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"Mr. Matsuda, please stop talking like people dying is actually a good thing."
Yamamoto, Death Note

"Goku, you're mistaken... Gohan isn't a fighter like you. Does Gohan know about your plan? Did you even talk to him about it before the Cell Games? Do you want to know what Gohan is thinking right now?! He isn't thinking about anger, he's thinking, "Why isn't my father coming to rescue me from pain and death?! My father seems to value a fair, manly fight more than my own life". Never forget that even though he may be the strongest of all of us, he's still a child! I'd rather die than wait!"
Piccolo, Dragon Ball

"Using a rescued civilian as a hostage. Tell me Kira, do you still feel justified protecting these cowards!?"
Athrun Zala, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

Hyuga: Listen to reason, Shinji! Just stop and think about what you're doing, please!
Shinji: I know exactly what I'm doing. And you're only making me angrier. Unit 01 has 285 seconds left. That's enough time to destroy half of headquarters if I want!
Aoba: In his state of mind he might just do it...
Maya: Shinji, please just listen to us! Commander Ikari had to do it! You would've died if he hadn't made that call!
Shinji: That doesn't change anything.
Hyuga: But it's still the truth, damnit!
Shinji: I WOULD'VE RATHER DIED THAN BE A PART OF WHAT YOU'VE DONE! Dad tried... that BASTARD tried to kill Asuka... and he used MY HANDS TO DO IT! [starts stomping and thrashing] Tell me why?! WHY?! Why did you do it?! You don't even understand, do you, Dad?! I was so stupid to trust you! Maybe if you lose something you care about, THEN YOU'LL UNDERSTAND!

"Are you out of your mind?! Orochimaru killed the Third Hokage and did everything he could to destroy the Leaf Village! Whatever it is you're expecting out of him, you think he's just gonna give it to you for free?! All he wants is to use your body like a new suit of clothes! There'll be nothing of you left! You'll never get out alive! You think I'll stand by and just let you throw away your entire life?!"
Naruto Uzumaki to Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto

"I don't know what happened at Fortree, but venting your anger out on your Pokémon is inexcusable! What's more, you blamed your Pokémon for your own mistakes as a Trainer. That's unforgivable! And before you turn on me or argue about the loss of the contest... isn't there something you should be doing right now?"
Wallace to Ruby, Pokémon Adventures

"You listen to me. You don't understand a single thing about her, so don't pretend like you do. You're a little boy who can't think of anyone but himself. Consider her feelings sometime. She was crying her eyes out."
Inner Moka to Tsukune Aono, Rosario + Vampire

"You knew that card was evil, and you still played it? If you really were a brave Pharaoh, you would never have done something like that to poor little Yugi! [sobbing] This just isn't fair! How could you? I want my Yugi back. It should have been you, not him!"
Rebecca to Yami, Yu-Gi-Oh!

"Do you really want to save people's lives that much!? Why can't you understand that is exactly what is driving people to their deaths!?"
Shiraori to Sariel, So I'm a Spider, So What?

"You've done enough! It's over! We won! We can end this! Ace is dead! Whitebeard is dead! The pirates no longer have the will to fight! What are we trying to prove?! There are wounded men out there! These men have families, children, these men fight for us and we're watching them die! We could help them if we just stop fighting! But no, we're creating more bodies, more casualties. What was the point of all this?! What were they even fighting for?!"
Coby, One Piece (English Dub)

Villain: You mean... you attacked just to save her?! And you call yourself a hero who protects the world?!
Sailor Neptune: There seems to be a misunderstanding. The world is only worth protecting... if Haruka is living on it.

    Comic Books 
"You killed Janet! You killed Cap! HOW COULD YOU?!"

Wanda, I never wanted to see you — any of you — again. I hated you. Because when I needed you most, you betrayed me. (starts to tear up in quiet anger) There I was, pregnant by an unknown source, running through a nine-month term literally overnight — confused, shaken to the core of my being as a hero, a person, a woman. I turned to you for help, and I got jokes. The Wasp thought it was great and The Beast offered to play teddy bear. Your concerns were for the baby, not for how it came to be — nor of the cost to me of that conception. You took everything Marcus said at face value. You didn't question, you didn't doubt. You simply let me go with a wave and a bouncy bon voyage. That was your mistake for which I paid the price. My mistake was trusting you.
Carol Danvers to all of The Avengers regarding the events of Avengers #200, Avengers Annual #10

Lana Lang: You're telling me you're not even going to go look? At all? What if someone needs your help? What if someone's hurt? Look around, Kara. People out there need you. You can use your gifts to —
Kara: "Gifts"? These "gifts" make a target, Lana. They make me dangerous to everyone around me. And as you'll recall, the last time I tried to help someone, I got a planet full of my people blown up
Lana: That wasn't your fault and you know it—
Kara: It doesn't matter whose fault you think it was, Lana! 80,000 people were put in danger because of something I did... and then Supergirl couldn't save any of them.
Lana: Fine. You wanna wallow in self-pity and guilt while people need you? You want to ignore these people crying out for someone to help them? That's great. You do that, Kara. Just don't expect me to support you while you do it.

Superman: WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!
Wizard: I bestowed the powers of the gods upon a mortal. It is my province to do so.
Superman: He's a little boy! You did this to a little boy!
Wizard: He is more adept, more tenacious than any—
Superman: What is wrong with you? He is a child! His life shouldn't be about this! Little boys go to school, play with their friends and go to bed at night. Their biggest concerns should be homework and school-yard crushes — Not if their best friends are going to be murdered by assassins!
Wizard: It is his fate to bear the mantle.
Superman: Do not talk to me about fate. All of you people of magic — you sorcerers... All your talk about fate and destiny... This is wrong. No boy should have the responsibility of the world on his shoulders. It is fate chosen by men. He is just a boy.
Superman/Shazam!: First Thunder

Martian Manhunter: Is this how you intended to "handle" Mongul, my friend?
Superman: Forgive me, J'onn... Looks like I failed you!
Martian Manhunter: No, not me, Superman — It's the entire universe that will have to pay the price of your failure! I warned you that you were dealing with forces beyond your comprehension — but you were just too overconfident — too egotistical — to listen!
Superman: I — I thought I could deal with it! After all, I'm Superman... aren't I?
Martian Manhunter: Super or not, you're still a man — and men are fallible! Now, because of you, Mongul has the key that can unlock chaos — and I demand to know what you intend to do about it!

"What have we done? What has any of us done since all this started? Kill. Destroy. All we do is go from one planet to another. Fighting. Killing. And where has it gotten us? What have we got to show for it? We take some ground, the Decepticons take some ground. We suffer losses, they suffer losses. And for what?! How many races have we put in danger? How many have we wiped out in our pursuit to kill some more?! It was a disagreement! We fought to uphold a way of life, an ideal. And now what? Our planet is in ruins along with countless others. How many have died for our war, how many "acceptable losses" have we allowed to gain a little more ground? He was fighting for an idea, fighting for a better way, and he broke. 'Streaker was a casualty of this war well before his death. If we don't uphold the sanctity of life, all life, how are we any better than the Decepticons?!"

"Listen to me — all of you out there! You were told by this man — your hero — that America is the greatest country in the world! He told you that Americans were the greatest people — that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it, and shine more brightly! He went on about how precious America was — how you needed to make sure it remained great! And he told you anything was justified to preserve that great treasure, that pearl of great price that is America! Well, I say America is nothing! Without its ideals — its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of trash! A nation is nothing! A flag is a piece of cloth! I fought Adolf Hitler not because America was great, but because it was fragile! I knew that liberty could be snuffed out here as in Nazi Germany! As a people, we were no different than them! When I returned, I saw that you nearly did turn America into nothing! And the only reason you're not less than nothing — is that it's still possible for you to bring freedom back to America!"
Captain America to the entire United States of America, What If? #44

"Yes, things have changed. You have hunted down those we once fought beside and called comrades. Killed or imprisoned those who opposed you. Regardless of their previous loyalties. Surely this would be offense enough, but you went further. Much further. You took my genetic code and, without my permission, without my knowledge, used it to create an abomination — an aberration — an insult — and this you told the world was me. You defiled my body, desecrated my trust, violated everything that I am. Is this how you define friendship? Is it? IS IT?"
Thor calling out Iron Man in the aftermath of Civil War (2006)

Thor: You're using those people as bait?
Captain America: Only if the other three plans I have on standby take a dive.

Nova: ...can't believe you don't know about [the Annihilation War].
Iron Man: We had some intelligence via Shi'ar sources, but it was vague. Frankly, we thought it was just another Kree border squabble. And we were a little busy.
Nova: Galactic culture nearly collapsed. Billions died. The entire Skrull empire's gone. Xandar, too. Along with huge chunks of the Kree territories. Quasar died in front of my eyes. Even Thanos was killed. And you heard something... vague? As commander of the united front, I sent a warning to Earth. I sent it to the Fantastic Four, Mr. Stark.
Iron Man: Please, call me Tony. I'll check with Reed. I heard of no warning. Richard, I'd appreciate it if you briefed S.H.I.E.L.D.'s galactic affairs on the details of this... war. You say Annihilus was the driving force? What happened to him?
Nova: I pulled him inside out and saved the universe. What have you done lately, Tony?
Nova Volume 4

Black Canary: Stop it. She's not with them, can't you see that?
Batgirl: You don't know. How can we know that?
Black Canary: Because, Ms. Normally Pretty Rational, she is covered in weapons... but she's not fighting back.

Superman: Kara, what are you doing here? It's not safe for you, and it's not safe for the people around you... You're still learning how to control your powers. [...]
Supergirl: "Not safe"?... I'm not the one who turned into an uncontrollable monster whose path of destruction led to a Kryptonite bomb being dropped! And I did reach out to you. Why do you get to judge me?
Superman: I don't come here to fight, Kara...
Supergirl: Good. I don't want to either.
Superman: ...But the fact remains that you'd be better off learning and training with people who could help you. A place like S.T.A.R. Labs or a government research center—
Supergirl: For better or worse, this planet is my home now. I want to live among its people. Real people living real lives. The lives we've fought so hard to protect. Or did you forget that?

