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Catherine Halsey: Who is this Sali 'Nyon?
Jul 'Mdama: An unexceptional warrior and inept commander. But his devotion to the Forerunners is true, and some of our more impressionable brothers are drawn by his fervor.
Jul 'Mdama: An unexceptional warrior and inept commander. But his devotion to the Forerunners is true, and some of our more impressionable brothers are drawn by his fervor.
"Don't you get it, Rebel? You're not important! You never were! You were just — something to do! Something for [Linda] and me to bounce off of for a while until people and events of real consequence came along!"
— Kara Zor-El alias Supergirl, Many Happy Returns
"Being a Mad Scientist wasn't bad enough. He had to be a wannabe influencer, too."
— Surge the Tenrec, about Dr. Starline, Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW)
Films — Live-Action
John Daggett: I'm in charge!
[Bane places a heavy hand on Dagget's shoulder]
Bane: Do you feel in charge?
John Daggett: [slowly realizing just how screwed actually he is] ...I've paid you a small fortune.
Bane: [disapprovingly] And this gives you power over me?
John Daggett: [almost whimpering] What is this?!
Bane: Your money and infrastructure have been important... [grabs Daggett by the neck] 'Til now.
[Bane places a heavy hand on Dagget's shoulder]
Bane: Do you feel in charge?
John Daggett: [slowly realizing just how screwed actually he is] ...I've paid you a small fortune.
Bane: [disapprovingly] And this gives you power over me?
John Daggett: [almost whimpering] What is this?!
Bane: Your money and infrastructure have been important... [grabs Daggett by the neck] 'Til now.
Ronan the Accuser: I only ask that you take this matter seriously.
[Thanos turns his throne around to face Ronan]
Thanos: The only matter I do not take seriously, boy, is you. Your politics bore me! Your demeanor is that of a pouty child. And, apparently, you've alienated my favorite daughter, Gamora. I shall honor our agreement, Kree, if you bring me the Orb. But return to me again empty-handed, and I will bathe the starways in your blood.
[Ronan gulps]
[Nebula finishes repairing herself, and prepares to leave]
Nebula: Thanks, Dad. Sounds fair. [to Ronan] This is one fight you won't win.
[Thanos turns his throne around to face Ronan]
Thanos: The only matter I do not take seriously, boy, is you. Your politics bore me! Your demeanor is that of a pouty child. And, apparently, you've alienated my favorite daughter, Gamora. I shall honor our agreement, Kree, if you bring me the Orb. But return to me again empty-handed, and I will bathe the starways in your blood.
[Ronan gulps]
[Nebula finishes repairing herself, and prepares to leave]
Nebula: Thanks, Dad. Sounds fair. [to Ronan] This is one fight you won't win.
Blix: Magic horn is mine, mine, mine! Now all creatures will love the night, and worship goblins as divine!
Blunder: You shouldn't talk like that, Blix!
Blix: Why not? I've got the power now!
Blunder: Plenty big puff!
Blunder: You shouldn't talk like that, Blix!
Blix: Why not? I've got the power now!
Blunder: Plenty big puff!
"Suck my fat one, you cheap dime-store hood."
— Gordie, in a life-or-death stand-off with John "Ace" Merrill, Stand by Me
Carly: Was it all worth it?
Megatron: Obviously.
Carly: All your work to bring Sentinel back and now clearly he’s the one with all the power. It’s actually almost tragic.
Megatron: You dare lecture me, slave?!
Carly: Your Decepticons finally conquering this planet, and yet, their leader won’t be you.
Megatron: It will be me! It will always be me!
Carly: In any minute now, you’ll be nothing but Sentinel’s bitch.
Megatron: Obviously.
Carly: All your work to bring Sentinel back and now clearly he’s the one with all the power. It’s actually almost tragic.
Megatron: You dare lecture me, slave?!
Carly: Your Decepticons finally conquering this planet, and yet, their leader won’t be you.
Megatron: It will be me! It will always be me!
Carly: In any minute now, you’ll be nothing but Sentinel’s bitch.
Literature
"You've never understood anything but brute force and crude manipulation, Visser Three. Your plans are grandiose and absurd. You wasted how much time and how many resources inventing a clever potion to destroy human free will? A failure! As anyone who knows humans could have told you. You try and seize control of the head of state of the most powerful nations and end up alarming them, making half of them suspect our presence on Earth! You spend a fortune in pursuit of an Anti-Morphing Ray that doesn't work! Why? Because you cannot even manage to wipe out a handful of Andalite refugees!"
