History Quotes / ThenLetMeBeEvil

->To Hell with that. If it means losing more people who are precious to me... I'm done with being decent!
-->-- '''Akihiro Altland ''' remembering a warning that [[WarIsHell good people die in battle first]], ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans''

->'''Glitter Lucky:''' So that's the reason? That's why you're doing it?\\
'''Ulric:''' Well, duh! What, you expect us to love the people of this world? When they despise us and abuse us and treat us like monsters? No way!\\
'''Brute:''' Everyone's either scared of you or throwin' things at you or bein' mean to you. It gets you down after awhile. How would you like it if people treated you like that?!\\
'''Brooha:''' But thanks to Emperor Nogo, we don't have to take it anymore! It's our turn now! For all our suffering, it's time for payback!
-->-- ''Anime/GlitterForce''

->'''M'gann "Miss Martian" M'orzz:''' A ma'alefa'ak is a rabid beast.\\
'''M'comm "Ma'alefa'ak" M'orzz:''' It's a symbol! The Greens are a superstitious and cowardly lot. The ma'alefa'ak scares them. So let them be scared by me. [[FantasticRacism You know it's what they call us behind our backs, anyway.]]

->'''M'gann:''' A ma'alefa'ak is a rabid beast.\\
'''M'comm:''' It's a symbol! The Greens are a superstitious and cowardly lot. The ma'alefa'ak scares them. So let them be scared by me. [[FantasticRacism You know it's what they call us behind our backs, anyway.]]

-->'''Racules''': Do you understand what it means to point a sword at your king? You have just made yourself the world's enemy!\\

->The Greens are a superstitious and cowardly lot. The ma'alefa'ak scares them. So let them be scared by me. [[FantasticRacism You know it's what they call us behind our backs, anyway.]]
-->--'''M'comm "Ma'alefa'ak" M'orzz''', ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''

'''[[PrinceCharmless Blueblood]]:''' Everypony thinks I am. Why should I bother arguing with them? [[MoralEventHorizon Might as well go for broke]].\\

-->--'''Mr. Wolf''', ''WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys''

-->-- '''[=GamerThumbTV=]''' on '''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Soma Cruz]]''', ''WebVideo/ThePerfectCastlevaniaTimeline'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPpVGXhv0F8 Chapter VIII]]''

-->-- '''Susie''', ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}} [[Creator/ManOnTheInternet the (not) Musical]]'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE78mcZHzfE VS Susie]]"

-->-- '''Benrey''', ''Machinima/HalfLifeButTheAIIsSelfAware''

I fled to [[TheLostWoods the woods]], and there I found more {{Mutant}}s, more of my kind. We lived by scavenging and raiding, mostly, 'til we ended up fighting the [[BeastMan Beastmen]]. Yes, they killed most of my companions, but when they took me among them when they saw I was part Beast myself, and when [[WorthyOpponent they saw how well I fought]], that was when I had to make the decision. It was clear I was never going to make much of a name for myself among them just for what I was — [[FantasticCasteSystem the lack of horns]] soon put paid to any illusion I might have had about that. So the best way I could make myself useful to them, make sure I didn't end up on a cooking spit myself, was to [[LesCollaborateurs lead them to the village and tell them what it had in way of defences and loot]]. [[TheDogBitesBack Turnabout is fair play, after all]]. It had been quite clear to me that I was no longer welcome there myself, so what were the people to me? Nothing. Nothing but tasty meat and good loot. Yes, that's right, [[ImAHumanitarian I ate my own erstwhile neighbours when the fight was done]], or bits of them anyway... Bov the Butcher's shoulder was particularly good, fat and succulent.\\\

'''Remake Translation:''' [[DespairEventHorizon Naught remains. Alone. Utterly alone. Cast out. Unloved. Outside the grace of gods.]] The Archon's Roost, they call this shrine of death. Yet nowhere do I spy our Lord of Dark. His throne sits empty, wanting for am heir... [[DudeWheresMyRespect Did I not do all that was asked? Did I not serve and seek my fair and just reward?]] [[HumansAreBastards And for my deeds, they damn me. Name me demon.]] [[StartOfDarkness And who am I to deny it? Demon, then!]] [[ThatManIsDead Renouncing former ties and titles!]] And in their place, I claim... The Lord of Dark. Odio!

