History Quotes / AwesomeButImpractical

-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

-->--'''Goku''' on [[SuperMode Super Saiyan Third Grade]], ''Manga/DragonBallZ''

-->-- '''[[TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]]''' reviews ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII''

-->-- '''[[TheSpoonyExperiment Black Hole of Board Games]]''', ''Power Slam VCR Wrestling''

-->-- '''Kreese''', ''MadWorld''

-->-- ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIWingsOfLiberty

-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''

-->-- ''CarnivalPhantasm''

->'''Taiga''': Who just took the lead in with such incredible speed!? It's Lancer's [=GaeBolCar=]!
->'''Lancer''': Sorry, I'm settling it here! My [=GaeBolCar=] is awesome! The speed is just incredible!
->'''Rin''': Hey, Archer. Did you know? Dragsters... ''can't turn''.
->(''[=GaeBolCar=] crashes and explodes'')
->'''Archer''': [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Lancer died!]]
->'''Taiga''': [[YouBastard You aren't human!]]

->Harris stood over the unconscious mechanic and searched him for weapons. Fergus carried nothing but the tools in his belt.
->Jean-Pierre joined him. "I have never seen a jumping kick like that."
->"Flying side kick. Best used against immobile targets and blind men. [[OneHitKill But when it connects, it tends to smart]]."

->This is the dumbest, most impractical weapon ever, I hope I get it.

-->-- '''[[StarWars Han Solo]]''', ''[[NewJediOrder Destiny's Way]]''

->"Blunderbirds are slow!" quipped Buster, as the sub-plane belly-flopped back into the water.

->Airbourne aircraft carriers hovered on the verge of disaster. Nuclear-powered bombers struggled to take off under the weight of their radioactive shielding. A mobile fortress wallowed in the ruins of a collapsed bridge. Soldiers with multiple compound fractures were evacuated from their flying tanks. Tracked minisubs struggled to escape from debris-choked lake bottoms. A submarine-plane erupted from the surface of the ocean, rockets blazing in a futile effort to lift its heavy pressure hull into the air.

->''Airbourne aircraft carriers hovered on the verge of disaster. Nuclear-powered bombers struggled to take off under the weight of their radioactive shielding. A mobile fortress wallowed in the ruins of a collapsed bridge. Soldiers with multiple compound fractures were evacuated from their flying tanks. Tracked minisubs struggled to escape from debris-choked lake bottoms. A submarine-plane erupted from the surface of the ocean, rockets blazing in a futile effort to lift its heavy pressure hull into the air.''

->''*[=GaeBolCar=] crashes and explodes*''

-->''CarnivalPhantasm''

->Harris stood over the unconscious mechanic and searched him for weapons. Fergus carried nothing but the tools in his belt.\\
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Jean-Pierre joined him. "I have never seen a jumping kick like that."\\
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"Flying side kick. Best used against immobile targets and blind men. [[OneHitKill But when it connects, it tends to smart]]."
-->''Literature/DocSidhe''

-->-- '''[[{{Batman}} The God Damn Batman's]]''' [[http://twitter.com/God_Damn_Batman twitter entry for September 9th 2010]]

"Flying side kick. Best used against immobile targets and blind men. [[OneHitKill But when it connects, it tends to smart]].”

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-->-- ''{{Warhammer 40000}}''

->That's not what {{the Empire}} would have done, Commander. What the Empire would have done was build a super-colossal [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Yuuzhan Vong]]-killing battle machine. They would have called it the ''Nova Colossus'' or the ''Galaxy Destructor'' or the ''Nostril of Palpatine'' or something equally grandiose. They would have spent billions of credits, employed thousands of contractors and subcontractors, and equipped it with the latest in death-dealing technology. And you know what would have happened? [[LampshadeHanging It wouldn't have worked]]. [[AttackItsWeakPoint They'd forget to bolt down a metal plate over an access hatch leading to the main reactors, or some other mistake, and a hotshot enemy pilot would drop a bomb down there and blow the whole thing up.]] Now ''that's'' what the Empire would have done.

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->''[[LampshadeHanging How has ANYTHING we've seen today been the least bit practical?!]]''\\
-- '''Kreese''', ''MadWorld''

->"It's not only impressive, it's irresponsible."
->-- '''Panther''', of ''Music/TheProtomen''

->"That's smoke, yes yes, see? It's a proper supercar! It didn't just come to the track and do a lap like a robot and be boring, it came to the track and ''exploded'', ''immediately''! That's what, it's what supercars ''do''! It's proper!"\\
-- '''Richard Hammond''', ''TopGear'', of a [[CoolCar Pagani Zonda]].

-> 'Again Alfred, it's a STEALTH FIGHTER JET shaped like a BAT and I use it to fight common STREET CRIME. WHAT ABOUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE?!"
->[[http://twitter.com/God_Damn_Batman The Batman's twitter]] entry from September 9th 2010

->''"Give me a gun that never fires! Give me a sword that is ever blunt! Give me a weapon that deals no wound, so long as it always strikes fear!"''
-->--Warhammer40K

-> "That's not what the Empire would have done, Commander. What the Empire would have done was build a super-colossal Yuuzhan Vong-killing battle machine. They would have called it the Nova Colossus or the Galaxy Destructor or the Nostril of Palpatine or something equally grandiose. They would have spent billions of credits, employed thousands of contractors and subcontractors, and equipped it with the latest in death-dealing technology. And you know what would have happened? It wouldn't have worked. [[LampshadeHanging They'd forget to bolt down a metal plate over an access hatch leading to the main reactors, or some other mistake, and a hotshot enemy pilot would drop a bomb down there and blow the whole thing up.]] Now that's what the Empire would have done."
->[[StarWars Han Solo]], ''Destiny's Way''

->-- Panther, of ''Music/TheProtomen''

->-- Panther, of ''TheProtomen''

->"Give me a gun that never fires! Give me a sword that is ever blunt! Give me a weapon that deals no wound, so long as it always strikes fear!"