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2[[AC:Fan Works]]
3->''"The Aesir are a good natured people. Horrifically violent practitioners of magic so dark and evil that most don’t even know how their species ascended to godhood. But good people nonetheless. Naively so."''
4-->-- '''Aswang Temur''', ''Fanfic/{{Vainglorious}}''
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6[[AC:Film]]
7->''"What superpower would you rather have? Everybody chooses flight, because heroes fly. A lot of people would rather be invisible. Invisibility is a total supervillain power, though, so they say flight..."''
8-->-- '''Freddy Freeman''', ''Film/Shazam2019''
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10[[AC:Literature]]
11->''"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."''
12-->-- '''Albus Dumbledore''', ''Literature/HarryPotter''
13
14->Nobody liked their heads being messed with, magi least of all, and in the dawn days of human history those with [[MindControl my rare Gift]] had carried the darker name of tyrant, and enslaved [[OurMagesAreDifferent magi and mageborn]] through an enforced [[PsychicLink Gift-bond]], a permanent linking of magical Gifts that allowed the tyrant [[MindRape unfettered access to their minds]]. But I wasn't them, hadn't enslaved people, and didn't deserve the black looks other magi aimed my way - well, [[AntiHero not for that reason anyway]]. As a full-blown magus, I could have mentally forced [[MoralityChain Lynas]] to do as I wished, but I never had and never would.
15-->-- ''Literature/TheTraitorGod,'' by Cameron Johnston
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17->''"Evil magic could flow through her like a river in full flood. Fortunately for the rest of us, there's a lot of Agnes in the way."''
18-->-- '''The dust-wife''' on Agnes, ''Literature/NettleAndBone''
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20[[AC:Video Games]]
21->''"Tainted though I am, I am still a Warrior of Light!"''
22-->-- '''Spectral Necromancer''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''
23
24->''"The weapon is evil, but the hand is just. I will bend this darkness to my will! I will protect the innocent!"''
25-->-- '''Clarissa Snowflake''', ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019''
26
27->'''Oleander''': Do not underestimate the good that dark magic can do.\
28'''[[EldritchAbomination Fred]]''': You go girl!
29-->-- ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds''
30
31->''"Our power doesn't make us good or bad. Our choices do."''
32-->-- '''Miriam''' to Gebel, ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight''
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34[[AC:Web Original]]
35->460. I'd better have a real good excuse for being a {{Necromancer}} if I'm LawfulGood.
36-->-- ''Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG''
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38[[AC:Western Animation]]
39->''"You're right, Fuseli. This IS my magic. ALL of it. What I know, what I've yet to discover. Good or bad, dark or light. It's MINE to do with as...I...CHOOSE!"''
40-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}''', ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019''

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