History Main / MotiveRant

* A fabulous comedic one by [[BlackWidow Debbie Jellinsky]] in ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues''. "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?"
** Extra points because the Addams family (being who they are) are completely sympathetic to her psychotic rant the whole time, even chiming in with understanding comments and agreeing with her about her motive for murdering her parents as a child.
** Also, she prepared a ''slideshow''.

* At the end of ''film/BadGirlsFromValleyHigh'', Tiffany is hooked on a life support machine and Danielle is barely alive. At that moment, Mrs. Witt (the old woman who Danielle was meant to be caring for) shows up and reveals [[spoiler:that she was Charity's grandmother. Also, while she had been briefly unable to speak due to a stroke, she had very good hearing and sight and overheard Danielle bragging about Charity's murder. Witt then reveals she poisoned the chocolate box (knowing that the girls would eat it) with an aging chemical (thanks to her late roommate's husband that worked with biological warfare technology)]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': ComicBook/{{Mysterio}} has quite a speech about his motives in the finale of the ''Guardian Devil'' storyline, and implies that there's more still about just how he became a "monster" who ''would'' do all these things. Matt, in keeping with acting utterly unimpressed in this issue, spends most of that same time "rambling about how clever" he is isolating the "hum" of his suit's main battery.

* In Franchise/{{Batman}} #650, [[spoiler:Jason Todd]] was furious that Batman thought his RoaringRampageOfRevenge was all about [[spoiler:Batman not saving him]].

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'': Yuuki Terumi gives one in an attempt to [[CorruptTheCutie drive Noel Vermillion]] [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope off the slippery slope]], thus making her regress into [[OmnicidalManiac Boundary]] [[RobotGirl Interface]] [[CloningBlues Prime]] [[HumanWeapon Field]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction Device]] [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Mu-12]], stating that the world is nothing but lies, everything should die because the only truth out there is despair, and he sure as hell will show them by having Mu-12 destroy Master Unit Amaterasu.

* Adrien gets one in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/46817137/chapters/117923854 Hold on 'til May]]'' when he berates Chloe for the part she played in making Marinette transfer to another school. In the process, he reveals himself to be a BitchInSheepsClothing who doesn't actually ''care'' about any of their classmates beyond what he can get out of them.
-->'''Adrien:''' Shut up, Chloe! You know nothing! You know nothing about what I'm trying to do here! I spent all these years trying to back you up for saying everything that we ''both'' wanted to say, and this is how you repay me?! I spent years building up my sunshine persona to get these people to like me, and you just continue to stomp them into the ground! As if they're not useful to us, to me? You only have ''Sabrina'' at your beck and call! If I asked him to, seriously asked him to, Nino would go after my father in an instant! And Alya would write an article so scathing that he'd have to disappear completely! And Marinette! She as giving me gifts and food and attention all the time, and you and Lila just couldn't keep your mouths shut! Lila I get, she's poor and needy and went for the first threat to her image. You? I thought you knew better! I thought you could see Marinette as the gift that she was, but you bullied her relentlessly and now she's gone!\\
'''Chloe:''' You're not actually friends with them?\\

'''Chloe:''' [[YoureInsane You're insane]].\\

* ''Fanfic/CONSEQUENCES|MiraculousLadybug'': Lila gets one in ''MAX-IMUM EFFECT'' when she attempts to turn Max into her HomeworkSlave, as she reveals her true nature to him and that she's been working to destroy Marinette's reputation.

* ''Fanfic/CONSEQUENCES|MiraculousLadybug}}'': Lila gets one in ''MAX-IMUM EFFECT'' when she attempts to turn Max into her HomeworkSlave, as she reveals her true nature to him and that she's been working to destroy Marinette's reputation.

-->'''Joker:''' Have you ever lost everything? ... Don't mistake me, I don't mean just the people or places or things you care about, but also your ''purpose''... the reason you exist, what you were created for. Imagine knowing, with utter certainty, what you were meant to do with your life, and having that snatched away from you. And dying horribly in the process, but that's another matter. That happened to me, ''mademoiselle''. My purpose wasn't merely taken away, it was betrayed… betrayed by the very being that gave me birth. And it happened because of ''your'' kind, you and others like you. You made me lose ''everything''. Can you imagine that? ... Oh, wait. Never mind, you don't have to imagine. You're about to live through it. You and everyone, everywhere, every''when'' else.

