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* In ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'', Vivienne and San telepathically communicate with [[spoiler:San's Ghidorah-attached counterpart]], and they explain to him why Vivienne is attached to San but not him, and they convince him that he can be free of Ghidorah if he frees himself first. [[spoiler:As a result of this conversation, the Ghidorah-attached San turns against Ichi and Ni, helping Monster X, Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan and the other Earth Titans to subdue Ghidorah [[HeroicSacrifice at the cost of his own life]]]].

!Examples:

* Apple Pie in the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' can do this to certain monsters due to her [[LogicBomb power as the Element of Laughter]]. The first time happens, ironically, completely accidentally when she's talking with her 'new friend' Halflight Dawn (who is actually [[TheDragon Twilight Tragedy]] in disguise) and manages to undermine Discord's brainwashing to the point it ultimately enables Twilight to break free and pull a HeelFaceTurn. Later, she manages to wipe out a ''zombie army'' simply by pointing out the paradoxical fact that they're apparently dead and alive at the same time. She also manages to convince one of Discord's {{Mooks}} to take up knitting in the middle of a battle and blow up a robotic minion via LogicBomb. However, this doesn't work on Rancor or Discord, due to Concepts being immune to paradoxes.
* In ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/259631/a-second-chance A Second Chance,]]'' Twilight does this with every BigBad to appear on the show. [[spoiler: However, it only works on King Sombra, Sunset Shimmer, and the Dazzlings.(It ''almost'' works on Nightmare Moon, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero but her friends arrive in time to make think that she's just being tricked.)]]]]

* ''Fanfic/WhiteSheepRWBY'': When the heroes realize they ''cannot'' defeat [[spoiler:the gods in a fight (three armies using all their powers and divine relics don't even make the God of Darkness blink)]], Yang goes for another tactic. She lays all her cards on the table and points out that [[spoiler:the God of Light has been screwing over the God of Darkness for as long as the world has existed; the God of Darkness did half the work but the God of Light was the one who got all the love and adoration. The God of Light even broke the rules he was supposedly enforcing by gifting humanity the Relics and Silver Eyes; it was a cheat so that if humanity did redeem themselves, the God of Light would get all the credit for ''that'', too. The God of Darkness turns on his brother, defeats him, and humanity promises to worship him forever for saving the world. He departs, but leaves behind a more reasonable balance than the one his brother was enforcing]].
* In ''Fanfic/CravingTheSky'', Weiss, who is secretly a [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]] in this story, uses her knowledge of their [[HideYourOtherness similar circumstances]] to call out Ilia on the underlying self-hatred and shame that's fueling her anger during the White Fang attack on Amity Colosseum. Despite being beaten, disarmed, and completely at Ilia's mercy, Weiss is able to use this opening to talk her down from planting a bomb in Amity Colosseum's engines and instead place it somewhere that will get the White Fang's message across without killing anyone.
* In ''Fanfic/ForgivenessIsTheAttributeOfTheStrong'', a ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' fanfiction, [[spoiler:Izuku is able to persuade Tomura to defect from All for One’s side by revealing that All for One gave him Decay and triggered the deaths of his family years ago]].
* ''Fanfic/MyHeroPlaythrough'': Upon reaching the end of the first level of [[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun Mikoto's]] Dungeon, the Heroes in training are confronted by the boss, [[TheDreaded the Tokiwadai Dorm Supervisor]]. Mikoto freezes in fear. The others prepare to fight. [[Franchise/SailorMoon Ami]] calmly points out to the boss that Mikoto has graduated from Tokiwadai and is a UA student. As such Mikoto doesn't have a curfew, and even if she did, the Dorm Supervisor no longer has the authority to enforce it. When the Dorm Supervisor argues that they are in Tokiwadai uniforms, Ami explains that it is an illusion (Izuku having already confirmed that their tracksuits were unchanged on his Inventory screen), and she might want to check if one of the Tokiwadai students is trying to distract her. This ends the illusion, at which point the boss congratulates Mikoto and leaves.
* In ''Fanfic/MiraculousNinja'', Theresa gets Akumatized into Jeerleader by Shadow Moth after getting rejected by the people she tried to help and nearly [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill burns Ladybug and Chat Noir alive]] after the duo only worsened her state of mind. Thankfully, Randy showed up in just the nick of time with a present and assures her that she's a great person to be around before [[LoveConfession confessing his love for her]]. This was more than enough to calm Theresa down.
* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Walburt prevents a Giant Subterranean Lizard from eating him by casting ''speak with animals'' and claiming to be the alpha-lizard, despite a complete lack of evidence. The lizard ends up ''agreeing with him'' after he beats it in a push-up contest!

