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* ''JimmyTwoShoes'' from the episode ''Jimmy and Beezy on the Run'': "Maybe you're right. Maybe Miseryville has finally gotten to the Jimmy! Maybe, just maybe...I've gone bad!"

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* ''JimmyTwoShoes'' from the episode ''Jimmy and Beezy on the Run'': "Maybe you're right. Maybe Miseryville has finally gotten to the Jimmy! Maybe, just maybe... I've gone bad!"



-->"A race against me--" ''(to herself)'' "...pause for dramatic effect..." ''(out loud)'' "--through Ghastly Gorge!"

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-->"A race against me--" -->"Your final challenge is..." ''(to herself)'' "...[[DramaticPause pause for dramatic effect...effect]]..." ''(out loud)'' "--through "--a race against me, through Ghastly Gorge!"Gorge! [[{{Sting}} DUHN DUHN DUHN]]!"
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* In ''{{Outsider}}'', there is a scene where Alex, a human, is talking to a [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Loroi,]] who have never made contact with humans before. The Loroi in question, Beryl, is wondering what the words "Um," means in the human language, to [[http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider039.html which Alex replies that he tends to "Think Out Loud."]] [[http://well-of-souls.com/outsider/outsider040.html Beryl bursts into laughter, thinking he told a joke, before realizing he was being serious.]] The Loroi are unused to verbal communication, preferring telepathy, so...
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* Done by Rainbow Dash in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E7MayTheBestPetWin "May the Best Pet Win"]].
-->"A race against me--" ''(to herself)'' "...pause for dramatic effect..." ''(out loud)'' "--through Ghastly Gorge!"
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** Beezy responds by saying: [[LampshadeHanging "Enough with the thinking out loud!"]]
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* ''JimmyTwoShoes'' from the episode ''Jimmy and Beezy on the Run'': "Maybe you're right. Maybe Miseryville has finally gotten to the Jimmy! Maybe, just maybe...I've gone bad!"
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* Lampshaded in the ''ChildrenOfTheCorn'' remake, in which the hero's verbal monologue is echoed by his inner monologue, culminating with him both muttering and thinking that he needs to stop talking to himself.

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* Lampshaded in the ''ChildrenOfTheCorn'' remake, in which the harried hero's verbal monologue is echoed by his inner monologue, culminating with him both muttering saying and thinking to himself that he needs to stop talking to himself.
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* Lampshaded in the ''ChildrenOfTheCorn'' remake, in which the hero's verbal monologue is echoed by his inner monologue, culminating with him both muttering and thinking that he needs to stop talking to himself.
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* A version of this occurs in ''PhineasAndFerb'' with Candace constantly talking to herself, pointing to that she also assumes everyone she knows has heard what she said. Played for laughs when she tells Phineas she's gonna call mom "...And this time I'm not using the banana!"

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* In ''[=RIN-NE=]'', chapter 28, Egawa gives one, and it's lampshaded.
->"What an easy-to-understand soliloquy."

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* In ''[=RIN-NE=]'', ''{{RIN-NE}}'', chapter 28, Egawa gives one, and it's lampshaded.
->"What -->"What an easy-to-understand soliloquy.""
* Chopper of ''OnePiece'' combines this with ImStandingRightHere when he both thinks out loud and badmouths his hosts because he'd thought them crude primitives at first glance.
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->'''[[RedVsBlue Lopez]]:''' I have no idea why humans need to speak outloud when they think.
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SurrogateSoliloquy and InnerMonologue are tropes which are deliberate aversions. AudienceMonologue is similar, but is intentionally directed to the audience. BreakingTheFourthWall and addressing the audience is another aversion, but much older. If the character is looking in the direction of the audience but not saying anything that strictly proves they're aware of the audience rather than just Thinking Out Loud, that's AsideComment. PlaceboEurekaMoment is when there ''is'' someone else there, but the character isn't really talking ''to'' them. An extremely common case of TruthInTelevision; people often forget to close their mouths while thinking.

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SurrogateSoliloquy and InnerMonologue are tropes which are deliberate aversions. InnerMonologue conversation is an aversion in which others respond anyway. AudienceMonologue is similar, but is intentionally directed to the audience. BreakingTheFourthWall and addressing the audience is another aversion, but much older. If the character is looking in the direction of the audience but not saying anything that strictly proves they're aware of the audience rather than just Thinking Out Loud, that's AsideComment. PlaceboEurekaMoment is when there ''is'' someone else there, but the character isn't really talking ''to'' them. An extremely common case of TruthInTelevision; people often forget to close their mouths while thinking.
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** Of particular note though is the cover of ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15, where SpiderMan annoucnes quite clearly that he is Peter Parker while holding a ne'er-do-well in one hand, thus telling him his SecretIdentity.
*** {{Retcon}}ned in the more recent ''Amazing Fantasy'' series in a two-page story called "I was the Guy in SpiderMan's Armpit," where he was just a WhiteCollarWorker who fell out of his office window and Spider-Man saved. He was too busy screaming in terror to hear what Spider-Man was saying.

