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A standard ingredient of The Summation in any Cop Show, Police Procedural, Law Procedural or Mystery of the Week. After the detective has shown without doubt who the killer is, the killer will launch into a long, self-righteous (or remorseful) monologue explaining why exactly they did what they did. This both serves as confession and allows the writers to explain how this solution to the mystery makes sense, even if it's often a "He called my mother a bad name, he deserved to die!" kind of sense. It's often the only way to make the perp's feelings obey the Rule of Perception, since they must be hidden until the crime is solved. This is a good place for a We Are Everywhere moment. The detective will often then give them a Kirk Summation in response, followed by whatever phrase they use to indicate that they're being arrested. If the detective is feeling nasty he'll throw in "The Reason You Suck" Speech. It doesn't matter if the character's a timid librarian, a jolly bartender, a butch farmhand, what-have-you, when they are revealed to be the killer they all suddenly snap into the same cookie-cutter personality type: bitter, twisted loony. In real life, many people confess to crimes and will happily talk about what they did even though all they should say is "I want to see my lawyer". Also in real life, a criminal that's cornered tends to do things like socking the other guy in the face and running away. This rarely happens in television, despite the detective being so often the only other person in the room with the criminal, and when it does, they are almost always caught after. This trope doesn't necessarily have to be applied in the interrogation room. It could be given by the killer when he thinks that he's got the Final Girl at his mercy, a bit of Evil Gloating Just Between You and Me, or when he's explaining his motivations to an accomplice. All that matters is that the killer explains just why he's committing his crime in the first place. This trope can overlap with New Era Speech if the villain's goals are particularly visionary. This trope is the intended result of The Perry Mason Method. It's often part of a Villainous Breakdown. The Hero might respond by saying Shut Up, Hannibal!, replying with a Kirk Summation, being Disappointed by the Motive, or shutting the villain up with a bullet. See also Heroism Motive Speech for the heroic version of the trope. Examples |
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Miss Benham gives one at the end before being arrested by the police in Victim (1961). | |
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Watchmen has one of the best Motive Rants of all time, where the surprise villain, Adrian Veidt, reveals his incredibly elaborate plan while ignoring three separate people trying to kill him in mid-sentence, and not only did he actually pull off his scheme thirty-five minutes before the heroes even arrived, he also convinces a couple of the heroes that since he's already pulled it off, they have to go along with it for the greater good. | |
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Divinity: Original Sin II: Isbeil's ghost delivers a posthumous one if asked why she tried to orchestrate a massacre with deathfog — after dying torturously alongside all her comrades to Lucian's deathfog strike, she's desperate to enact Revenge by Proxy and make his followers suffer like they did. | |
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Megamind: Hal gives one after Megamind blows down the wall to his apartment and discovers everything Hal's stolen with his powers. | |
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Othello is a complicated one. Iago gives several of these rants, offering multiple conflicting motives, though the most consistent is jealousy at Cassio being promoted ahead of him and racism at Othello and Desdemona's marriage. But he also has a long speech in which he admits that he's a habitual liar and nothing he says can be trusted. And at the end of the play, where Othello demands to know why he manipulated the events of the play into occurring (something most Shakespeare scholars also want to know), Iago gives this response: | |
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Wonder Woman (2006): Alkyone gives Diana a rant about why she is, in her own warped view, Necessarily Evil: | |
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In Dragon Quest VIII, Marcello gives one that doubles as a "Why You ALL Suck" Speech and New Era Speech. Here, he informs everyone gathered there of his intention to use his new position to create a new world order — one where your position is determined solely by your strength and ability, rather than who your family is. He also makes no secret of the fact he considers most commoners to be mere sheep who won't exactly thrive under these conditions... | |
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In Chapter 385 of Bleach, Tousen finally cracks and explains his motives for betraying Soul Society and joining Aizen. By the way, the "cracks" part is appropriate; his Hollow mask cracks open right when his rant begins. It's all lies, though. | |
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Elohim doesn't give one to the player directly in The Talos Principle, but you can find him giving one to what he seems to think is empty space. He says he wants you to avoid the tower because, if you reach the top of the tower, the simulation will end, and he wants the simulation to continue for all eternity. | |
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Mana Mutation Menace: Nulso Xialin, currently possessed by Order, explains why he is invading a village and enslaving its populace while he does so. Ordercrafters are empowered by Law and Stability, so they are supernaturally compelled by their own magic to justify such actions. | |
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Apocalypse Now, Kurtz's monologue suggests he suffered a breakdown after Vietcong guerrillas came into a native village and hacked off the left arms of South Vietnamese children who had been inoculated against polio by Kurtz's special forces. This epitomized everything that was going wrong (in Kurtz's point of view) with the American war effort: over-reliance on science; cultural ignorance; blundering efforts at "humanitarianism" to win over the Vietnamese, which has the exact opposite effect. Nothing short of total destruction will work. | |
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Alias has a neat treatment of the trope in the Season 1 episode "The Coming Darkness." Sloane muses to Jack how he's been having a pretty bad week (due in no small part to Sydney's and Jack's efforts), and reminisces at length about a time when he felt "a coming darkness". He mentions that before he and Jack even met, he had a "perfect moment"... and though the CIA hadn't yet betrayed him and the wife he hadn't even met yet had not yet been diagnosed with cancer, he felt what he called a "coming darkness". So, he sums up: whenever things go very badly, he just reminds himself he could see it coming all along. And then he coldly hisses that he wants one of the things vexing him dead before the weekend. | |
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Mostly averted in Angel, where most revealed enemies tended to give a one liner before trying to kill him, or not have any idea who he was and just trying to kill him. Nevertheless Connor gave one near the end of Season 4. Somewhat notable for being delivered solely to someone in a Convenient Coma and being a despairing rant rather than a self-righteous justification. Jasmine got a shorter one, shortly before that. | |
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Defied in an episode of Bones; when the criminal started explaining exactly why he'd turned to cannibalism, Booth interrupts him because he didn't want to hear his "psycho speech". When he tries again, Brennan promptly knocked him unconscious because she didn't want to hear it either. | |
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Also averted in an episode of CSI: NY. The killer seemed to have no real connection to the victim, who was a young woman in her early twenties, and he didn't tell them why he did it. Lindsey, who was shaken up because of the fact that she shared the victim's age and home state, visited him in prison just so she could ask him again why he did it. He just asks her "You came here just for that?" and puts the phone down. | |
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Averted in an episode of Psych. After The Summation, the murderer simply said "I have nothing to say. Speak to my lawyer." Played Straight in nearly every other episode though. At one point, Shawn and Gus even Invoke it to stall for time when a serial killer had them dead to rights. |
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The Girl from the Miracles District: when The Mole on the team is discovered, he rants angrily about his reasons for betraying the group, telling them that he can't bear seeing them help Nikita and treat her like hero even though his father died rescuing her. The rest of the pack is unimpressed. | |
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In the second Spaceforce (2012) book, Jay gets one of these from Ashlenn's father Corusval when he confronts him with evidence of his treachery. Jay's reply is 'you're right, of course' before he summarily executes him on the spot. | |
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The Simpsons did it. In "Sideshow Bob Roberts", when Lisa insinuates that Bob is too stupid to have rigged an election and claims Bob's Rush Limbaugh look-alike accomplice is the real brains of the operation, Bob flies into a rant about how he (and only he) had the brains to orchestrate everything, parodying the A Few Good Men quote above. He is then promptly taken to jail for "all that stuff [he] did" with unusual expediency for the Springfield police. | |
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The villain of The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco gets an extended one, in which he explains in detail why he was willing to kill to keep a lost Aristotlean book about laughter hidden. | |
