Anime & Manga
"Mysteries are there to be solved! It'd spoil all the fun if someone were to give me the answer, you fool!"
— Sherlock Holmes, Moriarty the Patriot
Lied: Well, I mean if you give us conditions like that, we can't help taking it as a challenge, you know?
Soi: (thinking): Oh right ... these guys ...
Jazz: Get promoted without being seen ... Is that all Purson?
Soi: (thinking): They laugh in the face of hardships.
Jazz: When all the Misfits stand together nothing is impossible. Wouldn't you agree?
Soi: (thinking): Oh right ... these guys ...
Jazz: Get promoted without being seen ... Is that all Purson?
Soi: (thinking): They laugh in the face of hardships.
Jazz: When all the Misfits stand together nothing is impossible. Wouldn't you agree?
— Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun about the Misfit Class.
Video Games
"If you take from a master criminal, you know you're a master thief."
Webcomics
Ben: So this is the "adjusted" challenge rating you referred to earlier.
The GM: This wasn't the first adjustment. Pete kept trivializing everything.
Pete: It was great!
Annie: If you like big challenges so much, why do you do everything you can to make things too easy?
Pete: There's no fun making a small challenge trivial.
The GM: This wasn't the first adjustment. Pete kept trivializing everything.
Pete: It was great!
Annie: If you like big challenges so much, why do you do everything you can to make things too easy?
Pete: There's no fun making a small challenge trivial.
Real Life
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
— John F. Kennedy, Rice University speech, 1962
"Because it's there."
— George Mallory, on being asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest