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* ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' has to be one of the kings of this trope: from defining "mulch" at every opportunity (or just randomly defining it for no reason at all) for five years straight, the titular character's ridiculous exclamations ("Hah! You take me for the fool I am!" "As any fool can plainly see."/"I can plainly see that!", "Groo does what Groo does best!", "Did I err?", etc.), ships sinking the instant Groo gets anywhere near them (unless his dog is with him), the name of the Sage's dog, Groo getting chased out of the city by every single person ''in'' the city, Drumm continually wanting to know "What pirates?" (and, later, alternating that with "You never bought ''me'' a house..."), Groo's dog never quite realizing how stupid Groo actually is, Captain Ahax going insane every time he's exposed to Groo (since the latter has a habit of continually sinking the ships under the former's command), "Must be stupid."/"Must be Groo."... and that's not even touching the 25 years worth of running gags in the letter columns.
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* ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' has to be one of the kings of this trope: from defining trope:
** Defining "mulch" at every opportunity (or just randomly defining it for no reason atall) for five years straight, all). It even turns out to be the titular character's name of the Sage's dog.
** Groo's [[CatchPhrase ridiculousexclamations ("Hah! exclamations]]:
*** "Hah! You take me for the fool Iam!" am!"
*** Whenever someone uses the phrase "As any fool can plainlysee."/"I see...", Groo will inevitably respond "I can plainly see that!", that!"
*** "Groo does what Groo doesbest!", best!"
*** "Did Ierr?", etc.), ships err?"
*** Whenever prompted to remember or not forget something, or sometimes just when he's got nothing to add to a conversation, Groo responds with [[CallBack "I am the Prince of Chichester!"]]
** Ships sinking the instant Groo gets anywhere near them (unless his dog is withhim), the name of the Sage's dog, him).
** Groo getting chased out of the city by every single person ''in'' thecity, city.
** Drumm continually wanting to know [[ContinuityNod "Whatpirates?" pirates?"]] (and, later, alternating that with "You never bought ''me'' a house..."), ")
** Groo's dog never quite realizing how stupid Groo actuallyis, is.
** Captain Ahax going insane every time he's exposed to Groo (since the latter has a habit of continually sinking the ships under the former'scommand), command).
** "Must be stupid."/"Must be Groo."... "
** Someone calling Groo "slow of mind", andthat's him responding [[LateToTheRealization many, many pages later]] [[IResembleThatRemark "What did they mean by 'slow of mind'?"]]
** That's not even touching the 25 years worth of running gags in the letter columns.
** Defining "mulch" at every opportunity (or just randomly defining it for no reason at
** Groo's [[CatchPhrase ridiculous
*** "Hah! You take me for the fool I
*** Whenever someone uses the phrase "As any fool can plainly
*** "Groo does what Groo does
*** "Did I
*** Whenever prompted to remember or not forget something, or sometimes just when he's got nothing to add to a conversation, Groo responds with [[CallBack "I am the Prince of Chichester!"]]
** Ships sinking the instant Groo gets anywhere near them (unless his dog is with
** Groo getting chased out of the city by every single person ''in'' the
** Drumm continually wanting to know [[ContinuityNod "What
** Groo's dog never quite realizing how stupid Groo actually
** Captain Ahax going insane every time he's exposed to Groo (since the latter has a habit of continually sinking the ships under the former's
** "Must be stupid."/"Must be Groo.
** Someone calling Groo "slow of mind", and
** That's not even touching the 25 years worth of running gags in the letter columns.
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** Also, whenever prompted to remember or not forget something, or sometimes just when he's got nothing to add to a conversation, Groo responds with "I am the Prince of Chichester!".
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* ''ComicBook/{{Agent 327}}'': [=IJzerbroot=] arriving at this office at the start of each album in a disguise, then complaining ''What a secret agent has to do nowadays to get to his office incognito.''
* ''ComicBook/AmericaVsTheJusticeSociety'': At least three times in Wonder Woman's retelling of Per Degaton's exploits, whenever he is made to forget those events, he ends up talking to Professor Zee about having dreams of being the ruler of the world, and Professor Zee responds by telling him to clean up his test tubes.
* ''ComicBook/AmericaVsTheJusticeSociety'': At least three times in Wonder Woman's retelling of Per Degaton's exploits, whenever he is made to forget those events, he ends up talking to Professor Zee about having dreams of being the ruler of the world, and Professor Zee responds by telling him to clean up his test tubes.
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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spider-Man's reaction to whenever clones are brought up.
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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spider-Man's reaction ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''
** The hapless pirates get sunk [[OnceAnEpisode once every issue]]. Sometimes twice. In one book, they give up the pirate life towhenever clones are brought up.open a (boat-shaped) restaurant. It gets trashed.
*** And every sinking is drawn to resemble, in some way, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]'', a famous painting by Théodore Géricault.
** Caesar's tendency to refer to himself in the third person. This was a reference to Caesar's Commentaries on the Civil War and the War in Gaul, where he constantly refers to himself in the third person, to the point that the reader can lose sight of the fact that Caesar isn't writing history but self-justifying propaganda.
** Cacofonix, about to sing an ode for the occasion, being violently silenced by Fulliautomatix, or BoundAndGagged against a tree if it's time for the [[EveryEpisodeEnding big feast at the end of the adventure]].
** Obelix's constant attempt to get a taste of the magic potion.
** Obelix' denial he's obese.
** Vitalstatistix falling off his shield.
** Asterix is of "undeterminate age".
** The hapless pirates get sunk [[OnceAnEpisode once every issue]]. Sometimes twice. In one book, they give up the pirate life to
*** And every sinking is drawn to resemble, in some way, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]'', a famous painting by Théodore Géricault.
** Caesar's tendency to refer to himself in the third person. This was a reference to Caesar's Commentaries on the Civil War and the War in Gaul, where he constantly refers to himself in the third person, to the point that the reader can lose sight of the fact that Caesar isn't writing history but self-justifying propaganda.
** Cacofonix, about to sing an ode for the occasion, being violently silenced by Fulliautomatix, or BoundAndGagged against a tree if it's time for the [[EveryEpisodeEnding big feast at the end of the adventure]].
** Obelix's constant attempt to get a taste of the magic potion.
** Obelix' denial he's obese.
** Vitalstatistix falling off his shield.
** Asterix is of "undeterminate age".
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** Every time someone meets him for the first time, they inevitably comment that they thought he'd be taller.
** This even extends to other members of the Batfamily, such as [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] (who, to be fair, is a good 4 inches shorter than Bruce, so it's obvious when he's dressed as Batman that he's shorter than the original guy) and Tim Drake (it's mentioned in ''Young Justice'').
** ComicBook/RedRobin is often mistaken and compared with Dr. Midnight due to the original costume's red vest and cowl looking similar to that of the older hero. Tim gets fairly exasperated when his even his friends like [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie]] get in on it.
** ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'': Dick Grayson (age 12) has his own running gag. Guess which part of Dick Grayson (age 12) is the gag.
** The St Patrick's Day issue of ''Webcomic/LilGotham'' has its own running gag: Batman has a busy day rounding up villains and hauling them off to jail in the back seat of the Batmobile, and every one of them remarks that they hadn't realised the Batmobile even ''had'' a back seat.
** Every time someone meets him for the first time, they inevitably comment that they thought he'd be taller.
** This even extends to other members of the Batfamily, such as [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] (who, to be fair, is a good 4 inches shorter than Bruce, so it's obvious when he's dressed as Batman that he's shorter than the original guy) and Tim Drake (it's mentioned in ''Young Justice'').
** ComicBook/RedRobin is often mistaken and compared with Dr. Midnight due to the original costume's red vest and cowl looking similar to that of the older hero. Tim gets fairly exasperated when his even his friends like [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie]] get in on it.
** ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'': Dick Grayson (age 12) has his own running gag. Guess which part of Dick Grayson (age 12) is the gag.
** The St Patrick's Day issue of ''Webcomic/LilGotham'' has its own running gag: Batman has a busy day rounding up villains and hauling them off to jail in the back seat of the Batmobile, and every one of them remarks that they hadn't realised the Batmobile even ''had'' a back seat.
* ''ComicBook/BenoitBrisefer'': Benoit doing something to help others, but not realizing his own strength actually makes things worse, so he exclaims: ''Oh dear, what have I done now?''
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* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** In the miniseries ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', the titular heroine often imagines her relatives trying to get rid of her by tying her to a rocket and blasting her off into space.
--->'''Supergirl:''' Why are people always launching me into space?!!
** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the titular Bizarro character being knocked across the city and losing one boot in the process. The second time it happens, she screams: "Not Agaaaaaiiinnnn!"
* In any Creator/{{Marvel}} comic with a Silver Age-esque character origin, you ''will'' hear the words [[InsistentTerminology mild-mannered]] to describe the main character. One ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' story had [[ComicBook/HumanTorch Johnny Storm]] teleported to an AlternateUniverse where mild-mannered scientist [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Victor Von Doom]] became [[GoodCounterpart Doc Iron]] to combat the [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Frightful Four]].
* ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'':
** Whenever [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] would [[CaptainObvious state the obvious]], another character would say, "Obviously you've been trained by the world's greatest detective." Even Batman got one in once.
** Superboy's [[InsistentTerminology tactile telekinesis]] being mocked by other characters.
* ''ComicBook/NikolaiDante'' encounters a seemingly unlimited supply of the Arbatov family; each of whom announce their intention to avenge the death of the previous Arbatov at the hands of Nikolai. Invariably they are themselves promptly despatched, to be avenged by later Arbatovs.
* ''ComicBook/GreenLanternTheLostArmy'': Since Guy is wearing a green and a red ring in this miniseries Stewart starts calling him a Christmas Lantern, which the other Lanterns take up despite not being familiar with the holiday or that those colors are usually used in decorations for it.
* ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' has to be one of the kings of this trope: from defining "mulch" at every opportunity (or just randomly defining it for no reason at all) for five years straight, the titular character's ridiculous exclamations ("Hah! You take me for the fool I am!" "As any fool can plainly see."/"I can plainly see that!", "Groo does what Groo does best!", "Did I err?", etc.), ships sinking the instant Groo gets anywhere near them (unless his dog is with him), the name of the Sage's dog, Groo getting chased out of the city by every single person ''in'' the city, Drumm continually wanting to know "What pirates?" (and, later, alternating that with "You never bought ''me'' a house..."), Groo's dog never quite realizing how stupid Groo actually is, Captain Ahax going insane every time he's exposed to Groo (since the latter has a habit of continually sinking the ships under the former's command), "Must be stupid."/"Must be Groo."... and that's not even touching the 25 years worth of running gags in the letter columns.
** Every issue also had a [[spoiler: hidden message]].
** Also, whenever prompted to remember or not forget something, or sometimes just when he's got nothing to add to a conversation, Groo responds with "I am the Prince of Chichester!".
* Even ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' gets one in: Rorschach repeatedly [[OpenSaysMe breaking]] Nite Owl II's door. Which becomes important later as it gives them more time when [[spoiler:the police are trying to break down Dan's front door]].
** In the miniseries ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', the titular heroine often imagines her relatives trying to get rid of her by tying her to a rocket and blasting her off into space.
--->'''Supergirl:''' Why are people always launching me into space?!!
** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the titular Bizarro character being knocked across the city and losing one boot in the process. The second time it happens, she screams: "Not Agaaaaaiiinnnn!"
* In any Creator/{{Marvel}} comic with a Silver Age-esque character origin, you ''will'' hear the words [[InsistentTerminology mild-mannered]] to describe the main character. One ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' story had [[ComicBook/HumanTorch Johnny Storm]] teleported to an AlternateUniverse where mild-mannered scientist [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Victor Von Doom]] became [[GoodCounterpart Doc Iron]] to combat the [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Frightful Four]].
* ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'':
** Whenever [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] would [[CaptainObvious state the obvious]], another character would say, "Obviously you've been trained by the world's greatest detective." Even Batman got one in once.
** Superboy's [[InsistentTerminology tactile telekinesis]] being mocked by other characters.
* ''ComicBook/NikolaiDante'' encounters a seemingly unlimited supply of the Arbatov family; each of whom announce their intention to avenge the death of the previous Arbatov at the hands of Nikolai. Invariably they are themselves promptly despatched, to be avenged by later Arbatovs.
* ''ComicBook/GreenLanternTheLostArmy'': Since Guy is wearing a green and a red ring in this miniseries Stewart starts calling him a Christmas Lantern, which the other Lanterns take up despite not being familiar with the holiday or that those colors are usually used in decorations for it.
* ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' has to be one of the kings of this trope: from defining "mulch" at every opportunity (or just randomly defining it for no reason at all) for five years straight, the titular character's ridiculous exclamations ("Hah! You take me for the fool I am!" "As any fool can plainly see."/"I can plainly see that!", "Groo does what Groo does best!", "Did I err?", etc.), ships sinking the instant Groo gets anywhere near them (unless his dog is with him), the name of the Sage's dog, Groo getting chased out of the city by every single person ''in'' the city, Drumm continually wanting to know "What pirates?" (and, later, alternating that with "You never bought ''me'' a house..."), Groo's dog never quite realizing how stupid Groo actually is, Captain Ahax going insane every time he's exposed to Groo (since the latter has a habit of continually sinking the ships under the former's command), "Must be stupid."/"Must be Groo."... and that's not even touching the 25 years worth of running gags in the letter columns.
** Every issue also had a [[spoiler: hidden message]].
** Also, whenever prompted to remember or not forget something, or sometimes just when he's got nothing to add to a conversation, Groo responds with "I am the Prince of Chichester!".
* Even ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' gets one in: Rorschach repeatedly [[OpenSaysMe breaking]] Nite Owl II's door. Which becomes important later as it gives them more time when [[spoiler:the police are trying to break down Dan's front door]].
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* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** In the miniseries ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', the titular heroine often imagines her relatives''ComicBook/{{Cubitus}}'': Cubitus trying to get rid of her by tying her find a way to a rocket and blasting her off into space.
--->'''Supergirl:''' Why are people always launching me into space?!!
** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the titular Bizarro character being knocked across the city and losing one boot in the process. The second time it happens, she screams: "Not Agaaaaaiiinnnn!"
* In any Creator/{{Marvel}} comic with a Silver Age-esque character origin, you ''will'' hear the words [[InsistentTerminology mild-mannered]] to describe the main character. One ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' story had [[ComicBook/HumanTorch Johnny Storm]] teleported to an AlternateUniverse where mild-mannered scientist [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Victor Von Doom]] became [[GoodCounterpart Doc Iron]] to combat the [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Frightful Four]].
* ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'':
** Whenever [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] would [[CaptainObvious state the obvious]], another character would say, "Obviously you've been trained by the world's greatest detective." Even Batman got one in once.
** Superboy's [[InsistentTerminology tactile telekinesis]] being mocked by other characters.
* ''ComicBook/NikolaiDante'' encounters a seemingly unlimited supply of the Arbatov family; each of whom announce their intention to avenge the death of the previous Arbatov at the hands of Nikolai. Invariably they are themselves promptly despatched, to be avenged by later Arbatovs.
* ''ComicBook/GreenLanternTheLostArmy'': Since Guy is wearing a green and a red ring in this miniseries Stewart starts calling him a Christmas Lantern, which the other Lanterns take up despite not being familiar with the holiday or that those colors are usually used in decorations for it.
* ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' has to be one of the kings of this trope: from defining "mulch" at every opportunity (or just randomly defining it for no reason at all) for five years straight, the titular character's ridiculous exclamations ("Hah! You take me for the fool I am!" "As any fool can plainly see."/"I can plainly see that!", "Groo does what Groo does best!", "Did I err?", etc.), ships sinking the instant Groo gets anywhere near them (unless his dog is with him), the name of the Sage's dog, Groo getting chased out of the city by every single person ''in'' the city, Drumm continually wanting to know "What pirates?" (and, later, alternating that with "You never bought ''me'' a house..."), Groo's dog never quite realizing how stupid Groo actually is, Captain Ahax going insane every time he's exposed to Groo (since the latter has a habit of continually sinking the ships under the former's command), "Must be stupid."/"Must be Groo."... and that's not even touching the 25 years worth of running gags in the letter columns.
** Every issue also had a [[spoiler: hidden message]].
** Also, whenever prompted to remember or not forget something, or sometimes just when he's got nothing to add to a conversation, Groo responds with "I am the Prince of Chichester!".
* Even ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' gets one in: Rorschach repeatedly [[OpenSaysMe breaking]] Nite Owl II's door. Which becomes important later as it gives them more time when [[spoiler:the police are trying to break down Dan's front door]].beat Sénéchal up.
** In the miniseries ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', the titular heroine often imagines her relatives
--->'''Supergirl:''' Why are people always launching me into space?!!
** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the titular Bizarro character being knocked across the city and losing one boot in the process. The second time it happens, she screams: "Not Agaaaaaiiinnnn!"
* In any Creator/{{Marvel}} comic with a Silver Age-esque character origin, you ''will'' hear the words [[InsistentTerminology mild-mannered]] to describe the main character. One ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' story had [[ComicBook/HumanTorch Johnny Storm]] teleported to an AlternateUniverse where mild-mannered scientist [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Victor Von Doom]] became [[GoodCounterpart Doc Iron]] to combat the [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Frightful Four]].
* ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'':
** Whenever [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] would [[CaptainObvious state the obvious]], another character would say, "Obviously you've been trained by the world's greatest detective." Even Batman got one in once.
