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    Anime & Manga 
Mob: Master isn't an esper. He's a psychic.
Tome: And the difference is...?

"I'm not a phantom thief, I'm a treasure hunter!"
Arsene Gundam X, SD Gundam World Heroes

    Comedy 
Tony Greig: The Australians, too, looking resplendent in their bright canary yellow, here.
Bill Lawry: Canary yellow? That's Australian gold, my friend, and don't you fucking forget it! "Canary yellow", indeed!

    Comic Books 
Dick Grayson: Unless you count electric batons? Not a whole lot.
Kara Gordon: Electric sticks are our only hope?
Dick Grayson: Batons. They're called batons.

Jimmy Olsen: You're wrong, Bizarro Supergirl! Supergirl is not the Bizarro version of you! You're the Bizarro version of her![...]
Bizarrogirl: It am Bizarrogirl, Jimmy Olsen!

Thara Ak-Var: On your mother's orders, my team was monitoring certain human military channels before we left Earth.
Kara Zor-El: You were spying on the military?
Lyra Kam-Par: Monitoring them.

Batman: You spy on heroes? As a matter of routine?
Niles Caulder: I prefer to think of it as monitoring allies and threats.

    Fan Works 
Yang: I wanna hear more about the type advantages and disadvantages. Like, you said water attacks are extra-effective against ground types—
Blake: Super-effective. The book is pretty consistent about using that phrase, I get the feeling it’s an official term.

Xenilla: I'm eager to see this.. crystal empire of yours, Empress.
Cadance: Princess!
Xenilla: Considering the architecture of your land Consort-
Shining Armor: Prince.
Xenilla: -Prince Consort.

Ritsuko: Yes, well thanks to the N2 reactor we 'reappropriated' after the Jet Alone incident we have some power to work with.[...]
Misato: You mean looted right?
Ritsuko: Call it whatever you want, neither the UN nor JHCI are getting it back.
Later
Ritsuko: Sorry to interrupt your tearful reunion— but our reappropriated-
Misato: Looted.
Ritsuko: -reappropriated N2 reactor is showing signs of instability.

"Please, anyone but him! He's an agent of Satan!"
Scott rolled his eyes. "Incarnation of Evil please. I'd like to think I have the major religions covered."

"There is an incredible difference between scamming people and selling taxed goods and services at a supplier's level of profitable price! I'm receiving tax revenue higher than total loss of surplus, not 'scamming'."
Schlatt, Mirai SMP

    Film — Animated 
Captain Gantu: Place that idiot scientist under arrest.
Dr. Jumba Jookiba: I prefer to be called Evil Genius!!!

Moana: Okay, first, I'm not a princess. I'm the daughter of a chief.
Maui: Same difference.
Moana

    Film — Live-Action 
"I wasn't fired from my job, I was laid off! But you wouldn't know the difference!"
Brennan Huff, Step Brothers

Phil: Not to mention she fucked a bellhop on a cruise ship!
Stu: Hey! He was a bartender!

Randal: Get ready for some hardcore bestiality...
Sexy Stud: Interspecies erotica, fucko!

"It's Doctor Evil! I didn't spend six years in Evil Medical School to be called Mister, thank you very much!"
Dr. Evil, Austin Powers

Inspector Trout: Well, who ordered the set?
Goldsmith: It's a lady.
Trout: Oh, a woman, eh?
Goldsmith: No-no. A lady.

"This is not revenge. It's punishment!"

    Literature 
"I'm going to kill you, you fucking gay monkey!" cried the drug dealer.
"Hey! I'm just bi-curious!" George tried to yell as he made his escape.
Bi-Curious George (A Curious George parody)

"It's a device, not a bomb, and it initiates, not explodes."
Targeteer, The Salvation War

Mombi was not exactly a Witch, because the Good Witch who ruled that part of the Land of Oz had forbidden any other Witch to exist in her dominion. So Tip's guardian, however much she might aspire to working magic, realized it was unlawful to be more than a Sorceress, or at most a Wizardess.

Magistrate Lo: [...]fortunately the Sapphire Bower is only a couple of streets from here.
Judge Dee: Is it a house of assignation?
Lo gave him a reproachful look.
Magistrate Lo: My dear fellow! Of course not! Call it a distribution centre of local talent. Or a training institute for the liberal arts.
Judge Dee, "Poets and Murder"

    Live-Action TV 
Michael: So, this is the magic trick huh?
Gob: Illusion, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money. (Camera pans to children standing by.) (Beat) Or cocaine!
— Original cut of the Arrested Development Pilot note 

Marie: You're ordering a new rock?
Hank: I'm bidding on a new mineral.

