Anime/Manga
Ryuko Matoi: Your party is over, Satsuki Kiryuin! Let everyone go, or else!
Ragyo Kiryuin: Well, well... You must be Ryuko Matoi?
Ryuko: Bite me!
Ragyo: And I take it that is Kamui Senketsu, the end product of Isshin Matoi's futile efforts. It's quite lovely.
Ryuko: So you're Ragyo Kiryuin, just like your daughter, a big shot with a big mouth!
Ragyo: How droll. Perhaps you do not realize who you are talking to. I am Ragyo Kiryuin, head of the Kiryu— [Satsuki Kiryuin suddenly stabs Ragyo from behind with Bakuzan] AH! What is the meaning of this?
Satsuki Kiryuin: The time for speeches is over. [jams her sword deeper into Ragyo's heart, then outright crucifies her] Hear me, Director! As of this moment, Honnouji Academy and I are putting an end to your reign!
Ryuko: What the hell?
Nui Harime (shocked at first, but now impressed): Oh, so that's her game.
Ragyo: Are you trying to take the throne from me?
Satsuki: No, I'm not! People do not live for the sake of clothing, I, Satsuki Kiryuin, am rising up to overthrow the Life Fibers. I did not create Honnouji Academy for you, but to destroy you. Remember that, Ragyo Kiryuin!
Ragyo Kiryuin: Well, well... You must be Ryuko Matoi?
Ryuko: Bite me!
Ragyo: And I take it that is Kamui Senketsu, the end product of Isshin Matoi's futile efforts. It's quite lovely.
Ryuko: So you're Ragyo Kiryuin, just like your daughter, a big shot with a big mouth!
Ragyo: How droll. Perhaps you do not realize who you are talking to. I am Ragyo Kiryuin, head of the Kiryu— [Satsuki Kiryuin suddenly stabs Ragyo from behind with Bakuzan] AH! What is the meaning of this?
Satsuki Kiryuin: The time for speeches is over. [jams her sword deeper into Ragyo's heart, then outright crucifies her] Hear me, Director! As of this moment, Honnouji Academy and I are putting an end to your reign!
Ryuko: What the hell?
Nui Harime (shocked at first, but now impressed): Oh, so that's her game.
Ragyo: Are you trying to take the throne from me?
Satsuki: No, I'm not! People do not live for the sake of clothing, I, Satsuki Kiryuin, am rising up to overthrow the Life Fibers. I did not create Honnouji Academy for you, but to destroy you. Remember that, Ragyo Kiryuin!
Comic Books
Lobo: Your men would still be breathin' if you'd only been polite when I walked in. Still, I showed you mercy. I just hope you showed your dancers more courtesy...
[hands gun over to dancer]
Crimelord: N-now, Suchin, let's not be hasty...! If I ever hurt any of you girls, it was only because—
[shooting noises]
[hands gun over to dancer]
Crimelord: N-now, Suchin, let's not be hasty...! If I ever hurt any of you girls, it was only because—
[shooting noises]
"You humiliated me in school. You attacked my friends! You took me from my family!! I have all the power you ever dreamed of! My Kryptonian cells are supercharged with the light of a million billion suns! And I'm not going to let you destroy the 3rd dimension!"
Morph: I've had it with you, you sick, depraved sack of #$%&! You murdering spineless narcissistic blob!
Mojo: I hope someone is filming this! We need a special for the sweeps!
[Morph grows Thing-sized fists and sucker-punches Mojo to the ground]
Morph: You won't be around to see that, Mojo! You're just going to have to pay real close attention right now! But I promise — this'll be a real barn-burner! Your big star is really going to deliver a show! It's called The Death of Mojo!
Mojo: I hope someone is filming this! We need a special for the sweeps!
[Morph grows Thing-sized fists and sucker-punches Mojo to the ground]
Morph: You won't be around to see that, Mojo! You're just going to have to pay real close attention right now! But I promise — this'll be a real barn-burner! Your big star is really going to deliver a show! It's called The Death of Mojo!
— Exiles #19: So Lame Part 2
First Mook: Lord Xadu. In your passion, you've returned to our native tongue. The crew finds your words... disturbing. There's much to answer for.
Xa-Du: What?! I answer for nothing! My escape is the only thing that could give your mundane flesh meaning!
Second Mook: We sacrificed our bodies in hopes of freedom. Your hope was a lie.
Third Mook: But we're all criminals here. We're taking our sacrifices back — piece by piece.
Xa-Du: What?! I answer for nothing! My escape is the only thing that could give your mundane flesh meaning!
