What Measure Is a Mook?/Quotes
So when Neo's mentor Morpheus gets captured by the bad guys, Neo responds by arming himself with an arsenal larger than that of most developing nations, slaughtering a cluster of security guards before they can even draw their guns, before dropping a bomb on the ground floor of the building just in case there were a few errant cockroaches that weren't killed in the earlier carnage. |
Wachowski brothers fans have noted the deliberate parallels between the messianic Neo and the Biblical story of the moneychangers in the temple, in which Christ pulled out a Beretta and killed about 50 security guards.
—Cracked on The Matrix
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Yeah, he was just this guy. A guy in a butterfly suit who got in over his head. And I could see it in his eyes that if I let him get away this one time he'd never come back. But, then I also thought, you know, kill him.
—Brock Samson, The Venture Brothers
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Yeah, he just killed thirty people without a second thought, of course he's not gonna shoot YOU!
—Film Brain's review of Cobra
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Homer: I'm not paying another penny to Burns and his evil power company! —Simpsons Comics, "Off the Grid"
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Oh, come on, the soldiers? They don't grow on trees you know!
—General Tarquin, Order of the Stick
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Vivi: Why...? Why would you do such a thing!? Weren't they your friends!? |
This was but a mild adventure and it was necessary to kill only seven enemies in the way of business. The only serious happening was the wounding of Sir Gawain.
—Prince Valiant narration, 1937-10-30
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Walk fast from that boring explosion —The Lonely Island, "Cool Guys Don't Look At Explosions"
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"You think I am a monster, but you're no different from me, Drake. How many men have you killed? How many, just today?"
—Zoran Lazarevic, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
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"Even nameless soldiers have lives to live. Remember that..."
—Unnamed NPC soldier of Kislev, Xenogears
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These minions gave their lives for guys like...me
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Xin Ji: You are a hero, you are... —Guild Wars Beyond: Winds of Change
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