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Emma Swan
Once Upon a Time character
Promotional photograph of Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan.
First appearance
"Pilot"
Last appearance
"A Pirate's Life"
Created by
Adam Horowitz & Eddy Kitsis
Portrayed by
Jennifer Morrison
Abby Ross (teenager)
Mckenna Grace (child)
Information
Nickname(s)
Swan
Dark Swan (briefly)
The Black Swan[1]
Aliases
Princess Leia
Princess Emma (alternate reality)
Occupation
Savior
Sheriff
Bail bond agent (formerly)
Deputy (formerly)
Princess (alternate reality)
Title
The Savior
The Dark One (formerly)
Family
David Nolan/Prince Charming (father)
Snow White/Mary Margaret Blanchard (mother)
Neal Nolan (brother)
Spouse(s)
Killian Jones (husband)
Significant other(s)
Neal Cassidy (ex-boyfriend, deceased)
Graham Humbert (brief love interest, deceased)
Walsh (ex-boyfriend, deceased)
Children
Henry Mills (son, with Neal Cassidy)
Unborn child (with Killian Jones)
Relatives
Ruth (paternal grandmother, deceased)
Robert (paternal grandfather, deceased)
Albert Spencer (paternal adoptive grandfather)
Prince James (paternal uncle, deceased)
King Leopold (maternal grandfather, deceased)
Queen Eva (maternal grandmother, deceased)
Brennan Jones (father-in-law, deceased)
Liam Jones (brother-in-law, deceased)
Liam Jones II (half-brother-in-law)
Lucy (granddaughter)
Nationality
American
Born
October 22, 1983 (age 29)[2]
The Enchanted Forest
Abilities
Light Magic
Dark Magic (Season 5)
Lie detection (self-proclaimed)
Status
Alive
Type
Enchanted Forest character
Centric episodes
Season Two
"Tallahassee"
Season Three
"The Heart of the Truest Believer"
"Going Home"
"Snow Drifts"
"There's No Place Like Home"
Season Four
"Breaking Glass"
"Shattered Sight"
"Lily"
Season Five
"The Dark Swan"
"Dreamcatcher"
"Birth"
"Broken Heart"
"Firebird"
Season Six
"The Savior"
"Wish You Were Here"
"Tougher Than the Rest"
"The Song in Your Heart"
"The Final Battle"
Emma Swan is a fictional character in ABC's television series Once Upon a Time. She is portrayed by Jennifer Morrison, by Abby Ross as a teenager, and Mckenna Grace as a child. Emma first appeared in the series's pilot as a bail bond agent in Boston, Massachusetts until she meets her biological son Henry, whom she gave up for adoption 10 years before, and learns she is the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming. Henry urges Emma to go to the fictional town of Storybrooke, Maine, to break a curse enacted by the Evil Queen and to restore the fairy tale characters' happy endings.
The daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming,[3] an ex-bail bonds collector,[4] and Henry Mills' biological mother.[4] Morrison described her character at the beginning of the first season as "broken, damaged and worldly".[4] During the fourth season finale, "Operation Mongoose", Emma absorbs the power of the Dark One into herself to save Storybrooke.[5] In order to successfully create a dark version of Emma, Morrison explained that "In order to build Dark Emma, I've been doing a bunch of research there with some of their mythology books and old fairy tale books and just looking back through the history of swans and the etymology of 'Swan'" and explained that Emma's rate of evolution "challenged [her] on a daily basis".[6] Emma became the primary antagonist of the fifth season's first half, until the end of the season's eighth episode when her real plans are revealed.
Morrison's portrayal of Emma has received praise, with some reviewers noting a feminist twist in the depiction of fairy tales and a strong female lead. She is loosely based on the title character of the fairy tale "The Ugly Duckling", a swan which was lost and raised by ducks, before finding its birth family and recognizing its true nature. It is revealed in the Season 6 episode "Tougher Than the Rest" that she chose the last name Swan when she was young after a friend mentioned that story.
Contents
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1 Character development and casting
2 Character Background
2.1 Season 1 & 2
2.2 Season 3 & 4
2.3 Season 5
2.4 Season 6
3 Reception
4 References
5 External links
Character development and casting
Jennifer Morrison at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con.
