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** It comes back in Century: 1969. There's really no excuse for why a punk rocker in a seedy nightclub is singing in perfect iambic pentameter.
* A recent [[All There in the Manual|supplemental comic]] for the most recent comic incarnation of the [[Transformers]] explains [[The Scrappy|Wheelie's]] habitual rhyming as due to a glitched translation device that only works reliably in rhyme.
* In ''[[Fables (Comic Book)|Fables]]'' spinoff ''Jack of Fables'', Lady Luck speaks in Iambic Pentameter.
* In ''[[Empowered (Comic Book)|Empowered]]'', the Caged Demonwolf combines this with [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]] and [[Purple Prose]] (also, thesaurus abuse) for some truly remarkable dialogue.
* One professor in a story by [[Wilhelm Busch]] talks like this.