History Quotes / ManipulativeBastard

->'''Alonzo Harris:''' [after killing Roger] Use your ears and hear me, Jake. Sometimes we gotta take this shit all the way. Now, nobody will ever ask you to pull the trigger if you don't want to.
'''Alonzo Harris:''' [to Mark] Mark, where are you transferring to?
'''Mark:''' S.I.S.
'''Alonzo Harris:''' S.I.S. Detective. Give me 18 months, I'll give you a career. We're an elite unit. We make the big seizures. We make the big arrests. But if you're in my unit, you gotta be in it all the way or not at all. I thought that you was man enough to face that. I guess I was wrong. Five proven, decorated officers say that you're the shooter. The investigators are gonna want to pull a tube of your blood to check for intoxicants, and what are they gonna find, Jake? Do the math. You've been smoking PCP all day, haven't you?
Jake : You've been planning this all day?
'''Alonzo Harris:''' [[TheChessmaster I've been planning this all week, son.]] You talk that crazy shit, I'll make sure that blood gets to the lab. You wanna walk your baby nuts around the block, you won't make it to the corner, but if you're cool, if you're cool... then you're a hero. You're a virgin shooter above suspicion.

->''"[[LetNoCrisisGoToWaste Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder.]] Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. [[VirtueIsWeakness Illusions.]] [[SocialClimber Only the ladder is real.]] [[TheUnfettered The climb is all there is.]]"''
-->-- '''Lord Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish''', ''Series/GameOfThrones''

->My manipulatin' hasn't even ''begun!''
-->-- '''General Sarrano''', ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}''

->Hence the saying: if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
-->-- '''Sun Tzu''', ''Literature/{{The Art of War|SunTzu}}''

-> '''Long Feng:''' You've beaten me at my own game.\\
'''Azula:''' Don't flatter yourself. You were never even a player.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''

-->-- '''Borsk Fey'lya''', ''[[Literature/HandOfThrawn Specter of the Past]]''

'''Gregory House:''' ... It's a pet name. I call ''him'' Dr. Bling.

->Tell me what you regard as your greatest strength, so I will know how best to undermine you; tell me of your greatest fear, so I will know which I must force you to face; tell me what you cherish most, so I will know what to take from you; and tell me what you crave, so that I might deny you.
-->-- '''Literature/DarthPlagueis''', [[EvilMentor teacher]] of [[MagnificentBastard Palpatine/Darth Sidious]]

->So you can help me out and we can go through very well\\
Or I can turn around and make your life a living Hell\\
It's up to you, you've got a choice, you've got incentive to succeed"
-->-- '''Archie''', [[IWantSong "Get Me What I Need,"]] ''Theatre/ThirteenTheMusical''

->I watch you. I see the hatred in your eyes, well-hidden behind courtly graces.\\
I listen. I know the terrible darkness that hides behind your well-rehearsed lies.\\
I wait for you at the edge of sanity. I taste the pain in your mind, the yearning to end this charade.\\
I make my home in the darkest pits of your soul. In the shadows I bide my time.\\
I patiently wait for you to open your eyes and realize that it is by my will alone that you draw breath.\\
For I am [[GodOfEvil Tzeentch]] and you are my puppet who dances to my tune.
-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''

-->-- "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" by '''Music/TheOffspring'''

->''"Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts."''
-->-- '''Saffron''', ''Series/{{Firefly}}''

->''"Crash course in manipulation. You don't actually tell the person what you want them to do. You help them realize they want to do it, so it can't be traced back to you."''
-->-- '''Jeff''', ''Series/{{Community}}'', "[[Recap/CommunityS1E15RomanticExpressionism Romantic Expressionism]]"

->'''Adam:''' So you lied. About everything.\\
'''Zachariah:''' We didn't "lie". We just [[DistinctionWithoutADifference avoided certain truths to manipulate you.]]
-->-- ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', "Point of No Return"

->''"For every task, there's a perfect tool."''

->''"Twists and turns are my master plan. You'll find the elements back where you began."''

->[[HumanoidAbomination Mr. Gaunt]] thought of himself as an electrician of the human soul.\\
In a small town like Castle Rock, all the fuse-boxes were lined up neatly side by side. What you had to do was open the boxes… and then start cross-wiring. You hot-wired a [[{{Jerkass}} Wilma Jerzyck]] to a [[TheWoobie Nettle Cobb]] by using wires from two other fuse-boxes-those of a young fellow like Brian Rusk and a drunk fellow like Hugh Priest, let us say.\\
You hot-wired other people in the same way, a [[ParanoiaGambit Buster Keeton to a Norris Ridgewick]], a [[{{Gayngst}} Frank Jewett to a George Nelson]], a [[YourCheatingHeart Sally Ratcliffe to a Lester Pratt]].\\
At some point you tested one of your fabulous wiring jobs just to make sure everything was working correctly-as he had done today-and then you laid low and sent a charge through the circuits every once in awhile to keep things interesting. To keep things hot.\\
But mostly you just laid low until everything was done… and then you turned on the juice.\\
''All'' the juice.\\
''All at once.''
-->-- ''Literature/NeedfulThings''

->Let's say that some nutcase suddenly steps in here and ventilates us all with a Tommy gun. No, I'm just saying.