** Superboy's [[InsistentTerminology tactile telekinesis]] being mocked by other characters.
* ''ComicBook/NikolaiDante'' encounters a seemingly unlimited supply of the Arbatov family; each of whom announce their intention to avenge the death of the previous Arbatov at the hands of Nikolai. Invariably they are themselves promptly despatched, to be avenged by later Arbatovs.
* ''ComicBook/GreenLanternTheLostArmy'': Since Guy is wearing a green and a red ring in this miniseries Stewart starts calling him a Christmas Lantern, which the other Lanterns take up despite not being familiar with the holiday or that those colors are usually used in decorations for it.
* ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' has to be one of the kings of this trope: from defining "mulch" at every opportunity (or just randomly defining it for no reason at all) for five years straight, the titular character's ridiculous exclamations ("Hah! You take me for the fool I am!" "As any fool can plainly see."/"I can plainly see that!", "Groo does what Groo does best!", "Did I err?", etc.), ships sinking the instant Groo gets anywhere near them (unless his dog is with him), the name of the Sage's dog, Groo getting chased out of the city by every single person ''in'' the city, Drumm continually wanting to know "What pirates?" (and, later, alternating that with "You never bought ''me'' a house..."), Groo's dog never quite realizing how stupid Groo actually is, Captain Ahax going insane every time he's exposed to Groo (since the latter has a habit of continually sinking the ships under the former's command), "Must be stupid."/"Must be Groo."... and that's not even touching the 25 years worth of running gags in the letter columns.
** Every issue also had a [[spoiler: hidden message]].
** Also, whenever prompted to remember or not forget something, or sometimes just when he's got nothing to add to a conversation, Groo responds with "I am the Prince of Chichester!".
* Even ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' gets one in: Rorschach repeatedly [[OpenSaysMe breaking]] Nite Owl II's door. Which becomes important later as it gives them more time when [[spoiler:the police are trying to break down Dan's front door]].
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* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'':
** Thomson's and Thompson's introduction: "Thompson, with a ''p'', as in Philadelphia [the ''p'' is never pronounced with a ''p'' sound], Thomson, without a ''p'', as in Venezuela";
** Captain Haddock's obscure "obscenities";
** Snowy's alcohol problem;
** The fact that Prof. Calculus is hard of hearing and therefore can never hear a sentence correctly;
** Captain Haddock's inability of keeping his monocle intact;
** Tintin and Haddock's inability to hide from Castafiore and her singing;
** In ''The Broken Ear'', San Theodoros' constant (once every 10 minutes at one point) revolutions, and a bumbling assassin's inability to kill Tintin;
** Thompson and Thomson's tendency to dress in outlandish and completely out-of-place ethnic costumes in order to "hide undercover";
** People trying to call someone and getting Cutts the butcher, or vice versa.
** In a history of the making of Tintin, the author states that Snowy himself started as "a literal 'running gag.'"
** In ''The Calculus Affair'', Captain Haddock has a piece of sticking plaster put on his nose, and when he tosses it away, it winds up being passed around the ''entire plane'' before he finally chucks it out the hotel window. Referenced later in ''Flight 714'' when Haddock says he had trouble with sticking plaster.
** ''The Castafiore Emerald'' has ''several'' of these:
*** People constantly falling down the broken step.
*** "Hellooo - I can hear you!" / "Allo! J'écou-ou-oute!"
*** "MERCI! MY JEWELS!" / "CIEL! MES BIJOUX!
*** "No, this is ''not'' Cutts the Butcher." / "Non, Monsieur/Madame, ce n'est pas la Boucherie Sanzot!"
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''
** The hapless pirates get sunk [[OnceAnEpisode once every issue]]. Sometimes twice. In one book, they give up the pirate life to open a (boat-shaped) restaurant. It gets trashed.
*** And every sinking is drawn to resemble, in some way, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]'', a famous painting by Théodore Géricault.
** Caesar's tendency to refer to himself in the third person. This was a reference to Caesar's Commentaries on the Civil War and the War in Gaul, where he constantly refers to himself in the third person, to the point that the reader can lose sight of the fact that Caesar isn't writing history but self-justifying propaganda.
** Cacofonix, about to sing an ode for the occasion, being violently silenced by Fulliautomatix, or BoundAndGagged against a tree if it's time for the [[EveryEpisodeEnding big feast at the end of the adventure]].
** Obelix's constant attempt to get a taste of the magic potion.
** Obelix' denial he's obese.
** Vitalstatistix falling off his shield.
** Asterix is of "undeterminate age".
* In classic ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'', Wulf had a habit of replacing some random word in a figure of speech with the word ''cucumber'', such as "Ve are cool as der cucumber" or "He ran as qvick as der cucumber".
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** Every time someone meets him for the first time, they inevitably comment that they thought he'd be taller.
** This even extends to other members of the Batfamily, such as [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] (who, to be fair, is a good 4 inches shorter than Bruce, so it's obvious when he's dressed as Batman that he's shorter than the original guy) and Tim Drake (it's mentioned in ''Young Justice'').
** ComicBook/RedRobin is often mistaken and compared with Dr. Midnight due to the original costume's red vest and cowl looking similar to that of the older hero. Tim gets fairly exasperated when his even his friends like [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie]] get in on it.
** ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'': Dick Grayson (age 12) has his own running gag. Guess which part of Dick Grayson (age 12) is the gag.
** The St Patrick's Day issue of ''Webcomic/LilGotham'' has its own running gag: Batman has a busy day rounding up villains and hauling them off to jail in the back seat of the Batmobile, and every one of them remarks that they hadn't realised the Batmobile even ''had'' a back seat.
* Ever since ''ComicBook/OrientMen'' tried unsuccessfully to fix an Eskimo's broken radiator, the Eskimo kept following him all over the world and appearing at the end of nearly every episode, asking random bystanders whether they can fix his radiator.
* A little background for this one: In ''ComicBook/MidnightNation'', it turns out that Lazarus CameBackWrong, and was told by Jesus to wait until Jesus would return. Lazarus mistakenly thought that Jesus would be coming right back after having a little dinner with 12 of his best friends... that didn't work out so well, and 2,000 years later Lazarus is still waiting. So, the actual gag is that whenever someone around him says "Jesus" in reaction to something, Lazarus responds by asking, "Where?"
* Artist Leinil Yu has been known to sneak ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' into everything he draws, especially during huge spreads with lots of heroes where Howard won't be as easily noticed. Nobody knows why except Leinil.
* Franchise/TheDCU's ''ComicBook/{{Invasion}}'' miniseries frames several of its scenes as television newscasts. Whenever a reporter tries to interview one of the heroes, the hero invariably replies with, "Get that @%&£$€# camera out of my face!"
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': Caleb's associates and friends keep calling him "Kid," [[BerserkButton much to his annoyance]].
** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
*** In ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'', comics written and set after ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' but before ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' have Luke and Leia, mutually attracted, often start to touch or talk about their relationship before they are interrupted. Usually by the plot. It happens with some regularity, and [[SurpriseIncest good thing, too]].
* Flax Seed and his obsession with Filthy Rich's billboard in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #3.
-->'''Flax Seed:''' I always, like, feel like he's watching me. His eyes move with me. Always watching... never sleeping...
* ''ComicBook/AmericaVsTheJusticeSociety'': At least three times in Wonder Woman's retelling of Per Degaton's exploits, whenever he is made to forget those events, he ends up talking to Professor Zee about having dreams of being the ruler of the world, and Professor Zee responds by telling him to clean up his test tubes.
** Thomson's and Thompson's introduction: "Thompson, with a ''p'', as in Philadelphia [the ''p'' is never pronounced with a ''p'' sound], Thomson, without a ''p'', as in Venezuela";
** Captain Haddock's obscure "obscenities";
** Snowy's alcohol problem;
** The fact that Prof. Calculus is hard of hearing and therefore can never hear a sentence correctly;
** Captain Haddock's inability of keeping his monocle intact;
** Tintin and Haddock's inability to hide from Castafiore and her singing;
** In ''The Broken Ear'', San Theodoros' constant (once every 10 minutes at one point) revolutions, and a bumbling assassin's inability to kill Tintin;
** Thompson and Thomson's tendency to dress in outlandish and completely out-of-place ethnic costumes in order to "hide undercover";
** People trying to call someone and getting Cutts the butcher, or vice versa.
** In a history of the making of Tintin, the author states that Snowy himself started as "a literal 'running gag.'"
** In ''The Calculus Affair'', Captain Haddock has a piece of sticking plaster put on his nose, and when he tosses it away, it winds up being passed around the ''entire plane'' before he finally chucks it out the hotel window. Referenced later in ''Flight 714'' when Haddock says he had trouble with sticking plaster.
** ''The Castafiore Emerald'' has ''several'' of these:
*** People constantly falling down the broken step.
*** "Hellooo - I can hear you!" / "Allo! J'écou-ou-oute!"
*** "MERCI! MY JEWELS!" / "CIEL! MES BIJOUX!
*** "No, this is ''not'' Cutts the Butcher." / "Non, Monsieur/Madame, ce n'est pas la Boucherie Sanzot!"
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''
** The hapless pirates get sunk [[OnceAnEpisode once every issue]]. Sometimes twice. In one book, they give up the pirate life to open a (boat-shaped) restaurant. It gets trashed.
*** And every sinking is drawn to resemble, in some way, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]'', a famous painting by Théodore Géricault.
** Caesar's tendency to refer to himself in the third person. This was a reference to Caesar's Commentaries on the Civil War and the War in Gaul, where he constantly refers to himself in the third person, to the point that the reader can lose sight of the fact that Caesar isn't writing history but self-justifying propaganda.
** Cacofonix, about to sing an ode for the occasion, being violently silenced by Fulliautomatix, or BoundAndGagged against a tree if it's time for the [[EveryEpisodeEnding big feast at the end of the adventure]].
** Obelix's constant attempt to get a taste of the magic potion.
** Obelix' denial he's obese.
** Vitalstatistix falling off his shield.
** Asterix is of "undeterminate age".
* In classic ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'', Wulf had a habit of replacing some random word in a figure of speech with the word ''cucumber'', such as "Ve are cool as der cucumber" or "He ran as qvick as der cucumber".
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** Every time someone meets him for the first time, they inevitably comment that they thought he'd be taller.
** This even extends to other members of the Batfamily, such as [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] (who, to be fair, is a good 4 inches shorter than Bruce, so it's obvious when he's dressed as Batman that he's shorter than the original guy) and Tim Drake (it's mentioned in ''Young Justice'').
** ComicBook/RedRobin is often mistaken and compared with Dr. Midnight due to the original costume's red vest and cowl looking similar to that of the older hero. Tim gets fairly exasperated when his even his friends like [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie]] get in on it.
** ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'': Dick Grayson (age 12) has his own running gag. Guess which part of Dick Grayson (age 12) is the gag.
** The St Patrick's Day issue of ''Webcomic/LilGotham'' has its own running gag: Batman has a busy day rounding up villains and hauling them off to jail in the back seat of the Batmobile, and every one of them remarks that they hadn't realised the Batmobile even ''had'' a back seat.
* Ever since ''ComicBook/OrientMen'' tried unsuccessfully to fix an Eskimo's broken radiator, the Eskimo kept following him all over the world and appearing at the end of nearly every episode, asking random bystanders whether they can fix his radiator.
* A little background for this one: In ''ComicBook/MidnightNation'', it turns out that Lazarus CameBackWrong, and was told by Jesus to wait until Jesus would return. Lazarus mistakenly thought that Jesus would be coming right back after having a little dinner with 12 of his best friends... that didn't work out so well, and 2,000 years later Lazarus is still waiting. So, the actual gag is that whenever someone around him says "Jesus" in reaction to something, Lazarus responds by asking, "Where?"
* Artist Leinil Yu has been known to sneak ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' into everything he draws, especially during huge spreads with lots of heroes where Howard won't be as easily noticed. Nobody knows why except Leinil.
* Franchise/TheDCU's ''ComicBook/{{Invasion}}'' miniseries frames several of its scenes as television newscasts. Whenever a reporter tries to interview one of the heroes, the hero invariably replies with, "Get that @%&£$€# camera out of my face!"
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': Caleb's associates and friends keep calling him "Kid," [[BerserkButton much to his annoyance]].
** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
*** In ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'', comics written and set after ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' but before ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' have Luke and Leia, mutually attracted, often start to touch or talk about their relationship before they are interrupted. Usually by the plot. It happens with some regularity, and [[SurpriseIncest good thing, too]].
* Flax Seed and his obsession with Filthy Rich's billboard in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #3.
-->'''Flax Seed:''' I always, like, feel like he's watching me. His eyes move with me. Always watching... never sleeping...
* ''ComicBook/AmericaVsTheJusticeSociety'': At least three times in Wonder Woman's retelling of Per Degaton's exploits, whenever he is made to forget those events, he ends up talking to Professor Zee about having dreams of being the ruler of the world, and Professor Zee responds by telling him to clean up his test tubes.
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* In the classic ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' parody of ''G.I. Joe'', any woman who expressed a desire to talk to the hero would fling herself onto his lap and say, "Hey, Joe! You got chewing gum?" This gag resurfaced in at least one later ''Mad'' feature.
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Tim's girlfriend Stephanie has a poster of a flirtatiously smirking Superboy (Kon-El) hanging over her bed that annoys Tim to no end, even though he quickly gives up asking her to take it down. The thing remains even after she learns that Kon is Tim's best friend and meets and befriends him herself, it's shown every time the inside of her bedroom appears on panel.
* ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'':
** Kon-El's jacket gets ruined or stolen in almost every issue at first despite his attempts to keep it safe. As he further develops his TTK this stops happening so much since he is able to expand his protective field around it more consistently.
** Kon's constant attempts to explain his tactile telekinesis while fighting gets interrupted pretty regularly, often with someone else cutting him off to give a shorter explanation, or for whomever he's fighting to tell him they already know since he's constantly talking about his powers.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'': Any time Juan López enters a subway station, he'll absent-mindedly start ordering breakfast instead of asking for a ticket; ''then'' he'll go into a bar and order a ticket instead of breakfast. Sometimes it's because he's lost in thought, sometimes it's just plain stress, exhaustion or sleepiness.
* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'':
** Wiske is curious about something and brings herself into trouble by doing so.
** Suske gets attention from other women and Wiske gets jealous.
** Tante Sidonia getting a nervous attack and stiffening in shock.
** Jokes at the expense of Sidonia's nose, thin body and large feet, usually by Lambik, who gets her shoe thrown against his head.
** Lambik makes a CaptainObvious conclusion or says or does something else remotedly stupid. For instance he'll be master of a situation, but tricked into leaving or giving his gun to his opponents, allowing them to run away.
** Jerom doing a remarkable stunt, showcasing his superstrength.
** Krimson getting a nervous attack and screaming for his pills, which are then brought by his butler.
* ''ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}''
** Filiberke playing something and staying in character throughout the entire story.
** Professor Gobelijn making confusing mistakes that are the exact opposite of what he meant.
** Flip the parrot insulting others.
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Tim's girlfriend Stephanie has a poster of a flirtatiously smirking Superboy (Kon-El) hanging over her bed that annoys Tim to no end, even though he quickly gives up asking her to take it down. The thing remains even after she learns that Kon is Tim's best friend and meets and befriends him herself, it's shown every time the inside of her bedroom appears on panel.
* ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'':
** Kon-El's jacket gets ruined or stolen in almost every issue at first despite his attempts to keep it safe. As he further develops his TTK this stops happening so much since he is able to expand his protective field around it more consistently.
** Kon's constant attempts to explain his tactile telekinesis while fighting gets interrupted pretty regularly, often with someone else cutting him off to give a shorter explanation, or for whomever he's fighting to tell him they already know since he's constantly talking about his powers.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'': Any time Juan López enters a subway station, he'll absent-mindedly start ordering breakfast instead of asking for a ticket; ''then'' he'll go into a bar and order a ticket instead of breakfast. Sometimes it's because he's lost in thought, sometimes it's just plain stress, exhaustion or sleepiness.
* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'':
** Wiske is curious about something and brings herself into trouble by doing so.
** Suske gets attention from other women and Wiske gets jealous.
** Tante Sidonia getting a nervous attack and stiffening in shock.
** Jokes at the expense of Sidonia's nose, thin body and large feet, usually by Lambik, who gets her shoe thrown against his head.
** Lambik makes a CaptainObvious conclusion or says or does something else remotedly stupid. For instance he'll be master of a situation, but tricked into leaving or giving his gun to his opponents, allowing them to run away.
** Jerom doing a remarkable stunt, showcasing his superstrength.
** Krimson getting a nervous attack and screaming for his pills, which are then brought by his butler.
* ''ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}''
** Filiberke playing something and staying in character throughout the entire story.
** Professor Gobelijn making confusing mistakes that are the exact opposite of what he meant.
** Flip the parrot insulting others.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'':
** Urbanus and his family waiting for Nonkel Fillemon to die and earn his fortune, only to be disappointed when he survives once again.
** Dikke Herman beaten up or injured as a victim of Urbanus' pranks or strategies.
* ''ComicBook/{{Agent 327}}'': [=IJzerbroot=] arriving at this office at the start of each album in a disguise, then complaining ''What a secret agent has to do nowadays to get to his office incognito.''