Cassandra: Diana...? Is it really you?
Diana: It's really me, Cass. You okay?
Cassandra: Am I okay? Let's see... The gods abandoned us. Paradise Island disappeared. My boyfriend was murdered... and the person I looked up to more than anyone else in the world... left without saying a word.
Diana: I was trying to protect you.
Cassandra: You deserted me. Me AND Donna. And now, for all we know, she could be dead.

"I'm sorry, dad, but I've waited a year and a half to say this, but... [spins Darkwing's chair] ARE YOU CRAZY?! You're always saying 'Let's Get Dangerous!' Not 'Let's Get Dangerous Unless They Find Out Where We Live!' And certainly not 'Let's Get Dangerous Until We Can't Afford It!'"
Gosalyn, Darkwing Duck

Supergirl: You don't understand. And neither do you. I'm not a piece of luggage. I'm not a problem for the grownups to solve.
Superman: It's not like that. We all just want to help you.
Supergirl: You're doing it again. Who says I need any help?

"My, my, I'm surprised at you, Superman... I always thought you were a gentleman! After all, just because I'm from Krypton and invulnerable like you — that's still no excuse to hit a woman!"
Faora Hu-El, The Great Phantom Peril

"Professor, please. You're talking to me, Warren Worthington III. I was one of your first X-Men. I was there when you made an entire town forget we'd just tore up their main street fighting the Sentinels. I remember you memory-wiping more than one bad guy to keep him from recalling where we lived. You want to pass yourself off as Martin Luther Xavier, fine, but some of us know better."
Archangel, Uncanny X-Men

"Now I know the secret you've been keeping from me— that Lex Luthor, one of the world's most monstrous criminals... is my brother! We were friends... I trusted you... But you betrayed me! Now get out of my sight, Supergirl... Get Out!"

"When you started... mentoring me, the whole goal of it was to teach me more about being human. We built a trust. For a year, I told you everything. You knew all the stuff that was wrong with my life. [...] But you lied to me, Lana, that entire year. You didn't trust me, and people in that hospital died because of it. You died because of it. I saw you die. Because you were scared to tell me something was wrong."

Amalak: You are a fool, Superman! So disturbed by the prospect of having killed Nam-Ek that you have become careless! Why, you almost killed me just now! When you burst into this pressurized cabin, the oxygen in it began to escape...until an energy-patch appeared over the puncture to seal it! I might have suffocated...If not for the oxy-aura around me now! You would have had another death of your conscience! Face it, Kryptonian— You are not the hero you think you are!
Superman: [thinking] He's attacking me psychologically— trying to confuse me! And he's nearly succeeding—

Supergirl: "Could it be that what's really bothering you...is the fact that all these people around us don't even know what you've done on their behalf?"
Deadman: "And what if it is? I knock myself out fighting for them, but does anyone know? Does anyone care?"
Supergirl: "Probably not. I mean, you are dead, you know. Comes with the territory."
Deadman: "Gosh, thanks. I feel much better now."
Supergirl: "So you want recognition, then? You want glory?'"
Deadman: (thinking) There was something about her...about her tone...that made me feel like lichen, compared to her. I'd been feeling like Job. And here she was, making me feel like Judas. And I didn't know why."

[After the Comedian's Vietnamese lover slashes him across the face with a broken bottle, the Comedian kills her, along with their unborn child]
Dr. Manhattan: Blake, she was pregnant. You gunned her down.
Comedian: Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Pregnant woman. Gunned her down. Bang. And y'know what? You watched me. You coulda changed the gun into steam or the bullets into mercury or the bottle into snowflakes! You coulda teleported either of us to goddamn Australia... but you didn't lift a finger! You don't really give a damn about human beings. I've watched you. You never cared about whatsername, Janey Slater, even before you ditched her. Soon, you won't be interested in Sally Jupiter's little girl, either. You're driftin' outta touch, Doc. You're turnin' into a flake. God help us all.

    Fairy Tales 
"What an old hag," said the soldier to himself. "It was time for her to die a many years ago."
"Yes," says the old crone, with her toothless gums numbling and grumbling over her words. "Long ago it was time for me to die. When you shut up Death in the sack I had only an hour left to live. I had done with the world, and the world had done with me, and I would have been glad to be at peace. Long ago my place in heaven was made ready, and it is empty to this day for I cannot die. You, soldier, have sinned before God and before man. You have sinned a sin that God will not forgive. I am not the only soul in the world who is tortured as I am. Mine is not the only place that is growing dusty in heaven. Hundreds and thousands of us who should have died drag on in misery about the world. And but for you we should now be resting in peace."
The soldier began to think. And he thought of all the other old men and women he had kept from the rest that God had made ready for them. "There is no doubt about it," thinks he; "I had better let Death loose again. No matter if I am the first of whom she makes an end. I have sinned many sins, not counting this one. Better go to the other world now and bear my punishment while I am strong, for when I am very old it will come worse to me to be tortured."

    Fan Works 
"JOSEPH JOESTAR, HOW COULD YOU DO SUCH A THING?!" Jonathan's voice boomed, making the elder Joestar shrink back slightly.
Currently, Jonathan, the two Joseph's and Jotaro were gathered in one of the areas in Cape Canaveral, specifically, on one of the wooden floors next to the bent looking structure that Giorno had explained to Jonathan as a 'rocket'.
An extremely worried Jonathan had dragged a jumpy old Joseph, a confused young Joseph, and a serious Jotaro up there, mainly so Joseph could tell them what happened and why Josuke was so aggressive, yet upset, earlier.
That's when Joseph dumped it all on the table.
"Okay, please don't kill me, grandpa... but there may be a small chance that one time I went to Japan and I got in bed with another woman, and when I met Josuke here it turned she's his mother, and that would explain why Josuke is here, 'cause there's a big chance he's my son, and with the way he spoke I think I he's never met me, so I assume that I never found out she had a son."
Which brought them to now, with Jonathan frowning, Jotaro pulling his hat over his eyes and young Joseph facepalming. "I cannot believe you abandoned a lady to take care of your child by herself!" Jonathan continued, sounding livid for the first time at one of his descendants.
"Yare yare, you really screwed up now, old man." Jotaro shook his head, "Let me guess, grandma Suzie Q doesn't know about your little escapade?"
Something clicked in Jonathan's head. "Wait..." He looked at Jotaro, "Grandma?" He then looked at Joseph, face horror-stricken and looking like he was about to throw up, "You cheated on your wife?!"
Meanwhile, young Joseph choked. "H-Hey wait a minute! Suzie Q is your wife?!" He did the math, "I-I'm gonna marry Suzie Q?!"
"H-hehe..." Old Joseph started sweating bullets, scratching his cheek nervously, "It was a one time thing, really... and yes, you're gonna marry her."
Jonathan wanted to faint. "H-How could you do this, Joseph?" He whispered, starting to pace in circles, "Marriage... marriage is something holy, precious, sacred. You have to honor your wife and the person you choose to spend the rest of your life with until the day you die! This... this is inexcusable! I know Erina didn't raise you with such horrible morals, mister!"
"Now I'm really not looking forward to growing old..." Young Joseph muttered quietly.
"I'm sorry, grandpa!" Old Joseph wailed, "I had no idea she would have a kid from that one time!"
"No excuses, mister! If you had the... the..." He struggled to find the right words.
"Balls?" Jotaro filled in.
Jonathan blushed. "Jotaro, language! The... guts... to do such a thing while married, then you should've had the guts to tell your wife the truth and kept in contact with the other lady!" Jonathan's shoulders dropped, "I'm very disappointed, Joseph. Josuke is such a wonderful young man, but every child needs both parent figures in their lives, and he appeared so upset, it broke my heart."

Listen here, you despicable wench! You don't fully understand the repercussions of what you've done! Corey was, I repeat, WAS, a rare case in the entire Underworld! His light grey horns and lack of tattoos showed that he was a kind and gentle demon, unlike me! But with your selfish and jealous actions, it made Corey ascend into a higher but darker power that you won't fully understand! Corey has now lost all innocence that he once had and has turned into the very thing he hated since his understanding of where he came from! You turned your ex-lover into a demon with no remorse for anyone nor anything! You know what that means, you insufferable little bitch?! It means that if we ever see Corey again, he would slaughter everyone in sight and not have any second thoughts!
Trina to Laney, Demon Spawns Series

=Oh, let's see! Maybe it's because of YOU?! Maybe it's because the whole lot of you abandoned Twilight when she needed you most, thinking she was a jealous liar when every word she spoke was the truth?! I saw her when I sent my Eye Sentry down there to watch over her while she made her way back here, and she was a complete wreck. You completely shattered her faith in all of you! You might as well have defecated on the Elements themselves, because now that you weakened your bond of friendship with the one who holds all of you together, they are completely and totally worthless! No, we're going to get through this through the sweat of our brows, the strength of our backs, AND THE BLOOD OF OUR ENEMIES!
Vaati to the rest of the Mane Six on why the Elements of Harmony won't work on Queen Chrysalis, The Equestrian Wind Mage

Avenger: How dare you stand by and do nothing while your allies use such dishonourable tactics! And you call yourself a knight?
Saber: Were I the Master and not the Servant, I would agree. However, I am neither Archer's ally nor am I his Master. I have no say in his tactics. I am my Master's weapon and nothing more.
Avenger: Then you are a coward for hiding behind that reason!

Bruce Banner: You should of probably killed him, Hulk. Leaving that young wolf alive will cause nothing but trouble for us.
Hulk: I've already caused enough damage, Banner. Besides, I don't hurt anyone who doesn't want to fight.
Bruce: You said it yourself, Hulk. We will always be fighting, and alone. That young wolf is probably going to get the rest of his pack and return to hunt us down, all because you could not kill a pup.
Hulk: Sometimes Banner... I wonder who the real monster is.

Cyril: I see your points but if we leave the temple unguarded, we're leaving it open to further threat. Six eggs are not worth putting the entire temple full of several hundred at risk.
Sparx: Then don't leave! You know, I might give Cynder a lot of grief, but telling her that her kid isn't worth saving? That's too much. And don't go the 'we don't want a repeat of what happened last time' route on me! You and I both know if that three-headed psycho had wanted the other eggs she'd have beaten up Pinky over here and done it then! You just don't want to admit you're wrong!

