Latin Mottos – Pretentious Credibility Of A Latin Mottos

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Well, nothing says pretentious credibility like a Latin mottos. It’s supposed to confer prestige, but Latin often gives off the “nyah nyah, we’re so much smarter than you” vibe, hence the tendency to consider it pretentious.

Latin Mottos is a sentence, phrase, poem, or word prefixed to an essay, chapter, novel, or the like suggestive of its subject matter.

Examples:

Comic Books

• X-Men: Xavier Institute - Mutatis Mutandis (Roughly, “having changed the things that were to be changed”, but obviously playing off the word “mutant”)

• And for their Marvel 1602 counterpart, Master Carlos Javier’s Institute takes the mottoe “Omnia mutantur, et nos mutamos con illis” (All things change, and we change with them).
• And of course the title of the story comes from the phrase ‘Quis custodiet ipsos custodes,’ or, who watches the watchmen?

• Watchmen: Per Dolorem Ad Astra, to the stars, through suffering.

• Carmine Falcone’s grave in Batman: Dark Victory bears the epitaph “Veni Vidi Vici,” or “I came, I saw, I conquered” (Chief O’Hara pronounces it “Vinny Veedee Vicky”).
• V For Vendetta, both book and movie: “Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici”, “By the power of truth I, while living, have conquered the universe”. From Faust, as told immediately afterwards, and quite an appropriate Latin Mottos for V.

Latin mottos is a phrase meant to motivation or intention.

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