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* ''VideoGame/{{Alekon}}'': One of the fictions, Kuki Bird, appears to speak in this fashion.
* Straga the gigantic demon (ostensibly made out of stone) from ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}''.
* Gust from ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' talks like this at times. However, she's actually quite smart and business-savvy, so it's mostly to make her act cutesy. It's toned down in [[VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaMk2 the second game]], where it's also explained that this trope is being invoked because she's a foreigner.
* Similarly, Russell from the video game ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'' starts out as a thug who only communicates in Hulk Speak, but after Jimmy impresses him by besting him in a one-on-one fight, he becomes both an ally and more coherent.
* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' features the bandit boss Sledge, a very large, slow fellow who refers to himself in the third person.
** The Goliaths from ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' also speak like this. Oddly enough, if you knock their helmets off and [[TurnsRed make them go berserk]], they become ''more'' articulate.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' features the Ronso, a bipedal leonoid race who always refer to themselves by name and tend to speak in simple sentences.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' has Fujin, one of Seifer's flunkies, who speaks in single words and ALL CAPS (single kanji in the Japanese version). When she and fellow flunky Raijin (who ends all his sentences with [[VerbalTic "ya know?"]]) decide to ditch Seifer, she gives a long non-capped speech about how they can't follow along with his self-destructive behavior.
** Her single word sentences carry over to her portrayal in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. She at least doesn't shout her words.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' had Guy, who speaks this way in both English and Japanese, and fellow WildChild Gau from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''. They both had the excuse of being raised by wild animals.
* Many characters in the ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' series, such as Gruntilda's assistant Klungo, Clanker the mechanical whale, and Mumbo.

* Gar from ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' is supposedly a "smart orc" who discusses some rather complex topics for an orc, all in Hulk speak. It is revealed however that [[spoiler:Gar is actually a human (called Garfield Thelonius Remington III) from wealthy heritage who was born with a horrid similarity to an Orc, and is far more intellectual than he seems; specially if you discuss tea with him.]]
** Your own character adopts this trope with an intelligence stat of 4 or less, even in your written journal entries, e.g. "Law man wants me get rid of stinky thiefses on bridge".
* The cavewoman Ayla ([[Literature/ClanOfTheCaveBear Get it?...]]) from the Squaresoft RPG ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger,'' at least in the English text American version. In the Japanese version, she speaks in very simple sentences with plain-form verbs.
* Ditto Yeto and Yeta, from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''.
* Almost every Super Mutant in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' speaks that way. And if you play a character with less than INT 4, he/she will, too. Amusingly enough, if a "Hulk" protagonist talks to another functionally impaired character (Torr in Klamath), their speech is subtitled. Example: "Me Torr. (Greetings, my name is Torr. How do you do?)" "You Torr. (Quite well, thank you. Do you know where I might find work?)"
** Fawkes in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' is a notable exception / subversion -- he speaks in the same grunt-like fashion as the other Vault 87-variant super-mutants, but because he is intelligent and has managed to become well-read he is actually quite articulate. Uncle Leo, for some reason, is also intelligent and peaceful. He did say he read a book a long time ago but this may be before his transformation.

** The Swampfolk in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}: Point Lookout'' also speak this way, due to being mutant inbred [[HillbillyHorrors hicks]].
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' has a Super Mutant follower named "Strong" who's a NORMAL Super Mutant, whose principal interests are violence and... more violence. He Hulk-Speaks relentlessly.

* ''[[VideoGame/BattalionWars Battalion Wars 2]]'': Ubel.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' series has (most) Ogres and Kobolds speak in this manner, and it is the TropeNamer for YouNoTakeCandle to boot. It's particularly hilarious with some ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' bosses, since -- unlike regular enemies -- they get voices as well as text.
-->'''Patchwerk:''' Patchwerk [[AndCallHimGeorge want to play]].

* Most orcs in ''[[VideoGame/MightAndMagic Might & Magic X: Legacy]]'' talk like this, including the ones in your party, if you have any. (Maximus, the garrison in Sorpigal, is surprisingly articulate; in fact, he says that's the reason the other orcs in his village kicked him out.)

