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[[The Eternal Churchill]] is a subtrope, with heavy elements of [[Rousing Speech]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[ROM Spaceknight]]'', the "Prime Director" of the [[Human Aliens|Galadorians]] made a public speech announcing the coming invasion by the [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|DireWraiths]] and asking for volunteers to be transformed into [[Cyborg|Spaceknights]] to counter it. Rom is the first to volunteer, inspiring a total of 2000 people to do so.
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* ''[[Deep Impact]]'': The President makes the announcement about Wolf-Biederman, and then makes another announcement that the Messiah has failed, and that disaster is coming—and if anyone has any way at all to get out of the path of destruction they better get going.
* A presidential address is predicted by Dr. Kurtzweil in ''[[The X-Files]]'' movie as part of him [[Story-Boarding the Apocalypse]].
* ''[[Harry Potter
* ''[[First Family]]'', with Bob Newhart as the President, had a scene where some of his
* The movie ''[[Blindness]]'' features a scene where, after a highly contagious outbreak of sudden blindness seems to reach apocalyptic levels, there is a public address from the governor of the movie's location confessing that she too has become blind.
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== Literature ==
* Played with in ''[[Ciaphas Cain|Duty Calls]]'', in which the governor's speech [[Epic Fail|is a complete failure]] ([[Is This Thing On?|and not even rehearsed]]), demonstrating just how out-of-it the governor is (and with a name like Merkin [[George W. Bush|W. Pismire the Younger]], take a wild guess [[Take That|who he's supposed to be...]]).
* Done in Stephen King's ''[[The Stand]]'', where the president can't even get through his speech without starting to cough like crazy, even as he's telling everyone there's nothing to fear and a vaccine is coming.
* The ''[[Animorphs]]'' book "The Absolute" has the governor giving a speech at the end, telling the country about the Yeerks. (Few believe it, though, because she's soon taken away and said to be insane.)
* In [[Robert Reed]]'s short story,
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* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', there's one of these in "The Christmas Invasion". The Prime Minister has to take over the time slot allocated to The Queen's Speech because {{spoiler|the Royals are apparently among the people under alien control}}.
* [[Dave Chappelle]] on ''[[Chappelle's Show]]'' mocked ''[[Deep Impact]]'' by having his black president give a "So Long Suckers" speech to the nation (''after'' and in response to the press running a headline of "World-killing Asteroid is Black President's Fault") as he beamed off the doomed Earth.
== Radio ==
* In an episode of the ''[[Firesign Theatre]]'' radio show "Nick Danger" (a parody of old private dick radio shows), the moment of climax is cut off by a special announcement from the president.
* [[The War of the Worlds (radio)|The Mercury Theater On The Air's
== Western Animation ==
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