Catch Phrase/Video Games

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Video game catch phrases can enhance the experience (usually, anyway).

Due to the sizable nature of the page, and the fact that it will keep growing, please try to keep them in alphabetical order by games/game series on this page so it doesn't implode.

If the phrase has become popular due to the audience repeating it, and not the characters in the show, it belongs in Memetic Mutation.

Examples of Catch Phrase/Video Games include:
  • Ace Attorney: The word Objection! has been practically synonymous with the series, as all of the attorneys use it in their cases, including the easily-rattled "Rookie Killer" Winston Payne. It's even flung around outside the court room in Investigations by all the attorneys (including new ones)
    • Poor players will also find their own catchphrase: "This evidence totally contradicts the witness' last statement!" Why is it so vague? Because you're presenting the wrong evidence, and have a penalty headed your way.
    • Godot also has one special Catch Phrase out of the usual Objection!: "That's one of my rules."
      • Godot also had a tendency to say "Ha!".
    • Luke Atmey, Ace Detective, most notably has "Zvarri!", though he also has a recurring routine that basically goes as follows; "Now I see! It's all becoming clear! You are.... (fairly obvious statement that wouldn't require any serious amount of deductive work)! ... am I wrong?"
      • Of note is that Zvarri! is contagious; Maya starts using it all over the place in the case with Luke, and then once or twice in a different case.
    • Apollo Justice gains (in addition to Objection!, Hold it! and Take that!) Gotcha!, for when he Perceives a witness's nervous tic.
      • "Here comes Justice!"
    • In Ace Attorney Investigations, Miles Edgeworth gains Eureka! for when he figures something out using Logic.
      • Also "NGHOOOOOOOH!"
    • Same game gives us Shi-Long Lang's Not so fast! which he uses where other characters use Objection!. Unlike the other charcters who have voiced phrases, he isn't a lawyer or prosecutor, but an Interpol agent.
      • And we shouldn't forget his "Lang Zi says" quotes.
    • Franziska seems to favor the word "Fool" in all its forms, resulting in lines like:

Franzeiska: Foolishly foolish fool with foolishly foolish fool ideas of foolish tomfoolery...

Franziska: ... You're so foolish, you've even made me sound like a foolhardy fool...

Franziska: A foolishly foolish idea born from the foolish mind of a foolhardy foolish fool.

    • In the original, she uses "baka" in the same way.
    • Dick Gumshoe likes to end his sentences with ",pal!" When Maya accidentally uses it in Justice For All, he declares that it's his endearing affectation.
    • Apparently, Ace Attorney investigations 2/Gyakuten Kenji 2 has the stern female judge Mikagami say 'Overruled!'.
  • Ace Combat: "Yo buddy, you still alive?"
  • Advance Wars: "As long as there's life, there's hope." -Captain Brenner
  • Age Of Armor, the free Humongous Mecha MMORPG is filled with Gratuitous English catch phrases, though the one that comes up when you enter combat is the best-recognised.

Be Fighting Mode!

  • Altered Beast Never forget the opening words "Rise From Your Grave!". However, they did kind of sound like "Wise fwom your gwave".
    • Don't forget the other part of that. "Welcome... Toyourdoom"
  • Artix Entertainment:
    • Artix: "BATTLE ON!"
    • Shadowscythe: "LONG UN-LIVE THE SHADOWSCYTHE!!"
    • Bloodtusk Horcs: "Free and Strong!"
  • Assassin's Creed 2: Ezio Auditore uses "Requiescat in pace."
  • Backyard Sports: Sunny Day has "Hi-de-ho!"
  • Baldur's Gate: "Go for the eyes, Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!"
    • Yoshimo from Baldur's Gate II seems to say "HI-YA!" alot.
  • Bangai-O's Goldfish Poop Gang boss Sabu has the engrish-y "Feel my Yasaan V3!". Just so we are clear on that, he is referring to his mecha.
  • Battle Golfer Yui: Before challenging an opponent, Yui Mizuhara announces, "You will be burned with black flames".
  • Beyond Good and Evil: Both of Jade's extremely hammy sidekicks have their own catchphrases. Pey'j, despite his proclivity toward swearing like a prospector, is extremely prone to proclaiming "Sweet Jesus!" Double H's is "Carlson and Peeters!"--he spouts it so frequently, it hovers on the verge of being a Verbal Tic.

