Basic Trope: Before the Magical Girl confronts the Monster of the Week, she issues a formal challenge involving an always-repeated Catchphrase.
- Straight: Jade Virus is a 15-year old
Lawful Good and beautiful Magical Girl who fights evil monsters on a daily basis. Before she confronts the Monster of the Week, she always assumes her never-changing Ass-Kicking Pose, goes through a trippy Transformation Sequence, uses a signature hand gesture and, to underline the righteousness of her cause, utters the line: "I am Jade Virus, guardian of the universe. In the name of Five-Man Band, More Dakka and This Loser Is You, I will punish you". - Exaggerated:
- Jade Virus cites any single trope on the TV Tropes database so her sequence lasts more than four hours.
- Before every battle, all the combatants say their own special lines in an interweaved transformation sequence of awesomeness.
- Downplayed: Jade Virus does a very short version of this for the climactic battle of each season.
- Justified: Jade Virus's Code of Honor, based on an Ancient Tradition, commands her to use exactly this phrase every time and nothing else.
- Jade Virus's Code of Honour requires that she announce herself and give her foes an opportunity to surrender before attacking. She just uses the same speech each time because the practice lets her get it out smoothly and without losing focus on her opponent.
- Inverted: The Catchphrase, in some unexplained way, says her.
- Jade Virus doesn't have a Catchphrase, but every villain challenges her in the same way.
- Subverted: The typical Art Shift for the Transformation Sequence appears, but Jade Virus says something completely different instead.
- Double Subverted: ... but then utters the line away.
- Parodied:
- Jade Virus's Catchphrase lasts so long, that all the other characters, Ruby Trojan, Diamond Worm, Opal Botnet, and Sapphire Adware, instantly fall asleep.
- Before Jade Virus has uttered the phrase, the Monster of the Week has already taken over the world.
- While she utters the line, a group of Blatant Burglars steal all of her magical girl dresses.
- The monster of the week is immune to any of Jade Virus's spells and attacks, but its brain immediatley explodes when it's forced to hear the phrase recorded as mp3.
- Characters completely unrelated to Magical Girls, like the Klingons or the Hells Angels, use the line as a form of greeting.
- Any other Stock Pose or even all of them at once are randomly thrown in for laughs and even Jade Virus can't keep up with them.
- When the monster attacks Jade Virus immediately before she can finish the line, she gets extremely offended and yells indignantly at it for violating proper battle etiquette.
- Jade says the line while focusing on the "Jaywalking" part of the Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking when listing her target's List of Transgressions.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Jade Virus is a magical girl but never says such a line, not even close. The issue is never addressed.
- Enforced: A dictator loves this trope so much that he forces all creators to insert it into their works, fitting or not.
- Lampshaded: After her phrase, Jade Virus says: "Yes, I just said this line, I'm a magical girl, what did you expect?"
- Invoked:
- Jade Virus's friends set up an Amazing Technicolor Battlefield for her because they know this significantly increases the probability for her to say this line.
- A wise mentor teaches Jade Virus the phrase when she is still a child.
- Exploited: An Evil Overlord sentence-mixes Jade Virus's intro to make it seem like she said something horrible.
- Defied: Jade Virus refuses to say the line, even though all of her friends want her to utter it.
- Discussed: "You know there are people who always say such a line. They are called magical girls."
- Conversed: A creator has this as his favorite trope and never shies away from telling the audience.
- Implied:
- Ruby Trojan says to Diamond Worm: "Ah yeah, she said the thing again" [without giving any further specification].
- There's a Battle Discretion Shot, a Shadow Discretion Shot or an Offscreen Reality Warp involved so the audience never hears the line.
- Sapphire Adware breaks the 4th wall and tells the audience to "just take their word for it".
- Deconstructed:
- By uttering this line, Jade Virus gives away her position and intention to attack and loses valuable time in which the monster can already wreak havoc.
- While she says it, the monster ignores Talking Is a Free Action and immediately attacks her so she loses.
- By uttering it, she more and more loses the trust of her friends because they believe Jade Virus just wants to be important without doing anything useful.
- Reconstructed: However, the line is so powerful that the monster still gets intimidated, so it remains a necessary tool for the Malwairies after all.
- Played for Laughs:
- Jade Virus is also a Jive Turkey, Totally Radical, lives in a Juvenile Hell and uses tons of Gratuitous Japanese.
- Jade Virus's catch phrase is filled with innuendos, Double Entendres, Sexual Euphemisms, comes with a Mating Dance and ends on the line Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?.
- Jade Virus goes through an absolutely hilarious psychedelic dance sequence or Gratuitous Disco Sequence so that even the monster joins in. Hip techno or disco music optional.
- Jade Virus does a "Super Sentai" Stance, an Unnecessary Combat Roll and lots of Knuckle Cracking and Kinetic Clicking, even if no monster is ever fought, so that it becomes close to a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment.
- Jade Virus isn't mute but is still Talking with Signs during the sequence because she thinks this is cool.
- Played for Drama:
- Whenever Jade Virus does it, everybody starts to get sad, Color Failure ensues, dramatic music plays and Jade Virus is Trying Not to Cry because it reminds her of a past trauma.
- The whole scene serves as a Downer Beginning and a Sad-Times Montage.
- Jade Virus is a Heartbroken Badass and a Stepford Smiler who does the line to hide that she's a dead-inside Empty Shell.
- Jade Virus does it during a Trauma Swing when The World Mocks Her Loss.
- Gender-Inverted: Jade Virus is instead a 15 year-old boy.
