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"Among thousands of comrades and tens of thousands of enemies, you're the only one... you're the only one... who made me forget my dream. I sacrifice.''"
— Griffith, Berserk
Steely Dan: Please, I beg of you, forgive me!
Jotaro Kujo: Ask for forgiveness from Enya, the woman you killed. But as for me, I never had the slightest intention of forgiving you.
Jotaro Kujo: Ask for forgiveness from Enya, the woman you killed. But as for me, I never had the slightest intention of forgiving you.
"Earlier, I saw nobility and resolve that was hardened like a diamond, shining in your eyes. But you've fallen. Now you're just a piece of shit."
— Bruno Bucciarati to Pesci, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
"And now... The boss is now...! The most repulsive form of evil is to exploit innocent people who don't know anything, and to use others merely for one's own gain! A FATHER DID THIS TO HIS INNOCENT DAUGHTER, ALL TO COVER HIS OWN ASS!? This Is Unforgivable! You have once again betrayed my heart!"
— Bruno Bucciarati about his boss's true plan, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind
Comic Books
Lizard: I feel strange. What's that feeling?
Spider-Man: It's called shame. You killed a child. Get used to it.
Spider-Man: It's called shame. You killed a child. Get used to it.
— Shed
"I am the crime that will not be forgiven."
Fan Works
"You know you've gone too far when even the voices in your head are asking you to stop."
"You sons of bitches. Do you realize that what you've done is unforgivable? I hope you're pleased with yourselves you fucking animals!"
—Unnamed Minister, Arby 'n' the Chief, "In Memorium"
"It is through my creator's notes that I retained my knowledge of Chaos, and by proxy, the Chao. These creatures possessed incredible abilities to adapt, change and continue to grow. They absorbed other animals without remorse in their pursuit of being… "higher beings". Their hunger was seemingly infinite, their malice absent. After teleporting in, I observed them for some time from a distance. I knew I must have them. They were curious of me at first, and I of them. Their skin, soft and ripply. I pulled some fruit down from the nearby trees for them to earn their trust. And after that, it was simple.
"One by one. "Down the hatch", as they say. This garden was their sanctuary and prison. They'd nowhere to flee. I ate. And ate. And ate.
"Their life-force coated my insides, fueling the already incredible with further potential. I could feel my metal taking on the ability to adjust, and absorb, and shimmer. I wanted my own world, so I do not regret my choice. If I could, I would make the same choice all over again."
"One by one. "Down the hatch", as they say. This garden was their sanctuary and prison. They'd nowhere to flee. I ate. And ate. And ate.
"Their life-force coated my insides, fueling the already incredible with further potential. I could feel my metal taking on the ability to adjust, and absorb, and shimmer. I wanted my own world, so I do not regret my choice. If I could, I would make the same choice all over again."
— Metal Sonic, His History Revealed: A Metal Sonic Biography
She tried to crash a train! I don’t think I can emphasize that enough: she tried to crash a train!
Film — Live-Action
Ivan Korshunov: I know what you're thinking, First Lady, you want me dead. Well, it may come to that. In a war, people die.
Grace Marshall: This isn't war! You just murdered an unarmed woman!
Ivan Korshunov: You who murdered a hundred thousand Iraqis to save a nickel on a gallon of gas are going to lecture me on the rules of war? Don't!
Grace Marshall: This isn't war! You just murdered an unarmed woman!
Ivan Korshunov: You who murdered a hundred thousand Iraqis to save a nickel on a gallon of gas are going to lecture me on the rules of war? Don't!
"There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed."
—Patrick Bateman, American Psycho
"This Colonel guy? He's wacko, man! He's worse than crazy. He's evil. It's fuckin' pagan idolatry. Look around you. Shit! He's loco... I ain't afraid of all them fuckin' skulls and altars and shit. I used to think if I died in an evil place, then my soul wouldn't be able to make it to Heaven. But now? Fuck! I mean, I don't care where it goes, as long as it ain't here. So whaddya wanna do? I'll kill the fuck."
— Chef, Apocalypse Now
Reaper: It was his first mission!
Sarge: And it's not gonna be my last.
Sarge: And it's not gonna be my last.
—Doom
"There's a line you cross, you don't never come back from. Point of no return. Dave crossed it. I'm here with him. That means I'm going along for the ride, the whole ride. All the way to the end of the line, wherever that is."
— Carlito, Carlito's Way
Beat cop: You think there's been others?
