Mook Chivalry/Quotes

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


"I will instruct my Legions of Terror to attack the hero en masse, instead of standing around waiting while members break off and attack one or two at a time."

Frank:That is a lot of big boys with guns, and you're one petite young woman with a bat. They aren't gonna come at you one at a time. That's not how that shit work!
Harley:Mmm, that's actually standard goon operating procedure.

Kung Fu movies depend on the same unwritten rules as John Carter novels: Nobody can have a gun. If they had a gun, they'd just shoot you, and you wouldn't get to go through the whole "aaaaaiiiiieeeee" number and leap about with your fists flashing, your foot cocked, and your elbow of death savagely bent. It's great to have a black belt, but it's better if the bad guys know the rules.

Goddamit, those shots came dangerously close to my head... why can't you aim for my impenetrable body armor like everyone else!?""

Gordon Freeman, Freeman's Mind

Now, now, boys. No pushing, no shoving - single file is the polite way to attack the hero.

They sit there watching him instead. Why them people standing there waiting for their turn? If I'm in real life my friend getting beat up, I don't stand there, "Hold on, is it my turn yet?" No. I won't give him a chance to elbow my friend to the back. But this is a movie.

—Wing Chun Master Wong on Ip Man