Villain Decay/Quotes
I see a Nine Inch Nails video. I see an NBC Mystery Movie of the Week. I see a video game politicians decry in order to win voters. I see Dante being ripped off for the umpteenth time in the course of history. But most of all...I see that you haven't achieved anything the humans haven't already thought of before. You and the other Dark Generals have been at this for so long that it stopped being original centuries ago. The Yamiko used to be fear itself...gloriously pure and horrible. Now you're just another thing to be afraid of.
—Dark General Cobalt, Sailor Nothing
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You're not the 'Big Bad' anymore. You're not even the 'kind of naughty'.
—Xander, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Icy: What's going on here? |
"He has defeated us numerous times; what makes him think he can do it again?"
—Tom Servo, MST3K commentary for Prince of Space
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Messy: You may have beaten us this time! And you may have beaten us last time! |
Prince Ali, yes it is he, but not as you know him —Mobile Suit Gundam 00 song parody, to the tune of "Prince Ali (reprise)" from Disney's Aladdin
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Maybe this is the Collective's new strategy. They don't assimiliate anymore; they just show up and look helpless.
—B'Elanna Torres, Star Trek: Voyager, "Drone"
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My dear Spencer...how the mighty have fallen. Your umbrella has folded and now you have become a fugitive in the same world you once sought to control. We shall meet again before the conclusion of this drama. Then, you will learn of the history... I will write for this world!
—Albert Wesker, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles ending
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"In the first film, the Nothing was an abstract entity. In the second film, the Emptiness was the human form of dying imagination. In this film, it's literally just a bunch of bullies named "the Nasties"? How fucking uninspiring is that?! To go from complex ideas destroying worlds to one half of Tenacious D acting like a dick-mule! Boy, they keep upping the ante, don't they?"
—The Nostalgia Critic, in his review of The Neverending Story III: Escape From Fantasia
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Pity the modern supervillain. Unlike Professor Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes, he is not a master criminal. Unlike Ming the Merciless, he cannot be a inscrutable Other whose villainy can be neatly reduced via racist pseudoscience to his origins. The Cold War is over and the overseas box office necessary for capital-intensive movies to actually make back their production and distribution costs narrows the range of potential foreign adversaries for heroes to battle. A combination of Hollywood political correctness and understandable audience discomfort with ten years of war nixes al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or Iran from the list of possible villains. Most Americans have studiously ignored the horrific slaughter perpetrated by Mexican drug cartels. So what drives the modern supervillain and how does he (or she) carry out dastardly deeds? — Strategy and the Supervillain Problem by Adam Elkus on Grand Blog Tarkin
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