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A character in a comic talks, on and on and on, but the exact content's not important. Or else no one is listening.

Their blathering is given in a Wall of Text—often as the backdrop—but the text is obscured with Speech Bubbles Interruption (whether by other speech bubbles, the characters themselves, or some other visual element) so that the reader knows the complete text is not important.

Enough words are usually shown to get the gist of what the character is expressing, although Blah Blah Blah is also common.

Long Speech Tea Time can have actions that obstruct the bubbles.

Examples of Wall of Blather include:

Anime and Manga

A food rant from Silver Spoon.

Comic Books

Used in Gorsky and Butch, mostly for really unimportant stuff but once for the authors' notes, which are extremely plot-relevant. But not only that—in one scene they talk too much, and the speech bubbles create a traffic jam.

Fan Works

In Turnabout Storm Rarity gets carried away when she gets the idea of making a new suit for Phoenix, and she keeps blathering in the background while Phoenix and Pinkie discuss where to go next.

Films -- Live-Action

The credits to Wrongfully Accused, among other Credits Gag, include a section headed "Nobody Cares About These People", which is then scrolled through at about 300% speed.

Newspaper Comics

In Prickly City, Winslow at a press conference—going Blah Blah Blah as well.

Video Games

In one of the dream sequences in Max Payne, Max answers a phone to be greeted with a stream of meaningless nonsense spoken in his own voice, which is represented in the in-game graphic novel using this trope.

Web Comics

Brawl in the Family: Kaepora Gaebora bores Link to tears.
Dork Tower
Footloose: Sisterly concern.^{[dead link]}
Yang Child: Rambling.
Dreamkeepers: Prelude
- When they are looking to corral you.
- The children talk in the background.
Sometimes used in Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures. For example, in the Abel's Story bonus arc, Abel's friend Mink is quite the chatterbox, as shown here.
Vaarsuvius of The Order of the Stick has had this treatment a few times. The first of several.
Slightly Damned has a lot of fun with this. It also has speech bubbles through which show a small patch of what's obviously a larger Wall of Text.
Precocious
- An example.
- Another.
Gunnerkrigg Court: Too whoozy to attend.
Dream*scar She's really rambling
In Nip and Tuck pure excitement.
Rusty and Co
- Here it's for the readers, not the characters.
- Calamitus doing his first monologue is similarly obscured, as Mimic and Princess aren't paying attention.
In Sinfest, Pooch blathering to Percy's girlfriend.
In Derelict, interruption.
In Anti-HEROES, overriding a monologue.
In Meat Shield, Leonid isn't exactly listening to Disparoxus.
In the first strip of DM of the Rings, the characters talk amongst themselves and their speech bubbles partially hide the DM's captions, who is rattling off the campaign's endless backstory in the background.
In the second strip of Our Little Adventure, Angelika and Rocky's loud argument is the background of the last panel.

