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The villain, or The Great Gazoo, or just a misguided member of an advanced race comments on how, so the member would say, weak, pathetic, cowardly, worthless (or just un-powered) it thinks humans are. "Why do you care about them?" Or, the villain will be more direct and point out that Humans Are the Real Monsters and thus not worth saving. This will lead into the hero responding with the Patrick Stewart Speech, in which he may concede that humans are at however severe a disadvantage (at least for the moment), but there is much that is noble about humanity, as well. He notes that they have much potential, and he admires humans' capacity for love / friendship / loyalty / courage / persistence / whatever virtue it is the writers want to Aesop. If you hear the sentences "There is much that we could learn from them," or "We were not so different, once," you're likely in the midst of a Patrick Stewart Speech. Note this is not just defending humans out of a general respect for life, or even for sentient life: the Patrick Stewart Speech notes specific qualities of humanity itself which make it worth saving, above and beyond simply being a sentient lifeform. In short, Humans Are Special and Rousseau Was Right. One variant of this speech will praise our flaws instead, pointing out how in overcoming/fighting them we grow better and create beautiful things. When done well, can give the viewer a sense of pride. When done poorly, comes off as overly preachy, pretentious, or even ridiculous. For a lighter-hearted version, end the Patrick Stewart Speech with some relatively minor accomplishment of humanity: "And they came up with jelly-filled donuts! How can you hate a species that invented jelly-filled donuts? Have you tried these things?!" So named because Patrick Stewart has delivered such speeches many times, both as Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation and as Professor Xavier from the X-Men Film Series. (He was trained as a Shakespearean actor, after all.) Do note, however, that although the Patrick Stewart Speech is always superb, with a perfectly balanced combination of precise logic and emotional appeal, a five-minute Patrick Stewart Speech barely holds a candle to a twenty-second Whoopi Epiphany Speech, just in terms of pure wise clarity. See also Kirk Summation, "No More Holding Back" Speech, Heroism Motive Speech, Corrective Lecture, and Intrigued by Humanity. Contrast Shut Up, Kirk! and Shaming the Mob. |
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In Watchmen, the emotionless Dr. Manhattan justifies his return to earth with a smaller version of this — he realises that all human lives are "thermodynamic miracles", events that have no logical or probable reason for occurring. They simply shouldn't happen. The fact that he says this in the middle of a giant smiley face on Mars (that really exists) just drives the point home. | |
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The trope namer himself pulled this off quite a lot during his role as Zobek in Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. | |
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In Pact, Johannes Lillegard, one of the most powerful human practitioners around, gives one of these to the Girl in the Checkered Scarf, a younger practitioner whose name was stolen by The Fair Folk, explaining that in spite of setbacks like that, humanity is ultimately winning the war against the supernatural thanks to the existence of The Masquerade, which has allowed them to advance past many of the concepts that supernatural creatures attached themselves too and breed faster than the supernatural can kill them. He then goes on to explain how he plans to further mitigate the amount of damage the more powerful Others can do by letting them pay him to torture copies of children that he's made in his domain. | |
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Almost the exact example given in the trope description was used in Dream Eater Merry. | |
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Bojack Horseman: Directed to one individual, none other. As BoJack stands outside "Pastiches", the rehabilitation center, he simply asks Diane why, after all he has done to her, she's still helping him. Diane simply responds by telling a story about her friend back in high school, Abby, and how she fell with the cool people and turned on her, using everything they had shared as friends against her... but then her mother got sick, all her so-called friends left on spring break, and she was there for her. | |
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Dante in Devil May Cry 4 gave one of these to Agnus when the Mad Scientist asked how a half-demon could be stronger than a full-blooded one. Worth noting is that he said that humans have something that demons don't... but he didn't say what it was. That is (possibly) revealed as The Power of Love in a supplementary speech made by Nero to Sanctus, right near the end of the game. In the last episode of the anime, Devil May Cry: The Animated Series, the main bad guy is giving his "How could I lose!?" speech, wondering if those who are born weak are doomed to always fail. Dante says that winning and losing doesn't have anything to do with power, it depends on the quality of your soul. The bad guy tries to use this to his advantage, saying "Oh, so since your soul is good, you'll spare me, right?" He doesn't. |
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Professor Xavier of the X-Men, multiple times. He lives and breathes the message as a creed, firmly believing in the sanctity of life on both sides of the mutant/human conflict while his detractors (Magneto and just about any bigoted human) only want it one way or the other. Prof. X has the added difficulty of having to offer such words to a species of people who want to be accepted by humans but aren't, and can easily lash out because they are technically superior (something Magneto encourages) while being one of those creatures himself. It can be difficult to convince your kind that they need to meet humans with an olive branch and not a dagger when many humans fear anything and anyone who is different, including Xavier himself. The fact that he can still succeed at it is telling of his vast wisdom and compassion. | |
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In Sluggy Freelance (Chapter 30: "Dangerous Days Ahead"), Torg fails badly at this. | |
