History ArcWords / Film

*** "When is a bomb not a bomb?" "A bomb is not a bomb [[spoiler: when it's a [[SuperPowerMeltdown misfire]]."

* One for every ''Dirty Harry'' movie:

*** Variants on "avenge" (In addition to the title and The Avengers Initiative, there's the unspoken but implied last word of Coulson's assertion that the team were never going to work together "if they didn't have something [[KilledMidSentence to...]]" and finally Tony's threat to Loki that they will avenge the world if they can't save it.)

* ''Film/Idiocracy'': "Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way." Joe prefers to get out of the way and his CharacterDevelopment involves him learning that sometimes being neutral isn't an option.

** If there are any arc words for the franchise as a whole, or at least Iron Man's character arc, they would be "I am Iron Man". Said in Iron Man I to admit he was responsible for everything in the film, Iron Man III after he spent the whole movie showing us that he was more than his suits, and [[spoiler: Endgame [[ShutUpHannibal in defiance of Thanos's "I am inevitable"]] [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner right before]] [[HeroicSacrifice he snaps his fingers.]]]]

** If there are any arc words for the franchise as a whole, they would be "I am Iron Man". Said in Iron Man I to admit he was responsible for everything in the film, Iron Man III when he realized that he was more than his suits, and [[spoiler: Endgame [[ShutUpHannibal in defiance of Thanos's "I am inevitable"]] [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner right before]] [[HeroicSacrifice he snaps his fingers.]]]]

** ''Film/DirtyHarry'': "Do you feel lucky, punk?"

* ''{{Mongol}}'': All Mongols fear thunder.

** In ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'', the word "dream" crops up a lot, most notably when Rapunzel asks the thugs in the [[BadGuyBar Snuggly Duckling]] if they've ever had a dream, as a plea to get them to release Flynn. Not only does this sway them to her side, but leads into a whole ''musical number'' about them sharing their dreams. Later, after Rapunzel has finally lives her own dream and is sitting with Flynn on the boat, she ask him what does she do with her life now. His response? "Well, that's the good part I guess. You get to go find a new dream." Then finally, during Flynn's [[spoiler: DisneyDeath, he tells Rapunzel "You were my new dream."]] "And you were mine."

** ''Film/WonderWoman'': "I used to want to save the world" and "They don't deserve you"
** ''Film/JusticeLeague'': "Hope" and "Fear"
** ''Film/{{Shazam}}: "All hands on deck."

* One for every ''Dirty Harry'' movie:

* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'':
** "I used to want to save the world" used as BookEnds.
** "They do not deserve you", in various variations, concluding with: "It's not about what they deserve, it's what you believe."

** "I am inevitable." Uttered by the BigBad, who believes that he is the "be all, end all" of all existence.

*** "Sentiment.

*** "Captain's orders"

*** "I am inevitable." Uttered by the BigBad, who believes that he is the "be all, end all" of all existence.

** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' has "Whatever it takes." uttered multiple times in the trailers.

** "Life finds a way" is first said by Ian Malcolm in ''Film/JurassicPark'', then later gets paraphrased by Alan Grant when he and the kids come across a dinosaur nest. It gets further paraphrased by John Hammond in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' in reference to the surprising survival of the dinosaurs on Isla Sorna. This also serves as the TagLine for ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom''.

* ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'': "Good thoughts, good words, good deeds." "Family" is another.

* ''Film/TheTreeOfLife''

** ''Disney/Pocahontas'' has the theme of finding and choosing one's path in life.

* ''Film/HotFuzz'': "The Greater Good"