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10	* In the fourth issue of ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeVsTheTransformers G.I. Joe vs. The Transformers: The Art of War]]'', the third ''Franchise/GIJoe'' and ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' crossover miniseries by Devil's Due Publishing, Hawk gives an epic response to Serpentor in regards to why he feels empty in spite of his conquest.
11	-->'''Hawk''': You feel nothing because you've got nothing to make war for. You've got nothing to love, care for, or fight for. You exist to destroy. You're just a weapon. Like your "father" before you, you're nothing but a glorified gun.
12	* ComicBook/JLAAvengers has one from Superman to Thor, and by extension the rest of the heroes of the Marvel Universe. For context, the DC Heroes have seen the Marvel Universe, in particular the horrific massacre of the [[ComicBook/XMen mutants of Genosha]], and are disgusted by how the world treats their heroes and can only assume they aren't doing enough.
13	-->'''Superman''': Tell yourself that, Mister... Ease yourself to sleep at night while you let your world go to Hell! Where I come from, though...LIVES MATTER!
14	** Later deconstructed with the discovery that the instability of the current crisis caused Superman and Cap to be emotionally off-balance as they were particularly in sync with their worlds; just as Superman accused the Avengers of not doing enough, Cap expressed concern that the Justice League controlled their world rather than defending it, the final issue seeing [[BothSidesHaveAPoint the two acknowledging that they do worry that the other's observations are correct]].
15	* In the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]''/''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' crossover, Kirk delivers one to Emperor Vandar the First- a version of Vandal Savage who has ruled Earth's empire since the Stone Age [[spoiler:after he somehow captured and harnessed the power of Q]]; Vandar is convinced that his world has only come this far through his conquest of other races, but Kirk denounces him as nothing but a foolish caveman so caught up in his own belief that strength alone accomplishes anything that he never learned to think about the possibilities of tomorrow.
16	-->'''Castellan:''' Quickly, put them in the booths. Let's not waste any more of the Emperor's time than necessary.
17	-->'''Kirk:''' W-why not? Seems to me like wasting time is all this empire of yours can do. But I guess that's probably because your emperor just isn't that bright.
18	-->'''Vandar''': WHAT?! What did you say to me?!
19	-->'''Kirk:''' You heard me. I called you stupid, Vandar. Weak-minded. Ignorant. Simple. You started out a caveman, and that's all you'll ever be. We've encountered beings like this "genie" of your before. Beings capable of doing amazing, even impossible things. So I ''know'' what can be accomplished with that kind of power. But what have ''you'' done with it? You capture a being more powerful than worlds, and the best you can think to do with it is ''conquer''? To create ''weapons'' and ''agony booths''? [...] You could have made this world a paradise. Instead, you've created a hell.
20	-->'''Vandar''': You insignificant little ''worm''. You dare to criticize ''me''? Can you not ''see'' the splendor of the empire I have created with my own two hands?!
21	-->'''Kirk:''' Oh, we can see it already. And we've seen ''better''.
22	-->'''Lightning Lad:''' Where ''we'' come from--where we all come from--humanity doesn't enslave other races.
23	-->'''Chameleon Boy:''' Humans cooperate with other species. They turn aliens into friends, not enemies.
24	-->'''Vandar''': Simpering fools! That is precisely why your futures must be avoided. Do you think all of ''this'' could be built through ''cooperation''?
25	-->'''Kirk:''' I... understand. ''That's'' your problem! The future! You don't even know what that word ''means'', do you?
26	-->'''Vandar''': You waste your final breaths with these pathetic jests. Because you must not be serious. No one living understands the future better than I do.
27	-->'''Kirk:''' No, you ''don't''. That's just the problem. I think you're ''still'' the violent caveman you were at the beginning. A primitive with no real conception of how tomorrow might be better than today. That things don't have to be the way that they are. You don't believe in the future, because you can't understand it. The Legionnaires... my crewmates and I... we come from worlds where humanity has moved past the need to conquer and pillage. Worlds where humanity decided that needless bloodshed and mindless aggression belonged to the past. Where humanity looked with hope towards the future. We understand the future and what it means. And ''that's'' why people like ''us'' will always defeat people like ''you''.
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31	* Megatron does one of these in the climax of the first arc of the Dreamwave ''[[ComicBook/TransformersGenerationOne Transformers]]'' comic, punctuated by people in the battle zone acting like total bastards. Prime gets to answer with his own ShutUpHannibal speech accompanied by people putting their best sides forward, and punctuated by a group of them dropping half a dozen trucks on Megatron's head to return the favor.
32	* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'':
33	** After [[spoiler:Getaway]] is locked in the brig for trying to use [[spoiler:Tailgate]] to execute Megatron [[spoiler:Tailgate]] finds him and...well:
34	--->'''[[spoiler:Tailgate:]]''' Oh. The one person I can find to talk to and it's you... are you even listening to me? You [[spoiler:tried to kill me]] and now you're ignoring me?! I'd say you were ashamed, but I don't think you've got it in you. And [[spoiler:Cyclonus]]! You nearly [[spoiler:got him killed too]]! See this? holds up a tube It's his Innermost Energon. It was by my beside when I woke up. So where is he? Where's everyone else? No? Nothing? Well — (''smashes a nearby wall'') — you then. See ya [[spoiler:Getaway]], I hope you get the life you deserve.
35	** Blip's last words:
36	--->'''Blip:''' You're a coward, "Tarn". All you do is hide. Your real name, your real face...[[ArmorPiercingQuestion What exactly are you hiding from?]]
37	** Tarn gives a small, but no less brutal one to [[spoiler: Overlord]] shortly after [[spoiler: smashing Kaon's head onto the Duocon's chest.]]
38	--->'''Tarn:''' Don't ever think you can come into my house and pass judgement. I will not be ridiculed by someone who spent half his life running and the other half sulking because no one gave chase.
39	** Megatron gives one to the entire Decepticon Justice Division in MTMTE #55, but mainly to Tarn:
40	--->'''Megatron:''' I'd won. Finally--after five million years of fighting--of fighting myself--I'd won. I was prepared to accept my fate. I was at peace. I was happy. And then ''you'' came along and ruined '''EVERYTHING!''' Mark this day, Tarn--it's the day the dream dies.\
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42	'''Tarn:''' Please--be reasonable--\
43	'''Megatron:''' You'd have thought--given the compassion shown to me since boarding the Lost Light--that I'd have learnt to be a little more forgiving. But I'm afraid Getaway had the right idea: No Mercy.\
44	'''Tarn:''' Do it, then. Do it! At least I'll die a Decepticon!\
45	''[Megatron swipes Tarn's mask and slaps it onto his chest.]''\
46	'''Megatron:''' You and I both. Goodbye, [[spoiler:Glitch]]. I want you to die with one thought in your head: Everything you did was for nothing.
