History Quotes / ShapeShifterBaggage

-->-- ''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #10: The Android''

->''"You can't DO that!"''

->"It's only a Transfiguration," said [=McGonagall=]. "An Animagus transformation, to be exact."

->"You turned into a cat! A ''SMALL'' cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! That's not just an arbitrary rule, it's implied by the form of the quantum Hamiltonian! Rejecting it destroys unitarity and then you get FTL signaling!"
-->--Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality, "[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/2/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality Everything I Believe Is False]]"

->''Where the hell were my car keys while I was transformed?''
-->--WebComic/ElGoonishShive, "[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-06-17 New and Old Flames]]"

->'''Ling''': "Did you notice [Envy's] footprints, back when we were fighting in the forest?"\\
'''Ed''': "[[BigWhat What?!]] No! What's your point?"\\
'''Ling''': "Just that he's freakishly heavy for the size of his body. He might be [[{{Understatement}} a bit bigger]] than he looks."
-->--''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''

->''The Sixth Doctor's regeneration into his seventh form brings us to a great and terrible mystery - what happened to the rest of him? ''Where'' is all the left-over Doctor? Stored somewhere, perhaps...in secret vats?''
-->-- '''Strax''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Deep Breath" prologue

->'''John Connor''': Wait, you're telling me this thing can ''become'' anything it touches!?\\
'''Terminator''': Anything it samples through physical contact.\\
'''John''': Get real... So it could disguise itself as a pack of cigarettes?\\
'''Terminator''': No, only an object of equal size.\\
'''John''': Well, why not just become a bomb or something to get me?\\
'''Terminator''': It can't form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals, moving parts. It doesn't work that way. But it can form solid metal shapes.\\
'''John''': Like what?\\
'''Terminator''': Knives and stabbing weapons.
-->--''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''

->'''Ax:''' <I don't really like [[VoluntaryShapeshifting morphing tiny animals]]. I keep thinking about all the rest of my mass.>
->'''Marco:''' <Your what?>
->'''Ax:''' <My mass. When you morph something smaller than yourself, your body mass must go somewhere. So it goes into [[SubspaceOrHyperspace Zero-space]]. Zero-space is the space that ships travel through when they are going faster than light. It's not very likely to happen, but [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace sometimes a ship traveling in Z-space will intersect with a temporarily parked mass]].>
->'''Marco:''' <Wait a minute. Are you telling me that when we get small, all the leftover... stuff... all the extra flesh and guts and bones go bulging into Zero-space like some [[BodyHorror big balloon of human tissue]]?>
->'''Ax:''' <Of course. Where did you think all the mass went?>
->'''Marco:''' <I really didn't think about it.>
-->--''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #10: The Android''

-->--''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''

'''John''': Then why doesn't it become a bomb or something to get me?\\
'''Terminator''': Guns and explosives contain chemicals and moving parts. It doesn't work that way. But it can form solid metal shapes.\\

'''Terminator''': Guns and explosives contain chemicals and moving parts. It doesn't work that way. But it can form solid metal shapes.

'''Terminator''': Guns and explosives contain chemicals and moving parts. It doesn't work that way. But it can form solid metal shapes, like knives and stabbing weapons.

-->-- '''Strax''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "Deep Breath" prologue

->''The Sixth Doctor's regeneration into his seventh form brings us to a great and terrible mystery - what happened to the rest of him? Where is all the leftover Doctor? Stored somewhere, perhaps...in secret vats?''

-->--''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''

-->--''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhood''

-->--WebComic/ElGoonishShive, "[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-06-17 New and Old Flames]]"

->"Where the hell were my car keys while I was transformed?"

-->--Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality, "[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/2/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality Everything I Believe Is False]]"