Forum:Featured Quote

The stories on this wiki have tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of memorable moments, be they dialogue or narrative. But now we're about to find a favorite! Nominate a quote that meets the guidelines below, and see if it comes out on top! Vote either Support or Oppose.

Previous Winners
See: Forum:List of Featured Quotes

Rules
'''PLEASE READ THE RULES CAREFULLY, BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE RULES FOR OTHER FEATURES. RULES UNIQUE TO FEATURED QUOTE ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN RED '''

Nominating Rules

 * 1) Don't take the word "Quote" literally. Narrative passages can be just as quoteworthy as dialogue.
 * 2) Please identify the story that the Quote comes from.
 * 3) If there is a stated Theme (see below), then nominees must fit that theme.
 * 4) You may nominate Quotes from other people's stories without permission, unless the Theme states otherwise. Of course, you can also nominate Quotes from your own stories unless the Theme states otherwise.
 * 5)  If you nominate a Quote from a story that you did not write or collaborate on, then you must identify yourself as the nominator. This is necessary because of Voting Rule #5.
 * 6) A story's author has veto power over Quotes from that story. If you object to a particular Quote that someone else has nominated from your story (e.g. because it gives away a spoiler), then you may delete that nominee for any reason or for none, with no questions asked.
 * 7) Only one Quote per story per nominator. In other words, two people could each nominate a Quote from Story X, but one person may not nominate two Quotes from it. One person could, however, nominate one Quote from Story X and one Quote from Story Y.
 * 8) Please limit nominations to 100 words or less. "Near-miss" Quotes that exceed this limit by only a few words may be allowed at the Ballot Administrator's discretion.
 * 9) Please be aware of spoiler potential when nominating a Quote from someone else's story.
 * 10) No in-jokes, please. Quotes must be understandable outside the context of the story, except as noted below.
 * 11) Quotes must appear on an actual story page. Ancillary materials from character pages, blog-based previews, etc. are ineligible.
 * 12) Quotes must be formatted exactly as they are in the story, except as noted below. The easiest way to comply with this rule is by copy-and-paste.
 * If you need to add tags to identify speakers or subjects, please italicize them.
 * If you need to add narrative text to make a line understandable out of context, enclose the added text in brackets [thusly]. This is standard journalistic practice for quoting things. Note that such added text should be only a few words, if that.
 * If a Quote is in past tense in the story, it must be in past tense on the ballot. Ditto for other tenses.
 * A Quote may be shortened to meet length limitations. If you do this, replace the removed portion with an ellipsis (...).

Voting Rules

 * 1) You must have an account and 100 total edits to vote. You must be logged in and your vote must be signed so the administrators can verify voter eligibility.
 * 2) Nominees receiving 5 or more Oppose votes may be removed from the ballot at the discretion of the administrators.
 * 3) Vote on as many Quotes as you wish, but only once on each. You may not vote for a Quote from your own story  except as noted below .
 * 4) If a Quote from your story was nominated by someone else who isn't a collaborating partner on the story, then you may vote for it.
 * 5) If you nominate a Quote from a story that you did not write or collaborate on, then you may also vote for it.
 * 6) The following rules must be followed when Opposing a quote:
 * You must provide a reason for your vote. "No" and "Sorry" are not reasons.
 * Oppose votes that appear to be needlessly harsh or that don't observe basic rules of civility will be deleted. If it's worth saying, it can be said politely.
 * Please try to provide constructive criticism. This is the whole point of the Oppose option, because Oppose votes aren't actually counted.
 * "I want another quote to win" votes will be deleted. If you want another Quote to win, then cast a Support vote for the other Quote and leave it at that.
 * "This isn't funny" is only a valid reason to Oppose if the Quote was meant to be funny. Votes opposing an obviously dramatic quote on the grounds that "it's not funny" will be deleted.
 * Your opinion of the character(s) associated with a quote is NOT relevant to the merits of the quote itself. Featured Character is a separate ballot, so don't shoot the message.
 * "There are better quotes from this story" votes will be deleted because that's irrelevant to the merits of the Quote that actually got nominated. Remember, you can nominate Quotes from other people's stories--so if you think there's a better Quote that's not on the ballot, then why not nominate it yourself?

