Klaatu barada nikto

The phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" originates from the 1951 Cold-War-era science fiction film The Day The Earth Stood Still. The phrase "Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!" was used to stop Gort, the robot in the film, from destroying the world.

There is no known translation for the phrase, although the word "Klaatu" refers to the name of the humanoid alien. One popular, though officially unconfirmed, translation has the word "barada" meaning "alive" and the word "nikto" meaning "not" (by comparison with the German nicht); thus, "Gort, Klaatu is not alive."

Ever since the term was originally used, the phrase continues to show up in popular culture.

• The words are seen in the 1982 film Tron, posted on a sign hanging in the hero's cubicle.
• In the 1983 film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, three of Jabba the Hutt's skiff guards are named Klaatu, Barada, and Nikto.
• In the 1984 computer game Robot Odyssey this phrase appears upon solving one of the puzzles, that disables a sentry robot.
• In the 1986 movie Chopping Mall one of the teenagers uses this phrase when queried by the security robot for his id.
• In the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind there is a high-level shot of an area subdivided into the offices of various people working on contacting alien beings. The phrase appears on a large banner pinned to one of the office walls.
• In the episode Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series, a family of three aliens encountered by Donatello and Rocksteady are named Klaatu, Barada and Nikto. Klaatu is the father, Barada is the mother and Nikto is the little boy. In this version, Klaatu, Barada and Nikto come from a planet orbiting the star Antares.
• In the 1992 film Toys, the character Leland Zevo speaks the phrase to stop a rampaging robotic sea creature.
• In the 1993 film Army of Darkness, the third installment of the Evil Dead trilogy, Ash has to speak similar words in order to retrieve the Necronomicon. He fails to remember it properly ("Klaatu... verada... necktie?") and thus awakens a horde of malicious Deadites.
• In the Microprose game Grand Prix 2, the phrase appears in a Globo TV billboard, in the Interlagos circuit
• In the SNES video game Lost Vikings 2, variants of the phrase were used (such as "Klatu, Veratu... Howriyucan!") as teleport spells at the end of a series of levels; like the misspoken version in Army of Darkness, they do not work quite as desired, though the correct version is eventually remembered.
• In the Sci-fi series Farscape episode "I Shrink Therefore I Am", John Crichton mocks the alien bounty hunters that invaded Moya by repeating the phrase - which of course makes no sense whatsoever to them.

• In the 2004 videogame Spider-man 2, Mysterio says these words in the burning theatre scene.
• In the 2004 short film Bjam Man vs The World the phrase is written on the classroom wall.
• Jimmy says it as a magic spell in the episode of Jimmy Neutron where a big shot producer comes to Retroville and makes a movie with Jimmy and his friends.
• In Issue 2 of the Marvel Comics mini-series, Ultimate Secret, Captain Marvel, a member of the Kree alien race, is asked by Nick Fury why his race stays off-world. Captain Marvel sarcastically answers that his kind "are frightened of you savage humans and your atomic bombs. Klaatu barada nikto."
• In 1991, cEvin Key and Dwayne Goettel, members of the influential industrial band Skinny Puppy, released an album named The Infidel under their Doubting Thomas side-project. The final track, "Come In Piece", contains samples from the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still. Among the samples is one taken from the scene where "klaatu barada nikto" is first spoken.
• In the card game Star Munchkin, there is a card called Klaatu Baruda Nectie which enables you to use as many armors as you like at the same time. This may, however, be a direct reference to the allusion in Army of Darkness (see above).
• In another episode of the cartoon Jimmy Neutron, Jimmy travels back in time to meet his hip 70's parents. Jimmy's friend, Carl Wheezer, says the phrase as soon as they encounter Jimmy's parents.
• The words Klaatu, Barada, and Nikto are used as spell incantations in the game Sacrifice by Shiny Entertainment.
• In the 2003 DC Comics mini-series Formerly Known As the Justice League, the Elongated Man says the words "Klaatu barada nikto" in an attempt to communicate with and/or disarm robotic sentries stationed outside of the Super Buddies headquarters.
• In the 1998 video game Duke Nukem: Time to Kill, Duke utters the phrase after reading from a book. Given that the Duke Nukem series borrows heavily from Evil Dead films, this is likely a reference to those.
• In 1999 the sentence was used in episode 37 of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show. In this episode, Diane Szalinski goes through a mid-life crisis. At a museum, a druid gives her the spell and promises her eternal life. When she uses it, she awakens an evil princess, the druid's mummy lover.
• In the naval adventure Killegrew and the Incorrigibles, on p. 383 of the softbound version published by Headline Books, 2002, author Jonathan Lunn has one of the resident cannibals on a South Sea island utter the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto!" to order one of his guests be prepared for dinner.
• In the Rocko's Modern Life episode, "The High Five of Doom," Heffer says the phrase to Philbert, whom he suspects to be an evil alien, and explains to a confused Rocko that "It's alien language. I saw it in a sci-fi movie."
• In the 1983 play, The Foreigner, by Larry Shue, Charlie speaks the phrase when talking about editing a sci fi magazine.
• In two episodes of Darkwing Duck (Battle of the Brainteasers and The Revenge of the Return of the Brainteasers, Too), the villains are mind-controlling aliens from the planet Fez who resemble hats. Their leader is named Flarg, but his two lackies are named Barada and Nikto. Klaatu2 appears briefly as a leader of the "Gurlest Revolutionaries" who arrives to arrest Flarg and his minions.
• In an episode of The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (1986), Klaatu Nikto Barada is a greeting used by the freedom fighters of Wolcab.