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3->''"I'm thinking of stepping out, Carol. This new age seems to be an age for killers -- [[ComicBook/ThePunisher the Punisher]], ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, [[Characters/CaptainAmericaHeroes U.S. Agent]]. I've only killed one person in recent times. Flag-Smasher manipulated me into it. I didn't like it. I'm not a killer anymore."''
4-->-- '''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica''', ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires''
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8->''After a long absence, the original [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] returned to his own magazine, only to discover that comics in the nineties were very different to [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks what he remembered]]. But Thor quickly fit right in by going violently insane.\
91993 was the year Franchise/{{Superman}} [[ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman died]] and ComicBook/{{Venom}} got [[ComicBook/VenomLethalProtector his own series]]. Just keep that in mind.''
10-->-- Both quotes from ''Marvel Year in Review 1993''
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14->''"These characters are Mary Sues in the truest sense of the word: a fixed point in their fictional universe around which the entire narrative spins. They are complete and total assholes to everyone around them and tolerated solely because they are the DesignatedHero for the narrative. These power fantasies have no redeeming qualities other than the fact that they win all the time because the writer will accept no other outcome. Characters like these are responsible for the idea that anti-heroes are better than regular heroes because they don't have any of their 'qualms' or 'morals' and the idea that you can get a lot more done if you just don't care about dumb things like 'principles' or 'other people'. People who like these characters are also usually the people who think Franchise/{{Batman}}'s job would be a lot easier if he just used guns or that it doesn't make any sense for Franchise/{{Superman}} to not just use his godlike strength to murder all of his enemies."''
15-->-- '''Red''', ''WebAnimation/OverlySarcasticProductions'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpABx1NOIX0 Trope Talk: Anti-Heroes]]"
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17->''"It seems that Creator/{{Ubisoft}} decided that {{emo}} culture was 'in', so they went around the office one morning and fired everyone who was smiling. The Prince was suddenly staring out from under a black [[Music/{{The Cure|Band}} Robert Smith]] fringe and growling angry threats at supercilious badass action girls showing off [[ChainmailBikini more flesh than a surgeon's convention]]."''
18-->-- ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' on ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'', ''Franchise/PrinceOfPersia'' Retrospective
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20->''"But we're here to talk about a specific type of antihero. You know the one: the cool one. Brooding, dark, alone, antiheroes are way cooler than normal heroes because they posses a special power that marketers desperately seek: edginess! Being edgy is the secret to making a good character, at least I think it is? It must be given how everyone keeps going on about it."''
21-->-- ''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice'' -- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoxRr07drJU ANTIHEROES]]"
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25->'''''ALL GRIMACING ALL THE TIME.'''''
26-->-- '''[=ProgressiveBoink=].com'''
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28->''"Yeah! Doesn’t that make you want to go out and read a ''million'' Kaine comics right now? I mean what could be more interesting than scowling on a rooftop and then slapping around all of the interesting characters before offhandedly killing the bad guy? I'm sure at the time Marvel wrote the issues they were dreaming of a Kaine ongoing series and Kaine underoos and Kaine video games."''
29-->-- ''Blog/ToplessRobot'', [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2008/11/the_13_dumbest_spiderman_storiesjust_from_the_clon.php "The 13 Dumbest Spider-Man Stories...]] Just From ComicBook/TheCloneSaga"
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31->''"It has been said of ComicBook/{{Cable}} that no gun has been found to be too big for him. A fitting summary of his character."''
32-->-- '''[[http://comicsalliance.com/cable-comics-marvel-history/ Curt Franklin]]''', "Comics, Everybody!: A History of Cable"
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34->''"...Maverick, who threatens to replace [[ComicBook/XFactor Shatterstar]], Cable and [[FadSuper ADAM X THE X-TREME]] as the most '90s dude of all time. Maverick! Those others may have more legitimate claims to the throne, but between the cybernetic leg armor, the crotch harness, the bee-pattern mask that lets his hair flow free, a gun so improbable that two banana clips feed into a single rectangular lazer barrel and [[RememberTheNewGuy ties to Wolverine's Mysterious Past™]], I'm shocked that he didn't just [[RetGone wink out of existence]] on January 1, 2000."''
35-->-- '''Chris Sims''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/bizarro-back-issues-omega-red-and-his-mutant-death-factor/ on]] Jim Lee's ''ComicBook/XMen''
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37->''"Instead of serving as the deliciously targeted critique of fascist superheroics that it was, Rorschach got adopted as [[MisaimedFandom the iconic and default form]] of comic book vigilante for, basically, the next twenty years. The only major developments in the Rorschach concept were basically to add guns and robot arms."''
