Quotes / Paint the Town Red

Yahtzee: Well, I picked up a Red Key there, I think. Hard to tell. 'Cause of all the blood.
Gabriel: I think it was a blue key to start with.

—Let's Drown Out Brutal Doom (game mod)

"So the merchants arrive to see blood and vomit everywhere, us hauling corpses en masse to the graveyard, a couple rampaging elephants...
"WELCOME TO FUCKING BOATMURDERED!
"Hope you like miasma!"

— Let's Play Dwarf Fortress: Boatmurdered [1]

"Time to paint the town red!"

—Peacock, Skullgirls

"We're gonna paint the whole town red -
LITERALLY!
With the blood of the dead -
LITERALLY!"

— Horrible Histories: "Literally: The Viking Song"

Some say the sword was cursed — what else could make this noble man do the things he had done? To kill, as he did, without discrimination — cutting until each village ran with an apple's depth of blood?

—from Penny Arcade, June 28, 2004

"This isn't... ...So bad. Actually... I feel pretty good... In fact... I feel like... ...I could-like I might- N-No- that I will- PAINT THE WHOLE TOWN RED!!!"

— Ava Ire/"Wrava", Ava's Demon

"And in a bulletin just in, J. Edgar Hoover says that the FBI has foiled a plot by communist sailors to 'paint the town red'."

— Captain Proton and the Planet of Lesbians

Our bodies are not a vessel for the blood of the fruit, but its prison. The beautiful guts and gorgeous bone YEARN to be shown and seen! SPLAYED! Under the divine cross of the Tree of Life, we pay it tribute through the art of violence.

THE WORLD IS YOUR CANVAS

SO TAKE UP YOUR BRUSH

AND PAINT

THE WORLD

R E D

— Book in the Garden of Forking Paths (Violence Layer), ULTRAKILL

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