History Quotes / DarkLordOnLifeSupport

->Up close, [[Literature/TheInvisibleMan the Man]] was discernible by dozens of tiny tell-tales. Feet naturally picked up dirt, and so outlines that looked like grubby ankle-socks stamped up and down against the cold. Ten black crescents -- dirt under fingernails. A shell-like spiral of clotted blood lining an infected invisible ear. A wrinkled mottled sleeve of grey, dead skin. Irregular black discs that floated -- breaks in bones set but not healed, suggesting a body bent and crooked by age and abuse. A squeezed tube of digested food, palely transparent in the twisted bulb of the stomach, blackening in the wrap of the lower bowel to form what looked like a nasty obstruction. And the dark tendrils winding around bone and through the meat, making unhealthy balloons of the weakly pulsing lung-sacs. He'd seen enough friends pass to recognize the symptoms. [[TheTopicOfCancer The crab]]. He knew [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking the Man was a heavy smoker]], liked to take the smoke in and fill out the shape of his gullet and lungs as a party piece. Now he was paying for it.

->''"He's more machine now than man."''

-->-- ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', "[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/taking-stock Taking Stock]]"

->The man known as "Mr. Carter" gazed at the assembled members of his organization. They stared back, impassively. On the back of Carter's wheelchair, Franklin gazed sightlessly through milky eyes, his body twitching spasmodically every few seconds. [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Blood ran through clear tubes that extended from his back into Carter]]. His heart, fatigued though it was through working for two bodies, pumped steadily. The iron rings that suspended him to the chair squeaked slightly, as an involuntary muscle spasm twitched the stump of the limb it was attached to. Perspiration gleamed on the scar from his {{lobotomy}}.

->''Understand this. I have been given ''clarity.'' I see the world as it truly is, not filtered through the limits of flesh. I know that I will live only as long as [[SuperWheelchair my life support chariot]] continues to function. For the first time in my life, I understand what it is to live without fear, and I know now that for the sake of our people, I must ''always'' feel like this, never knowing any limits! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I know! It is time! For me! To fulfill! My destiny!]]''
-->--'''Davros,''' ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsIDavrosCorruption I, Davros - Corruption]]''

'''Norman Cooper:''' [[{{Understatement}} He's not well]].
-->--''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}: Son Of Man''

->''I never considered myself a lucky man. Never won a raffle, never made a dime on the ponies... but then the doctors that told me I had developed a rare disease. Eisenstein Syndrome. Affects one in two point five million people. It eats you from the inside... starting from the nervous system... ending with the brain. How's that for lucky? They smiled and gave me two months. Told me to live life to the fullest... but to come back for a visit... [[DeadlyEuphemism which I did]]... but not before I built [[LifeDrinker this little wonder]]. It eats matter and converts it into energy, energy that feeds the disease... keeps me alive. It borrows time... but it gets ''so'' hungry. [[FauxAffablyEvil Which I apologise for]]... but little girls just taste ''better'' than doctors.''
-->--'''Dr Terminal,''' ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy''

-->--''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''

-->--'''Braniac,''' unproduced ''[[http://scifiscripts.com/scripts/supermanlives_kevin_smith.txt Superman Lives]]'' script

->Up close, [[Literature/TheInvisibleMan the Man]] was discernible by dozens of tiny tell-tales. Feet naturally picked up dirt, and so outlines that looked like grubby ankle-socks stamped up and down against the cold. Ten black crescents - dirt under fingernails. A shell-like spiral of clotted blood lining an infected invisible ear. A wrinkled mottled sleeve of grey, dead skin. Irregular black discs that floated - breaks in bones set but not healed, suggesting a body bent and crooked by age and abuse. A squeezed tube of digested food, palely transparent in the twisted bulb of the stomach, blackening in the wrap of the lower bowel to form what looked like a nasty obstruction. And the dark tendrils winding around bone and through the meat, making unhealthy balloons of the weakly pulsing lung-sacs. He'd seen enough friends pass to recognize the symptoms. The crab. He knew [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking the Man was a heavy smoker]], liked to take the smoke in and fill out the shape of his gullet and lungs as a party piece. [[TheTopicOfCancer Now he was paying for it]].
-->--''The Chill Clutch Of The Unknown,'' '''Creator/KimNewman'''

