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  • The Oracle in the Azrael Annual #2 (a Legends of the Dead Earth Elseworld):
    Oracle: Shut your mouth and open your ears. We oracles never repeat ourselves and I mean that most sincerely. Never, never repeat ourselves, understand?
  • The Bonkers comic "Murder Mania" that appeared in Disney Adventures has a character note that Miranda Wright is pretty, helpful, pretty, efficient, and pretty helpful and pretty efficient as well.
  • In The Boys, Black Noir's name means "black black".
  • The title of The Dandy Special issue 7: Desperate Dan in Dan in Japan. So Dan's in himself then? [1]
  • Deathstroke: Deathstroke the Terminator. Yes thank you, we gathered that you kill people from the first bit. Unless you're also responsible for laying off employees, "the Terminator" is not needed. The name actually came about by an error in his introductory issue, where he was referred to first as Deathstroke, then as the Terminator, so they decided to combine them.
  • DC Comics:
    • "DC" stands for "Detective Comics," ergo their name is Detective Comics Comics. They also publish a series called Detective Comics. Which means it's Detective Comics Comics' Detective Comics. And the comics they publish are Detective Comics Comics' comics.
    • DC has a series of omnibus reprints of comics, called Showcase Presents. One volume reprints the 1950s comicbook Showcase, so it's Showcase Presents Showcase. So... Detective Comics Comics presents Showcase Presents Showcase.
  • "Doomguy" from the DOOM comic has the infamous "Rip and tear! Rip and tear your guts!", among other redundant lines that he used redundantly.
  • Green Lantern: Larfleeze's oath:
    "What's mine is mine
    and mine and mine
    and mine and mine and mine
    Not yours
    "
  • In an issue of Legion of Super-Heroes, Apparition is waiting for Ultra Boy. The narration reads:
    Apparition: (she counts off his crimes to the tick of the clock) One. He's late. Two. He already has a girlfriend. Three. He gives bad gifts — a cactus, of all things. Four. He's late. Five. He already has a girlfriend. Six...
    Ultra Boy: I'm late.
  • In the Lucky Luke book "The Oklahoma Run", Luke encounters a traveling salesman who can sell him fresh water, whisky, fruit, whisky, (insert a lot more here) and whisky.
  • Marvel's Time Variance Authority, a bureaucracy that monitors every universe in existence, actually has a Department of Redundancy Department.
  • Frank Miller repeats himself with a lot of repetition. Repeatedly. Also, whores and prostitutes.
  • The obscure DC Comics miniseries Prez: First Teen President stars a U.S. President named Prez Rickard. That's right, President Prez Rickard. His mother had a premonition when he was born and decided to name him appropriately.
  • In the superhero comic series Runaways, the titular heroes' secret headquarters is situated under The La Brea Tar Sands, which, as a guard pointed out, means "The The Tar Tar Sands."
  • The Kindle version of the third Simon's Cat book is titled both on the website and the download itself as "Simon's Cat: In Kitten Chaos: In Kitten Chaos (Simons Cat 3)"
  • The Simpsons Futurama Crossover Crisis: Fry doesn't like the idea of taking the biggest comic collection in the universe and have it be sealed in diamond forever. Leela then says that it's the only way they'll be collectibles according to "The Collectible Comic Guide to Collecting Collectible Comics."
  • If anything remotely exciting is going on in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), it's a near-certainty that the character(s) involved will take it upon themselves to tell you what's happening by narrating it in real time as it happens.
  • Stunt Dawgs: In the comic, Airball telling the readers why he must find out what the Stunt Dawgs are rejoicing for.
    Airball: For I am zee evil Airball! Second-in-command of zee evil Stunt Scabs... led by zee evil Richard Fungus! By zee way... did I mention we are evil?
  • Superman:
    • In Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, Peter Parker has this line:
      Spider-Man: He hasn't seen angry till he's seen me angry.
    • Superboy-Prime In Countdown to Final Crisis:
      Superboy Prime: I'll kill you! I'll kill you to DEATH!
    • Strangers at the Heart's Core: As she watches Supergirl rushing to save her parents, Lesla-Lar gloats: "You may win this round, but I've another plan to execute— one that will — Ha Ha!— execute you!"
    • Way of the World: When Supergirl states she intends to revive a child by injecting him with Resurrection Man's blood, on grounds that it previously brought another person back from the dead, Resurrection Man points out that "Yeah, but now he's a living skull and insane. And a living skull."
  • Thunderstrike: After trying to think of a good code name for himself, Eric slips and says "Thunderstrike" to the public, which is like Thor calling himself Mjölnir.
  • done accidentally by Titeuf when he gets punished for unintentionally calling a rector "Mr. Rectum", he tells Manu that "The Rectum is a real asshole.".
  • The Mad Thinker from Ultimate Fantastic Four talks lightning fast and repeats herself expressed in a different way, a bit like Blurr would.
  • In the Warrior Cats graphic novel A Thief in ThunderClan, Brightheart's repetition is part of what demonstrates how bad of a liar she is: "Being pregnant is making me want to chew on burdock roots. Because I'm pregnant."

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