1 | ->'''Flagg:''' [Your last meal] was laced with explosive nanites. Any escape attempt and, well, you're going to look kinda funny trying to run away with no head.\ |
2 | '''Deadshot:''' That's a lot of trouble to go to just to keep little old me around. What do you want, exactly?\ |
3 | '''Flagg:''' You're going to do something patriotic, ''convict''. |
4 | -->-- ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'', "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E4TaskForceX Task Force X]]" |
5 | |
6 | -> ''Your potential usefulness was marginally greater than the threat you present.'' |
7 | -->-- '''Emiri Kimidori''' to [[spoiler:Ryoko Asakura]], ''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya The Astonishment of Haruhi Suzumiya (First Part)]]'' |
8 | |
9 | ->''"Well, I'm a convict in a siege tank I ride."'' |
10 | -->-- '''Music/Level80EliteTaurenChieftain''', "Terran Up the Night" |
11 | |
12 | ->'''Michael Newman:''' So, first I'm arrested, right? [[ClandestineChemist Best LSD I ever made]] right down the drain. I figure this is it, man, twenty years in the can if I'm lucky. That was 1968... Next thing I know, I'm on [[HellholePrison Rikers Island]]. You ever been there, man? Well, suddenly they take me from my cell, okay, they throw me in a waiting room with, like, bank teller windows: four army colonels with medals up their asses are standing on the other side. They say to me, if I come to Vietnam for two years -- no action, mind you, just work in a lab -- they'll drop all the charges and wipe the record clean. I'd only been in jail for like thirteen hours, [[TemptingFate I thought 'Nam couldn't be any worse]].\ |
13 | '''[[ShellShockedVeteran Jacob Singer]]:''' [[WarIsHell Shows how little you knew]].\ |
14 | '''Michael Newman:''' Yeah, really. But they had me by the balls. Next thing I know, I'm in Saigon, and [[ReluctantMadScientist I'm working in a top-secret lab]], [[PlayingWithSyringes isolating mind-altering drugs]]... |
15 | -->-- ''Film/JacobsLadder'' |
16 | |
17 | ->'''Shan-Pier:''' What are you doing [[HellholePrison here]], anyway? Come to gloat, eyeing the victims of your miscarriages of justice?\ |
18 | '''Judge Vanderloo:''' That is always amusing. No, I want to make you a proposal. I heal you, [[FountainOfYouth make you thirty years old again, or twenty if you insist]].\ |
19 | '''Shan-Pier:''' Cut the crap. I am worn out. Each and every bone is crumbling. [[IncurableCoughOfDeath You heard me coughing]]. My alveoli are just pockets stuffed with grit.\ |
20 | '''Judge Vanderloo:''' Our healers have grown so much more clever in recent years. They can reset the clock in your cells. White hair grows grey, then lack as pitch. Your bones re-knit themselves, wrinkles smooth out... if you pay them enough.\ |
21 | '''Shan-Pier:''' What should I do? Blow up the High Lords Seventeen in their council chamber?\ |
22 | '''Judge Vanderloo:''' No, nothing treasonable this time. Just the opposite. You get the chance to [[OffingTheOffspring set things right]] again. Become a [[CorruptCorporateExecutive respectable citizen]] of our [[MegaCorp great community]] again... |
23 | -->-- ''With Musket and Ducat'', by Creator/TaisTeng |
24 | |
25 | ->'''Aloth:''' <Do not fear me, little ''aristh.'' I am no danger to you. My crime was that I had no use for hypocrisy.>\ |
26 | '''Ax:''' <Hypocrisy is not illegal.>\ |
27 | '''Aloth:''' <Not all hypocrisy. If it were, what would we do for leaders? They would all be in jail. Now me, [[OrganTheft I was caught selling organs]]. Off the battlefield. [[RobbingTheDead They are of no use to the dead]], right? Why should someone not make use of them? And why should I not receive something for my trouble? Yes, you see, Aristh Aximili, I am not a hero of the people. But at least I am not a coward.>\ |
28 | '''Ax:''' <Are you saying I am?>\ |
29 | '''Aloth:''' <You? No, I meant [[AcePilot Gonrod]]. He was in the same prison as me, though he faced a lesser sentence. His crime was [[DirtyCoward cowardice under fire]]. We were offered the promise of pardon if we successfully completed this mission.> |
30 | -->-- ''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #38: The Arrival'' |
31 | |
32 | ->'''Lister:''' So what do you want with me?\ |
33 | '''Kazwa:''' The planet is finished. The new "[[PoweredByAForsakenChild innocent]]" [[GodOfHumanOrigin gestalt]] is complete. We need to test that it is safe. We want you to volunteer to be one of the first to set foot on the planet. We have already sent one ship: it did not return. You will be a member of the second ship. Or, [[SadisticChoice if you prefer]], you can return to [[MindPrison Cyberhell]]. |
34 | -->-- ''Literature/RedDwarf: Last Human'' |
35 | |
36 | ->''"We've got quite a lot of counts on you. Do this job right, and we'll drop all charges against you."'' |
37 | -->-- '''Captain Hubert Galeforce''' to Henry Stickmin, ''[[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Infiltrating the Airship]]'' |
38 | |
39 | ->''There was a lad in Glesga town, Ramensky was his name,\ |
40 | Johnny didnae know it then but he was set for fame.\ |
41 | He did a wee bit job or two, he blew them open wide,\ |
42 | But they caught him and they tried him\ |
43 | And they bunged him right inside.\ |
44 | \ |
45 | But when the war was raging the brass-hats had a plan;\ |
46 | Tae purloin some information, but they couldnae find a man.\ |
47 | So they nobbled John in prison, asked if he would take a chance,\ |
48 | Then they dropped him in a parachute beyond the coast of France.\ |
49 | \ |
50 | And when the war was over, they shook him by the hand,\ |
51 | For stealing secret documents frae the German High Command.\ |
52 | So Johnny was rewarded for the job he did sae well;\ |
53 | They granted him a pardon frae the prison and the cell.'' |
54 | -->-- "Let Ramensky Go", ballad composed by Roddy [=McMillan=] about the real-life figure Johnny Ramensky |
55 | |
56 | ->''Gun Three of the Redguns, the Balam Group's AC squad.\ |
57 | A born con artist, no scheme was too underhanded for Wu Huahai during his days as a criminal mastermind, and exploitation of others was a byword for opportunity. However, his illicit Feng Shui Pharmacy operation was a fatal overstep, imperiling the health of Balam's economic sphere and leading to widespread disease.\ |
58 | It was Nile, now the deputy commander of the Redguns, who ultimately shut Wu Huahai down.'' |
59 | -->-- '''G3 Wu Huahai's''' Arena profile, ''VideoGame/ArmoredCoreVIFiresOfRubicon'' |
60 | |
61 | ->''"We were dock rats and cutpurses, dragged from the six-oak floors of Boston Harbor public houses...and pressed into service, under a mad rogue for whom murder was a pleasure."'' |
62 | --> -- '''John Fletcher''', ''Film/TheSudburyDevil'' |
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