Difference between revisions of "Motto"

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

-PC Gamer magazine

Does this spandex make me look fat?
My other job is fighting crime.
Now with 20% more battlecries and catchphrases!
Crime-free for 0 days.
Beta-testing and proud!
A nightly slice off vice.
Think one person can change the world? With tye-dyed pajamas and and a baseball bat, so do we.
With great power comes great super. Huh?
Who needs sleep anyway?
Keeping the criminals clean and the streets behind bars.
My other shirt is a cape.
A long night's journey into day.
Crime picked the wrong night to fight.
Carpe noctem! (Seize the night.)

"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" is a play on the bumper sticker "My other car is a ...."

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 * Carpe noctem! is a play on {{wikipedia|Carpe diem}} (Seize the day), a phrase from a Latin poem by {{wikipedia|Horace}}.
 * "My other shirt is a cape" is a play on the bumper sticker "My other car is a ...."
-* "Elemental heroes never die, they just lose their spark." might be a reference to the fantasy setting of the trading card {{wikipedia|Magic: The Gathering}}, in which {{wikipedia|Planeswalker|Planeswalkers}} frequently lose their "spark", the mythical ability that enables them to travel between different planes (alternate dimensions or realities), instead of dying. They are often dead for story-telling-purposes, however.
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