusive Man that he is being controlled by The Reapers through his cybernetic implants, and that he can redeem himself if he makes a Heel–Face Turn. Shepard must have consistently questioned The Illusive Man and chosen Charm or Intimidate options for this ploy to work, otherwise s/he must shoot The Illusive Man before The Illusive Man executes both Anderson and Shepard. Fortunately, when The Illusive Man dies, he stays dead, leaving Shepard to activate the Crucible and defeat the Reapers. | |
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She may not be the lead character of the series, but Luna Platz pulls one of these on Tia's little brother, even telling his alien partner Corvus to shut it when he tells her that he just wants to cause random destruction. | |
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Lloyd of Tales of Symphonia likes to use this, though the enemies never listen. | |
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Used in Mass Effect where Commander Shepard may attempt to convince Saren that Sovereign is controlling him through his cybernetic implants, and that they can still defeat the Reapers. Depending on your alignment, you can either convince Saren to kill himself, or suggest that he can make a Heel–Face Turn and redeem himself. Unfortunately, however Saren dies, Sovereign assumes direct control of his corpse, making you have to kill the guy TWICE, rather than just once. | |
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At the climax of Scream 3, Sidney dismantles the Ghostface killer's Freudian Excuse to his face, telling him that, for all that he blames his mother Maureen and the existence of his half-sister Sidney for ruining his life, he's just a psychopath like all the rest, doing it because he enjoys killing. | |
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Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal: Same story, but not against the Big Bad, rather against an aspiring Antagonist Hero who is a Well-Intentioned Extremist who wants to clear out evil. Because of your heritage, this includes you - whether or not you followed a righteous path. Since he is the brother of the protagonist and both of you are facing the same enemy, you can point out that you share a common goal and you don't have to fight each other. He basically answers that he cannot risk you to live. The semi-official mod Ascension allows you to convince and even recruit him if you have the requirements. |
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A short but sweet one from Batman to Red Hood/Jason Todd in their final confrontation in Batman: Under the Red Hood: | |
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The Star Trek films: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: Kirk and Spock set a trap for The Mole on the Enterprise sabotaging peace talks between the Klingon Empire and the Federation. Spock sees it's his protegé, Lt. Valeris. Star Trek: Generations: Picard allows himself to be exchanged for Geordi as a hostage in an effort to talk Soran down from blowing up another star. Soran sees right through this attempt and confidently tells Picard it won't work, though he does momentarily take pause when Picard brings up his dead wife and child. In Star Trek: Nemesis Jean-Luc Picard delivers a Kirk Summation to a hologram of his clone, Shinzon, in his ready room during a lull in a space battle, appealing to his better nature. Shinzon goes for genocide anyway. Fittingly, James T. Kirk himself delivers one of the finest of the entire series in Star Trek Beyond. The villain rejects his attempt at reconciliation, however. |
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As later events show, the Emperor didn't really take it to heart. | |
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The entire party delivers one of these before the final battle in Final Fantasy VI. Translator Ted Woolsey realised that this was probably getting a bit excessive, and gave Kefka the now-immortal line "This is sickening! You sound like chapters from a self-help booklet!" in response. | |
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In Chronicles of Harmony's End Array and Discord have this little exchange before they get down to it: | |
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Basilard hands out one of these in Journey to Chaos, when Professor Haburt is trying to rationalize his crimes. He says that Basilard went to similar extremes as himself to revive someone and so has no right to judge him. Basilard replies that he understands the professor's pain but there is a crucial difference between them: "I didn't steal a girl from her mother's lap!". | |
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In Death Note, Near begins one to stop Light's Motive Rant when he finally has him cornered. In essence it is as follows: "No, Light, Kira was not a savior but a mass murder; you yourself are not a god but a human on a power trip". | |
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Occurs in the final scene of Advent Crossover Crisis, between Sly Cooper and the Big Bad, Maleficent. Justified, since Sly is intentionally stalling for time, and it's something he's prone to do in his own series. | |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "The Clock King", one is made by Batman to the villain just before the Fight Scene Final Battle, when they discover that the Clock King has a Misplaced Retribution against Mayor Hill, who caused his Start of Darkness with an Advice Backfire. | |
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In Spy Kids 3D, Valentin uses this tactic to forgive Sebastian for crippling him. It worked. | |
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The King in The Law of Ueki delivers one of these to Margaret, and the entire race of Protectorates. Nobody listens. | |
