History Quotes / ShadowArchetype

-->-- '''Rupert Thorne''', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''

->'''Yu:''' ''You and I we ain't so different\\

'''Adachi:''' ''And it looked half empty for me''\\

-> When there's light, there are also shadows. It's a casual relationship in life.

->Sometimes... sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We’re inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it’s your head, [[{{Franchise/Batman}} Batman]]. [[Literature/ThroughtheLookingGlass Arkham is a looking glass]]. '''[[RoguesGallery And we]] [[SuperheroParadox are you.]]'''

->''"He calls himself 'Scarecrow.' Psychologist turned psychopath. He preys on the innocent and instill them with fear. When I chose to wear my... costume, it was to prey upon the criminals, and instill them with fear. The irony is not lost on me..."''
-->--'''Batman''' on '''Scarecrow''', ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}/ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}: King of New York''

-> That was it. Pinkamina Diane was, in some way, a physical reflection of Pinkie Pie. The reflection of Pinkie's element, Laughter, wasn't the absence of the action. It was the absence of the joy. Despair. A fear for tomorrow.\\

-->--''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/15353/inner-glory Inner Glory]]''

-->--''Fanfic/OldWest''

->"Oh, Captain, you truly amuse me. Look at us. Thesis and antithesis. Each of us was no more than a symbol, Captain. A symbol our governments created to spur on the ones who fought for them. Did you know there were fiction magazines devoted to my exploits in the Fatherland, Captain? Not unlike your cheap pamphlets of colored paper over here, fictionalizing your battles. The Red Skull was their hero, Captain. He was the fearsome foe of the enemies of the Reich, the upholder of truth, justice, and the Aryan way, the only one strong enough to stand against the damnable traitor, Hauptmann Amerika, who slaughtered the flower of Deutschland's youth! That was what I was, Captain America. That is what I am. I am no less a hero than you."

->You were right! I should've gone back to my family! They told me not to be like [[spoiler:de la Cruz]], but I didn't listen!
-->--'''Miguel''' to [[spoiler:'''Héctor''']], ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}''

->You're self-righteous, misguided, my reflection in a ''cracked'' mirror.
-->--'''Franchise/{{Superman}}''' to [[spoiler:his clone]], ''WesternAnimation/SupermanDoomsday''

-->--'''Batman''' to '''Owlman''', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths''

-> It is purpose that created us. Purpose that connects us. Purpose that pulls us. That guides. That drives us. It is purpose that defines. Purpose that binds us.
-->--'''Agent Smith''', ''Film/TheMatrix''

-> I am but a shadowy reflection of you. It would take only a nudge to make you like me. To push you out of the [[LightIsGood light]].

->"Don't talk like you're one of them [normal regular citizens]...To them, you're just a freak. Like me."

-> Hello [[Film/JamesBond James]], welcome. Do you like the island? My grandmother had an island when I was a boy. Nothing to boast of — you could walk along it in an hour — but still, it was a paradise for us. One summer, we came for a visit and discovered the whole place had been infested with rats. They'd come on a fishing boat and had gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island, hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum, and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait. The rats come for the coconut, and they fall into the drum, and after a month, you've trapped all the rats. But what did you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it. And they begin to get hungry, then one by one. They start eating each other, until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them, and release them into the trees. Only now, they don't eat coconut anymore. Now they will only eat rat. You have changed their nature. [[SocialDarwinist The two survivors.]] This is what she [M] made us.

->''The end of this story can only be related in metaphors since it takes place in the kingdom of heaven, where there is no time. Perhaps it would be correct to say that Aurelian spoke with God and that He was so little interested in religious differences that He took him for John of Pannonia. This, however, would imply a confusion in the divine mind. It is more correct to say that in Paradise, Aurelian learned that, for the unfathomable divinity, he and John of Pannonia ([[KnightTemplar the orthodox believer]] and TheHeretic, [[TheResenter the]] [[DrivenByEnvy abhorrer]] and [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter the abhorred]], [[InspectorJavert the]] [[UnknownRival accuser]] and [[ClearMyName the]] [[MiscarriageOfJustice accused]])'' formed one single person.
-->--[[https://matiane.wordpress.com/2015/08/16/jorge-luis-borges-the-theologians/ "The Theologians"]], Creator/JorgeLuisBorges