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* In ''VideoGame/IcewindDale 2'', if you can impress a demon enough by demonstrating knowledge of his kind, he'll leave without a fight. You can also unnerve a Barghest and its brood (provided you didn't kill him earlier) from a fight by showing him the dead kitty you've been carrying around for no reason since the beginning of the game. If you also happen to be carrying a dead man and a dead woman (and have enough ranks in Intimidate), the Barghest will run off in fear because someone as deranged as you ''clearly'' isn't to be messed with.
-->'''Yquog''': You... I... But... [[EvenEvilHasStandards By Iyachtu Xvim, you're SICK!]] You hold no concept or understanding for things alive or dead! I want no part of you, not when I'm so close to maturity! Collect all the bodies you want, sick fleshy mortal, but you'll not have mine! I'll leave this place, and you, in peace and never return, of this I swear!\\
'''PlayerCharacter''': Oh, well, okay, if you insist. Pity, though, you'd have made a fine addition to my pretty, tender collection...\\
'''Yquog''': AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
* ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' allows the player to literally talk some [=NPCs=] to death, including the final boss, and avoid many other enemies or dangerous situations merely by virtue of having a high enough Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma. This is largely because its world is [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve shaped by belief]].
** And in the case of the final boss, it's [[spoiler:an aspect of the hero himself]]. Convincing it to [[spoiler:rejoin with him]] whether by threats, trickery, sincerity, or force of will results in a somewhat better ending than simply destroying it.
** A flashback to one of the main character's past selves has the most literal example in an academic debate. He argues that his opponent does not in fact exist. As much as the opponent would like to object to that, he [[PuffOfLogic cannot find any flaws in the argumentation, and thus vanishes from existence]].
* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series is famous for this. In almost every game, you can talk the BigBad down by just telling him how flawed his plan is.
** In ''VideoGame/Fallout1'' (from the makers of the Planescape game above), the BigBad, the Master, could be beaten like this. The Master is at his core a WellIntentionedExtremist who believes he can save mankind by forcibly turning every human into a MasterRace of Super Mutants, but by talking to several scientific experts on the subject around the wasteland, the Vault Dweller can learn that the Super Mutants are in fact all sterile, and can pick up a holodisk on Super Mutant anatomy containing this information as evidence. All of this unlocks a dialogue choice in the final confrontation with the Master, where the Dweller can confront him with the fact his plan is doomed to failure because of the Super Mutants' inability to reproduce and present the evidence to him. The Master [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone despairs at what he has done]] when he learns that the evidence checks out and all he did was for naught, and commits suicide and initiates his base's self-destruct mechanism.
** The final boss of ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' could not be directly talked to death, as no matter what you say he dismisses all your claims and will eventually attack. However, you ''can'' talk to his bodyguards and ask them to side with you against them, and you can also reprogram the automated turrets in his chamber to attack him. [[note]] You'll probably want the extra firepower/cannon fodder. Frank's considered ''The'' toughest boss in the franchise[[/note]]
--->'''Chosen One''': Can't we talk this over?\\
'''Frank Horrigan''': We just did. Time for talking's '''over.'''
** In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', you can talk down [[CutsceneBoss Eden]] and [[ZeroEffortBoss Autumn]] (well, Autumn doesn't die but just walks away) in the main quest by pointing out that they've either already lost or that they can't even keep order in their own organization and have no chance at taking over the wastes.
*** ''Fallout 3'' again, in the add-on ''Operation: Anchorage'', the general of the Chinese forces in the simulation can be convinced to [[InterchangeableAsianCultures commit seppuku]][[note]]the simulation was designed by an American general who presumably didn't know Chinese from Japanese culture[[/note]] by passing a speech challenge. Once again, you do this by pointing out that his army is dead and his fortress is surrounded by power armor-wearing American super soldiers.
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' lets you convince [[FinalBoss Legate Lanius]] to pull back the remains of his army and retreat... if you have a Speech or Barter skill of ''100''. Depending on the dialogue path you take, you either bluff him into retreating or point out that this army has no chance of conquering the New California Republic even if they somehow take Hoover Dam, due to their horrific logistical situation. If you're on either the House or Independent route, you can also do this to [[PostFinalBoss General Oliver]], convincing him to withdraw the NCR (which should be simple enough if you're already capable of talking down Lanius).
*** You can also pretty much talk down 99% of all non-random fights.
*** You can talk down Ulysses in the ''Lonesome Road'' add-on for ''New Vegas'' by using his own philosophy to single him out as a hypocrite or by convincing him of your belief in your chosen faction.
*** Ditto the Think Tank in ''Old World Blues'', this time either befriending four of them and setting them against the fifth one or convincing them you're actually their enemy, Dr. Mobius.
*** Salt-Upon-Wounds from the ''Honest Hearts'' add-on for ''New Vegas'' can also be talked down, but only in one of the two ending quests. Otherwise, he is unceremoniously executed or runs away on his own.
*** Downplayed with Father Elijah, whom you cannot talk down. The most you can do is convince him to meet you face-to-face via a speech check, which gives you the opportunity to leave him trapped in the [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere inescapable Sierra Madre vault]] (technically the right reputation allows convincing him that collaring you was a mistake and you should work together, but it acts as a NonStandardGameOver).
** Subverted in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', as there's no real final boss to talk down no matter what storyline you end up siding with. The closest thing is convincing [[spoiler:Shaun]] to hand over his personal password to help you shut down some Synths on your way, and at that point [[spoiler:he's an old man dying of cancer and not a physical threat]].
*** The [=DLCs=] however allow you to talk a potential adversary out of a fight. In ''Far Harbor'', you can convince High Confessor Tektus to either walk away (if you're replacing him with a Synth double) or talk him into blowing up his cult with the nuke in their base.
*** In ''Nuka World'', while not the final boss you can talk down Oswald the Outrageous either by passing a high-level speech check or giving him a holotape of his girlfriend, which convinces him to leave Nuka World and take his ghouls with him. He'll even give you his sword and hat.
* In the ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' series, the protagonist can talk demons into leaving, giving money or magnetite, or becoming a minion.
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/Persona4'' ''[[UpdatedRerelease Golden]]'', where after discovering the identity of the SerialKiller and confronting him with the party, if you kept up the Social Link with him you're given the option to meet with him alone. [[PlayerCharacter Yu]] tries to talk some sense into him and rely on the PowerOfTrust, only to be called an idiot and be told that the version of [[spoiler: [[BigBad Adachi]]]] he trusted [[WishfulProjection never existed]].
* ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' also from the ''Fallout'' designers, allows the player to have a philosophical debate with the BigBad, who is an OmnicidalManiac. The player can convince the villain to give up and let himself be killed peacefully if they can poke enough holes into his logic.
* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'' and its expansions:
** In ''NeverwinterNights/ShadowsOfUndrentide'', Tymofarrar is, unusually for a white dragon, not particularly hostile or malevolent to begin with, quite intelligent, and rather eccentric by any standard. It's fairly easy to talk your way through his lair without fighting him or his kobold minions. Even without the phylactery that EvilSorceress J'Nah was planning on using to kill him, there are a number of ways to negotiate with him, not the least of which being striking up a friendship with the kobold he trained as a bard —-- Deekin, who eventually becomes a companion option.
** A variation occurs in the ''NeverwinterNights/HordesOfTheUnderdark'' expansion: if you managed to get Mephisto's [[IKnowYourTrueName true name]] right before the final battle with him at the end of the game, you can use it to stop the fight before it even begins. This only works if you have his name, and with it you can do different things based on your CharacterAlignment and conversation options you choose, such as: order him to drop dead, order him to return to Hell, or even order him to give you command of Hell and become your either you partner or lackey. Your choices have major effects on the epilogue.
** In the community module ''VideoGame/TheBastardOfKosigan'', your character gets to hold a conversation with your recently-deceased father's ghost. Not forgiving him makes him take damage, but you can choose to forgive him completely and avoid the battle at the end.
* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'', you can convince a demon that merely by talking to you, it has failed in its assigned task to knock down a door, and has failed its master. Since failing its master is punished by death, it promptly keels over.
* ''VideoGame/Portal2'' reveals that Aperture's contingency plan for a rogue AI was to feed it a paradox. This would theoretically cause the AI to divert all its attention to solving the paradox and [[LogicBomb burn out as a result]]. Early in the third act, [=GLaDOS=] attempts to use this on Wheatley, knowing she might destroy herself as well. However, both end up surviving: [=GLaDOS=] manages to distract herself, and Wheatley is TooDumbToFool.
* In ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'', the only way to defeat [[spoiler: Darth Sion]] is to talk to him in the breaks between combat. Eventually, you succeed in weakening his will to live, at which point he accepts death peacefully. Roughly:
-->'''Exile''': [[spoiler: Sion]]...your life...was it worth living?\\
[[spoiler: '''Darth Sion''']]: It was not. No matter how many Jedi I killed...no matter how many lay broken at my feet...the pain would not end. I am glad to be rid of this place.
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', you can talk your way out of a few fights using the Charm and Intimidate skills. You can even [[HeelRealization convince]] the BrainwashedAndCrazy Saren that siding with Sovereign will save nobody. [[spoiler:Realizing that Sovereign has irreparably taken control over his mind and body, he pulls out his gun and shoots himself in the head.]]
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', [[spoiler:the Illusive Man can be made to realize that he too is indoctrinated and his actions are doing far more harm to humanity than good. He eventually admits the painful truth and chooses the exact same solution as Saren did... if you got all the pertinent reputation checks while talking to him throughout the game, and picked the Charm option at the final dialogue check]].
** In The Citadel DLC in Mass Effect 3, Liara attempts to invoke this trope. When the mercenaries you're fighting complain that her drone is annoying with the way that it keeps telling them how badly they're going to lose, she orders it to lower their morale by being even more annoying.
* Inverted in one chapter of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea|HourOfDarkness}}'', where the ''monsters'', knowing that [[NobleDemon Laharl]] is AllergicToLove, bombard him with happy and cheerful sayings, sapping his powers for the duration of that battle.
** Amused by this, Flonne even joins in with her happy message of eternal love. The irony of the moment is that Laharl wouldn't have been impaired (as badly?) had Flonne NOT joined in. The monsters are just saying it, Flonne [[LoveFreak REALLY believes it]].
* The Mediator class in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' has the "Death Sentence" skill, which kills its target in three turns if successful.
** There is also the much milder skill "Mimic Darlavon" ("Daravon" in the previous localization,) which simply puts the enemy to sleep by droning on and on and on, like the tutorial-dispensing Professor.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' has a Clan Trial where you need to chase off some monsters. Not with spells and swords, but picking the right interaction (stare down, threaten, etc).
* This is a staple of the ''VideoGame/Mother'' series.
** ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'': In the final battle, Giygas cannot be physically harmed. In order to beat him, Ninten and his party must sing the lullaby once sung by Giygas' [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas adoptive human mother]]. Unable to cope with his emotion, Giygas flees the planet.
** ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'': Giygas has gained so much power since the last game that he is now a [[AlmightyIdiot mindless]] EldritchAbomination. It is impossible for the Chosen Four to physically harm him because there's nothing physical to harm. Instead, Paula must use her near-useless [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve Pray]] ability to summon the aid of everyone they met on their journey, even the [[BreakingTheFourthWall player]]. Overwhelmed by emotions, Giygas is vanquished.
** ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'': Heartbreakingly subverted. The final boss of the game is [[spoiler:The Masked Man - formerly Lucas' brother, Claus. Lucas cannot bring himself to hurt his own brother, so he must guard and heal himself until his mother's voice tells them to stop fighting. Claus, no longer BrainwashedAndCrazy, commits suicide to stop Porky's influence over him, and [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dies in his brother's arms]]]].
* Early on in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'', you can encounter an evil cleric named Bassilus and his army of skeletons and zombies. If you pick the right threads in the DialogueTree, he loses control over his undead minions and they all fall apart, making the fight against him that much easier.
** In the sequel, you eventually meet a Spectator (a non-evil Beholder) who is magically bound to guard a box containing an item you need. The most obvious solution is to kill him, but with a high enough Wisdom, you can point out to him that [[spoiler:the wizard bound him to [[ExactWords guard the box, not the ''contents'' of the box]]. . ]].
* In ''VideoGame/FlightOfTheAmazonQueen'', you encounter a gorilla blocking your way; you can get rid of it by telling it that it doesn't exist. (And even if it existed, it has no business being in South America when gorillas only live in Africa.)
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' has a Talk option suddenly appear during the last boss battle that allows [[spoiler: Tidus]] to talk down [[spoiler: his father, Jecht, who "is" Sin]]. It doesn't beat him or do any damage, but it takes down his [[LimitBreak Overdrive meter,]] which in his [[OneWingedAngel soul-crushingly painful sword-wielding form]] is more than worth spending a turn on.
** But it only works three times, after which it's implied that [[spoiler:Jecht has lost consciousness, if not control, of his Final Aeon form]]. From there, one's only option is to open a can of whoop-ass.
** The option also appears for certain party members in [[spoiler:the first three fights with Seymour]], granting them a boost to their statistics as well as some amusing BossBanter.
* Possible in a roundabout manner in ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheFateOfAtlantis'': [[spoiler: by exploiting Ubermann's lust for power so that he uses the ascension machine on himself]].
* ''VideoGame/ScarfaceTheWorldIsYours''. Inverted. Become sufficiently awesome (Balls points) and you can talk women into joining your harem. Health benefits (resistance to damage, etc.) later follow.
* In ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny]]'', [[GentlemanThief Dampierre's]] finisher just has him telling the opponent a sob story and ends with them giving him a coin while they go off to cry. Even on characters like Lizardman, Nightmare and Astaroth.
* ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'' has a lot of situations where talking to the right people beforehand can make certain fights much easier (for instance, being friends with [[HeroicComedicSociopath Steven Heck]] can make [[DiscoDan Brayko]] a lot easier to fight), but the only boss fight you can outright talk your way out of is [[spoiler:the rematch with Conrad Marburg if you didn't kill him in Rome]], which requires high reputation [[spoiler:or the piece of evidence that proves Parker was the one who cut him loose during his Deus Vult days]].
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', wandering through Denerim's market may lead you to be confronted by a royal knight who fully believes [[spoiler:Loghain's lies that the Grey Wardens murdered the king (it was really Loghain leaving him to die)]] and demands that you face him in honorable combat. With a good persuasion skill, you can make him question why [[spoiler:the Wardens would want the king dead]], and, unable to think of an answer, he agrees to back off.
* The final showdown with Tolwyn in ''VideoGame/WingCommander IV'' is this. You need to [[EngineeredPublicConfession make the dialog choices to get Tolwyn to trip up and reveal all his dirty deeds]], so the Great Assembly will vote against his call for war, and he will hang himself in his cell during the final cutscenes.
* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'':
** A variation in the original ''VideoGame/DeusEx''. You can bypass two boss fights by discovering their killphrases before confronting them.
** ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' gives you the opportunity to use diplomacy to overcome some situations. Unfortunately, the main bosses can't be beaten this way. In an inversion, once you public disgrace [[spoiler: Isaias Sandoval]] you have the option to talk him out of killing himself and into helping you.
** ''VideoGame/DeusExMankindDivided'': Certain antagonists can be talked out of fighting you. The FinalBoss can't be talked down but it's possible to obtain a Killswitch to take him down.
* There is a nice final boss fight beforehand, but this is how the BigBad [[spoiler: Lambda]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' is ultimately defeated. Following Asbel's eager PatrickStewartSpeech, Lambda [[spoiler: agrees to give humans a chance, merges with Asbel, and becomes dormant]].
* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'', at the end of the first act of the Imperial Agent story, the agent can do this to the BigBad by pointing out that a) his plans require their cooperation, which they're not going to give and b) if he kills them, their allies will retreat with knowledge of his identity and plans, which will bring the Empire and Republic alike down on his head. Left with no winning play, the BigBad surrenders and is forced to bargain on their terms.
* The premise of ''VideoGame/TheLogomancer'' is that all "battles" are actually like this. They still play like typical JRPG conflicts, though.
** There is one point where this is done literally, and the "a JRPG without killing" tagline is proven wrong: [[spoiler:Stanislav Anarkum's Malformed Thought, the FinalBoss. Winning the battle involves convincing it to kill itself]].
* ''VideoGame/CitizensOfEarth'' includes so many cases of this that "verbal" is actually one of the elemental types. The first character you recruit is your mother, who attacks by giving monsters a lecture.
* A major aspect of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' is the ability to talk your way out of every fight, although it does not actually cause the thus "defeated" monsters to die.
** In one case, it's even used on [[spoiler:''the Player themself'', where [[WideEyedIdealist Papyrus]] makes an [[KirkSummation earnest plea]] about the human child/Player's [[SociopathicHero behavior]] and that [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre you can be a great person if you just try]], offering his friendship in spite of admitting after the fact that he was [[ObfuscatingStupidity a little afraid of being killed]] should the Player decide to spare him. Even if killed, despite showing some surprise at being [[LosingYourHead reduced to a talking head]], he'll use his last moments [[PowerOfTrust reiterating that he knows you can do better.]] [[PlayerPunch Because of this,]] many Genocide Runs have ended with Papyrus before even reaching [[ThatOneBoss Undyne]] or [[SNKBoss Sans]].]]
* The "boss battle" of Chapter 1 of ''Strawberry Jam'' involves [[PlayerCharacter Jam]] trying to convince the [[WellIntentionedExtremist King]] into [[spoiler:giving up his goal to make everyone work in his caramel factory]].
* In ''VideoGame/TormentTidesOfNumenera'', there are a number of enemies that the [[PlayerCharacter Last Castoff]] can deal with this way. Most prominently, very near the end, they can [[spoiler:convince the Specter to delete himself]]. There's also the way [[spoiler:the Specter]] and [[spoiler:the Sorrow]] play with this: [[spoiler:they try to convince the Last Castoff to accept death, which [[PressXToDie the player can accept]]. The Sorrow [[HeroicSacrifice even makes a decent argument for it]], leading to a [[MultipleEndings proper ending]] and not a NonStandardGameOver]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Tyranny}}''[='s=] branching paths allow enemies to be turned into allies and vassals, forcing them to swear loyalty to the evil empire of Overlord Kyros. The most triumphant example of this is likely having [[spoiler:Tunon, the Archon of Justice,]] bend the knee to [[PlayerCharacter the Fatebinder]], up to that point [[spoiler:one of Tunon's own agents and on trial for ''treason'' mere moments before]].
* From ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'':
** Enforced in ''The White March'' DLC, where the final confrontation with [[spoiler:the Eyeless]] must be resolved through dialogue in one of the game's {{Gamebook|s}} segments.
** Conspicuous by its absence with the FinalBoss of the first game, with BigBad Thaos having become so thoroughly convinced of the rightness of his cause and the necessity of the atrocities he's committed along the way that he absolutely cannot be talked down and will try to kill the Watcher one final time. [[spoiler:HeroAntagonist Eothas in the sequel is also noteworthy for being physically unstoppable, succeeding in his ultimate ambition, and very likely having won over the player to his point of view regarding the necessity of destroying the Great Wheel, bringing an end to the cycle of reincarnation and the power of gods over mortals within the setting. The Watcher can't stop Eothas, but they ''can'' at least make Eothas think about how they can best help Eora move on from the end of the Great Wheel.]]
** Invoked by this name in ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'', specifically in the ''Beast of Winter'' DLC, where the Watcher is able to persuade [[spoiler:the ancient {{Dracolich}} Neriscyrlas]] to succumb to the entropy and oblivion offered by Rymrgand, the god of cold. When you get back to the nearby village and the townsfolk ask what happened, the Watcher has the option of simply saying "I talked it to death."
* ''VideoGame/PathfinderKingmaker'', being true to its [[TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} tabletop roots]], allows you to talk with enemies [[DefeatMeansFriendship and possibly gain their allegiance]] throughout the game. This trope is present when dealing with the BigBad [[spoiler: Nyrissa, who can be convinced that fighting you simply wouldn't be worth it]].
* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey'', the final confrontation with [[EvilCounterpart Deimos]] can end with you convincing them to stand down and [[spoiler:return to your family as your sibling]]. This requires you to choose dialog options in your previous encounters that convinces them to doubt the cult as well as [[spoiler:assuring your mother that you will save them]].
* A less direct example; In the final level of ''VideoGame/TheOuterWorlds'', just before confronting the FinalBoss you have a final conversation with your chosen antagonist (which varies depending on whether or not you side with Phineas or The Board) where you get the chance to convince them to give up, thereby letting you completely bypass the final boss fight, though this requires a combination of dialog and other skills. It's slightly more literal if you're confronting [[spoiler:Phineas, since talking him down culminates in him shooting himself]].
* Played with in the climactic "Tribunal" in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', where you confront [[spoiler:a group of unstable mercs engaging in a stand-off with the local militia]]. You cannot actively talk them out of backing off and it is made very clear that they'll accept nothing other than bloody satisfaction. However, by carefully choosing your words and arguing with their leader, you can potentially throw them off their guard and thus [[spoiler:leaving them open for when you decide to take a shot at said leader, thus taking him out of the fight and leaving the others in disarray that results in minimizing the casualties]].
* In ''VideoGame/TheForgottenCity'', after collecting all the tablets, you get an audience with [[spoiler:the God of the Underworld,]] who created the city as a wager to see if humans are able to not commit a single sin for a year [[spoiler:to prove they are worthy of ascension]]. Using what you've experienced, you can prove that his definition of "sin" is far from perfect and that he was given an impossible task in the first place, giving him no more reason to trap the people in the city. The other more brute-force method is [[spoiler:killing his wife Proserpena and taking her crown, and show it to him on the next time loop [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu saying you'll keep doing this until he relents]].]]
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* In ''Breaking Dawn'' of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series, a great battle pitting vampire against vampire is waived in favor of a lengthy discussion. Everyone goes home without a single punch thrown.