In early stages of the conception of the character, Emma's name was Anna,[7] and she was supposed to have three children, but she ended up having just Henry.[8] In the original script of the Pilot, she is described as "Late 20s. Beautiful, with great strength behind classic features. But also not quite at home in her skin."[9]
It was reported that actress Katee Sackhoff auditioned five times for the role of Emma, but according to her, the producers really wanted Morrison to play the part, and she accepted a role in the television series Longmire.[10] In the end, Morrison was hired for the part of Emma.[11] Morrison explained her character as someone who "help[s] her son Henry whom she abandoned when he was a baby and who seems like he's a little bit emotionally dysfunctional", but noted that Emma does not start out believing in the fairytale universe.[12] Morrison has described Emma as being like an overgrown teenager who does not know how to properly do certain things, like eating or taking care of herself; this is due to Emma not growing up in a family unit. Morrison said that when she does not know what to do with Emma, she thinks, "What a 14-year-old boy would do?"[13] Morrison has also stated that Emma is loosely based on "The Ugly Duckling", and that Emma's last name Swan is derived from this fairy tale.[14] According to the creators of the series, the name Swan is "very symbolic and fairy tale name and it just felt right for her and for the journey we are creating for Emma."[15]
After Emma became the "Dark One" in the fourth season of the series, Morrison began doing research with mythology books and old fairy tale books, and looking back through the history of swans and the etymology of 'Swan' to prepare for this new trait of her character. For Morrison, it is a great opportunity to now play a villain and it is challenging for her to portray a character that is constantly evolving.[16]
Character Background
Emma is the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming, older sister to Prince Neal and mother to Henry Daniel Mills.
Season 1 & 2
When Snow White becomes pregnant, Geppetto forms a magical wardrobe for her and Charming, after Rumplestiltskin informs them that their daughter is the key to breaking the Evil Queen's curse in 28 years. Emma is born shortly after and placed in the wardrobe along with Pinocchio, successfully travelling to the new land.[17]
In the real world, Emma grows up in foster care, bouncing from various families, one including Ingrid, the Snow Queen. As a teenager, Emma becomes a petty criminal with Neal Cassidy. They plan to start a new life in Tallahassee, Florida, until Neal is persuaded by August Booth (Pinocchio) to turn Emma over to the police, to protect her destiny. Emma is jailed, later giving birth to Henry,[18] whom she gives up for adoption to give him a better life; he is then adopted by Regina Mills (the Evil Queen).[19] After some time in prison, Emma becomes a bail bond agent. On her 28th birthday, a ten-year-old Henry Mills arrives in Boston, explaining Emma's origins. Disbelieving him, she returns him home to Regina in Storybrooke, who becomes worried that Emma wants to be in Henry's life. Regina's repeated warnings to leave town and keep out of Henry's life make Emma decide to stay.[17] In Storybrooke, Emma initially wants Henry to let go of his theories of the curse, but later plays along.[20] She moves in with Mary Margaret (Snow White), unaware that they are related, and Sheriff Graham appoints Emma his deputy as the two form an attraction,[21] until Regina crushes his heart, causing him to die in Emma's arms.[22] Emma is soon elected sheriff, assisting in the arrest of Mary Margaret for the alleged murder of Kathryn Nolan until she is found alive.[23] When August Booth (Pinocchio) arrives in Storybrooke revealing her destiny of breaking the curse, a pressured Emma decides to leave the town, not wanting Henry to suffer from her and Regina's feud. Regina, however, attempts to poison Emma, though Henry willingly consumes it to prove that magic exists.[24] Emma finally believes, but Henry is pronounced dead. However, he is awoken with true love's kiss from Emma, thus breaking the curse and allowing all residents to remember their true identities.[25]
Emma reunites with her parents, only to fall through a portal with her mother to the Enchanted Forest.[26] They meet Princess Aurora and Mulan who help them return to Storybrooke.[27][28] Emma then helps Mr. Gold travel to Manhattan to locate his son Baelfire, who she discovers is Henry's father Neal.[18] Returning to Storybrooke, Emma deals with Regina and her mother Cora who are trying to use Mr. Gold to kill them and take back Henry but they eventually stop them then end up dealing with newcomers Greg Mendell and Neal's fiancé Tamara.[29] Emma's skeptical theories on the pair are proven correct when it is revealed they want to destroy magic.[30] After Emma and Regina stop their trigger to destroy Storybrooke, Henry is taken to Neverland by Greg and Tamara; Emma, her parents, Regina, Hook and Mr. Gold follow them.[31]
Season 3 & 4
The team eventually manages to rescue Henry from the sinister Peter Pan,[32][33] and return to Storybrooke.[34] However, Pan enacts the original curse once more, forcing Emma and Henry to leave Storybrooke after Regina reverses her curse, erasing the events following its enactment. Emma's past is temporarily altered by Regina. After leaving Storybrooke, Emma lives with Henry in New York City. Sometime later, she meets Walsh and they begin dating.[35]
One year after the curse's reversal, Hook restores Emma's memories with a potion and the two return to Storybrooke with Henry to save her family by breaking the new curse caused by Zelena, the Wicked Witch of the West.[36] She finds an insane Neal trapped within Mr. Gold's body. Losing his mind, Neal asks for Emma to free his father by killing him to defeat Zelena; she reluctantly agrees.[37] Regina later helps Emma to strengthen her magical powers, though they are removed when Zelena curses Hook but thanks to Regina they managed to defeat Zelena and close her time portal.[38]
After Emma and Hook are dragged into Zelena's time portal, she accepts Storybrooke as her home, regaining her magic to re-open the portal to the present where she begins a relationship with Hook. However, unaware to her, she also brings a previously deceased Maid Marian to the future which ruins Regina's happiness, having not heeded the warning of messing with the past. Elsa, who was trapped in an urn, was also brought to Storybrooke by the time portal. While working with Elsa, who helps Emma to finally embrace and control her powers, Emma helps her new friend find her sister and return home while balancing the threat of the Snow Queen against her friends and family. After a period of peace, Emma begins to help Regina on her quest to find the Author of Henry's book. Cruella De Vil and Ursula soon come into town resurrecting Maleficent and working with Rumplestiltskin to find the Author of the magical tome Once Upon a Time. After Cruella De Vil threatens to kill Henry, Emma kills her, soon after learning of her parents' actions of removing Emma's potential for darkness by putting black magic within Maleficent's daughter and Emma's childhood friend Lily.[39] After Emma returns to town, with the encouragement from Hook, she chooses to forgive her parents and let go of her anger. In moments before the finale, Emma is able to finally let her walls down and tells Hook she loves him. Emma then chooses to sacrifice herself for the town of Storybrooke, asking her parents and Hook to save her, she voluntarily plunges the dagger into the Darkness, transforming into the new Dark One.
