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3->''"Power is a hollow glory; [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter no matter how strong I might become, there will always be someone stronger]]. [...] But at the very least I'd like to die more powerful than the Disciples of Avan. Even with [[TheMentor Avan]] dead by my hands, his students became more and more dangerous. I merely killed Avan; I never managed to defeat him. I can't bear to die still losing to him."''
4-->-- '''Hadlar''', ''Manga/DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai''
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6->''"Blame this on the misfortune of your birth. [...] You were a good friend, but your father's to blame."''
7-->-- '''Char Aznable''', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam''
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9->''"Listen Oden, to me all of these people in this country are sinners who persecuted the Kurozumi family!! They can all die for all I care! I claimed the seat of Shogun for the sake of destroying this country. For the sake of revenge! Long ago, my grandfather committed a crime and was sentenced to seppuku. If our family were to simply fall from grace, then that would have been fine. However, all the remaining relatives were hunted down by self-proclaimed allies of justice out of nowhere. They were beaten or thrown into rivers or outright killed! Those fools scared me so much I could not even sleep! Even when the person responsible for the committing the sin was already dead! If someone bore the Kurozumi name, even a brat would become a sinner!"''
10-->--'''Kurozumi Orochi''', ''Manga/OnePiece''
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14->'''Bruce Wayne:''' He died trying to do what was right.
15->'''Kai Li Cain:''' He died because he thought he owed the world for whatever insanity his dad--
16->'''Bruce Wayne:''' [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Oliver]] believed the sins of the father--
17->'''Kai Li Cain:''' Are heaped upon the son. Yeah, I know what verse. But don't forget Ezekiel 18. "The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son."
18-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDoomThatCameToGotham''
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21[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
22->''"I am [[spoiler:N'Jadaka, son of Prince N'Jobu]]! I found my daddy with panther claws in his chest! You ain't the son of a king, you're the son of a murderer!"''
23-->-- '''Erik Killmonger''', ''Film/BlackPanther2018''
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25->''"You will [[KneelBeforeZod bow down before me]], Jor-El! Both you and then one day - your heirs!"''
26-->-- '''General Zod''', ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''
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30->''"It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our stead."''
31-->-- ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''
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33->''"You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I the LORD your God am an impassioned God, visiting the guilt of the parents upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generations of those who reject Me"''
34-->-- '''[[Literature/BookOfExodus Exodus 20:5]]''', ''Literature/TheBible''
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36->''"There is no escape--we pay for the violence of our ancestors."''
37-->-- From "'''Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib'''" by the Princess Irulan, ''Literature/{{Dune}}''
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39->''"Someone dying isn't enough for revenge. They have to suffer. Don't you get it? And you can't suffer when you're dead. But I found someone who could suffer. Do you want to know who? The murderer's daughter, that's who."''
40-->-- '''Yana Savari''', ''Literature/{{Fingerprints}}''
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42->“It doesn’t matter, because family is everything, Fran—family is all that we have in this world, and that means that family’s sins are ours to carry, just as surely as family’s blessings are ours to enjoy. My family killed these people in cold blood for the crime of being different, and I will repay our debt to them before our son is born. He deserves a world with less blood on its hands.”
43-->-- '''Jonathan Healy''', ''Literature/InCryptid'', "We Both Go Down Together"
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45->'''Sarah:''' The cuckoos came from another dimension and orchestrated the functional extinction of at least one of the species that actually evolved on Earth.\
46'''Mark:''' Yes. We did.\
47'''Sarah:''' And you have ''got'' to stop putting it that way. This isn't some human church, accusing everyone who walks through the door of bearing the burden of original sin. ''We'' didn't do anything. ''You'' didn't do anything, even if you got the [[GhostMemory ancestral memories]] to tell you you did. You may remember it, but you weren't there. You didn't make the choices that led us here. You didn't hold the guns. ''I'' didn't do anything. I was raised to think intelligent life is valuable and deserves to be protected, and that means all intelligent life, even the lives I don't like very much. We weren't there. Whatever our ancestors did isn't on us. Only what we do of our own free will.
48-->--''Literature/InCryptid'', ''Calculated Risks''
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52->'''Hera:''' Come now, Hercules. Did you think I would tolerate my husband's infidelity lightly?\
53'''Young Hercules:''' That's between you and Zeus.\
54'''Hera:''' No! ''You're'' between us! But if you die a horrible death, maybe he'll think twice next time before his eyes start to wander, before he fathers any more half-mortal mongrels like you.
55-->-- ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', "Medea Culpa"
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59->By this time, Joe Senior was dead, but Milliner continued to take great pleasure in destroying the man's [[TheClan legacy]]. Look at the facts: [[UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy JFK]] and [[UsefulNotes/RobertFKennedy Robert Kennedy]] assassinated, Teddy's [[TrappedInASinkingCar Chappaquiddick debacle]] with Mary Jo Kopechne, David Kennedy's drug overdose, William Kennedy-Smith's rape case, Michael's ludicrous skiing mishap - even JFK Junior's recent "accidental" plane crash. Of course, there is [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident absolutely no evidence]] tying Francis Milliner or his family to any of these mishaps, but the old man does have a shelf prominently displaying [[CreepySouvenir six skulls]] in his study on the Milliner estate, the last of which was placed there on July 16, 1999, only hours after JFK Junior's plane was reported overdue at Martha's Vineyard.
