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A fundamental part of telling a story is conflict: you want the hero to have their problems and, hopefully, overcome them in a satisfactory manner. In many cases, that conflict is entirely external; the Big Bad is plotting to Take Over the World or otherwise spill the blood of the innocent, and The Hero is out to stop them. But there is also that conflict that is emotional; it exists in their mind and usually forms a mental block that they cannot break through. This is also known as a "World of Cardboard" speech, after the example given by Superman in the final episode of Justice League Unlimited. A "No More Holding Back" speech is where the hero acknowledges that this mental block has been limiting them. And because of a recent personal revelation about themselves and/or their situation, they have found a way to excel past their previous limits. This is heavily dependent on the context of the story and the life of the character. Despite the room for variation, each speech has to follow the same pattern to be a World of Cardboard Speech: the hero is having trouble from an emotional/psychological viewpoint, the hero has a powerful revelation, and then they give the speech. In effect, this is a "Eureka!" Moment that leads to a Heroic Resolve. The speech itself can vary depending on the revelation, but the crux of this revolves around the epiphany that the speech giver still has the power to effectively oppose their foe. Universal to all of these speeches is that realization and being subsequently empowered because of it. What happens after the speech is usually a case of The Gloves Come Off. Because of how dependent it is on the individual character and story, the speech can overlap with any number of tropes, due to the context, and can come in many different variations: The hero says I Am What I Am, realizing that they don't have to be ashamed. It's especially common as a retort against the villain using a Hannibal Lecture or "The Reason You Suck" Speech. A reveal to their allies (or the audience) in The Summation at the end of the story, possibly even after the Big Bad has been defeated. The hero explains the revelation long after the fact. "The Reason You Suck" Speech against the villain. In this case, the hero has a renewing of confidence because they realize how pathetic the villain is. This may overlap with a Kirk Summation. A Shut Up, Hannibal!, with no further elaboration. The epiphany is still there (and the audience can speculate what they mean by it) but they don't feel they need to expand on their thoughts. The hero Does Not Know His Own Strength (or, perhaps, is all too aware of it), but realizes that now, in this place and circumstance, they shouldn't hold back. In a Coming of Age story, the hero accepts The Call, rejecting immaturity, irresponsibility, and in effect, childhood. Where once they refused the call, they now accept their place as The Chosen One, possibly even receiving a Moment of Awesome. A loner and/or Death Seeker, finding something Worth Living For. Inversely, a hero who has everything to live for and sees no point in putting their good fortune on the line, finds something worth sacrificing themselves for or veering from their undecided allegiance. Ultimately, the speech often ends up tying in to Character Development, offering direct verbal insight into their mind and/or explaining the overarching moral of the story. Because this is an epiphany the character had, it allows them to express themselves and draw the audience into their struggles. Break Them by Talking is essentially the opposite of this, with a villain outlining the hero's flaws and effectively using it against them. Goes with Conditioned to Be Weak, where a powerful character is only docile and submissive because they are conditioned to follow orders and/or fear their leader. Compare Right Makes Might, Heroism Motive Speech, Rousing Speech, Heroic Second Wind, He's Back!, Fridge Brilliance, Let's Get Dangerous!, Patrick Stewart Speech, and I Am Not Left-Handed. There Is No Try is when The Mentor attempts to get the hero to think this way. A Heroic Heelization Speech is a similar trope where the hero's gloves also come off... only without the heroic epiphany and more emphasis on the "Nothing stops me from punching you into the sun" part of this trope. By its nature, tends to be a climactic trope spoiling events of the story. Spoilers Beware. |
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There is a variation on this in Watchmen, where Rorschach gives one that, given his Character Development and his Anti-Hero status, crosses right into a Heroic Heelization Speech, to the psychologist Dr. Long. It's an indirect example, as Dr. Long is not a villain, but a side character trying to understand Rorschach's motivation and persona, and the latter, after a long period of not answering the doctor's questions, finally recounts the experience (the killing, after implied rape, of a six-year-old girl whose body was fed to the dogs of the murderer, whom Rorschach then leaves to die in a fire after killing said dogs and presenting him with a highly Sadistic Choice) that turned him into what he is in the form of such a speech. This glimpse into Rorschach's mind and the things that he experienced pushes the previously optimistic doctor across his Despair Event Horizon. | |
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At the end of Terminator 2: Judgment Day Sarah Connor gave an epilogue that showed where both she and John Connor had changed over the course of the movie. The entire time they were thinking that Judgement Day was inevitable and that all machines were the enemy, when they were surprised by the compassion shown by the terminator sent to protect them. It ends up overlapping with a Patrick Stewart Speech. | |
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A Bug's Life: During the climax of the film, Flik gives one to Hopper in response to his statement that the ants are just lowly life forms who are meant to serve grasshoppers, having realized that Hopper keeps bullying the ants and trying to keep them under his thumb because he's actually afraid of them and is well aware of what they're capable of. The ants quickly realize Flik's right and are galvanized into beating Hopper and his men back. | |
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In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Shuichi Saihara comes to this conclusion after finding out the true nature of the killing game in the final chapter: | |
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Shadow the Hedgehog does this in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics). After spending some time as Dr. Eggman's sidekick, he learns that Eggman was holding back things on Professor Gerald Robotnik and his past. Once he learns the truth and being able to say goodbye to Maria, he easily puts Snively (who had come after Shadow since he stole his last strands of hair) in a Curb-Stomp Battle and tells the sniveling lackey to tell Eggman that he knows who he is and he can shove his evil ideals. | |
