The Reason You Suck Speech / Web Animation

Examples of "The Reason You Suck" Speech in web animation.

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• Battle for Dream Island has a lot.
  • Bubble gives a well-deserved one to Flower in "Return of the Hang Glider."
    Bubble: Flower, I'm tired of this. [...] I mean, I'm tired of your self-centeredness. I'm tired of the way you act around us. You know what that's mean? I'm tired of you! [...] Flower, your own popularity is your own fault. Everyone hates you because we can't stand all you talking about yourself!
  • Bubble gives another one to Match in "Get To The Top In 500 Steps."
    Bubble: Match, what's gotten into you lately?
    Match: Bubble! You're finally ready to talk to me! I'm, like, sorry for lying. None of us knew those quiz answers.
    Bubble: Then why did you demote me?!
    Match: I, like, just had to set an example, so our teammates knew to, like, not mess up. Pencil's not around, so someone, like, had to fill in. You, like, understand, right?
    Bubble: Why did you keep thinking that would help?
    Match: Bubble, we need a strong leader, or—
    Bubble: Or what, we'll lose? Why haven't you noticed that this kind of leadership HURTS PEOPLE EVERY TIME? Last time we had Pencil was EPISODE ONE! When we hurt Fanny, and lost the challenge. And in episode eight, when you took her spot! We only survived because Stapy cheated... and... you hurt me.
    Match: I can promote you back to mem—
    Bubble: THAT'S MEANINGLESS! When I struggle, I don't need a stern leader, I don't need Pencil, I needed you!
  • Four gives one to the remaining contestants when they try and throw a party for Profily.
    Four: You- you'll throw them a party?! I tried to get seven of you to throw me a party, and only two you did! And yes, Lollipop's party was the best of all time.
    Lollipop: Wasn't on purpose.
    Four: YOU'RE NOT HELPING!!! None of you have any respect for me, and I'm FED UP WITH IT! Forty of my contestants left for someone they knew for like, FIVE MINUTES! And the ones that stayed steal Donut's Diary, you don't even help me out of jail until I make it a challenge, and now, UGH, You're gonna throw a party for Profily IMMEDIATELY?! You never do these things for me, so we're going to make this simple! Profily is OUT OF THE GAME!
  • Announcer gives one to X for how badly he and Four run the show.
    X: Oh yeah? Name one thing that we did badly.
    Announcer: Okay, X. You quit hosting a round. 40 contestants quit the game. There's a purple nuisance that you can't get rid of. People keep interfering with the show. You even let one of them join the game. You've lost all control.
    X: I ask for only one thing, so technically, we came out on top there.
  • Gelatin gives a rather harsh one to Four during the final episode:
    Four: Please, why won't you all just leave me alone?! You don't want me as your host, I get it, whatever! I moved on, so why won't you?!
    Gelatin: BECAUSE WE'RE MAD, OKAY?! We're mad at YOU, Four! You come in, and make us compete for these prizes, and you hurt us! And you're mean to us! And then we all choose to still compete for your prize, and you continue to hurt us and... I don't know, pulling your fingers so we feel pain for your own benefit, or like, killing us or doing that weird thing where you spin us into weird shapes? And you put all of us in cages for months?! We like you Four, that's why we stayed. But you can't expect us to remain fully committed when you don't even treat us nicely!
• But You Told Me- had Twilight call out Celestia for ignoring her concerns about her books after Nightmare Moon was defeated, because doing so would be admitting that Twilight was right.
  Celestia: I knew you could do it.
  Twilight: But, you told me it was all an old pony tale.
  Celestia: I told you that you needed to make some friends. Nothing more.
  Twilight: No, there was definitely more to it than that.
  Celestia: Sorry?
  Twilight: What was it you said in your letter? Oh, yeah: "You simply must stop reading those dusty old books!" Seemed like you didn't want me to go looking into it.
  Celestia: I told you what you needed to hear to stay focused on the right things.
  Twilight: Really? 'Cause if I listened to you, I still wouldn't even know what the Elements are. We certainly wouldn't have come here.
  Celestia: Maybe not. But destiny would have guided your hoof to-
  Twilight: Oh! Destiny, was it? This was all destined to be? Then it never mattered what you said or what I did because destiny willed it so!
