May Man and Machine be forgiven for their sins. Bless all forms of intelligence.
There was no dishonor in your defeat, you poor, dumb man. You fought that which should not exist in this world, or any world.
— Abbey, Gnoph
Illidan: You have won...Maiev. But the huntress...is nothing without the hunt. You...are nothing...without me.
Maiev: He's right. I feel nothing. I am nothing. Farewell, champions.
Maiev: He's right. I feel nothing. I am nothing. Farewell, champions.
I've just seen Voldemort murdering a woman. By now, he's probably killed her whole family. And he didn't need to. It was Cedric all over again, they were just there.
— Harry, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Butters: This guy's been shot four times! At close range, like he was executed!
Murtaugh: He was executed!
Riggs: Yeah, by the crew.
Butters: What the fuck, man?! We've got people getting killed left, right and center in this town. Now we're importing victims? Hey, gangbangers wanna kill each other, no problem! You, me, one of us gets shot; occupational hazard! But just a normal guy, this fuckin' guy? What did he ever do to anybody?!? That ain't right.
Murtaugh: Alright, easy Biscuit.
Riggs: Yeah, you'll get an ulcer like this, kid. You gotta settle down.
Butters: I know, I know. I'm sorry, it's just that I hate to see bad things happen to good people.
Murtaugh: He was executed!
Riggs: Yeah, by the crew.
Butters: What the fuck, man?! We've got people getting killed left, right and center in this town. Now we're importing victims? Hey, gangbangers wanna kill each other, no problem! You, me, one of us gets shot; occupational hazard! But just a normal guy, this fuckin' guy? What did he ever do to anybody?!? That ain't right.
Murtaugh: Alright, easy Biscuit.
Riggs: Yeah, you'll get an ulcer like this, kid. You gotta settle down.
Butters: I know, I know. I'm sorry, it's just that I hate to see bad things happen to good people.
Because it's not a game, Kate! This is a scale model of war! Every war ever fought right there in front of you! Because it's always the same! When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn! How many hearts will be broken! How many lives shattered! How much blood will spill until EVERYBODY does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!
— The Doctor, The Zygon Inversion
Another ill-used hero, lost too swiftly to be mourned.
The darkness opened its arms to me. A voice said that the next train was now approaching. I tensed myself to jump, happy that everything would soon be settled.
But there was one jagged edge in all the smooth, reassuring silence. One thing that still didn't fit.
I remembered. Anaesthesia.
Remembered her on Night's Bridge, praying. Remembered her fear, and the pathetic hope she raised against it.
Her life - given away so casually by the Rat-Speakers. Squandered like money found in the gutter.
It was all true. And if I died here, no one who was left would know. Or care.
But there was one jagged edge in all the smooth, reassuring silence. One thing that still didn't fit.
I remembered. Anaesthesia.
Remembered her on Night's Bridge, praying. Remembered her fear, and the pathetic hope she raised against it.
Her life - given away so casually by the Rat-Speakers. Squandered like money found in the gutter.
It was all true. And if I died here, no one who was left would know. Or care.
—Neverwhere: The Graphic Novel
You chose to die in glory, not to live in peace... and all for what? Such a waste, all for your foolish pride, that you should care more to be remembered by those you shall never know than to be loved...
—Patroclus on Achilles, Hades
So in the end, Jim Jones only got half of what he wanted. He wanted to die, and he wanted to take people with him and he got that, but he didn't get the legacy. He wanted a grand revolutionary gesture that would inspire others; that would make people see him as a great man. What he got was a joke and a bad one at that. He got pundits and politicians and writers smirking as they casually shrink this tragedy down to one stupid, thoughtless phrase which has become Jim Jones' biggest contribution to the world: "Don't drink the Kool-Aid."
—Marcus Parks, The Last Podcast on the Left, "Jonestown Part V"
Yet another unnecessary death to add to this mess.
—Natsuki Sugiura, Natsuki Chronicles