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In Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Sentinel Prime's motivation for siding with the Decepticons is so that he can restore Cybertron to its former glory. But it involves enslaving the human race as slave labor as part of his plan in rebuilding Cybertron, and to feed his own God-complex. | |
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iCarly: Missy gives one to Sam, as part of her latching onto the Villain Ball. It ruins the plan because it turns Sam from questioning if Missy even was trying to get rid of her, into sure of it, and decided to bring Freddie in to help her. | |
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Castle gives one of these for the killer in one episode, identifying his motives well enough that the killer gets caught up in the story and confirms it's exactly how he felt. | |
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Richard III starts with the title character delivering one of these; it basically boils down to "the war is over, and women don't like me because I'm deformed, so I've gotta do something for fun." | |
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Naruto: During the Chunin Exam finals, a beaten up Naruto refuses to back down from the fight, even after Neji tells him he has Nothing Personal against him. Naruto replies that for him it's very personal for the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown he delivered on Hinata in the preliminaries, so Neji proceeds to tell him the story of the Hyuuga Affair and how it ended up in the death of his father, as he blames the Main Hyuga House for it, but especially Hinata and her father Hiashi. While Naruto is sympathetic to what Neji went through, he replies that it still doesn't excuse what he did to Hinata, because it wasn't her fault, and he has no business talking about You Can't Fight Fate when he himself hasn't accepted his own fate. | |
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And Then There Were None (2015): U.N. Owen delivers one to the final survivor right after she tries to hang herself, explaining his reasons for wanting to kill the other residents and then himself to craft the ultimate mystery, all while his listener is literally hanging by a thread trying to balance her weight on an overturned chair. In the book, he put all of this information in a manifesto Message in a Bottle. | |
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In Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change With The Light, Spider-Woman's Arch-Enemy Jack O' Lantern gives a few of these explaining his motivations for his bloody crime spree. Notably, he starts to get sick of it and voices his irritation at constantly having to explain his motives. | |
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Steel Ball Run: On the verge of being defeated, Funny Valentine puts off a Rousing Speech at Johnny, mixed with Freudian Excuse, at least convincing him that Valentine had the moral upper ground, and almost convincing him that he would spare the latter. | |
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In both versions of The Night Unfurls, Vault lays bare his ambitions of a Sex Empire in the form of a rant, heated words on how the Seven Shields are useless, and that the Black Dogs will start a new world order where every man lives like kings. | |
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The special Darkwing Duck episode of DuckTales (2017), "Let's Get Dangerous!", ends up bringing out one for F.O.W.L. Director Bradford Buzzard, who had been posing as Scrooge McDuck's chairman of the board for years. Thanks to Taurus Bulba, Buzzard had been captured, only to be freed by the triplets. After narrowly surviving an attack from Bushroot, he immediately rants about how he wants the McDuck family destroyed, as their actions from the last two seasons have created a chaotic state for the world (of course, this is primarily because he wants the world to be stable enough to rob it blind). This ends up being his undoing, as the triples become suspicious enough to learn of his involvement with F.O.W.L. | |
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The Fifth Elephant: When they discover who the thief of the Scone of Stone is, they learn that the thief is upset with the Low King's liberalness when it came to things like openly female dwarfs because they were jealous; "Why should they be allowed to do this? I can't!" | |
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At the end of Conviction, Tom Reed does the same, talking about how the President was going to pull funding from Third Echelon and go soft on terrorism. | |
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Dawn of War II: Retribution: If there can be a motive rant for the simplest of motives, then the Mad-Mek earns himself a spot here with his final screaming rant while fought on the Tyranid-infested Judgement of Carrion, which he's sick and tired of and wishes to leave as soon as possible. | |
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In Double Homework, Dennis has a couple of these where he airs his grievances about girls and the guys they normally go for. | |
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Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (2006): Alkyone gives Diana a rant about why she is, in her own warped view, Necessarily Evil: The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): Zeus goes on a rant in which he makes it clear he wants to massacre millions and then force the survivors to worship him and perform human sacrifices to him at swordpoint in order to regain his old strength that fully cements him as a self obsessed villain and confirms that Diana's wariness of him is not unfounded. |
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The Exorcist: During the penultimate episode, the demon tormenting the Rances finally explains what it really wants. | |
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Averted in the opening scene of Keeping Mum; when the police question her about the bodies, she just calmly admits to it as if murdering them was the obvious solution. Summed up rather nicely in this conversation between Gloria and Grace (the killer): |
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Food Wars!: In the final bout of the Regiment de cuisine, Azami Nakiri refuses to admit defeat when his daughter Erina makes a dish that surpasses his expectations (using ideas she got from Soma that her father considered "vulgar trash"), and during his subsequent Villainous Breakdown goes on a tirade about how the culinary world is cruel and causes chefs with passion to burn out like his admired Joichiro Saiba-senpai, and that Tootsuki and the culinary world need to live under his rules so chefs can be happy. Soma replies that he's not one to decide what makes people happy, and that Joichiro had long moved past his breakdown and found happiness again. | |
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Attack on Titan: Eren gives an extended version of this after breaking the Walls to release the Titans inside to destroy the world. He specifically states that the future of his home, Paradis Island, is at risk as long as the rest of the world that hates his people is thriving, and that they won't stop until every Eldian, both on and off the island, is dead. To prevent that from ever happening, Eren declares that he will kill all of the world till none of the life outside his island stay alive, no matter their allegiances. Later in the series, during a flashback, Eren explains his true motives to Ramzi, due to the child not understanding his language, and says that he realized deep down that the Rumbling is going to happen because he wished for it and wanted a world with the rest of humanity gone. During his last conversation with Armin in the final chapter, he reiterates this stance and says that he would have committed to the Rumbling even if he couldn't see the future. |
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In the Season 3 premiere of Rick and Morty, Rick Sanchez goes on an epic one revealing that everything he does is all in the name of getting that Mulan Szechuan Mc Nugget dipping sauce. A much more serious example occurs in the Season 5 finale when Evil Morty reveals what his masterplan is: |
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Parodied in Dilbert when Dilbert and Dogbert end up on jury duty. | |
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In Cold Snap, the villain is a genocidal Evil Genius powered by four decades of bottled-up resentments. When he's unmasked, he goes into an epic motive rant that last over an hour. The story skips most of it by cutting away to another set of characters, just including enough of the beginning to give an idea of what he's so angry about and coming back for the bit where he starts explaining the details of his evil plan. | |
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In the last book of the New Jedi Order, Big Bad Onimi launches into an extended one of these to Jaina Solo. Notably, while Onimi seems to think that he's portraying himself as a sympathetic Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds, Jaina just thinks he's nuts. The readership agrees with her. | |
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After Terrence in KateModern: Precious Blood has been revealed as the murderer by a group of unarmed individuals in the middle of nowhere, he for some reason feels compelled to explain at great length the full extent of his crimes (much worse than the single murder he was accused of) on camera. In his defense, he later admits to having been "a bit off [his] face" at the time. | |
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The Last Unicorn: King Haggard (who is voiced by the legendary Christopher Lee) explains to Lady Amalthea, a unicorn transformed into a human, why he has captured all the other unicorns. | |
