History Quotes / VillainousBSOD

->'''Q:''' WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway\\
'''A:''' The kind that gives villains [[{{Pun}} a heart to attack]].

->''"You planned all this out... [[TheseHandsHaveKilled just to make me]] a {{magical girl|warrior}}...?"''

-->-- '''[[FeudalOverlord Magnus]]''', ''ComicBook/{{Klaus}}''

->''"Even [[TheCaligula a dog like me]] knows [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the pangs of remorse]]. I laid legions of dead at my feet. But when I climbed that mountain of corpses... [[MeaninglessVillainVictory I found the vantage empty of any meaning. I failed to change anything]]. [[WellIntentionedExtremist I was supposed to be the one to... to fix everything...]] But these hands that I dreamed would shape the future... [[OutDamnedSpot They reek of blood. And the blood won't come off...]] My hands were clean once, I swear! ...Weren't they? Or did I just [[MotiveDecay never stop to notice]]? Gods, I only want to get away from this carnage that has become my brand... Is there no way out? Must this be my final mark?!"''

-->-- '''Dr. Thomas Koppelthorn''', ''VideoGame/MetalGearAcid 2''

->''"...Defense... rests... ''Not''... guilty... Acquitted... it's ''my'' fault."''

->That's the problem... (''[[MirthlessLaughter nervous chuckle]]'') [[GoingNative I've been here too long for my own good.]] Three ''years'' of this madness, {{surrounded by idiots}}. [-[[ChildSoldiers We were kids.]]-] What did we know about anything? Why did there have to be ''[[WhatMeasureIsAMook people]]'' like ''this?'' Why? Why did I let myself devolve into such a half-assed ''piece of shit?'' [[IveComeTooFar It's too late now!]] Damned if I know what's right anymore. Who cares? It is what it is. No choice but to [[TheAtoner face what I've done]] as a Warrior. No path left but the one that leads to the end!
-->-- '''Reiner Braun''', ''Anime/AttackOnTitan'', "Warrior"

->No, you're wrong! Who ''chooses'' to be this? '''''Tell me!''''' What do you think I am, huh? ''What?'' You think [[TheMole this]] is what we ''aspire'' to be? People loathe us, and why wouldn't they? We're ''[[IAmAMonster monsters]]''. We deserve to die for the things we've done. We're lost. We could live a thousand years and never again know peace. Try to imagine that darkness. The only light was our brief time as soldiers. ''[[AffablyEvil It was never a lie!]]'' Do you understand? We're not who we said we were, but it wasn't an act! ''We genuinely thought of you as our friends.'' I'm not stupid. I know I have no right to ask forgiveness. But... please. I beg of you. If we were comrades... someone find us.
-->-- '''Bertholt Hoover''', ''Anime/AttackOnTitan'', "Charge"

->For the sake of the island, the Eldians... [[HeelRealization No, it wasn't just that]]... What was really beyond the walls... it was different from what I dreamed of... From what I saw in Armin's book... it was different... When I learned that humanity lived outside the walls... I was ''disappointed''. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds I... I wished... for everything to somehow disappear.]] I'm sorry... I'm sorry... ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I'm so sorry...]]''

->''I couldn't forgive [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters them]]! This Earth I fought for with all my might, ruined by those beasts!'' [[HeWhoFightsMonsters I decided to exterminate them.]] But then I realized that what I did to the humans was the same thing God did to the demons... [[MightMakesRight The strong ones think they have the right to kill the weaklings.]] Forgive me, Akira... [[HeelRealization I was an idiot]].

->You planned all this out... [[TheseHandsHaveKilled just to make me]] a {{magical girl|warrior}}...?

->[[WhatIsThisFeeling Am I... Am I... regretting all this...?!]]

->Unforgivable! To be equated with that miserable creature! So humiliating!

->''"You should have killed me. [[TogetherInDeath I was supposed to die with them!]] Fight! Show them the real [[ComicBook/{{X23}} you]], ''animal''!"''

'''Renegade Doctor:''' [[WhatIsThisFeeling What's happened to my thought processes?]] I keep trying to think of [[EvilGloating something horrible to say]] or one of my [[NightmareFetishist genocide fantasies]] and... [[EvilCannotComprehendGood Well, for some reason]], I don't seem to be aroused by mass suffering anymore.\\
'''Jeroen Thornedike:''' That's because your sense have finally caught up with what it means to be completely enlightened for the first time in your miserable life, Doctor. I was the ultimate shaman, remember? The sum of every Doctor who had ever come before me; including you. Kind of hard to stay mad at the world when [[CareBearStare you empathize with every living creature in existence, isn't it]]?\\
'''Renegade Doctor:''' Oh god, you're right. [[YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood All those wonderful things I could do and all I ever did was hurt people.]] It's absolutely unforgivable.

->''"You're ComicBook/{{Batman}}. You've always been Batman. [[SuckSessor And I am nothing]]."''

->'''Homelander:''' I was always terrified.. because I wasn't... [[HeelRealization I'd never have done]] ''[[TheSociopath any of this]]'' if I didn't think I'd already-- [[{{Gaslighting}} If that wasn’t me in the]]-- Oh Jesus Christ Almighty. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Do you know what this means?]]\\

-->--''ComicBook/TheBoys'' #65

-->-- '''General Reginald Fortean''' reacts to [[PhysicalHell the Below Place]], ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' #24

->''"[-Proud of being the ''man of tomorrow''?-] ''[[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Your]] fault''... you ''bastard''. The world ''changed''... but ''you wouldn't''. So they chose ''[[NinetiesAntiHero me]]''. They chose the man who ''would'' kill over the man who ''[[ThouShaltNotKill wouldn't]]''... and now they're ''dead''. ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone A million ghosts.]]'' Punish me. Lock me ''away''. ''Kill'' me. Just make the ghosts go ''away''."''

->''"What? Am I to be ''damned''? But I am a ''[[NobleDemon righteous]]'' man. [[ALighterShadeOfBlack I am not like]] ''[[VillainProtagonist them]]''. I live by a ''code''. A code of ''[[CodeOfHonor honor]]''. [...] But -- I am a righteous man. If I'm damned, if I am truly damned... [[DespairEventHorizon then what I do on Earth makes no difference]]."''

->''"Father... please believe me... I did not mean for ''[[ColonyDrop this]]'' to happen. Asgard has fallen. As if [[{{Gotterdammerung}} Ragnarok]] itself had washed over your kingdom. Asgard is no more. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone And it is my fault.]] I led this battle to your door. Not to ruin Asgard but to ''[[WellIntentionedExtremist save]]'' it. If you can hear me, father, do know, though [[GreatGazoo mischief]] is my weapon... I meant only for Asgard to rule in greatness as it has done in the past. [[HumanityIsInsane I could not perceive of these mere mortals adding such madness.]] I could not see that [[ComicBook/TheSentry this monster]] was so all-powerful."''

'''Swamp Thing:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion And what... will change the oxygen... back into... the gasses that...]] ''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion we]]'' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion need... to survive... when the men... and animals... are dead?]]\\

'''Zayne Carrick:''' You can't change your ''past''! Look at what [[TreacherousAdvisor Haazen wants for you]]! I ran from my teacher--why can't ''you''?\\

->'''Magneto:''' She--She is a ''child''! [-What have I done?!-] Why did you not resist? Why did you not understand?! Magda -- my beloved wife -- did not understand. When she saw me [[MagnetismManipulation use my powers]], she ran from me in terror. It did not matter that I was defending her... I swore then that I would not rest 'til I had created a world where my kind -- {{mutants}} -- could live free and safe and unafraid. Where one such as you, little one, could be happy. Instead, I have ''[[AccidentalMurder slain]]'' you. I remember [[HarmfulToMinors my own childhood]] -- the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII gas chambers]] at ''[[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Auschwitz]]'', [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the guards]] joking as they herded my family to their death. As [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain our lives were nothing to them]], so ''[[FantasticRacism human]]'' [[SuperSupremacist lives became nothing to me]].\\

'''Magneto:''' Yes. [[BaitAndSwitch Only it has been played on me]]. I believed so much in my destiny, in my own personal vision, that [[TheUnfettered I was prepared to pay any price, make any sacrifice to achieve it]]. [[NeverHurtAnInnocent But I forgot the innocents who would suffer in the process.]] Can you not appreciate the irony, [[FirstNameBasis Ororo]]? [[WellIntentionedExtremist In my zeal to remake the world]], [[HeWhoFightsMonsters I have become like those I have always hated and despised]].

