Line #63 Quotes/ProudWarriorRaceGuy


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4	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
5	->Saiyan Blood! Get you down! (Get you down!)\
6	Get you down! (Get you down!)\
7	I was born to fight!\
8	Saiyan Blood! Beat you down! (Beat you down!)\
9	Beat you down! (Beat you down!)\
10	I am about to become legend!
11	-->-- Vegeta's ThemeMusicPowerUp, ''Anime/DragonBallZKai''
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13
14	[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
15	->"I have studied Terran history. Many Terran cultures have similarities to the Klingon culture." Ezra sighed. "I do have to admit, sometimes they take it to extremes."
16	-->-- ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6592841/1/Bithool-Gagh-Has-Feet Bithool Gagh Has Feet]]'', a ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' 'fic
17
18	->"I saw them mock you, you know, saw the way they laughed and made fun of the fact that you were a healer. I love the Yun, I always have, but only a foolish warrior mocks a healer."
19	-->-- ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/859126?view_full_work=true Whispers of the Gods]]''
20	[[/folder]]
21
22	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
23	->'''Barbarian:''' Conan, what is best in life?\
24	'''Conan:''' [[MemeticMutation To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!]]
25	-->-- ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982''
26
27	->'''Xerxes:''' It would be nothing short of madness were you, brave king, and your valiant troops to perish all because of a simple misunderstanding. There is much our cultures could share.\
28	'''Leonidas:''' Haven't you noticed? We've been sharing our culture with you all morning.
29	-->-- ''Film/ThreeHundred''
30
31	->''"Harm? An ominous word. Since the time of our ancestors, the Takeda have never run from a fight. Forward!... Forward!"''
32	-->--'''Katsuyori Takeda''', ''Film/{{Kagemusha}}''
33	[[/folder]]
34
35	[[folder:Literature]]
36	->We Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship... Ah, young sir, the Szekelys, and the Dracula as their heart's blood, their brains, and their swords, can boast a record that mushroom growths like the Hapsburgs and the Romanoffs can never reach. The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace, and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.
37	-->-- '''Count Literature/{{Dracula}}'''
38
39	->Here we are at last, Hero of Sontar! Just seven minutes from clone-birth to full deployment on the battlefield: a new Sontaran record, and a victory for us all! [[WeHaveReserves I am delighted to inform you that over half of your batch-generation, despite fierce bombardment from this planet's surface, are about to face their first foe.]] As to this foe's identity...we ask you this, soldier. Does it matter? Do you need to know? [...] \
40	You exist by the might of the Empire's science, and it is your duty to repay that in conquest and triumph. When you march, you do not march as a single soldier, but as a component of the Empire, a link in a chain unbroken from the first Sontaran, millenia ago. When you march, the Empire marches with you. Where you tread, the weight of a billion Sontaran boots fall. This is your birthright. This is what you were made for, and we are already proud. Go forth and conquer! [[CatchPhrase SONTAR-HA!]]
41	-->-- '''The Sontaran Subliminal Education Matrix''', ''[[Franchise/DoctorWho Doctor Who: Twelve Angels Weeping]]''
42
43	->'''Tazendra and Ibronka''': I will remain until the last.\
44	'''Tazendra''': Your name, madam?\
45	'''Ibronka''': I am Ibronka, my lady.\
46	'''Tazendra''': Well, I perceive you are a Dzur.\
47	'''Ibronka''': I have that honor, my lady. And I observe that you are, as well.\
48	'''Tazendra''': That is true. Therefore, let these others go up the ropes, and, if there is a last defense to be done on this spot, well, we shall do it, you and I.
49	-->-- ''Literature/TheLordOfCastleBlack''
50
51	->You are no Kavalar. You do not understand Kavalars, I would guess, yet you stand here and I see judgment in your eyes. By what right? Who are you to judge us? You scarcely know us.
52	-->-- '''Garse Janecek''', ''Literature/DyingOfTheLight''
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54	->Now it chanced when the old King - the Queen's son - completed his days, the four who stood in his presence were Goorkhas. Neither Sikhs, alas, nor Pathans, Rajputs, nor Jats. Goorkhas, my Father.