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 {{trope}}
-[[File:Dork_Tower_Wall_of_Blather_6416.png|link=Dork Tower|right]]
+[[File:Dork Tower Wall of Blather 6416.png|link=Dork Tower|frame]]
 A character in a comic talks, on and on and on, but the exact content's not important. Or else no one is listening.
-Their blathering is given in a [[Wall of Text]]--often as the backdrop--but [[Painting the Medium|the text is obscured]] with [[Speechbubbles Interruption]] (whether by other speech bubbles, the characters themselves, or some other visual element) so that the reader knows the complete text is not important.
+Their blathering is given in a [[Wall of Text]]—often as the backdrop—but [[Painting the Medium|the text is obscured]] with [[Speech Bubbles Interruption]] (whether by other speech bubbles, the characters themselves, or some other visual element) so that the reader knows the complete text is not important.
 Enough words are usually shown to get the gist of what the character is expressing, although [[Blah Blah Blah]] is also common.
 [[Long Speech Tea Time]] can have actions that obstruct the bubbles.
 {{examples}}
+== Anime and Manga ==
+* [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/gin_no_saji/c002/18.html A food rant] from ''[[Silver Spoon]]''.
-== Anime & Manga ==
-* [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/gin_no_saji/c002/18.html A food rant] from ''[[Silver Spoon (Manga)|Silver Spoon]]''.
 == Comic Books ==
-* Used in ''[[Gorsky and Butch (Comic Book)|Gorsky and Butch]]'', mostly for really unimportant stuff but once for the authors' notes, which are extremely plot-relevant. But not only that -- in one scene they talk too much, and the speech bubbles create a traffic jam.
+* Used in ''[[Gorsky and Butch]]'', mostly for really unimportant stuff but once for the authors' notes, which are extremely plot-relevant. But not only that—in one scene they talk too much, and the speech bubbles create a traffic jam.
-== Comic Strips ==
-* In ''[[Prickly City (Comic Strip)|Prickly City]]'', Winslow at a press conference -- going [[Blah Blah Blah]] as well.
 == Fan Works ==
-* In ''[[Turnabout Storm (Fanfic)|Turnabout Storm]]'' [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Rarity]] gets carried away when she gets the idea of making a new suit for [[Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Phoenix]], and she keeps blathering in the background while Phoenix and Pinkie discuss where to go next.
+* In ''[[Turnabout Storm]]'' [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Rarity]] gets carried away when she gets the idea of making a new suit for [[Ace Attorney|Phoenix]], and she keeps blathering in the background while Phoenix and Pinkie discuss where to go next.
 == Films -- Live-Action ==
-* The credits to ''[[Wrongfully Accused (Film)|Wrongfully Accused]]'', among other [[Credits Gag]], include a section headed "Nobody Cares About These People", which is then scrolled through at about 300% speed.
+* The credits to ''[[Wrongfully Accused]]'', among other [[Credits Gag]], include a section headed "Nobody Cares About These People", which is then scrolled through at about 300% speed.
+== Newspaper Comics ==
+* In ''[[Prickly City]]'', Winslow at a press conference—going [[Blah Blah Blah]] as well.
 == Video Games ==
-* In one of the dream sequences in ''[[Max Payne (Video Game)|Max Payne]]'', Max answers a phone to be greeted with a stream of meaningless nonsense spoken in his own voice, which is represented in the in-game graphic novel using this trope.
+* In one of the dream sequences in ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'', Max answers a phone to be greeted with a stream of meaningless nonsense spoken in his own voice, which is represented in the in-game graphic novel using this trope.
 == Web Comics ==
-* ''[[Brawl in The Family (Webcomic)|Brawl in The Family]]'': [http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2011/05/12/333-advice/ Kaepora Gaebora bores Link to tears.]
+* ''[[Brawl in the Family]]'': [http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2011/05/12/333-advice/ Kaepora Gaebora bores Link to tears.]
-* ''[[Dork Tower (Webcomic)|Dork Tower]]''
+* ''[[Dork Tower]]''
 ** [http://www.dorktower.com/2003/01/22/comics-archive-380/ Recounting the adventure]
 ** [http://www.dorktower.com/2008/07/14/archived-comic-1059/ And laughter]
 ** [http://www.dorktower.com/2011/02/28/dork-tower-monday-february-28-2011/ And lists]
-* ''[[Footloose (Webcomic)|Footloose]]'': [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=385 Sisterly concern.]
+* ''[[Footloose (webcomic)|Footloose]]'': [http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=385 Sisterly concern.]{{Dead link}}
 * ''[[Webcomic/Yang Child|Yang Child]]'': [http://yangchild.comicgenesis.com/d/20030826.html Rambling].
-* ''[[Dreamkeepers (Webcomic)|Dreamkeepers]]'': Prelude
+* ''[[Dreamkeepers]]'': Prelude
-** [http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=107 When they are looking to corral you].
+** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130222191238/http://dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=107 When they are looking to corral you].
