Villain Era Quotes

It is not cynical to admit that the past has been turned into a fiction. It is a story, not a fact. The real has been erased. Whole eras have been added and removed. Wars have been aggrandized, and human struggle relegated to the margins. Villains are redressed as heroes. Generous, striving, imperfect men and women have been stripped of their flaws or plucked of their virtues and turned into figurines of morality or depravity. Whole societies have been fixed with motive and vision and equanimity where there was none. Suffering has been recast as noble sacrifice!

I think I’ve officially entered the acceptance stage of grief. That, or it’s my villain era.

Of course, in these racial passion plays, though the “good guys” might have been either black or white, the villains were nearly always white. It was tricky for the majority of blacks during the antebellum era to separate friend from foe. As one African American confided: “They [whites] was all . . . devils and good people walking in the road at the same time, and nobody could tell one from t’other.”4

Zorro also is part of the bandido tradition, most closely associated with the possibly mythical Joaquin Murrieta and the historical Tiburcio Vasquez. As well as these local California legendary figures, Zorro is an American version of Robin Hood and similar heroes whose stories blend fiction and history, thus moving Zorro into the timeless realm of legend. The original story takes place in the Romantic era, but, more important, Zorro as Diego adds an element of poetry and sensuality, and as Zorro the element of sexuality, to the traditional Western hero. Not all Western heroes are, as D. H. Lawrence said of Cooper's Deerslayer, "hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer," but in the Western genre the hero and villain more often than not share these characteristics. What distinguishes Zorro is a gallantry, a code of ethics, a romantic sensibility, and most significant, a command of language and a keen intelligence and wit.

As recently as the grunge era, there remained a bohemian cachet in casually mentioning that you didn’t own a TV. But nobody thinks like that anymore. Today, claiming you don’t own a TV simply means you’re poor (or maybe depressed). In one ten-year span, high-end television usurped the cultural positions of film, rock, and literary fiction.

Yo parecía destinado a interpretar roles secundarios en las historias de los demás. Me había preguntado demasiadas veces si era el arte el que imitaba a la vida o al revés.

It was wicked of her heart to ache for him so. Wicked because she could never hope to have him.

Every world has its villains, every universe has its saints, every era has its heroes.

Lo "normal" era para aquellos que no tenían la capacidad de llevar la mente más allá de lo inalcanzable

It is not cynical to admit the past has been turned into a fiction. It is a story, not a fact. The real has been erased. Whole eras have been added or removed. Wars have been aggrandized, and human struggle relegated to the margins. Villains are redressed as heroes. Generous, striving, imperfect men and women have been stripped of their flaws or plucked of their virtues and turned into figurines of morality or depravity. Whole societies have been fixed with motive and visions and equanimity where there was none. Suffering has been recast as noble sacrifice! Do you know why the history of the Tower is in such turmoil? Because too many powerful men are fighting for the pen, fighting to write their story over our dead bodies. They know what is at stake: immortality, the character of civilization, and influence beyond the ages. They are fighting to see who gets to mislead our grandchildren.

Chubby: A regular-size person who could lose a few, for whom you feel affection. Chubster: An overweight, adorable child. That kid from Two and a Half Men for the first couple of years. Fatso: An antiquated term, really. In the 1970s, mean sorority girls would call a pledge this. Probably most often used on people who aren’t even really fat, but who fear being fat. Fatass: Not usually used to describe weight, actually. This deceptive term is more a reflection of one’s laziness. In the writers’ room of The Office, an upper-level writer might get impatient and yell, “Eric, take your fat ass and those six fatasses and go write this B-story! I don’t want to hear any more excuses why the plot doesn’t make sense!” Jabba the Hutt: Star Wars villain. Also, something you can call yourself after a particularly filling Thanksgiving dinner that your aunts and uncles will all laugh really hard at. Obese: A serious, nonpejorative way to describe someone who is unhealthily overweight. Obeseotron: A nickname you give to someone you adore who has just stepped on your foot accidentally, and it hurts. Alternatively, a fat robot. Overweight: When someone is roughly thirty pounds too heavy for his or her frame. Pudgy: See “Chubby.” Pudgo: See “Chubster.” Tub o’ Lard: A huge compliment given by Depression-era people to other, less skinny people. Whale: A really, really mean way that teen boys target teen girls. See the following anecdote.

