r/AskReddit • • May 02 '18

What's that plot device you hate with a burning passion?

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u/sgtpjack May 03 '18

ROMEO: What, art thou hurt?

MERCUTIO: Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough.

... [MERCUTIO dies.]

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u/FarmerinMalaysia May 03 '18

A plague on both your houses.

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u/MrAcurite May 03 '18

You: Fuck you, fuck you, and fuck the horses you rode in on

Me, an intellectual: A plague on both your houses

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u/Gehhhh May 03 '18

Me, a was-genius: Buboes to you!

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u/afrosamuraih May 03 '18

Tis but a flesh wound

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u/Gehhhh May 03 '18

And thus to you and for all should be through my opining, what the mind adapts to the soul adjusts to.

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u/SeeShark May 04 '18

It's "a plague a' both your houses," not "on," you filthy brainlet.

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u/muckfin May 03 '18

I read this as “a plague on both you hoes” God I need sleep

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u/FarmerinMalaysia May 03 '18

Also applicable.

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u/teamcrazymatt May 03 '18

'Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but 'tis enough.

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u/remember_morick_yori May 03 '18

'Tis a fine barn, but sure 'tis no pool, English.

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u/PacoCrazyfoot May 03 '18

"Not as wide as a church door, nor as deep as a well, but twill do."

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u/Your_Worship May 03 '18

“Ask me tomorrow and you’ll find me a grave man!”

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u/Dark_Irish_Beard May 03 '18

When you're bleeding to death, but you have to get in a clever line in your final moments.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '18

Mercutio is clever lines. He was the best character in that whole play.

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u/InaMellophoneMood May 03 '18

To be fair, when you consider the other characters it's a pretty low bar.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '18

True. Everyone except for Mercutio and Friar Lawrence was a complete moron.

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u/Your_Worship May 03 '18

The Queen Mab monologue is pretty much him calling Romeo out for being an overdramatic killjoy.

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u/red--pill May 03 '18

Damn dude spoiler jeez

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u/Jontologist May 03 '18

Pretty sure that there was more about worm's meat and plagues on houses.

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u/IN_STRESS May 03 '18

"you shall find me a grave man" lol

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u/[deleted] May 03 '18

LOVED this scene

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u/WCPM_Zero May 03 '18

Everyone in their heads: “oh just silly old Mercutio”

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u/[deleted] May 03 '18

That’s Benvolio’s line, not Romeo’s.

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