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':
** Rataplan the dog making wrong interpretations of what is going around him or reacting too late.
** Averell not understanding what's going on and being more interested in food.
** Joe getting worked up over his hatred of Lucky Luke.
* ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'':
** Peewit trying to sing and play the harp, only to have everyone run away or find an excuse not to listen to him.
* ''ComicBook/TomPoes'':
** Marquis de Canteclaer looking down upon Bommel and insulting him every which way he can.
** Wal Rus mispronouncing Bommel's name.
** Garmt Grootgrut complaining that ''the small proprietorship is once again the victim''.
** Bommel always boasts about his talents, achievements and aristocratic background, but nobody seems to take him seriously. Also, he is rather incompetent and whenever danger is about he chickens out.
** Bulle Bas arresting Bommel for crimes he didn't commit.
** Wammes Waggel not understanding what is going on.
** Urbanus and his family waiting for Nonkel Fillemon to die and earn his fortune, only to be disappointed when he survives once again.
** Dikke Herman beaten up or injured as a victim of Urbanus' pranks or strategies.
* ''ComicBook/{{Agent 327}}'': [=IJzerbroot=] arriving at this office at the start of each album in a disguise, then complaining ''What a secret agent has to do nowadays to get to his office incognito.''
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':
** Rataplan the dog making wrong interpretations of what is going around him or reacting too late.
** Averell not understanding what's going on and being more interested in food.
** Joe getting worked up over his hatred of Lucky Luke.
* ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'':
** Peewit trying to sing and play the harp, only to have everyone run away or find an excuse not to listen to him.
* ''ComicBook/TomPoes'':
** Marquis de Canteclaer looking down upon Bommel and insulting him every which way he can.
** Wal Rus mispronouncing Bommel's name.
** Garmt Grootgrut complaining that ''the small proprietorship is once again the victim''.
** Bommel always boasts about his talents, achievements and aristocratic background, but nobody seems to take him seriously. Also, he is rather incompetent and whenever danger is about he chickens out.
** Bulle Bas arresting Bommel for crimes he didn't commit.
** Wammes Waggel not understanding what is going on.
to:
* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'':
** Urbanus''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' has regular running gags about the Third and his family waiting for Nonkel Fillemon Fourth Doctors working with UNIT in either the Seventies or the Eighties, a reference to die and earn his fortune, only the notorious ContinuitySnarl surrounding those stories' in-universe timeline.
* Franchise/TheFlash:
** Having SuperSpeed doesn't stop the character(s) from repeatedly being late tobe disappointed when he survives once again.
meetings.
**Dikke Herman beaten up or injured The Flash Museum is a frequent target of supervillain attacks, getting trashed as a victim of Urbanus' pranks or strategies.
result.
*''ComicBook/{{Agent 327}}'': [=IJzerbroot=] ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Mr. De Mesmaeker arriving at this office at the start of each album in a disguise, then complaining ''What a secret agent has to do nowadays to get to his office incognito.''
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':
** Rataplan the dog making wrong interpretations of what is going around him or reacting too late.
** Averell not understanding what's going on and being more interested in food.
** Joe getting worked up over his hatred of Lucky Luke.
* ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'':
** Peewit trying to sing and play the harp, onlyto have everyone run away or find an excuse not to listen to him.
* ''ComicBook/TomPoes'':
** Marquis de Canteclaer looking down upon Bommelthe contracts signed, but Gaston time and insulting him every which way he can.
** Wal Rus mispronouncing Bommel's name.
** Garmt Grootgrut complaining that ''the small proprietorship is once againtime and in various ways preventing the victim''.
** Bommel always boasts about his talents, achievements and aristocratic background, but nobody seems to take him seriously. Also, he is rather incompetent and whenever danger is about he chickens out.
** Bulle Bas arresting Bommel for crimes he didn't commit.
** Wammes Waggel not understanding what is going on.plan from actually being achieved.
** Urbanus
* Franchise/TheFlash:
** Having SuperSpeed doesn't stop the character(s) from repeatedly being late to
**
*
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':
** Rataplan the dog making wrong interpretations of what is going around him or reacting too late.
** Averell not understanding what's going on and being more interested in food.
** Joe getting worked up over his hatred of Lucky Luke.
* ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'':
** Peewit trying to sing and play the harp, only
* ''ComicBook/TomPoes'':
** Marquis de Canteclaer looking down upon Bommel
** Wal Rus mispronouncing Bommel's name.
** Garmt Grootgrut complaining that ''the small proprietorship is once again
** Bommel always boasts about his talents, achievements and aristocratic background, but nobody seems to take him seriously. Also, he is rather incompetent and whenever danger is about he chickens out.
** Bulle Bas arresting Bommel for crimes he didn't commit.
** Wammes Waggel not understanding what is going on.
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* ''ComicBook/BenoitBrisefer'': Benoit doing something to help others, but not realizing his own strength actually makes things worse, so he exclaims: ''Oh dear, what have I done now?''
to:
* ''ComicBook/BenoitBrisefer'': Benoit doing ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'''s [[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili Stupendous Chili]] is the [[MasochistsMeal spiciest dish known to man]]. Oliver is incredibly proud of it but his teammates have described it as having a "foul, scorched taste", and have compared it to napalm, paint-remover, and burning tarpaper. The only ones who can eat it without crying or screaming in pain are Oliver himself and Batman.
* ''ComicBook/GreenLanternTheLostArmy'': Since Guy is wearing a green and a red ring in this miniseries Stewart starts calling him a Christmas Lantern, which the other Lanterns take up despite not being familiar with the holiday or that those colors are usually used in decorations for it.
* ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' has to be one of the kings of this trope: from defining "mulch" at every opportunity (or just randomly defining it for no reason at all) for five years straight, the titular character's ridiculous exclamations ("Hah! You take me for the fool I am!" "As any fool can plainly see."/"I can plainly see that!", "Groo does what Groo does best!", "Did I err?", etc.), ships sinking the instant Groo gets anywhere near them (unless his dog is with him), the name of the Sage's dog, Groo getting chased out of the city by every single person ''in'' the city, Drumm continually wanting to know "What pirates?" (and, later, alternating that with "You never bought ''me'' a house..."), Groo's dog never quite realizing how stupid Groo actually is, Captain Ahax going insane every time he's exposed to Groo (since the latter has a habit of continually sinking the ships under the former's command), "Must be stupid."/"Must be Groo."... and that's not even touching the 25 years worth of running gags in the letter columns.
** Every issue also had a [[spoiler: hidden message]].
** Also, whenever prompted to remember or not forget something, or sometimes just when he's got nothing to add to a conversation, Groo responds with "I am the Prince of Chichester!".
* Artist Leinil Yu has been known to sneak ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' into everything he draws, especially during huge spreads with lots of heroes where Howard won't be as easily noticed. Nobody knows why except Leinil.
* Franchise/TheDCU's ''ComicBook/{{Invasion}}'' miniseries frames several of its scenes as television newscasts. Whenever a reporter tries to interview one of the heroes, the hero invariably replies with, "Get that @%&£$€# camera out of my face!"
* Roxy from ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' has one involving her and [[BigEater food]]. She's often either eating or getting ready to eat something. [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Donuts]] in particular are something she is obsessed with.
* ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'':
** Peewit trying tohelp others, but sing and play the harp, only to have everyone run away or find an excuse not realizing his own strength actually makes things worse, so he exclaims: ''Oh dear, to listen to him.
* ''ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}''
** Filiberke playing something and staying in character throughout the entire story.
** Professor Gobelijn making confusing mistakes that are the exact opposite of whathave I done now?''he meant.
** Flip the parrot insulting others.
* ''ComicBook/{{JSA}}'': ComicBook/{{Wildcat}} regularly greets Dr. Mid-Nite with ''"[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes What's up Doc?]]"'' despite the fact that Mid-Nite felt that that particular joke ran its course decades ago.
* Somebody gets the drop on Kick-Ass/Dave in every issue of ''ComicBook/KickAss'', usually attacking from behind.
** [[spoiler:Turned around when Hit Girl saves Kick-Ass the first time -- someone gets the drop on THEM.]]
** [[spoiler:Turned around again in Volume 2 Issue #1 when two guys get the drop on Kick-Ass and HE kicks THEIR asses.]]
* ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie'' has several, the most common ones being Basile trying to sleep in and getting a violent wake-up call from his master, and the AmusingInjuries he suffers during building and/or testing Léonard's latest invention.
* ''ComicBook/GreenLanternTheLostArmy'': Since Guy is wearing a green and a red ring in this miniseries Stewart starts calling him a Christmas Lantern, which the other Lanterns take up despite not being familiar with the holiday or that those colors are usually used in decorations for it.
* ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' has to be one of the kings of this trope: from defining "mulch" at every opportunity (or just randomly defining it for no reason at all) for five years straight, the titular character's ridiculous exclamations ("Hah! You take me for the fool I am!" "As any fool can plainly see."/"I can plainly see that!", "Groo does what Groo does best!", "Did I err?", etc.), ships sinking the instant Groo gets anywhere near them (unless his dog is with him), the name of the Sage's dog, Groo getting chased out of the city by every single person ''in'' the city, Drumm continually wanting to know "What pirates?" (and, later, alternating that with "You never bought ''me'' a house..."), Groo's dog never quite realizing how stupid Groo actually is, Captain Ahax going insane every time he's exposed to Groo (since the latter has a habit of continually sinking the ships under the former's command), "Must be stupid."/"Must be Groo."... and that's not even touching the 25 years worth of running gags in the letter columns.
** Every issue also had a [[spoiler: hidden message]].
** Also, whenever prompted to remember or not forget something, or sometimes just when he's got nothing to add to a conversation, Groo responds with "I am the Prince of Chichester!".
* Artist Leinil Yu has been known to sneak ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' into everything he draws, especially during huge spreads with lots of heroes where Howard won't be as easily noticed. Nobody knows why except Leinil.
* Franchise/TheDCU's ''ComicBook/{{Invasion}}'' miniseries frames several of its scenes as television newscasts. Whenever a reporter tries to interview one of the heroes, the hero invariably replies with, "Get that @%&£$€# camera out of my face!"
* Roxy from ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' has one involving her and [[BigEater food]]. She's often either eating or getting ready to eat something. [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Donuts]] in particular are something she is obsessed with.
* ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'':
** Peewit trying to
* ''ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}''
** Filiberke playing something and staying in character throughout the entire story.
** Professor Gobelijn making confusing mistakes that are the exact opposite of what
** Flip the parrot insulting others.
* ''ComicBook/{{JSA}}'': ComicBook/{{Wildcat}} regularly greets Dr. Mid-Nite with ''"[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes What's up Doc?]]"'' despite the fact that Mid-Nite felt that that particular joke ran its course decades ago.
* Somebody gets the drop on Kick-Ass/Dave in every issue of ''ComicBook/KickAss'', usually attacking from behind.
** [[spoiler:Turned around when Hit Girl saves Kick-Ass the first time -- someone gets the drop on THEM.]]
** [[spoiler:Turned around again in Volume 2 Issue #1 when two guys get the drop on Kick-Ass and HE kicks THEIR asses.]]
* ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie'' has several, the most common ones being Basile trying to sleep in and getting a violent wake-up call from his master, and the AmusingInjuries he suffers during building and/or testing Léonard's latest invention.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Cubitus}}'': Cubitus trying to find a way to beat Sénéchal up.
* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Mr. De Mesmaeker arriving to have the contracts signed, but Gaston time and time and in various ways preventing the plan from actually being achieved.
* ''ComicBook/PierreTombal'': Scaring off other people by interacting with the living skeletons at his cemetery.
* Somebody gets the drop on Kick-Ass/Dave in every issue of ''ComicBook/KickAss'', usually attacking from behind.
** [[spoiler:Turned around when Hit Girl saves Kick-Ass the first time - someone gets the drop on THEM.]]
** [[spoiler:Turned around again in Volume 2 Issue #1 when two guys get the drop on Kick-Ass and HE kicks THEIR asses.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': "Televator's broken."
* ''ComicBook/RadioactiveMan'':
** Radioactive Man cannot enter or leave any building except by breaking through the wall.
** Captain Squid longing to hold Lure Lass, but knowing she will be repulsed upon learning of his freakish squid-like tentacles. In the same panel, Lure Lass hopes Captain Squid will stop being so cold and distracted, and yearns for the touch of his freakish squid-like tentacles.
** Miles Mando having a different secret identity in every appearance.
** Something happens that reflects superhero comics at the time the issue was actually published. The characters [[ItWillNeverCatchOn scoff at the idea]] that such a thing will become widespread.
* Several appear in ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'':
** Amazonian head hunters somehow living in Africa, and people pointing this geographical error out every time it is mentioned.
** The doctor getting slapped by the pygmy chief every time he feels greedy.
** Kombo being called Monko.
* Roxy from ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' has one involving her and [[BigEater food]]. She's often either eating or getting ready to eat something. [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Donuts]] in particular are something she is obsessed with.
* ''[[Comicbook/{{X 23}} All-New Wolverine]]'': Bellona's solution to ''every situation she finds herself in'' is to [[TriggerHappy shoot something]]. Laura finds the Sisters' hideout? Shoot her. Taskmaster is lying unconscious in a pool of his own blood? Shoot him. [[ItMakesSenseInContext A cabinet serving as a portal to evil starts winking at her?]] Shoot it. Need to release an Comicbook/AntMan suit from storage? ShootOutTheLock. It gets to the point that Laura ''yelling'' at her for shooting everything has become a running gag in of itself.
* ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' has regular running gags about the Third and Fourth Doctors working with UNIT in either the Seventies or the Eighties, a reference to the notorious ContinuitySnarl surrounding those stories' in-universe timeline.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
** Creator/BrianMichaelBendis had a running gag in series he wrote, starting with ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', where a person would be dragged into police custody ranting about the latest silly thing going on in Marvel/DC. Bendis does this to say goodbye to Marvel by being the last victim in ''ComicBook/TheDefenders2017'', proudly proclaiming to Jessica Jones and Misty Knight that a 17-year running gag is not easy to do.
** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Black Widow accuses Quicksilver of not doing anything during the fight, and he claims that he saved her many times in super speed, and that it's all in the tapes.
** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Long before the actual Mystique appears, Professor X is shown to have a cat named Mystique, which appears in several issues wrecking the decor of his office.
* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Mr. De Mesmaeker arriving to have the contracts signed, but Gaston time and time and in various ways preventing the plan from actually being achieved.
* ''ComicBook/PierreTombal'': Scaring off other people by interacting with the living skeletons at his cemetery.
* Somebody gets the drop on Kick-Ass/Dave in every issue of ''ComicBook/KickAss'', usually attacking from behind.
** [[spoiler:Turned around when Hit Girl saves Kick-Ass the first time - someone gets the drop on THEM.]]
** [[spoiler:Turned around again in Volume 2 Issue #1 when two guys get the drop on Kick-Ass and HE kicks THEIR asses.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': "Televator's broken."
* ''ComicBook/RadioactiveMan'':
** Radioactive Man cannot enter or leave any building except by breaking through the wall.
** Captain Squid longing to hold Lure Lass, but knowing she will be repulsed upon learning of his freakish squid-like tentacles. In the same panel, Lure Lass hopes Captain Squid will stop being so cold and distracted, and yearns for the touch of his freakish squid-like tentacles.
** Miles Mando having a different secret identity in every appearance.
** Something happens that reflects superhero comics at the time the issue was actually published. The characters [[ItWillNeverCatchOn scoff at the idea]] that such a thing will become widespread.
* Several appear in ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'':
** Amazonian head hunters somehow living in Africa, and people pointing this geographical error out every time it is mentioned.
** The doctor getting slapped by the pygmy chief every time he feels greedy.
** Kombo being called Monko.
* Roxy from ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' has one involving her and [[BigEater food]]. She's often either eating or getting ready to eat something. [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Donuts]] in particular are something she is obsessed with.
* ''[[Comicbook/{{X 23}} All-New Wolverine]]'': Bellona's solution to ''every situation she finds herself in'' is to [[TriggerHappy shoot something]]. Laura finds the Sisters' hideout? Shoot her. Taskmaster is lying unconscious in a pool of his own blood? Shoot him. [[ItMakesSenseInContext A cabinet serving as a portal to evil starts winking at her?]] Shoot it. Need to release an Comicbook/AntMan suit from storage? ShootOutTheLock. It gets to the point that Laura ''yelling'' at her for shooting everything has become a running gag in of itself.
* ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' has regular running gags about the Third and Fourth Doctors working with UNIT in either the Seventies or the Eighties, a reference to the notorious ContinuitySnarl surrounding those stories' in-universe timeline.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
** Creator/BrianMichaelBendis had a running gag in series he wrote, starting with ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', where a person would be dragged into police custody ranting about the latest silly thing going on in Marvel/DC. Bendis does this to say goodbye to Marvel by being the last victim in ''ComicBook/TheDefenders2017'', proudly proclaiming to Jessica Jones and Misty Knight that a 17-year running gag is not easy to do.
** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Black Widow accuses Quicksilver of not doing anything during the fight, and he claims that he saved her many times in super speed, and that it's all in the tapes.
** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Long before the actual Mystique appears, Professor X is shown to have a cat named Mystique, which appears in several issues wrecking the decor of his office.
to:
* ''ComicBook/{{Cubitus}}'': Cubitus trying to find a way to beat Sénéchal up.
* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Mr. De Mesmaeker arriving to have''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':
** Rataplan thecontracts signed, but Gaston time and time and in various ways preventing the plan from actually being achieved.
* ''ComicBook/PierreTombal'': Scaring off other people by interacting with the living skeletons at his cemetery.
