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* In ''[[Bone]]'', the insult "Stupid, stupid rat creatures!" is a [[Running Gag]], as is one of the rat creature's fondness for quiche and the other's insistence that monsters should act a certain way.
* In ''[[Young Justice (Comic Bookcomics)|Young Justice]]'', whenever Robin would state the obvious, another character would say, "[[Captain Obvious|Obviously]] you've been trained by the world's greatest detective." If memory serves, even Batman got one in once.▼
* ''[[Peanuts (Comic Strip)|Peanuts]]'' and its TV specials were fond of these, although always with some sort of variation. Lucy pulling the football away, Charlie Brown crashing his kite, etc.
* Dagwood in ''[[Blondie (Comic Strip)|Blondie]]'': Always making his decuple-decker sandwiches, always running into the mailman on his hurried way out the door.
* In ''[[Beetle Bailey (Comic Strip)|Beetle Bailey]]'', whenever General Halftrack sends his officers a written instruction, it will always have one tiny spelling error that completely changes the meaning of the orders ("buns" instead of "guns", "gag masks" instead of "gas masks", etc.). Someone will point out what the general ''meant'' to say, but then someone else will - ''always'', ''invariably'' - ask: "But who dares to tell the general that he's done a mistake?" Nobody dares, and in the end, the officers always do exactly what it says in the instruction, even though it makes no sense.
** Often, General Halftrack is depicted witnessing the end results of his subordinates' interpreting his orders in some absurd way, and his reaction is always the same: "Now what?"
▲* In ''[[Young Justice (Comic Book)|Young Justice]]'', whenever Robin would state the obvious, another character would say, "[[Captain Obvious|Obviously]] you've been trained by the world's greatest detective." If memory serves, even Batman got one in once.
* ''[[Groo the Wanderer]]'' has to be one of the kings of this trope: from defining "mulch" at every opportunity (or just randomly defining it for no reason at all) for five years straight, the titular character's ridiculous exclamations ("Hah! You take me for the fool I am!" "As any fool can plainly see."/"I can plainly see that!", "Groo does what Groo does best!", "Did I err?", etc.), ships sinking the instant Groo gets anywhere near them (unless his dog is with him), the name of the Sage's dog, Groo getting chased out of the city by every single person ''in'' the city, Drumm continually wanting to know "What pirates?" (and, later, alternating that with "You never bought ''me'' a house..."), Groo's dog never quite realizing how stupid Groo actually is, Captain Ahax going insane every time he's exposed to Groo (since the latter has a habit of continually sinking the ships under the former's command), "Must be stupid."/"Must be Groo."... and that's not even touching the 25 years worth of running gags in the letter columns.
** Every issue also had a {{spoiler|hidden message}}.
* Even ''[[Watchmen (Comic Bookcomics)|Watchmen]]'' gets one in: Rorschach repeatedly [[Open Says Me|breaking]] Nite Owl II's door.▼
* In ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]'', Stephan Pastis has made a habit of setting up [[Incredibly Lame Pun|puns that are beyond lame]]. As of late, this has been lampshaded almost every time with Rat ''demanding'' that Pastis quit cartooning.
▲* Even ''[[Watchmen (Comic Book)|Watchmen]]'' gets one in: Rorschach repeatedly [[Open Says Me|breaking]] Nite Owl II's door.
** Which becomes [[Fridge Brilliance|subtly important later]] as it gives them more time when {{spoiler|the police are trying to break down Dan's front door}}.
* [[Deadpool]] is not an X-Man. Or a mutant.
* Speaking of ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'', how many times has Jean Grey died and been resurrected six months later?
** [[Never Live It Down|Twice, actually.]] Though there have been a number of fake-outs, fake Jean's, and other such nonsense, but every hero goes through that.
* ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]''
** Thomson's and Thompson's introduction: "Thompson, with a ''p'', as in Philadelphia [the ''p'' is never pronounced with a ''p'' sound], Thomson, without a ''p'', as in Venezuela";
** Captain Haddock's obscure "obscenities";
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* In classic ''[[Strontium Dog]]'', Wulf had a habit of replacing some random word in a figure of speech with the word ''cucumber'', such as "Ve are cool as der cucumber" or "He ran as qvick as der cucumber".
* Every once in a while, a crazy person dressed up as a 616 Marvel superhero will be seen being arrested in ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man]]'', usually screaming a catch-phrase related to that character.
* ''[[Batman (Comic Book)|Batman]]'':
** Every time someone meets him for the first time, they inevitably comment that they thought he'd be taller.
** This even extends to other members of the Batfamily, such as Dick Grayson (who, to be fair, is a good four inches shorter than Bruce, so it's obvious when he's dressed as Batman that he's shorter than the original guy) and Tim Drake (it's mentioned in ''Young Justice'').
* Ever since ''[[Orient Men]]'' tried unsuccessfully to fix an Eskimo's broken radiator, the Eskimo kept following him all over the world and appearing at the end of nearly every episode, asking random bystanders whether they can fix his radiator.
* A little background for this one: In ''[[Midnight Nation]]'', it turns out that Lazarus [[Came Back Wrong]], and was told by Jesus to wait until Jesus would return. Lazarus mistakenly thought that Jesus would be coming right back after having a little dinner with 12 of his best friends... that didn't work out so well, and 2,000 years later Lazarus is still waiting. So, the actual gag is that whenever someone around him says "Jesus" in reaction to something, Lazarus responds by asking, "Where?"
* Artist Leinil Yu has been known to sneak ''[[Howard the Duck (Comic Bookcomics)|Howard the Duck]]'' into everything he draws, especially during huge spreads with lots of heroes where Howard won't be as easily noticed. Nobody knows why except Leinil.
* The [[DCU]]'s ''[[Invasion (Comic Book)|Invasion]]!'' miniseries frames several of its scenes as television newscasts. Whenever a reporter tries to interview one of the heroes, the hero invariably replies with, "Get that @%&£$€# camera out of my face!"
* Newspaper comic ''Cow and Boy'' runs on running gags. [http://comics.com/cow&boy/2010-02-08 this strip has a fraction of them in it.]{{Dead link}}
* In ''[[Marvel Star Wars]]'', comics written and set after ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' but before ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' have Luke and Leia, mutually attracted, often start to touch or talk about their relationship before they are interrupted. Usually by the plot. It happens with some regularity, and [[Surprise Incest|good thing, too]].
 
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