History Quotes / StatusQuoIsGod

Every part of me says go ahead\\

->'-Say, it ever occurs to you guys how that thing happens every year? Some kinda [[CrisisCrossover crazy big emergency the superguys gotta stop from destroyin' the world]], an' then everything just goes back to normal?''

->''Indeed? So, you would say I am just a villain in Comicbook/CaptainAmerica's ongoing tale? (...) He has fought for decades, with only ze illusion of meaningful victory. Ze world is [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed no safer place because of him. He struggles for ''nothing.

-> The home visit, the fireworks, the birthday, and the moon-viewing. How do you explain all these events and ''still not make any progress?''

->'''Batroc:''' So you believe you're in a fictional world... some sort of FairyTale?\\
'''Gwen:''' Sure.\\
'''Batroc:''' Ah. But fairy tales mean [[HappilyEverAfter happy endings]]. They do not exist here. I will tell you. I have known my share of defeat and disappointment.\\
'''Gwen:''' Oh Batroc... that's because you're the [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin bad guy in the stories]].\\
'''Batroc:''' Indeed? So, you would say I am just a villain in Comicbook/CaptainAmerica's ongoing tale? (...) He has fought for decades, with only [[StatusQuoIsGod ze illusion of meaningful victory]]. Ze world is [[TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed no safer place]] [[CrapsackWorld because of him]]. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption He struggles for]] ''[[FailureIsTheOnlyOption nothing]]''. (...)
-->-- ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool

-> Say, it ever occurs to you guys how that thing happens every year? Some kinda [[CrisisCrossover crazy big emergency the superguys gotta stop from destroyin' the world]], an' then everything just goes back to normal?

-> ''"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."''
-->-- '''Joshua/W.O.P.R''', ''Film/WarGames''

->''“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”''
-->-- '''Michael Corleone''', ''[[Film/TheGodfather Godfather III]]''

->''"Those heavily invested in the status quo had difficulty [[HeadInTheSandManagement thinking outside of it]]--and were often tainted by it."''

->Susan knew that [[Creator/JimmyStewart Stewart]] [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin would win the election]] but never take office. That was how the story always goes: [[Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington the young reformer wins in the end]], but by the next picture, the corrupt machine politicians are still in power. Susan wondered if Jimmy ever got tired of the cycle.

->''"Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors."''

->'''Monk:''' There's an old saying: don't change anything--ever.\\
'''Natalie:''' ''That's'' an old saying?\\
'''Monk:''' I've been saying it for years.

->Wait, no you can't kick Trina out [of Hollywood Arts]!
-->-- '''Tori Vega,''' ''Series/Victorious''

->'''Jay:''' The fact that nobody believes in ghosts anymore? That makes ''no'' sense. After all the events of the first movie? [[WeirdnessCensor A giant marshmallow man walked down the city streets,]] but nobody believes in anything supernatural anymore? Did everybody ''forget''?\\
'''Rich:''' Because proof of the existence of ghosts would change the world too much. You still wanna ground the movie in reality--\\
'''Mike:''' That's the thing, though, ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' wasn't specifically ''ghosts''; it was more interdimensional beings. Especially the ending: [[LovecraftLite an interdimensional god was attacking the Earth.]] It wasn't dead humans coming back to life, it was more an alien kinda thing. But you're right, it would change society dramatically. And writing that kinda thing into a sequel would be complex.\\

'''Rich:''' "Look, Jay: You make a plot about slime [[MerchandiseDriven so you can sell jars of slime to kids.]] And you can also make a new backpack that they wear that kids'll wanna buy that ''shoots'' slime!"

->''"Two years, folks. That’s how long the death of the DC Multiverse, the entire stated reason for ''[[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths Crisis]]'', managed to last."''

->''"Batman has either reached [[{{Postmodernism}} self parody]] or is doing its closest modern interpretation of Sisyphus. Instead of being destined to pushing a boulder uphill for all eternity, Batman [[JokerImmunity has to catch the Joker again and again and again]] to the end of time."''

->''"What this does is simply recycle old ideas even more and more, not allowing these characters to grow and change. This has led to [[AssPull dubious editorial decisions]], like [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay Peter Parker making a deal with Satan to destroy his marriage]]. Characters that occasionally changed and struck out on their own (Scott Summers leaving the ComicBook/XMen after Jean Grey died, for instance) are now locked into their positions, calcified and stagnant. The flip side to this is that new characters [[CListFodder get strangled in the crib.]]"''

->''"There is no ending. There is no release. Nothing ever changes except the iconography. Because change is death, and the show refuses death."''

->''"We've been told that this next episode will [[NothingIsTheSameAnymore change the series forever]], and [[GrowingTheBeard put it on the right track]]. Take it from a guy that's read a ton of comic books in his time. When they say that, they're trying to sell comic books, and it's only true one time in ten after a few weeks have passed."''

