History Main / SpeaksInShoutouts

* Played for drama in Creator/RebeccaSugar's short digital comic"Dont Cry For Me, I'm Already Dead". A pair of friends loved quoting ''Franchise/TheSimpsons'' to each other, up until one got into a fatal car accident. [[spoiler:While the boy was able to recover, he was effectively left unable to speak or move. The only time when he's able to make clear responses is when his friend quotes ''The Simpsons'' to him again, and he's able to weakly respond in kind.]]

* Played for drama in one comic. A pair of friends loved quoting ''Franchise/TheSimpsons'' to each other, up until one got into a fatal car accident. [[spoiler:While the boy was able to recover, he was effectively left unable to speak or move. The only time when he's able to make clear responses is when his friend quotes ''The Simpsons'' to him again, and he's able to weakly respond in kind.]]

* Succulentus from the ''WesternAnimation/OKKoLetsBeHeroes'' episode "Know Your Mom". Almost every line he says during a fight is a reference to a [[NuMetal Nu-Metal]] song, culminating with him chanting "bloom-cactus, bloomin' in the plaza" to tune of the scatting from "Freak on a Leash". To top it all of, he's voiced by [[Music/{{Korn}} Johnathan Davis]].

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII: Crisis Core'', Genesis constantly quotes the in-universe play ''Loveless''. Reactions to this vary between confusion, tolerance, and (especially in Sephiroth's case) exasperation.

* Clara's retarded cousin Bleh from ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' speaks only in reviews of the film ''Film/IAmSam''.

* Jeff from ComicBook/ScudTheDisposableAssassin is a patchwork monster who speaks only in quotes from movies, TV, commercials, songs, etc. Notably, while the comic's MediumAwareness has a "suggested voice cast" for mnost characters, Jeff has none, implying that it's actually reusing the audio from the original sources.

--> '''Gurney:''' 'I shall go unto the rebellious that dwell in the dry land.'\\
''(he leaves)''\\

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* Misogi Kumagawa from ''Manga/MedakaBox'' has this as his entire schtick, but it's played with. His character tic is that whenever he speaks, he does so with brackets, which in story is him quoting various different ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' manga. However, outside of a few blatant quotes, it's not clear which series he's actually invoking when he speaks. This is intentional on his part, as he speaks with their voices in order to invoke their coolness and badassery that he feels he himself lacks.

* ComicBook/BatWoman: Elizabeth “Beth” Kane/Alice/Red Alice is Kate Kane's identical twin sister, who was supposedly killed in a terrorist attack along with their mother. She resurfaced years later as Alice, the new High Madame of the Religion of Crime, before seemingly falling to her death. Until the very end of the Elegy arc, she spoke solely in quotes from Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland. Although she can speak in other ways, she still occasionally uses them.
* Other Franchise/{{Batman}} villains who indulge this trope include the Mad Hatter (who, like Red Alice, uses ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' quotes); the Scarecrow, who uses [[IronicNurseryTune nursery rhymes]]; and minor villain Humpty Dumpty, who also gets in on the nursery rhyme action. This is heavily [[DependingOnTheWriter dependent on who's writing them, though]]; in some cases, the Hatter and Scarecrow speak ''exclusively'' in quotes, while in others they're quite philosophical and have in-depth conversations (given that they're both [[EvilGenius extremely intelligent]], it's not hard to see why).

-->'''Wayne:''' Do you know the way to Santa Fe?\\

* In the 1989 film "The Dream Team", the character Albert is a mental patient who loves watching TV, particularly sports, and only communicates by mimicking what he's heard on television.

And if you follow there may\\
Be a tomorrow, but if\\
The offer's shunned,\\

* ''Series/KungFuTheLegendContinues'': In "Secret Place" the Perp Of The Week is a crazy man who speaks in the voices of various characters: Creator/JohnWayne, Music/{{Elvis|Presley}}, Scotty from ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'', ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}, Creator/JackNicholson, etc. But not Johnny Carson, at least not now, because he's not on any more. (The episode appeared in 1993, when that was a recent occurence.)

* In ''Stranded with a Billionaire'' by Jessica Clare, the heroine Bronte [[HurricaneOfAphorisms really loves quoting aphorisms by ancient philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, etc.)]]; the hero Logan [[CharmPoint finds this very attractive]].

* In ''Too, Too Solid Flesh'', one of the android actors undergoes a trauma leaving her able only to speak her lines from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}''.

* Nyarko from ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'', being a massive otaku, usually puts at least one anime or {{Toku}} quote into every sentence she utters. Her fellow aliens Cuko and Hasta aren't ''quite'' as bad, but they still get in their fair share.

* ComicBook/TheJoker in ''Comicbook/TheLongHalloween'' and ''Comicbook/DarkVictory''.