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9	%%* ''Film/ThirteenHoursTheSecretSoldiersOfBenghazi'': Joseph Campbell's quote "All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you."
10	%%* The D is for D[[spoiler:eloused]] segment of ''Film/ABCsOfDeath2'': "You pay for life."
11	%%* ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'': "Follow the money."
12	%%* ''Film/AlmostFamous'': "Mystique". Also, "The enemy."
13	* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'':
14	** "Hope" is frequently mentioned, not only to allude to Spider-Man's status as a HopeBringer but also as a reminder (especially to Peter) to pick yourself up from a DespairEventHorizon.
15	** "[[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt Roosevelt]]", the name of the file that Richard Parker uploaded seconds before his death. Peter naturally associates it with President Roosevelt, but lacks a proper context and gets distracted by other issues until he uncovers a clue which allows him to realize its significance. [[spoiler:The file ends up being located at an abandoned section of Roosevelt Avenue.]]
16	%%* ''Film/AmericanPsycho'': "This is not an exit".
17	* ''Film/{{Annie\|2014}}'': Annie's words to Stacks become significant enough that he puts them into his speech.
18	-->"Whenever someone says 'no', it's because they're scared of saying 'yes'".
19	* Creator/WesAnderson's filmography as a whole has an offbeat example in the Latin phrase ''sic transit gloria'', meaning "thus passes glory." It's only spoken aloud in his second film, ''Film/{{Rushmore}}'', but it's a recurring motif in almost all of his movies, which usually feature at least one major character who wants to return to their lost GloryDays and typically going about that goal in a deeply unhealthy way, thereby causing a great deal of the conflict.
20	* ''Film/AssassinsCreed2016'': "For the Creed" describes the motivations of many characters, both Assassin and Templar.
21	%%* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'': "I see you."
22	%%* ''Film/BagdadCafe'': "Magic!"
23	* ''Film/BicentennialMan'':
24	** During the first half of the film, Andrew's line "One is glad to be of service" indicates that he is enjoying his work. In the second half, however, after he's stopped using "[[ThirdPersonPerson one]]" as a personal pronoun, it's a sign that he is seeing himself as a robot and not happy. At the very end, Galatea [[BorrowedCatchphrase quotes him]] to express her gratitude in helping.
25	** "That will not do." The first time he says these words, right after Little Miss passes away, Andrew memorizes every medical textbook available ''in the world'' to begin designing [[ArtificialLimbs artificial organs]] and DNA elixirs that mix the technological with the biological, making a profound leap in medical technology. When he says those words again after Portia tells him [[RoboticSpouse their marriage will never be accepted]], he goes on a campaign to earn full rights as a human being.
26	%%* ''Film/BigFish'': "Story/ies."
27	%%* ''Film/BlackChristmas2006'': "...My family now." These words persist in the heads of the Lenz children.
28	%%* ''Film/BlackSwan'':
29	%%** "Lose yourself."
30	%%** "Live a little."
31	%%** "Perfect."
32	%%** "Sweet girl."
33	%%* ''Film/BladeRunner'':
34	%%** "To live in fear."
35	%%** "Time to die."
36	%%* ''Film/BladeRunner2049'':
37	%%** "Cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells."
38	%%** "What's it like to hold the hand of someone love? What's it like to hold your child in your arms?"
39	%%** "Because you have never seen a miracle."
40	%%** "Dying for the right cause is the most human thing we can do."
41	%%* ''Film/BloodDiamond'': " T.I.A. This Is Africa."
42	* ''Film/BloodOfTheTribades'': "The blood is the life". It appears to be a religious phrase for the vampires, denoting their equivalent of communion, as the blood of Bathor is believed to have provided their eternal life.
43	* ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'': "Family" is used many times in reference to both [[Music/{{Queen}} the band]] and their personal lives. Also, to a lesser extent: "Good thoughts, good words, good deeds."
44	%%* ''Film/TheBoyWhoCriedWerewolf'': [[Literature/TheJungleBook "The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack."]]
45	%%* ''Film/TheBourneSeries'': "Look at us. Look at what they make you give."
46	* ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' often ask "who are those guys?" in reference to the posse chasing them across the west but it also symbolizes the EndOfAnEra for western outlaws. They can't run away from progress.
47	%%* ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers2022'': "The biggest risk is not taking any risk at all."