* In Chapter 27 of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' fanfiction ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17550662/chapters/50777044 Touchy-Feely Sister]]'', [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Arnold gets caught stealing money from Phil's safe]], and when Phil [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out of this]], [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Arnold yells back at him]], [[InsaneTrollLogic arguing that he had earned the right to steal money after everything he had done to help the people of Hillwood]]. Granted, this is some kind of a DarkFic and the somewhat OOC Arnold was [[spoiler:corrupted into doing bad things by Lulu. He gets better at the end]].

** [[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.]]
** [[spoiler:Later in the series, during a flashback, Eren explains his true motives to Ramzi, due to the child not understanding his language, and says that he realized deep down that the Rumbling is going to happen because he wished for it and wanted a world with humanity gone. During his last conversation with Armin in the final chapter, he reiterates this stance and says that he would have committed to the Rumbling even if he couldn't see the future.]]

* In the penultimate episode of ''Anime/BlackRockShooterDawnFall'', after Artemis explains her true plan to [[spoiler:wipe out humanity]], the Colonel asks, "Why would you do such a thing?!" Artemis is so aghast that humanity hasn't been been able to follow her [[AIIsACrapshoot warped chain of logic]] that she proceeds to explain it in excruciating detail, even asking the Colonel to record it so the rest of humanity can hear it.

(''{{dramatic pause}}'')\\

-->[[spoiler:'''Jason:''']] Is ''that'' what you think this is about? You [[spoiler:letting me die?!]] I don't know what clouds your judgment worse: your guilt or [[GoodIsOldFashioned your antiquated sense of morality]]. Bruce, I forgive you for not saving me. But why, on God's Earth..." ''[kicks open a door, revealing the Joker.]'' "...IS ''HE'' STILL ALIVE?!?"

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersDrift Empire of Stone'': [[spoiler: Hellbat]] launches into a particularly dark one when Ratchet and Drift stumble onto [[spoiler: his plot to use the stone army for his own purposes]].

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample. Does she mention her motive?* ''FanFic/BurningBridgesBuildingConfidence'': After getting akumatized into Rena Rage, Alya snaps when asked if she was a fan of the previous Fox heroine. Her impassioned rant about how she ''was'' and ''still is'' Rena Rouge [[[[SayingTooMuch does her no favors;]] as Ladybug bluntly informs her afterwards, she just outed her former SecretIdentity to Hawkmoth, making it impossible to trust her with any other Miraculouses.

-->'''Diesel 10:'''You cannot understand me! None of them do! Not even the fellow diesels who helped in my plights fully appreciated my potential! The Fat Controller never cared for his diesels. You steamies got everything and we diesels got NOTHING! Deny it all you want, but the Fat Controller never showed any respect to me! Even when he agreed to rebuild the Dieselworks, it was all a shield for him to hide behind, trying to make the diesels trust him for no reason! An engine of my strength, magnitude and range of power and he always shunned me, turned his back on me! The entire Island of Sodor turned a cold, shallow heart to me! All the way up to when Sailor John fell for the last time. NEVER did I lose my beloved rooftop friend Pinchy for good! Ever since my banishment, I've been brooding and festering in hatred as the Mainland's constant victim and target. But then when I saw and heard you two...my chance came again after too long, and on this night, I hereby lay pure vengeance upon Emily the Stirling Single and David Rider, son of Lawrence Rider! Two allies who hold together...until the end...just like Thomas and Gordon...

