History Quotes / BadassNormal

->''Screw you. I'm purebred human, right down to the bone. Don’t mistake me for one of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent you freaks]].'' [[labelnote:Alt. translation:]]''"I'm human. The real deal, right down to the fuckin' marrow of my bones. Don't lump me together with you [[PrecisionFStrike faggot-ass]] monsters."''\\

->''Screw you. I'm purebred human, right down to the bone. Don’t mistake me for one of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent you freaks]].'' [[labelnote:Alt. translation:]]''"I'm human. The real deal, right down to the fuckin marrow' of my bones. Don't lump me together with you [[PrecisionFStrike faggot-ass]] monsters."''\\

->"[[Characters/MCUClintBarton You]] showed me that being a hero isn’t just for people who can fly or shoot lasers out of their hands. It’s for anyone, who’s brave enough to do what’s right, no matter the cost."
-->--'''Kate Bishop''', ''Series/Hawkeye2021''

->''Screw you. I’m purebred human, right down to the bone. Don’t mistake me for one of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent you freaks]].'' [[labelnote:Alt. translation:]]''I'm human. The real deal, right down to the fuckin marrow' of my bones. Don't lump me together with you [[PrecisionFStrike faggot-ass]] monsters.''\\

->''I'm human. The real deal, right down to the fuckin marrow' of my bones. Don't lump me together with [[OurDemonsAreDifferent you faggot-ass monsters]].''
-->-- '''Guts''', [[PreMortemOneLiner just before killing one]], ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''

-->-- '''[[http://somethingfishy.wikidot.com/dossier-rm-46 CDR Colby Burns]]''', NOAA liaison to the Wiki/SCPFoundation

->The great thing about [[Franchise/StarWars Han [Solo]]] is that he's just a regular guy with no superpowers, and he somehow manages to hold his own in a galaxy filled with giant monsters, crazy technology and angry motherfuckers with lightsabers who can move objects with their minds and set people on fire just by thinking about it. People are getting Force Choked the fuck out all over the place, entire planets are being blown up by giant universe-killing space stations, Luke is doing backflips in his sleep while bench-pressing Yoda, and in the middle of all this futuristic ridiculous space-insanity is Han Solo, who has little more to offer than piloting skills and a pistol, and he's taking care of business, saving Jedi Luke's hide from certain death, and generally just making everyone around him his bitches.
-->-- ''Website/BadassOfTheWeek''

->'''[[KnifeNut Mai]]:''' How do you expect to fight without your bending?\\

->'''Ol' Man Death:''' Oh. They want my [[NiceHat hat]].\\

->But, I can't sense spirits or see through girls' swimsuits or move a 10-yen coin in my sleep...

->She's still close enough to human that we can just about appreciate how insanely good she is.

->I'm human. The real deal, right down to the fuckin marrow' of my bones. [[BadassBoast Don't lump me together with]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent you faggot-ass monsters]].

->I'm not feeling any [psychic] pressure from him. He's just strong!

->I do it because there's nothing more powerful than an ordinary person.\\
I do it because there's no such thing as an ordinary person.

->I've had the taste of the glory of being normal! To win through determination... courage... to be no more than myself — and no less!

->I survived the [[Film/ANewHope Battle of Yavin]]. I survived the [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack Battle of Hoth]]. Hell - just a couple of weeks ago I blew up the Death Star during the [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Battle of Endor]]. The reason I'm still breathing when a lot of other [[AcePilot good Rebel pilots]] aren't? Maybe it's because I'm better. Or maybe I'm just [[BornLucky lucky]].

->I have no powers and not nearly enough training, but I'm doing this anyways. Being a super hero is amazing. Everyone should try it.

'''Franchise/SherlockHolmes''': No, Edward. [[WrongGenreSavvy You got it backwards]]. [[HumansAreSpecial I am a human]]. You are just a vampire.

->I can't fly, but I can kick your ass.

->And the "glorified bricklayer" picks up the spare.

->Just a quick reminder. {{Super speed}}: I don't have it.

->It may be old school, but it gets the job done.

->Look, here's the thing, uh, I'm not Tony Stark, I'm not Dr. Banner, okay? I don't have the flashiest gadgets, I don't have super strength. But what I do have is guts. Something Captain America always had, always needs to have, and I'm gonna need every ounce of it. Because I got big shoes to fill.

->Needless to say, the beast was stunned.\\

And we said, [[BadassBoast "Nay. We are but men."]] '''ROCK!!'''

->Fortune favors the mortal man.

->I'll have you know that I've taken out half a dozen villains with more power than you before I showed up to work today. Do you know how I, a lowly human, can do that while the rest of you fly around this city like you're gods? I can take you down because I'm just that much better than you. Take away your powers and you're nothing. Nothing! I win because I want it more than you. I win because I will never give up.