And she told the Avengers what had really happened to her, leaving out only the elder Immortus's part in bringing her back to Earth.
About that incident, she was having less and less problems connecting it to what she felt.
"I never wanted to see you—any of you—again," said Carol. "I hated you. Because when I needed you most, you betrayed me."
She told them of what she had felt when they made their jokes. She told them of what she had felt, or hadn't felt, when they didn't question a thing that Marcus had told them, just letting her go with a smile and a wave.
"That was your mistake," she said. "For which I paid the price. My mistake was trusting you."

So Naruto, how come you're such a massive prick?

Jaden: Then why are you riding around on the motorcycle, wearing an evil mask, stealing people's cards and laughing like a maniac? Does that sound like a hero?
Paradox: Well, when you put like that not weally, but-
Jaden: Then what the hell, man?! What the actual hell?!
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Bounds Beyond Time Abridged Movie

Trunks: Oh good, the Senzu worked. You know, it's too bad you don't have Saiyan biology; at this point, you'd probably be unstoppable.
Krillin: I know, right?! Also, Vegeta's gonna die.
Trunks: What? How do you—
Krillin: Trunks, do you have any idea how many times I've been hit by someone stronger than me since I became an adult?
Trunks: How would I know that?
Krillin: Every time! Barring your mother and Chi-Chi, literally! Every! Time!
Trunks: And?
Krillin: And I know when someone's holding back...Trunks.
Trunks: ...okay, I can explain.
Krillin: I don't think you can.
[later]
Krillin: You've been holding back this entire time!
Trunks: Okay, you're right! When I was training in the Time Chamber, I found a way to surpass my father. But he doesn't know! And if he found out—
Krillin: Then he'd be mad at you?! Listen, I like the guy, but his default emotion is angry!
Trunks: It's more than anger, it's pride! It would shatter him!
Krillin: And because of that, EIGHTEEN HAD TO DIE?!
Trunks: What does it matter?! That was your plan the entire— (notices Krillin crying) ...oh. Shit.
Dragon Ball Z Abridged, episode 52

Medea: Nice job kickin' out the conscience, Sora. I bet you're feelin' proud for shoving everyone else out of the way so you can chase after some girl you can't shut up about now.
Sora: Excuse me? What's your problem, Medea?
Medea (angrily): What's MY problem? You wanna know what my problem is, kid? My problem is YOU! You've been acting like a complete jackass after that stupid scuffle you got into with Riku over a little bauble, and that same dumb attitude made you act like a selfish brat who can't even try to listen to people with more common sense than you do when the opportunity is right in front of them.
Sora: Are you saying I'm an idiot for wanting to rescue Naminé from—
Medea: I'M NOT DONE YET! Ever since you started remembering things about that girl, she's been the only thing you just won't shut the hell up about! Seriously! Nowadays it's always Naminé, Naminé, Naminé! Well, I'M getting SICK and TIRED of listening to you ranting your ass off about that blondie that we haven't even seen yet! And I sure as hell am beyond disgusted that you're pushing your friends away just for a little blond twit! You've shoved Donald and Goofy away just because they tried to get you to freakin' STOP and THINK! So what are you gonna do now, huh? HUH? Are you gonna try and make me leave just because I'm angry at your stupid attitude or because I don't have the same feelings about someone I don't know?! Are you now gonna abandon Luna just to chase after a damn blond who you kept ranting and raving about after the pummeling that cockroach[Larxene] did a few floors back?! Answer the damn question!
Chained Hearts, "Chapter 24: Unraveling the Lies"

Terry: "Shinji, what do you think you're doing?"
Shinji: "I'm moving back to Misato's."
Terry: "Why?"
Shinji: "I don't know if it matters to you but Asuka just tried to kill herself. Someone needs to be there to watch her, to make sure that she stays safe."
Terry: "Just wait until Misato hears about this."
Shinji: (hissing) "You will say absolutely nothing to Misato!"
Terry: "Are you insane, Ikari? She just tried to kill herself! What if an Angel was to attack tomorrow? Do you really want her in an Eva?"
Shinji: "You're unfit to pilot for exactly the same reason! You wouldn't have grabbed Asuka's hand if she hadn't been about to pull me over too. You would've let her die. If an Angel attacked right now, I would rather have her by my side than you, because I know that my life holds some value to her!"

Alex: Thanks a lot, dad! Because of what you did, my girlfriend is traumatized!
Devan: Oh, she's your official girlfriend now! That's so sweet!
Susan: Don't change the subject! Accusing our neighbor of being evil is one thing, but you let him fall to his death! Do you have any idea how that makes you look? I don't even want to think about what would have happened if Lucy hadn't come to his rescue!
Devan: Well... at least now I know that nobody is brainwashed... right?
Alex: Yeah, and all it took for you to realize it was to almost kill a man!
Devan: Alex, Susan, this is not what I wanted at all.
Susan: Well, what did you want, Devan?
Devan: What I've always wanted, to protect you... protect everyone from... what I thought was a criminal mastermind.
Alex: Well, you didn't do a very good job at it.
Susan: First, you attack Gru after just meeting him. Then, you accuse him of things he didn't do, and even recorded false evidence just to put him in jail. Then, you threatened to have child services take his daughters away! And now this! I can't even remember the last time you did any hero work! I mean, where were you when Hypno-Joe tried to make me his wife again?!
Devan: He used a giant boot to—
Susan: I don't want to hear any of your excuses, because nothing could justify the damage you caused!
Alex: Now I'm gonna be known as "that kid whose superhero dad went psycho".
Devan: I'm... I'm sorry.
Susan: Don't apologize to us! Apologize to our neighbors! They're the ones you hurt the most!
Devan: I tried, remember? But they don't want to talk to me.
Alex: Gee, I wonder why.
Susan: Those girls were being serious when they said you weren't their hero anymore. I don't think you're anyone's hero anymore, frankly.

Izuku: “Yeah, you’re right, I nearly did die at the USJ because you weren’t there. And the injuries I got? They were from a quirk that could kill anyone. Quirked or no. Not to mention, I went down swinging, and stabbed Shigaraki as I fell. I actually fought at the USJ, All Might. And where were you? Let me put this into perspective for you, Toshinori. I have spent the last 11 years of my life being told that I won’t amount to a damn thing because I can’t use telekinesis, and I’m not belching fire. But you want to know what I did? I kept fighting. I created one of the most intricate and respected vigilante organizations of all time. I kept 20 preteens alive, safe, and fed, when all we had to our names was an abandoned warehouse. I got all 20 of those kids a chance in the UA Hero Course. I did every last bit of this with not a quirk to my name, and I will be damned, before I take your advice. And if your teaching is filtered through this much prejudice? Then it may be time to hang up that cape. Because it sure as hell is not heroic."

Donnie: H-How could you?
Mikey: How could we not? A monkey? I mean, come on! That's funny stuff!
Donnie: Stop it! Just! Stop! It! After all the times I've helped you when you were hurt or sick, this is how you repay me? By laughing at me when I'm injured? Have I ever made fun of any of you when you were injured?
[they shake their heads]
Donnie: Not once! Not when Leo tripped and fell shell over tea kettle down that fire escape and cut his head open, or when Raph accidentally stuck himself in the leg with his sai, or when Mikey sliced his finger open when trying to 'cut the cheese' with a pair of scissors! I don't ever remember laughing at you. What I do remember is taking care of you and trying to making you feel better! Not make you feel worse!
Leo: Donnie, we're -
Donnie: You're my brothers! Why would you treat me like that? Is it because you don't care, or is it because I've always been a joke to you?
TMNT Shell Shots, "Chapter 11: The Best Medicine"

"Sunny… Sunny's still recovering from the fight with Basil," Hero said, sparing a glance at the still unconscious boy. "He might have a concussion, or maybe he's still delirious from whatever medication they put him on."
"Maybe!?" Aubrey snapped.
Her yell made Sunny back up further away. She cast him a sad, apologetic look before turning back to Hero. "You think that's fake?" She asked, in a milder tone.
Truth, after Sunny confesses to his molestation by Mari

    Films — Animation 

"So... I guess this is how it ends, huh? Fine, you win. You're wiping out an entire civilization, but hey....you'll be rich. Congratulations, Audrey; looks like you and your dad can probably start that second garage after all. And Vinny, you can start a whole chain of flower shops. I'm sure your family's gonna be very proud. But that's what it's all about, right? Money."

All I ever wanted to do was be a part of your team. Bringing the mail and supplies is all about helping everyone. And now when somebody really needs our help, we're sitting on our butts! If this is what it means to be a mail dog... I'm not sure this is what I want to be.
Kodi, Balto 3: Wings Of Change

Chase: I'll be fine. I, I just need...
Ryder: You're not fine. You need to take a break. We'll take care of the recuses for a while.
Chase: What? No, that's not fair.
Ryder: I'm sorry, Chase. I know it's hard, but it's the way it's got to be.
(A heartbroken Chase backs away from Ryder)
Chase: (angrily) I didn't even want to come to Adventure City! I trusted you! You said everything would be fine, but it's not! What kind of leader gives up on someone the second things get hard?
(Ryder's feelings get hurt after hearing these words)
Ryder: Chase...(Chase runs away) Chase, wait!

Nick: I think you said plenty.
Judy: What do you mean?
Nick: [saddened] "Clearly there's a biological component"? "That these predators may be reverting back to their primitive savage ways"? Are you serious?
Judy: I just stated the facts of the case! I mean, it's not like a bunny can go savage.
Nick: Right. But a fox could, huh?
Judy: Nick, stop it! You're not like them.
Nick: [getting angered] Oh, so there's a them now?
Judy: You know what I mean! You're not that kind of predator.
Nick: The kind that needs to be muzzled? The kind that makes you believe that you need to carry around fox repellent? Yeah, don't think I didn't notice that little item on the first time we met. So l-let me ask you a question: Are you afraid of me? You think I might go savage? You think that I might try to... [jumps forward] EAT YOU? [Judy jumps back and puts her hand over the bottle of fox spray] I knew it. Just when I thought someone actually believed in me. Probably best if you don't have a predator as a partner. [gives Judy back the application she gave him for the ZPD, then leaves]

Applejack: What were you thinkin'?! I mean, stealin' their pearl?!
Twilight: [sighs] It was the only way to save Equestria!
Pinkie: Except it wasn't! The Queen was going to say yes! We did what you told us, and that's what made her realize we were ponies worth saving! [gasps] Unless… You didn't really want us to show her the best time ever! You just wanted us to distract her!!
Twilight: I never would have done it, but this isn't Equestria! We can't just dance around with con artists, make Rainbooms in the sky, and expect everything to work out! It's not enough! We are not enough!
Pinkie: No, Twilight! We stuck together! We were gonna get the help we needed! The only thing that stopped us was you!
Twilight: Well, I'm doing the best I can! It's all on me! I'm the one Tempest wants! I'm the last princess!
Pinkie: You're also the only one who doesn't trust her friends!!
Twilight: Well maybe I would have been better off without FRIENDS LIKE YOU!!!
[everypony, even Twilight herself, is frozen with shock; Pinkie lowers her head and begins to walk away]
Twilight: [mortified] Pinkie... I...
Pinkie: [sniffs] I just can't talk to you right now.
[the others follow Pinkie, wearing expressions of sorrow and disgust, leaving Twilight and Spike all alone]

Spots: [to Atari] I've become the leader of a tribe of outcasts who depend on me for their survival... and I'm going to be a father. With deepest sadness and humility, I must ask you to relieve me of the duties of my position, effective immediately.
Chief: You son of a bitch! If we don't drown, I'm gonna strangle you myself. I don't care how many exploding teeth you try to spit out at me. Do you have any idea what that little pilot just went through to try to rescue you?! How dare you?!

