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▲{{fmbox|image=none|style=width: 50%;|text = {{smallcaps|<<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 style="border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:black; font-family:monospace;">{{smallcaps|<<Perhaps Professor Verbose has more data on this topic.>>}}</div>
▲{{fmbox|image=none|style=width: 50%;|text = {{color|#004488|''Hold on there, Robot Buddy! There's just gotta be more to it than that!''}} }}
:::::<div style="border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:black; font-family:monospace;">{{smallcaps|<<This is illogical and serves no functional purpose.>>}}</div>
:::::<div style="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>
▲{{fmbox|image=none|style=width: 50%;|text = {{color|#005500|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 style="border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:red; background-color: pink; font-family:monospace;">{{smallcaps|>>Warning! Warning! Logic circuit malfunction! Switching to mode:}} [[Crush! Kill! Destroy!]]<<}}</div>
<div style="border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%; text-align:left; color:#004488;"><big>''Gee willikers, doc! Robot Buddy has gone berserk!''</big></div>
<div style="border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%; text-align:left; font-family:monospace;">{{smallcaps|>>Crush! Kiiillll....}} deessstroooooy... >></div>
▲{{fmbox|image=none|style=width: 50%;|text = {{color|#005500|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 style="border-radius: 30px 30px 30px 1px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 10px; width:60%; text-align:left; color:#004488;">''Waaaah!''</div>
▲{{fmbox|image=none|style=width: 50%;|text = {{color|#005500|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 style="border-radius: 30px 30px 1px 30px; border: 2px solid black; padding: 5px; width:66%; text-align:right; color:purple; ">Billy? Where did you go? Oooh, tears!</div>
▲{{fmbox|image=none|style=width: 50%;|text = {{color|#005500|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"...}} }}
▲{{fmbox|image=none|style=width: 50%;|text = {{color|#004488|''That was a close one, doc! I've never been more scared in my short fictional life!''}} }}
▲{{fmbox|image=none|style=width: 50%;|text = {{color|#005500|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, and highlight it with a mouse...}} }}
▲{{fmbox|image=none|style=width: 50%;|text = {{spoiler|'''[[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!]]'''}} }}
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