->''"Worf is also back, '''''also''''' with no explanation -- but after three films, that's given. For the record, when we last saw him on ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'', he had just been appointed Ambassador to the Klingon Empire. Now he's back to [[LimitedAdvancementOpportunities pushing buttons on a console.]]"''

->''"When ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine DS9]]'' was under siege at the end of season five and [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs the Dominion took over]], the writers took the bold step to have a six-episode arc where Starfleet was no longer in charge of the station. Unfortunately, the writers of ''Voyager'' are nowhere near as bold. The Kazon in control of ''Voyager'' is so ineptly handled – they walk around with tricorders talking {{technobabble}}… It's like the Starfleet crew isn’t even away!"''

->''"He has [[TheManyDeathsOfYou burned to death in hot lava. He has been eaten by giant flying fish. He has fallen to death.]] Oh, God, [[PlatformHell has he fallen to death]]. And each time, he's been resurrected by magic he can't possibly begin to understand with his CUNY Brooklyn associate's degree in plumbing.\\\
Only to be rewarded with [[DudeWheresMyReward a kiss on the cheek.]]"''

->''"I believe that the very first Super Mario Bros represented the only time when Bowser was genuinely kidnapping the princess to pursue his goals, presumably the attainment of power and influence. And he succeeded. From that point on, he is occasionally seen wearing a crown and being identified as 'King of the Koopas'. He lives in a castle and employs most of the land's monster workforce. [[CutLexLuthorACheck Why does he need to keep kidnapping her?]] He's already a king. I don't see [[SugarBowl the saccharine lands she rules]] appealing to [[{{Mordor}} his taste for lava and perpetual twilight]]. It must just be some regular ceremony recreating the original successful revolt, like a friendly game between [[GoKartingWithBowser two rival footballing nations.]]"''

->''"Guys come to the door for dates and Phoebe [[IHaveToIronMyDog has to make excuses]], one or both of the sisters [[ShippingTorpedo is disapproving and says to slow things down,]] and Phoebe must learn to [[OneTrueLove find true love.]] There, I just nutshelled nearly a decade of television for you."''

'''Chuck!Annorax''': All we have to do is... ''let the episode end'', and you'll be right as rain next week. Trust me, I know it doesn't make any sense but it ''always'' works that way for you.

->''"It's just a matter of knowing the secret of ''all'' TV shows; At the end of the episode, everything is always right back to normal."''

->'''Judge:''' And I further decree that everything will be just like it was before all this happened! And no one will ever mention it again... under penalty of torture. [The townspeople cheer.]

->''"Oh, put that thing [Jack's sword] away, Samurai. [[LampshadeHanging We all know what's going to happen]]. You'll swing your sword, I'll fly away, and probably say something like, '[[WeWillMeetAgain I'll be back, Samurai!]]' And then I'll flutter off over the horizon, and [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall we won't see each other for about a week]]. And then, we'll do the same thing all over again."''

->''"We protect the status quo, and [[TallPoppySyndrome make steady war]] on revision and improvement."''

->''"Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'."''

->''"Without deviation, progress is not possible."''

->''"How many times has the bridge been destroyed? How many shuttlecrafts have vanished, and [[InfiniteSupplies another one just comes out of the oven?]] That kind of bullshitting the audience, I think, takes its toll. At some point the audience stops taking it seriously, because they know that this is not really the way this would happen."''

->''"If you take a look at a current ''Comicbook/SpiderMan'' comic, you’ll find that he’s maybe twenty years old, he worries a lot about whats right and what’s wrong, and he has a lot of trouble with his girlfriends.\\\
Do you know what Spider-Man was doing fifteen years ago? Well, [[ComicBookTime he was about nineteen years old, he worried a lot about what was right and what was wrong and he had a lot of trouble with his girlfriends.]]"''

->''"Here's a secret -- when I finally okayed the clone saga, I told ''[co-writer] ''Danny Fingeroth [[ResetButton to build a backdoor into it]]. I said that I wanted to be able to bring Peter back as the real deal...I believe that both comic book creators and comic book fans are a cowardly and superstitious lot. While the fans claim they want change, they tend [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks react negatively to it.]] So do [[ArmedWithCanon most creators!]]"''

->''"The easiest complaint to make against the ending of ''[[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Infinity War]]'' is that it exists solely for Marvel Studios to reverse it. Surely they’re not going to leave the status quo with characters like Spider-Man and Black Panther not even existing? … But I would argue [[TropesAreTools this is not a bad thing]]! A serialized story that can’t return to some sort of status quo is typically a story with no center, one that spins off its axis very quickly. Humans crave some sort of order amid the chaos, and we do in our stories too. ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' ended with [[TheBadGuyWins the Empire winning]], Han Solo being taken by Jabba the Hutt, and Luke Skywalker facing [[DarkestHour his darkest moment]], and [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi the next film]] more or less reversed all of that over the course of its running time. Most serialized television involves setting up big, epic changes that are then immediately reversed."''