* Played with in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': Since mazoku feed on negative emotions, [[LoveFreak Amelia's]] justice speeches tend to leave Xellos feeling rather queasy.

* The {{subverted|Trope}} version is used in the [[ClimaxBoss Climactic mid-way]] BossBattle of the {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VA of ''Anime/RecordOfLodossWar'' (which also happens to be the final battle in the first manga, where this trope is also used, since the OVA [[CompressedAdaptation condensed]] the story dramatically. [[spoiler: Ghim insists that Leylia still exists within her possessed body, and shows a comb he made for her, which allows Leylia a foothold, distracting Karla long enough for the [[PlayerParty Party]] to defeat her. Too bad the SixthRanger Woodchuck was possessed next.]]

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Touma Kamijo is as fond of doing this as he is punching out the bad guy. Sometimes he does both.

* In ''Manga/{{Unico}} in the Island of Magic'', Unico pulls it off against Kuruku in a literal example of killing with kindness.

* In ''Anime/BigO'' the final confrontation is not a traditional Megadeus fight. [[spoiler:Instead, Roger Smith has a final negotiation in the form of a speech directed at Big Venus aka Angel. The stakes are quite high since Big Venus is erasing reality all around it as it draws closer and closer. Roger is ultimately able to convince Big Venus that memories make life meaningful even if they aren't real memories. The result is something of a GainaxEnding, but Paradigm City gets to see another day.]]

