Bad Battle Cry Choices

The Battle Cry… Screamed harbinger of doom… Heroic warning to evil-doers… Villainous promise of death to do-gooders…

Whether a witty catch-phrase… a terrifying threat of violence… or just an incoherent throat-wrenching shriek of rage… the Battle Cry is an excellent manner in which to start combat.

Usually…

What follows are some less-than-excellent choices…

• (Tanks) “Dogpile on the Blaster!!”

• (Empathy Defender) “RA up in 4 minutes 29 seconds… 4 minutes 28 seconds….”

• “Dangit I broke a nail! Healer! HEALER!!”

• “733t 5kr@pr g’na r0xx0r5 ur yoonivurz!11!!one!” (by the time your team mates figure out what you were trying to say you’ve faceplanted without their support)

• “Don’t hurt me!!”

• (Mastermind) “You guys go ahead.. I have to re-summon my pets… I don’t like this version of the Arsonist”

• “Dibs on the glowie!”

• (Stalker) “Attack? Do you know vulnerable I am once out of Hide?!”

• “Why can’t we all just get along?!”

• “Don’t attack me! I’m Going Rogue as soon as I can.. I swear!”

• (Defender or Tanker) “I’ve maxed out nothing but my secondary… NOW you’re gonna pay!”

• (Defender) “I’ve set the Sapper as my debuff anchor… Kill him last!”

• “Burn baby burn! No wait… Freeze villain!... No… Dangit.. Which Alt am I playing again?!”

• (Various Generic’d characters) “Thunder… Thunder… Thundercats… HOOOO!” “By the power of Grayskull….” “Yooooo Joe!” “Transform and roll out!” “Carebear Stare!!” “Bring it on you MotherSmurfer!”

• “Oh! Mean people! I am going to give you SUCH a pinch!”

• (Itty bitty pixie scrapper with rapier dual blades) “Prepare to be pierced by my pixie *****!”

• “Danged Wizard gave me second rate Courage!”

• “I’ll protect the rear in case of ambush!”

• “You guys start this group… I’ll herd the map here for ya…” also known as “Hey guys… watch my NPC ally impression!”

• “Thank goodness I have SuperSpeed in case I need to esca… er.. go for help.”

"Let me go first, I'm the tank!"

I'm rather fond of the one on my Blaster main, cheerfully and blatantly stolen from Terry Pratchett- "Morituri Nolumus Mori!", which is bad Discworld pidgin-Latin for "We who are about to die, don't want to!"