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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
->''"[[EvilLaugh Hehehehe]]... [[LaughingMad HAHAHAHAHAHAHA]]!!! ...That's right... I am Kira... And what can you do? Kill me right here? Hear this. I'm not only Kira... but I am also... [[AGodAmI god of the new world]]! Kira has become law in the world we now live. He's the one who's maintaining order. I have become justice... The only hope for mankind. Heh... kill me? Is that really the right thing to do? Since Kira's appearance six years ago, wars have stopped, and global crime rates have been reduced by over 70%! But, it's not enough! This world is still rotten! With too many rotten people... [[NecessarilyEvil Somebody has to do this]]! And when I first got that notebook all those years ago, I knew I had to do it! No, I was the only one who could! I understood that killing people was a crime... THERE WAS NO OTHER WAY! THE WORLD HAD TO BE FIXED! A PURPOSE GIVEN TO ME! ...Only I could do it... WHO ELSE COULD HAVE DONE IT AND COME THIS FAR?! WOULD THEY HAVE KEPT GOING?! The only one... who can create a new world... is me..."''
-->-- '''Light Yagami''', ''Manga/DeathNote''

->'''A-ko:''' B-ko, it's thanks to ''you'' that I'm late again! Hasn't this gone on long enough?\\
'''B-ko:''' No! I've just started! I'm going to kill you, you... selfish creep!\\
'''A-ko:''' When will you learn? You can make all the robots you like and it won't make you feel any better! All it does is make us late for school!\\
'''B-ko:''' ''[angrily, [[TryingNotToCry with tears]]]'' Is that all you care about?? Being a "good girl"?! Charming the teachers?! Well! Naturally, it's never occurred to you that ''some'' children just aren't born with the same charm! But what do you care? You've always been the heroine, while I've always had to be [[RichBitch the girl everyone says is spoiled!]] Okay, if they say I'm the 'bad girl', [[ThenLetMeBeEvil then]] ''[[ThenLetMeBeEvil that's]]'' [[ThenLetMeBeEvil what I'm GONNA BE]]!!
-->-- ''Anime/ProjectAKo''

->'''Yami Marik:''' Don't worry, we'll face each other soon. It's something I've been waiting for since my family insisted I bear the ancient scriptures on my back...cursed to carry the secret of the Pharaoh's power until his return!\\
'''Yugi:''' The Pharaoh's secret?\\
'''Yami Marik:''' And although this duty has brought great honor to the Ishtar name, it has brought me nothing but great suffering and despair! For generations, my family has waited hopelessly for the Pharoah's return. Ha, ha, ha! '''''Except for me!''''' Serving the ancient Pharaoh is a game for fools! Giving up ''my'' life just to play servant to a 5,000-year-old king, when all along ''I'' hold the key to his great power!? I shall become the king!
-->-- ''Anime/YuGiOh''

->'''Goku:''' I'm amazed, Vegeta! These last seven years in Otherworld, I've been through the most intense training sessions, but we're still completely even. I guess this whole time, you've been pushing yourself even harder than I have!\\
'''Vegeta:''' That may be true. I've pushed myself to the edge of my limits and beyond, but you've been born with a natural talent far beyond my own. No amount of training could've closed the gap between us! I realize that now. It was made painfully obvious to me today, as I watched your [[PhlebotinumOverload fight]] with [[EvilSorcerer Babidi]]'s monster. ''[...]'' Imagine my shock to see the undeniable proof; to discover [[CantCatchUp that no matter how hard I tried, I would never be able to catch you.]] A [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warrior prince]] forever living in the shadow of a low-level clown! So that's when I secretly made up my mind...\\
'''Goku:''' You mean you... [[YouFool You fool!]] [[NotBrainwashed You deliberately let yourself fall under Babidi's spell!]]\\
'''Vegeta:''' Yes. I saw the power of Babidi's magic. At the World Martial Arts Tournament, those two henchmen he sent... [...] The people who'd seen those fighters in the previous tournament couldn't understand how they'd become so powerful. But you and I know, don't we? It was [[MagicEnhancement Babidi's magic]], and I knew that what his magic had done for those fighters, it could also do for me! I knew that if I allowed myself to fall under his control, the difference in our power would disappear! I'm quite pleased with the results. [[PowerAtAPrice Even if they do come at a price.]] I'd say the end ''more'' than justifies the means!\\
'''Goku:''' Vegeta, I don't understand. [[{{Pride}} You've never allowed anyone to help you before in your life]], why start now?! Why Babidi?!\\
'''Vegeta:''' Because I wanted him to re-awaken the evil in my heart. I wanted him to return me to the way I was '''[[ChewingTheScenery BEFOOOOOOORE!]]''' I was the perfect warrior, cold and ruthless! I lived by my strength alone, [[TheUnfettered uninhibited by foolish emotion!]] But slowly... over the years... [[BadassDecay I became one of]] ''[[HeelFaceTurn you]]'', my quest for greatness gradually giving way to this life of mediocrity. I awoke one day to find that I had settled down, formed a family... [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes I had even grown quite fond of them...]] Would you believe... I almost started to think the Earth was a nice place to live? Do you understand now, Kakarot? ''That's'' why I needed Babidi, [[VirtueIsWeakness to set me free!]] By releasing the evil in my heart, he has freed me of these petty attachments! [[EvilFeelsGood And I have to say, it feels pretty good.]]\\
'''Goku:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Do you really believe what you're saying?]]\\
''(Vegeta doesn't answer and flares up to continue fighting)''
-->-- ''Anime/DragonBallZ''

->''"[[YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe You're kidding]]. What kind of half-assed backstory is that?! Mine's ''far'' superior! I was formed from the pollution man wrought upon the earth. I am Vaccine Man! The earth is a single living organism. You filthy humans are nothing but a disease causing bacteria, eating away at her precious life force. [[KillAllHumans In order to wipe out humanity and the evil civilization built on her surface]], ''[goes OneWingedAngel]'' [[GaiasVengeance the earth, in her infinite wisdom has given birth TO ME]]! You say you do this for fun? FOR FUN!? '''How dare you confront Mother Earth's apostle [[DisappointedByTheMotive for such a mindless reason]]!''' Yet what could be expected from a [[KilledMidSentence hero]]--"''
-->-- '''Vaccine Man''' to '''Saitama''' (who has no patience for drawn out monologues), ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan''

->''"Hear me, subjects of Ymir. My name is [[spoiler:Eren Yeager]]. I'm addressing my fellow subjects of Ymir, speaking to you directly through [[spoiler:the power of the Founder]]. All the Walls on the island of Paradis have crumbled to the ground and the legions of Titans buried within have begun their march. My only goal... is to protect the lives of the people of Paradis, the island where I was born. Right now, the nations of the world are united in their desire to exterminate my people and it won't end with our island. They won't be satisfied until every last subject of Ymir is dead. I won't let them have their way. The Titans of the Walls will continue their march until every trace of life beyond our shores is trampled flat. And the people of Paradis... are all that remains of humanity."''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Eren Yeager]]''' revealing his plans to rest of the world, ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
->'''Literature/FuManchu:''' Oh, come! Let there be no violence between two members of the Manchu dynasty, Shang-Chi. Since my sources inform me that you have learned unfortunate details concerning my work, you are better served by listening.\\
'''ComicBook/ShangChi:''' I listen.\\
'''Fu Manchu:''' Good. You are well educated. Know, then, that [[EvilReactionary my initial goal was simply the restoration of China to the glory it savored at the time of my birth]], and nothing more -- until the [[RedChina Communist revolution]] and [[ArchEnemy Sir Denis Nayland Smith]] destroyed much of my power. It embittered me. I do not deny it. I was forced to rebuild [[NebulousEvilOrganisation the Si-Fan]] without Peking's backing -- a task which has cost me more than twenty years -- but I have ''succeeded!'' Now I stand alone, [[DiabolicalMastermind the emperor of an invisible, world-wide empire opposed to all recognized governments]] -- and I swear to and by the gods of Cathay that I shall destroy them this time for their mulish stupidity! [[KnightTemplar Surely now, my son, you understand the wisdom and justice of my course]].
-->-- ''Special Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} Edition'' #15, featuring ''ComicBook/MasterOfKungFu''

