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Okay, hold on. Eris is going on about "breaking the necrotic..." Ahh, just shoot it!
Cayde-6, Destiny

Punch, kick, punch, kick... Back in my day, good guys used their heads! They outwitted they enemies instead of outboxing them! Mindless violence. That's what the kids go for these day. Violence and lasers.
The Perfesser, The New Batman Adventures

You kind of blow your cover when you hit a guy with a piece of rebar; but when you have no choice, rebar it is.
Michael, Burn Notice

Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe... Maybe. I've yet to meet one that could outsmart BOOLITT.
The Heavy Weapons Guy, Team Fortress 2

Xander: You don't know how to kill this thing.
Buffy: I thought I might try violence.
Xander: Solid call.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Killed By Death"

Wesley: Perhaps we need a plan.
Angel: Here is the plan: we go in, I start hitting people hard in the face. See where it takes us.
Angel, "She"

There's a saying I like: 'One sword keeps another in the sheath.' Sometimes, the threat of violence alone is a deterrent. Sometimes, by taking a life, others can be preserved. It's the code the samurai lived by...

Violence is never the answer, to which I am hastily reminded of World War II
Richard Jeni

We're outta options. Let's just beat it outta him!
Jake the Dog, Adventure Time

Dammit! It's the same story every time: you give people the benefit of the doubt, and they try to kill you.
Gordon Freeman, Freeman's Mind

I really wasn't expecting to use up my ammo this quick, but what can I say? This gun keeps solving my problems for me.
Gordon Freeman, Freeman's Mind

"This guy was gonna tell him where his daughter was, and he just shoots him in the face. He doesn't care. His daughter's safety is not an issue."
"This whole movie is him on a mission to kill as many people in public as possible."

Fascinating what success can do to a show. Mulder is no longer a geeky, awkward type stuck down in the basement of the FBI. Now he has the look of a fashion model (and dresses for the part too) and can be seen packing away a vicious looking gun and shooting out the tyres of a runaway van. When the driver turns out to be his old pal Krychek, he turns into a ruthless bully, kicking the shit out of him and not giving a damn about the consequences. I’m not one of those people who cries because a character I like is handy with his fists, but this does seem a little like overkill. He’s gone from Sheldon Cooper to Rambo in the space of four seasons. Given his background and career this is the sort of behaviour that you might expect Agent Doggett to revel in but he never, ever does. Which, for me, makes him the superior character because Mulder just comes across as a spoilt kid beating up the ones who won't fight back because they got one up on him in the past.
Joe Ford on The X-Files, "Tunguska"

Parallel to Watchmen was Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, a comic whose fame rests largely on the fact that it has most of the sex and violence of Watchmen wedded to the moral sensibilities of Dirty Harry. In fact, it basically is just a Batman comic where Batman is Dirty Harry. There are persistent rumors that there were occasional plans to adapt the comic to film with Clint Eastwood playing the role of Batman... Whether it is Dirty Harry, Rorschach, or Batman, the badass is always conservative, in the sense of conservation — the sense of maintaining what is, and what was. The badass is the enemy of futurity.

What is most striking about "Marauders" is how eager it is to jump to a solution that involves the crew of the Enterprise shooting Klingons. After all, that is what most people remember about Star Trek, right? None of that negotiation or talking stuff?

Men behind Richard hit the line of evil's guardians with unrestrained violence. People armed only with their hatred for moral clarity fell bloodied, terribly injured, and dead. The line of people collapsed before the merciless charge. Some of the people, screaming their contempt, used their fists to attack Richard's men. They were met with swift and deadly steel.
— Excerpt from Naked Empire.

"Steve, I know I said violence was never the answer. But it has just become the answer."
Francine Smith, American Dad!

Greer: Don't you recognize an idealist when you see one?
Control: An idealist who wants to make the world a better place by murdering a few hundred people?
Greer: Oh no. The world has only ever been made a better place by violence. You know that. Every leader who ever preached peace did so guarded by armed men. One thing we can agree on: Kill a few people at random, nothing changes. But kill the right people...

Brother Ray: Violence is a disease. You don't cure it with more violence.
Sandor Clegane: You don't cure it by dyin', neither!
Game of Thrones, "The Broken Man"

Son Gohan... it is not a sin to wage violence for a righteous cause... some people simply cannot be reasoned with. Let your feelings flow free, and unleash your power. I understand your pain, but there is no need to hold back any longer... !
Android 16, Dragon Ball Z

"The sanctioned action is to Cut."
Meti's Sword Manual, Kill Six Billion Demons

"Man always strives to cut man. Therefore he who draws his sword the fastest is the survivor. To pre-empt this, you must live, eat, and shit as a person who has their sword drawn. It doesn't matter whether your blade, in actuality, is always out of its sheathe, though you will look like an idiot if it is."
Meti's Sword Manual, Kill Six Billion Demons

"Reach Heaven through violence."
Meti's Sword Manual, Kill Six Billion Demons

"I will tell you precisely what Royalty is," said Intra, "It is a continuous cutting motion."
The Song of Maybe, Kill Six Billion Demons

Caine: Master I am sad. The other students do tease me, and I know not what to do about it.
Master: Well, has not all your training been in vain, budgie-tits?
Caine: I do not understand, Master.
Master: Can you not beat the shit out of them?
Caine: But surely there are other ways, Master?
Master: Yes, but they are not as much fun to watch!

"My mother said violence never solves anything."
"So?" Mr. Dubois looked at her bleakly. "I'm sure the city fathers of Carthage would be glad to know that." ... "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms."

"If this is their home, they got a right to keep it clean, don't they? Sometimes on the streets, a broom just ain't gonna fucking cut it! That's when you gotta get a shotgun!"

"Dear Frederick, thank you for your nice letter, but I am actually a U.S. Marine who was born to kill whereas clearly you have mistaken me for some sort of wine-sipping Communist dick-suck. And although peace probably appeals to tree-loving bisexuals like you and your parents, I happen to be a death-dealing, blood-crazed warrior who wakes up every day just hoping for the chance to dismember my enemies and defile their civilizations. Peace sucks a hairy asshole, Freddy. War is the motherfucking answer."
Cpl Josh Ray Person, Generation Kill

"Violence is never the answer, but sometimes it is."
Matt Barnes, NBA champion

"There's nothing wrong with Joker that I can't fix. With my hands."

"Violence can be used for good."

"Power is power. Gorilla is the angel. Violence is the solution to everything."
Amane Kanata, hololive

"The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence."

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think, vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done."
—Last recorded words of John Brown, American abolitionist

"Violence doesn't solve anything, except for all the things it does!"
Mr. Torgue, Borderlands 2

Ace: So it's fine for me to blow stuff up when you decide? Nothing's changed.
The Doctor: It's never fine to blow stuff up. Sometimes, sadly, it's the only solution. But only after fair warning.
Doctor Who, "The Power of the Doctor"

"Violence is never the answer. It's the question, and the answer is "yes""
—Unknown, popular saying on the Internet

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