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Bleach: Komamura gives Tousen a special version tailor-made to Tousen's tragic past. He says that he understands and accepts that, because of what happened, Tousen could not look at the world again except through bitter, angry eyes. He confirms that he became Tousen's friend to help Tousen regain his ability to see the better aspects of humanity that still exist despite everything that's happened to him. The humanity-defending Komamura is, in fact, a monster while the monster in need of regaining his humanity is the human (Tousen). | |
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In A Certain Magical Index, Touma Kamijou delivers a pretty awesome one to Fiamma of the Right in Volume 22. Fiamma believed that Humans Are the Real Monsters and was so disgusted that he wanted to Kill All Humans. His power, The Holy Right, is increased by the malice in his enemies, so he engineered World War III and declared humanity his enemy so he could have The Holy Right feed off the conflict and wipe out humanity. Touma points out that if humanity really is as inherently evil as Fiamma says, then engineering World War III would not be necessary; The Holy Right would have been powerful enough to destroy humanity right away. Furthermore, even after starting World War III, Fiamma still didn't destroy humanity right away. He brought insurance by brainwashing Index Librorum Prohibitorum to gain her vast knowledge of magic, kidnapped Sasha Croitsef to gain the telesma (divine energy) in her body, summoned Archangel Gabriel as a minion, and even summoned the Star of Bethlehem as an attack fortress. Even after all this, Fiamma still didn't think he could destroy humanity right away. In addition, several complete strangers, even Accelerator, a former serial killer redeemed by the love of his adopted daughter Last Order, fight the good fight and inspired hope in the people during the war. Touma then accuses Fiamma of believing that deep down, Humans Are Good. The speech gets to Fiamma and he starts to doubt himself. He recklessly attacks and Touma punches him out. | |
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The Talos Principle: The overall thrust of Alexandra's voice messages. | |
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The Vision delivers one to Ultron at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron when the latter asks why the former would bother protecting them. Ultron is unamused: | |
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Angel: Angel gives one of these to Illyria, declaring himself champion of humanity, even for a traitor on her side ("He's scum, but he's still human"). Subverted when the speech is cut short by Wesley shooting the traitor in the chest. Angel, somewhat annoyed, asks him "Were you even listening?" Lampooned a few more times when Angel gives these. Jasmine keeps turning his own ultimatums against him (like you've never eaten people!), and Lindsey confesses he just zones out when the yapping starts. |
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The Prime Minister in Love Actually has one of these, specifically for Britain: | |
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The Simpsons: Parodied in the "Treehouse of Horror XI" segment "Night of the Dolphin". Homer's speech to inspire the humans to fight back contains nothing but minor accomplishments of humanity (except the first one): "We invented computers, leg warmers, bendy straws, peel 'n' eat shrimp, the glory hole, and the pudding cup!" | |
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Peter Graves delivers the start of one at the end of It Conquered the World (wonderfully played with great solemnity many a time during its take-down on Mystery Science Theater 3000.) It turns into a lecture about how man must improve after the first line, though, so it probably stops qualifying at that point. | |
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The anime movie Steamboy features a few of these on the (im)morality of war. They're rather intelligently done on a whole. For bonus points, in the English dub the character delivering these speeches is voiced by Patrick Stewart. | |
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In The Killing Joke, Batman gives one to the Joker in response to his "one bad day" monologue. (The Joker tried to drive Commissioner Gordon mad to prove his claim that one bad day is enough to reduce the sanest man to lunacy.) | |
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The climax of Breath of Fire IV occurs when the Heroic Mime Ryu finally meets the game's other viewpoint character, the resurrected ancient dragon god-emperor Fou-Lu, who has spent the game going through a horrible Trauma Conga Line and is on the verge of deciding to wipe out humanity. Despite being a Heroic Mime, Ryu manages to give one to Fou-Lu that reminds him that humanity is capable of great kindness as well as great wickedness. (Unless, of course, you picked the choice that leads to the bad ending.) | |
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Star Trek: Picard: Picard still gives his fair share of these speeches throughout the first season. The reaction he gets to these speeches varies from one character to the next. Rios, a former Starfleet officer, notes that he was specifically warned about Picard's reputation for speechmaking, and Admiral Clancy, a former subordinate of his, cuts him off in the middle of a speech to tell him to shut the fuck up so she can agree to what he's asking her to do. One of the antagonists has Picard placed under confinement not because they think Picard himself is dangerous, but because his charismatic speeches might sway their followers. |
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Multiple characters within Fullmetal Alchemist. In particular the one given by Ed to Envy, which also doubles as a Reason You Suck Speech. | |
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Star Trek: The Lost Era: At the end of The Buried Age, Picard (naturally) talks the Manraloth down with one of these. Their whole motivation has been manipulating the "younger" species for their own good, which has just nearly led to everyone's brains getting fried. Picard tells them that their ways just won't work anymore, and it's time for them to step out of the way and let the kids make their own mistakes. | |
