You Can't Make an Omelette: Difference between revisions

 

== Anime ==

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

 

== [[Film]] ==

{{quote| '''Joker:''' But...you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs. [''breaks Alicia's mask'']}}

** The line actually has darker implications, as it basically tells us that Joker may have murdered Alicia in order to free himself for Vicki.

{{quote| '''Johnny:''' You can't make an omelette without cracking a few eggs. And humanity is just a cracked egg. And the omelette stinks.}}

* In ''[[Fight Club]]'', this was Tyler's response to the Narrator informing him of Bob's death.

{{quote| '''Colonel Mustard:''' You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs; every cook will tell you that.<br />

'''Mrs. Peacock:''' But look what happened to the cook! ''(To elaborate, the cook was killed)'' }}

 

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

{{quote| '''Jenny Shepard''': You're not serious. Your idea of politics usually involves some form of physical violence.<br />

'''Leroy Jethro Gibbs''': Well, you know what they say, Jen. Can't make an omelet unless you break a few eggs. }}

'''Mr. Vandemaar:''' ...without killing a few people. }}

** In Vandemaar's case, this is probably completely true.

{{quote| '''Duggan:''' You can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs.<br />

'''Romana:''' If you made an omelette, I'd expect to find a pile of broken crockery, a cooker in flames, and an unconscious chef. }}

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Day of the Tentacle]]'', one character uses the equivalent, "If you want to save the world, you got to push a few old ladies down the stairs." ...[[Metaphorgotten|having done just that]].

* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons]] Game'', in which Mr. Burns plans to cut down all of Springfield Forest and reduce each tree to a single toothpick:

{{quote| '''Burns''': If you want to make an omelette... you have to wreck a few planets.}}

'''Dornkirk''': Do you think that means we should stop killing people?<br />

'''Folken''': No my lord, I think you just need a better metaphor. }}

{{quote| '''Andy''': You can't make an omelette without blowing up a few eggs!}}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

{{quote| '''Dirk Courage:''' Eventually, we had to stop Overlord another way - but blowing the bridge and the tunnel were reasonable steps to take at the time.<br />

'''Ned Tucker:''' You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, sir! }}

{{quote| '''Stargirl:''' Haven't you heard of "innocent bystanders"?<br />

'''General Wade Eiling:''' Haven't you heard of "acceptable losses"? You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. }}

{{quote| '''Alpha''': ''[observing the destroyed MIB headquarters]'' Ah, the old clubhouse. Such a shame, so many fond memories... But as we say on Earth, one can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.<br />

'''Vangus''': Omelette... Eggs... Good one! }}