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At the end of Bad Girls from Valley High, Tiffany is hooked on a life support machine and Danielle is barely alive. At that moment, Mrs. Witt (the old woman who Danielle was meant to be caring for) shows up and reveals that she was Charity's grandmother. Also, while she had been briefly unable to speak due to a stroke, she had very good hearing and sight and overheard Danielle bragging about Charity's murder. Witt then reveals she poisoned the chocolate box (knowing that the girls would eat it) with an aging chemical (thanks to her late roommate's husband that worked with biological warfare technology). | |
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In Big Game, Hazar gives Moore one aboard Air Force One, explaining what he's about to do with him and punctuating it with a Wham Line. | |
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Discworld: Maskerade: The villain lists all the things they hate about opera after being fatally "stabbed". The final complaint is how long it always takes people to die. The Fifth Elephant: When they discover who the thief of the Scone of Stone is, they learn that the thief is upset with the Low King's liberalness when it came to things like openly female dwarfs because they were jealous; "Why should they be allowed to do this? I can't!" |
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The Echo Remains, But The Song Is Not The Same: After kidnapping Hinata, Iyana reveals to her that he wants revenge upon the Hyuuga for how they thwarted Kumogakure's last attempt to secure the Byakugan for themselves... as well as revenge on the Raikage, who denied any knowledge of the scheme and expelled the surviving conspirators. | |
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Incredibles 2: The Big Bad reveals their plan partway through the movie and explains their motives to Elastagirl. Evelyn Deavor reveals that when her parents were killed after burglars broke into their house, she forever held contempt to the fact that her father relied on Superheroes rather than using the saferoom to hide in. Evelyn continues the speech by summarizing her ideals that Superheroes do nothing but keep non-supers weak, and they society would be better off without them. | |
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Maskerade: The villain lists all the things they hate about opera after being fatally "stabbed". The final complaint is how long it always takes people to die. | |
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In All Mixed Up!, Mariana Mag gives one to Otto that also doubles as her Backstory, where she tells him what caused her Face–Heel Turn and who exactly is in the wrong. | |
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Mastermind: Strategist for Hire: In the final chapter, Izuku delivers one after having been incarcerated in Tartarus: | |
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Splinter Cell: In the penultimate mission of Chaos Theory, Douglas Shetland gives a pretty impressive rant on what drove him to fund terrorists and try to start World War III. He then tries to pull a "I Surrender, Suckers", and things go downhill... At the end of Conviction, Tom Reed does the same, talking about how the President was going to pull funding from Third Echelon and go soft on terrorism. |
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Thirteen Women: | |
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In the Supergirl (2015) episode "The Darkest Place", the head of Cadmus, Lillian Luthor gives a Motive Rant on why she hates aliens and wants to exile all of them from Earth — she refuses to believe Lex Luthor is a criminal psychopath, instead choosing to believe that Superman twisted the population against him. | |
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Judge Doom has a hilarious one in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. | |
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In the Season 5 finale of Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Barriss Offee delivers one about why she betrayed the Republic and bombed the Jedi Temple. | |
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In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, just as the Big Bad Shepherd is about to finish Soap off with a revolver, he gives a rant on how he lost 30,000 men because of a nuke and how he desires to show that their sacrifices are not in vain; by starting a World War III. | |
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In Melody, both Bethany and Steve both have mental ones to set them up for their theft of Melody’s guitar. | |
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In The Godfather game, "Monk" Malone gives you one as you're hunting him down. Various important mobsters also give short ones if you manage to grab and interrogate them. | |
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Metal Gear: Boss characters, (and many NPCs) from these games have a tendency to do this either just before fighting Snake or with their last breath after having been fatally wounded by him. The Quirky Mini Boss Squad from the third game mostly avoided this, but The Boss (their leader) made up for it in spades. The Beauty and The Beast unit from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots also avoid this, due to its members being completely Ax-Crazy. "Luckily," Drebin is happy to do this on their behalf via Codec every time Snake defeats one of them. The Boss also has a monologue before the final duel with her, in which she explains everything she had given up for her country, and how pointless it had been rendered by the Cold War (although she doesn't rant so much as just get it all off of her chest). Of course, with hindsight, it turns out to have been detailing her motive in terms of remaining loyal to her country, in spite of everything she had lost. And the fact that her death would leave her reviled as a traitor. Subverted in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance as Sam is about to start a monologue of this kind, but then decides you've both heard enough speeches by now and should just get on with the fighting. Though played straighter with several others, including Monsoon and particularly the final boss senator Steven Armstrong, who has two of them: One for his facade, and another that he genuinely believes once he realizes Raiden isn't so different; the latter can be found in the quotes page. |
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Oguma from Metal Slug 3D, a mad scentist with a very soft voice who spends one long cut scene explaining his evil plan. | |
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Adachi gets one as the player traverses his dungeon in Persona 4. At the very end, he's given a Kirk Summation by the protagonists and called out for his senseless motives. | |
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In A Certain Scientific Railgun, Miho Jufuku is running around drawing really ugly eyebrows on girls from Tokiwadai middle school. When she's caught, it's discovered that she has matching eyebrows. She explains that her boyfriend left her for a Tokiwadai girl because of them, so she decided to use a stungun to knock out and draw ugly eyebrows on every Tokiwadai girl she can find. | |
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Subverted in Misfits when the villain makes quite a valiant attempt to explain/justify her actions, but Nathan is playing his music over her rant and keeps interrupting her so the audience hears very little of what she's saying. All we know for sure is that her crusade had something to do with being teased at school for being a virgin. | |
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In Captain America: Civil War, after Zemo turns Iron Man against Captain America, he explains to Black Panther why: | |
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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four provides one of the most horrifying motive rants ever put to paper, given on behalf of the ruling Party of Oceania: | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Happens once in Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0: when Shinji almost trashes NERV HQ, Gendo explains why he's such a bastard: he believes that he can only achieve his desires if he's willing to sacrifice everything and use his own strength. Gendo gets a good one at the end of the manga. Notable because he does it after he saves Shinji from the soldiers instead of Misato like in the anime, and because he explains in a straightforward, non-symbolism-laden manner exactly how he feels towards Shinji: he doesn't love him, he doesn't like him. He is jealous of Shinji because Yui loved him as well. This is different from his in-anime justification, which is that he didn't think he'd make a good dad and thought that Shinji would hate him, a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, but he never gets the opportunity to make the rant there. |
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Always Visible: When Galbraith catches Baselard red-handed, he decides there's nothing wrong with preaching to the criminal. Guess what? The doctor escapes! | |
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Erased Potential: Rave and Asahi both get one, explaining that they're targeting Eraserhead because they blame him for their little sister Atsuko getting killed during a Hostage Situation. However, Izuku exploits the latter's ranting by attacking him before he can finish. | |
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The Dark Side of the Moon (1990): When confronting the final survivor, the Devil reveals and gloats about his plan to destroy Heaven by denying it any souls. Despite having killed thousands of people without giving them any reason. He's mostly doing it out of pride (duh), but the person he's talking to also happens to be the only member of the crew who actually believes that he exists. | |
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Gendo gets a good one at the end of the manga. Notable because he does it after he saves Shinji from the soldiers instead of Misato like in the anime, and because he explains in a straightforward, non-symbolism-laden manner exactly how he feels towards Shinji: he doesn't love him, he doesn't like him. He is jealous of Shinji because Yui loved him as well. This is different from his in-anime justification, which is that he didn't think he'd make a good dad and thought that Shinji would hate him, a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, but he never gets the opportunity to make the rant there. | |
