History Main / SesquipedalianLoquaciousness

--> "It is not necessary," he said, "that the principals here be in possession of the facts concerning their case, for their acts will ultimately accommodate history with or without their understanding. But it is consistent with notions of right principle that these facts—to the extent that they can be readily made to do so—should find a repository in the witness of some third party. Sergeant Aguilar is just such a party and any slight to his office is but a secondary consideration when compared to divergences in that larger protocol exacted by the formal agenda of an absolute destiny. Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning."[[labelnote:Translation]] “Those present do not need to know all the facts of their situation but it’s important that there is some third party, such as this Sergeant, who has all of the facts, even if he does not know the significance of the facts he has been given.”[[/labelnote]]

--> "It is not necessary," he said, "that the principals here be in possession of the facts concerning their case, for their acts will ultimately accommodate history with or without their understanding. But it is consistent with notions of right principle that these facts—to the extent that they can be readily made to do so—should find a repository in the witness of some third party. Sergeant Aguilar is just such a party and any slight to his office is but a secondary consideration when compared to divergences in that larger protocol exacted by the formal agenda of an absolute destiny. Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning."

** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Seven of Nine often addresses [[TagalongKid Naomi Wildman]] as "[[FullNameBasis Naomi Wildman]], [[IAmXSonOfY subunit]] of Ensign Samantha Wildman" instead of "daughter of..."

** ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': Seven of Nine often addresses [[TagalongKid Naomi Wildman]] as "[[FullNameBasis Naomi Wildman]], [[IAmXSonOfY subunit of Ensign Samantha Wildman" instead of "daughter of..."

* Data from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' occasionally did this, particularly when attempting humor or referring to an idiomatic expression. For Example: "I could be pursuing an untamed ornithoid without cause." (wild goose chase). It gets lampshaded in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'':
-->'''Data:''' Tell me. [[TechnoBabble Are you using a polymer-based neuro-relay to transmit the organic nerve impulses to the central processor in my positronic net? If that is the case, how have you solved the problem of increased signal degradation inherent to organosynthetic transmission across--]]\\

* Lampshaded on ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' when Science Officer Connolly of the ''Enterprise'' offers a complicated explanation for a phenomenon, Burnham offers a simpler analogy, and Pike expresses his preference for the latter.
-->'''Pike:''' Well put! Why didn't we think of that, Connolly? Huh? [[DeadpanSnarker Think of all the syllables that gave their lives...]]

* Massey Reinstein in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' uses this trope to intimidate [[HeroicComedicSociopath Schlock]] in one strip. [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080824.html It works]].

--->'''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}:''' H-how'd we get here? I mean, one minute we're checking out this giant whatchamacallit in Central Park, then *POOF* the Final Frontier!\\

'''[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]:''' That's obvious, Richards!\\

* In ''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'', Lex Luthor says he managed to travel through time with a portal "generated when acetylsalicylic acid is irradiated at a 108 megahertz frequency"... in other words, he "irradiated" some aspirin tablets with an FM radio. Presumably this is a playful nod to [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comics [[http://www.superdickery.com/time-travel-made-simple/ like this one]].

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers''

** Oswald Cobblepot, Edward Nygma and [[ComicBook/TheJoker Jeremiah Valeska]] all have moments of this, and sometimes get annoyed at their minions for not quite understanding them.

* Lear Dunham from ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints'' is guilty of this at times, especially in [[spoiler: the GrandFinale.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "[[https://powerpuffgirls.fandom.com/wiki/Mo%27_Linguish/Transcript Mo'Linguish]]", Mojo Jojo teaches the whole town to speak like he does. The simple, straightforward word is intentionally neglected in favor of over-eloquence. Example from the Mayor, calling about a bank robbery:

-->'''House:''' ...from the Latin word meaning "We're idiots because we can't figure out what's causing it".

* Both Creator/StephenieMeyer and her characters in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' love this trope. The books are filled to the brim with overly-complicated words when simpler words would work better, and she even uses some words wrongly.

