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1->''"Of course she is. I've been at this Super Hero game long enough to know that [[LampshadeHanging the hot chicks always turn evil.]] Probably because [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin evil pays better.]]"''
2-->--'''Spider-Man''' on [[spoiler: Black Widow]] working for [[BigBad Dr. Doom]], ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance''
3
4->Hear the drum pounding out of time\
5Another protester has crossed the line (Hey!)\
6To find, the money's on the other side...
7-->--'''Music/GreenDay''', ''Holiday''
8
9->Evil is just so much more profitable than good, [[EvilFeelsGood and more fun]].
10-->--'''Warp Darkmatter''', ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand: The Adventure Begins''
11
12->"How come the bad guys make all the money?"
13-->--''VideoGame/GabrielKnight''
14
15-> '''[[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Harry Tasker]]:''' Now why are you helping these raving psychotics?\
16'''Juno Skinnner:''' Because they're very well-funded raving psychotics.
17-->-- ''Film/TrueLies''
18
19->'''[[ReformedCriminal Weaver]]''': It’s the same, being a villain. I went there, I did that for a few months. Risked my life, hurt people, made an incredible amount of money, but I look back, and it wasn’t worth it. I value the people I got to know and love far more than I do the money, the power, the fame. They’re the only thing I regret leaving behind.\
20'''Small Child''': How much money?\
21'''Renard''': You're missing the point.\
22'''Weaver''': Fifteen or twenty million.\
23'''Renard''': Shhh''(Changes words)''-ugar.
24-->--''Literature/{{Worm}}'', [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/06/01/drone-23-4 Drone 23.4]]
25
26->'''Film/JamesBond:''' You live well, Scaramanga.\
27'''Francisco Scaramanga:''' At a million dollars a contract, I can afford to, Mr. Bond. You work for peanuts, a hearty 'well done' from Her Majesty the Queen, and a pittance of a pension. Apart from that, we are the same.
28-->-- ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''
29
30->"Who are you talking to right now? Who is it you think you see? Do you know how much I make a year? I mean, even if I told you, you wouldn't believe it. Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work? A business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly up. Disappears! It ceases to exist without me."
31-->-- '''Walter White''', ''Series/BreakingBad''
32
33->'''Jimmy''': I don't know how things work south of the border, but here, under these circumstances, it's uh... Well, that's a long shot.\
34'''Lalo''': ''¿Quieres ser amigo de cartel?''\
35'''Jimmy''': I'm sorry. I don't...\
36'''Lalo''': You wanna be a friend of the cartel? Time to get yourself a new motto: "Just Make Money."
37-->-- ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS5E7JMM JMM]]
38
39->''"I exclusively recruit psychopaths because they practice what I call "moral relativism" and I practice what some would call "an organ harvesting operation", which personally I find to be a very offensive and bigoted term to describe non-consensual organ arbitrage, why do I do it? Because it's very profitable."''
40-->-- '''WebVideo/{{Ssethtzeentach}}''' on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdAjXDDQPJ0 his colony]] in ''VideoGame/RimWorld''
41
42->...there is real power to be had in turning to the darker side of knowledge and action. If there were no earthly benefit in damnation, after all, Hell would not be so very crowded.
43-->'''''TabletopGame/StarsWithoutNumber: Darkness Visible'''''
44
45->'''Kabal''': I thought about joining the police once...\
46'''Franchise/RoboCop''': What kept you off the straight and narrow?\
47'''Kabal''': Straight and narrow ''doesn't pay shit.''
48-->-- ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11''
49
50->'''Nino Brown''': You must like slumming, Kareem. [laughs] Now, what would make a high-class guy like you leave a good computer job at the bank come all the way uptown by gypsy cab to work among a den of thieves?\
51'''Kareem''': I'm no dummy. It's basic common sense and arithmetic. The difference between them paying me $800 a week and you paying me $8,000 a week.
52-->-- ''Film/NewJackCity''

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