47	** In the ''Lost Light'' relaunch, before teleporting out of Vector Sigma with the rest of the crew, Functionist Universe!Rung has a few choice words for the Council:
48	--->'''Rung:''' You know my secret--but I know yours, too. For years, you've avoided coming down here--and it wasn't because of the ununtrium. It was because you had a theory. You had a theory about your own alt mode--your ''collective'' alt mode--and you were afraid to put it to the test. It's impossible to activate Vector Sigma without unlocking it...And the Council turns into the key. But ever since [[spoiler: Nine-of-Twelve]] defected, you've been incomplete. Without him, there can be no key--and Vector Sigma must remain dormant. And yet, here we are. Vector Sigma is unlocked, and your worst suspicions are confirmed...The key is unnecessary. It's a piece of religious paraphernalia. A '''decoration'''. You turn--you all turn--into an '''ornament'''. Or to put it another way...[[IronicEcho All hail the useless ones]].
49	** At the beginning of Season 2, Starscream (serving as a character witness during Megatron's trial) summarizes the failures (allowing the civil war to spiral out of control, comparing it to a "riot") and character flaws (styling himself "a military mastermind with destiny at his heels" while being anything but) of the former Decepticon leader to the court:
50	--->'''Starscream:''' Four million years ago, Megatron set out to make our world a better place. Bedeviled by a fundamental weakness of character, hindered by a frighteningly average intellect, and cursed with an ambition that far outstripped his ability, he failed. '''Spectacularly.''' He doesn't deserve death. He deserves '''pity.'''
51	* ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise Transformers: Optimus Prime]]:'' Just as Starscream is beginning to think that maybe, ''maybe'', he ''is'' the Chosen One, and everything he's done in life has been entirely justified, and the universe is on his side, [[spoiler:Shockwave]] shows up to entirely disabuse him of the notion.
52	--->'''[[spoiler:Shockwave:]]''' ''(after pointing out the apparent GambitRoulette in place)'' I suppose luck was on my side. You surprise me, Starscream... ''([[spoiler:kills Metrotitan]])'' ... you are ''stupider'' than I anticipated. I placed your name in history books millions of years ago. I built a civilization and watched it fall, all to engineer your rise. All for this moment. I needed a ''fool'' in charge of Cybertron. A powerful leader - an ''Optimus'', a ''Megatron'', an ''Arcee'', perhaps even this ''Windblade'' - they would have ''seen'' what was coming. But I knew ''you'' would never look past your own reflection. You would leave Cybertron ''weak'', ready for that which is to come. Yet you ''exceeded'' your duties.
53	* ''Transformers Spotlight: Megatron:'' Megatron has just been brought back in a new body and is eager to take back the Decepticons from Starscream (the Decepticons were suffering under Starscream's rule) as well as to beat the tar out of the Seeker. When he sees [[GeneralFailure the pathetic wreck that Starscream has become]] and how he wants to be punished, Megatron delivers one hell of a devastating speech.
54	--->'''Megatron''': Your silence is wearing, Starscream. So it falls to me to summarize your achievements. Under your rule, the infrastructure of the Decepticon military body lies in tatters, with no functioning communication network in operation throughout the force. Our race has been reduced to pilfering scraps of Energon from substandard alien sources and jumping through hoops for fuel and shelter amongst the fleshlings. The High Command of this once-feared army huddle on an asteroid of no strategic worth, while at their feet, their underlings consume and cannibalize one another. I hope it was everything you'd wished for, because this is what it's like when you get what you want. [[IronicEcho All. Hail. Starscream]]. You must be ''very'' proud.
55	* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersUnicron'', [[spoiler:Shockwave]] has just learned that his Maximal minions have betrayed him to side with Unicron. He is then overpowered by his formerly loyal Dragon Rhinox, who delivers this short, sharp speech as he prepares to execute [[spoiler:Shockwave]] with his own severed ArmCannon:
56	--->[[spoiler:'''Shockwave''']]: You… you serve me…
57	--->'''Rhinox:''' I served ''Onyx Prime''. I served a ''lie''. This is ''your'' doing. You pulled ''strings'', heedless of those you hurt. With mathematical precision you proved ''faith'' to be a ''lie''… so why would ''anyone'' follow you?
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60	[[folder:Archie's Sonic The Hedgehog]]
61	* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'':
62	** In issue #175, Dr. Eggman lays down a brutal one, along with an [[CurbstompBattle epic beatdown]], on Sonic.
63	--->[[spoiler: I'm surprised you retain your confidence after so many '''''failures''''', or did you forget what happened to Tommy Turtle and Sir Connery? '''''You''''' never deroboticized your friends and family. And your father is '''''still''''' a robot! Or how about your love-life, eh? Sally, Mina, even Fiona! So... How come you're all alone? [...] I want our last game to have '''''some''''' merit. [...] You thought your pithy resistance actually had some kind of toe-hold against my empire? The world fell to me so quickly, so '''''easily''''', that I was left with nothing to do! I '''''allowed''''' you Freedom Fighters to exist so that I might '''''entertain''''' myself! I will concede that you all have won my war game more times then not, but so what? Is Mobius any more free now than it was '''''years''''' ago? [...] Hahaha! Oh, your futile actions amuse me so! You'll never win this battle, Sonic, '''''you can't!''''' You were finished before the Egg Fleet even began bombardment. This battle suit is specifically designed to match and outclass your speed and strength! [...] Like I said, Sonic... You're outmatched, outclassed... you're not '''''fast''''' enough... you're not '''''strong''''' enough... and you certainly aren't '''''smart''''' enough to defeat '''''me.''''' [...] I'm not playing with you, rodent. Run-- Run all over the world and try to start a new Freedom Fighter group. You will find '''''no one.''''' So run -- For the rest of your life -- and '''''never''''' escape the humiliation of today.]]
64	** In a rare heroic example of the trope, Sonic fires one back in issue #200.
65	--->[[spoiler: '''Sonic:''' Impressive resume, Doc. You missed a couple of key points, though. Like how a group of kids with no real training took back that city. And you croaked, more or less.]]
66	--->[[spoiler: '''Dr. Eggman:''' I came back! I took the city back!]]