* Somebody gets the drop on Kick-Ass/Dave in every issuedog making wrong interpretations of ''ComicBook/KickAss'', usually attacking from behind.
** [[spoiler:Turnedwhat is going around when Hit Girl saves Kick-Ass the first time - someone gets the drop on THEM.]]
him or reacting too late.
**[[spoiler:Turned around again in Volume 2 Issue #1 when two guys get the drop on Kick-Ass and HE kicks THEIR asses.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': "Televator's broken."
* ''ComicBook/RadioactiveMan'':
** Radioactive Man cannot enter or leave any building except by breaking through the wall.
** Captain Squid longing to hold Lure Lass, but knowing she will be repulsed upon learning of his freakish squid-like tentacles. In the same panel, Lure Lass hopes Captain Squid will stop being so cold and distracted, and yearns for the touch of his freakish squid-like tentacles.
** Miles Mando having a different secret identity in every appearance.
** Something happens that reflects superhero comics at the time the issue was actually published. The characters [[ItWillNeverCatchOn scoff at the idea]] that such a thing will become widespread.
* Several appear in ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'':
** Amazonian head hunters somehow living in Africa, and people pointing this geographical error out every time it is mentioned.
** The doctor getting slapped by the pygmy chief every time he feels greedy.
** Kombo being called Monko.
* Roxy from ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' has one involving her and [[BigEater food]]. She's often either eating or getting ready to eat something. [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Donuts]] in particular are something she is obsessed with.
* ''[[Comicbook/{{X 23}} All-New Wolverine]]'': Bellona's solution to ''every situation she finds herself in'' is to [[TriggerHappy shoot something]]. Laura finds the Sisters' hideout? Shoot her. Taskmaster is lying unconscious in a pool of his own blood? Shoot him. [[ItMakesSenseInContext A cabinet serving as a portal to evil starts winking at her?]] Shoot it. Need to release an Comicbook/AntMan suit from storage? ShootOutTheLock. It gets to the point that Laura ''yelling'' at her for shooting everything has become a running gag in of itself.
* ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' has regular running gags about the Third and Fourth Doctors working with UNIT in either the Seventies or the Eighties, a reference to the notorious ContinuitySnarl surrounding those stories' in-universe timeline.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
** Creator/BrianMichaelBendis had a running gag in series he wrote, starting with ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', where a person would be dragged into police custody ranting about the latest silly thingAverell not understanding what's going on in Marvel/DC. Bendis does this to say goodbye to Marvel by and being the last victim more interested in ''ComicBook/TheDefenders2017'', proudly proclaiming food.
** Joe getting worked up over his hatred of Lucky Luke.
* ''ComicBook/{{Lumberjanes}}'':
** Rosie constantly getting Jen's name wrong.
** The ArbitrarySkepticism regarding jackalopes.
** Molly never being able toJessica Jones and Misty Knight find clothes or gear that fits.
* In the classic ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' parody of ''G.I. Joe'', any woman who expressed a17-year running desire to talk to the hero would fling herself onto his lap and say, "Hey, Joe! You got chewing gum?" This gag is not easy to do.
** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Black Widow accuses Quicksilver of not doing anything duringresurfaced in at least one later ''Mad'' feature.
* In any Creator/{{Marvel}} comic with a Silver Age-esque character origin, you ''will'' hear thefight, and he claims that he saved her many times in super speed, and that it's all in words [[InsistentTerminology mild-mannered]] to describe the tapes.
** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Long beforemain character. One ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' story had [[ComicBook/HumanTorch Johnny Storm]] teleported to an AlternateUniverse where mild-mannered scientist [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Victor Von Doom]] became [[GoodCounterpart Doc Iron]] to combat the actual Mystique appears, Professor X is shown to have a cat named Mystique, which appears in several issues wrecking the decor of his office.[[ComicBook/FantasticFour Frightful Four]].
* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Mr. De Mesmaeker arriving to have
** Rataplan the
* ''ComicBook/PierreTombal'': Scaring off other people by interacting with the living skeletons at his cemetery.
* Somebody gets the drop on Kick-Ass/Dave in every issue
** [[spoiler:Turned
**
* ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': "Televator's broken."
* ''ComicBook/RadioactiveMan'':
** Radioactive Man cannot enter or leave any building except by breaking through the wall.
** Captain Squid longing to hold Lure Lass, but knowing she will be repulsed upon learning of his freakish squid-like tentacles. In the same panel, Lure Lass hopes Captain Squid will stop being so cold and distracted, and yearns for the touch of his freakish squid-like tentacles.
** Miles Mando having a different secret identity in every appearance.
** Something happens that reflects superhero comics at the time the issue was actually published. The characters [[ItWillNeverCatchOn scoff at the idea]] that such a thing will become widespread.
* Several appear in ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'':
** Amazonian head hunters somehow living in Africa, and people pointing this geographical error out every time it is mentioned.
** The doctor getting slapped by the pygmy chief every time he feels greedy.
** Kombo being called Monko.
* Roxy from ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' has one involving her and [[BigEater food]]. She's often either eating or getting ready to eat something. [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Donuts]] in particular are something she is obsessed with.
* ''[[Comicbook/{{X 23}} All-New Wolverine]]'': Bellona's solution to ''every situation she finds herself in'' is to [[TriggerHappy shoot something]]. Laura finds the Sisters' hideout? Shoot her. Taskmaster is lying unconscious in a pool of his own blood? Shoot him. [[ItMakesSenseInContext A cabinet serving as a portal to evil starts winking at her?]] Shoot it. Need to release an Comicbook/AntMan suit from storage? ShootOutTheLock. It gets to the point that Laura ''yelling'' at her for shooting everything has become a running gag in of itself.
* ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' has regular running gags about the Third and Fourth Doctors working with UNIT in either the Seventies or the Eighties, a reference to the notorious ContinuitySnarl surrounding those stories' in-universe timeline.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
** Creator/BrianMichaelBendis had a running gag in series he wrote, starting with ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', where a person would be dragged into police custody ranting about the latest silly thing
** Joe getting worked up over his hatred of Lucky Luke.
* ''ComicBook/{{Lumberjanes}}'':
** Rosie constantly getting Jen's name wrong.
** The ArbitrarySkepticism regarding jackalopes.
** Molly never being able to
* In the classic ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' parody of ''G.I. Joe'', any woman who expressed a
** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Black Widow accuses Quicksilver of not doing anything during
* In any Creator/{{Marvel}} comic with a Silver Age-esque character origin, you ''will'' hear the
** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Long before
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* ''Robin Dubois'', a parody of ''Myth/RobinHood'' has several running gags:
** [[ButtMonkey Sheriff Fritz Alwill]] being robbed [[WithFriendsLikeThese by his friend Robin]].
** [[HenpeckedHusband The Sheriff]] using various schemes to sneak up his overbearing wife and get a drink with his buddies at the local tavern. Most of the times he fails, while [[ThrowTheDogABone sometimes he does succeed]] only for his wife to get revenge when he returns home. Other times, he makes it to the tavern, but he can't enter it because of some reason like annual vacation.
** The postman having nothing to deliver to the Sheriff or delivering unwanted mail like the post office's calendar or tax filling forms.
** The tax collector coming to collect his due and ruining someone's day, usually the Sheriff.
** The Teutonic Knights speaking with their heavy accent and no one can understand them.
* In ''Rubine'', the titular character always try to take a bath or a shower, only to be interrupted by some random event either that be a telephone call, a doorbell ringing or thugs coming to kill her.
** Another gag is Rubine's mother pestering her to get married so [[IWantGrandkids she can have grandchildren]].
** [[ButtMonkey Sheriff Fritz Alwill]] being robbed [[WithFriendsLikeThese by his friend Robin]].
** [[HenpeckedHusband The Sheriff]] using various schemes to sneak up his overbearing wife and get a drink with his buddies at the local tavern. Most of the times he fails, while [[ThrowTheDogABone sometimes he does succeed]] only for his wife to get revenge when he returns home. Other times, he makes it to the tavern, but he can't enter it because of some reason like annual vacation.
** The postman having nothing to deliver to the Sheriff or delivering unwanted mail like the post office's calendar or tax filling forms.
** The tax collector coming to collect his due and ruining someone's day, usually the Sheriff.
** The Teutonic Knights speaking with their heavy accent and no one can understand them.
* In ''Rubine'', the titular character always try to take a bath or a shower, only to be interrupted by some random event either that be a telephone call, a doorbell ringing or thugs coming to kill her.
** Another gag is Rubine's mother pestering her to get married so [[IWantGrandkids she can have grandchildren]].
to:
* ''Robin Dubois'', a parody of ''Myth/RobinHood'' has several running gags:
** [[ButtMonkey Sheriff Fritz Alwill]] being robbed [[WithFriendsLikeThese by his friend Robin]].
** [[HenpeckedHusband The Sheriff]] using various schemes to sneak up his overbearing wifeA little background for this one: In ''ComicBook/MidnightNation'', it turns out that Lazarus CameBackWrong, and get was told by Jesus to wait until Jesus would return. Lazarus mistakenly thought that Jesus would be coming right back after having a drink little dinner with 12 of his buddies best friends... that didn't work out so well, and 2,000 years later Lazarus is still waiting. So, the actual gag is that whenever someone around him says "Jesus" in reaction to something, Lazarus responds by asking, "Where?"
* Flax Seed and his obsession with Filthy Rich's billboard in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #3.
-->'''Flax Seed:''' I always, like, feel like he's watching me. His eyes move with me. Always watching... never sleeping...
* ''ComicBook/NikolaiDante'' encounters a seemingly unlimited supply of the Arbatov family; each of whom announce their intention to avenge the death of the previous Arbatov at thelocal tavern. Most hands of the times he fails, while [[ThrowTheDogABone sometimes he does succeed]] only for his wife to get revenge when he returns home. Other times, he makes it to the tavern, but he can't enter it because of some reason like annual vacation.
** The postman having nothing to deliver to the Sheriff or delivering unwanted mail like the post office's calendar or tax filling forms.
** The tax collector coming to collect his due and ruining someone's day, usually the Sheriff.
** The Teutonic Knights speaking with their heavy accent and no one can understand them.
* In ''Rubine'', the titular character always try to take a bath or a shower, onlyNikolai. Invariably they are themselves promptly despatched, to be interrupted avenged by some later Arbatovs.
* Ever since ''ComicBook/OrientMen'' tried unsuccessfully to fix an Eskimo's broken radiator, the Eskimo kept following him all over the world and appearing at the end of nearly every episode, asking randomevent either that be a telephone call, a doorbell ringing or thugs coming to kill her.
** Another gag is Rubine's mother pestering her to get married so [[IWantGrandkids shebystanders whether they can have grandchildren]].fix his radiator.
** [[ButtMonkey Sheriff Fritz Alwill]] being robbed [[WithFriendsLikeThese by his friend Robin]].
** [[HenpeckedHusband The Sheriff]] using various schemes to sneak up his overbearing wife
* Flax Seed and his obsession with Filthy Rich's billboard in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #3.
-->'''Flax Seed:''' I always, like, feel like he's watching me. His eyes move with me. Always watching... never sleeping...
* ''ComicBook/NikolaiDante'' encounters a seemingly unlimited supply of the Arbatov family; each of whom announce their intention to avenge the death of the previous Arbatov at the
** The postman having nothing to deliver to the Sheriff or delivering unwanted mail like the post office's calendar or tax filling forms.
** The tax collector coming to collect his due and ruining someone's day, usually the Sheriff.
** The Teutonic Knights speaking with their heavy accent and no one can understand them.
* In ''Rubine'', the titular character always try to take a bath or a shower, only
* Ever since ''ComicBook/OrientMen'' tried unsuccessfully to fix an Eskimo's broken radiator, the Eskimo kept following him all over the world and appearing at the end of nearly every episode, asking random
** Another gag is Rubine's mother pestering her to get married so [[IWantGrandkids she
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* ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie'' has several, the most common ones being Basile trying to sleep in and getting a violent wake-up call from his master, and the AmusingInjuries he suffers during building and/or testing Léonard's latest invention.
to:
* ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie'' has several, ''ComicBook/PierreTombal'': Scaring off other people by interacting with the most common ones living skeletons at his cemetery.
* ''ComicBook/RadioactiveMan'':
** Radioactive Man cannot enter or leave any building except by breaking through the wall.
** Captain Squid longing to hold Lure Lass, but knowing she will be repulsed upon learning of his freakish squid-like tentacles. In the same panel, Lure Lass hopes Captain Squid will stop beingBasile so cold and distracted, and yearns for the touch of his freakish squid-like tentacles.
** Miles Mando having a different secret identity in every appearance.
** Something happens that reflects superhero comics at the time the issue was actually published. The characters [[ItWillNeverCatchOn scoff at the idea]] that such a thing will become widespread.
* ''Robin Dubois'', a parody of ''Myth/RobinHood'' has several running gags:
** [[ButtMonkey Sheriff Fritz Alwill]] being robbed [[WithFriendsLikeThese by his friend Robin]].
** [[HenpeckedHusband The Sheriff]] using various schemes to sneak up his overbearing wife and get a drink with his buddies at the local tavern. Most of the times he fails, while [[ThrowTheDogABone sometimes he does succeed]] only for his wife to get revenge when he returns home. Other times, he makes it to the tavern, but he can't enter it because of some reason like annual vacation.
** The postman having nothing to deliver to the Sheriff or delivering unwanted mail like the post office's calendar or tax filling forms.
** The tax collector coming to collect his due and ruining someone's day, usually the Sheriff.
** The Teutonic Knights speaking with their heavy accent and no one can understand them.
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Tim's girlfriend Stephanie has a poster of a flirtatiously smirking Superboy (Kon-El) hanging over her bed that annoys Tim to no end, even though he quickly gives up asking her to take it down. The thing remains even after she learns that Kon is Tim's best friend and meets and befriends him herself, it's shown every time the inside of her bedroom appears on panel.
* In ''Rubine'', the titular character always try to take a bath or a shower, only to be interrupted by some random event either that be a telephone call, a doorbell ringing or thugs coming to kill her.
** Another gag is Rubine's mother pestering her to get married so [[IWantGrandkids she can have grandchildren]].
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spider-Man's reaction to whenever clones are brought up.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': Caleb's associates and friends keep calling him "Kid," [[BerserkButton much to his annoyance]].
** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
*** In ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'', comics written and set after ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' but before ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' have Luke and Leia, mutually attracted, often start to touch or talk about their relationship before they are interrupted. Usually by the plot. It happens with some regularity, and [[SurpriseIncest good thing, too]].
* In classic ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'', Wulf had a habit of replacing some random word in a figure of speech with the word ''cucumber'', such as "Ve are cool as der cucumber" or "He ran as qvick as der cucumber".
* ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'':
** Kon-El's jacket gets ruined or stolen in almost every issue at first despite his attempts to keep it safe. As he further develops his TTK this stops happening so much since he is able to expand his protective field around it more consistently.
** Kon's constant attempts to explain his tactile telekinesis while fighting gets interrupted pretty regularly, often with someone else cutting him off to give a shorter explanation, or for whomever he's fighting to tell him they already know since he's constantly talking about his powers.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** In the miniseries ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', the titular heroine often imagines her relatives trying tosleep get rid of her by tying her to a rocket and blasting her off into space.
--->'''Supergirl:''' Why are people always launching me into space?!!
** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the titular Bizarro character being knocked across the city and losing one boot in the process. The second time it happens, she screams: "Not Agaaaaaiiinnnn!"
* ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'': Any time Juan López enters a subway station, he'll absent-mindedly start ordering breakfast instead of asking for a ticket; ''then'' he'll go into a bar and order a ticket instead of breakfast. Sometimes it's because he's lost in thought, sometimes it's just plain stress, exhaustion or sleepiness.
* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'':
** Wiske is curious about something and brings herself into trouble by doing so.
** Suske gets attention from other women and Wiske gets jealous.
** Tante Sidonia getting a nervous attack and stiffening in shock.
** Jokes at the expense of Sidonia's nose, thin body and large feet, usually by Lambik, who gets her shoe thrown against his head.
** Lambik makes a CaptainObvious conclusion or says or does something else remotedly stupid. For instance he'll be master of a situation, but tricked into leaving or giving his gun to his opponents, allowing them to run away.
** Jerom doing a remarkable stunt, showcasing his superstrength.
** Krimson getting a nervous attack and screaming for his pills, which are then brought by his butler.
* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'':
** Thomson's and Thompson's introduction: "Thompson, with a ''p'', as in Philadelphia [the ''p'' is never pronounced with a ''p'' sound], Thomson, without a ''p'', as in Venezuela";
** Captain Haddock's obscure "obscenities";
** Snowy's alcohol problem;
** The fact that Prof. Calculus is hard of hearing and therefore can never hear a sentence correctly;
** Captain Haddock's inability of keeping his monocle intact;
** Tintin and Haddock's inability to hide from Castafiore and her singing;
** In ''The Broken Ear'', San Theodoros' constant (once every 10 minutes at one point) revolutions, and a bumbling assassin's inability to kill Tintin;
** Thompson and Thomson's tendency to dress in outlandish and completely out-of-place ethnic costumes in order to "hide undercover";
** People trying to call someone and getting Cutts the butcher, or vice versa.
** In aviolent wake-up call from history of the making of Tintin, the author states that Snowy himself started as "a literal 'running gag.'"