The Flash: I just wanted to save her.
Professor Zoom: Her hero; how noble. Oh, wait! You didn't stop JFK from getting assassinated or make sure Hitler stayed in art school. You saved your mommy. You missed her. And in a supreme act of selfishness shattered history like a rank amateur, turned the world into a living hell moments away from destruction and *I'm* the villain?

Angie: Just tell me, Oscar, 'cause I'm curious. Why do you think Lola's interested, huh? Do you honestly think, for one minute, that she'd even be with you if you weren't the rich and famous Sharkslayer?! Are you that blind?
Oscar: At least she treats me like I'm somebody!
Angie: Yeah, but would she love you if you were nobody?!
Oscar: NOBODY LOVED ME WHEN I WAS NOBODY!
Angie: I DID! (Oscar stares at her speechless; Angie turns away) Before the money...and before the fame...before the lie. To me, you were a somebody, Oscar. But now you're nothing...but a fake. A sham. A con. You're a joke.
(Oscar is deeply hurt by her words)
Oscar: Angie, I—
Angie: (on the verge of tears) No, forget it! Just go! I'm tired of hearing how everything you had in your life wasn't good enough—including me.
(Oscar lowers his head in despair and sadly swims out of the warehouse, while Angie weeps.)

    Films — Live-Action 
YOU ARE WRONG! ALL OF YOU ARE WRONG! To turn your backs on the rest of the world! We let the fear of discovery stop us from doing what is right. No more! I cannot stay here with you. I cannot rest while he sits on the throne. He is a monster of our own making. I must take the mantle back. I must! I must right these wrongs.
T'Challa, Black Panther (2018)

Congratulations, Cap. You're a criminal.

Rachel: Alfred, why is he letting Harvey do this?
Alfred: He went down to the press conference.
Rachel: I know, and he just stood by!
Alfred: Perhaps both Bruce and Mr.Dent believe that Batman stands for something more important than the whims of a terrorist, Miss Dawes, even if everyone hates him for it. That's the sacrifice he's making. He is not being a hero: he's being something more.
Rachel: Yeah, you're absolutely right. Letting Harvey take the fall for this isn't heroic at all.

I wanted to see what you'd do. And you didn't disappoint… You let five people die. Then, you let Dent take your place. Now, even to a guy like me, that's cold…
The Joker, The Dark Knight

Luca: Hey! What're you lookin' at?
Garfield: Nothing. Just lookin' for some company?
Nermal: (also angrily) Keep walkin', creepo.
Garfield: What's going on?
Arlene: We know how much you hated Odie! We know how much you wanted him gone!
Garfield: Wait a minute. All I wanted was to sleep in my own bed!
Arlene: And to do it, you cast Odie out into the cold, cruel world?!
Nermal: We saw you lock Odie outside last night!
Garfield: Oh, I don't believe you guys! I didn't know he was gonna run away! He's a dumb dog! No offense, Luca.
Luca: Uh...what?
Garfield: You can't blame me for that!
Nermal: Any one of us could be next!
Arlene: Yeah. There's no room for anybody else in Garfield's world.
(Nermal, Arlene and Luca all turn their backs on Garfield and leave.)
Garfield: What? Well, that's a little melodramatic. Well, I may've been a little tough about protecting my turf, but, um... I don't hate the guy.

Dr. Stanton: His vitals are fading. Radiation levels plummeting. (Come on, big guy, fight it!)
[Godzilla flatlines]
Dr. Stanton: [beat] He's gone.
Dr. Serizawa: Looks like you got your wish, Mark(!)
Mark Russell: ...
Ishirō Serizawa to Mark Russell, Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)

Rocket: Quill just got himself captured. None of this would have happened if you didn't try to single-handedly take on a freakin' army!
Drax: You're right. I was a fool. All the anger... all the rage... was just to cover my loss.
Rocket: Oh boo hoo hoo, my wife and child are dead!
(Groot gasps in shock)
Rocket: I don't care if it's mean! Everybody's got dead people! That's no excuse to get everybody else dead along the way!

"You don't tell a boy who's been left behind at Christmas that you're aching to cut him loose. That nobody wants him. What the fuck is wrong with you?"
Mary, The Holdovers

Will Turner: You left Jack for the Kraken.
Elizabeth Swann: I had no choice.
Will: You chose not to tell me. (turns to walk away)
Elizabeth: Will, I couldn't have told you. It wasn't your burden to bear.
Will: I did bear it, though, didn't I? For a time... I thought...
Elizabeth: You thought I loved him. (tries to walk away herself)
Will: (stopping her) If you make your choices alone, how can I trust you?
Elizabeth: You can't.

Timmy: You mean to tell me that you went home and swiped a ball that was signed by Babe Ruth, and you put it out here and actually played with it?
Tommy: And actually played with it?
Smalls: Yeah! Yeah, but I was gonna bring it back!
Squints: But it was signed by Babe Ruth!
Smalls: Yeah, you keep telling me that! Who is she!?
(the others just react with disbelief)
Ham: What?! What?!
Kenny: The Sultan of Swat!
Bertram: The King of Crash!
Timmy: The Colossus of Clout!
Tommy: The Colossus of Clout!
All: BABE RUTH!
Ham: THE GREAT BAMBINO!
Smalls: Oh my god! You mean that's the same guy?!
All: YES!
Benny: Smalls, Babe Ruth is the greatest baseball player that ever lived! I mean, people say he was less than a god, but more than a man! You know, like Hercules or something! That ball you just aced to the beast is worth... well, more than your whole life, man.

"I'm sorry... Are you telling me that you didn't even think to plead your case with them [M.I.T.] first before you asked me to brainwash the entire world?"
Doctor Strange to Peter Parker after the mass-amnesia spell goes haywire, Spider-Man: No Way Home

Lily: You son of a bitch.
Picard: This really isn't the time.
Lily: Okay. I don't know jack about the 24th century, but everybody out there thinks that staying here and fighting the Borg is suicide. They're just afraid to come in here and say it.
Picard: The crew is accustomed to following my orders.
Lily: They're probably accustomed to your orders making sense.
Picard: None of them understand the Borg as I do. ...No one does. No one can.
Lily: What is that supposed to mean?
Picard: Six years ago, they assimilated me into their collective. I had their cybernetic devices implanted throughout my body. I was linked to the hive mind, every trace of individuality erased. I was one of them. So you can imagine, my dear, I have a somewhat unique perspective on the Borg and I know how to fight them. Now if you will excuse me I have work to do.
Picard: In my century we don't succumb to revenge. We have a more evolved sensibility.
Lily: Bullshit! I saw the look on your face when you shot those Borg on the holodeck. You were almost enjoying it!
Picard: (softly) How dare you!
Lily: Oh, come on, Captain. You're not the first man to get a thrill from murdering someone. I see it all the time.
Picard: (shouting) Get Out!
Lily: Or what? You'll kill me, like you killed Ensign Lynch?
Lily: You didn't even try! Where was your "evolved sensibility" then!?
Picard: I don't have time for this.
Lily: Oh! Hey! I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt your little quest. Captain Ahab has to go hunt his whale.
Picard: What?
Lily: You do have books in the 24th century?
Picard: This is not about revenge.
Lily: Liar!
Picard: This is about saving the future of humanity!
(Picard smashes the starship display cabinet with his phaser rifle)

Obi-Wan: Yes, but use your feelings, Anakin. Something is out of place.
Anakin: You're asking me to do something against the Jedi Code. Against the Republic. Against a mentor... and a friend. That's what's out of place here! Why are you asking this of me?

You were The Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the Sith, not join them! Bring balance to the Force, not leave it in darkness!
Obi-Wan Kenobi to Anakin Skywalker, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Luke: Master Yoda... is Darth Vader my father?
Yoda: Rest I need. Yes... rest.
Luke: Yoda, I must know.
Yoda: Your father he is. Told you, did he?
Luke: Yes.
Yoda: Unexpected this is... and unfortunate.
Luke: Unfortunate that I know the truth?
Yoda: No. Unfortunate that you rushed to face him. That incomplete was your training. That not ready for the burden were you.

Luke: Why didn't you tell me? You told me Vader betrayed and murdered my father.
Obi-Wan: Your father was seduced by The Dark Side of the Force. He ceased to be Anakin Skywalker and became Darth Vader. When that happened, the good man that was your father was destroyed, so what I told you was true, from a certain point of view.
Luke: A certain point of view!?
Obi-Wan: Luke, you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

Thor... Odinson. You have betrayed the express command of your king. Through your arrogance and stupidity, you have opened these peaceful realms and innocent lives to the horror and desolation of WAR! You are... unworthy of these realms! Unworthy of your title! You are unworthy... of the loved ones you have betrayed. [...] I now take from you your power! In the name of my father, and his father before him, I, Odin Allfather, CAST YOU OUT!
Odin, Thor

Great. The good ol' "Raped While Dying" route home. Cause if there was two seconds in a day when I didn't think about her, and wasn't thinking about how she died... "There ya go, Robbie. Think about it some more, why don’t ya?" It’s good, too. That as much as a person might've tried to avoid the details of what happened, cause he didn’t think it'd do any good, and he didn't think he could bear it, it’s also good to be informed, in twenty-foot-high lettering and a real nice font, the precise details of her last moments, y’know? That it wasn’t enough that she was RAPED. And it wasn’t enough that she DIED. No. "Raped WHILE Dying". Thank you, Mom.

