"The Reason You Suck" Speech in Fan Works.
- In 7teen, Michael gives a rather brutal one to Emma's rude friend, Susan, who was an Expy of Claire Dunphy in Save Yourself, Part 5
.Michael: What the hell is your problem?
Susan: What?
Michael: You can't talk to him like that! Who do you think you are!?!
Susan: What did you just say!?!
Michael: You're despicable! Terry may not be perfect, but he's a good person and he deserves way better than you! You know? My ex-wife was just like you, and I was just like Terry until I saw her for what she was: a cold-hearted, condescending, judgmental, hypocritical, narcissistic sociopath! You don't deserve Terry AT ALL! You belittle people if they mess up even slightly, when you screw up you get mad at the other person instead of just fucking apologizing, and you torture anyone who even slightly disagrees with you! Why else do you think that no one wants to be around you? Why else do you think people hide in their cars to avoid seeing you, eh?
Susan: Oh, yeah? Well if Terry WERE like you, he'd have scarred his kids for life just like you!
Michael: Don't you fucking DARE tell me how to raise my kids! I stayed with them, I was fair to them, I helped them! You don't care about anyone but yourself. It makes me sick! Now why don't you SHUT UP and be grateful that ANYONE wants to be in your life!
- Turnabout of Courage: Hazama loves to give these (even almost saying these exact words at one point), but the biggest one comes if you go down the path of the Bad Ending. The speech there is almost like a self-insert for Blackrune, really. He stomps in your face for thinking that he'd ever have so many useless pieces of evidence and unexplained plot threads.
- In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Case 5: Turnabout Substitution, Apollo delivers one to Rhea Wits, the real Mysterious Bust Killer, after besting her in their final confrontation. She had just previously taunted him before they were due to reconvene in court, admitting that they killed "dozens" of people because their victims simply did not "live life to its fullest" — according to their warped view on life and death — as well as going on about the ecstasy that killing and evading justice provided them with. They considered the only people who really "lived" were thrill-seekers, terrorists, etc., as they lived without fear of dying:Rhea Wits: Not bad, for a lower life form. Or perhaps figments of my imagination, telling me my life is over. Oh well. At least I'll die knowing I did something with my life! I'll die knowing my life had meaning, unlike everyone else in this courtroom! You were all so concerned with what I did, with the past. With something that was dead and gone. With mundane details... who did it, where, when, how... You spent so much time on these questions, you were so concerned with them, you stopped thinking about yourselves! Wanna know what was the most amusing part to me?
Apollo Justice: ...
Rhea Wits: When everyone kept trying to make sense of the crime! The photographs, the music sheet, the bust... it was all meaningless! I picked out some random words in the dictionary, and voila! My crime scenes. So, how does it feel to know the truth?
Apollo Justice: ...I've been thinking about what you told me in the defense lobby. And I finally have an answer for you.
Rhea Wits: Oh, really? I'd love to hear what sort of inane response you've devised.
Apollo Justice: You are completely wrong. What gives meaning to our lives... is other lives. Those people you talked about, who were truly living, who weren't afraid of death... They aren't afraid of death... because they aren't truly living. They concern themselves with their own lives, and try to find meaning in cheap, short-lived thrills. Do you know why a regular "Joe Schmoe", as you put it, will beg for his life when threatened? Because he has friends and family he doesn't want to leave. Friends and family that he does not want to suffer grief and hardship.
Rhea Wits: ...
Apollo Justice: Everything you said has been completely wrong. The only person in this room whose life doesn't have meaning... is you. Poole has been prosecuting solely for Judge and Arthur. Strings is a judge only because of his father. And my reason for staying in this world is right here. (shows them his cell phone, as a symbol of his connection between his friends and overseas companions) But you, Rhea. You. I can't think of a better metaphor than this photograph.note At first glance, it seems fine and normal. But on closer inspection... it's fake. You don't live for anyone... not even yourself.
This is what your life is truly like! (rips photograph to shreds) Face it; you're shallow, empty... Imaginary. You think you've lived life to the fullest? You think you are the greatest human being, with the most meaningful life out of all of us? You're not. People won't care that you're gone. And I don't mean they won't mourn your death. I mean they'll care so little, they won't even celebrate your death. You think you'll live on in history as an exceptionally feared criminal? Heh. Even that won't happen.
You are one of the most pathetic criminals I've seen! The only reason you got caught was your own fault. You cross-examined yourself to confession. I gave you the shovel... and you kept on digging.
Rhea Wits: ...I see. (loses her composure completely, pulling a shovel out of nowhere and repeatedly digging it into the floor)
- Alex (MovieVillain) has the titular antagonist saying one to Marceline (and interestingly enough, plays word-by-word homage to the speech Ranger Smith gave Yogi Bear in the 2010 live-action movie).Alex: That's the problem, Marceline, all that pranks you've pulled. Hey, you know what would be great? If you didn't make pranks. If you could just be a regular vampire. You know, sleeping in her coffin during the day and minding her own business at night. But nope, you're different, you're stagnant, and you have to spend your days being selfish and destructive while everyone else pays the price. I'm sure it's been enough to screw up Bonnibel's life. This time, you had to go down, and turn the Land of Ooo into a dark swamp. Tell me, Marcy, how far you would go now?
- Fuck You Space Cat is Anne giving one to the Guardian of the Three Stones.Anne: Fuck you.
Guardian: Sorry?
Anne: Fuck you, shit bag.
Guardian: What did I do?
Anne: Let me think about it. You gave these gems to a culture that murdered entire worlds because you were bored, you then decided to not do anything about it and left it up to me and my friends who lets be honest weren't the best at this, got me killed, and then come here to ask me to take your job.
Guardian: I don't see the problem?
Anne: You're an irresponsible asshole who let countless swaths of people suffer because you wanted to test people.
Guardian: I mean when you put it like that–
Anne: Fuck you.
Guardian: uuummmm.
Anne: Just send me back.
Guardian: Okay, I'll send you back with three shards that will give you one chance to return home.
Anne: Are you fucking kidding me? After everything that happened you're just giving me shards so I'm forced to say goodbye to my frog family?
Guardian: Well...
Anne: What happened to 'I'm the only one to use them for good I've clearly proven myself responsible enough to keep them safe', you have no fucking reason to give me shards other than to prove you're a fucking evil asshole?
Guardian: None, Sorry.
Anne: Just send me back, you fucking idiot. - The final chapter of That's the Thing About Friends has the Guardian berate Anne for everything she did while Drunk on the Dark Side, only for Sasha to tear into the Guardian and Anne Prime (AKA canon Anne) for watching everything happen and not doing anything to stop it until the last second.Guardian: You have got to be one of the worst versions of the original Anne that I have ever seen! Do you have any idea how many people you killed, Anne? You slaughtered thousands of frogs in the Amphibian Arctic! You murdered hundreds of humans when you invaded Earth! And let's not forget the thousands of lives you took in just the past 24 hours! How dare you use the stone for such evil purposes. The Leviathan family was bad, but you, Anne, took it to a whole another level. You disgust me.
Sasha: Woah, what the fuck is wrong with you, dude?! What gives you the right to talk? It’s not like you did anything to stop it. You're supposed to be the "Guardian of the Multiverse" yet all you do is sit around and watch worlds get torn apart by the stones you created!
Anne Prime: Calm down everyone. Let's just—!
Sasha: You’re no better than they are! You’re supposed to be the "Guardian in Training", yet all you did was let Anne get tortured by Blue and it was only when they took over Anne's body did you even try to help! - Trade Us for the World: Marcy hits Grime with one in "Protector", calling him out on how his single-minded obsession with tracking Anne down and making her pay for escaping blinded him to how horribly he was treating his men:Grime: It's because you're weak, isn't it. You could kill me... but you don't have the guts! We're both ready to fight, but only one of us is willing to win!
Marcy: It's because I showed them mercy, Grime. Which is more than you've done for them.
(Grime freezes at that, baffled)
Marcy: Your soldiers were hurt. They were limping and clutching their wounds long before I fought back. And you made them fight anyways.
Grime: They're soldiers of the Toad Army! It's their duty to—
Marcy: For how many days did you make them chase after Anne on broken legs? Carry weapons with sprained wrists, fight through concussions, wear armor over lacerations? Force them to march with you after losing a limb?
Grime: You're right! You see? They lost everything to the Herons! They need revenge, they need justice—
Marcy: No! You needed revenge. You needed what you thought was justice. Your soldiers needed help. Medical attention. Emotional support. Time to process. And now they'll need it even more! But you know what they don't need? (points directly at Grime) You. You don't do what's good for the Toad Army, only what's good for yourself. You might be a good warrior, but you're a terrible leader. And your army doesn't need you.
- moral of the story (Nyame): Oliver receives three very well-deserved ones in the wake of Laurel's temporary death, and one from Laurel herself after she's resurrected and opts to cut him from her life permanently.
- Sara's is arguably the most vicious, as it also doubles as a break-up speech.Sara: This? This thing between us? It was a mistake. The worst mistake of my life. How I ever thought dating an asshole like you was worth throwing away my relationship with my sister is beyond me.
Oliver: Sara—
Sara: Don't you dare 'Sara' me! I don't care about what you meant, Ollie! Because you couldn't help yourself from being a selfish jerk at the wrong moment, my sister is dead! The same sister who called you 'the love of her life', and God knows why considering all you've put her through over the years! There's nothing you can do to fix this, make up for it! Nothing! - Moira is the most calm but also the most cutting, as she makes no bones about how disappointed she is in Oliver.Moira: I can see why you were frustrated with how the dinner went, but didn't you consider the reason why it went so badly is because you were attending it?
Oliver: I was there for Sara—
Moira: And you should have refused her offer. I feel for Sara, I truly do, but you should not have come. You are the reason why their family fell apart in the first place. Sara believed she loved you and you used that to blow up your relationship with Laurel because you were too much of a coward to tell her you were not ready to move in with her yet. Even without the Gambit sinking and causing the both of you to go missing for years, those actions would have destroyed their family. Fast forward a few years later, and you attend their first family dinner since Sara's return, and openly flaunt your new relationship in front of Laurel. Laurel, who loved you so much that she was willing to forgive you for what happened to Sara in the first place and give you another chance, only for you to abandon her right after. Who has been dealing with the guilt she felt over Tommy's death, being forced to prosecute me for my trial, and the recent loss of her job. And when she rightfully got angry at both of you for reminding her of your betrayal, you completely disregarded her feelings, telling her she was the person to blame for all the problems in her life, including the fact that you apparently did not love her anymore and were with Sara now, and that she needed to take responsibility for that.
(Oliver looks down, ashamed)
Moira: (sigh) I love you, Oliver. I will always love you. You're my baby boy, and there is nothing in the world that you could do to change that. But right here, right now, I have never been more disappointed in you in my entire life. - Felicity's doubles as one for both Oliver and John."Look, I kept out of the whole Laurel debate because I didn't want to cause a fight between you two. I didn't want to take a side. But now I see that was a mistake. So let me be honest now: the way you talked about her, it was like she was some kind of needy pet that you were debating whether or not was worth keeping around. Newsflash: she wasn't! She was a human being who desperately needed support, support you couldn't give her because you were too obsessed with this oblique idea of 'saving the city' that you don't even have a vision for anymore!"
- Laurel's is the last, most meaningful one, and serves to be what finally drives the severity of Oliver's actions home.Oliver: We'll need to figure out a cover story. I have some contacts with the government. With their help, I can—
Laurel: (abruptly) Stop.
Oliver: (wilts) Laurel?
Laurel: (beginning to cry) Please, just stop. I can't do this. Not again.
Oliver: What do you mean?
Laurel: I mean this, Ollie! This whole song and dance! Like always, you fucked up and want forgiveness and you're willing to do anything for me now to have it, but I can't give it to you. Not for this.
Oliver: Laurel—
Laurel: You drove me to suicide, Ollie. You drove me to suicide, and then you let my sister sell herself back to the cult she was doing everything in her power to get away from just to bring me back. That... (closes her eyes, takes a deep breath) I have forgiven you for so much. All the times you cheated on me. All the times you lied to me. Cheating on me with Sara, taking her on the Gambit and for years letting us believe you got her killed. Abandoning me in the wake of Tommy's death. Leaving me to flounder alone while I turned to drugs and alcohol to cope with everything I'd lost. I forgave you because I loved you and honestly thought you had learned from all of that. That you were better than you were before. That the fault lied with me.
But now it's clear that you haven't changed at all. You're as selfish as you've ever been. No matter how much you might claim to love me, the very moment I make mistakes or struggle, you demonize me and cast me aside for someone else. You aren't willing to afford me the same grace I've afforded you for all these years, and it's obvious you never will. And I can't take that anymore, not after everything it's cost me. Me, and my family.
So this is me saying enough is enough. Stay away from me. I never want to see or speak to you ever again.
- Sara's is arguably the most vicious, as it also doubles as a break-up speech.
- In How I Became Yours, Zuko and Mai exchange these speeches after Zuko finds out that Mai concealed the letters about Katara's pregnancy from him. Each accuses the other of being selfish and endangering the Fire Nation.Zuko: Now I see why I couldn't love you even when I tried to! My gut knew that you would do something like this to me! A Child Mai! You didn't do this for our country! You didn't do this for me! You did this for you! You hate her more than anything since the second you saw her!! And I will not have you talk about her that way! For your selfish reasons, you might have put our country in dander and all that I have built for this nation!! You're a traitor!
Mai: Stop talking like you care about this country and the people in it! I am your queen and you betrayed us all! It's because you love that tramp!!! You never cared about anyone but yourself you chard monster! I seen it the day you left their little group and became Fire Lord! The way you looked at her said it all! You're the liar!!!!
Zuko: I'm going to pretend you didn't say chard... monster... Regardless of what you think you saw, at that point in my life, I wasn't with you... your sins are way darker, and your demons more desirable than mine could ever be. I can't trust you anymore. You have made loving you impossible now. You will not talk to me like you now me. You will be stripped of your title. Tonight you will leave the palace... I am not Zuko to you anymore... and you are not my Queen... - In Morality Chain, Azula interrogates Iroh over his betrayal at Ba Sing Se. Iroh scolds her that the whole war was brought about because of Sozin's legacy having a feud with Avatar Roku and in turn his descendant that it was endangering the overall peace of the world. However, considering, in this story, Zuko's her Morality Chain, she was nothing but supportive to both of them in their exile (Iroh, she was barely civil and only for Zuko's sake), and this action comes across as him betraying the Fire Nation. Zuko takes it especially hard, and the princess is not happy about this.Azula: I guess continuing this conversation is pointless. It's not like you actually care about how Zuko feels anyway.
Iroh: You have no right to say something like that.
Azula: Don't I? You've been nothing but cruel to Zuko, Uncle. How am I supposed to interpret that?
Iroh: Cruel?
Azula: Oh? What else am I supposed to call it when you've been stringing him along for three years, Uncle! You never had any intention of letting him capture the Avatar! He trusted you, Uncle! He trusted you, and relied on you, and now you've taken all that trust and thrown it back in his face!
Iroh: Those three years were meant to guide him–
Azula: And even assuming your nonsense holds any water, you 'guided' him so well that no one was more surprised than Zuko when you turned on us! Excellent work, Uncle. You were so incompetent you couldn't even corrupt him properly. You know what, Uncle? As far as I'm concerned, you're no better towards Zuko than Father ever was. At least he was straightforward about things.- After joining up with Zuko in his canonical Heel–Face Turn, she then gives one to Katara in this version of "The Southern Raiders" when Katara fails Azula's Secret Test of Character by bloodbending the current captain of the Southern Raiders to death, resulting in Azula refusing to give the waterbender Yon Rha's current location:Katara: Aang. It's Aang. He set you up for this.
Azula: What a surprise. The twelve-year-old boy who happens to be the Spirit of Balance thinks revenge is bad. Now don't get me wrong, we both know I don't give an owl-rat's feather for what you want to do to the man. But the Avatar asked this of me, and right now I care a lot more about staying in his favor than yours. (pauses, then smiles) And if it's any consolation, you've actually made me very glad tonight.
Katara: What?
Azula: Well, for one thing, it allowed me to confirm what I always suspected: that deep down inside, you're just as ugly as I am.
Katara: (launches a water whip at Azula, who dodges) Don't you dare. Claim that I'm anything like you!
Azula: Oh, really? Then what do you call what you did back there?
Katara: What I did?
Azula: You didn't do it cleanly or quickly. Oh no, you taunted him. You tormented him. You wanted him to suffer. You wanted him to be afraid. To know that his life was in your hands. That's why you bloodbent him instead of just freezing him to the wall. Quite the rush, isn't it? To feel so big, looking down on one so powerless, so... small.
Katara: No! No, that's nothing like what you do! He deserved it!
Azula: Did he? Did you even bother to confirm who he was before you attacked? Did you know what this man has done to warrant such treatment? Because he's not the one who killed your mother, in case you forgot.
Katara: Shut up.
Azula: But maybe it's because he's Fire Nation military. So obviously, he's an evil, evil man who probably kicks puppy-doves and steals sweets from children. I mean, that's what we all do, isn't it? The big, bad Fire Nation?
Katara: Shut up!
Azula: And really, don't think I don't see it. What you were doing to that man, you don't wish it was him lying crumpled and helpless under you. You wish it was me–
Katara: SHUT UP! (bloodbends Azula into a submissive position, then summons a globe of water near her head) Tell me where Yon Rha is. Right. Now.
Azula: (softly) Or else? (Katara hesitates, then releases Azula and sends the water back to the ground) Well, look at that. You're not nearly as bad as me, after all.
- After joining up with Zuko in his canonical Heel–Face Turn, she then gives one to Katara in this version of "The Southern Raiders" when Katara fails Azula's Secret Test of Character by bloodbending the current captain of the Southern Raiders to death, resulting in Azula refusing to give the waterbender Yon Rha's current location:
- In What SHOULD have Happened in Avatar the Last Airbender there are plenty of speeches to go around. However, the most memorable and astounding one is the one Yon Rha gives Zuko.Yon Rha: You deserve that scar, you pathetic excuse for a prince!
Zuko: Do you want to die today?
Yon Rha: No! But I do want you to realize something! Do you know how many years I gave of my life to the Fire Nation military? How many times I pushed myself and risked life and limb for the glory and honor of my nation? Do you think you get to be the head of a specialized division that’s responsible for neutralizing threats from an entire part of the world by not doing that?
Now you’re willing to kill me, a dedicated, sacrificing soldier, just to gain some kind of victory with her! Any of that sounding familiar? And don’t think I don’t know how you got that mark on your face! Old-nobodies in the middle of the Earth Kingdom know it!
Now, I don’t know what she told you about what I did or what happened between me, her, and her mother, so I’ll forgive you for hunting me down. But the second! The literal second that you heard my side of the story! My side that told you that I was following orders to take out a credible threat! My side that told you that I was deep in enemy territory and that taking the bender out alive would’ve been near impossible and the time it would have taken would’ve endangered my troops! The second you heard that, you should have stopped this girl and tried to make sure you knew what really happened that day so that you could make the right decision!
But you didn’t. You did exactly what that general in that war room did on that day. I can see it in your eyes: Winning a measure of respect from this girl was a near-impossible obstacle in your path so you decided to sacrifice a man who loved and defended the Fire Nation to overcome it! So, yes, you deserve that scar. But there’s something else you deserve. You deserve a message, one single message from the hearts, minds, and memories of the entire 41st division:
Fuck you, Zuko. - In Opheliac, after Ozai escapes prison and is planning to start a civil war to reclaim the throne, Azula gives one to Aang, calling him out for being too naive and not killing Ozai when he had the chance.Azula: No, it will not be okay. Thanks to you, my country is about to be devastated by civil war, and instead of standing up like a man and facing the consequences of your actions, you choose to run like a scared rabbit and hide from the truth. Do you have any idea how childish you are?
Aang: No, why don't you tell me?
Azula: Oh, I will. You are a spoiled, idiotic, pathetic little boy who keeps prancing around like the world is a bright, happy place where everything is rainbows and butterflies and happy little turtle-duck families. You refuse to face the world as it is, and because of that, my people and my country are in mortal danger. What do you have to say for yourself?
Katara: Stop it.
Azula: No. Let the boy speak for himself. What do you have to say for yourself? [Aang looks at Katara for help and Azula pokes him hard in the chest] Answer me!
Aang: I needed to get away! I just...I had to clear my head.
Azula: That isn't good enough.
Katara: Stop treating him this way! You have no idea what he's been through!
Azula: Oh? What have you been through, Avatar? You grew up in a temple where everyone loved you and helped you and taught you. Then you ran away and got locked up in ice for a hundred years, while your people were slaughtered. How sad. And then you get out and you spend a year running around the world, having an absolutely fabulous time learning about the elements, with only a couple of hiccups, and you depose my father with a stroke of blind luck. Tell me, have you ever been told that you're wrong? Have you ever felt worthless, or powerless, or small? Have you ever had your heart broken or had anyone ever not love you? No. No, you haven't. Imagine growing up the way I did. Imagine that your worth is measured by how good a firebender you are, or by how badly your brother fails. Imagine that nothing you do is ever quite good enough for your father, and your mother thinks you're a monster. Imagine that no one likes you, that everyone you know is just waiting for the chance to turn on you. Imagine that you have no one to turn to, nowhere to go, and nothing to believe in but yourself. Imagine that running away is not and has never been an option. Can you survive in this world? Could you, for even one day, live that way? [Aang is silent] Answer me!
Aang: [softly] No.
Azula: I can't hear you.
Aang: I said no! Are you happy now?
Azula: No. Not until you've learned how to. - In Snow, Ozai gives one to thirteen-year-old Zuko after watching his son's less-than-stellar firebending.Ozai: [after Zuko points out that he could improve if they spent more time training together] I would desire to spend more time with you if you showed the slightest competency at any of the tasks I've set you. Your firebending lags far behind your sister, despite her age. Your marks in school are average at best. Do you think you deserve to spend time with me? Do you think you deserve to inherit the throne?
