"When you grow up doing karate, you learn awesome and impossible things. Like how to cross your arms perfectly to catch incoming punches, or how to levitate out of the way of multiple nunchuck attacks. I can't even type about the advanced stuff because I can't trust you with it. I'm serious, my kung fu sensei once taught the heart exploding touch to someone and they died microwaving a burrito."
— Seanbaby
"And now I'm able to play six games at the same time! This! Is! Capturing God Mode! Fwahahaha! But, the intellectual capacities, stamina, and concentration of the player is pushed to the limits with this mode, so it's like a double-edged sword! And one hour after the mode's activation, the player's life will be reduced by three years! (That's what you're going to feel!)"
— Keima, The World God Only Knows
Dumbledore: You flatter me. Voldemort had powers I will never have.
McGonagall: Only because you're too — well — noble to use them.
McGonagall: Only because you're too — well — noble to use them.
"Of the Horcrux, wickedest of magical inventions, we shall not speak nor give direction—"
— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, quoted from the introduction of Magick Moste Evile
Releasing the restrain device.
Releasing this power may result in the destruction of the ship.
Releasing this power may result in the destruction of the ship.
— The Ikaruga, Ikaruga
Nail: There's a special ability our people share, forbidden, even among our most sacred clans.
Piccolo: And we're just going to abuse it?
Nail: Oh, maliciously!
Piccolo: Bitchin'. How we do?
Piccolo: And we're just going to abuse it?
Nail: Oh, maliciously!
Piccolo: Bitchin'. How we do?
Briar Girl: The stars are sources of light and energy. A being like you describe would be powerful. A leader of others of its kind. Meteors? With one action, he might bring fiery death down on your enemies, but the world would pay a cost. Every light humanity uses might be dimmer. Every source of fuel and energy might be a fraction less effective. Food, fuel, electricity.
Blake Thorburn: People would notice.
Briar Girl: Never when they were looking. No. A general or a duke, whatever he might be, this being you speak of, he should be a commander. Imps, you might call them. If he brought a darkness to the world, he would do it by scattering imps across the world. These imps would work as spirits do, but with intelligence. Ensuring that a flashlight grew dim when it might reveal a murderer or rabid animal. That a car ran out of gas where it might carry a sick man to a hospital, spelling his death. One action on your part, fire and devastation, but you never see what comes out of it. Hundreds of incidents a year, for decades or a century, before the imps are dealt with or spent of their power.
Blake Thorburn: People would notice.
Briar Girl: Never when they were looking. No. A general or a duke, whatever he might be, this being you speak of, he should be a commander. Imps, you might call them. If he brought a darkness to the world, he would do it by scattering imps across the world. These imps would work as spirits do, but with intelligence. Ensuring that a flashlight grew dim when it might reveal a murderer or rabid animal. That a car ran out of gas where it might carry a sick man to a hospital, spelling his death. One action on your part, fire and devastation, but you never see what comes out of it. Hundreds of incidents a year, for decades or a century, before the imps are dealt with or spent of their power.
— Pact, on summoning greater demons
Reginald: Oh no! Beartato is trapped in quicksand! I have to save him, even if that means using the forbidden techniques of my people! (transforms into a dragon)
Harrison: Oh, he got out by himself. He's fine.
Reginald: (transforms back into a bird) Good thing I didn't have to use the forbidden technique of my people.
Harrison: Oh, he got out by himself. He's fine.
Reginald: (transforms back into a bird) Good thing I didn't have to use the forbidden technique of my people.
"Over, I will defeat you with my next attack, so now you had your warning! The attack I'll use is forbidden by the Code of the Fist of the Nose Hair! It could cost me my video store membership!"
—The titular character of "Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo''
Uzuki: Oh, c'mon, live a little! Secret weapons? Unchained power? Sign me up!
Kariya: Uh-huh. Ever wonder why they keep the chains ON?
Uzuki: I guess... it must take a toll.
Ant-Man: On my signal, run like hell. And If I tear myself in half, don't come back for me.
Bucky: ...he's gonna tear himself in half?