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Not a speech, but when The Sentry finally showed up to face The Hulk, we get this exchange; | |
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The Mighty Thor Volume 3 Issue 3 has Thor searching for lost Asgardians after resetting Ragnarok. While in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, Iron Man approaches him about having to register with the government... this being several months after Iron Man and Mr. Fantastic unleashed the robotic Thor clone that killed the second Goliath. Thor then decides to show just how insulted he was by initiating a Curb-Stomp Battle with Iron Man. | |
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From Misfile, Rumisiel delivers this speech: | |
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X-Men member Rogue gives abridged versions of these speeches as her introduction. Her default power is to absorb the life energy of anyone she touches along with extra abilities like mutant powers. She also can't control this; anything more than the most glancing of touches will start the transfer, meaning she can't ever touch anyone. Really gives new meaning to the phrase "hurting the ones you love." Not that it ever stopped Gambit from trying, especially in the occasional instance where her powers were either dampened or she (for however long) had control of them. | |
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Torg from Sluggy Freelance gets one of these at the end of the "That Which Redeems" arc. | |
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Much like the page quote above, in the DEATH BATTLE! rematch between Superman and Goku, Superman delivers a quick one to Goku while they are fighting. Goku then claps back with his own Badass Boast. The third battle between the two in Season 10 even has Superman reference the speech after their clash accidentally blows up the moon. |
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Shawn Michaels to Chris Jericho, WWE RAW, 1-Sep-2008: | |
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Shadow of a Doubt: Uncle Charlie's unspeakably evil "this world is a hell" speech: This speech is actually pretty tragic, because of Uncle Charlie's optimistic youth; it is also a turning point for Little Charlie, as she goes from optimism to seeing the world as a foul, hypocritical place. |
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Avengers: Age of Ultron has one where requesting the other person to drop the mental block: Hawkeye sums up to Scarlet Witch how the odds are all against them, but he'll keep on fighting, so it's better that she drops her reluctance, and becomes an Avenger. It works. | |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). "I take back every bit of energy I ever gave you. You're nothing, Freddy. You're shit." | |
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And at the climax of The Return of the King, given by Sam: | |
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle has Harold's tirade to his coworkers at the end. | |
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Melna Durnaxe of Dominic Deegan gets a very special moment of closure during the 'March Across Maltak' Arc. | |
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In the last episode of Season 5 of Arby 'n' the Chief Arbitur gives one to Trent Donnovich in response to a "The Reason You Suck" Speech Trent had delivered earlier in the season. | |
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Justice League: The former Trope Namer, which you can watch here and read at the top of the page, is Superman's speech during his fight with Darkseid in the Grand Finale. The specific moment is in answer to Darkseid asking, "Can't you see that it's hopeless?" after he's attacked by Batman. Superman proceeds to hit Darkseid harder than he's hit anything else in the DCAU and has him on the ropes, only for Darkseid to resort to an Agony Beam when it becomes clear Superman would win a straight fight. The last time Superman and Darkseid fought, in the episode "Twilight", also counts. Superman refuses to back down even while in a base that's about to explode; being brainwashed and set loose on Earth in the finale of Superman: The Animated Series really enraged him. |
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Batman gets one at the end of Batman Forever. | |
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Tiana's speech to Facilier in The Princess and the Frog when he tries to lure her by material want rather than the love she always had. | |
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The Hulk says something similar to the JLU example in the Avengers Assemble episode "Hulked Out Heroes". After Gamma poisoning turns the rest of the Avengers (save for Black Widow) into monsters, Hulk advises the Falcon to treat "everything like an egg" in order to avoid breaking things. During the finale, Hulk gleefully states that he always has to hold back to avoid killing his opponents, but now that he's up against a group of Hulked-out monsters, he no longer has to worry about that. | |
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In Honorverse commodore Sir Aivars Terekhov's Pre-Mortem One-Liner towards brigadier Francisca Yucel combines a Kirk Summation with The Reason You Suck and an internal epiphany: long wrought by his Survivor Guilt towards the subordinates he had lost because he thought he wasn't good (or ruthless — this comes up later) enough, and tortured with the moral responsibility for the orders that would make thousands dead, Terekhov finally comes to realization that, yes, he is ruthless, but that's okay — so long as there are people in the world like brigadier Yucel, who are fine to vent on. | |
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Return of the Jedi: A farmboy grows into a rebel hero to defeat The Empire, and distraught when he discovered that his father was his sworn enemy. He's tempted by The Dark Side in order to defeat them only to realize that he was falling down the same path as his father. Teetering on the edge, Luke Skywalker defied the plans and foresight of the Emperor and said: Vader gets his own after saving his son by killing the Emperor, finally returning to the good man Anakin. |
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In Kung Fu Panda, Po learns that the duty of The Chosen One is to fight Tai Lung and is terrified because despite all the strides he has made as a martial artist, he doesn't believe in himself. The Dragon Scroll is revealed to be blank but shiny, a revelation that takes Po some time to comprehend. The message is that there is no "secret ingredient" — your strength comes from your own effort and not some outside power. Since Tai Lung spent his life desiring the secret of the scroll and became a bad guy over it, it becomes a Break Them by Talking speech that lets Po get the upper hand against him. | |