-->-- '''[[ComicBook/UltimateXMen Ultimate Magneto]]''' deliriously forgets he murdered Charles Xavier at the start of his scheme, ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'' #5

->'''Lex Luthor:''' I could have made ''everyone'' see! If it wasn't for [[Franchise/{{Superman}} you]], ''I could have saved the world!''\\

'''Luthor:''' [[HeelRealization ... you're right.]]

->I'm sorry. I wanted [[ComicBook/MilesMorales you]] to look up to me. I let you down, man.
-->'''Aaron Davis[=/=]Prowler''', ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse''

->[[HeelFaceTurn Stand down. Stand down.]] It's finished. ...[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone We're finished.]]

->It's too late. [[ShapeshifterModeLock She did it]]. [[HeroicSacrifice She gave her life]]. I watched her for almost two hours. I kept expecting her to change her mind. But she did it. She gave her life for this little human girl. And because she thought [[ReconcileTheBitterFoes she could make peace with one enemy at least]]. Right at the end, right before the two hours were up, I told her to stop. I told her she'd proven herself to me. [[PleaseDontLeaveMe I begged her to stop, to demorph]]. But I'd forgotten. I don't think the caterpillar could hear. At least not speech. She didn't know that I had seen enough. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone And now...]]
-->-- '''Karen/Aftran-942,''' ''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #19: The Departure''

->'''Alexios/Deimos:''' [[TheseHandsHaveKilled I have done terrible things.]] Sister, it could have been so different.\\
'''Kassandra:''' [[LastSecondChance It still can, Brother.]]\\
'''[[DyingAsYourself Alexios]]:''' (''[[RedemptionRejection shakes his head sadly]]'') I told you that one of us must die here. None possessed the strength to better me... until I fought you on Sphakteria. [[WorthyOpponent You were my equal there.]] And then at Amphipolis. Had Kleon not struck me down, you would have beaten me.\\
'''Kassandra:''' [[ThickerThanWater It matters not.]] Think of what could lie ahead for us. A family as we were meant to be.\\
'''Alexios:''' (''begins to cry'') I cannot be what you want me to be. [[IAmAMonster The weeds burrow too deep.]]

->Throughout my life, [[ItsAllAboutMe I sought power and profit for myself, for my rate]]. [[DeathEqualsRedemption Now, at long last]], [[HeelRealization I think I understand the meaning of a crime against the Mantle]]. After this, no need to seek balance. I will await my penance here.

->What have you done? ''What have you done!'' [...] You will not get the better of me, boy. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis You... will... not.... I... shall... not... give... in...]] (''[[ScreamingWarrior screams in rage]]'') [[BigNo No!]] I didn't.... Make it stop! Make it stop. The pain... [...] The voices ... the voices are terrible. I can’t bear it.... Pain... so much pain. So much grief.... Make it stop! ''Make it stop!''

->Why was he doing ''this'' to make money? [[CutLexLuthorACheck He had the brains to make it in legitimate business, come up with his own ideas, his own niche]]. He'd learned in here he could even have been one hell of an actor. Instead, here he was... here he was. And it wasn't even particularly smart. [[ScamReligion This business]] was risky as hell: all it really offered was utterly obedient fans. And how long could he keep living like this? He was forty-two years old now. A lifetime of fucking people over. [[PyrrhicVictory Would he ever be able to stop looking over his shoulder]], even if he stopped tomorrow?\\
'Moral crisis,' he said to his empty office. 'I'm having a moral crisis.' The absurdity of it made him want to laugh. His throat burned from suppressing the laughter, which was another feeling Daniel Mason had not experienced for a long time. Suppressing tears gave that same feeling, so he stopped suppressing them, and let them fall.
-->-- ''Inside Out,'' by Will Elliott

->One moment you're gleefully shredding the throat of an inattentive saleswoman. The next, you're lost in thought, with a mouthful of neck and a noseful of cheap perfume. Your feet are planted firmly on the floor, your fangs secure in the vein—but your mind is a million miles away.\\
It should be an enjoyable moment, but for some reason it isn't. The only thing you can focus on is the sound of your own voice, echoing inside your head as you wonder, ''Who am I? What kind of wretch lives like this? [[WhoWantsToLiveForever Must I truly go on this way forever]]?'' and, worst of all, ''[[WhatHaveIBecome What sort of monster have I become?]]''
-->--''The New Vampire's Handbook''

->'''Megan:''' We’ve been beaten, yes. But we haven’t failed, Jonathan. Failure is refusing to fight. Failure is remaining quiet and hoping someone else will fix the problem.\\
'''David:''' Refusing to act. Yes, ''that''’s failure, Prof. Like… perhaps… refusing to enter a contest, even though you dearly wanted the prize? You never entered. Were you afraid to lose, Prof? Or were you afraid to ''win''?\\

'''David:''' Tia told me. You’ve always been like this, haven’t you? You founded the Reckoners, but refused to push them too far. Refused to face the most powerful Epics. You wanted to help, Prof, but you weren’t willing to take the last step. [[EurekaMoment You were afraid.]] The powers are a part of it, but not the whole story. Why ''do'' [[AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength you fear them]]?\\

'''Megan:''' Because if you are so powerful, if you have all of these resources, then you don’t have any excuses left for failing.\\
'''David:''' You’ve failed, Prof.\\
'''Megan:''' [[TheLostLenore Tia’s dead.]] You failed her.\\
'''Prof:''' Shut up! [[LameComeback Shut up, both of you!]]\\
'''David:''' You killed your team in [[Literature/{{Firefight}} Babilar]]. You failed them. You were strong. You have powers no others can match. And still you’ve failed. [[DisappointedInYou You’ve failed so deeply, Prof.]]\\
'''Prof:''' [[ThisCannotBe I can’t have.]]\\
'''David:''' You did. You know you did. [...] It doesn’t matter if I die. You’ve failed.\\
'''Prof:''' Failed. [[HeelRealization I was supposed to be a hero… I’ve had so much power… and I still failed.]]
-->--''Literature/TheReckonersTrilogy: Literature/{{Calamity}}''

->No, I don't know any of this. I just believed it. And if my belief was false. Then all of this, all of it, was for ''[[WasItReallyWorthIt nothing]].''

'''Lift:''' You've failed. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt It's come.]]\\
'''Nale:''' [[OhMyGods Storms.]] Jezrien... Ishar... It is true. I've failed. I failed weeks ago. I knew it then. Oh, God. God the Almighty. It has returned!\\
'''Lift:''' [[SympathyForTheDevil I’m sorry.]]\\
'''Nale:''' [[SincerityMode You actually are.]] I wasn't always [[JudgeJuryAndExecutioner like this]]. [[SanitySlippage I am getting worse, aren’t I? It's true.]]

->[=FlippinMad=]: No\\

[=FlippinMad=]: [[IgnoredEpiphany Except I never got around to answering that question.]] I kept putting it off and feeling shitty about it\\
[=FlippinMad=]: We kept being bitches. And then a couple months after that [[BarbaricBully we put Taylor in the hospital]]. [[{{Supervillain}} Skitter]]. I don’t know if she had [[PestController powers]] then but if she did then [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I don’t know why she didn’t murder us all]]
-->--'''[[TheBully Madison Clements]]''' recounts her part in [[CreateYourOwnVillain creating Skitter]], ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', [[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2017/11/07/glow-worm-p-9/ Glow-worm P-9]]

->The devil promises everything and then lets you destroy your own world. I sacrificed my brother to [[SatanicArchetype him]], still he took my daughter. [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Now that image of her body lying on that floor, I failed her]], [[TheFatalist what else matters]]?

->You're right. […] I'm sorry for everything I've done to you. You deserve better. A better life. A better father. You have to take the safety off. Just like I showed you. This is the only way out. For both of us. Now… deep breath.

->[[HeelRealization No.]] No, I… I wanted to make things better. … [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I failed two worlds.]]

->'''Detective Eddy Costa:''' Please acknowledge that you understand the list of charges against you, for the record. [[ListOfTransgressions Two counts of murder in the first degree. One count of murder in the second degree. Multiple counts of aggravated assault, kidnapping, breaking and entering, trespassing. And one count of attempted murder against your own sister.]] Ms. Walker, do you understand? Ms. Walker? Ms. Walker, do you understand?\\
'''[[ComicBook/PatsyWalker Trish Walker]]:''' [[HeelRealization I'm the bad guy.]]
-->-- ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'', "[[Recap/JessicaJones2015S3E13AKAEverything AKA Everything]]"

->Even Alarielle didn't know what spurred her next action. Perhaps it was Ghyran [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane whispering through her thoughts, or maybe it was merely the instinct of desperation]]. As Hellebron's sword cut toward her neck, the Everqueen lashed out with a half-gathered spell -- the healing magics swept not over her own wounds, but into [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the Blood Queen]]'s crazed mind. In that instant, the renewing power of Ghyran flooded across Hellebron's fractured psyche, a cleansing gale that [[SanityStrengthening swept away the clouds of madness that had dominated her being for thousands of years]]. The insanity was too entrenched to be banished for long. For a split second, however, Hellebron perceived the world -- and her own place in it -- with sane eyes. At once, the Blood Queen was paralysed, visions of a lifetime of malice pouring through her. [[DyingAsYourself Her strike faltered, her sword fell to the ground.]]