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SurrogateSoliloquy and InnerMonologue are tropes which are deliberate aversions. AudienceMonologue is similar, but is intentionally directed to the audience. BreakingTheFourthWall and addressing the audience is another aversion, but much older. PlaceboEurekaMoment is when there ''is'' someone else there, but the character isn't really talking ''to'' them. An extremely common case of TruthInTelevision; people often forget to close their mouths while thinking.

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SurrogateSoliloquy and InnerMonologue are tropes which are deliberate aversions. AudienceMonologue is similar, but is intentionally directed to the audience. BreakingTheFourthWall and addressing the audience is another aversion, but much older. If the character is looking in the direction of the audience but not saying anything that strictly proves they're aware of the audience rather than just Thinking Out Loud, that's AsideComment. PlaceboEurekaMoment is when there ''is'' someone else there, but the character isn't really talking ''to'' them. An extremely common case of TruthInTelevision; people often forget to close their mouths while thinking.
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* Because of the BigFinish ''DoctorWho'' audios, talking to himself is actually considered a character trait of the Eighth Doctor.

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* Because of the BigFinish ''DoctorWho'' ''Series/DoctorWho'' audios, talking to himself is actually considered a character trait of the Eighth Doctor.
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* The characters on ''{{Criminal Minds}}'' often do this if someone else isn't present, usually starting with "I'm the UNSUB." Lampshaded in one episode when Prentiss was muttering about what she was doing (reenacting the victim's last moments) when another character came up behind her.
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SurrogateSoliloquy and InnerMonologue are tropes which are deliberate aversions. AudienceMonologue is similar, but is intentionally directed to the audience. BreakingTheFourthWall and addressing the audience is another aversion, but much older. An extremely common case of TruthInTelevision; people often forget to close their mouths while thinking.

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SurrogateSoliloquy and InnerMonologue are tropes which are deliberate aversions. AudienceMonologue is similar, but is intentionally directed to the audience. BreakingTheFourthWall and addressing the audience is another aversion, but much older. PlaceboEurekaMoment is when there ''is'' someone else there, but the character isn't really talking ''to'' them. An extremely common case of TruthInTelevision; people often forget to close their mouths while thinking.
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* DoctorDoom does this a lot. In ''SecretWars'', [[TalkativeLoon Klaw]] calls him out on it, asking if Doom is taping himself. Doom then reveals that he is, because [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "Every utterance of Doom must be recorded for posterity!"]]

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* Dr. Mordin Solus of MassEffect2. [[TerseTalker Verbal]] [[MotorMouth traits]] make [[TechnoBabble highly]] [[VerbalTic memorable]] [[CrazyAwesome character]]. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMA6F4-YAfw#t=1m10s Audio-visual documentation available]].



* Some people really do catch themselves doing this sometimes, or so I'm told, by myself.

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* Some people really do catch themselves doing this sometimes, or so I'm told, by I tell myself.
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* Extremely common in SuperHero comics in general, at least as recently as the BronzeAge. Characters' thoughts would be written in regular round voice bubbles half the time, rather than bumpy thought bubbles, indicating that they were speaking out loud. It would frankly be easier to list [[SuperHero superheroes]] of the era who did ''not'' do this.
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** Perhaps a sign of SanitySlippage?

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* ''{{Bleach}}'''s Squad 4 third seat (Yasochika Iemura) does this, even in the DS video games (where they account for most of his lines). Everyone tells him they can hear him, but he continues.
* In ''[=RIN-NE=]'', chapter 28, Egawa gives one, and it's lampshaded.
->"What an easy-to-understand soliloquy."
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* Happens in a big way in Patrick Ness's ''Chaos Walking'' series. Noise is basically [[LampshadeHanging broadcasting your thoughts]].
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* ''{{Bleach}}'''s Squad 4 third seat (Yasochika Iemura) does this, even in the DS video games (where they account for most of his lines). Everyone tells him they can hear him, but he continues.
* In ''[=RIN-NE=]'', chapter 28, Egawa gives one, and it's lampshaded.
->"What an easy-to-understand soliloquy."
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* Happens in a big way in Patrick Ness's ''Chaos Walking'' series. Noise is basically [[LampshadeHanging broadcasting your thoughts]].
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* Dib from ''InvaderZim'' did this so often that his outer monologues eventually were punctuated exclusively by people confused about this, [[LampshadeHanging including he himself wondering why he does it]].
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* Mao from Fanfic/CodeGeassMaoOfTheDeliverance is a particularly triumphant example as he, suffering from [[PowerIncontinence uncontrollable]] {{telepathy}}, talks to himself constantly in order to differentiate his thoughts from everyone else. PlayedForLaughs when other characters question his sanity or he accidentally reveals information he didn't intend to.
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* In ''Waterworld'', the main characters meet a tramp sailor who's been alone on his ship so long, he talks out loud to himself without realizing he's doing it. He even mutters his own thoughts of betraying them in front of the new arrivals.
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* Parodied sometimes by GilbertAndSullivan. For example, in ''The Mikado'':
--> '''Lord High Executioner of Titipu''': Can't you see I'm soliloquizing?

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* Some people really do catch themselves doing this sometimes, or so I'm told, by myself.

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