Second Mook: We sacrificed our bodies in hopes of freedom. Your hope was a lie.
Third Mook: But we're all criminals here. We're taking our sacrifices back — piece by piece.
Nadira: The General and Faora are having a tantrum.
Az-Rel: Something must have upset their grand plan.
Nadira: Why should we care?
Az-Rel: Because now we can repay their treatment of us.
Az-Rel: Something must have upset their grand plan.
Nadira: Why should we care?
Az-Rel: Because now we can repay their treatment of us.
Fan Fiction
"She was mad and that was true, however, someone can only put up with abuse for so long".
— Satsuki "Dove" Kiryuuin, Kiryuuin Chronicles, chapter 9
Essa 412 had abandoned my body, assuming it was too badly damaged to save, even through morphing. And now it was a helpless blob of tissue on the floor, and I was a sixteen-foot-long apex predator capable of strangling a buffalo in its coils.
And when I flicked my forked tongue out between my fangs, I could literally smell its fear.
Funny, how tiny the monster looked as it scrunched and slid its body in a laughably futile attempt to escape across the deck.
In a motion too fast for human eyes to follow I snapped my neck forward. I sank my fangs into the yeerk, deep enough that my teeth clicked together clear through the slug's body. Not letting go until I felt the venom sacs empty enough neurotoxin to kill a full-grown elephant into that tiny murderer. I let Essa 412 fall back to the floor, watching as the yeerk stiffened and shriveled.
And when I flicked my forked tongue out between my fangs, I could literally smell its fear.
Funny, how tiny the monster looked as it scrunched and slid its body in a laughably futile attempt to escape across the deck.
In a motion too fast for human eyes to follow I snapped my neck forward. I sank my fangs into the yeerk, deep enough that my teeth clicked together clear through the slug's body. Not letting go until I felt the venom sacs empty enough neurotoxin to kill a full-grown elephant into that tiny murderer. I let Essa 412 fall back to the floor, watching as the yeerk stiffened and shriveled.
— Tom's narration, Eleutherophobia: The Day the Earth Stood Still
Film — Animated
Scar: Ah, my friends...
Shenzi: Friends? I thought he said we were the enemy.
Banzai: Yeah. That's what I heard.
(Scar's eyes widen with horror)
Both: Ed?
(Ed giggles maniacally as he and the other hyenas begin to approach Scar, licking their chops.)
Scar: No! L-L-Let me explain! No, you don't understand! No, I didn't mean it! I—No! No! Look, I'm sorry I called you—No! NO! (They all leap at him at once and attack and maul him to death)
Shenzi: Friends? I thought he said we were the enemy.
Banzai: Yeah. That's what I heard.
(Scar's eyes widen with horror)
Both: Ed?
(Ed giggles maniacally as he and the other hyenas begin to approach Scar, licking their chops.)
Scar: No! L-L-Let me explain! No, you don't understand! No, I didn't mean it! I—No! No! Look, I'm sorry I called you—No! NO! (They all leap at him at once and attack and maul him to death)
Woody: Reach for the sky!
Sid: Huh?
Woody: This town ain't big enough for the two of us.
Sid: What?
Woody: Somebody's poisoned the water hole!
Sid: It's busted.
Woody: [still as if through his speaker] Who are you calling "busted", buster? [as Sid turns him around to discover that his drawstring was never drawn] That's right, I'm talking to you, Sid Phillips.
Sid: [shocked yelp]
Woody: We don't like being blown up, Sid. Or smashed. Or ripped apart.
Sid: We?
Woody: That's right, your toys.
[All the toys Sid has mutilated rise from various places and approach Sid, terrifying him]
Woody: From now on, you must take good care of your toys, because if you don't, we'll find out, Sid. [turning his head 360 degrees] We toys can see eeeeeeveryyyyyyyyyythingggggggg. [actual voice] So play nice.
[Sid throws Woody onto the ground screaming before running back into the house]
Sid: Huh?
Woody: This town ain't big enough for the two of us.
Sid: What?
Woody: Somebody's poisoned the water hole!
Sid: It's busted.
Woody: [still as if through his speaker] Who are you calling "busted", buster? [as Sid turns him around to discover that his drawstring was never drawn] That's right, I'm talking to you, Sid Phillips.
Sid: [shocked yelp]
Woody: We don't like being blown up, Sid. Or smashed. Or ripped apart.
Sid: We?
Woody: That's right, your toys.
[All the toys Sid has mutilated rise from various places and approach Sid, terrifying him]
Woody: From now on, you must take good care of your toys, because if you don't, we'll find out, Sid. [turning his head 360 degrees] We toys can see eeeeeeveryyyyyyyyyythingggggggg. [actual voice] So play nice.
