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L: Kira is childish, and hates to lose.
Yagami: How can you be sure?
L: Because I'm also childish and I hate to lose.

Jerome: A killer is a killer after all. You're both dead.
Lector: Don't make me laugh! You're an assassin yourself, aren't you?
Thunder: Don't try to be so proud!

"YOU AND I ARE THE SAME! You are me! I was just the same! Don't you understand? This is how I became what I am!"
Alucard to Father Anderson before his death, Hellsing

I bet you thought you were gonna do some pest control! Or ghost exterminations like in some make-believe story! You came to Shibuya with half-assed determination, didn't ya?! How naive, you stupid brat! This is war! Not a battle to fix what's wrong! But a clash of truths! You and your fragile justice! You are me, Yuji Itadori! I kill without a second thought, just like how you save people without a second thought! The instincts of a curse against the so-called dignity obtained by human reason! It's a battle to determine who will be left standing in 100 years!
Mahito, Jujutsu Kaisen

"You're right, Mahito. I'm you. I wanted to reject you, convince myself that you were wrong. But that doesn't matter now. I'm gonna kill you. Even if you come back as another curse, I'll kill you. Change your name. Change your form. I'll kill you again. I don't need to find meaning or a reason. Maybe in a hundred years after my death, the meaning behind my actions will become apparent. In the grand scheme of things... I'm probably nothing more than a cog. But I'll keep killing curses... for as long as I can. That's my role in all this."
Yuji Itadori in response to the above quote in the end of their fight, Jujutsu Kaisen

Ali: Oh you're not so different from me. You're just a terrorist who says he is trying to eliminate war.
Lockon: I'll take full blame for that, but after I see you dead and defeated.

Naruto Uzumaki: Peace!? Justice!? Yeah… Right. Don't give me that crap! My master! My sensei! My friends! My village! After everything you've done, don't you dare talk about peace and justice!
Pain: Then tell me what your goal is.
Naruto: I'm gonna kill you! And bring peace back to the Ninja World!
Pain: I see… That is noble of you. That is justice indeed. However… My family… My friends… My village… They suffered the same fate as this village, by you Hidden Leaf Ninjas. How is it fair to only allow you people to preach about peace and justice?(…) You and I seek the same thing. We are trying to establish the peace Jiraiya Sensei so desired. You and I are not different at all. We each act according to our own sense of justice. The justice I delivered to the Hidden Leaf Village is no different from what you are trying to do to me. The pain of losing something dear to you is the same. And both of us know the pain too well. You have your justice… And I have mine. We are both ordinary men, driven to seek vengeance under the banner of justice.
Naruto

Asuka: Even just the sight of you gets on my nerves!
Shinji: Because I'm just like you?

Lordgenome: There was once a man who fought as you do, also unaware that his actions would ensure humanity's extinction.
Simon: What are you talking about?
Lordgenome: Nothing you need to know, you'll be dead soon after all.

    Audio Drama 
The Doctor: How should we pass the time? ...I know! Tell me about your mother...
The Master: (annoyed sigh) You've tried psychoanalysing me before, Doctor! Why bother? How can you fathom the unfathomable?
The Doctor: On the contrary: You're actually pretty transparent. You're a spoiled child. You have to get what you want. Or everyone suffers. Trouble is, you don't know what you want, beyond killing me. What are you "Master" of, precisely?
The Master: The title you chose: "Doctor". Now, it's not just "a man of healing", it means "teacher", it means "tutor". Whereas I am a "Master". We both want to change the Universe to make it "better", it's only the scale of our ambitions that separates us.
The Doctor: What are you saying? You'd like to have been a doctor, but you didn't have the patience?
The Master: (laughs heartily) Oh, how have I resisted killing you until now?
The Doctor: You tell me. You'd rather see me humiliated. Actually, the simple answer is — you don't want to. You need me around. To give you the attention you so desperately crave. Ever since we were at the Academy together, all those centuries ago.
The Master: Oh, I never think of the past. The future is my sole concern. I thought you were the same, never looking back. Only, in your case, it's because you're afraid to face the death and destruction you leave in your wake.
The Doctor: Whereas you delight in it.
Big Finish Doctor Who, "Masterplan"

Arthur: I'm not saying that you're innocent. I'm just saying that... that you're better than him.
John: Why am I better?
Arthur: I told you – your humanity. He had no desire to try to help, no part of him that yearned for more.
John: So?
Arthur: What are you talking about?
John: So because I have humanity, because I am trying to learn what it means – that makes me better? Or at least not a monster? (...) I just want you to stop making it seem like I’m entirely different.
Arthur: You are entirely different!
John: I am aware. That's it. I am aware of what this world means to people, the ones who inhabit it, what you – and everyone else lucky enough to have what you did — feel every day. What you had, Arthur. You’ve lost a lot, but you had everything. You have experienced the best of what life has to offer.
Arthur: And the worst.
John: Jesus, yes, and the worst! You had the run of it all.
Arthur: So what? What are you talking about?
John: He wasn't aware. And that's the only difference.
Malevolent, "The Mine"

    Comic Books 
We are much alike, you and I, Magneto. Both of us wish to see our Master Race inherit the Earth. You call my Fuehrer barbaric? Am I mistaken or did you yourself not kill hundreds of men by sinking a submarine a few years back? To help realize your minority group's destiny, would you balk at imprisonment of inferiors? The extermination of the unfit? Come, come, Magneto. Do not expect me to be impressed by your sanctimonious posturings of moral superiority!
The Red Skull, Acts of Vengeance

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day. You had a bad day once. Am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed.

Batman: Cavendish, you're sick. You need help.
Dr. Charles Cavendish: I'm sick? Have you looked in a mirror lately? HAVE YOU?!!!

Venom: You'll never understand! We helped create Carnage! We are responsible for the evils he's committed!
Spider-Man: You're kidding, right?
Venom: Kasady is our Dark Side. A distorted version of everything we believe.
Spider-Man: I do understand! I know exactly how you feel! It's kind of the way I see you!
Venom: ME?! But I...I protect innocents!

Curious bird, our Mr. Batman. In some elliptical ways not unlike myself. Darkly introspective... brooding... clearly traumatized in early childhood. Like to meet our bat friend one day. But I digress...
(after Batman shows up)
What say? One fetish-dressing neurotic to another?
The Scarecrow in Scarecrow: Year One

"He calls himself "Scarecrow." Psychologist turned psychopath. He preys on the innocent and instill them with fear. When I chose to wear my... costume, it was to prey upon the criminals, and instill them with fear. The irony is not lost on me..."
Batman, Batman/Daredevil: King of New York

Deadshot: But for lone wolves like Flag and me? Russia'd be one big frozen prison.
Flag: I don't much care for the comparison, Lawton.
Deadshot: With the wolves?
Flag: With you.
Deadshot: Heh. Deny it all you want, colonel. At heart we're both flip sides of the same coin: wolves who don't fit in the pack.

I know, because I was like you once. Bitter. Alone. Mad as Hell. But I didn't let it consume me. I put it to work.

I know your anger. Your confusion. I remember it from when I was stranded here. Disoriented. A different language. Different world.

But then you happened. Everything I was thinking... Every emotion in my body... Every doubt I had inside... I saw all of them in your cracked face. You were like me.

