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4->"Megatron seems to change forms like a race-bot changes tires, but [[SlowlySlippingIntoEvil with every re-scan he only grows more twisted and evil]]. There was a time Megatron [[NobleDemon actually seemed to care about the Decepticons under his command]], but now all he cares about is power."
5-->--'''Optimus Prime''', ''Anime/TransformersArmada''
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8[[folder:Comic Books]]
9->''"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."''
10-->--'''The Joker''', ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''
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13[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
14->''At first I didn't realize\
15[[{{Greed}} I needed all this stuff]]\
16I had a little cottage\
17And that cottage was enough\
18A place where I could sit and knit\
19A place where I could sell my Thneeds\
20But now I have a little time\
21To reassess my needs\
22And I need a bigger office\
23I need a bigger chair\
24A bigger desk, a bigger staff\
25A bigger hat to wear\
26[[AmbitionIsEvil Because I'm biggering\
27I'm figuring on biggering\
28And biggering\
29Is triggering\
30More biggering]]\
31...\
32With the customers all buying\
33And the money multiplying\
34And the PR people lying\
35And the lawyers are denying\
36[[LackOfEmpathy Who cares if some things are dying]]\
37I don't want to hear your crying\
38[[EvilFeelsGood This is all so gratifying]]''
39-->--'''[[CorruptCorporateExecutive The Once-Ler]]''', ''[[CutSong Biggering]]'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax2012''
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42[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
43->"'Never get out of the boat.' Absolutely goddamn right. Unless you were goin' all the way. Kurtz got off the boat. He split from the whole fuckin' program.
44-->--'''Willard''', ''Film/ApocalypseNow''
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46->"I just realized something: I never actually ''killed'' anyone before. I mean, I dropped bombs on Baghdad, but, uh, never face to face. [[SociopathicSoldier I don't know what the big deal is,]] I really don't."
47-->--'''Deakins''', ''Film/BrokenArrow1996''
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49->"A Jedi's strength flows from the Force, but beware TheDarkSide. Anger, fear, aggression. The Dark Side of the Force are they. Easily they flow. Quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will, as it did [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil Obi-Wan's apprentice]]."
50-->--'''Yoda''', ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''
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53[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
54->''"Slippery slopes" can be ''fun!'' -- kinda like a water slide.''
55-->-- '''Larry''', ''Series/BurnNotice''
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57->'''Robby:''' The hell are you doing?!\
58'''Kenny:''' Just getting payback on the kid who thinks he can bully me and get away with it.\
59'''Robby:''' Anthony [=LaRusso=] was your bully?\
60'''Kenny:''' ''(glances at Robby)'' Not anymore. ''(then grabs Anthony on the chin)'' You hear that? Get ready for high school next year, 'cause you're gonna be in a world of pain! ''(cue SlasherSmile, then drops Anthony)''\
61'''Robby:''' Hey, this isn't how I trained you!\
62'''Kenny:''' It's Cobra Kai. No mercy.
63-->-- ''Series/CobraKai'' Season 4, Episode 10 "''[[Recap/CobraKaiS4E10TheRise The Rise]]''"
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65-> "There are laws, laws of time. And once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws, but they died! All of them ''died!'' And do you know who that leaves? ''ME!'' It's taken all these years to realise it, but the laws of time are MINE! '''''[[AGodAmI AND THEY WILL OBEY ME!]]"'''''
66-->-- '''The Tenth Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Waters of Mars"
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68->''"I am deeply concerned by what is happening here. It began when we apprehended a spy, a man who admitted his guilt and who will answer for his crime. But the hunt didn't end there. Another man, [[MauveShirt Mister Simon Tarses]], was brought to trial and it was a trial, no matter what others choose to call it. [[KangarooCourt A trial based on insinuation and innuendo. Nothing substantive offered against Mister Tarses, much less proven]]. [[FantasticRacism Mister Tarses' grandfather is Romulan, and for that reason his career now stands in ruins]]. Have we become so fearful? Have we become so cowardly that we must extinguish a man because he carries the blood of a current enemy? Admiral, let us not condemn Simon Tarses, or anyone else, because of their bloodlines, or [[WitchHunt investigate others for their innocent associations.]] I implore you, do not continue with this proceeding. End it now."''
69-->-- '''Capt. Jean-Luc Picard''', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "The Drumhead"
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72[[folder:Music]]
73->''Tell me would you kill to save a life?''\
74''Tell me would you kill to prove you're right?''\
75''Crash, crash, burn, let it all burn''
76-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51sU2-U6NtI&feature=related Hurricane]]''', ''[[Music/ThirtySecondsToMars 30 Seconds To Mars]]''
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78->''"But deep in your heart you know the guilt would drive you mad\
79And the shame would leave a permanent scar\
80'Cause you start out stealing songs and then you're robbing liquor stores\
81And sellin' crack and runnin' over school kids with your car!"''
