Calling Your Attacks/Playing With

Basic Trope: While fighting, a fighter yells what he does as he does it.

• Straight: Chuck yells out "Flaming Fist" as he punches a dude.
• Exaggerated:
  • He calls out his attacks for every action, done in the most over-the-top manner and even takes calling attacks as Serious Business, spending his free time inventing new ways to say things.
  • "BOXING PUNCH."
  • Alternatively, Douglas Falcon yells out everything he does. FALCON PUNCH! FALCON PRAY! FALCON SNEAK! F-f-falcon Swoon...
• Justified:
  • He has supernatural attacks which are voice-activated, thus requiring him to yell out their names.
  • Chuck wants the name of the attack to catch on and become renowned and feared for it.
  • Chuck shouts as a way to help focus his attacks.
  • In case of Humongous Mecha, the attack is control by voice command.
  • "Everyone else gets to make a lot of cool noises with their guns. I feel a bit left out, so I yell what I'm doing."
• Inverted:
  • He shouts out his attack after doing it. ("Dynamic Chop!", for example)
  • Chuck comes up with names for getting injured by others
• Subverted: The names Chuck throws out have nothing to do with their attacks.
• Double Subverted: If you pay attention, they correspond to future attacks.
• Dangerously Genre Savvy: Chuck calls out attack names at random, instead the one he's using, in order to throw off opponents who expect him to play this trope straight.
• Zig Zagged: Chuck yells out his attack names during fights. Then abruptly gets serious and lets loose with a string of attacks without prior warning.
• Parodied:
  • Chuck yells out absolutely absurd names.
  • Chuck yells out names that are so long and elaborate ("Avenging Claw of the Jade Dragon That Lies in Wait at Dusk in the Dungeon of Jin etc. etc.") that his opponent gets tired of waiting and strikes him down.
  • Chuck yells out names for even the most mundane of actions.
  • Chuck yells out "FUREIMINGGU FISUTO!!!" as he punches a dude. And he's not an Anime character.
• Deconstructed:
  • Chuck incessantly yelling his attacks screws him because he's telegraphing his attacks.
  • Chuck has OCD or some other mental illness and has trouble doing anything without speaking it aloud. The few times he tries doing something without speaking results in him botching the move or becoming noticeably disturbed. They later find out its due to his abusive mentors training methods and the trauma he experiences during his battles.
  • Chuck is the victim of Talk to the Fist because his Word Salad attack name took too long and talking wasn't a free action this time.
• Reconstructed:
  • Chuck yells out the names as a way to limit himself to get faster.
  • After his opponent is able to telegraph his attacks, he either starts mixing up the names and attacks or stops shouting names at all to screw with his opponent's head.
• Averted: Chuck doesn't yell the name of his attacks.
• Enforced:
  • "But if Chuck doesn't call out the attack names, how is the audience going to know what they are? After all, this is a medium where the audience can't see for themselves too well."
  • "But if Chuck doesn't shout the name of his weapon, how will kids know what toy to tell their parents to buy?"
• Lampshaded: "Chuck, have you considered not yelling out the names of your attacks?"
• Invoked: "They were just a bunch of punks, so I had to let them know my power somehow to scare em all off."
• Defied: "It took the Dark Lord years to do it, but he became unbeatable because he did not need to speak to cast his spells."
• Discussed: "Do they call out their attacks because they're using voice-activated weapons?"
• Conversed: Why does everyone in this show feel the need to yell out the name of every attack they use? Don't they think we recognize them by now?!

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