Quotes / Vice City

Anime & Manga

"There’s a noose that hangs at the entrance to the city. It’s a message to be read by all who encounter it. For the cautious, the sane, it’s a warning. For the reckless, the wild at heart, an invitation...the edge of the world, the crucible of hypocrisy, a place where those whose souls have been destroyed in the relentless search for money and power reside. A final stop on the way to Hell."

— Rock, Black Lagoon

Music

♫ (...) And who knows what Evil lurks in the hearts of men today?
It’s a city of shadows
It’s a city of lies
It’s a city of secrets
It’s a city of crime —
(...)
And who knows what Evil lurks in the hearts of men today?
It’s a city of shadows
It’s a city of lies
It’s a city of booty
It’s a city of bribes —♫

— Taylor Dayne, "Original Sin (Theme from "The Shadow")"

Live-Action Films

Marty McFly: I mean, how can all this be happening? It's like we're in Hell or something.
Doc Brown: No, it's Hill Valley. Although I can't imagine Hell being much worse!

— Back to the Future Part II

Video Games

Noctis City, a free land shrouded in fog and shadows. It has everything you want, as long as you pay the right price. Tens of thousands seeking a life of freedom flock to Noctis every year. Most of them die trying to fulfill their dreams; some are horrified by the chaos and evil, then leaves; only a very few manage to adapt to the pandemonium by becoming hideous monsters themselves.

—ANNO: Mutationem

"Great people here! You can trust everything they say!"

— A respectable denizen of Zozo, Final Fantasy VI

Web Original

The Butcher Blades had hung the Jackdaw from a rusted marlinspike through his jawbone and left him for the quayside scavengers. This was the seventeenth murdered ganger the hooded man had seen tonight. A slow night by Bilgewater's standards.

— Shadow and Fortune

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