48	* ''Film/ChristopherRobin'': Two contrasting phrases are brought up throughout the film and recur frequently: "Nothing comes from nothing" and "Doing nothing often leads to the very best kind of something."
49	%%* ''Film/AChristmasStory'': "You'll shoot your eye out!"
50	%%* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'': "In our faith, we keep what we kill."
51	* ''Film/{{Cinderella 2015}}'': "Have courage and be kind", told to Ella by her dying mother. What starts out as a simple platitude ends up becoming a challenging SurvivalMantra for Ella, as she determines herself to keep finding ''something'' in this world to keep hopeful about, even when all she ever seems to receive is hatred and cruelty.
52	%%* ''Film/CitySlickersIITheLegendOfCurlysGold'' -- "Come and get me".
53	* In the original draft of the screenplay, Dante's constant complaint that "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" in ''Film/{{Clerks}}'' was intended to foreshadow the tragic irony of Dante getting shot to death by a criminal at the film's conclusion. As the script was revised, this particular meaning is lost: however, Randall still references Dante's use of the phrase in his rant near the end about how Dante refuses to accept responsibility for his own actions or attempt to make change in his miserable life. The same with the other arc phrase: "Bunch of savages in this town."
54	%%* ''Film/CloudAtlas'', being an a film built largely on symbolism, has a huge number of shared ideas, visuals and -- of course -- phrases. Sometimes coincidence, sometimes an instance of in-universe quoting, a few stand out:
55	%%** "Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others; past and present..."
56	%%** "The weak are meat, and the strong do eat."
57	%%** "There is a natural order to this world..."
58	%%** "I will not be subjected to criminal abuse!"
59	%%* ''Film/{{Colette}}'': "I am the real Claudine."
60	%%* ''Film/{{Congo}}'': "We are watching you."
61	%%* ''Film/{{Contact}}''. "If there is no one out there, it's an awful waste of space."
62	%%* ''Film/TheConversation'': "He'd kill us if he had the chance."
63	* ''Film/TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton'' "You never know what's coming for you" represents one of the film's themes that deal with the unexpected ways life will change.
64	%%* ''Film/DarkCity'': "Do you know the way to Shell Beach?"
65	%%* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy''
66	%%** "Why do we fall?" in all three movies.
67	%%** In ''Film/BatmanBegins'':
68	%%*** "If you make yourself more than just a man..."
69	%%*** "It's not who I am underneath, it's what I do that defines me."
70	%%** In ''Film/TheDarkKnight'':
71	%%*** "You wanna know how I got these scars?"
72	%%*** "Why so serious?"
73	%%*** “You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
74	%%** In ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'':
75	%%*** "Rise."
76	%%*** "Anyone can be a hero."
77	%%* Creator/DavidLynch, in keeping with his affinity for mystery and ambiguity, sometimes uses these.
78	%%** ''Film/LostHighway'': "Dick Laurant is dead". "We've met before, haven't we?"
79	%%** ''Film/MulhollandDrive'': "This is the girl".
80	%%** ''Film/InlandEmpire'' has a few; most obvious is "look at me and tell me if you've known me before", but there's also "[=AXXoN N.=]", "just down the way" and "the horse to the well" (which is hard to spot since it's mostly muffled or spoken in Polish).
81	* ''Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse''
82	** ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'':
83	*** For Superman, any variation of "my world" is frequently uttered. It showcases how he sees Earth as his home and Lois Lane as his life/soul mate.
84	*** For Batman, the words "men" and "good" being used in the same phrase/sentence. It highlights how cynical he is, and it also illustrates his journey on regaining a bit of his idealism.
85	%%** ''Film/WonderWoman2017'':
86	%%*** "I used to want to save the world" used as BookEnds.
87	%%*** "They do not deserve you", in various variations, concluding with: "It's not about what they deserve, it's what you believe."
88	%%** ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'': "Hope" and "Fear".
89	%%** ''Film/{{Shazam 2019}}'': "All hands on deck".
90	%%** ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'': "Not alone".
91	%%* ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'': "Carpe diem"/"Seize the day".
92	* ''Film/Deadpool2'': "Your heart is not in the right place." Spoken by Vanessa and repeatedly haunt Wade [[spoiler:after her death. It later turns out, [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold his heart]] ''[[JerkWithAHeartOfGold is]]''.]]
93	%%* ''Film/TheDescent'': "Love each day."
94	%%* ''Film/DirtyHarry'': "Do you feel lucky, punk?"