* ''Film/{{Adam}}'' when he gets onto the topic of astronomy.

* This particular style has grown into a fad and been applied to WebAnimation/YouTubePoop sources. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vRG2Bb6DYw To]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yp5y4TDsM4 list]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-WVh_mXYSI a]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEBjMHABciM few...]]

* Perceptor, of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers''. It's particularly bad when your fellow robots, all of whom would likely have the whole of a given language in their databanks, ask you to say something "in [language], please". It probably doesn't help that he has a habit of going into details WHILE using complex words, to the point where Optimus tires of it in seconds.

** Oddly enough, Brainstorm, who was the actual [[TheSmartGuy smart guy]] of the team, spoke fairly commonly unless he actually needed the jargon.

'''Woman:''' Teo—-wha?\\

** Oswald Cobblepot, Edward Nygma and [[Comicbook/TheJoker Jeremiah Valeska]] all have moments of this, and sometimes get annoyed at their minions for not quite understanding them.

* Humorously played with in a ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' sketch featuring Bobby Lee as a high school wrestler wrestling a science geek played by...Wrestling/TripleH, speaking with big words and all, in a falsetto voice.

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* In ''WebComic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-08-02 2010-08-02]], a scientist creates an invention called the logogeneplex, which turns clear wording into this. Example: "We used a ruler" becomes "We utilized a linear distance analyzer."

* U.S. Vice-President UsefulNotes/JoeBiden is well known for this. During the 2008 Democratic primary, when asked at a debate whether he could be disciplined enough as president to restrain his tendency to run on at the mouth: "Yes."

* The Engineer in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' frequently switches between this (when he's explaining his constructs or means of defending himself) and a comparatively more simple way of speaking.
-->"Hey look, buddy, I'm an engineer, that means I solve problems. Not problems like 'What is beauty?' because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems. Fer instance: How am I gonna stop some big, mean [[GoshDangItToHeck mother-hubbard]] from tearing me a structurally superfluous new behind? The answer...use a gun. And if that don't work? Use '''more''' gun."
* Raziel from the ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' series is only the worst offender, but all characters are guilty, owing to the series' knack for Shakespearean speech and monologues. To the point that it's jarring and hilarious when Kain is finally so rattled by something that all he can manage is, "What in the hell?"
* The Gnomes as a whole from ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' tend to do this, best exemplified by some of their jokes and flirt emotes.
--> "[[Music/SirMixALot I like large posteriors, and I cannot prevaricate!]]"
--> "I don't feel the 1 to 10 scale is fine enough to capture subtle details of compatibility. I'd prefer a 12-dimensional compatibility scale with additional parameters for mechanical aptitude and torque."
** In ''Battle For Azeroth'', this even stretches to the ''ability names'' of a tribe of gorillas who have been feeding on kaja'mite; a mineral substance discovered by goblins that enhances intellect. The rank-and-file use an ability called ''Parabolic Excrement''[[note]]Hurling their crap at you[[/note]] while the tribe's leader - King Da'ka - often uses one called ''Locomotion Via Ballistic Trajectory''... which is just a copy of the Warrior's ''Heroic Leap''.
* One character encountered early in ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'' speaks like this, and uses it as evidence that he is more intelligent than everyone around him. If your own character has a high enough Intelligence score, you can insinuate (in a similarly roundabout, verbose way) that you think he does so to make up for a rather private "deficiency" on his part.

