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'''Joker:''' And here...we...go.|''[[The Dark Knight Saga|TheDarkKnight]]''}}
'''Joker:''' And here...we...go.|''[[The Dark Knight Saga|TheDarkKnight]]''}}


{{quote|''"[[wikipedia:Trinitrotoluene|Ch3C6H2(NO2)3]] + [[wikipedia:Mercury fulminate|Hg(CNO)2]] = well, what? An enormous hole in the ground, a pile of masonry, some bits of flesh and mucus, a foot, with the boot still on it, flying through the air and landing, flop, in the middle of the geraniums–the scarlet ones; such a splendid show that summer!"''|From ''[[Brave New World (novel)|Brave New World]]'', by Aldous Huxley}}
{{quote|''"[[wikipedia:Trinitrotoluene|Ch3C6H2(NO2)3]] + [[wikipedia:Mercury fulminate|Hg(CNO)2]] {{=}} well, what? An enormous hole in the ground, a pile of masonry, some bits of flesh and mucus, a foot, with the boot still on it, flying through the air and landing, flop, in the middle of the geraniums–the scarlet ones; such a splendid show that summer!"''|From ''[[Brave New World (novel)|Brave New World]]'', by Aldous Huxley}}


{{quote|''"You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"''|From ''[[The Italian Job]]''}}
{{quote|''"You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"''|From ''[[The Italian Job]]''}}
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{{quote|''"[[The Incredibles]] - no sequence unexploded."''|2='''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbdqjkJ7ooo John Walker]'''}}
{{quote|''"[[The Incredibles]] - no sequence unexploded."''|2='''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbdqjkJ7ooo John Walker]'''}}


{{quote|''“I do not understand why everything in this script must inevitably explode”''|'''Teal'c''', ''[[Stargate SG-1|Stargate SG 1]]'' }}
{{quote|''“I do not understand why everything in this script must inevitably explode.”''|'''Teal'c''', ''[[Stargate SG-1|Stargate SG 1]]'' }}


{{quote|"The all time classic, [[Super Mario 64]]! [[Up to Eleven|NOW WITH FIVE THOUSAND PERCENT MORE EXPLOSIONS]]!|2=[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNsXJBFYEt0 Super Explosive Mario 64]}}
{{quote|"The all time classic, [[Super Mario 64]]! [[Up to Eleven|NOW WITH FIVE THOUSAND PERCENT MORE EXPLOSIONS]]!|2=[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}DNsXJBFYEt0 Super Explosive Mario 64]}}


{{quote|''When a chemical plant goes sour, you get The Fireball: large pieces of white-hot metal go flying everywhere at high speeds, and you can lose a hundred-million-dollar investment in four seconds. That's if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, you get Bhopal. Chemical companies compensate ... by carefully watching the pot, using a technology that could be described as A Lot of Old People Who Know How to Make Teflon Without Wiping Out Wilmington. This is expensive, and wasteful, and often leaky.''|Michael Gruber, in ''Wired'' 2.10}}
{{quote|''When a chemical plant goes sour, you get The Fireball: large pieces of white-hot metal go flying everywhere at high speeds, and you can lose a hundred-million-dollar investment in four seconds. That's if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, you get Bhopal. Chemical companies compensate ... by carefully watching the pot, using a technology that could be described as A Lot of Old People Who Know How to Make Teflon Without Wiping Out Wilmington. This is expensive, and wasteful, and often leaky.''|Michael Gruber, in ''Wired'' 2.10}}
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{{quote|''There are no problems which cannot be solved by judicious use of high explosives.''|British Commando saying, World War 2}}
{{quote|''There are no problems which cannot be solved by judicious use of high explosives.''|British Commando saying, World War 2}}


{{quote|''Explosions fix everything!''|[[Shinichi Watanabe|Nabeshin]], [[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]}}
{{quote|''Explosions fix everything!''|[[Shinichi Watanabe|Nabeshin]], ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]''}}


{{quote|''I got to draw superfluous explosions, though! Those are my favorite kind!''|''[[Awkward Zombie]],'' from [[The Rant]]}}
{{quote|''I got to draw superfluous explosions, though! Those are my favorite kind!''|''[[Awkward Zombie]],'' from [[The Rant]]}}
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''Michael-bla-bla-sploom!!!''
''Michael-bla-bla-sploom!!!''
''Ma-Ba-sploom!!!''
''Ma-Ba-sploom!!!''
''Michal * boom* Baysplosions!!!''|2=''[[Robot Chicken]],'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ssUivM-eM this clip].}}
''Michal * boom* Baysplosions!!!''|2=''[[Robot Chicken]],'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}v7ssUivM-eM this clip].}}