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In the penultimate episode of Black★★Rock Shooter: Dawn Fall, after Artemis explains her true plan to wipe out humanity, the Colonel asks, "Why would you do such a thing?!" Artemis is so aghast that humanity hasn't been been able to follow her warped chain of logic that she proceeds to explain it in excruciating detail, even asking the Colonel to record it so the rest of humanity can hear it. | |
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In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos has his moment on Titan in the last quarter of the film. He explains Doctor Strange how overpopulation left his home world in ruins and he took it upon himself to wipe out half the universe to prevent such developments in future. Thanos also states that with all six Infinity Stones he could kill everybody with a "snap", so indiscriminately killing only a half is something he considers mercy. | |
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The killer in Perry Mason almost always does the motive rant on the stand, after which all charges against Perry's client are dismissed. You can tell the exact instant the culprit will stop denying and begin the motive rant based on the music changing. It is so necessary to the formula for the motive rant to occur on the stand that you can identify the killer instantly when Mason reserves the right to recall a witness. | |
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Satan's Hollow: In the climax, Jacob gives a rather prolongued rant to Sandra to explain why he's performing the satanic ritual and the specific sacrifices that it involves. | |
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Wishcraft: The killer, after being revealed, tells Brett at length about why he did the murders and how, while noting apologetically how he's giving a speech. | |
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The Beauty and The Beast unit from Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots also avoid this, due to its members being completely Ax-Crazy. "Luckily," Drebin is happy to do this on their behalf via Codec every time Snake defeats one of them. | |
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Captains Crash: When Spitfire chews Launchpad out on crashing deliberately, Launchpad goes onto one of these, explaining that half the people who attend airshows do so because they're hoping to see a crash — so, he puts on a show, then crashes deliberately, and he brings the audience coming back for more. | |
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In The Powerpuff Girls (1998) when the Smith family next door attack the Girls, they ask why. Marianne Smith explains that it was because they tried to be nice and neighborly to them, and what thanks do the Girls give them? They had ruined her dinner and gotten her husband thrown in jail (he tried to kill the Professor). After the rant, Blossom points out that wasn't a very good reason at all. And it's off to the slammer the Smiths go (again, in the husband's case). | |
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Burning Bridges, Building Confidence: After getting akumatized into Rena Rage, Alya snaps when asked if she was a fan of the previous Fox Heroine, revealing that she was Rena Rouge, and is pissed off that HER Miraculous was given to Vexxin. This doesn't do her any favors; as Ladybug bluntly informs her afterwards, she just outed her former Secret Identity to Hawkmoth, so even if she did still trust her after how selfishly she acted, it still wouldn't be safe to give her any Miraculouses. | |
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At the end of Rainbow Six: Vegas 2, Big Bad Gabriel Nowak goes into a long-winded rant to his former teacher, Bishop, about why he chose to turn traitor, facilitate terrorist mass murder in Las Vegas, and steal government information to sell to the highest bidder. It was basically a rant about how he got screwed over for promotion, even though it was his own damn fault. Egotistically gloating about how he was going to destroy everyone Bishop cared about, he failed to realize that while he was ranting, Bishop had his gun drawn. Though Bishop was patient enough to wait for the rant to end, the player soon got a chance to shoot him and end the whole thing. Doesn't help that Gabriel Nowak had displayed a level of professional incompetence that should have barred him from even his parent (pre-Rainbow) unit. |
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BlazBlue: Yuuki Terumi gives one in an attempt to drive Noel Vermillion off the slippery slope, thus making her regress into Boundary Interface Prime Field Device Mu-12, stating that the world is nothing but lies, everything should die because the only truth out there is despair, and he sure as hell will show them by having Mu-12 destroy Master Unit Amaterasu. Gives another one to Hakumen when he demands to know Terumi's intentions. Doubly notable because Terumi shoots back with both a completely honest motive rant while also completely mocking Hakumen for thinking that he would ever have, or ever even need, a greater motivation beyond simply living out the fact that he's an unrepentant sadist. |
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Take most Super Robot Wars' Big Bads, from Char Aznable to Neue Regisseur. They usually have Motive Rants prepared when they encounter each of your main characers in the last few missions. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Every Big Bad in the films has his moment, even though some are not listed below. In Thor, Loki delivers a rather emotional one during the final fight with his brother. Loki states that he only ever wanted be Thor's equal, and that he tried to prove Odin he is a worthy son with Engineered Heroics and an attempted genocide of his own race. In Captain America: Civil War, after Zemo turns Iron Man against Captain America, he explains to Black Panther why: In Avengers: Infinity War, Thanos has his moment on Titan in the last quarter of the film. He explains Doctor Strange how overpopulation left his home world in ruins and he took it upon himself to wipe out half the universe to prevent such developments in future. Thanos also states that with all six Infinity Stones he could kill everybody with a "snap", so indiscriminately killing only a half is something he considers mercy. |
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch has a classic one from Conal Cochran, although it's not so much a "rant" as a "calm explanation" of his plan to use rigged Halloween masks to horrifically slaughter children across America. | |
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Sin City features rants by almost every antagonist before they meet their fates. | |
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The Cry of Mann: Courtney responds to Berry's hateful accusations by monologuing about why she wanted to take down the company, which included feeling ostracized by the Mann family for not being wealthy, and being pushed down by the company itself when she was the one who created the battle machines and turned the tide of the warr, rather than Tank. Vid explains that when the Warr came around, people lost interest in the church — and lost their hope, as well. He worked to bring people back, and got in contact with the "unknown spaces of the universe" — also known as the callers. Despite this, not everyone came back, and those who didn't criticized his church, as it focused on something beyond the Warr and the government. Vid's goal is to break the barriers of reality and live in peace with the other world. |
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Lord Peter Wimsey series: Annie Wilson at the end of Gaudy Night berates the S.C.R. for what she sees as a betrayal of the feminine ideal (never mind that the S.C.R. are actually for the most part fairly girly — they're bluestockings, not tomboys). She is arguably the only ideologically-motivated villain in the entire series (although revenge also plays a part), and the scene in question is both highly effective and incredibly disturbing and offensive. Mana Mutation Menace: Nulso Xialin, currently possessed by Order, explains why he is invading a village and enslaving its populace while he does so. Ordercrafters are empowered by Law and Stability, so they are supernaturally compelled by their own magic to justify such actions. |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Inverted in the episode "Duet"; a Cardassian identified as Gul Darhe'el, commander of Gallitep, one of the most horrific interment camps during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, rants at length about how he was a loyal Cardassian soldier, and that it was his patriotic duty and privilege to exterminate Bajorans. Toward the end of the episode, Kira discovers that the prisoner is not Gul Darhe'el, but rather a file clerk at Gallitep, who was completely horrified by what his people did to the Bajorans and assumed the late Darhe'el's identity to force his people to own up to what Cardassia did to Bajor. In a Downer Ending, he's stabbed to death by a Bajoran just for being Cardassian after he's released. In "Field of Fire", Dax (Ezri, not Jadzia) is chasing a serial killer who turns out to be a Vulcan. After catching up with him, she asks why he did it. In an aversion, he responds "Because logic demanded it", the Vulcan version of "God made me do it". Although, when you think about it, this is an explanation — kinda. Dukat gives it a shot in "Waltz", although since this is well after his sanity meter ran out, it consists of a hammy display in which he reaches the conclusion that he should have burned Bajor to the ground and stuck the head of every Bajoran man, woman and child on a stake. |
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X2: X-Men United: | |
