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3* WhamLine/TheDCU
4* WhamLine/MarvelUniverse
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7[[AC: Star Wars (Various Publishers):]]
8* Comicbook/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic:
9--> '''Elbee:''' ''"That was not the Mandalorian that broke my hand."''
10** When Rohlan Dyre returned from picking up the unconscious Demagol, his weight was 17 kilos lower. And has not been seen taking off his helmet during the following 37 issues.
11* ''ComicBook/DarkTimes'': In "A Spark Remains", Beyghor Sahdett convinces the group to try and assassinate Darth Vader. Dass Jennir eventually agrees and brings Kai Hudorra in:
12--> '''Hudorra''': You know he's lying, don't you, Jennir?\
13'''Dass''': Yes. I've known for some time. But I also know his reputation with a lightsaber. I knew I couldn't take him myself.
14* ''ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader''
15** Issue 6. Granted, the Wham Line is about something that [[LukeIAmYourFather everyone should know by now]], but it brings new context to it.
16--->'''Darth Vader''': Did you bring me anything of value, bounty hunter?\
17'''Boba Fett''': Not much. Just his name. '''Skywalker'''.
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20* A few from the ''ComicBook/ChickTracts'':
21** "The Letter" involves Mildred having a nightmare in which her best friend Frances goes to hell and blames her for not telling her about Christ. Mildred calls about Frances and gets the following news.
22--->"Mildred... didn't you hear? Saturday night Frances and Paul's car skidded in the rain and they hit a tree. John's still alive but Frances died instantly."
23** In "Baby Talk," after a boy gets his girlfriend pregnant, [[EasyEvangelism one lecture about the evils of abortion later]], he sees the error of his ways and converts. He then asks about his girlfriend, and [[OhCrap is shocked to hear the answer]].
24--->"She's not there. Thelma took her to the [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion clinic]]. They left an hour ago."
25** "The Trial" involves a girl named Annie being sued for witnessing to her friend. Finally, the friend gets to testify, and with one remark, derails the prosecution's case.
26---> "When Annie told me I should ask Jesus into my heart, '''I did'''!"
27* ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'': The DistantFinale published between the first and second arcs also includes an epilogue featuring Dr. Kalahahaii running away from the EDF after the ILR stole the info regarding her discoveries of the human ship from her brain using a Talent spy and now the EDF tries to silence her. The Enchawah family, the owners of [[MegaCorp Enchawah Corp.]] on the other hand, not only they try to help her, but also managed to translate the book found in the human spaceship:
28--> '''Lida Enchawah:''' Finally, we have a reasonable translation of the book you found. It appears to be some kind of fantastic fiction. You might want to read it: ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.
29* ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'': At the end of 'The Spectre of Tomorrow', Robo has fixed up one of his mini-drones, and tells the other two to give them a welcome back, then this happens.
30-->'''Gussie and Bingo:''' [[SuddenlyVoiced Good afternoon, Doctor Turing]].\
31'''Robo:''' [[OhCrap No, uh.]] Doctor Turing...He...Um. He isn't. He's...I'm Robo.\
32'''Gussie:''' Hello, Robo.\
33'''Tuppy:''' I am the Automatic Learning Algorithm Network.\
34'''Bingo:''' But you may call me [[BackFromTheDead ALAN]].
35* Towards the end of ''ComicBook/TheSculptor'', Death (in human form) meets David's girlfriend, Meg. They both discuss an old theater she went to as a child before she goes out. After she leaves, David finally beats Death at chess. While he celebrates, Death drops the following lines[[labelnote:Explanation (Spoilers)]]Death learns a person's entire history before he claims them, so they can relive their life before they die[[/labelnote]]:
36-->'''Death''': I've never been to that theater, David.\
37'''David''': What?\
38'''Death''': I have [[DeadlyEuphemism an appointment]] with her in ten minutes at Fifty-Third and Ninth.
39* Of course, ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles'' has one of the most famous in all of Vertigo Comics.
40--> '''Helga:''' The "Outer Church" you fear and serve and the "Invisible College" you want to destroy...? Same adress, Sir Miles
41* Astrid Mueller of ''ComicBook/CleanRoom'' plays one against the Surgeon in-universe.
42--> '''Astrid:''' We have a cloudbuster.
43** Later, after pieces of Astrid's knowledge are demonstrated to drive her own followers to suicide, the audience gets a glimpse of Astrid's in-case-of-death message to her right hand aide.
44--> '''Astrid:''' Hell is real and the devil is coming.
45* ''ComicBook/ClemHetherington'': After the race, we get this from [[spoiler:Kilburn that reveals he murdered Clem's and Digory's parents]].
