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"There's a sea... and just across that sea, freedoms wait. That's what I always believed, at least. But I was wrong. I know what's waiting across the sea now. It's our enemies. Everything we've seen... has been exactly as it was in my father's memories. Hey... if we did cross the sea and we killed our enemies... after that, will we finally be free?"
— Eren Yeager, Attack on Titan
"Evil must be confronted." [Many years of abuse later...] "Evil must be deleted."
— Teru Mikami, Death Note
"I became a demon, lost my memories, and began seeking strength. There was nothing left that I wanted to protect. I didn't even want to continue living in a world without my family. For over a hundred years I committed pointless acts of carnage. It's a horribly sad... laughable... and ridiculous story."
— Akaza, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
"You know who isn't human? You know who isn't human?! PEOPLE LIKE YOU!"
— Lucy, Elfen Lied
Is it okay if I exist? (silence) .... PLEASE CARE ABOUT ME! ... Nobody cares about me... Everyone can just die.
— Shinji Ikari, The End of Evangelion.
If the world keeps rejecting me, then I shall reject the world.
— Zeref, Fairy Tail
There was one SOLDIER named Sephiroth, who was better than the rest. But when he found out about the terrible experiments that made him, he began to hate Shinra. And then, over time, he began to hate everything. Shinra, and the people against them. Sephiroth, who hated the planet so much that he wanted to make it go away. And the people who tried to stop him.
There are many immortal monsters who roam this Earth. When I look at them, I wonder, were they created out of a desire for immortality? Many of them desire war. I've seen them roaming the bloodiest battlefields, but in their battle cries, I hear a craving. I think they cry out, for death. Nosferatu, the No-Life King. His castle, his kingdom, its people, his loved ones, even his very identity; everything was lost. All that remains is a pale shadow, wandering from battle to battle. I have come to believe that those frightening immortals are, in fact, frail, sobbing children.
— Arthur Hellsing, about Alucard, Hellsing
He's not the type of person you think he is. He's something more complicated than that. He's something more frightening than that. He's suffering in an abyss of sadness.
—Nina Fortner, about Johan Liebert, Monster
''I am a relic they want to get rid of, so why do I exist and live? In order to exist, you need a purpose. To exist for no reason is the same as being dead… Then I came to the conclusion that I would love only myself and fight for only myself. If all other people exist to magnify that love, then there is no more a splendid universe than this one… My existence will not vanish."
— Gaara, Naruto
Say, how about we put an end to all of this? The two of us could become Witches and destroy everything! Everything in this world that has ever made us hate, everything that has ever made us cry, will turn to ashes until nothing is left, like it was all just a bad dream! We'd have no worries! Isn't that nice?
— Homura Akemi, Puella Magi Madoka Magica
"That's it! I've had enough! This is hell. A world like this... CAN DIE FOR ALL I CARE! [CURSE SERIES REQUIREMENT MET]"
"I'm sorry that you're full of... so much hate. You think that all people are your enemies but that's only because you've never had a friend."
Comic Books
Do you hate? The most powerful hate is not born out of ignorance or prejudice or a perceived threat. Those three are fear in disguise. The fury that fuels my corps ignites from personal pain. Those whose lives were ravaged by greed, lust and control wield the crimson light. The rings replaced our damaged hearts. They beat for them. And they keep us alive only to hate. But at least we live.
— Atrocitus, Green Lantern
I was suddenly rich and famous and had won my father's regard. A life of privilege and inclusion lay before me, and I grinned like the biddable halfwit I was... oblivious to what was lying in wait. Later, he took me to a strange land that I'd never seen before to show me a great wonder he'd discovered. On the journey, he talked of the cause and effect of cosmic law and the impermanence of all things. He told me he'd found something truly eternal, something from before time began. The Great Emptiness, he called it. It frightened me, but he encouraged me to take a closer look and I didn't want to appear cowardly. "Look inside," he said. "Can you see the bottom?"
Then he pushed me in. Neither of us would have guessed that he'd set me on a path that would lead to his destruction and my destiny.