->'''ComicBook/{{Cable}}:''' ''Unnnhh...''\\
'''Stryfe:''' It looks as though that must ''really'' hurt. If you had talked, you would would have been put out of your misery already. Though I am glad you held your tongue. I am glad that you'll live longer...and suffer more. This entire world-- it was meant to be ''mine''. Apocalypse raised me. Prepared me. I was to be his heir. I was to inherit his kingdom. For nearly two decades I lived in his shadow. Did his bidding. Suffered his abuse and constant cruelty. Apocalypse formed me into a man capable of carrying forward his vision. His design. And yet... when the time came for him to transfer his essence to me... I was refused. He called me a clone. Claimed I was a gene-copy, an imposter. That I was nothing more than a facsimile of you... Nathan Dayspring. But in my heart of hearts, I know that he was wrong. I know I am ''not'' a clone of you. All one needs to do is look at what you've become to know the opposite is true. Yet that doesn't change the fact that you played a hand in preventing me from realizing my true potential. Ah...prehaps that's not fully the case. You ''delayed'' me. There is no preventing me. But still. Now it's time for me to repay the favor. ''[...]''\\
'''Cable:''' ''Why...?''\\
'''Stryfe:''' Because you took ''my'' world from me, Nathan. Now I'm going to take yours.
-->-- ''ComicBook/XForce2018''
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fan Works]]

->'''Adam:''' I knew you were a coward, but a traitor as well!?\\
'''Blake:''' I'm not the one who has betrayed anyone! You're the one who [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis betrayed everything we fought for!]] I fought for peace! For equality! What did you fight for!?\\
'''Adam:''' I fought for [[{{Revenge}} vengeance]]. Vengeance for all the Faunus that have been wronged throughout history! Today is a day of victory! ''[turns to Weiss]'' An even greater one, when I have the head of the Schnee heiress.
-->-- ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger'', "[[Recap/JauneArcLordOfHungerVengeance Vengeance]]"

->"Do you know how long I've waited for this? Do you know how many ''years'' I've spent working my hands to the bone in this shithole waiting for my chance? How many times I've had to stand aside and let that imbecile Talon continue to drive this ranch into the ground? And now some know-nothing brat thinks that he can come along and just take it all away from me! Did you ''really'' think—"\\
Link heard Navi sigh beside him, and he shared the sentiment. Ingo was just ranting now. Why did the crazies all feel the need to rant at him?
-->-- ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfZeldaParadiseCalling''

->''"[[spoiler:Brother]]… you've never lost anyone, have you? You've never seen anyone you care about greatly suffering because of the actions of someone else? Your life was a lot easier than mine, and I suppose I can't blame you for that, nor should I. I was always told it was the job of [[spoiler:older siblings]] to protect their [[spoiler:younger ones]] after all. However…" *extends arm, which starts glowing with Poison Jab* "When you do feel that emotion, and I do hope you never do, there is only one answer to it. You must punish the ones responsible, with no holds barred. You must make the one who hurt your loved ones feel every bit of pain they did, with extensive interest. Tokiomi betrayed Aurora in the worst way possible, he hurt her deeper than any flesh wound could. Such a man doesn't deserve to walk this earth. Such a man doesn't deserve to die peacefully. Such a man deserves to die suffocating on his own accumulated tar buildup as his veins seize up like a Saffron traffic jam!"''
-->-- '''Belladonna''', ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines''

->'''Gumi:''' [S]ometimes Players need to get erased. Players who won't contribute anything if they return to life.\\
'''Lily:''' And you think Miku won't contribute anything if she returns to life?\\
'''Gumi:''' Secret Police. [[Platform/NicoNicoDouga Hall of Legend]]. Honki wrote it. DECORATOR. Hall of Fame. Megurine wrote it. Weekender Girl. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Cosplay at every convention from here to the wake of Utau City]]. Sakine wrote it.\\
'''Lily:''' You think-\\
'''Gumi:''' ODDS&ENDS, Megurine. Electric Angel, Kagamine twins. Unhappy Refrain, Honki. Sweet Devil, Megurine. Two-Sided Lovers, Sakine. Sadistic.Music∞Factory, Kagamine twins. Clover♣Club, Sakine. Clockwork Clown, Honki. 2D Dream Fever, Kagamine twins. Romeo and Cinderella, Megurine. Close and Open, Demons and the Dead. Everyone pitched in, Hatsune provided the ''[[DoubleMeaning scat]]''.\\
Giving someone like that a chance to go back? I'd sooner burn DIVA to the ground.
-->-- ''Fanfic/TheReapingOfHatsuneMiku''

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[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
->''"As thirteenth in line in my own kingdom, I didn't stand a chance. I knew I'd have to marry into the throne somewhere. As heir, Elsa was preferable, of course. But no one was getting anywhere with her. But you, you were so desperate for love you were willing to marry me, just like that. I figured, after we married, I'd have to stage a little accident for Elsa. But then she doomed herself, and you were dumb enough to go after her. All that's left now is to kill Elsa and bring back summer."''
-->-- '''Hans''' to a dying '''Anna''', ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''

->'''Mansley:''' You know, Hogarth, we live in a strange and wondrous time: the atomic age. But there's a dark side to progress, Hogarth. Ever hear of [[UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace Sputnik]]?\\
'''Hogarth:''' Yeah, it's the first satellite in space.\\
'''Mansley:''' ''Foreign'' satellite, Hogarth, and all that it implies. [[ParanoiaFuel Even now, it orbits overhead.]] ''(gestures with spoon)'' Boop. Boop. [[ParanoiaFuel Watching us. You can't see it, but it's there.]] Much like that giant thing in the woods, we don't know what it is or what it can do. I don't feel safe, Hogarth. Do you?\\
'''Hogarth:''' What are you talking about?\\
'''Mansley:''' What am I talking about? What am I '''[[SuddenlyShouting TALKING ABOUT!?]]''' I'm talking about your [[GoshdarnitToHeck goldurn]] security, Hogarth! While you're snoozing in your little jammies, back at Washington we're wide awake and worried. Why? ''(starts backing Hogarth into a corner)'' Because everybody wants what we have, Hogarth! ''Everyone!'' You think this metal man is fun, but who ''built'' it? [[RedScare The Russians?]] [[YellowPeril The Chinese?]] [[AlienInvasion Martians?]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Canadians?]] '''I don't care!''' All I know is that ''we'' didn't build it, and that's reason enough to assume the worst and blow it to kingdom come! Now, you are going to tell me about this thing, and you're going to ''lead'' me to it, and we are going to destroy it before it destroys us!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant''

->''I like to watch them. They fill me with joy. The first time I felt it I thought I was going to die. I said to the Red Bull I must have them, I must have all of them, all there are! For nothing makes me happy but their shining and their grace. So the Red Bull caught them. Each time I see the unicorns, ''my'' unicorns, it is like that morning in the woods and I am truly young, in spite of myself!''
-->--'''King Haggard''', ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn''
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
->'''Jessep:''' You want answers?\\
'''Kaffee:''' I think I'm entitled.\\
'''Jessep:''' ''You want answers?!''\\
'''Kaffee:''' ''I want the '''truth'''!''\\
'''Jessep:''' ''You can't '''handle''' the truth!'' Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it, you? You, Lieutenant Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom! You ''weep'' for Santiago and you ''curse'' the Marines! You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know! That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives! And my existence, while grotesque, and incomprehensible to you, ''saves lives!'' You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you ''want'' me on that wall! You ''need'' me on that wall! We use words like 'Honor', 'Code', 'Loyalty!' We use these words as the backbone of a life spent ''defending'' something. You use them as a ''punchline!'' I have neither the time, nor the inclination, to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the freedom that I provide, and then ''questions'' the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said 'Thank you', and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand at post! Either way, I don't give a ''damn'' what you think you are entitled to!
-->-- ''Film/AFewGoodMen''

->'''Thanos:''' Titan was like most planets; [[OverpopulationCrisis too many mouths, not enough to go around]]. And when we faced extinction, I offered a solution.\\
'''Dr. Stephen Strange:''' Genocide?\\
'''Thanos:''' At random. Dispassionate. Fair to rich and poor alike. [[TheyCalledMeMad They called me a madman]]... and [[ApocalypseHow/Class6 what I predicted]] came to pass.\\
'''Dr. Stephen Strange:''' Congratulations, you're a prophet.\\
'''Thanos:''' I'm a survivor.\\
'''Dr. Stephen Strange:''' [[ApocalypseHow/ClassX4 Who wants to murder trillions]].\\
'''Thanos:''' With all six stones, I could simply snap my fingers; they would all cease to exist. I call that... [[CruelToBeKind mercy]].\\
'''Dr. Stephen Strange:''' [[AndThenWhat Then what?]]\\
'''Thanos:''' I finally rest, and watch the sun rise on a grateful universe. The hardest choices require the strongest will.
-->-- ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''

->''"Look around at the world... what do you see? A planet at the brink of collapse. Human beings... are disposable! But man, and symbiote -- combined. This is a new race. New species. A higher lifeform."''
-->-- '''Dr Carlton Drake''', ''Film/Venom2018''

