Human Kite/Kyle: Alright, dude. L-Let's just say you're not crazy and it's true. What's the big deal? I mean, I think it'd be pretty cool not to be able to die.
Mysterion/Kenny: Pretty cool?! Do you know what it feels like to be stabbed?! To be shot?! Decapitated, torn apart, burned, run over?!
Toolshed/Stan: Kenny, Kenny, calm down!
Mysterion/Kenny: It's not pretty cool, Kyle! It fucking HURTS!
—South Park, "Coon vs. Coon & Friends"
Only, it's been a long while since we enlisted out of this classroom. So long, I thought maybe the whole world had learned by this time. Only now they're sending babies, and they won't last a week! I shouldn't have come on leave. Up at the front you're alive or you're dead and that's all. You can't fool anybody about that very long. And up there we know we're lost and done for whether we're dead or alive. Three years we've had of it, four years! And every day a year, and every night a century! And our bodies are earth, and our thoughts are clay, and we sleep and eat with death!
— Paul Baumer addressing a group of students being sent to war, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
