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# Literature.BookOfRevelation: In Chapters 2 and 3: "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."
# TabletopGame.UnknownArmies: "You did it." In every sense of the phrase.
# Fanfic.ShardsOfMemory: Every chapter begins with a historical quote relevant to the events about to unfold.
# Recap.StevenUniverseS3E15AloneAtSea: In the past, Lapis forcing Malachite came across as a Heroic Sacrifice to protect Steven from Jasper, with Lapis even saying "Just let me do this for you!", the nearly exact same words said by Pearl. Here it's revealed Lapis doesn't believe she did it for Steven at all, but rather for her own emotional self-harm and to use Jasper as a target of her anger and frustration.
# Anime.QueensBlade: "Who will emerge victorious? They won' t know that unless they fight!" Used many times at the beginning and in the end of many parts of the franchise.
# Film.TheManWhoWasntThere2001: "What kind of a man are you?"
# Theatre.InTheHeights: "No pare, sigue sigue!" meaning "Don't stop, continue, continue!" which encourages the two main characters, Usnavi and Nina, in "Hundreds of Stories" and "When You're Home" respectively. note Also used for comedic effect in "It Won't Be Long Now", during Usnavi's brief victory rap after Sonny asks Vanessa out for him. "Yeah, I'm a streetlight": Benny first calls Usnavi a streetlight, as in he's stuck to his corner store as the world moves around him. At the end of the show, Usnavi embraces the term, using his permanent role in the barrio as an illuminator for everyone's stories.
# Recap.MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E21TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: Narrator: Joseph Javorsky. Noted scientist. Mike: Melted scientist? Narrator: A-Bomb Testing Ground. Crow: Avon Testing Ground? What rabbits with shaved butts?
# TheMatrixFilm.TropesGToO: GoBackToTheSource: "Returning to The Source" are ArcWords about returning to the heart of the Matrix's mainframe, where everything originated and hitting a Reset Button (or something like that).
# Fanfic.MoreThanHuman: Occasionally appears as different phrases in each chapter, especially during Chapter 4. Blossom: The least he could have done was look at me. A recurring phrase is a quote by Camus, who Brick has a particular interest in. "I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless."
# Film.TragedyGirls: "What's next for the Tragedy Girls?"
# Monster.VideoGamesAToC: Croesus Verlac is the patriarch of the Verlac family and a man who discovered a dark route to immortality. Long before the story of Anchorhead began, Croseus's physical flesh became dust...but his spirit survives by taking over the bodies of his male descendants and impregnating the female descendants to create new bodies for him to steal later. The power Croseus has over his descendants is represented in the chilling ArcWords: He always returns to his blood. Not content with this, Croseus runs a legacy of dark magic and murder, routinely sacrificing children for power to the point where the well behind the village slaughterhouse is full of the bones of missing children. In the present, Croseus takes control of and possesses the nameless heroine's husband, before setting his plan into motion: to open the gates to the Eldritch Abomination beings he worships and allow them to devour all that lives.
# Series.FromDuskTillDawn: "The Gecko Brothers ride again/The Gecko Brothers are back." "I'm a professional thief." "You're my brother."
# VideoGame.FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach: "Are you having fun yet?" First mentioned by Sun if you stand around on the Daycare, and then by Vanny once Vanessa locks you in Lost and Found.
# Film.PoltergeistIII: "Outside, in!"
# Film.EvilDeadRise: "Let me in." The possessed Jessica says it when reciting a passage from Wuthering Heights, Kassie says it to her older siblings when trying to play with them, Gabriel says it when begging Beth to let him in to safety in the apartment, and Deadite Ellie says it repeatedly.
# Recap.LostS02E18Dave: Dave says, "See you in another life, Hurley!" before diving off a cliff.
# Film.GalaxyQuest: "Never give up! Never surrender!"
# VisualNovel.BadEndTheater: "You'll all burn together." appears at the end of each True End, except the Maiden's, where it's "Will you all burn together?"
# Film.TheForest2016: "[Don't leave/Stay on] the path".
# ComicBook.BatmanVampire: In Red Rain: "Vampires are real...but not all of them are evil."In Bloodstorm: "To death, in peace." In Crimson Mist: "First your blood... then your head!"
# Characters.DragonQuestIX: Greygnarl and Barbarus fought three hundred years ago, which was a very eventful year in the game's Backstory.
# Characters.ArrowverseTeamFlash: The words "Fraud" or/and "Pretender" are frequently mentioned when he's around, either by other characters or H.R. himself. His entire Story Arc has him wanting to prove his worth because he did not earn the merits and fame he received on his Earth. His story culminates with him pulling a Heroic Sacrifice by switching places with Iris during her supposed death using his body changing device
# ComicBook.TheFlashRebirth: "Every second is a gift."
# Recap.HouseS2E5DaddysBoy: Another episode where "everybody lies" is especially pertinent. This time, even House is taken aback by just how dishonest Ken and Carnell are with each other.
# BorrowedCatchphrase.LiveActionTV: "My name is Moira Dearden Queen, and God help me, I have failed this city."
# Characters.GenshinImpactRaidenShogun: Aside from "eternity" as her ideal and "erosion" as what she's trying to prevent, there's also "wishes," "ambitions," and "dreams" that are heavily tied to her and her story. Some of the descriptions for her Talents and Constellation upgrades mention those words. Her Vision Hunt Decree has her taking away people's ambitions in the process. She is convinced to abolish the decree after the Traveler shows her how the power of the people's ambitions can overpower a god's will.
# Anime.RahXephon: "The world is saturated with sound."
# Characters.AmericasNextTopModelCycleEighteenBritishInvasion: In the pilot episode. Annaliese: "America is not ready for the British Invasion. We did it once, and we can do it again."
# VideoGame.TheQuarry: The camp motto: "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger."
# Fanfic.SeriesThirtyAndThreeQuarters: "...who's that?", directed from Shinji to the Ninth Doctor "Just call me Bob, miss," the voice said. "Everyone does." From the end of Episode 11 Part V: The Doctor: note (examining a microfilm containing the Chinese Government's newest economic plan, which hasn't been implemented yet) Communist Party's still in charge over in Beijing, yeah? And they still organize everything into five-year plans à la Mao? Kaji: Last I checked. Why? The Doctor: So why's this one only go up to the end of the year? The last line of Episode 11: "Yui Ikari" The Doctor swallowed. "Shinji's mother was Project Zero."
# Characters.WonderWomanAllies: Starting in May of 2021, "Amazons Attack!" appears in a suspiciously large amount of speech bubbles throughout DC Infinite Frontier books. As it turns out the DC Rebirth line was to start its own version of the infamous Amazon's Attack arc in October of 2023.
# Film.TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact: Compare Dr. Chandra's answers for the same question from SAL and HAL. SAL: Will I dream? Dr. Chandra: Of course you will. All intelligent beings dream. Nobody knows why. HAL: Dr. Chandra, will I dream? Dr. Chandra: I don't know.
# VideoGame.StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds: Wesa ready to do our part! I have a bad feeling about this... (about 4 taunts dedicated to this one alone)
# SelfDemonstrating.TheJokerTropesAToF: While I'm certainly not cliché enough to use the same material again and again, it seems that classic line from Heathy has become my unofficial motto: "Why so serious?" Hey, if it sticks, it sticks! (Just so long as I get a cut of all that glorious T-shirt revenue...) "One Bad Day". That was originally mine, these days everyone in Gotham is saying it.
# Radio.AdventuresInOdyssey: At the end of "The Christmas Bells", Pastor Knox hears God tell him the words "one of three will fall". It ends up being the setup to Olivia Parker's descent into questioning her own faith.
# Recap.ArrowS5E2TheRecruits: Season 5's main theme, "legacies", is brought up again.
# Series.IntoTheNight: "One problem at a time."
# Creator.JonathanHickman: Usually a couple per series:Fantastic Four has "Solve everything" and "All hope lies in Doom." The Avengers has "It was an Avengers World" and "we were Avengers." New Avengers has "Everything dies." X-Men (2019) has “While you slept, the world changed”, a phrase which originated in his Fantastic Four run. Other words sprinkled throughout his Marvel series include "wheel(s)", "build(er)", "idea", "city" and "forever".
# Film.TheTestamentOfDrMabuse: "The Empire of Crime! The Empire of Crime!"
# VideoGame.SuperRobotWars30: Kamille. Due to his Mind Rape from Scirocco, he wasn't able to be there when Amuro fought Char, something that he didn't take very well. It's only by seeing Jona continue to fight against impossible odds, as well as Amuro telling him "Don't let the dead consume you!" that Kamille is able to regain the will to fight.
# Music.LosCampesinos: "Doe eyes" has been a long-lasting term frequently mentioned in their songs.Eyes are a recurring theme in "Hello Sadness," and the phrase "sad eyes" appears in the last three song songs on the album: To Tundra ("We take on the burden of all these sad-eyed children, with lilies bunched in our hands"), Baby, I Got the Death Rattle ("One look in my sad eyes, she had to concede"), and Light Leaves, Dark Sees Pt. II ("But they request that I leave 'cause my sad eyes are too much to bear"). "Heart Swells" and "Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown" have labeled various songs in a semi-Thematic Series sort of way.
# Series.{{Wizbit}}: In the episode "Badbit", a character with that name and whoever he is talking to gives this dialogue: Badbit: Get it? Whoever he is talking to: Got it. Badbit: Good.
# IronicEcho.LiveActionFilms: In Fight Club, related to ArcWords. One example that stands out in particular is when the group leader for the Testicular Cancer support group that the Narrator visits addresses the people in the room with the phrase "I look around this room and I see a lot of...", which Tyler steals while making his "Middle Children of History" speech later on in the film.
# VideoGame.ToontownRewritten: Undo mistakes, not fate.
# ComicBook.ImmortalXMen: Destiny to Sinister, over and over: “We must be on the same side.” Throughout the series, several characters mention the word "immortal", "immortality" and the idea of "living forever".
# Recap.GameOfThronesS2E10ValarMorghulis: "Valar Morghulis" for Arya.
# Recap.SherlockS04E01TheSixThatchers: "AMMO" for this episode, and "[Did you] miss me?" for the overall "Moriarty reappears" arc.
# VideoGame.SuperMarioBrosWonder: "Wonder" and its variants. "Wonderful" is the highest rank of a combo or getting on the very top of the goal pole. There's a power-up known as the Wonder Flower which triggers a Wonder Effect, players collect Wonder Seeds to unlock new levels and purchase badges, and the world is portrayed as a Wonderland. Mario will even say "Wonderful!" after collecting a Wonder Seed. The final message displayed to you after clearing the Special World is "YOU ARE A SUPER WONDER!"
# ShowWithinAShow.{{Literature}}: The Jack O'Connell novel The Resurrectionist features a comic book series about a carnival freak show in fantasy Central Europe called "Limbo." "Limbo" is a multimedia franchise in the book's world, and the hero's comatose son was fascinated by it. The word is also an arc word outside of the comic.
# YMMV.TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals: The apotheosis is upon us.Explanation The ArcWords of the alien Hive Mind.
# Recap.GameOfThronesS8E5TheBells: After suffering from one long Trauma Conga Line throughout the season, losing her children and dear friends, her lover no longer wishing to be intimate with her, finding out her claim to the Iron Throne is no longer secure, and continuing to get no respect from an ungrateful populace, Daenerys decides enough is enough and "wakes the Dragon" on King's Landing. This is best exemplified with a quote from her at the start of the episode, when she feels that the people don't love her: "Let it be fear."
# Webcomic.CaribbeanBlue: "This is your destiny."
# Sandbox.{{Safind}}: Don't rock the boat
# Literature.GiveUsForever: "Look to your sins" and "must we sin once and repent forever?"
# VideoGame.WrathOfTheGods: The I-over-O symbol (actually the Greek letter Phi) which appears all over the place
# Film.PitchPerfect: "Magic" for Benji. "Endings are the best part!" In the sequel, "Legacy" starts off as Emily's nickname and quickly becomes the theme of the film.
# LetsPlay.{{Pokecapn}}: Grapes.
# Film.{{Head}}: Appropriately enough, "head". There's Micky and Peter musing about getting shot in the head in the war sequence, Davy referring to his own noggin as a "million-dollar head" in the boxing sequence, and Micky talking about how "Our universes only start from the inside of our head" in the final channel-flipping scene.
# Music.ToPimpAButterfly: Every song from "King Kunta" onwards on the album ends with an expanding monologue that begins with "I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence."
# Podcast.{{Spines}}: Grove, mosaic, trumpet. We find out what each one refers to as the story progresses.
# Sandbox.HamiltonAaronBurr: "Talk less, smile more" and "Wait/Waiting", demonstrating his caution and lack of decisiveness.
# Anime.YuGiOhArcV: "The fun has just begun" seems to be a recurrent phrase, as it shows in the plot, openings and endings mostly by Yuya. It has also been used by some of the more morally ambiguous characters as well. For Yuto and Kurosaki, "Hangyaku" (Rebellion). It's mentioned in their summon chants for both of their ace monsters. "Smile" or also commonly known as "egao", which has been repeated a few dozen times. "Become One" or "hitotsu ni" is repeated throughout the show with its meaning changing based on the side that uses it. When the Academia or Zarc use it, the phrase means a forceful physical fusion like the Academia trying to fuse the dimensions or Zarc trying to fuse his counterparts to revive. When the good guys use it, it means someone was able to emotionally unite the audience through their dueling.
# TabletopGame.UnknownArmies: "You did it." In every sense of the phrase.
# Fanfic.ShardsOfMemory: Every chapter begins with a historical quote relevant to the events about to unfold.
# Recap.StevenUniverseS3E15AloneAtSea: In the past, Lapis forcing Malachite came across as a Heroic Sacrifice to protect Steven from Jasper, with Lapis even saying "Just let me do this for you!", the nearly exact same words said by Pearl. Here it's revealed Lapis doesn't believe she did it for Steven at all, but rather for her own emotional self-harm and to use Jasper as a target of her anger and frustration.
# Anime.QueensBlade: "Who will emerge victorious? They won' t know that unless they fight!" Used many times at the beginning and in the end of many parts of the franchise.
# Film.TheManWhoWasntThere2001: "What kind of a man are you?"
# Theatre.InTheHeights: "No pare, sigue sigue!" meaning "Don't stop, continue, continue!" which encourages the two main characters, Usnavi and Nina, in "Hundreds of Stories" and "When You're Home" respectively. note Also used for comedic effect in "It Won't Be Long Now", during Usnavi's brief victory rap after Sonny asks Vanessa out for him. "Yeah, I'm a streetlight": Benny first calls Usnavi a streetlight, as in he's stuck to his corner store as the world moves around him. At the end of the show, Usnavi embraces the term, using his permanent role in the barrio as an illuminator for everyone's stories.
# Recap.MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E21TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: Narrator: Joseph Javorsky. Noted scientist. Mike: Melted scientist? Narrator: A-Bomb Testing Ground. Crow: Avon Testing Ground? What rabbits with shaved butts?
# TheMatrixFilm.TropesGToO: GoBackToTheSource: "Returning to The Source" are ArcWords about returning to the heart of the Matrix's mainframe, where everything originated and hitting a Reset Button (or something like that).
# Fanfic.MoreThanHuman: Occasionally appears as different phrases in each chapter, especially during Chapter 4. Blossom: The least he could have done was look at me. A recurring phrase is a quote by Camus, who Brick has a particular interest in. "I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless."
# Film.TragedyGirls: "What's next for the Tragedy Girls?"
# Monster.VideoGamesAToC: Croesus Verlac is the patriarch of the Verlac family and a man who discovered a dark route to immortality. Long before the story of Anchorhead began, Croseus's physical flesh became dust...but his spirit survives by taking over the bodies of his male descendants and impregnating the female descendants to create new bodies for him to steal later. The power Croseus has over his descendants is represented in the chilling ArcWords: He always returns to his blood. Not content with this, Croseus runs a legacy of dark magic and murder, routinely sacrificing children for power to the point where the well behind the village slaughterhouse is full of the bones of missing children. In the present, Croseus takes control of and possesses the nameless heroine's husband, before setting his plan into motion: to open the gates to the Eldritch Abomination beings he worships and allow them to devour all that lives.
# Series.FromDuskTillDawn: "The Gecko Brothers ride again/The Gecko Brothers are back." "I'm a professional thief." "You're my brother."
# VideoGame.FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach: "Are you having fun yet?" First mentioned by Sun if you stand around on the Daycare, and then by Vanny once Vanessa locks you in Lost and Found.
# Film.PoltergeistIII: "Outside, in!"
# Film.EvilDeadRise: "Let me in." The possessed Jessica says it when reciting a passage from Wuthering Heights, Kassie says it to her older siblings when trying to play with them, Gabriel says it when begging Beth to let him in to safety in the apartment, and Deadite Ellie says it repeatedly.
# Recap.LostS02E18Dave: Dave says, "See you in another life, Hurley!" before diving off a cliff.
# Film.GalaxyQuest: "Never give up! Never surrender!"
# VisualNovel.BadEndTheater: "You'll all burn together." appears at the end of each True End, except the Maiden's, where it's "Will you all burn together?"
# Film.TheForest2016: "[Don't leave/Stay on] the path".
# ComicBook.BatmanVampire: In Red Rain: "Vampires are real...but not all of them are evil."In Bloodstorm: "To death, in peace." In Crimson Mist: "First your blood... then your head!"
# Characters.DragonQuestIX: Greygnarl and Barbarus fought three hundred years ago, which was a very eventful year in the game's Backstory.
# Characters.ArrowverseTeamFlash: The words "Fraud" or/and "Pretender" are frequently mentioned when he's around, either by other characters or H.R. himself. His entire Story Arc has him wanting to prove his worth because he did not earn the merits and fame he received on his Earth. His story culminates with him pulling a Heroic Sacrifice by switching places with Iris during her supposed death using his body changing device
# ComicBook.TheFlashRebirth: "Every second is a gift."
# Recap.HouseS2E5DaddysBoy: Another episode where "everybody lies" is especially pertinent. This time, even House is taken aback by just how dishonest Ken and Carnell are with each other.
# BorrowedCatchphrase.LiveActionTV: "My name is Moira Dearden Queen, and God help me, I have failed this city."
# Characters.GenshinImpactRaidenShogun: Aside from "eternity" as her ideal and "erosion" as what she's trying to prevent, there's also "wishes," "ambitions," and "dreams" that are heavily tied to her and her story. Some of the descriptions for her Talents and Constellation upgrades mention those words. Her Vision Hunt Decree has her taking away people's ambitions in the process. She is convinced to abolish the decree after the Traveler shows her how the power of the people's ambitions can overpower a god's will.
# Anime.RahXephon: "The world is saturated with sound."
# Characters.AmericasNextTopModelCycleEighteenBritishInvasion: In the pilot episode. Annaliese: "America is not ready for the British Invasion. We did it once, and we can do it again."
# VideoGame.TheQuarry: The camp motto: "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger."
# Fanfic.SeriesThirtyAndThreeQuarters: "...who's that?", directed from Shinji to the Ninth Doctor "Just call me Bob, miss," the voice said. "Everyone does." From the end of Episode 11 Part V: The Doctor: note (examining a microfilm containing the Chinese Government's newest economic plan, which hasn't been implemented yet) Communist Party's still in charge over in Beijing, yeah? And they still organize everything into five-year plans à la Mao? Kaji: Last I checked. Why? The Doctor: So why's this one only go up to the end of the year? The last line of Episode 11: "Yui Ikari" The Doctor swallowed. "Shinji's mother was Project Zero."
# Characters.WonderWomanAllies: Starting in May of 2021, "Amazons Attack!" appears in a suspiciously large amount of speech bubbles throughout DC Infinite Frontier books. As it turns out the DC Rebirth line was to start its own version of the infamous Amazon's Attack arc in October of 2023.
# Film.TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact: Compare Dr. Chandra's answers for the same question from SAL and HAL. SAL: Will I dream? Dr. Chandra: Of course you will. All intelligent beings dream. Nobody knows why. HAL: Dr. Chandra, will I dream? Dr. Chandra: I don't know.
