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* Megatron does one of these in the climax of the first arc of the Dreamwave ''[[Transformers]]'' comic, punctuated by people in the battle zone acting like total bastards. Prime gets to answer with his own [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] speech accompanied by people putting their best sides forward, and punctuated by a group of them dropping half a dozen trucks on Megatron's head to return the favor.
* The Kingpin gets a pretty awesome one in ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]''. After teaming up with a group of other heroes to bring him down, Spidey is betrayed and captured and the Kingpin proceeds to explain to him that he knew about their plan all along and doesn't care, and goes on to tell him that he owns the rights to his image, meaning every act of heroism Spider-Man performs is indirectly funding his criminal empire. [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|Then he lets him go, so he can make more money out of him.]]
** Turned around during the ''[[One More Day]]'' storyline when Spidey breaks INTO jail to showdown with the Kingpin after he sent a sniper to kill him and hit aunt May instead. Kingpin is all suited up and ready to fight when Spidey shows up back in the black costume. He proceeds to humiliate Kingpin in a fist fight in front of all the other inmates, pointing out that for all his influence and power, Spider-Man could crush him like an insect because he's physically just an impressive specimen of normal humanity, Spider-Man is SUPERhuman.
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** In issue #175, Dr. Eggman lays down a brutal one, along with an [[Curb Stomp Battle|epic beatdown]], on [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]].
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** Issue 235 has Sonic handing out a scathing one to Silver, after the former is fed up with the latter's [[Inspector Javert]] tendencies. For emphasis, Sonic delivers it by first smashing Silver through a wall, and nearly spin dashing him to oblivion.
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* X-51 does this to the Watcher in ''[[Earth X]]'', telling Uatu that his inaction, his refusal to help despite constantly witnessing suffering on a global scale, ''that'' was true evil.
* Emma Frost accidentally gets one from her high school nemesis when she inadvertently reads the girl's mind during fencing practice. Upon learning that the girl was secretly scared of Emma, Emma was able to disarm her and win the fight.
* ''[[Watchmen]]'':
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* [[The Sandman|Morpheus]] delivers a classic one to the Corinthian, whom he created to be a revelatory nightmare, but who has settled for being a superpowered [[Serial Killer]]. Then he melts the Corinthian down and starts over.
* ''[[V for Vendetta]]'':
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** Lewis Prothero enjoys giving these to atheists, Muslims, homosexuals and immigrants on his evening television show.
* ''[[Spider-Man]]''
** Another heroic example
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[Later] You're just a poor man's [[Master of Illusion|Mysterio]], and I just got you figured out. }}
** Fusion doesn't learn, and later gets another speech like this from Dr. Octopus, who finishes it by breaking Fusion's arms and legs.
** In the [[Ultimate Marvel|"Death of Spider-Man"]] saga, May gives a very brutal speech to [[Captain America (comics)]] (after [[Mama Bear|''slapping'']] him):
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* The ''Guardian Devil'' storyline in ''[[Daredevil]]''. Mysterio, after learning he's dying, launches a [[Xanatos Gambit]] to ruin Daredevil's life and goad him into killing Mysterio. Daredevil beats him down, and then verbally tears the plan and Mysterio to pieces.
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And trying to drive me insane? Kingpin nearly did it once. But you're no Kingpin. You're not even close. You think you've spun some sort of grand swan-song epic? Think again. You've just told yet another tale of a so-called super-genius endeavoring to drive his arch-nemesis... or, in this case, his ''adopted'' arch-nemesis... insane.
Your whole existence is counterfeit. You've never had an original thought in your life. You're a product of too many movies and too much T.V. Regurgitating only what's gone before.
You're a Human Xerox, at best. }}
* ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' Issue 549 (October 2007): Sue Richards puts [[Doctor Doom]] in his place ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|in epic fashion]]'', culminating 45 years of [[Took a Level
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* In ''[[Wanted]]'', Wesley Gibson gives one of these ''to the reader''-- which may be the only case to date of a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] actually being used to tell the audience "[[This Loser Is You|you suck]]".
