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Sometimes a character (usually the protagonist) feels like he is worthless, and does not belong somewhere they value and is fit only to be a villain, no matter how much the idea frightens him. Eventually, their friends or mentors learn what is troubling him and comfort him saying something along the lines of, "Don't be so hard on yourself. You are better than you think you are, and we are going to prove it." When that challenger proves it with irrefutable evidence, the hero ends up feeling much better with the knowledge that someone he deeply respects believes in him more than he did himself. The Power of Friendship and Power of Trust may come into play. Sometimes, though, you'll need a Magic Feather or maybe a Motivational Lie to pull it off. A character may come to this realization after facing a situation that tests What You Are in the Dark. Similarly, a Naïve Newcomer and Cowardly Lion may have a sager character explain that fear is not proof that they are cowards; only the Fearless Fool really feels no fear. This trope may be used as a form of Interrupted Suicide. For the opposite, see Heel Realization or Then Let Me Be Evil, though these alternatives may be reversed by helping the victim over their guilt to facilitate a Heel–Face Turn. When a character has to be constantly reminded of this, they usually suffer from Heroic Self-Deprecation. Compare You Are Not Alone, Life-Saving Encouragement, Fear Is Normal, Rousing Speech. See Don't Say Such Stupid Things! for a rougher version, and for the inverse, see "The Reason You Suck" Speech (which is usually directed at a Small Name, Big Ego). This is also a sort-of inversion of the Declaration of Personal Independence, in which the character assures others that they are strong. May overlap with Reformation Acknowledgement. |
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"Simply The Best" by Tina Turner about a partner she considers superlative to all the others. | |
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In Worm, Tattletale and Skitter try to convince Panacea of this, unsuccessfully. | |
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Nevermoor: Morrigan was born cursed, leading to everyone treating her like she's a curse on them, and on some level, she believes it, too—understanding on a logical level that it's not her fault, but long since having internalized everyone's view of her. When Jupiter takes her on as his apprentice and finds out, he's righteously furious on her behalf, and makes a point of telling her that her existence is not a curse on anyone, least of all him. | |
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In The Rise of Skywalker, Luke's Force Ghost appears to Rey in the middle of her HeroicBSOD, comforting her in the face of her Unpleasant Parent Reveal by pointing out that he and Leia both knew Rey's grandfather was Emperor Palpatine, and yet they both decided to train Rey as a Jedi. The reason Luke gave was that Rey has a kind heart, which her grandfather lacked. | |
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Also happens throughout the series with Neville. When Dumbledore called him brave for standing up to his friends at the end of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and in books five and seven, Neville begins to really come into his own as a wizard and realise that, despite the troubles he has doing magic, he's not a bad wizard or a coward at all. Even the Sorting Hat knew this and placed him in Gryffindor instead of the less popular Hufflepuff like he wanted. | |
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A Bug's Life: Flik's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Hopper doubles as this trope to his colony, and how the ants are not as weak and low-class as Hopper proclaims. In fact, it's because the ants are so much stronger that the grasshoppers depend on them for food in the first place. Earlier in the film, Flik suffers a Heroic BSoD on the circus wagon when he's banished from the colony for having lied about the circus bugs being warrior bugs, lamenting that the fake bird that he and the colony worked together to build was doomed to fail, as was he. Manny's the first to speak up. Manny's initial speech doesn't work, and Flik remains deep in his funk. Then, Dot arrives and informs Flik that Hopper plans on squishing the Queen. When she realizes Flik has lost his motivation, she brings him a pebble and tells him to, "Pretend it's a seed, okay?". It works. |
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In The Witchlands, Evraine and Leopold try to tell Aeduen this on different occasions, as he considers himself to be little more than a human-shaped weapon. Unfortunately, Aeduen isn't exactly willing to listen. | |
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Near the end of the series in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry returns the favor when he meets Dumbledore again in a place between life and death. When Dumbledore bitterly states that his search for the Deathly Hallows in his bid to become a Master of Death meant that he was ultimately similar to Voldemort, Harry quickly refutes the claim. He mentions that at least Dumbledore didn't consider using Horcruxes. Dumbledore is able to draw a small measure of comfort from that. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): In issue 276, Rotor's abusive father, Tundra, is revealed to be an Egg Boss and still shows him no respect for choosing to be an inventor. Rotor undergoes Heroic BSoD over this but Sonic snaps him out of it by stating he's more a man than his father by choosing to oppose Eggman rather than rolling over. | |
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Near the end of the first season of Dimension 20, the school guidance councillor delivers this message to Adaine by way of a tortured metaphor regarding a homeless man with warts on his genitals and fellatio. She does eventually get the message. | |
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The Mighty Thor Journey into Mystery (Gillen) has the following exchange between Thor and the mostly-innocent, mostly-amnesiac child incarnation of Loki that came into existence after the old Loki's death during Siege: During the time when Thor was unworthy of his hammer after Nick Fury whispered a secret to him, Beta Ray Bill was the first person he shared that secret with; "Gorr was right", referring to the belief of Gorr the God Butcher that all gods were unworthy of worship and would always fail the mortals. Despite this, Bill encouraged Thor to consider that he was better than the other gods as he kept fighting for what was right even without his hammer, suggesting that his friend define himself as Thor rather than as a god. |
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Somebody I Used to Know: Ally eventually realizes that she joins her ex's wedding party because she dislikes the person she became. Her mother tells her that her pure passion has always gotten her places, and she just has to find that spark again. | |
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Saga manages to pull it off in one word: | |
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Interactions between Nightcrawler and Wolverine in X-Men and Wolverine had this nuance. At one point, Nightcrawler told the manageress of a bar "the only thing that is hard is Logan's skeleton and claws, the rest is an honorable man ..." Logan is there. | |
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Journey into Mystery (Gillen) has the following exchange between Thor and the mostly-innocent, mostly-amnesiac child incarnation of Loki that came into existence after the old Loki's death during Siege: | |
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In Monsters University, Mike realizes that he cannot overcome his shortcomings, that is, his lack of natural Scarer talent, despite his lifelong love and desire for Scaring. Sulley has this to say. | |
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Here's an interesting take on it: After Doctor Octopus severely injured the Black Cat, Spider-Man gives the villain the beating of his life. Doc Ock loses his confidence as a result, becoming a cowardly shell of his former self, unable to fight, with a bad case of arachnophobia. Eventually, Octopus tries to kill his foe indirectly, sabotaging a nuclear reactor — which would kill everyone in New York, unfortunately. But after his out-of-control tentacles let him defeat the hero — by accident — Spidey convinces him to shut the reactor down so that there'd be witnesses to know of his "great triumph". And it works. Ock gains his confidence back, thinking he is letting the hero live with the humiliation by sparing him. (To Spider-Man, pride isn't an issue when the whole city is at stake.) | |
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Channel Awesome: Done in a subtle way in Kickassia when Ma-Ti is trying to get The Nostalgia Critic to stop being a douchebag. He tells him that he's strong and loyal, but Critic's still on his "a president has no friends" kick. Film Brain tries very hard to get the Critic to believe this in To Boldly Flee, but by then the Critic is just too depressed to listen. Not even a "you've evolved beyond my writing" speech from Doug Walker helped. Finally dying did though. More downbeat in the review of Christmas with the Kranks, as Critic talks about people changing sometimes not always for the best, and you'll/he'll fuck up, but don't hate yourself too much. |
