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One frequently used subversion is when other characters hear what is said and respond in their own thoughts. It's mostly used when two characters use this device in the same scene. This can be milked for comedy if the character [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?|switches from inner to outer monologue accidentally]]. Also known as a Stream of Consciousness. In literature, of course, including an inner monologue is essentially the default state in a way that isn't the case in TV, movies, or other media. When a monologue is being emphasised in printed media for whatever reason, you'll often find the use of [[Think in Text]] to make it distinctive.
If the character intentionally says this "out loud" to an empty room (the audience), then it is a simple [[Soliloquy]]. If another character responds or reacts, even though they shouldn't be able to, that's [[Inner Monologue Conversation]]. If the character is seemingly having a "conversation" with their own thoughts, that's [[Inner Dialogue]].
Compare with [[Narrator]], [[Captain's Log]], and [[Sounding It Out]]. A specific example is the [[Private Eye Monologue]]. Contrast [[Surrogate Soliloquy]], when the thoughts are forced out at an inanimate or nonsentient target to avoid voiceover. A closely related [[Video Game]] trope is [[Adventure Narrator Syndrome]].
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** Cerebus also has regular inner monologues, getting more frequent as the series progresses - reflecting either Sim's storytelling getting more experimental, or Cerebus himself growing more introspective. Earlier, the Cockroach had a tendency to narrate his situation, either aloud or in his head.
* [[Deadpool]]: Who can forget his yellow boxes? He loves his yellow boxes!
** Deadpool sometimes goes as far as to [[
** Subverted at one point, where someone tells him he is actually talking out loud.
* Comics as a genre used cloud-like text boxes (compared with smoother speech bubbles) to show characters' thoughts. Their use has declined in the last decade and a half, as characters narrating in coloured boxes has become more common (this sort of character narration has also almost entirely replaced the older convention of third-person narrative captions).
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