55	-->-- [[http://americanliterature.com/author/rudyard-kipling/short-story/in-the-presence "In the Presence"]], by Creator/RudyardKipling
56
57	->Only on Barrayar, Miles reflected, would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede ''toward'' one...
58	-->-- ''Literature/TheWarriorsApprentice''
59
60	->White clothing for a killer was a tradition among the Parshendi. Although Szeth had not asked, his masters had explained why.\
61	White to be bold. White to not blend into the night. White to give warning.\
62	For if you were going to assassinate a man, he was entitled to see you coming.
63	-->-- ''Literature/TheWayOfKings2010'' (first book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'')
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65	->''"Every pasture needs three things. Flocks to grow, herdsmen to tend, and watchers at the rim. We of Alethela are those watchers--the warriors who protect and fight. We maintain the terrible arts of killing, then pass them on to others when the Desolation comes."''
66	-->-- '''Knight Radiant''', ''Literature/TheWayOfKings2010'' (first book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'')
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68	->''Leave to the soft Campanian\
69	His baths and his perfumes;\
70	Leave to the sordid race of Tyre\
71	Their dyeing-vats and looms;\
72	Leave to the sons of Carthage\
73	The rudder and the oar;\
74	Leave to the Greek his marble Nymphs\
75	And scrolls of wordy lore.\
76	Thine, Roman, is the pilum:\
77	Roman, the sword is thine,\
78	The even trench, the bristling mound,\
79	The legion's ordered line;\
80	And thine the wheels of triumph,\
81	Which with their laurelled train\
82	Move slowly up the shouting streets\
83	To Jove's eternal flame.''
84	-->-- '''Sir Thomas Maculay''', "Lays of Ancient Rome"
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88	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
89	->Hear! Sons of Kahless. Hear! Daughters too.\
90	The blood of battle washes clean\
91	The warrior brave and true.\
92	We fight, we love, and then we kill.\
93	Our lives burn short and bright.\
94	Then we die with honor and\
95	Join our fathers in the black fleet,\
96	Where we battle, forever battling, on\
97	Through the eternal fight.
98	-->-- Translation of Klingon battle chant in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E21SoldiersOfTheEmpire Soldiers of the Empire]]"
99
100	->'''Worf:''' "Sweet"?\
101	'''Ezri:''' Not a very Klingon word, is it?\
102	'''Worf:''' '''No.'''\
103	'''Ezri''' It's very...''honorable.''\
104	'''Worf''': Better--albeit a little obvious.
105	-->--''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', "Tacking Into the Wind"
106
107	->I'm a Mandalorian. Weapons are part of my religion.
108	-->-- '''Din Djarin''', ''Series/TheMandalorian''
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111	[[folder:Music]]
112	->From birth [[HornyVikings we're]] taught\
113	How to survive\
114	We're taught how war is waged\
115	[[BadassBoast And there are no men now alive]]\
116	[[BadassBoast Who stop our wild rampage]]
117	-->-- '''Music/AmonAmarth''', "Live Without Regrets"
118	[[/folder]]
119
120	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
121	->You think you know glory, whelp, just because you have survived a single day of battle? To feel the thunder of munitions like the fury of the gods as the ground tears apart around you, to wet your blade with the blood of kings, to be the first man on a planet crawling with alien terrors; ''that'' is to know true glory. Mark it well.
122	-->-- '''[[Literature/SpaceWolf Logan Grimnar]]''', [[FourStarBadass Great Wolf]] of the [[SuperSoldier Space Wolves chapter]], ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
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124	->We iz gonna stomp da ‘ooniverse flat an' kill anyfing that fights back. We iz gonna do this coz' we're [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orks]] an' we was made ta fight an' win!
125	-->-- '''Warlord Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka''', ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''
126	[[/folder]]
127
128	[[folder:Video Games]]
129	->The Saiyans are a true warrior race! Don't underestimate us!
130	-->-- '''Vegeta''', ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokaiTenkaichi''
131
132	->Remember this always, son of the north - a Nord is judged not by the manner in which he lived, but the manner in which he died.
