Line #42 Quotes/MultipleChoicePast


1	!!The Joker
2	->''I mean, what is it with [[Franchise/{{Batman}} you?]] What made you what you are? [[DeathByOriginStory Girlfriend killed by the mob, maybe? Brother carved up by some mugger?]] Something like that, I bet... something like that. Something like that... happened to me, you know. I'm -- not exactly sure what it was. If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice!''
3	-->-- '''ComicBook/TheJoker''', ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke''
4
5	->''Okay, so there's this [[ComicBook/TheKillingJoke comic who can't make an audience laugh]]... I ''think'' that's how this one goes, I forget sometimes... oh, you've heard that one? All right. Ah, I can't keep 'em straight. How about the one where a [[Film/Batman1989 mob killer named Napier]] comes to Gotham and - no, wait, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids you're too young for that one]]. I know. This one ''always'' works. So a small-time yutz in a Red Hood walks into a factory, right? He's there to steal the payroll...''
6	-->-- '''ComicBook/TheJoker''', ''[[https://static.politifact.com/politifact/photos/jokerop2.jpg The Origin of The Joker]]''
7
8	->'''The Joker:''' ''[describing his origin]'' ...and it was all ''his'' fault.\
9	'''Hugo Strange:''' Whose fault? Batman's?\
10	'''The Joker:''' Who else?\
11	'''Hugo Strange:''' Yours.\
12	'''The Joker:''' Come again??\
13	'''Hugo Strange:''' Let me tell you what ''I'' believe. I believe that you have fabricated a series of events that you use to conceal the truth about your condition. I have read twelve different accounts of your past. All different, except for one detail: Batman.\
14	'''The Joker:''' What can I say? I like to keep things interesting. [[Creator/AlanMoore A wise man]] once told me that if you have to have an origin story, you're better off making it multiple choice.
15	-->-- ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''
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17	->''"I prefer not to think of [[CallBack it as multiple choice]]... it's more like Literature/ChooseYourOwnAdventure."''
18	-->--'''ComicBook/TheJoker''', ''Batman #039 (ComicBook/New52)''.
19
20	->''But before he became the Clown Prince of Crime, who was he? A thief who accidentally got his pregnant wife killed? A mob boss who stabbed Batman's girlfriend? A petty thug in the wrong place at the wrong time? Nobody knows for sure, not even the Joker himself.''
21	-->-- '''Boomstick''' on '''the Joker''', ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle''[[note]][[LampshadeHanging Noticing a trend yet?]][[/note]]
22
23	->'''Dr. Young''': Wait, how did you get access to a phone?\
24	'''[[ComicBook The Joker]]''': Oh, yes, sorry, Doc, had to split. I hate small, confined spaces; reminds me of my childhood.\
25	'''Dr. Young''': Another lie?\
26	'''The Joker''': Who knows? I certainly don't, but let's not get distracted with details.
27	-->--''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum''
28
29	->'''Franchise/{{Batman}}:''' You're a fool. The Joker doesn't love anything except maybe himself. Face reality, Harleen--Joker had you pegged for ''hired help'' the minute you walked into Arkham.\
30	'''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn:''' That's not... No. [[BigNo NO!]] H-He told me things, secret things he never told anyone...\
31	'''Batman:''' What did he tell you, Harley? [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Was it the line about the]] [[AbusiveParents abusive father]], or the one about the [[TheAlcoholic alcoholic mom]]? Of course, the [[ParentalAbandonment runaway orphan]] story is particularly moving, too. He's gained a lot of [[SympathyForTheDevil sympathy]] with that one.\
32	'''Harley Quinn:''' [[BigShutUp Stop it!!]] You're making me ''confused!''\
33	'''Batman:''' What was it he told that one parole officer? Oh, yes... "[[IronicEcho There was only one time I ever saw dad really happy. He took me to the ice show when I was seven...]]"\
34	'''Harley Quinn:''' Circus. He said it was the circus.\
35	'''Batman:''' He's got a million of them Harley. Like any other comedian, he uses whatever material will work.
36	-->-- ''ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures: Mad Love''
37
38	->'''Jacqui Briggs''': Just who are you under the makeup?\
39	'''The Joker''': That's the million dollar question, dearie.\
40	'''Jacqui Briggs''': How about I shoot it off and we'll see?
41	-->--''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'' intro dialogue
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43	!!Other Quotes
44	->'''Colette:''' Horst has done time.\
45	'''Linguini:''' What for?\
46	'''Colette:''' No one know for sure. He changes the story every time you ask him.\
47	'''Horst:''' [in a series of flashbacks]\
48	I defrauded a major corporation.\
49	I robbed the second-largest bank in France using only a ballpoint pen.\
50	I created a hole in the ozone over Avignon.\
51	I killed a man... with THIS thumb!
52	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''
53
54	->''I took a look at my thoughts, my appearance, my expressions, my mannerisms and idiosyncracies and didn't like them. So I stripped myself down, chucked things out and replaced them with a completely new personality. When I heard someone say something intelligent, I used it later as if it were my own. When I saw a quality in someone that I liked, I took it. I still do that.''
55	-->-- '''[[Music/DavidBowie The Thin White Duke]]'''
56
57	->''And that's how Equestria was made!... Maybe on the way home, I can tell you the story of how I got my cutie mark. It's a gem!''
58	-->-- '''Pinkie Pie''' after trying to tell the story of how she got her cutie mark, ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E23TheCutieMarkChronicles The Cutie-Mark Chronicles]]"
59
60	->In order to prevent knowledge of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-001 SCP-001]] from being leaked, several/no false SCP-001 files have been created alongside the true file/files.
