Line #24 Quotes/RetiredMonster


1	!!Fan Fics
2	->Alas, I'm not interested in anything you have to offer me, my friend. I've had my glory days of world domination several thousand times over and I've no interest in trying to relive them. I've learned my lesson: no matter how carefully you stack the deck in your favour, it all ends in ruination and void. From now on, I'm retired. I've got my magic, a long life, a deck of cards, and a pouch of gold. [[GracefulLoser As far as I'm concerned, that's all I need]].
3	-->--[[spoiler: '''Roquat the Red''']], ''Fanfic/TheLandOfWhatMightHaveBeen''
4
5	!!{{Film}}s - Live-Action
6
7	->"I quit because I'd had a bellyful of killing. But then, I'd rather be a killer than a victim."
8	-->-- '''Deckard''', ''Film/BladeRunner''
9
10	!!{{Literature}}
11	->''When it was over, I submitted my resignation. At first my superiors, humans all, could not decide whether to accept it and let my fellow "natives" kill me once I no longer had the protection of the Imperial Army, or to refuse it and execute me for treason for having made the request in the first place. I recall I did not much care. They let me go. I vanished. Neither my Imperial superiors, nor the family or friends left behind who lusted for my horns, ever saw me or my music collection again.''
12	-->--'''Kardue'sai'Malloc, TheButcher of Montellian Serat,''' ''[[Literature/TalesFromTheMosEisleyCantina Empire Blues: The Devaronian's Tale]]''
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14	!!LiveActionTV
15	->"It would be so much simpler if I was just one thing, wouldn't it? The mad scientist who made that killing machine, or the physician who's dedicated his life to serving this town. The fact that I'm both bewilders you."
16	-->-- '''Jex''', ''Series/DoctorWho'' ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E3ATownCalledMercy "A Town Called Mercy"]])
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18	->"The times were different. I was different. The ''whole bloody world'' was different, okay? ... Killing was all I knew. Is that what you want to hear?! I killed. But I didn't just kill fifty. I didn't kill a hundred. I killed a thousand. I killed ''ten'' thousand! And I was good at it. And it wasn't for vengeance. It wasn't for greed. It was because I liked it. Cassandra was nothing. Her village was nothing. Do you know who I was? [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse I was Death! Death on a horse!]] When mothers warned their children that the monster would get them, that monster was ''me''! I was the nightmare that kept them awake at night! ''Is that what you want to hear?!'' The answer is yes. Oh yes."
19	-->-- '''Methos''', ''[[Series/{{Highlander}} Highlander: The Series]]'' ("Comes a Horseman")
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21	->"I ain't takin' your guilt money. When I was bangin', we used to clear 60 Gs a month. I seen guys shot down execution-style. I didn't give a shit. Then I got caught. Darnell was born my first year in. Never saw him once, not even a picture. I can't take back the bad I done. All I can do is to make my own way, like I been doin'. You understand. Ain't pride, Frank."
22	-->-- '''Freddy''', ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS''
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24	->'''"Karidian":''' Kodos made a decision of life and death. Some had to die that others might live. You're a man of decision, Captain. You ought to understand that.\
25	'''Kirk''': All I understand is that [[FinalSolution four thousand people were needlessly butchered.]]\
26	'''"Karidian"''': In order to save four thousand others! And if the supply ships [[MeaninglessVillainVictory hadn't come earlier than expected,]] this Kodos of yours might have gone down in history as a great hero!\
27	'''Kirk''': But he didn't. And history has made its judgment.\
28	'''"Karidian"''': If you're so sure that I'm Kodos, why not kill me now? Let bloody vengeance take its final course! And see what difference it makes to this universe of yours.
29	-->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', [[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing}} "The Conscience of the King"]]
30
31	!!{{Music}}
32	->You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to\
33	So that when they turn their backs on you,\
34	You'll get the chance to put the knife in\
35	You gotta keep one eye looking over your shoulder\
36	You know it's going to get harder,\
37	And harder, and harder as you get older\
38	And in the end you'll pack up and fly down south,\
39	Hide your head in the sand, just another sad old man,\
40	All alone and dying of cancer
41	-->-- '''Music/PinkFloyd''', "Dogs"
42
43	!!{{Tabletop Games}}
44	->''"Meier did [[NoodleIncident something terrible]] in a war he tries to forget. He did it over and over, and at the time he'd freely admit he enjoyed it. His side lost, though, and the victors, along with his own ashamed people, have hunted his fellow soldiers down one by one. Through the years since, he's heard people talk about how terrible it was, he's seen them put up monuments to the dead and the martyrs, and his desire to escape justice has become a backwards kind of guilt. His conscience tugs at him not so much for his sins, but for anything that reminds him of the man who committed them. He's gradually conflated this with his fear of capture, coming to believe that any trace of the man he was will somehow alert those who (he imagines) pursue him for his crimes. Yet he can't let go of his memories... or his [[CreepySouvenir souvenirs]].''