* During the climax of [[Creator/{{Sanrio}} Sanrio Animation's]] ''Anime/UnicoInTheIslandOfMagic'', Manga/{{Unico}} is [[HornAttack forced to use his horn]] to defeat [[BigBad Lord Kuruku]] after [[MartialPacifist trying to avoid attacking him]]. After Kuruku tells Unico that he severely damaged him, [[ApologeticAttacker Unico instantly apologizes to him]]. Not only for hurting him, but because [[SympathyForTheDevil he genuinely felt sorry for him]] after [[DarkAndTroubledPast learning about his past]]. He then tells Kuruku that he doesn't have to hate humanity for how he was treated, [[AllLovingHero Unico]] even tells Kuruku that he would love to become his [[OnlyFriend first friend]] and not be lonely anymore. Unfortunately for Unico, this only makes [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Kuruku]] even weaker and slowly killing him.

* This is a staple of the ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' series.
** ''[[VideoGame/MOTHER1 Earthbound Beginnings]]'': In the final battle, Giygas cannot be physically harmed. In order to beat him, Ninten and his party must sing the lullaby once sung by Giygas' [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas adoptive human mother]]. Unable to cope with his emotion, Giygas flees the planet.
** ''VideoGame/EarthBound'': Giygas has gained so much power since the last game that he is now a [[AlmightyIdiot mindless]] EldritchAbomination. It is impossible for the Chosen Four to physically harm him because there's nothing physical to harm. Instead, Paula must use her near-useless [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve Pray]] ability to summon the aid of everyone they met on their journey, even the [[BreakingTheFourthWall player]]. Overwhelmed by emotions, Giygas is vanquished.

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** Fluttershy [[TookALevelInBadass Takes a Level in]] BadassAdorable in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E7Dragonshy Dragonshy]]", and confronts a dragon this way just as he's about to smash her friends. [[spoiler:She does this again in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster Stare Master]]" against a cockatrice ''as she's being turned to stone''.]] [[spoiler:And [[RuleOfThree '''yet again''']] with ''Discord'', who performs a HeelFaceTurn.]]

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' tries a "we humans are noble creatures who can forgive our enemies" variant during a standoff with the newly reawakened elder god Illyria, but he is interrupted midway through by Wesley, who calmly fires his gun and murders the man who caused Illyria's rebirth. Angel is rather understandably annoyed: "Were you even listening??"

* The Shadows and the Vorlons were convinced to leave the galaxy after being told off by Sheridan, Delenn, and Lorien in ''Series/BabylonFive''.
** It is a little more complicated than that, but not by much.
** Another ''Series/BabylonFive'' example -- during the civil war between Sheridan's forces and Earth Force ships loyal to President Clark, Sheridan convinces one of the enemy ship captains that Clark's orders are illegal and that he should therefore disobey them. That decision is briefly reversed when the other ship's first officer takes over and then re-reversed when the ship's crew takes the first officer into custody.
** The phrase "Be Somewhere Else" (backed by considerable firepower) convinced a Clark-loyal Earthforce fleet to flee the field of battle. [[labelnote:It's a pretty good speech.]]Earthforce Captain: "Do not force us to engage your ship!" Delenn: "''Why not?'' Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else."[[/labelnote]]
** In the first season, Sinclair talked one MonsterOfTheWeek into committing suicide (more or less).
* In the ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' finale, [[spoiler: Baltar pulls this off with Cavil, getting him to agree to a permanent peace in exchange for resurrection technology, which the Final Five agree to. Then Galen kills Tory, and all hell breaks loose]].
* Xander Harris saves the world from Season Six's Big Bad on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' this way. Said Big Bad was [[spoiler: Willow, with whom Xander had been friends since childhood and who had simply gone off the deep end [[BreakTheCutie after Tara died]]. All he did was explain to her in words of one syllable that she was his best friend forever and he'd always love her no matter what she did to him or the world. It worked]].
-->'''Xander''': I saved the world with talking from my mouth. My ''mouth'' saved the world.

* In one episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', the MonsterOfTheWeek, a CardCarryingVillain, has Troi trapped behind an impenetrable force field. Picard [[spoiler: gives a speech about how the monster is more pathetic than evil. This upsets the monster enough that its concentration on maintaining its force field weakens to the point where the Enterprise's {{teleport|ation}}er can rescue Troi]].
** Kirk and Picard are both good at talking monsters to death (AKA fast-talking their way out of a jam). Since both characters routinely run into {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s who cannot be defeated with firepower, it's an important skill. Kirk tends to be generally less [[HumansAreSpecial smug]] when he does it than Picard, though.
** Subverted ''and'' played straight by the Borg ''before'' VillainDecay set in, as in their first appearance Q made it explicitly plain that they could ''not'' be reasoned with. Played straight in a later episode when Data hacked them through Locutus and electronically told them to "sleep" (at Picard's suggestion of course).
** Averted in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Dreadnought". While working for the Maquis, B'Elanna Torres captured and reprogrammed an AI-controlled missile which was then pulled with their own ship into the Delta Quadrant. Every attempt by B'Elanna to convince the missile that it's heading for the wrong target fails [[OccamsRazor when there are more plausible explanations in its programming]]. However in "Warhead", essentially a RecycledScript, things work out better because the weapon is from the Delta Quadrant and they're able to prove to the missile's AI that it was launched in error.
* An episode of ''Series/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' parodied this, when Wayne attempts to talk a home-security computer to death. It appears to work, but then he realizes "that only works in cheesy sci-fi shows!" and the computer springs back to life.
* In ''Series/{{WandaVision}}'', [[spoiler:two Visions are fighting with each other. One is a construct made using Wanda's powers that retains the original Vision's personality, but none of his memories (though he recently learned about them from second-hand source), the other is a white-colored replica created by S.W.O.R.D. from the original's remains and programmed to be their own sentient weapon. The two of them are evenly matched, so Hex!Vision asks White!Vision why they're fighting, to which White!Vision responds that his directive is to kill the Vision. Hex!Vision argues that he's only a "conditional" Vision, which intrigues White!Vision enough that he asks for elaboration. The two Visions discuss the TheseusShipParadox, which insinuates that potentially both could be considered the "true" Vision. Their discussion convinces White!Vision to let Hex!Vision restore the memories that S.W.O.R.D. locked away, after which he leaves peacefully]].
* In ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' Myka does this with H.G. Wells when H.G. is trying to destroy the world. In the end, Myka makes H.G. put a gun to her head telling H.G. to shoot her then since everyone was going to die anyway then H.G. should just shoot her making H.G. realise she can't kill Myka and has a breakdown.

** In the episode "Born Again Krabs," this trope is spoofed when Mr. Krabs greedily trades [=SpongeBob=] for 62 cents, thus sending [=SpongeBob=] to Davy Jones' locker (the equivalent of Hell) for eternity with the Flying Dutchman. A few seconds later, the Flying Dutchman returns [=SpongeBob=], stating that [=SpongeBob=] talked too much and that it was driving him crazy. This cuts to a scene of [=SpongeBob=] babbling about his life rapidly and non-stop while the Flying Dutchman looks exasperated.
** In the episode "F.U.N.", Plankton disguises himself in front of a magic shop when [=SpongeBob=] shows up. He doesn't recognize him at first, but when he sees the magic shop, he starts gushing about a magician he once saw. Plankton finally has enough of his glurge-filled rambling and gives himself up.

** Fluttershy [[TookALevelInBadass Takes a Level in]] BadassAdorable in "Dragonshy", and confronts a dragon this way just as he's about to smash her friends. [[spoiler:She does this again in "Stare Master" against a cockatrice ''as she's being turned to stone''.]] [[spoiler:And [[RuleOfThree '''yet again''']] with ''Discord'', who performs a HeelFaceTurn.]]
** Rarity also had a moment in "A Dog and Pony Show", in which she freed herself from being abducted and pressed into hard labor by the jewel-hoarding Diamond Dogs by [[PityTheKidnapper driving them insane with her incessant whining and complaining.]]
** Twilight Sparkle in "The Cutie Re-Mark" has to do this to stop Starlight Glimmer: [[spoiler:All attempts to initiate a SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong with brute force fails to make any progress, so Twilight has to show Starlight the dangers of invoking ForWantOfANail to get her to stand down]].

** In the ep "Patriot Act" a bunch of second-string BadassNormal heroes go up against a rogue general who shot himself up with SuperSerum to prove that superheroes/metahumans are a threat to normal people. When the heroes go down, the civilian population intervenes, informing the general that ''he's'' the only one in the battle who actually has superpowers. "All right, I've become what I hate, I'll give you that," the villain says, putting down the car he was about to throw, and departs.
** In "Flash and Substance," the Flash sits down at a bar with the Trickster, chides him for not taking his medication, points out that he is wearing his villain costume (something the Trickster wasn't even aware of until it was pointed out to him), and persuades him to both give away the other rogues and turn himself in by promising to play (soft) darts with him in the hospital.

* In the [[ComicBook/TransformersTransTech Transformers Botcon 2008]] script reading, "Bee In The City", an entire legion of newly-sentient robots is turned against Megatron once the heroes explain to them the [[ObstructiveBureaucracy ridiculous amounts of paperwork]] they'll have to go through.
-->[[WebVideo/InternetPersonalityVangelus Transtech Shockwave]]: And don't even think about deactivating yourselves. You don't want to see the paperwork for ''that''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster''. Averted when Cassie has to defuse a bomb attached to a SpaceWhale.

