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| 2 | |
| 3 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 4 | ->''"Just looking at you pisses me off, 'cause I'm the same as you! I'm not human. I never was! I'm a goddamn Life Fiber monster!"'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''[[spoiler:Ryuko Matoi]]''' to '''[[LivingWeapon Senketsu]]''', ''Anime/KillLaKill'' |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ->''You'll watch young aspiring adventurers -- those with new porcelain ranks -- who will think "I chased away a goblin that came to my village once. They're weak, easy to deal with." These rookies won't realize that the goblin they proudly chased away was likely an injured wanderer whose horde has been destroyed. Still, this gives the young adventurer false confidence. Meanwhile, goblins that survive an attack gain experience. They become wanderers and grow stronger. Eventually, the wanderers become bodyguards, or leaders of new nests.\ |
| 8 | In a way, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters I am, in turn, a monster to]] '''[[HeWhoFightsMonsters them]]'''.'' |
| 9 | -->-- ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'' |
| 10 | |
| 11 | ->''"I'm fine with being called a devil. I'll just have to use all my tools to get you to listen!"'' |
| 12 | -->--'''Nanoha Takamachi''', ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' |
| 13 | |
| 14 | ->''"After he was resurrected, Christ still had holes from the nails pounded into his hands. Not me."'' [hands heal instantly] ''"I am not a god; I am the Devil."'' |
| 15 | -->-- '''Kyosuke''', ''Anime/TheSoulTaker'' |
| 16 | |
| 17 | ->'''Ling Xiaoyu:''' Jin! Don't let hatred turn you into a monster!\ |
| 18 | '''Jin Kazama:''' But I am a monster. It's all that's left. |
| 19 | -->-- ''Anime/TekkenBloodVengeance'' |
| 20 | [[/folder]] |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 23 | ->''"You must think me a monstrous man. And you would be correct. I do not ask to be remembered for my triumphs, [[TerrorHero only for the bloodshed I leave behind]]. Someday I will pay for what I have done, or perhaps this is my purgatory."'' |
| 24 | -->-- '''Cyril Sutherland''', ''Fanfic/TheGoodHunter'', [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/monster-girl-encyclopedia-hammer-edition.628111/page-121?post=66552038#post-66552038 "Testimony of the Wandering Scholar"]] |
| 25 | |
| 26 | ->'''Claudia:''' And so you would become a [[HeWhoFightsMonsters monster]] in order to win this war?\ |
| 27 | '''Kyril:''' I ''am'' a monster, Lady Claudia, in case you haven't noticed. |
| 28 | -->-- ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'' |
| 29 | [[/folder]] |
| 30 | |
| 31 | [[folder:Films — Animation]] |
| 32 | ->''"I'm just fooling myself. She'll never see me as anything more but a monster. It's hopeless."'' |
| 33 | -->--'''The Beast''', ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast '' |
| 34 | |
| 35 | ->''"Marty, stay back. Please. I'm a monster."'' |
| 36 | -->--'''Alex''', ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar1'' |
| 37 | [[/folder]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 40 | ->''"You see, I'm not a monster. [[HumansAreBastards I'm just ahead of the curve.]]"'' |
| 41 | -->-- '''The Joker''', ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' |
| 42 | |
| 43 | ->''"I'm a monster inside and out. I belong in the fucking circus."'' |
| 44 | -->-- '''[[ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} Wade Wilson]]''', ''Film/Deadpool2016'' |
| 45 | |
| 46 | ->''"Now if anyone's thinking: ''Why those [[IComeInPeace poor, helpless little folk]], all naked and unarmed outside their crashed intergalatica winnebago. What kind of monster, could hear that heartbreak and [[WeComeInPeaceShootToKill go in just the same]]?'' I'm that dog! I'm that monster! [[AlienInvasion These little mothers are as harmless as a fox in a henhouse!]] And I'm here to kick some ass!"'' |
| 47 | -->-- '''Colonel Curtis''', ''Film/{{Dreamcatcher}}'' |
| 48 | |
| 49 | ->''"YOU DID THIS TO ME! YOU BENE GESSERIT MADE ME A '''FREAK!"''''' |
| 50 | -->-- '''Paul Atreides''', ''Film/Dune2021'' |
| 51 | |
