Buffy-Speak: Difference between revisions

* Ali Al-Saachez from [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]] uses this trope to refer to his enemies, "Celestial-Whatchamacallit!". Not like "Being" is a hard word to say or remember, but try telling that to his face.

 

* Molly Hayes in ''[[Runaways]]''. Especially when written by Joss himself:

{{quote|'''Molly''': Why aren't you awesomed by me!?}}

* The ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'' series is chock-full of Buffy-Speak. "There's a thingy over there." "A thingy?" "A door.", "You're not going to the thing"?, "Scott, look out! It's that guy!", etc.

 

* ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'' has moments of these because of the writing style, especially when [[Firefly|Simon]] shows up.

* ''[[My Immortal]]''. "Voldemort got a dude-ur-so-retarded look on his face."

* In the fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6944079/4/Presidential_Initiation Presidential Initiation]'', [[Axis Powers Hetalia|America]] tries to explain who he is to the president...and does a really bad job of it as he says things like "I'm a national [[Anthropomorphic Personification|aromatherapy persecution]] or whatever the hell it's called!" Also used is the term "people/nation thingies."

 

* Valentine from ''[[Mirror Mask]]'': "I will slip unnoticeable through the darkness like a dark, unnoticeable slippy thing." A notable example in that he doesn't hesitate at any point in the sentence. That's what he meant to say.

{{quote|"We will do what rich people do! We will bathe in... fish! Eat our weight in... chocolate buttons! Learn to play the concertina!"}}

{{quote|'''Bank robber:''' ''(holds up a deadman switch detonator)'' You know what this is?

'''Hancock:''' I'm guessing it's some sort of detonator-type deal. }}

 

== [[Literature|Books And Scrolls And Other Stuff With Words]] ==

* Pops up occasionally in ''[[Discworld]]''. There was something similar to "Its eyes were as big as [[Shaped Like Itself|very big eyes]]"; lampshaded, in that the creature's eyes were traditionally described as being "as big as soup plates", but Tiffany had measured a soup plate and determined that they weren't. A substitute description was needed.

{{quote|"What's dat fing? Dey goes all crumbly when you eat dem?"

"...''could'' be a lawyer."

{{quote|''"If two men are doing a bit of work, one will say to the other, 'Put this bowl inside the bigger bowl which you'll find on the top shelf of the green cupboard.' The female for this is, 'Put that in the other one in there.' And then if you ask them, 'in where?' they say, 'in there, of course.'"''}}

* In ''The Warlock'' by Michael Scott, Virginia Dare sves Billy the Kid from a 'raggedy lion-monster-thingy'. It's a sphinx.

** Voldemort is also called "Lord Thingy" by Cornelius Fudge at one point.

* Guess what ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195175999 Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon]'' is about.

"It is not something to eat," replied Sancho, "but something to govern and rule, and better than four cities or four judgeships at court." }}

 

* [[Trope Namer|Obviously]], ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]].'' Interestingly, it's never referred to as "Buffy-speak" in the show, but in "I Only Have Eyes For You," Giles refers to it as "Xander-Speak".

** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Buffy herself once.

* From ''[[The Almighty Johnsons]]'', episode Folkmoot:

{{quote|'''Olaf:''' A thing is like a small thing, Folkmoot's like a bigger thing, it's not to be taken lightly, it's a big thing thing where important things are decided.}}

 

== [[Music|Pretty Sound Stuff]] ==

== [[Newspaper Comics|Funny Picture Things In The Paper]] ==

* Gary Larson's ''[[The Far Side]]'': Some mobsters are interrogating a little man tied up in a chair. "Well," says their leader, "we've tried every device and you still won't talk - every device, that is, except for the one we simply call 'Mr. Thingy.' " The hoodlum then holds up a weird contraption that looks like a cross between a bomb and a Swiss army knife.

 

== [[Professional Wrestling|People That Fake-Fight On TV On A Padded Stage Thing]] ==

{{quote|"Come boy, come sir boy, come follow me sir boy!"}}

** And who could forget Shakespeare's frequently-used bit of Buffy Speak, [[Shaped Like Itself]]?

 

== [[Video Games|Those Things People Play In Dark Basements While Drinking Mountain Dew And Stuff]] ==

** Grunt, being essentially a krogan teenager, often speaks like this, while trying to either puzzle through his tank-imprints or simply talking outside of combat. On Korlus, the squad will also encounter another tank-bred krogan who is even less experienced and articulate than Grunt, who speaks in Buffy-Speak.

{{quote|'''Grunt''': We should get behind... stuff. }}

* In ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'', Pey'j, when he's being attacked by a crochax:

{{quote|Get off me! Stupid ... whatever you are!}}

{{quote|As for the piston, did what I could. Just put the thingamajig back in the whatchamacallit.}}

* ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'''s "Aperture Science Thing That We Don't Know What It Does"

* ''[[Portal 2]]'' has some as well. Wheatley's "all right, fatty? Adopted… fatty! Fatty fatty no parents?" and shortly later "What’s wrong with being adopted? Um, well, uh… Lack of parents?".

** "[[Sherlock Holmes|Holmes]] versus Moriarty, Aristole vs '''MASHY SPIKE PLATE!'''"

** The wolvar race does this enough to be verging on the point of a [[Verbal Tic]].

** The Gnomish Army Knife is being update in ''Mists of Pandaria'' to include a "Whirly Thing".

 

== [[Web Original|Original Things On The Web]] ==

** Dr. Horrible:

{{quote|"Moist! My evil...moisture...buddy!"

* [http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-majority-of-americans-just-gotta-you-know-g,19852/ This] article in ''[[The Onion]]''.

* The following is an exact quote from [[The Other Wiki]] : [[wikipedia:List of legendary creatures by type#Creatures associated with animals|Vulkodlak(Slavic)]] - undead vampire horse wolf thing

 

== [[Real Life|Those Things That Aren't Made Up But Are Actually Real]] ==

 

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