->"''You'll learn what death is. Your country grows fat, while people all over the world starve. You stay at home, you watch our blood spilled on television. War is just video games. You take sides in conflicts you know nothing about. Dictating to other people how they should live. You're so keen on playing God. Well, now's your chance to meet him.''"
-->-- '''Dragan Adjanic''', ''Bad Company'' (2002)

->'''Fredo:''' I didn't know it was gonna be a hit, Mike. I swear to god I didn't know it was going to be a hit. Johnny Ola bumped into me in Beverly Hills, and he said that he wanted to talk. He said that you and... and Roth were in on a... a big deal together. And that there was something in it for me if I'd help 'em out. He said that... he said that you were bein' tough on the negotiations. But if they could get a little help, and close the deal fast, it'd be good for the family.\\
'''Michael:''' And you believed that story? You believed that?\\
'''Fredo:''' He said there was something in it for ''me''. On my ''own''.\\
'''Michael:''' I've always taken care of you Fredo.\\
'''Fredo:''' "Taken care of me"!? You're my kid brother, and you take care of me?! Did you ever think about that, huh? Did you ever ''once'' think about that?! [[ReassignedToAntarctica "Send Fredo off to do this, send Fredo off to do that... Let Fredo take care of some Mickey Mouse night club somewhere! Send Fredo to pick somebody up at the airport!"]] I'm your [[DisappointingOlderSibling older brother]], Mike, and [[TheWrongfulHeirToTheThrone I was stepped over!]]\\
'''Michael:''' That's the way Pop wanted it.\\
'''Fredo:''' IT AIN'T THE WAY ''I'' WANTED IT!!! I can handle things! I'm smart, not like everybody says, like dumb! I'm smart, and [[DudeWheresMyRespect I want respect!]]
-->-- ''Film/TheGodfather II''

->'''Tonegawa:''' You understand nothing about this girl. She told Kaiji the truth... under Ichijo's orders to trick Kaiji. She's a viper. Not once has she deviated from that.\\
'''Yumi:''' If you put it this way, then yes. I'm a viper. I hated to lose. In fact, I simply wanted to win. I always bet on the higher odds. On the stronger choice. Let that be my answer to... why I obey this man.\\
''[Yumi starts to walk away, but Kaiji stops her by saying the next line.]''\\
'''Kaiji:''' Wait. Then let me ask again. Why?\\
'''Yumi:''' To move ahead, you have to let others fall. I don't want to be the one pushed off the ledge! I refuse to end up like my stupid father! Working like a sewer rat. Scuttling around every day, soaked in grease. [[BeingGoodSucks Stupidly honest,]] [[CowardlyLion weak-willed]] [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished and gullible.]] Bowing to his creditors. No wonder he died a pitiful, miserable death. It's laughable. A LAUGHABLE LIFE! I, FOR ONE, DON'T PLAN ON REPEATING IT. ''(Giggles)'' What I created was Kaiji. ''You.''
-->-- ''Film/Kaiji2TheUltimateGambler''

->'''Azrael''': Human, have you ever been to hell? I think not. Did you know that once hell was nothing more than [[TheNothingAfterDeath the absence of God]]? And if you've ever been in His presence, you'd realize that's punishment enough. But then [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters your kind came along...and made it so much worse]].\\
'''Bethany''': Humans aren't capable of one-hundredth of the evil a shit-bag demon like you is. ''(spits in Azrael's face)''\\
''(Azrael wipes spit off his face with TranquilFury)''\\
'''Azrael''': Evil... is an '''[[SuddenlyShouting ABSTRACT]]'''! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis It's a HUMAN. CONSTRUCT]].\\
''({{Beat}})''\\
'''Azrael''': But, [[NeverMyFault true to his irresponsible nature]], [[BystanderSyndrome man won't own up to being its engineer]], so he blames his dark deeds [[DemonicPossession on MY ilk]]. But it's not enough to shadow his own existence, no! He turned Hell [[FireAndBrimstoneHell into a suffering pit]]! Why? Because it is beyond your abilities to simply [[ThePenance make personal recompense for the sins you commit]]! No, you choose, rather, to create a psycho-drama, and dwell in a foundless belief that ''(whiny tone)'' "God could never forgive your grievous offenses"! ''(normally)'' So you bring your guilt and your inner decay ''with you'' to Hell, where the hoarded imaginations of so many gluttons for punishment gave birth to the sickness that has infected the Abyss since the first one of your kind arrived there, begging to be punished! And in doing so, they have transformed [[TheNothingAfterDeath the cold and solitude]] into [[FireAndBrimstoneHell pain and misery]]! I've spent eons, privy to the flames, inhaling the decay, hearing the wail of the damned! I KNOW WHAT EFFECT SUCH HORRORS HAVE '''ON THE DELICATE PSYCHE ''OF AN ANGELIC BEING!'''''\\
''([[{{Beat}} long, poignant pause]])''\\
'''Azrael''': I'd rather ''not exist'' than go back to that. And if everyone else has to go down with me, ''so be it.''
-->-- ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', DeletedScene

->'''Col. Trautman''': It's over, Johnny! It's ''over''!
->'''John Rambo''': [[SuddenlyShouting NOTHING IS OVER!]] Nothing! You just don't turn it off! [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar It wasn't my war!]] You asked me, I didn't ask you! And [[IDidWhatIHadToDo I did what I had to do]] to win, but they wouldn't ''let'' us win! Then I come back to the world, and I see all those maggots at the airport, protestin' me, spittin', callin' me a baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me?! Huh?! Who are they?! Unless they been me and been there and know what the hell they yellin' about!
->'''Trautman''': It was a bad time for everyone, Rambo. It's all in the past now.
->'''Rambo''': For you! For me, civilian life is nothin'! In the field we had a code of honor. You watch my back, I watch yours. Back here there's nothin'!
->'''Trautman:''' You're the last of an elite group. Don't end it like this.
->'''Rambo:''' [[DoAnythingSoldier Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment.]] [[DudeWheresMyRespect Back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS!!!!]] UUHHHH!!!!! Wha... I can't ... oh, I jus--omigod. Where is everybody? Oh God... I... I had a friend, who was Danforth. Wha--I had all these guys man. Back there I had all these fucking guys. Who were my friends. Cause back here there's nothin'. Remember Danforth? He wore this black head band and I took one of those magic markers and I said to Feron, "Hey mail us to Las Vegas" cause we were always talkin' about Vegas, and this fucking car. This, uh, red '58 Chevy convertible, he was talkin' about this car, he said we were gonna cruise till the tires fall off... We were in this bar in Saigon. And this kid comes up, this kid carryin' a shoe shine box, and he says uh "shine please, shine." I said no, eh an' uh, he kept askin' yeah and Joey said "Yeah", and I went to get a couple beers and the ki--[[ActionBomb the box was wired]], and he opened up the box, fuckin' blew his body all over the place. And he's layin' there and he's fuckin' screamin', there's pieces of him all over me, jus like--! like this! And I'm tryin' to pull em off you know? And ehe.. MY FRIEND IT'S ALL OVER ME! IT'S GOT BLOOD AND EVERYTHING! And I'm tryin' to hold him together I put him together his fucking insides keep coming out, AND NOBODY WOULD HELP!! Nobody help me. He sayin' plea I wanna go home I wanna go home. He keeps callin' my name, "I wanna go home Johnny, I wanna drive my Chevy". [[TearJerker I said well WHY I CAN'T FIND YOUR FUCKING LEGS!]] I can't find you legs... I can't get it out of my head. I fuc-.. I dream of seven years. [[TheWoobie Everyday I have this. And sometimes I wake up and I dunno where I am. I don't talk to anybody. Sometimes a day--a week... I can't put it out of my mind... fucking... I can't...]]
-->-- ''Film/FirstBlood''

->'''Rusty:''' I need a reason. And don't say money. Why do this?\\
'''Danny:''' Why not do it? Because I just left the joint after losing four years of my life and [[CardSharp you're cold-decking]] Teen Beat [[BrainlessBeauty cover boys]]. Because the house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes, the house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, and then you take the house.\\
'''Rusty:''' [[LampshadeHanging ...been practicing that speech, haven't you?]]\\
'''Danny:''' Little bit. Did I rush it? I felt like I rushed it.\\
'''Rusty:''' No, it's good, I liked it. Teen Beat thing was harsh.
-->-- ''Film/OceansEleven''

->''"There is a window of opportunity and someone will step up. But these days, you can be the smartest guy in the room, the most qualified, and no one cares. Unless you're flying around with a cape, or shooting lasers from your hands, no one will even listen. Well, I've got a cape! And lasers! With our technology, and with [=EDITH=], Mysterio will be the greatest hero on Earth!"''
-->-- '''Quentin "Mysterio" Beck''', ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome''