I fell for half an age. I fell screaming until I couldn't make another sound, until all I had been, had, and lost in my puny life was stripped away, until I asked, "what was the point of it all?" Life, a carrot on a stick, tempting promises of of love and legacy. A lie, meant only to give horror purchase in an ephemeral world. This truth had freed me, freed me from life's petty desires. If I wanted anything now, it was the chance to share what I'd discovered: true freedom and peace for all.
Then he pushed me in. Neither of us would have guessed that he'd set me on a path that would lead to his destruction and my destiny.
I fell for half an age. I fell screaming until I couldn't make another sound, until all I had been, had, and lost in my puny life was stripped away, until I asked, "what was the point of it all?" Life, a carrot on a stick, tempting promises of of love and legacy. A lie, meant only to give horror purchase in an ephemeral world. This truth had freed me, freed me from life's petty desires. If I wanted anything now, it was the chance to share what I'd discovered: true freedom and peace for all.
—Mardok, Maestros
A TV interview - It's Scott! And beside him - that woman - she's me?! It's Marvel Girl - Jean Grey - the woman he loved before he married me - but she's supposed to be dead! And the way they're standing, relating to each other - no wonder he left me - and our baby - it's clear as day... he loves her! The way he never loved me!!
— Madelyn Pryor, X-Men
Fan Works
You're just two people who have thrown their toys out of their cot because they feel injured.
— L, A Cure for Love
Midnight Sparkle: Friendship Games are a lie. No one is interested in friendships, only victory. FRIENDSHIP IS A LIE! Power is what matters! And you can gain it right here, right now! So will you catch this chance? Or are you content with the ill fate that is about to befall you? You being hated even more? Denied everything? Having your dream shattered?!
Sci-Twilight: NO! I WON'T LET THEM DO THIS! NOT CINCH, NOT SHADOWBOLTS, AND NOT THIS GROUP OF "MAGIC GIRLS" EITHER! ALL OF THEM ONLY BROUGHT ME SADNESS AND MISERY, AND NOW THEY WANT TO SHATTER MY DREAMS! BUT I! HAVE! HAD! ENOUGH!!!
Sci-Twilight: NO! I WON'T LET THEM DO THIS! NOT CINCH, NOT SHADOWBOLTS, AND NOT THIS GROUP OF "MAGIC GIRLS" EITHER! ALL OF THEM ONLY BROUGHT ME SADNESS AND MISERY, AND NOW THEY WANT TO SHATTER MY DREAMS! BUT I! HAVE! HAD! ENOUGH!!!
In their midst, Cadence could see a painful light damaged and scarred by failure, loneliness, and sister’s negligence. But shining through that was the desperate love of a lonely mother for her daughter. Luna, Cadance could see. Love only knew truth. Now she knew how monsters were made.
Somewhere deep within her mangled brain, forever-agonized and twisted and torn in so many different ways as it may be, she knows that it isn't right that she is left alone, tortured and despised with nothing to her name. Even after all she has forgotten, she still knows that it's wrong that the greatest in the land are allowed to hang on to so much while she has lost everything; why should they have so many dolls to love them when she has nothing but ruins and ashes?
But all this will change. Oh yes, in time, it will change. She can play with dolls, too; from the things she's learnt in the labs, she knows how to make them out of just about anybody... and she knows enough to make them love her, too.
—The Hellion's origin story, The Land of What Might-Have-Been
Films — Animation
Barbara Gordon: How can you treat people this way?
Mr. Freeze: It's the way they've always treated me. Nora was the only good thing in my life... and they took her from me. I don't care what I have to do to get her back.
"Once Upon a Time, long ago, there was a little girl who was different from the other people in her village. She could see and do things that no one could understand! And that made them scared of her! She turned away from everyone and became sad and lonely, and had no one to turn to! The more she turned away from people, the more scared they were of her. And they did something terrible! They became so scared that they took her away and they killed her! And even though she was dead, something in her came back! And this part of her, wouldn't go away even after three hundred years! And the longer it stayed, the less there was of the little girl."
Aggie... My name was Aggie... I - I remember... My mommy brought me here once. We sat under the tree and she told me stories. They all had happy endings. Then those horrible men came and took me away and I never saw her again!