** In ''The Calculus Affair'', Captain Haddock has a piece of sticking plaster put on hismaster, nose, and when he tosses it away, it winds up being passed around the AmusingInjuries ''entire plane'' before he suffers finally chucks it out the hotel window. Referenced later in ''Flight 714'' when Haddock says he had trouble with sticking plaster.
** ''The Castafiore Emerald'' has ''several'' of these:
*** People constantly falling down the broken step.
*** "Hellooo -- I can hear you!" / "Allo! J'écou-ou-oute!"
*** "MERCI! MY JEWELS!" / "CIEL! MES BIJOUX!
*** "No, this is ''not'' Cutts the Butcher." / "Non, Monsieur/Madame, ce n'est pas la Boucherie Sanzot!"
* ''ComicBook/TomPoes'':
** Marquis de Canteclaer looking down upon Bommel and insulting him every which way he can.
** Wal Rus mispronouncing Bommel's name.
** Garmt Grootgrut complaining that ''the small proprietorship is once again the victim''.
** Bommel always boasts about his talents, achievements and aristocratic background, but nobody seems to take him seriously. Also, he is rather incompetent and whenever danger is about he chickens out.
** Bulle Bas arresting Bommel for crimes he didn't commit.
** Wammes Waggel not understanding what is going on.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
** Creator/BrianMichaelBendis had a running gag in series he wrote, starting with ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', where a person would be dragged into police custody ranting about the latest silly thing going on in Marvel/DC. Bendis does this to say goodbye to Marvel by being the last victim in ''ComicBook/TheDefenders2017'', proudly proclaiming to Jessica Jones and Misty Knight that a 17-year running gag is not easy to do.
** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Black Widow accuses Quicksilver of not doing anything duringbuilding and/or testing Léonard's latest invention.the fight, and he claims that he saved her many times in super speed, and that it's all in the tapes.
** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Long before the actual Mystique appears, Professor X is shown to have a cat named Mystique, which appears in several issues wrecking the decor of his office.
* ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': "Televator's broken."
* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'':
** Urbanus and his family waiting for Nonkel Fillemon to die and earn his fortune, only to be disappointed when he survives once again.
** Dikke Herman beaten up or injured as a victim of Urbanus' pranks or strategies.
* Several appear in ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'':
** Amazonian head hunters somehow living in Africa, and people pointing this geographical error out every time it is mentioned.
** The doctor getting slapped by the pygmy chief every time he feels greedy.
** Kombo being called Monko.
* Even ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' gets one in: Rorschach repeatedly [[OpenSaysMe breaking]] Nite Owl II's door. Which becomes important later as it gives them more time when [[spoiler:the police are trying to break down Dan's front door]].
* ''ComicBook/RadioactiveMan'':
** Radioactive Man cannot enter or leave any building except by breaking through the wall.
** Captain Squid longing to hold Lure Lass, but knowing she will be repulsed upon learning of his freakish squid-like tentacles. In the same panel, Lure Lass hopes Captain Squid will stop being
** Miles Mando having a different secret identity in every appearance.
** Something happens that reflects superhero comics at the time the issue was actually published. The characters [[ItWillNeverCatchOn scoff at the idea]] that such a thing will become widespread.
* ''Robin Dubois'', a parody of ''Myth/RobinHood'' has several running gags:
** [[ButtMonkey Sheriff Fritz Alwill]] being robbed [[WithFriendsLikeThese by his friend Robin]].
** [[HenpeckedHusband The Sheriff]] using various schemes to sneak up his overbearing wife and get a drink with his buddies at the local tavern. Most of the times he fails, while [[ThrowTheDogABone sometimes he does succeed]] only for his wife to get revenge when he returns home. Other times, he makes it to the tavern, but he can't enter it because of some reason like annual vacation.
** The postman having nothing to deliver to the Sheriff or delivering unwanted mail like the post office's calendar or tax filling forms.
** The tax collector coming to collect his due and ruining someone's day, usually the Sheriff.
** The Teutonic Knights speaking with their heavy accent and no one can understand them.
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Tim's girlfriend Stephanie has a poster of a flirtatiously smirking Superboy (Kon-El) hanging over her bed that annoys Tim to no end, even though he quickly gives up asking her to take it down. The thing remains even after she learns that Kon is Tim's best friend and meets and befriends him herself, it's shown every time the inside of her bedroom appears on panel.
* In ''Rubine'', the titular character always try to take a bath or a shower, only to be interrupted by some random event either that be a telephone call, a doorbell ringing or thugs coming to kill her.
** Another gag is Rubine's mother pestering her to get married so [[IWantGrandkids she can have grandchildren]].
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spider-Man's reaction to whenever clones are brought up.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': Caleb's associates and friends keep calling him "Kid," [[BerserkButton much to his annoyance]].
** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
*** In ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'', comics written and set after ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' but before ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' have Luke and Leia, mutually attracted, often start to touch or talk about their relationship before they are interrupted. Usually by the plot. It happens with some regularity, and [[SurpriseIncest good thing, too]].
* In classic ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'', Wulf had a habit of replacing some random word in a figure of speech with the word ''cucumber'', such as "Ve are cool as der cucumber" or "He ran as qvick as der cucumber".
* ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'':
** Kon-El's jacket gets ruined or stolen in almost every issue at first despite his attempts to keep it safe. As he further develops his TTK this stops happening so much since he is able to expand his protective field around it more consistently.
** Kon's constant attempts to explain his tactile telekinesis while fighting gets interrupted pretty regularly, often with someone else cutting him off to give a shorter explanation, or for whomever he's fighting to tell him they already know since he's constantly talking about his powers.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** In the miniseries ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', the titular heroine often imagines her relatives trying to
--->'''Supergirl:''' Why are people always launching me into space?!!
** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the titular Bizarro character being knocked across the city and losing one boot in the process. The second time it happens, she screams: "Not Agaaaaaiiinnnn!"
* ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'': Any time Juan López enters a subway station, he'll absent-mindedly start ordering breakfast instead of asking for a ticket; ''then'' he'll go into a bar and order a ticket instead of breakfast. Sometimes it's because he's lost in thought, sometimes it's just plain stress, exhaustion or sleepiness.
* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'':
** Wiske is curious about something and brings herself into trouble by doing so.
** Suske gets attention from other women and Wiske gets jealous.
** Tante Sidonia getting a nervous attack and stiffening in shock.
** Jokes at the expense of Sidonia's nose, thin body and large feet, usually by Lambik, who gets her shoe thrown against his head.
** Lambik makes a CaptainObvious conclusion or says or does something else remotedly stupid. For instance he'll be master of a situation, but tricked into leaving or giving his gun to his opponents, allowing them to run away.
** Jerom doing a remarkable stunt, showcasing his superstrength.
** Krimson getting a nervous attack and screaming for his pills, which are then brought by his butler.
* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'':
** Thomson's and Thompson's introduction: "Thompson, with a ''p'', as in Philadelphia [the ''p'' is never pronounced with a ''p'' sound], Thomson, without a ''p'', as in Venezuela";
** Captain Haddock's obscure "obscenities";
** Snowy's alcohol problem;
** The fact that Prof. Calculus is hard of hearing and therefore can never hear a sentence correctly;
** Captain Haddock's inability of keeping his monocle intact;
** Tintin and Haddock's inability to hide from Castafiore and her singing;
** In ''The Broken Ear'', San Theodoros' constant (once every 10 minutes at one point) revolutions, and a bumbling assassin's inability to kill Tintin;
** Thompson and Thomson's tendency to dress in outlandish and completely out-of-place ethnic costumes in order to "hide undercover";
** People trying to call someone and getting Cutts the butcher, or vice versa.
** In a
** In ''The Calculus Affair'', Captain Haddock has a piece of sticking plaster put on his
** ''The Castafiore Emerald'' has ''several'' of these:
*** People constantly falling down the broken step.
*** "Hellooo -- I can hear you!" / "Allo! J'écou-ou-oute!"
*** "MERCI! MY JEWELS!" / "CIEL! MES BIJOUX!
*** "No, this is ''not'' Cutts the Butcher." / "Non, Monsieur/Madame, ce n'est pas la Boucherie Sanzot!"
* ''ComicBook/TomPoes'':
** Marquis de Canteclaer looking down upon Bommel and insulting him every which way he can.
** Wal Rus mispronouncing Bommel's name.
** Garmt Grootgrut complaining that ''the small proprietorship is once again the victim''.
** Bommel always boasts about his talents, achievements and aristocratic background, but nobody seems to take him seriously. Also, he is rather incompetent and whenever danger is about he chickens out.
** Bulle Bas arresting Bommel for crimes he didn't commit.
** Wammes Waggel not understanding what is going on.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
** Creator/BrianMichaelBendis had a running gag in series he wrote, starting with ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', where a person would be dragged into police custody ranting about the latest silly thing going on in Marvel/DC. Bendis does this to say goodbye to Marvel by being the last victim in ''ComicBook/TheDefenders2017'', proudly proclaiming to Jessica Jones and Misty Knight that a 17-year running gag is not easy to do.
** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Black Widow accuses Quicksilver of not doing anything during
** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Long before the actual Mystique appears, Professor X is shown to have a cat named Mystique, which appears in several issues wrecking the decor of his office.
* ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': "Televator's broken."
* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'':
** Urbanus and his family waiting for Nonkel Fillemon to die and earn his fortune, only to be disappointed when he survives once again.
** Dikke Herman beaten up or injured as a victim of Urbanus' pranks or strategies.
* Several appear in ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'':
** Amazonian head hunters somehow living in Africa, and people pointing this geographical error out every time it is mentioned.
** The doctor getting slapped by the pygmy chief every time he feels greedy.
** Kombo being called Monko.
* Even ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' gets one in: Rorschach repeatedly [[OpenSaysMe breaking]] Nite Owl II's door. Which becomes important later as it gives them more time when [[spoiler:the police are trying to break down Dan's front door]].
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* ''ComicBook/{{JSA}}'': ComicBook/{{Wildcat}} regularly greets Dr. Mid-Nite with ''"[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes What's up Doc?]]"'' despite the fact that Mid-Nite felt that that particular joke ran its course decades ago.
* ''ComicBook/{{Lumberjanes}}'':
** Rosie constantly getting Jen's name wrong.
** The ArbitrarySkepticism regarding jackalopes.
** Molly never being able to find clothes or gear that fits.
* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'''s [[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili Stupendous Chili]] is the [[MasochistsMeal spiciest dish known to man]]. Oliver is incredibly proud of it but his teammates have described it as having a "foul, scorched taste", and have compared it to napalm, paint-remover, and burning tarpaper. The only ones who can eat it without crying or screaming in pain are Oliver himself and Batman.
* Franchise/TheFlash
** Having SuperSpeed doesn't stop the character(s) from repeatedly being late to meetings.
** The Flash Museum is a frequent target of supervillain attacks, getting trashed as a result.
* ''ComicBook/{{Lumberjanes}}'':
** Rosie constantly getting Jen's name wrong.
** The ArbitrarySkepticism regarding jackalopes.
** Molly never being able to find clothes or gear that fits.
* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'''s [[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili Stupendous Chili]] is the [[MasochistsMeal spiciest dish known to man]]. Oliver is incredibly proud of it but his teammates have described it as having a "foul, scorched taste", and have compared it to napalm, paint-remover, and burning tarpaper. The only ones who can eat it without crying or screaming in pain are Oliver himself and Batman.
* Franchise/TheFlash
** Having SuperSpeed doesn't stop the character(s) from repeatedly being late to meetings.
** The Flash Museum is a frequent target of supervillain attacks, getting trashed as a result.
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* ''ComicBook/{{JSA}}'': ComicBook/{{Wildcat}} regularly greets Dr. Mid-Nite with ''"[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes What's up Doc?]]"'' despite ''[[Comicbook/{{X 23}} All-New Wolverine]]'': Bellona's solution to ''every situation she finds herself in'' is to [[TriggerHappy shoot something]]. Laura finds the fact Sisters' hideout? Shoot her. Taskmaster is lying unconscious in a pool of his own blood? Shoot him. [[ItMakesSenseInContext A cabinet serving as a portal to evil starts winking at her?]] Shoot it. Need to release an Comicbook/AntMan suit from storage? ShootOutTheLock. It gets to the point that Mid-Nite felt that that particular joke ran its course decades ago.
Laura ''yelling'' at her for shooting everything has become a running gag in of itself.
*''ComicBook/{{Lumberjanes}}'':
''Comicbook/YoungJustice'':
**Rosie constantly getting Jen's name wrong.
Whenever [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] would [[CaptainObvious state the obvious]], another character would say, "Obviously you've been trained by the world's greatest detective." Even Batman got one in once.
**The ArbitrarySkepticism regarding jackalopes.
** Molly neverSuperboy's [[InsistentTerminology tactile telekinesis]] being able to find clothes or gear that fits.
* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'''s [[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili Stupendous Chili]] is the [[MasochistsMeal spiciest dish known to man]]. Oliver is incredibly proud of it but his teammates have described it as having a "foul, scorched taste", and have compared it to napalm, paint-remover, and burning tarpaper. The only ones who can eat it without crying or screaming in pain are Oliver himself and Batman.
* Franchise/TheFlash
** Having SuperSpeed doesn't stop the character(s) from repeatedly being late to meetings.
** The Flash Museum is a frequent target of supervillain attacks, getting trashed as a result.mocked by other characters.
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**
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** Molly never
* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'''s [[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili Stupendous Chili]] is the [[MasochistsMeal spiciest dish known to man]]. Oliver is incredibly proud of it but his teammates have described it as having a "foul, scorched taste", and have compared it to napalm, paint-remover, and burning tarpaper. The only ones who can eat it without crying or screaming in pain are Oliver himself and Batman.
* Franchise/TheFlash
** Having SuperSpeed doesn't stop the character(s) from repeatedly being late to meetings.
** The Flash Museum is a frequent target of supervillain attacks, getting trashed as a result.
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* Franchise/TheFlash is the "[[SuperSpeed Fastest Man Alive]]"...but that doesn't stop the character(s) from repeatedly being late to meetings.
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** Having SuperSpeed doesn't stop the character(s) from repeatedly being late tomeetings.meetings.
** The Flash Museum is a frequent target of supervillain attacks, getting trashed as a result.
** Having SuperSpeed doesn't stop the character(s) from repeatedly being late to
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* ''ComicBook/{{Animorphs}}'': Whenever someone is halfway through a feline morph, they'll call Marco "Meowrco".
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* Roxy from ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHolograms'' has one involving her and [[BigEater food]]. She's often either eating or getting ready to eat something. [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Donuts]] in particular are something she is obsessed with.
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* Roxy from ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHolograms'' ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHologramsIDW'' has one involving her and [[BigEater food]]. She's often either eating or getting ready to eat something. [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Donuts]] in particular are something she is obsessed with.
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* ''ComicBook/GreenArrow'''s [[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Green_Arrow%27s_Chili Stupendous Chili]] is the [[MasochistsMeal spiciest dish known to man]]. Oliver is incredibly proud of it but his teammates have described it as having a "foul, scorched taste", and have compared it to napalm, paint-remover, and burning tarpaper. The only ones who can eat it without crying or screaming in pain are Oliver himself and Batman.
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* Creator/BrianMichaelBendis had a running gag in series he wrote, starting with ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', where a person would be dragged into police custody ranting about the latest silly thing going on in Marvel/DC. Bendis does this to say goodbye to Marvel by being the last victim in ''ComicBook/TheDefenders2017'', proudly proclaiming to Jessica Jones and Misty Knight that a 17-year running gag is not easy to do.
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* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
** Creator/BrianMichaelBendis had a running gag in series he wrote, starting with ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', where a person would be dragged into police custody ranting about the latest silly thing going on in Marvel/DC. Bendis does this to say goodbye to Marvel by being the last victim in ''ComicBook/TheDefenders2017'', proudly proclaiming to Jessica Jones and Misty Knight that a 17-year running gag is not easy todo.do.
** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Black Widow accuses Quicksilver of not doing anything during the fight, and he claims that he saved her many times in super speed, and that it's all in the tapes.
** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Long before the actual Mystique appears, Professor X is shown to have a cat named Mystique, which appears in several issues wrecking the decor of his office.
** Creator/BrianMichaelBendis had a running gag in series he wrote, starting with ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', where a person would be dragged into police custody ranting about the latest silly thing going on in Marvel/DC. Bendis does this to say goodbye to Marvel by being the last victim in ''ComicBook/TheDefenders2017'', proudly proclaiming to Jessica Jones and Misty Knight that a 17-year running gag is not easy to
** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Black Widow accuses Quicksilver of not doing anything during the fight, and he claims that he saved her many times in super speed, and that it's all in the tapes.
** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'': Long before the actual Mystique appears, Professor X is shown to have a cat named Mystique, which appears in several issues wrecking the decor of his office.
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* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Black Widow accuses Quicksilver of not doing anything during the fight, and he claims that he saved her many times in super speed, and that it's all in the tapes.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Lumberjanes}}'':
** Rosie constantly getting Jen's name wrong.
** The ArbitrarySkepticism regarding jackalopes.
** Molly never being able to find clothes or gear that fits.
** Rosie constantly getting Jen's name wrong.
** The ArbitrarySkepticism regarding jackalopes.
** Molly never being able to find clothes or gear that fits.
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** [[PeepingTom The unnamed Mummy]] trying to spy on Melusine in her bedroom.
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** [[PeepingTom [[ThePeepingTom The unnamed Mummy]] trying to spy on Melusine in her bedroom.
