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== [[Literature]] ==
* Eragon from ''[[The Inheritance Cycle]]''. Sometimes everything just "stops" completely to explain some other minute detail about elven culture that the reader really did not need to know, with Eragon asking a continuous string of questions to hammer in a moral.
* [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Edward Cullen]] takes a whole chapter (the infamous meadow scene) to explain vampire lore to Bella.
* In a clunky bit of writing in ''[[Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows]]'', Harry is running down a list of things at Voldemort's command and despite the fact that ''no one asked for any clarification on the word'', he says:
{{quote| '''Harry:''' ...and Inferi - that is, dead bodies animated by a dark wizard...}}
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' the first appearances of the [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|dragons]] and the [[Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti|bigfeet]] brought large infodumps from Hibachi and Goona respectively.
* Averted in ''[[Order of the Stick]]'': Celia (a Sylph) considers the knowledge such a monologue would provide common knowledge (even for humans) and consequently doesn't explain the traits and attributes of her species to the Order.
** This proves fatal for {{spoiler|Roy, who she could have saved if she [[I Thought Everyone Could Do That!|hadn't assumed he could shoot lightning from his fingers]].}}