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Survival Mantra
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To contrast Madness Mantra, this is a prayer, koan, or just plain reassuring phrase that gives the speaker peace or confidence, or at least forestalls a panic attack in a dangerous situation. Be advised, reading these entries may or may not actually make you brave... but it is all pretty reassuring! If it works at a crucial moment, it may be adopted as a Badass Creed; alternatively, characters may use an existing Badass Creed to galvanise themselves in a moment of panic. See also Madness Mantra. Might be used in a Meditation Powerup or Bravado Song. Often an illustration of The Power of Language. |
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Predator has a character reciting "Long Tall Sally" before his final stand - but then it turns into a Madness Mantra. | |
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Literally in Reign of Fire. The prayer we see being taught to children is actually a list of survival instructions and psychological prepping in a world where dragons have laid waste to civilization. | |
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Adventure Time: In the episode "Simon and Marcy", in a flashback to an earlier time when remnants of the world before the Great Mushroom War were more prevalent, and Simon/Ice King's Sanity Slippage was not yet complete, he actually uses the theme song from Cheers as this to try to stay sane and in control while using his magic crown to defend himself and Marceline from a pack of green, oozing zombie/ghoul things. | |
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"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..." It was revealed in the sequel the song was taught by Dory's parents to stop being indecisive. | |
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Finding Nemo: "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming..." It was revealed in the sequel the song was taught by Dory's parents to stop being indecisive. When Marlin and Dory are stuck in the Jellyfish fields, Marlin invokes this trope while playing it straight. He keeps Dory awake by asking her to repeat where P. Sherman lives, and keeps himself awake by repeating "Stay awake!" |
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In Thud! Sam Vimes uses the text of "Where's My Cow?" as this. It sounds really silly out of context, but it's his two year-old son's favourite nursery rhyme, and Sam reads it to him every night before bedtime. | |
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In The Wicker Man (1973), the 23rd psalm is used at an appropriate moment. | |
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Used in the beginning of A Bug's Life when the swarm of grasshoppers come to take the ants' offering of food. The ants are all gathered underground in the colony waiting and listening. Atta, terrified, chants, "They come, they eat, they leave. They come, they eat, they leave." | |
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Jerid Messa of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam recites a more sinister one as he scrambles to board a transport out of Jaburo, competing against fellow Federation and Titans soldiers: "If you're weak, you won't survive." Justified, as those left behind were certain to perish in the trap the Titans had set for the AEUG in Jaburo. | |
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In The Witchlands, Iseult has "Stasis. Stasis in your fingers and your toes." as her mantra. She repeats it whenever she needs to center herself; keeping to it, however, is another matter entirely. | |
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Ravi from the Bloody Jack series repeats "Happy puppy, happy puppy, happy puppy" to himself whenever he's afraid for his life. (He believes if he dies at that moment, he'll be reincarnated as a happy puppy.) | |
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Life Is Strange: True Colors: Alex repeats "I'm okay... I'm okay... I'm okay" to calm herself down after an emotional episode. | |
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Rocketship Voyager: Captain Janeway suffers a panic attack after being sealed up in a cargo rocket and shot out into space and recites, "Remember what peace there may be in silence" as a mantra to gain control of her breathing. Spoofed with B'Elanna Torres who was raised Catholic. |
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The 13th Warrior: "Lo, there do I see my father. Lo, there do I see my mother, and my sisters, and my brothers. Lo, there do I see the line of my people back to the beginning. Lo, they do call to me. They bid me take my place among them, in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever." Ironically, it is a funeral chant that was heard at the beginning of the movie. The heroes are facing down an entire army and the heroes' leader, who starts the chant, already knows he is dying from being poisoned in the last confrontation. The others join in as they don't expect to survive either and it gives them the courage needed to fight anyway. | |
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Chuck: in "Chuck Vs The A-Team", Chuck has to disarm a nuke before it takes out a large chunk of L.A County. From the Intersect, he recognizes the bomb a coming from a Chinese sub, and that it was designed to shut down if exposed to salt water. While checking the ingredients of a juice box he has on his person, Chuck murmurs "Please have sodium, please have sodium." Fortunately there is enough sodium in his juice box to shut down the bomb. | |
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The final scene of Allegro: "One foot, other foot, one foot, other foot..." | |
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The Goonies. While running through trees in the night, Chunk plays this straight and also inverts it. | |
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Not quite a mantra, but there's also Sam's song from The Return of the King. (Also a Dark Reprise of an earlier song.) | |
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In Umineko: When They Cry, it is revealed that Maria's Uu-Uu is this. It is magic incantation that is supposed to make Rosa love her. | |
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The Simpsons: "Separate Vocations" shows miss Hoover relying on "Calm, blue ocean ... calm, blue ocean" under stress. In "Kamp Krusty", Bart is seen keeping himself sane by reminding himself that "Krusty is coming... Krusty is coming... Krusty is coming..." |
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The Last of Us: “To the edge of the universe and back. Endure and survive.� | |
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Not exactly the same, but the Justice League episode "Only a Dream" has Batman looping Frere Jaques in his head to stop Dr. Destiny from messing with his mind. This is when Dr. Destiny has previously incapacitated the rest of the League, is at his most powerful, and is dangerously close to Batman. | |
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Simon in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann ends up curled up in Lagann's cockpit mumbling "not my business" over and over after seeing Yoko and Kamina kiss. Kamina has this all over the place, with the most famous three being "Who the hell do you think I am?!", "Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb!", and finally "Gattai! (Combine!)" |
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Naruto: "I'll never go back on my word because that's my way of the ninja!" or "Give up on trying to make me give up!" (which also doubles as a Badass Boast). | |
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M.I. High, in the episode "Millionaire Flatley": "Frank's a good man in a crisis...Frank's a good man in a crisis..." | |