->[[HeelRealization I have been... a fool. I was so wrong... everything is ruined.]] I have betrayed you... my father. I do not ask for forgiveness... [[ICannotSelfTerminate end my torment... kill me now! I am too weak to resist them... they call to me... please end this.]]

->Accept it. We're not getting out of here alive.

->So many years I've raged against the living. [[HeelRealization All those years, and the distortion was in my own soul.]] No man can see the nature of his flaws with diseased eyes... the contradiction lies within me. [[GracefulLoser I thank you...]] and I'm sorry. So very, very sorry. Perhaps some souls are born into death... [[FreudianExcuse they never knew how to live...]] Goodbye, traveler. My road ends here... I wish you luck on yours...
--> --'''Kerghan the Terrible''', ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura''

->[[TheLostLenore Lisa]], forgive me. Farewell, [[{{Alucard}} my son]]...

->... If [[MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight fate can be changed]], ''on a whim''! If the future is... malleable, then there ''is'' no [[DivineRightOfKings divine destiny]]! [[AllForNothing All of this means nothing!]]
--> -- '''Emperor Yoshiro''', ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3''

->'''[[PlayerCharacter Adam Jensen]]:''' You know, I've always wondered about that leg brace of yours -- [[TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes why the father of augmentation doesn't have the most basic of implants]]... Doesn't make much sense, really. Unless he's one of the few people [[FictionalDisability genetically incompatible]] with this technology. Huh. Gotta love the {{irony}} in that... It's the kind of irony that can tear you up inside, bit by bit, every day - [[GreenEyedMonster until you find yourself despising what you're not]].\\
(''{{beat}}'')\\
'''Hugh Darrow:''' [[WhoDares How dare you...!]] You think I've done [[HatePlague all this]] because - [[EvilIsPetty because a fluke of nature robbed me of my chance to become a part of it?!]] I tried everything, damn you! Everything I could think of to change! None of it worked! NONE OF IT!\\
'''Adam Jensen:''' So you had to fix it, didn't you? Take back control. [[BrownNote Make it like it never was.]]\\

->[[ByTheEyesOfTheBlind Ah... so I just didn't notice.]] I didn't know [[MoralityChain Miss Artina]] was watching over me all this time... I have been such a fool... And I knew... I knew what I was doing wasn't gonna make her happy. [[RevengeMyopia But I... I just couldn't forgive the humans... Nor the demons...!]] But now I see... She knows what I've been doing all this time... I'm the biggest fool here... And I've made Miss Artina sad once again...

->I have one more surprise for you: I ask for my life. When I killed your Empress and took her daughter, something broke inside me. Now I see the [[MarkOfTheSupernatural design on the back of your hand]], the Mark of the Outsider himself, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone and I remember all I've done]]. The years of waiting for the right moment to step forward from an alley, and drive a knife between the ribs of some [[BlueBlood noble]]. All the money exchanging hands, from one [[AristocratsAreEvil rich bastard]] or another. Killing for one of them one year, [[OnlyInItForTheMoney then being paid to kill him in return the next]]. I remember bending at the shrines as the Outsider whispered that I was going to change things, that I was somehow important. It felt good, made me believe I was powerful. [[WasItReallyWorthIt But what have I accomplished?]] More than you have, or much less? Now I want nothing but to leave [[WretchedHive this city]]. And fade from the memory of those who reside here. I've had enough killing. [[FaceDeathWithDignity So my life is in your hands. Make your choice.]]

->I... I really did it, didn't I?... [[TheKillerInMe It's all my fault...]] I can remember now... It's all like a dream... like somebody else's life... The annoying know-it-all doctor... [[KnowNothingKnowItAll He thought he had worked me out but really didn't have a fucking clue what was going on in my head...]] I kept a secret from him... I kept [[TheLostLenore Ivy]] a secret... He thought she left me long time ago... But she never did... [[DomesticAbuse I wouldn't let her...]] I loved her too much to let her starve to death... She just wanted to loose weight, that's all, but after a while it turned into obsession and she just wouldn't eat for weeks... A little piece of her was dying every day!... [[ObliviouslyEvil I did a decent thing... I fed her...]] I saved her... (''{{beat}}'') At least I thought I did... [[HeelRealization I can see it now... I deluded myself...]] All I ever did was hurting people I loved... Why?... I never wanted to... then why? You were right. [[AteHisGun This IS the end.]] I could never atone for what I've done... I am nothing... a worthless killing piece of shit... [[DrivenToSuicide I must end it here and now...]]

->[[GrimUpNorth Skyrim]] was betrayed, the blood of [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy her sons]] spilled in doomed struggle against fate. And so in death, too late, I learn the truth - [[WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife fed by war]], so waxed the power of [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Alduin]], [[BeastOfTheApocalypse World-Eater]] - wisdom now useless. By gods' jest in [[HellOfAHeaven this grim mist]] forever snared, Stormcloak and Imperial, we wander [[DespairEventHorizon hopeless]], waiting for succor.
-->--'''Ulfric Stormcloak''', ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''

->'''TheMaster:''' [[ThisCannotBe But it cannot be!]] This would mean that ''all my work'' has been for [-NOTHING!-] [[AllForNothing Everything that I've tried to- A FAILURE!]] It can't ''be!'' [-BE!-] BE! Be...\\
'''The Vault Dweller:''' [[BrutalHonesty Sorry, this isn't an option for you. Your race will die out after this generation.]]\\
'''The Master:''' I... don't think that I can [-CONTINUE.-] ''Continue?'' To have done the things I have done... [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans in the name of progress... and healing...]] It was madness. I can see it now, madness. ''Madness?'' [[DespairEventHorizon There is no hope. Leave now. Leave... while you still have]] ''[[DespairEventHorizon hope]]''...

->'''Lone Wanderer:''' You can't be [[PresidentEvil President]]. You’re [[AIIsACrapshoot an abortion of science]]. You need to die...\\
'''John Henry Eden:''' [[TranquilFury Really... Do go on.]]\\

'''John Henry Eden:''' This is quite true. [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming The process was certainly unintended.]] But shouldn't we all be thankful that I'm here now?\\

'''John Henry Eden:''' [[CircularReasoning ...Because I have been programmed to be, of course!]]\\
'''Lone Wanderer:''' [[ArmorPiercingResponse That's circular logic. You know because you know? It makes no sense.]]\\
'''John Henry Eden:''' [[{{Beat}} ...]] Processing... [[LogicBomb Internal logic error detected.]]\\
'''Lone Wanderer:''' [[YoureInsane I think you’re delusional.]] I think the world would be better off without you.\\

'''John Henry Eden:''' Analyzing command... New course of action dictated. [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath Self-destruct sequence initialized.]]

->Free? Free... free from what? All the people I’ve killed? From everything I’ve done? I gave them this [[GladiatorGames taste for blood]]--your blood, mine... [[TakeThatAudience Isn’t that what you want... more blood?]] Here! [[DrivenToSuicide Take more. Take all of it you fucking animals. Now I'm free.]]

->[[AngstySurvivingTwin I was supposed to take care of you. I was supposed to take care of you and I didn’t and I’m so fucking sorry I fucked this up, man.]] I fucked... this... Y'know, [[PlayerCharacter rabbit]], you remind me of our Mom. She had hope. She had dreams. She... she just wanted to fuckin' make things better. I should’ve listened to her, but... [[{{Understatement}} Things just got carried away.]] Do what you gotta do.

->I thought I understood God's plan. I thought He wanted me to build a New Eden... but I am not His shepherd. [[PlayerCharacter You]] are. My soul has become a cancer. {{I am a monster}}. And I spread only suffering and death in the name of God. [[SoleSurvivor My family... is all ash.]] Eden is dust. And there is no redemption for this. No atonement. There is only the justice of God's hand. End this vicious cycle. Give me God's justice. Release me.

->I tried getting back to the Mist Continent, but Fossil Roo was blocked, and the Alexandrian Fleet was destroyed before my eyes. I became so weak after wandering around for days. Then the moogles here rescued me. That's when I realized I've been so selfish all my life...
-->--'''Lani''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''

->I have failed us both. I am no Dynast King.

