History Quotes / GambitRoulette

->''"Ha, loser. A true tactician [[IndyPloy doesn't know WHAT the hell he's doing until he's halfway done with it]]."''
-->-- '''Quint''', ''MSPaintMasterpieces''

-->--'''Monica''' and '''Jin''', ''WapsiSquare''

-->--'''[[RedLetterMedia Mr. Plinkett's]]''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGnorxUw4AA review]] of StarWars, Episode II.

-->--''AvatarTheAbridgedSeries''

-->--'''TYPE-MOON Wiki''' on [[http://typemoon.wikia.com/wiki/Marble_Phantasm Marble Phantasms]] in ''{{Nasuverse}}''

-->-- '''SFDebris''', walks us through [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} Xanatos']] first plan.

-->-- [[BigBad Emperor Palpatine]], StarWars

-->-- '''[[WebVideo/BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen's]] review of {{Zardoz}}'''

-->-- [[BigBad Makuta Teridax]], {{Bionicle}}

->''Yes, thought Braniac, stroking his taranchula, Henri IV; now was the time to convince the Mayor he was telling the truth about the lies he had previously told, this time but not the last two times, except for the part about Joe and the daughter of the prison warden, unless the Mayor had not believed that before.''
-->-- ''HowNotToWriteANovel''

-->-- '''RogerEbert's''' review of ''[[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990709/REVIEWS/907090302 Arlington Road]]''

-->-- ''CinemaSins''

-->--'''[[spoiler:Kristoph Gavin]]''', ''Apollo Justice: AceAttorney''

-->--'''Prinny commentary''', ''Main/{{Disgaea}}''

->''"so [Arthur Frayn's] plan was... herd a bunch of working class brits into, breeding someone genetically able to think on the Eternals level; lead him to a library. Hope, that he taught himself how to read properly. Hope, that he came across the one specific book that inspired the whole Zardoz shtick. Hope, that he would stow-away on the Zardoz head and shoot him. Then hope, that the head would crash back inside the vortex. Hope, that the other Eternals didn't kill him immediately, and teach them all that they know; in the hopes that he would figure out how to destroy the tabernacle an therefore all the Eternals. In other words, the exact kind of plan you expect for a man who draws on his goatee."''

->''Okay, I'm officially calling black label bull**** on [[NowYouSeeMe this movie]]. What is that? Well, it's when a movie's entire story is anchored to random acts of chance.''

->''{{God}} does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players[[hottip:*:i.e. everybody]], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time...''

-->--''HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality''

-->--'''Nicol Bolas''', to Liliana Vess, ''MagicTheGathering/AgentsOfArtifice''

-->-- '''Revy''', ''BlackLagoon''

-->-- '''[[MagnificentBastard Izaya]]''', {{Durarara}}

-->-- ''Literature/GoodOmens'' (about how it works when actually {{justified}})

-->-- '''Madame de Villefort''' and '''Edmond Dantes''', ''TheCountOfMonteCristo''

-->-- '''[[BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen's]] review of {{Zardoz}}'''

->''so [Arthur Frayn's] plan was... herd a bunch of working class brits into, breeding someone genetically able to think on the Eternals level; lead him to a library. Hope, that he taught himself how to read properly. Hope, that he came across the one specific book that inspired the whole Zardoz shtick. Hope, that he would stow-away on the Zardoz head and shoot him. Then hope, that the head would crash back inside the vortex.Hope, that the other Eternals didn't kill him immediately, and teach them all that they know; in the hopes that he would figure out how to destroy the tabernacle an therefore all the Eternals. In other words, the exact the kind of plan you expect for a man who draws on his goatee.''

->''so [Arthur Frayn's] plan was... herd a bunch of working class brits into, breeding someone genetically able to think on the Eternals level; lead him to a library. Hope, that he taught himself how to read properly. Hope, that he came across the one specific book that inspired the whole Zardoz shtick. Hope, that he would stow-away on the Zardoz and shoot him. Then hope, that the head would crash back inside the vortex.Hope, that the other Eternals didn't kill him immediately, and teach them all that they know; in the hopes that he would figure out how to destroy the tabernacle an therefore all the Eternals. In other words, the exact the kind off plan you expect for a man who draws on his goatee.''
-->-- '''[[BrowsHeldHigh Oancitizen's]] review of {{Zardoz}}'''

->''so [Arthur Frayn's] plan was... herd a bunch of working class brits into, breeding someone genetically able to think on the Eternals level; lead him to a library. Hope, that he taught himself how to read properly. Hope, that he came across the one specific book that inspired the whole Zardoz shtick. Hope, that he would stow-away on the Zardoz and shoot him. Then hope, that the head would chash back inside the vortex.Hope, that the other Eternals didn't kill him immediately, and teach them all that they know; in the hopes that he would figure out how to destroy the tabernacle an therefore all the Eternals. In other words, the exact the kind off plan you expect for a man who draws on his goatee.''

->''"What plan?! [Circe] planned for Air Force One to be brought down, she planned to get knocked unconscious by Batman, she planned for the Bana to purportedly be the real enemy only they're not, thus making their entire sub-plot utterly, totally, completely worthless!"''

->'''Zhao:''' Well darn, it looks like I'm out of luck barring a sudden promotion, like the one arriving right now.
->'''Colonel Shinu:''' What!? There's no way you could have timed this down to the second!
->'''Zhao:''' Of course I can. I went to the [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]] School of Strategy. I can practically predict the future.

-->-- '''SFDebris''', walks us through [[{{Gargoyles}} Xanatos']] first plan.

->''"[Palpatine's] grand plan was to cloud [the council's] judgment and trick them into letting Anakin go with Padme because he knew that he was gonna fall in love, get her pregnant, then have premonitions of future pregnancy complications resulting in her death so that Palpatine can tell Anakin that he can use the Dark Side to save her so that Anakin can become Darth Vader and help Palpatine rule the Empire. You'd think if this guy could see that far into the future he could just pick the lotto numbers; or maybe that's how he payed for the clones!"''

->''{{God}} does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time...''
-->-- ''GoodOmens'' (about how it works when actually {{justified}})

->''"So naturally to aquire [some disks] he merely transported an entire Scottish castle to the top of a New Yrok skyrise to acquire a collection of mythical creatures who he decieved with a destructive battle caused by a squad of highly trained mercinaries that he hired himself so that they would wind up performing the heist believing it was retribution and protection against the framed culprits! It was almost too easy!"''

-->--[[WebOriginal/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]'s commentary on Circe's "master plan" in Amazons Attack.

--> '''[[MagnificentBastard Izaya]]''', {{Durarara}}

->'''Zhao:''' Of course I can. I went to the [[DeathNote Light Yagami]] School of Strategy. I can practically predict the future.

-->--{{Linkara}}'s commentary on Circe's "master plan" in Amazons Attack.