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{{quote|"You know, you people really amuse me, stockpiling your canned food and your water in case of disaster. But when the shit really hits the fan and you're sitting over here with your stuff, and the guy next door has a gun, who do you think's gonna go hungry? Him, or you?"}}
** Notable is that John Travolta's character doesn't even ''try'' to refute this. He just gives an exasperated yell, apparently the audience is expected to automatically share his frustration.
* In the Killer Bee movie ''The Swarm'', [[Michael Caine]]'s character, Dr Bradford Crane, is clearly supposed to be the hero and Richard Widmark's General Slater the villain. The trouble is that all of the schemes for dealing with the bees suggested by Slater all seem eminently sensible but are shot down by Crane on the grounds of the "environmental damage" (even after the bees have already [[You Fail Nuclear Physics Forever|blown up a nuclear reactor]], killing upwards of 30,000 people) whilst none of Crane's schemes actually work until the end. On top of that, Crane defeats the swarm of bees by setting an oil slick on fire, even though that's not exactly great for the environment.
* ''[[Contact (film)|Contact]]'':
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