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La Résistance is about to be crushed by The Empire. The Ragtag Bunch of Misfits sports team is way behind at halftime. The Dork Horse Candidate has just seen their opponent make a strong point in the political debate, to enthusiastic applause. The opposing attorney in the courtroom drama has just made their argument with laser-like precision. The MacGuffin was seized by the Mooks, and the team sees no way to recover it or succeed without it. In short, everything looks hopelessly lost. And this is when the hero will step forward and make a pithy speech including at least one noteworthy One-Liner (similar to a "Facing the Bullets" One-Liner), to the effect of (or the specific phrase) "It's time to take the fight to them," (often followed by a One-Liner Echo or a Dramatic Gun Cock). This sometimes happens right after a sidekick has joined the choir invisible via a Heroic Sacrifice. Sometimes the characters are going Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!. In TV and movies, there's no situation so desperate that it can't be turned completely around with a brilliant one-minute rant. This speech means that the heroes are going to (finally) move to a proactive posture, despite the overwhelming odds and very real chance that they'll all end up dead. The Background Music usually swells to a rousing, if not outright majestic climax as the hero drives his point home. The Slow Clap or other ovation followup is practically essential, followed by a Misfit Mobilization Moment (or a Miracle Rally for sports-based works). But if a Grand Finale does not result, the whole thing will often backfire leaving the heroes badly battered. A Sedgwick Speech often looks like one of these at the beginning. When it's the whole damn human race that's getting the Rousing Speech, that's Last Stand. When the Rousing Speech is delivered by the leader of a nation or world, it is an example of Emergency Presidential Address. Usually, it's the leader of the heroes who delivers the Rousing Speech signaling this transition, but a common variation is to have whichever character is typically most cautious (even cowardly) deliver it. Compare with: Balcony Speech: A big speech or announcement conducted from a balcony/overhang, but not necessarily a pep talk. Patrick Stewart Speech: When the villain is about to annihilate civilization as we know it, a heroic figure will stand up and admit that in spite of its flaws and vices, humanity still has its good qualities and doesn't necessarily deserve to be wiped off the face of the earth. "No More Holding Back" Speech: Hero gives himself a Rousing Speech, possibly for the benefit of anyone else who may be listening. Self-Destructive Charge: Sometimes actions can take the place of the Rousing Speech. Tired of Running: A Rousing Speech about fighting back after losing for too long. It Has Been an Honor: A Rousing Speech about the general awesomeness of one's comrades. Do Not Go Gentle: Not giving in to despair. Dare to Be Badass: You're Awesome! Act like it! Music for Courage: When a song provides the same purpose. Contrast with: The War Has Just Begun: There's way more bad stuff ahead. Our task is as yet unfinished. Sedgwick Speech: You get killed during your Rousing Spee— Bastardly Speech: Would be a Rousing Speech, if it weren't a complete lie. New Era Speech: Villain talks about how amazing everything is going to be. "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Speech pointing out the addressed's shortcomings in plain view. Compare and contrast with: Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die: The speaker is perhaps a little too anxious to see the heroes march off to heroic, noble, horribly painful, lingering death. To a Martyrdom Culture, a perfectly rousing speech. Otherwise, not so much. Shaming the Mob: The speaker is trying to convince their audience not to do something they're seemingly dead-set on doing, usually something violent. It may overlap with a Rousing Speech if the speaker is trying to appeal to their better natures and/or offering a better solution that solves everyone's problem. Because of the sheer volume of memorable Real Life Rousing Speeches that exist, please do not add them to this page, add them to the Quotes page. |
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In The Falcon Cannot Hear, Upton Sinclair gives one (which goes down in history as the "We Shall Defeat" speech) in response to the Japanese invasion of the West Coast. | |
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In The Codex, one of the early Halo 2 machinimas, there was a stunningly good one of these. Massive bonus points for overlaying two such speeches, by the (sympathetic) opposing commanders. | |
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Night Watch also parodies Braveheart by taking the most remembered line — "They may take our lives", etc. — and having people react to it as if the speaker had just said something profoundly stupid. It does turn out be literally true for Reg Shoe, who is the one who used it. On the other hand, Night Watch also included two example of Vimes playing this completely straight — first during the 'Keel and the Line' scene where he tells his men that their duty is simply to keep the peace and keep as many people from getting hurt as possible, and again later when Carcer and the palace guard are trying to kill him when his men are already resolved to following him to the death, so he simply tells them that it's important that they win because if they don't, things will be very bad. That's pure Sam Vimes. |
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Pale: Toadswallow gives an emotional speech in memory of John Stiles to rouse the goblins, some of whom are not local and otherwise wouldn't be invested, to make a last push against the Carmine Exile. | |
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Alexander: The titular character rides before his phalanx at the Battle of Gaugamela, pointing out individual soldiers and reminding them of their past heroic deeds. Then he addresses the army as a whole. | |
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Serenity (2005) contains two versions of this trope: Once after The Operative destroys the group's safe havens, and once after the secret is found out. The latter is punctuated by Mal's catchphrase, "I aim to misbehave". | |
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In Ruled Britannia, Shakespeare's entire play of the story of Boudicca, the final two lines of which inspire his audience to rise up and throw out the Spanish occupiers: | |
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A Bug's Life: During the climax of the film, he 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 how right Flik is and are galvanized into beating Hopper and his men back. | |
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In The Alamo (2004), Sam Houston gives a brief but effective one prior to the battle of San Jacinto: | |
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Played straight in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents when Darktan is about to lead a counterattack against the mysterious menace lurking under the town. | |
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Wonder Woman (2011): After Olympus falls to the First Born and most of the Olympians have been slaugtered and turned into meat moss Diana rouses the Amazons with, "Warriors, I ask you to join me in a fight to reclaim Heaven. Follow me... not as your princess... but as the God of War!" | |
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Recursion: Admiral Mosley gives one to his fleet before the final battle. Or at least he tries, but he gets interrupted by Dr. Deathe, who manages to spectacularly fail at intimidation. | |
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The "inches" speech in Any Given Sunday, spoken by the team coach (Al Pacino) just before their playoff game. | |
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In Trading Places, Winthorpe gives a pep talk before going into the Exchange building: | |
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The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland combines with a "Reason You Suck" Speech as Oscar the Grouch rallies the Grouches of Grouchland to band together against Huxley. | |
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Tori gives one to Yuma in Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL as the Different Dimension Airship is about to be swallowed up, and Vector offers to help Yuma's friends in exchange for all his Numbers. The others join in later after they escape the black hole. |
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This happens with the X-Men in the Fall of the Mutants storyline. They know full well they will not survive the encounter with the Adversary, but go on to fight him anyway after Wolverine gives some rousing words to the people watching at home (a cameraman was accompanying them). | |
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In The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension — the alien leader of the Red Lectroids (inhabiting the body of Italian scientist Emilio Lizardo (John Lithgow) gives a rousing pre-invasion speech to his men, complete with the mannerism of Benito Mussolini. It ends with a rousing call to arms: | |
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In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Neville gives a rousing speech after Voldemort's apparent victory. The speech replaces his much-beloved Pre Ass Kicking One Liner ("I'll join you when hell freezes over! Dumbledore's Army!) from the book. | |
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In The Silmarillion, Fëanor manages to convince almost all of the Noldor to leave their home and wage war against Morgoth. | |
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Blues Brothers 2000: Elwood, played by Dan Aykroyd, launches into a semi-inspiring speech (mostly about the many reasons that the Russian Mafia was not, in fact, going to blow up Willy's Strip Club) — but it consisted almost entirely of a history lecture on Russian politics that left everyone else entirely perplexed. Another one after they've run out of gas in the middle of nowhere, and all but the main three are thinking of just giving up — They eventually follow, except for the saxophonist (Blue Lou Marini) who wanders off to get gas. |
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The movie The Replacements (2000) plays with this. The quarterback calls for the last huddle and specifically states that he's not good with the type of speeches they're expecting, so he just makes a one-liner. It seems to be more motivational that if he'd actually tried making the speech. Played straight earlier in the film with coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman), where he tells the players to take their fear of failure and put it into the other team. |
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Deeba gives one in Chapter 81 of Un Lun Dun. | |
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The Goonies. The Hero, Mikey, gives a speech convincing the Goonies to continue following the Treasure Map after the Jerk Jock offers them a chance to be rescued. | |
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In Mission Hill, just after Andy has given a rousing speech in defense of his brother: | |
