History YouNoTakeCandle / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2152242.html story]] has Amadeus Cho drugging Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of destruction, turning her into Hathor, goddess of love... who talks like a [[WebOriginal/LOLCats LOL Cat]] (someone [[SadlyMythtaken confused her with Bast]])! HilarityEnsues.

*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGQEAiZJMco Solomon Grundy want pants too!]]

* Subverted in the post-Zero Hour ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' with [[ShapeShifter Chameleon]], who starts out speaking none of the language the other characters use, and spends quite a while gradually learning the language and speaking it very brokenly... right up until [[WhamEpisode the payoff]] of an {{Arc}} which [[TheReveal reveals]], among other things, that he's been perfectly fluent for quite a while and was simply [[ObfuscatingStupidity concealing it]] so that nobody would suspect him of impersonating certain key figures.

* The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk, though he doesn't do as much talking as most other incarnations. Count on at least one of the people he's trying to "Hulk Smash" at the moment to tell him third-person speaking is a sign of conceit.

** The Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse version of [[Characters/GreenLantern1941 Solomon Grundy]] (who at first glance seems a CaptainErsatz of the Hulk, complete with "Grundy crush!" replacing "Hulk smash!") talks in Hulk-speak but is capable of full sentences, though he'd been speaking in third person since long before the Hulk's first appearance.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGQEAiZJMco Solomon Grundy want pants too!]]

* ComicBook/TheEyeOfMongombo: Jumballah, the WitchDoctor who turned anthropologist/adventurer [[BalefulPolymorph Cliff Carlson into a duck]], tends to talk like this.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' has nearly every incarnation of Bizarro. "[[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries You no am Superman!]] ''Me'' am Superman!"
** Subverted lately in that characters have come to learn 'Bizarro Speak' as a recognized language. Bizarro isn't stupid, just complicated (and homicidal).

* The Comicbook/IncredibleHulk, though he doesn't do as much talking as most other incarnations. Count on at least one of the people he's trying to "Hulk Smash" at the moment to tell him third-person speaking is a sign of conceit.

* Grimlock, from the ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformers Transformers Generation 1]]'' comics. He's even specifically ''noted'' to not be dumb, at least in comics when [[AuthorAppeal Furman takes over]]; he just has problem with speech circuits. [[ObfuscatingStupidity He uses underestimation by others for his own good.]]

* A ''[[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/2152242.html story]] has Amadeus Cho drugging Sekhmet, the Egyptian goddess of destruction, turning her into Hathor, goddess of love... who talks like a [[WebOriginal/LOLCats LOL Cat]] (someone [[SadlyMythtaken confused her with Bast]])! HilarityEnsues.
* ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog, in a sort of meta-example, has his thoughts presented to the reader this way to emphasize the difference between the thought processes and language uses of dogs and humans.
* Similarly, Dex-Starr from the [[Characters/GLRedLanternCorps Red Lantern Corps]] in the ComicBook/GreenLantern comics does this for the same reasons, although his thoughts are usually verbalized by his ring.

* In ComicBook/ElfQuest, Preservers, the ancient race of fairy-like bug people, speak like this. Used to show just how different they are from the "highthings", aka the elves. Much of their vocabulary is made more verbose, ie: "beesweets" for honey, or "growler highthings" for the Wolf Riders. Mostly seen with Petalwing, the closest equivalent of a leader in Preserver culture, and the forced sidekick of Cutter and the other elves.
* Cassandra Cain, the third Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}, has trouble with speech processing because [[GuineaPigFamily her dad's twisted experiments]] mean the language centres of her brain are filled with fighting skills.

*** Extremely complicated as it's practically impossible to say which parts of the phrase are to be inverted or misconjugated. He says the opposite of what he means, but DependingOnTheWriter, that would mean "You no am Superman" could mean "You are Superman," "''I'' am not Superman," or "I am Superman," or even "I am Bizarro" (because Bizarro is the opposite of Superman, you'd expect him to switch their names.) And since even the comic has more than one version of the character, it can even mean "You are not Superman."

--->"Ever since you plug into monkey's head, you act perfectly sane and rational... am you Bizarro's mommy?"[[note]]Bizarro was originally created by Luthor in an attempt to create a loyal Superman clone[[/note]]

*** Miranda Cross from ''ComicBook/{{Ruse}}'' uses this variant, too. [[spoiler:Considering she's with the Negation and possibly a [[EldritchAbomination Lawbringer]], [[ObfuscatingStupidity it's probably deliberate.]] ]]
* Grimlock, from the ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformers Transformers Generation 1]]'' comics. He's even specifically ''noted'' to not be dumb, at least in comics when [[AuthorAppeal Furman takes over]]; he just has problem with speech circuits. [[ObfuscatingStupidity He uses underestimation by others for his own good]].

*** Extremely complicated as it's practically impossible to say which parts of the phrase are to be inverted or misconjugated. He says the opposite of what he means, but DependingOnTheWriter, that would mean "You no am Superman" could mean "You are Superman," "''I'' am not Superman," or "I am Superman," or even "I am Bizarro" (because Bizarro is the opposite of Superman, you'd expect him to switch their names.) And since even the comic has more than one version of the character, it can even mean "you are not Superman."

** The Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse version of ComicBook/SolomonGrundy (who at first glance seems a CaptainErsatz of the Hulk, complete with "Grundy crush!" replacing "Hulk smash!") talks in Hulk-speak but is capable of full sentences, though he'd been speaking in third person since long before the Hulk's first appearance.

** The Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse version of ComicBook/SolomonCrundy (who at first glance seems a CaptainErsatz of the Hulk, complete with "Grundy crush!" replacing "Hulk smash!") talks in Hulk-speak but is capable of full sentences, though he'd been speaking in third person since long before the Hulk's first appearance.

** The Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse version of Solomon Grundy (who at first glance seems a CaptainErsatz of the Hulk, complete with "Grundy crush!" replacing "Hulk smash!") talks in Hulk-speak but is capable of full sentences.

--->"Ever since you use brain machine, you am acting perfectly sane and rational... am you Bizarro's mommy?"[[note]]Bizarro was originally created by Luthor in an attempt to create a loyal Superman clone[[/note]]

** In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode "The Great Brain Robbery", Bizarro is the only member of the Legion to figure out that the guy claiming to be Lex Luthor wasn't Lex Luthor. However, telling everyone... that's a different story.

* Similarly, Dex-Starr from the [[Characters/GLRedLanternCorps Red Lantern Corps]] in the GreenLantern comics does this for the same reasons, although his thoughts are usually verbalized by his ring.