KendraKirai: This is just wrong.

*This trope is speculated to have been started in the Street Fighters video game franchise. In it, the developers, for the first (or at least first most well-known) time in a fighting game, gave names to the character's special attacks so players talking about the game could refer to them. after all, it's much easier to talk about a "Hurricane Kick" then a "Back-forward-kick-kick combo" move.

Giant robot anime has done this since at *least* the early 70's, almost twenty years before Street Fighter.

{{Ununnilium}}: Indeed. Moving this over to OlderThanTheyThink.

{{Scrounge}}: And it's gotta be even older than that, since there's a western example, Peter Potamus, from ''1964''
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{{Ununnilium}}: The ''Eragon'' example reminds me of another trope: MagicLanguage.

{{Lale}}: The paragraph on Avatar was well-written and nice praise of the show, but ''it wasn't an example''. Doesn't belong.

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{{Cassius335}}: Is it worth pointing out that it's actually [[AnimalTalk not the Pokemon that call their attacks]] but rather their trainers?

{{Scrounge}}: Somehow, I doubt it... The trainers are giving the pokemon orders, so they ''have'' to shout the attack names to make sure their pokemon hears and hopefully obeys.

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HQ: In "Bamboo Blade" it is pointed out that in kendo matches you do not score points unless you correctly call your attacks. I know nothing about kendo, but it sounds like a reasonable origin of this practice.

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WonSab: The TTGL Giga Drill Breaker failure example seems to be neglecting the subsequent failure of the Lagann Impact.

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HTL2001: it may be notable that nearly all games with spellcasting, the status effect "silence" makes characters unable to cast magic, which to me implies they are calling their [magical] attacks
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I always thought the subversion in TTGL was that the attack names were obviously being made up on the spot. --DocumentN
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choco: Would "countdown" attacks be included here? I'm thinking of video games, particularly Square-Enix RPGs, in which a high-powered boss appears to count down before blasting the entire party.
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TBeholder: is this barely recognizable picture with Japan text really better than old and ''translated'' "fork" or i'm not the only one who wonders why?