Does anybody know how to suggest a new topic page to tvtropes.org? I was really expecting to find something on their Speeches and Monologues directory that covers the thread topic, but there’s nothing about villainous monologues as such.
Smaug :
"Revenge ! Revenge? You? The King Under the Mountain is dead and where are his kin that dare seek revenge ? Girion Lord of Dale is dead and I have eaten his people like a wolf among sheep, and where are his son’s son’s that dare approach me ? I kill where I wish and none dare resist. I laid low the warriors of old and their like is not in the world today. Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old and strong, strong, STRONG ! Thief in the Shadows. My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings are a hurricane, and my breath . . . DEATH ! "
“I kill where I wish and none dare resist” has always stuck in my head as a great villainous line.
I’m watching [url=]Tomorrow Never Dies on the Sci-Fi Channel (you tell me) and this comes up:
ELLIOT CARVER (supervillain/media mogul obviously inspired by Rupert Murdoch): Caesar had his legions, Napoleon had his armies, and I have my divisions – Television, Radio, Newspapers, Magazines. By this time tomorrow I will be influencing more men, women and children than anyone in history save God Himself. And the best He could manage was the Sermon on the Mount.
Jamie Lannister (yes, he IS a villain) to Edmure Tully in A feast for crows:
“You’ve seen our numbers, Edmure. You’ve seen the ladders, the towers, the trebuchets, the rams. If i speak the command, my coz will bridge your moat and break your gate. Hundreds will die, most of them your own. Your former bannermen will make up the first wave of attackers, so you’ll start your day by killing the fathers and brothers of the men who died for you at the Twins. The second wave will be Freys, i have no lack of those. My westernmen will follow when your archers are short of arrows and your knights so weary they can hardly lift their blades. When the castle falls all those inside will be put to the sword. Your herds will be butchered, your godswood felled, your keeps and towers will burn. I’ll pull your walls down, and divert the Tumblestone over its ruins. By the time im done no man will ever know that a castle once stood here. Your wife may whelp before that. You’ll want your child, i expect. I’ll send him to you when he’s born. With a trebuchet.”
Are you kidding, Skald? That was a hella villainous monologue BrainGlutton quoted. If it had come in the context of a movie, you’d be slavering over it.
“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating the truth over and over and over again for the truth to sink in…to kind of catapult the propaganda.”
G.W. Bush 24 May 2005
Wall Street -
Gekko - Teldar Paper, Mr. Cromwell, Teldar Paper has 33 different vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can’t figure it out. One thing I do know is that our paper company lost 110 million dollars last year, and I’ll bet that half of that was spent in all the paperwork going back and forth between all these vice presidents. The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest. Well, in my book you either do it right or you get eliminated. In the last seven deals that I’ve been involved with, there were 2.5 million stockholders who have made a pretax profit of 12 billion dollars. Thank you. I am not a destroyer of companies. I am a liberator of them! The point is, ladies and gentleman, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA. Thank you very much
from Time Bandits:
Evil: “It’s a good question. Why have I let the Supreme Being keep me here in the Foretress of Ultimate Darkness? … Look, SHUT UP, I’m speaking rhetorically. I let him keep me here in order to lull him into a false sense of security. When I have the Map, I will be free, and the world will be different, because I have understanding…of digital watches. And soon I shall have understanding of videocassette recorders and car telephones. And when I have understanding of them, I shall have understanding of computers. And when I have understanding of computers, I shall be the Supreme Being! God isn’t interested in technology. He knows nothing of the potential of the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time! Forty-three species of parrot! Nipples for men! Slugs!! He created slugs. They can’t hear! They can’t speak! They can’t operate machinery! I mean, are we not in the hands of a lunatic? If I were creating a world, I wouldn’t mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o’clock, day one!”
(he makes a gesture and accidentally shoots an energy bolt from his fingers; a shriek of pain from off-screen is heard) “Sorry.”
~~Megatron
~~Cobra Commander
I came in here to post that quote.
I watched Glengarry Glen Ross again the other night, and i’m always amazed that the most memorable character from that film is a guy who was on screen for about 5 minutes at the very beginning of the movie, and who then leaves, never to be seen again.
Not really a villainous monologue, more a monologue by a villain, but from the movie version of The Witches of Eastwick (not nearly as effective in print as delivered)
Arthur Jensen’s diatribe to Howard Beale in “Network” :
"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it! Is that clear? You think you’ve merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case! The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU…WILL…ATONE! "
I was going to post the final speech from Darkness in Legend - but I don’t know it word for word.
I just remember him saying, “I am a part of you all.”
I always liked Denis Leary’s “Mickey Mantle” speach in “Suicide Kings”
oh, and one other one, from a pre- Oliver Stone Vietnam War movie, called “The Boys in Company C”.
The scene is in baracks after their first day in basic. The platoon starts screwing around when one of them bounces within the reach of Tyrone Washington, the street smart, de-facto leader…
He grabs recruit Pike and says to him and the rest of the platoon:
Since so many other people have already beaten me to my favorite bits of Shakespeare, I offer up Bosola in The Duchess of Malfi:
Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in Sexy Beast:
Depending on whether you think the guys in The Boondock Saints are villains:
I always liked scene that immediately followed, and his line on the way out the door:
“Sorry about the toaster.”
An outstanding choice from an outstanding movie.