Erik: How did you lose them?
Charles: The treatment for my spine affects my DNA.
Erik: You've sacrificed your powers so you could walk?
Charles: I sacrificed my powers so that I could sleep. What do you know about it?
Erik: I've lost my fair share.
Charles: Ha. Dry your eyes Erik. Doesn't justify what you've done.
Erik: You have no idea what I've done.
Charles: I know that you took the things that meaned the most to me.
Erik: Well maybe you should have fought harder for them.
Charles: You want a fight Erik, I will give you a fight! YOU ABANDONED ME! You took her away, and you've abandoned me!
Erik: Angel, Azazel, Emma, Banshee. Mutant brothers and sisters: all dead! Countless others: experimented on. Butchered! WHERE WERE YOU, CHARLES?! We were supposed to protect them! Where were you when you're own people needed you? Hiding! You and Hank. Pretending to be something you're not! You. Abandoned. Us. All!

    Literature 
Jake: What?
Erek: I was offering you my opinion of your morals and your ethics and your sense of decency. I was speaking an ancient Mesopotamian dialect known for its wide variety of curse words.
Animorphs #53

Heartless it may be, but headless it ain't. I've never claimed to be nice, just to be sensible. No need to look like that.
Granny Weatherwax after simultaneously rescuing an injured teenage girl and using her as a human shield, Lords and Ladies

Clockblocker: What I don't get is, why? Was the data from that computer really so important?
Skitter: Coil needed it, and I needed Coil happy. Either he'd like my work enough to free her on my request or he'd trust me enough that I could catch him off guard and help her escape some other way.
Clockblocker: I'm sure Dinah would be thrilled to hear that. Some other girl's life ruined for her sake. How does a supervillain warlord react to that sort of news, by the way? Finding out a heroine tried to hang herself? Do you sit in your swivel chair, stroking your tarantula and pull off your best maniacal laugh? One more enemy out of the way?
Skitter: I didn't know. Not until you told me what happened to her.
Clockblocker: That seems to be a recurring theme. You do stuff, you have reasons, like your apparent feeling that, oh, it's okay because she was a violent personality, but you don't pay attention to the ending, to everything that comes after. A whole lot of people have been screwed up and hurt in your wake, Skitter.
Worm

You never learned to ask for help when you needed it. I mean, you ask when you approach other groups, and it’s like you’re holding a gun to their heads as you ask, or you ask at a time when it’s hard for them to say no, because all hell’s about to break loose. Yeah, you asked Panacea. You asked me to play along and arrange stuff, when you went to go turn yourself in. Your handling of the school thing… well, I don’t want to get into a pattern and start cutting too deep. Let’s just say you make a decision by yourself, and then you use others to get help carrying it out. That’s not really you asking for help, is it? While I’m saying all this, kiddo, you gotta know I love you. I adore you, warts and all. You saved me, as much as I like to think I saved you. All this stuff I’m bitching about, it’s the same stuff that got us through some pretty hairy shit, and I love you for it as much as I groan about it. You’re brilliant and you’re reckless and you care too much about people in general when I really wish you’d leave things well enough alone and be selfish. But this? Shit. You gotta forgive me, just this once. Because seeing this and knowing what you pulled hurts enough that I gotta say this. This makes me feel really sorry for your dad, because I’m starting to get a sense of what you put him through.
Tattletale, Worm

John Dos Passos: The question I keep putting to myself is what’s the use of fighting a war for civil liberties, if you destroy civil liberties in the process?
Ernest Hemingway: Civil liberties, shit. Are you with us or are you against us?
The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the murder of José Robles.

You people are a bunch of pissing plonkers, you know that? Not trying to be offensive or anything, but I mean, you are genuinely fuckwitted. This is not the end of the world. It's after that. Like, you guys have fucking lost already. You were meant to stop this from ever happening, and you bloody didn't. And now you finally have an arse-crack-thin chance of fixing all this shit, and rather than take it, you're going to argue about how trustworthy one of the five allies you have in the entire world is? I mean, seriously, what the fuck are you all waiting for? A fucking written invitation?
Winston, Anti-Hero, by Jonathan Wood

Simony: You're saying I'm like him?
Urn: Once you said you'd cut him down. Now you're thinking like him!

    Live-Action TV 
You want me to find the son I've never been there for and ruin the life he's built. Ask him to go back to the Hell he grew up in because of me. For some wild goose chase. Something that's not even possible. Here I was ashamed to see you.
Angel to Willow Rosenberg, Angel & Faith, "Family Reunion, Part 1"

Monitor: Everyone has a part to play, even Lex Luthor.
Kara: You did this? You brought that... poisonous snake back?
Monitor: His destiny was unfulfilled. Lex Luthor still has an important role to play.
Kara: So you can revive him, but you can't bring back Oliver?
Monitor: I restored Luthor long before the Crisis caused my power to wane.
Kara: And what about those innocent lives on Earth-38? Did they not have destinies to fulfill? I'm sorry, but I can't trust a man who thinks Lex Luthor is an ally.

Joan Redfern: Answer me this. Just one question, that's all. If the Doctor had never visited us, if he'd never chosen this place — on a whim — would anyone here have died?
The Doctor: ...
Joan Redfern: You can go.

This is wrong, Doctor. I don't care who you are. The Time Lord Victorious is wrong.
Adelaide Brooke, Doctor Who, "The Waters of Mars"

Scorpius: We had a deal. I help you rescue Aeryn Sun from the Scarrans, you give me wormholes. But obviously you betrayed our contract, yes? You had no intention of returning for my rescue, did you? You see, if my Neural Clone has returned, it is only because you have betrayed me.
Crichton: You're saying Harvey's back because of me?
Scorpius: You should honor your contracts, John.
Farscape, "La Bomba"

Barry: You used him as a distraction?!
Dr. Wells: A necessary one, it turns out, as it seems your plan has failed.
Barry: I—I have his blood on me! How could you do that?
Dr. Wells: You show a lot of sentiment for a man who tortured you as a child.
Barry: Tony might have been a bully then and now, but he didn't deserve to die!
Dr. Wells: Like Caitlin, or Cisco, or you, or me? I had a choice to make, him or us. I chose us without a second thought.
Barry: For all your talk about miracle cures and scientific breakthrough, you don't care about people at all!
Dr. Wells: Maybe you care too much, Barry. I know being a hero is important to you, and I respect your ideals; I just don't have the luxury of sharing them.
Barry: I forgot. Your game's chess. We're all just pawns to you, right? So what's your move, doctor? Which one of us gets sacrificed next?

Passenger: I-I'm sorry, can I interrupt? Yeah, I just want to say that you... are a horrible, horrible person!
Rachel: P-pardon me?
Passenger: You say you love this man, yet you’re about to ruin the happiest day of his life. I’m afraid I have to agree with you friend "Pheebs". This is a- this is a terrible, terrible plan.
Rachel: But he has to know how I feel!
Passenger: But why? He loves this- this Emily person. No good can come of this.
Rachel: ...Well I-I think you're wrong.
Passenger: Oh no! ...And by the way, it seems to be perfectly clear that you were on a break.
Friends, "The One with Ross's Wedding - Part 2"

I'm a solo guy by nature, but I choose to affiliate with the both of you. Reason being, when you spend your time chasing bad guys, you want the best of the good guys in your corner. You two normally are as solid as they come because your moral compasses are always pointed at "do the right thing." But clearly someone's been screwing with both your magnetic fields, so I'm gonna help both of you out by personally escorting and physically escorting both of your asses out of these premises.
Emerson Codd, Pushing Daisies

Captain Picard: Cadet, I asked you a question. Am I correct?
Wesley Crusher: I choose not to answer, sir.
Picard: You choose not to answer? (Beat) But you've already given an answer to the inquiry. That answer was a lie.
Wesley: I said the accident occurred after the loop. It did.
Picard: You told the truth up to a point, but a lie of omission is still a lie. [...] The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth! Whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth. It is the guiding principle upon which Starfleet is based, and if you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!
Star Trek: The Next Generation, "The First Duty"

Captain Archer: We can debate this all day. I've made my decision.
T'Pol: "We can't save humanity without holding onto what makes us human." Those were your words to me.
Archer: I'm no happier doing this than you. But we won't be making a habit of it.
T'Pol: Once you rationalize the first misstep, it's easy to fall into a pattern of behaviour!
Archer: "Rationalize?" I'm not rationalizing anything. I know full well what I'm doing!
T'Pol: I can't justify this course of action.
Archer: We don't have a choice-
T'Pol: I WON'T LET YOU DO IT!
Star Trek: Enterprise, "Damage"

Burnham: Is this how Starfleet wins the war? Genocide?
Cornwell: You wanna do this here? Fine. Terms of atrocity are convenient after the fact. The Klingons are on the verge of wiping out the Federation.
Burnham: Yes, but ask yourself, why did you put this mission in the hands of a Terran, and why the secrecy? Because you know it's not who we are.
Cornwell: It very soon will be. We do not have the luxury of principles.
Burnham: That is all we have, Admiral! [Beat] A year ago, I stood alone. I believed that our survival was more important than our principles. I was wrong. Do we need a mutiny today to prove who we are?
Star Trek: Discovery, "Will You Take My Hand?"

