"I am sure that many of you expected something easy. You expect to win a few prizes in combat, get paid for killing some dimwitted orc or get a tale or two to win over some foolish young girl back at the tavern. Not with these orcs, I led you against feral ones. These greenskins, are quite fierce, and they don't care about your reasoning to fight. They exist to kill you. They exist to rape your wives, daughters, nieces, sisters. Your job is to put a stop to them and nothing else. You will not win glory, you will get paid accordingly and there will be no foolishness in this company of mine. I want disciplined soldiers and killers, not children playing at war."
— Kyril, The Night Unfurls #13: Saint of Killers
"Some people will say that not all witches are evil, that their powers could be used for good. I say burn them all!"
— Hansel, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters trailer
"Show them no mercy! For you shall receive none!"
— Aragorn to the soldiers of Helm's Deep, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
"Bugs thrive on carnage, Tiger. They consume, infest, destroy, live off the death and destruction of other species."
— Agent K, Men in Black
"The only good goblins are the ones who never come out of their stinking holes."
It is not that the Angrborn always seem horrible. You get used to them. It is that they really are horrible, that being horrible is being like the Angrborn.
— The Wizard Knight, by Gene Wolfe
"I have memories of seventeen Howler attacks. All successful. They have never been defeated. They have attacked highly advanced civilizations and simple people like Graffen's Children. They have never taken a prisoner. They simply kill and kill and kill until there is no one left to kill. Then they go and find something else to kill."
— Erek, Animorphs #26: The Attack
"And just because it looks unlike men, you don’t have to accuse it of being evil, or vicious or something. Maybe that expression on its face is its equivalent to a resignation to fate. White is the color of mourning to the Chinese. If men can have different customs, why can’t a so-different race have different understandings of facial expressions?"
Connant laughed softly, mirthlessly. "Peaceful resignation! If that is the best it could do in the way of resignation, I should exceedingly dislike seeing it when it was looking mad. That face was never designed to express peace. It just didn’t have any philosophical thoughts like peace in its make-up."
Connant laughed softly, mirthlessly. "Peaceful resignation! If that is the best it could do in the way of resignation, I should exceedingly dislike seeing it when it was looking mad. That face was never designed to express peace. It just didn’t have any philosophical thoughts like peace in its make-up."
— "Who Goes There?"
"I tried to talk. I want you to remember that. I tried to reach out, I tried to understand you, but I think that you understand us perfectly. And I think that you just don't care. And I don't know whether you are here to invade, infiltrate or just replace us. I don't suppose it really matters now. You are monsters! That is the role you seem determined to play, so it seems that I must play mine."
— The Doctor, Doctor Who, "Flatline"
The plot involves war between the humans and the Kilrathi, who have refused all offers of peace and wish only to be targets in the crosshairs of video computer screens. Indeed, according to a Web page, they hope to "destroy the universe," which seems self-defeating.
— Roger Ebert reviews Wing Commander
"All Orcs, even the cleverest, resemble nothing so much as squabbling Human toddlers that have been magically granted enormous size, horrendous strength, and a variety of barbaric weapons."
— Heinrich Malz, High Priest of Verena, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Old World Bestiary — A Compendium of Creatures Fair And Foul
"The Ork is mankind's oldest foe. When we first journeyed to the stars, the Orks were there to disabuse us of our naivety, and they are still here to test our courage and will to its breaking point. They are Beast that stalks the stars, the Wolf at your door, interested in nothing but destruction. Look to your weapons! Steel your hearts! The Green Tide is upon us!"
— Commissar Yarrick, Warhammer 40,000
"They wish to make the world a place of smoky darkness where hope and cheer are crimes punishable by immediate slavery and slow torture. Theirs is an endless greed that neither time nor wealth can ever abate. They committed blasphemy by turning away from the Ancestor Gods and practicing magic. Magic, I tell you! They are our greatest shame and they will be dealt with, in time."
— Cranneg Enlagsson, Dwarf Lorekeeper, on the Chaos Dwarfs, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay: Old World Bestiary — A Compendium of Creatures Fair And Foul
"Greenskins. [spits] Where there's one, there's a million of 'em."
— Imperial Guard Sergeant, Dawn of War
"Reapers may look all evil and crazy, but there's a good reason for that. They ARE evil and crazy!"
— Lady Palutena, Kid Icarus: Uprising
"These sad souls swore their allegiance to Ganon. They now call themselves the Yiga Clan. Their sole mission is to eliminate all who stand against Ganon. Please, dear hero... be careful out there."
"But Collector culture different. No diversity. No growth. Brute technology. If working for Reapers, long-term goal is eradication of organic life. Collectors are force of destruction. Don't help galaxy evolve expect when other species adapt to fight them. Need to be destroyed."
— Mordin Solus, Mass Effect 2
The Captain: Do you really consider yourselves Evil?
Ilwrath: Ha! Evil! Of Course We're Evil!
Ilwrath: Dogar And Kazon Would Never Reward A Less-Than-Hideously Evil Species With Their Baleful Grace.
Ilwrath: Why We Are The Very Definition Of Evil!
Ilwrath: Everything About Us, Within And Without, Reeks Of Heinous Deeds, Deceit And Treachery!
Ilwrath: Even Our House Pets Are Rather Evil.
Ilwrath: Ha! Evil! Of Course We're Evil!
Ilwrath: Dogar And Kazon Would Never Reward A Less-Than-Hideously Evil Species With Their Baleful Grace.
Ilwrath: Why We Are The Very Definition Of Evil!