* In ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'', Wei Yan talks... like... this.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has LOTA ([[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] for "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Longshoreman of the Apocalypse]]"); LOTA is a robot designed to unload cargo at high speed, made from an old anti-grav tank and an overengineered, but underdebugged AI. When asked which gender pronouns to use, LOTA replied "[[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-07-24 LOTA is too large for your puny pronouns.]]" Thus, LOTA is only referred to as "[[ThirdPersonPerson LOTA]]", never "he", "she", "it", or even "you". Other than the issue with puny pronouns, puny grunts and puny mob, however, LOTA speaks normally. LOTA is willing to make [[PetTheDog one exception]]: [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-12-07 when pronouns such as "we" and "us"]] are used to include LOTA among [[TrueCompanions a group of friends.]] LOTA admits that LOTA's usual alternative [[EveryoneHasStandards would be less honorable and less majestic.]]

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has LOTA ([[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] for "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Longshoreman of the Apocalypse]]"); Lota is a robot designed to unload cargo at high speed, made from an old anti-grav tank and an overengineered, but underdebugged AI. When asked which gender pronouns to use, Lota replied "[[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-07-24 Lota is too large for your puny pronouns.]]" Thus, Lota is only referred to as "[[ThirdPersonPerson Lota]]", never "he", "she", "it", or even "you". Other than the issue with puny pronouns, puny grunts and puny mob, however, LOTA speaks normally. LOTA is willing to make [[PetTheDog one exception]]: [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2019-12-07 when pronouns such as "we" and "us"]] are used to include LOTA among [[TrueCompanions a group of friends.]] LOTA admits that LOTA's usual alternative [[EveryoneHasStandards would be less honorable and less majestic.]]

* The movie version of ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'' usually speaks this way. (The [[Literature/{{Tarzan}} original literary version]], after rescuing French officer Paul D'Arnot, eventually learned to speak English, French, Dutch, Finnish, Swahili, Arabic, many Bantu languages and more.)

* The movie version of ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'' usually speaks this way. (The [[Literature/{{Tarzan}} original literary version]], after meeting other [[MightyWhitey white men]] for the first time, eventually learned to speak at least three human languages fluently, and possibly more.)

* Grossout from ''ComicBook/ScareTacticsDCComics'' talked somewhat like this. He didn't refer to himself in the third person, but he did use the shortest words possible and left out bridging words. This was in large part thanks to his stutter.

* In ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'', Wei Yan talks...like...this.

* The english dubbed version of ''Manga/OnePiece'' has Zoro in this role when the Straw Hat Pirates are attempting to get into Enies Lobby over a fence...on a train. He even uses the trope namers {{catchphrase}}.

* ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, [[TropeNamers for whom this trope is named]], but only the animated version and the "savage" version from the comics. In the movies, Hulk only [[ScreamingWarrior roars]], with a single line in the first three ([[{{Film/Hulk}} 2003 movie version]] has him saying "'''[[MythologyGag Puny human]]'''" in Bruce Banner's dream sequence; [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008 in the 2008 movie]], Hulk said "'''[[HulkSmash HULK... SMASH]]'''!" during the final fight scene with Abomination -- [[CatchPhrase because it had to be said at least once]] -- and in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', given Comicbook/{{Loki}} [[AGodAmI called himself a god]] [[MetronomicManMashing before being beaten]], Hulk walks away saying "[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Puny God...]]"). For the most part, however, he speaks correct, [[TerseTalker if terse]], English. In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' he finally starts talking extensively in classic Hulk speak.

* In ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', when Violet transforms into Shrinking Violent, her only comment is "ME HIT STUFF!" (a ShoutOut to another well-known CatchPhrase).

Prepositions, indefinite, and definite articles are almost completely stripped out; although given how redundant these usually are, (particularly the latter) in many cases the effect makes Hulk Speak easier to understand than plain English, at least when only a single subject is being discussed. In this sense, Hulk Speak could be considered a literal English translation of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language Klingon language,]] which as you might expect, uses a very similar structure.