->We have no idea why, but this bastard is trying to massacre everyone in this speako. So let's say this sicko takes his sweet time pumping lead into anything that so much as twitches.

->And let's say - just saying, again - that there's someone standing behind the guy. The sicko wants to kill everyone in this shop, but he never, ''ever'' turns the gun on the guy behind himself. But it's not like the guy behind him's working with him or anything. The second guy's just there from the start. Acting like he's completely safe and enjoying the show, even though he shouldn't actually be safe.

->... Right. I guess I could call him something like an audience member.

->We're all living our lives real seriously, but to this second guy, everything about us is just a story up on a stage. The sicko can shoot his gun as much as he likes, but the audience isn't ever going to get hit. And even though he's nothing but an observer, this second guy keeps trying to meddle with the story.

->Y'know, there's always one of those types. The kind of guy who watches a musical and goes around talking at the top of his lungs about how good a musical was, how bad it was, and what he'd have done differently, right? Now, this second guy's pretty quiet about it, but his voice carries real far and clear. That voice just spins round and round, reaches an actor or a writer's ears, and controls their actions without them even noticing. That's how he directs the play the way he likes, from a total safe zone as an audience member.

->He's not a playwright or anything that great. An audience member like him doesn't care about others, as long as he's satisfied.

->And getting back to that story about the nutjob with the Tommy gun... Once he's finished killing everyone, the second guy'd whisper into his ear:

->"Hey, there's still one left. [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Yourself.]]"
-->-- ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}! 1931 - Another Junk Railroad''

->'''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}:''' How could you? I… trusted you!\\
'''Comicbook/LexLuthor:''' Like a father. I know — I worked on that. I had to make sure we bonded.
-->-- ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl''

->''"I'm really getting into this game. I can play these losers like a violin."''

->''"Even if [[spoiler:the count dies]], the Chaos Heart won't disappear if I continue to control it! But I needed the power of the Pure Hearts to beat him... I couldn't do that on my own. So I had you all do the sweaty labour for me. And you even [[spoiler:used your Pure Hearts to defeat Count Bleck]]! [[LaughablyEvil If they make greeting cards to thank people for helping with evil plans]], I owe you one."''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Dimentio]]''', ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''

->Flip [[MouthOfSauron the Messenger]]. He bubbles and boils and blasphemes. You had a moment, the two of you, eh sweetling? [[SarcasmMode How lovely]]. He has the advantage over us. His limitations more closely resemble yours. [[AffablyEvil Comforting, like a pleasantly warmed poison poured into the ear]]. He let you in. Do you think that is all he will do? Do you think he has let a little thing like death stop him from his original mission? He still burns with embarrassment over that. You understand. We do not. We cannot blush. [[PetTheDog He let you in]]. Don't [[UnwittingPawn you]] [[{{Catchphrase}} let him in]].
-->--'''The Buzzing,''' ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->'''Scott:''' I really need to find a career that allows me to play with people’s minds, souls, and ethical values or else I'm never going to be a happy and fulfilled person.\\
'''Warren:''' Have you considered law?\\
'''Scott:''' Summers, Happily, Cheatum, and Howe? I'll have to consider changing my major.
-->-- ''Fanfic/XMenTheEarlyYears''

->Well, there was magic. And [[ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}} Mordru]] had plenty of that. Rao knows, he could do the job, if he wanted to. If she could persuade him. And, running her hands over her body, she guessed that she had just the means to persuade him. It might be fun, too.
-->-- '''Satan Girl''', ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy''

