In the Name of the Moon: Difference between revisions

*** Venus: "Soldier of Love and Beauty, Pretty Sailor-Suited Soldier, Sailor Venus! In the name of Venus I bring divine punishment!

*** The Outer Senshi had their own speeches too. When Uranus and Neptune would appear (surrounded by rose petals, of course), they had a speech:

'''Neptune:''' Also Guided by the new era, Sailor Neptune, appearing elegant! }}

*** When Pluto joined the group, they had a longer and more complicated speech describing the planets they came from.

'''All three:''' The three soldiers of the outer solar system, being led by a new crisis, have arrived! }}

*** Saturn gets one too. '''Saturn:''' My guardian is the planet of silence. Soldier of ruin and birth; Sailor Saturn!<ref>"Hametsu to tanjou no senshi," ''not,'' shi to saisei no senshi. Her powers have nothing, ''absolutly'' '''''nothing''''', to do with rebirth. More about this common fan misconception [http://www.genvid.com/diesgaudii/saturnpluto/index.html here.]</ref>

** During the final season this sequence was lampshaded a few times, with villains throwing protests between sentences, or even escaping during the montage. And then there was that one memorable sequence indoors where Sailor Moon's unwieldy costume managed to break quite a few vases and lamps as she made her speech and pose.

** Spoofed in the "Sailor [[Hellblazer]]" ([http://www.thekeep.org/~rpm/vertigo/sailor-hellblazer/ yes, really]) [[Crossover]] [[Fanfic]], where John Constantine attempts to resist the urge. This results in:

** ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'', the [[Live Action Adaptation]], gave each of the girls their own, new phrase:

They also had a variant for group announcements, where they'd each say their first sentence in turn, then their "in the name of * insert celestial body here* " bit, before announcing "We'll punish you!" as a group. }}

** At one point in ''[[Lucky Star]]'''s Lucky Channel, when Akira was ill, yet she still showed up in that segment, one of the things Minoru says she says is "I will lecture you in the name of Mars!"

* ''[[Bakuen Campus Guardress]]'': "Summoned by Heaven, Earth, and my pager...."

* ''[[Wedding Peach]]'' does a gentler form of this: brides are supposed to be feminine and non-confrontational, so Peach's challenges are always phrased gently and euphemistically.

** An [[The Abridged Series|abridged series]] of ''[[Wedding Peach Abridged|Wedding Peach]]'' does a parody of this. "I stand for [[Pimped-Out Dress|poofy]] [[Fairytale Wedding Dress|dresses]], ribbons, flowers, and all that is girly! [[Calling Your Attacks|Monologue attack!]]"

* Naturally, ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' gets in an explicit parody -- of ''Sailor Moon'', of course, as Usagi and Excel [[Actor Allusion|have the same voice actress]] in Japanese. Excel berates a band of gangsters who are selling counterfeit animation cels and declares, "In the name of the moon, I will spank you!" (in the North American dub, it becomes, "In the name of the toons, I will punish you!"), complete with Sailor Moon's trademark gestures. Just to hammer the point home, though, she's standing in front of a sheet metal crescent moon and wearing [[Odango Hair|tennis balls]] and lengths of rope in her hair. In the English dub, Excel also states that she wanted to audition for Sailor Moon, but it was dubbed in Canada.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: While Nagisa and Honoka in ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure]]'' automatically make their speeches from the first, Nagisa at least is rather upset that she doesn't seem to have a choice about it -- "What am I ''saying?''" and "I said something weird again!" are just two of the comments she makes. In a later episode, she becomes annoyed when another pair of girls consistently misquote her part of the speech.

** ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star|Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash* Star]]'' also had the girls wondering what they were saying the first time they said the following:

'''Both:''' We are Pretty Cure! (''[[Audible Gleam|ka-ching!]]'')<br />

'''Egret:''' Those who desecrate the Holy Fountains...<br />

** The English manga translates it as, "For your evil actions, I will make you pay!"

* ''[[Corrector Yui]]'' found it hard to think up a pre-battle catchphrase that had to do with [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|deleting things off a computer]]; she decided on "You'll go in the recycle bin and be empty, empty, emptied!" Lampshaded in one episode;

'''Yui:''' It ''has'' no meaning! }}

* In the ''[[Angelic Layer]]'' anime, each Deus must think of an entry line that announces their Angel before competing.

