History Quotes / TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse

!!WebVideo
->"If they wanted real horror in previous films, this past version of Freddy is ''the'' most effective. There's something about [[Creator/RobertEnglund Englund]] in normal, [[StepfordSuburbia almost twee suburban clothes]] talking [[SoftSpokenSadist softly]] to a little girl that is far more chilling than the rubber prosthetic and Christmas sweater. Ironic that the scariest version of Kruger appears alongside the [[VillainDecay silliest and most affable]] version, but there it is."
-->--'''Creator/JimSterling''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFKf_dxVafM&index=19 on]] ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare''

->"If they wanted real horror in previous films, this past version of Freddy is ''the'' most effective. There's something about [[Creator/RobertEnglund Englund]] in normal, almost twee [[StandardFiftiesFather suburban clothes]] talking softly to a little girl that is far more chilling than the rubber prosthetic and Christmas sweater. Ironic that the scariest version of Kruger appears alongside the [[VillainDecay silliest and most affable]] version, but there it is."

-->--'''Sean''' on the Unabomber, ''Film/GoodWillHunting

-->--Spree killer ''Anders Brevik'''

!!!Fiction

->''"Every now and then\\
The country goes a little wrong\\
Every now and then\\
A madman's bound to come along"''
-->--"Ballad of Booth", '''''{{Theatre/Assassins}}'''''

-> (when asked where her costume is) This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.
-->--'''Wednesday'''l, ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'', possibly [[TropeNamer naming the trope]]

->''"Sorry I'm late. Work was murder."''

->I bet that son of a bitch looked like a hard-working family man. That was all an act.
-->-- '''Jeane''', ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes''

->And worst of all, he could be any one of us! He could be in this very room! He could be you! He could be me! [[KilledMidSentence He could even be]]--
-->-- '''BLU Spy''', talking about his RED counterpart, ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''

->Camouflage is nature's craftiest trick.
-->--'''[[{{Series/Dexter}} Dexter Morgan]]'''

->One thing about being a cabbie, you always know a nice quiet spot for a murder. I'm surprised more of us don't branch out.
-->--'''Jefferson Hope''', ''{{Series/Sherlock}}'' ([[{{Recap/SherlockS01E01AStudyInPink}} "A Study in Pink"]])

->A clean-cut guy in a suit; no one looks too close.
-->--'''Jim Brass''', ''{{Series/CSI}}'' ("identity Crisis")

->I have no idea what I'm going to do. I'm so deeply puzzled. I've done terrible things, I've killed three people. Really, I don't consider myself a terrible man--no more than others....I'm sure it comes as no great surprise to you when I say that there are little corners in everyone which were better off left alone; sicknesses, weaknesses, which should never be exposed. But that's your stock in trade, isn't it? a man's weakness? And I was never really fully aware of mine. Until you brought them out.

->'''Carver:''' Everyone is capable of murder under the right circumstances.\\
'''Ellie:''' No. Most people have a moral compass.\\
'''Carver:''' [[AnalogyBackfire Compasses break.]]
-->--''{{Series/Gracepoint}}''

->Sad to say, it's all too often pretty hard to pick a [[HumanoidAbomination Drone]] out from a crowd of modern office workers. Some would even consider the [[EldritchAbomination Weaver]]-bound the ideal modern citizen...
-->-- ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse - Book Of The Weaver''

->Your genuinely dangerous individuals — they almost never look crazy. They don't have any weird tattoos, they don't have any weird stitches on their face, funny-shaped heads. They are NOT predictable.
-->-- '''[[SerialKiller Walker]]''', ''Series/MastersOfHorror''

->As far as looks go, [[BigBad Richard Drakh]] is [[TheNondescript average in almost every way]]. He's neither short nor tall, neither thin nor fat, not particularly handsome or ugly or plain. His hair is medium brown, his eyes don't draw attention and he wears an understated suit that doesn't look especially cheap or expensive. Put him on a London train, and [[LostInACrowd he'd disappear without a ripple]]. In the stories, the greatest [[EvilSorcerer Dark mages]] are always terrifying to look at, tall or striking and monstrous or all three at once. Richard was none of those things - in fact, [[TheDragon Vihaela]] looked the part of a Dark master mage far more than he did. Yet it was Vihaela who obeyed Richard, not the other way around, and Richard struck far more fear into me than she ever could.
-->--''[[Literature/AlexVerus Bound]]''

->A [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler small man]] took power in the Old Country, a small man who might have seemed most unassuming if you met him casually in a cafe. He, [[NotSoDifferent like us,]] was easy to underestimate. When we saw him for the first time, we feared him, [[MadOracle not knowing why]]. We counseled our brethren among the clans to keep well away from this man [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany and his circle]], for their hands dripped with blood yet to be shed, and their eyes were lit with a madness that we could not rein in. And when the tanks rolled forth and the slaughter trains began to run, [[HorrifyingTheHorror we cried out in terror]], afraid that his fever, a fever with the power of a demigod, would catch us all alight.
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Malkavian (Revised)''

-> And what do you think they would look like? [[CardCarryingVillain Like mad Fuhrers with forelocks and shoe-polish moustaches, heil-ing all over the place?]] Like red devils or demons, or the dragon that floats on its stinking reptile wings? [...] I think most of them would look like [[PunchClockVillains ordinary accountants]]. Little mind-men with graphs and flow-charts and electronic calculators, all ready to start [[IndustrializedEvil maximizing the kill ratios]] so that ''next'' time they could perhaps kill twenty or thirty million instead of only six. And some of them might look like [[StepfordSmiler Todd Bowden]].
-->--'''[[NaziHunter Weiskopf]]''' on the perpetrators of a hypothetical second Holocaust, ''[[Literature/DifferentSeasons Apt Pupil]]''

