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* LampshadeHanging in ''SledgeHammer'': when an assassin has Sledge tied to a DeathTrap, he tells him how he intends to kill the captain. Sledge responds by saying, "I'll never understand why you guys explain your whole plan before you kill somebody."
* Subverted in the ''PushingDaisies'' episode "Dummy." The murderer makes a full confession while the heroes are wrapped in body bags and locked inside a car, so they can't actually hear a word of what he's saying.
* Lampshaded in a ''{{Dollhouse}}'' episode.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing The Clock King]]'', Fugate left a TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat speech where he outlines his plan (the DeathTrap [[LuredIntoATrap Batman was lured to]]) to Batman ''including information on how to foil said DeathTrap exactly when Batman needs to hear it''. Justified because as TheSociopath, he still has to fight those pesky emotions, and as the ClockKing, this is his gimmick and he cannot resist to show off.

* At the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing The Clock King]]'' Fugate left a TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat speech where he outlines his plan (the DeathTrap [[LuredIntoATrap Batman was lured to]]) to the Batman ''including information on how to foil said DeathTrap exactly when Batman needs to hear it''. Justified because as TheSociopath, he still has to fight those pesky emotions, and as the ClockKing, this is his gimmick and he cannot resist to show off.

* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Stoke Me a Clipper", some random Nazi villains try to do this to Ace Rimmer[[hottip:*:([[PhraseCatcher what a guy!]])]]; one orders the other one to "Take him into the hold, take ten minutes to explain our entire plan to him, and then throw him out of the plane."

* In the ''TabletopGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' RPG, the section on villains actually outlines this in game terms: villains get a karma bonus for telling the heroes their plans.

* At the ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing The Clock King]]'' Fugate left a TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat speech where he outlines his EvilPlan (the DeathTrap [[LuredIntoATrap Batman was lured to]]) to the Batman ''including information on how to foil said DeathTrap exactly when Batman needs to hear it''. Justified because as TheSociopath, he still has to fight those pesky emotions, and as the ClockKing, this is his gimmick and he cannot resist to show off.

-->'''Chairface Chippendale:''' Ah, [[ThisIsThePartWhere this must be the part where]] I reveal my sinister plot!

Villains have an urge to [[EvilGloating gloat]]. There's something irresistible about twisting the knife that last little bit before finishing things. Rather than activate the needlessly complicated DeathTrap right away, they will pause to outline their EvilPlan to the hero and often including information on how to stop it. [[BondVillainStupidity This can give the hero the time they need to escape]], but just as often the hero will simply sit there and wait. It's rude to [[TalkToTheFist interrupt someone when they chat before trying to kill you]]. Of course, on the hand, trying to pull this kind of speech on a PragmaticHero or an AntiHero can quite easily and even literally blow up in the villain's face.

Villains have an urge to [[EvilGloating gloat]]. There's something irresistible about twisting the knife that last little bit before finishing things. Rather than activate the needlessly complicated DeathTrap right away, they will pause to outline their EvilPlan to the hero and often including information on how to stop it. [[BondVillainStupidity This can give the hero the time they need to escape]], but just as often the hero will simply sit there and wait. It's rude to [[TalkToTheFist interrupt someone when they chat before trying to kill you]]. Of course, on the hand, trying to pull this kind of speech on an PragmaticHero or AntiHero can quite easily and even literally blow up in the villain's face.

Villains have an urge to [[EvilGloating gloat]]. There's something irresistible about twisting the knife that last little bit before finishing things. Rather than activate the needlessly complicated DeathTrap right away, they will pause to outline their EvilPlan to the hero and often including information on how to stop it. [[BondVillainStupidity This can give the hero the time they need to escape]], but just as often the hero will simply sit there and wait. It's rude to [[TalkToTheFist interrupt someone when they chat before trying to kill you]]. Of course, on the hand, trying to pull this kind of speech on an PragmaticHero or AntiHero can quite easily and even literally blow up in your face.

Villains have an urge to [[EvilGloating gloat]]. There's something irresistible about twisting the knife that last little bit before finishing things. Rather than activate the needlessly complicated DeathTrap right away, they will pause to outline their EvilPlan to the hero and often including information on how to stop it. [[BondVillainStupidity This can give the hero the time they need to escape]], but just as often the hero will simply sit there and wait. It's rude to [[TalkToTheFist interrupt someone when they chat before trying to kill you]]. Of course, on the hand, trying to pull this kind of speech on an PragmaticHero or AntiHero can quite easily and literally blow up in your face.

Villains have an urge to [[EvilGloating gloat]]. There's something irresistible about twisting the knife that last little bit before finishing things. Rather than activate the needlessly complicated DeathTrap right away, they will pause to outline their EvilPlan to the hero and often including information on how to stop it. [[BondVillainStupidity This can give the hero the time they need to escape]], but just as often the hero will simply sit there and wait. It's rude to [[TalkToTheFist interrupt someone when they chat before trying to kill you]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''

* Parodied several times in the ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'' series. In ''MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'', the titular villain explains his RubeGoldbergDevice {{Deathtrap}} in minute detail, and then takes some time to allow Guybrush to ask questions in case he needs clarifications. In ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', after capturing the hero, [=LeChuck=] ''insists'' on explaining the plot. Eventually Guybrush has to hold his hands to his ears and tell [=LeChuck=] he's deliberately ignoring him in order to get him to stop.