# VideoGame.StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds: Wesa ready to do our part! I have a bad feeling about this... (about 4 taunts dedicated to this one alone)
# SelfDemonstrating.TheJokerTropesAToF: While I'm certainly not cliché enough to use the same material again and again, it seems that classic line from Heathy has become my unofficial motto: "Why so serious?" Hey, if it sticks, it sticks! (Just so long as I get a cut of all that glorious T-shirt revenue...) "One Bad Day". That was originally mine, these days everyone in Gotham is saying it.
# Radio.AdventuresInOdyssey: At the end of "The Christmas Bells", Pastor Knox hears God tell him the words "one of three will fall". It ends up being the setup to Olivia Parker's descent into questioning her own faith.
# Recap.ArrowS5E2TheRecruits: Season 5's main theme, "legacies", is brought up again.
# Series.IntoTheNight: "One problem at a time."
# Creator.JonathanHickman: Usually a couple per series:Fantastic Four has "Solve everything" and "All hope lies in Doom." The Avengers has "It was an Avengers World" and "we were Avengers." New Avengers has "Everything dies." X-Men (2019) has “While you slept, the world changed”, a phrase which originated in his Fantastic Four run. Other words sprinkled throughout his Marvel series include "wheel(s)", "build(er)", "idea", "city" and "forever".
# Film.TheTestamentOfDrMabuse: "The Empire of Crime! The Empire of Crime!"
# VideoGame.SuperRobotWars30: Kamille. Due to his Mind Rape from Scirocco, he wasn't able to be there when Amuro fought Char, something that he didn't take very well. It's only by seeing Jona continue to fight against impossible odds, as well as Amuro telling him "Don't let the dead consume you!" that Kamille is able to regain the will to fight.
# Music.LosCampesinos: "Doe eyes" has been a long-lasting term frequently mentioned in their songs.Eyes are a recurring theme in "Hello Sadness," and the phrase "sad eyes" appears in the last three song songs on the album: To Tundra ("We take on the burden of all these sad-eyed children, with lilies bunched in our hands"), Baby, I Got the Death Rattle ("One look in my sad eyes, she had to concede"), and Light Leaves, Dark Sees Pt. II ("But they request that I leave 'cause my sad eyes are too much to bear"). "Heart Swells" and "Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown" have labeled various songs in a semi-Thematic Series sort of way.
# Series.{{Wizbit}}: In the episode "Badbit", a character with that name and whoever he is talking to gives this dialogue: Badbit: Get it? Whoever he is talking to: Got it. Badbit: Good.
# IronicEcho.LiveActionFilms: In Fight Club, related to ArcWords. One example that stands out in particular is when the group leader for the Testicular Cancer support group that the Narrator visits addresses the people in the room with the phrase "I look around this room and I see a lot of...", which Tyler steals while making his "Middle Children of History" speech later on in the film.
# VideoGame.ToontownRewritten: Undo mistakes, not fate.
# ComicBook.ImmortalXMen: Destiny to Sinister, over and over: “We must be on the same side.” Throughout the series, several characters mention the word "immortal", "immortality" and the idea of "living forever".
# Recap.GameOfThronesS2E10ValarMorghulis: "Valar Morghulis" for Arya.
# Recap.SherlockS04E01TheSixThatchers: "AMMO" for this episode, and "[Did you] miss me?" for the overall "Moriarty reappears" arc.
# VideoGame.SuperMarioBrosWonder: "Wonder" and its variants. "Wonderful" is the highest rank of a combo or getting on the very top of the goal pole. There's a power-up known as the Wonder Flower which triggers a Wonder Effect, players collect Wonder Seeds to unlock new levels and purchase badges, and the world is portrayed as a Wonderland. Mario will even say "Wonderful!" after collecting a Wonder Seed. The final message displayed to you after clearing the Special World is "YOU ARE A SUPER WONDER!"
# ShowWithinAShow.{{Literature}}: The Jack O'Connell novel The Resurrectionist features a comic book series about a carnival freak show in fantasy Central Europe called "Limbo." "Limbo" is a multimedia franchise in the book's world, and the hero's comatose son was fascinated by it. The word is also an arc word outside of the comic.
# YMMV.TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals: The apotheosis is upon us.Explanation The ArcWords of the alien Hive Mind.
# Recap.GameOfThronesS8E5TheBells: After suffering from one long Trauma Conga Line throughout the season, losing her children and dear friends, her lover no longer wishing to be intimate with her, finding out her claim to the Iron Throne is no longer secure, and continuing to get no respect from an ungrateful populace, Daenerys decides enough is enough and "wakes the Dragon" on King's Landing. This is best exemplified with a quote from her at the start of the episode, when she feels that the people don't love her: "Let it be fear."
# Webcomic.CaribbeanBlue: "This is your destiny."
# Sandbox.{{Safind}}: Don't rock the boat
# Literature.GiveUsForever: "Look to your sins" and "must we sin once and repent forever?"
# VideoGame.WrathOfTheGods: The I-over-O symbol (actually the Greek letter Phi) which appears all over the place
# Film.PitchPerfect: "Magic" for Benji. "Endings are the best part!" In the sequel, "Legacy" starts off as Emily's nickname and quickly becomes the theme of the film.
# LetsPlay.{{Pokecapn}}: Grapes.
# Film.{{Head}}: Appropriately enough, "head". There's Micky and Peter musing about getting shot in the head in the war sequence, Davy referring to his own noggin as a "million-dollar head" in the boxing sequence, and Micky talking about how "Our universes only start from the inside of our head" in the final channel-flipping scene.
# Music.ToPimpAButterfly: Every song from "King Kunta" onwards on the album ends with an expanding monologue that begins with "I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence."
# Podcast.{{Spines}}: Grove, mosaic, trumpet. We find out what each one refers to as the story progresses.
# Sandbox.HamiltonAaronBurr: "Talk less, smile more" and "Wait/Waiting", demonstrating his caution and lack of decisiveness.
# Anime.YuGiOhArcV: "The fun has just begun" seems to be a recurrent phrase, as it shows in the plot, openings and endings mostly by Yuya. It has also been used by some of the more morally ambiguous characters as well. For Yuto and Kurosaki, "Hangyaku" (Rebellion). It's mentioned in their summon chants for both of their ace monsters. "Smile" or also commonly known as "egao", which has been repeated a few dozen times. "Become One" or "hitotsu ni" is repeated throughout the show with its meaning changing based on the side that uses it. When the Academia or Zarc use it, the phrase means a forceful physical fusion like the Academia trying to fuse the dimensions or Zarc trying to fuse his counterparts to revive. When the good guys use it, it means someone was able to emotionally unite the audience through their dueling.
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# AudioPlay.WereAlive: "That was then...This is now..." Heard at the start of each season opener and at the beginning of several other episodes. Always spoken by Michael.
# YMMV.MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha: HarsherInHindsight: The ending theme is a cheerful tune about making "a little wish" so the singer can see someone close to them smile. A's was all about "[[ArcWords a small wish]]" for the exact same thing, under far more depressing circumstances.
# VideoGame.Pikmin4: The Rescue Team loves to work word around the term "Dandori", which is a real Japanese word roughly meaning "procedure". The concept of Dandori is efficiently organizing your tasks so that you can complete them as fast as possible, and can roughly be considered analogous to "proper planning". The Leaflings are also completely obsessed with the idea to the point that it's the only thing that most of them can even talk or think about.
# BattlestarGalactica2003.TropesJToR: OrphanedEtymology: Several words and phrases used are borrowed from Earth history, despite being set in a fictional universe where modern history as we know it doesn't exist. Word of God states this was intentional in at least some cases, in reference to the ArcWords "All of this has happened before and will happen again". The specific example mentioned above was All Along the Watchtower, which in the Colonial universe has the same lyrics and melody as the Real Life song, but a different arrangement.
# Webcomic.TheLegendOfMrSatan: "With dreams of being a king, first one should be a man." These are the words that begin Mr. Satan's Character Development. They also conclude it, when he dies as a hero during the fight against Perfect Cell.
# Fanfic.UpInSmoke: "To conquer death, you only have to die."
# WMG.CardfightVanguard: If Cray is real, PSY Qualia is then like an enhanced [[ArcWords 'image it']]. More than imagining Cray, you're actually there in astral form, which is how Aichi has had 'winning image' of his upcoming fights with Miwa and Team Fragrance. The 'possessed by the Vanguard' point also explains how Aichi put together his new deck at the Caesar Training Camp without being aware of it, he wasn't in control at the time, one of his Units was.
# Literature.BookOfRevelation: In Chapters 2 and 3: "He who has an ear, let him hear what SkulduggeryPleasant: "Until the Spirit says end." First appears in Dark Days, but it's not really hammered home until Last Stand of Dead Men onwards.
# DyingMomentOfAwesome.VideoGames: Not for Broadcast: In Day 296: The Heatwave, if you don't cut to thechurches.ads after playing the Disrupt tape, Jeremy Donaldson, still holding a pistol in his hand, feels a bit depressed that he doesn't want to work for the news under Advance anymore; he pulls the pistol up a few inches close to his head, apologizing to the newscast for letting them down, then says these last words before putting the pistol an inch closer to his head, shuts his eyes in a brave sense of calm, and pulls the trigger. Jeremy: [calmly] My name's Jeremy Donaldson. If you can... somehow... [looks at the camera] and I envy you if you can... [puts the pistol even closer to his head] Have a [[ArcWords peaceful night.]]
# Film.StarTrekNemesis: "Never saw the sun shining so bright, never saw things looking so right..."
#TabletopGame.UnknownArmies: "You did it.Literature.{{Ubik}}: MeaningfulName: Joe Chip.Also ArcWords "Ubik", which, as some characters fathom, is short for "ubiquity".
# Literature.SophiesWorld: "Happy birthday, Hilde!" At one point in the story these words become part of a Wham Line.
# Recap.QuantumLeapS3E22ShockTheater: "No more shocks."In every sense While Sam’s mind keeps shifting through different personalities, he still recalls the trauma of his ECT session.
# Recap.TheWalkingDeadS04E11Claimed: "Those who arrive survive" appears once again.
# Film.SatsujinNet: "Do you believe in the Web of Death?" Along with variations.
# DyingMomentOfAwesome.LiveActionTV: Loki: Classic Loki dies disintegrated by Alioth, but does so after conjuring a gigantic projection of Asgard to distract the abomination, shouting "[[ArcWords GLORIOUS PURPOSE!]]" and laughing in the face of his annihilation.
# WesternAnimation.DoraTheExplorer: "Yes, we can!" from "To the Monkey Bars".
# Recap.DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf: Bad Wolf reappears once more, as the corporation that runs the Game Station. The episode title. This episode also marks the first appearance of what will become the main ArcWords for series 2 — Torchwood, appearing as one of thephrase.
answers in The Weakest Link.
# Awesome.FalloutNewVegas: Ulysses gets one for subverting Fallout's usual ArcWords by insisting that while War never changes, men/women themselves can change.
# Recap.ScoobyDooMysteryIncS1E8TheGraspOfTheGnome: "This has all happened before", which increases in significance as the series progresses.
# Fanfic.ShardsOfMemory: Every chapter begins NewVegasShowtime: The fic opens with a historical quote relevant to the events about to unfold.
# Recap.StevenUniverseS3E15AloneAtSea: In the past, Lapis forcing Malachite came across as a Heroic Sacrifice to protect Steven from Jasper, with Lapis even saying "Just let me do this for you!", the nearly exact same words said by Pearl. Herespin on Fallout's ArcWords of "War never changes"; it argues that it's revealed Lapis doesn't believe she did it a simplification, since while the reasons for Steven at all, but rather for her own emotional self-harm and to use Jasper as a target of her anger and frustration.
# Anime.QueensBlade: "Who will emerge victorious? They won' t know that unless they fight!" Used many times atwar remain consistent, the beginning and in the end means of many parts waging war depend on a variety of the franchise.
factors.
# Film.TheManWhoWasntThere2001: "What kind of EnronTheSmartestGuysInTheRoom: "Ask why," Enron's slogan at its peak as well as a man are you?"
# Theatre.InTheHeights: "No pare, sigue sigue!" meaning "Don't stop, continue, continue!" which encouragesreflection on the two main characters, Usnavi and Nina, in "Hundreds of Stories" and "When You're Home" respectively. note Also used internal corruption that plagued the company.
# WebVideo.AnimeCrimesDivision: "Anime is forcomedic effect in "It Won't Be Long Now", during Usnavi's brief victory rap after Sonny asks Vanessa out for him. "Yeah, I'm a streetlight": Benny first calls Usnavi a streetlight, as in he's stuck to his corner store as the world moves around him. At the end of the show, Usnavi embraces the term, using his permanent role in the barrio as an illuminator for everyone's stories.
# Recap.MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E21TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: Narrator: Joseph Javorsky. Noted scientist. Mike: Melted scientist? Narrator: A-Bomb Testing Ground. Crow: Avon Testing Ground? What rabbits with shaved butts?
# TheMatrixFilm.TropesGToO: GoBackToTheSource: "Returning to The Source" are ArcWords about returning to the heart of the Matrix's mainframe, where everything originated and hitting a Reset Button (or something like that).
# Fanfic.MoreThanHuman: Occasionally appears as different phrases in each chapter, especially during Chapter 4. Blossom: The least he could have done was look at me. A recurring phrase is a quote by Camus, who Brick has a particular interest in. "I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.everybody."
#Film.TragedyGirls: "What's next for the Tragedy Girls?"
# Monster.VideoGamesAToC: Croesus Verlac is the patriarchManga.MyMonsterSecret: The title of the Verlac family and a man who discovered a dark route to immortality. Long before series ("The truth is, I am..."). It's not only about the story of Anchorhead began, Croseus's physical flesh became dust...characters revealing that they are not human, but his spirit survives by taking over the bodies of his male descendants and impregnating the female descendants also about them coming to create new bodies for him to steal later. The power Croseus has over his descendants is represented in the chilling ArcWords: He always returns to his blood. Not content terms with this, Croseus runs a legacy of dark magic and murder, routinely sacrificing children for power to the point where the well behind the village slaughterhouse is full of the bones of missing children. In the present, Croseus takes control of and possesses the nameless heroine's husband, before setting his plan into motion: to open the gates to the Eldritch Abomination beings he worships and allow them to devour all that lives.
# Series.FromDuskTillDawn: "The Gecko Brothers ride again/The Gecko Brothers are back." "I'm a professional thief." "You're my brother."
their feelings.
# VideoGame.FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach: "Are you having fun yet?" First mentioned by Sun if you stand around Depict1: "Trust" and variations thereof.
# Music.JunoSongs: "Hail the Origami King" is a recurring lyric in all of the Legion of Stationery lyrics.The Tape subverts this when he performs his second run of the chorus: "Roll out the carpet! Hail the Origami- Ack!" The first and third runs have him do it properly: "Roll out the carpet! Hail the Origami King!" Meanwhile, Yape and Gun instead have "Hail the Origami Korigami!" He wanted to make "The light of Vinyl City will never die" these in the No Straight Roads videos, but he realized it didn't exactly fit all the characters' motives the same way "Hail the Origami King" did, so his friend Man on theDaycare, Internet made DJ Subatomic Supernova turn it into a Subverted Catchphrase. DJ Subatomic Supernova: ...and then by Vanny once Vanessa locks you in Lost the light of Vinyl City... Bah! Who cares!? The Beast Pack members (Gorimondo, King Dedede, and Found.
# Film.PoltergeistIII: "Outside, in!"
# Film.EvilDeadRise: "Let me in."Leongar) all mention at one point to "heed The possessed Jessica says it when reciting a passage from Wuthering Heights, Kassie says it to her older siblings when trying to play with them, Gabriel says it when begging Beth to let him in to safety in Call of the apartment, and Deadite Ellie says it repeatedly.
# Recap.LostS02E18Dave: Dave says, "See you in another life, Hurley!" before diving off a cliff.
# Film.GalaxyQuest: "Never give up! Never surrender!"
# VisualNovel.BadEndTheater: "You'll all burn together." appears at the end of each True End, except the Maiden's, where it's "Will you all burn together?"
# Film.TheForest2016: "[Don't leave/Stay on] the path".
# ComicBook.BatmanVampire: In Red Rain: "Vampires are real...but not all of them are evil."In Bloodstorm: "To death, in peace." In Crimson Mist: "First your blood... then your head!"
Wild" during their respective numbers.
# Characters.DragonQuestIX: Greygnarl and Barbarus fought three hundred years ago, which was a very eventful year UndertaleFlowey: OverlyLongGag: If you exhaust conversation with Asriel in the game's Backstory.
# Characters.ArrowverseTeamFlash: The words "Fraud" or/and "Pretender" are frequently mentioned when he's around, either by other characters or H.R. himself. His entire Story Arc has him wantingPlayable Epilogue, you get this: Asriel: Frisk, [[ArcWords don't you have anything better to prove his worth because he did not earn the merits and fame he received on his Earth. His story culminates with him pulling a Heroic Sacrifice by switching places with Iris during her supposed death using his body changing device
# ComicBook.TheFlashRebirth: "Every second is a gift."
do]]?
# Recap.HouseS2E5DaddysBoy: Another episode where "everybody lies" is especially pertinent. DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords: ContinuityNod: This time, monologue: The Master: I remember the days when the Doctor, oh, that famous Doctor... was waging a Time War, battling Sea Devils, and Axons — he sealed the [[ArcWords Rift at the Medusa Cascade]], single-handed. The Master's greatest fear being an all-powerful Doctor hovering over him, as previously shown all the way back in "The Mind of Evil".
# YMMV.{{Rent}}: Mimi's behavior in "Another Day" is meant to inspire Roger to live his life again, and the repetition of the "No day but today" ArcWords and the fact she ultimately gets him out of the apartment suggests we're supposed to agree with her Anti-Nihilist mindset. However, her relentless attempts to get Roger to party and take drugs with her despite him only recently recovering from his addiction makes her look selfish. Since neither of them know the other has AIDS at this point, she doesn't evenHouse is taken aback by have the excuse that he's going to die anyway - she just how dishonest Ken and Carnell are wants to have fun with each other.
him for her own amusement.
#BorrowedCatchphrase.LiveActionTV: "My name is Moira Dearden Queen, Film.TheTruth2019: "I don't remember that." Several characters say this, and God help me, I have failed this city.film suggests that memory isn't always reliable.
# Literature.TheFifthWave: "I am humanity."
# Characters.GenshinImpactRaidenShogun: Aside from "eternity" as her ideal and "erosion" as what she's trying to prevent, there's also "wishes," "ambitions," and "dreams" OnceUponATimeMythologicalCreatures: JackassGenie: Averted in that it's the magic, not the genie, as the ArcWords are heavily tied "Magic comes at a price". The genie is even perfectly willing to her warn against it.
# Film.TheForceAwakens: "To complete..." andher story. Some of the descriptions for her Talents and Constellation upgrades mention those words. Her Vision Hunt Decree has her taking away people's ambitions in the process. She is convinced to abolish the decree after the Traveler shows her how the power of the people's ambitions can overpower a god's will.
# Anime.RahXephon: "The world is saturated with sound."Run as far as you can."
# Characters.AmericasNextTopModelCycleEighteenBritishInvasion: In the pilot episode. Annaliese: "America is not ready for the British Invasion. We did it once, and we can do it again."
# VideoGame.TheQuarry: The camp motto: "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger."
# Fanfic.SeriesThirtyAndThreeQuarters: "...who's that?", directed from Shinji to the Ninth Doctor "Just call me Bob, miss," the voice said. "Everyone does." From the end of Episode 11 Part V: The Doctor: note (examining a microfilm containing the Chinese Government's newest economic plan, which hasn't been implemented yet) Communist Party's still in charge over in Beijing, yeah? And they still organize everything into five-year plans à la Mao? Kaji: Last I checked. Why? The Doctor: So why's this one only go up to the end of the year? The last line of Episode 11: "Yui Ikari" The Doctor swallowed. "Shinji's mother was Project Zero."