* ''[[Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z]]'' ("Fighting Love! Science Legend!")

* ''Re: [[Cutey Honey]]'': "Flowers on the Earth! Love to the people! Warrior of Love, I am Cutey Honey!"

* Kamina, then Simon, and eventually the entirety of Team Dai-Gurren of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' often launch into inspirational speeches against whatever enemy they may be facing (even when that enemy ''is'' [[Colony Drop|the moon]]), and will always end it with some variation of the phrase "Who the hell do you think I am?". Given the nature of the show, the enemy will then be utterly, explosively destroyed seconds later.

** Even [[Moe Moe]] [[Cloudcuckoolander]] Nia gets in on this an episode or two after her introduction. In [[Keigo|different grammar]], of course.

** And who can forget {{spoiler|the birth of the TTGL?}}

'''All''': JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE!? }}

* Both Pretty Sammy and Pixy Misa in the ''[[Pretty Sammy]]'' series sometimes give speeches upon appearance detailing their roles.

* ''[[Sweet Valerian]]'' has this:

'''Kanako''': Dubba dubba dubba! Relaxation Combat Team Valerian, at your service! }}

* The Children in ''[[Zettai Karen Children]]'' usually perform a roll call when their [[Power Limiter|power limiters]] are released. The roll call is usually relevant to the situation and frequently comes with heroic posing and colored smoke. Variations of it are frequent, such as adding "... and Wild Cat" to the end when Naomi joins, and Aoi doing one of these when she's on a mission solo.

* What? No mention of [[Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch|"Pichi Pichi Voice! Live Start!"]]?

* The [[God|Lord of Nightmares]], from ''[[The Slayers|Slayers Next]]'', does a [[Dissonant Serenity|completely emotionless]] version of this, immediately before erasing the [[Big Bad]] from existence.

** I am not sure if you can give the ultimate being in existence a Crowning Moment of Awesome, but if so, this is it!

* At one point in the ''[[Hellsing]]'' manga, the Iscariot Organisation give a pre-battle speech that takes up an entire chapter, "The Screamer" ("We are Iscariot, the Zealot Judas!"). Granted, Anderson does chop up a few vampires while saying his parts, but no one else does.

* In ''[[Koi Koi 7]]'', the eponymous [[Amazon Brigade]] gives a very long speech, with requisite posing, when they first appear. The speech doesn't appear much more after that.

* In ''[[UFO Princess Valkyrie]]'', Sanada, in her Slayer of Evildoers form, Nekomimizukin, offers the following monologue before a fight with Spot, Mar, and Mur:

** She continues:

* [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|"With the Name of]] {{spoiler|'''[[Gundam 00/Awesome|LOCKON STRATOS]]'''}}, [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|I will]] {{spoiler|'''[[Improbable Aiming Skills|SNIPE YOU DOWN]]'''}}!!"

* In ''[[Final Fantasy Unlimited]]'', Kaze -- typically the only character who confronts an enemy -- will combine this with [[Calling Your Attacks|Calling His Attack]] in his unnecessarily long transformation + summoning sequence.

* Inverted word-wise with Haran Banjo of ''[[Daitarn 3]]''. Those who do not fear the shine of the sun can come and bring it.

* Naturally spoofed in ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', when Nagi dons a costume and calls herself Mask the Money-san.

* [[The Anime of the Game|The anime of]] ''[[Virtua Fighter]]'' has Akira Yuki recite a lengthy one before each major fight.

* [[Dancougar]]'s Shinobu Fujiwara said this before using the [[Finishing Move]]: "The love in our hearts will slice through evil's darkness! DANKUUKOUGAKEN! YATTE YARUZE!"

** In [[Super Robot Wars Compact]], he says this if the player unlocks the Dankuu Kouga Ken MAP attack for Dancougar.

* In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', all the Sinnoh Gym Leaders, minus Byron (who was providing support from underground) and Volkner (who didn't bother to show up), shout out their names and titles before charging in and attacking the Galactic Admins.

