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T is for Tank, and T is for Terror,
and K is the K for Killing In Error...
and K is the K for Killing In Error...
— Leona Ozaki, Dominion Tank Police, sung while washing Bonaparte
Life is Panzer, Panzer is life!
— Yukari Akiyama, Girls und Panzer
Fan Fiction
Yea verily, though I charge through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for I am driving a house-sized mass of fuck you.
— Anonymous Mammoth Tank crewman, Tiberium Wars
From the north, riding a wave of billowing dust, they came on, belching thunderbolts that shattered the sky and the smoke and the eardrums of the cheering men at the wall. They were beasts, but more than that: a massive, rolling river of dust and steel and chobam and engine oil and escaping fumes and whirling fusion generators that scarred the land with their passing. They were inexorable, their weapons thundering, their engines roaring, and their hides impenetrable.
It's like a religious experience. Wanna know my prayer? "Yea, though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil. For I am driving 35,000 tons of FUCK YOU!"
— Mana Kirishima, Nobody Dies
I don't think you understand the situation you're in. There's a fucking tank in front of you, what the hell do you possibly hope to achieve by trying to fight us?! You see this? A fucking flame dragon made those, the very same dragon who's ass we kicked! What in god's name do you possibly think you could do?! Yes a goddamn tank, we command terrible fire magic and have the ability to destroy you and your order with but a word. You would do well to sheath your weapons lest you invoke our wrath!
— Corporal Parker Elton, Here We Go Again!
Live-Action TV
For four years Adolf Hitler's panzers have reigned supreme over the battlefields of Europe. But in the T-34 tank, they finally meet their match.
— Sean Bean, Decisive Weapons: Queen of Tanks
Music
Well, I'm a convict
In a siege tank I ride
Not Protossin'
Not Zergin'
No, I'm Terran... Up the Night!
In a siege tank I ride
Not Protossin'
Not Zergin'
No, I'm Terran... Up the Night!
They are the Panzer Elite!
Born to Compete!
Never Retreat!
Ghost Division
Living or dead
Always ahead
Fed by your dread!
Born to Compete!
Never Retreat!
Ghost Division
Living or dead
Always ahead
Fed by your dread!
— Sabaton, "Ghost Division"
Armored tanks of mass destruction
Killers in the east
Rats who dare to stand before us
Feel our guns go live
Death in the shape of a panzer battalion
Insect of terror don't run face your fate like a man
Cannot outrun our panzer battalion
Thousands of tons of armor and guns
Making its way through the sand
Our panzer battalion is back for revenge
Artillery sweeping the land
First strike is ours no mercy is shown
There's rivers of blood in our track
Breaking their waves of defense with our tanks
Infantry watching our back
Blow their SAM sites clear for air strike
Ready for the storm
Minefields swept there's no surrender
Feel our napalm burn
Killers in the east
Rats who dare to stand before us
Feel our guns go live
Death in the shape of a panzer battalion
Insect of terror don't run face your fate like a man
Cannot outrun our panzer battalion
Thousands of tons of armor and guns
Making its way through the sand
Our panzer battalion is back for revenge
Artillery sweeping the land
First strike is ours no mercy is shown
There's rivers of blood in our track
Breaking their waves of defense with our tanks
Infantry watching our back
Blow their SAM sites clear for air strike
Ready for the storm
Minefields swept there's no surrender
Feel our napalm burn
— Sabaton, "Panzer Battalion"
In the Soviet Union summer 1943
Tanks line up in thousands as far the eye can see
Ready for the onslaught
Ready for the fight
Waiting for the axis to march into the trap
Tanks line up in thousands as far the eye can see
Ready for the onslaught
Ready for the fight
Waiting for the axis to march into the trap
— Sabaton, "Panzerkampf"
Over hundred years ago since we first rode into fire
The rulers of the battlefield, rolling over trench and wire
Into battle, no retreat, roll out, for our foes we spell disaster
The rulers of the battlefield, rolling over trench and wire
Into battle, no retreat, roll out, for our foes we spell disaster
— Sabaton, "Steel Commanders" They're really fond of this trope.
In No Man's Land one early morn at sixty in the shade
From out the British lines there came the famous Tank Brigade
The Huns began to strafe 'em, couldn't make it out at all
Especially when the tanks began the Caterpillar crawl.
And the tanks went on, and they strolled along with an independent air
And their guns began to blare, and the Huns began to swear
For they pulled the trees up by the roots, and they made the Huns look like galoots
Did the tanks that broke the ranks out in Picardy.
From out the British lines there came the famous Tank Brigade
The Huns began to strafe 'em, couldn't make it out at all
Especially when the tanks began the Caterpillar crawl.
And the tanks went on, and they strolled along with an independent air
And their guns began to blare, and the Huns began to swear
For they pulled the trees up by the roots, and they made the Huns look like galoots
Did the tanks that broke the ranks out in Picardy.
