Gonna Need More Trope: Difference between revisions

== Films -- Live Action ==

* Perhaps the most famous example appears in ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'': ([[Beam Me Up, Scotty|often misquoted as]] "We're...")

* The misquote ("We're...") of the ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]'' example is used during the "salsa shark" bit in ''[[Clerks]]''.

* When the protagonists of ''[[2012]]'' realize they need to fly to China. "We're gonna need a bigger plane."

* In ''[[Die Hard]]'', {{spoiler|after the helicopter explodes, police chief Duane T. Robinson says, "We're gonna need some more FBI guys, I guess."}}

* ''[[Season of the Witch]]'' {{spoiler|after the [[Cute Witch]] turns into [[One-Winged Angel]] with [[Super Strength]] who can melt its way out of its cage.}}

* In the film ''Fly Away Home'', a father is attempting to build an ultralight craft. His first attempt barely gets off the ground, and crashes spectacularly after a short flight. His two friends, standing nearby, murmur: "We need a bigger engine." "Yeah! Yeah!"

 

== Live Action TV ==

* In ''[[Friends]]'', Monica convinces Chandler that taking a bath can be very relaxing. She prepares him a bath and gives him a toy ship to "so it's a boy bath". After a while, Monica comes by to ask whether he likes it:

'''Chandler''': "I'm gonna need a bigger boat." }}

* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'': The sketch where pharmacist (obCommonwealth: chemist) [[John Cleese]] is handing out medication to patients with embarrassing symptoms features this exchange:

'''Cleese:''' ...I'll have to get a [[Gag Boobs|bigger bottle]]. }}

* Played straight in ''[[River Monsters]]'' when host Jeremy Wade says this in one episode when he hooks into a giant freshwater stingray so big that it actually starts towing the boat. It later ends up snapping a heavy-duty saltwater fishing rod designed to handle '''Marlin'''!

** Which is why Timmy wasn't a human, just a kid dinosaur. He asks Mr. Lizard a question, Mr. Lizard explains the answer then suggests a demonstration as he ducks behind cover.

* ''[[The Shield]]'', when Mackey and a K9 officer are examining a location where they believe a body can be found:

'''Handler:''' I'm gonna need more flags. }}

* [[Bones|Temperance Brennan]], when called to examine a head, declares that "I need an evidence bag." When the rest of the body falls from a tree, she deadpans that she needs a bigger bag. This being Brennan, she probably wasn't going for humor.

* The ''[[Myth Busters]]'' often invoke this trope during their experiments. It usually involves explosives.

** Inverted in the myth involving pouring water on a grease fire. At one point, Adam and Jamie attempt to produce a smaller fireball by scaling down the size of the pan, the amount of cooking oil, and the amount of water. After their small-scale fireball turned out far bigger than they expected, Adam remarked:

* In an episode of ''[[Eureka]]'', Carter comes up with a plan to capture a small radioactivity-eating [[Blob Monster|blob]] by luring it out with a stockpile of radioactive material, then grabbing it and putting it back in its container. Too bad for them, it already found the stockpile before they went to place it, and now it's a ''giant'' radioactivity-eating blob. Quoth Carter, "we're gonna need a bigger container".

** In the second episode, when they're planning on tracking a ghost, Carter asks about Henry's omni-remote's ability to scan electromagnetic frequencies, the remote that went haywire in the cemetery, where Henry had to pull the battery. Henry's response, "We're gonna need a bigger battery."

* A variation in the ''[[The Lord of the Rings|Return Of The King]]'' game: When the oliphants show up, Gimli quips, "I don't have an axe big enough for this one."

* In ''[[Baldurs Gate II]]'', when Minsc's weapon isn't powerful enough to affect his enemy...

* The Heavy in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' flips it: '''You're gonna need much bigger guns!'''

** Also, if the Heavy blocks the other team from capturing a capture point or moving the payload cart forward, he'll yell "'''I think you need more men!'''"

== Web Comics ==

* In ''[[RPG World]]'', Hero invokes this trope when faced with the gargantuan "Tough Dragon".

* Early in ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Elliot realizes that a net is probably not the best item for catching sentient goo. Tedd's answer...

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'': [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070122 "I don't think I've got one big enough."]

* [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002850 This] ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' [[Homestuck]] comic sets up [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002851 the trope illustrator.]

** Also in ''Complacency of the Learned'': "We're going to need more wands."

* Early in ''[[DM of the Rings]]'', the player playing Gimli is busy frantically sketching out his best estimates of Moria on graph paper, realizes it doesn't fit, accidentally tears a hole in the paper, [http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=712 and then]...

* Riff from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' manages to make this trope even more absurd. Upon coming face-to-face with a giant tiger monster? [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20100322 "Will be needing a larger wetnap than originally thought."]

* From ''[[A Modest Destiny]]'', [http://www.squidi.net/comic/amd/view.php?series=amd&ep=1&id=260 "We're gonna need a bigger plan."]

* After the [[New Mutants]] were added to the ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' cast, [[Wolverine]] noted, "We're definitely going to need more instructors. And maybe a couple of tanks."

* When Him has ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' fight a monster without their powers, Bubbles throws apples at him.

'''Bubbles''': [[Comically Missing the Point|How about grapefruits, then?]] }}