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The mob is out in force, toting Torches and Pitchforks and demanding blood. All that stands between them and their target is our hero. The hero gives a speech, and the mob is ashamed. Dejected, they turn and leave. This sometimes works on a Powder Keg Crowd as well, but only if done before the violence breaks out. Once the riot starts, nobody's listening. Occasionally this doesn't work. The mob stops in their tracks, hears out the speech...and then keeps right on with what they were doing. When it works, almost guaranteed to be an instance of Verbal Judo. Compare Talking the Monster to Death. Sometimes rather than the hero giving the speech, it's a Character Witness or Zombie Advocate. If the speech is only meant to delay the mob rioting until The Cavalry arrives, the character is Holding the Floor. If a character points out the extreme danger of what they are doing, or if they demand that someone else do it, and the character shoves it back on them, and they stop, it's Who Will Bell the Cat?. The inversion is Shamed by a Mob. Overlaps with either a Rousing Speech or "The Reason You Suck" Speech. |
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Awesome one in ParaNorman by none other than Norman's sister. | |
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Sonic and Sally attempt this with an audience swayed by Mina Mongoose's "Anti-NICOLE" protest songs in Sonic #221, by explaining who was really in control of her actions, what she was doing when she was a Fake Defector, and pointing out that she was the one who saved most of their butts during the invasion. It doesn't stick. | |
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In issue 210 of The Uncanny X-Men, Kitty Pryde, Colossus (in human form), and Magik find a mob about to beat a depowered Nightcrawler. Judging that using their powers would only make things worse, Kitty proceeds to shame the crowd, one at a time, until they leave. ("He scared my kids!" "YOU scare ME! Should I beat you senseless?") | |
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Victor Frankenstein tells off a mob looking for his monster in the beginning of Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet Frankenstein by pointing out how ridiculous the concept of the monster is. The chipmunks do this to another mob in the finale after the monster is revealed to be a Gentle Giant. | |
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Phil Sheldon does this in Marvels, realizing that he lives in a universe where the average citizens are a bunch of Ungrateful Bastards. That said, it only works when Phil overcomes his fear of a little mutant girl (although he wasn't part of a mob at the time, he previously was part of one where he threw a brick at Iceman's head. Cyclops keeps Iceman from retaliating by telling him that his attackers "aren't worth it," which doesn't shame the mob but shakes Phil up). | |
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Artie delivers such a speech in Shrek the Third. The speech turns inspirational, with a hilarious ending: | |
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Dominic Deegan: Zigzagged in a series of strips. Greg and Luna are targeted by mass ridicule by the people of Lynn's Brook. Luna stands up for herself, and Greg, driving them off. Later, they appear at Dominic's house, since the mob learned Luna and Greg were staying there and Dominic already had plenty of heat with the townspeople as it was. They, again, have to be scared away, even after Dominic calls them on all the dick moves they made towards his friends. | |
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Kevin & Kell, Lindesfarne thanks the attendees of her wedding, telling them, that by attending they had struck a blow against prejudice and hatred toward Fenton's mother, who happens to be a vampire bat. This guilt trips them into NOT collectively retrieving their gifts and leaving early to add injury to insult. | |
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Nemesis the Warlock: Subverted. This fails miserably when Purity and other "alien lovers" are about to be executed by a mob of Torquemada's followers and she takes a moral stand. | |
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Sesame Street: From Seasons 3-16, the adults would dismiss Big Bird's best friend Mr. Snuffleupagus as an imaginary friend whenever they miss their chance at getting to meet him, despite the fact they never notice him pass. Big Bird would normally protest at this, but in the Season 16 premiere, when he got dismissed when he told them Snuffy couldn't come to watch the sunrise with them, this causes the normally friendly perma-six-year-old bird to become so fed up with it that he proceeds to call out the adults for not believing him, asking them if they know the difference between what's real and what's imaginary, and that he can talk to Snuffy on the phone and hear him clearly and he even knows peoples' relatives are real despite not meeting them in person. The speech was so moving, three of the adults — Gordon, Maria, and Linda respectively — know he's telling the truth and choose to side with Big Bird for the season. | |
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In Y: The Last Man, since all the men have died the US Government has become dominated by Democrats, who elect women more frequently. A mob of shotgun-toting Republican Wives try to storm the White House to demand their husbands' political offices but are talked down by the President (Who is, herself, Republican). | |
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The scene of Pocahontas saving John Smith has been highly inaccurately dramatized to resemble this but Disney is only partially to blame. The originator of this story is John Smith, himself. He's the only one who was there who claimed it happened. | |
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Homestuck: Imps are The Goomba of SBURB; they annoy and fight the players. John finds a group of them in his room and, what's worse, they seem to have defaced his posters. He gives an Angry Fist-Shake and decides to "Dispatch these pests." Instead of fighting, he simply orders the imps to leave. They hang their heads sheepishly and walk out the door. | |
