Sedgwick Speech: Difference between revisions

This is often a result of the [[Tempting Fate|Temptation of Fate]].

 

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Death Note]]'', Matt is cornered by Takeda's Kira-worshiping bodyguards. He starts telling them why they wouldn't dare shoot him. Cue barrage of bullets.

* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''. "It's not like they have tanks." Cue {{spoiler|the Briggs brigade}} deploying [[Tank Goodness]] for one ''hell'' of a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

* Subverted in ''[[One Piece]]'' during the war at Marineford. When Coby made a passionate plea to stop the fighting [[Shut Up, Kirk|Admiral Akainu tried to kill him then and there]], only to be stopped by Shanks.

* Russia in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' doesn't actually die, but comes close when he jumps from a plane with no parachute. Beforehand, he claims he'll be fine because the snow on the ground is soft enough to break his fall. China asks if he's sure, and Russia says "I'm Russian, I know everything about snow!" Too bad he knows nothing about parachuting.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Used almost verbatim in [[The Losers]] (with "she couldn't hit..." instead of "they couldn't hit...")

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'': While they weren't going to a war, but to film a movie about one, the director Damien Cockburn died this way. He stepped into a mine after giving a speech about filming the best war movie of all time.

* Near the end of ''[[Three Amigos]]'', a bunch of El Guapo's men run off. As El Guapo yells at them for being cowards, Jefe says, "Cheer up, El Guapo... you still have me!" Guess who gets shot immediately thereafter.

 

== Literature ==

* A pair of girls in ''[[Battle Royale]]'' attempt to convince everyone to lay down their weapons and refuse to fight any more with the aid of a megaphone, and promptly get slaughtered by the token psychopath who's armed with a sub-machine gun.

 

* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E05 Evolution of the Daleks|Evolution of the Daleks]]", the leader of Hooverville attempts to show the Daleks that they're [[Not So Different]] than him, and gets [[X-Ray Sparks]] through his body for the trouble.

** "Whadda you, Daleks?"

* One episode of Dad's Army has Jones comparing Mainwaring to an officer he had in World War One who didn't like crouching in the trenches and one night decided to walk on the parapet to show the Germans he was not afraid and to set an example to his men. {{spoiler|He got shot. In a very awkward place. Did a lot of crouching after that.}}

 

* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0611.html This] ''[[Order of the Stick]]'' comic proves why you should never [[Tempting Fate|tempt fate]] when Belkar is around. With a healthy dose of [[Killed Mid-Sentence]] on the next page, no less.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* South Dakota in ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'': "Come on, Wash, what are you going to do, shoo-" Wash: "Yes."

* Yamcha in ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]''.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', a statue of a general is seen with the words "I'll die before I surrender, Tim" engraved on it. Tim is presumed to be the man next to him before he was shot. The more likely explanation is that Tim killed the general, then surrendered.

* ''[[South Park]]'': "Cheeri-o! My name is Pip. I would like to see if you wouldn't mind not smashing our little town to bits."

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* The trope is named for John Sedgwick, a Union general in the American Civil War, who, during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, said "I'm ashamed of you, dodging that way for simple bullets. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance!" seconds before being fatally shot by a sniper.

** Sedgwick's words are sometimes recorded as being "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--", implying that he was [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]. This is [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|not accurate]]. It is, however, [[Rule of Funny|much funnier]].