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Tropes that depict different types of catchphrases and the ways characters use them.Tropes
- Abandoned Catchphrase
A phrase that used to be a character's catchphrase, but they don't say it anymore. Or they just wanted to make room for a new one. - Alternate Catchphrase Inflection
A character says their catchphrase in a different tone of voice from normal. - Author Catchphrase
A line that the author tends to use. - Borrowed Catchphrase
A character says someone else's catchphrase. - By the Power of Grayskull!
An object that's voice-activated and requires a certain phrase. - The Catchphrase Catches On
Real people start borrowing a fictional character's catchphrase. - Catchphrase Insult
Somebody's catchphrase is an insult. - Catchphrase Interruptus
A person is interrupted from saying their catchphrase. - Catchphrase Spouting Duo
Two young slackers who have a catchphrase. - Character Catchphrase
A character says a specific sentence many times, to the point uttering the phrase is a clue to the character's identity. - Defeat Catchphrase
A catchphrase the villain says whenever they are defeated. - Elimination Catchphrase
A phrase that is said whenever a person on a reality show is eliminated. - Flashback to Catchphrase
A Flash Back which shows how characters got their catchphrase. - In the Name of the Moon
A catchphrase said before kicking someone's butt. - Mad Libs Catchphrase
Someone's catchphrase has the same structure but is different every time. - Mangled Catchphrase
Someone fails to say another person's catchphrase properly. - One-Word Vocabulary
A character can only say one thing. - "On the Next Episode of..." Catch-Phrase
A catchphrase that advertises the next episode. - Pokémon Speak
A creature that can only say its name/species or parts thereof. - Phrase Catcher
Characters who often get a particular phrase said to or about them. - Pre-Mortem Catchphrase
Some people's last words are their catchphrase. - Self Botched Catchphrase
Characters accidentally says their catchphrase wrongly. - Share Phrase
Multiple characters, or even all of them, share a catchphrase. - Signing Off Catchphrase
A line of dialogue set at the end of every (or nearly every) installment. - Subverted Catchphrase
Characters purposely says something else instead of their catchphrase when they'd normally say their catchphrase. - Untranslated Catchphrase
A fictional species has a catchphrase that the whole species says, but it's in their language and never translated. - Verbal Tic
A catchphrase that's put into the beginning, middle, and/or end of all (or nearly all) this character says. - Verbal Ticked
A character who normally has a verbal tic speaks normally.