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[[caption-width-right:350:"I know I'm probably starting to bore you..."]]
->''"YOU WASTE OF AIR. I feel like I wasted a gallon of oxygen just talking to you. Starving children could have used that oxygen you know. NOW THEY'RE DEAD!"''
-->-- '''Neckbeard''', ''[[Creator/{{Ukinojoe}} Frumplequest]]''

This is a person whose personality is so dull, you would rather watch paint dry for an hour than listen to them for a minute. The Bore may not be talkative--perhaps they just have the charisma of a wooden plank, saying nothing and doing nothing of interest. They're probably an enthusiast for IncrediblyLameFun and take a keen interest in, say, the history of toothpaste caps. Perhaps they do have interesting stories but tell them so often or in such a way as to suck all interest out of them. Perhaps whenever they join a conversation, no matter what the subject, they can only talk about how it affects or relates to ''them''. Whichever it is, The Bore is unutterably, interminably ''dull''.

Usually, they are completely oblivious to the agony they cause, and often they're too nice for anyone in the cast to want to hurt their feelings, although this isn't always so. Some of them are aware of how uninteresting everyone else finds them and simply don't care, or they'll exploit the rules of common etiquette or a position of authority to "enlighten" their victims with their droning. In any case, getting into a conversation with them is like getting caught in [[QuicksandSucks Hollywood-style quicksand]]: unless someone or something interrupts, you won't be able to escape being sucked down into a bottomless pit of monotony.

Maybe a source of NapInducingSpeak. Compare NoSenseOfHumor. Not related to TheComicallySerious, where a boring person gets laughs by having funny things happen to her while she reacts completely seriously. Super trope to OldWindbag, a kind of Bore who is old (usually) and known for telling really long, uninteresting stories. Also a super trope to WindbagPolitician, a politician who bores the audience half to death with long, usually low-substance speeches.

A sub-trope of IndubitablyUninterestingIndividual. Contrast with FunPersonified and GenkiGirl whose overall energetic and fun demeanor is likely to be pointed out by people around them.

Administrivia/InUniverseExamplesOnly, please. This is about ''other characters'' finding someone boring, not audience members.

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', Asa Mitaka tries to date Denji in an attempt to set up her power (which requires her to emotionally connect with potential victims). The problem is that Asa is a socially inept loner. In her mind, "going to an aquarium" means standing in front of each exhibit for 30 minutes while Asa rattles off trivia about fish species. [[PaintingTheMedium Even the manga layout illustrates this]], with repeating layouts and large bubbles full of text letting readers grow as bored as Denji is in the story.
* TheComicallySerious and SociallyInept Todoroki from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' comes off as really boring to a bunch of elementary kids he's supposed to win their hearts to pass an exam.
-->'''One of the elementary kids:''' ''[pointing at an object dangling from Todoroki's belt]'' Weenie! It's a weenie!\\
'''Todoroki:''' This is not a weenie. This is a first-aid treatment for when relief doesn't arrive in time--\\
'''The kids:''' Boring.\\
[...]\\
'''Todoroki:''' ''[takes a deep breath]'' My name is not five weenies. [[VerbalBusinessCard I'm Shoto, a U.A. student who wants to be a hero]]. My father, Endeavor, is the current No. 1 hero, but I've always hated him. So I set my sights on becoming a hero to get back at him. I didn't mesh well with my classmates and--\\
'''Present Mic:''' [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall He's talking like a character introduction page]]!\\
'''The same kids:''' ''[in unison]'' ...So boring.\\
'''Present Mic:''' ...And ''no-one'' likes him!\\
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Franchise/{{Batman}} is sometimes portrayed this way when the Franchise/{{Justice League|of America}} wants to have some downtime and hang out, especially in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueInternational''. This despite the fact that Bruce regularly engages in playboy activities in order to keep his identity under wraps.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'' calls Prowl this, with Kup sharing a story about the time Prowl caught a Decepticon criminal. He proceeded to read a list of ''every single'' transgression the criminal had ever committed. At some point during the third ''day'' of this, he realized that his prisoner had shut his own brain off at some point rather than continue to listen. That's right, Prowl actually managed to bore someone to death.
** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' gives this trait to Ultra Magnus. To recruit Tailgate into the Autobots, he teaches him the entire 10,000 page Autobot Code (and doesn't tell him there's an abridged version). To bring some bots who have been out of commission for a while up to speed, he prepares an 851 slide presentation that one of the viewers describes as "so boring it made my life cry". He also CannotTellAJoke to save his life (at best he can manage a little snark), has smiled a single-digit number of times in his millions of years of existence and regrets many of them, and is so obsessively organized that he keeps his desk tidies in a desk tidy.