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The Return of the King: When Théoden, prior to the charge of the Rohirrim, effectively tells his men, "You wanna live forever? I thought not! Let's go kill some bad guys and get our throats cut!" See Northern Heroism under Mythology below. From that same scene, a very short but very powerful speech from Éowyn to Merry. From Aragorn at the final battle: Aragorn says all of that again, with greater eloquence and impact, just a moment after he's done with the speech above; when he quietly says to the Hobbits "For Frodo." |
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Master and Commander: "This Ship is England..." | |
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In Asteroid in Love, Mikage and Mari delivers one together to the Mira and Ao over the phone during Chapter 34/Episode 10, when it turns out that only one of them was selected to the Shiny Star Challengenote A scientific summer camp that ties in quite tightly with their Goal in Life — discovering an asteroid together.—and are having so bad of a Heroic B So D that no other character can handle. | |
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In Romy and Michele's High School Reunion after Christy humiliates Romy and Michele for their lie that they invented Post-it Notes, Romy loses all her confidence at the reunion, it's easygoing Michele who delivers one of these, to their mutual surprise: | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: The first comes in episode eight, and things just grow from there. The best definitely goes to Simon once he overcomes Kamina's death. His speech and his Theme Music Power-Up together are extremely rousing. Essentially every line Simon has in the last three episodes is one of these. Near the end of the show, everyone else in the crew joins in and recite the Dai-Gurren Brigade's Badass Creed. For the last few episodes, EVERY motivating speech they give can be summed up as "We're about to Punch Out Cthulhu." That's an awesome creed right there. |
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A favorite pastime of the title character on Naruto, usually concerning the power of friendship and never giving up. Ironically, one of the most memorable of the show's speeches was much more cynical, given by not-exactly-main character Shikamaru. Now that the series has been going towards end game territory (with The End of the World as We Know It at hand), in Chapter 516, former Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Gaara has been given supreme command of the entire Shinobi Alliance Army. So how does he defuse xenophobia- and racism generations of animosity fueled conflict between the united shinobi? Well, of course, by this gem: Chapter 615 brought around arguably the most astonishing one of all, from Hinata, in her attempt to snap Naruto out of a severe Heroic BSoD. Made all the more impressive in that after being the Shrinking Violet who could barely talk to Naruto at all (although that was mostly in Part I, since she grew out of that by Part II), she steps up and delivers it without a single stutter. It worked! In Chapter 630, as the Juubi prepares to undergo another transformation and Naruto is low on chakra, shinobi start wondering how they're going to manage without him. Sakura, who is healing Naruto back to full strength, has this to say. |
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In Lords of the Bow, Genghis Khan gives a very impressive speech after gathering the steppe tribes together, which motivates them to cross the Gobi desert and attack the Chinese nations. | |
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Bug gives us an example of this... kinda. | |
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Knute Rockne, All American: And the team rushes out of the locker room to win the game. Parodied in Airplane! where Dr. Rumack gives Ted Stryker almost the exact same speech, except that it's about George Zipp so it ends "...and win just one for the Zipper." " 'I don't know where I'll be then, Doc,' he said, 'But I won't smell too good, that's for sure.' " |
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Subverted in Muppet Treasure Island, when the rat with the toothpick-sized sword tries to put his life on the line and stand up to Long John Silver, but fails miserably: | |
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The Critic improves on this by Kickassia. Granted it's about Nazis, but it worked. Precisely, it was something like this: |
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Parodied in Airplane! where Dr. Rumack gives Ted Stryker almost the exact same speech, except that it's about George Zipp so it ends "...and win just one for the Zipper." " 'I don't know where I'll be then, Doc,' he said, 'But I won't smell too good, that's for sure.' " |
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In Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes, Earth-Man and his goons have driven the Legion of Super-Heroes out of Earth after turning the whole planet against them. Those Legionnaires who haven't been captured or are lost are tired, hopeless and bickering with each other until Superman stops it. | |
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Played nearly straight in Mystery Men. "Or will I eat this sandwich?" | |
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In The Last Hero the heroes who are going to the Hub to intercept Cohen have patches made up with a slogan in actually rather good Latin: Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind thought them up. With something between amusement and disdain, Lord Vetinari prompts him to translate: "We who are about to die, don't want to." (literally, "{the}About-To-Die We-Do-Not-Want To-Die") | |
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In Hugo's Les Misérables, the men at the barricade of the Rue de Chanvrerie are aware they will probably not get out of it alive. That doesn't stop Enjolras from giving a speech about progress and a more idealistic republic. The speech literally takes up one chapter of the book. | |
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Moby Dick: Back From The Deep: In page 5 of chapter 4, Captain Ahab delivers one such speech to his crew. | |
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At the climax of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Phoebus gives a big rousing speech for the Gypsies and citizens to fight back and put an end to Frollo's tyranny once and for all. | |
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A More Personal Union has a few, most notably those by Francis II on the steps of Notre Dame when he founds the Gallican Church, and Henri III's to his men right before the Battle of Toledo. | |
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Moby-Dick: Several, but the most notable and dramatic happens with the St. Elmo's Fire scene, where the crew swears loyalty to Captain Ahab after seeing how fearless he is. | |
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Played with in Attack on Titan where in Episode 7, after everyone's morale is down, Sasha tries to get everyone together with a "If we all work together..." speech but she clearly doesn't believe it herself and it fails to make any impact. Later on, Mikasa is distraught after finding out Eren was eaten but instead of a speech, she insults the remaining terrified soldiers and heads off to kill more Titans. It works. | |
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In Rick and Morty Season 5, when President Curtis needs an army to take down his Evil Twin, he goes to a bar full of marines and shows Obama what a speech really is like: | |
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Freefall parodied this sort of speech with Sam Starfall "the larcenous squid" addressing several thousands of crickets he was going to send into an attack. DoS attack on an alarm system. | |
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Parodied in the Norm MacDonald movie Dirty Work: after screwing over the residents of an apartment block by trashing their building, Norm's character and his accomplice are themselves screwed over by the slimy businessman who hired them to do so. Norm appeals to the residents to join him in a scheme that will enable everyone to get their revenge on the businessman with a stirring speech that climaxes with him yelling "Are you with me?"... and the response is a stony, hostile silence. He then tries "Okay, are you with me on the assumption that if we fail, you get to kick my ass?" — and the crowd goes wild. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: In "Road Rash", Heffer gives one to a reluctant Rocko to convince him to join him in going on a road trip to see Flemm Rock one last time before it gets paved over: In "Wacky Delly", Ralph Bighead hires Rocko, Heffer and Filburt to create the titular Show Within a Show in the hopes that it will fail so he can get out of his contract with his animation studio and try his hand as an actual artist. Thanks in part to Heffer and Filburt's creative differences, Wacky Delly's pilot episode is a poorly-drawn and poorly edited mess. However, both the network executives and the general public love it, and Ralph is stuck in his contract. Ralph's attempts to sabotage Wacky Delly, such as having one episode show a jar of mayonnaise for ten minutes and another episode consist of overexposed film footage only make the show more popular. When Ralph reveals to Rocko that he has been trying to sabotage the show to get out of his contract, Rocko gives him a speech on how happy he's made so many people and encourages him to make Wacky Delly better instead of trying to sabotage it. Ralph takes Rocko's advice and creates an intellectually improved episode of Wacky Delly. In an ironic twist, the general public hates it and it gets the show cancelled. |
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In Birds of Prey's first team-up, Oracle is speaking to Black Canary as she is fighting Lynx and, when it seems like Lynx has won, Oracle explains that Dinah does not have the luxury of dying here and she better get up and DO something about it. Afterwards, Dinah actually comments that it was a nice speech. | |
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Supergirl (1984): As she is being overpowered by Selena's shadow demon, Supergirl hears Zaltar's voice in her head encouraging her to not give up and keep fighting. | |
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Total Drama: The Killer Grips have to enact a war scene for a trunk that the Screaming Gaffers are guarding in "Full Metal Drama". The Grips aren't feeling it, so Admiral Lindsay her Hotness gives a spirited speech that gets her team, Beleaguered Assistant Beth included, ready to throw fists. Lindsay herself stays seated to wait for the Grips' victorious return. In "Million Dollar Babies", Chris reveals he was the coach in a batminton movie and reenacts one of his key scenes. Said scene is a rousing speech to the batminton team to show the Olympic Committee that they deserve a shot because they make batminton not just good-minton, but great-minton! The contestants are less than impressed by the performance, but Chef is moved to tears. The former contestants are locked out of the Gemmie Awards in "Celebrity Manhunt's TDA Reunion Show" and informed there'll be new faces to star in Total Drama Dirtbags. They accept defeat and head home, but Sierra calls them back with a stalkerish speech that they owe it to their fans not to give up yet and should hijack the Dirtbags' interview on the Orpah Show to pull the spotlight back on them. When DJ offers his mother's bus to make it to the interview, everyone gets on board with the plan. With only half the member count compared to the other teams and a solid losing streak, Team Victory does not feel great about their odds in "Broadway, Baby!". Lindsay pulls DJ and Leshawna out of their slump by giving a short but fiery speech. Once Cody's and Sierra's makeshift hot air balloon crashes in "Planes, Trains, and Hot Air Mobiles", Cody is ready to stop fighting for a spot in the finale. Sierra arranges a new means of transport and when that's not enough to get Cody back in the game, she angrily but supportively tells him he owes it to his fans to keep going. Her belief in him brings Cody back to his senses. |
