Samantha Carter: I feel compelled to warn you, most of the guys I've dated recently have died.
Pete Shanahan: As in...
Carter: Dead.
Pete: How?
Carter: Various circumstances.
Pete: I'll risk it.
Pete Shanahan: As in...
Carter: Dead.
Pete: How?
Carter: Various circumstances.
Pete: I'll risk it.
Elf: Kevyn...I'm cursed. Everybody who gets close to me gets killed in nasty ways.
Kevyn: You're not cursed. Sure, Hob died, and we all miss him, but I'm still alive.
Nick: Didn't you get killed, like twice while we've been here?
Kevyn: Nick, you're not helping.
Kevyn: You're not cursed. Sure, Hob died, and we all miss him, but I'm still alive.
Nick: Didn't you get killed, like twice while we've been here?
Kevyn: Nick, you're not helping.
You're cursed Jack, everything you touch, one way or another, ends up dead.
— James Heller,24
Every time the Doctor gets pally with someone, I feel the urge to notify their next of kin.
— Rory Williams, Doctor Who
Okay, you know what? Ignoring EVERYTHING...have you forgotten the average lifespan of your hookups?
— Dean to a Love Potion-drunk Sam, Supernatural
"I don't need no cat bones to tell your fortune, Mozelle Batiste. You are a curse! A Black Widow. The next man who marries you is a dead man, like the others. Always be that way."
— Elzora, Eve's Bayou
"Look how well your charm works, James. They'll do anything for you, won't they? How many is that now?"
— M, Quantum of Solace
"I seem to bring bad luck to women."
— James Bond, COLD
Dilbert: It seems almost unnatural for me to have an actual girlfriend.
Liz: Why?
Dilbert: It's like when the captain on "Star Trek" falls in love and you know the woman will die in an unlikely accident.
Liz: Why?
Dilbert: It's like when the captain on "Star Trek" falls in love and you know the woman will die in an unlikely accident.
— Dilbert
You don't understand, something bad happens to the people I care about.
— Wolverine, Logan
"Arnie . . . I slept with him. He died. And the sheriff—I told him about me, how I kill men. And he didn't believe me! He said, 'let's see, sleep with me'! So I did. And the sheriff died!"
...or, maybe, [Naomi] just felt that she was gonna live a good, normal life, and, y'know, boning with Otacon means she should be marked for death, and she was terrified that she hadn't died yet, so she had to make it right. Have to restore balance in the universe.
—Chip Cheezum, giving an alternate theory as to why Naomi killed herself in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
"Last girlfriend? She's in the League of Assassins. My girlfriend before that shot my girlfriend before that. Not exactly a catch at the moment."
— Oliver Queen, Arrow, "The Calm"
Pepper Potts: Am I going to be okay?
Tony Stark: No. You're in a relationship with me, nothing will ever be okay.
Tony Stark: No. You're in a relationship with me, nothing will ever be okay.
"Whenever I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long."
—Josey Wales, The Outlaw Josey Wales
Cyber: Did you know you recite the names of your dead girlfriends when you're unconscious?
Wolverine: You should know, you killed one of 'em!
Cyber: Ahhh, who hasn't?
Wolverine: You should know, you killed one of 'em!
Cyber: Ahhh, who hasn't?
"Tragedy. What else can I call it? What more need be said? The damage, the destruction, you saw it with your own eyes. When will people wake up, and realize that everywhere Spider-Man goes, chaos and calamity ensue? Everything Spider-Man touches comes to ruin. And we, the innocents, are left to pick up the pieces."
—J. Jonah Jameson, Spider-Man: No Way Home
"Our story, of course, begins with young Finn falling in love with the main character, something I would never recommend that you do. It pretty much means that you're devoting your whole life to creating dramatic situations for another person, and the most dramatic thing you can do is die."
