History Main / MotiveRant

** [[spoiler:[[ProtagonistsJourneyToVilain Eren]]]] gives an extended version of this when [[spoiler:breaking the Walls to release the Titans inside to destroy the world. He specifically states that the future of his home, Paradis Island is at risk as long as the rest of the world that hates his people is thriving, and they certainly won't stop until every Eldian, both on and off the island, is dead. To prevent that from ever happening, Eren declares that he will kill all of the world till none of the life outside his island stay alive, no matter their allegiances]].

** [[spoiler:[[ProtagonistsJourneyToVilain Eren]]]] gives an extended version of this when [[spoiler:breaking the Walls to release the Titans inside to destroy the world. He specifically states the future of his home, Paradis is at risk as long as the rest of the world is thriving, and they certainly won't stop unless the Eldians all over the world are dead. To prevent that from ever happening, Eren declares that he will kill all of the world till none of the life outside his island stay alive, no matter their allegiances]].

** The trope was discussed earlier, when Kaffee assures the rest of the defense team that he can get Jessup to confess on the stand; he knows the Col. ''wants'' to tell the truth about what happened because [[KnightTemplar Jessup thinks he was right to do what he did]].

* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': After the heroes realize that [[spoiler:[[Characters/MonsterVerseHumans Emma Russell]] is willingly working with Alan Jonah and his EcoTerrorist paramilitary]], she contacts them to explain the human {{Big Bad Wannabe}}s' plan to forcibly awaken all the hibernating Titans and allow them to decimate humanity, and [[spoiler:Emma]]'s own motive for doing this.

** In her [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison debut episode]] Poison Ivy [[JustBetweenYouAndMe confesses]] to a [[VineTentacles flytrap entangled]] Batman why she [[TheVamp seduced]] and [[DruggedLipstick poisoned]] Harvey Dent. Starting out [[TheTease sensually]] [[DissonantSerenity calm]] before [[FieryRedhead raging]] about how the district attorney needed to pay for [[DisproportionateRetribution "plowing up a field of beautiful wild flowers for his silly penitentiary"]] then regaining her composure and [[MoodSwinger reverting back]] to a serene, seductive demeanor.

* An interactive Canadian museum exhibit about forensic science challenges visitors to solve a young woman's murder. If you correctly determine who the killer is and what evidence proves it, you'll get to see the killer's Motive Rant. [[spoiler:It turns out the killer was the young woman's literature professor, who had plagiarized a novel written by a friend of the young woman's family and used the resulting success to build his academic career. When the young woman found out about it, she threatened to expose him, which would have ruined his career. She wouldn't stop hounding the professor, and he eventually became so desperate that he killed her to try and keep her quiet.]]

** Dukat gives it a shot in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E11Waltz Waltz]]", although since this is well after his sanity meter ran out, it consists of a hammy display in which he reaches the conclusion that [[ThenLetMeBeEvil he should have burned Bajor to the ground and stuck the head of every Bajoran man, woman and child on a stake]].

--> '''Debbie:''' So I killed. So I maimed. So I destroyed one innocent life after another. Aren't I a human being? Don't I yearn, and ache, and shop? Don't I deserve love...and jewelry?"

** The Beauty and The Beast unit from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'' also avoid this, due to its members being completely AxCrazy. "Luckily," Drebin is happy to do this on their behalf via Codec every time Snake defeats one of them.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' gives one of these ''for'' the killer in one episode, identifying his motives well enough that the killer gets caught up in the story and confirms it's exactly how he felt.

->''"Meaningless, huh? '''WHAT DO YOU KNOW OF MEANINGLESS!?''' Spend most of '''your''' life ruled by another... watch '''your''' race dwindle to a handful... and then... tell me what has more meaning than your own strength!? I have in me the blood of a Saiyan Prince! He is nothing but a '''joke!''' Yet, I've had to watch him surpass me in strength... my destiny thrown to the wayside! He... he's even saved my life as if I were a helpless child. He has stolen my honor. And his debts... must be paid!"''

* The finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has Kuvira give a short one to Korra when calls out for her tyrannical behavior as ruler of the Earth Empire.

* In the Season 3 premiere of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', Rick goes on an epic one revealing that everything he does is all in the name of [[spoiler: getting that ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' Szechuan McNugget dipping sauce.]]
** A much more serious example occurs in the Season 5 finale when [[spoiler: Evil Morty]] reveals what his masterplan is:

** Averted in one episode of ''Series/CSIMiami''. At the very end of the episode, as a serial sniper is being taken away by the police, he asks Horatio "Don't you want to know why I did it?". Horatio simply replies "You're evil, you enjoy death, I hope you enjoy your own."

* BigBad Jon Irenicus of ''VideoGame/BaldursGate II: Shadows of Amn'' gives an epic one of these when you catch him in the [[spoiler: literal HiddenElfVillage]] in the second-last chapter of the game. It works really well, especially as you can all but hear the "you (censored) idiot" underlacing his words as he verbally tears strips out of the woman he's addressing. [[spoiler: Essentially since it's literally ''all her fault'' that he is doing this, since she stripped him of his soul for trying this the first time, but ''let him keep his powers'' and then booted him out of the village, expecting him to somehow "learn to be a better person" when the side-effects of what she'd done were that he literally ''forgot how any emotion other than hate felt like''.]]

--->'''Hulk Hogan:''' As far as I'm concerned, [[ProducePelting all of this crap in the ring]] represents these fans out here. For two years, brother, for two years, I held my head high. I did everything for the charities, I did everything for the kids, and the reception I got when I came out here... you fans can stick it, brother. Because... if it wasn't for Hulk Hogan, you people wouldn't be here. If it wasn't for Hulk Hogan, Wrestling/EricBischoff would be still selling meat out of a truck in Minneapolis. And if it wasn't for Hulk Hogan, all these Johnny-Come-Lately's that you see out here wrestling wouldn't be here. I was selling out the world, brother, while they were bumming gas to put in the car to get to high school. So the way that it is now, brother, with Hulk Hogan and the [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder New World Organization]] of Wrestling, brother, me and the [[Wrestling/ScottHall new]] [[Wrestling/KevinNash blood]] by my side... [[CatchPhrase whatcha gonna do]] when the New World Organization runs wild on you? Whatcha gonna do? What are you gonna do?!

** One of the most iconic ones was delivered by Wrestling/HulkHogan at Bash at the Beach '96 after betraying Sting and Randy Savage and revealing himself to be the Outsiders' Third Man, heralding the beginning of the Wrestling/NewWorldOrder:

-->'''[[DarkActionGirl Holt]]''': Why?
-->'''Konrad''': ''Why''? Oh, it shouldn't be ''that'' hard for you to figure out. Revenge. Not just against [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire Cade]]. This whole arrogant, adolescent country. The one that destroyed my home ''twice'' in the last century. That put a military base on the ruins of my family's castle. I want to see someone inflict the same pain on America that they brought to the Reich. [[ForTheEvulz I want to see their dream turn to a nightmare, like mine. I want them to wake up screaming]]. ''[Helen shakes her head, and Konrad realises she means why he's betrayed [[spoiler: and [[AndIMustScream paralyzed]]]] her'']. Oh, you mean why did I do this to you? That's actually much simpler: [[EvilIsPetty I don't like you, Helen]].

* In the second ''Literature/{{Spaceforce}}'' book, Jay gets one of these from Ashlenn's father Corusval [[spoiler: when he confronts him with evidence of his treachery.]] Jay's reply is 'you're right, of course' [[spoiler: before he summarily executes him on the spot.]]