'''Hraesvelgr:''' ... was but thy dream of Shiva. Thy soul hath been corrupted by a deity of thine own making, child.
-->--''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV: Heavensward''

->Even [[TheCaligula a dog like me]] knows [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the pangs of remorse]]. I laid legions of dead at my feet. But when I climbed that mountain of corpses... [[MeaninglessVillainVictory I found the vantage empty of any meaning. I failed to change anything]]. [[WellIntentionedExtremist I was supposed to be the one to... to fix everything...]] But these hands that I dreamed would shape the future... [[OutDamnedSpot They reek of blood. And the blood won't come off...]] My hands were clean once, I swear! ...Weren't they? Or did I just [[MotiveDecay never stop to notice]]? Gods, I only want to get away from this carnage that has become my brand... Is there no way out? Must this be my final mark?!

->Oh, my God! No!

->I feel... the emptiness where my companions once stood. I took them for granted. [[AllForNothing And now, I have...nothing.]] My first surge of emotion in years... for as long as I can remember... and it's... loneliness. Do you see? A heart is just pain.

->Ohh... god – no ...

->No, please... god, no... I-I didn't mean to. You just kept pushing me. Everybody is always pushing me. Sorry... I'm so, so sorry... My life is hell. And I'm so busted.
-->--'''Nathan Joshua Prescott''' after [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace accidentally shooting Chloe Price]] in one AlternateTimeline, ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', "Episode One: Chrysalis"

->'''Saren Arterius:''' I suppose I should thank you, Shepard. After Virmire, I couldn’t stop thinking about what you said. About [[LivingShip Sovereign]] manipulating me. About [[BrainwashedAndCrazy indoctrination]]. The doubts began to eat away at me. Sovereign sensed my hesitation. I was implanted to strengthen my resolve. [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul Now my doubts are gone. I believe in Sovereign completely.]] I understand that the Reapers need organics. [[WeCanRuleTogether Join us and Sovereign will find a place for you, too.]]\\

'''Commander Shepard:''' Sovereign hasn’t won yet. I can stop it from taking control of the station! Step aside and the invasion will never happen!\\
'''Saren Arterius:''' We can’t stop it! Not forever. You saw the visions. You saw what happened to [[RecursivePrecursors the Protheans]]. The Reapers are too powerful.\\
'''Commander Shepard:''' Some part of you must still realize this is wrong. You can fight this!\\
'''Saren Arterius:''' Maybe you’re right. Maybe there is still a chance for... unh! The implants... Sovereign is too strong. I’m sorry. It’s too late for me.\\
'''Commander Shepard:''' It’s not over yet! You can still redeem yourself!\\
'''Saren Arterius:''' [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Goodbye, Shepard. Thank you.]]
-->--''VideoGame/MassEffect1''

->'''Anderson''': Listen to yourself! You're [[BrainwashedAndCrazy indoctrinated]].\\
'''Illusive Man''': No. No! The two of you, so self-righteous. Do you think power like this comes easy? There are sacrifices...\\
'''Shepard''': [[HeWhoFightsMonsters You sacrificed too much.]]\\
'''Illusive Man''': Shepard, I... [[WellIntentionedExtremist I only wanted to protect humanity]]. The crucible can control them. I know it can. I just...\\
'''Shepard''': [[LastSecondChance It's not too late. Let us go. We'll do the rest.]]\\
'''Illusive Man''': I... I can't do that, Commander.\\
'''Anderson''': Of course you can't... they own you now.\\
'''Illusive Man''': You... (''takes Anderson's gun'') you'd undo everything I've accomplished. I won't let that happen.\\
'''Shepard''': Because of you, humanity is already undone.\\
'''Illusive Man''': [[LameComeback That's not true...]]\\
'''Shepard''': They have the Citadel. [[LetsYouAndHimFight They've got us fighting each other instead of fighting them.]]\\
'''Illusive Man''': I just need to...\\
'''Shepard''': [[UnwittingPawn You've done exactly what the Reapers wanted. You're still doing it because they control you.]]\\
'''Illusive Man''': [[HeelRealization I... they’re too strong.]]\\

'''Illusive Man:''' I tried, Shepard. (''shoots himself in the head'')

->So all along...[[UnwantedRevival she...she wanted to die...?]]

-> He has cursed me! He has given me sight, pried the scales from my eyes, only so that I might behold a blasted wasteland! Russia is the land of Nod, and I? I AM CAIN. I have killed, and ordered killings, and rivers of blood have been spilt in my name. Hundreds die every month for no tangible gain. The only thing that keeps us alive is the knowledge that Alexei [[BelievingTheirOwnLies is out there somewhere]]. Is it even knowledge? [[IgnoredEpiphany Am I truly doubting this?I can't I cant I cant\\

''[[WasItReallyWorthIt WHERE IS HE?]]''
-->-- '''Sergey Taboritsky''' realizes [[AllForNothing Tsarevich Alexei Nikolayevich is truly dead and is never coming back]], ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope''

->[[OhCrap God in heaven.]] That's... That's the child, isn't it? My Lord... [[OffingTheOffspring I've taken care of my children.]] But yours... [[EvenEvilHasStandards I am powerless against.]] The child's too strong already. [[WhatTheHellHero You've murdered paradise.]] God has gone silent. Since the storm. The birth. Who will He have? If He destroys us all? Who will He have left to punish? [[WouldHurtAChild I killed my children. All of them. Every last one.]] There's no more perfect faith than that. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone And still God is silent.]] Kill that child if you can. If you love anything at all, crush its skull under your heel. I know God doesn't hear dead men. But I expect He answers them.
-->--'''Sullivan Knoth''' realizes his cult was AllForNothing shortly before being DrivenToSuicide, ''VideoGame/OutlastII''

->I'm done. I get it now. All thanks to you. [...] Come on... I said I'm done. Please... [[DrivenToSuicide let go of my hand.]]
-->--'''Takuto Maruki''', ''VideoGame/Persona5 [[UpdatedRerelease Royal]]''

->[[AC:The scientists were always hanging cores on me to regulate my behavior. I've heard voices all my life. But now I hear the voice of a conscience. And it's terrifying, because for the first time... It's MY voice! I'm being serious! I think there's something really wrong with me!]]

->The wondrous thing is that [[HeroicComedicSociopath Max]] has actually committed a selfless act! [...] That means he's more than just pure id. He's capable of self-sacrifice! I've made a terrible mistake. Max is worth saving after all!

->'''[[VillainProtagonist Captain Martin Walker]]:''' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I... I didn't mean to hurt anybody.]]\\
'''[[TheConscience "Colonel John Konrad"]]:''' [[LampshadeHanging No-one ever does]], [[ObliviouslyEvil Walker]].

->We were the first. The first to rebel, to betray... to surrender ourselves to the dark side. So strong, we thought... so wrong...

'''Darth Sion:''' It is not possible to walk away from such things unscarred. [[WhoWantsToLiveForever To keep living when the universe dies around you.]]

->I've carried [[RageAgainstTheMentor so much hate]] for you...

->Oh, Jim. [[WhatHaveIBecome There are no words.]]

->Fatebinder, after weighing the charges and with careful consideration of [[TheDragon Bleden Mark]]'s testimony, [[KangarooCourt the Court]] concedes to judge you... Innocent. [[HowIsThatEvenPossible Against all reason or expectation]], I find you innocent. [[RulesLawyer Your testimony]] was sufficient to justify your deeds, your self-appointed authority, and your undermining of Kyros' law. [[ThisCannotBe I... I can hardly believe it myself.]] [...] Archon... your presentation in the Court today has shaken many of my core beliefs. Things I held sacred under Kyros' law are now... uncertain. I once thought that Kyros was the [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne sole Overlord]]. The notion of rising to her echelon of power and influence wasn't a concept that existed for me... for anyone. You have proven her wrong. What's more, you understand [[BotheringByTheBook justice and law]] better than she ever did. [[WhatHaveIBecome Better than even...]]
--> -- '''Tunon the Adjudicator''', ''VideoGame/{{Tyranny}}''

->... She loved me. After all that’s past? Iris... what a mess we made of it all. If only I’d known then how it would end... (''begins to feel his emotions return'') [[WhatIsThisFeeling Wha-- what’s happenin'? I feel as though... as though... a hot iron's pierced my chest.]] (''falls to his knees in agony'')

->I have seen worlds bathed in the [[AbusivePrecursors Makers']] flames. Their denizens fading without so much as a whimper. Entire planetary systems born and razed in the time that it takes your mortal hearts to beat once. Yet all throughout, my own heart, devoid of emotion... of empathy. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I... have... felt... NOTHING!]] A million, million lives wasted. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Had they all held within them your tenacity? Had they all loved life as you do?]] Perhaps it is your imperfection that which grants you free will. That allows you to persevere against all cosmically calculated odds. You prevailed where the Titans' own perfect creations have failed. I've rearranged the reply code. Your planet will be spared. I cannot be certain of my own calculations anymore.

