Steve Rogers: Bond sales take a 10% bump in every state I visit.
Peggy Carter: Is that Senator Brant I hear?
Steve: Least he's got me doing this. Phillips would've had me stuck in a lab.
Peggy: So these are your only two options: A lab rat or a dancing monkey. You were meant for more than this, you know.
Peggy Carter: Is that Senator Brant I hear?
Steve: Least he's got me doing this. Phillips would've had me stuck in a lab.
Peggy: So these are your only two options: A lab rat or a dancing monkey. You were meant for more than this, you know.
Seven: For all the might your organization wields, you waste it on publicity stunts.
Paradox: We don't need to explain ourselves to you.
Seven: I would settle for you explaining it to anyone.
Paradox: We don't need to explain ourselves to you.
Seven: I would settle for you explaining it to anyone.
Seven: You were a prodigy, McGinnis.
McGinnis: I still am.
Seven: I think it's safe to say you plateaued.
McGinnis: I'm sorry, what did you say?
Seven: You are a woman who executes pedestrian ideas at the highest level. That makes you a master craftsman, but far from a visionary.
McGinnis: I still am.
Seven: I think it's safe to say you plateaued.
McGinnis: I'm sorry, what did you say?
Seven: You are a woman who executes pedestrian ideas at the highest level. That makes you a master craftsman, but far from a visionary.
Flash: (to Tony Woodward) All these powers and look at you. Bully then, bully now.
"A young but brilliant mechanic who was wasting his potential making personal computers in a garage in Palo Alto."
— Ford describing McGuckit in Gravity Falls
Zeref: What a waste of talent. If I’d discovered you years ago, you would have made a remarkable Shield of Spriggan.
Gildarts: Sorry, but your legion of doom ain't really my style, old man.
Zeref: What a shame. I could have helped you refine that power of yours- polished it into something truly extraordinary. But no… I see it suits you as it is: Wild, chaotic, and too destructive for your own good.
Gildarts: Sorry, but your legion of doom ain't really my style, old man.
Zeref: What a shame. I could have helped you refine that power of yours- polished it into something truly extraordinary. But no… I see it suits you as it is: Wild, chaotic, and too destructive for your own good.
— Keeping Secrets, "Everything As Planned"
"I can't believe you. All your gifts, all your powers, and you squander them for your own personal gain!"
— Megamind to Tighten in Megamind
"Wasted potential."
— Ana when eliminating Freja, Overwatch
You could have been me! And what are you instead? Just a joke.
"You know how smart Jim is; he built his first solar surfer when he was eight! And yet he's failing at school...
— Sarah Hawkins, Treasure Planet
"Such power wasted on such a fool."
— Green Goblin, Ultimate Spider-Man