  Celestia: Twilight…
  Twilight: You know this all feels really pedantic. And normally I'm all for a little pedanticism, but you're being pedantic and wrong!
  Celestia: Stop talking…
  Twilight: Seems to me like you're just saying this all now so you don't have to admit that I was completely justified in my "dusty old books", and you had no idea what you were talking about!
  (Beat)
  Celestia: Twilight… do you like bananas?
  Twilight: Huh?
  (Twilight gets enveloped in Celestia's magic)
  Twilight: Wait, no-
• Camp Camp: In the season three finale, "Camp Corp", Cameron Campbell (unsurprisingly) betrays everyone in the end, after faking a Heel Realization and getting into an Enemy Mine situation with Max and David to save the camp. But when the realization dons on Campbell that he's essentially burnt all his bridges now, Max gives him a short and calm, but brutally effective RYSS:
  Max: With all that money, you can just buy some new friends who will eventually hate your guts too.
• The first two of the "Quarantine Edition" videos of Dropout's If Google Was a Guy series (which are animated rather than live-action like the series usually is) have Google deliver a scathing reprimand towards someone wanting to violate the quarantines being enforced during the COVID-19 pandemic to do whatever they want.
  • From the first video:
    Spring Break Person: Miami beach party!
    Google: Do you realize how irresponsible this is?
    Spring Break Person: I'm 22.
    Google: You could still give the virus to someone older than you, or someone immunocompromised, or die from it yourself! No one is completely safe!
    Spring Break Person: Sexy...hazmat suit?
    Google: STAY. HOME.
  • From the second video:
    Google: You dumb idiot! You think it's your right to risk other people's lives? What kind of person are you, even?
• Dreamscape: In 'Confronting the Dark', Betty gives a very foul-mouthed one to Melissa to snap her out of her Freak Out about fighting Melinda being all in vain.
  Betty: Shut. The fuck. UP! Geez, you are SOOOOO fucking annoying! You think there is no way to stop her, you think this is hopeless, you think we are a bunch of dumbasses who are on a white knight mission to our deaths! We ask you for an idea and your cocky-ass goes on some cocky-ass rant on how we're cocky-asses against a cocky-ass witch with a cocky-ass plan that won't cocky-ass WORK! Hey guys, how about we just stand here with our thumbs up our cocky-asses?! At least THEN we won't piss off your highness right here!
  • She gets another one later on in that episode, this time from Keedran after Melissa presses her Berserk Button.
    Keedran: "Massive abomination" am I?! Just who the hell do you think you are talking to?! I could erase your puny judgemental smug self off the face of existence if I so desired! I've been seen as a ruthless monster by humanity for thousands of lifetimes just because I'm not some soft-spoken serene babe or some gruff and tough asskicker! I have to take some gaudy 'true form' JUST so humanity won't piss themselves and form a mob by the mere SIGHT of me! Yet despite all of that, I continue to protect the lives of everyone in this world! I look past their judgemental hearts, swallow my petty and bitter feelings of them, and I vanquish threats like the Overlord of Evil or soon-to-be Melinda! Why? Because as a guardian deity, it isn't my duty to make sure humanity likes me, it's my duty to make sure they are safe from the TRUE massive abominations that exist in this world!
• DSBT InsaniT: Killer gives Portica one after she makes a snide remark about Killdra's song in 'The Camping Webisode'.
  Killer: Who the HELL do you think you are?! My sister has a hidden talent that no one ever expected and you spout something like THAT?! You're trash, utter trash!
• In Ducktalez 7, Vegeta receives one from Scrooge after ruining the attempt at finding Scrooge's money bin.
• Fall of the Crystal Empire, a fan animation based on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, has Princess Luna giving one to King Sombra when he provokes her into becoming Nightmare Moon.
  Luna: You think you've found an ally in darkness? Do you comprehend the powers you were gifted with, the same powers I was born into? Where do you think the shadows all go to hide from the precious light? Just who do you think stands against them? What you possess is a mere fraction of their might, the same might I stand unyielding against each and every night. You are nothing compared to them. You are nothing compared to me! You claim to know fear? I shall show you true terror!
• GoAnimate:
  • Clementine gives a pretty scathing one towards Caillou near the end of this video:
    Clementine: No, we'll never invite you because you're a tantrum-thrower, a crybaby, not our best friend and everyone hates you and so do we.
