"World of Cardboard" Speech/Quotes
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"Imitations, faker, huh? Yeah, that doesn't sound too bad. I certainly am a faker... I had the wrong idea. My magic isn't creating swords. First of all, I can't do such a skillful thing. That's right. There's only one thing I can do, and that is to put shape to my mind... |
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"What you and I see are totally different, SHIKI. |
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Amazing. How do you do it, Kakarot? You've always been like this, ever since the day I first met you, always ready to meet the next challenge, even if it's bigger than you are. It was the same on Namek. You had improved so much that it made Recoome look like he was standing still! Your power had increased so dramatically since our battle on Earth that I thought you had done it. I thought... that you had become... a Super Saiyan! It tore me apart! How could a low class soldier accomplish so easily what I, I had struggled my whole life to achieve? After three millenia it has finally happened! A new Super Saiyan has emerged! And somehow, I have become this pauper's witness! Then, at last, it happened. I too, transformed. After living every moment of every day for the singular purpose of surpassing you, I finally became a Super Saiyan myself. The prince had reclaimed his throne and fulfilled his destiny! But no matter how strong I became, your power still exceeded mine. At first I thought it was your loved ones, that it was your instinct to protect them that spurred you on, and pushed you beyond your limits. But then I found myself with a family of my own. And my power didn't increase at all... I used to fight for the sheer pleasure of it, for the thrill of the hunt! Oh, I had the strength unmeasurable. I spared no one. And yet, you showed mercy to everyone, even your fiercest enemies... even me! Yet you never fought to kill, or for revenge, only to test your limits, and to push yourself beyond them, to become the strongest you could possibly be. How can a Saiyan fight like that and at the same time be so gentle that he wouldn't hurt a fly? Oh, it makes me angry just thinking about it! But, perhaps it is my anger that has made me blind to the truth for so long. I see it now, this day has made it all too clear. You're better than me, Kakarot. You are the best.
—Vegeta (to himself, while Goku is fighting against Kid Buu), Dragonball Z
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Anti-Spiral: How can this be?! Where are you drawing all of this power from?!? |
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Domon: Rain, can you hear me? Rain. You don't need to answer me. I just want you to hear me out. Dr. Mikamura is gone now. Leaving behind the words "Everything is my fault". But none of that matters to me now. None of that matters. Did you seriously think I blame you for what happens to me? Rain. What did we go through? What happened to us this past year? What meaning did this year have for us? We haven't even come up with an answer to these questions. You remember? When we met for the first time in ten years, at my mom's resting place. The guys up above had already decided to involve us in the Gundam Fight, and before we knew it, we were thrown into the ring on earth. I fought with everything I had in me! But once the battle was over, those above us thought of nothing but their own interests. But that's no reason why our one year together should end all of a sudden. It's true, I did win the Gundam Fight. But I won... only because you were always by my side. That's right. this victory was achieved by the two of us Rain. And that's why it wouldn't make any sense if we didn't stay together. Hey Rain. Remember on the morning of the finals, when we were alone? I said there was something I wanted to talk to you about. I'm a guy that's ill at ease, and knows only how to fight. That's why it's been hard for me to say this. Honestly. I.. I.. I love you! I want to be with you! RAIN!
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Naruto: Sasuke, I always knew that you were alone. At first, when I realized there was someone else like me around, I was relieved...and happy, too, to tell the truth. I wanted to approach you right off the bat,... but I just couldn't work up the nerve. You were always able to do everything, and everyone was always fawning over you. You were so far ahead of me, and I didn't want to admit it, so I started to see you as my rival. I didn't want to lose to you, and with everyone calling me a loser it just made things worse. Even when we became Squad 7, I never stopped feeling that way. I was stubborn, and I couldn't express what I really felt. The truth was I really just wanted to be like you. You were... you were eveything I aspired to. That's why... (flashback Sasuke: "You're one of the ones I wanna fight the most.") You have no idea how happy you made me that day. It was the first time you ever said anything acknowledging me. You and I don't need to come to blows to know each other's thoughts, anyway. Ever since that day even though we've never said it... the truth is... you and I are friends. (voiceover Sasuke: It's not insignificant to me; there's no question...you're my closest friend.) But now... you're seriously trying to take me out, and I don't really know... if you meant what you said before or not. Maybe I was the only one... who thought... who thought that we were friends. If that's the case, then... then how stupid am I... Sasuke?! I dont know why. I don't know why! But... but I... I just can't bear the thought... of seeing you taken away by someone like Orochimaru!
—Naruto
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Leo: My father was strong, right? He was a real Jungle Emperor, right? But I'm different from Father. I'm small, weak, I'm afraid of heights, I'm really just a Cowardly Lion. But... Father said, I was strong. That's why... That's why, I'm going!
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Freeza: You... what are you? |
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Comic Books
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"But do ya know what it's like to lose yer temper an' then discover that yer as strong as a hundred men?!? Everything breaks when ya touch it... Like the whole world wuz made of cardboard!"
