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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

->There, happy now? Pleased to see the mystery resolved? Little old me getting the girl, the cash, and ending our story as one of the secret masters of the world? God, you are such an '''asshole''', and I speak from experience. It only seems like yesterday I was at your level on the pathetic-o-meter.
-->-- '''Wesley Gibson''', ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}''

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[[folder: Live-Action Film ]]

->'''Wesley Gibson''': Six weeks ago, I was ordinary and pathetic just like you. Who am I now? Account manager? Assassin? Just another tool who was mindfucked into killing his father? I am all of these. I am none of these. Who am I now? ''(cut to Wesley at an office desk)'' This is not me following my destiny. This is not me following in my father's footsteps. This is ''definitely'' not me saving the world. ''(Sloan approaches and holds a gun to his head)''\\
'''Sloan:''' Still trying to figure out who you are?\\
'''Wesley:''' This is ''[[ExactWords not me]]''. ''("Wesley" turns around)'' [[WhamLine This is just the motherfucking decoy]].\\
''(Sloan looks down, realizing he's standing on a cardboard X)''\\
'''Sloan:''' Oh fuck... ''(a bullet goes right through his head)''\\
'''Wesley:''' This ''is'' me taking control. From Sloan. From the Fraternity. From Janice. From billing reports. From ergonomic keyboards. From cheating girlfriends and sack-of-shit best friends. '''''This is me taking back control of my life.''''' ''([[BreakingTheFourthWall Looks at the viewer]])'' What the fuck have ''you'' done lately?
-->-- ''Film/{{Wanted}}''

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[[folder: Live-Action TV ]]

->''"America, America, this is you"''
-->-- The original theme song for ''Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos'', a half-hour of recordings of people doing stupid, stupid things.

->''"Are you having trouble finding your ideal mate? How about any mate? Do you fear you'll be the last man or woman on earth still not getting any? Are you using roofies to score? And you still hope to land that prince or princess of your dreams? Well wake up Sleeping Ugly! Because your only hope is Lowered Expectations. Our video library allows you to choose from thousands of chronically rejected singles just as hard up and pathetic as you. So good luck, you'll need it."''
-->-- '''Host''', ''Series/MadTv1995'', "Lowered Expectations"

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[[folder: Music ]]

->''Here's the last toast of the evening, here's to those who still believe\\
All the losers [[ThrowTheDogABone will be winners]], all the givers [[EarnYourHappyEnding shall receive]]\\
Here's to trouble free tomorrows, may your sorrows all be small\\
Here's to the losers, here's to the losers\\
Here's to the losers, bless them all''
-->-- "Here's to the Losers", '''Music/FrankSinatra'''

->''I drank too much last night, got bills to pay\\
My head just feels in pain\\
I missed the bus and there'll be hell today\\
I'm late for work again\\
And even if I'm there, they'll all imply\\
That I might not last the day''
-->-- "Thank You", '''Dido'''

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[[folder: Web Animation ]]

->Not only is TheEveryman stupid, but he's also a loser! It's time for the writer to unleash their cynical hatred of the audience by insulting their [[AudienceSurrogate surrogate]]. Make the Everyman a loser. Nothing goes his way, everything is his fault, and he's an idiot. Exactly how the audience wants to see themselves.
-->-- '''WebAnimation/TerribleWritingAdvice''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgWltVolH30 on]] TheEveryman

->''No More Heroes'' is a Japanese game based around Jedi lightsaber fighting and starring as the main character a hopeless pop-culture obsessed social reject who spends most of his time whining, getting strung along by women, and being a generally unlikeable fuckbend. So at least you can't fault it for understanding its audience (predictable joke).
-->-- '''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''' on ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes''

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[[folder: Web Original ]]

->''"[The protagonist Atsuko Kagari is] like someone who joined the [animation] industry out of passion but without actual technique, so she can't draw clean lines for in-betweens. Yet she has that egocentric confidence about being able to draw good key frames despite that. We wanted to transpose that idea in a wizard story."''
-->--'''[[https://wavemotioncannon.com/2017/01/03/yoh-yoshinari-interview-animestyle-032013-part-33/ Yoh Yoshinari]]''' on ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia''

