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* In ''[[Samurai 7]]'', Ukyo tells Kanbei, right before his planned execution, that he's planning to destroy Kanna Village and take over the world.

* Parodied ''twice'' in ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', when two separate villains get the drop on our [[Anti-Hero|AntiHeroes]], only to spend so much time talking about how they've won that they don't get an actual shot off before Revy guns them down <s> wordlessly</s> while saying "Shut the fuck up!" ''as'' she pulls the trigger. Of course, one of them had the foresight to wear a bulletproof vest...

** Particularly notable is that nearly every villain helpfully explains their powers for the heroes' benefit - this is eventually given a [[Lampshade Hanging]] and [[Double Subversion]] when {{spoiler|Calipha}} refuses to disclose her Devil Fruit's name and properties...and Nami guesses them perfectly.

** Crocodile reveals the bomb that is set to go off in Alubarna when facing Vivi in the palace, as a way of mocking her desire to save everyone. While he does try to finish her off, Luffy and Pell manage to save her, and she uses the knowledge about the bomb to find and disable the cannon, {{spoiler|although it takes Pell's near-self-sacrifice to stop it completely}}.

* Used in ''[[Trigun]]'' by [[The Dragon|Legato Bluesummers]]. Not only does he [[Hannibal Lecture|explain his plan]], he forces it to come to fruition as well. His plan? {{spoiler|Force Vash [[Mind Rape|to kill him]].}} However Vash was given the choice to either kill Legato or let his friends die, he obviously went with the lesser of two evils since he had no choice.

* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' screws around with this idea. {{spoiler|Chao}} was smart enough not to gloat about the completion of her plan until [[You Are Too Late|a week after she already did it]], sending the protagonists [[Time Travel|forward in time]] to when she already won. Unfortunately for her, Negi has his own [[Time Machine]], so he and his squad decide to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]...

* Done all of the time in ''[[Bleach]]''.

** {{spoiler|[[What an Idiot!|Shinji]] is beaten by [[Boring Invincible Villain|Aizen]] [[Villain Sue|Sosuke]].}} Though to be fair, {{spoiler|Aizen figured out most of it himself}}.

** {{spoiler|Aizen}} ''loves'' this trope. He has routinely spent as many pages as he possibly could when given the opportunity to monologue about his plans, intentions, and knowledge. If you consider {{spoiler|Aizen is a Magnificent Bastard whose plans have been going on for, at least, a century, he must have been holding his gloating for one HECK of a long time. Since he has endured Gotei 13 for so much time}}, it's only fair to assume he wants payback and talk their ears out on how weak, immature or otherwise flawed they are. Not to mention his gloatings are supposed to make people enraged and throw them out of focus so they can be defeated, cue to {{spoiler|Hiyori getting cut in half by Gin.}} Case in point: during the original [[The Reveal|reveal]] at the end of the Sould Society arc, Aizen spends nearly two episodes explaining his plan, and even getting interrupted by a giant punch from Komamura can't stop him.

** In Naruto this is often subverted actually: Madara explains his plan to the Kage because he needs them to know it to be able to make his move. And after Pain explains his intentions to Jiraiya, he does succeed to kill him (he plays this straight with Naruto however). And for both, the major difficulty in defeating them is to find out how their ability works, cause they have the presence of mind ''not'' to explain it in full detail during the fight.

** Also, in the current arc, the resurrected characters have the control of their mind and mouth but not their body (most of them anyway). This leads to weird situations where these characters try to kill their opponents while explaining them how they can be defeated and telling them to dodge their attacks.

*** {{spoiler|To be fair though, Itachi specializes in genjutsu so it was probably very obvious to Kabuto that he'd use it anyway - in other words Itachi just stated the obvious. It's like Naruto saying he'll use shadow clones.}}

* In the most recent arc of [[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]] {{spoiler|Daemon Spade invokes and promptly subverts this trope when confessing to his status as [[The Man Behind the Man]] to a kidnapped and seriously freaked out Chrome Dokuro. The confession is coupled with several requests to pull a [[Face Heel Turn]], and when she refuses to switch allegiances he simply decides to [[Hypnotize the Princess|hypnotize]] her and order that she not leave his side, [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|pretty much guaranteeing that his plans won't be derailed by telling her]].}}

* Lampshaded in [[Normalman]], as the Ultra Conservative tells Normalman "I'm going to make you listen to my insidious Master Plan!" (while unrolling a Ko-Ko style "little list".) Because it's in the contract: "On capture by the Party of the First Part, the Party of the Second Part must listen to a) [[Origin Story]] or b) Master Plan." However, before we can find out what it is, Captain Everything and Sergeant Fluffy burst in shouting "You aren't going to bore the audience to death with your insipid Master Plan!"

