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*** "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E12TheEmpath The Empath]]" has Kirk giving this to the Vians, two members of an advanced society, who scientifically want to determine which race of a system they are going to save, as its sun is about to go supernova. When the aforementioned Empath, whom McCoy named Gem, is put to the test to see, if she possesses the very much human quality to sacrifice her life for another, which is lampshaded as such by the Vians, Gem tries to do it, in spite of her fear, only for the person the sacrifice was meant for, namely McCoy, to refuse. The willingness to sacrifice is not good enough for the Vians though, which leads to Kirk tearing into them and telling them that they are trying to extort this quality from both Gem and them, in spite of having either never possessed it or lost it themselves a long time ago. The Vians don't pay it much heed, until Kirk closes it down with making a real show of human compassion, offering up his own life and the lives of Spock and Gem, along with the life of McCoy for the Vians to do away with, as they do not even wish to leave a dead McCoy behind.

*** "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E12TheEmpath]]" has Kirk giving this to the Vians, two members of an advanced society, who scientifically want to determine which race of a system they are going to save, as its sun is about to go supernova. When the aforementioned Empath, whom McCoy named Gem, is put to the test to see, if she possesses the very much human quality to sacrifice her life for another, which is lampshaded as such by the Vians, Gem tries to do it, in spite of her fear, only for the person the sacrifice was meant for, namely McCoy, to refuse. The willingness to sacrifice is not good enough for the Vians though, which leads to Kirk tearing into them and telling them that they are trying to extort this quality from both Gem and them, in spite of having either never possessed it or lost it themselves a long time ago. The Vians don't pay it much heed, until Kirk closes it down with making a real show of human compassion, offering up his own life and the lives of Spock and Gem, along with the life of McCoy for the Vians to do away with, as they do not even wish to leave a dead McCoy behind.

--> '''Captain America:''' It's not just what makes us human... it's what makes us ''[[TitleDrop Avengers]]''.
* Professor Xavier of the ''ComicBook/XMen'', multiple times. He lives and breathes the message as a creed, firmly believing in the sanctity of life on both sides of the mutant/human conflict while his detractors (Magneto and just about any bigoted human) only want it one way or the other.
** Prof. X has the added difficulty of having to offer such words to a species of people who want to be accepted by humans but aren't, and can easily lash out because they are technically superior (something ComicBook/{{Magneto}} encourages) while being one of those creatures himself. It can be difficult to convince your kind that they need to meet humans with an olive branch and not a dagger when many humans fear ''anything'' and anyone who is different, including Xavier himself. The fact that he can still succeed at it is telling of his vast wisdom and compassion.

** In the ''ComicBook/SupermanBatman'' series, Superman pulls off a mental Patrick Stewart Speech, where he convinces a SocialDarwinist alien race to read his mind and back off of invading Earth.
* Franchise/WonderWoman is also quite fond of this. Though she's a bit more of a realist then Superman, she'll break out the speech when the situation calls for it.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', the emotionless Dr. Manhattan justifies his return to earth with a smaller version of this--he realises that all human lives are "thermodynamic miracles", events that have no logical or probable reason for occurring. They simply shouldn't happen. The fact that he says this in the middle of a giant smiley face ON MARS ([[RealityIsUnrealistic that really exists]]) just drives the point home.
* Don't insult "Earthmen" in front of [[Franchise/GreenLantern The Guardians]]. They find them quite useful. There is a ''reason'' they've made six-plus human Lanterns (with ''four'' currently active).
* Optimus Prime (as usual) delivers one in the [[ComicBook/TransformersGenerationOne Dreamwave]] comics sequel to the original series, and to drive the point home, it contrasts Megatron's earlier HannibalLecture with humans abandoning those trapped under some rubble, and others raiding shops in amongst the chaos - with images of firemen then rushing to save those under the rubble, and the thieves using what they stole to help out as well. Then Optimus lets out a little secret - he ''knows'' the [[HumansAreFlawed majority of humans are assholes]], but he also knows that they're an impressionable lot, and so he fights for those who deserve it - because he knows that if anyone can turn humanity around, it's them. And to put the cherry on this cake of awesome? Those same humans then risk their lives to ram a fire engine right in Megatron's face! And remember - humanity hates all Transformers right about now.
* In ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', Franchise/{{Batman}} gives one to ComicBook/TheJoker in response to his "one bad day" monologue. (The Joker tried to [[DrivenToMadness drive Commissioner Gordon mad]] to prove his claim that one bad day is enough to reduce the sanest man to lunacy).
--> Incidentally, I spoke to Commissioner Gordon before I came in here. He's fine. Despite all your sick, vicious little games, he's as sane as he ever was. So maybe ordinary people don't always crack. Maybe there isn't any need to crawl under a rock with all the other slimy things when trouble hits... Maybe it was just you, all the time.

