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Author Catchphrase
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Basically this is when the author of a novel reuses the same line (or a variation) in their work. This isn't as much a Running Gag, a Meaningful Echo or a Shout-Out as it is simply recycling the line. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, however. Remember, it doesn't have to be a line of dialogue. It could also be a description of something, or always including an Expy of a character from an earlier work. Contrast with Character Catchphrase, where the same line or quote is used by characters in a single work. Related: Creator Thumbprint, Signature Style, Author Vocabulary Calendar, If It Was Funny the First Time.... |
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Melinda Metz, author of the Roswell High series and the Fingerprints series, uses the sentence "[Character] wasn't going to wait for an engraved invitation" multiple times in both works to demonstrate someone leaping to do something at the first chance they got. | |
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Dream Theater went through a phase of using the word "conscience" to mean "consciousness," not technically a mistake but it's relatively archaic, and sticks out quite a bit. Vacant and Octavarium are the key examples - released in 2003 and 2005, on two consecutive albums, with both lines written by the same lyricist. | |
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He often has a reference to something expensive being made of something rare and endangered (e.g., the fur coat Vimes refuses to be bribed with in Thud! and the chairman's desk in Making Money). | |
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The Far Side has had an improbable number of captions that start with someone exclaiming, "For crying out loud!" | |
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The phrase "It's true" appears a lot in Mike Mignola's Hellboy comics. | |
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Shinrai: Broken Beyond Despair Characters often swear with "Curses," including the ones who use actual profanity. When narrating, Raiko often notes how many pairs of eyes are looking at someone or something that has captured everyone's attention. |
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Whenever anyone in Sluggy Freelance cedes an argument, they'll almost inevitably acknowledge that the other person has a point by simply saying the word, "Point." (See above under Timothy Zahn.) | |
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MS Paint Adventures' creator tends to use a lot of tropes. All of the tropes. All of them. He also rather likes to use the words 'Ascend' and 'Descend', and variations there of ("Rise Up", etc.) | |
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RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: Rainbow Double Dash has a fondness for "[character] pressed their lips together". Some fics use it more than others. Crisis on Two Equestrias in particular - making a drinking game of it with that fic is not advised. | |
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Brian Jacques' Redwall series He really, really likes writing songs and poetry, which is probably why every single book turns on Only Smart People May Pass. And every book also includes at least one Heinlein-esque description of the sumptuous Redwall fare. With October Ale. Can't forget the October Ale. Also, in several of the books his characters tend to "salute smartly", usually while holding something with their saluting paws. He is very fond of using "Poleaxed" to describe a creature getting it very hard and knocked to the ground. |
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In Despair's Last Resort, the author writes that second and fourth culprits were "unfazed by the accusation," after being identified as the murderer, while the third similarly replies "in an unfazed tone." | |
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Weber seems to love the word "palatial," especially to describe shipboard cabins in the Honor Harrington series. | |
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Characters say "So?", with context making it clear it's meant in the sense of "Is that so?". It occurred in (among others) Between Planets, Beyond This Horizon, Citizen of the Galaxy, Double Star, Farmer in the Sky, Farnham's Freehold, Friday, Glory Road, Starship Troopers, etc. | |
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"You touch [forbidden object] again and you're gonna pull back a bloody stump," which apparently one of Colbert's older sisters used to say to him when they were kids, appears in the SWC movie, an Exit 57 sketch, and... something else. | |
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It seems Rhapsody of Fire say "mighty" at least once a song, on their older albums at least. "Holy" is also an unusually common adjective ("unholy" is frequent too for that matter). "Abyss" gets a lot of use two, pronounced "ah-BEES" due to Fabio Leone's Italian accent. | |
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Sweet Valley High often features characters using numbers ending in "thirty-seven" for dramatic effect. | |
