Hannibal Lectures in Literature.
- Tobias in the Animorphs series was undergoing torture, and distracted his torturer with questions about her own past.
- In Falling by Christopher Pike, the Acid Killer, Gene Banks, has a way of turning the tables on FBI agent Kelly Feinman. Even after Kelly has caught and made him a quadriplegic, she finds herself drawn to him and the revelations he provides her about her character. Pike has stated he owes a debt to Silence of the Lambs, and a character in Falling name-checks Hannibal Lecter.
- The Fountainhead: Ellsworth Toohey delivers a long speech to Peter Keating about how to control men (by destroying their souls through whatever means necessary), in the process outlining exactly what he wants in the world (power, as measured by how many men he's torn apart and put under his yoke). Keating never recovers.
- Legacy of the Dragokin: From within her Tailor-Made Prison, Zarracka taunts Kalak about his failing marriage and attempts to seduce her way into his heart.
- Subverted in the Rivers of London series. A couple of people have attempted this while being interrogated by Peter, but they always start from "why would a black guy become a copper?" which leads them to make stereotyped assumptions that simply aren't the case. Peter just ignores it all and gets on with the job.
- The first Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri novelization: While bound and essentially helpless, Shen-Ji Yang calmly lectures a professional soldier who is holding him hostage into putting her gun to her own temple and shooting herself, all in a time period of less than ten minutes. Yang is a master psychologist, and his agenda throughout the game is social experimentation. note The captain of the ship sees this and orders Yang arrested for murder.
- The Silence of the Lambs as the Trope Namer.
- In Hannibal, Hannibal's former nurse Barney speaks to a psychologist and brings up the time that he saw the same man go into the basement of the Baltimore hospital to interview Lecter. A little while later, the doctor came hurrying back along the hallway, trying to hide the fact that he was crying.
- Long story short, he was able to make Starling fall in love with him/brainwash her.
- The War Against the Chtorr. Cult leader Jason Delandro has a chat with The Protagonist Jim McCarthy (who used to be a member of his cult) the night before his execution. McCarthy comes off worst in the debate, but at least he has the dubious satisfaction of blowing Delandro's head off the next day.