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From A Very Potter Sequel, when everything looks bad and the Power Trio Power Quartet can't even summon a single happy thought to fight off the army of Dementors, and as Ron says, "there is absolutely no way we can win!" | |
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The Martian: Lampshaded by Teddy Sanders, in the lead-up to the construction of Iris. | |
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In Disney's 1995 Pocahontas, both the white settlers and Pocahontas' tribe have rousing speeches at the same time leading up to the battle between them. This being Disney, it's done in song. This is a subversion, since the audience can see just how distorted each speech is in demonizing the other side. Quite a bit of both speeches are identical, so the two sides can say them together. Oddly, both contain a lot of focus on race, while the issue had been pretty much ignored in favor of culture clash for the rest of the movie (the settlers had been referring to the natives as 'savages' the whole time, but until the song no-one was saying 'red-skin' or anything like that). Later releases changed "red-skin" to "shrieking". |
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Of Fear and Faith: North delivers one to a group of haggard soldiers at the end of one chapter. It works out well for him and the soldiers, as they finally agree to escape alongside North and his party from the hellhole they've been refusing to leave, but it doesn't go as well for Phenix, who feels like a complete failure after three straight chapters of trying and failing to do the same thing, only to have North come in and rally them all in a second. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz, Dorothy Catalonia rouses the citizenry to openly protest Marimaia's coup d'etat. This can only be seen in the theatrical, not the 3-episode OVA cut. | |
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Parodied in Robert Graves's I, Claudius, where Claudius meets historians Livy and Pollio. Pollio criticizes Livy for writing that generals gave rousing speeches before battles, and tells that Julius Caesar before the decisive battle with Pompey (where Pollio was present) didn't do anything of the sort; instead, he did funny skits involving a radish. In the sequel, Claudius the God, Claudius gives a similar speech before an important battle in Britain (without a radish though). | |
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The locker room speech from Miracle: USA! USA! |
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Dreamscape: Given by Keela of all people to pull Dylan out of his Despair Event Horizon in a flashback in "Over and Under". | |
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Played for laughs in Homestuck when John attempts one of these and Rose suggests that he hire a speechwriter. | |
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In Claymore, Teresa gives one of these to an Awakened and partially Assimilated-by-the-Big Bad Cassandra, with shades of Dare to Be Badass. Beyond goading Cassandra into summoning the willpower to break away from the Big Bad, it's actually enough to reawaken her human side to face Teresa in battle so that Cassandra can die as a human rather than a monster. | |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Aquaman's Rousing Song of Heroism is a particularly hammy and catchy version of this trope. Plastic Man leads a sing-along of (his version of) "Yankee Doodle" to evoke the spirit of freedom and restore Uncle Sam, setting the stage for the heroes' victory. |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars,"Defenders of Peace": Durd gives a long boasting speech to his Separatist droids about "his" new superweapon before they test it, even though it's unnecessary, because he likes to hear himself talk. The droids to actually get excited when they learn the weapon is designed to harm organics and leave droids undamaged. | |
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Dracula contains a speech from the Count himself. Though the context is wrong for this trope, the content is certainly worthy of a particularly good one. Plus, after the discovery that Dracula used to be a human lord who was also a great general, one can very easily imagine him giving a true Rousing Speech that could have said many of the same things. | |
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In the third part of Sonic Boom's Story Arc "Robots from the Sky", Knuckles, Amy, Sticks and Og are backed against the wall when it comes to the robot invasion in Hedgehog Village, and they're unable to deal with the mass of robots on their own. However, Knuckles, seeing the many villagers cowering around them, inspires everyone to fight back. | |
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And he finally gets to deliver a genuinely good one in Suburban Knights, even if most of it is cribbed from The Lord of the Rings: | |
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Giant Days: Towards the end of a cricket match in which the regulars and various supporting characters have been bullied into playing as a Ragtag Band of Misfits, Only Sane Man McGraw attempts a personal rousing speech to the demoralised Paul, to limited effect. Then Perky Goth Esther cuts in and parodies the trope to match-winning effect. | |
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In the tenth episode of Log Horizon's Second Season, William Underwood Delivers a grand speech to his defeated guild. They're all ready to quit. The game has betrayed them. It set them the impossible task of fighting three raid bosses at once. Can't win. No way. Then He gets talking. He acknowledges their points, then tells them screw it. Are they gamers or not? They didn't do this because of anybody else but themselves. Because they love it. This is who they are. This is what they do. He backed off once from an impossible task... and then somebody made it succeed anyways. Well that same guy came to him, asked HIM for help. He can't back off now. The speech takes most of the episode, around 15 minutes in length. It's a moving and massive love letter to MMO gamers the world over. The speech is on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVN-z9C3g9Q |
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Bill Murray's terrific "it just doesn't matter" rant in Meatballs roused the entire camp to victory, even while emphasizing the superiority of their opponents and underscoring the pointlessness of the game. | |
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In the mini-series Tales of the Green Lantern Corps, Krona, in service of the death god, Nekron, had defeated the bulk of the Corps and shattered their morale. While most of the Corps was ready to go and wait for death as the Universe is destroyed, Hal Jordan overcomes the temptation and remembers his vows. At that, Jordan addresses the Corps that he is a Green Lantern and he will not await death on his knees, but will fight to the last, alone if necessary. As he takes off, he finds first his best friends are joining and then the entire Corps as they join the fight noting the Corps has never surrendered and they will not now. Ultimately, they save the Universe. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): Star Lord gives one to the rest of his team near the movie's climax in order to motivate them to take on Ronan and stop him from destroying Xandar, even though due to him now possessing the Infinity Stone it seems like a hopeless prospect, something Rocket points out. However, one by one, they all do agree to stand and fight beside him. | |
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Tolkien's Legendarium: The Lord of the Rings: Both King Théoden and Aragorn before the Battle of Pelennor Fields. One of the speeches is a subversion known by some fans as the "Let's All Go and Get Killed" speech. Namely Éomer's speech when he sees Théoden and his sister fallen, believes both are dead, is surrounded buy a bunch of oliphants, together with his whole army, and his solution is to lead a suicide charge at the enemy, much to the dismay of Imrahil who was coming to support him with the Knights of Dol Amroth. Luckily, Aragorn saves their ass. In The Silmarillion, Fëanor manages to convince almost all of the Noldor to leave their home and wage war against Morgoth. Beren and Lúthien: Subverted with Celegorm and Curufin, who manage to convince a whole city not to follow their king, and make them so afraid that they refuse to go into open battle until a few decades later. The Fall of Gondolin: During the siege, Rog stirs his troops against the Morgoth's army: |
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The Order of the Stick: The Order's bard Elan gives a speech to Azure City's troops before battle, an act he calls a Bardic Right of Passage. The speech conglomerates most well known quotes in this entry, each time examining the statement a bit too closely. It works... until the last phrase, when Fridge Logic ruins it. O-Chul gets it right. Elan does it again to the citizens of the Empire of Blood... for another Epic Fail. In this case it works out because they're technically fighting against the citizens, so it's kinda a good thing for them to be demoralized. Belkar, of all people, gives one to Roy, sharply pointing out that Durkon's death and Heroic Sacrifice will become a Senseless Sacrifice without his soldiering on. Played for Laughs when Roy gives a drunken speech about how vaguely awesome the final book will be, then goes downstairs to take a nap. Elan declares this the most inspiring speech he's ever heard, because it means Roy trusts them to handle things without him. |
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Higurashi: When They Cry: Keiichi's rousing speech to Rena in Atonement Chapter, which not only helps her regain her sanity, but gives Rika hope and renews her will to fight against fate and break the cycle of tragedy. Later arcs make it clear that Rousing Speeches are Keiichi's specialty. Mion doesn't call him "The Magician of Words" for nothing! |
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In Jingo Carrot leads his small group against two battling armies with the cry "If we succeed, no-one will remember! And if we fail, no-one will forget!" (double subverted in that they're still behind him). We are told of the only worse attempt, General Pidley's famous 'Let's all get our throats cut, boys' | |
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In Deep Impact, the president gives a speech to restore hope to the world after the impact of a comet with Earth: | |
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In Turning Red, Mei gives one to her friends to remind them of their fandom of the Boy Band 4*Town. | |
