History Quotes / ArchEnemy

->''"Poor Peter. To weak to send me home to die."\\
"No. I just wanna kill you myself."\\
"Attaboy!"''\\
-->--'''Peter Parker''' and '''Green Goblin''', ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome''

"Attaboy!"\\''

->"Poor Peter. To weak to send me home to die."\\

"Attaboy!"\\

-->'''Barry:''' I hate you.\\

-->'''Amy Pond:''' So, you have enemies, then?\\

->''We must seek the balance, Megatron. Not only between the organic and the technological, but the balance between eternal enemies: between you...and I!''

->We must seek the balance, Megatron. Not only between the organic and the technological, but the balance between eternal enemies: ''between you...and I!''

->"One of the greatest threats you will meet as heroes is the villain that simply refuses to go away. Whether it be [[CardboardPrison breaking out of prison]], [[VillainExitStageLeft escaping to live another day]], [[AllAccordingToPlan always seeming to be one step ahead]], or [[DiabolusExMachina simply pure dumb luck]], you ''will'' eventually find that one tenacious villain. These are often called a hero’s ‘Nemesis’ by the media."

->"Have you ever been hunted? He hunted me, and I hunted him. He wasn't like the others. He wasn't Sith, he wasn't a Force-user...our conflict was in its own way the least and most personal. It wasn't about the Jedi and the Dark Side, it wasn't about philosophy, or faith, or even--even the Republic or the Separatists. Not after our first few encounters, at least. Between us, it was General to General, and nothing else mattered. A battle of minds, and wills, and skill, testing and daring the other just to see how far we'd go...just to see which of us could ''win''. And in the end it was me."

->"Oh, ''you''. You just couldn't let me go, could you? This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You truly are incorruptible, aren't you? You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won't kill you because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever."

->"It all makes sense! In a comic, you know how you can tell who the archvillain's going to be? He's the ''exact opposite'' of the hero. And most times they're friends, like you and me!"

->"No, no, I'm not gonna kill him. We need each other. We define each other. We're... [[YinYangClash yin and yang]], black and white."

->''She had battled with [[DiabolicalMastermind Shem Shem Tsien]] across the world, and it never changed or got any better. He did something awful, she went and tidied up; in Rome, in Kiev, Havana. They fought on boats and in caves, on the roofs of houses and in alleyway. Sometimes one or other of them had an army, sometimes they were alone. It went on and on and it never settled anything. Shem Shem Tsien didn't change, didn't learn, did not accept that the new age had no space for him. [[CoveredInScars Her body was a dictionary of woundings now]], courtesy of his [[LightningBruiser impossible speed]], and she had learned to distract him, harry him, cheat him of her own death by guile. Once or twice, she had even survived him by skill. She tried not to think about how their addiction to this private, predictable conflict mirrored the ridiculous proxy wars the East and West were fighting with one another.''

->''To an attempt an understanding of Muad'Dib without understanding his mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.''

->"You will always be my greatest enemy. On any Earth. It's written in the stars."

->"He's my best enemy."

->"You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies."

-> "Hang on a minute - ''Davros'' is your arch-enemy now?... I'll scratch his eye out!"

->"Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain. You need me, or you're nothing. Because we're just alike, you and I - except you're ''[[GoodIsBoring boring]]''."

->"You know, I used to think it was our families that made us who we are. Then I hoped it was our friends. But if you look at history, the great men and women of the world have always been defined by their enemies."

->"I hate having a nemesis. Clark always made it seem so fun, like a deadly pen-pal you see once a year! But no, having a nemesis is STRESSFUL!"

->I'm just trying to show you\\

You'd be lost without me!

->''It was in the decades after the Winter of Woe that [[BenevolentMageRuler Ariel]] first became aware of a malignant and abhorrent presence that would prove to be her nemesis. The existence of this being was of great offence to to Ariel, standing for everything that she opposed, its very being antithesis to her.''

->"[[EvilLaugh BWAHAHAHA!]] Not bad! I guess I chose the right guy to be my archenemy. [[WorthyOpponent At least you always put up a fight.]]"

->"WHAA--?! IT'S YOU?! Well, I'd expect as much from my archnemesis. Your time is up, Mario!"

->"We will ''never'' come to accept one another. We shall always be in ''conflict''!"

->"So what will it be, Bats? You and me caught in this eternal struggle? One destined to kill the other? What will we do when one of us wins? Have you even considered it? Terrifying, isn't it?"

->''Up pulls a familiar Eagle sedan, and out steps renowned goons Tinker and O'Connor. For unknown reasons, they're here to bring Dalton to see Brad Wesley. Dalton sits up, hangs his head momentarily, [[TrapIsTheOnlyOption but goes along with them.]] I guess even he knows that a meeting between two men so perfectly embodying the concepts of good and evil is only inevitable.''