  • Caillou gives one to Cia in "Caillou JoinsThe Hot Topic Krew" after she insults Chuck E. Cheese's, making her run off crying.
    Caillou: How dare you insult Chuck E. Cheese's you fat, stupid bitch! You're the worst villain in all of video game history! Your game is shit, your motivation for war is shit, and you're a closet weeaboo!
• In Hazbin Hotel, Katie Killjoy gives one to Charlie when she tries to propose an alternative to the yearly purges in hell.
  Katie Killjoy: Look. My time is money, so I'll keep this short. You're not here because we wanted you here. You're here because Jeffrey couldn't make it for his Cannibal Cooking segment. You might be some royal bigshot, but that doesn't mean shit to me. I'm too rich and too influential to give a flying FUCK about what some tux-wearing demon princess wants to advertise. So don't get cute with me, honey, or I will fucking. Bury you.
• In episode 6 of Helluva Boss, Blitzo, having been captured by DHORKS along with Moxxie and hallucinating from the effects of truth serum gas, gets a fairly savage one from his own subconscious:
  hallucination!Moxxie: Admit it, my dear boss. You don’t know what you’re doing half the time, and you depend on me and the missus to manage your foolish flights of fancy.
  Blitzo: I don’t need you. I could do this job on my own so easily!
  hallucination!Striker: But ya don’t wanna do things alone, Blitzo! ^note without the silent ‘o’
  hallucination!Fizzaroli: You tried the solo act. It didn’t work out so well. (demonic robot laughter)
  hallucination!Verosika: Yet you still shove away anyone who gets too close until they resent you for being a selfish, shitty, shit-fuck.
  hallucination!Stolas: Are you afraid to love people, Blitzy?
  hallucination!Moxxie: I believe your subconscious is trying to tell you that you simply cannot fathom proper intimacy, but you also crave it as well. It’s rather unfortunate, sir, considering it’s often how you treat those who stand by you, such as myself. Are you worried I may have enough of it one day, as well?
  Blitzo: STOP FUCKING TALKING, ALL OF YOU!!!
• In How It Should Have Ended kids' version of "The Princess and the Pea", the Princess launches into one upon learning she was being tested and that's why she didn't get a good night's rest:
  The Princess: Woah, woah, woah. I showed up on your doorstep drenched, filthy, and exhausted. And you decided to... test me?!
  The Prince: Um... Yes. It was all a test. But... you passed! So hurray!
  The Queen: And now you two can get married! Hurray!
  The Prince: Yes! Married! Ha ha!
  The Princess: NO! We're not getting married! What is wrong with you people?! That's the meanest thing anyone has ever done to me! Why would I want to marry someone who treats women that way?!
  The Prince: Um... Because I'm a prince!
  The Princess: What was it you said to me last night? Oh, right. I remember. (Jump Cut to the Princess outside the castle with her gear.) Good day!
  The Prince: But wait! You're the only true princess in the land!
  The Princess: Yeah? But you're not the only prince! I'm off to find someone nicer!
• In Hunter: The Parenting, Kitten absolutely rips into Pyotr for his cowardice and cruelty, including targeting a child and betraying and diablerizing his comrades. The speech absolutely enrages Pyotr, not because he has any shame about being a treacherous opportunist, but because Kitten assumed he still had human weaknesses like shame.
• In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, the Emperor starts out the show giving a few of them indirectly to the Inquisition and the Imperium, and as he realizes how deep the shit his Imperium's in has become, has his entire script be a permanent scathing speech at whatever the topic may be. As for other characters, Alicia Dominica gives a rather lengthy offscreen one to Goge Vandire before decapitating him, and Kitten unleashes one whenever asked to speak about the Tau, getting even more vicious than the aforementioned Emperor.
  • The Emperor gives a brutal one to the entire Imperium when he forces Kitten to tell him about The Inquisition for the first time, after making around 5 new Warp Storms out of pure anger. He's so furious over how they'd perverted his words and the Imperium he created that he orders the entire Inquisition disbanded by the end of the episode.
