Quotes / Never Recycle Your Schemes

Probe: How about this, Mr. Boss. We recycle an old idea and use it to defeat BoBoiBoy!
Adu Du: An old idea?
Probe: Yes, Mr. Boss. What is your favorite episode in BoBoiBoy?
Adu Du: My favorite is episode 11 of the first season. [flashback] I was so close to defeating that wretched BoBoiBoy!
Probe: Yeah, I like that idea too! I think we should recycle that idea again!
Adu Du: Are you crazy?! The fans are gonna realize that we're using that same idea again!

— Adu Du and Probe Breaking the Fourth Wall to come up with a "new" plan, BoBoiBoy, "Emotive Chemical Y"

Blossom: Don’t ever make us have to do that again!
Buttercup: Or it will be your last!
Him: Tsk, tsk, tsk. You girls underestimate me. I never give repeat performances. But I assure you... I’ll be baaaack!

— The Powerpuff Girls

Consul J/Joran: I could just go and do it the K way...
[Proceeds to brainwash Commander Isurd with his Iris [
Consul J/Joran: Ugh...forget it. [Turns away from Isurd while turning off his Perception Filter, and thus his control over the Commander of Colony Lamda] There's just no zest. This time, I'm gonna take a different angle.

— Xenoblade Chronicles 3

Avery: I always hated on tv shows where the big bad guy would create a superweapon and they’d try it on the heroes and the heroes would make it out by the skin of their teeth, and the bad guy would disappear for a while before coming back with the next big interesting weapon, you know? Like, why not just fix that big glaring flaw and try again? You’ve done ninety percent of the work.

— Pale