History Main / NewEraSpeech

* Prince Arthas gives one of these in ''{{Warcraft}} III'', after "succeeding" his father.

-->'''Magneto:''' "You built [[KillerRobot these weapons]] to destroy us. Why? Because You are afraid of our gifts. Because we are different. Humanity has always feared that which is different. Well, I’m here to tell you, to tell the world: you’re right to fear us. ''We'' are the future! ''We'' are the ones who will inherit this Earth! And anyone who stands in our way will suffer the same fate as these men you see before you. Today was meant to be a display of your power. Instead I give you a glimpse of the devastation [[PersonOfMassDestruction my race]] can unleash upon yours. Let this be a warning to the world, and to my Mutant brothers and sisters out there I say this: no more hiding. No more suffering. You have lived in the shadows of shame, and fear for too long. Come out! Join Me! Fight together in a Brotherhood of our kind. A new tomorrow... that starts today.”

--'''Magneto:''' "You built [[KillerRobot these weapons]] to destroy us. Why? Because You are afraid of our gifts. Because we are different. Humanity has always feared that which is different. Well, I’m here to tell you, to tell the world: you’re right to fear us. ''We'' are the future! ''We'' are the ones who will inherit this Earth! And anyone who stands in our way will suffer the same fate as these men you see before you. Today was meant to be a display of your power. Instead I give you a glimpse of the devastation [[PersonOfMassDestruction my race]] can unleash upon yours. Let this be a warning to the world, and to my Mutant brothers and sisters out there I say this: no more hiding. No more suffering. You have lived in the shadows of shame, and fear for too long. Come out! Join Me! Fight together in a Brotherhood of our kind. A new tomorrow... that starts today.”

* In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Magneto proclaims a new era of Mutant supremacy to the American leadership and the entire world.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' has [[TallDarkAndSnarky Marcello]] give one near the end of the game, amply seasoned with [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech the reasons why]] [[DeadlyDecadentCourt nobility sucks]], [[DyingLikeAnimals so do commoners]] and how it's high time they destroy the system that has caused so much grief and [[MotiveRant unfairly raised]] [[UpperClassTwit idiots born in the right family]] [[BastardBastard over hard workers]].

* Tywin gives Tommen one of these on '''GameOfThrones'''.

* One in ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]''. Immediately prior to TheReveal of Pride's identity, he recites a speech ([[spoiler:technically an essay he wrote for his tutor]]) that is filled with irony in light of the revelation.

* Several Film/JamesBond villains have done it.

* Hugo Drax, in the 1955 JamesBond novel ''Literature/{{Moonraker}}''. A Nazi pretending to be British, he's about to launch the titular ballistic missile (which he's developed for the British government) with a nuclear warhead at London and is making a live speech to the media. Bond, however, puts the missile settings back to what was meant to be the target. The missile launches, lands at its intended target in the North Sea and explodes in a nuclear fireball. It takes out the Soviet sub on which Drax is escaping -- and a few hundred other people as well. This one's worth quoting in full (page 177 of the 1989 Coronet paperback, by the way)

--> [[spoiler:'''Blackbeard:''' ''I have a message for the whole world!!! All you pathetic commoners out there who cling to peace!! You too Marines!!! And the World Government!!! And of course...pirates of the world!! The future of this world has just been decided...[[EvilLaugh Zehahahaha]]..! That's right...from now on...this is my age!!!'']]

* In BenCounter's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} HorusHeresy novel ''Battle For the Abyss'', Zadkiel's opening speech starts with "We stand on the brink of a new era!"

** In the TomBaker arc "The Pirate Planet", the Captain would announce a "New Golden Age of Prosperity" every time the artificial planet Zanak would materialize around a new planet that it would plunder.

* Steve Fleming, a particularly creepy and obnoxious SmugSnake from TheThickOfIt, goes around delivering one to all the government departments after [[spoiler: he gets Malcolm Tucker fired]]. It's particularly bad because the core analogy is comparing everyone present to the [[DudeNotFunny Fritzl children emerging from the cellar]].

Someone who knows your plan may be able to read between the lines of this, but in context, it can still sound inspiring. It's possible for someone to give one of these speeches accidentally before things GoHorriblyWrong.

** His entire VillainSong, "Be Prepared", is about the new era he wants to bring about. In a deleted scene, there's a reprise of the song instead of his normal speech at Pride Rock, which was also a NewEraSpeech.

* Palpatine's "New Order" speech from ''[[StarWars Revenge of the Sith]]''.

