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7	->''"Out, out, brief candle!\
8	Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,\
9	That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,\
10	And then is heard no more."''
11	-->-- '''Macbeth''', ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}''
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15	One of the best ways to show that a character has crossed the DespairEventHorizon is to give them the occasion to perform a Despair Speech to show that their hopes are lost and that there's nothing else left to do. Expect CreepyMonotone if the character is portrayed as scary. ManlyTears are occasionally involved.
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17	The character is winding up their own lack of chances, desperation, and, sometimes, remorse for something they could have done or said before. If said character is a criminal, their confession can become a Despair Speech. Authors ought to be careful when using this: if it's done too much or badly, it becomes {{Wangst}}.
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19	Contrast BadassBoast.
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21	----
22	!!Examples:
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26	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
27	* [[BlackComedy As one might expect]], this is PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei''. "I'm in despair! [Insert topic here] has left me in despair!" is the catchphrase of the main character.
28	* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Shinji is prone to doing this, particularly at the End.
29	* Lelouch from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' near the end of Turn 20: "My name is Lelouch vi Britannia, I am the eldest son of Empress Marianne, the prince who was abandoned by his empire. If anyone wishes to stop me, let them try, if there is anyone who can go beyond my despair."
30	* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''
31	** [[spoiler:Sayaka]] delivers one just before [[spoiler:[[AndThenJohnWasAZombie turning into a witch]].]]
32	** Homura delivers one of these [[spoiler:when she finally gives up and nearly becomes a Witch herself. A timely CooldownHug from Madoka just about averts the transformation]].
33	* Pictured is Luffy from ''Manga/OnePiece'' having an ''epic'' breakdown after [[spoiler: losing all his friends and watching his brother die protecting him, when he was supposed to be the one saving ''him'']]. Like the image caption says, sometimes all a speech needs...is two words.
34	* In ''Popotan'', Mai's phone call to the younger Mai about [[spoiler: how it's her fault that Konami died without getting to see her again and that she's made all her friends suffer the same fate]] amounts to this.
35	* ''Anime/MekakucityActors'':
36	** During Episode 10, [[spoiler:Azami]] delivers one to her daughter about [[spoiler:how foolish she was to believe that a marriage between a human and a monster like her could ever work out. [[TearJerker She then disappears into her never-ending world forever]]]].
37	** Near the end of Episode 12, [[spoiler:Marry]] delivers one of these after [[spoiler:the Clearing Eyes Snake possesses Konoha and nearly kills Kido, Kano, and Seto, and she resolves to reset time to prevent their deaths. She doesn't go through with it]].
38	* Subaru from ''Literature/ReZero'' has an extremely long one. After failing multiple times to stop the Witch Cult from slaughtering everyone in Roswaal's territory, including his closest friends, Subaru gives up on saving them and chooses to run away instead. Rem tries to convince him of not giving up, only to provoke Subaru into invoking this trope. Doubles as an HeroicSelfDeprecation.
39	* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': [[spoiler:Envy]] gives one after a HumiliationConga of being [[spoiler:reduced to a tiny parasite and called out on their jealousy of humanity by Ed]]. They break down sobbing when they realize they [[spoiler:have been understood by a lower lifeform]]. Unable to [[spoiler:live with the humiliation, Envy smashes their own Philosopher's Stone and ends their life]].
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42	[[folder:Comic Books]]
43	* PlayedForLaughs with Dirk Anger in ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}''.
44	-->I've reinvented suicide as a group activity. Go me.
45	* Franchise/{{Batman}}, of all people, gets a borderline one in ''Going Sane'' as he tries to tell his girlfriend that he's finally realized that the world doesn't actually need Batman and he can let that part of his life go (without actually admitting he was Batman). Subverted when she not only reveals she knew he was Batman, but the world absolutely needs him so he better get his ass in gear and go back to Gotham.
46	* [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] got a few of these back during his Parallax days.
47	* In ''ComicBook/MarshalBass'', the eponymous [[TheHero hero]] has one that doubles as a [[BadassBoast Badass Boast]]:
48	-->'''Hungarian prisoner''': Stop! Me kill five people! With my hands! Not going further!
49	-->'''River Bass''': You want to know what I've done? I killed my own son! I looked him in the eye and I killed him like it was nothing! '''MY NAME IS RIVER BASS AND I KILLED MY OWN SON!''' So just imagine what I could do to you...
