1 | '''Basic Trope''': Floating shapes with text or images appear when characters speak. |
2 | * '''Straight''': When someone talks or thinks, a speech bubble appears over his/her head with a text. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': The narration and characters discuss and comment on everything that happens in the comic to the point entire panels consist of nothing but speech bubbles. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Speech bubbles only occur as translations when Bob says a BilingualBonus. |
5 | * '''Justified''': Characters in the series have trouble communicating (language barrier, outer space, muteness, etc) and they've invented floating billboards as a means of communication. |
6 | * '''Inverted''': A white circle is talking and has a human with text in it appearing on its head. |
7 | * '''Subverted''': AliceAndBob are talking, but what they say is not shown to the audience. |
8 | * '''Double Subverted''': The concluding remarks of the conversation appear in speech bubbles. |
9 | * '''Parodied''': As Bob is talking, [[{{Jerkass}} Charlie]] takes out a marker and writes something embarrassing in Bob's speech bubble. |
10 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Some panels have speech bubbles, others don't. |
11 | * '''Averted''': The comic does not have any dialogue. |
12 | * '''Enforced''': Speech bubbles provide an effective contrasting backdrop for words, making them the typical method of showing speech, thought, and narration in SequentialArt. |
13 | * '''Lampshaded''': Characters snarkily comment that the BigBad's black and red Speech Bubble is tacky. |
14 | * '''Invoked''': Bob writes embarrassing things on a speech bubble cut-out and pastes it on a picture of Charlie, or on a wall he is standing in front of. |
15 | * '''Exploited''': Bob doesn't understand German, so he reads Hans' speech balloon and writes it into a translator program. |
16 | * '''Defied''': |
17 | ** The author/artist write on the bottom or margins, they use an audio track, or have a completely silent story. |
18 | ** Bob doesn't want the reader's to hear his conversations, so he dumps ink over any speech balloon. |
19 | * '''Discussed''': "I wonder what happens to old speech balloons? You think they just vanish or get recycled by balloon fairies?" |
20 | * '''Conversed''': "Wow! Look at those gorgeous speech balloon in this ShowWithinAShow!" "Yeah, but they're too artsy to read quickly." |
21 | * '''Deconstructed''': Instead of using Speech Bubbles the artist uses {{Rebus Bubble}}s. The comic has empty speech bubbles so the reader can write the story. Every panel is a WallOfText with a little cut-out window showing the story's events, |
22 | * '''Reconstructed''': The artist uses speech bubbles as an organic part of the art and narrative, using the shape, color and font to convey information. |
23 | * '''Played For Laughs''': The speech bubbles are physical objects that consistently get in the way of the action or are used as flotation devices in the event of a crash. |
24 | * '''Played For Drama''': [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend Bob]] has been trying to tell [[GirlNextDoor Alice]] that he's in love with her, but Alice is unfortunately blind, and cannot see the floating speech bubbles containing his fiery LoveConfession. |
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