Owokesun: Are those mines?
Cornwell: They are.
Saru: The Federation does not permit the use of mines!
Pike: No. No, they do not.
Cornwell: The Federation didn't build them.
Pike: I'd call that a Distinction Without a Difference.
Cornwell: We were under attack by Klingon warships with cloaking abilities. Sometimes in war, a terrible choice is the only choice.
Pike: Giving up our values in the name of security is to lose the battle in advance. I'm curious; did you sideline the Enterprise because you knew I'd never stop reminding you of that?
Cornwell: You sat out the war because if we'd lost to the Klingons, we wanted the best of Starfleet to survive. As this conversation makes clear, that was you and all you represent.
Star Trek: Discovery, "Project Daedalus"

ENOUGH! This house was attacked! We barely got out with our lives. And Grace... she wasn't so lucky. Your brother is missing, and this is how you rise to the occasion? Take your nonsense elsewhere — now.
Pogo, in response to Luther and Diego's latest argument, The Umbrella Academy (2019), "Man On The Moon"

My morality is being judged by Dean Winchester? How many people have suffered and died because they believed in you? How many times have you lied to Sam, including, oh by the way, when he was possessed by an angel? And you say, 'oh well it's all for the greater good', but lately, buddy, that greater good thing went away, didn't it? Now people die because you want them to! And then Kevin's death? All on you: you put him in harm's way and kept him there. Gadreel possessing Sam; who was it who tricked Sam into letting him in? And then my personal favorite: Dean Winchester — whose entire existence is defined by a war on the dark and monstrous, bromancing his way around the country with the King of Hell!
Metatron, Supernatural

YOU IDIOT! What kind of a fight was that!? Just look around you!
(Cut to the scenes of collateral damage of the city as a result of Mebius' battle with Dinozaur)
You call yourself Ultraman!? You didn't protect a damn thing!
Ryu Aihara calling out Ultraman Mebius for his sloppy performance during his fight with Dinozaur, Ultraman Mebius, "A Fateful Encounter"

    Myths & Religion 
Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, "Let me take the speck out of your eye," when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
The Bible (New International Version), Matthew 7:5

If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
The Bible (New International Version), Matthew 18:15-17

You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.
The Bible (New International Version), Romans 2:1

    Roleplay 
Let me preface this by saying that as a person, I respect you. You stuck to your guns and refused to play ball when life cheated you. But as a soldier? You're a disgrace to the uniform. There are people out there who have died, that would not have died if you were there to save them. People just like your friends in Rainbow. When you're hunting on a black op? Yeah. It's about stopping the bad guy. But when you're fighting a war, it isn't about the enemy you're fighting. It's about the people you're fighting with, and their safety. You elevate it above yours, no matter what. Period. End of sentence. Now, do us all a favor, and get the fuck out of my sight before I decide putting a bullet between your eyes isn't just my orders, but a favor to the world!

    Tabletop Games 
Stop thinking like an artificer, Urza, and start thinking like a father!
Rayne, Academy Chancellor, Magic: The Gathering, "Urza's Incubator"

    Theater 
You blamed your brother for eating the donut and now you walk out on your mission companion?! You're a DICK!
Jesus to Elder Price, The Book of Mormon, "Spooky Mormon Hell Dream"

    Video Games 
You've made a huge mistake. There's no getting around a penalty for this.

You are amusing, in a "what the hell is wrong with you?" kind of way.
Jaheira, Baldur's Gate

You ate the wall? Are you insane?!
Trill, Baten Kaitos

I'm going to take my time, Batman... after all, you took yours...
Victor Zsasz in a game over sequence if you fail one of his missions, Batman: Arkham City

In restoring your will, Eleanor was asking you how to behave... and how did you use it? To prey upon the innocent. Now look at her. You have fathered a killer.
Sofia Lamb, in the evil ending, Bioshock 2

In case you fail to realise... the things you hunt. They're not beasts. They're people. You're not hunting beasts. It's you. You're the beast. Just think about what you're doing. It's utter madness. One day, you will see.
Djura, Bloodborne

And as for you, Commander... you're a disgrace to that uniform. Tens of millions dead and your entire force killed in action. I would court-martial you myself if I could, but unfortunately your friend Boyle has convinced the media you're a hero, so I can't touch you. But you'll still have to live with yourself. Good luck with that.
General Granger, should the player win the final mission by detonating a Liquid Tiberium Bomb, Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars

Frequently asked questions: Why can't I kill more than 50 people? Answer: The fuck is wrong with you? Please go see a therapist, you psycho.

"YOU MAKE ME SICK!! CRYING FOR YOUR [Lost Friends] NAMES AT THE BOTTOM OF A [Dumpster]! NO ONE'S GONNA HELP YOU!! GET THAT THROUGH YOUR [Beautiful Head], YOU LITTLE [Worm]!"
Spamton NEO on the Weird Route, Deltarune

... Kris...?
Kris!?
KRIS!?!?!?
YOU FILLED YOUR [Inventorium] WITH [Half-Pr1ce Sallamy] JUST TO KEEP ME OUT!?
WHAT!
THE!
[Fifty Percent Off]!?
YOU CAN CARRY LIKE 48 ITEMS!
[Why] DID YOU DO THIS!?
WHY!? [Y]!? [Yellow]!? [Gamma]!?
NOT [Cool] KRIS!
I'LL BE IN MY [Trailer]!
Spamton, Deltarune

Did she(Amita) send you, brother? Did you volunteer? What do you think you are doing? You shit on everything your father built. Congratulations. Everything that meant something is now irrelevant thanks to you. And what's truly sad, brother, you handed over everything to Amita... to Amita! You think she can fix Kyrat? How? Drug fields as far as the eye can see? Suicide nets in factory towns where men, women and children are free to be poor? It's a land of equal opportunity where everyone's a slave. (Beat) Do you think this is the country your mother wanted her ashes to be scattered in? So what's it going to be, brother?
Sabal, if you agree to assassinate him for Amita, Far Cry 4 note 

Sayla: Looking for Udam?
Takkar: Where is Dah?
Sayla: Udam kill many Wenja. But you bring Udam beast into our home! (swings her club at Takkar)
Takkar: (blocking Sayla's club with one hand) Dah brings us rot bane, helps make Wenja strong!
Sayla: NO!! Udam bring only screams!! (lowers her voice, full of Tranquil Fury) Wenja take Udam to forest. Go watch it drown. (throws down her club and walks away)

Alm: Grandfather, what the hell is going on? What are you doing here? Rudolf said I was his son, and now all these people are calling me a prince!
Mycen: It's only natural that you're feeling confused. But there is no denying fact — you are the only son of Emperor Rudolf. Scion of the Rigelian imperial bloodline, and true heir to Rigel's throne.
Alm: ...How could you? You knew all this time, and you kept it from me... You KNEW, and you still sent me off to kill my own father!

Kyle: What the hell was goin' through your head earlier, Malt!? Were you really trying to get those people caught up in all this!?
Malt: We couldn't just let him get away, could we? No… he took Hanna away from us! Don't you hate him? Don't you want to make him suffer!?
Kyle: Of course I hate that bastard! Maybe even more than you! But that doesn't mean… We can't just let innocent people get hurt!

Shimura: You have no honor.
Jin: And you are a slave to it.

That woman was a saint and a shoe-in for a Double-N ticket that she's not going to get because YOU... just couldn't find it! And now, because of your little stunt, she's out there, on her own, walking by herself through the Petrified Forest, facing the demons of the underworld alone and unprotected. This is her reward after a lifetime of hardship and public service? Her destiny stolen by some overreaching salesman looking for a fat commission he didn't deserve!
Don Copal, Grim Fandango

Atreus: There was a wolf, in Hel. He was in chains, and... and I set him free. I thought that if
Mimir: Garm?! Great bleedin' fuck, lad, you freed Garm?!
Tyr: Garm? Who freed Garm? That's madness! Surely not you, young one...?
Freya: If the Hound of Hel is loose, he'll chew through the fabric of the realms. Hel-Walkers are just the beginning! What were you thinking?!
Mimir: Aye! This is a fuck-up of not insignificant proportions!

I helped you escape, and you just...left me.
—Ellie to Henry after he fled the Wall without her, despite her help, Henry Stickmin Series

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!
Pumm after Link smashes a chandelier for a Piece of Heart, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Do you take pleasure from committing genocide, Shepard?! note 
Councillor Sparatus, Mass Effect

We remembered you and were waiting. We could remember all the thoughts of our race... And you killed everyone! And now, I'm alone...
The Little Dark One, Metro: Last Light

Zuke: (after disowning DK West as his brother) Yeah, that's right! You better leave!
Mayday: Jeez, Zuke!
Zuke: What?!
Mayday: "You're no brother"? (sighs) Can you get any more emo than that?
Zuke: Hey, look, I tried to be nice, okay? I've looked up to him all life and for no reason, he treats me like garbage. Who do you think has been trying to reach out to him all year? All! Year! Long! And now he just pops in from God knows where, and he still has the gall to say that all this is my fault?! Argh!
Mayday: Uh-huh. You keep this up, and it'll definitely be your fault, Zuke.

Stop right there, you impostor. I must say that I had placed the blindest of confidences, the solidest of hopes and the most sincere belief in you. We can well say that I have erred to the bones. But the real betrayer is rather the one who lies beyond the eye of the cat. What have you done? Is the opaque mist of the sceneristic frame really your excuse for killing wife and child? You have not purified this place. You have destroyed, eradicated it. You have immersed it into a pristine nothingness.
The Judge confronting the Batter and player, OFF

Antonio: Good evening, Commander Reyes...How will this look on the news? Overwatch unlawfully abducting a respected businessman? Even if you take me now, my friends would have me released within the week. All these...theatrics...have been a waste of our time.
(Beat)
Reyes: You're right.
(Reyes draws his gun and shoots Antonio, setting off alarms throughout the complex)
Cassidy: Reyes, what did you do?! This was NOT the plan!
Reyes: Well, looks like we're going with Plan B.
Overwatch, "Retribution"

You use that move... and call yourself a hero of justice?
Brycen-Man if the player uses the move Thief in the Brycen-Man Strikes Back 2 movie, Pokémon Black 2 and White 2

You break into my home, steal away my child, kill my servant Toby, and then return to kill me? After I befriended you and helped you? Some hero you are!
Katrina, Quest for Glory IV

[John Marston carries the lifeless body of Javier Escuella to the authorities at the bridge]
Edgar Ross: Mr. Marston! Fancy seeing you down here. [looks at John carrying Javier's corpse] Well, it is a pleasant surprise, I must say.
Archer Fordham: [gets disappointed at seeing the corpse] He's not looking very... healthy. We told you to keep them alive.
John Marston: [glowers at the agents] You should be glad to have him at all.
Archer Fordham: [opens the door of their car] Just remember your obligations to the Government, Mr. Marston. [John throws Javier's body to the back of the car]
— The ending of "The Gates of El Presidio" if the player kills Javier Escuella, Red Dead Redemption

The Boss: A fucking tiger?! note 
Angel de la Muerte: If you're fighting the Luchadores, you need to be ready for anything.
The Boss: A FUCKING TIGER?!
Angel: Don't lose the message in the method. You mastered your fear.
The Boss: What the fuck is wrong with you?!

