History Quotes / ButterFlyOfDoom

->'''Gypsy:''' Nonono! You changed the past and now the future is a nuclear wasteland.\\
'''Tom Servo:''' What? From the 1920s?\\
'''Gypsy:''' Changing the past ''always'' turns the future into a nuclear wasteland. It just ''does'', okay?
-->-- ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E03TheTimeTravelers The Time Travelers]]"

'''Bruce''' Yes, because, Barry, if you were to go into the past, any interaction you have with your parents or yourself, you step on the wrong blade of grass, you have no idea what the consequences to that could be!\\

'''Dr. Tom:''' I love [[Film/BackToTheFuture that movie]].\\

''''Bruce''' Yes, because, Barry, if you were to go into the past, any interaction you have with your parents or yourself, you step on the wrong blade of grass, you have no idea what the consequences to that could be!\\

--> -- '''UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla'''

->'''Marina:''' You're not worried about changing the past and messing up the future?
->'''Pearl:''' Nah. I'd only make good changes. Like [[GivingRadioToTheRomans giving cellphones to cavesquids]].

->'''Kyon''': Hey, Nagato. Could you make it rain on the day of the game? A huge one that'll cancel the game.\\
'''Nagato''': It is possible. However, it is not recommended.\\
'''Kyon''': Why's that?\\
'''Nagato''': Alterations to the local environmental data may result in aftereffects on this planet's ecosystem.\\
'''Kyon''': How long before these aftereffects show up?\\
'''Nagato''': Between a few centuries and ten millennia.\\
'''Kyon''': Then I guess we probably shouldn't.\\
'''Nagato''': Yes.
-->--''The Boredom of [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya SuzumiyaHaruhi]]''

--> -- ''[[http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Stories/Z/ Sailor Moon Z]]'', Episode 19

--> -- '''Angela Petrelli''', ''Series/{{Heroes}}''

->'''Martha''': But are we safe? I mean, can we move around and stuff?\\
'''Tenth Doctor''': Of course we can. Why not?\\
'''Martha''': It's like in those films: if you step on a butterfly, you change the future of the human race. \\
'''Tenth Doctor''': Then don't step on any butterflies. What have the butterflies ever done to you?
--> -- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Shakespeare Code"

->'''Bill''': So, what are the rules?\\
'''Twelfth Doctor''': Rules?\\
'''Bill''': Yeah. Travelling to the past, There's got to be rules. If I step on a butterfly, it could send ripples through time that mean I'm not even born in the first place and I could just disappear.\\
'''Twelfth Doctor''': Definitely. I mean, that's what happened to Pete.\\
'''Bill''': Pete?\\

'''Bill''': Shut up! I'm being serious!\\
'''Twelfth Doctor''': Yeah, so was Pete.\\
'''Bill''': You know what I mean. Every choice I make in this moment, here and now, could change the whole future.\\
'''Twelfth Doctor''': Exactly like every other day of your life. The only thing to do is to stop worrying about it.
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Thin Ice"

->'''Seventh Doctor''': Are you looking for the butterfly?\\
'''Ace''': What, the one that beats its wings and tips the balance so the hurricane forms? There isn't one, is there?\\
'''Seventh Doctor''': Not often. They just tell the butterflies that to keep them happy.\\
'''Ace''': Should've known.\\
'''Seventh Doctor''': No, mostly they break the butterfly on the wheel of time. But over the decades, the millions of butterflies, the weather still changes somehow. That's time. A million multicoloured pieces of time.
-->-- [[AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Fearmonger"

->'''Erica''': What about paradoxes, huh? Butterfly Effect, Back to the Future?\\
'''Dr. Tom''': I love [[Film/BackToTheFuture that movie]].\\
'''Erica''': If I change the past, if I don't get drunk, would that cause, like, World War III in the present?\\
'''Dr. Tom''': Or, is it possible that your alcohol consumption, though very important to you, might not play a role in influencing world events?
--> -- ''Series/BeingErica''

->'''Cassie''': Why can't you second-guess history? I mean, if you ''could'' go back and change things so that the U.S. was ready to fight earlier ''[in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII]''...\\
'''Ms. Paloma''': Because events are intertwined in ways we cannot always see, Cassie. Sometimes small things can make huge differences. You know, they say that a single butterfly, beating its wings in China, may affect the way the wind blows here in our country. A single butterfly beating its wings may make a tiny change that becomes a bigger change that becomes a tornado. The world isn't like math. It isn't just one plus one equals two. It's more complicated than that.\\
'''Rachel''': ''[thinking to herself after class]'' But how is the butterfly supposed to know when to beat her wings?
--> -- ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', book 7, page 134

->'''Jake''': ''[after the Animorphs have destroyed the Kandrona generator, Jake yells to the Ellimist]'' Is it enough? Is it enough? Have we changed the future? ''[no response]''\\
'''Rachel''': I don't think he knows. He showed us a possible future. But you know what? I don't believe the Ellimist really knows the future any more than we do.\\
'''Jake''': What makes you so sure?\\
'''Rachel''': ''[laughs]'' Because wherever it is that the Ellimist exists, and whatever he's up to, and whatever game he's playing, and no matter how mighty he is, he has butterflies, too.\\
'''The Ellimist''': ''[laughing with a voice that comes from nowhere]'' HA, HA, HA, HA. AS I SAID, YOU ARE A PRIMITIVE RACE, AND YET YOU ARE CAPABLE OF LEARNING.
--> -- ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', book 7, page 161

-->--'''Benjamin Button''', ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton''

-> ''"Don't do anything that affects anything, unless it turns out you were supposed to, in which case, for the love of God, don't ''not'' do it!"''
-->--'''Professor Farnsworth''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "Roswell That Ends Well"

-> ''"So, despite the temptation, altering the timeline is more foolish than productive. Anybody who would built a space-time object replacement device is a complete '''[[PowerEchoes moron.]]'''"''
-->--'''Professor Membrane,''' ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', [[Recap/InvaderZimS1E15BadBadRubberPiggy "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy"]]

-->-- ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E03TheTimeTravelers "The Time Travelers"]]

-->-- '''Abraham Simpson''', to Homer on his wedding day, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Treehouse of Horror V" sub-story "Time and Punishment"

'''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}:''' [[LiteralMinded So we find a butterfly and smash it...? Huh. Seems kinda mean but, alright.]]
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019''