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1TheHero and a friend, usually TheLancer are preparing to do something dangerous. Nerves are strained and tension is high. Before they go do the dangerous thing, TheLancer turns to TheHero and asks "Are you ready?" The response is always "I Was Born Ready."
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3A variation where TheHero asks TheLancer if they're ready is common, and the wording can vary.
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5!!Examples:
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8* This is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_uR0F94Vts#t=8s Bud's answer]] when the Shaw tech asks the [[Advertising/ShawDeliveryBots delivery bots]] if he's ready for work.
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11* ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In issue #43's "Power Picnic" (DC run), a giant egg-shaped sphere is headed towards earth. The Professor, priming the girls to intercept and stop the craft, asks them if they're ready.
12-->'''Blossom:''' (''as she, Bubbles and Buttercup assume heroic poses'') We were born ready!
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15* In the ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'' fic ''Marisa 12: Victory & Goodbye'', Marisa says, "I was ''[[WeCanRebuildHim built]]'' ready!" then clarifies that it's literally true, as she's a specialist cyborg designed for the kind of underwater mission they're about to carry out.
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19* ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina'': SupportingProtagonist Jack Burton tells this to his friend Wang when they're about to infiltrate into the BigBad's hide-out.
20* ''Film/AWarriorsHeart'': Connor, the protagonist, responds with this when asked if he's ready to play in the game.
21* {{Lampshaded}} in ''Film/OceansThirteen'':
22-->'''Ocean''': "Are you ready?"\
23[[spoiler:'''Benedict''']]: "I was born ready." (Ocean waits until he turns away, then rolls his eyes at the cliche)
24* ''Film/JustFriends'' (2005):
25-->'''Chris:''' You ready to do this?\
26'''Samantha James:''' I was born ready, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch!]]
27* ''Film/BladeTrinity'':
28-->'''Dracula:''' Blade, ready to die?\
29'''Blade:''' I was born ready, motherfucker!
30* A variation of this occurs in the film adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy''.
31-->'''Dr. Tenma:''' Son, are you ready?\
32'''Astro:''' I was made ready!
33* ''Film/JasonX'':
34-->'''Tsunaron''': Are you ready?
35-->'''Kay-Em 14''': I was built ready, baby.
36* ''Film/{{Dredd}}''. Judge Dredd asks his rookie trainee Cassandra Anderson [[RuleOfThrees three times]] if she's [[SinkOrSwimMentor ready for what she's about to face]], and is clearly not happy at her assurances that she is. The third time however he notes with approval, [[TookALevelInBadass "You look ready."]]
37* ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'': Bandit and Carrie have this exchange late in the film.
38* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei and Priya have this exchange.
39-->'''Mei''': Ready to change the world?\
40'''Priya''': I was born to do this.
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43* ''Literature/GauntsGhosts''
44-->'''Varl:''' I was born ready. Well, actually, I was born horny; I didn't get ready until I reached puberty.
45* This seems to be the Twin's catch phrase in ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight''.
46* Action-adventure novelist Jerry Ahern uses the line in several of his novels, with the characters inevitably attributing it to actor Ward Bond (presumably from the 1953 western ''Hondo''). The below example is from ''Written in Time'' (co-written with his wife Sharon Ahern).
47-->"[[ThisIsThePartWhere Now, remember.]] Try and sound like Ward Bond when I shout to see if we're ready."\
48"I know," Ellen said smiling, "I call out, 'I was born ready.' But let's skip the part where the Apaches chase us, okay?"
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51* Series/DoctorWho''. In "Ascension of the Cybermen".
52--->'''Bescot:''' Go careful.
53--->'''Graham:''' I was born careful!
54--->'''Yasmin:''' That's actually true.
55* ''Series/{{Gilmore Girls}}'' - Season 6, Episode 7, "Twenty-One Is the Loneliest Number":
56-->'''Luke:''' Ready?\
57'''Lorelai:''' I was born ready.
58* ''Series/{{Parks and Recreation}}'':
59-->'''Ron Swanson:''' I was born ready. I'm Ron fucking Swanson
60* Subverted in ''Series/{{Spaced}}'':
61-->'''Tim:''' Are you ready?\
62'''Mike:''' I was born ready.\
63'''Tim:''' Yeah, but are you ready ''now?''\
64'''Mike:''' Errrm.... Yeah
65* Subverted in ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': "I was born ready," "I was born premature."
66** And again "I was born re... well, no, I wasn't born ready, but I'm ready now."
67* Used in ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'' episode "Stop the Presses".
68* Appears in the ''Series/KnightRider'' episode "Knight Moves".
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71* [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/01/15/episode-373-critical-hit/ Expanded]] in ''[[WebComic/EightBitTheater 8-Bit Theater]]'':
72--> '''Red Mage''': "I was born ready."\
73'''Fighter''': "''I'' was born naked and screaming."\
74'''Black Mage'''" "If all goes according to plan, you'll ''die'' like that too."
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77* Dr. Insano says this in episode five of ''WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}''.
78* Grif, official slacker of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' :"I was born to take it easy." The advertise for a T-shirt with the quote actually says:"Never again be confused as the kind of person who was "born ready" or "born yesterday."
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81* Bender in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "Raging Bender": "I was built ready!"
82* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E12PinkiePride Pinkie Pride]]". Before the "goof-off" begins, when Twilight Sparkle asks when the competitors are ready, their replies:
83--> '''Pinkie Pie''': I was born ready!
84--> '''Cheese Sandwich''': I was ready before I was born!
85* This is a catchphrase for the animated version of Flipshot in ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfHeMan''.
86* Variant: WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch are auditioning for roles in a revisionist film adaptation of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Twinkles Sunshine, the uppity diva playing Goldilocks has doubts about the bears' credibility.
87-->'''Twinkles Sunshine:''' You guys don't look like actors to me. You sure you've been on the stage before?\
88'''Hair Bear:''' (''mockingly'') Have we been on the stage before? Lady, we were born in a trunk!
89* A variant occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E3AsteroidBeltSpaceRaceSydney2 Asteroid Belt Space Race]]".
90-->'''Zucchini''': Feelin' lucky today, sis?
91-->'''Celery''': I was born lucky, Zucchini!

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