History TheReasonYouSuckSpeech / Literature

* [[EvilGenius Mayuri]] gives one to [[BigBad Tokinada]] in ''LightNovel/BleachCantFearYourOwnWorld'', 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]].
* In the Literature/BookOfJonah, God himself calls out Jonah at the end for having SkewedPriorities, namely weeping that a plant that gave him shade has died but being fine with the entire city of Nineveh being smitten to ash.

'''Invidia:''' We had an understanding. But you've broken faith with me. [[spoiler:You told me you hadn't aquired any of your troops as mercenaries. But your extremely well-supplied and well-armed and well-paid cavalry seem to have taken it upon themselves [[RapePillageAndBurn to loot and pillage every human habitation they come across.]]]]\\

-> You know, this is beyond absurd. For a while there I actually felt bad for you, even though I was violently ill for a week because of your actions. But now I have nothing but pity for you. You're right, I will never be like you -- thanks so much for the compliment! You're nothing more than a spoiled, entitled little shit. And unlike you, I'm ''proud'' of my roots -- I'm not talking bout my birth father, I'm talking about the honest, hardworking mother who raised me, and the amazing family that supported her. We didn't make some crazy fortune overnight, and we won't ever need to hire some fancy butler to teach us manners. You don't live in the real world, you never have, so I'm not even going to try arguing with you - it's way below my pay grade to bother. You sit in your perfect little eco-luxury bubble, while your father's companies are the biggest polluters in China. You may have all the money in the world, but you are the most morally impoverished ''child'' I've ever met!

-->'''Moist:''' You can't just go around killing people!
-->'''Mr. Pump:''' Why Not? You Do.
-->'''Moist:''' What? I do not! Who told you that?
-->'''Mr. Pump:''' I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People.
-->'''Moist:''' I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!
-->'''Mr. Pump:''' No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr. Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.

--> '''Mr Ludovico''': Do you really think you have what it takes to be a lawyer? Lawyers are adults. Let's take a look about what it means to be an adult, shall we? Adults are independent. You, Emily, can't seem to take a step in any direction without Lydia and Cassie by your side. An adult would simply work hard to improve his marks. You, Emily, make foolish requests to have your marks altered. An adult is a rational being. ''You'' ran around last term obsessing over Amelia and Riley, and ''this'' term you're shouting to the world -- including, I might add, on some childishly hysterical blogs-- that there's a ghost living in the Art Rooms at this school! You are every inch a child, Emily, and I see no indications that you will ever grow up. Now, let me ask you this. Would I be doing my job -- ''would I be carrying out my responsibilities are principal of this school'' -- if I signed a form that allowed you to be a lawyer?

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': In ''Literature/SkinGame'' Harry gives one to Nicodemus regarding his daughter [[spoiler: whom Nicodemus had to kill in order to get into Hades' vault]] to goad him into a fight. It works a little too well.

-->''Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you.''
** The entirety of Matthew Chapter 23 is one of these, often titled "The Seven Woes" with each of the seven sections starting out "Woe unto thee, Pharisees and givers of the law, [[{{Hypocrite}} you hypocrites!]]
* [[EvilGenius Mayuri]] gives one to [[BigBad Tokinada]] in ''LightNovel/BleachCantFearYourOwnWorld'', where he calls 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 suceeded]]. Then he proceeds to treat Tokinada like he's beneath his notice and calmly watches [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty what]] [[VillainousBreakdown ensues]].
* In the Literature/BookOfJonah, God himself calls out Jonah at the end for having SkewedPriorities, namely weeping that a plant that gave him shade has died but being fine with the entire city of Nineveh being smited to ash.

--->'''Ackbar:''' Bureaucratic nonsense. Whatever happened to taking the measure of a man's courage, his honor--the fight in him, and the reasons in his heart. [[NotSoDifferent Do they all have to be as stamped-and-pressed alike as stormtroopers to get your approval]]? Get out.\\

--> "Man, if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God. To hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust."

* In ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', the eponymous character tells himself off in the "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!" soliloquy (2.2).

* In ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', after being created and abandoned, the Creature sets out to take vengeance on Frankenstein, murdering his younger brother(and causing a servant to be wrongfully executed for the murder), best friend and bride. Frankenstein then pursues the Creature until he falls ill, tells a ship captain named Walton his life story, and dies. Walton then sees the Creature [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone express regret for Frankenstein's death]], and responds as follows.

-->''Moist:'' You can't just go around killing people!
-->''Mr. Pump:'' Why Not? You Do.
-->''Moist:''What? I do not! Who told you that?"
-->''Mr. Pump:'' I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People.
-->''Moist:'' I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be–– all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!
-->''Mr. Pump:'' No, You Have Not. But You Have Stolen, Embezzled, Defrauded And Swindled Without Discrimination, Mr. Lipvig. You Have Ruined Businesses And Destroyed Jobs. When Banks Fail, It Is Seldom Bankers Who Starve. Your Actions Have Taken Money From Those Who Had Little Enough To Begin With. In A Myriad Small Ways You Have Hastened The Deaths Of Many. You Do Not Know Them. You Did Not See Them Bleed. But You Snatched Bread From Their Mouths And Tore Clothes From Their Backs. For Sport, Mr Lipvig. For Sport. For The Joy Of The Game.

** ''Literature/GoingPostal'' has this from a ''golem'' to ConMan Moist von Lipwig. It's something of a kicking off point for his evolution into a better man.
---> '''Mr. Pump''': You have killed two point eight people [twenty-two point eight in the TV movie]... You have stolen, embezzled, and swindled. You have ruined businesses and destroyed lives. When banks fail, it's not ''bankers'' who starve. In a thousand small ways, you have hastened the deaths of many. You did not know them. You did not see them bleed. But you snatched bread from their mouths and kicked their homes out from under them. For sport, Mr. Lipwig. For sport. For the joy of the game.

* Ilke in ''Literature/{{Phenomena}}'' gives one to a slavedealer after [[SlaveLiberation freeing all the slaves]] in his tent.
* In ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', once Winston has been imprisoned and tortured, [[spoiler: O'Brien]] inflicts this endlessly on him.
-->"We have beaten you, Winston. We have broken you up. You have seen what your body is like. Your mind is in the same state. I do not think there can be much pride left in you. You have been kicked and flogged and insulted, you have screamed with pain, you have rolled around the floor in your own blood and vomit. You have whimpered for mercy, you have betrayed everybody and everything. Can you think of a single degradation that has not happened to you?"
** He thinks of [[{{Room101}} one]]. [[spoiler: They do it, of course, and it's the thing that finally breaks him]].
* [[BigBad The White Witch]] gives one of these to Aslan in ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', just before killing him. [[spoiler: He ends up getting the last laugh later on by killing her.]]
* In ''Literature/TheCodeOfTheWoosters'', from the Literature/JeevesAndWooster series, Bertie finds out Sir Roderick Spode's dark secret, and delivers a serious verbal beatdown.
-->"It is about time," I proceeded, "that some public-spirited person came along and told you where you got off. The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you're someone. You hear them shouting 'Heil Spode!' and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make the bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perisher?"
* Done very well by [[BigBad Galbatorix]] to Oromis in ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Brisingr]]''. So convincing that the {{Hatedom}} cheers him on.

