History Quotes / MrExposition

->'''Noa''': Arrgh! I'm a country girl, I can't keep up with all this geographical data!\\
'''Asuma''': Don't worry, I'll explain it [[BreakingTheFourthWall two pages later.]]
-->-- ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'', manga chapter 1

-->--''Film/AustinPowers'' [[http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/clarke/38/scripts/Austin-Powers.htm early draft script]]

-->--''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper''

->"You're like a textbook with arms."
-->-- ''Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}}'' on Giles.

->'''Angel:''' What do we know about {{telekinesis}}?\\
'''Wesley Wyndam-Pryce''': Ahh, yes. The power of moving things with one's mind. ''(beat)'' [[SubvertedTrope That's pretty much it.]]
-->--''{{Series/Angel}}'', "Untouched"

-->--''Series/TheWestWing'', "Celestial Navigation"

->'''Hathaway''': I wouldn't read too much into the absence of a 'Goodbye Cruel World', sir. Statistically, the instances of suicide notes in Graham's demographic is in the 12-to-20% range.\\
'''Lewis''': Where do you ''get'' this stuff?\\
'''Hathaway''': [[AskAStupidQuestion The back of cereal boxes.]]\\

-->--''{{Series/Lewis}}''

->'''Three:''' You have an answer for everything don't you?\\

-->-- ''Series/DarkMatter''

-->--''Series/AlloAllo''

->"Meandering exposition is kind of my thing."

-->--'''Telex''', "The Man With the Answer"

->"I'm spouting exposition again, aren't I? Apologies.'

->"The year, {{blah blah blah}}. The place, blah blah blah."

->"Thank you, [[TropeNamer Mr. Exposition.]]"

->"Professor Exposition, Explainer of things! He’s clarifying plot points to explain away confusion!"

->"Tony has all the exposition, which is always the hardest part of doing any script... It's like in a theatre piece: actors really hate having to deliver exposition. It's called 'heavy lifting', and that's his job. Spike's a badass, because ''he'' said so. Tony does that great."

->'''Helga:''' When do you intend to put into operation your ingenious plan to commandeer a captured British Wellington bomber, with artificial smoke belching from the engine, from which you will leap disguised as British airmen, hoping to be picked up by [[LaResistance the Resistance]] and taken to their secret headquarters, so you may infiltrate the Resistance, escape and organise their capture?\\
'''Herr Flick:''' Congratulations Helga, you have [[AsYouKnow expounded the plot]] well.

->''"Thanks for the exposition, Gloucester boy."
-->--'''Judith''' to Byleth, ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses''

->'''Helga:''' When do you intend to put into operation your ingenious plan to commandeer a captured British Wellington bomber, with artifiical smoke belching from the engine, from which you will leap disguised as British airmen, hoping to be picked up by [[LaResistance the Resistance]] and taken to their secret headquarters, so you may infiltrate the Resistance, escape and organise their capture?\\

->'''Helga:''' When do you intend to put into operation your ingenious plan to commandeer a captured British Wellington bomber, with artifiical smoke belching from the engine, from which you will leap disguised as British airmen, hoping to be picked up by [[LaResistance the Resistance]] and taken to their secret headquarters, so you may infiltrte the Resistance, escape and organise their capture?\\

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->'''Grim:''' What is this place?\\'''Mandy:''' I'm sure a writer's convenience will turn up and fill us in.

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->'''Stan''': Just one thing, Creator/MorganFreeman: how come every time something convoluted needs explaining, you show up?\\

!!WebOriginal
->Every actor to have played the

->'''Narrator:''' "An example of this is Saya Takagi, from ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'', who, [[TheSmartGuy due to her outstanding intellect]], will often analyze the group's condition and sum it up for the audience."

->'''Shredder:''' Only mutants are immune to the Mesmerizer's beam; humans like myself can't be near it when they set it off!\\
'''Krang:''' You don't have to explain it to me; ''I'' invented it, remember?\\
'''Shredder:''' I wasn't explaining it to you! ''(points at the camera)'' I was explaining it to ''them.''

-->--
''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'', "Man’s Best Fiend"

!!Anime and Manga]]

[[AC:Anime and Manga]]

->'''Noa''': ''(during police chase)'' Arrgh! I'm a country girl, I can't keep up with all this geographical data!\\
'''Asuma''': ''(calmly)'' Don't worry, I'll explain it [[BreakingTheFourthWall two pages later.]]\\
''(exactly two pages later, Asuma pulls out a map of Tokyo and exposits directly to Noa and the readers)''

[[AC:ComicBooks]]

->'''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}:''' He was there for me from the day I reached Earth, you know...\\
'''Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}:''' Everybody knows this story.
-->-- ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl''

[[AC:Film--Live-Action]]

->'''Basil Exposition:''' Hello, Austin. This is Basil Exposition, Chief of British Intelligence. You're Film/AustinPowers, International Man of Mystery, and you're with Agent Mrs. Kensington. The year is 1967, and you're talking on a picture phone.\\

->'''Carol:''' Do you really think these atomic weapons could [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever change Bill back]]?\\
'''General:''' You like to talk, Doc. You tell her!
-->-- ''[[Film/{{Matinee}} MANT!]]''