Ilwrath: Everything About Us, Within And Without, Reeks Of Heinous Deeds, Deceit And Treachery!
Ilwrath: Even Our House Pets Are Rather Evil.
— Star Control II
"Fighting the soldiers of other nations on the field was a duty of all men, but the Mongols were different. They did not want to conquer to rule in the stead of the nobility, they wanted to annihilate everything different to them, to destroy civilization, to destroy and rape and kill and nothing else. They were war for the sake of war, a pestilence upon the world, and Gawain saw their deaths not as the honourable meeting of foes, but the extermination of a potentially lethal pest."
— Narration, A Scotsman in Egypt
"Their single-minded drive to get back to their spawning grounds COULD be seen as orderly... if you squint. But who are we kidding? The frenzied, indiscriminate way they stampede over everyone and everything in the way of that goal is chaos to a T."
— Splatoon's Squid Research Lab
on the Salmonids
on the SalmonidsWhen Kolos suggests that the warriors have come to dominate other social classes, Archer seems surprised. "There are other classes?" he ponders, in a wonderful line-reading from Bakula that suggests irony with just a kernel of honesty buried somewhere.
The Xindi Reptilians are impressively designed but I can't help but make comparisons to the aliens from Galaxy Quest who looked remarkably similar and honestly had a similar comic style to their performances. There is nothing subtle about the Xindi Reptilians from how they clomp about the sets to chowing down on mice to their meaty and overripe dialogue. They feel like they should be played for laughs but they aren't.
Riker and Troi browse the 24th-century version of Wikipedia for stuff on the Head-Staplers. Evidently, fifty years prior they conquered two races and integrated them into their culture as a labor class. Their ships are equipped with banned weapons, and it appears they're drug dealers. Also, they roast babies and serve them with a nice lemon-tarragon sauce. Troi speaks for everyone when she asks why the Federation is involved with a bunch of drugged-up plastic surgery addicts who probably think a fifteen-day waiting period on handgun purchases is too much of a hassle.
But they told her “Alas, what you show us is terribly lovely. But we are the daughters and sons of the Goddess of Cancer, and wholly her creatures. The only goals in us are KILL CONSUME MULTIPLY CONQUER. And though our hearts long for you, still we are not yours to have, and your words have no power to move us. We wish it were otherwise, but it is not, and your words have no power to move us.”
Priestess: Wait! Couldn't there be a good goblin? We don't know if they're evil yet!
Goblin Slayer: I wish I was innocent like you. But I'm not. I'm full of rage, and beans, SPIRIT, PRIDE, AND HEART, AND SOUL, AND RAGE, AND BEANS! SPICY BEANS! The only good goblin is a dead goblin! NOW LET'S MAKE THESE GOBLINS GOOOOD!
Goblin Slayer: I wish I was innocent like you. But I'm not. I'm full of rage, and beans, SPIRIT, PRIDE, AND HEART, AND SOUL, AND RAGE, AND BEANS! SPICY BEANS! The only good goblin is a dead goblin! NOW LET'S MAKE THESE GOBLINS GOOOOD!
Mike: They act like giant space alien sailors. But. They are part of a company, or a corporation. They don't have the "guys in suits" kind of business mentality; they have more of a warrior mentality. Which, right off the bat—
Jay: Doesn't work.
Mike: —is the wrong approach... And John Travolta wants to move back to Psychlovania? Psychlo Homeworld? And have a fancy house, and a wife/wives and be rich, but he's stuck in this shit-ass job where he has to watch over this planet being mined. And then the Fat Guy, for no reason, in a really awkward scene that goes on forever... seems to enjoy telling John Travolta that he's gotta stay there. And everyone's angry all the time. Everyone's angry.
Jay: Doesn't work.
Mike: —is the wrong approach... And John Travolta wants to move back to Psychlovania? Psychlo Homeworld? And have a fancy house, and a wife/wives and be rich, but he's stuck in this shit-ass job where he has to watch over this planet being mined. And then the Fat Guy, for no reason, in a really awkward scene that goes on forever... seems to enjoy telling John Travolta that he's gotta stay there. And everyone's angry all the time. Everyone's angry.
Haley: Hey, wait a minute — aren't dark elves evil?
Nale: Oh, my, no. Not since they became a player race. Now the whole species consists of nothing but Chaotic Good rebels, yearning to throw off the reputation of their evil kin.
Haley: Evil kin? Didn't you just say they were all Chaotic Good?
Nale: Details.
Nale: Oh, my, no. Not since they became a player race. Now the whole species consists of nothing but Chaotic Good rebels, yearning to throw off the reputation of their evil kin.
Haley: Evil kin? Didn't you just say they were all Chaotic Good?
Nale: Details.
Richard: Instead of helping an aged dwarf woman across a road, you should be shooting her in the face with arrows until it stops being funny.
Cale: What? Why?
Richard: Your race. They're evil. Ergo, you're evil.
Cale: What? Why?
Richard: Your race. They're evil. Ergo, you're evil.
"Night Creatures kill, destroy, and despoil. It is our pleasure."
— FlysEyes, Castlevania (2017)
Princess Toadstool: We never did anything to you. Why are you holding us prisoner?
Wizardheimer: Because I'm an evil Koopa wizard. I don't need a reason to be mean and nasty. It's my nature.
Wizardheimer: Because I'm an evil Koopa wizard. I don't need a reason to be mean and nasty. It's my nature.
— Super Mario World, "Ghosts 'R' Us"
