…more resignedly Machiavellian. Lee Tracy as an ex-President in Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, speaking to candidate Henry Fonda about the price of leadership:
"‘Because of you, I feel more beautiful, newer, and more wonderful than ever before, but I will not thank you.’ is what Fassad says. ‘Blunder?’ ‘…threw me off Blunder Tower?’ I’m sorry, I don’t understand…ah. ‘off Thunder Tower. You threw me off Thunder Tower.’ He goes on to say, ‘The resulting shame, pain and woe are humiliating. Very humiliating. Therefore, I would very much like to return the favor in full. Today will be the day I make you cry…I will make you cry uncle. I do not believe I will ever lose to the likes of you again…Nwehehehehe!’ is what Fassad says.
‘Now let us begin, kind sirs. I will show a mature, grownup terribleness. And that terribleness is a very mature, grownup terribleness.’ is what Fassad says. He also adds, ‘Nwehehehehehe!’"
–Fassad’s Interpreter, from Mother 3.
Equal parts incoherent rant and evil monologue–what’s not to love?
I noticed this first from Penny Arcade. Apparently it’s text from Warhammer 40000. I don’t know the context nor the speaker so I’ll just quote the comic:
Gabe was claiming that the Warhammer Online MMO had ripped of the basic “look” from the World of Warcraft MMO. This is pretty ridiculous as the original Warcraft game that World of Warcraft is based on totally ripped off the original look from the miniatures that the Warhammer MMO is based on. Its basically the same response you would get around here if you claimed the Lord of the Ring movies stole the idea from the Dungeons and Dragons movie.
Madam! I have borne, as long as mortal could endure, the ill treatment of the insolent Irish upstart whom you’ve taken into your bed! It is not only the lowness of his birth and the general brutality of his manners which disgusts me, but the shameful nature of his conduct towards Your Ladyship. His brutal and ungentleman-like behavior, his open infidelity, his shameless robberies and swindling of my property, and yours. And as I cannot personally chastise this low-bred ruffian - and as I cannot bear to witness his treatment of you, and loathe his horrible society as if it were the plague - I have decided to leave my home and never return, at least during his detested life…or during my own!
(Certain syllables stressed to convey the rhythm of Leon Vitali’s delivery.)
Fredo, you’re nothing to me now. You’re not a brother, you’re not a friend. I don’t want to know you or what you do. I don’t want to see you at the hotels, I don’t want you near my house. When you see our mother, I want to know a day in advance, so I won’t be there. You understand?
“There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.”
– Nietzsche
(OK, whether this is “villainous” is a matter of interpretation and viewpoint. But it is something a stock villain would say, except perhaps for the Knight Templar type.)
Thanks, but I actually meant I wish I knew the context within Warhammer 40k. What character said that? To who? What was going on? Never having played it, I have no clue if that came from some diabolically evil character or a school play
Brother Justin Crowe in Carnivale had quite a few excellent monologues in the form of his twisted sermons, but my favorite is the one he gives when he comes back to town after having been locked up in an asylum for a while (where he woke up to himself, as it were, and started exercising his diabolical powers). He strides into his church in the middle of Sunday service and delivers this speech:
Delivered by Clancy Brown in his deep, thunderous voice with hellfire in his eyes… fuck me, if I had been in that church, you could have knocked me down with a feather.
