"And it has a flamethrower Power-Up that works in space. That's not even physically possible, which makes it twice as cool."
— Classic Game Room review
of Star Defender 4
of Star Defender 4La Forge: It's like the laws of physics just went right out the window!
Q: And why shouldn't they? They're so inconvenient.
Q: And why shouldn't they? They're so inconvenient.
— Star Trek: The Next Generation, "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 2012.
"It's the worst physics movie... Ever... This is not just a disaster movie. It's a disaster."
"Can we have a sci-fi movie that doesn't defy all laws of physics completely with human beings? [We have] the Channing Tatum character and he's flying around like Superman with 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, Half in the Bag on Jupiter Ascending
"I should avoid casting any spells tonight, if only to give the laws of physics time to cry alone in the corner."
— Vaarsuvius, The Order of the Stick, #754
"83: The Laws of Physics can kindly go fuck themselves".
"And through the planet, I end up IN SPACE! And I start running around IN SPACE! Screw physics, because Video Games!"
— ProJared on Super Hydlide
"The laws of physics can kiss my ass!"
— America Chavez summing up every storywriter's view on this trope after punching a singularity in the face, Young Avengers Volume II
"So much for the Laws of Physics."
— Ryouma Nagare watching Pluto getting eaten by a wormhole, Getter Robo Armageddon
"Like, there's one kind of space, the more realistic one, which obeys the laws of physics... And there's the other kind of space, which does away with all that, because screw it, physics are for nerds."
— Igno, We Are Our Avatars
"It's one thing to laugh at the laws of physics. It's another thing entirely to sneak into physics' garage at night, open up the car hood, and poop on the radiator."
— Jeremy "Norm" Scott, Let's Not Play Infamous: Second Son
"Help! I'm falling at a sixty-degree angle, breaking all the laws of physics!"
— Mike Nelson (as a Mook), Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Pumaman
"We view the laws of physics more as polite suggestions".
— Nanase, El Goonish Shive, [1]
"You see, trucks can drive very fast, especially on reverse. In fact, you can accelerate indefinitely and even the rate of your acceleration increases indefinitely. The fact that you can exceed the speed of light with a semi going on reverse is finally proof that Einstein was just a quack who didn't know what the hell he was talking about."
"In Star Trek, 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."
"That thing doesn't obey the laws of physics at all!"
— Spider-Man on Captain America's shield, Captain America: Civil War
Margot Kidder: What the fuck is happening?!
Super-Chris: Just a superhumanly strong flying dude, nothing to worry about! I'll just smile charmingly while your brain utterly breaks.
Margot Kidder: Oh I'm fine with the flying thing. I just, 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!
Super-Chris: Just a superhumanly strong flying dude, nothing to worry about! I'll just smile charmingly while your brain utterly breaks.
Margot Kidder: Oh I'm fine with the flying thing. I just, 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!
— The Editing Room's abridged script for Superman: The Movie
"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..."
— Dominic Noble, Lost in Adaptation review of 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.
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.
— Screen Rant Pitch Meetings, RRR pitch meeting
"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!"
— The Cosmonaut Variety Hour in his review of Death Note (2017)
"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..."