    The Emperor: REALLY, WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU ALL BECOME? LABOR CAMPS AND STERILIZATIONS? MURDER MILLIONS OVER BARE SUPERSTITION? EXCOMMUNICATION OF ACTUALLY LOYAL ASTARTES? HAVE THOUSANDS OF IMPERIAL PLANETS AND ITS VALUABLE ASSETS DESTROYED BECAUSE SOME GUY FAPPED WITH BARBED WIRE AND ACCIDENTALLY SUMMONED A DAEMON OR TWO? BE PAINFULLY HYPOCRITICAL AND USE XENOS AND DAEMONIC WEAPONRY AND AID IN ORDER TO CARRY ACROSS "MY WILL"? USE TECHNO MONKEYS?
    (After Kitten attempts to explain some of the good the Inquisition has done, but only ends up explaining more of their atrocities.)
    The Emperor: JUST. FUCK IT. STOP. THIS ORGANIZATION, HOWEVER IT CAME TO FUCKING BE, IS OBVIOUSLY PURE, CONCENTRATED, WHOLE-GRAIN STUPIDITY AND WHOEVER CAME UP WITH THE IDEA TO CREATE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE IS OBVIOUSLY A FUCKING IDIOT. THEY WALK AROUND AND DO WHATEVER THEY FUCKING FEEL LIKE WHILE LAUGHING REALLY SNARKY AT THE PLEBIAN COMMUNITIES THEY SEE BEFORE THEM. ALL WHILE HAVING THEMSELVES AND ALL THEIR TROOPS ORNATE IN LOADS OF FUCKING SHINY SHIT AND SKULLS TO LOOK OH-SO EMPEROR WORSHIPPING WHEN REALLY THEY ARE JUST CREEPS IN TRENCH COATS, AND THAT IS ALL THEY WILL EVER BE. NOW, READY YOURSELF, SEND THIS MESSAGE TO THE SCRIBES. I WANT IT SENT TO EVERY CORNER OF THE FUCKING GALAXY: I, THE EMPEROR OF MANKIND, HEREBY MAKE MY OFFICIAL DECREE THAT ALL ORGANIZATIONS CONTAINED WITHIN THE THE HOLY ORDERS OF THE EMPEROR'S INQUISITION, AND ADEPTUS MINISTORUM, SHALL BE DISBANDED AND REMOVED FROM EXISTENCE. ALL WHO WORK FOR EITHER ORGANIZATION SHALL RETURN TO THEIR SECTOR OF BIRTH AND WORK THERE AS A REGULAR CITIZEN ONCE MORE. ALL WHO REFUSE SHALL BE BRANDED RENEGADES UNTIL THEY HAVE GIVEN UP THEIR FUTILE STRIVE TO CONQUER THE GALAXY IN THE NAME OF THEIR DOGMATIC RELIGION. SIGNED, THE EMPEROR OF MANKIND.
  • In their second Podcast, The Emperor brings Uriah Olathaire (of "The Last Church" by Graham McNeill) for another debate he thought he would easily win... and then it turns out Uriah became a Chaos priest, and spent the remainder of his afterlife studying theology. Uriah then rips the Emperor a new asshole by tearing apart every single thing that's wrong with him and the Imperium he formed and there are a lot. It has so many truths about it that two of his Custodes, Wamuudes and Custodisi, can't help but agree with Uriah that their Emperor is a huge prick, and Chaos cults start popping up faster than they could be squelched due to his words.
• Homer gives a devastating one to Lisa in SpeedoSausage's animation Lisa Killed Off The Simpsons
  Homer Simpson: Get the fuck out, you little SHIT! YOU LITTLE SHIT!
  Lisa Simpson: W-w-why..?
  Homer Simpson: Because no one fuckin' likes you, that's why. D'you know why people think the new Simpsons episodes suck complete BALLS compared to the old episodes? It's because the writers are trying their fucking HARDEST to make you relevant and likeable, they make you the star of more and more episodes! And all of them just revolve around boring shit like Buddhism and Vegetarianism! All your jokes are fuckin' forced as shit! Fuckin' MAGGIE over here adds more to the show than you, FUCKIN', one episode character F-Frank Grimes, adds more to the show than you! You fuckin' cunt! What do you even- What do you even DO? Just... fuck off!