# Characters.WonderWomanAllies: Starting in May of 2021, "Amazons Attack!" appears in a suspiciously large amount of speech bubbles throughout DC Infinite Frontier books. As it turns out the DC Rebirth line was to start its own version of the infamous Amazon's Attack arc in October of 2023.
# Film.TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact: Compare Dr. Chandra's answers for the same question from SAL and HAL. SAL: Will I dream? Dr. Chandra: Of course you will. All intelligent beings dream. Nobody knows why. HAL: Dr. Chandra, will I dream? Dr. Chandra: I don't know.
# VideoGame.StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds: Wesa ready to do our part! I have a bad feeling about this... (about 4 taunts dedicated to this one alone)
# SelfDemonstrating.TheJokerTropesAToF: While I'm certainly not cliché enough to use the same material again and again, it seems that classic line from Heathy has become my unofficial motto: "Why so serious?" Hey, if it sticks, it sticks! (Just so long as I get a cut of all that glorious T-shirt revenue...) "One Bad Day". That was originally mine, these days everyone in Gotham is saying it.
# Radio.AdventuresInOdyssey:FinalFantasyVIIPlayableCharacters: LastStand: At the end of "The Christmas Bells", Pastor Knox hears God tell him the words "one of three will fall". It ends up being the setup to Olivia Parker's descent into questioning her own faith.
# Recap.ArrowS5E2TheRecruits: Season 5's main theme, "legacies", is brought up again.
# Series.IntoTheNight: "One problem at a time."
# Creator.JonathanHickman: Usually a couple per series:Fantastic Four has "Solve everything" and "All hope lies in Doom." The Avengers has "It was an Avengers World" and "we were Avengers." New Avengers has "Everything dies." X-Men (2019) has “While you slept, the world changed”, a phrase which originated in his Fantastic Four run. Other words sprinkled throughout his Marvel series include "wheel(s)", "build(er)", "idea", "city" and "forever".
# Film.TheTestamentOfDrMabuse: "The Empire of Crime! The Empire of Crime!"
# VideoGame.SuperRobotWars30: Kamille. Due to his Mind Rape from Scirocco,Crisis Core he wasn't able to be there when Amuro fought Char, something that he didn't take very well. It's only by seeing Jona continue to fight finds himself standing alone against impossible odds, as well as Amuro telling him "Don't let the dead consume you!" that Kamille is able to regain the will to fight.
# Music.LosCampesinos: "Doe eyes" has been a long-lasting term frequently mentioned in their songs.Eyes are a recurring theme in "Hello Sadness," and the phrase "sad eyes" appears in the last three song songs on the album: To Tundra ("We take on the burdendozens, perhaps hundreds, of all these sad-eyed children, with lilies bunched in our hands"), Baby, I Got the Death Rattle ("One look in my sad eyes, she had to concede"), and Light Leaves, Dark Sees Pt. II ("But they request that I leave 'cause my sad eyes are too much to bear"). "Heart Swells" and "Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown" have labeled various songs in a semi-Thematic Series sort of way.
# Series.{{Wizbit}}: In the episode "Badbit", a character with that name and whoever he is talking to gives this dialogue: Badbit: Get it? Whoever he is talking to: Got it. Badbit: Good.
# IronicEcho.LiveActionFilms: In Fight Club, related to ArcWords. One example that stands out in particular is when the group leader for the Testicular Cancer support group that the Narrator visits addresses the people in the room with the phrase "I look around this room and I see a lot of...", which Tyler steals while making his "Middle Children of History" speech later on in the film.
# VideoGame.ToontownRewritten: Undo mistakes, not fate.
# ComicBook.ImmortalXMen: Destiny to Sinister, over and over: “We must be on the same side.” Throughout the series, several characters mention the word "immortal", "immortality" and the idea of "living forever".
# Recap.GameOfThronesS2E10ValarMorghulis: "Valar Morghulis" for Arya.
# Recap.SherlockS04E01TheSixThatchers: "AMMO" for this episode, and "[Did you] miss me?" for the overall "Moriarty reappears" arc.
# VideoGame.SuperMarioBrosWonder: "Wonder" and its variants. "Wonderful" is the highest rank of a combo or getting on the very top of the goal pole. There's a power-up known as the Wonder Flower which triggers a Wonder Effect, players collect Wonder Seeds to unlock new levels and purchase badges, and the world is portrayed as a Wonderland. Mario will even say "Wonderful!" after collecting a Wonder Seed. The final message displayed to you after clearing the Special World is "YOU ARE A SUPER WONDER!"
# ShowWithinAShow.{{Literature}}: The Jack O'Connell novel The Resurrectionist features a comic book series about a carnival freak show in fantasy Central Europe called "Limbo." "Limbo" is a multimedia franchise in the book's world, and the hero's comatose son was fascinated by it. The word is also an arc word outside of the comic.
# YMMV.TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals: The apotheosis is upon us.Explanation TheShinra infantry. He recites Angeal's ArcWords of the alien Hive Mind.
# Recap.GameOfThronesS8E5TheBells: After suffering from one long Trauma Conga Line throughout the season, losing her childrenand dear friends, her lover no longer wishing charges in swinging, bringing down all but three before he's too weak to be intimate with her, finding out her claim to the Iron Throne is no longer secure, and continuing to get no respect from an ungrateful populace, Daenerys decides enough is enough and "wakes the Dragon" on King's Landing. This is best exemplified with a quote from her at the start of the episode, when she feels that the people don't love her: "Let it be fear."
# Webcomic.CaribbeanBlue: "This is your destiny."
# Sandbox.{{Safind}}: Don't rock the boat
keep standing.
# Literature.GiveUsForever: "Look to your sins" {{Coraline}}: "Ever and "must we sin once and repent forever?"
# VideoGame.WrathOfTheGods: The I-over-O symbol (actually the Greek letter Phi) which appears all over the place
# Film.PitchPerfect: "Magic" for Benji. "Endings are the best part!" In the sequel, "Legacy" starts off as Emily's nickname and quickly becomes the theme of the film.
# LetsPlay.{{Pokecapn}}: Grapes.
# Film.{{Head}}: Appropriately enough, "head". There's Micky and Peter musing about getting shot in the head in the war sequence, Davy referring to his own noggin as a "million-dollar head" in the boxing sequence, and Micky talking about how "Our universes only start from the inside of our head" in the final channel-flipping scene.
# Music.ToPimpAButterfly: Every song from "King Kunta" onwards on the album ends with an expanding monologue that begins with "I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence."
# Podcast.{{Spines}}: Grove, mosaic, trumpet. We find out what each one refers to as the story progresses.
# Sandbox.HamiltonAaronBurr: "Talk less, smile more" and "Wait/Waiting", demonstrating his caution and lack of decisiveness.
# Anime.YuGiOhArcV: "The fun has just begun" seems to be a recurrent phrase, as it shows in the plot, openings and endings mostly by Yuya. It has also been used by some of the more morally ambiguous characters as well. For Yuto and Kurosaki, "Hangyaku" (Rebellion). It's mentioned in their summon chants for both of their ace monsters. "Smile" or also commonly known as "egao", which has been repeated a few dozen times. "Become One" or "hitotsu ni" is repeated throughout the show with its meaning changing based on the side that uses it. When the Academia or Zarc use it, the phrase means a forceful physical fusion like the Academia trying to fuse the dimensions or Zarc trying to fuse his counterparts to revive. When the good guys use it, it means someone was able to emotionally unite the audience through their dueling.always".
# YMMV.MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha: HarsherInHindsight: The ending theme is a cheerful tune about making "a little wish" so the singer can see someone close to them smile. A's was all about "[[ArcWords a small wish]]" for the exact same thing, under far more depressing circumstances.
# VideoGame.Pikmin4: The Rescue Team loves to work word around the term "Dandori", which is a real Japanese word roughly meaning "procedure". The concept of Dandori is efficiently organizing your tasks so that you can complete them as fast as possible, and can roughly be considered analogous to "proper planning". The Leaflings are also completely obsessed with the idea to the point that it's the only thing that most of them can even talk or think about.
# BattlestarGalactica2003.TropesJToR: OrphanedEtymology: Several words and phrases used are borrowed from Earth history, despite being set in a fictional universe where modern history as we know it doesn't exist. Word of God states this was intentional in at least some cases, in reference to the ArcWords "All of this has happened before and will happen again". The specific example mentioned above was All Along the Watchtower, which in the Colonial universe has the same lyrics and melody as the Real Life song, but a different arrangement.
# Webcomic.TheLegendOfMrSatan: "With dreams of being a king, first one should be a man." These are the words that begin Mr. Satan's Character Development. They also conclude it, when he dies as a hero during the fight against Perfect Cell.
# Fanfic.UpInSmoke: "To conquer death, you only have to die."
# WMG.CardfightVanguard: If Cray is real, PSY Qualia is then like an enhanced [[ArcWords 'image it']]. More than imagining Cray, you're actually there in astral form, which is how Aichi has had 'winning image' of his upcoming fights with Miwa and Team Fragrance. The 'possessed by the Vanguard' point also explains how Aichi put together his new deck at the Caesar Training Camp without being aware of it, he wasn't in control at the time, one of his Units was.
# Literature.
# DyingMomentOfAwesome.VideoGames: Not for Broadcast: In Day 296: The Heatwave, if you don't cut to the
# Film.StarTrekNemesis: "Never saw the sun shining so bright, never saw things looking so right..."
#
# Literature.SophiesWorld: "Happy birthday, Hilde!" At one point in the story these words become part of a Wham Line.
# Recap.QuantumLeapS3E22ShockTheater: "No more shocks."
# Recap.TheWalkingDeadS04E11Claimed: "Those who arrive survive" appears once again.
# Film.SatsujinNet: "Do you believe in the Web of Death?" Along with variations.
# DyingMomentOfAwesome.LiveActionTV: Loki: Classic Loki dies disintegrated by Alioth, but does so after conjuring a gigantic projection of Asgard to distract the abomination, shouting "[[ArcWords GLORIOUS PURPOSE!]]" and laughing in the face of his annihilation.
# WesternAnimation.DoraTheExplorer: "Yes, we can!" from "To the Monkey Bars".
# Recap.DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf: Bad Wolf reappears once more, as the corporation that runs the Game Station. The episode title. This episode also marks the first appearance of what will become the main ArcWords for series 2 — Torchwood, appearing as one of the
# Awesome.FalloutNewVegas: Ulysses gets one for subverting Fallout's usual ArcWords by insisting that while War never changes, men/women themselves can change.
# Recap.ScoobyDooMysteryIncS1E8TheGraspOfTheGnome: "This has all happened before", which increases in significance as the series progresses.
# Fanfic.
# Recap.StevenUniverseS3E15AloneAtSea: In the past, Lapis forcing Malachite came across as a Heroic Sacrifice to protect Steven from Jasper, with Lapis even saying "Just let me do this for you!", the nearly exact same words said by Pearl. Here
# Anime.QueensBlade: "Who will emerge victorious? They won' t know that unless they fight!" Used many times at
# Film.
# Theatre.InTheHeights: "No pare, sigue sigue!" meaning "Don't stop, continue, continue!" which encourages
# WebVideo.AnimeCrimesDivision: "Anime is for
# Recap.MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E21TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: Narrator: Joseph Javorsky. Noted scientist. Mike: Melted scientist? Narrator: A-Bomb Testing Ground. Crow: Avon Testing Ground? What rabbits with shaved butts?
# TheMatrixFilm.TropesGToO: GoBackToTheSource: "Returning to The Source" are ArcWords about returning to the heart of the Matrix's mainframe, where everything originated and hitting a Reset Button (or something like that).
# Fanfic.MoreThanHuman: Occasionally appears as different phrases in each chapter, especially during Chapter 4. Blossom: The least he could have done was look at me. A recurring phrase is a quote by Camus, who Brick has a particular interest in. "I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.
#
# Monster.VideoGamesAToC: Croesus Verlac is the patriarch
# Series.FromDuskTillDawn: "The Gecko Brothers ride again/The Gecko Brothers are back." "I'm a professional thief." "You're my brother."
# VideoGame.
# Music.JunoSongs: "Hail the Origami King" is a recurring lyric in all of the Legion of Stationery lyrics.The Tape subverts this when he performs his second run of the chorus: "Roll out the carpet! Hail the Origami- Ack!" The first and third runs have him do it properly: "Roll out the carpet! Hail the Origami King!" Meanwhile, Yape and Gun instead have "Hail the Origami Korigami!" He wanted to make "The light of Vinyl City will never die" these in the No Straight Roads videos, but he realized it didn't exactly fit all the characters' motives the same way "Hail the Origami King" did, so his friend Man on the
# Film.PoltergeistIII: "Outside, in!"
# Film.EvilDeadRise: "Let me in."
# Recap.LostS02E18Dave: Dave says, "See you in another life, Hurley!" before diving off a cliff.
# Film.GalaxyQuest: "Never give up! Never surrender!"
# VisualNovel.BadEndTheater: "You'll all burn together." appears at the end of each True End, except the Maiden's, where it's "Will you all burn together?"
# Film.TheForest2016: "[Don't leave/Stay on] the path".
# ComicBook.BatmanVampire: In Red Rain: "Vampires are real...but not all of them are evil."In Bloodstorm: "To death, in peace." In Crimson Mist: "First your blood... then your head!"
# Characters.
# Characters.ArrowverseTeamFlash: The words "Fraud" or/and "Pretender" are frequently mentioned when he's around, either by other characters or H.R. himself. His entire Story Arc has him wanting
# ComicBook.TheFlashRebirth: "Every second is a gift."
# Recap.
# YMMV.{{Rent}}: Mimi's behavior in "Another Day" is meant to inspire Roger to live his life again, and the repetition of the "No day but today" ArcWords and the fact she ultimately gets him out of the apartment suggests we're supposed to agree with her Anti-Nihilist mindset. However, her relentless attempts to get Roger to party and take drugs with her despite him only recently recovering from his addiction makes her look selfish. Since neither of them know the other has AIDS at this point, she doesn't even
#
# Literature.TheFifthWave: "I am humanity."
# Characters.
# Film.TheForceAwakens: "To complete..." and
# Anime.RahXephon: "The world is saturated with sound.
# Characters.
# VideoGame.TheQuarry: The camp motto: "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger."
# Fanfic.SeriesThirtyAndThreeQuarters: "...who's that?", directed from Shinji to the Ninth Doctor "Just call me Bob, miss," the voice said. "Everyone does." From the end of Episode 11 Part V: The Doctor: note (examining a microfilm containing the Chinese Government's newest economic plan, which hasn't been implemented yet) Communist Party's still in charge over in Beijing, yeah? And they still organize everything into five-year plans à la Mao? Kaji: Last I checked. Why? The Doctor: So why's this one only go up to the end of the year? The last line of Episode 11: "Yui Ikari" The Doctor swallowed. "Shinji's mother was Project Zero."
# Characters.WonderWomanAllies: Starting in May of 2021, "Amazons Attack!" appears in a suspiciously large amount of speech bubbles throughout DC Infinite Frontier books. As it turns out the DC Rebirth line was to start its own version of the infamous Amazon's Attack arc in October of 2023.
# Film.TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact: Compare Dr. Chandra's answers for the same question from SAL and HAL. SAL: Will I dream? Dr. Chandra: Of course you will. All intelligent beings dream. Nobody knows why. HAL: Dr. Chandra, will I dream? Dr. Chandra: I don't know.
# VideoGame.StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds: Wesa ready to do our part! I have a bad feeling about this... (about 4 taunts dedicated to this one alone)
# SelfDemonstrating.TheJokerTropesAToF: While I'm certainly not cliché enough to use the same material again and again, it seems that classic line from Heathy has become my unofficial motto: "Why so serious?" Hey, if it sticks, it sticks! (Just so long as I get a cut of all that glorious T-shirt revenue...) "One Bad Day". That was originally mine, these days everyone in Gotham is saying it.
# Radio.AdventuresInOdyssey:
# Recap.ArrowS5E2TheRecruits: Season 5's main theme, "legacies", is brought up again.
# Series.IntoTheNight: "One problem at a time."
# Creator.JonathanHickman: Usually a couple per series:Fantastic Four has "Solve everything" and "All hope lies in Doom." The Avengers has "It was an Avengers World" and "we were Avengers." New Avengers has "Everything dies." X-Men (2019) has “While you slept, the world changed”, a phrase which originated in his Fantastic Four run. Other words sprinkled throughout his Marvel series include "wheel(s)", "build(er)", "idea", "city" and "forever".
# Film.TheTestamentOfDrMabuse: "The Empire of Crime! The Empire of Crime!"
# VideoGame.SuperRobotWars30: Kamille. Due to his Mind Rape from Scirocco,
# Music.LosCampesinos: "Doe eyes" has been a long-lasting term frequently mentioned in their songs.Eyes are a recurring theme in "Hello Sadness," and the phrase "sad eyes" appears in the last three song songs on the album: To Tundra ("We take on the burden
# Series.{{Wizbit}}: In the episode "Badbit", a character with that name and whoever he is talking to gives this dialogue: Badbit: Get it? Whoever he is talking to: Got it. Badbit: Good.
# IronicEcho.LiveActionFilms: In Fight Club, related to ArcWords. One example that stands out in particular is when the group leader for the Testicular Cancer support group that the Narrator visits addresses the people in the room with the phrase "I look around this room and I see a lot of...", which Tyler steals while making his "Middle Children of History" speech later on in the film.
# VideoGame.ToontownRewritten: Undo mistakes, not fate.
# ComicBook.ImmortalXMen: Destiny to Sinister, over and over: “We must be on the same side.” Throughout the series, several characters mention the word "immortal", "immortality" and the idea of "living forever".
# Recap.GameOfThronesS2E10ValarMorghulis: "Valar Morghulis" for Arya.
# Recap.SherlockS04E01TheSixThatchers: "AMMO" for this episode, and "[Did you] miss me?" for the overall "Moriarty reappears" arc.
# VideoGame.SuperMarioBrosWonder: "Wonder" and its variants. "Wonderful" is the highest rank of a combo or getting on the very top of the goal pole. There's a power-up known as the Wonder Flower which triggers a Wonder Effect, players collect Wonder Seeds to unlock new levels and purchase badges, and the world is portrayed as a Wonderland. Mario will even say "Wonderful!" after collecting a Wonder Seed. The final message displayed to you after clearing the Special World is "YOU ARE A SUPER WONDER!"
# ShowWithinAShow.{{Literature}}: The Jack O'Connell novel The Resurrectionist features a comic book series about a carnival freak show in fantasy Central Europe called "Limbo." "Limbo" is a multimedia franchise in the book's world, and the hero's comatose son was fascinated by it. The word is also an arc word outside of the comic.
# YMMV.TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals: The apotheosis is upon us.Explanation The
# Recap.GameOfThronesS8E5TheBells: After suffering from one long Trauma Conga Line throughout the season, losing her children
# Webcomic.CaribbeanBlue: "This is your destiny."
# Sandbox.{{Safind}}: Don't rock the boat
# Literature.
# VideoGame.WrathOfTheGods: The I-over-O symbol (actually the Greek letter Phi) which appears all over the place
# Film.PitchPerfect: "Magic" for Benji. "Endings are the best part!" In the sequel, "Legacy" starts off as Emily's nickname and quickly becomes the theme of the film.
# LetsPlay.{{Pokecapn}}: Grapes.
# Film.{{Head}}: Appropriately enough, "head". There's Micky and Peter musing about getting shot in the head in the war sequence, Davy referring to his own noggin as a "million-dollar head" in the boxing sequence, and Micky talking about how "Our universes only start from the inside of our head" in the final channel-flipping scene.
# Music.ToPimpAButterfly: Every song from "King Kunta" onwards on the album ends with an expanding monologue that begins with "I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence."
# Podcast.{{Spines}}: Grove, mosaic, trumpet. We find out what each one refers to as the story progresses.
# Sandbox.HamiltonAaronBurr: "Talk less, smile more" and "Wait/Waiting", demonstrating his caution and lack of decisiveness.