— The Witch aka Agatha Prenderghast, ParaNorman
There’s nobody I can rerate to
Feer rike a bird in a cage
It’s kind of sirry, but not rearry
Cuz it’s firring my body with rage
I'm the smartest, most crever, most physicarry fit
But nobody erse seems to rearize it
When I change the worrd maybe they’rr notice me
Untir then I’rr be ronery
Just a rittre ronery
Poor rittre me
Feer rike a bird in a cage
It’s kind of sirry, but not rearry
Cuz it’s firring my body with rage
I'm the smartest, most crever, most physicarry fit
But nobody erse seems to rearize it
When I change the worrd maybe they’rr notice me
Untir then I’rr be ronery
Just a rittre ronery
Poor rittre me
— Kim Jong Il, Team America: World Police
Films — Live-Action
T'Challa: You will destroy the world, Wakanda included!
Erik Killmonger: The world took everything away from me! Everything I ever loved! But I'mma make sure we're even.
Erik Killmonger: The world took everything away from me! Everything I ever loved! But I'mma make sure we're even.
It was bad, Mama. They laughed at me.
— Carrie White, Carrie (1976)
You wouldn't dare try to justify yourself if you knew what I'd lost.
— Harvey Dent, The Dark Knight
Grace looked around at the frightened faces behind the windowpanes that were following her every step, and felt ashamed at being part of inflicting that fear. How could she ever hate them for what was at bottom merely their weakness? She would probably have done things like those that had befallen her if she had lived in one of these houses. To measure them by her own yardstick as her father put it, would she not, in all honesty, have done the same as Chuck and Vera and Ben and Mrs Henson and Tom and all these people in their houses? Grace paused. And while she did, the clouds scattered and let the moonlight through... and Dogville underwent another of those little changes of light. It was if the light, previously so merciful and faint, finally refused to cover up for the town any longer. Suddenly you could no longer imagine a berry that would appear one day on a gooseberry bush, but only see the thorn that was there right now. The light now penetrated every unevenness and flaw in the buildings and in the people. And all of a sudden she knew the answer to her question all too well: if she had acted like them, she could not have defended a single one of her actions and could not have condemned them harshly enough. It was as if her sorrow and pain finally assumed their rightful place. No. What they had done was not good enough. And if one had the power to put it to rights, it was one's duty to do so - for the sake of other towns, for the sake of humanity, and not least for the sake of the human being that was Grace herself.
— Dogville
Alright, so maybe I am killing everyone in the school because nobody loves me! Let's face it, alright. The only place where different social types can genuinely get along with each other is in heaven.
— J.D., Heathers
You cannot imagine the unbearable finality of it. And in that one moment, I took everything that was dear to me and transformed it into nothing more than a memory.
— David Banner, Hulk
How about another joke, Murray? What do you get when you cross a mentally-ill loner, with a society, that abandons him, and TREATS HIM LIKE TRASH?! I'll tell you what you get! YOU GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE!
When you're hurt and scared for so long, the fear and pain turn to hate and the hate starts to change the world.
—Alessa Gillespie, Silent Hill
When I lost her, I promised myself retribution. And for twenty five years I planned my revenge against the Federation, and forgot what it was like to live a normal life. But I did not forget the pain. It's a pain that every surviving Vulcan now shares. My purpose, Christopher, is to not simply avoid the destruction of the home that I love, but to create a Romulus that exists free of the Federation. You see, only then will she be truly saved. That is why I will destroy all the remaining Federation planets, starting with yours.
— Nero, Star Trek (2009)
They took her boy away. So now, she takes us.
— Nicholas Daily about Jennet Hunfreye/the Woman in Black, The Woman in Black
Literature
Back home at Edie's flat in Marylebone, Frankie bawled and wailed and stared into space. Germany had been her enemy, but France had betrayed her. France was dead to her. She would never visit the Louvre again. She would never take Edie to the Orangerie to see Monet's water lilies. Monet was a bastard and his style was evidence of a myopic condition, not of genius at all. No genius ever came out of France. None. Not even Frankie. Frankie was not French. She was Hakote and that was all. She would work.
She would work. The Apprehension Engine, yes. The truth would come out. Everyone would see. The world would become honest, mankind would be better off. No lies, ever again.
