"The Reason You Suck" Speech/Literature: Difference between revisions

* [[Handicapped Badass|Peter Waylock]] from [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[War of the Dreaming]]'' dishes out one of these to Azrael after he tries a [[We Can Rule Together]], pointing out what it means that Azrael is reduced to asking his prisoner for help. Later on, Prometheus does much the same, by showing Azrael that his [[Dark Messiah]] plan for "freeing" the world by killing large portions of it was a failure from the start--[[Hannibal Lecture|partly because he just isn't man enough to pull it off.]] Ouch.

* In ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'' John Galt has a massive speech in which he reams everyone he hates; it lasts for ''three whole hours'' and around sixty pages.

{{quote|'''Vimes:''' You are standing there in your shiny breastplate and your silly helmet and your sword without a single notch in the blade and your stupid trousers and ''you'' are telling ''me'' that you let ''my wife'' be taken away by ''werewolves''?

'''Captain Tantony:''' It was the Baron--

'''Vimes:''' And you don't argue with Barons. Right. You don't argue with anyone. Do you know what? I'm ashamed, ''ashamed'' to think that something like you is called a watchman. Now give me those keys. }}

** Actually, name one Discworld novel where this doesn't happen at some point.

** Granny Weatherwax ''loves'' these. Every time she has a major part in a novel you can bet that right around the climax she'll be all up in the villain's grill telling them exactly why that thing they were so sure they were justified in doing is ''wrong'', and why the very reason they even thought it was justified in the first place is the same reason she's about to kick their ass.

{{quote|'''Mr. Pump''': You have killed two point eight people [twenty-two point eight in the tv movie]... You have stolen, embezzled, and swindled. You have ruined businesses and destroyed lives. When banks fail, it's not ''bankers'' who starve. In a thousand small ways, you have hastened the deaths of many. You did not know them. You did not see them bleed. But you snatched bread from their mouths and kicked their homes out from under them. For sport, Mr. Lipwig. For sport. For the joy of the game.}}

* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, Voldemort has something of a talent for these. He gives one to Harry in ''The Chamber of Secrets'', one to Harry and all of his Death Eaters in ''The Goblet of Fire'', one to Dumbledore AND Bellatrix in ''Order of the Phoenix'' and one to pretty much everyone in ''The Deathly Hallows''.