Zuko: Father, that's not what I–
Ozai: Look at you. You think it's a matter of luck that sets you apart from Azula? No. There are a thousand other barriers between you. You are complacent, naive, foolish — not unlucky. You inherited all your mother's softness. But if it's luck you wish to speak about, my son, very well. Azula was born lucky. You, wretched offspring of mine, were lucky to be born.- A few chapters later, Azula lets loose on Iroh with one:Iroh: Please, Princess Azula. You must not leave bad blood between you. Reconcile with your brother. It is best for both of you.
Azula: Reconcile? Are you serious, Uncle? He does nothing but blame me and look down on me, and still you think it's my fault? Don't pretend for an instant you care about my side of this. All you've ever bothered with is Zuko. He's your precious little replacement, isn't he? I know why you're out here. I know why you haven't gone to visit him. You can't stand to see him, can you? First your son gets killed, and then your surrogate son gets half his face burnt off. And you probably think that both times were your fault, and you're right! You brought Lu Ten to war, and you brought Zuko to that war meeting. Even your wife ended up dead. You can't love anything without it breaking, can you? Too bad Zuko's going to have a scar. He won't look like Lu Ten anymore.
- A few chapters later, Azula lets loose on Iroh with one:
- In the infamous Stormbenders, Sokka throws one at Aang for his failure with the Avatar state at the end of season 2, blaming him for things that weren't even his fault:"You're sorry?" Sokka rolled to his feet. "Aang, they broke our dad's ribs. They kicked him until he spat blood. Teo's dad is still in prison. People died." [...]"And I love her!" Sokka grabbed Aang and forced him to face Suki. "I love her and they had her in chains and I couldn't get to her and I'm going to spend the rest of my life making up for that because you couldn't get your act together-"
- In the fanfic Three Families, in Chapter 40, we get a great one from Young!Azula to Old!Azula after the Dai Li obey Long Feng and arrest Azula during the Coup, with Long Feng unintentionally informing her that she was "never even a player".Young!Azula: This is what all of your scheming and preparation has been leading to, you old hag. All of that time and effort, wasted. I could have told you you'd find some way to muck it up. Your entire life is one big failure after another.
Old!Azula: You don't know anything about me!
Young!Azula: I know more than you think. I know thatyou turned me into your personal ball of hate against people who you see as your enemies. And you know what? I don't think they are.
Old!Azula: Then you're a traitor as well as a coward!
Young!Azula: Oh, will you listen to yourself? You called yourself a traitor. If only you could hear yourself.
Old!Azula: This is... a minor setback! I will find a way to rule this city!
Young!Azula: No, you won't. You've managed to fail in every way possible. I'm not the traitor to my homeland; you are! I'm not the screw-up my father cast out; YOU ARE! This is all your fault! If you hadn't come along, none of this would have happened!- Earlier in the story, Azula (who Zhao believes to be a seer due to the Old!Azula possessing knowledge of the future due to her being a Peggy Sue) also delivers one to Admiral Zhao, informing him of how he wound up in canon.Azula: Would you like to know your future, Zhao? How you die? You die from stupidity, and arrogance, and avarice. You die because you take a victory and turn it into a defeat. You break the Tribesmen, beat down their defenses, and hold their god hostage in your hand. And then you screw it all up, killing it, and invoking the Avatar's understandable wrath. You die because you can't accept anything less then... Zhao the Invincible. There's irony in that title.
- Earlier in the story, Azula (who Zhao believes to be a seer due to the Old!Azula possessing knowledge of the future due to her being a Peggy Sue) also delivers one to Admiral Zhao, informing him of how he wound up in canon.
- In Did I Make the Most of Loving You?, while Bill Adama doesn’t explicitly say “You suck” or an equivalent term, he makes it clear to his son Lee that the younger Adama needs to get over his habit of only acknowledging how important people are after he’s lost them. He also makes it clear that Lee needs to stop getting bogged down in the idea that things have to be black and white, as the only thing achieved by that view is Lee getting angry when people fall into shades of grey.
- Quite a few of the in-story reviews in Bleach: Fan Works involve this. One standout example is the reviews to Chapter 3 of Jolene Meyer's story.Dark Kuroda: I'm a flamer because I said something negative about your fanfic? You really need to grow up and understand that not everyone is going to praise what you do. This chapter is better then your first too, she is slightly more likeable. However, she is making the characters run circles around her. That is what we call a
Blackhole Sue.
Jolene Meyers: I am just going to ignore you. You don't know what you're talking about. None of what you say makes any sense at all.
Oshikko: Yes... I am a flamer. I enjoy telling you how much your story actually sucks. Seriously... don't you get that this would never actually happen in the world of Bleach? I enjoy reading your fanfic because I enjoy laughing at your stupidity. Do you actually act like this girl. No... wait, I read Cutie Pie 3's review from last chapter. You're trying to mimic that shit Twilight. You are successful in that but then... that isn't hard to do.
Jolene Meyers: Don't you dare diss Twilight! You are a moron not to see how great of a writer Meyer happens to be! I laugh at your stupidity, you moron. If my fanfic is so bad, why don't you write your own version, huh?
Oshikko: Sure I will. Keep in mind, you suggested I do so. - Ichigo's Inner Hollow gives one to Orihime in A Black Heart during the Hollow invasion.Inner Hollow: You know... this is all your fault, you know that right? Your friends are getting the shit beat out of them and all you can do is stand here whimpering. Isn't that what you've always done?! What's so hard about helping them out to defend you?!
Orihime: But... I'm not as strong as they are.
Inner Hollow: Bullshit! Tatsuki pummeled those basic defense lessons into you, till she was confident that you could hold your own in the future. Yet at no time have you ever, EVER used them! You get groped on a daily basis and still unconsciously expect Tatsuki to save you! So again, why won't you defend yourself?!
Orihime: I... I... I don't want to add any more hurt to this world. W-what if the last thing a person remembered before they died, was how I hurt them?
Inner Hollow: Are you fucking kidding me?! That's even more fucked up than your last reason! What makes you so special that you won't take responsibility for your actions to defend yourself?! What gives you the right to force that burden on Tatsuki?! And if you haven't already noticed Princess, the world's a shithole where bad things happen to good people. ARGH do you have any idea how badly I want to beat your head in right now!
- Bring Me to Life:
- Buffy and Angel give one to Jasmine in chapter 24:Buffy: Thousands of people are dead because of what you've done, Jasmine.
Jasmine: And how many more will die now because of you and your friends? I could've stopped it. All of it. War, disease, poverty... every last wretched drop of suffering. Children would have grown up healthy and strong, with families full of love and harmony. Peace spreading around the world like a wondrous, precious sea wave. How many precious, beautiful lives would've been saved in only a handful of years? Yes, I murdered thousands... to save billions.
Angel: What about all the lives that you destroyed along the way to getting what you wanted? Are you saying their lives were less precious than the people you claimed you wanted to save? Who the hell gave you the right to decide who lives and dies?
Jasmine: I did! I'm not human, vampire– so don't try to treat me as one! I did what I did because someone had to! I was trying to save this world!
Buffy: No. You were trying to rule it. And you weren't going to let anything stop you. You think we don't get it? It didn't matter to you whose lives you wrecked, or who you killed. There's nothing selfless about that... it's just ruthless. And sick. And evil. You so-called gods and higher powers are all the same; you're a bunch of selfish dirt-bags who don't care about anything but yourselves!
Jasmine: I am nothing like Glorificus!
Buffy: No. You're worse. Glory was an insane maniac and an evil bitch, but you know what? At least she never pretended to be anything else. She was a hellgod, it woulda been crazy of us to expect her to act any other way. But you, Jasmine? A higher power? One of the Powers that freakin' Be? For you to fall so far and act so low, to betray everything you're supposed to stand for... that's what makes you a monster! - Buffy gets one from Robin, who's anything but pleased that she lied to him about Angel:Robin: "The mission is what matters." Nice speech, but you withheld information that I had a right to know-that we all had a right to know-before you dragged us here to this damned hotel. You lied to us. To me. You used your own agenda as an excuse to pull the wool over my eyes. And you want to protect your vampire lovers so much, that you're actually willing to murder me now? You're a disgrace to every Slayer that's come before you, and the two who came after you. All of your predecessors would spit on you, Buffy, if they were here right now. Including and especially my mother.
- Amy later gives one to Willow in chapter 37, in response to Willow declaring her insane for working with the First:Amy: No! No, no, no, you want to know what's insane? Insane is letting other people tell you your place in the world when you could be running it. I spent my whole life letting my bitch of a mother run my life, and most of high school being everyone's punching bag, and now that I have the power, I'm going to make damn sure that nobody is going to step on me ever again! Warren was right. I have been watching you. I saw that fight you had with your friends in the Magic Box last year. You took the Slayer, the baddest chick in the underworld, and you beat her ass. You wiped the floor with her. It wasn't even close. And then you nearly blew up the planet? For a second, I thought you were finally going to step up to the big time. To stop denying your real power, the real you.
Willow: That's not who I am. That's not the real–
Amy: Yes it is! You have all this power, more than you deserve. And now that you have it, you– you don't even want it. You're running from it. Hiding! Holding back, playing by other people's rules, letting others tell you what you should be. People like you and I, we aren't meant to be controlled, Willow. People like us, we're above everyone else! Rules don't apply to us, we should be making the rules.
Willow: You're wrong. We're not above the law, Am. We-we can't just go around killing people whenever we want!
Amy: Oh? And how'd that work out for you. You tried it Buffy's way. You went to college like a good girl, did the Dudley Do-Right shtick, played by their rules, and what happened? You knew Warren was dangerous. You had the power to get rid of him when he was going after Buffy, hell, maybe part of you knew you should have gotten rid of him. But you didn't. All that power at your fingertips, and you did nothing. You just stood by, and your best friend ended up with a bullet in her chest. And what happened to Tara? The woman you loved died bleeding in your arms, drowning in her own blood. You could have saved her if you had acted sooner, but instead, your insistence on playing by these rules... cost Tara her life. Hell, you might as well have pulled the damn trigger yoursel–
Willow: SHUT UP!
Amy: (chuckles) Same old Willow. Trying to pretend that you can be a normal girl, but you're not. You haven't changed. All this power, and you're still just the sidekick to the Slayer. Still hiding behind Buffy's skirt, just like in high school.
- Buffy and Angel give one to Jasmine in chapter 24:
- The Devil's Truth Series:
- Buffy dishes out one to both Xander and Joyce after defeating Belial, chewing them out for their treatment of her:Buffy: Now listen to me carefully. 'Cause I'm only going to say this once. I know I'm not perfect. I've screwed up majorly, and it has always come out, and I've apologized, and we've dealt. I have some major apologies to make for tonight. The way I see it, that's how it always works with this group. We must be the biggest bunch of screw-ups on this planet, 'cause we just do it over and over again: we hurt each other, it comes out, we apologize, and we deal. But you two? It never came out for you, did it? You just keep acting righteous and grinding my face into my mistakes until it bled! (to Xander) Get me turned into a rat? I never say one angry word to you. (to Joyce) Try to burn me at the stake? I let go 'cause I don't want you to feel bad. But you both keep acting like the Justified, telling me what an untrustworthy screwup I was at every turn. Well, guess what? As far as I'm concerned, neither of you is going to be the Justified again. No matter what I do, you have no right to act like you have any kind of moral authority at all. Ever.
- Angel gets in on it was well, calling out the Scoobies, especially Xander, for their behavior:Angel: I should kill you. Not for me. If you'd told Buffy, maybe she could have kept me away from Acathla long enough so that I wouldn't have had to go to Hell. Maybe I wouldn't have been tortured for more than six thousand years. We'll never know, will we? But that's a maybe. And maybe she would have let her guard down just far enough for Angelus to kill her. He was ready to, you know. So who knows? Maybe you even did the right thing, wrong reasons and all. And I don't care if you hate me, either. You're a petty, spiteful little boy who can't deal with someone intruding on what you perceive to be your territory. I think Oz will agree with me on that. No, the reason I want pry your ribcage open and eat your heart right now is how you treated Buffy. Angelus returns, and what do you do? Gloat and browbeat her to kill me—him. You'd always wanted me dead, and you finally had an excuse. No sympathy for what she's feeling. Your hatred for me crowded that out. When she finally does kill me, she runs away. Weaker souls have been driven to suicide by what she went through, but do you care? No. All you cared about was how she "ruined your life" by leaving for a summer that she would have spent with her father anyway. Who would she have talked with about her grief if she'd stayed, huh? Giles or Willow, who I—Angelus—hurt? Or you, who would have been gloating? Maybe you– (points to Joyce) after you let her back in the house? Or maybe the nice police who interrogated her for murder? She gets back, and you know she had to kill the man she loves, you don't care, because that man was me. You never stopped berating her and rubbing her face in all the harm that I—he—did, until you found out what it was like to not be forgiven. Congratulations, Xander. Angelus would have admired your cruelty.
- Buffy dishes out one to both Xander and Joyce after defeating Belial, chewing them out for their treatment of her:
- In Taaroko's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, after learning that Spike is alive, Buffy basically gives him one after he reveals that he did everything he's done since getting his soul back for her, where Buffy has come to realise that she and the rest of her friends fight because it's the right thing to do even if nobody knows about it, and she's particularly disgusted when Spike says that Angel "won" as though she's a prize in a contest.
- Calvin & Hobbes: The Series:
- "The Case of the Rogue Water Balloon" has this gem, delivered from Calvin to Hobbes:Calvin: IT…WAS... YOU! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU! MY OWN BEST FRIEND WENT AND GOT ME FRAMED! YOU TRAITOR! BENEDICT HOBBES! I'LL NEVER SPEAK TO YOU AGAIN!
Hobbes: Uh…Calvin?
Calvin: HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME! I WELCOME YOU INTO MY HOME! I LET YOU EAT MY TUNA! I LET YOU POUNCE ME AND ATTACK ME! I LET YOU BE FRIENDS WITH SOCRATES! I EVEN LET YOU BE PRESIDENT OF G.R.O.S.S! AND YET…YOU DO THIS! YOU'RE LUCKY I DON'T THROW YOU OUT ON YOUR FURRY BUTT ON THE SIDEWALK FOR THIS!
Hobbes: Okay, calm down.
Calvin: YOU KNOW WHAT? EVER SINCE I LET YOU INTO MY HOUSE, YOU'VE GIVEN ME NOTHING BUT TROUBLE! I USED TO HAVE A NORMAL LIFE! BUT NOW MY LIFE IS COMPLETELY TOPSY-TURVY, FILLED WITH POUNCES, FIGHTS, CUTS AND BETRAYALS!
Hobbes: Take it easy.
Calvin: BUT THIS ONE TAKES THE CAKE! YOU DELIBERATLY TRIED TO GET ME INTO TROUBLE! I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY BEST FRIEND! BUT I WAS WRONG! YOU'VE CROSSED THE LINE, STRIPES! YOU LEAVE ME NO CHOICE, HOBBES! I AM GOING TO TEACH YOU A LESSON YOU'LL NEVER REMEMBER: NEVER BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS YOU! - Near the end of "Thunderstorm", the Season 3 finale, Hobbes mocks the recently deceased MTM as being useless, and Calvin replies as follows:"All MTM ever did was try to help us. He always fired his lasers on time, and he always tried to lighten the mood. And what did you do during all those adventures? You were always running off. You were always hiding. You never helped us. What happened when we were attacked by a monster under my bed? You ran off. What happened when Socrates and I were attacked by a mountain lion? You ignored us. What happened when we were all trapped by that ghost? You deserted us. What happened when Socrates was lost and cornered by two bears? You feigned injury and made me do all the work, AND I DON'T EVEN LIKE SOCRATES! YOU STAND HERE COMPLAINING ABOUT HOW USELESS MY INVENTIONS ARE, WHEN IN REALITY, YOU'RE THE USELESS ONE! I DON'T KNOW WHY I BOTHER WITH YOU! I SHOULD'VE KICKED YOU OUT ON YOUR SORRY FURRY BUTT YEARS AGO!"
- Brainstorm also delivers a smaller one to Thunderstorm later on:"You deceived me right from the start. You showed me dreams of ruling the world together, but no! You had to break the promise. It made me realize it was all just a lie!
And now you get no mercy. SERVANT RAY! DO NOT ATTACK AND DESTROY THUNDERSTORM!"
- "The Case of the Rogue Water Balloon" has this gem, delivered from Calvin to Hobbes:
- Can You Imagine That? has Hobbes giving one to Calvin (who retorts with a Dare to Be Badass speech):"Well, this is just great, Calvin. Just great. Thanks to you, we are now hopelessly lost in an area of the woods we're not familiar with! We could've stayed home for at least a week before the camping trip and have all the fun we wanted. No, you had to make sure your summer vacation was perfect. Well, let me tell you something, buster! Right now, sleeping in a tent on hard rocks and eating dead sea animals and dry spam is starting to sound pretty good right now! You wanna go and get lost in this place? Fine. I'm going home!"
- In The Final Grade Calvin gives an excellent one to Miss Wormwood that might have only been in his head.Calvin: Miss Wormwood, I can assure you that I have learned that learning can be fun, and education is a vital part of life.
Miss Wormwood: [smiling in satisfaction] Good.
Calvin: However, I have learned that learning is only fun if it is made fun, or at least interesting, and regrettably, you are not an interesting teacher. You reduce everything to trivia and sound bites. [...] You don't even treat me like an individual! Every time I try to make learning interesting for myself, you grind me down until I'm just like everyone else and repeating all the facts you pour into my head like I'm a parrot! If I have any hopes for the second grade, it's that my teacher treats me like I'm a human being and not like I'm some sort of automated little wind-up toy! I only hope you're capable of learning to treat kids like they're people and not a bunch of little automations to be programmed to spout trivialities! Have a nice summer!
- In chapter 31 of Code Geass: Bonds of Rebellion, a fanfiction with where the SAZ Massacre doesn't happen and Euphemia joins the Black Knights, with Suzaku working with them as well as a double agent in the Knights of the Round, Euphie confronts Nina about the latter's Stalker with a Crush tendencies, as well as her fear towards the Japanese.Nina: Princess Euphemia, now that I can finally speak to you, I have a question I've wanted to ask for so long.
Euphemia: What is it, Nina?
Nina: Why? Why did you join the Black Knights? Why did you turn your back on Britannia and join those terrorists for the sake of Elevens?
Euphemia: Nina, those people are no longer citizens of Area 11 nor are they Numbers. They are Japanese people, citizens of the United States of Japan.
Nina: They shouldn't matter to you. You're a Britannian, a Princess no less. It shouldn't be your concern about what happens to them. But not only did you create a Special Zone for them, you told the world you'd side with them and became an enemy of the Empire. Why on Earth would you do something like that?!
Euphemia: Why? There are plenty of reasons, but the biggest reason is something I've learnt this past year. It's because in my heart, I truly love the Japanese people and all of Japan, and so, I wanted to do everything I could.
Nina: That can't be! This isn't you at all, that's not the Princess Euphemia I know.
Euphemia: The me you know? What are you talking about, we barely know each other.
Nina: But I know you, I know your goodness. From the moment I first saw you, you didn't abandon me back then. Instead of running away you risked your life to save mine. You were the only one who helped me.
Euphemia: Back at the hotel jacking. You say I was the only one who helped, yet I remember you with some friends of yours back then. Didn't they protect you more than me?
Nina: That's not the same. You're the one I need. You're like a goddess to me!
Euphemia: I see it now. In the end, you truly know nothing about me. The me you know is just an image of me you created basically on a superficial viewpoint you saw and then decided for yourself that it was the real me. A figurehead, that's what I once was. I hated that part of me, on how powerless I was, on how I was nothing more than window-dressing. And Nina, that part of me is the only thing you see me as, even though it no longer exists.
Nina: N-no, that's...
Euphemia: Nina. I'm truly sorry if I made you believe I was something I'm not, but it's clear that I'm not someone worthy of your admiration and I'm certainly no goddess. I think it's best that you and I no longer speak to each other.
Nina: No, Princess.
Euphemia: Please stop calling me that. I am no longer a princess.
- Cross Ange The Knight Of Hilda: In Chapter 15, Jill demands Salia to know why she took Villkiss and nearly destroyed it, Salia claims that wants to prove her worthiness to her, but Jill accuses Salia of using the Villkiss to make Rio fall in love with her and calls her out for choosing to follow her idea fantasy rather than responsibility as captain. Thus, Jill has decided to demote Saila.Salia: Jill,
Jill: On your feet! What were you thinking? Do you have any idea of what you've done? Villkiss was nearly destroyed because of YOUR actions! What do you have to say for yourself?
Salia: I...just wanted to prove that I could do it, I wanted to prove that I could be of use to you.
Jill: To me? Or to him? I see the way you look at him, did you think that if you proved you could pilot Villkiss then he would fall in love with you? It's time you woke up. This is no fairy tale. Your role is to be the Captain of the First Squad. Ange's role is to pilot Villkiss. But because you chose to ignore that for the sake of a fantasy, you nearly cost Libertus everything. I told you once that you can't do what you can't do. And if you still can't understand that then you have no place here! If it weren't for the fact that we've sustained such heavy losses, I would throw you into the brig. But right now I need every pilot I can get. So for now I'll settle for demoting you. As of right now, you're no longer captain of the First Squad.
- In the Facing the Future Series, the heroes have given out these to the villains of said stories:
- In Trial By Fire, Sam gave one to Undergrowth, saying he's no better than humanity as he doesn't care about any living thing on earth besides himselfUndergrowth: "YOU (Sam)?! OF ALL THE CREATURES IN THIS WORLD?! YOU WOULD SIDE WITH THIS VILE SPECIES OVER THE WILL OF NATURE?!"
Sam: "Oh don't get me wrong. I'm ALWAYS about nature. But you know, FIRE has a natural purpose too. It's nature's way of telling plants that every once in a while, they need to BACK OFF!! You know, I could go through a whole laundry list of things people do to this planet that I can't stand. And I could yell and scream and rant and rave until my lungs collapsed," she added, flitting around his head like a buzzing insect, "But for all the legitimate complaining we could do, did you ever stop to think that you're no bargain, either? All you want to do is take, take, take without caring about anything else that lives here. So you'll forgive me if I don't see any REAL difference between you and them. Besides, I can honestly say I'm a LOT closer to some of the people here than I could EVER be to YOU. Sorry pal... but if I have to honestly choose between you and them... then that's REALLY no choice at all." - In A Family Thing, Maddie finds out that Vlad tried to clone Danny, and blows up at him, and then delivers one of these to Vlad on how he doesn't love, just wants, and that's why he became a pariah, why he can never be happy, nor could she ever fall in love with him.Maddie:: WHAT KIND OF MONSTER ARE YOU!?