[Sid throws Woody onto the ground screaming before running back into the house]
[Woody throws Daisy's tag over to Big Baby after calling out Lotso on his lies and selfishness]
Big Baby: [picks up the tag, sobs] Mama?
Lotso: [snatches the tag away while rolling his eyes] What? You want your mommy back!? She never loved you! Don't be such a BABY! [Lotso smashes the tag with his mallet, causing Big Baby to cry] Push 'em in! All of 'em! [Stretch reluctantly and slowly does so] This is what happens when you DUMMIES try to think! [Lotso violently pokes Big Baby with his mallet, an act that visibly shocks Twitch and Sparks] WE'RE ALL JUST TRASH, WAITING TO BE THROWN AWAY! THAT'S ALL A TOY IS! [Cue Big Baby picking up Lotso] Hey! Stop it! Put me down, you idiot! [Big Baby throws a screaming Lotso into the dumpster] No, wait a minute... Big Baby, wait—
[Big Baby slams the lid in Lotso's face, while everyone stares at the dumpster in Stunned Silence]
Rex: He's gone!
Mr. Potato Head: Holy cow!
[Big Baby blows a raspberry]
Big Baby: [picks up the tag, sobs] Mama?
Lotso: [snatches the tag away while rolling his eyes] What? You want your mommy back!? She never loved you! Don't be such a BABY! [Lotso smashes the tag with his mallet, causing Big Baby to cry] Push 'em in! All of 'em! [Stretch reluctantly and slowly does so] This is what happens when you DUMMIES try to think! [Lotso violently pokes Big Baby with his mallet, an act that visibly shocks Twitch and Sparks] WE'RE ALL JUST TRASH, WAITING TO BE THROWN AWAY! THAT'S ALL A TOY IS! [Cue Big Baby picking up Lotso] Hey! Stop it! Put me down, you idiot! [Big Baby throws a screaming Lotso into the dumpster] No, wait a minute... Big Baby, wait—
[Big Baby slams the lid in Lotso's face, while everyone stares at the dumpster in Stunned Silence]
Rex: He's gone!
Mr. Potato Head: Holy cow!
[Big Baby blows a raspberry]
That's it! I've had it! I hate to be dramatic
But it's time for me to fly the coop
Terrific! Fine! I'm drawing the line
before I wind up in a parrot's soup
I was a fool to let you run the show
I'm cutting you loose, pal! Look out below!
Arrivederci! C'est la vie!
Hope all goes well! I'm looking out for me!
But it's time for me to fly the coop
Terrific! Fine! I'm drawing the line
before I wind up in a parrot's soup
I was a fool to let you run the show
I'm cutting you loose, pal! Look out below!
Arrivederci! C'est la vie!
Hope all goes well! I'm looking out for me!
— Iago, Aladdin: The Return of Jafar
Bradley: Congratulations, Max. I haven't forgotten our agreement.
Max: The bet's off, Bradley. But I think you owe him something.
Tank: Brad! Hi, it's me, the guy you let down.
Bradley: H-Hey, T-Tank! Who loves ya, baby, huh?
Tank: (growls) You're goin' down like a four-cent pair of socks.
Bradley: You and me, baby, all the way!
Tank: (grabs Bradley by a wedgie) Oh, a vacancy at the Gamma house, takin' applications.
Bradley: Okay! Let go of me, you big, fat jerk!
Tank: Time to get on the last jet... (fires Bradley towards the X Games blimp) TO NOWHERE!
Max: The bet's off, Bradley. But I think you owe him something.
Tank: Brad! Hi, it's me, the guy you let down.
Bradley: H-Hey, T-Tank! Who loves ya, baby, huh?
Tank: (growls) You're goin' down like a four-cent pair of socks.
Bradley: You and me, baby, all the way!
Tank: (grabs Bradley by a wedgie) Oh, a vacancy at the Gamma house, takin' applications.
Bradley: Okay! Let go of me, you big, fat jerk!
Tank: Time to get on the last jet... (fires Bradley towards the X Games blimp) TO NOWHERE!
Film — Live-Action
Secretary Delacourt: You idiot! Do you realize what you've done? You crashed an unlicensed vehicle into a suburban area. Your orders were to keep this covert. Do you even remember what that means?! [Kruger punches a mirror] Have you completely lost your mind?! You're useless to me! If the administration realized what we're doing, they'll hang us both for treason! [Kruger chuckles] For God's sake, Kruger, are you listening to me?
