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At best, a [[Wall of Text]] is just a signal of really heavy exposition. At worst, they are a warning sign that the author is [[Author Filibuster|soapboxing about something]].

 

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* This is a criticism often levelled at ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del|Ctrl Alt Del]]''. In fact, a certain [[Image Board]] came up with something called "CAD Rule" -- the law that if you take the first panel and the last panel of a ''Ctrl+Alt+Del'' strip, remove the text from the last panel, and post it, it will automatically be much funnier, as [http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20060331 this strip] "shows".

** A similar device is the infamously named ''buckleybox'', a smaller but equally superfluous [[Wall of Text]] used to reiterate something that ''[[Don't Explain the Joke|should already appear in the actual comic]]'' visually, but may not due to odd dialogue placement, poor art not conveying it, or the assumption [[Viewers are Morons]].

* ''[[Goodwill Heroes]]'' had an instance where [http://www.goodwill-heroes.net/06-06-2011/bk01-ch02-pg03/ the Librarian] belittled the main cast for raising their voices in a library.

* ''[[Xkcd]]'' once had a wall of text that [http://xkcd.com/160/ broke the frame of the comic].