History Quotes / BecomingTheMask

->You can't break a man the way you break a dog or a horse. [[DefiantToTheEnd 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]], [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown 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.]]

->But, as is almost always the case, she soon realizes that when you do something ironically or for the meme or whatever, there comes a point where, like... you're just ''doing'' it, and eventually Cady realizes that she's actually just fully become the thing she's been trying to destroy the whole time.

->'''Tuffnut:''' The plan is to smash those dirty Berkians to pieces, with both fleets! It's gonna be awesome.
->'''Hiccup:''' Uh, you do realize, we're the Berkians?
->'''Tuffnut:''' Oh, right. Still gonna be awesome!

-->--'''Creator/CSLewis''', ''Surprised by Joy.''

'''Josh Exley:''' ''(Remains human)'' [[IAmWhatIAm This IS my true face...]]\\
'''Bounty Hunter:''' So be it...\\
''(Exley turns and presents the back of his neck to the Bounty Hunter as Officer Dales arrives. The Bounty Hunter stabs Exley in the neck with the stiletto.)''\\
'''Arthur Dales:''' No! Stop! ''(He runs to Exley)'' Ex?! ''(Dales cradles Exley and moves to check his wound)''\\
'''Josh Exley:''' No, let me be! Let me be! Arthur get off of me! [[AlienBlood Our blood is like acid to you people!]] Arthur, get away! Don't touch it!\\
'''Arthur Dales:''' It's just blood, Ex... Look. It's just blood. ''(Dales' fingers are covered in red blood)''\\
'''Josh Exley:''' ...How? ''[[GoOutWithASmile (He smiles and laughs, then dies in Officer Dales arms)]]''
-->--'''Series/TheXFiles''', ''The Unnatural.''

-->--'''Series/TheThickOfIt'''

-->-- '''Series/{{Angel}}'''

->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.
-->--'''Rorschach''', ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}''

->Gods are not like people. '''They''' are real. '''We''' are creatures of story. I stepped into your part. And now that part steps into me.

It was stupid, it was selfish, but I really, desperately wanted to see what it would be like to get to know [[TheEvilGenius Lisa]], without worrying that she would find out my scheme. I’d like to see what it was like to interact with her without having to censor myself out of fear that I’d provide [[AwesomenessbyAnalysis that damning clue]]. I wanted to get to know [[TheBrute Bitch]] and [[TheDarkChick Alec]] better. And [[TheLeader Brian]]. I wanted to be closer to Brian. I couldn’t phrase it any better than that, because I didn’t know if there would be any future with him beyond a simple friendship. I didn’t expect there to be. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming It still mattered]].

''but the law was hot on his trail''\\

''And found he could be so much more''\\

''this man saw this monster \\

''the vampire was slain,''\\

->''"Then a vampire came''

->''"This is worse than a thought. This isn't as simple as pretending or play-acting, Eddy! Ed'' actually believes ''he's become a monster!"''

-->''Graphic,'' by Shane Briant

-->--'''Drew Thompson'''/[[spoiler:'''Sheriff Shelby Parlow''']], '''Series/{{Justified}}''