Lugo: This is your fault, goddammit!
Adams: Stop right there, Lugo!
Lugo: He wouldn't listen!
Adams: We didn't have a choice!
Lugo: HE TURNED US INTO FUCKING KILLERS!!

Konrad: You were never meant to come here.
Walker: What happened here was out of my control...
Konrad: Was it? None of this would've happened if you'd just stopped. But on you marched. And for what?
Walker: We tried to save you...
Konrad: You're no savior. Your talents lie elsewhere.
Walker: This isn't my fault.
Konrad: It takes a strong man to deny what's right in front of him. And if the truth is undeniable, you create your own. The truth, Walker, is that you're here because you wanted to feel like something you're not: a hero. I'm here because you can't accept what you've done. It broke you. You needed someone to blame, so you cast it on me, a dead man. I know the truth is hard to hear, Walker, but it's time. You're all that's left, and we can't live this lie forever.

Amazing Spider-Man: Oh, no.
Spider-Man 2099: What's wrong?
Amazing Spider-Man: It's Mary Jane! She dies! Tonight! Right there at Alchemax!
Spider-Man 2099: How do you know— for shock's sake, Parker, what part of "don't poke around in the archives" was unclear?
Amazing Spider-Man: Fine, I'm a nosy Parker! But now that I've found out, it's—
Spider-Man 2099: It's what? My job to save her!? I've got enough to deal with!
Amazing Spider-Man: You can't mean that! You can't just ignore that she's in danger!
Spider-Man 2099: Hey, I'm trying to focus on what's important.
Amazing Spider-Man: What's important is not standing by and allowing someone to suffer or die because you do nothing! If you don't get that, then you don't get the first thing about being Spider-Man.
Spider-Man 2099: You're the one who doesn't get it, Parker! The future depends on—
Amazing Spider-Man: My future is meaningless without her!

Raynor: No...
Kerrigan: I had to get you out...
Raynor: What have you done?
Kerrigan: What I had to.
Raynor: Tell that to Fenix. Tell it to the millions you butchered!
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, when Raynor finds out Kerrigan re-infested herself.

Nadine: What the hell was that back there?!
Chloe: Messy, but effective.
Nadine: You were going to sell me out, weren't you?
Chloe: It's called improvising. God, who's being unprofessional now?
Nadine: The hell is that supposed to mean?!
Chloe: It means you let Asav get the drop on us. I'm starting to wonder whether you're worth the fifty percent.
Nadine: I Knew It! You were going to sell me out! Guess a leopard can't change her spots.
Chloe: You know nothing about me.
Nadine: Fair warning: the last person who betrayed me wound up dead.
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. Chloe just tried betraying Nadine to Big Bad Asav.

Sans: if you have some sort of special power... isn't it your responsibility to do the right thing?
(player chooses "yes")
Sans: ah. i see. ... Then why'd you kill my brother?
(player chooses "no")
Sans: heh. well, that's your viewpoint. i won't judge you for it. ... You dirty brother killer.
— Dialogue options if you killed Papyrus during a Neutral Run, Undertale

"What is this?! His feather? What did you do to Cluckles?! I wanted you to take care of him, not kill him! You monster! Leave this place now, and keep that feather to remind you of your hideous crime!"
Nohno to the player who killed a chicken who they were asked to care for, Wynncraft

    Visual Novels 
Akane: You didn't think of stopping Zero's plan?
Carlos: If I did that... Then I couldn't have met you guys, right?
Junpei: That was one hell of a thing you did.
Carlos: Huh...?
Junpei: Do you know what happened because of you? Mira and Eric died. Sigma lost his arms and an eye and he's in the hospital!
Akane: That's not all. Zero said... "The first Radical-6 patients have left."
Junpei: It's... it's too late. We can't stop the spread of the virus.
Akane: What happened today is going to result in six billion people...

    Web Animation 
Carol: [turns to Boyfriend] And you! I'm surprised at you, The Boyfriend! Picking on someone who's just trying to live their life. You're no better than that "Daddy Dearest" you keep on fighting.
Boyfriend: (speaking very fast) But I just wanted to witness his unbeatable technique so that I could copy it and—
Carol: And let it destroy your life and career, too? Well, it's a good thing I was there to check in on him, or you very well might have.
Whitty FULL WEEK- with lyrics!, Friday Night Funkin' WITH LYRICS

I can't believe you said that! You let people die without feeling sorry?! YOU'RE HORRIBLE!
Nono, Pretty Blood

It was you who ended their lives
Made them to dig their own graves
With your dark, sick, cruel design
Convinced them their world could be saved

Have! You! No! Shame?
Signing them up for your war
Train them to fight what they can't beat
Your sins are what they'll pay for

Sacrifice them
For your needs
Slaughter is coming the end drawing near
You'll regret your deeds

General Ironwood: Good, you’re here. I need a squad of drones in standby to drop the payload.
Winter: (eyes widening) Sir, what for?
Ironwood: I believe I was clear in the broadcast. If they give me a reason, I’m gonna remove Mantle from the equation.
(everyone stares in shock)
Ironwood: This is how we save Atlas.
Marrow: You call this saving Atlas?! Doing Salem's job for her?! I believed in you! I thought we could work towards something better. But now you’re throwing it all away!
(Harriet grabs Marrow by the shoulder)
Harriet: If you don’t shut your mouth, I’m going to do it for you!
Vine: If this is what gets the children to cooperate, then it’s worth it.
Elm: I don’t like this either, but the top priority is-
Marrow: Do you even believe what you’re saying anymore?! Do any of you believe in anything?! I used to wear this rank with pride. Now, I see it for what it really is: a collar.

Hey! Stop destroying everything! C'mon, act like a damn hero!
Stan Lee to Superman, Bad Days episode #36

"You shot a baby into space, what is wrong with you?"

"OI! IDIOT!! We're all here to celebrate your best friend's day, and you're acting like THIS!?!"

    Webcomics 
Sarda: You are all selfish monsters who need to die for the good of everybody else.
Black Mage: Wait, even Fighter?
Sarda: Except Fighter.
Fighter: Yay!
Sarda: He's a casualty.
Black Mage: Yay!

Do you you remember the Piranha Plant you roasted in 5-1?
And were you there when his family received the news about their son?

Roy: We know the worm is attracted to the spice, and Belkar's body is saturated with the stuff. If we dangle him in front of what passes for its nose, it will move forward toward the source of the smell-
Durkon: An' carry us wit it!
Haley: Like a donkey with a carrot!
Belkar: Wait just a goddamn minute! Hasn't anyone considered how I might feel about this? About the danger this puts me in? Hasn't anyone weighed whether or not it's ethically acceptable to use me like- BWA HA HA HA HA HA! Oh, gods, I almost got through that with a straight face. Heh heh, man. Okay, dangle away.

Purple Alien: I have HAD IT UP TO MY EYESTALKS WITH YOU PEOPLE. "Are you going to help us? Because my friend is literally made of knives." "Hi there! Give me what I want or I'll STAB IT OUT OF YOU." Did either of you ever ONCE consider that OTHER PEOPLE have problems? Huh? Did you?
Red Alien: Well, if you don't want to help us—
Purple Alien: I do want to help you. But not because you're a jerk. And not because she's a nightmarish death machine. It's because I'm a parent too. And I do know who took your kids. And I'm gonna help you find them.

    Web Videos 
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! YOU SAID YOU WEREN'T GONNA KILL ANYBODY!!!
Ray to Ryan, Achievement Hunter Grand Theft Auto Series, "Ryan's Heist"

And nobody ever questioned Kirk's ability to command... except for maybe Bones... and Spock.
BFF Nella, The Nostalgia Chick

[laughs] He's a Holocaust survivor, Wasp. Go to Hell.

You smashed into the door. Are you serious? YOU'RE NOW PLAYING!
KSI to Deji, playing Erie

Oh my fucking god, you a fucking mod spamming fucking W! YOU DUMBASS FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!!!
IShowSpeed, reacting to fanart

Jay: Tim, listen, I—
[Tim punches Jay to the ground]
Tim: A STUDENT FILM, YOU LYING PIECE OF—?!
[Tim punches him again, knocking the camera out of Jay's hands]
Tim: So, after our little field trip, I couldn't shake this feeling that there was something funny about you. So, I do a search for Marble Hornets and you wanna know what I find?!
Jay: I was going to tell you tonight, Tim, I swear!
Tim: Oh, tonight? Tonight? Not last week whenever you dragged me to that hospital to chase after whoever that guy was? Huh?! Not three months ago whenever you followed me outside my own doctor's office?!
Jay: I had to be sure I could trust you. If you've seen the entries, can you blame me?
Tim: There's a lot of things I can blame you for right now, Jay!
Marble Hornets, Entry #59

Master Chief: wat is mattress?
Arbiter: What is "mattress?" I'll tell you what the fuck is "mattress", Chief. You had him. And you shoot the other guy?! What the hell's the matter with you?!
Master Chief: i tried 2 killed him butt Claire got him!1 / u s33n that, rite?
Arbiter: You had Adam in your sights and you didn't take the shot!
Master Chief: if i shotted adam, teh othar gai'd has shoted u! / our powar supplie w00d has goas bomb! / we only has teh 1 left!
Arbiter: But he'd be gone!
Master Chief: u dusnt knew that / eh knowed we waz cumming
Arbiter: We at least had a chance of taking him out! Now he's still out there! More people are gonna die! Because of you!
Master Chief: cuz of meh?
Arbiter: Yeah!
Master Chief: lol. / u knew wat? / ur rite / im teh 1s w/ teh problims / i shud has bean wiling 2 kiled a fuckin kids, liek u / psycho peace of shit
[Arbiter punches Master Chief, causing them to get into another fight]
Arby 'n' the Chief, "Zero Hour"

Sonic: Jet, do you think I've been a dick to everybody? I need you to answer me, buddy! [...] Please, deep down, just tell me I'm a good person.
Jet: Bitch... You have been... so fucking rude... to everyone. All the time.
Sonic: I have to go say I'm sorry. Right now.