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The Aeneid Despite being written instead of spoken, it keeps in Homer's tradition with "Pious Aeneas", "Savage Juno", and "mixed with a great heap" (the last one is alliteration in Latin). Also "roaring rocks", "two toothed sheep chosen according to custom", and "Sacred groves". The Aenied was purposely written in the style of earlier Greek epics. |
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Terry Brooks' Shannara series He has a few key phrases that pop up on a frequent basis: "There was stunned silence," an older man's face described as "all planes and angles", etc. In his earlier books of the same franchise, he had a tendency to overuse "wordlessly" or some variation thereof. |
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She is unusual in that with each Harry Potter book, she seemed to pick a particular unusual word to use multiple times, though generally usage of the word is not restricted to just one of the books. For example, in Half Blood Prince, she uses the word "surreptitiously" about seven or eight times. | |
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Just about every young person in For Better or for Worse says "an'." Not "and", they always leave off the "d" on the end of the word. | |
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For a time in the 1980s, characters in Garfield were very fond of responding to situations with the word "natch" (short for "naturally"). The word was used as a punchline on at least two occasions. | |
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Over the course of his James Bond novels, it's amazing just how many things (especially physical features) are described as "cruel." Only in Thunderball is an attempt made to justify this strange choice of words in-dialogue. | |
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Various enemies from World of Warcraft use the expression "rip the flesh from your bones" or a variation of it when engaged or as a battlecry. | |
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Ronnie James Dio has numerous songs with some combination of "I am/you are/life is" like "a wheel/a rainbow/a never ending journey" ("Self Portrait", "Wishing Well", "Rainbow in the Dark", among others). He also employed an "evil woman" trope about once per album (i.e., "Starstruck", "Lady Evil", "Don't Talk to Strangers"). Fittingly, he sang in Rainbow with Ritchie Blackmore, who frequently reused the riffs from "Speed King", "Smoke on the Water", "Woman From Tokyo", and "Burn" as new songs, with only slight variations. Dio used "rainbow", "sacred", "evil", "rock and roll", "master", "magic", "night" and "king" in his song titles, between most to all of his work. |
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The Daily Show. It has a number of Running Gags, but the writers have always gone well out of their way to insert certain phrases into stories whenever they can. Describing something as a "cluster fuck." A strict adherence to the belief that News Activism Means Better Living for All, or NAMBLA. |
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Along with Homestuck's penchant for repeating damn near everything, this leads to a great deal of reappearing lines, not to mention poses and panels. | |
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Whenever he wants a male character to give a speech/lecture/lesson to a group of people, he will always address his audience as "My friends..." (Examples, Robert Langdon from The Da Vinci Code, Senator Sexton from Deception Point.) | |
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Bill King in Games Workshop Gotrek & Felix novels He always starts fights by having Gotrek "Run his thumb along his axe until it drew blood." Considering the nature of his axe (one of the most powerful rune weapons in the world, originally thought (and made out to be) one of the two belonging to a Dwarf god!), it's a wonder Gotrek has any thumb left. Of course, it's because he's just that badass. Felix "throwing his red Sudenland wool cloak over his shoulder" is practically a drinking game in itself, appearing as it does multiple times per book. |
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"Do you not understand? It's OVER — FINISHED!". An April Fools' Day "preview" for Transformers: Shattered Glass played with this one; normally it's rendered as "over — finished!", but the aforementioned gag preview instead rendered it as "finished — over!". The Mirror Universe is so mirrored, even the Furmanisms are backwards! | |
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World War II: In Episode 40 - "Brexit at Dunkirk", host Indy Neidell reuses the catchphrase "this is modern war" from The Great War. | |
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He has many, commonly subject to Affectionate Parody: "The mysterious traveller in time and space known only as the Doctor...", "A wheezing, groaning sound" (as a descriptor of the TARDIS sound effect), as well as stock descriptions of individual Doctors. (He did not, however, come up with the equally famous and much-referenced chapter title "Escape To Danger", which first appears as Part 3 of the television story "The Web Planet" by Bill Strutton.) | |