* Used twice in ''Manga/Cyborg009'''s 2001 series. [[spoiler: 005 uses it against the Spirit of the Earth (in the form of a gigantic jaguar that has been killing people, including the husband of a friend of 005 himself, and both 003 and 009 do that to Sphynx, a super computer who kidnaps 003 [[WeCanRuleTogether to make her his puppet girlfriend]] and tries to kill the others, specially 009 and 004.]]

* Happened to both of the Big Bads in ''Anime/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch''. Gakuto ends up dying in his collapsing castle (voluntary, to "right his wrongs") and Micheal ascends to some kind of Angel-plane, along with the spirits of his fallen minions (who helped Talking The Monster To Death )

* Played with in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. When [[spoiler:Envy]] makes a desperate last attempt to turn [[spoiler:Ed, Roy, Riza and Scar]] against each other, [[spoiler:Ed tells him he's realized the reason he hates human beings so much is his very envy of their humanity]]. His response is to [[DrivenToSuicide kill himself]]. Not a straight example since he was half-dead already anyway and was completely powerless to defend himself, and it was very clear that he wasn't leaving that room alive anyway. He just took what he saw as a less humiliating exit.

** In ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'', the {{Kid Hero}}es [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman draw no distinction between organic and digital life]], and in the first third of the series they do this to each MonsterOfTheWeek as many of them were ObliviouslyEvil, in contrast to the [[{{mons}} kill-or-be-killed battles of previous entries]]. However, once CerebusSyndrome kicks in this eventually stops being a guaranteed success.

* In ''Manga/GirlsBravo'''s final episode Yukinari confronts [[BigBad Yukina]] who had kidnapped his girlfriend Maharu and was about to [[{{Gendercide}} kill all the men on her planet]]. However he is a NonActionGuy and instead of fighting he had a heart to heart talk with her about how they were both AllergicToLove and convinced her to change her ways. Unfortunately for him she changed into a Yandere StalkerWithACrush and joined his {{Harem|Genre}}.
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'': The magical trio of Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate manage to talk the sentient ArtifactOfDeath (who is also a young girl, as these things so often are,) into being friends. This is rather short lived, as said artifact is ''still'' an ArtifactOfDeath, and they have to blast the 'Death' part out with an interdimensional warship. Particularly sad in that [[spoiler: she [[DyingAsYourself asks to be destroyed]] before she has a chance to regenerate the corrupted section of her programming]].
** In general, this is usually [[WarriorTherapist Nanoha's]] first course of action when faced with a new villain. They never listen: cue BeamSpam, OutOfTheInferno, etc.

** Touma asks [[spoiler: Fiamma of the Right why he had to go through all the theatrics of his overly complicated plan when he is ''already'' powerful enough to destroy the world. Touma then says it's because despite Fiamma's power, he was afraid he would fail. Touma also points out that despite everything that has happened, Touma's friends and even complete strangers have proven that not all HumansAreBastards like Fiamma had claimed]]. Touma then punches him out.

* ''Manga/ShamanKing'' arguably ends on this note in the Manga. [[spoiler: Much of the series has been about one desperate measure after another to catch up with [[BigBad Hao]], so that he cannot attain the power of God and eradicate humanity. Unfortunately, unlike in most manga, Hao's thousand-year head start on the forces training specifically to fight him proves to be an utterly insurmountable barrier: Hao has been training so long and so hard that he is completely unbeatable, even with all the strongest shaman beneath him working together, and even somehow managing to kill him wouldn't stop him from coming back in 500 years even stronger. Yoh's solution to this is to realize defeating Hao with force isn't an option and never was and proposes an alternative plan: confronting Hao in the Shaman King's realm and convincing him he's wrong. Appealing to Hao's humanity (particularly when Opacho and Hao's mother, two of the few things he truly cares about, join in the appeal) eventually convinces Hao to relent and bring everyone back to life, letting Yoh and the others live their lives without his interference. It's implied this is the only tactic that wasn't simply delaying the inevitable as far as Hao was concerned.The minor exception might be Lady Sati who would have had enough power to defeat Hao just by working with the rest of her team, Team Nyorai, not to mention her Gandhara followers, all of whom were more or less evenly matched with the likes of Jeanne, she just didn't have any intention whatsoever to win the Shaman Fight, and instead wanted to teach Hao how to become a proper Shaman King.]]

* ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan'' ends when Nate Grey, the titular [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan X-Man]], is talked down and shown the flaws in his CrapsaccharineWorld - born out of his [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning]] attempt to break the X-Men out of the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality and give them genuine peace, but twisted by his ControlFreak tendencies. It helps that he really didn't want to fight, and spends much of the final issue pleading with the X-Men to just listen to him. The final straw is his own subconscious, which conjured up a duplicate of [[spoiler: Dani Moonstar, his ex-girlfriend]], who explains that relationships and connections are part of what make people human. After, it ends without a fight - he lets the X-Men go, and sets about reforming his reality on less totalitarian lines, but not before some of them admit that he made some good points.

* This is often [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Shazam's]] go to approach if the situation doesn't call for immediate violence, and he's often successful at it.
** During a team up with Superman, Shazam was forced to possess Superman's body in order to speak with an ancient frog goddess who was threatening to wipe out a large portion of humanity. Cap is able to simply talk her down using eloquence and sincere, heart felt compassion. The goddess leaves without further incident, and Superman admits that Cap succeeded with words where he would have failed with violence.
** A semi-example, but during the Crisis Times 5 JLA/JSA team up, Shazam is able to end the battle between two 5th Dimensional Imps by combining their names into one word, and getting the good Imp present to say it, causing them to combine into a balanced entity.
** During a different team up, this time with ComicBook/GreenLantern, they fought a professor who had absorbed the spirit of an ancient Egyptian wizard in order to show people the glories of ancient Egypt. Green Lantern tried and failed repeatedly to just beat the guy into submission. Cap then spoke to the man, pointed out the destruction he was committing not only was destroying some of the artifacts of Egypt (they were fighting in a museum at the time), but he was also going to harm the people he was hoping to show the wonders of Egypt to. The man actually expelled the wizard from his body out of a combination of guilt and shame because of Cap's words.

* [[spoiler:Story!]]Loki in the 17th (and final) issue of ''ComicBook/LokiAgentOfAsgard'' does this ''twice''. First against Those Who Sit Above In Shadow... who just disappear mid speech about the nature of gods ("if we entertain the notion that the believers create the gods then who created you and why?" was the gist of it), and better yet Loki admitted just bluffing and not knowing what just happened later, but it clearly worked. Somehow. Second was against the main villain [[spoiler:King!Loki]], who at that point just wanted to be left alone already, which was about how in failing actually succeeded [[spoiler:(comes from fighting against yourself)]] and now could let go, which they do and [[spoiler:Story!]]Loki turns their essence into the shiny thingy on their brand new scepter.

* Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} usually prefers talking her opponents down rather than fighting them, and has been able to convince people to give up or cause them to have HeelRealization and switch sides since the Golden Age. In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' a cop is furious when Wondy saves her after she's shoved out the window by a drug addict looking for a fix by lassoing her and then talking the addict down while the officer was left dangling and listening in. The officer has a real complaint--Wondy didn't use her lasso's stretching ability fully and gave the officer [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou potentially career ending injuries]]--but her hatred of the perp and disgust with Wondy's attempts to rehabilitate him are proven unfounded and cruel when the same teen comes to apologize to her and ends up [[TakingTheBullet dying to save her from an assassination attempt]].
* In the ComicBook/{{Empowered}} special High School Hell, the final issue sees Emp and her teammate Sistah Spooky at the mercy of Ashlee, one of Spooky's old classmates who has just gained a massive power boost by absorbing all the magic of the other students after their deaths. However Spooky realises that Ashlee hasn't had a chance to practice controlling her new power and that if she has suicidal thoughts for even a moment then she won't be able to stop her powers from activating and granting her wish to die. Spooky then proceeds to deliver a major TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that targets Ashlee's self-loathing, envy and regrets, driving her into a VillainousBreakdown as she desperately tries to deny the truth, only to end up consumed in flames when she finally accepts that Spooky is right.

* ''Fanfic/MyHeroPlaythrough'': Upon reaching the end of the first level of [[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun Mikoto's]] Dungeon, the Heroes in training are confronted by the boss, [[TheDreaded the Tokiwadai Dorm Supervisor]]. Mikoto freezes in fear. The others prepare to fight. [[Franchise/SailorMoon Ami]] calmly points out to the boss that Mikoto has graduated from Tokiwadai and is a UA student. As such Mikoto doesn't have a curfew, and even if she did, the Dorm Supervisor no longer has the authority to enforce it. When the Dorm Supervisor argues that they are in Tokiwadai uniforms, Ami explains that it is an illusion (Izuku having already confirmed that their tracksuits were unchanged on his Inventory screen), and she might want to check if one of the Tokiwadai student is trying to distract her. This ends the illusion, at which point the boss congratulates Mikoto and leaves.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlightOfDragons'' ends its epic fantasy quest with [[spoiler:an ''epic debate'' between twentieth-century writer Peter and evil wizard Omadon. Just when it seems like all is lost and nobody's left to oppose Omadon, Peter discovers he can cancel magic by contemplating the logical rules it breaks. As Omadon boasts, threatens, and finally attacks, Peter counters by explaining in detail how Omadon's magic is literally impossible... rendering Omadon helpless and in agony, and eventually withering away into nothingness. In denying magic, however, Peter ends up banishing himself back to the twentieth century]].

