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That\'s an example of him Completely Missing The Point of the question, not this trope. This trope is about numbers.


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* LarryTheCableGuy was asked his birthday. He gave the date, but not the year. When asked "What year?", he replies "Every year".

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Pruning some more non-examples — just using the words \'all of them\' isn\'t enough, it has to be in answer to a question that would usually be answered with a number.


A StockPhrase used to indicate that giving a number, even a vague estimate, would be pretty useless at this point--yeah, [[NotHyperbole the entirety of Europe just stormed your base]]. Commonly overlaps with an OhCrap moment, or comes just before or after one. Or a HeartwarmingMoment--which should we save? AllOfThem.

Bonus points if the phrase isn't literal. For instance, [[BrickJoke the Swiss didn't show up]].

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A StockPhrase joke used to indicate that giving a number, even a vague estimate, would be pretty useless at this point--yeah, [[NotHyperbole the entirety of Europe just stormed your base]]. Commonly overlaps with an OhCrap moment, or comes just before or after one. Or a HeartwarmingMoment--which should we save? AllOfThem.

Bonus points Note that this trope is a joke, normally in response to a question that would usually be answered with a number. Don't put every single example of someone using the words 'all of them' on this page -- in general, if it's not funny or at least gallows humor, it isn't this trope. Usually, if the phrase isn't literal. For is being used in a literal manner, it's not this trope, either, though sometimes the sheer implausibility of having literally every single cop in the world raiding your house or somesuch can be used as a joke itself. But seriously answering that you want every member of a population killed, for instance, [[BrickJoke the Swiss didn't show up]].doesn't qualify.



* ''StarWars Episode I: ThePhantomMenace''
-->'''Darth Sidious:''' Wipe them out...all of them.
* ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
-->'''Gibbs:''' Feast your eyes, Captain. All of them, [[BlatantLies faithful hands before the mast, every man worth his salt]]. And crazy to boot.



* ''CyranoDeBergerac'' loves this:
** In the first act when a marquis is rattling off the names of the précieuses:
--->'''First Marquis:''' Attention! Our précieuses are coming into their seats... Barthénoïde, Urimédonte, Cassandace, Félixérie...
--->'''Second Marquis:''' Ah, how [[AwesomeMcCoolname exquisite]] are their surnames!... Marquis, can you tell them off, all of them?
--->'''First Marquis:''' I can tell them off, all of them, Marquis!
** Also in the first act, in the famous nose tirade:
--->'''Cyrano:''' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Moreover]], had you owned the imagination
--->Needed to give you power,
--->To offer me [[FloweryInsults these mad jests]] — all of them —
--->You would not even have pronounced the quarter
--->O' the half of one's beginning for I myself
--->Offer them to myself with dash enough,
--->But suffer no one else to say them to me.
** In Act Three, when Cyrano discusses Roxane's love for Christian with her and realizes a huge part of it is because of the letters he wrote:
--->'''Cyrano:''' Then you have his letters off by heart?
--->'''Roxane: '''All of them!
** Later in Act Three, during the balcony scene, when Roxane asks her lover what words he will give her, if the perfect moment he's talking about is finally arrived for them, Cyrano answers "All of them, all words, all/The words my heart knows, like flowers hurled/ In wild disorder over a summer world."



* ''DeepSpaceNine'' is guilty as well.
-->'''Founder:''' I want the Cardassians exterminated.
-->'''Weyoun:''' Which ones?
-->'''Founder:''' All of them. The entire population.
-->'''Weyoun:''' That's going to take some time.
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watchmen example isn\'t this trope


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* ''{{Watchmen}}'', from Rorschach's journal:
--> The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No." They had a choice, all of them.
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* In the pilot of ''WhiteCollar'', when Peter hunts down Neal after his prison break:
-->'''Neal:''' We surrounded? (Peter nods) How many?
-->'''Peter:''' Including my agents, and the marshals? All of them, I think.




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* SlingsAndArrows: When Ellen is finally driven to a breaking point, the following exchange occurs:
-->'''Geoffrey''': What are you quitting?
-->'''Ellen''':[[TearJerker Everything]].
* ''WhiteCollar'': In the pilot, when Peter hunts down Neal after his prison break:
-->'''Neal:''' We surrounded? (Peter nods) How many?
-->'''Peter:''' Including my agents, and the marshals? All of them, I think.

