History Quotes / MultipleChoicePast

-->--'''Sideways,''' ''Franchise/{{Transformers}},'' multiple continuities

->What war did [[RetiredMonster Meier]] serve in, anyway? Straighten his back, slick back his hair and it would be easy to imagine him as a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi officer]], ordering the murder of concentration camp victims by the dozen. More likely, he was a [[PropagandaMachine lowly propaganda artist]], spending long nights over an easel to ensure that the Jews looked as foul and monstrous as possible while the brave Aryan lads stood tall and noble. Alternatively, his crimes might have been a little closer to home for small-town America: perhaps he was a soldier in [[TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] who served as accomplice at a massacre like My Lai. Or a gang executioner, working for TheMafia or cocaine traffickers. In the [[CrapsackWorld World of Darkness]], Meier may have served [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold in a war no one ever heard of]]. Was he the [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem ghoul of a vampire]], a blood-junkie murdering innocents across the decades to avenge the pride of one of the Damned? Maybe he was a [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening sorcerer's apprentice]], performing kidnappings and torture to further a feud between two cabals of the mysterious Pentacle. Finally, it might have been a war everyone's heard of, and one long before the atrocities of the 20th century: maybe he fought in the American Revolution, or UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar. Perhaps Meier was once a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent creature of glorious light and bloody hands]], an angel who rebelled against his master - or served too well...
->Today, though, he's just an old man. He wants to be left alone, [[TheUnfettered and he'll do anything to make sure of it]].

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->"''I took a look at my thoughts, my appearance, my expressions, my mannerisms and idiosyncracies and didn't like them. So I stripped myself down, chucked things out and replaced them with a completely new personality. When I heard someone say something intelligent, I used it later as if it were my own. When I saw a quaility in someone that I liked, I took it. I still do that.''"

->''I mean, what is it with you? What made you what you are? [[DeathByOriginStory Girlfriend killed by the mob, maybe? Brother carved up by some mugger?]] Something like that, I bet...something like that. Something like that...happened to me, you know. I'm - not exactly sure what it was. If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!''
-->-- '''SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker''' to '''Batman''', ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''

->"Okay, so there's this [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke comic who can't make an audience laugh]]... I ''think'' that's how this one goes, I forget sometimes... Oh, you've heard that one? All right. Ah, I can't keep 'em straight. How about the one where a [[Film/{{Batman}} mob killer named Napier]] comes to Gotham and-- No, wait, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids you're too young for that one]]. I know. This one ''always'' works. So a small-time yutz in a Red Hood walks into a factory, right? He's there to steal the payroll..."
-->-- '''SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker''' in ''[[https://read.dccomics.com/comixology/#/issue/4033/The-Origin-of-the-Joker The Origin of The Joker]]''

->'''Hugo Strange:''' I have read twelve different accounts of your past. All different, except for one detail: Batman.
->'''Joker:''' What can I say? I like to keep things interesting. [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke A wise man once told me that if you have to have an origin story, you're better off making it multiple choice.]]
-->-- ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''

->'''J.D:''' NO! No more! Here are some of the lies you've told us over the last five years. "You went to Harvard." "You have a wife who only has a pointer and "thumb-pinky"." "You have a, a "brother-dad", a "mother-sister"?" "You have two kids, no, wait, you have one kid, no, you had a baby with a Chinese local!" "You're a deaf mute!" Oh, wait, now you're telling us that you're a world-class hurdler and you slept with the beautiful and ''irreplaceable'' Amy Carter?
->'''Janitor:''' I-I didn't sleep with Amy Carter. We did everything ''but''.
->'''J.D:''' ''(groans)''
->'''Janitor:''' [[CryingWolf And I really was a world-class hurdler.]]

->'''Bashir:''' You know, I still have a lot of questions to ask you about the past.
->'''Garak:''' I've given you all the answers I'm capable of.
->'''Bashir:''' You've given me answers, alright, but they were all different. What I want to know is, out of all the stories you've told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?
->'''Garak:''' My dear Doctor, they're all true.
->'''Bashir:''' Even the lies?
->'''Garak:''' ''Especially'' the lies.

