History Quotes / SerialKiller

->''"There's no sense to it, and one killer without reason is an oddity, but it seems to me that it's spreading. We had a monster and we couldn't catch him. Now how many monsters are there? It's not just the Ripper anymore. Something's changed in this city and everybody knows it. They're all scared, everybody out there's scared, and it's [[OutsideContextVillain more than we can deal with]]."''

'''Luke:''' But you've got a pattern. You go after [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual specific victims]]. You [[PowerParasite collect mementos]].\\

-->-- '''Barry the Chopper''', ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist''

->''"Howard, it's Bateman, Patrick Bateman. You're my lawyer, so I think you should know: I've killed a lot of people. Some girls in the apartment uptown, uh, [[DisposableVagrant some homeless people]], maybe 5 or 10, um, an NYU girl I met in Central Park. I left her in a parking lot behind some donut shop. I killed Bethany, my old girlfriend, [[NailEm with a nail gun]], and some man, uh, some old faggot with a dog last week. I killed another girl with a {{chainsaw|Good}}, I had to, she almost got away and, uh, someone else there I can't remember, maybe a model, but she's dead too. And Paul Allen. I killed Paul Allen [[AnAxeToGrind with an axe in the face]], [[DisposingOfABody his body is dissolving in a bathtub]] in Hell's Kitchen. I don't want to leave anything out here. I guess I've killed maybe 20 people, maybe 40. I have tapes of a lot of it, uh, some of the girls have seen the tapes. I even, um... [[BrainFood I ate some of their brains]], and I tried to cook a little. Tonight I, uh, I just had to kill a ''lot'' of people. And I'm not sure I'm gonna get away with it this time. I guess I'll, uh, I mean, ah, I guess I'm a pretty, uh, I mean I guess I'm a pretty sick guy. So, if you get back tomorrow, I may show up at Harry's Bar, so you know, keep your eyes open."''

'''Duncan''': No! We're alone while that escaped psycho killer with a chainsaw and a '''hook''' is on the loose!!

->'''D.J.:''' Let me get this straight. Chris left us for dead, and now we're alone while that escaped psycho killer with a chainsaw is on the loose?\\
'''Duncan:''' No! We're alone while that escaped psycho killer with a chainsaw and a '''hook''' is on the loose!!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama''

'''Luke:''' But you've got a pattern. You go after specific victims. You collect mementos.\\

-->-- BigMooney06, ''[[https://youtu.be/ZNIwJCH90tk?t=32m9s A House Built on Sand Kill Everyone Challenge!]]''

[[KnifeNut Instead I used a blade so sharp]]\\

-->-- LetsPlay/BigMooney06, ''[[https://youtu.be/ZNIwJCH90tk?t=32m9s A House Built on Sand Kill Everyone Challenge!]]''

-->--'''Music/TalkingHeads''', "Psycho Killer" from ''Music/TalkingHeads77''

-->--'''UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper''', ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'', "Jack the Ripper vs. Hannibal Lecter"

->"Just you wait, it won't be long.\\

He'll make mincemeat out of ''you!''"

->'''Hannibal''': Did you really feel depressed after you shot Mr. Garrett Jacob Hobbes to death? I think you probably did. But it wasn't the act that got to you. Didn't you feel so bad because killing him felt so ''good?'' And why ''shouldn't'' it feel good? It must feel good to God; he does it all the time. God's terrific! He dropped a church roof on 34 of his worshippers in Texas last Wednesday night, just as they were groveling through a hymn to his majesty. Don't you think that felt good?\\
'''Will Graham''': Why does it feel good, Dr. Lecter?\\
'''Hannibal''': It feels good because God has power. If one does what God does enough times, one will become as God is.
-->--''{{Film/Manhunter}}''

->"Of course they're going to 'do it again'; they're serial killers. That's why they call them serial killers: ''[[ShapedLikeItself they keep doing it!]]''"

->"It's not just the killing he's into: he's into power. The intimacy of goin' inside, where the heart still pumps; he's into feelin' the skin [[MadArtist tighten like a canvas and the warm blood spraying, leaving masterpieces for us to marvel at.]] And he's gonna go on and on, creating masterpieces, unless I stop him. Because I know what drives him to it. So don't you dare think you understand a killer — or me."
-->--'''Det. Magnotta''', ''{{VideoGame/Ripper}}''

->"When I first heard about the death camps in 1945, I remembered Powhatan Mill. When I see the Kurds and the Bosnians, ''that room'' is there, I tell ye. It's like all the horrible acts that humans are capable of somehow gave birth to some kind of human monster."
-->-- ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Squeeze"

->"Smith was raped and tortured. That's cruelty. I can understand cruelty. Tabram was killed by frenzied and repeated stabbing. That's rage, I understand that, too. This one's more... methodical. Someone near enough did surgery on this woman; I don't understand that at all."
-->-- '''Inspector Fred Abberline''', ''Comicbook/FromHell''

->'''Sylar''': I'm not a serial killer. \\
'''Luke''': But you've got a pattern. You go after specific victims. You collect mementos.\\
'''Sylar''': Okay, ''[[VerbalBackspace technically]]'', I'm a serial killer.
-->-- ''{{Series/Heroes}}''

->'''Bill Tench:''' Spree is good for Speck or Whitman. But I think sequence killer is wrong for someone like Kemper. It feels too cadenced.\\

-->-- ''{{Series/Mindhunter}}''

->"You know what flavor of killer takes trophies, don't you? Serial. Souvenirs help them [[ButForMeItWasTuesday differentiate between the victims.]]"

