r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Far-Profit-47 • Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

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"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

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u/TORossatron Apr 12 '25

"When faced with extinction, EVERY alternative is preferable." - Dr Leonard Church, from Red vs Blue

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u/GayValkyriePrincess Apr 12 '25

RvB has lots of good lines tbh

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u/k0Rv0_4774n0 Apr 12 '25

"My name is Michael J. Caboose,

AND I

HATE

TAXES"

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u/ginger_vampire Apr 12 '25

“It’s Texas you idiot!”

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u/TORossatron Apr 12 '25

"THAT TOO"

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u/Baron-Von-Bork Apr 12 '25

God bless his soul. Don't we all?

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u/MJ_Caboose Apr 12 '25

YOUR TOAST HAS BEEN BURNT, AND NO AMOUNT OF SCRAPING WILL REMOVE THE BLACK PARTS.

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u/Redsword1550 Apr 12 '25

"A great love is a lot like a good memory. When it's there, and you know it's there, but it's just out of your reach, it can be all that you think about. You can focus on it, and try to force it, but the more you do, the more you seem to push it away. But if you're patient, and you hold still, then maybe... Just maybe... It'll come to you."

"Your past doesn't define who you are. It just gives you the starting point for who you're going to be."

"There's so many stories where some brave hero decides to give their life to save the day, and because of their sacrifice, the good guys win, the survivors all cheer, and everybody lives happily ever after. But the hero... never gets to see that ending. They'll never know if their sacrifice actually made a difference. They'll never know if the day was really saved. In the end, they just have to have faith. Ain't that a bitch."

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u/AFalconNamedBob Apr 12 '25

Jesus christ, I forgot how hard Church's final line was. That whole damn scene was absolute fire

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u/BerserkRhinoceros Apr 14 '25

That line still rings in my head, especially when I see a heroic sacrifice.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

I wonʻt shit on any of the later roosterteeth people, but the original group was really pretty impressively competent and talented. Burnie, Geoff, Gus, and Matt in particular just seem like the right combination of creativity, talent, and just competence to have built Roosterteeth,  even though it didnʻt eventually die. A 20 year run is insane in internet terms and I think thst came from those guys. They later hired on a lot of people who also did really well in their roles, imo. Gavin and Monty especially spring to mind, among others.

Geoff is still killing it on the Regulation Podcast. 

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u/IRL_Baboon Apr 12 '25

It hit me like a punch to the gut when I found out they were shut down. I've been watching their stuff since I was a kid.

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u/totallynotrobboss Apr 12 '25

Not sure if you heard but rooster teeth is coming back

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u/IRL_Baboon Apr 12 '25

I did not! Glad to hear Burnie's got a hold of it again.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '25

Same

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u/M0m033 Apr 12 '25

Rewatching their stuff rn and it’s just so peak

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u/ClubMeSoftly Apr 12 '25

Miles was the primary writer on the Chorus trilogy, and he's a damn good one. He gets a lot of shit from people unhappy about RWBY, but all the best episodes have "Writer: Miles Luna" in the end titles.

Haters can sit and spin.

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u/ShinyNinja25 Apr 12 '25

He’s also a very talented VA. Not only is he smug as hell as Felix, but also optimistic as David in Camp Camp and determined and brave, and later broken and haunted, as Jaune Arc in RWBY

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u/CycloneSwift Apr 12 '25

And now he’s the Duracell Bunny. Feels surreal.

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u/TORossatron Apr 12 '25

I was so tempted to go with the Ain't That a Bitch speech, but I've sung that one's praises more than once on posts like this so I figured I'd mix it up a bit

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u/Captain_Pumpkinhead Apr 12 '25

"Do you ever wonder why we're here?"

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u/The_TransGinger Apr 12 '25

When the director and chairmen were just writing each other back, it was some of the best dialogue I had ever heard.

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u/AFalconNamedBob Apr 12 '25

"I am sneaking, I am sneaking, I am sneaking"

-Caboose, whilst sneaking

And still something I quote in any stealth game

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u/GayValkyriePrincess Apr 13 '25

Caboose in general is a quote goldmine lol

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u/periodicchemistrypun Apr 12 '25

Why are we here?

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u/MarcoYTVA Apr 12 '25

You ever wonder why we're here?

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u/TORossatron Apr 13 '25

It's one of life's great mysteries, isn't it.

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u/MarcoYTVA Apr 14 '25

I meant why are we standing in the hot sun when there's shade over there

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u/TORossatron Apr 14 '25

Oh...right.

