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"Just looking at you pisses me off, 'cause I'm the same as you! I'm not human. I never was! I'm a goddamn Life Fiber monster!"
You'll watch young aspiring adventurers — those with new porcelain ranks — who will think "I chased away a goblin that came to my village once. They're weak, easy to deal with." These rookies won't realize that the goblin they proudly chased away was likely an injured wanderer whose horde has been destroyed. Still, this gives the young adventurer false confidence. Meanwhile, goblins that survive an attack gain experience. They become wanderers and grow stronger. Eventually, the wanderers become bodyguards, or leaders of new nests.
In a way, I am, in turn, a monster to them.
In a way, I am, in turn, a monster to them.
"I'm fine with being called a devil. I'll just have to use all my tools to get you to listen!"
—Nanoha Takamachi, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's
"After he was resurrected, Christ still had holes from the nails pounded into his hands. Not me." [hands heal instantly] "I am not a god; I am the Devil."
— Kyosuke, The SoulTaker
Ling Xiaoyu: Jin! Don't let hatred turn you into a monster!
Jin Kazama: But I am a monster. It's all that's left.
Jin Kazama: But I am a monster. It's all that's left.
Fan Works
"You must think me a monstrous man. And you would be correct. I do not ask to be remembered for my triumphs, only for the bloodshed I leave behind. Someday I will pay for what I have done, or perhaps this is my purgatory."
— Cyril Sutherland, The Good Hunter, "Testimony of the Wandering Scholar"
Claudia: And so you would become a monster in order to win this war?
Kyril: I am a monster, Lady Claudia, in case you haven't noticed.
Kyril: I am a monster, Lady Claudia, in case you haven't noticed.
Films — Animation
"I'm just fooling myself. She'll never see me as anything more but a monster. It's hopeless."
—The Beast, Beauty and the Beast
"Marty, stay back. Please. I'm a monster."
—Alex, Madagascar
Films — Live-Action
"You see, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve."
— The Joker, The Dark Knight
"I'm a monster inside and out. I belong in the fucking circus."
"Now if anyone's thinking: Why those poor, helpless little folk, all naked and unarmed outside their crashed intergalatica winnebago. What kind of monster, could hear that heartbreak and go in just the same? I'm that dog! I'm that monster! These little mothers are as harmless as a fox in a henhouse! And I'm here to kick some ass!"
— Colonel Curtis, Dreamcatcher
"YOU DID THIS TO ME! YOU BENE GESSERIT MADE ME A FREAK!"
— Paul Atreides, Dune (2021)
"I'm saying I'm an insect...who dreamt he was a man...and loved it. But now the dream is over...and the insect is awake. I'm saying...I'll hurt you if you stay."
— Seth Brundle, The Fly (1986)
Kylo Ren: You have that look in your eyes, from the forest. When you called me a monster.
Rey: You are a monster.
Kylo Ren: ...Yes, I am.
Rey: You are a monster.
Kylo Ren: ...Yes, I am.
Loki: You could have told me what I was from the beginning, why didn't you?!
Odin: You're my son. I wanted only to protect you from the truth.
Loki: What, because I... I... I am the monster parents tell their children about at night?
Odin: You're my son. I wanted only to protect you from the truth.
Loki: What, because I... I... I am the monster parents tell their children about at night?
— Thor
Literature
Dust: Funny little goddess slumming it with the rest of us.
Ryn: I am a monster. That is the start and the end of what I am.
Ryn: I am a monster. That is the start and the end of what I am.
Live-Action TV
"I'M A MOOOOOONSTEEERR!!!"
— Buster, Arrested Development
"We're monsters, Liv. We eat people."
— Lowell, iZombie
Darth Vader: Anakin is gone...I am what remains...
Obi-Wan: I'm sorry...I'm sorry, Anakin...for all of it...
Darth Vader: ...I am not your failure, Obi-Wan...You didn't kill Anakin Skywalker...I did.
Obi-Wan: I'm sorry...I'm sorry, Anakin...for all of it...