Season 5
Emma searches for Merlin and is helped by a manifestation of Rumplestiltskin, who wants to teach her to be the Dark One, while Emma attempts to resist becoming evil at the same time. Sometime later, she transformed Hook into a second Dark One to save his life. Hook then cast the Dark Curse to get back to Storybrooke to have his revenge on Mr. Gold. Emma then altered the curse, adding a dream-catcher in it to wipe out everyone's memories of their time in Camelot.
Six weeks later, the rest of her friends returned to Storybrooke, but with a horrifying and shocking twist, their memories were wiped out once again and wearing Arthurian attires. As it turned out Emma made an appearance as the Dark One, with her new attire. Henry asks what happened to her, and she told them that they all went to Camelot to remove the darkness from her and they all failed (except Henry). Emma with her powers turned Sneezy into stone, proclaiming that there's no savior in the town. Emma surprisingly gave the Dark One dagger to Regina with the intention that if she goes too dark Regina would be the only one that would willingly "put her down." Shortly after this, Hook attempts true love's kiss with Emma in the hopes that the Dark One's curse would break, but ultimately failed, as Emma has fully embraced the darkness. Unbeknownst to the others, Emma currently has possession of the Excalibur in a locked room inside of her new house. She intends to make Excalibur and the Dark One's dagger whole again, as with it she will be able to snuff out the light forever and become invulnerable. However, she must recruit a hero to do so, as she cannot remove the sword; the hero she chooses is her predecessor Rumplestiltskin, who she tells finally has a chance to become a hero. She planned to siphon the darkness out of both of them and put it Zelena, who she forced into an accelerated labor to avoid killing Robin's child, and slay her. She regains her memories of what Hook plans, by resurrecting all the Dark Ones as part of his revenge. At first, Emma plans to absorb all the darkness inside her and kill herself. Things do not go according to plan when Hook steals it from her. Killian orders her to kill him, taking in all the darkness and Emma slays him with Excalibur while the darkness is removed from her, reverting to her old self. After blackmailing Mr. Gold for tricking her and Hook into making him the Dark One again, she and her friends and family descend into the Underworld to find Hook and plans to split her heart in half and share it with him like her parents.
Arriving in the Underworld, Emma is contacted by Neal Cassidy, who warns to turn back, advice Emma chooses to ignore. She and the others later discover that the Underworld is for those with unfinished business, and they decide to help others move on, while they search for Hook. With the help of Hook's ex-girlfriend Milah, Emma manages to retrieve Hook from Hades's captivity. However, she is unable to split her heart, as Hades has decided that she, Regina, and Snow are to remain behind for freeing the souls of Prince Henry, Hercules, and Megara. It is discovered that the only way they would have a chance to return to the "Overworld" with Hook is by overthrowing Hades. In order to defeat Hades, Emma and Hook receive help from Hook's brother Liam; however, it is soon discovered that Liam betrayed them after being blackmailed by Hades. Fortunately, Henry agrees to help undo Liam's work by using his powers as the Author. Later, when Emma and Hook try to perform the heartsplit, they are informed by Hades that Hook's body has been dead for too long and is decaying, making him unable to come back to life. When Emma and Hook go into the depths of the Underworld to find ambrosia, something that would save Hook, they are faced with a True Love test, which they pass when Emma chooses Hook over her own heart, only to realize that Hades had tricked them and destroyed the ambrosia, and Hook tells Emma to leave him in the Underworld, as time is running out for her to go through the open portal. Emma objects, saying that she came to the Underworld to save Hook, and she wasn't leaving without him. Hook eventually gets her to say her goodbyes and she does, only to find out that Hades had trapped her and her family in the library using magic. Emma and Regina work together to use their own magic to counteract it. They all go through the portal, and while Emma has second thoughts about leaving Hook, she is persuaded to go by her father. When they get back to Storybrooke, Zelena is informed by Regina and Robin that Hades tried to trap them in the Underworld, but she brushes off the information and is upset with her sister. She talks to Hades about having the life she wants, which is just a simple picket fence life. However, Hades wants a whole kingdom. Robin and Regina break into the mayor's house, where Zelena and Hades are, trying to get Robin's daughter back from Zelena. Emma, distraught and unable to grieve Hook's death, tries to break down the protection spell surrounding the house, but Zelena uses her magic to stop her. Hades is about to use the Olympian Crystal to "end" Regina, but Robin steps in front of her, taking the blow, which kills him. Hades tries to pressure Zelena into killing Regina, but she stabs Hades instead.