—The Thing, Marvel's What If, Volume 1, Issue 37
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Nekron: Death is your destiny, Sinestro. As it is yours, Hal Jordan. Like the others who came Back from the Dead, you did so because I allowed it. No more. I want peace again. |
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Shadow: I am Shadow the Hedgehog. I am the union of ideals dark and benign but ultimately built in the name of love. I am the ultimate lifeform. I am the protector of Mobius. Run home to your master and tell him. This is who I am.
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Film
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"Well, there's this passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you." I been saying that shit for years. And if you heard it, that meant your ass. I never gave much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was some cold-blooded shit to say to a mother fucker before I popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin' made me think twice. See, now I'm thinkin', maybe it means you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he's the shepherd protectin' my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could mean you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. Now I'd like that. But that shit ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo, I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd."
—Jules Winfield, Pulp Fiction
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Lockett: You gettin' us out too, Staff Sergeant? Or are we expendable? Hm? |
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Literature
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"I look out my window each day. I look out my window at people who live and breathe. At people who have not been devoured by civil war. At people who have not been ravaged by disease. At people who have not starved to death, who have not been hacked apart by enemies of humanity, at people who are free to lie and steal and plot and complain and accuse and behave in all manner of repugnant ways because the Realm stands. Because law and order stands. Because something other than simple violence shapes the course of their lives. And I look, wife of my son, mother of my heir, at a very few decent people who have had the luxury of living their lives without being called upon to make hideous decisions I would not wish upon my worst enemies, and who consequently find such matters morally appalling when they consider them -- because they have not been the ones who dealt with them. (...) Feh. Aquitane thinks me his enemy. The fool. If I truly hated him, I'd give him the Crown."
—First Lord Gaius Sextus, Princeps' Fury
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"I am not asking. (...) You want to fuck with me, Tyburn, you had better know who you're messing with. (...) I am a sworn constable, and that makes me an officer of the law. I am also an apprentice, which makes a keeper of the sacred flame, but most of all I am a free man of London and that makes me a Prince of the City!"
—Detective Constable Peter Grant utterly owning River Goddess Tyburn in Rivers of London.
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Live-Action TV
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"Did the defendant make mistakes? Sure he did, serious mistakes, but did he actually commit any crimes? Did he commit treason? No. It was an impossible situation. When the Cylons arrived, what could he possibly do? What could anyone have done? I mean, ask yourself, what would you have done? What would you have done? If he had refused to surrender, the Cylons would've probably nuked the planet, right then and there. So did he appear to co-operate with the Cylons? Sure, so did hundreds of others. What's the difference between him and them? The President issued a blanket pardon. They were all forgiven, no questions asked. Colonel Tigh? Colonel Tigh used suicide bombers, killed dozens of people. Forgiven. Lieutenant Agathon and chief Tyrol murdered an officer on the Pegasus. Forgiven. The admiral? The admiral instituted a military coup d'etat against the President. Forgiven. And me? Well, where do I begin? I shot down a civilian passenger ship, the Olympic Carrier, over a thousand people on board. Forgiven. I raised my weapon to a superior officer, committed an act of mutiny. Forgiven. And then on the very day when Baltar surrendered to those Cylons, I, as commander of Pegasus, jumped away! I left everybody on that planet, alone, undefended for months. I even tried to persuade the admiral never to return, to abandon you all there for good. If I'd had my way nobody would have made it off that planet. I'm the coward. I'm the traitor. I'm forgiven. I'd say we're very forgiving of mistakes. We make our own laws now, our own justice, and we've been pretty creative with ways to let people off the hook. For everything from theft to murder. And we've had to be, because... we're not a civilization anymore! We are a gang! And we're on the run, and we have to fight to survive. We have to break rules, we have to bend laws, we have to improvise! But not this time, no, not this time, not for Gaius Baltar. No, you, you have to die! You have to die, because, well, because we don't like you very much. Because you're arrogant, because you're weak, because you're a coward, and we, the mob, want to throw you out the airlock because you didn't stand up to the Cylons and get yourself killed in the process! That's justice now! You should've been killed back on New Caprica, but since you had the temerity to live, we're going to execute you now. That's justice! This case, this case is built on emotion, on anger, bitterness, but most of all it's built on shame. It's about the shame of what we did to ourselves back on that planet. It's about the guilt of those of us who ran away, who ran away. And we are trying to dump all of that guilt and all that shame onto one man, and then flush him out the airlock, and just hope that that gets rid of it all. So that we can live with ourselves. But that won't work. That won't work. That's not justice, not to me. Not to me."
—Lee Adama, Battlestar Galactica.
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"There are laws. There are laws of time. Once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws, but they died. They all died. Do you know who that leaves? Me! It's taken me all these years to realize the laws of time are mine! And they will obey me!"
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Dalek: The Dalek strategem nears completion. The fleet is almost ready. You will not intervene. |
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Video Games
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Kefka: And did you all find your "somethings" in this broken world that just won't die? —Final Fantasy VI (Advance translation)
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"The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on Earth. But I think that's a luxury. Not a curse. To know you're close to the end is a kind of freedom. Good time to take...inventory. Outgunned. Outnumbered. Out of our minds. On a suicide mission. But the sand and the rocks here, stained with thousands of years of warfare...They will remember us. For this. Because out of all our vast array of nightmares, this is the one we choose for ourselves. We go forward like a breath exhaled from the Earth. With vigor in our hearts and one goal in sight: We. Will. Kill him."
—Captain John Price, Modern Warfare 2
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"This is for the record. History is written by the victor. History is filled with liars. If he lives, and we die, his truth becomes written, and ours is lost. Shepherd will be a hero, 'cause all you need to change the world is one good lie and a river of blood. He's about to complete the greatest trick a liar ever played on history. His truth will be THE truth. But only if he lives, and we die."
—Captain John Price, Modern Warfare 2, again.
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Dark Prince: What now then? Gather up enough sand, perform another grand rewind? Or perhaps you can return to the Island and travel back to a time when he might still be saved. Maybe rescue a Damsel in Distress along the way! —Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones
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Zero: If I destroy Weil's core, the explosion will take Ragnarok out with it... If Ragnarok is blown apart, it no longer poses a threat!\\ |
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"If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man. Whether regret, or love, or revenge or fear — whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can. I have seen belief move cities, make men stave off death, and turn an evil hag's heart half-circle. This entire Fortress has been constructed from belief. Belief damned a woman, whose heart clung to the hope that another loved her when he did not. Once, it made a man seek immortality and achieve it. And it has made a posturing spirit think it is something more than a part of me."
—The Nameless One, Planescape: Torment
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Asura:( preparing to give Chakravartin A righteous beating) I understand it all now! The true reason for my wrath! I could not stand it! There is always some fool who wants to rule the world! Always forcing others to do what they cannot do for themselves! That's why... I pray to no one! Nor will I be prayed to! And above all else... I will never forgive you! For making MY DAUGHTER CRRRRRRRRRRRRRRY! |
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Web Comics
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Lucca: Do you know what the worst moment of my life was? |
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Captain Gamer: You are right. There... ngh... There will always be evil, and those who combat it will perhaps never see a world without it. Those who truly combat evil know and accept this tragic truth. Evil is an aspect of sentient nature... not a boss to be defeated and done with. The collective forces of evil will never be extinguished, so it is up to those who are able to stop it! When they are no longer able, the torch of justice is passed on. Just like how evil never dies, so do the ideals of good! As long as I know this, any intimidation from your point does not affect me. The only inevitability is your actions being lost in time, and the world's continued harmony! It's game time!!
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Web Original
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"Ever since my dad left and my mom passed on, I've been... lost. I know this now. That's years of pointless drifting -- anchored only to paycheques and vices, and my hatred of life... When there's no connection -- when there's no sense of purpose -- what else is there to feel? But in the last month -- with my brain getting fried and the sky crashing down and the faces from my dreams being real... in that sliver of time it all changed... Because my parents, my job, my things, my failures... they couldn't define me anymore. They just didn't matter. What I do now is real -- who I touch now is real. You have all opened my eyes, Shandala -- helped me to find my truth. Maybe, if you let us, we can help you find yours."
—Raimi Matthews, Broken Saints Chapter 21, Act 3
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Western Animation
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Spongebob: I guess you're right Plankton. I am just a kid. You know, I've been through a lot in the last 6 days, 5 minutes, 27 and a half seconds; and if I've learned anything during that time, it's you are who you are. And no amount of mermaid magic, managerial promotion, or some other third thing can make me any more than what I really am inside, a kid; but that's okay! Cause I did what everyone said a kid couldn't do! I made it Shell City, and I beat the Cyclops, and I rode the Hasslehoff, and I brought the crown back! So, yeah, I'm a kid, and I'm also a goofball, and a wingnut, and knuckleheadmcspazzatron, but most of all...I'm...I'm...I'm...I'M A GOOF GOOBER! ROCK!
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Zuko: For so long, all I wanted was for you to love me, to accept me. I thought it was my honor I wanted. But really, I was just trying to please you. You, my father, who banished me, just for talking out of turn. My father, who challenged me, a 13-year-old boy, to an Agni Kai. How can you possibly justify a duel with a child? |
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Megabyte: You can't do this. It goes against everything you stand for. |
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- Back to "World of Cardboard" Speech
- ↑ Gogo and Umaro don't say anything if you brought them. Thus, if you brought only three people, two of which are Gogo and Umaro, it ends up being a World Of Cardboard Sentence. If the third one is Terra, it ends up being a World Of Cardboard Word. If you didn't bring Terra, one of the party members you did bring and that isn't Gogo or Umaro says the "Yes" at the beginning.