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-->'''Hollywood:''' Hah! Bet you thought I was gonna say it was wrong, didn't ya?

* After a RousingSpeech[=/=]TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Sarge in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' [[spoiler:where he's trying to convince Wash to join the rest of the team on a potential SuicideMission to help Epsilon and Carolina]], Wash leads into his signature WorstWhateverEver remark... [[spoiler:then admits he's going]].

** In the cold open for the movie ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWitchesGhost'', when a horror novelist (and {{Expy}} for Creator/StephenKing) helps the Scooby Gang take down a crook in a ghost mask, the crook grumbles, "And I've have gotten away with it if it weren't for that meddling...writer!"

** In the cold open for the movie ''Scooby Doo And The Witches Ghost'', when a horror novelist (and {{Expy}} for Creator/StephenKing) helps the Scooby Gang take down a crook in a ghost mask, the crook grumbles, "And I've have gotten away with it if it weren't for that meddling...writer!"

--->'''Velma''': At least he didn't call us "kids" this time.\\
'''Fred''': Yeah, that's gotten old.

-->'''Wash''': [[WorstWhateverEver This has to be the worst idea ''ever''... [[spoiler:[[TrueCompanions but you can count me in]]]].

* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'' frequently has Darkseid utter his famous catchphrase of "Darkseid IS!", and then continue it with something completely mundane.

--->"''What's your name?''" "Shady." "''Who's your Daddy?''" "I don't give a fuck. But I wonder - " "''-is he rich like me?''" "Doubt it! Ha!"

-->'''[[TheNarrator Cecil:]]''' John Peters — [[spoiler: you know, the impostor?]]

** The music video for "When I'm Gone", intended to retire the Slim Shady character, opens with a [[EvilBrunetteTwin dark-haired]] young man at an addiction support group saying, "Hi, my name is Marshall Mathers".

** In "Evil Twin", Marshall summons Slim, who greets the other personality in the only way the [[HeteronormativeCrusader legendary homophobe]] of rap could ever do:
--->Hi! Faggot.

* In ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings'', the series' most famous CatchPhrase is the Screenwriter, when asked about a seemingly big problem, saying "Actually, super easy, barely an inconvenience." In one pitch meeting, however, the Screenwriter says "super difficult, very much an inconvenience."

* In ''ComicBook/{{Empyre}}'', [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] frees himself, ComicBook/CaptainAmerica and ComicBook/IronMan from [[spoiler:Quoi]]'s bonds after the latter tried to tempt them into joining in his mad plan. Shocked as the heroes are freed, Thor responds to [[spoiler:Quoi]]'s ThisCannotBe with "Verily. I say thee ''yea'', an alteration of "I say thee '''NAY'''!"

** One notable example: when Ax, after getting some orders from Andalite commanders after being stranded alone on Earth for a long time, decides to follow them instead of staying loyal to his new human team. When he realizes that this was a mistake, he reaffirms that Jake is his prince, and the only leader that he should be following. He's expecting Jake to respond with "don't call me Prince," their usual running gag. For the first (and possibly only) time, Jake doesn't.
** When facing the Howlers, Jake orders everyone to morph, realizing that Rachel and Ax are getting ready for combat instead of running. Ax (who ran away from the Howlers during the previous encounter) says he'll stay and fight, Jake then pulls rank on him:

** Played for humor in one case when Ax and Jake are stranded on an alien planet. Jake follows up the usual "don't call me Prince" with "You can call me the Jake formerly known as Prince" (Ax doesn't get it, like most Earth humor). At the end of the book, Ax does in fact call him "the Jake formerly known as Prince", causing Marco (the official comedian of the group) to wince in horror at Ax making jokes, and Jake to look grumpy that no one think his jokes are funny.
** Another instance played for humor: Marco jokingly bets someone money that Rachel is going to say "Let's do it!" so Rachel deliberately says "Let's go for it," just to spite him.

*** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument "The Ghost Monument"]], the Thirteenth Doctor finally finds the TARDIS again after having been separated from it for a while, and says of the new console room, "You've redecorated! I like it!" And, on a related note, when new companions Graham, Ryan and Yaz see the inside of the TARDIS for the first time, none of them say "It's bigger on the inside."

** The established catchphrase of an Emergency Medical Hologram on activation involves asking the patient what the "nature of the medical emergency" is. In the episode "Nepenthe", Jurati tries to commit suicide via lethal injection, causing the EMH to activate when her lifesigns drop.

** In his review of ''[[ComicBook/TheCloneSaga Spider-Man: Web of Life]]'', Ben Reilly's thoughts that he "is not a man" ends with him subverting his infamous "I AM A MAN!" Punch with "I AM NOT A MAN!" and knocking himself out.

* In ''WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings'', the series' most famous CatchPhrase is the Screenwriter, when asked about a seemingly problem, saying "Actually, super easy, barely an inconvenience." In one pitch meeting, however, the Screenwriter says "super difficult, very much an inconvenience."

* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'' frequently has Darkseid start of his famous catchphrase of "Darkseid IS" and then end it with something completely mundane.

* In Webcomic/Homestuck:
TT: [[Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff Where doing this]] man?
TG: yeah
TG: you could almost say
TG: where making this
TT: Go on.
TT: What is it where making this?