Ming: Klytus, I'm bored. What plaything can you offer me today?
Klytus: An obscure body in the S-K system. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet...Earth.
Ming: How peaceful it looks...[Causes an earthquake.]
Klytus: Most effective, Your Majesty. Will you destroy this...ah...Earth?
Ming: Later. I like to play with things a while, before annihilation. - Flash Gordon (1980)
How could he make such a callous joke when the governor is only now getting over her unwed teen daughter’s breakup after trotting both her and the father of her baby around on the campaign trail for two months as paragons of responsibility and virtue?