67	--->[[spoiler: '''Sonic:''' Yeah, what... for a month? Tops? And then you goofed and let the whole thing get nuked by missiles! And now the slag powers New Mobotropolis, so thanks for that!]]
68	--->[[spoiler: '''Dr. Eggman:''' Shut up!]]
69	--->[[spoiler: '''Sonic:''' And about that empire of yours... you know about all the places you '''don't''' control, right?]]
70	--->[[spoiler: '''Dr. Eggman:''' Trifles! Specks on the windshield!]]
71	--->[[spoiler: '''Sonic:''' Hahaha! In denial, Doc? The United Federation alone has at least a half-dozen city-states in it! And then there's all the Freedom Fighter groups fighting you all over the world every day. And you aren't too popular in the regions that you DO outright control. You can't really claim to "control" the planet when you're fighting for it your every waking hour! Sure, you beat me fair and square not long ago. I'll give you props for that. But how many badniks have I stomped? How many times have I sent '''you''' packing? I've beaten you before, Eggman. '''A lot.''' And I'll do it again.]]
72	** ...and then he rubs more salt in the wound by picking up the fallen dictator's spectacles, and kneeling beside him, saying, ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking "I'll be content with "Nyah nyah" and "I win"]]''... but then [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone immediately comes to regret it]] after seeing the [[VillainousBreakdown terrible aftermath]]. Although it was foreshadowed that this would happen regardless of if he had taunted Eggman afterward or not, Sonic clearly [[PyrrhicVictory takes no satisfaction in the victory]] and goes on to muse that things "went too far" in the next issue. It also leads to Snively giving him and Sally a WhatTheHellHero-laced one for driving his Uncle to violent insanity.
73	--->'''Sally:''' (''quietly horrified at Eggman's nervous breakdown'') Sonic... [[EveryoneHasStandards what did you]] '''[[EveryoneHasStandards do]]''' [[EveryoneHasStandards to him?]]
74	--->'''Sonic:''' I just beat him like always...
75	--->'''Snively:''' (''gravely'') More than that. You didn't just ''beat'' him this time, Sonic. You '''broke''' him. [[EvilGenius Eccentrics aside, he really is a genius. He can build the most amazing things and plot a hundred steps ahead]]. The world fell to his genius in a few short years. [[SpannerInTheWorks And then there's you]]. All the building, planning and calculating in the world couldn't beat you. [[SanitySlippage It's been gnawing at his mind for a decade, now]]. His defeat at New Mobotropolis shook him the hardest. He's been losing his grip for days, now. [[RageBreakingPoint He simply could not take one more defeat at your hands]].
76	--->'''Sally:''' So... what now?
77	--->'''Snively:''' Now? (''bitterly, as he turns his back on them'') Now you leave me to take care of my poor Uncle. [[SarcasmMode Now you go home and celebrate. You've]] '''[[SarcasmMode won]]'''.
78	** Following this turn of events, Snively takes his uncle's place and stuffs Eggman, now a gibbering wreck, into a cell, gleefully handing one of these any spare time he has. This turns on him when Eggman regains his composure. When Snively continues to insult from outside his cell, having now made an alligence with the Iron Queen and fallen in love with her, Eggman laughs at him and hands it back, reducing him to a sobbing wreck.
79	--->'''Snively:''' I have everything I want now, Uncle. I have power, I have authority, and I've found love. Love you fat fool. Why would I want to go back to being your toady? Sonic's been chased out of the city, I'm with Regina and I've never been happier. Why on Mobius would I want that to change?
80	--->'''Eggman:''' [[EvilLaugh GWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!]] Regina? Regina Ferrum? The Iron Queen?
81	--->'''Snively:''' Y-yes, we're in love.
82	--->'''Eggman:''' Ha-ha-ha. You deluded little twerp. She doesn't love you. She's a manipulator. She played you for a sap, and you? You CAN'T love! The only person you care about is you. You'll save yourself before even thinking about her. She's just a stepping stone for you, only you've fooled yourself into thinking otherwise.
83	--->'''Snively:''' N-no! Y-you're wrong! Our love is real, and you can stay here and rot!
84	--->'''Eggman:''' (''EvilLaugh'') You'll be back Snively! You'll be back!
85	** Issue #192 has Jules delivering one to [[EvilTwin Scourge]] that actually sends him away in tears.
86	--->'''Jules:''' I want you to understand [[PapaWolf I will do whatever it takes to keep my son safe.]]
87	--->'''Scourge:''' Cute. Trying to prove you're not afraid of me?
88	--->'''Jules:''' What's to be afraid of? This world is filled with heroic beings that fight a single great evil. That tells me that [[MirrorUniverse your world]] is full of cowards, each doing their part to ruin their world. That's why you don't scare me -- because I know, at your core, [[DirtyCoward that you're a coward, too.]]
89	--->'''Scourge:''' Coward? I conquered a planet on my own!
90	--->'''Jules:''' You brought a different brand of ruination.
91	--->'''Scourge:''' Try again, pops. On my world, we had a time called "The Great Peace". My dad was part of that. Brought everyone together in one big group hug. Ten years later, everything had stagnated and fallen apart. I didn't ruin the world. I woke it up!
92	--->'''Jules:''' [[DisappointedByTheMotive That's your answer to it all? Violent takeover and anarchy?]]
93	--->'''Scourge:''' Not really anarchy since everyone bows to me. Since you seem so hung up on correlations, how do you like this one: Sonic's dad isn't really a Mobian anymore. [[SelfmadeOrphan My dad simply isn't]].
94	--->'''Jules:''' [[NoSell Are you trying to shock me? Intimidate me?]] That falls short when the world-conquering "king" has to sneak in during the middle of the night to get a leg up on my boy.
95	--->'''Scourge:''' Sonic's good at smashing bots. Wanna see what I can do?
96	--->'''Jules:''' I am not your father. I was on the front lines of the Great War. I won't go quietly. And while you may not care about the loss of your Jules, I'm certain my son will be very upset. Do you want that on your head too?
97	--->'''Scourge:''' (''[[BreakTheHaughty starts to tear up and leaves]]'') Just a bunch of empty words. [[NotSoDifferentRemark You're no different]] [[ParentalNeglect from my old man]] after all.
98	** Come 4 issues later where Sonic delivers a bit of his own to Scourge after [[spoiler:tricking him into depowering]], with a nice heroic BadassBoast on the side:
99	--->[[spoiler: '''Scourge:''' Cheated... me... I'm... King... Conquered... This whole planet... You're... nothing...]]
