"...And lest we forget, you can shoot various flavors of lightning out of your ass. Some of those flavors do things that are a bit ridiculous. Like electric healing, since everyone knows that fifty thousand volts are just the thing for a collapsed lung, and when you make electricity into little restraining manacles; which didn't make a lot of sense when the Superfriends did it either."
"Isn't it weird how in fiction these kinds of accidents don't just fry the machines, but cause them to radically change their entire function, while remaining completely undamaged?"
— Linkara lampshading this trope in the Sonic Live review.
"Electricity RULEZ! It's like magic, only realer!"
— Jimmy Lightning, Peggle Nights
It ain't the smoke, it's the fire that gets the burning done.
If it wasn't for the bullet, nobody'd fear the gun.
It ain't the bark, it ain't the growl, it's the bite that hurts.
Thunder's just a noise, boys, lightning does the work.''
If it wasn't for the bullet, nobody'd fear the gun.
It ain't the bark, it ain't the growl, it's the bite that hurts.
Thunder's just a noise, boys, lightning does the work.''
— Chad Brock, "Lightning Does The Work"
"Lightning gave me abs?"
— Barry Allen, trailer for The Flash (2014)
"A million volts of running power - who can catch me?"
"He can literally reattach his severed arm with shock power! I'm not even joking! LOOK AT THIS! SINCE WHEN COULD ELECTRICITY DO THAT?!"
"In the Moors, lightning is the motive force that drives all things. When the heavens speak, the dirt obeys."
"Don't worry kids! That's not dangerous lightning. It's just strong enough to cause superpowers."
— The Narrator,Wordgirl
"It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning."
— Ivan Panin