• In Manga Soprano, the protagonist gives a blistering speech to the antagonist for trying to ruin them, but the translation errors and stilted, phoned-in voice acting make them look silly:
  • In this story, when Kanade's adoptive family shows up to beg her for money after their biological daughter Milano failed to steal the former's fiancé and got pregnant as a result, she tells them:
    Kanade: You guys all told me that you didn't want me. Milano, you stole everything from me. You guys are no family to me. I worked hard to get to where I am. You guys shouldn't rely on me and work hard yourselves too.
  • After becoming a Yakuza, Ram gives her former parents and sister a blistering speech when they show up at the restaurant she and her husband Kairi owned.
    Ram: Don't be silly! I will never forget what you people did to me. I have no obligation to be merciful to you people. Don't think you'll be forgiven just by paying what you ordered!
  • In this chapter, when Junko tried to put Haru down, Narita stops her leading to this exchange (errors in original):
    Narita: Stop it. Haru-chan is not a fool at all. Pretending to talk down about yourself and pulling people down, that's a real fool. You and Haru-chan are nothing but the same.
    Junko: Hmph!! What is it with you people!! I'm done with you, Narita-senpai, you're mean!! I hate you!!
    Narita: What is up with that girl...
• The parody of the SpongeBob episode "Mid-Life Crustacean", "Politically Correct Panty Raid" has Mr. Krabs give one to SpongeBob and Patrick for wanting to steal women's underwear.
  Mr. Krabs: Panty raid? Yer talkin' about girls, right? Girl girls?
  Patrick: Yeah.
  Mr. Krabs: And yer talkin' about raiding their dressers for their underpants, right?
  Patrick: Oh yeah.
  Mr. Krabs: Yer kidding, right?
  Patrick: No, what do you mean? We do this like, once a week.
  Mr. Krabs: Well I mean, it's just, you know. Disrespectful to women.
  Patrick: Come again?
  Mr. Krabs: Boys, that is disgusting. We should beat people up for saying things like that. I never thought I'd hear such an idea coming out of yer mouths. If we wanna grow as a society, we have to stop objectifying women and treat them like people. And to raid their dressers for their underpants? Do you even see them as people? Or just a sexual object whose privacy you can invade whenever you feel need be? Just so you can fulfill your sexual urges. There's still a time to change, boys. What do you say?
  Patrick: What're you, a liberal?
  Mr. Krabs: Oh, come on SpongeBob. You understand, right?
  SpongeBob: Umm, no Mr. Krabs. It's actually not really cool of you.
  Patrick: Yeah. Very uncoral.
  Mr. Krabs: Oh, dear Neptune. Even Plankton has better morals than you boys.
  Patrick: (To SpongeBob) SpongeBob, I think he voted for Joe Biden.
  Mr. Krabs: Bold of you to assume my political stance just because I don't wanna raid Sandy's wardrobe for her underpants.
  SpongeBob: Oh, we aren't doing it to Sandy.
  Sandy: Oh hey boys! You ready for the panty raid?
  Mr. Krabs: What? You too, Sandy?
• Played for Laughs in episode 11 of The Most Popular Girls in School, when, after Deandra gets her arms ripped off, Trisha lays into Ashley Katchadourian because she was not watching the door.
  Trisha: Do you know what these are, Ashley Katchadourian? These are a little girl's arms! A little girl with dreams! (Beat) With legs! With a head! She's a pencil! She's a - swizzle stick! (Beat) You could use her as a pool noodle, and now I'm holding up her arms! H'arms! I'm holding them because you weren’t watching the door!
  Ashley: ...I was at Pearl Harbor.
  Trisha: A girl lost her arms, Ashley Katchadourian! A girl lost her fuckin' arms'! Do you not know what has transpired while you were at Pearl Harbor? Seeing the fuckin' Japanese museum? We had our own Pearl Harbor today. Oh my God! How could you do this to us? You literally bombed us! Like the Japanese you are! And me? I'm Ben Affleck. I'm Ben Affleck and I'm holding up two fuckin' girl's arms. And you're Cuba Gooding Jr. disappointing everybody.
  '''(Ashley runs away crying)
  Trisha: Live with that!
  • Mackenzie, Brittnay, and Trisha simultaneously give one awesome speech to the Atchison High cheer squad in response to their Villainous Breakdown in Episode 30.
• Near the end of Red vs. Blue: Revelation, Tex delivers a short one to Church after she shoots him to their location to Washington and the Meta:
  Tex: I didn't ask to be paired with you. I didn't want to come back. But I'm here now, so I'm gonna put an end to this.
