"It will eventually turn out that, for a minimum of the first 60% of the game, you were manipulated by the forces of evil into doing their sinister bidding for them. In extreme cases this may go as high as 90%. The clear implication is that it would have been better to not get involved in the first place."
Chris: The ring was meant to take Doomsday into the future, so clearly that's what it does to Lois. She ends up in 3009, dropped right into the middle of a bunch of Legionnaires who are waiting to destroy the ultimate killing machine as soon as it comes through the time portal. There's a part of me that wants Lois to have been set on fire, electrocuted, mind-blasted, karate chopped, brained with a chunk of iron and turned to stone that was then eaten just because Clark couldn't be bothered to keep his super-hero stuff off the top of his desk at work. That'll learn him.
David: Yeah, the fact that it's just on his desk is incredible. Did he not think anyone would touch it?
David: Yeah, the fact that it's just on his desk is incredible. Did he not think anyone would touch it?
— ComicsAlliance on
Smallville, "Doomsday"
Smallville, "Doomsday"Doctor Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess that I cannot take away.
— Dr. Rene Belloq, Raiders of the Lost Ark
So once again, Jones, what was briefly yours is now mine.
— Belloq again, Raiders of the Lost Ark
Thank you, Mr. Bond. You have saved us the trouble of disarming [the ATC].
— Aristotle "Aris" Kristatos, For Your Eyes Only
When in doubt, let Jackie Chan do the hard work.
— Valmont, Jackie Chan Adventures, "Jade Times Jade"
Hiro: I should have been there. But I was-
Obake: Doing vital work. For me.
Obake: Doing vital work. For me.
Yes, they were all my doing. I used the evil fairy to find seven pure lights for me, just as I prepared thirteen vessels to fill with pure darkness.
Cerberus thanks you for all your hard work.
— Kai Leng, Mass Effect 3
In any race for hidden treasure, it is always the protagonists who sweat and bleed and die to overcome the challenges inherent in finding it, only for the antagonists to seize it at the last minute!
Oh, thanks for letting me in, I couldn't have done it without you. I really couldn't.
— Freddy Beaumont, The Secret World
Sips: Let's try to be careful, though. We've got the Staff of Magnus now, we don't want any funny business. We don't want anyone to just like, all of sudden turn up and be like, "Hohoho, travelers! Thanks for getting the Staff of Magnus for me! I'll be taking that!" And then we have to like chase them to the end of the earth and, and get the staff back. We just wanna - oh shit! See! Who's this?! Anaconda, is that you?! What, what's the meaning of this?!
Estormo: So, you made it out alive. Ancano was right, you are dangerous. I'm afraid I'll have to take that Staff from you now.
Sips: Oh fuck, I called it.
Estormo: So, you made it out alive. Ancano was right, you are dangerous. I'm afraid I'll have to take that Staff from you now.
Sips: Oh fuck, I called it.
He had us gather the materials to treat Colette and then had us bring her here... That sure saved them a lot of time and effort.
—Genis Sage, Tales of Symphonia
Dr. Neo Cortex: Ahahahahahahaha... I'm sorry. This Is the Part Where... I'm supposed to be angry. Full of rage. Incensed beyond belief. Once again, you have outsmarted and out-spun my best henchmen. I should be rather upset, shouldn't I?
Uka Uka: And in fact, we're furious! But it seems you have overlooked one small detail, you little orange delivery boy: Now that you have gathered all the crystals, all we have to do is TAKE THEM FROM YOU!!
Robotnik: Hey, thanks for doing all the hard stuff.
Knuckles: (Leaps off the Egg Mobile and slides down the giant owl statue) But we'll take it from here.
Veniczar Fontana: You have my thanks, Shields. For you have led me straight to Crow Harbor's location! From the moment you arrived in this pocket dimension, you were but a pawn in my scheme. Indeed, I intended all along to have you enter Crow Harbor's lair and lead me straight to its innermost secrets.
Kayto Shields: What?!
Fontana: Why risk my own men in this death trap, when I have you? My intrepid captain, so eager to take any risk necessary to complete his revenge. Now the mainframe is mine... And you have delivered it to me with your own hands.
Kayto: No...
Kayto Shields: What?!
Fontana: Why risk my own men in this death trap, when I have you? My intrepid captain, so eager to take any risk necessary to complete his revenge. Now the mainframe is mine... And you have delivered it to me with your own hands.
Kayto: No...
—Sunrider 4: The Captain's Return