* In ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'', VGER destroys several ships and kills hundreds of people, but Kirk and company discover VGER's secret, and tell it the truth, Decker tells Kirk that he wants to take over VGER (so he can have Ilia as his {{Love Interest|s}}.) VGER merges with Decker and crosses over into another universe and disappears.

* ''Literature/TheEmpiriumTrilogy'': The plan to taking down Corien and thus the Undying Empire is to go back in time and convince Queen Rielle to kill him. The first time Eliana and Simon try this, Rielle believes Eliana is an illusion conjured by Corien. [[spoiler: The second time, Eliana has a better understanding of the pain and heartbreak that Rielle is going through, having experienced some of it herself. The empathetic conversation that Eliana has with her convinces Rielle to kill Corien.]]

* Creator/AynRand has a knack for these in her novels, where the climax tends to involve a [[AuthorFilibuster lengthy philosophical rant]] against a corrupt society delivered by the protagonist. Howard Roark's comparatively short speech at his trial for the dynamiting of a housing project in ''Literature/TheFountainhead'' (around 8 pages) simply manages to nab him a verdict of not guilty. By contrast, John Galt's ''56 page'' radio address in ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'' ultimately leads to the collapse of a global society.

"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't though of that" and promptly vanishes in a PuffOfLogic.

* In the climax of the (Objectivist) children's novel ''Literature/TheGirlWhoOwnedACity'', the title character literally scolds the leader of the opposing group into surrendering and joining her. Keep in mind that this kid is the gun-toting leader of a street gang in a adult-free world, had several cronies around, and was the one who basically acted like a giant JerkAss for the other parts of the book.
* A literal (to a point) version appears in the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' story "I'm Not Scared Of You!", in which the protagonist's [[ParodySue annoyingly superior]] [[TheAce Ace]] of a sister nags a mud monster for so long that the sun dries it's body, seemingly killing it. [[TheEndOrIsIt Until it rains, that is...]]

** The best example is "Liar!". US Robots accidentally makes a robot that can read minds, and no one knows how they did it. The three main characters (Susan Calvin, Pete Bogert and Alfred Lanning) are amazed by this. Susan Calvin gets told that a man she likes also likes her back, and Pete Bogert gets told that Alfred Lanning has resigned and left his position for Pete. However, soon they discover it was a lie (the man Susan liked is going to marry another woman he had brought to work a few days before, and Lanning hasn't resigned), and Susan makes the connection: the robot is still bound by the Three Laws, and thus it lied to them so that it didn't hurt them. Susan confronts the robot and provokes a LogicBomb to it, making it realise that both doing something and not doing something will hurt some people.

* At the every end of ''The Legend of Holly Claus'', the villain Herrikhan is defeated when Holly forgives him for everything he's done. [[EvilCannotComprehendGood He can't stand that]], [[GoodHurtsEvil and the shock kills him]].

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' tries a "we humans are noble creatures who can forgive our enemies" variant during a standoff with the newly reawakened elder god Illyria, but he is interrupted midway though by Wesley, who calmly fires his gun and murders the man who caused Illyria's rebirth. Angel is rather understandably annoyed: "Were you even listening??"

** Another ''Series/BabylonFive'' example -- during the civil war between Sheridan's forces and Earth Force ships loyal to President Clark, Sheridan convinces one of the enemy ship captains that Clark's orders are illegal and that he should therefore disobey them. That decision is briefly reversed when the other ship's first officer takes over, and then re-reversed when the ship's crew takes the first officer into custody.

** The rooftop climax of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]] ("I'm the Doctor, and basically... run.").

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Tyrion's favorite tactic. When he's put on trial, he delivered a hilarious monologue, which made the nobles of the Eyrie more sympathetic to him and convinced Bronn to come over to his side. His talking also keeps him from being killed by Shagga, and gets him faithful soldiers too, and later he manages to talk himself out of being burned alive by Dany's dragons.

** ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' does kick Chairman Gamou in the face a number of times in their final battle, but spends just as much time talking him down and has no intent of killing him. He eventually succeeds at convincing Gamou to do a HeelFaceTurn and become friends. [[SelfDisposingVillain Although Gamou's age and abuse of cosmic energy means he doesn't live long afterward]], it earns Fourze a ''much'' happier ending than if he hadn't gone to the trouble.

* Played with in ''Series/PowerRangersSPD''. One MonsterOfTheWeek resisted ''any'' single try to have him interrogated by the FiveManBand... until TheSmartGuy tries his luck on it. Said Smart Guy is a major CloudCuckooLander ''and'' a telepath who channels everyone's thoughts. In few minutes, the monster is ''begging'' to have the guy off him otherwise he'll end up braindead. Not as sinister as it sounds. His ''rambling'' drove the bad guy up the wall to the point that he cracked, whereas both threats for if he didn't talk ''and'' promises of leniency if he did had failed before.

** Kirk and Picard are both good at talking monsters to death (AKA fast talking their way out of a jam). Since both characters routinely run into {{Sufficiently Advanced Alien}}s who cannot be defeated with firepower, it's an important skill. Kirk tends to be generally less [[HumansAreSpecial smug]] when he does it than Picard, though.

* In ''Series/{{WandaVision}}'', [[spoiler: two Visions are fighting with each other. One is a construct made using Wanda's powers that retains the original Vision's personality, but none of his memories (though he recently learned about them from second-hand source), the other is a white-colored replica created by S.W.O.R.D. from the original's remains and programed to be their own sentient weapon. The two of them are evenly matched, so Hex!Vision asks White!Vision why they're fighting, to which White!Vision responds that his directive is to kill the Vision. Hex!Vision argues that he's only a "conditional" Vision, which intrigues White!Vision enough that he asks for elaboration. The two Visions discuss the TheseusShipParadox, which insinuates that potentially both could be considered the "true" Vision. Their discussion convinces White!Vision to let Hex!Vision restore the memories that S.W.O.R.D. locked away, after which he leaves peacefully]].
* In ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' Myka does this with H.G Wells when H.G is trying to destroy the world. In the end Myka makes H.G put a gun to her head telling H.G to shoot her then since everyone was going to die anyway then H.G should just shoot her making H.G realise she can't kill Myka and has a breakdown.

* There are several ways you can do this in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', to the point that most Social charms are built around this trope. A few of them even references the story of Zhuge Liang (see RealLife examples).

* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series is famous for this. In almost every game you can talk the BigBad down by just telling him how flawed his plan is.

*** ''Fallout 3'' again, in the add-on ''Operation: Anchorage'', the general of the Chinese forces in the simulation can be convinced to [[InterchangeableAsianCultures commit seppuku]][[note]]the simulation was designed by an American general who presumably didn't know Chinese from Japanese culture[[/note]] by passing a speech challenge. Once again, you do this by pointing out that his army is dead and his fortress is surrounded by power armor wearing American super soldiers.

*** Ditto the Think Tank in ''Old World Blues'', this time either befriending four of them and setting them against the fifth one, or convincing them you're actually their enemy, Dr. Mobius.

*** The [=DLCs=] however allow you to talk a potential adversary out of a fight. In ''Far Harbor'', you can convince High Confessor Tektus to either walk away (if you're replacing him with a Synth double) or to talk him into blowing up his cult with the nuke in their base.
*** In ''Nuka World'', while not the final boss you can talk down Oswald the Outrageous either by passing a high-level speech check or give him a holotape of his girlfriend, which convinces him to leave Nuka World and take his ghouls with him. He'll even give you his sword and hat.

** In ''NeverwinterNights/ShadowsOfUndrentide'', Tymofarrar is, unusually for a white dragon, not particularly hostile or malevolent to begin with, quite intelligent, and rather eccentric by any standard. It's fairly easy to talk your way through his lair without fighting him or his kobold minions. Even without the phylactery which EvilSorceress J'Nah was planning on using to kill him, there are a number of ways to negotiate with him, not the least of which being striking up a friendship with the kobold he trained as a bard —-- Deekin, who eventually becomes a companion option.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' has a Clan Trial where you need to chase off some monsters. Not with spells and swords, but picking the right interaction (stare down, threaten etc)..

** In the sequel, you eventually meet a Spectator (a non-evil Beholder) who is magically bound to guard a box containing an item you need. The most obvious solution is to kill him, but with a high enough Wisdom you can point out to him that [[spoiler:the wizard bound him to [[ExactWords guard the box, not the ''contents'' of the box]]. . ]].

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', wandering through Denerim's market may lead you to being confronted by a royal knight who fully believes [[spoiler:Loghain's lies that the Grey Wardens murdered the king (It was really Loghain leaving him to die)]] and demands that you face him in honorable combat. With a good persuasion skill, you can make him question why [[spoiler:the Wardens would want the king dead]], and, unable to think of an answer, he agrees to back off.

* ''VideoGame/CitizensOfEarth'' includes so many cases of this that "verbal" is actually one of the elemental types. The first character you recruit is you mother, who attacks by giving monsters a lecture.