82-->-- '''Music/WeirdAlYankovic''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGM8PT1eAvY "Don't Download This Song"]]
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87->''"First, she came for the slavers, and I did not speak out because I was not a slaver. Then she came for the slave masters who crucified a bunch of slave children, and I did not speak out. Then she killed a bunch of innocent women and children, so really, I'm the idiot, I guess! One-two progression, should have seen that coming!"''
88-->-- '''Creator/LindsayEllis''' mocking Tyrion's Evil Men speech from ''Series/GameOfThrones''
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90-> '''[[WebVideo/WoolieVersus Woolie]]:''' There's a character, Danzo, in [[Manga/{{Naruto}} the story]] who's like, he's for the Leaf, [[WellIntentionedExtremist and he does everything for the Leaf, including being a horrible piece of shit]], and he's like the scummiest you can get whilst doing it...
91-> '''[[WebVideo/PatStaresAt Pat]]:''' [[TokenEvilTeammate By being on the right team]].
92-> '''Woolie:''' Right? You will go through any atrocity... but it's like, you are on the right team, and you are going through whatever means neccesary...
93-> '''Pat:''' [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe Whatever needeth beith doneth]].
94-> '''Woolie:''' Yes, right? And they will always be able to stand and argue that "I'm doing it for the right reasons", kinda thing. And usually, there will be a moment where that character, in order to clarify because [[ViewersAreMorons the audience can't live in this uncomfortable world of ambiguity]], that character will then [[KickTheDog pick up a baby and stab it]], and then go "This was an enemy baby!"
95-> '''Pat:''' There's two ways around it. Either they go full crazy, or [[TakeAThirdOption something happens]] and they go "Oh my God, [[AllForNothing it was totally pointless, it was not worth it at all]]", and they like, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone mentally self-destruct]].
96-> '''Woolie:''' But you have to have that moment so that the audience goes, "You were on the fence, and you were clearly leaning this way from the opposite side of the fence, and now you stabbed that baby so there you go, right? [[MoralEventHorizon Now you can safely be written off as a baby-stabber]]."
97--> '''Podcast/CastleSuperBeast''' Clips: ''[[https://youtu.be/z5_uis3vYDw?t=819 Sakura & the Uchiha Dick Whiff]]''
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99->'''Hero:''' Okay, pal! You're corned now. Why don't you tell me about your sick, twisted plan?\
100'''Villain:''' I seek to fundamentally alter the violence perpetuated by our greedy system. I want to take the necessary action to end homelessness, poverty, and extreme crime. I believe a better world ''is'' possible! We will punish those who allow the poor to go hungry and we will right the wrongs of this cruel society.\
101'''Hero:''' ''(confused)'' ...That doesn't sound very bad. That actually sounds pretty good.\
102'''Villain:''' We're also going to punch a baby in the face!\
103'''Hero:''' You ''sick'' son of a bitch!\
104'''Villain:''' ''(EvilLaughter)''\
105'''Hero:''' You're going ''down'', bud!
106-->-- ''Man Carrying Thing'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLcclHNbSDo why does every villain do this]]"
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110->'''Mitani:''' [[LogicalFallacies I mean, really, when you think about it logically, what's so wrong with being gay? And as long as you're gay, what's wrong with taking a student lover half your age? And seeing your young lover mutilate himself horribly? And poisoning a priest when he finds out what you've been up to? And then horribly mutilating another young lover when he finds out about the first one?]]\
111'''Tsuzuki:''' ...I guess this would be that 'slippery slope' argument I keep hearing about.
112-->-- ''Cropped Scan Theater''
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115[[folder:Real Life]]
116->''"Fanaticism is redoubling your effort while losing sight of your goal."''
117-->-- '''George Santayana'''
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119->''"[[HeWhoFightsMonsters He who fights with monsters]] should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you."''
120-->-- '''Creator/FriedrichNietzsche''', ''Beyond Good and Evil''
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122->''"For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time."''
123-->-- '''Thomas de Quincey''', ''Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts''
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125->''"People like this focus on purity. They view consensus and incremental progress as a sort of betrayal. Purity of cause, ideological purity and the purifying effect of violence crop up whenever the mindset corrupts one cause or another. It is not an illness of any particular ideology. Self-righteous manicheanism is an inbuilt weakness, a mold that grows on lazy minds, whenever a group finds a cause."''
126-->-- '''[[http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=14361 Tim F.]]'''
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