Line #136 Quotes/DeathFromAbove


1	-> ''Let the Nazis take good note of the western horizon. There they will see a cloud no bigger than a man's hand. But behind that cloud lies the whole massive power of the United States.''
2	-->--'''Sir Arthur Harris''', 1st Baronet, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
3
4	-> ''I have heard tales of sorcerers that can forecast your doom, warriors whose screams freeze the blood, machines that fight with the grace of a dancer, and fiery daemons that cannot die. None of these dangers concerned me, except one. When fighting the Eldar, '''watch the skies'''!''
5	-->-- '''Colonel Ishmail Mott''', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
6
7	->'' "Hehe, this is gonna be one hell of a highlight reel."\
8	"I heard that!"''
9	-->-- AC-130 fire control officer and TV operator, ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4ModernWarfare''.
10
11	->''Look out below, motherfuckers!''
12	-->-- Helicopter pilot, ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}''
13
14	->'' Then there are the airstrikes. Mercenaries 2 has a massive enthusiasm for airstrikes. They feature prominently in their tutorial, you find them lying innocently by the side of the road next to signs saying, "Boy I hope no one steals me (wink wink)". And every time you die in a mission, the game throws up tips that are usually along the lines of, "See, if you had listened to us and used an airstrike, maybe this wouldn't have happened!"''
15	-->--'''Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw''', ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'', on ''[[VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}} Airstrikes 2: Hooray for Airstrikes]]''
16
17	-> ''If at first you don't succeed, call an air strike.''
18	-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}} 2''
19
20	-> ''Wipe this pathetic planet from the face of the galaxy!''
21	-->-- '''Darth Malak''', ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''
22
23	-> ''RocksFallEveryoneDies.''
24	-->-- A quote linked to both {{Game Master}}s and starship crews engaged in orbital bombardment
25
26	->The explosives rained down, and halfway through their fall, the twenty-four plummeting cluster bombs came apart, each deploying twenty-five self-propelled ground-strike munitions. Each bomb had been pre-programmed by a Gabriel using data provided by the EVA wielded by Commander Karrde, using laser targeting telemetry supplied by the individual Caprica teams. It was an example of networked, coordinated warfare at its finest.\
27	Each bomb found a target, and accelerated toward the Nod soldiers even as the militia below looked up at the screaming sonic passage of the Firehawks. The smarter or more experienced ones were already yelling for cover, and diving behind whatever safety they could find.\
28	Six hundred individually-guided cluster munitions detonated a heartbeat later. Half of the bombs were loaded with high-explosive warheads, the complex devices within each detonating with the force of two tons of TNT. The other half of the munitions were loaded with white phosphorous.\
29	It was like God took a bucket of hell, pissed in it, and then poured it on the men below.
30	-->--''Fanfic/TiberiumWars'', ''Chapter XVII''
31
32	->''Jet fighter, jet fighter\
33	Turbo jet engines ignite\
34	Jet fighter, jet fighter\
35	Death will filling the sky\
36	Jet fighter, jet fighter\
37	An airborne assault and attack\
38	Jet fighter, jet fighter\
39	A cold blooded stab in the back''
40	-->-- "DeathFromAbove" by '''Music/{{Anthrax}}'''
41
42	->'''Maxim 4''': Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.\
43	'''Maxim 5''': Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.\
44	'''Maxim 36''': When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.
45	-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', ''The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates''
46
47	->''Take a look to the sky\
48	Just before you die\
49	It's the last time you will!''
50	-->-- "[[Music/RideTheLightning For Whom The Bell Tolls]]" by '''Music/{{Metallica}}'''
51
52	->''Carpet bombing cities\
53	And grinding them to dust\
54	Able men and women\
55	Will all be victims\
56	Everyone will suffer\
57	In the wake of their attack\
58	Bombers show no mercy\
59	A land in ruin\
60	Homes are turned to rubble\
61	When the airstrike has been approved\
62	Facing their destruction\
63	Fear the black wings of death\
64	Burn Burn\
65	Rage of the heavens\
66	Burn Burn\
67	Death from above\
68	Die Die\
69	Merciless killing\
70	Burn Burn\
71	Death from above''
72	-->-- "Firestorm" by '''Music/{{Sabaton}}'''
73
74	-> ''"Contrary to popular belief, we at artillery command do not believe we're God. We merely borrowed His "Smite" button."''