->''"Body Found". Again, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday which one?]]''

->''"What about me, you ask? It's really quite simple. I love to tear the flesh of the living, to kill for the simple, intoxicating pleasure of feeling blood between my fingers...'''I KILL, THEREFORE, I AM!!''' Whether I'm real or a human doesn't matter. I'm a killer, and that's all I need to know!"''

->Meanwhile, Vaughn Parry is England's [[TheDreaded present nightmare]]. Above and beyond Islamic extremists with rucksacks and [[RabidCop policemen who shoot plumbers nine times in the head for being diffusely non-white]], the great fear of every right-thinking person these days is that Parry was not unique, [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse that there lurk]] amid the wide wheat fields and bowling greens of the Home Counties yet more bloody-handed killers who can unlock your window catches and sneak into your room at night, the better to tear you apart. Parry is under custody for the moment, held in some high-security hospital under the scrutiny of doctors, but something in him has cut the nation deep.
-->--''Literature/{{Angelmaker}}''

->Multiple murder, however, is not a [[OlderThanTheyThink new 'activity' in the social]]... Taking a sociological approach, Elliot Leyton claims that multiple murderers are "very much men of their time," whose individual histories are enmeshed with social histories.
-->--Murders and Acquisitions: Representations of the serial killer in popular culture

->We are the American dreamers, driving down the holy road to true knowledge that's paved with blood and gold. And across the length and breadth of this fair country, we are killing people. We don't do it to make a living. We don't do it for revenge. We don't kill people anonymously — poisoning their aspirin, putting shards of glass in baby food. We don't drive cars onto crowded sidewalks. We don't carry guns into burger joints and blast away until a SWAT team splatters our brains all over the french fries. We do not murder for profit. We do not murder for governments or for hire. [[ForTheEvulz We kill to kill.]]
-->--'''The Corinthian,''' ''ComicBook/TheSandman: Collectors''

->He opened her guts and worked away inside her, pulling at her organs. All the while, he cackled like an actor in a bad melodrama. He was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweeney_Todd:_The_Demon_Barber_of_Fleet_Street_(1936_film) Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]; he was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-heeled_Jack Spring Heel'd Jack]], the Terror of London; he was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_at_the_Dark_House Sir Percival Glyde]], the Spine-Snapping Baronet; he was the Wicked Squire who did for poor [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Marten,_or_The_Murder_in_the_Red_Barn Maria Marten in the Red Barn]]; he was [[Literature/VarneyTheVampire Varney the Vampyre]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._M._Reynolds Wagner the Wehr-Wolf]], [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde jaunty Jekyll and madman Hyde]], the [[Film/ThePearlOfDeath Oxton Creeper]], the [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0292481/ Coughing Horror]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Face_at_the_Window_(1939_film) the Face at the Window]]...
-->--''Literature/TheNightMayor''

->[[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper As I set out from London town]]\\

As I set out from London town...
-->--'''Jack'''/[[spoiler:'''Sean Renard''']], ''Series/{{Grimm}}''

->"When you feel the last bit of breath leaving their body, you're looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!"
-->--'''Ted Bundy'''

->''"Howard, it's Bateman, Patrick Bateman. You're my lawyer so I think you should know: I've killed a lot of people. Some girls in the apartment uptown, uh, some homeless people maybe 5 or 10, um, an NYU girl I met in Central Park. I left her in a parking lot behind some donut shop. I killed Bethany, my old girlfriend, with a nail gun, and some man, uh, some old faggot with a dog last week. I killed another girl with a chainsaw, I had to, she almost got away and, uh, someone else there I can't remember maybe a model, but she's dead too. And Paul Allen. I killed Paul Allen with an axe in the face, his body is dissolving in a bathtub in Hell's Kitchen. I don't want to leave anything out here. I guess I've killed maybe 20 people, maybe 40. I have tapes of a lot of it, uh, some of the girls have seen the tapes. I even, um... I ate some of their brains, and I tried to cook a little. Tonight I, uh, I just had to kill a LOT of people. And I'm not sure I'm gonna get away with it this time. I guess I'll, uh, I mean, ah, I guess I'm a pretty, uh, I mean I guess I'm a pretty sick guy. So, if you get back tomorrow, I may show up at Harry's Bar, so you know, keep your eyes open."''
-->--'''Patrick Bateman''', ''Film/AmericanPsycho''

->He opened her guts and worked away inside her, pulling at her organs. All the while, he cackled like an actor in a bad melodrama. He was [[Theatre/SweeneyTodd Sweeney Todd]], [[Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet the Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]; he was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-heeled_Jack Spring Heel'd Jack]], the Terror of London; he was [[Literature/TheWomanInWhite Sir Percival Glyde]], the Spine-Snapping Baronet; he was the Wicked Squire who did for poor [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Marten,_or_The_Murder_in_the_Red_Barn Maria Marten in the Red Barn]]; he was [[Literature/VarneyTheVampire Varney the Vampyre]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._M._Reynolds Wagner the Wehr-Wolf]], [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde jaunty Jekyll and madman Hyde]], the [[Film/ThePearlOfDeath Oxton Creeper]], the [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0292481/ Coughing Horror]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Face_at_the_Window_(1939_film) the Face at the Window]]...

-->--'''[[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack the Ripper]]''', ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'', "Jack the Ripper vs. Hannibal Lecter"