--->'''Rodimus:''' Magnus? Last time he gave a speech, people died.\\
'''Drift:''' I know. The only winner that day was medical science. We finally know what happens when the brain is totally deprived of stimulus.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In ''Fanfic/LikeARedHeadedStepchild'', Professor Binns' infamy as an incredibly boring teacher is referenced when it's mentioned in passing that Percy Weasley (even if a LawfulStupid enforcer of Hogwarts laws otherwise) is willing to allow his brothers and Harry to sleep in Binns' class (in reality a result of some all-night training, but still) because [[EveryoneHasStandards even he can't stand the ghost's dullness]].
* Mob in the ''Webcomic/MobPsycho100'' genderswap fanfics ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/19337503/chapters/46001422 Everyone Loves Mob]]'' and ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20672948/chapters/49096982 Playing Games]]'' when she gets started about ''Franchise/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. Teru, being in love with her, is immune to and actually enjoys her hours' long recaps on every single episode of the series.
* Namedropped in the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' fanfic ''Fanfic/AgreementAndDisputation''; when Watson walks in on Holmes trying to reassemble a skeleton, the detective mentions that he didn't learn much in anatomy class because the instructor, Ezekiel Anderson, was so dull. Watson mentions seeing him lecturing recently; the doctor mentions toying with the idea of poking him to see if he would change his expression and pities his unfortunate students.
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* Professor William Brandywine, a bit character from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', has an extremely bored-sounding monotone voice as he lectures his class on Scream Can design. He is also [[GoYeHeroesGoAndDie not the best motivator]].
-->'''Brandywine:''' Some say scream canister design is dull, a waste of a monster's potential.
-->({{Beat}})
-->Open your textbooks to Chapter 3.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* A RunningGag in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' is Ted Striker telling the passenger he's sitting next to an anecdote about his past. The anecdote goes into a {{flashback}}, then when we return to the present the other passenger has been DrivenToSuicide by boredom. In [[Film/AirplaneIITheSequel the sequel]] he manages to escalate himself by driving ''an entire wing of a psychiatric hospital'' to suicide by hearing him, and the current page image, in which he not only manages to make an old woman die (of Heaven-knows-what, but the fact that she says she doesn't get sick in airplanes and Striker starting to talk makes her puke implies that somehow his boredom made her ''fatally ill'') while the flashback is going on but once it cuts back we see ''the woman has completely decomposed down to her skeleton'' and Striker is ''still'' talking to her like nothing has happened.
* The summer school teacher in ''Film/BigFatLiar'' lectures the class in the most uninteresting way possible. Although most of the students are half asleep, he doesn't make any effort to earn their attention.
-->'''Teacher:''' Today, students, we are going to learn about the joys of a special friend I like to call Mr. Semicolon. The semicolon was first used in a 1734 letter to British Parliament... by Mr. Jedediah Wilkinson.
* John from ''Film/ChristmasInConnecticut'' is an architect who will not stop droning on about plumbing and fireplaces and home construction. Yardley, the magazine publisher whom John is trying to start a business relationship with, even calls him a bore. This is part of the RomanticFalseLead characterization that contrasts John with Jefferson, his handsome, charming rival for Elizabeth's affections.
* In ''Film/{{Clockwise}}'', Mrs Trellis is a dotty old lady who talks non-stop about "the sherry glasses", even though nobody pays attention to her. Surprisingly, she remains silent when she accidentally wanders into an important meeting.
-->'''Mrs Trellis:''' It's no use letting Lou have the sherry glasses. She won't appreciate them, she won't polish them, you know what she's like, so I said: well, all right. She goes on and on about those glasses, never stops. Of course I don't say a word... I'm not much of a talker.
* ''Film/TheKnowledge'': Those studying for the legendarily difficult exam faced by London taxi drivers become absolutely devoted to their subject, at the expense of everything and everyone else.
-->"It's a form of euthanasia."
* ''Film/PlanesTrainsAndAutomobiles'': Del Griffin may be [[BigFun a very jovial guy]], but according to the more cynical and impatient Neal, who has had to deal with him for a whole day now [[RageBreakingPoint on top]] [[HumiliationConga of an unending barrage of humiliation in his quest to get home by Thanksgiving]], his story-telling style has a bit of an issue:
-->'''Neal:''' [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech You know]], everything is not an anecdote. You have to discriminate. You choose things that are funny or mildly amusing or interesting. You're a miracle! Your stories have ''NONE'' of that. They're not even amusing ''ACCIDENTALLY''! "Honey, I'd like you to meet Del Griffith, he's got some amusing anecdotes for you. Oh, and here's a gun [[DrivenToSuicide so you can blow your brains out]]. You'll thank me for it."
* Prince Valium in ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' is so boring he puts himself to sleep.
* Essentially [[TypeCasting every role ever]] that Creator/BenStein has ever had. (Examples: his OneSceneWonder in... anyone? anyone?... in ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'' and the WesternAnimation example below).
* In ''Film/JaneWantsABoyfriend'', Bianca tries to set Jane up with another autistic person, thinking he'll be more suited to her than Jack, but he spends most of the evening talking about himself and doesn't ask Jane a single question about herself.
