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See also [[Author Catchphrase]]. [[Author Vocabulary Calendar]] may be the cause of this.
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* The sound of Wolverine extending his claws in ''[[X-Men]]''/''[[Wolverine]]'' "Snikt!"
* ''[[Warhammer
* "Humbug" has long vanished from common English usage, and is now only remembered exclusively for its usage in ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''.
** Although it's still the name of a stripy mint in the UK. Said mints are commonly sold in the Houses of Parliament, because of an old tradition that impolite language was not permitted - so instead of swearing, they would call one another humbug. Still, ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' is the first thing
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' encourages its fans to be "savvy", and to "parley". (Both with roots in French; ''parler'' "to talk". Savvy comes from the French ''savoir'' "to know".)
** Though if you're editing this, your first thought may be "[[Genre Savvy]]".
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* [[Super Sentai|Gekiranger]] fans will think of Gou-san (GekiViolet) at the mention of "Maitaze" and Ken-san (GekiChopper) for "Ossu!"
* "Daijoubu" (Hikari (Dawn) from the orginal version of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'').
* "[[Verbal Tic|Desu]]" will forever be associated
* "D'oh!" in ''[[The Simpsons]]''. The word existed before Homer used it, but it has since spread around the world as a universal expression of messing up.
* ''[[South Park]]'''s memetic "Derp".
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** ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' fans associate 'Shiny' with the character Gau.
* "''Et cetera''" from ''[[The King and I]]''.
* ''[[
** Less straightforward are the magic franchise words "Megabyte" and "Hexadecimal"; also computer terms, but applied as names of characters. However, since the characters in question were for the most part the show's two [[Big Bad|main villains]], the words did come up often in conversation, frequently delivered alone with obvious implications left unsaid.
* ''Trope'', from [[TV Tropes
* "Eldritch", "squamous", "cyclopean" and "rugose" bring to mind [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s works and the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] which he spawned.
** Parodied in ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]] Cthulhu'', where Squamous and Rugose are modifiers that can be played on monsters, and the artwork is the investigator looking in the dictionary.
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** So much "chagrin".
** "Dazzle". "Chagrining my dazzle" has become a somewhat popular phrase among the [[Hatedom]] and the [[Guilty Pleasure|guilty-pleasuredom]].
** "Sparkle". If you know only one thing about ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', it's probably the sparkling vampires.
*** Although [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|"Twilight Sparkle"]] might be on its way to being a multiple reference word.
* "Absurd!" was abused in ''[[Soul Calibur]] 3'' (and only 3), possibly because the localizers lost their thesaurus.
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* For a time, this applied to the "Danger Island" segments in ''[[The Banana Splits]]'' Adventure Hour with "Uh, oh! Chongo!"
* "Ecch!" in ''[[Mad Magazine]]''.
* ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' briefly popularized Pinky's favorite [[Verbal Tic
* ''[[Durarara!!]]'' fans certainly have a thing for vending machines.
* "Objection!" has become the signature phrase for [[Courtroom Drama
* "Leverage" from ''[[Battlefield Earth]]''.
* "Cockbite" from ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''. This phrase became so iconic that once when the creators of the [[machinima]] series went commercial, they called their studio [[Unusual Euphemism|Rooster Teeth]].
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* "Awesome" and "Legendary" for ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]''.
* There's a bit of a shibboleth effect going in ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' fandom. Milder fans or subjects of [[Popcultural Osmosis]] will say "elementary", while the harder fans will say "singular".
* ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' fans appear to have commandeered the phrase "[[Bridal Carry|princess carry]]" thanks to Barnaby's tendency to employ
* ''[[Digimon]]'' has [[Digimon Adventure|Izzy]]'s catchphrase, "Prodigious!"
* ''[[NBA Jam]]'': "BOOM-shakalaka!"
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* ''Mention [[Axis Powers Hetalia]] to any fan, and you will probably hear several "Pasta!"s
* [[A Song of Ice and Fire]] frequently uses the phrase "mummer's farce."
* The
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has "sexy awesome", originally a [[Forced Meme]] by the creator but still used within the fanbase and on the forums.
The same word is sometimes picked up by a series of different works, sometimes as a reference to earlier uses, sometimes because they're [[Inherently Funny Words|inherently appealing]], sometimes just by coincidence.
* "Cowabunga!"
** Those who are old enough will remember the originator of this word, Chief Thunderthud of ''[[The Howdy Doody Show]]''.
** ''[[Sesame Street]]'' fans will think of the Cookie Monster.
** ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' are probably the most closely associated to it. If you weren't familiar with the term until you heard it used by the turtles, you probably think of them when you hear it.
*** However, by the 200X series, the other Turtles are at pains to [[Totally Radical|stop Mikey saying it]].
** Bizarrely, "cowabunga" also becomes connected to Bart Simpson, as one of his typical catchphrases, even though the writers were intentionally invoking the use in ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', a show Bart would have been watching.
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* "Combine":
** The [[Planet Looters]] from ''[[Half Life|Half-Life 2]]''.
** Older (board) gamers would associate it with ''OGRE'' for similar reasons.
** The narrator's internal monologue throughout ''[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]''.
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