Storms of the ages and winds of the sea,” said Serena, closing her eyes and focusing on the warm sensation in her gut. Triton looked puzzled. Serena continued, “Shall have only half the strength of the force ‘tween you and me.” Triton’s quizzical smile slackened along with the rest of his face. His eyes never moved from Serena’s, but his mind seemed elsewhere. Serena’s skin felt alive and tingly. Hazel’s eyes darted between the two of them as a thin, pink tendril of liquid smoke seeped from the necklace and reached out towards Triton. Serena continued, “One shall live for two, and two shall be one. Only by true love’s kiss may this spell be undone.

What you do can hardly be called helping,” said Moira. “Your magical ability is so limited and so faulty you can hardly call yourself a witch.” The hurt on Hazel’s face and the way she shrank back from their mother, slightly raising her arms as if to protect herself, made Serena both furious and disgusted. Furious at the pain her mother caused her sister; disgusted at the way Hazel went belly up and took it every time. Hazel

Some spent years undermining Pfeiffer’s theory, and others—among them many of the most brilliant scientists of the era—took off after other alleged villains, spending untold thousands of man-hours in the crucially important but thankless task of proving themselves wrong.

Quel romanzo presentava numerosi presagi, intrighi sparsi su ogni dove, e c’era un mistero dopo l’altro, strati su strati di confuse false piste. E alla fine, non era stato svelato un bel niente! "Stupido autore, stupido romanzo

The start of your villain era,” she said. “The ‘no fucks given, ask me if I care, throw out your whole life and start over just because you feel like it’ era.

She flopped back against the cushions. “This is it, isn’t it?” “What?” “The start of your villain era,” she said. “The ‘no fucks given, ask me if I care, throw out your whole life and start over just because you feel like it’ era.

Good girl,” I tell her. “You’re such a good fucking girl.

Keep your eyes on me,” I command, guiding my cock into her enthusiastic mouth. “That’s a good girl.

You like the way I fill you, don’t you, my pretty girl?” I thrust into her.

Come for me, princess," I breathe into her mouth. "I want to feel you shatter around me.

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El Villano se dio cuenta entonces de algo tan trágico que su mente trató de rechazar las palabras. Pero estaban ahí, y era tan evidente que resultaba hasta cómico. Estaba enamorado de ella.

So-called “Buyers Clubs” filled the vacuum by providing treatments that community doctors and their patients considered effective against AIDS, but that FDA refused to approve. “Dr. Fauci was a liar,” recalls Wallack, who researched Dr. Fauci intensively for her film. “He was utterly beholden to pharmaceutical companies and was hostile to any product that would compete with AZT. He was the real villain of this era. He cost a lot of people their lives.”36

If Trump had followed the example of his predecessors and conceded power graciously and peacefully, he would have been remembered as a disruptive but consequential populist leader who, before the coronavirus pandemic, presided over an economic boom, reoriented America’s opinion of China, removed terrorist leaders from the battlefield, revamped the space program, secured an originalist majority on the US Supreme Court, and authorized Operation Warp Speed to produce a COVID-19 vaccine in record time. Instead, when historians write about the Trump era, they will do so through the lens of January 6. They will focus on Trump’s tortured relationship with the alt-right, on his atrocious handling of the deadly Charlottesville protest in 2017, on the rise in political violence during his tenure in office, and on his encouragement of malevolent conspiracy theories. Trump joined the ranks of American villains from John C. Calhoun to Andrew Johnson, from Joseph McCarthy to George Wallace.

Son, we live in the era where the villains aren't always bad. They probably are the ones who stand for the truth better than us!" ~General Susilo, Lost Bastard

THE 2007–2008 FINANCIAL crisis provoked no great protests, but it did provide plenty of villains. Advances in information technology and the loosening up of financial industry regulations since the 1980s had set bankers free to take enormous risks. By the late 1990s, with home prices climbing higher and higher every year, private mortgage lenders saw an opportunity to reap tremendous profits while passing the risks on to the public.

To those who have entered their villain era. And, to those who haven't... yet. Here's your origin story.

So your villain era is going well.” I snorted. “Well, it was short-lived. I’m in my middle-aged-lesbian, home-renovation era now.

A decent person would feel guilty about having sex so soon after breaking off an engagement. Not me. Guess I’m not a perfect angel. My villain era is well underway.

Fear.” The worn older man’s hoarse voice boomed out across the barren valley, its natural bass seeming to shake the debris around him. “Every species has experienced this natural instinct of self-preservation. Its origin dates back to even our earliest evolutionary ancestors, from the humans of our current era trailing backward through primates to the first tetrapod to make the revolutionary leap from water onto land, all the way back to the first single-celled organism that decided to seamlessly split down the middle to create an exact copy of itself in what can be considered the first fearful reaction of isolation. In all recorded history, very few beings have been exempted from this phenomenon, and those slim few are the great men and women who have shaped history so far.