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Deep Blue Sea: Subverted in when Samuel L. Jackson gives a Rousing Speech (complete with a revelation of a shameful secret), only to be killed by a shark just as he's about to start rallying the characters to action. From Preacher: "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. For thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. Because I carry a big stick and I'm the meanest motherfucker in the valley!" |
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Every so often, Noelle from Black Clover gives one of these. It's one of the few times royalty is shown in a positive light, and it's very unusual to hear her talk like this given her usual haughty nature, but the objects of her speeches come to realize she has a point and are enlightened or encouraged afterward. | |
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Parodied in Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu when Kaname inspires her fellow students to assault the booby-trapped hill where Sousuke is hiding because they need him as an artist's model. "For the sake of our lost comrades! For the sake of our own human dignity! And above all, for the sake of everybody's grades!" Kurz gives a similar speech when inspiring his comrades to assault a Sousuke-protected hill...in order to perv on the girls while they're naked in a hot spring. Done straight in the rugby episode, where Sousuke bravely encourages the school rugby team as they're about to take the field. Well, played *sort* of straight... It should be noted that, at that point, the rugby team had all gone Brainwashed and Crazy. Kaname and Kyoko immediately lampshade this. |
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Scion: Bron gives one of these to his army after the Heron army invades the Raven Kingdom. | |
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In the last episode of Last Exile, between the overwhelming enemy forces and indiscriminate attacks of Exile, the final battle threatens to turn into a war of attrition. Sophia responds that this is a war of attrition, and lays out in no uncertain terms that no matter how much they have to throw into this battle, no matter how much they have to sacrifice, this is their last chance to overthrow the Guild. "TARGET: MAESTRO DELPHINE!" | |
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Anytime Riki from Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin appears onscreen, he's bound to use this speech for his pack. | |
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Scott The Woz: Parodied; Scott convinces his friends to go to space and deal with the blue border in "Borderline Forever" with a song all about how they've got nothing else going on. | |
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At the end of the main story of the first run of Fans!, Rikk, Kath and the assembled geek armies of the world recite Aragorn's speech in unison, to each other, before going to war with the God Machine. And then Rumy's alien ex does it for the aliens. Subverted with Sol-Son/Soulson's response. |
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xkcd parodies the halftime pep talk with a clueless coach who takes time out to deliver a speech during the game, allowing the opposing team to score at will. Another one subverts the standard pep-rally version, by having members of the audience question the standard "we're the best" slogans and invoke matters that make the upcoming game fade into insignificance. |
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Like the games it was based on, in Pokémon Adventures, Team Plasma gives one to convince the people that humans and Pokémon should be separated, as Pokémon should not be used for tools of battle. While most people ignore them, amazingly enough however, a few actually take the speech to heart, one old man breaking down and crying how he abused many Pokémon over the years and some others immediately releasing their Pokémon. | |
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Star Trek: First Contact: Picard's "The line must be drawn here!" speech (though partial subversion, as this move ultimately has more to do with Picard's personal relationship with the Borg than with the importance of doing what's right). | |
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Agents of the Realm has Norah deliver a short, conscise, but successful speech to the rest of her team after The Reveal leaves them absolutely terrified here. Made even more impressive when you consider that Norah has social anxiety. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic and The Angry Video Game Nerd both parodied these speeches in the TGWTG Team Brawl video. Nostalgia Critic tells he's not good at speeches... and he really isn't, because he's simply reminding everyone which movies DID have good speeches while they look on bored. Angry Video Game Nerd simply spews out a bunch of swear words sprinkled in with lip service about how they're gonna kick ass, but at least he can get his side roused up. The Critic improves on this by Kickassia. Granted it's about Nazis, but it worked. Precisely, it was something like this: And he finally gets to deliver a genuinely good one in Suburban Knights, even if most of it is cribbed from The Lord of the Rings: |
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In the Justice League of America storyline "Omega", the newest Leaguers are trapped inside an energy dome together with the Crime Syndicate and an Eldritch Abomination. The veteran Leaguers, the Justice Society and even the Teen Titans try to break the dome to rescue them, to no avail. Right when they are losing hope, Superman reignites it again. | |
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Subverted in 300, as Leonidas does not seek to lead his men to victory, knowing full well that their defeat is inevitable, but encourages them to meet it with courage. Additionally, played straight at the very end of the film, at the Battle of Platea. | |
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Tavi gets an amazing one to his entire country via watercrafting in First Lord's Fury of the Codex Alera series. | |
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One episode of Dragon Ball Z Abridged has Yamcha show up for the epic battle against Vegata, Nappa, and their Saibamen, and tell with heroic music playing, tell the Z-Fighters present how they trained almost to death for this battle, and they'll win if they stick together...just before a Saibaman grabs him and self-destructs. Played Straight in Gohan's Final Battle with Cell, courtesy of Goku from beyond the grave: |
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In The League of Peoples 'Verse novel Expendable, the drunken old former Explorer Phylar Tobit manages to get a bunch of indolent aliens to help him out by firing them up with a rousing speech (which he then admits to loosely translating from Henry V). | |
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Beavis humorously inverts this in Beavis And Butthead Do America. The whole thing is played as a rousing speech complete with a motivational music in the background: | |
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Zipi y Zape: Combined with flashbacks for hilarious effect in the Ramis-Cera age story Olimpiadas escolares. The twins, Peloto, SapientÃn and Bolete are in Brazil to play a futsal match against some members of Brazil's national soccer team. At halftime, the Brazilian squad is curb-stomping them 5-0 and Pantuflo decides to step in: | |
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A bard in D&D 3rd edition who specializes in oration provides combat or skill buffs through rousing speeches. There's even a feat in an issue of Dragon magazine named "We Few, We Happy Few" that enhances this ability. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: Shallan gives a speech to a group of deserters that inspires them and reminds them of the men they could have been, causing them to go from planning to kill her to fighting for her. | |
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Big Finish Doctor Who: Boudica delivers one to her troops before launching her attack on Camulodunum in The Wrath of the Iceni. Erimem delivers one to unite the Musketeers and the Cardinal's Guards into a cohesive force to fight Buckingham's troops in The Church and the Crown. |
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This is one of the character schticks of the Warlord class (the "Martial Leader") in the 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Like a number of other classes, the Warlord can choose between several "motifs" at character creation; two motifs focus towards manipulating their allies in the fight (Tactical and Resourceful), while the other two focus towards inspiring allies to fight harder. The Inspirational Warlord is the more likely of these latter motifs to make use of Rousing Speeches — the Bravura Warlord prefers inspiring through example. Beyond being part of the theme, a number of the Warlord's powers actually take the form of particular speeches and battle cries. A bard in D&D 3rd edition who specializes in oration provides combat or skill buffs through rousing speeches. There's even a feat in an issue of Dragon magazine named "We Few, We Happy Few" that enhances this ability. |
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Pacific Rim: Marshal Stacker Pentecost gives one at the climax, just before the final, last-ditch attempt to seal the Breach and stop all future Kaiju attacks. | |
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"Rise" and "Ten Thousand Fists" by Disturbed. The band's concerts sometimes contain sections in the set reserved for speeches by the lead-singer designed with this in mind (that and getting the crowd more pumped up). | |
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Subverted in the 2008 Horton Hears a Who! where Horton tries to Shame the mob with a rousing speech explaining why he is so devoted to protecting a speck on a clover which contains a microscopic community on it. At the end, even the Sour Kangaroo notes that the speech is moving, but immediately orders Horton bound and caged anyway. | |
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Played almost completely straight in The Great Muppet Caper in Fozzie's speech to the residents of the Happiness Hotel. | |
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On the first season of The Ultimate Fighter(i.e. before anyone knew what a success it would be), several of the fighters began to complain that while they were being given high-level training from professional coaching staffs, they weren't going to get paid for fighting on the show. UFC President Dana White heard about this, came down to the gym, and let the guys have it. | |
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Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines: "Sky-Hi I.Q." has Dastardly invoking it then dismissing it: | |
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Subverted in Avatar: The Last Airbender, when Katara gives a dramatic speech encouraging a group of prisoners to revolt... and they all pretty much ignore her, unconvinced they can win. Thankfully, the second attempt goes better all thanks due to the one prisoner who actually knew Katara and had only been in the prison for a day. | |
