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Pretentious Latin Motto

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Pretentious Latin Motto	comment	One of the best ways to show one's status or credibility really pretentiously is with a Latin motto. After all quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.note Whatever is written in Latin sounds profound. In the old days, it conferred some level of prestige, and only Smart People Know Latin, so whoever still uses it now is either trying to show how much smarter, richer, and generally more awesome they are than us, or else they know how to use the "English to Latin" translation capability of Google Translate (or Bing, if it ever adds Latin). Dog Latin can be used in place of actual Latin for comedic purposes. If the translation isn't given, this becomes a Bilingual Bonus. See also Gratuitous Latin.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_1015579b	comment	The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo episode "That's Monstertainment" had Scooby and the gang sucked into an old black-and-white monster movie, which opens with a mock-up of the M-G-M logo. Scooby's face is in the middle circle with the words "Limitus Animatus" around it.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_10b03dcf	comment	Batman: Arkham Asylum features many. A large Latin phrase above the puppet Scarface's tommygun reads Mors Certa, Hora Incerta ("Death is Certain, its Hour is Not"). The inscription over the Green Mile area reads Liberate Me Ex Infernis ("Save me from Hell").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_117d6924	comment	Renegade Legion: Interceptor gives some of these for units, especially TOG and Renegade units. (Commonwealth units also have mottos, but they're typically in English or a nonhuman language.) Examples include: TOG Interceptor Wing the "Blood Eagles": Malus avibus.note Literally meaning "under ill omens" but idiomatically meaning "with bad birds". Renegade Minerva (women-only) Pursuit Wing "The Witches of Defiance": Audemus jura nostra defendere.note "We dare defend our rights", a reference to the Patria Potestas.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen: "Per Dolorem Ad Astra", to the stars, through suffering. The title of the story comes from another common Latin phrase: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" ("Who watches the watchmen?").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_1425abfb	comment	In the St. Trinian's films, the eponymous school has had a couple of different mottoes attributed to it: In flagrante delicto ("Caught in the act") and Semper debeatis percutis ictu primo ("Get your blow in first").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_169f043b	comment	StarCraft: The Protoss Scouts of the Venatir tribe follow the maxim Praemonitus praemunitus ("Forewarned is forearmed").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Xavier Institute has "Mutatis Mutandis" (roughly, "having changed the things that were to be changed", but obviously playing off the word "mutant"). Their Marvel 1602 counterpart, Master Carlos Javier's Institute, takes the motto "Omnia mutantur, et nos mutamos con illis" ("All things change, and we change with them").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_1beda93b	comment	In Sluggy Freelance, "Nosce te Ipsum" ("Know Thyself") was a Pretentious Latin Motto that was also used as a trigger phrase for the Ax-Crazy Dark Action Girl Oasis.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_1e6565c2	comment	The Onion: Tu stultus es ("You are stupid").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_20191a57	comment	Parodied, in Bleak Expectations, where Pip Bin's first sight of St. Bastard's is the school motto: Orando, Flogorando, which his older self narrating the story translates as "By prayer, by beating".
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_21ec74db	comment	Veridian Dynamics in Better Off Ted has one of these:
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_2250e67e	comment	Star Trek: Enterprise gives us a motto on the NX-02 Columbia mission patch: ''Audentes Fortuna Juvat" ("Fortune favors the bold").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_25f3f2d1	comment	In The Vicar of Dibley, the Horton family motto is Veni, vidi, brutus spearium gloriosus, which is Dog Latin for (in David Horton's words) "I came, I saw, I tore the thick bastard limb from limb."
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_261c8d3f	comment	Frequently parodied in The Simpsons: Mayor-for-life Quimby's motto is "Corruptus in Extremis" ("Corruption in high places"). At least he's honest about it, although he can afford to be. Shelbyville Elementary's motto is "Veritas et Scientia" ("Truth and Knowledge"). Springfield U's motto is "Ask about our Latin motto competition!"
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_2a13f04c	comment	The Parasol Protectorate book Soulless claims that the motto of the main secret society as "to protect the commonwealth". Since the original text is Protego res publica, it's more like "I defend the commonwealth".
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_2ba1d958	comment	Above the Oracle's doorway in The Matrix: "Temet Nosce" (roughly "Know thyself"). It's better known in Greek ("Gnothi Seauton").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_2d1084bc	comment	Between puns on the number four and the enemy names (the Pfhor), and Beavis And Butthead references, level names for the Marathon trilogy include Ingue Ferroque (an admitted misspelling of Igni Ferroque, "by fire and steel"), Fatum Iustum Stultorum ("The just fate of fools"), and Ne Cede Malis ("Don't give in to misfortune").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_2d316bc0	comment	In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Roosevelt High's motto is "Aut Disce Aut Discede" ("Learn or Leave").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_33c6f4ec	comment	Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising: If the name of the Cool Ship wasn't pretentious enough, the motto is Pugio in Averso Belli ("A dagger used against war").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_33dd1d8f	comment	In Half-Life, Black Mesa's Advanced Biological Research Lab has the motto Superbus via InscientiÃ¦, which is intended to mean "arrogance through ignorance," and was put in by Karen Laur because she was annoyed by the hubris of her co-workers.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_3558eaa2	comment	In season 2 of Community, the study group's flag and motto get chosen in a contest for Greendale Flag. The picture is of a pinkish circle with the words E. Pluribus Anus. No, the Dean doesn't get it.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_375e8f14	comment	The motto of the Dunmanifestin mission in The Last Hero is Morituri Nolumus Mori ("We who are about to die don't want to"). Needless to say, it was suggested by Rincewind. Vetinari lets it stand because it's actually a pretty good motto for a mission to Save the World.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_389286d2	comment	The Great Library: The Library's motto is Tota Est Scientia ("Knowledge is all") fairly appropriate for such an ancient institution. The Burner movement also has one of its own to mock the library's: Vita Hominis Plus Libro Valet. ("A life is worth more than a book.")