— "The Tanks That Broke the Ranks Out in Picardy," a 1916 British propaganda song, sung to the tune of "The Man Who Broke the Bank of Monte Carlo"
T is for Tanker
A is for Tanker
N is for Tanker
K is for Tanker
E is for Tanker
R is for Tanker
Tankers can't spell!
But Tankers can kill!
A is for Tanker
N is for Tanker
K is for Tanker
E is for Tanker
R is for Tanker
Tankers can't spell!
But Tankers can kill!
— US Army Armor Running Cadence
Tabletop Games
What I can not defeat with words, I will crush with the tanks of the Imperial Guard!
— Lord Solar Macharius, Warhammer 40,000
Your foe is well-equipped, well-trained, battle-hardened. He believes his gods are on his side. Let him believe what he will. We have the tanks on ours.
— Colonel Joachim Pfeiff, 14th Krieg Panzer Regiment, Warhammer 40,000
Praise the Machine God, for he has given us tanks in plenty.
Video Games
Tanks! Build! More! TANKS!
— General Kwai, Command & Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour
Rage will only get you so far, General. Now, rage and a column of tanks - that will get you somewhere.
— General Leang, Command & Conquer: Generals: Zero Hour
The good news is that with our supply lines up and running we're able to send you the most powerful vehicles we have: Mammoth Tanks. Dare I say this mission might actually be fun?
Unrivalled.
— Mammoth Tank, Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars
StuG: Shall we crush them? Or shoot them?
Panther: Pride of the fatherland!
Pershing: Like a steel ghost...
Panther: Pride of the fatherland!
Pershing: Like a steel ghost...
Ready to unleash eleven barrels of hell!
— Baneblade commander, Dawn of War
Tell the men the cavalry has arrived!
Ready to win the war, sir!
— Leman Russ commander, Dawn of War
This here is 66 tons of straight-up, HE-spewin', dee-vine intervention!
— Sergeant Major Avery J. Johnson on the M808B Scorpion Tank, Halo
Tank beats Ghost. Tank beats Hunter. Tank beats everything! Oh, man, I could do this all day!
Kinzie: Oh no, don't you dare! I don't want that thing anywhere near my computer!
The Boss: OK, OK, we won't use the tank.
Pierce: Really?
The Boss: Fuck no, we're getting our tank on!
The Boss: OK, OK, we won't use the tank.
Pierce: Really?
The Boss: Fuck no, we're getting our tank on!
Amanda: Say hello to the Drake!
Ghost: You got us a TANK?!
Cayde-6: You got them a TANK? How come I never got a tank?
Amanda: You know you'd just break it.
Ghost: You got us a TANK?!
Cayde-6: You got them a TANK? How come I never got a tank?
Amanda: You know you'd just break it.
Cayde: So, if it wasn't to give me a tank... why did you send our favorite Guardian to find me?
Zavala: Your... high-risk, high-reward combat maneuvers can be effective... and inspirational.
Cadye: Well yeah, but with a tank they could be like a million times MORE inspirational!
Zavala: Your... high-risk, high-reward combat maneuvers can be effective... and inspirational.
Cadye: Well yeah, but with a tank they could be like a million times MORE inspirational!
Bond to MI6, I need you to track a Humvee through the streets of St. Petersburg. It's the one being chased by a tank.
— James Bond, GoldenEye (2010)
Web Original
Simmons: Surrender! You're outnumbered!
Church: Bullshit, dude, I got a tank! People with tanks are never outnumbered!
Simmons: Also, it's your turn to-
Church: Sheila, shut them up.
Sheila the Tank: Firing main cannon! (BOOM)
Church: Bullshit, dude, I got a tank! People with tanks are never outnumbered!
Simmons: Also, it's your turn to-
Church: Sheila, shut them up.
Sheila the Tank: Firing main cannon! (BOOM)
Tank by itself is fearsome. Fast tank is even more fearsome. Fast tank flying through air and trailing dust, flame and entrails of slain enemy is like hand of god ripping swath through the advancing horde of enemies. They falls to their knees and weep for their sins and beg for forgiveness, and that is when you rip them apart with coaxial machine gun.
— Captain Dmitri Arkadeyevich Strelnikov, SCP Foundation, Reddawn
There's no reason to build any troops, really. Tanks don't move any slower, they just take longer to build and, well, they're fucking tanks!
"TANKS! SHAKESPEARE WITH TANKS! I LOVE THIS!"
— Kyle Kalgren, Brows Held High on Richard III
Western Animation
Real Life
For the Red Army, the T-34 was a war-winner. It represents for the Russians I think achievement, self-sacrifice, heroism, diligence: all the qualities which they called forth from themselves in order to win this war.
— Prof. John Erickson
Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.
— Robert Fisk, British journalist commenting on Real Life wars
The man in the tank will win.
When you're in a tank, things don't happen to you. You happen to them.
— Jeff Wise, reporter for Popular Mechanics, after driving a tank for the first time
The best weapon against a tank is another tank. Therefore, tanks are always busy fighting each other and have little time to fight the war.
— Murphy's Laws of Combat