95	%%** ''Film/MagnumForce'': "Man has to known his limitations." Unlike the others, which are mostly said in passing, this one actually intergrades into part of the main plot. How?
96	%%** ''Film/TheEnforcer'': "Marvellous."
97	%%** ''Film/SuddenImpact'': "Go ahead, make my day."
98	%%** ''Film/TheDeadPool'': "You're shit outta luck."
99	* ''Film/DumbMoney'': "I just like the stock." Keith's ultimate reasoning for buying into [=GameStop=], which becomes a memetic phrase among his followers, and also is among his closing statement during his testimony at the end. His followers cheer upon hearing him say it.
100	%%* ''Film/{{Dunkirk}}'': "Home."
101	* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' has several sets of repeated phrases that the audience uses to track Cage's progress through the GroundhogDayLoop.
102	** "On your feet, maggot!" The DrillSergeantNasty saying this as he kicks Cage awake marks the beginning of a new loop. The only times Cage wakes up without hearing this phrase, [[spoiler: first after he's [[BroughtDownToNormal lost the ability to loop]] and second after he's destroyed the Omega]] are ''huge'' moments as a result.
103	** "You keep coming here every day and I'll train you." Rita's words to Cage show us that he's not the first person to have this power, eventually Cage interrupts her by saying that ''he already has'' come there and trained with her, hundreds if not thousands of times.
104	** "Hey mate, there's something wrong with your suit! There's a dead guy in it!" Skinner taunts Cage with this in the dropship, highlighting how ridiculously [[NewMeat out of]] [[ArmchairMilitary his depth]] Cage is at the beginning. By the end, Cage has died so many times and become such a [[ShellShockedVeteran hardened warrior]] that he finishes the joke himself, and it's Skinner who feels intimidated when he looks at [[TookALevelInBadass Cage]].
105	%%* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'': "I've been dreaming of a true love's kiss..."
106	%%* ''Film/EscapeRoom2017'': "It's all part of the game."
107	%%* ''Film/EternalSunshineOfTheSpotlessMind'': "Meet me in Montauk".
108	%%* ''Film/{{Exam}}'': "What is the question?"
109	%%* ''Film/FieldOfDreams'':
110	%%** "If you build it, he will come."
111	%%** Ease his pain.
112	%%** Go the distance.
113	%%* ''Film/FightClub'':
114	%%** "[[ShroudedInMyth Do you know Tyler Durden?]]"
115	%%** "I am Jack's [insert body part here]"
116	%%** "[[NarratorAllAlong I know this because Tyler knows this.]]"
117	%%** "[[WeAllDieSomeday On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.]]"
118	%%** "[[SacrificialLamb Space monkeys.]]"
119	%%** "[[SchmuckBait The first rule of Fight Club is; you do not talk about Fight Club.]]"
120	%%** "[[FreezeFrameBonus It's called a changeover. The movie goes on, and nobody in the audience has any idea.]]"
121	%%* ''Film/ForrestGump'': "Run, Forrest, run!"
122	%%* ''Film/TheFugitive'': [[BlatantLies "I don't care."]]
123	%%* ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'': "I Won't Tell."
124	* ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'' has "I Won't Tell." These three words are a constant in Maggie's nightmares throughout the film. [[spoiler:Once it's revealed that her real name is Katherine, and she's the daughter of Freddy, it turns out that said nightmares are actually repressed memories of the day he murdered her mother, Loretta Krueger, right in front of her. Loretta said it once she discovered the truth about her husband's "special work", and it was the last thing little Katherine had said to her father after her mother died. The terrified little girl didn't keep that promise however, and it led to not only his arrest, but her being put into the Springwood orphanage where she was eventually adopted.]]
125	%%* ''Film/GalaxyQuest'': "Never give up! Never surrender!"
126	%%* ''Film/TheGallows'': "He wants me. He's coming for me."
127	* ''Film/GetOut2017'': "Dead by the side of the road" comes up a lot — it's how Chris' mother dies, how the deer Chris and Rose hit with their car dies, what Dean says he thinks should happen to all deer, and how [[spoiler: Chris leaves [[ManipulativeBitch Rose]] at the end]].
128	%%** From the trailer: "A mind is a terrible thing to waste".
129	%%** From the film itself, variations on "just like one of the family".
130	%%* ''Film/TheGodfather'': "Make him an offer he can't refuse."