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A surrealistic variant occurs in the big fight scene at the end of The Rundown, where the Scottish pilot, in the midst of a battle, sits down and puts his feet up and has one of the villagers get him a beer. While Beck is pinned down. He then recents the trope name in a weirdly fascinating tone, and adds a couple of religious allusions as well, at which point Beck breaks his "no guns" rule and goes to town. He's reciting a poem. "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight" by Dylan Thomas. The name speaks for itself; it's a Rousing Speech in poem format. It gets even more surreal than that. Imagine a guy reciting that poem in a Celtic accent so thick you could break lumber across it. Then having have him conclude that recitation with "boom shakalaka!" when the guy unleashes his guns. |
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In Interesting Times Rincewind gives a passionate speech against the concept, claiming the leaders making such speeches are usually the only ones with decent armour. | |
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Subverted in Antony and Cleopatra. Before one of the battles, Mark Antony gives an incredibly depressing speech ("Haply you shall not see me more; or if,/A mangled shadow: perchance to-morrow/You'll serve another master.") This is the only battle in the play that Antony actually wins. | |
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X-Wing Series: Wedge Antilles gives one in Starfighters of Adumar, before launching the united Adumari nation. The Adumari hat is Proud Warrior Race Guy, but that just gets them killed, so he speaks about keeping their minds on the task at hand, not on glory. Before he starts, he thinks that he's not one of those people who needs a rousing speech to fight at his best, and he's a little iffy on the idea of someone who does. He also said something in Iron Fist before the Wraiths started a particularly important mission. |
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In Zootopia, Judy delivers one to the new police cadets at the end. | |
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Newsies has a pretty epic one at the point when everything has fallen and the Newboys felt they had been betrayed by Cowboy and abandoned by Denton. You can watch it here. It is delivered as a pamphlet rather than a speech. | |
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The Transformers: The Movie. Twice. With Theme Music Power-Up. "AUTOBOTS! Transform and roll out!" | |
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Subverted in Erik the Viking, where Erik thoroughly botches it. "And... we may not die HORRIBLE deaths...") | |
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Avatar: Jake's speech to the Omatikaya to unite the clans, with Tsu'tey translating for those who don't speak English. The film also implies similar speeches at the other clans, although they aren't heard. | |
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Double Jumpers: Maxine-in-Sela's-body gives one to an army of Barbarians before they launch an attack on a castle. | |
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Near the end of the Phineas and Ferb special, "Summer Belongs to You", Phineas gives up while he and his friends are on a deserted island, but Isabella tells him he can't give up with a speech, which motivated him to continue finding out a way to get off the island. In "The Lizard Whisperer", Ferb gives one to Danville, when his pet chameleon, Steve, goes missing. In "Meatloaf Surprise", Phineas gives one with a giant fan blowing for added effect. |
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None Shall Escape: The Lidzbark rabbi delivers one to a trainload of Jews about to be deported, after having been told by Reichskommissar Grimm to get them to be quiet. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court had Ysengrin, of all people, occasionally giving rather concise and efficient motivational speeches to bewildered Antimony. That manage to steer her right even though she wasn't used to heed anyone at all in better circumstances, except her parents and to a lesser degree Psychopomps. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Several, played for laughs, in "School on Saturday". Miss Brooks persuades the angry students to go to school, or to go home, as Mr. Conklin repeatedly changes his mind. | |
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In Wyrd Sisters, Hwel, the dramatist, thinks that Tomjon, who's the greatest actor in the world, could make a bunch of drunkards in a pub to storm the Patrician's palace by giving a speech — and they'd probably succeed. | |
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In quite possibly the most unorthodox example of the trope ever, an episode of Gintama features Gintoki giving the now-fandom-infamous "truth of the strawberry milk" speech to justify going to find a missing person. Said speech is basically about how people that drink strawberry milk will wet the bed in their sleep, and everyone cheers him on for this. It's that kind of show. You can watch it in all its glory here. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: Both King Théoden and Aragorn before the Battle of Pelennor Fields. One of the speeches is a subversion known by some fans as the "Let's All Go and Get Killed" speech. Namely Éomer's speech when he sees Théoden and his sister fallen, believes both are dead, is surrounded buy a bunch of oliphants, together with his whole army, and his solution is to lead a suicide charge at the enemy, much to the dismay of Imrahil who was coming to support him with the Knights of Dol Amroth. Luckily, Aragorn saves their ass. |
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Near the end of Snow White & the Huntsman, Snow White rallies the Duke's soldiers with a Rousing Speech before they attack the queen's castle. | |
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Kings of the Wyld: Gabe gives one at the War Fair to convince every mercenary present — and therefore nearly all of the mercenaries in the world — to follow him through a portal to Castia to save the city and his daughter. And he gives this speech through a pinecone. | |
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During GPF's mammoth 'To Thine One Self...' arc, the Grey Drone, Pi, attempts to rouse his fellow aliens into revolt against The Empire, in a classic Rousing Speech playing on morality and justice. And fails utterly. Then his comedic sidekick, Planck, steps up, after having serendipitously ended up with a fairly decent Braveheart costume through a series of improbable mishaps — and successfully rouses the drones into revolt with a mishmashed speech combined from various real and fictional Rousing Speeches, and some general-purpose silliness. (Though the ending isn't as crazy at it would appear to the uninitiated — earlier comics revealed that the Greys find cheese to be both delicious and addictive.) | |
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Subverted in the Horus Heresy novel The Lost and the Damned. At the beginning of the Siege of Terra, commander-in-chief of the defenders Rogal Dorn addresses his troops in characteristically blunt fashion: | |
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Jordan Belfort's speech in The Wolf of Wall Street where he welshes on his deal with the SEC to leave the firm and the securities business in exchange for pleading guilty to a few violations of their regulations. | |
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At one point in Girl Genius, Othar Tryggvassen (Gentleman Adventurer!) gives one of these which almost convinces Gil's employee Oglavia Spüdna to stop spying on people. "Fortunately" she comes to her senses. | |
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Used memorably in the Street Fighter movie when Guile decides to shirk his (more weaksauce than usual) Allied Nations orders and lead his strike force against Bison as originally planned. | |
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Mercilessly played for laughs in Team America: World Police, when Gary convinces the audience to rise up against Kim-Jong Il by with a rousing speech about naughty bits. | |
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Towards the end of Teen Titans (2003), Beast Boy has managed to avoid being captured by the Brotherhood of Evil, but the only apparent other "survivors" have rather lame powers and don't see the point in trying to fight back. He manages to rally everyone together to go save the day. Starfire gives one to the other Titans in "Revolution" (sans Robin who has been captured by Mad Mod), which enables the team to come up with a successful strategy to defeat the villain, utilizing bits and pieces of the methods they'd already tried before. Robin gives one in "The End Part Two" in order to rally Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Starfire to keep fighting Trigon, even though Raven is apparently dead and it's literally the end of the world. In one episode, after Cyborg loses a match against Atlas and fails to rescue his friends, Cyborg then decides to give up, until his reflection in a mirror gives him a rousing speech. |
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In Commander Kitty, CK tries to deliver one of these to Fluffy. She gets bored and walks off before he's done. | |
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse puts a pretty badass one in the mouth of Margrave Konietzko in the final battle against the Wyrm: | |
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In Death Note, L gives a rousing speech to the task force right at the beginning of the show. | |
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The Cleveland Show: When the Browns go to Comic-Con, Junior becomes disgusted with all the Hollywood crap that's overtaken the convention from its sci-fi/fantasy/comicbook roots. Eventually he gives a speech rallying all the cosplaying true fans into fighting to take Comic-Con back for themselves. | |
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Superman: Superman is THE guy to go to for these. There are more than a few noteworthy examples when things seems lost only for big blue to deliver a serious dose of verbal encouragement to other heroes or just the populous in general. In the Justice League of America storyline "Omega", the newest Leaguers are trapped inside an energy dome together with the Crime Syndicate and an Eldritch Abomination. The veteran Leaguers, the Justice Society and even the Teen Titans try to break the dome to rescue them, to no avail. Right when they are losing hope, Superman reignites it again. In Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes, Earth-Man and his goons have driven the Legion of Super-Heroes out of Earth after turning the whole planet against them. Those Legionnaires who haven't been captured or are lost are tired, hopeless and bickering with each other until Superman stops it. In Bizarrogirl storyline, Supergirl, Bizarro and Bizarro-Girl are leading a charge against a planet-eating Eldritch Abomination. In order to defeat it, they need Bizarrogirl's unique power, but she gets real frightened and runs away until Supergirl's words manage to encourage her back to the battleground. In The Immortal Superman, an aging Superman travels to the year 121,970, and learns the use of super-powers has been banned in Earth, and old super-heroes are dumped in a retirement home off-world. Hence, when the Metropolis governor asks for their help, the retired heroes are unwilling to listen him out until Superman makes a passionate speech: Supergirl (1984): As she is being overpowered by Selena's shadow demon, Supergirl hears Zaltar's voice in her head encouraging her to not give up and keep fighting. |
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Failboat: Parodied. While Chat struggle to beat a level in Kirby Star Allies with a lot of Bottomless Pits, one member suggests to remove the option that makes Kirby drop into the abyss (which is mapped to the foot emoji for context). Daniel has this to say in response: | |