38-->-- '''[[http://projectnes.blogspot.com/2011/01/walter-pretending-dirty-harry.html Dr. El Sandifer]]''' on ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''
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40->''"''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E1AttackOfTheCybermen Attack of the Cybermen]]'' ends with the distinct impression that Lytton is the true hero of the piece and the Doctor is a narrow-minded fool who made little or no difference in the grand scheme of things. It feels like [[ArmedWithCanon a total rejection]] of the optimistic ethos of ''Doctor Who''."''
41-->-- '''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2013/04/12/doctor-who-resurrection-of-the-daleks-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks}} "Resurrection of the Daleks"]]
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43->''"Despite being the antagonists in the {{Wrestling/WCW}} vs. [[Wrestling/NewWorldOrder nWo]] story, they still carried themselves like anti-heroes; too cool for school bad*sses with a lot of swagger. ''[...]'' [I]t also made fundamental changes to the business and cut the heels (no pun intended) out from under other bad guys [[ShooOutTheClowns whose traditional tactics no longer held the same weight]], as well as [[GoodIsImpotent doing detrimental damage to the babyfaces]] who were opposing them."''
44-->-- '''[[http://whatculture.com/wwe/10-reasons-everyone-hated-kevin-nash-in-wcw.php/ Brad Hamilton]]''', "10 Reasons Why Everyone Hated Wrestling/KevinNash in WCW"
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46->'''Teenage reaction''': Once I got him, [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Vincent]] never left my party. Ever. He's like [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Shadow]], [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Magus]], and [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] all rolled up into one! So cool!\
47'''Twentysomething reaction''': Oh my god would you please just put a ''sock'' in it already.
48-->-- '''Pat R.''', [[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff07 "This Game Are Sick"]]
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50->''This is yet another example of people interpreting stoic and tortured with bored to tears. The normally fired up [[Creator/AntonioBanderas [Antonio] Banderas]] is hunched over with a sleepy glaze over his eyes and he droooooonnnnnes out his lines like he drank [=NyQuil=] and stuffed his mouth with cotton balls before his shots. [[Creator/LucyLiu [Lucy] Liu]] similarly just walks around [[KubrickStare with a deadpan stare]] and gives a rare three word response to someone like "[[IllKillYou I’ll kill you]]" or "[[Film/RoadHouse1989 Pain don’t hurt]]".''
51-->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/ballistic-exks-vs-sever-2002-kaos/ on]] ''Film/BallisticEcksVsSever''
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53->''"I smolder with generic rage."''
54-->--'''[[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin The Prince]]''', ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/12/03/ "On Discomfort"]]
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58->'''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee]]''': Creator/ThreeDRealms of ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' "fame" released a new trailer for a new game they're making called ''{{VideoGame/Bombshell}}''... It looked like a character by someone with a game design degree to show that they're doing some work; their ''first'' piece of concept art.\
59'''Gabriel''': A fifteen year-old who just watched ''Film/TankGirl''.\
60'''Yahtzee''': ''[struggling not to laugh]'' A lady in a bikini top with a punk hairstyle, and ''a cyborg arm''. We have gone nowhere, 3D Realms, have we?\
61'''Gabriel''': We've ''regressed!''
62-->-- ''LetsPlay/LetsDrownOut'' ''Alien³'' (SNES)
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64->'''Natalie Stack''': The Fixer is a gentle soul, but when he gets riled, well, he's been known to hurt people.\
65'''Linkara''': Oh, yeah, he's as calm and gentle as ''a frickin' old lady bakin' cookies!'' I especially noticed that about him when he was shooting people in the head and kicking them off buildings.
66-->-- ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'', review of ''ComicBook/HolyTerror''
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70->''"At the time, when I was doing ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', somewhere in my head I got this vainglorious notion that ''Watchmen'' would be the absolute [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructionist]] last word on the superhero... which was completely stupid and a completely misplaced hope. What you really got afterwards was a kind of more pretentious superhero comics, often with a lot more nasty, gratuitous violence."''
71-->--'''Creator/AlanMoore'''
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73->''"That's a character that Creator/MarkWaid invented that was really just put to me, like, 'come up with [[StylisticSuck the most God awful,]] Creator/RobLiefeld [[StylisticSuck sort of design that you can]]'... the scars, the thing going on with his eye, the arm, and what's with all the guns?"''
74-->-- '''Creator/AlexRoss''' on creating [[ComicBook/KingdomCome Magog]]
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