History Quotes / GoodIsBoring

-->--Simone Weil, discussing how this trope is Zig-Zagged between fiction and real life

-->-- '''[[spoilers:Junko Enoshima]]''', ''Anime/Danganronpa3 Side: Despair''

-->Simone Weil, discussing how this trope is Zig-Zagged between fiction and real life

-->--'''Chris Sims''' on ''WesternAnimation/XMen'', [[http://comicsalliance.com/cyclops-x-men-wolverine-marvel-ask-chris-142/ "The Case Against Cyclops"]]

->''Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense...Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people "I offer you a good time," Hitler has said to them "I offer you struggle, danger and death," and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet.''

->"Oh yes, the great 'Collective Harmony'," sneered the Tyrant. "A vast consciousness, billions of minds living and working in a concord of love and perfection. No indecisions, no doubts, no excitement, no...evil. The security and strength of a unified dullness. How boring."\\
"You are small," Anna replied, looking down in contempt at the short queen. "You are a primitive neurotic and think in small ways. You lack harmony, order, greatness. You do not understand what it is to be Bored!"

->''[[PurityPersonified Prim and proper]], the girl who's never been cased\\

I want to [[EvilIsCool go to the devil]]''

->''"They say there's a heaven for those who will wait\\

->'''Archer isn’t [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk]]. He likes water polo. He spends his off-duty hours hugging a Beagle. He’s more comfortable talking about warp theory than negotiating with hostile aliens or making sweet love to green women.''

->''"Functional adults]] are boring anyway."''

-->--'''The Master''' on the First Doctor, ''Destiny of the Doctors''

->''I can watch {{ComicBook/Cyclops}} objectively make the right choice, and fight for his woman, and help the school, and stand up as a reliable pillar of virtue and good intentions, but that doesn't matter, because {{ComicBok/Wolverine}} smokes, and {{smoking is cool}}.''

->"I guess I got a little of what Lex was infected with, genetically. Not any of the science stuff, but— You know how straights are, and how straight life is. Soooo boring. I found out about guys, cycles, drugs, and privilege in short order. Got off drugs. Got myself a real cycle gang while I was in college, Nasty's Nasties. Dad ‘n' Mom didn't approve, but I didn't give a damn as long as they kept the money coming. Then they cut it off."

->'''Corie:''' You’re always dressed right. You always ''look'' right. You always say the right thing... You’re very nearly perfect.\\
'''Paul:''' (aghast) That’s a rotten thing to say.

->'''Yoda:''' Adventure. Hah! Excitement. Hah! A Jedi craves not these things.
-->--''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''

->Must you always be so ''ethical?''
-->--'''Q''', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "Qpid"

->The thing about Heaven, is that Heaven is for people who ''like'' the sort of things that go on in Heaven, like... Singing. Talking to God. Watering pot plants.

->The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. [[AvertedTrope This is the treason of the artist]]: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

->''"[[PurityPersonified Prim and proper]], the girl who's never been cased\\

I want to [[EvilIsCool go to the devil]]!"''

->''"They say there's a heaven for those who will wait,''
->''Some say it's better but I say it ain't.''
->''I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints,''
->''The sinners are much more fun.''
->''You know that only the good die young."''

->People say to me, ''"Oh, Bill, leave them alone. They're so good, and so clean-cut, and they're such a good image for the children."'' '''FUCK THAT.''' When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children? I want my children listening to people who fucking ROCKED! I don't care if they died in POOLS OF THEIR OWN VOMIT! I want someone who plays from his FUCKIN' HEART!\\\
''"Mommy, the man Bill told me to listen to has a blood bubble on his nose--"'' '''SHADDAP AND LISTEN TO HIM PLAY.'''

->Once upon a time, an infinite number of people lived perfect, eternal lives. The end.

->[[DysfunctionJunction Functional]] [[ManChild adults]] are boring anyway.

->Due to the growing number of the live audiences booing [[Wrestling/JohnCena Cena]], Wrestling/KurtAngle began to [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain speak negatively about black people]] in an attempt to get Cena some cheers during their feud. Along with this he turned his back on the troops and refused to perform at ''Tribute to the Troops'', took [[Wrestling/ShawnDaivari Daivari]] (who was last seen with mega heel Wrestling/MuhammadHassan) as his manager, and said he hated Jesus. ("Who did he ever beat?") Kurt '''''still''''' got a considerable amount of cheers over Cena.
-->--'''''Taimapedia'''''

->I love the founder of ''Deadspin'', Will Leitch. He's a good friend and usually a reasonable human being. But every fucking October, he morphs into an eight-year-old wearing a propeller beanie and shooting marbles on the living room floor. GOLLY GEE GUYS ISN'T CARDINALS BASEBALL JUST THE BESTEST?! And the worst part is that, whenever you tell Leitch to ''[[FanHater GO TO HELL]]''', he acts like ''you're'' the asshole!

