Indy Ploy/Quotes
Doctor Who
Doctor: 'Cause this is what I'm going to do: I'm going to rescue her! I'm going to save Rose Tyler from the middle of the Dalek fleet! And then I'm going to save the Earth! And then, just to finish off, I'm going to wipe every last stinking Dalek out of the sky! —The Ninth Doctor vs. the Daleks, "Bad Wolf"
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Mickey: You're just making this up as you go along! —"The Age of Steel"
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Martha: (hiding from a monster with the Doctor) You mean you don't have a plan? —"The Lazarus Experiment"
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Rory: He'll be fine! He's a Time Lord! —"The Doctor's Wife"
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Doctor: I'm dying. But I've got a plan. —"Let's Kill Hitler"
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"I'm a User. I'll improvise."
—Sam Flynn, Tron: Legacy
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"Do you think he plans it all out, or just makes it up as he goes along?"
—Bosun, on Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
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Indy: Get back to Cairo. Get us some transport to England. Boat, plane, anything. Meet me at Omar's. Be ready for me. I'm going after that truck. |
Elena: I hope you know what you're doing. |
Elena: And then what? —Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, in which Nate boils this trope down to its essence.
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"The plan is... to make up the plan in the car."
—Nate, Leverage, "The Ho Ho Ho Job"
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"Here's the plan: I walk in, hit people in the face hard, we see how it goes from there."
—Angel, She
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Beckett: You're mad! —Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
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"No battle plan ever survives first contact with the enemy."
—Napoleon, and Murphy's Rules of Battle
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Dr Clef: I can't really see that Dr Kondraki made any mistakes in his termination procedure up to this point, no. —The SCP Foundation, "Duke 'till Dawn"
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Mutt Williams: What's he gonna do now? |
George: So, what's the plan, Harry? |
"Hermione, since when have any of our plans actually worked? We plan, we get there, all hell breaks loose."
—Harry, lampshading it up in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
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"Oh, John, what the fuck are you doing?"
—John McClane, while tying a fire hose around his waist, Die Hard
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"I'm just makin' it up as I go!"
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Calvin: Last night. The game. You were surrounded. What'd you do? |
Oar: Tell me your plan and let me judge for myself. |
Quentyn: You think I'm just going to jump in, willy nilly, without a plan...? |
"This is some rescue. When you came in here, didn't you have a plan for getting out?"
—Princess Leia, Star Wars
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Winston: W-what do we do now!? —Burn Notice season 4 premier "Friends and Enemies".
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Max: Uh, what's going on here? Do we have a plan? —Burn Notice season 5 premier "Company Man".
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Roxanne: So what's the plan? |
Always be prepared to improvise, Freckle. That's rule number one for jazz players and vigilantes alike.
—Rocky Rickaby, Lackadaisy
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Axel: I've been in loads of final battles, each one more final than the last. All of them involved complicated plans that failed miserably. So this time, I'm just going to wing it! —Ansem Retort Strip #80
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"You know my strategy... speak first, think later!"
—Phoenix Wright, Ace Attorney: Justice For All
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The Doctor: Well, that seemed to go according to plan. In the end. —Doctor Who: The Adventure Game
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Kotomine: Such a shame. Have you really run out of plans so soon? |
Heavy: DOCTOR, ARE YOU SURE THIS WILL WORK!? —Team Fortress 2: "Meet The Medic"
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Tigress: What's your plan? |
Leia: I hope you know what you're doing. |
Church: Okay. Well, I'm gonna go do whatever it is that fixes all this. Wish me luck, guys. —Red vs. Blue (It works.)
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"He... Kollberg, he's not smarter than you, Hari. Very few people are... He just... He goes for what he wants, y'know? He's always shaving the odds, always taking another baby step toward where he wants to go, even when he doesn't know how it'll all pull together in the end... When you do that long enough, hard enough, eventually things fall into place and... and you look like a genius, when you never really planned anything..."
—Duncan Michaelson, Heroes Die
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"Make good in every situation."
—Longshanks, Braveheart
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Plan A is "Take it as it comes," Plan B is "First come, first served," and Plan C is "Wing it."
—Spike Spiegel explains his philosophy of bounty-hunting.
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Kouji: There's no choice but for me to go and take it back! —Mazinger Z: Relic of Terror
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Harry couldn't claim it had all gone just as planned. It had all gone just as completely made up on the spot.
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Finn: I have a sick plan! |