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1->'''Flagg:''' [Your last meal] was laced with explosive nanites. Any escape attempt and, well, you're going to look kinda funny trying to run away with no head.\
2'''Deadshot:''' That's a lot of trouble to go to just to keep little old me around. What do you want, exactly?\
3'''Flagg:''' You're going to do something patriotic, ''convict''.
4-->-- ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'', "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E4TaskForceX Task Force X]]"
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6-> ''Your potential usefulness was marginally greater than the threat you present.''
7-->-- '''Emiri Kimidori''' to [[spoiler:Ryoko Asakura]], ''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya The Astonishment of Haruhi Suzumiya (First Part)]]''
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9->''"Well, I'm a convict in a siege tank I ride."''
10-->-- '''Music/Level80EliteTaurenChieftain''', "Terran Up the Night"
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12->'''Michael Newman:''' So, first I'm arrested, right? [[ClandestineChemist Best LSD I ever made]] right down the drain. I figure this is it, man, twenty years in the can if I'm lucky. That was 1968... Next thing I know, I'm on [[HellholePrison Rikers Island]]. You ever been there, man? Well, suddenly they take me from my cell, okay, they throw me in a waiting room with, like, bank teller windows: four army colonels with medals up their asses are standing on the other side. They say to me, if I come to Vietnam for two years -- no action, mind you, just work in a lab -- they'll drop all the charges and wipe the record clean. I'd only been in jail for like thirteen hours, [[TemptingFate I thought 'Nam couldn't be any worse]].\
13'''[[ShellShockedVeteran Jacob Singer]]:''' [[WarIsHell Shows how little you knew]].\
14'''Michael Newman:''' Yeah, really. But they had me by the balls. Next thing I know, I'm in Saigon, and [[ReluctantMadScientist I'm working in a top-secret lab]], [[PlayingWithSyringes isolating mind-altering drugs]]...
15-->-- ''Film/JacobsLadder''
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17->'''Shan-Pier:''' What are you doing [[HellholePrison here]], anyway? Come to gloat, eyeing the victims of your miscarriages of justice?\
18'''Judge Vanderloo:''' That is always amusing. No, I want to make you a proposal. I heal you, [[FountainOfYouth make you thirty years old again, or twenty if you insist]].\
19'''Shan-Pier:''' Cut the crap. I am worn out. Each and every bone is crumbling. [[IncurableCoughOfDeath You heard me coughing]]. My alveoli are just pockets stuffed with grit.\
20'''Judge Vanderloo:''' Our healers have grown so much more clever in recent years. They can reset the clock in your cells. White hair grows grey, then lack as pitch. Your bones re-knit themselves, wrinkles smooth out... if you pay them enough.\
21'''Shan-Pier:''' What should I do? Blow up the High Lords Seventeen in their council chamber?\
22'''Judge Vanderloo:''' No, nothing treasonable this time. Just the opposite. You get the chance to [[OffingTheOffspring set things right]] again. Become a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive respectable citizen]] of our [[MegaCorp great community]] again...
23-->-- ''With Musket and Ducat'', by Creator/TaisTeng
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25->'''Aloth:''' <Do not fear me, little ''aristh.'' I am no danger to you. My crime was that I had no use for hypocrisy.>\
26'''Ax:''' <Hypocrisy is not illegal.>\
27'''Aloth:''' <Not all hypocrisy. If it were, what would we do for leaders? They would all be in jail. Now me, [[OrganTheft I was caught selling organs]]. Off the battlefield. [[RobbingTheDead They are of no use to the dead]], right? Why should someone not make use of them? And why should I not receive something for my trouble? Yes, you see, Aristh Aximili, I am not a hero of the people. But at least I am not a coward.>\
28'''Ax:''' <Are you saying I am?>\
29'''Aloth:''' <You? No, I meant [[AcePilot Gonrod]]. He was in the same prison as me, though he faced a lesser sentence. His crime was [[DirtyCoward cowardice under fire]]. We were offered the promise of pardon if we successfully completed this mission.>
30-->-- ''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #38: The Arrival''
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32->'''Lister:''' So what do you want with me?\
33'''Kazwa:''' The planet is finished. The new "[[PoweredByAForsakenChild innocent]]" [[GodOfHumanOrigin gestalt]] is complete. We need to test that it is safe. We want you to volunteer to be one of the first to set foot on the planet. We have already sent one ship: it did not return. You will be a member of the second ship. Or, [[SadisticChoice if you prefer]], you can return to [[MindPrison Cyberhell]].
34-->-- ''Literature/RedDwarf: Last Human''
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36->''"We've got quite a lot of counts on you. Do this job right, and we'll drop all charges against you."''
37-->-- '''Captain Hubert Galeforce''' to Henry Stickmin, ''[[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Infiltrating the Airship]]''
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39->''There was a lad in Glesga town, Ramensky was his name,\
40Johnny didnae know it then but he was set for fame.\
41He did a wee bit job or two, he blew them open wide,\
42But they caught him and they tried him\
43And they bunged him right inside.\
44\
45But when the war was raging the brass-hats had a plan;\
46Tae purloin some information, but they couldnae find a man.\
47So they nobbled John in prison, asked if he would take a chance,\
48Then they dropped him in a parachute beyond the coast of France.\
49\
50And when the war was over, they shook him by the hand,\
51For stealing secret documents frae the German High Command.\
52So Johnny was rewarded for the job he did sae well;\
53They granted him a pardon frae the prison and the cell.''
54-->-- "Let Ramensky Go", ballad composed by Roddy [=McMillan=] about the real-life figure Johnny Ramensky
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56->''Gun Three of the Redguns, the Balam Group's AC squad.\
57A born con artist, no scheme was too underhanded for Wu Huahai during his days as a criminal mastermind, and exploitation of others was a byword for opportunity. However, his illicit Feng Shui Pharmacy operation was a fatal overstep, imperiling the health of Balam's economic sphere and leading to widespread disease.\
58It was Nile, now the deputy commander of the Redguns, who ultimately shut Wu Huahai down.''
59-->-- '''G3 Wu Huahai's''' Arena profile, ''VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon''
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61->''"We were dock rats and cutpurses, dragged from the six-oak floors of Boston Harbor public houses...and pressed into service, under a mad rogue for whom murder was a pleasure."''
62--> -- '''John Fletcher''', ''Film/TheSudburyDevil''

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