75	-->-- '''Anonymous'''
76
77	-> ''"Artillery knows neither friend nor foe -- only good targets."''
78	-->-- '''Anonymous''' (slogan in the German Bundeswehr)
79
80	->''"I will fly high above Monsteropolis / And I will rain terror down on the general populace..."\
81	"Lives on this earth I grow tired of / Death from above / The annihilation of everyone you know and love..."''
82	-->-- "The Annihilation of Monsteropolis" by '''Music/TheMegas'''
83
84	->''Close your eyes and see the skies are fallin'''
85	-->-- '''Music/QueensOfTheStoneAge''', "The Sky is Fallin'"
86
87	->''(Temple of Nod builds up)''
88	->'''Nod Commando:''' Look at that ''beautiful'' construction! So strong... so powerfu-
89	->''(two GDI aircraft carpetbombs the Temple into dust)''
90	->'''Commando:''' THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS!!! [[UnsoundEffect >:(]] Okay, okay, let's rethink this. They know we're here. We should step up our defenses immediately!
91	->''(later; the Temple is built again, with a fuckton of air defenses around it)''
92	->'''Commando:''' Heh, they ain't gettin' through here this time! I bet they shit their yellow pants.
93	->''(bystanders laugh their asses off... until GDI {{Kill Sat}}s the Temple)''
94	->'''Commando:''' Ahem... so... why does GDI have the Ion Cannon positioned directly above us, '''[[SurroundedByIdiots AND NOBODY FUCKIN' TELLS MEEEE]]?!'''
95	-->-- ''Tiberium Ecstasy''
96
97	->'''Herman:''' When he leaves the Kwik-E-Mart, we start the saturation bombing. You got the water balloons?
98	->'''Bart:''' Two hundred rounds, sir. Is it okay if they say "Happy Birthday" on the side?
99	->'''Herman:''' Well, I'd rather they say "Death from Above", but I guess we're stuck.
100	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Bart The General"
101
102	->"Yes but - that's not it," words are bursting out between the pulses of shivering - "the other kind, those V-1s, you can hear them. Right? Maybe you have a chance to get out of the way. But these things explode first, a-and ''then'' you hear them coming in. Except that, if you're dead, you ''don't'' hear them."
103	->"Same in the infantry. You know that. You never hear the one that gets you."
104	->"Uh, but-"
105	->"Think of it as a very large bullet, Slothrop. With fins."
106	-->-- ''Literature/GravitysRainbow''
107
108	->'''Wedge''': So, we're going to hit [the [[ProudWarriorRace Yuuzhan Vong]] attackers] with an enemy they've never had the displeasure of facing. We're going to [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill hit them with the Empire.]]
109	->'''Tycho''': [[DeadpanSnarker They're not going to like the Empire.]]
110	-->-- Discussing [[BeamSpam Operation Emperor's Hammer]], ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Star Wars]]: Literature/NewJediOrder: Rebel Dream''
111
112	->''Artillery is the god of war.''
113	-->'''UsefulNotes/JosefStalin'''
114
115	->''"Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl."''
116	-->-- '''UsefulNotes/FrederickTheGreat''', King of UsefulNotes/{{Prussia}} and MagnificentBastard extraordinaire
117
118	->''"A magical item that can allow me to rain death from above my enemies [-AND-] [[MundaneUtility lets me reach stuff on the top shelf]]? Done."''
119	-->-- '''Belkar Bitterleaf''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''
120
121	->'''Neytiri:''' It is Toruk, Last Shadow.\
122	'''Jake Sully:''' Yeah, right. The last one you'll ever see.
123	-->--Regarding the Great Leonopteryx, ''Film/{{Avatar}}''
124
125	->They stood in the mouth of the cave and watched them. The bombers were high now, in fast ugly arrowheads beating the sky apart with the noise of their motors. "They are shaped like sharks," Robert Jordan thought. "The wide-finned, sharp-nosed sharks of the Gulf Stream. But these, wide-finned and silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. They move like no thing there has ever been. They move like mechanized doom."
126	-->-- ''Literature/ForWhomTheBellTolls'' by Creator/ErnestHemingway
127
128	-> ''The Unit has just traded a prisoner for Jonas.''