* Taken to ridiculous extremes in the fan-made ''VideoGame/{{Phylomortis}}'' [[GameMaker RPG Maker]] games where ''every single character'' spoke in nothing but big words... including children no older than six years old. Even the [[HeKnowsAboutTimedHits in-game tutorials]] abused this. That, coupled with their {{Nintendo Hard}}ness made the series inaccessible to all but the most dedicated gamers. The sole gimmick of the game was its ridiculous standard of vocabulary, however, so it's safe to say that its target audience (however small) was indeed captured. Not just the characters. Most of the menu commands and system dialogue, too. Most games would be content with ending a battle with "Victory!" or "You won the battle!" ''Phylomortis'' capped it off with "You mercilessly slew the obnoxious foe..."
* Sam of ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max]]'', a six-foot canine shamus, tends to express himself in this general manner. The manner tends to annoy his partner. Perhaps his most elegant wordsmithing takes place in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp94UERknaw promo]]. Sam occasionally demonstrates that he is SophisticatedAsHell.
-->"An episodic sociopathic lagomorph. The mind boggles."
* Valve's Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator (Gravity Gun) from ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', and Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device (Portal Gun) from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', as well as many of the utterances of the Genetic Lifeform and Disc Operating System from the latter title. The latter partially comes from the Aperture Science folk wanting to stick their name in front of everything (Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill, Aperture Science High-Energy Pellet, Aperture Science Vital Apparatus Vent, etc).
** Dr. Kleiner is likewise rather prone to communicating in this manner, especially when the nature of his audience makes it inappropriate.
--->'''Dr. Kleiner:''' For those so inclined, now would be an excellent time for procreation! Which is to say, in layman's terms, you should seriously consider doing your part for the revival of the species.\\
'''Alyx:''' Is Dr. Kleiner actually telling everyone to... get busy?
** Aperture Science in general ''loves'' this trope. Fifteen Hundred Megawatt Aperture Science Heavy Duty Super-Colliding Super Button anyone?
*** Aperture Science Aerial Faith Plate (a catapult)
*** Aperture Science Edgeless Safety Cube (a ball)

* Dmitri Petrovich and Stephanie Morgan from ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'' definitely fit this trope.

* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
** Luxord from makes his entrance declaring the Heartless boss he summons a "veritable maelstrom of avarice".
** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2'', he combines this trope with alliteration and a hefty amount of gambling-related puns.
** Every character whose consciousness derives (either fully or partially) from a Xehanort will inevitably resort to this, usually for the purpose of monologuing. Master Xehanort gets to deliver a particularly-sesquipedalian two-word insult - "Feckless neophyte" - though the rest of the Xehanort incarnations each have their own chance to try their hands at it.
* Due to her immensely dry dialogue, Shelke from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII: VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus'' has been classified as this by fanon.
* [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Ludger Brink]] does this in ''VideoGame/TheDig'' to distract an alien monster from eating colleague Maggie Robbins (to no real purpose, as it cannot possibly understand English in any form). In fact, it almost backfires, as the big words prove ''equally'' distracting to player-character Boston Low. When Brink urges Low to hurry up with the rescue, he just mutters, "I'm still trying to figure out what you said."
-->'''Brink:''' Come here, you phlegm-carapaced slime-faced mucus-brained furry-legged abductor of luminously intelligent but pulchritudinous Earth women!\\
'''Boston:''' ...\\
'''Brink:''' Low, you idiot! Why are you standing there?\\
(and later)\\
'''Brink:''' Come on, you ponderous exoskeleton, you cocoon-eating lobster-faced cave-dwelling arthropoidal alimentary sphincter muscle!