She was unaware that she was scrubbing her bloodied hands against her dress like Lady Macbeth, or that she was weeping even as she laughed, or that one hidden part of her mind was keening over her final and utter ruin. Because she was going to take them with her, and there was going to be a great burning, until the land was full of its stink.
They changed the rules on us, so as far as I'm concerned all bets are off. If They apologized, if They showed any regret, then maybe. Maybe. If They would even say why. But They wouldn't. Not Them. So I'm off to war, like Daddy. They can't give us Fillory and then just take it away again. The rams have sunk low, but I'll sink lower. They're bad, I'll be worse.
— Martin Chatwin, The Magician's Land
He gave his life for his people, but he did not die. [...] That was the truth behind this terrible, burning thing. No creature in all the cosmos deserved what had happened to the Storm King.
"I'm sorry... you should not have suffered so."
"I'm sorry... you should not have suffered so."
— Seoman Snowlock, Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn
"I wouldn't fix it Schaffa! I wouldn't, I'm sorry, I don't want to fix it. I want to kill everybody that hates me!"
Her middle is so heavy that she can't stand. Nassun drops into a crouch, then to her knees. She wants to vomit, but she spits words onto the ground between her splayed hands.
"Gone. I want it all....gone....Schaffa! I want it to burn. I want it burned up and dead and gone! No more hate, and no more killing, just....nothing! Rusting nothing....nothing! Forever!"
Her middle is so heavy that she can't stand. Nassun drops into a crouch, then to her knees. She wants to vomit, but she spits words onto the ground between her splayed hands.
"Gone. I want it all....gone....Schaffa! I want it to burn. I want it burned up and dead and gone! No more hate, and no more killing, just....nothing! Rusting nothing....nothing! Forever!"
Live-Action TV
Willow: It's like I'm connected to everything. I can feel... everyone. Oh. Oh my God. All the emotion. The pain. No, It's too much. Oh, it's just too much.
Giles: Willow. It doesn't... have to be like that. You... you can stop it.
Willow: Yeah. I can. I have to stop this. I'll make it go away.
Giles: No...
Willow: Oh, you poor bastards... Your suffering has to end.
No! You have to let me install the firewall to stop it! Or Venjix will spread beyond Alphabet Soup! No! I just wanted to go outside! No, please, it could infect the entire world!
— Dr. K, Power Rangers RPM
Music
She sits in her corner
Singing herself to sleep
Wrapped in all of the promises
That no one seems to keep
She no longer cries to herself,
No tears left to wash away
Just diaries of empty pages,
Feelings gone astray
But she will sing
...
'Till everything burns,
While everyone screams,
Burning their lies
Burning my dreams
All of this hate
And all of this pain
I'll burn it all down
As my anger reigns
'Till everything burns
Singing herself to sleep
Wrapped in all of the promises
That no one seems to keep
She no longer cries to herself,
No tears left to wash away
Just diaries of empty pages,
Feelings gone astray
But she will sing
...
'Till everything burns,
While everyone screams,
Burning their lies
Burning my dreams
All of this hate
And all of this pain
I'll burn it all down
As my anger reigns
'Till everything burns
—"Everything Burns" by Ben Moody and Anastacia
She is in love with the devil, she's in love with Lucifer,
this is her revenge for all the years of pain and tears.
Fire is falling from the sky, she's burning down her past.
She starts a new life, to hell with Jesus Christ
this is her revenge for all the years of pain and tears.
Fire is falling from the sky, she's burning down her past.
She starts a new life, to hell with Jesus Christ
In those days when I was used
Like a decorative doll
I was already broken a long time ago
So I wanted to destroy it all
It's a very powerful medicine
Its' effects will stay inside you forever
Now it's finally time for me to go to sleep
I'll turn from Princess Sandman into Sleeping Beauty...
Like a decorative doll
I was already broken a long time ago
So I wanted to destroy it all
It's a very powerful medicine
Its' effects will stay inside you forever
Now it's finally time for me to go to sleep
I'll turn from Princess Sandman into Sleeping Beauty...
