1 | ->''''"You can't DO that!"''\ |
2 | "It's only a Transfiguration," said [=McGonagall=]. "An Animagus transformation, to be exact."\ |
3 | "You turned into a cat! A ''SMALL'' cat! You violated Conservation of Energy! That's not just an arbitrary rule, it's implied by the form of the quantum Hamiltonian! Rejecting it destroys unitarity and then you get FTL signaling!"'' |
4 | -->-- ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', "[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/2/Harry_Potter_and_the_Methods_of_Rationality Everything I Believe Is False]]" |
5 | |
6 | ->''"Where the hell were my car keys while I was transformed?"'' |
7 | -->-- ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', "[[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-06-17 New and Old Flames]]" |
8 | |
9 | ->'''Ling:''' Did you notice [Envy's] footprints, back when we were fighting in the forest?\ |
10 | '''Ed:''' [[BigWhat What]]?! No! What's your point?\ |
11 | '''Ling:''' Just that he's freakishly heavy for the size of his body. He might be [[{{Understatement}} a bit bigger]] than he looks. |
12 | -->-- ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' |
13 | |
14 | ->''"The Sixth Doctor's regeneration into his seventh form brings us to a great and terrible mystery -- what happened to the rest of him? ''Where'' is all the left-over Doctor? Stored somewhere, perhaps... in secret vats?"'' |
15 | -->-- '''Strax''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath Deep Breath]]" prologue |
16 | |
17 | ->'''John Connor:''' Wait, you're telling me this thing can ''become'' anything it touches!?\ |
18 | '''Terminator:''' Anything it samples through physical contact.\ |
19 | '''John:''' Get real... So it could disguise itself as a pack of cigarettes?\ |
20 | '''Terminator:''' No, only an object of equal size.\ |
21 | '''John:''' Well, why not just become a bomb or something to get me?\ |
22 | '''Terminator:''' It can't form complex machines. Guns and explosives have chemicals, moving parts. It doesn't work that way. But it can form solid metal shapes.\ |
23 | '''John:''' Like what?\ |
24 | '''Terminator:''' Knives and stabbing weapons. |
25 | -->-- ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' |
26 | |
27 | ->'''Ax:''' <I don't really like [[VoluntaryShapeshifting morphing tiny animals]]. I keep thinking about all the rest of my mass.>\ |
28 | '''Marco:''' <Your what?>\ |
29 | '''Ax:''' <My mass. When you morph something smaller than yourself, your body mass must go somewhere. So it goes into [[SubspaceOrHyperspace Zero-space]]. Zero-space is the space that ships travel through when they are going faster than light. It's not very likely to happen, but [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace sometimes a ship traveling in Z-space will intersect with a temporarily parked mass]].>\ |
30 | '''Marco:''' <Wait a minute. Are you telling me that when we get small, all the leftover... stuff... all the extra flesh and guts and bones go bulging into Zero-space like some [[BodyHorror big balloon of human tissue]]?>\ |
31 | '''Ax:''' <Of course. Where did you think all the mass went?>\ |
32 | '''Marco:''' <I really didn't think about it.> |
33 | -->-- ''Literature/{{Animorphs}} #10: The Android'' |
34 |
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