Whamise this line. A Game.

After the hero nearly defeated the Big Bad, he asks him "There's no more hope for you Prof. Evildoer". Then The Lancer of his Five-Man Band points his gun to the hero's head while saying this.

What a great guitar solo.

The guitarist has been having nightmares about the afterlife, as well as memory blackouts. After a concert, one of his friends begins complimenting his solo, only for him to realize that he's been possessed by the ghost of Jimi Hendrix.

Just because you've blown on it and put it in the NES, doesn't mean the cartridge is gonna work.

The villain is a time traveller who built a robot army from old games consoles. Our heroes managed to track down an old NES dev station and put a virus in a cartridge, but...

Exactly as you planned.

edited 3rd Oct '13 7:12:44 AM by Bisected8

Tomato in the Mirror. The lead villain is a split personality of the hero, and The Dragon is now informing him of such.

"...and I said, 'I hardly knew 'er!'"

Shift to the attic above the inn, where the "'er" is currently bleeding on the floor, throat slit, still writhing.

"We won!"

As spoken by the Magnificent Bastard just before he reveals the massive Xanatos Gambit that allowed his team to win the Tournament Arc.

That Emperor has been dead for twenty years. There hasn't been a full successor since him, just claimants.

The Evil Chancellor made all his promises "in the name of the Emperor". This line makes it clear he isn't going to honour them.

I think it would be better in polished wood than brushed steel.

...Said the shapeshifter posing as an extreme environmentalist.

"Actually, sir, I've known how to speak Spanish since I was 5..."

edited 9th Oct '13 1:52:51 PM by ThnikkamanLostHerCookies

A young orphan revealing to a king before two conspirators that they are planning to assassinate him.

Olympus has fallen

edited 9th Oct '13 2:06:55 PM by Soban

Olympus is a giant mech the hero pilots. Now the hero is dead.

I think I left the oven on, so I gotta skedaddle. Later gators.

An infamous murderer has just walked onto the scene of a crime- the crime he committed 5 minutes ago. When he sees the cops staring at him, holding their guns at him, he says the above line before he runs off getting shot at.

That wasn't just a frog.

That was the sound of someone realizing the Voluntary Shapeshifter spy wasn't imitating any one of the main characters. Oops.

Quickly kids-What's the sound of one hand clapping?

The three heroes realize that their mysterious mentor was their old kindergarten teacher, who used to amuse them as children with nonsensical rhetorical questions.

"Sal! Come down from the mast!"

The only ones who knew him Sal are from his old life.

"I will forever fight no more."

These words were spelled out by a battle bot constructed from pieces of rusty trash using only abandoned scrabble chips, after coldly dismantling a fellow construct in the arena.

He didn't laugh...

The moment that the hero realized that the person he is working for is behind it all.

What would you do?

The main antagonist was telling a monologue to the good guy, about how all his evil actions were for his poor family.

You said you knew.

The main character has only come on this journey because the leader promised to tell him who his father was in exchange. Events leading up to this line have let our hero figure out he's been conned.

Alright. Who's first?

A character, previously thought to be dead, bursts into the scene just before a fight breaks out. This is their Pre Ass Kicking One Liner.

We're exactly where we were trying to go.

A team of soldiers trying to find a deserted town filled with survivors from the war travel 30 miles to the town. The car breaks down in a suburban, wrecked city. They try to find a way to fix the car again, but it won't work. They then see on the news from their wrecked motel that the war has grown in the other towns and countries. The team think the mission has failed, when the leader looks at the town sign- Colorado, the town they were heading for. The leader tells them the unexpected news.

The box won't be empty that much longer.

The box in question has previously been a Checkovs Gun, and we realize why it's been in the possession of the Omniscient Council of Vagueness-it's a locator for the Artifact of Doom.

But, all things become Void in the end-I did a little early.

...Said the ghost of an eighteen-year-old.

"Sir, he was shot down on his broomstick an hour ago."

informing Dumbledore that the Wizarding World is going to need a new hero fairly soon.

"Well...you know how I get sometimes, right?"

Actually, the character being spoken to should NOT know how the Evil Overlord gets sometimes, because he said that he had amnesia since the day the protagonist met him. But it turns out that this fellow was lying, having retained his memories all along, and used the protagonist's sympathy to get close to "La Revolution", steal all of their secrets, and backstab them at this very moment.

"He may have been a master at chess, but that doesn't mean he was guaranteed to win at checkers."

edited 2nd Nov '13 7:46:56 PM by EndarkCuli

Said the Big Bad as he outfoxed the heroic strategist as he basically changed his "conditions of victory" for that battle from one thing to something else dramatically different. The heroes spend the next three chapters gobsmacked.

Or, you know what, I think I might just choose to go ahead and win.

edited 2nd Nov '13 7:49:58 PM by NickTheSwing