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None of these are the trope. They\'re just instances of someone saying \"all of them.\" The description makes it clear: This is a call and response sort of thing.


* And don't forget ''Lost''. Ben sent Juliet to the beach camp to mark the tents of pregnant women so Tom and Pryce would know which ones to kidnap. Then Ben moves up the schedule.
-->'''Richard:''' No, no, Ben, wait, moving at this schedule, Juliet may not be ready. What if she hasn't had time to...
-->'''Ben:''' Then we'll take all their women. And we'll sort out the ones we need later.
* In the Season 1 finale of ''TheVampireDiaries'':
-->'''John:''' This is the only way to drew all them out and kill them… all of them.
* That happens in ''TrueBlood'':
-->'''Eric:''' My family was massacred. All of them... by wolves.
* In the sixth episode of the 2006 ''RobinHood'' series:
-->'''Robin:''' We will rescue them. All of them.
* In the particularly depressing LotusEaterMachine episode of ''{{Supernatural}}'':
-->'''Dean''', ''talking to his father's grave'': All of them. Everyone that you saved, everyone Sammy and I saved -- they're all dead.
* Happens in an episode of ''{{Dexter}}'' when the police come upon a particularly gruesome crime scene.
-->'''Doakes:''' I need backup, forensics...f**k it, just send everybody.

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* And don't forget ''Lost''. Ben sent Juliet to the beach camp to mark the tents of pregnant women so Tom and Pryce would know which ones to kidnap. Then Ben moves up the schedule.
-->'''Richard:''' No, no, Ben, wait, moving at this schedule, Juliet may not be ready. What if she hasn't had time to...
-->'''Ben:''' Then we'll take all their women. And we'll sort out the ones we need later.
* In the Season 1 finale of ''TheVampireDiaries'':
-->'''John:''' This is the only way to drew all them out and kill them… all of them.
* That happens in ''TrueBlood'':
-->'''Eric:''' My family was massacred. All of them... by wolves.
* In the sixth episode of the 2006 ''RobinHood'' series:
-->'''Robin:''' We will rescue them. All of them.
* In the particularly depressing LotusEaterMachine episode of ''{{Supernatural}}'':
-->'''Dean''', ''talking to his father's grave'': All of them. Everyone that you saved, everyone Sammy and I saved -- they're all dead.
* Happens in an episode of ''{{Dexter}}'' when the police come upon a particularly gruesome crime scene.
-->'''Doakes:''' I need backup, forensics...f**k it, just send everybody.



* During the [=McCarthy=] Era and the blacklisting of Hollywood radicals, comic Zero Mostel commented "I am an actor of a thousand faces - all of them blacklisted."

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* During the [=McCarthy=] Era and the blacklisting of Hollywood radicals, comic Zero Mostel commented "I am an actor of a thousand faces - all of them blacklisted."



* In Walt Disney's ''RobinHood'', when escaping with all the prisoners and as many bags of gold as possible from Prince John's castle, Robin leads everyone safely away:
-->'''Robin Hood''': Everybody, this way! That’s all of them. Get going!

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* In Walt Disney's ''RobinHood'', when escaping with all the prisoners and as many bags of gold as possible from Prince John's castle, Robin leads everyone safely away:
-->'''Robin Hood''': Everybody, this way! That’s all of them. Get going!

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Just because he says the words \"all of them\" doesn\'t make it this trope.


* In ''{{Serenity}}'', [[KnightTemplar The Operative]] talks in absolutes.
-->'''The Operative:''' [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans We're making a better world.]] All of them, better worlds.

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* In ''{{Serenity}}'', [[KnightTemplar The Operative]] talks in absolutes.
-->'''The Operative:''' [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans We're making a better world.]] All of them, better worlds.

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\n* In the ''{{Halo}}'' novel ''GhostsOfOnyx'', the protagonists are on the run from the titular "ghosts": [[spoiler:Forerunner Sentinels]], which are much more dangerous in the novel than the games. Late in the book, it leads to this:
-->"We've got incoming," Fred's static-filled voice crackled over the COM. "Sentinels."
-->"How many?"
-->"Sir, all of them."