* Music/JonathanCoulton's "Code Monkey" does this throughout the whole song.

* Grossout from ''ComicBook/ScareTactics'' talked somewhat like this. He didn't refer to himself in the third person, but he did use the shortest words possible and left out bridging words. This was in large part thanks to his stutter.

* ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, for whom this trope is named, but only the animated version and the "savage" version from the comics. In the movies, Hulk only [[ScreamingWarrior roars]], with a single line in the first three ([[{{Film/Hulk}} 2003 movie version]] has him saying "'''[[MythologyGag Puny human]]'''" in Bruce Banner's dream sequence; [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008 in the 2008 movie]], Hulk said "'''[[HulkSmash HULK... SMASH]]'''!" during the final fight scene with Abomination -- [[CatchPhrase because it had to be said at least once]] -- and in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', given Comicbook/{{Loki}} [[AGodAmI called himself a god]] [[MetronomicManMashing before being beaten]], Hulk walks away saying "[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Puny God...]]"). For the most part, however, he speaks correct, [[TerseTalker if terse]], English. In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' he finally starts talking extensively in classic Hulk speak.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has LOTA ([[FunWithAcronyms acronym]] for "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Longshoreman of the Apocalypse]]"); Lota is a robot designed to unload cargo at high speed, made from an old anti-grav tank and an overengineered, but underdebugged AI. When asked which gender pronouns to use, Lota replied "[[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-07-24 Lota is too large for your puny pronouns.]]" Thus, Lota is only referred to as "[[ThirdPersonPerson Lota]]", never "he", "she", "it", or even "you". Other than the issue with puny pronouns, puny grunts and puny mob, however, LOTA speaks normally.

There is also a version sometimes seen in Japanese works (albeit not quite as often as in those written in English), where a character (usually a FunnyForeigner or RaisedByWolves type) is shown to speak in a somewhat broken fashion. Although still retaining the use of [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns pronouns]], they will often miss words used to bridge sentences and come off as simple or uneducated. English translations have a tendency to render this "broken Japanese" as out and out Hulk Speak.

* The ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' fandom tends to give the Heavy Weapons Guy Hulk Speak in fanfiction; in the official video his [[{{Lzherusskie}} English isn't very good]] but it's nowhere near this level.
** The Russian-language version of his Meet The Team video, meanwhile, reveals that he speaks perfectly fluently in his native tongue.
*** This actually makes ''perfect'' sense because in the Russian language, there are no articles (words like "a", "an", & "the") ''at all'', so for a native speaker of Russian trying to learn English, this would probably not be so unusual. Imagine if you're trying to learn a foreign language which has a whole category of words that do not even '''exist''' in your native language, and trying to learn when they're used, and when ''which ones'' are used.

--> '''Frost Man (''8'')''': Crush! I! You! Defeat!
--> '''Frost Man (''& Bass'')''': I! You! Defeat!

* The guardian of the sigil of Earth in ''Myth Match'' combined this with an odd sort of ellipsis, resulting in utterances like "Shiny... rock... mine!" and "Smash... Chosen... One!"

* ''Series/{{Ghosts}}'': One of the ghosts in Button House, Robin, is a Neanderthal who died before humans evolved proper speech production centres in their brains; while he's 'existed' long enough to develop a fairly impressive intellect and even learn some English, he has immense trouble articulating himself.

* Employed by the man himself in [[http://www.cinemabums.com/?p=348 this]] ''Webcomic/CinemaBums'' strip.
* ''Webcomic/{{Gronk}}'': Gronk spoke like this in [[http://www.gronkcomic.com/2010/05/05142010/ the third strip]]. It was dropped from then on.

* The [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080125 Clutter Monster]] in a number of January 2008 ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' strips.
* Thomas, from ''Webcomic/UGMadness''.

* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=1195 Smashy Smash!]]
* In ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', when Violet transforms into [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/1895761/violets-in-the-workplace/ Shrinking Violent]], her only comment is "ME HIT STUFF!" (a ShoutOut to another well-known CatchPhrase).