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Star Trek: Discovery: Commander Saru, once he goes through some Character Development, eventually gets the self-confidence to deliver several motivational speeches to the crew, both about how capable they are of handling the dangerous missions before them, and of the importance to sticking to their Starfleet ideals after the discovery that Captain Lorca was a Mirror Universe infiltrator manipulating them for his own gain. Michael Burnham gives several of these of her own late in the first season, convincing the crew to join her mutiny against Starfleet Command's orders to destroy the Klingon homeworld and later expounding on the importance of sticking to Starfleet's ideals in difficult times. In the second season, Captain Pike angrily berates Admiral Cornwell for her underhanded tactics and her decision to keep him and Enterprise out in deep space during the war with the Klingons. She responds with possibly the nicest Shut Up, Kirk! on record. |
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The protagonist of Double Homework gives one in his own defense when Dennis tries to humiliate him in front of the summer school class for his video game addiction. | |
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There is a truly badass one given in Paranoia Agent by the chief investigator's dying wife. | |
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Wonder Woman is also quite fond of this. Though she's a bit more of a realist then Superman, she'll break out the speech when the situation calls for it. | |
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In Outcasts, the rather Picard-esqe Richard Tate, President of the Human colony on the planet Carpathia, confronts a mysterious alien race only known as the Host Force. They communicate with him through a vision of himself. | |
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Fate/Harem Antics: In an omake, Gunner/Oda Nobunaga battles Gilgamesh, who dismisses modern humans as weak and worthless. Nobunaga says while individually humans might be so, by working together, they were able to do wonders like go to space. Such a talent for innovation is worth defending. | |
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Mixed with Scare 'Em Straight by Captain Pike at the end of "Strange New Worlds": he shows off the awful history of humanity but explains how they ultimately rose above that to help form the United Federation of Planets. That bad history is where the Kileans are headed on their current course, but they have an opportunity now to just skip over the part where they nuke a third of their own population, and instead come together as a people and join the Federation. Averted and to some extent Deconstructed in "Ad Astra Per Aspera" during Una's trial for being an Illyrian. The prosecutor gives Pike a kindly and sincere warning against testifying just so he can give one of these, pointing out why it would be a serious tactical mistake. In the end, the Patrick Stewart Speech is delivered by the person who should be delivering it: the defence attorney. |
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In the Tamers Forever Series, Gallantmon Crimson Mode uses this trope combined with "The Reason You Suck" Speech and The Power of Love to lay an epic verbal smackdown on Daemon, whilst simultaneously beating the everloving crap out of him. | |
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Death actually gets one in the Discworld novel Reaper Man. He stands before Azrael, his boss, and basically tells him that humanity deserves a Death that will care for them, rather than a simple blind force. | |
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Captain Jack Harkness' monologue in the Torchwood episode "Everything Changes" about the wonders of 21st century Earth that never cease to amaze him; considering he is an immortal ex-Time Agent in a World War II uniform who was native to the 51st century prior to his first appearance, he might as well be an alien from another planet. | |
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In the Superman/Batman series, Superman pulls off a mental Patrick Stewart Speech, where he convinces a Social Darwinist alien race to read his mind and back off of invading Earth. | |
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In X-Men: First Class, where he is played by James McAvoy, he gives such a speech to Lehnsherr. During their chess game, he attempts to convince Erik that human beings are capable of great understanding, and that mutants should be patient, as "we have it in us to be the better men." Erik skeptically replies, "We already are." | |
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In Homestuck, the author gives one to Caliborn over the reasons why he shouldn't encourage the Alpha players to indulge in the sugary chaos of Trickster Mode any further. He even provides an exposition on how Mario's use of Invincibility Stars is "actually devastating to his development as a human being" as a comparison to the consequences of the players' use of a similar powerup. | |
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Horribly subverted in an episode of the CBS revival of The Twilight Zone (1985). Sufficiently Advanced Aliens land, claim they triggered humanity's evolution and threaten to wipe them out for not reaching their potential (mentioning their only virtue seems to be "a small talent for war"). A human diplomat delivers a Patrick Stewart Speech and buys humanity 24 hours to demonstrate why they should be spared; the governments of the world quickly put together a comprehensive world-wide agreement to stop all fighting. The next day the diplomat presents the treaty to the alien representative; he looks at it... and laughs. He explains that humans were placed on Earth to evolve into powerful warriors. Instead they've merely developed the aforementioned "small talent for war", and the global peace treaty proves their inherently pacifist nature. There's nothing left for the aliens to do but scour the planet clean and start over again elsewhere. | |
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Green Lantern: Don't insult "Earthmen" in front of The Guardians. They find them quite useful. There is a reason they've made six-plus human Lanterns (with four currently active). | |
