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Commonly uttered phrase by
In other situations, this can be a line uttered by either [[The Obi-Wan]] or the [[Big Bad]]. In the former case, he is telling our young hero not to be brash and preperation is very important (though the hero will rarely listen). In the latter case, it is used as a rather [[Large Ham|hammy]] [[Trash Talk|taunt]].
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'''Harry:''' We weren't ready, Norman.
'''Normal:''' We have what's called an imagination. I mean, look what we're capable of. We can... ''(sighs)'' We're not ready. }}
* Uttered by the [[Old Master]] towards his pupil in almost ''every martial arts film ever''.
** Usually in reference to some [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]].
* Similar to the above, [[Star Wars|Yoda]] informs Luke of this when he goes to face Vader on Cloud City.
** Played even more straight with Anakin's accession to Jedi Master in Episode 3. [[Samuel L. Jackson]] knows a thing or two about ready, and
* At the end of ''[[Gremlins]]'', Mr. Wing shows up to claim Gizmo and berates the Peltzers for not following the rules of proper Mogwai care and states "You are not ready!" When he sees how much Gizmo has come to care for Billy, Mr. Wing decided Billy may be ready "one day". (Did somebody say "sequel"?)
** They sure did, but Mr. Wing was too dead to deem Billy ready by that point, so Gizmo heads out on his own to find his new master again.
*** {{spoiler|Technically, Gizmo didn't find Billy. After Mr. Wing's store was knocked down, he was captured by a mad scientist and was found by Billy in a science lab.}}
* This is the attitude of the Autobots towards technology sharing with humans in the ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' movies. They won't give us weapons to fight Decepticons with because they know we'll end up using them to kill each other, and they don't give us non-weapons technology because [[Humans Are Warriors|they know we'd find a way to weaponize it]].
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** In other words, exactly what the Autobots and Decepticons have been doing to each other for the last several million years? (Actually, this is sort of the point. Optimus likes humanity and does ''not'' want them ending up in a repeat performance of that).
* ''[[Mortal Kombat (film)|Mortal Kombat]]'' had Raiden tell Liu Kang he wasn't ready to face Shang Tsung. Which is quite weird, because he tells him he is ready, near the end, although we don't see anything changing in Liu Kang's character nor he learns any new skills.
* In ''[[Mystery Men]]'' the Sphinx tells the others they are not ready to confront the [[Big Bad]] because they need training (and [[Ice Cream Koan
== [[Literature]] ==
* This trope may have originated (in [[Science Fiction]], at least) with [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]]'s ''[[Lensman]]'' series back in the late 1930s. In that series, the rise of humanity and most other intelligent life in the Milky Way galaxy is part of a master plan by the [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|Arisians]], who are about one step short of [[Energy Beings]]. The goal of the plan is the eventual overthrow of the (quite nasty) Eddorians. However, at almost every step in the process the Arisians keep the ultimate goal a secret from humanity and its allies, and avoid making their own immense power obvious to them, for fear of "creating an inferiority complex" among the species they have raised to deal with the problem. In other words,
* The excuse used by all of [[Bruce Coville]]'s aliens for why they don't swoop down and end all disease and strife on Earth. His last few books just had them as merchants who wanted stuff in return - they got peanut butter and ketchup.
* In [[Iain Banks]]' novella ''The State Of The Art'', a [[The Culture|Culture]] Contact ship spends several months snooping about on Earth in 1977, before deciding not to contact us. Not so much because the Culture has any [[Alien Non-Interference Clause|qualms about influencing]] the
* Used and Subverted in the ''Nights Dawn'' trilogy, The hyper advanced aliens, the Kiint, refuse to solve humanity's "reality dysfunction" crisis, saying that each race faces it, and must find their own solution. On the plus side, they are more than willing to use their advanced technology to give humanitarian aid to those that become affected.
* Inverted in ''Speaker for the Dead'', where it's the humans telling the piggies that they are not ready for all the fancy human technology like spaceships and ansible
* In Vernor Vinge's novel ''A Deepness in the Sky'', it's the humans hiding from the aliens while they wait for them to become Ready, and ''they'' are the ones who require technical assistance from the more primitive aliens.
* In [[The Belgariad|The Mallorean]], Belgarath tells Garion he needs 2,000 years of study before touching weather again. [[Disaster Dominoes|considering what Garion triggered,]] Belgarath is entirely right to demand this.
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* In ''[[Farscape]]'', John is given information about wormholes. The catch? It's behind a mental lock, and the [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] who gave it to him state that if he isn't capable of unlocking the information on his own, he's not smart enough to use it wisely.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' did this rather well in the first-season episode "Deathwalker". A notorious war criminal has created a serum that gives the user immortality. Despite the heinousness of her crimes, Earth's government pardons her in return for turning over the formula. As she leaves the station, she reveals to the characters that had reacted to her in disgust the evil twist involved: every dose of the formula required killing another person of the same species. She intended to give the formula to everyone, and watch as they all fell into self-destructive chaos as a result to prove her twisted reasoning right. However, as she's leaving, a Vorlon ship appears through the jump gate and destroys the ship with her on it. When questioned about it, Ambassador Kosh says simply, "You are not ready for immortality."
** Sebastian, the Inquisitor sent by Vorlons to test Dellen's resilience and spirit, replies with this to Sheridan's questions about Vorlons.
** After Vorlons {{spoiler|leave the galaxy}} Lyta, who had been tightly involved with them, said that it would take humans more than a million years to get ready for a visit to the Vorlon homeworld.
*** Actually, "
* Basically the reason the Vulcans gave for not giving humans the technology to go to Warp 5 pre-''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''. The NX-01 is the humans' Warp 5 prototype, nearly 50 years and much emnity between humans and Vulcans later.
** Many instances in ''Star Trek'' media where the Prime Directive is invoked revolve around this trope; Starfleet crews are on occasion conflicted between moral pressure to help those in need and complying with the Federation's rules about "interfering" with less-advanced cultures.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer
** Well, not so much "You are not Ready" as "What, are you crazy? You'd just try to kill us with it."
*** [[Humans Are
** As an additional perk, many of the pieces of Eldar tech would be ''rejected'', because the Imperium includes a ''very'' strong belief in [[New Technology Is Evil|Any Technology We Don't Have Is Evil, Unless It Comes Out Of An STC]].
** And they're [[Haunted Technology|partly right]] which is [[The Corruption|more than enough]].
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The title phrase was actually used as a slogan in ads for the original [[
* Slight variation: In the opening cinematic for the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' expansion The Burning Crusade the main villain (sort of) Illidan can be heard saying "You are not prepared!" at the beginning and end of the cinematic and during his pre-battle monologue (and if you are indeed not prepared, he will say it again and again...). This became a meme, and one version provides the page picture.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts (video game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'': Creepy guy in brown cloak: "One who knows nothing, can understand nothing..." (refering to Sora)
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Mark Reads Harry Potter|Mark Oshiro]], completely spoiler-free, is not prepared as his fans constantly remind him. He wasn't prepared for the ''Twilight'' books, but there it took on a more somber tone. And he certainly hasn't been prepared for any of the [[Mark Does Stuff|other stuff]] he's been reviewing.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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