100	--->[[spoiler: '''Sonic:''' (''swats the crown off of Scourge's head, shattering it'') [[ShutUpHannibal You're a bully and that's it]]. You take the easy, nasty way out and get the quick reward. Big whoop. I do things the right way. I help others to make something bigger and better than just mean. [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin The good guys always win in the long run.]] And there isn't anybody who can run longer or better than I can.]]
101	** Issue 235 has Sonic handing out a scathing one to Silver, after the former [[RageBreakingPoint finally blows his stack]] with the latter's InspectorJavert tendencies. For reference, the latter accuses Antoine and Bunnie of being traitors with little-to-no evidence to back up his accusations... ''and'' with the unfortunate timing of right after Sonic had just seen [[UnwillingRobotization Sally be roboticised into Mecha-Sally]], and the aforementioned Antoine rendered comatose and gravely injured after [[HeroicSacrifice saving Elias and the Acorns from Metal Sonic]]. For emphasis, Sonic delivers it by first [[BewareTheNiceOnes smashing Silver through a wall, and then nearly spin-dashing him to oblivion]].
102	---> '''Sonic:''' [[BigShutUp LISTEN!]] (''grabs him'') [[PunctuatedForEmphasis There. Is. No Traitor]]. I believe in my friends. I believe you're a flake. Each one of them is ''a hundred'' times the hero you want to be. [[GetOut Now. Get. Out. Go. Home]].
103	---> '''Silver''': (''horrified'') But... I can't. I'm stranded here...
104	---> '''Sonic''': (''dismisses him furiously'') '''Then get out of my ''sight'''''.
105	** Issue 240 has Ixis Nagaus given three in a row. The first is by Mina Mongoose's mother, who decides that [=NICOLE=] should return from her exile, pointing out that former Mobian Council member Rotor's team protected New Mobotropolis better than he ever did [[spoiler:after Nagaus took up the throne and ousted Elias]]. The second comes from Alicia Acorn, who ends up driving Ixis away when Ixis attempts to tempt Max Acorn [[spoiler:so he can take over his body]]. The last comes from ''Sonic's parents'', who prove that they were [[OnlySaneMan some of the few people who question why they'd trust a man who'd spent most of his time fighting their kids]].
106	---> '''Bernie''': Jules remains a Robian due to his old war wounds. You expect my husband to risk that to a process you can't explain aside from "it's magic"? You expect us to believe you have no other motive when you could have offered this "treatment" right after you changed Bunnie? Of all the nerve to... your turn, honey.\
107	'''Jules''': Furthermore, you are the man who nearly drove Mobians and Robians into civil war, were the bitter enemy of my mentor, and -- most importantly -- '''''[[PapaWolf tried to kill my son]]'''''. No, sire, I will not be taking you up on your offer. [[GetOut There's the door. Please conjure your way through it]].\
108	'''Naugus''': You... You '''''ingrates'''''... No wonder the quickster is so intolerable... It's genetic.
109	** [[RoboticPsychopath E-123 Omega]] gives one to [[OldSoldier E-102 Gamma]] in Sonic Universe #3 whilst [[UpgradeVsPrototypeFight on a mission to find and destroy his older counterpart]] -- calling him obsolete compared to himself and [[TemptingFate daring to try and harm him]]. In response, Gamma delivers a speech of his own in cold monotone as he counters the argument; punctuating it by knocking his successor onto his metallic backside with a few well-placed shots.
110	---> '''Omega:''' Surrender, brother. Do not embarrass yourself further. A single one of my shots would tear through that old armor of yours. I detect smoke. Is that your grav-linked jet disc? Pathetic. You would not get far with it, even if it were in perfect condition. You are outdated, brother. Slower, weaker. You cannot outrun me... and [[TemptingFate that pitiful gun of yours cannot harm me]].
111	---> '''Gamma:''' E-123, codename Omega. The last of my line. I downloaded your file. Your armor is heavy -- but so are you. Your speed is great -- but you're unwieldy. Your jets are stronger -- but you're louder. I do not have such limitations. I am nimble. I cover ground more easily. As for weaponry...
112	--->(''takes three precise shots at Omega, downing him'') You are a walking arsenal. '''I am an assassin.'''
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116	* ''ComicBook/DarthVaderDarkLordOfTheSith'': Jocasta Nu delivers a speech to Vader about how he's nothing but a blind tool to Palpatine and that the emperor wanted to use the data crystal with a list of force sensitives to make more like Vader as possible replacments. She then followed this up with a question that caused Vader to kill her, and destroy any chance of the Sith to get the complete list of Force Sensitives in the gallaxy, just as she planned.
117	* ''ComicBook/StarWarsDoctorAphra'': Aphra gets called out on many occasions due to using and abusing people, even those she cares about. Triple Zero gives one to Aphra unintentionally after she complains about how judgmental Luke is at the end of the [[ComicBook/StarWarsTheScreamingCitadel Screaming Citadel]] arc.
118	-->'''Aphra:''' Judgmental piece of blonde Tatooine Bantha dung. He annoys me so much.\
119	'''Triple-Zero:''' I can imagine. he went through an experience just as traumatic as yours and remains a positive, delightful person, devoted to a better existence for all sentient life. And you realize how special he is too late to retain his respect. That must be an awful reminder of your own failings of character. To be honest Master, I'm not sure if I'd be able to live with myself.
120	* In ''ComicBook/StarWarsLegacy'', [[BigBad Darth Krayt]] does away with the RuleOfTwo, abandoning the Sith's SocialDarwinist tenets and instead teaching his followers the Rule of One which revolved around blind obedience to him and the Order. At one point he [[SpiritAdvisor communes with the]] {{Virtual Ghost}}s of the three greatest Sith Lords, seeking advice; Darth Andeddu, the progenitor of all Darths, [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords Darth Nihilus, who led the First Jedi Purge]], and Darth Bane, the Sith ChosenOne who created the Rule in the first place. All three of them then proceed to absolutely ''lay into him'' (even TheUnintelligible Nihilus), branding him [[TheHeretic a heretic unworthy of calling himself Sith]] for arrogantly trying to "improve upon" the teachings that [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith led to them conquering the galaxy]] and weakening them as a whole by attempting to share power. Krayt tries to argue that [[VillainHasAPoint power is meaningless without a purpose to apply it toward]], only for Bane to angrily retort that [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans power is its own reward]] and that he's simply [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder repeating the same mistakes he tried to prevent]].
