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->''"It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much."''
--> -- '''Yogi Berra'''

''All about the things that characters say.''

See also LanguageTropes and NarratorTropes.

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!!Tropes:
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'''Categories:'''
+ AccentTropes
+ ComplainingIndex
+ ComplimentTropes
+ ConfessionTropes
+ ExcuseOfAnIndex
+ {{Exposition}}
+ ExternalizingInternalMonologue
+ EvilGloating
+ IAmAnIndex
+ InaneBlabbering
+ IndexOfApologies
+ IndexOfCatchphrases
+ IndexOfGoodbyes
+ InsultTropes
+ OddLastItemIndex
+ OneLiner
+ PhoneTropes
+ ThePowerOfLanguage
* PromisesAndVowsIndex
+ RebukeTropes
+ RepeatIndexIndex
+ RhymeTropes
+ SpeechesAndMonologues
+ StockPhrases
+ TheseTropesLoveToBrag
+ TheseTropesShouldWatchTheirLanguage
+ ThreateningTropes
+ TruthAndLies
+ VoiceAndVocalTropes
+ WordPower
+ WhatIsThisIndex
]

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[[folder:A]]
* AccidentalPublicConfession
* AcousticLicense
* AcquaintanceDenial: Pretending you don't know somebody so that you won't be judged or embarrassed.
* AcronymsAreEasyAsAybeecee: A character mishears or miswrites an acronym as if it's a normal word.
* ActionFigureSpeech
* AfterActionPatchUp
* AfterActionVillainAnalysis
* {{Ahem}}: Throat-clearing to get someone's attention.
* AirQuotes: A gesture made by wiggling your index and middle fingers while saying a word to represent the word being sandwiched in quotations marks and to signify that the word is either being used sarcastically or that someone else used it and you don't believe it.
* AllCheeringAllTheTime
* AlreadyTheCase: A request or threat turns out to have already been followed by the time the speaker finishes.
* AlwaysIntroducesThemselves
* AnalogyBackfire
* AndThenISaid
* AndTheRest
* {{Angrish}}: A character becomes so overwhelmed with anger that all they can say is gibberish and/or incomplete sentences.
* AnotherStoryForAnotherTime
* AnnouncerChatter
* AnsweringEcho
* AnythingButThat: A character pleads that they'll accept any punishment or torture except for this particular one.
* ApologisesALot: A character tends to apologize repeatedly.
* AppealToFamilialWisdom
* AppealToObscurity
* AppliedMathematics
* ArentYouForgettingSomeone
* ArgumentOfContradictions: Two characters enter an argument that amounts mainly to yelling each other's opinion or choice at one another.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion
* ArmorPiercingResponse
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: A list is ended with the weakest example for comic effect.
* AskAStupidQuestion: Rudely giving someone's question a deliberate wrong answer due to thinking the question was stupid.
* AsTheGoodBookSays: Someone quotes the Bible.
* AstonishinglyAppropriateInterruption: A character sees something that causes them to suddenly shout something while they were talking, but the abruptly hollered word just happens to be what they were probably going to say or at least makes sense as part of the interrupted sentence.
* AtomicFBomb: Screaming the F-word.
* AudienceMurmurs
[[/folder]]

[[folder:B]]
* BackhandedApology: An apology that deflects the blame to the person being apologized to rather than sincerely admitting fault for doing the person wrong.
* BadNewsInAGoodWay: Delivering bad news in a way that makes it sound like good news.
* BadOmenAnecdote
* BaitAndSwitchComment: It looks like they're saying that statement about one person or thing, but it turns out they meant another person or thing.
* BathroomSearchExcuse: When caught snooping, a character claims to have been looking for the bathroom.
* BathroomStallOfOverheardInsults
* BattleCry
* BattleInterruptingShout
* BeamMeUpScotty: An iconic catchphrase that either doesn't actually exist or is really a misquoted variant of what the character really said.
* BearerOfBadNews
* BeatWithoutABut
* BeforeIChangeMyMind
* UsefulNotes/TheBechdelTest: Does a work feature at least two named female characters and, if so, do they have a conversation about something other than men?
* BerateAndSwitch
* BetterPartnerAssertion: A character insists to the person they love that they are the better candidate over their romantic rival.
* BilingualBackfire
* BilingualDialogue
* BilingualRhyme
* BlahBlahBlah
* BlamedForBeingRailroaded
* BlatantLies: Someone makes a statement that is obviously not true.
* BluntMetaphorsTrauma: A foreign character misunderstands idioms and figures of speech or gets them wrong.
* BoldInflation
* BondOneLiner: Making a remark after having killed someone that makes light of their demise.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: A mundane list ends with something weird or disturbing.
* BreakingBadNewsGently
* BreakThemByTalking
* BringThemAround: A hero or villain switching sides needs to convince her underlings to jump ship with her.
* BrokenRecord
* ButIDigress
* BuyOrGetLost
[[/folder]]