->[[DespairEventHorizon There's nothing left for me.]] [[YouCantGoHomeAgain No place to return to]], [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer nobody to love]], and nothing to believe in... [[WhamLine Nothing... but Demons...]] ...I will become a Demon... In doing so, I shall teach [[HumansAreBastards humanity the folly of]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters their selfishness!]] [[StartOfDarkness From now on...]] I am no longer [[spoiler:Oersted]]... I am... The Demon King... Odio...!
-->-- '''[[BigBad Odio]]''', ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', [[CosmicPlaything after getting put through the wringer]] (FanTranslation)

->[[DespairEventHorizon Naught remains. Alone. Utterly alone. Cast out. Unloved. Outside the grace of gods.]] The Archon's Roost, they call this shrine of death. Yet nowhere do I spy our Lord of Dark. His throne sits empty, wanting for am heir... [[DudeWheresMyRespect Did I not do all that was asked? Did I not serve and seek my just reward?]] [[HumansAreBastards And for my deeds, they damn me. Name me demon.]] [[StartOfDarkness And who am I to deny it? Demon, then!]] [[ThatManIsDead Renouncing former ties and titles!]] And in their place, I claim... The Lord of Dark. Odio!
-->-- '''Odio''' again, ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', same speech as before (but this time, it's the official version)

-->-- '''[[BigBad Odio]]''', ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', [[ButtMonkey after getting put through the wringer]] (FanTranslation)

->[[DespairEventHorizon Naught remains. Alone. Utterly alone. Cast out. Unloved. Outside the grace of gods.]] The Archon's Roost, they call this shrine of death. Yet nowhere do I spy our Lord of Dark. His throne sits empty, wanting for am heir... Did I not do all that was asked? Did I not serve and seek my just reward? [[HumansAreBastards And for my deeds, they damn me. Name me demon.]] [[StartOfDarkness And who am I to deny it? Demon, then!]] [[ThatManIsDead Renouncing former ties and titles!]] And in their place, I claim... The Lord of Dark. Odio!

Fulfill my fate, than I'll be free!\\

'''Chuck:''' [[IBelieveThatYouBelieve I know you don't think it's a show.]] I don't doubt your emotions are real, but what's the point of all the sad faces and the gnashing of teeth? If you're not going to change your behavior, and you ''won't'', why not just skip the whole exercise? In the end, you're going to hurt everyone around you. You can't help it. So stop apologizing and accept it, embrace it; frankly, I'd have more respect for you if you did.

->You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you, they tell you you got a chance, but I'm sorry, it's a lie. They had already made up their mind. They knew what they were gonna do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just... it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship. I'm taking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ''ever'' letting you in. But listen, it doesn't matter. It doesn't. Because you don't need them. They're not gonna give it to you, so what? You're gonna take it. You're gonna do whatever it takes, you hear me? You are not gonna play by the rules. You're gonna go your own way, you're gonna do [[AmoralAttorney what they won't do]]. You're gonna be smart, you are gonna cut corners, and you are gonna win. They're on the thirty fifth floor. You're gonna be on the fiftieth floor. You're gonna be looking down on them. The higher you rise, the more they're gonna hate you. Good. Good. You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? Screw them. Remember, the winner takes it all.
-->--'''Jimmy [=McGill=]''', ''Series/BetterCallSaul''

->You have to remember I didn't choose this. I would never have chosen this. It's not my fault I have [[RedRightHand cloven hooves instead of feet]], and it didn't make me a bad person. It was you, you and your kind, you made me a bad person. You fear anything that's different. My own village feared me once they found out, called me [[TheCorruption tainted by Chaos]], drove me out of the town with {{torches and pitchforks}}, they did. Well, I'm not one to argue with my old neighbours, especially when they outnumber me fifty-to-one. If they thought I was some kind of Chaos Beast, well, I felt it would be only fair if I lived up to their fears.\\\
I fled to [[TheLostWoods the woods]], and there I found more {{Mutant}}s, more of my kind. We lived by scavenging and raiding, mostly, 'til we ended up fighting the [[BeastMan Beastmen]]. Yes, they killed most of my companions, but when they took me among them when they saw I was part Beast myself, and when [[WorthyOpponent they saw how well I fought]], that was when I had to make the decision. It was clear I was never going to make much of a name for myself among them just for what I was - [[FantasticCasteSystem the lack of horns]] soon put paid to any illusion I might have had about that. So the best way I could make myself useful to them, make sure I didn't end up on a cooking spit myself, was to [[LesCollaborateurs lead them to the village and tell them what it had in way of defences and loot]]. [[TheDogBitesBack Turnabout is fair play, after all]]. It had been quite clear to me that I was no longer welcome there myself, so what were the people to me? Nothing. Nothing but tasty meat and good loot. Yes, that's right, [[ImAHumanitarian I ate my own erstwhile neighbours when the fight was done]], or bits of them anyway... Bov the Butcher's shoulder was particularly good, fat and succulent.\\\

