Nice Job Breaking It, Hero/Quotes

Homer: Homer do good?

Bart: Actually, you doomed us all. Again.

—The Simpsons Movie

Oops...

—Mega Hedgehog, after very literally breaking it, Two Evil Scientists

Way To Go, Serge: It will eventually turn out that, for a minimum of the first sixty percent of the game, you were actually being manipulated by the forces of evil into doing their sinister bidding for them. In extreme cases this may go as high as 90%. The clear implication is that it would have been better to not get involved in the first place.

—The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches, Cliche number 168

When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.

—Jesus, The Bible (New International Version), Matthew 12:43-45

These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... and then we fucked up the endgame.

—Congressman Charlie Wilson

You say to yourself "Dear God, What Have I Done?"

And hope it's not too late, because tomorrow...

May never come!

—Social Distortion, "Reach For The Sky"

Congratulations on the mess you made of things.

—TV On the Radio, "DLZ"

Ah, Romana! Hello, how are you? I see the Count broke you in as a lab assistant. What are you making for him - a model railway? Gallifreyan egg-timer? I do hope you're not making a time machine, I shall be very angry.

—The Doctor, to Romana, who is building a time machine for the Villain of the Week

How about your hubris leading to the untimely death of your best friend that will plague your smarmy ass with regret?

—The Nostalgia Chick, on Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan

One more such victory and we are undone.

—Pyrrhus of Epirus, 279 BCE

Good news. I figured out what that thing you just incinerated did. It was a Morality Core they installed after I flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin to stop me flooding the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin. So why don't you get comfortable while I warm up the neurotoxin emitters?

—GLaDOS, Portal

Jesus Christ I launched a missile! ...I'm not helping anything today. Well, guess I just started World War III.

—Gordon Freeman, Freeman's Mind

You sure you lot are the good guys?

—Klofange, Xiaolin Showdown, when the monks accidentally provide Dyris a means of escape and flooding the Earth.

Adolf Hitler: Thank you, whoever you are. I think you have just saved my life.
The Doctor: (small voice) Believe me... it was an accident.

Amy: What do you mean, we just saved his life? We cannot have just saved Hitler.

—Doctor Who, "Let's Kill Hitler"

Geh heh heh! Excellent work! As I thought, you held the keys to the Door of Time! You have led me to the gates of the Sacred Realm... Yes, I owe it all to you, kid!

—Ganondorf, after Link and Princess Zelda unwittingly pave the way for his rise to power, The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time

We have learned, and fairly enough, to link up the ideas of absolute monarchies, dynastic wars, and sacrifices laid on peoples. For, while it is not the case that all kings have been ambitious, yet, if one such there was, the extent of his authority enabled him to lay heavy burdens.
When the people upset the Power of kings, it was, so they thought, of just these burdens that they were ridding themselves. It was the burdens of taxation and, above all, military conscription which they hated. That being so, it is not a little surprising to see these burdens grow heavier under an up-to-date regime, and most surprising of all to see conscription instituted, not by absolute monarchy, but as the result of its fall.

— On power, its nature and the history of its growth by Bertrand de Jouvenel