Vlad: Oh, Maddie, please don't say that. After all, you and Danny... the perfect family I could never have... Would you really condemn a man for the foolish things he does... for love?
Maddie: Oh, why don't you just stop already?! You don't 'love', Vlad! You've NEVER 'loved'! All you've ever done your entire life is WANT things! You know something Vlad, you can't look me in the eye and honestly tell me that your life has been all that terrible! It just wasn't ENOUGH for you! You could take away everything that ever meant anything to anyone, and the rest of the world besides, and it STILL wouldn't be enough for you! Never enough MONEY! Never enough ATTENTION! Never enough... EVERYTHING! I fell in love with a man who has always been able to think about MORE than just himself. And I don't care how powerful or how smart or how perfect you THINK you are... That man is never... ever... EVER... going to be you.- Vlad actually admits she's right, but brushes it off to carry out his Evil Plan.
- In Laws of Attraction, after Danny delivered one to Walker about how he's the biggest hypocrite he ever met because he likes to make rules then breaks them, after Walker attacks Maddie.Walker: Destruction of prison property is AGAINST THE RULES!
Danny: Rules? RULES? What do YOU care about rules? You break your precious 'rules' whenever it's convenient. Why don't you just admit it? All rules are to you is an excuse to try and control everyone! YOU'RE THE BIGGEST HYPOCRITE I'VE EVER MET IN MY LIFE! - Clockwork himself delivers one to Vlad when he comes to try and steal the power over time, insulting him about how he has sought power beyond his comprehension only for it to backfire on him. Vlad tries to attack him anyways, so Clockwork beats him down.Clockwork: "Do you really have any idea what you would even DO with my power?"
Vlad: Oh, I'm pretty sure I could think of something. Being the undisputed ruler of all time has a nice ring to it. Along with the added bonus of being able to rewrite history any way I wish to make me ruler of both the Earth AND the Ghost Zone? I like the sound of THAT even more.
Clockwork: Still refusing to look at the big picture. Of course, how CAN you when you can't even see past your own nose?" Vortex... the Infi-Map... Pariah Dark. Time and again, you've tried to seize control of powers beyond your meager understanding and time and again, you've met with failure. And now you come into my domain with all the forethought of a teenager looking to steal a car for a joyride and brazenly declare that you will take MY power from ME? It would seem that Danny Fenton is quite correct when he calls you…what is that term again? A 'fruit loop'?
- In Trial By Fire, Sam gave one to Undergrowth, saying he's no better than humanity as he doesn't care about any living thing on earth besides himself
- For a non-Facing the Future example, Danny Phantom: Fresh Start has Spectra mock Danny over how exposed he's made himself as a result of revealing his identity during the finale:Danny: Where's my family? [throws Spectra to the floor and kicks her] I said where are they?! Don't toy with me, Penelope!
Spectra: Oh, but it's too much fun seeing you squirm! The great Danny Phantom, all strong and unbeatable, but threaten the ones he loves and he crumbles under a mountain of emotion. You humans are all alike, all mopey and...what do the kids like calling it?...Emo! It only makes you and your species more and more pathetic.
Danny: I don't have to take this from you.
Spectra: Well, what about them? What about the rest of the world? You've got half that know you all too well, and thus make prime blackmail fodder. The other half, meanwhile, seeks payback for how you put them in jail or the Ghost Zone, and would love hurting you where it counts. [grins evilly] You can't win, Danny! Sooner or later, someone's gonna die over you, and all because everyone knows your name...both of them!- Danny turns the tables on Spectra minutes later, guessing at her origins and subsequently mocking them in a scene that feels very much a Shout-Out to Terry's RYSS to the Joker in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, even having Danny be intangible in the shadows while doing it much like Terry was:Spectra: Where're you going, Fenton? Don't tell me you're cowering out already, and only thirty seconds into the fight.
Danny: Who said anything about running? I'm not afraid of you.
Spectra: You should be, you little twerp. Everybody in the Ghost Zone knows not to mess with me. I've known ghosts as powerful as Vortex to cower when I come walking through.
Danny: For what, being an incessant nag? I mean, your motives aren't exactly Grade-A villain material, and this is coming from a guy who's fought Vortex. Inflicting misery on people just to maintain your youth? How superficial can you get?
Spectra: [fires an ecto-beam into the rafters, destroying a light fixture] Where are you, you little brat!
Danny: I wonder what you were like when you were alive, assuming you were ever human to begin with? I'll bet you grew up in an abusive household. Dad probably beat on you a lot, maybe over something like you ruining his dreams for the future. Maybe you weren't much to look at either. I can imagine all those cute boys who wouldn't even look at you 'cause you were so ugly.
Spectra: Hey, I'm the psychiatrist here, not you! If you're tryin' to turn the tables on me, it's not working!
Danny: So, then you died, and the first thing you go and do is play supervillain. Lovely career choice, though that still doesn't explain the psychology angle. [rubs chin in thought] Oh, I know! You wanted to be one of those annoying pop psychologists, right? The kind that get fat off of self-help book royalties and talk shows? Surely no one would ignore you if you were famous, though I can see that it didn't pan out.
Spectra: Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP!!!
Danny: So, the mighty Penelope Spectra is really just an attention-craving little girl whining about how her life was so miserable, and you figured you'd drag everyone down into the same despair you had to put up with in life. Yeah, like I'm verrrrry frightened. You want me to get you some tissues for your sob story? Maybe give you the number for the Self-Help Club for Whiny, Naggy Ghost Hags?
- Danny turns the tables on Spectra minutes later, guessing at her origins and subsequently mocking them in a scene that feels very much a Shout-Out to Terry's RYSS to the Joker in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, even having Danny be intangible in the shadows while doing it much like Terry was:
- Why I Hate Sam Manson has the author give one to Sam based off of Quagmire's RYSS to Brian in Family Guy, bringing up legitimate gripes fans of the show have with her character:Sam: Okay, what is with you?
Author: Excuse me?
Sam: I've never done anything wrong in the show, I'm like Danny's favorite love interest...next to Ember, though why I'm not sure...you like the show, how can you not like ME? I'm one of the most important characters on the show! How can you not like ME?
Author: Okay... I'll tell you. You are the worst person I know. You constantly ignore and disrespect your parents, always shouting "Parents don't listen or understand". No, YOU don't understand. The people gave you life, put a roof over your head, bring you food and how do you repay them? Ignore them, avoid them and sneak out to join a circus! You know how many kids don't have parents or both parents in their lives? You know how many kids want to spend time with their parents? And that's another thing; you have NO reason to be morbid and unhappy… You have two parents who love you, you're nowhere near poverty and you have a wonderful home and what do you do? Sit in your room in the dark listening to some idiotic emo people with loud music about how life is terrible. Yeah, I'm not exactly Mr. Sunshine, but I have reasons, my folks are divorced, my best friend is on the other side of the country, I've never had a girlfriend and I work in a flower shop after spending 4 years learning how to work in videogames. You're just so hypocritical, you always go on and on and on about the importance of individuality even though you're fitting in with Goth kids. You say you oppose violence and yet you threaten your friends, be mean to them at times and even damage everything around. You talk about how the Government is pushing people to do things and how people sell out to the man. And yet you have the district change an ENTIRE school cafeteria menu to food only YOU would like! No separate menu for people who want to try, just all for yourself and let other people starve. That's another thing, you're bossy and you want things your way! You let loose a gorilla that could've killed you, but you keep your friends quiet with an embarrassing photo because it was an endangered species. Against Danny's wishes, you use the Op Center to make a stupid radio station, 100% free of corporate influence, or money, or assistance… or amusing tracks for all I know. You tried to let loose frogs from the school without thinking about the importance of animal biology… and of course you never look at the negative parts to your plans. Let's let loose two male gorillas that are the last of their species… so that predators and poachers can come after them or their race can die out quicker! Let's save the frogs from dissection… so that they can return to where trucks run over them or birds and snakes eat them… you don't see zoos as anything other than a prison. Does that mean a hospital is a prison for not letting sick people out?! You're okay with the destruction of trucks because they're "environmental nightmares" and even tried to make Danny do it... you know how much money and hard work put into making those trucks were? You know how many kids probably didn't get Christmas presents because of that? But no, you don't believe in “selling out”... you don't believe in what most people call "GETTING A PAY CHECK"! Speaking of which, you're obviously using your ideals to hide your obvious laziness. You hate manual labor, you won't "sell out to the man", why? Because you have money!!! You go on about how Government buys us and all that, but what do you know about earning money?! I pull leaves off flower stems every morning!!! Hate to break it to you, well, I don't, but there are people who'd trade those idiotic ideals to have food in their bellies or clean underwear! Before you open your mouth, try earning a paycheck! And I think what I really hate the most about you is that you pretend you're this deep girl who really loves Danny for who he is and hates shallow girls. What makes YOU not shallow? As I said, you always want things your way, you're also always pleased whenever Danny's heart is broken. When Valerie broke his heart, instead of comforting him, what do you do? You smile, sigh and say "clueless". When he gave up his powers to keep his loved ones from being harmed, what did you do? Scold him for wanting a normal life. Oh yes, normal is so boring, being a freak whose life and loved ones are always endangered by monsters, demons and such is so much more exciting. You weren't happy for him, you were upset you didn't get kicks out of seeing him beat someone up anymore! But you know what, I can forgive all of it… ALL OF IT if you weren't so unlikeable. That's the worst part, you're not fun, not pretty, not cool... just absolutely unlikeable... - You Can't Do Any Better Than That is basically one big RYSS Danny gives to Vlad, culminating in this:Danny: You're a lonely, pathetic, miserable old man who's slowly dying inside because no one loves you, and you make yourself feel better about that by beating up little kids. You'll never earn Mom's love. You'll never kill Dad. You'll never win over my family, so you can rot through life. You just get older and older each day, breathing and eating and sleeping and dying more and more inside. And one day your age is gonna catch up to you, and you'll die for real, and I'll still be around, happy. [laughs] I go to bed smiling over how petty and sad you really are. G'night Vlad! Sleep well in your big empty house. I hope your big cold vaults of money are comforting, because nothing else in this world will ever comfort you. Not a wife, not family, not love! You're rich, you're powerful, you're strong, but you're an empty shell of a man, and you can't do any better than that.
- In Resurrected Memories: Ember as Amberline delivers an epic one to Paulina based on Brian's RYSS to Connie in Family Guy after the latter tries one of her put-downs.Ember/Amberline: You know what Paulina, I've been doing a lot of thinking lately and I think I know now why you're such a bitch.
Paulina: What did you just call me?!
Ember/Amberline: Listen here Paulina, you're only popular because your daddy spoils you rotten and always hands everything to you on a silver platter and that you've developed pretty early and started putting out soon after to the first remotely acceptable guy that made a pass at you and now you can't stand to look at yourself in the mirror... because all you see is a spoiled, weak-minded little child who can't do anything on her own who gradually grew up into becoming a whore who's nothing without her pretty face and daddy's money to protect her. That's the reason why you go out of your way to find victims to pick on in order to both gratify your swollen ego and to avoid the inevitable realization that once high school is over, there'll be nothing left for you but memories and several possible STD's and all you'll end up becoming is little more than some scumbag's concubine whose sole survival skills will consist of nothing but these 5 words: "Daddy, I need another loan"... Am I in the ballpark?
- In the Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair fanfic System Restore, Togami, who avoided being murdered at the party, gives this speech to the second murderer, in response to her trying to compare her actions with Togami's attempt to sacrifice his life to stop the first murder.Togami: You — that — Komaeda manipulated Hanamura into killing him! Did you think I wanted Hanamura to do that? Did you think I ever wanted that to happen again? You weren't manipulated. You killed Pekoyama by your own volition for fully selfish reasons. How dare you compare yourself to him! I trusted you. I thought you, of all people, could be reasonable. I can't even comprehend you trying to justify your actions like this. You can't. You won't. You've done nothing but play into Monobear's hands!
- In the Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony fic Three-Point Shot, Kokichi Ouma gives one to Maki Harukawa after exposing her identity as the Ultimate Assassin.Ouma: Your precious Harukawa-chan is nothing more than a coldhearted killer. Shinguuji-chan was psycho, but even he's got nothing on her! Killing people for money, destroying lives without a care in the world. And she was so desperate for me to keep it a secret, that she agreed to help me. What an idiot! You actually believed my sob story about wanting to save everyone?! What part of 'I'm a liar' do none of you get?! Not that you have any room to judge, Miss 'Caretaker'...
- In the Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc fic Dangan Ronpa Another IF, Sayaka (who was convinced not to go through with her attempt to murder Leon) gives one to Kyoko, calling out her hypocrisy for telling Sakura that they can no longer trust her after Sakura willingly reveals herself as Monokuma's unwilling mole and then putting Makoto's life at risk by having him investigate the hidden archive room in the third-floor bathroom by himself, resulting in Makoto being attacked by the Mastermind:Sayaka: Makoto, I swear you are the kindest, sweetest guy I've met... But I can't just let this slide. Kirigiri toyed with your life... That's not something I can just brush off. Kirigiri gets pissed at Oogami for being the Mastermind's mole, even though she's trying to make amends by telling us now... and then Kirigiri turns around and uses you just because she's curious?! [Sayaka shakes her head, then glares at Kyoko] And don't give me any bullshit about being naive or too trusting! Besides her confession to being the mole, has Oogami done anything to make us doubt her? Oogami's guarded all the crime scenes up until now, and she's helped us out in every trial! She could have killed any one of us for losing her friend Asahina, but she hasn't! She didn't even get mad at you for resenting her! Where's your priorities, Kirigiri?!
- Where Talent Goes to Die:
- After the group gets murder weapons from Monokuma, Mitamura tells everyone to not open the boxes they came in. At this point, Hoshino, who'd never trusted Mitamura, takes the opportunity to criticize what he believes to be naivete on her part.Mitamura: Assuming none of you plan on committing a murder, you should have no reason to use these weapons.
Hoshino: That might be true, but what do you think we should do? Sit on our asses until Monokuma realizes we won't kill each other and lets us go?
Mitamura: I am not expecting something so unrealistic to happen, but all 'games' require the players to actually play. The choice of whether to participate in this one is up to us, and if all of us choose not to participate, no one will have to die.
Hoshino: Like that'll happen. Do you really think that no one opened their boxes? Or that there aren't other places to get murder weapons? Hell, you were the one who told us there was a crapload of dangerous stuff lying around when we met up last night. [...] So you can't answer that, huh? Or maybe you don't want to. Not that it matters- I'm not expecting an honest answer. Unlike everyone else, I don't just put you on a pedestal or listen to everything you say. I didn't even vote for you, anyway.
Sugiura: Neither did I, Hoshino-san, but that level of hostility is uncalled for.
Hoshino: Is that all you have to say in Mitamura's defense, Sugiura? Do you really think our fearless leader is the only one who can find a way out of here? Or that she's better than any of us? I sure as hell don't.
Iwasawa: I do, Mr. Hoshino. Why else would Miss Mitamura take on the responsibility of leading us?
Hoshino: I can think of a few reasons why someone like her would go to all that trouble. Maybe she's used to doing so to pad her resume for her college applications. Maybe she wants her mommy and daddy to be proud of her. Or maybe she wants to pull the wool over our eyes so that no one'll suspect her when she commits murder. In my experience, goody-two-shoes like her are almost always selfish at heart- they just try harder than most to convince people otherwise. - Kurogane gives a vicious one to Miura during her final attempt to apologize to him.Miura: I realize that you're still angry about my defeating you, but I'd like to do what I can to earn your forgiveness. We don't have to be friends, but given the nature of our situation, we should at least be able to get along and work together.
Kurogane: So you're making nice with me to keep me from murdering you? Believe it or not, I don't plan on killing anyone, so keep your platitudes to yourself– they aren't necessary or appreciated.
Miura: I didn't think you were trying to graduate. I'm just saying that even if neither of us plan on murdering each other, we should be able to trust and cooperate with each other. That's why I'd like you to know how sorry I am for what happened in our game of s–
Kurogane: A GAME?! Spoken like a true amateur! I competed against siblings and relatives just so the rest of the family would approve of me. I defeated pros who, like me, had played for all their lives. And then some newbie shows up, making me the laughingstock of the professional shogi circuit and an embarrassment to my family, merely as a demonstration of her talent! I can't think of what's worse– that you'd surpass me so quickly, or your 'beginner's luck' only lasts long enough to make a fool out of me.
Miura: I-I didn't think of it as...
Kurogane: Of course you didn't think! Dilettantes like you just play around until they're bored, then move on to the next thing. Your so-called 'talent' gives you a few wins, and might just fool most people into thinking that you're good at it, but you're still just playing around, not knowing what it takes to gradually build a reputation- or have all your hard work undone in a single loss.
Miura: I didn't know...
Kurogane: I'll tell you this much. True Ultimates hone their talents over time, and must continue to do so in order to be worthy of the honor– and burden– of being known as the best. You might not be able to leave this school, but you don't belong here, so don't talk to me unless it's actually important. - Mitamura gives a short one to the first killer after their Motive Rant.Mitamura: I suppose I understand your feelings. At the same time, though, your actions were unacceptably selfish. For your own life and own desires, you murdered Kurogane-san, and were willing to let the rest of us die rather than own up to your actions and accept the consequences. I do not condone Monokuma-san's decision to sentence you to death, but someone like you has no place in our group.
- After the group gets murder weapons from Monokuma, Mitamura tells everyone to not open the boxes they came in. At this point, Hoshino, who'd never trusted Mitamura, takes the opportunity to criticize what he believes to be naivete on her part.
- In Despair's Last Resort, during Chapter 5, the group is on edge after hearing that one of them is Monokuma's spy. After Ryouta's paranoia and hostility get out of hand, resulting in him claiming that Kazumi doesn't care about her best friend's death, Kumiko punches him and gives him the following speech, both of which are highly unlike her.Kumiko: Ryose, shut the FUCK up! This entire time you've done NOTHING but complain and blame people without any proof! No one here knows who's working for Teddie, except for them! It's one thing to be suspicious, but you're just being an ASS! You don't have to like us, but this whole 'everyone's out to get me' crap needs to STOP! That's what he wants! You keep acting like that and someone really WILL try to kill you! I've had enough of this, and I bet everyone else has too, so get your DAMN act together!
- New Hope University: Major In Murder:
- At the end of the first trial, Lucina, writing notes, gives Saya, the protagonist, one over Saya concealing important evidence in the trial and manipulating her classmates.Lucina: You knew from the beginning Therion had changed the sheets. Why didn't you mention it earlier?
Saya: Uh. I was trying to build a case. I wanted everyone to understand the way the crime went first. We all had to talk it out.
Lucina: You also pretended to get things wrong so people could correct you. You let people think they came up with the ideas you were trying to lead them to.
Saya: What is your problem? I'm the reason we're still alive right now. I Did What I Had to Do.
Lucina: I appreciate and respect how you were able to figure it all out. But you enjoyed it, didn't you?
Saya: Enjoyed what? Look...
Lucina: You enjoyed knowing that you could manipulate everyone however you wanted. You enjoyed watching Therion twisting in your net. Right?
Saya: This is ridiculous; I don't deserve to be criticized like this!
Lucina: I want to trust you. More than anyone else here, I want to trust YOU. But you terrified me today. - In a flashback, Saya gets one from her father. It's unclear what exactly caused him to give this speech."Goddamn it, Saya. You just make things as hard as fucking possible for everyone. You think it means you're smart. If you're so smart, how come no one can stand to be around you? (Saya tries to say something) No. No. It's you. I used to think it was me, and your mother trained you to do this as some kind of petty revenge. But no, it's all you. It's all just... thinking you're impressing anyone, like some smug genius. Jesus fucking christ, I can't deal with it anymore. No one can deal with you."
- At the end of the first trial, Lucina, writing notes, gives Saya, the protagonist, one over Saya concealing important evidence in the trial and manipulating her classmates.
- In Danganronpa: Last Hurrah, Nao gives one to the second killer after learning the person's Freudian Excuse — Jirou wanted to be recognized as the Ultimate Scholar, in order to outshine his brother and be recognized by their parents. Nao asks Jirou if his parents were abusive, and after hearing the answer is no, gives the following speech."It was only you who was thinking you weren't enough. You were the problem, not your brother or your parents]]! Did it ever occur to you that they have not given much guidance because they have enough trust in you to leave you alone with your decisions? Did it ever occur to you that they might be worried about your brother getting into trouble which causes them to be around him all the time? No! Because you were too busy feeling like a poor orphan when in fact your parents trust you so much that you have so much freedom!"
"You are lucky to have such loving parents. Not everyone still has both of their parents. Not everyone is born into a loving family. Not everyone is trusted by their parents. If your parents found out you killed an innocent little girl, do you think they will be proud of you?" - In A Student Out of Time, still feeling the high from his victory in saving Sato and Natusmi, Hajime delivers a well-deserved one to the Hope's Peak Steering Committee.SC Member 1: Ah, Hinata-san. Welcome.
SC Member 2: You've certainly had an eventful week, haven't you?
Hajime: You could say that again.
SC Member 3: Have you already made your decision? The deadline isn't until next month.
Hajime: Yes. I have. What you're promising me, the ability to gain talent if I participate, is more than anything I could’ve imagined. It was, for the longest time, my greatest dream. To finally have a talent I could call my own. But now, after taking some time to think it over, I've changed my mind.
SC Member 4: Changed your mind?
Hajime: I'm afraid I won't be participating in your program.
SC Member 2: I see… well, that is rather disappointing. Are you certain this is what you want?
Hajime: Yes. It is. The reason I'm not participating isn't just because I'm scared or ungrateful, or whatever word you wanna slap on me after I walk out of here. I'm not participating because I don't need you. I don't need your empty promises, your talent project, or anything you could possibly offer me. I finally understand now that this entire thing was just a ploy to get me to agree to something I knew nothing about. Just like how you old farts have no idea what talent is.
