Hulk Speak / Western Animation

• Torgo from The Bagel and Becky Show does this.
• Lampshaded in Disney's The Legend of Tarzan TV series. A man wants to make a movie about Tarzan, goes to visit him, and gives him the script. Tarzan immediately points out that he doesn't speak in Hulk Speak, and has no idea why anyone would think he would.
• Ratz: Svetlana, the Huskie Russkie shipmate, talks like this.
• Robozuna: Mangle tends to talk like this, as to other robots.
• In Kim Possible, Ron talks this way after mutating into "Gronde".
• Surprisingly The Hulk doesn't speak like this in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, this makes him seem a lot more intelligent. The closest we get is his Catchphrase: Hulk is strongest there is! Everything else is normal, or sarcastic/cynical. However, the more pissed off he gets, the more likely you are to hear Hulk Speak, rage apparently eroding his intelligence. (This, by the way, is when you want to run for your life.)
• This continues in Avengers Assemble and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.. In the latter series, he's even team leader and it's not every day he's driven into an incoherent rage. "Hulks, smash!" is used as their "Avengers, assemble!" cry. We learn he used to be like the classic Savage Hulk and is trying to atone for the years of rage-monsterdom, and, much like in EMH, he will revert to Hulk Speak when he's particularly angry and out of control, which is something he very much tries to avoid.
  • The most common user of this speech pattern on Hulk and the Agents of SMASH is Skaar.
  • In Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), Hulk's appearances begin with him as his classic Hulk Smashy self, but at a reduced enough level to let him stay in on this more comedic series' hijinks when his usual personality would have him punch Spidey to the moon and bound away. (Basically, he's right out of The Super Hero Squad Show.) However, he's left somewhat more intelligent as a side-effect after Mesmero messes with his head. It seems the Avengers EMH portrayal is going to stick for a while, at least in animation.
• Various Transformers characters:
  • The Dinobots in Generation 1 and just Grimlock in Animated. In Grimlock's case in particular, in the cartoons this is apparently because he's stupid. In the various comics continuities - in everything but the shows, really - he is actually very intelligent, and the "Me Grimlock" speak, when present at all, is due to a faulty voice box, Obfuscating Stupidity, or both. In Robots in Disguise, he lacks this altogether, while in Cyberverse, he has it only when in his dinosaur mode due to the difference in intelligence between his two forms.
  • Waspinator in Beast Wars.
  • Tankor in Beast Machines. However, when he manages to unlock his spark's true intelligence, he begins speaking normally, but keeps up the hulk speak to deceive Megatron.
  • Abominus and Trypticon from the original cartoon suffer from similar problems, but unlike Grimlock and the Dinobots, "CRUSH METROPLEX" and "Computron think too much." is about the best than can do. Humorously in light of this, one comic series instead depicts Trypticon as an Affably Evil Genius Bruiser who spouts British Stock Phrases.
    • In "The Ultimate Weapon" there were moments when Trypicon spoke more normally, "Trypticon is all powerful! Nothing can stand in my way!" and "Trypticon turn Metroplex into slum!".
  • Shattered Glass Grimlock starts off here, as Dumb Muscle, but on gaining super-intelligence actually managed to combine Hulk Speak with Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness (he reverts back to proper Hulk Speak when angry).
  Grimlock: Oh, yes, it is I, Grimlock... and so much more now. To be specific, that would be 'so much more than you, now'. It does appear that there are certain linguistic idiosyncrasies that I, Grimlock, am still stuck with, however. But mustn't complain too much, wot?
  • Devastator from Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen; although he doesn't speak in the movie, there are large toys of the character with several pre-recorded phrases. Have fun with epic sayings such as "CRUSH AUTOBOTS!!!" and "I AM DECEPTICON!!!". We also get a shoutout to The Transformers: The Movie from this toy, with "PREPARE FOR EXTERMINATION!"
  • Tidal Wave.