-->-- '''{{Theatre/Richard III}}'''

->All right, enough - so be it - so be it, then\\

Since I cannot succeed, Fiyero, saving you\\

I'll give them all the unsung anti-hero they deserve\\

-->-- '''The Slab King[[spoiler:/Brick]]''', ''VideoGame/Borderlands2''

->[[DespairEventHorizon There's nothing left for me.]] [[YouCantGoHomeAgain No place to return to]], nobody to love, and nothing to believe in... [[WhamLine Nothing... but Demons...]] ...I will become a Demon... In doing so, I shall teach [[HumansAreBastards humanity the folly of]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters their selfishness!]] [[StartOfDarkness From now on...]] I am no longer [[spoiler:Oersted]]... I am... The Demon King... Odio...!

->[[DespairEventHorizon Naught remains. Alone. Utterly alone. Cast out. Unloved. Outside the grace of gods.]] The Archon's Roost, they call this shrine of death. Yet nowhere do I spy our Lord of Dark. His throne sits empty, wanting for am heir... Did I not do all that was asked? Did I not serve and seek my just reward? [[HumansAreBastards And for my deeds, they damn me. Name me demon.]] [[StartOfDarkness And who am I to deny it? Demon, then!]] Renouncing former ties and titles! And in their place, I claim... The Lord of Dark. Odio!
-->-- '''Odio''', ''VideoGame/LiveALive''

->'''Jin''': The castle is yours. The Khan marches north. We can head them off--\\
'''Lord Shimura''': You defied me.\\
'''Jin''': [[IDidWhatIHadToDo I did what I had to.]] For them.\\
'''Lord Shimura''': Is ''this'' how you want to be remembered?\\
'''Yuna''': He defended us.\\
'''Lord Shimura''': [[TerrorHero By spreading fear and chaos!]]\\
'''Jin''': We are at war.\\
'''Lord Shimura''': [[HeWhoFightsMonsters And you are acting like the enemy.]] (''{{Beat}}'') This is not our way.\\
'''Jin''': [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight Your way can't save our people.]]\\
'''Lord Shimura''': (''walks up to Jin'') The shogun will demand a head, but it does not have to be yours. I know she drove you to do this.\\
'''Jin''': Uncle--\\
'''Lord Shimura''': Renounce the Ghost. You must blame her for this outrage. Tell them... you are Jin Shimura. Loyal Servant to the shogun. My heir... (''holds out the paper declaring Jin his son'') my son.\\
'''Jin''': I am not your son. I am the Ghost.\\
'''Lord Shimura''': (''retracts his hand'') And you will be judged for it.

And ''I'm'' the evil madgirl with the death ray and [[VillanousLegacy freakish ancestors]], and the town full of minions, and the [[SuperSoldier horde of Jägers]], and the homicidal castle full of sycophantic {{evil genius}}es and fun-sized hunter-killer monster clanks and ''goodness knows what else-'' ... and you know what? I CAN WORK WITH THAT!

->'''Spider-Man''': What's with breaking into jewelry stores? Wasn't getting arrested ''once'' enough to teach you a lesson?\\
'''Rocker Racer''': The lesson is to ''survive'', man! It's not an easy thing down here! I bet when you take off that mask and go home, you don't come down to this neighborhood. See, I didn't steal anything- but everyone thinks I did! So what's the point of playing by the rules, man? Tell me that, Spider-Guy!