| 52 | ->''"I'm saying I'm an insect...who dreamt he was a man...and loved it. But now the dream is over...and the insect is awake. I'm saying...I'll hurt you if you stay."'' |
| 53 | -->-- '''Seth Brundle''', ''Film/TheFly1986'' |
| 54 | |
| 55 | ->'''Kylo Ren:''' You have that look in your eyes, from [[Film/TheForceAwakens the forest.]] When you called me a monster.\ |
| 56 | '''Rey:''' You ''are'' a monster.\ |
| 57 | '''Kylo Ren:''' ...Yes, I am. |
| 58 | -->--''Film/TheLastJedi'' |
| 59 | |
| 60 | ->'''Loki:''' You could have told me what I was from the ''beginning'', why didn't you?!\ |
| 61 | '''Odin:''' You're my son. I wanted only to protect you from the truth.\ |
| 62 | '''Loki:''' What, because I... I... I am the monster parents tell their children about at night? |
| 63 | -->-- ''Film/{{Thor}}'' |
| 64 | [[/folder]] |
| 65 | |
| 66 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 67 | ->'''Dust:''' Funny little goddess slumming it with the rest of us.\ |
| 68 | '''Ryn:''' I am a monster. That is the start and the end of what I am. |
| 69 | -->-- ''Literature/TheOneWhoEatsMonsters'' |
| 70 | [[/folder]] |
| 71 | |
| 72 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 73 | ->''"I'M A'' '''''MOOOOOONSTEEERR!!!'''''" |
| 74 | -->-- '''Buster''', ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' |
| 75 | |
| 76 | ->''"We're monsters, Liv. We eat '''people'''."'' |
| 77 | -->-- '''Lowell''', ''Series/IZombie'' |
| 78 | |
| 79 | ->'''Darth Vader''': Anakin is gone...I am what remains...\ |
| 80 | '''Obi-Wan''': I'm sorry...I'm sorry, Anakin...for all of it...\ |
| 81 | '''Darth Vader''': ...I am not your failure, Obi-Wan...You didn't kill Anakin Skywalker...'''''[[ThatManIsDead I did.]]''''' |
| 82 | -->--''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' |
| 83 | |
| 84 | ->'''Reese:''' Only one way to deal with guys like this, [[DomesticAbuse guys who hide who they really are until they get home]].\ |
| 85 | '''Finch:''' What will you do, Mr Reese?\ |
| 86 | '''Reese:''' Show 'em what a real monster looks like. |
| 87 | -->-- ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', "Many Happy Returns" |
| 88 | |
| 89 | ->'''[[UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill Churchill]]:''' Have they told you terrible things, your colleagues downstairs? Go on, be candid! |
| 90 | ->'''Venetia:''' It is said...you ''can'' be difficult. |
| 91 | ->'''Churchill:''' I can be a monster; did they say that? |
| 92 | ->'''Venetia:''' Yes, sir. |
| 93 | ->'''Churchill:''' It's true. But you need to be a monster to defeat Hitler! |
| 94 | -->-- ''Series/TheCrown2016'', "Hyde Park Corner" |
| 95 | |
| 96 | ->''"I escaped from the petri dish... WHAT AM I!?"'' |
| 97 | -->-- '''Russell Howard''', ''Series/MockTheWeek'', "Unlikely Things to Hear on a Science Documentary" |
| 98 | |
| 99 | [[/folder]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 102 | ->''"I feel it deep within, it's just beneath the skin.\ |
| 103 | I must confess that I feel like a monster."'' |
| 104 | -->--''"Monster"'' by '''Music/{{Skillet}}''' |
| 105 | [[/folder]] |
| 106 | |
| 107 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 108 | ->''"[[IDidWhatIHadToDo A beast I am]], lest a Beast I become."'' |
| 109 | -->-- ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' |
| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 113 | ->''"Just look at me! I'm neither fully human nor fully robot! '''I'm a monster.''' [[EvilFeelsGood You will never understand what this feels like.]] But Dr. Tenma told me if I defeat you... I will able to see past my own sorrow... [[UltimateLifeForm and become something never seen before, the ultimate evolution.]] So you see why I must use you to overcome my cursed fate. '''[[TheCaligula I shall become the ruler of this world!]]''' [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Here I come!!]]"'' |
| 114 | -->-- '''Atlas''', ''VideoGame/AstroBoyOmegaFactor'' |
| 115 | |
| 116 | ->''"I'm a devil. I love the people of the grove, but I unsettle them deep down."'' |
| 117 | -->-- '''Wyll''' (if Mizora turns him into a part-devil for sparing Karlach), ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' |
| 118 | |
