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"Paper beats rock, scissors beat paper, machine guns beat swords, it's called the 20th century people!"

Creedy: Whatchya gonna do, huh? We've swept this place. You've got nothing. Nothing but your bloody knives and your fancy karate gimmicks. We have guns.
V: No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty, I'm no longer standing. Because if I am, you'll all be dead before you've reloaded.

Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.
— "The Modern Traveller" by Hilaire Belloc

"You've got The Legend of Zelda, where you walk around with a lil' bitch, and his lil' bitch-ass sword, with lil' shield, and he just goes Haeh! Hah! Hah!. C'mon! Who wants to play that shit? I need to shoot some niggaz! Pow! Pow! Pow!"
— Chad Warden

"Why do they always gotta be using swords? It's called an Uzi, ya chump! Could have saved your ass right about now."
Trick, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Bad Girls"

"Guns over swords, and nukes over guns. Hah! If we had one of those, it would be the greatest thing ever!"
Revy, Black Lagoon

"You can’t help but respect a man who brings a sword to a gunfight… and fucking wins."

"Do you really think a knife can beat a bullet? This is how people are fighting nowadays."
Polly Watkins, The King's Man

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