* Henry from ''Film/TwiceRoundTheDaffodils'' loves his sister Harriet, but finds her and her constant letters to be rather exhausting:
-->'''Henry:''' Oh, I appreciate Harriet, all right, I think she's ''marvellous''. Never before was so much written about so little in such ''detail''.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/AgathaHAndTheVoiceOfTheCastle'': Boris Dolokhov, Baron Wulfenbach's chief administrator. A footnote takes the time to assure the reader that not only is he the most boring man in the entire empire, but he is also the most boring man in the entire world.
* ''Literature/AscendanceOfABookworm'': Ferdinand is quite the {{Workaholic}} and any attendant that manages to last more than a year under his employ tend to end up with that character trait, as well. Sylvester, a fun-loving ManChild, considers all of Ferdiand's attendants to be among the most boring people he knows and his head attendant Arno to be the most boring person he ever met.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', Professor Binns is infamous for his ability to put students to sleep as soon as he starts teaching his class. He has a unique ability to make everything sound dull, even subjects that might have been interesting to learn about, like the Giant Wars, or the violent and bloody goblin riots. Being Hogwarts' only ghost teacher, it's said that '''not even death itself''' was enough to stop Professor Binns from droning on and on ''and on'' about historical subjects.
* In ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'', Hornblower sometimes bleeds off the stress of forthcoming action by forcing his junior officers to play whist with him (a complex and mathematical card game) and then going over the game in minute detail to point out each and every error they made in a deliberate effort to bore them to death. The prospect of a whist night with the captain is viewed with a mixture of dread and admiration.
* ''Literature/LuckyJim'' is filled with these, as part of its TakeThat towards academia. Professor Welch takes the cake, as he's prone to long, rambling digressions about subjects of little interest to Jim, mostly on the subject of obscure Medieval art forms. Bertrand, Welch's pretentious artist son, also certainly qualifies. There's also Mitchie, a student who takes after Welch. He seems genuinely interested in Medieval History and will drone on about it at length to Jim.
* ''Literature/MagicShop'': ''The Skull of Truth'' has Charlie's great-aunt Hilda and great-uncle Horace, whom Charlie considers "The Two Most Boring People in the World" (and most of his family feels the same way). Unusually for the trope, Horace ''knows'' that he's boring, and hates it, which surprises Charlie when this comes out and makes him wonder if Horace's problem with being a bore is like his own compulsive lying.
* ''Literature/OddlyEnough'': The narrator of "What's the Worst That Could Happen?" thinks of his eighth grade social studies teacher as one, remarking via narration that the man is someone "who you will probably see on the front of the ''National Enquirer'' someday as a mass murderer for boring twenty-six kids to death in a single afternoon."
* Referenced by name in ''Literature/ThePigman'' by John, who refers to his father as "The Bore". Between this and Lorraine's AbusiveParents, it's no wonder the two warm up to Mr. Pignati the way they do.
* ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'':
** Everyone who knows Mr. Collins will use any excuse to avoid his pomposity and endless sycophancy towards Lady Catherine de Bourgh.
** Miss Mary Bennett's recitations of what she's read are usually found to be tiresome by the rest of her family.
* Gilles Ponsi in ''Literature/ReflectionsOfEterna'' has a tendency to bore the hell out of people near him, especially with his [[GiftedlyBad attempts at poetry]], but is completely oblivious to this fact and takes offense at them not appreciating his company.
* ''Literature/StarTrekArticlesOfTheFederation'': Bera chim Gleer. President Bacco has to try very hard not to shut her eyes and nap when he gets going on one of his long-winded diatribes.
* ''Literature/WingsOfFire'' has Coconut, a [=RainWing=] who is boring to hang out with because he is so shallow and unintelligent, and Snowflake, who seems the same, though [[ADayInTheLimelight ''Runaway'']] reveals that she was just ObfuscatingStupidity.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/AsTimeGoesBy'':
** Jean's brother-in-law Stephen, while much more pleasant than his wife, is still unbearable to be around because of his habit of intense conversation about the most mundane topics.
** Gwen Flack, Lionel's temporary secretary while writing the mini-series, chatters so much about her dog, her old boyfriends, and [[ItMakesSenseInContext how unalluring socks are]] that Lionel can't get any writing done.
* On a long space trip in ''Series/BabylonFive'', Dr. Franklin divines that the trip will end in Marcus' death. Marcus offers to sing instead. ([[Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance "I AM THE VERY MODEL OF A MODERN MAJOR GENERAL..."]])
* ''Series/BarneyMiller'' has Inspector Luger, an old cop who shamelessly exploits Barney's good nature to endlessly reminisce about his old buddies Brownie, Foster, and Kleiner. Some of these stories are quite gruesome, but having been told so often, nobody wants to hear about how they blew up Foster or gunned down Kleiner anymore.
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** Sheldon Cooper has this as one of his many flaws. He considers his friends' lack of interest to be evidence of their intellectual inferiority.
