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"You sly dog! You got me monologuing! I can't believe information technology."

It'south mutual in fiction for the Big Bad to make some sort of big spoken language for The Hero. Be it Breaking Them by Talking, existence Just Between You and Me, "The Reason Yous Suck" Voice communication, or even a We Will Come across Over again you lot'll frequently observe that the villain has prepared some course of eloquent speech communication for their adversary, or are just then in dearest with with their ain voice that they simply cannot help themselves only going out on a long tangent. Said graphic symbol(south) volition realize that the speaker is so incredibly distracted that they're no longer paying attention to their audience and volition remain oblivious for a while; they take this opportunity to either escape, disrupt the Evil Plan, or even attack the orator.

Being Caught Monologuing is specifically when one or more characters take reward of another character's self-distraction to take activeness. It is not when the villain is giving upwardly vital information which the hero uses afterwards to finish them. Nor is it when someone is having what is basically an audible Internal Monologue and someone walks in and calls them on it.

This trope is non exclusive to villains; sometimes the hero can get caught in a monologue.

If the monologue is in the form of some public speech and other characters take advantage of it either by assassination, kidnapping, or hijacking the spoken language, than it is more than a case of exploiting Swiss Cheese Security than it is that the speaker is distracted.

Talk to the Fist and Killed Mid-Sentence are ways to be immediately physically punished for being Defenseless Monologuing.

See Mook Knightly, No Sneak Attacks, Transformation Is a Free Action, and Why Don't You Only Shoot Him? for other examples of how ane can take reward of the Genre Bullheaded.

This trope is a subversion/aversion of Talking Is a Free Action because the action is anything but gratis.

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    Anime & Manga

• My Hero Academia: The villain Dabi falls victim to this a couple of times during the Paranormal Liberation Raid Arc, where he has someone at his mercy, but he talks a bit too long and accidentally gives them a chance to escape or someone else a chance to rescue them. This is actually justified, as Hawks later realizes that Dabi likely isn't just beingness cocky, rather he's trying purchase time and cool downwardly since his Quirk is too hot for him to apply consecutively without pain himself.

    Fan Works

• In Sword Art Online Abridged'due south second season, Sugou visits Asuna'due south cage to spell out his Evil Program and engage in some Evil Gloating. It takes simply a few seconds of him looking away from her for Asuna to escape and begin slaughtering her fashion through his guards.

  Asuna: You're Insane! Thankfully, you're also an idiot. Why would you tell me whatever of this? You actually think I'grand just gonna sit down around and wait for that to happen?
  Sugou: (chuckles) My dear Titania, yous're lucky you're and so pretty. By all means, requite me your best shot! Simply if you actually think you tin overpower the (turns away to look out at the horizon) Arrangement Admin, then I dare say you're even dumber (turns back around) than I am where did y'all get?
  (alarms bellow)
  Baby-sit: (offscreen) Dearest GOD Information technology'S LOOOOOSE!!

• In the Supernatural/Pointer crossover "When Demon Hunters See the Arrow", when Malcolm Merlyn appears in the Arrowcave to try and abduct Thea later on learning she's his daughter, Dean Winchester manages to knock Merlyn out while the older man is ranting most his plans for the future, prompting the following observation from Dean;

  "It really speaks volumes to how much of an egomaniac this guy is that he decided to monologue instead of using his earth-class assassin training to hear me sneaking up backside him."

    Films — Animation

• The Trope Namer is of course The Incredibles:
  • Frozone cites an instance from his past heroics where he was cornered, and the villain proceeded to launch into a speech. He manifestly used that time while the villain was babbling to turn things around.
  • Syndrome does it twice over the course of the pic, the first time he just narrowly avoids Mr. Incredible's attempt to interrupt him. The second time, he gets a car thrown at the air-craft he's aboard while he'due south running his oral fissure... it doesn't end well for him.
• In Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ra's al Ghul has merely disarmed Leo and is about to state the finishing blow... merely not before monologuing about how he's hundreds of years old and trained with the greatest masters in history. Leo takes the opportunity to kicking him in the nads and paralyze him with a Pressure level Bespeak assault.