SC Member 4: Wh– how dare you! This school was founded on the principles of scouting, researching, and nurturing talent!
Hajime: No, let me tell you what this school is really all about. It runs on an elitist agenda where people who have no talent are apparently just ticks that try to feed off of the elite. Because the only reason people ever complain are because they're dissatisfied with their position in life. But you wanna know who the real ticks are? It's the ones who look down on the poor and siphon away their money for stupid vanity projects. The ones who only see people as a resource to be exploited. The ones who manipulate kids who aren't sure where they're going in life with false promises. The ones who use their position to lie, cheat, steal, extort, coerce, and bully to hide their crimes and get whatever they want. The people who wouldn't know actual talent if it hit them in the face and treat what they do have like property. Who act like they're above the law because they're aspiring to something greater. Am I hitting close to home? Because I hope I am.
SC Member 3: (gets out of his chair) Boy, you–
SC Member 1: No, no, there's no need for that. Hinata-san, I see the point you've tried to make. And if that's how you feel, then you should be happy to know you won't have to stay at this school you hate so much any longer.
SC Member 2: Yes, by turning down this project, we've also been forced to cancel your scholarship.
Hajime: Oh, I'm not worried about that. I have another source for my tuition.
SC Member 4: Another source?
Hajime: Yep. You guys like money, right? I'm sure you do. That's why the Reserve Course exists in the first place. I plan on staying at this school, not because I support it or your agenda, but because I like the people here. That also means I'll still be receiving the official Hope's Peak commendation for any careers I pursue in the future. And I plan on pursuing them based on my own merit. So it's a win for everyone!
SC Member 3: Or we can expel you. Not only are you disrespecting your betters, you trespassed on school grounds you had no business being on.
Hajime: And when you do, I'll be sure to let the world know this school's desperately trying to cover up a crime and kicked out a student for saving lives, along with his friends. I know the right people to talk to and the story would go public fast.
SC Member 2: They'd never believe your word over the school's.
Hajime: You really believe that? Even if you're right, the taint by association would still be there. That means loss of revenue. You'd either have to come clean or keep expelling anyone who tries to get the truth out. And you think some outside party wouldn't get suspicious and come take a closer look? Imagine what they might find.
(The committee members all look around nervously at one another)
SC Member 1: …Very well. You'll… you'll be allowed to continue attending Hope's Peak Academy.
Hajime: Good. And with that, I'll be heading home. Still got a lot of recovering to do. Good day, gentlemen.- Later on, while going to speak with Hiyoko's family, Chiaki, Mikan, Kotoko and Kimika Kimura, a friend of Hiyoko's mother Maiko, they end up in a massive argument with Hiyoko's racist and horrendously controlling grandmother Izumi. And after some encouragement from Kimika and listening to Izumi verbally abusing Hiyoko and her husband Kohaku, Maiko finally loses it.Izumi: H-How… How dare you–
Maiko: Oh, shove it, will you? You can insult me all you want, cuz yeah, maybe I have been a loser up to now. And maybe I’ve been comfortable with it. But don't you ever– don't you EVER– talk to my husband or my baby that way.
Izumi: Baby?! Y-You never even wanted to be a mother!
Maiko: I changed my mind. You really oughta sometime, you rotten old prune. Let me make something clear to you. Your attitude not only makes me vomit, breathing the same air as you not only makes me want to rip my nose off, but every time I hear you talk about "the good of the clan", it makes me wanna rip my hair out.
This has never been about the good of the clan. It’s always been about you. You, you, you, you, you, you, you! Your power, your legacy, your misery, your needs, your whatever! All you've ever given a shit about is how WE can help YOU feel better about yourself. And I know what you're gonna say. You're gonna say, "Oh, you mean like you, sitting there and living in your little fantasy world instead of doing anything with your life?" To which I'll say, yes and no. Yeah, sure. I know I haven't been a good mother to Hiyoko or even the best wife to Kohaku.
But you know what else I haven't been to him or anyone? A loud, arrogant, self-centered control freak who's past her prime. Someone who needs to blame her problems on others because she's too sad, too selfish and too spineless to take any responsibility for them. Someone who acts like she's the biggest, most pathetic, pitiable loser in the world so she can have the chance to play the victim card. Alright. If you wanna act like a loser, I'll treat you like a loser. Maybe I can't dance, but you're the one who gave birth to me and my brothers. You're the one who can't let go of how our ancestor went to Hope's Peak. Meanwhile, I actually graduated!
But most of all, you need to understand something, Mom. Traditions are important, but you don't want anything to change, anything to grow and you just want things the way they've always been… just with you in charge and telling people what to do. You're not doing good for the clan, you're strangling it. I know for a fact that Hiyoko doesn't need you in order to keep our traditions going. What she does need is to learn who she is and to be allowed to GROW, as a child and as a human being! How fucking dare you act like that's a betrayal of everything we've worked toward as a family. And unlike you, I know I'm not past my prime. And that infuriates you, doesn't it? Knowing I could do something that YOU didn't like and didn't have control over, so you did everything you could to make me feel like shit!
And that's not even touching on how much of a narrow-minded bigot you are. But considering you LIED to Hiyoko about who her father is for years, I think that speaks for itself. You think Japan is better without foreigners? It's better without people like you. You're not some special, all-important or even vital part of this family. You're scum. You're a chewed-up wad of gum stuck on the underside of a bus stop: dirty, disgusting and unwanted. This clan will survive without you. In fact, it'll thrive without you and your bullshit.
- Later on, while going to speak with Hiyoko's family, Chiaki, Mikan, Kotoko and Kimika Kimura, a friend of Hiyoko's mother Maiko, they end up in a massive argument with Hiyoko's racist and horrendously controlling grandmother Izumi. And after some encouragement from Kimika and listening to Izumi verbally abusing Hiyoko and her husband Kohaku, Maiko finally loses it.
- In Chapter Three of the novel-length Daria Fan Fic Its All About Respect, Sandi Griffin delivers a blistering Colony Drop version of one of these to Daria, in front of a lunch-room crowd:Sandi: I don't even know why I'm even wasting my time or theirs talking about or to you. You don't care about anything or anyone here — you wouldn't lose a moment's sleep if anyone or everyone else were wiped out, would you? To you, it really wouldn't matter if this were a class project, a video game or real life - even if all these people that you know were to get wiped out, would it? You don't care about people getting hurt or dying — I'm certain you didn't lose sleep over Tommy Sherman —
Daria: You have no right to say that about me.
Sandi: I have every right to say it. You make fun of all of us. You think we're idiots, running around doing nothing of any real worth, just acting stupid and wasting time until we're dead while YOU cage yourself up in the dark in libraries and such, doing your living by reading constantly about the people who had the guts to do what you won't — which is go out and LIVE! You make fun of people like Kevin, and Brittany, and Charles. You make fun of things like the 'Lowdown', the Fashion Club and the football team, and people like Andrea — hell people like Mack and ME are afraid that someday, you'll notice them and start chopping away at them, hurting their feelings because you don't want to feel good yourself and don't want to know why! You treat us like idiots! Yes, we're not all as smart as you — and by the way, even though we ARE the idiots, we still outnumber you - and if we wanted, we could stampede over you. But do you know why we don't? Because we don't NOTICE you. You see — we're having fun. We're out doing things. We fight among ourselves, we do stupid things, we make others notice us, but above everything else we're living. We're alive - and whether we're in pain, or happy or getting screwed by the system, we're gonna keep going — but YOU! You're a black hole for happiness — you're world-class buzzkill! It's kind of like what Billy Thomas said on 'Ally McBeal' — 'Life is wasted on you, Daria! Life is wasted on you because you'll never enjoy it!' You're worse than a 'misery chick' — you're Sally Field in 'Soapdish!' No matter how many chances you get for happiness, you'll just screw them up because you are the Queen — of — MISERY!- Jane gives Daria the OTHER barrel of the coach gun moments later with an equally harsh speech — and then, in Chapter Five, Daria herself gives one of these to Trent Lane:Trent: Daria, I'm not trying to —
Daria: You're not doing ANYTHING with, to or for me — there are better-looking ways to get an STD, and you've probably never heard of antibiotics. What, piss-poor lyrics make you dumb AND deaf? Let me make it simple, so even a non-guitar playing bag of skin, bones and smell like you can understand without you needing your wannabe psychic earth-mother floating around on bong smoke to translate: GET — AWAY — FROM — ME. GO — THE — HELL — AWAY. FUCK — OFF!" [pauses] "So you are capable of learning. I guess that empty look in your eyes is just for decoration — well, something about you should be physically appealing to someone someday. Study up on '2+ 2' — maybe you'll SOMEDAY be able to swing that job collecting tolls on the Jersey Turnpike. It's your kind of career, Trent: money, respect AND intellectual development. Maybe you'll pull down a Nobel Prize for your fundamental breakthroughs in counting loose change." (Trent steps away.) "Smart call, two-ply. Now practice playing the scales — it'll help you pass the time in the Public Aid Office while you wait for your appointment to get food stamps. Better yet, close your eyes while you're there and count all the fans you'll have when you make it — my God, are you done already?
Jesse: Daria, c'mon —
Daria: Are YOU trying to develop the concept of speech and evolve?" [shoves something down Jesse's pants] "Here's a twenty; go buy a haircut, a shirt and a vasectomy. That way — you'll be the perfect man.
- Jane gives Daria the OTHER barrel of the coach gun moments later with an equally harsh speech — and then, in Chapter Five, Daria herself gives one of these to Trent Lane:
- In Chapter 16 of God Save the Esteem, appropriately titled Wedding Hell, Erin (Daria's cousin) unloads on all and sundry with a screamer at her own wedding:Erin: Don't you even think about telling me off for making a scene, maybe if I did it more often I wouldn't be standing in the shit like this! As pathetic as Aunt Helen and her fucking coven are, at least they don't let someone box them into a fucking box for their own image! This wedding, this fucking wedding... this is all, all mirrors and smoke, you just want it to look good so you can pretend you wanted me to get married! And oh yes, Brian is fucking worthless but that never bothered you about Paul or Bruno or any other of the other troglodytes you keep dragging round the house every four months and forcing me to play stepdaughter to! And you wonder why I left home the damn instant I was laid off from work and had an excuse to move? Any wonder I stick with my troglodyte after watching you piss it up every third of the year? Don't you ever think it, Daddy! I haven't seen you in years and so what if you can't stand Mother you could work something out, but you don't! And Aunt Amy! Brilliant damn advice, brilliant, you sure know about horrible shitty relationships only you forgot to give me anything more practical, like what happens if my boss is such a creepy pushy bastard he follows me? YEAH THAT'S RIGHT I'VE BEEN HAVING SEX WITH MY BOSS ANDREW LANDON WE DID IT TWO MINUTES AGO! Well, that's me fired, I guess, and the wedding off too! Are we having FUN yet? Are we, Hellion Wheels? Is this punk enough for you? Maybe if I was doing this at 3 fucking AM and shoving it down your throat every damn time we met, that'd be punk, right? Christ, and your hellspawn is worse than you, you must have really worked at that! And don't think you're out of it, Daria, you made it clear you knew the marriage was failing and you snarked about it! Snarked about it? What use could you be to anyone? And a big thank you, I MEAN FUCK YOU, to all my friends who had to walk in and decided to snitch about me behind my back, well I'm sure glad I wasted years of my life with you and tried to act all sympathetic with your problems! A total waste! I hate every damn one of you.
- YouTuber Mr. Rogues series Arkham Patient Sessions sees Dr. Jeremiah Arkham conducting a therapy session with obscure Batman villain Dr. Death. Death goes on a protracted rant about how today's villains are inferior to him, only for Arkham to respond with a brutal deconstruction of Death's status as an obscure Starter Villain.Dr. Death: I am ze greatest super villain ze city has ever seen! Ze first super villain! Ze original! I shouldn't be locked avay in zis verdammte madhouse! Do you remember, Herr Doktor? Do you remember mein brilliant crimes? Ah, ze good old days. Zat time I released a deadly mist upon ze entire city; infected everyone. Only vay zey could get ze antidote vas if ze city gave me $10 million! [chuckles] I would've gotten avay vith it, too, if only it vasn't for ze Fledermaus. Zese other so-called super villains, the ones who came after me, vat are zey? The Joker, a stupid clown! Stupid clown with stupid jokes! How can he be called Batman's nemesis? He's ridiculous! Is ein insult to me und ze Fledermaus! Und The Riddler, vat ein dummkopf! Reveals his crimes beforehand, most incompetent idiot I've ever seen! Und vat about zat Two-Face? Can't even make up his own mind! Have you seen him play vith zat coin, Herr Doktor? Like ein kinder! I tell you, Doktor, zese foes, zey aren't-
Jeremiah Arkham: Oh, SHUT UP!
Dr. Death: Was?
Jeremiah Arkham: I said shut up! I'm so tired of your infernal babbling!
Dr. Death: Was?
Jeremiah Arkham: You always do this! You always go on about the old days, how you terrorized the entire city, and how you're a much better criminal than all the other lunatics in this place! Well, I've got news for you, Karl: no one cares! No one cares about you! No one even remembers you! The Joker, The Riddler, Two-Face... everyone knows of them, but Dr. Death? More like Doctor Who! Get over yourself, Karl! You're a loser, a has-been! Sure, you terrorized the entire city... eight years ago! I doubt even Batman remembers you now!
Dr. Death: Now, wait a minute...
Jeremiah Arkham: I mean, look at you! What are you compared to them? They have longevity. They're all unique, each with their own iconic gimmicks and personalities. And you... You're a generic Mad Scientist! You're dime-a-dozen! You even have the stereotypical German accent! What a joke!
Dr. Death: I thought you were here to help me, not insult me!
Jeremiah Arkham: You say you want out of here? Well, why won't you just escape like everyone else does?
Dr. Death: I tried many times, but...
Jeremiah Arkham: Oh, please. You haven't really tried. If you did, you'd be out of here by now. You know what I think, Karl? I think you're afraid to escape.
Dr. Death: That is ridiculous! Vhy vould I be afraid?
Jeremiah Arkham: I think you're afraid that everything I just said will turn out to be true! You'll turn out to be a generic mad scientist has-been, not enough to cut it in today's Gotham! I think you're afraid that once on the outside, you'll finally realize once and for all that you really are nothing compared to the other super villains! You're afraid that you'll be no match at all for the Batman! You're afraid he'll just laugh in your face! - Original villain The Lord gets a pretty good one on Alexander Luthor in the Infinite Crisis fanfic Crisis Point during the Battle Of Metropolis, where the Lord has shown up to try and seize control of Alexander's plan (It Makes Sense in Context). While the scene actually has them going back and forth doing a "You Suck" speech to each other (and Alexander technically wins), the Lord's final response is considerably more epic.The Lord: [upon being told his power is nothing, especially considering Luthor's insane ally, Superboy-Prime, is both a Physical God and powered by the Lord's weakness, sunlight] And what YOU have is a mad child throwing a temper tantrum, the last vestiges of your control soon to be shaken off. He bleats about how he’s going to be Superman... shuh, what a joke. Superman is at least something to be noticed. Despite all his power, all I can do is laugh at him and his little crybaby antics. He’s pathetic. Just like you... No matter what the world, neither you nor your father can win. At least this world’s Lex Luthor has the common sense to apply his genius to self-gratification. When the wave of white consumed him, what did your father have to show for his efforts? A WEAK LITTLE NOTHING LIKE YOU. Fighting the good fight leads to a false heaven, switching sides the same psychasthenia that so many have found before. He would have been better off putting a toy poodle in that rocket for all the good you’ve done.
- In the fan-made DCU Shared Universe of JLA Watchtower, Gar Logan gets in a zinger of one against a resurrected Terra. The Gar player at the time had just finished reading The Judas Contract and was mad as hell about what Tara put him through.Tara: Thought you mighta been one of the smart ones. Dick had something to prove. Kory was an airhead. Donna was all 'whatever ya say, Dick.' Tincan was stuck in moping mode. An' let's not go there with Raven. But you mighta been something.
Gar: I am! I ditched my lying, deceptive user of a power-hungry lunatic, and found someone the complete opposite to share my life with! [laughs] And you were so pathetic, after getting out of your slavery in Hell with a sliver of honor, to fall right back to where you DIED. A worthless shell, used to bribe assassins with, among others no doubt, to con with, and scheme with. And now you tried to con yourself a life. With your ex no less. As a martyr to the Titans yourself, back from the dead honorably, when you really died crushing yourself by accident in the murderous rage you created from your insanity. You're pathetic Markov....See, that's your main trouble. You hate the truth, Tara. You love lies. Lies are your best friend. You can shape lies. You can't shape truth. You can adjust lies by adding more lies. Adding a lie to a truth just makes it look worse. And you know what you'll end up dying with Tara? You and your lies. What a life that was. From nothing to something to nothing again. Hope you like this path, because on this planet, on the road you're on, you're screwed. Here lies Lying Manipulator. Died alone. - Chris Dee's Cat Tales is full of them, most notably one from Clayface impersonating Riddler to Bane in Gotham Rogues:Riddler: Am I supposed to be impressed?
Bane: You should be afraid.
Riddler: Of... whom? The coward who had to wear Batman down before taking him on? The soured underpowered coward that—even packing the old venom advantage—needed to break us all out of Arkham to tire Batman out before he could take on a witty-bitty crimefighter half his size? I taunt Batman, you pusillanimous poseur. I say "Come and get me, Big Man." And when he does, I want his best game. That’s how men measure swords, you posing poltroon. Why on earth do you imagine I’d be afraid of a... fraction of a man who had to hide behind my coat once already?
Mr. Kittlemeier and I will be leaving now. Word has it you’re not a muscle-bound imbecile. If that’s true, you should be leaving too. Get out of Gotham and never come back. If you don’t... I will break you. - The Final Straw is essentially just Superman giving Batman one after the latter uses his Freudian Excuse one too many times in a heated argument. It ends up being so devastatingly on-target that Batman — who up until that point had been keeping a cool exterior — has a horrified flashback to all the brought-up times he'd hurt his former proteges, and then breaks down in tears within moments of Superman leaving.Superman: Krypton.
Batman: Hm?
Superman: Krypton. Mars. Argo. Do you know what they mean?
Batman: Your home world, J'onn's home world, Kara's home world. I just don't know why you're bringing it up.
Superman: I never knew what my home planet was like. My parents sent me away when I was a baby. But J'onn married. He had a family, two kids before the White Martians invaded. Kara had her parents and a little brother. Maybe more relatives, but she doesn't like to talk about it that much. Not with me or Ma or Pa. And they both lost it all in an instant, either war or planetary destruction. And you know something? They've drawn people in instead of pushing them away. J'onn spends time talking with the others in the League. Kara is balancing her time between the Titans and her friends at school. They're still hurting, but they reach out instead of withdrawing. They don't let their fears get in the way of their happiness. (sighs irritatedly) Meanwhile, you're not even fit to be near children.
Batman: I know how to talk to children–
Superman: No, you know how to interrogate them. You know how to get them to talk, even when you're wearing that outfit. It's easier to do when they aren't your children. You make it sound like you have a heavy burden on your shoulders looking after an entire city, even though you have people who love you and give a damn. People ready to die for you and let you know that you aren't alone. And how do you thank them? "You're fired, now get out of my cave", "You disobeyed a direct order, Stephanie. It's over." "I don't need anyone." "You're only getting in the way." And do I have to mention how you thanked Miss Row? Does she still have that broken nose? You had Alfred, you had Leslie, you had people who loved you and you're still griping over your parents' death. Why are you still making a big deal over it?
Batman: Take. That. Back!
Superman: No. I won't. And it's going to take more than Kryptonite to stop me, Batman. You could pull it out now and I'd still be right. It wouldn't change anything I've said.
Batman: (growling) What point are you trying to make here?
Superman: My point, Batman, is that they suffered more than you have, and they aren't taking it out on everyone around them. J'onn doesn't punch children for reminding him of his dead ones or of a future he might never have again. He doesn't break up with a woman he's attracted to because he's afraid of her dying. Kara doesn't break off her friendship with Barbara every time she saves her life. She doesn't conveniently forget about Ma or Pa, the closest things she has to parents right now, when she feels overwhelmed. I don't push Lois or Jimmy or my parents away just because my planet blew up. I don't ignore my friends or co-workers, either. And your backstory? A mugging that took your parents' lives. That is sad. And no kid should have to deal with that. But you know what? You've had time to mourn. You've had time to heal. You've have people to lean on. But you don't seem to want that, do you? It's been twenty-five years since it's happened. I don't care how old you think you are. (he glares at him coldly) Grow the hell up. - In Laughable Bats, Batman gives a devastating one to The Batman Who Laughs — one of the most, if not the most, dangerous psychopaths in the DC Multiverse — in Crime Alley, picking apart everything from his simplistic worldview and Stupid Evil tendencies to his impractical costume and ultimately being far less powerful and immortal than he thought due to various underlying illnesses and being too insane to be trusted by his own master and allies. It's so brutal that it gives "Laughable Bats" a full-on Villainous Breakdown that not only removes Barbatos' favor and blessing from him but manages to restore a bit of his sanity.
- In With this Ring... (Green Lantern), Carol Ferris has become the ruler of Zamaron after being possessed by her evil split personality the Predator. Hal Jordan tries to reach out to Carol by pointing out that, as long as she lets the Predator control her, she will not be a queen but a tyrant.Hal: "You are what you are today because you embraced the persona you once expelled from your body, the Predator. Do you know why you expelled him, Carol?"
Carol: "Because of my emotional conflict over you, Hal Jordan. Acting upon the powers of my sapphire gem."
Hal: "Not entirely. I think you expelled him because he was unfit."
Carol: "Unfit!"
Hal: "That's right, Star. Not just because he was the part of you that had to be hard. God knows, Carol Ferris had that. She couldn't have run Ferris Aircraft all those years and not have had that. The Predator was more than that. He was the part of you that was—dark. Evil. More than an aggressor, Carol. He was the being who hated everything Carol Ferris loved."