Don't break up the team. Carlson & Peeters, page 823.

  • BioShock (series)'s Exposition Fairy Atlas has his distinctive "Would you kindly?"
  • BlazBlue: Hakumen's speech, which is sometimes shortened to even shorter variations: "I am the white void. I am the cold steel. I am the just sword. With blade in hand shall I reap the sins of this world and cleanse it in the fires of destruction. I am Hakumen. The end has come!"
  • Borderlands: The catchphrase "Heyoooo" has gained popularity with fans. It is the catchphrase of the character Steve, a bandit, who funny enough was never even in the original release of the game. He appears a few times in trailers, promotional videos, and is refereed to from time to time in the DLC.
  • Breath of Fire III: Rei has "Doesn't this just beat all..."
  • Cave Story: If you hear a shout of "Huzzah!", expect a toaster-shaped monster to confront you shortly thereafter.
  • Command & Conquer: "KANE! LIVES!"
  • Cooking Mama: "Wonderful! Better than Mama!" and "Don't worry, Mama will fix it!"
  • The Dance Dance Revolution announcers are nothing more than entire SOUND BANKS of these. "Let's STEP STEP!", "YES! DDR!", and so on.
    • The more recent games combine catch phrase with a healthy dose of Large Ham. "Ready? Start stepping!/Here we go!/It's the beat!" "You are tearing it up!" "200/300/400 combos!" "Dance. All. Night~", and so on.
  • Deadly Premonition: Special Agent Francis York Morgan. "But please, call me York. It's what everyone calls me."
  • Devil May Cry's signature Big Bad killing catch phrase, "Jackpot!". Even Nero gets one in at the end of number 4.
  • Digital Devil Saga: Gale's "I do not comprehend."
  • Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: Adell doesn't believe in catch-phrases. They're "just not his style."
    • You fools! How dare you forget Rozalin! She is the daughter of Overlord Zenon!
  • In .hack//G.U., Haseo likes to say that he's "going to log out and check my email, or something."
  • In Dragon Quest VIII, Dhoulmagus ... really, Rhapthorne and, as a consequence, whoever he's currently possessing and his regular utterance of "Such a pity..."
  • Dynasty Warriors: Lu Bu never seems to tire seeking out someone who will provide him with a decent challenge.
    • Likewise, Sun Jian will never allow you to forget who the Tiger of Jiang Dong is (hint: him).
    • For most of the characters, there's "Enemy Officer Defeated" or "I took out an officer", though the later games give characters unique variations of this. It's also found in the Samurai Warriors and Warriors Orochi spinoffs.
  • Eighteen Wheeler American Pro Trucker: "I'm the Lizard Tail! The number one trucker in the USA! And don't y'all forget it!"
  • Elite Beat Agents has a few of these.

Commander Kahn: Agents are... GOOOOOOO!!!!
Anyone: HEEEAAALP!!!!!
Agents: Hey! Mission! Are you ready!? Three! Two! One! Go!
Leonardo da Vinci: Si!
Hulk: You bet, kid!
Carringtons: HEY GUYZ! (Bwoing!)

Don: Diaper/Hot Dog/Skateboard/My girlfriend = Football!