Det. Will Dormer: No, but there's gonna be. This guy crossed the line... and he didn't even blink. You don't come back from that.
Det. Will Dormer: No, but there's gonna be. This guy crossed the line... and he didn't even blink. You don't come back from that.
"This is the life we chose, the life we lead. And there is only one guarantee: none of us will see heaven."
— John Rooney, Road to Perdition
"Do you ever feel evil?"
— Jacob, A Simple Plan
"Once you start down that dark path, forever it will dominate your destiny, consume you it will!"
—Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back
Niles: I don't know my way home.
David: That's okay. Neither do I.
David: That's okay. Neither do I.
Network Executive: For God's sake, Chris! The whole world is watching. We can't let him die in front of a live audience!
Christof: He was born in front of a live audience.
Christof: He was born in front of a live audience.
"You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage!"
—Ellen Ripley, Aliens
"A man like Ringo has got a great big hole right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough or steal enough or inflict enough pain to ever fill it."
—Doc Holliday, Tombstone
"I've passed the point of no return. Do you know what that is, Beth? That's the point in a journey where it's longer to go back to the beginning. It's like when those astronauts got in trouble. I don't know, somebody messed up, and they had to get them back to Earth. But they had passed the point of no return. They were on the other side of the moon and were out of contact for like hours. Everybody waited to see if a bunch of dead guys in a can would pop out the other side. Well, that's me. I'm on the other side of the moon now and everybody is going to have to wait until I pop out."
—Bill Foster, Falling Down
Literature
"There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men bad enough for such treachery. Down with Saruman!"
—Treebeard, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Javert had nothing but disdain, aversion, and disgust for all those who, if only once, had overstepped the bounds of the law... of them he would say, "They are irremediably lost, no good can come of them."
"Unlike you, Mr. Merle, I don't draw artificial lines. I've never quite understood people who did. I've known dope dealers who drew the line at rape. I've known killers who drew the line at dealing drugs. I've never understood any of them. Once one crosses the line of morality any further distinctions are arbitrary and capricious."
— Diego Vasquez, Recoil by Brian Garfield
"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it- whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."
—Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird
"Lorgar of Colchis. You may consider the following. One: I entirely withdraw my previous offer of solemn ceasefire. It is cancelled, and will not be made again, to you or to any other of your motherless bastards. Two: you are no longer any brother of mine. I will find you, I will kill you, and I will hurl your toxic corpse into hell’s mouth."
—Roboute Guilliman, Horus Heresy: Know No Fear
Live-Action TV
"President Clark has violated the Earth Alliance Constitution by dissolving the Senate, declaring martial law, and personally ordering the bombing of civilian targets on the Mars Colony. He is personally responsible for the deaths of hundreds of innocent people!"
— John Sheridan, Babylon 5, "Severed Dreams"
"The final shot of the season, is more of a revelation really, of who this man has become, and the lengths that he'll go to, to get whatever he wants."
Davos: You burned a little girl alive!
Melisandre: I only do what my Lord commands!
Davos: If He commands you to burn children, your Lord is evil!
Melisandre: I only do what my Lord commands!
Davos: If He commands you to burn children, your Lord is evil!
"There isn't anything you could say that would make me feel sorry for you."
"No human being (and by extension, no Cardassian) is one hundred percent pure evil. But there is a 'critical mass', if you will, where the dark deeds attributed to one person become so overwhelming that they swamp all the redeeming characteristics."
— Ron D. Moore on Gul Dukat, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
"If you open that box... there will be no redemption for you, no redemption. Ever."
— Lionel Luthor, Smallville, "Descent"
Tony Soprano: [Referring to Ralph beating a stripper pregnant with his child to death] She 'fell'?
Ralph Cifaretto: That's my story.
Tony Soprano: [Swats Ralph's drink out of his hand] You stupid motherfucker, HOW FUCKIN' DARE YOU?!
Ralph Cifaretto: That's my story.
Tony Soprano: [Swats Ralph's drink out of his hand] You stupid motherfucker, HOW FUCKIN' DARE YOU?!
— The Sopranos, "University"
Music
I'm falling and I can't turn back
Professional Wrestling
"The Undertaker's gone too far! Stephanie McMahon, Ryan Shamrock; this is too much!"
—Jim Ross, referring to the Undertaker having kidnapped both women in question at different times when he was leading the Ministry of Darkness.