131	* ''Film/{{Godmothered}}'': Agnes says it sounds like Mackenzie "doesn't believe in happy." Later, Mackenzie's daughter Mia says "Mom doesn't believe in happy, or crafts, or Christmas."
132	* ''Film/TheGrandBudapestHotel'': "Enchanting old ruin." This phrase is only explicitly used to describe the hotel itself, but is implicitly applicable to M. Gustave, the country of Zubrowka, post-UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Eastern Europe as a whole, and anyone or anything else that seems to be [[BornInTheWrongCentury an out-of-place relic of a bygone time]].
133	%%* ''Film/TheGrey'': "Live and die on this day...Live and die on this day."
134	%%* ''Film/TheGreenMile'': "Miracle." and "I tried to take it back... but it was too late."
135	* ''Film/HellraiserInferno'': During his pursuit of the serial killer, Detective Joseph Thorne keeps hearing the phrase "Hunt the Engineer, and the Engineer hunts you." [[spoiler:This is because they're the same person.]]
136	%%* ''Film/{{Highlander}}'': "There can be only one."
137	* ''Film/HotFuzz'': "The Greater Good." [[spoiler: Even outside of the [[Main/TheSummation Summation]] at the end, the phrase is ''[[RewatchBonus always]]'' echoed by someone when it comes up, adding to the cult-like nature of the town.]]
138	%%* ''Film/TheHouseOfTheDevil'': Get a grip.
139	%%* ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'': "Remember who the real/true enemy is".
140	%%* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1'': "If we burn, you'll burn with us!"
141	* ''Film/TheIllusionist2006'' fires off a series of arc words in a montage at the end of the movie, giving context to everything that was said earlier which takes on a new meaning when the truth is exposed at the end. The most significant being [[spoiler:"Everything you have seen is an illusion."]]
142	* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'': "Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way." Joe prefers to get out of the way and his CharacterDevelopment involves him learning that sometimes being neutral isn't an option.
143	%%* ''Film/{{Inception}}'':
144	%%** "You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope the train will take you, but you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter. Now, tell me why?" [[spoiler:"Because we'll be together!"]]
145	%%** "An old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone."
146	%%** "Take a leap of faith."
147	%%* "Fortune and Glory" from ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''.
148	%%* ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'':
149	%%** All or parts of Dylan Thomas's poem "Literature/DoNotGoGentleIntoThatGoodNight".
150	%%** "90%" [honesty]
151	* ''Film/IntoTheStorm2009'': "Out spoke Brave Horatius, Captain of the gate, to every man upon this earth, death cometh soon or late. And how can a man die better, than by facing the fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods?" a phrase repeated by UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill twice in the movie.
152	%%* ''Film/JamesBond''
153	%%** ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''
154	%%*** "[[TearJerker We have all the time in the world]]", for this film and the beginning of ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly''
155	%%** ''Film/GoldenEye'':
156	%%*** "For England, James?"
157	%%** ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough''
158	%%*** "There's no point in living if you can't feel alive."
159	* ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'': "Skyfall" is mentioned early on in the movie and is the only part in the word association that James Bond didn't have a witty answer to. It turns out to be [[spoiler:Bond's family home, where his parents had died in a freak accident.]]
160	%%*** "Think on your sins."
161	%%*** "Sometimes, the old ways are the best."
162	%%** ''Film/NoTimeToDie'':
163	%%*** "We have all the time in the world", again.
164	* ''Franchise/JohnWick'': The series as a whole has "Be seeing you", [[spoiler: generally used as a final exchange between a defeated (and possibly dying) opponent and John.]]
165	** [[Film/JohnWick The first film]] also has "Let's go home", symbolizing John's return to the criminal underworld.
166	** ''Film/JohnWickChapter3Parabellum'' has several:
167	*** Several characters repeat and comment upon the phrase "I have served. I will be of service", which appears to be an oath of loyalty among the Table and those who serve under it. [[spoiler: This adds some ambiguity to Winston's betrayal of Wick and re-pledge to The High Table at the end of the film, as while he claims to "have served", he doesn't complete the whole phrase, and instead goes on about how he's a valuable pillar of stability for New York City.]]
168	*** The phrase "choices and consequences" also pops up quite a bit, mostly in relation to the fallout of John's actions at the end of the second movie and what path he wants to take now.
169	*** Characters proclaim their loyalty to the High Table by pledging their "fealty". The Bowery King, notably, thinks it's a load of horseshit.