->''"After Champion-3 died, Champ-4 turned out to be a decent kid, he saved Dad’s life once, and well, [=GizDad=] just didn’t have the heart to keep up the feud.” \\

“Don’t worry, Kate,” I patted her hand. “Someday, that special hero will come along, someone you can really HATE.”''
-->-- '''[[OverlordJr Jobe]] [[GenderBender Anne]] [[ForScience Wilkins]]''', '''[[WindsOfDestinyChange Hazard]]''', ''' [[CastingAShadow Nacht]]''' ([[DeadpanSnarker Kate]]), and '''[[MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter She-Beast]]''', "Saks and Violence", ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''

->"Lord Monkey Fist, my arch-foe! ...Hey, I just realized I have my own personal arch-foe. It's kind of cool."

Yes, I have a nemesis!

->"I am the thing that keeps you up at night, the evil that haunts every dark corner of your mind. I will never rest -- and neither will you."

-->-- '''[[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Aizawa]]''', ''FanFic/{{Lamarckian}}''

->'''Nova Shine:''' "Shimmer, let's not mince words. We’re mortal nemeses. You’ve been a thorn in my side since the day you nearly smothered us in the Vaults. Doesn’t really leave much in the room for being friends."\\
'''Envy/Shimmer Silvermane''': "Hey, ask Sunbutt and Moonbutt about Discord. When you’ve lived as long as we have, sometimes the closest thing you have to a lifelong friend is a mortal nemesis."

[[NotSoDifferent Just how well I know you]]\\

'''David:''' Well, Luthor even says it: [[AntagonistInMourning he'll miss Superman]], the only man who can keep up with him. He's also, notably, the only man who's ever ''outsmarted'' Luthor, with his great gambit at the end of ''Film/SupermanII''. He not only outsmarted Luthor, he used Luthor as a pawn to outsmart [[GreaterScopeVillain someone bigger]]. Luthor [[WorthyOpponent respects the Hell out of that.]]\\
'''Chris:''' Exactly, which is why as far as Luthor's concerned, [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou Superman has to die.]]

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'''Bruce:''' It wasn't a popularity contest. He was a psychopath. [[CompleteMonster A monster.]]

-->-- [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Aizawa]], ''FanFic/{{Lamarckian}}''

->"Have you ever been hunted? He hunted me, and I hunted him. He wasn't like the others. He wasn't Sith, he wasn't a Force-user... our conflict was in its own way the least and most personal. It wasn't about the Jedi and the Dark Side, it wasn't about philosophy, or faith, or even -- even the Republic or the Separatists. Not after our first few encounters, at least. Between us, it was General to General, and nothing else mattered. A battle of minds, and wills, and skill, testing and daring the other just to see how far we'd go... just to see which of us could ''win''. And in the end it was me."

->'''Chris:''' These two dudes are completely on their own level that's just beyond anyone else in the movie, which makes then a really great pair. There's a grandness to them and their adversarial relationship -- as well as their familiarity with each other -- that this movie does pull off pretty well despite all its other flaws.\\

-> “One of the greatest threats you will meet as heroes is the villain that simply refuses to go away. Whether it be [[CardboardPrison breaking out of prison]], [[VillainExitStageLeft escaping to live another day]], [[AllAccordingToPlan always seeming to be one step ahead]], or [[DiabolusExMachina simply pure dumb luck]], you ''will'' eventually find that one tenacious villain. These are often called a hero’s ‘Nemesis’ by the media."

->"Have you ever been hunted? He hunted me, and I hunted him. He wasn't like the others. He wasn't Sith, he wasn't a Force-user...our conflict was in its own way the least and most personal. It wasn't about the Jedi and the Dark Side, it wasn't about philosophy, or faith, or even -- even the Republic or the Separatists. Not after our first few encounters, at least. Between us, it was General to General, and nothing else mattered. A battle of minds, and wills, and skill, testing and daring the other just to see how far we'd go...just to see which of us could ''win''. And in the end it was me."

->"Have you ever been hunted? He hunted me, and I hunted him. He wasn't like the others. He wasn't Sith, he wasn't a Force-user...our conflict was in its own way the least and most personal. It wasn't about the Jedi and the Dark Side, it wasn't about philosophy, or faith, or even--even the Republic or the Separatists. Not after our first few encounters, at least. Between us, it was General to General, and nothing else mattered. A battle of minds, and wills, and skill, testing and daring the other just to see how far we'd go...just to see which of us could ''win''. And in the end it was me."