  • Etrian Odyssey 2: The guildmaster ends most conversations with you with "Never underestimate the Labrynth." He means it.
  • Fear Effect. Glas definitely has one. It goes like this: "You draw on me? You better be prepared to face the consequences!"
  • Barret has a fairly long one in Final Fantasy VII: "There ain't no gettin' offa this train we're on 'til we get to the end of the line" - ironically, a line he lifted from the first heartfelt statement he heard Cloud say. Spoofed later on when multiple characters say the line in unison before Barret can.
    • This is later used by Cloud in Final Fantasy Tactics, if you prompt to kick him out of your party.
    • Cloud has gotten a bit of a catch-phrase from Advent Children and Dissidia: "Not interested." Which could very well be a Shout-Out to the "no" option, which was phrased as "not interested" or "don't really care" in most of the original game's yes-or-no choices.
    • Sephiroth: "Good to see you, >insert Cloud or Zack<"
    • Sephiroth also has varients of "I bring you despair." Sometimes its reworded in the form of a question, ie, "Shall I give you despair?"
  • Squall of Final Fantasy VIII is so uncommunicative that his catchphrases are "Whatever," and "..."
  • Zidane: "Do I need a reason to help people?"
  • Balthier of Final Fantasy XII declares himself "the leading man," and reminds the other party members of his status quite often. Not that the fans are arguing with him.
    • The villains like to toss around "the reigns of History back in the hands of Man."
  • Fire Emblem: It's easy to lose count of how many times Hector utters 'Blast!'
  • Gradius: "Destroy the core!", "Destroy them all!", "Shoot the core!", "You need more practice!"
  • Guilty Gear: "Heaven or Hell?" (Insert round number, or skip in two particular games) LET'S ROCK!"
    • There are also character-specific phrases, like "MAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMA" and "Teyeh".
  • Halo's Arbiter: Were it so easy.
  • Killer7: Iwazaru always greets the player with "Master! We're in a tight spot!", regardless of whether he has good news or bad news, and always signs off "In the name of Harman...". Likewise, Travis Bell either starts or ends his reports with a "straight up", to emphasize on his self-proclaimed honesty.
    • Any time you hit an opponent's weak point, the character you're using will recite their Catch Phrase.

Garcian Smith: Son of a bitch.
Dan Smith: This is too easy.
KAEDE Smith: Hurts, doesn't it?
Coyote Smith: You're FUCKED.
Con Smith: Fuck you!
MASK de Smith: Adiós (or, sometimes, "Nos vemos").
Young Harman Smith: Touché.

