Millions Knives Quotes
2 quotes from Trigun, each with commentary on what it means and why it stuck.
The brother who ran an experiment on the person he loves and refuses the result. His case against humanity has exactly one piece of counter-evidence, and it is family.
Spoiler — from the ending. Tap to reveal.
“The humans treat you well? Did you have fun, dear brother?”
Usually heard as sarcasm from a genocidal villain, and it is, but the question is also sincere and that is worse. Knives genuinely wants the answer, because his entire case rests on the claim that humanity cannot be lived among, and his brother is the only counter-evidence in existence. The mockery is what a man does when the experiment he ran on someone he loves has returned the wrong result.
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Five words that reorganise the whole series retroactively. The bounty, the destroyed cities, the impossible survival, the absent childhood: all of it has been running on a premise the show declines to state until this point, that its gunman is not a man at all but the same kind of being as the power sources keeping the colonies alive. The reveal costs nothing to say because everything before it was the setup.