->The healthy man does not torture others -- generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

->'''[[EnemyWithin Midnight Sparkle]]''': [[BreakingSpeech Friendship Games are a lie. No one is interested in friendships, only victory. FRIENDSHIP IS A LIE! Power is what matters! And you can gain it right here, right now! So will you catch this chance? Or are you content with the ill fate that is about to befall you? You being hated even more? Denied everything? Having your dream shattered?!]]\\
'''Sci-Twilight''': [[BigNo NO!]] I WON'T LET THEM DO THIS! NOT CINCH, NOT SHADOWBOLTS, AND NOT THIS GROUP OF "MAGIC GIRLS" EITHER! ALL OF THEM ONLY BROUGHT ME SADNESS AND MISERY, AND NOW THEY WANT TO SHATTER MY DREAMS! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis BUT I! HAVE! HAD! ENOUGH!!!]]

->Why not, if [[TurnCoat that]]'s what they think I am I might as well meet their expectations.

->'''Flam''': But in Equestria we're not innovators, we're... novelty shop salesponies. A traveling potion and gadget show. So why NOT sell them junk, if that's how they're going to treat everything we invent?\\
'''Flim''': The average pony acts as if living in the past is the key to an eternal golden age. Why should we waste our best efforts on ponies who think that {{Status Quo is God}}?

->'''Trixie''': Princey ... [[YoureInsane are you insane?!]] This ... this isn't like you. [[ThirdPersonPerson Trixie]] doesn't like that DJ either, but [[EvenEvilHasStandards don't you think this is a bit far]]? Trixie knows you better than anypony. You're not like this. You're not THIS bad.\\
'''[[PrinceCharmless Blueblood]]''': Everypony thinks I am. Why should I bother arguing with them? [[MoralEventHorizon Might as well go for broke]].\\
'''Trixie''': This is only going to make everypony hate you even ''more!'' You do realize that, right? You're not THAT stupid, are you? NOPONY is going to like you after this.\\
'''Blueblood''': Nopony ever liked me to start with. [[DespairEventHorizon I'm tired of caring]].

->'''Takahashi Asai''': Do you agree with the testimony we have just heard? The confession from Masayoshi Shido?\\
'''Goro Akechi''': No, Your Honor.\\
'''Takahashi Asai''': With which part do you disagree?\\
'''Goro Akechi''': The part about me. The assessment of my character.\\
'''Takahashi Asai''': Explain, please.\\
'''Goro Akechi''': I wasn’t some naïve young idealist who threw my lot in with him to make a better world. I served his vision because I wanted to destroy the society around me.\\
'''Takahashi Asai''': To destroy-\\
'''Goro Akechi''': Yes. I had no love for it. I still don’t. How could I? You [[DarkAndTroubledPast know my history]]. Without Shido I would have been just one more invisible person of many, forgotten and left for dead. I didn’t know or care whether he would succeed. Only that his attempt would cause the damage I wanted. That’s why I went along with him, no matter how atrocious his demands became. I had no future. No aspirations, no hope, nothing outside of this goal. I’m not alone in feeling this way. But of all those forgotten people, I was the one who found Shido.
-->-- ''Fanfic/BlackStar''

->I am malicious because I am miserable. Am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces, and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me? You would not call it murder, if you could precipitate me into one of those ice-rifts, and destroy my frame, the work of your own hands. Shall I respect man when he condemns me? Let him live with me in the interchange of kindness; and, instead of injury I would bestow every benefit upon him with tears of gratitude at his acceptance. But that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union. Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery. I will revenge my injuries: If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. Have a care: I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth.

->'''Everly Morrow:''' Here’s what I think. My mother—the woman who raised me—told me evil is knowing what is right, but doing what is wrong anyway. Forget about me for a moment. You and Farrah act as if there are good times to do terrible things...but only to save yourselves. Whether wittingly or unwittingly, you cloak your actions in a guileless veneer, claiming you’re saving innocents while destroying other innocents along the way. But anything for the greater good, right?\\

'''Mike:''' Me personally? [[ConsummateProfessional I was hired to do a job. I did it. That's as far as it goes]].\\

'''Chuck''': ...Why?\\

'''Chuck''': No, why have regrets at all? What's the point?\\

'''Chuck''': Well, look at you, you're in so much pain. Why are you putting yourself through all this?\\