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He has a habit of describing things (usually but not always characters) as "smelling of X, not unpleasantly", where X is some smell that's distinctive but not usually considered appealing, like sweat (as with Hunter in Neverwhere), which also has a description of the "under city" of Bangkok smelling "not unpleasantly of sex". Likewise, Mr. Nancy's tobacco-permeated hat in Anansi Boys is also described in this manner. | |
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Many of the page titles in Bar'd begin with the phrase "How to:...", followed by the theme of the comic. | |
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Mystery writer Lawrence Block seems to really like three-syllable surnames, with the stress on the first syllable: Rhodenbarr, Ehrengraf, Ackermann, Onderdonk... | |
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Roger Waters frequently mentions "the stone", walls, pigs, dogs and sheep, "recourse to the law", "pie in the sky", "Donald Duck light", "crazy", and using "babe"/"ooh babe" as an affectionate name for a female (usually in character) (or as the mother in The Wall to Pink). | |
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Disturbed tends to use the word "hell" a lot, including a song carrying the name. Averted by "Shout 2000" however; it's a cover with "Gave'em hell" already in its lyrics. | |
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He also often uses ironclad grammatical accuracy in places where it's not appropriate, such as having Pat Bartlett say "an U.F.O." (most English speakers would say "a U.F.O."), or Tom Fries urge his niece Podkayne to use his "handky". | |
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From Joe Abercrombie's The First Law series: Multiple characters across the books refer to male genitalia as "the fruits", especially in the context of them being injured. The euphemism seems to be favored by people of multiple cultures, and is even used by characters who are otherwise prone to more direct profanity. There's a repeated phrase (usually when Shivers, the Bloody Nine, or Black Dow are threatening to kill/about to kill someone) about being close enough to kiss their victim/being as close as a lover/or something to that effect to get at the almost sexual thrill they get from murder. On several occasions, after being exposed to a very frightening situation that threatened their life, a character will reference being cold and wet on the back of their legs- a roundabout way of saying they pissed themselves from fear. |
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And in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as well, such as the Government Camp/TV Camp speech. | |
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The first several seasons of Smallville almost invariably ended with one character asking another at the end of the show, "How you holding up?" | |
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He doesn't use it as much as he once did, but there was a time Occam Razor (writer of "Yu-Gi-Oh! The Thousand Year Door" and the "ShadowchasersSeries") could not get five paragraphs without someone shouting "What? No!" He was also addicted to having his heroes call his villains "cowards" in lieu of any other insult. | |
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"Derp" was apparently a nonsense word invented on the set of Baseketball to exemplify stupid humor. It has been carried over to South Park in several forms, with no in-show explanation or link between them. Once there was a substitute school chef named "Mr. Derp" who did stupid physical gags; another time there was a Rob Schneider movie trailer (as part of a running gag of successively stupider movie trailers) whose narration consisted almost entirely of nonsensical permutations of the word "Derp". | |
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Frank Herbert: "Ah-h-h-h." [sic] | |
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The Book of Isaiah: Isaiah refers to God as "The Holy One of Israel" numerous times. This phrase is rarely if ever used outside of Isaiah. | |
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The author of Christian Humber Reloaded often likes to write "and I did" after Vash narrates what he intends to do, and he did. | |
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Also Dan Brown's opening sentence, of the format "[Occupation] [Name] [Action]," such as, "Renowned curator Jacques Saunière staggered through the vaulted archway of the museum's Grand Gallery." The people who begin the books also die within a few pages due to some kind of foul play. To be fair, though, Geologist Charles Brophy showed up in the second sentence of Deception Point rather than the first. | |
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There's a few of these in the latter Star Trek series. The most common are: the number 47 (originated by TNG writer Joe Menosky, later adopted wholeheartedly by other writers) and the name "Bozeman" (usually as a place or ship, and in reality the hometown of writer and producer Brannon Braga). There's a tradition of one of the main characters calmly saying 'Now would be a good time,' when they're waiting for a last-second transport away from a life-threatening situation. |
