NME Salesman: How can I help you, King Dedede?
King Dedede: I need a monster to clobber that there Kirby!
NME Salesman: That's what we do best at N.M.E.
Escargoon: You better get it with a money back guarantee!
King Dedede: I need a monster to clobber that there Kirby!
NME Salesman: That's what we do best at N.M.E.
Escargoon: You better get it with a money back guarantee!
— Kirby: Right Back at Ya! Intro
Fly away, my little akuma, and evilize him/her/them!
— Hawk Moth, Miraculous Ladybug
"'Cause you're not the first to have come here. Oh, there have been so many. And what you have to ask yourself is... what happened to them?
Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically... RUN."
Hello. I'm the Doctor. Basically... RUN."
— The Doctor, Doctor Who, "The Eleventh Hour"
Marah: What's the worst that could happen? They blow him up, we grow him big again, they blow him up again, we grow him big again, and they blow him and we grow him, and...
Lothor: I know the formula!
Lothor: I know the formula!
HO HO HO! I'm your bad guy this time!! HO HO HO!
Lt. Barf: Captain, we are being hailed. I recommend we go to Red Alert!
Captain Pinchhard: We haven't even met them! Isn't that a little premature?
Lt. Barf: Every week we encounter aliens who try to destroy or take over the ship. It would save a lot of time if we assumed the worst now.
Captain Pinchhard: We haven't even met them! Isn't that a little premature?
Lt. Barf: Every week we encounter aliens who try to destroy or take over the ship. It would save a lot of time if we assumed the worst now.
"The world is facing its greatest threat since last week's episode!"
— Attack of the 50-Ft Half-Klingon by Odon
Destination Moon created the great SF boom of the 1950s. It offered a single, wild leap of imagination that said the stars could be humanity's for the taking. But despite the deluge of SF films that subsequently came almost none of them — excepting maybe Forbidden Planet (1956) — accepted the implicit challenge. Instead humanity's attitude toward the stars contrarily became one that the sky was in imminent danger of falling on our heads, be it filled with alien invaders or atomic monsters.
— Review of Destination Moon
The Spot: This is gonna be good for us, Spider-Man. You and me, we're finally gonna live up to our potential. You'll finally have a villain worth fighting AND I WON'T BE JUST A JOKE TO YOU!
Miles Morales: You're not a joke! Right, gang?
Gwen Stacy: Absolutely!
Pavitr Prabhakar: Completely unamusing!
Hobie Brown: I don't believe in comedy! ...Just kidding!
Miles Morales: See? No one here thinks you're a joke.
The Spot: You won't after this.
Miles Morales: You're not a joke! Right, gang?
Gwen Stacy: Absolutely!
Pavitr Prabhakar: Completely unamusing!
Hobie Brown: I don't believe in comedy! ...Just kidding!
Miles Morales: See? No one here thinks you're a joke.
The Spot: You won't after this.
— Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, in a brutal subversion of this trope