* In ''Literature/FrannyAndZooey'', Zooey rants at Franny for ''nine pages'' about religion, their family, and how she's going everything about the wrong way and isn't as enlightened as she thinks she is. The only thing that stops him is seeing Franny lying face-down on the couch and crying hysterically.
* [[HandicappedBadass Peter Waylock]] from Creator/JohnCWright's ''Literature/WarOfTheDreaming'' dishes out one of these to Azrael after he tries a WeCanRuleTogether, pointing out what it means that Azrael is reduced to asking his prisoner for help. Later on, Prometheus does much the same, by showing Azrael that his DarkMessiah plan for "freeing" the world by killing large portions of it was a failure from the start--partly because he just isn't man enough to pull it off. Ouch.
* In ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' John Galt has a massive speech in which he reams everyone he hates; it lasts for ''three whole hours'' and around sixty pages.
* Alfkaell the Aesling from C.L. Werner's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} novel; ''Blood for the Blood God'' gives an epic one to the Kurgan chieftains when they try to scramble to save themselves from the Skulltaker (not ''that'' Skulltaker). This is after he kills one of them for blaspheming against Khorne, also. He's so badass that they wait after he's gone before they curse him.
--> "Such brotherhood and trust among the blood of Teiyogtei! Such unity of purpose! Such lofty vision! Even when the wolf prowls in the tent, still you argue over who gets the warmest blanket: the heirs of Teiyogtei, the men chosen by the great king to inherit his domain and guard it against the gods! Better he had bent his knee to the Blood God and begged his mercy rather than leave his legacy in the hands of such fools. Even united, do you think you could possibly stand against the Skulltaker? He will kill you all and set your skulls before the Skull Throne! Khorne will consume the land Teiyogtei promised to him; the domain he tried to cheat from a god! *EvilLaugh* Scatter or stand, it makes no difference. You're all going to die."

---> '''Mr. Pump''': You have killed two point eight people [twenty-two point eight in the tv movie]... You have stolen, embezzled, and swindled. You have ruined businesses and destroyed lives. When banks fail, it's not ''bankers'' who starve. In a thousand small ways, you have hastened the deaths of many. You did not know them. You did not see them bleed. But you snatched bread from their mouths and kicked their homes out from under them. For sport, Mr. Lipwig. For sport. For the joy of the game.
* In ''Literature/{{Speak}}'', Melinda gives a very mild version of the fourth type to her FalseFriend Heather.
* You can't read an Olivia Goldsmith book without this coming up at least once, usually when her scumbags get their well-deserved compeuppances. It happens to all ''three'' of the ex-husbands in ''The First Wives Club'', one by his own son.
** Occasionally, the heroine of the story has to have it given to her and uses it to fuel her rise back up and eventual victory.
* In ''Literature/SpaceMarineBattles'', BigBad of ''Wrath of Iron'' gives one to the Iron Hands, throwing in their faces the fact that after their Primarch's death, they've became nothing beyond revenge-obsessed machinophiles. Ironically enough, the recipient of the speach doesn't pay attention, as he's busy calculating the BigBad's weak point.
* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, Voldemort has something of a talent for these. He gives one to Harry in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets The Chamber of Secrets]]'', one to Harry and all of his Death Eaters in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire The Goblet of Fire]]'', one to Dumbledore AND Bellatrix in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]'' and one to pretty much everyone in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows The Deathly Hallows]]''.
** Especially Ron. He gave Ron a "Reason You Suck Speech" pretty much every day when he was wearing the horcrux. Then it climaxed, into a ghostly image of Hermione not only telling him every reason he sucks, but every reason he's afraid he ''might'' suck.
** Dumbledore does this to Voldemort a little in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix Order of the Phoenix]]''. Then Harry goes and tops it in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]''.
** In the latter case, it's immediately on the heels of Voldemort's ReasonYouSuckSpeech. Voldemort's attempt is not nearly as effective.
** Dumbledore gave a short, sharp one to Snape in the backstory when he finds out about Snape's ComfortingTheWidow scheme: "You disgust me. You do not care, then, about the deaths of her husband and child? They can die, as long as you have what you want?" It's notably the first time Harry ever heard outright contempt and disgust in Dumbledore's voice.
** In ''Order of the Phoenix'' we also see [[AMindIsATerribleThingToRead a memory]] of Lily giving one to James back when he was a pompous, bullying JerkJock.
** Harry gives a pretty good one to Voldemort's memory in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'', reminding him that he always has and still does cower before Dumbledore, and that his pursuit of power has left him a pathetic shell of a man forced to hide from the wizarding world.
* Glaurung the father of dragons delivers a '''phenomenal''' one to AntiHero Túrin Turambar in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' by JRR Tolkien:
--> '''Glaurung:''' Evil have been thy ways, son of Húrin. Thankless fosterling, outlaw, slayer of thy friend, thief of love, usurper of Nargothrond, captain foolhardy and deserter of thy kin. As thralls thy mother and sister live in Dor-lomin, in misery and want. Thou art arrayed as prince, but they go in rags; and for thee they yearn, but thou carest not for that. Glad may thy father be to learn that he hath such a son; as learn he shall.
* In the expanded version of this tale in ''Literature/TheChildrenOfHurin'', Brandir delivers a vicious repetition of Glaurung's speech, with his own touches.
* These happen quite a lot in the ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' series. [[MagnificentBastard Nefarian Serpine]] enjoys giving them regularly to Skulduggery in the first book, Baron Vengeous gives a few to Skulduggery in ''Playing With Fire'' and gets two particularly savage ones for China Sorrows.
** Skulduggery himself lays a thoroughly satisfying one on Davina Marr in ''Dark Days'' while Dreylan Scarab gives one to Thurid Guild.
** ''Death Bringer'' has Fletcher Renn give one to Valkyrie Cain after she cheats on him and then breaks up him when he calls her out on it (rightly so):
--->'''Fletcher:''' You're as emotionally inept as Skulduggery, and he's ''dead''. Well done Val, you have the emotional range of a dead man.
%% * ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'':
%% ** [[MagnificentBastard Valentine Morgenstern]] gives [[EvilChancellor Imogen Herondale]] a deservedly savage and scathing one that results in her almost having a [[VillainousBreakdown nervous breakdown]].
%% ** Jace gives Clary one in the beginning of ''City of Glass''.
* [[spoiler:Ender]] gives a very nice one to [[spoiler:Bonzo Madrid]] in ''Literature/EndersGame''.
--->'''[[spoiler: Ender]]''': [[spoiler: Bonzo]], [[WellDoneSonGuy your father would be proud of you]]. [[SarcasmMode He would love to see you now]], come to fight a naked boy in a shower, smaller than you, and you brought six friends. He would say, [[HonorBeforeReason Oh, what honor]]. Be proud, [[spoiler: Bonito]], pretty boy. You can go home and tell your father, Yes, I beat up [[spoiler: Ender Wiggin]], who was barely ten years old, and I was thirteen. And I had only six of my friends to help me, and somehow we managed to defeat him, even though he was naked and wet and alone - [[spoiler: Ender Wiggin]] is so ''dangerous'' and ''terrifying'' it was all we could do not to bring two hundred.
** [[spoiler: The speech saves his life.]]

