Magic Franchise Word: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Re Boot]]'' attempted to convert a wide variety of computer-related terms into magic franchise words, generally through misapplying them in conversation as false cognates feasible enough to warrant suspension of disbelief. Perhaps the most ostentatious of these was Enzo Matrix's exultant "Alphanumeric!" - a catchphrase that was later [[Lampshaded]] shortly after Enzo underwent his [[Time Skip]].

** 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.

* "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.