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Dawn: Mom died, and it's like you don't even care!
Buffy: Of course I care. How could you even think that?!
Dawn: How can I not? You haven't even cried. You've just been running around like it's been some big chore or something. Cleaning up after Mom's mess.

"We have no time for sorrows, Commander."
Princess Leia, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Meg: I shouldn't mourn your death forever, Robert.
Spoony: Forever? It's the next day! Your boyfriend died and you didn't even ask for the day off?
Spoony (reviewing The Ring: Terror's Realm), The Spoony Experiment

"Your brother just died in action, kid. It's okay to react!"
The Cartoon Hero, in his review of Pilot Candidate

Jacques: Whoa! The fuck was that?
JonTron: Oh hey, Jacques, I thought you died.
JonTron, after Jacques exploded earlier in his Star Fox Adventures review

Lazlo: Scoutmaster Lumpus? How can we turn this slight bummer into a positive?
Raj: Disintegration is a "slight bummer?"
Camp Lazlo, "The Big Cheese"

Tank Girl sucks up adversity with such aplomb, it’s clear that this is a woman who has undergone some extreme trauma, her wisecracking quips and her wacky hair aside. This is not a film that actively encourages its viewer to relate to it on a deeper level, but it’s tough not to recognize the broader archetype playing out here — a strong-willed, outspoken, unapologetic woman fights against the all-powerful Men Corp, which only wants to destroy her before it kills her. And here, unlike most versions of this story, she refuses to even play along. TG doesn’t capitulate, she doesn’t courageously struggle to go on, and she doesn’t ultimately summon her resources to overcome obstacles and actual literal torture to rise above and show all those bad evil men that she is just as good as they are. Her cunning plan is to drop out of the whole charade and force her tormenters to simply murder her out of rage. She is not participating. It is not a story we see often, which may be why it has all these terrible reviews — how do you parse something like that if you’ve never seen it before?

Claudette: Nobody wants to help me, and I’m dying!
Lisa: You're not dying, mom.
Claudette: I got the results of the test back. I definitely have breast cancer.
Lisa: Look... don't worry about it. Everything'll be fine!

Odion: Are you all right, Master Marik?
Marik: I just killed my own father in cold blood. I might need a moment to get over it. [Beat] Okay, I'm over it.

"Well, my philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice."

"My God, it's the future. My parents, my coworkers, my girlfriend, I'll never see any of them again! [Beat] Yahoo!"
Fry, Futurama

Dewey: Launchpad? You okkkaaay...?
Launchpad: I went to the future... I've seen how the world ends. [Beat] It was neat! See you there soon!

Xefros: youre pretty upbeat about all this
Xefros: i think if i was suddenly shot across the galaXy or whatever id be flipping out!
Joey: aren't you currently bleeding out under a ton of rocks?
Xefros: haha i guess so! X:)

"Her sadness of being abandoned by one’s only parent, which was often highlighted in dramas and manga, was surprisingly weak even for her."
—The narrator on Koguma, Super Cub

Count Zaroff: Assume a cheerfulness you may not feel.
Bob: (already angst-less) Why, sure. Of course.
Count Zaroff: Thank you.
Bridget: (as Bob) "May not feel?" Oh, right, my dead best friends.

Mr. Nice Guy arriving to the gates of Heaven: Aww shucks.
Weasel: Ah, Mr. Nice Guy is taking the fact that he just died pretty fucking well.

Screenwriter: Bernie's gonna be like, "That's unfair. I really wanted to hear the end of that speech."
Producer: A man just died in front of his eyes.
Screenwriter: Yeah, so he makes a little joke instead of acting like a human person.

"You know, It's nice to see that her actions haven't made you all angsty and emo, but still. This is the woman who killed your mother and father, turned you into a frog, ruined your kingdom and is now trying to take over the world. A little more resentment would not go amiss."
Infamous Animation, Erik Olund on Freddie's lack of anger towards Messina during his Freddie as F.R.O.7 review.

Hilda: Thanks for not telling Mum I left the building.
Alfur: I wouldn't even know where to begin trying to explain this.
Hilda: And all things considered, it didn't work out too badly.
Alfur: We saw ourselves die! Twice!
Hilda, "The Fifty Year Night"

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