    Films — Live-Action

• In The Man from U.Northward.C.L.E. (2015), Napoleon taunts Victoria with lies about her husband's ignominious death, goading her into spending valuable time threatening to murder everyone he loves. This provides Waverley both the radio signal to rails her and the time needed to launch a missile at her location.

    Literature

• Occasionally invoked in Discworld, just lampshaded more often. Vimes in item devotes a little fleck of internal monologue in Men at Arms to the notion of monologuing; always promise the guy who has you at his mercy is an evil homo, considering information technology means he's going to take some time to gloat about information technology and enjoy having ability over you, while a adept homo volition kill yous straightaway (as Carrot does later on). In other words, Vimes really likes people who monologue, because it gives him a chance to use it against them.
• Lampshaded several times and occasionally played straight in A Applied Guide to Evil, due to the story taking place in a setting where the Theory of Narrative Causality is enforced by the Gods. Businesslike villains such as Catherine and the Black Knight never monologue in club to avert this trope, merely more traditional villains such as Akua fall victim to it occasionally. Catherine fifty-fifty manages to weaponize information technology against i of the winter fey, since they are even more bound by stories than anyone else. When she sets him up for a villainous monologue, he literally can't not give her an evil voice communication that explains all their plans and gives her allies an opportunity to come up to her aid.

  "Sixty-seven: putting an arrow in a villain during their monologue is a perfectly adequate method of victory. Heroes assertive otherwise do non get to retire."
  -Two Hundred Heroic Axioms, writer unknown

• The thespian Alexion in Awaken Online loves to make grandiose speeches almost his greatness and his enemies inferiority, partly because his Lite mana is fueled by confidence. The main characters, often Jason, melody him out and instead concrete on ways to beat him. 1 glaring example was in Hellion where he betrays and attacks his marry Finn later on he and Jason exhaust each other in a fight...so takes the fourth dimension to make a spoken language equally he prepares to kill him. He'southward completely oblivious to the ii settling their differences to impale him forging a temporary alliance between them.
• InCryptid: Verity specifically calls out the villain for monologuing.

    Live-Action TV

• Parodied in Black Adder Goes Forth. The Baron von Richthofen has Blackadder and Baldrick held captive. George brings Lord Flashheart to come and salve them only to come up face to face with the dreaded baron. The following exchange plays out like so:

  Baron von Richthofen: Ah, and the Lord Flashheart. This is indeed an accolade. Finally, the ii greatest gentleman fliers in the world meet. 2 men of award, who accept jousted together in the cloud-strewn glory of the skies, confront to face at last. How frequently I have rehearsed this moment of destiny in my dreams. The honour we ii encapsulate; the unspoken nobility of our comradeship—
  [Flashheart shoots the Baron]
  Flashheart: What a poof!

  • In "Potato," from Blackadder II, Melchett walks in on Edmund as he winds upwardly a diatribe almost Sir Walter Raleigh:

  Melchett: Talking to yourself again, Blackadder?
  Blackadder: Yes. Information technology's the only style I can be assured of intelligent chat.

• Dexter: While Dexter is washing dishes, Paul gives him a long-winded, menacing speech communication trying to intimidate Dexter. He warns him that he loves his children, he'south their father, and he won't let Rita or anyone else get in his wa— Wham! Upside the head with a frying pan. And, because this is Dexter, this leads inexorably to Paul's death.
• When Shawn captures the Brainy Bunch in The Adept Place, he and Michael have turns trying to verbally intimidate each other... until Janet interrupts by karate-chopping Shawn in the cervix midsentence and screaming, "Screw this! Let's fight!"

    Tabletop Games

• Any Dungeons & Dragons game, e'er, will sooner or afterward have someone yell "I coil for initiative" in the eye of the villain's evil voice communication, which can grant the political party a surprise assault round.

