"...It's yo mama!"
— Robot Chicken Star Wars Special
"That's the worst dental hygiene I've ever seen on a waxing gibbous."
"Sovereign's not some Reaper ship Saren found, it's an actual Reaper!"
—Commander Shepard, Mass Effect
After receiving a scrambled distress call, the Coastal Safety Watch launches a full investigation into the crew of the Sun Five. The San Diego-bound ship reported a near collision with a massive "black iceberg," but the claim did not correspond with initial SAR readings and would be unusual for these waters. Officers are still trying to interpret Captain Okumura's final message: "The iceberg... it saw us."
—Godzilla Encounter report hyping up Godzilla (2014)
It's not a ship...
There's an old saying on the zee: If the Island moves, move faster.
—Reddit user HBag, Sunless Sea subreddit
The Unterzee is not short of terrors, but few things can match the crushing horror of a predatory landmass filling the horizon. The vile, ammoniac stench; the hulls of broken ships jutting from the ice like teeth; their blind and avid hate. Many a salt-encrusted zailor still harbours nightmares of being hunted across the zee by homicidal geography.
— Fallen London on Lifebergs
An Yu: (attacks what she believes is a giant brown boulder, knocking it back) "What kind of boulder rolls up a mountain?"
Armadylan: (shakes, before opening up) "Who Are You?"
Armadylan: (shakes, before opening up) "Who Are You?"
— PJ Masks
...a cliff...? The hell...? It wasn't there a second ago...
—Yuu Okada, Kaiju Girl Caramelise
Do you really think I'd protect Angel with nothing but a couple of bots and some flimsy turrets? See, you're not at the bunker right now. The bunker isn't a place. That's the bunker. Meet the BNK-3R, the greatest defense bot ever built. Designed her myself. Now do me a favor, and die.
Handsome Jack, Borderlands 2
Bandit: Everyone knows that trolls flee from fire!
Rincewind: Yes! But this one can't, you see...
Bandit: And why not?
Rincewind: Well... you've lit it on his tongue!
OJ: (Calling Em on the phone) I was right. It's not a ship.
Em: What happened?!
OJ: It ate them, Em. It ate all of them. It’s alive, it’s an animal and it thinks that this is its hom---
(The Object's anti-electric field shuts off OJ's phone.)