* In ''Franchise/FireEmblem 9'' and ''10'', Bastian is often known for this, and contrasted with Geoffery who often verbally plays TheStoic. Miriel from ''Awakening'' seems to fall into this category as well, often bringing up the amelioration and propitious growth of her stats; her son, Laurent, naturally follows suit.
* Ishi tends to do this in ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}''. His partner... doesn't.
-->'''Ishi:''' Shoot those tanks, the blast compression will create a--\\
'''Hunt:''' Shoot the tanks, that's all you gotta say! *BOOM*
* The Protoss from ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' have a habit of doing this sometimes, especially Judicator Aldaris.
* One TrueFinalBoss in ''VideoGame/{{Hellsinker}}'' was called "[[CrossesTheLineTwice Floccinaucinihilipilification]]". This is also one of Ranyon (The series creator) most distinct traits making translating his games very hard due to his obsession of details in the subject the text covers. This is often called "Ranyonese" by fans.
* Near the end of ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood'', when Guybrush asks De Singe what he's doing with the Vaycaylian Wind Control Device ([[spoiler:before attempting to toss [[MacGuffin La Esponja Grande]] into the device]]), De Singe replies, "You see, using my handbuilt Harpsichronitron, in conjunction with my Oscimoligrophiscope to seek out a resonant frequency with the Vaycaylian Climatiphone, I hope to anatomize living tissue on a macroscopic basis!" Guybrush, however, becomes clueless and can ask De Singe to repeat with the purposes of all this machinery, and De Singe can translate that he's using the piano device ("this machine") to make the Wind Control Device ("that machine") "smash people into a fine powder," which, of course, causes Guybrush to say, "[[AndThatsTerrible Hey, that's not very nice]]!"
** Also, in "Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay", Guybrush has another meaning to "You suck!":
--->'''Guybrush:''' My assessment of your cannon-operating skills, not to mention your personal appearance, odor and intelligence, is that you are unmistakably inferior in each of those criteria.
* Mr. Featherly, the Shakespearean-trained thespian rooster in ''[[VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max]]''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bookworm}}'', the whole point of the game is to get the player into this way of speaking so as to score higher. Lex the bookworm in ''VideoGame/BookwormAdventures'' often speaks like this; this is, in fact, the whole point of the game, as the longer words you spell, the more damage you inflict on your enemies. There's also the game's finale, where Lex [[spoiler:actually uses a slightly shorter version of one of the words mentioned in the trope description to deliver the final blow]]. See [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7i1VW_UK8Q here]] (major spoiler warning!).
%% * Miles "Tails" Prower from the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' series does this occasionally. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EOlByWtXiI#t=1m37s His most famous example.]]
* Yvonne Barnes from ''VideoGame/InThe1stDegree'' engages in this. Of course, she is working for the mayor and she is a witness in a murder trial. Her reputation and image are important to her as a result.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' brings us Beedle the shopkeeper. Talk to him in the day when he's doing his job, and he speaks like every other NPC out there. However, if talk to him at night, when he's not on duty, he suddenly talks in a highly affected accent and starts using words like "tenebrous." If you bring it up to him, he brushes you off.
* By the second ''VideoGame/FantasyQuest'' game, the narration turns into full-out parody, challenging you to "absquatulate with the Golden Cufflink of Fire"...
* Kei Nanjo of the original ''VideoGame/Persona1'' sometimes lapses into bouts of this.

* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' introduced [[QuintessentialBritishGentleman Sir Hammerlock]], a well-spoken [[GentlemanAdventurer explorer]] attempting to write an almanac on Pandora's flora and fauna.

