History Quotes / BecomingTheMask

-->-- '''GeorgeOrwell''', ''Shooting an Elephant''

-->[[TheVorkosiganSaga The Warriors Apprentice]]

-->-- '''[[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]''', interpreting Tommy's character in ''PowerRangersDinoThunder''.

-->-- Duncan Michaelson, ''[[TheActsOfCaine Heroes Die]]''

-->-- '''Moon Child''', ''[[MajorasMask The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]''

->''"Reki freed herself from the curse of the sinbound by choosing a difficult path and by being kind to the weak. This began as an act, a mercenary attempt to gain salvation, yet over time it became her true nature."''
-->-- '''HaibaneRenmei'''

-->Mayhew:''So-well-it didn't seem to me a, a right and proper Armsman out to be sitting on his ass while that was going on...''

-->-- '''{{Linkara}}''', interpreting Tommy's character in ''PowerRangersDinoThunder''.

-->Mayhew:''Seems to me that dreadnought was about to blow you all into the next dimension

->''"You can't break a man the way you break a dog or a horse. The harder you beat a man the taller he stands. [[DespairEventHorizon To break a man's will, to break his spirit, you have to break his mind]]. Men have this idea that [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen they can fight with dignity, that there is a proper way to kill someone]]. It's absurd, it's an aesthetic. We need that idea to endure the bloody horror of murder. You must destroy this idea. Show them [[WarIsHell what a messy, terrible thing it is to kill a man]]... [[BloodKnight And show them that you relish in it.]] [[CombatPragmatist Shoot the wound, then]] [[CoupDeGrace execute the wounded]]. [[KillItWithFire Burn them]], take them in close combat, destroy any preconceptions as to what a man is and [[TheDreaded you become their personal monster. When they fear you]], you become stronger, you become better. But let's never forget, it's a display, a posture, like a lion's roar or a gorilla thumping at its chest. [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope If you lose yourself in the display, if you succumb to the horror,]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters you become the monster, not more of a man, but less... and it can be fatal.]]"''

-->--'''[[MemeticBadass Los Tiburon, Shark of the Land]], [[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/12861560/ sup/tg/]]

-->-- '''Rorschach''', ''{{Watchmen}}''

-->-- '''[[spoiler: Saul Tigh]]''', ''BattlestarGalactica

->''"You can't break a man the way you break a dog or a horse. The harder you beat a man the taller he stands. [[DespairEventHorizon To break a man's will, to break his spirit, you have to break his mind]]. Men have this idea that [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen they can fight with dignity, that there is a proper way to kill someone]]. It's absurd, it's an aesthetic. We need that idea to endure the bloody horror of murder. You must destroy this idea. Show them [[WarIsHell what a messy, terrible thing it is to kill a man]]... And show them that you relish in it. [[CombatPragmatist Shoot the wound, then]] [[CoupDeGrace execute the wounded]]. [[KillItWithFire Burn them]], take them in close combat, destroy any preconceptions as to what a man is and [[TheDreaded you become their personal monster. When they fear you]], you become stronger, you become better. But let's never forget, it's a display, a posture, like a lion's roar or a gorilla thumping at its chest. [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope If you lose yourself in the display, if you succumb to the horror,]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters you become the monster, not more of a man, but less... and it can be fatal.]]"''

-->-- '''Windmill man''', ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]''

-->-- On '''Victor Cachat''', ''[[HonorHarrington Crown of Slaves]]''

->If you have so many masks, what does your ''true'' face look like?

->Before you start, I have something to say: I came here as a patriot. I had a mission, and I carried it out. What I couldn't know is that I would come to care for the Earth and her people... That I'd come to care for all of you. I've spent the last five years torn between my feelings and my duty. I won't ask you to do the same.

-> You're Puss in Boots, the one who tricks the prince. He hides who he really is and pretends to be someone else forever. So in time he becomes that person, so his lie becomes the truth, see? He transcends the mask. Well, don't you get it? That's how he finds happiness. That's pretty good, right?

->My mask is growing heavy, but I've forgotten who's beneath.

->Shock of impact ran along my arm. Jet of warmth spattered on chest, like hot faucet. It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again.

