Quotes you can build a character off of III: It's a crowd

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Hey guys, it's been a while since I put one of these up, but they always bring up good discussions and always have wicked awesome quotes.
Pretty simple, you have an epic quote that makes you want to build a character? Comment it. Do the same if their is an awesome piece of artwork that has the same effect on you.

My contribution:

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"Learning is especially valuable when suffering is your teacher."

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"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet."

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-James Mattis

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There is no emotion, there is peace.
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.
There is no passion, there is serenity.
There is no chaos, there is harmony.
There is no death, there is the Force.

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-Jedi Code

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Peace is a lie, there is only passion.
Through passion, I gain strength.
Through strength, I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The Force shall free me.

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The Sith Code

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Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.

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— Spaceballs Code


Some quotes I had picked out for a Pathfiner ranger I once played:

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In town you're the law. Out here it's me.

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— John Rambo, First Blood

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'Welcome to my parlor,' said the Spider to the Fly.

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And because I love The 13th Warrior so much, honestly one of my favorite descriptions for any enemy ever; the one-eyed old man talking about the Wendol:

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"I saw the thing that did this clear enough!

Teeth like a lion, head like a bear, claws that could tear a plank to kindling.

They come in the night, in the mist. Always in the darkest, like they could see in the black."

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"Did they go on two legs or four?"

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"It seems they did both, like a thing that was both man and bear. Though, myself, I cannot tell.

I saw the glowwyrm, though. Saw it clear. We all did on the last night. Saw it come down out of the hills, through the mist. Slithering this way and that. Long as a hundred ships. Spitting fire at us as it came!

My father's father always warned of it. Said it was a hate from old times…"

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"If I can't be the best then I can certainly be the worst."

Why is there a new thread? The last one is still active. It got a post only a week ago.

"I was born Wilhelm III, raised Ricky, praised Sir Wilhelm the Unconquerable, condemned Wilhelm the Coward and now I live as Old Richard. Haven't decided what is going on my tombstone."

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Originally Posted by Cluedrew

Why is there a new thread? The last one is still active. It got a post only a week ago.

"I was born Wilhelm III, raised Ricky, praised Sir Wilhelm the Unconquerable, condemned Wilhelm the Coward and now I live as Old Richard. Haven't decided what is going on my tombstone."

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Serves me right for not checking a page back, honestly it's been so long since I've been on the forum, I just assumed it died. (I'm an idiot)
Regardless this gives me an excuse to make sure the thread has a slightly cooler name, and hopefully people will submit artwork since I put the prompt in the op.

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"It hits like a truck trucking trucking trucks"

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-Me

"Soldiers of Fortune, charged with crimes they did not commit"
-A Team

You could make a Fighter based off of Mr. T and call everyone and everything Foo

It would be even better if everyone except Mr. T was actually named Foo

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So would that make Mr. T and the A-Team "Foo' Fighters?" :smalltongue: Let's hope they don't have Exotic Weapon Proficiency (monkey wrench).

"I am Banquo, I am Julius Caesar!" - Ghost Cassette, Scissorborn.

I like the idea of a villain with megalomany but that isn't obsessed with being the first in power - but rather the one the patriarch of a house filled with kings and emperors. A small twist on megalomany.

"Grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, I hurt people. I'm a force of nature!"
-Scout from TF2, could apply to a druid.

"I'm a cleaner. I can see a cold, dead body and feel no remorse. "
-Garcian Smith, Killer7. Any assassin.

"Information is not Knowledge. Knowledge is not Wisdom. Wisdom is not Truth. Truth is not Beauty, Beauty is not Love. Love is not Music. Music is the best."
-Frank Zappa, good for a true neutral or chaotic neutral bard.

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Originally Posted by Âmesang

So would that make Mr. T and the A-Team "Foo' Fighters?" :smalltongue: Let's hope they don't have Exotic Weapon Proficiency (monkey wrench).

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What else do you think they would have?

"Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Read books, become evil."
-Some random picture I saw on the Internet

Seriously, if you're ever gonna play an evil wizard, play him based off of that. :smalltongue:

"Feel my righteous fury"
- Butters Stotch, South Park and the Stick of Truth
- Lawful Good anything

"It's a beautiful day. Birds are singing. Flowers are blooming. On days like these, kids like you....should be burning in hell."
-Undertale

"I don't need friends! I've got knives!"
-Also Undertale

"Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."
-Douglas McArthur

"Just wait till I find me nail-gun!"
- Worms
- A good one for a rogue or assassin

[BBEG] plays chess. I mean to do some boxing. --Admiral Calder, Blue Planet: War in Heaven

"I am not a fish-man! The next one of you who suggests so will be drowned!"
-A water genasi sailor raised by merfolk dealing with a party of landlubbers.
Yes, I could cast Create Water as a racial ability.