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In Canada's Worst Driver Ever, Kevin recites the oath of the Blue Lantern: "In fear filled days, in raging nights, with strong hearts full, our souls ignite. When all seems lost in the war of light, look to the stars, for hope burns bright. All will be well." Unfortunately, it never seems to help. | |
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Half-Life 2: "Although they call me crazy, I care not, for thou art my helper, my strength, and my saviour. I have been laid down in a pit of darknesses and the shadow of death. And thy anger has pressed down upon me; and all thy cares have come down upon me. And from this bed I cry out for the kindling of thy Light! For the days of my life have vanished like smoke, and my bones are parched like ash, and let all my impurities be as... fuel for that fire! Until nothing remains, but the Light alone." Of course, this being Father Grigori, the line between Survival and Madness Mantra may be a bit blurred... | |
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Besides, Aeneas got his nickname because he'd chosen The Aeneid as his personal Survival Mantra. And it was not the old chap Vergilius' masterpiece, but a Ukrainian burlesque poem by Ivan Kotlyarevsky. |
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Season 3 of RWBY introduced Neon Katt, a woman who fought on rollerblades and repeated the phrase, "Never miss a beat." to keep her focus. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS: The "three things" mantra an eight-year-old Revolver told Yusaku helped him cope during and after the Lost Incident. He keeps repeating this mantra to this very day. | |
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: In "Among the Lotus Eaters", the crew is suffering from amnesia thanks to an Asteroid Thicket full of radiation. Ortegas focuses on her name and job as she flies the Enterprise to safety. | |
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What sounds like Sirius Black's Madness Mantra—"He's at Hogwarts, he's at Hogwarts, he's at Hogwarts"—is revealed to be this. | |
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Similar to the Wizard of Oz subversion above, in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh episode "A Knight to Remember", Piglet made his way through a dragon's cave chanting "I am not brave, I am not brave..." | |
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Hourglass Door has "feel the fear till the count of ten, then count once more to feel brave again." Also, random quotes from the Inferno section of The Divine Comedy (used by, guess who? Dante!). | |
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Cross Ange: When Ange finally gains control of Villkiss, she snaps out of her earlier Heroic BSoD as she attacks the DRAGON that killed Commander Zola earlier that episode (which was where her current BSOD intensified). As she lays the smackdown on the feral beast, Ange keeps screaming that she doesn't want to die, then finishes it off in a rage with a promise to the DRAGON that it will be the one to die as she lands the final blow. | |
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In The Dark Knight Rises, whenever a prisoner attempts the climb to escape from the Pit, the rest of the prisoners gather to cheer them on with a chant of "Deshi! Deshi! Basara! Basara!" which is Moroccan for "Rise". | |
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Attack on Titan's Eren Yeager has "TATAKAE! TATAKAE! TATAKAE! TATAKAE! TATAKAE!"* Fight! | |
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In Sweeney Todd, Johanna repeats lines from her earlier song with Anthony, in order to stay sane while locked within Fogg's Asylum. | |
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Frostbite: Tess's name, rank and serial number starts out as the only things she has to give her captors, but turns into this after Dalsh Ruul starts torturing her. | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Mr. Herriman is dreadfully afraid that there is a dog in the house, so Frankie tells him to do what she did when she thought that there were monsters under her bed and say, "There are no such things as dogs." Realizing this is not true, she changes it to "A dog cannot get into the house." Realizing that was not appropiate either, she settles for "A dog is not in the house presently." | |
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The Dresden Files: "POLKA WILL NEVER DIE!" seems to skirt the boundary of survival mantra and madness mantra for Butters when he gets dragged into serious action away from the safety of his lab. What really seals this as a survival mantra is that Harry later uses it to pull Butters out of a panic. Murphy in Aftermath and Ghost Story tells herself, "They Never Found the Body" of Harry Dresden. It seems to be the only thing keeping her going sometimes. |
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Animaniacs: "A clown is not a hairy spider. A clown will not bite me and throw me in the basement." Admittedly, it doesn't work very well... | |
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In the Supernatural episode "Plucky Pennywhistle's Magical Menagerie", Sam is getting chased by evil clowns (a childhood phobia of his) and mutters over and over to himself, "If it bleeds, you can kill it... if it bleeds, you can kill it.... if it bleeds, you can kill it...." And then he finds out that they don't bleed. | |
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During the Second Battle of Fallujah, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia of the US Army's 2nd Infantry Regiment decided to single-handedly assault a house where a half-dozen entrenched insurgents had earlier fended off his entire squad. Right before moving into a room which had held a cunningly-constructed barricade and machinegun emplacement, Bellavia overcame his own fear by trying to find a Survival Mantra in his mind, and remembered watching The Exorcist just before the battle. Thus, he charged into close combat with a half-dozen insurgents while screaming "The power of Christ compels you!" over and over again. He lived, and killed all but one insurgent in the building, including one with his pocketknife. The last, left alone because he was too exhausted to even check if they were there, was shotgunned by his squadmates later. | |
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Peter Puppy in Earthworm Jim uses the first three lines of the Bene Gesserit Litany almost Once an Episode. It never works, and is almost always a sign Peter is about to transform. Wonderfully lampshaded in one episode by Jim: | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji has: "I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away, I mustn't run away..." Not that it works very well. Sure, he doesn't run away when he starts chanting this... but it doesn't really stave off insanity. Asuka's is "I don't want to die!" in End of Evangelion. It eventually devolves into a Madness Mantra. In an early episode, Shinji continually recites the steps for loading and firing the Eva's rifle to himself during practice. Asuka also developed a self-reassurance tactic later on: if someone said something negative towards her, she started yelling "SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP!" over and over again in rapid succession as if she was trying to lock reality out of her mind. |
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In Star Wars: Rogue One, Chirrut ÃŽmwe believes in the Force, and invokes it through a mantra in the most critical situations to give himself enough courage to accomplish his mission: | |
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Discworld: In Thud! Sam Vimes uses the text of "Where's My Cow?" as this. It sounds really silly out of context, but it's his two year-old son's favourite nursery rhyme, and Sam reads it to him every night before bedtime. In Small Gods, Brutha makes use of the mantra "In a hundred years we'll all be dead, but here and now we are alive!" in crossing an inhospitable desert. |
