History Main / AuthorCatchphrase

** Also almost every single plot he's written (including short children's stories) for Doctor Who involves, to use one of the author's repeated catchphrases, timey-wimeyness. This is particularly noticable because in the televised history of Doctor Who, time travel has been used as a device to create a setting, rather than a plot device, with very few exceptions.
** Another constant of his writing is the use of repeated phrases. (Hey, who turned out the lights; She is not complete; We did not have the parts; Are you my mummy; Don't blink; Hello sweetie; Spoilers; Silence will fall; The Pandorica opens; and these are just a few of the Doctor Who examples.)

** This troper thinks the reason for that is rather that he's was a Brit, and connected the word to the military rank rather than seafaring.

** "Derp" was apparently a nonsense word invented on the set of ''Baseketball'' to exemplify stupid humor. It has been carried over to 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".

* Japanese artist {{Gackt}} tends to use the phrase "Dakishimete" at least once in his songs. [[Fanon Has evolved into a]] RunningGag amongst his fans.

* Children's author EdwardEager will frequently have a character make a statement, followed by evidence of that satement happening "just to prove it."

** Also Dan Brown's opening sentence, of the format "[Occupation] [Name] [Action]," such as, "Renowned curator Jacques Sauni? staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery." The people who begin the books also die within a few pages due to some kind of foul play. To be fair, though, Geologist Charles Brophy doesn't actually show up until the ''second'' sentence of ''DeceptionPoint''.

* Three movies by LindsayAnderson, If..., OLuckyMan!, and BritanniaHospital, have MalcolmMcDowell playing a character named Mick Travis.
** Those films were consciously conceived as a trilogy, so that's kinda like calling Indiana Jones a catchphrase.

* Read just about any ''Magic: The Gathering'' book that has Robert J. King as the author. Play a drinking game using the word 'sanguine' or any reference to something ancient. Watch your liver and/or bladder die quickly!

* Louisa May Alcott loves the phrase "like a true man/woman" and the words manly, womanly, and mien.[[/folder]]

* Whenever anyone in ''SluggyFreelance'' is proven wrong in an argument, they'll almost inevitably acknowledge that the other person has a point by simply saying the word, "Point."

* John Mortimer has several different receptionists named Angela and inns called the Stag At Bay in his works. [[OrSoIHeard Or So I Read]].

* Christopher Moore has a few phrases which crop up often in his books. "Heinous fuckery (or alternately, "Henious fuckery most foul")" is used often, along with extremely... explicit descriptions of women's bodies.

* H.P. Lovecraft often uses similar phrases and words to describe his, erm, indescribable monsters, including "eldritch", "Cyclopean", "bachtrian", "gibbering", and "torn from the underside of _____".

** He's also fond of having characters describe their ages by having them say they are "[[MathematiciansAnswer As old as [their] tongue, but a little older than [their] teeth"]]. [[AmericanGods Mr. Wednesday]], [[{{Neverwhere}} Hunter]], and a character from {{Sandman}} all answer with this when asked how old they are.