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124	* ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSmokeAndShadow'': When [[spoiler:Ursa]] finally returns to the Fire Nation Palace, she decides to confront the (now former) Fire Lord Ozai in prison, overcoming her fear of him and swiftly calling him out for his arrogance and his terrible treatment of his entire family.
125	--> [[spoiler:Ursa]]: After all these years, I finally ''see'' you, Ozai. You're just a small, small man trying with all your might to be ''big''. Your ''heart'' is so small, you've no room for your ''son'', your ''daughter'', or your ''brother''... Or even ''yourself''. Goodbye, Ozai.
126	* Tom Noir gives one to John Horus, the superhero who killed the U.S. president, at the end of ''ComicBook/BlackSummer'':
127	-->'''Tom Noir''': You want to change the nature of justice in America and you kill a President? What did you think that made you? Two-fisted Super-Jesus for the American Way? It made you Lee Harvey Oswald, you prick. You know what? Lots of people hated UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy. He barely got elected. But Lee Harvey Oswald isn't remembered as an American hero. Just a prick with a gun who killed the President. ''That's you now, John.''
128	* Stillwell from ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' verbally takes apart the Homelander, who is seconds away from tearing him apart, with a perfectly calm and neutral speech that states that for all the Homelander's tremendous powers and abilities (Homelander being an [[SupermanSubstitute analogue of Superman]]), he's never taken a single action that wasn't petty or juvenile, that focused on anything larger than satisfying a passing whim or desire, or really required more than a moment of thought.
129	-->'''Homelander:''' You're about to be torn limb from limb, and you're completely calm. I think I've finally met a superhuman.\
130	'''Stillwell:''' Why? Because I'm not impressed by you? Think about it. This is par for the course with you. When have you ever done anything remotely interesting or original? What have you thought of to do that the lowest speck of this pointless species couldn't, were they granted your level of power? And what next, destroy another airliner? Dismember more families, that kind of thing? [[MoralEventHorizon A spoiled child's personal Auschwitz]]. It's so petty it's actually quite embarrassing. I'm just glad I won't be alive to see it...\
131	'''Homelander:''' What?\
132	'''Stillwell:''' ''[Calmly walking to the window]'' In fact, I think I'll save you the trouble. I'll jump.\
133	'''Homelander:''' Stop fucking around. [[BlatantLies You think I need to impress you?]] You smug fucking cocksucking prick, you ''really think'' I'm looking for --\
134	'''Stillwell:''' ''[Unimpressed]'' Oh God, kill me now.\
135	'''Homelander:''' Just because I stood and took your shit, when any time I chose I could have --\
136	'''Stillwell:''' Please kill me?\
137	'''Homelander:''' You... ''You''... Keep watching. Just keep watching. That's all I'm going to say.\
138	'''Stillwell:''' I will.\
139	'''Homelander:''' Shut up! '''''Shut up!''''' ''[Flies through the window angrily]''\
140	'''Stillwell:''' Or I would, if I thought you had something worth seeing.
141	* In ''[[ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian Conan the Avenger]]'', Conan does this to Prince Almuric. After being forcefully conscripted in his army, hearing all day about the justness of his cause, only to be led from disaster to disaster, and then blame Conan for all their problems... threatening to reveal the secret of the treasure he was searching for, finally broke the camel's back for Conan:
142	-->'''Conan''': Oh, shut up, you oozing corpse's tit. You lice dropping. You pampered aristocratic man-child. If you actually just admitted you are a rich coward who fled your homeland the minute king Strabonus didn't fell over the minute you breathed on him hard -- to the lawless south, where your failures would not be constantly reflected back at you -- then, and only then, once you averred you were no better than me, and wanted this gold for one reason only -- which is to cure all the ills of having no gold -- then I might trust you well enough to share a tavern bench with me -- but not to lead you to buried treasure.
143	* ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'': The title character gets this from his own creator. Cerebus has had much of his life explained to him, and given several possible futures for the remaining 100 issues of the 300-issue series. None of them work out, and when Dave Sim narrates how Cerebus' inner nature remains, his ignorance, his insensitivity, his self-absorption, his-- Cerebus interrupts with a "shut up." "Shut up? Ah, no. No, my obnoxious little grey creation" and proceeds to use the comic book medium to beat the hell out of Cerebus, telling him "You shut up and you fucking listen for once in your fucking life!!!"
144	** Several issues, Cerebus hears much the same thing from Bear, one of his closest friends and idols. Funny thing, Cerebus dies in #300, still not having learned very much.
145	* [[ComicBook/ChickTracts Jack Chick tracts]] have these from time to time. Of course, given these are ''Chick Tracts'', whether you'll actually care is... debatable.
146	** In "Four Angels?", Henry gives his brother Charlie one. He visits Charlie after dinner, saying that he can't eat with a fornicator. Charlie and his brothers protest that Charlie is a man of God.
147	--->'''Charlie''': Too good to join us for dinner?\
148	'''Henry''': No, Charlie. The Word of God says "If any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, with such an one no not to eat."\
149	'''Charlie''': [[WhoDares How dare you]]? I'm a man of God!\
150	'''Henry''': ''(angrily)'' No, you're not Charlie. God says "Woe be unto the pastors who destroy... the sheep of my pasture!" "Cursed be he who doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully!"\
151	'''Frank''': [[ShutUpKirk Shut up, Henry]]. Both Bobby and I really respect Charles. [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Everyone says he's wonderful]].\
152	'''Charlie''': ''(smugly)'' What do you say to that, Little Henry?\
153	'''Henry''': The Word says, "But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sins..." ''(shouting)'' You snake! You've trampled the blood of Jesus underfoot by your wicked life. Woe unto you, Charlie. You've become a friend of the world and an enemy of God.\
154	'''Bobby''': Henry, are you saying Charlie is on his way to Hell?\
155	'''Henry''': [[DistinctionWithoutADifference I didn't say it. The Word of God does]].
156	** In "The Letter," Mildred gets a lengthy one from her friend Frances, for not telling her about the gospel
157	-->We walked by day and night, and yet you showed me not the light.\
158	You let me live, love and die, and all the while you knew I'd never live on high.\
159	Yes, I called you friend in life, and I trusted you in joy and strife...\
160	and yet, in coming to this end, I see you really weren't my friend.
161	** A jail guard gives one to Bad Bob and his cousin after Bad Bob fiercely rebuffs an attempt to witness to him, albeit by a young man the guard doesn't fully agree with.