* In the MagicalGirl CrossOver ''FanFic/ShatteredSkiesTheMorningLights'', [[Anime/SmilePrettyCure Joker]] delivers this one to [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura Sakura]]:
-->"Have you ever lost everything? ... Don't mistake me, I don't mean just the people or places or things you care about, but also your ''purpose''… the reason you exist, what you were created for. Imagine knowing, with utter certainty, what you were meant to do with your life, and having that snatched away from you. And dying horribly in the process, but that's another matter. That happened to me, ''mademoiselle''. My purpose wasn't merely taken away, it was betrayed… betrayed by the very being that gave me birth. And it happened because of ''your'' kind, you and others like you. You made me lose ''everything''. Can you imagine that? ... Oh, wait. Never mind, you don't have to imagine. You're about to live through it. You and everyone, everywhere, every''when'' else."
* ''FanFic/SleeperHitAU'': During the confrontation on Dagobah Beach, [[SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp Bakugou]] reveals ''why'' he bullied Midoriya so much, and that he feels absolutely no remorse for his actions because he's too pissed off that Izuku preservered instead of breaking down and giving up on his dreams.

* In Chapter 27 of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' fanfiction ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17550662/chapters/50777044 Touchy-Feely Sister]]'' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Arnold gets caught stealing money from Phil's safe]], and when Phil [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out of this]], [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Arnold yells back at him]], [[InsaneTrollLogic arguing that he had earned the right to steal money after everything he had done to help the people of Hillwood]]. Granted, this is some kind of a DarkFic and the somewhat OOC Arnold was [[spoiler:corrupted into doing bad things by Lulu. He gets better at the end]].
--> Arnold: "Help me? [[SuddenlyShouting HELP ME?! What do I need help with? EVERY TIME I TRY TO HAVE A NORMAL LIFE, IT'S ALWAYS THE SAME THING!]]" '''[mocking Oskar]''' "Oh Arnold, I have marital problems, solve them for me, please?" '''[mocking Ernie]''' "Yo, Arnold, help me with my problems because I'm short and insecure and always scream a lot." '''[mocking Hyunh]''' "Arnold, I need help with my restaurant because if I don't, I'll get fired." '''[mocking Gertrude]''' "Oh, Kimba or Senator or whatever, I'm an old lady with split personalities that I'm not even sure which of them is real!" '''[mocking Phil]''' "Hey, Shortman, never eat raspberries because I tell a lot of stories about the problems you have, while ignoring the fact I have my own problems, and I'll just leave you to fix them!" '''[mocking Sid]''' "I'm Sid, and I always get paranoid about everything. '''[mocking Harold]''' "I'm Harold, I'm not so much a bully as I am an insensitive pussy!" '''[mocking Rhonda]''' "Oh my goodness, I'm Rhonda, and if I don't have anything that flaunts my wealth, I AM RUINED!" '''[mocking Helga]''' "I'm Helga, I'm a [[SuddenlyShouting BIG FREAKING BRAT who NEVER KNOWS WHEN TO STOP PESTERING THE FOOTBALL HEAD WITH WHAT I LIKE TO DO BEST!"]] Every time people say this, I always have an intention to help, and you know what, maybe I want to help MYSELF once in a while! Did you not think of that?"

* ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'': Near the end, the BigBad reveals their plan with one of these. [[spoiler: Prince Hans denies Anna the TrueLovesKiss that would save her and proceeds to explain his plan to marry into Arendelle's throne by entering a romance with her and [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident staging an accident]] for Elsa.]]

--->"We're all just '''''trash''''', waiting to be '''''THROWN AWAY'''''!! That's all a toy is!!"

** Later on, Pandora gives one [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2017-07-19 laying out her fractured reasoning]] after [[spoiler: Tedd doubts how much his mother actually cares about him]], pointing out that ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies. Everything she's done since the death of her beloved husband has been -- even at its most warped -- for the benefit of her only son.

** In ''Calamity,'' [[BigBad Asmodeus]], [[SatanicArchetype Lord of the Hells]], launches into one of these in the final episode, a blistering [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech condemnation of mortals]][[spoiler:, and [[KnightInShiningArmor Zerxus]] in particular]]. He points out that he and all the other gods-- Prime Deities and Betrayer Gods alike-- are ''family,'' and that mortals "did something" to the Prime Deities to make them side with mortals against their brethren and the Primordials.
---> "You call yourselves 'our children.' You are ''not'' our children. You are... ''a bad first draft.'' The first plan was to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy this]] and let you all fade. That's not going to be [[FateWorseThanDeath how we do it this time]]."