** Amy Farrah Fowler originally had a case of this that was even worse than Sheldon's in her earliest appearances. [[CharacterDevelopment Later on]], because of her friendship with Penny opening up her eyes to the joys of social life, she later makes more concerted efforts to be less boring, though she still retains ideas of IncrediblyLameFun.
* ''Series/BigBrother'':
** ''Big Brother 14'': Kara was very nice but she was super boring and dull.
** ''Big Brother 15'': While Howard is a good and nice guy, most live feeders found him very boring and dull.
* One episode of ''Series/{{Bizaardvark}}'' involves a teacher with a Professor Binns-esque ability to put entire classes to sleep, even if his subject is ''dinosaurs.'' He admits that it's a recurring problem, and he's been ''fired'' from all his previous teaching positions. He ends up quitting teaching altogether and gets a new job recording sleep aid tapes.
* ''Series/BreakingBad'': Walter's life before his life of crime. You can really see this when he has conversations with old friends at Gretchen's party or any time he talks to Hank in the first season.
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': Amy's [[RomanticFalseLead temporary boyfriend]] Teddy is described as being "the most boring man in America." His only topic of conversation is how much he loves drinking and bottling pilsners, and his idea of a wild time is vacationing in San Diego, or going to "jazz brunch." (As in, brunch where there's background jazz music... about brunch. He even does ''adult coloring books'' at them!) Even Amy, an extremely nerdy woman with some very pedantic interests, [[EveryoneHasStandards finds him insufferably boring and dumps him for it]]. Even when he becomes a StalkerWithACrush towards her after the breakup, his defining trait is how dull he is. When he discovers that people find him boring, he resolves to be more interesting, but everything he tries is a boring person's idea of what's interesting, which only serves to make him even ''more'' boring.
* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': Cliff Clavin, who is ready and willing to regale everyone with his endless array of LittleKnownFacts, whether they want them or not.
* Colm of ''Series/DerryGirls'' is borderline TheDreaded for his monotonous voice and never ending, rambling stories. Everyone does their best to avoid him, or at least foist him off on someone else. When Sister Michael is stuck with him, she briefly wonders if she has actually died and gone to hell. Unlike most examples, his stories are actually interesting - it's just his delivery is what that makes them completely dreadful.
** He seems oddly self-aware of it at times.
--> '''Colm:''' Sometimes I just say something to get meself from one sentence to another.
* ''Series/FatherTed'':
** Father Austin Purcell, who [[MotorMouth rambles incessantly]] about every uninteresting thing that pops into his head. Inverted with Father Fitzgerald, who is aware of his extremely dreary, boring voice and actually manages to use it as a ChekhovsGun.
--->'''Father Austin:''' Now ... what's your favourite humming noise? Would it be "Hmmmm" or "Hmm''mm''mm"? That first one there, that was a fridge, and the second one was a man humming... or it could have been a woman humming... I knew a woman once... but she died shortly afterwards...
** Father Paul Stone from "[[Recap/FatherTedS1E2EntertainingFatherStone Entertaining Father Stone]]" [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerates the hell out of this]]. He doesn't ''talk'' in a boring way like Father Purcell, he just [[TheSilentBob sits around without saying a word for prolonged periods]] and reduces any room he's in into painful, awkward silence for hours on end. After waking up from a lightning bolt-induced coma, [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction his only reaction is to say he's fine]].
* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'', one of Monica's boyfriends was "Fun Bobby", who turned out to be an alcoholic. Once he sobered up, however, he became "Ridiculously Dull Bobby".
* ''Series/LeverageRedemption'': Fake Nate from "The Mastermind Job" is revealed to be one; the only thing he can talk about in any detail is bureaucratic regulation, which naturally puts most people to sleep within seconds. In fact, the entire reason he resorted to pretending to be Nate Ford was because he knew full well how uninteresting he was and wanted to be something cooler than who he really was.
* Al Bundy in ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''. Since he's accomplished ''nothing'' after high school and has no life, he'll usually brag on and on about his past glories as a high school football player and complain endlessly about his job at the women's shoe store and how much life sucks. Everyone on the show tries avoiding him.
* "Slow Roger" from ''Series/MyNameIsEarl''. He seems to have some kind of disorder, and he goes on long rambles, listing stuff from movies (and in one case, all the car parts Earl stole, instead of simply saying that Earl stole his car and slept with Roger's sister.)
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'':
** The sketch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOmB1q8W4Y Vocational Guidance Counsellor]] has a man who wants to change jobs and has taken some aptitude tests to determine which one best suits his personality. On learning that this job is chartered accountant, he protests that he already is one, and he wants to change because the job is so desperately dull. It ends with an appeal by the counsellor for donations to "prevent chartered accountancy."
--->'''Counsellor:''' Yes, but you see, Mr. Anchovy, your report here says that you are an extremely dull person. Our experts describe you as an appallingly dull fellow, [[LongList unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative,]] [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humour, tedious company and irrepressibly drab and awful.]] And whereas in most professions these would be considerable drawbacks, in chartered accountancy they are a positive boon.
