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|''[[8-Bit Theater]]'', [http://www.nuklearpower.com/daily.php?date=060916 strip 744]}}
{{quote|''In far too many fantasy stories only the main characters are people. Palace guards, in particular, come off badly; nobody seems to think twice about slitting the throats of a few guardsmen. I don't care what the job pays, you'd never get me to be a palace guard in some of these universes. If I wanted to commit suicide I could find more entertaining ways.''
▲{{quote|''Besides, they're so utterly ineffectual. Really, has any clever thief or sneaky barbarian ever been stopped by palace guards? Why do all these palace-owners bother with them? If I were hiring guards, I would want them to have at least some instinct for self-preservation, and to know how to do something other than stand there looking bored until someone sneaks up from behind and cuts their throats, or jumps down from an overhanging ledge, or gets them to look the wrong way with the distinctive sound of a pebble being thrown.''|[[Lawrence Watt-Evans]], ''The Laws of Fantasy''}}
{{quote|'''Chakotay''': "Are you responsible for the ship being out of contact?"
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