—Margarita Blankenheim, "Gift From The Princess Who Brought Sleep", Evillious Chronicles
And I was in the darkness
So darkness I became
So darkness I became
—Florence + the Machine, "Cosmic Love"
I was raised in a deep, dark hole
A prisoner with no parole
They locked me up and took my soul
A shame, though, what they made
A prisoner with no parole
They locked me up and took my soul
A shame, though, what they made
—Jordan Reyne, "Go Tell Aunt Rhody"
No one in this world can understand
Who I am
That is why I'm my own biggest fan!
Do you know what it's like to be built this way?
With only the power to push others away?
Insects crawl below, they do not know
My anger grows
I'll return in full everything that they're owed!
Who I am
That is why I'm my own biggest fan!
Do you know what it's like to be built this way?
With only the power to push others away?
Insects crawl below, they do not know
My anger grows
I'll return in full everything that they're owed!
— Air Man, The Megas, "The Annihilation of Monsteropolis"
This world rejects me
This world threw me away
This world never gave me a chance
This world gonna have to pay
This world threw me away
This world never gave me a chance
This world gonna have to pay
— "Burn," Nine Inch Nails
Please don't go
I want you to stay
I'm begging you please
Oh please don't leave here
I don't want you to hate
For all the hurt that you feel
The world is just illusion
trying to change you...
I want you to stay
I'm begging you please
Oh please don't leave here
I don't want you to hate
For all the hurt that you feel
The world is just illusion
trying to change you...
— "Illusion," VNV Nation
You can't erase me
Lost and found, I crawled out of the river
(Why did you have to go?)
Of the river
(Why did you have to go?)
Lost and found, I crawled out of the river
(Why did you have to go?)
Of the river
(Why did you have to go?)
Sealed tight to my end
With all my broken bones
What do you take me for?
What do you take me for?
With all my broken bones
What do you take me for?
What do you take me for?
I'll never be what you dreamed, escape from your reality
Open my eyes, now I can see what lies beneath
You see, I'm gone, and who I was will never be
Consider it a death in the family
Open my eyes, now I can see what lies beneath
You see, I'm gone, and who I was will never be
Consider it a death in the family
—Divide Music as The Red Hood, "D.I.T.F (Death In The Family)"
Professional Wrestling
You ripped out my heart, you took everything I believed in and you flushed it down the damn toilet. You flushed my heart, you flushed my soul, and now it sickens me to sit back and see other people making the same mistake. [...] You don’t expect me to be bitter? Tommy, when you open your heart, when you open your soul, AND IT GETS SHIT ON, it tends to make Jack a very mean boy. And so, I’m saying to you – before I take these aggressions out on you – to look at your future and realize that the hardcore life IS A LIE, that these letters behind me are a blatant lie, that those fans who sit there and say "He's Hardcore! He's Hardcore! He's Hardcore!", wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire, you selfish son of a bitch!
— Mick Foley, from the infamous "Cane Dewey" promo.
Tabletop Games
Imagine, for a moment, a person who has faced nothing but betrayal from those who claimed only to love her, curses from those who once blessed her and obstacles at every turn, but who nonetheless manages to somehow carve out a niche for herself and to find happiness - even enlightenment. Imagine further that those who previously betrayed her, discontented with their own existences, took it upon themselves time and again to destroy what she had created for herself. Give this person the intellect of a goddess, the power of the most potent supernatural creatures you can dream of, and several millennia to develop the perfect plan for revenge, and you begin to approach the situation in which Lilith finds herself when Gehenna finally arrives.
— Vampire: The Masquerade - Gehenna
Theatre
We all deserve to die
Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why.
Because in all of the whole human race, Mrs. Lovett
There are two kinds of men and only two
There's the one staying put in his proper place
And the one with his foot in the other one's face
Look at me, Mrs. Lovett, look at you
No, we all deserve to die
Even you, Mrs. Lovett, even I
Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief
For the rest of us death will be a relief
We all deserve to die.
And I'll never see Johanna
No, I'll never hug my girl to me - finished!
Alright! You sir, you sir, how about a shave?
Come and visit your good friend Sweeney.
You sir, too sir? Welcome to the grave.
Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why.
Because in all of the whole human race, Mrs. Lovett
There are two kinds of men and only two
There's the one staying put in his proper place
And the one with his foot in the other one's face
Look at me, Mrs. Lovett, look at you
No, we all deserve to die
Even you, Mrs. Lovett, even I
Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief
For the rest of us death will be a relief
We all deserve to die.
