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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.
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 "
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.
* 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.
** 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>
** Another classic example, from ''X-Men'' vol. 1 #1:
{{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!"
said by Random while being blasted into a puddle. Who the hell talks like this when they're being ''blasted into a puddle''? }}
* 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
* 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!"
** 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]] ==
* 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
** 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!"
** Heck, they were lampshaded in the first episode. Rogue's first lines in the series are telling Storm to ease up on it.
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