Quotes / Hate Plague

It shouldn't be happening. If he'd fought as he was accustomed to, using his intellect and magic, he could have crushed a dozen armies. But he'd engaged them like a rabid beast, and here was the result.

— Traitors by Richard Lee Byers (The Realms of the Elves), on the first day of the Dracorage.

"This spell allows me to exploit the petty prejudices of man. Minor grievance would escalate to murderous rage and oh, the sweet terror when the spell wore off and they saw their hands covered with their neighbor's blood."

— Kain, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain

"Oh, for goodness' sake! You've been kind for far too long, my dear! Time to be cruel! Arrivederci!"

— Discord, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "The Return of Harmony, Part 1"

Frozen in the moment of that rage-spurred betrayal, Skarbrand has become wrath incarnate, a restless fury that cannot be stopped. Wherever Skarbrand treads, order and discipline are replaced with anarchy as those in his path drown in feelings of empty loathing and unrestrained savagery. Even the most rational of beings cannot resist the corruption of Skarbrand's madness. Fast friends and firm allies tear at one another with wild abandon. Craven and brave beings alike claw at their foe without regard for their own lives. Through this anarchy, Skarbrand runs rampant, twin axes hacking and cleaving until there is no one left to kill.

—Warhammer: Daemons of Chaos Army Book (8th edition)

The Rage of innocence. All those internees imprisoned unfairly were forced to sacrifice their lives to create the gestalt. All those entities, railing against the injustice of their punishment, furious at the inequality and corruption of the system, were then thrown together and moulded into one giant organism, a seething tornado of fury. That's why it attacks the lush green planet it created - it wants to make it uninhabitable for the Gelfs, so they can't use it to traverse the Omni-zone.

Its fury is contagious. All who breathe its wind become consumed with such wrath, such bilious resent resentment, they destroy one another. Husband kills wife, brother kills brother, parent kills child.

—Michael McGruder, Red Dwarf: Last Human

A soundless cry of fear swept through the watchers as the giant landing glider passed silently over their heads—larger than any bird of prey, pristine white but for the blue globe of an alien world painted on the underside of its wings. A cry that spread in a telepathic warning to all parts of the city, even to those laboring in the catacombs deep under the red sand. Driven by the same compulsion men donned masks of metal and reached for their hive-guns, women smashed priceless crystal ornaments and plucked with bloody fingers the sharpest shards, children dropped toys and books to take up sticks and rocks. The thought amplified and reinforced as it passed from one Martian to the next, like white corpuscles swarming to fight an infection: 'Kill the invaders from the third planet, kill the not-people, kill... kill... kill...'

— Rocketship Voyager

Harry Hart: What did you do to me? I had no control. I killed all those people. I wanted to.
Richmond Valentine: Clever, isn't it? In simple terms, it's a neurological wave that triggers the centers of aggression and switches off inhibitors.

—Kingsman: The Secret Service

Traitor: The mental shutdowns aren't the only incidents people are talking about. There are also the breakdowns which cause people to turn psychotic, creating accidents and scandals... Those cannot be explained unless the true culprit has the power to make people's hearts psychotic... *snicker* That's right! It's my power — one that you don't have!
Futaba: He's gonna try something...!
Traitor: Allow me to show you! (summons an unfamiliar Persona and turns two Shadows psychotic)
Futaba: What was that!? That wasn't Robin Hood... could it have been a different Persona?
Traitor: Even the feeblest existence can gain tremendous power once the chains on its heart are broken. You'd better not underestimate these two.

— Persona 5

James Gordon: The Narrows is tearing itself to pieces.
Batman: This is just the beginning. If they hit the whole city with toxin, there's nothing to stop Gotham tearing itself apart through mass panic.

—Batman Begins

Steve Trevor: Now this is interesting. The number of violent incidents increased dramatically in the area. A car bomb in Turkey, a workplace shooting in Greece, a farmer kills his family in Crete.
Wonder Woman: Proximity to Ares literally inspires acts of rage in the hearts of those gripped by fear and anger.

—Wonder Woman (2009)

Some friends of mine... are inclined to think that there was a certain contagion of hate. They hold that the fury of the whole world at war, the great passion of death that seems driving all humanity to destruction, infected at last these lower creatures, and in place of their native instinct of submission, gave them rage and wrath and ravening.

—Arthur Machen, The Terror

Internal organs altered by the disease
Your brain disabled by the constant pain
Erratic actions lead my thoughts to the blade
I've lost control, I've lost control
[...]
Driven to kill, this is not my will
I am compelled to slay
Invisible foe takes control
Evisceration plague

—Cannibal Corpse, "Evisceration Plague"

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