50	* In the last issue of ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', Nico is given a choice of either signing up with Hunter Stein or taking the team to go out and look for Chase, who abandoned them. She chooses the latter, at which point Klara begs her to reconsider, pointing out that they have no money, no home, no allies, and no assurance that they'll ever find Chase (or that he'll agree to rejoin them if they do.)
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53	[[folder:Fan Works]]
54	* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonMonsterX Vivienne Graham]] has this when she's in the midst of her HeroicBSOD over [[ParentalSubstitute Dr. Serizawa]]'s death:
55	-->'''Vivienne:''' It matters because ''you'' [San] might be able to come back, but ''we'' [humans] can't. Even if we did get out of here, we can never do what you did with me. There's nothing left of him.\
56	'''San:''' nothing?\
57	'''Vivienne:''' Nothing! My memories are all I have left of him.
58	* ''Fanfic/WhatIsAPersonWorth'': Lynn gives a big one to her grandfather about how she caused this mess in chapter 9:
59	--> "Everything...it's my fault the family is like this...I made Lincoln come to my stupid game and blamed him for our loss just because I couldn't take any responsibility for my actions...I put all my faith in luck and look where it got us?...I lost my brother...my family is torn over it...and I'm nothing but a stupid, inconsiderate...bitch..." Lynn tugged her legs into her chest.
60	--> Albert frowned at Lynn's choice of words, but he could see her point. "Well, Sweetie; I wouldn't say you're...that...you just needed time to realize your mistakes, and-"
61	--> "Yes. I. AM!" Lynn shouted in defiance as she faced her grandfather. "I'm the one who initially blamed Lincoln as bad luck! I'm the one who helped spread the rumor about his luck! I'M THE ONE WHO TURNED THE WHOLE FAMILY AGAINST HIM WHEN HE ACTUALLY TOLD THE TRUTH! I COULDN'T EVEN HANDLE THE HARSH WORDS HE SAID WHEN HE TOLD ME I WAS A SORE LOSER!" Tears were streaming from her face now. She held her foot up. "See this Pop-Pop?! Lincoln bit me here and I fully deserved it! Last time I spoke to him, I told him I wished he was never born!..." The athlete's voice was now broken up as she began to cry harder. "I-I never meant to s-say that...if anything, I-I'm the one who shouldn't have been born..." She sniffled. "All of the times I treated him like a w-wuss...a-all the times I took advantage of him because h-he's not as athletic like me...I'm officially the worst sister in this family...Lincoln's gone because of me! A-And he's never coming back!..." Lynn finished, continuing to cry on the ground.
62	** She gives another one during her breakdown in Chapter 21, this time in front of Lincoln.
63	--> "Lincoln..." Lynn spoke quietly. Lincoln blinked, his mouth dropping a little. He could've swore for a second, her voice almost sounded like Lucy's. "I'm...I'm not sure if I should even be in front of you right now...as great as a brother you are, I've been nothing but a terrible-no...horrible sister to you. Everything that's happened, all the way back to when I lost that one game..." Lynn's eyes became glassy. When she blinked, small tears started to roll down her cheeks. "It's all my fault...I know you might be thinking you had a hand in everything, b-but if I hadn't let my superstitions get out of hand...if I hadn't called you bad luck..." The teen gritted her teeth as more tears pooled down her face. Her hands tightened into fists as the frustration with herself grew. "I-If I had just learned to shut my mouth for once, none of this would've happened!"..."I always loved you Lincoln...ever since we were babies..." Lynn brought a hand to her face to wipe off a few tear stains. "I couldn't have asked for a better brother than the one I have right now, and I was too stupid to see it..." The brunette sniffled a little. "I didn't mean anything I said that night about not wanting you around, but you were right Lincoln...not only am I a sore loser, I'm the worst sister ever..." She recalled the first nightmare she had following Lincoln's absence. "If you weren't born...I..." Lynn tried to form the words, but the memory of seeing her brother being killed before he even had a chance to be born pushed them down her throat, only letting choked sobs come through. The teen sank to her knees, her hands covering her watery eyes. Tears seeped out from the palms of her hands and between her fingers, running down the length of her arm until they finally dripped off her elbows.