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: The school motto for Hogwarts is Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus ("A sleeping dragon never should be tickled"). J. K. Rowling has said she wanted Hogwarts to have a "practical motto" instead of something like "reach for the stars".
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_3e96b159	comment	Cats Don't Dance: The motto of Mammoth Studios is "Optimum Est Maximum" ("Biggest is best"). It's a spoof of the motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, "Ars Gratia Artis" ("Art for Art's sake").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_3f31869c	comment	Mad About Alice: In "School Craze", St. Matthew's, a fancy school that Alice wants to take Joe to, has the motto Veritas Supreme ("Honesty Above All Else", although it actually translates better to "Truth Above All"). Ironically, whilst the school is annoyed by the amount of lying that Alice went to in a bid to get her son into school, they appreciate her commitment and let her send him in.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_468bebb0	comment	The Discworld novels often mock this trope with "Latatian" mottoes: The city of Ankh-Morpork: Quanti canicula ille in fenestra ("How much is that doggy in the window"). The Watch: Fabricati diem, pvnc. According to Colon in Guards! Guards!, it translates as "To protect and to serve." It's actually Canis Latinicus for "Make my day, punk." It's apparently abbreviated from the original version, Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter ("Make the day, the moments pass quickly"). According to the Discworld Companion, the Watch changed its motto to Viae sunt semper tutus pro hominibus probis ("The streets are always safe for honest folk"). It's not clear what Vimes thinks about this, given that The City Watch Diary stated he previously vetoed the motto "The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear" on the grounds that "the innocent had a great deal to fear, partly from the guilty, and partly from the sort of people who think the innocent have nothing to fear". Unseen University: Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides ("Now you see it, now you don't"). There's also the unofficial motto Eta Beta Pi (meaningless, but sounds like "Eat a better pie") — fitting considering the university's legendary feasts. Feet of Clay mentions several family mottos, the biggest groaner being the baker's, Quod Subigo Farinam ("Because I knead the dough"). A deprecated coat of arms is also shown reading Excretus Ex Est Altitudine and Depositatum De Latrina (respectively, "shat on from a great height" and "dropped down the toilet"). Apparently, the motto-giver was disgusted with the idea of upstart commoners purchasing arms and did this sort of thing on purpose. It becomes a plot point later that the one that's in plain English spells out the villain's plot when translated. The motto of the Dunmanifestin mission in The Last Hero is Morituri Nolumus Mori ("We who are about to die don't want to"). Needless to say, it was suggested by Rincewind. Vetinari lets it stand because it's actually a pretty good motto for a mission to Save the World. The Ankh-Morpork Fools' Guild: Dico, dico, dico ("I say, I say, I say..."). The Assassins' guild: Nil Mortifi Sine Lucre ("No killing without payment"). The guild of Seamstresses has a very similar motto: Nil Volupti Sine Lucre ("No pleasure without payment"). The Sto-Helits go with the unsubtle Non Timetis Messor ("Don't Fear the Reaper"), which is also a Shout-Out to Blue Ã–yster Cult. Terry later adapted this, with better Latin (Noli Timere Messorem), as his actual family motto on his coat of arms when he was knighted. In Small Gods, the Quisition's unwritten motto is Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum ("When you have their balls in your grip" — i.e. their full attention — "their hearts and minds will follow"). The Alchemists: Omnis Qui Coruscat Est Or ("All That Glitters Is Gold") The Conjurers: Nunc Ille Est Magicus ("Now that's magic!", a Paul Daniels reference) The Gamblers: Excretus Ex Fortuna ("Shit out of luck") The Beggars: Moneta Supervacanea, Magister? (''Spare Change, Mister?") The Thieves: Acutus id Verberat ("Whip it quick") Lampshaded by Vimes in Jingo, when he suspects that General Tacticus's Veni Vidi Vici is too pat for anyone to make up on the spot, so it must have been chosen in advance from a variety of alliterative phrases. Possible Dog Latin alternatives Vimes thinks of, that Tacticus might've rejected, include Veni Vermini Vomiti ("I came, I got ratted [drunk], I threw up") or Veni Veneri Vamoosi ("I came, I caught an embarrassing sexual disease, I left"). For Lord Vetinari: Veni, Vici, VETINARI. Jingo also gives us a rather Ozymandian (i.e. engraved on a ruined statue) piece of Canis Latinicus from Tacticus that is equal parts boast, threat, and Stock Phrase: Ab hoc videre domum tuum ("I can see your house from here"). In Thud! someone asks Vimes "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (translated as "Who watches the watchmen?"). Vimes' answer? "Me." The Vetinari family motto: Si non confectus, non reficiat ("If it ain't broke, don't fix it"). The novel exploring vampires is titled after the family motto of the Magpyrs: Carpe Jugulum (due to the common mistranslation of carpe diem, one might assume this to mean "Seize the throat", but given the several different meanings of carpÅ�, the closest translation is probably "Tear out the throat").