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=== Concepts ===
=== Concepts ===
=== Attributes and sub-Attributes ===
=== Attributes and sub-Attributes ===
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==== Perception ====
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RDJ in his first "Sherlock Holmes" movie, the blindfold scene. Quote Holmes' entire speech, but note that it's not ''only'' an example of skyhigh Perception - there's Logical Intelligence involved too, and also Area Knowledge (London) skill.
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=== Advantages and DisAdvantages ===
=== Advantages and DisAdvantages ===
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==== Ethnic Look-Alike ====
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"Leverage", season 1, episode 5 (Genegrow), when Hardison changes clothes from maíntenance worker to businessman's suit in an elevator, and an employe in the building makes the connection, and Hardison accuses the employee of being unable to tell African-Americans apart. Exact quote to be included later. (Apparently the episodes on the DVD are in a strange order. The correct episode title is "The Mile High Job".)
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==== Distinctive Feature ====
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The movie "Taken" (2008), when Liam Neeson tells his daughter to leave her cellular phone turned on, and shout out as thorough a description as possible, of the men who are about to abduct her. About 25 minutes 30 seconds into the movie (region 2 PAL DVD).
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Also references to Tarl Cabot's ''highly'' noticable red hair, in "Nomads of Gor" by Norman.
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=== Flaws ===
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==== Vengeful ====
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"Taken" (2008), about 1 hour 3 minutes into the movie (PAL DVD R2). "I believe you... But it's not going to save you."
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==== Trickster ====
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Pierce's quote from "The Great Train Robbery" (the novel), about admitting to the judge, during the trial, to having discussed his escape with the person visiting him in prison, but preferring the details of it to be a surprise. It's just perfectly illustrative cheekiness!
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=== Perks and negPerks ===
=== Perks and negPerks ===
=== Skills ===
=== Skills ===
==== Critical Strike skill ====
==== Critical Strike skill ====
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< http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337921/quotes >
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337921/quotes <br>
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'''[after slashing a kidnapper's arm with a shard of glass]
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'''[after slashing a kidnapper's arm with a shard of glass]'''
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<br> Jessica Martin: Tenth grade biology. Brachial artery... pumps 30 liters of blood a minute. There's only five in the''' human body. I'm sorry.  
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<br> '''Jessica Martin: Tenth grade biology. Brachial artery... pumps 30 liters of blood a minute. There's only five in the human body. I'm sorry. '''
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<br>This quote, from the movie "Final Call", also called "Cellular", can be ised to illustrate the point of the Critical Strike skill, utilizing in-depth knowledge of the physiologi of the target's species (in this case a homo sapiens sapiens) to hit where it has the greatest effect.
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<br>This quote, from the movie "Final Call", also called "Cellular", can be used to illustrate the point of the [[Critical Strike]] skill, utilizing in-depth knowledge of the physiology of the target's species (in this case a homo sapiens sapiens) to hit where it has the greatest effect.
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==== Plan: Subject ====
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Harold the Tuchuk has some good quotes in "Nomads of Gor" by Norman, especially during his first Turia infiltration caper.
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==== Strategy: Grand ====
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The protagonist POV quote from "Use of Weapons" by Banks, late in the novel, where to the protagonist it looks as if he's about to win a decisive victory, whereas to the politicians who are his superiors, it looks as if they are about to lose.
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==== Torture ====
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"Taken" (2008), a little over 1 hour into the movie (PAL DVD region 2), a long quote from Liam Neeson.
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Also Danny de Vito's character in the movie "Heist", named Bergman, with the reference to getting the captive to tell him the gross national product of Bolivia, as a more flippant example.
=== Magical phenomena ===
=== Magical phenomena ===
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==== Spells ====
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"We have a metamorph loose; could be anybody!" X-Men 2. For the Shapechange Magic Realm.
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=== Does not fit above classifications ===
=== Does not fit above classifications ===
=== Unsure of classification ===
=== Unsure of classification ===
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Latest revision as of 18:37, 19 January 2013

This article is a place to store quotes that you think might be used to illustrate some kind of point, such as a game mechanic or an important concept.

Contents

The quotes

Concepts

Attributes and sub-Attributes

Perception

RDJ in his first "Sherlock Holmes" movie, the blindfold scene. Quote Holmes' entire speech, but note that it's not only an example of skyhigh Perception - there's Logical Intelligence involved too, and also Area Knowledge (London) skill.

Advantages and DisAdvantages

Ethnic Look-Alike

"Leverage", season 1, episode 5 (Genegrow), when Hardison changes clothes from maíntenance worker to businessman's suit in an elevator, and an employe in the building makes the connection, and Hardison accuses the employee of being unable to tell African-Americans apart. Exact quote to be included later. (Apparently the episodes on the DVD are in a strange order. The correct episode title is "The Mile High Job".)

Distinctive Feature

The movie "Taken" (2008), when Liam Neeson tells his daughter to leave her cellular phone turned on, and shout out as thorough a description as possible, of the men who are about to abduct her. About 25 minutes 30 seconds into the movie (region 2 PAL DVD).

Also references to Tarl Cabot's highly noticable red hair, in "Nomads of Gor" by Norman.

Flaws

Vengeful

"Taken" (2008), about 1 hour 3 minutes into the movie (PAL DVD R2). "I believe you... But it's not going to save you."

Trickster

Pierce's quote from "The Great Train Robbery" (the novel), about admitting to the judge, during the trial, to having discussed his escape with the person visiting him in prison, but preferring the details of it to be a surprise. It's just perfectly illustrative cheekiness!

Perks and negPerks

Skills

Critical Strike skill

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337921/quotes 

[after slashing a kidnapper's arm with a shard of glass]
Jessica Martin: Tenth grade biology. Brachial artery... pumps 30 liters of blood a minute. There's only five in the human body. I'm sorry.
This quote, from the movie "Final Call", also called "Cellular", can be used to illustrate the point of the Critical Strike skill, utilizing in-depth knowledge of the physiology of the target's species (in this case a homo sapiens sapiens) to hit where it has the greatest effect.

Plan: Subject

Harold the Tuchuk has some good quotes in "Nomads of Gor" by Norman, especially during his first Turia infiltration caper.

Strategy: Grand

The protagonist POV quote from "Use of Weapons" by Banks, late in the novel, where to the protagonist it looks as if he's about to win a decisive victory, whereas to the politicians who are his superiors, it looks as if they are about to lose.

Torture

"Taken" (2008), a little over 1 hour into the movie (PAL DVD region 2), a long quote from Liam Neeson. Also Danny de Vito's character in the movie "Heist", named Bergman, with the reference to getting the captive to tell him the gross national product of Bolivia, as a more flippant example.

Magical phenomena

Spells

"We have a metamorph loose; could be anybody!" X-Men 2. For the Shapechange Magic Realm.

Does not fit above classifications

Unsure of classification

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