162	--->"If two guys ever deserved hell, it's you two. You didn't have to destroy that kid the way you did. He might be a little off base, but he's sincere. I'm a Christian... and let me tell you, that kid's got more guts than the two of together. Anyone can be rebellious and crude like you guys. But it takes real guts to stand up for God like that kid did. He cared about you and wanted to help you. But you are too blind to see it. Whether you know it or not, we all deserve to burn in hell. But God in His mercy sent His only begotten son to shed His precious blood and die on the cross to pay the penalty for our sins. But you two have spit in God's face and rejected His gift of eternal life, so both of you are on your way to the lake of fire."
163	* ''Lupo Alberto'': In the story "Canto di Ferragosto"[[note]]Ferragosto is an Italian holiday happening the 15th August, corresponding to the Feast of Assumption of Mary, so the most faithful translation of the title is ''A Feast of the Assumption Carol''[[/note]], a summer-themed parody of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', Moses cancels his fellows [=McKenzies=]' summer vacation, because there's a lot to do in the farm. That night, as the plot demand it, he has a vision of his past, present and future related to his JerkAss behaviour. In all three time periods he gets a speech by Alberto:
164	##
165	--->'''Past!Alberto:''' "[[ForeShadowing I have the feeling you and I will never get along]]. Maybe because I hate fat, and you're the biggest fatball that it ever rolled in front of me!
166	## With a {{pun}}:
167	--->'''Alberto:''' "Let's recap the riddle! It's white outside and black inside, he has a heart of stone and a loggerhead! It growls, bites and roars, and it's an animal... What is?"
168	##
169	--->'''Future!Alberto:''' "If ''fatball'' spends every summer all alone, it's not my fault! Everyone is allowed to behave selfishly, [[FatBastard and he never did anything else!]] '''AND [[TheScrappy THAT]]'S THE RESULT!'''
170	** Another noticeable one is in "La parola alla difesa" [[note]]"The floor to the defense"[[/note]]: the plot consists in Moses planning to permanently keep away Alberto from the farm suing him. Let's just say this plan [[HoistByHisOwnPetard backfires Moses hardly]]. Nevertheless, [[IgnoredEpiphany the dog didn't learn anything from the experience]], persisting in his violent way towards Alberto, whose comment is:
171	-->"Double your brain and you'll be a moron anyway, fatball."
172	** Also, in the same story, the judge gives one to Moses, Alberto and their respective lawyers (that he calls a "meddling [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals hyena]] and a crazy [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals mole]]". Moses' lawyer had stalked Alberto and his girlfriend Marta and took pictures while they had sex, and Enrico, the mole, had spent the whole time making stupid jokes that proved he wasn't actually a lawyer) before banishing all of them from the farm for a week. The above happens in the aftermath, when Moses is forced to stay in the forest Alberto lives.
173	* The history teacher at the Princess Academy in ''ComicBook/PrincessUgg'' dishes out an epic one to his shallow PrincessClassic students:
174	--> "Let me ask you something, ladies. While you fill your heads with thoughts of handsome princes, what do you supposed ''they'' think about? Never considered it? I'm amazed. The history and glory of their future kingdoms. That's what's on most prince's minds. History, Hunting, and Horseflesh pretty much sums it up. So when you meet your TrueLove you may want to have something to chat about beyond sewing tapestries. Otherwise they may not stick around long enough to marry you."
175	* ComicBook/TheShadow is quite prone to giving them out to his enemies prior to dispatching them. Case in point, the "My City" poem from ''In The Coils of Leviathan''
176	--> Without the spur of retribution your crime becomes mundane, your evil intent an uncontrolled inconsideration gliding toward the salavic pool of insipid casual pastime--a sort of breathing puppet gesture with no effort of personal involvement--while you cry that you are owed a living by the world. The crime of your crime becomes insult in addition to injury; the unasked question I take as mine to answer.
177	--> Your foot feels for the top step and I take it from you...as you fall through the night my laughter follows...I will laugh behind you for the ones you gracelessly pillaged of their belief in hope. I will point and mock behind you for the ones who lost their ability to justify your life: they were to be your last escape. I will be there by the wall, in the corner of your laughter, in the hollow of your comfort, in the tide of your love-making. To say to you thou shalt not sleep but to dream of me; thou shalt not wake but to see my figure leaning across the path of your life; I will deny you the joys of a life earned at the expense of the still believing...you will never again smile in amusement without the crinkled eyelid of doubt.
178	--> Cry out that you are not the only one to blame: is this the excuse you offer to the blameless who now blame you? Cry out that you are sorry and the repetition will only paper the blank wall of dread around you with the accusing epitaph of sorrow you caused into being by the wake of your passage through these other's lives. Cry out in anger, in petulance, in blind fury, rage and impotence...it will only echo back in fugued octaves of your fear.
179	--> Would you tell me now of your self-loathing, your bile, your illness of spirit and substance, of your inner betrayal, your inner affliction? '''As if I didn't know?'''
180	--> Would you tell me now, at long last, of your Repentance?
181	--> In my laughter you will hear my final judgement:
182	--> ''Tell it to the Worms''.
183	* In [[Creator/DonRosa Don Rosa's]] story ''ComicBook/TheTreasuryOfCroesus'', [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Donald Duck]] calls out both his Uncle Scrooge and Magica de Spell for their greed.
184	-->'''Donald:''' I've had a bellyful of both you eternal fools! Year in, year out, you bring grief on yourselves all for the sake of '''getting''' rich, '''staying''' rich, or getting '''richer''' still! You'll '''never''' be happy, because you always worry about what you'll do '''next''' to complicate your '''own greedy lives!'''
185	* ComicBook/{{Dreadstar}} delivers one to [[{{Trumplica}} Plunndo Tram]] in the graphic novel ''Dreadstar Returns'' before [[OffWithHisHead decapitating him]].
186	-->'''Plunndo Tram:''' So, you don't like how I captain the ship of state?\
187	'''Dreadstar:''' No, I don't. You over-tax your poor, persecute your minorities, molest women and children, fail to properly educate your populace, imprison or kill your political opponents, lie pathologically, continuously suppress your fourth estate, terrorize your neighboring planets and [[SophisticatedAsHell are pretty much just an asshole in general]].
188	* In the original ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe]]'' comic, Cobra Commander hands one of these to Serpentor after straight-up kicking his ass, claiming the reason he lost was because out of all the DNA of all the great conquerors he's made up of, he's missing the DNA of the greatest one of them all, Cobra Commander's! Also counts as a BadassBoast on CC's part.