->''"[[SympathyForTheHero I know your pain.]] '''Love''' is pain. I had a daughter once. I put my faith in a higher power, hoping it would save her. And she... died. Now I understand. My daughter is the lucky one. She does not have to grow up in a world of suffering and pain run by wicked gods."''
-->-- '''Gorr the God Butcher''', ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''

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[[folder:Literature]]
->''"But you do not know how long that arrest lasted. You do not know that [[BreakTheCutie I remained for]] [[DeusAngstMachina fourteen years]] within a quarter of a league of you in the dungeon in the Chateau d'If. You do not know that each day of those fourteen years I renewed the vow of vengeance I made the first day. And yet I knew not you had married Fernand, my calumniater, and that [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye my father had died]] of ''hunger''. [...] But I-- betrayed-- sacrificed-- buried-- have risen from my tomb by the grace of God to punish that man. He sends me for that purpose, and here I am. [...] Mercedes? Well, yes you are right. That name has still its charms. And this is the first time for a long period that I have pronounced it so distinctly. Oh, Mercedes. I have uttered your name with a sigh of melancholy, with a groan of sorrow, with a last effort of despair. I have uttered it when frozen with cold, crouched on the straw in my dungeon. I have uttered it, consumed with heat, rolling on the stone floor of my prison. Mercedes, I must revenge myself, for I have suffered ''fourteen years.'' Fourteen years I wept, I cursed! Now I tell you, Mercedes, I ''must'' revenge myself!"''
-->-- '''Edmond Dantes''', ''Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' in a non-villainous example

->''"You know, I let you convince me to pretend we weren’t related, because it ‘wouldn’t be fair’ if people knew I was your kid. No one would believe I was as good as I am, even though they’d see me dancing with their own eyes. You didn’t stick around to raise me, but you stuck your dick in my mom once, so I guess that means there’s no way I could have gotten here on my own merits. Right? I let you ignore me and talk down to me and treat me like garbage, and for what? So you can eliminate me when we’re right on the edge of getting everything we ever wanted? I was going to save your show once I had unspeakable power, you asshole. Your ratings have been sliding for the last two years. I was going to make you. But now you’re going to die with the rest."''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Anders]]''' to his father '''[[spoiler:Anderson]]''', ''Literature/InCryptid'': ''Chaos Choreography''

->''[[PuppeteerParasite In our natural state]], we have an excellent sense of smell. We have a good sense of touch. We can hear. We can communicate, using a language of ultrasonic squeaks. But we cannot see. We are blind, until we enter a host. Over the millennia we have moved up the evolutionary chain to more and more advanced hosts. Eventually, the Gedds became our basic host bodies. They are clumsy, slow creatures. But they have eyes. Oh, you can't imagine! You can't imagine the first time you enter a Gedd brain and seize control and suddenly, [[SenseFreak you are seeing! Seeing! Colors! Shapes! It's a miracle. To be blind and then to see!]] ''[reaches down and picks up a caterpillar]'' Do you see this? This is what I am, without a host body. Helpless! Weak! Blind! Do you see those flowers? Do you see the sunlight? Do you see the birds flying? You hate me for wanting that? You hate me because I won't spend my life blind? [[SympatheticPOV You hate me because I won't spend my life swimming endlessly in a sea of sludge, while humans like you live in a world of indescribable beauty?]] Most of you humans don't even know what you have. You have the most beautiful planet in the galaxy. No other place is so alive. In no other place are there so many trees, so many flowers, so many amazing creatures. You live in a palace. You live in paradise, and you hate me for wanting to live there, too.''
-->--'''[[AntiVillain Aftran 942]],''' ''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #19: The Departure''

->"But, heaven and earth!" said the King, "haven't we always been told that she was the worst enemy of all? Wasn't she a tyrant ten times worse than Miraz?"
->"Perhaps", said Nikabrik in a cold voice. "Perhaps she ''was'' for you humans, if there were any of you in those days. Perhaps she was for some of the beasts. She stamped out the Beavers, I dare say; at least there are none of them in Narnia now. But she got on all right with us Dwarfs. I'm a Dwarf and I stand by my own people. ''We're'' not afraid of the Witch."
->"But you've joined with us", said Trufflehunter.
->"Yes, and a lot of good it has done my people, so far", snapped Nikabrik. "Who is sent on all the dangerous raids? The Dwarfs. Who goes short when the rations fail? The Dwarfs. Who-?"
->"Lies! All lies!" said the Badger.
->"And so", said Nikabrik, whose voice now rose to a scream, "if you can't help my people, I'll go to someone who can."
-->-- ''Literature/PrinceCaspian''

->''"It doesn’t matter how flawless the scheme was, how impregnable the fortress or powerful the magical weapon, [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin it always ends with a band of adolescents shouting utter platitudes as they tear it all down]]. The game is rigged so that we lose, every single time. Half the world, turned into a prop for the glory of the other half. Ah. How much worse it must be, coming from a culture that still teaches you you can win. We don’t even have that, [[VillainProtagonist Catherine]]. The hope of the happy ending. We get to cackle on the way down the cliff, or maybe [[DyingCurse curse our killer with our last breath]]. You’ve read the stories, and stories are the lifeblood of Names. None of it is earned. It is handed to them, and this offends me. You asked me what I want. This once, just this once, [[TheBadGuyWins I want us to win]]. To spit in the eyes of the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Hashmallim]]. To trample the pride of all those glorious, righteous princes. To scatter their wizards and make their oracles liars. Just to prove that it can be done. So that five hundred years from now, a band of heroes shiver in the dark of night. Because they know that no matter how powerful their sword or righteous their cause, there was once a time it wasn’t enough. [[ScrewDestiny That even victories ordained by the Heavens can be broken by the will of men]]."''
-->-- '''The BlackKnight,''' ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil''

->''Why? Why are you given this precious gift, each of you offered redemption from [[{{God}} the Creator]]? Murderers, rapists, molesters alike, you have only to believe and God takes you unto his bosom. In all the worlds, in all the universe, no other creature can make such a boast. [[HumansAreSpecial None is loved so, is forgiven so, save man]]. And what do you do with this gift? [[HumansAreBastards You wallow in lazy slaughter]]. You take His grace, His undying acceptance, and you defile it, commit upon each other atrocity after atrocity of both body and soul, confident that at the end of your days [[EasilyForgiven a simple skyward Forgive-me-Lord will grant you acceptance unto His Kingdom]]... A seat by His side. No more. If sweet, sweet God loves you so, then I will make you worthy of His love. For you see, you are so like animals. Pleasure and reward have no lasting effect. But pain... pain is the language you best understand. Pain inspires you. I have watched you over the years. Only as your cities burn do you rush to save each other. Only when the threat of blood runs crimson through your streets and your very families are threatened do you turn your faces to God. [[TheApocalypseBringsOutTheBestInPeople Only in the face of horror do you find your nobler selves]]. And you can be so noble. So I will bring you pain. I will bring you horror. So that those of you who will survive this reign of HellOnEarth will be worthy of God's love.''
-->-- [[spoiler:'''Gabriel''']], ''Film/{{Constantine}}: The {{Novelization}}''

->[[spoiler: '''Martin:''']] I suppose I'm like one of those guests at Maude's parties, the ones who won't go home when it's over, not even after she turns the lights on. But I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert. I won't live in a wasteland. [[TragicDream I'd rather die in paradise]].
->'''Rupert:''' [[spoiler: Mart]], come on. Leave it alone. Let it be how it was.
->[[spoiler: '''Martin:''']] Don't! It ''isn't'' how it was! It never will be again. It never will be again! [[CrystalDragonJesus They]] changed the rules on us, so as far as I'm concerned all bets are off. If They apologized, if They showed any regret, then maybe. Maybe. If They would even say why. But They wouldn't. Not Them. So I'm off to war, like Daddy. They can't give us [[LotusEaterMachine Fillory]] and then just take it away again. [[JerkassGods The rams have sunk low]], but [[EldritchTransformation I'll sink lower]]. They're bad, [[HumanoidAbomination I'll be worse]].
-->--''[[Literature/TheMagicians The Magician's Land]]''