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The unnamed U.S. President (implied to be Colin Powell) in World War Z gives one of these with a less then lukewarm reception. It still gets the job done. | |
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Red vs. Blue: Revelation sees Sarge, of all people, give a legitimately stirring one that begins with an Meaningful Echo of the first line of the series: "You ever wonder why we're here?" It was, in fact, SO rousing, that it even pushes Grif into action, albeit reluctantly: "*sigh* I'll go get my car keys." Sarge gives another one at the climax of Season 10, convincing Washington to come with them in helping Carolina & Church. In Ep. 17 of Season 13, Chorus New Republic leader Vanessa Kimball gives one that unites the Federal Army and New Republic soldiers in the wake of Federal General Doyle's Heroic Sacrifice in the previous episode, convincing them to set aside their long-standing feud and focus all their energy against Charon Industries' mercenary army. |
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Happens a few times on Recess, usually given by T.J.. Gus also does this in the movie when T.J. and Principal Prickly are taken prisoner by a gang of anti-recess extremists led by an evil former principal plotting to destroy summer vacation and he and the others round up the rest of the student body to stop the extremists' plan and rescue their captive classmate and principal. | |
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At the end of volume one of Kill Shakespeare, Juliet gives a long one to the rebellion as they go to take down Richard III. | |
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Optimus Primal delivers one at the end of Beast Machines right before facing Megatron's final onslaught. | |
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In The Immortal Superman, an aging Superman travels to the year 121,970, and learns the use of super-powers has been banned in Earth, and old super-heroes are dumped in a retirement home off-world. Hence, when the Metropolis governor asks for their help, the retired heroes are unwilling to listen him out until Superman makes a passionate speech: | |
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In Julius Caesar, Mark Antony manages to entirely turn the public opinion about Caesar with a speech that he gives on his funeral, and makes the people revolt against Caesar's killers. | |
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In Lords and Ladies, Shawn Ogg attempts and fails to give a St. Crispin's Day speech, after which his mother calmly informs the unimpressed crowd that anyone who doesn't follow him will have her to deal with. | |
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Tyrion Lannister in A Song of Ice and Fire gets a few of these. They may not be masterpieces, but since he's a dwarf, the fact that he makes the effort at all is nothing less than phenomenal. Consider also he was doing this for people who hated his guts, treated him like garbage, and lopped off his nose for his trouble in saving their sorry asses... |
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One Piece: Fleet Admiral Sengoku gives one when Blackbeard stole Whitebeard's quake powers and threatened to sink the Navy HQ island Marineford with them. This is especially rousing in the anime, which shows the Marines' spirits rising from it. A rather husky pirate gives one to the Straw Hat pirates after Luffy and Zoro let themselves be beaten up by some other pirates berating their ideals. The pirate assures them that dreams will never die no matter what others say or do, and aren't worth fretting over. That pirate was Blackbeard. Weaponized by Belo Betty of the Revolutionary Army. Her Devil Fruit allows her to awaken the latent strength of those who hear her speeches, allowing them to fight back against their oppressors. |
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He's reciting a poem. "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Goodnight" by Dylan Thomas. The name speaks for itself; it's a Rousing Speech in poem format. It gets even more surreal than that. Imagine a guy reciting that poem in a Celtic accent so thick you could break lumber across it. Then having have him conclude that recitation with "boom shakalaka!" when the guy unleashes his guns. |
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In Toy Story 2, Buzz Lightyear inspires the other toys to press on in their search for Woody, while working in a few continuity nods: | |
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In Futurama, Zapp Brannigan responds to being court-martialed (viewers would know that it's bullshit): In "Benderama", when the unattractive giant monster is trying to ruin the world and Bender is the only one left to stop it: |
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Apollo 13: This is such a rousing speech that even though the real Gene Kranz didn't say "Failure is not an option" during Apollo 13, he used the line as the title of his 2000 autobiography. |
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Bleach: Rukia has given several of these to Ichigo. After his Inner Hollow interferes in his fight with Yammy, Ichigo has lost his will to fight as a Shinigami and can't even fight a regular Hollow. In Chapter 196, Rukia drags him off and gives him this: In chapter 460, after she returns his Shinigami powers to him after Ginjo steals his Fullbring: Rukia likes doing this so much that the anime made fun of it in an episode revolving around the cast making their own movies. Ichigo doesn't want to do it and is ready to quit the whole thing, until Rukia gives him a speech about being the best actor he can be, delievered with as much heart and conviction as her other speeches. Again, they're just making a movie. |
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In Independence Day, President Whitmore gives such a hell of a Trope Codifying address before he and the other pilots worldwide get into their planes for their battle. It goes something like this: | |
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The Two Towers: Théoden, defending Helm's Deep: Sean Astin is an absolute master of these speeches. |
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The flavor text of the Magic: The Gathering card Awakening. Going one step further, the flavor text of the card Primal Rage shows just how rousing that speech was. Gideon gets to deliver one at the end of "The Survivors of Sky Rock", during the Battle for Zendikar storyline. |
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Near-future military thriller Victoria, chronicling a second American civil war, has several, for example that by General LeMieux before one of the decisive battles. Here is an excerpt: | |
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Oglaf: Parodied when a king's grandiose speech can't be heard by most of his massive army. They complain, so he chooses to instead perform an interpretive dance that everyone can see. | |
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The Flash cartoon Arfenhouse Teh Movie Too contains the immortal line, spelled here as in the subtitles: "TEY MAY KIK R AZZ BUT TELL NEVFR KIK R FREEDUM!!!!!!!!" | |
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Subverted and played straight (in that order) in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, where a Rousing Speech by Robin (done in the style of Winston Churchill) bores the villagers to tears, by a Rousing Speech done by Achoo (bless you!) in the style of Malcolm X succeeds. | |
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The movie version of On the Town has Claire, Hildy and Ivy giving speeches to the police passionately justifying their actions as just doing their patriotic duty to the Navy. | |
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Neverwinter Nights References the latter speech as being an option for the PC's voice set. | |
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Jason has a minor one to convince his friends to solve a murder in Mystery Team. | |
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Played with a lot in Chicken Run. Ginger, a chicken at a chicken farm, constantly makes speeches about her dreams of freedom to the others in an attempt to convince them to go along with her plans to escape. Sometimes they work, sometimes they're met with clueless responses or sarcastic jibes. In one sceneit is subverted, when after one of Ginger's speeches a more cynical chicken, Bunty, responds with an 'enlightened' look on her face "In all my years, I've never heard such a fantastic load of tripe!" | |
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And Shine Heaven Now cranks Hellsing's the Major's "I Love War" speech up a notch: here. | |
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Of all people, Wolverine gives one of these to the X-Men just before the team heads out to the final battle in X-Men: The Last Stand. | |
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The locker room speech before the seniors' final game in Rudy. | |
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Green Lantern Hal Jordan gives a similar speech in the Crisis Crossover mini series, JLA/Avengers. Where at the end of third issue, he discovers his future actions. Despite knowing he has the furthest to fall, he argues the hardest to Save Both Worlds. | |
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The Shoes Of The Fisherman: Pope Kiril I gives a speech after being crowned as Pope in which he lays out his plans to deal with the crisies facing the world, which the crowd in St. Peter's Square responds to positvely. | |
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In Animal House: Bluto's speech leading to the sabotage of the parade, is an almost perfect parody of this trope, laced with fiery rhetoric, cliches that were already hackneyed by the 1960s, and garbled historical references. Then, when the other Delta members are less than roused: A less-famous example from the same movie is Otter's address to the disciplinary council, which inspires the entire gang to walk out of the proceedings, ignore the closure of their fraternity, and hum the Star Spangled Banner: |
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In Bizarrogirl storyline, Supergirl, Bizarro and Bizarro-Girl are leading a charge against a planet-eating Eldritch Abomination. In order to defeat it, they need Bizarrogirl's unique power, but she gets real frightened and runs away until Supergirl's words manage to encourage her back to the battleground. | |
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Beren and Lúthien: Subverted with Celegorm and Curufin, who manage to convince a whole city not to follow their king, and make them so afraid that they refuse to go into open battle until a few decades later. | |
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The movie Immortals, for all of the liberties it takes with the story of Theseus, does two things wonderfully right: make the fights more gorgeous than the scenery, and make Theseus rallying a troop of defending Greeks so epic that the audience in the theater is tempted to stomp and shout along with the front-line shieldbearers. | |
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Slipknot's "Pulse of the Maggots" | |
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Natsu gives an epic one in Fairy Tail that is not nakama-related, for once. | |
