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When there is evil in this world that justice cannot defeat, would you taint your hands with evil to defeat evil? Or would you remain steadfast and righteous even if it means surrendering to evil?
— Lelouch Lamperouge, Code Geass
Tien: What's the matter? You seem to be worried about something, but at least we're winning, right?
Piccolo: It's Vegeta who's winning, Tien, not us.
Piccolo: It's Vegeta who's winning, Tien, not us.
When a devil gets caught by a monster, I, as a human being, can only hope that they both die.
— Fritz Josef Bittenfeld, Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Comic Books
Giurescu is gone, Stephen. God chose to cancel evil with evil. The Nazis took Giurescu, and he cannot come back.
— Father Nicholas Budenz, Hellboy: Wake The Devil
Fan Works
All For One, you say? Good… that one… I remember meeting a person who went by that name. It was long ago, 10 years or so. I doubt we’re talking about the same person, but I digress. They almost foiled everything I had planned for, but now that we have a chance to exterminate them, do so.
— Emperor Belos, All For Luz
Yugi: Look! Kaiba's dueling Pegasus!
Joey: But they're both villains! Who're we supposed to root for?
Joey: But they're both villains! Who're we supposed to root for?
Films — Live-Action
Sometimes, the only way to stop Evil is not with Good. You must confront it with another kind of Evil.
— Aereon, The Chronicles of Riddick
Whoever wins, we lose.
Poster for Alien vs. Predator
Literature
You think that there are the good people and the bad people. You are wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.
— Patrician Havelock Vetinari of Ankh-Morpork, Guards! Guards!
Sometimes it's like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone's going to get stung and you don't care.
— Sir Samuel Vimes of the differently cynical, Night Watch Discworld
I knew why I was allowed to live while others died! I knew why my rottenness was tolerated and kept alive and why the guy with the reaper couldn't catch me and I smashed through the door of the room with the tommy-gun in my hands spitting out the answer at the same time my voice screamed it to the heavens!
I lived only to kill the scum and the lice that wanted to kill themselves. I lived to kill so that others could live. I lived to kill because my soul was a hardened thing that reveled in the thought of taking the blood of the bastards who made murder their business. I lived because I could laugh it off and others couldn't. I was the evil that opposed other evil, leaving the good and the meek in the middle to live and inherit the Earth!
I lived only to kill the scum and the lice that wanted to kill themselves. I lived to kill so that others could live. I lived to kill because my soul was a hardened thing that reveled in the thought of taking the blood of the bastards who made murder their business. I lived because I could laugh it off and others couldn't. I was the evil that opposed other evil, leaving the good and the meek in the middle to live and inherit the Earth!
— Mike Hammer, "One Lonely Night"
Have you ever heard a foolish old saying that evil can only be conquered by good? It's a lie. Evil can only be conquered by evil.
— Welstiel Massing, Dhampir
Live-Action TV
What the hell is [the Obviously Evil demon] slaughtering us for? WE ARE THE BAD GUYS!
— Lilah having a bad day at the office, Angel
Twelfth Doctor: Davros is my Arch-Enemy. Why would I wanna talk to him?
Missy: No, wait, hang on a minute, Davros is your arch-enemy now?
Doctor: (Hush.)
Missy: I'll scratch his eye out.
Missy: No, wait, hang on a minute, Davros is your arch-enemy now?
Doctor: (Hush.)
Missy: I'll scratch his eye out.
— Doctor Who, "The Magician's Apprentice"
Commissioner Braden: You're a criminal. I'm using you to fight evil with evil.
Lt. Hagerman: But if you fight evil with evil, evil wins either way. (Braden and Gunter stare at him) Just saying...
Tabletop Games
When evil fights evil, good triumphs - usually. In the battle between Vecna and Kas, though, the ultimate victor might have been evil. While the battle destroyed a particularly loathsome empire, it also resulted in the creation of three powerful artifacts.
— Dungeons & Dragons: Dungeon Master's Guide II
The word "war" is too simple to describe a conflict that has raged for millennia, ravaging the planes between the Abyss and the Nine Hells. The brutal quest for annihilation is a war of fiend against fiend. Split along ideological lines, it's demon against devil - and given the treachery of both sides, demon-against-demon and devil-against-devil battles sometimes happen. But the Blood War eventually touches every creature on the Outer Planes, one way or another.