[[AC:Literature]]

->'''Hermione:''' Aren't you two ever going to read "Hogwarts: A History"?\\
'''Ron:''' [[LampshadeHanging What's the point?]] You know it by heart, we can just ask you.

[[AC:Live-action TV]]

'''Toby:''' ''([[{{beat}} pregnant pause]])'' Something really kinda ''freakish'' about you, you know that?\\

->'''Three:''' [[InsufferableGenius You have an answer for everything don't you?]]\\

'''Herr Flick:''' Congratulations Helga, you have [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall expounded the plot]] well.

[[AC:Music]]

->''"[[TheComicallySerious A sense of humor is not my forte]]\\

I'm the man with the answer"''

[[AC:Video Games]]

->I'm spouting exposition again, aren't I? Apologies.

->'''[[AntiHero Jason Brody]]:''' Get out of the way.\\
'''[[AwesomeAussie Buck]] [[SirSwearsALot Hughes]]:''' Well, no. [[LampshadeHanging Not before I give you a history lesson]]. Hm? You ready for this? Listen to this now. Imagine, consider this if you will, this monumental testament to {{Irony}}. The [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain bloody Japs]], right? They form a special unit of, uh... you know, to try and find like lost treasure and riches to feed their [[UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan Empire]]. But the wankers don't realize that this... [[FailedASpotCheck they're building the bloody thing right over the fucking stuff they're looking for]]. Come on. Ask me, "What're they looking for, Buck?"\\
'''Jason:''' [[LittleNo No]].\\
'''[[FauxAffablyEvil Buck]]:''' I should [[CorporalPunishment cane]] you for that, I really should. But you know what? I won't. [[KickTheDog I'll]] [[DepravedHomosexual cane]] [[IHaveYourWife Keith]] instead. They're after the Chao-fucking-Yang... this [[CoolBoat flagship]] that used to belong to this famous Chinese general [[HistoricalDomainCharacter called Zheng He]]. But the bloody thing, it just fucking disappeared with tons of riches on it, including, yeah, [[KnifeNut my fucking knife]]! That's it. [[FetchQuest Look after yourself, yeah?]] History lesson's over.
-->-- ''VideoGame/FarCry3''

->'''Byleth:''' The Five Great Lords?\\
'''Lorenz:''' The five most influential lords of the Leicester Alliance. They hold the voting rights at the roundtable conferences. House Daphnel used to be included among their ranks, but division from within has hasten their decline. Their vote has since been passed to the emerging Margrave Edmund.\\
'''Judith:''' Thanks for the exposition, Gloucester boy.\\
'''Lorenz:''' Boy?! I will not--
-->--''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses''

[[AC:Web Original]]

->Every actor to have played the Doctor eventually hits the episode where they go on complete autopilot. Capaldi deftly avoided it in [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS35E3UnderTheLake}} Under the Lake]]/[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS35E4BeforeTheFlood}} Before the Flood]], where it would have been easy, but here, forced to do the same sort of filler dialogue only with the added constraint of having to stare down a camera lens for most of it he finally finds himself defeated by a script...by the time he has to wistfully quote Macbeth and then deliver an urgent moral lecture on the importance of sleep he has visibly just given up caring about anything but what’s for lunch.
-->--'''El Sandifer''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS35E9SleepNoMore}} "Sleep No More"]]

[[AC:Western Animation]]

->''The year, blah blah blah. The place, blah blah blah.''

'''Homer:''' What are ''you'', the narrator?

->'''Stan''': Just one thing, Creator/MorganFreeman - how come every time something convoluted needs explaining, you show up?\\

'''Krang:''' You don't have to explain it to me; '''''I''''' invented it, remember?\\
'''Shredder:''' I wasn't explaining it to you! ''([[BreakingTheFourthWall points at the camera]])'' I was explaining it to ''[[NoFourthWall them]].''

->Thank you, [[TropeNamer Mr. Exposition]].

->'''Grim:''' What is this place?
->'''Mandy:''' [[MediumAwareness I'm sure a writer's convenience will turn up and fill us in.]]
->'''Grim:''' A writer's convenience? What's that?
->''(right on cue, a scientist shows up to explain the situation)''

->Professor Exposition, Explainer of things! He’s clarifying plot points to explain away confusion!

[[AC:RealLife]]

->Tony has all the exposition, which is always the hardest part of doing any script... It's like in a theatre piece: actors really hate having to deliver exposition. It's called 'heavy lifting', and that's his job. Spike's a badass, because ''he'' said so. Tony does that great.

->'''Interviewer:''' Will Harry and Ron ever read “Hogwarts, a History”?\\
'''Creator/JKRowling:''' Never. [Laughter.] It’s a gift to me, because all my exposition can be dressed up as, “When are you going to read it?” So Hermione fills in the reader as well, so I could never let them read it.

->You're like a textbook with arms.

-->-- '''Finch''', ''Series/PersonOfInterest''