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{{quote|'''Leeron:''' Genetic diversity via sexual reproduction is the key to evolution.
''(confused [[Reaction Shot]] from the Dai-Gurren Brigade)''
'''Leeron:''' ''(makes a heart shape with his fingers)'' [[Layman's Terms|Love makes the world go 'round!]] [[Say It with Hearts|<3]]
"Oh!" "Of course!" }}
** Lordgenome's Head is pretty bad at this too.
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** It's a bit of a running gag that Reed is all too often explaining what a certain [[MacGuffin|plot-relevant piece of machinery]] does rather than actually putting it to use, which causes The Thing endless annoyance, since he's the one doing the heavy lifting when they could be done by now.
** Memorably [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in [[Secret Wars]] just after the heroes were teleported into deep space by the Beyonder's machines. (Note: At the time of Secret Wars, Captain Marvel was the Monica Rambeau version, Iron Man was [[War Machine (Comic Book)|James Rhodes]] instead of Tony Stark, and the Hulk had Bruce Banner's mind.)
{{quote|'''[[Captain Mar-Vell|Captain Marvel]]:''' H-how'd we get here? I mean, one minute we're checking out this giant whatchamacallit in Central Park, then *POOF* the Final Frontier!
'''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Mr. Fantastic]]:''' This much I can tell you, Captain Marvel--This device apparently caused sub-atomic particle disassociation, reducing us, as we entered, to proto-matter, which it stored until it teleported us here, to preset coordinates in space, where it reassembled us inside a self-generated life-support environment!
'''[[Incredible Hulk|Hulk]]:''' That's obvious Richards!
'''[[Iron Man]]:''' ''Obvious?'' What'd he say?
'''Human Torch:''' Just hang out, Iron Man. Reed will get tired of talking in five-dollar words in a minute, and then he'll explain in English. Then he'll explain it again to the Thing in one-syllable words!
'''The Thing:''' Hey Torch--why don'tcha just shut up and look awestruck like the rest of us? }}
** Adding to the trope, The Thing is the inverse, not because he's dumb but because he's plain spoken. He can generally understand what Reed is saying even when others don't and sometimes acts as the [[Translator Buddy]]. But some writers forget he's a former astronaut and write him as the big dumb guy because of the way he talks which itself is a meta example with writers inferring the character trait because of this trope.
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** At least in McGill's case, it's inverted in that the story makes it patently obvious that Everett is using the big words because he's ''trying'' to sound smarter, and because he ''does'' think he's smarter than his two less-inclined companions.
* V of ''[[V for Vendetta]]'' introduces himself like this, complete with [[Alliteration|oodles of alliteration.]] He calms down eventually, but still speaks very intelligently. It's pretty epic, and implies that somebody pillaged a thesaurus a few times, [[Captain Obvious|specifically,]] the sections of a thesaurus between the letters "U" and "W".
{{quote|'''V:''' Voilà ! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. [[Overly Long Gag|Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose]], so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
'''Evey Hammond:''' ... Are you like a crazy person? }}
* Hermione Granger in ''[[Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire]]''. One of the many reasons why the script was so awful is that it appears when writing Hermione's lines, they wrote them out normally before getting out a thesaurus and changing all the words to make her sound smart. Examples include "Viktor's more of a physical being. I mean, he's not particularly loquacious"; "Again obvious though potentially problematic". This isn't present in the other films though.
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* Egon Spengler from ''[[Ghostbusters]]''.
{{quote|'''Pete Venkman:''' Hi, Egon. How's school? I bet those science chicks really dig that large cranium of yours, huh?
'''Egon:''' [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|I think they're more interested in my epididymis.]]
'''Pete Venkman:''' ... }}
* Doctor Emmet Brown from ''[[Back to The Future]]'' does this occasionally, though not as often (or as badly) as his counterpart from the animated series (see below).
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* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'', the hyper-intelligent fuzzy monster Molly peppers her speech with big, obscure, or antiquarian words—but she is equally likely to use teenage slang or kindergarten kiddie-speak. Galatea makes observation of her sister's odd speech patterns [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20080920.html here.]
* Rocky, of ''[[Lackadaisy Cats]]'', the majority of the time.
{{quote|'''Rocky:''' ''(trying to avoid being shot)'' Avril, Avril! From one reasoned individual to another... uh, if speech is truly what [[Irony|separates us from the beasts]]... as the Greeks suggested... I remain optimistic we're not yet beyond a resolution... uh, through civil discourse?
'''Avril:''' ARRAAWRGH! ''(slams Rocky against a wall and throws him to the ground)'' }}
** This becomes even more noticeable when he's around Freckle, who rarely says more than a couple words at a time.
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