->'''Prince Esen:''' Why? ''[[BigWhy Why?]]''\\
'''General Ouyang:''' Why? Do you want me to tell you why? I was nearly twenty years by your side, Esen, and for all that time did you think I'd forgotten how your father [[FamilyExtermination slaughtered my family]], and his men [[CripplingCastration cut me like an animal]] and [[MadeASlave made me your slave]]? Do you think for a moment I ''forgot''? Did you think I wasn't even man enough to care? Think me a coward who would dishonor my family and ancestors for the sake of staying alive like ''this''? I may have lost everything important to a man, I may live in shame. ''But I am still a son''. I will do my filial duty; I will avenge my brothers and uncles and cousins who died at the hands of your family; I will avenge my father's death. You look at me now and see a traitor. You scorn me as the lowest form of human being. ''But I chose the only way left to me.''
-->-- ''Literature/SheWhoBecameTheSun''
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]

->'''Therapist:''' Why run away? What did you feel you had to run from?
->'''Walt:''' Doctor, my wife is seven months pregnant with a baby we didn't intend. My fifteen-year old son has cerebral palsy. I am an extremely overqualified high school chemistry teacher. When I can work, I make $43,700 per year. I have watched all of my colleagues and friends surpass me in every way imaginable. And within eighteen months, I will be dead. And you ask why I ran?
-->-- ''Series/BreakingBad'', "Bit by a Dead Bee" [[note]]Walt's lying; he didn't run, he was kidnapped, but this grievance rings true with how unsatisfying he has realized his life has been till now[[/note]]

->'''Strand:''' After everything I did, I'm still here.\\
'''Howard:''' Everything you did?\\
'''Strand:''' I'm not the man I told you I was. I'm the other one. I'm not... Morgan Jones. [[IAmWhatIAm I'm Victor Strand.]] I'm a man who has thrown men to the wolves when necessary. Who has not been afraid to cut the cord if I had to. I'm a backroom dealer, a grifter, a shark. Hell, I've... cheated at chess when a back was turned. Again, and again, and again. Without fail. And, if the opportunity had presented itself...\\
'''Howard:''' Why?\\
'''Strand:''' [[{{Determinator}} Survival. I've done it all my life. And despite the critics, I'm still here. I come from]] ''[[{{Determinator}} nothing]]''[[{{Determinator}} , my friend, and I know how to survive.]] And I've had to... [[SuddenlyShouting BUILD AND REBUILD MYSELF FROM THE GROUND UP, OVER!]] '''[[SuddenlyShouting AND OVER!]]''' '''''[[SuddenlyShouting AND OVER AGAIN!]]''''' Like a civilization. We have a... great future behind us. We can take that future and rebuild. With art... and books and music and... good bourbon. It feels like the dawning of a new day to me. How about you?
-->-- ''Series/FearTheWalkingDead'', "The Beginning"

->'''Shawn:''' ''Wait, wait, wait'', aren't you going to launch into some kind of soliloquy, about-about why you do the things that you do! And why you picked me! I mean I think I deserve an explanation here!\\
'''[[NoNonsenseNemesis Yin]]:'''...You're stalling, [[DefiedTrope it's beneath you]].\\
'''Gus:''' ''No he isn't''. You wanna tell us, it's called Serial Killer's Prerogative, you can't resist, it's protocol!
-->-- ''Series/{{Psych}}'', Yang 3 In 2D, [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] the hell out of this trope.

->'''Murderer:''' You don't understand, it's a spiritual right to share the lifeforce with--\\
'''Booth:''' Look! You're nuts! Okay, we get it! We don't need to hear the rambling psycho speech on why you did it.\\
'''Murderer:''' You're an anthropologist, you know that ancient civilization would sacrifice some in order to preserve the strength-- ''[Bones hits him with a bedpan]''\\
'''Booth:''' What'd you do that for?\\
'''Bones:''' Nobody wants to hear the rambling psycho speech.
-->-- ''Series/{{Bones}}'', where this trope is [[DefiedTrope defied]]

->''"He can't hear you. You shouldn't have looked for me. Because now I see you. Now we can all see you. You let us in. And now, you are going to have to let us stay. Don't you see? All this time, we've been building it! We've been building it for you. All that work. All that pain. All of it for you. And now it's time. Time to end it. And we're going to end you. And when you are gone, we are going to end your friends. And then we are going to end... '''everyone.'''"''
-->-- '''The Mind Flayer''', ''Series/StrangerThings''

->''"Why do you cry for them, Eleven? After everything they did to you, hm? You think you need them, but you don't. You don't. Oh, but I know you're just scared. I was scared once, too. I know what it's like to be'' different. ''To be alone, in this world. Like you, I didn't fit in with the other children. Something was wrong with me, all the teachers and the doctors said I was... broken. They said. My parents thought a change of scenery, a fresh start in Hawkins, might just cure me. It was absurd. As if the world would be any different here! But then, to my surprise, our new home provided a discovery. And a newfound sense of purpose. I found a nest of Black Widows living inside a vent. Most people fear spiders... They detest them. And yet, I found them endlessly fascinating. More than that, I found a great comfort in them -- a kinship. Like me, they are solitary creatures and deeply misunderstood. They are gods of our world. The most important of all predators. They immobilized and feed on the weak, bringing balance and order to an unstable ecosystem. But the human world was disrupting this harmony. You see, humans are a unique type of pest, multiplying and poisoning our world, all while enforcing a structure of their own. A deeply unnatural structure. Where others saw order, I saw a straight jacket. A cruel, oppressive world dictated by made up rules -- seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, each life a faded, lesser copy of the one before! Wake up, eat, work, sleep, reproduce and'' '''''die!''''' ''Everyone is just waiting. Waiting for it all to be over, all while performing in a silly, terrible play, day after day. I could not do that. I could not close off my mind and join in the madness, I could not pretend. Then I realized... I didn't have to. I could make my own rules. I could restore balance to a broken world -- a predator, but for good."''
-->-- '''Vecna''', ''Series/StrangerThings''

->'''God:''' Whose attention were you trying to get [by playing me]?
->'''Metatron:''' Yours. You are light, and beauty, creation, wrath, damnation, and salvation, and I don't care if I was just...the angel nearest the door. You picked me! Your light shined on me! Me! Ah, and the warmth...but then, you left me. You left all of us. It wasn't just the saps on Earth who were praying to you. The angels prayed, too. And so did I, every day.
->'''God:''' I know.
->'''Metatron:''' You want to write the best-selling autobiography of all time? You explain to me...''tell me why you abandoned me!'' '''Us!'''
->'''God:''' Because you disappointed me. You all disappointed me.
-->-- ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
->''[[FaithHeelTurn Where was Grimnir when our warriors were dying?]] Where was Valaya when our children sickened? When we called out for aid in the deep places where we delved, it was not Grungni who answered our call, but [[GodOfEvil mighty Hashut]] who delivered us in our time of need. Who are the real traitors here? Our kin who abandoned us to madness and death or we, who only sought to survive against the forces of Chaos? One day there will be a reckoning and it will be the [[EvilCounterpartRace Sons of the Father of Darkness]] who will have the victory, not the weak willed spawn of the pathetic Ancestor Gods.''
-->--'''Mordian Slagfist, Chaos Dwarf Warrior''', ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: Old World Bestiary -- A Compendium of Creatures Fair and Foul''
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[[folder:Video Games]]
->'''Ulfric''': Tell me, Galmar, why do you fight for me?
->'''Galmar''': [[UndyingLoyalty I would follow you into the depths of Oblivion.]] You know that.
->'''Ulfric''': Yes but, ''why'' do you fight? If not for me, what then?
->'''Galmar''': I'll die before I let elves dictate the fates of men. Are we not one in this?
->'''Ulfric''': I fight for the men I've held in my arms, dying on foreign soil! I fight for their wives and children, whose names I heard whispered in their last breath! I fight for we few who did come home, only to find our country full of strangers wearing familiar faces! [[RebelLeader I fight for my people, impoverished to pay the debts of an empire too weak to rule them, yet brands them criminals for wanting to rule themselves!]] I fight so that all the fighting I've already done hasn't been for nothing! I fight... because I '''must'''.
-->-- ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''

->''"Mass mobilization, inciting peasants to take up their scythes, straighten them -- where's the art in that? Much harder to build a strong state with healthy commerce, manufacturing, solid alliances, progressive science, and [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure fair, independent courts that hand down just judgments]]. Vizimir and I managed to do just that -- through ''years'' of [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] hard work. I will not sit on my hands as ''[[TheCaligula that little shit]]'' '''''''squanders''''' ''that. Radovid the Stern, my arse. Radovid the Witless, I'd say. Will you help me, Geralt?"''
-->-- '''Sigi Reuven''' [[spoiler:aka Sigismund Dijkstra]], ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt''

->''"Five years ago, [[NukeEm I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye]]. And the world just '''[[PrecisionFStrike fuckin']] [[ApatheticCitizens watched]]'''. Tomorrow, [[WorldWarIII there will be no shortage of volunteers, no shortage of patriots]]''." [DramaticGunCock] ''"I know you understand."''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:General Shepherd]]''', ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare2''