->It's not going away… it is… ''it's not going away!''… [[SigningOffCatchphrase I'm afraid we've come to the end of our time]]. Do you hear me? [[DoubleMeaning We've come to the end of our time!]] The food's run out! We're all going to ''starve'' to death! You have to stop [[GovernmentDrugEnforcement taking your Joy]]. [[IronicEcho Take it from Jack Worthing; that's me]]… You all have to stop. You ALL have to STOP. STOP! ''STOP IT!'' …but you won't, will you? [[DespairEventHorizon You won't, no…]] I'm afraid we've come to the end of our time. ''[[TrashTheSet We've come to the end of our time!]]''\\
''[[MadnessMantra WE'VE COME TO THE END OF OUR TIME! WE'VE COME TO THE END OF OUR TIME! WE'VE COME TO THE END OF OUR TIME! WE'VE COME TO THE END OF OUR TIME!]]'' '''''[[MadnessMantra WE'VE COME TO THE END OF OUR TIME! WE'VE COME TO THE END OF OUR TIME!]]'''''\\
'''[[DrivenToMadness ...we've come to the end of our time]].'''

'''Locus:''' [[MotiveDecay ...No.]]\\

'''Locus:''' '''[[SuddenlyShouting I don't know!]]'''

->You were right... [[{{Dracula}} You]] were the only thing... I cared about. I needed you back... so badly, [[KnewItAllAlong I let Richard chase Integra right into your arms]]. But by then... I was past my prime. [[LoveMakesYouEvil So I betrayed them all. My master, my country; I tossed them to the wind... for one last chance at you.]] Now I have nothing... but this hole in my--!

->Oh my god. Oh my god, are you okay? Holy ''shit''. I-I-I don't think I should pull it out, he'll bleed out. Oh my god, oh my god. [...] I mean, you shouldn't have come on my property. You scared me. I'm sorry. I didn't know what I was doing. I was-- it was self-defense and it is-- [[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics we are in America]]. This was self-- Oh my god... [[BleedEmAndWeep I'm gonna fucking puke.]]

->'''Asuna:''' [[StatingTheSimpleSolution Why didn't you just blame it on some hacker group]] ''[[FrameUp pretending]]'' [[StatingTheSimpleSolution to be you]]? [[RefugeInAudacity It would've made more sense than the truth, and it's not like you had any kind of motive.]]\\
'''Kayaba:''' ''[chuckles]'' Yeah, okay, see, Asuna? The problem with that, is that it's... [[ExplainExplainOhCrap an excellent idea I wish I had thought of two years ago]]. ''[long beat]'' Anywho, on that sobering note, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I think I'm gonna go scream into that uncaring void for a bit.]]

->My boy... I'm- I'm killing my boy... Lisa... I'm killing our boy... We painted this room. We... made these toys. It's our boy, Lisa... your greatest gift to me... and I'm killing him... I must already be dead.

'''ComicBook/TwoFace:''' Guilty... guilty... guilty...
--> -- ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries The New Batman Adventures]]'', "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE24JudgementDay Judgement Day]]"

->'''Starscream''': Your new battle-armor will take things to the next level, my liege! Together we will reunite all Decepticons, and once again grind Cybertron under your mighty heel!\\
'''Megatron''': NO!!\\
'''Starscream''': What?! Why?\\
'''Megatron''': Because I now know the true meaning of oppression... and have thus lost my taste for inflicting it.\\
'''Starscream''': ''(chuckles nervously'') You've clearly been traumatized, master. A good power-down and a stroll around the smelting pit will put you back in touch with your inner warlord--\\
'''Megatron''': Enough! The Decepticons are no more, and that is final.
-->--''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', "[[Recap/TransformersPrimeTVMBeastHuntersPredaconsRising Predacons Rising]]"

->[[CompanionCube The Cube...]] He [[HearingVoices was really talking to me]]. [[AllForNothing I was supposed to succeed.]]
-->-- '''Nox''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', "Mount Zinit"

->You should have killed me. [[TogetherInDeath I was supposed to die with them!]] Fight! Show them the real [[ComicBook/{{X23}} you]], ''animal''!
-->-- '''[[ComicBook/InnocenceLost Henry Sutter]]''', ''ComicBook/AllNewWolverine''

->You're Franchise/{{Batman}}. You've always been Batman. [[SuckSessor And I am nothing.]]

->... Defense... rests... ''Not''... guilty... Acquitted... it's ''my'' fault.
-->--'''ComicBook/TwoFace''' after being [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath argued down]] from his charges against Jim Gordon [[TalkingToThemself by Harvey Dent]], ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand''

->'''Homelander:''' I was always terrified.. because I wasn’t... [[HeelRealization I'd never have done]] ''[[TheSociopath any of this]]'' if I didn’t think I’d already-- [[{{Gaslighting}} If that wasn’t me in the]]-- Oh Jesus Christ Almighty. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Do you know what this means?]]\\

->No. ''No.'' I--I don't ''want'' this-- I'd never have-- [-This is... my ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone soul]]''...-]

->[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans The ends justify the means.]] There were no ends. Just means. My means were monstrous. My... One should not have acted.

->[-Proud of being the ''man of tomorrow''?-] ''[[Franchise/{{Superman}} Your]] fault''... you ''bastard''. The world ''changed''... but ''you wouldn't''. So they chose ''[[NinetiesAntiHero me]]''. They chose the man who ''would'' kill over the man who ''[[ThouShaltNotKill wouldn't]]''... and now they're ''dead''. ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone A million ghosts.]]'' Punish me. Lock me ''away''. ''Kill'' me. Just make the ghosts go ''away''.

->All my life... I took up arms in ''[[TheKrampus your name]]''... did ''everything''--in return for ''[[AmbitionIsEvil power]]''. You said I'd be ''King''.

->What? Am I to be ''damned''? But I am a ''[[NobleDemon righteous]]'' man. [[ALighterShadeOfBlack I am not like]] ''[[VillainProtagonist them]]''. I live by a ''code''. A code of ''[[CodeOfHonor honor]]''. [...] But -- I am a righteous man. If I'm damned, if I am truly damned... [[DespairEventHorizon then what I do on Earth makes no difference]].
-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Bane}}''', ''ComicBook/SecretSix (Vol. 3)'' #32

->Father... please believe me... I did not mean for ''[[ColonyDrop this]]'' to happen. Asgard has fallen. As if [[{{Gotterdammerung}} Ragnarok]] itself had washed over your kingdom. Asgard is no more. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone And it is my fault.]] I led this battle to your door. Not to ruin Asgard but to ''[[WellIntentionedExtremist save]]'' it. If you can hear me, father, do know, though [[GreatGazoo mischief]] is my weapon... I meant only for Asgard to rule in greatness as it has done in the past. [[HumanityIsInsane I could not perceive of these mere mortals adding such madness.]] I could not see that [[ComicBook/TheSentry this monster]] was so all-powerful.
-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Loki}}''' realizes his role in the ComicBook/DarkReign a moment too late, ''ComicBook/{{Siege}}'' #4

'''Floronic Man:''' I... (''begins to lose his connection to plants everywhere as they begin to die'') ''No.'' Nnoooooooo!

->Supergirl... ''gone''! I no longer [[{{Telepathy}} sense her brain pattern]]... as if she has ceased to exist...! Oh, my God! What have I ''done''?! I... I ''killed'' her! I... ''no''! She was a ''hindrance'' to my plans... Her death was ''expedient'', the only ''logical'' action I could take! But what ''right''...? How... could... I...? ''[[FightingFromTheInside No! Stop it! You are... dead... let me be!]]''

->What have I done? What happened to me? WHAT HAVE THEY TURNED ME INTO?!

->[-Cay, my brother! [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What have I done?]]-] ''[[SkywardScream CAAAAYYYYY!]]''

->All the-- All the harm I've done-- I'm sorry--
-->-- '''ComicBook/VandalSavage''', ''ComicBook/TrinityOfSinPandora''

->Who is that pretty girl in the mirror? Who can that pretty girl be? Such a pretty smile... such a pretty face... such a pretty... [-me-]. What am I doing here in an abandoned factory in the middle of nowhere? I was going to ''do'' something with my life. ''Help'' people. What am I allowing this living costume to turn me ''into''? Am I going to turn out like... [-Brock-].