Before Robin's funeral, Emma stands at Hook's grave and cries, trying to cope with the fact that he is truly gone now. Suddenly, a wave of magic flies through the air, causing her to stumble. She hears her name called from behind her and turns around and is shocked to see Hook. She happily embraces Hook, who tells her Zeus sent him back as a reward for stopping Hades. After informing him that Robin is gone, Emma decides to break the news about Hook's return to Regina as delicately as possible. However, when an earthquake occurs, Hook rushes to see if Emma is okay. It turns out the earthquake was caused by Mr. Gold tethering magic to the Olympian Crystal fragment. Emma works with Regina to find it, only to later have Gold explain that Henry used his Author power to steal the crystal to destroy magic (again). Both follow Henry to New York, where it turns out Gold got the crystal back. At the same time, Hook, David, Snow and Zelena are accidentally sucked into another realm, which they could become trapped in without any magic in the Real World. Henry succeeds in destroying magic, only to be later convinced by the Dragon to get enough belief to recharge the crystal. It works and everyone is brought home. Once back in Storybrooke, Emma shares a passionate kiss with Hook.
Season 6
In the past, Aladdin, a "Savior", is taunted by Jafar over the inevitable downfall of all Saviors. In Storybrooke, refugees arrive from the Land of Untold Stories. Emma experiences tremors and visions; an arrested Hyde helps her receive an oracle's vision of a hooded figure killing her. Guided by Morpheus, Gold enters Belle's dreams to lift the sleeping curse; he tries to renew their love, but she rejects him. "Morpheus" reveals he is really their unborn son, and desired this outcome. Belle wakes and leaves Gold. Henry convinces Regina that Hades may have lied about Robin Hood's soul having been destroyed. Zelena moves in with Regina but, after learning her sister blames her for Robin Hood's death, moves out and is approached by the Evil Queen.
Emma discovers the sword can kill the Evil Queen without hurting Regina. The Queen steals the lamp and wishes Emma to an alternate reality where she was never the Savior; Regina follows her. In the "wish realm", Emma lives as a princess until Regina traumatically restores her memory. Regina frees Rumplestiltskin in exchange for a magic bean, but the portal to Storybrooke closes while Regina is distracted by the appearance of Robin Hood.
In 1990 Minnesota, a young Emma is told by a teenager that she has the power to change her fate. In present day, after they miss their way out of the Wish realm, Emma and Regina find another option for escape when they come across August, who agrees to help create a new portal. Emma discovers that August was the teenager she met back in Minnesota and inspires him to complete the portal. Emma, Regina, and Robin return to Storybrooke, where Gideon explains to Gold and Belle his intention to kill Emma so that he can acquire her savior powers and kill the Black Fairy, a move that has David furious and Belle concerned. Emma and Gideon finally meet for the battle, but Emma survives, choosing her own fate. Gideon retreats, proclaiming this far from over. Gold and Belle decide to work together for the good of the son. In past, Snow makes a wish that grants the entire Enchanted Forest to use the gift of Song to defeat Regina, which also spreads to Oz as well. When Regina also becomes affected by the wish she finds a way to end it before the first curse takes place, but the Blue Fairy, who granted Snow the wish, tells Snow and David that the wish will be part of Emma's destiny. In Emma's past, her chance to make use of her talent is held back by being told she'll be alone. This would come back to taunt Emma in the present day, as Fiona returns to use that weakness to take Emma's heart before she unleashes a new curse on her wedding, with unlikely help from Gold by freezing her family. When Henry discovers the page in the book that reveals Emma's heart will make her stronger, not only does it embolden Emma, it stopped Fiona from crushing it, but Fiona still tells her the battle is still on. On wedding day, Emma and Hook finally marry just in time for the dark clouds to release a new curse that will set up the final battle.
Reception
"[Emma]'s pursuit of a 'happy ending' is not about finding a man or going to a ball all gussied up, but about detective work, about building a relationship with her son Henry, and about seeking the 'truth' as to why time stands still in the corrupt Storybrooke world."
