Finishing Each Other's Sentences: Difference between revisions
Replaced redirects
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) m (fixed double vertical bar in link) |
(Replaced redirects) |
||
| (3 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown) | |||
Line 2:
{{quote|'''Edward:''' ''You're the fairest maid I've ever met,''
''You were made--''
'''Giselle:''' ''To finish your [[Let's Duet|duet]]!''
|''[[Enchanted]]''}}
{{quote|''[[Lampshading|This finishing each other's sentences thing is freaking me out!]]''
|'''[[Kim Possible|Ron Stoppable]]'''}}
We've all heard it before... [[Seen It a Million Times|literally]]. Some people know each other so well, they finish each other's sentences. The effect is usually a demonstration of how close the two people are—they're so familiar with one another, they even ''think'' alike.
Line 55 ⟶ 57:
* Koizumi and Otani from ''[[Lovely Complex]]'' are so (unintentionally) good at this that they (again, unintentionally) become a comedy sensation at their school.
== Comic Books ==
* In the ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'' books, Ken and Kyle Katayanagi often finish each other's sentences with their reasoning behind it being that they would always work together after Ramona cheated on them behind their backs. This was obviously not in the movie as the only line the Twins have in the film is "Hah!" during a fight sequence.
== Fan Works ==
* The Weasley Twins from ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' are '''''not''''' an example, even though they are popularly portrayed that way in Fan Fiction. They don't complete each other's sentences in the books; rather, one will follow the other with the next appropriate sentence - they do not share a single mind, but simply think very much alike.
** The
** Subverted in ''[[Drunkard's Walk|Drunkard's Walk VIII: Harry Potter and the Man from Otherearth]]'': the twins admit it's a gag, where they each just have to be quick-witted enough to come up with a suitable conclusion to a sentence the other started. Since no one ''really'' knows how the first twin would have ended the sentence, anything that the other says which makes sense in context makes it look like they're a [[Hive Mind]]. [[Double Subversion|Double-subverted]] when Doug sees what he's sure is evidence that they ''are'' mutually telepathic.▼
▲** Subverted in ''[[Drunkard's Walk|Drunkard's Walk VIII: Harry Potter and the Man from Otherearth]]'': the twins admit it's a gag, where they each just have to be quick-witted enough to come up with a suitable conclusion to a sentence the other started. Since no one ''really'' knows how the first twin would have ended the sentence, anything that the other says which makes sense in context makes it look like they're a [[Hive Mind]].
== Film -- Animation ==
Line 95:
'''Field Marshal Von Kluck:''' Schweinehund!
'''Rigby Reardon:''' Jerk! }}
== Literature ==
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s Lapis Lazuli Long and Lorelei Lee Long are clone sisters who do this. They first appear in his novel ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'' and show up in his later novels.
* There is a [[James Thurber]] short story about this, called "The Curb in the Sky
* Harry and Hermione do this sometimes in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'', such as in ''[[Harry Potter and
** In [[Fanon]], [[Single-Minded Twins]] Fred and George Weasley are often written as doing this. In the books it only happened a couple of times and was more like collaborative interrupting. The movies were much more guilty of playing this trope straight with them.
* The twins Beltira and Belkira from the ''[[Belgariad]]'' and prequels.
* This was one of the traits that gave ''[[MASH (novel)|M*A*S*H]]''{{'}}s 'Radar' O'Reilly his nickname, and one of the parts of the book faithfully translated into the subsequent film and television series. (Although it quickly disappeared from the series.)
* [[Dragon Rider|Dragons and their riders]] in ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]'', notably Oromis and Glaedr in ''Eldest'' and Eragon and Saphira in ''Brisingr.''
* A variant in the ''[[StarCraft]]'' novel ''Liberty's Crusade''. Kerrigan, being a telepath, tends to finish other people's sentences out of habit, which annoys just about everyone else. When she's leaving for her totally-not-a-date with Raynor after the Antiga mission, Liberty's last bit of advice is "remember to let him finish his damn sentences".
* In ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', [[Cloudcuckoolander|Wiress]] tends to trail off or just stop speaking abruptly in the middle of her sentences, at which point Beetee finishes them.
* ''In Spindle's End'' by [[Robin McKinley]], Rosie and her best friend Peony take this one step further.
{{quote|You finish each other's sentences half the time -- or sometimes, if you think no one else is listening, you don't bother to finish them because you both know what you were going to say.}}
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Artemis Fowl]] and the Opal Deception''. Mervall and Descant are twins, which are very rare among fairies.
Line 114 ⟶ 113:
"Shut up, you utter imbecile," snapped Opal, shooting Merv a poisonous glare. }}
* Reynolds and Claude's promotion interview in the penultimate chapter of [[The Pale King]]. {{spoiler|Chris}} incredulously wonders how long they had to practice it.
== Live Action TV ==
| |||