Word Power

With any great feat, transformation, or move must come a signature phrase. Some of these catch phrases activate a power, while some are unnecessary, but cool.

• AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle: Disjointed speech patterns. Can be extremely creepy.
• And This Is For: A litany of grievances the hero repeats to the villain, punctuated with, well, punches.
• Antidisestablishmentarianism: The word you use when you want to sound smart.
• Attack Pattern Alpha: When your team of Pinja Nirates or space ship needs to kick tail in choreographed fashion!
• Badass Boast: When a character makes a huge boast or speech right before he kicks ass.
  • Blase Boast: When a character makes a casual-sounding boast to mess with other people's heads.
  • Not Hyperbole: When a character proves just how literal they are in their over-the-top boasts or threats.
• Badass Creed: A character or organization's badass motto.
• By the Power of Greyskull: A phrase that triggers a transformation or power-up. Usually is necessary to activate the power.
• Calling Your Attacks: A phrase called during the attack, and often the name of the attack. It is usually just for show.
• Calling Your Orgasms: Because sometimes you just gotta...
• Combat Commentator: This is like Calling Your Attacks, but spoken by a third party.
• Creepy Monotone: A line delivered in an eerie calm that lets people know something has Gone Horribly Wrong.
  • Machine Monotone: Because machines are always incapable of inflection.
• Dare to Be Badass: Delivered by one character to another in attempt to unlock that character's inner Badass. May lead to Crowning Moment of Awesome.
• I Know Your True Name: Names have power, control the name and you control the being.
• In the Name of the Moon: Called out after the transformation, this is a phrase to challenge the opponent or to inform the opponent of their impending demise.
• Invocation: A part of a Transformation Sequence that is used like By the Power of Greyskull, but it doesn't actually activate the power.
• Magical Foreign Words: Using foreign words to unleash Applied Phlebotinum.
• Magical Incantation: Commanding things to happen through a series of magic words.
• Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner: A pithy one-liner thrown out by the action hero just before he starts kicking ass. Always just for show.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: A heroic or dramatic line DELIVERED....LIKE...THIS...FOR...EMPHASIS!!!
• Punctuated Pounding: Like And This Is For, only it's a single line where every word is punctuated by a blow.
• Rocky Roll Call: When one name is not enough.
• Say It: For when you must say someone else's catch phrase or vicarious self-aggrandization.
• Say My Name: Calling out someone's name during a moment of high drama.
• Speak of the Devil
• The Scottish Trope: Say the bad guy's name and Bad Stuff Happens!â„¢.
• Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Basically the hero or villain's way of calling out his or her opposite number.
• Transformation Name Announcement: Shouting your own name dramatically after powering up and/or transforming.
• Verbal Business Card: I am [Name], I [Noun Verbs]
• Voice of the Legion: WHEN when A a VILLAIN'S villain's VOICE voice REVERBERATES reverberates.
• Words Can Break My Bones: Calling Your Attacks strikes you For Massive Damage. Magic words and words of power.
• Weapons Grade Vocabulary