* In the sitxh episode of the 2006 ''RobinHood'' series:

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* In the sitxh sixth episode of the 2006 ''RobinHood'' series:

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* Happens in an episode of ''{{Dexter}}'' when the police come upon a particularly gruesome crime scene.
-->'''Doakes:''' I need backup, forensics...f**k it, just send everybody.

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* In ''{{Serenity}}'', [[KnightTemplar The Operative]] talks in absolutes.
-->'''The Operative:''' [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans We're making a better world.]] All of them, better worlds.




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* ''CyranoDeBergerac'' loves this:
** In the first act when a marquis is rattling off the names of the précieuses:
--->'''First Marquis:''' Attention! Our précieuses are coming into their seats... Barthénoïde, Urimédonte, Cassandace, Félixérie...
--->'''Second Marquis:''' Ah, how [[AwesomeMcCoolname exquisite]] are their surnames!... Marquis, can you tell them off, all of them?
--->'''First Marquis:''' I can tell them off, all of them, Marquis!
** Also in the first act, in the famous nose tirade:
--->'''Cyrano:''' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Moreover]], had you owned the imagination
--->Needed to give you power,
--->To offer me [[FloweryInsults these mad jests]] — all of them —
--->You would not even have pronounced the quarter
--->O' the half of one's beginning for I myself
--->Offer them to myself with dash enough,
--->But suffer no one else to say them to me.
** In Act Three, when Cyrano discusses Roxane's love for Christian with her and realizes a huge part of it is because of the letters he wrote:
--->'''Cyrano:''' Then you have his letters off by heart?
--->'''Roxane: '''All of them!
** Later in Act Three, during the balcony scene, when Roxane asks her lover what words he will give her, if the perfect moment he's talking about is finally arrived for them, Cyrano answers "All of them, all words, all/The words my heart knows, like flowers hurled/ In wild disorder over a summer world."





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* In the particularly depressing LotusEaterMachine episode of ''{{Supernatural}}'':
-->'''Dean''', ''talking to his father's grave'': All of them. Everyone that you saved, everyone Sammy and I saved -- they're all dead.



* During the McCarthy Era and the blacklisting of Hollywood radicals, comic Zero Mostel commented "I am an actor of a thousand faces - all of them blacklisted."

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* During the McCarthy [=McCarthy=] Era and the blacklisting of Hollywood radicals, comic Zero Mostel commented "I am an actor of a thousand faces - all of them blacklisted."

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* ''{{Watchmen}}'', from Rorschach's journal:
--> The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No." They had a choice, all of them.




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* ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
-->'''Gibbs:''' Feast your eyes, Captain. All of them, [[BlatantLies faithful hands before the mast, every man worth his salt]]. And crazy to boot.
* In ''RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'', when Guy returns from crossing Sherwoof and has lost both the money and the soldiers he was to guard it with:
-->'''Guy:''' We were ambushed, cousin.
-->'''Notthingham:''' Spanish steel. Much stronger than our native blades. Any losses?
-->'''Guy:''' Some. The truth; all of them.




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* In the Season 1 finale of ''TheVampireDiaries'':
-->'''John:''' This is the only way to drew all them out and kill them… all of them.
* That happens in ''TrueBlood'':
-->'''Eric:''' My family was massacred. All of them... by wolves.
* In the sitxh episode of the 2006 ''RobinHood'' series:
-->'''Robin:''' We will rescue them. All of them.




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* During the McCarthy Era and the blacklisting of Hollywood radicals, comic Zero Mostel commented "I am an actor of a thousand faces - all of them blacklisted."




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* In Walt Disney's ''RobinHood'', when escaping with all the prisoners and as many bags of gold as possible from Prince John's castle, Robin leads everyone safely away:
-->'''Robin Hood''': Everybody, this way! That’s all of them. Get going!
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* ''StarWars Eposode I: ThePhantomMenace''

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* ''StarWars Eposode Episode I: ThePhantomMenace''

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* ''StarWars Eposode I: ThePhantomMenace''
-->'''Darth Sidious:''' Wipe them out...all of them.
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* Characters in ''{{Homestuck}}'' frequently use this for emphasis, usually in the form "All of the X. ''[[MemeticMutation All of them.]]"''

