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->''"Wha- Alright, okay, back to science here! A laser doesn't have any mass! Well, light ''does'' have mass, but it's an insignificant amount of mass... L-Lasers don't cause ''thrust''; they don't. An ion drive would cause thrust, but lasers wouldn't! It's no-- Okay..."''
-->-- '''LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}''' on the "Laser" [[HaveANiceDeath Fail]] in ''[[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Infiltrating the Airship]]''

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->''"Wha- ->''"Wha-- Alright, okay, back to science here! A laser doesn't have any mass! Well, light ''does'' have mass, but it's an insignificant amount of mass... L-Lasers don't cause ''thrust''; they don't. An ion drive would cause thrust, but lasers wouldn't! It's no-- Okay..."''
-->-- '''LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}''' '''WebVideo/{{Markiplier}}''' on the "Laser" [[HaveANiceDeath Fail]] in ''[[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Infiltrating the Airship]]''
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'''Creator/MargotKidder:''' Oh I'm fine with the flying thing. I just, [[CatchAFallingStar I'd been falling for five hundred feet when I hit your arms]]. Which were flying UP towards me, which would just INCREASE the impact velocity. Shouldn't that collision have given my body all kinds of interesting new corners?\\

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'''Creator/MargotKidder:''' Oh I'm fine with the flying thing. I just, [[CatchAFallingStar I'd been falling for five hundred feet when I hit your arms]]. Which were flying UP towards me, which would just INCREASE the impact velocity. [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou Shouldn't that collision have given my body all kinds of interesting new corners?\\corners?]]\\
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->''"I should also point out that Light literally writes down in Mia's description of death that he survives the fall. Okay, that makes no sense! You should not able to defy the laws of physics in the details of someone else's death]]! I should also mention one more time, that Ryuk said, things have to be PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE!"''

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->''"I should also point out that Light literally writes down in Mia's description of death that he survives the fall. Okay, that makes no sense! You should not able to defy the laws of physics in the details of someone else's death]]! death! I should also mention one more time, that Ryuk said, things have to be PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE!"''
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-->-- '''LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}''' on the "Laser" [[HaveANiceDeath Fail]] in ''[[VideoGame/TheHenryStickminCollection Infiltrating the Airship]]''

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-->-- '''LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}''' on the "Laser" [[HaveANiceDeath Fail]] in ''[[VideoGame/TheHenryStickminCollection ''[[VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries Infiltrating the Airship]]''

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-->--''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "True Q"

->''"This guy - a physicist - turns to the other physicist and without any shame or compunction says, 'The neutrinos have mutated'. Now, for the non-nerds here, neutrinos are tiny sub-atomic, really almost massless particles that are released in nuclear breakdown, like in the sun for example. Five hundred trillion of them pass through your body every second. They can't mutate. Their structure is fundamental to the structure of the universe. They can't just ''change''. They might as well have gone, 'The electrons are angry'. Or 'The light from the sun...*sniff*, it's gone off'. That's how fucking ludicrous it is."''
-->--'''Dara O'Briain''' is not a fan of ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve''.

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-->--''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', -->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "True Q"

->''"This guy - -- a physicist - -- turns to the other physicist and without any shame or compunction says, 'The neutrinos have mutated'. Now, for the non-nerds here, neutrinos are tiny sub-atomic, really almost massless particles that are released in nuclear breakdown, like in the sun for example. Five hundred trillion of them pass through your body every second. They can't mutate. Their structure is fundamental to the structure of the universe. They can't just ''change''. They might as well have gone, 'The electrons are angry'. Or Or, 'The light from the sun...*sniff*, sun... ''(sniff)'', it's gone off'. off.' That's how fucking ludicrous it is."''
-->--'''Dara -->-- '''Dara O'Briain''' is not a fan of ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve''.