The ironic part is — They and I have so much in common! We were all victims of mutation, yet they turned their powers against the normal world...

You see, Lex? We're more similar than you think.

Brainiac: You're Kal-El, son of Jor-El and Lara. (punches Superman, drawing blood) You're an alien. Pretending to owe allegiance to a world that will never be your own.
Superman: N-no... not... pretending...
(Superman tries to fight back, but Brainiac blocks and punches him again, flooring him)
Brainiac: You're hiding from the truth, as if calling yourself Clark Kent changes what you are. You and I are alike in many ways. You hate me because I've found the one thing that you will never know.
Superman: (coughing up blood) Wh... what?
Brainiac: I am at peace with what I am. I don't pretend to some false humanity, hoping weaker beings will "accept" me.
Superman Vol. 2 #219

Reign: But you remain blind to what we have in common.
Supergirl: We have NOTHING in common!
Reign: No? We both seek answers to our origins. Like you, I awoke with my memory fractured. [...] But for both you and I, the full truth of what happened to us remains hidden in the wake of Krypton's destruction. And yet we both sense that this world might play some part.

Doctor Doom: "Surely you understand...for philosophically we are much alike! You anre I are the mightiest beings on this planet! I choose to exert my power to impose my will upon the world— You choose not to! And yet, even that choice does, indeed, affect the lives of every man, woman and child on Earth— condemning them, in fact, to poverty, disease, famine...and the hideous suffering they inflict upon one another! You cannot escape it, Superman! You dictate the fate of mankind...one way or the other!"
Superman: "I know! But...What can I do? Seize power and try to remake the world into a utopia? That would put me into a class with men like Hitler...and you!"

    Comic Strips 
Walt: Did I just hear what I think I just heard?!
Jeremy: Dad, it's just a song lyric.
Walt: Don't give me that! I'm sick of this new music that's nothing but drugs and sex!
Jeremy: You mean like "Lay Lady Lay," "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," "Purple Haze," and "Brown Sugar?"
Walt: Hey, that's different! Those are classics!
Connie: Ouch. Score one point for the teenager.
Zits

    Fan Works 
He'd do anything to protect her and keep her from harm. Anything. There could be no sin in that cause. He'd destroy anyone or anything he had to, to keep the one he loved beyond all others safe.
Just like his father.
"I don't want to be like him! No no no no no no no!"
Shinji Ikari, A Crown of Stars, chapter 52

Asuka: What Sensei?
Shinji: The one my father abandoned me with after my mother died in an accident with the Eva! Not that you'd understand that.
Asuka: Me too. [...] My mother... There was an accident with Unit-02... She... died, eventually. My father... didn't mourn very long. [...] So yes, Third Child, I know exactly what that felt like!
Shinji: Your father abandoned you after your mother was gone-
Asuka: You have nightmares all the time about it. The memory keeps coming after you when you try to sleep-
Shinji: (nodding) It's hard to sleep. You feel lonely and cold at night, because no one ever held you after that-
Asuka: You never had many friends before you came here. No on ever wanted to just talk to you for you.
Shinji: Your father never explained or apologized for why he just left you.
Asuka: No one even tried to understand your pain. No one cared.
Shinji: You miss her every day, but don't even have any pictures, barely any memories. No one tells you about her.
Asuka: And there was never any point in talking about it to anyone, because there was no one in the world who could understand what being an Evangelion Pilot was like-
Shinji/Asuka: (in unison) You're just like me.

Toshiko: So, it’s just like me. Too strong to practice its powers, but now found someone of its equal to do so. Interesting…
Toshiko on King, All For Luz Chapter 27.

Asuka: I-I mean...you're speaking with confidence...you're so shy, usually. I think I'm like this because I trust you and I feel that I can put my trust in you. You're like a confidante.
Shinji: I...it's the same for me. We've got a lot in common, don't we?
Asuka: You try to avoid pain by running away from people. I try to avoid pain by driving them away. But in the end, we just hurt ourselves more. Aren't we pathetic, Shin-chan?

You and Lelouch are actually scarily alike. You both lost your mothers at a young age, you are both highly intelligent, driven, focussed on your respective goals and, above all else, stubborn. Just about the only thing you have that he doesn't is a harem of nubile and willing women to bed.

We're not that different after all.
Asuka, Evangelion 303, chapter 4

"We have a daughter, she and I. She'll be three years old in a few weeks."
"I see," Gendo said. His voice betrayed no emotion.
"She's…" Shinji paused, then looked at his father and said, "I never knew they could be so frightening. Children, I mean."
Gendo's eyes widened a fraction. He held his son's gaze for several moments, then looked away. "Yes," he said, nodding.

Young people are our future yet SEELE tried to buy mankind life immortal with the blood of children. I fear that we may not be so different. The blood of the young is still being spilt to carry out the plans of the old.

You and I aren't so different, Hub. [...] You've felt death's cold embrace and I... Well I'm dead in my own right.

I'd thought once before that she was a lot like me, by pushing people away... but I'd never imagined this. It was distressing to find out how much we really were alike.
Shinji Ikari thinking about Asuka Langley Sohryu, The One I Love Is..., chapter 6

Suddenly she felt very cold and so very alone. Voices kept ringing in her head and her world started spinning. All she saw was Shinji, naked, spitting blood all over the floor, gasping and collapsing in a dead heap. The thoughts drowned her awareness, everything seemed to glare and laugh at her. Ritsuko's comments fell on deaf ears; Asuka was too deep in paranoia to notice anything. Hysteria assaulted her, and suddenly she could see the white monsters who had devoured her and tortured her through countless nightmares; they were mocking her, grinning sadistically at her suffering. The twisted grins seemed to tell her something, a dark message imprinted through the bestial snouts.
"You see, we're not that different, you and meeee..."
Asuka Langley Sohryu, Scar Tissue, Chapter 8

Willow: Well, Supergirl ought to be safe from everything. Except maybe Kryptonite.
Supergirl: No, Willow. Kryptonians are vulnerable to magic. If you performed the right spell, even you could hurt me.
Willow: Then you mean, like... well... vampires...
Supergirl: Yes, dear. Vampires can hurt me. The last time I met Buffy, they did, several times. But I go where the job takes me.
Buffy: Sounds kind of like a Slayer.

Android 17: You know something I don't get? You try to kill Goku and that's fine. We try to kill Goku and suddenly you get all uppity!
Piccolo: True. But when I did it, it was for revenge. You're just doing it for shits and giggles!
Android 17: Tell you what. You live a few years in stasis with your creator repeating the words "Kill Goku" over and over again in your subconscious, then you can ride that high horse all day long.
Piccolo: ...Wow.
Android 17: What?
Piccolo: Nothing, just... nostalgia.

Raynare: We have a lot more in common than you think.
Makoto: Ooh. Classic supervillain line #573. Never heard that one before.

Marinette: Was it worth it? All of this? Betraying the whole city for the man you love?
Nathalie: ...I could ask you the same thing. And I think your answer might be the same as mine.

"I... really like having you around," he admits. "I was going crazy without you, you know."
I know how that is. "Yeah, but... why me? Why Asuka?"
[...]"We're the same," he explains; his voice is so soft I can barely hear it. "We just went in opposite directions."
After a moment I nod. I'll believe that.

