Line #28 Quotes/ButterflyOfDoom


1	->''"The action of even the smallest creature leads to changes in the entire universe."''
2	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla'''
3
4	->'''Marina:''' You're not worried about changing the past and messing up the future?\
5	'''Pearl:''' Nah. I'd only make good changes. Like [[GivingRadioToTheRomans giving cellphones to cavesquids]].
6	-->-- ''VideoGame/Splatoon2''
7
8	->'''Kyon:''' Hey, Nagato. Could you make it rain on the day of the game? A huge one that'll cancel the game.\
9	'''Nagato:''' It is possible. However, it is not recommended.\
10	'''Kyon:''' Why's that?\
11	'''Nagato:''' Alterations to the local environmental data may result in aftereffects on this planet's ecosystem.\
12	'''Kyon:''' How long before these aftereffects show up?\
13	'''Nagato:''' Between a few centuries and ten millennia.\
14	'''Kyon:''' Then I guess we probably shouldn't.\
15	'''Nagato:''' Yes.
16	-->-- ''The Boredom of [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya Suzumiya Haruhi]]''
17
18	-> Setsuna shook her head. "Some past events are crucial, but the time stream can absorb many minor changes with no major effects. Butterfly effects are rare. Plus, Himeko needs to learn how to judge the likely consequences of actions." She turned to Himeko. "With practice, you'll become good at telling if some action is likely to have wide-ranging consequences or minor ones. This is a good way to learn."
19	-->-- ''[[http://www.thekeep.org/~wombat/Stories/Z/ Sailor Moon Z]]'', Episode 19
20
21	->''"It's called the Butterfly Effect. You step on a Butterfly, and a year later three million people end up dead."''
22	-->-- '''Angela Petrelli''', ''Series/{{Heroes}}''
23
24	->'''Martha:''' But are we safe? I mean, can we move around and stuff?\
25	'''Tenth Doctor:''' Of course we can. Why not?\
26	'''Martha:''' It's like in those films: if you step on a butterfly, you change the future of the human race. \
27	'''Tenth Doctor:''' Then don't step on any butterflies. What have the butterflies ever done to you?
28	-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode The Shakespeare Code]]"
29
30	->'''Bill:''' So, what are the rules?\
31	'''Twelfth Doctor:''' Rules?\
32	'''Bill:''' Yeah. Travelling to the past, There's got to be rules. If I step on a butterfly, it could send ripples through time that mean I'm not even born in the first place and I could just disappear.\
33	'''Twelfth Doctor:''' Definitely. I mean, that's what happened to Pete.\
34	'''Bill:''' Pete?\
35	'''Twelfth Doctor''': Your friend, Pete. He was standing there a moment ago, but he stepped on a butterfly and now you don't even remember him.\
36	'''Bill:''' Shut up! I'm being serious!\
37	'''Twelfth Doctor:''' Yeah, so was Pete.\
38	'''Bill:''' You know what I mean. Every choice I make in this moment, here and now, could change the whole future.\
39	'''Twelfth Doctor:''' Exactly like every other day of your life. The only thing to do is to stop worrying about it.
40	-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E3ThinIce Thin Ice]]"
41
42	->'''Seventh Doctor:''' Are you looking for the butterfly?\
43	'''Ace:''' What, the one that beats its wings and tips the balance so the hurricane forms? There isn't one, is there?\
44	'''Seventh Doctor:''' Not often. They just tell the butterflies that to keep them happy.\
45	'''Ace:''' Should've known.\
46	'''Seventh Doctor:''' No, mostly they break the butterfly on the wheel of time. But over the decades, the millions of butterflies, the weather still changes somehow. That's time. A million multicoloured pieces of time.
47	-->-- ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'', "The Fearmonger"
48
49	->'''Erica:''' What about paradoxes, huh? Butterfly Effect, ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''?\
50	'''Dr. Tom:''' I love [[Film/BackToTheFuture1 that movie]].\
51	'''Erica:''' If I change the past, if I don't get drunk, would that cause, like, World War III in the present?\
52	'''Dr. Tom:''' Or, is it possible that your alcohol consumption, though very important to you, might not play a role in influencing world events?