Agent Kruger: Yes... Yes, I'm listening. I'm sorry that we crashed the vehicle and ruined someone's lawn. But no one's going to hang us for treason. We do the hanging... [stabs Delacourt in the throat with a mirror shard]
Agent Kruger: Yes... Yes, I'm listening. I'm sorry that we crashed the vehicle and ruined someone's lawn. But no one's going to hang us for treason. We do the hanging... [stabs Delacourt in the throat with a mirror shard]
— Elysium
"What do you get when you cross a mentally-ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash? I'll tell you what you get — YOU GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE!"
— Arthur Fleck/The Joker, Joker (2019), moments before shooting Murray Franklin
Carrigan: DIBBS! Get this thing cooking, you blasted little worm!
Dibbs: Ahh, Carrigan. How kind of you to drop in. You know, if there's one thing I've learned from you, it's "always kick 'em when they're down" and baby, you're six feet under. Oh, what a shame. [removes the serum from the Lazarus machine and prepares to throw it to the ground] Sorry, sweetheart, we're through.
Carrigan: I am not going to forget this, you ungrateful, lousy little worm, you!
Dibbs: [laughs sarcastically] You can haunt me all you want, but it's going to be in a great, big, expensive house, with lovely purple wallpaper, and great big green carpets. And a little dog, named Carrigan — a bitch! Just. Like. You!
Dibbs: Ahh, Carrigan. How kind of you to drop in. You know, if there's one thing I've learned from you, it's "always kick 'em when they're down" and baby, you're six feet under. Oh, what a shame. [removes the serum from the Lazarus machine and prepares to throw it to the ground] Sorry, sweetheart, we're through.
Carrigan: I am not going to forget this, you ungrateful, lousy little worm, you!
Dibbs: [laughs sarcastically] You can haunt me all you want, but it's going to be in a great, big, expensive house, with lovely purple wallpaper, and great big green carpets. And a little dog, named Carrigan — a bitch! Just. Like. You!
— Casper
Swackhammer: Losers!
Monstars: (resignedly) Sorry.
Swackhammer: Choke artists!
Monstars: Sorry again.
Swackhammer: Wait 'til I you back on Moron Mountain! (presses his foot into Bupkus' out of spite) All right, the party's over! Get in the spaceship!
Michael Jordan: (to the Monstars) Why do you take it from this guy?
Bupkus: Because he's bigger!
Pound: He's bigger…!
Bang: Than we used… to be.
(The Monstars realize what that means, and turn their heads to Swackhammer, angry glares aplenty)
Swackhammer: (looking scared) What're you doin'? (The Monstars collectively grab and restrain Swackhammer) Hey! Wait! What're you doin'!? Wait, what… what—!? (The Monstars stuff Swackhammer into a tiny rocket and send him flying to the moon screaming, as Bugs and Wile E. look on proudly and as the Monstars happily wave Swackhammer goodbye)
Monstars: (resignedly) Sorry.
Swackhammer: Choke artists!
Monstars: Sorry again.
Swackhammer: Wait 'til I you back on Moron Mountain! (presses his foot into Bupkus' out of spite) All right, the party's over! Get in the spaceship!
Michael Jordan: (to the Monstars) Why do you take it from this guy?
Bupkus: Because he's bigger!
Pound: He's bigger…!
Bang: Than we used… to be.
(The Monstars realize what that means, and turn their heads to Swackhammer, angry glares aplenty)
Swackhammer: (looking scared) What're you doin'? (The Monstars collectively grab and restrain Swackhammer) Hey! Wait! What're you doin'!? Wait, what… what—!? (The Monstars stuff Swackhammer into a tiny rocket and send him flying to the moon screaming, as Bugs and Wile E. look on proudly and as the Monstars happily wave Swackhammer goodbye)
Jokes
Bruce: Alfred, this has to be the worst sandwich I've ever eaten.
Alfred: Master Bruce, do you know what I did to the last person to insult my cooking?
Bruce: No.
Alfred: I hired a small-time crook to shoot her and her husband in front of their son as they came back from the movies.
Alfred: Master Bruce, do you know what I did to the last person to insult my cooking?
Bruce: No.
Alfred: I hired a small-time crook to shoot her and her husband in front of their son as they came back from the movies.
— Batman joke
Literature
"For the treachery of the Empire against the Noghri people. We were betrayed. We have been avenged."
— Rukh, after stabbing Thrawn, The Last Command
[It] is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. [...] Nevertheless a prince ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he does not win love, he avoids hatred.
— Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
William Hamleigh: Betrayed! By my own wife!