"Ugh, I hate being all psycho-analysis... but you two are almost identical. You can't stop obsessing over how you need to be useful and needed all the time. That's why he corrupted! That's why you corrupted! You're both always thinking of how great it is to sacrifice yourself for someone, or how you need to be these really good people to deserve help, as if it's the rays of sunshine who need help the most - it's not! It's the fuckups who need help! That's what you both are, and you don't realize how much rejecting that help sucks for everyone who cares about you!"
Amethyst to Jasper regarding the latter's mindset toward Steven, Something Better (Chapter 4)

Kaede Akamatsu: I just… I know who I am. And I know you’re the same way.
The Mastermind/Tsumugi Shirogane: Oh? Isn’t that something the villain says to the hero not the other way around?
Kaede: See? You’re admitting it—you think you’re fictional, too. You’re exactly the same as us.
The Mastermind: Oh, I wasn’t denying that. I just think it’s interesting you made that connection is all.

Oh, am I not being clear? Pity. I understand you thoroughly. We both found our ruination upon a hill of our regrets, didn't we? We both drew from the Earth a responsibility we had no way of understanding. Maybe that's why we're drawn together, time after time....

    Film — Animated 
Every bit the stubborn, bull-headed Viking you ever were!
Gobber to Stoick, when they see Hiccup riding Toothless against the Green Death, How to Train Your Dragon

The Chameleon: I think this was destiny. A final face-off between familiar adversaries, alike in so many ways.
Po: If only I had a dumpling for every time a villain told me how much we had in common.

Sunset Shimmer: You're never gonna get away with this.
Adagio Dazzle: Why? Because you didn't?

Norman: Sometimes when people get scared, they say and do terrible things. I think you got so scared that you forgot who you are. But I don't think you're a witch. Not really.
Aggie: You don't?
Norman: I think you're just a little kid with a really special gift who only ever wanted people to understand her. So we're not all that different at all.

Pitch Black: I thought this might happen. They never really believed in you. I was just trying to show you that. But I understand...
Jack Frost: (attacks Pitch) You don't understand ANYTHING!
Pitch: I don't know what it's like to be cast out? To not be believed in? To long for... A family? All those years in the shadows, I thought no one else knows what this feels like. But now I see I was wrong.

We're on the same team, Judy! Underestimated, underappreciated... aren't you SICK of it?!

    Film — Live-Action 
You who murdered a hundred thousand Iraqis to save a nickel on a gallon of gas are going to lecture me on the rules of war? DON'T!
Ivan Korshunov, Air Force One

"Once youve killed Alice, you're a killer for life. You're just like me Alice, you're insane!"
Kat Glass, Alice in Murderland

Darren Cross: When you chose me, what did you see in me?
Hank Pym: Myself.
Darren Cross: So why did you reject me?
Hank Pym: Because I saw too much of myself.

Well done, Mr. Powers. We're not so different, you and I. It's true, you're British, and I'm Belgian. You have a full head of hair, mine is slightly receding. You're thin, I'm about forty pounds overweight. OK, we are different, I'm not making a very good point.

Remember when I told you we're not so different, you and I? (flashback to the previous quote) See? I did say that.

And Loki, he's a full-tilt diva! He wants flowers, he wants parades, he wants a monument built to the sky with his name plastered- (Beat) Sonofabitch.

It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in Saigon was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.
Willard, Apocalypse Now

"I wonder who the real cannibals are."
Professor Harold Monroe, Cannibal Holocaust

Don't talk like one of them, you're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me. They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper. See, their morals, their code... it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you, when the chips are down, these... these civilized people? They'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster, I'm just ahead of the curve.

Batman: You'll be in a padded cell forever.
The Joker: Maybe we can share one.

Davidge: "If one receives evil from another, let one not do evil in return. Rather, let him extend love to the enemy, that love might unite them." I've heard all this before... in the human Taalmaan.
Jerry: Of course you have. Truth is truth.

"You've commited murder just as much as Helene did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly head."
Francois Delambre to Inspector Charas, The Fly (1958)

Nixon: If we're honest for a minute, if we reflect privately, just for a moment, if we allow ourselves a glimpse into that shadowy place we call our soul, isn't that why we're here? Now? The two of us. Looking for a way back into the sun. Into the limelight. Back onto the winner's podium. Because we can feel it slipping away. We were headed, both of us, for the dirt. The place the snobs always told us that we'd end up. Face in the dust, humiliated all the more for having tried so pitifully hard. Well, to hell with that! We're not going to let that happen, either of us. We're going to show those bums, we're going to make 'em choke on our continued success. Our continued headlines! Our continued awards, and power, and glory! We are gonna make those motherfuckers choke! ...Am I right?
Frost: ...You are. Except only one of us can win.

Michael Corleone: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.
Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed.
Michael: Oh? Who's being naive, Kay?

Billy: Alan, you want to give me the bag back?
Alan: It's okay, I got it.
Billy: Please, give me the bag.
(beat)
Billy: It's not safe.
(Alan opens the bag)
Alan: Raptor eggs. Did you steal Raptor eggs? Now it all makes sense.
Billy: I swear, if I'd known you were going to end up with them... It was an impulse, I thought they'd be worth a fortune. Enough to fund the dig site another ten more years. You have to believe me. This was a stupid decision, but I did it with the best intentions.
Alan: "With the best intentions." Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions. You know what, Billy? As far as I'm concerned, you're no better than the people that built this place.

[while being pursued by the Acheron]
Capt. Jack Aubrey: What is it with this man? Did I kill a relative of his in battle, perhaps? His boy, God forbid?
Dr. Stephen Maturin: He fights like you, Jack.

James Bond: You live well, Scaramanga.
Francisco Scaramanga: At a million dollars a contract, I can afford to, Mr. Bond. You work for peanuts. A hearty "Well done!" from Her Majesty the Queen and a pittance of a pension. Apart from that, we are the same. To us, Mr. Bond. We are the best.
Bond: There's a useful four-letter word, and you're full of it. When I kill, it's on the specific orders of my government. And those I kill are themselves killers.
Scaramanga: Ha! Come come, Mr. Bond, you disappoint me. You get as much fulfillment out of killing as I do, so why don't you admit it?
Bond: I admit killing you would be a pleasure.

"You're my reflection in the mirror! We're the same! Your life made no sense after you lost someone important. Am I right? When it makes no sense, we'd do anything to fill the void. Anything at all!"
Toshio Sendo to Masato Sonezaki, Memoirs of a Murderer

David: What kind of person marries a stranger?
Muriel: You did.

"James Bond. A history of violence. Licence to kill. Vendetta with Ernst Blofeld. In love with Madeleine Swann. I could be speaking to my own reflection."
Lyutsifer Safin, No Time to Die

Maybe we're more alike than you think, Mr. Rogo, and you don't like looking at yourself.
Rev. Frank Scott, The Poseidon Adventure

You and I are very much alike. Archeology is our religion, yet we have both fallen from the pure faith. Our methods have not differed as much as you pretend. I am but a shadowy reflection of you. It would take only a nudge to make you like me. To push you out of the light.

Matt Eckert: Tell me what's the difference between us and them!
Jed Eckert: Because WE LIVE HERE!