The origins of the war are lost to time. Now, it's all about genocide. As long as there are fiends, they'll fight each other in a contest in which no quarter is given or asked. On those planes and layers most directly affected, great siege engines rumble across the battle-plains like mobile mountains, attended by a surging sea of fiends and mercenaries. When two armies clash under hellish suns, the very landscape is split with the terrible energies of war unleashed.
The origins of the war are lost to time. Now, it's all about genocide. As long as there are fiends, they'll fight each other in a contest in which no quarter is given or asked. On those planes and layers most directly affected, great siege engines rumble across the battle-plains like mobile mountains, attended by a surging sea of fiends and mercenaries. When two armies clash under hellish suns, the very landscape is split with the terrible energies of war unleashed.
— Dungeons & Dragons: Manual of the Planes (3rd Edition)
When blood bathers and vampires meet, the results are usually violent in the long term: blood bathers, after all, bring trouble in the form of hunters note , law enforcement note , and scarcity of food note . Another source of conflict, though is that once a blood bather has completed the Bathing Ritual, the blood becomes inert. It is useless for transfusions or any other medical purpose, and it is useless for any other mystical use - including consumption by a vampire. Once the local undead discover that someone is killing the living, draining their blood and making that blood useless, they will probably find a way to kill the blood bather. Or at least, they can try - blood bathers aren't exactly easy to kill.
Video Games
"Only through victory can the galaxy be saved from extermination, so that it can be enslaved, and oppressed, as is proper."
— Galactic Civilizations II: Dark Avatar intro
"And so religious nuts will overthrow a government of hypocrites. The situation would be ludicrous if it wasn't actually happening."
— Guehala Dennis, The Tale of ALLTYNEX
"Brainiac stole Atlantis. For that, I could have thanked him. But that wasn't enough. Arthur Curry's kingdom had to be wiped from history. Forgotten. Lost. As it should be. I found just the place, guarded by Earth's most savage predators. Once upon a time, Arthur Curry killed my father. Now that I've killed his kingdom, all that remains is to kill "the King" himself. Only then will I consider my father's murder avenged. Only then will I finally rest. And what of Aquaman? Does he come forward to avenge his own people? No. He hides behind an alien and an Amazon. Let him. It won't save him. Compared to that alien freak, Brainiac, these three will be fish for the slaughter. And when they're dead, the world can thank Black Manta."
"Villains are BAD GUYS! No one likes bad guys. Not even bad guys like bad guys!"
— Pearl, Splatoon 2
Web Animation
Brittnay: You really outdid yourself this time, Mackenzie. You really went for it, didn't you?
Mackenzie: Brittnay, I—
Brittnay: Shut up Mackenzie! Just shut the fuck up! I am so tired of hearing your voice. Everyone is tired of hearing your voice. And after tonight, nobody's gonna have to hear it ever again. So enjoy your last few minutes of relevance, bitch!
Mackenzie: Britt listen—
Brittnay: You know what I learned today? I'm better than you! I took everything you could throw at me and guess what? I'm still here, bitch! And now, I think it's time for me to end this little game. So lube up Mackenzie, 'cuz you're about to get buttfucked real good!
Mackenzie: Look Brittnay, I tried to make things right from day one. You're the one that kept pushing it. You're the one who kept refusing my apologies. You're the one that joined up with Shay Van Buren and you're the one who won't stop until everything we worked so hard for is completely destroyed. Face it, Brittnay you don't know when to stop. This isn't gonna end until someone is completely obliterated.
Brittnay: You've got that right, Mackenzie. But don't worry. That somebody, it's not gonna be me. (leaves)
Mackenzie: Brittnay, I—
Brittnay: Shut up Mackenzie! Just shut the fuck up! I am so tired of hearing your voice. Everyone is tired of hearing your voice. And after tonight, nobody's gonna have to hear it ever again. So enjoy your last few minutes of relevance, bitch!
Mackenzie: Britt listen—
Brittnay: You know what I learned today? I'm better than you! I took everything you could throw at me and guess what? I'm still here, bitch! And now, I think it's time for me to end this little game. So lube up Mackenzie, 'cuz you're about to get buttfucked real good!
Mackenzie: Look Brittnay, I tried to make things right from day one. You're the one that kept pushing it. You're the one who kept refusing my apologies. You're the one that joined up with Shay Van Buren and you're the one who won't stop until everything we worked so hard for is completely destroyed. Face it, Brittnay you don't know when to stop. This isn't gonna end until someone is completely obliterated.
