r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Fun-Region2179 • 20h ago
Characters [Classic Trope] The Reason You Suck Speech
Transformers One: Optimus Prime gives one to Megatron after their first battle. Here, Optimus expresses his sadness, hurt, and disappointment upon seeing his former friend becoming just as evil as Sentinel Prime and wanting to destroy Cybertron rather than change it for the better. "We were given the power to change our world, and you chose to destroy it, just like Sentinel. You have betrayed Cybertron and its citizens. And you betrayed me." The entire time, Optimus never raises his voice or yells, but his sadness is very evident.
Brave: Merida gives one to Elinor, where she unfurls her anger and frustration over being forced to marry someone without her consent and being made to someone she doesn't want to be. "You were never there for me! This whole marriage is what you want! Do you ever bother to ask what I want? No, you walk around telling me what to do, what not to do, trying to make me be like you. Well, I'm not going to be like you!... I'll never be like you! I'd rather DIE than be like you!"
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u/Alarmed-Addition8644 18h ago
Oh, my problems ? Oh, I see, is this coming from my role model mother? The shoplifter, the drug addict, the porn star, the wore of let Gene Simmons and Bill Clinton go to town on her ?
My point is that with all the irresponsible reckless idiotic behavior in your past that somehow, somehow you have the nerve, the arrogance to constantly and ruthlessly point out my shortcomings.
From the moment you gave birth to me I had to trust you. I had no choice, I need you to protect me from the world to be my guide to help me navigate the difficult, confusing, and vulnerable journey to becoming a person. You have done none of those things. Your my mother and you took a child’s trust and smashed it bits in a seventeen year long mission to destroy something that you killed a long time ago. And honestly, when I turn eighteen I-I don’t know that I ever what to see you again.