45	-->-- ''[[TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness Midnight Roads]]''
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47	!!{{Video Games}}
48	->''Father Armand was silent, for a long time. He glanced over at the head on a stake. "A Hunnic trophy," he said. "I think the man was a Visigoth. He died at the Battle of Catalaunian Fields. I keep it here so that I may see it every day and remember."\
49	"Remember what, Father?" I asked him.\
50	"The scent of a burning village. The sound of butchery. The way peasants would flee before the Hun riders. The way we would ride them down! The way it felt to conquer alongside Attila and the Huns!"\
51	He leaned so close I could feel his breath.\
52	"Sometimes... I miss it."''
53	-->-- ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpiresII'', epilogue to the Attila the Hun campaign
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55	->''"What do you wish to hear? That I once believed in the code of the Jedi? That I felt the call of the Sith, that perhaps, once, I held the galaxy by its throat? That for every good work that I did, I brought equal harm upon the galaxy? That perhaps what the greatest of the Sith Lords knew of evil, they learned from me?"''
56	-->-- '''Kreia''', ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords''
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58	->'''[[spoiler:Athena]]:''' There's nowhere you can hide, Spartan. Put as much distance between you and the truth as you want, it changes nothing. Pretend to be everything you are not: teacher, husband, ''father''. But there is one unavoidable truth you will never escape: ''You cannot change''. You will always be... a ''monster''.\
59	'''Kratos''': I know... but I am ''your'' monster no longer.
60	-->-- ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4''
61
62	->'''Odin''': Do they not have metaphor in your homeland? Or rather, did they? I'm sorry, that's not fair. I know you're not the god you once were. And now's your chance to prove it.\
63	'''Kratos''': Return my son. [[ImpliedDeathThreat Or you may meet the god I once was]].
64	-->--''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok''
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66	->When I took [[WretchedHive this station]] from the Turian who controlled it, I ate his heart and wore his skull on my armour. Intimidation, ritual, whatever you want to call it. I'm a very simple Krogan, and long words bother me. Now I sit in [[TheQueenpin Aria]]'s bar and drink the most expensive liquor she has.
67	-->--'''Patriarch,''' ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''
68
69	!!{{Webcomics}}
70
71	->''"Truth and beauty are wonderful words, but shrapnel is shrapnel, and at the end of the day, I am alone with what I have done."\
72	(alt text: "We buried truth under playgrounds.")''
73	-->-- ''Webcomic/ASofterWorld''
74
75	!!WebVideo
76	->'''Shuck:''' My bloodletting days are behind me.\
77	'''Ludwig:''' ''Right'' behind you.\
78	'''Shuck:''' I'm not going back. If that means being a joke to you, then fuck it. Hope you get a good long laugh out of it.
79	-->-- ''WebVideo/SatelliteCity''
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81	->'''Vegeta:''' This ship will take me where I need to go. Now I can train without ''anyone'' bothering me--\
82	(''cue ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' [[MusicalSpoiler ringtone]]'')\
83	'''Vegeta:''' ...the hell is that? A phone? (''answers the call to see a revived Nappa'')\
84	'''Nappa:''' Hey, it's me! Don't ask me how I got this number; I've got people.\
85	'''Vegeta:''' What the hell is ''going on?!''\
86	'''Nappa:''' Okay, listen; I figured out that they used the Dragon Balls to wish back ''everyone'' that was killed by Freeza's men. [[ExactWords Technically, you worked for Freeza when you killed me,]] so [[BackFromTheDead BAM! Nappa's back, baby!]] '''WOOHWOOH!'''\
87	'''Vegeta:''' What about all the ones ''you'' killed?\
88	'''Nappa:''' Well, technically I worked for you. But that has ''changed.'' I'm in Hollywood, now!\
89	'''Vegeta:''' What, are they doing a live adaptation of Mr. Clean?\
90	'''Nappa:''' '''Ha!''' That's hilarious! Find me the guy who writes your material and give me his number, [[AdaptationExpansion because I'm a producer now!]]\
91	'''Vegeta:''' Of course you are; what do you even ''do?''\
92	'''Nappa:''' Actually, I'm in charge of this new project; wrote it myself! [[BasedOnATrueStory It's about this one guy who's killed tragically by his best friend, but then comes back as a ghost and haunts him!]] I call it [[Film/CitizenKane "Citizen Nappa"]]. Merchandising rights alone are gonna make a [[SoundEffectBleep f**king]] mint! We just signed on this great new actor, too - name's [[CallForward Mark Satan]]. Need to work on the first name, thinking "Hercule". Whaddya think?\
93	'''Vegeta:''' I--\
94	'''Nappa:''' What do I care, you're not on my Board!\
95	'''Vegeta:''' But I--\
96	'''Nappa:''' Listen, I'll see you around. And when you're back on Earth, give me a call. We'll do lunch! Ciao! (''hangs up'')\
97	'''Vegeta:''' (''stands there, exasperated'') [[CharacterCatchphrase ...God...damn it...Nappa...]]
98	-->-- ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''
99
100	->'''Chaotzu''': I blew myself up trying to kill Vegeta's dumbass friend. Now he's out there making movies or some shit.
101	-->-- ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''
102
103	!!Western Animation
104	->''Heh. In olden days, I would've rewarded your insolence with death a thousand-fold.''
105	-->-- '''[[spoiler:Extinct World's Lich]]''', ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTimeFionnaAndCake''

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