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The Legend of Zelda Ganondorf was just jealous of Hyrule's wind in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. In a variant, though, there's he's not gloating. He's just — nostalgic? bitter? remorseful? detached? Take your pick. In The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Byrne lets one out when he finally meets Anjean again and she calls him out on his siding with their tribe's enemy, Malladus. |
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Parodied in That Mitchell and Webb Look when the detective manipulates a woman into doing "the evil voice" and eventually an entire Motive Rant that ends in her suicide. He says that it's better this way, as he didn't have any other evidence and not all courts accept "the evil voice". He also accidentally provokes someone else into giving one, identical in tone to the first, except about not flushing the toilet instead of murder. | |
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The Hexer: Played for laughs, as compared with the original short story, where the dialogue was a bit more serious. While spending an evening together in an inn, Borch keeps prodding Geralt about witchering. At first he's stoic, but once he's sufficiently drunk, Geralt goes on a passionate tirade about people encroaching into natural habitat of many creatures and how wrong it is and how hard it makes his life as a witcher. | |
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The villain of Rubbernecker is a doctor in a neurological ward who mercy kills patients he sees as hopeless vegetables who will never get better. He goes on a rant about how people can live for decades with severe brain damage that makes their existence a misery, unlike in films where you're either in or out of a coma. | |
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At the end of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, after the Russians' long-time mole in British intelligence is exposed: | |
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On Seinfeld, Newman has been known to jump into one of these from time to time, be it with mailmen Going Postal ("The mail never stops."), zip codes ("They're meaningless."), or, god forbid, junk mail! ("It takes just as much man-power to deliver it as their precious little greeting cards!") | |
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Mass Effect has Saren explain, twice even, exactly why he's working with the Reapers. In the third game, the final confrontation with the Illusive Man involves an extended Motive Rant on his part. Shepard can attempt to convince him of his Motive Decay, or just shout him down. Turians in general have a strong cultural disposition towards honesty, making them very prone to these when directly confronted. |
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Batman: In issue #650, Jason Todd was furious that Batman thought his Roaring Rampage of Revenge was all about Batman not saving him. | |
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In the penultimate mission of Chaos Theory, Douglas Shetland gives a pretty impressive rant on what drove him to fund terrorists and try to start World War III. He then tries to pull a "I Surrender, Suckers", and things go downhill... | |
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): After the heroes realize that Emma Russell is willingly working with Alan Jonah and his paramilitary, she contacts them to explain the human Big Bad Wannabes' plan to forcibly awaken all the hibernating Titans and allow them to decimate humanity, and Emma's own motive for doing this. | |
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Better Call Saul: Jimmy provokes Chuck into one: | |
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Frozen (2013): Near the end, the Big Bad reveals their plan with one of these. Prince Hans denies Anna the True Love's Kiss that would save her and proceeds to explain his plan to marry into Arendelle's throne by entering a romance with her and staging an accident for Elsa. | |
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The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): Zeus goes on a rant in which he makes it clear he wants to massacre millions and then force the survivors to worship him and perform human sacrifices to him at swordpoint in order to regain his old strength that fully cements him as a self obsessed villain and confirms that Diana's wariness of him is not unfounded. | |
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In the Star Trek novel Spock's World, the Big Bad gives a calm speech to Spock about how he was responsible for the death of said character's mate and said character "not hav[ing their] desire", and therefore the Big Bad is going to force him into a Sadistic Choice. | |
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Subverted with Cecilia in Daughter for Dessert. She makes her distaste for the protagonist known, but stops short of saying what he supposedly did to earn this distaste. She eventually tells Mortelli and Amanda separately and offscreen. | |
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In Chicago, when Roxie Hart is first being interrogated by the police, she confesses that she shot the victim because he was going to leave her and she would happily do it again. This means her Amoral Attorney has some really clever explaining to do in order to get her acquitted of murder. | |
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M. Bison in Street Fighter questions why the heroes oppose him, and delivers this in the form of an epic speech to his underlings about his plan to unite the world in peace with an army of Super Soldiers. | |
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Journey to Chaos: A Mage's Power: When Princess Kasile and her party corner Duke Selen Esrah during his coup, she demands an explanation for his actions. He talks about how she is a poor excuse for a future queen because of her arrogance and paranoia. He believes that taking the throne from her is for the good of Ataidar. He also doesn't like how she broke his son's heart and leands so heavily on outlaws for protecting the realm instead of nobles like himself. While all of this is true, he's actually Holding the Floor while waiting for his resserves troops. Looming Shadow: The Crimson Killer explains his justifications for his actions to Eric. He's waiting for Eric's teammates to show up so he can arrange an exchange of Eric for the sword BloodDrinker. He's just killing time. |
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Death Note: Light has one in the last chapter about how the world needs Kira and if they stop him, the world will only go back to the rotten way it was, and Near is only chasing him for his own ego. Both are correct: when Light stopped being Kira for a while midway through his battle with L, the crime rate shot up past pre-Kira levels overnight, proving it was only fear of Kira keeping it down. | |
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At the end of the first season of Darker than Black, a leader of The Syndicate gives one of these to Kirihara. Then he finds out she was recording the whole thing and kinda loses it. | |
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In Blood Oath, the first book in the President's Vampire series, Konrad gives an epic one when asked why he's provided Islamic Jihadists with Unmenschensoldaten to help destroy America. | |
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This trope is a staple of the Danganronpa series' trials. In fact, if someone has confessed to a murder without making one of these rants, that person is usually lying to protect the real culprit. (Or, as in Nagito's case, their initial rant was a lie but laid the narrative groundwork for a real motive rant they'd make later on, in a different trial.) | |
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Hand of Thrawn: Major Grodin Tierce goes into one of these during his Villainous Breakdown. He's a clone with a little bit of Thrawn's brain. In the last book of the New Jedi Order, Big Bad Onimi launches into an extended one of these to Jaina Solo. Notably, while Onimi seems to think that he's portraying himself as a sympathetic Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds, Jaina just thinks he's nuts. The readership agrees with her. |
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In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "The Clock King", the eponymous villain explains to Mayor Hill that his real motive to kill him is because Hill had ruined his life by making him late. In her debut episode Poison Ivy confesses to a flytrap entangled Batman why she seduced and poisoned Harvey Dent. Starting out sensually calm before raging about how the district attorney needed to pay for "plowing up a field of beautiful wild flowers for his silly penitentiary" then regaining her composure and reverting back to a serene, seductive demeanor. Heart of Ice features one of the coldest and yet most sympathetic rants, when Mr. Freeze explains in a few terse sentences how and why he intends to take his revenge on Ferris Boyle. It's notable that Batman actually agrees that Boyle needs to be punished for his crimes against the Frieses, but disagrees with Mr. Freezes's violent, terroristic methods—instead, he stops the murderous Mr. Freeze and sabotages's Boyle's public reputation instead. |
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An exception can be found in the first case of Apollo Justice, where Kristoph Gavin admits his crime without any sort of motive being explained. This is of course questioned by everyone else and is eventually revealed at the end of the game. | |
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Spectre has Oberhauser giving one of these during Bond's Cold-Blooded Torture. During this rant, he also takes the time to reintroduce himself as Ernst Stavro Blofeld. | |
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The Fountainhead: Howard Roark gives an epic rant as he explains to the court why he destroyed the Cortlandt Homes project. It goes on for pages and pages. And he says it all incredibly calmly and matter-of-factly. | |