53	-->-- ''Series/BeingErica''
54
55	->'''Cassie:''' Why can't you second-guess history? I mean, if you ''could'' go back and change things so that the U.S. was ready to fight earlier ''[in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII]''...\
56	'''Ms. Paloma:''' Because events are intertwined in ways we cannot always see, Cassie. Sometimes small things can make huge differences. You know, they say that a single butterfly, beating its wings in China, may affect the way the wind blows here in our country. A single butterfly beating its wings may make a tiny change that becomes a bigger change that becomes a tornado. The world isn't like math. It isn't just one plus one equals two. It's more complicated than that.\
57	'''Rachel:''' ''[thinking to herself after class]'' But how is the butterfly supposed to know when to beat her wings?
58	-->-- ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', book 7, page 134
59
60	->'''Jake:''' ''[after the Animorphs have destroyed the Kandrona generator, Jake yells to the Ellimist]'' Is it enough? Is it enough? Have we changed the future? ''[no response]''\
61	'''Rachel:''' I don't think he knows. He showed us a possible future. But you know what? I don't believe the Ellimist really knows the future any more than we do.\
62	'''Jake:''' What makes you so sure?\
63	'''Rachel:''' ''[laughs]'' Because wherever it is that the Ellimist exists, and whatever he's up to, and whatever game he's playing, and no matter how mighty he is, he has butterflies, too.\
64	'''The Ellimist:''' ''[laughing with a voice that comes from nowhere]'' HA, HA, HA, HA. AS I SAID, YOU ARE A PRIMITIVE RACE, AND YET YOU ARE CAPABLE OF LEARNING.
65	-->-- ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', book 7, page 161
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67	-> ''Sometimes we're on a collision course, and we just don't know it. Whether it's by accident or by design, there's not a thing we can do about it. A woman in Paris was on her way to go shopping, but she had forgotten her coat, went back to get it. When she had gotten her coat, the phone had rung, so she'd stopped to answer it, talked for a couple of minutes. While the woman was on the phone, Daisy was rehearsing for a performance at the Paris Opera House. And while she was rehearsing, the woman, off the phone now, had gone outside to get a taxi. Now a taxi driver had dropped off a fare earlier and had stopped to get a cup of coffee. And all the while, Daisy was rehearsing. And this cab driver, who dropped off the earlier fare; who'd stopped to get the cup of coffee, had picked up the lady who was going to shopping, and had missed getting an earlier cab. The taxi had to stop for a man crossing the street, who had left for work five minutes later than he normally did, because he forgot to set off his alarm. While that man, late for work, was crossing the street, Daisy had finished rehearsing, and was taking a shower. And while Daisy was showering, the taxi was waiting outside a boutique for the woman to pick up a package, which hadn't been wrapped yet, because the girl who was supposed to wrap it had broken up with her boyfriend the night before, and forgot. When the package was wrapped, the woman, who was back in the cab, was blocked by a delivery truck, all the while Daisy was getting dressed. The delivery truck pulled away and the taxi was able to move, while Daisy, the last to be dressed, waited for one of her friends, who had broken a shoelace. While the taxi was stopped, waiting for a traffic light, Daisy and her friend came out the back of the theater. And if only one thing had happened differently. If that shoelace hadn't broken, or that delivery truck had moved moments earlier, or that package had been wrapped and ready because the girl hadn't broken up with her boyfriend, or that man had set his alarm and got up five minutes earlier, or that taxi driver hadn't stopped for a cup of coffee, or that woman had remembered her coat, and got into an earlier cab, Daisy and her friend would've crossed the street, and the taxi would've driven by. But life being what it is - a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyone's control - that taxi did not go by, and that driver was momentarily distracted, and that taxi hit Daisy, and her leg was crushed.''
68	-->-- '''Benjamin Button''', ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton''
69
70	->''"Don't do anything that affects anything, unless it turns out you were supposed to, in which case, for the love of God, don't ''not'' do it!"''
71	-->-- '''Professor Farnsworth''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E19RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell That Ends Well]]"
72
73	->''"So, despite the temptation, altering the timeline is more foolish than productive. Anybody who would build a space-time object replacement device is a complete '''[[PowerEchoes moron]].'''"''
74	-->-- '''Professor Membrane''', ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', "[[Recap/InvaderZimS1E15BadBadRubberPiggy Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy]]"
75
76	-> HEADS UP: by subtly altering traffic patterns today AND throughout your entire life both by taking cars, buses, bikes and skateboards and those times you DIDN'T take cars, buses, bikes or skateboards, you've caused several people to be killed in car accidents and/or NOT be killed in car accidents who would've otherwise survived/died. IT IS ALL YOUR FAULT.\
77	THINK ABOUT IT\
78	{{YOU MONSTER}}
79	-->-- '''Creator/RyanNorth''', ''Literature/BToTheFTheNovelizationOfTheFeatureFilm''
80
81	-> THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT - A tiny butterfly flapping its wings today may lead to a devastating hurricane weeks from now. The smallest decision can dramatically change the future. Your actions will shape how the story unfolds. Your story is one of many possibilities. Choose your actions carefully.