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Elphaba's Defying Gravity from Wicked overlaps with I Am What I Am. | |
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In AntiBunny, main(ish) character Nailbat gives one of these, pointing out that he is a blackbelt, bullets dodge HIM, he can't be killed until the day he dies in about six months, knows that whatever he does he won't have to face the consequences of because he'll irrevocably die and has the power to defy fate. He doesn't choose his lifestyle and code of honor because of labels or society's demands, he does it because it's the right thing to do. I mean, when you cannot die until the clock hits zero and you know if you do something with horrible consequences it won't matter for you in the long run, it takes a very strong sense of right and wrong to not abuse that. | |
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In Harrison Bergeron, Harrison goes down to the TV station, and before he takes off his handicaps, says "even as I stand here — crippled, hobbled, sickened — I am a greater ruler than any man who ever lived! Now watch me become what I can become!" And then it's all heavily subverted when he promptly becomes a corpse, thanks to a dictatorial surgeon general armed with a shotgun. | |
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DuckTales (2017) has a variant when Louie gives Donald a half-satirical, half-serious version of this speech as a pep talk to inspire him to weaponize his Unstoppable Rage to defeat Gladstone Gander in a race. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Roy Greenhilt's response to Xykon after the lich asks him to stand down and come back later, immediately after Xykon suggests that he's still trying to impress Daddy. Roy manages to prove just how far he's come, and that he's no longer the same college kid who swore to kill Xykon just because his dad thought he couldn't. In the prequel Start of Darkness, Xykon gives Dorukan a brutal one about how much he resents being looked down upon by wizards, something that has happened frequently during the book: Ironically enough, a later fight against Xykon by Vaarsuvius shows that simply possessing greater power than one's opponent, even greater magical power, isn't enough. On the other hand, Xykon explains that power isn't just having a lot of powerful magic spells; it's whatever resources you have at your disposal, and a knowledge of how to put them to good use. In Xykon's case, sometimes it is magic, sometimes it's a +8 racial bonus to listen checks and sometimes it's having the strength to crush your opponent's windpipe with your bare hands. As he crushes the Azure City Resistance, Redcloak makes a short but effective one, in which he explains how he's learned to stop taking foolish chances and being easily goaded into fights. Then a short one, but a good one, from Elan to Tarquin: Roy gives one to Vamp!Durkon during their fight to save/destroy the world (which doubles as a Shut Up, Hannibal!): Durkon delivers one to the High Priest of Hel when the later starts having a breakdown over not being able to understand why Durkon's mother would sacrifice riches for five complete strangers. |
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Captain Marvel: Carol gets two of them - the first one when she realizes that her electronic implant has been suppressing her powers all along and she takes it off, and the second one in her final showdown with Yon-Rogg when she realizes that there is no point for her to not use her powers in a fight just to prove something. | |
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Steven Universe: The Movie: Steven's revelation during the climax where he realizes that his most important ability is the ability to change, to learn and grow from his hardships; this is the revelation that restores his powers from the effects of Spinel's rejuvenator. He then sings a No More Holding Back Song, "Change", where he basically lays out to Spinel that wallowing in self-loathing and anger and lashing out isn't going to heal her or give her closure from her trauma, and that the only way she'll be able to move on and be happy again is if she genuinely wants to change and takes the necessary steps to do so. After she interrupts him with a particularly violent Shut Up, Kirk!, he does eventually get through to her. | |
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In Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, Terry was always being chided by the Joker for not being "the real Batman". At the climax, Terry finds himself slightly outmatched but comes to realize that the original Batman never beat the Joker at his mind games. To counter this, Terry turns the tables through an epic verbal beatdown that actually gets the Joker to stop smiling. He gets the Joker to finally lose his cool by doing exactly what Joker had wanted Batman to do ever since they started fighting: laugh. Terry makes the Joker flip out by laughing... because he was laughing at him, making the Joker the butt of the jokes. Granted, the immediate result is not what Terry had in mind, but it shows that Terry is his own man, able to combat the Joker better than the original Batman ever could: unlike Bruce, Terry could see the Joker as a pathetic loser. It can be viewed here. | |
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On TNA's April 14, 2011 edition, Mickie James confronts her archenemy Madison Rayne, who the previous week hit her with Tara's motorcycle. She gives her own speech, telling Madison that while she has been making her life a living hell, the previous week she went too far and tried to take the coward's way out of their match. She then states that nothing, including her dislocated shoulder, will stop her from beating Madison to within an inch of her life at Lockdown. And she meant every word, completely destroying Madison at Lockdown in 36 seconds. Deserves special mention for Mickie's completely badass delivery of the speech. | |
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Captain America: Civil War: After confronting Zemo outside the base where the other Winter Soldiers were held, Black Panther comes to this conclusion. | |
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"Being Alive" from Company can be seen as this for Bobby, as he finally admits that "alone is alone, not alive" and becomes ready to commit. | |
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Labyrinth. "For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom as great — You have no power over me!" | |
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In John Dies at the End, Dave becomes determined to save Amy, a girl being victimized by the same supernatural forces that he is. After a narrow escape from the shadow men pursuing her, and after opening up to her about his Dark and Troubled Past, he puts his foot down: | |