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Critical Role: In Episode 52 of Campaign One, after brutally killing his abusive uncle in front of his former herd, Grog gives one so effective it earns him advantage on his next roll. | |
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In the Duckman episode "Vuuck, as in Duck", Duckman gives a speech to his women's baseball team that parodies the famous Knute Rockne "Win One for the Gipper" speech, and culminates in "... or I swear I'll go beat that legless bastard." | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Elizabeth Swann delivers an awesome one of these before the final battle of At World's End: Barbossa gets one in On Stranger Tides, acknowledging the very real danger of where they're going (Whitecap Bay), but gets the men rallied by saying: |
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In Dead Again in Tombstone, Alicia delivers one to the townsfolk of Silver River in an attempt to persuade them to join her in opposing Boomer. It falls flat until Guerrero returns to back her play. | |
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Apply this concept to entire species, and you'll have an idea what life for the Eldar and Imperium of Man in Warhammer 40,000 is like. As one might expect, such speeches are commonplace. This also applies to its sister setting in Warhammer. The dwarfs have lost their empire, their numbers are dwindling, the craftsmanship and skills of the past are being lost, and one by one their last remaining strongholds are falling to the grobi or rat-men or other nasties that inhabit the Warhammer world. But they keep fighting, out of sheer, stubborn, dwarfish bloody-mindedness. The high elves have a similar situation regarding their dark kin and the forces of Chaos, but are naturally more stuck-up about it. Oddly enough, the human Empire is a bit more optimistic, due to spanking Chaos in a campaign a few years back. The Orc warlord Morglum Necksnapper deserves mention for combining brevity, inspiration, and a structured explanation of his tactical projections for the battle ahead in terms his troops can understand and connect to. |
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El Goonish Shive got one delivered by Grace here. The first line forms a pretty neat summary: Susan after getting Elliot a job gives him speech on the importance of movie renting, with serious face and her trademark Dramatic Wind. |
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Blazing Saddles: Gabby Johnson gives one of these which is almost completely incomprehensible, but nevertheless succeeds in rallying the townsfolk to not flee Hedley Lamarr's thugs. Bart's later attempt with the same people falls flat until he envokes the name of Western acting icon Randolph Scott. |
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This also applies to its sister setting in Warhammer. The dwarfs have lost their empire, their numbers are dwindling, the craftsmanship and skills of the past are being lost, and one by one their last remaining strongholds are falling to the grobi or rat-men or other nasties that inhabit the Warhammer world. But they keep fighting, out of sheer, stubborn, dwarfish bloody-mindedness. The high elves have a similar situation regarding their dark kin and the forces of Chaos, but are naturally more stuck-up about it. Oddly enough, the human Empire is a bit more optimistic, due to spanking Chaos in a campaign a few years back. The Orc warlord Morglum Necksnapper deserves mention for combining brevity, inspiration, and a structured explanation of his tactical projections for the battle ahead in terms his troops can understand and connect to. |
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Annihilation: Just before infiltrating the Babel Spire, Quill gives one of these to his team... only to be met with blank looks, before muttering "thought not" and moving on. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Twilight Sparkle delivers one of these in "The Return of Harmony, Part 2": In Equestria Games, Rainbow Dash gives one to the other Ponyville competitors at the start. When it comes to her team, however, she acknowledges that being pitted against the Wonderbolts doesn't put the odds in their favour. Double Subverted in "To Change a Changeling": Starlight gives one to the changelings to convince them to help Thorax in aiding Pharynx, exhorting them to rise and help their leader not because they're being forced to do it, but because they can choose to do it. While none of the changelings come to help them at first, they all still come along afterwards after having had time to think about it. |
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Hero of Ages: Elend delivers one in full Determined Defeatist style. He asks his men to fight even though there's absolutely no question that they will die if they do. He says that every second they're able to keep going is a second longer the people they're protecting will stay alive. | |
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Subverted in Asterix album "Asterix And The Laurel Wreath" where Asterix gives the courtroom a rousing speech that drives the entire courtroom to tears... in order to get themselves thrown to the lions in the hopes that Caesar will attend in order to obtain the titular laurel wreath. | |
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The song, particularly the opening lines, are referenced in Bruce's very brief speech at Bannockburn during the final scene of Braveheart. | |
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Lydia's speech in the Beetlejuice episode "The Unnatural" when an umpire is about to make a play-at-the-plate ruling (which would send the loser to a virtual Hell) wasn't so much a rousing speech as it was an impassioned treatise about sportsmanship. It brings the whole stadium to tears, resulting in the game being rained out. | |
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Happens a few times in Monster, notably when Tenma has to talk Nina out of her suicidal BSOD, and when he needs to impress upon the Turkish immigrants to secure the neighborhood or else face the wrath of the pyromaniacal Neo-Nazis. | |
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Subverted in Idle Hands when Seth Green's character said "No more Kevin Costner speeches, let's just go!" | |
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In Central Park, Season 1 "Live It Up Tonight", after Molly and Cole gets lost in the park and can't recognize where they are due to the darkness, Cole asks Molly if they should call their parents for help. Molly then gives him a speech using Home Alone 2: Lost in New York and said Kevin McCallister didn't call his family when he got lost in New York, ("Never mind they didn't have cell phones and his family was in Florida."), she continues on how Kevin was lost longer than them and he was able to get through it. This motivates Cole to get back home. | |
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel delivers one as a pep talk to Lovelace in The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, to convince her to team up with Babbage again and get the Difference Engine running. The level of ham increases as it goes on. | |
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The Pale King: One is given by a substitute teacher on the final review day of the Advanced Tax class. It motivates Chris to clean up his life. | |
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In Punch an' Pie, right after one of the employees at the toy shop quits, another gives a speech along these lines: | |
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Happens every now and then in Legend of the Galactic Heroes, with varying levels of cynicism, demagogy and good old stupidity. The undisputed king is Yang Wen-li, whose first Rousing Speech goes something like this: Earned him an ovation and the undying loyalty of a fleet of Ragtag Bunch of Misfits. |
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Parodied (naturally) by Groucho Marx in Duck Soup: "And remember, while you're out there risking your life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in here thinking what a sucker you are!" | |
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In Napoléon (1927), the title character gives one to his troops before the Battle of Montenotte. | |
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The Hunger Games: In Catching Fire Katniss makes a beautiful speech in District 11, about her ally Rue. Then in Mockingjay, she has a couple; Her "If we burn, you burn with us" speech implied to be received well, but when she tries to give one in the middle of a firefight in District 2, she gets shot. | |
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Steve gives one to SHIELD at the film's climax, wherein he reveals HYDRA's infiltration and how close they are to victory, and implores the rest of the organization to stand with him, no matter the risk. It works. | |
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Parodied in Johnny English: | |
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Pokémon: The Series: Mewtwo plus an army of genetically altered (read: enhanced) Pokémon. Imminent extermination of the human race. Enter Ash Ketchum with dozens of "ordinary" Pokémon in tow. Horribly outnumbered and outgunned. "You can't do this. I won't let you." | |
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Ultimate Captain America in The Ultimates #1. World War II, and Cap's soldiers are assaulting a Nazi superscience bunker. They're being slaughtered by defenses ... until Captain America crashes the transport plane into it — and survives. As he climbs out, he waves the troops forward, proclaiming "What are you ladies waiting for — Christmas?!" | |
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Kaiji gives a few of these to Furuhata and Andou on the many occasions when things look hopeless on the Espoir. | |
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Parodied in Dr. Strangelove. To the crew of a B-52 on a nuclear bombing run into Soviet territory: | |
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: In the later moments of Muzan’s fight, in the Dimensional Infinity Fortress arc, after many slayers have been battered up to near-death, and Tanjiro had just been hit by a powerful shockwave emitted by Muzan, everything looks dire; Zenitsu steps up to save Inosuke from an attack and pushes himself to lift Tanjiro’s morale up, as the latter laid down in almost a convulsion state, telling him that he cannot die, Tanjiro has to live through that incredibly deadly fight and go home with Nezuko, who had just turned human, Zenitsu being alive and boosting his morale moves Tanjiro to tears. Zenitsu who was once a cowardly slayer, who had to be pushed over the edge and motivated to fight, now steps up on behalf of others, motivating them as well. | |
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The Braveheart example is spoofed in an episode of South Park — as Thanksgiving turkeys are attacking the town, Chef rides in front of the townsfolk in Braveheart face-paint and gives them the Braveheart speech to inspire the town to fight. The scene then cuts to the turkey army, where a turkey — complete with facepaint — is doing the exact same thing, only in turkey-speak ("Puck-puck puckpuck puck puck puck-puck-puck!") | |
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In The Book of Life, Maria gives one to the entire town of San Angel, who have all been mostly cowering from Chakal the entire time. | |