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*** In ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'', comics written and set after ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' but before ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' have Luke and Leia, mutually attracted, often start to touch or talk about their relationship before they are interrupted. Usually by the plot. It happens with some regularity, and [[SurpriseIncest good thing, too]].
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*** In ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'', ''ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977'', comics written and set after ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' but before ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' have Luke and Leia, mutually attracted, often start to touch or talk about their relationship before they are interrupted. Usually by the plot. It happens with some regularity, and [[SurpriseIncest good thing, too]].
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' & ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': (Golden Age) People would often congratulate ComicBook/SteveTrevor on Wonder Woman's achievements, and treat him like such a humble guy while he tried in vain to convince them he wasn't responsible, merely present. To his annoyance Diana Prince would sometimes gleefully be the one to do so, in the presence of others, since it helped her maintain her SecretIdentity.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' & ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': (Golden Age) People would often congratulate ComicBook/SteveTrevor on Wonder Woman's Franchise/WonderWoman's achievements, and treat him like such a humble guy while he tried in vain to convince them he wasn't responsible, merely present. To his annoyance Diana Prince would sometimes gleefully be the one to do so, in the presence of others, since it helped her maintain her SecretIdentity.
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* Ever since [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries the animated series]], Batman doing a StealthHiBye on people has been a mild running gag. In ''ComicBook/BatmanBeyond'' Terry does it to ''him'', and Bruce responds with "[[SoProudOfYou nice]]".
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* In ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'', whenever [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] would [[CaptainObvious state the obvious]], another character would say, "Obviously you've been trained by the world's greatest detective." Even Batman got one in once.
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* In ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'', whenever any Creator/{{Marvel}} comic with a Silver Age-esque character origin, you ''will'' hear the words [[InsistentTerminology mild-mannered]] to describe the main character. One ''ComicBook/MarvelAdventures'' story had [[ComicBook/HumanTorch Johnny Storm]] teleported to an AlternateUniverse where mild-mannered scientist [[ComicBook/DoctorDoom Victor Von Doom]] became [[GoodCounterpart Doc Iron]] to combat the [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Frightful Four]].
* ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'':
** Whenever [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] would [[CaptainObvious state the obvious]], another character would say, "Obviously you've been trained by the world's greatest detective." Even Batman got one inonce.once.
** Superboy's [[InsistentTerminology tactile telekinesis]] being mocked by other characters.
* ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'':
** Whenever [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] would [[CaptainObvious state the obvious]], another character would say, "Obviously you've been trained by the world's greatest detective." Even Batman got one in
** Superboy's [[InsistentTerminology tactile telekinesis]] being mocked by other characters.
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* ''Mélusine'', a FrancoBelgianComics about a witch going to WizardingSchool, has many funny recurring jokes:
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* ''Mélusine'', ''ComicBook/{{Melusine}}'', a FrancoBelgianComics about a witch going to WizardingSchool, has many funny recurring jokes:
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** The teacher needing someone to fetch a dangerous ingredient or testing a spell and [[GotVolunteered Mélusine is picked up by the other students]].
** [[HollywoodDateless Mélusine inhability to find a boyfriend despite her good looks and magical talents]].
** Mélusine helping commoners with her magic and [[BurnTheWitch being sent to a burning stake]] [[UngratefulBastard by the very same people she helped]].
** [[HollywoodDateless Mélusine inhability to find a boyfriend despite her good looks and magical talents]].
** Mélusine helping commoners with her magic and [[BurnTheWitch being sent to a burning stake]] [[UngratefulBastard by the very same people she helped]].
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** The teacher needing someone to fetch a dangerous ingredient or testing a spell and [[GotVolunteered Mélusine Melusine is picked up by the other students]].
** [[HollywoodDatelessMélusine inhability Melusine inability to find a boyfriend despite her good looks and magical talents]].
**Mélusine Melusine helping commoners with her magic and [[BurnTheWitch being sent to a burning stake]] [[UngratefulBastard by the very same people she helped]].
** [[HollywoodDateless
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** [[BurnTheWitch The local pastor trying to capture Mélusine]], but fails every time because she outsmart him every time.
** [[PeepingTom The unnamed Mummy]] trying to spy on Mélusine in her bedroom.
** Alembert, one of Mélusine's friend and a muscular werewolf, doesn't want to be seen by her during daytime because he is a diminutive and ugly human.
** [[PeepingTom The unnamed Mummy]] trying to spy on Mélusine in her bedroom.
** Alembert, one of Mélusine's friend and a muscular werewolf, doesn't want to be seen by her during daytime because he is a diminutive and ugly human.
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** [[BurnTheWitch The local pastor trying to capture Mélusine]], Melusine]], but fails every time because she outsmart him every time.
** [[PeepingTom The unnamed Mummy]] trying to spy onMélusine Melusine in her bedroom.
** Alembert, one ofMélusine's Melusine's friend and a muscular werewolf, doesn't want to be seen by her during daytime because he is a diminutive and ugly human.
** [[PeepingTom The unnamed Mummy]] trying to spy on
** Alembert, one of
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* ''ComicBook/{{JSA}}'': ComicBook/{{Wildcat}} regularly greets Dr. Mid-Nite with ''"[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes What's up Doc?]]"'' despite the fact that Mid-Nite felt that that particular joke ran its course decades ago.
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* ''ComicBook/AmericaVsTheJusticeSociety'': At least three times in Wonder Woman's retelling of Per Degaton's exploits, whenever he is made to forget those events, he ends up talking to Professor Zee about having dreams of being the ruler of the world, and Professor Zee responds by telling him to clean up his test tubes.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' & ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': (Golden Age) People would often congratulate ComicBook/SteveTrevor on Wonder Woman's achievements, and treat him like such a humble guy while he tried in vain to convince them he wasn't responsible, merely present. To his annoyance Diana Prince would sometimes gleefully be the one to do so, in the presence of others, since it helped her maintain her SecretIdentity.
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** Lambik makes a CaptainObvious conclusion or says or does something else remotedly stupid. For instance he'll be master of a situation, but tricked into leaving or giving his gun to his opponents, allowing them to run away.
** Jerom doing a remarkable stunt, showcasing his superstrength.
** Krimson getting a nervous attack and screaming for his pills, which are then brought by his butler.
* ''ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}''
** Filiberke playing something and staying in character throughout the entire story.
** Professor Gobelijn making confusing mistakes that are the exact opposite of what he meant.
** Flip the parrot insulting others.
* ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'':
** Inspecteur Sapperdeboere being more interested in eating than solving cases.
** Balthazar screwing up a crime he was trying to commit or driving his fellow criminals crazy with his stupidity.
** Fernand Goegebuer spitting everybody full with saliva whenever he speaks.
** An unknown obese woman appearing in a cameo like she does every album.
** Moemoe manipulating everybody into getting what she wants.
** Van De Kasseien committing adultery with one of his secretaries, call girls, prostitutes or other women.
* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'':
** Urbanus and his family waiting for Nonkel Fillemon to die and earn his fortune, only to be disappointed when he survives once again.
** Dikke Herman beaten up or injured as a victim of Urbanus' pranks or strategies.
* ''ComicBook/{{Agent 327}}'': [=IJzerbroot=] arriving at this office at the start of each album in a disguise, then complaining ''What a secret agent has to do nowadays to get to his office incognito.''
** Jerom doing a remarkable stunt, showcasing his superstrength.
** Krimson getting a nervous attack and screaming for his pills, which are then brought by his butler.
* ''ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}''
** Filiberke playing something and staying in character throughout the entire story.
** Professor Gobelijn making confusing mistakes that are the exact opposite of what he meant.
** Flip the parrot insulting others.
* ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'':
** Inspecteur Sapperdeboere being more interested in eating than solving cases.
** Balthazar screwing up a crime he was trying to commit or driving his fellow criminals crazy with his stupidity.
** Fernand Goegebuer spitting everybody full with saliva whenever he speaks.
** An unknown obese woman appearing in a cameo like she does every album.
** Moemoe manipulating everybody into getting what she wants.
** Van De Kasseien committing adultery with one of his secretaries, call girls, prostitutes or other women.
* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'':
** Urbanus and his family waiting for Nonkel Fillemon to die and earn his fortune, only to be disappointed when he survives once again.
** Dikke Herman beaten up or injured as a victim of Urbanus' pranks or strategies.
* ''ComicBook/{{Agent 327}}'': [=IJzerbroot=] arriving at this office at the start of each album in a disguise, then complaining ''What a secret agent has to do nowadays to get to his office incognito.''
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** Jerom doing a remarkable stunt, showcasing his superstrength.
** Krimson getting a nervous attack and screaming for his pills, which are then brought by his butler.
* ''ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}''
** Filiberke playing something and staying in character throughout the entire story.
** Professor Gobelijn making confusing mistakes that are the exact opposite of what he meant.
** Flip the parrot insulting others.
* ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'':
** Inspecteur Sapperdeboere being more interested in eating than solving cases.
** Balthazar screwing up a crime he was trying to commit or driving his fellow criminals crazy with his stupidity.
** Fernand Goegebuer spitting everybody full with saliva whenever he speaks.
** An unknown obese woman appearing in a cameo like she does every album.
** Moemoe manipulating everybody into getting what she wants.
** Van De Kasseien committing adultery with one of his secretaries, call girls, prostitutes or other women.
* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'':
** Urbanus and his family waiting for Nonkel Fillemon to die and earn his fortune, only to be disappointed when he survives once again.
** Dikke Herman beaten up or injured as a victim of Urbanus' pranks or strategies.
* ''ComicBook/{{Agent 327}}'': [=IJzerbroot=] arriving at this office at the start of each album in a disguise, then complaining ''What a secret agent has to do nowadays to get to his office incognito.''
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* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'':
** Wiske is curious about something and brings herself into trouble by doing so.
** Suske gets attention from other women and Wiske gets jealous.
** Tante Sidonia getting a nervous attack and stiffening in shock.
** Jokes at the expense of Sidonia's nose, thin body and large feet, usually by Lambik, who gets her shoe thrown against his head.
** Wiske is curious about something and brings herself into trouble by doing so.
** Suske gets attention from other women and Wiske gets jealous.
** Tante Sidonia getting a nervous attack and stiffening in shock.
** Jokes at the expense of Sidonia's nose, thin body and large feet, usually by Lambik, who gets her shoe thrown against his head.
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** Wiske is curious about something and brings herself into trouble by doing so.
** Suske gets attention from other women and Wiske gets jealous.
** Tante Sidonia getting a nervous attack and stiffening in shock.
** Jokes at the expense of Sidonia's nose, thin body and large feet, usually by Lambik, who gets her shoe thrown against his head.
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* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':
** Rataplan the dog making wrong interpretations of what is going around him or reacting too late.
** Averell not understanding what's going on and being more interested in food.
** Joe getting worked up over his hatred of Lucky Luke.
** Rataplan the dog making wrong interpretations of what is going around him or reacting too late.
** Averell not understanding what's going on and being more interested in food.
** Joe getting worked up over his hatred of Lucky Luke.
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** Rataplan the dog making wrong interpretations of what is going around him or reacting too late.
** Averell not understanding what's going on and being more interested in food.
** Joe getting worked up over his hatred of Lucky Luke.
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* ''ComicBook/LesTuniquesBleues'': Blutch trying to desert and his superior trying to get back at him for this.
* ''ComicBook/{{Cubitus}}'': Cubitus trying to find a way to beat Sénéchal up.
* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Mr. De Mesmaeker arriving to have the contracts signed, but Gaston time and time and in various ways preventing the plan from actually being achieved.
* ''ComicBook/{{Cubitus}}'': Cubitus trying to find a way to beat Sénéchal up.
* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Mr. De Mesmaeker arriving to have the contracts signed, but Gaston time and time and in various ways preventing the plan from actually being achieved.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Cubitus}}'': Cubitus trying to find a way to beat Sénéchal up.
* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Mr. De Mesmaeker arriving to have the contracts signed, but Gaston time and time and in various ways preventing the plan from actually being achieved.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''
** The hapless pirates get sunk [[OnceAnEpisode once every issue]]. Sometimes twice. In one book, they give up the pirate life to open a (boat-shaped) restaurant. It gets trashed.
*** And every sinking is drawn to resemble, in some way, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]'', a famous painting by Théodore Géricault.
** Caesar's tendency to refer to himself in the third person. This was a reference to Caesar's Commentaries on the Civil War and the War in Gaul, where he constantly refers to himself in the third person, to the point that the reader can lose sight of the fact that Caesar isn't writing history but self-justifying propaganda.
** Cacofonix, about to sing an ode for the occasion, being violently silenced by Fulliautomatix, or BoundAndGagged against a tree if it's time for the [[EveryEpisodeEnding big feast at the end of the adventure]].
** Obelix's constant attempt to get a taste of the magic potion.
** Obelix' denial he's obese.
** Vitalstatistix falling off his shield.
** Asterix is of "undeterminate age".
** The hapless pirates get sunk [[OnceAnEpisode once every issue]]. Sometimes twice. In one book, they give up the pirate life to open a (boat-shaped) restaurant. It gets trashed.
*** And every sinking is drawn to resemble, in some way, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]'', a famous painting by Théodore Géricault.
** Caesar's tendency to refer to himself in the third person. This was a reference to Caesar's Commentaries on the Civil War and the War in Gaul, where he constantly refers to himself in the third person, to the point that the reader can lose sight of the fact that Caesar isn't writing history but self-justifying propaganda.
** Cacofonix, about to sing an ode for the occasion, being violently silenced by Fulliautomatix, or BoundAndGagged against a tree if it's time for the [[EveryEpisodeEnding big feast at the end of the adventure]].
** Obelix's constant attempt to get a taste of the magic potion.
** Obelix' denial he's obese.
** Vitalstatistix falling off his shield.
** Asterix is of "undeterminate age".
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** The hapless pirates get sunk [[OnceAnEpisode once every issue]]. Sometimes twice. In one book, they give up the pirate life to open a (boat-shaped) restaurant. It gets trashed.
*** And every sinking is drawn to resemble, in some way, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]'', a famous painting by Théodore Géricault.
** Caesar's tendency to refer to himself in the third person. This was a reference to Caesar's Commentaries on the Civil War and the War in Gaul, where he constantly refers to himself in the third person, to the point that the reader can lose sight of the fact that Caesar isn't writing history but self-justifying propaganda.
** Cacofonix, about to sing an ode for the occasion, being violently silenced by Fulliautomatix, or BoundAndGagged against a tree if it's time for the [[EveryEpisodeEnding big feast at the end of the adventure]].
** Obelix's constant attempt to get a taste of the magic potion.
** Obelix' denial he's obese.
** Vitalstatistix falling off his shield.
** Asterix is of "undeterminate age".
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* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Black Widow accuses Quicksilver of not doing anything during the fight, and he claims that he saved her many times in super speed, and that it's all in the tapes.
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* In ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'', comics written and set after ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' but before ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' have Luke and Leia, mutually attracted, often start to touch or talk about their relationship before they are interrupted. Usually by the plot. It happens with some regularity, and [[SurpriseIncest good thing, too]].
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* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': Caleb's associates and friends keep calling him "Kid," [[BerserkButton much to his annoyance]].
** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
*** In ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'', comics written and set after ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' but before ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' have Luke and Leia, mutually attracted, often start to touch or talk about their relationship before they are interrupted. Usually by the plot. It happens with some regularity, and [[SurpriseIncest good thing, too]].
** ''ComicBook/StarWarsKanan'': Caleb's associates and friends keep calling him "Kid," [[BerserkButton much to his annoyance]].
** ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
*** In ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'', comics written and set after ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' but before ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' have Luke and Leia, mutually attracted, often start to touch or talk about their relationship before they are interrupted. Usually by the plot. It happens with some regularity, and [[SurpriseIncest good thing, too]].
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* ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie'' has several, the most common ones being Basile trying to sleep in and getting a violent awakening from his master, and the AmusingInjuries he suffers during building and/or testing Léonard's latest invention.
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* ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie'' has several, the most common ones being Basile trying to sleep in and getting a violent awakening wake-up call from his master, and the AmusingInjuries he suffers during building and/or testing Léonard's latest invention.
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* ''ComicBook/LeonardLeGenie'' has several, the most common ones being Basile trying to sleep in and getting a violent awakening from his master, and the AmusingInjuries he suffers during building and/or testing Léonard's latest invention.
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** Dick Grayson ([[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder Age 12]]) has his own running gag. Guess which part of Dick Grayson (age 12) is the gag.
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** ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'': Dick Grayson ([[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder Age 12]]) (age 12) has his own running gag. Guess which part of Dick Grayson (age 12) is the gag.gag.
** The St Patrick's Day issue of ''Webcomic/LilGotham'' has its own running gag: Batman has a busy day rounding up villains and hauling them off to jail in the back seat of the Batmobile, and every one of them remarks that they hadn't realised the Batmobile even ''had'' a back seat.
** The St Patrick's Day issue of ''Webcomic/LilGotham'' has its own running gag: Batman has a busy day rounding up villains and hauling them off to jail in the back seat of the Batmobile, and every one of them remarks that they hadn't realised the Batmobile even ''had'' a back seat.
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!!Comic series with their own pages' worth of running gags:
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* ''RunningGag/ScottPilgrim''
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!!Other series:
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spider-Man's reaction to whenever clones are brought up.
* ''ComicBook/TheAutumnlandsToothAndClaw'' has the lone human character's shaving which is a completely foreign activity to the setting's [[PettingZooPeople anthropomorphic animal]] inhabitants.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', the insult "Stupid, stupid rat creatures!" is a RunningGag, as is one of the rat creature's fondness for quiche and the other's insistence that monsters should act a certain way.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** In the miniseries ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', the titular heroine often imagines her relatives trying to get rid of her by tying her to a rocket and blasting her off into space.