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In Charby the Vampirate, Mannick chants Happy thoughts happy thoughts happy thoughts when he gets upset enough for it to affect his portal. | |
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In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Patrick's Rune is used for active protection as well as a comforting prayer. Starts out stating where you are or who you're with 'in this fateful hour' ('At Tara in this fateful hour' or 'With Chuck in this fateful hour', for example) and continues: | |
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In Code:Realize, on the rare occasion that Van Helsing is pressed hard enough in battle where he believes his survival is in doubt, he starts repeating "I can't die yet" to himself. | |
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The Sholan Alliance has a group of Litanies which are designed to help one overcome various mental/emotional hurdles. In no particular order, they are the Litanies for Pain, Relaxation, Fear (inspired by the one from Dune, above), Clear Thought, and Preparation. They're never actually spelled out within the narrative, and in fact weren't more than named/mentioned until the seventh book in the series, where they were included on otherwise blank pages between chapters, spaced throughout the book. On a side-note, they were actually written by members of the books' fan club. | |
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Clare of Claymore has a simple "I will survive." and "I will not die!" | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "On Thursday We Leave for Home", Captain William Benteen instructs "his" people to chant "There's a ship coming!" in order to maintain a spirit of hope after Al Baines raises doubts in their minds. | |
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With the heroes of Green Lantern, their battles often involve battles of the spirit as well as physical, so when they are hard pressed and derided as weak and worthless in that moment of pressure, a Lantern can often find strength by remembering their Badass Creed, "In Brightest Day/In Blackest Night/No evil shall escape my sight/Let those who worship evil's might/Beware my power: Green Lantern's light!" | |
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Bo Burnham: Inside features one over the end credits, the same one used by many to get through the COVID-19 Pandemic. | |
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In The Glass Key by Dashiell Hammett, Ned Beaumont has, "I can take whatever I've got to take." | |
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In The Order of the Stick the use of the 23rd Psalm is parodied here. | |
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In Ted, John and Ted are both scared of thunder, so they sing a foul-mouthed "Thunder Song" to deal with it. | |
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In the Star Darlings franchise, each Star Darling has a Mirror Mantra, which helps them focus and feel better about themselves in tough situations. | |
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One particularly bad game sees Joueur du Grenier mutter "you love retro gaming, you love retro gaming". | |
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Possibly the most direct version is Hana Hatsuno's "(I'm) not scared!" refrain in King of Braves GaoGaiGar. | |
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In the fanfic series Name, the unnamed primary character repeats her mother's last words as a reminder to keep her cool under extreme pressure. | |
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In Shardik, children in the possession of slave-dealer Genshed tell each other they'll be "home soon. Underground, all the way". | |
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Death the Kid from Soul Eater manages to turn what was seemingly a Madness Mantra into one of these during his prologue chapter, right after he realizes the actual body of the pharaoh isn't as symmetrical as he thinks. | |
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Deep Blue Sea: Starts Biblical ("Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. For thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.") then the blackness kicks in ("Because I carry a big stick and I'm the meanest mother fucker in the valley! Two sharks down, Lord! One demon fish to go! Can I get an Amen?"). | |
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Black Clover's Asta says "I'm not done yet" so frequently, it practically becomes this. | |
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Parodied in Captain Proton and the Planet of Lesbians when Buster Kincaid does the student version of the Litany Against Fear. | |
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In Last Exile Mullin Shetland chants his mantra, which runs to the effect of "Disith bullets will avoid Mullin Shetland's body" as he's lifted up on deck in his role as cannon fodder. It helps that the mantra contains his name. When Mullin falls in love with another grunt and rewords his mantra to protect her instead, the inevitable happens. He lives anyway, so I guess the mantra has a blanket clause. |
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Kaoru from I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying would say "It'll be ok." to herself to deal with her dead-end job and loneliness in the past. Not so much anymore. | |
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Wolfenstein: The New Order: "Count to four, inhale. Count to four, exhale." | |
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In Azumanga Daioh, Tomo and Osaka end up in the doldrums after summer vacation. To try and get them ready to go back to school, Chiyo starts up a chant of "Get motivated! Get motivated!" Unfortunately, keeping them motivated proves to be like spinning plates, and she quickly gets worn out. Then she tries it on someone else who is suffering from the same problem. Said someone else is Ms. Yukari. At the beginning of each school year, Osaka tries to psyche herself up with a mantra of "Get it together! Get it together!" Unfortunately, she often focuses too hard on the mantra and forgets to listen to the teachers. |
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Phantom Brave: "One Day....." One day...people will stop hating Marona and telling her so. She must believe this. | |
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in dreams you follow (but I dream in the dark): Kiba repeatedly reminds/reassures himself that "Somebody has to" take care of Dirty Business, or else it won't get done. | |
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Seraph of the End: In the manga/anime/novel Mika thinks about how Yuu inspires him to keep going and try hard to survive in their messed up world when he sees how determined Yuu is to survive. He sustains his resolve by saying "Yuu-chan, I'll try extra hard today." | |
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Animal Farm features Boxer the dim witted Horse who survives on "I will work harder!" and "If Napoleon says it, it must be right." Until Boxer gets too old to work and Napoleon has him Released to Elsewhere. | |
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In Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures, Abel starts mentally reciting the Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, when Merlitz's (who he's disguised as) old adventuring group stops by, on the look out for Cubi (which Abel is). | |
