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Sedgwick Speech
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A fierce battle is about to ensue. One brave Red Shirt will step forward and give an uplifting speech, only to be paid for his efforts by getting brutally killed. Bonus points if he is killed before he finishes the speech. The speech in question will either be an idealistic plea for peace to an implacable enemy, or an attempt to boost morale by emphasizing how the heroes will never give up, never surrender, with bonus points if the character in question actually apes Churchill's manner of speech. This can be a chilling Kick the Dog moment to show just how inhuman the enemy is, a comedic moment to show how ineffective wide-eyed idealism is against violence, or, disturbingly, both. Or it could simply be a moment of overconfident gloating on the part of a genre blind villain who hasn't read the Evil Overlord List... This is often a result of Tempting Fate. Often results in Surprisingly Sudden Death. Subtrope of Ironic Last Words. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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Night Watch: Reg Shoe says, "They can take our lives, but they can never take our freedom!" At which point he's shot about seventeen times. Subverted in that Reg keeps going anyway, but his body quits before his mind makes itself up to be a zombie (that happens later). It's specifically noted that it was possibly the most stupid battle cry ever spoken. | |
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In The Bourne Identity: | |
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GoldenEye: Boris. "Yes! I am inVEENcible!" He's then flash-frozen. | |
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Guild Wars 2: During the personal story quest "The Battle of Claw Island", Watch Commander Talon is mortally wounded right in the middle of giving a dramatic rallying speech to the island's defenders. | |
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Angel: By proxy. After Knox has been responsible for Fred's death, Angel gives a speech to him about how every human is worth saving and redeemable. Wesley interrupts it by shooting Knox dead. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (extended edition) had Aragorn cheerfully kill the Mouth of Sauron while the latter was discussing the terms of peace. Though knowing Sauron, they were probably more like "terms of unconditional surrender".note The book lets the Mouth finish and nobody kills him; in that, it would probably be fairer to describe it as terms of conditional surrender. It should also be noted that technically, no one was actually carrying a parley banner or calling for it. | |
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In The Simpsons, a statue of a general is seen with the words "I'll die before I surrender, Tim" engraved on it. Tim is presumed to be the man next to him before he was shot. The more likely explanation is that Tim killed the general, then surrendered. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: "It's not like they have tanks." Cue the Briggs brigade deploying Tank Goodness for one hell of a Moment of Awesome. | |
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RWBY: During the climax of the third volume, Roman Torchwick delivers a furious Motive Rant to a prone Ruby, concluding with the following: | |
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Attack on Titan features one of these. Willy Tybur, the secret ruler of the Kingdom of Marley is giving a speech at a festival in Liberio where many politicians, nobles and military officials (including the next generation of potential Titan shifters) about how Eren Yeager is a betrayer of peace and the enemy of humanity. He riles the crowd up by saying that all the different countries need to work together to wipe out the Eldians and Paradis Island once and for all. Right as he declares war against Paradis Island, he's killed after Eren, who was hiding underground, transforms into his Titan and slices Willy in half with his hands. However, Willy knew that he was Tempting Fate by appearing on stage but still wanted to sacrifice himself as bait to lure out the enemy. | |
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Sharpe: In Sharpe's Peril, a priest tries to convince the villainous leader not to fight because it's the Sabbath. The villain replies that "you of all people should know that God does not work on a Sunday" and shoots him. | |
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In The Bourne Supremacy, Marie's last words: "You have a choice". Subverted because Bourne does, in fact, take them to heart, and refrains thereafter from killing in cold blood. | |
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Discworld series Guards! Guards!: After Ankh-Morpork gets taken over by a dragon, a group of citizens starts complaining about the new ruler, and Sergeant Colon tries to rally them. When the dragon shows up in person, one inspired citizen stands defiantly in front of the beast and starts to make an impassioned speech. The dragon burns him to cinders in mid-sentence. So much for "The people united can never be ignited!". Although this is unusual in that the momentum wasn't lost when the dragon incinerated the man. People were already starting to question what, precisely, was being proposed to stop the dragon from just killing them all and moving to a different city if they didn't cooperate. Night Watch: Reg Shoe says, "They can take our lives, but they can never take our freedom!" At which point he's shot about seventeen times. Subverted in that Reg keeps going anyway, but his body quits before his mind makes itself up to be a zombie (that happens later). It's specifically noted that it was possibly the most stupid battle cry ever spoken. |