Carol: "I warn you, Jordan—"
Hal: "No, Carol. I'm warning you. Without the check of compassion, without the ability to love, or give a damn about the people you're supposed to rule, you'll be anything but a queen. You'll simply be a tyrant. That's what the Predator wants you to be, and that's what you're handing him. I could create a mirror here, and show you. As a matter of fact, that's what I'll do." - In Daughter of Fire and Steel, General Zod delivers a scathing speech in the first chapter when he finds his trainees brawling:Dru-Zod: This is what our warriors have been reduced to? A bunch of pathetic squabbling children who don't know the meaning of the word discipline.
Aethyr-Zer: Sir we were…
Dru-Zod: Did I give you permission to speak?! You called Kara-El a freak and defective and yet you are the ones I see as defective and useless. If you cannot maintain discipline when you are off duty then you aren't worthy of standing in these halls. You three are dismissed." (to Kara) "Who threw the first punch?
Kara Zor-El: I did.
Dru-Zod: Your father assured me that your genetic flaws would in no way impede you in maintaining military discipline. Perhaps he was wrong and perhaps you should reconsider your place here. You are dismissed. - C Listers:
- Poison Ivy gives one to Firefly calling him out his intimacy issues and how lonely he is after seeing how terrified he is by the prospect of a kiss after she hypnotizes him with her pheromones while trying to kill him.
Poison Ivy: Are you…? Are you scared? Tearing you apart you don't batter an eye, but a kiss? A kiss and you're shaking like you've had a dose of Scarecrow's fear toxin? You truly are terrified, aren't you, Lynns? What a truly sad, lonely, little man you are. I bet you’ve never wanted something more in your life. But whatever is messed up in your head…. I prey on people’s desires, not their fears. Not fear like this at least. Pathetic. Go. When I kill you, your death will be painful and slow, that I promise, but I won’t be taking advantage like that… even you don't deserve it.
Firefly: You're… not going to kill me?
Poison Ivy: Yet. You're pathetic and lonely. I think letting you live with this.. is a greater punishment then killing you. What a very small man you are. You're not even worth turning into mulch. Yes, keeping you alive while you desperately crave something you will never allow yourself to have? Oh, that… that is a far greater punishment than anything I could come up with. Besides.. it's not me you want, is it..? Ohhh.. I know all about your desires for Doctor Cassidy… Harley, bless her, talks in her sleep. Why don't you go to Sarah now, you little creten? Show her how pathetic you truly are.- Firefly gives a brutal one to Killer Moth, calling him out on trying to ruin his relationship with Sarah, being a manipulative asshole, and a failure in general.
Firefly: Any last words, you lying, meddling, son of a bitch?
Killer Moth: I'm sorry! Mm so- so sorry! I’m sorry!
Firefly: Sorry ain't gonna cut it, Drury. You… you tried to get in the way of things with me and Sarah! You almost did! And I know why you did it, you fucking idiot! You honestly think I'd stop burning stuff, that I’d leave you in a mess?
Killer Moth: I just.. I.. you.. you were going to leave! Leave and let me burn…
Firefly: No, Drury.. I wasn't gonna let you burn, not then. Now though? Now, I’m gonna burn you… I warned you.. cross the Firefly and you burn.
Killer Moth: No… please! I don’t wanna die!
Firefly: Shouldda' thought of that before you decided to screw with my life. You can manipulate me with our work, but you crossed a line trying to manipulate Sarah. She's mine. You can't take her away from me. You shot yourself in the foot, like you always do, because you’re a fucking idiot!
Killer Moth: I'm not an idiot! I'm not an idiot! I'm not!
Firefly: Really? Your little plan didn’t work out, did it?
Killer Moth: Only because Crazy Quilt sold us out, because you asked him to! You set him up! You set us all up!
Firefly: You were going to leave them all in the dust anyway, like you always do! Because that’s just what you do. Oh poor little Drury Walker, orphaned and no one wanted him! Did it ever occur to you why?
Killer Moth: You can't say shit, Garfield, you were an orphan too!
Firefly: I had a sister. You had nobody. No one wanted you, no one wanted to be friends with you, because let's face it.. you're one of life’s losers. I was the first friend you ever had, you even said that to me when you were drunk, real awkward by the way. You know I don’t do mushy stuff. Still, that's what you said and look at how you treated me? You backstabbed me because you were jealous and scared. It's pathetic! [He aims his flamethrower at Killer Moth.] You're pathetic. Won’t even be missed.
Killer Moth: What would Sarah say if she knew you did this!?
[Firefly pauses. Killer Moth takes advantage of this and throws a grenade at Firefly that explodes, trapping him in a cocoon]
Firefly: You’re nothing without me, Drury! When we met you were a drunken loser! You'd lost everything!
Killer Moth: Shut up!
Firefly: All because… you got beaten up.. by a girl on her first night.. on the job!- Firefly gives another one to Killer Moth when the previous TRYSS motivates him to use a serum to transform himself into a horrific, cannibalistic moth-like monster.
Firefly: You… You idiot! What the fuck were you thinking?! You did this to yourself! All because you could never stand on your own! Because you shot yourself in the foot like you always do! You were the closest thing I had to a friend and you treated me like dirt! Then you tried to get in the way of Sarah and me, did you think I wouldn't be pissed off at you?! Go on! Eat me! Go on! Get your fucking glory and fucking eat me, but guess what? It won't change anything because you will always be a joke!- Ratcatcher gives a brief one to Sewer King.
Ratcatcher: You're pathetic! Just a small, little man, who wants to make himself feel big and powerful!
- In All You Need Is Love Light Yagami writes Naomi Misora a letter telling her just how much Raye Penber sucks at being an undercover F.B.I. agent:Light: Mr. Raye Penber is very annoying and doesn't know when to LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE. I realize it is his job to follow me around like a lost puppy but could he at least put a small amount of effort into not being so bloody noticeable? It's almost embarrassing having to look behind me every day and see him there standing oh so inconspicuously behind me with that newspaper shielding his pasty face. Yes, I can see him behind that newspaper the eyes in my face indicate that I am not blind. Your fiancé should note this fact next time he comes tapping along behind me, which should be any moment now I might add. Here are a few tips I wish to convey to your lover boy, please feel free to tell him for me as I think it's counterproductive for me to tell him. Besides it would just point out how inept he truly is: 1) when following someone try not to walk so loudly and when they stop walking you stop walking 2) when following someone do not literally follow them at every single moment of the day this includes lurking outside their room in the dead of night 3) do not wear the same clothes every day especially when on a high school campus not only are you noticeable you look completely ridiculous 4) when on a bus that is being high-jacked by a man with a gun do not show your victim your ID with your real name, if you have to use a pseudonym it's not unheard of 5) everyone can see you whispering in the back of the bus your voice is louder than you think 6) don't tell your victim what day your shift ends; you never know when they might have been paying attention. 7) when wearing the same clothes every day do not wear a blue trench coat, you want to be mistaken for a drug dealer every time you take a stroll? 8) when glaring at your victim and their date try not to look so completely bored, if you are going for the 'pedophilic-stalker' look be sure to complete it otherwise you look stupid 9) walk at a distance far enough away that your victim can't instantly grasp the fact that he is being stalked 10) try to look like you're doing something besides following your victim people might start to notice. I could go on but I think this should suffice, once again I leave with the statement THE WORLD DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND YOU AND YOUR PATHETIC USELESS BEAU WHO CAN'T EVEN STALK HIS VICTIMS PROPERLY!!! Thank you for your time.
- In A Cure for Love L does this indirectly when he asks Light's help to figure out what a "Loveable Rogue" of a criminal is going to do next and then gives Light his own psych file to read:"any therapy would likely further enable his abilities to manipulate others. His intelligence and superficial charm, combined with his pathologic egocentricity and internalised morality, make him a dangerous individual deserving of clinical management and incarceration. He is driven by some, as yet, undefined goal. Kira's targeting of criminals gives a certain mask of sanity and 'goodness' in terms of his reasoning, but, due to his narcissism and deep-rooted antipathy, I doubt that they are exclusively or will remain his true aim of attack. At this point in time I would score him high for the Factor 1 scale of emotional psychopathy on the PCL-R, though his neurosis are not fully incapsulated within those criteria. He appears, at times, to show feelings of strong empathy, despite his apparent incapability to love." Light slammed the folder and the words shut. "What a load of utter rubbish. I don't care. Really. I couldn't give a flying fuck."
- From Low Light there is Kira's ( L and Light's) greeting to Near:Good Morning Near,
I hope that you are well this morning, and my impromptu greeting has not interrupted any important investigation work this man was pursuing. I would not wish to deprive you of your important information, but when I realised that you were attempting to find me I knew I it would be remiss of me not to greet you.
As is my way, I shall prove to you my identity, as if this were not enough already. I believe you have an Ellickson Thomas and a Larry Conners working for you, yes? I also know that if you had been more thorough in your investigation you would have realised they were perhaps not quite as virtuous as you were led to believe. I shall say no more on that.
I must say that taking on L's persona in front of the American President really was quite rude. L was a far more worthy opponent to my righteous justice than you could ever hope to achieve. I suggest you admit your real identity to him soon, as well as to those who are blindingly following you in the hope that you are L, or I will tell him who you are. I assure you the president will escape retribution for his transgression, I believe in second chances.
Oh, and Near, you should stop twirling your white hair so much, you could damage it.
Yours Faithfully,
Kira. - In the AU Point of Succession Light informs Matt how he deduced Matt wasn't a real cop when he was pretending to be one for L's investigation: 1) Since Light came from a police family he knows how real cops behave 2) because Matt didn't even turn around, let alone stop to help when Light's accomplice pretended to be injured like a civic-minded officer should 3) few police officers have bright pink hair...
- Xanatos has a troll giving repeated ones to Kira. He disses Light as both the second L and as Kiranote . Said troll is Matt.
- Isolde gets a pretty heavy one in Dragon Age: The Crown of Thorns when she makes the mistake of accusing the protagonist of being someone who has no problem with killing children. This is one of the very few things that can really rile the dwarven Wise Prince up. It didn't help that Isolde was constantly throwing blame around.How dare you imply that I have no qualms about killing a child? Your stubbornness and decision to keep Eamon out of the loop about Connor being a mage just killed everyone in this castle, almost killed Teagan and almost eradicated all life in Redcliffe! How many mothers worked here and are now dead? How many sons? How many daughters? How many children? How many men, women and children from the village died because of this? Massacre! This secret of yours caused massacre upon massacre and the fact I was here to stop the last one was pure coincidence! And then you come and lure Teagan here to share this fate! And all you can do is cast blame and mewl in this pathetic manner? How dare you try and weasel your way out of your responsibility for letting this happen?
You weren't thinking of Connor's own wellbeing when you kept his magical aptitude a secret from Eamon! You weren't thinking about his well-being when you hired an apostate to tutor him! You weren't thinking of his wellbeing when you repeatedly lied to your husband's face about what was the most massive thing in your son's life! All that time, you only saw what you single-mindedly considered was for the best. You convinced yourself it was for the best just so you could not realize how utterly selfish you were! You were never thinking of Connor's wellbeing, only about your own!
You handed your son over to the first blood mage that someone happened to stumble upon! And even though any sort of logic likely screamed inside of you the words "this is utterly stupid", you did it anyway! Because you would not 'lose your son to magic"! You say you love your child, but all you do is do what makes you feel better, even at his own expense! Instead of seeing him as your son, you see him as a means to feel better about yourself! All he is to you is an object that improves your mood!
Oh, I know you love your son, and that only makes it worse, because it means your selfishness overpowered that love. And that is one of the worst kinds of betrayal. You betrayed your own child and now he has become an abomination that killed hundreds. - Alistair delivers one to both Eamon and Loghain in the short "Speaking Truth to Power".I'm a Warden! I grew up in your stables! I'm a serving-girl's son! I wasn't raised to be King. I wouldn't have the first idea how to do it. [The Warden] would be a better King than I ever could be, but he's a Warden, too! Wardens are what this country needs right now, or you're all going to die! I hate Loghain more than I can say, but [the Warden] made me see that it's more important to save the country than to seek revenge on one man. Yes, this is better: it's better to show him for what he is: a power-hungry old man, still fighting the last war, blind to everything else! We don't need him! [to Loghain] We don't need you! If my father were alive, he'd say the same!
- In the Diablo III shrine, at the final confrontation with the Big Bad Diablo (who is called "Anus" in this shrine), the main character Benamin delivers one:Benamin: Even now, in the end, when I think back to all the things you’ve done, all the pain you’ve caused for whatever sick reasons fester in your soul, all I feel is pity. When you birth an entire region of space-time, all I see is conflict. Pain. Suffering. You profess to have such unimaginable power, but all you know how to do is be a complete prick. You know how to destroy. But we will always stride forward, building and rebuilding to greater heights despite your feral destructive ways. In the end, humanity progresses, while you remain in your desolate wasteland of nothing. You look upon people standing together – in love, or friendship, or family, but can’t understand how we uplift one another and thrive in our interdependence, because all you know is how to hurt others. So you lash out in fear and envy. I said I pitied you. Who wouldn’t? You said I understand. I do. But you don’t. You know nothing. You look upon those who suffer and smile in glee. You look upon the wounded and attack, because evulz. You look upon the weak and seek only to subjugate them to feed your own sensitive ego. On this day, your ignorance comes to an end. I shall not allow you to harm another innocent soul.
- In the The Bad Guy Wins fanfic Reign, Frieza gives a very scathing one to Vegeta.Frieza: "Oh how I loathe people like you Vegeta. [...] A filthy traitor who thinks he has some sort of right to overthrow me. And you don't even have the common courtesy to die. That Super Saiyan ape might have vexed me, but you...you just insult me. [...] And you... Are an arrogant back-stabbing coward, who is incapable of acknowledging his own failures. You were sniveling to that Goku idiot back on Namek, saying that everything evil you ever did was MY fault. Well tell me Vegeta, do you know how many worlds and civilizations you've destroyed without my order? Did I tell you to destroy Arlia? Did I order you to commit genocide on the colonies of Ethrom? Was I the one who ordered you to decapitate the king of Verbu because he insulted your height? No, you proved yourself quite capable of cruelty without my input. [...] You see, Vegeta, for all the cruelty and death I or my family may cause, we have our reasons. Usually it's just business, trying to expand our empire or give territory to those loyal races who need it. Occasionally I'll mix business with pleasure such as right now. But the thing is, my dear boy, that's where the difference lies. I have motives behind what I do, while you... well, you are just a thug like the rest of your species, despite this infernal notion of 'Saiyan pride' you constantly scream about. A violent and petty little thug who thinks that being a 'prince' makes him something special. In actuality, you were just a grunt your whole life, lower than even Zarbon and Dodoria before you started getting lucky. The universe would be much better off without you to stain it."
- In Tales of the Monkey Queen, Goku gives one to Majin Vegeta during their fight, having hit her breaking point with Vegeta's Saiyan pride and fixation with surpassing her.Goku: Oh, will you shut up?! I’m so sick of this! All you ever talk about is your Saiyan pride! How you were meant to be the strongest, how you were meant to be better than me! That’s the craziest thing, Vegeta, you were stronger than me! I had to multiply my strength four times to be stronger than you, and I still needed Gohan, Krillin, and Suno’s help to beat you! But I didn’t let it bother me! You wanna know why? Because I never took anything for granted! I never just assumed that I was the best! I’m glad Freeza blew up our stupid planet! Because otherwise, I might have grown up to be a coward like you! [...] What else would you call it? What would you call it when the second life goes any way other than exactly how you think it’s supposed to, you start to have a crisis? What do you call it when your life is validated by being strong enough to do whatever you want and falling apart when suddenly that changes? [points to the Majin tattoo on Vegeta] What do you call taking the easy way out when things got hard? [...] Do you want to know why I let you live? Not just because you were strong. Not just because I wanted to fight you again so that I could prove I could beat you on my own. But because somewhere, deep down, I knew that you could have been more than what you were. That there wasn’t that much separating what I could have been from what you were. I wanted to give you the chance to better yourself, to prove me right. But if this is all you are... I should’ve just let Krillin kill you.
- Between Dreams and Memories Universe:
- During the second half of the presidential debate, Tommy delivers a cutting one to George that calls him and the DreamSMP as a whole out for starting the War for Independence and gets him to admit he's only running for Quackity's vice president to reduce L'Manberg to an extension of the DreamSMP.Tommy: May I start, please? First of all, I would like to formerly apologize for my outburst earlier. But I think I can provide you for a good reason why. At the core, it all boils down to the unprofessional and downright childish behaviour of my debating opponent – Because that's the truth, ladies and gentlemen. George has been lying this whole time, turning this story against me to make me look bad. You may say what you wish about mine and Wilbur's policies, but do you want a liar in your government?
George: Me? A liar? What do you mean? I've said nothing that was a lie. Not a single thing. I've simply decided to bring up the past of your nation. You advocate for a future with words over violence and yet your very nation was born of violence and suffering. I'm sorry to bring up the past here, but... Don't you think it's a little hypocritical?
Tommy: Well where is the source of that violence? What does it all boil down to? You're acting as if we up and just started a war for no good reason! Let me remind you, when L'Manberg first formed we offered a peaceful solution. We asked for our land to be granted to us without war. But you refused – You'd rather hurt us.
George: There was no need for L'Manberg first and foremost. We never did anything to wrong you. We welcomed you to our city with open arms, and you separated yourself and took resources from us we could have used to develop the DreamSMP more. The only way to repair this divide again is for cooperation to start between the two of us–
Tommy: And what about other bits of the past you never seem to mention? What about locking Tubbo up in his house to make potions for him all the time? What about threatening to burn down our home simply because we wanted to make potions a common resource? What about everything that came before L'Manberg and motivated us to found it in the first place?
George: You... You lot were trying to topple the system we had in place to keep our city safe. We fought back against what could have left our city in shambles. We did the right thing, and L'Manberg was a disappointing side-effect of that.
Tommy: And yet, by starting this war, you did the exact opposite. You sent the DreamSMP into a state of ruin, suffering and a lack of leadership for almost five months. The only reason the city stood tall when you returned was because of The Blade, who miraculously showed up and saved us from the forest when you couldn't protect us like you swore to.
George: If we hadn't fought you would have just carried on with breaking our rules and tearing down our city! Why wouldn't we try to oppose that? The war that followed was unfortunate, but opposition in the first place was what brought us to that point!
Tommy: So you think we shouldn't stand up for what we believe in? Try to oppose what isn't right? Funny you say that! I thought that was exactly what you and Quackity are claiming to do. And now you're telling me it's a bad thing?
George: You and Wilbur are trying to create a nation that can never, ever hope to even live up to what the DreamSMP is! If you keep closed forever you can never develop! You'll crash and burn!
Tommy: Oh? And I thought your win in this election was guaranteed. Now you seem convinced that me and Wilbur will get re-elected. Did something change your mind?
George: If we win this election we're going to bring L'Manberg back to what it should have always been – Nothing more but an extension of the DreamSMP!
Tommy: Sorry, big man, but I doubt that will happen with how you're acting right now.
George: You're such a little... Brat! How did you even get in a position of power?
Tommy: By keeping my cool far better than an adult can manage to, it seems.
Tubbo: That's enough! Clearly Mr. GeorgeNotFound has no idea how to debate properly. With how childish and inappropriate everyone here has been acting today I have no choice but to cut this event short! I'm truly sorry for wasting all of your time...
Tommy: (pats George on the back) Good debating there, Gogy. But try harder next time. - Jschlatt tears AntVenom a new one after he insults Philza in front of him.Schlatt: Fraud? You sit in an office built with money you got from exploiting the city and yet you call Phil of all people a fraud? Do you know how much that man did for this city?
AntVenom: Right. Of course. It's the two of you that are frauds. Letting your father take the fall for something you did. What an honourable thing to do.
Schlatt: How fucking dare you? I can't fucking believe that I used to admire you! You're an asshole! You leech off people and then try to paint them as the bad guy? What sort of person does that?
AntVenom: It's called business. I thought someone like you would get that, but you don't seem to-
Schlatt: I used to look up to you. I'd see you up on that stage and I'd imagine being by your side. I even had this stupid little dream where we fought the Ender Dragon together. You know, a fairytale – Because I was just a kid with an idol. A naive kid you used.
AntVenom: It's not like you were the only one–
Schlatt: 'But lo and behold, every person I thought to be good turned out to be my enemy. Ted Nivison might be a complete asshole, but at least he doesn't try to hide it. Congratulations, not only did you take Phil away from us, you took my hero away from me. - Tubbo gives a brutal one to Quackity after Technoblade escapes his execution and Quackity screams at him for letting him get away.Tubbo: You were wrong, Quackity! Attacking Techno was not the right move. Dream got in the way anyway. He was always the problem. I shouldn't have had listened to you! We kicked a hornets nest, pissing Technoblade off! Now we have more to deal with!
Quackity: What the hell does that mean?
Tubbo: Come on, it's obvious! I'm not stupid! Maybe I was, initially encouraging this, but... I noticed how you acted around him. That pleasure you took in seeing him so helpless. This was never about the country. This was never about protecting us, or helping Tommy. This was your own sick and twisted wants, some need for revenge! A need to see someone suffer because you did! And look where that got us! We put our people in danger, we made another enemy! All because... Because I trusted you! And I never should have!
Quackity: Oh yeah? Is that right?
Tubbo: You are a self-centered, manipulative asshole! …It seems Schlatt taught you well.
- During the second half of the presidential debate, Tommy delivers a cutting one to George that calls him and the DreamSMP as a whole out for starting the War for Independence and gets him to admit he's only running for Quackity's vice president to reduce L'Manberg to an extension of the DreamSMP.
- In kairos Tommy delivers a truly brutal one to Sam after he tries to imprison Tommy immediately after Dream resurrects him as an undead Humanoid Abomination after Sam had killed him.Sam: Tommy, you– I– I really should put you in a cell, Tommy. You may have been revived, but you still broke into prison.
Tommy: Have you seen me, Sam? Have you seen what you did to me? Don't you feel guilty for killing me, for committing the same crime that Dream did, just as bloody and just as fucking unfair? Has being Warden of this shithole messed with your brain enough that you can't see how fucked up it is, me coming back to life after you murdered me, and you telling me you ought to lock me up?
Sam: (desperately) You committed a crime, Tommy.
