Motto

Game mottos appear on the top right corner of the login page.

The usual mottoes include:

• 50% less fat than other superhero games.
• A hero is as a hero does, sir.
• A long night's journey into day.
• A nightly slice off vice.
• Carpe noctem! (Seize the night.)
• Crime picked the wrong night to fight.
• Crime-free for 0 days.
• Does this spandex make me look fat?
• Don't listen to Tina Turner. We do need another hero.
• Elemental heroes never die, they just lose their spark.
• Fighting for truth, justice, and a bottomless cup of coffee.
• Gadgeteer heroes: whoever dies with the most toys, wins.
• Gamma-testing and proud!
• Keeping the criminals clean and the streets behind bars.
• Meticulously constructed ... Ingenious, funny, and advertising-free.

-PC Gamer magazine

• My other job is fighting crime.
• My other shirt is a cape.
• Now saving more than cheerleaders and worlds.
• Now with 20% more battlecries and catchphrases!
• One million heroes strong ... in 2075!
• Only you can prevent forest fires, car fires, and arson.
• Think one person can change the world? With tie-dyed pajamas and a baseball bat, so do we.
• When the sun goes down, evil gets its comeuppance.
• When there's nothing else, superheroes float.
• Who needs sleep anyway?
• With great power comes great super. Huh?

History

• During the period leading to November 2009 the motto was temporarily replaced with a countdown to the "Thirty Days of Twilight". From October 21st 2009 to October 26th, the motto read:

Thirty Days of Twilight begins in 10 days.

The number was changed to 5 on October 27th, to 4 on the 28th and to 1 on the 31st. On November 1st the motto was replaced by:

Thirty Days of Twilight begins today!

And on November 2nd it changed to:

Thirty Days of Twilight begins yesterday!

On November 3rd things went back to normal.

• Before retcon was released September 29th 2010 and the game proceeded to gamma testing, that motto read

Beta-testing and proud!

• On June 28th 2011, the motto was:

1337 days of Twilight Heroes since beta, and still counting.

References

• "Only you can prevent forest fires" was Smokey Bear's message until 2001.
• "truth, justice, and a bottomless cup of coffee" is a play on Superman's Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
• The "with great power" line is a play on Spider-Man's with great power comes great responsibility.
• "Carpe noctem!" is a play on Carpe diem (Seize the day), a phrase from a Latin poem by Horace.
• "My other shirt is a cape" and "My other job is fighting crime" are plays on the bumper sticker "My other car is a ...."
• "Now saving more than cheerleaders and worlds" refers to TV series Heroes catchphrase, Save the cheerleader, save the world.
• "A hero is as a hero does" refers to a saying from the movie Forrest Gump "Stupid is as stupid does".
• The "Elemental heroes never die" line refers to Douglas MacArthur's, farewell address to Congress, "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away..."
• "A long night's journey into day" refers to Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey into Night.
• The "Don't listen to Tina Turner" line refers to Tina Turner's song We Don't Need Another Hero.
• "Thirty Days of Twilight" refers to Twelve Days of Christmas.