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In Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019), when trying to absorb the energy of the antimatter cannon, Black Lightning recites his school's motto, causing the others to give him weird looks. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: In one childhood flashback, Zuko tries to console himself with "Azula always lies, Azula always lies..." after Azula informs him that their father is going to kill him. Of course, she was actually telling the truth that one time. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Jem'Hadar's motto is "Victory is Life". They also have a call-and-response phrase uttered when distributing ketracel-white: "Obedience brings victory." "And victory is life." Bashir and O'Brien adopt one in "You Are Cordially Invited" during Worf's extremely trying bachelor party. It's Played for Laughs. |
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On My Cat from Hell, on the episode "My Cat Ruined My Wedding", after being badly scratched by the cat Pink, host / cat behaviorist Jackson Galaxy has to remind himself "I love my job, I love my job, I love my job." | |
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Cars protagonist Lightning McQueen recites a mantra to himself before he races to psyche himself up. "Speed. I am speed." | |
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The Litany Against Fear in Dune is a prime example. full litany I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. | |
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Halo: As revealed in the novel Halo: The Flood, Captain Jacob Keyes recites his name, rank, and service number constantly to resist Mind Rape by the Flood, which is stripping away his memories systematically. It works for a while, but eventually he is forced to forget his own name. The scene was adapted to animation for Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, to many tears. | |
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Band of Brothers: When Joe Toye gets his leg blown off, and goes into shock. "I've gotta get up... I've gotta get up... I've gotta get up..." It doesn't work. | |
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On Seinfeld, "Serenity Now" is intended to be one of these, but it ends up being a Madness Mantra in practice, as Lloyd Braun warns George. | |
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In Zootopia, on Judy Hopp's second day of parking duty, after being worn down by receiving steady verbal abuse from those she has ticketed, she returns to her three-wheeled joke mobile and bangs her head against the steering wheel, reminding herself desperately, "I am a real cop, I am real cop, I am a real cop..." | |
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In Shaman King, Yoh has his "Everything will work out" motto. | |
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Toy Story of Terror has "Combat Carl never gives up, Combat Carl finds a way". Jesse replaces the name with hers. | |
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Rebuild World: Akira has "Resolve is my responsibility", to which his Virtual Sidekick Alpha responds with "Leave the rest to me!". This is basically Akira saying This Is Gonna Suck but he’ll bear it, while Alpha uses his Powered Armor like People Puppets. Akira does say it on his own in a few significant moments separated from Alpha, proving it to be this. | |
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Murphy in Aftermath and Ghost Story tells herself, "They Never Found the Body" of Harry Dresden. It seems to be the only thing keeping her going sometimes. | |
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A Bridge Too Far. Robert Redford keeps repeating "Hail Mary, full of grace" as he paddles across the river under fire from German machine gun and mortar fire (Truth in Television for the character he was playing, who was too tense to remember the rest of the prayer). A terrified army chaplain can also be seen saying "Thy will be done...they will be done..." in the same scene. | |
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In Gunnerkrigg Court, Antimony always kept in mind something that her mother told her. At one point, remembering it gives Antimony the courage to march into a spectral inferno. "Always remember... remember I will never send you into danger." | |
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Eureka Seven has "Don't beg for things, do it yourself or else you won't get anything." | |
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Queen Elsa's "Conceal, don't feel" in Frozen (2013). It doesn't always help, though. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: At the end of the anime, Heero Yuy literally says "I will... I will... I WILL SURVIVE!" | |
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Riggs & Murtaugh in Lethal Weapon 4: "We're not too old for this shit...we're not too old for this shit..." | |
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In War Horse, a WWI-soldier crosses no-man's-land alone and against orders to rescue an entangled horse. On the way, he starts slowly saying Psalm 23. | |
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Toy Story: In Toy Story 2, when the rest of the toys come across Barbie, Mr. Potato Head breaks out into "I'm a married spud, I'm a married spud, I'm a married spud..." Toy Story of Terror has "Combat Carl never gives up, Combat Carl finds a way". Jesse replaces the name with hers. |
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The Accountant (2016) recites the Solomon Grundy nursery rhyme in high-stress situations. It provides an early clue to his identity to Medina, who has a recording of his voice analyzed and is told the lack of inflection implies the use of this trope by someone who suffered a trauma or mental disability from a young age. | |
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The Mrs. Hawking play series: The poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll becomes one of these for Nathaniel in Mrs. Frost. The names of Jack the Ripper’s victims for Mrs. Hawking in Fallen Women. |
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Wolf Children: As a child, Yuki was known for shifting in and out of her werewolf stasis, particularly when she'd get excited. When it came time for her to start school, Hana gave her a little rhyme to sing to help her remain calm and human. As a teenager Yuki began to mellow out more but in a later scene when she was being confronted by a boy in her class she nervously repeats the rhyme over and over again. | |
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On a similar note, "I Have Confidence" and "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music are both supposed to be this. | |
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Blade of Tyshalle: "Keep your head down and inch towards daylight." | |
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America's Sweethearts: Eddie has been struggling with rage issues ever since his girlfriend/co-star Gwen left him for another man. The wellness retreat he went to taught him to list off things in life that he's grateful for to keep himself calm. Throughout the movie whenever he gets stressed he starts repeating "I'm grateful for the sun, I'm grateful for the cool breeze" and similar variations. | |
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Sakura from Cardcaptor Sakura has her "invincible spell": "Everything will be all right". | |
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Frozen: Queen Elsa's "Conceal, don't feel" in Frozen (2013). It doesn't always help, though. In Frozen II, Anna manages to break herself out of her Heroic BSoD after Elsa and Olaf's deaths by repeatedly telling herself (through song) to "do the next right thing". |
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In The Walking Dead (2010), Enid oftentimes writes the symbols "JSS." This stands for "Just Survive Somehow." | |