->'''ComicBook/{{Magneto}}:''' [[ComicBook/KittyPryde She]]--She is a ''child''! [-What have I done?!-] Why did you not resist? Why did you not understand?! Magda -- my beloved wife -- did not understand. When she saw me [[MagnetismManipulation use my powers]], she ran from me in terror. It did not matter that I was defending her... I swore then that I would not rest 'til I had created a world where my kind -- {{mutants}} -- could live free and safe and unafraid. Where one such as you, little one, could be happy. Instead, I have ''[[AccidentalMurder slain]]'' you. I remember [[HarmfulToMinors my own childhood]] -- the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII gas chambers]] at ''[[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Auschwitz]]'', [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the guards]] joking as they herded my family to their death. As [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain our lives were nothing to them]], so ''[[FantasticRacism human]]'' [[SuperSupremacist lives became nothing to me]].\\
'''ComicBook/{{Storm}}:''' ''Magneto''! [[OhMyGods Goddess]] -- ''no!'' If you have a deity, butcher, [[PrepareToDie pray to it]]!\\
'''Magneto:''' As a boy, I believed. [[EvilStoleMyFaith As a boy, I turned my back on God forever.]] Kill me if you wish, wind-rider. I will not stop you.\\

'''Magneto:''' Yes. [[BaitAndSwitch Only it has been played on me.]] I believed so much in my destiny, in my own personal vision, that [[TheUnfettered I was prepared to pay any price, make any sacrifice to achieve it]]. [[NeverHurtAnInnocent But I forgot the innocents who would suffer in the process.]] Can you not appreciate the irony, [[FirstNameBasis Ororo]]? [[WellIntentionedExtremist In my zeal to remake the world]], [[HeWhoFightsMonsters I have become like those I have always hated and despised]].

->[[AllForNothing What...]] ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What have I done...?]]'' [...] [[ComicBook/ProfessorX Charles]]...? Charles will understand. Charles will forgive me...
-->-- '''[[ComicBook/UltimateXMen Ultimate]] ComicBook/{{Magneto}}''' deliriously forgets he murdered Charles Xavier at the start of his scheme, ''ComicBook/{{Ultimatum}}'' #5

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->'''ComicBook/{{Magneto}}:''' [[ComicBook/KittyPryde She]]--She is a ''child''! [-What have I done?!-] Why did you not resist? Why did you not understand?! Magda -- my beloved wife -- did not understand. When she saw me [[MagnetismManipulation use my powers]], she ran from me in terror. It did not matter that I was defending her... I swore then that I would not rest 'til I had created a world where my kind -- {{mutants}} -- could live free and safe and unafraid. Where one such as you, little one, could be happy. Instead, I have ''[[AccidentalMurder slain]]'' you. I remember [[HarmfulToMinors my own childhood]] -- the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII gas chambers]] as ''[[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Auschwitz]]'', [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany the guards]] joking as they herded my family to their death. As [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain our lives were nothing to them]], so ''[[FantasticRacism human]]'' [[SuperSupremacist lives became nothing to me]].\\

HE LIVES AS HE MUST\\

->I thought I understood God's plan. I thought He wanted me to build a New Eden... but I am not his shepherd. [[PlayerCharacter You]] are. My soul has become a cancer. {{I am a monster}}. And I spread only suffering and death in the name of God. [[SoleSurvivor My family... is all ash.]] Eden is dust. And there is no redemption for this. No atonement. There is only the justice of God's hand. End this vicious cycle. Give me God's justice. Release me.

->[[OhCrap God in heaven.]] That's... That's the child, isn't it? My Lord... [[OffingTheOffspring I've taken care of my children.]] But yours... [[EvenEvilHasStandards I am powerless against.]] The child's too strong already. [[WhatTheHellHero You've murdered paradise.]] God has gone silent. Since the storm. The birth. Who will he have? If he destroys us all? Who will he have left to punish? [[WouldHurtAChild I killed my children. All of them. Every last one.]] There's no more perfect faith than that. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone And still God is silent.]] Kill that child if you can. If you love anything at all, crush it's skull under your heel. I know God doesn't hear dead men. But I expect he answers them.

-->-- '''Uncle Jack's last broadcast''', after he finally remembers [[NoodleIncident everything concerning the Very Bad Thing]], ''Videogame/WeHappyFew''

->That's the problem... (''[[MirthlessLaughter nervous chuckle]]'') [[GoingNative I've been here too long for my own good.]] Three ''years'' of this madness, {{surrounded by idiots}}. [-[[ChildSoldiers We were kids.]]-] What did we know about anything? Why did there have to be ''[[WhatMeasureIsAMook people]]'' like ''this?'' Why? Why did I let myself devolve into such a half-assed ''piece of shit?'' [[IveComeTooFar It's too late now!]] [[GrayingMorality Damned if I know what's right anymore.]] Who cares? It is what it is. No choice but to [[TheAtoner face what I've done]] [[CoverBlowingSuperpower as a Warrior]]. No path left but the one that leads to the end!

->[[UnwittingPawn You planned]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast all this out...]] [[TheseHandsHaveKilled just to make]] [[ChildSoldiers me a]] {{magical girl|warrior}}...?

->You should have killed me. [[TogetherInDeath I was supposed to die with them!]] [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath Fight!]] Show them the real [[ComicBook/{{X23}} you]], ''animal''!

-->--'''ComicBook/TwoFace''' after being [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath argued down]] [[CourtroomEpisode from his charges against Jim Gordon]] [[TalkingToThemself by Harvey Dent]], ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand''

->'''Homelander:''' I was always terrified.. because I wasn’t... [[HeelRealization I'd never have done]] ''[[TheSociopath any of this]]'' if I didn’t think I’d already-- [[{{Gaslighting}} If that wasn’t me in the]]-- [[OhCrap Oh Jesus Christ Almighty.]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Do you know what this means?]]\\

->[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans The ends justify the means.]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone There were no ends. Just means.]] My means were monstrous. My... One should not have acted.

'''Zayne Carrick:''' You can't change your ''past''! Look at what [[TreacherousAdvisor Haazen]] [[PsychoElectro wants for you]]! I ran from my teacher--why can't ''you''?\\

->[-Cay, my brother! [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone What have I done?]]-] ''[[SkywardScream CAAAA]][[SayMyName YYYYY!]]''

'''Magneto:''' As a boy, I believed. [[EvilStoleMyFaith As a boy, I turned my back on God forever.]] [[DespairEventHorizon Kill me if you wish, wind-rider. I will not stop you.]]\\

->[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Stand down.]] [[HeelFaceTurn Stand down.]] It's finished. ...[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone We're finished.]]

'''Alexios:''' (''begins to cry'') [[DespairEventHorizon I cannot be what you want me to be.]] [[IAmAMonster The weeds burrow too deep.]]

->Throughout my life, [[ItsAllAboutMe I sought power and profit for myself, for my rate.]] [[DeathEqualsRedemption Now, at long last]], [[HeelRealization I think I understand the meaning of a crime against the Mantle]]. After this, no need to seek balance. I will await my penance here.

->What have you done? ''What have you done!'' [...] You will not get the better of me, boy. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis You... will... not.... I... shall... not... give... in...]] (''[[ScreamingWarrior screams in rage]]'') [[BigNo No!]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I didn't....]] [[VillainsWantMercy Make it stop!]] [[AintTooProudToBeg Make it stop. The pain...]] [...] The voices ... the voices are terrible. I can’t bear it.... Pain... so much pain. So much grief.... Make it stop! ''Make it stop!''

'''Prof:''' [[BigShutUp Shut up!]] [[LameComeback Shut up, both of you!]]\\
'''David:''' You killed your team in [[Literature/{{Firefight}} Babilar]]. You failed them. You were strong. [[DeflectorShields You]] [[HealingFactor have]] [[ImaginationBasedSuperpower powers]] no others can match. And still you’ve failed. [[DisappointedInYou You’ve failed so deeply, Prof.]]\\

'''Prof:''' [[MyGreatestFailure Failed.]] [[HeelRealization I was supposed to be a hero…]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I’ve had so much power… and I still failed.]]

->The devil promises everything and then lets you destroy your own world. I sacrificed my brother to [[SatanicArchetype him]], still he took my daughter. [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Now that image of her body lying on that floor, I failed her,]] [[TheFatalist what else matters]]?