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Warrior Cats: These occur occasionally. In Cloudstar's Journey, Cloudstar gives one to his Clan after they lose an important battle, in order to keep their spirits up and encourage them to fight another day. | |
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The Novel We Few by John Ringo and David Weber is named after the Saint Crispian's day speech. Much thought is given to the problems when a King establishes a great deal of personal loyalty by surviving a Bolivian Army Ending with his own troops. | |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1: Coin gives one near the end of the film, in contrast to her concise and utilitarian pronouncements at the start. You can see Plutarch mouthing along; clearly the one who wrote it. Subverted by Katniss, who butchers a propaganda ad on a greenscreen. Played straight after the Capitol bombing the hospital in District 8. |
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Penny and Aggie: Penny gave Aggie this speech, which results in the two former adversaries becoming friends in order to take on Karen and her clique. | |
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Back to School has Rodney Dangerfield reciting the Dylan Thomas poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" from memory after almost giving up during his oral exams. He then goes on to (barely) pass. | |
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The Fall of Gondolin: During the siege, Rog stirs his troops against the Morgoth's army: | |
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The Cirbozoid leader in Starslip Crisis gives on here however the fact that most proper nounds in the Cirozoid language are Cirbozoid is comes out rather strange. | |
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Used by Roran in the Inheritance Cycle to the entire village of Carvahall in order to persuade them to abandon the town and join the Varden in Surda. Subverted later on when the town needs to steal a boat. They turn to Roran, expecting another rousing speech, but he simply delivers the One-Liner "It's either this or walk," and goes to sleep. | |
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At the climax of The Ballad of the White Horse, Alfred's army is routing, his heroes are dead, and the enemy has given up chasing them to just loot, sacrificing all discipline to do. This is the trigger for him failing to give into despair and instead making an epic rousing speech, starting with, "Brothers in arms, on *this* side lies the foe," before turning into a speech that amounts to "we'll die whatever we do, so let's kill a lot of them before we do." It works. | |
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Werewolves Within: When the townspeople of Beaverfield begin arguing in the inn, Finn gets everyone's attention and delivers a speech about how it's easy to give into fear and throw doubt upon each other, but as a community, they need to stick together and find the werewolf. Sadly, most of the people respond to this by going home. | |
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God ends with Aguirre giving one of these, combined with his mad vision to conquer the Spanish Empire, to his crew — who are either dead or insane — himself, and a swarm of tiny monkeys. There is also a Rousing Speech (or at least one intendend to be rousing) in the first phase of the movie, when Aguirre goads the soldiers to mutiny. But both speeches are subversions of the trope, because 1. Aguirre is the evil guy, 2. his speeches make no effort to hide or euphemize his and his listeners' selfish and non-sublime motives (they all are only out for money and fame), and 3. many of the soldiers are not actually "roused", but only follow Aguirre out of fear of him and his accomplices. The last "speech" is actually partly an inner monologue, partly an address to monkeys instead of people, which leads the trope to absurdity. | |
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Goblins a guard gives this speech to a lynch mob. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: General Revil's unforgettable "Zeon is exhausted!" speech when The Federation was on the brink of total surrender. On the Zeon side, Gihren Zabi had two of his own: once after his brother Garma is killed, and another before the Federation's final assault on the Zeonic space fortress A Baoa Qu. |
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In Family Guy, Lois starts talking about how together Peter and herself can accomplish anything, that Peter quickly changes into a meaningless rousing speech. | |
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In Transformers, Optimus gives a speech on their obligation to help the humans, before they do the car equivalent of the Team Power Walk. The Decepticons have a team-up montage at the same time, so you know it's on. | |
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A Trailer for Every Academy Award Winning Movie Ever | |
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The New World of Darkness has the "Inspiring" Merit for all character types, which allows the character to make a speech which allows others to regain a point of Willpower. Combine this with the Hope Virtue, and the character can gain all their Willpower back as well. | |
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Played with in Raiders of Gor, where Tarl/Bosk manages it with a few lines and a Rousing Rock. ("It is the Home Stone of Port Kar.... If you wish it, it shall be so.") | |
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Selections from The Lord of the Rings trilogy: The Return of the King: When Théoden, prior to the charge of the Rohirrim, effectively tells his men, "You wanna live forever? I thought not! Let's go kill some bad guys and get our throats cut!" See Northern Heroism under Mythology below. From that same scene, a very short but very powerful speech from Éowyn to Merry. From Aragorn at the final battle: Aragorn says all of that again, with greater eloquence and impact, just a moment after he's done with the speech above; when he quietly says to the Hobbits "For Frodo." The Two Towers: Théoden, defending Helm's Deep: Sean Astin is an absolute master of these speeches. |
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In Scent of a Woman, Al Pacino gives a speech in defense of a prep school student threatened with expulsion if he won't reveal the culprits behind a prank. You can see the whole thing here, but here's a highlight: | |
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Spider-Verse: Before heading off to Loomworld, 616!Spider-Man tries to give one of these to an alternate Uncle Ben that ultimately fails. Otto Octavius then interjects with a more aggressive one that actually manages to get through, much to Peter's astonishment. | |
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Eyeshield 21: In the regional championship game, Deimon is behind by 17 points when their seemingly invincible leader/quarterback gets crushed by one of the opposing players and is taken off the field with a broken arm. With no back-up quarterback, their strongest lineman in minute two of his 10-Minute Retirement and the rest of the team totally shaken, the opposition asks if they're ready to forfeit the game. After a brief team meeting, the Devil Bats declare their decision in unison, "We will KILL them!" | |
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Subverted in Ratatouille where Linguini finally confesses he is really a front for a rat, Remy, who is the real cook who has revived the restaurant's fortunes. In the face of the staff's stunned disbelief, Linguini eloquently tells them that if they have faith in this rat's culinary genius, they will all have a glorious future. Unfortunately at the conclusion, the entire staff reacts to this seemingly insane proposal by immediately quitting. Yet that speech is simultaneously played straight in that while the humans are not impressed, Remy's rat family is so moved in part by Linguini's efforts, that they step up to be the new kitchen crew. Which is then subverted when the restaurant is closed down for good because of its rat infestation. |
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Played straight in Hero House, with Robin delivering a motivational speech to Nightwing after Batman's death. | |
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But by far the most famous Rousing Speech to come out of Hellsing is the Major's "I Love War" speech to the Last Battalion. Sure, a Nazi says it, but it's still rousing. | |
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The Cannonball Run showed that Rousing Speeches can be funny: | |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye wraps its story arc with one hell of a speech given by Rodimus as the Lost Light crew and the Scavengers work together to try and open twelve brand-new Matrixes on Functionist Cybertron in order to destroy the evil Mirror Universe Primus. It initially doesn't work, as one major issue is that the Matrix is "morality locked" requiring that the opener must be "pure of spirit," which is strongly implied to be a matter of both selflessness and a feeling of self-worth. The opener must believe that not only can they open the Matrix, but that they deserve to do so. Since most of the characters in More Than Meets The Eye are dealing with personal or emotional problems of some description, believing in themselves is a hard sell for many of them... until Rodimus taps into his natural charisma and starts talking, broadcasting on every channel to ensure that everyone can hear him. It works. | |
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Lampshaded, sort of, in Major League II. Beloved manager Lou Brown is talking to head coach Jake Taylor while lying in a hospital bed, scheduled for heart surgery first thing in the morning. Taylor promises Brown that the team will "win this one for you", referring to that night's decisive playoff game. Brown sits up and warns him "not to give one of those corny 'Let's Win It For Lou' speechs". Guess what Taylor does, with loads of Narm and not a shred of visible guilt. | |
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The Spongebob Squarepants episode "Band Geeks" parodies this when Squidward gives up in despair of his Zany Scheme to impress his high-school rival by getting his friends and neighbors to form a marching band, and Spongebob delivers the following speech after Squidward has walked out: In the episode "Stuck In the Wringer", upon getting trapped in his wringer, SpongeBob feels he'll never be able to do anything anymore. Patrick (whose stupidity is the reason he's stuck in it) gives a speech saying he can go on despite the adversity. Subverted in the fact that SpongBob's life really was ruined. |
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In Jeramey Kraatz's The Cloak Society, Guardian, though incapable of coherent speech after years in the Gloom, is capable of communicating with the others trapped there. He touches the Rangers' starburst on his tattered uniform, and the two other superheroes get up to help get others to safety, so the gestures apparently were this. | |
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Astrid gives one to Hiccup before the final battle in How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World: | |
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The Chronicles of Dorsa: Tasia gives many of these while she's rallying commoners to rebel against Regent Norix with her. | |
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