Dialogue

""It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.""

- Yogi Berra

All about the things that characters say. (Note: Dialogue can refer to any number of people speaking; "dia-" means "through". Two people speaking would be "duologue".) -

Tropes:
See also:
 * Language Tropes
 * Narrator Tropes

Categories:
 * Accent Tropes
 * Exposition
 * Externalizing Internal Monologue
 * Evil Gloating
 * Insult Tropes
 * The Last of These Is Not Like the Others
 * One-Liner
 * Phone Tropes
 * Speeches and Monologues
 * Stock Phrases
 * These Tropes Love to Brag
 * These Tropes Should Watch Their Language
 * Truth and Lies
 * Word Power


 * Accidental Public Confession
 * Action Figure Speech
 * After-Action Patchup
 * After-Action Villain Analysis
 * Ahem
 * All Cheering All the Time
 * Analogy Backfire
 * And Then I Said
 * And the Rest
 * Angrish
 * Announcer Chatter
 * Answering Echo
 * Apologises a Lot
 * Appeal to Obscurity
 * Applied Mathematics
 * Aren't You Forgetting Someone
 * Armor-Piercing Question
 * Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
 * Ask a Stupid Question
 * As the Good Book Says...
 * Astonishingly Appropriate Interruption
 * Atomic F-Bomb
 * Audience Murmurs
 * Author Catchphrase
 * Backhanded Apology
 * Bad News in A Good Way
 * Bad Omen Anecdote
 * Bait and Switch Comment
 * Bathroom Stall of Overheard Insults
 * Battle Cry
 * Battle-Interrupting Shout
 * Beam Me Up, Scotty
 * Bearer of Bad News
 * The Bechdel Test
 * Bilingual Backfire
 * Bilingual Dialogue
 * Blah Blah Blah
 * Blatant Lies
 * Wild Card Excuse
 * Blunt Metaphors Trauma
 * Bold Inflation
 * Bond One-Liner
 * Book'Em Danno
 * Borrowed Catchphrase
 * Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
 * Breaking Bad News Gently
 * Break Them By Talking
 * Bring Them Around
 * Broken Record
 * But I Digress
 * Calling Shotgun
 * Calling Your Bathroom Breaks
 * Can't Argue With Elves
 * Casual Danger Dialog
 * Catchphrase Interruptus
 * Catch Phrase
 * Censorship By Spelling
 * Chain of Corrections
 * Change the Uncomfortable Subject
 * Chew Out Fake Out
 * Cliché Storm
 * Closed Door Rapport
 * Cluster F-Bomb
 * Code Emergency
 * Code Word Coitus
 * Collective Groan
 * Comic Role Play
 * Confusing Multiple Negatives
 * Conjunction Interruption
 * Constantly Curious
 * Conversational Troping
 * Converse With the Unconscious
 * Cough-Snark-Cough
 * Critical Psychoanalysis Failure
 * Cryptically Unhelpful Answer
 * Cryptic Conversation
 * Cue Card Pause
 * Cultural Posturing
 * Curse Cut Short
 * Cypher Language
 * Damned By Faint Praise
 * Dare to Be Badass
 * Department of Redundancy Department
 * Derailed for Details
 * Derailed Train of Thought
 * Description Cut
 * Description Porn
 * Dialogue Reversal
 * Dialogue Tree
 * Digging Yourself Deeper
 * Disappointed in You
 * Disorganized Outline Speech
 * Dispense With the Pleasantries
 * Disregard That Statement
 * Does That Sound Like Fun to You?
 * Do I Really Sound Like That?
 * Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
 * Double Edged Answer
 * Double Meaning
 * Double-Speak
 * Dramatic Deadpan
 * Dramatic Ellipsis
 * Dramatic Pause
 * Dramatic Stutter
 * Dropping the Bombshell
 * Duck Season! Rabbit Season!
 * Dude Not Ironic
 * Dumbass Has a Point
 * Earpiece Conversation
 * Easily Overheard Conversation