-->-- '''[[http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/ The Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics]] website''' on ''Film/TheCore''

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-->-- '''[[http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/ The Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics]] website''' Physics]]''' on ''Film/TheCore''



-->--'''Mike Stoklasa''', ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag'' on ''Film/JupiterAscending''

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-->--'''Mike -->-- '''Mike Stoklasa''', ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag'' on ''Film/JupiterAscending''



-->--'''Vaarsuvius''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0754.html #754]]

->''83: The Laws of Physics can kindly go fuck themselves.''
-->--[[http://fudoushin.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/rules.jpg The Laws of Super Robot Anime]]

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-->--'''Vaarsuvius''', -->-- '''Vaarsuvius''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0754.html #754]]

->''83: ->''"83: The Laws of Physics can kindly go fuck themselves.themselves".''
-->--[[http://fudoushin.-->-- '''[[http://fudoushin.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/rules.jpg The Laws of Super Robot Anime]]
Anime]]'''



-->-- '''Ryouma Nagare''' watching [[PlutoIsExpendable Pluto getting eaten by a wormhole]], ''Manga/GetterRobo Armageddon''.

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-->-- '''Ryouma Nagare''' watching [[PlutoIsExpendable Pluto getting eaten by a wormhole]], ''Manga/GetterRobo Armageddon''.
Armageddon''



->''In Franchise/StarTrek, it is possible to use sound waves as a weapon against a starship in the vacuum of space, cool something ''below'' absolute zero, live on an inhabitable planet which is only ten light-seconds from its star, find a crack in a mathematically defined radius, measure power in units of joules and energy in units of watts, shrink a shuttlecraft to the size of a thimble, make gravity propagate at superluminal speed, intercept photons without changing their energy or direction, see non-incident non-radiating particles, come to a meaningless "full stop" in outer space, expand the scale at which quantum effects are significant to encompass the entire universe, live without being born, fly a ship that was never built, dig up miraculously naturally-occurring alloys, vapourize something without producing any vapour, subject metals to high-energy plasma bombardment without damage, find magical "omega particles" that have greater energy density than matter/antimatter annihilation, and take a drug that protects you from radiation.''

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->''In Franchise/StarTrek, ->''"In ''Franchise/StarTrek'', it is possible to use sound waves as a weapon against a starship in the vacuum of space, cool something ''below'' absolute zero, live on an inhabitable planet which is only ten light-seconds from its star, find a crack in a mathematically defined radius, measure power in units of joules and energy in units of watts, shrink a shuttlecraft to the size of a thimble, make gravity propagate at superluminal speed, intercept photons without changing their energy or direction, see non-incident non-radiating particles, come to a meaningless "full stop" in outer space, expand the scale at which quantum effects are significant to encompass the entire universe, live without being born, fly a ship that was never built, dig up miraculously naturally-occurring alloys, vapourize something without producing any vapour, subject metals to high-energy plasma bombardment without damage, find magical "omega particles" that have greater energy density than matter/antimatter annihilation, and take a drug that protects you from radiation.''"''



-->--'''Spider-Man''' on '''Captain America''''s shield, ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''

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-->--'''Spider-Man''' -->-- '''Spider-Man''' on '''Captain America''''s shield, ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''



-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheDomReviews Dominic Noble]]''', ''Lost in Adaptation'' review of ''Film/{{Wanted}}''

->'''Producer''': OK, so how are these guys able to do this stuff?\\
'''Screenwriter''': Well, sir, you know physics?\\
'''Producer''': Yeah.\\
'''Screenwriter''': Well I ''don't'', nor do I care to learn.\\
'''Producer''': Oh, OK, gotcha. It does sound more fun to just ignore all that stuff.

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-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheDomReviews -->-- '''[[WebVideo/TheDomReviews Dominic Noble]]''', ''Lost in Adaptation'' review of ''Film/{{Wanted}}''

->'''Producer''': ->'''Producer:''' OK, so how are these guys able to do this stuff?\\
'''Screenwriter''': '''Screenwriter:''' Well, sir, you know physics?\\
'''Producer''': '''Producer:''' Yeah.\\
'''Screenwriter''': '''Screenwriter:''' Well I ''don't'', nor do I care to learn.\\
'''Producer''': '''Producer:''' Oh, OK, gotcha. It does sound more fun to just ignore all that stuff.



