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See also [[Author Catchphrase]]. [[Author Vocabulary Calendar]] may be the cause of this.
 
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* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''? "HERESY!" ([[Memetic Mutation/Tabletop Games|BLAM!]])
* "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 anyonemany thinkspeople think of when buying them.
* ''[[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 with Suiseiseki ofby ''[[Rozen Maiden]]'' fans with Suiseiseki, to the point that it's her [[Fan Nickname]].
* "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]]''.
* ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'' 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.
* ''Trope'', from [[TV Tropes|an obscure wiki]] dedicated to the conventions and devices in narrative of all forms. And the profusion of [[lampshade]]s mean that editors might think of the site before home decor; it's so widely used that it's in thetheir logo. To add more to this example would be... [[Egregious]].
* "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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