[[folder:C]]
* CallingShotgun
* CallingYourBathroomBreaks: A character tells everyone else that they need to go to the bathroom.
* CantArgueWithElves: A species believes that their race is superior to all others and that therefore they are never wrong.
* CasualDangerDialogue
* CensorshipBySpelling: Spelling out a word in hopes that someone hearing you won't notice the word being spelled.
* ChainOfCorrections
* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: Changing the topic of conversation to try and avoid discussing something you'd rather not.
* CharacterCatchphrase
* ChewOutFakeOut: A person looks like they're going to rebuke someone for doing something bad, but it then turns out that they're proud of what the person has done.
* ClosedDoorRapport
* ClusterFBomb: Repeatedly saying "fuck".
* CodeEmergency
* CollectiveGroan
* ComicRolePlay
* ConfessionDeferred: Confessing the truth only when it's convenient.
* ConfirmBeforeReveal: A character asks a quick question about something they're about to reveal before revealing it.
* ConfusingMultipleNegatives: A character uses multiple negatives, making it confusing as to what they meant to say.
* ConjunctionInterruption
* ConstantlyCurious: A character who doesn't stop asking questions.
* ConversationalTroping
* ConversationCut
* ConverseWithTheUnconscious
* CorrectiveLecture
* CoughSnarkCough: Coughing or pretending to cough in order to hide a rude remark or give the impression of hiding it without really intending to.
* CouldSayItBut
* CovertDistressCode
* CovertEmergencyCall
* CowardiceCallout: Someone gets called out on their cowardly behavior/conduct.
* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure
* CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer
* CrypticConversation
* CueCardPause
* CulturalPosturing
* CurseCutShort: A character is interrupted or deliberately stops talking when they are about to swear.
* CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon: A character makes a threat that's extremely ludicrous, whether due to involving absurdly gratuitous acts of violence or being just plain weird (i.e. "I'll spank you with your own severed arm!" or "I'm gonna use a tuning fork to make your cherished childhood memories very uncomfortable!")
* CypherLanguage
[[/folder]]

[[folder:D]]
* DamnedByFaintPraise: Insulting something by only praising a minor aspect.
* DareToBeBadass
* DeadPersonConversation
* DebatingNames
* DelightingInRiddles
* DemandingTheirHead: A character gives verbal orders to kill somebody and return with a severed head as proof.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: When a character unnecessarily repeats themselves or says something that means the same thing as what they just said.
* DerailedForDetails
* DerailedTrainOfThought
* DescriptionCut
* DescriptionPorn
* DesperatePleaForHome: A character pushed to their limits expresses a firm desire to go home.
* DeterioratesIntoGibberish
* DevastatingRemark: Someone says something that leaves another person an emotional wreck
* DialogueReversal
* DialogueTree
* DidYouDie: When a character is telling the story of a dangerous event they experienced, someone else asks if the person died even though they obviously survived if they're around to tell the story.
* DifferentForGirls: A {{Crossdresser}} or GenderBender is [[AttractiveBentGender convincing]] as a girl, but risks revealing himself by accidentally speaking in a distinctly masculine way.
* DiggingYourselfDeeper: An attempt at saving face only makes you look even worse.
* DisappointedByTheMotive: Once you find out why the person did what they did, you're not impressed with the motivation.
* DisappointedInYou
* DismissingACompliment
* DistinctionWithoutADifference: You insist that you're not X, you're just Y, but Y is essentially the same thing as X.
* DisorganizedOutlineSpeech
* DispenseWithThePleasantries
* DisregardThatStatement
* DoesThatSoundLikeFunToYou
* DoIReallySoundLikeThat: A character hears themselves speaking and is astonished at how they apparently sound.
* DoNotTauntCthulhu: A character mocks a being much more powerful than they are and suffers the consequences.
* DoctorDoctorDoctor
* DoubleEdgedAnswer
* DoubleMeaning
* DoubleSpeak
* DramaticDeadpan
* DramaticEllipsis
* DramaticPause
* DramaticStutter
* DroppingTheBombshell
* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: Winning an ArgumentOfContradictions by tricking the other person into switching sides of the argument.
* DudeNotIronic: A character describes something as ironic when the situation isn't really an example of irony.
* DumbassHasAPoint: The dumb character actually makes a valid point.
* DyingTruce
[[/folder]]

