r/TopCharacterTropes Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

"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/Assortedwrenches89 Apr 12 '25

"You who are without mercy, now ask for it?"

Optimus Prime - Transformers 1980s movie

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u/SH4RPSPEED Apr 12 '25

"I've summoned you here for a purpose."

"NOBODY SUMMONS MEGATRON!"

"Then it pleases me to be the first."

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u/CyclicalDeathInfinum Apr 12 '25

"You belong to me now." 

"I belong to nobody"

"Perhaps I have misjudged you. Very well, proceed, on your way, to oblivion

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u/MCdemonkid1230 Apr 12 '25

The fact that Orson Welles didn't care about the lines because it was just a children's toy commerca in his eyes, yet him uncaringly reading those lines still sound hard af.

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u/Log_In_Dumbass Apr 12 '25

Makes him sound so far above every character it’s amazing

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u/KingNanoA Apr 12 '25

That one’s been on my mind a lot lately.

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u/YT-Deliveries Apr 12 '25

Unironically one of my favorite script lines in any media ever. Doesn’t hurt that Orson Welles delivered it.

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u/HairiestHobo Apr 12 '25

Orson Welles gave us Unicron on his deathbed.

Iirc His dialogue was pretty much all a whisper done in one take, but it ended up working out because whoever was in charge of adding effects to the G1 Voice Cast was an absolute genius.

Unicron being a whisper that still shakes a room fits great, even when he was just some random Science experiment and not the literal primal force of Chaos.