60-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Giovanni (Revised)''
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62->''"The sins of the father, they say.\
63Maybe. Maybe not. But we were always different. My brothers and I, we were never truly kin with the others -- the Angels, the Wolves, the Ravens...\
64Perhaps our difference was our father's sin, and perhaps it was his triumph. I am not empowered by anyone to cast a critical eye over the history of the VIII Legion.\
65These words stick with me, though. ''The sins of the father''. These words have shaped my life. The sins of my father echo throughout eternity as heresy. Yet the sins of my father's father are worshiped as the first acts of godhood. I do not ask myself if this is fair. ''Nothing'' is fair. The word is a myth. I do not care what is fair, and what is right, and what's unfair and wrong. These concepts do not exist outside the skulls of those who waste their life in contemplation.\
66I ask myself, night after night, if I deserve vengeance.\
67I devote each beat of my heart to tearing down everything I once raised. Remember this, remember it always: my blade and bolter helped forge the Imperium. I and those like me -- we hold greater rights than any to destroy mankind's sickened empire, for it was our blood, our bones, and our sweat that built it.\
68Look to your shining champions now. The Astartes that scour the dark places of your galaxy. The hordes of fragile mortals enslaved to the Imperial Guard and shackled in service to the Throne of Lies. Not a soul among them was even born when my brothers and I built this empire.\
69Do I deserve vengeance? Let me tell you something about vengeance, little scion of the Imperium. My brothers and I swore to our dying father that we would atone for the great sins of the past. We would bleed the unworthy empire that we had built, and cleanse the stars of the False Emperor's taint.\
70This is not mere vengeance. This is redemption.\
71My right to destroy is greater than your right to live.\
72Remember that, when we come for you."''
73-->-- ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000: Shadow Knight, Dark Path''
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77->'''Creature:''' William, will you play with me?\
78'''William:''' Who are you, sir? Do you know me?\
79'''Creature:''' I know too well your wretched family!
80-->--'''Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}: A New Musical''', ''Why''
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84->''"Atonement for the wretches... Lay the curse of blood upon them, and their children, and their children's children, forevermore. Each wretched birth will plunge each child into a lifetime of misery."''
85-->-- '''The Fishing Hamlet Priest''', ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''
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87->''"Please, bring to an end the horror. So our forefathers sinned? We hunters cannot bear their weight forever. It isn’t fair, it just isn’t fair..."''
88-->-- [[spoiler:'''Simon the Harrowed''']], ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''
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90->''Curse the fiends, their children too... and their children, forever true.''
91-->--'''Female Narrator''' (implied to be Lady Maria), ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}: The Old Hunters'' trailer
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93->''"Why do I gotta take the heat for my father?"''
94-->-- '''Dante''', ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening''
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96->''"Look, I don't know what happened to the Couslands, but from what I hear, it was horrible. The entire war was. But what my father did shouldn't harm my entire family."''
97-->-- '''Nathaniel Howe''' to the [[PlayerCharacter Human Noble Warden]], ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening''
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99->''"Child of my enemy, why have you come? I offer no forgiveness, a father's sins, passed to his son."''
100-->--'''The Gravemind''', ''VideoGame/Halo3''
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102->''"When do we get to stop reacting to our parents and start living for ourselves?"''
103-->-- '''Tali'Zorah''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''
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105->''...And then what do you think my '''Rat-stink Twin Brother''' did? He built one '''too, that's what!''' [[ImmortalitySeeker I'm no closer to beating him than I was a]] '''[[ImmortalitySeeker hundred years ago!]]''' And what's worse, your '''Lummox of a Grandfather''' didn't even build it right. This infernal thing is a '''[[TheAllegedCar Lemon]]!''' I've barely cheated death out of a Half-Century with this pile of junk, and it's already breaking down! The way I see it, he was '''your''' Grandfather! And you're on '''my''' payroll! '''FIX IT!'''''
106-->-- '''Blutarch Mann to [[Characters/TeamFortress2TheEngineer Dell Conagher]]''', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''
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110->'''Santa Claus:''' Piccolo. You tried to subjugate the entire planet.\
111'''Piccolo''': Pft. Sins of the father much?
112-->--''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', "Plan to Eradicate Christmas"
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116->'''Richie:''' Why ''should'' I go back? He hates me! He disses everything I like! And what he said about you, well, that was the final straw. Man, ''you'' should be madder than me!\
117'''Virgil:''' Yeah, it hurt. But he's your dad. You need to work this out with him.\
118'''Richie:''' Not after what happened this time. He made me lose my best friend over this mess.\
119'''Virgil:''' Come on. How could I blame ''you'' for what your father said? You and me, we've been though too much together to let this get in the way. We're ''always'' gonna be aces, no matter what.\
120'''Richie:''' For real?\
121'''Virgil:''' Realer than real.
122-->--''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', "Sons of the Fathers"
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124->'''Demona:''' Can you forgive the humans for what they did to our kind?\
125'''Goliath:''' The ones responsible for that have been dead for a thousand years.\
126'''Demona:''' Then their descendants shall pay! I will have blood for blood!
127-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', "Awakening"
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