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{{trope}}
<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:#004488;">''Hi [[Robot Buddy]]! Do you want to tell the nice tropers about [[Speech Bubbles]]?''</div></div>
 
<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:black; font-family:monospace; background-color:#EEEEEE;">{{small-caps|<<Affirmative, carbon-based friend. Speech Bubbles are floating text circles (or [[Odd-Shaped Panel|other shapes]]) that characters in [[Comic Books]] and [[Web Comics]] or other [[Newspaper Comics|dimensionally-challenged]] media use to communicate. That is all.>>}}</div></div>
 
<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:#004488;">''Hold on there, Robot Buddy! There's just gotta be more to it than that!''</div></div>
 
<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:black; font-family:monospace; background-color:#EEEEEE;">{{small-caps|<<Perhaps Professor Verbose has more data on this topic.>>}}</div></div>
 
<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:purple;">Why indeed I do! Speech Bubbles aren't just generic circles or places to put words, but [[Metafictional Device|metafictional]] constructs that can be [[Painting the Medium|painted, shaped, and written different ways!]] [[Speech Bubbles Interruption|We can even superimpose them to show interruptions, if we were so rude as to interrupt!]]</div></div>
 
<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:black; font-family:monospace; background-color:#EEEEEE;">{{small-caps|<<This is illogical and serves no functional purpose.>>}}</div></div>
 
<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:purple;">Oh, [[Straw Vulcan|silly Robot Buddy]]! Your logical mind hasn't noticed one of the greatest uses for Speech Bubbles. In fact, your own speech bubble is different from young Tommy's and my own.</div></div>
 
<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:#004488;">''Whoa! That's cool! But, why are they different?''</div></div>
 
<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:purple;">Yes, it is indeed "Cool" Timmy! Differently shaped and even colored or [[Fonts|fonted]] bubbles are nature's way to help readers notice who's saying what more easily, as well as how they're feeling and even if they're robots, as your Robot Buddy's bubble shows. In fact, some species even use [[Rebus Bubble]]s at times!</div></div>
 
<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:red; font-family:monospace; background-color:#EEEEEE;">{{small-caps|>>Warning! Warning! Logic circuit malfunction! Switching to mode:}} '''[[Crush! Kill! Destroy!]]'''<<</div></div>
 
<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:#004488;"><big>''Gee willikers, doc! Robot Buddy has gone berserk!''</big></div></div>
 
<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:purple;">Yes, and if you'll notice, both your own and your robotic friend's speech bubbles have changed to show your excited emotions! Now, to hit the "Off Switch"...</div></div>
 
<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:red; font-family:monospace; background-color:#EEEEEE;">{{small-caps|>>'''Crush! Kiiillll....'''}} deessstroooooy... >></div></div>
 
<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:66%5px; text-align:right; color:#004488;">''That was a close one, doc! I've never been more scared in my short fictional life!''</div></div>
 
<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; color:purple;">That certainly was, Jimmy! Just remember that things can always get scarier! For example, some villains and monsters like to use black speech balloons and strange colored text. If I were to change my speech bubble ''just'' so...</div></div>
 
<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%5px; text-align:left; background-color:#333333; font-family:cursive;"><big>'''[[Voice of the Legion|COWER, MORTAL! FOR WE]] [[Emotion Eater|SHALL FEAST ON THE TEARS OF THE INNOCENT,]] [[Evil Tastes Good|THE SWEETEST DRINK OF THE EARTH!]]'''</big></div></div>
 
<div style="width:60%; text-align: right; margin::: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:66%5px; text-align:right; color:#004488;">''Waaaah!''</div></div>
 
<div style="width: 60%; margin: 2px 0"><div style="display: inline-block; border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:60%; text-align:left; color:purple; ">Billy? Where did you go? Oooh, tears!</div></div>
 
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** Each character has their own colors of speech bubble, with their own [[Painting the Medium]] moments. When Psycho Mantis is using his powers, his text turns from black to <s>red</s> green. It's when he goes totally nuts that his text turns red. And when one character is possessing another, the possessing spirit's speech bubble is used. This is actually used in the last comic, to reveal that {{spoiler|Big Boss has taken over Ocelot's mind, not Liquid as the games would have you believe}}.
* In ''[[Ozy and Millie]]'', all the dragons have their own distinctive fonts.
** Lampshaded in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130825182917/http://ozyandmillie.org/2006/04/10/ozy-and-millie-1632/ the April 10, 2006 strip.]
* Vinci of ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20211117004809/http://www.vincifruit.com/ Vinci & Arty]'' has a thick Greek accent, which is generally rendered phonetically only when other artists "borrow" him. In his home comic, it's represented by a pseudo-Greek font.
** Most characters in ''Vinci & Arty'' have distinct fonts, with the exception of non-recurring characters, who just get a generic font.
* ''[[Combo Rangers]]'' (hey, [[All The Tropes:There Is No Such Thing as Notability|there's no such thing as notability]], right?) has speech bubbles [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]], in accordance to the character's uniform colors. This was useful when it was revealed that a [[Big Bad]] was a clone of Power Combo, thanks to their similar speech bubbles.
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* In ''[[Roza]]'', [http://www.junglestudio.com/roza/?date=2007-05-23 the guard monster roars in red].
* In ''[[Precocious (Webcomic)|Precocious]]'', [http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2010/04/09 speech with asterisks.]
* In ''[[Dreamkeepers]] Prelude'', [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130222191425/http://dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=124 an arcing speech bubble].
* In ''[[Thistil Mistil Kistil]]'', [http://tmkcomic.depleti.com/comic/ch02-pg20/ Loki is angry. The lettering is not neat, and shows red.]
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209174203/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4026 using fonts, and no border for Buddha's awakening]
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