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Gundam: Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: At the end of the anime, Heero Yuy literally says "I will... I will... I WILL SURVIVE!" Jerid Messa of Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam recites a more sinister one as he scrambles to board a transport out of Jaburo, competing against fellow Federation and Titans soldiers: "If you're weak, you won't survive." Justified, as those left behind were certain to perish in the trap the Titans had set for the AEUG in Jaburo. Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: Shy, sheltered Suletta Mercury often repeats some variation of the mantra "If you run, you gain one. If you move forward, you gain two." Taught to her by her mother, Lady Prospera, it means that while there's no shame in fleeing from trouble, she'll gain more if she faces it head on. In the prequel novel, it's compared to a "spell" that helps her press forward. Episode 12, however, shows a dark side to this "magic spell", as it can justify any logic to Suletta as long as it is couched in this mantra. Prospera tells Suletta that murder is one way of "moving forward", as long as she "gains" the safety of her loved ones, and the girl immediately makes it part of her belief system without question. |
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Lost: "One...two...three...four...five." | |
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In A Tale of Two Cities: the so far not religious-seeming Sydney Carton uses the mantra "I am the resurrection and the life, saith the Lord: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die," to comfort himself as he prepares to go willingly to the guillotine. | |
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The Wheel of Time: In Lord of Chaos, "This comes of trusting Aes Sedai. Never again; not an inch; not a hair." Arguably more of a Madness Mantra as he doesn't use it to calm himself, or mobilize hidden strengths. | |
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Inverted in The Wizard of Oz with, "Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh my!" and the Cowardly Lion's, "I do believe in spooks. I do believe in spooks"; both of which just served to make the characters more afraid. | |
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In Pixels's final sequence: Pretend you're the guy and you don't want to die. | |
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The hero in Flight of the Intruder, while taking a second pass at the most heavily defended target in all of North Vietnam, shouts the "and though I walk through the valley in the shadow of death" Psalm over the sound of the flak. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury: Shy, sheltered Suletta Mercury often repeats some variation of the mantra "If you run, you gain one. If you move forward, you gain two." Taught to her by her mother, Lady Prospera, it means that while there's no shame in fleeing from trouble, she'll gain more if she faces it head on. In the prequel novel, it's compared to a "spell" that helps her press forward. Episode 12, however, shows a dark side to this "magic spell", as it can justify any logic to Suletta as long as it is couched in this mantra. Prospera tells Suletta that murder is one way of "moving forward", as long as she "gains" the safety of her loved ones, and the girl immediately makes it part of her belief system without question. | |
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Slay the Princess: While facing the Nightmare, your body begins to shut down due to her supernaturally terrifying nature. To counter this, the Voice of the Paranoid (one of the possible voices in your head) constantly chants "Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves.", forcing your organs to keep working through sheer obsession. | |
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In the film Capricorn One, one of the escaping astronauts keeps reciting jokes to himself as he struggles through a harsh desert. | |
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Cherub Series: "This is tough, but Cherubs are tougher." Used at one point to overcome conditioning by a cult... | |
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From the MST3K-featured film The Pumaman: "Each man is a god; each man is free." ...another man? |
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In The Professionals/Doctor Who crossover fanfic Silver Doyle gets one after he is possessed by The Darkness. He gets one later that isn't about survival. |
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In Dumbo, Casey Junior the circus train has his own little mantra while climbing a steep hill "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can..." | |
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In Moana, whenever the title character runs into trouble on her voyage, she repeats what her grandmother told her to tell Maui when they met: "I am Moana of Motunui! You will board my boat, sail across the sea, and restore the heart of Te Fiti!" After Maui abandons her, she changes it to, "I am Moana of Motunui! Aboard my boat, I will sail across the sea, and restore the heart of Te Fiti!" | |
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The titular heroine of Mulan chants, "Get off the roof, get off the roof," when the rocket is about to explode. | |
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In Season 2 of Daredevil (2015), Frank Castle mutters "One batch, two batch, penny and dime" to himself when lining up a shot or when pinned down by gunfire. He reveals in the episode of that name that it's from his daughter's favourite storybook (the same book Karen finds when she breaks into his house), which he refused to read to her the night before she and the rest of his family were killed. | |
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An X-rated Star Trek: The Original Series 2002 Fan Fic, "The Road Not Taken" by Cheree Cargill, has Spock using this as he tries to recover from a quieter but still insanely rageful state after the "Amok Time" ritual fight. Repenting of his execrable actions towards both T'Pring and Christine, he meditates using the Tenets of Surak: "The words came easily. He had repeated them countless times since childhood. They were the mantra by which he meditated, the lullaby that sent him to sleep at night, the chant that awoke him in the morning. At the Academy, he had trotted miles in full gear to the rhythm of their cadence while around him other cadets were fainting from fatigue and the grueling physical training." | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: Arya Stark repeats the snippets of lectures from her fencing teacher: "Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear" - and her "prayer" of repeating the names of everyone she's going to kill once she gets out of her hellish situation. (Did we mention she's ten years old?) Danaerys has "I am the blood of the dragon" and "If I look back I am lost" Most of the House Words. "Hear Me Roar"; "Ours is the Fury"; "Fire and Blood" Subverted by the Starks' words: "Winter is Coming" is not reassuring in the least, but is intended to remind everyone to prepare for the worst. During combat soldiers shout the names of their kings, or the place they came from: "Winterfell!" "Casterly Rock!" "Stannis!" "The King in the North!" etc. Members of the Night's Watch tend to use brief snippets of the oath they make on joining the Brotherhood, particularly one or more of the following: "I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men." Theon Greyjoy: You have to know your name. |
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Ojamajo Doremi: Majo Rika, Majo Rika, MAJO RIKA! To be specific, Hazuki (and later Momoko) whimper this when they encounter ghosts. Played to hilarious effect in one episode of Dokkan, where Doremi and Hana-chan turn it into an actual chant...Aiko eventually gets fed up with the scaredy cats behind her. |
