Quotes / Shoot Everything That Moves

"We are going in with the first wave, means more bugs for us to kill. You smash the entire area, you kill anything with more than two legs. You get me?"

— Mobile Infantry Sergeant Starship Troopers

Frag everything that isn't you.

— The one rule of Quake III: Arena

Shoot everything; if it dies, it was bad.

— Numerous "Everything I need to know in life I learned from Video Games" posters, t-shirts etc.

If it moves, blast it.

— Han Solo, Return of the Jedi

Your orders are simple: Destroy anything that moves. Steal the power generators for Gorda City. Then, destroy anything that doesn't move.

— Chairman Drek, Ratchet & Clank

If it moves, shoot it. If it screams in German, shoot it again!

— Colonel Cole, Brothers in Arms

Marine: They're everywhere!
Thor pilot: Then shoot everywhere!

— Starcraft II Heart Of The Swarm

Jenna: Where are you going?

Cally: I'm going to clear the neutron blasters for firing.

Jenna: Well, what are you going to fire at?

Cally: Anything that moves.

— Blake's 7, "Hostage"

Cheris snapped, "Unfurl Kel banner. Advance and fire. I want anything that twitches to die."

— Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee.

Colby arrives on Xarbia to assess the situation, offering his no-nonsense approach to non-human life forms: "If it moves, and it isn't one of us... shoot it." (Apparently Colby's "petting zoo massacre" flashback was written but never filmed.)

— Monsters At Play review of Forbidden World

Skwadron Kommanda Ugzob: Topside turrets! Which one of you gitz isn't shootin' like all the others!?
Turret Gunna: Me, boss. 'Ow we supposed to know who's on our side and who ain't?
Skwadron Kommanda Ugzob: Listen karefully and I'll explain 'ow we do things 'ere in Deff Skwadron... You shoot at it an' you miss, it's one of ourz. You hit it an' you shoot it down, then it must be one of theirs. Dead simple, see?
Turret Gunna: Got it, boss. Works a treat, that does.

—Deff Skwadron explaining ork Friend or Foe? identification protocol

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