Favorite Villain Lines

[Zombie Sodomy]

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed?but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." -Harry Lime (Orson Welles) in The Third Man

 

[Patrick Buck]

"Human. You have changed nothing. That which you know as Reapers are your salvation through destruction."

Harbinger.
Fucking. Awesome.

 

[Zombie Sodomy]

O'Brian quotes from 1984:

"There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always ? do not forget this, Winston ? always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face ? forever."

"When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be. Even in the instant of death we cannot permit any deviation. In the old days the heretic walked to the stake still a heretic, proclaiming his heresy, exulting in it. Even the victim of the Russian purges could carry rebellion locked up in his skull as he walked down the passage waiting for the bullet. But we make the brain perfect before we blow it out."

"What happens to you here is for ever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves."

 

[Mordekaien]

Spoiler: No. No more questions. No more worship. Time to run, time to scream. Time to die

This great exchange that happens in the magnificent Legacy of Kain series, and that last line left me pretty scared, actually. The way he spoke, calmly stating the facts made it more terrifying than most screaming monsters would have.

 

[Animyr]

"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed?but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock." -Harry Lime (Orson Welles) in The Third Man

To expand on Harry Lime,

"Victims? Don't be melodramatic. Look down there. Would you really feel any pity of one of those...dots...stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money? Or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spend? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax!"

 

[MasterNano]

Basically "The Killing Joke" in its entirety, even though I'm not a huge Joker-fan. At least he isn't my favorite Batman-villain.

 

[Rooster893]

"All it takes to change the course of history is the will of a single man." -- Vladimir Makarov, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

"You're pretty good." -- Revolver/Liquid Ocelot

"Your soul is MINE!" -- Shang Tsung, Mortal Kombat

 

[Dr. Cakey]

This is a personal favorite of mine from, of all places, Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's:

"This is as far as you go. Your life points will soon be reduced to 0, and your life will be dust. It's over. The heart is pain. The heart that humans used to believe in holds this pain. All the wishes you've ever had, are all just pain. How worthless! Your hearts are what caused the future to be destroyed*.

Young boy, this is despair.

I end my turn."

[roll credits]

*Did I mention the plot to this season is incredibly stupid?

 

[Darren Carrigan]

Do you expect me to talk?

No, Mr Bond. I expect you to die! (Auric Goldfinger, Goldfinger)

I?ll be back. (The Terminator, in The Terminator)

Ever danced with the Devil by the pale moonlight?
Wanna know how I got these Scars?
I''m just a dog, chasing cars(The Joker, Batman)

"We are the future, Charles. Not them. They no longer matter." (Magneto, X-Men)
"The power of the sun, in the palm of my hand!" (Doc Ock, Spider-Man 2)

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

So cold...I am always by your side.
-Sephiroth

 

[Lazy]

"Do not blame yourself overmuch. The doom of Jhera was preordained. Content yourself that you were but a pawn, as you will be again."
- Marduk from the PC game Sacrifice.

Honestly, you can pull just about any line from that game and it'll sound awesome, though the voice acting certainly helps. For instance:

"Do not despair, wanderer. These two 'paragons of virtue' are not the only gods around here. I, for one, can offer you untold... knowledge."
- Stratos, of the same game.

 

[LordChhaya]

Blight: Batman Beyond.

Blight: [being stalked from the shadows by Batman] Who are you?!
Batman: [pauses] You really want to know?
Blight: Yes!
Batman: [enters] You killed my father.
[Slight pause]
Blight: Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?!

 

[TecnoMonkey]

"Do not... toy with me." - Colonel Mael Radec, Killzone 2

Don't know why but this line never gets out of my head, it's not clever or anything and I didn't even play the game. Maybe it's because of the way he says it.

 

[Legion]

Hmm some of mine have been taken, time to get inventive.

Spoiler: Johnny The Homicidal Maniac

"Such amusing fiction, these stories they tell. It always comes to this. If they really had a desire to live, they would've been more aware of how easy it is to die, would've chosen their actions more wisely. In these moments, you can tell they're not regretting having hurt you. They regret doing it to your face. They get so loud. They make so much noise. I try to wait until I'm out of the room before I start laughing... A blur... of... sweating... screaming... human... drama... but, every once in a while, they say things that sound like words. They make me think about what I'm doing. The noises make me uncomfortable. So uncomfortable that... sometimes... I wonder... why I don't just get myself a pair of earplugs."

Spoiler: Martin Finnegan from Bioshock

"You think you gonna finish me in here, you old fruit? The other saps you tossed in this meat locker all panicked like rabbits. I just watched and waited. And when they started to kick, I started to scavenge. Made myself a little Splicer cocktail I did. If you can't come in from the cold, then you gotta grow ice over your heart. And the iceman cometh, Sander baby. The iceman fucking cometh."

Spoiler: The Many from System Shock 2

"Do you not trust the feelings of the flesh? Our biology yearns to join with yours. We welcome you to our mass. But you puzzle us. Why do you serve our mother? How can you choose cold metal over the splendor of the flesh? But you fear us. We hear your thoughts, and they rage for your brothers who you believe dead. But they are not. They sing in our symphony of life. We offer another chance to join us. If you choose to lie down with the machine, we will rend you apart, and put you separate from the joys of the mass."

 

[lmuise]

I can see your whole history in your eyes. You were born with nothing. So you've had to struggle and connive and claw your way to power. But true power, the divine right to rule, is something you're born with. The truth is: they don't know which one of us is going to be sitting down on that throne, and which of us is going to be bowing down. But I know, and you know. [sits on throne]

-Azula, Avatar the Last Airbender

 

[cip_raziel]

Why so serious ?! - Joker, The Dark Knight
The brave are always the first to die - Magneto from the TV series

 

[Mikeyfell]

This, basically.

"No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die." is also up there but the Joker is easily the best villain ever.

 

[Zachary O'shea]

?You think movie sex and violence is such a bad thing? Look right out your damn window.?

"You want Dracula? I?ll fetch him. Dracula? Huh. I can get King Kong! We?ll have a nightmare with Freddy Krueger, have a surprise party for Adolf Hitler, Hannibal Lecter can do the catering, and then we?ll have christening for Rosemary?s Baby! All I have to do is snap my fingers and they?ll be here. They?re lining up to get here, and do you know why Jack? Should I tell you why? Hmm? Because here, in this world, the bad guys can win!?

"If God were a villain, he'd be me."

All from Benedict ala The Last Action hero. Really, such a brilliant movie for a bomb.

 

[Bob Thenecromancer]

"Just as you call forth pawns, so I command all life into existence. Call it divine creation if you must. But expect none of the mercy men seek in their gods. This is cold truth. The unbending reality of a world without compassion."

-The Seneschal, Dragon's Dogma

 

[bat32391]

If war doesn't change, men must change, and so must their symbols. Know what you follow, even if it is nothing at all.
- Ulysses

We shall see how brave you are when nailed to the walls of Hoover Dam, your body facing west so you may watch your world die.
- Legate Lanius

We are eternal. The pinnacle of evolution and existence. Before us, you are nothing. Your extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything.
-Sovereign
The last is still my favorite, that whole conversation still sends chills down my spine whenever I hear it.