Tabletop Games
I didn't fire because she was brandishing a weapon at me, or because she was advancing. I fired because the child's face had been cut off and replaced by an ill-fitting mask that didn't quite cover the bloody mess underneath. None of the invaders had been there long enough to do something like that.
A police officer facing a Slasher, "Hunter: The Vigil"
Theatre
I am in blood
Stepped in so far that should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
Stepped in so far that should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
— Macbeth, Act III, Scene 4
Video Games
"You taught me that Justice is a contract. Once broken, it can never be mended. You sacrificed so much to preserve the innocent, but to the guilty, you offered no mercy. I loved my mother, and I never wanted to hurt her. But with what she did to us, she gave up the right to exist."
— Eleanor Lamb, if the player chose to Pay Evil unto Evil, BioShock 2
Lilith: What kind of person would do this to their own daughter?
Roland: The kind of guy who deserves to die.
Roland: The kind of guy who deserves to die.
Tarkus: I had hoped you might see the reason of my actions.
Avitus: You are beyond hope, Tarkus!
Tarkus: Yes... I suppose I am.
Avitus: You are beyond hope, Tarkus!
Tarkus: Yes... I suppose I am.
— Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising
"This is not a time for mourning, this is a time to dry our tears and draw our weapons! There can be no pity for the pitiless! Save redemption for those that seek it!"
— Brother Malachi the Healer, Diablo III, following the death of Deckard Cain at Maghda's hands
"That's why I should quit this journey. Before I do something terrible. But I am going... he destroyed my hometown five years ago, killed Aeris and and is now trying to destroy the Planet. I'll never forgive... Sephiroth."
— Cloud, Final Fantasy VII
"The darkness in their hearts overtook them."
—Aqua commenting on Lady Tremaine and her daughters following their being killed by the Unversed they summoned to kill Cinderella, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
"Once you've fallen that far, there's almost no coming back."
— Riku, after Frollo explains his plan to use the Wargoyle Dream Eater to pass judgment onto the Gypsies, Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance]
"What kind of whackjob waterboards Chip 'n Dale? That makes Guyliner here like, the most uncoolest dude ever!"
— Juliet Starling, in response to the previous screen, which lists one of Zed's influences as "torturing small animals." Lollipop Chainsaw
"I've seen some serious crap, but this is straight-up evil."
— Pathfinder Ryder upon discovering what kett exaltation is, Mass Effect: Andromeda
"Betrayer... Akachi wore that title unfairly. You, however, have earned it!"
— Safiya, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer, after the Player Character chooses to become a soul-devouring deity
"As an academic, I must confess that the history of the dark arts intrigues me. But to put them into practice? This is truly beyond the pale!"
— Cyrus, Octopath Traveler
"Your decision was monstrous, but there can be no turning back now..."
— Persona 4 Golden, Accomplice Ending
"Any reason for me to forgive you has disappeared without a trace at this very moment... You aren't some rotten artist... You're a despicable fiend, who wears the skin of an artist!"
— Yusuke Kitagawa, Persona 5, to Ichiryusai Madarame, upon learning that he let Yusuke's mother die so that he could pass her final painting, Sayuri, off as his own for profit.
"Blackwatch cornered him at Penn Station. With his back to the wall, he unleashed the virus on Manhattan. What Mercer did is beyond forgiveness."
— The Blacklight Virus, [PROTOTYPE]
"Well, if THAT doesn't get us into Hell, nothing will."
— Max, in Sam & Max: Freelance Police: What's New, Beelzebub?
"Lord Galcian, so many innocent people died by your hand. Women and children... bled to death in the streets... as an Admiral in the Armada, I feel that I am responsible for their deaths... as much as you are."
— Belleza, Skies of Arcadia
Sly: But she [Jing King] doesn't want to marry you!
General Tsao: She's a woman, she doesn't know up from down. Once I "convinced" her father to take up meditation, she was ripe for the picking.
Sly: I've faced a lot of bad men in my time, but you sir, are the worst.
General Tsao: She's a woman, she doesn't know up from down. Once I "convinced" her father to take up meditation, she was ripe for the picking.
Sly: I've faced a lot of bad men in my time, but you sir, are the worst.
"You are about to cross a terrible threshold, Krom'gar. May the Earth Mother have mercy on your soul."
— High Chieftain Cliffwalker, to Overlord Krom'gar before he blows up a Night Elf settlement, World of Warcraft
"We are past the point of peace. Past hope for their redemption. The only mercy we have left to offer the black flight is the oblivion that they so passionately pursue."