* Horrifically subverted/inverted in an issue of ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica''. ComicBook/RedSkull is feeling depressed and possibly remorseful after his latest scheme of the week failed so Crossbones gives him an impassioned speech to give him hope. About midway through, the speech becomes a LongList of all the mind-numbingly horrible things Red Skull has done over the years and how everyone he's hurt deserved it.

* Optimus Prime in ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' delivers one of these in response to Ironhide's query of why they fight for the humans, a primitive and violent race.

* Batman gives a speech to ComicBook/TheJoker in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' which, though quite a bit shorter, plays out pretty similarly to the ''[[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke Killing Joke]]'' example above.

This will lead into the hero responding with the Patrick Stewart Speech, in which he may concede that humans are at however severe a disadvantage (at least for the moment), but there is much that is noble about humanity, as well. He notes that they have much potential, and he admires humans' capacity for [[ThePowerOfLove love]]/[[ThePowerOfFriendship friendship]]/[[AFriendInNeed loyalty]]/[[HeroicSpirit courage]]/[[{{Determinator}} persistence]]/whatever virtue it is the writers want to {{Aesop}}. If you hear the sentences "There is much that we could learn from them," or "We were [[NotSoDifferentRemark not so different]], once," you're likely in the midst of a Patrick Stewart Speech.

See also KirkSummation, NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech, HeroismMotiveSpeech, and IntriguedByHumanity. Contrast ShutUpKirk and ShamingTheMob.

*** "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E12TheEmpath]]" has Kirk giving this to the Vians, two members of an advanced society, who scientifically want to determine which race of a system they are going to save, as its sun is about to go supernova. When the aforementioned Empath, whom McCoy named Gem, is put to the test to see, if she possesses the very much human quality to sacrifice her life for another, which is seen as such by the Vians, Gem tries to do it, in spite of her fear, only for the person the sacrifice was meant for, namely McCoy, to refuse. The willingness to sacrifice is not good enough for the Vians though, which leads to Kirk tearing into them and telling them that they are trying to extort this quality from both Gem and them, in spite of having either never possessed it or lost it themselves a long time ago.

The villain, or The GreatGazoo, or just a misguided member of an [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien advanced race]] comments on how, so the member would say, weak, pathetic, cowardly, worthless (or just [[MugglePower un-powered]]) [[PunyEarthlings it thinks humans are]] . "Why do you care about them?" Or, the villain will be more direct and point out that HumansAreTheRealMonsters and thus not worth saving.

-->'''Optimus''': Were we so different? They're a young species; they have much to learn. But I've seen goodness in them. [[CatchPhrase Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.]] [...] We cannot let the humans pay for our mistakes.

* {{Film/Superman}}'s father, Jor-El, does this at least once in the film series: "They can be a great people, Kal-El; they wish to be. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic They only lack the light to show the way. It is this, above all, their capacity for good, that I have sent them you]] ... my only son."

