Black Mage: What are we doing? This is inane.
Fighter: I don't know what that means.
Black Mage: Of course you don't. I'm saying we're Fighter and Black Mage! Are we really going out on a super-powered duel? You can block anything and I'm basically a god. Our fight would raze the earth for miles and we'd solve nothing.
Fighter: I don't know what that means.
Black Mage: Of course you don't. I'm saying we're Fighter and Black Mage! Are we really going out on a super-powered duel? You can block anything and I'm basically a god. Our fight would raze the earth for miles and we'd solve nothing.
UltraSphinx: What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
Superman:...Ha. How about this? They surrender.
UltraSphinx: Response. Acceptable.
Superman:...Ha. How about this? They surrender.
UltraSphinx: Response. Acceptable.
Irresistible force meets immovable object as the Incredible Hulk clashes with the Man of Steel!
— Backcover blurb, "Superman and Spider-Man"
In 1979, an unstoppable force met an immovable object. Chuck Norris kicked Mr. T in the jaw. The result was the '80s.
One day only: The Irresistable Force Meets the Immovable Object. Tickets, five marks.
— Cordelia Vorkosigan's thoughts on witnessing a confrontation between her husband and his father.
Se Maomé não vai à montanha, vem a montanha até Maomé.note
— Portuguese saying
The most really poetical impossibility is an irresistible force colliding with an immovable post. When that happens it will be the end of the world.
— G. K. Chesterton, The Uses of Diversity