Quotes / World of Badass

I feel kinda sorry for Mad Max. It's such good video game adaptation material. Christ knows why it's been fucking around with movies around for so long. Movies are all like, "Ooh, look! A little film about S&M perverts driving around a desert and blowing each other up. Well, the Academy need look no further for the best dramatic screenplay candidafnahahahahah!" Meanwhile, video games are all like, "S&M perverts driving around and blowing each other up? Where the fuck do I sign? Along your cock, using my saliva instead of ink?"

—Zero Punctuation

"Everybody in Uganda knows kung-fu!"

—The "Video Jokah", Who Killed Captain Alex?

David: My favorite part of the episode comes with Slade and Hawkman, actually, when Slade is like "Look, when I named this project Icarus, I never expected an actual dude with flaming wings falling from the sky. This is totally awesome. I love life."
Chris: ...Then, he pulls out a katana OUT OF NOWHERE.
David: You mean, he pulls out a katana because Deathstroke in comics uses swords. Honestly, since when did four-star generals rock swords?
Chris: Since Friday night.

— Smallvillains on Smallville ("Icarus")

"And you thought evil German hench-mans on skis was awesome? Oh, are you ready for strobe-light gunfight in the men's room? ...But then Cameron's like, 'I think we need to reign this in a little,' so Arnold gives chase to the motorcycle-riding terrorist on a horse. And when they get to a hotel, you think, 'hey, maybe it'd be faster to, y'know, ditch the horse continue this on foot.' NOPE."

—The Nostalgia Chick on True Lies

Not standard by Earth standards. This takes place in Vytal. Our standards are different.

— Wiki commenter Maki, responding to the argument that Beacon's initiation test was unnecessarily tough

Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo - which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.

— Cryptonomicon

''Munakata-san. You just don't get it, do you? In this town, there are men who'll take down a hundred guys by themselves if they have to. Like them. Sorry, but you're out of touch with how this city works. How about I refresh your memory?

— Masayoshi Tanimura, Yakuza 4

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