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See also: [[Transformation Trinket]]

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'': In the first season of the English dub, Yugi's transformation into the pharaoh is usually precipitated by his shouting the title of the series.

** The title of the series, ''Yu-Gi-Oh'' is one of the pharaoh's titles, which translates to "king of games".

*** [[Scooby Doo (Animation)|Da-da-da-ta ta-ta! Puberty Power!]]

*** Also "Wonder Twin Powers Activate! Form of, an Egyptian homosexual!"

*** Because (unless you have a dumb one) it is ''awesome'' and serves as a [[Badass Boast]] with visual aides as your shikai activates. Trying to scare the enemy is the more-or-less explicit reason for all the [[Explaining Your Power to The Enemy]] that goes on in this series.

** Aside from the zanpaktou, there's also kido, which can be unspoken by very high level users, to short phrases, to requiring ''scrolls'' to keep track of. Using a kido without the chant weakens it, even for the highest-level users, and when a less skilled user tries, it also increases the chance of the spell failing entirely (and possibly blowing up in the caster's face, as frequently happens with [[Butt Monkey|Renji]]).

*** This is because the premise of them is that they are Hollows who have been brought closer to shinigami, the opposite of Vizards like Ichigo.

* The shift from "civilian clothing" to bird suits in ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (Anime)|Gatchaman]]'' was triggered by speaking the phrase, "bird go!" into a special wristband. When the show was brought to America as Battle of the Planets, the phrase was "transmute!" In the G-Force permutation, the phrase was "G-Force, Transform!"

* ''[[VR Troopers]]'': used the phrase "(Trooper Transform!) We! Are! V!R!" to initiate their transformations. It's the "Trooper Transform" that's actually needed for the change.

** Their foe, Karl Ziktor/Grimlord, did this as well, straddling the line between this trope and [[Invocation]]: "Forces of darkness, empower me! Take me back to my Virtual Reality!"

** The Metallix season had: "Data-Bonders! Input card! Beetle-Blast!" for their Beetleborg forms and "Bug out!" and "Bug-back" to go to and from their bug forms.

* ''[[The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog (TV)|The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog]]'': "Fire within me!" "Earth beneath me!" "Air above me!" "Water around me!" "Forest before me!"

** "Sword of Omens, give me [[Seers|Sight Beyond Sight]]!" allows Lion-O to use the sword's [[Psychic Powers]]. This particular example is parodied in the ''[[Family Guy]]'' movie, where Lion-o uses the sword to spy on Cheetara in the bathroom.

** In the original, when separated from it, Lion-O could say "Sword of Omens, [[Summon to Hand|come to my hand!]]" to get it back. This even worked over interstellar distances, but [[Idiot Ball|he didn't use it as often as he should have.]]

** In one particularly embarrassing original series moment that that Mumm-Ra will never live down, ''Snarf'' of all people takes advantage of this catchphrase to become even more beefy than Mumm-Ra himself. Clearly Mumm-Ra's transformation chamber could do with better security.

** The sister series ''[[Silverhawks (Animation)|Silverhawks]]'' also had a villain with a transformation speech: "Moon Star of Limbo! Give me the might! The muscle! The menace! Of MON...STARR!!"

* Possibly similar to ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'s'' "Go, Go, Gadget ''X!''", a phrase that was used to activate the required gadget 80% of the time.

** You mean the wrong one 80% of the time.

** This habit, and the entire concept of the Wonder Twins, was hilariously subverted in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePLXE8pLT5Q Cartoon Network promo] disguised as an Eighties-vintage "you can do anything you set your mind to" spot: after telling the kiddies they don't need superpowers to be cool, Jayna transformed into a green tiger, and Zan into a bucket of water... whereupon he began lamenting his [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway|lame superpower]], and exclaimed, "I could be defeated by a sponge. It wouldn't even have to be an ''evil'' sponge!" [[Hilarity Ensues|And an evil sponge (you can tell by the eyebrows) leans out from a group of lurking villains.]]

* ''Challenge of the [[Super Friends]]'' added Apache Chief and Samurai as token ethnic characters to their line-up. Apache Chief could grow to 50 feet tall by saying "Inekchok!", which the narrator once assured us was the Apache word for "giant man". Samurai could turn into a tornado by saying "Kazi noyo ni hiyaku!", or turn invisible by saying "Koya ningi!"

** Spoofed during ''Nullzilla'', where the characters summon vehicles for a [[Combining Mecha]] with voice commands. Bob, Dot, and Enzo get the usual speech related to the vehicles, but Frisket ''barks'' for his and Mike has to say [[Butt Monkey|"Gnat, slightly annoyed, high pitched buzzing force"]].

* The short-lived ''[[The Avengers United They Stand (Animation)|The Avengers: United They Stand]]'' cartoon based on the Marvel [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|comic book of the same name]] had Ant-Man screaming ''Avengers Assemble!!'' followed by the transformation sequence of 3/4 of the team putting on powered armor. Scarlet Witch, Tigra and The Vision didn't wear any, being mutants and a robot respectively, so they were left out of the transformation sequence.

{{quote| '''Arthur:''' I am King Arthur.<br />

'''Knights:''' And we are the Knights of Justice. We pledge fairness to all, to protect the weak and vanquish the evil! }}

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