-> "I should also point out that Light literally writes down in Mia's description of death that he survives the fall. Okay, that makes no sense! You should not able to defy the laws of physics in the details of someone else's death]]! I should also mention one more time, that Ryuk said, things have to be PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE!"
--> ''WebVideo/TheCosmonautVarietyHour'' in his review of ''Film/DeathNote2017''

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-> "I ->''"I should also point out that Light literally writes down in Mia's description of death that he survives the fall. Okay, that makes no sense! You should not able to defy the laws of physics in the details of someone else's death]]! I should also mention one more time, that Ryuk said, things have to be PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE!"
-->
POSSIBLE!"''
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''WebVideo/TheCosmonautVarietyHour'' in his review of ''Film/DeathNote2017''''Film/DeathNote2017''

->''"Wha- Alright, okay, back to science here! A laser doesn't have any mass! Well, light ''does'' have mass, but it's an insignificant amount of mass... L-Lasers don't cause ''thrust''; they don't. An ion drive would cause thrust, but lasers wouldn't! It's no-- Okay..."''
-->-- '''LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}''' on the "Laser" [[HaveANiceDeath Fail]] in ''[[VideoGame/TheHenryStickminCollection Infiltrating the Airship]]''
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-> "I should also point out that Light literally writes down in Mia's description of death that he survives the fall. Okay, that makes no sense! You should not able to defy the laws of physics in the details of someone else's death]]! I should also mention one more time, that Ryuk said, things have to be PHYSICALLY POSSIBLE!"
--> ''WebVideo/TheCosmonautVarietyHour'' in his review of ''Film/DeathNote2017''
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-->-- [[Creator/LewisLovhaug Linkara]], during the joint review of ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'' with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic

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-->-- [[Creator/LewisLovhaug Linkara]], '''[[Creator/LewisLovhaug Linkara]]''', during the joint review of ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'' with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic

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-->--''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''

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-->--''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
-->--''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "True Q"


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->''"[[RussianReversal In Soviet Russia, physics breaks YOU]]!"''
-->-- [[Creator/LewisLovhaug Linkara]], during the joint review of ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'' with WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic
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-->-- ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings'', ''Film/{{RRR}}'' pitch meeting

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-->-- ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings'', ''Film/{{RRR}}'' ''Film/{{RRR|2022}}'' pitch meeting
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->'''Producer''': OK, so how are these guys able to do this stuff?\\
'''Screenwriter''': Well, sir, you know physics?\\
'''Producer''': Yeah.\\
'''Screenwriter''': Well I ''don't'', nor do I care to learn.\\
'''Producer''': Oh, OK, gotcha. It does sound more fun to just ignore all that stuff.
-->-- ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings'', ''Film/{{RRR}}'' pitch meeting

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->''In Franchise/StarTrek, it is possible to use sound waves as a weapon against a starship in the vacuum of space, cool something ''below'' absolute zero, live on an inhabitable planet which is only ten light-seconds from its star, find a crack in a mathematically defined radius, measure power in units of joules and energy in units of watts, shrink a shuttlecraft to the size of a thimble, make gravity propagate at superluminal speed, intercept photons without changing their energy or direction, see non-incident non-radiating particles, come to a meaningless "full stop" in outer space, expand the scale at which quantum effects are significant to encompass the entire universe, live without being born, fly a ship that was never built, dig up miraculously naturally-occuring alloys, vapourize something without producing any vapour, subject metals to high-energy plasma bombardment without damage, find magical "omega particles" that have greater energy density than matter/antimatter annihilation, and take a drug that protects you from radiation.''