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Horton Hears a Who! (2008): Horton tries a rousing speech to explain to the mob why he is so devoted to protecting a speck on a clover that 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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Several times in the Book of Exodus, God Himself has to show up to stop the cranky and tired Israelites from rioting. Unfortunately they only listen for a bit before going to back to griping, even after God consistently helps them. | |
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In the Book of Judges, Gideon tears down the altar of Baal and a mob of Baal-worshipers shows up to execute him. Gideon's father defuses the situation by pointing out that, if Baal was really a god, he would be quite capable of dealing with Gideon on his own. | |
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In Avengers: The Children's Crusade, Wiccan and Speed do this to the X-Men and Avengers simultaneously when they come for The Scarlet Witch. They ask just what both mobs wanna do with her when they get their hands on her, and how they work with not just people who were Brainwashed and Crazy, but ex-villains with body counts, so them not forgiving Wanda really is unfair. Everyone goes home. | |
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Papa Mousekewitz does this in An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island to bring a mob back to their senses after they were tricked into turning against an Indian mouse tribe by three corrupted factory owners. | |
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In Knickerbocker Holiday, when it seems that Brom is finally about to be hanged and has run out of the sort of tricky suggestions that have prevented him from being hanged in the first act, he tells the council that they should be acting on their own authority like they used to rather than take orders from a dictator who has people executed if they don't. The council then rebels against Stuyvesant and refuses to hang Brom. Stuyvesant then moves to order his lieutenant to open fire on the crowd, but the narrator intervenes. | |
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In the Dead Space: Downfall movie, a bunch of Unitologists are insisting that they be allowed to worship the recently-excavated Marker, and are near-rioting when the ship's security forces tell them "no". They're ultimately stopped by a much more level-headed Unitologist engineer who gets in front of them, tells them to stop acting like crazy cultists, be adults, and go do the jobs they are contracted to do; there will be plenty of opportunity for Marker-worshipping later when it's properly delivered to the Unitologist leadership back on Earth. It works: there's some grumbling, but the Unitologists disperse and go back to their jobs. | |
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In The Bible: Several times in the Book of Exodus, God Himself has to show up to stop the cranky and tired Israelites from rioting. Unfortunately they only listen for a bit before going to back to griping, even after God consistently helps them. Jesus stopped a stoning by challenging the mob: "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Nobody did. Leading to the old joke that ends with the rock being thrown and the punchline "Moooom, stop coming to see me at work!" In the book of Acts, a clerk of the city of Ephesus stops a rioting mob of silvermakers by pointing out that if they have a grievance against the Christians for "stealing" their business (by no longer worshiping Diana, the patron goddess of Ephesus, and thus not buying statues of her), there's the courts for that, and they run the risk of attracting the ire of the authorities if they keep up this nonsense. In the Book of Judges, Gideon tears down the altar of Baal and a mob of Baal-worshipers shows up to execute him. Gideon's father defuses the situation by pointing out that, if Baal was really a god, he would be quite capable of dealing with Gideon on his own. |
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In El Goonish Shive, the Moperville North students give Susan grief for only trying to get the uniform policy changed instead of advocating for no uniforms. Tedd stands up for her telling the students that if they want the uniforms gone they should do something themselves instead of mocking the one person actually trying to bring about change. Upon hearing that several of them apologize. | |
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Comic Cavalcade: Wonder Woman is able to make most of Randy Holcome's lynch mob feel ashamed of themselves after forcing him to admit to murdering his father in front of them, but this only happens after they've got a noose around their sheriff and Etta Candy's necks. | |
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After an EMP knocks out Gotham's electricity in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, the city turns into a war zone of fire, looting, and gangs. Retired Commissioner Gordon and Batman talk the mobs into turning from looting to firefighting. | |
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Etra chan saw it!: In this video, the cherry blossom trees in Kuroki and Yuzuriha's garden are continuously exploited by Azami and Akane as a tourist attraction, as part of their own soba restaurant. When trees start dying, the couple see no point in keeping them up and cut them down. Azami and Akane promptly respond by rallying a crowd of dissatisfied customers to their doorstep to complain and demand the trees are replanted. When Kuroki tries and fails to make the crowd see reason, Yuzuriha steps up to deliver a blistering "Reason You Suck" Speech; she points out that the restaurant owners never paid any contribution to the trees they feel so entitled to, and if they had to rely on them so much to support their business, then their restaurant was never that good to begin with. The crowd disperses right after that. In the aftermath, the neighborhood association finds the couple were not at fault, Akane's reputation goes down the drain, and the restaurant goes out of business entirely. | |
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In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, here, Bob chews out the angry mob (actually just four people, but Heywood had to form it on short notice) that has been hassling Molly, and they sheepishly agree to mind their own business. | |
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