Brittnay: You've got that right, Mackenzie. But don't worry. That somebody, it's not gonna be me. (leaves)
— The Most Popular Girls in School, "End of the Year Party, Part 2"
Mecha Sonic: Just who are these idiots?
Axem Red: We are the elite fighting force of the Smithy gang. The one and only Axem Rangers X. And in the name of Lord Smithy, I order you to hand over those stones of Might.
Mecha Sonic: Bah! Unworthy life forms such as yourselves don't deserve the ultimate power. It shall be mine and mine alone!
Sonic: That power belongs to the citizens of Mobius and I won't allow you to abuse it any longer. You will pay dearly for what you did to Tails and my friends. I swear it!!!
Axem Red: Sorry to burst your bubble, but those stones will belong to us! Yellow. Take him out!
Axem Yellow: With pleasure. (Axem Yellow charges toward Mecha Sonic, and swings at him with his axe, hoping to kill him, only for the axe to break instead of Mecha Sonic.)
Mecha Sonic: Fools! If you're all so eager to throw your lives away, then so be it!!
Axem Red: We are the elite fighting force of the Smithy gang. The one and only Axem Rangers X. And in the name of Lord Smithy, I order you to hand over those stones of Might.
Mecha Sonic: Bah! Unworthy life forms such as yourselves don't deserve the ultimate power. It shall be mine and mine alone!
Sonic: That power belongs to the citizens of Mobius and I won't allow you to abuse it any longer. You will pay dearly for what you did to Tails and my friends. I swear it!!!
Axem Red: Sorry to burst your bubble, but those stones will belong to us! Yellow. Take him out!
Axem Yellow: With pleasure. (Axem Yellow charges toward Mecha Sonic, and swings at him with his axe, hoping to kill him, only for the axe to break instead of Mecha Sonic.)
Mecha Sonic: Fools! If you're all so eager to throw your lives away, then so be it!!
Thunder roars across the vast unknown
Light years beyond our reach, vying for a cosmic throne
From a heart of metal, a dark desire burns
Rage against a frozen soul that never learns
Where to stop, when to pause
An ego chasing down the gods
Feel the spark, a blackened star inside your heart
Violent designs meet violent ends
Deceptive tyrants never choose to make amends
Light years beyond our reach, vying for a cosmic throne
From a heart of metal, a dark desire burns
Rage against a frozen soul that never learns
Where to stop, when to pause
An ego chasing down the gods
Feel the spark, a blackened star inside your heart
Violent designs meet violent ends
Deceptive tyrants never choose to make amends
— "Final Formers", DEATH BATTLE!
Webcomics
Sploorfix: And you still want to spark a war between the Lattrox and Bleen? A war in which millions of innocent, intelligent beings will perish?
Vexxarr: No, no. See, the Lattrox and Bleen would be fighting each other...
Vexxarr: No, no. See, the Lattrox and Bleen would be fighting each other...
— Vexxarr
Hy dun tink ve vants either ov dese guys to vin.
—Oggie commenting on the fight between Quintillius Harmon and Dimitri Vapnoople, in Girl Genius, Vol. 19 p. 97
Web Original
Angry Joe: Sometimes the best way to deal with a madman is to send in another madman...
Linkara: (thinks for a second) That is a stupid plan!
Angry Joe: Exactly! A stupid plan for a stupid man!
Linkara: Are you high?
Linkara: (thinks for a second) That is a stupid plan!
Angry Joe: Exactly! A stupid plan for a stupid man!
Linkara: Are you high?
Western Animation
Darth Sidious: I am most impressed to see you have survived your injuries.
Maul: I used your training, Master, and I have built all this in hopes of returning to your side.
Darth Sidious: Hmm... how unfortunate that you are attempting to deceive me.
Maul: Master?
Darth Sidious: You have become a RIVAL!
Maul: I used your training, Master, and I have built all this in hopes of returning to your side.
Darth Sidious: Hmm... how unfortunate that you are attempting to deceive me.
Maul: Master?
Darth Sidious: You have become a RIVAL!
Demon: You cannot hope to defeat pure evil!
Slade: Actually, I'm not such a nice guy myself.
Slade: Actually, I'm not such a nice guy myself.
"Now it's evil vs wicked.
Heather's cruel but Al is sick and,
All this aggro for the cheddar,
She'll put Al here through the shredder!"
— Harold McGrady, Total Drama World Tour, "Hawaiian Punch" during the musical number "Versus"
