Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion / Comic Books

• Etrigan is a rhyming demon who will occasionally break his station for comedic effect.
  • This:
    Etrigan: Our heroes, quite noble, have fallen to hell;
    may they curse their eternal foul luck.
    And while these champions may triumph o'er street crime quite well,
    down here with the demons they're totally doomed.
    Blue Beetle: That didn't rhyme!
    Etrigan: So sue me.
  • In The Demon Annual #2, after Etrigan pounds his opponent through the pavement into a sewer:
    Etrigan: By my dearest brother Goat—
    Who'd've thought the oaf would float?
    Down that sewer all so dank and dimly lit?
    But just watch the fellow hurry
    Through that mass of noxious slurry...
    He really seems at home in all that—
    Policeman: Freeze!
• The Maxx falls asleep watching cartoons in issue #5 and enters a surreal dream land where everyone talks and thinks in rhyme, including him. Upon his escape he discovers he can speak normally again, expressing this with a somewhat forced rhyme subversion:
  The Maxx: It is different somehow, this land isn't mine! And my brain has been freed! I'm not thinking in... poetry stuff.
• Somewhere in "Marvel What The..." Dr. Strange's silly assistant plays the Name Game with the magic formulas. Even with "Chuck", and as you know, you shouldn't do that. Dr. Strange violently cuts him short at the end and just a hurt "-uck!" results. Rhyme (and ears of the readers) saved.
• The Muppet Show Comic Book:
  • In one of writer and artist Roger Langridge's Muppets strips intended to be published in Disney Adventures prior to the magazine's cancellation, which were included in a preview issue of The Muppet Show Comic Book as well as the omnibus collection of the entire comic, one scene has Sweetums serenade to a Bound and Gagged Miss Piggy.
    Sweetums: Me live in dumb old hut
    And shirt am torn and cut—
    But nothing so ace as your fat old face
    And pimples on your—
  • The "Winter" issue of the Four Seasons arc has Rizzo the Rat write a poem for Gonzo to express his anger at Gonzo's latest stunt destroying the refrigerator.
    Rizzo: Roses are brown...
    So is a nut.
    Gonzo the Great is a pain in the...