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In Spider-Man: No Way Home, when the other Spider-Men relate previous adventures like fighting Venom and Thanos, Webb Spider-Man can't offer anyone more impressive than Rhino and calls himself lame. However, Raimi Spider-Man reassures him that he isn't and to have more confidence in himself. Webb Spider-Man later pays it forward, reassuring the Alternate Timeline version of his Electro that he isn't a nobody when he laments being Brought Down to Normal. | |
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Some Guy Who Kills People: Ken's coworker and old classmate Irv constantly tells him that he shouldn't be working the same menial job Irv has (with Irv calling himself a loser) and his breakdown isn't his fault. | |
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In The Killers of Krypton, Kara tries to talk her mindless clones out of fighting her by stating they can overcome their programming and fight their rage and pain. Unfortunately, it does not work. | |
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Arby 'n' the Chief: Season 7: In the episode "Greenlit", there's this exchange between Master Chief and a Hallucination of Cortana: Season 8: In the Series Finale "Apocalypse", Arbiter's final conversation with Eugene's hallucination ends up being this: |
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Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin: "Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." | |
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In Raising Arizona, Nathan Arizona gives a speech of this kind to Ed and Hi when they declare that they're planning to split up because they're immature and unrealistic people who are bad for each other. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph: When Ralph is thrown into the Fungeon with Fix-It Felix, he tells Felix that he tried running away and being a good guy by going to Hero's Duty and taking the medal; Ralph asks Felix to fix Vanellope's cart, which he agrees to do. Later on, when the Cy-Bug has turned into an invasive swarm, Ralph punches the Mentos mints into the diet cola fountain, telling himself "I'm bad, and that's good! I will never be good, and that's not bad! There's no-one I'd rather be... than me." Ralph ends up becoming a hero to Vanellope, the other Sugar Rush racers and inhabitants by saving their game, with the Nicelanders treating him with more respect and consideration, and he even helps out unemployed video game characters to make special cameo guest appearances in Niceland. | |
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In Injustice 2 issue #26, Damian thinks he's become nothing but a soldier following orders of his madman of a grandfather. Kara disagrees. | |
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In Wolf 359, Minkowski encourages Hera to save Eiffel from asphyxiating in "Let's Kill Hilbert": | |
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Done in a subtle way in Kickassia when Ma-Ti is trying to get The Nostalgia Critic to stop being a douchebag. He tells him that he's strong and loyal, but Critic's still on his "a president has no friends" kick. | |
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RWBY: In Volume 1, Jaune admits to Ruby that he's massively screwed up and is a failure. She tells him that she thinks that he is capable of being the team leader JNPR needs, he just needs to believe in himself more. Their shared belief that leaders must never fail comes back to haunt them both in Volume 9. In Volume 4, Blake believes that she betrayed her family by leaving them to follow the White Fang's new leader, and no longer considers herself worthy of their love. Her father tells her that her eventually leaving and setting herself back onto the right path proves she is a far stronger person than most people ever manage. In Volume 5, Oscar privately admits to Ruby that's he's absolutely terrified about what Ozpin has dragged him into. Ruby tells him that the fact he's trying to help means that he's a much braver person than he's thinks he is. In Volume 9, both Jaune and Ruby struggle with the belief that they're not capable of being what others need them to be. Jaune thinks he's incapable of being a hero or saving the lives of others while Ruby believes that she cannot live up to standards of perfection that she's set for herself. Both of them learn that they need to accept themselves for who they are, warts and all; Humans Are Flawed, and that's okay |
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In The Amazing Spider-Man 2, when Spider-Man rescues bullied geek Max Dillon at the beginning, Max is amazed and asks why the hero would bother saving a nobody like him. Spider-Man replies that he's not a nobody, he's a somebody. Unfortunately, Max is a stalker, and this furthers his obsession with Spider-Man, having deluded himself into thinking he's Spider-Man's best friend. | |
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In The Smurfs, Papa Smurf delivers this type of speech to Brainy Smurf to help convince him that he's up to the task of deciphering the spell that can get the Smurfs back home. | |
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Wonder Woman uses this quite often, and it is exceptionally effective because of her nature as a truth seer. Not only does she easily get most normal criminals to turn themselves in just by talking to them she's also reformed several super-villains just by letting them know their worries are not foolish but are unfounded and they are loved and special. This is part of why her rogues gallery is less known; people don't often stay in it too long. | |
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Harry Potter: The character arc of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In the end, Dumbledore learns that Harry felt unworthy of the House of Gryffindor, in part because of his ability to communicate with snakes and because he asked to be placed there, rather than letting himself be chosen. Dumbledore tells Harry that character is shown through one's choices and asks him to examine the sword he used to slay the Basilisk. When he sees it is Godric Gryffindor's sword, Harry has all the proof he needs that he truly belongs in that house. Near the end of the series in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry returns the favor when he meets Dumbledore again in a place between life and death. When Dumbledore bitterly states that his search for the Deathly Hallows in his bid to become a Master of Death meant that he was ultimately similar to Voldemort, Harry quickly refutes the claim. He mentions that at least Dumbledore didn't consider using Horcruxes. Dumbledore is able to draw a small measure of comfort from that. Harry constantly tells Ron this, due to Ron's massive inferiority complexes about his Quidditch skills, his perceived status as the family's Unfavorite, his concerns that Hermione loves Harry more than him, and that he will always live in the shadow of his far cooler best friend. This really comes out in Deathly Hallows, when Ron destroys a Horcrux, as it tries to make him believe all of the aforementioned things. Also happens throughout the series with Neville. When Dumbledore called him brave for standing up to his friends at the end of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and in books five and seven, Neville begins to really come into his own as a wizard and realise that, despite the troubles he has doing magic, he's not a bad wizard or a coward at all. Even the Sorting Hat knew this and placed him in Gryffindor instead of the less popular Hufflepuff like he wanted. |
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Danny Don't You Know by Ninja Sex Party is largely about lead singer Danny Sexbang providing a motivational speech to his younger self, and has lines implying that he is not alone in his feelings of inadequacy. The music video is dedicated to "all the nerds of the world." | |
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I Kill Giants has the central message that "We're stronger than we think". | |
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The Dark Knight Rises: When Batman gives Selina the Bat-Pod so she can open a tunnel out of the city and help people escape, she says she'll open the tunnel, but she's leaving Gotham for good and going on her own. Of course, this does inspire her to come back and save his life. |
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The effects are subverted in Dinner for Schmucks. When Tim finally explains to Barry that the dinner's trophy is actually to be awarded to the most pathetic person there, Barry mistakes his You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech as telling him he's failed at being the biggest loser and thus winning the contest. | |
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In Freefall, because Florence is a carnivore, and Sam is a scavenger, Florence thinks that the captain sneaking to steal her food is low-ranking, and she needs to apply this trope. Florence has been trying to help the robots of planet Jean achieve independence and avoid being mass-mindwiped by a brutal safeguard program. She begins to have second thoughts upon meeting Dr. Bowman, who created the robots' neural architecture, and learning that he is a high-functioning sociopath with impulse control problems (by virtue of being an uplifted chimpanzee). She knows, of course, that Bowman also created her neural architecture, and he points out that if HER first thought was for the safety of humans, the robots would probably react similarly to the idea that their safeguards can be broken. |
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Often said by Michael and the other Knights of the Cross to The Dresden Files lead Harry Dresden. Dresden thinks of himself as more of an antihero, but his friends all know that he is a good man. Actually, Dresden is a bit of an Anti-Hero— when it really comes down to it he can be fairly extreme if someone important to him is at stake. (This is evidenced in Changes, where Dresden was more than willing to use the Darkhallow or become one of the Denarians if Mab hadn't been willing to help him save his daughter. Although picking her was morally grey at best, it was still the option with the most acceptable outcome, and he did go through with killing Susan.) However, Harry is still a better man than he thinks, and he isn't about to turn into a mustache-twirling villain any second. Likewise, Harry spends a good part of Ghost Story trying to convince a Street Urchin that he's more than he thinks it is. He hasn't been back in the series since then, so it's hard to say how well he took Harry's words to heart. Interestingly, the boy has a number of similarities with Harry at that age. |
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In Supergirl (2005) #34, after reading Cat Grant's slander, Kara wonders if that woman may be right and she is worthy of the S-shield. Superman's reply is automatic: | |
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Invoked in Terry Pratchett's Snuff. Vimes is constantly watching himself because he thinks that if he loses control of the darkness inside him, he will become as bad as the villains he chases. His butler Willikins tells the latest villain that Vimes is, in fact, "a choirboy" — unfortunately for the villain, Willikins is not. | |
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How to Train Your Dragon: The first movie: Astrid says this in a roundabout way to Hiccup when she explains why she asked her Armor-Piercing Question, "Because I want to remember what you say, RIGHT NOW." Translated: "Because you are a powerful Viking warrior of legend in your own way, and what you say now is likely going to be the stuff of a great saga." And: In the third installment, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, when Toothless is captured by Grimmel the Grisly, Hiccup feels as much of a failure as he’s ever been. Astrid once again acts as Hiccup’s rock, reminding him of what he’s capable of. |
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At the end of Return of the Jedi, Luke turns to the Emperor and states "I am a Jedi, like my father before me." You'd better believe Vader heard that. | |
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In Robin Hood (1973), Robin is unhappy because his status as an outlaw means he can't possibly have a future wiith Maid Marian. Friar Tucker happens by and tries to uplift him; | |
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X-Men: First Class: It has a repeated line where Charles urges Erik to "be the better man" and work for more than just revenge. Erik interprets this somewhat differently than Xavier intended. | |
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In Kung Fu Panda, when Shifu realizes the way to train Po, he all but says "You have had the potential all along and you will become better than you think you are." | |
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Homestuck: Dave is on the receiving end of this after he finds his Bro's corpse, concluding that he's done nothing heroic and that his closest friend is better than he is, while Terezi tries to convince him that he is actually a heroic badass and not just an alligator swindler. Of course, the trial for characters of the Knight class — like Dave — usually involves self-esteem in some way. Terezi, despite being a Seer instead of a Knight, gets a turn in the trope crosshairs when she's having a self-esteem crisis about her alternate universe counterpart being so popular and radical, and Karkat of all people tells her that she doesn't need to put on a ridiculously over-the-top act to be likeable and that when she withdraws she's just hiding someone who's already beautiful. When Dirk is feeling down on himself after finding out what an asshole his alternate universe counterpart was, Dave tells him that he doesn't seem like a bad person and that he shouldn't beat himself up over the things his other self did. |
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In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, after all the trouble caused by Eddie trying to protect Roger, which ultimately cost Delores her job at the bar, he tries to apologize to her and tells her to find herself a good man. She just looks him dead in the eye and says, "But I already have a good man." | |
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At the end of The Peanuts Movie, Charlie Brown thinks that The Little Red-Haired Girl chose him as their summer pen pal out of pity because he's "an insecure, wishy-washy failure". Linus tells him that he should consider the possibility that he's a good person and people like him. When he finally talks to her about it, she tells him it wasn't out of pity and that's not what he is at all. She wanted to be his pen pal because he's a good, honest, kind, brave person, citing all the things she's seen him do over the school year such as doing their book report by himself while she was away taking care of her grandmother, helping Sally salvage her act at the talent show, and confessing to everyone about his state exam getting mixed up with Peppermint Patty's. | |
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Croak: Lex comes to the town of Croak after a two-year run of absolutely no one treating her with respect. Her uncle suggesting to her that she's not as bad as people think nearly brings her to tears, because she'd been doubting that. | |
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My Deepest Secret: Sophie gets told this twice, from Camie as a high schooler and from Emma in university. In an unusual take on this trope, outside events foil the first one and make Sophie bitter. By the time Emma says it, it turns Sophie against her. | |
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At the climax of Superman: Brainiac, Supergirl is given the speech by her cousin: | |
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In Turning Red, when Mei returns to the spirit world after performing the panda ritual on Ming, she meets her mother as a little girl, crying over the fact that she scarred her mother in a violent rage because she felt that she could never be perfect enough for her. Realizing that they're not so different, Mei comforts her and tells her that she's perfect enough before walking her back to her family's embrace. | |
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Family Skeleton Mysteries: When she was pregnant, Georgia didn't think she could have a career and raise a child by herself. But Sid was willing to believe in her, and his encouragement helped her self-confidence and allowed her to believe in herself again. | |
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Years later, Doc Ock would do the reverse to Spidey in Superior Spider Man. Earlier, he had convinced the remains of Peter's "spirit" that he was unsuited to be Spider-Man for endangering a child. Sometime later, thanks to the Goblin King, Ock encountered that same child and was ready to abandon her before the spirit came roaring back, forcing Otto to save her, telling him that when there's trouble, you don't plan, you just do the thing you think is right. Otto comes to realize that the real Superior Spider-Man really was Peter Parker because, while Otto was an arrogant man who overcompensated for his failings, Peter was a man who sabotaged himself because he never felt worthy of the greatness he could have deserved. He then erases his memories and personality from Peter's mind, giving him control once more and asking him to save the woman he fell in love with. | |
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In Exalted, there is a particular Social Charm for the Solar Exalted that acts as a literal gameplay effect of this trope: You Can Be More, allowing a Solar to mend the broken spirits of those around them. With sufficient power behind it, the Charm can even literally cause a mortal to be more by making them become a Heroic Mortal and greatly increasing their own chances to Exalt. | |
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In The Last Jedi, Yoda's Force Ghost appears to the now-reclusive Luke, assuring him he is always an honorable Jedi. | |
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When Peter insists that this mission is well beyond saving, Nick Fury says, "Bitch, please!You've been to space!" | |