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In the season 3 finale of Westworld, Dolores tells Maeve about her opinion on humanity after spending the previous season rebelling against the humans for the abuses that she and her kind experienced and entering the real world where she realizes that the humans are having the same experience as the host where they have little to no freedom to choose. While she and Maeve understood that there is still the worst type of humans who commit a lot of abuse, Dolores realizes there are humans who are capable of making choices which she said to Caleb that free will does exist which is difficult to obtain. By then, Maeve realizes that Dolores' true plan is to also free the humans so they can make a choice. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, the gods hold a meeting to decide whether to destroy and rebuild the world in order to prevent it from being utterly erased by The Snarl. Roy Greenhilt gives a speech to try to convince them to let the mortals deal with the problem themselves. Everybody else is moved by it, but don't have the heart to tell Roy that the gods couldn't see or hear him, so his speech didn't affect their decision. | |
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In Sonic Adventure 2, in one of the last scenes, Amy tries to convince Shadow that humans are essentially good and should be protected from the upcoming armageddon from the final boss, The Biolizard. The speech triggers a memory for Shadow, that he kept a promise to his dear friend Maria to protect all of life. | |
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Transformers: Generation One: Optimus Prime (as usual) delivers one in the Dreamwave comics sequel to the original series, and to drive the point home, it contrasts Megatron's earlier Hannibal Lecture with humans abandoning those trapped under some rubble, and others raiding shops in amongst the chaos - with images of firemen then rushing to save those under the rubble, and the thieves using what they stole to help out as well. Then Optimus lets out a little secret - he knows the majority of humans are assholes, but he also knows that they're an impressionable lot, and so he fights for those who deserve it - because he knows that if anyone can turn humanity around, it's them. And to put the cherry on this cake of awesome? Those same humans then risk their lives to ram a fire engine right in Megatron's face! And remember - humanity hates all Transformers right about now. | |
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Batman gives a speech to the Joker in The Dark Knight which, though quite a bit shorter, plays out pretty similarly to the Killing Joke example above. | |
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Beautifully subverted in Mars Attacks!. The President of the United States, played by Jack Nicholson, delivers one of these when the Martians make it into the bunker underneath the White House. After he ends the speech with a truly cliche "Can't we just get along?", the head Martian sheds a tear and offers to shake hands with the president. As they shake, the Martian's robotic hand comes loose, crawls around to the president's back and promptly stabs him through the chest. | |
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In Energy Breaker, the party gives one of these to the final boss just before fighting him. These do tend to occur just before final boss battles. | |
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Captain America gives one to the Vision with a bit of What Measure Is a Non-Human? added in. | |
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Satan delivers one of these in The Devil's Advocate in his climactic scene. It involves his reasons why God Is Evil, Satan Is Good, and then wraps up with, "In spite of all his imperfections, I'm a FAN OF MAN! I'm a humanist. Maybe the last humanist." | |
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Eek! The Cat: Eek is prone to rattling off long, bizarre and frequently funny lists of what makes Earth so great to some alien bent on blowing it up. | |
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Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men Film Series. Given who plays him, not surprising. Given who he is, also not surprising. Xavier's core message basically requires having such a speech at hand and ready to give at a moment's notice (as true here as it was in the source material). The capacity to give such a speech is basically the only thing that he and Magneto are feuding over. In X-Men: First Class, where he is played by James McAvoy, he gives such a speech to Lehnsherr. During their chess game, he attempts to convince Erik that human beings are capable of great understanding, and that mutants should be patient, as "we have it in us to be the better men." Erik skeptically replies, "We already are." An even more epic example occurs in X-Men: Days of Future Past, where his older self gives one to his younger self, convincing the latter to "hope again," and that despite what happens (or in 1973 Xavier's case, will happen) to mutants, humanity can still be shown "a better path." |
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Happens in the Farscape episode "A Constellation of Doubt". The episode is intercut with a documentary they intercepted from Earth about the alien members of the Moya crew who visited. A lot of it involves people being very xenophobic and showing only the worst of human nature, but Noranti redeems us (sorta): | |
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In Smallville: For a while, Brainiac masqueraded as Clark's history professor (and another displaced Kryptonian). In Splinter he goes into a spiel in class about how humans have a long tradition of betraying one another (two examples given were Caesar and Brutus, and Jesus and Judas). Clark delivers a textbook Patrick Stewart Speech to Brainiac at the end of the episode. In Solitude, the following episode, Fine betrays him but Chloe comes to his rescue. Clark spent a decent amount of time defending Chloe from superpowered beings. In "Kara": Blue, Kara tries to convince her father Zor-El not to destroy the human race, but he's completely unmoved and just beats her up and continues his rampage, forcing Clark to save the day. She surely learned quickly. |
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Guts delivers one of these in the first episode of the Berserk anime. The fact that he does it while slowly torturing a dying Apostle makes the whole thing truly disturbing. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Inverted when Quark gives such a speech in defence of the Ferengi: Subverted when Sisko is forced to give one of these during the pilot episode ("Emissary"). For one, he's actually standing up for all races of the Alpha Quadrant, not just humans. But the real trick is that the aliens to whom he must give this speech (or die!) lack any familiarity with some of the basic concepts necessary for a Patrick Stewart Speech to work. Primarily, they exist outside of time, and so don't even understand the concept of cause and effect! |