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Sleeper Hit AU: During the confrontation on Dagobah Beach, Bakugou reveals why he bullied Midoriya so much, and that he feels absolutely no remorse for his actions because he's too pissed off that Izuku preservered instead of breaking down and giving up on his dreams. | |
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Dog Soldiers: Megan enters one when she's tricked the soldiers into unwittingly destroying their last possible means of escape from the werewolves, revealing what happened to her and how she ended up being forcibly adopted into the werewolf pack long before the start of the film, making it clear that she does ''not' like being part of the werewolves' "fucked-up family", and confirming that she sincerely thought at the night's start that she could finally escape her captors with the soldiers' aid but now she's given up hope. Downplayed by Captain Ryan. When pressed and all but interrogated by Cooper and Sarge for an explanation, Ryan explains what he and his team were doing in the glen trying to catch a werewolf,and where the squad themselves came into their plan, though it takes a lot of talking and a physical death-threat from Cooper to push each section of Ryan's explanation along. |
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In Season 2 Episode 25 of Wakfu, Qilby the Traitor starts ranting after getting the upper hand in his fight with Yugo. He basically reveals himself to be a selfish nihilist who honestly believes he has the right to sacrifice entire worlds to fuel a tour of the cosmos to stave off boredom. He repeats the rant in Episode 26 after losing the Eliacube when Shinonome turns against him, whining about the misery immortality brought him. | |
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Every episode of Case Closed ends with one in which the culprit explains why he or she did it. Sometimes countered by a motive rant from another person that completely destroys their motives and breaks the culprit completely. | |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo says one to The Professor Aronnax when he tries to convince him not to Kick the Dog, and could be considered the beginning of Nemo's Villainous Breakdown: | |
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Averted in one episode of CSI: Miami. At the very end of the episode, as a serial sniper is being taken away by the police, he asks Horatio "Don't you want to know why I did it?". Horatio simply replies "You're evil, you enjoy death, I hope you enjoy your own." | |
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There's a cut one of these in an alternate ending to The 'Burbs. | |
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Every Law & Order. SVU really stretched it when a 10-year-old had such a rant explaining his motivation (it was 'cause he saw it on TV, see). Like in Perry Mason, the background music is often the cue. Interestingly used on an episode where a man is on trial for manslaughter; specifically, he a trained psychologist accused of pushing his daughter-in-law to suicide. On the witness stand, he confesses to murder. The problem being that if he's found innocent of manslaughter, he can't be tried for murder for the same crime; double jeopardy. (He's convicted of man 1, and Adam Schiff points out that if he was guilty of murder, he just got himself "one hell of a plea deal.") CI has raised to the level of an art form with the Handwave/Justification that causing Motive Rants is what Goren specializes in. Criminal Intent has also subverted the rant on one occasion when a suspect is driven to confessing, but it turns out that she didn't really do it. It's also been subverted in an episode (where the overbearing nature of her husband causes a woman to kill two of her children in a failed mass-suicide attempt) where Goren successfully caused the husband to break into a motive rant, but it ends up being all for naught because he never really did anything illegal. |
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Critical Role: Exandria Unlimited: In Calamity, Asmodeus, Lord of the Hells, launches into one of these in the final episode, a blistering condemnation of mortals, and Zerxus in particular. He points out that he and all the other gods— Prime Deities and Betrayer Gods alike— are family, and that mortals "did something" to the Prime Deities to make them side with mortals against their brethren and the Primordials. |
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Jin Kazama in Tekken 6. "What have the governments, religions, and people of this world accomplished?" | |
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The Rugrats episode "The Trial" has Angelica revealing that she did break Tommy's lamp after failing to pin it on Chuckie, Phil and/or Lil. It's a bit of Laser-Guided Karma as Angelica starts gloating that, even though she confessed, they couldn't do anything because they can't talk... forgetting that she can. And Didi and Betty heard the whole thing. | |
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Toy Story 2: Lotso tops Stinky Pete in the next film with an even shorter (and more brutal) Motive Rant: |
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Lotso tops Stinky Pete in the next film with an even shorter (and more brutal) Motive Rant: | |
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Ganondorf was just jealous of Hyrule's wind in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. In a variant, though, there's he's not gloating. He's just — nostalgic? bitter? remorseful? detached? Take your pick. | |
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In Man of Steel, Zod has two: one where he tells Jor-El how he's going to save Krypton. And the second has him tell Kal-El how he's going to kill every human he finds in revenge for Superman taking his purpose in life. | |
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In the second book of the A Fox's Tale series, this is notably averted. When Ember comes face to face with Werner Macht, who is responsible for blowing a hole in the wall of Dreipasse, enabling Lord Drake's forces to seize the town, the person in question refuses to explain their actions. Without saying a word, Werner attacks Ember, who kills them in the ensuing fight. | |
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Nightbreed: During Dr. Decker's torture and questioning of an old shopkeeper, he goes on a whiny rant about his serial-killing activities, explaining that he just hates humanity so utterly that he hacks up whole families to stop humans from creating offspring. He concludes that wiping out the Nightbreed race is the logical extension of his self-given mission to cleanse everything. This scene was apparently added after initial shooting to explain Decker's motives for being so evil more thoroughly, which wasn't all that clear in the original cut. | |
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Scream (1996): Discussed Trope. When Sidney prompts the killer for a motive, he derides the whole idea of a Motive Rant, pointing out that the villain tends to be a lot scarier if there's no motive. However, this is immediately double subverted when he gives her one anyway. | |
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Happens once in Rebuild of Evangelion 2.0: when Shinji almost trashes NERV HQ, Gendo explains why he's such a bastard: he believes that he can only achieve his desires if he's willing to sacrifice everything and use his own strength. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable: Yoshikage Kira gives a variant where he explains to Shigechi how he lives his day to day life, all to tell the boy that he has to die since he just learned about the man's true nature. Steel Ball Run: On the verge of being defeated, Funny Valentine puts off a Rousing Speech at Johnny, mixed with Freudian Excuse, at least convincing him that Valentine had the moral upper ground, and almost convincing him that he would spare the latter. JoJolion: Jobin goes on one to his wife, Mitsuba, after being told about what happened to Tsurugi being bullied and possibly retaliating, claiming that there are forces existing simply for the strong that survive and the weak which are destroyed. |
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Robert has a minor one in Mystery Team. | |
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A Master of Djinn: Abigail explains why she had committed all her misdeeds aftr being discovered as the main imposter, laying things out at length. | |
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Diamond is Unbreakable: Yoshikage Kira gives a variant where he explains to Shigechi how he lives his day to day life, all to tell the boy that he has to die since he just learned about the man's true nature. | |
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In Game of Thrones, Petyr 'Littlefinger' Baelish gives one for the ages with his "Chaos is a Ladder" rant. Even his fellow Magnificent Bastard, Varys, is highly disturbed by it. | |
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In Thor, Loki delivers a rather emotional one during the final fight with his brother. Loki states that he only ever wanted be Thor's equal, and that he tried to prove Odin he is a worthy son with Engineered Heroics and an attempted genocide of his own race. | |
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Mission: Impossible III: While Ethan is being held captive by Davian's men, The Mole Musgrave explains why he allied with Davian. | |
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In Transformers: Animated, Wasp breaks into one in "Where Is Thy Sting," justifying his revenge on Bumblebee. While Wasp does have every right to be pissed, Bumblebee isn't the one who framed him... | |
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In El Goonish Shive, during the climax of Abraham's arc, he gives a long winded remorseful speech to Ellen about why he has to kill her because he really doesn't want to go through with it. Later on, Pandora gives one laying out her fractured reasoning after Tedd doubts how much his mother actually cares about him, pointing out that It's Not You, It's My Enemies. Everything she's done since the death of her beloved husband has been — even at its most warped — for the benefit of her only son. |
