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I Like Those Odds
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Sometimes in Sarcasm Mode, other times a Badass Boast. This is when the chances of survival, or the level of opposition, are presented to a character and he is apparently at a disadvantage. He responds that he wouldn't have it any other way or that it is actually in his favor. Often, they'll remark that they've beaten worse odds without breaking a sweat. For an added bonus, he might boast about giving himself a handicap just for fun. A variation is when a character initially seems to be complaining about how unfair the odds are, but is actually saying the odds are unfairly stacked in their favor. Sometimes comedy will use this for somebody who doesn't really care how poor the odds are and will just go ahead with it anyway despite being told how terrible their chances are. Alternatively they may not be listening, or they'd actually prefer the failure. Or they might just be too stupid to understand how bad the odds really are. This often works out for him due to the Law Of Conservation of Ninjutsu. Sometimes though, odds come through. Compare Never Tell Me the Odds!, Million to One Chance. Examples |
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The Penguins of Madagascar "Roger Dodger" has: Considering Skipper's idea of a perfect future is a post-apocalyptic wasteland involving irradiated mutants, he probably did like the high odds of facing an abomination. Incidentally, Kowalski is pretty much right. A similar exchange in "Snakehead": And of course there's "In the Line of Doody": |
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In the first episode of Megas XLR, a large number of Glorft surround Megas and Kiva's mech. Coop's response is to agree that the fight isn't fair... and smashes Kiva's mech. "Now it's fair." | |
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In The Colour of Magic, Hrun the Barbarian declares he'll fight both dragonlords at once: | |
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In Kingdom Hearts II, Leon and Cloud do this during their Back-to-Back Badasses moment while surrounded and vastly outnumbered by Heartless. | |
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In Jagged Alliance 2, every mercenary has a special line when they can see 3 enemies simultaneously, usually suggesting retreat, or something like, "I'm fighting a losing battle here!" Magic takes the opposite stance, exclaiming, "This is when I'm at my best!" | |
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Done twice in Angel, the second time in the finale. | |
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CSI: NY: In the opening of season 1's "Crime and Misdemeanor," a sheet-wrapped victim is delivered to a laundry facility that handles linens from hotels all over the city. Det. Flack snarkily comments that there are only about 70,000 hotel rooms in NYC. Our hero's response? 10 minutes into the episode, the team has it narrowed down to the correct hotel. Cut to them entering the right room. |
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Castle has this exchange in the episode "Still", when Beckett is trapped on a pressure-plate bomb that's set to go off in mere minutes; | |
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The film of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King has Gimli do this when it's announced that Gondor's army will attack the Black Gate to provide a distraction for Frodo and Sam. | |
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The Simpsons: Inverted in "Lisa's First Word": Krusty the Clown vows (on TV) to "spit in every fiftieth burger", and Homer replies, "I like those odds!" Also, Chief Wiggum uttered the exact phrase "I like those odds" when he asked if he had a chance of taking the bait out of a dangerous trap, and his smarter sidekick Lou warned him "It's a million to one, chief." Wiggum's tone also seemed more like naive confidence than devil-may-care boasting, and in that case, one possible interpretation is that Wiggum misunderstood Lou's remark and thought he meant that the odds were a million to one in favor of success. In "Bart the General," when Bart's looking for a guy with military experience to help him deal with a bully: |
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In the The Saga of Tanya the Evil there's a saying of Victory or Valhalla which exactly what it says, you either win or fight to the death. There's no third option. The main character, Tanya Degurechaff always answers such odds with a variation on this line, which is a mix of Badass Boast and empty bravado. | |
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Guild Wars: Nightfall has this in the first mission, when you get a good look at the opposing forces: | |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Cassidy's immortal line "For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble", in the face of the Bolivian Army Ending. | |
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In Miraculous Ladybug specials called Miraculous Ladybug SP01 "Miraculous World New York – United HeroeZ", have Sparrow (American Heroine) dryly jokes this: | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) has Leonardo fighting a dozen ninjas. | |
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Justice League, "Starcrossed, Part 3": Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern are heading straight for the Thanagarian mothership (and the dozens of smaller ships around it). | |