# Anime.YuGiOhArcV: "The fun has just begun" seems to be a recurrent phrase, as it shows in the plot, openings and endings mostly by Yuya. It has also been used by some of the more morally ambiguous characters as well. For Yuto and Kurosaki, "Hangyaku" (Rebellion). It's mentioned in their summon chants for both of their ace monsters. "Smile" or also commonly known as "egao", which has been repeated a few dozen times. "Become One" or "hitotsu ni" is repeated throughout the show with its meaning changing based on the side that uses it. When the Academia or Zarc use it, the phrase means a forceful physical fusion like the Academia trying to fuse the dimensions or Zarc trying to fuse his counterparts to revive. When the good guys use it, it means someone was able to emotionally unite the audience through their dueling.
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# TheExpanse.TropesAToE: "Remember the Cant!" "Milowda na ányimals!" (Belter for "We are not animals!") "(When) the blood's on the wall..." "The work must be finished..." "Doors and corners"
# Awesome.Ducktales2017Season3: Bradford, your contract is flawed! Bradford: What?! Impossible! I worked on it for 30 years! Went over it with the finest-tooth combs! Louie: According to this, Scrooge can be with his family as long as he doesn't adventure! Huey: But family is the greatest adventure of all! Bradford: That's...the Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard. There's no way that— [the contract disintegrates] Bradford: No! NOOOOOO!
# ARG.CaughtNotSleeping: "Welcome to the Game" and any other use of the word game. "You ever do something that you know wasn't going to help, but you do it anyway? And you don't even know why you're doing it?" "There are no coincidences."
# VideoGame.AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag: After not being mentioned all throughout the previous game, "Nothing is true and everything is permitted" is discussed once more, the true meaning of the phrase being pondered again by the protagonist. Bartholomew Roberts has some, too: "For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and withdrawing them find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!"
# Heartwarming.{{Dunkirk}}: The brave Little Ships, including the Moonstone, eventually make it to the beach of Dunkirk, allowing for a greater number of soldiers to be evacuated. "Home" finally came for them. When pressed, Mr. Dawson notes that it's men his age who made the choice to send young men off to war, it's only right he risk his life to get them back. There's a wonderful little detail in the shots of the Little Ships coming in. If you look carefully, you can see both naval officers and civilian sailors manning them. While Dawson is the symbol of the brave civilians who helped in the evacuation, the shot still shows sailors and civilians working together to rescue their countrymen.
# VideoGame.HouseOfAshes: Semper Fi, the Marine motto meaning "always loyal". True to these words, the only way everyone can get out of this nightmare is with teamwork and remaining loyal to each other.
# MeaningfulRename.{{Webcomics}}: Oddly enough, Lord English changed his name to that from Caliborn after he suffered his first-ever defeat at the hands of Jake English, Jade's post-Scratch son. Weird Plot Shit applies.
# Film.Overlord2018: "This is the job."
# Heartwarming.MeetTheRobinsons: The ending quote, revealing the origin of the ArcWords. Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney
# WebAnimation.EmesisBlue: "It's longer than you'd think." and "It's eternity in there."
# Music.LoveYourselfSeries: {{Foreshadowing}}: The ArcWords "Save Me"/"I'm Fine" - written in a certain typography so that you could read "Save Me" on one side, then "I'm Fine" if you turned it upside-down - appeared on the LOVE YOURSELF drama-style promotional posters for LOVE YOURSELF: Her, and in the "FAKE LOVE" music video, from LOVE YOURSELF: Tear. The final chapter in the series, LOVE YOURSELF: Answer, features the song "I'm Fine", which is both in production and lyrics a Call-Back and a mirror to the song "Save Me", from The Most Beautiful Moment in Life.
# Literature.TheMouseAndHisChild: The dog food can seen numerous times throughout the movie. The characters speculate that some great wisdom lies beyond the last visible dog.
# ComicBook.BatmanGrantMorrison: ArcWelding: A particularly epic example, as everything from the origin of Vandal Savage to various wacky 1960s adventures are tied together as the work of Darkseid's Hyper-Adaptor and its eventual host, Simon Hurt/Thomas Wayne. Several ideas from Morrison's JLA run also make a return here, such as their interpretation of the fifth dimension and the ArcWords of "Batman and Robin will never die!" being from there as well.
# Awesome.BattlestarGalactica2003: Sabotaging the Colonials' plan to introduce a virus into the Cylon resurrection process and kill them all. On a series where everyone and their grandmother is either becoming a hopeless drunk or is willing to kick an entire animal shelter full of dogs on their way to the bathroom, or simply descending into angst-ridden nihilism, he's just about the one person who is unwilling to sacrifice his convictions just for a few more days of running and hoping the Cylons don't catch up to them. At the end of the day, he's ready to make the moral choice, and frak the consequences, and prove that Humanity is worthy of survival.
# Music.MouthAlbums: The word "Mouth" comes up a lot in the albums, both in the album titles and the titles of songs mashing "All Star" with something else. "Mouth Dreams" also recurs in, well, Mouth Dreams.
# Sandbox.MagnificentBastardVideoGamesMToZ: Vik is a merchant and slaver from Khare who sought to take advantage of the power vacuum left behind by the disappearance of the Council of Nobles to name himself First Noble and rule the city. Vik proves to be a charismatic figure who is able to turn the downtrodden masses to his side by promising to improve everyday life under the slogan "Vik for First Noble". Secretly, however, he creates an army of loyal werewolves by kidnapping the same downtrodden, infecting them with lycanthropy, and equipping them with armor to control them. Provided the goblins don't destroy the city, Vik's immoral methods prove worthwhile when he is able to take the city bloodlessly, abolish the council, and fully open Khare to the outside world.
# NightmareFuel.PoppyPlaytime: Although it was hard to see in-game before, a remastered update to Chapter 1 made several graphical changes to the lighting in the facility, which called better attention to a decal on the wall in the room where the first electrical circuit puzzle is solved. A decal of a mechanical hand and the word "wonderful". Both things that were associated with the Prototype, revealing its influence much earlier than previously thought.
# Characters.BuffyverseBuffyTheVampireSlayerBigBads: "From beneath you, it devours."
# Fanfic.MarriageOfHeavenAndHell: The finale of Volume 4, aptly titled "How You Feel," uses the phrase multiple times referring both to Akeno reconciling with her father and Makoto and Akeno confessing their love for each other.
# Series.KamenRiderKabuto: I'll always be by your side. Tendo's not the only to use it. Even the lyrics to One World (the movie's ending song) uses this line
# Recap.ThomasAndFriendsS6E18PercysChocolateCrunch: "Usefulness before cleanliness."
# Film.Incantation2022: The eponymous incantation is repeated throughout the film. It's later revealed that the incantation's purpose is to spread curses across multiple people, and thus dilute the effects.
# Manga.LandOfTheLustrous: "If only [you/I] weren't here..."
# VideoGame.MortalKombat1: "It's in our blood" serves as the game's Tagline and doubles as a Driving Question — Liu Kang has resculpted time and altered the backgrounds of numerous characters, particularly the antagonists, to give them a chance at better, more peaceful lives. Who among the cast will seize their second chance at happiness and who will repeat their old rivalries and ambitions once more?
# YMMV.{{Arcaea}}: Tairitsu's name means such in Japanese and the two initial lane skins are Light and Conflict. Eight months after the game's release, "conflict" by Siromaru and Cranky, one of the most crossed-over songs in all of rhythm games, makes its Arcaea debut as a song with the Conflict skin. This became a twofer with the Tone Sphere collaboration, where songs from TS's Solarsphere chapter get Light lanes and songs from its Darksphere chapter get Conflict lanes, and "conflict" is a Solarsphere song, meaning that if it had been included as part of the collab, it would've been a Light song instead. As icing on the cake, the Tone Sphere song "A Light" gets Conflict lanes (due to being a Darksphere song) rather than Light ones.
# Film.MouseHunt: "A world without string is chaos."
# Theatre.EscapeToMargaritaville: Tully's motto, "Breathe in, breathe out, move on," which Rachel ends up adopting for herself as she learns to relax.
# Recap.CriminalMindsS13E13Cure: "We are the cure!"
# Fanfic.CrosswindsOfFate: In a fairly lighthearted example, "blood pops" show up several times throughout the story, alluding to Zelretch's implied Fetch Quest.
# Film.WonderWoman2017: "I used to want to save the world" used as Book Ends. "They do not deserve you", in various variations, concluding in the next: "It's not about what they deserve, it's what you believe."
# Music.{{Milgram}}: "Forgive/Not Forgive" appears a lot in song lyrics, especially from the Second Trial onward, hammering in the theme of the project.
# Literature.{{Gosick}}: "The coming wind" or all other variants, which can be easily inferred to be World War II. Preparing for this is the reason Albert de Blois did everything he did.
# Recap.SwampThingVolume2Issue45GhostDance: "Bang. Bang. Bang. The sound of the hammers must never stop."
# Fanfic.TheTwilightChild: "Somepony's child, somepony's X".
# Theatre.CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory: Nothing and something.
# Recap.EddsworldSaloonatics: "Everybody needs a little something".
# Awesome.Ducktales2017Season3: Bradford, your contract is flawed! Bradford: What?! Impossible! I worked on it for 30 years! Went over it with the finest-tooth combs! Louie: According to this, Scrooge can be with his family as long as he doesn't adventure! Huey: But family is the greatest adventure of all! Bradford: That's...the Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard. There's no way that— [the contract disintegrates] Bradford: No! NOOOOOO!
# ARG.CaughtNotSleeping: "Welcome to the Game" and any other use of the word game. "You ever do something that you know wasn't going to help, but you do it anyway? And you don't even know why you're doing it?" "There are no coincidences."
# VideoGame.AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag: After not being mentioned all throughout the previous game, "Nothing is true and everything is permitted" is discussed once more, the true meaning of the phrase being pondered again by the protagonist. Bartholomew Roberts has some, too: "For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and withdrawing them find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!"
# Heartwarming.{{Dunkirk}}: The brave Little Ships, including the Moonstone, eventually make it to the beach of Dunkirk, allowing for a greater number of soldiers to be evacuated. "Home" finally came for them. When pressed, Mr. Dawson notes that it's men his age who made the choice to send young men off to war, it's only right he risk his life to get them back. There's a wonderful little detail in the shots of the Little Ships coming in. If you look carefully, you can see both naval officers and civilian sailors manning them. While Dawson is the symbol of the brave civilians who helped in the evacuation, the shot still shows sailors and civilians working together to rescue their countrymen.
# VideoGame.HouseOfAshes: Semper Fi, the Marine motto meaning "always loyal". True to these words, the only way everyone can get out of this nightmare is with teamwork and remaining loyal to each other.
# MeaningfulRename.{{Webcomics}}: Oddly enough, Lord English changed his name to that from Caliborn after he suffered his first-ever defeat at the hands of Jake English, Jade's post-Scratch son. Weird Plot Shit applies.
# Film.Overlord2018: "This is the job."
# Heartwarming.MeetTheRobinsons: The ending quote, revealing the origin of the ArcWords. Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney
# WebAnimation.EmesisBlue: "It's longer than you'd think." and "It's eternity in there."
# Music.LoveYourselfSeries: {{Foreshadowing}}: The ArcWords "Save Me"/"I'm Fine" - written in a certain typography so that you could read "Save Me" on one side, then "I'm Fine" if you turned it upside-down - appeared on the LOVE YOURSELF drama-style promotional posters for LOVE YOURSELF: Her, and in the "FAKE LOVE" music video, from LOVE YOURSELF: Tear. The final chapter in the series, LOVE YOURSELF: Answer, features the song "I'm Fine", which is both in production and lyrics a Call-Back and a mirror to the song "Save Me", from The Most Beautiful Moment in Life.
# Literature.TheMouseAndHisChild: The dog food can seen numerous times throughout the movie. The characters speculate that some great wisdom lies beyond the last visible dog.
# ComicBook.BatmanGrantMorrison: ArcWelding: A particularly epic example, as everything from the origin of Vandal Savage to various wacky 1960s adventures are tied together as the work of Darkseid's Hyper-Adaptor and its eventual host, Simon Hurt/Thomas Wayne. Several ideas from Morrison's JLA run also make a return here, such as their interpretation of the fifth dimension and the ArcWords of "Batman and Robin will never die!" being from there as well.
# Awesome.BattlestarGalactica2003: Sabotaging the Colonials' plan to introduce a virus into the Cylon resurrection process and kill them all. On a series where everyone and their grandmother is either becoming a hopeless drunk or is willing to kick an entire animal shelter full of dogs on their way to the bathroom, or simply descending into angst-ridden nihilism, he's just about the one person who is unwilling to sacrifice his convictions just for a few more days of running and hoping the Cylons don't catch up to them. At the end of the day, he's ready to make the moral choice, and frak the consequences, and prove that Humanity is worthy of survival.
# Music.MouthAlbums: The word "Mouth" comes up a lot in the albums, both in the album titles and the titles of songs mashing "All Star" with something else. "Mouth Dreams" also recurs in, well, Mouth Dreams.
# Sandbox.MagnificentBastardVideoGamesMToZ: Vik is a merchant and slaver from Khare who sought to take advantage of the power vacuum left behind by the disappearance of the Council of Nobles to name himself First Noble and rule the city. Vik proves to be a charismatic figure who is able to turn the downtrodden masses to his side by promising to improve everyday life under the slogan "Vik for First Noble". Secretly, however, he creates an army of loyal werewolves by kidnapping the same downtrodden, infecting them with lycanthropy, and equipping them with armor to control them. Provided the goblins don't destroy the city, Vik's immoral methods prove worthwhile when he is able to take the city bloodlessly, abolish the council, and fully open Khare to the outside world.
# NightmareFuel.PoppyPlaytime: Although it was hard to see in-game before, a remastered update to Chapter 1 made several graphical changes to the lighting in the facility, which called better attention to a decal on the wall in the room where the first electrical circuit puzzle is solved. A decal of a mechanical hand and the word "wonderful". Both things that were associated with the Prototype, revealing its influence much earlier than previously thought.
# Characters.BuffyverseBuffyTheVampireSlayerBigBads: "From beneath you, it devours."
# Fanfic.MarriageOfHeavenAndHell: The finale of Volume 4, aptly titled "How You Feel," uses the phrase multiple times referring both to Akeno reconciling with her father and Makoto and Akeno confessing their love for each other.
# Series.KamenRiderKabuto: I'll always be by your side. Tendo's not the only to use it. Even the lyrics to One World (the movie's ending song) uses this line
# Recap.ThomasAndFriendsS6E18PercysChocolateCrunch: "Usefulness before cleanliness."
# Film.Incantation2022: The eponymous incantation is repeated throughout the film. It's later revealed that the incantation's purpose is to spread curses across multiple people, and thus dilute the effects.
# Manga.LandOfTheLustrous: "If only [you/I] weren't here..."
# VideoGame.MortalKombat1: "It's in our blood" serves as the game's Tagline and doubles as a Driving Question — Liu Kang has resculpted time and altered the backgrounds of numerous characters, particularly the antagonists, to give them a chance at better, more peaceful lives. Who among the cast will seize their second chance at happiness and who will repeat their old rivalries and ambitions once more?
# YMMV.{{Arcaea}}: Tairitsu's name means such in Japanese and the two initial lane skins are Light and Conflict. Eight months after the game's release, "conflict" by Siromaru and Cranky, one of the most crossed-over songs in all of rhythm games, makes its Arcaea debut as a song with the Conflict skin. This became a twofer with the Tone Sphere collaboration, where songs from TS's Solarsphere chapter get Light lanes and songs from its Darksphere chapter get Conflict lanes, and "conflict" is a Solarsphere song, meaning that if it had been included as part of the collab, it would've been a Light song instead. As icing on the cake, the Tone Sphere song "A Light" gets Conflict lanes (due to being a Darksphere song) rather than Light ones.
# Film.MouseHunt: "A world without string is chaos."
# Theatre.EscapeToMargaritaville: Tully's motto, "Breathe in, breathe out, move on," which Rachel ends up adopting for herself as she learns to relax.
# Recap.CriminalMindsS13E13Cure: "We are the cure!"
# Fanfic.CrosswindsOfFate: In a fairly lighthearted example, "blood pops" show up several times throughout the story, alluding to Zelretch's implied Fetch Quest.
# Film.WonderWoman2017: "I used to want to save the world" used as Book Ends. "They do not deserve you", in various variations, concluding in the next: "It's not about what they deserve, it's what you believe."
# Music.{{Milgram}}: "Forgive/Not Forgive" appears a lot in song lyrics, especially from the Second Trial onward, hammering in the theme of the project.
# Literature.{{Gosick}}: "The coming wind" or all other variants, which can be easily inferred to be World War II. Preparing for this is the reason Albert de Blois did everything he did.
# Recap.SwampThingVolume2Issue45GhostDance: "Bang. Bang. Bang. The sound of the hammers must never stop."
# Fanfic.TheTwilightChild: "Somepony's child, somepony's X".
# Theatre.CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory: Nothing and something.
# Recap.EddsworldSaloonatics: "Everybody needs a little something".
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# TheExpanse.TropesAToE: "Remember the Cant!" "Milowda na ányimals!" (Belter for "We are not animals!") "(When) the blood's on the wall..." "The work must be finished..." "Doors Film.WhenHarryMetSally: "Men and corners"
# Awesome.Ducktales2017Season3: Bradford, your contract is flawed! Bradford: What?! Impossible! I worked on it for 30 years! Went over it with the finest-tooth combs! Louie: According to this, Scroogewomen can never be with his family as long as he doesn't adventure! Huey: But family is the greatest adventure of all! Bradford: That's...the Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard. There's no way that— [the contract disintegrates] Bradford: No! NOOOOOO!
# ARG.CaughtNotSleeping: "Welcome to the Game" and any other use of the word game. "You ever do something that you know wasn't going to help, but you do it anyway? And you don't even know why you're doing it?" "There are no coincidences.friends."
# AudioPlay.TheWatcherInTheRain: "Will you see me?/See me"
# WesternAnimation.StarWarsRebels: The words "[[ArcWords All paths are coming together]]" are spoken several times before we reach the World Between Worlds, which consists entirely of long pathways linked together.
# VideoGame.AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag: After not being mentioned all throughout ASpaceForTheUnbound: "It is time. The world has ended. The whole planet will crumble into dust."
# Creator.ChrisAvellone: "What can change theprevious game, "Nothing is true and everything is permitted" is discussed once more, the true meaning nature of the phrase being pondered again by the protagonist. Bartholomew Roberts has some, too: "For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and withdrawing them find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!"
# Heartwarming.{{Dunkirk}}: The brave Little Ships, including the Moonstone, eventually make it to the beach of Dunkirk, allowing for a greater number of soldiers to be evacuated. "Home" finally came for them. When pressed, Mr. Dawson notesman?" "Let go, begin again", as well as "Who are you, that it's men his age who made the choice to send young men off to war, it's only right he risk his life to get them back. There's a wonderful little detail in the shots of the Little Ships coming in. If you look carefully, you can see both naval officers and civilian sailors manning them. While Dawson is the symbol of the brave civilians who helped in the evacuation, the shot still shows sailors and civilians working together to rescue their countrymen.
# VideoGame.HouseOfAshes: Semper Fi, the Marine motto meaning "always loyal". True to these words, the only way everyone can get out of this nightmare is with teamwork and remaining loyal to each other.
# MeaningfulRename.{{Webcomics}}: Oddly enough, Lord English changed his name to that from Caliborn after he suffered his first-ever defeat at the hands of Jake English, Jade's post-Scratch son. Weird Plot Shit applies.
do not know your history?"
