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==Film==
* [[Green Lantern (film)|Hal Jordan]] attempted to [[Super-Hero Origin|activate his ring for the first time]] by reciting various catch phrases, eventually progressing to "[[Toy Story (franchise)
== Literature ==
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** Although in ''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'' there were double-figure instant morphs. Still needed words for everything else, but when there was emotion involved, woohoo baby, they went for the silent approach.
** They weren't afraid to spoof it from time to time. Whenever [[The Smart Guy|Billy]] did the call, he would often say it in technobabble, i.e. "It's time for molecular transmutation!"
** It is not entirely clear in which cases the phrase is
*** ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' justifies the catchphrase as a voice lock for the morphers.
*** Other series have it weird, for example those Rangers (like ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue]]'') whose morpher has a password keypad and is used as such, still have team call (and intricate hand gestures before typing their codes).
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* Used by ''[[Freakazoid!]]'', without even [[Lampshade Hanging]] it to any real degree. He has to say "Freak out!" to transform into Freakazoid, and "Freak in" to turn back into mild-mannered nerd Dexter Douglas. When Dexter says "freak out", he always precedes it with an extended "Ah" sound, like the chorus to the disco song "Le Freak" by CHIC.
* In ''[[Fred and Barney Meet The Thing]]'', young Benjy Grimm would transform into The Thing by touching his magical rings together and saying "Thing Ring, Do Your Thing!"
* Subverted in ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'', where [[Bungling Inventor]] Gyro Gearloose programs the Gizmoduck suit to be activated by the phrase "blabbering blatherskite", believing that nobody uses it. Little did he know that it was mild-mannered accountant Fenton Crackshell's favorite expression and that he would transform into Gizmoduck for the first time purely by accident after uttering this phrase standing too close to the suit. In another episode, Launchpad starts using the expression, leading to some [[Secret Identity]] close calls. And in a later episode, the suit somehow shrinks in the wash... and its activation word becomes "blab".
** The power suit seems to be able to hear the phrase no matter how far away the speaker is. In one episode, Fenton is hundreds of miles away and needs the Gizmoduck suit. He says the phrase and it activates, and flies across the country to get to him.
*** Not so much as it works that when Fenton is not within the suit's range, he calls it and says the word through the telephone. The reason that he had his mother use it the one time was because he forgot to turn on the suit's answering machine.
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