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Top 10 Badass Lines in Video Games


hey what can we say some video game
characters know how to pump you up
little number one my way or he’s a dead
mortal way take you prick
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badass lines in video games are you a
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this list we’re looking at what we
consider to be the most badass and
fist-pumping lines in all of gaming as
long as it’s video game original so no
matter how badass the lines from Duke
Nukem 3d are they will not be included
because most of them are actually quotes
from movies it’s time to kick ass and
chew bubblegum I’m all out of gum
number 10 sit down in those chairs and
drink your goddamn tea
final fantasy 7 while it may seem dated
today this was the first game in the
Final Fantasy series to use 3d graphics
and it helped to bring the characters
and their memorable wines like this to
life this line spoken by the airship
pilot CID high-wind is both hilariously
awful in that perfectly Final Fantasy
way and equally badass CID isn’t exactly
the greatest role model due to his
sailor mouth and nasty temper which is
on full display here yet
he still has a good heart this line
perfectly captures the character of CID
and helped to cement him as a badass fan
favorite
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number nine reinforcements I am the
reinforcements vagrant story
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yeah rock and roll nothing screams I’m a
badass character played like this this
line is spoken by the protagonist and
playable character ashley riot which is
by the way probably one of the coolest
names in video gaming like a great 80s
action hero riot has the fantastically
badass name to go along with his snappy
one-liners making him death and
destruction incarnate
and with these menacing words come
menacing actions as Ashley is able to
wield extremely powerful weapons and
Jane together brutal attacks via his
chain abilities this line is the perfect
opening to the game then gets a pretty
pumped to storm the manor and kick some
ass now break don’t with a witch
Bayonetta despite dispatching some
rather formidable foes throughout her
adventure father Balder finally proved
to be Bayonetta’s match that is until
she utters this particular line and
Crooms a bullet straight into his face
the line definitely portrays Bayonetta
as a hard-ass and provides fans with a
pretty wicked and quotable ATS ask one
liner to boot what’s also important to
note is that the F word is never uttered
by Bayonetta in the rest of the game so
for her to say it once here greatly
heightens the impact and the drama of
the art a super cool line Balder
certainly learned his lesson anyway
number seven it’s not over – like a bag
every last one of you alien mother
serious sam 3 BF e gen Hellfire Hellfire
sure teabagging me grow extremely
annoying in online games like Halo but
damn it if Sam doesn’t make it sound
like the coolest thing ever like
Bayonetta before him the use of cursing
definitely accentuates the awesomeness
of this line especially due to Sam’s
harsh and determined vocal delivery Oh
is not over until I see back every last
one of you aliens
motherfuckers as bad asset the line
itself is it’s the pairing with the
patriotic Independence Day s score that
makes it seem even cooler and you’d be
hard-pressed to find a single player who
doesn’t raise their fists in the air and
grin and delighted this gleefully
immature a very satisfying moment he
tries to move me I’ll shoot his ass off
and hang it on my wall number 6 god the
title suits me well system shock
damn if this doesn’t line make you
quiver in fear at showdown then probably
nothing well playing as a hacker it is
your job to stop the villainous plans of
a malicious artificial intelligence
named shoten or the sentient hyper
optimized data access network you come
across this line by finding an audio log
in the research labs near the library
entrance in it showed and describes its
immense power and influence and caps off
it’s terrifying speech with these six
for voting words it eerily captures the
magnitude of a rogue AI system and it
reinforces show dance as one of gaming’s
most intriguing villains in my power I
shake ready carp do as I please
number five you want stars I’ll give you
stars resident evil 3 nemesis continuing
with the great villain theme nemesis is
truly one of the scariest antagonists in
a video games due to its immense size
disgusting physical appearance
unstoppable nature and Oly crap it’s the
Nemesis run run run run run however it
is no match for Jill Valentine a scrawny
woman running around in a miniskirt that
could still kick your ass and kick the
ass of the Nemesis she does uttering
this great yet kind of cheesy one-liner
right before dispatching it for good
it’s such a satisfying line in moment as
you spend the entire game running from
this on top of the beast yet here you
are finally killing it once and for all
she gave it stars indeed number four a
man chooses a slave obeys Bioshock a man
choose a slave obey
when Bioshock was first released in 2007
it pleasantly surprised professional
critics and gamers alike as it had a
fully realized lived in world and
fantastic philosophical writing we could
read a whole essay on the semantic
implications of this line but we’ll
spare you the lecture TLDR what makes it
badass is twofold it’s connection to the
game’s theme of illusionary choices and
Andrew Ryan’s confident delivery of the
line right before he death killed
proving that Jack is the slave in
question here it’s a chill inducing
moment in the game and a line that’s
been burned into gamers memories number
three good over here Mortal Kombat
series any self-respecting video game
player will instantly recognize
scorpions signature line spoken or well
yelled more realistically as he pierces
an enemy with his hand snaky thing and
then drags them towards him for a brutal
beating can you imagine being pierced by
the hand of a snake thingy and then
physically getting dragged across the
floor to a man who can spit fire from
his skeletal mouth well we can’t either
which is exactly why this line is so
scary and badass what is equally amazing
is the delivery of the line yelled in a
booming and threatening voice that’s
been ingrained in gamers ears for over
20 years
number two not even death can save you
from me Diablo 2 when you’re face to
face with Diablo himself this is
probably not drawing you want to hear
what is most terrifying above line is
its implication what can be more
disturbing than the inability to hide or
escape from your greatest adversary what
makes these words even more badass is
that these are the only lines uttered by
Diablo in the entire game which
definitely helps paint him as a menacing
villain especially due to the booming
sound of its delivery he may be a man or
devil a few words but he certainly knows
how to make those words count the line
is short but it’s sweet before we get to
our top pick here are a few honorable
mentions
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requiescat vintage a you carry your
prison with you number one we can
support evolution nemesis because we
allow mass effect men because there be a
cooler way of sounding so completely
evil spoken by sovereign this line truly
captures the essence of malice all while
sounding as man as is could possibly be
sovereign is an extremely powerful
Reaper bent on instigating the return of
the race from dark space and stopping at
nothing to assure its objective is
completed
it shows contempt for any lesser being
and can also indoctrinate organic life
via a signal bending anyone or anything
to it’s malicious will hear such a
powerful entity utter such devastating
words is harrowing oh and badass can’t
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