And I'll never see Johanna
No, I'll never hug my girl to me - finished!
Alright! You sir, you sir, how about a shave?
Come and visit your good friend Sweeney.
You sir, too sir? Welcome to the grave.
— Sweeney Todd, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, "Epiphany"
Video Games
People are all held in balance by what they stand to lose and what they stand to gain. The most dangerous of those men are those who have nothing to lose and nothing to gain. When you have nothing to risk, not even your future.
— Youtube Commenter on Asura's Wrath episode 12, "Gods of Death"
A man once promised me he would free me of my chains... but in the end, he abandoned me to serve his own needs. But, in some ways, I thank him: he showed me exactly how much faith our species deserved. God put His faith in men once, too. It seems that we have something in common: disappointment.
— Elizabeth Comstock, Bioshock Infinite
They...The mortals art ignorant, prideful animals... They doth lie to one another, injure themselves and their fellows, and kill each other and all around them for sport! Their folly is immeasurable.
...I knoweth full very well that 'tis our duty as a god to protect the mortals. But they be not worthy of that protection! They are beyond salvation!
...I knoweth full very well that 'tis our duty as a god to protect the mortals. But they be not worthy of that protection! They are beyond salvation!
— Fou-lu, Breath of Fire IV
"Mind you, the mantle of lord interests me none. The fire-linking curse, the legacy of lords, let it all fade into nothing."
— Lothric, Younger Prince, Dark Souls III
Why create when it will only be destroyed? Why cling to life, knowing that you have to die? None of it will have meant anything once you do...
My retribution is eternal, spirit, as is my pain. This is justice, no more.
— Zathrian, Dragon Age: Origins
Why? Why is it wrong to manipulate humans? Your race is weak. It's forgotten its place in the world—forgotten its benefactors. You exist solely for the amusement of your betters—dragons! So answer me, Corrin! Why am I the one left to suffer? Why am I the one left to die? Why do humans flourish while I am buried here...ignored...forgotten? TELL ME WHY!
She was a very disturbed child. Terrible, debilitating nightmares. Hallucinations. Hysteria. She never had a chance for a normal life. It was Disler who realized she was telepathic. He speculated that she was extremely sensitive to the negative emotions of people around her. We only removed her from that chamber twice. She was fifteen when the first prototype was born. She was supposed to be comatose, but she started screaming when we induced labor, and didn't stop until the liquid filled her lungs. There are any number of plausible scientific explanations for what followed, but it was really just a question of hatred. It is the way of men to create monsters... and it is the nature of monsters to destroy their makers.
— Harlan Wade, about Alma, First Encounter Assault Recon
Hanna: Stop this!!! Why… why are you doing such horribly cruel things to us?
Jihl: Cruelty is all I've ever known. I've always been subjected to it. Treated as nothing more than a weapon of war. They even took Mama away from me…
Hanna: "Mama"?
Jihl: The cherry on top was sealing me away in the Taranis. I was locked up in here, sleeping away the years for longer than you could imagine. Finally, I can make my own decisions, do what I want to do… I'm not about to let you brats ruin everything.
Hanna: You… You must have been treated horribly… Your heart must have been broken so many times, it's like you've forgotten you even have one.
Jihl: Shut up, SHUT UP! You've got some nerve, you beast! I wish you all would just screw off!
Jihl: Cruelty is all I've ever known. I've always been subjected to it. Treated as nothing more than a weapon of war. They even took Mama away from me…
Hanna: "Mama"?
Jihl: The cherry on top was sealing me away in the Taranis. I was locked up in here, sleeping away the years for longer than you could imagine. Finally, I can make my own decisions, do what I want to do… I'm not about to let you brats ruin everything.
Hanna: You… You must have been treated horribly… Your heart must have been broken so many times, it's like you've forgotten you even have one.
Jihl: Shut up, SHUT UP! You've got some nerve, you beast! I wish you all would just screw off!
Superman: We're not gods. We don't decide who lives and who dies.
Regime Superman: The decision is mine! It became mine when Joker turned me into a weapon of mass destruction!
