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* ''Film/HomewardBoundTheIncredibleJourney'': "Cats rule and dogs drool."

* "Skadoosh!" for the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' movies, although it's only said ''once'' in either movie. Its popularity comes mostly from its use in marketing and merchandise.

** Bizarrely, "cowabunga" also becomes connected to Bart Simpson, as one of his typical catchphrases, even though the writers were intentionally invoking the use in ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'', a show Bart would have been watching. In the episode "Behind The Laughter", he complains that he never said "Cowabunga" in his life.

* "VideoGame/MetalGear[[GutturalGrowler rrrrr]]?!! It can't be...!"

** The Vulcans want things to be "logical" (Captain), or else "Fascinating." Continued as a [[JustForPun generational]] thing by ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'''s Data.

Very likely to become subject to MemeticMutation. The shortest type of CatchPhrase.

* "Daijoubu" (Hikari (Dawn) from the original version of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'').

* "Daijoubu" (Hikari (Dawn) from the original version of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'').
* "[[VerbalTic Desu]]" will forever be associated with Suiseiseki of ''Manga/RozenMaiden'', to the point that it's her FanNickname.

* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' fans appear to have commandeered the phrase "[[BridalCarry princess carry]]" thanks to Barnaby's tendency to employ these -- usually on [[HoYay Kotetsu]].

* Someone in ''Anime/ValvraveTheLiberator'' did something awesome? "Sasuga" them, and "Sasuga" Creator/{{Sunrise}}.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' has [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Izzy's]] catchphrase, "Prodigious!"
** Also "momentai" (Cantonese for "relax"/"take it easy"/"not a problem"), used by Terriermon in ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' (both original and dub versions).

* Hear someone 'rejoice' about finding 'joy' or 'yuetsu', or maybe just find things really 'COOL!'? They've probably read or watched ''Literature/FateZero''.
** "Rejoice" started with ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and is every bit as associated with that. (Of course, it's the same character saying it in both cases.)

* Speaking of sextuplets, ''Manga/OsomatsuKun'' has the sensational "Sheeeh!" scream of anger, which was in itself, a catchphrase of the very character who took over the second and third runs of the manga. Guess who that was.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''’s [[MentorMascot Kyubey]] would really like to make a 'contract' with you. ／人◕‿‿◕人＼
** [[spoiler: There’s also the terms ‘entropy,’ ‘heat death,’ and just about anything having to do with thermodynamics, due to the scene where Kyubey uses these terms to explain its plan to save the universe.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' fans, especially [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Unicorn]] fans, are very fond of “Even So”/“Soredemo”

* ''Comicbook/TeenTitans'' fans can be easily spotted in a crowd by their willingness to use of 'glorious' in day to day speech without a trace of irony.

** Used a lot in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'', as well as 'bodacious' and 'awesome'.
* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' introduced the UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}an word for family, ''ʻohana'', to many of those who live outside of the state.

* ''[[Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure]]'' was known for the words "bodacious", and "heinous".

** Bonus points if you use ''"most"'' as a prefix to any of those.

* The word "very" to mean "cool" or "awesome" has gained a bit of popularity in the ''{{Film/Heathers}}'' fandom. The phrase "How very" in particular has caught on as a way to say, "How incredible" or something of that nature.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:

* ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'': Harold Ramis believed that the movie coined use of "slime" as a verb ("He slimed me"), and it sort of stuck in the public vernacular from then on.

* There's a bit of a shibboleth effect going in ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' fandom. Milder fans or subjects of PopculturalOsmosis will say "elementary", while the harder fans will say "singular".

* Many words man was probably never meant to know, such as "Eldritch", "Cyclopean", "Squamous", and "Rugose", have crawled from the depths of Creator/HPLovecraft's works and the the expanded Franchise/CthulhuMythos universe.

* "Leverage" from ''Literature/BattlefieldEarth''.
* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'':
** So much "chagrin".
** "Dazzle". "Chagrining my dazzle" has become a somewhat popular phrase among the {{hatedom}} and the [[GuiltyPleasure guilty-pleasuredom]].
** "Sparkle". If you know only one thing about ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', it's probably the sparkling vampires.
*** Although [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic "Twilight Sparkle"]] might be on its way to being a multiple reference word (see below).
* God's "ineffable" plans in ''Literature/GoodOmens'', which even the angels and demons aren't completely informed of.
* The Literature/{{Discworld}} has something of a Magic Franchise Mis-spelling in "pune, or play on words". Also "bugger", while an almost universally-known if not all that common minor swearword, is sometimes associated with Discworld since it gets used more often than pretty-much any other swear throughout the series.

* ''Literature/BreakfastOfChampions'' has "bad chemicals."
* The ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' series - any fan referencing it will probably include the words "debauched sloth", or just the whole line: "Jack, you have debauched my sloth!"
* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' mentions "thermals" OncePerEpisode, indelibly associating the word with the series in the minds of a generation. "Cinnamon bunzuh" (pronounced like that) is similarly iconic.
** The {{Written Sound Effect}}s TSEEEEWWW! for Yeerk [[EnergyWeapon Dracon beams]] (not to be confused with TSEEEER! for red-tailed hawk calls), and FWAPP! for Andalite tail-blade strikes.

