"Speen!"
—Vinny, Vinesauce, whenever something spins in a video game
Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind!
Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain, or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping past the minutes of its face
And the world is like an apple whirling silently in space
Like the circles that you find in the windmills of your mind!
—"The Windmills of Your Mind", The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Emmett Bregman: Could we get a shot of the gate spinning?
Samantha Carter: ... sure. It's really cool. Steam comes out of it and everything.
Samantha Carter: ... sure. It's really cool. Steam comes out of it and everything.
I'll have to treat this swarm as a single unit— spiral around the bees... like a whirling football... and sweep them up... in my own backdraft! I'll count on any stray bees not caught in my wake... to follow the bulk of their friends by instinct!
"No! Those boulders flying at me— They could kill me! I can be super-strong, but my invulnerability has been absorbed into Satanis. But, if I can create a super-fast whirlwind, use wind-force to ricochet those rocks away before they perforate me— Did it!"
— Superman, Two for the Death of One
You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round, round, round
You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round, round, round
Right round like a record, baby
Right round, round, round
You spin me right round, baby
Right round like a record, baby
Right round, round, round
— Dead or Alive, You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
I'll try spinning! That's a good trick!
— Anakin Skywalker, The Phantom Menace
Bartolomeo does not look pleased, and he winds up for a spin. Spinning of course is tactical suicide, but it's worth risking death, because of how cool it makes you look!
—Studio C, "Fencing:Slow-mo Replay"
Screenwriter: And one of the cyborg kids is gonna do a little spin move before shooting. It's gonna look very cool, possibly.
Producer: Why would he do that?
Screenwriter: 'Cause maybe it'll look cool. It might. I don't know.
Producer: What tactical advantage does doing a little spin give him?
Screenwriter: Well, now he'll be, uhh... I don't know, dizzy, I guess.
Producer: Before aiming?
Screenwriter: Listen, sir, he's gonna do a spin move, alright? I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back about it!
Producer: Why would he do that?
Screenwriter: 'Cause maybe it'll look cool. It might. I don't know.
Producer: What tactical advantage does doing a little spin give him?
Screenwriter: Well, now he'll be, uhh... I don't know, dizzy, I guess.
Producer: Before aiming?
Screenwriter: Listen, sir, he's gonna do a spin move, alright? I'm gonna need you to get all the way off my back about it!
— Screen Rant Pitch Meetings talking about The Book of Boba Fett
"Gurren Lagann! SPIN ON! Who the hell do you think I am!?"
— Simon, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
"Choudenji Tatsumaki! Choudenji Spin!"
— Hyouma Aoi, Combattler V
"Anakin, you're crazy. Spinning is NOT flying."
"But it's a good trick."
— Obi-Wan and Anakin, Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 1, Episode 4, Destroy Malevolence
Capcom loves tornadoes.
— YouTube comment on a Street Fighter IV video
"THEY SPINNIN' NIGGA THEY SPINNIN'!! THEY SPINNIN' NIGGA THEY SPINNIN'!! THEY SPINNIN' NIGGA THEY SPINNIN'!!"
— Chris Rock (politely explaining the appeal of putting spinning rims on cars
)
)"Spin the vermin, reverse the guilt. Reverse the birth, reverse the world. Spin spin spinspinspinSPIN~~~!"
— Night of Wallachia, Melty Blood
Spin to win.
—The League of Legends playerbase. It now has its own song.
Spinning around was Superman's favorite problem solver. If he ever had a doubt as to what to do to something, or it didn't respond to a bad speech, he'd fly around it as fast as he could. If a black hole was coming towards earth, he'd fly around it until it, you know, left into another dimension.
Seanbaby on Superfriends and Superman's go-to solution
I pirouetted Khanivore on one foot, whipping the tentacles to add spin-momentum.
— Sonnie's Edge, by Peter F. Hamilton
