Title Drop/Fan Works

The Teraverse fic It's Just A Habit, in which a superheroine nun explains that she has not adopted a comic-book superheroine style codename... and as for that so-called 'nun costume'? "It's just a habit."
John Freeman got on his motorcycle and said "its time for me to live up to my family name and face full life consequences"
The Invader Zim story "In Short Supply" features one in Chapter 29, when Red muses that "even for the Control Brains, information about Purple was in short supply." The title is actually supposed to be a pun on the Irkens' height-based society, though, and how Irkens of certain heights are much rarer than they should be.
The Firefly fic Forward drops its title at the end of the "Mosaic" story arc, with Mal telling River what direction they have to keep going in.
There is a stuble one in Kira Is Justice: When Justin decides to experiment with the Death Note, one of the victims yell out the words, "Kira is justice!" in a prison cafeteria before dropping dead. It is very amusing.
In the Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction Created Equal, the speech Metal Sonic gave after Eggman's death

"Flesh and blood have no purpose in this place. God made all men equal and men destroyed their gods. A man created me to be equal and I have destroyed that man. I laid waste to his empire of dust. Now I rule the empire of dust. And I will lay hands on that dust and create my own posterity. And I shall hold them to my single inglorious propositon; all robots are not Created Equal..."

In Fantendo: Playing War, before Sandslash transforms into Sandsmash and is consequently knocked out, Sunnyscythe utters "Let's play war...". There's actually a couple more of these, another by Sunnyscythe and yet another by Fantasma.
Ensign Sue must die!
In the Star Trek fanseries Hidden Frontier, Commodore Cole drops the title of the show in the middle of a speech she gives in the sixth season premiere, as the blockade of starships is about to go into battle with the Tholians and the Breen who just started a war with the Federation.
Dragonball Z Abridged's 2010 Christmas Special: The Christmas Tree of Might

"Time to plant The Tree...of Might...the Christmas Tree of Might..."
"Ohhhhh...title drop

Done twice for the title and more than a few times for the subtitle of With Strings Attached, or The Big Pink Job, as one of the nicknames the four give the Vasyn is exactly that.
- Several of the chapter names are title drops.
Stars Above follows Madoka's naming pattern, with each chapter title culled from a line of dialogue. The title itself is dropped twice in Chapter 5.
In this Prince of Persia fanfic, both the title of the movie and the title of the fic are dropped.
Turnabout Storm title drops not the crossover itself, but both series involved in it, in different opportunities.

Phoenix: Sorry, but I don't believe you, my little pony. Not for a single solitary second.
Sonata: I don't know what kind of trials and tribulations you've been through, but you're not changing my opinion.

Each chapter of the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic fanfic Whispers is named after a phrase contained within.
In Better Off Not Knowing, regarding preteen viewpoint character Hakini:

"She’d asked her parents, once, about the people who’d brought her into the world. They hadn’t been told names—only that they were better off not knowing."

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