— Visser One, Animorphs: Visser
"Here you are, sitting in the middle of the desert, in a tin shack with not enough air conditioning, calling yourself 'field marshal' and playing soldier. The men I'm talking about are sitting in big offices in big cities. Some of those big cities are seats of government. And what these men call themselves, they really are, and you can believe in them."
— Mack Bolan, The Executioner #44, "Terrorist Summit"
Onyx is not remotely in Richard's league, and the fact that Richard hadn't responded to the younger mage's provocations just meant that he had bigger fish to fry. If Onyx ever made it to the top of Richard's priority list, he'd be splattered like a bug on a windshield.
— Marked
Live-Action TV
"I hate to break it to you, O Impotent One, but you're not the 'Big Bad' anymore. You're not even the 'Kind of Naughty'."
— Xander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"Harmony, when you tried to be Head Cheerleader, you were bad. When you tried to chair the Homecoming Committee, you were really bad. But when you try to be bad? YOU SUCK."
— Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"I don't distrust you because you're a woman, I distrust you because you're not as smart as you think you are."
— Tywin Lannister, to his daughter Cersei, Game of Thrones
"I'm just amazed what a child you still are! You don't comprehend the levels adults operate on! See, little prince Kureshima... Didn't Takatora ever tell you? Why he didn't want you to grow up so bad. Liars, cowards... those kinds of bad children... are easy prey for bad grown-ups!"
— Ryoma Sengoku speaking to Mitsuzane Kureshima, Kamen Rider Gaim
"Power is just an asshole stuffed with money. And while you're definitely all stocked up on asshole, money you just don't got."
— Mr. Robot, Mr. Robot
Video Games
"Morpheus. It's quite amusing. He thinks he's so much more than just a slug the Master recruited to head his Children of the Cathedral nonsense. Ah, well. He, too, will be dipped in the Vats, and he'll probably die a horrible death... I hope."
Ike: So who is it? Who's pulling your strings?
Lekain: Pulling my strings? What are you saying? I alone have been chosen to protect her! I masterminded the plan to resurrect the goddess and become Ashera's chosen one! It is my right! Mine alone!
Ike: Really? I didn't see you around when the galdr of release was sung to the medallion...
Lekain: What medallion? What nonsense are you talking about?
Ike: Wow... You don't have any idea what's really going on, do you, "mastermind"? I'm just wasting my time.
Lekain: You... You! Urghh! I am Lekain, Duke of Gaddos! The one and only!
Lekain: Pulling my strings? What are you saying? I alone have been chosen to protect her! I masterminded the plan to resurrect the goddess and become Ashera's chosen one! It is my right! Mine alone!
Ike: Really? I didn't see you around when the galdr of release was sung to the medallion...
Lekain: What medallion? What nonsense are you talking about?
Ike: Wow... You don't have any idea what's really going on, do you, "mastermind"? I'm just wasting my time.
Lekain: You... You! Urghh! I am Lekain, Duke of Gaddos! The one and only!
Letizia: Identify yourself! You address the successor to the Emblian throne!
Embla: You address Embla. And it is my blood, the blood I granted your ancestors that flows within you. Your blood is my blood. And so, you are mine. Head, arms, legs, all... Hm-hm-hmh-ha-hah...
Letizia: ...Hngh!
Embla: You cannot flee from me. You cannot refuse me. You are already mine. We are already one.
Embla: You address Embla. And it is my blood, the blood I granted your ancestors that flows within you. Your blood is my blood. And so, you are mine. Head, arms, legs, all... Hm-hm-hmh-ha-hah...
Letizia: ...Hngh!
Embla: You cannot flee from me. You cannot refuse me. You are already mine. We are already one.
— Fire Emblem Heroes, Book VI, Chapter 8, Part 4
"A bold move, General. But the will of Bakunawa has been restored. You have ten seconds to leave."
— Merga to General Serpentine, Freedom Planet 2
Niko Bellic: You wanna know something funny?
Jimmy Pegorino: Not really.
Niko Bellic: The Commission — the old families — I know some of those guys. And they thought you were a fat fucking joke.
Jimmy Pegorino: Not really.