—Natalie Wilson from Ms. reviewing Emma Swan.[40]
Jennifer Morrison has received praise for her portrayal of Emma. In a review from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, TV critic Gail Pennington had high marks for Morrison.[41] Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles Times gave excellent reviews for Morrison's character: "Her Emma is predictably cynical and prickly – fairy-tale princess, my Aunt Fanny – but she's sharp and lively enough to keep audiences begging for 'just a few more pages' before they go to bed."[42] For TVLive, "Morrison does a nice job of mirroring the viewer's disbelief of this fantastical dilemma – and Emma looks like she could become a worthy adversary for Regina."[43] For Daniel Fienberg, "Jennifer Morrison is very good in the lead".[44] On less favorable reviews, Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe was not enthusiastic of Morrison's portrayal and called her a "wooden lead".[45]
Several feminist outlets were pleased with the show for its feminist twist on fairy tales and with Emma being a strong female protagonist. Genie Leslie at Feministing commented that Emma was a "badass", that she liked how Emma was "very adamant that women be able to make their own decisions about their lives and their children", and how Emma was a "well-rounded" character who was "feminine, but not 'girly'".[46] Natalie Wilson from Ms. praised the show for a strong, "kick-butt" female lead, and for dealing with the idea of what makes a mother in a more nuanced fashion.[40]
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Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)
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"Anything You Can Do" is a song composed by Irving Berlin for the 1946 Broadway musical, Annie Get Your Gun.[1] The song is a duet, with one male singer and one female singer attempting to outdo each other in increasingly complex tasks.
In the musical, the song sets the scene for the climactic sharpshooting contest between Annie Oakley and Frank Butler.[2] Its most memorable lines are, "Anything you can do I can do better; I can do anything better than you." The song was first performed in Annie Get Your Gun by Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton.[3]
During the song, they argue playfully about who can, for example, sing softer, sing higher, sing sweeter, and hold a note for longer, and boast of their abilities and accomplishments, such as opening safes and living on bread and cheese, although Annie always seems to counter Frank's argument. Neither can "bake a pie," though.[4]
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1 Notable versions
2 Other recorded versions
3 Variants
4 References
Notable versions[edit]
Ethel Merman and Ray Middleton from original cast recording (1946).[5]
Bing Crosby, Dick Haymes and The Andrews Sisters - recorded for Decca Records on March 19, 1947.[6]
Groucho Marx and his daughter Melinda Marx (a child at the time) in home movie footage used for select TV specials.
Ethel Merman and Howard Keel (1950)
Betty Hutton and Howard Keel in the 1950 film version of the musical
Mary Martin and John Raitt on the 1957 National Tour recording
Doris Day and Robert Goulet for the Columbia Records album Annie Get Your Gun (1963)
Ethel Merman and Bruce Yarnell in the 1966 revival recording.
Dusty Springfield and Freddie Paris on Bandstand (1967).
Robert Morse and an office computer in 1968 TV series That's Life, episode S1E11 "Bobby's Pink Slip"[7]
Barbara Walters and Howard Cosell on Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell in 1975 debating who interviews people better.
Ethel Merman and Miss Piggy (1976) in The Muppet Show, episode 1.22
In 1963, Heidi Brühl and Robert Trehy performed a German version in the stage version of this musical at the Theater des Westens in Berlin.
In 1977, Tina Arena and John Bowles recorded a version for their album Tiny Tina and Little John.
In 1990, Kidsongs released Ride the Roller Coaster, which contained a version of this song.
Fran Drescher and Madeline Zima (1994) in The Nanny, episode S1E22 "I Don't Remember Mama"
Michael Jordan and Mia Hamm, Gatorade "Michael vs. Mia" commercial (1997), performed by Sophia Ramos
Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat in the 1999 Broadway revival version of the musical
Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso in a 2007 Mercedes-Benz commercial with Mika Häkkinen performing the last line.
Blaire Elbert and Madeline Powell Cactus Cuties Performed at Cactus Theatere in Texas in 2008.
American rapper J. Cole used the "Anything you can do" line in his 2010 single "Who Dat".
Lindsay Pearce sang a mashup of "Anything Goes"/"Anything You Can Do" in the Glee 2011 third-season premiere, "The Purple Piano Project".
Dirty Rice sampled the opening lines of the song in the 116 Clique song "Envy" off the 2011 album Man Up by the 116 Clique.
Julianne Hough and Derek Hough on their Move Live on Tour in 2014
Dame Shirley Bassey performed this song with the group BLAKE on the 2016 TV Special titled, David Walliams Celebrates Dame Shirley Bassey
Barbra Streisand and Melissa McCarthy perform the duet as part of Streisand's 2016 album Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway, with altered lyrics.
Lusamine and Guzma MMD on a popular video on the website YouTube.
AP-5 and Chopper on the Star Wars Rebels 2017 episode "Double Agent Droid."
Darci Lynne Farmer and Terry Fator with their two puppets, Petunia and Winston on the finale of season 12 of America's Got Talent.
