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    Anime & Manga 
You honestly think I would join forces with a second-rate dilettante like you?
Frieza to Frost, Dragon Ball Super

Allura: You're a monster, just like your father!
Lotor: That old fool? Why, I'm twice the monster he is!

    Fan Works 
It was now the Legion realized that their dreams of conquest and avarice were pipe dreams: goals never meant to be truly fulfilled. They were as wild children playing at the game of evil.
The Legion was not evil.
Their exploits were never evil.
Up until this point, the Legion had never known evil...
...for evil now stood before them.

Look at you. The mighty Fire Lord. You believe yourself to be the leader of a great nation, but you know nothing of true power. You've squandered countless resources, believing only your country's to be necessary. You've choked this entire world with meaningless blood. I assure you, I will not make the same mistake. I will use what's left of this world to construct my own empire that will expand countless worlds!

I will drain the Fire Nation dry of everything it has before I do the same with the rest of this pitiful planet! Thank you for your help, Ozai, but I no longer require your aid. Goodbye.

Long have we been in hiding, ruling from the shadows! Too long! The Britannian Empire has forgotten its place, believing in false power to be true might! All due to the treachery of Charles zi Britannia! But that is about to change. No more disguises! No more mercy! The time has come to remind this world who its true masters are!
DECEPTICONS, TRANSFORM AND RISE UP!
Megatron before assaulting Britannia's capital city of Pendragon and subsequently destroying the empire itself, Code Prime

    Films — Animated 
"What fools are these, so weary of life... that they take the name of the Shredder — MY name — in vain?"
Ch'rell has a dim view of his 80s counterpart, Turtles Forever

Megamind: You can take me to jail now.
Tighten: Oh no, no, no. I was thinking more like the morgue. You're Dead!
Megamind: Whoa, whoa, whoa! This isn't how you play the game.
Tighten: GAME OVER.

    Films — Live-Action 
"The Mongols can wait a while. We have a more dangerous enemy. An enemy who is closer and more cruel. An enemy we could not buy our souls from with ransom - the Germans."
Alexander Nevsky, Alexander Nevsky

’’”Your ambition is little, born of childish need. We look beyond the Earth to greater worlds the Tesseract will unveil."''
The Other to Loki, The Avengers (2012)

Nazi Officer: Berlin is on this map!?
Johann Schmidt: So it is.
Nazi Officer: You will be punished for your insolence! You will be brought before the Fuhrer himself! (Schmidt kills all the Nazi officers with his tesseract cannon)
Johann Schmidt: My apologies, doctor, but we both knew Hydra could grow no further in Hitler’s shadow. HAIL HYDRA.

"All you care about is money. This town deserves a better class of criminal, and I'm going to give it to them. Tell your men they work for me now. This is MY city."

John Daggett: I paid you a small fortune.
Bane: And this gives you power over me?
Daggett: What is this?
Bane: Your money and infrastructure have been important... until now.
Daggett: What are you?
Bane: I'm Gotham's reckoning. Here to end the borrowed time you've all been living on!
Daggett: (whimpering) You're pure evil!
Bane: I'm necessary evil!

Ronan the Accuser: I only ask that you take this matter seriously.
Thanos: The only matter I do not take seriously, boy, is you. Your politics bore me! Your demeanor is that of a pouting child. And apparently you alienated my favorite daughter, Gamora. I shall honor our agreement, Kree, if you bring me the Orb. But return to me again empty handed and I will bathe the star-ways with your blood.

"I'm number one, you're number two. We're criminals at large, but I'm at larger than you."

You may think you're bad
But darling, I am badder
Really, sweetie, where's the thrill in
Being just a has-been, a wannabe villain?
You're a garter snake and
I'm a big puff adder
Face it, I am so much badder than you
Disenchanted (2022), "Badder"

"I met the devil tonight. Honestly, I always thought it was me...so that's kind of disappointing."
Cipher, Fast X

    Literature 
Evil in all its myriad forms was no stranger to Targeno. Indeed, he'd courted it, wallowed in it, and had even, at times, enjoyed its seductive influence. But as he stared at Peter Carenza, he knew that he had just met something that transcended mere evil.

The image of a black rose, unfolding like a dark galaxy, appeared inexplicably in his minds eye as he stared into the face of the rough beast that slouched towards all the new Bethlehems.

Farewell, friend. I was a thousand times more evil than thou.

