Tropes about one character talking a lot, with little or no interruption.
Tropes:
- …And That Little Girl Was Me: A character tells another person a story that they reveal to be about themselves.
- Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving: A character is reprimanded for the things they've done wrong, then commended for the one thing they did right.
- After-Action Villain Analysis
- Author Filibuster
- Balcony Speech
- Bastardly Speech
- The "Be Careful!" Speech
- Bitter Wedding Speech
- Break Them by Talking
- But I Digress
- Caught Monologuing
- Character Filibuster
- Check and Mate
- Circling Monologue
- Contemplate Our Navels
- Critical Psychoanalysis Failure
- Cue Card
- Dare to Be Badass
- Despair Speech
- Disorganized Outline Speech
- Do Not Go Gentle: A speech on how the remaining days of your life should be enjoyed rather than wasted by despair.
- Dropped-in Speech Clip
- Emergency Presidential Address
- Evil Gloating: The villain boasts about how their evil scheme is succeeding.
- Final Speech
- From the Latin "Intro Ducere"
- Go, Ye Heroes, Go and Die
- Grand Inquisitor Scene
- Hannibal Lecture
- Heroic Heelization Speech
- Heroism Motive Speech
- Holding the Floor
- Imagine the Audience Naked
- I'm Not Afraid of You
- Inner Monologue
- Inner Monologue Conversation
- Just Between You and Me
- Kirk Summation
- Last Chance to Quit
- List-of-Experiences Speech
- Laugh with Me!
- Let Me Tell You a Story
- Literal Soapbox Speech
- Long-Lasting Last Words
- Long Speech Tea Time
- Mic Drop
- Mirror Monologue: A character talks to themselves while looking at their reflection in the mirror.
- Misfit Mobilization Moment
- Motive Misidentification
- Motive Rant: A character rants on why they're doing what they're doing.
- New Era Speech
- "No More Holding Back" Speech
- Opening Monologue
- Patrick Stewart Speech
- Plea of Personal Necessity
- Private Eye Monologue
- Rambling Old Man Monologue: An elderly character just sits there and tells irrelevant stories that go nowhere.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Chewing out a person by listing the reasons they are terrible.
- Revenge Reveal Story
- Rousing Speech
- Shaming the Mob: Chewing out a large amount of people.
- "Shaggy Frog" Story: A character starts telling a story that's intended to prove a point, but ends up spiraling into incomprehensible nonsense.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: The villain tries to discourage the hero from stopping them by claiming that the hero's efforts are worthless or that the hero is no different than the villain. The hero instead gives the rebuttal that the villain is still evil and must answer for what they've done.
- Sounds of Science
- Speaking Up for Another: A third-party comes to the defense of someone who is being demeaned or insulted.
- Speech-Centric Work
- Standing Between the Enemies
- Sudden Morbid Monologue
- The Summation
- Summation Gathering
- Surrogate Soliloquy
- Talking Is a Free Action: When a character is in imminent peril, they somehow have enough time to talk about a bunch of stuff before they get out of harm's way or get harmed by whatever is endangering them.
- Talking the Monster to Death: Defeating the enemy just by talking to them.
- Technobabble: Technological-sounding terms that are actually complete gibberish.
- "They Still Belong to Us" Lecture
- Thinking Out Loud
- Throwing Out the Script
- To the Pain: A character is about to undergo torture and the one who will be torturing them passionately describes the kind of pain that they intend to inflict on the poor guy.
- Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking...
- Verbal Judo
- Whoopi Epiphany Speech
- Windbag Politician
- Would You Like to Hear How They Died?
- You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Telling a person with low self-esteem that they are not worthless.
- You Can Turn Back
- You Keep Telling Yourself That
- "You Used to Be Better" Speech