Mesmerising.\\

-->--''Literature/RevengeOfTheSith''

->''"What Genoa is to salami, Scalisi is to [[TheMafia organized crime]]. Statesman, politician, field marshal. Space-age Garibaldi. He's bedridden now, but that old barracuda does more business from a brass four-poster than a houseful of hookers.''
-->--'''Sgt. Geno Polucci''', ''{{Series/Kojak}}'' ("The Chinatown Murders")

-->--''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E2ThePiratePlanet The Pirate Planet]]"

->''"A life support system. In a society that despises cyborgs. I've had to hide away for years, running the company by hologram!"''
-->-- '''Max Capricorn''', "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Voyage of the Damned]]", ''Series/DoctorWho''

-->--'''Saskaretski Cargn''' to Scorpius, ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' ("Look at the Princess Pt. 3")

-->--''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse - Subsidiaries: A Guide To Pentex''

->Here lies Tremere, who rarely emerges from [[DeepSleep torpor]] - one with symptoms that, to the consternation of his clan, seem unlike anything else in their study of Cainite lore. Although unconscious and insensate, he thrashes about on his elaborately carved oaken bed; he is always attended to by at least two Cainite apprentices, who see to it that he does not injure himself in his tremors.... The apprentices are not permitted to speak of Tremere's condition: over the years, Therimna has killed several for breaking this admonition. Thus, no one save Etrius knows that Tremere frequently breaks from his torpor to speak, that he does so in two distinct voices, and that one of the voices speaks in a tongue none of them recognize. Nor are they anxious to describe his [[BodyHorror periodic changes in appearance]]: sometimes his arms recede into his torso and his legs fuse together; his [[UndeathlyPallor already-pale skin]] sometimes becomes glossy and grub-white. New eyes bubble up like buboes on his forehead, [[EyeScream only to pop in an eruption of pus and caustic vapors]].
-->--''[[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Vampire: The Dark Ages]] - House Of Tremere''

-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Dark Elves Army Book (7th Edition)''

-->--'''Miles Upshur,''' ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}''

->''"The bean counters told me we literally could not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. Bought 'em anyway. Ground 'em up, mixed 'em into a gel. And guess what? Ground up moon rocks are pure poison. I am ''[[YouSeeImDying deathly]]'' ill. Still, it turns out they're a great portal conductor. So now, we're gonna see if jumping in and out of these new portals can somehow leech the lunar poison out of a man's bloodstream. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Let's all stay positive and [[ForScience do some science!]] That said, I would ''really'' appreciate it if you could test as fast as possible. [[BeleagueredAssistant Caroline]], please bring me more pain pills..."''
-->--'''Cave Johnson,''' ''VideoGame/Portal2''

-->--''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''

->''"My body has been seated in the same chair for two hundred years. It's sustained by machines. Were I to so much as stand up, my body would crumble to dust. But here, [[NotDisabledInVR I've moved beyond that frail physical form]]: I am ''so much more'' here..."''
-->--'''Stanislaus Braun,''' ''VideoGame/Fallout3''

-->--''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''

->''"My primary patient is no longer mobile. A loss of bone density coupled with the amount of organ maintenance]that I have to perform on a daily basis means that he will be bound to a chair or bed for the foreseeable future. While this greatly agitated the subject at first, he quickly grew too fatigued to offer further protest. I cleared a room close to my lab, but with access to the mill so he could continue to give orders..."''
-->--'''Nurse Trimble''' on the treatment of "The Geezer," ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}: The Brigmore Witches''

-->--''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', "[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/taking-stock Taking Stock]]"

->'''Batman:''' Bane...! (''cue panned look over the former villain's broken body and Batman's horrified look before turning towards a nurse'') What happened to him?\\
'''Nurse:''' Too many years on Venom. That's what the stuff'll do to ya.
-->--''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond''

''->Understand this. I have been given ''clarity.'' I see the world as it truly is, not filtered through the limits of flesh. I know that I will live only as long as [[SuperWheelchair my life support chariot]] continues to function. For the first time in my life, I understand what it is to live without fear, and I know now that for the sake of our people, I must ''always'' feel like this, never knowing any limits! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I know! It is time! For me! To fulfill! My destiny!]]''