-->--'''Music/ThirtySecondsToMars''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMmQSEaS-w0 "The Kill"]]

-->--'''Music/{{Devo}}''', "The Shadow"

->''"But have you tried for just one second\\

So, [[TheHeartless you poured me into pages]], then I guess [[EnemyWithout I’m just your type]]"''

->You know you're just one bad day away from being ''me.''
-->--'''[[ComicBook/ThePunisher Frank Castle]]''' to '''[[ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} Matt Murdock]]''', ''Series/Daredevil2015''

->But remember this, because you are looking at your own future. One day, [[AwfulTruth you will see through all the lies]]... and then [[GoMadFromTheRevelation the dead... will come for you as well]]...

-> Farewell, my shadow. You who stand at the end of the path I chose not to follow.

-> ''You are who you are on you very worst day [[spoiler:Durkon]]. Anything less is a comforting lie you tell yourself to numb the pain. And that's who I am, your worst day personified. Hel may have created me, but she shaped me perfectly to fit in the hole in'' '''''your''''' ''heart.''

-> The brighter the picture, the darker the negative.

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And although we tend to think of Nazi Germany as the very antithesis of [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} truth, justice, and the American way]], it turns out that some of the shittiest ideas lurking within the darkest corners of Hitler's shitty evil brain were directly inspired by things he learned from relentlessly studying American culture. Basically, if Hitler is SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, America is the ComicBook/{{Batman}} who dropped him in a vat of ooze.\\

->Adel is a full-tilt diva of an omnicidal maniac, he wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a world where it's all about him! I'll admit, I'm ''not so different'' from that [[PrecisionFStrike son of a bitch]] you so-called [[CainAndAbel a brother who is]] [[BlackSheep bitterly jealous of his own sibling who likes their fathers better]].

It's, uh, kind if important that we not forget that.

-->-- '''Madara Uchiha''', Manga/{{Naruto}}

And although we tend to think of Nazi Germany as the very antithesis of [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} truth, justice, and the American way]], it turns out that some of the shittiest ideas lurking within the darkest corners of Hitler's shitty evil brain were directly inspired by things he learned from relentlessly studying American culture. Basically, if Hitler is SelfDemonstrating/ThrJoker, America is the ComicBook/{{Batman}} who dropped him in a vat of ooze.\\

->But remember this, becuase you are looking at your own future. One day, [[AwfulTruth you will see through all the lies]]... and then [[GoMadFromTheRevelation the dead... will come for you as well]]...

-> We're both orphans, [[Film/JamesBond James]]. But where your parents had the luxury of dying in a climbing accident, mine survived the British betrayal and Stalin's execution squads, but my father couldn't let himself or my mother live with the shame of it. [=MI6=] figured I was too young to remember, and in one of life's little ironies, the son went to work for the government whose betrayal caused the father to kill himself and his wife.
-->-- '''Janus/[[spoiler:Alec Trevelyan]]''', ''Film/GoldenEye''

-> Hello [[Film/JamesBond James]], welcome. Do you like the island? My grandmother had an island when I was a boy. Nothing to boast of — you could walk along it in an hour — but still, it was a paradise for us. One summer, we came for a visit and discovered the whole place had been infested with rats. They'd come on a fishing boat and had gorged themselves on coconut. So how do you get rats off an island, hmm? My grandmother showed me. We buried an oil drum, and hinged the lid. Then we wired coconut to the lid as bait. The rats come for the coconut, and they fall into the drum, and after a month, you've trapped all the rats. But what did you do then? Throw the drum into the ocean? Burn it? No. You just leave it. And they begin to get hungry, then one by one. They start eating each other, until there are only two left. The two survivors. And then what? Do you kill them? No. You take them, and release them into the trees. Only now, they don't eat coconut anymore. Now they will only eat rat. You have changed their nature. [[SocialDarwinist The two survivors.]] This is what she [M] made us.
-->-- '''Raoul Silva''', ''Film/{{Skyfall}}''

'''Robin:''' I doubted myself, Star. Focused, serious, determined...as much as I hate to admit it, he and I are kind of alike. But there's one big difference between me and Slade. (''smiling'') [[ThePowerOfFriendship He doesn't have any friends.]]