** "The Silliest Interview We've Ever Done" had Mr. Badger.
--->'''Badger:''' My wife Maureen ran off with a bottle of Bell's whisky during the Aberdeen versus Raith Rovers match which ended in a goalless draw. Robson particularly, in goal, had a magnificent first half, his fine positional sense preventing the build-up of any severe pressure on the suspect Aberdeen defence. [=McLoughlan=] missed an easy chance to clinch the game towards the final whistle but Raith must be well satisfied with their point.\\
'''Interviewer:''' Do please go on. This is the least fascinating conversation I've ever had.
** The protagonist of "Mr. Pither's Cycling Tour" is one of those terrifying people who go on and on about their favorite hobby at stupefying length, not recognizing that the person he's talking to has no interest in cycling, is not listening, or even that they are having a private conversation.
** One of the panellists on "Interesting People" is a man who is so boring that he turns ''invisible'' the longer he talks.
* Jess dates someone she considers a "human pile of saltine dust" in ''Series/NewGirl''. Played by Creator/TaranKillam, he is usually on his phone and rarely talks, unless he's discussing model trains in excruciating detail.
--> '''Fred:''' What a wonderful cheese store. They had so many options. That's good, 'cause I love cheese. All kinds of cheese. Orange cheese, pizza cheese... I love all parts of pizzas, especially the dough. Once I asked for a ball of dough, and they gave it to me and I took it to a park and ate it.
* Toby from ''Series/TheOfficeUS'' fits the role. His dull voice and adherence to professionalism contrasts the usual shenanigans in the show. This is the main reason why Michael hates Toby. Could be viewed as TruthInTelevision, because in real life, offices aren't as exciting.
--> '''Michael:''' (to Toby) Why are you the way that you are? Honestly, every time I try to do something fun or exciting, you make it not that way. I hate so much about the things that you choose to be.
* Arnold Rimmer of ''Series/RedDwarf'', when he's not acting like a smeghead, is probably being this. He's using his time to put together a complete history of pockets and has so many stories about his thrilling victories in Risk (as in the board game).
* In the ''Series/RippingYarns'' episode "The Testing of Eric Olthwaite" Eric is considered extremely boring to everyone due to his interests: rain, shovels, and black pudding. After he gets a job at a bank and gets kidnapped by a bank robber who it turns out has the same interests. They go on a "crime" wave of measuring rainfall and he becomes interesting to the general public, despite not changing at all.
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'''s examples include Jerry's Uncle Leo and real-life New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner ([[TheFaceless faceless]] and voiced by Creator/LarryDavid); whenever the latter summons his employee George Costanza to his office, the meeting will eventually devolve into Steinbrenner rambling endlessly until Costanza quietly slips out of the office. In "The Race," Steinbrenner sends Costanza to negotiate with UsefulNotes/FidelCastro, [[HereWeGoAgain who turns out to be his country's George Steinbrenner]] (to the point that Costanza exits his meeting with Castro the same way he usually exits meetings with Steinbrenner).
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** Commander Hutchinson's receptions are dreaded by the ''Enterprise's'' senior staff thanks to his limitless ability to talk about absolutely nothing. Fortunately for them, Data has recently written a subroutine for "small talk" that needs to be tested. In another episode, Picard gets out of a social occasion with [[AbhorrentAdmirer Lwaxana Troi]] by summoning Data to talk her into submission.
** Also, the alien in "Liaisons" whom Picard is forced to share a long shuttle ride with.
--->'''Picard:''' Is there any part of your planet you recommend I visit while I'm there?\\
'''Alien guy:''' No.\\
''[Picard bugs his eyes]''
* The Doctor from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' becomes this once he [[CharacterDevelopment starts taking up hobbies]], which involve boring the crew half to death with his slide shows. In one episode Captain Janeway orders the bridge crew on duty to fabricate an emergency so she can leave early; [[TheGadfly they refused]], having suffered through similar slideshows without rescue.
* Bert from ''Series/SesameStreet'' is one of the definitive examples when it comes to children's works. His interests include "boring stories", collecting paperclips and bottlecaps, pigeons and bland food like oatmeal and unflavored soda. Many Bert and Ernie sketches involve Ernie trying to play a game with Bert, but he would prefer to do a more boring activity.
* Frank Pickle of ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'' loves to tell the story of that time the pub ''completely'' ran out of crisps and does enthralling impressions of his second cousin, before and after tonsillectomy. It is known, but unproven, that Frank actually bored his parents to death. He maintains he was outlining parish procedure when they [[DrivenToSuicide hand-in-hand leapt out of an open window.]]
* In ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'', Colin Robinson is a rare example who's fully aware of what he's doing. As an [[EmotionEater energy vampire]] he can feed off boredom or anger, so he works in an office and constantly drops by other employees' cubicles to tell them inane trivia or interminable anecdotes. His powers work on regular bloodsucking vampires, so he's near as aggravating to his housemates too.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Music/FlandersAndSwann: "[[PunBasedTitle The Boar]]".