* Lampshaded in ''[[Y: The Last Man]]''. [[Straw Feminist|Radical misandrist Victoria]], leader of the Daughters of the Amazon, has tracked down Yorick, the last man alive, and is starting a speech about how he's going to pay for the crimes of all his gender when Yorick interrupts her with: "Geez, you Amazons don't know when to just shut up and kill a guy!"

* During his second meeting with [[People Puppets|Miasma]], ''Magog'' is captured and comments on how much he hates this trope. He tunes out the villain and the text is replaced with scribbles and gibberish until he starts listening again.

* Senator Roark gives one to John Hartigan in ''[[Sin City]]''. Unlike most versions of this trope, the Senator is getting away with it and they both know it.

 

== Fan Works ==

 

 

{{quote|'''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]:''' What do you intend to do with those diamonds?<br />

'''Blofeld:''' An excellent question. And one which will be hanging on the lips of the world quite soon. If I were to break the news to anyone, it would be to you first. You know that. But it's late, I'm tired, and there's so much left to do. Good night, Mr Bond. }}

** Mild inversion in ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies]]''- the [[Evil Plan]] turns out to be ''less'' heinous (though still heinous) than what the heroes thought it was (they thought Carver was trying to start [[World War III]] [[For the Evulz]] and for rating; he's ''actually'' in a [[Big Bad Duumvirate]] ([[Offstage Villainy|of sorts]]) aimed at installing a new Chinese government via nuking the old one and blaming it on the British, with his ally emerging as a [[Villain with Good Publicity]] when he takes over the country and negotiates a truce (Carver is still after ratings). Also a perfect example of how Bond movies subvert this trope- they were ''already'' trying to foil his plan before he even explained it.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]] in the film ''[[The Incredibles]]'', where the villain's penchant to elaborately explain their nefarious plans is dubbed "monologuing" by the heroes. Syndrome falls for it anyway -- which is entirely plausible; he wants Mr. Incredible to ''know'' how great he is.

== Literature ==

* During the climaxes to the first 6 books, ''[[Harry Potter]]'''s main strategy was to make the villains talk, as a way to buy some time and think of a way to get the hell out. In the final book, his plan is to keep talking himself, to both try and get the big bad to step down after realising he is well and truly screwed either way, and to tell everyone why the big bad is screwed, and if he is killed they can just mass kill him.

* ''[[Discworld]]'':

** In ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'', Commander Vimes muses about how it's better to be at the mercy of an evil man: "The evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to ''know'' you're going to die. So they'll talk. [[Evil Gloating|They'll gloat.]] ... A good man will kill you with hardly a word."

* In [[Juliet Marillier]] 's Daughter of the Forest, the villain has the heroine in his power and planning to burn her as a witch. He takes to visiting her in her cell to gloat. As he is convinced she really cannot talk, he lets slip some things he might otherwise not have divulged. Of course, when she does regain her voice, she tells his nephew (and his enemy) all about it.

* {{spoiler|The Sphinx}} does this in the final book in ''[[Fablehaven]],'' after having Seth in his clutches, he actually tells him that his victory is so assured, he'd like to have one honest conversation with one of his respected nemeses. He then goes on to explain in detail his origins, his source of power (and weaknesses thereof) and all the other things that usually pertain to this trope. He then has Seth sent to his dungeon, and, for the most part, doesn't really suffer any consequences from this particular discussion.

 

 

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Tsuriko:'''}} That... that doesn't help Xykon at all.

'''Redcloak:''' [[I Lied|Yes, I know. That's why I've kept it from him for more than 30 years.]] }}

* General Gray in the ''[[Jump Leads]]'' issue ''Who Wants to Rule the World?'' averts this, despite being an otherwise textbook case of [[Contractual Genre Blindness]]. After all, "before I kill you, let me tell you my plan" only works if you have any actual intention of killing the person you're talking to.

* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Torg [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=991001 plays on Dr. Steve's] [[Contractual Genre Blindness]] to invoke this trope.

* Constantly parodied [[Subverted Trope]], [[Inverted Trope]] and [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] [[Once an Episode]] in ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' when Perry the Platypus is captured by Dr. Doofenshmirtz in his lair. Sometimes Perry and Dr. Doofenshmirtz act as good friends, though Perry never fails to thwart the villain anyway. The whole [[Evil Gloating]] thing seems to be part of the Secret Agent/Evil Scientist contract. Doofensmirtz even says that since Perry's his nemesis, he has to tell him everything. Sometimes with visual presentations, pop-up books or musical numbers [[Summon Backup Dancers|complete with backing dancers]].

* Actually [[Justified Trope]] in the ''[[Justice League]]'' crossover episode of ''[[Static Shock]]'', where Braniac explains his plans to Static and Gear to distract them until he can attack.

{{quote|'''Chairface Chippendale:''' Ah, [[This Is the Part Where|this must be the part where]] I reveal my sinister plot!}}

* ''[[The New Adventures of Superman]]'' episode "The Saboteurs". The [[Villain]] "The Chief" tells Lois Lane and Clark Kent his plan after he captures them.