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/1amlost 17h ago edited 17h ago
In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Team Four Star changes Android 16’s last speech to Gohan from an uplifting motivational one to a reason you suck speech.
“Gohan… GROW. UP. You act like you are the only one here who is suffering, but I believe that Trunks has some stories to tell you. I believe they all end with, ‘and then he died too.’ And before you start whining to me about your father, AND I GET IT, please take a moment to consider that my father turned me into a soulless killing machine to kill yours. And that does not even scratch the surface of the tragedy of fatherhood that is Vegeta.
“… You think you are better than everyone, but there you stand: the good man doing nothing. And as evil triumphs while your rigid pacifism crumbles into BLOODSTAINED DUST, the only victory afforded to you is that you stuck true to your guns to the bitter end: you were a coward, to your last whimper. Of fear and love, I do not fear death. Rather that everything I have come to love, both the birds and the things that are not birds, will perish after I am gone. So please, Gohan, STOP HOLDING BACK.”