->This is not some agent provocateur or highly trained assassin we are discussing. Gordon Freeman is a theoretical physicist who had hardly earned the distinction of his Ph.D. at the time of the [[VideoGame/HalfLife1 Black Mesa Incident]]. I have good reason to believe that in the intervening years, he was in a state that precluded further development of covert skills. The man you have consistently failed to slow, let alone capture, is by all standards simply that - an ordinary man.

->Y'know, ever since I was a kid, I always wondered what I'd do with super powers. 'Course, if you think about it, do you really need 'em? Like, we ordinary folk seem to get along fine without 'em. I guess if you forget your keys and had to break a door.

->[[CitadelCity The City's]] first protectors were Ayane Takanome and her Rangers.\\

But Rangers only had one life to give. When they died, they were gone forever. So the Takanome Rangers took to planting blue flowers along the roads they watched. That way, when they fell, a piece of them would live on to guide weary travelers home.

-> Personally, I think the Force is overrated.

->[[PreAssKickingOneLiner Let me tell you something, lady]]... (''Delivers a vertical RoundhouseKick that flips Concretia upside-down'') There is no such thing... (''delivers a punch that sends her careening outside'') as '''just''' human."

->The only other comic character that comes close to the preposterousness of ComicBook/{{Superman}} is Batman - a character who can afford the colorful long underwear - BUT HAS NO SUPER POWERS AT ALL! And we're expected to believe that you can't kill him. Isn't he the most popular character too? It's because it makes no sense that he's so beloved.

->At the end of the day, though he's been ferried through [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace Space Hell]] on a ship that's [[UsedFuture four thousand years old]] to his destination, though he deployed [[ItsRainingMen from high orbit with a grav chute]], though he is [[WeHaveReserves one of ten million men raised from his homeworld to fight a war he barely understands]], though he has been given [[PlasmaCannon a weapon that fires miniature suns]] and [[{{Overheating}} might annihilate him when he fires it]] [[ScavengerWorld because no-one knows how it works anymore]], though his company is supported by [[TankGoodness tractor-tanks that run on anything you can burn]], though he wages war against [[HordeOfAlienLocusts a devouring hivemind]] or [[TheLegionsOfHell space demons]] [...]\\

And he will {{hold the line}}.

->What can you do with a character who responds to everything by either punching it or deploying Bat Anti-thing Spray... then punching it?

->You may have made quick work of this [[ComicBook/TheVision killbot]] and [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch sorceress]] and [[StoryBreakerPower their undefined godlike powers]], but let’s see how you handle three human fighters armed with [[SuperSerum steroids]], a [[JetPack jet pack]], and [[ActionGirl a vagina]]!

->Super powers do NOT a hero make!

->In the end, the world didn't really need a superman...[[TearJerker just a brave one.]]

->[[Franchise/{{Superman}} You're]] feeling it now, aren't you? What the rest of us live with every day; your own mortality. Don't worry, you'll survive. The kryptonite will work its way out of your lungs soon enough. [...] But I didn't have to go easy on you. A different binding agent, a stronger mix. I want you to remember that. I wanted to remind you to stay out of my way. In all the years to come, in your most private moments, I want you to remember the one man who beat you.

->''"The city is flying and we're fighting an army of robots. And I have a bow and arrow. Nothing makes sense."''

->All through your flying life, you may have to face the fact that pilots who use the Force will be able to react more quickly, aim more accurately, get the better starfighters, get the greater fame. But those of us who can't use the Force - well, when we manage to [[AcePilot make it to the top of our profession]], we can look the Jedi in the eye and remind ourselves that we got there without any crutches.

->What can you do with a character who responds to everything by either punching it or deploying Bat Anti-thing Spray... [[SoGoodWeMentionedItTwice then punching it?]]

[[AC:Magical Lawyer Superpower [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney #2]]: Hypersensitive Tell Spotting\\

-->-- ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'', [[http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=030110 "Eureka"]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dj-9g07Rtk voice acted version here]])[[note]]Athena is not present as the comic was published well before ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]''.[[/note]]

->''"All these crazies with their [[MiniMecha mechs]] and their [[BioAugmentation biomedical crap]]... They probably think we're completely irrelevant. Give 'em hell for us normal guys."''

[[AC:Magical Lawyer Superpower [[VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney #2]]: Hypersensitive [[CharacterTics Tell]] Spotting]]\\

-->-- ''ComicBook/Thunderbolts'' #136

->'''Songbird:''' I feel so naked without my sonic rig. Powerless...

-->-- '''Chisame Hasegawa''' on Ku Fei, ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''

->There is no such thing as "just a human."
-->-- '''Math''', ''Webcomic/GrrlPower''