Bishop Waleran: You kick a dog and some day it may bite you.
Bishop Waleran: You kick a dog and some day it may bite you.
After ten minutes of standing in line behind this noisy little asshole and his friends, I felt the bile rising. Where did this cop — of all people — get the nerve to argue with anybody in terms of Right & Reason? I had been there with these fuzzy little shitheads — and so, I sensed, had the desk clerk. He had the air of a man who'd been fucked around, in his time, by a fairly good cross-section of mean-tempered rule-crazy cops...
So now he was just giving their argument right back to them: it doesn't matter who's right or wrong, man... or who's paid his bill & who hasn't... what matters here is that for the first time in my life, I can work out on a pig: "Fuck you, officer, I'm in charge here, and I'm telling you we don't have room for you."
So now he was just giving their argument right back to them: it doesn't matter who's right or wrong, man... or who's paid his bill & who hasn't... what matters here is that for the first time in my life, I can work out on a pig: "Fuck you, officer, I'm in charge here, and I'm telling you we don't have room for you."
PoH: ... Yeah... that's more like it. But... this isn't the end. I might log out of this world, but I'll always come back to threaten you, over and over again, until I've slit you and Flash's throats and carved out your hearts...
Kirito: No, this is the end. You won't be logging out of the Underworld. [PoH starts turning into a tree] This sword was originally a huge tree that the people of Rulid called the Gigas Cedar. For two hundred years, they chopped at it with their axes, to no avail. I sent the memory of this sword into your body. When they see the Chinese and Korean players are logging out, your friends will resume the time acceleration. I don't know if it'll be years or decades until you're left out of the STL, but you'd better pray it's on the shorter side. If some enterprising frontiersman starts a village here, you might have children coming to chop you down with an ax.
Kirito: No, this is the end. You won't be logging out of the Underworld. [PoH starts turning into a tree] This sword was originally a huge tree that the people of Rulid called the Gigas Cedar. For two hundred years, they chopped at it with their axes, to no avail. I sent the memory of this sword into your body. When they see the Chinese and Korean players are logging out, your friends will resume the time acceleration. I don't know if it'll be years or decades until you're left out of the STL, but you'd better pray it's on the shorter side. If some enterprising frontiersman starts a village here, you might have children coming to chop you down with an ax.
Teacher: Marcia, I'm glad to see you were able to come in today. I heard about your father. I'm sure he will be out of the hospital soon.
Marcia: Not too soon, I hope. Otherwise I'll have to hit him again.
Teacher: ...
Marcia: Not too soon, I hope. Otherwise I'll have to hit him again.
Teacher: ...
Live-Action TV
Ramsay: Ah. Sansa. Hello, Sansa. Is this where I'll be staying now? No. Our time together is about to come to an end. That's all right. You can't kill me. I'm part of you now.
Sansa: Your words will disappear. Your house will disappear. Your name will disappear. All memory of you will disappear. [whistles]
Ramsay: [hearing his hound dogs come to him] My hounds will never harm me.
Sansa: You haven't fed them in seven days. You said it yourself.
Ramsay: They're loyal beasts.
Sansa: They were. Now they're starving.
Ramsay: Sit. Down! Down! Down! Down! Down!
Sansa: Your words will disappear. Your house will disappear. Your name will disappear. All memory of you will disappear. [whistles]
Ramsay: [hearing his hound dogs come to him] My hounds will never harm me.
Sansa: You haven't fed them in seven days. You said it yourself.
Ramsay: They're loyal beasts.
Sansa: They were. Now they're starving.
Ramsay: Sit. Down! Down! Down! Down! Down!
"You were scanning me, weren't you? You were trying to make my head explode, you freaked-out maniac!"
— TV's Frank, Mystery Science Theater 3000, "Gunslinger"
"Well well well, looks like the church mouse finally roared."
— Elliot Stabler, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, "Bully"
"When you treat people like animals, you're gonna get bit."
— Biddle "B.C." Coleridge, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Past Tense: Part II"
"YOU! You listen to me you weasley gobshite! You dragged me screaming into this filth! And now you want me to get you out? Well you can stay where you are, you get it? You're gonna stay smiling, grinning, do what you're told. Or I'll fucking kill you myself!"
— Michael Dugdale, Utopia
Jasper: So, too bad you lost that video of me... because I ain't gonna lose this video of you.
Piper: What are you yamming about?
Jasper: I bet your mom and dad are gonna love seeing you dressed up like that, wearing makeup, flashing your fake ID, to go clubbing with your girls.... behind their backs!
