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* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''. An ObligatoryTrope when the mercenaries are hunting some giant sharks created by a MadScientist. It becomes a BrickJoke when a trigger happy SWAT team blows up the boat they're on, and their lawyer demands a replacement boat. As this would be punitive damages, that would mean providing a bigger boat than the one they had before.

* In the ''{{Series/Charmed}}'' episode "The Devil's Music", Phoebe plans to defeat a soul-eating demon by feeding him a balloon full of a potion that will force him to regurgitate all the souls she's eaten. When she actually encounters the demon, her reaction is, "We're gonna need a bigger balloon."

** In ''HeartOfTheSwarm'' an ExplosiveBreeder boss keeps chanting "More... There must be more..." as she's bombarding you with swarms of her ActionBomb offsprings.

* ''Film/KingCobra1999'': After coming across Seth's shedded snake skin:

* ''Film/KingCobra'': After coming across Seth's shedded snake skin:

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'' has [[CrowningMomentofAwesome "We're gonna need a full barrel."]]

* In the film ''Film/CalendarGirls'': Chris says this to Lawrence, the terrified photographer as he's about to take the first photograph (one of Celia topless behind a pile of iced bun thingys) -- "[[CrowningMomentOfFunny We're going to need]] [[GagBoobs considerably bigger buns]]."

* In the ''ComicBook/BatmanZeroYear'' side-story in ''Creator/DetectiveComics'', which focuses on Jim Gordon, he's using a flashlight to signal his partner, unaware the man is a DirtyCop. When he instead gets rescued by Batman, he reflects on how lucky he was the Dark Knight happened to see the signal, and decides that next time he's going to use [[BatSignal a bigger flashlight]].

* In the ''ComicBook/BatmanZeroYear'' side-story in ''Comicbook/DetectiveComics'', which focuses on Jim Gordon, he's using a flashlight to signal his partner, unaware the man is a DirtyCop. When he instead gets rescued by Batman, he reflects on how lucky he was the Dark Knight happened to see the signal, and decides that next time he's going to use [[BatSignal a bigger flashlight]].

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* The pirates arrive at ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'' on the [=RLS Legacy=], a commercial starship. When they attain the trove at the center of the planet, and see that it's a small moon covered in gold and jewels, one pirate declares, "We're going to need a bigger boat."

* In Part Two of the ''DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic story "A Wing and a Prayer", the Doctor traps an alien insect in his fez and learns it's a police officer tracking another of its kind. When the Doctor encounters the other alien, and finds that it's managed to bulk up to about five times the size of a human, he says "I'm going to need a bigger fez".

** The Heavy flips it: '''You're gonna need much bigger guns!''' Also, if the Heavy blocks the other team from capturing a capture point or moving the payload cart forward, he'll yell "'''I think you need more men!'''"

* ''Series/{{Lucifer}}''. Detective Decker asks Lucifer to list everyone he's slept with in the past eight weeks. He looks down at her notepad and tells her [[ReallyGetsAround she'll need a much bigger one]].

* Upon reading the news of [[TheFlash Barry Allen's]] return in ''Flash: Rebirth'' and realizing that Franchise/TheDCU now has ''three'' Flashes, one member of Flash's RoguesGallery (actually called the Rogues in this case) says "We're gonna need more Rogues."

* ''Film/ReturnOfTheLivingDead'': "Send... more... paramedics..."

** Played straight during Danielle's pregnancy, when Kevin's mother commented that the only other time a member of her family had had a single baby was when she gave birth to him and then dryly added "You're gonna need a bigger crib."

** In the September 15, 2007 comic, Garfield's normal RunningGag about crushing spiders with newspapers is interrupted when Jon sees a spider with a hard hat walk by, chuckling to itself. Garfield follows it saying, "I'm gonna need a bigger newspaper."
** [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=2009&addr=090719 Jon empties the whole catsup into his Binky Burger and still thinks he needs more.]]

* In the September 15, 2007 ''{{ComicStrip/Garfield}}'' comic, Garfield's normal RunningGag about crushing spiders with newspapers was interrupted when Jon saw a spider with a hard hat walk by, chuckling to itself. Garfield followed it saying, "I'm gonna need a bigger newspaper".
** [[http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=2009&addr=090719 Jon emptied the whole catsup into his Binky Burger and still thought he needed more.]]

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Nine}}'' has [[CrowningMomentofAwesome "We're gonna need a full barrel."]]

* Perhaps the most famous example appears in ''{{Film/Jaws}}''. The line was actually [[ThrowItIn an improvisation]] by Roy Scheider, but the scriptwriters and the author of the Book have both said that they'd have given their right arm to write a line that good. [[BeamMeUpScotty It's often misquoted as]] "We're..."[[note]] which ruins the implications, since Brody is simultaneously wishing he wasn't there and lampshading Quint's Captain Ahab tendencies[[/note]].

* The misquote ("We're...") of the ''Jaws'' example is used during the "salsa shark" bit in ''{{Film/Clerks}}''.

* In the first American ''{{Film/Godzilla|1998}}'' movie, when the monster shows up in Times Square, one of the soldiers comments "We need bigger guns."

* ''Film/YorTheHunterFromTheFuture'': "We will need a lot more hemp before we're through."
** Just to be clear, the context of the scene is such that the character is probably referring to a need for hemp ''ropes''

** [[BrainFood "MORE BRAINS!"]]

* One of several ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' {{Shout Out}}s in ''Film/{{Sharknado}}''. "We're gonna need a bigger chopper."

* ''{{Nightside}}'': When a future version of Tommy Oblivion pops up in the bar and starts haranguing John Taylor for something he hasn't done yet, Tommy yells that he's going to change the course of events next time around. "Next time, I'll have guns! Big, ''big'' guns!"

* In ''{{Series/Friends}}'', Monica convinces Chandler that taking a bath can be very relaxing. She prepares him a bath and gives him a toy ship to "so it's a boy bath". After a while, Monica comes by to ask whether he likes it:

* The ''Series/MythBusters'' often invoke this trope during their experiments. It usually involves explosives.
** Inverted in the myth involving pouring water on a grease fire. At one point, Adam and Jamie attempt to produce a smaller fireball by scaling down the size of the pan, the amount of cooking oil, and the amount of water. After their small-scale fireball turned out far bigger than they expected, Adam remarked:

* ''{{Series/Eureka}}''

* Another Whedonverse example: when the ''{{Series/Angel}}'' crew first see the fearsome Beast, Lorne (holding a crossbow) remarks that he's gonna need a bigger arrow.

'''[=McKay=]:''' ''(over comms)'' Size doesn't matter.\\

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' ChristmasEpisode "The Husbands of River Song", when River doesn't recognise the Doctor and asks how he knows her, he says that explaining that [[TimeyWimeyBall usually requires flowcharts]]. When she tells him her husband is dying, he adds "I'm going to need a bigger flowchart." (As the title suggests, it's not him.)

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* Mr. Lizard's CatchPhrase in ''{{Series/Dinosaurs}}''? "We're gonna need another Timmy!" Typically, it is assumed that they ''broke'' the current/former Timmy, a kid dinosaur. He asks Mr. Lizard a question, Mr. Lizard explains the answer then suggests a demonstration as he ducks behind cover.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''

* ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures''

--> "I'm going to need a bigger stick."
--> "We don't have a budget for that."

--> '''Dr. Schlock''': "Riff? We're going to need a bigger bunny."

* InvertedTrope in ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'': When word gets out that Fenton's mother is a vampire bat, people start making excuses not to come to Fenton and Lindesfarne's wedding. Kevin comments "We're gonna need a smaller church."

* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', whatever Roman Torchwick is planning, he's going to need more men.

* "I'm gonna need more rope!" is one of the few lines the ''{{WesternAnimation/Freakazoid}}'' villain JustForFun/CandleJack ever [[spoiler: says. Hello there.]] %% Enough of the meme, it was dead a LONG time ago.

** In "Twilight", {{Franchise/Batman}} pronounces upon viewing the city of the gods [[FloatingContinent in the sky]], "I'm gonna need a longer grapple."

* In the ''{{WesternAnimation/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|2003}}'' episode "April's Artifact", Raph grabbed a stick to swat a "lousy little gnat". Leo informs him "You're gonna need a bigger flyswatter" just as a Giant Enemy Bug shows up.

* In ''{{WesternAnimation/WITCH}}'', at one point, the titular team is about to go out for ice cream when the PsychoRangers show up. Irma says "we're going to need more spoons."

* After the ComicBook/NewMutants were added to the ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' cast, {{Wolverine}} noted, "We're definitely going to need more instructors. And maybe a couple of tanks."

-> [[TheStinger ...is that all]]? [[SelfDemonstratingArticle We're gonna need more examples]]!

* ''VideoGame/StarCraft'': [[MemeticMutation We need more pylons!]]
** And more Vespen Gas! And Overlords!

* ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'':