History Quotes / GenreSavvy

-->-- ''Literature/Animorphs'' #2, ''The Visitor''[[note]]Which has now been [[HilariousInHindsight made into a graphic novel]].[[/note]]

'''Cuphead:''' ''(beat)'' ''Aaaaaand'' goodbye.\\

-->-- ''Film/{{Evolution}}''

-->-- '''Gordon Freeman''', ''Machinima/FreemansMind''

->''"[Rue] does have a healthy dose of [[ConspiracyTheorist cynicism]] going. SHE knows [[MagicalGirlGenreDeconstruction what kind of magical girl story she's in]], she's not going to be surprised by any plot twists or intriguing reveals! She's not some naive pawn! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A BENEVOLENT AUTHORITATIVE SYSTEM, NEVER TRUST THE GOVERNMENT, FUCK THE POLICE, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking SLEEP THROUGH CLASS]]."''
-->-- '''Writing for Love and Justice''', on Rue from ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain''

->'''Rincewind''': I do not wish to volunteer, sir.\\
'''Vetinari''': No one was asking you to.\\
'''Rincewind''': Oh, but they will, sir, they will. Someone will say, "Hey, that Rincewind fella, he's the adventurous sort..." And then I'll run away, and probably hide in a crate somewhere that'll be loaded on to the flying machine in any case... Or there'll be a whole string of accidents that end up causing the same thing. Trust me, sir, I know how my life works.
-->--''Literature/TheLastHero''

->''"This is a textbook movie ambush."''
-->-- '''Julián Martínez''', moments before he and the Baler soldiers are caught in an ambush, ''Series/TheMinistryOfTime''

->'''Rusty Pete:''' Why don't you stand right there, mate? I'll check fer booby traps.
->'''Ratchet:''' Booby traps? Isn't that a bit cliche?
->'''Rusty Pete:''' Not at all, mate. After all, you're the boob - and here's the trap!
-->--''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureQuestForBooty''

->'''Wizard:''' Well, what do you need?
->'''Princess:''' Um, I need a potion.
->'''Wizard:''' Obviously.
->'''Princess:''' A LovePotion.
->'''Wizard:''' ''OBVIOUSLY.''
->'''Princess:''' What's that supposed to mean?
->'''Wizard:''' ({{beat}}) ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial ...nothing!]]''
-->--Series/StudioC, "Valuable Love Potion from a Tiny Wizard"

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-->--'''Barney''', ''Film/EvilLaugh''

-->-- '''Berlin''', ''Series/LaCasaDePapel''

->''"The true secret in being [[TheHero a hero]] lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot [[RagsToRoyalty already be wed]] to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The [[EvilUncle wicked uncle]] cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. {{Quest}}s may not simply be abandoned; [[AllPropheciesAreTrue prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit]]; {{unicorn}}s may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The {{happy ending}} cannot come in the middle of the story."''

-->-- '''Mr. Smith''', ''Film/ShootEmUp''

->''"Being an EvilOverlord seems to be a good career choice. It pays well, there are all sorts of perks and you can set your own hours. However every Evil Overlord I've read about in books or seen in movies [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin invariably gets overthrown and destroyed in the end]]. I've noticed that no matter whether they are barbarian lords, deranged wizards, mad scientists or alien invaders, [[VillainBall they always seem to make the same basic mistakes]] every single time. [[DefiedTrope With that in mind, allow me to present]]..."''
-->-- [[http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html Introduction]] to the ''EvilOverlordList''

->'''Soos:''' Dudes, stay calm. I've been training for this moment my whole life. With all the horror movies I've seen, I know literally everything there is to know about how to avoid zombies. ''(Gets bit by a zombie)''
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E1Scaryoke Scary-oke]]"

->''"Hah! I found it! In my 'Vault of Horror' comic book #9! Right after the story of the thing in the swamp that eats up the grandma alive... it tells how to kill a vampire!"''
-->-- ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', "V-Vampires!"

->'''Geek Scientist:''' Look, we have medics and guards standing by just in case. And this is one of our strongest containment rooms. Everything is under control.\\
'''Joel:''' You do realize that the scientist say that in every horror movie, just before things go horribly wrong.\\
'''Geek Scientist:''' This isn't a cheesy B-Movie, Joel. Relax! [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong What could go wrong]]?\\
'''Joel:''' Are you ''trying'' to get us all killed?
-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Weregeek}}''

->''"Do it?" Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Do you seriously think [[JustBetweenYouAndMe I'd explain my masterstroke]] if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago.''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Adrian "Ozymandias" Veidt]]''', ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''

->''Check my flank. That's how [[RaptorAttack they]] got that guy in Franchise/JurassicPark.''
-->-- '''Gordon Freeman''', ''Machinima/FreemansMind''

->''Did you honestly think you could take so many lives and never suffer retribution? Have you never even seen a [[Film/EnterTheDragon kung-fu movie]], [[Film/LicenceToKill spy flick]] or [[Film/ForAFewDollarsMore western]]? [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]], for God's sake!''
-->-- '''[[spoiler: Jasper Batt Jr.]]''', ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle''

-->-- '''Mr. Smith''', '''''Film/ShootEmUp'''''

->'''Duane:''' You do not want to engage me. Have you never been to an opera house?\\
'''Bett:''' What?\\
'''Duane:''' Think of it. A mysterious stranger in unassuming garb, of noble mien, his manner strange, his abilities unknown, selflessly answering the call of innocents. Not one to take lightly, says the theatre. What is your role? The brutish dullard who would raise a weapon to a child? You won't see the second act.\\
'''Bett:''' You're not accounting for me!\\
'''Duane:''' Convince me that I should no-\\
'''Sette:''' ''[interrupting]'' Zombies don't banter!
-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}''

->''"The true secret in being [[TheHero a hero]] lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot [[RagsToRoyalty already be wed]] to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The [[EvilUncle wicked uncle]] cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. {{Quest}}s may not simply be abandoned; [[AllPropheciesAreTrue prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit]]; {{unicorn}}s may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The {{happy ending}} cannot come in the middle of the story."''
-->-- '''Creator/PeterSBeagle''', ''Literature/TheLastUnicorn''

->'''[[OneLetterName Z]]:''' It’s a talking cat.\\
'''[[TheStoryteller Theo]]:''' We're in a Heterodyne story now. These things happen.
-->-- ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''

->'''Hsu:''' Well I guess there's nothing to do but try to find a phone. Say, why don't we try that big, old house on the hill?\\
'''Chan:''' Because we are neither incredibly stupid, nor traveling with Scooby Doo. Come on. I saw a normal house a little way back down the road.
-->-- ''ComicStrip/HsuAndChan'', ''Symphony of the Nut''

->'''Tarquin''': You're a bard, right? How many stories have you heard in which a single hero vanquishes a [[TheEmpire wicked empire]]?\\
'''Elan''': I dunno... dozens, I guess.\\
'''Tarquin''': What is the one thing they all have in common? The one fact they all share?\\
'''Elan''': [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin The hero always wins!]]\\
'''Tarquin''': [[TheBadGuyWins Arguable]]. No, the one thing they all have in common is this: the wicked empire '''exists'''. It has existed for some time, and it will continue to exist if no heroes intervene. Don't you see, Elan? The rules of drama to which you subscribe as a bard tell us that such tyrannies can exist--indeed, MUST exist--and persist long enough that no one realistically thinks that they can be defeated. [[AnthropicPrinciple Else, where's the drama in a hero opposing them?]] And if such kingdoms are necessary, why shouldn't I rule one?
-->-- ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html "Plotting Something"]]

->''See that? Reading comic books ''can'' save lives.''
-->-- '''Cat Noir''', ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', "Dark Owl"

->''You ever seen horror films? ''(Arturo nods)'' Well, you've always seen that guy that appears, that you can tell right away that he smells like a dead man walking? It always happens, it ''never'' fails. [[TermsOfEndangerment Arturito]]... you smell like a dead man walking.''

->''This is a textbook movie ambush.''
-->-- '''Julián Martínez''', moments before himself and the Baler soldiers find themselves caught up in an ambush, ''Series/TheMinistryOfTime''

->'''Chrono:''' I just realized... I'm ''not'' the hero. [[TheComicallySerious I'm the comedy straight man]].\\
'''Amy:''' Oh, everyone knows that, sweetie! I thought you were doing it on purpose, you're so good at it!\\
'''Chrono:''' If it is my destiny to be Nanoha's straight man, so be it! I shall endeavor to be the best I can be, a genuinely useful support character...
-->-- ''[[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/iwiw-in-which-shadowjack-watches-nanoha-as.845510/ [IWIW] In Which Shadowjack Watches Nanoha A's]]''

-->--'''''VideoGame/MaxPayne'''''

->'''Rincewind''': I do not wish to volunteer, sir.\\
'''Vetinari''': No one was asking you to.\\
'''Rincewind''': Oh, but they will, sir, they will. Someone will say, "Hey, that Rincewind fella, he's the adventurous sort..." And then I'll run away, and probably hide in a crate somewhere that'll be loaded on to the flying machine in any case... Or there'll be a whole string of accidents that end up causing the same thing. Trust me, sir, I know how my life works.
-->--''Literature/TheLastHero''

-->--'''VideoGame/MaxPayne'''

->'''Nanase:''' I don't understand how anyone could see what ''she'' saw and just be like "Oh you'll tell me if I need to know something".
->'''Grace:''' She could be GenreSavvy.
->'''Nanase:''' [[DiscussedTrope Genre Savvy]]?
->'''Grace:''' Yeah, like coping with the weirdness by thinking of stories in which similar things happen?
-->--'''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'''

'''Ferdie:''' Yea, well I know what happens in those mystery pictures: a guy walks over to a "perfectly ordinary door", opens it up, and ''zowie!'' Out falls a body, right on its kisser!

->'''Valentine''': You know what this is like? It's like those old movies we both love. Now, I'm going to tell you my whole plan, and then I'm going to come up with some absurd and convoluted way to kill you, and you'll find an equally convoluted way to escape.\\

'''Valentine''': Well, this ain't that kind of movie.

->''"The true secret in being [[TheHero a hero]] lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot [[RagsToRoyalty already be wed]] to [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses the princess]] when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The [[EvilUncle wicked uncle]] cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. {{Quest}}s may not simply be abandoned; [[AllPropheciesAreTrue prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit]]; {{unicorn}}s may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The {{happy ending}} cannot come in the middle of the story."''

-->--'''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'''

-->--'''VideoGame/MaxPayne'''

->''"Being an EvilOverlord seems to be a good career choice. It pays well, there are all sorts of perks and you can set your own hours. However every EvilOverlord I've read about in books or seen in movies [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin invariably gets overthrown and destroyed in the end]]. I've noticed that no matter whether they are barbarian lords, deranged wizards, mad scientists or alien invaders, [[VillainBall they always seem to make the same basic mistakes]] every single time. [[DefiedTrope With that in mind, allow me to present]]..."''
-->-- ''Main/EvilOverlordList[[http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html]]''

->''"The true secret in being [[TheHero a hero]] lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot [[RagsToRoyalty already be wed]] to [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses the princess]] when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock on the witch's door when she is already away on vacation. The [[EvilUncle wicked uncle]] cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. {{Quest}}s may not simply be abandoned; [[AllPropheciesAreTrue prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit]]; {{unicorn}}s may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The [[HappyEnding happy ending]] cannot come in the middle of the story."''

-->-- ''[[https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/iwiw-in-which-shadowjack-watches-nanoha-as.845510/ [IWIW] In Which Shadowjack Watches Nanoha A's]]''

-->--'''Investigating the Wreck of the Boatman''', ''Videogame/SunlessSkies''[[labelnote:*]]Bonus points for Tales of Terror being an actual item in the game; taking this option will need several of them[[/labelnote]]

-->-- ''Wevcomic/{{Unsounded}}''