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No matter the reason, the Signature Line is cemented in the minds of the general public. [[Your Mileage May Vary]], as if you have actually seen the work yourself and are familiar with it, there may be lines that stick out more for you.

 

 

Signature Lines are likely to succumb to [[Memetic Mutation]], and thereby result in viewers [[Watch It for The Meme|Watching It For The Meme]].

Don't confuse this with a character's [[Catch Phrase]]; a signature line is something viewers might watch the entire show simply to hear, not just something that gets said a lot. If many different people in the show say it, it's the show's [[Arc Words]]. Sometimes, of course, a catchphrase or arc words can catch on and come to define the show in popular imagination, but it's rarer than you'd think -- the vast majority of signature lines are only spoken once in the work where they appear.

 

 

== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==

* "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in." (''The Godfather Part III'')

* "May the force be with you." (''[[Star Wars]]: [[A New Hope]]'')

* "Yippee ki yay, mother fucker." (''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]'')

* "Don't mess with me, man. I'M A LAWYER!!!" (''[[Hook (Film)|Hook]]'')

* "Are you not entertained?!" (''[[Gladiator (Film)|Gladiator]]'')

* "Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." (''[[The Wizard of Oz (Film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'')

** "Pay no attention to [[The Man Behind the Curtain]]!"

** "There's no place like home."

* "You're a wizard, [[Harry Potter|Harry]]." (''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone|Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]]'')

** "Snape killed...Dumbledore." (''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince|Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince]]'')

* "The things I do for love." (''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'')

* "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." (''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'')

* "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." (''[[Neuromancer]]'')

* "The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there." (''The Go-Between'')

* "All right, [[I'm Going to Hell For This|I'll go to hell, then]]." (''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'')

 

* "Live long and prosper." (''[[Star Trek]]'')

** "To boldly go where no man has gone before."

** "[[I'm a Doctor Not A Placeholder|I'm a doctor, not a...]]"

* "Make it so." (''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'')

* "Live, from New York, it's Saturday Night!" (''[[Saturday Night Live]]'')

* "Will the real [mystery guest] please stand up?" (''[[To Tell the Truth]]'')

* "What's next?" (''[[The West Wing]]'')

* "I've made a huge mistake..." (''[[Arrested Development (TV)|Arrested Development]]'')

** "Alas, poor Yorick."

** "What a piece of work is a man!"

** "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."

* "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" (''[[Richard III]]'')

** "Off with his head. So much for Buckingham." (A line ''added'' to Shakespeare's play by Colley Cibber)

* "All the world's a stage." (''[[As You Like It]]'')

* "Oh beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock the meat it feeds on!" (''[[Othello]]'')

* "Dead! And never called me 'Mother'!" (''East Lynne'')

* "Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble" (''[[Macbeth]]'')

** "Something wicked this way comes"

** "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow"

* "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (''[[Twelfth Night]]'')

** "If music be the food of love, play on!"

* "You [[Spoony Bard]]"! (''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]'')

* "Find the Computer Room." (''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'')

* "A winner is you!" (''[[Pro Wrestling]]'')

** "You're WINNER!" (''[[Big Rigs]]: Over the Road Racing'')

* "I mean, ''really''!" (Mike Mozart of [[Jeepers Media]])

* "LEEROYYYYYYY JENKINSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS" ([[Leeroy Jenkins]])

** "[[Brooklyn Rage|BROOKLYN RAGE]]!"

* "[[This Is Sparta|CONSEQUENCES! WILL NEVER BE! THE SAME!]]" (Jessi Slaughter's dad)

** "To alcohol! The cause of, and the solution to, all of life's problems!"

* "Oh, my God, they killed Kenny!" "YOU BASTARDS!" (''[[South Park]]'')

* "To infinity and beyond!" (''[[Toy Story]]'')

* "[[Off With His Head|Off with her head]]!" (''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'')

** "Jinkies!"

** "[[Let's Split Up Gang|Let's split up, gang]]!"

** "Uh, Internet?"

* "[[Ride of the Valkyries (Music)|Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit...]]" (''[[What's Opera Doc]]'')