History Quotes / TheGenericGuy

-->'''Gail:''' Wait, I am so confused... Who are we talking about? Wait, does he work with us?
--> ''' Emmet:''' Gail doesn't remember me?
-->'''Surfer Dave:''' I know that guy, but I know, like, zippy-zap about him.
--> '''Emmet:''' We just talked earlier.
-->'''Fred''': And I mean, all he does is [[YesMan say "yes" to everything everyone else is doing.]]
-->'''Larry:''' He's just sort of a...little bit of a...blank slate, I guess.
-->'''Randy:''' We all have something that makes us something, and Emmet is...[[TheGenericGuy nothing]].
-->'''Emmet:''' ''(stoic, but clearly very hurt)'' There you go. Told you I was a nobody.

->'''Gail:''' Wait, who is that guy? Does he work with us? I am so confused...\\
'''Emmet:''' ...Gail doesn't remember me?\\
'''Surfer Dave:''' I know that guy, but I know, like, zippy-zap about him.\\
'''Emmet:''' We just talked earlier!\\
'''Fred:''' And I mean, [[YesMan all he does is say "yes" to everything everyone else is doing]].\\
'''Larry:''' He's just sort of a... little bit of a... blank slate, I guess.\\
'''Randy:''' We all have something that makes us special... and Emmet has... well... nothing.\\
'''Emmet:''' ...there you go. Told you I was a nobody.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie''

->'''Robot:''' President Business, we've started our search for [[TheChosenOne the Special]], but his face is so generic he matches every face in our databases.\\
'''President Business:''' ''Diabolical.''

[[folder:Literature]]
->''Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.''
-->--'''Joesph Heller''', ''Literature/CatchTwentyTwo''

->''Everybody should have at least one ordinary friend, and Dan is as ordinary as they come. He is so ordinary that most people have to meet him six or seven times before they remember his name ... One time for a computer project I scanned a whole bunch of student photos from the yearbook, then used a graphics program to morph them into a single face. What I got looked like a slightly fuzzy version of Dan Grant.''
-->-- '''Jason''', ''Godless''

[[folder:Podcasts]]
->'''Rich:''' Winston is dead weight.\\
'''Jay:''' ''[laughs]'' I watched [[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters the cartoon]] all the time as a kid, but I don't remember it much anymore. But did Winston have more to do in the cartoon?\\
'''Rich:''' Yeah. I mean, they all kinda had equal screen time in the cartoon.\\
'''Jay:''' Did he have more of a ''character'' in the cartoon?\\
'''Rich:''' No.\\
'''Jay:''' He was still [[LesserStar The Other Ghostbuster]] guy?\\
'''Rich:''' The down-to-earth one.
-->-- ''[[WebVideo/HalfInTheBag Half in the Bag]]'' riffs ''Film/GhostbustersII''
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[[folder:Theater]]
->''Cellophane, Mister Cellophane,\\
Shoulda been my name, Mister Cellophane\\
'Cause you can look right through me,\\
Walk right by me,\\
And never know I'm there''
-->-- "Mister Cellophane", ''{{Theatre/Chicago}}''
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[[folder:Video Games]]
->''"This overwhelmingly forgettable appearance, generic speech style, and total lack of sex appeal... Nishima... [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Are you an NPC?!]]"''
-->-- '''Futaba Sakura''', ''VideoGame/Persona5''
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[[folder:Web Original]]
->''Astonishing that in seven years Harry Kim goes nowhere. Its like the character is stuck in stasis, always an [[NewMeat eager young nobody]] who wants to grow up and advance his career but [[LimitedAdvancementOpportunities never quite making it]] up the next step of the ladder. Paris is promoted and demoted, hooks up with B’lanna and has a kid in the time that Harry Kim gets no development whatsoever. Take his first scene and his last scene in this series and he is exactly the same person doing exactly the same things.''
-->--'''[[http://www.docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2012/02/voyager-season-one.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Caretaker"

->''Computer nerd. Girlfriend of every tertiary cast member ({{ComicBook/Jimmy|Olsen}}, Davis, eventually ComicBook/GreenArrow). In the end, she was just there as another piece on the board to no real end... She uh, does computers. And [[HazyFeelTurn helped kill people]]. And dated Green Arrow because [[PairTheSpares he was the last guy in the room]]. Then left.\\\
That's not an arc.''
-->--'''Neal Bailey''' on [[Series/{{Smallville}} Chloe Sullivan]]

->''Martha, in most regards, seems the forgotten companion -- the one that didn't quite work. That's not to say she doesn't have her fans and admirers, nor that those fans are wrong. But they are swimming against the tide, and the show itself contributes to that tide.''
-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2013/09/i-borrowed-them-from-hospital-smith-and.html Dr. El Sandifer]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]"