The 30 Point buck song

Look it up, perfect, ranger idea especially if you have low intelligence

First the quote I 'pitched' on the old thread, then some new ones.

Spoiler: Is your seat belt on?

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There were some other interpretations of this on the last thread. Mine is actually somewhere in between, someone who is normally calm and controlled but sometimes the can go crazy. In this case the crazy seems to come out when they are driving. The are both aware of that and so they check for the seat belts now.

I got this quote, and that interpretation, from a very particular scene. A more famous version of the scene appears in MIB, when the old agent gets into the car with is new partner for the first time. Actually speaking of MIB.

Spoiler: I am but a figment of your imagination.

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-MIB: Agent K

Besides the very real possibility that I am a figment of your imagination, with magic and psychics who can say for sure, this is the spy. Or really anyone who does not exist on the record, as in 'I might as well be a hallucination as you will never prove I exist'. It is also encapsulated on a higher/organizational level with another quote from that movie.

"We are they, we are them, we are the men in black." -MIB: Agent Z

Now, although this is a rather common characterisation I feel like highlighting it because it is something most games will never achieve. Even of the spy games I have seen generally involve far to much collateral damage for anyone to "not exist".

Spoiler: 'You know the difference between you and me?' Puts on sunglasses. 'I make this place look good.'

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-MIB: Agent J

First the straight forward "original" way to look at it: The new guy who is 10% competence and 90% confidence. I suppose not a bad place to start but not a place a character should stay. If they actually know what they are talking about then maybe they do make the place look good, or are speaking to someone who makes this place look bad. Or the NPC PR representative who has to clean up the mess the PCs made. Again.

Spoiler: Over radio. 'Get your feet of the [dash board].' 'You don't know that my feet-' 'Yes I do. Now move them.'

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Here we have two characters. One seems to be a ball of attitude and ego and the other seems to know how to handle that just fine. In addition person 2 seems to have told person 1 to move their feet main times. I sort of like that dynamic and... inter-character dynamics are something lacking in the games I have played.

Also [dash board] was originally console, I though this might make more sense of context.

I have an idea for a game, sort of like pitching quotes and coming up with the character, but this time it more the other way around. Pitch a archetype and then propose quotes to represent variants of the archetype. I suggest this both because it is different from what we usually do and because people might find that useful if they are looking for inspiration within a certain category. Or not. How does that sound?

"God power keeps my pimp hand strong."
"You can wax on, wax off all you like. I'm still kicking your ass."
- Gene, God Hand

Either works well for an arrogant monk, first one could also apply to a paladin or cleric.

"I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts."

- Calvin

"I don't remotely agree with his politics, but he hates the right people, and that's enough."

- Dunno I

"Beware, demon!" he intoned hollowly. "I am not without defenses."
"Oh yeah? Name three."

- Robert Asprin, Another Fine Myth

"Snipin's a good job mate, it's challenging work, out of doors, and you'll never go hungry, because at the end of the day, as long as there two people left on the planet, someone is gonna want someone dead"
- Sniper, Team Fortress 2

Probably a good one for an assassin or rogue

"This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one's will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god."

- Judge Holden from Blood Meridian

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I bring you a pain that not even death will end!

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— The Ultimate Warrior, Warrior #1

Don't risk your life and the lives of your comrades
Leave now and go home
Watch your children learn
Do not invite your own destruction
This is a road of no return
-"From Here on Out," by KMFDM
Good for a fighter who goes for intimidation, maybe LE.

"To the righteous we bring hope. To the tainted we bring fire."
— Castellan Garran Crowe of the Grey Knights

Great one for a Paladin

"I chase electron orbits, you think I can't find you?"(Scientist PC)
"You can never prove the absence of ninjas, you can only prove their direct presence. "(Ninja/assassin PC)
-both said by Gordon Freeman, Freeman's Mind

OOR RAH
- US Marine Battle Cry

Pretty good for a fighter, probably just base him off of a marine and make him so murican that all he will want to do is eat hamburgers, watch baseball, listen to country music and kill the communists with all his guns

(Keep in mind I DO NOT hold this stereotype of Americans, I am one, but I don't fit this list, I don't feel like eating a hamburger every day)

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I don't think you understand son, this isn't a mud pit, it's an operating table, and I'm the surgeon.

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-Batman, the Dark Knight Returns pt. 1

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The harder I train, the luckier I get.

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Just a handful of book learnin', and a whole LOT of lockpicks.

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- Elizabeth, Bioshock Infinite: Burial at Sea Ep. 2

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God forgives everything, but I'm just a prophet, so I don't have to.

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- Zachary Comstock, Bioshock Infinite

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God judges, I act.

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- Motorized Patriot, Bioshock Infinite