*** {{Averted |Trope}} and to some extent {{Deconstructed |Trope}} in "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS2E02AdAstraPerAspera Ad Astra Per Aspera]]" during [[spoiler:Una's trial for being an Illyrian]]. The prosecutor gives Pike a kindly and sincere warning against testifying just so he can give one of these, pointing out why it would be a serious tactical mistake. In the end, the PatrickStewartSpeech is delivered by the person who should be delivering it: the defence attorney.

** ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': Mixed with ScareEmStraight by Captain Pike at the end of "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS1E01StrangeNewWorlds Strange New Worlds]]": he shows off the awful history of humanity but explains how they ultimately rose above that to help form the United Federation of Planets. That bad history is where the Kileans are headed on their current course, but they have an opportunity now to [[ThisIsThePartWhere just skip over the part where]] they [[WorldWarIII nuke a third of their own population]], and instead come together as a people and join the Federation.

* Parodied in the [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Treehouse of Horror]] segment "Night of the Dolphin." Homer's speech to inspire the humans to fight back contains nothing but minor accomplishments of humanity (except the first one): "[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking We invented computers, leg warmers, bendy straws, peel 'n' eat shrimp, the glory hole, and the pudding cup!]]"
* Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', where Nibbler gladly describes planet Earth as "[[AliensLoveHumanFood homeworld of the pizza-bagel]]." Presumably, other cultures invented pizza and/or bagels (or foods similar to them), but only humanity had ever thought of combining them.

* Butters gives one of these on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. However, he is not arguing against the destruction of humanity; he is just arguing that [[SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers life is too good to waste on being goth]].
** He gives another episode where his father thinks he's "bi-curious" and sends him to a [[CureYourGays Pray-Away-The-Gay camp]], eventually leading to Butters telling off his father and the counselors -- [[InnocentInaccurate while having no idea]] ''what'' "bi-curious" means.
* WesternAnimation/EekTheCat was prone to rattling off long, bizarre and frequently funny lists of what makes Earth so great to some alien bent on [[EarthShatteringKaboom blowing it up]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' Directed to ''one individual'', none other. [[spoiler:As [=BoJack=] stands outside "Pastiches", the rehabilitation center, he simply asks Diane why, after all he has done to her, she's still helping him. Diane simply responds by telling a story about her friend back in high school, Abby, and how she fell with the cool people and turned on her, using everything they had shared as friends against her. But then, her mother got sick, all her so-called friends left on spring break and she was there for her.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:[=BoJack=]]]''': [[spoiler:Why?]]\\
'''[[spoiler:Diane]]''': [[spoiler:Because I'm an idiot. And it was Abby. And I hated her, and I will never forgive her, but she needed me and she was my best friend and I loved her. And now you're here, and I hate you, but you're my best friend, and you need me.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': The climax of the episode "Veritas" has Boimler give one. When he and his fellow Ensigns are (seemingly) on trial for their lives and the lives of their senior officers and Clar doesn't accept their answers that they weren't informed of what happened on the date he specifics, Boimler goes into detail of how not even their officers know what is going on all the time, and that is okay because everyone in Starfleet joined to become ''explorers'', not ''heroes'', and that sometimes means not knowing everything and making mistakes, but learning from them and discovering the unknown anyway. It quickly changes into a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for putting them all through the "trial".
-->'''Clar''': I need you to tell me that your senior officers are infallible heroes!\\
'''Boimler''': Well, they're not, and that's okay. We all joined Starfleet to dive first into the unknown. We're explorers, of course we don't always know what's going on. Did Picard know about [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E16QWho the Borg]]? Did Kirk know about [[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E7TheInfiniteVulcan that giant Spock on Phylos]]? Did Dr. Crusher know about [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E13SubRosa that ghost in the lamp thing from the Scottish planet that she hooked up with that one time]]? That whole thing. You clearly want us to say that the captain and her crew messed up, but we simply don't have the full story, and that's the truth! Whatever they did, I guarantee you it was all for good. You have shown no evidence that they're guilty of a crime, in fact, I find ''you'' guilty of trying to take them down with this [[KangarooCourt sham of a trial]]! [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E21TheDrumhead DRUMHEAD]]!" ''[[MicDrop (drops horn)]]''