[[folder:E]]
* EarpieceConversation
* EasilyOverheardConversation
* TheEchoer: Someone can only speak by copying another person's words.
* EitherWorldDominationOrSomethingAboutBananas
* ElectiveBrokenLanguage
* EmergencyPresidentialAddress
* EnemyChatter
* EscalatingPunchline
* EspeciallyZoidberg: A conversation that ends on "Even X?" "''Especially'' X!" when you'd expect X to be an exception.
* EuphemismBuster: Someone says a euphemism, but then someone else says the non-euphemistic term.
* EveryoneKnowsMorse
* EverythingExceptMostThings
* EvilSoundsDeep: Villains have deep voices.
* EvilSoundsRaspy: Villains have raspy voices.
* ExactlyWhatIMeantToSay
* ExplainExplainOhCrap
* {{Exposition}}
* ExpositionAlreadyCovered
* ExpositionCut
[[/folder]]

[[folder:F]]
* FacialDialogue
* FamedInStory
* FauxdianSlip
* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue
* FinalExchange: Replying to a person's last words.
* FinishDialogueInUnison
* FinishingEachOthersSentences
* FirstNameUltimatum: Hollering a person's first name to let them know that they are in big trouble.
* FlippantForgiveness
* FoldThePageFoldTheSpace
* FreudianSlip: A character accidentally says what they were thinking about instead of what they wanted to say.
* FreudianThreat: Threatening to inflict an injury upon someone's private parts.
* FriendlyAddressPrivileges
* FriendshipMoment: A sudden yet heartwarming affirmation of close friendship between two characters.
* FromTheLatinIntroDucere
* FullNameUltimatum: Calling someone by their full name to let them know that they are in big trouble.
* FunnyPhotoPhrase: Someone says, or is asked to say, a silly phrase in place of "Cheese" when having their photo taken.
* FunWithHomophones: Confusion between two different words that sound the same.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:G]]
* GagEcho
* GaggingOnYourWords
* GeekyTurnOn
* GenderConcealingWriting
* GenderInclusiveWriting
* GentlemanSnarker
* GetItOverWith
* TheGhost: A character who is mentioned by others in dialogue, but never makes a physical appearance.
* GibberingGenius
* GiveMeAReason: Someone eagerly looks for an excuse to inflict violence upon someone.
* GoodNightSweetPrince
* GrillingTheNewbie
[[/folder]]