-> We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

-> A mask is just like a musical instrument--it reflects the character of its owner.

-> Reki freed herself from the curse of the sinbound by choosing a difficult path and by being kind to the weak. This began as an act, a mercenary attempt to gain salvation, yet over time it became her true nature.

-> You can't break a man the way you break a dog or a horse. The harder you beat a man the taller he stands. [[DespairEventHorizon To break a man's will, to break his spirit, you have to break his mind]]. Men have this idea that [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen they can fight with dignity, that there is a proper way to kill someone]]. It's absurd, it's an aesthetic. We need that idea to endure the bloody horror of murder. You must destroy this idea. Show them [[WarIsHell what a messy, terrible thing it is to kill a man]]... And show them that you relish in it. [[CombatPragmatist Shoot the wound, then]] [[CoupDeGrace execute the wounded]]. [[KillItWithFire Burn them]], take them in close combat, destroy any preconceptions as to what a man is and [[TheDreaded you become their personal monster. When they fear you]], you become stronger, you become better. But let's never forget, it's a display, a posture, like a lion's roar or a gorilla thumping at its chest. [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope If you lose yourself in the display, if you succumb to the horror,]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters you become the monster, not more of a man, but less... and it can be fatal.]]
--> '''The Jackal''', ''FarCry 2''

-> Ginny Usher didn't give a damn about Mesan goons - had even, if not perhaps to the same extent as Berry, managed to put her past life behind her. But she did care, and deeply, about the young man standing in their midst. And was probably wondering - as Thandi had sometimes wondered, about herself - how often a human being could assume a role before the role itself became the reality. Before a man, or a woman, became the golem of their own creation.
--> On '''Victor Cachat''', ''[[HonorHarrington Crown of Slaves]]''

-> I know that you weren't Eas. You're Setsuna.

->''He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.''

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-->-- '''Cure Peach''', ''FreshPrettyCure''

--> On '''Victor Cachat''', ''[[HonorHarrington Crown of Slaves]]''

-> You can't break a man the way you break a dog or a horse. The harder you beat a man the taller he stands. [[DespairEventHorizon To break a man's will, to break his spirit, you have to break his mind]]. Men have this idea that [[LetsFightLikeGentlemen they can fight with dignity, that there is a proper way to kill someone]]. It's absurd, it's an aesthetic. We need that idea to endure the bloody horror of murder. You must destroy this idea. Show them [[WarIsHell what a messy, terrible thing it is to kill a man]]... And show them that you relish in it. [[TheCombatPragmatist Shoot the wound, then]] [[CoupDeGrace execute the wounded]]. [[KillItWithFire Burn them]], take them in close combat, destroy any preconceptions as to what a man is and [[TheDreaded you become their personal monster. When they fear you]], you become stronger, you become better. But let's never forget, it's a display, a posture, like a lion's roar or a gorilla thumping at its chest. [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope If you lose yourself in the display, if you succumb to the horror,]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters you become the monster, not more of a man, but less... and it can be fatal.]]

-->-- '''Rorschach''', ''Watchmen''

-> You can't break a man the way you break a dog or a horse. The harder you beat a man the taller he stands. To break a man's will, to break his spirit, you have to break his mind. Men have this idea that they can fight with dignity, that there is a proper way to kill someone. It's absurd, it's an aesthetic. We need that idea to endure the bloody horror of murder. You must destroy this idea. Show them what a messy, terrible thing it is to kill a man... And show them that you relish in it. Shoot the wound, then execute the wounded. Burn them, take them in close combat, destroy any preconceptions as to what a man is and you become their personal monster. When they fear you, you become stronger, you become better. But let's never forget, it's a display, a posture, like a lion's roar or a gorilla thumping at its chest. If you lose yourself in the display, if you succumb to the horror, you become the monster, not more of a man, but less... and it can be fatal.
--> '''The Jackal''', ''FarCry 2''

->''"My name is Allison. From Palmdale."''
-->-- '''[[RobotGirl Cameron]]''', ''TheSarahConnorChronicles''

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--> '''The Jackal''', ''FarCry 2''


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