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66	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
67	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Héctor mourns to Miguel that he never should have left his family, and that now he has no chance to see his beloved daughter again, much less make things right with her.
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70	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
71	* ''Film/OurMissBrooks'': After overhearing a conversation at the realtor's, Miss Brooks discovers that Mr. Boynton has bought the cottage across the street from Mrs. Davis' house (where Miss Brooks is a boarder). The conversation suggests that he finally intends to propose. Alas, he bought the house so his widowed mother could move in with him. This comes as a shock to Connie, who had even brought wallpaper over to the cottage to decorate. She's lost in daydreams when Mr. Boynton comes in relates his plans to live with his mother.
72	-->'''Connie''' ''(sobbing)'': Fine schnook I've been!\
73	''(she hands the wallpaper to Mr. Boynton)''\
74	Wear it in good health!\
75	''(she leaves the cottage, slamming the door behind her)''
76	** Miss Brooks goes into a deep depression, offers her resignation and prepares to leave Madison. [[spoiler:Fortunately, the matter is fixed by the good offices of Mrs. Davis and Mr. Boynton's mother. Mrs. Davis tells Mrs. Boynton the situation and invites her to be her new boarder. Mr. Boynton proposes to Miss Brooks, and everybody lives HappilyEverAfter]].
77	* ''Film/{{Casablanca}}'': Not a speech per se, but Rick's dialogue in his famous "All the Gin Joints" scene once Ilsa shows up smacks of this.
78	* In ''Film/TheGrizzlies'', after the suicide of another Inuit student, Russ tearfully gives one to his student Miranda when she sees him packing to leave Kugluktuk. She gives him an [[WhatTheHellHero epic speech]] in return, making him reconsider.
79	* In the Creator/SteveMartin movie remake of ''[[Series/ThePhilSilversShow Sgt. Bilko]]''.
80	-->'''Bilko''': Well, of course I have a plan! ''[spelling out PALN on the chalkboard behind him]'' a P-L-A-N plan!... but maybe, a plan is not what I really need ''[gets down on his knees]'', what I really need is just a little puppy. A little puppy with big brown eyes, who would just come to me and lick my face, and just love me so much no matter what kind of person I am.
81	* Creator/AdamSandler's character in ''Film/TheWeddingSinger'' has a Despair Song that's pretty great.
82	* Creator/JasonSegel in ''Film/ForgettingSarahMarshall''.
83	* Walter from ''Film/{{Sterne}}''. [[ShellShockedVeteran Leningrad]] has that effect on people.
84	* ''Film/{{Cabin Fever}}'': When everything goes to hell, sultry college coed Marcy tells her friend Paul that she's all but given up hope of surviving, and just wants to go [[OutWithABang out with a bang]]. He obliges.
85	* In ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'', [[spoiler: the main character Gary King gives one of these when he reaches the final pub of his pub crawl. It details all his lost hopes and explains that he is so obsessed with finishing the crawl as it's the only time he was truly happy and he has tried to commit suicide out of disillusionment of how his life wasn't as awesome as he was hoping it to be.]]
86	-->'''Andrew Knightley''': You need help, Gary.
87	-->'''Gary King''': [[spoiler: I ''got'' help. You know what "help" was? Help was a lot of people sitting in a circle talking about how ''fuckin' awful'' things had got. That is not my idea of a good time]].
88	-->'''Andrew Knightly''': And this is?!
89	-->'''Gary King''': They told me when to go to bed! ME!
90	-->'''Andrew Knightly''': [[spoiler: Gary, mate... How can you tell when you're drunk if you're never sober?]]
91	-->'''Gary King''': [Angry and upset] [[spoiler: I don't ''want'' to be sober! It never got better than that night! That was supposed to be the beginning of my life! All that promise and fucking optimism... That feeling like we could take on the whole universe! It was a big lie. Nothing happened]].
92	* Suzanna in ''Film/GirlInterrupted'' gives a real TearJerker of a speech when she returns to the mental hospital [[spoiler: after Daisy's suicide.]]
93	-->"But I know how it feels to want to die. How it [[StepfordSmiler hurts to smile.]] How you [[IJustWantToHaveFriends try to fit in]], but you can't. You [[SelfHarm hurt yourself]] on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside..."
94	* In ''Film/TheSunsetLimited'', White gives an utterly damning speech about the futility of life.