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The Last Days of FOXHOUND: Liquid Snake makes a combination of the World of Cardboard Speech and Calling the Old Man Out when he echews his earlier Idiot Hero tendencies for a more practical outlook, and pulls a gun on Big Boss during their final fistfight. Subverted in that Liquid is wrong; Big Boss manipulated his emotions not to cripple him out of jealousy, but to strengthen him by giving him a relentless drive to overcome his perceived inferiority to Solid Snake, thus allowing him to continue on Big Boss' goals. |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged Not long after Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan while fighting Frieza on Namek in Episode 30, Part 1, Goku gives one to Frieza. After Gohan finally achieves Super Saiyan 2 in Episode 60, Part 2 and effortlessly curb stomps the Cell Jr.s, he delivers a haunting one to Cell himself, all while never raising his voice above a menacing whisper. |
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Harry Potter: Neville Longbottom gets a particularly Badass one in the eighth movie when he's invoking As Long as There Is One Man: | |
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Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama: Kim's Pre-Asskicking One-Liner before the final fight crosses with this, helped by Ron's Love Confession while they were tied up. | |
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At the climax of The Prestige, Angier delivers one of these, also a Final Speech. | |
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On 6/27/11, CM Punk delivered arguably the best worked shoot of the modern wrestling era to John Cena, now retroactively dubbed the "Pipe Bomb" promo but at the time was known as the WWE version of the Summer of Punk. It was his Austin 3:16. His Hard Times Promo. His To Be THE Man Promo. | |
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Whenever The Kingpin was the featured villain of a story in the Silver Age, he usually gave one explaining his hidden muscle mass after someone mocked him for being "fat"; these speeches often came with demonstrations of power, with Fisk cracking his desk in half with one blow or soundly thrashing the person who'd laughed at him. | |
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World War Hulk: Not a speech, but when The Sentry finally showed up to face The Hulk, we get this exchange; And just before, when the Hulk is about to give the thumbs up/thumbs down, the Sentry, on the other side of the country, listens and mimics the gesture. |
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The Lion in Winter: About halfway through the play Prince Philip has a No, Mister Bond, I Expect You To Dine moment with King Henry — and three other people who happen to be listening in — revealing he is nowhere near as delicate or naive as he looks, seemingly proving himself a cunning adversary. Henry promptly demonstrates why Philip sucks. Henry has the upper hand, right? Wrong. Philip launches into his "World of Cardboard" Speech and plays the people hiding in the room against him. |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Zuko confronts his Dad during the Day of Black Sun. He unfolds his life and what he went through to please his father, deconstructing his own life and motivations, topping it off with a rejection of his nation's goals and summary of how they are viewed by others before finally telling Ozai that he's leaving to join the Avatar. | |
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Episode 8 of Sword Art Online Abridged has Kirito, who jumps in to save a group of people he's never seen before in his life and probably will never see again, yelling out his speech in denial, or realisation, or anger, or probably all three. | |
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The Flash: The series had one of these during the classic The Return of Barry Allen storyline. Up until then, the current Flash, Wally West, had been unable to run as fast as Barry Allen, his late mentor and predecessor. He assumed it was just a natural limitation of his powers, even though he had run faster in the past, and other super-speedsters easily ran much faster than him. But when faced with an impostor who had impersonated Barry Allen and ruined his good name, Wally broke his barrier in order to take the villain down. As it turned out, his speed limit had been subconscious; he was so scared of surpassing Barry (and thus replacing him) that he had throttled his own speed. After realizing this, Wally never had problems with speed limitations again. A less intense example comes from The Flash: Rebirth, when Barry is running around, and Superman chases him. |
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Archer: Sterling Archer gets a badass one in "Sitting". | |
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Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version has a wonderful one where the protagonist, Andrew Crocker-Harris, explains in painful detail his failures as a teacher to his replacement. The movie version adds a valedictory address where he's even more ruthlessly self-critical. | |
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A villainous version occurs in Dies Irae with the main Big Bad Reinhard where he chooses to embrace his power after having constantly denied it for years and to reach for greater heights instead of following the Nazi regime as an emotionless drone: | |
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In Anyone Can Whistle, after J. Bowden Hapgood refuses to help Nurse Faye Apple tackle the corrupt town administration and reveals that the "miracle" is a fake, she admits her limitations - and her intention of overcoming them — in "See What It Gets You:" | |
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Mark "Rent" Renton gets one at the end of the adaptation of Trainspotting. It's the closing monologue to the film that closely mirrors his opening monologue. | |
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Jules' coffee-shop speech near the end of Pulp Fiction: | |
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The final battle in 8 Mile is B. Rabbit making one giant "World of Cardboard" Speech in freestyle form. | |
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: By the end of the movie, Smith is barely standing, public opinion has been turned against him in his own state, his newspaper has been shut down by Taylor's goons, and he's about to face expulsion. But even then, he stands his ground. | |
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Watchmen has Dr. Manhattan recite one to Ozymandias towards the end after Ozymandias attempted to kill him by tricking him into going through the same accident that turned him into Dr. Manhattan in the first place, and thought he succeeded. | |
