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 ====Frog blast the vent core!====
-[[Comm Trooper]]s occasionally say "OK, OK, ''don't'' frog blast the vent core!", which is a reference to the "assimilated" or "simulacrum" BOBs in Marathon. Intended to blend in with the inhabitants of the ''UESC Marathon'' (who were "Born On Board") until they got close enough to the player to detonate themselves, the simulacrums would attempt to shout phrases similar to regular BOBs – but their odd expressions would give away that something was not right about them. The biggest warning was when one would nonsensically yell "Frog blast the vent core!"
+[[Comm Trooper]]s can say "Okay, okay, ''don't'' frog blast the vent core!" as a taunt, but only very rarely (the odds are 4%). This is a reference not just to Marathon's assimilated BOBs but to the fact that they share a voice actor, Doug Zartman. The inhabitants of the UESC ''Marathon'' (who are called BOBs because they were "Born On Board") have been partially replaced with "assimilated" versions, or "simulacrums". The assimilated BOBs are intended to blend in with the normal ones until they can get close enough to the player to detonate themselves. The big giveaway that they are not normal is the odd phrases they sometimes shout – the most famous of which is "Frog blast the vent core!"
-:'''''Zartman describes the inspiration for the quote in the Marathon Scrapbook:'''''
+Zartman describes the inspiration for the quote in the Marathon Scrapbook:
-:''The idea was that some of the assimilated Bobs become insane from their conversion and run around yelling nonsense. Alex [Seropian] said to me ‘say something random’, and that phrase tumbled from my lips. Totally spontaneous. While I could have sat down and thought up something more random than that, it worked out well, since it sounds close enough to a real sentence that it kept people guessing and generated some fascinating (and totally wrong) discussion about what the phrase was and its meaning. One popular theory was ‘God bless the Marine Corps!’, which was a fair guess, but still wrong.''
+{{Quote|The idea was that some of the assimilated Bobs become insane from their conversion and run around yelling nonsense. Alex [Seropian] said to me ‘say something random’, and that phrase tumbled from my lips. Totally spontaneous. While I could have sat down and thought up something more random than that, it worked out well, since it sounds close enough to a real sentence that it kept people guessing and generated some fascinating (and totally wrong) discussion about what the phrase was and its meaning. One popular theory was ‘God bless the Marine Corps!’, which was a fair guess, but still wrong.}}
-It was very popular to say this in the text chat of a networked Bungie game; the sheer randomness of this phrase means it can be used at any time.
+It was very popular to say this in the text chat of a networked Bungie game or on IRC; the sheer randomness of this phrase means it can be used at any time.
-Comm Troopers can also yell "She's everywhere!" (referring to Konoko); another phrase screamed by the assimilated BOBs was "They're everywhere!" (referring to the invading aliens). Not coincidentally, Doug Zartman was the voice actor for both Marathon's BOBs and Oni's Comm Troopers.
+Zartman also recorded the Easter egg line "She's everywhere!" for the Comm Trooper; this is a reference to the BOB line "They're everywhere!" (referring to the invading aliens). It was not connected to any [[OSBD]] and thus cannot play in-game, but it can be heard in the bonus track at the end of [[Music/CD#End Titles|End Titles]] on the OST CD.
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