--> '''Mr Ludovico''': Do you really think you have what it takes to be a lawyer? Lawyers are adults. Let's take a look about what it means to be an adult, shall we? Adults are independent. You, Emily, can't seem to take a step in any direction without Lydia and Cassie by your side. An adult would simply work hard to improve his marks. You, Emily, make foolish requests to have your marks altered. An adult is a rational being. ''You'' ran around last term obsessing over Amelia and Riley, and ''this'' term you're shouting to the world-- including, I might add, on some childishly hysterical blogs-- that there's a ghost living in the Art Rooms at this school! You are every inch a child, Emily, and I see no indications that you will ever grow up. Now, let me ask you this. Would I be doing my job-- ''would I be carrying out my responsibilities are principal of this school''-- if I signed a form that allowed you to be a lawyer?

* During the climax of ''Literature/TheNameOfTheRose,'' William of Baskerville unleashes one of these on [[spoiler: Jorge of Burgos]] following his MotiveRant against laughter.
-->You are the Devil. Yes. They lied to you. The Devil is not the Prince of Matter; the Devil is the arrogance of the spirit, faith without smile, truth that is never seized by doubt. The Devil is grim because he knows where he is going, and in moving, he always returns whence he came. You are the Devil, and like the Devil, you live in darkness. [[KirkSummation If you wanted to convince me, you have failed.]] I hate you, [[spoiler: Jorge]], and if I could, I would lead you downstairs, across the grounds, naked, with feathers stuck in your asshole and your face painted like a juggler and a buffoon, so that the whole monastery would laugh at you and be afraid no longer. I would like to smear honey all over you and roll you in feathers and take you on a leash to fairs, to say to all: He was announcing the truth to you and telling you that the truth has the taste of death, and you believed not in his words but in his grimness. And now I say to you that in the infinite whirl of possible things, God allows you to imagine a world where the presumed interpreter of the truth is nothing more than a clumsy raven who repeats words learned long ago.
* ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' gives us one from Elizabeth Bennet to Mr. Darcy. And boy does it ''burn.''
** Elizabeth also recieves one from Lady Catherine. Its burn is...significantly less.
* In ''Literature/JaneEyre'', right before Jane leaves for Lowood School, she gives one of these to her cruel aunt.
-->“I am glad you are no relation of mine: I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty.”
-->“How dare you affirm that, Jane Eyre?”
-->“How dare I, Mrs. Reed? How dare I? Because it is the ''truth''. You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity. I shall remember how you thrust me back—roughly and violently thrust me back—into the red-room, and locked me up there, to my dying day; though I was in agony; though I cried out, while suffocating with distress, ‘Have mercy! Have mercy, Aunt Reed!’ And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck me—knocked me down for nothing. I will tell anybody who asks me questions, this exact tale. People think you a good woman, but you are bad, hard-hearted. ''You'' are deceitful!”
* Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Literature/TheVorGame'':
** The good guys get one when Gregor finally tells off Cavilo, pointing out that she's been treating the Emperor of three worlds as a naive newbie.
--->'''Gregor:''' Commander Cavilo, both my parents died violently in political intrigue before I was six years old. A fact you might have researched. Did you think you were dealing with an ''amateur?''
** Miles also gets one in the same scene.
--->'''Miles:''' You should have stuck to your first contract. Or your second plan. Or your third. You should, in fact, have stuck to ''something''. Anything. Your [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder total self-interest]] didn't make you strong, it made you a rag in the wind, anybody's to pick up.
* Jesus in the Literature/LeftBehind book ''Glorious Appearing'' delivers his own to Satan, the Antichrist, and the False Prophet.
* In one Cicada short story, the main character's parents on the brink of divorce are having an argument over the mother talking to her boyfriend while they were watching a Christmas special. After the mother berates the father for his "Catholic martyrdom" and expecting people who make mistakes to spend the rest of their lives on their knees, he responds with "You're stuck. You're going to wake up on the day you die and realize you hasn't changed one bit."
* Franchise/StarWarsLegends:
** ''Literature/XWingSeries'':
*** Wedge Antilles is comfortably on the border between SergeantRock, TheHeart, and the ReasonableAuthorityFigure. He ''really'' chews out some of his pilots when he sees the need. Kell Tainer, someone with a marked tendency to fold when he's needed, once asks for PermissionToSpeakFreely, and when it's granted says "Every time I hear one of your 'motivational speeches' I want to beat you to death."
*** In ''The Bacta War'', after Wedge pays off one of [[BigBad Ysanne Isard's]] ship captains into leaving, he makes sure to send a resignation hologram that makes it clear to Isard that he views her as a blundering incompetent who couldn't run the hundred meters, let alone the Empire.
** ''[[Literature/JediAcademyTrilogy I, Jedi]]'': When confronting the ghost of long-dead Sith Lord Exar Kun, Mara Jade gives a dismissive speech about how poorly he compares to Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader, the Sith Lords she used to serve personally before her HeelFaceTurn. Particularly pointing out that they ''succeeded'' in destroying the Jedi, a task Kun had attempted and utterly failed at in life. When Kun weakly retorts that the Emperor and Vader are dead, Mara's comrade Corran Horn reminds Kun that ''so is he'', what with being a ghost and all.
** Admiral Ackbar gives a memorable one to an ObstructiveBureaucrat ''and'' his supervisor during ''The Literature/BlackFleetCrisis'' regarding an application by a refugee from an Imperial Remnant planet genocided by the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Yevetha]] to join the New Republic military.
--->'''Ackbar:''' Bureaucratic nonsense. Whatever happened to taking the measure of a man's courage, his honor--the fight in him, and the reasons in his heart. [[NotSoDifferent Do they all have to be as stamped-and-pressed alike as stormtroopers to get your approval]]? Get out.\\
''[bureaucrat flees]''\\
'''Supervisor:''' Admiral, we could certainly reconsider the application if you could just give us the context for your concern--\\
'''Ackbar:''' The context. It's not enough that a man is willing to put on a uniform and fight alongside people he's never met, just because he shares an ideal with them--no, his offer must come from the right context, and his school papers must be in order, and his arms not too long, and his blood type stocked in the combat medivacs. How things have changed. I can remember when we were glad for anyone willing to fight beside us.\\
'''Supervisor:''' Admiral--there have to be standards--\\
'''Ackbar:''' Major, ask yourself how many of the everyday heroes of the Rebellion--not just the names everyone knows--would have qualified to fight for their freedom under your rules. And then ask yourself if that answer doesn't make you look just a bit like a [[HoldYourHippogriffs dewback's cloaca]].
** In ''Literature/DarkLordTheRiseOfDarthVader'', Vader spends most of the book depressed after his EmergencyTransformation and the loss of Padmé. Darth Sidious tears him a new one after he tries to deflect blame over the loss of some fugitive Jedi to his [[MightyGlacier powerful, but slow]] PoweredArmor and his outdated starfighter.
* 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 return 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/TheAdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'':
** Sherburn plays this trope HARD. "Then he says, slow and scournful, 'The idea of YOU lynching anybody! It’s amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to lynch a MAN!'" etc.
** Jim lays one a quietly crushing one down on Huck at the end of his "dream interpretation" after the two get separated in a fogbank:
--->'''Jim:''' What do dey stan’ for? I’se gwyne to tell you. When I got all wore out wid work, en wid de callin’ for you, en went to sleep, my heart wuz mos’ broke bekase you wuz los’, en I didn’ k’yer no’ mo’ what become er me en de raf’. En when I wake up en fine you back agin, all safe en soun’, de tears come, en I could a got down on my knees en kiss yo’ foot, I’s so thankful. En all you wuz thinkin’ ’bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie. Dat truck dah is TRASH; en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren’s en makes ’em ashamed.

