Index of Catchphrases

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Tropes that depict different types of catchphrases and the ways characters use them.

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Tropes

• Abandoned Catchphrase
  A phrase that used to be a character's catchphrase, but they don't say it anymore. Or they just wanted to make room for a new one.
• Alternate Catchphrase Inflection
  A character says their catchphrase in a different tone of voice from normal.
• Author Catchphrase
  A line that the author tends to use.
• Borrowed Catchphrase
  A character says someone else's catchphrase.
• By the Power of Grayskull!
  An object that's voice-activated and requires a certain phrase.
• The Catchphrase Catches On
  Real people start borrowing a fictional character's catchphrase.
• Catchphrase Insult
  Somebody's catchphrase is an insult.
• Catchphrase Interruptus
  A person is interrupted from saying their catchphrase.
• Catchphrase Spouting Duo
  Two young slackers who have a catchphrase.
• Character Catchphrase
  A character says a specific sentence many times, to the point uttering the phrase is a clue to the character's identity.
• Defeat Catchphrase
  A catchphrase the villain says whenever they are defeated.
• Elimination Catchphrase
  A phrase that is said whenever a person on a reality show is eliminated.
• Flashback to Catchphrase
  A Flash Back which shows how characters got their catchphrase.
• In the Name of the Moon
  A catchphrase said before kicking someone's butt.
• Mad Libs Catchphrase
  Someone's catchphrase has the same structure but is different every time.
• Mangled Catchphrase
  Someone fails to say another person's catchphrase properly.
• One-Word Vocabulary
  A character can only say one thing.
• "On the Next Episode of..." Catch-Phrase
  A catchphrase that advertises the next episode.
• Pokémon Speak
  A creature that can only say its name/species or parts thereof.
• Phrase Catcher
  Characters who often get a particular phrase said to or about them.
• Pre-Mortem Catchphrase
  Some people's last words are their catchphrase.
• Self Botched Catchphrase
  Characters accidentally says their catchphrase wrongly.
• Share Phrase
  Multiple characters, or even all of them, share a catchphrase.
• Signing Off Catchphrase
  A line of dialogue set at the end of every (or nearly every) installment.
• Subverted Catchphrase
  Characters purposely says something else instead of their catchphrase when they'd normally say their catchphrase.
• Untranslated Catchphrase
  A fictional species has a catchphrase that the whole species says, but it's in their language and never translated.
• Verbal Tic
  A catchphrase that's put into the beginning, middle, and/or end of all (or nearly all) this character says.
• Verbal Ticked
  A character who normally has a verbal tic speaks normally.

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