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_4ce5263e	comment	The eponymous project's motto in XCOM: Enemy Unknown is Vigilo Confido (the most "official" translation is "I am watchful, I am relied upon" but a more accurate translation would be "I watch, I trust"; while you can possibly stretch "Vigilo" to mean "I am watchful" instead of "I watch", there's no way "Confido" can be accurately translated as "I am relied upon" since "Confido" is active while "I am relied upon" is passive.) The Enemy Within Expansion Pack adds Mutare Ad Custodiam ("Change to guard") and Bellator In Machina ("Warrior in the machine") for the new Genetics and Cybernetics branches of XCOM, respectively.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_4d6ad22f	comment	Pretentious Latin phrases are everywhere in Virtue's Last Reward, and Phi is the only character fluent in it, which means Sigma can only understand what they mean if he's teamed up with her when he comes across one. In particular, Memento Mori is a recurring phrase.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_4d8e5ec	comment	During the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, Stephen handed out medals with the motto "Cave ne sit cadmium" ("Warning: may contain cadmium"). Jon Stewart's version read "Sit vis nobiscum" ("May the Force be with us").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_4ff41a9c	comment	In Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, the project to resurrect Commander Samantha Shepard yet again is called "Durius, Melius, Velocius, Fortior" ("Harder, better, faster, stronger").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_5921531a	comment	Memento Mori is the tagline of Persona 3. The game runs this motto through the whole gamut of meanings: despite being able to summon forth nearly godlike powers, "remember that you are mortal," and you can't escape your ultimate fate. Even though you're living in the flower of your youth, "remember that you are mortal," and thus, life is fleeting. But most importantly, "remember that you are mortal," so make the best of it and live to the fullest while you can. "Remember you are mortal," because when the Main Character obtains the power of The Universe and becomes a Physical God, he dies anyway.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_5921531b	comment	In Persona 4, Teddie begins to quote "Cognito Ergo Sum" (I think, therefore I am) as a way to validate his very existence as a Shadow that has developed an Ego that has the potential to become human.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond's family motto, from On Her Majesty's Secret Service: "Orbis non sufficit". This implies that Bond is descended from famous 17th-century London architect Sir Thomas Bond. The motto's English translation became the title of a later movie: The World Is Not Enough.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_5cd2bbb7	comment	In Slaughterhouse Rulez, the titular school has a motto that translates to "Through Slaughter, To Immortality."
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_60570997	comment	In S.S.D.D., the motto of the Collective of Anarchist States' elite forces is "Omnis Vir Enim Sui" ("Every man for himself.")
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_6059ad6b	comment	In the xkcd strip/game "Hoverboard" a woman in a cemetery is explaining "They're engraved with our family motto, Cur ego comittitur dictar Latinae, which means, 'Why did I just start speaking Latin?'"
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_6374dcbb	comment	The Middle Man: Pip goes for pretentious Latin to title his gallery show: Pugnantes Malos, no hos Pugnetis ("We fight evil so you don't have to").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_6533ce9d	comment	Twilight Imperium has Pax Magnifica, Bellum Gloriosum ("Peace is magnificent, war is glorious").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_6664e2ff	comment	Queer as Folk (US) has a nice and very subtle one. In a behind-the-scenes feature about the costumes, it's pointed out that St. James Academy, the one that Justin goes to, has a Latin motto on its logo: "Veni, veni, veni".
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_69daf29	comment	Grrl Power: Archon's motto (notably seen on Maxima's shirt at the beginning of the parking lot fight, and also in the background during press conferences or graduations) is "Cum Amplus Potentia Venit Amplus Onus" — "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility". note In Latin that Google Translate doesn't care for; it prefers "Cum Potestate Magna Venit Magnus Responsabilitate"
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_6ac55ec7	comment	The Dungeons & Dragons Min-Maxing community took a vote on an unofficial motto and adopted Dulce et decorum est pro alea mori ("It is sweet and fitting that we die for the dice"). Yes, we do like puns. This also led to the short version: "Carpe DM".
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_6c1d09b4	comment	The Brotherhood of Steel has the motto "Ad Victoriam" (To victory) in Fallout 4. Quite a few of the Brotherhood related quests have Latin titles as well.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_6c4c5edd	comment	Indexing: The Aarneâ€“Thompson Index Management Bureau's is In aeternum felicitas vindactio translates roughly as "defending happily ever after".