(Piper is shocked)
Jasper: Now, you're gonna do whatever I say.
Piper: THIS IS NOT OKAY!!!
Piper: What are you yamming about?
Jasper: I bet your mom and dad are gonna love seeing you dressed up like that, wearing makeup, flashing your fake ID, to go clubbing with your girls.... behind their backs!
(Piper is shocked)
Jasper: Now, you're gonna do whatever I say.
Piper: THIS IS NOT OKAY!!!
— Henry Danger, "The Secret Gets Out"
Music
"Last night I took an L, but tonight I bounce back."
— Big Sean, "Bounce Back"
"You have a dog. You beat the dog. You keep beating the dog. And you beat the dog and you beat the dog and you beat the fucking dog. And it cowers and it gets submissive. But there is going to be that day where it turns around and bites your face off. [...] You kick the dog enough times and you break it. You kick the dog one more time beyond that, and it fucking kills you."
— Emilie Autumn, The Opheliac Companion
Tabletop Games
"Yar! Oose 'da biggest an' da baddest now, eh? I'll show ya, I'll show ya all! Just try an' stop me!"
Grabthroat Shinkicka, Gretchin Killa Kan pilot, having a frank exchange with his old Ork bullies, Only War: Enemies of the Imperium
The predecessors to the Adept Tradition clued the Technocracy to the idea that the entire universe is based on numbers. Much to their horror, the Technocracy took that premise and twisted it, polluting it with their own need for power and control. Instead of seeing the potential in diversity, the Union focused on reducing people down to ones and zeroes. The Adepts were reviled, attacked, and ultimately forced to leave the Technocracy.
Then came the Traditions. Here was a group that should have understood and embraced their new allies. Instead, the Trads treated the Adepts with suspicion and sometimes open hostility. Despite their need for a "new" tradition, the Council of Nine still wanted payback for the Technocracy's vicious Pogrom. The Adepts made convenient scapegoats.
Big mistake. The Virtual Adepts have reclaimed their power and they're not going to sit around and take it anymore. They won't allow Technocratic Conventions to rewrite their history into some cheap hack with delusions of grandeur. They will not allow the Traditions to stereotype them as talented children who need to grow up. The nightmare will end and the Adepts will be the ones to end it.
Then came the Traditions. Here was a group that should have understood and embraced their new allies. Instead, the Trads treated the Adepts with suspicion and sometimes open hostility. Despite their need for a "new" tradition, the Council of Nine still wanted payback for the Technocracy's vicious Pogrom. The Adepts made convenient scapegoats.
Big mistake. The Virtual Adepts have reclaimed their power and they're not going to sit around and take it anymore. They won't allow Technocratic Conventions to rewrite their history into some cheap hack with delusions of grandeur. They will not allow the Traditions to stereotype them as talented children who need to grow up. The nightmare will end and the Adepts will be the ones to end it.
— Mage: The Ascension — Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts (revised)
Are corpses afraid? They should be. The people on the outside, the people that they let in only when they feel like it, are pounding very hard on the glass. I hear them striking at the glass. I heard the glass crack. I think they're coming in.
The Giovanni should be afraid. The glass is cracking... and the people on the other side hate them.
The Giovanni should be afraid. The glass is cracking... and the people on the other side hate them.
— Vampire: The Masquerade — Clanbook: Malkavian (Revised)
Theatre
So never kick a dog because it's just a pup.
We'll fight like twenty armies and we won't give up,
So you'd better run for cover when the pup grows up!
We'll fight like twenty armies and we won't give up,
So you'd better run for cover when the pup grows up!
— Little People, Les Misérables
Video Games
"Even a stray has pride."
— Gabranth, Final Fantasy XII
Vayne: The hound strays? Treason bears a price!
Gabranth: One I gladly pay!
Gabranth: One I gladly pay!
"Turns out, mess with someone's head enough, you can turn a scared little kid into an all powerful bitch."
"One thing you could count on: you push a man too far, and sooner or later, he'd start pushing back."
"Listen, Crow thinks fear is power, but he's wrong. A beaten dog may fear you, but the second you turn your back, he's gonna strike."
— D-Mob, Def Jam: Fight for NY
"Now these governors Lamb's got in charge would never have seen power in Ryan's day. They're nobodies, really. But I used to raise spaniels... an' the only thing meaner than the top dog was the underdog when he'd just plain had enough."
— Augustus Sinclar, BioShock 2
Kenny: Where the hell do you get off?
Ben: I'm just saying we should all chill, not just you.
Kenny: Chill? [mockingly] "Bandits, hey, chill, here's some pills! Vernon, chill, here's our fucking boat!"