Green Goblin: You're an amazing creature, Spider-Man. You and I are not so different.
Spider-Man: I'm not like you. You're a murderer.
Green Goblin: Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually they will hate you.

McComb: Now you're gonna fuck with time. You're just as bad as I am.
Parker: Wrong. I'm setting it right.

We are not so different, you and I. We've both spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems.

Ironhide: Why are we fighting to save the humans?
Ratchet: They're a primitive and violent race.
Optimus Prime: Were we so different? They are a young species. They have much to learn... but I've seen goodness in them.

All of your ridiculous, pitiful antics aren't going to change a thing. You and I? We're puppets in the same sick play. We serve the same master, and he's a lunatic, and he's ungrateful, and there's nothing we can do about it. You and I? We're the same.
Casey Ryback, Under Siege

You have murdered our women, and our children, and bombed our cities from afar, like cowards, and you dare to call us terrorists?!
Salim Abu Aziz, True Lies

"Hey, Scorpion! You fight, you kill, you rob. How the hell are you any different from us?"
Shadow to Scorpion, Warriors of the Wasteland

Our work, as I understand it, is based on a single assumption that the West is never going to be the aggressor. Thus, we do disagreeable things, but we're defensive. Our policies are peaceful, but our methods can't afford to be less ruthless than those of the opposition, can they? You know, I'd say, uh... since the war, our methods - our techniques, that is - and those of the Communists, have become very much the same. Yes. I mean, occasionally... we have to do wicked things. Very wicked things, indeed. But, uh, you can't be less wicked than your enemies simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you?
— Control, from the film adaptation of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

What the hell do you think spies are? Moral philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They're not! They're just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me: little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?
— Alec Leamas, from the film adaptation of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

    Literature 
How many of us have you killed, Chief Stockton? Come on, don't be modest. I'll admit to all my murders. Little man and big, women and children. Dogs. I've happily killed dogs. It used to be that not a day went past that I didn't murder something. Now, as time creeps on, why... it's been months, maybe years. And the last time was a farce. Took forever to throttle and stifle some twig-like spinster I'd have done for a trice on my best day. We're both professionals. We have licenses. I have my... condition, and you had a badge and gun. I imagine you've still got your old trusty service special around. You Yanks and your blessed firearms. Makes everything too easy. You're not a proper killer until you get up close, feel the flesh part, the warmth dissipate, the heart stop. It's a good thing you can't see my face because I know it's arranged into an expression you would find even more horrifying that my words. And you know why my words horrify you? Of course you do, Chief. It's because you understand. For you this isn't a graveyard, it's Death Row. And you pull the switch.

"Do you know how you caught me, Will?"
"Goodbye, Dr. Lecter. You can leave messages for me at the number on the file." Graham walked away.
"Do you know how you caught me?"
Graham was out of Dr. Lecter's sight now and he walked faster toward the far steel door.
"The reason you caught me is that we're just alike." was the last thing Graham heard as the steel door shut behind him.
Dr. Lecter to Will Graham, Red Dragon

It has been said that these stories are strange and silly. That is probably true. However, when I told stories about you to the children at Wayside, they thought you were strange and silly. That is probably also true.
Louis to the reader, Sideways Stories from Wayside School

It wasn't the differences between them and men that caused trouble, Flandry knew. It was the similarities. In planet of origin and thus in planets desired; in the energy of warm-blooded animals, the instincts, of ancestors who hunted, the legacies of pride and war.
Technic History, on the crew of a Terran ship fraternizing with their Meresian enemies

For shame, Colonel Talbot! You swell at sight of tartan as the bull is said to do at scarlet. You and Mac-ivor have some points not much unlike, so far as national prejudice is concerned.

Granny Weatherwax: You killed the old Baron.
Lily: You'd have done the same.
Granny: No. I'd have thought the same, but I wouldn't have done it.
Lily: What difference does that make, deep down?
Nanny Ogg: You mean you don't know?

We are not as far apart as I would like to think, but neither are we as close as Vorru thinks.

They had not been even savages — for what indeed had they done? That awful awakening in the cold of an unknown epoch — perhaps an attack by the furry, frantically barking quadrupeds, and a dazed defence against them and the equally frantic white simians with the queer wrappings and paraphernalia... poor Lake, poor Gedney... and poor Old Ones! Scientists to the last — what had they done that we would not have done in their place? God, what intelligence and persistence! What a facing of the incredible, just as those carven kinsmen and forbears had faced things only a little less incredible! Radiates, vegetables, monstrosities, star-spawn — whatever they had been, they were men!

"Then tell me how a traitor can betray both sides at once," Anchet harshly says, "unless he is utterly mad!"
"Because he loves all things as one," Bicek says quietly, "because he sees all sides are the same, and so perhaps in that sense he is mad. It is said that those who see most clearly are holy fools and mad people. A curious paradox, is it not?"
Change of Heart, by Steven Scott Ripley

Locke: You people kill anyone you like and fuck with the lives of those who treat you fairly for it.
Patience: Despising us must be rather like staring into a mirror, then ... You're murderers and thieves. You leave a trail of confusion and outrage wherever you go. You've brought down at least one government, and prevented the destruction of another for sentimental reasons. Can you really keep a straight face when you damn us for doing as we please?
Gentleman Bastard: Republic of Thieves

    Live-Action TV 
Robbie: You know, we're not that different. We're both going after the same people. Only difference is, I leave more bodies behind.
Daisy: If that's true, then work with me. We want the same thing.
Robbie: No, we don't.
Daisy: You just said we're not that different.
Robbie: (glares)
Daisy: I'm sorry, but you did. Like, ten seconds ago.

Troy: Jeff, what do you do when you and your best friend want to ask the same girl to the Valentine's Day dance but neither of you have dibs because you both fell in love with her at first sight?
Jeff: Well, I don't believe in dibs, or love at first sight, or love, or best friends, or doing things. But it's good you brought this to me.
Abed: You're gonna have to open your heart one day, Jeff.
Jeff: [Smugly] What happens if I don't? I miss the heart-opening deadline?
[Behind them, Pierce enters the study room]
Pierce: [Grumbling audibly] Valentine's, more like Crapentine's...
Jeff: [Spooked] Opening my heart is on my list.

Dalek: I am. alone. in the. universe?
The Doctor: Yep.
Dalek: So. are. you. We are. the same.
The Doctor: (rounds on it) WE'RE NOT THE SAME, I'M NOT- ...no, wait. Maybe we are. You're right, yeah, OK. You've got a point. 'Cause I know what to do. I know what should happen. I know what you deserve. (terrible smile) "Exterminate!"

The Doctor: If you want orders, follow this one... kill yourself.
Dalek: The Daleks. must. survive!
The Doctor: The Daleks have failed. Why don't you finish the job, and make them extinct? Rid the universe of your filth! Why don't you just DIE?!
Dalek: ...You. would. make. a good. Dalek.

Minotaur: (incomprehensible)
The Doctor: (translates) "An ancient creature, drenched in the blood of the innocent, drifting in space through an endless, shifting maze. For such a creature, death would be a gift." Then accept it, and sleep well.
Minotaur: (incomprehensible)
The Doctor: "...I wasn't talking about myself."

The Doctor: I thought you'd run out of ways to make me sick. Hello again. You think hatred is beautiful?
Dalek Prime Minister: Perhaps that is why we have never been able to kill you.

