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You haven't won yet, Mervin! You didn't expect us to even go to a museum, much less steal this ancient heat-seeking missile!

"Synaptic controls, neuro-muscular amplification, flight capability. This thing may be old, but it’s still cutting edge."
Terry McGinnis on Bruce's Last Batsuit, Batman Beyond

Show plane manager: They made good planes back in those days.
Jet: Can they actually fly?
[after the planes start taking off]
Manager: They really can fly! They're all museum pieces, haven't flown for decades.
[several planes explode mid-air or crash]

Smith: What is this? Is this a classic car?
Michael: Well, Smithy. Some things get meaner as they get older if you know what I mean.

Soldier: Goddamn, Hoss. Where'd you dig that relic up?
Tachanka: From under a lot of dead bodies. They all looked surprised.
Tachanka on his DP-28 LMG, Rainbow Six Siege

Waken, all of King Volmer’s men!
Buckle on rusted swords again,
Fetch in the churches the dust-covered shield,
Blazoned by trolls and the beasts of the field,
Waken your horses, which graze in the mould,
Set in their bellies the rowels of gold,
Leap towards Gurre town,
Now that the sun is down!
— Jacobsen, cited in After Doomsday

[upon seeing International Rescue deploying the old biplane that will later be christened the title machine] Don’t tell me they’re gonna try a rescue with that thing! They must have got it from a museum.
False Captain Foster, Thunderbird 6

Hopper: You men have given so much to your country, and no one has the right to ask any more of you... but I'm asking.
USS Missouri Veteran: What do you need, son?
Hopper: I need to borrow your boat.

Found a tank trap at a roadblock in Kyiv today with a plaque indicating that it's a WW2 antique brought out from a museum exhibit.

Never, ever fuck with an antiques dealer.
Simon Sheppard, Dracula 2000


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