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Mass Effect lets the player character deliver one of these, using the dialogue system to pick each stirring theme on the fly. It's up to the player if they end up giving a straight example or subverting the hell out of it. | |
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Mass Effect 2: The sequel's last level has you keeping the hopes of your teammates up before the final battle by once again allowing you to use the dialogue trees to create your own speech. Twice! | |
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In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, when Scaglietti's Hannibal Lecture has paralysed Fate into inaction, Erio and Caro do this to counteract it. In this case, it's about Fate's own worth rather than that of humanity as a whole, but it still fits here. | |
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An even more epic example occurs in X-Men: Days of Future Past, where his older self gives one to his younger self, convincing the latter to "hope again," and that despite what happens (or in 1973 Xavier's case, will happen) to mutants, humanity can still be shown "a better path." | |
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Mass Effect: Mass Effect lets the player character deliver one of these, using the dialogue system to pick each stirring theme on the fly. It's up to the player if they end up giving a straight example or subverting the hell out of it. Mass Effect 2: The sequel's last level has you keeping the hopes of your teammates up before the final battle by once again allowing you to use the dialogue trees to create your own speech. Twice! As well in "Arrival" you give one to Harbinger, which is pretty cool, especially considering how you're on an asteroid about to crash into a Mass Relay. |
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One of the earliest in cinema was in the seminal 1936 sci-fi movie Things to Come on the nature of humanity's progress. | |
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In another strip, Wonderella convinces Patrick Stewart himself to give one of these speeches to an alien that thinks Star Trek is real. However, the purpose of this wasn't to convince the alien to leave, but distract him long enough to get a sniper bullet to the skull. Stewart, of course, wasn't aware of this. | |
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In Arfenhouse 3, Housemaster's party does this to Final Boss Billy in a direct parody of Final Fantasy VI. | |
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At the end of Final Fantasy VI, Kefka's denunciation of existence prompts a response from the members of the party. This leads to Kefka declaring that they all sound like chapters from a self-help booklet, and then they kick his insane godly rear end anyway. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring: Boromir's speech to Aragorn, shortly before the Breaking of the Fellowship. Though not a straight subversion of this trope, the story demonstrates a few scenes later that the reality of human nature is uglier than Boromir's speech makes it out to be. | |
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Seeing how wanting to be human is a major part of the show, Being Human has a few, usually from Mitchell, who, despite living through both World Wars, and being attacked by a mob believing he's a pedophile, still has complete belief in human goodness. | |
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Vandal Hearts: Ash Lambert made a quite rousing Patrick Stewart Speech after the Big Bad had revealed his plan to "cleanse" the world and it's sinful inhabitants. Of course, it kinda lost a little of its initial, profound bite when the Big Bad called him out on the hypocrisy that speech. |
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Superman: As an adopted alien who was raised by some of the nicest Midwestern farmers out there, he is quite fond of this. Sometimes he doesn't need a speech. Just pointing out that frickin' Superman absolutely adores humans and wants to be a human is enough: In the Superman/Batman series, Superman pulls off a mental Patrick Stewart Speech, where he convinces a Social Darwinist alien race to read his mind and back off of invading Earth. |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: The climax of the episode "Veritas" has Boimler give one. When he and his fellow Ensigns are (seemingly) on trial for their lives and the lives of their senior officers and Clar doesn't accept their answers that they weren't informed of what happened on the date he specifics, Boimler goes into detail of how not even their officers know what is going on all the time, and that is okay because everyone in Starfleet joined to become explorers, not heroes, and that sometimes means not knowing everything and making mistakes, but learning from them and discovering the unknown anyway. It quickly changes into a "The Reason You Suck" Speech for putting them all through the "trial". | |
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Hilariously subverted in the comedy series Hyperdrive. After their disastrous First Contact with the Queppu, the crew seek to avoid future problems by covertly nuking the planet behind the captain's back while he's busy giving his speech. | |
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Aximili from the Animorphs series of books, being an alien stranded on earth, will often think of the virtues of humans that make us worth saving. Like jellybeans, chocolate, popcorn, and the pinnacle of human achievement, the cinnamon bun. Needless to say, he is the epitome of the parody or light-hearted version of this trope. He has, however, marveled at humanity's willingness to trudge on despite seemingly hopeless odds - and not just trying to endure or cut losses, but to still achieve victory. He also notes that humanity's drive to succeed has enabled us to progress faster in technology than any other race, who are only ahead of us because they are millennia older. He also remarks upon how humans are able to survive in a world with hundreds of different species that wouldn't mind having anything made of meat (Earth native or not) for dinner. We get the same thing, oddly enough, from Visser One, one of the major villains. One of the first two long-term Human-Controllers, she eventually became, as one character notes, "addicted" to humanity, including having human children. |