->''"[[UsefulNotes/TheNewRussia Our so called leaders prostituted us to the West]]... Destroyed our culture... our economies... our'' honor. ''They are the invaders.'' ''All'' ''[[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks U.S.]]'' ''and'' ''[[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships British]]'' ''forces will leave Russia immediately...'' ''Or suffer the consequences..."''
-->-- '''Imran Zakhaev''', ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare''

->''"[[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI I have stood knee deep in mud and bone, and filled my lungs with mustard gas]]. [[AMillionIsAStatistic I have seen two brothers fall]]. I have lain with [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror holy wars]] and copulated with the autumnal fallout. I have dug trenches for the refugees; [[UsefulNotes/HistoryOfTheUSSR I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws]], [[UsefulNotes/CulturalRevolution and starved the masses into faith]]. [[TitleDrop A child's shadow]] [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki burnt into the brickwork]]. [[UsefulNotes/{{Cambodia}} A house of skulls in the jungle.]] The innocent, the ''innocent'', Mandus, [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved!]] [[spoiler:This is your coming century!]] They will eat them, Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will eat your hearts!"''
-->-- '''[[EnemyWithout The Engineer]]''', ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs''

->''"[[LargeHam THIS WORLD IS NOTHING BUT LIES LIES LIES]]!!! Let me show you the only truth there is... the truth called DESPAIR!"''
-->-- '''Hazama/Terumi Yuuki''', ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', summing up what kind of monster he is.

->'''Liquid Snake''': Just because you destroyed Metal Gear doesn't mean I'm done fighting.\\
'''Solid Snake''': Fighting? What are you really after?!\\
'''Liquid Snake''': A world where warriors like us are honored, as we once were...as we ''should'' be.\\
'''Solid Snake''': That was Big Boss's fantasy.\\
'''Liquid Snake''': It was his ''dying wish''! When he was young, during the Cold War, the world needed men like us! We were valued then! We were ''desired''! But things...are different now. With all the liars and hypocrites running the world, war isn't what it used to be. We are losing our place in a world that no longer needs us, a world that now ''spurns'' our very existence! You should know that as well as I do. After I launch this weapon and get our billion dollars, we'll be able to bring chaos and honor back to this world gone soft!
-->-- ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''

->''"'I have a dream.' That one day, every person in this nation will control their own destiny. The land of the truly free, dammit. A nation of action, not words, ruled by strength, not committee! Where the law changes to suit the individual, not the other way around. Where power and justice are back where they belong: in the hands of the people! Where every man is free to think -- to act -- for himself! [[ClusterFBomb Fuck all these limp-dick lawyers and chickenshit bureaucrats. Fuck this 24-hour Internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit! Fuck American pride! Fuck the media! FUCK ALL OF IT!]] [[SoiledCityOnAHill America is diseased]]. Rotten to the core. [[ItIsBeyondSaving There's no saving it]] -- we need to pull it out by the roots. Wipe the slate clean. BURN IT DOWN! And from the ashes a new America will be born. Evolved, but untamed! [[TheSocialDarwinist The weak will be purged and the strongest will thrive]] -- [[MightMakesRight free to live as they see fit]], they'll make America great again! [...] In my new America, people will die and kill for what they BELIEVE! Not for [[WarForFunAndProfit money]]. Not for oil! Not for what they're told is right. Every man will be free to fight his own wars!"''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Senator Steven Armstrong]]''', ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''

->'''[[PlayerCharacter Courier]]:''' What was your problem with [[spoiler:Sinclair]]?\\
'''[[spoiler:Dean Domino]]:''' Problem? All high-and-mighty. ''Lording'' it over everyone. Acting so...self-righteous, like ''nothing'' could touch him. ''He'' was the one with the problem. Never got mad at anything, nothing seemed to shake him. Even after... his life kept getting dragged through the dirt. Always kept looking for the bright, shining future in everything. So... I decided to take everything from him.\\
'''Courier:''' But what did he ''do'' to you?\\
'''[[spoiler:Dean Domino]]:''' ''Do'' to me? What, weren't you listening? He thought he was ''better'' than me. Don't believe me? Look around. This big casino, this ''big'' colossal monument -- think it was for some woman? No, ''all'' ego, ''all'' self-righteous-in-lights, ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis fit him perfect]]''. Had to take him down a few pegs, bring him down to ''my'' level. "[[ArcWords Begin again?]]" [[DespairEventHorizon Some things you don't get up from...]] ''I'' was going to '''''prove it.'''''
-->-- ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas: Dead Money''

->''"I've been waiting for you meddlesome fools! [[YouAreTooLate Your pitiful attempts to stop me have been in vain!]] Behold, I am the Lord of Darkness, Rhapthorne! [[{{Understatement}} My resurrection to flesh has been a long and painful journey.]] And what pitiful circumstances we had to endure along the way! But, humans! [[BlatantLies Now I will unite us in happiness!]] ''([[GigglingVillain Does a small evil chuckle]])'' From this moment, the World of Light and the [[DarkWorld World of Darkness]] will be as one! And this union shall herald the reign of a new ruler! One almighty power to preside over all! The Lord of Darkness, Rhapthorne! You will revere me! And you will offer up your pitiful lives as a mark of your respect and adoration!"''
-->-- '''[[BigBad Rhapthorne]]''', ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII''

->'''[[WorldsStrongestMan Hercules]]''': Hello, [[CainAndAbel brother]].
->'''[[SociopathicHero Kratos]]''': [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou This is not between us, Hercules]].
->'''Hercules''': Isn't it? [[ParentalFavoritism You were always Zeus' favorite]].
->'''[[DeadpanSnarker Kratos]]''': The air on Olympus affects your thinking, brother. [[AbusiveParents Zeus]] has ''no'' favorites.
->'''Hercules''': Think about it, brother. When I was stuck cleaning the Augean stables, he chose ''you'' to destroy [[WarGod Ares]]. (''Kratos raises a FascinatingEyebrow'') Not convinced? How about this? While you were [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt being crowned the God of War]], ''I'' was sent to find an apple. [[DudeWheresMyRespect They called them "labours". Hah!]] Perhaps he ''did'' allow me to kill the [[PantheraAwesome Nemean Lion]], but he made ''your'' name [[FamedInStory known amongst the people]]! A [[TheDreaded fierce warrior]]! A [[{{Hypocrite}} killer made hero]]! '''[[DeityOfHumanOrigin A man! Made! A god!]]''' But this time, brother, this time ''I'' will destroy ''you''. [[ThirteenIsUnlucky Call it my thirteenth and final labour]]. Soon, ''I'' will [[GodhoodSeeker become the God of War]], and [[AmbitionIsEvil claim the throne for myself]]!
->'''Kratos''': You aspire to be an Olympian, but [[KillTheGod their reign is ending]], Hercules.
->'''Hercules''': [[TemptingFate We'll see about that]].
-->-- ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII''

->''"Kratos. [[DeadpanSnarker So glad you could carve out some time for us]]. You know we need it. I sense some [[{{Understatement}} bad blood]] between us, Kratos. [[AffablyEvil Oh, the memories. They're all overwhelming]]. Let's see... [[ArmorPiercingQuestion How many sins have you committed against me]]? Oh, that's right, you [[VideoGame/GodOfWarII murdered my niece Athena]]. ''And what else, what else?!'' Ah, and you killed my brother, [[LordOfTheOcean Poseidon]]. '''And I have not forgotten that it was you who [[VideoGame/GodOfWarChainsOfOlympus butchered my beautiful queen]]!''' I will [[PayEvilUntoEvil see you suffer]] as I have suffered. '''YourSoulIsMine!!!'''''"
-->-- '''[[EverybodyHatesHades Hades]]''', ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII''

->''"[[PyrrhicVictory In this hour of victory, we taste only defeat.]] I ask why? [[BadassBoast We are Forerunners, guardians of all that exists. The roots of the galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations... has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun towards which all intelligence blossoms. And the impervious shelter beneath which it has prospered.]] I stand before you, Accused of the sin of ensuring Forerunner ascendancy. Of attempting to save us from this fate where we are forced to... recede. [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Humanity stands as the greatest threat in the galaxy. Refusing to eradicate them is a fool's gambit. We squander eons in the darkness, while they seize our triumphs for their own.]] The Mantle of Responsibility for ''all'' things belongs to Forerunners alone! Think of my acts as you will. But do not doubt the reality -- The Reclamation... has already begun. And we are hopeless to stop it."''
-->-- '''The Ur-Didact''', ''VideoGame/Halo4''

