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Comic books are, in general, a serial medium, and you can't rely on someone reading one issue to have read all the previous issues. Thus, there needs to be a way to inform the reader about the characters and the plot up to this point. |
Comic books are, in general, a serial medium, and you can't rely on someone reading one issue to have read all the previous issues. Thus, there needs to be a way to inform the reader about the characters and the plot up to this point. |
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One common way to do this is to simply drop the relevant information into the character's speech bubbles. If done well, it'll feel natural and unforced; unfortunately, it's usually done as something along the lines of " |
One common way to do this is to simply drop the relevant information into the character's speech bubbles. If done well, it'll feel natural and unforced; unfortunately, it's usually done as something along the lines of "Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me from the harmful radiations of the unshielded uranium that [[The Professor]] wanted me to pick up from these abandoned South American mines!" |
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This tends to be even more offputting than regular [[Expospeak]], since the characters are speaking to no one in particular. A less-jarring variation is putting the exposition in thought bubbles, but that's surprisingly uncommon. |
This tends to be even more offputting than regular [[Expospeak]], since the characters are speaking to no one in particular. A less-jarring variation is putting the exposition in thought bubbles, but that's surprisingly uncommon. |
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* Any old issue of ''The Fantastic Four'' will include early scenes where the characters call each other "Brother-in-law" or the like. Nobody really talks like this, especially when they're in the middle of combat. However, the authors felt the need to explain each character's family relationships to new readers, which resulted in unrealistic and redundant dialogue. |
* Any old issue of ''The Fantastic Four'' will include early scenes where the characters call each other "Brother-in-law" or the like. Nobody really talks like this, especially when they're in the middle of combat. However, the authors felt the need to explain each character's family relationships to new readers, which resulted in unrealistic and redundant dialogue. |
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* Something as pervasive and self-explanatory as this probably doesn't need an example, but it's hard to resist pointing out that, for several ''years'', Cyclops managed to say "Only my ruby-quartz visor can contain my optic blasts," in literally every single issue of ''Uncanny [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]''... quite possibly the worst [[Catch Phrase]] of all time. |
* Something as pervasive and self-explanatory as this probably doesn't need an example, but it's hard to resist pointing out that, for several ''years'', Cyclops managed to say "Only my ruby-quartz visor can contain my optic blasts," in literally every single issue of ''Uncanny [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]''... quite possibly the worst [[Catch Phrase]] of all time. |
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** Which is surely rivaled by the vast number of times Psylocke referred to her psychic knife as "the focused totality of my psionic powers"<ref>Fortunately, she no longer HAS her psychic knife, so this trope has since seen its day.</ref> |
** Which is surely rivaled by the vast number of times Psylocke referred to her psychic knife as "the focused totality of my psionic powers".<ref>Fortunately, she no longer HAS her psychic knife, so this trope has since seen its day.</ref> That kind of thing happened a lot in ''X-Men'' back in those days, although this one happened less often than a lot of fans like to believe. It is remembered so well because of its inherent clunkyness. |
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** Another classic example, from ''X-Men'' vol. 1 #1: |
** Another classic example, from ''X-Men'' vol. 1 #1: |
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{{quote|''Magneto:'' You haven't defeated me yet! I can still escape you, flying by means of magnetic repulsion! }} |
{{quote|''Magneto:'' You haven't defeated me yet! I can still escape you, flying by means of magnetic repulsion! }} |
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{{quote|"What's happening? Mutant power to randomly deflect any other mutant power thrown at me isn't working!" |
{{quote|"What's happening? Mutant power to randomly deflect any other mutant power thrown at me isn't working!" |
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said by Random while being blasted into a puddle. Who the hell talks like this when they're being ''blasted into a puddle''? }} |
said by Random while being blasted into a puddle. Who the hell talks like this when they're being ''blasted into a puddle''? }} |
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* Used during a Paul Jenkins remake of the original ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' story. Unlike other examples it was not ridiculous, as it was a mix of |
* Used during a Paul Jenkins remake of the original ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' story. Unlike other examples it was not ridiculous, as it was a mix of Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me and [[To the Pain]]. Magneto was explaining how he was using his magnetic powers to torture and kill a trio of teens who brutally murdered a young mutant girl to the teens as he was killing them. |
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* Venom seems to be friends with this trope, as whenever someone pulls out a gun and shoots him, he'll say something along the lines of "Ha! My other protects me from the bullets!" |
* Venom seems to be friends with this trope, as whenever someone pulls out a gun and shoots him, he'll say something along the lines of "Ha! My other protects me from the bullets!" |
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** Similarly, every time another character takes advantage of one of his main weaknesses, he'll say, "No! My symbiotic other cannot stand fire/loud noises!" |
** Similarly, every time another character takes advantage of one of his main weaknesses, he'll say, "No! My symbiotic other cannot stand fire/loud noises!" |
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== [[Western Animation]] == |
== [[Western Animation]] == |
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* The 1990s ''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]'' cartoon, while free of the first two, gave its portrayal of [[Storm]] a very off-putting habit of giving the weather ''verbal commands,'' which usually ended up sounding like a mix between |
* The 1990s ''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]'' cartoon, while free of the first two, gave its portrayal of [[Storm]] a very off-putting habit of giving the weather ''verbal commands,'' which usually ended up sounding like a mix between Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me and a mystic incantation. |
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** Storm's verbal commands were lampshaded during the ''90s [[Spider-Man: The Animated Series|Spider-Man animated series]] in the first X-men crossover episode. Upon witnessing Storm's dramatic "[[Calling Your Attacks|Power of lightning, strike again!]]", Spidey jokingly raised his hand and declared, "Power of webshooters, get... really sticky!" |
** Storm's verbal commands were lampshaded during the ''90s [[Spider-Man: The Animated Series|Spider-Man animated series]] in the first X-men crossover episode. Upon witnessing Storm's dramatic "[[Calling Your Attacks|Power of lightning, strike again!]]", Spidey jokingly raised his hand and declared, "Power of webshooters, get... really sticky!" |
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** Heck, they were lampshaded in the first episode. Rogue's first lines in the series are telling Storm to ease up on it. |
** Heck, they were lampshaded in the first episode. Rogue's first lines in the series are telling Storm to ease up on it. |