All The Tropes

See the Whites of Their Eyes: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

See the Whites of Their Eyes (view source)

Revision as of 13:16, 7 August 2014

2 bytes removed ,  9 years ago
m
revise quote template spacing
VisualWikitext
m (Mass update links)
m (revise quote template spacing)
Line 77:
* In the second ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' book, while watching goblins approached, Butler asks, "Do we wait until we see the whites of their eyes?" Commander Root responds, "Goblin eyes don't have whites."
* In the ''[[Ciaphas Cain]]'' book ''Death or Glory'', this is averted. As Cain notes:
{{quote| Contrary to what you might see in an episode of ''Attack Run'', starships in combat seldom approach to within point blank range of one another, exchanging fire at distances of hundreds, if not thousands, of kilometres.}}
* Also averted in CS Friedman's ''In Conquest Born'', where the idea of getting close enough to an enemy ship to be able to attempt to capture it was considered insane. Which made it all the more stunning when they pulled it off.
 
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1070847"