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  • Leander getting sea sick while he is on board.
    Sailor: Tell the captain we've lost nothing but our passenger's dinner.
  • Promachus being a Deadpan Snarker:
    Hipparchus: It pains me doubly, for the man was my friend and I trusted him.
    Promachus: Gods… as we have nothing to worry about but prophecies.
  • During the chaos surrounding Hipparchus' death, Promachus is the only one who is seen smiling.
    Promachus: (smiling) They killed the tyrant!
    Echekrates: (angrily) He died!
  • When Leander meets Hero and asks her to help him take revenge for his father's death, Hero replies that she can't help him. Leander, then, points out that she is a Pythia, only for her to tell him that "A Pyhtia speaks for the gods, but the words she speaks are those of men". Leander's face is what sells it.
  • Cleisthenes and Isagoras' conversation during a symposium:
    Cleisthenes: So what do you suggest?
    Isagoras: An understanding. I think Athens is big enough for the both of us. We might, say, arrange it so that, while one of us is magistrate, the other provides only a token opposition. And so on, of course. One of your men can be magistrate one year, followed by one of ours the next. We can take turns.
    Cleisthenes: No.
    Isagoras: No? What do you mean, no?
    Cleisthenes: I won't insult you by by saying your scheme is exactly like the arrangement the tyrants had, for we are no tyrants, are we? Neither will I offend you by saying you are a fat, low-class, unoriginal and overly ambitious stooge.
  • The Poet roasting his brother:
    Kynegeiros: I was ten, and I don't recall it.
    The poet: That's because you're still ten.

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