  • Kingdom Hearts: Axel has "Got it memorized?"
    • Xigbar of Organization XIII: "As if."
    • Demyx of course from the same: "Dance water, Dance!"
      • Demyx also has, "I knew that were picking the wrong guy..." and phrases about "not being cut out for combat."
  • Legacy of Kain: Kain's "Vae Victus!" (which is misspelled "Vae Victis").
    • WERK WERK.
  • In The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess, the hero's impious shadow-guide Midna departs from him (when he returns to the world of light) with a "Hee! See you later!" At the end of the game, she says it again, with a rather heartbreaking twist.
  • The Lost Crown': Some oft-repeated lines qualify, including: "That's very odd" and "Nothing ventured...".
  • Lufia2: Dekar always shows his feats off with "...it's the other thing I'm best at!"
  • MadWorld: "I don't help people. I kill people."
  • Marathon: "THEY'RE EVERYWHERE! GAAAAAH!" And "THANK GOD, IT'S YOU! * Explodes* "
    • Both phrases also return in Halo.
  • The Mario games: Mario in Super Mario 64 yelled "Here we go!" whenever he could. Not to mention, "It's-a me, Mario!"
    • Fawful of Mario & Luigi often declares: "I HAVE FURY!"
    • Dimentio: "Ciao!", usually right before he made a Villain Exit Stage Left.
      • Francis has two, "hi-technical" and "schweet".
    • Mario would also pick up "Let's-a go!" in multiple games. Luigi too.
    • Recently, Luigi has a habit of saying "okey dokey", as well as "Go Weegee!"
    • Virtually every character with a comprehensible voice in the series will say their own name in some phrase, most frequently "(Character's Name) Time!" (e.g. "It's-a Mario Time!", "Oh yeah, Waluigi Time!", etc.)
    • And of course the famous "Our princess is in another castle"
  • Marvel vs. Capcom Capcom fighting games in general are guilty of this, but the Marvel Vs. series in particular has tons. Some of the more memorable (read: highly spammable):
    • Iron Man: "Uni-beam!"
    • Wolverize: "Berserker Claw!"
    • Captain America: "Charging Star!"
    • Chun-Li: "Ki-kou-ken!"
    • Various Ryu-clones: "Ha-DO-ken!"
  • I thought it strange that nothing from Mass Effect was inclu--ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL.
    • EDI's catchphrase later in the game is "That is a joke". May be EDI's way of laughing at humor, since she also says it after other people make jokes.
    • Anderson is fond of "True enough."
    • All quarians use the phrase "keelah se'lai" as a sort of benediction, like "Amen". In the third game, Tali explains it roughly translates to "by the home-world I hope to see someday".
      • More appropriately compared with "So say we all".
      • "Keelah" is also a convenient all-purpose interjection (as in "Keelah!" instead of "My God!"). "Bosh'tet" seems to be the quarian equivalent to "You suck." (although it apparently means "faulty equipment").
    • In the first game, Shepard used to quip "Hit me, Joker", whenever his/her helmsman contacted him/her with some bad news and some REALLY bad news. S/He seems to have dropped that habit completely in the sequel, though.
    • "Shepard-Commander."
    • "Embrace eternity!"
    • Garrus grows fond of "Just like old times," as he and Tali are the only two full-time squaddies throughout the whole trilogy.
    • "I should go."
    • Javik's response to anything he dislikes/annoys him is to "Throw it out the airlock".
  • Max Payne: "Max, dearest of all my friends..."
  • Mechquest: Mysterious Johnsson always managed to find a way to inhibit the word "mysterious" into nearly every sentence he said. Moreover, he masterfully managed to make most of his mentions be made from the miniscule "M".
  • Metal Gear Solid: Solid Snake's catchphrase, "Kept you waiting, huh?", was actually a fourth-wall-breaking observation about the length of the preceding cutscene in its original use (according to the script). It stuck, to the point where the series has lampshaded its use more than it's actually used it straight, characters mocking his identical father's punctuality, and, in the most obvious example, a character in Metal Gear Solid 4 commenting on Snake's absence from an event he would have liked to attend - "he always keeps people waiting").
    • Otakon: "Snake? SNAAAAAAAAKE!"
    • Revolver Ocelot's "You're pretty good!" This proves to be one of the most subtle and poignant expressions of his character in the series; it's one of the first things said to him by Big Boss, to whom Ocelot developed an obsessive devotion that motivates more or less the entire plot. It's also his last words before his death.
    • Snake an amnesiac box salesman even manages to say it in Boktai 2.
  • Metal Wolf Chaos: The President of the United States almost speaks only in catch phrases. However his signature catch phrases are "RICHARD!!" and "HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW!?"
    • You're forgetting his real catch phrase. "Mr. President, why did you hammerthrow that tank into the Atlantic Ocean?" "BECAUSE I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THESE GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!" "Mr. President, why are you going to jump across the Grand Canyon?!" "BECAUSE I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THESE GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!" "Mr. President, why did you [insert action here]?" "BECAUSE I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THESE GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!" Let's not forget some other phrases though-- some like, "The gentleman in me goes off the clock at 5 P.M.", " You'd never make it on Broadway," and " SUCK! ON MY! MISSILE PUNCH!"
    • "BELIEVE YOUR JUSTICE!"
  • From Metroid Fusion and Other M, we have the immortal line from Adam Malkovitch: "Any objections, Lady?"
  • Monkey Island: There are several in the series:
  • Mortal Kombat: "FINISH HIM!"
  • Mother 3: "Tonda Gossa!" from the fictional band DCMC.
  • The Next Big Thing (A.K.A. Hollywood Monsters 2 in some territories): Both main characters have their own "reverse catchphrase" in which the catchphrase is not said by them, but as a reaction said by the character you are talking to.

Liz Allaire: *Says something ridiculous or completely crazy*
Person/Creature/Robot she's talking to: "Disconcerting." / "That's disconcertingly _____."

Dan: *Mercilessly insults the person he's talking to.*
Old friend/Main Villain/Security Robot/Hot Bimbo: "Haha. What a dude."

