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* Po of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' tries to reason with the villains in the first two movies:
** He tells Tai Lung why Tai wasn't ready to have the Dragon Scroll. It doesn't work, showing that he is beyond redemption.
** He told Shen he didn't have to be defined by his past, that he can choose what to be now. Shen agreed. Unfortunately, he chose to be the bad guy.

* In ''Fanfic/MarigamiStories'', Kagami flatly tells Adrien that his "pretend it isn't happening and it'll fix itself" approach to Chloe and Lila causes only more harm than good and that Marinette is entitled to a little righteous indignation when Lila is found out by the class for the liar she is.

A speech made by the hero to the villain just before the climactic fight in which he points out exactly why what the villain is doing is wrong, and urges him to forswear his ways.

The hero might acknowledge beforehand that this effort is probably not going to work, but he has to try; that's what makes him the hero. If it ''does'' work, he's TalkingTheMonsterToDeath, and might even get the villain to do a HeelFaceTurn. It can also be a case of SwiperNoSwiping if the villain stands down with no drama. May be a piercing retort to a [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]].

The villain will probably respond with [[ShutUpKirk a pithy one-liner]]. This makes it okay for the hero to kill him. The villain might also [[OppositeTropes turn the tables]] with a [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]] which may cause the hero to turn the tables ''again'' by saying ShutUpHannibal or his own [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]] until one of them is broken or they come to blows. Alternatively, this last-ditch effort not working will have the hero conclude that [[BeyondRedemption the bad guy is irredeemable, so it's time to stop trying]].

* At the end of the Monster Association saga in ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'', Saitama delivers one to [[spoiler:Garou after the Hero Hunter delivers a MotiveRant about how he aimed to unite the world through "Absolute Evil" and forcing humanity to stand together against the ultimate villain he wanted to become and derided Saitama as a fake hero for treating heroism as a hobby]]

** Played straight between Optimus and Megatron during the climatic battle of ''Film/{{Transformers}}'':

* In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Touma Kamijou is fond of summarizing the villain's past and motivation and everything wrong with it before declaring, "[[{{Catchphrase}} I will break your illusion!]]" and then punching the villain out. Sometimes spoofed by Touma [[SkewedPriorities focusing on the wrong thing]], like when Oriana Thompson attempted to brainwash the entire city, and Touma gave a summation condemning her for disrupting their festival.

This rarely works but he had to try: that's what makes him the hero. If it ''does'' work, he's TalkingTheMonsterToDeath, and might even get the villain to do a HeelFaceTurn. It can also be a case of SwiperNoSwiping if the villain stands down with no drama. May be a piercing retort to a [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]].

The villain will probably respond with [[ShutUpKirk a pithy one-liner]]. This makes it okay for the hero to kill him. The villain might also [[OppositeTropes turn the tables]] with a [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]] which may cause the hero to turn the tables ''again'' by saying ShutUpHannibal or his own [[BreakThemByTalking Breaking Speech]] until one of them is broken or they come to blows.

* Manga/{{Naruto}} does this to a lot of villains, from Haku to Gaara to [[spoiler:Kurama, the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox]]. Part of the story's Aesop relies on this trope. The belief of his sensei, Jiraiya, was that there will come a time that "people truly understand each other". However, the entire shinobi world is built and perpetuated on a never ending CycleOfRevenge. During Naruto's fight with Pain, Pain questions if Naruto thinks that killing him, and thus continuing the cycle, will make things better. Naruto's answer to this is to listen to Pain's story, tell him why his EvilPlan is flawed and that there's a better way. Pain [[HeelRealization realizes that he's]] a FallenHero, and then immediately switches to Naruto's side.

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Touma Kamijou is fond of summarizing the villain's past and motivation and everything wrong with it before declaring, "[[CatchPhrase I will break your illusion!]]" and then punching the villain out. Sometimes spoofed by Touma [[SkewedPriorities focusing on the wrong thing]], like when Oriana Thompson attempted to brainwash the entire city, and Touma gave a summation condemning her for disrupting their festival.
* Saitama from ''Manga/OnePunchMan'' gives few of this in the series, particularly to Fubuki (who's more of an AntiHero than a villain) giving her a speech who a hero is supposed to be and to [[spoiler:[[HeroKiller Hero Hunter]] Garou, pointing out how flawed his "Absolute Evil" plan is (who turns out to be more of an AntiVillain than a full-out villain)]].

** In the episode "Turn, Turn, Turn", after [[spoiler: John Garrett]] is revealed to be [[BigBad the Clairvoyant]], he tries to explain his motives to the heroes, only to get shot down by an unimpressed Coulson.

** In the Season 2 episode "A Fractured House", Coulson does this again with [[spoiler:Ward]], who has convinced himself that his BoxedCrook status makes him TheAtoner for his actions as TheMole in the previous season (which also works as a TakeThat against those fans [[DracoInLeatherPants who still support]] [[spoiler:Ward]])

** Coulson gets another in the Season 4 episode "The Man Behind The Shield", after [[BigBadWannabe the Superior]] rattles off the reasoning for his decades-long plan for revenge on Coulson for something Coulson [[ButForMeItWasTuesday doesn't even remember]].

* ''Series/{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'':
** Subverted in the episode "Choices":

* Kirk [[TropeNamer did one of these in just about every episode]] of ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]''.
** In "Mirror, Mirror", he convinces [[BeardOfEvil Spock]] to turn against [[TheEmpire The Terran Empire]]. "In every revolution, there's one man with a vision!"
** In "A Taste of Armageddon", he reminds Anan-7 of Eminiar that WarIsHell and gets him to negotiate for peace with the other side in their ForeverWar. In the process, he acknowledges that HumansAreBastards by nature, but they can rise above that instinct, one decision at a time. "We're not going to kill, ''today''!"
* [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Picard]] was inordinately fond of them as well.

--->They even thought that the old English longbow would put an end to war, after the carnage it caused at the Battle of Agincourt. Well, there've been a few wars since Agincourt, haven't there, Colonel?

* At the end of the Literature/FatherBrown short story "The Flying Stars", the titular priest-detective delivers one of these to the GentlemanThief admiring the ingenuity of his plot to steal some precious stones... before urging him to end his career on this note of triumph rather than remain a criminal, where he will inevitably end up JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope at some point. And has in fact already done so, as despite his pretensions of being a LovableRogue JustLikeRobinHood who never hurts anyone through his crimes, he has in fact framed an innocent person to take the fall for his crime. [[spoiler: It works; the thief not only returns the jewels, he goes on to reform his ways.]]

* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'': Umi gives one to FluffyTamer Ascot when he tries to yell at her for killing his "friends." After an ArmorPiercingSlap, she points out that ''he'' is the one forcing them to fight the trio and doing so will make people more fearful of them than they already are. [[spoiler:It works so well that he does a HeelFaceTurn and shows up in Part II by using his creatures to help the remnants of Cephiro's population... and he has a huge crush on her.]]

* Played with in ''Literature/ThePatchworkGirl''. The villain confronts at gunpoint the three people investigating the murder, and encourages them to come up with reasons why KillEmAll cause YouKnowTooMuch would be a bad idea, rather than commit CrimeAfterCrime.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', if you take the KillEmAll route, the FinalBoss gives you one of these during their battle, accusing you of going this far "just because you think you can, and because you 'can', you 'have to'."