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Relax Luther, it's much worse than you think.

— Ethan Hunt • Mission: Impossible

An orange life ring and a dark fin-shaped stone in a teal basin of water.
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The speaker tells Luther to relax, then immediately says the situation is worse than he thinks. The contradiction supplies the humour: an opening that promises reassurance delivers alarming news instead. The short line turns comfort into a surprisingly bleak admission.

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