| 119 | ->'''[[spoiler:Mind Flayer!Player Character]]''': I am a monster.\ |
| 120 | '''[[TokenEvilTeammate Minthara]]''': So am I, my love. Let us be monsters together… |
| 121 | -->-- ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'' |
| 122 | |
| 123 | ->''"There is no me, there is no you! There is only the never ending spit and bile of combat! [[BreakingTheFourthWall The twenty-four hour murder spree of shining metal! I drink the blood and eat the loot and breathe the numbers]], because '''I AM A MONSTER! NOW AND FOREVER!'''"'' |
| 124 | -->-- '''Krieg the Psycho''', ''Videogame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' |
| 125 | |
| 126 | ->''"I... I... I was just so... I was so lonely! I'm sorry! I'm sorry for everything!! [[GetOut You need to go.]] You're right... I am a monster. GO!!!"'' |
| 127 | -->-- '''Ren Hana''', ''VisualNovel/BoyfriendToDeath 2: Fresh Blood'' ("You ran from Ren" ending) |
| 128 | |
| 129 | ->''"YOU HUMANS MADE US! '''NOW SUFFER FOR YOUR ARROGANCE!!''''' |
| 130 | -->-- '''Super Mutant''', ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' |
| 131 | |
| 132 | ->''"I'M A '''MONSTER''', AND I DESERVE TO DIE!"'' |
| 133 | -->-- '''Clive Rosfield''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI'' |
| 134 | |
| 135 | ->''"Monsters... When I served in [[AntiMagicalFaction the Iron Kingdom]], [[MadeASlave I did so because I saw no other choice.]] Because once they learned that the lash would not move me, [[IHaveYourWife they turned it on those who could]]...and so, I became a puppet. I let them pull the strings, telling myself [[NeverMyFault it was not my hand that swung the sword, but another's.]] I removed myself from the truth so I wouldn't feel the pain it caused...[[EmotionSuppression and before I knew it, I no longer felt anything. Anything at all.]] I...had become a monster."'' |
| 136 | -->-- '''Jill Warrick''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI'' |
| 137 | |
| 138 | ->'''Randolph''': I have a family waiting for me... Please. I can't die here.\ |
| 139 | '''Dimitri''': A beast of your depravity, prattling on about family? How amusing...\ |
| 140 | '''Randolph''': As though you could understand...such a thing as love...[[YouMonster you heartless monster]]!\ |
| 141 | '''Dimitri''': You are a monster, too, General. You have just yet to realize it. A monster who thinks he's a man...despicable. As a general, you must have killed countless souls without a shred of mercy. Do you still remember the sound of them begging, just as you're begging now? Or now that your life is at its end, will you hold to the lie that your hands are not stained red with blood?\ |
| 142 | '''Randolph''': This...this is war! [[IDidWhatIHadToDo I did what I had to]] for the empire! For the people! For my family!\ |
| 143 | '''Dimitri''': So, you are piling corpses for the ''people'' and for your ''family''. And I am doing the same for the salvation of the dead... After all is said and done, [[NotSoDifferentRemark we are both murderers. Both stained. Both]] ''monsters''. |
| 144 | -->-- ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' |
| 145 | |
| 146 | ->'''[[spoiler:Athena]]''': You cannot change. You will always be... a monster.\ |
| 147 | '''Kratos:''' (lowly) I know... [[ShutUpHannibal ...But I am your monster no longer.]] |
| 148 | -->--''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'' |
| 149 | |
| 150 | ->''"He was just a man afraid for his life, attacked and swallowed by a monster he had no hope of defeating. But the hydra was just an animal. [[IHatePastMe I showed him what a true monster looked like]]."'' |
| 151 | -->--'''Kratos''' reminisces about killing the Boat Captain, ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'', ''[[DownloadableContent Valhalla]]'' |
| 152 | |
| 153 | ->''"My family. It does not want a mons... [[LastSecondWordSwap an 'Anomaly']]. [...] I did not want to be a mons... an 'Anomaly', so I tried to act 'normal', to 'normalize' myself."'' |
| 154 | -->--'''Alice Kurosawa''', ''Les Quatre Alices'' |
| 155 | |
| 156 | ->'''Kazuhira Miller''': Cipher sent us to hell...but we're going even deeper.\ |
| 157 | '''Venom Snake''': I know... I'm already a demon. Heaven's not my kind of place, anyway. |