* In ''Literature/AConfederacyOfDunces'', Ignatius P. Reilly gets a good one from his mother towards the end:
-->'''Mrs. Reilly''': You learnt everything, Ignatius, except how to be a human being.
* ''Literature/InDeath'': This has popped up from time to time. A pretty nice one is when Eve gets attacked by Isaac [=McQueen=] in ''New York To Dallas'' and Eve tells him that he should have just run and hid somewhere for awhile after he broke out of prison. Instead, he decided to go after her. She concludes with "You're just ''fucking'' stupid!" He does not take that well.
* ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'': Senna Wales dishes these out like they're going out of style. Jalil, TheSmartGuy, recognises this, [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on it, and deconstructs one of her speeches point for point. He and Merlin the Magnificent team up to give Senna a joint The Reason You Suck Speech in Book 11.

* ''Literature/TheRemainsOfTheDay'': At the end of the book, Stevens at last can articulate the truth in a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech The Reason We Suck Speech]] for Lord Darlington and himself. Lord Darlington played HeadInTheSandManagement for the Nazis, and at the end of the day, he can say he was wrong and take the responsibility like a man. [[ShrinkingViolet Stevens never did anything for himself]], [[TearJerker and he cannot say even that]].

* ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
** After her sister Ivypool pushes one too many of her BerserkButton[=s=], Dovewing tells Ivypool exactly why she thinks Ivypool is a terrible cat who deserves to rot in the deepest corners of the Dark Forest for all eternity.
** Squirrelflight also gives one to Jayfeather in ''Faded Echoes'' after he treats her and Leafpool like crap for two books straight.
** Leafstar gives one of her own to Sol in ''After The Flood'' when he steals her kits just so he could become a warrior.
-->'''Sol:''' I'm always overlooked! Never made leader of a patrol...always scorned because I used to be a kittypet! ''I can be a warrior!''
-->'''Leafstar:''' No. You can't. You have no understanding of the warrior code at all. What you've done here proves it. You've risked the lives of young kits...by leaving them alone here. Anything could have happened to them. They could have been lost. They could have died. ''My kits could have '''died'''.'' But you didn't just betray me. You betrayed the entire Clan. You did all this...and you never considered how it would make any of us feel. The Clan is a family, Sol. A community. And you're incapable of thinking about anyone but yourself. I banish you from [=SkyClan=]. You've betrayed my trust, betrayed the warrior code...betrayed everything I thought you believed in.
** Sol himself gives one to Billystorm about being a daylight warrior only for Billystorm to retort that he's moving into the gorge from now on with his Clan. So Sol gives this speech to [=SkyClan=].
-->'''Sol:''' Those rogues were right. You ''are'' pathetic! You think the warrior code will keep you safe? What if there's another flood? More rats? Twolegs? You'll only ever be as strong as your weakest kit or oldest elder! I curse all Clans for their foolishness!
** Redwillow gives on to Blackstar, sneering that he's just old and should die. Blackstar [[ShutUpHannibal shuts him up by calling him a traitor]] and killing him.
** Clear Sky gives Jagged Peak a cruel and unprovoked one in ''Thunder Rising'', calling him selfish and lazy. Gray Wing, however, is quick to defend their little brother, and Jagged Peak gives Clear Sky one for kicking him out of the forest.
* In the first ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' novel ''Dragonflight'', Masterharper Robinton delivers a scathing one to the Lord Holders when they complain that Benden Weyr is asserting too much authority over them in the fight against Thread. Robinton reminds the Lord Holders that most of them treated Benden Weyr like crap for centuries and recently ''rode out to attack the Weyr'' because they thought there were no more Threads. Robinton then says that Benden has every right to leave the Holds to be eaten by Thread after all of that, and that the Lord Holders should shut up and do whatever the Weyrleader thinks is necessary to survive the return of the Threads. The speech makes F'lar ''very'' grateful that Masterharper Robinton is an ally of Benden Weyr and not an enemy.
** Robinton delivers a few of these throughout the series. He considers it part of his job as Masterharper of Pern to let people know when they're being asses.
* Aftran does "the reason you humans as a whole suck" speech in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', when she's talking to Cassie in "The Departure". She tells Cassie how humans suck because they don't appreciate the beauty of the world they live in and that they complain about the Yeerks enslaving them, but they do the same thing to their own livestock.
* In ''The Well of Loneliness'', Anna delivers a blistering one of these to her [[GenderBlenderName daughter Stephen]] when she founds out that [[spoiler:she's a lesbian and was in a relationship with someone.]]. Stephen then gives one right back, saying that she [[spoiler:truly loved the woman she was briefly with and is a good person who deserves better treatment]]. This leads to a lifelong [[IHaveNoSon estrangement]].
* ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'': This series features more than a few, and all of them are leveled at Reynard, usually once people wise up and realize that he's not as lovable a LovableRogue [[VillainWithGoodPublicity as people seem to think he is.]] [[WomanScorned Hermeline's are, by far, the most blistering.]]
* Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire has many, unsurprising considering its LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, most of whom deserve a bollocking at some point or another due to the GambitPileup GreyAndGrayMorality setting.
** [[BloodKnight Sandor]] [[BeastAndBeauty "The Hound"]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse Clegane's]] numerous put-downs of [[WideEyedIdealist Sansa's]] ideas about [[KnightInShiningArmor Knights in Shining Armor]] certainly count as this trope. These speeches, though harsh and contemptuous, are actually very good advice for the CrapsackWorld they live in, and the fact that he even bothers to insult her is one of the earliest signs that she's his MoralityPet.
** [[ThePatriarch Tywin Lannister]] gives a particularly vicious one to his dwarf son [[TheUnfavorite Tyrion]]. This is an unusual example of this trope, because rather than telling hard truths, it is totally undeserved and reveals more about Tywin's SelectiveObliviousness than it does about Tyrion.
** Tyrion himself doles out many, to various characters, and in contrast to his father, his observations are painfully accurate for the victim.
** A serious mistake by [[spoiler: Edmure Tully]] results in him being given this by several different characters at the same time.
** Theon is given several before and during his poorly planned [[spoiler: capture of Winterfell]], but he's too much of a SmugSnake at the time to pay any attention to them.
** [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Cersei]] receives a truly excellent one from [[spoiler: her uncle Kevan]] with regards to her many failings as a ruler and a mother. [[IgnoredEpiphany She throws wine in his face, orders him to leave, and thinks to herself that he's a traitor rather than face the truth of his accusations.]]
*** She gets another excellent one from [[spoiler: Margaery Tyrell]], when Cersei visits her in her cell, showing that she's seen through approximately 100% of of Cersei's bullshit and calling her out as a paranoid [[MyBelovedSmother Beloved Smother]] and utterly [[SmugSnake deflating]] her pretensions to {{Magnificent Bastard}}ry.
** The Blackfish, Brynden Tully, delivers a truly devastating one to [[TheOathbreaker Jaime Lannister]] in ''A Feast for Crows''. Best of all, he apparently attended parley mainly to deliver it, since he acknowledges he has no intention of accepting any terms offered and is there simply because a siege is a dull affair.
* Near the end of ''Literature/{{Brimstone}}'', Captain Hayward delivers one to "Reverend" Buck.
--> "Mr. Buck? If you don't mind, there's something personal I'd like to say to you... First of all, there's only one Jesus and you aren't Him. Another thing: I'm a Christian, and I try to be a good one, although I may not always succeed. You had no right to stand there when I was at the mercy of that crowd, point your finger at me, and pass judgement. You should take a good look at that passage in the Gospel of Matthew: ''Judge not, that ye be not judged... Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.''... I always liked the King James Version the best. Now, listen. You worry about ''yourself'' from now on, being a good citizen, keeping out of trouble, and obeying the law... If there's a Second Coming in the works, you sure as heck won't get advance notice - that much I ''do'' know... Farewell, Mr. Buck. Keep your nose clean."
* ''Literature/KillTimeOrDieTrying'': Nathan Hillary specialises in these, delivering a memorable one when complaining that WARP has become dull
--> "You’re a teenage choir boy, your standards for excitement are lower than Dylan’s IQ. I mean, look at these people. Look at Steve, it’s like God made him from leftovers. And not leftovers from making other humans. No no. We’re talking substandard meatloaf and candle-wax.\\
"And Ari? I have seen bears less hairy. The guy has to shave his damn teeth. Kevin’s okay, I suppose, does what he’s told. But Kerry, every time I look at her I give Douw a coupon for the optometrist. And you! Dude, brushing your fringe over your forehead mole isn’t fooling anyone. A comb-over is no cure for cancer. And no-one does anything anymore, and every-one always wears pants. There are no WARP shenanigans, no kilts, no rave day. It’s boring."
* Nathan [=McCall=]'s ''Them'' has a scene where Barlowe Reed and Sandy Gilmore basically trade these after [[spoiler: someone sets fire to the Gilmores' mailbox]].
--> '''Barlowe:''' "These people been out here toilin' most a dey lives. You came here on a fuggin' whim. So what don't you understand? Far as I can see, you just a silly white girl looking for somethin interestin' to do."
--> '''Sandy:''' "You know, I actually feel sorry for you. You're so wounded that you may no longer be capable of seeing the good in others."
** This is not the first TRYSS Barlowe receives. After Nell [[spoiler: bails him out of jail]], leading to [[spoiler: breaking up with him]]:
---> '''Nell:''' "Yeah, well, your li'l crusade cost me time and money. I ain't got money for that...And I definitely don't have time to be goin down there, minglin with ghetto folk. You too cozy, Barlowe; you too laid-back for me. You go to work and lay round a house that ain't even yours. It wouldn't bother you none if things stayed that way. All I can go by is what I see. I been waitin a long time for you to show me somethin. But you ain't showin me nothin I can use...Barlowe, I wont things..."
*** This also doubles as DareToBeBadass, as it drives Barlowe to [[spoiler: buy the house he rents.]]
* Zhuge Liang in ''Literature/{{Romance of the Three Kingdoms}}'' can kill a man just by delivering one of these.
** Specifically, there are two. Zhuge Liang caused the death of Wang Lang via speech and Cao Zhen via a letter.