You are not Evil. That it what irritates me most about you, Catherine. You just ape the methods, reassuring yourself your intentions are still Good. You act like your Name is a weapon and ignore that it has a meaning. Your master is the same. Lord Black, fear of the continent. He is a rat hiding at the center of maze of traps he spent decades building. Dangerous, perhaps, but behind all the tricks he is weak. No matter how clever the traps, they will not save him from a boot. You shy away from what you are, Foundling, and Creation abhors such spineless dithering. I know what I am. I embrace it, because that is what a villain is. That is why I have power...

Gods Below, act Evil for once in your life. It's like it's a hobby with you people.

Kairos: Your play there spoiled my amusement. I was a sennight away from making a dragon from the bones of their fallen. I was going to crash it into the citadel and demand their surrender.
Black: You would have been repulsed.
Kairos: That's the problem with Praesi, these days. You worry too much about things like victory and defeat.
Black: No worry would have been necessary on your part. Victory would have been yours if your host had assaulted the walls instead of retreating.
Kairos: And how boring that would have been. I take no handouts from the Tower, Carrion Lord.
Black: We have enemies in common. Dismissing the possibility of common striving against them is counterproductive.
Kairos: You don't have a pattern of three against the White Knight, do you?
Black: Neither do you.
Kairos: Someone's hourglass is running out. Regretting taking that apprentice, are we?
Black: My decision has never been more justified.
Kairos: Spineless. You lack rage, Black Knight. If you were any more resigned to your fate you'd be licking the boots of the Heavens.
Black: There is a difference between acknowledging the possibility of failure and embracing the outcome.
Kairos: That you even accept the chance of defeat is disgusting, if you'll forgive my language, much less that you plan for it. You are a villain. We do not go gently into the night.
Black: There are graveyards full of men who thought the same. They died having accomplished nothing.
Kairos: You're scribbling on sand and calling it a legacy. Nothing that happens before or after you matters – only the decisions you make now. And those I see you make? I find lacking.
Black: Means are irrelevant. Results dictate all else.
Kairos: I despise you and everything you stand for from the bottom of my heart. Shall we work together?

    Live-Action TV 
Dalek: All inferior creatures are to be considered the enemy of the Daleks and destroyed.
Davros: No, wait! Those men are scientists, they can help you! Let them live! Have pity!
Dalek: "Pity?" I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!

"Cybermen have been exterminated! DALEKS ARE SUPREME!"
Dalek Sec, Doctor Who, "Doomsday"

To me you all score zero
My name is Emperor Nero
Evil men you're not
I’m the worstest of the lot
Nero, "Evil Emperors Song", Horrible Histories

"I hear you're wicked. Well, I'm much worse."
Peter Pan, Once Upon a Time

"The problem with trying to be the bad guy, there's always someone worse."
John Reese, Person of Interest

Donald Trump: Zimbabwe, there's a new sheriff in town!
Robert Mugabe: Wait, is this Donald Trump?
Donald Trump: Yes.
Robert Mugabe: You think you are big tough dictator? I will rip out your spine and drink from your skull! You cannot even walk downstairs you little white bitch! Don't you ever call Zimbabwe again!

Experts warn that the talks between Trump and Kim Jong Un could be risky because, well duh. Best case scenario they'll realise they're both crazy and become best friends like that movie Stepbrothers. But more than likely Donald Trump is gonna realise that he's just Twitter crazy and Kim Jong Un is crazy crazy, and there's a big ol' difference. One guy trolls Oprah online, and the other guy murdered his uncle with a cannon.

Gul Dukat: You people really do not do this very well, do you? On Cardassia, we know how to extract information, though it can get a bit... unpleasant. And we all know how The Federation dislikes unpleasantness.
Amaros: I share very few sentiments with the Federation.
Dukat: [condescending tone] Oh, that's right, you're renegades, aren't you? [chuckles] Or so you'd like to think. Unfortunately, the Federation has taught you your lessons all too well. You simply lack the commitment it takes to do what is necessary.
Amaros: You tell that to the crew of the Bok'Nor!
Dukat: Oh anyone can blow up a ship. HA! But to look your enemy in the eye, knowing you'll remember his face for the rest of your life, now that takes... a stomach, much stronger that you'll ever have.