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In Tensou Sentai Goseiger in the final battle, the Goseiger calls out Brajira on why is he trying to destroy the Earth when he is a Gosei Angel himself: | |
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In the second chapter of Deltarune, Ralsei pulls one on the Queen, which actually works and causes her to change sides and start helping the party. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Judai/Jaden on loves these, usually couching them in terms of "the true meaning of the game". His opponents hardly ever buy it. Someone always lampshades: i.e. "You know Jaden — he loves giving this speech." At one point, he decides the speech won't do anything, so he just goes straight to the asskicking. This happens less often in Season 4, mostly preferring to give his enemies short The Reason You Suck Speeches but he gives a good Friendship Speech / Kirk Summation to DARKNESS). |
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The Lawnmower Man features this exchange: | |
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Holyland: Yuu gives one in chapter 176 to counter King's attempt at a "Not So Different" Remark. | |
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In Man of Steel, Zod begs Superman not to destroy his ship, saying without it, Krypton cannot be restored. Superman says, "Krypton had its chance!" and destroys it. | |
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At the very end of The Stand, Whitney Hogan impulsively gives one of these to his fellow Flagg-minions, and dies horribly. And then the nuke goes off. | |
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In Marigami Stories, Kagami flatly tells Adrien that his "pretend it isn't happening and it'll fix itself" approach to Chloe and Lila causes only more harm than good and that Marinette is entitled to a little righteous indignation when Lila is found out by the class for the liar she is. | |
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The penultimate stage of Parappa The Rapper 2 revolves around PaRappa delivering one of these to the Big Bad, telling him that there are plenty of great foods that would be lost forever if he turned all the food on Earth into noodles. In rap form. And it's pretty dang catchy. | |
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Flipped in Serenity: The Anti-Villain tries presenting this trope to the Anti-Hero, who in turn delivers the Shut Up, Kirk! by shooting him. The villain then stands up (not being an idiot, he saw that coming and wore body armor) and resumes. | |
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Transformers Film Series: Played straight between Optimus and Megatron during the climatic battle of Transformers: Another one in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen: |
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Thor gives Loki one during their climactic final battle in the first Thor, and later again in The Avengers where he says of the Chitauri invasion: "You think this madness will end with YOUR rule!?" | |
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In X-Men, Magneto tells our heroes (whom he has handily all bound up with metal) his plan, where he forcibly triggers Rogue's power absorption ability and then powers his mutation machine with her and cause a summit of world leaders to become mutants like them... which would result in Rogue's death. When he brushes this little detail off as a "necessary sacrifice", Wolverine calls him out. | |
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This exchange from Warhammer 40,000 story The Last Church: As later events show, the Emperor didn't really take it to heart. |
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In El Goonish Shive, Susan responds to Tom's Hannibal Lecture by first conceding his valid points about negative human behavior but then makes the argument that intent matters too, points out Tom's selfish ulterior motives for his actions, picks up on the fact that he's done them before, reveals to him What Could Have Been had he acted nobler, and describes his future if he continues down the same path before ending on an exhortation to be better. | |
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In Ace Combat: The Equestrian War, Rainbow Dash delivers one toward Gilda during their second confrontation. | |
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In Whispered Tribulation, Izuku cites how Entertainingly Wrong the Hero Killer's Black-and-White Insanity is by referring to Forever Knight, a hero who was a very vocal advocate for the rights of quirkless people. He had made plans on making a quirkless support center, but when Stain killed him for not living up to his ideals, that land was instead purchased by Gold Rocket, a pro-hero with anti-quirkless beliefs (and eventually revealed to be an embezzler and a member of the Meta Liberation Army) who turned that plot of land into a rec-center for "show[ing] off his sick skate moves". | |
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Fittingly, James T. Kirk himself delivers one of the finest of the entire series in Star Trek Beyond. The villain rejects his attempt at reconciliation, however. | |
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From My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, when the mane six face off against Discord for the second time: | |