->''Coulson's right hand man is Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), who's the muscles of the team, and about as expressive as a cardboard box full of styrofoam peanuts. In six episodes, the most intimate detail we've learned about him is that when he was a little kid, his older brother beat him up over a piece of cake.''
-->-- '''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''' on ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

->''I've always liked that while {{ComicBook/Wolverine}}, {{COmicBook/Beast}} and {{ComicBook/Gambit}} have actual logos (and even ComicBook/JubileeMarvelComics gets a Varsity-style font), {{ComicBook/Cyclops}} is introduced by just shooting optic blasts at nothing while his name hovers above in what might as well be Comic Sans. "Yeah, we know this dude's boring," says this intro, "but there's a dude with knives on his hands in a second, so keep watching."''
-->-- '''Chris Sims''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-reviews-x-men-night-of-the-sentinels-1992/ on]] ''WesternAnimation/XMen''

->''X-fans are divided on their opinion of the X-Men's field leader, Cyclops. Half think he's [[StrawVulcan a boring killjoy whose real superpower is self-righteous repression]]. The rest liken him to {{ComicBook/Batman}} (minus the billionaire bank account and awesome spirit animal) because of his strategic mind and extreme determination. The filmmakers are unwaveringly the former camp. So if you ever thought Cyclops was cool, the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' movies will try their damnedest to cure you of this delusion.''
-->-- '''''Blog/ToplessRobot''''', [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2014/03/10_worst_adaptations_of_x-men_on_film.php?page=2 "The 10 Worst Adaptations of X-Men on Film... So Far"]]
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[[folder:Real Life]]
->"I'm an ordinary average guy."
-->-- [[Music/{{Eagles}} Joe Walsh]]

->"There was nothing. No one knew anything about him... There were like two lines about Bashir in the original bible, and sort of six pages for every other character... There had to be a doctor on the show, because there's ''[[StrictlyFormula always]]'' a doctor on the show. And they were just sort of scratching their heads about who this doctor was going to be."
-->--'''Siddig Al-Fadil''' on his role in ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''

->''Take your dad for example. I bet he hasn't had a second's fun in his life, other than the joy he gets from sitting on the couch and doing [[StandardFiftiesFather boring dad-stuff]]; am I right? Ditto [[Series/SavedByTheBell Belding]], who must have been born a principal, crawling straight out of the womb in a tweed jacket with a receding hairline, and having short shrift for those without a hall pass.''
-->--'''Stuart Millard''', ''So Excited, So Scared''
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->''I've always liked that while {{ComicBook/Wolverine}}, {{COmicBook/Beast}} and {{ComicBook/Gambit}} have actual logos (and even {{ComicBook/Jubilee}} gets a Varsity-style font), {{ComicBook/Cyclops}} is introduced by just shooting optic blasts at nothing while his name hovers above in what might as well be Comic Sans. "Yeah, we know this dude's boring," says this intro, "but there's a dude with knives on his hands in a second, so keep watching."''

-''>Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.''

->''I've always liked that while {{ComicBook/Wolverine}}, {{COmicBook/Beast}} and {{ComicBook/Gambit}} have actual logos (and even {{ComicBook/Jubilee}} gets a Varsity-style font), {{ComicBook/Cyclops}} is introduced by just shooting optic blasts at nothing while his name hovers above in what might as well be Comic Sans. "Yeah, we know this dude's boring," says this intro, "but there's a dude with knives on his hands in a second, so keep watching."

->"The weirdly-elaborate Zombie Mode is now a given and has only gotten weirder and more elaborate, to the point that they actually hired Creator/RonPerlman and Creator/JeffGoldblum to be in it, which makes it all the more baffling that the protagonist of the main campaign had to make do with the random person they picked up from the bus shelter outside a brain hemorrhage clinic."
-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII''

-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2013/09/i-borrowed-them-from-hospital-smith-and.html Dr. El Sandifer]]''' on ''Doctor Who'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]"

->''Computer nerd. Girlfriend of every tertiary cast member ({{ComicBook/JimmyOlsen}}, Davis, eventually ComicBook/GreenArrow). In the end, she was just there as another piece on the board to no real end... She uh, does computers. And [[HazyFeelTurn helped kill people]]. And dated Green Arrow because [[PairTheSpares he was the last guy in the room]]. Then left.\\\

'''Emmet:''' ''[stoic, but clearly very hurt]'' ...there you go. Told you I was a nobody.

->Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.

->Everybody should have at least one ordinary friend, and Dan is as ordinary as they come. He is so ordinary that most people have to meet him six or seven times before they remember his name ... One time for a computer project I scanned a whole bunch of student photos from the yearbook, then used a graphics program to morph them into a single face. What I got looked like a slightly fuzzy version of Dan Grant.