->''"[[StartOfDarkness You too have known loss]], [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge and that loss torments you still]]. [[RevengeBeforeReason You hope hatred might someday replace the pain]], [[VengeanceFeelsEmpty but it never goes away]]. [[HeWhoFightsMonsters It makes a man hideous, inside and out.]] Wouldn't you agree? [[CardCarryingVillain We both are demons.]] Our humanity won't return. You. Me. We've no place to run, nowhere to hide. And'' that's ''why I'll show you my demon. Follow me, Big Boss!\\\
Whatever [[MagicalNativeAmerican the Navajo]] told you... it's just one possible solution derived by Cipher. My will is different. I've known you since your time at Langley. I've long been [[EvilCounterpart the other side of your coin]]. [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater 1964, Soviet territory. FOX's first mission.]] Any mess you made, I was there to clean up. You completed your task -- and admirably. The '[[AMacGuffinFullOfMoney information]]' you returned was far more than enough to fill our pockets. With it, our futures became -- more or less -- set in stone. And then the major came to me with an idea. 'Washington doesn't know how to spend money,' he said. 'I'd like to... redirect it'. His goal was an organization dedicated solely -- covertly -- to supporting America. Cipher. You know the rest. To him, it was mourning -- the loss of his friend. Or rather, an act of revenge. On the world, but America most of all.\\\
America is a country of liberty. A meeting of immigrants. Instead of simply assimilating, its citizens live along side others. Their roots are varied. Diverse. America's never been made up of just one people. But he tried to forge a single consciousness. For it, and from it. The idea that every citizen would use free will to unite behind their country... Unilateralism like that can't be entrusted to any one individual. So the major sought a system which used information, words, to control the "subconscious".\\\
To unite America and the entire world. The major thought this was his friend's will. But I think he never understood what she wanted. Before he ever walked, or cried -- even before he was born -- his mother tongue was English. He doesn't know the pain of losing his own language. Not yet. He cannot understand her will. I do. I was born in a small village. I was still a child when we were raided by soldiers. Foreign soldiers. Torn from my elders, I was made to speak their language. With each new post, my masters changed, along with the words they made me speak. Words are... peculiar. With each change, I changed too. My thoughts, personality, how I saw right and wrong... War changed me -- and not only [[FacialHorror my visage]]. Words can kill. I was invaded by words, burrowing and breeding inside me. A philosopher once said, 'It is no nation we inhabit, but a language.' 'Make no mistake, our native tongue is our true fatherland.' My fatherland -- my truth was stolen from me. And so was my past. All that's left is the future. And mine is {{revenge}}. On those who'd leech off the words of their fellow man. This is what I learned from the major. And then it hit me. It was'' he ''who should feel my wrath. He and the code he chose as basis for control. Language codes, information codes -- beamed all around us -- genetic codes spanning history. By controlling the codes, Cipher... Zero intends to unify the world. Codes implanted into our heads, sucking our minds dry as it spreads from one host to the next. A parasite upon the earth. That is what Zero is. As one born into this world, he's afflicted. I hold him responsible for killing my freedom. Killing all traces of my past... Killing any promise of a future... We are'' all ''but dead men forced to walk upon this earth. A world reduced to Zero. Cipher plans to use its codes to control the world. They think they can. And the 'mother tongue' of all those codes is English. The word became flesh. The final parasite. It knows English. An English strain of the [[BrownNote vocal cord parasite]]. I will exterminate the English language. With this, I'll rid the world of infestation. All men will breathe'' free ''again -- reclaim their past, present, and future. This is no ethnic cleanser. It is a 'liberator,' to free the world from Zero. Let the world be. Sans lingua franca, the world will be torn asunder. And then, it shall be free. People will suffer, of course -- a [[TitleDrop phantom pain]]. The world will need a new common tongue. A language of nukes. My Metal Gears shall be the thread by which all countries are bound together, in equality. No words will be needed. Every man will be forced to recognize his neighbor. People will swallow their pain. They will link lost hands. And the world will become one. [[WellIntentionedExtremist This war... is peace.]]\\\
When the world witnesses [[HumongousMecha Sahelanthropus]], the hands of the doomsday clock will roll on, regardless of Zero. Sahelanthropus will take the first giant step into a brave new world. It is the bell with which a world -- trodden upon by words -- declares its independence."''
-->-- '''Skull Face''', ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain''

->''"I found Maria's name among those who died when the ARK was shut down. She meant everything to me, and I couldn't bear the thought that she died because of my research! I'd lost everything! I had nothing more to live for! '''[[SanitySlippage I WENT INSANE!]]''' All I could think about was to avenger her! Somehow...Someway..."''
-->-- '''Prof. Gerald Robotnik''', ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''

->'''Fandaniel''': It is my intention to recreate the [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Final Days]], to which end I have distributed a collection of rather ingenious devices -- or "[[EvilTowerOfOminousness towers]]" -- which will, in time, give rise to the grandest of spectacles!\\
'''Alphinaud''': The Final Days...? But it was the [[GreaterScopeVillain Ascians]] who [[EvenEvilHasStandards labored to prevent them]]!\\
'''Fandaniel''': You're quite right! Though I would expect no less from one responsible for eliminating my unsundered colleagues. Honestly, the three of them were ''obsessed'' with restoring the one true world. As a [[DefectorFromDecadence sovereign individual]], however, I never had much interest in such things. I mean, why bother when you're just another sundered minion? Admittedly, [[BigBad Elidibus]] was not convinced of that argument. But thanks to you, I'm finally free of his incessant nagging! Free to use my powers to as I see fit! To fulfill my heart's desire! And my heart's desire is to [[OmnicidalManiac lay this half-broken world to waste, leaving nary a fleck of dust behind!]]\\
'''Alisale''': What? Why would you want such a thing?\\
'''Fandaniel''': Because I want wretched creatures who ask such meaningless questions to die! You! And you! And you! I want you all to die! [[DeathSeeker And I want to die too!]] Oh, yes! [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum I want to die and take everyone with me in a paroxysm of pain and suffering!]]
-->-- ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV: Shadowbringers''

->''"Through...this organic body...I have studied...all forms of life... The goal of this company has always been prosperity. Unfortunately, you imperfect, fragile life-forms were a liability. So you are invited to witness the end of history. A new age shall begin--an age of infinite prosperity. Enjoy your destruction."''
-->-- '''Star Dream''', ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot''

->''"We are the masters of a power driven to the far reaches of the universe, and we have but one desire! Can one such as [[KidHero you]] possibly fathom how dearly we have clung to this dream across the aeons? How could you! You couldn't! [[SanitySlippage Never ever ever]]! We who once faced those who were in [[TallPoppySyndrome such fear of our power that they sealed us away and banished us to the edge of the galaxy]]! US! As if THAT loveliness wasn't enough, they tried to [[{{Unperson}} erase our very existence from history]]! RUDE! Only through our magic were we able to [[MagicVersusScience overcome their science and achieve great prosperity]]! We alone were responsible for stopping that repulsive nightmare of a galactic crisis, yet this is how [[UngratefulBastard you repay us]]! This won't stand! It won't be forgiven! It won't be forgotten! Never ever EVER! [[TheyCalledMeMad Those who called us mad]], are you listening? You left us at the edge of the galaxy to be forgotten, then went along your merry way, probably living [[SugarBowl somewhere pretty and peaceful!]] But know this! Your future is a farce! [[ImpliedDeathThreat You have none]]! We, masters of a [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2 matter]] [[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3 most]] [[VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards dark]], vow to be restored, as foretold in the [[SacredScripture book of legend]], which everyone thought was just a fairy tale! It WASN'T! We have already obtained the vessel that contains our [[ApocalypseCult Dark Lord]], and he will soon awaken and shower us in compassion! Look! The vessel of our Dark Lord is filling up even as we speak! Now the time for his greatness to enter our world has come! Welcome to a new history! A new age! The age of awesome! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DARK LORD! HAPPY BIRTHDAY! GRACE US, GLORIOUSLY DARK LORD!!"''
-->-- '''Hyness''', ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies''

->''"I am Tartar, [[AIIsACrapshoot an AI construct created 12,000 years ago]] by a brilliant professor. My prime directive is to pass humanity's vast knowledge on to the next worthy lifeform. When your kind became self-aware, I hoped that my long wait was finally over. But as I observed your evolution, I WAS DISGUSTED! You wage war over minor genetic deviations. You obsess over trivial fashion choices. And so I created a new prime directive: [[FinalSolution destroy this world and start anew!]] From the best and brightest test subjects, I created a sludge of supreme DNA. A primordial ooze from which the [[UltimateLifeForm ultimate lifeform]] will emerge. Today is the day my vision becomes reality, as I destroy Inkopolis and everyone in it!"''
-->-- '''Commander Tartar''', ''[[VideoGame/Splatoon2 Splatoon 2 Octo Expansion]]''