  • Most G1 beast bots, giant bots, and combination bots talk like this, and it's seen with the good guys as well as the bad. With the combiners, it's generally held to be the result of a gestalt's mind containing only what all five members have in common. That leaves little but "Crush Autobots!" However, Predaking's five members are on the same page to the point that even though beast-bots and giant-bots in G1 generally have half the IQ of a box of rocks, Predaking - a giant bot made of beast bots - is very intelligent, and has a Kraven the Hunter-like personality.
  • The comics generally give them full intelligence, though Devastator is the first combiner, made before the process is perfected, leaving him as the only Hulk Smash-y one. A Marvel UK story has the Decepticons work on fixing this.
• Taz, the Tazmanian Devil, in the Looney Tunes shorts where he has any lines other than "Growl, spit". On Taz-Mania, his own show, the rest of his family speaks normally.
• Futurama, "Amazon Women In The Mood": The Amazonians speak this way, with the "complicated issues" subversion.
  • Later, this is hilariously used with a real hologram of Attila the Hun is facing Zapp Brannigan with a laser cannon:
    Attila the Hun: Stop! No shoot fire stick in space canoe! Cause explosive decompression!
    Zapp: Spare me your space-age technobabble, Attila the Hun!
  • The people of earth talked like this when the Brain Spawn drained their brains and made them incredibly stupid.
  • And also in "Jurassic Bark", when the Professor gets tired of explaining that lava is not an appropriate medium for swimming.
    "PROFESSOR! LAVA! HOT!"
  • And also spoken this way by the Neanderthals.
  • From "How Hermes Got His Groove Back:"
    Morgan: I downloaded [Bender's] brain. Everything that is Bender is right here. His mind, his memories, his in-your-face interface...
    Bender: I AM BENDER. PLEASE INSERT GIRDER.
    Fry: But... Bender need brain for smart-making!
  • When Bender and the Rocket Express ship merge A.I.s at the end of "Love & Rocket", Leela disables the ship's rational thought ability.
    Rocket Express Ship: Me want merge Bender!
• Caveman Og from Aqua Teen Hunger Force, whose speech is a very subtle version of Hulk speak in which he is soft spoken and somewhat refined, but can't seem to grasp speaking in the first person. "Look, me feel no agenda to meeting and vacuum in leadership position, so, me compose 10 points plan for good happy success."
• The Infraggable Krunk from the Justice Friends Show Within a Show in Dexter's Laboratory. Not just a parody of Hulk Speak, but a parody of the Hulk himself... right down to the purple skin and green shorts.
• Proto Clown from The Tick episode "The Tick vs the Proto Clown".
  Proto-Clown: Bud laugh at Clown! Bud's friends laugh! Clown crush all - then Clown laugh!!
• Used jokingly by Hawkgirl in Justice League during an Enemy Mine situation with Grundy after he first helps her deal with some enemies and then she saves him from falling.
  Solomon Grundy: Bird Nose helps Grundy? But Bird Nose and her friends hate Grundy!
  Hawkgirl: Grundy help Bird Nose, Bird Nose help Grundy, okay? Excuse me, Hawkgirl smash!
• Oonga boonga! Captain Caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaveeeemaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnn!!
• Edward The Less featured a hilarious spoof/Lampshade Hanging with its requisite barbarian character. Edward asks "You ever consider using articles or personal pronouns?" and he responds with a speech that is completely lacking those elements yet is still very eloquent, explaining that he could speak the Queen's English if he wanted to but finds it a waste of time.
• In Code Lyoko, William and other XANA-possessed humans are often quite monosyllabic (Polymorphic Clones even moreso). At least, once the influence has become obvious: strangely enough, they're just as verbose and natural-sounding as the person they're impersonating until their true nature is revealed. And sometimes, even using words is beyond their means: "YAAAAAAAAAR!"
  • After the episode "A Lack of Goodwill", XANA-possessed William starts talking more normally, though still in a distorted voice.
• From the "Toy Palace" episode of Rugrats: "THORG HUNGRY! THORG WANT EAT!"
