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'''Young Ruri:''' Baka...|''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]''}}
A major character has some sort of [[Catch Phrase]] or other profound statement which defines his/her character. A
Sometimes they come up with it themselves and automatically remember it due it occurring at a pivotal moment in their lives. Other times it's depicted in more of a throwaway-moment where they just like the way it sounds.
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Compare [[Ironic Echo]], [[Meaningful Echo]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* At the beginning of ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', Kenshin says his motto that "a sword is a weapon, and kenjutsu is the art of killing". Later we learn this phrase comes from his sensei Hiko.
* Early on in ''[[Naruto]]'', Kakashi says "Ninjas who break the rules are scum. But ninjas who abandon their friends are ''worse'' than scum." Later, there's a flash back in which, on a mission, Kakashi had been attempting to follow the rules strictly to the letter at the expense of a captured teammate, and his other teammate pretty much says this.
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== Film ==
* Interestingly inverted in ''[[Back to The Future]]'', with Doc's "If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything!" being repeated by Marty to his 17-year-old father while in 1955, {{spoiler|to discover back in the future that George has adopted it as his motto.}}
** Another inversion, Older Doc's use of the word "heavy".
* [[Star Wars]]
== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
▲* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld/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]]'', 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|
** Happens a ton in ''Ghost Story'', though it's justified at length as part of
== Live Action Television ==▼
* [[Prison Break]] A number of character traits for the characters are revealed through a 1st season episode that had a lot of flashbacks in it.
* [[Frasier]] Crane's catchphrase was "I'm listening"
* "Two Cathedrals", the second-season finale of [[The West Wing]] used this trope as the basis of the episode. President Jed Bartlet is prompted by {{spoiler|the death of his secretary, Mrs. Landingham}} to flash back to when he met her as a young boy. His mannerisms in the past (putting his hands in his pockets and smiling when he's made up his mind to do something other people will not like) are referenced to foreshadow his exact actions at the press conference he calls to announce he will, in fact, be running for re-election with a relapsing/remitting course of multiple sclerosis.
* One Halloween episode of ''[[That '70s Show]]'' has a flashback to the day Red first uttered his catchphrase:
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'', Emil has a flashback to when Richter says, "Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality." It then becomes Emil's own catchphrase.
** 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?"
* [[Professor Layton and the Unwound Future|"After all... isn't that what a gentleman does?" "Luckily for me, every puzzle... has an answer."]]
== Web Original ==
* ''[[The Order of the Stick|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.
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== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', [[Harmless Villain]] Dr. Doofenshmirtz often expresses the intention to [[World Domination|take over]] "the entire Tri-State Area!" The episode "What Do It Do?" shows us a flashback to a date he went on in high school with the future Linda Flynn, and when he tells her he plans to take over the world, she suggests that he start small.
* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode ''Dangerous Curves Ahead'', we get a flashback to one of Homer's many catchphrases: When Homer and Marge are dating, they meet the newly-wed Flanderses for the first time. Homer initially likes Ned, but when they stop at a motel, Neddy says an unmarried couple can't share a room.
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