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RAF Pilot #1: It's from the Americans! They want to organize a counter-offensive.
RAF Pilot #2: (standing around impotently) Well, it's about bloody time! What do they plan to do?
RAF Pilot #2: (standing around impotently) Well, it's about bloody time! What do they plan to do?
"We musn't underestimate 'American blundering'. I was with them when they 'blundered' into Berlin in 1918."
—Captain Louis Renault, Casablanca
Music
Over there, over there,
Send the word, send the word over there
That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming
The drums rum-tumming everywhere.
So prepare, say a prayer,
Send the word, send the word to beware
We'll be over, we're coming over,
And we won't come back till it's over, over there.
Send the word, send the word over there
That the Yanks are coming, the Yanks are coming
The drums rum-tumming everywhere.
So prepare, say a prayer,
Send the word, send the word to beware
We'll be over, we're coming over,
And we won't come back till it's over, over there.
— George M. Cohan's "Over There"
Video Games
U.S.A. is dominate!
— Leader Enemy Boss, Duty Calls
Leon: What's so funny?
Saddler: Oh, I think you know. The American prevailing is a cliché that only happens in your Hollywood movies. Oh Mr. Kennedy, you entertain me! To show my appreciation, I will help you awaken from your world of clichés.
Saddler: Oh, I think you know. The American prevailing is a cliché that only happens in your Hollywood movies. Oh Mr. Kennedy, you entertain me! To show my appreciation, I will help you awaken from your world of clichés.
We are the most powerful military force in the history of man. Every fight is our fight.
— General Shepherd, Modern Warfare 2, before he's revealed as a General Ripper directly invoking this trope
Glad you joined the right side...the winning side. USA! USA! US-...uh, I mean Allies, Allies, Allies!
— American soldier, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
Webcomics
I'll be the hero, of course!
— America, Hetalia: Axis Powers
...just as [Tiki god Graal-Grosh] was about to slay the queen and send the kingdom into eternal misery forever, Americans arrived!
— "Take Your Keiki To Work Day"
Web Video
Witness a film whose message of global unity means only America can save the world.
Real Life
Even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old.
— Winston Churchill, speech in the House of Commons, 1940
Lafayette, we are here.
— Colonel Charles Stanton, upon the arrival of American troops in France in 1917