-->-- '''[[Creator/BenCroshaw Yahtzee Croshaw]]''', "[[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/10515-Of-Metaphors-and-Mario-RPGs Of Metaphors and Mario RPGs]]"

->"Wait, no you can't kick Trina out [of Hollywood Arts]!"

->''"Wait, no you can't kick Trina out [of Hollywood Arts]!"''

-->--''[[Creator/KimNewman The Night Mayor]]''

->Susan knew that [[Creator/JimmyStewart Stewart]] [[GoodGuysAlwaysWin would win the election]] but never take office. That was how the story always goes: [[Film/MrSmithGoesToWashington the young reformer wins in the end]], but by the next picture, the corrupt machine politicians are still in power. Susan wondered if Jimmy ever got tired of the cycle.

-->--'''Creator/AllisonPregler''' on ''{{Series/Charmed}}''

->''"The easiest complaint to make against the ending of ''[[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Infinity War]]'' is that it exists solely for Marvel Studios to reverse it. Surely they’re not going to leave the status quo with characters like [[Characters/MCUSpiderMan Spider-Man]] and [[Characters/MCUBlackPanther Black Panther]] not even existing? … But I would argue [[TropesAreTools this is not a bad thing]]! A serialized story that can’t return to some sort of status quo is typically a story with no center, one that spins off its axis very quickly. Humans crave some sort of order amid the chaos, and we do in our stories too. ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' ended with [[TheBadGuyWins the Empire winning]], Han Solo being taken by Jabba the Hutt, and Luke Skywalker facing [[DarkestHour his darkest moment]], and [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi the next film]] more or less reversed all of that over the course of its running time. Most serialized television involves setting up big, epic changes that are then immediately reversed."''

-> "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
-->--Joshua/W.O.P.R, ''Film/WarGames''

->''"The easiest complaint to make against the ending of ''[[Film/AvengersInfinityWar Infinity War]]'' is that it exists solely for Marvel Studios to reverse it. Surely they’re not going to leave the status quo with characters like [[Characters/MCUAvengersAllies Spider-Man and Black Panther]] not even existing? … But I would argue [[TropesAreTools this is not a bad thing]]! A serialized story that can’t return to some sort of status quo is typically a story with no center, one that spins off its axis very quickly. Humans crave some sort of order amid the chaos, and we do in our stories too. ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' ended with [[TheBadGuyWins the Empire winning]], Han Solo being taken by Jabba the Hutt, and Luke Skywalker facing [[DarkestHour his darkest moment]], and [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi the next film]] more or less reversed all of that over the course of its running time. Most serialized television involves setting up big, epic changes that are then immediately reversed."''

-->--'''Phil Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2014/03/a-split-in-skin-of-world-end-of-time.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]]

-->--'''Hayasaka''', ''Manga/KaguyaSamaWaKokurasetai''

-->'''Batroc:''' So you believe you're in a fictional world... some sort of FairyTale?\\

->''"What this does is simply recycle old ideas even more and more, not allowing these characters to grow and change. This has led to [[AssPull dubious editorial decisions]], like [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay Peter Parker making a deal with Satan to destroy his marriage]]. Characters that occasionally changed and struck out on their own (Scott Summers leaving the {{ComicBook/X-Men}} after Jean Grey died, for instance) are now locked into their positions, calcified and stagnant. The flip side to this is that new characters [[CListFodder get strangled in the crib.]]"''

[[/doler]]

-->--'''Neal Bailey''' [[http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/tv.php?topic=reviews/smallville5-ep11 on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Lockdown")

-->--'''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/voyager-season-three.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Basics"

-->-- '''{{Website/SFDebris}}''' on ''Star Trek: Voyager: "Year of Hell"

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', The Principal and the Pauper

->''"What this does is simply recycle old ideas even more and more, not allowing these characters to grow and change. This has led to [[AssPull dubious editorial decisions]], like Peter Parker making a deal with Satan to destroy his marriage. Characters that occasionally changed and struck out on their own (Scott Summers leaving the {{ComicBook/X-Men}} after Jean Grey died, for instance) are now locked into their positions, calcified and stagnant. The flip side to this is that new characters [[CListFodder get strangled in the crib.]]"''

->''"Batman has either reached [[{{Postmoderinsm}} self parody]] or is doing its closest modern interpretation of Sisyphus. Instead of being destined to pushing a boulder uphill for all eternity, Batman [[JokerImmunity has to catch the Joker again and again and again]] to the end of time."''