Quotes / Thanatos Gambit

Literature

"I see you've been assigned to the Josef Pavlos and Chopra Singh murder cases. Let me save you some time; I killed both men. Soon you'll know why. But you have a problem: Because I'm dead, you can't arrest me. More importantly: You can't stop me."

— Matthew Sobol, Daemon

"No, you win. Anything I do to kill you, the Spark will undo. Anyway, that was never my plan. Sometimes it's necessary to make a queen sacrifice, and this is one of those times."

— The Mistress of Malarkoi, Mordew

Live-Action TV

"So long as I'm alive, you can save your friends. You've got a way out. Well, good luck with that!"

— Jim Moriarty, Sherlock

Video Games

"Hmph. Even dead that guy is a pain in my ass."

— Senator Steven Armstrong, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Web Video

"Would be a real dick move to die right now."

— Guru, right before he stops his own heart just to be a jerk, Dragon Ball Z Abridged

Real Life

Madge Oberholtzer, a working woman who was educated at Butler College, managed to stop (Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon D.C. "Steve") Stephenson in his tracks. Afraid that she was going to lose her state government job due to budget cuts, she socialized with the Grand Dragon in an effort to stop the inevitable from happening.
However, Stephenson misread their relationship—or frankly, he didn't care. The Klan leader kidnapped Oberholtzer, forced her to drink alcohol, raped the young woman, and mangled her body in a gruesome sexual act. Realizing the level of power Stephenson had and seeing no other means of escape, Oberholtzer opted to ingest a fatal amount of mercury chloride she managed to obtain. With that unintended matter of self-sacrifice, Oberholtzer got Stephenson on the bad side of the law, which eventually landed him in trial for her murder and his eventual imprisonment.

— Brooke Leigh Howard, The Daily Beast, "Inside the Ku Klux Klan’s Plan to Conquer America"

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