    Video Games

• In Choice of Dragons you volition at one point be confronted by Sir Rodegard. You are quite welcome to devour him mid speech.
• The Elder Scrolls:
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: The histrion hears Big Bad Mankar Camoran's Hannibal Lecture coming from thin air from the outset moment they set foot in his realm. When they finally face him face to face up, Camoran launches into yet another long-winded voice communication... if they let him. In some other cutscenes, the player's controls are locked downwards for the elapsing, merely not this time as many players choose to interrupt his monologue with sword or spell. Turn the difficulty down to minimum and spell yourself up to 100% Chameleon and you can kill him with 1 shot, which makes the pause that much more than satisfying.
  • The Elderberry Scrolls V: Skyrim: In the game'due south Dawnguard expansion, this can be utilized during the terminal dominate battle. Unlike most other boss battles, the player is not frozen when Lord Harkon does his endgame monologuing. They can take advantage of this fact to sneak up behind him while he'due south talking and do a critical backstab, which - if the weapon is powerful enough - can potentially end his fight before information technology even begins.
• Legend II: The role player tin flat out 1-Hit Kill Lucien right in the middle of his big speech, and if the player doesn't do information technology, Reaver volition just shoot Lucien himself.
• Towards the finish of Fairy Fencer F, or the Goddess path in the Advent Dark Force remake, the party lets Dorfa lackey Paiga lead them into a trap, then pull an excellent one of these on him.

  Paiga: Hmhmhm, nobody brand a move, or I'll press this button over again. Now, you guys but stay where yous are while I move to a safer position.
  Tiara: I don't call up so! Cui...!
  Cui: Cui, cui! (whooshing sound, flash of low-cal)
  Paiga: Whoa, what the—!? O-Oh no, the button...! Wh-When did that beast get behind me!?
  Tiara: While you were monologuing, I had my fairy sneak behind your back. Your luck ends here!

• Mass Consequence 2: During Mordin'due south loyalty mission on Tuchanka, a Krogan Aristocracy Mook begins telling Commander Shepard about how their tribe will overrun all the other tribes and then Take Over The Milky way. The Commander can perform a Renegade action in the middle of the spoken communication, shooting a fuel tank beneath the Krogan which explodes and burns him to death
• In Resident Evil four, Ramon Salazar goes off onto some other smarmy monologue on how he's going to kill Leon with another clever trap. Leon, who by this bespeak is thoroughly fed up with Salazar's bullshit, shuts him up with a knife to the paw.
• Reversed in Resident Evil Hamlet: Moreau's monologue distracts Ethan while he seals off the exits to his lair.
• In Star Wars: Jedi Outcast, Kyle comes upwards confronting one of the game'south 2 Big Bads, Admiral Fyyar, at the terminate of a mission to bring down the ship's shields. Fyyar launches into full Large Ham mode, about how worlds will tremble and all... and Kyle throws his lightsaber at the shield generator, frying it.
• The bosses in Undertale by and large first off each fight with a monologue, before the histrion gets their showtime plough to assail. The final boss of the No Mercy/Genocide route plays with this trope; he starts off with a monologue, then interrupts his own monologue to suddenly attack the player with a serial of powerful rapid-burn attacks which are likely to kill an unprepared player before they even get a turn. When the player does manage to finally survive the attack, the dominate ponders why other people don't first off with their most powerful attacks.
• Defied in one of the penultimate encounters of the game in Realm of the Mad God. Chancellor Dammah monologues for a curt while when you first enter his sleeping accommodation in Oryx'southward Sanctuary, but unlike many other bosses when they monologue you, Dammah is entirely vulnerable. Shooting him one time will cause him to become invincible and rebuke you for interrupting him. Continue to shoot him, and he volition wing into a rage and open up up the encounter with 1 of his least forgiving attacks while preventing the unabridged group from healing.

    Western Blitheness

• Adventure Fourth dimension: Jake hits Xergiok with a stone after he says "y'all may accept beaten me this time, but—".
• Kim Possible: Shego regularly calls Drakken out whenever he starts monologuing.

  Drakken: And then, Kim Possible, you think to thwart my plan!
  Shego: Don't terminate to tell her the programme!
  Drakken: I'll handle this, Shego!
  Shego: Yeah, all I know is every fourth dimension you end to blab about your big program, she wins!
  Drakken: Oh, right.

• Tempest Hawks: Chief Cyclonis suffers this in "The Key" — while she's busy bragging to and threatening the Oracle, Aerrow takes the opportunity to grab her surprise (and cut her off mid-judgement) with a nail which knocks her staff from her hands.

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