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▲[[File:rsz_luffy_weak_7501_441.png|link=One Piece (Manga)|right|You don't even need too many words.]]
One of the best ways to show that a character has crossed the [[Despair Event Horizon]] is to give him/her the occasion to perform a
▲{{quote|''"Out, out, brief candle!<br />
▲Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,<br />
▲That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,<br />
▲And then is heard no more."''|'''Macbeth''', ''[[Macbeth (Theatre)|Macbeth]]''}}
Not the same thing as [[Hannibal Lecture]]: while that is when one character attempts to drive another past the [[Despair Event Horizon]], a
▲One of the best ways to show that a character has crossed the [[Despair Event Horizon]] is to give him/her the occasion to perform a [[Despair Speech]] to show that his/her hopes are lost and that there's nothing else left to do. Expect [[Creepy Monotone]] if the character is portrayed as scary.
▲Not the same thing as [[Hannibal Lecture]]: while that is when one character attempts to drive another past the [[Despair Event Horizon]], a [[Despair Speech]] would be done by a character to show that they have crossed it. The character is winding up his/her own lack of chances, desperation and, sometimes, remorse for something he/she could have done or said before. If said character is a criminal, his/her confession can become a [[Despair Speech]]. Be careful when writing this: done too much or badly, and it becomes [[Wangst]].
Contrast [[Badass Boast]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Black Comedy|As one might expect]], this is [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* In ''[[
* Lelouch from ''[[
* {{spoiler|Sayaka}} from ''[[
* Pictured is Luffy from ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Played for Laughs]] with Dirk Anger in ''[[
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* [[
* [[Green Lantern
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[
* In the Steve Martin movie remake of ''Sgt. Bilko''.
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* Adam Sandler's character in ''[[The Wedding Singer]]'' has a Despair Song that's pretty great.
* [[Jason Segel]] in ''[[Forgetting Sarah Marshall]]''.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Denethor gives several of these in ''[[
* ''[[Harry Potter and
* [[The Bible|The Book of Job]] is full of these, mainly delivered by Job himself, making this trope [[Older Than Dirt]].
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* A very short one from ''[[
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* In ''[[
** Hotch also gets one to no one in particular in the form of narration at the end of "To Hell... And Back". His soliloquy about how much everything sucks is interrupted by [[It Got Worse|the Reaper breaking into his apartment and trying to kill him]]. Yeah.
* Yhe old ''[[Hee Haw]]'' song "Doom, Dispair and Agony On Me" is a parody of this trope.
* The "Life is like a box of chocolates..." monologue delivered by the Cigarette-Smoking Man in an episode of ''[[
* Dean has many in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''. The most notable one is when he admits that he wishes he'd never been brought back to life, and concludes "I should've stayed dead."
== [[Theater]] ==
* After [[Lady Macbeth|the queen]]'s death, ''[[
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Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. }}
* Shakespeare's ''[[
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And tell sad stories of the death of Kings.
How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd,... }}
* Every other speech in ''[[Hamlet]]''.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Hope at the beginning of Chapter 11 of ''[[
* ''[[
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* Solid Snake gets one in the original ''[[
* In ''[[King's Quest VI
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Ganondorf gets a pretty epic one near the end of ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]''.
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