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The Elenium: Invoked. As the siege of Chyrellos begins to break apart, Ulesim delivers a long speech to his Rendors to rally them. In the middle of his speech, he develops a fatal case of crossbow-bolt-between-the-eyes courtesy of Kurik, who chose the most dramatic moment in order to cause the greatest despair to the enemy troops. | |
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The Last Full Measure: The Trope Namer, General Sedgwick himself, is depicted uttering the famous quote, and taking the famous bullet to the brain case. | |
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The Order of the Stick: In strip 611, Belkar kills the leader of the thieves sent to assassinate him right after the latter has finished his confident assessment of his group's odds against their targets. At another point, a side-villain of the evil aristocrat variety is boasting about how, while his plans were foiled, there are all kinds of ways he can still turn things around, including dragging the trial out, etc., etc., whereupon he gets disintegrated, his ashes scattered, and the one that did so asks if they can get back to the main plot. |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: During the quest "With Friends Like These...", you're tasked to kill one of three captives, purportedly because there's a bounty involved. One of them is Vasha, an extremely corrupt khajiit who boasts about his crimes and sins, and makes it clear that getting bagged and dragged into the wilderness to have some lily-livered goon make impotent threats at him is a common occurrence that he's stopped caring about long ago, and snidely promises you a relatively painless death if you let him go. Since you can end the conversation while he's still talking, it's perfectly possible to cut short his grandstanding with a swift blade. Or arrow. Or fireball. (And no, no retribution will come from killing him. Maybe he wasn't as important as he thought.) | |
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Fallout: New Vegas: The final quest before the Battle of Hoover Dam involves either protecting (for NCR, Independent, or House aligned Couriers) or assassinating (for Legion aligned Couriers) President Kimball of the New California Republic while he gives a rallying speech to the troops gathered there. If you're trying to assassinate him, you must do so before he leaves via Vertibird, so sniping him in the middle of the speech is easiest. If you're trying to protect him, any number of things could kill him before he's done speaking. General Oliver also gets one if you're Independent, although he's allowed to finish talking. After taking the Dam along with the NCR, you tell them to get off your territory. He'll deliver a harangue ending with "If our roles were reversed, I'd see you hang." Possible response? "I see. Yes Man, please throw the General off the dam." |
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James Bond: On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Tracy. "Anyway, you have given me a wedding present. The best I could have. A future." No, she doesn't... GoldenEye: Boris. "Yes! I am inVEENcible!" He's then flash-frozen. |
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Deep Blue Sea: One of the defining moments is when Russell's Rousing Speech to the other survivors is cut short. By a shark. While indoors. | |
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Only War: One quote of flavor text is from a Guard officer warning a fresh recruit that he's on a real battlefield now, with real weapons and enemies, and that he'd better do what he does and says if he wants to get back home alive. The officer is then immediately devoured by an alien horror. A quote given at the start of the Dark Eldar section in Enemies of the Imperium is from a colonel of the Guard giving an impassioned speech to his troops in order to rally them against the foe, before being abruptly Killed Mid-Sentence just as he's saying that no force can take their fortress while they're guarding it. |
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Mars Attacks!: Martians embark on a humorously vicious invasion of Earth. When they've reached the President of the United States (played by Jack Nicholson), he makes a moving speech, ending with an impassioned, "Why can't we all just get along?" The Martians appear convinced, for just a moment — then they skewer him. Martians are one bunch who just cannot give peace a chance. The same scene also features the film's blatant Patton parody delivering a direct quote of Churchill's famous "we will fight them on the beaches" speech and firing his pistols wildly. The alien leader shrinks him down and squishes him. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: In the Saiyan Arc, Yamcha arrived to give a stirring motivational speech to the Z Fighters, but before finishing got taken out by a Saibaman. | |
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Slayers: Kanzeil from the light novel version. His exact last words are "Don't waste your time! I'm more powerful than any of your paltry parlor tricks!" A second later, he gets vaporized. The anime version of Kanzeil is somewhat different, but he still dies with a Sedgwick Speech. | |