129	-> '''Jonas:''' The man was [[UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden Bin Laden]] 15 years ago. What are you doing handing him back?\
130	'''Mack:''' It's what the other side wanted for Christmas.\
131	'''Jonas:''' The State Department know about this?\
132	'''Bob:''' No. But the Air Force does.\
133	'''Mack:''' We left 'em a present.
134	-> ''A missile comes out of the sky and blows up the car containing the prisoner and his friends.''\
135	-- ''Series/TheUnit''
136
137	-> ''"[[IncomingHam Fury from the sky! Cut them down!]]"''
138	-->-- '''Assault Sergeant Thaddeus''', ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar II''
139
140	-> ''"[[MacrossMissileMassacre Justice RAINS from above!]]"''
141	-->-- '''Pharah''', ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}''
142
143	-> ''"[[PretentiousLatinMotto Ultima ratio regum.]]"'' ("The final argument of kings.")
144	-->-- Engraved on the cannons of the army of '''UsefulNotes/LouisXIV''', King of France
145
146	->''A shadow from the sky, much too big to be a bird\
147	A screaming crashing noise louder than I've ever heard\
148	It looked like two big silver trees that somehow learned to soar\
149	Suddenly a summer breeze and a mighty lion's roar\
150	I killed the dinosaur, I killed the dinosaur''
151	-->-- "Walk the Dinosaur" by '''Music/WasNotWas'''
152
153	->They prayed for rain. [[BeCareFulWhatYouWishFor This isn't what they had in mind]]...
154	-->-- FlavourText of the '''Infernal Bombardment magic''', ''VideoGame/DawnOfTheDragons''
155
156
157	->'''Persian Soldier:''' Our arrows will blot out the sun!\
158	'''Stelios:''' Then we will fight in the shade.
159	-->-- ''Film/ThreeHundred''
160
161	->But, somehow, she'd have to do something about both planets. Daxam would be easy. A shower of leaden hail across its surface, and the dead would litter the ground in heaps beyond Hitler's and Stalin's dreams.
162	-->-- '''Satan Girl''', ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy''
163
164	->"A two-foot long cylinder of high-grade celestial bronze, capped on both ends with god-level explosives. The bolt that sheered the top off Mount Etna and hurled Kronos from his throne; the master bolt, which packs enough power to make mortal hydrogen bombs look like firecrackers."
165	-->-- ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians''
166
167	->'''Ali:''' God pity the men under those guns.\
168	'''Lawrence:''' They're Turks.\
169	'''Ali:''' Even so, God pity them.
170	-->-- ''Film/LawrenceOfArabia''
171
172	->"The robot-craft as powered by the Sun— and used sunlight as its weapon... Swiftly, its beam swept across Kryptonopolis, leaving blackened devastation in its wake... When its mission was finished, nothing was left standing in Kryptonopolis... and no one was left living!"
173	-->-- ''ComicBook/TheKryptonChronicles''
174
175	->''"Turn it to ashes! That's not enough! Drop more bombs!"''
176	-->-- '''Osean B-52 pilot''', ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar''
177
178	->''Ever wonder what they're thinkin' down there?\
179	Watch 'em scatter!\
180	Peg that skeeter!\
181	Mulch 'em!''
182	-->--'''Harbinger Gunship''', ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3 Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 – Uprising]]''
183
184	-> ''"[[PretentiousLatinMotto Semper Supra]]"'' ("Always above")
185	-->-- Motto of the [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks United States Space Force]]
186
187	->''Five thousand balloons capable of raising two men each, would not cost more than five ships of the line: and where is the prince who can afford to cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?''
188	-->--'''Creator/BenjaminFranklin''', [[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-41-02-0310 January 16, 1784 letter to Jan Ingenhousz]]
189
190	->''"It's raining me!"''
191	-->-- '''Dr. Krankcase''', ''[[VideoGame/{{Skylanders}} Skylanders: Trap Team]]''
192
193	->''They should know whom to blame when the sky falls down on them.''
194	-->-- '''Daenerys Targaryen''', ''Series/GameOfthrones''
195
196	->''And if the night is burning\
197	I will cover my eyes\
198	For if the dark returns\
199	Then my brothers will die\
200	And as the sky is falling down\
201	It crashed into this lonely town\
202	And with that shadow upon the ground\
203	I hear my people screaming out''
204	-->-- "I see fire" by '''Music/EdSheeran''', created for ''Film/TheHobbit''
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