Anti-Villain/Quotes

"''"Marcone was still a black hat. [...] Marcone's good intentions could have paved a new lane on the road to hell.

But dammit, I couldn't hate him anymore"''."

- Harry Dresden, The Dresden Files

"''We were once so close to heaven,

Peter came out and gave us medals,

Declaring us the nicest of the damned.''"

- They Might Be Giants, "Road Movie to Berlin"

""I think of her kind of as an 'anti-villain', a person in the villain's role who is not actually villainous.""

- Rich Burlew, creator of The Order of the Stick

"Why was it that everyone always had to have sympathetic reasons for being [Alex's] enemies? Why couldn't he ever have to kill someone who was just a raving murderer, driven by hate and evil and an urge to kick puppies?"

- Unfamiliar

""Black-hearted evil, Brave-hearted hero,

I am all, I am all, I am.""

- Theme of Shadow the Hedgehog

"Vladimir was one of those old-time bad guys with honor and morals, which made him almost one of the good guys."

- Max Payne

""From a distance, one's adversaries seemed fiends, but with a closer view, one saw their sincerity and it was as great as one's own. Perhaps Satan was the sincerest of the lot.""

- A Canticle for Leibowitz