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... without breaking a few eggs. Stock Phrase that means that in order to achieve something, it is inevitable and necessary that something should be destroyed or sacrificed. It's used as a response whenever someone's confronted about major damage or the like, and is frequently used by those on the cynical end of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism. Villains in particular, especially Well Intentioned Extremists who believe that Utopia Justifies the Means, are fond of using the line, as it perfectly underscores their disregard for the lives they are destroying or ruining for the sake of their Evil Plan. The phrase originated with Count Pahlen, one of the conspirators in the coup of 1801 that resulted in the death of Tsar Paul I. (see below in Real Life). It was continued by Egyptian historian Charles P. Issawi: "but it is amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelette". The people who use this phrase usually don't think they will be the proverbial eggs. Often leads to Metaphorgotten or [Popular Saying], But.... Compare I Did What I Had to Do or Utopia Justifies the Means. Antonym of Never Hurt an Innocent. |
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In Fight Club, this was Tyler's response to the Narrator informing him of Bob's death. | |
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Mr. Jones (2019): Duranty uses this analogy to defend the brutal policies of the Soviet Union. | |
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Avengers: Age of Ultron: When the Avengers try to talk Ultron down... | |
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In Goldfinger, the mobster Billy Ring says this to Bond, when they see that the entire population around Fort Knox have been killed dead in their tracks by the poison Goldfinger introduced into the water supply. Or so they think. | |
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Parks and Recreation: "If you want an omelette, you've got to break a few eggs. What's the alternative, no omelettes at all? Who wants to live in that kind of world? Maybe birds. Then all of their babies would live." | |
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In Mech-X4, this is how the mastermind justifies his plan to end pollution and climate change by wiping out most of humanity. | |
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Darkwing Duck: In "Something Fishy", Neptunia namedrops the trope when Launchpad tries to point out that she's hurting a lot of people by flooding St. Canard. Launchpad then tells her that she's hurting a lot of good people, including some who are actually trying to stop the pollution. This seems to get her attention. | |
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If you're too evil in Baldur's Gate II, Minsc will explain that while he understands that "to make the glorious omelette of goodness, some eggs must be broken," you've gone a bit far. | |
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Vision of Escaflowne Abridged: Like with a lot of abridged series people completely miss the point Unfortunately, Dornkirk is a huge Cloud Cuckoo Lander and Authority in Name Only - so the whole thing inevitably descends into utter stupidity. |
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In an episode of Space Cases where the crew all swap species with each other as part of a "walk a mile in another person's shoes" aesop, Davenport becomes a coldly logical robot, but refuses to use her newly enhanced intelligence to help get everyone back to normal, since she can run things much more efficiently this way. When Thelma (who has become human and is distressed by her newfound inability to communicate with the ship) pleads with her to reconsider, Davenport brushes her off with the omelet/eggs metaphor. Thelma's dejected response? "That's what I get for talking to an egghead." | |
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A lighter example is done in Static Shock where Richie uses this line to convince Virgil into breaking into the school to use the microscopes inside to study a part of the Mega Microbe monster terrorizing the week. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Gnome escalates the usual phrase This is another gem. |
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Referenced in Captain America: Civil War: Tony Stark tells an audience of college students that he would provide all of them with research grants, and tells them, "Go break some eggs." | |
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Nina Hopkins says this at one point in the Black Butler manga in chapter 37. | |
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Neverwhere (1996), In Vandemaar's case, this is probably completely true. | |
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Comes up in Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories, when Rozalin is starting to feel bad about leading Adell to his death just so she can get away from him. Tink replies, "The weak will perish! Zat is the way of ze world! Princess, do you count how many eggs were cracked to make your omelettes?" | |
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In The Last Days of FOXHOUND, Big Boss in Liquid's body says this of Null/Frank Jager/Cyborg Ninja. | |
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During Issue 12 of The Secret World, ever-quirky Yakuza boss Daimon Kiyota reveals that he was one of the conspirators responsible for detonating the bomb and unleashing the Filth on Tokyo - albeit with the intention of screwing over the other conspirators and a backup plan to purge the Filth from the city... so he can take it over, of course. For his part, Kiyota isn't too repentant: | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Avengers: Age of Ultron: When the Avengers try to talk Ultron down... Referenced in Captain America: Civil War: Tony Stark tells an audience of college students that he would provide all of them with research grants, and tells them, "Go break some eggs." |
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In an episode of Young Hercules, the villain of the episode says a Greekified version of the quote, "But you can't make a mousaka without cracking a few eggs, huh?" | |
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In Batman: Assault on Arkham, Batman confronts Amanda Waller for her reckless use of Task Force X to have the Riddler killed, which resulted in a massive breakout and riot among the inmates. Waller responds with the omelette saying, only for Batman to retort that Waller's "such a messy cook" that everything went horribly wrong. | |
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In Larry Gonick's The Cartoon History of the Universe, this line is "You can't make a country without breaking a few eggheads," spoken by the Chinese Communists in an aside about how Qin Shi Huangdi (reviled in history as an evil, evil man) is a role model for the current government. | |
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One A Bit of Fry and Laurie sketch features two businessmen arguing about this phrase. One of them concludes, "I hardly think they'd use broken eggs in executive room service." The trouble starts when he suffers Blunt Metaphors Trauma and thinks his actual omelette-making skills are being maligned: okay, maybe he can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, but he's been concentrating on other things! |
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In Day of the Tentacle, one character uses the equivalent, "If you want to save the world, you got to push a few old ladies down the stairs." ...having done just that. | |
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NCIS: In the episode "Under Covers": Mangled by Ziva in "Knockout". |
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Red vs. Blue: | |
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Wakfu: When showing the Zinit to Adamaï, Qilby quips that one can't make an omelette without breaking some Dofus, foreshadowing the revelation that Qilby needs and wholly intends to drain the World of Twelve of its wakfu to get the Zinit back in the air for the "good" of returning his people to their cosmic cruise. | |
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8-Bit Theater: | |
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Tintin is unimpressed when a Corrupt Corporate Executive uses this argument for starting a War for Fun and Profit. Who cares if the oil reserves they want to exploit are actually in a neigbouring country? | |
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Spiral Zone episode "Oversight": | |
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Invoked by Hal Jordan as Parallax in Zero Hour: Crisis in Time! to justify his erasing all of existence to create a new and better universe. | |
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Heavy Rain has Captain Perry saying this line to Norman Jayden when he complains of Blake's behavior. | |
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In Clue, regarding the possibility that by splitting up into pairs to search for the murderer, one of the characters could wind up dead after a couple of house staff members have already been killed: | |
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Disco Elysium: You can have a long discussion with your skills about building communism, which ends like this: | |
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In the StarCraft novelization Liberty's Crusade, Arcturus Mengsk quotes this as part of his justification for setting off psi-emitters on Tarsonis's surface, dooming the entire planet to the zerg. Nobody seems to believe him. (Which is why he promptly covers the whole thing up, claiming it was a massive coincidence.) | |
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In Batman (1989), it’s revealed that The Joker "improved" the looks of his girlfriend Alicia. After he tells Vicki Vale that Alicia threw herself out a window, this line is used, implying that Joker may have killed her himself to free himself for Vicki: | |
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Parodied in The Simpsons Game, in which Mr. Burns plans to cut down all of Springfield Forest and reduce each tree to a single toothpick: | |
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Doctor Who episode "City of Death: Part 1" | |
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According to Greg Sanders of CSI, commenting on a brain found unexpectedly intact a significant distance from its owner's smashed head, "it's hard to crack an egg without breaking the yolk". It's not clear what Greg is worst at — remembering proverbs, making culinary analogies, or cracking eggs — but no-one picks him up on it. | |
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In the Grand Finale, "The Endgame Syndrome": | |
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Erfworld has one in the Summer Updates between books 1 and 2: | |
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Taken literally in The Atrocity Archive when Bob's flatmates Pinky and Brain try to prove that you can in fact do it, provided you inject the egg with a ferrous solution then put it in a rotating magnetic field. It doesn't quite work, but it proves a Chekhov's Lecture, eventually leading Bob to the solution to how to disarm a tactical nuke. | |
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Variant in Ciaphas Cain. An insane rogue Inquisitor quotes "The path of righteousness is a stony one" to justify abandoning hundreds of people to die, despite the fact that they had altruistically helped him. Cain mentally notes that he's forgotten the rest of the quote. Amberly explains the full quote to be "The path of righteousness is a stony one, made smoother by concern for others." | |
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In the soundtrack for PAYDAY: The Heist, during the track "Breach of Security," the theme to the Diamond Heist mission. | |
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Alluded to in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, after Raiden pulls an I Surrender, Suckers moment on Senator Armstrong: | |
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Men in Black: The Series: In the Grand Finale, "The Endgame Syndrome": This becomes an Ironic Echo later when Vangus decides to just blow Earth to bits, as it's proving too much hassle to conquer. Alpha protests that this wouldn't leave him anything to rule, but Vangus just quotes the trope back at him. |
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Young Avengers has a memorable allusive variant from an accusing ghost/guilty conscience: | |
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Justice League Unlimited, "Patriot Act". | |
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