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** [[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). [[Painting the Medium|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-Eyed Monster|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
** Ultron has been given rectangular shaped bubbles a lot in more modern times, and Jacosta, one of his creations and a
* 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''.
* Speaking of ''[[Crisis Crossover|Annihilation]]'', in the Drax The Destroyer tie in all aliens speaking in their native tongues get weird bubbles plus in the series proper Annihilus gets purple ones, Tenebrous gets black ones, Aegis gets red ones, and The Xandarian Worldmind gets square ones with a yellow border.
* The Preservers in ''[[Elf Quest]]'' originally spoke with wavy lettering, and when the series collected for the first color edition each preserver spoke with its own color of bubble. This was dropped in the Marvel reprint which was completely re-lettered, and the new lettering carried over into some collected editions. The DC Collector's Edition and [http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ10/DisplayOQ10.html?page=7 Online Edition] of the Original Series use new computer lettering, restoring the wavy Preserver style and colored bubbles.
** ''[[Elf Quest]]'' also used to represent telepathy (sending) by [http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/SABM/SABM01/DisplaySABM01.html?page=21 parallelogram-shaped speech bubbles with sawtooth edges]. This apparently just became too much hard work, and was eventually replaced by [http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/KOBW/KOBW01/DisplayKOBW01.html?page=12 bubbles comprising two concentric ovals], although as you've seen from the above examples some of the original versions survive in the online edition
* In ''[[PS238]]'', aspiring supervillain and [[Take Over the World|world conqueror]] Zodon has a chip inserted into his head to make him stop cussing all the time. The innocuous words that replace his attempts to swear are rendered in a blocky font.
** When he really goes {{smallcaps|caroling}} ape-{{smallcaps|beans}}, he starts singing show tunes.
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* The biochips in ''[[Rogue Trooper]]'' have sort of semi-circular indentations in the edges of their bubbles.
* 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]]'', [[:File:Painting-the-medium pogo 9141.jpg|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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