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In the 2007 film version of I Am Legend, Will Smith as Robert Neville likes the song "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley, but it doesn't really become a mantra until he sings it to calm down his dying dog just before he has to strangle her to death because she was infected with the vampire zombie virus while saving his life. | |
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In The Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign, adherents of the White Queen have a particular prayer which is often used as this trope. Because the Queen is unworthy of their faith, she never comes...but more than once, her lover has. (Olivia, for her part, sees no difference between the two.) The Colorless Little Girl often repeats or prefixes her other dialogue with "Nii-sama", seemingly as a way to remind herself of her original identity as a human and her reasons for changing into a Material- to protect him. |
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In the earlier seasons, Rugrats occasionally has Chuckie break out in: "I'm a big brave dog, I'm a big brave dog, I'm a big brave dog..." Referenced again in an episode of All Grown Up! | |
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In Toy Story 2, when the rest of the toys come across Barbie, Mr. Potato Head breaks out into "I'm a married spud, I'm a married spud, I'm a married spud..." | |
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In Peter Rabbit, when Benjamin gets scared of something, he likes to remind himself that "Rabbits are brave, rabbits are brave, rabbits are brave..." | |
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In Frozen Hearts (Sakume), Prince Hans has the final part of a Badass Creed about what a prince is. | |
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In Princess Principal, Beatrice has a mechanical voice box she got thanks to being the daughter of a Mad Scientist. Having machinery surgically installed into her throat without the use of any anesthetics was traumatizing enough, but it also turned her into the subject of harsh discrimination, as she was seen as a "mechanical girl". When it breaks down during an emotionally-charged moment, she rushes away to fix it, and concentrates on saying "Hime-sama" (what she calls the Princess, the only person to reach out to her), which not only keeps a breakdown at bay, but gives feedback on the status of her voice as it's being repaired. | |
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In In Strange Woods, Peregrine and the teens' chanting as they train for The Final includes how long you can last without basic needs, such as water, food, and hope. | |
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In The Most Dangerous Game, Rainsford is only able to last against Count Zaroff hunting him for three days by repeating “Nerve, nerve, nerve, nerve!� | |
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Annie Hall: Subverted, "I forgot my mantra." | |
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In The Stand Glen Bateman and Larry Underwood both use "I will fear no evil." | |
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In The Hearts We Sold, James uses "I chose this" to get him through the rougher parts of working for the Daemon. Later, Dee adopts it. | |
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In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, at least three of the main characters have Survival Mantras playing in their heads, discovered when Kreia teaches you how to read minds. These three are arguably the most traumatised out of all the team members (An eyeless Dark Jedi, a Sith torturer-turned-smuggler, and a reformed war criminal), and have some pretty interesting mantras. | |
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Questionable Content: "I must not laugh. Laughter is the Marten-killer..." | |
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Parappa The Rapper: "Yeah! I know! I GOTTA BELIEVE!" | |
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In Fallout: Equestria - Project Horizons, Blackjack has "I must do better", which she appropriated from a Ministry of Peace propaganda poster. | |
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Argento Soma: "Maki... Maki... Maki... Maki..." A Survival Mantra that tragically, TRAGICALLY borders on Madness Mantra. | |
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Serenity, with a twist: "I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar." Also lampshaded the second time Wash says it in the big space battle, when Mal asks him "what does that mean?!" |
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From Jemjammer: "Ethla knows that we are weak and yet she asks for strength" is Jylliana's, presumably a prayer to her Goddess Ethla. Later it's mentioned that she's expanded to muttering the entire holy text while inside the neogi ship. | |
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The Force Awakens: As Finn takes Poe to the hangar to escape pretending to be his prisioner, he repeats: "Okay. Stay calm. Stay calm." Later when Finn and Rey enter the Millennium Falcon... |
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Naru-Hina Chronicles Mini-sodes: Naruto tries to take out Naruko, his female clone, during a bikini contest. However, upon seeing Hinata in a bikini, he keeps repeating "Be strong" to himself, only to have a major Nosebleed. | |
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Game of Thrones: In Season 1, Arya picked up one from Syrio Forel. "What do we say to the God of Death?" "Not today. Not today." In Season 2, Arya gains a new survival mantra in the form of listing off the names of the people who have harmed her and those she cares about and who she will bring to justice. The list is a coping mechanism that gives her the illusion of control while horrific things happen around her. |
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Zulu: "Men of Harlech, stop your dreaming / Can't you see their spear points gleaming / See their warrior pennants streaming / To this battlefield..." | |
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The Princess Bride: "Hello! My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die. Hello! My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare to Die..." "Stop saying that!" |
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In the re-done version of Carrie the Musical, the Lord's Prayer has this function for Carrie. The first sign that she's losing it after the incident with the pig's blood is that this doesn't work any more. | |
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Asylum of Doom: At the end of her first day as a patient in the Burke Lunatic Asylum, as she's strapped into a patient bed for the night, Gaz keeps telling herself that it's All Just a Dream and to "wake up, wake up, wake up" over and over until she eventually falls asleep. | |
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In Koan of the Day, the reader is told to keep as their mantra, "I will visit every weekday for new koans." They are promised this will help increase their bodhi. | |
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In Alien, when Ripley is getting ready to fight the alien inside the escape shuttle, she sings to herself, "You are my lucky star... Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky." | |
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In the Unlimited Blade Works route of Fate/stay night, Shirou repeats "it isn't a mistake!" to himself while fighting Archer in order to convince himself that his ideal is worth having. | |
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Volgin from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater was severely afraid of thunder. Many gamers have fond memories of his "Kuwabara, kuwabara" chant. Ironically when he neglects his Survival Mantra at the end of the game, he is actually struck by lightning (though it's implied that it was summoned by the Sorrow). It may have helped that he actually taunted the rain... |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Tea at the Treedome", SpongeBob referring to water, "I don't need it! I don't need it! I definitely don't need it." It becomes a Madness Mantra when he sees a vase of it in front of him before finally howling "I NEED IT!". | |
