Line #23 VerbalTic/WebComics


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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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Context VerbalTic / WebComics