Ben: This isn't my fault.
Kenny: I can't point to one thing that's happened that isn't somehow your fault! Lee should've left you in Crawford.
Ben: FUCK YOU, KENNY! [...] I am so, so, so sorry about Katjaa and Duck, I am. And I know I fucked up, but stop pushing me around and stop wishing I was dead!
[Kenny opens his mouth to retort]
Ben: NO! You know how they died. You've said goodbye! I never got to see my family, my parents, my little sister... do you get that? Your family is gone, but at least you had them to lose. I never made it home. They could be alive, or dead, or walkers or WORSE, and I DON'T KNOW, SO GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!
Ben: I'm just saying we should all chill, not just you.
Kenny: Chill? [mockingly] "Bandits, hey, chill, here's some pills! Vernon, chill, here's our fucking boat!"
Ben: This isn't my fault.
Kenny: I can't point to one thing that's happened that isn't somehow your fault! Lee should've left you in Crawford.
Ben: FUCK YOU, KENNY! [...] I am so, so, so sorry about Katjaa and Duck, I am. And I know I fucked up, but stop pushing me around and stop wishing I was dead!
[Kenny opens his mouth to retort]
Ben: NO! You know how they died. You've said goodbye! I never got to see my family, my parents, my little sister... do you get that? Your family is gone, but at least you had them to lose. I never made it home. They could be alive, or dead, or walkers or WORSE, and I DON'T KNOW, SO GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!
"Ah, my beloved parents. No sooner do I wake from my gentle slumber than the world returns in all its cruelty. How it was meant to be. Very well, Very well, if I cannot escape my nature, then, I shall embrace it. To the very depths I have sunk, my soul steeped in spite and rotten to the core. The self-righteous hide behind "justice", but I need no such mask. Father. Mother. Was it not you who made me into this monster? Who taught me the truth of this miserable world? For years, I knew naught but the taste of pain and humiliation, but the time has come to savor my vengeance against Doma. Against all my enemies. And it begins... WITH YOU!"
— Yotsuyu, Final Fantasy XIV
"Hey, master... Emotions are a real pain, aren't they?"
— Magilou to Melchior, Tales of Berseria
"Was a time I was scared of you. Was a time I'd pissed myself having a gun pointed at my head... you know what I feel right now? Not a goddamn thing."
— B.J. Blazkowicz to Rip Blazkowicz, moments before killing him, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
"Farewell, dear Father. I am no longer your subservient puppet!"
— Haru Okumura, Persona 5
"When Maki said she was going to sacrifice herself just now, I thought...Why? So many of our friends have sacrificed their lives. Why Maki? Why now? Why do we have to go through it again? The sorrow of losing Kaede...and Kaito... Why do we have to feel that sadness over and over and over again?!... Why do we have to bear that burden...? Well, I don't care how much the audience wants it, I'm not gonna feel that way anymore! I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO FEEL THAT WAY MORE! Even if this is fiction, even if we're all fictional... THE PAIN IN MY HEART IS REAL! THE SADNESS I FEEL WHEN I LOSE THE PEOPLE I LOVE IS REAL! I won't forgive this game that treats us like toys. And if this is what the world wants...THEN I REJECT THAT WORLD! I'LL FIGHT THE WORLD THAT INFLICTS SUFFERING FOR ENTERTAINMENT!!!!"
— Shuichi Saihara, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony
Kronya: Well, well! If it isn't Monica! Tell me, what kind of mush-for-brains comes crawling back to the woman who almost killed her?
Monica: [smiling] So I'm to have my revenge today, am I? Oh. Her Majesty is far too kind!
Monica: [smiling] So I'm to have my revenge today, am I? Oh. Her Majesty is far too kind!
Anti-Venom: You... did it to me... Planted that chip in me... Controlled me...!
Walker Sloan: I didn't control you, Brock, I freed you! We both know you wanted Spider-Man dead! You should be thanking me!
Anti-Venom: Let me show you JUST HOW GRATEFUL I AM!
Walker Sloan: I didn't control you, Brock, I freed you! We both know you wanted Spider-Man dead! You should be thanking me!
Anti-Venom: Let me show you JUST HOW GRATEFUL I AM!
Web Original
Vegeta: (bleeding out) You. Green thing. Heal me.
Dende: Oh, I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time hearing you over the smell of my peoples' blood on your hands.
Vegeta: Oh, no. Do not be that guy right now.
Dende: Oh, I'm going to be that guy right now.
Vegeta: I am literally going to die.
Dende: Well, how about this? I'll heal you… on one condition.