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Inverted and exploited in The Peacemaker. IFOR is on the hunt for Dusan Gavrić and the last missing warhead he is carrying. They raid his apartment in Sarajevo but don't find him there — what they do find is a cassette tape that he recorded, clearly meant to be found after committing whatever act he had planned. The tape goes into detail about how his family had been killed in The Yugoslav Wars, the anguish and anger it had caused him and his conclusion that the Western World was to blame for supplying the weapons and had to pay. This, combined with finding out that Gavrić is an alternate for a diplomatic delegation for a UN summit and one of the original delegates had been murdered, leads Dr. Kelly to realize what Gavrić's plan is: detonating the warhead at the United Nation's headquarters in New York. | |
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One of the most iconic speeches of this type was delivered by Hulk Hogan at WCW's Bash at the Beach '96 after he betrayed Sting and Randy Savage and revealed himself to be the Outsiders' Third Man, heralding the beginning of the New World Order: | |
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CONSEQUENCES: Lila gets one in MAX-IMUM EFFECT when she attempts to turn Max into her Homework Slave, as she reveals her true nature to him and that she's been working to destroy Marinette's reputation. | |
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Doctor Who: The villain of "Kerblam!", Charlie the janitor, gives one after being unmasked, complaining that the 10% organic staff policy doesn't go far enough, and that he wants to discredit Kerblam!'s Job-Stealing Robots for the good of all the unemployed people in the galaxy. | |
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At the climax of Money Heist, Villain Protagonist The Professor justifies the heist to Raquel by comparing it to the ECB's Quantitative Easing program. Unusually, this results in her agreeing and pulling a Face–Heel Turn. | |
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Child of the Storm: Dumbledore, while not evil, gives a surprisingly dark one. He lays out how his fellow wizards frustrate him and how he could still become a dark lord that would put Voldemort to shame, before stating the reason he remains headmaster and nothing more is because of this temptation. Harry, of all people, gives a rather dark one in chapter 61, when he's talking about his disgust for the world's prejudices and pointless cruelties, and how he could potentially use his powers to forcibly change things. It's cut short, and he's horrified afterwards, when an Armor-Piercing Question from Diana makes him realize that he'd be no different from the people he hates. If anything, the whole thing just serves as support for the fears of characters who believe that Harry has the potential to become the next Magneto. |
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Two Letters: Much of the letter Marinette wrote to Luka before passing on the Ladybug Earrings to another and renouncing her Guardianship, along with all of the related memories, is spent explaining to him all of the reasons why she's decided to do so. Later, it's revealed that the other letter she wrote to her future, amnesiac self is filled with her self-justifications as well, reassuring her future self that she deserves to focus purely upon her own happiness after having all of Paris take her efforts for granted for so long. | |
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Pushing Daisies: Generally, the show didn't do these; because it had a narrator to explain the motives, there was no need for the actual killers to do so. There's a subversion when the killer delivers a crazed speech detailing his motivation — which the protagonists can't hear at all, because they're trapped in soundproof bags. |
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On CSI and its spinoffs, motive rants occur in the interrogation room. Averted in one episode of CSI: Miami. At the very end of the episode, as a serial sniper is being taken away by the police, he asks Horatio "Don't you want to know why I did it?". Horatio simply replies "You're evil, you enjoy death, I hope you enjoy your own." Played straight in one episode where a father who had massacred his wife and kids, with the exception of his infant daughter who had been hidden by her older brother, gave a motive rant about how he felt suffocated and overworked by his family (Its explicitly shown that he's lying, he had a normal family life which was currently going through a rough patch due to the kids catching the flu). As he's led away, Horatio dismisses his rant as him preparing an insanity defense, "I didn't know what I was doing and I definitely didn't know it was wrong". Also averted in an episode of CSI: NY. The killer seemed to have no real connection to the victim, who was a young woman in her early twenties, and he didn't tell them why he did it. Lindsey, who was shaken up because of the fact that she shared the victim's age and home state, visited him in prison just so she could ask him again why he did it. He just asks her "You came here just for that?" and puts the phone down. |
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Kieran in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet: The Indigo Disk. After coming upon the "Hidden Treasure of Area Zero" in the Area Zero Underdepths, he frantically begins to pull it out of the wall, desperate to use it to defeat the player once and for all, all while ranting about how the player gets everything they want. | |
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Daredevil: Mysterio has quite a speech about his motives in the finale of the Guardian Devil storyline, and implies that there's more still about just how he became a "monster" who would do all these things. Matt, in keeping with acting utterly unimpressed in this issue, spends most of that same time "rambling about how clever" he is isolating the "hum" of his suit's main battery. | |
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Criminal Minds doesn't have a huge number of these because episodes often don't show the killer after they've been caught and quite frequently they end up getting killed rather than arrested, but "The Fox" and "Poison" both had pretty chilling ones. Another example is in "Masterpiece", the killer turned himself in to police after kidnapping five people, saying they'll die if not found in a few hours. The team finds where they're being held and leave, except for Rossi, who continues interviewing the killer. At this point, the killer reveals that the location is a trap, and launches into a full-on motive rant, revealing that Rossi had arrested his brother (also a Serial Killer) and he'd wanted revenge. Cue Hotch calling to tell Rossi that the trap was right where he'd said it'd be, and all the victims are fine. Rossi guessed the trap, but intentionally triggered the motive rant to get the killer to admit to his other killings on tape. The killer from "North Mammon" has one about wanting revenge on his former high school friends who went on to have careers and families while he was reduced to working as a school janitor after a football injury cost him any real future. Averted in most episodes, as puzzling out the unsubs' motives is usually how the team catches them, in the first place. Thus, there's no need for the culprit to provide further exposition once they're caught. Played with fairly often (again, since the investigation focuses more on motive than forensics). Several unsubs have had a variation on the rant which amounts to "I can't believe I have to explain this, I did it because I wanted to. Doesn't everyone think like this?" |
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Kaitou Saint Tail has a tendency to make her "victims" go into Motive Rants when she escapes with their already stolen goods. | |
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Averted at first in the Grand Finale of The Fugitive, where the One-Armed Man, finally captured and interrogated by Lieutenant Gerard, clams up and demands to see his lawyer when Gerard cuts through his alibi. Things go differently when Kimble forces him to confess, but it's less of a rant than a feeble defense. | |
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In the musical It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman, Dr. Abner Sedgwick explains his motive in song.note It's Revenge, by the way. | |
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The Transformers: Drift Empire of Stone: Hellbat launches into a particularly dark one when Ratchet and Drift stumble onto his plot to use the stone army for his own purposes. | |
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Parodied in an episode of Police Squad!!: | |
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The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Murder Mystery," Bolt takes credit for killing The Director. He both angrily explains why he did it, and reveals that he conspired with the other animals present to do so, complete with a Sideshow Bob style Evil Laugh. | |
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At the climax of the Leverage: Redemption episode "The Card Game Job", Breanna of Team Leverage is playing a collectible card game with Corrupt Corporate Executive Jim Cordozar, who owns a drug that cures a deadly disease but has been Withholding the Cure to increase his profits. When Cordozar gives a motive rant that expounds on his sociopathic worldview, Breanna responds with a combination of Armor-Piercing Question and Shut Up, Hannibal!. | |
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A rare non-villainous example with Mrs Lintott from The History Boys, addressed to her all-male class and colleagues. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, Byrne lets one out when he finally meets Anjean again and she calls him out on his siding with their tribe's enemy, Malladus. | |
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The finale of The Legend of Korra has Kuvira give a short one to Korra when calls out for her tyrannical behavior as ruler of the Earth Empire. | |
