"D'ya ever hear of Atlantis? It was everybody's favorite resort until Merlock couldn't get reservations! Then down she went! And poor Pompeii! Mount Vesuvius would have never have blown its top if Merlock hadn't blown his!"
Most of the time, the avatar is accidentally killed by the stone itself - or eliminated by Lotus. She's been working against the universe from the beginning. She's destroyed a hundred worlds before this one. She killed the dinosaurs. She sank Atlantis. Her manipulations led to the Dark Ages and the fall of Chinese dynasties. She invented the cell phone and created reality TV. All with only one purpose: to hold back the development of the life in the universe.
—Monster Dionysus, Monster
"But once the name of our planet was synonymous with war!" said TuMok, his eyes burning with a fervent intensity. "We sunk Atlantis beneath the waves, nuked Sodom and Gomorrah for buggering our ambassadors, crushed Lemuria beneath the steel feet of our tripods!
"This caused the 1977 New York blackout. A practical joke by the Great Attractor. He thought it was funny as hell."
—Agent K, Men in Black
"You see, if you slip through the cracks, and stay on Earth after you die, your soul rots. They rot, the world rots. Global warming, black plague, bad cell reception, get it?"
—Proctor, R.I.P.D.
The other sheet was dedicated to Haiji. It too was full of disturbing information regarding the son; that he had led a resistance in Towa City, that he had gone on the run after it came to light that he held unsavoury views towards children, and that before the Tragedy he was a frequent visitor to a certain private island
owned by a certain infamous billionaire.
owned by a certain infamous billionaire.