Yet the deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
— Do you and Kougami want to be heroes that badly?!
— It's not about justice. It's an obsession. Even though you know there are other, wiser ways to live, you feel that if you turn your back on everything you've worked toward, it's like admitting you lived a lie. <...> This is because of our pride as men.
"I'd die for you," that's easy to say
We have a list of people that we would take
A bullet for them, a bullet for you
A bullet for everybody in this room.
But I don't seem to see many bullets coming through.
— I tied the cartridge to the mouse.
— Poor mouse!
— If this makes the wall explode, you'll make a monument for the mouse.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
I tell them, heap it on me. Make me play the big passive bottom in your guilt gang bang. I'll take everybody's load.
For about 30 seconds I was a big hero, and now it's directly to unemployment.
Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero... is to see a hero fail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually, they will hate you. Why bother?
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