Category:Stock Phrases
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Stock Phrases are a line of dialogue which get repeated very often in different fictional works, but always carrying the same meaning each and every time they're used. In many cases, they will only be uttered in a specific situation, and often with the same exact words each time. In lampshade-heavy works, may be followed with "I Always Wanted to Say That".
If the phrase is a signature line closely associated with a single character or specific work, it becomes their Catch Phrase.
Closely related to the Stock Parodies. When you've heard the entire conversation before, it may have degenerated into a Cliché Storm. See also Stock Quotes, which can be attributed to a single source but get quoted over and over in the same way each time.
For "stock phrases" whose meaning is exclusive to Troper wiki culture, see the index of Predefined Messages.
See Also:
- Last Words
- Stock American Phrases
- Stock British Phrases
- Stock Legal Phrases
- Japanese Stock Phrases
- Viewer Stock Phrases
- Reviewer Standard Comparisons
- Reviewer Stock Phrases
- Other Stock Phrases
Subcategories
This category has the following subcategory, out of 3 total.
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Pages in category "Stock Phrases"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 737 total.
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- Take a Picture, It'll Last Longer
- Take Care of the Kids
- Take Me Instead!
- Take Me to Your Leader
- Take the Wheel
- Take Up My Sword
- Taking You with Me
- Talk to the Hand
- Tastes Like Chicken
- Tell Me About My Father
- That Didn't Happen
- That Liar Lies
- That Man Is Dead
- That Wasn't a Request
- That's an Order
- That's Gotta Hurt
- That's What I Call X
- That's What I Would Do
- That's What She Said
- There Are No Coincidences
- There Are No Rules
- There Are Two Kinds of People in the World
- There Is a God
- There Is No God
- There Is No Try
- These Hands Have Killed
- They Don't Make Them Like They Used To
- They Have the Scent
- They Knew the Risks
- Thicker Than Water
- Think Nothing of It
- This Ain't Rocket Surgery
- This Cannot Be!
- This Explains So Much
- This Is as Far as I Go
- This Is Gonna Suck
- This Is No Time for Knitting
- This Is No Time to Panic
- This Is Not a Drill
- This Is Reality
- This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself
- This Is the Final Battle
- This Is the Part Where
- This Is Unforgivable!
- This Is Wrong on So Many Levels
- This Song Goes Out to All the Tropes
- Those Were Only Their Scouts
- The Three Certainties in Life
- Three... Two... One...
- Timber!
- Time for Plan B
- Timmy in a Well
- Tired of Running
- To Absent Friends
- To Make a Long Story Short
- To the Bat Noun
- Today X, Tomorrow the World!
- Too Slow
- Trial Balloon Question
- Trust Me, I'm an X
- Try Not to Die
- Turn Off the Camera
- Turn Your Head and Cough
- Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
- Two Words: Obvious Trope
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- Wait Here
- Walk the Plank
- Walk This Way
- The War Has Just Begun
- Was It All a Lie?
- Was Just Leaving
- Wasn't That Fun?
- We All Die Someday
- We Are Everywhere
- We Gotta Stop Meeting Like This
- We Have Ways of Making You Talk
- We Meet Again
- We Need to Get Proof
- We Only Have One Chance
- We Wait
- We Will Meet Again
- We'll See About That
- We've Got Company
- We've Got Ourselves a Blank
- Welcome to Hell
- Welcome to My World
- Went to the Great X In the Sky
- What a Senseless Waste of Human Life
- What an Idiot!
- What Are You in For?
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
- What Did I Do Last Night?
- What Does She See in Him?
- What Does This Button Do?
- What Have I Become?
- What Have You Done for Me Lately?
- What He Said
- What Is Going On?
- What Is This X You Speak Of?
- What Is This, X?
- What the Hell Are You?
- What Were You Thinking?
- What Would X Do?
- What Year Is This?
- What's an X Like You Doing In a Y Like This?
- What's He Got That I Ain't Got?
- What's in It For Me?
- Whatever
- When I Was Your Age
- When It Rains, It Pours
- When Life Gives You Lemons
- When You Coming Home, Dad?
- Where Did We Go Wrong?
- Where Do You Think You Are?
- Where Is Your X Now?
- Where Were You Last Night?
- Where's the Fun In That?
- While You Were in Diapers
- Who Are You and What Did You Do to X?
- Who Are You Calling Names?
- Who Are You?
- Who Dares?
- Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?
- Who Would Want to Watch Us?
- Who Writes This Crap?
- Why Are You Looking At Me Like That?
- Why Couldn't You Save Them?
- Why Didn't I Think of That?
- Why Didn't You Just Say So?
- Why Don't You Marry It?
- Why Isn't It Attacking?
- Why We Can't Have Nice Things
- Why Won't You Die?
- Why, Thank You, X!
- With a Capital T
- With Due Respect
- With or Without You
- Word, Schmord
- Worst Whatever Ever
- Worth It
- Would Hit a Girl
- Would Hurt a Child
- Would You Like to Hear How They Died?
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl
- Wouldn't Hurt a Child
- Wrote the Book
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- Years Too Early
- Yippee Ki-Yay!
- You and What Army?
- You Answered Your Own Question
- You Are a Credit to Your Race
- You Are Already Dead
- You Are Not Alone
- You Are Not Ready
- You Bastard
- You Can Run but You Can't Hide
- You Can Say That Again
- You Can See Me?
- You Can Talk
- You Can Verb My Noun Any Day
- You Can't Make an Omelette
- You Can't Miss It
- You Did Everything You Could
- You Did the Right Thing
- You Didn't Ask
- You Didn't See That
- You Do NOT Want to Know
- You Fool!
- You Got Guts
- You Got Spunk
- You Had Us Worried There
- You Have Been Warned
- You Have Failed Me...
- You Have No Chance to Survive
- You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
- You Have to Believe Me
- You Haven't Seen the Last of X
- You Imagined It
- You Just Had to Say It
- You Just Ruined the Shot
- You Killed My Father
- You Know I'm Black, Right?
- You Know Nothing About X
- You Know What That Means
- You Know What They Say
- You Know What They Say About X...
- You Know What to Do
- You Know What You Did
- You Leave Him Alone
- You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost
- You Make Me Sick
- You Meddling Kids
- You Monster!
- You Need a Breath Mint