# Film.Overlord2018: "This is the job."
# Heartwarming.MeetTheRobinsons: The ending quote, revealing the origin of the ArcWords. Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors{{Faster}}: "Forgiveness" and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney
# WebAnimation.EmesisBlue: "It's longer than you'd think." and "It's eternity in there."
# Music.LoveYourselfSeries: {{Foreshadowing}}: The ArcWords "Save Me"/"I'm Fine" - written in a certain typography so that you could read "Save Me" on one side, then "I'm Fine" if you turned it upside-down - appeared on the LOVE YOURSELF drama-style promotional posters for LOVE YOURSELF: Her, and in the "FAKE LOVE" music video, from LOVE YOURSELF: Tear. The final chapter in the series, LOVE YOURSELF: Answer, features the song "I'm Fine", which is both in production and lyrics a Call-Back and a mirror to the song "Save Me", from The Most Beautiful Moment in Life.
# Literature.TheMouseAndHisChild: The dog food can seen numerous times throughout the movie. The characters speculate that some great wisdom lies beyond the last visible dog.
# ComicBook.BatmanGrantMorrison: ArcWelding: A particularly epic example, as everything from the origin of Vandal Savage to various wacky 1960s adventures"Finishing what I started" are tied together as the work of Darkseid's Hyper-Adaptor and its eventual host, Simon Hurt/Thomas Wayne. Several ideas from Morrison's JLA run also make a return here, such as their interpretation of the fifth dimension and the ArcWords of "Batman and Robin will never die!" being from there as well.
mentioned throughout.
#Awesome.BattlestarGalactica2003: Sabotaging the Colonials' plan to introduce a virus into the Cylon resurrection process and kill them all. On a series where everyone and their grandmother is either becoming a hopeless drunk or is willing to kick an entire animal shelter full of dogs on their way to the bathroom, or simply descending into angst-ridden nihilism, he's just about the one person who is unwilling to sacrifice his convictions just for a few more days of running and hoping the Cylons don't catch up to them. At the end of the day, he's ready to make the moral choice, and frak the consequences, and prove that Humanity is worthy of survival.
# Music.MouthAlbums: The word "Mouth" comes up a lot in the albums, both in the album titles and the titles of songs mashing "All Star" with something else. "Mouth Dreams" also recurs in, well, Mouth Dreams.
# Sandbox.MagnificentBastardVideoGamesMToZ: Vik is a merchant and slaver from Khare who sought to take advantage of the power vacuum left behind by the disappearance of the Council of Nobles to name himself First Noble and rule the city. Vik proves to be a charismatic figure who is able to turn the downtrodden masses to his side by promising to improve everyday life under the slogan "Vik for First Noble". Secretly, however, he creates an army of loyal werewolves by kidnapping the same downtrodden, infecting them with lycanthropy, and equipping them with armor to control them. Provided the goblins don't destroy the city, Vik's immoral methods prove worthwhile when he is able to take the city bloodlessly, abolish the council, and fully open Khare to the outside world.
# NightmareFuel.PoppyPlaytime: Although it was hard to see in-game before, a remastered update to Chapter 1 made several graphical changes to the lighting in the facility, which called better attention to a decal on the wall in the room where the first electrical circuit puzzle is solved. A decal of a mechanical hand and the word "wonderful". Both things that were associated with the Prototype, revealing its influence much earlier than previously thought.
# Characters.BuffyverseBuffyTheVampireSlayerBigBads: "From beneath you, it devours."
# Fanfic.MarriageOfHeavenAndHell: The finale of Volume 4, aptly titled "How You Feel," uses the phrase multiple times referring both to Akeno reconciling with her father and Makoto and Akeno confessing their love for each other.
Recap.StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS01E10MoveAlongHome: "Move along home!"
# Series.KamenRiderKabuto: I'll always be by your side. Tendo's not ThePrisoner1967: While the only series didn't last long enough to use it. Even form full story arcs, the lyrics to One World (the movie's ending song) uses this line
# Recap.ThomasAndFriendsS6E18PercysChocolateCrunch: "Usefulness before cleanliness."
# Film.Incantation2022:General is name-dropped well in advance of appearing. The eponymous incantation is repeated throughout the film. It's later revealed finale also reveals that the incantation's purpose is to spread curses across multiple people, and thus dilute phrase "You are Number 6," heard during the effects.
# Manga.LandOfTheLustrous: "If only [you/I] weren't here..."
# VideoGame.MortalKombat1: "It's in our blood" serves as the game's Tagline and doubles as a Driving Question — Liu Kang has resculpted time and altered the backgrounds of numerous characters, particularly the antagonists, to give them a chance at better, more peaceful lives. Who among the cast will seize their second chance at happiness and who will repeat their old rivalries and ambitions once more?
# YMMV.{{Arcaea}}: Tairitsu's name means such in Japanese and the two initial lane skins are Light and Conflict. Eight months after the game's release, "conflict" by Siromaru and Cranky, one of the most crossed-over songs in all of rhythm games, makes its Arcaea debut as a songopening credits, actually should be seen with the Conflict skin. This became a twofer with the Tone Sphere collaboration, where songs from TS's Solarsphere chapter get Light lanes and songs from its Darksphere chapter get Conflict lanes, and "conflict" is a Solarsphere song, meaning that if it had been included as part of the collab, it would've been a Light song instead. As icing on the cake, the Tone Sphere song "A Light" gets Conflict lanes (due to being a Darksphere song) rather than Light ones.
# Film.MouseHunt: "A world without string is chaos.comma: "You are, Number 6."
# Theatre.EscapeToMargaritaville: Tully's motto, "Breathe in, breathe out, move on," which Rachel ends up adopting for herself as she learns to relax.
{{Othello}}: "Honest" and "handkerchief."
# Recap.CriminalMindsS13E13Cure: MrRobotS02E01: "Control is an illusion."
# Film.DuelForGold: "The gold is just too tempting." tends to be spoken by characters before backstabbing each other for the gold.
# VideoGame.SevenDays2013: SAM. Is it a name? An acronym for "Sacrifice And Murder"? Completely meaningless? Most assume it's the name of the face-monster-thing, but all that's really certain is it shows up everywhere. Also, the end of every Day is marked by finding a note with "SAM" written on one side and "It's not time yet" on the other.
# Recap.DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft: "Bad Wolf". The arc words from series 1 replace the text on every single surface with text. Even the signs on the TARDIS just read "Bad Wolf" over and over. The bees disappearing. We find out what exactly the "something on [Donna's] back" is.
# VideoGame.FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator: "I will/can put you/her/myself back together." If you're killed by Springtrap, he declares "I ALWAYS COME BACK!" in reference to the ArcWords of the third game. One of Springtrap's lines while roaming the vents is, "You may not recognize me at first, but I assure you, it's still me." A new one, not from any previous game: "What is paragraph 4"? It turns out to be the clause in your contract that requires you to salvage any animatronics you find in the back alley, although as of now we have no idea if that's all it says. Word related to having things all "in one place" are repeated several times.
# Pantheon.MilitaryTechnology: Amuro is a tough nut to crack, powerful yet flawed, pacifistic yet willing to fight, and most importantly, all-loving yet ruthless. He is living proof of how indomitable humanity is, and as he pursues peace in the escalating Forever War of the Alliances, he's going to make sure all who threaten him and his loved ones remember that. [[ArcWords FLY! GUNDAM!]]
# Foreshadowing.TheLockedTomb: The Awful Truth of Lyctorhood, that a necromancer has to consume their cavalier's soul to burn them for energy forever, is very extensively telegraphed by comments the First makes, the ArcWords of Gideon the Ninth, and parenthetical references by Palamedes being disgusted by it, to the point where it's Hidden in Plain Sight.
# ComicBook.TheNameOfTheGame: "Weare have connections!"
# Funny.MarkiplierFNAF: At one part he speaks about some of thecure!"
lewd fanart being produced of the animatronics, only to be cut off by hallucinations, in which he freaks out for the umpteenth time. Mark: I know the internet's a bit of a messed-up place. I've been here for— (Night Guard experiences [[ArcWords "IT'S ME"]] hallucinations) --A LONG TIME! No, you don't! It's not you!
# Fanfic.CrosswindsOfFate: In a fairly lighthearted example, "blood pops" show up several times throughout DanganronpaTheDistrustProject: "Who do you trust?"
# WebAnimation.SpookyMonth: "Everything". The concept of "everything" seems to carry negative connotations behind it, as not only do damaged pictures of Skid's father come with thestory, alluding phrase "You are everything", but Mr. Clown implies to Zelretch's implied Fetch Quest.
# Film.WonderWoman2017: "I used to want to save the world" used as Book Ends. "They do not deserve you", in various variations, concludingJohn and Jack in the next: "It's not about what they deserve, it's what you believe.Newgrounds ending of "Unwanted Guest" that he and the cult plan on seizing this supposed "everything". The word even comes up in unrelated contexts, such as Dexter's slogan and the name of town's newspaper. Mr. Clown: We will take all and get everything! Everything will give us MORE THAT IS ALL!
# Fanfic.NightsFavoredChild: The resistance's code phrase, "The dawn will come."
#Music.{{Milgram}}: "Forgive/Not Forgive" appears a lot in song lyrics, especially from Manga.TokyoGhoul: "The World is Wrong.". At the Second Trial onward, hammering in the theme very end of the project.
:re, Kaneki rebukes this statement, saying "This world isn't wrong. It just... is. "To live is to eat others." "My salvation is..."
# Literature.{{Gosick}}: "The coming wind" or all other variants, which can be easily inferred to be World War II. Preparing {{Kherishdar}}: "Thank you for this is the reason Albert de Blois did everything he did.
# Recap.SwampThingVolume2Issue45GhostDance: "Bang. Bang. Bang. The soundgrace of the hammers must never stop.my Correction."
# Literature.AccelWorld: "I want to get stronger" in Volume 2.
# Film.TransformersAgeOfExtinction: "The rules have changed." "Who sent you here?", which Optimus asks of Lockdown. The bounty hunter is said to be working for a much more powerful and dangerous villain than we see in the film, and this will be explored as the series continues.
# Literature.CreaturesOfLightAndDarkness: "Skagganauk Abyss" and variations occur several times throughout the book before its nature and ultimate purpose is revealed. Also, a series of interludes concerning a dog playing with a glove, a pair of old shoes, and three quarreling artisans.
# Fanfic.TheTwilightChild: "Somepony's child, somepony's X".
FluttershyIsFree: Some variant on "Fluttershy is free," usually along the lines of "And she was free" get repeated in several other of [=Jordan179's=] tales involving the character. It refers to Fluttershy's stubborn defiance of any form of external control, and determination to be her own Pony.
# VideoGame.OneTwoThreeSlaughterMeStreet: Salvation Awaits.
# Theatre.CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory: Nothing DogSeesGod: "Find an identity." To a lesser extent, "Dog sees God in his master."
# Literature.TheHorrorAtCampJellyjam: "Only the Best" can be King Jellyjam's slaves.
# WebVideo.StellarisInvicta: "Hic manebimus optime" — "Here we will stay most excellently." "Evil must be opposed." The Confederacy's foreign policy in four words.
# Music.{{Anberlin}}: "Lips that need no introduction" in Never Take Friendship Personal andsomething.
"The patron saint of lost causes" in Cities.
# Roleplay.EinsteinianRoulette: "The flesh is weak." Phrase encountered a lot in universe and later taken up by the players as well.
# ThenLetMeBeEvil.VideoGames: In particular, this is the argument made to Ryuji by Captain Kidd — that since Kamoshida has gone out of his way to make Ryuji's life a living hell (amongst other things), Ryuji should not expect to reconcile with Kamoshida in any way and instead focus his energies on taking the bastard down. Downplayed in that, while Ryuji agrees and does just that, he doesn't go to extremes to get the job done, and has good intentions for the work he does with the Phantom Thieves thereafter. "Since your name has been disgraced already, why not hoist the flag and wreak havoc...? The "other you" who exists within desires it thus... [[ArcWords I am thou... thou art I...]] There is no turning back... The skull of rebellion is your flag henceforth!"
# VideoGame.DeadlyPremonition: "At times we must purge things from this world because they should not exist, even if it means losing someone that you love." Is the very first line of the game, and gets repeated by multiple characters throughout the story.
# Film.AhBoysToMen: "Leave No Man Behind!"
# AmbienceAFleetSymphony.TropesAToC: "Listen only to the sound of my voice..."
# Recap.EddsworldSaloonatics: "Everybody needs OnceUponATimeS1E16HeartofDarkness: The phrase "evil isn't born, it's made" is first introduced here.
# YMMV.PBGHardcore: A good chunk of the audience felt that both Terraria #3 newcomers, Lucahjin and Yungtown, stole the show in alittle something".fashion similar to [=ProtonJon,=] because of their warm personalities, knack for humor, and great dynamics with the rest of the members. They quickly became proficient in the game, avoiding many of the pratfalls that other newbies had a tendency to do. Just like with [=ProtonJon,=] it helped that they ended up outliving several of the more veteran members, and even managed to defeat the season's Final Boss. And in a season fraught with absurd, largely avoideable deaths, the two sort of became the Only Sane Pair in the group, saving each other from various dangers themselves. They even coined what became the season's ArcWords, "Follow your dreams", endearing them to the fanbase.
# Literature.TheTeethOfTheTiger: "Tiger" comes up often, down to the title and the Tag Line.
# Recap.DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth: ContinuityNod: At the beginning, the TARDIS is parked on the (faded) giant chalk [[ArcWords "Bad Wolf"]] graffito from "The Parting of the Ways". As she says her goodbyes to her mother, Rose mentions her cousin Mo from the Peak District, previously name-checked in "The Christmas Invasion". The Doctor mentions Platform One, where he and the Face of Boe first met, and Rose's original reference to Cassandra being a "trampoline" is repeated, this time by Cassandra herself. The Doctor previously met a form of cat people in "Survival". Rose's Nokia "Superphone", which the Doctor first upgraded in "The End of the World", makes a reappearance here when the Doctor calls to check on her whereabouts, oblivious that she's presently possessed by Cassandra. Chip recognizes it as "a primitive communications device".
# WesternAnimation.TheWildThornberrysMovie: “You must not waste time. You must go to your destiny. Go.” By Shaman Mynambo in Eliza’s dream. This inspires her to keep with her mission to save Tally.
# ComicallyMissingThePoint.LiveActionTV: ‘’Diver Dan’’ has ArcWords : Trigger: something ending in “Boss”. Baron Barracuda: “I told you to call men ‘Baron’, (epithet)!” Trigger: “Okay, Baron (epithet).”
# TearJerker.MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs: Chapter 6 of the A's manga and it's animated version in The Movie 2nd A's. Hayate starts crying after remembering Reinforce, then tries to hold back the tears, calling herself a crybaby. Nanoha and Fate, in perfect unison, stand up and hug her from both sides, telling her that she doesn't have to pretend to be strong in this case. It was probably [[ArcWords a really small wish]]. A wish that could not be realized. And the days left in our hands. However much we may cry, the past will not come back.
# Literature.TheChroniclesOfTevenar: "Right here, right now, like this."
# PyrrhicVictory.{{Literature}}: The Battle of Castle Black ends in this for the Night's Watch. Yes, Stannis shows up to save them and Castle Black remains under the Night's Watch's control. However, Stannis soon leaves to retake the North from the Boltons, meaning that the Night's Watch, already very low on manpower due to the dilapidation of the organization over the centuries, is now dangerously low on men after the Great Ranging and the battle. In addition, several buildings and constructs are damaged quite badly in the battle, and [[ArcWords winter is coming]], and with it, the Others and the army of the dead.
# Fridge.MortalKombatX: As pointed out and shown by Dark Raiden at the end of story mode, the Elder Gods cannot die... and fallen though he be, Shinnok is still an Elder God. Whatever crap you put him through, he ultimately lives through that... and all the consequences that implies. Cut out his heart and drink its blood? Lives. Make a head-sized hole in his chest, possibly with his head? Lives! Chop off his face and reduce the rest to Ludicrous Gibs? LIVES! "[[ArcWords There are]] fates worse than death", indeed...
# Film.{{Spree}}: “All eyes on me! I wanna be seen!”, Jessie’s Catchphrase. It also sums up Kurt’s motivation to get famous.
# Fanfic.ChildrenOfAnElderGod: "The Stars Are Right", stated by characters like Gendo, Fuyutsuki, Rei... when they think or feel that the prophecies are about to come to pass. Sometimes the stars can be seen literally moving into position
# DrinkingGame.TVTropes: When ArcWords are mentioned, take a sip, and then repeat the words, or if it is simply the trope itself mentioned, repeat the ones you like most.
# ShoutOut.MariaCampbellOfTheAstralClocktower: A one-off character who planned to confess to Katarina is named Lady Monika Just, making her an Expy of Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club!, with the "Just" part being the ArcWords given in her introduction of "Just Monika". She's also the one who finds Marcioness Dieke's unconscious body hanging upside-down from the school flagpole.
# Literature.TheDevilsAlternative: “No alternative.” The phrase is used by various characters throughout the story, and is even a codeword at one point.
# Literature.CatchTwentyTwo: ArcWords "Help him, help the bombardier!" "...I'm the bombardier! I'm fine!" "Then help him, help him!" "I'm cold." "Are you crazy?" "Yossarian, imagine if everyone felt that way." "Then I'd be a damn fool not to".
# VideoGame.OneShot: "I have not been tamed." "I can't go against my programming." "You only have one shot."
# Recap.TheFlash2014S2E23TheRaceOfHisLife: Zoom: Run, Barry, run!
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS9E2ThePrincipalAndThePauper: "I have never been happier or prouder to be Seymour Skinner."
# Film.ManOfTaiChi: "Finish him!"
# Literature.TalionRevenant: "A tool is just a tool, unless it does the job by itself."
# Blog.EccentricallyBored: "We are the pieces.""Embrace the Archangel."
# ComicBook.GhostPanther: All of T'Challa's stories use the phrase "a place called Wakanda... that has/will always been/be free."
# Literature.MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy: Kelsier's "There's always another secret". While the exact phrase doesn't come up that often, it's an excellent shorthand for everything going on in these books. "Survive".
# ComicBook.TheLosers: "Vaya con Dios, angelitos."
# Literature.{{Embassytown}}: The requirement for Language to be literal means that stressed repetition of the same words is a key component of communicating ideas. The Hosts pay a young Avice to go through a bizarrely staged performance to make her into a simile, "The girl who ate what was given to her." The full simile is more elaborate — the girl is in pain, in the dark, in an abandoned restaurant where people don't eat anymore. As the book goes on and the simile is repeated, the ways in which the Ariekei are both like and unlike the girl make the simile increasingly apt, and finally lead to the breakthrough in which the Hosts do not merely learn to lie, but grasp metaphor and symbolism. Surl Tesh-echer's most successful lie: "Before the humans came we didn't speak." Surl Tesh-echer's friend, the one Avice calls Spanish Dancer, makes the line the focus of its Big Damn Speech as the majority of Ariekei awaken to an understanding of lies, metaphor, and signifying language.
# VideoGame.GalacticCivilizations: DarkestHour: The storyline of Gal Civ II's expansion packs Dark Avatar and Twilight of the Arnor can be seen as the galaxy's darkest hour, not only has most of the galaxy been enslaved by the Drengin but the Korath are planning to annihilate all non-Drengin life at the behest of the Dread Lords who weren't truly defeated at the end of the core game's campaign. The only forces left in the galaxy that can fight the Dread Lords are the Drengin Empire whose forces are too preoccupied by the Korath clan's rebellion to fight the Dread Lords directly, and the remnants of the Terran fleet which remained a factor only because they stumbled across the last of the Arnor who provided them with his race's superior technology and warships. As of the third game, the Dread Lords have been eliminated as a major player (hopefully for real this time), but the Thalans still maintain that things are only going to get worse, and it's all the Terrans' fault somehow: "[[ArcWords A crusade is coming...]]"
# Awesome.Ducktales2017Season3: Bradford, your contract is flawed! Bradford: What?! Impossible! I worked on it for 30 years! Went over it with the finest-tooth combs! Louie: According to this, Scrooge
# ARG.CaughtNotSleeping: "Welcome to the Game" and any other use of the word game. "You ever do something that you know wasn't going to help, but you do it anyway? And you don't even know why you're doing it?" "There are no coincidences.