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During the climax of Fire Emblem Echoes, Alm delivers an epic one to rally his troops for the final fight against Duma. Alm argues that humans shouldn't allow themselves to be at the mercy of another's power, that they all deserve to make their own destinies, even if they may fail along the way. | |
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Parodied in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The omnipotent Observers have been making Pearl Forrester and Professor Bobo fight to the death throughout the episode. At the end, Pearl has Bobo down and the Observers order her to finish him. Pearl refuses, throwing away her sword and delivering a speech (directly to the camera) about how humans may not be perfect, but their capacity for compassion and love makes them special. It does get to the Observers...until Bobo gets up and clocks Pearl in the back of the head, reminding her that he's not human. Then she starts chasing after him, shouting "That's it Magilla, you are so dead I can't believe it!" | |
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In Dragon Ball Super, Future Trunks gives one to Merged Zamasu when the latter mocks him for being weaker than he, with the following dubbed-in lines: | |
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In Tales of the Emperasque LIVII gives one on behalf of Eldar after Emperor gives him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech directed at them. It manages to humble the God-Emperor of Mankind. Roboute Guilliman also says one for humanity after he returns to Macragge. | |
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In Star Trek: The Original Series, Kirk manages to beat Picard to it a couple of times: "A Taste Of Armageddon has Kirk countering Anan's assertion that without their "simulated" war between Eminiar and Vendikar, actual was is inevitable since like humans they are a "killer species": "A Private Little War" has Kirk pointing out how humanity was once like Tyree's people and in time they too could emerge as a peace loving, intelligent society. "[1]" has Kirk giving this to the Vians, two members of an advanced society, who scientifically want to determine which race of a system they are going to save, as its sun is about to go supernova. When the aforementioned Empath, whom Mc Coy named Gem, is put to the test to see, if she possesses the very much human quality to sacrifice her life for another, which is lampshaded as such by the Vians, Gem tries to do it, in spite of her fear, only for the person the sacrifice was meant for, namely Mc Coy, to refuse. The willingness to sacrifice is not good enough for the Vians though, which leads to Kirk tearing into them and telling them that they are trying to extort this quality from both Gem and them, in spite of having either never possessed it or lost it themselves a long time ago. The Vians don't pay it much heed, until Kirk closes it down with making a real show of human compassion, offering up his own life and the lives of Spock and Gem, along with the life of Mc Coy for the Vians to do away with, as they do not even wish to leave a dead Mc Coy behind. |
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Judai Yuuki, almost constantly, in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. Jaden, less so. | |
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Concerned. Gordon's brother Norman is an expert. | |
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Crowley, of all people, makes one to Aziraphale in Good Omens, this time listing all the little pleasures of life that simply wouldn't exist if all there was to existence was Heaven. The idea of humanity having merit simply for being human is the general theme of the book. | |
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Parodied in an episode of Futurama when Nibbler gladly describes planet Earth as "homeworld of the pizza-bagel". Presumably, other cultures invented pizza and/or bagels (or foods similar to them), but only humanity had ever thought of combining them. | |
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The rebooted Man of Steel gives Jor-El this: "You will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun, Kal. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders." | |
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In Code Geass, Lelouch gives one to his brother Schneizel during their final debate about humanity and humanity's desires. It is quite heartwarming, and serves to really tie the entire series together. | |
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In The Bible, recorded in 2 Kings 19, 2 Chronicles 32, and Isaiah 37, when the Assyrian king Sennacherib is about to invade and conquer Judah, Hezekiah prays to God, recalling how Sennacherib has conquered other countries whose idols were powerless to prevent them from being conquered, boasting that no one would be able to deliver the inhabitants from his hand, and the prophet Isaiah tells him that the Lord will deliver Jerusalem from the Assyrian forces. During the night, an angel comes and slays 185,000 Assyrian soldiers, and after retreating to Nineveh, Sennacherib is slain by his sons. | |
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Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords had a similar example, where you could give a speech to some Dantooine troops before a battle. (although you could only choose 3 pre-made speeches, one good, one neutral, and one subversion meant to demoralize the troops rather than rally them). Some Gameplay and Story Integration occurs here, as the speech you choose actually influences how many troops survive the initial cutscene battle, changing the number of troops on hand for the Last Stand (to the point where it can be a Curb-Stomp Battle for either side). | |
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In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Gandalf explains his reasons for choosing Bilbo for the quest: | |
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Enoah Ballard delivers an absolutely beautiful one in the final volume of Eden: It's an Endless World!. | |
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In the last episode of the anime, Devil May Cry: The Animated Series, the main bad guy is giving his "How could I lose!?" speech, wondering if those who are born weak are doomed to always fail. Dante says that winning and losing doesn't have anything to do with power, it depends on the quality of your soul. The bad guy tries to use this to his advantage, saying "Oh, so since your soul is good, you'll spare me, right?" He doesn't. | |