{{quote|'''TAG''': Except for the stern. That chunk is still mostly in-
{{quote|'''TAG''': Except for the stern. That chunk is still mostly in-
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{{quote|''"As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero."''|'''Vaarsuvius''', ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''}}
{{quote|''"As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero."''|'''Vaarsuvius''', ''[[The Order of the Stick]]''}}


{{quote|''"Their songs followed the simple premise of boy being meets girl being under the silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason."''|''[[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe]]''}}
{{quote|''"Their songs followed the simple premise of boy being meets girl being under the silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason."''|''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/The Restaurant At The End of The Universe|The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe]]''}}


{{quote|''"The goal is to create a piece of advertising that's original and exciting, if intelligent and provocative - in other words, lots of things blowing up!"''|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbGNcoB2Y4I Trailer for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie] on movie trailers''}}
{{quote|''"The goal is to create a piece of advertising that's original and exciting, if intelligent and provocative - in other words, lots of things blowing up!"''|''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}MbGNcoB2Y4I Trailer for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie] on movie trailers''}}


{{quote|''"The first bomb is always the hardest."''|'''Parker''', ''[[Leverage]]''}}
{{quote|''"The first bomb is always the hardest."''|'''Parker''', ''[[Leverage]]''}}


{{quote|''JOKER unleashes [[Macross Missile Massacre|an all-out barrage of missiles, like the biggest fucking missiles you will ever see]]. BATMAN shoots his own back, and they all collide together in the middle of a violent explosion, and then, an explosion within that explosion. Afterward: one last explosion, this time in slow motion, with [[Tank Goodness|tanks]] flying out of it.''|[[Michael Bay]]'s rejected [http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show?id=947994%3ABlogPost%3A355506 "The Dark Knight" Script.]}}
{{quote|''JOKER unleashes [[Macross Missile Massacre|an all-out barrage of missiles, like the biggest fucking missiles you will ever see]]. BATMAN shoots his own back, and they all collide together in the middle of a violent explosion, and then, an explosion within that explosion. Afterward: one last explosion, this time in slow motion, with [[Tank Goodness|tanks]] flying out of it.''|[[Michael Bay]]'s rejected [http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show?id{{=}}947994%3ABlogPost%3A355506 "The Dark Knight" Script.]}}


{{quote|"If they don't blow up at least ten [[Monumental Damage|national monuments]], I'm leaving!"|''[[Chez Geek]]'' flavor text for the card "[[Summer Blockbuster]]"}}
{{quote|"If they don't blow up at least ten [[Monumental Damage|national monuments]], I'm leaving!"|''[[Chez Geek]]'' flavor text for the card "[[Summer Blockbuster]]"}}


{{quote|''"If it's bombs they want... I'm happy to oblige."''|'''[[Gadgeteer Genius|Skuld's]]''' [[Badass Boast|response]] to being badly outnumbered by a brainwashed science class armed with grenades, ''[[Ah! My Goddess|Oh My Goddess!]]'', Ch. 82}}
{{quote|''"If it's bombs they want... I'm happy to oblige."''|'''[[Gadgeteer Genius|Skuld's]]''' [[Badass Boast|response]] to being badly outnumbered by a brainwashed science class armed with grenades, ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'', Ch. 82}}


{{quote|''"Explosions, people! In case you missed it!"''|'''[[That Guy With The Glasses|Doug Walker]]'''}}
{{quote|''"Explosions, people! In case you missed it!"''|'''[[That Guy With The Glasses|Doug Walker]]'''}}


{{quote|''"[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|TTGL]] gattais with Great [[Zeorymer]] and [[Ideon]]. What happens?"<br />
{{quote|''"[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|TTGL]] gattais with Great [[Zeorymer]] and [[Ideon]]. What happens?"
''"Shit fucking blows up everywhere forever."|'''[[Image Boards|Anon and Might Gaine, /m/]]'''}}
''"Shit fucking blows up everywhere forever."|'''[[Image Boards|Anon and Might Gaine, /m/]]'''}}


