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  • City of Bones:
    • Clary: "What would demons," she said, "want with our microwave?"
    • When Jace tells Clary not to touch his weapons:
    "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered.
    "Selling them on what?"
    Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power."
    • After Isabelle describes Magnus healing Alec:
    "I don't remember any of it," said Alec.
    "Then he sat by Alec's bed all night and into the morning to make sure he woke up okay," Isabelle added.
    "I don't remember that, either," Alec added hastily.
    • Clary and Magnus at his party:
    Clary: Is it in honor of anything?
    Magnus: My cat's birthday.
    Clary: Oh. Where's your cat?
    Magnus: I don't know. He ran away.
    • Clary and Jace:
    Clary: Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?
    Jace: If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.
    • Jace, discussing a prophecy from Madame Dorothea.
    Dorothea: Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?
    Jace: Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself.
    Dorothea: At least you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland.
    Jace: Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.
    • Jace, "translating" a tombstone for Clary:
    It means 'Shadowhunters: Looking Better in Black Than the Widows of our Enemies Since 1234'.
    • When they find the Mortal Cup...
    Jace: Somehow, I thought it would be bigger.
    Isabelle: It's the Mortal Cup, Jace, not the Mortal Toilet Bowl.
    • Clary calling Alec a dickhead, then his stunned "What did you call me?"
  • City of Ashes:
    Clary: Oh come on, Jace. You can't wait for perfect behavior from everyone. Adults screw up too. Go back to the Institute and talk to her rationally. Be a man.
    Jace: I don't want to be a man. I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.
    Luke: Well, you're doing a fantastic job.
    • Alec's attempt to explain away a hickey:
    Alec: I went walking in the park. Tried to clear my head.
    Jace: And ran into a vampire?
    Alec: What? No! I fell.
    Jace: On your neck?
    • Magnus' response to finding an unconscious Jace near the entrance to the City of Bones.
    Magnus: "Is he dead? He looks dead."
    Maryse: "No. He's not dead."
    Magnus: "Have you checked? I could kick him if you want."
    Inquisitor: "Stop that!"
    Magnus: "There's no need to clarify my finger snap. The implication was clear in the snap itself."
    Simon (regarding Magnus): "Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?"
    Jace: "No, sometimes he sits on the couch and does it."
    • After Simon gets turned into a vampire, Luke wanted to help him, so he bought Simon a pamphlet... called "How to Come Out to your Parents".
    Clary: "Jace must have done something last night on the boat, something that really pissed Valentine off. Pissed him off enough to abandon whatever plan he had before and make a new one."
    Luke: "What makes you think that Valentine's change of plans had anything to do with [Jace]?"
    Clary: "Because only Jace can piss someone off that much."
  • City of Glass:
    • At the celebration:
    Isabelle: "Anyway, it's yummy. Jace?"
    Jace: "I am a man, and men do not consume pink drinks. Get thee gone, woman, and get me something brown."
    Isabelle: "Brown?"
    Jace: "Brown is a manly color. In fact, look—Alec is wearing it."
    Alec: "It was black... but then it faded."

  • City of Fallen Angels
    • Jace, snarking even in the face of Lilith.
    "You and your name-dropping. 'I knew Michael', 'I knew Sammael', 'The angel Gabriel did my hair.' It's like I'm with the Band with Biblical figures."


Alternative Title(s): Mortal Instruments

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