Anime & Manga
Piccolo: Is it over?
Vegeta: Not 'til the fish jumps.
(a fish leaps out of the water)
Vegeta: It's over.
Vegeta: Not 'til the fish jumps.
(a fish leaps out of the water)
Vegeta: It's over.
"Stop acting like you're in a manga."
Ash: Do you think I could do a show with all of my Pokémon?
Misty: A live stage show?
Ash: No, a television show.
Misty: Who would watch something like that?
Misty: A live stage show?
Ash: No, a television show.
Misty: Who would watch something like that?
— Pokémon: The Series, "Flower Power"
"Is this really happening? I usually only see people get bullied like this in manga. But it's kinda cliche nowadays, even for Boys' Love stories."
— Miyano, Sasaki and Miyano
"And the same guy played Sonic in both shows. Isn't that wild? The same guy playing two different versions of the same guy?"
— Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
Fanfiction
It's a Long Story. Very, very long. Enough to fill seven hundred chapters of a weekly shounen manga, over four hundred episodes of a half-hour anime, several feature length movies, and a dozen or so OVAs of varying quality.
"This Is My Story...and I wanna see how it goes."
— Chloe Cerise, Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail
Flashback Rikku: "...My life just turned into a bloody video game, didn't it?"
Present Day El-Melloi II: "Apply for a job posting, all hell breaks loose shortly after you arrive, and get forced into battle, while relying on the girl you just met to protect your life... Now that you mention it, that does sound like a common video game plot..."
Present Day El-Melloi II: "Apply for a job posting, all hell breaks loose shortly after you arrive, and get forced into battle, while relying on the girl you just met to protect your life... Now that you mention it, that does sound like a common video game plot..."
Film — Live-Action
"I think you and I are destined to do this forever."
Film — Animated
Moana: Okay, first, I'm not a princess, I'm the daughter of the Chief.
Maui: Same difference.
Moana: No!
Maui: If you wear a dress and have an animal sidekick, you're a princess.
Maui: Same difference.
Moana: No!
Maui: If you wear a dress and have an animal sidekick, you're a princess.
— Moana
Literature
Uncle Vernon: I am not aware that it is any of your business what goes on in my house—
Mad-Eye: I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursley.
Mad-Eye: I expect what you're not aware of would fill several books, Dursley.
Live-Action TV
Jake: NYPD! I need to commandeer this vehicle.
Jess: It's a crossover! (Jake looks confused) It's a crossover SUV, and you can't have it.
Jess: It's a crossover! (Jake looks confused) It's a crossover SUV, and you can't have it.
— Brooklyn Nine-Nine, "The Night Shift"
"Just remember Doctor, I'm as real as you are."
— Robin Hood, Doctor Who "Robot of Sherwood"
"I’m a Doctor... but probably not the one you were expecting."
Monica: What about that summer during college you lived with Grandma? And you tried to make it as a dancer.
Ross: Do you realize we almost made it ten years without that coming up?
Ross: Do you realize we almost made it ten years without that coming up?
Luke: Just so you know, I'm not in the market for a...sidekick.
Misty: Who says you're not my sidekick?
Luke: ...Me. It's my show.
Misty: Who says you're not my sidekick?
Luke: ...Me. It's my show.
Lorelai: Haven't done that for a while.
Rory: Felt good.
Lorelai: (hugs her) I've missed you, kid.
Rory: I missed you too.
Lorelai: How long's it been?
Rory: Feels like years.
Rory: Felt good.
Lorelai: (hugs her) I've missed you, kid.
Rory: I missed you too.
Lorelai: How long's it been?
Rory: Feels like years.
— Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Lifenote
"Because after 2 A.M. is when things get— audience, say it with me— legendary."
— Barney Stinson at a karaoke bar, How I Met Your Mother, "Nothing Good Happens After 2 A.M."
Ted: Don't you think the universe has more important things to worry about than my dating life?
Marshall: Unless your dating life is the glue that holds the entire universe together.
Marshall: Unless your dating life is the glue that holds the entire universe together.
(after the second season begins a year after the first one premiered)
Violet: I feel like we've been sitting on this bench for months.
Klaus: We've been waiting so long Sunny's starting to look less like a baby and more like a toddler.
