History TheReasonYouSuckSpeech / Literature

* ''Literature/TheCasteelSeries'': The titular heroine of ''Heaven'' gives one to [[WomanScorned Kitty]] after all the abuse she suffered at the latter's hands:

** In ''Rhythm of War'', Wit delivers a scathing one to Highprince Ruthar when the latter begins complaining about the recent changes in Alethi culture, particularly the new lack of sexism. Although Wit is known for insulting everything that moves (it's in the job description), in this case most of his insults are completely accurate.

* The ''Franchise/BattleTechExpandedUniverse'' novel ''Warrior: Coupe'' features an incisive video message from [[MagnificentBastard Hanse Davion]] towards his much-despised foe Maximillian Liao. The contents of the message, combined with Davion's recent massive victory against Liao, pushes the latter into total derangement. It is later confirmed that Liao lapses into total psychosis and spends the rest of his life unable to tell reality from his ambitious delusions.

--> “All these—the sort of people that lived in these houses, and all those damn little clerks that used to live down that way—they’d be no good. They haven’t any spirit in them—no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn’t one or the other—Lord! what is he but funk and precautions? They just used to skedaddle off to work—I've seen hundreds of ’em, bit of breakfast in hand, running wild and shining to catch their little season-ticket train, for fear they’d get dismissed if they didn’t; working at businesses they were afraid to take the trouble to understand; skedaddling back for fear they wouldn’t be in time for dinner; keeping indoors after dinner for fear of the back-streets, and sleeping with the wives they married, not because they wanted them, but because they had a bit of money that would make for safety in their one little miserable skedaddle through the world. Lives insured and a bit invested for fear of accidents. And on Sundays—fear of the hereafter. As if hell was built for rabbits! Well, the Martians will just be a godsend to these. Nice roomy cages, fattening food, careful breeding, no worry. After a week of chasing about the fields and lands on empty stomachs, they’ll come and be caught cheerful. They’ll be quite glad after a bit. They’ll wonder what people did before there were Martians to take care of them.”

* In ''{{Literature/The Wolf of the North}}'' by Duncan M. Hamilton, Wulfric gives one of these to one of the story's two main antagonists, laying into how he's nothing but a coward who knows nothing about weapons after [[spoiler: finding out about the plot to murder him.]]

* In the ''Literature/SinisterSixTrilogy'', ''Revenge of the Sinister Six'' sees Mary Jane giving one to the Chameleon out on his choice of location for the Day of Terror; the Sinister Six are returning to locations where Spider-Man failed to save lives, which sees the Vulture take hostages at the jewelry store where Spider-Man first publically failed to save a life, Doctor Octopus returns to the place where George Stacy died, Electro [[spoiler:(really Mysterio in disguise)]] is holding the George Washington Bridge prisoner... and the Chameleon has taken a class of students prisoner at a football field where Spider-Man failed to save a scientist from a bomb. Mary Jane bluntly asks the Chameleon if this unimaginative scenario was the best he could come up with, or if he deliberately chose such an obscure example of Spider-Man's failures, and only acted when Spider-Man was publically occupied on the Bridge because the villain knows he'd never stand a chance if he was forced to face the wall-crawler directly.

* ''Literature/Reaper2016'': Michael, as Hawk, delivers an epic one of these to the inhabitants of [[VirtualReality Game]]. When word gets out that he left Game to investigate the bombing, and was injured, people respond by turning on the newest players despite knowing they can't possibly be involved; they're simply the closest they can get to the people they assume to be responsible (teenagers, angry about the Leebrook-Ashton Bill). Hawk calls them out on this.

--> '''Luvvie''' "Yet to those homophobes I say: you can never win. Even when we were arrested for loving one another, you didn’t win ... You didn’t win because you never stopped it. You never stopped us. Despite the laws and sermons, despite the mobs and police and prisons and death camps, you could never stop us from loving one another. The whole force of your churches and your states could never stop fruits from coming together. That is how weak you are. That is how strong we are."

-->'''Cassie''':Racheal, we can still be...
-->'''Racheal''':No, no we can't. See, you just told us the rest of the world can drop dead. So long as you, Cassie, don't end up turning into me.

* In pre-Islamic Arabic poetry, the poetic form of ''Hijaa[='=]'', although called satire by more polite historians, is actually a kind of insult poetry directed at an enemy, explaining all the reasons why he was an awful, terrible, dishonorable, no-good human being. Like satire, ''Hijaa[='=]'' is supposed to be funny to the general audience, but it was mostly supposed to be read or heard by its target, who would be gravely insulted. Essentially the world's first diss tracks.

* [[EvilGenius Mayuri]] gives one to [[BigBad Tokinada]] in ''LightNovel/BleachCannotFearYourOwnWorld'', where he calls him out on his poor planning and says [[HisOwnWorstEnemy he's the sole reason it all went wrong]], and says if he was the one doing it, [[PretenderDiss he would have actually succeeded]]. Then he proceeds to treat Tokinada like he's beneath his notice and calmly watches [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty what]] [[VillainousBreakdown ensues]].

* Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/TheVorGame'':

* In the fifth volume of ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnlineAlternativeGunGaleOnline'', David, leader of Team MMTM, had a falling out with Pito in the past over her mental instability, so the two aren't on the best terms when, in Squad Jam 3, [[spoiler:they, along with one member from all the other remaining teams, are forced to form a new team, Team Betrayers, and fight against their old allies]]. David finally loses his temper when [[spoiler:Pito steers the ship that they're on to kill Team T-S, which had been stranded on top of a skyscraper, then kills Ervin (the former member of T-S who'd joined Team BTRY]].

** Earlier in the same book, after Cassie explained why she was leaving the team,Rachealhad a few choice words for her.