* In the original ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comic, Cobra Commander hands one of these to Serpentor after straight-up kicking his ass, claiming the reason he lost was because out of all the DNA of all the great conquerors he's made up of, he's missing the DNA of the greatest one of them all, Cobra Commander's! Also counts as a [[Badass Boast]] on CC's part.
* [[Superman]] delivers one of these to Lana Lang after she detonated a thousand kryptonite bombs around the world as part of a [[Xanatos Gambit]], an action that nearly made the planet uninhabitable not only to Superman, but to anyone with Kryptonian DNA, including Power Girl, Supergirl, Superboy, and [[Kick the Dog|Krypto]]. After the radioactive mess is cleaned up, Supes has a chat with Lana.
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** At the end of ''[[
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* Tom Noir gives one to John Horus, superhero who killed U.S. president at the end of [[Black Summer]]:
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* Delivered to [[Blue Beetle]] Ted Kord by many other superheroes in the issue he died, including Superman and Martian Manhunter. It makes you wonder how pathetic a hero has to be before Superman decides to give him one of these, and how horrific it must have been when everyone discovered he was the [[Only Sane Man]] and had in fact figured out the entire OMAC conspiracy... getting a bullet to the head for his troubles.
* In ''[[Irredeemable|Incorruptible]] #20'', [[Big Bad|Hayes Bellamy]] delivers one to Max Damage while torturing him. He ends his speech with one [[Armor
▲* In ''[[Irredeemable|Incorruptible]] #20'', [[Big Bad|Hayes Bellamy]] delivers one to Max Damage while torturing him. He ends his speech with one [[Armor Piercing Question]]:
▲{{quote| '''Bellamy:''' Have you ''really'' made a difference for even ''one person?''}}
** {{spoiler|After Max's former sidekick Jailbait comes to the rescue and kills Bellamy before leaving for parts unknown}}, Max has an answer:
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* In issue #4 of ''[[Mega Man (
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** In fact, Mega Man fires one right back, combined with a [[World of Cardboard Speech]] as well.
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* In ''Avengers: The Initiative'' #3, when Komodo has Spider-Man pinned down with a device to remove his powers just ready to stick into him and Spidey cracks a joke about the situation, Komodo doesn't expect that her snide retort is going to lead to a full-scale demolition of her in response:
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'''Spider-Man:''' Fine. You want me to be serious? I can do serious. You've already lost.
'''Komodo:''' No way. I've only got to prick you once, and-
'''Spider-Man:''' Not gonna happen. You know why? Because I'm Spider-Man. And you're a dollar store version of the Lizard. See, I beat down guys like Doc Ock, Sandman and Venom all the time. And you're just not in their league. Oh, I'm going to win. And after you've crawled back home with your tail between your legs, you know what happens then? Then your buddies are going to stick one of those things into you!
'''Komodo:''' What? No...
'''Spider-Man:''' Ah -- you blinked. ''[He punches her so hard it sends her flying]'' Game to Spidey. }}
* In Josh Whedon's arc of ''Runaways'', Nico delivers one of these to both the heroes and villains of old New York, pointing out how their constant conflict and hardheadness only brings chaos and puts the innocent in the crossfire, mainly the children. They continue fighting anyways, this being the Marvel Universe and all.
* Catman gives a nasty one to the Crime Doctor in ''Villains United'' by breaking free of his shackles and explaining how he's nothing but a vulture picking off the meat on the bones of captured prey, putting him low on the ladder and then royally screwing him up.
* In an iconic issue of ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'', the protagonist ''really'' lets the Ku Klux Klan have it:
{{quote|'''[[Badass Preacher|Jesse:]]''' Why is it the greatest champions of the White Race always turn out to be [[Evil Makes You Ugly|the worst examples of it]]?? ''You!'' Where the fuck is your chin?}}
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