Having a Heart: Difference between revisions

[[Stock Phrase]]/conversation that usually goes something along the lines of this:

 

 

Sometimes features in parodies of Queen Elizabeth I's "I have the body of a weak woman, but the heart and stomach of a king" speech.

 

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== [[Film]] ==

== Humor ==

* A (less squicky) variant in this joke:

"Well, now she has Granddad's teeth!" }}

 

* [[Terry Pratchett]] ''loves'' this trope.

** "People said Nobby had the body of a 20-year old, only no one knew where he had hidden it..."

*** In the same novel, [[Complete Monster|Carcer Dun]] wonders "what I've got in my pocket for a good boy, eh? Oh, yes... [[Squick|someone's ear. Still warm. Here you go, kid!]]"

** Taken to the logical extreme in [[Discworld]] by the Igors. What goes around comes around.

* In [[A Song of Ice and Fire]], Tyrion was having a bad day. The maester tried to cheer him up by saying "take heart", but a cranky Tyrion simply said "Whose?"

 

* On ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'', Mimi is described as having a crying little girl deep inside her...and it's giving her indigestion.

* One [[Benny Hill]] gag featured a family cooing over a baby while saying things like "he's got his father's nose". Then Benny says "Never should have given him that bloody penknife" (paraphrase). End of sketch.

* In ''[[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight]]'', Kamen Rider Strike uses this as an insult towards Sting, a wannabe Marine with asthma:

{{quote|''"You've got heart, kid...but no lungs!"''}}

 

== [[Music]] ==

'''Manny:''' ''No.''

'''Membrillo:''' Sorry, old coroner joke. }}

{{quote|'''Kochamara:''' Fine, take control of this freaky toad! I don't need him to nab children for me anymore. I've got the brain of a little girl ''(Raz begins to laugh)'' back in my lab that's strong enough to power a whole army of psycho-blaster death tanks- ''(he finally realizes Raz is laughing)'' What?!

'''Raz:''' You've got the ''brain'' of a little girl?

* Rokhan in ''[[Warcraft]] III'' offers this unit response gem: "I've lost me head! It was about, ah, yea big, I was keeping in on my spear. If you find it let me know."

** [[World of Warcraft]] has the [[The Wizard of Oz (film)|Wizard of Oz]] event in Karazhan. The Tin-Man's starting line is "I could really use a heart. Say, can I have yours?"

{{quote|''"Sabretooth has a good heart!"''

''"That's only because he ripped it out of someone else."'' }}

* There is one mission in ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' called "Have a Heart", in which Niko, under Elizabeta's orders, has to take the shot-dead bodies of {{spoiler|Manny and his cameraman}} to a doctor-slash-organ dealer, falling more under this trope than what one could expect.

* From ''[[Radiant Historia]]'': "After he'd spilled his guts, well... he spilled his guts."

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* This ''[[VG Cats]]'' strip. [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=164 LINK!]

* ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures|DMFA]]'' has one [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_VDay002.php here], delivered via a singing telegram.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

** He's evil alternate Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle, and the line is "I've got the heart of a real hero!" while talking to himself. Batman (skulking through the shadows) pricks his ears up. "I keep it in a jar in my closet." Batman is not amused.

* In ''[[Futurama]]'', "Insane in the Mainframe", after Fry recovers from thinking he's a robot, Bender tries to compliment him by saying that even though he's human, he has the heart of a robot, adding "just like inside my cold, hard exterior is the heart of a human." Which he pulls out. Everyone else is disgusted, but Bender just asks "What?"

** Also, Professor Farnsworth keeps his business plan right next to his heart... which is to say, in a filing cabinet.

''Doof-2'': Its in this pouch!

'''Doof''': ...ouch! }}

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* [[Robert Bloch]], who wrote ''[[Psycho]]'' among other stories, liked to say he had the heart of a little boy...in a jar on his desk.

* [[Stephen King]] has also said that he has the heart of a small boy...in a jar on his desk.

 

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