* Shamelessly spoofed in ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' when Revy et al are chased by a [[Carnival of Killers]]. Whilst falling off a collapsing warehouse they find themselves confronted by a [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]] in Dramatic Pose, [[Badass Longcoat]] and [[Cool Shades]] with [[Rare Guns|Broomhandle Mausers]] held [[Guns Akimbo]].

* ''[[Hell Girl]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj6_E7tgZyI "Ippen, shinde miru?"] (Would you like to see death once?) Said by the eponymous Enma Ai before [[Once an Episode|dragging another soul to hell.]]

* ''[[The Idolmaster (anime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - Parodied by Ami and Mami during the incident where Iori's pudding disappeared.

* [[Stan Lee]] and [[Jack Kirby]] used a lot of these for their 1960s [[Marvel Comics]] characters. The most famous are, "[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|It's clobberin' time!]]" and "[[Incredible Hulk|HULK SMASH!]]" But it also includes "[[The Mighty Thor|For honor, for glory, for Asgard!]]" and the [[Sub-Mariner|Sub-Mariner's]] "Imperius Rex!"

* [[Calvin and Hobbes|Stupendous Man]] attempts one of these speeches after transforming from Mild-Mannered Calvin (and getting stuck in a locker):

'''U'''... for.. wait, how do you spell this? Is it "I"?? }}

* And let us not overlook [[Green Lantern]]. Even though he rarely says it where the villain of the day can hear him, it still is a classic example:

Beware my power -- Green Lantern's Light! }}

** The Green Lantern invocations were often customized for individuals and races. One of the more interesting variations comes from a story by [[Alan Moore]], with a Green Lantern from a race that had no concept of visual light:

Beware my power -- The F-Sharp Bell! }}

** [http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/haljordan.jpg "From the shoulder, beyond the wrist... look out evil!, It's my FIST!"]

* When the ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' is resurrected during the [[DC Nation]] version of [[Blackest Night]], Mento is deputized with a [[It Makes Sense in Context|Star Sapphire]] ring. As soon as it's on his finger, he pulls himself back into the fight with "For Rita!"

* [[Overly Long Gag|Done to death]] in the ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' parody one-shot [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7376176/1/God_Within God Within], as pretty much every other thing that comes out of Shinji's mouth is either this, [[By the Power of Grayskull]], or a [[World of Cardboard Speech]], often all three at the same time.

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

* Some ''[[Power Rangers]]'' teams have a post-roll-call declaration:

"Rangers Together, [[Power Rangers Samurai|Samurai]] Forever!" }}

** The "roll calls" themselves count. Most ''[[Power Rangers]]'' teams will have each member say a phrase and/or their Ranger designation while getting into their [[Asskicking Pose]]. (No, [[Talking Is a Free Action|bad guys never interrupt this by shooting at them]]). So too do every ''[[Super Sentai]]''. These can get quite long, and trying to list them would probably be a page in itself...

** Touya does this as well {{spoiler|Ja-Mu! In the name of my blade, [[Hello, Insert Name Here|Name of Mech]], I will defeat you!}}

** [[Super Robot Wars Z|Super Robot Wars Z2: Saisei-hen]] has one of its [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] {{spoiler|Uther, King of Restoration}} deliver this awesome speech before using his ultimate attack:

''Thou shalt be saved'' }}

*** The badassery of this speech is further augmented when the robot, normally concealed by a face mask that only reveals one glowing green eye, showing a rather feminine face, which then SAYS THE SPEECH AT THE SAME TIME, WITH ITS MOUTH MOVING. To add more to its sheer over-the-top nature, the left and right sides of the screen get this flowery, golden border and gold text runs across the screen, all to paralyze its target.

* Each individual in the [[Nippon Ichi]] game ''[[Phantom Brave]]'' seems to have their own phrase before entering into a battle. While this causes a [[Battle Aura]], it's not entirely clear if it does anything else.

** It can get quite exaggerated, as near ''everyone in the game'' has one. The Raven Captains, Sprout, Raphael, Walnut, even Marona.