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_6edac0a4	comment	In Crimson Peak, the Sharpe family motto is a paraphrasing of Psalm 121: Ad montes oculus levavi ("To the hills we raise our eyes").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_6f8df1a1	comment	Dead Poets Society got a lot of mileage out of the classic Latin motto Carpe Diem (stated in the film to be "Seize the day", although this is technically a slight mistranslation; it's more accurately rendered as "Enjoy the day" or "Make good use of the day"note although the verb carpÅ� has several other possible meanings as well).
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_705bb59a	comment	Vampire: The Masquerade had the regal, aristocratic Ventrue: Regere sanguine, regere in veritatem est ("To rule through blood is to truly rule"). Their Evil-er Counterpart, the Lasombra, naturally have their own, briefer version: Morte Ascendo ("I rise through death").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_740c93a9	comment	Nothing but Trouble: The motto of the Valkenvania PD is apparently "Nihil Tolerantur" (zero tolerance). Considering the JP's methods, it might be understating the case.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_755b343f	comment	In Halo, each UNSC starship has its own Latin motto: The UNSC Spirit of Fire from Halo Wars has Exitus Acta Probat ("The end justifies the means"). The UNSC Infinity has Audere Est Facere ("To Dare is to Do").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_76c01b30	comment	V for Vendetta, in both book and movie, gives us "Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici" ("By the power of truth I, while living, have conquered the universe"). From Faust, as told immediately afterwards, and quite an appropriate motto for V. It has an error though, as Latin has no such word as "veniversum", the correct would be "universum". But in Latin, you can write "u" as "v", so in "Faust" the word was written as "vniversvm", to keep all the V's intact. It's still read "universum" though. It was also one of Aleister Crowley's magical mottoes.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_77677ed1	comment	Sword of the Stars plays with this trope a bit. While the official motto of the human faction in the game is Per Ardua Ad Astra, a straight example that means "Through hardship, the stars" (humanity's first steps into FTL coincided with the Earth nearly getting destroyed by a Hiver fleet), the game's tagline and the unofficial motto of humanity is the somewhat more playful Repensum Est Canicula ("Payback is a bitch"). Latin has become humanity's second official language in the setting, partly because it's an extremely easy language to learn and utilize, but mostly because it just sounds epic.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_7950b30f	comment	The Colbert Report: On the set, the inscription above the fireplace reads "Videri Quam Esse" ("To seem to be rather than to be"). It's a play on "Esse quam videri", which is the real-life motto of quite a few different US and UK schools and the state of North Carolina (which borders his home state of South Carolina), and fits the man who identified (and whose character embodies) "truthiness" and "wikiality": the concept, becoming part of political discourse, that if something seems true, that's better than its actually being true. During the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, Stephen handed out medals with the motto "Cave ne sit cadmium" ("Warning: may contain cadmium"). Jon Stewart's version read "Sit vis nobiscum" ("May the Force be with us").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb seem to have adopted "Carpe Diem" as the show's unofficial motto. It keeps slipping into musical numbers and dialogue, and it even gets an entire song about it in "Rollercoaster: The Musical". "Seize the Day" certainly fits the show's theme.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_7c48915b	comment	Gunnerkrigg Court doesn't seem to have a motto itself, but: The hallway outside the classroom where Mort hangs out has a large plaque that reads "Dulce et decorum est", a reference to a line from the poet Horace: "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" ("How sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country"). The treatise page following Chapter 7 has a banner across the top: "Ora lege relege labora et invenies" ("Pray, read, read again, work, and you shall find").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_7c6f5e19	comment	The Red Green Show: Possum Lodge's motto is the hilariously appropriate Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati ("When all else fails, play dead"). A disgruntled Possum Lodge member once started his own rival lodge, Salamander Lodge, with the motto Quando Omni Flunkus Terra Retreatum ("When all else fails, hide under a rock").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_8125b468	comment	Carmine Falcone's grave in Batman: Dark Victory bears the epitaph "Veni Vidi Vici", or "I came, I saw, I conquered." Chief O'Hara pronounces it "Vinny Veedee Vicky."
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Starfleet Command's motto is Ad Astra Per Aspea ("Through adversity to the stars"), a common motto in Real Life, including among several national air forces. Starfleet Academy's motto is Ex astris, scientia ("From the stars, knowledge"). It's a reference to the Apollo 13 motto Ex luna, scientia ("From the moon, knowledge"). Star Trek: Enterprise gives us a motto on the NX-02 Columbia mission patch: ''Audentes Fortuna Juvat" ("Fortune favors the bold"). Earth Starfleet's motto is Semper Exploro ("Always exploring").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_84986bf9	comment	In RuneScape, Wise Old Man says Vini, volui, mihi est ("I came, I wanted, it's mine").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_85552606	comment	The motto of Smithson College in Smithson is "Facite Aenigmata, Non Expositiones" ("Create enigmas, not explanations").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_87b55b5d	comment	The Onion - Our Dumb Century uses Tu Stultus Es ("You are stupid") in the masthead of its "older" editions. Upon reaching the modern era, the paper acknowledges the "dumbing-down" of America by switching to the English equivalent.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_886c8ac2	comment	Directly lampshaded in The Awakening:
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_8ac10717	comment	In musical adaption of Matilda, under Miss Trunchbull's reign, the school's motto is Bambinatum est Maggitum ("Children are maggots").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_8ba4613a	comment	L's motto in Kira, Sweetheart is "Carpe saccharum".
