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{{quote|'''Jane''': He must not be undeserving, as we thought. He must truly be in love with her, I think.
'''Mr. Bennet''': You think that, Jane, if it gives you comfort.|''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' ([[Beam Me Up, Scotty|the TV adaptation, not the book]])}}
From an argumentative standpoint, it's pretty hard to get anywhere against the [[Well
This trope is what happens when, as the Well-Intentioned Extremist is making his case, someone calls him out on it. He makes a point that, hey, just because you [[Pet the Dog]] every once in a while, that doesn't mean it's OK for you to be a total genocidal [[Jerkass]]. If you want to tell yourself a story about how great you are so you can live with yourself, go ahead. But spare me your crap.
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Alternatively, a villain can say this to a hero, but with more mixed results. Sometimes the villain may [[Straw Man Has a Point|have a point]], but other times he'll be shown as [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good|being too callous and pathetic to understand that]], yes, some people really do value abstract things like [[Power of Friendship|friendship]].
Compare [[Shut UP, Hannibal]].
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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Ghost in
== [[Film]] ==
* In the climax of ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'', [[Complete Monster|Anton Chigurh]] confronts Carla at her home, explaining that he has to kill her because he promised her husband Llewelyn that he would. Carla points out that this is crazy, and makes no sense. He goes on explain that he offered Llewelyn a chance to save Carla's life, but Llewelyn instead decided to use her to try and save himself. Carla calls him out on how that wasn't Llewelyn's rationale at all and Chigurh's twisting his words around. Finally, Chigurh lets her call a coin toss to get a chance to live. She refuses to call it, saying that Chigurh's only doing it so he can mentally conclude that he's "giving her a choice", when in reality, he's in complete control of the situation and the only one making any choices at all. This scene is the closest the movie comes to a loss for Chigurh, because Carla brings no outside knowledge into the conversation. He could justify the enmity of every other character in the film because they're his enemy and have reason to hate him. Carla's words, by contrast, deal entirely with the current situation. Chigurh has no reason to kill her at all, and is so randomly destructive that he doesn't have any more genuine human feeling than a car crash.
* In ''[[X
* A villain-to-hero version occurs in the 2003 remake of ''[[The Italian Job (2003 film)|The Italian Job]]''.
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'''Steve:''' "[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Whatever helps you sleep at night, sweetheart]]."
[''Stella responds by {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|punching him in the face]]}}''.] }}
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'': Elizabeth to Jack Sparrow.
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'''Sparrow''': Keep tellin' yourself that, darling. }}
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Performed by The Doctor on the villain of the ''[[
* In ''[[Spaced]]'', Tim uses this line during the ''[[Tekken]]'' scene when Daisy protests that "spending hours bogeling to Aswad" was research:
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** Daisy does it right back to him in the same argument (and ends up winning it), because the current topic is about whether Tim's right to get back with his manipulative ex-girlfriend.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (
* At the end of the canon route of ''[[Blaze Union]]'', this seems to be what Medoute is ''trying'' to say to {{spoiler|Gulcasa}}; her own [[Fantastic Racism]] makes her rationale very shaky, however, and this quickly degenerates into a vicious and painful argument in which everything the former accuses is met with a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] and everything the latter tries to defend himself with gets a [[Shut Up, Kirk]].
* As part of an [[Old Save Bonus]], in ''[[Dragon Age II]]'', if the hero from the [[Dragon Age Origins|original game]] married Alistair and took the throne with him, he'll refer to her as "the old ball and chain" when he shows up for his little [[Previous Player Character Cameo|cameo]].
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'''King Alistair''': No she doesn't. Just because [[One
'''Bann Teagan''': You keep telling yourself that, Your Majesty. }}
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