Darth Vader: ...I am not your failure, Obi-Wan...You didn't kill Anakin Skywalker...I did.
Reese: Only one way to deal with guys like this, guys who hide who they really are until they get home.
Finch: What will you do, Mr Reese?
Reese: Show 'em what a real monster looks like.
Finch: What will you do, Mr Reese?
Reese: Show 'em what a real monster looks like.
— Person of Interest, "Many Happy Returns"
Churchill: Have they told you terrible things, your colleagues downstairs? Go on, be candid!
Venetia: It is said...you can be difficult.
Churchill: I can be a monster; did they say that?
Venetia: Yes, sir.
Churchill: It's true. But you need to be a monster to defeat Hitler!
— The Crown (2016), "Hyde Park Corner"
"I escaped from the petri dish... WHAT AM I!?"
— Russell Howard, Mock the Week, "Unlikely Things to Hear on a Science Documentary"
Music
"I feel it deep within, it's just beneath the skin.
I must confess that I feel like a monster."
I must confess that I feel like a monster."
—"Monster" by Skillet
Tabletop Games
"A beast I am, lest a Beast I become."
Video Games
"Just look at me! I'm neither fully human nor fully robot! I'm a monster. You will never understand what this feels like. But Dr. Tenma told me if I defeat you... I will able to see past my own sorrow... and become something never seen before, the ultimate evolution. So you see why I must use you to overcome my cursed fate. I shall become the ruler of this world! Here I come!!"
— Atlas, Astro Boy: Omega Factor
"I'm a devil. I love the people of the grove, but I unsettle them deep down."
— Wyll (if Mizora turns him into a part-devil for sparing Karlach), Baldur's Gate III
Mind Flayer!Player Character: I am a monster.
Minthara: So am I, my love. Let us be monsters together…
Minthara: So am I, my love. Let us be monsters together…
"There is no me, there is no you! There is only the never ending spit and bile of combat! The twenty-four hour murder spree of shining metal! I drink the blood and eat the loot and breathe the numbers, because I AM A MONSTER! NOW AND FOREVER!"
— Krieg the Psycho, Borderlands 2
"I... I... I was just so... I was so lonely! I'm sorry! I'm sorry for everything!! You need to go. You're right... I am a monster. GO!!!"
— Ren Hana, Boyfriend To Death 2: Fresh Blood ("You ran from Ren" ending)
"YOU HUMANS MADE US! NOW SUFFER FOR YOUR ARROGANCE!!
— Super Mutant, Fallout 4
"I'M A MONSTER, AND I DESERVE TO DIE!"
— Clive Rosfield, Final Fantasy XVI
"Monsters... When I served in the Iron Kingdom, I did so because I saw no other choice. Because once they learned that the lash would not move me, they turned it on those who could...and so, I became a puppet. I let them pull the strings, telling myself it was not my hand that swung the sword, but another's. I removed myself from the truth so I wouldn't feel the pain it caused...and before I knew it, I no longer felt anything. Anything at all. I...had become a monster."
— Jill Warrick, Final Fantasy XVI
Randolph: I have a family waiting for me... Please. I can't die here.
Dimitri: A beast of your depravity, prattling on about family? How amusing...
Randolph: As though you could understand...such a thing as love...you heartless monster!
Dimitri: You are a monster, too, General. You have just yet to realize it. A monster who thinks he's a man...despicable. As a general, you must have killed countless souls without a shred of mercy. Do you still remember the sound of them begging, just as you're begging now? Or now that your life is at its end, will you hold to the lie that your hands are not stained red with blood?
Randolph: This...this is war! I did what I had to for the empire! For the people! For my family!
Dimitri: So, you are piling corpses for the people and for your family. And I am doing the same for the salvation of the dead... After all is said and done, we are both murderers. Both stained. Both monsters.
Dimitri: A beast of your depravity, prattling on about family? How amusing...
Randolph: As though you could understand...such a thing as love...you heartless monster!