  Church: Tex, I would have helped you.
  Tex: You can't even help yourself. That's why you made me, Church. You made me to take on all the things you can't handle. Just like you always have. Well, guess what, I'm gonna handle it.
  • Church himself delivers a big one to the other members of the Blood Gulch Crew, after they refuse to help him and Carolina take down the Director. This unlike most other examples is played for drama, however, as this gets them to promptly get the same message across to him without saying a single word.
    Church: So that's it? You're just going to turn your back on us?
    Washington: Epsilon, I know that it-
    Church: No, you're right. I guess I should have seen that one coming. It's not exactly like you're new to the concept, is it?
    Sarge: That's a little harsh.
    Church: But you guys, after all the shit you've put me through, I really thought at least you would have my back.
    Grif: Us? What the hell did we do?
    Church: You shot me through the head, you put a bomb in my gut, you killed me with my own damn tank, and that's just how we met!
    Tucker: Church, calm down! What's your problem?
    Church: You're my problem! You've always been my problem! Each and every one of you is just a problem that I have to deal with on a daily basis!
  • Later Sarge combines one with an inspiring piece to Washington when convincing him to help them go back to help Carolina and Church.
    Sarge: You know, there's one thing you Freelancers always seem to forget. And that's the fact that we've managed to kick your ass time and time again. Oh sure, you've got all your smart plans, and your fancy technology, and your advanced training, but, in the end, what has that gotcha? Without a team you can count on and your fellow soldier by your side, all that doesn't really amount to squat, now does it? So instead of standing there bellyaching all day, just tell us, are you gonna keep playing it safe...
    Sarge: or do you wanna get a little reckless?
  • The finale for Season 10 sees Church deliver another large one to the Director, calling him out on everything he's done:
    Church: No! You've had your fucking time. You have to answer for what you did. To the Meta, to Washington, to Carolina, to me and to her! To Texas!
    Director: Hello, Epsilon. You came all this way just to see me?
    Church: I'm here to remember what you've done. Somebody has to!
    Carolina: Church...
    Church: Not all of us got off scot-free, Carolina.
    (Church begins to change into the different AI fragments)
    Delta!Church: He was brilliant...
    Theta!Church: ...and we trusted him!
    Gamma!Church: But he lied to us. He twisted...
    Omega!Church: ...and tortured us, and used us!
    Sigma!Church: Manipulated us for his own purposes, and for what? For this? This...shadow?!
    [...]
    Church: I don't know what I am, but I do know this — I'm more than just a copy of you. I'm better than you.
  • Near the end of Season 12, Washington delivers one to Locus that not only deconstructs Locus' Consummate Professional image but pisses off Locus enough that he abandons his discreet tactics and straight-up tackles him.
    Locus: I'm a professional, Agent Washington. I complete my-
    Washington: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you complete your missions at all cost. You can say that as many times as you want, but I know what you really are. You're a coward.
    Locus: Ridiculous.
    Washington: You keep trying to play yourself off as some sort of weapon. That you don't care about anyone or anything. But the fact that you're trying so hard to understand me breaks your entire act! No matter how hard you may want to be, you're not a machine, you're a murderer. But you hide behind the idea in your head, because you're too afraid to take responsibility for what you've done. I know I used to be a real piece of shit, but at least I'm trying to do something about it.
• RWBY:
  • In Volume 1, Weiss Schnee calls out Ruby Rose for her childish and unleaderlike behaviour, saying she deserves better than what Ruby's giving her. Both girls subsequently receive a gentle reprimand for their behavior from different teachers. After having overheard the argument himself, Ozpin privately tells Ruby leadership is a daunting responsibility, and she must always perform at her best to give others a reason to follow her. Professor Port similarly lectures Weiss for her entitlement, correctly surmising Weiss only lashed out because she wasn't made the leader instead. Ruby and Weiss take those criticisms to heart and improve their attitude.
  • In the Volume 3 episode "Heroes vs. Monsters", after Ruby Rose forces Neo off the ship, she says she's going to stop Roman Torchwick regardless of what he tries. Executing a volley of moves to regain the upper hand, Roman points out to Ruby how dangerous Remnant is, people who try being heroic just get themselves killed, and the only thing Huntsmen do well is die young.