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'''Rose Tyler''': Oh, I know. First day I met 'im, he blew my job up, it's practically how he communicates.|'''[[Doctor Who]]''', "The Doctor Dances"}}
'''Rose Tyler''': Oh, I know. First day I met 'im, he blew my job up, it's practically how he communicates.|'''[[Doctor Who]]''', "The Doctor Dances"}}


{{quote|"Dynamite solves everything!"|'''Peri''', [[Spliced]]}}
{{quote|"Dynamite solves everything!"|'''Peri''', ''[[Spliced]]''}}


{{quote|"My years with Mr. Tesla have taught me that there's one underlying scientific principle common to all existence. ''Everything'' explodes." |'''[[Atomic Robo]]'''}}
{{quote|"My years with Mr. Tesla have taught me that there's one underlying scientific principle common to all existence. ''Everything'' explodes." |'''[[Atomic Robo]]'''}}
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{{quote|"[[Heroes|Good guys]], [[Villains|bad guys]], and explosions; as far as the eye can see..."|''[[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (song)|Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]''}}
{{quote|"[[Heroes|Good guys]], [[Villains|bad guys]], and explosions; as far as the eye can see..."|''[[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (song)|Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]''}}


{{quote|"''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Awesome barbecue!]]''" [Boom!] "''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Awesome pool!]]''" [Boom!]|'''[[Michael Bay]]''', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXRCf9LbLM0 TV commercial for Verizon Fios]}}
{{quote|"''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Awesome barbecue!]]''" [Boom!] "''[[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|Awesome pool!]]''" [Boom!]|'''[[Michael Bay]]''', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}lXRCf9LbLM0 TV commercial for Verizon Fios]}}


{{quote|"Why isn't everything exploding?!"|'''[[Michael Bay|Japanese Michael Bay]]''', ''[[Naruto: The Abridged Comedy Fandub Spoof Series Show]]''}}
{{quote|"Why isn't everything exploding?!"|'''[[Michael Bay|Japanese Michael Bay]]''', ''[[Naruto: The Abridged Comedy Fandub Spoof Series Show]]''}}
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{{quote|It blowed up ''real'' good!|''[[SCTV]]'', "Farm Film Report"}}
{{quote|It blowed up ''real'' good!|''[[SCTV]]'', "Farm Film Report"}}

{{quote|And now the penguin on top of your computer will explode...|''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''}}

{{quote|"Sometimes, people just explode."|''[[Repo Man]]''}}

{{quote|It is true that even a few nuclear or hydrogen explosions can do terrible damage.|[[w:Edward Teller|Dr. Edward Teller]]}}

{{quote|Nuclear explosions under the Nevada desert? What the fuck are we testing for? We already know the shit blows up.|[[Frank Zappa]]}}

{{quote|There's a recent report of a method to make a more stable form of it [CL-20], by mixing it with TNT. Yes, this is an example of something that becomes ''less explosive'' as a one-to-one cocrystal with TNT. Although, as the authors point out, if you heat those crystals up the two components separate out, and you're left with crystals of pure CL-20 soaking in liquid TNT, a situation that will heighten your awareness of the fleeting nature of life.|Derek Lowe, Blogger and Chemist, ''[http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/things_i_wont_work_with/ Things I Won't Work With: Hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane]''}}

{{quote|No boom ''today''. Boom tomorrow. There is always a boom tomorrow. (as others leave) What? Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Sooner or later, ''boom!''|Ivanova, ''[[Babylon 5]]''}}

{{quote|One day, baby, milkshake! Boom!|[[The Tick (animation)|The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight]]}}


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Explosions! MORE explosions! I got to have more explosions!

Reno: Hey, partner. This thing... *holds up huge bundle of dynamite sticks taped together* It got any bite to it?
Rude: Shinra technology at it's finest.
Reno: Oh, so you made this?
Rude: If nothing else, it's flashy!

Reno: Oh, goooood.
"Shit be blowin' up!"

John: I guess when they say you can't fight City Hall, they really mean it.
Derek: Well, whoever said that didn't have as much plastique as we do.
Sarah: We can't blow up City Hall.

Derek: You know it's really not that hard.
"Yar. Must be Exploding Tuesday."
"A nice explosion now and then keeps the mind sharp."
Urdnot Wrex, Mass Effect
"Let's see: sixty seconds on the clock plus one 300kg bomb equals lots of little pieces of submarine. So now... the question is, what will you do, Kashim?"

