Quotes / Your Princess Is in Another Castle!

Real Life

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem.

—Henry Kissinger

The goal of the game is to find three hidden pieces of a phone that E.T. needs to "Phone Home" with... Even if you find the pieces, it's Jack and Shit—and Jack left town. That's because you need to find the Phone Home zone also.

—The Angry Video Game Nerd on E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

The abnormal area of the heart is frozen to prevent the arrhythmia from recurring and the team believes that they've solved her problem. However, we know better as it's only twenty minutes past the hour.

—Polite Dissent, reviewing an episode of House

Fiction

Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!

—Toad, Super Mario Bros.

Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet.

—The Wolf, Pulp Fiction

Now I just need to install this baby in the Trogdor machine, and we can end this episode early!

—Strong Bad, Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People

Well, everything really wrapped up nicely. [Looks at his watch] Ooh, much quicker than usual.

—Homer Simpson, "Homer and Apu"

Every time we move a yard ahead, Ryan goes and moves the goal line down to the other side of the field!

—Atlas, BioShock

My extraterritorial rights are too powerful to let this game end!

—Quercus Alba, Hiimdaisy parody of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth

There's all sorts of stories where you think you've beaten the final boss, but then it moves up to the next level!

—Haruna, Negima! Magister Negi Magi

Can I just say…if you thought that this story was nearly over…it's barely even begun.

— The Pez Dispenser and the Reign of Terror

Crashing turns to quiet
and calm sweeps through the land
The battle's been decided,
but who had the upper hand?
But look! A hero rises from the smoke!
Our glory has been regained!
A cheer brews up among our army...
But the other guy GETS UP AGAAAIIIIN!

Now for truth, the battle is over,
And evil's reign is done.
Our hero stands triumphant...
No, no, wait, I was wrong!
He's up aGAAAAAIIIIIIN!

I feel reasonably sure it's over this time. What do you guys think?
Oh wait, HE'S UP AGAAAAIIIIN!

— Epic Monster Battle, Phineas and Ferb ''Excaliferb''

That's it, my dear friends and siblings. We won the war! Quickly, let's free the remaining Hoshidan soldiers and release the prisoners— *nearly shot in the face by a completely unhinged Takumi*

— The Avatar after killing Big Bad Garon, Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest

AAAAAAAGGGHHH! ODOR BLOCKER BODY WASH IS TOO POWERFUL TO LET THIS COMMERCIAL END! BLOCK! DUMMY KICK! EXPLOSIOOOONNN!!

— Terry Crews, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

So sorry. Your princess... is in another castle.

—Saccharissa, The Secret World

I cut all day and I squared all night
And I thought I'd mined the mountain's might
Then I saw my work by the bright dawn light
The mountain was the world and my labor a mite

— Mountain song, Princess Academy

"It's been one of those days..."

— Mario, Hotel Mario

Pvt. James F. Ryan: Oh my God, my brothers are dead! How did they die!?

Cpt. Miller: They were killed in action.

Pvt. James F. Ryan: B-but, how can that be? My brother's still in grammar school!

Cpt. Miller: ... You're James Ryan? James Francis Ryan, from Iowa?

Pvt. James F. Ryan: James Frederick Ryan, Minnesota!

— Saving Private Ryan

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