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[[folder:Radio]]
* ''Radio/BleakExpectations'': In order to reach the afterlife and rescue his wife without actually dying, Pip Bin travels to the most boring place in all Great Britain, the House of Lords, to listen to Baron Arid Words deliver a lecture on evaporation, so he can be bored exactly half to death. It works.
* ''Radio/CabinPressure'': Martin, whose idea of a fun day off is going over aviation techniques. When he discovers a "hidden" bar on MJN's main airport, he soon becomes a pariah because all he wants to talk about is flying, which in the bar requires buying everyone a drink first. Even that isn't enough to get everyone else to feign interest.
* ''Series/DeadRingers'':
** Jeremy Hunt gets a job as an anaesthetic, accomplished by incessantly reminding everyone that he used to be an entrepreneur.
** Gyles Brandreth, during an executive remodeling of ''Killing Eve'' to appeal to older viewers, where he's replacing Villanelle. He threatens to kill people by subjecting them to tediously twee segments about knitwear.
* ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'' has The Storyteller, who is explicitly described as his club's resident bore and on at least one occasion had the [[NewhartPhoneCall unheard interloquitor]] try to stop him from telling his rambling story:
-->'''Finnemore''': No, you can't have the biscuit until I've told my story. I don't care that you no longer want the biscuit. You've started me off!
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* This is the Azorius stereotype on the plane of Ravnica in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''. It goes far enough that [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=265418 one card]] literally wins the game by ''boring the opponent to death''.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' adventure ''The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues''. Angela-G-OGO is a food processing supervisor who loves to talk about food additives. She does it so much that she has bored all of her co-workers blind on the subject, and even Internal Security finds her boringly loyal. However, this is just a front: Angela is in fact a member of Death Leopard.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesRingOfFates'': Alhanalem occasionally lapses into overlong lectures about magic, magic machinery, and how it works, which makes the kids wander off.
* Master [[MeaningfulName Bordam]] Darlavon, host of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'''s [[JustifiedTutorial in-game tutorial]], is portrayed this way. The Orator class can even learn a skill called "Mimic Darlavon" that ''puts the target to sleep''.
* Maechen, the MrExposition of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', tends to deliver his knowledge in interminable lectures. In [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 the sequel]] one dialogue option has Yuna begging him to stop.
* In ''VideoGame/HogwartsLegacy'', the PlayerCharacter attends the class of OldWindbag Professor Binns and simply staying awake requires a [[PressXToNotDie quicktime event]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'': Vernon Tripe, one of Raz's fellow campers at Whispering Rock, is prone to telling long, rambling stories in a nasal monotone.
* ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'' has quest NPC [[MeaningfulName Buzz Killington]]. The Pirates want proof of your endurance, and they'll take you being able to listen to Buzz Killington without falling asleep.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* Professor Aristotle Means from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'' is quickly established to make speeches that easily induce others to sleep. Interestingly, this is a plot point, because he acknowledges his speeches make students sleep [[spoiler:to the point his pre-recorded speech, created to have a false alibi, includes a section where he tells a student to wake up - and it initially works, with no one finding it strange]].
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* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
** Strong Sad is dreary and depressing, and even his body is grey. Thanks to the fact that few people around him care about being polite, he's fully aware that they can't stand him, but he still makes an effort to get them interested in his poetry.
** Strong Sad has {{odd friendship}}s with Marzipan -- who's often considered the bore herself due to her SoapboxSadie tendencies -- and Homsar, whom no one can understand.
** One ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' deals with strategies to drive off the "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE37Dullard office dullard]]".
** The email "boring (really)" deals with a situation where every character is this trope, talking ponderously slowly and spending their time doing things like counting the bricks on a wall or practicing with closing their eyes... except Strong Sad, who is on a caffeine buzz [[NoodleIncident for some reason]] and ranting about an alien spaceship.
* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' brought this up when discussing ''VideoGame/RedFactionArmageddon'', as Yahtzee theorized that there was some kind of unknown prequel that was cancelled in favor of ''Armageddon'', based on what appeared to be {{Orphaned Reference}}s to it. As he really didn't like the protagonist of ''Armageddon'', he theorized that the only way that ''Armageddon'' could have had the more interesting story is if the protagonist of the cancelled game was "a geography teacher, who defeated the cultists by diligently doing his taxes at them."
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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': The Great Hospital at Mechanicsburg hires the storyteller to help get difficult patients to sleep, much to his disgruntlement. This gets him volunteered to help get Klaus to sleep soon after. About the only person who doesn't find his storytelling dull is Tarvek, though [[spoiler:this might be because that particular story was a way for Klaus to give Gil the very important information that Klaus had been wasped.]]