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'' with "[[PardonMyKlingon frak]]." Not the first time it was used as a science-fiction swear-word, but the most popular and most closely associated.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'': [[TheComputerIsYourFriend The Computer]] considers the overuse of certain words such as "treason" and "termination" by citizens to be an abuse of language and deems this to be treason, [[AllCrimesAreEqual punishable by termination]]. Citizens avoiding the appropriate words [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption such as "treason" and "termination"]] will also be terminated, on a charge of treason.
* When it comes to ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', fans of [[TheVirus Phyrexia]] often talk about [[AssimilationPlot "compleation"]] (not a typo), and call its [[BigBad original leader Yawgmoth]] [[HeWhoMustNotBeNamed "The Ineffable"]].

* "Et cetera" from ''Theatre/TheKingAndI''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', and its fandom, makes a lot of hay out of "neurotoxin", "euthanised" and "aperture". Don't even start with {{the cake|IsALie}}.
* ''VideoGame/NBAJam'': "BOOM-shakalaka!"
* Courtesy of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'', "Objection!" has become the signature phrase for {{Courtroom Drama}}s, along with the reply, "Overruled!". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x52gU-6kHmc&feature=related Like this]].

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' fan fic, especially post-''Awakening'', there seems to be a common occurrence of "dastard" and "gods!".
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'''s fifth expansion, ''Warlords of Draenor'', ended up overusing the word "savage" especially in pre-release materials so badly that many players can't take the word seriously anymore, in any context.

* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}''
** Chapter 2
*** Potassium
*** [BIG SHOT]
*** Proceed

* "VideoGame/MetalGear[[GutturalGrowler rrrrr]]?!! It can't be...!"
** The WorldOfHam SayMyName abuse is also frequently imitated by fans, particularly "SNAAAAAKE!", "BROTHER!" and "LIQUID!!"
** The series' [[SignatureStyle signature]] ParrotExposition is mocked pretty much endlessly by everyone who has played the games. ("Mocked pretty much endlessly?")
** Every plot twist in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' was heavily focused on {{Nanomachines}} such that merely mentioning the word around a ''Metal Gear'' fan will get a certain reaction from them.
*** This especially picked up after the final boss in ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' offers nanomachines [[MemeticMutation (son)]] as an explanation for why he can summon magma by punching the ground and smack around an otherwise NighInvulnerable cyborg with his bare hands, in a manner that seems to be parodying ''Guns of the Patriots''.
** While not a particular phrase, it's common for ''Metal Gear'' fans to become hyper-aware of the particular ''style'' of heavy-handed, {{Anvilicious}} AuthorFilibuster chunks of exposition found in the games, to the point where any sufficiently pompous {{Single Issue Wonk}} laying down their manifesto on social media will find themselves being insultingly compared to a ''Metal Gear'' boss. This interacted with reality at one point, when a fan noticed that the [[https://www.vox.com/2018/7/13/17568806/mueller-russia-intelligence-indictment-full-text Mueller Indictment]] sounded like dialogue from ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', and Creator/PaulEiding responded by [[https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/21/17036538/metal-gear-solid-mueller-campbell-video reading it in the style of the Colonel]].
* While not often repeated by fans, ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' has a very distinctive application/definition of the words "Phenomena" and "Observation".
* Many ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' fans immediately think of the game when they hear the words "imposter" or "sus"[[note]]slang for suspicious[[/note]], or the phrase "among us" itself.

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has "sexy awesome", originally a ForcedMeme by the creator but still used within the fanbase and on the forums.

* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' has "anomaly/anomalous", "redact", "expunge", "terminate", and "memetic" (as well as the variant "antimemetic").

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' has “barnacles” often uttered by residents of Bikini Bottom.

* [[VerbalTic Ending sentences]] with the word "yesss", like ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Megatron]].
* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' briefly popularized Pinky's favorite {{Verbal Tic}}s "narf!", "zort!" and "poit!"
* Creator/StephenColbert thought that his second character in ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' wouldn't be very important, til "HA! HA! Dangly parts!" appeared on T-shirts and made him and Creator/AdultSwim famous.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}}'' attempted to convert a wide variety of computer-related terms into magic franchise words, generally through misapplying them in conversation as false cognates feasible enough to warrant suspension of disbelief. Perhaps the most ostentatious of these was Enzo Matrix's exultant "Alphanumeric!" - a catchphrase that was later {{lampshaded}} shortly after Enzo underwent his TimeSkip.
** Less straightforward are the magic franchise words "Megabyte" and "Hexadecimal"; also computer terms, but applied as names of characters. However, since the characters in question were for the most part the show's two [[BigBad main villains]], the words did come up often in conversation, frequently delivered alone with obvious implications left unsaid.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom is known for replacing the -body suffix with -pony. Odds are, when someone says words like "everypony" or "somepony," they're part of this fandom.
* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' has "Behold!", thanks to the Dr. Weird {{Cold Open}}s in the early seasons (while also sharing "gentlemen" with ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''.) Carl also made "freakin'" into a lesser magic word.