History Quotes / VisionaryVillain

->'''Magneto:''' I am not your enemy, Franchise/XMen, nor do I consider you mine. True, my goal has ever been the conquest of Earth -- but solely to create a world where our race, Homo Superior, can live in peace. Look at yourselves, risking your lives for a humanity that would rather see you behind bars, or dead. Why do you persist?\\

-> ''"Villains want to fight the establishment and topple the status quo. But they're branded as 'villains' just because they want to change the world."''
-->-- '''Marina''', ''VideoGame/Splatoon2''

->''"I lacked vision?! He's the fool with no vision! Destroy everything in his path, no goal, no plan? I would have united worlds. That... is vision!"''
-->-- '''Nerissa''', ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'', "X is for Xanadu"

->''"This Fontaine fellow is somebody to watch. Once, [[FromNobodyToNightmare he was just a menace]], to be convicted and hung. But he always manages to be where the evidence isn't. He's the most dangerous type of hoodlum... the kind with vision."''
-->-- '''Andrew Ryan''', ''VideoGame/BioShock1''

->'''Rin:''' If word got out that [[AIIsACrapshoot machina]] pose a danger, people would fear them and stop using them.\\
'''Paine:''' So Yevon's not alone in sweeping things under the rug.\\
'''Rin:''' I firmly believe that machina are an indispensable part of Spira's development. Even if there is another incident, [[GasLeakCoverup I intend to conceal the evidence]].\\
'''Yuna:''' You really think people will follow you that way?\\
'''Rin:''' I am not alone in my thinking.
-->-- ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'', The Mi-Hen Highroad Conspiracy (Rin outcome)

->''"I k-killed them... two of them... It's a life...[[VillainousBSOD the consequences can't be light]]. Do I have the right to pass judgement upon others? But wait... it's not like that. [[IgnoredEpiphany This is what I've always thought]]. This world is rotten. Those who are rotten deserve to die. [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Someone... someone has to do it]]! [[NecessarilyEvil Sacrificing their own life and soul, just because the world can't continue like this]]! If someone else had picked up this notebook, someone else could erase all the unnecessary people from this world... but is there someone who could do that? No, there isn't! But I can. In fact, I'm [[TheOnlyOne the only one]] who can do it! I'll do it. I'll use the Death Note... to change the world!"''
-->-- '''Light Yagami''', ''Manga/DeathNote'', making his decision to become Kira

->''"We like to talk big, vampires do. 'I'm going to destroy the world.' That's just tough-guy talk. Strutting around with your friends over a pint of blood. The truth is, I '''like''' this world. You've got... ''[ponders that]'' ...dog racing. Manchester United. And you've got people. Billions of people walking around like Happy Meals with legs. It's all right here. ''[sigh]'' But then someone comes along with a vision. With a real passion for destruction. Angel could pull it off. Good-bye, Picadilly. Farewell, Leicester-bloody-Square, know what I'm saying?"''
-->-- '''Spike''', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E22BecomingPart2 Becoming, Part 2]]"

->''"Your worthy Sir Topham Hatt thinks I need to learn. He is mistaken. We diesels don't need to learn, we know everything. We come to a yard and improve it. We are revolutionary!"''
-->-- '''Diesel''', ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'', "[[Recap/ThomasAndFriendsS2E12PopGoesTheDiesel Pop Goes The Diesel]]"

->''"My mission is peaceful. Any intervention... would make it otherwise."''
-->-- '''[[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magneto]]''', ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''

-->-- '''Havelock Vetinari''', ''Literature/GuardsGuards''

->''"That's a loser's reasoning! A winner has to look at the world not as it is, but as it should be!"''
-->-- '''Aizen''', ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''

->'''Don Alejandro ([[TheHero Zorro]]):''' They say America is still a place for a man of vision.\\
'''[[BigBad Don Raphael]]:''' And you are a man of vision?\\
'''Alejandro:''' I am a man..in search of a vision.\\
''[later]''\\
'''Raphael:''' Don Alejandro, will join me and the other dons? I have something you might wish to see.\\
'''Alejandro:''' And what would that be?\\
'''Raphael:''' ''[smiles]'' A vision.
-->-- ''Film/TheMaskOfZorro''

->''"If they already call me a villain, what will they call me when I succeed?"\\
"The more they try to kill me, the more they reveal I am on the right path."''
-->-- '''Swain''', ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends''

->''"The power of [[EldritchAbomination the Kishin]] goes beyond human understanding. It is evolution itself!... DWMA's intent can be summed up in one expression: "Maintain the Status Quo". But time moves forward. Isn't it logical that we grow and advance along with it? It's only natural. Doctor Stein... do you really want a monotonous world... where nothing ever changes?"''
-->-- '''Medusa Gorgon''', ''Manga/SoulEater''

->''"It was cruel fate to be born in space, but I have vowed we will not die here. It is my destiny to set my feet upon a real world to accumulate wealth and power beyond our wildest dreams. I have offered the people of the Southern Sun a rich, new life, and now they have no alternative but to accept my generosity and alter course for Corona Borealis."''
-->-- '''Elijah Kalgan''', ''Film/SpaceMutiny''

->''At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he really was the leader of genius and vision which he believed himself to be, or whether he was no more than a tyrant with the courage and cunning of a pirate. For one beat of his pulse the lame rabbit's idea shone clearly before him. He grasped it and realized what it meant. The next, [[AvertedTrope he had pushed it away from him]]. The sun dipped into the cloud bank and now he could see clearly the track along the ridge, leading to the beech hangar and the bloodshed for which he had prepared with so much energy and care.''
-->-- ''Literature/WatershipDown''

->''"Most executives only care about the next quarter. They lack vision. I plan in decades."''
-->-- '''Deus''', ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'' ([[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-387-a-noble-investment-embiggens-the-smallest-wallet/ #387]])

->'''Magneto:''' I am not your enemy, Franchise/XMen, nor do I consider you mine. True, my goal has ever been the conquest of Earth -- but solely to create a world where our race, Homo Superior, can live in peace. Look at yourselves, risking your lives for a humanity that would rather see you behind bars, or dead. Why do you persist?\\
'''Cyclops:''' Is your way any better? A mutant dictatorship?\\
'''Magneto:''' Do not take that tone with me, boy. I have lived under [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany a dictatorship]] and seen my family butchered by its servants. When I rule, it will be for the betterment of all. Contentment breeds tranquility -- discontent, rebellion. Therefore, I shall ensure the one by eliminating the root causes of the other: hunger, poverty, disease, war. The freedoms lost will not be noticed, even in the most libertarian of states. And the material benefits should more than balance the scales.
-->--''ComicBook/GodLovesManKills''