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* Characters in ''{{Homestuck}}'' frequently use this for emphasis, usually in the form "All of (of) the X. ''[[MemeticMutation All of them.]]"''

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-->'''Founder:''' I wand the Cardassians exterminated.

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-->'''Founder:''' I wand want the Cardassians exterminated.




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* And don't forget ''Lost''. Ben sent Juliet to the beach camp to mark the tents of pregnant women so Tom and Pryce would know which ones to kidnap. Then Ben moves up the schedule.
-->'''Richard:''' No, no, Ben, wait, moving at this schedule, Juliet may not be ready. What if she hasn't had time to...
-->'''Ben:''' Then we'll take all their women. And we'll sort out the ones we need later.
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* ''DS9'' is guilty as well.

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* ''DS9'' ''DeepSpaceNine'' is guilty as well.

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* ''DS9'' is guilty as well.
-->'''Founder:''' I wand the Cardassians exterminated.
-->'''Weyoun:''' Which ones?
-->'''Founder:''' All of them. The entire population.
-->'''Weyoun:''' That's going to take some time.

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this is the FIGURATIVE use of \"all of them\" meaning roughly \"too many to count\"


* ''StarWars: ThePhantomMenace'':
-->'''Darth Sidious''': Wipe them out. All of them.
* ''X-Men 2''
-->'''Magneto:''' Now find the humans. All of them.\\

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* ''StarWars: ThePhantomMenace'':
-->'''Darth Sidious''': Wipe them out. All of them.
* ''X-Men 2''
-->'''Magneto:''' Now find the humans. All of them.\\



* At the end of StarTrekDeepSpaceNine, the lead Changeling orders the Jem'hadar to kill the [[spoiler:Cardassians]] who had just betrayed the Dominion at a critical moment. When a more specific answer is requested, she angrily demands that they kill "all of them".
* Used in a slightly different context by Kevin Uxbridge in the ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Survivors." He is secretly a Douwd, a species that could give the Q a run for their money. He was living peaceably on a planet with some Earthers and a Husnock ship attacked them, killing his wife. Then...
-->''I saw her broken body - I went insane. My hatred exploded. And in an instant of grief - I destroyed the Husnock!...You don't understand the scope of my crime. I didn't kill just one Husnock, or a hundred, or a thousand. I killed ''them all''. All Husnock, '''everywhere'''.''
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* ''X-MenFilmSeries''''X-Men 2''
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* ''StarWars: ThePhantomMenace'':
-->'''Darth Sidious:''' Wipe them out. All of them.\\
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* ''X-MenFilmSeries''
-->'''Magneto:''' Now find the humans. All of them.\\
* ''StarWars: ThePhantomMenace'':
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'''Stansfield:''' '''''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrTsuvykUZk EVE-RY-ONE!!!]]'''''\\

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'''Stansfield:''' '''''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrTsuvykUZk EVE-RY-ONE!!!]]'''''\\EVE-RY-ONE!!!]]'''''

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* ''StarWars: ThePhantomMenace'':
-->'''Darth Sidious''': Wipe them out. All of them.
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-->'''Mr. Tweedy:''' Which ones?

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-->'''Mr. Tweedy:''' -->'''[[HenpeckedHusband Mr. Tweedy]]:''' Which ones?

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* An UrbanLegend states that on [[WorldWarII D-Day]] dawn a German soldier looked out at the English Channel and phoned his superiors:
-->'''Soldier:''' Allied ships in the Channel!
-->'''Command:''' How many?
-->'''Soldier:''' All of them.

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* In the pilot of ''WhiteCollar'', when Peter hunts down Neal after his prison break:
-->'''Neal:''' We surrounded? (Peter nods) How many?
-->'''Peter:''' Including my agents, and the marshals? All of them, I think.
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* Characters in ''{{Homestuck}}'' frequently use this for emphasis, usually in the form ''"All of the X. All of them."''

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* Characters in ''{{Homestuck}}'' frequently use this for emphasis, usually in the form ''"All "All of the X. ''[[MemeticMutation All of them."''
]]"''
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* Characters in ''{{Homestuck}}'' frequently use this for emphasis, usually in the form ''"All of the X. All of them."''

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