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* Megatron does one of these in the climax of the first arc of the Dreamwave ''[[Transformers]]'' comic, punctuated by people in the battle zone acting like total bastards. Prime gets to answer with his own [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] speech accompanied by people putting their best sides forward, and punctuated by a group of them dropping half a dozen trucks on Megatron's head to return the favor.
* The Kingpin gets a pretty awesome one in ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]''. After teaming up with a group of other heroes to bring him down, Spidey is betrayed and captured and the Kingpin proceeds to explain to him that he knew about their plan all along and doesn't care, and goes on to tell him that he owns the rights to his image, meaning every act of heroism Spider-Man performs is indirectly funding his criminal empire. [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|Then he lets him go, so he can make more money out of him.]]
** Turned around during the ''[[One More Day]]'' storyline when Spidey breaks INTO jail to showdown with the Kingpin after he sent a sniper to kill him and hit aunt May instead. Kingpin is all suited up and ready to fight when Spidey shows up back in the black costume. He proceeds to humiliate Kingpin in a fist fight in front of all the other inmates, pointing out that for all his influence and power, Spider-Man could crush him like an insect because he's physically just an impressive specimen of normal humanity, Spider-Man is SUPERhuman.
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** In a rare heroic example of the trope, Sonic fires one back in issue #200.
{{quote| {{spoiler|"Impressive resume, Doc. You missed a couple of key points, though. Like how a group of kids with no real training took back that city. And you croaked, more or less. [...] And about that empire of yours... you know about all the places you '''don't''' control, right? [...] The United Federation alone has at least a half-dozen city-states in it! And then there's all the Freedom Fighter groups fighting you all over the world every day. And you aren't too popular in the regions that you DO outright control. You can't really claim to "control" the planet when you're fighting for it your every waking hour! Sure, you beat me fair and square not long ago. I'll give you props for that. But how many badniks have I stomped? How many times have I sent '''you''' packing? I've beaten you before, Eggman. '''A lot.''' And I'll do it again."}}}}
*** ...and then he rubs more salt in the wound by picking up the fallen dictator's spectacles, and kneeling beside him, saying, ''[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|"I'll be content with "Nyah nyah" and "I win."]]''
*** ...and [[My God, What Have I Done?|immediately comes to regret it]] after seeing the [[Villainous Breakdown|aftermath.]] Though it was foreshadowed that this would have happened, speech or no speech, Sonic goes on to muse that things "went too far" in the next issue.
** Issue #192 has Jules delivering one to [[Evil Twin|Scourge]] that actually sends him him away in tears.
{{quote| ''What's to be afraid of? This world is filled with heroic beings that fight a single great evil. That tells me that [[Mirror Universe|your world]] is full of cowards, each doing their part to ruin their world. That's why you don't scare me --because I know, at your core, you're a coward too. [...] That's your answer to it all? Violent takeover and anarchy? [...] Are you trying to shock me? Intimidate me? That falls short when the world conquering "king" has to sneak in during the middle of the night to get a leg up on my boy. [...] I am not your father. I was on the front lines of the Great War. I won't go quietly. And while you may not care about the loss of your Jules, I'm certain my son will be very upset. Do you want that on your head too?}}
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* ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' Issue 549 (October 2007): Sue Richards puts [[Doctor Doom]] in his place ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|in epic fashion]]'', culminating 45 years of [[Took a Level In Badass|taking levels in badass]].
{{quote| '''Sue Richards''': You're pathetic. One of the best minds on the planet and you waste it for years, doing magic tricks — then trying to best a man who'd never really harm you, despite your endless provocation. But that's the difference between my husband and me. He doesn't understand revenge. Me? I can't decide which of the many ways I can hurt you I'm going to use.}}
* In ''[[Wanted]]'', Wesley Gibson gives one of these ''to the reader''-- which may be the only case to date of a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] actually being used to tell the audience "[[This Loser Is You|you suck]]".
* In the original ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comic, Cobra Commander hands one of these to Serpentor after straight-up kicking his ass, claiming the reason he lost was because out of all the DNA of all the great conquerors he's made up of, he's missing the DNA of the greatest one of them all, Cobra Commander's! Also counts as a [[Badass Boast]] on CC's part.
* [[Superman]] delivers one of these to Lana Lang after she detonated a thousand kryptonite bombs around the world as part of a [[Xanatos Gambit]], an action that nearly made the planet uninhabitable not only to Superman, but to anyone with Kryptonian DNA, including Power Girl, Supergirl, Superboy, and [[Kick the Dog|Krypto]]. After the radioactive mess is cleaned up, Supes has a chat with Lana.
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* Delivered to [[Blue Beetle]] Ted Kord by many other superheroes in the issue he died, including Superman and Martian Manhunter. It makes you wonder how pathetic a hero has to be before Superman decides to give him one of these.
** And how horrific it must have been when everyone discovered he was the [[Only Sane Man]] and had in fact figured out the entire OMAC conspiracy... getting a bullet to the head for his troubles.
* In ''[[Irredeemable|Incorruptible]] #20'', [[Big Bad|Hayes Bellamy]] delivers one to Max Damage while torturing him. He ends his speech with one [[Armor
{{quote| '''Bellamy:''' Have you ''really'' made a difference for even ''one person?''}}
** {{spoiler|After Max's former sidekick Jailbait comes to the rescue and kills Bellamy before leaving for parts unknown}}, Max has an answer:
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