So you leaked the IP and you expect [JoshA20] to save you?
TimeDeo to TommyInnit, SMPEarth

    Western Animation 
Students: Jimmy! What'd you do that for?! What is your problem?!
Cindy: Nice going, Scrooge-tron!
Jimmy: (to his classmates) Don't tell me you all believe in Santa!
Cindy: That's not the point! You didn't have to hurt Carl's feelings!
Jimmy: Well, I–I didn't mean to, I'm just looking for some straight answers here! I... I guess I'll just have to look somewhere else.

BoJack: Right, but at the time, I didn't—
Braxby: Do you ever wonder what would have happened if you didn't take those seventeen minutes? Do you think she might still–
BoJack: No! I– Look, obviously, when I did all that stuff, I wasn't—
Braxby: So to recap, you gave Sarah Lynn alcohol when she was a child. She then became an addict.
BoJack: Well, come on. There was a lot of stuff in between—
Braxby: I'm talking now. You're not talking. When she was intoxicated, you had sex with her, and when she was sober, you gave her the heroin that killed her. Then, in an effort to cover for yourself, you waited to call the paramedics that might have saved her life. And you don't think you have any power over women.

Numbuh 1: Nice of you to join us Numbuh 4. Where have you been?
Numbuh 4: I was... Uh... I was... nowhere.
Numbuh 3: Liar Pants! You've been competing in the bully fights, haven't you!?
Numbuh 4: Nah! Why would you say that?
Numbuh 5: Because you're still wearing your matador costume, sparkle butt!
Numbuh 4: Ooh! So what if I am!? I'm just battling adults like we always do!
Numbuh 1: Battling adults is one thing, the bully fights are something else!
Numbuh 2: Yeah! The adults we fight are evil! We don't trap them and get them all hopped up on caffeine like the bullies do! Those adults are barely human by the time they get into that ring!

"Aren't you the least bit concerned that there might be a Hell?"
Andrea to Quinn, Daria

"I think what hurts the most is that you call yourself a superhero!"

"Y'all should be ashamed of yourselves, humiliatin' your sister 'n me like that. We don't wanna talk to any of y'all right now, so take your gossip column and your embarrassing photos and gooooo away!"
Big Macintosh to the Cutie Mark Crusaders, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "Ponyville Confidential"

Twilight: What made you think that casting a spell on your friends to do your bidding was even remotely a good idea?
Starlight: Well, when you put it that way, it sounds really bad.
Twilight: THAT'S BECAUSE IT IS REALLY BAD!

Stimpy: It's the Happy Helmet, Ren! Now you'll always be happy!
Ren: You sick little monkey! Why I oughta-!
The Ren & Stimpy Show, "Stimpy's Invention"

You had to kill him. The boy cries you a sweater of tears… and you kill him. How are you gonna to live with yourself?
Mr. Krabs to Squidward in SpongeBob SquarePants, "Dying for Pie"

Squidward: Mr. Krabs, I can't believe I'm saying this, but how could you trade SpongeBob for 62 cents?!
Mr. Krabs: You think I could've gotten more?
Squidward: He stuck up for you, and you sold him out. YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!!
SpongeBob SquarePants, "Born Again Krabs"

[Ben uses the Omnitrix to sneak his way past a guard to play a new Sumo Slammer video game, only to be caught and get himself, Gwen, and Max kicked out of the hotel]
Max: How do you expect me to trust you if you keep misusing the watch?
Ben: Excuse me! I used it a hundred times for good, why can't I just use it once for me?
Max: It's not how many times you use it Ben, it's how you use it!
Ben: It was no big deal.
Max: To you! And that's all you care about! So, no more Sumo Slammer stuff for 2 weeks, no comics, no trading cards no —
Ben: FAIR!!!
Max: Neither was getting booted from a four-star hotel that I already paid for!
Ben: Fine, take it out of my allowance!
Gwen: You don't get an allowance.
Ben & Max: Stay out of this!
[Gwen gets a sheepish look on her face as she lowers her head and raises her shoulders]
Ben: This is my vacation too! You can't always tell me what to do! You're not my dad.
[Max is noticeably struck silent as Gwen looks shocked at Ben before turning to look at Max]
Max: Well, if I was I... Look I'm going back to the hotel and see if I can at least get some of my money back. I'll be back in a few minutes.
Ben: [rudely pushes his grandfather out of the way] Don't hurry!

Rhombulus: ALRIGHT, I ADMIT IT! I let him out so you could all see what a monster he really is!
Star: Yeah, that's funny, because he didn't do anything but trying to get away from you!
Rhombulus: Uh... Maybe this time he didn't hurt anyone, but... hum... sooner or later, he'll show his true colors! And so will Eclipsa! SHE'S EVIL! I SEE IT WITH MY OWN EYE!
Hekapoo: ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! We don't trust Eclipsa either, but if you think putting everyone here in danger was a good idea, you're the bad guy here! GUARDS! You know what to do.

Moon: Star, let's just take a seat and talk about this!
Star: What is there to talk about, exactly? We can't go back to Mewni because we'll die thanks to a situation you caused! So just stay far away from me! Or better yet, stand over there, where you don't exist!

You traded our treasure chest full of coins for this? Shame on you!
Princess Toadstool to Luigi and Yoshi, Super Mario World (1991)

Perceptor: You see, Omega Supreme was purposely designed to have a very simple processor. With it, he will be able to carry out his mission without hesitation.
Ratchet: In other words, you don't want him to think too hard about all the devastation he's gonna cause!
Ultra Magnus: We're at war, soldier. We do what we must.

Bulkhead: Come on Professor, we have to shut down the space bridge.
Professor Sumdac: Why did you make it work in the first place?! What were you thinking?!
Bulkhead: This coming from the guy that rebuilt Megatron.

Tito: I'll kill them! I'll get a gun and KILL them!
Albert: And then, they'll get you. Don't you understand? You've seen what happens when you fight and revenge is all you think of! You've seen what had happened to Fernando! When does it stop, man?! Fernando died trying to save you, and it's all gonna be for nothing cause you're gonna end up dead too!
Tito: But why did they do it? Why did they kill my brother? Why didn't they shoot me instead?
Sgt. Hernandez: We have the one that pulled the trigger. But he's not the only guilty one. You're part of it too.

I did it. Because I've come to realize what many people in the Republic have come to realize, that the Jedi are the ones responsible for this War. That we've so lost our way that we have become villains in this conflict, that we are the ones that should be put on trial, all of us! And my attack on the Temple was an attack on what the Jedi have become: an army fighting for the dark side, fallen from the Light that we once held so dear. This Republic is failing! It's only a matter of time.

Obi-Wan: I will advise the Jedi Council about this development.
Bo-Katan: There's no time! Maul's influence on Mandalore is destroying my people. He murdered their ruler, my sister. I thought she meant something to you.
Obi-Wan: She did. And still does. But I cannot allow my feelings to cloud my judgement. (receives Disapproving Look from Anakin and Bo-Katan) The Council will decide what our course of action shall be.
Bo-Katan: (to Ahsoka) I told you this was a waste of time.
[...]
Ahsoka: So that's it. You're going to abandon Bo-Katan and her people?
Obi-Wan: Ahsoka, surely you understand this is a pivotal moment in the Clone Wars. The heart of the Republic is under attack!
Ahsoka: I understand, that as usual you're playing politics. This is why the people have lost faith in the Jedi. I had too, until I was reminded what the Order means to people who truly need us.
Obi-Wan: Right now people on Coruscant need us.
Ahsoka: No, the Chancellor needs you.
Obi-Wan: That's not fair.
Ahsoka: I'm not trying to be.

Doofenshmirtz: This whole weather thing is your fault, you know!!
Monogram: My fault?!
Doofenshmirtz: Okay, technically, it's my fault. But if you weren't sitting around in a cold alley whining to rats and feeling sorry for yourself, this whole situation wouldn't have gotten so out of control. Before, I was a regular evil scientist, and now, suddenly, I'm part of this big organization of super-villains bent on world domination! I'm not comfortable with that!! The point is you should've been there to stop me, and YOU WEREN'T!!! [leaves after giving Monogram two cents]
Monogram: Huh.... two cents.

Kez: Everyone's mad at me all time, but I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Ryan: Yeah Kez, you do. It's that you don't think about how things will affect other people, and then when people get mad, you act like, "Oh no, what happened? So weird." And then you just float away like, "Well, it's their problem now, la-la-la I'm a bell!" [steps away from Min-Gi and Kez]
Min-Gi: He's right, Kez. You never actually apologize.
Kez: What? Yeah I do.
Min-Gi: No, you say you didn't mean to mess up but you never say sorry.
Kez: I... wha... I mean... uh... I mean it's just, like, misunderstandings and–
Ryan: Kez, get out.

Mabel: Dipper! What was the one thing I asked you not to do tonight?!
Dipper: Raise the dead.
Mabel: And what did you do?!
Dipper: Raised the dead.

(Starfire enters)
Robin: You want to yell at me too? Everyone else has. And I can't blame them.
Starfire: I do not wish to yell, merely to understand. Robin, why did you not tell us the truth?
Robin: I needed to fool Slade. If you guys knew it was me under that mask, you would've held back. Doesn't matter anyway. Slade figured it out, and I still haven't figured out anything about him.
Starfire: That is not true. Whoever Slade is, you and he are similar. Slade did not trust you ... and you did not trust us.

Twilight Sparkle: I thought everything was fine! WHAT is going on?!!
Applejack: Everything was going fine...
Pinkie Pie: Until it totally wasn't.
Fluttershy: We tried to fix it ourselves.
Twilight Sparkle: Why didn't you tell me?
Rainbow Dash: We didn't want you to freak out.
Twilight Sparkle: And you thought not telling me everything was a total disaster would AVOID a freak-out?!!!
Spike: When you say it like that, it sounds like a really bad plan.

Shifu: Panda! You were supposed to evacuate the village!
Po: Uh, yeah... um... When I saw Ke-Pa get to the village I—
Mantis: You saw him here? Why didn't you blow the warning horn?!
Po: Oh, well, uh, he was a pig, so I just thought— I, I thought, I could handle it...
Ke-Pa: Oh see, one of our heroes isn't sounding all that heroic.
Shifu: He's no hero, he's a self-centred lout who puts his own ego ahead of those that depend on him!

    Real Life 
It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
— Attributed to Theodore Roosevelt

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