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1->''"I can't let ''anyone'' else find out [about my powers]. Not even my parents. I know the chemical plant wants to find me and turn me into some experiment!"''
2-->-- '''Alex Mack''', OpeningNarration of ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack''
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4->''"Like, they don't wanna reason with him or work out something, they just wanna cut him open!"''
5-->-- '''[[WebVideo/BumReviews Chester A. Bum]]''', his review of ''Film/District9''
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7->'''Thornbeak:''' Tell me, what would your world make of one of ''our'' creatures, if it crossed the Divide?\
8'''Felix:''' They'd capture you, and put you in a zoo. A prison. Then they'd study you, and write books about you, and try to find out how to get more of you. And when you died they'd dissect you, and write more books.\
9'''Thornbeak:''' I see. And supposing they discovered that the creature couldn't be captured, that its magic was too strong?\
10'''Felix:''' Then they'd try and kill you, because they'd be frightened of something they didn't understand.\
11'''Thornbeak:''' I see. But you still want to return there?\
12'''Felix:''' It's my home.
13-->-- ''Literature/TheDivideTrilogy''
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15->''"Olga came home, but she never came back to life behind those blue eyes. They tried, of course, but the more they tried, the more tenuous she became, and, in their hunger to know, they spread her thinner and thinner until she came, in her martyrdom, to fill whole libraries with frozen aisles of precious relics. No saint was ever pared so fine; at the Plesetsk laboratories alone, she was represented by more than two million tissue slides, racked and numbered in the subbasement of a bomb-proof biological complex."''
16-->-- ''Hinterlands'', by Creator/WilliamGibson
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18->''"You can't go outside, because if you do, the government will find you and then they'll cut you into pieces."\
19"Oh no, why would they do that?"\
20"I don't know! [[DiscussedTrope It's just what the government does]]. [[ForScience They find some rare, one-of-a-kind animal and then they just cut it up into pieces for science]]."\
21"Even if I ask them not to?"\
22"Especially if ya ask them not to! That'll just make them angry."''
23-->-- ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PH1U87rNR7Q Rainbow Dash Presents]]: Fanfic/MyLittleDashie''
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25->''"I don't know about you guys, but I've got over a thousand sci-fi [=DVDs=]. You wanna know how many times the guy with the superpowers ends up in some freaky government lab on a table with wires in his head?"''
26-->-- '''Ethan''', ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder''
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28-> ''"Ooooh no! You're from the Science Center! I don't wanna get wrapped up in anything from '''there''', I've heard the stories! ''[...]'' People who go to the Science Center -- people with [[PsychicPowers powers]], [[MindOverMatter like me]] -- they go up there and '''they don't come back!''' Not '''ever!'''"''
29-->-- '''Silver''', ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic Universe]]'' #79
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31->''"Apparently this DEO is in the business of killing aliens or... experimenting on them. They have all been racing to find you but the DEO has given up, he believes."''
32-->-- '''Jeremiah Danvers''' to Supergirl, ''Fanfic/{{Survivors}}''
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34->''"Dr. Light was going to keep you. Run tests on you indefinitely. I couldn't let that happen."''
35-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''', ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}''
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37->''"You bastards... you are all under arrest for murder, sedition, for treason against the Federation. Oh, you're going to pay... because we're not going to kill you... oh no... you see, we got special places for [[PuppeteerParasite things like you]]... where they cut you up, but [[AndIMustScream they keep you alive]] when they cut you up... so they can see what makes you tick, and then what makes you sick! And I will be there, oh yeah! I'm going to be there when they [[KilledMidSentence see]]--"''
38-->-- ''' Lt. Pavlov Dill''', ''Film/StarshipTroopers2HeroOfTheFederation''
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40->''"Your biofeedback has been all over the place. If [[MadScientist Zurn]] sees this he's going to make a show-and-tell out of you, I mean open you up like a frog in a lab class. [[FalseReassurance I'm kidding]], what happens in the smoke lodge stays in the smoke lodge... [[ShameIfSomethingHappened and in an encrypted folder marked 'leverage']]."''
41-->-- '''Kirsten Geary''', ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''
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43->''They had taken her deeper into the desert, to an experimental station. They had caged her. They had given her weights to lift, testing her strength. They had starved her for days, testing her endurance. They had cut her, confusing their mythologies, with [[ColdIron iron]] and [[SilverHasMysticPowers silver]], noting healing times. They had washed her once with seawater, then fresh, then scrubbed her with dry salt. After that, they had refused her all contact with water, save a minimum to drink. Then not even that. For the whole of sixty-seven days, they carefully recorded her pulse, her skin tone, and the distance between her eyes. Perhaps in some vague way also interested in our culture, they copied, faithfully, every word she spoke.\
44[[DefiantToTheEnd Not one sentence was a prayer]].''
45-->-- ''[[Literature/TheInnsmouthLegacy The Litany of Earth]]''
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47->''[Picard, posing as an [[OrganTheft organ trader]], does a DramaticUnmask of [[TrojanPrisoner Seven of Nine]]]''\
48'''Mr. Vup:''' Quite a prize. Rare to find one with so many [[{{cyborg}} implants]] [[RogueDrone still fully operational]].\
49'''Picard:''' ''[[[MauriceChevalierAccent hamming it up]]]'' She is not one of the new ones. When the Borg entered her, she was a ''jeune fille''. You are going to have to dice her up to get it all out. ''[off Vup's look]'' A little squeamish, are we? I can take my trade elsewhere. ''[turns to leave]''\
50'''Mr. Vup:''' No. Not squeamish. ''[SlasherSmile]'' Not at all.
51-->-- ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', "[[Recap/StarTrekPicardS1E05StardustCityRag Stardust City Rag]]"
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53->''"I work for the government. Have any of you seen an alien lately? We wanna do experiments on him and poke him a lot. He won't like it, but [[ForScience it'll be good for science]]. Maybe. We don't know."''
54-->-- '''Helen''' as a government agent, ''WesternAnimation/CentralPark'', "[[Recap/CentralParkS2E08SirBricksALot Sir Bricks-A-Lot]]"
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56->''The air conditioning in the dissecting lab struggles against the smell of burnt fat and decay. The Gartino class sitting on raised benches about the slab, watches impassively as the large, furry lump is worked on by the instructor, wielding his molecular scalpel with deceptive ease. Jelly layers are folded back, exposing the intricate traceries of its hydraulic system.\
57"The limbs work by fluids pumped through a network of veins," says the instructor, pointing. "The legs can change in an instant from stumpy elephant feet to long stilts; the arms can be as thick and strong as girders, and in the next second thin and whip-like. [[StarfishAliens Xenoids are things without bones.]]"\
58Cy is sitting above the head of the thing, her eyes following each stroke of the instructor's blade.\
59Roscoe leans across and with the hint of a smile whispers in her ear, "On some other world, Cy, a [[FantasticSlur Gloop]] is doing this to a human."''
60-->-- ''Presumed Dead'' by Rick Kennett, [=SF-EnVision=] Workshop.
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62->''"We brought a cancer drug to the market last quarter. It's already saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Yet in development it killed a quarter of a million lab mice. Now, I didn't ask for their little permissions. I'm not gonna ask for yours."''
63-->-- '''Steven Merrick''', ''Film/TheOldGuard''
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