1 | ->'''Kirk:''' Bones, did you ever hear of a doomsday machine?\ |
2 | '''[=McCoy:=]''' No. [[ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder I'm a doctor, not a mechanic]].\ |
3 | '''Kirk:''' It's a weapon built primarily as a bluff. It's never meant to be used. So strong, it could destroy both sides in a war. Something like the old H-Bomb was supposed to be. That's what I think this is. A doomsday machine that somebody used in a war uncounted years ago. [[GoneHorriblyRight They don't exist anymore]], but the machine is still destroying. |
4 | -->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine The Doomsday Machine]]" |
5 | |
6 | ->''"Doomsday device? Ah, now the ball's in Farnsworth's court! ''[presses a button, revealing his arsenal of doomsday weapons]'' I suppose I could part with ''one'' and still be feared..."'' |
7 | -->-- '''Professor Farnsworth''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E14TimeKeepsOnSlippin Time Keeps on Slippin']]" |
8 | |
9 | ->'''Dr. Strangelove:''' Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, ''if you '''keep''' it a '''secret'''! Why didn't you tell the world, '''eh?'''''\ |
10 | '''Russian Ambassador Sadesky:''' It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier [[SuperweaponSurprise loves surprises]]. |
11 | -->-- ''Film/DrStrangelove'' |
12 | |
13 | ->"A Tesla device of that magnitude could focus electro-magnetic waves of terrible consequence upon any point in the world! An organisation that controlled such power could plunge us all into a new Dark Age! They could detonate intra-global bombardment rockets on their launch pads, shut down the energy webs of our cities, devastate countries through natural disasters, make women give up their virginity in torrid orgies--"\ |
14 | "So why does our government have such a weapon in the first place?"\ |
15 | "Don't be impertinent, Proton!" |
16 | -->-- ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace'' |
17 | |
18 | ->The only weapon of use in the modern world is the vast and terrible one which cannot be understood or defended against, whose shadow will be a block on the dreams of madmen; a weapon so awful that the world cannot survive its use, so that no one would use it save [[TakingYouWithMe in the moment of their own inevitable destruction]], and no one seek or allow the destruction of the one whose hand is on the hilt, lest they find the blade cuts every throat on Earth. |
19 | -->-- ''Literature/{{Angelmaker}}'' |
20 | |
21 | ->''"I've started project 'Fuck The World,' a top secret attempt to funnel magma to the outside. [[ItMakesSenseInContext I'll kill those elephants. I'll kill all those fucking elephants]]."'' |
22 | -->-- '''[=StarkRavingMad=]''', ''Blog/{{Boatmurdered}}'' |
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