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"I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them, you don't feel bad."
Marv, Sin City

Roxy: Who're killin' next? Do you take requests? Because I was thinking maybe some Kardashians, my gym coach, people who give high fives — really, any jock — Twihards, people who talk about punk rock. (Who else really rips my cock off?)
Frank: Get off the bed!
Roxy: Oh, Mormons and other religious assholes who won't let gay people be married. And adult women who call their tits 'the girls'.

"Here is better than home, eh, sir? I mean, at home if you kill someone they arrest you, here they'll give you a gun and show you what to do, sir. I mean, I killed fifteen of those buggers. Now, at home they'd hang me, here they'll give me a fucking medal, sir."

"You know what I noticed? Nobody panics when things go according to plan. Even if the plan is horrifying. If tomorrow I told the press that, like, a gang-banger would get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics. Because it's all part of the plan. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!"
The Joker, The Dark Knight

Theatre

As some day it may happen that a victim must be found
I've got a little list — I've got a little list
Of society offenders who might well be underground
And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!
There's the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs,
All people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs
All children who are up in dates, and floor you with 'em flat
All persons who in shaking hands, shake hands with you like that.
And all third persons who on spoiling tête-á-têtes insist,
They'd none of 'em be missed — they'd none of 'em be missed.
There's the banjo serenader, and the others of his race
And the piano-organist — I've got him on the list!
And the people who eat peppermint and puff it in your face
They never would be missed — they never would be missed!
Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone
All centuries but this, and every country but his own;
And the lady from the provinces, who dresses like a guy
And who "doesn't think she dances, but would rather like to try";
And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist
I don't think she'd be missed — I'm sure she'd not he missed!
And that Nisi Prius nuisance, who just now is rather rife
The Judicial humorist — I've got him on the list!
All funny fellows, comic men, and clowns of private life
They'd none of 'em be missed — they'd none of 'em be missed
And apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind
Such as — What d'ye call him — Thing'em-bob, and likewise — Never-mind
And Tut-tut-tut and What's-his-name, and also You-know-who
The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you
But it really doesn't matter whom you put upon the list
For they'd none of 'em be missed — they'd none of 'em be missed!
Original lyrics of the I've Got a Little List song, The Mikado

Web Animation

New Order has some surprisingly strong story-telling chops. One of the many advantages of Nazis is that you don't have to justify shit. "Hey, this guy's a Nazi, would you like to drown him in his own piss?" the game might ask. "Sorry, did you say something? I was busy drowning a Nazi in his own piss," we might reply. But despite that, New Order puts the effort into making hating Nazis feel fresh again. One of the first things we do is watch a soldier shoot a room full of hospital patients before we stab him right up the lebensraum, and the principal villains only need to smile and play card games to become infinitely hateable.

Web Original

"Rural Satanists. Of course it's rural Satanists."
El Sandifer on K-9 and Company

"Perivale feels like a real late eighties British suburb....It’s a nice touch – if a little on the nose – that the predatory teenager changes out of his working class clothes and into a yuppie’s business suit. He even wears sunglasses to conceal his cheetah eyes, and talks in yuppie clichés."

"Brought to the brink of extinction, [the Daleks] have been forced to resurrect themselves from the 'dregs'... which seems to be synonymous with the contestants who lose game shows. The Daleks take the people who get knocked out before the finale. Because the Daleks have become TV producers. They've become the people who run Big Brother and Trinny & Susannah and The Weakest Link. They've become the bosses of reality TV. They've become Simon Cowell. (Which is kind of an insult to the Daleks, if you ask me.)"

"When you pay $1,239 (which is the average price of a NYC theater ticket nowadays) to see a show, the last thing you want to deal with is rude audience members who don’t know how to act right and ruin your theater-going experience. Some messes still don’t get it and shit has gotten so crazy that an attention whore wreck recently got on stage during a performance of the Broadway play Hand to God and tried to plug his phone into a fake outlet. Well, if Broadway star and Corky’s mom Patti LuPone was in that show and was on stage at the time, he would’ve gone home without his phone… because it would have still been attached to the hand she ripped off."
Michael K., "Patti LuPone is an American Hero"

"The Dolphins even suck in Madden every year."

"That’s the great thing about doing this column on the Internet: We can smack-talk the Amish all we want; they’ll never know."
Chris Sims and David Uzumeri on Smallville ("Harvest")

"Oh my, I guess Mark Trail rescuing his antagonists from fiery car crashes to show his dominance over them is a story element of the past! Under Mark Trail's new management, Mark pulls you from a fiery car crash to show his magnanimity, rushes you to a hospital... and then you die, from your animal-poaching sins... I deem this a tough but fair punishment of an unpleasant fictional character for rhino-murder.
I would have very much enjoyed hearing this doctor explain to Mark and Lori exactly why Chris died.
"His injuries didn't seem life-threatening at first, but despite our best efforts his wounds became infected almost immediately. It's as if no matter how much we cleaned him, he was always... dirty."''

"1) Chechens - Shoot on sight.
2) Bears - Shoot on sight.
3) Wolves - Shoot on sight.
4) Fascists - Shoot on sight.
5) Zombies - Consult with Dr. Mann first.
6) Rabid dogs - Shoot on sight.
7) Chaos Insurgents - Shoot on sight. Show no mercy. These are less than human.
8) SCP-682 - Most of the time you will not even see SCP-682. But you must prepare for all things, and this is something to prepare for. SCP-682 is a soulless monster and should be shot repeatedly until he is deads.
9) Vegetarians - These people know nothing about f"
Killing The Enemies And His Family Too, Section 8: Who You Shoot On Sight, by Captain Dmitri Arkadeyevich Strelnikov, SCP Foundation.

Web Video

"This whole movie, these terrorists have just been inept clowns. It's just—And then it just ends with him on a Wile E. Coyote missile."
"[guffaws] Yeah, Cameron was not sympathetic to the terrorists at all."

"Why is it always about Congress with Deceased Crab? He won't stop making fun of Congress. It's so easy! And no one is ever gonna take offense. You should try it!"

"Over the past 20 years, there have been five bandsnote  totally acceptable to hate reflexively (and by "totally acceptable," I mean that the casual hater wouldn't even have to provide a justification — he or she could just openly hate them and no one would question why)."
— Chuck Klosterman of Grantland, "A Night With the World's Most Hated Bands

"Corporate America: Killing art."

Willingham: Uh, so, sir? What's the over-under on any of us finishing this mission alive?
Pip: About as good as any of us actually getting laid tonight.
Willingham: I don't know, those vampires do look kind of rapey.
Mercenary: Holy shit, dude!
Willingham: OH WHO THE FUCK AM I OFFENDING, THE NAZIS?!

The Doctor: Also, I believe our forces are being quite literally slaughtered.
The Major: Oh, who gives a shit? They're Nazis!

Western Animation

Grizzleflavin: Razed and terrorized the town?
Coop: Check.
Grizzleflavin: Repeatedly booted a cat with the promise of tuna fish?
Yin: Yes!
Grizzleflavin: Yeah, but you did that thing with the paparazzi.
Yin: Yeah?
Grizzleflavin: It was evil. But they kind of deserved it.
Yin: Darn it!

Gene: It's not a lie if you lie to vegetarians! You taught us that!
Bob: I... I did teach you that...
Bob's Burgers, "Food Truckin'"

Real Life

"There is no hell. There is only France."

"The other night I went to a Chinese-German restaurant down the street. The food is great, but an hour later you're hungry for power."
Dick Cavett


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