"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon..."
"Doom is the Rosetta Stone of modern video games."
"The devil is real. I know. I built his cage."
— Delta Scientist Jonathan Ishii, Doom 3
"Rip and tear! Rip and tear your guts! You are huge! That means you have HUGE GUTS! RIP AND TEAR! Oooh, here comes the night train! Choo choo cha-BOOGIE!"
— The Marine, the comic
"And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed"
— Proverbs 5:11, providing the name for Doom's fourth episode Thy Flesh Consumed.
"Who do you suppose left all that radioactive waste down there? And why? Why? Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good! Why can't we find a way to safely dispose of radioactive waste and protect the environment? Even if I personally stop this alien invasion, what kind of planet will we be leaving to our children? And our children's children, and... oh the humanity: my big gun is out of bullets!"
— The Marine's Green Aesop filibuster to no-one in particular the comic
"At this particular moment in time, I don't believe I have a healthier or more deeply-felt respect for any other object in the universe than this here shotgun..."
— The Marine, the comic
"Ah, chaingun! The hell with respect!"
— The Marine, the comic, just moments after the above line.
"I'm the man! I'm superbad! Imps? Zombies? You think you can get me?!? Wait, maybe they don't think. Well, I do! And I think you're dead! Dead! Dead! Dead!"
— The Marine, the comic
"My cause is just, my will is strong, and my gun is very, very large."
— The Marine, the comic
"The poets talk about love... but what I talk about is Doom, because in the end, Doom is all that counts."
"If you haven't paid for DOOM, you are playing illegally. That means you owe us money. Of course, a guy like you probably owes a lot of people money — your friends, maybe even your parents. Stop being a freeloader and register DOOM. Call us now at 1-800-IDGAMES. We can help!"
— Doom ENDOOM
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— Every monster, at any given time.