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Doctor Who also features quite a few of these. They frequently add a twist wherein the villain actually will be persuaded by the speech, then be promptly killed by his even more villainous Lieutenant. In the later years, they became more cynical about this — the seventh Doctor used these speeches in "Silver Nemesis" and "Remembrance of the Daleks", knowing they would only goad the villain into carrying out his Evil Plan without taking the time to notice the Doctor's sabotage. "Colony in Space": In "Rose" and "The Poison Sky", people die because the Doctor insists on giving the villains a chance that he should know they won't take. In the latter, he keeps on trying to convince the Sontarans to leave even when they've turned him down flat. He should know that as a dogmatic clone race they (almost) universally have the same thought process. He really should have seen it coming that the prospect of killing the Doctor at the cost of their own lives would be seen as nothing short of one of the most glorious things they could hope for. The Doctor's proposed worst case scenario is the Sontarans' best case. "The Christmas Invasion" features a parody, where the Doctor gets halfway through a speech before realizing that he's just been reciting the opening lines of "Circle of Life" from The Lion King. For the Tenth Doctor in particular, this was a defining part of his much more pacifistic character — the villain was always given a chance to repent, usually followed by "or else, I'll have to stop you." The "a chance" part is quite specific, too. They get exactly one chance. They aren't told what will happen if they don't take it, but they learn the hard way that the Doctor does not play around. "School Reunion" sums it up perfectly: "I'm so old now. I used to have so much mercy. You get one warning. That was it." "The Family of Blood": The Headmaster gives one to Son of Mine after the latter insinuates that when the students of the school are fighting in World War I in a few years' time, they won't thank the man who taught them that War Is Glorious, retorting that he fought in wars, too, and that he would go back there tomorrow for King and country. "Last of the Time Lords": When the Master threatens to destroy Earth with the black hole converters in the fleet he's built so that the Doctor can't have the planet, the Doctor coolly points out that he knows he won't do it. In "Journey's End", Martha Jones even goes against her UNIT orders, to give the Daleks the chance to stop because "there's one more thing the Doctor would do." "The Waters of Mars" has the Doctor on the receiving end of one of these from Adelaide Brooke after he Jumps Off the Slippery Slope and begins acting like A God Am I. In "The Zygon Inversion", the Twelfth Doctor spends the climax telling Bonnie that her Evil Plan doesn't make sense and she should stand down. She hasn't thought it through, she'll eventually be in Kate's shoes facing new revolutionaries, and despite all she's done, she isn't unforgivable. He eventually brings her around to his way of thinking. "The Woman Who Fell to Earth": The Doctor gives one to Tzim-Sha, but as with most villains, he rejects it. |
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About midway through The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm and Peter Ludlow have a discussion about Ludlow's right to take dinosaurs off of Isla Sorna to recoup InGen's lossess in the wake of the Jurassic Park Incident in the previous and Malcolm comments that Ludlow is no John Hammond. When the bull Tyrannosaurus escapes into San Diego, Malcolm walks up to the shocked Ludlow and says, "Now you're John Hammond." | |
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In Dragon Ball, Goku begins the final phase of almost every battle by offering his opponent "one last chance" to recant his evil ways. It seldoms goes deeper than that, because he's just a kid at this point. | |
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Star Trek: Generations: Picard allows himself to be exchanged for Geordi as a hostage in an effort to talk Soran down from blowing up another star. Soran sees right through this attempt and confidently tells Picard it won't work, though he does momentarily take pause when Picard brings up his dead wife and child. | |
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Vinny from Atlantis: The Lost Empire, speaking to the main antagonist after his Heel–Face Turn. | |
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Firestar delivers a Kirk Summation speech to Tigerstar in Warrior Cats before the final battle. | |
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The Legend of Korra: Shortly after Korra of the Southern Water Tribe was discovered to be the next Avatar, a kidnapping attempt was made on her by a terrorist group called the "Red Lotus." After eventually confronting Zaheer (the group's leader) and having a talk with him, Zaheer explains why he and his comrades wanted to kidnap her—however, Korra ultimately points out to Zaheer that his group's plan pretty much only amounts to kidnapping and brainwashing a little kid. | |
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In The LEGO Movie, Emmet appeals to Lord Business' hidden insecurity by reminding him that people have been inspired by his creations to build their own, signalling his redemption. This is paralleled in the real world, where The Man Upstairs apologises to his son after becoming impressed with the latter's creations, both mirrors hugging it out. The lid is put back on the glue, and the world is saved. | |
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The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!— Bob, who has a good track record at talking monsters to death, tries this on Fructose Riboflavin. His speech is simple, polite, even sympathetic, but absolutely devastating. But he's hit Riboflavin too close to home, and rather than backing down, Riboflavin becomes violently furious, because he knows everything Bob said is true. | |