133	-->-- '''A Dream of Sovngarde''', ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''
134
135	->We're the children of [[GrimUpNorth Skyrim]], and we fight all our lives\
136	And when Sovngarde beckons everyone of us dies\
137	But this land is ours and we'll see it wiped clean\
138	Of the scourge that has sullied our hopes and our dreams
139	-->-- "The Age of Aggression/Oppression" (Nordic folk song), ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' [[note]]First verse varies depending on whether the bard favors the Empire or the Stormcloaks[[/note]]
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141	->Victory or [[WarriorHeaven Sovngarde!]]
142	-->--'''Nord BattleCry''', ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''
143
144	->Killing you will bring me honour!
145	-->-- '''Dremora''', ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''
146
147	->You ask a krogan if he'd rather find a cure for the [[DepopulationBomb genophage]], or [[PrivateMilitaryContractors fight for credits]], and he'll choose fighting — every time. It's just who we are, Shepard. I can't change that. No one can.
148	-->-- '''Urdnot Wrex''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''
149
150	->Other races go to colonize new planets. We're not settlers - we're warriors. We ''want'' to fight. A lot of krogan leave... and most never come back.
151	-->-- '''Urdnot Wrex''', ''Franchise/MassEffect''
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153	->[[HeroicSacrifice Victory... at any cost!]]
154	-->--'''Tarquin Victus''', ''Videogame/MassEffect3''
155
156	->'''Marcus:''' Greetings to clan leader Zatuk, [[{{UsefulNotes/Patronymic}} whose father is Movar, the Comet Spitter]], whose father is Raghir, the Lash of a Thousand Barbs. I'm honored by your presence.\
157	'''Zatuk:''' Greetings to the Marcus from the Cromwell clan, whose father is Richard, the Settler. [[IComeInPeace We come in peace]]. Chief Marcus, we Gorgs do not like wasting words on false pleasantries. We both know why we are here: we want to put an end to this war. Do you find anything objectionable in my words?\
158	'''Marcus:''' Your words are clear and wise, Chief Zatuk. We have only to agree on the conditions.\
159	'''Zatuk:''' Very well. Our conditions are as follows...\
160	(''three hours later'')\
161	'''[[TheCassandra Sweetwater]]:''' [[IWarnedYou Looks like you owe me a drink, Commodore.]] Gorg ships are closing on us.\
162	'''Marcus:''' Chief Zatuk, what is the meaning of this? Is your word worth so little?\
163	'''Zatuk:''' Pale, cadaverous human! How dare you question my honor?! The word of a Zordon is a bond! If I desired, I could crush you in an instant - I have no need for cowardly tricks.\
164	'''Marcus:''' Commander Sweetwater, can you determine which clan these ships belong to?\
165	'''Sweetwater:''' Their marking indicate they are affiliated with the Raggra clan.\
166	'''Marcus:''' Chief Zatuk, eight of the Raggra clan's vessels are approaching. If you had no foreknowledge of this, then I apologize for my previous words.\
167	'''Zatuk:''' [[OhCrap I have been betrayed!]] [[CaptainObvious Someone must have told them the location of this meeting.]] Well... if it's a battle they desire, '''THEY SHALL HAVE IT'''! ''[[CoolStarship Warcry]]'', RedAlert! Chief Marcus - [[HonorBeforeReason this is our battle.]] [[LeaveHimToMe You stay out of this.]]
168	-->-- '''The Gorg''', ''VideoGame/NexusTheJupiterIncident''
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170	->To make a Thraddash your friend, kill him - but then of course, he's dead so what's the point?
171	-->-- Melnorme saying, ''VideoGame/StarControlII''
172
173	->'''PlayerCharacter:''' Do you believe that the goal you are attempting to achieve was worth killing civilians?\
174	'''Tran:''' I didn't want to attack this ship. There is a nobility to being a soldier. When I enter battle, I know I could be killed. I know that others will die at my hands. But that is what we must do. It is part of being a soldier. Civilians are not part of this unspoken agreement. They do not wake up each day and know in their hearts it could be their last. They should be out of bounds as targets for people like you and me. There is no honor in fighting someone who is unprepared to fight back. I regret that I had orders to kill these civilians. More than that, I regret that I carried out those orders.