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_8c4c2004	comment	Remember Caesar's line "Veni, vidi, vici" ("I came, I saw, I conquered")? In an outtake in Married to the Mob, a character is cheating on his wife in an overdecorated "fantasy suite" hotel room that has the following Latin motto engraved on the headboard: "Veni Veni Veni."
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_8d10c4a8	comment	In Pasila, the drawing room of an evil aristocrats' club bears the Vulgate Latin for "The tongue of the just is as choice silver: but the heart of the wicked is nothing worth."
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost: The Game was released as Lost: Via Domus in the United States, but the title was changed for the European release after several critics pointed out that the Pretentious Latin Motto was badly mangled: what they intended to mean "The Way Home" was actually "Road House".
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	A Series of Unfortunate Events: The motto of Prufrock Preparatory school is Memento Mori ("Remember, you will die"). It has a long history.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_8e9eb558	comment	In Remember Me, M3MORIZE has the motto "M3morize Hominis Evolutio", with the translation "M3morize, the future of humanity". Near the end of the game, the motto is also used as a password to give the protagonist access to the central server room of M3morize, where the Final Boss H3O (Humanity 3.0) lurks.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: Memento Mori is the tagline of Persona 3. The game runs this motto through the whole gamut of meanings: despite being able to summon forth nearly godlike powers, "remember that you are mortal," and you can't escape your ultimate fate. Even though you're living in the flower of your youth, "remember that you are mortal," and thus, life is fleeting. But most importantly, "remember that you are mortal," so make the best of it and live to the fullest while you can. "Remember you are mortal," because when the Main Character obtains the power of The Universe and becomes a Physical God, he dies anyway. In Persona 4, Teddie begins to quote "Cognito Ergo Sum" (I think, therefore I am) as a way to validate his very existence as a Shadow that has developed an Ego that has the potential to become human.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_8ee65bc	comment	In Space Cadet (Heinlein), the Space Patrol's motto is Quis custodiet ipsos custodes (translated in the novel as "Who will guard the guardians?").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_8f04d767	comment	Battlefield: Bad Company has the mercenary company's motto: Acta non Verba ("deeds, not words").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_8fc868f5	comment	The Brittas Empire: Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre has the motto Semper Omnibus Facultas, which Brittas translates in "Underwater Wedding" to "Open to All".
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_9068877a	comment	According to one of the official Red vs. Blue T-shirts, Project Freelancer's is Roboris Per Scientia ("Strength through science").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_91b1b8a6	comment	In James Pond: Underwater Agent, the motto on the MGM-like title screen is Vita Canis Est, which is dog-Latin for "life's a bitch."
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_960062b7	comment	My Hero Academia: U.A. is known as the best Superhero School around so it fittingly gets one of these. Its motto is "Plus Ultra" ("further beyond") as a Badass Creed for its superheroes-in-training to continuously grow and push boundaries.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_96252a34	comment	"Malo Mori Quam Foedari" is the motto of the Penny Murderer in Brody's Ghost, translated in-story as "Death before disgrace." He applies it to his victims instead of himself, however.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_97a3e8a7	comment	In Rushmore, Max Fischer remembers his late mother's Latin motto, Sic transit gloria, which he translates, "Glory fades." The traditional quote is Sic transit gloria mundi ("Thus passes the glory of the world"), meaning worldly things are fleeting.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_980a4fb2	comment	In 2002, the then-editor of The Daily Telegraph (the one in Sydney, not the one in London), Campbell Reid, sent Media Watch host David Marr a dead fish. A replica of it is now awarded as the Campbell Reid Perpetual Trophy for the Brazen Recycling of Other People's Work. Known as "The Barra" and bearing the motto Carpe Verbatim ("Seize word-for-word"), it is awarded annually for bad journalism and particularly plagiarism (a practice for which Reid had been frequently criticised).
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_9af804ae	comment	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Nemo's dinnerware has the motto "mobilis in mobile", which Arronax quickly explains is quite fitting for a submarine captain (mobile in the mobile element).
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_9b3518ef	comment	Johann Sebastian Bach liked to write Solo Dei Gloria ("To God alone the glory") on his manuscripts. It's one of five solae that form the backbone of Lutheran doctrine, and Bach was a devout Lutheran.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_9bb149b3	comment	Players of Diplomacy frequently joke that the game's motto ought to be Carpe Terram ("Seize the World"), or at the very least Carpe Europam (should be obvious).