82	-->-- Intro to ''VideoGame/UntilDawn''
83
84	->''For want of a nail the shoe was lost.''
85	->''For want of a shoe the horse was lost.''
86	->''For want of a horse the rider was lost.''
87	->'' For want of a rider the message was lost.''
88	->'' For want of a message the battle was lost.''
89	->''For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.''
90	->''And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.''
91	-->-- Proverb and [[AmbiguityIndex former]] TropeNamer
92
93	->''"Once more, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero the wheels of suffering are set in motion by my hand]]. By [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin taking Kaileena from the Island of Time]], I've changed the course of history. Without the Sands of Time, I never [[VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime journeyed to Asad, never killed the Vizier]]. Now he [[BackFromTheDead lives again]], driven by [[AmbitionIsEvil the same mad desire]]."''
94	-->--'''The Prince''', ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones''
95
96	->''"Crushing certain plants could add up infinitesimally. A little error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion. Of course maybe our theory is wrong. Maybe Time can't be changed by us. Or maybe it can be changed only in little subtle ways. A dead mouse here makes an insect imbalance there, a population disproportion later, a bad harvest further on, a depression, mass starvation, and finally, a change in social temperament in far-flung countries. Something much more subtle, like that. Perhaps only a soft breath, a whisper, a hair, pollen on the air, such a slight, slight change that unless you looked close you wouldn't see it. Who knows? Who really can say he knows? We don't know. We're guessing. But until we do know for certain whether our messing around in Time can make a big roar or a little rustle in history, we're being careful."''
97	-->-- '''Travis''', ''Literature/ASoundOfThunder''
98
99	->''"If you ever travel back in time, don't step on anything, because even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can't imagine."''
100	-->-- '''Abraham Simpson''', to Homer on his wedding day, ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E6TreehouseOfHorrorV Treehouse of Horror V]]" sub-story "Time and Punishment"
101
102	->'''[[FutureMeScaresMe Nightsting]]:''' [[BadFuture This is my present; your future.]] [[HelpYourselfInTheFuture Unless you change it.]]\
103	'''Bumblebee:''' Me!? But how!?\
104	'''Nightsting:''' Even the smallest events now can have tremendous effects on the future.\
105	'''Bumblebee:''' ''(gasp)'' The Butterfly Effect...\
106	'''Supergirl:''' [[LiteralMinded So we find a butterfly and smash it...? Huh. Seems kinda mean but, alright.]]
107	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperheroGirls2019''
108
109	->''"My plan to change the future was working perfectly until that clumsy henchman of yours stepped on a butterfly! One moment we were proud saurians ruling a galactic empire -- now we look like THIS!" The alien [[PeopleInRubberSuits flopped its claws]] in fury. ''
110	-->-- ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''
111
112	->'''Bruce:''' So let's imagine that it is, in fact, possible for you to run faster than the speed of light and, in so doing, travel back in time... it still would be wildly irresponsible.\
113	'''Barry:''' I knew you were gonna say that.\
114	'''Bruce:''' Yes, because, Barry, if you were to go into the past, any interaction you have with your parents or yourself, you step on the wrong blade of grass, you have no idea what the consequences to that could be!\
115	'''Barry:''' No, I know - the Butterfly Effect, right?\
116	'''Bruce:''' Yes.\
117	'''Barry:''' I get it. But Bruce, I could fix things.\
118	'''Bruce:''' You could also destroy everything.
119	-->-- ''Film/TheFlash2023''
120
121	->''"This is a portable teleporting device. You can use it wherever and whenever you want to. This device is used to erase the memory of anyone you meet in the past. If you don't do this, it may have disastrous consequences for the future."''
122	-->-- '''Golden Freddy''', ''WebAnimation/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheStories'', "The Battle for Survival"
123
124	->''Oh no! I left my mark on the past! What if crushing this one flower leads to a bee not having a place to land which leads to a chain of events that ends with, uh, the sun exploding?!''
125	-->-- '''Eruptor''', ''WesternAnimation/SkylandersAcademy'', "[[Recap/SkylandersAcademyS3E9DaysOfFutureCrash Days of Future Crash]]"
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