On a similar note, it's like how Star Wars only works doylistically if Obi Wan Kenobi is a liar. "From a certain point of view" is a bullshit get-out-of-jail-free card! George Lucas changed his mind so many times between 1977 and 2005 and asked the fans to bend over backwards to pretend the new stuff worked with the old stuff, and since 2012 Disney has only encouraged this.
The fact that Tolkien realized he’d created inconsistency for LotR with the first published version of The Hobbit and then retconned it with the in universe explanation of “Bilbo is a liar,” is never going to stop being both equal parts brilliant and funny.
Teeth are bullshit. What do you mean you’re decaying. Get a fucking grip. You’re a bone now act like it. You don’t see my finger bones decaying from jerking it too much now do you
Most sci fi/fantasy: this civil war has been waged for a thousand years. These great houses have ruled the realm for eight thousand years. These two families have been feuding for ten thousand years. This single political institution has stood for twenty-five thousand years.
Animorphs: there is a war waged across the galaxy, waged by countless species. Entire planets have been conquered, entire species have been enslaved. Multiple genocides have been committed, even by the "good guys." It's been going on about, oh, thirty-two years now.
I've lived with snakes so long now that I really can't remember why anyone would look at this lazy puddle of a noodle and think anything other than "aw, he's never had a thought before ever"
Hi, and welcome to my office, I - sigh. Please, take this pamphlet, it shall answer your questions
Yes, my name is Louis Cypher. No, I am not the Devil. It is actually pronounced "Louie Sèpher". It is not Satanic, merely French
Yes, my office is at 666 Dark Shadow Road. As you can see, it is a trailer at the edge of town and not some manner of decadent townhouse. You could see this outside you know
No, I cannot promise you the world. I can provide you a small business loan for small to medium scale commercial construction projects
No, I do not demand your soul. In fact, I keep terms quite favorable to my clients and never work with debt collectors, because here at Louis Cypher's, we're about community before profits. That's why we're in a trailer in a muddy field
Please do not offer me your soul. I don't want it and do not know what to do with one. The wikiHow on the matter is uninformative and confusingly written