The Doctor: Rickston, Mr Copper, and you, Bannakaffalatta... look, can I just call you Banna? It's gonna save a lot of time.
Bannakaffalatta: No! Bannakaffalatta!
The Doctor: All right then, Bannakaffalatta...

D'Argo: You cloned me!
Kaavork: Not the word “clone,” please. I doubled you. I … "twinned" you. Two D’Argos, equal and original … and tasty.
Farscape, "Eat Me"

Simon: So you're a bounty hunter?
Early: No, that ain't it at all.
Simon: Then what are you?
Early: I'm a bounty hunter.
Simon: That's what I said.
Early: Yeah, but you didn't say it well.
Firefly, "Objects in Space"

Barry: Now, Harry has discovered that the metahumans from Earth-2 vibrate at an erratic frequency-
Harrynote : Barry.. They're higher...
Barry:Okay, Harry... The metahumans from Earth-2 vibrate at a much different frequency than-
Harry: HIGHER!!

Davos: I was never a pirate, I was a smuggler.
Shireen: What's the difference?
Davos: Well, if you're a famous smuggler, you're not doing it right.
Shireen: My father says a criminal is a criminal.
Davos: Your father lacks an appreciation for the finer points of bad behavior.

Galadriel: The Moriondor. The Sons of the Dark. The first Orcs.
Adar: Uruk. We prefer "Uruk".

Dwight Schrute: Second Life is not a game. It is a multi-user virtual environment. It does have points or scores. It doesn't have winners or losers.
Jim Halpert: Oh, it has losers.
The Office (US), "Local Ad"

Dillon: Right, because nothing says 'covert' like bright red, yellow, and blue spandex.
Dr. K: THAT IS NOT SPANDEX!
Summer: Doc K can get a little defensive about his work.
Dr. K: The material is a self-assembling nanofiber formed with an inter-cellular shape memory alloy.
Power Rangers RPM, "Rain"

Scott: What do you mean "what eyes"? Right there—the front of our Zords.
Dr. K: They are not "eyes." They are optical field scanning sensors for your cockpit's HUD display.
Scott: Well, they look like … well, they look … like …
Dillon: They look like eyes!
Ziggy: Big, googly anime eyes.
Power Rangers RPM, "Ranger Blue"

Store Clerk: Can I help you?
Samantha: Yes, I'd like to return this vibrator.
Store Clerk: We don't sell vibrators.
Samantha: Yes you do, I bought it here six months ago.
Store Clerk: That's not a vibrator, it's a neck massager.
Samantha: No, it's a vibrator.
Store Clerk: Sharper Image doesn't sell vibrators, it's a neck massager.
Samantha: You expect me to believe women buy these to help their sore necks?
Store Clerk: It's a neck massager.
Samantha: Fine, I'd like to return this "neck massager".
Store Clerk: What's wrong with it?
Samantha: It failed to get me off.
Sex and the City, "Critical Condition"

Josh: I see won't be talking about the 993 tax cut.
Leo: We won't be. But we've agreed to call it "tax relief" instead of a "tax cut".
Josh: We're calling it tax relief?
Leo: Yeah.
Josh: But we won't be talking about it?
Leo: No.
Josh: Leo, the Patient's Bill of Rights—
Leo: Which we'll be referring to as the Comprehensive Access and Responsibility Act.
Sam: What's the Comprehensive Access and Responsibility Act?
Leo: It's the Patient's Bill of Rights, but the CARA was introduced in 1999. It's fundamentally the same thing and the Republicans have agreed to discuss changing the name back.
Josh: In exchange for calling tax breaks "tax relief".
Leo: Or "income enhancement".
Toby: [throws his hands up in frustration] I'm in a musical!
Leo: Getting it renamed for the old bill is a hell of a concession.
Toby: Leo, I'm gonna check in with you for a second, OK?
Leo: Sure.
Toby: Sick people … not getting proper medical care … because they can't afford it … probably don't care that we've agreed to change the name of the bill.
Leo: We've agreed to discuss changing the name of the bill.
The West Wing, "The Leadership Breakfast"