Other recorded versions[edit]
Ethel Merman and Neilson Taylor (1973)
Judy Garland and Howard Keel (Pre-Production of film Annie Get Your Gun)[8]
The Majors
Von Trapp Children (Song is on their Live in Concert DVD.)
Variants[edit]
Peter Tosh: "I'm the Toughest"
Neil Patrick Harris and Hugh Jackman: Live performance, 2011 Tony Awards[9]
Jon Cozart ft. Thomas Sanders: Vine vs YouTube: The Song
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Annie Get Your Gun listing at Internet Broadway Database ibdb.com, accessed November 16, 2008
Jump up ^ Mordden, Ethan (8 August 2013). Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre. Oxford University Press, USA. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-19-931357-0.
Jump up ^ Flinn, Caryl (2007). Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman. University of California Press. p. 455. ISBN 978-0-520-22942-6.
Jump up ^ Corp., Hal Leonard (1 February 2006). Lyrics (Songbook): Complete Lyrics for Over 1000 Songs from Broadway to Rock. Hal Leonard. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-4584-6657-0.
Jump up ^ "allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
Jump up ^ "A Bing Crosby Discography". BING magazine. International Club Crosby. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
Jump up ^ TV.com entry on episode S1E11 of That's Life
Jump up ^ Schechter, Scott (25 August 2006). Judy Garland: The Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Legend. Taylor Trade Publishing. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-4616-3555-0.
Jump up ^ "Neil Patrick Harris and Former Tony Host Hugh Jackman Face Off". Playbill. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
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Annie Get Your Gun (1946)
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Chief Sitting Bull
Buffalo Bill
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Adaptations
Annie Get Your Gun (1950 film)
Annie du Far-West (1950 French operetta)
Recordings
Annie Get Your Gun (1963)
Annie Get Your Gun - 1986 London Cast (1986)
Music
"Doin' What Comes Natur'lly"
"The Girl That I Marry"
"You Can't Get a Man with a Gun"
"There's No Business Like Show Business"
"They Say It's Wonderful"
"Moonshine Lullaby"
"My Defenses Are Down"
"I'm an Indian, Too"
"I Got Lost In His Arms"
"Who Do You Love, I Hope?"
"I Got the Sun in the Mornin'"
"Anything You Can Do"
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"Alexander's Ragtime Band"
"All Alone"
"All by Myself"
"All My Life"
"Always"
"Any Bonds Today?"
"Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better)"
"The Best Thing for You (Would Be Me)"
"Blue Skies"
"Change Partners"
"Cheek to Cheek"
"Count Your Blessings"
"Daddy, Come Home"
"Doin' What Comes Natur'lly"
"Easter Parade"
"Follow the Crowd"
"Get Thee Behind Me Satan"
"The Girl That I Marry"
"God Bless America"
"Happy Holiday"
"Heat Wave"
"Heaven Watch the Philippines"
"How About Me?"
"How Deep Is the Ocean?"
"How's Chances?"
"I Got Lost in His Arms"
"I Got the Sun in the Mornin' (and the Moon at Night)"
"I Used to Be Color Blind"
"I Want To Go Back To Michigan"
"I'm an Indian Too"
"I'm Gonna Pin My Medal on the Girl I Left Behind"
"I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket"
"I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now"
"I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm"
"Isn't This a Lovely Day?"
"It's a Lovely Day Today"
"Lazy"
"Let Yourself Go"
"Let's Face the Music and Dance"
"Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee"
"Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk"
"Mandy"
"Moonshine Lullaby"
"My Defenses Are Down"
"The Near Future"
"No Strings (I'm Fancy Free)"
"Now It Can Be Told"
"Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning"
"Play a Simple Melody"
"A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody"
"Puttin' On the Ritz"
"Reaching for the Moon"
"Remember"
"San Francisco Bound"
"Say It Isn't So"
"Sisters"
"Slumming on Park Avenue"
"The Song Is Ended (but the Melody Lingers On)"
"Stay Down Here Where You Belong"
"Steppin' Out with My Baby"
"Supper Time"
"That International Rag"
"That Mysterious Rag"
"There's No Business Like Show Business"
"They Say It's Wonderful"
"Top Hat, White Tie and Tails"
"What'll I Do"
"When I Lost You"
"White Christmas"
"Who Do You Love, I Hope?"