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* ''Website/ChannelAwesome:''
** This is the Critic's biggest complaint about ''Film/{{Junior}}''. He feels that a movie with such a ludicrous premise, that ''Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger'' is a brilliant scientist who [[MisterSeahorse impregnates himself]] to [[ProfessorGuineaPig test his new procedure on himself]], ''should'' be completely over-the-top, offensive, stupid, and ludicrous. Instead it's largely taken seriously and PlayedForDrama, which makes the main character completely and utterly too ''boring'' to be invested in:
---> '''Critic:''' I mean, it’s bad when I’m actually praying for it to be insensitive and insulting! At least, maybe, we can get some form of humor across! I mean, OK, I guess the actors are alright, and Arnold doesn’t come across actually as that bad in this, but that’s part of the problem! We want him to be bad in this! Of all the movies we want him to be over-the-top and goofy in, this is the one! It’s almost like the movie was written for a real pregnant woman, and then, at the last minute, they decided to throw Arnold in!
** He feels this way about Creator/UweBoll movies on the whole. As much as he liked the whole [[Series/TheThreeStooges The Three Shmuckheads]] routine with Creator/{{Linkara}} and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]], he finds Uwe Boll movies like ''Film/{{Alone In The Dark|2005}}'' and ''Film/{{Bloodrayne}}'', and Boll himself, to just be so uninteresting and boring that he struggles to even get through the films, let alone come up with anything funny about them to mock.
* The Website/SCPFoundation has [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6869 SCP-6869]], an unfinished living artwork of a crying man named Fred. He's so godawfully boring that his article is filled with RougeAnglesOfSatin, making it just as unfinished as his life story (his number appears as SCP-####).
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* In ''WesternAnimation/The7D'', Hildy Gloom competes with a childhood rival at an award show for witches over who can put the most people to sleep. The prize, however, goes to the show's emcee, who has just put most of the audience to sleep.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
** Molly. She's so boring, in fact, that the universe ''[[RetGone retconned her out of existence]]'' for being ''too'' boring.
** [[OurGiantsAreBigger Hector]] is an [[InvokedTrope deliberate bore]]. He has to be kept calm and sedate at all times, lest he goes on a town-ravaging rampage. Which has the side-effect of making him dull.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
** The sketch "Chairman of the Bored", which introduces Francis "Pip" Pumphandle. He is this, TheThingThatWouldNotLeave and a repeated example of TheCatCameBack, [[DrivenToSuicide driving The Warner Brothers (and Sister) to near-suicidal]] (and homicidal) despair with one of his (''[[OverlyLongGag days-long]]'') rambling anecdotes. Voiced by Ben Stein for higher-caliber boredom. Comically enough, by the time he finishes his story and leaves, the Warners have been ConditionedToAcceptHorror, and now think their home is too quiet without the incessant droning of Pip. The episode ends with them running after him, begging for more stories.
** And then Ben Stein comes back in ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'' as the "Desire Fulfillment Facilitator", who nearly bores Wakko to death while shaking his hand.
** Perry Coma, the singer of the "Anvilania" national anthem in the "King Yakko" short. It's a RunningGag that every time he sings he makes everybody fall asleep (although whether it's him or it's the anthem being that lousy is unsaid). The Warners weaponize this at the climax by using it to make an entire army fall asleep.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': Ron Cadillac, Malory's husband by the start of season 4. He's an older, wealthy man who owns several luxury car dealerships, who has a very mild and bland personality compared to the rest of the cast. Archer later discovers that Ron actually started his career running a car theft ring with his childhood friends, and later opened a chop shop with them, later using the money they earned from their crimes to open his first legitimate dealership. He still leads a secret double life, paying his former partners in crime with untaxed money as payback for not turning him in to the police when they were all arrested 20 years before.
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Teddy, a regular at Bob's restaurant, is fond of telling rambling stories about everyday things, like finding out his towels are slightly mismatched. Gene and Louise even make listening to one of Teddy's stories a test of endurance in "Dr. Yap".
* Quinn Morgendorffer, the younger, more popular sister of WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}, may have legions of guys falling for her and she might be at the top of the social food chain at Lawndale High, but that's just because of her looks. It's frequently shown Quinn has almost nothing interesting or engaging to talk about, and she'll usual ramble on and on about how hard it is to be well dressed and popular when she's not blabbering about contrasting sock length or coordinating shoelace coloring with her date's car. In at least two instances, Quinn's rambling knocked out a psychiatrist and her tutor once called her out on how boring she really is. Deep down, Quinn's genuinely terrified of being this since she has such low self esteem she thinks she really has nothing to offer beyond gossiping and talking about fashion. Quinn eventually starts to display her HiddenDepths and finds out she does have more to offer.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** Buzz Killington, a phenomenally boring Englishman with a MeaningfulName.
** Cleveland Brown [[CharacterizationMarchesOn started off this way]], though became more outgoing when [[WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow he gained center spotlight]]. Even after his spin-off was cancelled and he returned to Quahog, he never regressed to his previous behavior.
