Fan Works
"The Aesir are a good natured people. Horrifically violent practitioners of magic so dark and evil that most don’t even know how their species ascended to godhood. But good people nonetheless. Naively so."
— Aswang Temur, Vainglorious
Film
"What superpower would you rather have? Everybody chooses flight, because heroes fly. A lot of people would rather be invisible. Invisibility is a total supervillain power, though, so they say flight..."
— Freddy Freeman, SHAZAM! (2019)
Literature
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter
Nobody liked their heads being messed with, magi least of all, and in the dawn days of human history those with my rare Gift had carried the darker name of tyrant, and enslaved magi and mageborn through an enforced Gift-bond, a permanent linking of magical Gifts that allowed the tyrant unfettered access to their minds. But I wasn't them, hadn't enslaved people, and didn't deserve the black looks other magi aimed my way - well, not for that reason anyway. As a full-blown magus, I could have mentally forced Lynas to do as I wished, but I never had and never would.
— The Traitor God, by Cameron Johnston
"Evil magic could flow through her like a river in full flood. Fortunately for the rest of us, there's a lot of Agnes in the way."
— The dust-wife on Agnes, Nettle & Bone
Video Games
"Tainted though I am, I am still a Warrior of Light!"
— Spectral Necromancer, Final Fantasy XIV
"The weapon is evil, but the hand is just. I will bend this darkness to my will! I will protect the innocent!"
— Clarissa Snowflake, Sakura Wars (2019)
Oleander: Do not underestimate the good that dark magic can do.
Fred: You go girl!
Fred: You go girl!
"Our power doesn't make us good or bad. Our choices do."
— Miriam to Gebel, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Web Original
460. I'd better have a real good excuse for being a Necromancer if I'm Lawful Good.
Western Animation
"You're right, Fuseli. This IS my magic. ALL of it. What I know, what I've yet to discover. Good or bad, dark or light. It's MINE to do with as...I...CHOOSE!"