Dimitri: You are a monster, too, General. You have just yet to realize it. A monster who thinks he's a man...despicable. As a general, you must have killed countless souls without a shred of mercy. Do you still remember the sound of them begging, just as you're begging now? Or now that your life is at its end, will you hold to the lie that your hands are not stained red with blood?
Randolph: This...this is war! I did what I had to for the empire! For the people! For my family!
Dimitri: So, you are piling corpses for the people and for your family. And I am doing the same for the salvation of the dead... After all is said and done, we are both murderers. Both stained. Both monsters.
Athena: You cannot change. You will always be... a monster.
Kratos: (lowly) I know... ...But I am your monster no longer.
Kratos: (lowly) I know... ...But I am your monster no longer.
"He was just a man afraid for his life, attacked and swallowed by a monster he had no hope of defeating. But the hydra was just an animal. I showed him what a true monster looked like."
—Kratos reminisces about killing the Boat Captain, God of War Ragnarök, Valhalla
"My family. It does not want a mons... an 'Anomaly'. [...] I did not want to be a mons... an 'Anomaly', so I tried to act 'normal', to 'normalize' myself."
—Alice Kurosawa, Les Quatre Alices
Kazuhira Miller: Cipher sent us to hell...but we're going even deeper.
Venom Snake: I know... I'm already a demon. Heaven's not my kind of place, anyway.
Venom Snake: I know... I'm already a demon. Heaven's not my kind of place, anyway.
You're right. I'm not like you. I am a demon who rules this world!
— Shadow Kamoshida, Persona 5
"I AM... I AM A MONSTER
COACH"
COACH"
— Silver, Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal
"If I was ever to see her again, y'know what I'd say? I'd say...I'm sorry. Sincerely. I'm sorry I was bossy...and monstrous...and...I am genuinely sorry. The end."
— Wheatley, Portal 2
I miss him every day. Every moment. They turned me into a monster, Arthur...but my memories of him...they's still pure.
— Sadie Adler, Red Dead Redemption 2
"I am Shadow the Hedgehog. A research experiment... gone deadly wrong! I've caused so much destruction... I should never have been created... This is who I am..."
"And the truth, [Calypso] said, was that the demon… wasn't… real! The voice inside me was a figment of my imagination! My god… it was all… in my mind! The "exorcism"? It wasn't an exorcism at all! It was simply a baptism! It was judgment day in that church, and I was the ANGEL OF DEATH! The truth has been delivered indeed! But not by god, but by Calypso! He was right! I was, as they say… insane. My whole life, I was trying to silence that voice. I even performed rituals to show my loyalty to God in Hope that He would save me! But nothing worked… A man cannot hide from himself. There is only one path before me... (Drops himself off the ledge of a building)
—Preacher Jedidiah, Twisted Metal: Black
Webcomics
"Before coming to Chaldea, I had always assumed that when push came to shove, I'd be a hypocrite, unable to follow through with what I believed... But now? Now I know that I'm the kind of monster who could follow through with such a cruel and unjust act."
— Rikku, Fate/Gamers Only
Admiral Emm: You're a monster. You know that, right?
Kowalski: I never get tired of being called that.
Kowalski: I never get tired of being called that.
Mako (Kowalski-in-Mathilde): Captain Sorlie, sir: if I hadn't been installed in Libretti's head, she would have been brain-hacked with the rest of the J.S.C. and she'd be a "meat-puppet" today. Kowalski sent Libretti's husband and son out of town to protect them. If that hadn't happened they'd probably be dead at puppet-Libretti's hands right now. Oh, and you'd probably all be dead, too, since I'm the one who alerted you to the whole plot.
Sorlie: The end doesn't justify the means.
Mako: It necessitates the means, but it can't ever redeem people like me from the means we've employed. Not even if we save the world.
Sorlie: You've had this argument before.
Mako: In another body. I'm a real monster, Sorlie.
Sorlie: The end doesn't justify the means.
Mako: It necessitates the means, but it can't ever redeem people like me from the means we've employed. Not even if we save the world.