** Quagmire delivered a brutal TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to [[Characters/FamilyGuyBrianGriffin Brian Griffin]] to explain why he doesn't like the dog. After going through his list of Brian's faults, Glen admits he would easily look past all of that if he wasn't such a bore.
** More recently, Joe Swanson has been most likely to kill the vibe with his inability to make small talk.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
** In "The Twin Factor", Drakken uses a MindControlDevice to make Shego obey him and listen attentively to his anecdotes. After she's released from its effects, she rants, "Do you have ''any idea'' what listening to you is like? It is ''SO BORING''!" before chasing after him to exact her revenge.
** In the [[ThreeShorts half-episode]] "The Truth Hurts", Kim's dad has [[DinnerWithTheBoss his bosses coming to dinner]]... right after Kim has been hit with a [[TruthSerum Truth Ray]] that causes her to blurt out what she's heard her dad say about them, including the description of one of them as a long-winded bore. Fortunately, ''their'' boss shows up, and turns out to be the KidnappedScientist Kim had been rescuing when she got hit with the Truth Ray.
* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': [[Characters/KingOfTheHillHankHill Hank Hill]] is the ''king'' of this trope. He literally has no life outside of his work at the propane business. He talks about propane and propane accessories as if they're something to be worshipped by the world. The show mostly revolves around Hank trying to understand normal people since he can't understand why no one cares to listen to what he has to say. This may also apply to his wife, Peggy, and friends since their stories revolve around them trying to do something crazy so they don't become this trope.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
** Pinkie Pie's older sister, Maud Pie. In fact, the rest of the mane six (minus Pinkie) could tell straight-on that Maud is a very boring individual, and even with that in mind, they still had a hard time connecting with her just because she's so boring.
** In season 8, Maud gets a boyfriend, Mud Briar, who's just as boring as she is; even Pinkie finds him intolerably dull. Appropriately [[VisualPun his cutie mark is a stick in the mud]].
* Gearhead at the party for the season 1 finale of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''. Do you want to know the long and incredibly detailed history of the Gear Wars? Gearhead will lecture you whether you want to or not.
* One of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle's'' Fractured Fairy Tales was about Leaping Beauty, a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin beautiful girl who leaps about]] spreading joy and cheer until she runs afoul of a witch, who curses her to become a bore, after which she literally puts the entire kingdom to sleep with her incessant prattling. It gets mixed with FunWithHomophones when she is exiled to live with ''boars''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** [[Characters/TheSimpsonsMargeSimpson Marge Simpson's]] incredibly bland taste in everything is a frequent source of humor. For example; looking for some adrenaline in her life, Marge decides to stop buying regular ham, and go instead for deviled ham. Contrast this with Homer's RenaissanceMan qualities, music, language, etc. only some of which are played as one off jokes.
** In ''[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E17LastExitToSpringfield "Last Exit to Springfield"]]'', Mr. Burns hires Abe Simpson and other retirees as strikebreakers. Abe explains that while they can't break heads like they used to, they can tell [[RamblingOldManMonologue long and incredibly pointless stories]] in order to bore people to death. He then proceeds to tell an excruciatingly long story about visiting Shelbyville while Burns and Smithers visibly wilt.
** Seymour Skinner is a spectacular example of this on his own (witness him boring the hell out of the Springfield Police from just standing there trying to recall what he witnessed during the first part of "Who Shot Mister Burns?")... many of the jokes involving him are that he works hard at being a ProfessionalButtKisser for Superintendent Chalmers, but his buzzkill, ControlFreak, all-work-no-play (and hard-core Mama's Boy) personality instead makes Chalmers hate him with an absurd passion (Chalmers's own {{Flanderization}} including him being unable to say Skinner's name nor ''anything that remotely sounds like "Skinner"'' without yelling it angrily).
** Reverend [[IronicName Lovejoy]] is a preacher with zero passion or interest in spreading the word of God. His sermons are thus lackluster and boring affairs that often put people to sleep. Lovejoy even has a sound generator installed to wake people up. One episode shows that he actually did start out as a compassionate and spiritual man back in the 70's, until he moved to Springfield, and on his first day met Ned Flanders who began to grind away every bit of Lovejoy's spirit, bugging him day and night with his inane and pathetic "issues" until Lovejoy became completely apathetic.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' features this. Tom is brought along to a show and tell. While waiting for his turn, he meets a very chatty rabbit who explains that his name is "Jerald". He goes on and on about [[SpellMyNameWithAnS it's usually spelt with the letter "G"]]. All the while Tom is trying to think of a way to eat Jerry but once his plan is formulated he finds that Jerald will not stop shaking his hand and besides that, he's still talking. Tom takes something made of metal and beats Jerald across the head with it offscreen but when the scene cuts back to Jerald his head is absolutely covered in cartoonish lumps, his eyes are black and some of his teeth are missing.
* ''Animation/WordsWordsWords'': One man's dialogue is represented by a speech balloon filled with random numbers. The woman sitting with him tunes out, looking instead at a handsome man at the next table.
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