* LampshadeHanging in the film ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', 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 -- but he quickly catches himself.

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* LampshadeHanging in the film ''TheIncredibles'', 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 -- but he quickly catches himself.
-->'''Syndrome:''' "You sly dog, you got me monologuing."

* Happens between Lewis and the Bowler Hat Guy in ''MeetTheRobinsons'' in [[spoiler:the orphanage]]: Lewis demands "What did I ever do to you?", at which point BHG tells him the story of his long and ridiculously pathetic life, and also that [[spoiler:Lewis is Cornelius Robinson]].

* Played straight and subverted in ''MonstersVsAliens''. The main villain Gallaxhar does decide to exposit why he essentially committed genocide against his own people and at the same time wanted to repopulate the Earth with clones of him, but he was telling her while he was hooked up to the cloning machine, which had him being sporadically muted when the machine lowers down, causing a lot of his speech to be skipped over and thus his full reasons being unknown. When the machine stops and says that he'll kill her since he told her all she needs to know, she gives a blank confused stare.
* In ''{{Hoodwinked}}'', Boingo does this to Red Puckett by having her BoundAndGagged and then StoryboardingTheApocalypse for her with a slideshow of his criminal scheme.

* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', Scar has Simba hanging over a raging inferno, ready to toss him in. But Scar can't resist taunting him. "Here's ''my'' little secret: I killed Mufasa!" Of course, this revelation finally frees Simba from his lifelong (and unnecessary) guilt over his father's death, which gives him the HeroicResolve necessary to turn the tables on Scar...

Sometimes can include WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied, HannibalLecture or ShutUpKirk.

* Constantly parodied {{Subverted|Trope}}, {{Inverted|Trope}} and {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d OnceAnEpisode in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' 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 EvilGloating 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 [[SummonBackupDancers complete with backing dancers]].

* AdolfHitler wrote a book, while in prison, detailing ''exactly'' what he intended to do, '''before''' he was elected chancellor. Perhaps the most subversion of this trope. Even more, his fellow inmates suggested he write the book because they were sick of listening to him talk about.

Villains have an urge to [[EvilGloating gloat]]. There's something irresistible about twisting the knife that last little bit before finishing things. Rather than activate the needlessly complicated DeathTrap right away, they will pause to outline their plan to the hero, often including information on how to stop it. [[BondVillainStupidity This can give the hero the time they need to escape]], but just as often the hero will simply sit there and wait. It's rude to [[TalkToTheFist interrupt someone when they chat before trying to kill you]].

Even those who plan to [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim simply shoot their enemy]] may stop by to share details of their plans first. It sometimes seems that heroes get more information out of being interrogated than their interrogators do. Thanks to the UnspokenPlanGuarantee, this removes any chance the villain had at success... unless [[YouAreTooLate it already happened]].

Sometimes, of course, it's all part of the plan. What good is {{revenge}} if they still think it all was plain bad luck and don't know you're out to get them for killing your stepmother's brother's favourite cat? A character who thinks TheHero holds him in contempt may lay out the plan in hopes of getting his respect. But all too often, it's not justified in any way.

Heroes are only slightly less prone to such fits of GenreBlindness. They are just as ready to explains the whole game plan to a partner when the opponent stands just out of a hand reach and even more eager to "make a point" about the reasons why exactly the other side have to go down. Almost like proclaiming the verdict of [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner a makeshift jury]].

* Used in ''{{Trigun}}'' by [[TheDragon Legato Bluesummers]]. Not only does he [[HannibalLecture explain his plan]], he forces it to come to fruition as well. His plan? [[spoiler:Force Vash [[MindRape 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.

** The page image comes from [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0657.html a scene]] where [[BigBad Xykon]] gives Vaarsuvius a HannibalLecture outlining the wizard's core mistake in how [[AmbiguousGender s/he]] approached their earlier battle. Naturally, Vaarsuvius actually ''learns'' from what Xykon has to say and takes corrective action.
** Elan's father later gives one to Elan, explaining every detail of how his plan is going to go, including his own death (that is, the father's death, not Elan's). Explaining the plan actually gives him the better result.

* ''BarbieAndTheDiamondCastle'': [[VainSorceress Lydia]], after capturing Liana, takes the time to explain exactly how she tricked her because she knows that Liana took off the necklace that [[DeflectorShields warded off]] her [[{{Brainwashed}} mind-control spell]].

** In Naruto this is often subverted actually: Tobi 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.

* Actually {{Justified|Trope}} in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' crossover episode of ''StaticShock'', where Braniac explains his plans to Static and Gear to distract them until he can attack.

* During the fifth ''Literature/DresdenFiles'' book, Harry tries to bait Nicodemus into doing this, [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy to no avail]]. Later, he remarks to Susan that he must've read the EvilOverlordList.