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!"

My main (a D3) used to have "Fling Poo!!!!" when I first started playing. Used to crack up the teams I was on. The SG leader at the time used to ask me to snipe by saying "Az, fling the big poo at the one I'm targeting."

My main was an archaeologist who got his powers by accident. His battle cry is: "I just wanna be a professor!"

"Price line Negotiator!"

"Go Meat!"

My scrapper is a crazed MA version of Casey Jones.

His battle cry "You have offended Pi!"

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$target . . . . . prepare to get busted!

OH NOES!! iTS . . . . THE CLAWWWWW!!!!

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Whatever it is, its about to kick $targets ***!!!

Chase Arcanum was a /kinetics controller long before controllers had any damage upgrade. He teamed with his fire/fire blaster wife, Cinder Flame, and while his power did make her deadlier, he was... a bit slow in a solo fight.

His battlecry for the first several issues of the game was:

"..Don't make me get my wife!"

my personal worst was an accident

my toon was Mind/Psi Dom

"I give great headache!" cept it truncated out the "ache!"

yeah my team got a huge laugh when I hit it in the middle of the rsf vindicators cutscene

now it reads ""

My first blaster's battle cry was "Not in the face!"

My tanker's is "GET ORF MY LAAAAAAND!!"

"If we succeed, no one will remember and if we fail no one will forget!"

This has been widely renowned as a battlecry only one step above "Come on lads, lets get our throats cut!"

I can think of a few bad ones.

"AFK cops at door"

"Ever been to a Turkish prison?"

"Hey $target! What's the opposite of Christopher Walken? Christopher Reeves!"

Nice one steel clae

My only battle cry i use is "Fear the Afro of Justice!!!"

Eight feet tall and farting THUNDERBOLTS!

My worst is still my favorite:

Melcor the Warshade: "FEAR MY HENTAI SPECIAL!"

Let's see...

I have a Corr, my first 50, that uses "Oodles of Poodle Noodles!!" long story behind that one but still my favorite.

I have a little lizard mace brute that uses "Fear my Giant Bone!" for obvious reasons

I have a little troll looking guy that uses "Oli Oli Oxen Free!!" I just find that one funny

My Stalker uses "SURVEY SAYS! YOU"RE DEAD!" What can I say? Richard Dawson was the best family fued host ever.

I have a sonic corr whose battle cry is " " because her back story says she is a mute. Thats right, I play a mute sonic corr. I really need to move that toon to Virtue.

I used to have a Fire/Thermal corr named London Broil (looked like a cow) and he used "Who's cookin who now!?!" He had anger issues.

I actually changed my BC on a toon mid mish to "Don't follow the Stalker!!" when we were on a steam rolling team and the stalker would run ahead and stand in the middle of a huge mob around the next corner and not say anything just to see who would coming running up behind him and get whacked. The sad thing is I was on vent with this player and he would run around the corner and say "Whoa" and I would still follow him around the corner like a doofus completely forgeting he was hidden.

My battle cries have never been particularly interesting. But after seeing the Freedom Phalanx (particularly Sister Psyche) during the end of CoV beta, I did give my Storm/Energy Defender a snarky macro. "Today's forecast calls for heavy thunderstorms, a severe sun advisory, and a 100% chance of me kicking your ***!"