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DiscussionJun 4, 2020 8:00 am CT

What line of dialog from any video game will you never forget?

Back in — checks calendar, cries — way too long ago, I played the heck out of the original Kingdom Hearts. I hit a few roadblocks along the way, but I didn’t ever really hit a wall until the final fight with Ansem. Part of that was because I was under-leveled and part of that was because the fight had like 5 million phases. Whatever the case, the end result was that I fought the guy more times than I care to admit, only making baby steps of progress each time. And as a result of that, I have his speech so ingrained in my head that it randomly pops into my mind when I hear some of the words he used in it.

Someone says something about darkness? “Darkness is the heart’s true essence!” Someone tells me something isn’t true? Sora’s speech about Ansem being wrong. At this point, it’s basically impossible to forget all the exchanges that happen over the course of that encounter. But it’s not something that just happens with Kingdom Hearts. That may be one of the more memorable examples, but there are boss lines from World of Warcraft that are hard to ever forget.

I don’t think anyone will forget Sindragosa’s line about magic, and “BY FIRE BE PURGED” is singed into the memories of anyone who fought Ragnaros at almost any point. But there are lines like, “Destroy me?! No, brother. Your blade will become my instrument!” from the Mage Tower challenge that I can’t forget either — probably because that’s also one that I did a bajillion times before beating it. What I’m trying to say is, there are a lot of lines from a lot of characters that are hard to forget, for one reason or another.

Which lines will you never forget? Which bits of dialog manage to pop into your mind during an entirely unrelated conversation?

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