->Understand this. I have been given ''clarity.'' I see the world as it truly is, not filtered through the limits of flesh. I know that I will live only as long as [[SuperWheelchair my life support chariot]] continues to function. For the first time in my life, I understand what it is to live without fear, and I know now that for the sake of our people, I must ''always'' feel like this, never knowing any limits! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I know! It is time! For me! To fulfill! My destiny!]]

->I never considered myself a lucky man. Never won a raffle, never made a dime on the ponies... but then the doctors that told me I had developed a rare disease. Eisenstein Syndrome. Affects one in two point five million people. It eats you from the inside... starting from the nervous system... ending with the brain. How's that for lucky? They smiled and gave me two months. Told me to live life to the fullest... but to come back for a visit... [[DeadlyEuphemism which I did]]... but not before I built [[LifeDrinker this little wonder]]. It eats matter and converts it into energy, energy that feeds the disease... keeps me alive. It borrows time... but it gets ''so'' hungry. [[FauxAffablyEvil Which I apologise for]]... but little girls just taste ''better'' than doctors.

->"See what I've become? See what I must do to survive? Live off another! A mere ''parasite''!"

->"The cosmic irony, L-Ron -- I who have destroyed a world am now forced to subsist like a parasite. Once, [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen infinite power was my manifest]]. Now look at the pride of Colu -- feeble attempts to maintain even this meager anthropomorphic form!"

->"He's more machine now than man."

->''Up close, [[Literature/TheInvisibleMan the Man]] was discernible by dozens of tiny tell-tales. Feet naturally picked up dirt, and so outlines that looked like grubby ankle-socks stamped up and down against the cold. Ten black crescents - dirt under fingernails. A shell-like spiral of clotted blood lining an infected invisible ear. A wrinkled mottled sleeve of grey, dead skin. Irregular black discs that floated - breaks in bones set but not healed, suggesting a body bent and crooked by age and abuse. A squeezed tube of digested food, palely transparent in the twisted bulb of the stomach, blackening in the wrap of the lower bowel to form what looked like a nasty obstruction. And the dark tendrils winding around bone and through the meat, making unhealthy balloons of the weakly pulsing lung-sacs. He'd seen enough friends pass to recognize the symptoms. The crab. He knew [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking the Man was a heavy smoker]], liked to take the smoke in and fill out the shape of his gullet and lungs as a party piece. [[TheTopicOfCancer Now he was paying for it]].''

->''On the table was strapped the very first patient of the [=EmPalSurRecon=] Center. To some eyes, it might have been a pieced-together [[{{Cyborg}} hybrid of droid and human]], encased in a life-support shell of [[EvilWearsBlack gleaming black]], managed by a thoracic processor that winked pale color against the shadow's cloak. To some eyes, its jointed limbs might have looked ungainly, clumsy, even monstrous; the featureless curves of black that served at its eyes might have appeared inhuman, and the underthrust grillwork of its vocabulator might have suggested the jaws of a saurian predator built of polished blast armor, but to the shadow--\\\
It was ''glorious.''\\\
A magnificent jewel box, created both to protect and to exhibit the greatest treasure of the Sith.\\\
Terrifying.\\\
Mesmerising.\\\
Perfect.''

->"What Genoa is to salami, Scalisi is to [[TheMafia organized crime]]. Statesman, politician, field marshal. Space-age Garibaldi. He's bedridden now, but that old barracuda does more business from a brass four-poster than a houseful of hookers.