* ''Literature/LegacyOfTheDragokin'': After deciphering and exploiting the weakness in [[spoiler: Abyss']] fighting style, Lydia tells her opponent what this flaw says about them personally.

* {{Older Than Feudalism}}: UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}, of all people, lays down a few of these in ''Literature/TheBible'', usually directed at the [[CorruptChurch Pharisees]]. He also had a tendency to lambast crowds as he was teaching them, such as this quote from [[Literature/TheFourGospels Matthew 21:31]] (New American Standard Bible):
-->''Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and prostitutes will get into the kingdom of God before you.''
** The entirety of Matthew Chapter 23 is one of these, often titled "The Seven Woes" with each of the seven sections starting out "Woe unto thee, Pharisees and givers of the law, [[{{Hypocrite}} you hypocrites!]]
* In the Literature/BookOfJonah, God himself calls out Jonah at the end for having SkewedPriorities, namely weeping that a plant that gave him shade has died but being fine with the entire city of Nineveh being smited to ash.
-->"You are concerned about the bush, for which you did not labour and which you did not grow; it came into being in a night and perished in a night. And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?"
* In Literature/TheEddas, ''The Flyting of Loki'' is all about him delivering one of these to the assembled company of Valhalla, collectively and individually -- Thor is a braggart, Freja is a ho, Odin is kinky, etc. While this could have been a jolly tale to be memorised and recited in the feast-hall, it's more likely that it was written by a convert to Christianity to lampoon the old gods and to denounce the moral standards of pre-Christian Norse culture. For context, it should be noted that flyting is a Norse tradition that is basically a formalized exchange of "reason you suck" speeches, so this sort of thing happens a lot in Myth/NorseMythology.
* In ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', the Artilleryman, a working-class soldier who is the sole survivor of his unit, really gives it to the formerly comfortable middle-class Narrator - with both barrels loaded with shrapnel. Free from the military heirarchy and the social norms of Victorian England, he is finally free to say what he thinks.
--> “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.”
* ''Literature/SurvivorDogs'':
** In ''Darkness Falls'', Alpha gives Lucky one for his "wavering" loyalty to the wild pack.
-->'''Alpha''': "I'm impressed that you think so highly of the Pack. But the truth is, a dog never changes. I've been around long enough to know that. Look at you - you're a Lone Dog; it's in your blood. Your Lone Dog nature will always get the better of you. First you joined the Leashed Dogs, then the Wild Pack. Now you have taken it upon yourself to foster the Fierce Dogs. I doubt your commitment will last. I'll wake up one morning to discover you've deserted the Pack, including your precious Fierce Dogs. We'll be left to pick up the pieces."
** Fiery gives Alpha one in ''The Broken Path'' for his leadership skills. Believe it or not, he compliments Alpha first before laying one on him.
-->'''Fiery''': "I respect Alpha. He has led us well and kept us together, in good times and bad. But I believe the Big Growl changed things. Our world has turned upside down, and I don't think Alpha can cope anymore. He has been hesitant; he has failed to make decisions. And his [[FantasticRacism attitude]] to the Leashed Dogs is not helping. He scorns them instead of valuing the skills they do have, and he makes no attempt to hide his dislike for Lick. His attitude is beginning to cause conflict in the Pack. While I know and respect what he has done as our Alpha, I believe I would be the better leader now-the stronger leader. That's why I challenge him."
** Lucky finally gives one to Alpha in "The Endless Lake" for [[spoiler:betraying the Wild Pack and joining the Fierce Dogs]], dogs he had said he hated with a burning passion.
-->'''Lucky''': "You disgust me! You despicable traitor. You turned on your own Pack after they mourned for you, taking you for dead! Dishonorable beast! Even now, you show contempt for the laws of the Spirit Dogs! Blade promised that Storm could go free if she passed the Trial, that she would not be harmed!"
* Captain Ia gives an epic one in ''Literature/TheirsNotToReasonWhy'', as she explains to a disobedient subordinate how, by continuing to fire after she ordered him to stop, he doomed the entire galaxy. How only through one of his comrades [[HeroicSacrifice giving up everything he ever could have been to take over a dead man's life]] was the total annihilation of every sapient who would ever live in the Milky Way averted. And how, because of his actions,despite all she could do to fix the situation, 720,593 people who otherwise could have been saved will die horribly.
-->"You will be given a list of these names to contemplate in your spare time. You are free to ignore it if you wish, but understand that ''I'' cannot. "
* In Friedrich Dürrenmatt's ''Der Verdacht'', a sociopathic former nazi doctor delivers a devastating speech to his opponent, the HandicappedBadass Kommisär Bärlach. Bärlach isn't able to argue against his solipsistic reasoning on why [[ItAmusedMe he kills as he pleases]].
* The titular heroine of ''[[Literature/TheCasteelSeries Heaven]]'' gives one to [[WomanScorned Kitty]] after all the abuse she suffered at the latter's hands:
-->'''Heaven''': "You're not my mother, Kitty Setterton Dennison! I don't have to call you Mother. Kitty is good enough. I've tried hard to love you, and forget all the awful things you've done to me, but I'm not trying anymore. You can't be human and nice for but a little while, can you? And I was stupid enough to plan a party, just to please you, and give you a reason for having all that china and crystal... but the storm is on, and so are you, because you just don't know how to act like a mother. Now it's ugly, mean time again. I can see it in your watery eyes that glow in the darkness of this room. No wonder God didn't allow you to have children, Kitty Dennison. '''''God knew better'''''."
* [[spoiler: Lilly]] delivers a brutal one to Mia in ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'', chastising her for throwing away her values [[spoiler: by eating meat, something she hasn't done since she was small,]] simply because [[spoiler: Michael temporarily moved to Japan.]] [[StrawmanHasAPoint Though some of her arguments make sense,]] it's also obvious that her rage is fuelled by the fact that [[spoiler: J.P dumped her for Mia.]]
* Almost everything that Eudamonia says is one of these, or a prelude to one, in ''Literature/CastleHangnail'' by Creator/UrsulaVernon. And finally, Molly responds in kind.
* In ''Literature/{{Harahpin}}'', still suffering from the loss of her father, Desmodea gives a scathing one to Eyrco.
** Thrym lashes out at Xepysa for denying him enough freedom to even feel pain, much to the planet soul's unsettlement.

* In the graphic novel ''Marzi: A Memoir,'' Bozena the strict ballet teacher refuses to accept any girl into her dance class who isn't thin enough for her liking, including Marzi's friend Monika. When Monika's mother, [[MamaBear Stasia,]] gets wind of the situation, she wastes no time brutally tearing into Bozena, calling her irresponsible and unfit to work with children. And it ''works,'' getting Bozena to resign (or be fired, it isn't clear which, but either way, she's gone).
-->'''Stasia:''' What did you say to my daughter? That she's fat?! What's wrong with you? She's a young girl! She's refusing to eat because of you!
-->'''Bozena:''' But you don't understand...
-->'''Stasia:''' No! You're the one who doesn't understand! You should not be working with children. I'm going to let it be known, don't you worry. You're completely irresponsible!!
-->'''Bozena:''' She could come back, you know, and join us...
-->'''Stasia:''' Come back?? To be humiliated!?! One of your students told me about your methods!! Monika isn't the only one who won't be back, you're out of here! Trust me!
* In ''Literature/TheGiver'', The Giver sums up The Community with one line: "They know nothing."
* In ''Literature/{{Divergent}}'', Four gives a brutal but effective one to Peter when the latter complains about the unfairness of the fear trials, saying that of course it's unfair given Peter [[spoiler:tried to murder Tris the night before]] and everyone knows that Peter is a coward.
* In probably one of the most epic things ''anybody'' in TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} has ever done, the end of the short story ''[[Literature/HorusHeresy The Last Church]]'' sees the last Christian priest Uriah giving a stern final speech to the [[GodEmperor God Emperor]] himself, pointing out (with [[{{Foreshadowing}} what turns out to be perfect accuracy]]) his madness and hypocrisy before stating he wants no part in his plans for humanity and [[FaceDeathWithDignity walking into the burning ruins of his church]].
* ''Literature/SanoIchiro'': It takes seventeen books, but after being abused, manipulated, and unappreciated by the shogun, Sano not only calls the shogun directly by name, he bawls him out in a very public setting for his childishness, irresponsible ways, and passive-aggressive manner, then outright calls him a coward unworthy of bearing the Tokugawa name. [[spoiler: Much to his and everyone else's absolute shock, the shogun ''agrees'' with Sano.]]
* Francis from the original ''WesternAnimation/{{Felidae}}'' novel gives a very [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] one to Kong, saying that Kong likes bossing others around and being a great big bully.
* In the ''Literature/PercyJackson'' book ''Greek Gods'', Apollo gives one to Marsyas the satyr before skinning him.
-->'''Apollo''': See, Marsyas, you may think you're special, but you're a fad. ''I'll'' be famous forever. I'm immortal. You? All glitter, no gold. Scratch the surface, and you're just another mortal satyr...flesh and blood.
* In ''{{Literature/Vampirocracy}}'', Leon drops one of these on ex-girlfriend Dierdre.
* In ''Literature/TheWitchlands'', after putting up with Merik's ExcessiveMourning for a long time, Cam finally has enough and tells the prince to his face that he's being a jerkass who refuses to see what's inconvenient to his mindset, then leaves him.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': In ''Literature/SkinGame'' Harry gives one to Nicodemus regarding his daughter [[spoiler: whom Nicodemus had to kill in order to get into Hades' vault]] to goad him into a fight. It works a little too well.
** Earlier in the novel, Butters gives one to Harry in regards to how much more Fae-like he seems and unloading his worries that Harry is going dark side. While he does miss a few things, it's enough to shake Harry.
* In ''Literature/TheSpiritThief'', upon reaching his RageBreakingPoint, Eli tells the {{Physical God}}dess Benehime right to her face every problem he has with her abusive behaviour, treatment of spirits, her behaviour towards people and her general jerkassery. It's probably the most serious - and the most furious - he is throughout all five books, and she's so stunned, for a few minutes she just stares at him in shock.
* When Brenish and Gareth finally have it out in ''Literature/{{Below}}'', Brenish delivers a very brief but brutal one. Of course at that moment the rest of the party isn't too pleased with either one of them.
--> '''Brenish:''' That is my honor, Gareth. Coward am I? I brought no shield here; you brought twelve.

* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': Since [[SinisterMinister corrupt priests]] especially disgust Dante, he has his AuthorAvatar preach to a damned Pope by asking how much treasure Jesus asked of Saint Peter before giving him the Keys to the Kingdom of Heaven. Since the answer is "no treasure," Dante happily requests the deceased Pope stay in the fires of Hell to make sure his ill-gotten money is well-protected, as befitting one who is the ideal evangelist for [[{{Satan}} the red dragon of Hell]] and the worshipper of hundreds of gods of silver and treasure. Whether out of anger and despair, the speech causes the damned Pope to struggle more violently from within his pit, but Dante claims that he would condemn his greed even further if not for Dante's respect for the office the damned held in life. The speech is the centerpiece of the Canto and encapsulates Dante's thoughts on simony by putting it in the context of Literature/TheFourGospels, the Literature/BookOfRevelation, Italian politics, and his respect for the Papacy.
* In ''Literature/HeartOfADog'' by Mikhail Bulgakov, Professor Preobrazhensky delivers an epic one to Sharikov, a dog he turned into a human, but who clearly sees himself as pinnacle of mankind:
--> '''Preobrazhensky:''' “You belong to the lowest possible stage of development... You are intellectually weak, all your actions are purely bestial. Yet you allow yourself in the presence of two university-educated men to offer advice, with quite intolerable familiarity, on a cosmic scale and of quite cosmic stupidity, about how to divide everything ... and at the same time you eat the tooth powder...your business is to keep quiet and listen to what you're told, to learn and try to become a reasonably acceptable member of the community."
* A short and brutally effective one from [[Creator/DavidGemmell David Gemmell's]] novel [[Literature/{{Drenai}} The King Beyond The Gate]], after a former NCO brings orders to return to service to the man who was once his commander, and the commander responds by giving the various arguments why he shouldn't go.
-->"I am not good with words, sir. I have ridden two hundred miles to deliver the message. I came seeking the man I served, but he is not here. I am sorry to have troubled you."
* ''Literature/FamilySkeletonMysteries'': Georgia's superior in the fifth book is disgusted when she discovers the string of art thefts going on in the school, but even more so when Georgia's coworkers are only concerned with covering it up so they don't lose their jobs or their chances at tenure. She calls them out for failing to do their duty to help the students like they're supposed to, and declares if they're so worried about money to get another job.
* In ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'', after being created and abandoned, the Creature sets out to take vengeance on Frankenstein, murdering his younger brother(and causing a servant to be wrongfully executed for the murder), best friend and bride. Frankenstein then pursues the Creature until he falls ill, tells a ship captain named Walton his life story, and dies. Walton then sees the Creature [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone express regret for Frankenstein's death]], and responds as follows.
-->"Your repentance is now superfluous. If you had listened to the voice of conscience and heeded the stings of remorse before you had urged your diabolical vengeance to this extremity, Frankenstein would yet have lived."
* In ''Literature/{{Flatland}}'', A. Square lashes out at the King of Lineland after he is proved incapable of comprehending the second dimension.
-->"Besotted Being! You think yourself the perfection of existence, while you are in reality the most imperfect and imbecile. You profess to see, whereas you can see nothing but a Point! You plume yourself on inferring the existence of a Straight Line; but I can see Straight Lines, and infer the existence of Angles, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and even Circles. Why waste more words? Suffice it that I am the completion of your incomplete self. You are a Line, but I am a Line of Lines, called in my country a Square: and even I, infinitely superior though I am to you, am of little account among the great nobles of Flatland, whence I have come to visit you, in the hope of enlightening your ignorance."
* In ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', the Ghost of Christmas Present gives Scrooge a furious butt-chewing for describing the poor as "surplus population". It sticks, largely because Scrooge has just seen Bob Cratchit's ill child, Tiny Tim, and has started feeling compassion for perhaps the first time in many years -- and it's also worth noting that the Ghost has already thrown Scrooge's own words back in his face that the poor should die and "decrease the surplus population".
--> "Man, if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is. Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die? It may be, that in the sight of Heaven, you are more worthless and less fit to live than millions like this poor man's child. Oh God. To hear the Insect on the leaf pronouncing on the too much life among his hungry brothers in the dust."
* In ''Literature/TheMentalState'', Zack unleashes a torrent of abuse towards the prison rapists after manipulating them and tricking them into getting brutally beaten up. In stark contrast to his usually calm demeanour, he expresses his complete and utter contempt for this particular kind of criminal and informs them how foolish they all were to have ever trusted him.
* In ''Literature/{{Kane}}'' story "Cold Light" Rehhaile (who is technically blind but also a kind of psychic) gives one to Alidore, lieutenant to [[KnightTemplar Lord Gaethaa]], who came to Sebbei to fight and kill [[VillainProtagonist Kane]]. While Alidore vehemently disagrees, her words grow on him.
--> "Do you call me blind, Alidore! Gaethaa a great man! A Crusader battling the forces of evil! While Kane has lived here he has harmed no one. Since you came yesterday, your great man and your fellow soldiers have terrorized the town, raped me and threatened worse, demolished this tavern, bullied Gavein--and now you’re beating him to death to force the people of Sebbei to obey commands meaningless to them!"
* In ''Literature/CrazyRichAsians'', after [[spoiler:Colette]] acts like a BitchInSheepsClothing to Rachel after [[spoiler:her assistant poisoned Rachel near-lethally (without Colette's orders, and partly by accident)]], Rachel yells at her.
-> You know, this is beyond absurd. For a while there I actually felt bad for you, even though I was violently ill for a week because of your actions. But now I have nothing but pity for you. You're right, I will never be like you - thanks so much for the compliment! You're nothing more than a spoiled, entitled little shit. And unlike you, I'm ''proud'' of my roots - I'm not talking bout my birth father, I'm talking about the honest, hardworking mother who raised me, and the amazing family that supported her. We didn't make some crazy fortune overnight, and we won't ever need to hire some fancy butler to teach us manners. You don't live in the real world, you never have, so I'm not even going to try arguing with you - it's way below my pay grade to bother. You sit in your perfect little eco-luxury bubble, while your father's companies are the biggest polluters in China. You may have all the money in the world, but you are the most morally impoverished ''child'' I've ever met!
* ''Literature/ProjectTau'':
** Kata delivers quite a few of these about the Projects' treatment and the scientists' hypocrisy, usually to Dennison.
** Renfield gives one himself to both Dennison and Mason when he finds out [[spoiler:what they did to Kalin.]]
** Tau gets one in at Kata towards the end of the book.
--> '''Tau:''' "I'm not your fucking tool, Kata! You can't just ''use'' me!"
* 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]].
-->“Pitohui…I knew that you were a completely irredeemable piece of [[PrecisionFStrike shit]], but I thought you at least took the game seriously. It’s one thing to beat your enemies. But involuntary arrangement or not, I didn’t think you’d [[spoiler:plot to kill your own teammates]]. I’ve lost any respect I had for you.”
* In ''Literature/LittleWomen'', Amy gives one to Laurie in Nice for how he's handling his heartbreak over [[NotGoodWithRejection being rejected by Jo]]. He eventually agrees with Amy's belief that he has changed for the worse by becoming IdleRich. Although it comes from a place of love, Amy gives him a fairly brutal lecture about being lazy, overspending, [[SmokingIsNotCool smoking]] and not doing anything useful with himself.
* ''Literature/ShadowOfTheConqueror'':
** When Gaidan tries to follow Daylen, the latter verbally hammers him for his {{Farmboy}} ambitions before sending him home to his parents.
** Daylen delivers another to Blackheart before [[IAmNotLeftHanded unleashing all of his power]] and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice butchering him]].
** When fighting [[spoiler: Daylen]], Ahrek and Lyrah both take the opportunity to tell him exactly why he deserves to die in the most violent manner possible, with copious amounts of YouMonster
* It isn't even intentional, but when Kiritsugu in ''Literature/FateZero'' finally gets his hands on the magic seemingly omnipotent device he's entrusted with all his hopes, [[spoiler:it points out that the inherent contradiction in his methods just causes massive loss of life but never solves the fundamental problems he struggles against. Yes, you can kill the few to save the many, but then you repeat that again and again and all you have to show for it is piles of bodies.]] Since Kiritsugu doesn't know of any other ways to do things, he's forced to confront that he destroyed everything and everyone he ever cared about ''for no reason.'' [[spoiler:The grail can't just magic up a solution out of nowhere since it's simply a tool, meaning it can only do what Kiritsugu does on an even larger scale, meaning killing loads more people.]] The villain in question doesn't consider this a You Suck speech because it's actually kind of ''happy'' about this: It feels like their goals line up perfectly [[spoiler:since it's cursed anyway.]]
* ''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.
* ''Literature/TreasureISland'': Long John Silver delivers one to his crew when they try to depose him.
-->'''Long John Silver:''' Why, I give you my word, I'm sick to speak to you. You've neither sense nor memory, and I leave it to fancy where your mothers was that let you come to sea. Sea! Gentlemen o' fortune! I reckon tailors is your trade.