[[folder:H]]
* HalfBakedNiceness: Someone's compliment is of poor quality in some way.
* HammyHerald
* HannibalLecture
* HeadBob
* HeartfeltApology: Offering a sincere apology to someone who gladly accepts it.
* HeDidntMakeIt: "Not making it" is an euphemism for death.
* HeroismMotiveSpeech
* HesitationEqualsDishonesty: If a character hesitates before answering, it's a dead giveaway that they are lying.
* HeyThatsMyLine
* HeyYou
* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier
* HitYouSoHardYourXWillFeelIt
* HoldingTheFloor
* HostageHandlerHuddle
* HowDidYouKnowIDidnt
* HurricaneOfAphorisms
* HurricaneOfEuphemisms: A LongList of synonyms.
* {{Hyperaffixation}}
* HypotheticalFightDebate: A debate on who would win if two people or characters got into a fight.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:I]]
* ICantBelieveImSayingThis
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer
* IfIWantedYouDead
* IGaveMyWord
* IgnoreTheDisability: Character unsuccessfully tries to remind themselves not to point out another character's disability or deformity.
* IgnoringBySinging: A character covers their ears and sings to try and ignore a statement they don't like or don't want to hear.
* IHaveNothingToSayToThat
* IHaveThisFriend: A character asks for advice on how to deal with their problem, but claims that it's a friend of theirs who has the problem to avoid embarrassing themselves.
* IllPretendIDidntHearThat
* IllTakeTwoBeersToo
* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: Someone says that they're "an X, not a Y".
* ImNotDoingThatAgain
* ImThinkingItOver
* ImpliedDeathThreat: Making an indirect threat to kill someone.
* InflationaryDialogue
* InfoDump: Introducing the new characters as soon as they appear.
* InnerMonologueConversation
* InnocentAwkwardQuestion: A child accidentally shocks or embarrasses adults with a question.
* InstantSeduction
* InstantlyProvenWrong
* InstructionalDialogue
* InsultFriendlyFire: Insult one person with an insult that unintentionally offends another person you didn't mean to insult because it also applies to them.
* InsultMisfire: A person gets insulted but misinterprets who the insult is aimed at.
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: A character can only speak gibberish, but everyone else understands them perfectly.
* IntercomVillainy: A villain uses a remote communication system to talk to the hero.
* InThatOrder
* IronicEcho
* ISayWhatISay
* IsTheAnswerToThisQuestionYes: Responding to a yes or no question by asking another yes or no question that the other person should figure out has the same answer.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: A character has several insults thrown at them, but only gets offended or the most upset by the last and/or weakest of the insults.
* ItTastesLikeFeet: Remarking that food you just ate tastes awful by claiming it tastes like something gross.
* IUhYouToo
* IWouldSayIfICouldSay: A character remarks that they'd say a specific phrase were it not for one detail preventing the phrase from making any sense if they'd say it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:J]]
* JackhammeredConversation
* JinxGame
* JoinOrDie
* JokeExhaustion
* JustBetweenYouAndMe
* JustOneMan
* JustTestingYou
[[/folder]]

[[folder:K]]
* {{Kiai}}
* KnowsAGuyWhoKnowsAGuy
[[/folder]]

[[folder:L]]
* LameComeback: Someone insults you and you try to insult them back, but the insult you give stinks.
* LameRhymeDodge: Someone tries to cover up an insult by claiming to have said something that rhymes with the insult.
* LanguageFluencyDenial
* LargeHamAnnouncer
* LargeHamRadio
* LastSecondWordSwap: Changing the last word you were going to say at the last minute.
* LastChanceToQuit
* LastRequest
* LaymansTerms: Explaining verbose vernacular in terms that less intelligent people will understand. In English, that means dumbing down big words so we know what the brainiac is talking about.
* LazinessCallout
* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Characters make a vow that they'll never talk about this incident ever again.
* LetsMockTheMonsters
* LiesToChildren: Someone lies to children.
* LikeAGodToMe
* LifeSavingEncouragement
* ListingTheFormsOfDegenerates
* LiterallyLaughableQuestion
* LittleProfessorDialog
* LovesSecrecy
* LudicrousPrecision
* LyingToThePerp
[[/folder]]