Tommy: You couldn't have known for sure Dream would bring me back, could you? Didn't it eat at you, knowing if I died permanently it would be on you? Once, you offered me food and shelter when everyone I loved cast me out, and now you're the one I need to be scared of. You let me die twice, Sam. You're a failure at your one job twice over. You're meant to be keeping Dream safe for me. You're meant to be keeping me safe! I'm a monster, Sam, and it's your fault.
- In Freedom From Fear, Lena tears Magica to shreds when she tries to put the blame for everything bad that happened to her on Lena.Lena: How dare you? After all you did, how dare you claim to have gotten off worse?
Magica: You're living in a mansion, Lena. By definition–
Lena: YOU RUINED MY LIFE! Do you have any idea what you did to me? You...were...abusive. The things you did to me, I'll spend my whole life getting away from. Every other word out of your mouth was either a negative scream against me, tearing down my will and confidence, or it was manipulative, something to get me to dance to your tune in the vain hopes of the smallest amount of affection. You used me. You manipulated, belittled, insulted, and gaslit me. You stole my freaking body from me! I was a child! I wanted someone to love me, but you never gave me even an ounce of care and compassion. I was nothing to you, just a tool! (at this point, Lena starts to tear up) I had to unlearn so much of what you programmed into me, and it's been some of the hardest things I've ever done. I had to learn that could be a safe place, that family isn't supposed to yell and berate you, that how I treated was not normal. I catch myself thinking about this or that awful thing, things about myself I know to be wrong but they still bubble up from deep inside without warning. I have anxiety and sometimes depression. I have trouble getting out of bed in the morning and I sometimes have to slip away to be alone, reorient my brain after too much is going on around me. And my nightmares...great Gaia, my nightmares! A lot of them are mostly shock value now, but there have been some nights where I am too keyed up from them that I can't go back to sleep. I just something something fluffy, usually Skadi, and sit by the window looking at the stars until morning. It's not healthy, I know it's not, but that's what it is!
(Lena turns to Magica with hateful fury in her eyes)
And the worst part about all this is that I can barely talk about what's bothering me sometimes. Not to Webby, not to the boys, not to Scrooge or Beakley or Doc Van Horn. Della gets some of it, but I still feel like the words won't come. And right now, it's all spilling out, and it's to you. And now you have the gall to stand there like I'm the one at fault? Bullshit lady! You tried me like scum, tore me apart, and tried to rebuilt me into a tin toy! I'm not going to apologize for striking back at an abuser!
Magica: I was–
Lena: BEING A HEINOUS BITCH! That's all you ever do! You're a pile of toxic sludge in the shape of a duck and your every action makes people miserable! But I got away. I still have scars, but I found a place where I can be safe and warm and loved and doesn't that just burn you up inside? That despite all you did to me, all those years of pretending to be family, that I found something better? That I survived your best efforts and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it? - In What You Really Think which takes place between Timephoon and GlomTales, Glomgold is desperately trying to win the bet and comes up with what he calls the Festival of Schemes and starts listing 15 of the 80 schemes in it. Owlson, who has been uncharacteristically calm during this, simply humors him the entire time. Fed up with her behavior, Glomgold accuses her of being a spy for Scrooge McDuck in an attempt to sabotage him. Owlson tells him she doesn't need to since Glomgold lost regardless. Glomgold tells her to say what she really feels and does so. And then accidentally gives him the idea to unite the rest of Scrooge's enemies.Owlson: (takes breath) You are the worst person I've ever met. You're inconsiderate, selfish, sexist, stupid, homicidal, suicidal, sociopathic. I spent MONTHS trying to rescue this company from you, MONTHS, and you tore it apart in less than a year and ignored me. Constantly!
Glomgold: Because I'm better than you!
Owlson: At what?! Hatching half-brained schemes?
Glomgold: You finally got it good for...
Owlson: Oh will you just shut up? I swear the ONLY thing you listen to is the sound of your own voice! You tanked this company AGAIN, treated me like less than a person, and BET THE ENTIRE COMPANY I MADE PROFITABLE AGAIN ON A STUPID BET YOU COULDN'T POSSIBLY WIN.
Glomgold: Well maybe if you let me scheme more..
Owlson: My stopping you from spending every PENNY we have on your stupid vendetta with scrooge is the only REASON we have money left! It's the only reason you're close to his range! I tried to help you win the legal way and you just ignored me! You got our company accused of stock fraud! You blew a surefire deal! You set fire to my apartment!
Glomgold: Now I cannae explain that one.
Owlson: I'm being so cooperative because tommorow I'm FREE OF YOU. I can finally have the company back and bar you from the premises.
Glomgold: Oh and what makes you think Scrooge would..
Owlson: Because he told me. He told me if he wins, i.e. WHEN he wins I get the company. He actually TRUSTS me and doesn't treat me like white noise!
Glomgold: You're more like a car horn.
Owlson: I .. I can't take any more of this. You're going to lose, I'm going to laugh about it and then EVERYONE is going to forget this. You could never do this, you're too far behind and you can't top Scrooge, his family or his sense of decency. Good day Flintheart. (walks out)
- In Think Once, Think Again, Natsu and Lucy exchange them when he and Erza confront her over her supposedly beating Lisanna up.Natsu: You weak, useless little whore. When we met back in Hargeon, I thought to myself 'Hey, she looks nice. She'd make the guild return to normal'. Yeah, I just needed you to be a replacement. And when you fucking moan 24/7 about not having rent, I just wanna slap you! Have you at ANY POINT thought about us? Probably not, because you're one of them wannabe Mages who deserve to rot in hell! And I swear, on Igneel's life, if you hurt ANYONE within Fairy Tail... I show you the true meaning of pain, one worse than Death!
Lucy: I'm weak? How am I weak?! I just silenced THE titania Erza? When have you ever been able to do that, Natsu? You have no right to talk to me like a pile of shit, so SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Natsu: You're the weakest. It's a shock to even say that you're a Celestial Mage.. You should be ashamed!
Lucy: IGNEEL SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOU! IGNEEL TAUGHT YOU TO PROTECT NAKAMA, NOT TO HURT THEM! REGARDLESS OF WHAT THEY HAVE DONE! I DIDN'T EVEN HURT LISANNA, WE WERE LIKE BEST FRIENDS! HAVE YOU TURNED BLIND? OR DID YOU JUST FORGET THE FACT THAT FAMILY MEANS THE WORLD TO ME!?
Natsu: YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IGNEE! YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Lucy: I KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT HIM TO KNOW THAT HE THINKS THAT YOU'RE A DISGRACE! - In Another Chance, this happens between Levy and Lucy after Levy, along with most of the rest of the guild, is tricked into thinking Lucy beat up Lisanna.Levy: You bitch. You were so jealous of poor Lisanna and found that violence was the way to solve it. I can't believe you, I expected better from somebody like you.
Lucy: Levy... No... I expected better from you. For somebody who's pretty much been my friend ever since I joined, you would seriously take someone that you told me you barely had a connection with, over me? Or are you just believing her story because everyone else does?
- Purple and Black Reloaded: Kirsche von Einzbern aka an Einzbern-raised Sakura Matou who sees Kiritsugu and Irisviel as her real parents gives one to Aoi Tohsaka after Kirsche gives Rin the Magus Killer treatment, implicitly calling her out for trying to pull a '...what would your parents think...' after how she treated her own child.Aoi: Do you really think your parents would be proud when they see you now?
Kirsche: My father is the Magus Killer. He wouldn't be proud, but he wouldn't be angry or disappointed either. As for mother...I never met my mother. And even though I really wish I could meet her someday, I also know that it's impossible. But I know this much: she'd be disappointed at the extent I've gone to this day, but she would understand. She would accept me. My father would accept me. That's because parents always accept their children regardless of the circumstances.
- Payback from a Pipe: Following Quagmire's brutal beating of Brian in "Quagmire's Dad" Stewie takes Quagmire, beats him up some and gives Glenn a RYSS in response to the one he gave Brian in "Jerome is the New Black".Stewie: You, Glenn, are the worst type of person on this planet... You are nothing but a hypocrite... You accuse Brian of lusting after Lois, but you fucking got caught spying on her in the can... you tried to hook up with her after Peter lost his memory, you used my pacifier as a sex toy, you're a convicted sex offender, pedophile, AND necrophiliac... and you accuse Brian of being a tool... but look at you! Brian at least TRIES to better himself with college and careers, but you... we RARELY see you working and I wouldn't be surprised if you just got into the pilot business just so you could fuck every stewardess into the mile-high club! So what if Brian craps on the fat guy's lawn, HE'S A FUCKING DOG! DOGS DO THAT YOU IMBECILE! You've fuckin' hit on Meg, Connie... you destroyed Cleveland's marriage and fucked Loretta's corpse... you treat women as if they're nothing more than objects... you act like you're some well-read snob, but in reality the closest thing to a novel you've probably ever read is the Private Parts book! But you know what... I could possibly, POSSIBLY forgive you for all this... but for one small fact. You're a shithead... a hypocritical, perverted, sexist, violent little shithead!
- In Stupid Devil Dog Saito tears Louise a new one, when she tries to stop him from leaving Tristain Academy for entierley selfish reasons:Saito: "I'm leaving because you ripped me out of my home, my family, my friends, my future, my life. I'm leaving because your terrible magic is twisting my mind, and wiping memories out of my head. Hell, you probably didn't even consider that I had a life before I got here. You are insensitive and self-centered. I'm leaving and nothing you do can stop me."
- Amazingly, this actually gets through to Louise, and for possibly the first time ever, she thinks of the implications of dragging Saito into her world.
- The Steep Path Ahead:
- The Cardinal gives a very long and epic one to Karin, to her face.Cardinal: The only one to blame is you, Duchess! You couldn't wait! You had to find your daughter on the double! On the triple! Didn't matter the number of diplomatic accidents it would cause! Didn't matter if the Germanian ambassador was throttled out of a window, or if half the knights of the corps suddenly resigned to follow you in your inane crusade! For three years, I sought out your daughter through my own means, just so I could slap in your face your weakness when compared to the Crown! But then you had to go and move a mountain. You had to build an outpost, you just had to order the knights of the Manticore to follow you! And those fools did! The King told them not to, and they followed you! Do you have any idea what that meant?! That was the closest you could have gone to treason! The Crown has power as long as the people that swear fealty to it respect it! But to find your daughter, you decided to shit on Everything! The nobles whispered! It's always been about magic, our nobility! The Duchess can move a mountain-what can our King do? The Duke's the bastard in the royal line; he's a descendant of Brimir too! So, frankly? When someone killed your second daughter? I was glad they did just to see you realize how weak you were. So no, I had no intention of giving you back your daughter just so you could return to court with your heir after having thrown the worst of all temper tantrums. My king died of worry and heartache, fearing for his kingdom to be divided, because of you! The Queen would never have punished you. The Princess is too innocent for the politics of the court. So I did what I had to do for the King and for the Country of Tristain, and there goes not a day where I am not glad I did what I did, because right now, in court, you are alone Duchess. It took me decades, and your husband-oh you should be glad your husband did his best to hold on to what little he had. If you had been alone, I would have taken everything from you, the title, the power, the money-everything, but not your life. Just like you took my King away. Just like you weakened the Crown. And yet, for all of my work, I was willing to accept my punishment. Founder knows the sleepless nights, how wrong it was to keep a child away from its mother-a child who had no sins for being born to a selfish bitch. So, Duchess, I knew where your daughter was, and I hid it from you. To this day, I will apologize to your daughter a hundred of times, but do not think even for a second I would not do this again. You committed treason, and you were punished for it. Be thankful the crime was not paid with your life and that of all those who followed you rather than the crown!
- Julio lays into Saito's Thou Shall Not Kill attitude in Chapter 97.Julio: Truly fascinating, your naive innocence is so refreshingly disgusting I never thought I'd see something similar if not in young children, pampered by rich parents. As the Gandalfr, you are an utter failure. You, lead an army? You'd barely take a step and then run away at the first sign of blood. When ideals clash, it's only those willing to go the extra mile that eventually win. Keep your childish feelings to yourself-you had so much potential...and you squandered it playing the adventurer.
- The Cardinal gives a very long and epic one to Karin, to her face.
- The villain Final Fantasy IX fic Go Not Gently deliver one to an adult Eiko Carol as she tries to defend Zidane's heroism.Tango/Vivi: What we did together, was it so courageous? Zidane walked among us as an angel of death, down in the dark places, his heart a crippled worm of blackness worse than Kuja's. Worse than Garland. He danced the dance of death and everything he touched turned to dust, linden-bloom. We walked in Alexandria and it exploded. We walked in Lindblum and it exploded. We walked in Burmecia and it exploded. We walked in Cleyra and it exploded. We walked in Terra, the dead planet, and it died. Do you truly know the things Zidane did, down, down, in the dark, with his hands and feet and mouth?
Eiko: Zidane was a hero. Shut up! Shut up!
Tango/Vivi: Zidane was a liar!
- Queen of Sorrow: At the end of the story, Elincia is given one by Skrimir, after she used Lehran's Medallion to force Ike to kill the Greil Mercenaries when he tried to convince her to abdicate the throne.Skrinir: When I was a young child, my uncle made me learn the beorc language. In the beginning, I had much trouble with it, but in the end, I learned to speak it well. Some of the words were particularly hard to understand... words that don't exist in nature. Words for things that can't be touched, like 'kingdom' and 'fealty' and 'law'... words that are called 'abstract'. Those were the words I struggled with. Among those abstract words, there was one that I've never understood for many years. Its meaning eluded me, and after a while, I suspected that the word had no meaning at all. But eventually, I was proven wrong. The word was 'evil'. There are many words to describe a beorc or a laguz of whose actions you don't approve. Prideful. Greedy. Ignorant. Reckless. Vengeful. Power-hungry. Murderous. For each of these words, I have met people who could be described by them. Several of them have been used to describe me.
Three years ago, when Ranulf returned from the war against King Ashnard, I asked him everything about it — because I had wanted to be there and prove my strength! He told me many stories, about the war and the fighting. About Ike and Ashnard and even about you, Queen of Crimea. But there was one story that stood out the most: The story about the Feral Ones. He told me of laguz who had been twisted completely, driven insane by torture and poison. Laguz who had forgotten who they were, and were being used by Daein to fight their former friends. I didn't believe him at first, not until Giffca and others confirmed his story. That's how I learned about evil. There are many reasons to destroy a man's body... honor, anger, vengeance, war. But destroying a man's mind and soul, turning them against the ones he loved... that is true evil. And that is what you have done. You destroyed Ike's mind. You made him kill his friends and family. That cannot be forgiven.
- Chrom tears Frederick a new one in Pretender when he finds out the latter has been dating Robin behind his back, especially when Frederick told Chrom that he wanted to stay friends with Robin.Chrom: You spent the last few years sidling up to him, all the while lying to me about it being a friendship based on your guilty conscience. You once said I was 'irresponsible' for thinking that you two were in a relationship. You've done well, Fredericson, pulling the wool over my eyes, had me worried for you both and made it look like I was in the wrong for making assumptions. Ha! Was I crude to use the word 'design'? I think not! We have not one great strategist in this castle, but two. In that regard mayhap you are perfect for him - I will never compare when it comes to cunning.
- Lucina Reacts: Cordelia rips into Robin and Lucina for refusing to confess to each other, precipitating them actually confessing to each other.Cordelia: You two are in love! Face it! Don’t tell me I’ve mistaken my signs. Don’t tell me anything like that! Robin, I’ve been your friend for as long as you can literally remember. Do you think for a second I never noticed how you looked at Lucina? How you always worry about her? Do you? Do you think you can lie to me?! And you, Lucina. Morgan looks exactly like you. She has your hair. The Mark of the Exalt. I’ve seen her use the Falchion. She couldn’t be any more of your daughter if she tried! Don’t you dare try to avoid it. There, I’m going to say it again. Robin, Lucina loves you and wants to spend every single waking moment with you. Lucina, Robin would want to do nothing more than make you his wife and make up for every last thing he’s wronged you in.
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I’m angry because my two closest friends short of Sumia are being idiots! You two have denied yourselves the happiest days of your lives! You two know you love each other, but refuse to admit it to anyone, even yourselves! As your friend, I can’t just stand by and let you do that! I’m obligated to make you two happy! Do you want to suffer for the rest of your lives?!
Do you two honestly, genuinely believe, that you don’t love each other? Do you?
- Two in A Brighter Dark that really stand out.
- The first one being from Flora to Corrin, at the end of the Ice Tribe arcFlora: Tell me, was it fun? Being such a pariah? Dancing around, drinking and fucking whenever you felt? Not a care in the world, no feeling of responsibility? Of course...how could you possibly know the pain of those around you, when all you could see was the bottom of a bottle? I don't blame you, princess, no more than I would blame an idiot child for breaking its toys.
Corrin: I wasn't perfect, I know...I made mistakes. But I always thought of you as a friend.
Flora: Blind to the end...I served you, from the moment I started I had to watch you squander all that my tribe could only dream of, my sister is enslaved to you, she turned her back on us for you, then you come and murder my real friends, and force those who remain back into a life of servitude, all for you...don't you get it by now? I hate you...I always have. I want you to remember this moment, every time you feel the sins marked on your back, the moment I finally confessed. Every moment serving you was a torture, I couldn't look at you without refueling my contempt. You'll never know how many times I prayed that one of those prisoners would get lucky and gut you, freeing me from the neverending torment of tending to your superficial needs. I hated you every moment we were together, and I hate you now. I'll die saying it. I hate you. I hate you. I hate you! - And another from Azura to Sakura after her inability to act leads to the deaths of several prisoners who had previously rescued her.Azura: They didn't die because you weren't strong enough.
Sakura: But-
Azura: They died because you were strong enough, and unwilling to act with that strength. You wanted to save them, and you failed. Not because you weren't strong enough, but because you were too scared to act. When you got a first glimpse of inhumanity of the world you went to Yukimura and placed the burden on his shoulders, when the correct course of action would have been to resolve the problem yourself. There were many things you could have done if you'd cared enough, but the fact of the matter is that you just weren't willing to make a decision on your own. You weren't willing to be unreasonable in your desire to save them.
Sakura: But... what could I have done then...
Azura: Ryoma would have used his authority to force the magistrate to release them. Corrin would have charged in and freed them with her own two hands, consequences be damned. Mother would have used diplomacy and force them to acknowledge their hidden conscience, forcing them to want to let them go. Any of these options were available to you, so you cannot act as if you were powerless to save them and that's what makes you a failure. If you actually were powerless, it would not be your fault, there would have been nothing you could have done to change the outcome. But because you had the power to save them, that meant you had the obligation to save them; the fact that you refused to meet that obligation is what makes you a failure.
- The first one being from Flora to Corrin, at the end of the Ice Tribe arc
- Sylvain gives a brutal one to his Big Brother Bully Miklan in Those With Ruinous Envy. By this point, Miklan has killed their father, kidnapped their mother, and lured Sylvain to a spot from their childhood so Sylvain could exchange himself for her. Despite Sylvain's pity over his brother being The Unfavorite due to him lacking a Crest, he's fully accepted that Miklan has gone off the deep end and absolutely snaps when Miklan accuses him of being spoiled.Miklan: You’re a fool. You and mother and father abandoned me and now you’re saying that things would have been all right if I had just been kinder? Bold words from someone who's had a perfect life.
Sylvain: PERFECT!?
[Sylvain gets closer to Miklan]
Sylvain: My life was NEVER perfect! How could it have been?! Do you honestly think I was happy being treated like a— a purebred puppy?! Do you have any idea what that did to me?! And on top of it, I suffered years and years and years of abuse. From you! I took it because I wanted a brother! I wanted to love you! Ah. If you had just been there for me, I would have adored you. I would have done anything for you. DAMN IT!
Miklan: Do you honestly think your cries will change anything?
Sylvain: No. I’m smarter now. I understand that some of this was about crests. But some of it was because you are just a bad person, Miklan. I don’t care if I never see you ever again. - The Savior King, the Master Tactician and the Queen of Liberation
- Bernadetta gives one to the Flame Emperor during the Holy Tomb battle.Bernadetta: This is the person who wants to change Fódlan? What good c-could come from h-handing power to someone who c-can do this without hesitation? You...you don't value your people's lives any more than my father does! You'd never be a good ruler. You'd just be one more tyrant. And I...I won't let you! I won't let you take my f-friends, or the Crest Stones, or Fodlan! We're...definitely going to stop you!
- Rena Fraldarius gives one to Edelgard when it becomes clear just how arrogant and foolish she's being.Fraldarius: YoUu...aRe nOo HeRo. YoUu...aRe...just thEir t-tooL...lIke Us nOw. StUpId liTtLe giRl...dId you rEaLly ThinK, wHeN yOu saw t-their works AnD m-mAdE use oF tHeir evil...thAt yYou wouLd e-ever be a hero? [...] S-ShE's j-jUsT l-like Nemesis. D-Drinking bLoOd and c-calling iT righteous. M-MaKing hEr pEoPle, w-who fOoLishLy t-truSt her, a-accomplices to i-it AlL. S-Save yYour sYmpaThy f-for our dEscEndents.
Edelgard: W..You compare me to Nemesis...? Then I am the next King of Liberation?
Fraldarius: YoU...tRulY kKnow n-nothing. Nemesis c-commiTTeD aN unParaLelled e-evil...Serios was yYour hero, y-your sAlvAtion. We weRe tHe fOoLs...who n-naively trusted him... Y-YoU m-mock the idea t-that there are things you cannot come back from. T-That...is wHaT...MaKes you A fFool... - Felix gives one to Count Varley during their duel in Hrym.Felix: Do you always run your mouth this much? All you've proven is just how weak you are. You can't win loyalty without threatening to slaughter people in retaliation. You endlessly scream about deserving their respect by dint of a cosmic accident, when most people live past their second birthday without thinking the world owes them something for that achievement. You heap abuse on your daughter, your servants, your people; all who have no recourse against you, and think that doing so makes you powerful. You're so desperate to increase your name that you would sell your daughter as if she were a bed slave, when if you were actually a man of capability and respect, you wouldn't need to stoop to gutter crime. [...] The woman I love is still suffering because of you! You abused her...called her worthless...convinced her no one would ever want her! One of...the bravest people I've ever met... still lives if fear of you. You! You worthless, pathetic, spineless waste of air! You aren't worthy to carry her shoes!
