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In-Universe
Anime and Manga
"Oh dear. You've sure gotten big...Kuro-tan."
—Rinko Akaishi, whose daughter Kuroe has just turned into a Kaiju, Kaiju Girl Caramelise
Comic Books
Lyra: And since when does low profile involve landing a jet in the middle of the city?
Jen: It's Central Park! People land jets here all the time!
Jen: It's Central Park! People land jets here all the time!
— She-Hulks #2
"Am I losing my mind here or are insects helping with the removal, Jason?"
— Wasp, The Ultimates
Comic Strips
Asok: You are dressed very odd.
Phil: It's casual day.
Asok: That's the most frightening outfit I have ever seen.
Phil: You haven't seen me in bicycle pants.
Phil: It's casual day.
Asok: That's the most frightening outfit I have ever seen.
Phil: You haven't seen me in bicycle pants.
— Dilbert
Fan Works
Cynthia: [The photographers] come back with a photo of an Illumina Pokémon, they've opened the Hall of Origin. They come back with a photo of an Agent of Gratitude, that's a footnote.
Lucas & Dawn: What!?
Cynthia: That's what I said! And then I was like, 'Well, that's a huge flower field, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a Gracidea glade in the vicinity. Maybe there's a whole Agency on Lental.' No, it's just the one. Looks like he's friends with a Pichu on Florio. And Mirror doesn't care. You snap a photo of a frickin' Shaymin, well, that's a new Photodex entry, good on you.
Lucas: You've gotta be kidding.
Cynthia: It's not just Gratitude. The Wanderer, the Northwind Beast, the Precious Jewel. They found a tree that holds Flowing Life, and Mirror's more focused on the fact that Xerneas is an Illumina Pokémon. Their star photographer got a photo of the Time Traveller meeting up in the forest, and he's like 'well, that's interesting behaviour'. He doesn't even react to the Crystal Wishmaker! The most fleeting of all!
Lucas & Dawn: What!?
Cynthia: That's what I said! And then I was like, 'Well, that's a huge flower field, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a Gracidea glade in the vicinity. Maybe there's a whole Agency on Lental.' No, it's just the one. Looks like he's friends with a Pichu on Florio. And Mirror doesn't care. You snap a photo of a frickin' Shaymin, well, that's a new Photodex entry, good on you.
Lucas: You've gotta be kidding.
Cynthia: It's not just Gratitude. The Wanderer, the Northwind Beast, the Precious Jewel. They found a tree that holds Flowing Life, and Mirror's more focused on the fact that Xerneas is an Illumina Pokémon. Their star photographer got a photo of the Time Traveller meeting up in the forest, and he's like 'well, that's interesting behaviour'. He doesn't even react to the Crystal Wishmaker! The most fleeting of all!
There were two other groups waiting in the bus station, but both were making huge shows of nonchalance about the andalite and hork-bajir in their midst. A lot of people in the area took pride in Santa Barbara’s welcoming attitude toward aliens. Even the tourism council had gotten on board with the Alientown, USA slogan.
Luckily, they were also so busy not caring about Toby or Ax, they weren’t even looking close enough to recognize any of the accompanying humans. We hoped.
Luckily, they were also so busy not caring about Toby or Ax, they weren’t even looking close enough to recognize any of the accompanying humans. We hoped.
— Tom's narration, Eleutherophobia: How I Live Now
"The Aborigine sister, the witch who could make herself seem irrelevant, which would explain why I hadn't noticed her until she decided to show herself. I sifted through recent memories. I'd definitely seen her. But she hadn't been important then. I would have paid attention to individual grains of grit in the corners of the cell before paying attention to her."
Film — Live-Action
"The details of my life are quite inconsequential. Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds—pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve, I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen, a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum ... it's breathtaking—I highly suggest you try it."
— Dr. Evil, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
"On any other day, that might seem strange."
— Cameron Poe, ignoring a car being towed behind the plane by a rope as he hunts escaped convicts, Con Air
Mills: Cole, what's wrong with you? How you even got an appetite right now?
Coles: (eating beans from a can) Eating's for the living.
Mills: We just got taken down by a monkey the size of a building!
Coles: Yeah, that was an unconventional encounter.
Coles: (eating beans from a can) Eating's for the living.
