Line #90 Main/WallOfBlather


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6	A character in a comic talks, on and on and on, but the exact content's not important. Or else no one is listening.
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8	Their blathering is given in a WallOfText--often as the backdrop--but [[PaintingTheMedium the text is obscured]] with SpeechBubblesInterruption (whether by other speech bubbles, the characters themselves, or some other visual element) so that the reader knows the complete text is not important.
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10	Enough words are usually shown to get the gist of what the character is expressing, although BlahBlahBlah is also common, depending on whether the characters listened enough to get the gist, or not at all.
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12	LongSpeechTeaTime can have actions that obstruct the bubbles. SubTrope of {{Textplosion}}.
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15	!!Examples
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19	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
20	* ''Manga/AsteroidInLove'': When the cast are looking at different mineral samples at the Geological Museum in an unanimated part of the eleventh chapter, Mira and Ao come across the heart-shaped Japan-law twin crystals. Ao wonders how it's formed, and Mira suggested it might just like materials molded into a heart-shaped cavity. Ao [[http://imgur.com/a/yWHq5PV falls into a dilemma about how to respond]], handled through this in a ''[[InnerMonologue thought bubble]]''.
21	* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': After Soga [[ThanksForTheMammary accidentally grabs Matsuri's breast]], the following shocked ReactionShot has over a dozen different lines of text imposed over it, all expressing [[StupidSexyFlanders embarrassment and sexual confusion]].
22	* Akina Shinozaki is not prone to this normally in ''Manga/DontBecomeAnOtakuShinozakiSan'', but get her on the topic of her favorite anime, ''[=PrePure=]'' and her budding otaku side will burst out in a decent wall.
23	* Describing delicious food will cause ''Manga/FoodWars'' Leonora Nakiri to break into this. It's especially notable as Leonora normally speaks very broken Japanese, but when the Wall of Blather kicks in she's instantly fluent.
24	* Genos's backstory in the [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/2d922126b6582368bf54a69c489c4f37/tumblr_mj5emjY9oC1qbxqfpo1_1280.png manga version]] of ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' is recounted by two panels full of deliberately-undersized text, the latter of which Saitama [[MediumAwareness stares up at annoyance]] before yelling at the cyborg to shorten his story to 20 words or less. The anime depicts this by having Genos rattle off progressively faster while cutting to Saitama's exasperated expression.
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27	[[folder:Comic Books]]
28	* Used in ''ComicBook/GorskyAndButch'', mostly for really unimportant stuff but once for the authors' notes, which are extremely plot-relevant. But not only that -- in one scene they talk too much, and the speech bubbles create a traffic jam.
29	* In ''[[ComicBook/TheMultiversity Pax Americana #1]]'', while interrogating a criminal, ComicBook/TheQuestion lectures him about his personal philosophy with his speech bubbles placed behind him as he rambles on. The criminal--currently in a precarious situation and could die at any second--just yells that this is why the other superheroes kicked the Question out of the [[SuperTeam Pax]].
30	* ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' has Swerve, a diminutive MotorMouth who has the ability to talk at length about nothing in particular. In one instance, he did so for ''147 hours straight''. There's comic panels demonstrating why he is also known as "Shut The Hell Up."
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33	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
34	* In ''ComicStrip/PricklyCity'', Winslow at a press conference -- going BlahBlahBlah as well.
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37	[[folder:Fan Works]]
38	* ''Webcomic/{{Hollowtale}}'': In [[https://www.deviantart.com/thejessofmess/art/Hollowtale-Part-4-1-845743238 the first page of the Part 4]], when Papyrus learns the Knight's name, he immediately starts blathering about the Royal Guard of the Knight's world, with his MotorMouth speech obscured behind himself, the Knight and Sans.
39	* In ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'', [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rarity]] gets carried away when she gets the idea of making a new suit for [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix]], and she keeps blathering in the background while Phoenix and Pinkie discuss where to go next.