Stephen Colbert: Jon, um...Did you set fire to Dick Gephardt?

Jon Stewart: That's right, Stephen. We lit former Majority Leader of the House, Dick Gephardt, on fire. And then we blew him up.
The Daily Show, Indecision 08: America's Choice
"Jamie want big boom."
Jamie Hyneman, MythBusters
"When in doubt... C4."
Jamie Hyneman, MythBusters
"They explode! My life has taken on new meaning!"
Elsa Bloodstone, Nextwave
"Dude, you have a bazooka. Stop thinking Prague Police and start thinking Playstation. Blow shit up!"
Xander, XXX
"See, I'm a man of simple tastes. I like dynamite... and gunpowder... and gasoline!"
The Joker, The Dark Knight

Joker: If we don't stop fighting, you're going to miss the fireworks.
Batman: There won't BE any fireworks!

Joker: And here...we...go.
"Ch3C6H2(NO2)3 + Hg(CNO)2 = well, what? An enormous hole in the ground, a pile of masonry, some bits of flesh and mucus, a foot, with the boot still on it, flying through the air and landing, flop, in the middle of the geraniums–the scarlet ones; such a splendid show that summer!"
—From Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
"You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"
"DAY 12: ‘Pearl Harbor’ script hits by desktop and my imagination starts rolling. Things blew up at Pearl Harbor. Things blew up real good. I got it in my head to do a 2 ½ hour movie about things blowing up at Pearl Harbor."
—Micheal Bay's "Diary", from a review of Pearl Harbor by Greg Muskewitz.
"BLOW THINGS UP! BLOW THINGS UP!"
—cry of the Jammers from Feng Shui
"The Incredibles - no sequence unexploded."
“I do not understand why everything in this script must inevitably explode.”
Teal'c, Stargate SG 1
When a chemical plant goes sour, you get The Fireball: large pieces of white-hot metal go flying everywhere at high speeds, and you can lose a hundred-million-dollar investment in four seconds. That's if you're lucky. If you're unlucky, you get Bhopal. Chemical companies compensate ... by carefully watching the pot, using a technology that could be described as A Lot of Old People Who Know How to Make Teflon Without Wiping Out Wilmington. This is expensive, and wasteful, and often leaky.
—Michael Gruber, in Wired 2.10
There are no problems which cannot be solved by judicious use of high explosives.
—British Commando saying, World War 2
Explosions fix everything!
I got to draw superfluous explosions, though! Those are my favorite kind!

Michael Bay presents: Explosions!
Explosions! from Michael Bay!
Boom! Michael Baysplosions!!!
Mi-ba-bla-ba-splosions!!!
Michael-bla-bla-sploom!!!
Ma-Ba-sploom!!!

Michal * boom* Baysplosions!!!

TAG: Except for the stern. That chunk is still mostly in-
TAG: -tact?

Captain Tagon: Tact has nothing to do with it. This is diplomacy.
"I don't have to blow up everything I see. I just like to."
Kell Tainer, Wraith Squadron

Donos: Pretty. What do we blow up first?

Wedge: Write that down. That ought to be Wraith Squadron's official motto.
Solo Command

Mega Man: Let me guess. You're going to flood the cave with water.
Doctor Wily: No, no, no. Nothing so boring. I'm going to flood it with bombs.
Mega Man (Ruby-Spears)

"In the Game Boy game where Mega Man uses it, I think Mirror Buster is just a shield that can bounce shots, but instead I made it this thing that absorbs attacks and fires them back as some kind of converted blast. Why? Because explosions."

Caboose: Andy, calm down. Think of a happy place. Now, what makes you happy?
Andy: (sentient bomb) Being in the middle of a huge explosion!

Church: Less happy place, Caboose!

Ben Vereen: I get a big charge out of being here.
Crazy Harry: (produces a dynamite plunger) Did you say a big charge?
Vereen and Kermit the Frog: No!

(KABOOM)
"And then... EVERYTHING EXPLODES"!

Oh, go on, Archchancellor. What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and

knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?
The Dean, Reaper Man
<Insert Zeeky Boogy Doog here>
"Art is a bang, un!"
"He did 'Boom!'. No matter how many times you hear, it's always a good sound."

Darklight: And most importantly... we must BLOW STUFF UP!
Wolf, Thatch and Kiki: ...