* In Literature/CrazyRichAsians, after [[spoiler:Colette]] acts like a BitchInSheepsClothing to Rachel after [[spoiler:her assistant poisoned Rachel near-lethally (without Colette's orders, and partly by accident)]], Rachel yells at her.

* ''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.

* It isn't even intentional, but when Kiritsugu in ''Literature/FateZero'' finally gets his hands on the magic seemingly omnipotent device he's entrusted with all his hopes, [[spoiler:it points out that the inherent contradiction in his methods just causes massive loss of life but never solves the fundamental problems he struggles against. Yes, you can kill the few to save the many, but then you repeat that again and again and all you have to show for it is piles of bodies.]] Since Kiritsugu doesn't know of any other ways to do things, he's forced to confront that he destroyed everything and everyone he ever cared about ''for no reason.'' [[spoiler:The grail can't just magic up a solution out of nowhere since it's simply a tool, meaning it can only do what Kiritsugu does on an even larger scale, meaning killing loads more people.]] The villain in question doesn't consider this a You Suck speech because it's actually kind of ''happy'' about this: It feels like their goals line up perfectly [[spoiler:since it's cursed anyway.]]

** When fighting [[spoiler: Daylen]], Ahrek and Lyrah both take the opportunity to tell him exactly why he deserves to die in the most violent manner possible, with copious amounts of YouMonster

* Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire has many, unsurprising considering its LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, most of whom deserve a bollocking at some point or another due to the GambitPileup GrayAndGrayMorality setting.

** In ''Discworld/TheFifthElephant'', after local watchman Captain Tantony tells Sam Vimes that his wife Sybil is in the clutches of one of the evil werewolves behind the whole evil plot, Vimes gives Tantony this:

** In ''Discworld/TheLastHero,'' Cohen delivers one to the gods, who are naturally rendered speechless by the crushing force of his logic. Only The Lady finds anything at all to say and Cohen promptly shuts her up as well with one more well-turned sentence.
** Special mention goes to ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies,'' where the glamor projected by the Fair Folk is enough that it makes Magrat (who has just gotten a long-awaited boost of confidence) shrink, and wither, and feel worthless for having even ''thought'' of hurting the Fairy Queen. The Fairy Queen invokes this without a ''word.''

** ''Discworld/GoingPostal'' has this from a ''golem'' to ConMan Moist von Lipwig. It's something of a kicking off point for his evolution into a better man.

* In ''Literature/LittleWomen'', Amy gives one to Laurie in Nice for how he's handling his heartbreak over [[NotGoodWithRejection being rejected by Jo]]. He eventually agrees with Amy's belief that he has changed for the worse by becoming IdleRich. Although it comes from a place of love, Amy gives him a fairly brutal lecture about being lazy, overspending, [[SmokingIsNotCool smoking]] and not doing anything useful with himself.

-->“Pitohui…I knew that you were a completely irredeemable piece of [[PrecisionFStrike shit]], but I thought you at least took the game seriously. It’s one thing to beat your enemies. But involuntary arrangement or not, I didn’t think you’d [[spoiler:plot to kill your own teammates]]. I’ve lost any respect I had for you.”

--> '''Tau:''' "I'm not your fucking tool, Kata! You can't just ''use'' me!"

-> You know, this is beyond absurd. For a while there I actually felt bad for you, even though I was violently ill for a week because of your actions. But now I have nothing but pity for you. You're right, I will never be like you - thanks so much for the compliment! You're nothing more than a spoiled, entitled little shit. And unlike you, I'm ''proud'' of my roots - I'm not talking bout my birth father, I'm talking about the honest, hardworking mother who raised me, and the amazing family that supported her. We didn't make some crazy fortune overnight, and we won't ever need to hire some fancy butler to teach us manners. You don't live in the real world, you never have, so I'm not even going to try arguing with you - it's way below my pay grade to bother. You sit in your perfect little eco-luxury bubble, while your father's companies are the biggest polluters in China. You may have all the money in the world, but you are the most morally impoverished ''child'' I've ever met!

* Melinda in ''Literature/{{Speak}}'' by Laurie Halse Anderson gives the fourth type to her "friend" Heather. It's in the film adaption of the book as well.

--> "Do you call me blind, Alidore! Gaethaa a great man! A Crusader battling the forces of evil! While Kane has lived here he has harmed no one. Since you came yesterday, your great man and your fellow soldiers have terrorized the town, raped me and threatened worse, demolished this tavern, bullied Gavein--and now you’re beating him to death to force the people of Sebbei to obey commands meaningless to them!"

* In ''Literature/TheMentalState'', Zack unleashes a torrent of abuse towards the prison rapists after manipulating them and tricking them into getting brutally beaten up. In stark contrast to his usually calm demeanour, he expresses his complete and utter contempt for this particular kind of criminal and informs them how foolish they all were to have ever trusted him.