->"A life support system. In a society that despises cyborgs. I've had to hide away for years, running the company by hologram!"

->"[[ClingyCostume Thermal regulator suit]]. Cooling rods inserted directly into his brain. Tell me the rumors are true. ''Please'' tell me your search for [[EvilIsBurningHot thermic constancy]] is ''tormentful!''"

->''Confined to a hospital bed and in constant, tearing agony from his lung condition, Dexter still clings to his full faculties through a combination of sheer stubbornness and his [[AntagonisticOffspring son's sadism]]. Jeremy has taken great pains to make sure that his father's body disintegrates first, and then his mind, so that he can savor the old man's awareness of his own disintegration. That just might be Jeremy's undoing...''

->''Here lies Tremere, who rarely emerges from [[DeepSleep torpor]] - one with symptoms that, to the consternation of his clan, seem unlike anything else in their study of Cainite lore. Although unconscious and insensate, he thrashes about on his elaborately carved oaken bed; he is always attended to by at least two Cainite apprentices, who see to it that he does not injure himself in his tremors.... The apprentices are not permitted to speak of Tremere's condition: over the years, Therimna has killed several for breaking this admonition. Thus, no one save Etrius knows that Tremere frequently breaks from his torpor to speak, that he does so in two distinct voices, and that one of the voices speaks in a tongue none of them recognize. Nor are they anxious to describe his [[BodyHorror periodic changes in appearance]]: sometimes his arms recede into his torso and his legs fuse together; his [[UndeathlyPallor already-pale skin]] sometimes becomes glossy and grub-white. New eyes bubble up like buboes on his forehead, [[EyeScream only to pop in an eruption of pus and caustic vapors]].''

->''Although his body had been all but broken, the prince of Nagarythe had clung to life. [[ThePowerOfHate Bitterness and anger had fuelled Malekith's will]], sustaining him through the long years of agony that he had endured. [[WoundThatWillNotHeal The burning would never stop]], and so Hotek fused his newly-forged armour directly to Malekith's body. [[TinTyrant Clad in a rune-etched skin of black steel]], Malekith could once again lead his armies. Swearing oaths of revenge and bargaining his soul to forbidden gods, Malekith grew in sorcerous power. He was no longer the prince of Nagarythe: he would forever more be known as the [[SorcerousOverlord Witch King]].''

->"This is Billy Hope's lungs. His liver. His life support. A machine the size of a football stadium to keep one lunatic alive. Fuck it all. Break it all. He has to die."

->"The bean counters told me we literally could not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. Bought 'em anyway. Ground 'em up, mixed 'em into a gel. And guess what? Ground up moon rocks are pure poison. I am ''[[YouSeeImDying deathly]]'' ill. Still, it turns out they're a great portal conductor. So now, we're gonna see if jumping in and out of these new portals can somehow leech the lunar poison out of a man's bloodstream. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Let's all stay positive and [[ForScience do some science!]] That said, I would ''really'' appreciate it if you could test as fast as possible. [[BeleagueredAssistant Caroline]], please bring me more pain pills..."

->"My body has been seated in the same chair for two hundred years. It's sustained by machines. Were I to so much as stand up, my body would crumble to dust. But here, [[NotDisabledInVR I've moved beyond that frail physical form]]: I am ''so much more'' here..."

->"My primary patient is no longer mobile. A loss of bone density coupled with the amount of organ maintenance]that I have to perform on a daily basis means that he will be bound to a chair or bed for the foreseeable future. While this greatly agitated the subject at first, he quickly grew too fatigued to offer further protest. I cleared a room close to my lab, but with access to the mill so he could continue to give orders..."

->''The man known as "Mr. Carter" gazed at the assembled members of his organization. They stared back, impassively. On the back of Carter's wheelchair, Franklin gazed sightlessly through milky eyes, his body twitching spasmodically every few seconds. [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Blood ran through clear tubes that extended from his back into Carter]]. His heart, fatigued though it was through working for two bodies, pumped steadily. The iron rings that suspended him to the chair squeaked slightly, as an involuntary muscle spasm twitched the stump of the limb it was attached to. Perspiration gleamed on the scar from his {{lobotomy}}.''