40	* A [[http://lynxgriffin.deviantart.com/art/Those-Lacking-Spines-pg-5-36099284 comic]] for the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/ThoseLackingSpines'' shows [[OverusedCopycatCharacter Jeffiroth's]] BadassBoast as this to the protagonists, who would much rather see what fight he can put up with rather than be bored with words.
41	* ''Webcomic/WildAdventures'': In this ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fan webcomic, protagonist Vanya is finally allowed to take a break from her job to reduce burnout. When her friend Sono says it must have been rough getting her dad to agree to the break, Vanya says "Yeah... agreeing..."; cue DescriptionCut to a panel of her dad and the family Dusknoir (who's advocating on her behalf) [[https://www.deviantart.com/veeveetheartist/art/Wild-Adventures-Ch-2-pg-2-and-3-711956310 having an argument]] about the matter that's partially obscured by said two characters while Vanya bemoans that they're doing it again.
42	-->[[BlahBlahBlah BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH]] I AM RIGHT YOU'RE WRONG BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH
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45	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
46	* The credits to ''Film/WrongfullyAccused'', among other CreditsGag, include a section headed "Nobody Cares About These People", which is then scrolled through at about 300% speed.
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49	[[folder:LiveActionTV]]
50	* In the TV movie ''Series/GetSmart, Again!'' our ComedicHero manages to cock up CONTROL's replacement for the ever-unreliable Cone of Silence. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV-NkDZz7fQ Hall of Hush]] turns spoken words into visible words floating in the air, but Max spends so much time raving about how wonderful this invention is the Hall of Hush becomes full of words and no-one can make out what anyone else is saying.
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53	[[folder:Music]]
54	* Comedian Henry Phillips' song "She's Talking Again" tries to drown out his blind date, whose ongoing voice-over continues throughout the entire song. She rambles inanely about anything that comes into her head, including uncomfortable medical topics and incorrect historical references, nonstop without segue or purpose of any kind. At the end when the song runs out of energy, she says what a great listener he is and they should do this again in the future.
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57	[[folder:Video Games]]
58	* In one of the dream sequences in ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'', Max answers a phone to be greeted with a stream of meaningless nonsense spoken in his own voice, which is represented in the in-game graphic novel using this trope.
59	* Twice in ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Bowser's Inside Story]]'', a goomba in Bowser's castle, and a magikoopa in Peach's Castle.
60	* Twice in ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'': First, when Tails is explaining how the Extreme Gear stays aloft--much to Knuckles' consternation--and again when Wave is lecturing Jet on how he should be more responsible as the leader of the Babylon Rogues. Humorously, Jet hears her dialogue as a speeded-up chipmunk voice, and then goes on to the next race, abandoning her mid-speech.
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63	[[folder:Webcomics]]
64	* In ''Webcomic/AntiHeroes'', [[http://www.antiheroescomic.com/comic/72 overriding a monologue.]]
65	* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'': [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2011/05/12/333-advice Kaepora Gaebora bores Link to tears]].
66	* In ''Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit'', [[http://brunothebandit.com/d/19980720.html the introduction strip had Bruno's speech bubble over the narration -- which he can apparently hear]].
67	* ''Webcomic/CritterCoven'': Florence has a habit of rambling on about subjects like [[http://crittercoven.com/comic/chapter-1-page-7 the origins of witch’s hats,]] or [[http://crittercoven.com/comic/chapter-3-page-31 how ghosts can be banished]].
68	* In ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest'',
69	** [[http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/archive/page-63 Grizzlygum's complaints about their being in the forest]].
70	** [[http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/archive/page-305 Tomato's attempts to get the Nightmare Knight to put him down]].
71	** [[http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/cq/page-498 Peridot's distraught recitation of her problems]].
72	* Sometimes used in ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures''. For example, in the Abel's Story bonus arc, Abel's friend Mink is quite the chatterbox, [[http://missmab.com/Comics/Ab_060.php as shown here]].
73	* In the first strip of ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'', the characters talk amongst themselves and their speech bubbles partially hide the DM's captions, who is rattling off the campaign's endless backstory in the background.
74	* ''Webcomic/DreamScar'': [[http://www.dream-scar.net/index.php?id=125 She's really rambling]].