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->''In Franchise/StarTrek, it is possible to use sound waves as a weapon against a starship in the vacuum of space, cool something ''below'' absolute zero, live on an inhabitable planet which is only ten light-seconds from its star, find a crack in a mathematically defined radius, measure power in units of joules and energy in units of watts, shrink a shuttlecraft to the size of a thimble, make gravity propagate at superluminal speed, intercept photons without changing their energy or direction, see non-incident non-radiating particles, come to a meaningless "full stop" in outer space, expand the scale at which quantum effects are significant to encompass the entire universe, live without being born, fly a ship that was never built, dig up miraculously naturally-occuring naturally-occurring alloys, vapourize something without producing any vapour, subject metals to high-energy plasma bombardment without damage, find magical "omega particles" that have greater energy density than matter/antimatter annihilation, and take a drug that protects you from radiation.''


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->''"After a gunfight, and a car chase that defies all the laws of physics... and I do mean all of them, even the ones we've not discovered yet..."''
-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheDomReviews Dominic Noble]]''', ''Lost in Adaptation'' review of ''Film/{{Wanted}}''
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'''Super-Chris:''' Ha ha haaa, FUCK YOU, PHYSICS!

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'''Super-Chris:''' Ha ha haaa, [[PrecisionFStrike FUCK YOU, PHYSICS!PHYSICS!]]
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->'''Creator/MargotKidder:''' What the fuck is happening?!\\
'''[[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Super]]-[[Creator/ChristopherReeve Chris]]:''' Just a [[FlyingBrick superhumanly strong flying dude]], nothing to worry about! I'll just smile charmingly while your brain utterly breaks.\\
'''Creator/MargotKidder:''' Oh I'm fine with the flying thing. I just, [[CatchAFallingStar I'd been falling for five hundred feet when I hit your arms]]. Which were flying UP towards me, which would just INCREASE the impact velocity. Shouldn't that collision have given my body all kinds of interesting new corners?\\
'''Super-Chris:''' What is that, physics? Let me show you something.\\
''He catches the falling HELICOPTER by its LANDING SKID. All FIVE TONS OF FORCE gets absorbed in a piece of metal the size of ONE GUY'S HAND, which proceeds to not BEND or TWIST or REACT AT ALL.''\\
'''Super-Chris:''' Ha ha haaa, FUCK YOU, PHYSICS!
-->-- ''Website/TheEditingRoom'''s abridged script for ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''
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-->-- '''Mike Nelson''' (as a Mook), ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E03PumaMan Mystery Science Theater 3000: Puma Man]]''

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-->-- '''Mike Nelson''' (as a Mook), ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E03PumaMan ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E03ThePumaman Mystery Science Theater 3000: Puma Man]]''
The Pumaman]]''
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->''"That thing doesn't obey the laws of physics at all!"''
-->--'''Spider-Man''' on '''Captain America''''s shield, ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''
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->''"He said, 'The neutrinos have mutated'. Now, these are fundamental particles. They can't mutate. Their structure is fundamental to the structure of the universe. It's like going, 'The electrons are angry'. It's as ridiculous as saying, 'The light from the sun...*sniff*, it's gone off'."''

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->''"He said, ->''"This guy - a physicist - turns to the other physicist and without any shame or compunction says, 'The neutrinos have mutated'. Now, these for the non-nerds here, neutrinos are fundamental particles.tiny sub-atomic, really almost massless particles that are released in nuclear breakdown, like in the sun for example. Five hundred trillion of them pass through your body every second. They can't mutate. Their structure is fundamental to the structure of the universe. It's like going, They can't just ''change''. They might as well have gone, 'The electrons are angry'. It's as ridiculous as saying, Or 'The light from the sun...*sniff*, it's gone off'. That's how fucking ludicrous it is."''
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->''"He said, 'The neutrinos have mutated'. Now, these are fundamental particles. It's like going, 'The electrons are angry'. It's as ridiculous as saying, 'The light from the sun...*sniff*, it's gone off'."''

