History Main / NewEraSpeech

-->'''[[spoiler:Lawson]]''': Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great honor and privilege to stand before you as the new Mayor of Concordia! Too long has our fair city been dragged into the fiery pits of hell [[CorruptPolitician by weak and corrupt leaders]]! Too long have we lost our way through crime and greed! Too long have we SUFFERED! And we, the people of Concordia, will NO LONGER stand for it! My inauguration today marks the dawn of a new era! An era of peace, of prosperity, and most important of all - of JUSTICE! And I pledge to do everything... [[WellIntentonedExtremist EVERYTHING...]] in my power to ensure we uphold the laws of the land, for the betterment of all! Ladies and gentlemen, half-measures will no longer do - my conscience will no longer allow it! Which is why my first action as Mayor will be to invoke a state of emergency across Concordia so that EVERY citizen is safe! As Mayor, this state of emergency will also give me the power to stop the filthy lies that infiltrate our brains through the newspapers we read... By abolishing freedom of the press! [[PropagandaMachine From now on there will only be one newspaper in Concordia! I've called it The New Truth, and its name suggests, it will only contain information that is true and just!]] Today, ladies and gentlemen, you have witnessed history in the making! Here's to a new and better future for us and for our children. LONG LIVE CONCORDIA!

** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Magneto demolishes Washington D.C. and has the U.S. President naked and helpless at his feet. He gives a speech about the end of the supremacy of the human race and the beginning of mutant supremacy, and intends to execute the president. The X-Men show up in time to prevent it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', [[Characters/GravityFallsBillCipher Bill Cipher]] gives one at the beginning of the episode 'Weirdmageddon', showing that he was now the ruler of Gravity Falls, Oregon.

--->'''General Hux:''' Today is the end of the Republic. The end of a regime that acquiesces to disorder. At this very moment in a system far from here, the New Republic lies to the galaxy while secretly supporting the treachery of the loathsome Resistance. This fierce machine which you have built, upon which we stand, will bring an end to the Senate, to their cherished fleet! ALL REMAINING SYSTEMS WILL '''BOW''' TO THE FIRST ORDER! AND WILL REMEMBER THIS... '''AS THE LAST DAY... OF THE REPUBLIC!!!'''

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Recurring antagonist Gul Dukat delivers one of these after overthrowing the civilian government and allying Cardassia with the Dominion.

%%* Another such speech appears in the ''Literature/AlexRider'' novel Stormbreaker.

* [[Characters/HarryPotter Professor Umbridge]] gives such a speech when she [[TyrantTakesTheHelm takes over]] in the fifth ''Literature/{{Harry Potter|and the Order of the Phoenix}}'' book; Hermione [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] it right off the bat.

* Hugo Drax, in the 1955 ''Literature/JamesBond'' novel ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}''. A Nazi pretending to be British, he's about to launch the titular nuclear ballistic missile (which he's developed for the British government) at London and is making a live speech to the media. [[spoiler:He doesn't know that Bond has reset the missile to its original target: the Soviet sub in the North Sea on which Drax is escaping.]]
-->"Your majesty, men and women of England", the voice was a velvet snarl. "I am about to change the course of England's history." A pause. "In a few minutes' time the lives of all of you will be altered, in some cases, ahem, drastically, by the, er, impact of the Moonraker. I am very proud and pleased that fate has singled me out, from amongst all my fellow countrymen, to fire this great arrow of vengeance into the skies and thus to proclaim for all time, and for all the world to witness, the might of my fatherland. I hope this occasion will be forever a warning that the fate of my country's enemies will be written in dust, in ashes, in tears and", a pause, "in blood. And now thank you all for listening and I sincerely hope that those of you who are able will repeat my words to your children, if you have any, tonight."

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Saruman gives such a speech directly and personally to Gandalf in the book urging him to surrender to Sauron, "deploring maybe evils done by the way, but approving the high and ultimate purpose: Knowledge, Rule, Order...." Gandalf's response indicates that Sauron's emissaries are also known for them.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': [[Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy Grand Admiral Thrawn]] doesn't give a speech, but in ''The Last Command'' he does [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Quote:Mitth%27raw%27nuruodo say]]:
-->"History is on the move, Captain. Those who cannot keep up will be left behind, to watch from a distance. And those who stand in our way will not watch at all."
* In Creator/BenCounter's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Literature/HorusHeresy novel ''Battle For the Abyss'', Zadkiel's opening speech starts with "We stand on the brink of a new era!"
* Tigerstar, the BigBad of ''Literature/WarriorCats'' gives one at the gathering in book six, ''The Darkest Hour'' when announcing his plan to reform the ancient and badass [=TigerClan=].
** Lampshaded in ''Literature/OmenOfTheStars''. When [[TheDragon Brokenstar]] gives a speech to the cats training in the Dark Forest will soon wage war on the clans, Ivypool notes that he's just offering vague promises of greatness and that he's actually going to make them fight their own kin.

* In Creator/AnthonyTrollope's ''The Way We Live Now'', CorruptCorporateExecutive and con artist Melmotte does this all the time, because, well, he's a con artist. Finally, and ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome gloriously]]'' [[KirkSummation shot down]] by Mr. Alf, who up to then had been a fairly minor character.