[[folder:M]]
* MaamShock
* MadeMyselfSad
* MadLibsDialogue
* MadnessMantra: A repeatedly spoken phrase that indicates insanity.
* MaliciousSlander
* MametSpeak
* MathematiciansAnswer: An answer to a question that is technically correct, but doesn't really answer the question.
* MeaningfulEcho
* MeaningfulLook
* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords
* MelodramaticPause
* MirrorMonologue: Someone talks to themselves while looking in the mirror.
* MistakenConfession
* MotiveMisidentification
* MotiveRant: A character goes into a rant on why they're doing what they're doing.
* MouthingTheProfanity: Mouthing a swear word instead of actually saying it.
* MouthfulOfPi: A brainy character can recite pi to many places.
* MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor: The dub versions of a work have one actor reprise their role in the different languages.
* MultiplePersuasionModes
* MultitaskedConversation
* MusicalisInterruptus
* MyDefenseNeedNotProtectMeForever
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Excluding someone from a group after the impression is given that they were included in the group mentioned earlier.
* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: A character attempts to speak a foreign language, but either angers someone by unintentionally saying an insulting phrase or embarrasses themselves by unknowingly saying a humiliating or nonsensical phrase.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:N]]
* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: A character introduces themselves by saying their surname and then their full name.
* NarrationEcho
* NeverSayThatAgain
* NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead: A character will never say anything negative about the deceased.
* NewSpeak
* NoDialogueEpisode: An episode where none of the characters talk.
* NoIndoorVoice: Character has a tendency to shout whenever they talk.
* NoMeansYes
* NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech
* NoOneElseIsThatDumb: Proving a character is your dumb friend by having them confirm their idiocy.
* NotHyperbole: What seems like a figure of speech isn't.
* NoYou
* NoYouGoFirst
* NobodysThatDumb: A dumb character reveals themselves to be aware of their stupidity and makes it clear that even they have limits to how idiotic they can be.
* NoisyShutUp
* NonAnswer
* NonSequiturDistraction
* NoodleIncident: Characters mention an unseen past event and are extremely vague about it.
* NoodleImplements: Character claims to have done something or mentions an intent to do something using tools with unspecified purposes.
* NotActuallyTheUltimateQuestion
* NotHowImDyingDeclaration: A character states that there is no way they're going to die to a proposed threat, real or hypothetical.
* NotInFrontOfTheKid: No one swears in front of children.
* NotListeningToMeAreYou
* NotSoDire
[[/folder]]

[[folder:O]]
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging
* ObliviousMockery
* ObviouslyNotFine: A character says that they're okay when [[BlatantLies it's quite plain that they're not]].
* OhGodWithTheVerbing
* OhNoNotAgain
* OhWait
* OnSecondThought
* OnThree
* OneDialogueTwoConversations
* OneLinerNameOneLiner
* OneSceneTwoMonologues
* OneTractMind
* OneWordVocabulary
* OrderedApology
* OrMyNameIsnt: A character says that "X will happen or my name isn't Y!".
* OrSoIHeard
* OutOfContextEavesdropping: A character eavesdrops on a conversation and gets the wrong idea of what's going on due to missing the proper context.
* OutsideInsideSlur
[[/folder]]

[[folder:P]]
* ParentheticalSwearing: The character doesn't swear, but the way they phrase their statements makes it easy to imagine that they are cussing.
* PassiveAggressiveKombat
* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Using made-up words.
* PerplexingPlurals
* ThePerryMasonMethod
* PersonalizedPledge: "I swear upon [something personal]."
* PersuasionMinigame
* PickedFlowersAreDead
* PlayingTheVictimCard: The guilty party tries to make it look like they are the victim.
* PlatoIsAMoron
* PokemonSpeak: Character can only say their own name.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Failure to explain your intentions clearly will have dire consequences.
* PoorlyTimedConfession
* PopularSayingBut
* PorkyPigPronunciation: Character struggles to pronounce a word before settling on using a synonym.
* PoseOfSilence: Leaning closely or obscuring your mouth renders you inaudible to everyone else.
* PrecisionFStrike: In a work that otherwise doesn't have profanity, or features a character who doesn't normally use profanity, profanity is unexpectedly used.
* PreemptiveShutUp: Telling someone to shut up when they haven't even said anything.
* ProfoundByPopSong
* ThePromise
* PronouncingMyNameForYou: A character tells someone how to say their name.
* ProverbialWisdom
* PubliclyDiscussingTheSecret
* PurpleProse
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Q]]
* QuietCryForHelp
* QuoteMine
* QuoteToQuoteCombat
* QuotingMyself
[[/folder]]

