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The question mark is a common, handy visual representation of confusion, surprise, or just being plain weirded out. It can manifest as several question marks floating around the nonplussed character's head, a single such symbol hovering over the character, or pop up as the contents of a thought bubble (or a regular [[Speech Bubble]], in which case it seems to represent the "huh?" sound. Compare [[Visible Silence]].)
See also [[My Name Is
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Done in ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'' to represent that the tourist Twoflower doesn't understand what the Ankh-Morporkeans are saying.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* ''[[Peanuts]]'' uses the "'?' in speech bubble" variety.
* ''[[Beetle Bailey]]''. General Halftrack sometimes has a question mark appear over his head when he comes upon members of his staff acting in a bizarre manner.
* All [[Popeye]] comic strip artists have used this, but none so more than [[Long Runner|Bud Sagendorf]], who downright littered his strips with question marks. A panel with question marks in four or five individual speech bubbles were hardly unusual.
* [[The Phantom]] and [[Mandrake the Magician]] uses a lot of question marks in indvidual speech bubbles. It's probably no coincidence that both strips were created and written by Lee Falk.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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