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* Several characters in ''[[The Sandman]]'' have distinctive speech bubbles or fonts—each of the Endless and Matthew, in particular. At one point, Matthew "imitates" Morpheus with a speech bubble that looks like his. Delirium's speech bubbles contain wild swirls of color and wavering text, but when she was Delight (and sane), the colors were subdued and straight, and the text linear.
** [[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 (comics)|X-Factor]]'' get slightly different fonts from standard speech bubbles.
* In ''[[Asterix]]'', the language of the Goths is represented by a Gothic font, Greeks speak in an angular font resembling the Greek alphabet, and Egyptian speech bubbles contain hieroglyph-style rebuses (even for onomatopoeia). When Obelix repeats a phrase in Egyptian, it looks like a shakily-drawn stick figure.
** ''Asterix and the Cauldron'' featured a Roman tax gatherer whose rectangular speech bubbles resembles modern tax forms, complete with check boxes.
** In ''[[Asterix]] and the Roman Agent'', anyone falling under the discord-sowing powers of Convulvus (the titular agent) gets a speech bubble tinted green.
** When our heroes complain to the camp cook about the army food in ''Asterix the Legionary'', the cook responds with mocking sweetness, before yelling his head off. While he's being nice, his speech bubbles are filled with smiling suns, flowers, singing birds and music notes.
* Nearly every important character in ''[[Watchmen]]'' has either a different color/style speech bubble, or a different font. Sometimes both.
* Of ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'', the Vision traditionally spoke with a square bubble to indicate a cold, robotic voice, and in the late [[The Nineties|90s]], Thor was given a distinctive font inspired by [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe|Olde English]] to match his Shakespearean/Biblical patois. More recently, Iron Man has been given red outlined bubbles to indicate that his armour alters his voice.
** Ultron has been given rectangular shaped bubbles a lot in more modern times, and Jacosta, one of his creations and a manstay of the current Mighty Avengers lineup, speaks with a font that seems like [[Comic Sans]]/Arial as opposed to normal lettering.
* Deathurge speaks with all black Speech Bubbles as does Doorman after he takes up Deathurge's mantle.
* Super-Skrull speaks with green Speech Bubbles in ''Annihilation: Super-Skrull''.
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* In ''[[Atavar]]'', the [[Robot War|Uos']] speech bubbles are square and all their dialogue is '''bold'''. In the first few panels, before Atavar gains the ability to speak their language, the Kalen's dialogue is represented by random Greek letters.
* In ''[[Pogo (comic strip)|Pogo]]'', P. T. Bridgeport spoke in circus posters, Deacon Mushrat used Olde Englishe lettering, and Sarcophagus MacAbre (the natural-born buzzard) spoke like a sympathy note.
* The speech bubbles in ''[[Cerebus the Aardvark]]'' could be incredibly expressive and as artistic as anything else that was going on in the comic, especially when Cerebus was drunk, mad, or having an argument with himself.
* Null of [[Halcyon]] seems to 'speak' through black narration boxes with white text, which doesn't stop anyone from hearing him. The font also changes when characters are speaking in a foreign language, a la [[Discworld]].
* Manfred Schmidt, author of German comic ''[[Nick Knatterton]]'', commented that they were a primitive tool in his POV - "bubbles coming from the heads, eyes, ears, noses or mouths of characters to indicate what they think, see, hear, smell or say".
* In a number of 2000AD strips, including [[Judge Dredd]] and [[ABC Warriors]], Robots speak with baloons that have harsh angled edges rather than curved, occasionally with a different typeface from organic characters (dependent on the letterer).
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* Kengamine Nagi in ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]'' speaks with a synthesizer, which is illustrated through squarish, angled speech bubbles (as opposed to the round ones that the rest of the cast gets.
* Yotsuba in ''[[Yotsubato|Yotsuba&!]]'' speaks entirely in hiragana, the first form of Japanese writing children learn, which emphasizes her age. This effect, alas, has not been reproduced in any English translation.
* Speaking of Yotsubas, Satsuki Yotsuba in ''[[Negima]]'' has a unique way of speaking which is portrayed in the manga by her almost never using speech bubbles. Her dialogue is almost entirely in the side scribbles normally used for aside notes by manga characters.
** Also, the French official translation render's [[Robot Girl|Chachamaru]]'s (and strangely, [[Nuns Are Mikos|Kokone]]'s) bubbles with a different font to reflect a robotic voice.
* Berial in ''The Tarot [[Caf Ã]]©'' speaks in an elegant Gothic font.
