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Buck Godot's New Hong Kong


-->--'''The Hobo''', ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun''

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-->--'''The Hobo''', ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun''
''Film/HoboWithAShotgun''“There are no laws here, so watch it.”


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->''"There is no Law on [[ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire New Hong Kong]]."''
-->-- ''The Law of New Hong Kong.''
->''"Welcome to New Hong Kong. There are no laws here, so watch it."''
-->-- ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20150428205525/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20070217 Welcome sign]] at New Hong Kong spaceport'', ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire''
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->''Imagine the worst scenes of Dickensian London and soak it with a sooty, smoggy, constant drizzle. Now, add to that an appalling level of governmental oppression and religious and supernatural dread. Multiply that by two, and you’ll come close to imagining just how bad things are in Dunwall.''
-->-- ''TabletopGame/DishonoredRoleplayingGame''

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->''"You care about justice? Look beyond your own pain, Bruce. This city is rotting. People talk about the depression as if its history, and it's not. Things are worse than ever down here. Falcone floods our streets with crime and drugs, preying on the desperate, creating new Joe Chills every day. Falcone may not have killed your parents Bruce, but he's destroying everything they stood for. You wanna thank him for that? Here you go. We all know where to find him, but as long as he keeps the bad people rich and the good people scared no one will touch him. Good people like your parents who will stand against injustice, they're gone. What chance does Gotham have when the good people do nothing?"''

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->''"You care about justice? Look beyond your own pain, Bruce. This city is rotting. People talk about the depression as if its it's history, and it's not. Things are worse than ever down here. Falcone floods our streets with crime and drugs, preying on the desperate, creating new Joe Chills every day. Falcone may not have killed your parents parents, Bruce, but he's destroying everything they stood for. You wanna thank him for that? Here you go. We all know where to find him, but as long as he keeps the bad people rich and the good people scared scared, no one will touch him. Good people like your parents who will stand against injustice, they're gone. What chance does Gotham have when the good people do nothing?"''



->''"Gotham's time has come. Like Constantinople or Rome before it the city has become a breeding ground for suffering and injustice. It is beyond saving and must be allowed to die."''

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->''"Gotham's time has come. Like Constantinople or Rome before it it, the city has become a breeding ground for suffering and injustice. It is beyond saving and must be allowed to die."''


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->''"In 2077, they voted my city the worst place to live in America. Main issues? Sky high rate of violence and more people living below the poverty line than anywhere else. Can’t deny it; it’s all true..."''
-->-- '''V''', ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077''
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->'''Michael Emerson''': Is there any jobs around here?\\
'''Stranger''': Nothing legal.
-->--''Film/TheLostBoys''
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->''"You know what Mega City One is, Dredd? It's a fucking meat grinder. People go in one end, and meat comes out the other. All we do is turn the handle."''
-->--'''Judge Lex''', ''Film/{{Dredd}}''
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''The [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating whole world out there hates us,]]''\\

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''The [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating [[HatedByAll whole world out there hates us,]]''\\
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-> The splendid and vivid neon décor gives the area a sense of grandeur. However, the aged skyscrapers are covered in graffiti. There's garbage piles all over, and the people look battered and weary of it all. The whole place looks so degenerate. It's somewhat unique in how lively it is despite its awful state. The greatest illegal nano factory in Asia, the base of an armed cult, a tax haven, a data pirate nest... Suzushiro is something else.
-->-- ''Sandbox/BaldrSky''
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->''"Gotham's time has come. Like Constantinople or Rome before it the city has become a breeding ground for suffering and injustice. It is beyond saving and must be allowed to die."''
-->--'''Ra's al-Ghul''', ''Film/BatmanBegins''
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->''"You care about justice? Look beyond your own pain, Bruce. This city is rotting. People talk about the depression as if its history, and it's not. Things are worse than ever down here. Falcone floods our streets with crime and drugs, preying on the desperate, creating new Joe Chills every day. Falcone may not have killed your parents Bruce, but he's destroying everything they stood for. You wanna thank him for that? Here you go. We all know where to find him, but as long as he keeps the bad people rich and the good people scared no one will touch him. Good people like your parents who will stand against injustice, they're gone. What chance does Gotham have when the good people do nothing?"''
-->--'''Rachel Dawes''', ''Film/BatmanBegins''
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-->-- '''Music/WilburSoot''', "Your City Gave Me Asthma"

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-->-- '''Music/WilburSoot''', "Your City Gave Me Asthma"
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->''Your city gave me asthma\\

