History Main / TalkingTheMonsterToDeath

* Played with in ''Series/PowerRangersSPD''. One MonsterOfTheWeek resisted ''any'' single try to have him interrogated by the FiveManBand... until TheSmartGuy tries his luck on it. Said Smart Guy is a major CloudCuckooLander ''and'' a telepath who channels everyone's thoughts. In a few minutes, the monster is ''begging'' to have the guy off him otherwise he'll end up braindead. Not as sinister as it sounds. His ''rambling'' drove the bad guy up the wall to the point that he cracked, whereas both threats for if he didn't talk ''and'' promises of leniency if he did had failed before.

* ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'': [[Characters/MCUBlackPanther T'Challa]] stops "the Snap" by talking Thanos out of it.

** Of course all the 'battles' in the game are won by doing this. It's never enough to prove your client is innocent, you have to meticulously unravel the lies of the true murderer through the careful application of contradicting evidence and basically force them into a confession. Somewhat justified, as, in the real-world Japanese legal system, many defendants would have already confessed, courtesy of intense interrogation techniques.

** Twilight Sparkle in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieRemarkPart2 The Cutie Re-Mark, Part 2]]" has to do this to stop Starlight Glimmer: [[spoiler:all attempts to initiate a SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong with brute force fails to make any progress, so Twilight has to show Starlight the dangers of invoking ForWantOfANail to get her to stand down]].

* ''[[https://youtu.be/M3AbP9TeLnA Bigmask]]'' is a parody of the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' that uses this trope as its central premise. The titular hero Bigmask is an UnluckyEverydude and ActualPacifist who simply talks to giant monsters and gets to the root of their issues the way a therapist would.

A favorite tool of the GuileHero. Often an illustration of ThePowerOfLanguage. See also ToWinWithoutFighting. Also related to TheReasonYouSuckSpeech. Contrast ShutUpKirk.

* The ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' CYOA ''Spider-Man: City In Darkness'' featured this. [[Characters/MarvelComicsOttoOctavius Doctor Octopus]] has embarked on a scheme that will destroy New York. If you (as [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]]) try to actually fight Ock, he goes down in less than a paragraph, only for his psychiatrist to chew you out over saving millions of lives. The ''proper'' solution is to simply tell one of web-head's greatest enemies that he's hurting people; he immediately stops his evil schemes and breaks down crying.

* Contrary to ''a lot'' of previous villains, in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' series, one seen in ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsFriendshipGames Friendship Games]]'' is ''not'' defeated with a blast of magical energy powered by friendship. [[spoiler:After undoing the damage Twilight caused, Sunset blasts her with magic and pulls her into a WhiteVoidRoom. There, Sunset just [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talks her down]] and [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight convinces her to stop]], and offers Twilight her hand in friendship, which she accepts.]]

* The ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' adaptation of "Literature/YouCantScareMe" had a mud monster chasing Eddie and Hat. They run into Courtney, who goes on a tangent. Mud monster dries up in the sun.

* A form of this in the ''Literature/XWingSeries'' book ''Isard's Revenge''. The Rogues, in that final battle, tell [[spoiler: the clone Isard]] that [[spoiler: she ''is'' [[CloningBlues a clone]]]], and come up with the various discrepancies and memory-holes she must have wondered about which were solved by that knowledge. This leads to a very short FreakOut before she plays dead -- which is exactly what the original did. Even if this one wasn't talked to death exactly, she was certainly talked to distraction.

** In another episode, Freakazoid manages to convince one-off villain the Nerdator that his plan of kidnapping nerds to steal their brainpower will make all girls avoid him. So, the Nerdator decides to kidnap [[BrainlessBeauty "good-looking but vapid air-heads"]] instead to steal their good looks, and according to the narrator, [[AcceptableTargets no one cares]].