Hacker: Well anyway why are we having an official visit from this tinpot little African country?
Sir Humphrey: Minister, I beg of you not to refer to it as a tinpot little African country. It's an LDC.
Hacker: A what?
Sir Humphrey: Buranda is what used to be called an "underdeveloped country", however this term was widely regarded as offensive. So they became known as "developing countries" and then as "Less Developed Countries" or "LDC's". We're now ready to replace the term "LDC" with "HRRC".
Hacker: What's that?
Sir Humphrey: Human Resource Rich Countries.
Hacker: Which means?
Sir Humphrey: That they're grossly overpopulated and desperate for money.
Yes, Minister, "The Official Visit"

    Tabletop Games 
You hone your skills in the larcenous arts. Burglars, bandits, cutpurses, and other criminals typically follow this archetype, but so do rogues who prefer to think of themselves as professional treasure seekers, explorers, delvers, and investigators.
Fifth Edition's description of the Thief subclass for Rogues, Dungeons & Dragons

"Of course I'm not a spy! The enemy has spies. I am a Scout."

    Theatre 
"I know you prefer Abduction, but the proper word is Rape. It's short and businesslike."
El Gallo, The Fantasticks

"I do not have flashbacks. I remember bad things vividly."
Tom Houston, discussing his PTSD, Black Friday

"I dislike that word, Gerald, cult. No, it's an exciting new religion that I started!"
Linda Monroe, discussing her cult, Black Friday

    Video Games 
"Call me a treasure hunter or I'll rip your lungs out!"
Locke Cole, Final Fantasy VI

Remember, "demon" can be an offensive term. Refer to them as "mortally challenged."
Holographic UAC Spokeswoman in the midst of Hell on Earth, Doom Eternal

Brainiac: You are Earth's greatest detective.
Hellboy: "Paranormal investigator". Get it right.
Brainiac: Noted for classification.

Hisao: I knew it. You're just as dirty-minded as I am.
Lilly: That's a rather crude way of putting it.
Hisao: Oh? And you would suggest?
Lilly: I merely have a healthy adolescent sex drive.
Hisao: So in other words, dirty-minded.

Noob Saibot: Vera's soul calls you.
Jacqui Briggs: Keep mama's name out of your mouth, Revenant!
Noob Saibot: "Revenant"? I AM WRAITH!

Geras: The New Era is your only hope.
Jade: I won't follow another tyrant.
Geras: "Tyrant"? Kronika is a Titan!

"I'm not a psychopath. I'm a high-functioning psychopath."
Gabriel "Reaper" Reyes, Overwatch

Maya: Look, a ladder!
Phoenix: That's a 'step'-ladder.
Maya: So? What's the difference? You need to stop judging things based on narrow-minded cultural assumptions, Nick!

Sam: So, what do you think of all these Samulacra running around?
Max: Doppelgangers.

Protagonist: I don't care! I'm not killing a princess!
Narrator: "Killing" is such gauche phrasing, and completely ignores the bigger picture. Your task is to slay the princess. Because she's terrible and she's really got it coming to her.

Pearl: I can't get enough of this map.
Marina: It's a "stage", not a "map"! Are you trying to get us fired?!

"They're NOT DOLLS. They're ACTION FIGURES. WITH REAL FIRE-PUNCHING ACTION."
Francis's true-or-false lair security program, Super Paper Mario

"I'm not a 'crazed gunman', dad, I'm an assassin! Well, the difference being, one is a job, and the other's mental sickness!"
The Sniper, Team Fortress 2

Hajime: Hey, Gundham... You dropped your earring in the dining hall, right?
Gundham: ...Are you referring to the Hell Hound Earring?
Hajime: About that earring...
Gundham: (annoyed) ...I said, are you referring to the Hell Hound Earing?

Quan Chi: You wish to fight me?
Peacemaker: Not fight. Beat senseless.

    Web Animation 
"It's not pink, it's lightish red!"
Private Donut, Red vs. Blue

Phoenix Wright: So, how did this guy die?
Rainbow Dash: Pony…
Phoenix Wright: Wha…?
Rainbow Dash: "How did this pony die?" is what you mean, Nix.
Phoenix Wright: (Well excuse me, I didn't take "Hooked on Ponyics")

    Web Original 
"NOTICE: This page was not 'hacked', it was 'hijacked', completely legal, we just unadmined the old admins."
Christian Beadles, Facebook page

