History Quotes / MundaneUtility

--''VideoGame/PokenmonRejuvenation''

-->-- '''Fanfic/ChoosingLifeVerse'''

'''Vanasha''': I've mapped out the paths the guards are taking and put trackers on them. I’ve also highlighted some traps—I should probably go disable them before you come in. [[FluorescentFootprints Why did you need these features in the time of the Old Ones, anyway]]?\\

-->-- ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}} 1933 - The Slash''

'''R.A.M.:''' [Idk. Maybe clean the roof.]

->'''R.A.M.:''' [SUPER ARM!]\\

'''R.A.M.:''' [IDK. MAYBE CLEAN THE ROOF.]

-->-- ''Webcomic/RamTheRobot'', "[[https://www.deviantart.com/rafvicalv/art/Ram-the-robot-6-893326617 Ram the robot 6]]"

-->-- '''[[OurGeniesAreDifferent Kaveh]]''', ''[[Literature/TheCityOfBrass The Empire of Gold]]''

-->-- ''Franchise/XMen''

-->-- '''Linda Lee''', ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton''

->"If I'd known you wanted to use the most powerful combat unit in the Universe to cook eggs, I might not have let you!"

->"Super-Breath is handy, too, to dust out my room in one big blow!"

->It's maddening to have to wipe these dishes so slowly! Actually, I could dry them in an instant, with my heat vision! How dull to feather-dust at a snail's pace... <Sigh>... If I hadn't promised Superman to keep my Supergirl identity a secret, I'd puff away the dust with my SuperBreath!

->My X-Ray vision has located the wedding ring you lost, mother! It must have slipped from your finger into the drain of the kitchen sink!

->Relax, folks! I'll have this bridge fixed in a super-jiffy! I'll use my heat-vision to re-weld and strengthen the old steel beams!

->My first order of business is filling in that hole with Super Breath! Now to melt the pieces of shattered rails with heat vision... and fuse them back together with super pressure! Presto-- Track 14... repaired!

->How can I tell them now that they must be self-sufficient when I have to rebuild their homes for them?

->''Early on in the War in Heaven Mag'ladroth, despite being one of the most physically powerful of the C'tan, was sidelined into building devices for the Necrontyr and the other C'tan. He had more of a taste for it, though the other C'tan all made fun of him behind his back. Among the things he invented were the designs for the Cadian pillars and other such devices. Sure, he made a whole boat load of what might have appeared to be doomsday weapons, but never as actual weapons. Case in point, he made a long range mega gravitation inverter. Charge it up, point it at a thing and press the ominous red button. It makes a portion of the object's gravity turn into anti-gravity, usually resulting in an explosion and if you point it at a star can cause a supernova and irradiate whole swathes of space.''\\
''He said it would be useful in future mining endeavors. For when you want to mine a black hole.''
-->''Fanfic/NobledarkImperium''

-> Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they tell me to take you up to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't.

->''"Finbar lamented the fact that his psychic powers could not ascertain who would win the All-Ireland Championship. What good were psychic powers, he asked, if they couldn't tell you who was going to win the Gaelic football?"''

->To hide from the eyes and minds of our enemies, that is the sole purpose of our art. It is not to keep our toes warm! Whatever next? Shall we grow rabbits' tails to serve as cushions? Instead of hats we could all develop snail shells on our heads or keep long weasel bodies if we consider our natural stature too diminutive]]. If we debase our gift, then we debase ourselves and only tragedy will follow.

-->-- [[http://www.egscomics.com/egsnp.php?id=282 Sarah discovering]] her TimeStandsStill spell, ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive''

-> Yeah. Pops gave me this old kanabo for combat reasons. But honestly, it makes a much better back scratcher.

->''I don't know what's funnier. That goofy look on Superboy's face, or the fact that the best use Martha Kent can think of to do with her super powers is house keeping...''
-->-- [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=444:inappropriate-uses-of-superpowers&catid=33:weird-science-index&Itemid=37 Superdickery]]

-->-- ''{{Website/Wrestlecrap}}'' on ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFutureTheAnimatedSeries'''s ChristmasEpisode "[[Recap/BackToTheFutureTheAnimatedSeriesS1E10DickensOfAChristmas Dickens of a Christmas]]"

-->-- ''Topless Robot'' [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2014/04/fanboy_flick_pick_transcendence_is_a_sci-fi_of_ide.php on]] ''{{Film/Transcendence}}''

-->-- '''[[http://everything2.com/title/Ed%2520stories Ed stories]]'''

->I also dug the scenes where [Count Orlok] was manhandling the coffins filled with dirt. In Stoker’s book he talks about Dracula’s [[SuperStrength inhuman strength]] and it was nice for once to see this dramatized not by throwing somebody through a wall but just by very casually lifting something extremely heavy.

->'''Kiva:''' ''Oh, let me put all the processing power of this technological marvel to work'' adding up your change!\\
'''Jamie:''' ''That's the spirit!''

->We could have used ordinary lenses for this, but we had [[InfinityPlusOneSword the Eyes]] handy, so they're more convenient.
-->-- Author comments on [[http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17884 this]] ''VideoGame/NetHack'' [[SpeedRun TAS]]

-> Early on in the War in Heaven Mag'ladroth, despite being one of the most physically powerful of the C'tan, was sidelined into building devices for the Necrontyr and the other C'tan. He had more of a taste for it, though the other C'tan all made fun of him behind his back.\\
Among the things he invented were the designs for the Cadian pillars and other such devices. Sure, he made a whole boatload of what might have appeared to be doomsday weapons, but never as actual weapons. Case in point, he made a long range mega gravitation inverter. Charge it up, point it at a thing and press the ominous red button.\\
It makes a portion of the object's gravity turn into anti-gravity, usually resulting in an explosion and if you point it at a star, it could cause a supernova and irradiate whole swathes of space.
-> He said it would be useful in future mining endeavors. For when you want to mine a black hole.
-->-- ''Fanfic/NobledarkImperium''