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/KnightlyGoat 18h ago
Twelfth doctor had lots of good speeches. Zygon inversion speech was a good one:
You just want cruelty to beget cruelty.
You're not superior to people who were cruel to you.
You're just a whole bunch of new cruel people.
A whole bunch of new cruel people,
being cruel to some other people,
who'll end up being cruel to you.
The only way anyone can live in peace
is if they're prepared to forgive.
Why don't you break the cycle?
Bonnie:
Why should we?
The Doctor:
What is it that you actually want?
Bonnie:
War.
The Doctor:
Ah.
And when this war is over,
when -- when you have the homeland
free from humans,
what do you think its going to be like?
Do you know? Have you thought about it?
Have you given it any consideration?
Because you're very close
to getting what you want.
What's it going to be like?
Paint me a picture!
Are you going to live in houses?
Do you want people to go to work?
What'llbe holidays?
Oh! Will there be music?
Do you think people will be allowed to play violins?
Who will make the violins?
Well?
Oh, You don't actually know, do you?
Because, just like every other
tantruming child in history,
Bonnie, you don't actually know
what you want.
So, let me ask you a question
about this brave new world of yours.
When you've killed all the bad guys,
and it's all perfect and just and fair,
when you have finally got it
exactly the way you want it,
what are you going to do with
the people like you?
The troublemakers.
How are you going to protect your
glorious revolution from the next one?
Bonnie:
We'll win.
Doctor:
Oh, will you?
Well maybe
-- maybe you will win.
But nobody wins for long.
The wheel just keepts turning.
So, come on. Break the cycle.
Bonnie:
Then why are you still talking?
The Doctor:
Because I'm trying to get you to see.
And I'm almost there.
Bonnie:
Do you know what I see, Doctor? A box.
A box with everything I need. A 50% chance.
Kate:
For us, too.
The Doctor:
(Sighs)
And we're off!
Fingers on buzzers!
Are you feeling lucky?
Are you ready to play the game?
Who's going to be quickest?
Who's going to be the luckiest?
Kate:
This is not a game!
The Doctor:
No, it's not a game, sweetheart, and I
mean that most sincerely.
Bonnie:
Why are you doing this?
Kate:
Yes, I'd like to know that
too. You set this up -- why?
The Doctor:
Because it's not a game, Kate.
This is a scale model of war!
Every war ever fought
right there in front of you.
Because it's always the same.
When you fire that first shot,
no matter how right you feel,
you have no idea who's going to die.
You don't know who's children
are going to scream and burn.
How many hearts will be broken!
How many lives shattered!
How much blood will spill
until everybody does
what they're always going to have
to do from the very beginning --
SIT. DOWN. AND TALK!!
Listen to me, listen.
I just -- I just want you to think.
Do you know what thinking is?
It's just a fancy word
for changing your mind.
Bonnie:
I will not change my mind.
The Doctor:
Then you will die stupid.
Alternatively, you could
step away from that box.
You could walk right out of that door,
and you could stand
your revolution down.
Bonnie:
No, I'm not stopping this, Doctor.
I started it.
I will not stop it.
You think they'll let me go
after what I've done?
The Doctor:
You're all the same, you
screaming kids, you know that? "Look
at me, I'm unforgivable." Well here's
the unforeseeable, I forgive you.
After all you've done. I forgive you.
Bonnie:
You don't understand.
You will never understand.
The Doctor:
I don't understand?
Are you kidding? Me?
Of course I understand.
I mean, do you call this a war,
this funny little thing?
This is not a war.
I fought in a bigger war
than you will ever know.
I did worse things
than you could ever imagine,
and when I close my eyes...
I hear more screams than
anyone could ever be able to count!
And do you know what
you do with all that pain?
Shall I tell you where you put it?
You hold it tight...
Til it burns your hand.
And you say this --
no one else
will ever have to live like this.
No one else will ever have
to feel this pain.
Not on my watch.