95	-->'''White:''' I don't believe in God. Can you understand that? Look around you man. Can't you see? The clamor and din of those in torment has to be the sound most pleasing to his ear. And I loathe these discussions. The argument of the village atheist whose single passion is to revile endlessly that which he denies the existence of in the first place. Your fellowship is a fellowship of pain and nothing more. And if that pain were actually collective instead of merely reiterative then the sheer weight of it would drag the world from the walls of the universe and send it crashing and burning through whatever night it might yet be capable of engendering until it was not even ash. And justice? Brotherhood? Eternal life? Good god, man. Show me a religion that prepares one for death. For nothingness. There's a church I might enter. Yours prepares one only for more life. For dreams and illusions and lies. If you could banish the fear of death from men's hearts, they wouldn't live a day. Who would want this nightmare if not for fear of the next? The shadow of the axe hangs over every joy. Every road ends in death. Every friendship. Every love. Torment, betrayal, loss, suffering, pain, age, indignity, hideous lingering illness. All with a single conclusion. For you and for every one and everything that you have chosen to care for. There's the true brotherhood. The true fellowship. And everyone is a member for life. You tell me that my brother is my salvation? My salvation? Well then damn him! Damn him in every shape and guise and form. Do I see myself in him? Yes, I do, and what I see sickens me. Do you understand me? Can you understand me?
96	* The cop protagonist gives one for society at the end of ''Film/TheStoneKiller'' (1973), about how the police are fighting an unstoppable tide of crime and violence. It doesn't quite work as the cop is played by Creator/CharlesBronson, and even an unstoppable tide would find it difficult to erode his stoic features.
97	* ''Film/TheWorldOfKanako'': The narrator gives one at the very beginning of the film, in which he dreams about being not human anymore so he can finally escape the bullies.
98	* Azrael gets one in a cut scene from ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', half Despair speech and half MotiveRant, explaining his SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum, how he would destroy the universe to escape Hell.
99	* ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'':
100	** Sibylla gives one after discovering that [[spoiler:her son]] contracted leprosy:
101	--->'''Sibylla''': ''How long before he wears a mask? Will you have one made for him? How did [[spoiler:my boy]] deserve it? Jerusalem is dead, Tiberias. No kingdom is worth [[spoiler:my son]] [[FateWorseThanDeath alive in hell]]. [[ShootTheDog I will go to hell instead]].''
102	** Tiberias gives a small one to Balian just before the FinalBattle:
103	--->'''Tiberias''': ''May God be with you, he's no longer with me.''
104	* ''Film/FirstBlood'': The final confrontation between John Rambo and Colonel Trautman ends with Rambo breaking down in despair at how [[TheVietnamVet his time in Vietnam]] left him [[ShellShockedVeteran traumatized for life]] and how everything since then has been a long downward spiral for him.
105	-->'''Rambo:''' Back there I could fly a gunship. I could drive a tank. I was in charge of million dollar equipment! Back here I can't even hold a job ''parking cars!''
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108	[[folder:Literature]]
109	* Brace gives one to Fortune in ''Literature/{{Dragoncharm}}'', all the sadder because Brace has resented Fortune up until this point and desperately wanted to prove himself to... well, everyone, by [[spoiler: keeping his sister safe]]. He believes he failed.
110	* Denethor gives several of these in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''; the most notable is the one he gives when he [[spoiler:burns himself to death on his pyre]].
111	** Eomer gets a subverted one during the Battle of Pelanor Fields. "These staves he spoke, [[GallowsHumor but he laughed as he said them...]]"
112	** Frodo too, when the burden of the Ring in Mordor wears away at him: [[spoiler:"I can't recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I'm naked in the dark. There's nothing--no veil between me and the wheel of fire."]]
113	* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'': Horace Slughorn gives one of these when he agrees to give Harry his memory about [[spoiler: the time he told Tom Riddle about the Horcruxes]].
114	* John Carter's last words at the very end in ''[[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Gods of Mars]]'' qualified as this, after seeing his wife being locked up inside an inescapable temple with an angry enemy ready to lunge at her with a knife in hand.
115	-->''"Go," I urged them. "Let me die here beside my Princess -- there is no hope or happiness elsewhere for me. When they carry her dear body from that terrible place a year hence [[TogetherInDeath let them find the body of her lord awaiting her]]."''
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118	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
119	* A very short one from ''Series/{{Blackadder}} II'' (which is A ShoutOut to Shakespeare's ''Theatre/RichardII''):
120	-->'''Percy''': Then you are doomed. Alas. For God's sake, let us sit upon the carpet and tell sad stories.
121	* Captain Holt gives [[MemeticMutation an infamous one]] in the third season of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'':
122	-->'''Holt''': And now for a message of hope.
123	-->'''Jake''': Ah, a message of hope, right on time.
124	-->'''Holt''': EVERYTHING IS GARBAGE.
125	-->'''Jake''': Oh no.
126	-->'''Holt''': You find something you care about, and it's taken from you... your colleagues, your dream job, your mango yogurt. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Never. Love. Anything.]] That’s the lesson.
127	* In ''Series/CriminalMinds'', some [=UnSubs=] do this while confessing.
128	** Hotch also gets one to no one in particular in the form of narration at the end of "To Hell... And Back". His soliloquy about how much everything sucks is interrupted by the Reaper breaking into his apartment and trying to kill him. Yeah.
129	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
130	** Dean Winchester delivers one of these every three weeks. The most notable one is when he admits that he wishes he'd never been brought back to life and concludes "I should've stayed dead." Sam just mopes.
131	** Castiel gives lots of despair speeches, but he usually combines them with threats or acts of violence, so they end up being badass or funny rather than wangsty. [[SeasonalRot Except in season six]], where he gives a drawn out despair speech to God. Lucifer was also especially fond of the Despair speech, although he seemed to use it more as a tool to gain sympathy, manipulate unwitting humans, and justify his callous behaviour than as a genuine expression of despair. Luci's continual despair speeches are part of the reason that most of the other characters think of him as a bratty child.
132	* ''Series/TrueDetective'': Detective Rustin Cohle is full of these, constantly going on about the meaninglessness of life. If it weren't for Matthew [=McConaughty=]'s good acting, then it would almost get annoying.
133	* The "Life is like a box of chocolates..." monologue delivered by the Cigarette-Smoking Man in an episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' is very cynical and nihilistic, even for him.
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136	[[folder:Music]]
137	* The old ''Series/HeeHaw'' song [[http://www.televisiontunes.com/Hee_Haw_-_Gloom_Despair_and_Agony_On_Me.html "Gloom, Despair and Agony On Me"]] is a parody of this trope.
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140	[[folder:Religion and Mythology]]
141	* Literature/TheBible:
142	** The Literature/BookOfJob is full of these, mainly delivered by Job himself, making this trope OlderThanFeudalism. In them, Job essentially curses everything that he can possibly name. Everything, that is, [[UndyingLoyalty EXCEPT for God, no matter how bad the increasingly-severe punishments inflicted on him got]], much to the dismay of Satan.
143	** The titular character of the Literature/BookOfJeremiah wished that he was never born to see the fall of Judah and Jerusalem.
144	** Jesus had a short one as He was crucified, asking why had he been forsaken.
145	-->"Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" ("My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?")[[labelnote:Note:]]He was quoting Psalm 22 (the one immediately before the famous "The Lord is my Shepherd" Psalm), which itself is a MASSIVE prophecy about the way in which the Messiah would be killed.[[/labelnote]]
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148	[[folder:Theater]]
149	* After [[LadyMacbeth the queen's]] death, ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' pronounces his famous monologue.
150	-->To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,\
151	Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,\
152	To the last syllable of recorded time;\
153	And all our yesterdays have lighted fools\
154	The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!\
155	Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,\
156	That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,\
157	And then is heard no more. It is a tale\
158	Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,\
159	Signifying nothing.
160	* Shakespeare's ''Theatre/RichardII''
161	-->For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground\
162	And tell sad stories of the death of Kings.\
163	How some have been deposed, some slain in war,\
164	Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,\
165	Some poison'd by their wives, some sleeping kill'd,...
166	* Every other speech in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.
167	* ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'' opens with a scene which may be intended as a parody of this trope, in which Antonio speaks repeatedly about his own sadness and frustration without any obvious cause, much to the bemusement of his friends.