Mills: We just got taken down by a monkey the size of a building!
Coles: Yeah, that was an unconventional encounter.
"Don't just stand there gawping! Like you've never seen the hand of God before!"
— Drill Sergeant, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Crazy Yakuza: They were definitely dead... but they came back to life!
Yakuza with Glasses: So?
Yakuza with Glasses: So?
Live-Action TV
River Song: How could we miss that?
The Doctor: Low level perception filter, or maybe we're thick.
The Doctor: Low level perception filter, or maybe we're thick.
Ron: Which alarm is that? Zombie virus?
Wendy: Alien invasion?
Jackie: Giant spider robots from another dimension where the Nazis won?
Teddy: No, that one goes eeyoo-eeyoo-awdub-awdub...
Wendy: Ah, yeah.
Wendy: Alien invasion?
Jackie: Giant spider robots from another dimension where the Nazis won?
Teddy: No, that one goes eeyoo-eeyoo-awdub-awdub...
Wendy: Ah, yeah.
Music
There's something you should probably know before we go too far,
My neighbor found a mushroom growing inside of my car
She called me up on tour sounding emotionally scarred
Although it may have scared her more that I wasn't really alarmed
My neighbor found a mushroom growing inside of my car
She called me up on tour sounding emotionally scarred
Although it may have scared her more that I wasn't really alarmed
— Aesop Rock, "Tuesday"
Video Games
You are at the sun. You see nothing of interest.
You know, I'm pretty sure that if I were standing on the surface of the Sun, whatever I'd be seeing would be of particular interest. Then again, maybe I had already figured anyone standing on the surface of the Sun would be blinded a skillion times over. But I'm guessing not.
—Space-Man and its present-day commentary, The Early Years
C-Sec officer: A few minor changes were made to reduce the risk of geth infiltration. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Legion (a geth construct): Geth do not infiltrate.
C-Sec officer: You should leave your personal synthetic assistant at home. They're not allowed on public shuttles any more.
Legion: (sidelong glance at Shepard) Geth do not intentionally infiltrate.
Legion (a geth construct): Geth do not infiltrate.
C-Sec officer: You should leave your personal synthetic assistant at home. They're not allowed on public shuttles any more.
Legion: (sidelong glance at Shepard) Geth do not intentionally infiltrate.
Grishnak: You're a strange lookin' group. What'dya want?
Knight-Captain: ... says the half-orc pirate.
Knight-Captain: ... says the half-orc pirate.
Ash: So, you're a dog.
Sam: For certain values of "dog", yeah.
Ash: And you, Flapsnap.
Claptrap: CLAPTRAP!
Ash: You're some kind of robot?
Claptrap: I'm also a ninja!
Ash: And our host is a pirate.
Winslow: I'm more of a retired raconteur these days.
Ash: And none of you are weirded out by this?
Claptrap: Nope.
Winslow: Nay.
Sam: I get weirder things in my sandwiches.
Ash: Oookay then.
Sam: For certain values of "dog", yeah.
Ash: And you, Flapsnap.
Claptrap: CLAPTRAP!
Ash: You're some kind of robot?
Claptrap: I'm also a ninja!
Ash: And our host is a pirate.
Winslow: I'm more of a retired raconteur these days.
Ash: And none of you are weirded out by this?
Claptrap: Nope.
Winslow: Nay.
Sam: I get weirder things in my sandwiches.
Ash: Oookay then.
"Find anything interesting?"
— Barry Burton, completely ignoring the decomposing snake that Jill Valentine just killed, Resident Evil
Web Animation
Uzi: Easy, morons, it doesn’t work. Yet. It doesn’t work yet! (angrily brandishes gun at class) Who says it doesn’t work!? MAYBE IT DOES! (Flips switch, gun begins glowing green and crackling with lightning. Uzi begins to cackle madly.)
Teacher: Uzi, the homework was a word problem about buying watermelons.
— Murder Drones, "Pilot"
[The carton of milk gets launched at Shroomy and bounces off his head, landing on the floor]
Shroomy: Uh guys, you dropped something. You might want to pick it u-
[The milk carton explodes]
Shroomy: [Now on fire] Oh, ok, don't worry about it.