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One is said about humanity by a frigging Eldar of all things in the fanfiction Secret War | |
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The Power Rangers Wild Force episode "The Soul of Humanity" invokes this. During the Org's attack, several humans are pinned under rubble. As the others run away, Mandilok claims to the Rangers that all the humans they protect are nothing but selfish cowards. He's proven wrong when the people return to help their trapped friends. Cole then makes this speech: | |
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Doctor Who: The Doctor does this quite a lot. "The Ark in Space": "Homo sapiens. What an inventive, invincible species. It’s only a few million years since they crawled up out of the mud and learned to walk. Puny, defenceless bipeds. They’ve survived flood, famine and plague. They’ve survived cosmic wars and holocausts. And now, here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity. They’re indomitable." He describes humans as "indomitable" again in "Utopia", when they've survived all the way to the end of the Universe. The Doctor has also commented on humanity's genius with confectionery, from jelly babies to edible ball bearings. Inverted with the Ninth Doctor, who often expressed his frustration with humans as "stupid apes". The Doctor attempts one in "The Christmas Invasion", but because he's still loopy from regeneration sickness, realizes halfway in that his impassioned plea is actually the lyrics to "The Circle of Life" from The Lion King (1994). Particularly "Ordinary, stupid, brilliant PEOPLE" in comparison to the emotionless Cybermen in "The Age of Steel". Deconstructed along with several other Doctor Who tropes in "Midnight", when the Monster of the Week is an unknown entity possessing a woman on a bus, and the Doctor is trying to keep the other passengers from throwing her out into the planet's deadly sunlight; for once, he's drastically misjudged his audience and his ability to influence them. Another, very touching one, in "The End of Time". He tells Wilfred Mott that he's 900 years old, to which the old man remarks: Inverted in "The Beast Below". "Nobody HUMAN has anything to say to me today!" And then the inversion itself gets subverted, when the Doctor's brand-new human companion intuits the true nature of the situation, which the Doctor has failed to do, and intervenes just in time to stop him making a mistake for which he'd never be able to forgive himself. Even the TARDIS herself gets in on it in "The Doctor's Wife": Played straight (and nicely so) in "The Power of Three" when the Doctor confronts the Shakri, who believe that to maintain "The Tally", humanity must be wiped out: Played straight again in "Death in Heaven" when the Doctor addresses a crowd that contains Missy and the army of Cybermen she's just raised including Danny. |
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Subverted - along with all other things - in The Non-Adventures of Wonderella. When the Vaguely Greco-Roman Godhead plans the destruction of the world to pave the way for a newer, better one, Wonderella shows the Godhead the value of human life... not with a well-reasoned speech, but by calling them "dickholes" and complaining that her sister can fly and she can't. Impressed that one of their creations should show such unbridled passion, they decide to leave the world as it is. In another strip, Wonderella convinces Patrick Stewart himself to give one of these speeches to an alien that thinks Star Trek is real. However, the purpose of this wasn't to convince the alien to leave, but distract him long enough to get a sniper bullet to the skull. Stewart, of course, wasn't aware of this. |
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Averted in Outland. The hero, played by Sean Connery, having defeated the killers sent to eliminate him, limps up to the boss of the corrupt space-mining colony, opens his mouth to say what he thinks of him... and says "Oh fuck it" and just decks the man. | |
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Commander Adama in the 2003 miniseries of Battlestar Galactica does a subversion. Rather than give a sappy speech at the Battlestar's decommissioning he asks "Is humanity worth saving?" A pertinent question considering the incoming genocide by humanity's rogue robotic children. And he stops just short of saying no. Athena later rubs this in his face. Later on the series, his son Lee uses one in Baltar's trial, working for the defense. Ironic, no? |
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T. H. White's The Book of Merlyn contains a lengthy Hannibal Lecture on humanity's flaws, which seems like a massive downer. However, it does follow it up with a brief Patrick Stewart Speech on what the speaker considers to be humanity's saving grace: the love it has for its pets. | |
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South Park: Butters gives one of these in "Raisins". However, he is not arguing against the destruction of humanity; he is just arguing that life is too good to waste on being goth. He gives another one in "Cartman Sucks" after his father thinks he's "bi-curious" and sends him to a Pray-Away-The-Gay camp, eventually leading to Butters telling off his father and the counselors — while having no idea what "bi-curious" means. |
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No Game No Life: Sora has great faith in the power of humanity (even if he detests the current state of it) and gave one such speech to all the people of Elchea. Stephanie's grandfather believed that humans could defeat the others despite their lack of magic, but was unable to prove it, and so he became known as a "foolish king". Sora holds a small speech to Jibril about the King when he realised the old man was not a fool at all. |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Spike explains to Buffy why he likes the world, and the humans in it, and thus would rather side with Buffy against Angel's evil personality Angelus than see Angelus summon the demon Acathla that sucks the world into Hell. A subversion in that he's not defending humanity except as food, but is quite fond of some parts of the culture that we give rise to. None of which explains all that business with The Judge earlier in the season. He does whatever Drusilla wants, and would do anything to get her back from Angelus. So while his Patrick Stewart speech is partly true for him, it's mostly a way of avoiding telling Buffy that he's been cuckolded. She figures it out later, anyway. Also, Spike pays attention to technology. Dru and Angelus may have thought the Judge was going to end the world, but she's nuts and he's been out of touch for rather a while. Spike almost certainly knew that the Judge was only going to kill people until the army brings up the tanks and airstrikes. He's only doing it to keep Dru happy. In fact he specifically alludes to this when he was captured by the initiative - (referring to Buffy) I always worried what would happen when that bitch got some funding. Anya gets one in "End Of Days" |