!!

->'''Ral:''' It will take you time to recover. You may require an extensive... well, rehabilitation period.\\
'''Davros:''' Look at me! How can I have a rehabilitation period?! There is no rehabilitation, no chance of even a slight improvement in my condition. I live because of machines: almost every type of life support the Kaled race has ever devised. The machines are regulating every chemical in my body. My communication with the outside word is now by way of [[ElectronicEye camera]] and microphone. [[GeniusCripple All I can do now is improve a little on their original designs]].
-->--''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsIDavrosCorruption I, Davros - Corruption]]''

->'''Inspector [=McNab=]:''' ''That's'' Harry Cooper?\\

->"The bean counters told me we literally could not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. Bought 'em anyway. Ground 'em up, mixed 'em into a gel. And guess what? Ground up moon rocks are ''pure poison!'' I am ''[[YouSeeImDying deathly]]'' ill! Still, it turns out they're a great portal conductor. So now, we're gonna see if jumping in and out of these new portals can somehow leech the lunar poison out of a man's bloodstream. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Let's all stay positive and [[MadScientist do some science!]] That said, I would ''really'' appreciate it if you could test as fast as possible. [[BeleagueredAssistant Caroline]], please bring me more pain pills..."

->"The bean counters told me we literally could not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. Bought 'em anyway. Ground 'em up, mixed em into a gel. And guess what? Ground up moon rocks are ''pure poison!'' I am ''[[YouSeeImDying deathly]]'' ill! Still, it turns out they're a great portal conductor. So now, we're gonna see if jumping in and out of these new portals can somehow leech the lunar poison out of a man's bloodstream. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Let's all stay positive and [[MadScientist do some science!]] That said, I would ''really'' appreciate it if you could test as fast as possible. [[BeleagueredAssistant Caroline]], please bring me more pain pills..."

->''Confined to a hospital bed and in constant, tearing agony from his lung condition, Dexter still clings to his full faculties through a combination of sheer stubbornness and his [[AntagonisticOffspring son's sadism]].Jeremy]] has taken great pains to make sure that his father's body disintegrates first, and then his mind, so that he can savor the old man's awareness of his own disintegration. That just might be Jeremy's undoing...''

-">My primary patient is no longer mobile. A loss of bone density coupled with the amount of organ maintenance]that I have to perform on a daily basis means that he will be bound to a chair or bed for the foreseeable future. While this greatly agitated the subject at first, he quickly grew too fatigued to offer further protest. I cleared a room close to my lab, but with access to the mill so he could continue to give orders..."

-->--'''Saskaretski Cargn''' to Scorpius, ''Series/{{Farscape}}''

->''On the table was strapped the very first patient of the [=EmPalSurRecon=] Center. To some eyes, it might have been a pieced-together [[{{Cyborg}} hybrid of droid and human]], encased in a life-support shell of [[EvilWearsBlack gleaming black]], managed by a thoracic processor that winked pale color against the shadow's cloak. To some eyes, its jointed limbs might have looked ungainly, clumsy, even monstrous; the featureless curves of black that served at its eyes might have appeared inhuman, and the underthrust grillwork of its vocabulator might have suggested the jaws of a saurian predator built of polished blast armor, but to the shadow-
->It was ''glorious.''
->A magnificent jewel box, created both to protect and to exhibit the [[FallenHero greatest treasure of the Sith]].
->Terrifying.
->Mesmerising.
->Perfect.''