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->''Your ->''[[TitleDrop Your city gave me asthma\\asthma]]\\
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->''"People look at you and think of how wonderful your future will be. They want you to be something special... like a... a doctor or a lawyer. I hate to tell you this, but if you grow up here, you're more likely to wind up selling your bodies on the streets, or shooting dope from dirty needles in a bus stop. And if you're successful, you'll make money selling junk to crackheads. And you won't think twice about killing someone's wife, because you won't even know what was wrong in the first place. Or, maybe... you'll end up like me - a hobo with a shotgun."''
-->--'''The Hobo''', ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun''
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->''Your city gave me asthma\\
That's why I'm fucking leaving\\
Your water gave me cancer\\
The pavement [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking hurt my feelings]]''
-->-- '''Music/WilburSoot''', "Your City Gave Me Asthma"
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->''"This rotten town... It soils everybody."''
-->--'''Nancy Callahan''', ''Film/SinCityADameToKillFor''
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->''"Death is just like life in Sin City. It always wins."''
-->--'''John Hartigan''', ''Film/SinCityADameToKillFor''
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->The winds of this city are a more melancholy breed. They explore like lost souls, looking in at dusty gaslit windows. We are brethren, the city-winds and I. We wander together.
->We have found sleeping beggars that clutch each other and congeal for warmth like lower creatures, forced back down evolutionary strata by their poverty. We have seen the city's night-porters fish the dead from the rivers. [[SecretPolice Dark-suited militia]] tugging with hooks and poles at bloated bodies with eyes ripped from their heads, the blood set and gelatinous in their sockets. We have watched mutant creatures crawl from sewers into cold flat starlight and whisper shyly to each other, drawing maps and messages in the faecal mud. I have sat with the wind at my side and seen cruel things, wicked things.
-->--'''Yagharek''' on New Crobuzon, ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation''
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->It's AlwaysNight in the Nightside. It's always three o'clock in the morning, and the dawn never comes. People are always coming and going, drawn by needs that dare not speak their names, [[RedLightDistrict searching for pleasures and services unforgivable in the sane, daylight world]]. You can buy or sell anything in the Nightside, and no-one asks questions. [[LackOfEmpathy No-one cares]]. There's a nightclub where you can pay to see a fallen angel forever burning inside a pentacle drawn in baby's blood. Or a decapitated goat's head, that can tell the future in enigmatic verses of perfect iambic pentameter. There's a room where silence is caged, and colours are forbidden, and another where a dead nun will show you her stigmata, for the right price. She didn't rise again, after all, but she'll still let you stick your fingers in the blood-caked holes, if you want. Everything you ever feared or dreamed of is running loose somewhere in the shifting streets of the Nightside, or waiting patiently for you in the expensive private rooms of patrons-only clubs. You can find anything in the Nightside, if it doesn't find you first. It's a sick, magical, dangerous place. [[ArmorPiercingQuestion You still want to go there?]]
-->-- '''John Taylor''', ''[[Literature/{{Nightside}} Something From The Nightside]]''
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->''"Remember, we in the Bronx live with death!"''
-->--'''Ann''', ''[[Film/Escape2000 1990: The Bronx Warriors]]''
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->''"Perhaps you have already observed that in Casablanca human life is cheap."''
-->--'''Major Heinrich Strasser''', ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''
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->''"There he goes again! The casket maker. Only guy in town making any money. Can't make coffins fast enough. It's best not to have any gamblers at all. One boss to a town we can tolerate, but two is a disaster. Only the casket maker profits from that. Knock it off, you bastard!"''
-->--'''Genji''', ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}''
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->At this point, though, I've got to admit that staying in Kirkwall is foolhardy. Between the [[EvilSorcerer blood mages]], the [[KnightTemplar fascist]] [[AntiMagicalFaction templars]], the [[RageBreakingPoint enraged]] [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Qunari]] ''and'' the [[CorruptChurch Chantry]] [[ChurchMilitant fanatics]], this town is starting to make me feel wistful for the [[TheHorde Darkspawn]]. At least [[AtLeastIAdmitIt they never acted like their horrors were somehow justified[]]: when they'd slit your throat, [[ForTheEvulz they did it for the sheer pleasure of watching you bleed]]. They didn't make a speech beforehand about how it was "the right thing to do."

