History Quotes / FailsafeFailure

Okay, see what I mean about Starfleet sending them out to look like idiots? If something is that essential to the functioning of your ship, [[IdiotPlot why would you not carry spares?]] Multiple spares, at that?

-->-- ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' Episode 43

-->--'''Chris Sims''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/the-x-men-episode-guide-4x06-sanctuary-part-1-animated-series/ on]] ''WesternAnimation/XMen'', "Sanctuary, Part 1"

->There's a mawkishly overdramatic scene in which a character sacrifices himself by [[YouShallNotPass bravely detaching and blowing up the entire Metroid wing of the spaceship with him inside]]. We'll let slide for now the issue of why exactly he had to be ''[[FailsafeFailure inside it]]'' to do this, but Metroids show up later on '''[[YouCantThwartStageOne ANYWAY]]''', so he might as well have just '''stuck yellow and black tape over the door''' for all the good it did!

->''(chaos is wreaking havoc in Ponyville)''
->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' Don't worry, everypony! I've learned a new failsafe spell that will fix everything!
->''(Her horn glows, and a wave of light surrounds Ponyville. When it fades... nothing happens.)''
->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' My failsafe spell... ''failed''! Now what do we do?
->'''Spike:''' Umm, give up?
-->'''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''', ''The Return of Harmony: Part 1''

-->--'''Chris Sims''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/the-x-men-episode-guide-4x06-sanctuary-part-1-animated-series/ on]] ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}}'', "Sanctuary, Part 1"

-->-- '''{{SFDebris}}''', "Learning Curve"

-->-- ''RedVsBlue'' Episode 43

-->'''Sam''': "Failsafe? [[LiteralMinded Is that some kind of vault which you keep all your fail in?]] Because, I love ya Quinn, but [[StealthInsult a failsafe is sounding more and more like an apt description of this mission." ]]

Okay, see what I mean about Starfleet sending them out to look like idiots? If something is that essential to the functioning of your ship, [[IdiotPlot why would you not carry spares?]] Multiple spares, at that? And even supposing they ''did'' carry spares, and they've already blown through all of them, why would they not turn around and head back to Earth as soon as they lost their last spare?

->-- ''RedVsBlue'' Episode 43

->'''Sarge''': Oh no! That last lightning bolt fused the detonator! There's no way to turn this thing off!
->'''Simmons''': Can you do it manually?
->'''Sarge''': Impossible. I specifically designed it so that I wouldn't be able to defuse it.
->'''Grif''': Why?
->'''Sarge''': In case I fell into the wrong hands, and was brainwashed to help the Blues.
->'''Simmons''': Nice thinking, sir.
->'''Grif''': You had to get just ''one last'' asskiss in before we die, didn't you?
->-- RedVsBlue Episode 43

->''"This is like having an emergency light that plugs into the wall! Or a parachute with a rope that's connected to the airplane!"''

->''"{{Note to self}}: When designing outer-space headquarters, do not allow personal living quarters to be shot off into space by a control that is ''outside the room''."''

->"The defense system is perfect, Mark," (points at unfinished, missing self-destruct cut off station), "it'll even bury our mistakes."\\
- Dr. Jeremy Stone after nuclear bomb countdown has started in the 1971 movie ''Film/TheAndromedaStrain''

->"It's what you'd call a failsafe. [[DeadpanSnarker Except he only got as far as the "fail" part]]."
->-- [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Tobi]], on Itachi Uchiha's attempt to keep Sasuke ''away'' from the speaker.

->-- The Hidden Valley Bunker Self-Destruct Terminal upon clicking [[OhCrap "Cancel Self-Destruct Sequence"]], ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''

- Dr. Jeremy Stone after nuclear bomb countdown has started in the (1970) movie ''AndromedaStrain''

->"This is like having an emergency light that plugs into the wall! Or a parachute with a rope that's connected to the airplane!"

->"It's what you'd call a failsafe. Except he only got as far as the "fail" part."
->-- [[{{Naruto}} Uchiha Madara]], on Uchiha Itachi's attempt to keep Sasuke ''away'' from the speaker.

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->-- Self-Destruct Terminal ([[FalloutNewVegas New Vegas]]) upon clicking [[OhCrap "Cancel Self-Destruct Sequence".]]

-->'''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''', ''The Return of Harmony: Part 1''

->''(chaos is wreaking havoc in Ponyville)

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->-- Self-Destruct Terminal ([[FalloutNewVegas New Vegas]]) upon clicking [[OhCrap "Cancel Self-Destruct Sequence".]]

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