Niko Bellic: The Commission — the old families — I know some of those guys. And they thought you were a fat fucking joke.
Jul 'Mdama: The security situation is not stable. There is no time to dither. You will also accord me the respect befitting of the Didact's Hand.
Halsey: Mmmm, seems your fingers are in open rebellion, Hand.
Jul 'Mdama: ENOUGH!
Halsey: Mmmm, seems your fingers are in open rebellion, Hand.
Jul 'Mdama: ENOUGH!
"I wanted to be Master of the Sith and ruler of the galaxy. But that destiny was not mine, Revan. [cough] It might have been yours, perhaps... but never mine. And in the end, as darkness takes me, I am nothing."
— Darth Malak, Light side ending, Knights of the Old Republic
Bowser: I don't work well with others!
Antasma: SCREEK! Vut do you mean by this?!
Bowser: I mean you're an idiot! You thought you were using me? ME?! Buddy, I was playing you like a bat fiddle!
Antasma: Vut in the... No! How could you?!
Bowser: I'll tell you how. This castle? Peach? The Dream Stone? ALL MINE. You hear me? They belong to Bowser!
Antasma: SCREEK! Vut do you mean by this?!
Bowser: I mean you're an idiot! You thought you were using me? ME?! Buddy, I was playing you like a bat fiddle!
Antasma: Vut in the... No! How could you?!
Bowser: I'll tell you how. This castle? Peach? The Dream Stone? ALL MINE. You hear me? They belong to Bowser!
"Adios, jefe. So little imagination..."
— Atoq Navarro after killing Gabriel Roman, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Webcomics
"The Auror Office believes that Potter is not a Dark Lord, but merely a self-aggrandizing serial killer motivated by petty revenge against those he believes have wronged him.
Have we become so complacent since Voldemort's fall that this is what we imagine it must be like to live in a Dark Lord's shadow? Potter is running to hide from our Aurors even as we speak. In Voldemort's time... Aurors ran from him."
Have we become so complacent since Voldemort's fall that this is what we imagine it must be like to live in a Dark Lord's shadow? Potter is running to hide from our Aurors even as we speak. In Voldemort's time... Aurors ran from him."
— Hermione, Voldemort's Children
Western Animation
Long Feng: ...You've beaten me at my own game.
Azula: Don't flatter yourself. You were never even a player.
Azula: Don't flatter yourself. You were never even a player.
J-Man: Who do you think you're talking to, old man? We're the Jokerz!
Bruce Wayne: (smirk) Suuuuure, you are.
Bruce Wayne: (smirk) Suuuuure, you are.
"I served under the original Megatron. You may have his name, but not his army."
— Ravage directed towards the Predacon Megatron, Beast Wars
"And thus ends the glorious reign of Terrorsaur: a lost battle, a missing Blackarachnia, and who knows what damage inflicted by the Maximal spy!"
— Megatron, Beast Wars
Kalus: Tell me about Krytus back on the Blue Sentient homeworld.
Zemerik: Krytus? He is the most malicious entity in the Multiverse.
Kalus: How do we defeat him?
Zemerik: You? Defeat Krytus? You are nothing compared to him!
— Zemerik laying out the threat of Krytus compared to Kalus, Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5
Kikimora: The days of Kikimora the underling are over! I prefer partnerships such as ours. We need to establish our rule now, for the well-being of future generations.
Camila: Okay, I'm still catching up, what's the little red kitten trying to do?
Luz: She's just copying Belos's "scare people into worship" thing because she has NO IDEAS OF HER OWN!
Camila: Okay, I'm still catching up, what's the little red kitten trying to do?
Luz: She's just copying Belos's "scare people into worship" thing because she has NO IDEAS OF HER OWN!
— The Owl House, "For the Future"
"Aw man. We thought we were the baddest in town, but then Eggman showed up with his claw doodad."
— Dave the Intern, Sonic Boom
"Plankton: 1% evil, 99% hot gas."
— Karen, Spongebob Squarepants, "Plankton!"
"Is that the best you could do, Starscream? And to think you actually believed you could take over as leader of the Decepticons. You couldn't lead a parade."
Master Fung: Young monks, we must prepare for evil forces that have grown so very close.
Jack Spicer: Thanks!
Master Fung: We are not talking about you. There is evil far, far greater.
Jack Spicer: Not true!