— Lirastraza, "Blackout" quest description, World of Warcraft
The Lich King demands too much! Tirion Fordring deserves more than a life of anguish and undeath!
Know this, Deathlord... I will obey your will, but there will be no redemption for what we are about to do.
The Silver Hand will never hand Tirion to us. The path to the Fourth Horseman will be soaked in righteous blood!
Blood that will stain our hands forever.
Your will be done, Deathlord. I will begin the preparations to invade Light's Hope. If this is what it takes to save our world, so be it!
Know this, Deathlord... I will obey your will, but there will be no redemption for what we are about to do.
The Silver Hand will never hand Tirion to us. The path to the Fourth Horseman will be soaked in righteous blood!
Blood that will stain our hands forever.
Your will be done, Deathlord. I will begin the preparations to invade Light's Hope. If this is what it takes to save our world, so be it!
— Highlord Darion Mograine, "The Fourth Horseman" quest description, World of Warcraft
"I will never forgive what he's done."
—Dunban, on Mumkhar, Xenoblade Chronicles 1
"if we're really friends... you won't come back."
—Sans after tricking a Genocide run player into lowering their guard and then killing them, Undertale
Visual Novels
"That is why I cannot forgive the culprit. Not that murderers ever deserved it, but... killing one of our close friends was absolutely unforgivable!"
— Tsurugi Kinjo, Danganronpa Another
Lord Elric: I always knew that you were weak and venal, Tialo. But to raise a hand to your own kin... You are not only unfit for rule, but unfit to live among us. With all gathered here as witnesses, I abjure you, Tialo. I disavow you as my son and heir.
Tialo: Father, no! You— you can't!
Lady Thalissa: You put your own petty grievances before the safety of your people! This bed is solely of your making, Tialo. And now you will lie in it.
—Nightbound, regarding how Tialo attempted to murder his half-sibling (and putting everyone at risk in the process), out of petty jealousy.
Web Animation
"...the writer should make the villain commit atrocities so horrible that even an episode of Terrible Writing Advice can’t make funny."
"But when we see the capstone in this series, the final instalment in this grand trilogy, we can no longer have any doubt: Kratos is just an evil git with no redeeming qualities."
"You've gone too far this time, Carl!"
"What's that? It's hard to hear you over the sound of melting city!"
"What's that? It's hard to hear you over the sound of melting city!"
Qrow: Running away was one thing, but this? You've crossed the line.
Raven: Sorry, brother. Sometimes family disappoints you like that.
Raven: Were we ever?
Qrow: I thought so. But I guess I was wrong.
— RWBY
"People tell me to fear hell, but there comes a point where you’ve done such awful things, that you have to wonder if the devil will welcome you as a friend when you arrive."
— Mickey, Ethereal Snake (Mickey never came back)
Webcomics
"Sam tried to apologize. I'll give him credit for seeming sincere. But I warned him that he crossed a line that was extremely difficult and doubtful I could ever forgive. I promptly returned the ring and we officially broke up."
— Ki, General Protection Fault
"So therefore, you're just going to continue following me and doing whatever I order you to do. Because as long as you're loyal to me, I'll let you pretend this never happened. We'll just go about our daily business, and you can hide from the horrifying truth of what you've become — namely, a murderer who just killed his own baby brother in cold blood. And hey, we can both pretend that you don't really have any options about any of the despicable actions I ask you to take from here on out — rather than acknowledging that, like Right-Eye, you do in fact have a choice. But unlike Right-Eye there, you're too chickenshit to ever make it. You'll obey me forever now, because I give you an excuse for your inexcusable behaviour."
—Xykon, The Order of the Stick: Start of Darkness
"Our alliance with Xykon is one of the most powerful tools we have, and we cannot afford to screw that up. That does NOT mean we should trust him. I know he seems funny and charming, but when you see for yourself the depths to which he'll sink — you will never sleep again."
"[A] person is almost always forgivable... 'Almost' being the key word here. But you have passed that point of no return now, and I will never forgive you for what you've done here tonight. Trying to kill an innocent person out of greed... You are incapable of redemption."
—Mitch Marks, Suicide for Hire
Web Original
There can be multiple levels of a dick move. Level one is something minor and insignificant (i.e: Like throwing someone's external HD into the bathtub). Level two is something like that asshole in charge of the Titanic who let it sink, and level three is on par with 9/11.