168	-->In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:\
169	It wearies me; you say it wearies you;\
170	But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,\
171	What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,\
172	I am to learn;\
173	And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,\
174	That I have much ado to know myself.
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177	[[folder:Video Games]]
178	* Hope at the beginning of Chapter 11 of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII''. In fact, most of the l'Cie just before their Eidolon battles.
179	* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'': If you side with the Mages in the endgame, Orsino delivers one after seeing so many of his fellow mages dead.
180	-->'''Orsino''': Look at it all. Why don't they just drown us as infants? Why give us the illusion of hope?
181	* Solid Snake gets one in the original ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' if you fail to save Meryl. "I'm not the hero you thought I was! I'm nothing!"
182	* In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'', Alexander comes up with a Despair Speech while acting like a [[DramaQueen Drama Prince]] [[spoiler:in front of [[{{Shapeshifting}} Shamir Shamazel]] and the Pawn Shop Owner]]. It is the finisher in the speech, "I am... no... more..." [[spoiler:after downing the whole "Drink Me" potion bottle]] that could tug at our heartstrings a bit... [[spoiler:if we didn't know it was FauxDeath]].
183	* Most of the people still alive in Bastion's Keep at the beginning of Act IV of ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' have these to give following [[spoiler:Leah's death and the unleashing of Diablo as the Prime Evil upon the High Heavens]], but the most poignant of all is Haedrig's.
184	-->'''Haedrig:''' I thought I could make my wife's death mean something. It doesn't matter now, does it?
185	-->'''Player:''' It does matter. You are here now, and we might still turn the tide of this battle.
186	-->'''Haedrig:''' Right. I'm sure that's a comfort for [[spoiler:Leah]] now that [[spoiler:she's gone too]]. I've been a fool. You don't get to make things right. This world isn't made for redemption.
187	* [[spoiler:Oersted]] gives a great one at the end of the [[spoiler: Medieval Chapter]] in ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' after a terrible TraumaCongaLine causes him to embrace hatred and declare himself [[spoiler: The Lord of Dark,]] [[spoiler:Odio.]]
188	%%* Happens a few times in ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'', mostly in Retribution.
189	* In ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'', Daud gives this when you defeat him in a duel, stating that after assassinating the Empress, he felt that "something broke" inside of him and how he is filled with intense self-hatred at how rather than making something with his life he's simply chosen to use his powers as an assassin, a life he's grown tired of. In the end, he leaves his fate to Corvo's hands, seemingly not caring whether or not he lives or dies (despite his pleading for his life).
190	* In ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'', [[TragicVillain Dutch Van Der Linde]] gives one when confronted by [[PlayerCharacter John]] [[TheAtoner Marston]], about how everything he's been fighting for in his life has been for nothing, lamenting the changes coming, while also being unable to stop fighting as it is in his nature. [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide This followed by him dropping himself off a cliff.]]]]
191	-->'''Dutch:''' When I'm gone, they'll just find another monster. They have to because they have to justify their wages. Our time has passed, John.
192	* There are so many examples in the ''{{Franchise/Danganronpa}}'' series that it isn't worth the time to list them. In fact, driving people to make these is somewhat of a hobby for the [[HopeCrusher despair-obsessed]] [[BigBad Monokuma]].
193	* Parodied in the "Rally the Troops" ''Videogame/Destiny2'', contrasted by a true RousingSpeech. (He does manage to turn it into a rousing speech by mentioning loot.)
194	-->"Uh, look, you're a bunch of dirty misfits, so you'll have to do!"\
195	"So, everything is gone. Your stuff. My stuff. Most importantly, '''''my stuff'''''!"\
196	"... If I don't see you out there, I'll kill you myself!"\
197	"Worst case scenario: we die. Maybe we won't!"
198	* Delivered during the final battle of Ending D in ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'' by [[spoiler: 9S, well over the DespairEventHorizon and suffering from an intense degree of SanitySlippage as he vents his frustration at the meaninglessness of his existence and the fact that despite knowing that humans have been extinct long before the alien invasion he still yearns for their approval as it's been hardcoded into his system.]]
199	* In ''VideoGame/AviaryAttorney'', [[spoiler:Jayjay Falcon]] gives one after [[spoiler:witnessing Séverin Cocorico's death in Act 4A. Coupled with his growing disillusionment with France's legal system, it's enough to push him into becoming a [[VigilanteMan vigilante]] willing to dirty his own hands in order to serve his own brand of justice]].
