"You’re not just granting hope. You’re becoming hope itself. Hope for all of us."
—Mami Tomoe, Puella Magi Madoka Magica
"Your existence has shifted to a higher plane, and has been reduced to nothing more than a mere concept."
"HP. ATK. DEF. GOLD. EXP. LV. Every time a number increases, that feeling... That's me."
"Giygas is no longer the wielder of evil. He has become the embodiment of Evil itself... which he cannot control on his own. He is the Evil Power."
—Pokey Minch, EarthBound (1994)
"He was cut down, but thanks to the dragon's power his being remains. It seems he's embraced his new ethereal state... no longer confined by his divine vessel, he may be trying to become one with the very fabric of the cosmos, his own twisted idea of justice and order made manifest."
—Gowasu about Infinite Zamasu, Dragon Ball Super
Now spoke Savathûn Scheme-mother, "In the beginning, Yul said to me, 'Savathûn, you may never abandon cunning. If you do, your worm shall devour you.' Cunning is the use of thought to predict the function of a system. Therefore, wherever a being should attempt to understand me and fail—has my cunning not defeated theirs? Wherever a falsehood is repeated about me, have I not displayed cunning? I shall gather tribute from every false prediction, misguided theory, fearful rumor, and ominous supposition which derives from the thought of me. And in time, I shall pin my quiddity upon these rumors. I shall discorporate, so that I exist wherever my schemes and conspiracies also exist. And so I will be immortal, as long as anyone seeks to understand me and fails. Do you see?"
— Thank you. Truth to Power, Destiny 2
The eternal Thompson gunner
Still wandering through the night
Now it's ten years later
But he still keeps up the fight
In Ireland, in Lebanon
In Palestine and Berkeley
Patty Hearst heard the burst
Of Roland's Thompson gun and bought it
Still wandering through the night
Now it's ten years later
But he still keeps up the fight
In Ireland, in Lebanon
In Palestine and Berkeley
Patty Hearst heard the burst
Of Roland's Thompson gun and bought it
—Warren Zevon, "Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner"
I am wholly concept now. Without the flesh to contradict, I truly am as I'm perceived, in all the myriad ways. All things, to all men, I ascend. Below the skin of history are London's veins that pulse and glisten with significance. That course with energy and meaning. And I am that meaning. And I am that energy.
—Sir William Gull, From Hell
It was the vassal beast of the Greater Will and living incarnation of the concept of Order.
— Remembrance of the Elden Beast, Elden Ring
