Quotes / Morality Chain Beyond the Grave

Hiroshi: Asami, I know I have hurt you ... and I am sorry. But I believe that one day, you will come to your senses and we can be a family again.
Asami: Are you insane?! How can we be a family after everything you've done?! Mom would hate you for what you've become.

—The Legend of Korra, "Endgame"

Bruce: All these years, I wanted to kill him. And now I can't. [reveals the gun he planned to shoot Joe Chill with]
Rachel: [slaps Bruce twice] You're just another coward with a gun. Your father would be ashamed of you.

—Batman Begins

Giles: I see. If you lose someone you love... then the other people in your life who care about you become meaningless. I wonder what Tara would say about that.
Dark Willow: You can ask her yourself.

—Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Grave"

Superman: Honestly, it's been my honor to fly this path. Even on days where living up to the ideal of Superman gets to be so overwhelming that I can barely... But days like today? In Hell... with the Devil?! I keep telling myself I couldn't find a way to kill this monster... even if I wanted to. But... I could. I could make this entire dimension cease to exist if I really put my head to it. And maybe that's exactly what I should be doing. Maybe that's how I find myself in these impossible situations in the first place! Because I don't take it all the way! Kandor?! Krypton?! He murdered my people! And now I have the power to do what no one else has the—
Jonathan Kent: Clark?
(A memory of Kansas, the farm, and Ma and Pa Kent appear in front of Superman)
Martha Kent: If tests were easy...
Jonathan Kent: ..they wouldn't be tests.
Superman: Sorry, Pa...

—Superman contemplating making Rogol Zaar pay for destroying Krypton then remembering why he's Superman

Magneto: Charles...? Charles will understand. Charles will forgive me.
Cyclops: Charles is dead. You killed him with your own hands. There's no one left to forgive you. And no one ever will. [blows Magneto's head off]

—Ultimatum

"I've always hated you. Whatever the reason, it doesn't change the fact that you made my mother feel lonely... But... I'm sure that's what my mother would have done."

— Minato Hirose towards his father Shigeru Tōgō before he sides with him to win "The Final Judgement", Kaiji: Final Game

You will not agree with what I'm going to do. It is contrary to all that you have taught me, and all that Su Lin believed. I must leave. Please try to find a way to forgive me.

— Lee to Su Lin's grave, Enter the Dragon

Supergirl: No, don't! Don't kill him!
Flamebird: This is the creature who murdered your father, Kara Zor-El.
Supergirl: Yes, he did. And countless others besides. But my father would want justice, not vengeance. Thara... Flamebird... Spare him, and I will take him home, to answer for his crimes.

— The Hunt for Reactron

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