Shroomy: Uh guys, you dropped something. You might want to pick it u-
[The milk carton explodes]
Shroomy: [Now on fire] Oh, ok, don't worry about it.
"Uh, Kev? Why is there an ominous red light coming from my box of broken PC stuff…? Eh, it’s probably nothing!"
Webcomics
Worker #1: Did you just see a kid zipline up the staircase?
Worker #2: Man, rich people are wild.
Worker #2: Man, rich people are wild.
Web Video
Narrator: At that moment, Polnareff's hair went crazy.
Polnareff: (Polnareff's hair grows to a ridiculously tall height.) Whoa, my hair got extremely long!
Jotaro: It always does that.
Joseph: It always happens.
Polnareff: No, even so, this is different, look at this length! It's tall, taaalll! (Polnareff's hair reaches into the stratosphere.)
Narrator: Po-polnareff's hair became really, really long but that didn't faze them.
Polnareff: (Polnareff's hair grows to a ridiculously tall height.) Whoa, my hair got extremely long!
Jotaro: It always does that.
Joseph: It always happens.
Polnareff: No, even so, this is different, look at this length! It's tall, taaalll! (Polnareff's hair reaches into the stratosphere.)
Narrator: Po-polnareff's hair became really, really long but that didn't faze them.
— Vaguely Recalling JoJo, Episode 20
Western Animation
"Mm-hm. Mm-hm. Pretty neat."
"A three-headed Rolf. Yawn."
— Eddy, who has been having a weird day, Ed, Edd n Eddy
"Oh, it's just a Flying Saucer. Hey excuse me, you can't park here! The Parking area's over there."
— Fry after seeing a Flying Saucer appear over him like an Alien Abduction scenario, Futurama
"She's just being Pinkie Pie."
— Several different characters from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
Rick: I turned myself into a pickle, Morty! Boom! Big reveal: I'm a pickle. What do you think about that? I turned myself into a pickle! ...W-what are you just staring at me for, bro? I turned myself into a pickle, Morty!
Morty: And...?
Rick: "And"? What more do you want tacked on to this? "I turned myself into a pickle, and 9/11 was an inside job"?
Morty: Was it?
Rick: Who cares, Morty? Global acts of terrorism happen every day. Uh, here's something that's never happened before: I'm a pickle.
Morty: And...?
Rick: "And"? What more do you want tacked on to this? "I turned myself into a pickle, and 9/11 was an inside job"?
Morty: Was it?
Rick: Who cares, Morty? Global acts of terrorism happen every day. Uh, here's something that's never happened before: I'm a pickle.
Dr. Venture: Okay, Hank, you are taking this way too well.
Hank: Well, gee, Dad, we've seen a lot of strange stuff over the years. Last week, we were fighting a giant dinosaur.
Dr. Venture: Granted, but I wasn't the dinosaur. Can't you see where this is maybe different?
Hank: Well, gee, Dad, we've seen a lot of strange stuff over the years. Last week, we were fighting a giant dinosaur.
Dr. Venture: Granted, but I wasn't the dinosaur. Can't you see where this is maybe different?
— The Venture Brothers, after Dr. Venture is turned into a giant caterpillar, "Mid-Life Chrysalis"
Miscellaneous
Dobbs: Pete. Didn't expect to see you back in here. On account of you being deceased is all.
On Works
Comic Books
"You just saw this guy flying! Be impressed, dammit!"
— Linkara on Captain Electron
"It's hard for me to pick a favorite minor character in this strip. I'm obviously a big fan of Prison Guard Who Takes Time During Crisis To Weave An Evocative Metaphor...But I think I'm going to have to go with Guy In Hat in panel three, who's hanging out with Peter and MJ in some... room... where there are curtains and a floating flat-screen TV, and he's just going to town on a sandwich. 'Earth tremor? State prison? Sounds like someone's problem, but it sure ain't mine! [CHEWING NOISES]'"
Film — Animated
"Kid, you're on a raft with fucking DINOSAURS! How about a little acknowledgement of this miracle, huh?"
— Raoul Puke, reviewing We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
Film — Live-Action
Nostalgia Critic: Moving on, I guess?
Linkara: Nobody even batted an eye?
Spoony: Is this like an everyday thing?
Nostalgia Critic: When did killing a vampire become yesterday's news?