Darklight: Um... blow... evil... stuff... up...
"If in doubt, just start blowing shit up."
—James Grayson in Resistance Retribution, after blowing up a Chimera power core in the Construction Zone.
"What's cooler than saying 'fuck'? Blowing something up!"
—Claire Hooper, The Sideshow With Paul McDermott

Riff: Wood, mortar, plaster... various materials mundane materials that share one important quality. They all can be blown up.
Torg: Riff, that's always your plan.

Riff: It's more of a philosophy.

Torg: Don't you have more gadgets than just the bazooka?

Riff: I stopped bothering to pack them months ago.
"As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero."
Vaarsuvius, The Order of the Stick
"Their songs followed the simple premise of boy being meets girl being under the silvery moon, which then explodes for no adequately explored reason."
"The goal is to create a piece of advertising that's original and exciting, if intelligent and provocative - in other words, lots of things blowing up!"
"The first bomb is always the hardest."
Parker, Leverage
JOKER unleashes an all-out barrage of missiles, like the biggest fucking missiles you will ever see. BATMAN shoots his own back, and they all collide together in the middle of a violent explosion, and then, an explosion within that explosion. Afterward: one last explosion, this time in slow motion, with tanks flying out of it.
"If they don't blow up at least ten national monuments, I'm leaving!"
Chez Geek flavor text for the card "Summer Blockbuster"
"If it's bombs they want... I'm happy to oblige."
Skuld's response to being badly outnumbered by a brainwashed science class armed with grenades, Ah! My Goddess, Ch. 82
"Explosions, people! In case you missed it!"

"TTGL gattais with Great Zeorymer and Ideon. What happens?"

"Shit fucking blows up everywhere forever."
And the army is like: BLOW STUFF UP! BLOW STUFF UP!!!
"*sniffs* Michael Bay would be proud."
The Nostalgia Chick, on the train explosion scene in Anastasia
"The latter half of the 19th century was filled with advances in man-exploding technology--particularly those advances that allowed you to blow up people who were not you, but that had angered you in some way and so deserved to die. Progress!"

Captain Jack: I was gonna send for another [sonic blaster] but somebody blew up the factory!

Rose Tyler: Oh, I know. First day I met 'im, he blew my job up, it's practically how he communicates.
Doctor Who, "The Doctor Dances"
"Dynamite solves everything!"
Peri, Spliced
"My years with Mr. Tesla have taught me that there's one underlying scientific principle common to all existence. Everything explodes."
"It's gonna go boom, it's Atari! It's gonna go boom! *Death Star in the video game he was playing explodes* BOOM!!!!"
The Angry Video Game Nerd in the "Star Wars Games" episode.
"Eenie, meenie, minie, moe ... oh, why not all of them?"
Jaya Ballard about the Meteor Shower spell, Magic: The Gathering

"Sometimes, when I morph, I can't help but notice this gigantic explosion right behind me for no apparent reason."
"I assume you're referring to the residual energy runoff that is sometimes necessary to clear the suit's bio-field channels during the morph."

"I'm referring to the six-story-tall fireballs like that one, right there! Now, could that happen to me in the kitchen or something?"
"Why does everything explode so easily?
—Dr. Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb, "Ask a Foolish Question"
"Good guys, bad guys, and explosions; as far as the eye can see..."
"Kincaid! Bolshevik Muppet solution!"
Harry Dresden's plan goes awry, Blood Rites
"Nothing gets a party goin' like a few pounds of chemical charges... hey, they've got mines too! Verry nice, we'll take 'em along as well."
Michael Falkner, Earth 2160
At last, all my powers restored! Speed! Invisibility! Astral projection! And my personal favorite...COMBUSTION!
It blowed up real good!
SCTV, "Farm Film Report"
And now the penguin on top of your computer will explode...
"Sometimes, people just explode."
It is true that even a few nuclear or hydrogen explosions can do terrible damage.
Nuclear explosions under the Nevada desert? What the fuck are we testing for? We already know the shit blows up.
There's a recent report of a method to make a more stable form of it [CL-20], by mixing it with TNT. Yes, this is an example of something that becomes less explosive as a one-to-one cocrystal with TNT. Although, as the authors point out, if you heat those crystals up the two components separate out, and you're left with crystals of pure CL-20 soaking in liquid TNT, a situation that will heighten your awareness of the fleeting nature of life.
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There is always a boom tomorrow. (as others leave) What? Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Sooner or later, boom!
—Ivanova, Babylon 5
One day, baby, milkshake! Boom!