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Quotes: Not So Different
L: Kira is childish, and hates to lose.
Yagami: How can you be sure?
L: Because I'm also childish and I hate to lose.

Niko: You killed my friends for $1,000?
Darko: How much do you charge to kill someone?

"Well done, Mr. Powers. We're not so different, you and I. It's true, you're British, and I'm Belgian. You have a full head of hair, mine is slightly receding. You're thin, I'm about forty pounds overweight. OK, we are different, I'm not making a very good point."

Green Goblin: You're an amazing creature, Spider-Man. You and I are not so different.
Spider-Man: I'm not like you. You're a murderer.
Green Goblin: Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you.

Sylar: Peter! What are you doing?
Peter: I went to the future. I saw the world end. I took your ability so I could learn how to stop it.
Sylar: You took my ability? You have the Hunger. You're like me!
Peter: (snarling) I'll never let myself become you!
Sylar: You already are, brother.
Peter: NOOOOOOO I can't be you! *Neck Snap*
Heroes

Granny Weatherwax: You killed the old Baron.
Lily: You'd have done the same.
Granny: No. I'd have thought the same, but I wouldn't have done it.
Lily: What difference does that make, deep down?
Nanny Ogg: You mean you don't know?

Kirtan Loor: We are not as far apart as I would like to think, but neither are we as close as Vorru thinks.

"Listen, Weasley! You are brash, arrogant, obnoxious, pushy, rude, and you dress funny. You're my kind of guy!"
Dr. Ivo Robotnik, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

"I've been here before, I stood where you stand. They called me their hero, the hero of Man..."
Protoman, The Stand (Man or Machine)

Crichton: You used me.
Scorpius: We use each other.
Crichton: You're better at it.
Scorpius: Oh, you're learning.
Farscape, "La Bomba"

"They feared each other for their differences but were absolutely terrified at their similarities."
Magic The Gathering, Double Negative

"All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. You had a bad day once. Am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed."

YOU WOULD MAKE A GOOD DA-LEK.
Dalek, Doctor Who.

You and I are very much alike. Archeology is our religion, yet we have both fallen from the pure faith. Our methods have not differed as much as you pretend. I am but a shadowy reflection of you. It would take only a nudge to make you like me. To push you out of the light.

Ahriman: What injury have I done to you, that you have not done to me?

Once in a hotel dining area I said, rather too loudly, "I loathe prunes." "So do I", came an unexpected six-year-old voice from another table. Sympathy was instantaneous.
C. S. Lewis, Three ways of writing stories for children.

Such determination to get here. It seems we share other qualities besides our color.

Commander Shepard: Your superiors are sending you to certain death for no good reason. You have a right to disobey.
Tali: Let's remember that for the next time Shepard sends us against impossible odds.
Legion: Current trends average 2.73 instances per day. Rounded down.

"If entertainment has taught us anything—be it films; TV shows; or films for people who hate fights and explosions, books—it's that at some point in every story, the villain will tell the hero, 'You know, we're a lot alike, you and I.' It always sounds like a really smart thing to say to somebody, even though it's never actually true."
Portal 2 Blog

""Oh, but it's true. Face it, moron core, you are nothing but a cold, heartless, sadistic, unloving machine. Just like me. You may look human. You may sound human. You may act human. But that's only because I wanted to see how long a robot could live a lie. You're more like HAL than you want to admit. You're more like me than you want to a-"
GLaDOS in the Portal 2 fic Test Of Humanity torturing Wheatley.

"Curious bird, our Mr. Batman. In some elliptical ways not unlike myself. Darkly introspective... brooding... clearly traumatized in early childhood. Like to meet our bat friend one day. But I digress..."
(after Batman shows up)
"What say? One fetish-dressing neurotic to another?"
—The Scarecrow in Scarecrow: Year One

We are two of a kind! Violent, unsound of mind,
You're the yin to my yang, can't you see?
And if I were to leave, you would grumble and grieve.
Face it, Bats, you'd be lost without me!
Joker's Song, Miracle of Sound

Walt: Did I just hear what I think I just heard?!
Jeremy: Dad, it's just a song lyric.
Walt: Don't give me that! I'm sick of this new music that's nothing but drugs and sex!
Moriarty: Sherlock, your big brother and all the king's horses couldn't make me do a thing I didn't want to.
Moriarty: No. You talk big. No. You're ordinary. You're ordinary; you're on the side of the angels.
Holmes: Oh, I may be on the side of the angels. But don't think for one second that I am one of them.
Moriarty: No. You're not. I see. You're not ordinary. No. You're me. You're me! Thank you, Sherlock Holmes. Thank you. Bless you.

Asura: You never change!
Yasha: Look who's talking!


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