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A common [[Anime]] phenomenon, where it may be a form of [[Calling Your Attacks]]. In the Japanese dialog of [[Sentai]] and [[Anime]], the word "Henshin" -- meaning—meaning roughly "change" or "transform" -- is—is often found in the phrase, and is sometimes the ''entire'' phrase.

{{See also: [[|Transformation Trinket]]}}

* The [[Empathic Weapon|Empathic Weapons]]s in ''[[Bleach]]'' need their wielder to say the magic [[Catch Phrase]] in order to switch into a more powerful form. The [[Catch Phrase]] is unique to each weapon (though always including the weapon's name) and must be learned from the weapon itself. The phrase can range from the short ("Snap", "Shatter", "Dance") to longer ("Reign over the frosted heavens", "Shoot to kill", "Sting all enemies to death") to ''very'' long ("Flower wind rage and flower god roar, heavenly wind rage and heavenly demon sneer", "All waves rise now and become my shield, lightning, strike now and become my blade", "All things in the universe turn to ashes"). Characters who have gained the ability to unlock a final, even more powerful form of their swords do so with the single word "Bankai", regardless of the length of phrase required for first release.

* Modified in the ''[[Karas]]'' [[OAV|OAVs]]s, where the transformation sequence is spoken by the hero's handler. (It's also one of the coolest transforms ever, albeit very long.)

* ''[[Family Matters]]'': Urkel would transform into one of his alter egos -- Stefanegos—Stefan Urquelle, Bruce Lee Urkel or Elvis Urkel -- byUrkel—by pouring a special potion into one of the tubes attached to the machine; after walking inside, one of his friends would flip a switch to activate the machine and begin the transformation process (complete with bells, whistles and funny sounds that always seemed to elict a laugh). Urkel's trademark voice, clumsiness and physical awkwardness, weird food likes and personal traits, etc., always disappeared when Urkel's alter ego emerged.

** The machine worked in reverse, often to switch Urkel's alter-ego back to his nerdy self, but several times, it was usedused—always -- always accidentally -- toaccidentally—to transform Carl and Eddie into clumsy likenesses of Urkel.

** It is not entirely clear in which cases the phrase is [[By the Power of Grayskull]], and in which it is an [[Invocation]]. For the original rangers, saying the name of their respective animal was required (Zordon tells them to summon their powers thus), and the now-famous prelude, "It's morphing time!" was absent in the very first morph (Zordon is the first to use the phrase in the second episode). With every team since (except ''Zeo''), it was the team call, not the individual call, that triggered the morph. ''[[Power Rangers Time Force]]'' is a strange case: the Quantum Ranger's morpher was voice-activated, and this is ''explicitly different'' from the way the Time Force morphers worked. Doesn't stop them from saying "Time for Time Force!" to morph.

*** "It's Morphin' Time!" (''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]''. Then followed with their original dinosaur/animal symbol (for ''Mighty Morphin'' Season 1 to 2) or '(insert color here) Ranger Power' (for Season 3) or Ranger designation (for ''Zeo'')). <ref>Tommy's calls during ''[[Mighty Morphin]]'' invoked his animals (Dragon and White Tiger for Green Ranger and White Ranger, respectively), but for some reason, they were rendered along with the "-Zord" suffix, leading to "Dragon'''zord'''!" and "Tiger'''zord'''!"</ref>

* [[Kamen Rider|Kamen Riders]]s traditionally use "Henshin", though Showa-era Riders would occasionally use variants, such as [[Kamen Rider Stronger]]'s "Henshin Stronger".