->'''Pinkie Pie:''' ''*after supposedly telling the story of how she got her cutie mark*'' And that's how Equestria was made!... Maybe on the way home, I can tell you the story of how I got my cutie mark. It's a gem!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "The Cutie-Mark Chronicles"

->''In order to prevent knowledge of SCP-001 from being leaked, several/no false SCP-001 files have been created alongside the true file/files.''
-->-- [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/proposals-for-scp-001 SCP-001]], '''Wiki/SCPFoundation'''

->What war did [[RetiredMonster Meier]] serve in, anyway? Straighten his back, slick back his hair and it would be easy to imagine him as a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi officer]], ordering the murder of concentration camp victims by the dozen. More likely, he was a [[PropagandaMachine lowly propaganda artist]], spending long nights over an easel to ensure that the Jews looked as foul and monstrous as possible while the brave Aryan lads stood tall and noble. Alternatively, his crimes might have been a little closer to home for small-town America: perhaps he was a soldier in [[TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] who served as accomplice at a massacre like My Lai. Or a gang executioner, working for TheMafia or cocaine traffickers. In the [[CrapsackWorld World of Darkness]], Meier may have served [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold in a war no one ever heard of]]. Was he the [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem ghoul of a vampire]], a blood-junkie murdering innocents across the decades to avenge the pride of one of the Damned? Maybe he was a [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening sorcerer’s apprentice]], performing kidnappings and torture to further a feud between two cabals of the mysterious Pentacle. Finally, it might have been a war everyone’s heard of, and one long before the atrocities of the 20th century: maybe he fought in the American Revolution, or the [[UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar Peloponnesian War]]. Perhaps Meier was once a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent creature of glorious light and bloody hands]], an angel who rebelled against his master - or served too well...
-> Today, though, he’s just an old man. He wants to be left alone, [[TheUnfettered and he’ll do anything to make sure of it]].
-->-- ''Midnight Roads,'' TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness

-->-- '''SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker''' to '''Batman''', ''TheKillingJoke''

->"Okay, so there's this [[TheKillingJoke comic who can't make an audience laugh]]... I ''think'' that's how this one goes, I forget sometimes... Oh, you've heard that one? All right. Ah, I can't keep 'em straight. How about the one where a [[Film/{{Batman}} mob killer named Napier]] comes to Gotham and-- No, wait, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids you're too young for that one]]. I know. This one ''always'' works. So a small-time yutz in a Red Hood walks into a factory, right? He's there to steal the payroll..."

->'''Joker:''' What can I say? I like to keep things interesting. [[AlanMoore A wise man]] once told me that if you have to have an origin story, you're better off making it multiple choice.

-->''Midnight Roads,'' TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness

->'''J.D:''' NO! No more! Here are some of the lies you've told us over the last five years. "You went to Harvard." "You have a wife who only has a pointer and "thumb-pinky"." "You have a, a "brother-dad", a "mother-sister"?" "You have two kids, no, wait, you have one kid, no, you had a baby with a Chinese local!" "You're a deaf mute!" Oh, wait, now you're telling us that you're a world-class hurdler and you slept with the beautiful and irreplacable Amy Carter?

->'''J.D:''' No. No more! Here are some of the lies you've told us over the last five years. "You went to Harvard." "You have a wife who only has a pointer and "thumb-pinky"." "You have a, a "brother-dad", a "mother-sister"?" "You have two kids, no, wait, you have one kid, no, you had a baby with a Chinese local!" "You're a deaf mute!" Oh, wait, now you're telling us that you're a world-class hurdler and you slept with the beautiful and irreplacable Amy Carter?

->What war did [[Retired Monster]] Meier serve in, anyway? Straighten his back, slick back his hair and it would be easy to imagine him as a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi officer]], ordering the murder of concentration camp victims by the dozen. More likely, he was a [[PropagandaMachine lowly propaganda artist]], spending long nights over an easel to ensure that the Jews looked as foul and monstrous as possible while the brave Aryan lads stood tall and noble. Alternatively, his crimes might have been a little closer to home for small-town America: perhaps he was a soldier in [[TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] who served as accomplice at a massacre like My Lai. Or a gang executioner, working for TheMafia or cocaine traffickers. In the [[CrapsackWorld World of Darkness]], Meier may have served [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold in a war no one ever heard of]]. Was he the [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem ghoul of a vampire]], a blood-junkie murdering innocents across the decades to avenge the pride of one of the Damned? Maybe he was a [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening sorcerer’s apprentice]], performing kidnappings and torture to further a feud between two cabals of the mysterious Pentacle. Finally, it might have been a war everyone’s heard of, and one long before the atrocities of the 20th century: maybe he fought in the American Revolution, or the [[UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar Peloponnesian War]]. Perhaps Meier was once a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent creature of glorious light and bloody hands]], an angel who rebelled against his master - or served too well...