| 158 | -->-- ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' |
| 159 | |
| 160 | ->''You're right. I'm not like you. I am a demon who rules this world!'' |
| 161 | -->-- '''Shadow Kamoshida''', ''VideoGame/Persona5'' |
| 162 | |
| 163 | ->''"I AM... I AM A MONSTER''\ |
| 164 | ''COACH"'' |
| 165 | -->-- '''Silver''', ''VideoGame/PokemonVietnameseCrystal'' |
| 166 | |
| 167 | ->''"If I was ever to see her again, y'know what I'd say? I'd say...I'm sorry. Sincerely. I'm sorry I was bossy...and monstrous...and...I am genuinely sorry. The end."'' |
| 168 | -->-- [[spoiler:'''Wheatley''']], ''VideoGame/Portal2'' |
| 169 | |
| 170 | ->''I miss him every day. Every moment. They turned me into a monster, Arthur...but my memories of him...they's still pure.'' |
| 171 | -->-- '''Sadie Adler''', ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'' |
| 172 | |
| 173 | ->''"I am Shadow the Hedgehog. A research experiment... gone deadly wrong! I've caused so much destruction... I should never have been created... This is who I am..."'' |
| 174 | -->-- ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' |
| 175 | |
| 176 | ->"And the truth, [Calypso] said, was that the [[DemonicPossession demon…]] wasn't… real! The [[HearingVoices voice inside me]] was a figment of my imagination! My god… it was all… in my mind! The "exorcism"? It wasn't an exorcism at all! It was simply a ''baptism!'' It was judgment day in that church, and I was the ''ANGEL OF DEATH!'' The [[AwfulTruth truth]] has been delivered indeed! But not by god, but by Calypso! He was right! I was, as they say… insane. My whole life, I was trying to silence that voice. I even performed rituals to show my loyalty to God in Hope that He would save me! [[DespairEventHorizon But nothing worked…]] [[EnemyWithin A man cannot hide from himself]]. ''[[ImGoingToHellForThis There is only one path before me...]] ([[DrivenToSuicide Drops himself off the ledge of a building]])'' |
| 177 | -->--'''Preacher Jedidiah''', ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal: Black'' |
| 178 | [[/folder]] |
| 179 | |
| 180 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 181 | ->"Before coming to Chaldea, I had always assumed that when push came to shove, I'd be a hypocrite, unable to follow through with what I believed... But now? Now I ''know'' that I'm the kind of monster who could follow through with such a cruel and unjust act." |
| 182 | -->-- '''Rikku''', ''Webcomic/FateGamersOnly'' |
| 183 | |
| 184 | ->'''Admiral Emm:''' You're a monster. You know that, right?\ |
| 185 | '''Kowalski:''' [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore I never get tired of being called that.]] |
| 186 | -->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2014-05-25 May 25, 2014]] |
| 187 | |
| 188 | ->'''[[PortManteau Mako]] ([[BodySurf Kowalski-in-Mathilde]]):''' ''Captain'' Sorlie, sir: if I ''hadn't'' been installed in Libretti's head, [[FalseFlagOperation she would have been brain-hacked with the rest of the J.S.C. and she'd be a "meat-puppet" today]]. [[PetTheDog Kowalski sent Libretti's husband and son out of town to protect them]]. If ''that'' hadn't happened [[EvenEvilHasStandards they'd probably be dead at puppet-Libretti's hands right now]]. Oh, and you'd probably all be dead, too, since I'm the one who alerted you to the whole plot.\ |
| 189 | '''[[TheIdealist Sorlie]]:''' The end doesn't justify the means.\ |
| 190 | '''Mako:''' It ''[[NecessarilyEvil necessitates]]'' the means, [[KarmicNod but it can't ever redeem people like me from the means we've employed. Not even if we save the world.]]\ |
| 191 | '''Sorlie:''' You've had this argument before.\ |
| 192 | '''Mako:''' In another body. I'm a real monster, Sorlie. |
| 193 | -->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-01-21 January 21, 2015]] |
| 194 | |
| 195 | ->'''Kathryn:''' What I can't figure out is how our enemy can turn a division of troops into an ace in the hole. Eventually the U.N.S. Regulars arrive. Game over, we win.\ |
