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9 | * ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}'': Chookie inserts "chook" to random places when he speaks. It is a trait shared by his species. |
10 | * ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'': Deconstructed. As Aloy demonstrates in [[https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/forges-all-the-way-down this comic]], having a particular speech pattern that never stops gets real old real fast with her getting tired of Milduf's smithing-themed vernacular quicker than [[HypocriticalHumor a hammer meets steel]]. |
11 | --> '''Aloy:''' Yeah, got it, your people have a rich and thematically-consistent culture. |
12 | * ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'': |
13 | ** Captain Falcon is compelled to cry "Falcon [verb]!" before performing any action: "Falcon pray!" "Falcon sneak!" "Falcon bluff!" "Falcon Sleep!" |
14 | ** Waluigi's constantly peppers his speech with "WAA". |
15 | * ''Webcomic/{{Comc}}'': Garry the dragonfly says "shithead" about once per sentence or so. |
16 | * ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'': When she's first introduced, Grim Eyes frequently rolls her r's. She does it much less frequently [[spoiler:post HeelFaceTurn.]] Some fans have theorized the rolling was due to a growl. Honored Murai always refers to everyone as Honored Such-And-Such, which looks a bit odd when she mentions several names in a row... especially [[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=737 given her companions', uh, informal approach]]. Presumably it's cultural. |
17 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Elliot and Ellen use "Za?" in places where most people would say "Huh?" |
18 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': All the protagonists have a specific typing quirk when chatting online (which is carried over to real world conversations as well), usually tied to their personality. Notably, their typing quirks also [[PaintingTheMedium represent the way they speak]]. |
19 | ** Among the main kids, John uses no capital letters, [[TheSmartGuy Rose]] writes in an overtly correct manner, [[TheStoic Dave]] eschews both capital letters and punctuation, which also represents his monotone and rambling speaking habits, and [[GenkiGirl Jade]] multiplies her punctuation and uses lots of smileys to match her cheerful and excitable nature. |
20 | ** The [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]] use more complex ones: |
21 | *** The shy [[ExtremeDoormat Tavros]] tYPES IN REVERSE CAPS LOCK and uses commas rather than periods, often inserting them where they don't go, to represent a stuttering and hesitant manner. |
22 | *** Sollux, obsessed with [[DualityMotif doubles and bifurcation]], types 2's instead of s's and "ii"'s instead of i's. This also visually represents his pronounced FangThpeak. |
23 | *** [[HairTriggerTemper Karkat]] and types in all caps, representing how he's always shouting. |
24 | *** Nepeta, a {{Genki|Girl}} CatGirl, begins every sentence with a cat smiley emoticon and makes free use of cat puns. |
25 | *** [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Kanaya]] begins each word with a capital letter and uses no punctuation. She is stated to enunciate each word carefully when speaking, just like she types. |
26 | *** Terezi speaks in all caps and replaces the letters A, E and I with 4, 3 and 1, "the numerals that the blind prophets once used". |
27 | *** Vriska draws out words for emphasis, which she represents by typing out vowels and question and exclamation marks in groups of eight. |
28 | *** Eridan speaks with a "wavy" accent spelled out by doubling up the letter v and w. |
29 | *** Feferi replaces h's with brackets )( (referencing her Zodiac sign, Pisces, and the shape of her horns) and precedes capital E's with a hyphen to make them look like her weapon of choice; and so on. |
30 | ** Furthermore, the quirks make their way into sound effects -- for instance, when Tavros uses his communing superpower to MindControl animals, the sound effect is "cOMMUNE," |
31 | ** More traditional tics: [[spoiler:Aradiasprite]]'s "ribbit", Gamzee's "honk", and [[FishPeople Feferi's]] "glub". Even though they're actually typing. |
32 | ** [[ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire Vriska's]] quirk -- typing some letters and punctuation eight times for emphasis and replacing Bs and "ate" sounds with 8 -- seems to be contagious, since John has [[GotMeDoingIt picked up]] on the former, and [[spoiler:[[GenerationXerox hereditary]], since Marquise Mindfang did the latter]]. It also infects John's sound effects, with [[spoiler:the Fluoride Octet-enabled late-stage Warhammer of Zillyhoo]] making a "8ONK" sound. |
33 | ** Jade later picks up another verbal tic in the form of [[spoiler: going "woof" when excited or making other involuntary noises like laughter, after she attains [[LittleBitBeastly Dog Tier]]]]. |
34 | ** John also splits up compound words into their component parts, even when they're names, leading to constructions like "dave sprite", "bat man", and "what ever". |
35 | * ''Webcomic/HyperboleAndAHalf'': Spaghatta Nadle, the protagonist of the DadaComic [[ShowWithinAShow Within a Blog]], [[SelfDemonstratingArticle raplaces mast vawal sands wath 'a']]. |
36 | * ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound''. The Pain's half VerbalTic, half-CatchPhrase... "I'M COVERED IN BEES!" |
37 | * ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'': The Bloodrage tribe's leader constantly says "Heh" either at the beginning or end of his sentences. Sometimes in mid-sentence. |
38 | * ''Webcomic/{{Oceanfalls}}'': Five speaks slowly and with lots of pausing and hesitation. She also speaks in [[ThirdPersonPerson third person]]. |
39 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Malack goes "Hrrrrm" when he's thinking. |
40 | * ''Webcomic/{{Outsider}}'': The [[SpaceElves Loroi]] pilot Talon, who like all Loroi speaks in their [[CommonTongue Trade Language]] when she has to speak verbally, tends to pepper her statements with "I think maybe". |
41 | * ''Webcomic/{{Polandball}}'': Singapore talks with an exaggerated accent that makes him say "lah" at the end of every sentence. |
42 | * ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': Early on, Faye would speak without using any contractions, as a way to try to hide her accent. It got phased out rather quickly as she became more comfortable around people. |
43 | * ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'': The Killotron robots no longer want to KillAllHumans, but they still use the word "destroy" in place of random verbs. It's considered a bit intimidating in-universe. |
44 | * ''Webcomic/TransformersKreO'': Vortex ends all his sentences in -ex. |
45 | * ''Webcomic/{{Unichat}}'' had the [=AI=] @hena, who compulsively spams the letter "G" in [=IMs=] due to a glitch. This is no longer true in the rebooted comic, but m1ndh1ve1's overuse of "lol" fills a similar function. |
46 | * ''Webcomic/YouveGottaBeKittenMe'': Mino has a habit of saying "Goro" at various times. |
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