History Quotes / PoorCommunicationKills

'''Tien:''' Wait, so you're saying that they're not the android duo who killed us?\\

'''Trunks:''' Yes, but ''that's not one of them''!\\

'''Tien:''' Wait, so you're saying that they're not [[Bad Future]] the android duo who killed us?\\

'''Tien:''' Wait, so you're saying that they're not [[BadFuture]] the android duo wno killed us?\\

'''Tien:''' Wait, so you're saying that's not [[BadFuture]] the android duo wno killed us?\\

'''Tien:''' Wait, so you're saying that's not [[BadFuture]] the android duo wno killed us]]?\\

'''Tien:''' Wait, so you're saying that's not [[BadFuture the android duo wno killed us]]?\\

'''Tien:''' Wait, so you're saying that that's not [[BadFuture the android that kills us]]?\\

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->Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can fuckin' kill you.
-->-- '''Taylor Mali'''

->Rachel then does the thing that every character ever does when a book needs cheap interpersonal drama, which is not be honest enough about her opinions to resolve problems positively, but also not willing to just suck it up and put on a polite face. [[AsTheGoodBookSays Revelation 3:15]], anyone?
-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY5P0CyzsR0 Sammy2]] reviews ''Bright'' (2022)

->You can understand why Blake is playing underhanded tactics on Gouda Prime, to root out the Federation spies and to keep his skin wrapped comfortably all over. However, not trusting Tarrant turns out to be a fatal mistake on his part; [[FakeDefector pretending to have captured him]] to lure Avon out into the open was a dangerous move and one that he pays for with his life. It isn't Tarrant he has misjudged, but Avon. Blake failed to recognise how paranoid his friend has become without his influence and the mere mention of the only man Avon ever trusted turning against him is enough for him to [[YouWouldntShootMe pull the trigger]]... Gouda Prime is set to be the location of the launch of a new wave of resistance against the Federation, but the outcome is where one terrible, fatal misunderstanding leads to a massacre and a trap that Avon's crew cannot escape.
-->-- '''[[http://docohobigfinish.blogspot.com/2015/04/extraordinary-pieces-of-television.html Joe Ford]]''' on ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "Blake"

->'''David:''' Really, that’s almost the problem with the show — if the Kents weren’t dicks, then you wouldn’t have any real friction between Clark and his parents, which would take away a ton of drama.\\
'''Chris:''' Yes, but then all the drama could result from, you know, Lex, whose world-conquering super-villain master plans have involved a) Running for local government, and b) getting someone fired from a job.\\
'''David:''' Ahem. I believe you forgot providing children — CHILDREN! — with the devil’s agent, [[DrugsAreBad LIQUOR.]]\\
'''Chris:''' At this point, Lex is less of a super-villain and more [[CreepyUncle Your Dad’s One Weird Friend.]]
-->-- Chris Sims and David Uzumeri [[http://http://comicsalliance.com/recap-smallville-episode-4-8-spell/ on]] ''{{Series/Smallville}}'' ("Spell")

->Almost any TV show, at some point you realize the whole problem is person A not talking to person B and solving the mystery/interpersonal conflict, and that's where TV shows come from. But man, if this whole show just sat down it would be so easy:\\
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"I saw/fucked/became a bizarre creature, that's why I was acting so weird before."\\
"OMG me too! That's totally why I was acting weird!"\\
"It was all for nothing. How funny! Once again, communication has saved the day."
-->-- '''[[Website/TelevisionWithoutPity Jacob]]''', on ''Series/TrueBlood''

-> This was the most unprovoked and avoidable fight I've ever seen
-->-- [=ATLxCrew=] on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lxVfjfZjR4 Team Dark vs Team Chaotix]] in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes''.

->"Dammit all, is this movie doing the whole 'Simple misunderstanding that real people would never have because they ask questions and have normal human conversations about it' thing?"
-->-- '''Jeremy Scott''' of ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'', on ''Frozen''

->"VideoGame/BravelyDefault is a game where every bad thing could have been avoided if the characters would have actually communicated with eachother during the numerous opportunities they're given to do so. I wish I could say this was uncommon for [=RPGs=], but HILARIOUS COMEDIES OF ERROR cause the end of the world surprisingly often."
-->-- '''[[Webcomic/AwkwardZombie Katie Tiedrich]]'''

->I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to ''shut up''.
-->-- '''Music/TomLehrer''', ''Music/ThatWasTheYearThatWas''