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', [[TheHero Touma Kamijou]] delivers a pretty awesome one to [[BigBad Fiamma of the Right]] in Volume 22. Fiamma believed that HumansAreTheRealMonsters and was so disgusted that he wanted to KillAllHumans. [[spoiler: His power, [[HolyHandGrenade The Holy Right]], is increased by [[ThePowerOfHate the malice in his enemies]], so he engineered WorldWarIII and declared humanity his enemy so he could have The Holy Right feed off the conflict and wipe out humanity. Touma points out that if humanity really is as inherently evil as Fiamma says, then engineering World War III would not be necessary; The Holy Right would have been powerful enough to destroy humanity right away. Furthermore, even after starting World War III, Fiamma still didn't destroy humanity right away. He brought insurance by brainwashing Index Librorum Prohibitorum to gain her vast knowledge of magic, kidnapped Sasha Croitsef to gain the telesma (divine energy) in her body, summoned ArchangelGabriel as a minion, and even summoned the StarOfBethlehem as an attack fortress. Even after all this, Fiamma still didn't think he could destroy humanity right away. In addition, several complete strangers, even Accelerator, a former serial killer redeemed by the love of his [[MoralityPet adopted daughter Last Order]], fight the good fight and inspired hope in the people during the war. Touma then accuses Fiamma of believing that deep down, HumansAreGood. [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath The speech gets to Fiamma and he starts to doubt himself]]. He recklessly attacks and Touma punches him out.]]

* ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'':

*** LampShaded in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E6TrueQ True Q]]":

*** "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E1EncounterAtFarpoint Encounter at Farpoint]]" is Q stating HumansAreMorons, with Picard shooting back ShutUpHannibal lines and Q returning ShutUpKirk lines.

* In what is possibly a subtle parody of the concept, the {{Sidekick}} Issun in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' will comment that "Humanity sure was smart coming up with something like this" if you examine one of many [[TheThingThatGoesDoink things that go doink]].

For [[PlayedForLaughs a lighter-hearted version]], end the Patrick Stewart Speech with [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking some relatively minor accomplishment of humanity]]: "And they came up with jelly-filled donuts! How can you hate a species that invented jelly donuts? [[AlienArtsAreAppreciated Have you tried these things?]]"