Sorlie: You've had this argument before.
Mako: In another body. I'm a real monster, Sorlie.
Kathryn: What I can't figure out is how our enemy can turn a division of troops into an ace in the hole. Eventually the U.N.S. Regulars arrive. Game over, we win.
Mako: You're a fine strategist, but you're not monstrous enough. The army we can't find? It can overrun the garrison under the city, and then sabotage the annie plant. All of the evidence dies, along with a city of four billion, in a searing cloud of evaporating neutronium.
Murtaugh: You're a monster.
Mako: I never get tired of being told that.
Mako: You're a fine strategist, but you're not monstrous enough. The army we can't find? It can overrun the garrison under the city, and then sabotage the annie plant. All of the evidence dies, along with a city of four billion, in a searing cloud of evaporating neutronium.
Murtaugh: You're a monster.
Mako: I never get tired of being told that.
Western Animation
(looking at her sink reflection) "You are not normal... You... are a... MONSTER!"
— Princess Monster Wife, Adventure Time, "Princess Monster Wife"
"My own mother thought I was a monster...She was right, of course, but it still hurt."
— Princess Azula, Avatar: The Last Airbender
"You wanna know why this room was locked up? This is what I found in here. A painted record of every horrible thing that my family's ever done. Lying, cheating, and then there's me. I lied to you just because I'm too scared to talk back to my stupid parents! You were right about me. I am just another link in the world's worst chain."
— Pacifica confiding to Dipper, Gravity Falls
"Iron Will's not a monster, he's a MINOTAUR!! (beat) I'm the monster..."
— Fluttershy, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "Putting Your Hoof Down"
Jumba: 626, is that you? Why are you so upset?
Stitch: Stitch, monster!
Stitch: Stitch, monster!
Steven: Pearl? Was Amethyst really made here?
Pearl: How much did you tell him?
Amethyst: What? You mean about the bad thing? How this bad place is where bad Gems came to grow more bad Gems? Is that what you're talking about?
Steven: They grew other Gems here?!
Pearl: Amethyst! He's not ready!
Amethyst: Oh, but don't worry, Steven. Everything's just fine now.
Pearl: Amethyst—
Amethyst: It all worked out! We won!
Pearl: Stop!
Amethyst: And we shut this place down so the Earth would be safe from parasites like me!
Pearl: Amethyst! That's enough!
Steven: Pearl?
Pearl: Steven, I'm sorry. I never wanted you to see this horrible place.
Amethyst: Then why don't you just leave?! Admit it! I'm just an embarrassment to you!
Pearl: How much did you tell him?
Amethyst: What? You mean about the bad thing? How this bad place is where bad Gems came to grow more bad Gems? Is that what you're talking about?
Steven: They grew other Gems here?!
Pearl: Amethyst! He's not ready!
Amethyst: Oh, but don't worry, Steven. Everything's just fine now.
Pearl: Amethyst—
Amethyst: It all worked out! We won!
Pearl: Stop!
Amethyst: And we shut this place down so the Earth would be safe from parasites like me!
Pearl: Amethyst! That's enough!
Steven: Pearl?
Pearl: Steven, I'm sorry. I never wanted you to see this horrible place.
Amethyst: Then why don't you just leave?! Admit it! I'm just an embarrassment to you!
— Steven Universe, "On The Run"
"How messed up is that? That I've gotten away with this for so long? You have no idea how bad I am! You think I'm so great and I'm so mature and I always know what to do, but that's not true! I haven't learned a thing from my problems. They've all just made me worse! You think of me as some angel but I'm not that kid anymore! I'm a fraud... I'm a fraud... I'M A MONSTER!"
—Steven Universe, Steven Universe: Future, "Everything's Fine"
"That thing, that beast. It came from inside me."
— Beast Boy, Teen Titans (2003), "The Beast Within"
Val Cooper: You're a monster, Bastion.
Bastion: I was born this way.
Bastion: I was born this way.
— X-Men '97, "Tolerance is Extinction - Pt. 1"
Other
"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