[[folder:R]]
* RaceNameBasis: Calling someone by their race or species.
* RadioVoice
* RageAgainstTheMentor
* RapidFireInterrupting
* RapidFireNameGuessing
* ARareSentence
* RationalizingTheOverkill: Rationalizing why retaliation was made with more extremes than the slight deserved.
* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: Someone reads from a script and misinterprets stage directions as lines.
* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: Dialogue in fiction is very clear-cut, unlike in real life.
* TheReasonISuckSpeech
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Someone tears into someone else by going on a rant listing the other person's flaws.
* RecordedSplicedConversation
* RememberThatYouTrustMe
* RepeatedForEmphasis
* RepeatWhatYouJustSaid
* RepeatedCueTardyResponse
* RepeatToConfirm
* RequestForPrivacy
* ReunionVow
* RevengeIsNotJustice
* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Someone answers a rhetorical question due to not knowing that the other person wasn't expecting an answer.
* RhymesOnADime: Character speaks in rhyme.
* RhymingList
* RidiculousCounterRequest
* RousingSpeech
[[/folder]]

[[folder:S]]
* SaidBookism: Authors say anything but "said" when describing a character's dialogue.
* SarcasticConfession
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: A character says a sound effect.
* SayingTooMuch
* SayMyName: A character yells out another one's name.
* SecretIdentityVocalShift
* ScheherezadeGambit
* ScrewYouElves: The high-and-mighty species who believe themselves to be better than everyone else gets told by a member of one of the so-called "lesser species" where they can shove their arrogance.
* ScrewYourUltimatum
* SeamlessSpontaneousLie
* SecretMessageWink: Winking to secretly get a message across.
* SeinfeldianConversation
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Big words.
* SevenMinuteLull
* ShallIRepeatThat
* ShamedByAMob
* ShamingTheMob
* ShapedLikeItself: Describing something as being like itself (e.g. a house-shaped house).
* ShuttingUpNow
* ShutUpKirk
* ShutUpKiss
* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: A simile or metaphor is told, but someone gets distracted by something in the phrase's literal meaning.
* SighOfLove
* SignatureLine
* SilenceIsGolden
* SilentConversation
* SilentWhisper
* SimpleSolutionWontWork: One character [[StatingTheSimpleSolution suggests a simple solution to a problem]], and another character tells them why it won't work.
* SirSwearsALot: Character has a tendency to swear.
* SitRep
* {{Smurfing}}: A character uses the same word to substitute every other word.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat
* SnubByOmission
* SoCrazyItMustBeTrue
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay
* SommelierSpeak
* SoProudOfYou
* SorrowfulStutter
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Character has no qualms with saying negative things about the deceased.
* SpeakingLikeTotallyTeen
* SpeakingSimlish: Characters' dialogue consists almost entirely of gibberish.
* SpeakInUnison
* SpeaksInShoutOuts
* SpeechBubbleCensoring: In comics, speech bubbles are used to cover up nudity.
* SpeechCentricWork
* SpeechImpediment
* SpySpeak
* StageWhisper
* StartMyOwn
* StealthInsult: Insulting someone in a way that you intend them not to understand that they are being dissed.
* StereoFibbing
* StockQuotes
* StopCopyingMe
* StopSayingThat
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker
* StupidQuestionBait
* SuchAPhony: Character talks crap about another but speaks nicely to them when they're around.
* SuddenlyShouting: Character abruptly raises their voice when speaking.
* TheSummation
* SurrogateSoliloquy
* SurvivalMantra
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial
* SuspiciouslySpecificTense
* SustainedMisunderstanding
* SwitchToEnglish
[[/folder]]