* In the ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' episode, Pheobe Breaks a Leg, Pheobe gives one to Arnold when he asks if her faking a broken leg has anything to do with how Helga treats her. Doubles as SuspiciouslySpecificDenial.

'''Pheobe:''' Helga?!\\

'''Pheobe:''' Of course not! Th-that's completely ridiculous! I mean, just because Helga's been waiting on me hand and foot ever since the bus accident, that was essentially her fault, that doesn't mean that I would falsely prolong my injury in some sort of passive-aggressive attempt to reap the benefits of her guilty conscience and simultaneously give her a taste of her own bossy medicine!

* ''Film/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'': When confronting the final survivor, the Devil reveals and gloats about his plan to destroy Heaven by denying it any souls. Despite having killed thousands of people without giving them any reason. He's mostly doing it out of pride ([[TheParagonAlwaysRebels duh]]), but the person he's talking to also happens to be the only member of the crew who actually believes that he exists.

** 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 flower for his silly penitentiary"]] then regaining her composure and [[MoodSwinger reverting back]] to a serene, seductive demeanor.

* Downplayed in Bruce Springsteen's song "Nebraska"; right before being executed, Charles Starkweather acknowledges that people want to know why he became a killer, but all he offers as an explanation is, "I guess there's just a meanness in this world." This is artistic license as the real Starkweather didn't say that.

* ''Videogame/DawnOfWar II: Retribution'': If there can be a motive rant for [[HumbleGoal the simplest of motives]], then the Mad-Mek earns himself a spot here with his final screaming rant while fought on the Tyranid-infested ''Judgement of Carrion'', which he's sick and tired of and wishes to leave as soon as possible.

* In ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' 2, just as the BigBad [[spoiler:Shepherd]] is about to finish Soap off with a revolver, he gives a rant on how he lost 30,000 men because of a nuke and how he desires to show that their sacrifices are not in vain; by starting a WorldWarIII.
* [[spoiler:Adachi]] gets one as the player traverses his dungeon in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''. At the very end, he's given a KirkSummation by the protagonists and called out for his senseless motives.

* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell''
** In the penultimate mission of ''Chaos Theory'', [[spoiler:Douglas Shetland]] gives a pretty impressive rant on what drove him to fund terrorists and try to start World War III. He then tries to pull a "ISurrenderSuckers", and things go downhill...
** At the end of ''Conviction'', [[spoiler:Tom Reed]] does the same, talking about how the President was going to pull funding from [[spoiler:Third Echelon]] and go soft on terrorism.

* Jin Kazama in VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 6. [[spoiler:"What have the governments, religions, and people of this world accomplished?"]]

* ''FanFic/TheVictorsProject'': [[spoiler:Cashmere]] gets a heroic one when offering her support to the Rebellion, after Beetee questions her motives.
-->[[spoiler:Cashmere]]: [[ThatManIsDead My brother is dead, they killed him]]. My parents when they sent us to that … [[AcademyOfEvil that place]]. [[IOwnThisTown Luster]]. The DAEYD. The Gamemakers. [[PresidentEvil Snow]]. They ruined the only person who ever loved me. They murdered my father. They [[SexSlave buy and sell my district]]. Every year they send another pretty thing like me into the arena, and I have to smile and teach her to poise and laugh and kill even as I pray that [[MercyKill the Twos murder her early]]. They have taken everything, and I will tear them down with my bare, bloody hands if I have to!
* ''Fanfic/WeMustBeKillers'': Claudius gets a ''preemptive'' motive rant in ''Fixed to a Star'', almost a decade before he officially becomes a rebel. He tells Lyme that the Capitol does nothing but evilly exploit them, and that someday they will do something to destroy even Lyme's MyCountryRightOrWrong sense of loyalty, and once they go that far, then he wants to be with Lyme when she retaliates.
--> '''Claudius''': They ask, we give, and they take, that's the way it goes. But they just keep asking and just keep taking, and one day they'll take something you didn't want to give. Something so bad it's worse than marching kids to their deaths every year. One day you're going to walk away. Take me with you.