* And in the [[Nippon Ichi]] game ''[[La Pucelle|La Pucelle: Tactics]]'', the main character is likely to yell things like "In the name of the Maiden of Light" and "Repent!" before proceeding beating the crap out of a boss.

* Games where you select and give commands to multiple characters ([[Role Playing Games|RPGs]], [[Real Time Strategy|RTSs]], etc...) often have "chatter" that they give whenever you interact with them:

** Minsc, of the ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' series, is famous for his amusingly overblown battle chatter:

"Feel the burning stare of my HAMSTER and change your ways!" }}

** The scene before the [[Sequential Boss|Final Final Boss Fight]] in ''[[Baldur's Gate|Baldur's Gate 2]]'' has every character in the party respond to Irenicus' [[Hannibal Lecture]] with a [[Shut UP, Hannibal|verbal smackdown]]. Again, Minsc gets the best:

* ''[[Killer 7]]'' has a boss who does a parody of [[Magical Girl]] intros: "Like a flower that blooms in the soil of our carnal and corrupt society, I shall administer retribution to stray vermin that graze this land. For I am the Chairman of the Education Guidance Council, Ayame Blackburn!" It's a fifteen-year-old girl in a very creepy anime-girl mask and carrying a machine gun. Also the power rangers style handsome men. "We are the punishing rangers, the handsome men!"

* [[World of Warcraft|Warcraft]] has quite a few of these, though the Orcs are perhaps the most frequent users of it with "[[Battle Cry|FOR THE HORDE!]]"

* Danzaiver! The [[Hot-Blooded]] hero character of ''[[Evil Zone]]'' has perhaps two or more of these; "For everything that is good." being the first, and the second, longer version used in the final battle; "I cannot be defeated. Absolutely. Positively. For the sake of the WORLD! HERE GOES! THE POWER OF THE SUPREME RULER DESTROYS EVIL! THE ULTIMATE HERO; DANZAIVER!!!" It's hard to keep track sometimes, dude is SERIOUS about his job.

* One [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] in ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'' is a villainous parody of [[Super Sentai]] ([[Power Rangers]]), complete with their equivalent of a [[Super Sentai Stance]]:

'''Everyone:''' ...the AXEM RANGERS!! }}

** Spoofed for their appearance in ''[[Super Mario Bros Z]]''; it's mostly the same, except for:

'''All:''' We are... the AXEM RANGERS X! }}

* In ''[[Devil Survivor]]'', Midori is a cosplayer who acts like a [[Magical Girl]], and even has an [[In the Name of the Moon]] speech to go along with it, as well as striking a pose when she does it on the battle screen.

** [[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne|Matador]]. "''[[That One Boss|I swear, by my sword and capote, that once again I will prove victorious!]]''"

** This trope is even [[Shout-Out|quoted verbatim]] in the Raidou Kuzunoha games.

* Every playable character in ''[[Valkyrie Profile Covenant of the Plume|Covenant of the Plume]]'' has two lines from which one is randomly picked when they initiate battle and another line they use when making a special attack, and they're ''very'' often like this. Spellcasters get a miniature speech during the special attack, everyone [[Calling Your Attacks|calls out the attack's name at the end]], and everyone gets a [[Bond One-Liner]] if they kill their opponent. Combine this with a special line for a critical hit, and [[The Dandy|Fauxnel]], for instance, can run through this entire speech while smacking down an enemy soldier:

* Kay from ''Miles Edgeworth: [[Ace Attorney]] Investigations'' introduces herself this way in the third case.

* Several characters in ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' start (or end) battles like this.

** There's [[Large Ham|Bang]] [[Testosterone Poisoning|Shishigami]]'s Distortion Drives:

'''To rid this world of evil, I will become a hammer of justice!''' }}

** There's also Hakumen:

** Not to mention the NOL themselves, in lesser fashion:

** Taokaka quotes the [[Trope Namer]] word for word, except she calls the moon "that big, round, white thingy in the night sky".

* The ''Tales of'' series is loaded with these. At the end of every battle, the player who got the last hit (and sometimes others) will recite a victory phrase, either taunting the defeated enemy or asking about the state of the other party members.