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When Naruto's potential Big Bad, Uchiha Madara, is confronted by all five Kages of the Great Nations? He comments this will be a worthy challenge for him. He lives up to it by toying with them all through the battle, even with their stellar performances all they manage to do is destroy 25 of his Wood Clones using Susanoo when working together. When he goes full power... it crushes all their hope. | |
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The entire House of the Dzur in the Dragaera novels. Tazendra gets most of them on the page, but that's just because she's the most prominent Dzur character. How many Dzur does it take to sharpen a sword? Four. One to sharpen the sword, three to put up enough of a fight to make it worthwhile. |
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In Batman Begins, Ra's al Ghul motions for two of his henchmen to fight Batman as he makes his getaway. Batman says, "I can't beat two of your pawns?", to which Ra's says, "As you wish", and motions for two more henchmen to join the fight. | |
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In The Last Hero, those same old men, the greatest barbarian heroes the world has ever known, find themselves facing a single city guard armed with an ordinary nonmagical sword. A man who knows exactly who they are and what they've done, but still stands against them to try to save the world. They don't like those odds at all. | |
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Kumagawa of Medaka Box lives and breathes this trope. Born Unlucky, he feels uncomfortable when the odds aren't stacked against him. | |
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In the Cowboy Bebop episode "Jammin' with Edward," Jet observes the data retrieval mission they have to do and describes it as "like trying to play baseball without a bat." This remark gets Spike pumped up and ready to take off. | |
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In The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, when Mike tells the main characters that the chances of having a successful revolution are of 1 in 7, they immediately cheer. This is because (a) it's still much better than they had estimated with their inexact human brains, and (b) a Loonie (a Moon inhabitant) is always willing to take a risk if the odds are better than 1 in 10. | |
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Discworld: In The Colour of Magic, Hrun the Barbarian declares he'll fight both dragonlords at once: In The Science of Discworld the wizards are informed that the chances of the new thaumic reactor (they're planning on using to heat the building) from going critical and blowing up the entirety of creation is 50-to-1. They think that this is entirely reasonable since "I wouldn't bet on a horse at those odds". Apparently an inch of ice on the inside of your bedroom window gives you a very personal perspective of risk. Might also be a reference to the Trinity nuclear nest (see Real Life, below). Moist Von Lipwig of Going Postal and Making Money likes to invoke this trope for the purposes of entertaining the crowds that invariably appear around him. For instance, a stable owner who took offense to something Moist said about his horses decided to get back at him by bringing him the most evil-minded, vicious horse he owns. Moist's response? He asks the grooms to take off the horse's saddle, because it'd just slow him down. In Interesting Times, Twoflower points out that there's only one possible outcome when seven old men take on the thousands-strong army that's surrounding them: They'll win. Otherwise, the world's just not working properly. In The Last Hero, those same old men, the greatest barbarian heroes the world has ever known, find themselves facing a single city guard armed with an ordinary nonmagical sword. A man who knows exactly who they are and what they've done, but still stands against them to try to save the world. They don't like those odds at all. |
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In World of Warcraft, in the lead-up to the Frostfire Ridge's final story quest, the Frostwolf Orcs are about to make a stand against impending invasion by the Iron Horde. As they leave for battle, Durotan makes this announcement: | |
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In The Mandalorian, the Mandalorian gets into a standoff with the stormtroopers guarding the Client. | |
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Itself a reference to the famed commando line from Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn: | |
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Battle Ground (2020): Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, has the following to say about her realm being invaded by an army of her people's ancestral enemies, commanded by a being that pimp-slaps Physical Gods, wears armor that is powered by her belief in her invulnerability and wields weaponry that can burn armies as soon as they enter visual range. | |
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In Family Guy: Something Something Something Dark Side: | |
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Done by the narrator in Batman & Captain America: | |
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Homestuck: | |
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And again in Star Trek (2009): | |
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In the Penny Arcade cheesy-80s-action-movie-but-with-table-tennis Paint the Line 2, after Tycho is missing presumed dead, Gabe is told that he has to play the final doubles match on his own. His response? "This ain't really fair now, is it? I mean ... there's only two of 'em." | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Subverted; upon being told that there are a thousand Sovereign against the five Guardians, Drax says that those are terrible odds. | |
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Subverted in Halo: First Strike, where Blue-Two/Kelly admits rough odds of 10,000-to-1 are a bit much even for three SPARTAN-IIs. | |
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In Neverwinter Nights 2, you arrive at an inn just as a fight is about to break out between Khelgar, a lone dwarf, and four thugs. When you point out that four against one isn't fair odds, Khelgar agrees... and asks the thugs if they've got any friends who might like to join in. | |
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Played with in Schlock Mercenary, during a training exercise, here: | |
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The ending dialogue of 300. "The enemy outnumber us a paltry three-to-one: good odds for any Greek!" Considering the abuse the Persians took when they outnumbered the Greeks hundreds or even thousands-to-one for the bulk of the movie, without the context of differing tactics, it would be surprising to the viewer that they didn't just kill their commanders and run. |
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From Sly 2: Band of Thieves: | |
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Farscape: While John isn't exactly happy about it, he does believe they can beat the bad odds since they have before. | |
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Invoked by name in Young Guns when the cavalry surrounds the "Regulators": | |
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At one point in the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "The Spirit World: Winter Solstice, Part 1", Iroh is kidnapped by Earth Kingdom soldiers. Zuko tracks him down and frees him. At that moment, the soldiers say that they have the firebenders outnumbered, and Iroh replies: "Ah, that's true, but you are clearly outmatched." Sure enough, the two of them proceed to wipe the floor with the soldiers in a matter of minutes. | |
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Sword Art Online Abridged: Rosalia shows up with 7 mooks to try and rob Kirito and Silica of an item they just collected. Kirito confidently offers to let the mooks take the first hit. The mooks appeal to Rosalia that it's probably a trap (pointing out that Kirito thought he was facing Laughing Coffin and yet still showed up without any reinforcements), but Rosalia sends her 7 level 45 mooks to attack anyway. Cue Kirito displaying his level 78 stats and revealing that he's wearing enough HP-regenerating equipment that his health is regenerating faster than the mooks can damage him. Kirito is on the receiving end of this when he challenges Heathcliff to a duel. When Asuna points out that his health has never been reduced to yellow status (IE, below half), Kirito completely brushes her off. It doesn't end well for him. |
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In Interesting Times, Twoflower points out that there's only one possible outcome when seven old men take on the thousands-strong army that's surrounding them: They'll win. Otherwise, the world's just not working properly. In The Last Hero, those same old men, the greatest barbarian heroes the world has ever known, find themselves facing a single city guard armed with an ordinary nonmagical sword. A man who knows exactly who they are and what they've done, but still stands against them to try to save the world. They don't like those odds at all. |
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Moist Von Lipwig of Going Postal and Making Money likes to invoke this trope for the purposes of entertaining the crowds that invariably appear around him. For instance, a stable owner who took offense to something Moist said about his horses decided to get back at him by bringing him the most evil-minded, vicious horse he owns. Moist's response? He asks the grooms to take off the horse's saddle, because it'd just slow him down. | |
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In Starfighters of Adumar: | |
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Halo Expanded Universe Halo: The Fall of Reach: “Four of us,” Blue-Two whispered over the link. “And a thousand of them? Piss-poor odds for the little guys.” Subverted in Halo: First Strike, where Blue-Two/Kelly admits rough odds of 10,000-to-1 are a bit much even for three SPARTAN-IIs. |
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Mass Effect 2, during Grunt's recruitment mission: | |
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Later, in Mass Effect 3, during Shepard's first confrontation with Kai Leng: | |
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Mass Effect: Mass Effect 2, during Grunt's recruitment mission: Later, in Mass Effect 3, during Shepard's first confrontation with Kai Leng: |
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Dumb and Dumber: | |
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Super Robot Wars Compact 2: It doesn't matter how long the odds are... Kyosuke Nanbu doesn't mind betting on them. | |
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Halo: The Fall of Reach: “Four of us,” Blue-Two whispered over the link. “And a thousand of them? Piss-poor odds for the little guys.” | |
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Star Trek: James T. Kirk comes very close to saying this in Star Trek: Generations, the latest in a long career of "unwinnable" situations he's found a way to win (or cheat his way out of). He doesn't get out of this one... but his Heroic Sacrifice is what allows Picard to win. And again in Star Trek (2009): |
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In Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, a conversation you can listen in on has a Stormtrooper inform a Purge Trooper that reinforcements will not be able to reach them, only for the latter to respond that it just means there will be less people to get in their way. In combat one of their lines if they’re the last man standing expresses this as well. | |
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Girl Genius showing Jäger Generals in action: | |
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In the Teen Titans (2003) episode "How Long Is Forever?", Starfire tells Nightwing that the time-traveling thief they are up against believes in You Already Changed the Past and that history cannot be changed. | |
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In The Right Stuff, as Alan Shepard is recruited as an astronaut: | |
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A strange blend of Kim Possible and Conan the Barbarian fic called RONMAN THE BARBARIAN! has this trope as his default Badass Boast. Also the boast of his people, the Actuarians (bonus to those who know what the name means IRL) who are NOT kidding when they say this. | |
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In BattleTech, the flavor text for the Stalker II Battlemech says that a pair of Stalker II pilots challenged a Clan Wolf Star Captain, who said he'd fight them with his two Binaries, a force consisting of ten light Battlemechs and twenty light vehicles. After a brief pause, one of the Stalker II pilots said "Well, we can wait if you want to bring up more 'Mechs." The Stalker I Is lost the fight, but only barely. | |
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In Towers of Midnight Birgitte tells Mat that the odds of getting back from the Tower of Ghenjei are one in a thousand. Mat responds by taking out "two dozen" coins and predicting that when he throws them every single one will land heads up (1/16,777,216 chance if there were exactly 24). They do, and Mat remarks that "One in a thousand is good odds, for me." | |
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In the original series episode "My Brother's Keeper,": | |
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Interstellar: Dr. Mann, who's been marooned on a distant world for years, mentions 50-50 odds are the best he's had in all that time. In a dark subversion, he's trying to murder the hero at the time, by smashing the hero's space helmet with his head, at the risk of smashing his own faceplate. | |
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One Piece: In Skypiea, when the Straw Hats decide to go after the City of Gold: We have this little gem from the Enies Lobby arc: A couple of hundred chapters later, when the crew finally enters the New World, all of them do it: |
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The Three Musketeers (1993). The Musketeers comment amongst themselves that five soldiers against the three of them is hardly fair. D'Artagnan, missing the point, tries to point out that there's four of them. | |
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Futurama: In addition to the page quote, Fry also uses the phrase in a completely straightforward manner in the episode "Overclockwise": He intends to kill himself by barrelling over Niagara Falls, and asks the barrel salesman what are his odds of survival. He still survives... In "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", Bender's memory chip has been sent to Bureacracy headquarters, but the central filing room is filled with thousands of identical containers. The head bureaucrat, Bureaucrat 1.0, allows Hermes to search for the chip, but tells him he has to find it by closing time, 5 PM. Leela points out he'd have less than 4 minutes, to which Hermes simply says "Requisition me a beat." before looking. |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) referenced this at the end of the big Conservation of Ninjutsu fight at the end. After the 4 turtles win against dozens (if not hundreds) of Foot soldiers, Raphael quips "Aw, no more?" Leonardo, in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014). |
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In the ship level of Command & Conquer: Renegade, a prisoner Havoc just freed asks him if he intends to take on the ship's crew alone. Itself a reference to the famed commando line from Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn: |
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Arthur, King of Time and Space: During the Roman campaign: Sir Dinadin, who is far from a coward, but more of a realist than many of his compatriots, has sometimes wondered if he's the only knight who can count. When he and Sir Tristram are challenged by two evil knights, he snarks that Tristram is probably disapointed they aren't outnumbered. |
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This Bites!, a One Piece Self-Insert fic, has this when inserted character and adrenaline junkie Jeremiah Cross 'learns' from Luffy that they have to climb the Drum Rockies to get to a doctor: | |
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Doctor Who: "The Creature From the Pit": Romana estimates their odds of success at 740,384,338 to one against. The Doctor claims that this is his lucky number. In "Doomsday", this comes up when the Daleks declare war on the Cybermen. And then promptly gets turned around: "The Day of the Doctor" has an inversion. Gallifrey is under attack by a billion billion Daleks. If the Daleks knew there were three Doctors on the planet, they'd call for reinforcements. The thirteen Doctors save Gallifrey and destroy the Daleks. |
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In The Magnificent Seven (1960), one gunslinger hears a job-offer and inverts this as a rather dry take on a Flat "What": | |
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G.I. Joe Extreme featured this a lot. "The odds are a million to one. Just the way we like it." In the original series episode "My Brother's Keeper,": |
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In Leeroy Jenkins Video, Jamaal says basically this after being told the party's chances of survival. He notes that the odds are better than usual, which says a lot considering that Abduhl estimated (at best) a 32.33note repeating, of course% chance of survival. Unfortunately, this is the Trope Namer for Leeroy Jenkins for a reason. | |
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James T. Kirk comes very close to saying this in Star Trek: Generations, the latest in a long career of "unwinnable" situations he's found a way to win (or cheat his way out of). He doesn't get out of this one... but his Heroic Sacrifice is what allows Picard to win. | |
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Jonny Quest episode "Monster in the Monastery". After Jonny and Hadji tell Dr. Quest and Race that there are nine enemies left in the monastery, Race says to Dr. Quest "That makes the odds about right, sir". Two men, two kids and the Raj Guru (who's basically a non-combatant) against 9 armed men, and the odds are "just about right"? Sure, Race takes out eight of the guys while Benton and the boys take the last one. Or they would have if the yeti hadn't beat them to it. | |
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In Ghostbusters, when Egon suggests crossing the streams on their proton packs to take out the enormous Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, something he previously said would vaporize them, he suggested there was "a very slim chance" they would survive. Peter immediately likes the odds. | |
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From Halo 3: Note that said "even fight" proceeds to end in an overwhelming victory for the Elites. |
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Power Rangers RPM: In episode three, faced with a small army of Mecha Mooks that have just taken down the other three rangers, all Dillon has to say is "Venjix should've sent more." | |
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As a student, Largo Winch once got in a fight with a bunch of upper-class douchebags, and when asked what he had to say for himself, he admitted to using an unfair advantage like a true coward by outnumbering them: "They were only three." | |
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In The Science of Discworld the wizards are informed that the chances of the new thaumic reactor (they're planning on using to heat the building) from going critical and blowing up the entirety of creation is 50-to-1. They think that this is entirely reasonable since "I wouldn't bet on a horse at those odds". Apparently an inch of ice on the inside of your bedroom window gives you a very personal perspective of risk. Might also be a reference to the Trinity nuclear nest (see Real Life, below). |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) referenced this at the end of the big Conservation of Ninjutsu fight at the end. After the 4 turtles win against dozens (if not hundreds) of Foot soldiers, Raphael quips "Aw, no more?" | |
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Leonardo, in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014). | |
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Stargate Atlantis, "Critical Mass": | |
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As part of the big flashback in Negima! Magister Negi Magi, The hero is saving the princess; meanwhile, the rest of Ala Rubra has to hold off the forces overseeing the execution, leading to this exchange: | |
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Shadow the Hedgehog has one from its Missing Trailer Scene: | |
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In Stories: Path of Destinies, Reynardo acquires a Lost Superweapon, the Skyripper, that has a 1 in 128 chance of destroying the universe if used. Thanks to Artistic License – Statistics, he thinks that this means that he can use it once to win the war and be totally safe, the odds only go up if he uses it a bunch of times, despite multiple characters pointing out that this is wrong. It doesn't end well. | |
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Merlin (2008): In his eponymous episode, Gwaine helps Merlin and Arthur in a bar fight simply because they were hugely outnumbered and "I kinda like the look of those odds." | |
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Inverted in a Burn Notice episode. Russian Black Ops, when discussing if they should surrender note that "He's Michael Westen, there are only four of us!" And again in "Where There's Smoke": |
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The quote for the Killer archetype in Feng Shui: "Forty of them, one of me. Looks like the odds are about even." Of course, Feng Shui was the first RPG to incorporate rules for Mooks... | |
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In Friends, in the chapter where the guys buy many lottery tickets as there is a lot of money on the jackpot, Ross says he won't join, because it is "42 times more likely" that they will be struck by lightning. Chandler answers that, as they are six, it would be only 7 times more likely. Joey says the trope verbatim. | |
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Mighty Max has Norman say "Six against one, hardly fair. I'll fight with my eyes closed." | |
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