Violet: I feel like we've been sitting on this bench for months.
Klaus: We've been waiting so long Sunny's starting to look less like a baby and more like a toddler.
Earl: Hey, hey Frannie, you gotta see this puppet show. It’s terrific.
Baby: Uh-huh!.
Fran: Earl, that’s for kids.
Earl: Yeah, you’d think that because they’re puppets, so the show seems to have a children’s aesthetic. Yet the dialogue is unquestionably sharp-edged, witty, and thematically skewed to adults.
Baby: Uh-huh!.
Fran: Earl, that’s for kids.
Earl: Yeah, you’d think that because they’re puppets, so the show seems to have a children’s aesthetic. Yet the dialogue is unquestionably sharp-edged, witty, and thematically skewed to adults.
— Series/Dinosaurs
Newspaper Comics
Lemont: Imagine if you had an audience of millions who witnessed all your failures… your dysfunctional relationships, your squandered opportunities, your pathetic insecurities, your financial disasters… and imagine if this audience of millions had been laughing at you behind your back for years.
Susan: Um… You only have like twelve Twitter followers.
Susan: Um… You only have like twelve Twitter followers.
Video Games
"Oh, come on now... You know losing a game just causes stress. How can that be fun...?"
— Lilica Felchenerow, Arcana Heart 3
Jason Brody: (upon finding Bambi "Buck" Hughes outside the entrance to a mine where he's going on a Fetch Quest) What the fuck?! If you knew where I needed to go, why didn't you tell me-?!
Buck: Jas, Jas, Jas, don't get your knickers in a twist. I'm not playing the bloody game, you are.
Buck: Jas, Jas, Jas, don't get your knickers in a twist. I'm not playing the bloody game, you are.
[Upon reaching the locked door at the very end of the first real Royal Arms dungeon]
Ignis: For every lock, there’s a key.
Prompto: Or maybe there’s a magic key, that can unlock every door it comes across-like in video games!
Skelly: If you're having a rough time out there, boyo, you just remember something: you're a god, alright? Way tougher than you think. They give you trouble, just turn on god mode, and you let 'em have it for me?
Zagreus: You act as if this 'god mode' is some lever I can simply switch over at will if ever I wish to unlock my latent strength there, mate.
Skelly: Exactly, pal, that's it!
"What better way to celebrate my return than with a festive little bloodbath? After all, I have been gone for 25 years."
— Medusa, Kid Icarus: Uprising
"Well, that ends the story I'd like to call The Legend of Groose."
— Groose, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
"A million souls cried out for my return."
— Mileena, Mortal Kombat 11 (After being Put on a Bus in Mortal Kombat X, players demanded that she come back.)
Betty: Is this really happening?
Jack: Do you think we're playing a video game here?
Jack: Do you think we're playing a video game here?
— Jack and Betty, from the video game Monster Eye
Sometimes, no matter where I am, I'll hear someone shoutin' like they're right next to me. But when I turn my head, nobody's there! Startin' to think it might be a ghost or somethin'. Those ghosts are sayin' some weird things, though. Tryin' to buy and sell weapons' holdin' auctions. I suppose the afterlife must have its own economy, too.
—Seaskipper Captain, WynncraftExplanation
"Don't you hate getting killed by obscure secondary characters?"
— One of Nedd Bear's Have a Nice Death quotes, Ultimate Custom Night
It's so lovely to be back.
— Testament, Guilty Gear -STRIVE-
Visual Novels
Iris Wilson: Oh! That's a funny place for a little ladder.
Ryunosuke Naruhodo: .........
Iris: What is it? Is something wrong?
Ryunosuke: No, it's just that in Japanese, we have a totally different word for a ladder that folds in half like that.
Iris: We do in English, too, you know. It's a stepladder, or just "steps". So be careful of making assumptions about other cultures, Runo. That's how wars are started.
Ryunosuke: (thinking) ...I didn't realise stepladders were an international point of contention. But the writer makes an astute point.
Ryunosuke Naruhodo: .........
Iris: What is it? Is something wrong?
Ryunosuke: No, it's just that in Japanese, we have a totally different word for a ladder that folds in half like that.
