Quotes / Heel

Fan Works

The Black Moon gang was the next swoop gang to make their entrance. They carried long pikes, the skulls of small animals and crudely rendered replicas of the Death Star hanging from the ends. The pilots hissed and growled at the crowds, who cheerfully booed their arrival. From what Luke understood, the Black Moon gang rarely won a race, and so they’d chosen the Death Star as their symbol and cast themselves as villainous holo-characters as a way of holding the fickle audience’s attention. They still flew hard and fought dirty, those pikes often being used in the middle of a race to unseat a rival biker.

—Common Hazards of the Penumbra Sector

Films — Animated

Thunderlips: Good match.

Rocky Balboa: Hey why'd you get so crazy on me out there?

Thunderlips: That's the name of the game.

—Rocky III

Web Video

(Gorgeous George's) impact could be condensed into a single piece of advice he gave a 19 year old Muhammad Ali, one that would echo not only throughout Ali's career, but through the entire future of wrestling: "A lot of people will pay to see someone shut your mouth." This, right here, is the essence of heel wrestling. You don't have to be nice, or likable, or anything. As long as the audience is booing, it doesn't matter how you got there. Become a terrifying clown! Threaten to make people pay their taxes! Tell people pollution is bad! Or whatever Kurt Angle is going for here!

Kurt Angle: I would like to talk to you tonight about something that gives your Olympic hero great joy: The joy of celibacy! Oh, yeah!

—Super Eyepatch Wolf, "Villains in Wrestling: Making People Hate You"

Western Animation

"Macho Man" Randy Savage: I MUST BE IN QUAHOG, 'CAUSE ALL I SEE IS A BUNCH OF HICKS!
[crowd boos]
Peter: OH, YOU TAKE THAT BACK, "MACHO MAN" RANDY SAVAGE! [to Cleveland] God, doesn't he make you so mad you just wanna go down there and hit him?!
Cleveland: No.
Peter: Well, maybe not him, 'cause he's kinda big, but don't you wanna hit the guy sittin' next to ya?! [camera pans over to show a large man] Well, not him, 'cause he's kinda big too, but don't you wanna hit his kid?! [runs over and punches the kid in the head, knocking him unconscious] Take that, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, ya jerk!

— Family Guy

Amethyst: In the ring, nobody can tell me what to do! And if they try, I HIT 'EM IN THE FACE WITH A CHAIR!
Steven: And people... like that?
Amethyst: "Like it"? They LOVE it! Aha, well, they hate it, but it's all part of the fun, you know?

—Steven Universe, "Tiger Millionaire"

Wrestling

"If you can't beat em in the ring, beat em in the parking lot."

—ThunderKitty

Vinny: "They wanted to see him wrestle, and when he didn't they got angry!"

Bryan: "That's how you do it."

—The Bryan And Vinny Show, TNA iMPACT 7/12/2007

"Mike Long has done more than any other player in the history of the Pro Tour to make it interesting. When Mike was involved, everybody cared. Sure they were all rooting for him to lose, but man did they care."

—Mark Rosewater

Thauvin, a fifty-year-old with an obese and sagging body, whose type of asexual hideousness always inspires feminine nicknames, displays in his flesh the characters of baseness, for his part is to represent what, in the classical concept of the salaud, the 'bastard' (the key-concept of any wrestling-match) appears as organically repugnant. The nausea voluntarily provoked by Thauvin shows therefore a very extended use of signs: not only is ugliness used to signify baseness, but in addition ugliness is wholly gathered into a particularly repulsive quality of matter: the pallid collapse of dead flesh (the public calls Thauvin la barbaque, 'stinking meat'), so that the passionate condemnation of the crowd no longer stems from its judgment, but instead from the very depth of its humours. It will thereafter let itself be frenetically embroiled in an idea of Thauvin which will conform entirely with this physical origin: his actions will perfectly correspond to the essential viscosity of his personage.

—Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies

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