170	----> '''Bowery King:''' I'm gonna shove so much "fealty" up your ass it's gonna come spilling out your mouth.
171	* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'':
172	** "Life finds a way" is first said by Ian Malcolm in ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', then later gets paraphrased by Alan Grant when he and the kids come across a dinosaur nest. It gets further paraphrased by John Hammond in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' in reference to the surprising survival of the dinosaurs on Isla Sorna. This also serves as the TagLine for ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' (incidentally the first film to include an appearance by Malcolm since ''Lost World'').
173	** "More teeth" is first used by Claire Dearing in ''Film/JurassicWorld'' to describe one of the things they are looking for in [=InGen=]'s new hybrid dinosaur, the ''Indominus rex''. Later, Gray says it to his aunt Claire [[spoiler:after seeing they and the raptors are outmatched against ''Indominus'', inspiring her to go and lure out the ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'']].
174	%%* ''Film/KillBill'': "You and I have unfinished business."
175	* ''Film/KillList'': "Thank you." Said by all of Jay's intended victims throughout the film, culminating in an IronicEcho when Gal says "Thanks" before [[spoiler:Jay delivers a MercyKill.]]
176	%%* ''Film/AKnightsTale'': "[[ScrewDestiny A man can change his stars.]]"
177	%%* ''Film/LettersToJuliet'': "If it's true love, then it is never too late".
178	* ''Film/LiberalArts'': Variations of "Please Say Yes" and "Don't Say No". [[labelnote:Explanation]]It's based on the principle of {{Improv}} in that one must say "yes, and..." to whatever scene or combination is handed to them in order to keep the scene going. This is a recurring theme in the movie, even applying this principle to life in the following scenes. Life, like an improv scene, cannot advance if we do not respond with "yes, and..." This is one of the central conflicts faced by Jesse. He was allowing outside forces to dictate "yes, and..." so his scene had stopped advancing. He was stuck in the romanticized version of life he had created in college and he wasn't happy. Zibby represented the "yes, and..." conflict, and throughout their early interactions he says "yes" to everything and lets Zibby dictate the "and..." The film makes clear that this relationship is unhealthy. The resolution finally comes when Zibby tells him that she wants to have sex with him. He finally takes control of the "and..." then thanks her for teaching him this lesson. For the rest of the film we finally see him advancing his scene. He advances his love life with Ana and they show that he is now happy.[[/labelnote]]
179	%%* ''Film/{{Logan}}'':
180	%%** "So that's what it feels like."
181	%%** The closing dialogue from ''Film/{{Shane}}'' is quoted significantly twice: "There's no living with a killing. There's no going back from it. Right or wrong, it's a brand. A brand that sticks. There's no going back. Now you run on home to your mother and tell her... tell her everything's alright, and [[EndOfAnEra there aren't any more guns in the valley.]]"
182	%%* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': "We are not things."
183	%%** "Who killed the world?"
184	%%** "Witness me!"
185	%%** "I live. I die. I live again!"
186	%%* ''Film/MarathonMan'': "Is it safe?
187	* In ''Film/TheMartian'', the entire world takes up the rally of "Bring him home." Several NASA officials say it throughout the film and once Watney's perilous rescue begins, [[NationsOfTheWorldMontage millions and millions of people]] are shown holding signs, wearing T-shirts, and posting hashtags emblazoned with the pleading words.
188	* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
189	** If there are any arc words for the franchise as a whole, or at least Iron Man's character arc, they would be "I am Iron Man". Said in Iron Man I to admit he was responsible for everything in the film, Iron Man II [[ObstructiveBureaucrat at congress]] to defend his continued control of his suits, Iron Man III after he spent the whole movie showing us that he was more than his suits, and [[spoiler: Endgame [[ShutUpHannibal in defiance of Thanos's "I am inevitable"]] [[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner right before]] [[HeroicSacrifice he snaps his fingers.]]]]
190	** ''Film/IronMan1'': "This is your legacy." reflecting on both the titular protagonist's dark familial history as well as the new one he will make upon atonement, which is fitting since this movie launched the SharedUniverse.
191	** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': Variants on "avenge". (In addition to the title and The Avengers Initiative, there's the unspoken but implied last word of Coulson's assertion that the team were never going to work together "if they didn't have something [[KilledMidSentence to...]]" and finally Tony's threat to Loki that they will avenge the world if they can't save it.)