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202	[[folder:Webcomics]]
203	* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': The last words a character pronounces right before going ahead with their BetterToDieThanBeKilled act have an overlap with this.
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207	* Ganondorf gets a pretty epic one near the end of ''WebVideo/ThereWillBeBrawl''.
208	* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic has a good one in his first commercials special, made even sadder by some really aching violin music playing over it.
209	** He got another one in the ''Film/ScoobyDoo'' review, wishing that just once he had friends to hang out with.
210	* The Entity gives one of these to [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] in their second confrontation, revealing that it is still struggling with its own insignificance, outright begging its enemy to give it purpose.
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214	* [[JerkassWoobie The Earl of Lemongrab]] gets a [[TearJerker very sad one]] in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode [[WhamEpisode "You Made Me!"]].
215	-->'''Lemongrab:''' No one... No one understands. I am alone! And you ''made'' me like this! falls from window YOU MADE ME! runs away, ripping off his clothes ''YOOOU MAAADE MEEE!!!'' YOU'RE... MY... GLOB! ''YOU'RE MY GLOB!''
216	* In ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHeadDoAmerica'', Beavis finally reaches the painful realization that he and Butt-Head will never score. While the moment was clearly meant to be a TearJerker, the passion Beavis puts into it along with the [[SoundtrackDissonance uplifting music in the background]] makes it double as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome as well.
217	-->'''Beavis:''' We can't leave! We never met that chick... Dammit, we were supposed to get some!\
218	'''Butt-Head:''' Uh huh huh... Settle down, Beavis.\
219	'''Beavis:''' ''No!!'' I ''won't'' settle down! Not this time! [[StatusQuoIsGod Dammit, this always happens! I think I'm gonna score and then I never score]]! [[LifeIsntFair It's not fair]]! We've traveled a... um... um... uh... a ''hundred miles'', because we thought we were gonna score! But now it's not gonna happen! Dammit!\
220	'''Bus Driver:''' Hey, buddy! Sit down!\
221	'''Beavis:''' ''[[BigShutUp SHUT UP, ASSWIPE!]]'' I'm sick and tired of this! We're ''never'' gonna score! It's just not gonna happen! We're just gonna get old, like these people -- but ''they've probably scored!''\
222	'''Bus Driver:''' Hey, I'm warning you! ''Sit down!''\
223	'''Beavis:''' It's like, this chick's a slut! And look at ''this'' guy! He's old! But he's probably scored a million times!\
224	'''Old Guy:''' [[DirtyOldMan Ohhh-ho, yeah]].\
225	'''Beavis:''' But not us! We're never gonna score! ''We're never gonna score! '''We're NEVER GONNA SCORE!'''''\
226	'''Bus Driver:''' All right, ''that's it'', numbnuts!!! ''[gets in a fight with Beavis]'' You want some more, you little punk?!\
227	'''Beavis:''' ''I'll kick your ass!''
228	* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': [[Characters/Castlevania2017DraculasArmy Dracula]] has a pretty gut-wrenching one once he hits his HeelRealization and [[spoiler:lets Alucard put him out of his misery]]:
229	-->"''My boy. I'm... I'm killing my boy. Lisa, I'm killing our boy. We painted this room. We... made these toys. It's our boy, Lisa. Your greatest gift to me... and I'm killing him. ''[beat]'' I must already be dead.''"
230	* Numbuh Five of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has one when she's about to give up and side with [[TeensAreMonsters her sister]]. Thankfully, she breaks out of it.
231	-->"I give up. My sister's a teen, the greatest Kids Next Door operative I ever knew is a teen, and I'm gonna be a teen eventually, too. Look at me! I'm practically a teen now! I just... give up."
232	* [[spoiler:Eddy]] of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' gets one in [[WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow the Movie]]:
233	-->[[spoiler:"I made it all up, Double-D. Everything about my brother was a lie. I just made things up, so people would like me; think I was cool. But boy, was I wrong- the scam, my brother- this... when am I gonna learn, Double-D?"]]
234	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' episode "Sacrifice", Clay gives one of these combined with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech; he rants and raves at his friends about their failures in love and life, but he is quite blatantly talking about himself too. He delivers another one in "Nature" that'tos equal parts tragic and unnerving.
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