->Confined to a hospital bed and in constant, tearing agony from his lung condition, Dexter still clings to his full faculties through a combination of [[TheDeterminator sheer stubbornness]] and his [[AntagonisticOffspring son's sadism]]. [[DragonInChief Jeremy]] has taken great pains to make sure that his father's body disintegrates first, and then his mind, so that he can savor the old man's awareness of his own disintegration.
->[[NotSoHarmlessVillain That just might]] [[TheDogBitesBack be Jeremy's undoing...]]
-->--''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse - Subsidiaries: A Guide To Pentex''

->What Genoa is to salami, Scalisi is to [[TheMafia organized crime]]. Statesman, politician, field marshal. Space-age Garibaldi. He's bedridden now, but that old barracuda does more business from a brass four-poster than a houseful of hookers.
-->--'''Sgt. Geno Polucci''', ''{{Series/Kojak}}'' ("The Chinatown Murders")

->Here lies [[SorcerousOverlord Tremere]], who rarely emerges from [[DeepSleep torpor]] - one with symptoms that, to the consternation of his clan, seem unlike anything else in their study of Cainite lore. Although unconscious and insensate, he thrashes about on his elaborately carved oaken bed; he is always attended to by at least two Cainite apprentices, who see to it that he does not injure himself in his tremors. [...] The apprentices are [[ElephantInTheRoom not permitted to speak of Tremere's condition]]: over the years, Therimna has [[KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade killed several for breaking this admonition]]. Thus, no one save [[TheDragon Etrius]] knows that Tremere frequently breaks from his torpor to speak, that he does so in two distinct voices, and that [[EnemyWithin one of the voices speaks in a tongue none of them recognize]]. Nor are they anxious to describe his [[BodyHorror periodic changes in appearance]]: sometimes his arms recede into his torso and his legs fuse together; his [[UndeathlyPallor already-pale skin]] sometimes becomes glossy and grub-white. New eyes bubble up like buboes on his forehead, [[EyeScream only to pop in an eruption of pus and caustic vapors]].
-->--''[[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade Vampire: The Dark Ages]] - House Of Tremere''

->''"A life support system. In a society that despises cyborgs. I've had to hide away for years, running the company by hologram!"''
-->-- '''Max Capricorn''', "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Voyage of the Damned]]", ''Series/DoctorWho''

->''Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. [[EvilMakesYouMonstrous Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die]]. Some say he's still out there, bidin' his time, like, but I don' believe it. [...] Most of us reckon he's still out there somewhere but lost his powers. Too weak to carry on.''
-->-- '''Hagrid''' on '''Voldemort''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone''

->''This is [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Billy Hope]]'s lungs. His liver. His life support. A machine the size of a football stadium to keep one lunatic alive. Fuck it all. Break it all. He has to die.''
-->--'''Miles Upshur,''' ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}''

->[[ClingyCostume Thermal regulator suit]]. Cooling rods inserted directly into his brain. Tell me the rumors are true. [[EvilGloating Please tell me your search for thermic constancy is]] ''[[EvilGloating tormentful]]!''
-->--'''Saskaretski Cargn''' to [[MagnificentBastard Scorpius]], ''Series/{{Farscape}}''

->Up close, [[Literature/TheInvisibleMan the Man]] was discernible by dozens of tiny tell-tales. Feet naturally picked up dirt, and so outlines that looked like grubby ankle-socks stamped up and down against the cold. Ten black crescents - dirt under fingernails. A shell-like spiral of clotted blood lining an infected invisible ear. A wrinkled mottled sleeve of grey, dead skin. Irregular black discs that floated - breaks in bones set but not healed, suggesting a body bent and crooked by age and abuse. A squeezed tube of digested food, palely transparent in the twisted bulb of the stomach, blackening in the wrap of the lower bowel to form what looked like a nasty obstruction. And the dark tendrils winding around bone and through the meat, making unhealthy balloons of the weakly pulsing lung-sacs. He'd seen enough friends pass to recognize the symptoms. The crab. He knew [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking the Man was a heavy smoker]], liked to take the smoke in and fill out the shape of his gullet and lungs as a party piece. [[TheTopicOfCancer Now he was paying for it]].