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How many characters in The Thrawn Trilogy react to unexpected news by having a muscle in their cheek twitch? | |
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The band Savatage has used a pair of recurring verses, "I never wanted to know, never wanted to see-" and "I am the way, I am the light-" in between three songs off three albums, "When the Crowds are Gone" (Gutter Ballet), "Believe" (Streets), and "Alone You Breathe" (Handful of Rain). Of them, "Believe" makes use of both. | |
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There are also a couple cases where he takes lines from Sports Night and reuses them verbatim in The West Wing. | |
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Lemony Snicket in A Series of Unfortunate Events: "A word/phrase which here means..." | |
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Every Animorphs book begins with the first person narrator saying something to the effect of: "My name is ''(blank). I can't tell you my last name, or what city I live in, or even what state. I can tell (about the Yeerks...)." This made the revelation of one character's last name very meaningful: with the villains aware of their identities and able to come down on them in force, there was now no reason to bothering hiding their last names, along with ages. | |
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The Wheel of Time Robert Jordan was a big fan of "arms folded beneath her breasts" and "handsome woman". The former in particular is excessively mocked in the fandom. Then, of course, you've got the many, many times characters "sniff" or "snort" to express derision, indignation, or what have you. Women sniff; men snort (except Siuan, a handsome woman who snorts.) The phrase "Nynaeve yanked on her braid" and all variants thereof were exceptionally numerous. Smart money says that Nynaeve would become the first woman in Randland to go bald. Every single book begins with the phrase |
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A Song of Ice and Fire. Characters repeat a number of cliches within the world of the novels, some popping or gaining greater frequency in later books. In later books, characters say "little and less," and "much and more" a lot. They pop up in the narration, and are used by various characters. You can expect to see one or the other about once every three chapters. Characters are often said to be "green as summer grass." Characters often describe any long distance as "a thousand leagues" or "thousands of leagues," even though 1,000 leagues is 3,000 miles, which would usually be an absurdly long distance in context. Characters seem to be exaggerating for effect. Also, given the technology level of the world, cartography isn't exactly a popularly known science. People don't want to do things; they "have a mind to" do them, or they "have half a mind" if they aren't completely decided. Martin also has the tendency to use the word "ululating" with great frequency. If someone is chanting or making a wordless cry, expect it to be described this way. |
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During the several-page monologue in the first Nightside, and a few other times in the same book, John Taylor picks up "I don't carry a gun. I've never felt the need." | |
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The Bible St Paul likes to ask his reader a question and then answer with "God forbid!" or "Certainly not!", depending on your translation. |
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Naoki Maeda of DanceDanceRevolution fame uses the word "UNLIMITED" a lot in his works: During his tenure as a BEMANI musician, many of his tracks would be credited to "NM SEQUENCE UNLIMITED" in soundtrack credits. Tracks he's produced for the BEMANI series include "MAXX UNLIMITED" and "UNLIMITED". One of the several dozen aliases he used for BEMANI songs is "Luv UNLIMITED". In crossbeats REV., the hardest chart difficulty is called "Unlimited". The development studio in charge of SEVEN's CODE is called UNLIMITED STUDiO. |
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"Hold on" is definitely this for Gary Barlow since Take That (Band) reformed. He can't go an album without including it in their lyrics. | |
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Read just about any Magic: The Gathering book that has J. Robert King as the author. Play a drinking game using the word 'sanguine' or any reference to something ancient. Watch your liver and/or bladder die quickly! | |
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Any Nightwish song title has the potential to become one of these. The number of century children, dead boys, and ocean souls is staggering, and it seems like there will soon be just as many meadows of heaven. | |
