Line #19 Quotes/BadFuture


1	->''"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever."''
2	-->-- '''O'Brien''', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''
3
4	->''"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"''
5	-->-- ''Literature/InvisibleMonsters'', by Creator/ChuckPalahniuk
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7	->''"A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope."''
8	-->-- ''Literature/TheManInTheHighCastle''
9
10	->'''Tegan:''' Why isn't the 51st century all space cities and monorails?\
11	'''Doctor:''' That would have been the ''thirty''-first. Things move on.\
12	'''Tegan:''' Mainly backwards.
13	-->-- ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'', "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho161TheButcherOfBrisbane The Butcher of Brisbane]]"
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15	-> ''"This world... This future... It's a nightmare!"''
16	-->-- '''Donatello''', ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003''
17
18	->''"This future sucks!"''
19	-->-- '''Ranma Saotome''', ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''
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21	->''"This world was devastated before I was born; a harsh, bleak place, where we live in eternal darkness. Life is a struggle, and people live without hope. How did this happen? No one will answer me directly, but they always point...to the flames...these flames. They burn away at my world, destroying everything in their path. They come from an eternal life-form that we cannot truly defeat...the Flames of Disaster, known as Iblis..."''
22	-->-- '''Silver the Hedgehog's''' '''OpeningNarration''', ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006''
23
24	->''"Without you around, Mega, nobody could stop Wily!"''
25	-->-- '''Roll''', ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears''
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27	->''"For those of you still living under the illusion that you will have freedom, know this: my armies have exterminated the last pockets of resistance, and I now control the entire planet. The traitorous Utrom scientists I have captured are completing a colossal transmat device. With it, I will send forth my armies and enslave the stars, one world after another. There is no hope. There is only the Shredder."''
28	-->-- '''The Shredder''', ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', "[[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S3E21SameAsItNeverWas Same As It Never Was]]"
29
30	->''"And in the future... all is devastation."''
31	-->-- '''Buzz Buzz''', ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''
32
33	->''"Because of him, the whole world is gonna be enslaved. Everything you believe in will lie in ashes, and the X-Men are going to die."''
34	-->-- '''Bishop''', ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries''
35
36	->''"But... The future refused to change."''
37	-->-- The BadEnding of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''
38
39	->''"If these shadows remain unaltered by the future..."''
40	-->-- ''Literature/AChristmasCarol''
41
42	->''"I am Trellia and you are my ancestor. I am from the distant future, or one possible future... There is another possible future: a dark future, the Vortex future."''
43	-->-- '''Trellia''', ''[[Videogame/EccoTheDolphin Ecco: The Tides of Time]]''
44
45	->''"...No winds blow... The day never comes... Neither spring nor summer ever comes... It's a world of unrelenting darkness... It would be no exaggeration to call it the complete ruin of the world."''
46	-->-- '''Dusknoir''', ''[[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky]]''
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48	->''"As you can see, Booker, [[BedlamHouse the lunatics are running the asylum]]. They don't even listen to me anymore. All I can do is watch... as what I set into motion slides into [[{{Dystopia}} its terminal stage]]. It took all I had left in me... just to bring you here."''
49	-->-- '''[[spoiler:Elizabeth Comstock]]''', ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite''
50
51	->''"People are saying the world is like a ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode now. I like to think I wouldn't have been quite so on the nose, what with the Nazis."''
52	-->-- '''Creator/CharlieBrooker''', describing how LifeImitatesArt
53
54	->''The others ran like they'd seen their future up close.''
55	-->-- ''Cobra'', by Creator/AndrewVachss
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57	->''"The future: [[{{Mordor}} a dark, desolate world]]. A world of war, suffering, loss on both sides. Mutants -- and the humans who dared to help them -- [[HopelessWar fighting an enemy we cannot defeat]]. Are we destined down this path, [[InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves destined to destroy ourselves like so many species before us]]? Or can we evolve fast enough to change ourselves, change our fate? Is the future truly set?"''
58	-->-- '''Charles Xavier''', ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''
59
60	->''"If you are receiving this, we are gone. They are eating us! WE ARE EATEN. We are dying! WE ARE DEAD. No longer outside of time. We are past tense. WE WERE. [[ApocalypticLog This is an echo-recording-transmission cast out into the void]]. MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE.\
61	[[EldritchAbomination The Dreaming Ones]] woke. Then there was -- was eating. EATING. [[SpacetimeEater Devouring matter and light and gravity and time and slurping the skin of reality]]. Even black holes nervously closed their slavering event horizons for fear of offending worse predators. The Dreaming Ones ate and ate and ate -- then they left. [[TheStarsAreGoingOut One by one distant stars will wink out]]."''
62	-->-- '''The Buzzing''', ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''
63
64	->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' Is there some sort of epic pony war in the distant future or something?\
65	'''Future Twilight:''' [[ParodiedTrope Actually, I'm from next Tuesday morning]].
66	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime It's About Time]]"
67
68	->'''Rachel:''' [[FutureMeScaresMe You're a Controller]].\
69	'''Future Rachel:''' Of course. [[TheBadGuyWins We won]]. You all led us on a nice chase, but in the end, we won. This planet is Yeerk territory. The human race has achieved its destiny as hosts for [[PuppeteerParasite the Yeerk race]].\
70	'''Marco:''' If you know so much, how did we come to be here? In the future?\
71	'''Future Visser Three:''' <An Ellimist has brought you here. In your own time, you face a choice. The Ellimist has brought you six humans... you five humans and one Andalite... here to show you a future. To show you ''the'' future. Soon he will return you to your own time.>\
72	'''Rachel:''' What choice did we make?\
73	'''Future Rachel:''' The right one, obviously. Everything has worked out perfectly.
74	-->-- ''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #7: The Stranger''
75
76	->''"''VideoGame/SmashTV'' takes place in the grim, cold future of 1999, only a few short years after the conquest of Earth by the [[VideoGame/RevolutionX New Order Nation]]."''
77	-->-- ''[[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/smashtv/smashtv.htm Hardcore Gaming 101]]''
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79	->''"Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur."''
80	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper''', ''Film/TimeAfterTime''
81
82	->''"FUUUUUUTUUUUREEEE... FUUUUUTUUUUUREEEEEE..."''
83	-->-- '''Squidward Tentacles''' coming to terms with the new future he's presented with, ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS1E14SB129KarateChoppers SB-129]]"
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85	->''"'I have seen the future,' says time machine operator, 'and I do not wish to go there again.'"''
86	-->-- '''News Ticker''' after purchasing the time machine, ''VideoGame/CookieClicker''
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88	->'''"AS YOU RACED AGAINST TIME... THE WHOLE WORLD WENT TO [[GoshDangItToHeck HECK!]]"'''
89	-->-- '''HIM''' , ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''

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