I'll teach them not to mess with the human race... Watch and learn, Captain Cromwell - this is how the big boys do battle!

  • Nintendo Wars: Caulder from Days of Ruin: (it's) FASCINATING!
  • The No More Heroes games have tons:
    • Bad Girl: "Home run!"
    • Destroyman:"DESTROOOOYYYY [name of attack]!!!"
    • Sylvia: "Trust your force, and head for the garden of madness!"
    • Thunder Ryu: "So you want to do THAT!"
    • Shinobu: "What's that in your hand, a toy?"
    • Holly Summers: "Do you like..."
    • Kimmy Howell: "...Travis the Great..."
    • The guy who works at the Job Center: "Third rater" and "...the God of [something related to what Travis' task is]..."
    • Travis has "Let's go!" He also calls his Dark Side attacks.
    • Jasper Batt Jr. : "I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!"
    • Million Gunman: "S@*#!"
  • In Oblivion, The Gray Fox uses "Capital!" in later Thieves Guild quests.
  • Ogre Battle franchise is inseparable with this one phrase: "FIGHT IT OUT!"
  • Persona 3: Male main character: "Whatever." / "I don't care."
  • Pokémon Red and Blue: Your rival: "Smell ya later!"
  • Professor Layton gets "(such and such) reminds me of a puzzle" and "Isn't it obvious?"
  • Putt-Putt has "Hot ziggety!" and "Wowie zowie!"
  • Resident Evil 4's Merchant has many, notably calling Leon "stranger", "whattaya boiyin'", and "heh heh heh, thank yew."
  • River City Ransom: Kunio's catch-phrase in most of the games is "Namen'nayo kono yarou!" ("Don't mess with me, punk!"), often shortened to simply "Namen'nayo!". Ironically, this was originally said by Riki (Kunio's rival and later friend) in the original Kunio-kun.
    • What? No love for BARF!
  • Rosenkreuzstilette: Lilli has a habit of saying "Hunya!" a number of times.
  • Saints Row 2, the Boss gets a few repeated:
    • White male: "You know who I am?" "I love my job."
    • Black male: "You really think imma stay locked up?" "We lockin' this city down!"
    • Hispanic male: "Yeah...I am this good."
    • White female: "I'm tougher than I look." "Can't win 'em all. Unless you're me."
    • Black female: "Sometimes I need to kill people. Does that make me a bad person?"
    • Hispanic female: "And that's how the Saints do it." "I don't think I'm a badass. I know it."
  • Sam and Max: "You crack me up, little buddy."
  • Sengoku Basara
    • Yukimura: "OYAKATA-SAMAAAAAA!!!!" "Burn, my soul!" and "O-VER-FLOW-IINNGGG!!"
    • Masamune: "Here I come!" "Let's keep it cool" and his Engrish, "Showtime!" "Ok, are you ready?" "Let's Party!" "You see?"
    • Musashi: "BAKA!"
  • Sega Saturn: Segata Sanshiro has these words implanted in your head after he kicks your ass: "Sega Saturn shiro!!" (You must play Sega Saturn!!). It's also his Famous Last Words.
  • In Silent Hill 4, Henry commonly reacts to the game's bizarre goings-on with a poignant "What the hell?"
    • And, of course, Harry's infamous and constant, "Have you seen a little girl?"
  • SNK fighters such as Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters have casts of characters that each have at least 2 or 3 of their own catchphrases, often used as pre- or mid-battle taunts, or victory cries. The most famous is by far Terry Bogard, whose entire list of vocal lines is pretty much a list of Engrish catchphrases in themselves. For the sake of simplicity, here's the big three SNK heroes lines:

Kyo: Ore no...kachi da! (This is...my victory!) (rendered as "I am...the champion!" in Maximum Impact's dub, which actually makes sense, given the wording order of the Japanese phrase.)
Ryo: Osu! (A standard martial arts saying)
Terry: OKAY! (Usually accompanied by him tossing his cap. In Mark of the Wolves and the later KOF games he tosses his bomber jacket and catches it)