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Multiple lines from Strangers with Candy show up in near identical form in the book Wigfield written by the show's creators (Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, and Amy Sedaris). In Strangers with Candy, Stephen Colbert chastises Jerri, "you can't unfry things." In his interview chapter in Wigfield, Dillard notes that if there's one thing he's realized, it's that you can't unfry things. Both the episode "Hit and Run" and the second interview with the Grimmets in Wigfield include a debate over whether a feature of a hideously deformed face is an eye or a mouth, with one party arguing that it's a mouth because it's where the sound comes from and the other countering that whenever they tried to feed it there it would wink at them. Both the series finale and the first interview with Hoyt Gein include the phrase "Think about it—I haven't." Which was then Covered Up when Colbert used it in his WHCA speech. "You touch [forbidden object] again and you're gonna pull back a bloody stump," which apparently one of Colbert's older sisters used to say to him when they were kids, appears in the SWC movie, an Exit 57 sketch, and... something else. "The insane ramblings of a syphilitic brain" "I wasn't pushing you away, I was pulling me towards myself" appeared in an Exit 57 sketch, an episode of Strangers with Candy, and then the movie. |
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Peanuts is full of these—mostly expressions of dismay, since Charles M. Schulz didn't swear in Real Life. Good grief. While a lot of the phrases used in Snoopy's mind are genuine catchphrases (most notably: "It was a dark and stormy night", which Schulz made his own), the way most of his fantasies begin with a simple "here's" ("Here's Joe Cool hanging out at the dorm", "Here's the World War I flying ace", "Here's the world-famous lawyer") is more of a verbal tic. One of Schulz's idiosyncrasies is that he puts nicknames (other than those that are variants of a given name) into apostrophes - thus it is not "Peppermint Patty" but "'Peppermint' Patty". This even applies to Snoopy's biplane: "Here's the World War I flying ace zooming through the air in his Sopwith 'Camel'..." |
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Ruben Fleischer has directed two films with Jesse Eisenberg in them; in both Eisenberg's character makes a Take That! at Facebook. Guess what other movie Eisenberg was in? | |
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Arthur, King of Time and Space often acknowledges that some of the Arthurian legends are ... somewhat derivitive of older stories by having someone say "Can't beat the classics." Both AKOTAS and Gadzikowski's crossover fanfic comic The Hero of Three Faces are fond of the line "Everyone thinks he's the first". | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The phrase "lay down a withering hail of fire" has been used past saturation point in related material. "Trapped behind their own defenses" has recently joined this trope having appearing in no less than six various books by Matt Ward. |
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In El Goonish Shive, most of the monstrous characters emit a distinctive "Skree" noise at least once despite having completely different origins and forms. | |
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In Accel World, Reki Kawahara likes using the phrase "any number of times," to describe something that happens often. | |
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Chuck Lorre tends to use "Nope, nothing not a damn thing" in both Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory. | |
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During his tenure as a BEMANI musician, many of his tracks would be credited to "NM SEQUENCE UNLIMITED" in soundtrack credits. | |
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Steven Moffat is rather fond of his "What will you do with it? Assemble cabinets?" joke at the sonic screwdriver's expense. | |
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Both Shaun of the Dead and Spaced feature a gag where Simon Pegg denies that Nick Frost is his boyfriend, followed immediately by Nick Frost getting something for him and Simon Pegg thanking him with "Thanks, babe". Word of God states this was by accident. | |
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YouTube has some Fully Automatic Clip Show videos demonstrating how some musicians just love certain words: "Metallica likes death", "Slayer likes Satan (and hell)", "Megadeth likes to kill (and life" - that one is probably motivated by Metallica's one), and "AC/DClikes rock n' roll". AC/DC likes the word "balls" and "ball" a lot.note "Big Balls", "Got You By The Balls", "She's Got Balls", their 1996 album Ballbreaker, etc. Metallica also has plenty of songs mentioning fire\flame, and phrases starting with "you". |
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Cheap Trick is very, very, very fond of using the word 'tonight' in their songs - especially in their earliest albums. It can be heard in almost half those songs, sometimes repeatedly. In fact, Cheap Trick's 3rd album is titled "Heaven Tonight". | |
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Ever since he started The Dark Tower, he keeps putting references to "ka" in a lot of his books. | |
