Comic Books
"You're not Wolverine. You're not a hero. You're not even human. You weren't born. You were built. You don't have a name. You're a letter and a number. X-23."
— Kimura, All-New Wolverine
Fan Works
Given that her pride in her piloting abilities was, when you got down to it, all that Asuka Langley Sohryu thought she had, Shinji kept his peace. He had seen the nightmare that had happened when her pride was shattered and he had utterly no wish to see that door open ever again…
Gin: Kaku? I gotta ask, d'ya think we're bad influences on th' Young Master?
Kaku: I can't say. I mean, I was raised by the government. That didn't do me any favors. His is certainly a better song than the ones we grew up with.
Gin: Like what?
Kaku: Well, there was this one about all the toxins and their effects on the human body. For instance, one verse is about the venom of this wandering spider, which causes men to experience very painful e-
Gin: I think I get it.
Kaku: Point is, I'd trade my childhood for the one he'll have in a heartbeat.
Kaku: I can't say. I mean, I was raised by the government. That didn't do me any favors. His is certainly a better song than the ones we grew up with.
Gin: Like what?
Kaku: Well, there was this one about all the toxins and their effects on the human body. For instance, one verse is about the venom of this wandering spider, which causes men to experience very painful e-
Gin: I think I get it.
Kaku: Point is, I'd trade my childhood for the one he'll have in a heartbeat.
Films - Live-Action
Wyeth: That thing with the collar... how did you do that?
Bart: Like my saint of a mum used to say, "Get 'em young, and the possibilities are endless."
Wyeth: I thought it was the Jesuits who said that.
Bart: Probably got it from my mum.
Bart: Like my saint of a mum used to say, "Get 'em young, and the possibilities are endless."
Wyeth: I thought it was the Jesuits who said that.
Bart: Probably got it from my mum.
Literature
And today the doctor's many years of work had come to fruition. He had transformed a handful of mewling babes into the vanguard of a new SS, men and women so great that a new unit of the Verfügungstruppe had been created for them, complete with their own insigne. Today von Westarp's children became officers of the new Götterelektrongruppe.
Mrs Wasserman: Back then, workers were thought to be demons who could be bargained with for great rewards. If you had a worker baby, it was because a demon had gotten inside of it. Justinian the first — the emperor — took all those babies and raised them in an enormous tower to be an unstoppable demon army.
Cassel: Why are you telling me this? I know workers have been thought of lots of different idiotic ways.
Mrs Wasserman: Because Zacharov and those other heads of crime families are doing the same thing. Their people hang around bus stations in the big cities, waiting for the runaways. They give them a place to stay and a few little jobs, and before they know it, they're like the Byzantine child-demons, in so much debt that they might as well be prisoners or prostitutes.
Live-Action TV
"If you have the need, we have the breed."
— Tleilaxu Master, Children of Dune miniseries
When Tywin Lannister became Lord of Casterly Rock, he wanted more from his former kennel-master than fealty; he bet that training hounds to kill isn't far from training boys to kill. In just two generations, my brother Gregor and I proved him right: I gutted my first man at twelve.
— Sandor Clegane, Game of Thrones: History And Lore - House Clegane
"Ah, it's a bouncing baby boy. Another ready soldier in the war against communism."
— Old Doctor, Scrubs, "My Own Personal Jesus"
Music
"Little Kaleel got a gun he got from the rebels
to kill the infidels and American devils
a bomb on his waist
a mask on his face
he prays five times a day and listens to heavy metal"
to kill the infidels and American devils
a bomb on his waist
a mask on his face
he prays five times a day and listens to heavy metal"
— Lupe Fiasco, "Little Weapons"
Video Games
To my daughter, Eleanor. Soon, you will be born, and Rapture will be your home. You shall be raised as I was: to advance the common good through social psychiatry. This city's potential is immeasurable, Eleanor... yet our beliefs are unwelcome here. Life will be difficult, but the price of revolution is always dear. If we are patient with her... Rapture will come to us.
— Sofia Lamb, Bioshock 2
Western Animation
When I was little, Cadmus used to make me play kinds of games, but they weren't any fun either. They'd strap me into a machine and poke wires into my brain, "Ace, can you move this object with your mind?" Yeah, I can move it. They weren't really games, you know. They were training me. Turning me into a weapon. For justice, they said. They got their weapon. I got cheated out of my childhood.
— Ace, Justice League Unlimited