* In ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'', Hyness gives one, but it is delivered so ''blisteringly'' fast that while it is indeed lore heavy you can't see most of it. The only line visible without slowing footage down is:

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'', Bryne lets one out when he finally meets Anjean again and she calls him out on his siding with their tribe's enemy, Malladus.
-->'''Bryne''': Why would I want to serve the spirits...when I can become as powerful as they are? That was the reason why I came to study with you. But the spirits never answered me. No matter how hard I worked, or how long, they never granted me any more powers. Tell me, Master...when you realize that your wish will never be granted, what do you then? The answer was clear...become even more powerful than the spirits themselves! And the only being more powerful is Malladus!

* Ganondorf was just jealous of Hyrule's wind in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker''. In a variant, though, there's he's not gloating. He's just -- nostalgic? bitter? remorseful? detached? Take your pick.

** Inverted in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E19Duet Duet]]"; a Cardassian identified as Gul Darhe'el, commander of Gallitep, one of the most horrific interment camps during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, ranted at length about how he was a loyal Cardassian soldier, and it was his patriotic duty and privilege to exterminate Bajorans. Toward the end of the episode Kira discovered that the prisoner was not Gul Darhe'el, but a file clerk at Gallitep, who was completely horrified by what his people did to the Bajorans and assumed the late Darhe'el's identity to force his people to own up to what Cardassia did to Bajor. [[spoiler:In a DownerEnding, he's stabbed to death by a Bajoran just for being Cardassian after he's released]].

* In the musical ''It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Franchise/{{Superman}}'' Dr. Abner Sedgwick explains his motive in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lhd7vFxcy8 song]][[note]]It's {{Revenge}}, by the way.[[/note]].

** Dax ([[TheNthDoctor Ezri, not Jadzia]]) is chasing a serial killer who turns out to be a Vulcan. After catching up with him, she asks why he did it. In an aversion, he responds "Because logic demanded it.", the Vulcan version of "God made me do it." Although, when you think about it, this is an explanation -- [[AxCrazy kinda.]]
** Inverted in the episode "Duet"; a Cardassian identified as Gul Darhe'el, commander of Gallitep, one of the most horrific interment camps during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor, ranted at length about how he was a loyal Cardassian soldier and it was his patriotic duty and privilege to exterminate Bajorans. Toward the end of the episode Kira discovered that the prisoner was not Gul Darhe'el, but a file clerk at Gallitep, who was completely horrified by what his people did to the Bajorans and assumed the late Darhe'el's identity to force his people to own up to what Cardassia did to Bajor. [[spoiler: In a DownerEnding, he's stabbed to death by a Bajoran just for being Cardassian after he's released]].
** Dukat gives it a shot in "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]].
* In the ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' episode [[Recap/Supergirl2015S2E7TheDarkestPlace "The Darkest Place"]], the head of Cadmus, [[spoiler: Lillian Luthor]] gives a Motive Rant on why she [[FantasticRacism hates aliens]] and wants to exile all of them from Earth -- [[spoiler: she [[MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal refuses to believe]] Comicbook/LexLuthor is a criminal psychopath, instead choosing to believe that Comicbook/{{Superman}} twisted the population against him.]]

-->Why? You ask that? Because it was ''necessary'', that's why! Someone had to! We were bluffed, George. You, me, even Control. Those Circus talent spotters, all those years ago. They plucked us when we were golden with hope, told us we were on our way to the Holy Grail, freedom's protectors! ''([[CryLaughing laughing and sobbing]])'' My God, what a question, "Why?" Do you know what's killing Western Democracy, George? Greed, and constipation... moral, political, ascetic. I hate America very deeply. The economic repression of the masses, institutionalized. Even Lenin couldn't foresee the extent of that. Britain? Oh, dear... no viability whatever in world affairs.

[[folder:Web Comics]]

[[folder:Web Video]]