Iris: We do in English, too, you know. It's a stepladder, or just "steps". So be careful of making assumptions about other cultures, Runo. That's how wars are started.
Ryunosuke: (thinking) ...I didn't realise stepladders were an international point of contention. But the writer makes an astute point.
— The Great Ace Attorney: Resolve, Case G2-3: "The Return of the Great Departed Soul"
Web Animation
[SUSPIRO] Vas a querer sentarte para esta historia. Es alrededor de veinte horas y solo disfruto contarla en intervalos de cinco minutos. ([SIGH] You're going to want to sit down for this story. It's about 20 hours long and I only enjoy telling it in 5 minute intervals).
Yang: And I said, "Bumblebee"? More like-
Jaune: Hey guys! Check out who we found!
Pyrrha: Hello again!
Ruby: You're okay!? How are you even here!?
Pyrrha: What do you even mean?
Ruby: I mean, I watched you di-
Nora: Nope! Never happened!
Ruby: But-
Nora: NOPE! Everything's fine! PYRRHA IS FINE! Nothing bad. Ever. Happens! Evveeeeerrrr.
Ren: So, you guys wanna keep doing comedy segments?
Pyrrha: That sounds lovely!
Jaune: Hey guys! Check out who we found!
Pyrrha: Hello again!
Ruby: You're okay!? How are you even here!?
Pyrrha: What do you even mean?
Ruby: I mean, I watched you di-
Nora: Nope! Never happened!
Ruby: But-
Nora: NOPE! Everything's fine! PYRRHA IS FINE! Nothing bad. Ever. Happens! Evveeeeerrrr.
Ren: So, you guys wanna keep doing comedy segments?
Pyrrha: That sounds lovely!
You and I...possess the same knowledge. That only one of us can survive, and we know not why..
Webcomics
Sam: Now for a big montage sequence so we don't slog through the details of getting the ship ready.
Florence: We still have to take care of the details.
Sam: [Spiking the Camera] It's not for us. It's for all the future sqids who will be reading about my amazing adventures!
Florence: We still have to take care of the details.
Sam: [Spiking the Camera] It's not for us. It's for all the future sqids who will be reading about my amazing adventures!
Web Original
Xemnas: We are a group of Nobodies who wish to create Kingdom Hearts. By using the Keyblade to kill Heartless. And you are the only one who can wield the Keyblade.
(cue Laugh Track)
Roxas: Why do I hear random people laughing?
Xemnas: Ignore it.
(cue Laugh Track)
Roxas: Why do I hear random people laughing?
Xemnas: Ignore it.
Western Animation
Stan: (While looking at off-screen monster fight animated in stop-motion) Stop-motion is pure evil!
Soos: And probably really expensive.
Harry: Incredibly expensive.
Soos: Impressive fight though. Glad I'm facing towards it.
Soos: And probably really expensive.
Harry: Incredibly expensive.
Soos: Impressive fight though. Glad I'm facing towards it.
— Gravity Falls, "Little Gift Shop of Horrors"
"Too bad we didn't come dressed as popular cartoon characters."
— Lisa Simpson, The Simpsons, "Three Men and a Comic Book"
Amethyst: Man...It sure would be nice if things worked out the way they do in cartoons.
Steven: Yeah. It would.
(episode ends)
Steven: Yeah. It would.
(episode ends)
"And that's been really hard for you, the main character of this story."
Sandy: I'll give him a week.
Squidward: I'll give him eleven minutes.
Squidward: I'll give him eleven minutes.
— SpongeBob SquarePants, "Nature Pants"
We use [the comet] to travel across the universe in a single day giving gifts to everyone we've met over the past season...of our lives!!
— Wander, Wander over Yonder, "The Gift"
Excuse me, Mr. So-and-So? Normally I would spend at least eleven minutes on this sort of thing, but since love is compelling me toward another quest, I'd just like to ask: is this really what you want to do with your life?
— Wander, Wander over Yonder, "The Matchmaker"
Eda: Are you sure you want to do this for a stuffed toy? Wouldn't you rather, I dunno, have a beach day or something?
Luz: Maybe, if we had time for twenty more adventures but we don't.
Luz: Maybe, if we had time for twenty more adventures but we don't.
— The Owl House, "O Titan, Where Art Thou"
