LooneyToons: I'm sorry, Susan, but I can't help but envision Beowulf wildly swinging around the Crescent Moon Wand and bellowing at Grendel "In the name of the moon I will punish you!" It adds a certain something that the poem never had for me back in college.

LooneyToons: (another day) Corrected the salutation to the Lone Power; reference Diane Duane's Young Wizards website, [[http://www.youngwizards.com/FriendsEnemiesAndOthers2.html here]], very bottom of text.

{{Tabby}}: My mistake; the "eldest' part only appears in the Cats of Grand Central books. (Gee, wonder why I remember those books better?)

LooneyToons: Don't worry. It appears that Diane has wandered in and has corrected as necessary. (Hi, Diane! It's been ten years since we last traded greetings, but I'm someone you theoretically know!)

MorganWick: The entry deserves a fleshing out of the distinction between it and ByThePowerOfGrayskull. (I'm not suggesting that it's redundant, just that it seems to be at first.)

{{Ununnilium}}: How's that?

Diane Duane: Hi, LT! (waves)

LooneyToons: (Waves back) I don't want to use my real name here, but if I said Compuserve, Princeton University SF club circa 1984-5, and Philcon, it would probably help you narrow down the pool of candidates for who I am.
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{{Scifantasy}}: I think the RevolutionaryGirlUtena entry qualifies under ByThePowerOfGreyskull instead of this. We see other characters recite the same phrase at the same time, suggesting that it's part of the sword-summoning ritual. The distinction is tricky, but...that's my thought, anyway.

LooneyToons: Huh? Are you thinking of the Black Rose arc? Even then, only the current champion ever invokes the power of Revolution...

{{Scifantasy}}: Actually, I'm thinking of Saionji and Touga, when they're the ones engaged. As you said, only the Champion invokes it, and it's part of the summoning. So that tells me that it's more of a ByThePowerOfGreyskull example. Now, the Black Rose duelists' announcement about how they're going to kill the Rose Bride...that's this kind, I think.

LooneyToons: I dunno -- it doesn't actually seem to ''do'' anything by itself, which a ByThePowerOfGreyskull ought to. Utena's already had her TransformationSequence, such as it is, by that point, she's already powered up. It's just a ritual declaration. And when she does get the power boost for her FinishingMove, she doesn't actually do anything to trigger it save just be there...

Sikon: Would DarkwingDuck's "I am the terror that flaps in the night..." qualify?

LooneyToons: I know we have a mention of it somewhere else, but I don't see why not.

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{{Cassius335}}: Cleaned up the Den-O section a bit and added the PPGZ one. Both are from my knowledge of the TV-Nihon translations, mind you.

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Chazzers: I haven't read the story, but the Beowulf example seems suspicious. Does he make the exact same speech whenever he meets an enemy and the exact same boast every time he's in a mead hall?

{{Cassius335}}: I'm similary suspiscious of the Captain Planet, which seems to be more a post-{{Invocation}} {{Catchphrase}}. By the wording ("By Your Powers combined" = He's addressing the Planeteers), I suspect it's a more grandiose version of "You have summoned me!" than something directed at an opponent. EDIT: Ok, taken it out.

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LooneyToons: Sorry, Paul, but this:

*[[PaulRobinson This troper]], when he was participating in a Usenet Newsgroup, would receive insults back from one or more participants, would trivialize their often weak and ineffectual attempts at being insulting, by making a response similar to "You are a [some form of pestilence] upon the universe, awaiting the [object of destruction] which will terminate your existence." like these two: "You are nothing but a hangnail on the finger of the universe, awaiting the clippers which will terminate your existence." and "You, sir, are nothing more than a boil on the ass of the universe, awaiting the lancet which will terminate your less-than-worthless existence." as shown [[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.seduction.fast/msg/c2c416739d6dc857 here]].

isn't relevant, as it's not an ''introductory'' speech, but a TakeThat kind of thing. Plus, I am shocked and dismayed that your book, which by my estimate must contain three unique tropes for every two words in it (based on your interminable references to it in ''every'' other page), doesn't have ''anyone'' who announces himself to his opposition in this way. You clearly have failed in your mission.
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LooneyToons: Nuked natter:

** Wouldn't that be more CallingYourAttacks, since they're actually calling up their powers in that instance?

from the Captain Planet example. And the example is a mix, ending with an InTheNameOfTheMoon uttered by the newly-reconstituted Captain.

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{{Cassius335}}: Removed...

* Parodied in ''{{Bleach}}'' with the "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECCQ-emWzNg Justice Hachimaki]]" Urahara used for training Ichigo -- it requires a ridiculously overblown InTheNameOfTheMoon speech in order to be equipped, which Urahara added for no other reason than to annoy Ichigo ([[TricksterMentor and to teach him]] that when people are trying to kill you, embarrassment should be the ''least'' of your worries).

That's ByThePowerOfGreyskull (and it was false anyway).
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ScudEast: Removed the parenthetical {{Natter}} from this remark about ''SailorMoon'':
** Also, the phrase becomes an easy way to tell how well the early episodes were translated, as the better ones used the proper translation, while the realy Macekered ones used the "I will punish you" version. (I am sure that we have a trope for something that allows one to tell how good something is ala the odds and evens rule for the star trek movies, and if we dont, we should.)
And as a relative stranger both to Japanese culture and, still more, to SailorMoon, I would also like to ask what the "proper translation" ''is''. The [[strike:page quote]] SailorMoon example here uses the supposedly {{Macekre}}d version. Should it be fixed?

(later): Many, many thanks to whoever clarified the text.