Visionary Villain/Quotes

"I lacked vision?! He's the fool with no vision! Destroy everything in his path, no goal, no plan? I would have united worlds. That... is vision!"

—Nerissa, WITCH, "X is for Xanadu"

"I k-killed them... two of them... It's a life...the consequences can't be light. Do I have the right to pass judgement upon others? But wait...it's not like that. This is what I've always thought. This world is rotten. Those who are rotten deserve to die. Someone...someone has to do it! Sacrificing their own life and soul, just because the world can't continue like this! If someone else had picked up this notebook, someone else could erase all the unnecessary people from this world...but is there someone who could do that? No, there isn't! But I can. In fact, I'm The Only One who can do it! I'll do it. I'll use the Death Note...to change the world!"

—Light Yagami, Death Note', making his decision to become Kira.

We like to talk big, vampires do. "I'm going to destroy the world." That's just tough-guy talk. Strutting around with your friends over a pint of blood. The truth is, I like this world. You've got...dog racing, Manchester United. And you've got people. Billions of people walking around like Happy Meals with legs. It's all right here. But then someone comes along with a vision. With a real... passion for destruction. Angel could pull it off. Good-bye, Picadilly. Farewell, Leicester-bloody-Square.

—Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Becoming, part 2"

Your worthy Sir Topham Hatt thinks I need to learn. He is mistaken. We diesels don't need to learn, we know everything. We come to a yard and improve it. We are revolutionary!"

—Thomas the Tank Engine Diesel, "Pop goes the Diesel"

"My mission is peaceful. Any attempt to stop me... would make it otherwise."

—Magneto, X-Men

Sigrid: Welcome to wizardry, where people with awful ideas and no social skills invoke supernatural forces to gain power and respect. Almost makes you want to tap out and start a little shop selling healing potions.
Katia: Wow, that’s… pessimistic. I mean, it’s not like every wizard is an evil jerk like you who wants to control everyone. Even the ones who learn mind control stuff, there’s probably a lot who use it responsibly, to like, stop bad people and make the world a better place.
Sigrid: You mean exactly how I was attempting to use it? You’re new to the practice of magic, Katia, so let me give you a lesson I apparently forgot: there’s no such thing as “good” or “evil”, just “powerful” and “powerless”. For their own safety, powerless people will work together in something we mistake as “good”, whereas those with access to power will stomp on whoever they can in the pursuit of some perceived greater good.
Sigrid: So how about this: if you want to use powerful magic to make the world a better place, I’ll allow you to put my expensive magical equipment in the deepest part of a cave and then fill the cave with deadly traps. That way, the traps can take care of all the other mages who want to “make the world a better place”, and we’ll actually get something good from it.

— Prequel [1]