    • Again, from SNK... by Kim Kaphwan... Aku wa yurusan! (Evil is unforgivable!). Sure enough, his associate Jae Hoon follows the suit.
  • "I'm Sonic...SonicTheHedgehog!"
    • "Here we go!" or "Ready... GO!"
      • "I'm Shadow, the Ultimate Lifeform."
      • "I, Dr. Eggman, the world's GREATEST scientist!" ?
      • "Chaos...CONTROL!"
  • The Soul Series: "I will show you...the GREATEST NIGHTMARE!"
  • Spectrobes' Rallen gets Iku Ze! which roughly translates to "Let's do this!". this also crosses over with Gratuitous Japanese.
  • S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl has a number of repeated phrases, some earning Memetic Mutation. These must at all times be imitated with gratuitous Russian accents.
    • Duty Guard: "Get out of here, Stalker!"
    • Bar Bouncer: "I said come in, don't just stand there!"
    • Sidorovich: "Good hunting, Stalker."
    • Bartender: "Hey, Marked One. Still alive? That's great."
    • Doctor Sakharov: "Khello? Khello?"
    • General Voronin: "What are you, deaf? What [sic] are you here?"
  • The Adjutant in StarCraft frequently utters "Receiving incoming transmission" during the campaigns. And let's not forget any Protoss character's "En Taro Adun!"...
    • Some more catchphrases: "You want a piece of me, boy?" "Just gimme something to shoot!" "Proooo-ceedin'." "My life for Aiur!" "For Overmind." "Battle cruiser opereshonal." "Explorer reporting." "Ahh, yeah, that's the stuff!" "Orders, captain?" "I can't build there, there's something's in the way." "You Require More Vespene Gas." " "You must Construct Additional Pylons." "SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS!"
  • Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Atton of the sequel has, "Pure Pazzak!", a reference to the blackjack-like game he plays obsessively. From the same game, the battle droid HK-47 has his distinctive expression of "meatbags."
    • And Atton sometimes uses the aforementioned "I have a bad feeling about this," and it is even mentioned as one of his special abilities (which is of course never referenced again). Kriea uses "...Listen!" so much it might count as hers.
    • Mission Vao uses the term Bantha Poodoo alot. Also, poodoo is Huttese for excrement, which is a fancy word for shit. So, Cluster F-Bomb combined Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour (as Mission is in her mid teens and acts 12).
      • Actually, "poodoo" is Huttese for "fodder" (animal feed) if you look at the movies' subtitles. Therefore, it's an example of Cluster Unusual Euphemism.
    • Bastila Shan wants to remind you that this is no laughing matter!
  • Street Fighter: "Yatta" literally means "I did it" in Japanese and is not an uncommon phrase, but one of the most common associations among Western audiences is with Chun-Li's winning pose.
  • Super Robot Wars Original Generation:
  • Super Smash Bros Melee: "Show your moves!" "HYESZ!" "FALCON PAWNCH/KICK!"
  • Tales of Symphonia has a couple...the Desians tend to scream "INFERIOR BEINGS!", Magnius calls people "Vermin", Colette aplogises A LOT...the list goes on.
    • Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World will leave you with nothing in your head but "Courage is the power that turns dreams into reality." This isn't a character catch-phrase (in the timeframe of the game itself, anyhow); this is the game's catchphrase.
      • It's "Courage is the MAGIC that turns dreams into reality."
  • Team Fortress 2
    • "MAGGOTS!"
      • "If God had wanted you to live, he would not have created ME!"
      • "Last one alive, lock the door!"
    • "CRY SOME MOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE!"
      • "NOM NOM NOM, OM NOM NOM NOM"
      • "UWAAAAAAAAAAH! BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAH!"
      • "______ is credit to team!"
      • I'M COMING FOR YOU
    • "BONK!"
      • "Birds fly, grass grows, sun shines, and brother, I hurt people."
      • "Wanananana..."
      • "Need a dispenser here!"
    • "Spy sappin' mah sentry!"