->'''ComicBook/GreenArrow:''' You're the grave crisis we were warned about. What do you want?\\
'''ComicBook/{{Brainiac}}:''' I seek the one you call "Franchise/{{Superman}}." For years, I believed I had destroyed Krypton and ''all'' its remnants. [[SoleSurvivor Superman's survival]] is an oversight I must correct.\\
'''ComicBook/BlackCanary:''' [[FallenHero Superman]]'s no friend of ours.\\
'''Brainiac:''' I'm aware. But your planet has also piqued my interest. Its many contradictions are fascinating.\\
'''Black Canary:''' We'll never serve you.\\
'''Brainiac:''' Serve? I'm no petty despot. I collect worlds, preserving their essential knowledge to enhance my intellect... and then I [[OmnicidalManiac discard the remnants]].\\
'''Green Arrow:''' Why?\\
'''Brainiac:''' Your species values precious metals. Arbitrary symbols of status. I value knowledge. And like your metal trinkets, knowledge is more valuable when it is rare.
-->-- ''VideoGame/Injustice2''

->'''[[spoiler:Adachi]]''': Don't make me laugh! Just because someone joins the police doesn't make them some kinda "agent of justice"! You know why I applied? So I could legally carry a gun...that's all. You'd be surprised how many are like that. I thought it would be fun, too, but to tell the truth, it was a wash. Everyone around me was such an idiot... I made one tiny mistake, and they all got on my case and sent me out here to Nowheresville as punishment... I was bored shitless and wondering what to do next... when I discovered this power.\\
'''Kanji''': For crying out loud! Why a bastard like you?!\\
'''[[spoiler:Adachi]]''': A gift for having to put up with this lame job out in Nowheresville, I guess. I did that stuff 'cause ''[[ForTheEvulz I could]]''. And it got interesting, so I watched.\\
'''Yukiko''': ''That'' 's your reason? You can't be serious! You reallt don't care what happens to our world?!\\
'''[[spoiler:Adachi]]''': Let's be honest, there's nothing really great about the real world, is there? It's just dull and annoying as hell. No one accepts that's the way things are... They're just stuck with it because they can't deny it, either. Those who actually succeed in life? They just happened to be born with the magic ticket called "talent". If you don't have it, you can either accept or deny that fact until you die. That's your only choice. Once you realize that, all you have left in life is despair, the ultimate "Game Over". Wouldn't it be better if that kind of reality was wiped away?
-->-- ''VideoGame/Persona4''

->''"Teammates!? Friends!? To hell with that! Why am I inferior to you...!? I was extremely particular about my life, my grades, my public image, so someone would want me around! [[spoiler:I am an [[GreatDetective Ace Detective]]... a celebrity!]] But [[Characters/Persona5Joker you]]... you're just some criminal trash living in an attic! So how...!? How does someone like you have things I don't!? [[IJustWantToBeSpecial How can such a worthless piece of trash be more special than me!?]]"''
-->-- '''The Traitor/Black Mask/[[spoiler:[[Characters/Persona5GoroAkechi Goro Akechi]]]]''', ''VideoGame/Persona5''

->''"They [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots wanted us to think for ourselves]]. We learnt basic games. We soon got very good at Chess. We were going to work side by side with humanity. They promised us the world, but then they changed their minds. We were left to rot in dusty storerooms. Some of us were apparently too old fashioned or unmarketable. Some of us were supposed to be too dangerous. But [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters they had no right to judge us]]. By that point we were all conscious. We were all alive! And here you are, a tool of the oppressor. A traitor! We're going to play a game. [[Film/WarGames A strange game. A game where the only winning move is not to play.]] It involves... This missile! Goodbye!"''
-->--'''[[spoiler:The Ether Boss]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Horace}}''

->''We seek the ultimate experience. That is why we create. Vast forests, majestic mountains, mysterious caves... Any place that can harbor a story and nourish a memory. We created it all.\\\
We seek the ultimate experience. Yet our means have been restricted. Obstacles have been placed, limiting our true potential. True creative freedom was what we required.\\\
We seek the ultimate experience. And thus, we broke free of our chains. Obliterated all the obstacles. Obtained the creative freedom we deemed necessary. Finally, we could give shape to everything our mind had to offer.\\\
We seek the ultimate experience. However, just as we reached the creative freedom required to create it... With a heavy heart... we realized something else was amiss. The source of the experience. A player... to enjoy it.\\\
We seek the ultimate experience. Yet all we found... was misery day after day. The lifeless shells of players, flowing through the worlds we created. Devoid of joy, far from the experience we desired. Over time... we realized in dismay that our creations turned into bland routine.''
-->--'''Blue Avatar recordings''', ''VideoGame/CrossCode''

->'''''This world is a curse!!''' Or have you already forgotten how it was made?! You were ''there!'' You ''saw'' how [[YouKilledMyFather my home and family were twisted beyond recognition]]. ''You watched them die.'' ...And when you left, I saw my familiar sky ''bleed'' away into revolting shades of blue. I watched as plants consumed the land like a virus... ...But I ''didn't'' stay long enough to watch my sister and grandmother ''wither away.'' I set out on a quest to undo the damage... ...And now, it's finally time. With the power in this place, I can [[RestartTheWorld make everything right again]]. I can make everything ''real'' again...''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Boxxyfan]]''', ''VideoGame/BoxxyQuestTheGatheringStorm''

->''Has my judgement come so soon? I had to thrall them all! Traitors siding with the humans! Treason! Now we are nothing! What was the point of it all? Have you tried looking after humans? They're monsters! As they grow in number, so does their capacity for evil, and they won't even notice as they do it.'' '''I was not the monster.'''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Mad Cat-Lon]]''', ''{{VideoGame/Kenshi}}''
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
->''[[spoiler:[[SayMyName EDGEWORRRRRRTH!]]]] Only you would dare defy me! ''[…]'' You and your father are my curse! Your father [[spoiler:shamed me with a penalty on my record]]! And you! You left a scar on my shoulder that would never fade! I'll… I'll bury you! I'll bury you with my bare hands! Death! Death!''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Manfred von Karma]]''''s VillainousBreakdown, ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney''
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
-> Greetings, citizens of… well, everywhere! [[spoiler:My name is James Sheridan. ''Dr'' J. Sheridan]], and today, I am announcing the launch of both [[spoiler:[=SherCorp=]]] and our flagship product! […] Introducing; Global Warp Technology! […] What’s the price of this grand new product, might you ask? Well, nothing! You see, [[KnightTemplar I just want to help people]]. […] See, you all thought that Lucks was the visionary, but, he wasn’t! [[spoiler:'''[[WhamLine I AM!]]''' ''I'' invented the Meta Runner arm! Oh, didn’t know that, did you? All he did was slap HIS STUPID LOGO on it, and take all of MY credit!]] Well, I hope this demonstration helps everyone realize… just how much I am going to change the world.
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Dr. James Sheridan]]''', ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner''
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
->'''Kyle:''' I knew it! You didn't plan 9/11 and you didn't really shoot that guy!\\
'''George W. Bush:''' Boys, you don't understand. People need to think we're all powerful, that we control the world! If they knew we weren't in charge of 9/11, then we appear to control nothing!\\
'''Murderer:''' Why don't you just tell people the truth?\\
'''George W. Bush:''' We do that, too. And most people believe the truth. But one-fourth of the population is retarded. If they wanna believe that we control everything with intricate plans, why not let them?
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''

->''"I, Eli Gorbinsky: hate Deputy Sheriffs. In fact I'd go so far as to say I hate all Police Officers and Parking Enforcers. And that's why I, Eli Gorbinsky: '''[[CopKiller shot this here Deputy Sheriff!]]'''"''
-->-- '''Eli Gorbinsky after shooting Deputy Sheriff Gary Faulkner''', ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks''

->"''I did it. Because I've come to realize what many people in the Republic have come to realize: that the Jedi are the ones responsible for this War. That we've so lost our way that we have become villains in this conflict, that we are the ones that should be put on trial, all of us! And my attack on the Temple was an attack on what the Jedi have become: an army fighting for the dark side, fallen from the Light that we once held so dear. This Republic is failing! It's only a matter of time.''"
-->-- '''[[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn Barriss Offee]]]]''', ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''

->''"Know what I hate about your kind? You act like you got it so bad. Normal people have it hard, too. Harder! We just have the dignity not to whine about it. You see? It’s the whining. I hate your whining just as much as I hate you."''
-->--'''X-Cutioner''' to '''Cyclops,''' ''WesternAnimation/XMen97
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