46->[[spoiler: '''Kilburn:''' I thought that if I '''showed''' you, you'd see it the way I do. That with your parents out of the way, you'd see. I thought three years would do it.]]
47* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'':
48** ''ComicBook/DoubleDuck'' is a series with WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck as a secret agent. Then, when Daisy has discovered his secret, Donald, knowing she's about to be hit by a LaserGuidedAmnesia, drops this bombshell:
49--->"I am also [[ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures Paperinik]]."
50** ''ComicBook/ALetterFromHome'': "It's...it's not here...not even the Guidebook knows the correct rank order of the original nine Templars!" For perhaps the first time in history, the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook was not able to provide a vital clue.
51** ''ComicBook/TheCallOfCRusso'': What at first appeared to be a story about Donald Duck winning a singing contest with the help of a magic voice changing spray turns into a CosmicHorrorStory as revealed by D'Mmingo's songbook.
52-->''In the city of '''Sp'too,''' deep under the '''sea,'''[==]''\
53''Dread '''Pf'legmwad''' lies '''dreaming...''' of you and of '''me!'''[==]''\
54''His dream is of '''our earth,''' you see...''\
55''But when he '''wakes,''' our world will '''cease to be!'''''
56* ''ComicBook/Elsewhere2017'': At the end of Issue #1, when Amelia walks into the cell she expects Fred to be in, the person in the cell states their name:
57--> '''D. B. Cooper:''' Name’s Dan Cooper. But you can call me DB.
58* A prequel comic to ''Film/MissionImpossible1996'' has the IMF team in Russia only to find themselves competing with a group who seem to use the exact same tricks the IMF does. In a battle on a train, Ethan Hunt confronts the head of this group on how they learned about the IMF.
59-->'''Russian''': Really, Mr. Hunt. In all those years, did it never occur to you that the Soviet Union had an Impossible Missions Force of its own?
60* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} In Hell'': In Hell, a strange spirit explains to Hellboy that Satan has been sleeping in Pandemonium, alone and unguarded, for two thousand years. He tries to tempt Hellboy to murder him in his sleep, even handing him a knife. Hellboy refuses, and in a flash the scene changes and the plot rolls on. But later, in a conversation with a former slave demon, Hellboy realises that [[LaserGuidedAmnesia there is a mysterious gap in his memory of the previous scene:]]
61-->'''Slave Demon:''' It was their dream to escape this place, not ours. We want only Pandemonium. We were slaves there. We did the work. Shouldn't we have the reward?\
62'''Hellboy:''' Grapes of Wrath, baby. Just look out for that guy in the basement.\
63'''Slave Demon:''' Haven't you heard? ''Someone went down there and cut his throat.''\
64'''Hellboy:''' [[FlatWhat The what?]]
65* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics2015'' #22 ends with Betty saying (after surviving a car crash):
66-->'''Betty:''' "Why can't I feel my legs?"
67* ''ComicBook/TheLegendOfZelda'': Link in the storyline "The Price" becomes corrupted by the Triforce of Power.
68-->"You've become Ganon!"
69* ''ComicBook/{{Huck}}'': After Huck and his brother Tom have finally tracked down their mother, she makes a concerned face. When Huck asks what's wrong:
70-->'''Huck's mom:''' I only had ''one'' son.
71* ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends'': If you crack the ciphers in "Comix Up!", you get ''this:''
72-->BILL LIVES
73* ''ComicBook/StarTrekIDW'': ''To Boldly Go'''s first issues closes with the line "Resistance is futile."
74* In the final issue of ''ComicBook/TomStrong'', Saveen's ghost brings Tom back to the moment in time when Sinclair and Susan Strong announce their trip to Attabar Teru, then points out his mother was about to make her own announcement:
75-->'''Saveen:''' She was going to tell Sinclair that she was pregnant. We're brothers, Tom.
76* ''Creator/ECComics'': The infamous story "The Orphan" is about a girl named Lucy whose father is an abusive drunk and whose mother admits to never wanting her and not caring about her. When her dad is fatally shot and her mom and her lover are executed for the crime, she ends the story by telling the audience this:
77-->--'''Lucy:''' I live in a nice house now, with nice furniture. I have all the toys I want and all the love I need. You see, the court sent me to live with Aunt Kate... which is just the way I'd hoped it would work out when [[TheDogBitesBack I shot Daddy from the front bedroom window with the gun I knew was in the night table and went downstairs and put the gun in Mommy's hand and started the crying act]]...
78* ''ComicBook/StarTrekIDW'': To Boldly Go's first issues closes with the line, "Resistance is futile."

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