Quotes / The Corruptible

Richard Rich: I'm adrift. Help me.
Thomas More: How?
Richard Rich: Employ me.
Thomas More: No.
Richard Rich: Employ me!
Thomas More: No!
Richard Rich: I would be steadfast!
Thomas More: Richard, you couldn't answer for yourself even so far as tonight.

— A Man for All Seasons

I was seduced by the prospect of becoming strong... of becoming the strongest. That's my weakness. My sin. I sold my soul to Link Joker. Even as I sensed that it was an evil entity, I gave into temptation. [.] In order to get stronger, I didn't care who got Reversed. Even if they were my former comrades... even you... So in that sense, I was being controlled. Controlled by my own desire, strength...

— Toshiki Kai, Cardfight!! Vanguard

"That one is amusing just to watch. He'll dance for me and then break on his own power, and I won't have to lift a finger. What more would I want from a toy?"

— Redyue describing the victim of this trope, Kamen Rider Gaim

Jamie: I think you know where the line is, Sy. I think you deliberately choose to cross it. Sometimes when you don’t have to.
Mary: I like that side of him. I like Sy.
Jamie: I like him too. But I think you’re a bad influence on him. You and Gordon both... I mean it. I don’t know that I like what Sy becomes, when he’s with you two.
Sy: I’m not that suggestible.
Jamie: You are the exemplar of suggestibility. It’s your strongest trait. You absorb and you learn more effectively than any of us. I know because I know exactly what’s happened in the past. I know who you’re with when your behavior changes. I see the patterns.

— Jamie diagnoses Sylvester as this trope, Twig

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