* In ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', Kirk manages to beat Picard to it a couple of times:
** "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E23ATasteOfArmageddon A Taste Of Armageddon]] has Kirk countering Anan's assertion that without their "simulated" war between Eminiar and Vendikar, actual was is inevitable since like humans they are a "killer species":
--->'''Kirk''': All right. It's instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes. Knowing that we won't kill ''today''.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E19APrivateLittleWar A Private Little War]]" has Kirk pointing out how humanity was once like Tyree's people and in time they too could emerge as a peace loving, intelligent society.
* [[TropeNamer Jean-Luc Picard]] of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', multiple times.
** LampShaded in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E6TrueQ True Q]]":
---> '''Q''': Jean-Luc... Sometimes I think the only reason I come here is to listen to these wonderful speeches of yours.
** Subverted in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E3CodeOfHonor Code of Honor]]". Picard is talking about how wonderful humanity is, then breaks off and says, "forgive me, this is becoming a speech." Troi replies, "You're the captain, you're entitled." Picard then says "I'm not entitled to ramble on about something everyone knows." While looking almost directly at the camera.
** "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E1EncounterAtFarpoint Encounter at Farpoint]]" is Q stating HumansAreMorons, with Picard shooting back ShutUpHannibal lines and Q returning ShutUpKirk lines.
* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'':
** Picard still gives his fair share of these speeches throughout the first season. The ''reaction'' he gets to these speeches varies from one character to the next. Rios, a former Starfleet officer, notes that he was specifically ''warned'' about Picard's reputation for speechmaking, and Admiral Clancy, a former subordinate of his, [[spoiler: cuts him off in the middle of a speech to tell him to ''shut the fuck up'' so she can agree to what he's asking her to do.]]
** One of the antagonists has Picard placed under confinement not because they think Picard himself is dangerous, but [[GenreSavvy because his charismatic speeches might sway their followers.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** Subverted in an episode. After a baseball grudge match between our heroes and a crew of [[StrawVulcan Vulcans]], a pissing match ensues. The various aliens in the crew balk after the Vulcan disses human emotion.
--->'''Ezri Dax:''' Did I forget to wear my spots today?\\
'''Quark:''' All that intelligence and he still doesn't know what a human looks like![[note]]Only 5 of the 11 members of the team were human.[[/note]]
** Also Quark gives such a speech in defence of the Ferengi:
--->'''Quark:''' The way I see it, hew-mons used to be a lot like Ferengi: greedy, acquisitive, interested only in profit. We're a constant reminder of a part of your past you'd like to forget. But you're overlooking something: Hew-mons used to be a lot ''worse'' than the Ferengi. [[FamousFamousFictional Slavery. Concentration camps. Interstellar wars.]] We have nothing in our past that approaches that kind of barbarism. You see? We're nothing like you. We're ''better''.
** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when Sisko is forced to give one of these during the pilot episode ("Emissary"). For one, he's actually standing up for all races of the Alpha Quadrant, not just humans. But the real trick is that the aliens to whom he must give this speech (or die!) lack any familiarity with some of the basic concepts necessary for a Patrick Stewart Speech to work. Primarily, they exist outside of time, and so don't even understand the concept of ''cause and effect''!
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. No doubt directly inspired by the TropeNamer, Q gives a heartfelt speech when he's about to be executed in " [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E10TheQAndTheGrey The Q and the Grey]]", but as the other members of the Continuum know all-too-well that he's an irresponsible JerkAss they're not impressed.
* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'':
** Commander Saru, once he goes through some CharacterDevelopment, eventually gets the self-confidence to deliver several motivational speeches to the crew, both about how capable they are of handling the dangerous missions before them, and of the importance to sticking to their Starfleet ideals [[spoiler: after the discovery that Captain Lorca was a Mirror Universe infiltrator manipulating them for his own gain.]]
** Michael Burnham gives several of these of her own late in the first season, convincing the crew to join her [[spoiler: mutiny against Starfleet Command's orders to destroy the Klingon homeworld]] and later expounding on the importance of sticking to Starfleet's ideals in difficult times.
-->'''Burnham''': A year ago, I stood alone. I believed that our survival was more important than our principles. I was ''wrong''. [[spoiler:Do we need a mutiny today [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight to prove who we are]]?]]
** In the second season, Captain Pike angrily berates Admiral Cornwell for her underhanded tactics and her decision to keep him and ''Enterprise'' out in deep space during the war with the Klingons. She responds with possibly the nicest ShutUpKirk on record.
--->'''Cornwell''': You sat out the war... because if we'd lost to the Klingons, we wanted the best of Starfleet to survive. And as this conversation makes clear, that was you, and all you represent.
--->'''Pike''': ... Thank you.
--->'''Cornwell''': You're welcome. Now will you get off my ass so we can get to work?

* In ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E19APrivateLittleWar A Private Little War]]", Kirk beat Picard to it, pointing out how humanity was once like Tyree's people and in time they too could emerge as a peace loving, intelligent society.

* There is a Jewish legend (probably OlderThanFeudalism) that after the Flood, the angels came to God, and criticized his decision to create the humans, with the way it turned out. God's answers was a passage from the Old Testament which described the sufferings of pregnancy and childbirth. In other words "wait until I'm done".
* In ''Literature/TheBible'', recorded in 2 Kings 19, 2 Chronicles 32, and Isaiah 37, when the Assyrian king Sennacherib is about to invade and conquer Judah, Hezekiah prays to God, recalling how Sennacherib has conquered other countries whose idols were powerless to prevent them from being conquered, boasting that no one would be able to deliver the inhabitants from his hand, and the prophet Isaiah tells him that the Lord will deliver Jerusalem from the Assyrian forces. During the night, an angel comes and slays 185,000 Assyrian soldiers, and after retreating to Nineveh, Sennacherib is slain by his sons.