* Played with in the climactic "Tribunal" in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', where you confront [[spoiler:a group of unstable mercs engaging in a stand-off with the local militia]]. You cannot actively talk them out of backing off and it is made very clear that they'll accept nothing other than bloody satisfaction. However, by carefully choosing your words and arguing with their leader, you can potentially throw them off their guard and thus [[spoiler:leaving them open for when you decide to take a shot at said leader, thus taking him out of the fight and leaving the others in a disarray that results in minimizing the casualties]].
* In ''VideoGame/TheForgottenCity'', after collecting all the tablets, you get an audience with [[spoiler:the God of the Underworld,]] who created the city as a wager to see if humans are able to not commit a single sin for a year [[spoiler:to prove they are worthy of ascension]]. Using what you've experienced, you can prove that his definition of "sin" is far from perfect and that he was given an impossible task in the first place, giving him no more reason to trap the people in the city. The other more brute-force method is [[spoiler:killing his wife, Proserpena, and taking her crown, and show it to him on the next time loop [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu saying you'll keep doing this until he relents]].]]

* Played for laughs in ''VisualNovel/{{Crimsoness}}'', when Iteko tries doing this against the ''player''. The entire game is [[TimedMission set on a 3 minute timer]], and if you confront him he launches into an excessively long, {{Motor Mouth}}ed filibuster attempting to run down the clock. However, [[ShutUpHannibal you can punch him to death at any time you want]], [[spoiler: and it's possible to literally destroy the time limit itself, which if you do before confronting him, he'll rant for the full three minutes before freaking out when he realizes what happened and dying of a heart attack]].

* In ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' Rumisiel [[http://www.misfile.com/?date=2005-11-23 talks down the vengance seeking ghost Angelica]] moments after she just fried his (ostensibly) stronger brother.

* In ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES'', Frog, Palom and Porom defeated the Eater of Dreams during a conversation. He was giving his big speech about how the heroes have no chance and the heroes were saying how much of a cheating bastard he was or how he could not win, but the EOD ends up dying because he wasn't paying attention to his HP and ran out of hit points due to a previously cast Virus spell.

* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': Linkara, in the climax of the 2011 "Entity" Arc, talks the Entity into killing itself by using an [[AndThenWhat Omnicidal]] LogicBomb. He has to do this ''again'' to [[spoiler: the vestige of the Entity that had possessed him, this time by giving it a full on existential crisis, such that it nihilizes itself to death]].

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', Dib uses his newly gained super powers to dodge Zim's defense lawn gnomes (which he could have easily done without powers) and talk to Zim at his house.
-->'''Dib''': I've got some stuff to say to you Zim. (Fade out and fade back in hours later.) And that's all I have to say about that.\\
'''Zim''': Well, Dib, Your words have moved me. I'm done with evil. Gir, it's been a pleasure working with you, now self destruct.\\

** In the ep "Patriot Act" a bunch of second-string BadassNormal heroes go up against a rogue general who shot himself up with SuperSerum to prove that superheroes/metahumans are a threat to normal people. When the heroes go down, the civilian population intervenes, informing the general that ''he's'' the only one in the battle who actually has super powers. "All right, I've become what I hate, I'll give you that," the villain says, putting down the car he was about to throw, and departs.

** The Optimus Prime of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' would often try to play this straight (mainly with Megatron, Starscream, Skyquake and his brother Dreadwing, he even tried it on [[spoiler: Unicron]]), results would often vary depending upon whom he was speaking to at the moment. The brothers at least paused to listen due to their sense of honor, while Megatron and Starscream would have none of it. Prime was at least able to stall the latter by genuflecting before him.
* In an old animated short on ''Series/SesameStreet'', the Western town of Sniddlers Gulch is terrorized by Cowboy X, a huge bruiser who rides around town using an ink stamp to mark random things with a letter X. One small boy finally tries asking Cowboy X not to do that. Cowboy X actually agrees to stop. In a subversion, he immediately changes his name to Cowboy O, and rides around town stamping things with the letter O. In a double subversion, the people of Sniddlers Gulch are satisfied with this.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': In the series finale, Spider-Man faces off against an alternate version of him from a different reality, possessed by Carnage. Spider-Carnage is about to destroy the multiverse. Peter, having failed to overpower him their previous confrontation, is reminded by Madame Webb that she brought him to this reality not because of his strength, but because of his heart and intelligence. Peter realizes that the Peter of the Universe they are currently in is kind of an entitled jerk. This leads Peter to realize that if his counterpart is like this, it means the man must've never experienced the most humbling moment of Peter's life: Uncle Ben's death. Peter realizes he can't stop Spider-Carnage, but Uncle Ben can. He's the only person in the multiverse Spider-Carnage would listen to. And indeed the shock of seeing Uncle Ben, who still shows compassion and support for Peter is so great to Carnage!Peter that the latter tries to free himself from the symbiote, and when he realizes he can't, commits suicide via portal to nowhere rather than let himself destroy the multiverse.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' absolutely ''loves'' this trope. A running theme of the series seems to be that you should always at least ''try'' to do this, either before, after or even ''during'' conflict. [[ActualPacifist Steven himself]] will always attempt to talk enemies out of fighting whenever possible (and sometimes when it shouldn't be). In fact, one of his powers he eventually discovers, [[spoiler: establishing a remote empathic link with people and Gems]], seems perfectly geared toward this tactic. Across the series, he tries it with:

** Ironically enough, it was subverted in its very first use during the Senate's meeting over the issue to reverse the censure placed on UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson. The opponents to reversing it simply began to talk on and on. The Jacksonian faction's response? They simply stocked up on food, ale and coffee and enjoyed themselves until the opposition gave up.

* On 8 May 1984, Denis Lortie, a Canadian soldier suffering from emotional and mental disturbance, entered the Quebec Parliament with a [[MoreDakka C-1 submachine gun]] and opened fire on government workers, killing three and wounding thirteen others on his way to kill members of the Provincial Parliament (who fortunately were not in session at the time). Enter [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rene_Jalbert René Marc Jalbert]], who [[NervesOfSteel stood his ground with Lortie firing inches from his head]] before starting to talk. Finding that they both served in the same regiment (Jalbert fought in both WWII and Korea and retired as a [[MajorlyAwesome Major]]), Jalbert convinced Lortie come to his office, effectively allowing himself to be taken hostage, and talked for a few more hours before finally convincing Lortie to surrender himself without further violence.

* On 8 May 1984, Denis Lortie, a Canadian soldier suffering from emotional and mental disturbance, entered the Quebec Parliament with a [[MoreDakka C-1 submachine gun]] and opened fire on government workers, killing three and wounding thirteen others on his way to kill members of the Provincial Parliament (who fortunately were not in session at the time). Enter [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Jalbert René Marc Jalbert]], who [[NervesOfSteel stood his ground with Lortie firing inches from his head]] before starting to talk. Finding that they both served in the same regiment (Jalbert fought in both WWII and Korea and retired as a [[MajorlyAwesome Major]]), Jalbert convinced Lortie come to his office, effectively allowing himself to be taken hostage, and talked for a few more hours before finally convincing Lortie to surrender himself without further violence.

** This ended up getting subverted in the USA by the introduction of rules that remove the need to talk for hours to filibuster - a formal declaration of filibustering a bill is enough for it to count. [[FlameBait To say this provision has become contentious would be an understatement.]] It was changed because otherwise, a Senator HoldingTheFloor in a filibuster would bring all Senate business to a halt. This way, a single bill could be filibustered and the Senate could move on to something else. Whether or not this change was for the better [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement is still a matter of debate]].

** Played straight [[spoiler:with Naruto's own dark side. It was during a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind and FearfulSymmetry had proven to be pointless.]]

* In ''Manga/ThePromisedNeverland'', series heroine Emma takes down BigBad Peter Ratri this way, [[spoiler: by pointing out that while she does indeed hate him for all of her friends/adoptive family he's killed as part of his scheme, she's also done with the cycle of revenge, and realizes that someone has to be the one to break it, so she decides that it will be her. She also points out that a lot of what has caused the tragedies of the cycle with demons and humans has been a lack of understanding, and how bridging that gap would free everyone - including Peter - from the fates they are trapped in. Faced with the realization of her words, Peter responds by cutting his own throat.]]

* ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan'' ends when Nate Grey, the titular ComicBook/XMan, is talked down and shown the flaws in his CrapsaccharineWorld - born out of his [[WellIntentionedExtremist well-meaning]] attempt to break the X-Men out of the TheoryOfNarrativeCausality and give them genuine peace, but twisted by his ControlFreak tendencies. It helps that he really didn't want to fight, and spends much of the final issue pleading with the X-Men to just listen to him. The final straw is his own subconscious, which conjured up a duplicate of [[spoiler: Dani Moonstar, his ex-girlfriend]], who explains that relationships and connections are part of what make people human. After, it ends without a fight - he lets the X-Men go, and sets about reforming his reality on less totalitarian lines, but not before some of them admit that he made some good points.
* In one story arc of ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'', the titular character faces off against [[PlanetEater Galactus]], and successfully manages to defeat him by annoying him so much with his constant talking that Galactus flies off just to get away from him.

* [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica JLA]]
** One issue features a rogue general putting his mind into an indestructible monster body. Franchise/{{Batman}} realizes that his brain can no longer process a lot of information, so he begins talking and trying to hypnotize him into falling asleep. Then Franchise/{{Superman}} [[InterruptedCooldownHug messes it all up by punching him.]]

* ''ComicBook/WildCatsWildStorm'' fought TAO, who had a whole range of mysterious powers. Anyone simply talking to him risked going catatonic.

* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'', of all people, does this: he manages to talk ''his own'' ''[[{{Doppelganger}} evil clone]]'' into committing ''[[DrivenToSuicide suicide]]''. Or self-destructing, since it's not entirely clear whether the clone was flesh and blood or robotic.