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Grandville: One of Billie's defining traits is her extreme awareness of the fact that as a prostitute (and a very cynical and life-savvy one), she is "damaged goods" that is very unlikely to ever find true happiness in life. It takes a lot of effort on LeBrock's part to even make her begin to reconsider this, let alone actually change her attitude to herself. | |
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In the final stretch of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the 2013 stage musical), Charlie worries that he can't take over the titular factory from Willy Wonka because he has no experience in being a chocolatier. Wonka explains in the song "A Little Me" that Charlie may be inexperienced in that now, but that means he's capable of learning and becoming a unique talent in the process; moreover, he's "not just any careless child", but a bright, imaginative, kind, unspoiled, and disciplined one, "So aren't you glad upon review/That Charlie Bucket I chose you!" | |
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Shortpacked!: Amber thinks she's useless, 'til Robin and Ethan both play a role in turning her around. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: In The Avengers, Tony Stark tells Bruce Banner that he is not a monster, he can control the Hulk better than he thinks, the Hulk is not necessarily a curse, but a gift as well, and that Bruce can use him for good. He turns out to be right, as the Hulk not only follows Captain America's orders and provides crucial manpower in the final battle, but remembers Tony and consciously saves his life during the climax. Thor: Ragnarok: Thor puts this into his Kirk Summation aimed at Loki, telling him that his constant betrayals have made him predictable and that he could be so much more than just the God of Mischief. This leads Loki to a Heel–Face Turn when he encounters Korg and his revolutionaries who are about to escape on a ship. He joins the group as their leader and turns the ship towards Asgard to save its survivors. Later, when Thor is losing badly against Hela, he has a Dead Person Conversation with his father Odin. When Thor tearfully says, "I'm not as strong as you!" Odin retorts, "No, you're stronger." This helps Thor get a Heroic Second Wind. In Avengers: Endgame, when Thor hits his lowest Despair Event Horizon from failing to save his citizens from Thanos including Loki and Heimdall and not stopping Thanos when he had the chance, leading to half of his remaining subjects and the world dying from the snap, Thor gets a much-needed pep talk from his mother belonging to an Alternate Timeline. Spider-Man: Far From Home: When Peter insists that this mission is well beyond saving, Nick Fury says, "Bitch, please!You've been to space!" Happy also tells Peter this combined with a Dare to Be Badass after Peter's convinced that he screwed up trusting Beck. In Spider-Man: No Way Home, when the other Spider-Men relate previous adventures like fighting Venom and Thanos, Webb Spider-Man can't offer anyone more impressive than Rhino and calls himself lame. However, Raimi Spider-Man reassures him that he isn't and to have more confidence in himself. Webb Spider-Man later pays it forward, reassuring the Alternate Timeline version of his Electro that he isn't a nobody when he laments being Brought Down to Normal. |
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Thor: Ragnarok: Thor puts this into his Kirk Summation aimed at Loki, telling him that his constant betrayals have made him predictable and that he could be so much more than just the God of Mischief. This leads Loki to a Heel–Face Turn when he encounters Korg and his revolutionaries who are about to escape on a ship. He joins the group as their leader and turns the ship towards Asgard to save its survivors. Later, when Thor is losing badly against Hela, he has a Dead Person Conversation with his father Odin. When Thor tearfully says, "I'm not as strong as you!" Odin retorts, "No, you're stronger." This helps Thor get a Heroic Second Wind. |
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Big Finish Doctor Who: "The Chimes at Midnight" rests its climax on one of these. The villain of the piece is a sentient time loop generated from the suicide of Edith Thompson, a scullery maid who served the Doctor's companion, Charley. Edith had a very poor life of being told she was "nothing and no one" by her employers and considered Charley her only friend, so when Charley died in an airship crash, Edith killed herself - only the Doctor saved Charley from said crash, creating the paradox. Charley manages to vanquish the villain by convincing the time-locked Edith that she is important and will be remembered, preventing the suicide from ever happening. The Master, of all characters, gets such a moment in "The Good Master", where he encounters the so-called Heart of Arcking, a powerful telephatic creature. The Heart reads his mind, and tells him that — in spite of himself — there is still some good buried deep within in him. This being the Master, who prides himself on being a Card-Carrying Evil Overlord, the idea triggers a minor existential crisis in him, and he denies it verhemently. |
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Towards the end of Galaxy of Fear, Zak Arranda has been feeling more and more overshadowed by his studious, Force-Sensitive sister Tash, feeling like he's The Load these days. On Dagobah, Yoda gives him a meat flower and has him solve something himself to help teach him that he isn't. | |
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X-Men Film Series: X-Men: First Class: It has a repeated line where Charles urges Erik to "be the better man" and work for more than just revenge. Erik interprets this somewhat differently than Xavier intended. Deadpool (2016): Colossus keeps handing out speeches to this effect almost every time he speaks to Deadpool throughout the movie, but Deadpool is having none of it. While not in those exact words, the spirit of the trope comes up twice in Logan: The first time Charles chides Logan when he swears in front of Laura. When Logan points out that she had just slaughtered several heavily-armed soldiers so should be able to handle a few curse words, Charles retorts that she can learn to be better than that. The second time is Logan's dying message to Laura. He tells her "Don't be what they made you," implying she can be a better person than the cold killer Transigen wanted her to be. |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius: After Jimmy and the kids get captured and thrown in a dungeon by King Goobot, Jimmy suffers a Heroic BSoD upon realizing it's his fault the Yolkians made contact with Earth. To get him to help them escape, Cindy tries to cheer him up in her own way and spills some of her own insecurities in the process. | |
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In an issue of Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, Cyclonus tells Swerve, in no uncertain terms, that he's kind of a dick.note "Your humor is cruel and usually at other people's expense. You're a passive-aggressive rumormonger who avoids meaningful work, and your 'pranks' are foolish and often dangerous." However, he then notes that when it was discovered that he was locked in a self-imposed Lotus-Eater Machine, everyone came looking for him, so he must be doing something right, even if that something is as simple as "he knows where the keys to the bar are kept". | |
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In Treasure Planet, Silver gives an awesome one of these to Jim. John Musker based it on a particularly strong pep talk from his high school football coach that ended with both of them in tears. | |
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In Words of Radiance (second book of The Stormlight Archive), when two bands of deserters are bearing down on her caravan, Shallan Davar — a shipwrecked minor noble girl dressed in rags — rides up to one of the bands and convinces them to defend them instead of robbing them, despite having absolutely nothing to offer but her word. Shallan herself is on the receiving end in Oathbringer. Shallan believes herself to be a monster because of the people she directly and indirectly killed, and Wit reassures her that she is not a monster and that he believes the world is better with her in it. And later in the same scene, when she tries to prove that everything she does is pointless because of her failings, and upon her indirectly proving that to be untrue, Wit tells her that it is okay to live. |
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Subtle example in the Myth Adventures books. Skeeve takes a D-Hopper to escape to another dimension from Klah, asking for the setting for Klah and Deva. He says that he's running, and Masha responds: "You asked for both settings. You only need one to run." | |
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During The Transformers: Dark Cybertron Orion Pax has denounced the name Optimus Prime because he believes he is just one more link in a chain of Primes that have become increasingly corrupt. Rodimus explains to him that his desire to be a Prime was not about the title, but that he wanted to be Optimus, because no matter what the past Primes did and that he was better than them. This gave him the confidence to reclaim his name and become Optimus Prime once again and defeat Nemesis Prime. | |
