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** Also, "Barbelith."
* ''[[Blackest Night]]'': '''RISE.'''
* For [[Grant Morrison]]'s run on ''[[Batman]]'', there was "Zur En Arrh," a piece of graffiti that ends up being a [[Trigger Phrase]] for Batman. And it also ends up being his [[Crazy Prepared|backup personality]], the Batman of Zur En Arrh. In the end, {{spoiler|it turns out that the phrase is a bastardization of [[Death
** Leading to the irony that {{spoiler|even Bruce doesn't know what the phrase means, as the last thing he ever said to his father is "what?" implying he didn't clearly hear what he said.}}
* In ''[[100 Bullets|One Hundred Bullets]]'' highly trained assassins known as The Minutemen are brainwashed into forgetting their time as killers only to be "awakened" by the use of the cryptic word "Croatoa". This is eventually revealed to be {{spoiler|part of a larger conspiracy involving the founding of the United States of America.}}
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* In the novel ''Some Other Place. The Right Place'' by Donald Harington, the phrase "some other place" appears repeatedly throughout, followed by "the right place", usually on the opposite page.
* In several of [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s works, "So it goes." and "Tralfamadorians".
** There's virtually one per book. I can't even recall all of them, but they include the Trout's sermon ("You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do") in ''Timequake'', "And so on" in ''Breakfast of Champions'' (as well as the title itself and recounting penis lengths of every male character), "chronosynchastic infindibulum" in ''[[The Sirens of Titan|Sirens of Titan]]'', and the various Bokoninist lines in ''[[
** "Blue and ivory feet", also from [[Slaughterhouse-Five]].
* In [[Larry Niven]] and Jerry Pournelle's novel ''[[The Deed of Paksenarrion|Oath of Fealty]]'', "Think of it as evolution in action" is explicitly developed as this.
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