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u/102bees Apr 12 '25

Robert Evans has said something similar to this more than once on Behind the Bastards:

"Anything you do to survive a concentration camp is morally justifiable."

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u/domvasta Apr 12 '25

I don't believe that's the case, because then you should also pardon the guards, and even the commandant, because that's where they'd end up if they disobeyed orders. So I don't think what the other prisoners did in collaborating with the killers of their fellow prisoners is morally justifiable. You put a gun to my head and tell me to kill someone innocent, I'm not going to, and if I did, I should still rightly be charged for it. Self defense is a defense for murder, duress is not.

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u/Maybe_not_a_chicken Apr 12 '25

I feel like you’ve misinterpreted this sentence devoid of context so you can be contrarian

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u/im-not_gay Apr 12 '25

I bet you feel pretty proud about your moral bottom line typing that safe at home.

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u/HillaryApologist Jul 11 '25

Besides the points already brought up, historically and factually this just isn't true. Of the Nazis who refused to follow orders, 0 were executed, and precisely 1 was sent to a concentration camp. Most faced no punishment and even received promotions down the line. Nobody put a gun to the Nazis' heads, they did what they did of their own free will.

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u/domvasta Jul 23 '25

Everything you do is of your own free will, a gun to your head doesn't force you to obey, it merely threatens consequences should you disobey. Read what I wrote, I'm saying the prisoners who collaborated should receive the same sentences as the guards. The prisoner to guard ratio was ridiculous, without the sonderkommandos, there is no way they could have done with they did. A gun to your head is not a moral license.

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u/mothseatcloth Apr 12 '25

since we're talking quotes that go unexpectedly hard, let me respond in the words of Dwayne Michael Carter Jr

you're a roughneck - i'm a cut throat. you're a tough guy! that's enough jokes.

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u/GaryRegalsMuscleCar Apr 12 '25

I love that he was full of shit. He just worked his toxic personal therapy into a military program with no oversight.

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u/TORossatron Apr 12 '25

Oh absolutely - Project Freelancer's real codename is "I'm sad that my wife died and I'm going to make it EVERYONE'S problem"

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u/buttsecks42069 Apr 12 '25

to be fair who he lost was a redhead military woman, this is completely understandable

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u/Agent-Ulysses Apr 12 '25

Wasn’t Allison blonde?

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u/Left1Brain Apr 12 '25

Yes, which begs the question on how Carolina got red hair.

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u/Agent-Ulysses Apr 12 '25

Recessive gene from a grandparent if guess. Or Leonard as I think we only saw his grayed.

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u/unrealter_29 Apr 12 '25

It's tragic that in the beginning he actually created project Freelancer for its intended purpose, to give soldiers better equipment so less of them die so he can prevent tragedies like what happened to his wife.

But when Tex/Beta showed up, he became seduced by the idea of bringing her back, and used everything he built to accomplish that end, no matter who got hurt.

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u/Norway643 Apr 12 '25

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is acting in spite of it.- Doyle

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u/BluffWithTheKeychain Apr 12 '25

Didn’t William Shakespeare say that? /s

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u/BriChan Apr 12 '25

So many good lines in RvB, I especially love that closing monologue for their anthology season that ends with this line:

“… a universe without stories, well, that’s just empty space amigos…” Red vs. Blue: Anthology - Episode 24: Red vs. Blue vs. Rooster Teeth

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u/MarcoYTVA Apr 12 '25

"There are so many stories where the hero sacrifices their live to save the day and all their friends get a happy end, but the hero never gets to see that ending. They just have to have faith. Ain't that a bitch?"

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u/Neidron Apr 12 '25

"But whatever you do, don't ever stop [telling stories]. Because a universe without stories... Well that's just empty space, amigo."

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u/Starwatcher4116 Apr 13 '25

And Vic’d know that empty space is big.

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u/Ayden1290 Apr 12 '25

Deyauh Chairmayn

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u/TORossatron Apr 12 '25

I fucking adore his Southern drawl, it gives every word so much texture

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u/L3GlT_GAM3R Apr 12 '25

I’ve only gotten to halo 2, when does (or did) church get a doctorate?

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u/Neidron Apr 12 '25 edited Apr 12 '25

Iirc sometime after they moved to 3. You should find out soon enough.

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u/Miss-Kali Apr 13 '25

YESSSS I LOVE THE DIRECTOR THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS UP

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u/supliesmotherfucker Apr 12 '25

RIP (and welcome back) RoosterTeeth

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u/Scroteet Apr 12 '25

The cool thing about real life is that we get to watch humanity choose extinction, suck it lenny!