->'''Inspector [=McNab=]:''' ''That's'' [[LondonGangster Harry Cooper]]?
->'''[[TheDragon Norman Cooper]]:''' Cryin' fuckin' shame.
->'''Inspector [=McNab=]:''' Well... well what in god's name happened to him?
->'''Norman Cooper:''' [[{{Understatement}} He's not well]].
->'''Inspector [=McNab=]:''' [[BodyHorror He looks like he's swallowed a fuckin' zepplin]]-
->'''Norman Cooper:''' He's ''not '''well,''' '' [=McNab=]. [[BlatantLies He'll get better]].
->'''Inspector [=McNab=]:''' Says who?
-->--''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}: Son Of Man''

->'''CIA Agent:''' ''[on Bane's mask]'' If I pull that off, will you die?\\
'''Bane:''' It would be extremely painful.\\
'''Agent:''' You're a big guy.\\
'''Bane:''' For ''you.''
-->--''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''

->My body has been seated in the same chair for two hundred years. It's sustained by machines. Were I to so much as stand up, my body would crumble to dust. [[LotusEaterMachine But here]], [[NotDisabledInVR I've moved beyond that frail physical form]]: [[RealityWarper I am so much]] ''[[RealityWarper more]]'' [[RealityWarper here]]...
-->--'''Stanislaus Braun,''' ''VideoGame/Fallout3''

->'''The Courier:''' How have you stayed alive all this time?
->'''Mr House:''' Let's just say it was very... ''costly.'' But I was willing to make [[ManInTheMachine the sacrifices]] longevity entailed, financial and [[BodyHorror otherwise]].
-->--''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''

->Although his body had been all but broken, the prince of Nagarythe had clung to life. [[ThePowerOfHate Bitterness and anger had fuelled Malekith's will]], sustaining him through the long years of agony that he had endured. [[WoundThatWillNotHeal The burning would never stop]], and so Hotek fused his newly-forged armour directly to Malekith's body. [[TinTyrant Clad in a rune-etched skin of black steel]], Malekith could once again lead his armies. Swearing oaths of revenge and bargaining his soul to forbidden gods, Malekith grew in sorcerous power. He was no longer the prince of Nagarythe: he would forever more be known as the [[SorcerousOverlord Witch King]].
-->--''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}: Dark Elves Army Book (7th Edition)''

->On the table was strapped the very first patient of the [=EmPalSurRecon=] Center.
->To some eyes, it might have been a pieced-together [[{{Cyborg}} hybrid of droid and human]], encased in a life-support shell of [[EvilWearsBlack gleaming black]], managed by a thoracic processor that winked pale color against [[BigBad the shadow]]'s cloak. To some eyes, its jointed limbs might have looked ungainly, clumsy, even monstrous; the featureless curves of black that served at its eyes might have appeared inhuman, and the underthrust grillwork of its vocabulator might have suggested the jaws of a saurian predator built of polished blast armor, but to the shadow-

->Perfect.

->My primary patient [[EvilCripple is no longer mobile]]. A loss of bone density coupled with [[BodyHorror the amount of organ maintenance]] that I have to perform on a daily basis means that he will be bound to a chair or bed for the foreseeable future. While this [[VillainousBreakdown greatly agitated the subject]] at first, he quickly grew too fatigued to offer further protest. I cleared a room close to my lab, but with access to the mill so he could continue to give orders...
-->--'''Nurse Trimble''' on the treatment of '''"The Geezer,"''' ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}: The Brigmore Witches''

->The man known as "[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Mr. Carter]]" gazed at the assembled members of his organization. They stared back, impassively.
->On the back of Carter's wheelchair, [[YouHaveFailedMe Franklin]] gazed sightlessly through milky eyes, his body twitching spasmodically every few seconds. [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Blood ran through clear tubes that extended from his back into Carter]]. His heart, fatigued though it was through working for two bodies, pumped steadily. The iron rings that suspended him to the chair squeaked slightly, as an involuntary muscle spasm twitched the stump of the limb it was attached to. Perspiration gleamed on the scar from his {{lobotomy}}.
-->--''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', "[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/taking-stock Taking Stock]]"

