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** 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.
* In issue #175 of ''[[Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', Dr. Eggman lays down a brutal one, along with an [[Curb Stomp Battle|epic beatdown]], on [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]].
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** In a rare heroic example of the trope, Sonic fires one back in issue #200.
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*** ...and then he rubs more salt in the wound by picking up the fallen dictator's spectacles, and kneeling beside him, saying, ''[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|"I'll be content with "Nyah nyah" and "I win."]]''
*** ...and [[My God, What Have I Done?|immediately comes to regret it]] after seeing the [[Villainous Breakdown|aftermath.]] Though it was foreshadowed that this would have happened, speech or no speech, Sonic goes on to muse that things "went too far" in the next issue.
** Issue #192 has Jules delivering one to [[Evil Twin|Scourge]] that actually sends him him away in tears.
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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.
* In ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', V sneaks into a TV station and replaces the usual broadcast (the evening news and bad sitcoms) with a recording of him giving the British public, and the human race in general, a severe dressing-down.
** Lewis Prothero enjoys giving these to atheists, Muslims, homosexuals and immigrants on his evening television show.
* Another heroic example: [[Spider-Man]] vs. Fusion, who held Spidey responsible for the death of his son. Spidey delivers his speech ''while lying on the floor with a broken neck''.
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[Later] You're just a poor man's [[Master of Illusion|Mysterio]], and I just got you figured out. }}
** In the [[Ultimate Marvel|"Death of Spider-Man"]] saga, May gives a very brutal speech to [[Captain America]] (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. }}
** Mysterio finally responds {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide|by shooting himself in the head.]]}}
** Ironically the way of {{spoiler|other webhead nemesis, Kraven the Hunter. With his last words, Mysterio even says that now he's going to steal an idea from Kraven.}}
* ''[[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 In Badass|taking levels in badass]].
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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 ''[[Fifty Two]]'', he gives one to [[Lex Luthor]].
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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-Piercing Question]]:
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** {{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 (comics)|Mega Man]]'', Wily tries giving one to Mega Man. It doesn't faze him.
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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. }}
** Komodo finds this speech so bad that once he's escaped she's later found by War Machine [[Despair Event Horizon|crying inconsolably]] and begging not to be depowered.
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