Superman: I know what you lost.
Regime Superman: And you judge me?!
Regime Superman: The decision is mine! It became mine when Joker turned me into a weapon of mass destruction!
Superman: I know what you lost.
Regime Superman: And you judge me?!
"Is there a point to this madness, Jinx? Or is it just a channel for your pain?"
—Caitlyn, League of Legends
QUIET, PLEASE! MAKE IT STOP!
I joined this group of revolutionaries to take my revenge on the world.
— Sniper Wolf, Metal Gear Solid
"besides, what do YOU know about us?! we didn't ASK to be born into this stupid world! adults get away with doing shitty things all the time, right? lovers cheat, doctors lie, parents can do anything they want to a child... that's how it works, RIGHT??? it's not supposed to be that way, but that's what happens, RIGHT? so tell me, huh? why can everyone else out there get away with doing all kinds of nasty things, but THIS is what crosses the line?! TELL ME WHY! WHY AM I THE ONE THAT EVERYONE WANTS TO HURT?! i've done plenty of bad things now but nobody WAITED for me to do them before hurting ME.
—Lin's true child self, Pokémon Reborn
"All of you ungrateful humans, who took everything away from me, will feel my loss, and despair!"
— Professor Gerald Robotnik, Sonic Adventure 2
"Stop hurting me... stop rejecting me... stop killing me!!!"
—Pyrrha, Soulcalibur V
Timpani... After you vanished, I searched long for you. I never stopped looking. I searched and searched, but I never found you. Without you, the world held no meaning or joy. So I used the forbidden prophecy of the Tribe of Ancients to end all worlds. I wanted to destroy everything that had taken you away from me...
— Count Bleck, Super Paper Mario
I would never again grovel for a place in this world, instead I would forge a world that would grovel before me.
— Gul'dan, Warcraft
"While I was under his control, I realised something. Egil once wished only to break the circle of suffering, he believed that, if blood was spilt now a new world would be born. But something terrible happened and now, now he is consumed with vengeance."
—Gadolt talking about Egil, Xenoblade Chronicles 1
Web Comics
Fighter: I'm surprised. I mean, if I was in your shoes, I'd feel personally responsible for being unable to stop or at least heal all of this needless devastation.
White Mage: (Collapsing to knees) Personally responsible.
Fighter: The total obliteration of a city under your protection, I dunno. To me, that sounds like the kind of thing that changes a person. And then it makes you kill everyone else in your order to steal their power and use it to destroy the world so that these things don't ever happen in the first place.
White Mage: (Collapsing to knees) Personally responsible.
Fighter: The total obliteration of a city under your protection, I dunno. To me, that sounds like the kind of thing that changes a person. And then it makes you kill everyone else in your order to steal their power and use it to destroy the world so that these things don't ever happen in the first place.
There are people in this world that are driven to evil because of what their life has forced them to endure.
— Rich Burlew, author of The Order of the Stick
Web Videos
Now the nightmare’s real,
Now Dr. Horrible is here!
To make you quake with fear!
To make the whole world kneel,
And I won't feel...
A thing...
Now Dr. Horrible is here!
To make you quake with fear!
To make the whole world kneel,
And I won't feel...
A thing...
— Doctor Horrible, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, "Everything You Ever"
"I can hear it in your voice! You're trying to sound like you know what you're doing, so that you can prove me wrong. Tommy... none of us know what we're doing. We're fucked; we were fucked the minute we were thrown out. 'Cause Schlatt knows– he's a smart man, he knows that if we fight him, even if we beat him, we've lost. If he fights us and kills us, we've lost. Tommy, there's no in-between, he KNOWS we've lost! And I know you're scared, Tommy, I understand you're scared. And it's scary! It's scary, Tommy, but y'know what, in a time like this, when a man has nothing to lose, d'yknow what that means? It means we can do what we want. We have a man on our side who literally rigged our nation with TNT! We can do the same to them, we can rig this festival with TNT, we can kill them all, Tommy!"
— Wilbur Soot, Dream SMP
"Grief can make you a monster."
I wish I had been there for you earlier as a hero, everything would be different...I never thought that something so right could feel so wrong.
