History Main / GoYeHeroesGoAndDie

* ''Literature/{{Blindsight}}'' is about a spaceship sent out to examine an alien artifact. At one point, it turns out that the aliens may have been manipulating the perceptions and actions of the crew all along. The ship's captain, vampire Jukka Sarasti, tries to instill confidence in the crew by telling them that their human senses and sense of agency are largely illusory anyway, so this isn't that different. It doesn't really help.

* In ''Literature/{{Blindsight}}'', it turns out that the aliens may have been manipulating the perceptions and actions of the spaceship crew sent to examine them all along. The ship's captain, vampire Jukka Sarasti, tries to cheer up the humans by telling them that their human senses and sense of agency are largely illusory anyway, so this isn't that different. It doesn't really help.

** He gives another [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0776.html Sombering Oration]] later, filled with BrutalHonesty about the Empire of Blood.

Let me just go and take a look-strategise from this vantage point far-far over here...)"''

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(Let me just go and take a look-strategise from this vantage point far-far over here...)"''

--->''"Forward rodents of Rictus: The Elf-thing island; ours! Vortex; OURS! ''{{beat}}'' (Let me just go and take a look-strategise from this vantage point far-far over here...)"''

'''Ralph:''' If you get nervous, just keep telling yourself, "I must win Ralph's medal or his life will be ruined." And have fun!

** Similarly in ''{{Peanuts}}'' Charlie Brown is giving such a talk to Snoopy, who then shoves him off alone.

* An amusing example on British panel show ''Series/MockTheWeek'', on the subject of "Worst things to say before going into battle":
-->'''Frankie Boyle:''' Just remember, soon you will all be back home with your families. In a jar... on the mantelpiece...

* Kermit rallies the Happiness Hotel together to foil a robbery in ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'', only to ruin everything by warning them of the probability of violence. ''Fozzy'', of all people, is the one to get them all back on the band wagon.

[[TropeNamers Go, ye heroes, go and die!]]"''

* After angering the [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen evil queen]] and getting [[PriceOnTheirHead a price put on his head]], Sid from ''Series/{{Galavant}}'' manages to talk a group of peasants out of turning him in for the reward and attempting to overthrow the brutal regime instead. Unfortunately for him, as the peasant army marches towards the castle Sid launches into the song ''Today We Rise'' which is all about how they'll all be killed horribly and the best they can hope for is to be looked at as {{Doomed Moral Victor}}s by later generations. Sensibly, the peasants decide to [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere run away]] and leave him on his own.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Mulan'', Shang and his soldiers are trapped by the army of thousands of Huns closing in on them. He bravely tells them "Prepare to fight. If we die, we die with honor!"

* Paul [=McCartney=] gives one of these early in the ''LetItBe'' sessions. (Yes, one of these made a {{documentary}}.) It did not go over well.

** "Bravely, bold Sir Robin" is the song of a bard on how Sir Robin will suffer (his bowels unplugged, his nostrils raped, and his penis...) in his heroics.

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* Invoked in the ''{{Sandokan}}'' cartoon. In his speech to the {{mooks}} occupying the goodies' island stronghold and awaiting a counterattack, 'Admiral Zenay' delivers such inspiring lines as "the pirates outnumber us ten to one" (leading the Major to add, in his follow-up speech, "the pirates will be overwhelming us at any moment"). Since '[[SdrawkcabAlias Zenay]]' is actually Yanez, Sandokan's second-in-command, in disguise, demoralizing them is all part of the plan.
* Nathan Explosion from ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' provides one in a college graduation ceremony in the episode, appropriately titled, "Go Forth and Die".
** In this case, though, it's him trying to make a decent speech but isn't eloquent enough to do so. He then ends up snapping and telling them that even though he's less educated than they are, [[AppealToWealth he's still way richer than any of them will ever be]] and tells them that they'll all die anyways.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Ace's [[AFatherToHisMen beloved commander]] Whitebeard comes to try to save him from execution, and it turns into a massive battle. At a fairly dire turning point, Whitebeard puts forth this rallying cry: "Those who would stand with me, prepare to lose your lives!"
** His men stick with him. They don't all die, but the idea here is that they're making a HeroicSacrifice to let some of the other pirate factions get away.

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* [[http://comics.com/wizard_of_id/2010-01-16/ This]] ''ComicStrip/TheWizardOfId'' strip.