• The cave-people and Yoshi in Super Mario World.
• Homer's clones from a "Treehouse of Horror" talked like this, examples: "duh, me am good dad", "me not want chores, me want clone", and "duh, beer for me?"
• As a Tarzan parody, there's always George of the Jungle.
  "George not know meaning of word fear." (villain pokes a gun in his face) "But George consider learning."
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • "PATRICK SAD!"
  • "YOU DOODLE, ME SPONGEBOB!"
  • Sam Star (Patrick's long-lost and overprotective big sister) also speaks this way.
• Princess Pony Apehands and Patricia, from Spliced. Notable in that the latter only does so when she's angry, and the former speaks in what can only be described as "Hulk Speak meets Baby Talk" (no, seriously).
• The neanderthals in Cro. "That not funny! Not politically correct either!"
• Done with a Hulk Expy in Static Shock, fitting called Tantrum.
  Tantrum: No not Thomas! Thomas weak!
• Java from Martin Mystery speaks Hulk speak by virtue of being a caveman.
• Push the trash can from ChalkZone speaks like this.
  (from Shapshots 2: Wild Chalkzone!) Ohhh, Push stay in marshy-marsh, click-click buggy-blackies for tube-view, eh, clingy-Snap?
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Spike ends up talking this way in "Secret of my Excess" thanks to greed-induced growth.
    SPIKE WANT!
  • The yak characters talk this way.
• "Bigmouth want food!"
• MAD has a Parody Commercial for "Hulked on Phonics", which helps kids learn to read better by applying the principles of Hulk Speak to the process. Yes, they skip over a lot of the unneccessary words, but don't bug them about it, because that makes them angry...
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), Karai in her mutant serpent form. It's a plot point, as she can only give vague clues to where she hides. She can speak normally later.
• Played for Laughs in "Total Drama Revenge of the Island" when exposure to toxic waste mutates new camper Dakota into the Dakotazoid.
• On Invader Zim, Zim's holographic training version of Dib talks this way. Averted by the real version, though like the rest of the cast he can lapse into Buffy Speak.
• The Big Bad Hippo from Toph's introduction episode in Avatar: The Last Airbender speaks in Hulk Speak, even when not competing in the ring.
• Parodied in an episode of Johnny Bravo. Johnny is tanning on the beach when the glare from his reflecting tin hits a sea captain in the face. The captain's reaction:
  Captain: Can't-see! Must-talk-like-this!
• The Cragsters from Mixels talk like this, though they talk better than the most of the other examples.
• Cindarr does this on a couple of occasions in Visionaries. In "The Dark Hand of Treachery" he says: "Power Staff not last very long" and "Honor Among Thieves" has the Grimlock-esque: "Me Cindarr broke". However, the rest of his dialogue is more or less grammatically correct.
• Kaeloo: Whenever Kaeloo Hulks Out and turns into her Bad Kaeloo form, she starts talking like this.
• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: In The N-Men, when the main group get superpowers from an encounter with radiation in space, the titular character belatedly gets his power after much teasing from his "friends." Jimmy quickly changes from Little Professor Dialogue to hulk speak. You hear the change while he transforms!
• The Land Before Time: The series has a downplayed variant: While the dinos use proper grammar for the most part, they tend to use simplified words for things that have long names, such as calling a Tyrannosaurus Rex a "sharptooth", or use words that indicate they don't entirely understand what the thing in question is (in the first movie, there are some star shaped leaves called "tree stars"). Somewhat strangely, the first movie has them use the word "earthshake" in place of "earthquake" despite them being the exact same length.
• In the CatDog episode, Monster Truck Folly:
  Cat: You fix truck. I drive truck. I crush.
  Dog: Whatever you say, Tarzan.
• Family Guy: "Tony Robbins hungry!"
• Clam from Camp Lazlo tends to slip into this when speaking complete sentences.
  Clam: Go find Lazlo! Raj and Clam go find Lazlo!

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