"You Can Have Him"
"You Can't Get a Man with a Gun"
"You Keep Coming Back Like a Song"
"You'd Be Surprised"
"You're Just in Love"
"You're Laughing at Me"
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You're either with us, or against us
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In political communication, the phrase "you're either with us, or against us" and similar variations are used to depict situations as being polarized and to force witnesses, bystanders, or others unaligned with some form of pre-existing conflict to either become allies of the speaking party or lose favor. The implied consequence of not joining the team effort is to be deemed an enemy. An example would be the former US President George W. Bush, who famously used the phrase after 9/11 at the launch of his anti-terrorism campaign in the form "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."[1]
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1 Background
2 Use of the phrase
2.1 Historical quotations
2.2 In literature and popular culture
3 See also
4 References
5 Further reading
Background[edit]
The statement generally is a descriptive statement identifying the beliefs of the speaker(s), and thus state a basic assumption, not a logical conclusion. It may also be interpreted as a speech act. Sometimes but not always interpreted as a splitting or a false dilemma, which is an informal fallacy.[2]
Some see the statement as a way of persuading others to choose sides in a conflict which does not afford the luxury of neutrality.[3] Only when there are no alternatives like a middle ground does the phrase hold validity as a logical conclusion. The phrases are a form of argumentation.[4]
Use of the phrase[edit]
Historical quotations[edit]
From the Book of Joshua (Chap. 5:13): "It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?" ".
The Synoptic Gospels attribute the following quote to Jesus: "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters" (Matthew 12:30), as well as its contrapositive, "Whoever is not against us is for us" (Luke 9:50; Mark 9:40).[5]
Marcus Tullius Cicero, in an oration before Julius Caesar in 46 BCE, published as Pro Ligario, made the following distinction: "For we heard you say that we looked upon all as enemies that were not with us; but that you looked upon all as friends that were not against you."[6]
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, in a speech discussing the Chief Committee for Political Education, told the assembled delegates that "It is with absolute frankness that we speak of this struggle of the proletariat; each man must choose between joining our side or the other side. Any attempt to avoid taking sides in this issue must end in fiasco."[7]
George Orwell wrote in his 1942 essay "Pacifism and the War", "If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me’. The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle, while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security."
Benito Mussolini declared in speeches across fascist Italy: "O con noi o contro di noi"—You're either with us or against us.[8]
János Kádár, in an effort to unite Hungary after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, announced in December 1961, "those who are not against us are with us."
Common form of Cold War terminology. On 30 September 1970, the Milwaukee Journal quoted a police official of the Greek military junta of 1967–74 as saying to his political prisoners: "You make yourself ridiculous [sic] by thinking you can do anything. The word is divided in two. The Russians and the Americans, no one else. What are we? Americans. Behind me there is the government, behind the government is NATO, behind NATO is the US. You can't fight us, we are Americans."[9]
Hillary Clinton said on September 13, 2001: "Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price."[10]
President George W. Bush, in an address to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001 said, "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."[11]
Vic Toews Canadian Public Safety Minister said on February 13, 2012: ".. either stand with us or with the child pornographers" in response to questions from Quebec MP Francis Scarpaleggia (Lac-Saint-Louis) regarding extensive Privacy Commission concerns about 'warrant-less access' to all Canadian Internet and Cell phone accounts under the proposed legislation contained in bill C-30 "Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act" introduced the following day (February 14, 2012) in the House of Commons of Canada.[12][13][14]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in a speech after a suicide bomb explosion in Istanbul on January 12, 2016, said: "Pick a side. You are either on the side of the Turkish government, or you’re on the side of the terrorists."[15]
Sarah Palin, in a speech criticizing Republicans who didn't support Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, said: "You're either with us or you're against us. "That gang, they call themselves Never hashtag, whatever, I just call ‘em Republicans Against Trump, or RAT for short, And you know it was really funny, to me, the ‘splodey heads keep ‘sploding over this movement because it seems so obvious..."[16]
In literature and popular culture[edit]
In the movie Beauty and the Beast, Gaston tells fellow citizens of his village that "If you're not with us, you're against us," and thereafter locks up Belle and her father so he can hunt the Beast.
In the Dirty Harry movie Magnum Force, one of the suspects tells Harry Callahan, "Either you're for us or you're against us."
In the movie The Matrix, when Morpheus introduces the matrix to Neo using training program, he tells him, regarding to agents, that "If you are not one of us, you are one of them."
In the climax of the film Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Anakin Skywalker (aka Darth Vader) says to Obi-Wan Kenobi, "If you're not with me, then you're my enemy." Obi-Wan responds, "Only a Sith deals in absolutes." His response, ironically, is an absolute statement, although linguists are divided as to whether the "deals" part of the phrase makes this not a contradictory statement.
Towards the end of Joseph Heller's Catch-22, Colonels Korn and Cathcart equate fighting for their country with fighting for the benefit of the two of them. Korn tells the protagonist Yossarian: "You're either for us or against your country. It's as simple as that." A reviewer of Catch-22 found this "flawless" logical indulgence by the commanding colonels to be comparable to Heller's parody of Charles Erwin Wilson's statement, often paraphrased as, "What's good for General Motors is good for the country".[17]
In a 1912 edition of John Bull's Other Island by George Bernard Shaw, an advertisement for The Clarion, a socialist newspaper, used the phrase to attract those interested in the debate on socialism.