Captain America: You sure about this, Scott?
Ant-Man: I do it all the time! I mean, once. In a lab. And I passed out.
Bucky: ...he's gonna tear himself in half?
Captain America: You sure about this, Scott?
Ant-Man: I do it all the time! I mean, once. In a lab. And I passed out.
Egon: I have a radical idea. The door swings both ways. We could reverse the particle flow through the gate.
Peter: How?
Egon: We'll cross the streams.
Peter: Excuse me, Egon, you said crossing the streams was bad.
Ray: Cross the streams...
Peter: You're gonna endanger us, you're gonna endanger our client. The nice lady who paid us in advance before she became a dog.
Egon: Not necessarily. There's definitely a very slim chance we'll survive.
Peter: I love this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it. Let's do it!
Peter: How?
Egon: We'll cross the streams.
Peter: Excuse me, Egon, you said crossing the streams was bad.
Ray: Cross the streams...
Peter: You're gonna endanger us, you're gonna endanger our client. The nice lady who paid us in advance before she became a dog.
Egon: Not necessarily. There's definitely a very slim chance we'll survive.
Peter: I love this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it. Let's do it!
Loki (as narrator): And... imagine you had a big red button that could save you from anything. But if you pressed it too hard, you'd spend the rest of forever in chains. On fire. Burning. Every thought, an endless burning.
"I can never go that fast again. If I do, I don't think I'm coming back."
— Flash, Justice League Unlimited, "Divided We Fall"
"What?! That technique will take huge amounts of energy from us! We need to save it for an emergency! And if we don't work together as a team, it might not even work! If we do the Paper-Cut Crusher, we need to be very focused and very careful!"
— Terrible Trio Note - "The Forbidden Technique", The Legendary Starfy
Mother Olm: Anne, one more thing. The stones are strong, but they may not be enough to defeat The Core. If things look bad out there, don't forget about the secret spell.
Anne: Wait. The secret what-now?
Mother Olm: Didn't I tell you about that?
Amphibia: No!
Mother Olm: [sighs] Well, the stones are rumored to hold a hidden power, enough to defeat any foe. But, summoning such power comes at a price — the life of the user.
Anne: So, whoever uses this spell and calls on the power of all three stones... will die?
Mother Olm: Yeah. But hopefully it will never come to that. Am I right?
Anne: Wait. The secret what-now?
Mother Olm: Didn't I tell you about that?
Amphibia: No!
Mother Olm: [sighs] Well, the stones are rumored to hold a hidden power, enough to defeat any foe. But, summoning such power comes at a price — the life of the user.
Anne: So, whoever uses this spell and calls on the power of all three stones... will die?
Mother Olm: Yeah. But hopefully it will never come to that. Am I right?
— Amphibia, "The Hardest Thing"
Maya: It is the heartsblood blade, the Maybe sword. It is everything I am as a person, and before you ask, no, I will not teach you to use it. It is an awful, cursed weapon.
Allison: Please teach me to use this awful, cursed weapon, so I can cut down the Chakravartin, king of the world.
Maya: Very well.
Allison: Please teach me to use this awful, cursed weapon, so I can cut down the Chakravartin, king of the world.
Maya: Very well.
Picard: Can you tell me what this maneuver is?
Wesley: ...it's a Kolvoord Starburst, sir.
Picard: Five ships crossing within ten meters of each other and igniting their plasma trails. It's one of the most spectacular and difficult demonstrations in precision flying. And it hasn't been performed at the Academy for over 100 years; do you know why?
Wesley: It was banned by the Academy following a training accident, sir.
Picard: An accident in which all five cadets lost their lives.
Wesley: ...it's a Kolvoord Starburst, sir.
Picard: Five ships crossing within ten meters of each other and igniting their plasma trails. It's one of the most spectacular and difficult demonstrations in precision flying. And it hasn't been performed at the Academy for over 100 years; do you know why?
Wesley: It was banned by the Academy following a training accident, sir.
Picard: An accident in which all five cadets lost their lives.