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"Black as the inside of a boot" is most common in the Safehold series, though it does show up in other works. | |
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Nasuverse The fandom would have you believe Kinoko Nasu's H-writing involves a lot of food metaphors, specifically seafood, specifically mollusks. Also, describing anything "on a completely different level". And "If A is X, then B is Y." as in "If A's strikes are like lightning, her enemy's attacks are like a thunderstorm." |
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Aerosmith and certain Steven Tyler-penned running jokes like "you got the right key but the wrong keyhole" and "don't give me no lip, I got enough of my own". | |
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R. Scott Bakker's Second Apocalypse series often uses the adjective "marmoreal," a fancy way of saying "marble" or "like marble." | |
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Brad Meltzer has used the line "I'm not obsessed/addicted. I can stop any day I want, but today won't be that day. Neither will tomorrow..." in both the Identity Crisis (2004) miniseries and The Book Of Fate. | |
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"It came to pass" appears 1,297 times in The Book of Mormon. | |
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Kamelot lyrics seem to like to use carmine wherever a word meaning a shade of red needs to be used. Singer Roy Khan seemed to like the phrase "my history," as well. | |
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In No More Dead Dogs, the in-story book Old Shep, My Pal won the "Gunhold Award". | |
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Ville Valo of HIM seems to have a fixation on the words "baby" and "darling", and will put these two words into his lyrics whenever possible. Same goes for "six six six". | |
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She is very fond of the phrase 'red ruin' to describe lacerated bodies in the Merry Gentry series, and less frequently in the Anita Blake series. | |
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Danganronpa: Darkened Hope: Each execution ends with the phrase "[Killer's full name], the Ultimate [killer's talent], had been executed." | |
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Furman's predecessor in The Transformers (Marvel) series, Bob Budiansky (the person primarily responsible for the Transformers universe and its characters, actually) had several tendencies of his own: He often named women characters "Charlene" and men "Jake." There are several of each. On several occasions, he's ended a sentence with the construction, "[action] in the [action]-ing." For example, Laserbeak will extract information from any Autobot prisoners - even if they die in the telling. There's also "You <fight> better than you <verb>", such as "I hope you shoot straighter than you think, Weirdwolf!" Finally, Budiansky tended to use a combination of Expo Speak and Bad Ass Boast as a convenient way to name-drop characters and their weapons/powers: "Leave a few of those little critters for me, Octane — so my ionic displacer rifle can atomize 'em!" |
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Aaron Sorkin likes to use the phrase "board-certified in thoracic surgery" to indicate a character's medical competence. It shows up in Malice, A Few Good Men, and The West Wing. | |
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Pitbull randomly exclaims "dale" (pronounced "dah-lay") in every one of his songs, often multiple times. He loves naming cities, often three in a song and not necessarily the same cities across songs. |
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Lee Child never fails to mention that "Reacher said nothing". | |
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P.C. Hodgell in Chronicles of the Kencyrath loves the word "askance". | |
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In Babylon 5 and its spinoffs, J. Michael Straczynski loves naming characters "Elizabeth" or "David". The former includes Elizabeth Lochley, Elizabeth Sheridan, and Elizabeth Trent, while the latter includes David Corwin, Jeffery David Sinclair, David Mckintyre, two David Sheridans, and David Martell. | |
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"How dare you..." from The Prayer Warriors. It's used in many different contexts, from the Prayer Warriors complaining about the "satanic" things their enemies are doing, to the author using it on his critics. | |
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Both of Dave Stone's Doctor Who New Adventures novels include the phrase "Kill you! Kill you now and make you dead!" He's also fond of apparently finishing a sentence and then adding modifiers to it after the full stop. For some reason. At some point. | |
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The list of Rammstein songs that reference the sun shining in some way includes "Rammstein," "Engel," "Küss Mich (Fellfrosch)," "Mein Herz Brennt," "Sonne," "Mutter," "Morgenstern," "Mann Gegen Mann" and "Hilf Mir." Liebe Ist Für Alle Da is the only album where this theme does not come up. | |
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