Running Gag/Comic Books: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[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 (comics)|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.