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_a03824e8	comment	In The DCU, the Antimatter Universe counterpart of the Justice League, the Crime Syndicate of Amerika, has as its motto Cui Bono? ("Who Profits?") In the New 52, it's "Aeternus Malum" ("Forever Evil").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_a3eca95	comment	The motto of the Hat Creek Cattle Company in Lonesome Dove is Uva Uvam Vivendo Varia Fit (an incorrect quotation from Juvenal, which means roughly "A grape ripens when seeing another grape"). It's only there because Gus McCrae thinks it looks classy to have a Latin motto, but even Gus has no idea what it means. Gus' partner Call finds it irritating and says that it could be an invitation to thieves for all Gus knows - although Gus says that it would be nice to have a chance to shoot at some educated thieves for a change.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_a5549ed0	comment	Canada: A mari usque ad mare ("From sea to sea", usually rendered "From sea to shining sea"). It's borrowed from The Bible (Psalms 72:8, "He shall have dominion also from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the Earth.") Fitting for a country originally called the "Dominion of Canada". Nine out of ten Canadian provinces also have Latin mottoes (the tenth is Quebec, whose own is in French).
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_aca7b22d	comment	Parodied in The Amazing World of Gumball: It's revealed that, to prove just how moronic the Watterson family can be, the family's latin motto is "Familia Hic Insere Sententia" or as Nicole translates it, "Insert Family Motto Here".
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_af88e831	comment	Yale's is doubly pretentious. The original is in Hebrew (Urim v'tummim, from 1 Samuel) and notoriously difficult to translate. It's often rendered in Latin, though, as Lux et Veritas ("Light and Truth").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_b29621f3	comment	Feet of Clay mentions several family mottos, the biggest groaner being the baker's, Quod Subigo Farinam ("Because I knead the dough"). A deprecated coat of arms is also shown reading Excretus Ex Est Altitudine and Depositatum De Latrina (respectively, "shat on from a great height" and "dropped down the toilet"). Apparently, the motto-giver was disgusted with the idea of upstart commoners purchasing arms and did this sort of thing on purpose. It becomes a plot point later that the one that's in plain English spells out the villain's plot when translated.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_b5d50b45	comment	Urban Legend takes place at a university whose Latin motto is actually foreshadowing for the killer's true identity. "Amicum Optimum Factum" translates to "The Best Friend Did It."
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_b80c3b	comment	Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog has for the Evil League of Evil "Homines Non Boni Seriose" (roughly "Seriously not good guys").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_b86fe5e5	comment	In A Prairie Home Companion, the motto of Garrison Keillor's fictional hometown of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota is Sumus Quod Sumus ("We are what we are", or alternatively, "We are because we are").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_b88b182f	comment	In The Dark Eye, the motto of house Karinor is Sequere Cupiditatem ("Follow your passion").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The Inquisition in gets a motto that's more ominous than pretentious, and which fits both the setting and their work perfectly: Innocentia Nihil Probat ("Innocence proves nothing"). The Vindicare branch of the Officio Assassinorum has the motto Exitus Acta Probat: essentially, "the ends justify the means".
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_c02c42f0	comment	To Absent Friends borrows a leaf out of Discworld; the USS Bajor's motto is apparently "Morituri Nolumus Mori" (roughly "We who are about to die don't want to").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_c0d295c4	comment	In Team Fortress 2, the Demoman, a one-eyed black man with a Scottish accent, is part of a clan of black Scottish cyclopes. The clan's motto is In regione caecorum rex est luscus (roughly "In the realm of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"). Ironically, most of the family loses both of their eyes before 30 years of age.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_c231405b	comment	In The Punisher (2004), Frank writes in his final musings that when he first reported to military basic training, his instructor made all the recruits constantly repeat the phrase Si vis pacem, para bellum (roughly "If you desire peace, prepare for war").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The episode "Newbie Dash" reveals the Wonderbolts' motto to be "Altius Volantis", which is translated to "Soaring Higher!"
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_c5301181	comment	In Disney High School, the school's motto (as seen on the title page) is "Somnia Fiat Vera" ("Dreams come true").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_c72021c5	comment	In Deus Ex, the UNATCO handbook is prefaced with a quote by Publilius Syrus: Nihil aliud scit necessitas quam vincere ("necessity knows no other law but how to conquer"), an early hint to just how sinister UNATCO's ideology is. The Majestic 12 Cyberinformation Warfare Division has the motto Ipsa scientia potestas est ("Knowledge itself is power").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_c879d790	comment	Camp Camp parodies this with "Campe Diem", a combination of "Carpe Diem" and the obvious theme of splicing the word "camp" everywhere possible.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_cac1f772	comment	CSI: In one episode, a group calling themselves "the Praetorians" has the motto caveat praetoriani which supposedly means "beware the Praetorians". After one of them is arrested for murder, Grissom points out that the grammar is wrong (it actually means "Praetorians beware". The correct Latin for "Beware of the praetorians" would be cave preatoriani.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_cbed7321	comment	The Harmontown podcast used the moto Scribimus Latinum Sine Intellectum, meaning 'We write Latin without understanding'.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_cc22fae4	comment	In Once Upon a Mattress, after Harry reads Winnifred's titles, he notes the inscription on her family crest: Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito. This motto is usually translated "Yield not to misfortune, but advance all the more boldly before them," but Harry tries to translate it more loosely:
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_d281c41c	comment	In The Sinking City, the Carpenter family has the motto Esse quam videri ("To be, rather than to seem"). It's carved into the outer facade of their mansion.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_d2d62c81	comment	In Monster Hunter International, the titular organization's motto is Sic transit gloria mundi ("The glory of the world is fleeting"). When the narrator of most of the series first learns this, there is an explanation as to why this is meaningful.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_d3050af8	comment	Astra Lost in Space: The motto engraved on the titular starship's bridge (and of the Ark program as a whole) is "Per Aspera ad Astra": "Through hardship, to the stars". It's a fitting message for the B-5 camp group to rally around as they make their arduous 5,000-lightyear journey home, just as it was for the astronauts searching for an inhabitable future home for humanity a century earlier.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_d3907802	comment	Their Marvel 1602 counterpart, Master Carlos Javier's Institute, takes the motto "Omnia mutantur, et nos mutamos con illis" ("All things change, and we change with them").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_d4caf593	comment	Bully has Bullworth Academy, whose motto is Canis Canem Edit ("Dog eats dog"). Canis Canem Edit is the game's Market-Based Title in Britain.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_d4fe015f	comment	Rory McGrath and Bill Oddie planned to do a show together based around a Birdwatcher (Bill) and his eager assistant (Rory). Rory planned to call the show "Panori Biamici", derived by pluralizing "Panurus biarmicus", the bearded tit. When he mentioned this on QI, Sean Locke mocked him mercilessly.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_d857f998	comment	The Shaggy D.A.: The film's Animated Credits Opening starts with a parody of the MGM logo, with a sheepdog yawning inside a circle with the inscription Canis corpore transmuto, which were the magic words that turned Wilby Daniels into a dog in this and the previous film.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_d9c602eb	comment	The South Park Planetarium's motto is "Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni" ("Beam Me Up, Scotty!").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_df76da7e	comment	Mirror's Edge gives the City government Finis Coronat Opus ("The end crowns the work"). It feels safer already.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_df7a30e1	comment	The Addams Family: The Addams family's motto is "Sic gorgiamus allos subiectatos nunc" (We gladly feast on those who would subdue us"). It's also Dog Latin; a better translation would be "Qui nos opprimere velint, illos libenter devoramus".
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_dfafaa10	comment	The Railway Series: The North Western Railway's motto is Nil Unquam Simile ("There's nothing quite like it"). Appropriate for a railway company still using primarily steam traction into the 21st century and still doing quite well.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_e081af79	comment	Lampshaded in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!. The motto of the science department of Generictown University is "Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" ("Anything said in Latin sounds profound").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Played with: In a darker vein, the inscription over the entrance at Sunnydale High School reads "Formatia trans sicere educatorum" ("Enter all ye who seek knowledge"), which Angelus used as the invitation he needed to enter the building.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_e2ade9fb	comment	The University of California system had Fiat lux ("Let there be light", from Genesis 1:3), but in an effort to counter its apparent obscurity and pretentiousness (never mind that Genesis 1:3 is possibly the most recognizable allusion in Western culture and "fiat lux" is pretty guessable under the circumstances), most modern versions of the university seal feature the English version instead. The Santa Cruz campus has jokingly adopted Fiat slug as its unofficial motto, in relation to its use of "Banana Slugs" as the nickname for its sports teams.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_e5d5d23c	comment	One well-known fan-made Doom WADfile is called "Momento Mori" — "remember, you will die".
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_ec9155b1	comment	In Small Gods, the Quisition's unwritten motto is Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum ("When you have their balls in your grip" — i.e. their full attention — "their hearts and minds will follow").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_eef6621b	comment	A twisted version appears in Event Horizon. Buried in the white noise of the "distress signal" are apparently two words of Latin. The phrase sounds like liberate me (Exactly What It Says on the Tin) but is actually Libera te tutemet ex inferis ("Save yourself from Hell"). It's later revealed that the captain of the ship was fond of signing off his log entries with a Latin motto.
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_ef06b063	comment	A Crown of Stars: The motto of Avalon Imperial Army is "Numquam Soli. Semper, Sumus Legio" ("Never alone. Always, we are legion"). The motto of Clan Guards is Morior Invictus ("I die unconquered").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_f120845f	comment	Kingdom of Loathing's Loathing Legion's unofficial motto is also the one thing you should never call them: Tardis Pro Cena, a reference to a really old joke.note It means "late for dinner".
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_f3ef0f86	comment	Artemis Fowl's family motto is Aurum Potestas Est ("Gold is power"), but the American editions rearrange the words to give Aurum Est Potestas. The original has the preferred word order, although the altered sentence would be perfectly intelligible and theoretically even correct to a Latin-speaker. One explanation may be that the word order is for emphasis ("It is gold that is power").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_fa5e90fd	comment	The Midnight Club in City of Heroes uses the phrase Si vis pacem, para bellum ("If you wish for peace, prepare for war") as a password.
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City of Heroes (Video Game)	hasFeature	Pretentious Latin Motto / int_fa5e90fd
Pretentious Latin Motto / int_fb8f01ce	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Pretentious Latin Motto / int_fb8f01ce	comment	The motto in the full achievement of the arms of the Dukes of Taunton in the Village Tales novels is "Deus vult," "God wills it." Which was pretentious and probably blasphemous even at the time of the first duke: its association is with the Crusades, but the first duke was a bastard son of James II â€“ back when that monarch was still pretending to be Anglican, not Roman Catholic. Presumably God willed the bastardy?