"Very well, Robot, if you wish to continue with this foolishness note ," he said, "You have one chance. Fail and you will be disassembled. I challenge you to summon a harpy from the fourth dimension."
"The terms are acceptable," I said, "But I am an android, not a robot."
"A first year spell? Henry, really," Mistress Cassandra Starlight said.
"Robots can't cast spells," he said, "Science has gone too far, trying to make these things believe they can be human. Besides it will be amusing to watch it try to break through the barrier. And if by some miracle, it does, it needs a soul to break the tether binding the Harpy to its dimension."
"I am not a robot," I said.
"Not A Robot", a vignette by Nameless She

    Web Video 
Chris: I hate to make about me, but my cousin told me I found some really good frosting.
Trump: *Sighs* It's icing.
Chris: No, it's frosting.
Trump: If you call icing "frosting", you should beat yourself.

Vegeta: So, if you're done wasting everyone's time... Grab your friends, grab your shit, and go home, Kakarrot!
Broly: "HNG!"
Paragus: Please do not say that again.
Goku: It was "friends", wasn't it?
Vegeta: I said shut it, Kakarot!
Broly: "HNG!"
Paragus: Please, stop saying that name!
Trunks: Father, just call him "Goku"!
Vegeta: And disrespect my heritage?! I will address him with the name given to him by the glorious Saiyan race! Kakarot, Kakarot—
Broly: KAKAROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!
Vegeta: See, he's slow and he gets it.
Paragus: I suggest we all run.

Sophist: Everybody, grab your buns.
Nick: Those are tortillas, not buns!
Sophist: Whatever! Who gives a rat's ass!
Vernias: I'm a rat, and my ass cares!
Sophist: Why don't you be on bun duty! You grab your own buns, I'll make rice.
Nick: They're tortillas, not buns!

Brent: Everything needs bun and mushroom.
Nick: TORTILLA, NOT BUN!

[ The Cenobites ] are led by the iconic Hell Priest. ...Did ya- What a curveball! I bet you thought I was gonna call this character "Pinhead"! Series creator Clive Barker definitely does not want you to call this character "Pinhead", but... That's who this is! Come on, Clive! That name has stuck at this point. Have a sense of humor!

Joko: You guys are in here talkin' about jerking off! It's a gooning shack!
cscoop: Yeah, and what does that mean, Joko?

Nick: Without any indication as to who's who, can anyone guess which avatar belongs to which creator?
Sophist: Well, I guess mine is pretty straightforward as well.
Vernias: It's definitely the fedora that gives it away.
Sophist: That is not a fedora, that is a very small top hat!

    Webcomics 
Bee: They're golems!
Cronus: Well, CONSTRUCTS. Golems are a Jewish thing.
Xierdra: We already have to tiptoe around the government, the last thing we need is the ADL coming after us.

Kalsang: Yeah! She's the haunted girl.
Rohan: Spiritually gifted. Not haunted.
Tomkin: Yep! No ghosts here! Just very gifted!

    Western Animation 
Granddad: Now hold up, Slickback…
A Pimp Named Slickback: No, that's "A Pimp Named Slickback".
Granddad: That's what I said! Slickback!
A Pimp Named Slickback: No, no! It's "A Pimp Named Slickback!" Like A Tribe Called Quest; you say the whole thing! "A Pimp Named Slickback!"
Granddad: Can't I just call you Slickback for short?
A Pimp Named Slickback: NO, nigga! I'm "A Pimp Named Slickback!"
Granddad: Cristal, who is this person?
A Pimp Named Slickback: Nigga, are you deaf? I'm A Pimp Named Slickback! Say it with me now!!
The Boondocks, "Guess Hoe's Coming To Dinner"

Tron guy: Hey I know you! You're that "what what in my asshole" kid!
Butters: "What what in the butt", sir.
South Park, "Canada On Strike"

Lisa: Wait a second … you planted a phony skeleton for me to find! This was all a big hoax!
Businessman: Heh heh heh, not a hoax; a publicity stunt!
The Simpsons, "Lisa the Skeptic"

Kent Brockman: Uh, Mr. Burns, people are calling this a "meltdown"!
Mr. Burns: Oh, "meltdown", it's one of those annoying buzzwords. We prefer to call it an unrequested fission surplus!
The Simpsons, "Homer Defined"

Don't say "retard," Chris; we prefer to be called "little people."
Peter, Family Guy, "Petarded"

"Everyone says, 'fluffy' when talking about Dad's... fluffy."
Chilli Heeler, referring to farting, Bluey, "Family Meeting"


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