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** In ''Dark River'', hedgehogs are used as a comparison an unusually large number of times - a couple characters' fur is spiked out like one at different points, one character is "no bigger than a hedgehog", a sleepy character is claimed to be hibernating like a hedgehog, and one character's difficulty in talking to her sibling was compared to pricking fleas off a hedgehog.

* Despite "Creator/ErinHunter" being a pseudonym for several authors, this still happens occasionally, sometimes confined to an individual book:

Basically this is when the author of a novel reuses the same line (or a variation) in his or her work. This isn't as much a RunningGag, a MeaningfulEcho or a ShoutOut as it is simply recycling the line. This [[TropesAreTools isn't necessarily a bad thing]], however.

* "In a corner of the soundless universe, there is a star that plays a beautiful melody. That is this Earth." Creator/NaokoTakeuchi uses variations of the line more than once in ''Anime/SailorMoon'', with [[MysteriousProtector Moonlight Knight]] saying it, and Rei saying it before singing her ImageSong "Eternal Melody".

* Creator/DianeDuane's books

** The same with "Right" in response to an order or request. Lampshaded in one case, where a character does ''not'' say this after being forced to break his TechnicalPacifism, and someone else notices.
* Creator/DavidEddings

** ** And, of course, he has his [[FootnoteFever footnotes]]. He generally uses a lot of [[TalksLikeASimile original comparisons]] - for characters, places, things, situations, everything. You'll recognize 'em when you see 'em. "The X was like <very original, funny comparison>."

* Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone have a few of these.
** "Derp" was apparently a nonsense word invented on the set of ''Film/{{Baseketball}}'' to exemplify stupid humor. It has been carried over to WesternAnimation/SouthPark in several forms, with no in-show explanation or link between them. Once there was a substitute school chef named "Mr. Derp" who did stupid physical gags; another time there was a Rob Schneider movie trailer (as part of a running gag of successively stupider movie trailers) whose narration consisted almost entirely of nonsensical permutations of the word "Derp".
** A more unusual example: Trey & Matt wrote the gag song "Montage" for an episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark,'' but the same song was used in their completely unrelated movie ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice''.
** The DVDA (Trey & Matt's band) song "Now You're A Man", recorded for the movie ''Film/{{Orgazmo}}'' was later used as the closing credits of a WesternAnimation/SouthPark episode.

-->''Jessica Wakefield:'' Oh, my head is going to burst into at least five hundred and thirty-seven pieces!

* Each ''Film/StarWars'' film includes a character saying, "[[ThisIsGonnaSuck I've got a bad feeling about this]]." ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' also includes it.

* Music/RogerWaters frequently mentions "the stone", [[Music/TheWall walls]], [[Music/{{Animals}} pigs, dogs and sheep]], "recourse to the law", "pie in the sky", "Donald Duck light", "crazy", and using "babe"/"ooh babe" as an affectionate name for a female (usually in character) (or as the mother in ''TheWall'' to Pink).

* If Creator/DavidMitchell is around, you'll probably hear the word "massive" used with peculiar emphasis... not necessarily by him.

* [[JackReacher Lee Child]] never fails to mention that "Reacher said nothing".

* Music/{{Kamelot}} lyrics seem to like to use carmine wherever a word meaning a shade of red needs to be used.

* It seems Music/RhapsodyOfFire say "mighty" at least once a song, on their older albums at least. "Holy" is also an unusually common adjective ("unholy" is frequent too for that matter).

** Also, Snape's long black cloak sure does a lot of billowing.

** She is a big fan of SaidBookism, and adverbs. These are generally considered no-nos in modern literature, but Rowling always seems to get a pass, possibly because she's pretty good at them.

** Also, characters responding to technobabble with "I see," only for the narrator to inform us that this was a lie.

** Characters say "So?", with context making it clear it's meant in the sense of "Is that so?". It occurred in (among others) ''Literature/BetweenPlanets'', ''Literature/BeyondThisHorizon'', ''Literature/CitizenOfTheGalaxy'', ''Literature/DoubleStar'', ''Literature/FarmerInTheSky'', ''Literature/FarnhamsFreehold'', ''Literature/{{Friday}}'', ''Literature/GloryRoad'', etc.

* "Hold on" is definitely this for Gary Barlow since Music/TakeThat reformed. He can't go an album without including it in their lyrics.