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Errant Story: The leading homage to the good General Sedgwick is delivered by the Affably Evil Toren, just before Ian drops a bridge — no, make that a hotel — on him: | |
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This happens to General Garza as he rallies his troops in The Expendables. | |
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: This happens to a unnamed Triad member during the mission "A Home in the Hills", once CJ and the Triads enter Madd Dogg's mansion to take it back from a drug dealer: | |
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Tropic Thunder: While they weren't going to war, but to film a movie about one, the director Damien Cockburn died this way. He stepped into a mine after giving a speech about filming the best war movie of all time. | |
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Tracy. "Anyway, you have given me a wedding present. The best I could have. A future." No, she doesn't... | |
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The Chronicles of Riddick: A lone dissenter in New Mecca says the Necromonger Warlord is an intolerant conqueror rather than the "enlightened" liberator he presents himself as and... gets his soul ripped out for it. Ouchies. | |
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Dad's Army: One episode has Jones comparing Mainwaring to an officer he had in World War One who didn't like crouching in the trenches and one night decided to walk on the parapet to show the Germans he was not afraid and to set an example to his men. He got shot. In a very awkward place. Did a lot of crouching after that. | |
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Near the end of ¡Three Amigos!, a bunch of El Guapo's men run off. As El Guapo yells at them for being cowards, Jefe says, "I'm still here, El Guapo!" Guess who gets shot immediately thereafter. | |
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In Death Note, Matt is cornered by Takeda's Kira-worshiping bodyguards. He starts telling them why they wouldn't dare shoot him. Cue barrage of bullets. | |
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NCIS: In Season One's "One Shot, One Kill", a Marine recruiting sergeant is talking to two teenagers interested in enlisting. When one of them worries aloud about being deployed to Iraq, the Sergeant assures them that in all his years in the Marines, "the closest I've ever come to a bullet is-", which are his last words before a sniper's bullet flies through the window. | |
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Brother Jacobus in Dragonslayer tries out a pre-beta version of the power of Christ on a dragon: "Unclean beast! Get thee down! Be thou consumed by the fires that made thee!" Though nonverbal, Vermithrax's response translates, approximately, to "no u lol". | |
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Watership Down: Come back, you fools! Dogs aren't dangerous! Come back and fight! Possibly subverted, since they Never Found the Body. | |
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Subverted in One Piece during the war at Marineford. When Coby made a passionate plea to stop the fighting Admiral Akainu tried to kill him then and there, only to be stopped by Shanks. | |
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In the Futurama episode "A Taste of Freedom", Old Man Waterfall stands up to the Decapodian Oppression Palace and declares, "Do your worst, you sea devils! I'll make my stand with Old Freebie! You can crush me but you can't crush my spirit!" No points for guessing what happens next. | |
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A non-deadly example in Hetalia: Axis Powers. "I'm Russian, I know everything about snow!" Russia says before he jumps from a plane without a parachute, figuring the soft snow will cushion his fall. The result is not outright seen, but apparently, he broke his back. | |
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In The Day of the Jackal, Bastien-Thiry — failed assassin of Charles De Gaulle — is shown remarking that he is a patriot, and that no firing squad will dare shoot him. The next shot is immediately after his execution. | |
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The War of the Worlds (1953): A classic example is Pastor Collins in the original film version, who goes out to the Martians to try and communicate and gets a heat-ray in answer. | |
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Game of Thrones: Theon gives a speech to his ironborn raiding party in season two after the supposed deaths of Bran and Rickon. He vows to fight for Winterfell — but as soon as he's done, he's immediately KO'd by his men, tied up, dispensed with somewhere. Winterfell is left a smoking ruin and the ironborn run for itnote although they don't get far. The man who does it even says that he would have done it sooner, but it would have been a shame to interrupt such a good speech. | |
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Solo: On Mimban, Han's commanding officer, Major Staz, pulls him to his feet after a bomb goes off near him and orders him to keep marching forward, insisting that their objective is "just over that last ridge" and shouting about The Empire's impending victory. He's Killed Mid-Sentence by an artillery strike seconds later. | |