Robin Hood: History is a burden. Stories can make us fly.
The Doctor: I'm still having a little trouble believing yours, I'm afraid.
Robin Hood: Is it so hard to credit? That a man born into wealth and privilege should find the plight of the oppressed and weak too much to bear... until one night he is moved to steal a TARDIS? Fly among the stars, fighting the good fight?

Crichton: You used me.
Scorpius: We use each other.
Crichton: You're better at it.
Scorpius: Oh, you're learning.

Sylar: Peter! What are you doing?
Peter: I went to the future. I saw the world end. I took your ability so I could learn how to stop it.
Sylar: You took my ability? You have the Hunger. You're like me!
Peter: [snarling] I'll never let myself become you!
Sylar: You already are, brother.
Peter: NOOOOOOO! I can't be you! [Neck Snap]
Heroes

Gustave Gilbert: A rat catcher hunting rats. Is that the kind of thinking it takes to carry out state sanctioned mass murder? Not just blind obedience but a belief that your victims are not human?
Hermann Goering: Let me ask you this: what was Hiroshima? Was it not your medical experiment? Would Americans have dropped bombs as easily on Germany as it did upon Japan, killing as many civilians as possible? I think not. To an American sensibility, a Caucasian child is considerably more human than a Japanese child.
Gustave Gilbert: America was at war with Japan, a country that had attacked it without provocation. You murdered millions of your own citizens.
Hermann Goering: And what about the American citizens of the Japanese race, who were put into protective custody in your own concentration camps?
Gustave Gilbert: That was wrong.
Hermann Goering: And why was this not done to American citizens of Italian and German descent?
Gustave Gilbert: I said it was wrong!
Hermann Goering: And what about the Negro officers in your own army? Are they allowed to command troops in combat, can they sit on the same buses as the whites? The segregation laws in your country and the antisemitic laws in mine, are they not just a difference of degree?

Number Two: It doesn't matter which "side" runs the Village.
Number Six: It's run by one side or the other.
Number Two: Oh, certainly, but both sides are becoming identical. What in fact has been created is an international community—a perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they're looking into a mirror, they will see that this is the pattern for the future.
Number Six: The whole world as the Village?
Number Two: That's my dream. What's yours?
Number Six: I want to be the first man on the Moon. (Number Two laughs)

Frank, look at yourself. I mean, look at us. Guys like us, Frank, we need this! It's all we're good for! Just a couple of assholes who thought we could have the good things in life. We are not good people, Frank. We never were. Me and you, Frankie... we're the same.
Billy Russo, The Punisher (2017)

Moriarty: Sherlock, your big brother and all the king's horses couldn't make me do a thing I didn't want to.
Holmes: Yes, but I'm not my brother, remember? I am you. Prepared to do anything. Prepared to burn. Prepared to do what ordinary people won't do. You want me to shake hands with you in hell, I shall not disappoint you.
Moriarty: No. You talk big. No. You're ordinary. You're ordinary; you're on the side of the angels.
Holmes: Oh, I may be on the side of the angels. But don't think for one second that I am one of them.
Moriarty: No. You're not. I see. You're not ordinary. No. You're me. You're me! Thank you, Sherlock Holmes. Thank you. Bless you.

Cho Sang-woo: Come on! Gi-hun! Your life is so damn pathetic, and here’s why. It’s because you always gotta open your mouth and ask something idiotic. Because you’re a nosy-ass idiot who’s too slow to keep it shut. Someone who always has to get into trouble but somehow can’t tell he’s in it.
Seong Gi-hun: Okay. That’s right. That’s how I got caught in all this. Because I was slow, crazy incompetent. Just a dimwit who lives off his mother, but you’re with me in this place. Isn’t that interesting? Why is that? Ssangmun-dong’s golden child, the genius Cho Sang-woo, who went to SNU was here? Rolling around this shithole, slumming with us simpletons, huh? Is it my fault that you’re here?

Kor: You of the Federation, you are much like us.
Kirk: We're nothing like you. We're a democratic body.
Kor: Come now, I'm not referring to minor ideological differences. I mean that we are similar as a species. Here we are on a planet of sheep. Two tigers, predators, hunters, killers, and it is precisely that which makes us great.

"Gamu. Do you understand why the Radical Destruction Bringer would revive an extinct animal that once lived on Earth into a monster? It was to make us realize that we humans made that creature extinct."
Commander Akio Ishimuro to Gamu Takayama about the Altes Tiger Izac, Ultraman Gaia, "The Silver Eyes of Izac"

You'd do anything to protect your family. So would I.

Humans fancy that there's something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next. No, my friend, you're not missing anything at all.
Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld

Maurice Levy: You are amoral, are you not? You are feeding off the violence and the despair of the drug trade. You are stealing from those who themselves are stealing the lifeblood from our city. You are a parasite who leeches off...
Omar Little: Just like you, man.
Maurice Levy: ...the culture of drugs. Excuse me? What?
Omar Little: I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game though, right?

    Music 

Fuuta Kajiyama: Heeehahahahaha... There's nothing that sets you and I apart. You're also getting entertainment out of my- out of our sins!
Es: I… just do this because I want y-
Fuuta Kajiyama: HYEEHAHAHAHahahaha!! You and I are exactly the same breed! The only difference between us is the clothes we're wearing. As if l'd let someone like this judge whether I should be forgiven or not!!
Es: Fuuta…
Even though, as men, we have our contrasts
We're of exactly the same class
And our constant companion is death
Look at you, fashioning people into weapons
How can you say that you're better than me?
We both carry the fire that is set to devour life

While you clean the streets of misfortune,
I pick the innocent from my dirty teeth.
We're one and the same... deranged.
There is no me without you.
I will behave, I will be.
An afterthought, your make believe.
Your darkest day is your friend in need (ha ha ha ha)

But I know, you were just like me, with someone disappointed in you.
Linkin Park, "Numb"

We are two of a kind! Violent, unsound of mind,
You're the yin to my yang, can't you see?
And if I were to leave, you would grumble and grieve.
Face it, Bats, you'd be lost without me!

I know
What it means, how it feels
To be atypical
A typical dilemma
You know
After all, you and I are rather similar
I'm just
Better
Parties Are for Losers, "Comfort Zone"

You and I are one and the same
One reflection
Bound by different names
Recognize that you have become
Everything you hate
Project Vela, "Everything You Hate"

I've been here before, I stood where you stand. They called me their hero, the hero of Man...

So I've been strange
So I am deranged
But without you, I'd never have this scheme!
Demon in pink
See the depths that I sink
At least I dared to dream!

Yu's vocals: You and I we ain't so different
I guess I had more blessings
Without it, got belligerent
But I totally understand
Glass was half full for mine

Adachi's vocals: And it looked half empty for me
Both: Maybe that one glass made the path we took, who knows?

    Radio 
Fundamentalist Christian: I believe in the one true God, who will bless his followers with the power to destroy the forces of Satan.
Islamist Terrorist: Hey, I was just going to say that!
Fundamentalist Christian: I believe that adulterers should be punished by stoning.
Islamist Terrorist: I was just going to say that as well!
Fundamentalist Christian: Burn the heretics!
Islamist Terrorist: Oh this is ridiculous! Allah will sue you for copyright infringement!