# AudioPlay.TheWatcherInTheRain: "Will you see me?/See me"
# WesternAnimation.StarWarsRebels: The words "[[ArcWords All paths are coming together]]" are spoken several times before we reach the World Between Worlds, which consists entirely of long pathways linked together.
# VideoGame.
# Creator.ChrisAvellone: "What can change the
# Heartwarming.{{Dunkirk}}: The brave Little Ships, including the Moonstone, eventually make it to the beach of Dunkirk, allowing for a greater number of soldiers to be evacuated. "Home" finally came for them. When pressed, Mr. Dawson notes
# VideoGame.HouseOfAshes: Semper Fi, the Marine motto meaning "always loyal". True to these words, the only way everyone can get out of this nightmare is with teamwork and remaining loyal to each other.
# MeaningfulRename.{{Webcomics}}: Oddly enough, Lord English changed his name to that from Caliborn after he suffered his first-ever defeat at the hands of Jake English, Jade's post-Scratch son. Weird Plot Shit applies.
# Film.
# Heartwarming.MeetTheRobinsons: The ending quote, revealing the origin of the ArcWords. Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors
# WebAnimation.EmesisBlue: "It's longer than you'd think." and "It's eternity in there."
# Music.LoveYourselfSeries: {{Foreshadowing}}: The ArcWords "Save Me"/"I'm Fine" - written in a certain typography so that you could read "Save Me" on one side, then "I'm Fine" if you turned it upside-down - appeared on the LOVE YOURSELF drama-style promotional posters for LOVE YOURSELF: Her, and in the "FAKE LOVE" music video, from LOVE YOURSELF: Tear. The final chapter in the series, LOVE YOURSELF: Answer, features the song "I'm Fine", which is both in production and lyrics a Call-Back and a mirror to the song "Save Me", from The Most Beautiful Moment in Life.
# Literature.TheMouseAndHisChild: The dog food can seen numerous times throughout the movie. The characters speculate that some great wisdom lies beyond the last visible dog.
# ComicBook.BatmanGrantMorrison: ArcWelding: A particularly epic example, as everything from the origin of Vandal Savage to various wacky 1960s adventures
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# Music.MouthAlbums: The word "Mouth" comes up a lot in the albums, both in the album titles and the titles of songs mashing "All Star" with something else. "Mouth Dreams" also recurs in, well, Mouth Dreams.
# Sandbox.MagnificentBastardVideoGamesMToZ: Vik is a merchant and slaver from Khare who sought to take advantage of the power vacuum left behind by the disappearance of the Council of Nobles to name himself First Noble and rule the city. Vik proves to be a charismatic figure who is able to turn the downtrodden masses to his side by promising to improve everyday life under the slogan "Vik for First Noble". Secretly, however, he creates an army of loyal werewolves by kidnapping the same downtrodden, infecting them with lycanthropy, and equipping them with armor to control them. Provided the goblins don't destroy the city, Vik's immoral methods prove worthwhile when he is able to take the city bloodlessly, abolish the council, and fully open Khare to the outside world.
# NightmareFuel.PoppyPlaytime: Although it was hard to see in-game before, a remastered update to Chapter 1 made several graphical changes to the lighting in the facility, which called better attention to a decal on the wall in the room where the first electrical circuit puzzle is solved. A decal of a mechanical hand and the word "wonderful". Both things that were associated with the Prototype, revealing its influence much earlier than previously thought.
# Characters.BuffyverseBuffyTheVampireSlayerBigBads: "From beneath you, it devours."
# Fanfic.MarriageOfHeavenAndHell: The finale of Volume 4, aptly titled "How You Feel," uses the phrase multiple times referring both to Akeno reconciling with her father and Makoto and Akeno confessing their love for each other.
# Series.
# Recap.ThomasAndFriendsS6E18PercysChocolateCrunch: "Usefulness before cleanliness."
# Film.Incantation2022:
# Manga.LandOfTheLustrous: "If only [you/I] weren't here..."
# VideoGame.MortalKombat1: "It's in our blood" serves as the game's Tagline and doubles as a Driving Question — Liu Kang has resculpted time and altered the backgrounds of numerous characters, particularly the antagonists, to give them a chance at better, more peaceful lives. Who among the cast will seize their second chance at happiness and who will repeat their old rivalries and ambitions once more?
# YMMV.{{Arcaea}}: Tairitsu's name means such in Japanese and the two initial lane skins are Light and Conflict. Eight months after the game's release, "conflict" by Siromaru and Cranky, one of the most crossed-over songs in all of rhythm games, makes its Arcaea debut as a song
# Film.MouseHunt: "A world without string is chaos.
# Theatre.
# Recap.
# Film.DuelForGold: "The gold is just too tempting." tends to be spoken by characters before backstabbing each other for the gold.
# VideoGame.SevenDays2013: SAM. Is it a name? An acronym for "Sacrifice And Murder"? Completely meaningless? Most assume it's the name of the face-monster-thing, but all that's really certain is it shows up everywhere. Also, the end of every Day is marked by finding a note with "SAM" written on one side and "It's not time yet" on the other.
# Recap.DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft: "Bad Wolf". The arc words from series 1 replace the text on every single surface with text. Even the signs on the TARDIS just read "Bad Wolf" over and over. The bees disappearing. We find out what exactly the "something on [Donna's] back" is.
# VideoGame.FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator: "I will/can put you/her/myself back together." If you're killed by Springtrap, he declares "I ALWAYS COME BACK!" in reference to the ArcWords of the third game. One of Springtrap's lines while roaming the vents is, "You may not recognize me at first, but I assure you, it's still me." A new one, not from any previous game: "What is paragraph 4"? It turns out to be the clause in your contract that requires you to salvage any animatronics you find in the back alley, although as of now we have no idea if that's all it says. Word related to having things all "in one place" are repeated several times.
# Pantheon.MilitaryTechnology: Amuro is a tough nut to crack, powerful yet flawed, pacifistic yet willing to fight, and most importantly, all-loving yet ruthless. He is living proof of how indomitable humanity is, and as he pursues peace in the escalating Forever War of the Alliances, he's going to make sure all who threaten him and his loved ones remember that. [[ArcWords FLY! GUNDAM!]]
# Foreshadowing.TheLockedTomb: The Awful Truth of Lyctorhood, that a necromancer has to consume their cavalier's soul to burn them for energy forever, is very extensively telegraphed by comments the First makes, the ArcWords of Gideon the Ninth, and parenthetical references by Palamedes being disgusted by it, to the point where it's Hidden in Plain Sight.
# ComicBook.TheNameOfTheGame: "We
# Funny.MarkiplierFNAF: At one part he speaks about some of the
# Fanfic.
# WebAnimation.SpookyMonth: "Everything". The concept of "everything" seems to carry negative connotations behind it, as not only do damaged pictures of Skid's father come with the
# Film.WonderWoman2017: "I used to want to save the world" used as Book Ends. "They do not deserve you", in various variations, concluding
# Fanfic.NightsFavoredChild: The resistance's code phrase, "The dawn will come."
#
# Literature.
# Recap.SwampThingVolume2Issue45GhostDance: "Bang. Bang. Bang. The sound
# Literature.AccelWorld: "I want to get stronger" in Volume 2.
# Film.TransformersAgeOfExtinction: "The rules have changed." "Who sent you here?", which Optimus asks of Lockdown. The bounty hunter is said to be working for a much more powerful and dangerous villain than we see in the film, and this will be explored as the series continues.
# Literature.CreaturesOfLightAndDarkness: "Skagganauk Abyss" and variations occur several times throughout the book before its nature and ultimate purpose is revealed. Also, a series of interludes concerning a dog playing with a glove, a pair of old shoes, and three quarreling artisans.
# Fanfic.
# VideoGame.OneTwoThreeSlaughterMeStreet: Salvation Awaits.
# Theatre.
# Literature.TheHorrorAtCampJellyjam: "Only the Best" can be King Jellyjam's slaves.
# WebVideo.StellarisInvicta: "Hic manebimus optime" — "Here we will stay most excellently." "Evil must be opposed." The Confederacy's foreign policy in four words.
# Music.{{Anberlin}}: "Lips that need no introduction" in Never Take Friendship Personal and
# Roleplay.EinsteinianRoulette: "The flesh is weak." Phrase encountered a lot in universe and later taken up by the players as well.
# ThenLetMeBeEvil.VideoGames: In particular, this is the argument made to Ryuji by Captain Kidd — that since Kamoshida has gone out of his way to make Ryuji's life a living hell (amongst other things), Ryuji should not expect to reconcile with Kamoshida in any way and instead focus his energies on taking the bastard down. Downplayed in that, while Ryuji agrees and does just that, he doesn't go to extremes to get the job done, and has good intentions for the work he does with the Phantom Thieves thereafter. "Since your name has been disgraced already, why not hoist the flag and wreak havoc...? The "other you" who exists within desires it thus... [[ArcWords I am thou... thou art I...]] There is no turning back... The skull of rebellion is your flag henceforth!"
# VideoGame.DeadlyPremonition: "At times we must purge things from this world because they should not exist, even if it means losing someone that you love." Is the very first line of the game, and gets repeated by multiple characters throughout the story.
# Film.AhBoysToMen: "Leave No Man Behind!"
# AmbienceAFleetSymphony.TropesAToC: "Listen only to the sound of my voice..."
# Recap.
# YMMV.PBGHardcore: A good chunk of the audience felt that both Terraria #3 newcomers, Lucahjin and Yungtown, stole the show in a
# Literature.TheTeethOfTheTiger: "Tiger" comes up often, down to the title and the Tag Line.
# Recap.DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth: ContinuityNod: At the beginning, the TARDIS is parked on the (faded) giant chalk [[ArcWords "Bad Wolf"]] graffito from "The Parting of the Ways". As she says her goodbyes to her mother, Rose mentions her cousin Mo from the Peak District, previously name-checked in "The Christmas Invasion". The Doctor mentions Platform One, where he and the Face of Boe first met, and Rose's original reference to Cassandra being a "trampoline" is repeated, this time by Cassandra herself. The Doctor previously met a form of cat people in "Survival". Rose's Nokia "Superphone", which the Doctor first upgraded in "The End of the World", makes a reappearance here when the Doctor calls to check on her whereabouts, oblivious that she's presently possessed by Cassandra. Chip recognizes it as "a primitive communications device".
# WesternAnimation.TheWildThornberrysMovie: “You must not waste time. You must go to your destiny. Go.” By Shaman Mynambo in Eliza’s dream. This inspires her to keep with her mission to save Tally.
# ComicallyMissingThePoint.LiveActionTV: ‘’Diver Dan’’ has ArcWords : Trigger: something ending in “Boss”. Baron Barracuda: “I told you to call men ‘Baron’, (epithet)!” Trigger: “Okay, Baron (epithet).”
# TearJerker.MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs: Chapter 6 of the A's manga and it's animated version in The Movie 2nd A's. Hayate starts crying after remembering Reinforce, then tries to hold back the tears, calling herself a crybaby. Nanoha and Fate, in perfect unison, stand up and hug her from both sides, telling her that she doesn't have to pretend to be strong in this case. It was probably [[ArcWords a really small wish]]. A wish that could not be realized. And the days left in our hands. However much we may cry, the past will not come back.
# Literature.TheChroniclesOfTevenar: "Right here, right now, like this."
# PyrrhicVictory.{{Literature}}: The Battle of Castle Black ends in this for the Night's Watch. Yes, Stannis shows up to save them and Castle Black remains under the Night's Watch's control. However, Stannis soon leaves to retake the North from the Boltons, meaning that the Night's Watch, already very low on manpower due to the dilapidation of the organization over the centuries, is now dangerously low on men after the Great Ranging and the battle. In addition, several buildings and constructs are damaged quite badly in the battle, and [[ArcWords winter is coming]], and with it, the Others and the army of the dead.
# Fridge.MortalKombatX: As pointed out and shown by Dark Raiden at the end of story mode, the Elder Gods cannot die... and fallen though he be, Shinnok is still an Elder God. Whatever crap you put him through, he ultimately lives through that... and all the consequences that implies. Cut out his heart and drink its blood? Lives. Make a head-sized hole in his chest, possibly with his head? Lives! Chop off his face and reduce the rest to Ludicrous Gibs? LIVES! "[[ArcWords There are]] fates worse than death", indeed...
# Film.{{Spree}}: “All eyes on me! I wanna be seen!”, Jessie’s Catchphrase. It also sums up Kurt’s motivation to get famous.
# Fanfic.ChildrenOfAnElderGod: "The Stars Are Right", stated by characters like Gendo, Fuyutsuki, Rei... when they think or feel that the prophecies are about to come to pass. Sometimes the stars can be seen literally moving into position
# DrinkingGame.TVTropes: When ArcWords are mentioned, take a sip, and then repeat the words, or if it is simply the trope itself mentioned, repeat the ones you like most.
# ShoutOut.MariaCampbellOfTheAstralClocktower: A one-off character who planned to confess to Katarina is named Lady Monika Just, making her an Expy of Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club!, with the "Just" part being the ArcWords given in her introduction of "Just Monika". She's also the one who finds Marcioness Dieke's unconscious body hanging upside-down from the school flagpole.
# Literature.TheDevilsAlternative: “No alternative.” The phrase is used by various characters throughout the story, and is even a codeword at one point.
# Literature.CatchTwentyTwo: ArcWords "Help him, help the bombardier!" "...I'm the bombardier! I'm fine!" "Then help him, help him!" "I'm cold." "Are you crazy?" "Yossarian, imagine if everyone felt that way." "Then I'd be a damn fool not to".
# VideoGame.OneShot: "I have not been tamed." "I can't go against my programming." "You only have one shot."
# Recap.TheFlash2014S2E23TheRaceOfHisLife: Zoom: Run, Barry, run!
# Recap.TheSimpsonsS9E2ThePrincipalAndThePauper: "I have never been happier or prouder to be Seymour Skinner."
# Film.ManOfTaiChi: "Finish him!"
# Literature.TalionRevenant: "A tool is just a tool, unless it does the job by itself."
# Blog.EccentricallyBored: "We are the pieces.""Embrace the Archangel."
# ComicBook.GhostPanther: All of T'Challa's stories use the phrase "a place called Wakanda... that has/will always been/be free."
# Literature.MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy: Kelsier's "There's always another secret". While the exact phrase doesn't come up that often, it's an excellent shorthand for everything going on in these books. "Survive".
# ComicBook.TheLosers: "Vaya con Dios, angelitos."
# Literature.{{Embassytown}}: The requirement for Language to be literal means that stressed repetition of the same words is a key component of communicating ideas. The Hosts pay a young Avice to go through a bizarrely staged performance to make her into a simile, "The girl who ate what was given to her." The full simile is more elaborate — the girl is in pain, in the dark, in an abandoned restaurant where people don't eat anymore. As the book goes on and the simile is repeated, the ways in which the Ariekei are both like and unlike the girl make the simile increasingly apt, and finally lead to the breakthrough in which the Hosts do not merely learn to lie, but grasp metaphor and symbolism. Surl Tesh-echer's most successful lie: "Before the humans came we didn't speak." Surl Tesh-echer's friend, the one Avice calls Spanish Dancer, makes the line the focus of its Big Damn Speech as the majority of Ariekei awaken to an understanding of lies, metaphor, and signifying language.
# VideoGame.GalacticCivilizations: DarkestHour: The storyline of Gal Civ II's expansion packs Dark Avatar and Twilight of the Arnor can be seen as the galaxy's darkest hour, not only has most of the galaxy been enslaved by the Drengin but the Korath are planning to annihilate all non-Drengin life at the behest of the Dread Lords who weren't truly defeated at the end of the core game's campaign. The only forces left in the galaxy that can fight the Dread Lords are the Drengin Empire whose forces are too preoccupied by the Korath clan's rebellion to fight the Dread Lords directly, and the remnants of the Terran fleet which remained a factor only because they stumbled across the last of the Arnor who provided them with his race's superior technology and warships. As of the third game, the Dread Lords have been eliminated as a major player (hopefully for real this time), but the Thalans still maintain that things are only going to get worse, and it's all the Terrans' fault somehow: "[[ArcWords A crusade is coming...]]"
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# Literature.BookOfRevelation: In Chapters 2 and 3: "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."
# TabletopGame.UnknownArmies: "You did it." In every sense of the phrase.
# Fanfic.ShardsOfMemory: Every chapter begins with a historical quote relevant to the events about to unfold.
# Recap.StevenUniverseS3E15AloneAtSea: In the past, Lapis forcing Malachite came across as a Heroic Sacrifice to protect Steven from Jasper, with Lapis even saying "Just let me do this for you!", the nearly exact same words said by Pearl. Here it's revealed Lapis doesn't believe she did it for Steven at all, but rather for her own emotional self-harm and to use Jasper as a target of her anger and frustration.
# Anime.QueensBlade: "Who will emerge victorious? They won' t know that unless they fight!" Used many times at the beginning and in the end of many parts of the franchise.
# Film.TheManWhoWasntThere2001: "What kind of a man are you?"
# Theatre.InTheHeights: "No pare, sigue sigue!" meaning "Don't stop, continue, continue!" which encourages the two main characters, Usnavi and Nina, in "Hundreds of Stories" and "When You're Home" respectively. note Also used for comedic effect in "It Won't Be Long Now", during Usnavi's brief victory rap after Sonny asks Vanessa out for him. "Yeah, I'm a streetlight": Benny first calls Usnavi a streetlight, as in he's stuck to his corner store as the world moves around him. At the end of the show, Usnavi embraces the term, using his permanent role in the barrio as an illuminator for everyone's stories.
# Recap.MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E21TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: Narrator: Joseph Javorsky. Noted scientist. Mike: Melted scientist? Narrator: A-Bomb Testing Ground. Crow: Avon Testing Ground? What rabbits with shaved butts?
# TheMatrixFilm.TropesGToO: GoBackToTheSource: "Returning to The Source" are ArcWords about returning to the heart of the Matrix's mainframe, where everything originated and hitting a Reset Button (or something like that).
# Fanfic.MoreThanHuman: Occasionally appears as different phrases in each chapter, especially during Chapter 4. Blossom: The least he could have done was look at me. A recurring phrase is a quote by Camus, who Brick has a particular interest in. "I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless."
# Film.TragedyGirls: "What's next for the Tragedy Girls?"
# Monster.VideoGamesAToC: Croesus Verlac is the patriarch of the Verlac family and a man who discovered a dark route to immortality. Long before the story of Anchorhead began, Croseus's physical flesh became dust...but his spirit survives by taking over the bodies of his male descendants and impregnating the female descendants to create new bodies for him to steal later. The power Croseus has over his descendants is represented in the chilling ArcWords: He always returns to his blood. Not content with this, Croseus runs a legacy of dark magic and murder, routinely sacrificing children for power to the point where the well behind the village slaughterhouse is full of the bones of missing children. In the present, Croseus takes control of and possesses the nameless heroine's husband, before setting his plan into motion: to open the gates to the Eldritch Abomination beings he worships and allow them to devour all that lives.
# Series.FromDuskTillDawn: "The Gecko Brothers ride again/The Gecko Brothers are back." "I'm a professional thief." "You're my brother."
# VideoGame.FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach: "Are you having fun yet?" First mentioned by Sun if you stand around on the Daycare, and then by Vanny once Vanessa locks you in Lost and Found.
# Film.PoltergeistIII: "Outside, in!"
# Film.EvilDeadRise: "Let me in." The possessed Jessica says it when reciting a passage from Wuthering Heights, Kassie says it to her older siblings when trying to play with them, Gabriel says it when begging Beth to let him in to safety in the apartment, and Deadite Ellie says it repeatedly.
# Recap.LostS02E18Dave: Dave says, "See you in another life, Hurley!" before diving off a cliff.
# Film.GalaxyQuest: "Never give up! Never surrender!"
# VisualNovel.BadEndTheater: "You'll all burn together." appears at the end of each True End, except the Maiden's, where it's "Will you all burn together?"
