History Quotes / MultipleChoicePast

->'''Franchise/{{Batman}}:''' [[YouFool You're a fool.]] The Joker doesn't love anything except maybe [[{{Narcissist}} himself]]. Face reality, Harleen--Joker had you pegged for ''hired help'' the minute you walked into Arkham.\\
'''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn:''' That's not... [[LittleNo No.]] [[BigNo NO!]] H-He told me things, secret things he never told anyone...\\

->"Everything you think you know about me was a lie told by me to confuse someone, or conjecture from someone who'd be in no position to know. So yeah, maybe I'm a [[Anime/TransformersArmada fragment of Unicron]], because maybe [[Anime/TransformersCybertron Planet X]] [[ExpandedUniverse used to]] [[ArcWelding BE Unicron]]. And maybe I'm [[Anime/TransformersArmada his avatar made manifest]] and untethered once he [[Anime/TransformersCybertron collapsed into a giant singularity]]. And maybe I'm from the Cybertronian Empire.[[note]]"Ask Vector Prime" gives a connection between Planet X and the Cybertronian Empire. Assuming you take Ask Vector Prime as canon at all.[[/note]] [[TheMerch And maybe]] [[FlavorText I'm just]] an [[Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise ordinary Autobot who went crazy]] from [[Anime/TransformersArmada Powerlinxing to the wrong Mini-Cons]]. Maybe I'm [[MultipleChoicePast all of those things, or none.]] And you know what the best part is? [[RiddleForTheAges You'll. Never. Know.]]"

->"Everything you think you know about me was [[ConsummateLiar a lie told by me to confuse someone]], or [[WordOfGod conjecture from someone]] [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld who'd be in no position to know]]. So yeah, maybe I'm a [[Anime/TransformersArmada fragment of Unicron]], because maybe [[Anime/TransformersCybertron Planet X]] [[ExpandedUniverse used to]] [[ArcWelding BE Unicron]]. And maybe I'm [[Anime/TransformersArmada his avatar made manifest]] and untethered once he [[Anime/TransformersCybertron collapsed into a giant singularity]]. And maybe I'm from the Cybertronian Empire.[[note]]"Ask Vector Prime" gives a connection between Planet X and the Cybertronian Empire. Assuming you take Ask Vector Prime as canon at all.[[/note]] [[TheMerch And maybe]] [[FlavorText I'm just]] an [[Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise ordinary Autobot who went crazy]] from [[Anime/TransformersArmada Powerlinxing to the wrong Mini-Cons]]. Maybe I'm [[MultipleChoicePast all of those things, or none.]] And you know what the best part is? [[RiddleForTheAges You'll. Never. Know.]]"

->'''Franchise/{{Batman}}:''' [[YouFool You're a fool,]] ComicBook/TheJoker [[{{Narcissist}} doesn't love anything except maybe himself]]. Face reality, Harleen--Joker had you pegged for ''hired help'' the minute you walked into Arkham.\\

'''Colette:''' No one know for sure. He changes the story every time you asked him.\\

->'''Franchise/{{Batman}}:''' [[YouFool You're a fool]] ComicBook/TheJoker [[{{Narcissist}} doesn't love anything except maybe himself]]. Face reality, Harleen--Joker had you pegged for ''hired help'' the minute you walked into Arkham.\\
'''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn:''' That's not... [[LittleNo No.]] [[BigNo NO!]] H-He told me things, secret things he never told anyone...\\
'''Batman:''' What did he tell you, Harley? [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Was it the line about the]] [[AbusiveParents abusive father]], or the one about the [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic mom]]? Of course, the [[ParentalAbandonment runaway orphan]] story is particularly moving, too. He's gained a lot of [[SympathyForTheDevil sympathy]] with that one.\\
'''Harley Quinn:''' [[BigShutUp Stop it!!]] You're making me ''confused!''\\
'''Batman:''' What was it he told that one parole officer? Oh, yes... "[[IronicEcho There was only one time I ever saw dad really happy. He took me to the ice show when I was seven...]]"\\
'''Harley Quinn:''' Circus. He said it was the circus.\\
'''Batman:''' He's got a million of them Harley. Like any other comedian, he uses whatever material will work.
-->-- ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures: Mad Love''

->'''Jacqui Briggs''': Just who are you under the makeup?\\
'''The Joker''': That's the million dollar question, dearie.\\
'''Jacqui Briggs''': How about I shoot it off and we'll see?
-->--'''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''' intro dialogue

'''Horst:''' [in a series of flashbacks]

->'''Colette:''' Horst has done time.
'''Linguini:''' What for?
'''Colette:''' No one know for sure. He changes the story every time you asked him.

I defrauded a major corporation.
I robbed the second-largest bank in France using only a ballpoint pen.
I created a hole in the ozone over Avignon.

->I mean, what is it with [[Franchise/{{Batman}} 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 [[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/Batman1989 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...

->"I prefer not to think of [[CallBack it as multiple choice]]...it's more like Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure."

-->-- '''Boomstick''' on '''The Joker''', ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle''[[note]][[LampshadeHanging Noticing a trend yet?]][[/note]]

->'''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?\\

->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 [[UsefulNotes/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...\\

-> "Everything you think you know about me was [[ConsummateLiar a lie told by me to confuse someone]], or [[WordOfGod conjecture from someone]] [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld who'd be in no position to know]]. So yeah, maybe I'm a [[Anime/TransformersArmada fragment of Unicron]], because maybe [[Anime/TransformersCybertron Planet X]] [[ExpandedUniverse used to]] [[ArcWelding BE Unicron]]. And maybe I'm [[Anime/TransformersArmada his avatar made manifest]] and untethered once he [[Anime/TransformersCybertron collapsed into a giant singularity]]. And maybe I'm from the Cybertronian Empire.[[note]]"Ask Vector Prime" gives a connection between Planet X and the Cybertronian Empire. Assuming you take Ask Vector Prime as canon at all.[[/note]] [[TheMerch And maybe]] [[FlavorText I'm just]] an [[Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise ordinary Autobot who went crazy]] from [[Anime/TransformersArmada Powerlinxing to the wrong Mini-Cons]]. Maybe I'm [[MultipleChoicePast all of those things, or none.]] And you know what the best part is? [[RiddleForTheAges You'll. Never. Know.]]"