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Frozen (2013): "Let It Go" serves as one for Elsa expressed through song. Having spent most of her life concealing her ice powers, she is discovered and runs from her kingdom. Once she realizes she has nothing to fear and no one to accidentally hurt, "Let It Go" comes on and she starts using her powers to their full extent, creating snow creatures, a new wardrobe, and an enormous castle. In some ways, it is a subversion, though, as even when using the full range of her powers she still did not have full control and traded one form of isolation for another, and accidentally injured her sister Anna. When Anna sacrificed herself to save Elsa, and in turn her love for her sister was enough to reverse the effects of the frozen heart, Elsa realized that "Love can thaw a frozen heart" and she gained full control of her powers, finally able to reverse the eternal winter at will. | |
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Hal Jordan in the Green Lantern (2011) movie has one when he talks to the Guardians just before the climax. He was told that he was given the ring because he embodies the Corp ideal of being fearless, but he constantly doubts himself because he knows full well what he is afraid of and refuses to share them. When confronted with Parallax coming to destroy Earth, Carol told him that he isn't fearless, but courageous. He can overcome fear. This made him realize why the Corp had so much trouble with Parallax, they were "too afraid to admit they were afraid." Talking to the Guardians, he confessed his human weakness and explained that overcoming fear is the key to beating Parallax. | |
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In Abridged on Titan, "F**k It" is a "No More Holding Back" Song for Eren, doubling as Let's Get Dangerous!. | |
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Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath's published Star Trek novel The Prometheus Design is all about Spock doing the "shouldn't hold back" type, encouraged by the legendary Vulcan explorer Savaj to accept and embrace his inner Badass. It seems that Vulcans have all kindsa super powersnote among them, Super-Strength, Mind Control Telepathy (aka true telepathy), and super-fast reaction time and reflexes and badass abilities, but Spock, living among Puny Earthlings as he does, doesn't want to acknowledge his. According to the authors, Canon Spock was an extremely watered-down version of what he and Vulcans are really capable of. Pick up a copy of — well, any of Marshak and Culbreath's published Star Trek novels, or go read anything in the ''Kraith'' series starting with Volume Four which was where Marshak came on board the writing teamnote she virtually took over the remaining plot plans, and the series as creator Jacqueline Lichtenberg had envisioned it was never completed.. Marshak just loves this trope. | |
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Girl Genius: Gilgamesh Wulfenbach gets a couple: This one's to Wooster, who thinks he can use Gil's one true love as a bargaining chip. And this one here? Well, it speaks for itself, really. |
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Silence by Shusako Endo is a Historical Fiction novel dealing with persecutions of Japanese Christian in the 1600s by the Shogunate. The lead character, Fr. Rodrigo is wracked by the "silence of God" in the face of the sufferings undergone by the faithful and the ineffectiveness of any attempts at martyrdom. Eventually, he apostatizes to prevent the sufferings of other captives and yet another apostate comes to him and treats him like a priest, insisting that they apostatized because they were weak and not strong, but they did not suffer the less for being so. This leads him to an epiphany where the act of compassion towards other people's sufferings and the capacity to share other people's pain is by itself proof of God: | |
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Journey to Chaos: For all of A Mage's Power, Eric lacked confidence in his own abilities and leaned heavily on the spirit of Dengel as a Heroic Host. When they have a falling out, Eric musters the courage to confront him, and once he is victorious, he announces that he doesn't need Dengel anymore. He will face the future on his own strength alone. Tiza has suffered amnesia for years before the series began. It causes her confusion about her past and identity. Then she meets Haburt, whom she's subconsciously terrified of but she refuses to admit to it. When he makes his move and recreates a crucial moment from her past, she admits to this fear and steps forward confidently to overcome it. Then he sheds light on her past and tells her the identity of her parents. |
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In Macbeth, Malcolm is joined by Macduff, who left Scotland for England to seek aid from King Edward the Confessor and form an allegiance with Northumberland and Lord Siward. Malcolm fears that he would surpass Macbeth in wickedness, greed, lust, and a yearning for lands in addition to his apparent lack of graces, when Macduff reproves him and mentions that his mother and Duncan were more virtuous in raising Malcolm than Macbeth could ever be. Malcolm's speech was a Secret Test of Character to show his virtuous nature and readiness to help restore the Scottish throne from Macbeth's tyranny. | |
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Kansas' "Carry On Wayward Son" is basically a musical version of this trope. | |
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The Miz of all people delivered one to Daniel Bryan on the Talking Smack talk show after Bryan accuses him of wrestling the soft WWE style like a coward. It was so good, smarks couldn't decide if it's a work, a shoot, or both. | |
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In Legacy, Cade gives a brief but powerful one during his Final Battle with Darth Krayt which acts as the culmination of his Character Development during the entire series. | |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has not one but two dark versions of this: the first, "My Friends", when Todd rediscovers his razors and formulates his exact revenge upon the Judge; and the second, "Epiphany", when Todd's mind cracks and he becomes the mass-murdering pie-meat supplier of legend. | |
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Kill Six Billion Demons: The end of Breaker of Infinities causes Allison to finally break through to her true potential after overcoming Jadis, fully rejecting the latter's nihilism in the face of a pre-destined universe and proclaiming that she can be happy anyway. The speech is punctuated by Allison literally tearing off the Artificial Limbs and eye Jadis implanted in her without her consent and standing tall while maimed and bloody, saying that even if her nature as The Chosen One means she'll have to bear all the suffering, evil and curses of the world, no-one gets to tell her she can't enjoy herself. | |
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In the final case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, as Phoenix, Apollo, and Athena deliver the final key piece of evidence that proves identity of the culprit, they also deliver a lecture about the power of trust that punches a hole in the villain's unemotional facade and prompts a massive Villainous Breakdown. | |
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Near the end of the last case in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All, after discovering that his client is guilty, Phoenix begins to question what it means to be a lawyer. Edgeworth reveals what he learned in his time overseas. It's not about "winning", it's about revealing the truth. | |
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In Lords and Ladies, Granny Weatherwax gives the Queen of the Elves one of these when she explains why she's better than her. | |
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In Perelandra, although he doesn't actually make a speech, Ransom gets physical on the Un-Man, once a fellow professor before he was possessed by a Demon. The realization that he can actively hate this enemy (being ultimately a thoroughly evil superhuman being) without the usual guilt or conflicted feeling unexpectedly makes him capable of terrible things. | |
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In the Big City Greens episode "Chipocalypse Now", Tilly gives one to Bill about not holding back and standing up for one's self, when their farm is threatened to be destroyed. Her speech is broadcast by Channel 11 News all over Big City, inspiring the city-goers to do the same. | |
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The Two Towers: | |
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Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails: "The Great Destroyer" has a speech like that printed in the liner notes: "I hope they cannot see the limitless potential / living inside of me to murder everything / I hope they cannot see I am the GREAT DESTROYERRRRRR..." Coming out of the guy who created The Downward Spiral and wallowed in angst and depravity for much of The '90s, this is kind of a triumphant moment for Trent Reznor. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: In Something Else Entirely, Jace gives one to Vraska about his telepathic abilities, and how fragile minds are for someone who can manipulate them like he can. One mistake could destroy someone's entire identity. | |
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At the end of Serenity, River admits to Simon as he lies dying from a gunshot to the stomach that she understands that she's always relied on him and the rest of the crew to take care of her through her helpless madness. Then, she adds that now, it is her turn to take care of them. | |
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An older example. Spider-Man, who was trying to take a break, gets annoyed when Ox of the Enforcers picked up the car he was in and tried to shake him out of it. Spider-Man explained how he usually pulls his punches to not kill people, but just realized Ox could probably take it before he punched him out. Subverted in one early story. When facing the Hulk, Spider-Man declares that he's going to stop holding back and hit the Hulk with everything he's got. He does... and the Hulk doesn't even flinch. The proportional strength of a spider might make most of the world into cardboard, but it just doesn't cut it against some people. |
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Subverted in one early story. When facing the Hulk, Spider-Man declares that he's going to stop holding back and hit the Hulk with everything he's got. He does... and the Hulk doesn't even flinch. The proportional strength of a spider might make most of the world into cardboard, but it just doesn't cut it against some people. | |
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: This is what the moment of revelation looks like for Dr. Horrible, who proceeds to enlighten us with "Brand New Day", a World of Cardboard Song. Unfortunately he's also a Villain Protagonist, and this is him declaring he has discarded his hesitation to commit murder, though his intended assassination target is also Captain Hammer, a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing jerkass "superhero" who has made it clear to him that he's only sleeping with Dr. Horrible's love interest purely to spite his nemesis, and this is what causes Dr. Horrible to finally decide he's done being a pacifist and that Captain Hammer needs to die. | |
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Blue Beetle gives one in the season 2 finale of Young Justice (2010). After spending the entire series fighting with the Scarab (and it fighting with him) being stuck inside Jaime's body with each other for a few months turned them into equals and partners, united against any outside threat. | |
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In Tales of an Mazing Girl gives one as a reason of why she doesn't kill-and thus is better than him. She's glad her very conservative Uncle isn't present though. | |
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Fate/stay night: Shirou delivers a World of Cardboard Speech in the Unlimited Blade Works route on how, even if he knows it's only because he's selfish and naive and knowing where he may end up if he keeps it, he'll still try to work towards his ideal of saving everyone to Archer — who can't hear a word of the speech because Shirou is busy fighting him and can't speak loudly enough to be heard. The trope also shows up in Heaven's Feel, where Kotomine lays out his own convictions on letting Angra Manyu loose on the world, which opposes Shirou's equally selfish ideal to destroy it to save Sakura (of course, one of these selfish ideals won't also eradicate humanity, but that's not really the issue here). Shirou's version of the prayer that activates Unlimited Blade Works also carries tones of this: |
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Danny Phantom villain Spectra uses the misery of children to permanently appear young; naturally, she would go out of her way to traumatize her victims to provide enough angst to maintain her appearance. Danny's humiliation and psychological breakdown at her hands gave Spectra and her servant the upper hand during their earlier fights with Danny until Danny realizes that being hard on himself only makes things worse. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Elliot gives a minor one in the middle of fighting Nanase. Adrian Raven gives one when the school he teaches at is being attacked by a wizard. |
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Villainous example in Last Action Hero. | |
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Strong Female Protagonist: Alison, the superhero title character, gets an extremely disturbing one as part of a "Not So Different" Remark when she visits a villain in prison. | |
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In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Bruce attends Clark's funeral in Smallville and ends up talking to Diana about how badly he screwed up. He promises to live up to Superman's ideal and wants to find the other metahumans and bring them together. Diana is uncertain that will work because she has a low opinion of humanity, while Bruce asserts that "Men are still good." | |