Vegeta: And that is?
Dende: Say my name.
Vegeta: Oh. Uh…
Dende: You don't even know my name.
Vegeta: Oh, I do. It's uh… um, uh… "Little Green"?
Dende: Hahahahahahaha! No. It's Dende. Say "Dende".
Vegeta: Dende.
Dende: Now say, "Please heal me, Dende!"
Vegeta: Please heal me, Dende.
Dende: Well, since you asked so nicely…
(Dende flies away)
Vegeta: Come back, magic man… (collapses)
Dende: Oh, I'm sorry, I'm having a hard time hearing you over the smell of my peoples' blood on your hands.
Vegeta: Oh, no. Do not be that guy right now.
Dende: Oh, I'm going to be that guy right now.
Vegeta: I am literally going to die.
Dende: Well, how about this? I'll heal you… on one condition.
Vegeta: And that is?
Dende: Say my name.
Vegeta: Oh. Uh…
Dende: You don't even know my name.
Vegeta: Oh, I do. It's uh… um, uh… "Little Green"?
Dende: Hahahahahahaha! No. It's Dende. Say "Dende".
Vegeta: Dende.
Dende: Now say, "Please heal me, Dende!"
Vegeta: Please heal me, Dende.
Dende: Well, since you asked so nicely…
(Dende flies away)
Vegeta: Come back, magic man… (collapses)
"Dream. You have caused me nothing but pain. And now... now it's your turn."
— Tommy, Dream SMP
Western Animation
Sarah: ED! You listen to me, mister! You can't kick me out! I LIVE HERE TOO!
Ed: SO MOVE!
Ed: SO MOVE!
Meg: First question. Who's the biggest, toughest guy in this house?
Peter: Well, I don't like to toot my own horn, but I believe I hold the distinction— [Meg breaks a lamp on his head and then proceeds to give him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, culminating in smashing his teeth against the staircase]
Meg: My house now, bitch! Now, who's the funniest?
Peter: [lifting his hand up] I know my way around a joke. [Meg continues her beatdown on Peter]
Chris: For God's sake, Dad! Have some humility! It'll save your life!
Meg: There better be beer in the fridge.
Peter: Well, I don't like to toot my own horn, but I believe I hold the distinction— [Meg breaks a lamp on his head and then proceeds to give him a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, culminating in smashing his teeth against the staircase]
Meg: My house now, bitch! Now, who's the funniest?
Peter: [lifting his hand up] I know my way around a joke. [Meg continues her beatdown on Peter]
Chris: For God's sake, Dad! Have some humility! It'll save your life!
Meg: There better be beer in the fridge.
Cartman: I say again: Fuck Jesus!
Token: Good going! You lost us the whole audience!
Cartman: Oh, fuck off, Token, ya black asshole!
[Token delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown and walks off, leaving Cartman on the floor]
Butters: ... [farts on Eric and gives him the finger] Fuck you, Eric. [leaves]
Token: Good going! You lost us the whole audience!
Cartman: Oh, fuck off, Token, ya black asshole!
[Token delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown and walks off, leaving Cartman on the floor]
Butters: ... [farts on Eric and gives him the finger] Fuck you, Eric. [leaves]
Stephen: There you are, mister! Just what do you think you're doing?
Butters: Hello, dad! It's me, Butters!
Stephen: I know that. Why do you—
Butters: This is for all the times I got grounded! [punches Stephen in the nuts, and the latter starts moaning in pain] Ha! I could almost feel his balls on my fist!
Butters: Hello, dad! It's me, Butters!
Stephen: I know that. Why do you—
Butters: This is for all the times I got grounded! [punches Stephen in the nuts, and the latter starts moaning in pain] Ha! I could almost feel his balls on my fist!
"I cannot believe I once lived in this anemic hovel. Well, no more! And no more 'Yes, Mr. Osborn,' 'I'm sorry, Mr. Osborn,' 'Please, Mr. Osborn!' How I groveled before that man! But soon, the whole world will grovel at the genius that is Doctor Octopus!"
— Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus, The Spectacular Spider-Man, "Reaction"
"You know what I'd like, Belos? [grunts in pain] I'd like to leave the Emperor's Coven, and never step foot in that throne room again! I'd like to study wild magic, and learn how to carve Palismen. I'd LIKE to attend Hexside as a regular student, and play Flyer Derby with my friends! But most of all, I'd like to make sure you NEVER HURT ANYONE AGAIN!"
— Hunter, The Owl House
Real Life
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you."
— Nicholas Klein, frequently misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi or Arthur Schopenhauer
