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==Film==
* [[Green Lantern (film)|Hal Jordan]] attempted to [[Super-Hero Origin|activate his ring for the first time]] by reciting various catch phrases, eventually progressing to "[[Toy Story (franchise)||To infinity and beyond!]]" and, ultimately, "By The Power Of Grayskull" itself.
== Literature ==
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* [[Ultraman Ace]]: "Ring Touch!"
* [[Ultraman Leo]]: "Reo!"
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* [[Ultraman Mebius]]:"Mebiusu!"
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* ''[[Super Monkey Ball|Super Monkey Ball 2]]'' and it's quite bizarre story mode where the heroes had to chant a song before they could go rolling around a level. According to the subtitles, the song had lyrics, but it all sounded like "Uki uki uki-ki-ki!"
* Combined with a [[Badass Creed]] in ''[[Princess Waltz]]'': A sword in my hand. A vow on my finger. I am clad in white. I will become a contestant in the Waltz.
* In [[
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* Parodied in ''Tales of Mynarski Forest''; when the delusional Heywood raises his "magic sword" to the sky with a call of "By the Powers of Numbskull!" he gets struck by lightning with [http://mynarskiforest.purrsia.com/xsl06_21.htm predictable results].
* Played with in one ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' [[Filler Strips|filler comic]]: Ellen, having nicknamed her boobs "The Wonder Twins", yells "Wonder Twin powers... ACTIVATE!"
{{quote|'''Ellen:''' Damn. I was hoping [[Most Common Superpower|they'd get bigger]].
'''Grace:''' Are you wearing a towel as a cape? }}
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', Zoe's transformation powers are enacted by the words "shupid" and "kwi". However, this works whether said by her or somebody else. (Kind of has to, since her alternate form is that of a camel... which can't talk.)
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** To H-B's credit, Samurai was using genuine Japanese: "Kaze no yō ni hayaku" means "As swiftly as the wind", and "Tōmei ningen" means "Invisible man". It's entirely possible that Apache Chief's "Inekchok" is linguistically legit too.
** Apache Chief's power was parodied by ''[[Family Guy]]''. Saying "Inekchok" makes ''Quagmire's penis grow larger''!
* Used by ''[[Freakazoid!]]'', without even [[Lampshade Hanging]] it to any real degree. He has to say "Freak out!" to transform into Freakazoid, and "Freak in" to turn back into mild-mannered nerd Dexter Douglas. When Dexter says "freak out", he always precedes it with an extended "Ah" sound, like the chorus to the disco song "Le Freak" by CHIC.
* In ''[[Fred and Barney Meet The Thing]]'', young Benjy Grimm would transform into The Thing by touching his magical rings together and saying "Thing Ring, Do Your Thing!"
* Subverted in ''[[DuckTales]]'', where [[Bungling Inventor]] Gyro Gearloose programs the Gizmoduck suit to be activated by the phrase "blabbering blatherskite", believing that nobody uses it. Little did he know that it was mild-mannered accountant Fenton Crackshell's favorite expression and that he would transform into Gizmoduck for the first time purely by accident after uttering this phrase standing too close to the suit. In another episode, Launchpad starts using the expression, leading to some [[Secret Identity]] close calls. And in a later episode, the suit somehow shrinks in the wash... and its activation word becomes "blab".
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