Linkara: Yeah, I don't care where or when you are—And then again, neither does Uwe Boll—but killing a vampire will never be a boring thing!
Linkara: Nobody even batted an eye?
Spoony: Is this like an everyday thing?
Nostalgia Critic: When did killing a vampire become yesterday's news?
Linkara: Yeah, I don't care where or when you are—And then again, neither does Uwe Boll—but killing a vampire will never be a boring thing!
Howard: Nice place. You pay to live here?
Beverly: It's cheap, the manager of my band found it for me.
Howard: I suggest you find a new manager.
Beverly: Hey, I'd love to, but we got this damn contract with the sleazoid. He won't even give us the money he owes us.
Nostalgia Critic: YOU KNOW YOU'RE TALKING TO A DUCK, RIGHT?!
Beverly: It's cheap, the manager of my band found it for me.
Howard: I suggest you find a new manager.
Beverly: Hey, I'd love to, but we got this damn contract with the sleazoid. He won't even give us the money he owes us.
Nostalgia Critic: YOU KNOW YOU'RE TALKING TO A DUCK, RIGHT?!
— The Nostalgia Critic reviewing Howard the Duck
"Action movies have conditioned us to associate an actor's indifference toward devastating destruction with badassedness, rather than, you know, being a soulless shell of a human being. Combine this trend with the Russian people's legendary inability to give a single shit and the result is the poster for Stalingrad, in which a giant plane is set to crash just above the scene and not one of the eight actors is even looking at it. Some men just don't care to watch the world burn."
Chris: I guess the Turtles or April talked about him while they were down on the farm, but I feel cheated that this movie robbed me of Casey delivering a goggle-eyed "Your sensei's a giant rat?!"
Matt: There is a pretty funny moment where Elias Koteas looks at this talking rat, takes a second to understand what he’s seeing, then just accepts it and saves him.
Chris: I stand corrected; that is pretty great.
Matt: There is a pretty funny moment where Elias Koteas looks at this talking rat, takes a second to understand what he’s seeing, then just accepts it and saves him.
Chris: I stand corrected; that is pretty great.
— Chris Sims and Matt Wilson on
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) Video Games
"Asides from the wounded soldier lying unconscious, starving, and dehydrated in the main hallway, the remainder of the summer remains uneventful."
"No one's questioned that I have this too, what? Jesus, 'Johnson's just got a battle axe now, as he's on patrol.'"
"I like how I just vanish into reality and these hobos really don't give a shit. I mean I just literally popped up there, they're too busy looking for food. I feel really bad right now."
— Draegast playing Just Cause 3
'"Reed doesn't flinch one bit if he comes across wacky shit if it's not relevant to his current case. King of staying in his lane. Like I walk him into a basement filled with occult drawings on the walls, notes stabbed with bloody daggers, and a huge sculpture of an eldritch thing and all he can think is like 'this isnt [sic] the diving gear shop'"
"Remember how in The Shadow Over Innsmouth the fact that the townsfolk secretly worship Dagon, are turning into fish and repeatedly knob deep ones was the big revelation that drove the narrator mad? Well, Innsmouthers show up in this game, someone points them out to us and goes "They look weird, don't they? It's because they worship Dagon and are turning into fish. Besides that, they're alright lads, but I wish they'd stop flooding the economy with all that gold they get from those deep ones they're always knobbing." It just throws me how everyone including the protagonist takes this all in stride! The game has a rather insipid combat element as partial justification for the open-world, so every now and again we get attacked by reject Silent Hill: Homecoming monsters in a basement and no one seems to give a shit! "Yeah, pesky buggers aren't they? We kinda got used to them after we barricaded off the seven or eight streets they hang out on." I'm sorry, how many streets!? What are the fucking cops doing!? Shooting at me, apparently because I got confused and pointed my gun at a deranged heavily tattooed deep one cultist as he walked nonchalantly down the street to the chemist."
—Yahtzee Croshaw Reviewing The Sinking City
"Go about your business, citizens! I am just a random guy running down the streets with a bloody fireaxe! Nothing to see here!"
Western Animation
I love seeing aliens and humans hanging out together despite their differences, but HOW ARE NONE OF THE PEOPLE FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW?
