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{{quote|''"I always wondered what kind of person could do such a thing. But now that I see you, I think I understand. There’s just nothing inside you. Nothing at all. You’re pathetic and sad and empty."''
|'''Katara'''|''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''}}
Not only has [[Big Bad]] tried to kill your girlfriend/boyfriend, slain the [[Team Pet
Frequently a particular brand of [[Evil Gloating]] and/or [[Breaking Them By Talking]]; it's a lot like the [[Hannibal Lecture]], except in this case the Villain clearly has done something that would seem to suggest he (the bad guy) really is the superior combatant; e.g. the hero has just been punched through a wall and is pinned under rubble as the Villain stands over him with a gun.
In a well done
Sometimes,
Villains can also give this to other villains in an [[Evil vs. Evil]] setting. The content of this speech is going to be either along the lines of how they're [[Eviler Than Thou]] and pointing out flaws and shortcomings in the other villain, like the [[Magnificent Bastard]] chiding a [[Smug Snake]] for underestimating them and being foolishly unprepared or a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] chiding a [[Knight Templar]] villain for [[At Least I Admit It|employing their same methods but claiming to be morally superior to them]], or [[Even Evil Has Standards]] if the other villain did something they find awful.
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A hero worth his salt might respond with his own speech along the lines of a [[World of Cardboard Speech]] or a [[Patrick Stewart Speech|Picard]] or [[Kirk Summation]], among others. If it's an action movie, the hero will usually just break out a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] and the [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya|shootout/fisticuffs]] will begin. Sometimes the hero survives only because they're [[Not Worth Killing]], in which case they'll invariably prove that they are later in the story. A [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] if the person of the receiving end of the speech is a [[Jerkass]] who had it coming, double [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] if a [[Jerkass]] gives this to someone and he or she respond with their own to the asshole, humiliating him.
Heroes can also give defeated villains
Alternatively, the speech is given by someone who's just frustrated with the other person. This is not an attempt bring down or break an opponent. This is not an exchange between heroes and villains (heck, they might even be friends). This is someone, tired of everything they have to deal with, giving a frank and [[Brutal Honesty|brutally honest]] assessment of the person they're dealing with, often in a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] moment. This can be [[Insult Backfire|prone to backfire]] with a suitably shallow, self-obsessed, and/or [[Genre Savvy]] target; who typically responds with [[Red Dwarf
Compare to [[Calling the Old Man Out]]. Could also be a [[Take That, Scrappy!]] where someone tells a hated character what the audience feels about them.
Compare and contrast the [["World of Cardboard" Speech]]. See also [[Did You Actually Believe?]] Contrast [[Minor Insult Meltdown]], where just the tip of the "you suck" iceberg can sink a character to tears.
And as a last note; [[I Thought It Meant|no, this isn't the trope that's about the reasons that characters are bad at speaking. Neither is it a]] meta [[Justified Trope|Justification]] for [[This Loser Is You]].
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One (really) last note: you'll find that some of these can be subverted to serve as [[Dare to Be Badass]] speeches as well.
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