-** [http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=187 The children talk in the background].
+** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130222183739/http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=187 The children talk in the background].
-* Sometimes used in ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures (Webcomic)|Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures]]''. For example, in the Abel's Story bonus arc, Abel's friend Mink is quite the chatterbox, as shown [http://missmab.com/Comics/Ab_060.php here].
+* Sometimes used in ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures|Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures]]''. For example, in the Abel's Story bonus arc, Abel's friend Mink is quite the chatterbox, as shown [http://missmab.com/Comics/Ab_060.php here].
-* Vaarsuvius of ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'' has had this treatment a few times. [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0010.html The first of several.]
+* Vaarsuvius of ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' has had this treatment a few times. [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0010.html The first of several.]
-* ''[[Slightly Damned (Webcomic)|Slightly Damned]]'' has a lot of fun with this. It also has speech bubbles through which show a small patch of what's obviously a larger [[Wall of Text]].
+* ''[[Slightly Damned]]'' has a lot of fun with this. It also has speech bubbles through which show a small patch of what's obviously a larger [[Wall of Text]].
 * ''[[Precocious (Webcomic)|Precocious]]''
 ** [http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2009/03/31 An example.]
 ** [http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2010/06/12 Another.]
-* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'': [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=731 Too whoozy to attend].
+* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'': [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=731 Too whoozy to attend].
-* ''[[Dream Scar (Webcomic)|Dream Scar]]'' [http://www.dream-scar.net/index.php?id=125 She's really rambling]
+* ''[[Dream*scar]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20180503065535/http://www.dream-scar.net/index.php?id=125 She's really rambling]
-* In ''[[Nip and Tuck (Webcomic)|Nip and Tuck]]'' [http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00517.html pure excitement].
+* In ''[[Nip and Tuck]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120522033105/http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00517.html pure excitement].
-* ''[[Rusty and Co (Webcomic)|Rusty and Co]]''
+* ''[[Rusty and Co.|Rusty and Co]]''
 ** [http://rustyandco.com/comic/6/ Here it's for the readers, not the characters.]
 ** Calamitus doing his first monologue is similarly obscured, as Mimic and Princess aren't paying attention.
-* In ''[[Sinfest (Webcomic)|Sinfest]]'', [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2833 Pooch blathering to Percy's girlfriend.]
+* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209192543/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2833 Pooch blathering to Percy's girlfriend.]
-* In ''[[Derelict (Webcomic)|Derelict]]'', [http://derelictcomic.com/?strip_id=53 interruption].
+* In ''[[Derelict (webcomic)|Derelict]]'', [http://derelictcomic.com/?strip_id=53 interruption].
-* In ''[[Anti-HEROES (Webcomic)|Anti-HEROES]]'', [http://www.antiheroescomic.com/comic/72 overriding a monologue.]
+* In ''[[Anti-HEROES]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130607223515/http://antiheroescomic.com/comic/72 overriding a monologue.]
-* In ''[[Meat Shield (Webcomic)|Meat Shield]]'', [http://www.meatshield.net/archive/182-hmm-no-i-was-listening-really/ Leonid isn't exactly listening to Disparoxus.]
+* In ''[[Meat Shield (webcomic)|Meat Shield]]'', [http://www.meatshield.net/archive/182-hmm-no-i-was-listening-really/ Leonid isn't exactly listening to Disparoxus.]
-* In the first strip of ''[[DM of the Rings (Webcomic)|DM of the Rings]]'', the characters talk amongst themselves and their speech bubbles partially hide the DM's captions, who is rattling off the campaign's endless backstory in the background.
+* In the first strip of ''[[DM of the Rings]]'', the characters talk amongst themselves and their speech bubbles partially hide the DM's captions, who is rattling off the campaign's endless backstory in the background.
-* In the second strip of ''[[Our Little Adventure (Webcomic)|Our Little Adventure]]'', Angelika and Rocky's loud argument is [http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0002.html the background of the last panel].
+* In the second strip of ''[[Our Little Adventure]]'', Angelika and Rocky's loud argument is [http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0002.html the background of the last panel].
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 [[Category:Comic Book Tropes]]
 [[Category:Painting the Medium]]
-[[Category:Wall Of Blather]]
+[[Category:Wall of Blather]]