"Now, if you're wondering what I'm getting at here... This is a story about how I got filthy rich. What, you think 'filthy rich' is an exaggeration? You think I sound like one stuck-up son of a bitch, right? By 'filthy rich', I do mean making fat stacks of money... but there's something way more important than that. The Mechanism. It's a universal constant, so even if I've got enemies, I've already won against them. My Mechanism can't be taken away, it can't fall apart... It's a principle of this world that makes wealth flow straight to me."
— Jodio Joestar, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The JOJOLands
Gus: Gosh! Who'd have thought? Little Belgium winning over big Germany!
Lt. Griswold: Winning? Ha! They got the stuffing kicked out of them!
Lt. Griswold: Winning? Ha! They got the stuffing kicked out of them!
— Recess, "Gus' Last Stand"
Lily: (in labor) WHERE THE HELL IS MARSHALL?! I can't do this without Marshall!
Future Ted: (narrating) Kids, sometimes the universe sends exactly what you ask for. Other times, it sends Lily's dad.
Future Ted: (narrating) Kids, sometimes the universe sends exactly what you ask for. Other times, it sends Lily's dad.
Valentine: You know what this is like? It's like those old movies we both love. Now I'm going to tell you my whole plan, and then I'm going to come up with some absurd and convoluted way to kill you, and you'll find an equally convoluted way to escape.
Harry Hart: Sounds good to me.
Valentine: Well, this ain't that kind of movie.
[...]
Valentine: 'Sup, man. Is this the part where you tell me some bad pun?
Eggsy: It's like what you said to Harry: This ain't that kind of movie, bruv.
Valentine: ...Perfect.
Harry Hart: Sounds good to me.
Valentine: Well, this ain't that kind of movie.
[...]
Valentine: 'Sup, man. Is this the part where you tell me some bad pun?
Eggsy: It's like what you said to Harry: This ain't that kind of movie, bruv.
Valentine: ...Perfect.
On may 9th, 1969, two kilometers away from Laos' northern border, the 101st Infantry Division of the american army progresses towards Hill 937. For them, it's a simple recon. For the viet-cong, Hill 937 is a strategic point. The dozen of soldiers of the 101st, ill-prepared for combat, was supposed to finish that routine mission in less than two hours. They will heroically resist for nine days.
This movie doesn't tell their story.
This movie doesn't tell their story.
— RRRrrrr!!! (a Stone Punk comedy)
"It was a day like any other and Mr and Mrs Samuel Brainsample were a perfectly ordinary couple, leading perfectly ordinary lives - the sort of people to whom nothing extraordinary ever happened, and not the kind of people to be the centre of one of the most astounding incidents in the history of mankind... So let's forget about them and follow instead the destiny of this man... Harold Potter, gardener, and tax official, first victim of creatures from another planet."
— Monty Python's Flying Circus, "the Science Fiction Sketch"
In another time, another place, an alicorn Princess sent her faithful student a final test— an unfinished spell by the greatest unicorn mage in Equestrian history. After a near-disastrous first effort, the student finally solved the riddle of the spell, completed it, and was transformed (as her mentor had planned) into an alicorn princess.
This is not that time and place.
This is not that time and place.
—The very first paragraph, The Great Alicorn Hunt
There is a tale of great heroes
Of a terrible foe
And momentous battles
This is not that story
"There are many stories of chivalry where the heroic knight saves the damsel in distress. This is not one of them."
— Elodie, Damsel