61	-->-- ''Website/SCPFoundation''
62
63	->'''J.D:''' NO! No more! Here are some of the lies you've told us over the last five years: You went to Harvard. You have a wife who only has a pointer and "thumb-pinky". You have a, a "brother-dad", a "mother-sister"? You have two kids, no, wait, you have one kid, no, you had a baby with a Chinese local! You're a deaf mute! Oh, wait, now you're telling us that you're a world-class hurdler and you slept with the beautiful and ''irreplaceable'' Amy Carter?\
64	'''Janitor:''' I-I didn't sleep with Amy Carter. We did everything ''but''.\
65	'''J.D:''' (''groans'')\
66	'''Janitor:''' [[CryingWolf And I really was a world-class hurdler.]]
67	-->-- ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''
68
69	->'''Bashir:''' You know, I still have a lot of questions to ask you about the past.\
70	'''Garak:''' I've given you all the answers I'm capable of.\
71	'''Bashir:''' You've given me answers, alright, but they were all different. What I want to know is, out of all the stories you've told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?\
72	'''Garak:''' My dear Doctor, they're all true.\
73	'''Bashir:''' Even the lies?\
74	'''Garak:''' ''[[EspeciallyZoidberg Especially]]'' [[EspeciallyZoidberg the lies]].
75	-->-- ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "The Wire"
76
77	->'''Missy:''' The whole city is a machine to turn people into Cybermen. What do you think? Exciting, isn't it? Watching the Cybermen getting started?\
78	'''Doctor:''' They always get started. They happen everywhere there's people. Mondas, Telos, Earth, Planet 14, Marinus. Like sewage, smartphones [[TakeThat and Donald Trump]], some things are just inevitable.
79	-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Doctor Falls"
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81	->What war did [[RetiredMonster Meier]] serve in, anyway? Straighten his back, slick back his hair and it would be easy to imagine him as a [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi officer]], ordering the murder of concentration camp victims by the dozen. More likely, he was a [[PropagandaMachine lowly propaganda artist]], spending long nights over an easel to ensure that the Jews looked as foul and monstrous as possible while the brave Aryan lads stood tall and noble. Alternatively, his crimes might have been a little closer to home for small-town America: perhaps he was a soldier in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] who served as accomplice at a massacre like My Lai. Or a gang executioner, working for TheMafia or cocaine traffickers. In the [[CrapsackWorld World of Darkness]], Meier may have served [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold in a war no one ever heard of]]. Was he the [[TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem ghoul of a vampire]], a blood-junkie murdering innocents across the decades to avenge the pride of one of the Damned? Maybe he was a [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening sorcerer's apprentice]], performing kidnappings and torture to further a feud between two cabals of the mysterious Pentacle. Finally, it might have been a war everyone's heard of, and one long before the atrocities of the 20th century: maybe he fought in the American Revolution, or UsefulNotes/ThePeloponnesianWar. Perhaps Meier was once a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent creature of glorious light and bloody hands]], an angel who rebelled against his master -- or served too well...\
82	Today, though, he's just an old man. He wants to be left alone, [[TheUnfettered and he'll do anything to make sure of it]].
83	-->-- ''Midnight Roads, TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness''
84
85	->''"Everything you think you know about me was a lie told by me to confuse someone, or conjecture from someone who'd be in no position to know. So yeah, maybe I'm a [[Anime/TransformersArmada fragment of Unicron]], because maybe Planet X used to BE Unicron. And maybe I'm [[Anime/TransformersArmada his avatar made manifest]] and untethered once he [[Anime/TransformersCybertron collapsed into a giant singularity]]. And maybe I'm from the Cybertronian Empire.[[note]]"Ask Vector Prime" gives a connection between Planet X and the Cybertronian Empire. Assuming you take Ask Vector Prime as canon at all.[[/note]] [[TheMerch And maybe]] [[FlavorText I'm just]] an [[Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise ordinary Autobot who went crazy]] from [[Anime/TransformersArmada Powerlinxing to the wrong Mini-Cons]]. Maybe I'm [[MultipleChoicePast all of those things, or none.]] And you know what the best part is? [[RiddleForTheAges You'll. Never. Know.]]"''
86	-->--'''Sideways,''' a ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' villain who appears in multiple continuities as maybe-the-same-guy-or-not, explains his ContinuitySnarl
87
88	-> '''Terry:''' I loved you in ''Series/FamilyMatters''. Carl Winslow made me want to become a cop.\
89	'''Jake:''' [[LampshadeHanging Come on, Terry, you already have like six other reasons you became a cop.]] This is not your moment. ''[To Reginald [=VelJohnson=]]'' For the record, this is the first time I've even heard him mention ''Family Matters''.
90	-->--''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', "Bachelor/ette Party"
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92	->'''Henry''': Yeah. I killed my mama. One night. It was my 14th birthday. She was drunk, and we had an argument. She hit me with a whiskey bottle. I shot her. I shot her dead.\
93	'''Becky''': I thought you said you stabbed her.\
94	'''Henry''': Oh yeah, that's right, I stabbed her.
95	-->--''Film/HenryPortraitOfASerialKiller''
96
97	->'''Young Alice:''' '''''ARE YOU OUTTA YOUR MIND!!??'''''\
98	'''Young Bill:''' There was a rock and I was tryin' to --\
99	'''Young Alice:''' Do you know how '''badly''' you could've been hurt!?!?! ''(presenting her prosthetic leg)'' How do you think I '''''lost my leg!!??!!'''''\
100	'''Young Bill:''' [[LampshadeHanging I don't know, the story keeps changing!!]]

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