Quotes / Just One Man

Mook: ...Boss... Gognitti... It's Max Payne... He came an' started cappin' us... He killed... uuuhh —
Vinnie Gognitti: Are ya freakin' kidding me?!! He's just one lousy cop! Ya better be freakin' kidding me! Whack 'im! What's the freakin' problem? Hello? Answer me! Hello?

— Max Payne

Frau Engel: (Over the radio) <Send in the troops!>
Commandant Mannheimer: Ah, General Engel! Please confirm the number of enemy platoons on board the Ausmerzer. What is their current status and weaponry?>
Engel: <It's one man.>
Commandant: <...Excuse me, General?>
Engel: <Are you deaf, Commandant Mannheimer?! It is one man! Terror-Billy, the idiot American!>
Commandant: <But... I thought we had him in custody, General?>
Engel: <He got away.>
Commandant: <Oh... I see, General.> (Long beat) <...Hhhhow?>
Engel: <WHAT DOES IT MATTER? He is a trained killer! I guarantee he has obtained firearms by now. Possibly grenades too, how should I know?>
Commandant: <Affirmative, General. And how many men does Terror-Billy lead in his raid?>
Engel: <God in Heaven, are you stupid, man?! He's not leading anybody! He is by himself!>
Commandant: <But one single man, General... surely our security...>
Engel: <You ARE the security, you fucking imbecile!>
(B.J. cuts Mannheimer's legs off and slits his throat)
Engel: <Commandant? Hello? Commandant Mannheimer? Do you read?! ...Shit!>

— Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

"...This brings me to the one note of disappointment I must echo from our Benefactors. Obviously I am not on the ground to closely command or second-guess the dedicated forces of the Overwatch, but this does not mean I can shirk responsibility for recent lapses and even outright failures on their part. I have been severely questioned about these shortcomings, and now must put the question to you: How could one man have slipped through your force's fingers time and time again? How is it possible? This is not some agent provocateur or highly trained assassin we are discussing. Gordon Freeman is a theoretical physicist who had hardly earned the distinction of his Ph.D. at the time of the Black Mesa Incident. I have good reason to believe that in the intervening years, he was in a state that precluded further development of covert skills. The man you have consistently failed to slow, let alone capture, is by all standards simply that—an ordinary man. How can you have failed to apprehend him?"

— Dr. Breen, Half-Life 2

"This damned knight is just one man, one man. Why are we so hesitant to take on one man!?"

— Suleiman Mundus, The Night Unfurls

[Guiliano is holding off Count Federico's soldiers single-handed]
Giuliano: Go on, for you'll need an army to do your work!
Count Federico: Oh, you craven-gutted curs! He's but one man.
[The Doctor runs out of the catacombs brandishing a sword, making it two]
The Doctor: You can't count, Count.

— Doctor Who, "The Masque of Mandragora"

"He's beating us! Ow! How is he beating us? It's just one of him and 100 of us! He's beating us!"

— CalebCity, How EVERY throw away villain acts when the MC needs to be power scaled.

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