In the movie Ben-Hur, the protagonist meets with his childhood friend Messala. He has barely said hello to Ben-Hur when he is dunning him for the names of those Jews who are speaking out against the Roman occupation. Ben-Hur refuses to act as informer, and Messala utters, "You're either with me or against me".
In Act III of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Deputy Governor John Danforth states, "But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there is no road between."
A professional wrestling faction in WWE, called The Nexus, used the slogan "You're either Nexus, or you're against us".
Stephen Colbert has parodied the sentence on several occasions, for instance with "Either you are for the war [in Iraq] or you hate America" and "George W. Bush: great president or the greatest president?", after which he usually adds "It's that simple!"[18]
In the Smallville episode "Shattered", Lex Luthor tells Clark Kent, "You're either with me or against me, Clark. Choose right now."
In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 TV series episode "The Shredder Strikes, Part One" The Shredder tells the Turtles “Those who are not with me are against me, and I crush anyone who stands against me!" right before facing them for the first time.
In the film X-Men: First Class, Dr. Klaus Schmidt / Sebastian Shaw tells the X-Men, "If you are not with us, then by definition, you are against us."
Futurama makes a parody of this concept, when the character Zapp Brannigan expresses disdain about the members of the Neutral Planet who didn't take side in a conflict by commenting concerns like "With enemies you know where they stand but with neutrals? Who knows? It sickens me" or "What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"
See also[edit]
False dilemma
Informal logic
Principle of bivalence
Splitting (psychology)
Thought-terminating cliché
References[edit]
Jump up ^ Bush: 'You Are Either With Us, Or With the Terrorists' - 2001-09-21, Voice of America
Jump up ^ "Your logical fallacy is black or white".
Jump up ^ Orwell, George (1968). George Orwell: The Collected Essays, Journalism & Letters Volume 2 - My Country left or right. p. 226.
Jump up ^ Schiappa, Edward (1995). Warranting Assent: Case Studies in Argument Evaluation. State University of New York. p. 25. ISBN 0-7914-2363-8.
Jump up ^ New Revised Standard Version
Jump up ^ Pro Ligario 11 (33), translation from Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Duncan, William (1811). Cicero's Select Orations, Translated Into English. Sidney's Press.
Jump up ^ [1] Speech Delivered At An All-Russia Conference Of Political Education Workers Of Gubernia and Uyezd Education Departments November 3, 1920
Jump up ^ "Il Duce: Benito Mussolini e La Storia del Fascismo - Frasi e Motti".
Jump up ^ "Bolstering Tyranny". Milwaukee Journal. Journal Company. 30 September 1970. p. 18. Retrieved 15 October 2015 – via Google News Archive. You make yourself ridiculous by thinking you can do anything. The word is divided in two. The Russians and the Americans, no one else. What are we? Americans. Behind me there is the government, behind the government is NATO, behind NATO is the US. You can't fight us, we are Americans.
Jump up ^ FreedomAgenda.com Quotes and Facts on Iraq
Jump up ^ WhiteHouse.gov Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People.
Jump up ^ [2] Hansard, No. 79 of the 41st Parliament (1st Session) of Canada
Jump up ^ [3] Canadian Broadcasting Corp - surveillance critics siding with child porn: Toews
Jump up ^ [4] Bill C30
Jump up ^ Weaver, Matthew; Yuhas, Alan; Shaheen, Kareem; Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith; Letsch, Constanze (12 January 2016). "Istanbul blast: nine of the 10 killed were German, reports claim - as it happened". The Guardian.
Jump up ^ "Palin rips Never Trump Republicans: 'You are either with us or against us'". Politico. 2016-07-01.
Jump up ^ H. Bruce Franklin (1988). War Stars: The Superweapon and the American Imagination. Oxford University Press. pp. 124–5. ISBN 0-19-506692-8.
Jump up ^ Walter Sinnott-Armstrong; Robert J. Fogelin (2009). Understanding Arguments: An Introduction to Informal Logic (8th ed.). Cengage Learning. p. 391. ISBN 978-0-495-60395-5.
Further reading[edit]
Ajami, Fouad. "With Us or Against Us," New York Times Book Review 156.53817 (1/7/2007): 14-15.
Bethune, Brian. "Are You With Us or Against Us?" in Maclean's 119.45 (11/13/2006): 21.
"For us, or against us?" in Economist 376.8444 (9/17/2005): 44.
Seymour, Richard. "With us or against us--Iran talks tough," Middle East 364 (Feb 2006): 18-19.
Singh, Anita Inder. "With Us or Against Us," World Today 61.8/9 (Aug/Sep 2005): 25.
"With us or against us," Economist 385.8555 (11/17/2007): 42.
"You're Either With Us or Against Us," Maclean's 121.6 (3/10/2008): 23-29.
Bially Mattern, Janice. "Why Soft Power Isn't So Soft: Representational Force and the Sociolinguistic Construction of Attraction in World Politics." Millennium-Journal of International Studies 33, no. 3 (2005): 583-612.
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