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After Kirk Lazarus had a breakdown in Tropic Thunder, new actor, Kevin Sandusky managed to boost his self-esteem. | |
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Anyone Can Whistle: | |
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Demon Knight: One character tries to refuse a Take Up My Sword moment because she thinks she's not the right kind of person for it. The other character asks her if the Big Bad, a powerful demon, tried to tempt her with a Deal with the Devil. She admits he tried. The other character points out she's exactly the right kind of person for the job, since she had the strength of character to refuse the deal. | |
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Zootopia: When Nick tells Judy he became a shifty and untrustworthy fox because that's what society expects him to be and there's no point in trying to be anything else, Judy tells him she can see he's much more than that. | |
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Spider-Man: Far From Home: When Peter insists that this mission is well beyond saving, Nick Fury says, "Bitch, please!You've been to space!" Happy also tells Peter this combined with a Dare to Be Badass after Peter's convinced that he screwed up trusting Beck. |
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Likewise, Harry spends a good part of Ghost Story trying to convince a Street Urchin that he's more than he thinks it is. He hasn't been back in the series since then, so it's hard to say how well he took Harry's words to heart. Interestingly, the boy has a number of similarities with Harry at that age. | |
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Zebra Girl: Becky, one of the vampires who turned on Zandra, is undergoing Stages of Monster Grief and wishing she was dead. Zandra notes how some of the other vampires follow her and tells her she's stronger than she thinks she is. | |
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Frozen (2013): When Elsa is about to kill one of the soldiers (who just tried to kill her), Prince Hans uses this to call her out and stop her from stepping over the Moral Event Horizon. Also her sister Anna tries to convince her that she actually can control her powers and end the winter. At the end of the film, this happens to be true and Anna says "I knew you could do it." "Frozen Heart" at the beginning of the film says as much as well: "This icy force both foul and fair / Has a frozen heart worth mining." |
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Greedy: After discovering that Uncle Joe was flat broke, Danny regrets having stooped to his cousins' level for an old man's money. Robin, who left Danny for this reason, consoles him by reminding him of how he felt genuine concern for Joe when he claimed to be losing his mind. Danny retorts that Joe was putting on an act that anyone would have fallen for. She then asks him: | |
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Girl Genius: Agatha accidentally gives Gil such a piece of inspiration when she asks him what kind of power-hungry dictator he's going to be if he hasn't built himself an arsenal of death rays. While she fumes about their current unarmed state Gil wonders quietly in response that he's apparently on track to become a better kinder one than he'd thought. | |
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This is the essential crux of the "Starlight Sequence" song in the musical Starlight Express, where the Starlight Express, a godlike entity worshipped by the anthropomorphic representations of the trains in a child's train set, shows up to tell the main character that he can win the race that all the trains are competing in if he just believes in himself. | |
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"Kill Your Heroes" by AWOLNATION | |
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A fair chunk of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse consists of people telling this to Miles Morales. After his uncle's death, and his father's heartfelt speech about the "spark" he sees in Miles, he starts listening. | |
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In the Henry James novel The Portrait of a Lady Ralph tries to convince Isabelle of this. | |
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Superman: All-Star Superman has Kal-El express this sentiment to a suicidal teenager. At the climax of Superman: Brainiac, Supergirl is given the speech by her cousin: At the beginning of the The Final Days of Superman storyline, Superman asks her to take over when he's gone. In Red Daughter of Krypton, when Guy Gardner is trying to talk Kara into leaving the Red Lantern Corps, she argues that she can't stop being a Red Lantern, and she doesn't belong anywhere else. Guy replies she can find her way because she's stronger than them and stronger than she thinks. The Supergirl from Krypton (2004): Darkseid kidnaps and brainwashes Kara to become his servant. After being rescued Kara fears that her brain-washed, evil self is her real self. His cousin insists he knows that she's a good person. In DCU Infinite Holiday Special issue #1, Supergirl must reunite a little girl with her father. Though the man is a jerkass drunk who doesn't want to see his daughter because he doesn't want her to realize her father is a screw-up. Supergirl convinces him maybe he can fix things, but only if he tries. In Injustice 2 issue #26, Damian thinks he's become nothing but a soldier following orders of his madman of a grandfather. Kara disagrees. In Supergirl (2005) #34, after reading Cat Grant's slander, Kara wonders if that woman may be right and she is worthy of the S-shield. Superman's reply is automatic: In Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, a Ret-Gone Supergirl reminds Deadman that he doesn't need the glory of superheroing — he does it because it's the right thing to do. In The Killers of Krypton, Kara tries to talk her mindless clones out of fighting her by stating they can overcome their programming and fight their rage and pain. Unfortunately, it does not work. |
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In The Lion King (1994), Simba is reminded by the ghost of his late father that "you are more than what you have become." | |
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The Transformers (IDW)'s comic has the noble Wing from Spotlight: Drift try to teach this to the Decepticon Deadlock. It eventually worked, and Deadlock became Drift. A later issue has Optimus himself suffering doubt about whether he deserved the Matrix, due to a particularly nasty "The Reason You Suck" Speech from Megatron. After two issues of agnonising, he talks with Ratchet about this. Ratchet just smiles and says that if Optimus had wanted to know so badly, he could've asked him. In an issue of Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, Cyclonus tells Swerve, in no uncertain terms, that he's kind of a dick.note "Your humor is cruel and usually at other people's expense. You're a passive-aggressive rumormonger who avoids meaningful work, and your 'pranks' are foolish and often dangerous." However, he then notes that when it was discovered that he was locked in a self-imposed Lotus-Eater Machine, everyone came looking for him, so he must be doing something right, even if that something is as simple as "he knows where the keys to the bar are kept". During The Transformers: Dark Cybertron Orion Pax has denounced the name Optimus Prime because he believes he is just one more link in a chain of Primes that have become increasingly corrupt. Rodimus explains to him that his desire to be a Prime was not about the title, but that he wanted to be Optimus, because no matter what the past Primes did and that he was better than them. This gave him the confidence to reclaim his name and become Optimus Prime once again and defeat Nemesis Prime. |
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The Wheel of Time: | |
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In Pixels, Violet tells Sam that with his brain, he shouldn't be installing hardware - he should be making it. | |
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Grey is...: Black thinks of himself as weak and not able to help other people, White who admires Blacks emotional strength disagrees and says something to this effect | |
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Helluva Boss: After circumstances force Blitzo to pretend he's a human actor in a TV show in "Seeing Stars", he has a panic attack after not having performed in years since leaving the circus. Stolas then takes a moment to reassure him... in his own special way. In "Mammon's Magnificent Musical", Fizzarolli has a panic attack of his own once he cracks under the constant pressure Mammon puts him under. His lover, Asmodeus, tries his best to convince Fizz to quit working for Mammon, until Fizz reveals that the real reason he's afraid of losing the clown pageant and works so hard all the time is because he feels he is unworthy of being with Asmodeus unless he is at his best. He wholeheartedly believes that, because of his horrific scars from the circus fire years ago, he is nothing unless he is the best damn clown in Hell, which he thinks he can only be thanks to Mammon. Asmodeus replies by telling Fizz why everything he just said is wrong: |