->Pegg’s Gary King is like those people we all know, who flourished back in the days when social standing was determined by haircuts or being good at football, but with grey, adult lives that made so few new memories, schooldays are grimly fresh in their minds. His rage at the excruciating limbo of adulthood, where you feel you’ve been sold a lie; exciting beginnings that never begin, fulfilling futures that didn’t show up...These periods are easily revisited, even unintentionally, with sense-memory time-travel, like the [[Music/TheStoneRoses Stone Roses]] songs that farted out of King’s tape-deck. Sometimes you doze off and have a cruel snatch of a dream that puts you right back there. You’re at your first job, or back in the sixth form, and you feel it; that hope, and all the possibilities; things you didn’t even realise you felt at the time, but now they’re gone, and you’re 34, broke, falling asleep in the bath to flashes of a time when you felt like you had a life awaiting you, and the only thing that stops you opening your fucking neck with a bread knife is knowing how badly your mum would take it. [[SayingTooMuch Anyway, great film.]]
-->-- '''[[http://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/my-top-20-movies-of-2013-the-list-part-2/ Stuart Millard]]''' on ''Film/TheWorldsEnd''

->Rose pretty much lives up to [[ClicheStorm every working class stereotype]]; being brought up in an ugly council estate with an absent father ([[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest okay he died]]) and a scrounging mother who is as common as muck and keeps going on about compensation and handouts. Jackie goes one step further by being a total tramp, coming onto the Doctor (a complete stranger) in her dressing gown. [[TropesAreTools But what salvages all of these characters]] is the natural good humour that they express and the fact that they all seem so ''real''...She has no A Levels, no job and no future -- perfect companion material then.
-->-- '''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2014/01/rose-written-by-russell-t-davies-and.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose "Rose"]]

->I've heard a theory that says heroes need to be slightly dumb so that the audience member who makes a lot of mistakes herself can emphasize with them. That makes me think of a lot of books I've read and decide, 'Not '''that''' dumb.'
-->-- Limyaael's Fantasy Rants

->But to me, the fun of it is, at his basic core, even if you strip away "with great power ComesGreatResponsibility", what makes Peter Parker this character that resonated with all of us is that he's really the first character who's ''you''. He's the guy you know. He's not a wealthy billionaire playboy, he's not an alien from another planet, he's not a god from a pantheon. He's the guy down the block that trips and falls, who screws up in every way you screw up. All the self-destructive traits you have, and your friends have, he has. People say to me, "Who's your favorite ComicBook/SpiderMan villain?" and my answer is Peter Parker, because no one can mess up Spider Man's life like Peter Parker can.
-->-- [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott Dan Slott on Spider-Man]]

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[[folder: Web Video ]]

->"You buy our crap because you're a loser, so keep buying our crap, loser!"
-->-- '''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]''' on a scene in ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay''

->Making [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter]] an inconsiderate asshole is where ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott fails and why it ends up pushing so many fans away. That's not relatable, and that's not a role model!
-->-- '''[=GodzillaMendoza=]''', "[[https://www.youtube.com./watch?v=6Dlpb5VBYMo How Nick Spencer Redeemed Spider-Man]]"

->Yes, Kari Wurther from ''{{Series/Sliders}}'' is in this movie. She plays a spoiled, wisecracking {{valley girl}} who accidentally crashes through the Portal of Time and finds herself in Dar's dimension--and let's just say, [[PunyEarthlings she's not exactly the best ambassador our world could send.]]
-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Noah Antwiler]]''' on ''[[Film/TheBeastmaster Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time]]''

->Who ''doesn't'' remember the time when no one came to your sixteenth birthday party? Or when you wrote erotic fanfiction about the hot guy in class and accidentally handed it instead of the assignment? (Movie, that's not relatable. That's creepy.)
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''', on Louise from ''Film/TeenWitch''

->Season 3 [of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''] features several characters whose sole job it is to portray fan theories and theorists and make fun of them and call them stupid for bothering to try and figure out what happened based on the information given to them by the show. [...] People trying to figure out the ''mystery'' in a ''mystery-story'' are presented as a little club of weirdos being weird together. The creator of the story appears to be so fundamentally ''incapable'' of recognizing how to tell a mystery, that he's perceived people ''treating'' it like one as ''insane!''
-->-- '''H. Bomberguy''', [[https://youtu.be/LkoGBOs5ecM?t=1h34m27s Sherlock Is Garbage and Here's Why]]

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

->'''Bart:''' [[ScrabbleBabble Kwyjibo]]. Uh... a [[FatIdiot big]], [[TheDitz dumb]], balding [[{{Eagleland}} North American]] [[SonOfAnApe ape]]. With [[StylisticSelfParody no chin]].\\
'''Marge:''' And a [[HotBlooded short temper]].\\
'''Homer:''' I'll show ''[[IWillShowYouX you]]'' a big, dumb, balding ape! ''[leaps for Bart]''\\
'''Bart:''' Uh oh. Kwyjibo on the loose!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E2BartTheGenius''.

->"Are you broke? Out of work? Stuck in a rock? Well, that explains why you're watching mid-morning TV, you lazy worthless goons! ''YOU MAKE ME SICK!''"
-->-- A TV advertisement, ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim''

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