192	** ''Film/ThorRagnarok'':
193	*** Thor has been called "God/Lord of Thunder" throughout the film, and for good reason. [[spoiler: Realizing that his powers are lightning and thunder themselves and not Mjölnir is what finally allows him to turn the tide of the FinalBattle in his favor.]]
194	*** Thor is told that he's "Home" many, many times in many, many different locations. [[spoiler: This is related to Odin's words that Asgard can be anywhere — thus, Thor can be "home" anywhere.]]
195	%%*** "Asgard isn't a place, it's a people."
196	%%*** "That's what heroes do."
197	** ''Film/BlackPanther2018'':
198	*** "We/You do not/will not speak of this". Said by characters in order to preserve Wakanda's masquerade as an impoverished nation, but at the same time coinciding with the film's plot that is driven by a DarkSecret.
199	*** "Who are you?" Plays into the overall themes of who we are versus who we choose to be versus who outside forces make us into.
200	%%*** "Praise the ancestors."
201	%%*** "Wakanda forever!"
202	** ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'' uses "misdirection" multiple times. It comes from Scott's ChekhovsSkill of close-up magic tricks, and comes into play when outsmarting the BigBadEnsemble.
203	** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'':
204	*** "Whatever it takes." Showcasing how much of a {{Determinator}} the protagonists are but also [[DespairEventHorizon how dire the situation is]].
205	*** "Move on." It relates to how the characters must try to adjust to the new status quo.
206	*** "I am inevitable." Uttered by Thanos, who believes that he is the "be all, end all" of all existence.
207	** ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'': "It's what we do." First said by Aunt May to Peter when he expresses doubt about trying to help Norman and May reinforcing the "great power, great responsibility" idiom, and later reiterated by both [[spoiler:Raimi-verse]] and [[spoiler:Webb-verse's Peters]] about the responsibility they and [[spoiler:MCU]] Peter share [[spoiler:as Spider-Men]].
208	** ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': "Are you happy?" [[spoiler:Stephen is asked this by his universe's Christine at her wedding and later by variant Christine from universe 838. Both times he claims he is, but Sinister Strange calls him out on the lie. At the end of the movie Stephen asks the question of Wong who admits he wonders if alternate versions of him are happier, but that he's content with the universe he lives in.]]
209	%%*** "It's an old-fashioned notion."
210	%%*** "Soldiers".
211	%%*** "Sentiment."
212	%%** ''Film/IronMan3''
213	%%*** "You know who I am."
214	%%*** "When is a bomb not a bomb?" "A bomb is not a bomb [[spoiler: when it's a [[SuperPowerMeltdown misfire]].]]"
215	%%** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'':
216	%%*** "Captain's orders."
217	%%*** "On your left."
218	%%*** "I'm with you till the end of the line."
219	%%** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'':
220	%%*** "[[TakeMyHand Take/Hold my hand!]]"
221	%%** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'':
222	%%*** "Monsters"
223	%%*** "Together"
224	%%*** "Strings" (especially in the context of Pinocchio references)
225	%%** ''Film/AntMan1'':
226	%%*** "I know a guy..."
227	%%*** "Become the hero she already thinks you are."
228	%%*** "Go Subatomic."
229	%%* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'':
230	%%** "What is the Matrix?" were arc words throughout the marketing and right up until a third of the way through the film.
231	%%** "Everything that has a beginning has an end."
232	%%* ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'': "Mo Cuishle" which is Gaelic for "My Darling, my blood".
233	%%* ''Film/MissionImpossible''
234	%%** ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'': "Desperate times, desperate measures."
235	%%** ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout.'' manages to turn the IMF's very catchphrase "This is your mission, if you choose to accept it." into both this and an ArmorPiercingQuestion. John Lark's manifesto is often quoted many times throughout the movie. "There cannot be peace without first, a great suffering. The greater the suffering, the greater the peace."
236	%%* ''Film/{{Mongol}}'': All Mongols fear thunder.
237	%%* ''Film/MoulinRouge'': "Truth Beauty Freedom Love"
238	%%* ''Film/TheMummy1999'': "Death is only the beginning"
239	%%* ''Film/MysteryTeam'': "Someone stole that man's face"; in a weird way, the f word.
240	%%* ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'' has "bum", usually spoken in regards to its protagonist, Terry Malloy.
241	%%* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'':
242	%%** "The Dutchman must have a captain."
243	%%** "It's just good business."
244	%%** "Part of the ship, part of the crew."
245	%%** "Hoist the colours."