 * Either World Domination or Something About Bananas
 * Emergency Presidential Address
 * Enemy Chatter
 * Escalating Punchline
 * Especially Zoidberg
 * Euphemism Buster
 * Everyone Gets Their Turn
 * Evil Sounds Deep
 * Exactly What I Meant to Say
 * Exposition
 * Exposition Cut
 * Facial Dialogue
 * Famed in Story
 * Famous Last Words
 * Fauxdian Slip
 * Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue
 * Finish Dialogue in Unison
 * Finishing Each Other's Sentences
 * First Name Ultimatum
 * Flippant Forgiveness
 * Freudian Threat
 * Friendly Address Privileges
 * Full Name Ultimatum
 * Gag Echo
 * Gagging On Your Words
 * Geeky Turn On
 * Gender Neutral Writing
 * Gentleman Snarker
 * Get It Over With
 * Gibbering Genius
 * Give Me a Reason
 * Goodnight, Sweet Prince
 * Grilling the Newbie
 * Hammy Herald
 * Hannibal Has a Point
 * Hannibal Lecture
 * Head Bob
 * Hesitation Equals Dishonesty
 * Hey That's My Line
 * Hey, You
 * Hit You So Hard Your X Will Feel It
 * Holding the Floor
 * Hunger Hyperbole
 * Hurricane of Aphorisms
 * I Can't Believe I'm Saying This
 * I Gave My Word
 * Ignore the Disability
 * Ignoring By Singing
 * I Have Nothing to Say To That
 * I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That
 * I'll Take Two Beers, Too!
 * I'm a Doctor, Not A Placeholder
 * I'm Thinking It Over
 * Implied Death Threat
 * Inane Blabbering
 * Inaction Sequence
 * Inflationary Dialogue
 * Info Dump
 * Inner Monologue Conversation
 * Instructional Dialogue
 * Insult Friendly Fire
 * Insult Misfire
 * Intelligible Unintelligible
 * In That Order
 * Ironic Echo
 * I Say What I Say
 * Is the Answer To This Question Yes
 * I Take Offense to That Last One
 * It Tastes Like Feet
 * I Uh You Too
 * I Would Say If I Could Say
 * Join or Die
 * Just Between You and Me
 * Just One Man
 * Just Testing You
 * Kiai
 * Knows a Guy Who Knows A Guy
 * Lame Comeback
 * Large Ham Announcer
 * Large Ham Radio
 * Last-Second Word Swap
 * Lame Rhyme Dodge
 * Last Chance to Quit
 * Last Request
 * Layman's Terms
 * Let's Mock the Monsters
 * Lies to Children
 * Like a God To Me
 * Listing the Forms of Degenerates
 * Little Professor Dialog
 * Loud Last Name
 * Ludicrous Precision
 * Lying to The Perp
 * "Ma'am" Shock
 * Mad Libs Catchphrase
 * Mad Libs Dialogue
 * Madness Mantra
 * Malicious Slander
 * Mamet Speak
 * Mangled Catchphrase
 * Mathematician's Answer
 * Meaningful Echo
 * Meaningless Meaningful Words
 * Melodramatic Pause
 * Mirror Monologue
 * Mistaken Confession
 * Mister X and Mister Y
 * Motive Misidentification
 * Motive Rant
 * Mouthful of Pi
 * Multitasked Conversation
 * Musicalis Interruptus
 * My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
 * The Name Is Bond, James Bond
 * Narration Echo
 * Never Say That Again
 * Never Speak Ill of the Dead
 * Newspeak
 * No Except Yes
 * No Indoor Voice
 * Noisy Shut Up
 * "No" Means "Yes"
 * No One Else Is That Dumb
 * Non-Answer
 * Non Sequitur Distraction
 * No, You Go First
 * Noodle Incident
 * Noodle Implements
 * Not Actually the Ultimate Question
 * Not So Dire
 * Oblivious Guilt Slinging
 * Oblivious Mockery
 * Of Corset Hurts
 * Oh God, With the Verbing!
 * Oh No Not Again
 * On Three
 * On the Next Episode of Catchphrase
 * One Dialogue, Two Conversations
 * One-Liner, Name. One-Liner.
 * One Scene, Two Monologues