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Village Tales	hasFeature	Pretentious Latin Motto / int_fb8f01ce
Pretentious Latin Motto / int_fda1fda1	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Pretentious Latin Motto / int_fda1fda1	comment	The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan almost references the trope by name. Nova Shine has a moment where he reflects on his estranged family's motto (Ex stellae, magicae. Ex magicae, lux. "From stars, magic. From magic, light."), and internally calls them "pretty damn pretentious."
Pretentious Latin Motto / int_fda1fda1	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Pretentious Latin Motto / int_fda1fda1
Pretentious Latin Motto / int_fe5f7909	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Pretentious Latin Motto / int_fe5f7909	comment	The Watch: Fabricati diem, pvnc. According to Colon in Guards! Guards!, it translates as "To protect and to serve." It's actually Canis Latinicus for "Make my day, punk." It's apparently abbreviated from the original version, Fabricati Diem, Puncti Agunt Celeriter ("Make the day, the moments pass quickly").
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Pretentious Latin Motto / int_ff99cd7b	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Pretentious Latin Motto / int_ff99cd7b	comment	Another interesting parallel motto is Georgetown University, located in Washington D.C. and the first Catholic university in the United States. It was founded in 1789, the same year the United States Constitution was ratified; where E Pluribus Unum ("Out of Many, One") was chosen for the nation, Georgetown adopted the parallel Utraque Unum ("Both One," from Ephesians 2:14). Probably intentional, as Georgetown's founder, Archbishop John Carroll, had brothers who signed the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
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Book of Ephesians	hasFeature	Pretentious Latin Motto / int_ff99cd7b

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Pretentious Latin Motto	processingCategory2	Language Tropes
Lazarus (Comic Book) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Ogre Gods (Comic Book) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Friendship Is Optimal: The Law Offices of Artemis, Stella & Beat (Fanfic) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Heart of the Machine (Fanfic) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
/SovereignGFC/Origins / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan / Fan Fic / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Arad's Stardust (Fanfic) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Homelost (Fanfic)	seeAlso	Pretentious Latin Motto
Origins (Fanfic) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
RWBY: Destiny of Remnant (Fanfic) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Stardust (Arad) (Fanfic) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Dead Poets Society / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Hellboy (2004) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Hellboy II: The Golden Army / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
John Wick / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Loaded Weapon 1 / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Neighbors (2014) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Nothing but Trouble / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Rushmore / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Slaughterhouse Rulez / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Addams Family / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
X-Men: Days of Future Past / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
cosmicPostman (Lets Play) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Stellaris Invicta (Lets Play) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Breakfast of Champions / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Castle Perilous / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Digital Fortress / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Kitty Norville / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Lonesome Dove / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Machine of Death / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Madame Bovary / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Needful Things / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Snow Crash / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Cask of Amontillado / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Last Hero / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Onion Book of Known Knowledge / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Stolen Spring / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Weather Wardens / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
FanFicRecommendations	seeAlso	Pretentious Latin Motto
FrothyPintOfMetal	seeAlso	Pretentious Latin Motto
LatinPronunciationGuide	seeAlso	Pretentious Latin Motto
Malchus	seeAlso	Pretentious Latin Motto
Modern Battlefield Weapons	seeAlso	Pretentious Latin Motto
Oxbridge	seeAlso	Pretentious Latin Motto
Russian Proverbs and Expressions	seeAlso	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Magnus Protocol (Podcast) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Neo Pokeforum (Roleplay) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Price Of Wisdom (Roleplay) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Body of Proof / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Community / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Degrassi: The Next Generation / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Kamen Rider Dragon Knight / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Mad About Alice / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
National Treasure: Edge of History / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Riverdale / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Sex Education / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Thank God You're Here / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Brittas Empire / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Colbert Report / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Middleman / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
d20 Modern (Tabletop Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Delta Green (Tabletop Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Ironclaw (Tabletop Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Renegade Legion (Tabletop Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Hack Punt Tool (Theatre) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Alan Wake (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Binary Domain (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Bully (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Control (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Fallen London (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
FinalFantasyType-0	seeAlso	Pretentious Latin Motto
Gylt (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Half-Life (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Haunting Ground (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
I Expect You To Die (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Mirror's Edge (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Persona 5 Tactica (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Second Sight (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Sine Mora (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Bleachers (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Room: Old Sins (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Valkyria Chronicles III (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
XCOM: Chimera Squad (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Red vs. Blue (Web Animation) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Oxventure (Web Video) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Stellaris Invicta (Web Video) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Disney High School (Webcomic) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Nip and Tuck (Webcomic) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Particle Fiction (Webcomic) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
S.S.D.D. (Webcomic) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Giant Bomb (Website) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Smogon (Website) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Cats Don't Dance / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
The Triplets of Belleville / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Tiny Toons Looniversity / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
A Crown of Stars (Fanfic) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Arc Of Sacrifices / Fan Fic / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Better Off Ted / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto
Sword of the Stars (Video Game) / int_c70fc0a2	type	Pretentious Latin Motto

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