75	* ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'', often uses a variant where we only see the part that fits within in a speech bubble, as if viewing a Wall of Blather through an elliptical window. [[http://dresdencodak.com/2007/06/30/in-the-company-of-science/ For instance, rambling on and on about a new found robot.]] This creates the effect that the listener is drifting in and out of a spiel they can't be bothered to pay full attention to, or [[TechnoBabble couldn't follow if they tried]].
76	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' uses this [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-01-20 here]] and [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-10-21 here]] with the WallsOfText fading out and [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-09-20 here]] with an argument continuing in the background. In the last two examples the full text is given in the commentary.
77	* In an early ''Webcomic/FlakyPastry'' strip, a potential roommate [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=2 fails to grasp the meaning of "tell us a LITTLE about yourself"]].
78	* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': When a group ends up taking Sydney hostage, one of them gives her a 'truth serum' to try to get information they could use in some way. Given that she takes an ADD prescription implied to be just one short step down from ''meth'', and has trouble keeping quiet even then...
79	--> "[[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-910-jabber-blabber/ What did you give her?]]"
80	* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/view.php?date=2002-01-24 Too whoozy to attend]].
81	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'''s Kankri Vantas is an over-the-top [[PoliticalOvercorrectness social justice warrior]] who loves to go on [[WallOfText long sermons]] given the slightest provocation (or, in fact, none at all). Particularly ridiculous ones are displayed in several columns of unreadably tiny text just to drive the point home.
82	* In ''Webcomic/MeatShield'', [[http://www.meatshield.net/archive/182-hmm-no-i-was-listening-really/ Leonid isn't exactly listening to Disparoxus]].
83	* ''Webcomic/{{MegaTokyo}}'': [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1181 Asako does this to Yuki]] only to be abruptly interupted [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1182 a few panels later]] when Yuki realizes there was vital information in that wall of blather.
84	* In ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck'', Thelma produces one from the [[http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00517.html pure excitement]] of her beauty contest win.
85	* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
86	** Vaarsuvius, the party's wizard who suffers from SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, has had this treatment a few times. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0010.html Here's the first of several]].
87	** When GeniusBruiser Roy and his (unknown to him yet) EvilCounterpart, DumbMuscle Thog [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0051.html go in a dungeon together]], Roy's BlahBlahBlah speech bubble is obscured with Thog's thought bubbles.
88	* In the second strip of ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', Angelika and Rocky's loud argument is [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0002.html the background of the last panel]].
89	* ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo''
90	** [[http://rustyandco.com/comic/6/ Here it's for the readers, not the characters.]]
91	** Calamitus doing his first monologue is similarly obscured, as Mimic and Princess aren't paying attention.
92	* ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'': When Lavali (for reasons of her own) gets Sandra to talk at length about her work, the details that Sandra offloads are unimportant to the plot, [[http://www.sandraontherocks.com/strips-sotr/lets_talk_about_youuuu so the trope shows up]].
93	* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'' has a lot of fun with this. It also has speech bubbles through which show a small patch of what's obviously a larger WallOfText.
94	* ''Webcomic/StarImpact'''s [[TheProtagonist Aster]] gets wordy when...
95	** [[https://www.starimpactcomic.com/comic/chapter-1-page-6 Monologuing on about a new pair of gloves]].
96	** [[https://www.starimpactcomic.com/comic/chapter-1-page-40 She gets starstruck when Yellow visits her fight with Urchin]].
97	** [[https://www.starimpactcomic.com/comic/chapter-2-page-15 Flipping out at Stryker, who told her that she wasn't impressed by the aforementioned fight]].
98	* In ''Webcomic/ThreeJaguars'', [[http://threejaguarscomic.net/?comic=good-marketing-4 the clipboard of slogans while Artist and Business Manager discuss marketing]].
99	* In ''Webcomic/{{Widdershins}}'', [[http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-2nd-2011 Malik blathers about the gun without realizing what its being real means]].
100	* ''Webcomic/YangChild'': [[http://yangchild.comicgenesis.com/d/20030826.html Rambling]].
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