-> "Let's eat Grandma!"\\
"Huh?"\\
"Let's eat, Grandma!"\\
'''Punctuation Saves Lives'''
-->-- ''Popular Grammar Joke''

->"Seriously, how many sitcom understandings could have been easily avoided if people would just let each other finish their fucking sentences?"
-->-- Blogger '''Billy Superstar''' summing up this trope in [[https://therealfullhousereviewed.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/season-4-episode-14-working-girl/ his review]] of an episode of ''Series/FullHouse''

-> "I think the people refusing to fucking talk to each other about the plot is just incompetence. A lot of these [YA] authors don’t seem to know how to plot well enough that simple conversations wouldn’t solve the problems, so tension is created artificially by having adult humans incapable of basic communication, which lets the plot can get more dire while they are all mute to each other, instead of characters trying to solve something together and struggling because it’s actually a complex problem."
-->-- Review of '''An Inheritance Of Ashes''' on [[http://www.dragon-quill.net/an-inheritance-of-ashes Dragon Quill]]

->[[ShownTheirWork Canon, actually!]]\\
The ''very first time they meet'', at school, Rei is reading a book, and Asuka annoys her by blocking her light, remember? The book? ''Is in German.'' \\
Another tragic little hint that Asuka and Rei could easily have been friends. Rei is at the least literate in German, and probably speaks it. ''Asuka just never asks''. \\
Because This. Is. Eva. And people just communicating is somehow far more impossible than fighting [[EldritchAbomination giant alien monsters that laugh at physics]].
-->-- '''Strypgia''', when asked if Rei learned German off-screen in ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust''

->Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking.
-->-- '''Creator/StephenHawking''', British Telecom advertisement, which was SampledUp by Music/PinkFloyd's ''Keep Talking'' and ''Talkin' Hawkin'''

->If there is a central theme to '''''Anime/SchoolDays''''', it is simply “the failure to communicate.” That is at the very heart of what this anime is, and it is bonded to his series right down to the very marrow of its bones. What starts off as a very simple (and well worn) concept: a guy likes a girl and is set up by his friend [[MatchmakerCrush who is actually in love with him]], soon morphs into a tragic, brutal and most of all, honest look at teenage relationships, and teenage life. Heartbreak, betrayal, lies, deceit, all of them are linked to that very theme: the simple inability to sit down and talk their feelings.
-->--'''Shallow Dives in Anime''', [[https://shallowdivesinanime.wordpress.com/2020/03/03/school-days-talk-to-me-just-talk-to-me/ School Days: Talk to Me, Just Talk to Me]]

->'''If a conflict exists that can be solved by a 15 second conversation that reasonable adults would be expected to have, then it's a very poorly-written conflict.'''
-->--'''[=JBaecker=]''', in [[https://old.reddit.com/r/saltierthancrait/comments/a33xea/hot_take_rian_fabricated_nonsensical_character/ this post]] on [[Website/{{Reddit}} r/saltierthancrait]], on the Poe-Holdo conflict in ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeVIIITheLastJedi''

->>[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain Big Boss never heard Zero's final message.]]\\
>Big Boss lived the rest of his life believing Zero was a monster only to reach the same epiphany [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots in 2014]] that Zero came to in the late 1970s.\\
>Big Boss never got to hear Zero say goodbye.\\
>Because of Skull Face they were never able to reconcile.\\
>and Zero never got to know that Venom killed Skull Face, the man that kept Zero and Big Boss from reconciling.\\
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[[ForWantOfANail Skull Face's true victory is keeping Big Boss and Zero apart.]] If Big Boss and Zero had come together in the late 70s, then the Patriot system would have never been activated, and Big Boss would have never gone on to build [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker Outer Heaven.]] [[VideoGame/MetalGear Solid]], [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid Liquid]], and [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Solidus]] might have ended up having a decent life.\\
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Maybe the words that kill are the ones we never got to say.
-->--'''[=@RawkL0bster=]''', a [=YouTube=] comment reflecting on the "Words that kill" line in the lyrics of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESBXOOMi7SE "Sins of The Father" by Donna Burke]], regarding the true nature of Big Boss and Zero's conflict which influenced the entire ''Franchise/MetalGear'' series.
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-->--'''Richard''', ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', [[Recap/RWBYV3E3ItsBrawlInTheFamily "The Shell"]]

-->--'''Richard''', ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', [[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS3E20TheShell "The Shell"]]

'''Krillan:''' But you ''said'' two androids.\\