Playing With / Shut Up, Hannibal!

Basic Trope: A hero rebukes a villain's attempt to deconstruct them, usually with violence.

• Straight: Emperor Evulz tells Bob that his reasons for fighting him are ill-founded and pointless, and he should just give up. Bob, unimpressed, summarily tells him to can it and beats him up.
• Exaggerated:
  • As soon as Evulz opens his mouth, Bob punches him for no apparent reason.
  • Bob not only tears Evulz's speech to shreds, he then turns around and breaks Evulz by talking.
• Downplayed: Bob draws his weapon in lieu of a verbal response, silently communicating to Evulz that now is not the time to be condescending to someone who is fully ready to beat him up.
• Justified:
  • Bob has been shown to have a solid grip on his beliefs and is much harder to unnerve than Emperor Evulz expected.
  • If Evulz's speech had any semblance of credibility, Bob wouldn't be standing here. He knows it and delivers a "No More Holding Back" Speech before punching Evulz in the face.
  • Evulz has frequently tried to kill Bob and his friends in the past. When Evulz explains his reasons as to why, Bob finds it complete bullshit. And even if they had the slightest inkling of truth, the "tried to kill Bob" part still takes priority.
• Inverted:
  • Shut Up, Kirk!
  • Bob gives the Affably Evil Evulz a speech about how they aren't so different. Evulz agrees and enters reasonable negotiations.
• Subverted:
  • Bob protests Evulz's claims, but eventually believes him...
  • Evulz's response to Bob's fist is a mildly annoyed "Thank you for proving my point..." and he incorporates the attack into his speech as an example of willful ignorance.
  • Bob charges in on Evulz in the middle of his speech... only to find that it was a phantom or hologram of him. Evulz responds: "Did you really think I'd leave myself open to attack just to give a monologue?"
• Doubly Subverted:
  • ...Or, at least, that's what Evulz thinks until Bob lashes out and strikes back with conviction when he least expects it.
  • Bob's reply is "Are you finished yet?" and then proceeds to give a counter lecture to shut him up.
  • Bob: "C'mon, we're wasting time! Let's go find the real Evulz before he realizes we're not listening to his mouthpiece."
• Parodied:
  • It's a borderline Curb-Stomp Battle in which the only blows Bob manages to land are sucker punches in the middle of Evulz's many and varied speeches.
  • When Evulz accuses Bob of being not so different from him, Bob misses the point and assumes that Evulz means that he, like Bob, is at heart a good person. Evulz is horrified by this implication.
  • Bob calmly mentions how he doesn't recall doing any evil deeds like what Evulz did nor does he recall Evulz doing anything heroic like Bob did. Bob then asks how are they similar again.
  • After Evulz delivers his Hannibal Lecture to Bob, Bob tells him to can it and gives his Kirk Summation. Evulz follows his speech with another lecture, prompting a "Reason You Suck" Speech from Bob, after which Evulz makes a "Not So Different" Remark. An entire chain of lectures emerges from this, only ended when Evulz gets up for a cup of water and Bob takes the opportunity to stab him.
  • Evulz gives a long, detailed speech as to why Bob is no better than he is, if not worse and calls him out for taking the stance of hero when he does not deserve a word of praise for what he's done. Bob replies with "Oh yeah? Well, you might think that, but actually you suck. OOH! Take THAT!"
  • Bob is utterly bored out of his mind during the speech. The camera frequently cuts to him checking his watch, playing games on his phone, texting his friends.
  • Bob essentially turns Evulz's speech into an MST, roasting him at every opportunity.
• Zig Zagged: Bob dismisses Evulz's arguments, but is caught by surprise when Evulz has an answer for that. Bob refuses to give up and a pitched philosophical debate follows. However, things quickly deteriorate into a deadlock because both of them are using completely different value systems.
• Averted: Evulz's arguments go unchallenged.
• Enforced: "We can't let our hero be defeated by some jerk's attempts to deconstruct him. Bob's not gonna listen to that. You know what? Bob should just hit him!"
• Lampshaded:
  • "Ow, you interrupted my speech! Where is your heroic dignity?"
  • "Don't bring a speech to a swordfight, Evulz."
• Invoked: "Go ahead. Tell me all the ways I'm wrong and why I shouldn't bother fighting you. I've always got time for some perverse rambling, but I'm gonna have to cut you off in a minute."
• Exploited: Bob knows Evulz will try this, and manages to launch a sneak attack while Evulz is distracted making his lecture.
• Defied:
  • Evulz brushes aside Bob's attempt to shut him up and keeps talking until he's good and finished.
  • Bob doesn't bother letting Evulz talk at all.
  • "I was going to get to the good part and just shoot you, but if you want to cross words and not fists, by all means, go ahead."
• Discussed: "I've seen this all the time. Once you get him making a speech at you, it's the perfect time to strike."
• Conversed: "Why does Emperor Evulz even bother with the Hannibal Lecture? Bob's just gonna kick his ass anyway."
• Implied: During Bob's recounting of the fight with Evulz, he mentions him giving a speech, but claims to have forgotten it already.
• Deconstructed:
  • Bob has a deep seated fear that he may be just like Evulz. Evulz tries to exploit that to psych him out and Bob devastates him beyond the usual fare of the work. Bob stops Evulz's speech but can imagine worse ones than Evulz could ever write and is haunted by them.
  • Bob doesn't give a crap about Evulz's speech... and Evulz knows it. Instead, the purpose of the speech is to turn the public against Bob, and his violent response helps prove the emperor's point.
• Reconstructed:
  • This lasts all of five minutes. With the help of his friends, Bob comes to realize that he is a Chaotic Good Guile Hero who doesn't go easy on his foes, while Evulz is Lawful Evil and tortures innocent people for fun. So they are, in fact, vastly different.
  • Bob preempts the speech entirely, shooting Evilz as soon as he starts. The public was already out for his blood so what little he managed to get out has little effect on their opinions.
• Played For Laughs: Bob is a Deadpan Snarker who's more exasperated with the speech than anything. A Running Gag is made of him constantly interrupting Evulz's speeches, much to his frustration.
• Played For Drama: Evulz was actually onto something, and Bob's refusal to listen gets him in serious trouble later on.
• Played For Horror:
  • Bob's actions to shut up Evulz are disproportionately violent to the situation at hand, and reveal that the conflict has torn apart Bob's sanity and he was only pretending to be okay until he was within killing distance of Evulz.
  • Evulz's speech was not only meant to be psychologically destructive, it was supposed to be hypnotic and Bob's murder of Evulz made this effect go haywire, leading to a lot of ruin.
  • Bob killing Evulz leads to Evulz's spirit possessing Bob, literally turning him into the monster he sought to destroy. The reveal, of course, will involve Bob finishing the speech that was "so rudely interrupted" by the death.

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Shut Up, Hannibal! You're nothing but the main page that I want to go back to!

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