* In ''[[Lightning Legend Daigo no Daibouken]]'', Mayu Uzaka, the [[Large Ham|most passionnate]] of the game's three resident [[Justice Will Prevail|Allies of Justice]], delivers [[In the Name of the Moon/Quotes|this kind of speech]] each time she's about to fight an evildoer. She couples it with [[Super Sentai]]-style [[Asskicking Pose|Ass Kicking Poses]], lots of [[Cherry Blossoms]], and [[Stuff Blowing Up]].

* Played with in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories|Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories]]''.

'''[[Big Bad|Marluxia]]:''' "That line's not you."<br />

'''Axel:''' "[[Lampshade Hanging|Had to try it]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|at least once, you know]]." }}

* ''[[Last Res0rt]]'' invokes this with the [http://www.lastres0rt.com/?p=726 Galaxy Girl Scouts' introduction], who also provide a [[Green Lantern]] [[Shout-Out]] in the process:

{{quote|

Galaxy Girl Scouts, it's time to fight!

}}

* ''[[Looking for Group]]'': [http://www.lfgcomic.com FOR PONY!!!]

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-04-19 presents] one angry Catalina Bobcat, applying her inspired [[Mundane Solution]] to the problem of disabled [[Hyperspace Mallet|magic hammers]]:

* I am the wielder of the fiber-optic antennae, obtainer of the Gauntlets of Grip, possessor of the will and knowledge of the ancient Broadoniansu, who have entrusted their secrets unto me. The Ultimate in Information and Communications Technology! [[Captain Broadband|CAPTAIN BROADBAND!]]

* ''[[Rusty and Co.|Rusty and Co]]'' [http://rustyandco.com/comic/18/ got] the best version so far:

- Not e'en if that made sense!}}

* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' [http://yafgc.net/?id=1581 presents] one extremely annoyed high priestess with one-liner deserving to be immortalized. If only to ensure no one will ever repeat it.

* At least twice, characters in ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'' awkwardly try to pull this off. Emphasis on "try". They can be hard to remember, okay?

** Not so much awkward as kind of heart-wrenching (well, okay, it was awkward too) the first time Himei appears as Sailor Nothing:

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' subverts the actual line with the [[Aqua Teen Hunger Force|Mooninites parody]] in Episode 34.

"...Better recognize!" }}

** Episode 47 has "Team [[4Kids! Entertainment|4Kids]]" (with the gratuitous addition of Meowth) doing a parody of the Team Rocket speech.

* Spoofed in, of course, ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]''.

* "Unforgiveable! Agent of [[Buffy-Speak|unnoteability]] and [[Wiki Magic]], pretty [[Rummage Sale Reject]] in a [[Limited Wardrobe]], Sailor [[Trope-tan]]! In the name of [[The Database Hates Me|the database]], I will [[Justifying Edit|justifyingly edit]] you!

* [[There Will Be Brawl]], Captain Falcon sees his lover Pit get assaulted.

* The classic fantasy tale ''[[The Eye of Argon]]'', widely considered the worst fiction ever written, has a mighty hero prone to yelling "By the surly beard of Mrifkr!" before attacking enemies with his gigantic sword. And any other time.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'', to some extent. The title character likes to mysteriously appear in smoke and dramatically introduce himself: "I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the [noun] that [verb]s your [noun]! I am Darkwing Duck!" The second sentence changes depending on the context; DW gives us such gems as --

I am the burned-out bulb you cannot reach! }}

** It's when he says [[Let's Get Dangerous|his other catchphrase]] thats when you're really in trouble.

* ''[[The Tick]]'' often starts a battle by giving at tongue-in-cheek descripion of the Villain Du Jour and telling that they face The Tick. This was played with in the [[Freaky Friday]] episode:

'''Chairface Chippendale (in The Tick's body):''' No, I face a zebra. ''You'' face The Tick. }}

* It has been established that [[Beetlejuice]] only needs his name said three times to be summoned, but in the [[Beetlejuice (animation)|animated series]], Lydia dresses up the summoning with the same speech (and probably [[Stock Footage|recycled animations]]). Although as a byproduct of summoning Beetlejuice, her [[Transformation Sequence|clothing does in fact change]].