->'''Ral:''' It will take you time to recover. You may require an extensive... well, rehabilitation period.
->'''Davros:''' Look at me! How can I have a rehabilitation period?! There is no rehabilitation, no chance of even a slight improvement in my condition. I live because of machines: almost every type of life support the Kaled race has ever devised. The machines are regulating every chemical in my body. My communication with the outside word is now by way of [[ElectronicEye camera]] and microphone. [[GeniusCripple All I can do now is improve a little on their original designs]].
->'''Ral:''' Is there anything I can do for you, Davros?
->'''Davros:''' Understand this. I have been given ''clarity.'' I see the world as it truly is, not filtered through the limits of flesh. I know that I will live only as long as [[SuperWheelchair my life support chariot]] continues to function. For the first time in my life, I understand what it is to live without fear, and I know now that for the sake of our people, I must ''always'' feel like this, never knowing any limits! [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I know! It is time! For me! To fulfill! My destiny!]]
-->--''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho: [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsIDavrosCorruption I, Davros - Corruption]]''

->'''Loyalist Assassin:''' You dare approach [[KnightTemplar Ra's Al Ghul?]]
->'''Batman:''' [[CameBackWrong You've brought him back too many times]]. The Lazarus stream's all that's keeping him alive.
-->--''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight''

->'''The Doctor:''' To find enough energy to fuel those dams, you'd need to [[PlanetLooters ransack entire planets]].
->'''Kimus:''' So [[PoweredByAForsakenChild whole other worlds have been destroyed]] with the sole purpose of keeping ''[[EvilOldFolks that]]'' alive?

->[[SinisterMinister The Lord is calling me home!]] I feel His love in every tumor, because they are the train which takes me to His station, and I go with joy, knowing that [[DaddysLittleVillain Elizabeth will take my earthly place]]. But the [[HeroWithBadPublicity False Shepherd]] is coming to [[DefusingTheTykebomb lead my Lamb astray]]. I will not board that train until she is safe from his deceptions...
-->--'''Father Comstock,''' ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite''

->The cosmic irony, L-Ron -- I who have destroyed a world am now forced to subsist like a parasite. Once, [[HowTheMightyHaveFallen infinite power was my manifest]]. Now look at the pride of Colu -- feeble attempts to maintain even this meager anthropomorphic form!
-->--'''Braniac,''' unproduced ''[[http://scifiscripts.com/scripts/supermanlives_kevin_smith.txt Superman Lives]]'' script

->Welcome to the Enrichment Center. [''[[IncurableCoughOfDeath cough]]''] Since making [[TestedOnHumans test participation]] mandatory for all employees, the quality of our test subjects has risen dramatically. [[BadBoss Employee retention, however, has not]]. [''cough''] As a result, you may have heard we're gonna phase out human testing. There's still a few things left to wrap up, though. The bean counters told me we literally could not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. [[PointyHairedBoss Bought 'em anyway]]. Ground 'em up, mixed em into a gel. And guess what? Ground up moon rocks are pure poison. [[YouSeeImDying I am deathly ill]]. Still, it turns out they're a great portal conductor. So now... we're gonna see if jumping in and out of these new portals can somehow leech the lunar poison out of a man's bloodstream. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. [''cough''] Let's all stay positive and [[MadScientist do some science!]] That said, I would ''really'' appreciate it if you could test as fast as possible. [[BeleagueredAssistant Caroline]], please bring me more pain pills...
-->--'''[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Cave Johnson]],''' ''VideoGame/Portal2''

->''Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. [[EvilMakesYouMonstrousDunno if he had enough human left in him to die]]. Some say he's still out there, bidin' his time, like, but I don' believe it. [...] Most of us reckon he's still out there somewhere but lost his powers. Too weak to carry on.''

->''Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he's still out there, bidin' his time, like, but I don' believe it. [...] Most of us reckon he's still out there somewhere but lost his powers. Too weak to carry on.''