[[folder:T]]
* TWordEuphemism: Referring to a word as the (first letter of word)-word to avoid actually saying the word.
* TalkAboutTheWeather
* TalkingThroughTechnique
* TalkingInYourDreams
* TalkingToPlants
* TalkingToTheDead
* TalkingWithSigns
* TalkingYourWayOut
* TalksLikeASimile
* TakingTheFightOutside
* TauntingTheTransformed: A character reacts to the sight of a transformation with mockery, usually verbal.
* TeasingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier
* TechnicalEuphemism: Technical vocab used euphemistically.
* TelegraphGagSTOP
* TellHimImNotSpeakingToHim
* TellMeAboutMyFather
* TemptingFate: Remarking that you're sure nothing bad will happen, only for the bad thing to happen right after you're done talking.
* TermsOfEndangerment
* TerseTalker
* {{Textplosion}}: A {{comic|s}}s' panels are suddenly filled with (dialogue) text before reverting to illustrations.
* ThankYourPrey
* ThatCameOutWrong: Character realizes to their mortification that they just said something that sounds unintentionally sleazy.
* ThatCloudLooksLike
* ThatLiarLies: A person is reprimanded for or accused of lying.
* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: Character expresses emotions by stating how they feel.
* ThatMysteriousThing
* ThatWasNotADream: Character talks about a dream they had and is then told that they weren't dreaming and what they described actually happened.
* ThatWasObjectionable: In court, the lawyer can refute anything by hollering "Objection" or "I object".
* ThinkOfTheCensors
* ThinkingOutLoud
* ThisExplainsSoMuch: A stupid or eccentric character reveals a detail about themselves that causes another character to remark that this may explain why the other person is the way they are.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Emphasising a declaration by ending it with "bitch".
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Confusion on the proper tense to use when describing the actions of time travelers, as those done in the past will technically have already happened and those done in the future haven't happened yet.
* TimmyInAWell
* TomSwifty: A {{pun}}ny adverb sprung from the line of dialogue it tags.
* TooYoungToDieLamentation
* TrialBalloonQuestion
* TrickDialogue
* TheTriple
* TroubleEntendre
* TruthTellingSession
* TrustPassword
* TwistingTheWords
* TwistedEchoCut
* TwoScenesOneDialogue
[[/folder]]

[[folder:U]]
* UnnecessaryTimePrecision: Doing complicated time calculations just to say that the date requested is very recent.
* UnsportsmanlikeGloating: The winner is arrogant enough to mock the other competitors for losing.
* UnusualEuphemism: Saying bizarre words and phrases in lieu of profanity.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:V]]
* VerbalBackspace
* VoiceoverLetter: A character reads a letter and we hear a voiceover of the letter being read aloud by whoever wrote the letter.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:W]]
* WalkInChimeIn
* WallOfBlather
* WasntThatFun: A character (sincerely or not) claims they want to do something dangerous again.
* WaxingLyrical: Mentioning the lyrics of a song.
* WeaponsGradeVocabulary
* WeirdAside
* WeirderThanUsual
* WelcomeToCorneria: The non-player characters of a video game have limited dialogue.
* WhamLine: One line of dialogue changes everything.
* WhatsAHenway: Tricking someone into asking what a nonsense word is, leading to a pun (e.g. "Have you seen my dogway?" "What's a dogway?" "Depends on the breed.")
* WhatTheHellHero: The hero is called out by others for doing something not very heroic.
* WhereDoYouThinkYouAre
* WhileYouWereInDiapers: A character brags about their experience and seniority by claiming to have been at the top of their game when their younger colleagues were only infants.
* WhisperedThreat
* WhosOnFirst: Two words are confused (for instance, a character named Watt causing confusion when asked, "What's your name?").
* WhoopiEpiphanySpeech
* WhoWillBellTheCat
* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough
* WhyAreWeWhispering
* WitchWithACapitalB: Insulting a woman by calling her a "witch" instead of a certain word that rhymes.
* WontTakeYesForAnAnswer: Not realizing that the response given to your request or question was the one you wanted.
* WordAssociationTest
* WorseWithContext
* WorthIt
* WouldRatherSuffer: Underscoring your distaste for something by claiming you'd rather do something very unpleasant.
* WrongNameOutburst
* WroteTheBook
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[[folder:Y]]
* YesNoAnswerInterpretation: A character asks or chooses to interpret whether another character's reply or action is a "yes" or a "no".
* YiddishAsASecondLanguage
* YouAnsweredYourOwnQuestion
* YouAreNotAlone
* YouCanTalk
* YouCanTurnBack
* YouExclamation
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: A character makes a claim that they know sounds odd and desperately begs to be believed.
* YouKnowWhoSaidThat
* YouSquared
* YouTalkTooMuch
* YouUsedToBeBetterSpeech
* YouWillBeSpared
* YoureNothingWithoutYourPhlebotinum
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