->'''Dr. Young''': Wait, how did you get access to a phone?\\
'''[[ComicBook The Joker]]''': Oh, yes, sorry, Doc, had to split. I hate small, confined spaces; reminds me of my childhood.\\
'''Dr. Young''': Another lie?\\
'''The Joker''': Who knows? I certainly don't, but let's not get distracted with details.
-->--''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum''

'''Batman:''' What did he tell you, Harley? [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Was it the line about the]] [[AbusiveParents abusive father]], or the one about the [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic mom]]? Of course, the runaway orphan story is particularly moving, too. He's gained a lot of [[SympathyForTheDevil sympathy]] with that one.\\

->'''Franchise/{{Batman}}:''' [[YouFool You little fool]] ComicBook/TheJoker [[{{Narcissist}} doesn't love anything except himself]]. Wake up, Harleen. He had you pegged for hired help the minute you walked into Arkham.\\
'''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn:''' That's not... [[LittleNo No...]] [[BigNo NO!]] He told me things, secret things he never told anyone!\\
'''Batman:''' [[ArmorPiercingResponse Was it his line about the]] [[AbusiveParents abusive father]]? Or the one about the [[ParentalAbandonment run-away mom]]? He's gained a lot of [[SympathyForTheDevil sympathy]] with that one.\\
'''Harley Quinn:''' [[BigShutUp Stop it!]] You're making me confused!\\
'''Batman:''' What was it he told that one parole officer? Oh yes: "[[IronicEcho There was only one time I ever saw dad really happy. He took me to the ice show when I was seven.]]"\\
'''Harley Quinn:''' Circus... He said it was the circus...\\
'''Batman:''' He's got a million of them Harley...
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''

->"I prefer not to think of [[CallBack it as multiple choice]]...it's more like [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure Choose]] [[UnreliableNarrator Your Own Adventure.]]"

-->-- '''Pinkie Pie''' after trying to tell the story of how she got her cutie mark, ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "The Cutie-Mark Chronicles"

->"I prefer not to think of [[CallBack it as multiple choice]]...it's more like [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure Choose]] [[UnreliableNarrator Your Own Adventure.]]

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

-->-- '''Boomstick''' on '''The Joker''', ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle''

->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...

'''Jake:''' [[LampshadeHanging Come on, Terry, you already have like six other reasons you became a cop.]] This is not your moment. ''[To Reginald VelJohnson]'' For the record, this is the first time I've even heard him mention ''Family Matters''.

-->-- '''SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker''', ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''

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

-->--'''SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker''', ''Batman #039 (New 52)''.

->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...\\

-> "Everything you think you know about me was [[ConsummateLiar a lie told by me to confuse someone]], or [[WordOfGod conjecture from someone]] [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld who'd be in no position to know]]. So yeah, maybe I'm a [[Anime/TransformersArmada fragment of Unicron]], because maybe [[Anime/TransformersCybertron Planet X]] [[ExpandedUniverse used to]] [[ArcWelding BE Unicron]]. And maybe I'm [[Anime/TransformersArmada his avatar made manifest]] and untethered once he [[TransformersCybertron collapsed into a giant singularity]]. And maybe I'm from the Cybertronian Empire.[[note]]"Ask Vector Prime" gives a connection between Planet X and the Cybertronian Empire. Assuming you take Ask Vector Prime as canon at all.[[/note]] [[TheMerch And maybe]] [[FlavorText I'm just]] an [[Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise ordinary Autobot who went crazy]] from [[Anime/TransformersArmada Powerlinxing to the wrong Mini-Cons]]. Maybe I'm [[MultipleChoicePast all of those things, or none.]] And you know what the best part is? [[RiddleForTheAges You'll. Never. Know.]]"

-->-- '''[[DavidBowie The Thin White Duke]]'''

-> "Everything you think you know about me was [[ConsummateLiar a lie told by me to confuse someone]], or [[WordOfGod conjecture from someone]] [[GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld who'd be in no position to know]]. So yeah, maybe I'm a [[TransformersArmada fragment of Unicron]], because maybe [[TransformersCybertron Planet X]] [[ExpandedUniverse used to]] [[ArcWelding BE Unicron]]. And maybe I'm [[TransformersArmada his avatar made manifest]] and untethered once he [[TransformersCybertron collapsed into a giant singularity]]. And maybe I'm from the Cybertronian Empire.[[note]]"Ask Vector Prime" gives a connection between Planet X and the Cybertronian Empire. Assuming you take Ask Vector Prime as canon at all.[[/note]] [[TheMerch And maybe]] [[FlavorText I'm just]] an [[Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise ordinary Autobot who went crazy]] from [[TransformersArmada Powerlinxing to the wrong Mini-Cons]]. Maybe I'm [[MultipleChoicePast all of those things, or none.]] And you know what the best part is? [[RiddleForTheAges You'll. Never. Know.]]"

->"I prefer not to think of [[CallBack it as multiple choice]]...it's more like [[ChooseYourOwnAdventure Choose]] [[UnreliableNarrator Your Own Adventure.]]
-->--'''SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker''', ''Batman #039 (New 52)''.