    Tabletop Games 
The line between hero and villain is so faint, it might as well not be there at all. Disagree? Consider this: A group breaks into a residence, kills everyone inside, and makes off with anything of value. Robbers sacking a roadside cottage are named villains for such a deed, yet adventurers who storm a goblin warren and do the same are dubbed heroes. The difference? You tell me because I cannot see it.
Lord Robilar, The Book of Vile Darkness

They feared each other for their differences but were absolutely terrified at their similarities.

What do [Beastmen] view us as, I wonder? Do they see us as animals? Or do they know of our superiority? They certainly bear so much malice to us race of humans, and there must be a reason for that. Perhaps it is the similarities that we share that bother them – as they bother us – so much. Which is itself another similarity.
Richter Kless, The Liber Chaotica

Encounter one Setite, and what you might see is a vampire with a poignantly acute eye for opportunity. Encounter two, and you see a partnership in vice. But look at all of them, the whole bloodline, and what do you see?
Us.
Faith, madness, the same. For a very good reason, a terrifyingly simple reason. Remember: upon your death and rebirth, while you were drifting in the void, Malkav's blood called out to you. You looked to see where the voice came from. To use a simple metaphor, whee other vampires were still scrunching their eyes shut, refusing to look at what lay between worlds, you looked to the left - and you saw. Now you see, when a Setite is brought across the threshold, Set's blood calls out to him. The not-quite-dead, not-quite-undead childe hears the voice, and looks to the right... And he sees.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Clanbook: Malkavian (Revised)

Possibly the most alien of the vampires, but the closest to us in outlook. That frightens me. I have spent many a Transylvanian night discussing events of ages past with a Tzimisce lord; it's easy to forget just how bizarre he is until his three-armed servant arrives with dessert. The Tzimisce have some small proficiency with sorcery somehow tied with their ancient homeland. They also follow a philosophy predicated on moving past their vampiric curse. To a Tzimisce, humanity is an outmoded concept. She might see a similarity between her goals and ours, especially Ascension. Be wary - the end sounds similar, but the road is very different...
Mark Gillan on the Tzimisce Clan, Mage: The Ascension - Masters of the Art

    Theatre 
But many a king on a first-class throne, if he wants to call his crown his own, must manage somehow to get through, more dirty work then ere I do.
The Pirate King, The Pirates of Penzance

    Video Games 
"You take the lives of men and women, strong in the conviction that their deaths will improve the lots of those left behind. A minor evil, for a greater good? We are the same."
Abu'l Nuquod to Altair ibn-La'Ahad, Assassin's Creed

Astro: Enough, Atlas! I have a very important mission I have to accomplish! I fight for a future of peace between humanity and robots! I don't have time to waste on you!
Atlas: Ha ha ha. You imagine a dreamworld. One that will never exist. First of all, that's not what you were built for. Do you know what your true purpose in life was for, Astro? You were created as a replacement for Dr. Tenma's late son, Tobio. You're just a ''fake'' created to help him forget his loss! But he couldn't truly love a robot as a replacement for his son. So he abandoned you. You're just like me. Neither truly human nor truly robot. Created to help relieve a man's anguish, but tossed away, unwanted.
Astro: I don't believe you!

Asura: You never change!
Yasha: Look who's talking!

Andrew Ryan: Religious rights, Doctor? You are free to kneel before whatever tribal fetish you favor in the comfort of your own home. But in Rapture, liberty is our only law. A man's only duty is to himself. To imply otherwise, therefore, is criminal.
Sofia Lamb: Ask yourself, Andrew, what is your "Great Chain of Progress" but a faith? The chain is a symbol for an irrational force, guiding us towards ascension, no less mystic than the crucifixes you seize and burn.

Afflicted Begger: You drink the blood half across the whole town, and now this, and you talk of Beasts? You Hunters are the real killers!
Abhorrent Beast: Die! Die! Hunters are killers, nothing less, you called me a Beast? A Beast? What would you know? I did not ask for this!

Dracula: It was not by my hand that I am once again given flesh. I was called here by humans who wish to pay me tribute.
Richter Belmont: Tribute!?! You steal men's souls, and make them your slaves!
Dracula: Perhaps the same could be said of all religions...

"Everything has a soul! We're exorcists, not killers - otherwise we're no different from the Mandrill King!"
'Lu Yun-chuan, Eastern Exorcist

Mercer Frey: What's Karliah been filling your head with? Tales of thieves with honor? Oaths rife with falsehoods and broken promises? Nocturnal doesn't care about you, the Key, or anything having to do with the Guild.
Dragonborn: I don't believe you. Nocturnal guides me.
Mercer Frey: Then it appears the shadows shroud more than your presence... they blind your wisdom as well. Our actions have always been one in the same; both of us lie, cheat and steal to further our own end.
or...
Dragonborn: It's not about Nocturnal. This is personal.
Mercer Frey: Revenge, is it? Have you learned nothing from your time with us? When will you open your eyes and realize how little my actions differ from yours? Both of us lie, cheat and steal to further our own end.
or...
Dragonborn: To blazes with Nocturnal. I'm here for the Eyes.
Mercer Frey: Wait a moment... do I detect a hint of genuine avarice from this noble thief? Perhaps Karliah and Brynjolf misjudged you and your true nature is no different than my own.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, "Blindsided"

I think I've heard of you... some bigshot with the Brotherhood of Steel, right? They ain't that different from a raider gang, if you ask me. Just try and act all legitimate, but they still just take what they want.
Porter Gage, Fallout 4: Nuka World

I... may have underestimated your abilities.
Wipe that grin off your face. Your Brotherhood is no different from us! We both take what we want from these savages. If you think your cause is any more selfless than ours, you're sadly mistaken.
Horus, the raider boss of the first mission, Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel

That which I do is no different from that which you have done so many times, Warrior of Darkness. I arm myself. I hone my skills. I make ready to vanquish my enemy — you. You, who have murdered my brothers — who have taken their selfless labors in service to the one true world and turned them to ash. I see you for what you are. You are death, and only in death shall you serve any purpose. The Convocation charged me to steer mankind and the very star upon their true course. As Elidibus, it is my duty. And I shall see it done. I shall strike you down... destroy you body and soul. All else must wait. Ere long, I will come for you, Warrior of Darkness. And I will save the world.
Elidibus, Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers

Zenos: You value life. You do not burn yours save for reasons you deem worthy. Reasons such as those which brought you here. The salvation of a world and its people. The motives of a hero true....But there is more to you than that. You know this to be true. As surely as you know the thrill of pushing your body and soul to their limits. Of confronting ever-mightier foes, dancing ever closer to the precipice, wondering if this will be the one to finally, finally...fill the void. Such pleasures, you seek for their own sake, and no other reason. Is this not so...adventurer?
Warrior of Light: (with a knowing smirk) That, I can't deny.
Zenos: Ha! Acceptance, at long last!
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker

Mewt:note  What's so great about going back? Why go home at all?
Marche: Mewt...
Marche: Hey!
Mewt: All your parents do is fight! Dad's always at work and Mom's always looking after Doned. You were always alone—at home, at school... We're a lot alike, Marche. I know how it is...
It's strange, Frederick... Walhart and my sister were complete opposites. One gave her life to stop a war. The other took lives to create one. And yet they both inspired those around them; both walked a path to end all war. Both lived, and died, trying to unite the people.

