"That psychologist back in school, she gave me the PCL-R, that's a test where they rate you from zero to forty based on personality traits of sociopaths. Glibness, inflated ego, violence, juvenile delinquency, all that serial killer shit. Anything above a score of thirty gets you a diagnosis of sociopathy. I got a twenty-nine. And the irony is that I had to steal the file from the cabinet to find out that score. Do you think that's worth the extra point?"
— David Wong, John Dies at the End
Burn Gorman is probably the strongest performer of the ensemble but in year one he is handed the least presentable character. Owen is one of the most conceited, abrasive, disagreeable characters it has ever been my displeasure to watch. He starts off in "Everything Changes" as a medical upstart (and that is their MO, so you have to work pretty hard to stand out like this) and somehow devolves as the season progresses. In his efforts to try and make Owen look hip with alien tech, he turns Owen into a serial rapist (alright I know to become a serial anything you have to commit the crime three times, but I'm willing to bet this isn't the first time he's pulled off this obscene trick). How this is supposed to make the character to appeal to anybody but the most sordid of individuals baffles me, unless that is the kind of crowd that Davies was hoping to pull?
Bakugo: You try anything funny and I'll blow your ass up so bad, that they'll be piecing you back together for weeks!
Kirishima: Uh, that doesn't sound very heroic.
Kirishima: Uh, that doesn't sound very heroic.
Shiki: You want to defeat Drakken? The guy who put Rebecca through all that danger?
Noah: Is there a problem?
Noah: Is there a problem?
"All I wanna do is find that bastard and kill him. I don't care about anything else. Anyone who dies because they get caught up in someone else's fight is a small fry who doesn't have the strength to survive in the first place. If someone can't live their life the way they please, they might as well die."
— Guts, Berserk, Volume 1, Chapter 1, "The Black Swordsman"
"Don't die on me yet. Didn't you say it doesn't matter how many bolts I shoot at you? Must be rough, being 'unkillable' and all ... Like you said, humans are weak. We die easily. But no matter how weak we are, even if we're being chopped to bits or stabbed to death, we still want to live. I'm gonna give you a little taste of what it's like."
— Guts, Berserk, while giving the pleading Snake Baron a Cruel and Unusual Death in the same chapter
"The wind carried screams from the west. I couldn't help but smile; someone else in this world was suffering more than I."
— Kain, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
Uno: I feel you may misunderstand what we mean — we can help you with any problem in the whole world!
Mr. Shultz: You boys can help me with any problem?
Uno: Well, to a moral extent, yes!
Katz: My morals are very loose, so you can ask me anything, big guy!
Mr. Shultz: You boys can help me with any problem?
Uno: Well, to a moral extent, yes!
Katz: My morals are very loose, so you can ask me anything, big guy!
— Monster Lab (2021), Episode 1: "The Immortal Man"
"It's what he does. Finds someone who has a sense of ethics and follows their lead, it's how he tries not to be a monster."
"Why would he try not to be a monster?"
"Because he is one."
"Why would he try not to be a monster?"
"Because he is one."