    Multiple Media 
So this is Karzahni. Karzahni, the jailer of Matoran... Karzahni, the would-be avatar of evil... Karzahni, the fool... and soon to be a dead fool.
Makuta Teridax, BIONICLE

    Radio 
You are pathetic! You crave power and dominion, but you do not have the stomach for what it takes to achieve it. You sanitize your unpleasantness, wrap it up in baubles and trinkets and call it "the trappings of civilization," but in the end, Madame, we aspire to the same dreams...
Mr Seta, to Madame Salvadore, Big Finish Doctor Who: Dust Breeding

The Child: Look at me, plaything, look into my eyes.
Lady Livilla: No! What are you doing?
The Child: My doll. My toy.
Lady Livilla: Please! Get out of my mind!
The Child: There's not much room in here. You see power as baubles and trinkets and pretty jewelry. You see power as spite and greed. You are wrong.
Lady Livilla: What's happening to me?!
The Child: There is nothing petty about my power. My power is blind terror and death. My pretty... show us what you really are...

    Tabletop Games 
This is our galaxy. Ours to corrupt. Ours to enslave. The Gods will not be denied their prize.
Xereth, Sorcerer of the Black Legion on the Tyranids, Warhammer 40,000

Was it any surprise, then, that a Cainite of great power and majesty found the well one night? The priests of the first tribe raised their voices against him, using even the forbidden incantations, but they were as wheat before the storm. The power of his voice struck the priests dumb and silenced their cries; his gaze struck down the weak-minded and feeble. Those who were strong in body but not in mind, he ripped limb from limb, then tossed aside as long shreds of flesh. Those who were strong of mind but not of body, he commanded to rend their own bodies with long knives, and they did so. Those who were comely he forced to couple, then he melted the flesh of their bodies and their bones together; he drew forth their ribs from their bodies so that each thrust was an impalement and watched as they died. For the Cainite had witnessed their rites, and found them wanting. He had seen their rituals, and wished to show them that their depravities and atrocities were as nothing, that they were children playing at evil.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Clanbook: Baali

    Video Games 
Purge those lesser horrors!
Chaos Space Marines when attacking Tyranids, Dawn of War II

I exist to kill, Ork. You exist to die.
Chaos Space Marines when attacking Orks, Dawn of War II

Time to meet your gods, humie!
Orks when attacking Chaos Space Marines, Dawn of War II

Emperor Mateus: Trapped in a pathetic cycle of blind battles!
Garland: Drown in your petty scheme!

Now we see why you are a Lesser Evil!

The Coluan Brainiac was a genius without peer. But I. Am. A God. I could not allow an errant intellect to steal the object of my vengeance.

"We must look to the future, and that future is me, the true leader of the Underworld! Next to me, little miss Medusa's going to look like a sweet cuddly bunny."

"Listen up! You're saying the kingdom will vanish? NOT TODAY! THIS KINGDOM IS ALL MINE! SO YOU VANISH!"

"You've possessed these trinkets long enough son of Titan. Begone! Only I, Victor von Doom am worthy enough to possess them!"

Leviticus Cornwall: You robbed me, sir.
Dutch van der Linde: And you robbed him. Funny world.
Leviticus Cornwall: You show a criminals’ grasp of sophistry, sir.
Dutch van der Linde: I did no such thing. You kill, I kill. You rob, I rob... only difference I can see is I choose... whom I kill and rob... and you destroy everything in your path.
Dutch defining the difference between him and Cornwall, Red Dead Redemption 2

"I saw your mind as you ran through my prison. You have fought machines and gods. They were mighty. They were finite. I am infinite. I am nothing."
THE END dismissing all of Sonic's previous foes as weaker than it during the True Final Boss against it, Sonic Frontiers

Darth Malak: Im... Impossible. I cannot be beaten. I... am the Dark Lord of the Sith.
Darth Revan: Now you see the true Dark Lord of the Sith!
Darth Malak: ...Yes. I cannot deny it any longer. You are the one who deserves... who deserves to be the Dark Lord. You were the one who found the first Star Map on Dantooine, Revan, and it was you who led us on our quest for the Star Forge. I only followed in your wake. I tried to usurp your rule, to steal the title of Sith Master from you. But now I understand. The destiny is yours Revan. Not mine. You... you are Darth Revan, Lord... Lord of the Sith. And I... I am nothing.
Darth Revan: The apprentice has learned his final lesson.