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Variation in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Negi is nearly tempted to return to Earth and abandon the Magic World to be destroyed by Fate, who claims that the inhabitants' lives don't matter because they are just meaningless illusions. Asuna counters with: | |
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In Stellvia of the Universe, Masaru's personal achievement is a Patrick Stewart Speech broadcast to the entirety of humanity from a space station about to be crushed by a cosmic cataclysm. He survives. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIII, the Big Bad Orphan delivers one when it explains why the Fal'Cie turn humans into L'Cie. Lightning delivers one of her own shortly after. |
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Superman's father, Jor-El, does this at least once in the film series: "They can be a great people, Kal-El; they wish to be. They only lack the light to show the way. It is this, above all, their capacity for good, that I have sent them you ... my only son." The rebooted Man of Steel gives Jor-El this: "You will give the people of Earth an ideal to strive towards. They will race behind you, they will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun, Kal. In time, you will help them accomplish wonders." |
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In Transformers (2007), Optimus Prime delivers one of these in response to Ironhide's query of why they fight for the humans, a primitive and violent race. | |
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Carl Sagan's son Nick wrote a couple of episodes in the final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and early seasons of Star Trek: Voyager. Perhaps this propensity is In the Blood? | |
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For a while, Brainiac masqueraded as Clark's history professor (and another displaced Kryptonian). In Splinter he goes into a spiel in class about how humans have a long tradition of betraying one another (two examples given were Caesar and Brutus, and Jesus and Judas). Clark delivers a textbook Patrick Stewart Speech to Brainiac at the end of the episode. | |
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The Tick makes a Patrick Stewart Speech to dissuade Omnipotus from eating Earth. He quickly rifles through his apartment to find objects to use as evidence of Earth's right to exist, including a bowling trophy and a half-eaten cheese basket. | |
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RWBY: Epic of Remnant: Angra Mainyu tells Salem that while he hates humanity, if it could produce wonderful people like Gudako, it can't be all bad. | |
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In Babylon 5, Sheridan combines a Patrick Stewart Speech with a Kirk Summation and serves it all up with a Large Ham when he tells both the Vorlons and the Shadows to "Get the hell out of our galaxy!" Also, there's Sinclair's response to the reporter in the first season as to whether humanity should be out in space. Delenn gave one in the first season to the other members of the Grey Council. |
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Sailor Moon gives these all the time. Her introduction speeches are all about the innocence and wonder that is currently being invaded by the bad guys. Then, right before she powers up to end the deal, she'll plead with the bad guys to let the people live in peace. In the manga, she even gives up being a being of pure energy and thought so she can live on Earth, pain and all, with her friends—and gives a speech about it, too. In the original anime, when faced with the Big Bad every season, they tell her how awful the world is and how useless her idealism is. | |
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1.0 | |
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Patrick Stewart Speech / int_fa738078 | |
| Patrick Stewart Speech / int_fb9c177d | type |
Patrick Stewart Speech | |
| Patrick Stewart Speech / int_fb9c177d | comment |
Optimus Prime of Transformers, multiple times. | |
| Patrick Stewart Speech / int_fb9c177d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Patrick Stewart Speech / int_fb9c177d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Patrick Stewart Speech / int_fb9c177d | |
| Patrick Stewart Speech / int_fe8ef766 | type |
Patrick Stewart Speech | |
| Patrick Stewart Speech / int_fe8ef766 | comment |
Horrifically subverted/inverted in one issue of Captain America. Red Skull is feeling depressed and possibly remorseful after his latest scheme of the week failed so Crossbones gives him an impassioned speech to give him hope. About midway through, the speech becomes a Long List of all the mind-numbingly horrible things Red Skull has done over the years and how everyone he's hurt deserved it. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
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Patrick Stewart Speech / int_fe8ef766 | |
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Patrick Stewart Speech | |
| Patrick Stewart Speech / int_feb47653 | comment |
Played with in Switchblade Honey: the Deconstructive Parody of Star Trek featuring Ray Winstone instead of Patrick Stewart as Captain of a guerilla ship full of criminals who are fighting a losing war against an alien empire totally justified in attacking Earth. His speech is not so much "Humans are good at their core" as "Humans Are Bastards who deserve the consequences of their stupidity, but can we really live with ourselves if we run out on them and leave them all to die?" | |
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1.0 | |
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Patrick Stewart Speech / int_feb47653 |
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