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== Fan Fic ==

* Partially being [[Tropes Are Not Bad|influenced by this very wiki]], ''[[Shinji and ~~Warhammer 40 K (Fanfic)~~|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]'' has resident [[Badass Preacher]] Makoto [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|breaking up a riot with words while revving a chainsword to get their attention]]. One minute, the rioters are willing to kill each other; the next, they are kneeling and lamenting that they are the world's biggest assholes.

* Partially being [[Tropes Are Not Bad|influenced by this very wiki]], ''[[Shinji and Warhammer40K|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]'' has resident [[Badass Preacher]] Makoto [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|breaking up a riot with words while revving a chainsword to get their attention]]. One minute, the rioters are willing to kill each other; the next, they are kneeling and lamenting that they are the world's biggest assholes.

== Film ==

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'''Mob Leader:''' Any other questions? Good, let's go. }}

* Subverted in ''[[M]]'', when the peculiarly sympathetic childkiller protagonist Hans Beckert gives [[What Is Evil?|an extremely moving speech]] about how everything he does is the product of mental illness, not genuine malice. He also notes that while he is insane and can't control his abhorrent actions, the criminals who are attempting to lynch him are criminals entirely by choice. The angry mob don't listen, but [[Holding the Floor|he manages to buy himself enough time]] for the cops to arrive and arrest everyone present.

* Subverted in the 2008 ''[[Horton Hears a Who]]'' where Horton tries a rousing speech to explain to the mob why he is so devoted to protecting a speck on a clover which contains a microscopic community on it. At the end, even the Sour Kangaroo notes that the speech is moving, but immediately orders Horton bound and caged anyway.

* Subverted in the 2008 ''[[Horton Hears a Who!]]'' where Horton tries a rousing speech to explain to the mob why he is so devoted to protecting a speck on a clover which contains a microscopic community on it. At the end, even the Sour Kangaroo notes that the speech is moving, but immediately orders Horton bound and caged anyway.

* Subverted in the theatrical cut of ''[[A Knight's Tale]]'' when Chaucer, who has previously demonstrated his ability to work a crowd, tries to shame the mob that's gathered around William, who is in the stocks for impersonating a knight. He's pelted with vegetables before he can even get started.

** However, in the extended cut of the film, Chaucer succeeds in [[Shaming the Mob]] into chastened silence before Prince Edward steps in. This scene was cut to beef up Prince Edward's role.