* The [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0156.html S&M Minotaur]] from ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', who was a MonsterOfTheWeek for Julie's group.
* In ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'', the cameo [[http://rustyandco.com/comic/2/ Robespierre smash!]]

* One-shot character Droid 06 in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3577 expressed his feelings to his support group.]]

The trope's name is derived from the speech pattern of ''[[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel's]]'' '''[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]]'''.

* The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, for whom this trope is named, but only the animated version and the "savage" version from the comics. In the movies, Hulk only [[ScreamingWarrior roars]], with a single line in the first three ([[{{Film/Hulk}} 2003 movie version]] has him saying "'''[[MythologyGag Puny human]]'''" in Bruce Banner's dream sequence; [[Film/TheIncredibleHulk in the 2008 movie]], Hulk said "'''[[HulkSmash HULK... SMASH]]'''!" during the final fight scene with Abomination -- [[CatchPhrase because it had to be said at least once]] -- and in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', given Comicbook/{{Loki}} [[AGodAmI called himself a god]] [[MetronomicManMashing before being beaten]], Hulk walks away saying "[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Puny God...]]"). For the most part, however, he speaks correct, [[TerseTalker if terse]], English. In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'' he finally starts talking extensively in classic Hulk speak.

** The Bixby/Ferrigno ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'' TV series from the 1970s likewise averts this trope. Creator/LouFerrigno mostly stands there while he flexes, and Ted Cassidy provides voice-over growls.

They substitute "Me" for "I", or else refer to themselves in {{third person|Person}}. They put special emphasis on nouns and verbs, and most extra parts of the sentence are lost. If any name is too long, it gets substituted with a cruder name/description (often "[[SomethingPerson (Descriptive adjective)-man]] or -lady"). They also skip any and all articles ("a," "an," and "the"). Favored words include "Smash", "Puny", and "Blank-thing" (e.g. '''"HULK SMASH PUNY LIZARD THING!"''' when fighting a velociraptor). Yes, the all-caps is necessary. The primary differences between Hulk speak and BabyTalk are usually at least six feet and 300 pounds.[[note]]No, BabyTalk has nothing to do with [[JustForPun octopi that recently won a lottery in Europe.]][[/note]]

* [[Series/SesameStreet The Cookie Monster]].

Contrast with GeniusBruiser and SpockSpeak: the former is when a big tough guy is highly intelligent, the latter is when someone speaks with an excessively stiff, formal language. The Genius Bruiser will sometimes use Hulk Speak to [[ObfuscatingStupidity hide his intelligence]]. YouNoTakeCandle is when a foreign character, usually as a result of [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue poor grasp of English]], speaks like this. When trying to describe more complicated concepts, will often overlap with BuffySpeak. Compare PokemonSpeak where the only thing a character says is his or her name.

* Frost Man does this in ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'' during his intro as one of his pre-battle taunts and his ''VideoGame/MegaManAndBass'' CD Data:
--> '''Frost Man (''Mega Man 8'')''': Crush! I! You! Defeat!
--> '''Frost Man (''Mega Man & Bass'')''': I! You! Defeat!

* All over the place in ''Fanfic/TheUnfantasticAdventuresOfBizarroNo1'', since the whole story happens in [[BizarroUniverse Bizarro race's homeworld Htrae]], and it's narrated by SelfDemonstrating/{{Bizarro}} himself.

There is also a version sometimes seen in Japanese works (albeit not quite as often as in those written in English), where a character (usually a FunnyForeigner or RaisedByWolves type) is shown to speak in a somewhat broken fashion. Although still retaining the use of [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns pronouns]], they will often miss words used to bridge sentences and come off as simple or uneducated. English translations (particularly those written by Trish Ledoux), have a tendency to render this "broken Japanese" as out and out Hulk Speak.

** Writing Hulk-related [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/jun/13/actionandadventure.sciencefictionandfantasy reviews]] or [[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-incredible-hulk-hands-on/1100-6191122/ previews]] as if the hero did them occurs at times -- and is mostly hilarious. You can also check out how it looks when [[SelfDemonstrating/IncredibleHulk Hulk wrote his own article in this very wiki]].