--->'''[[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]]''': [[PunyEarthlings She is just a human.]] (''[[ImStandingRightHere Chloe was standing right there]]'')\\

* A defining characteristic of Creator/CarlSagan, who had an optimistic view of humanity and Earth's place in the universe even as he showed the world how insignificant we were on a cosmic scale. In fact, because Sagan's most famous Patrick Stewart Speeches were in ''Series/CosmosAPersonalVoyage'', which aired in 1980, it is entirely possible he was the TropeMaker for this trope, and The Next Generation, which began airing in 1987, was inspired by him.

The villain, or The GreatGazoo, or just a misguided member of an [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien advanced race]] comments on how weak, pathetic, cowardly, worthless (or just [[MugglePower un-powered]]) [[PunyEarthlings humans]] are. "Why do you care about them?" Or, the villain will be more direct and point out that HumansAreTheRealMonsters and thus not worth saving.

This will lead into the hero responding with the Patrick Stewart Speech, in which he may concede that humans are weak (at least for the moment), but there is much that is noble about humanity, as well. He notes that they have much potential, and he admires humans' capacity for [[ThePowerOfLove love]]/[[ThePowerOfFriendship friendship]]/[[AFriendInNeed loyalty]]/[[HeroicSpirit courage]]/[[{{Determinator}} persistence]]/whatever virtue it is the writers want to {{Aesop}}. If you hear the sentences "There is much that we could learn from them," or "We were [[NotSoDifferentRemark not so different]], once," you're likely in the midst of a Patrick Stewart Speech.

* In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', [[FutureBadass Future Trunks]] gives one to [[FusionDance Merged]] [[OmnicidalManiac Zamasu]] when the latter mocks him for being weak:

* ''Fanfic/FateHaremAntics'': In an omake, Gunner/Oda Nobunaga battles Gilgamesh, who dismisses modern humans as weak and worthless. Nobunaga says while individually humans are weak, by working together, they were able to do wonders like go to space. Such a talent for innovation is worth defending.

'''Sailor Galaxia''': Stop joking! This world can not be protected by someone who won't fight! It's because of your weakness that [[ClimacticBattleResurrection all your friends are gone!]]

* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', when Scaglietti's HannibalLecture has paralysed Fate into inaction, Erio and Caro do this to counteract it. In this case, it's about Fate's own worth rather than that of humanity as a whole, but it still fits here.

* Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', where Nibbler gladly describes planet Earth as "[[AliensLoveHumanFood homeworld of the pizza-bagel]]." Presumably, other cultures invented pizza and/or bagels ([[AlienLunch or foods similar to them]]), but only humanity had ever thought of combining them.

* Horribly subverted in an episode of the CBS revival of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985''. SufficientlyAdvancedAliens land, claim [[NeglectfulPrecursors they triggered humanity's evolution]] and [[YouHaveFailedMe threaten to wipe them out for not reaching their potential]] (mentioning their only virtue seems to be "a small talent for war"). A human diplomat delivers a Patrick Stewart Speech and buys humanity 24 hours to demonstrate why they should be spared; the governments of the world quickly put together a comprehensive world-wide agreement to stop all fighting. The next day the diplomat presents the treaty to the alien representative; he looks at it... [[MassOhCrap and laughs]]. He explains that [[HumansAreWarriors humans were placed on Earth to evolve into powerful warriors.]] Instead they've merely developed [[IronicEcho the aforementioned "small talent for war"]], and the global peace treaty proves their inherently pacifist nature. There's nothing left for the aliens to do but [[ApocalypseHow scour the planet clean]] and start over again elsewhere.

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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':