Broken Pedestal/Quotes

"Vince: That's your hero? Howard: Yeah. He's gone a bit wrong."

- The Mighty Boosh

""Horus was weak. Horus was a fool. He had the whole Galaxy in his grasp and he let it slip away.""

- Abaddon, the Despoiler, Warhammer 40,000

""You want to know my vision? Dollar signs. Money. I want to retire on some tropical island filled with naked women. THAT'S my vision. That's Zefram Cochrane. This historical guy you keep talking about: I've never met him. Can't say I ever will.""

- Zefram Cochrane, Star Trek: First Contact

"Judge Dredd: You killed innocent people! Rico: A means to an end!

Judge Dredd: You started a massacre!

Rico: I caused a revolution!

Judge Dredd: YOU BETRAYED THE LAW!

Rico: LAWWWWWWWWW! I betrayed THIS! Your council's experiment which failed -- in you! I was your brother, your blood, your friend. Who betrayed who? When are you gonna stop being a goddamn slave and grow up? That's your birthright, that's your family! I'm your family, I'm the only family you ever had! Now choose!"

- Judge Dredd

"''"I Beg you. Pilot it. I believe in you. I love you. If you hear those words, will you pilot it, Shinji? But, I can't bring myself to love you. For you, I... have never felt love."''"

- Gendo Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion

"''"Even so, I won't be able to regard this person with the same esteem I had before, but then he'll never again see me as just another freshman, either. I guess that's a part of growing up; finding that one's idols are just people after all. Funny...in my whole life only one authority figure has never let me down: Dad. Make that two: Dad and Kell."''"

- Lindesfarne, The Virtual Quill, Kevin and Kell

""But to you? I bet that son of a bitch looked like a hard-working family man. That was all an act.""

- Jeane, No More Heroes

""If you can make God bleed, the people will cease to believe in Him.""

- Ivan Vanko, Iron Man 2

""I looked up to you. I wanted to be like you. But Redtail was my mentor. I owe him more than any cat. And you. You and betrayed the Clan. I'd rather die than follow you.""

- Dustpelt, Forest of Secrets

"Gren: We fought that bloody war together. We were comrades. We risked everything shoulder to shoulder on the battleground. I looked up to you. I believed in you.

Vicious: There is nothing to believe in. There is no need to believe."

- Cowboy Bebop

"Nicholas Angel: It all started with my Uncle Derek. He was a Sergeant in the Met. He bought me a police pedal car when I was five. I rode around in it every second I was awake - arresting kids twice my size for littering and spitting. I got beaten up a lot when I was young, but it didn't stop me. I wanted to be like Uncle Derek. Danny Butterman: He sounds like a good bloke. Nicholas Angel: Actually, he was arrested for selling drugs to students. Danny Butterman: What a cunt."

- Hot Fuzz

""I owe a debt of gratitude. But he must pay his debt to society.""

- Miles Edgeworth, Ace Attorney Investigations

""This is crazy. I finally meet my childhood hero and he's trying to kill us. What a joke.""

- Carl Fredricksen, Up

"Rudy: (icily) Hello... Dad. Randy: I'm sorry, Rudy. Rudy: Mom is the person you should apologize to! How could you?? How many ?? Randy: Just the one. Rudy: Which is bad enough. So who do I turn to now for a moral, ethical, male role model?"

- Kevin and Kell

"James Vega: You know the Commander?

Ashley/Kaidan: I used to."

- Mass Effect 3

"Fiona: How do you know this guy who hired you?

Michael: We worked together in the Balkans, 91-92. It was a crazy time. He seemed somewhat sane in comparison.

Fiona: And now he kills for a living."

- Burn Notice