I found many passages in "The White Company", by Arthur Conan Doyle, very, very inspirational. Less for any single speeches or monologues (although there are many that amazed me) but rather the striking and stirring overall mentality of the people involved, that arose from and then transcended the period and the society that birthed it.
I feel this is important, as we cannot take Superheroes out of the society that birthed and raised them, for it is that society that also formed their outlook on life. It was this, as well as the inspiration of the heroic and selfless deeds of other heroes, that would encourage them to such heights as to attack a Rikti Dropship or to attempt other seemingly impossible tasks.
-- Vivian
PS: For those curious: http://www.literature.org/authors/do...white-company/
"I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day. An hour of woes and shattered shields, when the age of men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!"
"Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"
"Ducks Fly Together!"
Also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6wRkzCW5qI
Also also: soloing hami iz easy. j00 offer him skittles, he gives j00 a HO. o_o
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"We ask no favours of the enemy. We seek from them no compunction. On the contrary, if tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "No, we will mete out to them the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us." The people with one voice would say: "You have committed every crime under the sun. Where you have been the least resisted there you have been the most brutal. It was you who began the indiscriminate bombing. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best." Perhaps it may be our turn soon; perhaps it may be our turn now."
Winston Churchill
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"Rally to me. Let the indomitable spirit of Bataan and Corregidor lead on. As the lines of battle roll forward to bring you within the zone of operations, rise and strike. Strike at every favorable opportunity. For your homes and hearths, strike! For future generations of your sons and daughters, strike! In the name of your sacred dead, strike! Let no heart be faint. Let every arm be steeled. The guidance of divine God points the way. Follow in His Name to the Holy Grail of righteous victory!"
-- Excerpted from the speech of Douglas MacArthur, moments after wading ashore at Red Beach
A few days ago, I was reading through some "flavor text" on history badges, and thought to myself, "Self, why do I keep referring to myself as SELF?"
Then I started to focus on the flavor text itself and the stories behind the history badges. What would it have been like if these events actually happened? Being a comic-based world though, I always imagine someone pacing dramatically in front of a group of heroes or doing the George C. Scott Patton speech, inspiring brave young heroes to certain death.
So what speech, fiction or non-fiction, would you consider to be the most inspiring?
Would it be the St. Crispin's Day Speech from Henry V:
"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,"
Would it be John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address:
"And so, my fellow Americans:
ask not what your country can do for you—
ask what you can do for your country"
In your opinion, what speech or speeches would be so good as to inspire earth controllers to become stone tankers? To cause level 10 heroes to attack a Rikti assault ship overhead? To motivate someone to attempt a solo attack on Hamidon?
~Azure
Oh...and I still haven't heard from myself about the whole "self" thing yet. Hehe.