Some argue that the Holocaust was a Level 4 dick move, but others argue that it was just plain a shitty thing to do.
Some argue that the Holocaust was a Level 4 dick move, but others argue that it was just plain a shitty thing to do.
"I've met some scumbags in my life, but every scumbag I've met (but Brett Keane) has a bottom. You figure out their scumbaggery and you go: 'Oh, okay. That's his deal.' Every time I think Brett Keane has hit bottom, he fucking mines his way into another chamber below it."
—Paul, Drunken Peasants
"I guess if you have to top Santa Claus raping someone's mother, this is the way to go. I mean, if you HAVE to. And no one needs to do that, really."
—Jared von Hindman, Head Injury Theater
Tommy: Why, Dream? Couldn't you have just– couldn't you have just burned the discs? Couldn't you have just done it to me? Why did you have to–
Dream: Oh, this is much more fun.
Tommy: You're a monster.
Dream: Okay. […] Well, I think I'm gonna go far from here for a little while, just to avoid the wave of frustration that I'm sure you'll have.
Tommy: This is too far. You've crossed– You know you're a monster. You've crossed the line.
Dream: Oh, this is much more fun.
Tommy: You're a monster.
Dream: Okay. […] Well, I think I'm gonna go far from here for a little while, just to avoid the wave of frustration that I'm sure you'll have.
Tommy: This is too far. You've crossed– You know you're a monster. You've crossed the line.
— The aftermath of the Doomsday War, Dream SMP
"I nearly fell backward at the realization. God’s throne was comprised of the fused bodies of nearly a third of the angels who rebelled against him and failed. Now they were being made to be eternally tortured. I tried to rationalize God’s justifications for this Disproportionate Retribution, but no logical answer would suffice. There were no excuses for what God had done."
"Why isn't this character on Most Evil Villain Ever Lists? He's literally like, 'Fuck dying children'."
— Rob Walker on Steele from Balto
"And thus, Rasso comes screaming from behind to catapult to neck-and-neck with the rest of the pack for title of "Most Horrifically Evil." For now. Dude just butchered a village of children. For fun. The fact that this is only temporary competition for the title should tell you something."
— This
Let’s Play of Breath of Fire IV.
Let’s Play of Breath of Fire IV."And then... ohh, boy, this is probably the worst thing this man ever did. So, he got this lady and her baby up here. So, she's like, 'Please, please just spare my child!' And Dio's like, 'Uh heh! Bitch, please! Who do you think I is, yo' baby daddy? I ain't got time to take care of yo' damn kid!' So, he turns her into a zombie... AND MAKES HER EAT HER BABY! […] This is the most demonic shit I have ever seen, besi- besides when Buu faded niggas in Heaven, this is right behind it! What... the actual fuck?!"
Western Animation
"She smiled... I was choking... she looked straight at me, and she smiled. That woman is evil personified..."
— Darwin Watterson on Margaret Robinson, The Amazing World of Gumball
Gumball: ...Am I going too far?
Darwin: No, no, no. You went too far about seven hours ago. Now, you're going to prison.
Darwin: No, no, no. You went too far about seven hours ago. Now, you're going to prison.
"I always knew the Fire Lord was a bad guy, but his plan is just pure evil!"
— Sokka, Avatar: The Last Airbender
"Princess, you have gone and worked my last nerve! I have no other choice. You are so rotten, so despicable, so naughty, I'm putting you on the... PERMANENT! NAUGHTY! PLAQUE! Bum bum bummmmmmmmm!"
— Santa Claus, The Powerpuff Girls (1998), "'Twas the Fight Before Christmas"
"Wily's really gone over the edge this time!"
— Mega Man, Ruby Spears' Mega Man
"No one in their right minds would ever confuse Peter and Lois Griffin for Good Parents. But in 'Go, Stewie, Go!', they are borderline criminal."
— The Parents Television Council
"This is a very important episode in the South Park library because it did definitely change Cartman. I mean, it took him from kind of a little shithead to probably the most evil kid in the world."
— Trey Parker on Cartman's victory in "Scott Tenorman Must Die"
Kyle: Dude, I think it might be best for us to never piss Cartman off again.
Stan: Good call.
Stan: Good call.
— South Park, "Scott Tenorman Must Die", after you-know-what (Cartman grinding Tenorman's parents into chili and making him eat it while Radiohead mocks him. In case you didn't know.)