246	%%* ''Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'': "Have I told you about the Ngbaka?"
247	%%* ''Film/ThePrincipal'': "No more."
248	%%* ''Film/RedRidingHood'': "During the Blood Moon, a man bitten is a man cursed."
249	* ''Film/RedSparrow'': Various permutations of "identify what the target needs, and give it to them" form the mantra for the sparrows, a class of Russian spies trained as {{Honey Trap}}s.
250	%%* ''Film/Reincarnation2005'': "Together Forever".
251	%%* ''Film/TheRightStuff'': "Who's the greatest pilot you ever saw? You're lookin' at him!"
252	%%* ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': "No", as well as "Home".
253	%%** ''Film/DawnOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': "Ape not kill ape."
254	%%** And for the entire [[Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes trilogy]]: "Apes together strong."
255	%%* "Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions" from ''Film/RobinHood2010''.
256	%%* ''Film/SafeHouse'': "We'll take it from here."
257	%%* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'':
258	%%** "I want to play a game."
259	%%** "Live or die. Make your choice/The choice is yours."
260	%%** "Game over."
261	%%* ''Film/Scarface1983'': "The world is yours."
262	%%* ''Film/TheScribbler'': "Unzip Your Head."
263	* ''Seeking Justice'' had "The hungry rabbit jumps", a phrase linked to the secret vigilante organization Will Gerard found himself involved with. In fact, the working title for the movie actually was ''The Hungry Rabbit Jumps''.
264	* ''Film/Serenity2005'':
265	** "Lie down".
266	** River first says "They never lie down" about the dead Reaver on the ship. Later, it is found out the words haunt her dreams.
267	** Mal asks the Operative "Me and mine gotta lie down and die so you can live in your perfect world?"
268	** [[spoiler:The people of the planet Miranda really did lie down and die after they were accidentally poisoned. Those who didn't die became Reavers.]]
269	%%* ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'': "I don't know. It's a mystery."
270	%%* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'':
271	%%** "We're all innocent in here."
272	%%** "Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'."
273	%%** "Brooks was here."
274	%%** "Rehabilitated."
275	%%** "His Judgement Cometh and that Right Soon...."
276	%%* ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': "You've got red on you".
277	%%* ''Film/TheShining'': REDRUM... REDRUM...
278	%%* ''Film/ShortCircuit'': "Alive".
279	%%* ''Film/SonOfAGun'': "Never trust a pawn".
280	%%* ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'':
281	%%** [[BeYourself "Be me/you".]]
282	%%** The contrasting ways of being "looney" and "fundamental" are brought up frequently.
283	%%* ''Film/{{Speed}}'': "Pop quiz, hotshot/asshole" and "What do you do?".
284	* ''Film/{{Spencer}}'': "Currency". Elizabeth II first uses currency to give Diana a thinly veiled warning about their reputation as royals and public figures (comparing her photographs to being on a bill). Darren later tells Diana that gossip about the royals is currency in the staff quarters. Finally, Diana herself tells Maggie that she really is just currency, but in a way of having accepted it and becoming more assertive as a result rather than trying to run away from it.
285	* ''Film/SpiderMan1''
286	** "Don't tell Harry." First uttered by Mary Jane asking Peter not to tell Harry she's WaitingForABreak. Harry's father Norman made this his LastRequest to Peter so his son wouldn't find out about him being the Green Goblin, kickstarting Peter and Harry's conflict throughout the [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy trilogy]].
287	** "Thank God for you, Peter." Mentioned by other characters to Peter for being a NiceGuy, but also coinciding with him becoming more and more comfortable as a superhero.
288	** "WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility." ''The'' lore's Arc Words that kickstarted Peter into becoming a genuine superhero.
289	%%* ''Star Trek [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan II]]'', ''[[Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock III]]'', and ''[[Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome IV]]'' have "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few... or the one".
290	* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
291	%%** "I've got a bad feeling about this."
292	** Any time "midichlorians" are brought up, it's basically going to change Anakin's life forever.
293	*** The first is when his jedi talent is discovered and he's rescued from slavery.
294	*** The second is when Yoda reveals his dark destiny and refuses to let him be trained.
295	*** The third is when Qui Gon reveals he intends to train him regardless of what the council orders, sealing both their fates.
296	*** The fourth is when Palpatine tells him the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise, the exact reveal needed to get Anakin on his side.
297	%%** [[MeaningfulBackgroundEvent Almost inaudible]] every time it comes up, [[TheChosenOne "Son of the Suns"]].