->'''Eleanor Whitman:''' [''on [[ProfessionalKiller the Consultant]]''] [[TheNondescript He doesn't look like much]].
->'''Louis Salinger:''' [[ExploitedTrope I think that's the idea]].
-->--''Film/TheInternational''

->The captain of the pirate train did not wear a greatcoat in which lived polecats & weasels. He did not have [[UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} a beard woven with smouldering twists of gunpowder]] to surround himself with a stench & demonic aura. He did not [[DressedToPlunder cock a tricorn hat]] or have handprints in blood on his shirt. He did not dangle a necklace of bones & flesh-scraps. All these were things of which Sham had heard, ways in which railsea pirates spread the terror on which they relied.
->This man wore [[FourEyesZeroSoul large glasses]]. He had what Sham would, had circumstances been otherwise, have said was [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon a kind face]].

->''He looked so ordinary. Thinning gray-brown hair. A little bit of a paunch. Wire-rim glasses. Medium-blue eyes.''\\
''But that's the thing with Controllers: They look like anyone. They ''are'' anyone.''

->''What were you expecting? A monster?''
-->--'''Machine''', upon his very average face being revealed, ''Film/EightMM''

!!!Real Life

->I'm nobody. I'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo. I'm a boxcar and a jug of wine, and a straight razor if you get too close to me.
-->--'''Charles Manson''' in 1989

->If they wanted real horror in previous films, this past version of Freddy is ''the'' most effective. There's something about [[Creator/RobertEnglund Englund]] in normal, almost twee [[StandardFiftiesFather suburban clothes]] talking softly to a little girl that is far more chilling than the rubber prosthetic and Christmas sweater. Ironic that the scariest version of Kruger appears alongside the [[VillainDecay silliest and most affable]] version, but there it is.

->Some people in the world you just don't fuck with. Unfortunately you can't always tell who those people are until it's too late and such was the case with Marvin Heemeyer. He lived in a little town in Colorado with a population of about 500. He was a welder and owned a muffler repair shop and, presumably for a while, he was a totally non-sinister individual who never even considered doing anything crazy like [[RobotMaster building a massive, nearly indestructible machine of terror]]. For a while.

->Apparently, the guy who recently murdered nine innocent people at Umpqua Community College in Oregon had the audacity to leave behind lots of written complaints at the site of his killing spree. They were mostly about not having a girlfriend, and about feeling that everybody else was crazy...this is basically the opening of ''Theatre/RichardIII'' by William Shakespeare.

->What is remarkable, even chilling, is that the face behind the demonic image is that of ordinary people; ordinary people that form a human arsenal of living bombs secretly awaiting their turn.

-->--''Discworld/MonstrousRegiment''

->'''Mills''': We're not just going to pick up ''two more'' dead bodies, are we, John? That wouldn't be shocking enough. You've got newspapers to think about, yeah?\\
'''John Doe''': Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore; You have to hit them with a sledgehammer. Then you'll notice you've got their ''strict'' attention.\\
'''Mills''': But the question is: what makes you so special that people should listen?\\
'''John Doe''': I'm not special. I've never been exceptional. This is, though. What I'm doing. My work.
-->--''{{Film/Se7en}}''

->The captain of the pirate train did not wear a greatcoat in which lived polecats & weasels. He did not have [[UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}} a beard woven with smouldering twists of gunpowder]] to surround himself with a stench & demonic aura. He did not [[DressedToPlunder cock a tricorn hat]] or have handprints in blood on his shirt]]. He did not dangle a necklace of bones & flesh-scraps. All these were things of which Sham had heard, ways in which railsea pirates spread the terror on which they relied.

->The captain of the pirate train did not wear a greatcoat in which lived polecats & weasels. He did not have [[UsefulNotes/Blackbeard a beard woven with smouldering twists of gunpowder]] to surround himself with a stench & demonic aura. He did not [[DressedToPlunder cock a tricorn hat]] or have handprints in blood on his shirt]]. He did not dangle a necklace of bones & flesh-scraps. All these were things of which Sham had heard, ways in which railsea pirates spread the terror on which they relied.

->'''Wednesday''' (when asked where her costume is): This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.
-->--''Film/TheAddamsFamily'', possibly [[TropeNamer naming the trope]]

->One thing about being a cabbie, you always know a nice quite spot for a murder. I'm surprised more of us don't branch out.

->'''Charlie:''' Don't look at me like that, neighbor. It's just me! Charlie!\\

[[AC:Web Original]]

->Apparently, the guy who recently murdered nine innocent people at Umpqua Community College in Oregon had the audacity to leave behind lots of written complaints at the site of his killing spree. They were mostly about [[PsychopathicManchild not having a girlfriend, and about feeling that everybody else was crazy]]...this is basically the opening of ''Theatre/RichardIII'' by William Shakespeare.

->If they wanted real horror in previous films, this past version of Freddy is ''the'' most effective. There's something about [[Creator/RobertEnglund Englund]] in normal, almost twee [[StandardFiftiesFather suburban clothes]] talking softly to a little girl that is far more chilling than the rubber prosthetic and Christmas sweater. Ironic that the scariest version of Kureger appears alongside the [[VillainDecay silliest and most affable]] version, but there it is.

->'''Wednesday''' (when asked where her costume is): This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.
-->--''Film/TheAddamsFamily'', possibly [[TropeNamer naming the trope]]