->"''I think I speak for everyone when I say none of us will sleep at night unless we see to it this zombie apocalypse horseshit is very definitely, permanently, finally burned to ashes,'' and then we burn the ashes!"
-->-- '''[[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonHumans Colonel Diane Foster]]''', ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon''

->'''Jake Sully:''' You wanted to see me, Colonel?\\
'''Col. Quaritch:''' ( ''while bench pressing'' ) This low gravity'll make you soft. You get soft, (racks weights) Pandora will shit you out dead with zero warning.
-->-- ''Film/{{Avatar}}''

->The trouble with the Colonel, you see, was that he'd been spoiled by success. Whether it was taking and holding a position in war, or thrashing all opposition at football, or looking better than anyone else on ceremonial parades, or even a question of the battalion's children topping the prize-list at the garrison school, he expected no less than total triumph. And perhaps because he so trustingly expected it, he usually got it--and a trifle over. It was a subtle kind of blackmail, in a way, and that crafty old soldier knew just how to operate it. Leadership they call it.
-->-- ''Literature/McAuslan''

->Kathleen Mirali Tagon was just one of thousands killed in the opening shots of the Terraforming War in the Celeschul System in 3069. The Terran Formation Front launched their first strikes in an attempt to decapitate their opposition by assassinating senior officers sympathetic to the Continuance faction.\\
There are numerous narratives surrounding that conflict. Some people say that the TFF was doomed to failure the moment Colonel Karl Tagon survived. [[BrokenAce Karl Tagon is not one of those people]], but late in the evening after a few drinks, Karl will concede that it is astonishingly poor tactical doctrine to make him your enemy.
-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-09-30 September 30th 2016]]

->''"A friend of death, a brother of luck and a son of a bitch!"''
-->-- '''Major Elim Rawne''', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', on Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt

->''"I am a [[BadassLongcoat Commissar.]] I am empowered to deliver justice wherever I see it lacking. [[YouHaveFailedMe I am empowered to punish cowardice.]] I am granted the gift of total authority to judge, [[ChurchMilitant in the name of the Emperor,]] on the field of combat."''
-->-- '''Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt''', ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
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