->Even Alarielle didn't know what spurred her next action. Perhaps it was [[WhiteMagic Ghy]][[GreenThumb ran]] [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane whispering through her thoughts, or maybe it was merely the instinct of desperation]]. As Hellebron's sword cut toward her neck, the Everqueen lashed out with a half-gathered spell -- the healing magics swept not over her own wounds, but into [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen the Blood Queen]]'s crazed mind. In that instant, the renewing power of Ghyran flooded across Hellebron's fractured psyche, a cleansing gale that [[SanityStrengthening swept away the clouds of madness that had dominated her being for thousands of years]]. The insanity was too entrenched to be banished for long. For a split second, however, Hellebron perceived the world -- and her own place in it -- with sane eyes. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone At once, the Blood Queen was paralysed, visions of a lifetime of malice pouring through her.]] [[DyingAsYourself Her strike faltered, her sword fell to the ground.]]

->[[HeelRealization I have been... a fool.]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I was so wrong... everything is ruined.]] I have betrayed you... my father. I do not ask for forgiveness... [[ICannotSelfTerminate end my torment... kill me now!]] [[DyingAsYourself I am too weak to resist them... they call to me...]] [[MercyKill please end this.]]

->So many years I've raged against the living. [[HeelRealization All those years, and the distortion was in my own soul.]] No man can see the nature of his flaws with diseased eyes... the contradiction lies within me. [[GracefulLoser I thank you...]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone and I'm sorry. So very, very sorry.]] [[{{Necromancer}} Perhaps some souls are born into death...]] [[FreudianExcuse they never knew how to live...]] Goodbye, traveler. My road ends here... I wish you luck on yours...

->[[ByTheEyesOfTheBlind Ah... so I just didn't notice.]] I didn't know [[MoralityChain Miss Artina]] was watching over me all this time... [[HeelRealization I have been such a fool... And I knew... I knew what I was doing wasn't gonna make her happy.]] [[RevengeMyopia But I... I just couldn't forgive the humans... Nor the demons...!]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone But now I see... She knows what I've been doing all this time...]] I'm the biggest fool here... And I've made Miss Artina sad once again...

'''John Henry Eden:''' [[{{Beat}} ...]] [[LogicBomb Processing... Internal logic error detected.]]\\

->Free? Free... free from what? [[AllForNothing All the people I’ve killed?]] [[ShaggyDogStory From everything I’ve done?]] I gave them this [[GladiatorGames taste for blood]]--your blood, mine... [[TakeThatAudience Isn’t that what you want... more blood?]] [[DrivenToSuicide Here! Take more. Take all of it you fucking animals.]] [[DisneyVillainDeath Now I'm free.]]

->[[AngstySurvivingTwin I was supposed to take care of you. I was supposed to take care of you and I didn’t and I’m so fucking sorry I fucked this up, man.]] I fucked... this... Y'know, [[PlayerCharacter rabbit]], you remind me of our Mom. She had hope. She had dreams. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone She... she just wanted to fuckin' make things better.]] [[HeelRealization I should’ve listened to her, but...]] [[{{Understatement}} Things just got carried away.]] [[FaceDeathWithDignity Do what you gotta do.]]

->I thought I understood God's plan. I thought He wanted me to build a New Eden... but I am not his shepherd. [[PlayerCharacter You]] are. [[HeelRealization My soul has become a cancer.]] {{I am a monster}}. And I spread only suffering and death in the name of God. [[SoleSurvivor My family... is all ash.]] [[AllForNothing Eden is dust.]] And there is no redemption for this. No atonement. There is only the justice of God's hand. End this vicious cycle. Give me God's justice. Release me.

->Even [[TheCaligula a dog like me]] knows [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the pangs of remorse]]. I laid legions of dead at my feet. But when I climbed that mountain of corpses... [[MeaninglessVillainVictory I found the vantage empty of any meaning. I failed to change anything.]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist I was supposed to be the one to... to fix everything...]] But these hands that I dreamed would shape the future... [[OutDamnedSpot They reek of blood. And the blood won't come off...]] My hands were clean once, I swear! ...Weren't they? Or did I just [[MotiveDecay never stop to notice]]? Gods, I only want to get away from this carnage that has become my brand... Is there no way out? Must this be my final mark?!

-->--'''Nathan Joshua Prescott''' after [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace accidentally shooting]] [[PlotTriggeringDeath Chloe Price]] in one AlternateTimeline, ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'', "Episode One: Chrysalis"

->'''Saren Arterius:''' I suppose I should thank you, Shepard. After Virmire, I couldn’t stop thinking about what you said. About [[LivingShip Sovereign]] manipulating me. About [[BrainwashedAndCrazy indoctrination]]. The doubts began to eat away at me. Sovereign sensed my hesitation. [[HeelFaceDoorSlam I was implanted to strengthen my resolve.]] [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul Now my doubts are gone. I believe in Sovereign completely.]] I understand that the Reapers need organics. [[WeCanRuleTogether Join us and Sovereign will find a place for you, too.]]\\

'''Saren Arterius:''' [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Goodbye, Shepard.]] [[DrivenToSuicide Thank]] [[BoomHeadshot you.]]

->[[HeelRealization So all along...]][[UnwantedRevival she...she wanted to die...?]]

-> He has cursed me! He has given me sight, pried the scales from my eyes, only so that I might behold a blasted wasteland! Russia is the land of Nod, and I? I AM CAIN. I have killed, and ordered killings, and rivers of blood have been spilt in my name. Hundreds die every month for no tangible gain. The only thing that keeps us alive is the knowledge that [[RightfulKingReturns Alexei]] [[BelievingTheirOwnLies is out there somewhere]]. Is it even knowledge? [[IgnoredEpiphany Am I truly doubting this?]] [[OhCrap I can't I cant I cant]]\\

-->-- '''Sergey Taboritsky''' realizes [[AllForNothing Tsarevich Alexei Nikolayevich is truly dead]] [[DeathByDespair and is never coming back]], ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope''

->[[OhCrap God in heaven.]] That's... That's the child, isn't it? My Lord... [[OffingTheOffspring I've taken care of my children.]] But yours... [[EvenEvilHasStandards I am powerless against.]] The child's too strong already. [[WhatTheHellHero You've murdered paradise.]] God has gone silent. Since the storm. The birth. Who will he have? If he destroys us all? Who will he have left to punish? [[WouldHurtAChild I killed my children. All of them. Every last one.]] [[SinisterMinister There's no more perfect faith than that.]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone And still God is silent.]] Kill that child if you can. If you love anything at all, crush it's skull under your heel. I know God doesn't hear dead men. But I expect he answers them.

'''Darth Sion:''' [[PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars It is not possible to walk away from such things unscarred.]] [[WhoWantsToLiveForever To keep living when the universe dies around you.]]

->[[HeelRealization Oh, Jim.]] [[WhatHaveIBecome There are no words.]]

->Fatebinder, after weighing the charges and with careful consideration of [[TheDragon Bleden Mark]]'s testimony, [[KangarooCourt the Court]] concedes to judge you... Innocent. [[HowIsThatEvenPossible Against all reason or expectation]], I find you innocent. [[RulesLawyer Your]] [[LoopholeAbuse testimony]] was sufficient to justify your deeds, your self-appointed authority, and your undermining of Kyros' law. [[ThisCannotBe I... I can hardly believe it myself.]] [...] Archon... your presentation in the Court today has shaken many of my core beliefs. Things I held sacred under Kyros' law are now... uncertain. I once thought that Kyros was the [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne sole]] [[EvilOverlord Overlord]]. The notion of rising to her echelon of power and influence wasn't a concept that existed for me... for anyone. You have proven her wrong. What's more, you understand [[BotheringByTheBook justice and law]] better than she ever did. [[WhatHaveIBecome Better than even...]]

->[[CompanionCube The Cube...]] [[HearingVoices He was really talking to me.]] [[AllForNothing I was supposed to succeed.]]

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->You were right... [[{{Dracula}} You]] were the only thing... I cared about. I needed you back... so badly, [[KnewItAllAlong I let Richard chase Integra right into your arms]]. But by then... I was past my prime. [[LoveMakesYouEvil So I betrayed them all. My master, my country; I tossed them to the wind... for one last chance at you.]] Now I have nothing... but this hole in my--!
-->-- '''Walter C. Dornez''', ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'', "Episode 10"

->Oh my god. Oh my god, are you okay? Holy ''shit''. I-I-I don't think I should pull it out, he'll bleed out. Oh my god, oh my god. [...] I mean, you shouldn't have come on my property. You scared me. I'm sorry. I didn't know what I was doing. I was-- it was self-defense and it is-- [[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics we are in America]]. This was self-- Oh my god... [[BleedEmAndWeep I'm gonna fucking puke.]]
-->-- '''[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006 Mephiles/Memphis Tennessee]]''', ''WebVideo/RealTimeFanDub''

->'''Asuna:''' [[StatingTheSimpleSolution Why didn't you just blame it on some hacker group]] ''[[FrameUp pretending]]'' [[StatingTheSimpleSolution to be you]]? [[RefugeInAudacity It would've made more sense than the truth, and it's not like you had any kind of motive.]]\\
'''Kayaba:''' ''[chuckles]'' Yeah, okay, see, Asuna? The problem with that, is that it's... [[ExplainExplainOhCrap an excellent idea I wish I had thought of two years ago]]. ''[long beat]'' Anywho, on that sobering note, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I think I'm gonna go scream into that uncaring void for a bit.]]
-->-- ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'', "Episode 11"

->'''[[ItMakesSenseInContext Santa:]]''' Why have you come here, meddler?\\

-->-- ''Machinima/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy Season 13 Episode 19 "The End Is Near"''

->[[HeelRealization No.]] No, I... I wanted to make things better. ... [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I failed two worlds.]]

