Quotes / Self-Made Orphan

Ashnard: The thing that killed my father was not plague, nor was it another illness. It was me.
Bryce: Wh-What?
Ashnard: Oh, but it doesn't end there. There was my stepmother, too. And every brother who stood to be a legitimate heir... All of them died by my hand.

— Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance

"This is Sock. He just killed his parents. In his sleep."

— Welcome to Hell

"Patricide is a long standing tradition in video games."

— Bass, Two Evil Scientists

"Yes, yes, I killed your father. What is it with you women, anyway?! I killed my father too, and you don't hear me whining about it!"

— M. Bison to Chun Li, Street Fighter

"Cause of parents' death... Got in my way."

— Montgomery Burns, The Simpsons

Cale'anon: Is there any chance he was the one who killed your father and you were seeking justice so your beloved and missed parent could be at peace in the afterlife?
Richard: No, but it does bring to mind the amusing story of the time I murdered my father.

— Looking for Group, page 1

Half an hour after making that will, Kurt had bitten Papa's face in half like a piece of fruit.

— The Pilo Family Circus

"I was raised in your shadow. Now you're gonna die in mine. No one will even remember your name."

— Lex Luthor to Lionel Luthor, Smallville

"As far as the world must know, 'Willy' ceased to exist when you left him in prison. Now, it's your turn."

— Wilson Fisk/the Kingpin, Spider-Man: The Animated Series

"The Dark Lord and I have much in common. Both of us, for instance, had very disappointing fathers... very disappointing indeed. Both of us suffered the indignity, Harry, of being named after those fathers. And both of us had the pleasure... the very great pleasure... of killing our fathers!"

— Barty Crouch Jr., Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Randy: You're gonna do something for your mom, Catalina?
Catalina: My mother is dead.
Randy: I'm sorry.
Catalina: Oh, it's okay, it was either her or me.

— My Name Is Earl

King Terenas: What is this? What are you doing, my son?
Prince Arthas: Succeeding you, father.

— Warcraft III

What's the worst part about your parents dying on your 18th birthday?

They'll charge you as an adult for it.

— Old Joke

Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks
And when she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one

— Folk Rhyme

"You know, it's moments like these I remember the last thing my father told me... 'Careful son, that gun's loaded!'"

— Chains Cooper, Stone Cold

"For 3 million, I'd kill my own mother. Actually, I did, for a lot less than that."

— Ariella Martinez, Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball

The definiton of chutspah is someone who kills his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.

— Old Yiddish joke, quoted by Leo Rosten in The Joy of Yiddish

By the lex Pompeia on parricides it is laid down that if anyone kills his father, his mother, his grandfather, his grandmother, his brother, his sister, first cousin on his father's side, first cousin on his mother's side, paternal or maternal uncle, paternal (or maternal) aunt, first cousin (male or female) by mother's sister, wife, husband, father-in-law, son-in-law, mother-in-law, (daughter-in-law), stepfather, stepson, stepdaughter, patron, or patroness, or with malicious intent brings this about, shall be liable to the same penalty as that of the lex Cornelia on murderers. And a mother who kills her son or daughter suffers the penalty of the same statute, as does a grandfather who kills a grandson; and in addition, a person who buys poison to give to his father, even though he is unable to administer it.

— The Digest of Justinian

The murder of fathers or mothers, legitimate, natural, or adoptive, or of any other legitimate ascendant, is denominated parricide.

— French Penal Code of 1810, art. 299

The Words were a simple, savage spell, the first I would ever learn, the first I would ever cast. Three Words to stop a heart. You want, you bleed. Simple instructions, and four days later, I chewed on my tongue until blood flooded my mouth, and then I spoke the three Words I'd been taught, and watched as Father bugged his eyes out, made a strange choking noise, and died face-first in his turtle soup.
And I was happy.

— Nigsu Ga Tesgu, by Jeff Somers

Tohma Kuki: Don't tell me. One more of our sect still stands to prove our existence?
Seishiro Kuki: Dad didn't tell you?
Tohma: A miscalculation of my actions, I fear. Before he told me, I quieted his tongue! Then took his life.
Seishiro: TOHMA!
Tohma: Seishiro...do you hate me?
Seishiro: Don't kid yourself. Our sect is not yours. It's mine!

— Samurai Shodown: Warriors Rage

Alucard: Walter, do you know my top three favorite things I've killed are? Third is the Turks. Second is Nazis. Can you guess the first?
Walter: Your father?
Alucard: Nailed it!

— Hellsing Ultimate Abridged

"Yeah. I killed my mama. One night. It was my 14th birthday. She was drunk, and we had an argument. She hit me with a whiskey bottle. I shot her. I shot her dead."

— Henry, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

Cetrion: You shot your own father, Erron Black.
Erron Black: Son of a bitch had it coming.
Cetrion: Honor thy parents, mortal!

— Mortal Kombat 11

Frost: Why only cyberize your arms?
Jax: Mama always preached moderation.
Frost: I killed my mother when I was 12.

— Mortal Kombat 11

"You know, killing your parents is like a rite of passage before you can spread your wings and venture out into the world."

— Ogata Hyakunosuke, Golden Kamuy

"As a child, my father would have Gamora and me battle one another in training. Every time my sister prevailed... my father would replace a piece of me with machinery, claiming he wanted me to be her equal. But she won... again and again, and again, never once refraining. So after I murder my sister, I will buy a warship with every conceivable instrument of death. I will hunt my father like a dog, and I will tear him apart slowly... piece by piece, until he knows some semblance of the profound and unceasing pain I knew every single day."

— Nebula, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

"Now listen to me, you fuck! My father kept a secret once. He got bit by a vampire. He kept it a secret from me and my mother. By the fifth day he was turning. That night he attacked my mother and then he came after me. I killed my own father, Padre. I got no trouble killin' you. Last chance."

— Jack Crow, John Carpenter's Vampires

"I love you mommy and daddy, but when you read this I will already be ready to kill you. I'm so sorry I have to do this :(. But you shouldn't have let Ellie leave. Danny will be OK, I locked him in my room. He won't see what will happen to you. I love you mommy. I love you daddy.
With love,

Elise~"

— Elise Brooks, Party 2!

"Sonic's dad isn't really a Mobian anymore. My dad simply isn't."

— Scourge, Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics)

Chandler McCann: What did you call me? Son?
Mr. McCann: Yes. You're my son.
Chandler: Really? Last time I saw you, your words were that I WASN'T your son, that I was DEAD to you. But let me tell you something, Dad. You're not dead to me. Well, not yet. I wanted to be you, I wanted to follow in your footsteps... and now that can't happen, because of you. Now I have decided that I have no father, figuratively AND literally!
Mr. McCann: No, nooo, NOOOOOOOO! (Chandler drowns him to death)

— Loud Heroes, Chapter 10

All the best heroes are orphans, and so thou must choose at an early age: family or career.

— The Handbook of Heroes, Tragic Backstory

About a maid I'll sing a song,
Sing rickety-tickety-tin,
About a maid I'll sing a song
Who didn't have her family long.
Not only did she do them wrong,
She did ev'ryone of them in, them in,
She did ev'ryone of them in.

Tom Lehrer, The Irish Ballad

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