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Kelly Kelly of all people delivered one to Natalya at the commentary table. Natalya and Beth Phoenix had vowed to destroy her because they felt she and the rest of the model Divas weren't worthy of being in WWE. Kelly responded by asking Natalya what she was saving the WWE Universe from, and that she had already proved herself by beating Beth at SummerSlam and would do so again if Beth became the #1 contender (Beth did and Kelly did). | |
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The Hustler (1961) makes it clear from the beginning that although Fast Eddie is a talented pool player, his attitude is holding him back. It's no surprise that he eventually gets his World of Cardboard Speech. Now, how he gets it, on the other hand... | |
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Smoke from WTF Comics unloads one of these onto Nikisha after she attacks Anna with a poisoned throwing star in order to get to him. Oh, and while giving this Smoke is also beating her to an inch of her life her | |
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In The Matrix Revolutions, Neo gives a rather brief, but effective, one to Smith, when the latter demands to know why Neo persists in fighting him. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic combines this with Shut Up, Hannibal! at the climax of "The Return of Harmony, Part 2": | |
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Star Wars Rebels: In "Path of the Jedi", when Ezra is overwhelmed by the visions and by being abandoned and alone, he realizes that this happened before and he survived, and he can do so again. It gives him the emotional stability needed to face and conquer his fears. | |
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In Teen Titans, when Cassandra Sandsmark lost the powers Zeus gave her, Ares restored them. However, when she tried to fight Ares' evil son Lord Lycus, Lycus was able to drain the powers Ares gave her into himself. It is then that Cassie realizes all this time, she had been borrowing powers from others and not using her own innate powers as a demigod daughter of Zeus. Once she activates her innate powers, she proves far more powerful than Lycus. Rose "Ravager" Wilson has a rather interesting one, reflecting on her Anti-Hero/Anti-Villain status: |
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Secret Wars (2015) finally has Doctor Doom admit out loud that which he would have killed anyone else for saying, that Reed Richards is his better. | |
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In The Avengers (2012), after having people walk eggshells around him to avoid provoking him for the entire movie, Dr. Bruce Banner finally gets asked to 'get angry' so that his alter ego can help fight off an alien invasion. His response? | |
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This one from Billy Jack: | |
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Superman could be considered the king of this trope easily. His speeches at the end of the White Martian Invasion arc and the arc wherein Preus is introduced are damn near tear-jerking due to awesomeness alone. | |
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Buffy Season Eight has this speech from Dracula after he loses his extra abilities. Toru intercepts his thrown sword, and Dracula takes it from him and slices him up while they exchange these words. | |
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power: Catra's speech to Shadow Weaver about how her years of abuse at Shadow Weaver's hands trained her to eventually defeat and usurp her is a rather twisted, villainous version of this trope. | |
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The Ultimates: Thor gives one to the Hulk after the Hulk had joined Reed Richards and emerged completely unfazed by one of the Hulk's punches. He explains all the times he'd been fighting the Hulk he was holding back because he cared about the Banner side, but since both sides of the Hulk were awful psychopaths at that point, he was ready to go all out. | |
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The Sandman (1989): Dream delivers one towards the end of The Kindly Ones, but it's an inversion: Dream does realize and vocalize his Fatal Flaw, but he's unable to do anything about it. It doesn't lead to Character Development, nor does it lead to Asskickery (even though, or perhaps especially because it could), and he knows it. Shortly after delivering the speech, Dream is dead because he can't break free of his own responsibility. A more straightforward example would be in "Season of Mists" when he battles Azazel for the lives of Nada and Choronzon. Azazel reneges on his bargain to release them if he loses, only for Dream to explain that while they are in his realm, reality conforms to his wishes. He was honor-bound to treat Azazel (and his prisoners) as a guest when he entered the Dreaming, but after Azazel renounced Dream's hospitality, he had no such protection. As soon as Azazel reveals his intentions, he finds himself in a bottle in Dream's hands without his powers or prisoners. |
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In Captain SNES: The Game Masta, Lucca gives a truly memorable one to the Eater of Dreams in comic 647. | |
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The title song from Kamelot's concept album The Black Halo. Ariel finally defies Mephisto and declares that he no longer fears damnation. This leads him to finally come to the realization that he is the master of his own destiny, and that love is the truth he had been searching for all along. | |
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In The Karate Kid Daniel took an injury to his leg, leaving him out of the final match. Everyone said that Daniel did great and shouldn't think that removing himself because of such an injury is a sign of weakness. Daniel makes a plea to Miyagi that even though he almost made it to the tournament finals if he didn't face Johnny in the final match he would never have balance with the Cobra guys or in his relationship with Ally, or in himself. That was an effective lesson to Miyagi that his student finally understood his training. | |
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While not a Villain per se, Tyburn in Rivers of London was an interfering bitch who was determined to crush the protagonist for her own political ends. When she gives him a "Reason You Suck" Speech about how useless he is and how easy it was to stop him, Peter Grant's comeback is awesome. Made doubly so because he totally owns her in front of her entire family of river spirits causing matriarch Mama Thames to applaud him for doing so. | |