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The Imperium, especially the Imperial Guard, of Warhammer 40,000 has far too many of these to count. They need them. Most Notably "THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!". Poor, poor Imperial Guard. "I am a man, prone to weakness, but I am a guardsman, where weakness is death, I will crush my weakness with the weight of my pride." Too bad they're not Adepta Sororitas (them the Emperor really does protect). Speaking of whom, there's also the inquisitorial battlecry/creed/mission statement, "BURN THE HERETIC! KILL THE MUTANT! PURGE THE UNCLEAN!" "They have their foul gods on their side! But we have the TANKS on OURS!" "All the Emperor asks of you is that you HATE!" Grey Knights: "I am the hammer! I am the hate! I am the woes of Daemonkind! I am the hammer! I am the hate! I am the END!" Alternately |
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How does Transformers: Animated Prowl do it? He says it himself in one episode: "Stillness... then strike!" | |
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Illuminatus! has "There is no enemy anywhere" or "There is no friend anywhere", depending on how Hagbard Celine assesses your personality type. (optimist or pessimist?) | |
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Space: Above and Beyond featured an episode where the Wildcards, under the effects of a fear-enhancing weapon, finally come together and march to the landing zone for extraction while reciting a boot camp marching jodie. Through a minefield, because that was the only way they could get there in time. | |
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In Tales from Jabba's Palace, Bib Fortuna spends several minutes at the end of every day reciting a mantra that soothes his nerves and focuses his objectives: "Of the day's annoyances, these," followed by all the inconveniences of the day. Over the course of the story, Bib's first entry is "That Jabba still lives," but during the epilogue, his list shortens considerably and the first entry becomes "That I had to drop the teaspoon eighteen times." This is because he has been "recruited" by the B'omarr Monks, and he is a Brain in a Jar attached to a Spider Mech, which aren't exactly the most dextrous machines on the planet. In Imperial Commando: 501st we have: |
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Doctor Who: "The Curse of Fenric": The Doctor repels an army of vampires who cannot harm those who have faith by reciting the names of his past companions under his breath. "Doomsday": "The Waters of Mars": After the Doctor snaps and starts getting really terrifying while fighting the Flood, he has one crossed with a Madness Mantra: "Not beaten, not beaten." "Let's Kill Hitler" gives us: "The Woman Who Fell to Earth": Crane operator Karl recites phrases from his affirmation tape while psyching himself up to jump between two cranes. "The Ghost Monument": The Doctor has Ryan recall facts that he learned about acetylene that he learned during an NVQnote National Vocational Qualification while scaling a ladder to help him keep his mind off his fear that he might slip and fall. |
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That Dude in the Suede uses the MST3K Mantra in this fashion. | |
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Tucker from The Saga of Tuck uses the Litany Against Fear when in a truly dire situation. Tuck's father uses one similar to the Deep Blue Sea example below although in a humorous manner. | |
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Nation: "Does not happen!" | |
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Naoki Shinjyo does this in episode 6 of Future GPX Cyber Formula Zero at the near end of the Asian race in Hong Kong: | |
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Convicts in The Wire like Avon Barksdale like to remind themselves no matter how long their sentence: "You only serve two days. The day you go in and the day you come out". | |
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In Hurricane Suite, Naruto keeps count of how long it's been since he killed someone. | |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops has Reznov's request to Mason: "Dragovich. Kravchenko. Steiner. All must die." | |
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"The Lorica of Patrick" is also used in Alexander Yang's Midnight World series as a Vampire Hunter crew's battle prayer. They recite The Lorica in Bullets from Beyond before and during the battle with four vampire mercenaries, and in Chance with No Rules while Aeneas fights states-vampire Koshelev barehanded: When Aeneas encounters two vampires at once (in the same book), he recites not "The Lorica of Patrick" but Psalm 27: Besides, Aeneas got his nickname because he'd chosen The Aeneid as his personal Survival Mantra. And it was not the old chap Vergilius' masterpiece, but a Ukrainian burlesque poem by Ivan Kotlyarevsky. |
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"Stroke by Stroke" from Jasper in Deadland. | |
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Azami of the Deadman Wonderland series is shown to use one of these. It comes across as both a Survival Mantra and Madness Mantra: "I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm all right. I'm all right. I'M ALL RIGHT!!" Poor thing. | |
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In Mockingjay, Katniss uses one of these to remind herself of what she knows. My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. I was in the hunger games... | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): In "Valley of Darkness", Lee Adama mutters, "Headshot, reload, headshot, reload" as they wait for the Cylon boarding party, as he had only a few explosive rounds, each of which had to be individually loaded into the under-barrel attachment of his pistol. In Razor: "Fear gets you killed. Anger keeps you alive." |
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John Carter of Mars: "I still live!" At one point, "Remember, Ghek, you still live!" |
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In Atlantis: The Lost Empire, we are briefly given a shot of Milo and Audrey in an escape pod as Milo nervously chants "it's only a grease trap, it's just like a sink, it's only a grease trap, it's just like a sink..." | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: DON'T PANIC! | |
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In Gantz Kurono Kei claims that he always wins because he always believes he will win and that others lose because they've already accepted that they might lose. | |
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The Walkyverse probably has quite a few, but of note is this one from It's Walky!: We are beautiful. | |
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Hellblazer #40 had alternate reality John Constantine walking through a dark void, only to come face to face with the main version of himself: | |
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The Angry Birds Movie: | |
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The Legend of Korra: During the finale of the second season, Tenzin, Kya and Bumi are searching for Jinora in the Spirit world and end up in the Fog of Lost Souls, which imprisons victims in their darkest memories. Tenzin tries to stay focused by reminding himself he is the son of Avatar Aang and the hope of future generations of airbenders. But the moment he almost lost his mind, a vision of Aang appeared, teaching him he should be his own person, instead of merely following in Aang's footsteps. Then he repeats to himself that he is Tenzin, freeing himself from the pressure he was about to succumb to and causing the Fog to dissipate. | |
