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== Comics ==
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* Depending on the writer, various [[Marvel Universe]] characters have distinctive font and speech bubble styles, including [[Fantastic Four|Ben Grimm (pretty much all the time) and Johnny Storm (whose speech bubbles take on a fiery appearance when he's using his powers)]]; and Wolverine, particularly when [[Unstoppable Rage|berserk]].
* In [[Don Rosa]]'s early ''[[The Pertwillaby Papers]]'' series, nearly every character had their own specific font and speech bubble design, reflecting their personalities. The tradition carried over to his Scrooge McDuck stories in part later on.
* In ''[[Atomic Robo]]'' the titular character's speech bubbles are blue with small zig-zags on both sides and have a lightning bolt shaped tail. Helsingard as a [[
* The various ''[[Transformers]]'' series use different bubbles for the Transformers. Originally, they were pretty basic bubbles, with the edges of the arrow leading up to the bubble resembling a stylized jagged lightning bolt, like had been often used with television and radio dialogue. Later issues game them a squared bubble. [[Cosmic Horror|Unicron]] got bubbles edged in rippled darkness and blood-red lines. Later series added more effects, often to differentiate not only individual characters but their state. ([[Dream Wave]] Volume 3 Megatron, for example, had black speech bubbles with white dialogue.)
* In Teri Sue Wood's ''Wandering Star'', all the characters have elaborately hand-drawn dialogue, except for a group of mind-controlled slaves; theirs is typewritten.
* ''[[Buck Godot Zap Gun for Hire|Buck Godot: Zap Gun For Hire]]'' uses different bubble styles and fonts for different alien races. [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20080322 This page alone] has thirteen different bubbles.
* Normal humans as well as the titular character of [[Hellboy]] have white speech bubbles with standard comic book font and short trails. Demons and [[Eldritch Abomination|horrors]] generally have red or purple speech bubles with longer, wavy trails and sharp letters. Aquatic creatures have blue speech bubbles. The demon Ualac goes from normal white bubbles to wavy golden ones when he becomes the [[One
* Disney had for a time comics about baby versions of their characters. Baby Gyro Gearloose spoke in speech bubbles outlined by equations and formulas. Considering Gyro is the inventor as well as being terribly scatterbrained, that it probably represents that his mind's elsewhere while he's talking.
* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (Comic Book)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures]]'' when a character is upside down, the text in their speech balloon would be printed upside down as well.
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== Literature ==
* In what will probably be the only example of characters ''in prose literature'' speaking in dialogue balloons, ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Literature)]]?'' by Gary K. Wolf features a world where human beings live side-by-side with cartoon and comics characters. The 'toons communicate via visible dialogue balloons (they even come out of the phone), but can learn to enunciate verbally if they so desire.
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* In ''[[DM of the Rings]]'', the GM spoke with square speech bubbles with yellow background, and NPCs (played by the GM) had regularly shaped speech bubbles, but also with yellow background.
** This convention was picked up by ''[[Darths and Droids]]''.
** And in the recent [[Deep
** The [[B Side Comics]] from ''[[Apple Geeks]]'' use a similar system: conversations between the artist and writer have the artist speak normally through his avatar and the writer using only square speech balloons while remaining offscreen, almost as a Narrator.
* David Hopkins' ''[http://www.pholph.com/ Jack]'' uses a very distinctive style of speech bubble for any dialogue spoken by the Sins in the strip and a second distinctive style for those characters who are/were Fallen angels, although the latter is rarely seen.
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