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The series had one of these during the classic The Return of Barry Allen storyline. Up until then, the current Flash, Wally West, had been unable to run as fast as Barry Allen, his late mentor and predecessor. He assumed it was just a natural limitation of his powers, even though he had run faster in the past, and other super-speedsters easily ran much faster than him. But when faced with an impostor who had impersonated Barry Allen and ruined his good name, Wally broke his barrier in order to take the villain down. As it turned out, his speed limit had been subconscious; he was so scared of surpassing Barry (and thus replacing him) that he had throttled his own speed. After realizing this, Wally never had problems with speed limitations again. | |
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In Tsukihime, Shiki manages to scare Roa shitless with one of these. To him, the world really is as flimsy as cardboard. Roa has previously believed Shiki and he share the power to see death. He even goes as far as to thank Shiki for teaching him how to use it. Turns out, what Roa sees are actually the lifelines of living things. Shiki, on the other hand, can see the point of end for all things, including inanimate objects and even the universe itself. The speech is him really drilling in the difference. | |
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Oathbringer (third book of The Stormlight Archive): Odium tries to convince Dalinar that he drove Dalinar to commit the war crimes that turned him into a Broken Ace, seeking to leverage this surrender of agency into full-fledged control. Dalinar refuses to give in, declaring that atoning for the atrocities he committed turned him into the man he is today. | |
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Taylor Reese has one in Knockaround Guys: | |
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Ace Attorney: Near the end of the last case in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice For All, after discovering that his client is guilty, Phoenix begins to question what it means to be a lawyer. Edgeworth reveals what he learned in his time overseas. It's not about "winning", it's about revealing the truth. After the Big Bad's Villainous Breakdown in the final case of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, there is some surprisingly poignant words from Klavier Gavin and the Judge about the nature of the law, given that the two of them are a Bunny-Ears Lawyer and a Cloud Cuckoolander. While the Big Bad believes "the law is absolute" and needed to protect the "ignorant masses" from themselves, Klavier and the Judge point out that the law is not absolute, full of contradictions that inadvertently help criminals, and is constantly changing as a reflection of human morals, and that it is thus the job of lawmakers and defenders to nurture it over time. In the final case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, as Phoenix, Apollo, and Athena deliver the final key piece of evidence that proves identity of the culprit, they also deliver a lecture about the power of trust that punches a hole in the villain's unemotional facade and prompts a massive Villainous Breakdown. |
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Syndablokk from Empowered gets one when he explains that his power causes nothing but collateral damage (he has elemental command of masonry and stonework). Being one of the (very) few decent heroes in this 'verse, he's extremely reluctant to use his ability unless the villain's already wrecked everything around him. | |
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The Rock's last promo at Wrestlemania XIX. | |
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In The Hollows novel The Undead Pool, the elf community has turned on Trent, and his businesses are taking a hit due to his ex-fiance Ellasbeth leaking information about them. She attempts to forcibly take custody of their daughters, and it doesn't go at all well for her. In the aftermath: | |
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Broken Saints: Raimi's speech to Shandala in Chapter 21 about how much she has meant to him. | |
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The Lord of the Rings film series: The Two Towers: And at the climax of The Return of the King, given by Sam: |
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In Katawa Shoujo, near the end of Shizune's route, Hisao takes Misha on a tour of a campus, showing her places where they spent time during their days together, and how he started out as depressed and unwilling to do anything but became more engaged over time. He ultimately concludes by telling her that he had to face the painful truth that he essentially pushed away all his friends during his time in the hospital and he does not want her to do the same to Shizune. | |
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Jack Skellington sings one of these near the end of The Nightmare Before Christmas, in the song "Poor Jack." He is having a Heroic BSoD about his failure to bring about Christmas, starts reprising Jack's Lament, starting with the line "I, Jack, the Pumpkin King"... then remembers that, yes, he is the Pumpkin King, and will work hard on making next Halloween even better. It also has Jack realizing while what happened didn't go as planned, he gave it his all and there were still good parts to it. While he screwed up he wouldn't regret what he did because it was still worth the problems. | |
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Inception has an interesting version of this, in that the emotional conflict and the physical conflict are the same thing, through the character of Mal. It is an interesting version of the relationship between the physical/emotional conflict, but the "World of Cardboard" Speech comes in this dialog: | |
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Batman: Under the Red Hood plays with the trope. Finding out that Batman had not killed the Joker to avenge the death of Jason Todd sets Red Hood out to find out why, causing a wave of crime and chaos to follow. Batman's response to him is that he has yearned for the opportunity to make The Joker pay for what he did but does not out of fear for what it will bring about in him with regards to the rest of his Rogues Gallery. The twist comes when the critical moment arrives and he has the opportunity, in the end still choosing not to and not straying from what he had said earlier. | |
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In the Vampire: The Requiem supplement "Danse Macabre," a wonderful story of the Chicago vampires running in bits between the chapters climaxes with an antiheroic version of this. Prince Maxwell Clarke confesses to the diablerie of Norris Spiegel in a scene that's half "World of Cardboard" Speech and half "Reason You Suck" Speech as he shares a recent revelation: He's truly sick of pushing himself to his limits keeping the city safe for a bunch of ingrates who use that safety to plot against him and abuse and mock him for his efforts to keep the peace. The speech goes on for a while and is interrupted a couple of times, but this excerpt sums it up nicely: | |
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