* In ''[[TheMummyTrilogy The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor]]'', the Emperor gives what has to be the least effective NewEraSpeech of all time. It basically boils down to "Freedom sucks. Go forth and KILL!!".

* The ''MortalKombat'' movie has one of these from Shang Tsung, addressing the fighters of the tenth tournament:

* Zac Hobson gives a resounding NewEraSpeech from the balcony of his mansion in ''TheQuietEarth.'' The twist is that his audience is comprised entirely of cardboard cutouts, as most of the human race has been obliterated. At this stage of the film, Hobson is in the later stage of SanitySlippage, and it shows:

** In ''The Ball and the Cross'', Professor Lucifer gives three different [[NewEraSpeech New Era Speeches]], one to [=MacIan=] about a glorious new age of law and monarchy, one to Turnbull about a glorious new age of freedom and revolution, and one to everyone about a glorious new age of tyranny and repression.

* [[PathOfInspiration The Sharing]] from ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' was extremely cultish, but still never had a millennial aspect like so many other such groups. (Naturally, the concealed truth was [[AlienInvasion apocalyptically world-changing]], but the Yeerks wanted the Sharing's message to calm people down rather than stir them up.) The Sharing's speeches and the rest of their propaganda still had all the trappings of the NewEraSpeech: feel-good rhetoric that exists to smuggle in some subtext about how submitting to the control of a PuppeteerParasite will actually be a good thing.

** In ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'' (A spin-off from ''Series/DoctorWho'') Oswald Danes gives so many [[NewEraSpeech New Era Speeches]] he becomes thought of as the One True Voice of the New Era in question. Interestingly, however, he himself is not responsible for [[DeathTakesAHoliday Miracle Day]], he's just getting paid by whoever is and making the most of it. As an aside, Danes also gives the odd BastardlySpeech as well. He's just one big evil PR man.

* Brecht's play above has an inspiration from ''Theatre/RichardIII'' and ''Theatre/JuliusCaesar'', both of which have proto examples of the NewEraSpeech. In the former, Richard starts out with a line about the (former) winter of our discontent being allayed by the "glorious son of York" (his brother), and thus hides his true intentions as a usurper behind a facade of family loyalty. In the latter, Mark Antony's funeral speech isn't necessarily misleading to the Roman mob, but it initially covers its true intent (to enrage the Roman mob and get them to slaughter Brutus and the other conspirators) and pretends to be conciliatory.

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

* [[Characters/HarryPotter Professor Umbridge]] gives such a speech when she [[TyrantTakesTheHelm takes over]] in the fifth HarryPotter book; Hermione [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructs]] it right off the bat.

* In ''One Piece'', Doquixote Doflamingo shouts out [[spoiler: during the Marineford War]]:

* ''Film/{{Batman}}'' (1989). During his parade the Joker gives a speech to the assembled citizens of Gotham:
-->'''Joker''': And now, folks, it's time for, "Who Do You Trust?" Hubba, hubba, hubba! Money, money, money! Who do you trust? Me? I'm giving away free money. And where is the Batman? He's at home, washing his tights! [=<snip>=] And now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But, as my plastic surgeon always said, "If you've got to go, go with a smile."
** He then releases the deadly Smilex gas on the crowd.

* In Creator/GKChesterton's ''Magic'', the Duke is prone to such comments as "We can't be Ancient Britons, you know." and "And we can't go back to the Spanish Inquisition." in contexts where even those who agree with the side he's arguing think that it doesn't make any sense.
** In the FatherBrown story "The Paradise of Thieves", Ezza's defense of dressing like an Englishman.
-->''"That is your old mistake, Muscari," said the man in tweeds, shaking his head; "and the mistake of Italy. In the sixteenth century we Tuscans made the morning: we had the newest steel, the newest carving, the newest chemistry. Why should we not now have the newest factories, the newest motors, the newest finance--the newest clothes?"''

* [[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]]

* Feykan Butler gives one of these in ''[[{{Dune}} Legends of Dune]]'' after the Battle of Corrin, when he reforms the League of Nobles into TheEmpire, renamed himself Feykan Corrino, and declares himself the first Emperor of humanity after the fall of the Old Empire. His royal line would last for 10,000 years, while his brother's family is forced into indefinite exile and forced to forever bear the shameful Harkonnen name.

* 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 emmissaries are also known for them.

** [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Amon]] gives his own when he believes that he's about to [[spoiler: de-power the last four airbenders in the world, wiping it out completely]]. He came a bit closer to succeding than Zhao, but the BigDamnHeroes arrive anyway.