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->''"He said, 'The neutrinos have mutated'. Now, these are fundamental particles. They can't mutate. Their structure is fundamental to the structure of the universe. It's like going, 'The electrons are angry'. It's as ridiculous as saying, 'The light from the sun...*sniff*, it's gone off'."''
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->''In Franchise/StarTrek, it is possible to use sound waves as a weapon against a starship in the vacuum of space, cool something below absolute zero, live on an inhabitable planet which is only ten light-seconds from its star, find a crack in a mathematically defined radius, measure power in units of joules and energy in units of watts, shrink a shuttlecraft to the size of a thimble, make gravity propagate at superluminal speed, intercept photons without changing their energy or direction, see non-incident non-radiating particles, come to a meaningless "full stop" in outer space, expand the scale at which quantum effects are significant to encompass the entire universe, live without being born, fly a ship that was never built, dig up miraculously naturally-occuring alloys, vapourize something without producing any vapour, subject metals to high-energy plasma bombardment without damage, find magical "omega particles" that have greater energy density than matter/antimatter annihilation, and take a drug that protects you from radiation.''

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->''In Franchise/StarTrek, it is possible to use sound waves as a weapon against a starship in the vacuum of space, cool something below ''below'' absolute zero, live on an inhabitable planet which is only ten light-seconds from its star, find a crack in a mathematically defined radius, measure power in units of joules and energy in units of watts, shrink a shuttlecraft to the size of a thimble, make gravity propagate at superluminal speed, intercept photons without changing their energy or direction, see non-incident non-radiating particles, come to a meaningless "full stop" in outer space, expand the scale at which quantum effects are significant to encompass the entire universe, live without being born, fly a ship that was never built, dig up miraculously naturally-occuring alloys, vapourize something without producing any vapour, subject metals to high-energy plasma bombardment without damage, find magical "omega particles" that have greater energy density than matter/antimatter annihilation, and take a drug that protects you from radiation.''
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->''In Franchise/StarTrek, it is possible to use sound waves as a weapon against a starship in the vacuum of space, cool something below absolute zero, live on an inhabitable planet which is only ten light-seconds from its star, find a crack in a mathematically defined radius, measure power in units of joules and energy in units of watts, shrink a shuttlecraft to the size of a thimble, make gravity propagate at superluminal speed, intercept photons without changing their energy or direction, see non-incident non-radiating particles, come to a meaningless "full stop" in outer space, expand the scale at which quantum effects are significant to encompass the entire universe, live without being born, fly a ship that was never built, dig up miraculously naturally-occuring alloys, vapourize something without producing any vapour, subject metals to high-energy plasma bombardment without damage, find magical "omega particles" that have greater energy density than matter/antimatter annihilation, and take a drug that protects you from radiation.''
-->-- '''Website/StarDestroyerDotNet''', "[[http://stardestroyer.net/Empire/Tech/Myths/STRealism.html Star Trek Realism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly]]"

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->''"We apes have no need for the laws of physics!"''
-->-- ''Cranky Kong'', ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns''
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->''"Can we have a sci-fi movie that doesn't defy all laws of physics completely with human beings? The Creator/ChanningTatum character and he's flying around like Franchise/{{Superman}} with [[Franchise/StarTrek Mr. Spock's Vulcan boots]] on -- rocket boots -- and he's like, "Hold on to me real tight 'cause I'm gonna hold on to this spaceship that can go Mach 40 through the atmosphere." Uhh... No. Don't lose me here."''

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->''"Can we have a sci-fi movie that doesn't defy all laws of physics completely with human beings? The [We have] the Creator/ChanningTatum character and he's flying around like Franchise/{{Superman}} with [[Franchise/StarTrek Mr. Spock's Vulcan boots]] on -- rocket boots -- and he's like, "Hold on to me real tight 'cause I'm gonna hold on to this spaceship that can go Mach 40 through the atmosphere." Uhh... No. Don't lose me here."''
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->''"Can we have a sci-fi movie that doesn't defy all laws of physics completely with human beings? The Creator/ChanningTatum character and he's flying around like Franchise/{{Superman}} with [[Franchise/StarTrek Mr. Spock's Vulcan boots]] on -- rocket boots -- and he's like, "Hold on to me real tight 'cause I'm gonna hold on to this spaceship that can go Mach 40 through the atmosphere." Uhh... No. Don't lose me here."''
-->--'''Mike Stoklasa''', ''WebVideo/HalfInTheBag'' on ''Film/JupiterAscending''

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