History Main / ThinkingOutLoud

** Commander Ivanova was occasionally prone to making deadpan observations about the situation, sometimes even looking upwards to direct them to God (similar to Tevye in ''Theater/FiddlerOnTheRoof'') when she was particularly exasperated.

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* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Commander Ivanova was occasionally prone to making deadpan observations about the situation, sometimes even looking upwards to direct them to God (similar to Tevye in ''Theater/FiddlerOnTheRoof'') when she was particularly exasperated.
** Meanwhile, the episode ''Rumors, Bargains, and Lies'' featured a very energetic Captain Sheridan mumbling to himself and making random outbursts at breakfast as he [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee concocts his plan]] to [[BatmanGambit get the League of Nonaligned Worlds]] cooperate with his attempts to deploy his forces to keep the peace between them. This gets {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by his junior officers who decide this is a side effect of Delenn (Sheridan's {{Love Interest|s}} and sounding board) being elsewhere for a few episodes.

*** One of his earliest {{Establishing Character Moment}}s) is his rapturous HumansAreSpecial speech in "The Ark in Space". Harry is present and likely able to hear him, but he moves to another room before the Doctor starts in order to give Tom Baker the set to himself and emphasise the speech's Shakespearean nature.
*** This is quite helpful in circumstances where he's cut off from the companion, especially in "The Deadly Assassin" which has no companion at all, and relishes scenes such as him casually mumbling half-formed jokes and yelling solipsistically at the political broadcast on television. As his tenure continued this became closer and closer to making him a FourthWallObserver - his commentary started to get [[MetaGuy more meta]], and he'd combine self-talking with the AsideGlance.
*** In one of his AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho stories, there's an extended scene of him having a solitary mental breakdown while ranting at his hat stand before smashing it to pieces.
** Because of the AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho audios, talking to himself is actually considered a character trait of the Eighth Doctor.
** In "Mummy on the Orient Express", the Twelfth Doctor is shown talking to himself in his room, acting out the other half of the conversation with [[BriefAccentImitation an impression of the Fourth Doctor's voice]].

--> '''Henry''': You sir Boysenberry shall reign until the first of the month. Whereas your days, Lord Key Lime of Custard, are numbered. You there! You sneaky Greek bastard. *normal voice* Expired? *English voice* You will hang for your crime! *Throws yogurt out.* I gotta get out of the house.
* The characters on ''Series/CriminalMinds'' 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.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Conspiracy," Data starts doing this, and then overexplains the concept to the computer before it tells him to shut up.

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SurrogateSoliloquy and InnerMonologue are tropes which are deliberate aversions. InnerMonologueConversation 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.

*** {{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.

* Dr. Robotnik of ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' has a tendency to do this.

'''Data:''' Startling. Quite extraordinary, in fact.\\

Thinking Loudly occurs in the odd circumstance that a character is talking to himself/herself out loud and they could easily be thinking the same thing, but just don't. Villains do this a LOT. It's usually a form of AsYouKnow: often the character would be better off hiding their thoughts from people who might hear them, but, of course, the audience needs to be informed...

* Repeatedly and unconsciously speaking your thoughts out loud is one of the less well-known symptoms on the Autistic Spectrum.

* Sami Callihan has a tendency to announce his attentions or otherwise say plans or let out random musings he's better off keeping to himself.

* BlackAndNerdy Terry in ''Film/JumpinJackFlash'' talks to herself all the time; this is used for RepeatingBothSidesOfTheConversation during her initial contact with Jack when his messages are just text on her screen.

* BlackAndNerdy Terry in ''Film/JumpingJackFlash'' talks to herself all the time; this is used for RepeatingBothSidesOfTheConversation during her initial contact with Jack when his messages are just text on her screen.

--> '''Lord High Executioner of Titipu''': Can't you see I'm soliloquizing?

* [[Literature/TheVorkosiganSaga Miles Vorkosigan]] does this ''a lot'', in keeping with his hyperactive and not-entirely-stable personality. He mentions on one occasion that he likes to think out loud because it slows down his thoughts to the point where he can get a good look at them, and also admits that very few people can stand to listen to him for long. On another occasion he actually uses this - ranting about how everyone always thinks ''Ivan'' is the smart one, and the bad guys have exposed their entire scheme for the sake of grabbing the ''expendable'' Barrayaran, and it's been like this since they were kids, y'know... - to provide a distraction for an ally, who takes so long to spring her ambush that even ''Miles'' starts to worry he's going to run out of things to say.

Don't confuse this with the song of the same name by {{Music/Ed Sheeran}}

* SelfDemonstrating/DoctorDoom does this a lot. In ''ComicBook/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!"]]

*** One of his MomentsOfAwesome (due to its earliness, one of his {{Establishing Character Moment}}s) is his rapturous HumansAreSpecial speech in "The Ark in Space". Harry is present and likely able to hear him, but he moves to another room before the Doctor starts in order to give Tom Baker the set to himself and emphasise the speech's Shakespearean nature.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Conspiracy," Data starts doing this, and then overexplains the concept to the computer [[FunnyMoments before it tells him to shut up]].

* In the first ''Film/AustinPowers'' movie, after Austin himself is thawed out, he monologues out loud his desire to sleep with this movie's BondGirl, then realizes that everyone in the room heard him. That is an example of DidIJustSayThatOutLoud, but when he says a side effect of the cryonic freezing process has left him with no inner monologue, that is Thinking Loudly.

* 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.
* Pretty much the trademark of [[Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis Shinji Ibu]]. Hilariously invoked in one of his {{Image song}}s and the Talk time track of said CD, which is basically Shinji mumbling nonstop.
* Elgala from ''Manga/ExcelSaga'' is an odd example of this. These moments are presented in word balloons normally reserves for {{Inner Monologue}}s, suggesting that she really is just thinking to herself instead of out loud. [[InnerMonologueConversation And yet everyone can inexplicably hear what she's thinking anyway.]]

* ''Series/Arrow'': In season 1, when Oliver first returned to the island, he often talked aloud to himself when alone. This could be interpreted in two different ways. 1) Oliver spent a great time allowed and probably got used to his own company, perhaps talking aloud to keep himself sane. 2) It cued the audience into what Oliver was thinking as we had no other way to know what he was planning unless he told us. Once Diggle came along, these think alouds quickly faded away, with Oliver now discussing his plans with Diggle.