In the event of a tie, the Ballot Administrator will break the tie if he hasn't already voted. Otherwise, the ballot will remain open until the tie is broken.

Theme
For December, most of you are undoubtedly looking forward to a nice haul of Christmas presents, so the theme is Greed. In a Total Drama context, the most obvious greed situations are thoughts of the reward money or anything reflecting an entitlement mentality (such as Heather lording it over her allies in TDI).

If you would like to suggest a theme for a future ballot, leave your suggestion on the ballot administrator's talk page. Themes that will definitely be used at some point, but who knows when, include:


 * Serious Business (no funny quotes)
 * Noncompetition Stories
 * Tearjerkers
 * Snappy answers to stupid questions (aka "Snarker's Special")
 * Dissing the host (suggested by JERealize)
 * Brush with death (suggested by JERealize)

Theme ideas that may or may not be used one of these days include:


 * Narrative (i.e. no dialogue, although first-person narration might be allowed)
 * Whistling Past the Graveyard (funny quotes in unfunny situations)
 * First Person narration (if not included in the Narrative theme)
 * Sacrifice
 * Bromance (suggested by TDIwriter)
 * Adopt a Quote (incorporating a famous quote into the story), suggested by JERealize
 * Epiphany (a character suddenly realizing something that they consider to be game-changingly or even life-changingly important), suggested by JERealize

Nominations
Enter nominations below

Greedy Guidos
Chris says, "Thank you for your guest appearance, guys. Those Jersey Shore guidos wanted too much money to appear on my show, can you believe it?"

"Yeah," says William, "Those guys can't think of anything but money and women."

Joseph says, "So true. It's fifteen thousand each, by the way."

Chris sighs.

--from S.S. Total Drama, nominated by the author

NOTE: It's not the best thing I have, but I think it's related to greed, and I don't want the ballot empty :(

Support

 * 1) Funny quote. :P "The best part is   when we go   to the whale!"  00:08, December 4, 2012 (UTC)

That Money Is As Good As Mine!
“Actually, no,” Chris replied [to Trent]. “Despite what you were told, this competition is actually an elimination game.”

It was all Heather could do to stop herself grinning from ear to ear. While she was confident that she would have done well in the talent contest that everyone had been expecting, she was even more confident now, for she was an aficionado of elimination game shows. They might as well write me the check now, she thought with elation. Living in this lame summer camp is going to be worth it.


 * --from The Legend of Total Drama Island, nominated by the author

Support

 * 1) Gotta love Heather. xD "The best part is   when we go   to the whale!"  20:53, December 4, 2012 (UTC)

For (something resembling) Love Or Money
“Nalyd Renrut-Scrooge!” Ravibelle snapped, glaring down at her fiancé. “You won’t end up meeting me and you know it! You’ve missed every date I’ve made, you keep postponing our wedding, and whenever I do see you, all you do is complain about money! Well, I’ve had enough of money getting between us, Nalyd! You’ve got plenty of money!”

“Plenty, yet not enough,” he interrupted dismissively.

Ravibelle’s glare heated, her brows furrowing and fists clenching. “Fine then. Keep your money, if you love it so. I’m finished with you.”


 * --from A Wikia Carol, by Sunshineandravioli, nominated by Gideon

Dante's Doubtful Methods
"I can't believe the others would vote you out," Creigh says. "How could they be so heartless?"

Dante sighs. He says, "That Sebastian guy from the other team made them doubt me."

"I still don't understand how he could even think you would lie about something like that," Creigh says quietly. He looks up at Dante, tearfully, and says, "I'm going to do whatever I can to make sure you live, Dante. I'll get you the money, somehow."

"Thanks," Dante says. "You're a good friend." Dante hugs Creigh, and smirks wickedly when Creigh is unable to see.


 * --from Total Drama Tropics, by Sprinklemist, nominated by Manatee