# Film.TheForest2016: "[Don't leave/Stay on] the path".
# ComicBook.BatmanVampire: In Red Rain: "Vampires are real...but not all of them are evil."In Bloodstorm: "To death, in peace." In Crimson Mist: "First your blood... then your head!"
# Characters.DragonQuestIX: Greygnarl and Barbarus fought three hundred years ago, which was a very eventful year in the game's Backstory.
# Characters.ArrowverseTeamFlash: The words "Fraud" or/and "Pretender" are frequently mentioned when he's around, either by other characters or H.R. himself. His entire Story Arc has him wanting to prove his worth because he did not earn the merits and fame he received on his Earth. His story culminates with him pulling a Heroic Sacrifice by switching places with Iris during her supposed death using his body changing device
# ComicBook.TheFlashRebirth: "Every second is a gift."
# Recap.HouseS2E5DaddysBoy: Another episode where "everybody lies" is especially pertinent. This time, even House is taken aback by just how dishonest Ken and Carnell are with each other.
# BorrowedCatchphrase.LiveActionTV: "My name is Moira Dearden Queen, and God help me, I have failed this city."
# Characters.GenshinImpactRaidenShogun: Aside from "eternity" as her ideal and "erosion" as what she's trying to prevent, there's also "wishes," "ambitions," and "dreams" that are heavily tied to her and her story. Some of the descriptions for her Talents and Constellation upgrades mention those words. Her Vision Hunt Decree has her taking away people's ambitions in the process. She is convinced to abolish the decree after the Traveler shows her how the power of the people's ambitions can overpower a god's will.
# Anime.RahXephon: "The world is saturated with sound."
# Characters.AmericasNextTopModelCycleEighteenBritishInvasion: In the pilot episode. Annaliese: "America is not ready for the British Invasion. We did it once, and we can do it again."
# VideoGame.TheQuarry: The camp motto: "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger."
# Fanfic.SeriesThirtyAndThreeQuarters: "...who's that?", directed from Shinji to the Ninth Doctor "Just call me Bob, miss," the voice said. "Everyone does." From the end of Episode 11 Part V: The Doctor: note (examining a microfilm containing the Chinese Government's newest economic plan, which hasn't been implemented yet) Communist Party's still in charge over in Beijing, yeah? And they still organize everything into five-year plans à la Mao? Kaji: Last I checked. Why? The Doctor: So why's this one only go up to the end of the year? The last line of Episode 11: "Yui Ikari" The Doctor swallowed. "Shinji's mother was Project Zero."
# Characters.WonderWomanAllies: Starting in May of 2021, "Amazons Attack!" appears in a suspiciously large amount of speech bubbles throughout DC Infinite Frontier books. As it turns out the DC Rebirth line was to start its own version of the infamous Amazon's Attack arc in October of 2023.
# Film.TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact: Compare Dr. Chandra's answers for the same question from SAL and HAL. SAL: Will I dream? Dr. Chandra: Of course you will. All intelligent beings dream. Nobody knows why. HAL: Dr. Chandra, will I dream? Dr. Chandra: I don't know.
# VideoGame.StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds: Wesa ready to do our part! I have a bad feeling about this... (about 4 taunts dedicated to this one alone)
# SelfDemonstrating.TheJokerTropesAToF: While I'm certainly not cliché enough to use the same material again and again, it seems that classic line from Heathy has become my unofficial motto: "Why so serious?" Hey, if it sticks, it sticks! (Just so long as I get a cut of all that glorious T-shirt revenue...) "One Bad Day". That was originally mine, these days everyone in Gotham is saying it.
# Radio.AdventuresInOdyssey: At the end of "The Christmas Bells", Pastor Knox hears God tell him the words "one of three will fall". It ends up being the setup to Olivia Parker's descent into questioning her own faith.
# Recap.ArrowS5E2TheRecruits: Season 5's main theme, "legacies", is brought up again.
# Series.IntoTheNight: "One problem at a time."
# Creator.JonathanHickman: Usually a couple per series:Fantastic Four has "Solve everything" and "All hope lies in Doom." The Avengers has "It was an Avengers World" and "we were Avengers." New Avengers has "Everything dies." X-Men (2019) has “While you slept, the world changed”, a phrase which originated in his Fantastic Four run. Other words sprinkled throughout his Marvel series include "wheel(s)", "build(er)", "idea", "city" and "forever".
# Film.TheTestamentOfDrMabuse: "The Empire of Crime! The Empire of Crime!"
# VideoGame.SuperRobotWars30: Kamille. Due to his Mind Rape from Scirocco, he wasn't able to be there when Amuro fought Char, something that he didn't take very well. It's only by seeing Jona continue to fight against impossible odds, as well as Amuro telling him "Don't let the dead consume you!" that Kamille is able to regain the will to fight.
# Music.LosCampesinos: "Doe eyes" has been a long-lasting term frequently mentioned in their songs.Eyes are a recurring theme in "Hello Sadness," and the phrase "sad eyes" appears in the last three song songs on the album: To Tundra ("We take on the burden of all these sad-eyed children, with lilies bunched in our hands"), Baby, I Got the Death Rattle ("One look in my sad eyes, she had to concede"), and Light Leaves, Dark Sees Pt. II ("But they request that I leave 'cause my sad eyes are too much to bear"). "Heart Swells" and "Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown" have labeled various songs in a semi-Thematic Series sort of way.
# Series.{{Wizbit}}: In the episode "Badbit", a character with that name and whoever he is talking to gives this dialogue: Badbit: Get it? Whoever he is talking to: Got it. Badbit: Good.
# IronicEcho.LiveActionFilms: In Fight Club, related to ArcWords. One example that stands out in particular is when the group leader for the Testicular Cancer support group that the Narrator visits addresses the people in the room with the phrase "I look around this room and I see a lot of...", which Tyler steals while making his "Middle Children of History" speech later on in the film.
# VideoGame.ToontownRewritten: Undo mistakes, not fate.
# ComicBook.ImmortalXMen: Destiny to Sinister, over and over: “We must be on the same side.” Throughout the series, several characters mention the word "immortal", "immortality" and the idea of "living forever".
# Recap.GameOfThronesS2E10ValarMorghulis: "Valar Morghulis" for Arya.
# Recap.SherlockS04E01TheSixThatchers: "AMMO" for this episode, and "[Did you] miss me?" for the overall "Moriarty reappears" arc.
# VideoGame.SuperMarioBrosWonder: "Wonder" and its variants. "Wonderful" is the highest rank of a combo or getting on the very top of the goal pole. There's a power-up known as the Wonder Flower which triggers a Wonder Effect, players collect Wonder Seeds to unlock new levels and purchase badges, and the world is portrayed as a Wonderland. Mario will even say "Wonderful!" after collecting a Wonder Seed. The final message displayed to you after clearing the Special World is "YOU ARE A SUPER WONDER!"
# ShowWithinAShow.{{Literature}}: The Jack O'Connell novel The Resurrectionist features a comic book series about a carnival freak show in fantasy Central Europe called "Limbo." "Limbo" is a multimedia franchise in the book's world, and the hero's comatose son was fascinated by it. The word is also an arc word outside of the comic.
# YMMV.TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals: The apotheosis is upon us.Explanation The ArcWords of the alien Hive Mind.
# Recap.GameOfThronesS8E5TheBells: After suffering from one long Trauma Conga Line throughout the season, losing her children and dear friends, her lover no longer wishing to be intimate with her, finding out her claim to the Iron Throne is no longer secure, and continuing to get no respect from an ungrateful populace, Daenerys decides enough is enough and "wakes the Dragon" on King's Landing. This is best exemplified with a quote from her at the start of the episode, when she feels that the people don't love her: "Let it be fear."
# Webcomic.CaribbeanBlue: "This is your destiny."
# Sandbox.{{Safind}}: Don't rock the boat
# Literature.GiveUsForever: "Look to your sins" and "must we sin once and repent forever?"
# VideoGame.WrathOfTheGods: The I-over-O symbol (actually the Greek letter Phi) which appears all over the place
# Film.PitchPerfect: "Magic" for Benji. "Endings are the best part!" In the sequel, "Legacy" starts off as Emily's nickname and quickly becomes the theme of the film.
# LetsPlay.{{Pokecapn}}: Grapes.
# Film.{{Head}}: Appropriately enough, "head". There's Micky and Peter musing about getting shot in the head in the war sequence, Davy referring to his own noggin as a "million-dollar head" in the boxing sequence, and Micky talking about how "Our universes only start from the inside of our head" in the final channel-flipping scene.
# Music.ToPimpAButterfly: Every song from "King Kunta" onwards on the album ends with an expanding monologue that begins with "I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence."
# Podcast.{{Spines}}: Grove, mosaic, trumpet. We find out what each one refers to as the story progresses.
# Sandbox.HamiltonAaronBurr: "Talk less, smile more" and "Wait/Waiting", demonstrating his caution and lack of decisiveness.
# Anime.YuGiOhArcV: "The fun has just begun" seems to be a recurrent phrase, as it shows in the plot, openings and endings mostly by Yuya. It has also been used by some of the more morally ambiguous characters as well. For Yuto and Kurosaki, "Hangyaku" (Rebellion). It's mentioned in their summon chants for both of their ace monsters. "Smile" or also commonly known as "egao", which has been repeated a few dozen times. "Become One" or "hitotsu ni" is repeated throughout the show with its meaning changing based on the side that uses it. When the Academia or Zarc use it, the phrase means a forceful physical fusion like the Academia trying to fuse the dimensions or Zarc trying to fuse his counterparts to revive. When the good guys use it, it means someone was able to emotionally unite the audience through their dueling.
# Fanfic.TheSunWillComeUpAndTheSeasonsWillChange: Seasons. The story starts in the autumn, the subtitle of the fic is "The Seasons Will Change", and Mary's last name is Summers.
# TheExpanse.TropesAToE: "Remember the Cant!" "Milowda na ányimals!" (Belter for "We are not animals!") "(When) the blood's on the wall..." "The work must be finished..." "Doors and corners"
# Awesome.Ducktales2017Season3: Bradford, your contract is flawed! Bradford: What?! Impossible! I worked on it for 30 years! Went over it with the finest-tooth combs! Louie: According to this, Scrooge can be with his family as long as he doesn't adventure! Huey: But family is the greatest adventure of all! Bradford: That's...the Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard. There's no way that— [the contract disintegrates] Bradford: No! NOOOOOO!
# ARG.CaughtNotSleeping: "Welcome to the Game" and any other use of the word game. "You ever do something that you know wasn't going to help, but you do it anyway? And you don't even know why you're doing it?" "There are no coincidences."
# VideoGame.AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag: After not being mentioned all throughout the previous game, "Nothing is true and everything is permitted" is discussed once more, the true meaning of the phrase being pondered again by the protagonist. Bartholomew Roberts has some, too: "For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and withdrawing them find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!"
# Heartwarming.{{Dunkirk}}: The brave Little Ships, including the Moonstone, eventually make it to the beach of Dunkirk, allowing for a greater number of soldiers to be evacuated. "Home" finally came for them. When pressed, Mr. Dawson notes that it's men his age who made the choice to send young men off to war, it's only right he risk his life to get them back. There's a wonderful little detail in the shots of the Little Ships coming in. If you look carefully, you can see both naval officers and civilian sailors manning them. While Dawson is the symbol of the brave civilians who helped in the evacuation, the shot still shows sailors and civilians working together to rescue their countrymen.
# VideoGame.HouseOfAshes: Semper Fi, the Marine motto meaning "always loyal". True to these words, the only way everyone can get out of this nightmare is with teamwork and remaining loyal to each other.
# MeaningfulRename.{{Webcomics}}: Oddly enough, Lord English changed his name to that from Caliborn after he suffered his first-ever defeat at the hands of Jake English, Jade's post-Scratch son. Weird Plot Shit applies.
# Film.Overlord2018: "This is the job."
# Heartwarming.MeetTheRobinsons: The ending quote, revealing the origin of the ArcWords. Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney
# WebAnimation.EmesisBlue: "It's longer than you'd think." and "It's eternity in there."
# Music.LoveYourselfSeries: {{Foreshadowing}}: The ArcWords "Save Me"/"I'm Fine" - written in a certain typography so that you could read "Save Me" on one side, then "I'm Fine" if you turned it upside-down - appeared on the LOVE YOURSELF drama-style promotional posters for LOVE YOURSELF: Her, and in the "FAKE LOVE" music video, from LOVE YOURSELF: Tear. The final chapter in the series, LOVE YOURSELF: Answer, features the song "I'm Fine", which is both in production and lyrics a Call-Back and a mirror to the song "Save Me", from The Most Beautiful Moment in Life.
# Literature.TheMouseAndHisChild: The dog food can seen numerous times throughout the movie. The characters speculate that some great wisdom lies beyond the last visible dog.
# ComicBook.BatmanGrantMorrison: ArcWelding: A particularly epic example, as everything from the origin of Vandal Savage to various wacky 1960s adventures are tied together as the work of Darkseid's Hyper-Adaptor and its eventual host, Simon Hurt/Thomas Wayne. Several ideas from Morrison's JLA run also make a return here, such as their interpretation of the fifth dimension and the ArcWords of "Batman and Robin will never die!" being from there as well.
# Awesome.BattlestarGalactica2003: Sabotaging the Colonials' plan to introduce a virus into the Cylon resurrection process and kill them all. On a series where everyone and their grandmother is either becoming a hopeless drunk or is willing to kick an entire animal shelter full of dogs on their way to the bathroom, or simply descending into angst-ridden nihilism, he's just about the one person who is unwilling to sacrifice his convictions just for a few more days of running and hoping the Cylons don't catch up to them. At the end of the day, he's ready to make the moral choice, and frak the consequences, and prove that Humanity is worthy of survival.
# Music.MouthAlbums: The word "Mouth" comes up a lot in the albums, both in the album titles and the titles of songs mashing "All Star" with something else. "Mouth Dreams" also recurs in, well, Mouth Dreams.
# Sandbox.MagnificentBastardVideoGamesMToZ: Vik is a merchant and slaver from Khare who sought to take advantage of the power vacuum left behind by the disappearance of the Council of Nobles to name himself First Noble and rule the city. Vik proves to be a charismatic figure who is able to turn the downtrodden masses to his side by promising to improve everyday life under the slogan "Vik for First Noble". Secretly, however, he creates an army of loyal werewolves by kidnapping the same downtrodden, infecting them with lycanthropy, and equipping them with armor to control them. Provided the goblins don't destroy the city, Vik's immoral methods prove worthwhile when he is able to take the city bloodlessly, abolish the council, and fully open Khare to the outside world.
# NightmareFuel.PoppyPlaytime: Although it was hard to see in-game before, a remastered update to Chapter 1 made several graphical changes to the lighting in the facility, which called better attention to a decal on the wall in the room where the first electrical circuit puzzle is solved. A decal of a mechanical hand and the word "wonderful". Both things that were associated with the Prototype, revealing its influence much earlier than previously thought.
# Characters.BuffyverseBuffyTheVampireSlayerBigBads: "From beneath you, it devours."
# Fanfic.MarriageOfHeavenAndHell: The finale of Volume 4, aptly titled "How You Feel," uses the phrase multiple times referring both to Akeno reconciling with her father and Makoto and Akeno confessing their love for each other.
# Series.KamenRiderKabuto: I'll always be by your side. Tendo's not the only to use it. Even the lyrics to One World (the movie's ending song) uses this line
# Recap.ThomasAndFriendsS6E18PercysChocolateCrunch: "Usefulness before cleanliness."
# Film.Incantation2022: The eponymous incantation is repeated throughout the film. It's later revealed that the incantation's purpose is to spread curses across multiple people, and thus dilute the effects.
# Manga.LandOfTheLustrous: "If only [you/I] weren't here..."
# VideoGame.MortalKombat1: "It's in our blood" serves as the game's Tagline and doubles as a Driving Question — Liu Kang has resculpted time and altered the backgrounds of numerous characters, particularly the antagonists, to give them a chance at better, more peaceful lives. Who among the cast will seize their second chance at happiness and who will repeat their old rivalries and ambitions once more?
# YMMV.{{Arcaea}}: Tairitsu's name means such in Japanese and the two initial lane skins are Light and Conflict. Eight months after the game's release, "conflict" by Siromaru and Cranky, one of the most crossed-over songs in all of rhythm games, makes its Arcaea debut as a song with the Conflict skin. This became a twofer with the Tone Sphere collaboration, where songs from TS's Solarsphere chapter get Light lanes and songs from its Darksphere chapter get Conflict lanes, and "conflict" is a Solarsphere song, meaning that if it had been included as part of the collab, it would've been a Light song instead. As icing on the cake, the Tone Sphere song "A Light" gets Conflict lanes (due to being a Darksphere song) rather than Light ones.
# Film.MouseHunt: "A world without string is chaos."
# Theatre.EscapeToMargaritaville: Tully's motto, "Breathe in, breathe out, move on," which Rachel ends up adopting for herself as she learns to relax.
# Recap.CriminalMindsS13E13Cure: "We are the cure!"
# Fanfic.CrosswindsOfFate: In a fairly lighthearted example, "blood pops" show up several times throughout the story, alluding to Zelretch's implied Fetch Quest.
# Film.WonderWoman2017: "I used to want to save the world" used as Book Ends. "They do not deserve you", in various variations, concluding in the next: "It's not about what they deserve, it's what you believe."
# Music.{{Milgram}}: "Forgive/Not Forgive" appears a lot in song lyrics, especially from the Second Trial onward, hammering in the theme of the project.
# Literature.{{Gosick}}: "The coming wind" or all other variants, which can be easily inferred to be World War II. Preparing for this is the reason Albert de Blois did everything he did.
# Recap.SwampThingVolume2Issue45GhostDance: "Bang. Bang. Bang. The sound of the hammers must never stop."
# Fanfic.TheTwilightChild: "Somepony's child, somepony's X".
# Theatre.CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory: Nothing and something.
# Recap.EddsworldSaloonatics: "Everybody needs a little something".
# Literature.BookOfRevelation: In Chapters 2 and 3: "He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches."
# TabletopGame.UnknownArmies: "You did it." In every sense of the phrase.
# Fanfic.ShardsOfMemory: Every chapter begins with a historical quote relevant to the events about to unfold.
# Recap.StevenUniverseS3E15AloneAtSea: In the past, Lapis forcing Malachite came across as a Heroic Sacrifice to protect Steven from Jasper, with Lapis even saying "Just let me do this for you!", the nearly exact same words said by Pearl. Here it's revealed Lapis doesn't believe she did it for Steven at all, but rather for her own emotional self-harm and to use Jasper as a target of her anger and frustration.
# Anime.QueensBlade: "Who will emerge victorious? They won' t know that unless they fight!" Used many times at the beginning and in the end of many parts of the franchise.
# Film.TheManWhoWasntThere2001: "What kind of a man are you?"
# Theatre.InTheHeights: "No pare, sigue sigue!" meaning "Don't stop, continue, continue!" which encourages the two main characters, Usnavi and Nina, in "Hundreds of Stories" and "When You're Home" respectively. note Also used for comedic effect in "It Won't Be Long Now", during Usnavi's brief victory rap after Sonny asks Vanessa out for him. "Yeah, I'm a streetlight": Benny first calls Usnavi a streetlight, as in he's stuck to his corner store as the world moves around him. At the end of the show, Usnavi embraces the term, using his permanent role in the barrio as an illuminator for everyone's stories.
# Recap.MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E21TheBeastOfYuccaFlats: Narrator: Joseph Javorsky. Noted scientist. Mike: Melted scientist? Narrator: A-Bomb Testing Ground. Crow: Avon Testing Ground? What rabbits with shaved butts?
# TheMatrixFilm.TropesGToO: GoBackToTheSource: "Returning to The Source" are ArcWords about returning to the heart of the Matrix's mainframe, where everything originated and hitting a Reset Button (or something like that).
# Fanfic.MoreThanHuman: Occasionally appears as different phrases in each chapter, especially during Chapter 4. Blossom: The least he could have done was look at me. A recurring phrase is a quote by Camus, who Brick has a particular interest in. "I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless."
