History Quotes / ProtagonistCenteredMorality

'''Android 17:''' Tell you what, you live a few years in stasis with your creator repeating the words "Kill Goku" over and over again in your subconsious, then you can ride that high horse all day long.

-->--'''Creator/BertrandRussell'''

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->''(The protagonists of ''Film/AtlanticRim'' are engaged in a brawl they started with two bystanders)''\\
'''Tom Servo''': Jonah, I don't understand who to root for. Those officers bumped into ''him''.\\
'''Jonah''': Uh, true, but they're the heroes of this movie so they're always right.
-->--''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''

->'''[[{{Mook}} Kangaroo miner]]:''' ''(about to be fed to a crocodile)'' '''''PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!'''''\\

->In a cartoony sci-fi world, [[SerialNumbersFiledOff just barely legally distinct]] from that of ''Manga/AstroBoy'', a caste of sentient domestic and industrial robots have all been equipped with destructive weaponry out of some slightly misguided application of the Second Amendment. All of them suddenly malfunction for mysterious reasons and turn against humanity, requiring the one remaining non-evil robot, Beck, to defeat them all and inject them with personality repellent so that they can go back to being unpaid slaves for the decadent and ungrateful human race.
-->--''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mv5NC0HvJ8 review]] of ''VideoGame/MightyNo9''.

->He was a hacker who did any work for hire and stole money from bank accounts, but then accidentally targeted someone powerful who killed his six-year-old niece, which gave him a little Spider-Man moment and he declared that from this day forth he would use his powers to--! ...continue working for hire and stealing money from bank accounts. But also ''fight crime!'' ...In-between. If he can be arsed. Not stealing-money crime, or property-damage crime, or murdering-policemen crime; just, you know, [[AndTheRest all the bad crimes]], the ones committed by people ''other'' than himself.
-->--''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' on ''VideoGame/WatchDogs''

->Is it acceptable to [[TheNeedsOfTheMany kill people to save more people?]] The answer, of course, is that it depends on whether it’s the hero doing it or the villain.
-->-- '''[[http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/outside-the-government-reset/ Dr. El Sandifer]]''' on ''{{Series/Torchwood}}'', "Reset"

->Did you ever read Rick Veitch’s ''[[Comicbook/TheQuestion Question]]'' mini that was part of Superstorm? It had a lot of flaws, but there was this great bit where all Metropolis drug deals and stuff took place in bathrooms, since Superman is [[LogicalWeakness too good a guy to ever look]]. It’s like moral lead. ''[[WellThisIsNotThatTrope This]]'' [[WellThisIsNotThatTrope is not that Superman.]]
-->--'''Chris Sims''' and '''David Uzumeri''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-reviews-superman-returns-2006-part-one/ on]] ''Film/SupermanReturns''

->Ray testifies against Ned and gets him thrown out of the CIA, before [[TakeThisJobAndShoveIt resigning himself]]... it would seem he’s been making a living by taking gun-for-hire jobs over the web. You know, because that’s totally different from killing people for the government. He’ll [[HandWave grumble out an explanation]] for this later, but it’s still dumb.
-->--''Website/TheAgonyBooth'' on ''Film/TheSpecialist''

->Usual practice for Moffat-era Who is to suggest extremely crude, superficially worrying moral equivalences in dialogue which are then papered-over by the actual behaviour of the Doctor and his gang (whom we might want to start calling '[[MyCountryRightOrWrong Our Boys and Girls]]', since it is assumed that they deserve 'our' support whatever they do).
-->--'''[[http://shabogangraffiti.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-town-without-context.html Jack Graham]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS33E3ATownCalledMercy}} "A Town Called Mercy"]]

->Archer’s position is very stereotypically ''Star Trek''. It’s a philosophy that argues humanity are fundamentally brilliant, and so should behave in a manner that befits being so fundamentally brilliant. It’s a philosophy that comes dangerously close to evoking Creator/GeneRoddenberry’s simplistic utopianism, indicating that mankind is wired with a fundamental decency that is almost unique in the entire cosmos.
-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2015/01/13/star-trek-enterprise-fortunate-son-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', "Fortunate Son"

->I know she is duped but lets not forget that Janeway willingly wakes up a battalion of an aggressive, homicidal species and inflicts them upon the Quadrant in order to get a handful of light years closer to home...This looks like the perfect opportunity for the First Officer to [[WhatTheHellHero question his Captain’s decision]] but instead he is [[MandatoryLine falling asleep]] on the Bridge.
-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/voyager-season-six.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Dragon's Teeth"

->Lana is at best a dark 'hero' character using the word hero loosely. She kills, she kidnaps, she tortures, and she has plotted and schemed [[EvenEvilHasStandards in a way that even caught Lex Luthor off guard]]. She is basically what I would call [[RetiredMonster a reformed villain]] AT BEST and honestly I think her character works better as a villain. Maybe a tragic villain but still the '[[TheHeavy bad guy]]'. To put her in a position where she is the one lecturing an iconic DC superhero about how to be a superhero is just insulting.
-->--'''Douglas Trumble''' [[http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville8-ep10 on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Bride")

->The ultimate hypocrisy at the heart of the Doctor, which is [[{{Deconstruction}} is fun to poke a stick at,]] is that he’s so nasty about soldiers and about people who carry guns, yet look at him -- always in the middle of the fight, usually taking command, and I’m not so impressed at his refusal to pick up a gun when he’s inclined, occasionally, to [[AMillionIsAStatistic blow up entire planets!]]
-->--'''Creator/StevenMoffat''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood}} "Robot of Sherwood"]]