->'''Pinkie Pie:''' *after supposedly telling the story of how she got her cutie mark* And that's how Equestria was made!... Maybe on the way home, I can tell you the story of how I got my cutie mark. It's a gem!

-->-- '''TheJoker''' to '''Batman''', ''TheKillingJoke''

-->-- '''TheJoker''' in ''[[https://read.dccomics.com/comixology/#/issue/4033/The-Origin-of-the-Joker The Origin of The Joker]]''

->'''Garak:''' Especially the lies.

-->-- ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "The Wire"

->'''Pinkie Pie:''' *after supposedly telling the story of how she got her cutie mark* And that's how Equestria was created!... Maybe on the way home, I can tell you the story of how I got my cutie mark. It's a gem!

-->-- '''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''

-->-- ''{{Scrubs}}''

->''Joker:''' What can I say? I like to keep things interesting. [[AlanMoore A wise man]] once told me that if you have to have an origin story, you're better off making it multiple choice.

-->-- ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "The Cutie-Mark Chronicles"

->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Maybe on the way home, I can tell you the story of how I got my cutie mark. It's a gem!

-->''I mean, what is it with you? What made you what you are? [[DeathByOriginStory Girlfriend killed by the mob, maybe? Brother carved up by some mugger?]] Something like that, I bet...something like that. Something like that...happened to me, you know. I'm - not exactly sure what it was. If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!''

-->"Okay, so there's this [[TheKillingJoke comic who can't make an audience laugh]]... I ''think'' that's how this one goes, I forget sometimes... Oh, you've heard that one? All right. Ah, I can't keep 'em straight. How about the one where a [[Film/{{Batman}} mob killer named Napier]] comes to Gotham and-- No, wait, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids you're too young for that one]]. I know. This one ''always'' works. So a small-time yutz in a Red Hood walks into a factory, right? He's there to steal the payroll..."

-->'''J.D:''' No. No more! Here are some of the lies you've told us over the last five years. "You went to Harvard." "You have a wife who only has a pointer and "thumb-pinky"." "You have a, a "brother-dad", a "mother-sister"?" "You have two kids, no, wait, you have one kid, no, you had a baby with a Chinese local!" "You're a deaf mute!" Oh, wait, now you're telling us that you're a world-class hurdler and you slept with the beautiful and irreplacable Amy Carter?
-->'''Janitor:''' I-I didn't sleep with Amy Carter. We did everything ''but''.
-->'''J.D:''' ''(groans)''
-->'''Janitor:''' [[CryingWolf And I really was a world-class hurdler.]]

-->'''Bashir:''' You know, I still have a lot of questions to ask you about the past.
-->'''Garak:''' I've given you all the answers I'm capable of.
-->'''Bashir:''' You've given me answers, alright, but they were all different. What I want to know is, out of all the stories you've told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?
-->'''Garak:''' My dear Doctor, they're all true.
-->'''Bashir:''' Even the lies?
-->'''Garak:''' Especially the lies.

-->"Okay, so there's this [[TheKillingJoke comic who can't make an audience laugh]]... I ''think'' that's how this one goes, I forget sometimes... Oh, you've heard that one? All right. Ah, I can't keep 'em straight. How about the one where a [[Film/{{Batman}} mob killer named Napier]] come to Gotham and-- No, wait, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids you're too young for that one]]. I know. This one ''always'' works. So a small-time yutz in a Red Hood walks into a factory, right? He's there to steal the payroll..."

-->-- '''The Joker''' to '''Batman''', ''TheKillingJoke''

->'''Bashir:''' You know, I still have a lot of questions to ask you about the past.
->'''Garak:''' I've given you all the answers I'm capable of.
->'''Bashir:''' You've given me answers, alright, but they were all different. What I want to know is, out of all the stories you've told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?
->'''Garak:''' My dear Doctor, they're all true.
->'''Bashir:''' Even the lies?
->'''Garak:''' Especially the lies.