--->'''Supergirl:''' Why are people always launching me into space?!!
** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the titular Bizarro character being knocked across the city and losing one boot in the process. The second time it happens, she screams: "Not Agaaaaaiiinnnn!"
* In ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'', whenever [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] would [[CaptainObvious state the obvious]], another character would say, "Obviously you've been trained by the world's greatest detective." Even Batman got one in once.
* ''ComicBook/NikolaiDante'' encounters a seemingly unlimited supply of the Arbatov family; each of whom announce their intention to avenge the death of the previous Arbatov at the hands of Nikolai. Invariably they are themselves promptly despatched, to be avenged by later Arbatovs.
* ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' has to be one of the kings of this trope: from defining "mulch" at every opportunity (or just randomly defining it for no reason at all) for five years straight, the titular character's ridiculous exclamations ("Hah! You take me for the fool I am!" "As any fool can plainly see."/"I can plainly see that!", "Groo does what Groo does best!", "Did I err?", etc.), ships sinking the instant Groo gets anywhere near them (unless his dog is with him), the name of the Sage's dog, Groo getting chased out of the city by every single person ''in'' the city, Drumm continually wanting to know "What pirates?" (and, later, alternating that with "You never bought ''me'' a house..."), Groo's dog never quite realizing how stupid Groo actually is, Captain Ahax going insane every time he's exposed to Groo (since the latter has a habit of continually sinking the ships under the former's command), "Must be stupid."/"Must be Groo."... and that's not even touching the 25 years worth of running gags in the letter columns.
** Every issue also had a [[spoiler: hidden message]].
** Also, whenever prompted to remember or not forget something, or sometimes just when he's got nothing to add to a conversation, Groo responds with "I am the Prince of Chichester!".
* Even ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' gets one in: Rorschach repeatedly [[OpenSaysMe breaking]] Nite Owl II's door. Which becomes important later as it gives them more time when [[spoiler:the police are trying to break down Dan's front door]].
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} is not an X-Man. Or a mutant.
* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'':
** Thomson's and Thompson's introduction: "Thompson, with a ''p'', as in Philadelphia [the ''p'' is never pronounced with a ''p'' sound], Thomson, without a ''p'', as in Venezuela";
** Captain Haddock's obscure "obscenities";
** Snowy's alcohol problem;
** The fact that Prof. Calculus is hard of hearing and therefore can never hear a sentence correctly;
** Captain Haddock's inability of keeping his monocle intact;
** Tintin and Haddock's inability to hide from Castafiore and her singing;
** In ''The Broken Ear'', San Theodoros' constant (once every 10 minutes at one point) revolutions, and a bumbling assassin's inability to kill Tintin;
** Thompson and Thomson's tendency to dress in outlandish and completely out-of-place ethnic costumes in order to "hide undercover";
** People trying to call someone and getting Cutts the butcher, or vice versa.
** In a history of the making of Tintin, the author states that Snowy himself started as "a literal 'running gag.'"
** In ''The Calculus Affair'', Captain Haddock has a piece of sticking plaster put on his nose, and when he tosses it away, it winds up being passed around the ''entire plane'' before he finally chucks it out the hotel window. Referenced later in ''Flight 714'' when Haddock says he had trouble with sticking plaster.
** ''The Castafiore Emerald'' has ''several'' of these:
*** People constantly falling down the broken step.
*** "Hellooo - I can hear you!" / "Allo! J'écou-ou-oute!"
*** "MERCI! MY JEWELS!" / "CIEL! MES BIJOUX!
*** "No, this is ''not'' Cutts the Butcher." / "Non, Monsieur/Madame, ce n'est pas la Boucherie Sanzot!"
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''
** The hapless pirates get sunk [[OnceAnEpisode once every issue]]. Sometimes twice. In one book, they give up the pirate life to open a (boat-shaped) restaurant. It gets trashed.
*** And every sinking is drawn to resemble, in some way, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]'', a famous painting by Théodore Géricault.
** Caesar's tendency to refer to himself in the third person. This was a reference to Caesar's Commentaries on the Civil War and the War in Gaul, where he constantly refers to himself in the third person, to the point that the reader can lose sight of the fact that Caesar isn't writing history but self-justifying propaganda.
** Cacofonix, about to sing an ode for the occasion, being violently silenced by Fulliautomatix, or BoundAndGagged against a tree if it's time for the [[EveryEpisodeEnding big feast at the end of the adventure]].
** Obelix's constant attempt to get a taste of the magic potion.
** Obelix' denial he's obese.
** Vitalstatistix falling off his shield.
** Asterix is of "undeterminate age".
* In classic ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'', Wulf had a habit of replacing some random word in a figure of speech with the word ''cucumber'', such as "Ve are cool as der cucumber" or "He ran as qvick as der cucumber".
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** Every time someone meets him for the first time, they inevitably comment that they thought he'd be taller.
** This even extends to other members of the Batfamily, such as [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] (who, to be fair, is a good 4 inches shorter than Bruce, so it's obvious when he's dressed as Batman that he's shorter than the original guy) and Tim Drake (it's mentioned in ''Young Justice'').
** ComicBook/RedRobin is often mistaken and compared with Dr. Midnight due to the original costume's red vest and cowl looking similar to that of the older hero. Tim gets fairly exasperated when his even his friends like [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie]] get in on it.
** Dick Grayson ([[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder Age 12]]) has his own running gag. Guess which part of Dick Grayson (age 12) is the gag.
* Ever since ''ComicBook/OrientMen'' tried unsuccessfully to fix an Eskimo's broken radiator, the Eskimo kept following him all over the world and appearing at the end of nearly every episode, asking random bystanders whether they can fix his radiator.
* A little background for this one: In ''ComicBook/MidnightNation'', it turns out that Lazarus CameBackWrong, and was told by Jesus to wait until Jesus would return. Lazarus mistakenly thought that Jesus would be coming right back after having a little dinner with 12 of his best friends... that didn't work out so well, and 2,000 years later Lazarus is still waiting. So, the actual gag is that whenever someone around him says "Jesus" in reaction to something, Lazarus responds by asking, "Where?"
* Artist Leinil Yu has been known to sneak ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' into everything he draws, especially during huge spreads with lots of heroes where Howard won't be as easily noticed. Nobody knows why except Leinil.
* Franchise/TheDCU's ''ComicBook/{{Invasion}}'' miniseries frames several of its scenes as television newscasts. Whenever a reporter tries to interview one of the heroes, the hero invariably replies with, "Get that @%&£$€# camera out of my face!"
* In ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'', comics written and set after ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' but before ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' have Luke and Leia, mutually attracted, often start to touch or talk about their relationship before they are interrupted. Usually by the plot. It happens with some regularity, and [[SurpriseIncest good thing, too]].
* Flax Seed and his obsession with Filthy Rich's billboard in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #3.
-->'''Flax Seed:''' I always, like, feel like he's watching me. His eyes move with me. Always watching... never sleeping...
* The Dutch comic ''ComicBook/DeGeneraal'' is full of these, with the most frequent one being a literal running gag: The eponymous general would always flatten the local cop's motorbike (and usually the poor guy himself too) under his tank or other DoomsdayDevice while on his way to the fortress he was forever trying to conquer. A later comic stated that the motorbike factory was "the cork that kept the Dutch economy afloat".
* In the classic ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' parody of ''G.I. Joe'', any woman who expressed a desire to talk to the hero would fling herself onto his lap and say, "Hey, Joe! You got chewing gum?" This gag resurfaced in at least one later ''Mad'' feature.
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Tim's girlfriend Stephanie has a poster of a flirtatiously smirking Superboy (Kon-El) hanging over her bed that annoys Tim to no end, even though he quickly gives up asking her to take it down. The thing remains even after she learns that Kon is Tim's best friend and meets and befriends him herself, it's shown every time the inside of her bedroom appears on panel.
* ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'':
** Kon-El's jacket gets ruined or stolen in almost every issue at first despite his attempts to keep it safe. As he further develops his TTK this stops happening so much since he is able to expand his protective field around it more consistently.
** Kon's constant attempts to explain his tactile telekinesis while fighting gets interrupted pretty regularly, often with someone else cutting him off to give a shorter explanation, or for whomever he's fighting to tell him they already know since he's constantly talking about his powers.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'': Any time Juan López enters a subway station, he'll absent-mindedly start ordering breakfast instead of asking for a ticket; ''then'' he'll go into a bar and order a ticket instead of breakfast. Sometimes it's because he's lost in thought, sometimes it's just plain stress, exhaustion or sleepiness.
* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'':
** Wiske is curious about something and brings herself into trouble by doing so.
** Suske gets attention from other women and Wiske gets jealous.
** Tante Sidonia getting a nervous attack and stiffening in shock.
** Jokes at the expense of Sidonia's nose, thin body and large feet, usually by Lambik, who gets her shoe thrown against his head.
** Lambik makes a CaptainObvious conclusion or says or does something else remotedly stupid. For instance he'll be master of a situation, but tricked into leaving or giving his gun to his opponents, allowing them to run away.
** Jerom doing a remarkable stunt, showcasing his superstrength.
** Krimson getting a nervous attack and screaming for his pills, which are then brought by his butler.
* ''ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}''
** Filiberke playing something and staying in character throughout the entire story.
** Professor Gobelijn making confusing mistakes that are the exact opposite of what he meant.
** Flip the parrot insulting others.
* ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'':
** Inspecteur Sapperdeboere being more interested in eating than solving cases.
** Balthazar screwing up a crime he was trying to commit or driving his fellow criminals crazy with his stupidity.
** Fernand Goegebuer spitting everybody full with saliva whenever he speaks.
** An unknown obese woman appearing in a cameo like she does every album.
** Moemoe manipulating everybody into getting what she wants.
** Van De Kasseien committing adultery with one of his secretaries, call girls, prostitutes or other women.
* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'':
** Urbanus and his family waiting for Nonkel Fillemon to die and earn his fortune, only to be disappointed when he survives once again.
** Dikke Herman beaten up or injured as a victim of Urbanus' pranks or strategies.
* ''ComicBook/{{Agent 327}}'': [=IJzerbroot=] arriving at this office at the start of each album in a disguise, then complaining ''What a secret agent has to do nowadays to get to his office incognito.''
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':
** Rataplan the dog making wrong interpretations of what is going around him or reacting too late.
** Averell not understanding what's going on and being more interested in food.
** Joe getting worked up over his hatred of Lucky Luke.
* ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'':
** Peewit trying to sing and play the harp, only to have everyone run away or find an excuse not to listen to him.
* ''ComicBook/TomPoes'':
** Marquis de Canteclaer looking down upon Bommel and insulting him every which way he can.
** Wal Rus mispronouncing Bommel's name.
** Garmt Grootgrut complaining that ''the small proprietorship is once again the victim''.
** Bommel always boasts about his talents, achievements and aristocratic background, but nobody seems to take him seriously. Also, he is rather incompetent and whenever danger is about he chickens out.
** Bulle Bas arresting Bommel for crimes he didn't commit.
** Wammes Waggel not understanding what is going on.
* ''ComicBook/GillesDeGeus'':
** Admiral Lumey's self importance and clumsiness resulting in him getting into trouble or serious temper tantrums.
** Leo never saying more thant ''Hee''.
* ''ComicBook/BenoitBrisefer'': Benoit doing something to help others, but not realizing his own strength actually makes things worse, so he exclaims: ''Oh dear, what have I done now?''
* ''ComicBook/LesTuniquesBleues'': Blutch trying to desert and his superior trying to get back at him for this.
* ''ComicBook/{{Cubitus}}'': Cubitus trying to find a way to beat Sénéchal up.
* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Mr. De Mesmaeker arriving to have the contracts signed, but Gaston time and time and in various ways preventing the plan from actually being achieved.
* ''ComicBook/PierreTombal'': Scaring off other people by interacting with the living skeletons at his cemetery.
* Somebody gets the drop on Kick-Ass/Dave in every issue of ''ComicBook/KickAss'', usually attacking from behind.
** [[spoiler:Turned around when Hit Girl saves Kick-Ass the first time - someone gets the drop on THEM.]]
** [[spoiler:Turned around again in Volume 2 Issue #1 when two guys get the drop on Kick-Ass and HE kicks THEIR asses.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': "Televator's broken."
* ''ComicBook/RadioactiveMan'':
** Radioactive Man cannot enter or leave any building except by breaking through the wall.
** Captain Squid longing to hold Lure Lass, but knowing she will be repulsed upon learning of his freakish squid-like tentacles. In the same panel, Lure Lass hopes Captain Squid will stop being so cold and distracted, and yearns for the touch of his freakish squid-like tentacles.
** Miles Mando having a different secret identity in every appearance.
** Something happens that reflects superhero comics at the time the issue was actually published. The characters [[ItWillNeverCatchOn scoff at the idea]] that such a thing will become widespread.
* Several appear in ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'':
** Amazonian head hunters somehow living in Africa, and people pointing this geographical error out every time it is mentioned.
** The doctor getting slapped by the pygmy chief every time he feels greedy.
** Kombo being called Monko.
* Roxy from ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHolograms'' has one involving her and [[BigEater food]]. She's often either eating or getting ready to eat something. [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Donuts]] in particular are something she is obsessed with.
* ''[[Comicbook/{{X 23}} All-New Wolverine]]'': Bellona's solution to ''every situation she finds herself in'' is to [[TriggerHappy shoot something]]. Laura finds the Sisters' hideout? Shoot her. Taskmaster is lying unconscious in a pool of his own blood? Shoot him. [[ItMakesSenseInContext A cabinet serving as a portal to evil starts winking at her?]] Shoot it. Need to release an Comicbook/AntMan suit from storage? ShootOutTheLock. It gets to the point that Laura ''yelling'' at her for shooting everything has become a running gag in of itself.
* ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' has regular running gags about the Third and Fourth Doctors working with UNIT in either the Seventies or the Eighties, a reference to the notorious ContinuitySnarl surrounding those stories' in-universe timeline.
* Creator/BrianMichaelBendis had a running gag in series he wrote, starting with ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', where a person would be dragged into police custody ranting about the latest silly thing going on in Marvel/DC. Bendis does this to say goodbye to Marvel by being the last victim in ''ComicBook/TheDefenders2017'', proudly proclaiming to Jessica Jones and Misty Knight that a 17-year running gag is not easy to do.
* ''Mélusine'', a FrancoBelgianComics about a witch going to WizardingSchool, has many funny recurring jokes:
** Classes are suspended because of an incident or a prank by the students.
** The teacher needing someone to fetch a dangerous ingredient or testing a spell and [[GotVolunteered Mélusine is picked up by the other students]].
** [[HollywoodDateless Mélusine inhability to find a boyfriend despite her good looks and magical talents]].
** Mélusine helping commoners with her magic and [[BurnTheWitch being sent to a burning stake]] [[UngratefulBastard by the very same people she helped]].
** [[TheKlutz Cancrelune]] [[CaptainCrash crashing]] with her FlyingBroomstick in various ways, sometime many times in the same page.
** [[TheChewToy Cancrelune]] brewing a potion with ExplosiveResults.
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent The Count Gonzague Hernyvanz]] being turned to ash by accident and [[UnexplainedRecovery comes back unscathed the next time]].
** [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Mélisande]] showing up unannounced and causing a commotion.
** [[BurnTheWitch The local pastor trying to capture Mélusine]], but fails every time because she outsmart him every time.
** [[PeepingTom The unnamed Mummy]] trying to spy on Mélusine in her bedroom.
** Alembert, one of Mélusine's friend and a muscular werewolf, doesn't want to be seen by her during daytime because he is a diminutive and ugly human.
* ''Robin Dubois'', a parody of ''Myth/RobinHood'' has several running gags:
** [[ButtMonkey Sheriff Fritz Alwill]] being robbed [[WithFriendsLikeThese by his friend Robin]].
** [[HenpeckedHusband The Sheriff]] using various schemes to sneak up his overbearing wife and get a drink with his buddies at the local tavern. Most of the times he fails, while [[ThrowTheDogABone sometimes he does succeed]] only for his wife to get revenge when he returns home. Other times, he makes it to the tavern, but he can't enter it because of some reason like annual vacation.
** The postman having nothing to deliver to the Sheriff or delivering unwanted mail like the post office's calendar or tax filling forms.
** The tax collector coming to collect his due and ruining someone's day, usually the Sheriff.
** The Teutonic Knights speaking with their heavy accent and no one can understand them.
* In ''Rubine'', the titular character always try to take a bath or a shower, only to be interrupted by some random event either that be a telephone call, a doorbell ringing or thugs coming to kill her.
** Another gag is Rubine's mother pestering her to get married so [[IWantGrandkids she can have grandchildren]].
* ''ComicBook/ThePhantom'' has endless variations on this exchange.
--> You can't bring that dog in here!
--> Devil is a wolf.
--> Well... you can't bring a wild animal in here.
--> Devil is completely tame.
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* ''RunningGag/ScottPilgrim''
[[/index]]
!!Other series:
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spider-Man's reaction to whenever clones are brought up.