->'''Bedrager:''' Do you remember, Mr. a-Skankhunt, when you and your little buddies trolled the entire country of a-Denmark?\\
'''Gerald:''' And that was wrong, too. I certainly want to apologize for that.\\
'''Bedrager:''' That was certainly a display of the power of a-trolling, wasn't it. But, what would be even more impressive?\\
'''Gerald:''' I-I don't understand.\\
'''Bedrager:''' What if you could troll the entire world? Somebody who could rise to political power through nothing more that pushing people's a-buttons and getting them all riled up, become the leader of...a Scandinavian country, perhaps, get them to listen to you when, actually... ''[now speaking with an American accent]'' [[WhamLine you're not even fucking Danish.]]\\
'''Gerald:''' No way.\\
'''Bedrager:''' Use that country to create a machine that relies on the shittiness of people to fuck over other people and watch the whole world go completely batshit... ''[speaking with a [[FakeNationality Danish]] accent]'' Attention all a-Troll Trace workers, Please report to assembly hall one for a big announcement. ''[reverting back to his American accent]'' Completely fool everyone and keep your real intentions completely anonymous.\\
'''Gerald:''' You would deliberately start WorldWarIII, let the people of Denmark die, set everyone on Earth against each other? Why?!\\
'''Bedrager:''' [[ForTheEvulz Because its FREAKING HILARIOUS!]]
-->-- '''Lennart Bedrager''' to '''Gerald''' in [[Recap/SouthParkS20E9NotFunny "Not Funny"]], ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''

->"I did it! It all went according to plan! I got the sun and moon to fight. I got you to go into space... it was all according to my perfect little plan! Now I can cause all the mischief I want! Haha! See you later!"
-->--'''Marx''', ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStarUltra''

->"The Eighteenth-Century aristocracy seduced, betrayed, and corrupted itself until its world self-destructed into revolution. I didn't have to destroy you, Cornel. I just turned all of you into Eighteenth-Century aristocrats and let you do it yourselves."
-->--'''Madame''', ''[[Literature/TerraIgnota Seven Surrenders]]''

->'''ComicBook/CarolDanvers:''' Just tell me one thing?\\
'''ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}:''' I'll try.\\
'''Carol:''' You and Xavier. Both leaders. And you've both turned out to be manipulative bastards, when you needed to. Why? Why is that?\\
'''Cyclops:''' It comes with the territory.
-->-- ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires''

-->-- '''Heather''', ''Series/{{TotalDrama}}''

A mob jumps to their feet\\

-->-- '''Sun Tzu''', ''Literature/TheArtOfWar''

->''"Even if the count dies, the Chaos Heart won't disappear if I continue to control it! But I needed the power of the Pure Hearts to beat him... I couldn't do that on my own. So I had you all do the sweaty labour for me. And you even used your Pure Hearts to defeat Count Bleck! [[LaughablyEvil If they make greeting cards to thank people for helping with evil plans]], I owe you one."''
-->-- '''Dimentio''', ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''

'''Bedrager:''' Use that country to create a machine that relies on the shittiness of people to fuck over other people and watch the whole world go completely batshit... ''[speaking with a [[FakeNationality Danish]] accent]'' Attention all a-TrollTrace workers, Please report to assembly hall one for a big announcement. ''[reverting back to his American accent]'' Completely fool everyone and keep your real intentions completely anonymous.\\

-> '''Long Feng:''' You've beaten me at my own game.
-> '''Azula:''' Don't flatter yourself. You were never even a player.

-->-- '''Borsk Fey'lya''', ''[[HandOfThrawn Specter of the Past]]''

->''"Even if the count dies, the Chaos Heart won't disappear if I continue to control it! But I needed the power of the Pure Hearts to beat him... I couldn't do that on my own. So I had you all do the sweaty labour for me. And you even used your Pure Hearts to defeat Count Bleck! If they make greeting cards to thank people for helping with evil plans, I owe you one."''

-->-- '''Dimentio'', ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario''

'''Zachariah:''' We didn't "lie". We just [[NoExceptYes avoided certain truths to manipulate you.]]

->'''Adam:''' So you lied...about everything.\\

-->-- '''Sun Tzu''', ''TheArtOfWar''

-->-- ''AvatarTheLastAirbender''

-> Long Feng: you've beaten me at my own game.
-> Azula: don't flatter yourself. You were never even a player.

-> long feng: you've beaten me at my own game.
-> Azusa: don't flatter yourself. You were never even a player.
-->--avatar:the last air bender

->I'm very convincing. People are like worm to me, and I see zero diversity. I can just completely mimic other people's speech patterns. It's funny, [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter because they were explaining to everyone how I was legitimate. Admins of huge pages, mind you. Not only that, but they trusted me thoroughly.]] All for my enjoyment. :3 [...] I love making people have zero clue what's going on. Not only did it make the other admins look like dip-shits, but it makes people not trust anything. Especially when I was pretending to be a regular person. It was complete chaos, and no one even knew it yet. [...] I've gotten pages within the first comment I've posted. I've also gotten pages that have taken weeks. If I want a page, it's mine, regardless of anything. I've gotten pages where I was pointed out to be a 'hijacker', too. I'm a silver-tongued-devil. [...] I'm just really manipulative in general. And just super charming to everyone.
--> -- '''[[Blog/{{Bronyism}} Zane McBane]]''', in a Q&A session