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The character arc of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In the end, Dumbledore learns that Harry felt unworthy of the House of Gryffindor, in part because of his ability to communicate with snakes and because he asked to be placed there, rather than letting himself be chosen. Dumbledore tells Harry that character is shown through one's choices and asks him to examine the sword he used to slay the Basilisk. When he sees it is Godric Gryffindor's sword, Harry has all the proof he needs that he truly belongs in that house. | |
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In Moana, Moana delivers one of these to Maui after he explains the story of how his parents abandoned him as a baby, and he feels like he'd be worthless without his powers. She encourages him by saying that the gods must've seen something about Maui himself that was worthwhile, and this marks a turning point in their relationship. She does it again in the climax, with Te Ka\Te Fiti: |
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When Mulan returns home after running away to join the Army, she first meets her father and gives her father the sword of the Hun Leader Shan-Yu and the Crest of the Emperor as gifts to honor the family. His reaction: | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, Davos Seaworth is elevated to the lofty rank of Hand of the King, against his own objections. When he later confides to Maester Pylos his fears that he will fail in his duties and that the King's Hand should be some great knight or lord, Pylos assures him that one of the greatest Hands had been the son of a lowly blacksmith, and offers to help him overcome his shortcomings. | |
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This is what Buzzard tells The Goon in the issue Buzzard first appears: | |
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In Toy Story, Buzz realizing that yes, he is a toy, not a space ranger, sends him into a Heroic BSoD. He doesn't even care when Sid straps large firework to his back. However, Woody explaining that Andy loves him because Buzz is a toy — a cool toy, with lots of awesome features that Woody can't compare to — snaps him out of it. | |
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In Toy Story 4, Woody comforts a heartbroken Gabby Gabby after she was rejected by Harmony, by telling her that there are plenty of children out there who would want to have and cherish a doll like her. And when she expresses nervousness about getting adopted by the lost girl, Woody gently encourages her by telling her the exact same words she told him before he willingly sacrificed his voicebox to repair her, "This is the most noble thing a toy can do." | |
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Shadow Girls: Becka has to be told this after hesitating to Save the Villain. Which, given that said villain tried to have her raped as a prank roughly a week before (maybe) trying to unmake the universe, says quite a bit. | |
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On Not Always Right, a heavily-pregnant young woman is harassed for being so at such a young age. She replies that younger women than her have been better mothers than she can, so she has arranged for her child to be adopted. A bystander buys her a muffin and apple juice, and reassures her: "You are doing the best thing for your daughter, and you are the best mother I know". | |
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This is the overarching theme of the first trailer for Man of Steel, echoing Jor-El's sentiment from Superman: The Movie | |
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There's a lovely moment in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, just after her fiance's embarrassing baptism, where the main character worries that "Any second now, he's gonna say, 'Yeah, you're so not worth this,'" Only for her brother to pipe in, "Yeah you are." | |
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the "Samwise the Brave" scene includes Frodo reassuring Sam that he is an important part of the story. | |
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In Avengers: Endgame, when Thor hits his lowest Despair Event Horizon from failing to save his citizens from Thanos including Loki and Heimdall and not stopping Thanos when he had the chance, leading to half of his remaining subjects and the world dying from the snap, Thor gets a much-needed pep talk from his mother belonging to an Alternate Timeline. | |
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The first movie: Astrid says this in a roundabout way to Hiccup when she explains why she asked her Armor-Piercing Question, "Because I want to remember what you say, RIGHT NOW." Translated: "Because you are a powerful Viking warrior of legend in your own way, and what you say now is likely going to be the stuff of a great saga." And: |
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"Don't Come the Cowboy With Me, Sonny Jim" by Kirsty Mac Coll starts off as a "men are jerks" song, but turns out to be her telling a guy that she knows he's also been taught to believe that this is how men are "supposed" to behave, but it's not who he is: | |
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In Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot, a Ret-Gone Supergirl reminds Deadman that he doesn't need the glory of superheroing — he does it because it's the right thing to do. | |
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Princess: The Hopeful: Graces can regain Wisps by convincing people to act on their positive impulses. This can be anything from Spitting It Out to a crush to kicking a drug habit. | |
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The Force Awakens: Han Solo tries to impart the same to his son, Kylo Ren. This time it doesn't work, and the former Ben Solo gives himself fully to the Dark Side by striking down his father. | |
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Superman: The Movie has this being Jor El's reason for sending his son to Earth specifically | |
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During the time when Thor was unworthy of his hammer after Nick Fury whispered a secret to him, Beta Ray Bill was the first person he shared that secret with; "Gorr was right", referring to the belief of Gorr the God Butcher that all gods were unworthy of worship and would always fail the mortals. Despite this, Bill encouraged Thor to consider that he was better than the other gods as he kept fighting for what was right even without his hammer, suggesting that his friend define himself as Thor rather than as a god. | |
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Brightest Day: Dove tells Boston Brand (the now alive Deadman) this after he deflects her questions about his past life with claims that he wasn't anyone special. | |
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The main theme and message in Puss in Boots involving the three central characters. | |
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Spider-Man: Here's an interesting take on it: After Doctor Octopus severely injured the Black Cat, Spider-Man gives the villain the beating of his life. Doc Ock loses his confidence as a result, becoming a cowardly shell of his former self, unable to fight, with a bad case of arachnophobia. Eventually, Octopus tries to kill his foe indirectly, sabotaging a nuclear reactor — which would kill everyone in New York, unfortunately. But after his out-of-control tentacles let him defeat the hero — by accident — Spidey convinces him to shut the reactor down so that there'd be witnesses to know of his "great triumph". And it works. Ock gains his confidence back, thinking he is letting the hero live with the humiliation by sparing him. (To Spider-Man, pride isn't an issue when the whole city is at stake.) Years later, Doc Ock would do the reverse to Spidey in Superior Spider Man. Earlier, he had convinced the remains of Peter's "spirit" that he was unsuited to be Spider-Man for endangering a child. Sometime later, thanks to the Goblin King, Ock encountered that same child and was ready to abandon her before the spirit came roaring back, forcing Otto to save her, telling him that when there's trouble, you don't plan, you just do the thing you think is right. Otto comes to realize that the real Superior Spider-Man really was Peter Parker because, while Otto was an arrogant man who overcompensated for his failings, Peter was a man who sabotaged himself because he never felt worthy of the greatness he could have deserved. He then erases his memories and personality from Peter's mind, giving him control once more and asking him to save the woman he fell in love with. |
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The Supergirl from Krypton (2004): Darkseid kidnaps and brainwashes Kara to become his servant. After being rescued Kara fears that her brain-washed, evil self is her real self. His cousin insists he knows that she's a good person. | |
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Takotsubo: The story of a superhero is a pretty upfront tagline: Cord Cai is a Chinese-American gangster, who's normally a villain. His backstory is a metric ton of shit: His parents are in prison, he was frequently gay-bashed (which is worse since he's bisexual, not gay), and joined a street gang in high school to cope. While he and his fiance Roland are trying to go clean, Roland gets shot in a carjacking. The Police Are Useless, so Cord tracks the carjacker down and shoots him because he feels like it's his only choice. The author's notes state that this is his long journey back from the Despair Event Horizon to acknowledge that he's a superhero. | |