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A Mage's Power: When Princess Kasile and her party corner Duke Selen Esrah during his coup, she demands an explanation for his actions. He talks about how she is a poor excuse for a future queen because of her arrogance and paranoia. He believes that taking the throne from her is for the good of Ataidar. He also doesn't like how she broke his son's heart and leands so heavily on outlaws for protecting the realm instead of nobles like himself. While all of this is true, he's actually Holding the Floor while waiting for his resserves troops. | |
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At the end of the Sabrina Gaiden sidestory, Pokémon Reset Bloodlines. Unusually, this one was given out of joy rather than anger or frustration, since the character's motivation, as she explains, was to get someone to be brave enough to try and stand up to her. | |
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Tsukihime, when it seems Hisui's True Ending has been played out... Shiki confronts Kohaku and she reveals she was the mastermind behind the various events and deaths that occurred. Her motive was revenge, because that's what she thought a normal person would do. | |
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The Iron Giant: While Hogarth is (reluctantly) giving him a tour of the town, Kent Mansley initially starts out calm, but breaks out into one of these when the topic of the Giant comes up in an ice cream parlor. He points out that they don't know who built the Giant, nor what it's capable of, so he views it as a threat. Given the Giant's original purpose, he has a point. |
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In Kirby Star Allies, Hyness gives one, but it is delivered so blisteringly fast that while it is indeed lore heavy you can't see most of it. The only line visible without slowing footage down is: | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In the "Family Reunion" arc of the Angel & Faith comic book, when Angel calls Willow out on wanting to involve Connor in her plans to restore magic, she loses it, bitch-slaps him, and calls him out on his ways before breaking down about how Earth is becoming a Crapsack World without magic: | |
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A Soldier's Story: Sgt. Waters has two very effective ones: | |
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It seems like all of the witnesses in the Ace Attorney series do this at least once. Once Phoenix starts to unravel their testimonies, every witness goes nuts and starts raving about their motive and how perfect their plan was (or, if they happen to be very pompous or arrogant, they become very quiet and submissive). This even applies on a lesser scale to the witnesses who don't end up being the murderer, in which case they usually just freak out and tell the truth, rather than lying as they had until then. The most notable example is when Manfred von Karma bashes his head against a wall a good 20 times after being outed as a murderer. In fact, at one point Phoenix notices something is amiss when a witness doesn't go into a Motive Rant. An exception can be found in the first case of Apollo Justice, where Kristoph Gavin admits his crime without any sort of motive being explained. This is of course questioned by everyone else and is eventually revealed at the end of the game. An interesting use of this happens in the second case of Trials and Tribulations. Phoenix gets his target to go into a spiel about why he did it...but it was a ruse. The rant was simply so he could be found guilty of a lesser crime (larceny) and hide his guilt in the much more serious murder that surfaces immediately after. Later in the case he's dragged to the stand during the murder trial and winds up giving the exact same rant after being cracked, only this time it's authentic. |
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Rehearsal for Murder:The killer delivers one after being exposed; even hanging a lampshade on it by claiming that if they didn't, there would be no third act. | |
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In the Hey Arnold! episode, "Phoebe Breaks a Leg", Phoebe gives one to Arnold when he asks if her faking a broken leg has anything to do with how Helga treats her. Doubles as Suspiciously Specific Denial. | |
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Hilariously parodied in Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware with Benrey ranting about how Gordon coming to work with a dick slip resulted in him not being able to play Heavenly Sword turned him evil. It's completely disconnected from everything that's happening, and the rant eventually descends into nonsensical and contradictory rambling and finally gibberish. | |
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As stated in the quote at the top of the page, Vegeta had a huge axe to grind with Goku, and after goading Goku by killing 200 innocent people and threatening to kill even more, Goku accepted Vegeta's request for one more battle, which eventually led to the most epic and intensely fought rematch in all of Dragon Ball Z. The battle also led to the resurrection of a five-million-year-old demon, who would later wreak absolute havoc throughout the universe. Of course, both of them already knew that was a potential consequence of them fighting each other. | |
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Demon Hunter: The Return of the Wings: Greed's fight in Marlborose is proceeded by several minutes of him monologuing about his plans and his feelings about Gun. | |
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Sword Art Online: When Kirito and Asuna finally catch up to the Big Bad, Akihiko Kayaba, explains the purpose behind Aincrad and the death game played there. He had a dream of a floating castle and wanted to make it a reality. In the "Murder Case in the Area" arc, Kirito and Asuna eventually find the culprit behind Griselda's murder and learn their motive for the crime. Grimlock was disturbed by how confident and assertive Griselda (his wife in real life, as well as in the game) was becoming and wanted to kill her while she was still the woman he remembered. Both of them are utterly disgusted by this. In the "Phantom Bullet" arc, after Kirito defeats Death Gun in the Bullet of Bullets tournament, Shino "Sinon" Asada's friend Kyouji "Spiegel" Shinkawa visits her in her apartment, and reveals that he was one of the three people involved in "Death Gun." The rant is somewhat longer in the light novel version, but in both the light novel and the anime, Kyouji reveals that his real life was a mess, so he sought out Gun Gale Online as a form of escapism, only to get tricked into making bad decisions about his character, thereby making it impossible for him to become the strongest. He also reveals the depth of his obsession with Shino and desire to do a Murder-Suicide with her. |
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A Few Good Men has a truly epic one as the climax of the whole film. It builds up as the defense attorney, Lt. Kaffee, needles Col. Jessup with clever lines and pokes holes in the cover story he concocted after issuing an (illegal) order that led to an innocent marine's death. Jessup keeps his cool and hand-waves the holes pretty deftly for most of the questioning, up until Kaffee catches him in a contradiction of his own testimony and Jessup launches into the rant when he can't offer an explanation. This example is an interesting variation of the trope where it plays out the motive rant before the actual, literal confession: Jessup goes on and on about the why of it, without actually saying he did it, until he's so worked up that when Kaffee interrupts to ask him point-blank if he issued the illegal order, he blows up and shouts, "YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!" | |
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Parodied in Kick Buttowski, while telling the class about something amazing he did, he quickly gets questions from the not so convinced teacher and Kendall, only to have the interrupted by Jackie who goes into the "You can't handle the truth" speech... only for everyone to tire of her ("Not this again...") and lower a sound-proof glass dome around her desk. | |
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Accidental Successor: After Toshinori learns that his friend and former sidekick Sir Nighteye is a Control Freak who is trying to dictate every aspect of Toshinori's life and legacy, Nighteye launches into one of these wherein he attempts to gaslight Toshinori into believing he's the one at fault, ranting about how Toshinori is actually incapable of managing his own life without outside assistance. | |
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Subverted in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance as Sam is about to start a monologue of this kind, but then decides you've both heard enough speeches by now and should just get on with the fighting. Though played straighter with several others, including Monsoon and particularly the final boss senator Steven Armstrong, who has two of them: One for his facade, and another that he genuinely believes once he realizes Raiden isn't so different; the latter can be found in the quotes page. | |
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Assassin's Creed: In all games in the series, once you assassinate a primary mission target, time freezes so you can listen to the victim's Final Words, which are, almost invariably, a long diatribe on why they did what they did and/or why you're a terrible person for killing them. In some cases you get the speech as part of the lead-in to the battle, in which case their Final Words are typically some form of plea for forgiveness or understanding. | |
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JoJolion: Jobin goes on one to his wife, Mitsuba, after being told about what happened to Tsurugi being bullied and possibly retaliating, claiming that there are forces existing simply for the strong that survive and the weak which are destroyed. | |
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