  • In Volume 4, Weiss snaps after overhearing a woman insulting Vale at a fundraising event for the kingdom. She calls out the Atlesians for their petty and self-absorbed behavior, especially since not one of them actually cares about Vale's plight. General James Ironwood remarks she's the only one in the room making sense.
  • In Volume 5:
    • Sienna Khan may have taken the White Fang in a more violent direction under her leadership, but her actions have always been for the sake of Faunus equality. As such, she condemns Adam Taurus for his role in accelerating the Fall of Beacon, telling him that his methods only serve to justify humanity's fear of Faunus; what he sees as a demonstration of strength and conviction, she sees as short-sightedness. Adam, however, has grown popular enough within the White Fang to personally take over the organization; he murders Sienna for her unwillingness to follow him.
    • Yang Xiao Long absolutely tears into Raven Branwen when she confronts her down in the Spring Maiden's vault, taking apart all of her excuses and rationalizations for her actions and revealing Raven for the coward she truly is, ultimately giving Raven the ultimatum of claiming the Relic of Knowledge, willingly putting a target on her back, or letting Yang take it, putting her daughter in danger to protect herself. She chooses the latter, and flees in tears, leaving the Relic to Yang.
  • In Volume 8:
    • Arthur Watts angrily tells Cinder Fall she's not entitled to take what she wants just because she suffered in the past, and her own character faults are the reason why she keeps failing to obtain the power she seeks. His speech is so powerful that she backs off and starts crying.
    • Marrow Amin struggles to accept General Ironwood's increasingly ruthless orders until he finally reaches his breaking point and tells both his boss and his teammates exactly how he feels about their behavior. Upon seeing his fellow Ace-Ops try to justify holding the city of Mantle hostage with a bomb, Marrow explodes at their willingness to "do Salem's job for her". He calls them out for believing in nothing, and rails against the General for betraying the ideals Marrow believed they were fighting for. Winter immediately arrests Marrow and takes him to the brig, deliberately saving his life as Ironwood was about to shoot him in the back for insubordination.
  • In Volume 9, Neopolitan attacks Ruby through physical and emotional means, conjuring illusions of fallen comrades and enemies to call her out for not thinking about the consequences of her actions. Ruby eventually falls into despair through this mental assault and a combination of other factors, and is Driven to Suicide.
• In Spooky Month Hollow Sorrows, Father Gregor berates Lila for her negligence towards Skid, putting him and his friend in many dangers.
  Father Gregor: No wonder your son is unguided.
  Lila: You won’t talk to my son like that!!
  Father Gregor: I understand you are a widow, but your negligence has put your son in many dangers!, you don’t even know why he is here and all you can do is drink?, You are an irresponsible Mother.
  
• In Starter Squad Episode 5, Squirtle delivers one to Charmander about his lack of training skills after Bulbasaur gets caught by a trainer. It's this conversation that causes Charmander to learn empathy (somewhat).
  Charmander: Where's Bulbasaur?
  Squirtle: The human took him.
  Charmander: What?! H-He can't do that!
  Squirtle: I told you Pokémon can't be trainers!
  Charmander: Eh, you tell me a lot of things; none of them matter. Now come on, we're going back for him!
  Squirtle: Oh, and what're we gonna do? Attack them head-on?
  Charmander: Uh, that's an order Squirtle.
  Squirtle: You're just gonna get killed again.
  Charmander: MOVE!
  Squirtle: No! I'm tired of this!
  Charmander: I am your trainer! You have to listen to me! Bulbasaur is my property and we are going back to get him!
  Squirtle: And why should I listen to you, huh? What're you gonna do, hit me?
  Charmander: Yes. *backhands him*
  Squirtle: What makes you think you're qualified to train us? Huh? You have no idea what you're doing!
  Charmander: Excuse me? I am the—
  Squirtle: The what? Strongest? Most "experienced?" It takes more than that to lead, fire-face! All you do is use force to get your way, and you don't know anything else! Bulbasaur is with a real trainer now, and I'm happy for him because he's on a team! Not a dictatorship!
  *Charmander breathes fire in Squirtle's face, to no avail*
  Squirtle: Yeah, that's not very effective. Geez, at least learn the basics!

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