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* Arseface in ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', whose face was destroyed by a shotgun blast in a botched suicide attempt. Most of his dialogue is subtitled (in a comic!), but somewhere in the middle of the story it dropped out for a while. Thankfully, a careful reader can make out pretty much all of his lines with a little sounding out of his gibberish. Apparently, the only characters who could ever understand him were Jesse and Lorrie Bobbs.
* Doop, from Peter Milligan and Mike Allred's run on ''ComicBook/XForce''/''X-Statix'', spoke entirely in his own alien language, which other characters apparently could understand, though they would reply in English. His word bubbles were unintelligible until a reader figured out the substitution cipher used to write his dialogue.
** It ''is'' later established that "Doop-speak" is an actual language (that, as a member of the team, you eventually come to learn) with its own grammar and rules, and that while Doop can easily understand English, he seems genuinely incapable of speaking anything but Doop-speak.
** Eventually, we actually hear a conversation from Doop's perspective and understand him perfectly, though this isn't until ''Nation X''.
*** He does prove capable of speaking English on at least one occasion, after temporarily absorbing Thor's hammer.
* Mazikeen in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' is a demon who is missing half of her face. Creator/NeilGaiman apparently wrote her dialog by trying to speak using only half of his mouth and wrote down what came out phonetically. It's almost impossible to understand what exactly she's saying.
** Not completely impossible if you sound out her lines slowly. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to figure out what she's saying based on context, even if you can't decode the words.
* In ''The Great Ten'', Shaolin Robot speaks solely in hexagrams from the I Ching. Thankfully, his speech is usually shown translated in a footnote - and often he only expresses one concept or idea at a time.

* Mumbles in ''ComicStrip/DickTracy''.
* Groot of ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' can only say "I am GROOT!". According to [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Maximus The Mad]], he's actually a brilliant scientist who speaks in TechnoBabble. Which makes sense, given that Groot first appeared as a fully articulate MadScientist and alien conqueror in Marvel's monster comics. This got fixed after Groot encountered the Gardener and he restored Groot's voice.

* Drywall from ''ComicBook/ScudTheDisposableAssassin'' can only be understood by creatures without a soul, like robots and [[EvilLawyerJoke lawyers]], with his dialogue typically represented by [[{{Wingdinglish}} straight lines in lieu of letters.]] [[spoiler: He gets the hang of English after he gets a bit older, though he flips back to his original method of speech when he gets particularly emotive.]]
* One of ''Franchise/TheFlash's'' villains is a SerialKiller named Murmur, who [[TongueTrauma cut off his own tongue]] then sew his mouth shut. When he speaks, it's in slurs and he cannot pronounce vowels.

* Groot of ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' can only say "I am GROOT!". According to [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Maximus The Mad]], he's actually a brilliant scientist who speaks in TechnoBabble. Which makes sense, given that Groot first appeared as a fully articulate MadScientist and alien conqueror in Marvel's monster comics.

* Groot of ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' can only say "I am GROOT!". According to [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Maximus The Mad]], he's actually a brilliant scientist who speaks in TechnoBabble.

* Drywall from ''ComicBook/ScudTheDisposableAssassin'' can only be understood by creatures without a soul, like robots and [[EvilLawyerJoke lawyers]].

* Groot of ''GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' can only say "I am GROOT!". According to [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Maximus The Mad]], he's actually a brilliant scientist who speaks in TechnoBabble.

* * In the ''StarWars'' comic ''Tales of the Jedi: The Golden Age of the Sith'', the upper-class Sith, most of whom have at least some human ancestry (Naga Sadow barely looks like an alien at all) speak Basic [[TranslationConvention (which is rendered in English for the benefit of the reader, of course)]]. The narrator then reveals, however, that there are several castes of Sith - and the thug race, the Massassi, are the most ape-like of the species and cannot speak intelligibly at all, instead using the ancient Sith tongue, which looks and sounds to non-Sith like barbaric growling. The letterer even rendered their speech in a bizarre-looking font to emphasize how weird it is. Presumably, the crossbreed "human" Sith are bilingual and can understand them.

* Arseface in ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}''. Most of his dialogue is subtitled (in a comic!), but somewhere in the middle of the story it dropped out for a while. Thankfully, a careful reader can make out pretty much all of his lines with a little sounding out of his gibberish. Apparently, the only characters who could ever understand him were Jesse and Lorrie Bobbs.

* Doop, from Peter Milligan and Mike Allred's run on ''{{X-Force}}''/''X-Statix'', spoke entirely in his own alien language, which other characters apparently could understand, though they would reply in English. His word bubbles were unintelligible until a reader figured out the substitution cipher used to write his dialogue.

* Arseface in ''{{Preacher}}''. Most of his dialogue is subtitled (in a comic!), but somewhere in the middle of the story it dropped out for a while. Thankfully, a careful reader can make out pretty much all of his lines with a little sounding out of his gibberish. Apparently, the only characters who could ever understand him were Jesse and Lorrie Bobbs.

* In the current version of ''BlueBeetle'', the scarab communicates with Jaime using strange letters that represents an alien language that Jaime can understand because he's "linked" to it. Whether this is {{Wingdinglish}} or just random symbols seems to be DependingOnTheWriter (or possibly Depending On The Letterer).

* Groot of ''GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' can only say "I am GROOT!". According to [[TheInhumans Maximus The Mad]], he's actually a brilliant scientist who speaks in TechnoBabble.

* Mazikeen in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' is a demon who is missing half of her face. NeilGaiman apparently wrote her dialog by trying to speak using only half of his mouth and wrote down what came out phonetically. It's almost impossible to understand what exactly she's saying.