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Windbag Politician
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A kid-friendlier version of the Sleazy Politician, where the main purpose of elected officials is to bore the audience half to death with grand-sounding, but empty rhetoric. Frequently involves malapropers, apologies for their lack of expertise in speaking, and (broken) promises of being short and to the point. Subtrope of The Bore. Sister trope of Old Windbag and Boring Religious Service. Compare Character Filibuster. Often a popular trait of The Generalissimo. |
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Lincoln. On the day of the vote, the speaker tells the audience they will now briefly recap the proposed amendment. Everyone bursts out laughing on "briefly". | |
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Bleak Expectations: Pip Bin spends seven hours trying to lecture an MP on his poor behaviour. It's only after those seven hours he cops to the fact the man is dead. Years later, he justifies this ignorance on the grounds the pale features, glassy eyes and utter immobility are all normal attributes of an MP. Later, in series 4, Pip travels to the most boring place in all of Britain, the House of Lords, as part of a plot to have a near-death experience so he can rescue his wife from the underworld. He's in luck, as Baron Arid Words is giving a lecture on evaporation. Pip soon finds himself bored to death. |
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Spirou and Fantasio. The mayor of Champignac is widely feared for his entirely improvised and metaphor-breaking digressions. | |
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Hamlet: Polonius, King Claudius' counselor, is prone to being long-winded. Lampshaded when he says "Brevity is the soul of wit" at the end of one of his rambling speeches. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons adventure OA6 Ronin Challenge. During the opening ceremonies of the Kumite tournament, the contestants march onto a field and take martial arts stances. A series of long-winded dignitaries then begin to give lengthy welcoming speeches. This is actually a Secret Test: the authorities are trying to weed out unqualified participants. Any of the contestants who moves even slightly during the speeches is immediately disqualified. | |
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In Marco and the Galaxy Dragon, the Mayor is introduced giving a speech about how she wants to make Gold Cord into the kind of town where you can feel comfortable eating ice cream even in a crowded city and starts going off on a tangent about the ice cream parlor where she bought the ice cream cone that she was eating during the speech. The press then interrupt to ask her what the hell she’s talking about. | |
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An episode of Pinky and the Brain sees the duo encounter Algore the donkey, who is full of so much hot air that they can ride him like a hot air balloon. | |
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Lucky Luke: At the end of "Fingers", the mayor wishes to say a few words. Cut to several hours later, where he's still talking. Another has Luke help build a bridge across the Mississippi which isn't completed by the time the opening ceremony comes around. Luke tells the governor to stall for time, which he does by announcing that on this day praise must be given to the Lord, and starts reading from the Bible, page 1. The bridge is finished by the time he gets to Job. |
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The "Young Tory of the Year" sketch from A Bit of Fry and Laurie plays on the same idea, with competitors simply rattling off Conservative buzzwords of the Thatcher era for as long as the competition will let them. They're time-limited because it's a Serious Competition, but the clear expectation is that the Young Tory of the Year will be fully expected to be able to hold forth in that manner indefinitely. | |
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Paths of the Perambulator: When Clothahump wants to summon Nothing, he has his familius start reading a politician's campaign speech that's long-winded, boring, and full of empty promises AKA nothing. | |
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Mass Effect: After rescuing the party from an erupting volcano, Joker tells Shepard that he wants a medal for his actions. The paragon response it to tell him that if he gets a medal, it's going to require a ceremony where a bunch of politicians are going to give long, boring speeches. He quickly agrees that no medal is worth that. | |
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In Shoe; Senator Batson D. Belfry displays this trope on several occasions; particularly during press conferences with Shoe and the Perfesser. | |
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Disco Elysium: Sunday Friend is a high-level government official for Moralism International. He preaches the virtues of Moralism through extremely long strings of meaningless jargon, and deflects any other questions about himself, the murder, or what he's doing in the apartment of a gay student in one of the city's poorest districts. | |
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Hamilton: The titular character eventually becomes prone to longwinded speeches once given a political position following the revolution. Lampshaded. As seen in The Trial of Levi Weeks, Alexander being this even when practicing law. |
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Not a politician per se, but when SpongeBob SquarePants was chosen hall monitor, he gave a long, boring acceptance speech (which includes a quote from an equally long speech from a famous hall monitor). By the time he's finished, class is over without him actually performing his actual duties. | |
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Asterix: The Helvetian assembly in "Asterix in Switzerland" consists of one chieftain making a speech and every other one sleeping deeply. When they switch out, the new one even says "I will be brief..." | |
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One Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch has an interviewed man claim that "Speaking as Conservative candidate, I just drone on and on and on, never letting anyone else get in a word in edgeways, until I start frothing at the mouth and falling over backwards." He then proceeds to do just that. | |
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