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== Video Games ==
* In ''[[
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' represents characters' speech in speech bubbles. Players can choose the color of their bubbles and text.
* In ''[[Star Control]] 2'', each race's speech is subtitled in a different font. These vaguely match their personalities, so the Ur-Quan have large, bold text while the Utwig have thin, wobbly, depressed-looking text.
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* In ''[[A Moment of Peace]]'', humans have normal speech bubbles and gods speak in floating, colored, Comic Sans MS text.
* In ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'', the Dark Gods have different colored speech bubbles and fonts, and the main character's superior's speech bubble is black with white text. He himself is nearly always in shadow. The writer pointed this out in the comments for the comic.
* [http://xawu.thecomicseries.com/comics/2 Xawu] has light pink-ish Boxes with black text for Hori, Black with white text bubbles for the bartender, green for Rikard, Purple for Faren, blue for the Pufkash, pink with no border for the princess, and normal ones for Tyrus and unimportant characters. Most also have their own font.
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' uses a different color balloon for each character; the differences are usually subtle. When Shadow2 copies another character's voice, this is indicated by his balloon's color. One character's bodily possession is indicated by overlapping balloons.
** Initially even minor character got their own bubble colors, but this was later dropped; in later chapters, only the major characters get colored speech bubbles. Most minor characters have even lost the bubble colors they once had (e.g. Paz, whose bubbles used to be brown, but now are a generic white).
* Similarly, ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' uses different colors for different characters, or at least tries to. Many characters and many crossovers have lead to a few cases where multiple characters in a strip speak with the same (or very similar) colors.
* Richard from ''[[Looking for Group]]'' falls under this proposed trope.
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* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', the [[Big Bad]] race of the time had an in-universe [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020421.html font change] to something more readable as part of the terms of a surrender.
* Miss [http://www.nettserier.no/ascii/2008/05/25/ Delta] (a digital artist from @hens) in ''[[Adventures In ASCII]]'' has half-triangular speech bubbles reflecting her body shape.
* ''[[
* In ''[http://www.electric-manga.com/ Kagerou]'', different colors are used to differentiate characters, as well as to show which of Kano's personalities is at the fore. His speech bubbles usually match his [[Kaleidoscope Eyes]].
* One [http://mountaincomics.com/shampoo-week-2-finale/ special Mountain Time episode] puts speech bubbles to a somewhat meta use.
* Although ''[[Something
* ''[[The Way of the Metagamer]]'' started out using Comic Sans for everything. Later on, it switched to Gemelli—but when characters are under mind control or otherwise possessed, their font changes back to Comic Sans. Additionally, the narrator speaks with floating rectangles instead of bubbles—whenever a character [[Interactive Narrator|imitates the narrator]], they too use rectangles.
* ''[[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.
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** Yelling is indicated with spiky bubbles.
** Some Abyssals or otherwise death-aspected creatures get white text on a black background.
** Marena has a more animalistic font when in her Deadly Beastman form.
** Nova and the {{spoiler|semi-alchemicals}} have rectangular bubbles, with rounded corners.
** Unnatural Mental Influence is often indicated by the text having a color.
* In ''[[The Unspeakable Vault of Doom]]'', The Unspeakable's speech bubbles use the Caslon font, as opposed to a "normal" comic font for other characters.
** Also, when Zalgo comes (and goes) in one of the strips, his speech bubbles are oddly-colored and covered in swirly lines.
* ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' has started altering its bubbles; once converstations start showing up in 'feline', the bubbles grow cat ears and whiskers.
* ''[[Game Destroyers]]'' does things a little differently than most other web comics. Unlike other comics, there are no dialogue arrows on the speech bubbles in this comic. Instead, each character has a unique font, text color, and background color. Some characters who know telepathy speak in a rounded edge rectangle instead, whenever the author remembers that, anyway.
* 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.]
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* In ''[[American Barbarian]]'' [http://www.ambarb.com/?p=87 red, white, and blue speech for a moment.]
* In ''[[Blue Yonder]]'', [http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1080254/blue-yonder-prologue-page-14/ one attacke speaks in white writing on sky blue]. All the rest are normal.
* In ''[[My Life at War]]'' they use the shape of speech bubbles to [http://www.mylifeatwar.com/?p=22 indicate a character's accent].
* In ''[[Level 30 Psychiatry]]'' translated [[Pokémon-Speak]] is rendered in Blue and Yellow balloons reminisant of the Pokemon logo.
* Naturally, these get used throughout the whole of ''[[Ears for Elves]]''; however, the ways their shape and layout can be used is shown excellently [http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/572 here].
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