"How is it that no matter how badly you massacre one of these thong-and-blanket types some shred of their unmentionables still survives the blast?"
— Manchester Black, Superman vs. the Elite
"No! Joey's hat! Without Joey underneath!"
— Jennifer Lee Rossman, liveblog of
Deep Rising
Deep Rising"Before evening I went to the shore: there were sailor caps floating down the Morskoy Canal. One after another. Sailor caps and bright red stains on the waves...splinters of wood...our boys had been thrown into the water somewhere. As long as I stood there, these sailor caps kept floating by. I began to count them, but then I stopped. I couldn't leave and I couldn't look. The Morskoy Canal had become a common grave."
— Olga Podvyshenskaya quoted in The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
The very first image in the game is a brief flash-forward depicting your helmet lying discarded in the dust of battle-scarred terrain. What the fuck do you think happens in the end? Your character thrillingly and climatically gets a little bit hot?
— Zero Punctuation, review of Halo: Reach