| 196 | '''Mako''': You're a fine strategist, but you're not monstrous enough. The army we can't find? It can overrun the garrison under the city, and then [[GoingCritical sabotage the annie plant]]. [[DestroyTheEvidence All of the evidence dies]], [[LeaveNoSurvivors along with a city of four billion]], in a searing cloud of evaporating neutronium.\ |
| 197 | '''Murtaugh:''' You're a monster.\ |
| 198 | '''Mako:''' [[IronicEcho I never get tired of being told that.]] |
| 199 | -->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-02-11 February 11, 2015]] |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 203 | ->(looking at her sink reflection) ''"You are not normal... You... are a... MONSTER!"'' |
| 204 | -->-- '''Princess Monster Wife''', ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', "[[Recap/AdventureTimeS4E9PrincessMonsterWife Princess Monster Wife]]" |
| 205 | |
| 206 | ->''"My own mother thought I was a monster...She was right, of course, but it still hurt."'' |
| 207 | -->-- '''Princess Azula''', ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' |
| 208 | |
| 209 | ->''"You wanna know why this room was locked up? This is what I found in here. A painted record of every horrible thing that my family's ever done. Lying, cheating, and then there's me. I lied to you just because I'm too scared to talk back to my '''stupid''' parents! You were right about me. I ''am'' just another link in the world's worst chain."'' |
| 210 | -->-- '''Pacifica''' confiding to '''Dipper''', ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' |
| 211 | |
| 212 | ->''"[[TeachHerAnger Iron Will's not a monster, he's a MINOTAUR!!]] (''beat'') '''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I'm]]''' [[JerkassRealization the monster...]]"'' |
| 213 | -->-- '''Fluttershy''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E19PuttingYourHoofDown Putting Your Hoof Down]]" |
| 214 | |
| 215 | ->'''Jumba:''' 626, is that you? Why are you so upset?\ |
| 216 | '''Stitch:''' Stitch, monster! |
| 217 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheOriginOfStitch'' |
| 218 | |
| 219 | ->'''Steven:''' Pearl? Was Amethyst really made here?\ |
| 220 | '''Pearl:''' How much did you tell him?\ |
| 221 | '''Amethyst:''' What? You mean about the bad thing? How this bad place is where bad Gems came to grow more bad Gems? Is that what you're talking about?\ |
| 222 | '''Steven:''' They grew other Gems here?!\ |
| 223 | '''Pearl:''' Amethyst! He's not ready!\ |
| 224 | '''Amethyst:''' Oh, but don't worry, Steven. Everything's just fine now.\ |
| 225 | '''Pearl:''' Amethyst--\ |
| 226 | '''Amethyst:''' It all worked out! ''We won!''\ |
| 227 | '''Pearl:''' Stop!\ |
| 228 | '''Amethyst:''' And we shut this place down so the Earth would be safe from parasites '''like me!'''\ |
| 229 | '''Pearl:''' Amethyst! That's enough!\ |
| 230 | '''Steven:''' Pearl?\ |
| 231 | '''Pearl:''' Steven, I'm sorry. I never wanted you to see this horrible place.\ |
| 232 | '''Amethyst:''' Then why don't you just ''leave?!'' Admit it! I'm just an embarrassment to you! |
| 233 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "On The Run" |
| 234 | |
| 235 | ->''"How messed up is that? That I've gotten away with this for so long? You have no idea how bad I am! You think I'm so great and I'm so mature and I always know what to do, but that's not true! I haven't learned a thing from my problems. They've all just made me worse! You think of me as some angel but I'm not that kid anymore! I'm a fraud... I'm a fraud... I'M A MONSTER!"'' |
| 236 | -->--'''Steven Universe''', ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'', "Everything's Fine" |
| 237 | |
| 238 | ->''"That thing, that beast. It came from inside me."'' |
| 239 | -->-- '''Beast Boy''', ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', "The Beast Within" |
| 240 | |
| 241 | ->'''Val Cooper''': [[YouMonster You're a monster]], Bastion.\ |
| 242 | '''Bastion''': I was born this way. |
| 243 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/XMen97'', "Tolerance is Extinction - Pt. 1" |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:Other]] |
| 247 | ->''"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."'' |
| 248 | -->-- '''Creator/SamuelJohnson''' |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
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