'''Chuck''': -that you have regrets, and I'm telling you: don't bother. What's the point? You're just going to keep hurting people.\\

'''Chuck''': Jimmy, this is what you do. You hurt people, over and over and over, and then there's this show of remorse-\\

'''Chuck''': I know you don't think it's a show. I don't doubt your emotions are real, but what's the point of all the sad faces and the gnashing of teeth? If you're not going to change your behavior, and you ''won't'', why not just skip the whole exercise? In the end, you're going to hurt everyone around you. You can't help it. So stop apologizing and accept it, embrace it; frankly, I'd have more respect for you if you did.

->'''Kai Winn''': I remember when I first saw the gate of the Celestial Temple. I was on the Promenade. When it burst into view, this whirlpool of color and light, the people all around me were in awe. They said they could feel the love of the Prophets washing over them...Do you know what I felt, Anjohl? ''Nothing. Absolutely nothing.'' But I smiled, and pretended I did, because it was expected of me...I've never admitted that to anyone.\\
'''"Anjohl"[=/=]Dukat''': I can understand why.\\
'''Kai Winn''': They've never spoken to me, never offered me guidance, never trusted me with the fruits of their wisdom. And now, I'm supposed to step down as Kai in order to be blessed by them? No, I have worked too hard, waited too long to give it all up now...\\
'''"Anjohl"[=/=]Dukat''': You shouldn't have to. Merciful gods don't ask their children to make such sacrifices.\\
'''Kai Winn''': The Prophets have turned their backs on me, after all I've done for them, all the pain I've endured for them.\\
'''"Anjohl"[=/=]Dukat''': They're not worthy of you, Adami.\\
'''Kai Winn''': I'm a patient woman, but I have run out of patience. I will no longer serve gods who give me nothing in return. I'm ready to walk the path the Pah-Wraiths have laid out for me.\\
'''"Anjohl"[=/=]Dukat''': I'll walk with you, and no one will be able to stand against us.\\
'''Kai Winn''': Those who dare to try? The Federation and its Vedek puppets? The false gods and their precious "emissary"? They'll all be swept aside like dead leaves before an angry wind!

->You didn't get it. You were never gonna get it. They dangle these things in front of you, they tell you you got a chance, but I'm sorry, it's a lie. They had already made up their mind. They knew what they were gonna do before you walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it. As far as they're concerned, your mistake is just ... it's who you are. And it's all you are. And I'm not just talking about the scholarship. I'm taking about everything. I mean, they'll smile at you, they'll pat you on the head, but they are never, ''ever'' letting you in. But listen, it doesn't matter. It doesn't. Because you don't need them. They're not gonna give it to you, so what? You're gonna take it. You're gonna do whatever it takes, you hear me? You are not gonna play by the rules. You're gonna go your own way, you're gonna do [[AmoralAttorney what they won't do]]. You're gonna be smart, you are gonna cut corners, and you are gonna win. They're on the thirty fifth floor. You're gonna be on the fiftieth floor. You're gonna be looking down on them. The higher you rise, the more they're gonna hate you. Good. Good. You rub their noses in it. You make them suffer. Because you don't matter all that much to them. So what? Screw them. Remember, the winner takes it all.

->[[DespairEventHorizon There's nothing left for me.]] No place to return to, nobody to love, and nothing to believe in... [[WhamLine Nothing... but Demons...]] ... I will become a Demon... In doing so, I shall teach [[HumansAreBastards humanity the folly of]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters their selfishness!]] [[StartOfDarkness From now on...]] I am no longer Oersted... I am... The Demon King... Odio...!

And ''I'm'' the evil madgirl with the death ray and freakish ancestors, and the town full of minions, and the horde of Jägers, and the homicidal castle full of sycophantic evil geniuses and fun-sized hunter-killer monster clanks and ''goodness knows what else-'' ... and you know what? I CAN WORK WITH THAT!
-->-'''Agatha Heterodyne''', ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', in [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090504 Vol. 9 p. 47]]

'''Lord Shimura''': Renounce the Ghost. You must blame her for this outrage. Tell them... you are Jin Shimura. Loyal Servant to the shogun. My heir... (''extends his hand'') my son.\\