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The Weather: In the last sketch of "Spooky Fog", Alan spends the whole time insulting himself for being, according to himself, stupid, smelly, ugly, and generally misfortune. The caller, playing his reflection, works to convince him that he's better than that, and makes it clear that, at the very least, they don't hate him. | |
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In The Incredibles, Violet, who had been kicking herself over not being able to make a force field big enough to protect them when they were on the plane, gets one from Helen which in turn, seems to help her to try find her confidence. | |
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While not in those exact words, the spirit of the trope comes up twice in Logan: The first time Charles chides Logan when he swears in front of Laura. When Logan points out that she had just slaughtered several heavily-armed soldiers so should be able to handle a few curse words, Charles retorts that she can learn to be better than that. The second time is Logan's dying message to Laura. He tells her "Don't be what they made you," implying she can be a better person than the cold killer Transigen wanted her to be. |
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Oh, God!: First movie, from God Himself; | |
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In The Mask, Peggy gives a speech of this variety to Stanley. And despite it immediately leading to her Face–Heel Turn reveal, and it was very likely that she was lying through her teeth the entire time, in the end... She was right. | |
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In Tales of the Questor, Quentyn shamefully flees the successful conclusion of his first case thinking that he blundered through it and succeeded only through dumb luck. However, just before he takes off, the local sheriff asks what he is doing and the young Racoonan confesses. At that, the Sheriff firmly tells Quentyn that he is not stupid nor a failure, but a hero who showed admirable guile, skill, and courage to save the day. As Quentyn's mood lifts, the Sheriff gives him his hat noting wryly that the young Questor's career has had an excellent start. Repeated after a heroic charge and in this case, the one doing the reassuring is an angel or close to it. | |
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El Goonish Shive: Grace is a genius, but when things go wrong, she always blames herself, and she thinks she's stupid. She also moped about "whether she deserves this power" and refused to shapeshift after the fight. Until one of her siblings told her in no uncertain terms both to grow back a fluffy tail and where to stick such concerns. A very young alternate universe Tedd felt that he was "no good," and not just at kickball. When Ellen woke up from dreaming about that universe, almost the first thing she did was ring the doorbell, hug this universe's Tedd and tell him he's "plenty good," and abruptly leaving without any explanation. Elliot worries that he's "a bad guy" because he gets angry sometimes and he used to be a Bully Hunter, so maybe he just likes violence. Ashley sometimes thinks she's "trash" for writing ironic-revenge transformation stories, and is worried what she might do now she knows this is actually possible. Their first argument is based around telling each other "No, you're a good person." |
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Unsounded: When Duane stops Sette from saving Chea and the Queen out of nationalistic pride she tells him to be true to himself to get him to change his mind, thinking that he values the life of an innocent child, who is the daughter of a man Sette thought he respected and befriended above what she sees as a misguided and petty grudge. It does not work even though Duane acknowledges it as evil. | |
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In Episode 44 of Welcome to Night Vale, Dana, or her double, talks about meeting their future self, and expresses disappointment at having to wait until they get older before becoming important. Cecil's response? | |
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In Red Daughter of Krypton, when Guy Gardner is trying to talk Kara into leaving the Red Lantern Corps, she argues that she can't stop being a Red Lantern, and she doesn't belong anywhere else. Guy replies she can find her way because she's stronger than them and stronger than she thinks. | |
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The 2004 Hellboy movie had an exchange between the newcomer to the team, John Myers, and The Empath Abe Sapien: | |
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Marvel has an unusual example in the Red Skull's origin story. Depending on your point of view, the trope is either played totally straight or very darkly subverted. As a young man, before he joined the Nazis, the Skull was a miserable loner who had failed at everything he tried and felt completely worthless, to the point of considering suicide. But then he met Hitler, who saw in him a "man of worth" and persuaded him that the new Germany he was building needed men like him. It was the great turning point in his life. | |
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The song "Through Heaven's Eyes" from The Prince of Egypt is one long version of this, sung by Jethro to Moses to knock him out of his depression. | |
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Justice Society of America did a scene similar to the one from All-Star Superman. When the Superman from Kingdom Come ends up in the main DCU, he tries to leave the Justice Society's headquarters. The Society believes Superman is trying to escape, even throwing off Starman's gravity powers, when in reality he can hear a suicidal teenager about to kill herself. He's not able to stop the girl from jumping off the building, but he does catch her in his arms and tells her it does no good to give up. | |
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Teen Titans has Kid Devil, who tried desperately to be a good superhero but always felt like the weakest link of the team because of a string of losses. It came to a head when Clock King kidnapped and brainwashed him into fighting in a teenage superhero bloodsport and almost killing someone. Miss Martian managed to snap him out of it by reminding him of his dream to be a hero and what a sweet, earnest person he truly is. | |
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In The Avengers, Tony Stark tells Bruce Banner that he is not a monster, he can control the Hulk better than he thinks, the Hulk is not necessarily a curse, but a gift as well, and that Bruce can use him for good. He turns out to be right, as the Hulk not only follows Captain America's orders and provides crucial manpower in the final battle, but remembers Tony and consciously saves his life during the climax. | |
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Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus has Gaz give one of these speeches when Dib is despairing after they're locked up in Moo-Ping 10, albeit in her own tough way: | |
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The Internship: River gives this to Cooper at the end of Volume 3. By the end of the Volume, both have significantly opened up to one another and become more comfortable with one another. River outright tells Coop to take the night to talk with Andy and settle things before finally helping them. When Coop points out he hasn’t done anything yet, River says otherwise, saying he’s done more than he realizes. Coop then gives this to Andy in the first quarter of Volume 4. Andy confesses to Cooper that he sees himself as, in his words, “boringly unremarkable�. He’s not masculine or muscular like Coop or Emery, nor is he pretty and slim like River is. Andy says that, compared to the aforementioned 3, he’s nothing and questions why Coop would even be into him. Cooper stops him and tells him Andy being Andy is exactly what he needs. He tells him that if it weren’t for Andy being exactly who he is, Cooper, given his past, might not even be alive right now. So, Andy should just be himself and never look back. It’s exactly what Andy needs to hear. And then the two proceed to really have sex (anal) for the first time. How’s that for Character Development? |
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More downbeat in the review of Christmas with the Kranks, as Critic talks about people changing sometimes not always for the best, and you'll/he'll fuck up, but don't hate yourself too much. | |
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Deadpool (2016): Colossus keeps handing out speeches to this effect almost every time he speaks to Deadpool throughout the movie, but Deadpool is having none of it. | |