 * One-Tract Mind
 * Ordered Apology
 * Or My Name Isn't
 * Or So I Heard
 * Parenthetical Swearing
 * Passive-Aggressive Kombat
 * Paused Interrupt
 * Perfectly Cromulent Word
 * Perplexing Plurals
 * The Perry Mason Method
 * Phrase Catcher
 * Playing the Victim Card
 * Plato Is a Moron
 * Pokémon-Speak
 * Poor Communication Kills
 * Porky Pig Pronunciation
 * Precision F-Strike
 * Preemptive Shut Up
 * The Promise
 * Purple Prose
 * Quote Mine
 * Quote Swear Unquote
 * Radio Mouth
 * Radio Voice
 * Rage Against the Mentor
 * Rapid Fire Interrupting
 * Rapid Fire Name Guessing
 * A Rare Sentence
 * Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud
 * Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech
 * Remember That You Trust Me
 * Rhetorical Question Blunder
 * Rhymes On a Dime
 * Rhyming List
 * Rousing Speech
 * Said Bookism
 * Sarcastic Confession
 * Saying Sound Effects Out Loud
 * Saying Too Much
 * Scheherezade Gambit
 * Screw You Elves
 * Screw Your Ultimatum
 * Seamless Spontaneous Lie
 * Seinfeldian Conversation
 * Sein Language
 * Seven Minute Lull
 * Shall I Repeat That
 * Shamed By a Mob
 * Shaming the Mob
 * Shaped Like Itself
 * Share Phrase
 * Shutting Up Now
 * Shut Up, Kirk
 * "Shut Up" Kiss
 * Signature Line
 * Silence Is Golden
 * Silent Conversation
 * Sir Swearsalot
 * SMURFING
 * Snark to Snark Combat
 * Snub By Omission
 * Something Only They Would Say
 * Speak Ill of the Dead
 * Speaking, Like, Totally Teen
 * Speak in Unison
 * Speech Bubble Censoring
 * Spy Speak
 * Stage Whisper
 * Start My Own
 * Stealth Insult
 * Stereo Fibbing
 * Stock Quotes
 * Stop Copying Me
 * Stop Saying That
 * Strange Syntax Speaker
 * Stuttering Into Eloquence
 * Subverted Catchphrase
 * Suddenly Shouting
 * The Summation
 * Surrogate Soliloquy
 * Survival Mantra
 * Suspiciously Specific Denial
 * Suspiciously Specific Tense
 * Sustained Misunderstanding
 * Switch to English
 * T-Word Euphemism
 * Talk About the Weather
 * Talking Through Technique
 * Talking in Your Dreams
 * Talking to Plants
 * Talking to The Dead
 * Talking With Signs
 * Talking Your Way Out
 * Talks Like a Simile
 * Telegraph Gag STOP
 * Tell Him I'm Not Speaking to Him
 * Tell Me About My Father
 * Terms of Endangerment
 * Terse Talker
 * Thank Your Prey
 * That Came Out Wrong
 * That Cloud Looks Like...
 * That Liar Lies
 * That Makes Me Feel Angry
 * That Mysterious Thing
 * That Was Not a Dream
 * That Was Objectionable
 * Thinking Out Loud
 * This Is for Emphasis, Bitch
 * Time Travel Tense Trouble
 * Trial Balloon Question
 * Trick Dialogue
 * The Triple
 * Trouble Entendre
 * Trust Password
 * Twisting the Words
 * Twisted Echo Cut
 * Two Chicks in A Kitchen
 * Two Scenes, One Dialogue
 * Unsportsmanlike Gloating
 * Unusual Euphemism
 * Verbal Backspace
 * Voiceover Letter
 * Walk in Chime In
 * Wall of Blather
 * Wasn't That Fun?
 * Weapons Grade Vocabulary
 * Weird Aside
 * Weirder Than Usual
 * Welcome to Corneria
 * Wham! Line
 * What's a Henway?
 * What the Hell, Hero?
 * Who's On First?
 * Whoa, Bundy!
 * Whoopi Epiphany Speech
 * Who Will Bell the Cat
 * Why Are We Whispering
 * Witch With a Capital B
 * World of Cardboard Speech
 * Yiddish As a Second Language
 * You Answered Your Own Question
 * You Are Not Alone
 * You Can Talk
 * You Can Turn Back
 * You Have to Believe Me