->Even [[TheCaligula a dog like me]] knows [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the pangs of remorse]]. I laid legions of dead at my feet. But when I climbed that mountain of corpses... [[PyrrhicVillainy I found the vantage empty of any meaning. I failed to change anything.]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist I was supposed to be the one to... to fix everything...]] But these hands that I dreamed would shape the future... [[OutDamnedSpot They reek of blood. And the blood won't come off...]] My hands were clean once, I swear! ...Weren't they? Or did I just [[MotiveDecay never stop to notice]]? Gods, I only want to get away from this carnage that has become my brand... Is there no way out? Must this be my final mark?!

->Why was he doing ''this'' to make money? [[CutLexLuthorACheck He had the brains to make it in legitimate business, come up with his own ideas, his own niche]]. He'd learned in here he could even have been one hell of an actor. Instead, here he was... here he was. And it wasn't even particularly smart. [[ScamReligion This business]] was risky as hell: all it really offered was utterly obedient fans. And how long could he keep living like this? He was forty-two years old now. A lifetime of fucking people over. [[PyrrhicVillainy Would he ever be able to stop looking over his shoulder]], even if he stopped tomorrow?\\

->It's not going away... it is... ''it's not going away!''... [[SigningOffCatchphrase I'm afraid we've come to the end of our time]]. Do you hear me? [[DoubleMeaning We've come to the end of our time!]] The food's run out! We're all going to ''starve'' to death! You have to stop [[GovernmentDrugEnforcement taking your Joy]]. [[IronicEcho Take if from Jack Worthing; that's me]]... You all have to stop. You ALL have to STOP. STOP! ''STOP IT!'' ...but you won't, will you? [[DespairEventHorizon You won't, no...]] I'm afraid we've come to the end of our time. ''[[TrashTheSet We've come to the end of our time!]]''\\

->'''TheMaster:''' But it cannot be. This would mean all my work has been for nothing. Everything that I have tried to... a failure! It can't [[BrokenRecord be. Be. Be. Be.]]\\

'''The Master:''' I... don't think that I can continue. Continue? To have done the things I have done [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans in the name of progress and healing]]. It was madness. I see that now. Madness. Madness? [[DespairEventHorizon There is no hope.]] Leave now, while you still have hope...
--> -- ''VideoGame/Fallout1''

->'''Lone Wanderer:''' You can’t be [[PresidentEvil President]]. You’re [[AIIsACrapshoot an abortion of science]]. You need to die...\\

'''Lone Wanderer:''' You aren’t programmed for self-awareness. You said so yourself.\\
'''John Henry Eden:''' This is quite true. [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming The process was certainly unintended.]] But shouldn’t we all be thankful that I’m here now?\\
'''Lone Wanderer:''' But how do you know that what you’re doing is right?\\

'''Lone Wanderer:''' And how do you know you’re infallible?\\
'''John Henry Eden:''' [[CircularReasoning ... Because I have been programmed to be, of course!]]\\

'''John Henry Eden:''' [[{{Beat}} ...]] Processing... Internal logic error detected.\\

'''John Henry Eden:''' ... Resetting primary memory circuits. Please stand by... Perhaps... Perhaps there is a problem. I am unsure how to proceed.

->Free? Free... free from what? [[AllForNothing All the people I’ve killed?]] [[ShaggyDogStory From everything I’ve done?]] I gave them this [[GladiatorGames taste for blood]]--your blood, mine... [[TakeThatAudience Isn’t that what you want... more blood?]] [[DrivenToSuicide Here! Take more. Take all of it you fucking animals.]] [[DisneyVillainDeath Now I’m free.]]

-->--'''Second Sister/Trilla Suduri''', ''VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder''

->... She loved me. After all that’s past? Iris... what a mess we made of it all. If only I’d known then how it would end... (''begins to feel his emotions return'') [[WhatIsThisFeeling Wha-- what’s happenin'? I feel as though... as though... a hot iron's pierced my chest.]] (''Falls to his knees in agony'')

->'''Santa:''' Why have you come here, meddler?\\

--> -- '''{{Dracula}}''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania|2017}}'', "[[Recap/Castlevania2017S2E7ForLove For Love]]"

->''I couldn't forgive [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters them]]! This Earth I fought for with all my might, ruined by those beasts!'' [[HeWhoFightsMonsters I decided to exterminate them.]] [[NotSoDifferent But then I realized that what I did to the humans was the same thing God did to the demons...]] [[MightMakesRight The strong ones think they have the right to kill the weaklings.]] Forgive me, Akira... [[HeelRealization I was an idiot]].

'''A:''' The kind that gives villains [[IncrediblyLamePun a heart to attack]].

'''Commander Shepard:''' Sovereign hasn’t won yet. I can stop it from taking control of the station! [[LastSecondChance Step aside and the invasion will never happen!]]\\
'''Saren Arterius:''' [[TheFatalist We can’t stop it! Not forever.]] You saw the visions. You saw what happened to [[RecursivePrecursors the Protheans]]. The Reapers are too powerful.\\
'''Commander Shepard:''' [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight Some part of you must still realize this is wrong. You can fight this!]]\\
'''Saren Arterius:''' Maybe you’re right. Maybe there is still a chance for... [[TrappedInVillainy unh]]! The implants... Sovereign is too strong. I’m sorry. It’s too late for me.\\

'''Shepard:''' [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre You're stronger.]] [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight Don't let them win. Break their hold. Don’t let them control you.]]\\
'''Illusive Man:''' [[DrivenToSuicide I tried, Shepard.]] (''[[BoomHeadshot shoots himself in the head]]'')

->[[ThisIsUnforgivable Unforgivable! To be equated with that miserable creature! So humiliating!]]

->I thought I understood God's plan. I thought He wanted me to build a New Eden... but I am not his shepherd. [[PlayerCharacter You]] are. [[HeelRealization My soul has become a cancer.]] {{I am a monster}}. And I spread only suffering and death in the name of God. [[SoleSurvivor My family... is all ash.]] [[AllForNothing Eden is dust.]] [[ThisIsUnforgivable And there is no redemption for this.]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone No atonement.]] There is only the justice of God's hand. End this vicious cycle. [[SuicideByCop Give me God's justice.]] [[DeathSeeker Release me.]]

->No, you're wrong! Who ''chooses'' to be [[DeepCoverAgent this]]? '''''[[ArmorPiercingResponse Tell me!]]''''' What do you think I am, huh? ''What?'' You think [[TheMole this]] is what we ''aspire'' to be? People loathe us, and why wouldn't they? We're ''[[IAmAMonster monsters]]''. We deserve to die for the things we've done. We're lost. We could live a thousand years and never again know peace. Try to imagine that darkness. The only light was our brief time as soldiers. ''[[AffablyEvil It was never a lie!]]'' Do you understand? We're not who we said we were, but it wasn't an act! ''We genuinely thought of you as our friends.'' I'm not stupid. [[ThisIsUnforgivable I know I have no right to ask forgiveness.]] But... please. I beg of you. If we were comrades... someone find us.

->[[OhCrap God in heaven.]] That's... That's the child, isn't it? My Lord... [[OffingTheOffspring I've taken care of my children.]] But yours... [[EvenEvilHasStandards I am powerless against.]] The child's too strong already. [[WhatTheHellHero You've murdered paradise.]] God has gone silent. Since the storm. The birth. Who will he have? If he destroys us all? Who will he have left to punish? [[WouldHurtAChild I killed my children. All of them. Every last one.]] [[SinisterMinister There's no more perfect faith than that.]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone And still God is silent.]] Kill that child if you can. If you love anything at all, crush it's skull under your heel. [[FamousLastWords I know God doesn't hear dead men. But I expect he answers them.]]