** During a different team up, this time with Franchise/GreenLantern, they fought a professor who had absorbed the spirit of an ancient Egyptian wizard in order to show people the glories of ancient Egypt. Green Lantern tried and failed repeatedly to just beat the guy into submission. Cap then spoke to the man, pointed out the destruction he was committing not only was destroying some of the artifacts of Egypt (they were fighting in a museum at the time), but he was also going to harm the people he was hoping to show the wonders of Egypt to. The man actually expelled the wizard from his body out of a combination of guilt and shame because of Cap's words.

* In ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' ComicBook/{{Brainiac}} (who is at the moment on Superman's side) determines that someone with ComicBook/LexLuthor's level of intelligence could convince Superman to commit suicide within minutes. His solution is to eliminate Luthor before he gets the chance.

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in an old ComicBook/CaptainAmerica issue when ComicBook/{{Magneto}} captured the ComicBook/RedSkull and left him to die in a dark hole. The Red Skull began to hallucinate, and his hallucinations urged him to commit suicide. Except for the hallucination of Captain America at the end, who convinced the Red Skull to live. "I don't want you to die. I want you to live so that I can catch you and bring you to justice. This isn't justice; this is vengeance."
* Franchise/WonderWoman usually prefers talking her opponents down rather than fighting them, and has been able to convince people to give up or cause them to have HeelRealization and switch sides since the Golden Age. In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' a cop is furious when Wondy saves her after she's shoved out the window by a drug addict looking for a fix by lassoing her and then talking the addict down while the officer was left dangling and listening in. The officer has a real complaint--Wondy didn't use her lasso's stretching ability fully and gave the officer [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou potentially career ending injuries]]--but her hatred of the perp and disgust with Wondy's attempts to rehabilitate him are proven unfounded and cruel when the same teen comes to apologize to her and ends up [[TakingTheBullet dying to save her from an assassination attempt]].

* In ''Fanfic/ForgivenessIsTheAttributeOfTheStrong'', a My Hero Academia fanfiction, [[spoiler:Izuku is able to persuade Tomura to defect from All for One’s side by revealing that All for One gave him Decay and triggered the deaths of his family years ago.]]

* This happens at the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' when [[spoiler:Emmet tells Lord Business (or more accurately, Finn to his father) that he doesn't have to be the bad guy and that they can work together to build even better things.

-->'''[[spoiler:Sunset Shimmer:]]''' [[spoiler:Take my hand, Twilight. Let me show you there's another way. [[CallBack Just like someone once did for me]].]]

* In TheFilmOfTheBook of ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', Marvin uses the Point of View Gun to incapacitate an entire army of {{Mooks}} by showing them how bleak the universe is from his perspective.

* The ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' CYOA ''Spider-Man: City In Darkness'' featured this. Doctor Octopus has embarked on a scheme that will destroy New York. If you (as Franchise/SpiderMan) try to actually fight Ock, he goes down in less than a paragraph, only for his psychiatrist to chew you out over saving millions of lives. The ''proper'' solution is to simply tell one of web-head's greatest enemies that he's hurting people; he immediately stops his evil schemes and breaks down crying.

---> '''Stephenie Meyer''': [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter Alice]] tore a page from ''[[Creator/WilliamShakespeare The Merchant of Venice]]'' because the end of ''Breaking Dawn'' was going to be somewhat similar: bloodshed appears inevitable, doom approaches, and then the power is reversed and the game is won by some clever verbal strategies; no blood is shed,[[note]]except for [[ForgottenFallenFriend Irina]][[/note]] and the romantic pairings all have a happily ever after.

* In ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'':

* In the ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' finale, [[spoiler: Baltar pulls this off with Cavil, getting him to agree to a permanent peace in exchange for resurrection technology, which the Final Five agree to. Then Galen kills Tory, and all hell breaks loose.]]

* The ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' adaptation of "You Can't Scare Me" had a mud monster chasing Eddie and Hat. They run into Courtney, who goes on a tangent. Mud monster dries up in the sun.

* In ''Series/{{WandaVision}}'', [[spoiler: two Visions are fighting with each other. One is a construct made using Wanda's powers that retains the original Vision's personality, but none of his memories (though he recently learned about them from second-hand source), the other is a white-colored replica created by S.W.O.R.D. from the original's remains and programed to be their own sentient weapon. The two of them are evenly matched, so Hex!Vision asks White!Vision why they're fighting, to which White!Vision responds that his directive is to kill the Vision. Hex!Vision argues that he's only a "conditional" Vision, which intrigues White!Vision enough that he asks for elaboration. The two Visions discuss the TheseusShipParadox, which insinuates that potentially both could be considered the "true" Vision. Their discussion convinces White!Vision to let Hex!Vision restore the memories that S.W.O.R.D. locked away, after which he leaves peacefully.]]

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' had Blossom and Buttercup arguing over whether to use tactics or brute force against a monster. Bubbles solves the problem by simply asking the monster to leave town, pretty please with sugar on top. On the other hand, Blossom and Buttercup keep trying to prove that their way works, even when it's obvious that they don't. This actually might explain why the monster finally left when Bubbles asked - when the argument leads to Blossom and Buttercup making one final attempt to prove that their way is the right one, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/annoyedmonster.jpg the monster is annoyed]] that the girls are '''''still''''' trying to beat him, and was probably glad for the excuse to go.

** By doing this, Steven manages to [[spoiler: bring ''Blue and Yellow Diamond to his side'', using his telepathy to reach them during a battle. Granted, it was probably less ''what'' he said and moreso ''who'' he was, something he could only reveal through his powers.]]

* This happens at the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' when [[spoiler:Emmet tells Lord Business (or more accurately, Finn to his father) that he doesn't have to be the bad guy and that they can work together to build even better things. It's ''much'' better than it sounds]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': in Episode 10, Hilda decides to confront the arguing Weather Spirits, and moderate their debate. She manages to get them to calm down and realize they even forgot what the whole argument was about.

* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': Walburt prevents a Giant Subterranean Lizard from eating him by casting ''speak with animals'' and convincing it that the nearby spider corpses would taste better than him.

* In Spanish comic book ''La Familia Cebolleta'', the grandfather (prone to tell TallTales about his "war adventures") meets a robber attempting to mug him. The old man promptly starts to ramble, and the robber ends up begging the cops to arrest him.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' absolutely ''loves'' this trope. In fact, a running theme of the series seems to be that you should always at least ''try'' to do this, either before, after or even ''during'' conflict. [[ActualPacifist Steven himself]] will always attempt to talk enemies out of fighting whenever possible (and sometimes when it shouldn't be). In fact, one of his powers he eventually discovers, [[spoiler: establishing a remote empathic link with people and Gems]], seems perfectly geared toward this tactic. Across the series, he tries it with:

** Peridot, although there's no specific moments. She just ends up spending so much time around Steven over the course of a few months that Steven is able to patiently talk her down from hostile enemy, to unwilling ally, to close friend and a member of the Crystal Gems.
*** And in turn, Peridot later attempts this with [[spoiler: Yellow Diamond]]. It doesn't work at all, but it does show how far she's come.

** Hell, doing this, Steven manages to [[spoiler: bring ''Blue and Yellow Diamond to his side'', using his telepathy to reach them during a battle. Granted, it was probably less ''what'' he said and moreso ''who'' he was, something he could only reveal through his powers.]]
** In true heartwarming irony, in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' episode “I Am My Monster”, [[spoiler: everyone saves Steven from his corrupted form with a combination of heartfelt speeches, a CooldownHug, and TrueLovesKiss]].
* In the series finale of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', Spider-Man faces off against an alternate version of him from a different reality, possessed by Carnage. Spider-Carnage is about to destroy the multiverse. Peter, having failed to overpower him their previous confrontation, is reminded by Madame Webb that she brought him to this reality not because of his strength, but because of his heart and intelligence. Peter realizes that the Peter of the Universe they are currently in is kind of an entitled jerk. This leads Peter to realize that if his counterpart is like this, it means the man must've never experienced the most humbling moment of Peter's life: Uncle Ben's death. Peter realizes he can't stop Spider-Carnage, but Uncle Ben can. He's the only person in the multiverse Spider-Carnage would listen to. And indeed the shock of seeing Uncle Ben, who still shows compassion and support for Peter is so great to Carnage!Peter that the latter tries to free himself from the symbiote, and when he realizes he can't, commits suicide via portal to nowhere rather than let himself destroy the multiverse.

** Subverted in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E4TreehouseOfHorrorVIII Treehouse of Horror VIII]]". Marge gives a heartwarming speech to a [[ILoveNuclearPower mutated mob]] that calms them down long enough for Marge and kids to get into position and blast them away with shotguns.

* This is a favored tactic of [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Dr. Leonard Samson]] who, as a licensed psychologist, often has insight into the inner workings of the Hulk's mind and rage. He's also used this to talk down other monsters and villains, usually while punching them at the same time.

A favorite tool of the GuileHero. Often an illustration of ThePowerOfLanguage. See also ToWinWithoutFighting. Also related to TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

** In ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'', the {{Kid Hero}}es [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman draw no distinction between organic and digital life]], and in the first third of the series they do this to each MonsterOfTheWeek as many of them were ObliviouslyEvil, in contrast to the [[{{mons}} kill-or-be-killed battles of previous entries]]. However, once CerebusSyndrome kicks in this eventually stops being viable and they [[SuicidalPacifism learn the hard way]] that sometimes ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer.