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* ''[[Persona 4 (Anime)|Persona 4: The Animation]]'' has quite a few of these. The Shadows do this to their hosts, but Shadow Mitsuo gives one to Yu {{spoiler|inside the [[Lotus Eater Machine]]}}:

{{quote| '''Shadow Mitsuo:''' You have no bonds. Friendship is an illusion. You are empty.}}

* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has quite a lot of these, actually.

** #66, {{spoiler|Barry The Chopper}}, makes 14 year old Alphonse Elric question his own existence with one of these by telling him that Ed might have faked Al's memories and that Alphonse Elric NEVER existed. How he gets out of his funk varies between the versions:

** Then we got Envy, master of this. {{spoiler|Until Mustang and Ed [[Shut UP, Hannibal|return]] [[Talking the Monster To Death|the favor]].}}

** And Solf J. Kimblee. He actually delivers a Breaking Speech with a rare ''positive'' benefit (an [[Inversion]]?) -- during the Ishbalan genocide, both Roy and Riza were telling themselves that they really didn't have any choice but to take part in war crimes. Kimblee utterly shreds those ideas apart ("When you shoot a man, do you not feel even the slightest bit of pride for a job well done?"), forcing them to take responsibility and realize that they're [[Not So Different]]. The end result is Roy and Riza plotting to take down the military government to prevent such a genocide from ever happening again.<br /><br />What's interesting is that Kimblee is a very smart psychopath with a flair for messing with people's heads and an apparent gift for considering himself the rational one in any given collision of philosophies. And he also comes out in the same speech with gem lines like:

'''Kimblee:''' (later on {{spoiler|while fighting Alphonse, he questions why Alphonse doesn't simply use the Philosopher's Stone to get his original body back, and following Al's response?}}) I see. So if you can discover an exception to the rule, you can effectively rewrite the laws of nature as we understand them. Is that how it's supposed to go? Because there is another possibility you know... you '''don't''' get get your bodies back and you '''don't''' save everyone. That could certainly happen. }}

** Pride later gives Edward one during their brief fight. It didn't [[Shut UP, Hannibal|end]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|well]] for Pride though.

** An interesting variation at the end of the Kyoto Arc, when the arc's [[Dirty Coward]] antagonist gets chased down by [[Perverse Puppet|Chachazero]], who delivers such a frightening Breaking Speech that the antagonist faints from fear.

** Later, [[Psycho Lesbian]] [[Psycho Supporter]] Tsukuyomi gives one of these to [[The Dragon]] Fate, ''to convince him he's got a bad case of [[Foe Yay]] for [[The Hero]] Negi''. The scariest part is that {{spoiler|it actually kinda works}}.

 

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