Serial Escalation/Quotes

There was only one sure thing I knew when starting HS. That was that this thing would go batshit insane in ways I couldn't begin to imagine. In fact, it was practically the mission statement.

—Andrew Hussie, on Homestuck.

We're here to make coffee metal. We will make everything metal. Blacker than the blackest black times infinity!

—Nathan Explosion, Metalocalypse

Asker: "No One Can Hear You" [was] one of the strangest Adventure Time episodes yet.

Adam Muto: tip of the iceberg

—the Formspring of Adam Muto, creative director for Adventure Time

To infinity... and beyond!

—Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story

Mostly, I get the impression of a show that doesn’t know how not to escalate.
Every threat’s gotta be quantitatively bigger and badder than the one that came before. Every deus ex machina’s gotta be shinier than the last one. Every season’s gotta end with a massive eleventh-hour powerup for our heroes, only for the next season to raise the stakes enough to put them back in the underdog position.
It’s like, you beat the Devil himself? Well, now you’ve gotta fight the Devil’s cousin Phil, who has conveniently gone entirely unmentioned up until now, but he’s totally twice as evil.

That last paragraph was literally supposed to be the most ridiculous hypothetical example I could think of, and people are messaging me to say “his name was Metatron, not Phil”. I can’t even make fun of this show.

—prokopetz on tumblr, on Supernatural