# Film.TragedyGirls: "What's next for the Tragedy Girls?"
# Monster.VideoGamesAToC: Croesus Verlac is the patriarch of the Verlac family and a man who discovered a dark route to immortality. Long before the story of Anchorhead began, Croseus's physical flesh became dust...but his spirit survives by taking over the bodies of his male descendants and impregnating the female descendants to create new bodies for him to steal later. The power Croseus has over his descendants is represented in the chilling ArcWords: He always returns to his blood. Not content with this, Croseus runs a legacy of dark magic and murder, routinely sacrificing children for power to the point where the well behind the village slaughterhouse is full of the bones of missing children. In the present, Croseus takes control of and possesses the nameless heroine's husband, before setting his plan into motion: to open the gates to the Eldritch Abomination beings he worships and allow them to devour all that lives.
# Series.FromDuskTillDawn: "The Gecko Brothers ride again/The Gecko Brothers are back." "I'm a professional thief." "You're my brother."
# VideoGame.FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach: "Are you having fun yet?" First mentioned by Sun if you stand around on the Daycare, and then by Vanny once Vanessa locks you in Lost and Found.
# Film.PoltergeistIII: "Outside, in!"
# Film.EvilDeadRise: "Let me in." The possessed Jessica says it when reciting a passage from Wuthering Heights, Kassie says it to her older siblings when trying to play with them, Gabriel says it when begging Beth to let him in to safety in the apartment, and Deadite Ellie says it repeatedly.
# Recap.LostS02E18Dave: Dave says, "See you in another life, Hurley!" before diving off a cliff.
# Film.GalaxyQuest: "Never give up! Never surrender!"
# VisualNovel.BadEndTheater: "You'll all burn together." appears at the end of each True End, except the Maiden's, where it's "Will you all burn together?"
# Film.TheForest2016: "[Don't leave/Stay on] the path".
# ComicBook.BatmanVampire: In Red Rain: "Vampires are real...but not all of them are evil."In Bloodstorm: "To death, in peace." In Crimson Mist: "First your blood... then your head!"
# Characters.DragonQuestIX: Greygnarl and Barbarus fought three hundred years ago, which was a very eventful year in the game's Backstory.
# Characters.ArrowverseTeamFlash: The words "Fraud" or/and "Pretender" are frequently mentioned when he's around, either by other characters or H.R. himself. His entire Story Arc has him wanting to prove his worth because he did not earn the merits and fame he received on his Earth. His story culminates with him pulling a Heroic Sacrifice by switching places with Iris during her supposed death using his body changing device
# ComicBook.TheFlashRebirth: "Every second is a gift."
# Recap.HouseS2E5DaddysBoy: Another episode where "everybody lies" is especially pertinent. This time, even House is taken aback by just how dishonest Ken and Carnell are with each other.
# BorrowedCatchphrase.LiveActionTV: "My name is Moira Dearden Queen, and God help me, I have failed this city."
# Characters.GenshinImpactRaidenShogun: Aside from "eternity" as her ideal and "erosion" as what she's trying to prevent, there's also "wishes," "ambitions," and "dreams" that are heavily tied to her and her story. Some of the descriptions for her Talents and Constellation upgrades mention those words. Her Vision Hunt Decree has her taking away people's ambitions in the process. She is convinced to abolish the decree after the Traveler shows her how the power of the people's ambitions can overpower a god's will.
# Anime.RahXephon: "The world is saturated with sound."
# Characters.AmericasNextTopModelCycleEighteenBritishInvasion: In the pilot episode. Annaliese: "America is not ready for the British Invasion. We did it once, and we can do it again."
# VideoGame.TheQuarry: The camp motto: "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger."
# Fanfic.SeriesThirtyAndThreeQuarters: "...who's that?", directed from Shinji to the Ninth Doctor "Just call me Bob, miss," the voice said. "Everyone does." From the end of Episode 11 Part V: The Doctor: note (examining a microfilm containing the Chinese Government's newest economic plan, which hasn't been implemented yet) Communist Party's still in charge over in Beijing, yeah? And they still organize everything into five-year plans à la Mao? Kaji: Last I checked. Why? The Doctor: So why's this one only go up to the end of the year? The last line of Episode 11: "Yui Ikari" The Doctor swallowed. "Shinji's mother was Project Zero."
# Characters.WonderWomanAllies: Starting in May of 2021, "Amazons Attack!" appears in a suspiciously large amount of speech bubbles throughout DC Infinite Frontier books. As it turns out the DC Rebirth line was to start its own version of the infamous Amazon's Attack arc in October of 2023.
# Film.TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact: Compare Dr. Chandra's answers for the same question from SAL and HAL. SAL: Will I dream? Dr. Chandra: Of course you will. All intelligent beings dream. Nobody knows why. HAL: Dr. Chandra, will I dream? Dr. Chandra: I don't know.
# VideoGame.StarWarsGalacticBattlegrounds: Wesa ready to do our part! I have a bad feeling about this... (about 4 taunts dedicated to this one alone)
# SelfDemonstrating.TheJokerTropesAToF: While I'm certainly not cliché enough to use the same material again and again, it seems that classic line from Heathy has become my unofficial motto: "Why so serious?" Hey, if it sticks, it sticks! (Just so long as I get a cut of all that glorious T-shirt revenue...) "One Bad Day". That was originally mine, these days everyone in Gotham is saying it.
# Radio.AdventuresInOdyssey: At the end of "The Christmas Bells", Pastor Knox hears God tell him the words "one of three will fall". It ends up being the setup to Olivia Parker's descent into questioning her own faith.
# Recap.ArrowS5E2TheRecruits: Season 5's main theme, "legacies", is brought up again.
# Series.IntoTheNight: "One problem at a time."
# Creator.JonathanHickman: Usually a couple per series:Fantastic Four has "Solve everything" and "All hope lies in Doom." The Avengers has "It was an Avengers World" and "we were Avengers." New Avengers has "Everything dies." X-Men (2019) has “While you slept, the world changed”, a phrase which originated in his Fantastic Four run. Other words sprinkled throughout his Marvel series include "wheel(s)", "build(er)", "idea", "city" and "forever".
# Film.TheTestamentOfDrMabuse: "The Empire of Crime! The Empire of Crime!"
# VideoGame.SuperRobotWars30: Kamille. Due to his Mind Rape from Scirocco, he wasn't able to be there when Amuro fought Char, something that he didn't take very well. It's only by seeing Jona continue to fight against impossible odds, as well as Amuro telling him "Don't let the dead consume you!" that Kamille is able to regain the will to fight.
# Music.LosCampesinos: "Doe eyes" has been a long-lasting term frequently mentioned in their songs.Eyes are a recurring theme in "Hello Sadness," and the phrase "sad eyes" appears in the last three song songs on the album: To Tundra ("We take on the burden of all these sad-eyed children, with lilies bunched in our hands"), Baby, I Got the Death Rattle ("One look in my sad eyes, she had to concede"), and Light Leaves, Dark Sees Pt. II ("But they request that I leave 'cause my sad eyes are too much to bear"). "Heart Swells" and "Documented Minor Emotional Breakdown" have labeled various songs in a semi-Thematic Series sort of way.
# Series.{{Wizbit}}: In the episode "Badbit", a character with that name and whoever he is talking to gives this dialogue: Badbit: Get it? Whoever he is talking to: Got it. Badbit: Good.
# IronicEcho.LiveActionFilms: In Fight Club, related to ArcWords. One example that stands out in particular is when the group leader for the Testicular Cancer support group that the Narrator visits addresses the people in the room with the phrase "I look around this room and I see a lot of...", which Tyler steals while making his "Middle Children of History" speech later on in the film.
# VideoGame.ToontownRewritten: Undo mistakes, not fate.
# ComicBook.ImmortalXMen: Destiny to Sinister, over and over: “We must be on the same side.” Throughout the series, several characters mention the word "immortal", "immortality" and the idea of "living forever".
# Recap.GameOfThronesS2E10ValarMorghulis: "Valar Morghulis" for Arya.
# Recap.SherlockS04E01TheSixThatchers: "AMMO" for this episode, and "[Did you] miss me?" for the overall "Moriarty reappears" arc.
# VideoGame.SuperMarioBrosWonder: "Wonder" and its variants. "Wonderful" is the highest rank of a combo or getting on the very top of the goal pole. There's a power-up known as the Wonder Flower which triggers a Wonder Effect, players collect Wonder Seeds to unlock new levels and purchase badges, and the world is portrayed as a Wonderland. Mario will even say "Wonderful!" after collecting a Wonder Seed. The final message displayed to you after clearing the Special World is "YOU ARE A SUPER WONDER!"
# ShowWithinAShow.{{Literature}}: The Jack O'Connell novel The Resurrectionist features a comic book series about a carnival freak show in fantasy Central Europe called "Limbo." "Limbo" is a multimedia franchise in the book's world, and the hero's comatose son was fascinated by it. The word is also an arc word outside of the comic.
# YMMV.TheGuyWhoDidntLikeMusicals: The apotheosis is upon us.Explanation The ArcWords of the alien Hive Mind.
# Recap.GameOfThronesS8E5TheBells: After suffering from one long Trauma Conga Line throughout the season, losing her children and dear friends, her lover no longer wishing to be intimate with her, finding out her claim to the Iron Throne is no longer secure, and continuing to get no respect from an ungrateful populace, Daenerys decides enough is enough and "wakes the Dragon" on King's Landing. This is best exemplified with a quote from her at the start of the episode, when she feels that the people don't love her: "Let it be fear."
# Webcomic.CaribbeanBlue: "This is your destiny."
# Sandbox.{{Safind}}: Don't rock the boat
# Literature.GiveUsForever: "Look to your sins" and "must we sin once and repent forever?"
# VideoGame.WrathOfTheGods: The I-over-O symbol (actually the Greek letter Phi) which appears all over the place
# Film.PitchPerfect: "Magic" for Benji. "Endings are the best part!" In the sequel, "Legacy" starts off as Emily's nickname and quickly becomes the theme of the film.
# LetsPlay.{{Pokecapn}}: Grapes.
# Film.{{Head}}: Appropriately enough, "head". There's Micky and Peter musing about getting shot in the head in the war sequence, Davy referring to his own noggin as a "million-dollar head" in the boxing sequence, and Micky talking about how "Our universes only start from the inside of our head" in the final channel-flipping scene.
# Music.ToPimpAButterfly: Every song from "King Kunta" onwards on the album ends with an expanding monologue that begins with "I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence."
# Podcast.{{Spines}}: Grove, mosaic, trumpet. We find out what each one refers to as the story progresses.
# Sandbox.HamiltonAaronBurr: "Talk less, smile more" and "Wait/Waiting", demonstrating his caution and lack of decisiveness.
# Anime.YuGiOhArcV: "The fun has just begun" seems to be a recurrent phrase, as it shows in the plot, openings and endings mostly by Yuya. It has also been used by some of the more morally ambiguous characters as well. For Yuto and Kurosaki, "Hangyaku" (Rebellion). It's mentioned in their summon chants for both of their ace monsters. "Smile" or also commonly known as "egao", which has been repeated a few dozen times. "Become One" or "hitotsu ni" is repeated throughout the show with its meaning changing based on the side that uses it. When the Academia or Zarc use it, the phrase means a forceful physical fusion like the Academia trying to fuse the dimensions or Zarc trying to fuse his counterparts to revive. When the good guys use it, it means someone was able to emotionally unite the audience through their dueling.
# Fanfic.TheSunWillComeUpAndTheSeasonsWillChange: Seasons. The story starts in the autumn, the subtitle of the fic is "The Seasons Will Change", and Mary's last name is Summers.
# TheExpanse.TropesAToE: "Remember the Cant!" "Milowda na ányimals!" (Belter for "We are not animals!") "(When) the blood's on the wall..." "The work must be finished..." "Doors and corners"
# Awesome.Ducktales2017Season3: Bradford, your contract is flawed! Bradford: What?! Impossible! I worked on it for 30 years! Went over it with the finest-tooth combs! Louie: According to this, Scrooge can be with his family as long as he doesn't adventure! Huey: But family is the greatest adventure of all! Bradford: That's...the Stupidest Thing I've Ever Heard. There's no way that— [the contract disintegrates] Bradford: No! NOOOOOO!
# ARG.CaughtNotSleeping: "Welcome to the Game" and any other use of the word game. "You ever do something that you know wasn't going to help, but you do it anyway? And you don't even know why you're doing it?" "There are no coincidences."
# VideoGame.AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag: After not being mentioned all throughout the previous game, "Nothing is true and everything is permitted" is discussed once more, the true meaning of the phrase being pondered again by the protagonist. Bartholomew Roberts has some, too: "For I have dipped my hands in muddied waters, and withdrawing them find 'tis better to be a commander than a common man!"
# Heartwarming.{{Dunkirk}}: The brave Little Ships, including the Moonstone, eventually make it to the beach of Dunkirk, allowing for a greater number of soldiers to be evacuated. "Home" finally came for them. When pressed, Mr. Dawson notes that it's men his age who made the choice to send young men off to war, it's only right he risk his life to get them back. There's a wonderful little detail in the shots of the Little Ships coming in. If you look carefully, you can see both naval officers and civilian sailors manning them. While Dawson is the symbol of the brave civilians who helped in the evacuation, the shot still shows sailors and civilians working together to rescue their countrymen.
# VideoGame.HouseOfAshes: Semper Fi, the Marine motto meaning "always loyal". True to these words, the only way everyone can get out of this nightmare is with teamwork and remaining loyal to each other.
# MeaningfulRename.{{Webcomics}}: Oddly enough, Lord English changed his name to that from Caliborn after he suffered his first-ever defeat at the hands of Jake English, Jade's post-Scratch son. Weird Plot Shit applies.
# Film.Overlord2018: "This is the job."
# Heartwarming.MeetTheRobinsons: The ending quote, revealing the origin of the ArcWords. Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. — Walt Disney
# WebAnimation.EmesisBlue: "It's longer than you'd think." and "It's eternity in there."
# Music.LoveYourselfSeries: {{Foreshadowing}}: The ArcWords "Save Me"/"I'm Fine" - written in a certain typography so that you could read "Save Me" on one side, then "I'm Fine" if you turned it upside-down - appeared on the LOVE YOURSELF drama-style promotional posters for LOVE YOURSELF: Her, and in the "FAKE LOVE" music video, from LOVE YOURSELF: Tear. The final chapter in the series, LOVE YOURSELF: Answer, features the song "I'm Fine", which is both in production and lyrics a Call-Back and a mirror to the song "Save Me", from The Most Beautiful Moment in Life.
# Literature.TheMouseAndHisChild: The dog food can seen numerous times throughout the movie. The characters speculate that some great wisdom lies beyond the last visible dog.
# ComicBook.BatmanGrantMorrison: ArcWelding: A particularly epic example, as everything from the origin of Vandal Savage to various wacky 1960s adventures are tied together as the work of Darkseid's Hyper-Adaptor and its eventual host, Simon Hurt/Thomas Wayne. Several ideas from Morrison's JLA run also make a return here, such as their interpretation of the fifth dimension and the ArcWords of "Batman and Robin will never die!" being from there as well.
# Awesome.BattlestarGalactica2003: Sabotaging the Colonials' plan to introduce a virus into the Cylon resurrection process and kill them all. On a series where everyone and their grandmother is either becoming a hopeless drunk or is willing to kick an entire animal shelter full of dogs on their way to the bathroom, or simply descending into angst-ridden nihilism, he's just about the one person who is unwilling to sacrifice his convictions just for a few more days of running and hoping the Cylons don't catch up to them. At the end of the day, he's ready to make the moral choice, and frak the consequences, and prove that Humanity is worthy of survival.
# Music.MouthAlbums: The word "Mouth" comes up a lot in the albums, both in the album titles and the titles of songs mashing "All Star" with something else. "Mouth Dreams" also recurs in, well, Mouth Dreams.
# Sandbox.MagnificentBastardVideoGamesMToZ: Vik is a merchant and slaver from Khare who sought to take advantage of the power vacuum left behind by the disappearance of the Council of Nobles to name himself First Noble and rule the city. Vik proves to be a charismatic figure who is able to turn the downtrodden masses to his side by promising to improve everyday life under the slogan "Vik for First Noble". Secretly, however, he creates an army of loyal werewolves by kidnapping the same downtrodden, infecting them with lycanthropy, and equipping them with armor to control them. Provided the goblins don't destroy the city, Vik's immoral methods prove worthwhile when he is able to take the city bloodlessly, abolish the council, and fully open Khare to the outside world.
# NightmareFuel.PoppyPlaytime: Although it was hard to see in-game before, a remastered update to Chapter 1 made several graphical changes to the lighting in the facility, which called better attention to a decal on the wall in the room where the first electrical circuit puzzle is solved. A decal of a mechanical hand and the word "wonderful". Both things that were associated with the Prototype, revealing its influence much earlier than previously thought.
# Characters.BuffyverseBuffyTheVampireSlayerBigBads: "From beneath you, it devours."
# Fanfic.MarriageOfHeavenAndHell: The finale of Volume 4, aptly titled "How You Feel," uses the phrase multiple times referring both to Akeno reconciling with her father and Makoto and Akeno confessing their love for each other.
# Series.KamenRiderKabuto: I'll always be by your side. Tendo's not the only to use it. Even the lyrics to One World (the movie's ending song) uses this line
# Recap.ThomasAndFriendsS6E18PercysChocolateCrunch: "Usefulness before cleanliness."
# Film.Incantation2022: The eponymous incantation is repeated throughout the film. It's later revealed that the incantation's purpose is to spread curses across multiple people, and thus dilute the effects.
# Manga.LandOfTheLustrous: "If only [you/I] weren't here..."
# VideoGame.MortalKombat1: "It's in our blood" serves as the game's Tagline and doubles as a Driving Question — Liu Kang has resculpted time and altered the backgrounds of numerous characters, particularly the antagonists, to give them a chance at better, more peaceful lives. Who among the cast will seize their second chance at happiness and who will repeat their old rivalries and ambitions once more?
# YMMV.{{Arcaea}}: Tairitsu's name means such in Japanese and the two initial lane skins are Light and Conflict. Eight months after the game's release, "conflict" by Siromaru and Cranky, one of the most crossed-over songs in all of rhythm games, makes its Arcaea debut as a song with the Conflict skin. This became a twofer with the Tone Sphere collaboration, where songs from TS's Solarsphere chapter get Light lanes and songs from its Darksphere chapter get Conflict lanes, and "conflict" is a Solarsphere song, meaning that if it had been included as part of the collab, it would've been a Light song instead. As icing on the cake, the Tone Sphere song "A Light" gets Conflict lanes (due to being a Darksphere song) rather than Light ones.
# Film.MouseHunt: "A world without string is chaos."
# Theatre.EscapeToMargaritaville: Tully's motto, "Breathe in, breathe out, move on," which Rachel ends up adopting for herself as she learns to relax.
# Recap.CriminalMindsS13E13Cure: "We are the cure!"
# Fanfic.CrosswindsOfFate: In a fairly lighthearted example, "blood pops" show up several times throughout the story, alluding to Zelretch's implied Fetch Quest.
# Film.WonderWoman2017: "I used to want to save the world" used as Book Ends. "They do not deserve you", in various variations, concluding in the next: "It's not about what they deserve, it's what you believe."
# Music.{{Milgram}}: "Forgive/Not Forgive" appears a lot in song lyrics, especially from the Second Trial onward, hammering in the theme of the project.
# Literature.{{Gosick}}: "The coming wind" or all other variants, which can be easily inferred to be World War II. Preparing for this is the reason Albert de Blois did everything he did.
# Recap.SwampThingVolume2Issue45GhostDance: "Bang. Bang. Bang. The sound of the hammers must never stop."
# Fanfic.TheTwilightChild: "Somepony's child, somepony's X".
# Theatre.CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory: Nothing and something.
# Recap.EddsworldSaloonatics: "Everybody needs a little something".