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->At this point, though, I've got to admit that staying in Kirkwall is foolhardy. Between the [[EvilSorcerer blood mages]], the [[KnightTemplar fascist]] [[AntiMagicalFaction templars]], the [[RageBreakingPoint enraged]] [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Qunari]] ''and'' the [[CorruptChurch Chantry]] [[ChurchMilitant fanatics]], this town is starting to make me feel wistful for the [[TheHorde Darkspawn]]. At least [[AtLeastIAdmitIt they never acted like their horrors were somehow justified[]]: justified]]: when they'd slit your throat, [[ForTheEvulz they did it for the sheer pleasure of watching you bleed]]. They didn't make a speech beforehand about how it was "the right thing to do."
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->At this point, though, I've got to admit that staying in Kirkwall is foolhardy. Between the [[EvilSorcerer blood mages]], the [[KnightTemplar fascist]] [[AntiMagicalFaction templars]], the [[RageBreakingPoint enraged]] [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Qunari]] ''and'' the [[CorruptChurch Chantry]] [[ChurchMilitant fanatics]], this town is starting to make me feel wistful for the [[TheHorde Darkspawn]]. At least they never acted like their horrors were somehow justified: when they'd slit your throat, [[ForTheEvulz they did it for the sheer pleasure of watching you bleed]]. They didn't make a speech beforehand about how it was "the right thing to do."

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->At this point, though, I've got to admit that staying in Kirkwall is foolhardy. Between the [[EvilSorcerer blood mages]], the [[KnightTemplar fascist]] [[AntiMagicalFaction templars]], the [[RageBreakingPoint enraged]] [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Qunari]] ''and'' the [[CorruptChurch Chantry]] [[ChurchMilitant fanatics]], this town is starting to make me feel wistful for the [[TheHorde Darkspawn]]. At least [[AtLeastIAdmitIt they never acted like their horrors were somehow justified: justified[]]: when they'd slit your throat, [[ForTheEvulz they did it for the sheer pleasure of watching you bleed]]. They didn't make a speech beforehand about how it was "the right thing to do."
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-->--'''Website/SFDebris''' reviews ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''

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-->--'''Website/SFDebris''' -->-- '''Website/SFDebris''' reviews ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''
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->What can one say of Commorragh, the Dark City of the Eldar? It is the embodiment of anarchy and terror. It is fear, hatred and desperation incarnate. How long I was [[MadeASlave enslaved]] in that timeless city, I cannot say. There is no day or night, just [[AlwaysNight an eternal twilight]], an [[RedSkyTakeWarning ever-present ruddy glow]] that bathes all things in blood-light. The air is filled with screams and cruel laughter. [[EyeScream When they put out my eyes]], my ears alone still conveyed the omnipresent aura of dread and loathing.
-->--''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Codex - Dark Eldar (2nd ed)''
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-->-- ''Series/{{Elseworlds 2018}}''

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-->-- ''Series/{{Elseworlds ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}: Series/{{Elseworlds 2018}}''
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->'''Kara:''' I'm surprised they put [the radio station] in the bad part of town.\\
'''Barry:''' It's cute how you think there's a good part of town.\\
''[heavily armored van drives up, military guards pile out to protect a man with shopping bags]''\\
'''Kara:''' Looks like the one percenters bring the good part with them.\\
'''Oliver:''' This is why nobody talks about Gotham, okay? City might as well be dead.
-->-- ''Series/{{Elseworlds 2018}}''
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->At this point, though, I've got to admit that staying in Kirkwall is foolhardy. Between the [[EvilSorcerer blood mages]], the [[KnightTemplar fascist]] [[AntiMagicalFaction templars]], the [[RageBreakingPoint enraged]] [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Qunari]] ''and'' the [[CorruptChurch Chantry]] [[ChurchMilitant fanatics]], this town is starting to make me feel wistful for the [[TheHorde Darkspawn]]. At least they never acted like their horrors were somehow justified: when they'd slit your throat, [[ForTheEvulz they did it for the sheer pleasure of watching you bleed]]. They didn't make a speech beforehand about how it was "the right thing to do."
-->--'''Website/SFDebris''' reviews ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII''
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->'''Doc''': No, it's Hill Valley, although I can't imagine Hell being much worse.

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->'''Doc''': '''Doc''': No, it's Hill Valley, although I can't imagine Hell being much worse.
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->'''Marty''': It's like we're in Hell or something!\\
->'''Doc''': No, it's Hill Valley, although I can't imagine Hell being much worse.
-->--''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''
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->''"The great Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi once said of the Tatooine speceport, Mos Eisley, 'You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.' [[UpToEleven Apparently, Obi-Wan never visited Nar Shaddaa.]] Jutting ominously into darkened skies, the infamous 'vertical city' teems with galactic bog slime of the lowest variety."''

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->''"The great Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi once said of the Tatooine speceport, spaceport, Mos Eisley, 'You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.' [[UpToEleven Apparently, Obi-Wan never visited Nar Shaddaa.]] Jutting ominously into darkened skies, the infamous 'vertical city' teems with galactic bog slime of the lowest variety."''

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