Western Animation
"Hello, my name is Simon Petrikov. I am recording this tape so that people will know my story. I was studying to be an antiquarian of ancient artifacts. Now I never believed in the supernatural stuff myself, just had a fascination with superstitions. But everything changed when I came into contact with this item. After purchasing this crown from an old dock worker in Northern Scandinavia, I brought it home and excitedly showed it to my fiance, Betty. I jokingly put it on my head for a laugh or something, and that's when it started. The visions, I fought with them, shouted at them...until it wasn't real, IT WAS THE CROWN! I quickly took it off and saw my fiance looking at me with such contempt. What did I say? What had I done when I wore this crown? All I know is that I never saw Betty again.
Since then, I see the visions always whether or not I wear the crown. They tell me the secrets. The secrets of the ice and snow. That the power of the crown will save me with its frost! I don't yet know what this means. As you can see, my skin has turned blue. My body temperature has been lowering to a supernatural rate to what is now about thirty degrees Celsius. I don't know when it will end. I'm really scared.
I know my mind is changing, but I'm already too far gone to know what to do. I want people to know if I do things... if I do things that hurt anyone... please...please forgive me!
Just watch over me until I can find my way out this labyrinth in my brain and regain my sanity! And then maybe Betty, my princess! Maybe you will love me again! PLEASE LOVE ME AGAIN BETTY!"
Since then, I see the visions always whether or not I wear the crown. They tell me the secrets. The secrets of the ice and snow. That the power of the crown will save me with its frost! I don't yet know what this means. As you can see, my skin has turned blue. My body temperature has been lowering to a supernatural rate to what is now about thirty degrees Celsius. I don't know when it will end. I'm really scared.
I know my mind is changing, but I'm already too far gone to know what to do. I want people to know if I do things... if I do things that hurt anyone... please...please forgive me!
Just watch over me until I can find my way out this labyrinth in my brain and regain my sanity! And then maybe Betty, my princess! Maybe you will love me again! PLEASE LOVE ME AGAIN BETTY!"
— Ice King, Adventure Time, Holly Jolly Secrets Part 2
"Think of it, Batman. To never again walk on a summer's day with a hot wind in your face and a warm hand to hold. Oh, yes, I'd kill for that."
— Mr. Freeze, Batman: The Animated Series, "Heart Of Ice"
Mr. Freeze: There's enough energy here to destroy the whole compound, Batman. I suggest you find a way out.
Batman: Freeze, think! This can't be what you want. You'll only cause more pain, more suffering.
Mr. Freeze: No. I end it. When this goes... I go too.
Batman: Freeze, think! This can't be what you want. You'll only cause more pain, more suffering.
Mr. Freeze: No. I end it. When this goes... I go too.
— Batman Beyond, "Meltdown"
Ben/Fourarms: You'd risk innocent lives just to get even with me?!
Kevin: Nobody's innocent! They just haven't had a chance to make fun of me yet!
Kevin: Nobody's innocent! They just haven't had a chance to make fun of me yet!
— Ben 10
Now...more suffering. It's all that's left for us.
— The Nowhere King, Centaurworld
The access code is... "Alone."
— Demona, Gargoyles
"They weren't really games, you know. They were training me, turning me into a weapon, "for justice", they said. They got their weapon; I got cheated out of my childhood."
— Ace, Justice League, "Epilogue"
"Ever since that spider bit me, the world has misunderstood me and tormented me. But now, it's my turn. I'm gonna obliterate you all!"
—Spider-Carnage, Spider-Man: The Animated Series
"What have you done to my brethren?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!"
Other
So we're left with a kid who has superpowers, gross genetic defects, and a good reason to hate Superman. We're betting that he's going to end up a supervillain, and you know what? If he takes on Superman we think we're rooting for the kid.
Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.
— Kurt Tucholsky
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.
— Thích Nhất Hạnh
The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.
— African Proverb
He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
I'm sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.
—Warsan Shire
"I don’t think the Joker had free will, given his life. He was a walking time bomb waiting to explode—all it took was some significant life stress, beatings up, losing a job. You’ve got nothing left.… The well-documented risk factors—this was [the character’s] destiny. No one is born into that kind of violence."
— Adrian Raine on Joker (2019)
on Joker (2019)