This Loser Is You/Quotes

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


"So, this protagonist is, like, awkward, so we're totally supposed to relate to her. Who doesn't remember the time when no one came to your sixteenth birthday party? Or when you wrote erotic fanfiction about the hot guy in class and accidentally handed it instead of the assignment? Movie, that's not relatable. That's creepy."
The Nostalgia Chickon Louise from Teen Witch
America, America, this is you
—The original theme song for America's Funniest Home Videosa half-hour of recordings of people doing stupid, stupid things.
I've heard a theory that says heroes need to be slightly dumb so that the audience member who makes a lot of mistakes herself can emphasize with them. That makes me think of a lot of books I've read and decide, "Not that' dumb."
—Limyaael's Fantasy Rants
No More Heroes is a Japanese game . . . starring as the main character a hopeless, pop-culture-obsessed social reject who spends most of his time whining, getting strung along by women, and being a generally unlikeable fuck-bend. So at least you can't fault it for understanding its audience.
This Hope guy has been established from the start as a whiny, weak, inept, cowardly, socially retarded mommy's-boy, so presumably he's the character most of the audience is meant to project onto.
There, happy now? Pleased to see the mystery resolved? Little old me getting the girl, the cash, and ending our story as one of the secret masters of the world? God, you are such an asshole, and I speak from experience. It only seems like yesterday I was at your level on the pathetic-o-meter.
—Wesley Gibson, Wanted
It's official: you suck!!!
—Shao Kahn, Mortal Kombat

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

— "The Dosadi Lesson: A Gowachin Assessment", The Dosadi Experiment