"WILL YOU FORGET THE HEAD-SLICING THING?!"
— Phil, Hercules
"Cut off one head and two shall grow back. Hail HYDRA!"
— Motto of the HYDRA organization, Marvel Comics
Felicity: Do you ever feel like we're trapped?
Oliver: What do you mean?
Felicity: Like we're trapped in this vicious cycle. I mean, you put an arrow in one crime lord, and another just, like, pops up.
Oliver: What do you mean?
Felicity: Like we're trapped in this vicious cycle. I mean, you put an arrow in one crime lord, and another just, like, pops up.
— Arrow
"Any of you ever suffer from tapeworm? It's a worm that can grow infinitely. You can destroy its thousands of segments, but as long as the head remains, it rebuilds and proliferates. The FLN is similarly organized. The head is the Executive Bureau. Several persons. As long as they're not eliminated, we're back to zero."
—Colonel Mathieu on the FLN, The Battle of Algiers
"No wonder, I said, for I am not a match for one of you, and a fortiori I must run away from two. I am no Heracles; and even Heracles could not fight against the Hydra, who was a she-Sophist, and had the wit to shoot up many new heads when one of them was cut off."
"Hercules had his Hydra. You have The Table, except you'll run out of bullets before they run out of heads."
— Winston Scott to John Wick, John Wick: Chapter 4
