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* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'', a [[Time Travel|Time Traveling]] Vimes, buying a pie from a young CMOT Dibbler, says "And that's cutting your own throat, eh?". While the young salesman is initially confused he later decides he likes the sound of it, supposedly creating a [[Stable Time Loop]] (although not really, as the man Vimes is pretending to be was a real person in the original timeline. [[Timey-Wimey Ball|On the other hand,]] who knows?
* In ''[[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]]'', the main character's [[Catch Phrase]] is "Let's be about it." On her midshipwoman's cruise, guess what her first commanding officer seems to say at every opportunity?
* A number of [[Dresden Files|Harry Dresden's]] spell phrases and sayings are this. Being Jim Butcher's works, these almost always overlap with [[Stealth Pun]]. Fliccum Bicus? Harry tried to cheat at a fire-starting spell. {{spoiler|1=[DuMorne] told Harry that he wouldn't always be able to "flick his bic"}}.
** Happens a ton in Ghost Story, though it's justified at length as part of {{spoiler|being a ghost}}.
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* One Halloween episode of ''[[That 70s Show]]'' has a flashback to the day Red first uttered his catchphrase:
{{quote| '''Red:''' He's an ass. And he's dumb. He's a... (spotlight and [[Cherubic Choir]]) [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|...dumbass.]]}}
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' does this when {{spoiler|Hiro meets himself as a child}}.
* Known as it is for flashbacks, a season 3 episode of ''[[Lost]]'' features one of {{spoiler|Desmond}}s flashbacks to {{spoiler|his time in a monastery, revealing where he got his [[Verbal Tic|curious habit]] of calling people "Brother". He picked it up from the monks.}}
** Also, Locke's flashback in season 4 gives us a teenaged John uttering the phrase "Don't tell me what I can't do!" that would later define his character.
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* In ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', it's revealed that womaniser Barney used to be a hippie, and that his look, attitude and catchphrases all come from the guy who stole his girlfriend off him.
** Except "Suit Up!", which came from an advertisement.
* Used to some effect in ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]''. Captain Jack Harkness says in the introductory narration "The 21st century is when everything changes, and you gotta be ready." In the Series 2 episode "Fragments", there's a flashback to 1999 in Jack's past, where Jack comes back from a mission and {{spoiler|his former team leader, Alex, has killed the rest of the team. Alex, just before killing himself, says, "Everything changes in the 21st century. We aren't ready."}}
* Though it isn't a flashback, ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' had a scene where Jacob Carter used his daughter's catchphrase "Holy Hannah", showing us where she picked it up.
* In ''[[Scrubs]]'', J.D.'s moussed-up hair was apparently due to a suggestion by his college buddy, Spencer.
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** Note that the player sees when Richter says this in the first place. And then when we see the flashback...[[Most Annoying Sound|again and again and...]]
* [[Kingdom Hearts|Axel]] is known far and wide for his catchphrase -- "Got it memorized?" -- almost always used after introducing himself. In the recent prequel, though, we see just where it came from. As a child, he decided that he'd be metaphorically immortal if everyone remembers him always.
* [[Professor Layton and Thethe Unwound Future|"After all... isn't that what a gentleman does?" "Luckily for me, every puzzle... has an answer."]]
 
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* ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'''s [[Big Bad]], Xykon, adopted his name as a teenager after meeting a thinly-veiled parody of Professor Charles Xavier from the X-Men?specifically because he thinks names that start with "X" sound cooler.
** Also, Haley's distaste for her lime green Boots of Speed (mentioned several times throughout the strip) is shown to be the result of Crystal mocking them on their first meeting.
* "Memory is the key." in [[Red vs. Blue]]. So much that [[The Ditz|''Caboose'']] lampshades this ("Aren't we done with this already?")
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** Also in "Lisa's Sax", it shows a five-year old Bart (who sees school as a living nightmare) came to get attention from the other students by acting out. When Principal Skinner came to reprimand him for this he replied "Eat my shorts!"
** In "Lisa's First Word", it is revealed that Bart’s first word was actually his catchphrase "Ay caramba!"
* In the [[Whole-Episode Flashback]] of ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' where we finally get to see them meet, ("Go!"){{spoiler|Cyborg fires his sonic blaster for the first time.}}
{{quote| '''Cyborg:''' [[Dramatic Irony|I'm only going to say this once;]] {{spoiler|booyah.}}}}
** And you can't forget that in the same episode it shows why Beast Boy says "dude" and the beginning of Robin's catchphrase.
* ''[[Beetlejuice (Animationanimation)|Beetlejuice]]'': "There comes a time, Babes, when you do things you've never done. When you say things you've never said. And so, for the first time ever, I said those magic words: 'It's SHOWTIME!'"
 
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