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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The battle's over and you've lost, you just don't know it yet. Let me tell you how, and maybe why. May or may not involve actual Chess Motifs. It's a speech that may include elements of Out-Gambitted, Last-Second Chance, Kirk Summation, Breaking Speech, and maybe "The Reason You Suck" Speech, but supersedes all of that in ways likely to mark it as a Crowning Moment of Awesome. It's the Hero letting the Villain know exactly how they have already been defeated. This can also apply to Chessmasters whose plans are not only going exactly how they planned it but also made sure to take spanners into account to make sure it stays that way and succeed. Please note that actually saying this in a chess match with serious players is considered poor manners, as it implies your opponent is too stupid to recognize that he has lost. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Examples |
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An example which leaves a lot of ambiguity over who was really the hero and who was the villain occurs in Watchmen. | |
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The final confrontation between Voldemort and Harry Potter is this. Harry calmly explains why all of the Death Eaters' curses are failing, why Snape wasn't on his side, why Voldy's killing curse failed and will continue to do so. Harry then gives the Dark Lord one last chance to repent. He doesn't, and is Hoist by His Own Petard. | |
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Doctor Doom is presented with this scenario by the hands of Black Panther in Doom War. | |
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Legacy of Kain has several instances of this, unsurprisingly, and the actual phrase is said in Defiance by Mortanius when Raziel realizes that he would need to kill Kain to retrieve the Heart of Darkness, since the Heart was in Kain and was what brought him back as a vampire. | |
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Implied at the end of an actual chess movie, Searching for Bobby Fischer. When Josh sees the forced mate, he decides to be nice and offer a draw to Poe. When Poe scornfully refuses, Josh says "Take the draw." Poe refuses again, and loses. | |
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Doctor Who is chock full of these. While it's been suggested it's because the Doctor can easily go back in time to fix it so that he wins, it's an option he rarely takes because of the Timey-Wimey Ball. note (it's also a drama-killer) . More often than not, it's because he's already out-thought and out-witted the enemy of the story. | |
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Phoenix Wright is fond of delivering these speeches once he has the defining evidence in place to prove the real killer guilty. It's almost invariably followed by a Villainous Breakdown on behalf of the accused. | |
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Subverted for laughs in the first book of the Mediochre Q Seth Series. Mediochre, being a smug git, sets things up to let him pull one of these on the Big Bad - but forgets to factor in the fact that he has the body of a scrawny teenager and the Big Bad is capable of cutting off his airway before he can finish. | |
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Happens in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, as Sherlock explains to Moriarty how he's stolen and decoded his notebook and used it to seize every penny he's made from his war-profiteering scheme. As an added bonus, the two are actually playing a verbal chess game during his explanation, and Holmes wins that too. Double bonus: right at that moment, Dr Watson (Holmes' right hand, who could be considered his bishop) foils Moran's (Moriarty's "bishop") attack at the meeting. |
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