->'''Rich:''' Winston is [[TheLoad dead weight.]]\\
'''Jay:''' ''(laughs)'' I watched [[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters the cartoon]] all the time as a kid, but I don't remember it much anymore. But did Winston have more to do in the cartoon?\\

'''Rich:''' ....no.\\

And never know I'm there!''

->I'm nowhere near as cool as you. I'm just average cool.
-->-- '''Picky Minch''', ''VideoGame/EarthBound''

->This overwhelmingly forgettable appearance, generic speech style, and total lack of sex appeal... Nishima... [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Are you an NPC?!]]

->The weirdly-elaborate Zombie Mode is now a given and has only gotten weirder and more elaborate, to the point that they actually hired Creator/RonPerlman and Creator/JeffGoldblum to be in it, which makes it all the more baffling that the protagonist of the main campaign had to make do with the random person they picked up from the bus shelter outside a brain hemorrhage clinic."
-->--'''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''' on ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII''

->Astonishing that in seven years Harry Kim goes nowhere. Its like the character is stuck in stasis, always an [[NewMeat eager young nobody]] who wants to grow up and advance his career but [[LimitedAdvancementOpportunities never quite making it]] up the next step of the ladder. Paris is promoted and demoted, hooks up with B’lanna and has a kid in the time that Harry Kim gets no development whatsoever. Take his first scene and his last scene in this series and he is exactly the same person doing exactly the same things.

->Unsure of what to do about that, the show tried numerous roles for her. Computer nerd. Girlfriend of every tertiary cast member (Jimmy, Davis, eventually Green Arrow). In the end, she was just there as another piece on the board to no real end... She uh, does computers. And [[HazyFeelTurn helped kill people]]. And dated Green Arrow because [[PairTheSpares he was the last guy in the room]]. Then left.\\\
That's not an arc.

->Martha, in most regards, seems the forgotten companion -- the one that didn't quite work. That's not to say she doesn't have her fans and admirers, nor that those fans are wrong. But they are swimming against the tide, and the show itself contributes to that tide.
-->-- '''[[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2013/09/i-borrowed-them-from-hospital-smith-and.html Dr. Phil Sandifer]]''' on ''Doctor Who'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]"

->Coulson's right hand man is Grant Ward (Brett Dalton), who's the muscles of the team, and about as expressive as a cardboard box full of styrofoam peanuts. In six episodes, the most intimate detail we've learned about him is that when he was a little kid, his older brother beat him up over a piece of cake.
-->-- '''Website/TheAgonyBooth''' on ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''

->I've always liked that while Wolverine, Beast and Gambit have actual logos (and even Jubilee gets a Varsity-style font), Cyclops is introduced by just shooting optic blasts at nothing while his name hovers above in what might as well be Comic Sans. "Yeah, we know this dude's boring," says this intro, "but there's a dude with knives on his hands in a second, so keep watching."

->X-fans are divided on their opinion of the X-Men's field leader, Cyclops. Half think he's a boring killjoy whose real superpower is self-righteous repression. The rest liken him to Batman ([[PretenderDiss minus the billionaire bank account and awesome spirit animal]]) because of his strategic mind and extreme determination. The filmmakers are unwaveringly the former camp. So if you ever thought Cyclops was cool, the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' movies will try their damnedest to cure you of this delusion.
-->-- '''Blog/ToplessRobot''', [[http://www.toplessrobot.com/2014/03/10_worst_adaptations_of_x-men_on_film.php?page=2 "The 10 Worst Adaptations of X-Men on Film... So Far"]]

->I'm an ordinary average guy

->There was nothing. No one knew anything about him... There were like two lines about Bashir in the original bible, and sort of six pages for every other character... There had to be a doctor on the show, because there's ''[[StrictlyFormula always]]'' a doctor on the show. And they were just sort of scratching their heads about who this doctor was going to be.

->Take your dad for example. I bet he hasn't had a second's fun in his life, other than the joy he gets from sitting on the couch and doing [[StandardFiftiesFather boring dad-stuff]]; am I right? Ditto [[Series/SavedByTheBell Belding]], who must have been born a principal, crawling straight out of the womb in a tweed jacket with a receding hairline, and having short shrift for those without a hall pass.

-->--b '''Chris Sims''' [[http://comicsalliance.com/comicsalliance-reviews-x-men-night-of-the-sentinels-1992/ on]] ''WesternAnimation/XMen''

'''Jay:''' He was still [[TheGarfunkel The Other Ghostbuster]] guy?\\

->He's an ordinary average guy

[[AC:Web Original]]

->The weirdly-elaborate Zombie Mode is now a given and has only gotten weirder and more elaborate, to the point that they actually hired Creator/RonPerlman and Creator/JeffGoldblum to be in it, which makes it all the more baffling that the protagonist of the main campaign had to make do with the random person they picked up from the bus shelter outside a brain hemorrhage clinic."
-->--'''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''' on ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII''