Prophet: Gosh, I just love exterminating my fellow man with the most advanced projectile weaponry in existence, but sometimes I think that if I could pick the bullets out of the ruined bodies of my victims, put them back into my guns and use them again, it would be so much more productive! But there's no way I can do that, is there?
Psycho: Well, Prophet, have you tried Bow and Arrow™?
Prophet: Bow and Arrow™, you say?
Psycho: Yes! Not only does Bow and Arrow™ allow ammo recovery, but it's also silent, can be fired without de-cloaking, and does about twelve times the damage of a bullet for some reason!
Prophet: Gosh, Psycho, Bow and Arrow™ sounds so convenient it almost makes you wonder why they were completely supplanted by guns fucking centuries ago!
Psycho: Well, Prophet, have you tried Bow and Arrow™?
Prophet: Bow and Arrow™, you say?
Psycho: Yes! Not only does Bow and Arrow™ allow ammo recovery, but it's also silent, can be fired without de-cloaking, and does about twelve times the damage of a bullet for some reason!
Prophet: Gosh, Psycho, Bow and Arrow™ sounds so convenient it almost makes you wonder why they were completely supplanted by guns fucking centuries ago!
You bow to me!
— Bow Mode Sound of Time Severe Ax Zikan Zax , Kamen Rider Zi-O
"For me, my moment came with a hostage situation at Kroger. Multiple shooters. I showed up, I'm letting arrows fly, my aim is perfect. But...there's only so many arrows a quiver can hold. I just ran out. And then...we lost a lot of good people that day. Then you start to question, like, fucking arrows against TEC-9's?"
— Eagle the Archer, The Boys (2019), "The Big Ride"
"From troglodyte to time traveller. Toxophile, or thief. Hunters, heroes, legends, god. Bowmen, yeomen, bandits, and kings. Dungeon-delvers and dragonslayers. Rogue, ranger, or elf. Settler, savage, soldier, survivor. No other weapon fills such a broad role, nor is any other ingrained as deeply into human culture. Such a simple thing, and yet, its effect could not be more profound.
The Bow & Arrow: Elegant. Effective. Eternal."
The Bow & Arrow: Elegant. Effective. Eternal."
— Ahoy, "Bow & Arrow."
"As far as we can make out, a group of a hundred or more Betastani, armed with bows and arrows, broke into the Treasury Building this afternoon. They—"
"Armed with what?"
"Bows and arrows,” Fielder said grimly. “Their value as a secret weapon applies not only to this romp. The damned things don't make a sound, produce no muzzle-flash, don't affect capacitance-alarm circuits so they can be back-trajectoried to locate their source. They ring no alarms, since they’re of wood rather than metal. The funkers even had hard plastic arrowheads on the nardy things."
"Armed with what?"
"Bows and arrows,” Fielder said grimly. “Their value as a secret weapon applies not only to this romp. The damned things don't make a sound, produce no muzzle-flash, don't affect capacitance-alarm circuits so they can be back-trajectoried to locate their source. They ring no alarms, since they’re of wood rather than metal. The funkers even had hard plastic arrowheads on the nardy things."
— Computer War by Mack Reynolds.
Ramattra: Is that... is that a bow and arrow?
Hanzo: Yes.
Ramattra: Are firearms not to your taste?
Hanzo: They make killing too simple.
Hanzo: Yes.
Ramattra: Are firearms not to your taste?
Hanzo: They make killing too simple.
