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* The Aparoids in StarFox Assault, apparently inspired by the Borg, spout lines like that. Well, the Queen and Pigma do, the rest isn't much for talking.

** Seeing as Afghanistan is landlocked, you have to wonder about the "sea" part. Then again, the first people in included Navy SEALs, so it could be metaphorical.

->"''[[HiveMind We are the Borg]]. [[YouWillBeAssimilated You will be assimilated]]. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. [[TropeNamer Resistance is futile]].''"

* In TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy the Vogons use a variation on this: "Resistance is Useless!"

* ''MassEffect'' BigBad Harbinger tends to s-- [[MemeticMutation ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL.]] [[ResistanceIsFutile YOU CANNOT RESIST.]]
** Seems to be common among reapers, since first episode BigBad CoolShip Sovereign drops it too on Virmire.

** Seems to be common among reapers, since first episode BigBag Sovereign drops it too on Virmire.

*** "Resistance is Useless" was a favorite phrase of the Cybermen in their first two stories, "The Tenth Planet" and "The Moonbase."

* The far too numerous doppelgangers in ''[[BaldursGate Baldur's Gate]]'' shout this incessantly as you hack them to bits "It is useless to resist!" Since they only have some two battle lines and the latter 3rd of the game consists almost entirely of fighting great wads of them at once you'll be hearing it. A lot.

'''''[[StarTrekExpandedUniverse ...but welcome.]]'''''

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'''''[[HiveMind We are the Borg.]] [[YouWillBeAssimilated You will be assimilated.]] [[BodyHorror Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.]] [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs Your culture will adapt to service us.]] [[TropeNamer Resistance is futile.]]'''''

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* In a StarTrek reference on BobAndGeorge, [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/050617 George asks Present!X if he wants to be like the Borg Queen, all nasty, and slimy, and...]]
-->'''X:''' ''ResistanceIsFutile, George.''
-->'''George:''' ''Damnit, I knew he was gonna say that.''
* In ''SabrinaOnline'', where Amy, in the advanced stages of her pregnancy with Thomas' son Timmy, is commanded to get pickles and Chex mix by the unborn wolf/squirrel child.

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'''''[[HiveMind We]] [[StarTrek are]] [[SayMyName the Borg.]] [[TropeNamer You]] [[FateWorseThanDeath will be]] [[YouWillBeAssimilated assimilated.]] [[BodyHorror Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.]] [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs Your culture will adapt to service us.]] [[ShapedLikeItself Resistance is]] [[TropeNamer futile.]]'''''

'''''[[StarTrekExpandedUniverse ...but]] [[OhCrap welcome.]]'''''

* Darth Vader, while fighting Luke in ''StarWars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back''.

* ''StarTrek'' uses "resistance is futile", which is the TropeNamer, as the CatchPhrase of the Borg. This phrase is subject to a great deal of MemeticMutation, such as "Billgatus of Borg."

** It is worth noting that this in fact predates The Next Generation.

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* From ''Scars of Yesterday'' by {{DragonForce}}:
-->Trapped within my fierce desire
-->Resistance is futile
* ''Comfort Eagle'' by Cake:
--> "To resist it is useless
-->[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment it is useless to resist it]]."

* A variation of this was used in ''Word's Worth'': "Your resistance only makes my penis harder!"

'''''[[HiveMind We]] [[StarTrek are]] [[SayMyName the Borg.]] [[BodyHorror Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.]] [[TropeNamer You]] [[FateWorseThanDeath will be]] [[YouWillBeAssimilated assimilated.]] [[ShapedLikeItself Resistance is]] [[TropeNamer futile.]]'''''

** Subverted in ''StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Scorpion" which begins with three Borg cubes giving their spiel as they approach an unseen target. Right in the middle of "Resistance is__" a beam of energy lances out and destroys all three cubes. Welcome to Species 8472.

--> "Resistance is useless, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment it is useless to resist it]]."

'''''[[SayMyName We]] [[StarTrek are]] [[HiveMind the Borg.]] [[BodyHorror Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own.]] [[TropeNamer You]] [[FateWorseThanDeath will be]] [[YouWillBeAssimilated assimilated.]] [[ShapedLikeItself Resistance is]] [[TropeNamer futile.]]'''''