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Warrior Cats: As Yellowfang is dying, she says that she fears StarClan will judge her due to having kits despite being a medicine cat and feels she deserves it, and that she doesn't deserve to have a cat like Fireheart as her adopted son. Fireheart reminds her of all of the good things she did and how good of a cat she is, but she dies before he can finish speaking. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls #20, "Bow Jest" (DC run) has Blossom's psyche and confidence shattered when she loses her hair bow. Mojo steals it, thinking it possesses some type of power if losing it can turn Blossom into a sobbing mess. Suddenly, Bubbles (of all people) clocks Mojo, slams the bow back on Blossom's head, and dresses her down: | |
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All-Star Superman has Kal-El express this sentiment to a suicidal teenager. | |
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In Rugrats Go Wild!, Tommy receives reassurance from the other kids after they get stuck in a cave: | |
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Shallan herself is on the receiving end in Oathbringer. Shallan believes herself to be a monster because of the people she directly and indirectly killed, and Wit reassures her that she is not a monster and that he believes the world is better with her in it. And later in the same scene, when she tries to prove that everything she does is pointless because of her failings, and upon her indirectly proving that to be untrue, Wit tells her that it is okay to live. | |
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The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: When Galatea is facing the possibility of prison time for her actions in "The Island And the Idol" story arc, she tearfully asks Bob why she's even alive, if everyone always treats her as some walking bad example to be shunned. Her sister Molly answers her that Galatea is the most passionate and alive person she knows, and that her willingness to go out and try things is an inspiration to Molly... and that her family loves her. | |
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Film Brain tries very hard to get the Critic to believe this in To Boldly Flee, but by then the Critic is just too depressed to listen. Not even a "you've evolved beyond my writing" speech from Doug Walker helped. Finally dying did though. | |
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Encanto: Mirabel displays this trope on several occasions: During "What Else Can I Do?" when Isabel breaks out of her "perfect daughter" persona, Mirabel's line, "All I know are the blossoms you grow, but it's awesome to see how you rise," leads to the sisters' true reconciliation. After Abuela's Heel Realization moment, Mirabel is there to assure her: In "All of You", Mirabel flat out declares this trope to the whole family: Mirabel gives a minor one to Bruno before his vision. |
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A common theme through the Ciaphas Cain books is that of Cain engaging in tremendous amounts of Self-Deprecation. Amberley Vail, the editor of his memoirs and longtime friend, lover, and confidant, frequently comments in the footnotes that he is a far better person than he gives himself credit for. It reaches its peak when in one book, Cain is pained to realize he can no longer remember the names or faces of some of the long-dead soldiers he fought with near the beginning of his career. Amberley notes that his guilt over not remembering them says quite a lot about Cain's true character all by itself. | |
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Everything Everywhere All at Once: Alpha Waymond hits Evelyn with this early in the film, revealing that all the misery of her life has given her the greatest capacity for power of any of the infinite Evelyn's he's seen: This is how Evelyn is ultimately able to befriend Deirdre, the IRS auditor who'd been giving her grief the entire movie. When Evelyn has a breakdown and seems to completely blow her chances at saving her business and her marriage, Deirdre is surprisingly understanding, since she also did some crazy things when her marriage fell apart. She then tries to comfort Evelyn by sardonically noting that, "Unlovable bitches like us make the world go 'round." Evelyn, taken aback, rejects this notion. |
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While not outright stated, the sense of this trope is there in Tangled, when Flynn Rider tells Rapunzel why he changed his name from Eugene Fitzherbert: He was a lonely kid in an orphanage, and wanted to be a cool Loveable Rogue thief, like his favorite character. Rapunzel tells him she likes his real name better, and she is implied to be the first person who liked him for himself. He repays her by cutting her hair, ruining its rejuvenating magic and freeing her of it. |
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Coco: After learning that he is Miguel's great-great-grandfather and not Ernesto, who poisoned him and caused his family to think he abandoned them for selfish goals, Hector decries he's a sorry excuse for a great-great-grandpa. Miguel responds that Hector is a total upgrade from when he thought he was related to a murderer. When that doesn't work, he says this and it snaps Hector out of his depression. | |
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The Most Epic Story Ever Told in All of Human History: When Captain Epic is feeling down about himself, Epic Robot Guy informs him that he was inspired to become a better person because of Captain Epic's dedication to doing good. This promptly revitalizes Captain Epic's spirit. | |
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Spy School: Ben does this to Alexander at the climax of the second book, when he's fallen into a depression, and they need him to help rescue Erica and Cyrus. He tells Alexander that yes, he is a bad spy, but he couldn't have become a Living Legend without some skills, and right now they need him to inspire the others. | |
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The Muppet Movie: Kermit attempts to convince this of Doc Hopper. It fails. | |
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In Interstitial: Actual Play, Edith tries to invoke this in the hopes that Tagdegx, Gadget's Nobody, will believe in their own existence. | |
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"I'll Be Your Mirror" by the Velvet Underground. | |
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In Luck (2022), Sam goes through a Heroic BSoD when her attempt at sending only good luck to the Human World caused the bad luck pump to explode, which sent only bad luck to the Randomizer, caused it to shut down, and took away Hazel's guaranteed chance to get adopted. Bob manages to get Sam out of it with this kind of speech. He tells her that even though she has bad luck, she's a good person because she's selfless, wants good things for others, and that Hazel is the luckiest girl in the world because she has Sam as her friend. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games: Despite successfully earning everybody's trust back in the previous film, Sunset Shimmer needs to be reassured several times by her friends of her worth. Rarity even says "what we needed to defeat [the Sirens] was you" when Sunset undergoes some Heroic Self-Deprecation. It works, since Sunset channels The Power of Friendship through Human Twilight's amulet to enter a Golden Super Mode as Daydream Shimmer to combat Superpowered Evil Side Midnight Sparkle. | |
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In Why We Took the Car, Maik breaks down and tells Tschick just how boring he actually is and how he sees himself. Tschick responds by telling Maik how much of a great person he is and that the week they spent together was the best of his life, which was something Maik probably really needed to hear. | |
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At the beginning of the The Final Days of Superman storyline, Superman asks her to take over when he's gone. | |
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It's a Wonderful Life had this as its central premise, to the point that the plot is often referenced by other works in its entirety. | |
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Say Anything...: When Lloyd has gone into a tailspin after Diane breaks up with him, Corey does this for Lloyd: | |
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In Star Trek: Nemesis, Picard attempts to use speeches of this message to persuade Shinzon. | |
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This from the Mega Man (Archie Comics) comics, in a shoutout to The Megas: | |
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In Jeramey Kraatz's The Cloak Society, Kirbie urges this on Alex, to get him to leave Cloak. | |
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In the third installment, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, when Toothless is captured by Grimmel the Grisly, Hiccup feels as much of a failure as he’s ever been. Astrid once again acts as Hiccup’s rock, reminding him of what he’s capable of. | |
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In Please Don't Tell My Parents I Have a Nemesis, Sister Marianne finds Penny Akk at her lowest point, when all hope seems lost. She reminds Penny about the events of the previous book and all of her accomplishments with just little things she did. | |
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