Line #14 Quotes/VillainDecay


1	->''"Yes, Ali's destined to be another flunky\
2	A sad fate not even saved by the [[BeardOfEvil goatee]]\
3	His rivalries are all gone\
4	He's just an Innovade pawn\
5	And all his screentime is [[OutOfFocus brief little clips]]\
6	And he's just Evil Amuro's bitch\
7	And his fights are shortened, his character thwarted\
8	Killed by Lyle Dylandy\
9	Farewell, ''ex''-Prince Aaaaa-LIIIIIII!!!!!"''
10	-->-- ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'' song parody, to the tune of "Prince Ali (reprise)" from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''
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14	[[folder:Literature]]
15	->'''Skulduggery:''' ...So we'll be fine.\
16	'''Stephanie:''' You sure about that? Vampires are fast.\
17	'''Skulduggery:''' Vampires are overrated.\
18	'''Stephanie:''' You once called them the most efficient killing machines on the planet.\
19	'''Skulduggery:''' Ah, they're not so tough.
20	-->-- ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant''
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23	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
24	->"You're not the 'BigBad' anymore. You're not even the 'Kind Of Naughty'."
25	-->--'''Xander''' to Spike, ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
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28	[[folder:Magazines]]
29	->'''Messy:''' You may have beaten us this time! And you may have beaten us last time!\
30	'''Lame:''' And you'll beat us next time! And the time after that! And the five times... um, what was our point again?!
31	-->-- ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries "Hokéycon"]]''
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34	[[folder:Video Games]]
35	->''"The times turn Jack the Lad into a pitiful figure. The local horror story - [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight the one children have long been taught to fear]] - must now accept that [[MakeWayForTheNewVillains he is not the only terror in town]], and certainly not the greatest."''
36	-->-- '''The Dragon''', commenting on an in-universe example of this trope, ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld.''
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38	->''"Imbeciles! [[YouFool Fools!]] Nincompoops! [[SurroundedByIdiots Can't you idiots do anything right?!]] According to this, your track-record for spreading evil is pathetic!"''
39	-->-- '''Uka Uka''' to [[RoguesGallery the other adversaries]] of VideoGame/CrashBandicoot, ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootTheWrathOfCortex''
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42	[[folder:Webcomics]]
43	->''"Wotch! You've foiled my plans for the last time! You've turned my own minions against me, but who needs them! Plan #340 will spell my triumph!"''
44	-->--'''ElseWorld!Xaos''', ''Webcomic/TheWotch''
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46	->''"See, I've fought you guys enough, you're basically not level bosses anymore. It's like a videogame!"''
47	-->--'''[[Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja Dr. McNinja]]''', after flawlessly beating one of his oldest foes
48	[[/folder]]
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50	[[folder:Web Original]]
51	->''"I see a Nine Inch Nails video. I see an NBC Mystery Movie of the Week. I see a video game politicians decry in order to win voters. I see Dante being ripped off for the umpteenth time in the course of history. But most of all... I see that you haven't achieved anything the humans haven't already thought of before. You and the other Dark Generals have been at this for so long that it stopped being original centuries ago."''
52	-->--'''Dark General Cobalt''', ''Literature/SailorNothing''
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54	->''[[ComicBook/XMen Arcade's as much a victim of [Villain Decay] as anyone else.]] When he's introduced, it's as an assassin who commands a million dollars per kill, and that's in 1978 dollars. So when he consistently fails to do so, even with assurances that Murderworld is killing enough people off-panel to keep him financially solvent, he does lose a little something. The story that we're told doesn't match up with the story we're actually reading. It's one of the reasons that, as much as I love the character, I'm actually perfectly fine when he doesn't show up all that often. If a villain is a constant presence, then he's usually a constant loser. They need to recharge to keep that illusion of being a threat.''
55	-->--'''Chris Sims''', ''[[https://comicsalliance.com/ask-chris-111-arcade-and-why-success-doesnt-make-a-villain-credible/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral Ask Chris #111: Arcade and Why Success Doesn’t Make a Villain Credible]]''
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57	->'''Maleficent:''' I am back, baby!\
58	'''Pete:''' So Maleficent, what are we gonna do this game?\
59	'''Maleficent:''' Absolutely nothing!
60	-->--''[[WebVideo/KingdomHeartsInANutshell Kingdom Hearts 2 in a nutshell]]''
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66	[[folder:Western Animation]]
67	->''Blah, blah, blah, every year it’s the same thing! All talk and no play! What a bunch of dull villains!''
68	-->--'''Iago''' to the Disney Villains, ''WesternAnimation/MickeysHouseOfVillains''
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70	->"You got kicked out of here for being a headstrong rebel, and now you're such a whiny little bitch."
71	-->--'''God''' to Satan, ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', "Probably"
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73	->'''Henchman:''' Hey! There's a review ... of you!\
74	'''Devil:''' Whazzat? Ooh gimme! "Once in a rare while, a figure commands our respect, summons our fear, and effortlessly tempts us into unhinged depravity." Did you hear that, Henchman? Unhinged depravity! "For a millennia, it was clear without debate who that figure was. After a recent string of... humiliating setbacks however, it has become blatantly apparent that The Devil is... LOSING HIS TOUCH!? A silly caricature of his once powerful self... [[PassingTheTorch Time to pass the walking stick onto the next contender...!?]]" '''[[BerserkButton IT'S A PITCHFORK!]]'''
75	-->--''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'', "The Devil's Pitchfork"
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79	[[folder:Real Life]]
80	->"... [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]] was an ''absence'' of character. And yet all the sequels are [[FreudianExcuse trying to explain that]]. That’s silliness — it just misses the whole point of [[Film/{{Halloween 1978}} the first movie]], to me. He’s [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane part person, part supernatural force]]. The sequels rooted around in motivation. I thought that was a mistake."
81	-->--'''Creator/JohnCarpenter'''
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83	->"Everything has an end. I felt that K wasn’t getting a fair shake anyway. It’s not that fun to just play a villain, [[StupidEvil without any reasoning]] behind it. I wanted more indepth ideas about the character and it never came. It kind of stopped being fun to play."
84	-->--'''Nicholas Lea''' on [[Series/TheXFiles Alex Krycek's]] death
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