175	-->-- ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'', Episode "Breen Invasion", mission "Cold Comfort"
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177	-> '''Dwarf Warrior:''' I'm impressed by your skill with a blade. I'm offering you the chance of glory as we wade into the Orcs horde.\
178	'''Dietrich the paymaster:''' And what of our payment?\
179	'''Dwarf Warrior:''' What? Is the honor of battle and a barrel of Bugman's brew to nurse your wounds not enough?\
180	'''Dietrich:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Honor and a sore head do not pay the Innkeeper.]]
181	-->-- ''[[VideoGame/WarhammerDarkOmen Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat]]''
182
183	->We Tarka are a simple people, when all is said and done. We cleave the universe in clean, straight lines. We show our faces in battle, rather than our tails. And we want what is ours, by right of superior arms and tactics. If that is the universe? Well, so be it. Have at you, and join the fray as joyously as we do; after all, my friends, war is nothing personal.
184	-->-- '''The Tarka''', ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars''
185
186	->''"We embrace the glory of battle!"''\
187	''"Glorious combat is upon us!"''
188	-->-- '''Zealot''' and '''Adept''' under-attack quotes, ''VideoGame/StarcraftII''
189
190	->''"Yah, come and FIGHT me! Gyahahahaha!!!"''
191	-->-- '''Thor''' under-attack quote, ''VideoGame/StarcraftII''
192
193	->''"Norn have no need of armies. We are Norn."''
194	-->-- '''Olaf Olafson''', ''VideoGame/GuildWars Eye of the North''
195
196	->''"Wanderers seeking death, welcome. May you find swift end upon our claws."''
197	-->-- '''Engraving outside Mantis Village''', ''VideoGame/HollowKnight''
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200	[[folder:Webcomics]]
201	->'''Khilothi Soldier''': ''(After the ship is critically damaged)'' To the escape pods!
202	->'''High Murderix Knell'Dorn''': No! We shall die with honor!
203	->'''Khilothi Soldier''': But... the escape pods...
204	->'''High Murderix Knell'Dorn''': ''With honor!''
205	->'''Khilothi Soldier''': Why do we even have escape pods!?
206	->'''High Murderix Knell'Dorn''': So we can not use them ''with honor!''
207	-->-- ''WebComic/StarSomething''
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210	[[folder:Web Original]]
211	->'''Jay:''' Do the Franchise/{{Predator}}s do anything else with their existence but go to other planets and hunt things? That's all we've ever seen them do!\
212	'''Rich:''' We don't know. These could just be elite, rich Predators. Weekend warriors.\
213	'''Mike:''' Literally. Predators back home, [[HighClassGlass they wear suits, monocles and top hats.]]
214	-->-- ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag'', ''Film/AVPAlienVsPredator'' Rifftrack
215
216	->There seems to be some kind of rule of science fiction. When you have no idea what to do, make the aliens space warriors with their code and all that crap.
217	-->-- '''Website/SFDebris'''' review of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', [[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E2Initiations "Initiations"]]
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219	->[[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords KOTOR II]] did something I really appreciate where it used the Mandalorians to kinda dunk on the trope of "Warrior Races" by showing how a culture based around war and fighting is self-defeating and unsustainable.\
220	After the Mandalorian Wars, you see loads of Mandalorians complaining that their culture is going to die out if they don't get any help, but nobody really cares because their culture was burning down everyone else's culture.\
221	In fact it was this warrior culture that allowed them to be easily manipulated into being a blunt instrument to fight a proxy war for the Sith Empire in the first place.\
222	And as KOTOR II would tell it, the Mandalorians "died a death that would take millennia", as constant war left them less and less capable of bouncing back until eventually [[Film/AttackOfTheClones Jango Fett]] was kinda the last living time capsule of their culture and was just casually offed by a Jedi.\
223	They make a big song and dance about how noble and storied and worthy of preservation they are, but to the rest of the galaxy they were just violent dicks, until their culture died its final ignominious death in a the form of some bounty hunter in a pointless fight in some arena.\
224	Its kind of a bummer how Series/TheMandalorian has kinda rubbed out the [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars TCW]] idea of them finally getting their act together and becoming a peaceful society, in favor of going back to wall to wall jetpacks and knives. In TCW the people who wanted to go back to that were the bad guys.
