What a Senseless Waste of Human Life: Difference between revisions

* Parodied in the ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' "Cheese Shop" sketch where John Cleese's character shoots the shop proprietor (Michael Palin) after learning the place is completely devoid of cheese, then comments, "[[Trope Namers|What a senseless waste of human life.]]"

** And leaves after [[The Drifter|putting on a cowboy hat]] he pulled out of nowhere.

{{quote| If the Doctor hadn't chosen this place to hide, on a whim, would anyone have died?}}

** Heck, even the [[The Nth Doctor|First Doctor]] had such a moment - the Daleks have just activated their superweapon, but instead of doing what they thought it would do, it ended up aging everything in the planet they were into dust. ''Everything''.

* In the ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Out Of Time", Kryten deploys the term in advance when, thanks to visiting time-travelers, he learns that Lister is going to {{spoiler|end up as a disembodied brain in a jar.}}

* [[Ant and Dec|Dec]] wails [[Troperiffic|exactly the trope name]] over Ant's body in an episode of ''[[SMTV Live|Chums]]'', after accidentally shooting him. [[Freudian Slip|Three times]]. (He got better.)

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* Almost identical words ("''What a pitiful waste of human life''") are actually part of the lyrics of [[Total Distortion]]'s Game Over song. Quite fitting since the protagonist is basically an entrepreneur who wanders an alternate dimension chock-full of hostilities merely for profit...

* Mister Burke from ''[[Fallout]] 3'' will sometimes utter the phrase "Some people have no respect for the sanctity of life" when seeing somebody getting killed. Burke is, however, [[The Dragon]] to the evil Mr. Tenpenny and a bit of a [[Smug Snake]] who also plans to blow up a whole town, so he is just as prone to utter: "Natural selection... at its finest."

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