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The Tomorrow People (1973) manages a few, notably when the Tomorrow People debate the values of their version of history with the representatives of a 20th century Roman Empire: She possibly tops that when she dismisses Colonel Masters' claim that weaponising telepaths will put an end to war, pointing out that's what people have thought about every new weapon: |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Subverted in the episode "Choices": Buffy tended to come across this trope whenever there was a recurring villain, or a Face–Heel Turn, either averting it or playing it straight. In a later season, Anya lampshades the arbitrariness of the gang's mercy ("Spike has some sort of get out of jail free card that doesn't apply to the rest of us..."). |
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All-New Wolverine #12: Wolverine delivers a withering one to Captain America after S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attempt to apprehend Old Man Logan before he could kill Gabby only ended up nearly causing the tragedy in the first place. When Steve tries to object to her decision to let Logan go anyway, she utterly rips apart the circumstances of Civil War II and warns Cap exactly what will happen if everyone keeps going down the road they're currently on, before storming away. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Chamo and several others comment on this, stating that Negi would end his fights a hell of a lot quicker if he wasn't holding back so much at the start of major fights, trying to give his opponent a chance to surrender. They never do. During the Mahora Festival arc Negi decides that he doesn't know whether the Big Bad's plan (ending The Masquerade) is the right thing to do or not. He fights them anyway because they can't prove that ending the Masquerade is important enough to justify screwing over Negi, his students, and the other mages. |
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At the end of Dragon Ball Z, before annihilating Buu with the Spirit Bomb, Goku briefly reminisces about the events of the arc, and how Buu went from an mostly-innocent manchild to a ruthless killer after losing the battle against his inner evil, and says how Buu will now learn what it's like to have his own life taken away against his will. He also makes a wish that Buu will come back as a better person, so he can fight him again. This speech is dub-only. In the original, he instead says how incredible Buu was and continued to be a formidable foe with each transformation, which is why Goku wishes him to be reborn as a good being, so that they can fight again. | |
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Played straight between Optimus and Megatron during the climatic battle of Transformers: | |
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Baldur's Gate: It can be unsuccessfully attempted by the protagonist when confronting the Big Bad, pointing out that they share the same paternity from the dead god of murder Bhaal, and suggesting to work together to become stronger and face the evil of the taint. He states that he is already strong, and tamed that evil within, while the protgonist destroyed his and therefore is weak. | |
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In The Silver Chair, Determined Defeatist Puddleglum delivers an Author Filibuster about the importance of faith even after conceding to everything the Big Bad said. | |
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: Kirk and Spock set a trap for The Mole on the Enterprise sabotaging peace talks between the Klingon Empire and the Federation. Spock sees it's his protegé, Lt. Valeris. | |
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Another one in Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen: | |
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The turning point in the main arc of Babylon 5 hinges on a Kirk Summation that actually works. Kirk Summations also appear at other points in the series and often work, most notably during the early stages of the Earth Alliance civil war. | |
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In Octopath Traveler, this happens before (and sometimes during) multiple Final Bosses, usually to sum up the Central Theme of each protagonist's storyline: Ophilia's battle with Mattias has her declaring the power of the familial love between her and Lianna and how it can help them through loss, unlike Mattias's approach. Cyrus has a marvelous speech during his confrontation with Lucia that sums up his reason for being a teacher, the need for knowledge to be passed on, and the importance of handling deadly knowledge with the right care so that it may be used for good. Olberic calls out Werner on how pathetic a man he is, standing lonely at the top with no purpose or drive like that which Olberic himself has discovered. In the last leg of Therion's fight against Darius, Therion suspects the reason Darius refuses to trust people is Darius himself is afraid people will betray him. Judging by how Darius reacts, Therion might be right on the money. |
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In Star Trek: Nemesis Jean-Luc Picard delivers a Kirk Summation to a hologram of his clone, Shinzon, in his ready room during a lull in a space battle, appealing to his better nature. Shinzon goes for genocide anyway. | |
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When the Doctor and the Master have their final confrontation in The Road to Shalka series, the Doctor, who really, really wants to turn his old frenemy to the side of good, even though he's been frustrated before, has this to say: Unfortunately, but true to character, it meets with a Shut Up, Kirk!: |
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Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation is inordinately fond of these as well. In the novel I, Q, Picard faces off against his own evil side in the form of Locutus of Borg and gives such a speech. When Q can't see the point, Data suggests that he thinks Picard is trying to talk Locutus into committing suicide. To which Q replies: It doesn't. He (she?) doesn't. They escape anyway. |
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