* An email in one of the computer in ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' talks about the lack of chairs. [[SophisticatedAsHell And it ends with a line in speech manner contrasting the rest of the email.]]
--> ''In the meantime, please refrain from using expensive lab equipment as makeshift sitting apparatus. If you must insist on using a non-sanctioned sitting apparatus, please consider the tensile strength of materials present in the object in question in comparison to your own mass volumetric density.''
--> ''In other words, '''[[MoodWhiplash stop breaking shit with your fat asses]]'''.''
* Guile from ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' (almost) always speaks like this.
** The way he talks about finding a ferryman and a boat to get across the sea is rather wordy.
---> "What we need now is a seasoned sailor and a sturdy boat to cross the rough waters."
** His speech about [[SeekerArchetype his 'thirst' for enigmas]] gets pretty long-winded.
---> "At the manor, I have learned that the world is full of enigma not yet beheld. Mysteries without tricks. Something beyond human perception... That is what I seek... I will continue to accompany you on your journey, in hopes that I will come in contact with such undiscovered enigmas..."
* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'':
** Palutena dips into this while teasing Pit:
--->'''Palutena:''' The monster situation is quite clamant.\\
'''Pit:''' Is... that a good thing?\\
'''Palutena:''' You know. It's importunate, or unpropitious.\\
'''Pit:''' Are you still speaking English right now?\\
'''Palutena:''' I'm sorry Pit. I didn't mean to confuse you. Here, let me make this easy for you. Big monsters kill Pit! Grr!\\
'''Pit:''' Ah! That makes perfect sense! Thank you!
** And when Pit faces off against the Hewdraw head.
--->'''Palutena:''' Despite my winsomeness and equanimity, I do have a strong streak of rascality.\\
'''Pit:''' I don't even know what that means!
* At one point in ''Burger Shop'' the player character decides to take a cruise, only for the ship to hit what burger-making robot [=BurgerTron=] refers to as a "non-frontal synoptic scale low-pressure system over tropical waters with organized convection and definite cyclonic surface wind circulation." In other words, a rather big typhoon.
* Dr. Edward Roivas of ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' is a very eloquent speaker, which fits given that his narrations are a {{homage}} to Lovecraft. The Ancient Ulyaoth always has a vocabulary to match his grand size.
* Near the end of the first ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'' game, we get this:
-->'''Mega Man Juno:''' Therefore, as keeper of this island, I hereby exercise my Prerogative of Correctional Dispensation.\\
'''Mega Man Volnutt:''' Prerogative of Correctional... ''[[FlatWhat what]]''!?\\
'''Mega Man Juno:''' Allow me to rephrase; I will exercise my authority to ''terminate'' your program.
* Edwin Tevoran from ''VideoGame/WorldsEnd'' speaks like that on a regular basis.
* The [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct PopStation]] game ''Chanticleer Hegemony''. WebVideo/StuartAshen was disappointed to find out that the gameplay was really like.
* Tahm Kench from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' as part of his WickedCultured persona often speaks in such a manner, it also helps him word his offered [[DealWithTheDevil Deals with the Devil]] in such as a way as to always benefit him and help sate his endless hunger for souls.
* Arno from the ''VideoGame/LearningVoyage'' series talks in this way to show off how smart he is. For example, when he introduces himself, he says "My appellative is Arno."
* ''VideoGame/PulpAdventures'' has William Harper "Johnny" Littlejohn from the ''Doc Savage'' franchise (cf. Literature) as one of the (many) available player characters. His flavour text not only refers to the trope but one of his ability, "Voluminous Vocabulary" ''weaponizes'' this by confusing the enemies. The description of the ability is itself an example of the trope:
--> "Utilize your affection for circumlocution to leave your antagonists temporarily discombobulated."
%%* This trope is the primary character trait of Falerin from "VideoGame/AdventureQuest". It's gotten to the point where Falerin can't speak without simultaneously [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] and [[PlayingWithATrope double-subverting]] this trope.
* Marcus from ''VideoGame/NinjaPizzaGirl'' is absurdly well-spoken and loves bombastic turns of phrase. In a stroke of {{Irony}}, the story arc he's part of revolves around him becoming [[CannotSpitItOut lost for words]] whenever he tries to confess his feelings for Giselle. Gemma helps him forego what he himself calls "the vulgarity of speech" by making a GrandRomanticGesture instead.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': Urianger does it for even the most basic conversations. While he is indeed very intelligent and a useful source of exposition for the player, he seems to go out of his way to make every explanation he gives as long winded as possible due to his own flair for the dramatic. Several characters often remark that he is want to use ten words where one would suffice.
* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': The Ancestor's ghost is FUCKING ''verbose''. The worse something he narrates was, the more complex his commentary.
* [[GeniusBruiser Gale]] from ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' engages in this. He gets ''somewhat'' better as his CharacterDevelopment goes on, but he never drops it.
-->'''Gale:''' [[{{Catchphrase}} I do not comprehend.]]
* The Nomai in ''VideoGame/OuterWilds'' mostly spoke normally (according to your translator device) except when they use figures of speech, which get translated as this -- "bitten off a larger portion than I can consume", "pulling my locomotive limb", "on the other appendage" -- perhaps to suggest that the idioms they're using are foreign to the player character's species.
* Throughout the [[Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries Arkham games]], The Riddler constantly peppers his speech with five dollar words to show off how smart he is. This ends up backfiring on him in the Catwoman DLC in Knight since his security AI does not recognize most of his bigger words, forcing him to stop and explain them.

* Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} can be said as being infamous for this:

** Certain sciences have such an extensive jargon that has no synonyms that they cannot be properly explained in simple terms. Worse, some terms mean completely different things when used accurately than when used by laymen. As a result, sesquipedalian loquaciousness can sometimes be the only way of saying something because saying it "in simple English" makes it considerably ''[[YouKeepUsingThatWord less true]]''. To start with, remember that in the sciences "theory" means "well-tested hypothesis that is tentatively accepted as accurate" (for example gravity has worked the same way every time it's been tested, thus its behavior is a scientific theory). In common parlance it just means "guess".[[note]]It still means "guess" in the sciences, because there isn't any such thing as "100% accuracy".[[/note]] Meanwhile, "law" is a much ''weaker'' concept, not a stronger one, used to create models under specific conditions. For example, Newton's ''law'' of gravity is that objects are pulled toward each other with a force equal to [=GMm=]/R[[superscript:2]], and still holds for most purposes. His now-discredited ''theory'' of gravity is that this is a universal fact and that's all there is to it - since Einstein, there have been several competing ''theories'' of gravity, as well as several new laws for special cases, but Newton's law still basically holds.

One of the symptoms of SpockSpeak, but averted in a good PrivateEyeMonologue. Usually also a MotorMouth. [[SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish Goes well with British accents, too]]. Used frequently in SommelierSpeak. Often takes advantage of the fact that TalkingIsAFreeAction, and could be a case of AcousticLicense if the surroundings would make it difficult to hear clearly in the first place, much less understand the words. Can often lead to an ExpospeakGag. See also TechnoBabble, AntiquatedLinguistics, SophisticatedAsHell, and DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment. May result in CallingMeALogarithm. If someone tries for this and can't get the words right, they're perpetrating DelusionsOfEloquence. If the ''author'' commits this, see PurpleProse. The word {{Antidisestablishmentarianism}} is almost guaranteed to show up as well.

* An overly-complex vocabulary was the major character trait of William Harper "Johnny" Littlejohn in the ''Franchise/DocSavage'' novels. Throughout the series, Johnny was always careful to use regular words around Doc Savage, mainly because Doc would have understood everything he was saying so it wouldn't have been any fun. The other members of the team also suspected that he often used his big words incorrectly, and didn't want Doc to catch him at it. His tendency to use big words also bit him in the ass once. He was captured by a group of criminals, whose sadistic leader had no patience with Johnny's vocabulary. Johnny was warned that if he used a single big word while answering questions, he'd get the beating of a lifetime. Sure enough, Johnny forgets and uses a big word...and an absolutely ''brutal'' beatdown ensues.

** Music/AesopRock takes this UpToEleven and is perhaps the king of this trope in regards to hip hop. A data science [[https://pudding.cool/2017/02/vocabulary/index.html study]] showed that he has the largest vocabulary out of the sample of 85 hip hop artists. The study used the first 35,000 words of each artist, along with the first 35,000 words of Literature/MobyDick and works of Creator/WilliamShakespeare, and analyzed the unique words used. Aesop came out on top with a whopping ''7,392 unique words'', even beating Literature/MobyDick (6,022 unique words) and Shakespeare's works (5,170 unique words). He, [[Music/WuTangClan GZA]] (6,426 unique words in only his solo albums), and Music/KoolKeith (6,238 unique words) were the only three artists to top Literature/MobyDick.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': Urianger takes this and PurpleProse UpToEleven for even the most basic conversations. While he is indeed very intelligent and a useful source of exposition for the player, he seems to go out of his way to make every explanation he gives as long winded as possible due to his own flair for the dramatic. Several characters often remark that he is want to use ten words where one would suffice.

* Egon Spengler's penchant for this in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' and ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'' is turned UpToEleven from his movie counterpart.

** The Sixth Doctor took this to ridiculous lengths -- and in Pip and Jane Baker scripts, most ''other'' characters would start talking like this as well.