"My grandfather was one of the early space explorers. He was a man of his time — the kind who would laugh in the face of death even after his throat had been ripped out. Unfortunately in those days they believed that the best way to escape the Earth's gravity was to shoot a space capsule from a gigantic cannon. And that's how Granddad won the title of 'First Tomato Paste in Space'."
The cannon sparkles, a late-model Algernon design, filigreed and etched with motifs that curl and leaf like patterns in spring ice breaking. The brilliant nose of the Venusian capsule Clamshell rests snugly in the cannon's silvery mouth.
— The Radiant Car Thy Sparrows Drew by Catherynne M. Valente
"That is a weapon, not a teleporter."
—Samuel Hayden, on the Doom Slayer's creative problem-solving, Doom Eternal
"Fire me, boy!"
— Catchphrase of the Human Bullet, The Tick