189	* In ''[[ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}} Incorruptible]] #20'', [[BigBad Hayes Bellamy]] delivers one to Max Damage while torturing him. He ends his speech with one ArmorPiercingQuestion:
190	-->'''Bellamy:''' Have you ''really'' made a difference for even ''one person?''
191	** [[spoiler:After Max's former sidekick Jailbait comes to the rescue and kills Bellamy before leaving for parts unknown]], Max has an answer:
192	--->'''Max:''' That's one, Bellamy. There'll be ''more''.
193	* In issue #4 of ''ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics'', Wily tries giving one to Mega Man prior to his fight. It doesn't faze him.
194	-->'''Wily''': "Handle" me? You can't ''handle'' me! You're a helper robot, Rock! You hand tools to competent people! You're no great warrior! You're a janitor! A gofer! A lackey! I could've stolen you with the rest of the Robot Masters, but I didn't. And do you know why? You weren't worth the effort! So why don't you stop hiding so I can vaporize you and save you any further embarrassment?
195	** In fact, Mega Man fires one right back at his opponent.
196	-->'''Mega Man''': I'm not embarrassed, Dr. Wily. I have a creator who cares for me and does all he can to support me. I have a sister who loves me and forgave me for being stupid. You had to steal all Dr. Light's robots to get attention. Even though you reprogrammed them, you couldn't stop a "lackey" like me. So which of us should '''''really''''' be embarrassed, Doctor Wily?
197	** Mega Man gives himself one when he realises that his powers have corrupted him and he frightened Roll in the third issue.
198	* In ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' the mane cast gives one to Queen Chrysalis about how she knows nothing about friendship, love or [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking fashion.]]
199	* Charlie Brown gives one in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', at the end of a week of strips where Lucy has spent the whole week trying to get the kids in the neighborhood to call her "Cutie". CB [[BewareTheNiceOnes finally loses his temper:]]
200	-->'''Charlie Brown:''' You want someone to call you 'cutie?' Ha! That's a laugh! You've never acted cute in your whole life. You're crabby, you're bossy and you're inconsiderate! You're just about as 'uncute' as a person can get!
201	-->''([[BeatPanel Storms off as Lucy stands there in shock.]])''
202	-->'''Lucy:''' I'm an "uncutie!"
203	* [[ComicBook/TheSandman Morpheus]] delivers a classic one to the Corinthian, whom he created to be a revelatory nightmare, but who has settled for being a superpowered SerialKiller. Then he melts the Corinthian down and starts over.
204	** ...and then proceeds to give one to an audience composed of serial killers (they're having a convention), and takes away their dreams of importance, making them see how small and insignificant they are in the scheme of things.
205
206	* In ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'', V sneaks into a TV station and replaces the usual broadcast (the evening news and bad sitcoms) with a recording of him giving the British public, and the human race in general, a severe dressing-down. It's quite possibly one of the most epic insult speeches ever put to paper:
207	-->'''V''': I suppose you're wondering why I called you here this evening. Well, you see, I'm not entirely satisfied with your performance lately... I'm afraid your work's been slipping, and... And I'm afraid we've been thinking about letting you go. Oh, I know, I know. You've been with the company a long time now. Almost... let me see. Almost ten thousand years! My word, doesn't time fly? It seems like only yesterday... I remember the day you commenced your employment, swinging down from the trees, fresh-faced and nervous, a bone clasped in your bristling fist... "Where do I start, sir?" You asked, plaintively." I recall my exact words: "there's a pile of dinosaur eggs over there, youngster." I said, smiling paternally the while. "Get sucking". Well, we've certainly come a long way since then, haven't we? And yes, yes, you're right, in all that time you haven't missed a day. Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Also, please don't think I've forgotten about your outstanding service record, or about all the invaluable contributions you've made to the company... Fire, the wheel, agriculture... It's an impressive list, old timer. A jolly impressive list. Don't get me wrong. But... Well, to be frank, we've had our problems, too. There's no getting away from it. Do you know what I think a lot of it stems from? I'll tell you... It's your basic unwillingness to ''get on'' with the company. You don't seem to want to face up to any real responsibility, or to be your own boss. Lord knows, you've been given plenty of opportunities... [[RefusedTheCall We've offered you promotion time and time again, and each time you've turned us down. "I couldn't handle the work, guv'nor," you wheedled. "I know my place." To be frank, you're not trying, are you?]] You see, you've been standing still for far too long, and it's starting to show in your work... And I might add, in your general standard of behaviour. The constant bickering on the factory floor has not escaped my attention... Nor the recent bouts of rowdiness in the staff canteen. Then of course there's... Hmm. Well, I really didn't want to have to bring this up, but... Well, you see, I've been hearing some disturbing rumours about your personal life. No, never you mind who told me. No names, no pack drills... I understand that you are unable to get on with your spouse. I hear that you argue. I am told that you shout. Violence has been mentioned. I am reliably informed that you always hurt the one you love... ''[[TranquilFury The one you shouldn't hurt at all]]''. [[HarmfulToMinors And what about the children? It's always the children who suffer, as you're well aware. Poor little mites, what are they to make of it?]] What are they to make of [[TheBully your bullying]], [[StrawNihilist your despair]], [[DirtyCoward your cowardice]] and [[HumansAreBastards all your fondly nurtured bigotries?]] Really, it's not good enough, is it? And it's no good blaming the drop in work standards upon bad management, either... Though, to be sure, [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny the management is very bad]]. In fact, let us not mince words... [[DayOfTheJackboot The management is]] ''[[PuttingOnTheReich terrible!]]'' We've had a string of embezzlers, frauds, liars and lunatics making a string of catastrophic decisions. This is plain fact. But who ''elected'' them? It was you! ''You'' who appointed these people! You who gave them the power to make your decisions for you! While I'll admit that anyone can make a mistake once, to go on making the same lethal errors century after century seems to me nothing short of deliberate. You have encouraged these malicious incompetents, who have made your working life a shambles. You have accepted without question their senseless orders. You have allowed them to fill your workspace with [[ScienceIsBad dangerous and]] [[NukeEm unproven machines]]. '''You could have stopped them.''' All you had to say was '''''[[SuddenlyShouting NO!]]''''' You have no spine. You have no pride. You are no longer an asset to the company. I will, however, be generous. You will be granted two years to show me some improvement in your work. If at the end of that time you are still unwilling to make a go of it... You're fired. That will be all. [[MagnificentBastard You may return to your labours.]]
208	* In ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'', Wesley Gibson gives one of these ''[[TakeThatAudience to the reader]]''.
209	* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'':
210	--> '''Dr. Manhattan:''' I am disappointed, [[spoiler: Veidt]]. '''Very''' disappointed. Restructuring myself after the subtraction of my intrinsic field was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman... Did you think it would kill me? I've walked across the Sun. I've seen events so tiny and so fast they hardly can be said to have occurred at all, but you... You are a man. [[spoiler: And the world's smartest man means no more to me than does its smartest termite.]]
211	* ''ComicBook/TheGreatPowerOfChninkel'': The heretic chninkel king N'om gives O'ne a particularly scathing one, asserting that everything, from the time he blasphemed against the Creator, was a ploy to ensure everyone on Daar would worship It for all eternity. [[spoiler:O'ne replies by raining fire on earth and wiping out almost all life.]]
212	* In ''ComicBook/Youngblood2017'', Petra, [[LegacyCharacter the new Vogue]] gives Shaft a short but succinct one when he refuses to listen why she reformed Youngblood.
213	--> '''Vogue''': You don't want to know what's going on here, do you? You fucked up, and it's so much easier to bury your head than remember what Youngblood was supposed to be.
214	* In the ''{{Videogame/Tekken}}: Blood Feud'' comics, [[FallenHero Jin Kazama]] enacts a plan to capture Angel and force her to free him from the Devil Gene. When the plan fails, Jin (who by now has transformed into [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Devil Jin]]) scornfully frees Angel and gives her one such speech.
215	--> '''Devil Jin:''' You want your freedom, Angel? Then have it. You were my last hope, but now I see you for what you truly are. A failure. You say you were sent to rid us of the Gene, and yet look how you failed. [[IAmAMonster I was born a monster]] and, no matter how hard I try, [[YouCantFightFate will remain a monster to my dying day]].
216	** [[GoodIsNotSoft Angel]] counters with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech of her own.
217	--> '''Angel:''' [[ShutUpHannibal You are wrong, Jin Kazama.]] So wrong. Only those who wish to be free can be truly free. [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse You had a choice.]] You could have turned from fear, but you let it rule your heart. You let it win. [[NeverMyFault You blame everyone for what has happened to you.]] Your [[ArchnemesisDad father.]] Your grandfather. Now even me. But what I said was true. You were the one who imprisoned me. [[StatingTheSimpleSolution You could have petitioned me for help at any time.]] But you were afraid.
218	--> '''Devil Jin:''' I fear nothing!
219	--> '''Angel:''' You fear who you would be if you stopped, Jin Kazama. If you stopped fighting. If you stopped listening to he who rages in your heart. The devil you have allowed to define your life and the lives of everyone you meet.
220	* In the short story ''Condors'', the seventh issue of Creator/GarthEnnis's ''War Story'' series, four different soldiers, each representing a different faction fighting in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar, are taking shelter in a shellhole during an artillery barrage. Having agreed to a truce and to go their separate ways peacefully when the battle ends, they pass the time by relating their backstories, reasons for fighting in the war and how they have come to see war itself. The first, a [[AcePilot German Luftwaffe pilot]] fighting with the [[EagleSquadron Condor Legion]], is there because he loves a to fly and [[WarIsGlorious believes it to be the most honorable way to wage war.]] The second, an English socialist fighting with the International Brigade, is there to fight for the Socialist Revolution and believes that [[BandOfBrothers war brings out the best, most fair in men.]] The third, an ex-IRA Irishman and blueshirt fighting with the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Brigade_(Spanish_Civil_War) O'Duffy Brigade]], is there to fight for Fascism, and being a veteran of the [[UsefulNotes/TheIrishRevolution Easter Rising, the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War]], he has [[TheUnfettered come to believe war can only be won through whatever means necessary]]. The fourth man, a Republican volunteer and the only actual Spaniard in the group, shares his reasons for fighting...
221	--> '''Spaniard:''' [[WhamLine I was at Guernica]]. I am not from there, I had simply stopped to spend the night. I knew nobody in town, I lost no loved ones during the attack. I just bore witness. (''To the German'') You were practicing. The entire reason Hitler sent troops here; practicing for war. Because everyone knows he will start a war soon. [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo A real one]], not like our little Spanish sideshow. [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons So he sends you out here to try out your wonderful new weapons, and having seen them first hand, I do not envy the first army that has to fight the Nazis]].
222	--> '''German''': I was not even ''at'' Guernica! What's all this ''"You, you, you"'' as if it was me personally? I told you before, I am not a Nazi! I never took part in attacks on civilians!
223	--> '''Spaniard''': [[GuiltByAssociation You are a German. That is enough]]. Before, it would have been enough for me to kill you. I joined the Republicans after Guernica. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge To stop it happening again, to seek revenge on those who did it]]; you know the kind of thing. [[SubvertedTrope Madness, of course]]. [[ThisIsReality As if fighting in a war could prevent more atrocity. As if I could ''find'' the pilots who were there that day, never mind kill them.]] [[KarmaHoudini Their deaths will happen far from here. Randomly, completely unconnected.]] [[WarIsHell All I have seen since is pointless bloodshed. Hundreds dead in battle.]] Men [[ShotAtDawn put up against walls and shot]], for [[WeAreStrugglingTogether their accusers abstract notions of disloyalty]]. There is [[TheChainOfHarm no end to it, no good will come of it]]. Gentlemen, [[HiddenDisdainReveal I hate you all]]. (''To the German'') [[WarCrimeSubvertsHeroism I hate you for using my country for target practice]]. (''To the Irishman'') [[AxCrazy I hate you because you are a lunatic]]. (''To the Englishman'') [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids I hate you for your stupid, pointless idealism]].
224	--> '''Englishman''': For my ''idealism?!''
225	--> '''Spaniard''': Exactly. I hear you talk of Socialism and a better way, but not once do I hear you mention ''Spain''. You know nothing of my country; its people, politics or its problems. You are here to apply your own ideals, your own agenda. And it is a ''stupid'' agenda, really, because [[CrapsackWorld notions of equality and fairness are the first to fall by the wayside when people have their backs to the wall]]. Are you familiar with UsefulNotes/CharlesDarwin?
226	--> '''Englishman''': Why Darwin?
227	--> '''Spaniard''': Because humanity will not work the way you want it to without another evolutionary step. Until each man feels the pain he inflicts on others as keenly as he feels his own -- until I punch you in the face and both our noses shatter -- we are all doomed to carry on down the road we're on. You know what you three remind me of? [[AnimalMotif You are like the great vultures that hover over the battlefield, each taking what you want from the carnage, using it in a way that suits you.]] [[TitleDrop Condors]].

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