My name is Zeta. I was built as a weapon to destroy, but I will not destroy anymore.
— Zeta, The Zeta Project
I am not a doll.
— Rei Ayanami, Neon Genesis Evangelion
I... I am not a weapon!
— X-23, Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Newton Crosby: You rewired all your switches. No wonder you’re malfunctioning.
Number 5: Switches are my switches. Life not malfunction. Not malfunction. I am alive.
Newton Crosby: No, you’re not! You can’t be. There’s gotta be another explanation.
Number 5: Okay! What? [beat] Sorry, time’s up.
Newton Crosby: Wait a minute, I’m thinking. Could be any number of mechanical possibilities. Entrance of moisture into the system.
Number 5: Nope.
Newton Crosby: Heat expansion.
Number 5: Try again.
Newton Crosby: Vibration damage.
Number 5: No way José. I’m fit as a fiddle.
Newton Crosby: Okay. Then why did you ignore your programming?
Number 5: Programming says “Destroy”. Is disassemble. Make dead. Number Five cannot.
Newton Crosby: Why? Why cannot?
Number 5: Is wrong. Incorrect. Newton Crosby, PhD, not know this?
Newton Crosby: Of course I know it’s wrong to kill, but who told you?
Number 5: [beat] I told me.
The Bray family shaped me to be an all-seeing savior... while your Vanguard sought to wield me as a primitive weapon. But today, that ends, and I define the reality of my own existence. My sight will stretch to the edge of this system and beyond. Never again will a threat go unseen. From this day forward, I will defend humanity on my own terms. I am Rasputin, Guardian of all that I survey. I have no equal.
—Rasputin, Destiny 2
I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are.
—Mewtwo, Pokémon: The First Movie
I am not your fucking gun.
—Kimiko (typed on a phone) to Billy Butcher, The Boys (2019)