- Thales gives one to Edelgard in Chapter 73 that completely and utterly breaks them.Thales: I know better than to apply the best of my men to a lost cause. You cannot win this battle. You lost long ago, you just refused to realize it. The Riegan boy outwitted you, the Fell Star drew in more hearts than you, and the Blayddid boy hits harder than you. I had been under the impression, when you outlined your plans to reunite Fodlan under yourself, that you had the drive and the intelligence to make it possible. Yet you failed at every opportunity. You failed to break apart Riegan and Blayddid's love affair with the Fell Star, failed to kill the Fell Star's vessel when she was in your grasp for months before reclaiming her full power, and failed to do anything but loose ground in the war you started, even with our assistance.
- Bernadetta goes nuclear on Count Gloucester and his men after they ignore all of the hard work Claude has put in protecting Fódlan in favor of hating him for being half-Almyran.Bernadetta: SSHHHHUUUUUT UUUUUUUUPPPPPP! SHUT UP! Just – just shut your goddess-damned mouth, you ignorant, peasant-murdering, power-grasping imbecile! And you...all of you! You should be disgusted and ashamed of yourself...have you forgotten the last six months?! Are you so blind, so contemptuous, so completely without honor that you're just going to forget everything Claude von Riegan, Prince Khalid, has done to save you in this war? You there! Sir Dagdar...I saw Claude save your life with my own eyes during the Battle on Myrddin bridge! He deliberately made himself a target for the flying mages and held them off while giving our army directions to reorganize in the midst of the ambush! As for you! Lady Tina. Just yesterday you were effusively praising how much Claude valued the lives of even the lowest of his soldiers, how he had dreamt up plans for battle that gave us our precious low-casualty figures, stating how other lords would have discarded them as impractical and the losses 'necessary'. Has that magically become untrue because his father is King Kirah of Almyra?! What do we care about the wars of men long dead, that bones and dust would compel us to hate those we have never even met? I've watched, all these months, as Claude agonized over the losses our army has taken! Spend sleepless nights hammering out the plans that took us from one victory to the next, saved not only our own people but those trapped by Adrestia's tyranny as well! He was the one who warned you before the war began that there was danger in the future; it is thanks to him that you were prepared for war, that the Alliance between Leicester and Faerghus was even possible! I saw with my own eyes how he valued lives, our lives; when our people would have rejected him the way you're trying to now! There is nothing more true than this... Khalid loves Fódlan! And you would turn on him now?! After he has fought so hard to save you, knowing that he would lay down his life for you, you call him a monster and an exile from Fódlan because of his birth?! Are you so craven?! Are you like Thales and his Agarthans, discarding those who aren't one of you as less than human?! Well?! Speak up!
- Bernadetta gives one to the Flame Emperor during the Holy Tomb battle.
- Mike's New Ghostly Family: After the wager between Nightmare and William Afton of breaking Mike's family ends with nightmare coming out victorious and the children's bonds strengthening instead, Nightmare rips a speech towards William after the latter says both of them are evil monsters.Nightmare: YOU NEVER SPECIFIED HOW I WOULD CARRY OUT MY ASSAULT, ONLY THAT I DO IT AT ALL. YOU LEFT THE DETAILS IN THE HANDS OF A DEMON, AND YOU ACT SURPRISED WHEN THINGS DON'T GO YOUR WAY? YOU ARE A FOOL.
William Afton: Why? Why wouldn't you try your hardest to break them apart? We're both evil monsters! We should be working together!
Nightmare: DID YOU HONESTLY THINK THAT JUST BECAUSE I HAD MADE A DEAL WITH YOU, OUR AGREEMENT SUDDENLY MADE US INTO ALLIES? OR PERHAPS, EVEN FRIENDS? YOU HAVE NO IDEA JUST HOW MUCH I DESPISE YOU, WILLIAM AFTON. YOU ARE TRULY A MAN IN LOVE WITH VIOLENCE. PERHAPS, IF YOU HAD EARNED YOUR KILLS IN BATTLE, THAT WOULD EARN MY RESPECT. BUT, NO. YOU ONLY EVER TRIED TO SHED BLOOD WHEN YOU WERE UP AGAINST WEAK LITTLE CHILDREN WITH NO WAY TO FIGHT BACK, OR IN THE BODY OF ANIMATRONIC WITH METAL AND STEEL TO EMPOWER YOU. AND EVEN THEN, YOU ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING. YOUR ENTIRE LEGACY BURNED TO ASH AND OBLIVION WITH THE TRAP THAT YOU WANDERED INTO LIKE AN IMBECILE. THE ONLY THING YOUR MURDERS ARE A TESTAMENT TO IS YOUR OWN COWARDICE. AND I HAVE NO RESPECT FOR COWARDS. BUT THAT ISN'T THE ONLY REASON WHY I DESPISE YOUR EXISTENCE, WILLIAM AFTON. IT IS NOT EVEN THE MAIN REASON. I DO NOT PERSONALLY CARE HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU TRY TO KILL. BUT YOUR CRIMES RUN DEEPER THAN SIMPLE VIOLENCE, DON'T THEY? I KNOW WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR OWN CHILDREN, HOW YOU TRIED TO MANIPULATE THEM INTO DOING YOUR WILL. I KNOW HOW YOU SENT YOUR SON MICHAEL TO DIE IN YOUR PLACE AT THE DEATH TRAP YOU DISGUISED AS A PIZZERIA. AND I KNOW HOW YOU TRIED TO CORRUPT YOUR DAUGHTER ELIZABETH AND TURN HER INTO A MONSTER AND A MURDERER JUST LIKE YOU. MAYBE YOU MIGHT HAVE CARED FOR YOUR CHILDREN AT ONE POINT. I DO NOT KNOW, AND I DO NOT CARE. BECAUSE IN THE LAST MOMENTS OF YOUR EXISTENCE, YOU NEVER SAW EITHER OF THEM AS ANYTHING MORE THAN TOOLS TO CARRY OUT YOUR PERVERTED WILL, DIDN'T YOU? I HAVE PLEDGED MYSELF TO EVIL FOR OVER A THOUSAND YEARS, AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO UNTIL THE END OF TIME. THE MORALS AND PRINCIPLES I POSSESS ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. BUT NO MATTER HOW DEPRAVED I MAY BECOME, AT LEAST I UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE PART OF A FAMILY!
- One happens in Frozen Hearts (Sakume) when Harald loses a poll conducted among his brothers about whether to help Hans; Harald's side votes "no" and Heins' side votes "yes".Harald: If our kingdom falls... it will be due to all of you. Remember that.
Heins: No, if our kingdom falls, it will be due to you, Harald! And I pray such misfortunes as have befallen Hans never befall me, because I certainly can't depend on you to come to my aid! - In the second chapter of Darkness Burning, which is set in an Alternate Universe where her parents came back safely, Anna gives her parents one of these after learning about "Conceal, don't feel". She tells them they're responsible for Elsa's depression and attempted suicide."Is Elsa OK?"
"I don't know," Anna says, "because she's terrified she's going to kill me. Why did you tell her she's going to kill me?"
"We didn't say that," Idun says.
"Then why'd you split us up? Why'd you tell her she couldn't feel anything? 'Conceal her emotions, don't feel, don't let them know'? Who thinks like that?"
"Anna-"
Her eyes widen with horror. "It's you. Telling her not to feel. Telling her she'll kill people. Sending me away because you don't even think she can love someone without killing them. You're the ones who made her ill. You're the reason she tried to kill herself."
She runs. Neither Idun nor Agdar stop her. - Anna in The Royal Reunion calls out her parents after being reunited with them, after thinking they were dead for three years. She vents out all her rage at the isolation she and her sister felt due to their parents separating them. Anna gets equally mad about how her parents' words caused Elsa to doubt herself growing up.
- A Second Chance has Leela dream about meeting a clone of hers. Said clone then lays into her about her relationship with Fry."Struck a raw nerve, did I?" the copy continued. "Do you honestly believe that you actually care about him? From the way you treated him, I'm surprised that he stayed close to you as long as he did; although I have no idea what he saw in you in the first place. You are a bitter, violent, and often inconsiderate woman who has built emotional walls around herself and blocks people who actually care about her from getting too close while letting complete lowlifes through. Honestly, I fail to see the attraction."
- In An Empire of Ice and Fire, Ned gives a short one to Viserys about what his father Aerys II did to the Starks."My family, Prince Viserys, were loyal subjects of House Targaryen. However, when my brother and father pleaded with King Aerys about my sister, and he responded by burning one alive and strangling the other to death. My oath to him died on that day, and I can tell just by looking at you that you share his honor. More accurately the lack of it."
- In The Starks Endure, Jon gives an epic one to Randyll Tarly on his friend Sam's behalf. Bonus points for writing it in a letter that Daenerys commands him to read. Transcribed below for your pleasure.To Randyll of the House Tarly, Lord of Horn Hill from His Grace Jon the White Wolf of the House Stark, First of His Name, King of the Three Realms of the North, the Trident, and the Vale of Arryn, Lord Consort of Winterfell and the Dreadfort, Commander of Moat Cailin, Warden of the North and Protector of the Realm, greeting:
Perhaps this message shall come as a surprise. It may never have occurred to you that you may be among those I hate most in this world (at least, among those who still live). A lot of people have killed those closest to me. Some even killed me themselves. So hopefully you have an idea of my distaste for you if I count you among their rank. Or not.
I’ve felt this way for years, on behalf of your estranged son, Sam. You may be shocked to hear that I count the son you terrorized and exiled as one of my closest friends and confidantes. It probably baffles you, I’m guessing. We’re both military men, skilled in arms and tactics. I suspect we’re both in the habit of repressing our emotions. Despite the length and effort I’ve put into this letter, you may be surprised to hear that I myself am not normally a wordsmith. I prefer a blade to a quill or books, it’s true. Sam arrived to The Wall fat, scared, and hopeless with a weapon.
And perhaps the finest man I’ve known.
Samwell may have been cast out by you, but I want you to know that now, he is among the most valued men to the King of half of Westeros. Scared he may be, but he’s the bravest man I know. Not just because he’s killed a White Walker, because he saved a woman and child from a terrible fate, because he faced an army of wildlings, but because he was so terrified while doing those things.
He was terrified to tell me about you, about what you did to him, about the Hell you made his life until he left. Do you have any idea what it says about what you are when the best thing you ever did for your son was send him to a frozen, criminal-infested outpost for the rest of his life? That he found more love, strength, and belief there than in your home?
Yes, he found strength and courage in miserable conditions, but that is no credit to you, My Lord. I’m sure you can’t really conceptualize that it’s actually because Sam found sympathy and support rather than mere cruelty there. Or that actual fighters found value in him.
See, I suspect the only idea you’ve really ever had is brutality. You’re lucky enough to have gotten by on that alone. Unfortunately, the world we live in tends to reward that, which is easily the worst thing about it. But it saves no one.
Sam wrote to me, by the by, and told me that Gilly let her wildling heritage slip. He told me of your reaction as well. I’m sure your reaction to Tormund Giantsbane will be more restrained. After all, neither Tormund or myself are scholarly types who are terrified of you or impoverished young mothers without a home.
I want you to understand that whatever you may believe, you have nothing to be proud of in the pile of corpses you’ve produced. There are many great killers. Men everywhere, for eons, have been trained to accomplish the same things. The only ones who did anything special were the ones who applied these skills to try and make the world a better place, to improve and save lives.
You haven’t done that. Sam has, though. Even if he did bring a “filthy wildling” into your home in the process. I find it amusing that you consider the wildlings such a threat.
You see, if I were to weigh the numbers, it would be forces you’ve aligned with that have proven a greater threat to the people of Westeros than the Free Folk. Congratulations, Lord Tarly, you know how to kill. So can everyone else above the age of three. You’re neither singular, nor qualified, nor worthy to say a word against those of us who have managed more than just cruelty. The best thing you ever produced was the very son you rejected, and I’m just glad his gifts are not being wasted by you any longer.”
Sam was in many ways rich, fertile soil. But fool that you are, all you saw was dirt. Brilliant, braver than anyone I’ve ever met, kind, resourceful, dutiful, inventive, intuitive. I was robbed of one of my best men and greatest assets when he left for the Citadel.
I’d much rather have him at these talks than you. Somehow I suspect you won’t prove to be of much use. But Sam would. He knows how to play politics, you see, and he knows our enemies, and he’s read so very much about so many useful things. I really don’t understand what you’re useful for.
Sincerely,
Jon Stark, King of the Three Realms
Post-Script: Suspicions confirmed! Thank you for going out of your way to prove me right. My Lord, you’re a person who may know how to effectively produce corpses, but you’ve given no indication of worth beyond that. Throughout this whole talk, you contributed the least of anyone, I dare say, in this castle. The scullery maids have contributed more than you have. Despite your military record, the only thing I’d ever trust you to accomplish would be making my own people hate me. In my lifetime, I’ve never met anyone so proud of their own aggressive ignorance. I have no use for you. I have generals of equal and/or greater skill than you, and they manage their accomplishments without having a pig’s turd where their hearts should be. I pity Queen Daenerys that she must suffer you as a vassal. I’m sure she (and, if I have to guess, your family and subjects) is very much looking forward to your death.
- In “''Boys Do Tankary?”, Vincent gives one to Maho regarding her treatment of her sister Miho. Then again, this disregards Maho’s canonical love for Miho and desire for her to find her own way of tankery.Vincent: My poor Maho, I have grown tired of your antics. I'm going to put you on the defensive right now."
Maho: "Wha..?"
Vincent: "Is it true that you have failed to see what is most important to you?”
Maho: "No."
Vincent: "Then why have you pushed your sister so far away? You know nothing about true family."
Maho: "Family. This is coming from a guy who has no family."
Vincent: [indicating his platoon and the Oarai girls] "They have accepted me. Much more than you and your school. All you want is perfection on the field and it's because you pushed your sister away because she was doing what she felt was right, is the reason you lost. It's that reason that you will keep losing." - In Chapter 3 of Boys und Sensha-dō!, Shiho gets one from her fellow members of the Sensha-dō Federation and the Sentōki-dō Aces Authority board.Lady Grey: Nishizumi-sama, the defeat of your school has led to an expansion of the sport. Surely this is a good thing?
Shiho: Grey-sama, the participation of such schools as Ion Dumitru, Népe Boarding School, and Mt. Zion in this Federation may be beneficial, but that does not take away from the fact that tradition is being trampled upon—
Sakai: Nishizumi-sama, I suggest you reconsider your words. I have been searching for years as to whom you remind me of, Nishizumi... and I believe, at last, that I have figured it out. You, Nishizumi, are much like my superiors in the war. Clinging to tradition and seniority, believing themselves to be the ideal of our world, and all the while leading our nation to its own destruction.
Shiho: HOW DARE YOU!
Sakai How dare I? I dare speak the truth. What right does your school have to being the champions? What woman in their right mind plans to disown their own daughter for winning?
Woman: You, you plan on disowning Miho, Nishizumi-san?
Lady Grey: Whom is more honorable, the daughter or the mother?- Akio gives a brief one to Maho in Chapter 7, unaware that all of Maho's efforts have been to allow Miho to live freely.Akio: If I had a sister, I’d be there for her all the time. Not just when she’s in the hospital.
- Soon afterward, Akio gives a longer one to Shiho when she comes to visit Miho in the hospital for the sole purpose of disowning her.Akio: The only one here that’s a disgrace here is you, Nishizumi. Victory or nothing? If that was true, wouldn’t Maho’s defeat have been enough for you to give her a chance? Miho is twice the tank commander you ever were Shiho.
Shiho: I will not be spoken to in such a fashion!
Akio: It’s the only fashion you deserve to be spoken to. Sensha-do isn’t just about victory. It’s about camaraderie and friendship. Miho faced your team outnumbered more than two to one and she won. With her leadership a team made up of inferior tanks bested yours with their King Tigers, Maus, and Panthers. She beat Maho herself in a singular duel with a Panzer IV. Why are you punishing her for doing well?
Shiho: That is not what Sensha-do is about, little boy!
Akio: GET OUT! If you’re not claiming her as your daughter you have no right to be here.
- Akio gives a brief one to Maho in Chapter 7, unaware that all of Maho's efforts have been to allow Miho to live freely.
- In the fic Steel Carnage, Asuka gives one to Momo regarding her poor aiming skills, and to the rest of the team for keeping her around.Asuka: "Really? REALLY?! What the FUCK do you call that?! Why am I NOT surprised the cyclops aims like she's looking the wrong fucking way."
Momo: "What the hell are you talking about!"
Asuka: "You had one, two, three shots to make on me. Missing the first shot was understandable. But you missed when the Raptor was sat on its ass, just begging for someone to shoot it in its face. That miss cost Mallard team their continued participation in the match. Then later in the match you missed again when you were the only one who was available to stop me from knocking out Rabbit team too. Do blend your meals so you don't choke?"
Saori: "Hey! Leave Momo-chan alone. If you don't have anything nice to say don't say it!"
Asuka: "Really? Didn't you just say if there's something bothering you to speak about it? Stay out of this, you didn't perform like shit, so this has nothing to do with you."
Saori: "It has everything to do with us! Momo-chan is a member of our team! You're bullying her!"
Asuka: "You're letting her stagnate and rot! That's ten times worse. Do you trust her to watch your back in a Senshado match?" [only half the team says yes] "Yeah, doesn't look so great now does it!? You're flat-out lying to her."
Miho: "We're not! Momo is a hard-working teammate, who never gave up or stopped acting in our best interest. She helped us when the school was about to close and fought with us in the finals. I have faith in her."
Isobe: "Yeah! She was with us when we were stuck in that hangar against Pravda and fought with us to get out of that jam! Where were you when the school was in danger?"
Asuka: "...while you were fixing volleyball posters to your tank, I was part of a deal between Engineering and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. They supplied enough funds to keep the school afloat for three more months and I became one of their test pilots. And now, because of that deal, I'm going to be representing MHI in Steel Carnage."
Yukari: "There's no reason to consider yourself representing anyone other than the school. Steel Carnage is just a rules test."
Asuka: "You think so? Mitsubishi paid for the Raptor modifications, not the academy. The Student Council records should confirm this. They want the Raptor to be in Steel Carnage, but you can be sure that they're not putting their machine out there to be embarrassed."
Saori: "BAH! This is completely off-topic! You're trying to distract us with strange and scary-sounding things while you make fun of Momo-chan!"
Asuka: "You're right, I am going off topic. Captain Nishizumi, do you have faith in her?"
Miho: "Yes I do."
Asuka: "Then tell me honestly, was she on the Hetzer's gun against Black Forest? [silence] That will be a no then. Some faith you have in her. I'm leaving. Clean up your act, or I'll find a team that has." - In the fic Ten Little Soldiers, Miho does this when confronting the murderer, Sodoko, who lured the rest of the cast there and killed them while following a poem.Miho:"You're a monster, you killed eight people, do you realize your crime? You will go to jail for that, I know!"
Sodoko: "In prison? Ah ah ah. Didn't you read the rhyme? I'll just shoot myself in the head and it will be completed."
Miho: "I warn you, be careful."
Sodoko:"What are you gonna do exactly? Hit me? I have a gun. I can shoot you at any time. But I'll keep my ammo for me. Miho, it's too late for you. You took the others for granted. And again, you didn't try to stop me. So I could finish my job."
Miho: "What do you do now?"
Sodoko: "Well, it must seem obvious to you. You will die, and soon after I will shoot myself in order to stick to my poem. You see, I eavesdropped. I heard everything. The opinions of others have helped me well. Moreover, if I had this attitude, it was almost to force you to think. But you were so stupid that I gained ground."
Miho: "Don't say that... this is madness... MADNESS! You were a member of the Public Morals Committee, I just can't believe that you've committed a so inhuman act... May your body rot in hell when you'll commit suicide, you just took my friends from me, you just maimed a team of its commander, you broke another, it seems that you don't realize what you're doing!"
Sodoko: "Even if I die, Pazomi and Gomoyo will find someone else. Besides, I had turned to them at a time. But I won't tell anything to you."
Miho: "Midoriko, you really are the worst junk I could find until now, you who respected so much the moral values, you finally have came into conflict with your own original intentions!" - Girls und Panzer - International War Games,
- Early on, the male lead, Kenji, gets a visit from his father Hisao, who tries to apologize for blaming Kenji for a past incident (implied to be the death of Kenji's sister), but Kenji refuses to accept it. When Kenji insists he was just fine without his father, Hisao stops being conciliatory.Hisao: Considering that the skills you learned were the ones I taught you, I beg to differ. I had assumed that you had grown past this. That you had matured. I see now that I was wrong. You've let hatred enter your heart. And it will be your downfall. Until you learn to forgive others, you will never be able to forgive yourself. And you will never be in control of your own life.
- After Edo bumps into Suzuki, they exchange these before Edo punches Suzuki, leading to a fistfight.Edo: Why don't you watch where you're going you stupid whore!
Suzuki: What did you call me?
Edo: I called you a stupid whore. You and the rest of your friends. You don't know what real combat is.
Suzuki: Oh, and you do? That's mighty bold considering you've been here what, a week? I saw you in that live fire drill we had. You practically crapped your pants. So don't be telling me about combat. Alright? - Kenji gives one to Edo after hearing of the fight between Edo and Suzuki. After telling Sodoko to punish Suzuki, Kenji turns his attention to Edo.Kenji: Don't think I've forgotten you. Why do you show such a lack of respect toward our teammates?
Edo: Because they don't deserve my respect. If you want my respect, you have to earn it.
Kenji: Hmm... And tell me. How have I not earned your respect? How have they not earned your respect? They agreed to help us in our plight even though it was not their own. How could you possibly think like that about them. Do you think yourself better than them?
Edo: But I... their team won out of pure luck.
Kenji: You're off the team.
Edo: What?
Kenji: You obviously can't work as a team, so you're off. Fired, so to speak.
Edo: But...but you can't do that!
Kenji: Indeed I can. For more than just this incident. Your test scores are lacking, your PT scores are too low and your marksmanship is terrible. And now this. Not only did you attack a woman, but a senpai as well. Members of my team are expected to show mature, and gentlemanly behavior. This includes respecting your team, and those appointed above you, no matter what. If you cannot swallow your own pride, I have no use for you here.