* ''ComicBook/TheAutumnlandsToothAndClaw'' has the lone human character's shaving which is a completely foreign activity to the setting's [[PettingZooPeople anthropomorphic animal]] inhabitants.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', the insult "Stupid, stupid rat creatures!" is a RunningGag, as is one of the rat creature's fondness for quiche and the other's insistence that monsters should act a certain way.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** In the miniseries ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInThe8thGrade'', the titular heroine often imagines her relatives trying to get rid of her by tying her to a rocket and blasting her off into space.
--->'''Supergirl:''' Why are people always launching me into space?!!
** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the titular Bizarro character being knocked across the city and losing one boot in the process. The second time it happens, she screams: "Not Agaaaaaiiinnnn!"
* In ''Comicbook/YoungJustice'', whenever [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] would [[CaptainObvious state the obvious]], another character would say, "Obviously you've been trained by the world's greatest detective." Even Batman got one in once.
* ''ComicBook/NikolaiDante'' encounters a seemingly unlimited supply of the Arbatov family; each of whom announce their intention to avenge the death of the previous Arbatov at the hands of Nikolai. Invariably they are themselves promptly despatched, to be avenged by later Arbatovs.
* ''ComicBook/GrooTheWanderer'' has to be one of the kings of this trope: from defining "mulch" at every opportunity (or just randomly defining it for no reason at all) for five years straight, the titular character's ridiculous exclamations ("Hah! You take me for the fool I am!" "As any fool can plainly see."/"I can plainly see that!", "Groo does what Groo does best!", "Did I err?", etc.), ships sinking the instant Groo gets anywhere near them (unless his dog is with him), the name of the Sage's dog, Groo getting chased out of the city by every single person ''in'' the city, Drumm continually wanting to know "What pirates?" (and, later, alternating that with "You never bought ''me'' a house..."), Groo's dog never quite realizing how stupid Groo actually is, Captain Ahax going insane every time he's exposed to Groo (since the latter has a habit of continually sinking the ships under the former's command), "Must be stupid."/"Must be Groo."... and that's not even touching the 25 years worth of running gags in the letter columns.
** Every issue also had a [[spoiler: hidden message]].
** Also, whenever prompted to remember or not forget something, or sometimes just when he's got nothing to add to a conversation, Groo responds with "I am the Prince of Chichester!".
* Even ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' gets one in: Rorschach repeatedly [[OpenSaysMe breaking]] Nite Owl II's door. Which becomes important later as it gives them more time when [[spoiler:the police are trying to break down Dan's front door]].
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} is not an X-Man. Or a mutant.
* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'':
** Thomson's and Thompson's introduction: "Thompson, with a ''p'', as in Philadelphia [the ''p'' is never pronounced with a ''p'' sound], Thomson, without a ''p'', as in Venezuela";
** Captain Haddock's obscure "obscenities";
** Snowy's alcohol problem;
** The fact that Prof. Calculus is hard of hearing and therefore can never hear a sentence correctly;
** Captain Haddock's inability of keeping his monocle intact;
** Tintin and Haddock's inability to hide from Castafiore and her singing;
** In ''The Broken Ear'', San Theodoros' constant (once every 10 minutes at one point) revolutions, and a bumbling assassin's inability to kill Tintin;
** Thompson and Thomson's tendency to dress in outlandish and completely out-of-place ethnic costumes in order to "hide undercover";
** People trying to call someone and getting Cutts the butcher, or vice versa.
** In a history of the making of Tintin, the author states that Snowy himself started as "a literal 'running gag.'"
** In ''The Calculus Affair'', Captain Haddock has a piece of sticking plaster put on his nose, and when he tosses it away, it winds up being passed around the ''entire plane'' before he finally chucks it out the hotel window. Referenced later in ''Flight 714'' when Haddock says he had trouble with sticking plaster.
** ''The Castafiore Emerald'' has ''several'' of these:
*** People constantly falling down the broken step.
*** "Hellooo - I can hear you!" / "Allo! J'écou-ou-oute!"
*** "MERCI! MY JEWELS!" / "CIEL! MES BIJOUX!
*** "No, this is ''not'' Cutts the Butcher." / "Non, Monsieur/Madame, ce n'est pas la Boucherie Sanzot!"
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}''
** The hapless pirates get sunk [[OnceAnEpisode once every issue]]. Sometimes twice. In one book, they give up the pirate life to open a (boat-shaped) restaurant. It gets trashed.
*** And every sinking is drawn to resemble, in some way, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_of_the_Medusa The Raft of the Medusa]]'', a famous painting by Théodore Géricault.
** Caesar's tendency to refer to himself in the third person. This was a reference to Caesar's Commentaries on the Civil War and the War in Gaul, where he constantly refers to himself in the third person, to the point that the reader can lose sight of the fact that Caesar isn't writing history but self-justifying propaganda.
** Cacofonix, about to sing an ode for the occasion, being violently silenced by Fulliautomatix, or BoundAndGagged against a tree if it's time for the [[EveryEpisodeEnding big feast at the end of the adventure]].
** Obelix's constant attempt to get a taste of the magic potion.
** Obelix' denial he's obese.
** Vitalstatistix falling off his shield.
** Asterix is of "undeterminate age".
* In classic ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'', Wulf had a habit of replacing some random word in a figure of speech with the word ''cucumber'', such as "Ve are cool as der cucumber" or "He ran as qvick as der cucumber".
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** Every time someone meets him for the first time, they inevitably comment that they thought he'd be taller.
** This even extends to other members of the Batfamily, such as [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] (who, to be fair, is a good 4 inches shorter than Bruce, so it's obvious when he's dressed as Batman that he's shorter than the original guy) and Tim Drake (it's mentioned in ''Young Justice'').
** ComicBook/RedRobin is often mistaken and compared with Dr. Midnight due to the original costume's red vest and cowl looking similar to that of the older hero. Tim gets fairly exasperated when his even his friends like [[ComicBook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie]] get in on it.
** Dick Grayson ([[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder Age 12]]) has his own running gag. Guess which part of Dick Grayson (age 12) is the gag.
* Ever since ''ComicBook/OrientMen'' tried unsuccessfully to fix an Eskimo's broken radiator, the Eskimo kept following him all over the world and appearing at the end of nearly every episode, asking random bystanders whether they can fix his radiator.
* A little background for this one: In ''ComicBook/MidnightNation'', it turns out that Lazarus CameBackWrong, and was told by Jesus to wait until Jesus would return. Lazarus mistakenly thought that Jesus would be coming right back after having a little dinner with 12 of his best friends... that didn't work out so well, and 2,000 years later Lazarus is still waiting. So, the actual gag is that whenever someone around him says "Jesus" in reaction to something, Lazarus responds by asking, "Where?"
* Artist Leinil Yu has been known to sneak ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' into everything he draws, especially during huge spreads with lots of heroes where Howard won't be as easily noticed. Nobody knows why except Leinil.
* Franchise/TheDCU's ''ComicBook/{{Invasion}}'' miniseries frames several of its scenes as television newscasts. Whenever a reporter tries to interview one of the heroes, the hero invariably replies with, "Get that @%&£$€# camera out of my face!"
* In ''ComicBook/MarvelStarWars'', comics written and set after ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' but before ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' have Luke and Leia, mutually attracted, often start to touch or talk about their relationship before they are interrupted. Usually by the plot. It happens with some regularity, and [[SurpriseIncest good thing, too]].
* Flax Seed and his obsession with Filthy Rich's billboard in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #3.
-->'''Flax Seed:''' I always, like, feel like he's watching me. His eyes move with me. Always watching... never sleeping...
* The Dutch comic ''ComicBook/DeGeneraal'' is full of these, with the most frequent one being a literal running gag: The eponymous general would always flatten the local cop's motorbike (and usually the poor guy himself too) under his tank or other DoomsdayDevice while on his way to the fortress he was forever trying to conquer. A later comic stated that the motorbike factory was "the cork that kept the Dutch economy afloat".
* In the classic ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' parody of ''G.I. Joe'', any woman who expressed a desire to talk to the hero would fling herself onto his lap and say, "Hey, Joe! You got chewing gum?" This gag resurfaced in at least one later ''Mad'' feature.
* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Tim's girlfriend Stephanie has a poster of a flirtatiously smirking Superboy (Kon-El) hanging over her bed that annoys Tim to no end, even though he quickly gives up asking her to take it down. The thing remains even after she learns that Kon is Tim's best friend and meets and befriends him herself, it's shown every time the inside of her bedroom appears on panel.
* ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'':
** Kon-El's jacket gets ruined or stolen in almost every issue at first despite his attempts to keep it safe. As he further develops his TTK this stops happening so much since he is able to expand his protective field around it more consistently.
** Kon's constant attempts to explain his tactile telekinesis while fighting gets interrupted pretty regularly, often with someone else cutting him off to give a shorter explanation, or for whomever he's fighting to tell him they already know since he's constantly talking about his powers.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'': Any time Juan López enters a subway station, he'll absent-mindedly start ordering breakfast instead of asking for a ticket; ''then'' he'll go into a bar and order a ticket instead of breakfast. Sometimes it's because he's lost in thought, sometimes it's just plain stress, exhaustion or sleepiness.
* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'':
** Wiske is curious about something and brings herself into trouble by doing so.
** Suske gets attention from other women and Wiske gets jealous.
** Tante Sidonia getting a nervous attack and stiffening in shock.
** Jokes at the expense of Sidonia's nose, thin body and large feet, usually by Lambik, who gets her shoe thrown against his head.
** Lambik makes a CaptainObvious conclusion or says or does something else remotedly stupid. For instance he'll be master of a situation, but tricked into leaving or giving his gun to his opponents, allowing them to run away.
** Jerom doing a remarkable stunt, showcasing his superstrength.
** Krimson getting a nervous attack and screaming for his pills, which are then brought by his butler.
* ''ComicBook/{{Jommeke}}''
** Filiberke playing something and staying in character throughout the entire story.
** Professor Gobelijn making confusing mistakes that are the exact opposite of what he meant.
** Flip the parrot insulting others.
* ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'':
** Inspecteur Sapperdeboere being more interested in eating than solving cases.
** Balthazar screwing up a crime he was trying to commit or driving his fellow criminals crazy with his stupidity.
** Fernand Goegebuer spitting everybody full with saliva whenever he speaks.
** An unknown obese woman appearing in a cameo like she does every album.
** Moemoe manipulating everybody into getting what she wants.
** Van De Kasseien committing adultery with one of his secretaries, call girls, prostitutes or other women.
* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'':
** Urbanus and his family waiting for Nonkel Fillemon to die and earn his fortune, only to be disappointed when he survives once again.
** Dikke Herman beaten up or injured as a victim of Urbanus' pranks or strategies.
* ''ComicBook/{{Agent 327}}'': [=IJzerbroot=] arriving at this office at the start of each album in a disguise, then complaining ''What a secret agent has to do nowadays to get to his office incognito.''
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'':
** Rataplan the dog making wrong interpretations of what is going around him or reacting too late.
** Averell not understanding what's going on and being more interested in food.
** Joe getting worked up over his hatred of Lucky Luke.
* ''ComicBook/JohanAndPeewit'':
** Peewit trying to sing and play the harp, only to have everyone run away or find an excuse not to listen to him.
* ''ComicBook/TomPoes'':
** Marquis de Canteclaer looking down upon Bommel and insulting him every which way he can.
** Wal Rus mispronouncing Bommel's name.
** Garmt Grootgrut complaining that ''the small proprietorship is once again the victim''.
** Bommel always boasts about his talents, achievements and aristocratic background, but nobody seems to take him seriously. Also, he is rather incompetent and whenever danger is about he chickens out.
** Bulle Bas arresting Bommel for crimes he didn't commit.
** Wammes Waggel not understanding what is going on.
* ''ComicBook/GillesDeGeus'':
** Admiral Lumey's self importance and clumsiness resulting in him getting into trouble or serious temper tantrums.
** Leo never saying more thant ''Hee''.
* ''ComicBook/BenoitBrisefer'': Benoit doing something to help others, but not realizing his own strength actually makes things worse, so he exclaims: ''Oh dear, what have I done now?''
* ''ComicBook/LesTuniquesBleues'': Blutch trying to desert and his superior trying to get back at him for this.
* ''ComicBook/{{Cubitus}}'': Cubitus trying to find a way to beat Sénéchal up.
* ''ComicBook/GastonLagaffe'': Mr. De Mesmaeker arriving to have the contracts signed, but Gaston time and time and in various ways preventing the plan from actually being achieved.
* ''ComicBook/PierreTombal'': Scaring off other people by interacting with the living skeletons at his cemetery.
* Somebody gets the drop on Kick-Ass/Dave in every issue of ''ComicBook/KickAss'', usually attacking from behind.
** [[spoiler:Turned around when Hit Girl saves Kick-Ass the first time - someone gets the drop on THEM.]]
** [[spoiler:Turned around again in Volume 2 Issue #1 when two guys get the drop on Kick-Ass and HE kicks THEIR asses.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': "Televator's broken."
* ''ComicBook/RadioactiveMan'':
** Radioactive Man cannot enter or leave any building except by breaking through the wall.
** Captain Squid longing to hold Lure Lass, but knowing she will be repulsed upon learning of his freakish squid-like tentacles. In the same panel, Lure Lass hopes Captain Squid will stop being so cold and distracted, and yearns for the touch of his freakish squid-like tentacles.
** Miles Mando having a different secret identity in every appearance.
** Something happens that reflects superhero comics at the time the issue was actually published. The characters [[ItWillNeverCatchOn scoff at the idea]] that such a thing will become widespread.
* Several appear in ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'':
** Amazonian head hunters somehow living in Africa, and people pointing this geographical error out every time it is mentioned.
** The doctor getting slapped by the pygmy chief every time he feels greedy.
** Kombo being called Monko.
* Roxy from ''ComicBook/JemAndTheHolograms'' has one involving her and [[BigEater food]]. She's often either eating or getting ready to eat something. [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Donuts]] in particular are something she is obsessed with.
* ''[[Comicbook/{{X 23}} All-New Wolverine]]'': Bellona's solution to ''every situation she finds herself in'' is to [[TriggerHappy shoot something]]. Laura finds the Sisters' hideout? Shoot her. Taskmaster is lying unconscious in a pool of his own blood? Shoot him. [[ItMakesSenseInContext A cabinet serving as a portal to evil starts winking at her?]] Shoot it. Need to release an Comicbook/AntMan suit from storage? ShootOutTheLock. It gets to the point that Laura ''yelling'' at her for shooting everything has become a running gag in of itself.
* ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' has regular running gags about the Third and Fourth Doctors working with UNIT in either the Seventies or the Eighties, a reference to the notorious ContinuitySnarl surrounding those stories' in-universe timeline.
* Creator/BrianMichaelBendis had a running gag in series he wrote, starting with ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', where a person would be dragged into police custody ranting about the latest silly thing going on in Marvel/DC. Bendis does this to say goodbye to Marvel by being the last victim in ''ComicBook/TheDefenders2017'', proudly proclaiming to Jessica Jones and Misty Knight that a 17-year running gag is not easy to do.
* ''Mélusine'', a FrancoBelgianComics about a witch going to WizardingSchool, has many funny recurring jokes:
** Classes are suspended because of an incident or a prank by the students.
** The teacher needing someone to fetch a dangerous ingredient or testing a spell and [[GotVolunteered Mélusine is picked up by the other students]].
** [[HollywoodDateless Mélusine inhability to find a boyfriend despite her good looks and magical talents]].
** Mélusine helping commoners with her magic and [[BurnTheWitch being sent to a burning stake]] [[UngratefulBastard by the very same people she helped]].
** [[TheKlutz Cancrelune]] [[CaptainCrash crashing]] with her FlyingBroomstick in various ways, sometime many times in the same page.
** [[TheChewToy Cancrelune]] brewing a potion with ExplosiveResults.
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent The Count Gonzague Hernyvanz]] being turned to ash by accident and [[UnexplainedRecovery comes back unscathed the next time]].
** [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Mélisande]] showing up unannounced and causing a commotion.
** [[BurnTheWitch The local pastor trying to capture Mélusine]], but fails every time because she outsmart him every time.
** [[PeepingTom The unnamed Mummy]] trying to spy on Mélusine in her bedroom.
** Alembert, one of Mélusine's friend and a muscular werewolf, doesn't want to be seen by her during daytime because he is a diminutive and ugly human.
* ''Robin Dubois'', a parody of ''Myth/RobinHood'' has several running gags:
** [[ButtMonkey Sheriff Fritz Alwill]] being robbed [[WithFriendsLikeThese by his friend Robin]].
** [[HenpeckedHusband The Sheriff]] using various schemes to sneak up his overbearing wife and get a drink with his buddies at the local tavern. Most of the times he fails, while [[ThrowTheDogABone sometimes he does succeed]] only for his wife to get revenge when he returns home. Other times, he makes it to the tavern, but he can't enter it because of some reason like annual vacation.
** The postman having nothing to deliver to the Sheriff or delivering unwanted mail like the post office's calendar or tax filling forms.
** The tax collector coming to collect his due and ruining someone's day, usually the Sheriff.
** The Teutonic Knights speaking with their heavy accent and no one can understand them.
* In ''Rubine'', the titular character always try to take a bath or a shower, only to be interrupted by some random event either that be a telephone call, a doorbell ringing or thugs coming to kill her.
** Another gag is Rubine's mother pestering her to get married so [[IWantGrandkids she can have grandchildren]].
* ''ComicBook/ThePhantom'' has endless variations on this exchange.
--> You can't bring that dog in here!
--> Devil is a wolf.
--> Well... you can't bring a wild animal in here.
--> Devil is completely tame.
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