225	-->-- '''Daniel Orrett''', [[https://twitter.com/KeepersDan/status/1682835842690166784 here]]
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227
228	[[folder:Western Animation]]
229	->To defeat you in such a manner would be lacking in honor. [...] I prefer to beat my opponents [[GoodOldWays the old-fashioned way]]... ''brutally!''
230	-->-- '''Dinobot''', ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''
231
232	->'''Quickstrike:''' So, what's a warrior without weapons?\
233	'''Dinobot:''' A warrior, STILL!
234	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''
235
236	->My home, Thanagar, is a war-like world. There one must strike first or die.
237	-->-- '''Hawkgirl''', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''
238
239	->Raphael! That is a rash, foolhardy and extremely dangerous act! ''Count me in.''
240	-->-- '''Traximus''', ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003''
241
242	-> '''Ultra Magnus''': Cyclonus, you ''saved me''? But why?\
243	'''Cyclonus''': Warriors such as you and I should meet their end in battle.
244	-->--''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', "The Killing Jar"
245	[[/folder]]
246
247	[[folder:Real Life]]
248	->But on the frontier, in the clear light of morning, when the mountain side is dotted with smoke puffs, and every ridge sparkles with sword blades, the spectator may observe and completely appreciate all grades of human courage-the wild fanaticism of the Ghazi, the composed fatalism of the Sikh, the stubbornness of the British soldier, and the jaunty daring of his officers.
249	-->-- ''Story of the Malakand Field Force'', by UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill
250
251	->Born to be a soldier, from his youth he hears of nothing else. The farmer who bears arms tells to his son his adventures, and the lad, eager to tread in the footsteps of his elder, trains his feeble arms early to the use of formidable weapons; so when he has reached a size necessary to take a place in the valiant ranks, he is quickly formed into a soldier.
252	-->-- ''Military Experience in the Age of Reason'' by Christopher Duffy
253
254	->Heaven grew weary of the excessive pride and luxury of China... I am from the Barbaric North. I wear the same clothing and eat the same food as the cowherds and horse-herders. We make the same sacrifices and we share our riches. I look upon the nation as a new-born child and I [[TheMenFirst care for my soldiers]] as [[AFatherToHisMen though they were my brothers]].
255	-->-- '''Genghis Khan''' after 75,000 Mongols defeated 600,000 Chinese and sacked Beijing.
256
257	->Their loyalty was rarely in doubt, their ferocity proverbial, and their habit of collecting the heads of slain foes never seriously discouraged.
258	-->-- Description of Balkan warriors in Venetian service, from ''Fighting for the Faith'' by David Nicolle
259
260	->Gay palaces and music and poetry were well enough for Egyptians and Syrians and Greeks; but a Roman set the quick eye, the hard hand, and the sharp sword above these pleasures. With the sword came land and sea, harvests and fishing, the vine and the wheat crop, the flax for making linen, the wood for building a house or a ship, the iron and the copper and the bronze and the gold for making weapons and cauldrons and a coinage that would buy anything, in any market in the world. Give a man these things, and he could employ others - Syrians and Greeks - to make music and poetry for him. But first came the sword...
261	-->-- ''Fighting Men: How Men Have Fought Through the Ages'' by Ewart Oakeshaft and Henry Treece
262
263	->Where some states have an army, the UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}}n [[BadassArmy Army]] has a state.
264	-->-- '''Creator/{{Voltaire}}'''
265
266	->Let the weeping be for cowards: but you child, I bury without a tear; you are my son, and Sparta's too.
267	-->-- [[TheSpartanWay Spartan mother]]
268
269	->Cattle die, kinsmen die, all men are mortal.\
270	Words of praise will never perish, nor a noble name.
271	-->-- Viking proverb
272	[[/folder]]

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