You think yourself savages? I will show you the true meaning of savagery!
Marauder Chieftan engaging in negative diplomacy with Greenskins, Total War: Warhammer

Yer twisty Gods ain't no match for da mighty Gork and Mork!
Wurrzag, da Great Green Prophet engaging in negative Diplomacy with Warriors of Chaos, Total War: Warhammer

You think yourself sadists, but I can show you true pain, Naggarothi!
Luthor Harkon, Total War: Warhammer II

It is a small matter to control the mind of the weak... for I bear allegiance to powers untouched by time, unmoved by fate. No force on this world or beyond harbors the strength to bend our knee... not even the mighty Legion!
Harbinger Skyriss, World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

We are the Black Dragonflight. We have rained destruction upon the lands of Azeroth for thousands of years. The decrepit Cult of the Damned worships death and we shall be glad to oblige.
Serinar, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

I have been waiting for this moment. Now, I shall give Smash despair.
Sephiroth after slicing Galeem in half, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

    Webcomics 
You reforged yourself into a symbol of terror. You didn't question whose symbol EARNED that terror. You have made a mistake, little god. You will not make another.
The Void Dragon, Aurora (2019)

I am greater than you, boy. Perhaps it's time I took your place. Your sympathy holds you back, whereas I have no such weakness.
Zykan to Talzo, Kirby Adventure

...and my undead army! I mean, you think you've established a relationship with them, and then someone more evil comes along and they're all like "count who?" Jerks!

What I said there to Dorukan about overwhelming force? That's only part of Colonel Xykon's secret recipe of winning. It's not just about power, it's also about how far you're willing to debase yourself before feeling bad. And me? I ripped off my own living flesh so that I wouldn't have to admit weakness. You're strictly little league compared to that. That right there? That's the difference between bonafide true Evil with a capital "E" and your whiny "evil, but for a good cause," crap. One gets to be the butch, and one gets to be the bitchBitch.

    Web Original 
David: Yeah, Deacon Frost is a loose cannon vampire who needs to turn in his badge and get off the force, because as he rationalizes, humans are food, not friends. Which actually makes a lot of sense, and he calls out these older vampires for being total cowards pretty effectively.
Chris: Frost wants to rule the world, while the other vampires want to sit around in suits talking about bank accounts, which would make for a far less exciting movie.
Chris Sims and David Uzumeri on Blade (1998)

Masa: Congratulations, Sheridan. You actually did outdo Lucks.
Sheridan: [excitedly] Oh, yeah? How's that?
Masa: You're a bigger monster than he ever was!

    Web Videos 
Shit, making them Nazis would be an improvement.
Decker Shado regarding Major Tint and the Burmese soldiers in Rambo IV

And there are plenty of deconstructions out there that work — Watchmen, Squadron Supreme, The Mighty, Kingdom Come, just off the top of my head — but these kind of stories turn superheroes into the kind of people that even cenobites would say "Dude, could you tone it down a bit?".
Linkara, Atop the Fourth Wall, reviewing Pinhead vs. Marshal Law

It's really impressive how this is a story about an insane madman trying to take over the world, and The Government still manages to come out looking like the villains.
YouTube comment on this Count Dankula video

When I compare your antics to the fiendish schemes I revel in
They pale like the moonlight you can dance with the devil in!
The Joker to It/Pennywise the Dancing Clown, Epic Rap Battles of History

Sucker MCs. I... blew... up... a... PLANET! An entire planet! You powerless, weak-minded fools!

Hordak: Your evil is almost a match for my own!
Nostalgia Chick: I love it when evil is measurable!

Joker doesn't have shit on me, I'm way more psycho than Joker. Fuck Joker. I am the psychopath in this game!

    Western Animation 
You know, it's twerps like you that give Evil a bad name!
Evil Emperor Zurg to Norbert Clerm, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Preston Northwest: I would just like to say that, as a rich capitalist, I welcome your tyrannical rule! Perhaps I can be one of your, uh, "horsemen of the apocalypse"?
Bill Cipher: Oh, wow, that's a great offer. How about instead I shuffle the functions of every hole in your face?

Waylon Smithers: When [Mr Burns] tried to steal our sunlight, he crossed that line between everyday villainy to cartoonish supervillainy.
Dr Colossus: Bah! He was a rank amateur compared to Dr. Colossus! Oh-HA-HA! Oh-HA-HA-HA-HA!
The Simpsons, "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part 2"

You don't seem to understand. Earth isn't yours to conquer.
Omni-Man to the Flaxans, moments before destroying their entire civilization, Invincible (2021)

"Because compared to me, Heather's a saint."

Bean, I don't think I can last eternity with your mother.
Devil, Disenchantment

Blossom: This time it's serious! It's HIM!
Bubbles: You mean the "Evilest of Evil?"
Buttercup: The "Cruelest of Cruel?"

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