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* And don't forget the distinctive [[Medium Awareness|yellow bubbles]] and [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a8/DeadpoolYellowBoxes.jpg/250px-DeadpoolYellowBoxes.jpg boxes] utilized by ''[[Deadpool]].'' [[No Fourth Wall|He certainly can't]].
* This has been in the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic strip a few times. Most notably, the distinctive voice-treatment given to Daleks is represented as an angular font in a jagged speech bubble. This has been the case since they had their own strip in ''TV Century 21'' in the 1960s.
* Several characters in ''[[The Sandman]]'' have distinctive speech bubbles or
** [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] is the sanest and most down-to-earth of the Endless and the only one whose Speech Bubbles are completely normal.
* Jamie Madrox's duplicates in ''[[X-Factor]]'' get slightly different fonts from standard speech bubbles.
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== Manga & Manhwa ==
* Many [[Scanlation
* ''[[Death Note]]'' does this, at least in the English manga. The shinigami speak in a different font than the human characters.
* ''[[D.N.Angel]]'' uses this trope as well. Dark speaks in a curly fancy kind of font.
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* ''[[Bob and George]]'' has the Shadowy Author, whose bubbles are normal colored, but just float around without the tail pointing to his mouth. About two years before the end of the comic, his speech balloons suddenly gain a tail; {{spoiler|this is our first clue that it's actually George, pretending to be the Shadowy Author}}.
* ''[[Dream Catcher]]'' typically uses a standard font for everyone, except early on in the gateworld where they briefly used hard to read cursive text.
* Agatha and other "Sparks" in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' get a gradual change of font as they draw more and more on the madness that is their source of power... it's not just for decoration, either. With all the cool machines the Sparks can build, it's easy to forget their most insidious
** When Bangladesh DuPree breaks her jaw and has it wired shut, her speech bubbles become rebuses.
** Other groups that have their own special speech bubbles: [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20031027 Jagerkin] (and the Generals are even more special), and [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051107 and voice-enabled clanks]. Castle Heterodyne [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080709 has a bubble similar to the Jagers], and Von Pinn and the Geisterdamen have their own particular fonts, but the same speech bubbles as human characters.
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* ''Combo Rangers'' (hey, [[Theres 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.
* Since the characters of ''[[1/0]]'' are actually ''in'' a comic strip, they have no audio even to them; their voices are distinguished instead by their fonts.
** Well, they seem to "hear" their voices, but in the same sense that we
* ''[http://thinks.com/family-fun/kim-and-jason.htm Kim & Jason]''
* ''[http://www.kismetropolis.com Kismetropolis]'' uses different speech bubbles, colors and fonts for varying purposes.
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* The first panel on page 10 of the [http://www.drunkduck.com/Energize_and_Dasien/index.php?p=395126 Energize/Dasien crossover] uses a small drawing of each hero's face next to the relevant speech bubble.
* ''[[Home On The Strange]]'' has one character speak in a different font from the others. [http://www.homeonthestrange.com/view.php?ID=15 There's a good reason for this, which is explained in the sidebar.]
* One strip from ''[[Lick My Jesus]]'' (which is regrettably defunct) had one character agreeing with everything another said. It turned out to be because he didn't understand what the person was
* Most dialog in ''[[The Easy Breather]]'' is set in three standard Apple fonts: Chicago for heroes, Sand for villains and Chalkboard for other characters. In the second story, the "neutral" dialog font was changed from Chalkboard to [http://www.1001fonts.com/font_details.html?font_id=3220 Rehotalko], and [http://www.blambot.com/font_sdb.shtml Self Destruct Button] is used for talking robots.
* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'', [[Starfish Aliens]] often speak in hexagon-shaped balloons, while robots usually speak in stylized square balloons [[Shout-Out|reminiscent]] of the [[Marvel Comics]] [[Transformers]].
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* One [http://mountaincomics.com/shampoo-week-2-finale/ special Mountain Time episode] puts speech bubbles to a somewhat meta use.
* Although ''[[Something Positive]]'' mostly uses standard speech bubbles and fonts, [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp10122009.shtml this strip] deserves special mention for its humorously creative use of bubble colour, heavy outlining and symbols such as storm clouds, teardrops and a [[Death by Newbery Medal|dead kitten]] to convey heartbreak.
* ''[[The Way of the Metagamer]]'' started out using Comic Sans for everything. Later on, it switched to
* ''[[Drowtales]]'' uses differently colored speech bubbles for different characters. In one panel, Ariel and Chirinide both yell at Kyonne to leave them, and share one bubble with a gradient between their respective colors.
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' has mostly normal speech bubbles, but occasionally, an Immortal (or flat out [[Eldritch Abomination
** Also, in one strip, where a new character with long hair is introduced, a little bubble naming him shows up with 'gothic' script. He glances over and notices it, [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|physically strikes it with a fist]], and it reverts to normal text. It's in the 'one shot' strips, though, where that's more common.
* ''[http://www.rockpapercynic.com/littleworlds/ Little Worlds]'' features blurry-edged color-coded speech bubbles for each of its characters.
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== Western Animation ==
* Many cartoons of [[The Silent Age of Animation|the silent era]] such as [[Felix the Cat]] would use
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