->I can watch Cyclops objectively make the right choice, and fight for his woman, and help the school, and stand up as a reliable pillar of virtue and good intentions, but that doesn't matter, because {{Wolverine}} smokes, and {{smoking is cool}}.

->Wolverine wouldn’t be Wolverine if he didn’t have Cyclops to rebel against. I’d just rather read about the rebelling than the guy who tells him ''hey stop that, it’s after 10 and we have a noise policy here.''

->It's suddenly flipped to where the major engine of interest and excitement in the show is the villain, while the Doctor is, absent the villain, kind of [[TheBore a pompous bore]]. The villain makes everything a lush, thrilling carnival of scares. The hero [[UpperClassTwit plays bridge with rich people]] and [[KickTheDog yells at the tea lady.]]

->The problem is that Bashir is hard to get to work on his own for more than a scene. After all, ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'' had a great deal of trouble with character-based storytelling for its first two years, and I suspect the fact that so many of the characters were bland idealised paragons contributed to that.

->Paris was once [[LovableRogue a traitorous rogue]] and Neelix [[ConMan a shrewd businessman]]…and the episode seems to go out of its way to point out how [[GoodIsDumb they have lost their touch and becomes such chumps]]. Yes that’s right, it’s a Mary Sue moment where the writers are actually admitting they have fudged these characters right up and revealed how the Federation turns you into lazy, boring ciphers. Well at least they admit it. ‘Maybe we’ve lost our edge’ -- oh mate, that was lost as soon as Caretaker was over.
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/voyager-season-six.html Doc Oho]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Live Fast and Prosper"

->Archer isn’t Captain Kirk. He likes water polo. He spends his off-duty hours hugging a Beagle. He’s more comfortable talking about warp theory than negotiating with hostile aliens or making sweet love to green women.

'''David''': And the sad thing is, it’s when Welling does his best work.\\

->Well, [[HeelFaceTurn reformation]] is just a fancy way of saying 'We're going to make you into a boring character.'
-->-- '''Twilight Sparkle''', ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'', "Discord and Me"

->You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with [[ARealManIsAKiller its meekness and flabbiness]]?

->Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life. [...] Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people "I offer you a good time," Hitler has said to them "I offer you struggle, danger and death," and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet.

->The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

->Bland works.

->The truth of the matter is, when I first got the script, I said, 'Maniac's the most fun part'...[[TypeCasting Once again]], I'm the 'serious' guy, the man on a mission; An agenda that doesn't allow for humor, really.

->The captain doesn’t do nearly enough screwing and shooting on this show.
-->--'''Creator/PatrickStewart''' to Ronald D. Moore, scriptwriter for ''Star Trek: The Next Generaton''

->Heroes are not acting parts because they're predictable. That's the wonderful and challenging thing about playing a hero: Within predictability, how can you be surprising and amusing?

->I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always [[FountainOfExpies cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted]]. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the [[HumansAreFlawed way we humans really are]].

-->--'''El Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/07/he-was-friend-at-first-terror-of-autons_25.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'' ([[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons}} "Terror of the Autons"]])

-->-- '''Jose Saramago'''

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-->--'''Q''' to Picard, ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''

->Due to the growing number of the live audiences booing [[Wrestling/JohnCena Cena]], Wrestling/KurtAngle began to [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain speak negatively about black people]] in an attempt to get Cena some cheers during their feud. Along with this he turned his back on the troops and refused to perform at ''Tribute to the Troops'', took Daivari (who was last seen with mega heel [[EvilForeigner Muhammad Hassan]]) as his manager, and said he hated Jesus. ("Who did he ever beat?") Kurt '''''still''''' got a considerable amount of cheers over Cena.

-->--'''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2011/07/he-was-friend-at-first-terror-of-autons_25.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'' ([[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons}} "Terror of the Autons"]])

-->--'''Chris Sims''' on ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}}'', [[http://comicsalliance.com/cyclops-x-men-wolverine-marvel-ask-chris-142/ "The Case Against Cyclops"]]

->[(DysfunctionJunction Functional]] [[ManChild adults]] are boring anyway.

-->-- '''Eartha Kitt'', "I Want to be Evil"