Showing [Godzilla] for the first time, it’s like your golden coin that you can only spend once in the movie. And there's no part of me that wanted to throw that away.
Dr. Hamilton: I wanted you to see this before some amateur with a telescope causes a worldwide panic. The ship appears to have inserted itself into a lunar synchronous orbit, though I have no idea why.
General Swanwick: Have you tried... communicating with it?
Dr. Hamilton: Well they haven't...responded, as of yet.
General Swanwick: I'm just speculating, but I think whoever is at the helm of that thing is looking to make a dramatic entrance.
"[...] there is tension at the Democratic convention in Los Angeles, where the Gore camp suspects that Bill Clinton is trying to hog the limelight. A Clinton staffer denies this, claiming that "security considerations" led to the decision to have the president enter the convention hall riding a chariot drawn by lions."
— Dave Barry's Year in Review (2000)
Your entrance was good - his was better. The difference? Showmanship!
— Riddler to Two-Face, Batman Forever
War Doctor: Hello.
10th Doctor: I'm the Doctor.
11th Doctor: Sorry about the Dalek.
Clara: Also the showing off...
10th Doctor: I'm the Doctor.
11th Doctor: Sorry about the Dalek.
Clara: Also the showing off...
— Doctor Who, "Day of the Doctor"
"YOUR SAVIOR IS HERE!"
— Loki, Thor: Ragnarok
Down the steep track into the village a car was coming. A car so fantastically powerful, so superlatively beautiful that it had all the nature of an apparition. At the wheel sat a young man, his hair blown back by the wind. In the blaze of the evening light he looked, not a man, but a young God, a Hero God out of some Northern Saga.
He touched the horn and a great roar of sound echoed from the rocks of the bay.
It was a fantastic moment. In it, Anthony Marston seemed to be something more than mortal. Afterwards, more than one of those present remembered that moment.
"You always knew how to make an entrance, Megs."
— Dot Malto to Megatron, Transformers: EarthSpark, "Secret Legacy"