- Early on, the male lead, Kenji, gets a visit from his father Hisao, who tries to apologize for blaming Kenji for a past incident (implied to be the death of Kenji's sister), but Kenji refuses to accept it. When Kenji insists he was just fine without his father, Hisao stops being conciliatory.
- There are a couple in Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
- Vivienne and San tear into Jonah when they work out that he basically sacrificed a soldier who was Like A Son To Him without thinking of a better alternative but wouldn’t risk his own skin when Emma pointed a gun at him; in Chapter 6:Vivienne: Did you stop and think, maybe have someone else take point? Someone who isn't like your own family? A real father would trust his son's abilities, but still do what he can to help him. I would have risked my life to save someone. I died saving someone.
Jonah: Congratulations, you’re a hero.
San: And you. Are a cow-ard.
[…]
Vivienne: You said Madison escaped with the ORCA. Remember that? So how did Emma get out? Did she help Madison, or…
[…]
Jonah: […] Since my men refused to cooperate, she held me at gunpoint.
Vivienne: And?
Jonah: …I let her go.
Vivienne: Imagine that. Hardened mercenaries against one scientist. Tell us, Colonel, did you think your men wouldn’t fire fast enough before she took the shot?
San: Would you. Have sacri-ficed one of your own. To keep your-self. A-live? - Mariko tears into Mark Russell over his It's All About Me personality in Chapter 8:Mark Russell: Do you realize how it feels to relive losing a child to monsters turning your home into a war zone?! How close I probably was to losing my daughter the same way I lost my son?!
Mariko: Oh, shut up for once and get in line, Russell! You talk like you're the only one who's suffered! What about everyone else who lost someone, or everyone? Do they not count? Just faceless statistics? What's so special about you that makes your problems so much more important? You talk on and on about how much you hate the Titans and how we should have killed them and blah blah blah! Spouting bullshit is all you're good for! And Graham — would you say she spent her life saving yours? Because it sounds to me like she wasted it on you! - One of the commenters on Monster X news (whose username hints they might actually be Rick, hilariously enough) gives a jerkass user the RYS Speech you're likely to find somewhere in Real Life comment boards:"Since you're clearly so knowledgeable and experienced, by all means, give us some ideas. What should we do to prevent a Titan from crushing you in particular to death and ruining your day? Must be an important guy to single yourself out with that scenario. Well? And don't tell us you don't feel like sharing with the class."
- As heartbreaking and understandable as their angry first reaction to Monster X was, Susan Graham still gets chewed out by San for their behavior since San's Berserk Button has been pushed."YOU WERE THE REASON SHE WANTED OUT OF THE CAGE. [...] ALWAYS THINKING OF YOU, IN WAKING AND DREAMING. SHE WAS AFRAID YOU MIGHT BE DEAD, AFRAID YOU MIGHT LIVE, AFRAID OF WHAT YOU MIGHT SAY. SHE DID NOTHING WRONG, BUT YOU THUNDER IN HER EARS! YOU SAY SHE IS DEAD! YOU DON'T LISTEN! YOU HURT AND FRIGHTEN HER!"
- When Monster X is experiencing an unpleasant face-to-face with and thus encounters Ghidorah, San himself gets one from Ichi/Eldest Brother, San-2/Youngest Brother, and MaNi/Elder Brother...Ichi: IT THINKS IT CAN PROTECT [Vivienne]? IT COULD NOT EVEN CHANGE HER INTO OUR SHAPE!
San-2: even when you do something right you ruin it
Ichi: IT CAUSED HER SUFFERING! IT TOOK THE QUEEN GNAT TO FIX THAT MISTAKE!
San-2: so much of her is broken because of your mistake
MaNi: IT CANNOT EVEN TEACH HER TO CONTROL HER POWER.
San-2: we would have shown her the most wondrous things
Ichi: IF IT CARED SO MUCH, IT WOULD HAVE TAUGHT HER BETTER, NO? - ...to which San immediately retorts with the following:
- Vivienne and San tear into Jonah when they work out that he basically sacrificed a soldier who was Like A Son To Him without thinking of a better alternative but wouldn’t risk his own skin when Emma pointed a gun at him; in Chapter 6:
- In Three Can Keep a Secret, Pacifica tears into Mabel over her All Take and No Give attitude regarding Dipper over the course of the series:Pacifica: I'm guessing Dipper asked you to try and patch things up between us?
Mabel: Oh, so you think just because I'm out of the picture for a couple of years and he gets all sweaty when you bat your eyelashes at him, you suddenly know Dipper better than his lifelong twin sister?
Pacifica: I know Dipper better than his twin sister because I actually listen to him! That's how I also know you so well, Mabel Pines. Dipper is always talking about you, about the adventures you two shared together when you came to this town the very first time. He was so excited to have you finally coming back. Dipper is such a strong person. He knows what his dreams are and refuses to compromise them, he's harshly intolerant of injustices, and he refuses to let anyone have power over him or those he loves. He's shown me an entirely new way of life, how to be able to live life without being controlled!
Mabel: Geez, you make him sound like some kind of badass action hero. Pacifica, my brother is an adorable nerdy cinnamon roll who sneezes like a kitten.
Pacifica: That's because you're his blindspot. Unlike with everyone else, he lets you and you alone control and belittle him. I've heard all the stories: You pick at his insecurities, like his height or his voice. You offered him support over his crush on that lumberjack girl then insulted him over it! As a reward for helping save your mermaid boyfriend, you humiliated him over the internet. You always have to have things your way, and try to destroy Dipper's things when he wants even a little bit for himself, from his disposable camera to his dreams here in Gravity Falls! But worst of all, you abandoned him when he was possessed by the devil purely to satisfy your own petty, selfish crushes.
Mabel: [uncertain] You're wrong! I saved Dipper from Bill Cipher when he was possessed!
Pacifica: After he had begged you for help previously, and you left him behind to wander as a helpless ghost while his body was relentlessly tortured. You didn't even take him to a hospital after! Do you have any idea how much that single incident hurt him? Did he bother to tell you, or did even he know on some unconscious level you wouldn't care? We had a scare here in town a year or so ago, when some lunatic was spraying Bill graffiti everywhere. Everyone in town was terrified he was coming back, and Dipper and Doctor Pines worked day and night to see if it was true, and if Bill could be stopped. Dipper stayed so strong for the entire thing, never taking a moment to panic or cry, just kept working no matter what. When they finally figured out it was just a lone lunatic and announced it, the whole town was ecstatic! I ran over to give Dipper a hug in relief, but then...he just, fell apart on me. It started with just some tears rolling down his face, but as soon as I asked him if he was okay, weeks of emotional exhaustion just hit him all at once. He was sobbing, shaking, and smiling all at once. He was so scared the entire time that Bill had returned and would take revenge on him, but he kept going even when it was eating him alive because he knew if Bill was back he'd come after you next. He told me he even thought, that he was thinking of...of...
Mabel: [sadly] Oh, Dipper...
Pacifica: A week or so later, he confessed besides me, only Doctor Pines had ever seen him in that state, and he was hoping I didn't think less of him for it. I told him of course I didn't, and though he didn't say anything, it was obvious he'd been expecting me to mock him over it, like you and Stan do. And that's the worst part. Everything you've done to him, and he still thinks the world of you and blames himself for the problems YOU created. You've wrapped him so far along your finger that he blames himself for things that are nobody's fault but your own. - The Gravity Falls: Once More episode "The Gossiper" has Dipper and Mabel tag-team Gideon after learning that despite Gideon's claims of turning over a new leaf, he still let the president of the Gravity Falls Bank coerce him into writing a series of unflattering articles about the Mystery Shack. This ends up invoking enough of a Heel Realization in Gideon that he shows up to rescue the Mystery Twins when they're being held prisoner by the aforementioned bank president later on in the episode.Gideon: Let me help! Ya know, just in case things go wrong! I can back you two up!
Dipper: No. Things will only go wrong if you're around. You could still be working for this guy for all we know.
Mabel: Especially considering you just refused to sell him out a minute ago.
Gideon: It was paid order! It was an opportunity!
Dipper: Everything's an opportunity to you, Gideon! But you never take a moment to think about what you'll end up doing to others! I mean, did you once think about us when writing that article?
Gideon: [smiles nervously] Well, to be fair, it has been four years since our last meeting.
Dipper: [facepalms] See? This is why we can't take you seriously. I can't believe I thought you could change. [exits Gideon's office] Let's go, Mabel.
Gideon: B-but I have changed! I'm not evil anymore!
Mabel: It isn't about whether you're evil or not. Maybe you're not "evil" anymore, but you're still just as selfish as you've always been. You're still a thorn in our sides. A smaller thorn, but a thorn nonetheless. [follows Dipper out of the office] - Mabel gets another one in Suffocating where her argument with Dipper over him becoming Ford's apprentice plays out a little differently:Mabel: I don't want it to work.
Dipper: Of course you wouldn't. Everything always has to be what you want, doesn't it, Mabel?
Mabel: What do you mean, Dipper?
Dipper: I had to give up my chance with Wendy so you could get Waddles, who you only knew for a few hours!
Mabel: Pacifica was going to turn him into bacon!
Dipper: How do you know that? Maybe she just wanted to have a pet! Did'ja ever think about that!?
Mabel: You're being so nice about Pacifica. (Gasp!) Do you like her? Is she the new Wendy!?
Dipper: Shut up, Mabel! Why can't you take anything seriously!? And why do you always have to tease me about everything!?
Mabel: No, I don't!
Dipper: Oh? One, you and Grunkle Stan made fun of me and I almost died multiple times because I wanted to be more masculine! Two, my job at the pool. I had to give up my job so you could have your first kiss.
Mabel: I was helping Mermando get back to his family!
Dipper: And the pool had the only cooler you could use? Or you could've just asked me to help you. And when I was giving Mermando reverse CPR, you took blackmail photos! Three! We were supposed to solve the password to McGucket's laptop and instead of helping me, like you promised, you started planning a sock puppet play for a boy you'd just met! And you couldn't just let me work on it alone, no, you had to force me into it. Four! You almost got me and Wendy killed because you wanted to be "Mabel, Matchmaker extraordinaire"! That's just part of the summer. I could go on forever, Mabel!
Mabel: It's just teasing and having crushes, Dipper! Why can't you understand that! You've just gotta be paranoid all the time. When you were trying to get the password for the laptop you were barely sleeping, acting like some nerd zombie all the time. I thought you should-
Dipper: See! See! You couldn't have just called me a zombie or an insomniac. No, it had to be a nerd zombie, because anyone that has more intelligence than one would realize that all you are is selfish and suffocating! - In Chapter Seven of Where The Light Is, OC protagonist Mouse has learned from Wendy about what happened between her friend Ford and his brother Stan. She becomes frustrated with Ford’s refusal to see what Stan went through, his annoyance towards Stan wanting to spend time at The Mystery Shack and his Aesop Amnesia, climaxing in a nasty speech she gives him:Mouse: The view must be great from up on that high-horse.
Ford: I beg your pardon?
Mouse: With all due respect, I seem to recall an author of a certain journal who wrote several entries about wanting to prove his Grand Unified Theory of Weirdness and become a world-renowned scientist.
Ford: That's completely different. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be recognized for one's scientific achievements.
Mouse: But wanting to be mentioned in the same breath as Tesla and Einstein? Really?
Ford: I suppose I did get caught up in my own quest for glory. But it was only natural that I should have wished to prove myself, after Stanley robbed me of my future. Which, I've come to realize was an accident, but at the time, I didn't know that.
Mouse: 'Robbed you of your future'? You still went to college, didn't you? Got your research grant? It's not like he ruined your life. You weren't the one who was broke and homeless.
Ford: I… Look, what is this? As a fellow academic, I thought you would be sympathetic to my dilemma.
Mouse: I'm not unsympathetic. All I'm trying to say is, maybe you should go easy on your brother. He may not have spent thirty years in inter-dimensional exile, but he's been through a lot, too. And not all of it was self-inflicted. If making people laugh with stupid sideshow attractions makes him happy, why not just let him have that?
Ford:You know, it's rather underhanded of you to use your knowledge of my past against me.
Mouse: I'm sorry. I understand why you're upset—
Ford: No, you don't. Don't... pretend you understand anything. How can you? Just because you happened to find my journal, that doesn't mean you know me at all.
Mouse:You're right, I guess I don't. You know, you could have destroyed those accursed journals of yours—
Ford: Accursed!
Mouse: —But you didn't. You had to have known that they would be found. You wanted them to be found. So don't blame me if you're regretting it now. And don't bite my head off just because you wrote some things you're wishing you hadn't.
Ford: I never actually expected to come face-to-face with anyone who found my journals!
Mouse: And how is that my fault? You're always blaming everyone else. You shut Stan out of your life over an accident. You made McGucket leave when he was only trying to protect you from your own hubris. And now you're trying to push me away because I know more about you than you'd like and it makes you uncomfortable. Well, tough shit. Maybe you should ask yourself why it is that all your problems are always someone else's fault. - In the fic Reality Ensues, Ford gets an earful from Mabel for keeping information from her and Stan, dismissing her concerns about Dipper being his apprentice and his relationship with Stan:Ford: I...Mabel, I wish to apologize.
Mabel: .....
Ford: I recently learned that..you had overheard...certain things that were said between your brother and myself.
Mabel: You mean where you said having a twin was suffocating and that I was holding him back?
Ford: No! I...I didn't mean it like that. I just...I thought I was helping! When I said that, I merely meant that you two being together was probably not.....I wasn't even talking about you, really, I was talking about.....I'm not helping my case, am I?
Mabel: Not really.
Ford: The point is, I shouldn't have said those things, and I'm sorry that I hurt you.
Mabel: It's...It's not okay, Grunkle Ford.
Ford: Mabel...
Mabel: Cuz here's the thing. You didn't just hurt me. And yeah, I get it, I'd be pretty mad if Dipper broke something I worked my butt off on, but ten years? Seriously? Dipper and I can't stay mad at each other for more than a week!
Ford: Mabel-
Mabel: And yeah, I get that you'd want your house and your name back, I mean it's not really fair to keep asking you to keep sleeping on the couch in your own house and hide in the basement every single time someone comes over, but you know, he worked really hard to get you back. And I know he's old and cranky and he smells weird and he cheats at cards and lies about a lot of stuff but he's your brother, darnit!
Ford: Mabel, that's....you wouldn't understand-
Mabel: So explain it to me! And don't use that old 'I'm too young' excuse, okay? I fought gnomes and unicorns and spider-ladies and zombies and Gideon and freaking Bill this summer! I think we are waaay past that threshold!
Ford: I-
Mabel: You keep saying 'Trust no one,' but that hasn't done any one of us any good! You didn't trust us, Stan didn't trust us, we didn't trust Stan, and thanks to you, Dipper didn't trust me! We all wasted time hiding things from each other when we could all have been working together to fix the problem!
Ford: ....He told you, didn't he?
Mabel: Yes, Dipper told me about the Rift. And I told Grunkle Stan. We both know now.
Ford: ...I was trying to protect you.
Mabel: But Dipper is exempt from that protection, is that it? Don't lie, Grunkle Ford. You didn't tell us because you thought we were too stupid to be any help.
Ford: No! That's not-
Mabel: You know, I tried, okay? I tried to be patient with you. When you first came through the portal, I thought, 'Oh cool! I have another grunkle! This is gonna be awesome!' But it's not awesome! Ever since that night everyone's been walking on eggshells waiting for you or Grunkle Stan to explode. And you kept avoiding us like the plague and it hurt!
Ford: Stanley asked me-
Mabel: But then you started hanging out with Dipper, and I was fine at first, but then it was like a double-whammy. Not only did you not want anything to do with me, but Dipper didn't either! I'm your family, too, you know!
Ford: Mabel....I didn't-
Mabel: But then, oh then, you asked Dipper to stay with you. Except you didn't just ask him! You went behind my back and tried to decide both our futures! Cuz this doesn't just effect you and Dipper! I'm the one who had to go back to California alone!
Ford Mabel....
Mabel: Was ruining your relationship with your own twin not enough? You had to take mine away, too?!
Ford: ...I..
Mabel: This was supposed to be the best summer ever! Even with all the weird stuff, we still had fun. But then things got stupid, and it all started when you came along and-and-I should've pushed that button!- Later in the fic after Dipper, Mabel, and their parents lock Ford and Stan in a closet in order to force them to sort out their issues, Ford seeing Stan’s scar results in the latter tearing into the former for all the crap he was put through:Stan: Take a picture, Poindexter. It'll last longer.
Ford:....it left a scar.
Stan: Bravo. Take ya all of five seconds ta figure that out? Ya pushed me on a hot metal plate. No "duh" it's gonna leave a scar.
Ford: .....why didn't you go to the hospital?
Stan: With what money? I spent what I had just to get to yer place.
Ford: What about insurance?
Stan: What part of 'no money' don't you understand?
Ford: Surely you had a job?
Stan:I'm a high-school drop-out, Ford. You figure it out.
Ford: Well maybe if you'd stuck around and applied yourself..
Stan: Seriously? I was kicked to the curb, Stanford! My own family kicked me out! There was no way I was gonna stick around!
Ford: It's not like I asked for you to be thrown out! And that wouldn't have happened if you hadn't cost me my-
Stan: Oh cut the CRAP, Pointdexter!
Ford: Excuse me?
Stan: Your 'dream school'? Is that what you were gonna say? Give me a break! You only knew about that place for what? Two days? Why don't you just admit what this is really about?
Ford: What are you talking about?
Stan:You never wanted to go sailing with me, did you? That stupid school was just an excuse to get away from me! That's why you just sat there and let that jerkwad of a principal trash talk me, isn't it?!
Ford: You heard that?
Stan: I was right outside the door, Stanford. Kinda hard not to hear it. All these years I've been lying to myself, thinking I could think fix things between us. But the truth is, there's was nothing to fix! You never cared at all!
Ford: That's not true! You know it's not true!
Stan: Don't I? Let's look at the facts, shall we? Fact: After spending our childhood protecting you from bullies and always having your back, I make one stupid mistake and get thrown out onto the streets. Your response? You close the curtains on me. Fact: I rush over to Gravity Falls after not hearing from you for 10 years. What's the first thing you tell me? 'Take this book and get lost!' No explanation! No 'I missed you!" Not even a 'Hi! How've you been?' Fact: I spend 30 years of my life trying to find you and bring you back home, and making sure you actually have a home to come back to, and what's my thanks? A hug? An 'I missed you?' Nope! It's a punch in the face and an eviction notice, from the only true home I've never known!
Ford: I...maybe I could've done things better, but you can't honestly think-
Stan: Perhaps he can yet prove his worth to me. Perhaps the mistakes of the past can be undone. Prove his worth. Because really, that's all that matters to you, isn’t it?
Ford: No...Stanley, I didn't mean-
Stan: Yeah, ya did, Ford. Ya wouldn't have wrote it if ya didn’t. All I ever wanted was to be with you. But you only saw me as suffocating you. Oh sure, you hung out with me when it was convenient - when I was protecting you from the likes of Crampelter and boosting your ego. But then I accidentally break your project, and suddenly I'm a liability. You can't afford to be around me anymore. So you toss me aside.
Ford: You....you really believe that.
Stan: I don't know what to believe anymore. I don't know you anymore. Maybe I never did. - Shortly after, Ford gets a third one from his teenage self, who is completely disgusted with him:Teen Ford: Oh don't you even! 'Ruined your life'? How pretentious can you get? You were inconvenienced at best! You have 12 PhDs! You lived off of college grants doing research that you love! Most of the kids at our school were lucky to even go to college at all! They either had to join the military or wound up working at fast food joints or convenience stores!
Ford: He had no business being near the machine. Worse still, he lied to me. He purposefully kept the fact that he broke it a secret until it was too late. He didn't even apologize when I confronted him! He tried to play it off like it was no big deal!
Teen Ford: Fair enough. But you didn't exactly give him a chance to explain himself, did you? You just automatically assumed he had broken it out of spite.
Ford: He confessed! He didn't even try to hide the fact that he broke it!
Teen Ford: He said, and I quote, 'I might have accidentally been, horsing around-' to which you replied, 'This was no accident, Stan; you did this! You did this because you couldn't handle me going to college on my own!' The issue here is not whether or not he broke it. We know he did. The issue is intent. 'Horsing around' could've meant anything. You decided to take those words to mean your brother had purposely wronged you for his own selfish reasons. You heard what you wanted to hear. Just like you did with Bill.
Ford: I didn't exactly have the chance to ask him.
Teen Ford: True. But what about the next day? Or the day after that? You could've talked to him then.
Ford: Stan was gone! Pa kicked him out of the house, not the state! He's the one that left! I didn't ask him to!
Teen Ford: But you never tried to reach out to him either, did you? Ma kept in touch with him. She always made sure to tell you where he was. You could have called him at any time.
Ford: He never called me either!
Teen Ford: You sure about that?
shows Stan trying to call Ford
Ford: It could've been anyone. You don't know it was him!
Teen Ford: You don't know it wasn't him either. That's the point! You don't know! You don't know what Stan has been through these past 40 years. You never asked! The stuff he told Dipper and Mabel, that's just what he was able to tell them. You just make assumptions with no proof to back it up! Or you use evidence that's irrelevant and needs updating. That's not just idiotic, it's bad science!
Ford: He doesn't know what I've been through, either.
Teen Ford: Because you won't tell him! Sweet Moses, how on Earth did I grow up to be this close-minded?! You can't just tell someone to do something with no explanation or instruction and then act surprised when they don't do it right! Even a toddler can understand that! Let me ask you something. What if the situations were reversed? If Stan had gone through the portal? Would you have saved him?
Ford: There's a lot of variables to consider - Bill, the stability of the portal-
Teen Ford: It's a simple question, Stanford. Would you have saved your twin, yes or no?
Ford: Back then...no. Not in my state of mind.
Teen Ford: And now?
Ford: I...I don't know…What do I do now?
Teen Ford: You're the genius. You figure it out.
- Later in the fic after Dipper, Mabel, and their parents lock Ford and Stan in a closet in order to force them to sort out their issues, Ford seeing Stan’s scar results in the latter tearing into the former for all the crap he was put through:
