Anime and Manga
"I REJECT MY HUMANITY, JOJO!"
— Dio Brando (before becoming a vampire with the Stone Mask), JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, episode 3
Comic Books
...she does not hesitate as she claims their lives. Mercy, you see, is a human trait. And Storm and her humanity have this night parted company.
— Uncanny X-Men Annual #6
"They are not like us! We can't imagine how the mind of a superhuman works any more than a monkey can imagine how we think! The second one of these things shows up we become nothing more than six billion chimps with phones, Jenny."
— Phillip L. Voight to Jenny Swann, newuniversalnote
Film
"See? You made me hurt myself again! I broke my hand off completely at the wrist this time, Tina! But that's okay, Darlin', because I love you, and that's why you have to let me EAT YOUR BRAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIINS!"
— Freddy, The Return of the Living Dead
"You are deluded, Captain. You pretend to be a simple soldier, but in reality you are just afraid to admit that we have left humanity behind. Unlike you, I embrace it proudly. Without fear!"
— Red Skull, Captain America: The First Avenger
Literature
Though twice separated from the memory by the barriers of time and my own transfigurative metamorphosis, the recollections retain the vivid tenacity of a fever-spawned dream. And the reverie is doubly reinforced by the fading embers of dim, pre-racial memory, telling me that the stringy pulp shredded between my teeth - the delicious firefly of liberated consciousness greedily ingested by the swelling tubers and snaking entrails of my alimentary tracts - was once a child.
I feel neither remorse or empathy, despite the fact that the hazy mirage of half-memory reminds me of my own humble origins. That once I, too, was a mere man...
I feel neither remorse or empathy, despite the fact that the hazy mirage of half-memory reminds me of my own humble origins. That once I, too, was a mere man...
— "Black Static", by David Conway
Lupin's hands closed convulsively in his lap. "Fenrir Greyback is, perhaps, the most savage werewolf alive today. He regards it as his mission in life to bite and to contaminate as many people as possible; he wants to create enough werewolves to overcome the wizards. Voldemort has promised him prey in return for his services. Greyback specializes in children... Bite them young, he says, and raise them away from their parents, raise them to hate normal wizards. Voldemort has threatened to unleash him upon people’s sons and daughters; it is a threat that usually produces good results."
Lupin paused and then said, "It was Greyback who bit me."
"What?" said Harry, astonished. "When — when you were a kid, you mean?"
"Yes. My father had offended him. I did not know, for a very long time, the identity of the werewolf who had attacked me; I even felt pity for him, thinking that he had had no control, knowing by then how it felt to transform. But Greyback is not like that. At the full moon, he positions himself close to victims, ensuring that he is near enough to strike. He plans it all. And this is the man Voldemort is using to marshal the werewolves. I cannot pretend that my particular brand of reasoned argument is making much headway against Greyback's insistence that we werewolves deserve blood, that we ought to revenge ourselves on normal people."
Lupin paused and then said, "It was Greyback who bit me."
"What?" said Harry, astonished. "When — when you were a kid, you mean?"
"Yes. My father had offended him. I did not know, for a very long time, the identity of the werewolf who had attacked me; I even felt pity for him, thinking that he had had no control, knowing by then how it felt to transform. But Greyback is not like that. At the full moon, he positions himself close to victims, ensuring that he is near enough to strike. He plans it all. And this is the man Voldemort is using to marshal the werewolves. I cannot pretend that my particular brand of reasoned argument is making much headway against Greyback's insistence that we werewolves deserve blood, that we ought to revenge ourselves on normal people."
Live-Action TV
Lauren: Oh my god. [giggles] You actually think I want "saving"?
Mitchell: We can save each other! This is what I'm trying to... we can save each other.
Lauren: You don't get it do you? I want to kill. I want to feel their blood dripping down my chin. I want to see their faces when they realize. I want to kill my parents, my lovers... I want them to know. Herrick's talking about offering it first. Christ, let's just take it! Take the world. Tear the children to shreds.
Mitchell: We can save each other! This is what I'm trying to... we can save each other.
Lauren: You don't get it do you? I want to kill. I want to feel their blood dripping down my chin. I want to see their faces when they realize. I want to kill my parents, my lovers... I want them to know. Herrick's talking about offering it first. Christ, let's just take it! Take the world. Tear the children to shreds.
— Being Human (UK), episode 1x01
Tabletop Games
The kine knows my name. How strange... did I know this one? Everything before the Creation Rites is so hazy. Concentrating, I try to penetrate the veils my subterranean baptism cast over my brain. Ah yes, Tim — no, Tom. I worked with this one, this Tom, in the R&D Department. Playing with little white mice.
"Julie, help me... Julie... Jesus, Julie—"
"How blind I was. It chitters and squirms just like the rodents!"
"Silence," Alexei commands. "Now, to work." Alexi grips a fold of skin just below the kine's collar-bone. "Observe." With one practiced motion, he peels the kine's torso to the waist. The kine's screams would be nerve-racking, had I still nerves to speak of. As it is, I find the rhythmic passage of sound waves through my vitae soothing, almost amniotic.
"Julie, help me... Julie... Jesus, Julie—"
"How blind I was. It chitters and squirms just like the rodents!"
"Silence," Alexei commands. "Now, to work." Alexi grips a fold of skin just below the kine's collar-bone. "Observe." With one practiced motion, he peels the kine's torso to the waist. The kine's screams would be nerve-racking, had I still nerves to speak of. As it is, I find the rhythmic passage of sound waves through my vitae soothing, almost amniotic.
— Vampire: The Masquerade - Clanbook: Tzimisce
The new Vampire does keep his memories and his personality, but both tend to fade quickly and are forgotten. The truth is that much of the old personality is simply irrelevant in this new state, just as the personality of a sheep is of little use to a wolf. Ideas about friendship, morality, and duty are fundamentally changed when one becomes a wolf amongst Human sheep. Some people are able to act kindly towards sheep, of course, but in the end, they are there to be herded, killed, and eaten.
— Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay - Night's Dark Masters
Video Games
"Once I embraced my gifts, I realized that Vorador was right; we are gods... dark gods, and it is our duty to thin the herd."
— Kain, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
"The glorious transformation is over and I am one of the Many. I imprint my thoughts on this device as a record of history. We began this journey as pilgrims of commerce and we now continue it as pilgrims of grace. I believed in money and TriOptimum, and now I believe in the joy of the Mass. Diego cannot be trusted so I must claim this ship for the Many. It shall be our vessel of salvation, spreading our message and our flesh."
— Anatoly Korenchkin, System Shock 2
Web Original
"Y'know? Looking back at this conversation, I don't feel mutants should be killed as normal humans should be. It's the normals who are the ignorant ones! It's the normals who define what's decent and what's not! It's the normals who constantly demand better living standards while abhorring the perma-hobo mutants! It's the normals who insist on wearing clothes all the damn time! THE NORMALS ARE DISGUSTING! WE SHOULD BOMB THEM!"
— Whammudes, in the middle of an angry breakdown, If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device
Western Animation
"Thank you all for your dedication and a lifetime of service. But I now seem more suited to keep the exclusive company... [deploys gun] of titans."
— Silas, now CYLAS after being placed inside Breakdown's body, Transformers: Prime
"Dudes, stay calm. I've been training for this moment my whole life. With all the horror movies I've seen, I know literally everything there is to know about how to avoid zombies. [gets bitten by zombie] Second thought, gonna flip the script. Can I... eat your brains? 'Yea' or 'nay'? Seein' some 'yea' faces over here."
— Soos, Gravity Falls, "Scary-oke"
