"But despite your incarnation, too much of your essence is still bound up in your city and its people. It's unfortunate, but I have no other way to separate you. But it's all right. This was never about them. I've taken apart hundreds of mortal souls. They have nothing left to teach me. But I've never acquired the soul of a god."
"And hey, look here: I have a special little something just for you. Consider this my 'thank you' for your charming virus. *casts Soul Bind* There. Your spirit can rot in here from now on. No raising, no resurrection, no well-deserved final rest in some extraplanar petting zoo. No nothing. Just eternity trapped in a black gemstone in my left pocket."
— Xykon, The Order of the Stick: Start of Darkness
Seras: So... this is is Restraint Level Zero, huh?
Integra: These are five hundred years and change of souls that Alucard has consumed. After a while he stopped actually killing people himself and started hanging around battlefields, letting others do it for him.
Seras: How many souls has he-
Integra: Chowed down on? Oh... two million-ish. He calls it his... ugh...#LifeHack.
Seras [scoffs]: He would.
”Your brother's soul is mine. You will be next...”
*After winning* ”Your soul is mine!”
— Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa's portrayal of Shang Tsung, the Trope Namer in Mortal Kombat: The Movie and Mortal Kombat 11 respectively.
"Even now we have your darling Linda's soul, as she suffers in torment!"
—A Deadite, Evil Dead 2
"You ever watched a man die? If you watch very closely, you can sometimes see the soul escaping. And if you're very quick, you can catch it."
—Butterfield, Lord of Illusions
_>"Now, you are mine! (Evil Laugh) You can never go back!"
Olgierd von Everec: O'Dimm. What do you want?
Gaunter O'Dimm: What do you mean, "what?" Your soul.
Gaunter O'Dimm: What do you mean, "what?" Your soul.
— The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Hearts of Stone
"Behold your fate, embrace your destiny, YOUR SOULS ARE MINE!"
— Imhotep, Revenge of the Mummy
"So I've taken a few hundred souls - big deal!"
— Snatcher, A Hat in Time
"It's true, I have the soul of a poet. I just can't remember where I put it."
— Nevermore the Shadow Fiend, Dota 2
"YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK!"
"But now folks, listen closely
it's time I made a confession
Collecting people's souls is my greatest obsession!"
it's time I made a confession
Collecting people's souls is my greatest obsession!"
—The Devil, The Cuphead Show!