Carl "C.J." Johnson: Man, you ain't nothin' but a fuckin' yayo dealer anyway, Toreno—
Mike Toreno: Shut up and sit down! What, you think I'm a drug dealer? You think you're a crusader for good?! Do you have any idea what's going on? Any idea whatsoever? Do you? DO YOU?
C.J.: No, I pay as little attention to things as possible.
Toreno: Do not be a fucking smart-ass with me. I work for a government agency. It is not important which one, I will try not to confuse you. Yes, when we last met, I was involved in battling threats in Latin America by any means necessary. That does NOT make me a drug dealer.

Niko: You killed my friends for $1,000?
Darko: How much do you charge to kill someone?

Atrocitus: The Earth trembles from your wrath.
Superman: Only I can rid it of crime.
Atrocitus: That same rage created me.

Joker: We've more in common than you care to admit.
Darkseid: I'm a god. You're a madman.
Joker: Not "mad". "Differently sane".

Joker: We've more in common than you care to admit.
Hellboy: You're crazy, I'm saying. End of story.
Joker: That's what the others thought, too.

Joker: We've more in common than you care to admit.
Grid: I am rational. You are mad.
Joker: Not "mad". "Differently sane".

Atrocitus: You're just like me.
Superman: I'm nothing like you.

Such determination to get here. It seems we share other qualities besides our color.

Commander Shepard: "Your superiors are sending you to certain death for no good reason. You have a right to disobey."
Tali: "Let's remember that for the next time Shepard sends us against impossible odds."
Legion: "Current trends average 2.73 instances per day. Rounded down."

Standing here, I realize
You were just like me, trying to make history
But who's to judge the right from wrong?
When our guard is down, I think we'll both agree
That violence breeds violence,
But in the end it has to be this way...
I've carved my own path, you've followed your wrath,
But maybe we're both the same
The world has turned, and so many have burned
But nobody is to blame
And yet, staring across this barren, wasted land
I feel new life will be born
Beneath the bloodstained sand...
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, "It Has To Be This Way" (final boss theme)

"You've guaranteed the status-quo will go on, for a while longer at least... War... will continue as an institution. As an industry. Men will fight for reasons they don't understand, causes they don't believe in... But at least I'll leave a worthy successor... You, Jack. You carve your own path, use whatever methods you see fit... You don't let legal bullshit get in the way. And if it costs a few lives? So be it... Deep inside, we're... kindred spirits... you... and I..."
Senator Steven Armstrong, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Cyrus Albright: In a way, we are not so different - the headmaster and I.
Therese: Professor...?
Cyrus: That unquenchable thirst for knowledge, bordering almost on obsession... And yet, our philosophies regarding the ultimate purpose of knowledge could not be more different. The headmaster used his position and prestige to hoard knowledge for his own foul ends. As an academic, I cannot forgive this. Knowledge is for one and all.

Zenyatta: I sense within you the same rage that once consumed your brother.
Hanzo: We are nothing alike.

If entertainment has taught us anything — be it films; TV shows; or films for people who hate fights and explosions, books — it's that at some point in every story, the villain will tell the hero, "You know, we're a lot alike, you and I." It always sounds like a really smart thing to say to somebody, even though it's never actually true.
— The Portal 2 Blog

What injury have I done to you, that you have not done to me?

Prince: Your words are empty, have always been empty. You are just a desperate, selfish spirit!
Dark Prince: If I am selfish, Prince, it is because you are. If I am ruthless and reckless and lacking in morals, it is because you are! I did not spin myself out of the ether! I was not conjured by some mad Vizier! I. Am. You!

Viral: What the hell is an Arzenal Para-Mail doing here?!
Ange: A Beastman expelled from his country and a former princess...A fine couple we make.
Viral: How amusing! I can feel her warrior's blood boiling!
Ange: It seems we have to fight! After all, the two of us are quite willing to kill others to survive!
Ange fighting Viral in Spiral Encounter, Super Robot Wars X

Rhys: This is the part where you give me the "we're not so different, you and I" speech again.
Jack: Oh god no! You're WAY better at killing people than I am! How many people did you think were on Helios, huh? How many of your coworkers did you just eject into space to get rid of me, huh?
Rhys: I Did What I Had to Do... to rid the world of you. And I sure as hell would do it again.
Jack: Awesome. Cooldogs. I'll spare you the amount of times I've told myself exactly the same thing. Hey, whatever gets you to sleep at night, huh? Everyone thinks they're the hero of their own story.

You think I am a monster, but you're no different from me, Drake. How many men have you killed? How many, just today?

Sam Drake: You don't deserve it.
Rafe Adler: You do? Last I checked, we're all a bunch of thieves, digging around where we shouldn't.

"The boy believed you could be saved. But he didn't know what burns within your soul. And in your heart, you know we are the same!"
Mannoroth, Warcraft III

Egil: Why didn't you do it? Killing me would have saved your world.
Shulk: I've forgotten all about that.
Egil: Forgotten about it?
Shulk: I realised that we both share the same pain. Egil, I don't have any reason to kill you.
Egil: Even if you do not, I still do!
Shulk: I know. But I won't do it.
Egil: If you do not kill me now, my blade will annihilate every last one of your people. Even then?!
Shulk: I can't kill you, but I can stop your blade. And I'll do it. Over and over again, until... we understand each other.

Your dossier reads like a broken record, Logan. How many people have betrayed you since you joined the Agency? First there was Benton, you remember him? Back in the old days, when you were Markinson's stooge. How many test subjects did you murder in the cathedral, again? And you've instilled such loyalty in your men, haven't you, Logan? Jason Chance, for instance. You need more men like that, don't you? How did you feel when you found out you'd been Vincent Hadden's bitch during the entire Syphon Filter fiasco? And lovely Miss Mara Aramov. How did it feel to have your ass repeatedly kicked by a woman? And I saw you've kept Gary Stoneman on the payroll, when he should be napping at a retirement center. There's good judgment for you. Ah, and then there's the whole Niculescu business. How did it feel to place the entire agency and all of your team at risk, while you chased your obsession? You see, I do know you, Logan. You and I are not very different after all. Our motives may differ, but not our means.
Singularity, Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror

Dimitri: But misfortune finds us all. Perhaps those around you have suffered or even perished, but look at you. You're still here, alive and well.
Marianne: That's...
Dimitri: It doesn't feel good, does it...to be the one left behind? You feel guilt for not dying along with the others.
Marianne: H–how did you know?
Dimitri: You and I are the same. Maybe you should fear being cursed with misfortune for coming near me.

Dimitri: What would you do if you saw the people who stole everything from you? If you saw them right before your eyes, living carefree lives, and feeling no guilt. Would you feel nothing? Do nothing? Five years ago, did you not deem the woman who killed Jeralt to be unforgivable? I am most certain that you did. You couldn't let her get away with her crime, so you took up your sword in pursuit.
Byleth: You're right.
Dimitri: Precisely my pointnote . We're the same, you and I.

And you. What incredible self-righteousness. Do you think you're any different? You call heroes from other worlds as means to your ends. You summon kings... the dead... not even GODS are beyond your reach! Tell me... do you enjoy using them as your pawns?
Eitri, Fire Emblem Heroes, Book V Ending

Kotal Kahn: I was a just and compassionate emperor.
Spawn: You massacred entire tribes!
Kotal Kahn: And how did you end up in Hell?

Klay,
We are from the same mold.
Klogg, The Neverhood

Lei: Hurts to say it... But you remind me of me. The old me... I saw what others had and hated them for it. Wondered why they deserved so much and I so little. But I had it all wrong. Most of them hadn't gotten where they were just by asking for it. And what little they've done was only a fraction of what they'd tried to achieve. That's just how it goes. We don't always get what we want. Sometimes what we wanted was never ours to take. And sometimes all we can do is try to be better. Do the best you can and hope that it's enough in the end! Maybe that doesn't make much sense but...but...(sigh) I've made a lot of mistakes. Still do, from time to time...
Oersted: ...To strive for something more. A better self... I too have made mistakes. I turned my back. By men abandoned, thus abandoned men...

    Web Animation 
Door: Blankbodies are parasites. You kill people and you eat them. To allow you to persist is to abet genocide.
Shitbeard: "ABET GENOCIDE"?! YOU ARE GENOCIDING US RIGHT NOW!
Door: Your life has already ended, tick. I can't. Kill. A corpse.
Pyotr: Hohohoholy fucking shit fellas. Wouldn't this guy makes such a good Ventrue? AHH... Kindred do not "live", we unlive. OOH...We do not do things "all day", we do things all night. AHH, OOH, We do not "X", we Vampire Word!

Zuko: He's just...
Shoto Todoroki: ...like me.
DEATH BATTLE!, "Zuko vs. Shoto Todoroki"

People used to say the same kind of things about me. Goofball, Wingnut, Knucklehead Mc Spazatron. But every day, I get back up and say two words: "I'm... ready".
DEATH BATTLE!, "Spongebob vs. Aquaman"

Obito Uchiha: You've... lost your humanity as well.
Darth Vader: On the path of the dark side, it is inevitable.
DEATH BATTLE!, "Darth Vader vs. Obito Uchiha"

    Webcomics 
"...Well, like it or not, you and Kirby aren't that different. But where he has childlike optimism, you have untempered malice. Sometimes that's all the difference one needs to be the "good guy"."
Meta Knight, Brawl in the Family #176

Zalanna: You see, they live in the untamed wilds.
Tanna: So do we.
Zalanna: In a secret, secluded village.
Tanna: So do we.
Zalanna: With border guards dedicated to not letting a soul in.
Tanna: So do we.
Zalanna: They hide away from any non-elf race, threatening banishment to any who commune with outsiders.
Tanna: So do we.
Zalanna: (glares)

Blitz: So what's your schtick? Do you have a dark past that's driven you mad!?
Gear: Unfortunately, no. I'm just here for the same reason you are.
Blitz: Oh? Is this the we're-both-the-same card already?
Gear: Something wrong with that?

"I'm exhausted [with] you dragging me around all the time! Don't you get it? She doesn't even like you! [...] You claim that you're different from other adventurers (who seek to kill her instead), but are you really? You only see the Demon Queen as someone to be conquered! Your PRIZE!"
Cerik to Malori, Mage & Demon Queen

"We're rather alike, you know. We're both individuals who don't fit into the preconceptions others might have about our roles in life. Sure, I'm a scheming benevolent dictator and you're a bloodthirsty killer, but I find that after one is dead, distinctions like that don't matter as much anymore."
Lord Shojo to Belkar Bitterleaf, The Order of the Stick, strip #606

    Western Animation 
Listen, Weasley! You are brash, arrogant, obnoxious, pushy, rude, and you dress funny. You're my kind of guy!
Dr. Ivo Robotnik, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

Hiro: Why didn't I listen to Granville?
Obake: Because, like me, you were meant to push limits.

You're a loser, baby
A loser, goddamn baby you're a
Fucked up little whiny bitch
You're a loser just like me!
Husk to Angel Dust, Hazbin Hotel

Tarrlok: Isn't that what you came here to do? Intimidate me into releasing your friends? See, that's what I admire about you, Korra. Your willingness to go to extremes in order to get what you want. It is a quality we both share.
Korra: You and I are nothing alike!

Kuvira: Why would you save my life? After everything I did to you!
Korra: I guess... I see a lot of myself in you.
Kuvira: (Beat) We are nothing alike!
Korra: Yes we are. We are both fierce and determined to succeed; sometimes without thinking things through...
Kuvira: This wasn't how I wanted things to end. If you would all just surrender, none of this would have happened!
Korra: You brought this on yourself; messing with the spirit vines, acting like a dictator toward your people... you had to know what you were doing wasn't right.
Kuvira: I was trying to help my people! Su turned her back on the Earth Kingdom! You were gone! I had to do something!
Korra: ... I think I get it, now.
Kuvira: You don't understand anything about me!
Korra: I do; Su told me how she took you in when you were younger. It must have been so hard, being an orphan...
Kuvira: DON'T pretend you know what it felt like! The Avatar is adored by millions! I was cast aside by my own parents like I meant nothing to them! How could I just stand by and watch the same thing happen to my nation when it needed someone to guide it?
Korra: You wanted to create a place where you and your people would never be vulnerable again. I may not have been an orphan, but believe me; I understand what it's like to be afraid. After I was poisoned, I would have done anything to feel in control.

Evil Rick: We're not so (burp) different, you and I.
Rick: Yeah, duh!

Steven: Sh-Shattering Gems... wouldn't that make us the same as Homeworld?
Bismuth: Of course not! We'd be shattering them for the sake of our cause, to protect our allies, our friends, to free all Gems from Homeworld's tyranny!

Zhan Tiri: Oh, quit pretending you're horrified. We're not so different, you and I. We were both cheated out of our destinies! In fact, we're more like sisters than you and Rapunzel ever were! We even want the same thing, and we can get it, if you continue to let me help you!
Cassandra: No... No, I'm nothing like you! Just because I'm pursuing my destiny doesn't make me a bad person!
Zhan Tiri: *Chuckle* Doesn't it?

Raphael: So, you do all this because you owe Shredder?
Xever: Eh, mostly I like having a job where I get to crack skulls every day.
Raphael: Okay, I can relate to that.
Xever: Yes. You and I are one of a kind.

There is good, and there is evil. There are those who commit crimes and those who stop them. The two sides are opposite, as different as day and night, and the line between them is clear. Or at least, it's supposed to be...

Starfire: I am sorry.
Robin: You're sorry? For what?
Starfire: When things were... bad, there was a moment where I truly believed that you were... like Slade. I doubted you. And for that, I am sorry.
Robin: I doubted myself, Star. Focused, serious, determined... as much as I hate to admit it, he and I are kind of alike. But there's one big difference between me and Slade. (smiling) He doesn't have any friends.

Phantom Limb: We're not so different, you and I-
Brock Samson: Yeah, I don't need another "We're not so different" speech, I get those a lot.

The Foot Recruit: Enough! Talk's cheap.
April O'Neil: I couldn't agree more.
Splinter: See now much you two have in common?
April and the Recruit: (simultaneously) No we don't! She's my enemy!
Splinter: Need I say more?


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