298	** For one that stretches across the [[Film/TheForceAwakens sequel]] [[Film/TheLastJedi trilogy]] [[Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker films]], a variation on the phrase "I know what I have to do (but I don't have the strength to do it)" is spoken by Kylo Ren once per film. Each time it appears signifies a ''massive'' shift in his character arc.
299	%%** ''Film/RogueOne'' has several of its own, separate from most of the other saga entries:
300	%%*** "Hope."
301	%%*** "Stardust."
302	%%*** "I am one with the Force and the Force is with me."
303	%%** ''Film/TheForceAwakens''
304	%%*** "Complete."
305	%%*** "Run as far as you can."
306	%%*** "I feel it again."
307	%%** ''Film/TheLastJedi''
308	%%*** "We are the spark that will light the fire."
309	%%*** "Raw power/strength."
310	%%*** "Godspeed, rebels."
311	%%*** "Let the past die."
312	%%*** "Go on. Say it."
313	%%*** "Impressive. Every word in that sentence was wrong."
314	%%** ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker:''
315	%%*** "A feeling."
316	%%*** "They win by making you think you're alone."
317	%%*** "Be with me."
318	%%* ''Film/StrictlyBallroom'': "A life lived in fear is a life half-lived."
319	%%* ''Film/StuartLittle 2'': “Every cloud has a silver lining.”
320	%%* ''Film/TheSuicideTheory'': "You're lucky to be alive."
321	%%* The [[Film/SupermanTheMovie Superman]] [[Film/SupermanII movies]] by [[Creator/RichardDonner Richard Donner]] have "The son becomes the father and the father becomes the son".
322	%%* ''Film/TheTreeOfLife'':
323	%%** "The Way of Nature and the Way of Grace".
324	%%** "Where were you?"
325	%%** "Brother..."
326	%%* ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956'': "Moses, Moses" and "So let it be written, so let it be done".
327	%%* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'':
328	%%** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': "[[ScrewDestiny No fate.]]"
329	%%** ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'': "I am a machine." and "[[YouCantFightFate Judgement Day is inevitable.]]"
330	** ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'': "[[CosmicRetcon Keep going forward and don't look back.]]"
331	* ''Film/ThatThingYouDo:'' Guy Patterson is fond of quoting the line "I am Spartacus." (The film is set in 1964, and ''Film/{{Spartacus}}'' came out four years before that.) He says it as a sign-off to his girlfriend, shouts it in triumph as the band rockets to stardom... and at the end, alone in the studio as the last of the Wonders, sardonically gives "I am Spartacus" as the title for his noodling around on the drums when the techs ask if he wants to lay it down.
332	%%* ''Film/{{Transcendence}}'': "Humans fear what they don't understand."
333	%%* ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'': "Wanna see something REALLY scary?"
334	%%* ''Film/{{Upgrade}}'': "You now have full control" and "A fake world is less painful than the real world."
335	%%* ''Film/VanHelsing'': "In the name of God, open this door."
336	%%* ''Film/VanillaSky'': "Open your eyes."
337	%%* ''Film/VoyageOfTheUnicorn'': "Credendo Vides" (by believing, one sees) and "faith precedes the miracle".
338	%%* ''Film/WarForThePlanetOfTheApes'': "Apes together strong."
339	%%* ''[[Film/WeAreMarshall WE ARE! MARSHALL!]]'' Also doubles as a TitleDrop.
340	%%* ''Film/WhatLiesBeneath'': "YOU KNOW".
341	%%* "Even a man who is pure in heart..." poem in films featuring ''Film/TheWolfMan1941.''
342	%%* ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'':
343	%%** "Have/having a good time."
344	%%** "We wanna be free, we wanna get loaded, and we wanna have a good time! And that's what we're going to do!"
345	* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': "All will be revealed." Apocalypse himself uses this phrase often, both to reassure the Horsemen and to not divulge details of his plan to Xavier and the rest of the X-Men. [[spoiler:When Jean Grey unleashes the Phoenix Force against him, this changes to "All is revealed" just before he is disintegrated. It is left unclear if causing this event was one of his goals.]]
346	* ''Film/Zombies2018'': "The most precious thing in Seabrook" throughout ''Zombies 3'', which is what the alien trio are searching for which contains the map to their new home, or "Utopia", as they put. It turns out to be [[spoiler:Addison]].

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