      • "Erectin' a dispenser!"
      • "TELEPORTER DOWN!"
    • Maniacal, muffled laughing
      • "Huddah huddah huh!"
      • "Mmmmmmmrrrrrrrpppghhh!"
    • "Gentlemen..."
      • "I never really was on your side."
      • "That would be your MOTHER!"
    • "Thanks fer standin' still, wanker!"
      • "You best keep lyin' down."
      • "Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet."
      • "God save the Queen!"
    • "Ka-BOOOOOM!"
      • "Oh, they're gon' ta have ta' glue you back together, IN HELL!"
      • "Ah'm a GRIM BLOODY FABLE, with an UNHAPPY BLOODY END!"
    • "Oops! Zat vas not medicine!"
      • "Anuhza successful procedure!"
      • "Zat, vas doctor-assisted homicide!"
      • "Eins, zwei, drei...Ugh, I do not sink ve brought enough body bags."
    • "OVERTIME! OVERTIME! OV-OVER-OVERTI-OVERTIME! OVERTIME!"
  • Tetris: The Grand Master - "Ready, go!"
  • Time Splitters has Cortez proclaim "It's time to split!" whenever he is about to time-travel. By the third game, everybody is so dulled by his catchphrase and grand delivery that he starts cutting it short.
  • Touhou has a few, but the fandom has latched to a couple examples particularly. First is Rumia's "Is that so~?", intoned in a happy voice. Second is Cirno's "Eye'm the strongest!". And third... are the yukkuris, disembodied heads that take every opportunity to appear suddenly and yell at the cast to "TAKE IT EASY!". There are a few more, but as a fan-driven phenomenon, it's hard to get authors to agree on many of them. There's also Patchouli's "MUKYUUU!!"
    • Marisa's "I'm just an ordinary magician," Remilia's "How many pieces of bread have you eaten since you were born," and Parsee's "I'm jealous" (Or PARU PARU PARU).
    • Okuu's "UNYUU," used similar to Patchy's.
  • Don't forget the Trauma Center ones:
    • Derek Stiles: "Let's begin the operation!" and "I will save this patient!"
    • CR-S01: "Let this disease pass from this world..."
    • Hank Freebird: "Rock solid!" and " I am the ambassador of love and justice! I am Captain Eagle!"
    • Naomi Kimishima: "The dead shall speak..."
    • Tomoe Tachibana: "[Insert certain action here] would be straining from/is not the way/path of honor."
    • Rosalia Rossenlini: "Beginning..."
  • UFO: After Blank: At the end of every transmission The Reticulans send you, they say "The empire forgives sometimes, but forgets never."
  • Uncharted: "Ah, crap."
  • Utawarerumono: Touka generally says 'What have I done?!' whenever she messes up. She happens to be a major Genius Ditz and what we mostly see is The Ditz so she ends up saying this a lot. Oboro even notes her clumsiness.... Unfortunately, she's a lot stronger than he is.
  • Valkyria Chronicles: Welkin spams his "Squad 7, move out!" throughout the entire game.
    • All of the other players also have a very small sound bank.
  • Warcraft III: The Peon's "Work Work"
  • The World Ends With You. Minamimoto: "CRUNCH! I'll add it to the heap!"
    • As well as such gems as "Zetta" (as in "Zetta slow!" or "You're soooo zetta slow!"), as well as a vocalized "SOHCAHTOA" (a mnemonic device for basic trigonometric functions) along with a textual convoluted statement that fits the acronym.
  • World of Warcraft: Illidan has "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!!!"
    • Actually World of Warcraft has a number of these recurring catchphrases that generally go on from expansion to expansion, said by various characters. Avid players may recognize the examples:
      • 'X was only a setback!' (Wrath of the Lich King)
      • 'You no take X!' (Vanilla, brought back in Burning Crusade and again in Cataclysm)
      • 'You/All of you/The world will drown in your own blood!' (popular during Wrath of the Lich King)
  • Zettai Hero Kaizou Keikaku: Pirohiko often drops an "[X] Ranger!" at the end of his sentences when he goes into one of his speeches about the importance of being a hero. Genre Savvy Ranger!
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