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Here are a selection of quotes, facts and listings from various examples of film and TV, in an alternate timeline you may find oddly familiar...


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DARTH VADER: "No, Luke. I am your father."
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

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RICK BLAINE: "Play it again, Sam."
Casablanca (1942)

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SHERLOCK HOLMES: "Elementary, my dear Watson."
– Recurring line from various Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle published 1892-1927

"...Holmes's most famous enemy, Professor Moriarty, notably only appears in two tales: first in the villain's introduction in 'The Final Problem', and later in the prequel novel The Valley of Fear. This is in contrast with Conan Doyle's other recurring antagonist, Irene Adler, who appears in four short stories in total... ...the idea that Adler had fallen in love with Sherlock Holmes is never made explicit, but is strongly suggested in all her appearances after the first – a development that was picked up and ran with by many film and television adaptations..."

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CAPTAIN JAMES T KIRK: "Beam me up, Scotty!"
– Recurring line from various episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, originally aired 1966-1969.

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The Lights of Zetar
Requiem For Methuselah
Joanna
The Cloud Minders
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"...Star Trek: Voyager uses this trope a couple of times. Lieutenant Joe Carey (killed off in season 1) reappears in a trip to the past in the fifth-season episode 'Relativity'. Ensign Samantha Wildman (killed off in season 5) does likewise in the sixth-season episode 'Fury'..."

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MR FREEZE: "Ice to see you."
Batman & Robin (1997)

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Highlander (1986)
Highlander II: The Quickening (1989)
Highlander (1992-1998) [TV series]
Highlander: Endgame (2000)
Highlander: The Source (2007)

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DOCTOR #1: "She salvageable?"
DOCTOR #2: "It'd take a miracle. And even if she does heal, she's gonna end up braindead."
DOCTOR #1: "Relatives?"
DOCTOR #2: "The husband. ...They lost the kid, too. DOA."
DOCTOR #1: "Listen... Tell him, if he wants, I'll talk to him."
DOCTOR #2: "I don't think he wants to talk to anyone. He's been standing there like a zombie all day."
Mad Max (1979)

"...The original Mad Max is a very different type of film from its sequels, and does not appear to be regarded as fully canon by any of them. Most notably the movie does not take place after a nuclear exchange, and so features none of the preoccupation with effects of fallout shown in Mad Max: The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome or in the reboot Max Max: Fury Road..."

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Rambo (1982)
Rambo II (1985)
Rambo III (1989)
John Rambo (2008)

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"I am the eggman / We are the eggmen / I am the walrus / Koo-koo-ka-choo!"
– The Beatles, "I Am the Walrus"

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The Terminator (1984)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Terminator: The Future Begins (2009)
Terminator Genisys (2015)

"...Terminator: The Future Begins, set entirely in the post-apocalyptic future setting, is most notorious for the on-set rant by actor Christian Bale (who played John Connor)..."

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"...Although Clarke's novel version of 2001: A Space Odyssey sticks with the basic plot of Kubrick's film in all major areas (something which resulted in much of the novel being rewritten at a late stage, so that the Discovery made its voyage to Jupiter rather than Saturn), it develops and elaborates on various aspects such that... ...This was built upon in the novel sequel 2010: Odyssey II, which followed on from the events of the first book quite scrupulously and..."

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