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In Cake and Lies, a Portal fanfiction, human!Wheatley's survival mantra is "I am a shotgun." This leads to an amusing scene.... | |
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American Gods: "It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die." | |
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In Of Mice and Men, it's hinted that the story George tells Lennie about the little farm they'll get when they have money has become the survival mantra for both men. George has told it so many times, in nearly the same words, that Lennie has it memorized and can finish his sentences for him. | |
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1984's Dune and 2003's Children of Dune adaptations both contain shortened versions of the Litany Against Fear above. | |
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In an episode of The Avengers (1960s), Emma Peel notes Steed repeating phrases of nursery rhymes over and over and fears it is a madness mantra. It is actually to keep a mind reader out of his head and she joins in with him once she figures this out. | |
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In Warcraft (2016), Khadgar fights back against fel corruption with "From light cometh darkness, from darkness cometh light". | |
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Apollo Justice, Ace Attorney uses the phrase, "I'm fine!" or "You'll be fine!" for encouragement, often shouted at the top of his lungs. | |
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In the Firefly fanfic Forward, River uses the words "I am functional" as her Survival Mantra, after making the resolution that she is not going to let her traumatic past control her anymore. | |
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Divergent: "Adapt!", which is what Amar would say to initiates. | |
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In Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues, Sebastian repeatedly mutters "Stay calm" to himself while trying to, well, stay calm and escape the locked school during the Mass Super-Empowering Event. | |
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In Small Gods, Brutha makes use of the mantra "In a hundred years we'll all be dead, but here and now we are alive!" in crossing an inhospitable desert. | |
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Kirito in the first episode of the Sword Art Online anime adaptation: "I will survive in this world!", while later in the Fairy Dance Arc during his solo attempt at the World Tree Grand Quest he chants "Asuna" in a borderline Madness Mantra way. | |
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In Mission: Yozakura Family, Nanao recites his own genetic code when he needs to calm down to prevent himself from grotesquely Hulking Out into his normal, three-meter tall form. | |
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Tomb Raider (2013): Lara Croft frequently says "I can do this. I can do this." throughout the game. Also "keep moving", the game is actually designed so that during action scenes you get punished if you stay static. |
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Played with in Durarara!! Shizuo Heiwajima's "Kill them all" Madness Mantra is actually this, as he's using it to channel his inner anger and avoid going into Unstoppable Rages. | |
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A Crown of Stars: During the history Shinji replaces his "I mustn't run away" chant for another one: "Don't say "I'm sorry", or she'll kill me" | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In "The Thaw", Harry is held prisoner in a Lotus-Eater Machine by the Clown, who is the Abstract Apotheosis of fear. Harry gives the famous Franklin D. Roosevelt quote, so the Clown has him Strapped to an Operating Table. In "Flashback", as Tuvok's mental control is slipping, he begins reciting "Structure. Logic. Function. Control. A structure cannot stand without a foundation. Logic is the foundation of function. Function is the essence of control. I am in control. I am in control." |
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Tales of the Abyss: "It's not my fault, it's not my fault, it's not my fault!" Sorry, Luke. It totally is your fault. Cue total party abandonment and Heroic BSoD. Later, he adopts a more conventional I don't want to die! I don't want to die! Surprisingly, this one actually works. |
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In Drawn Together, we have "Strong, Xander... Strong, Xander..." | |
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In Kinnikuman Brocken Junior is mortally wounded when attacked by three superhumans after having thrown away his own super power source, an eagle badge. Muttering 'I have failed in my duty', he slowly closes his eyes as death approaches. But then a friend throws the badge back to him. His response is to mutter 'I must do my duty...I must do my duty...I must do my duty' before screaming in the manliest possible way 'I MUST DO MY DUTY'. What follows is the first and last instance of his new finishing move which defeats his target. This moment is pretty heart breaking because all his teammates are aware he's going to die if he exerts himself and scream his name, so he gives an insanely long speech about duty before he pulls off his move. And mumbles 'I have done my duty' before dying. | |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 shows Katniss cowering in an air duct of a hospital, desperately trying to avoid slipping into madness. | |
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Babylon 5: When confronted by a guardian of the Technomages in "The Geometry of Shadows", Vir Cotto stands his ground, reciting his credentials over and over: Doctor Franklin, after having been stabbed in Downbelow, ends up crawling through the corridors while saying "I want to live!" and "I wanna do it all over again!" over and over again. |
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Assassin's Creed: "Nothing is true. Everything is permitted." Which is a phrase attributed to Hassan-i Sabb�h, the historical founder of the Hashshashin. |
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In the Hellsing OVA, a wounded Alexander Anderson starts shouting "FORWARD!" repeatedly while cutting through Alucard's ghoul army in order to get to him. | |
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In Frozen II, Anna manages to break herself out of her Heroic BSoD after Elsa and Olaf's deaths by repeatedly telling herself (through song) to "do the next right thing". | |
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In an issue of Deadpool, Weasel starts chanting the Litany Against Fear when he and Al are in the Box. | |
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In Ice Age: The Meltdown, Sid tells Diego that because he fears the water, that makes him its prey. When Diego has to swim, he repeats to himself, "I am not your prey! I am not your prey!" When actually in the water, Diego keeps repeating Sid's swimming instructions, "Claw! Kick! Claw! Kick!". | |
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"I Whistle A Happy Tune" from The King and I. | |
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Mrs. Gleeful has one in Gravity Falls: "Just keep vacuuming, just keep vacuuming..." | |
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One episode of Dharma & Greg has Dharma talking about Greg's parents' sex life. In response Greg tries to clear his mind by running through the Bill of Rights "Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure. Fifth Amendment: Self-Incrimination. Sixth Amendment..." | |
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