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Arcia Chronicles: Lupe's drunkard husband is shot to death by a Tarskan lackey after reading a rousing poem against Tarskan occupation of Tayana in public. With his dying breath, he calls out to the onlookers to fight the occupiers—and actually manages to spark a massive uprising that eventually frees Tayana. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Death Jesters, Harlequins specializing in long-ranged fire support and known for their macabre sense of humor, are fond of setting up situations just so as to cause as much morale damage to their enemies as they can. One of their favorite tricks is to shoot enemy officers just as they hit the high point of a rallying speech or inspirational sermon. Only War: One quote of flavor text is from a Guard officer warning a fresh recruit that he's on a real battlefield now, with real weapons and enemies, and that he'd better do what he does and says if he wants to get back home alive. The officer is then immediately devoured by an alien horror. A quote given at the start of the Dark Eldar section in Enemies of the Imperium is from a colonel of the Guard giving an impassioned speech to his troops in order to rally them against the foe, before being abruptly Killed Mid-Sentence just as he's saying that no force can take their fortress while they're guarding it. |
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Doctor Who: In "Evolution of the Daleks", the leader of Hooverville attempts to show the Daleks that they're not that different from him, and gets X-Ray Sparks through his body for the trouble. It's also played with, in that, since he's talking to the Daleks, it doesn't matter if he were as eloquent as his namesake — the audience knows that he'll still get murdered. | |
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The Wire: In the series finale, during a meeting of the remaining high-ranking drug dealers after the Stanfield Organization collapses, Cheese Wagstaff (the sole high-ranking member of the Stanfield group left standing) goes into an impassioned tirade about how "there ain't no back in the day" and how it's now their time to shine, inadvertently implying that he was in on the coup that led to the death of his uncle, the former kingpin of the Baltimore drug trade. He never gets to finish the speech, as his uncle's right-hand man shoots him in the head point blank mid-sentence. | |
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South Park: "Cheeri-o! My name is Pip. I would like to see if you wouldn't mind not smashing our little town to bits." | |
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Used almost verbatim in The Losers (with "she couldn't hit..." instead of "they couldn't hit...") | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Watchers' Council is blown up at the climax of an inspiring speech Quentin Travers is giving. | |
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Firefly: In the second episode, Crow makes such a speech promising revenge to the crew for refusing to finish a job (in response to Mal's offer to refund the employer's money). He then gets kicked by Mal straight into Serenity's engine and the offer gets repeated to the next mook, who wisely accepts. | |
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Battle Royale: A pair of girls (with a megaphone) attempt to convince everyone to lay down their weapons and refuse to fight any more, and promptly get slaughtered by the token psychopath who's armed with a sub-machine gun. | |
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The Bourne Series: In The Bourne Identity: In The Bourne Supremacy, Marie's last words: "You have a choice". Subverted because Bourne does, in fact, take them to heart, and refrains thereafter from killing in cold blood. |
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The Cabin in the Woods: Curt gives an uplifting speech before fatally crashing his motorcycle into the invisible barrier the audience knew was there all along. | |
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Guards! Guards!: After Ankh-Morpork gets taken over by a dragon, a group of citizens starts complaining about the new ruler, and Sergeant Colon tries to rally them. When the dragon shows up in person, one inspired citizen stands defiantly in front of the beast and starts to make an impassioned speech. The dragon burns him to cinders in mid-sentence. So much for "The people united can never be ignited!". Although this is unusual in that the momentum wasn't lost when the dragon incinerated the man. People were already starting to question what, precisely, was being proposed to stop the dragon from just killing them all and moving to a different city if they didn't cooperate. | |
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Old Man's War: People are recruited into the military at the age of 75. This means their recruits have a lot more experience than new recruits in most nonfictional militaries; unfortunately, not all experience is applicable. Private Senator Ambassador Secretary Bender finds out the hard way that just because they're singing does not mean that they'd rather talk than fight. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In Before Dishonor, a Federation diplomat attempts to negotiate with the Borg—and comes back declaring that "There will be peace in our time." Then the Borg blow his ship out of space. | |
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