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Talking Is a Free Action

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Talking Is a Free Action	comment	Time in comics is flexible. Each panel shows a single event, which is usually accompanied by a length of dialog, which must take some time to say. This disparity is usually accepted if it isn't taken to extremes. But often, characters will exposit when it's most needed: at the story's climax, when both the intricacies of the plot and the intensity of action hit their highest. While the heroes Outrun the Fireball, Mr. Exposition might explain why the Evil Overlord's death caused the explosion. The Action Girl can deliver impressive lectures on why the monster's Achilles' Heel will work, while still engaging in Waif-Fu. The Superhero can quip to his heart's content and explain his abilities while dueling one insignificant mobster, or deliver a Kirk Summation during the course of a single Finishing Move. Sometimes, even mere mortals can give a lecture on what is happening when it would be a much better idea to simply run like hell. This trope is mostly found in comics and similar non-audio visual media: Comic Books, Newspaper Comics, Manga, and Web Comics. It's become less common in the era of Decompressed Comics, possibly because it was taken to silly degrees at times, but it has never really gone away. If a comic is translated into a medium where time is a factor, the trope can become obvious. This is particularly common with anime adaptations of manga, where the action — or even time itself — might stop in the middle of the action just so that the hero can deliver a speech of some sort. Another variant can occur in roleplaying video games, where battle can stop for dialogue scenes, either for Character Development or rules description. Enemies will often be present, but they'll hold off on attacking for this purpose. The Trope Namer is Dungeons & Dragons, in which certain actions (most notably talking) are designated "free actions" and can be taken in addition to any other actions within the normal limit of a turn. A turn in D&D is said to take six seconds in-universe; being restricted to only what a player could say in six seconds wouldn't allow any time for planning, strategizing, or just calling out what you're going to do. Talking does not distract the player from any other actions, and there is no word count limit on how much the player can say. This is a case of Rule of Fun and Acceptable Breaks from Reality; spouting a Bond One-Liner during combat is awesome, but no one would do it when it would impair combat performance. Compare Inaction Sequence, Comic-Book Time, Webcomic Time, Expolabel, Wall of Text, Changing Clothes Is a Free Action, and Transformation Is a Free Action. Talk to the Fist is this trope's feared enemy, Killed Mid-Sentence is its biggest subversion, and Exposition Beam can bypass it. Where it's exaggerated, the audience may tend to start wondering Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Contrast Distracting Disambiguation, where there is some amount of cooperation on the enemies' part that enables this, and Holding the Floor, where a character talks to deliberately buy time. See also Year Inside, Hour Outside, Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me, Plot Time, Acoustic License, and Magic Countdown. Examples
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1099a6ac	comment	At the end of Fight Club, when Tyler who is really the narrator is holding the narrator at gunpoint and there are only sixty seconds before the all the buildings explode, Tyler starts monologuing for at least five minutes. In fact, nothing happens until the narrator gives the Space Monkeys orders, has a touching scene with Marla Singer, and shoots himself in the head to remove the delusions of Tyler.. But since that whole sequence was just part of his imagination, all the narrator really had to do was shoot himself, which would only take a few seconds.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_10db6411	comment	While Digimon V-Tamer 01 at one point lambasts the "Calling Your Attacks" trope, and while it explicitly states the digivice 01 was created specifically for non-verbal communication, the characters are still able to hold conversations in situations where they logically shouldn't be able to understand one another (e.g. while submerged) or even be able to vocalize (e.g. with their mouths full of energy attacks).
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_117116ef	comment	Occasionally subverted in The Penguins of Madagascar for gags where Kowalski tries to explain what he is about to do to help the situation only to be interrupted before he gets the chance.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: Finn can usually leap at an enemy and have the time to yell some ridiculous battle cry like "Get ready for an uppercut, you dog!" or "I'm a cat! I'm an agile cat!" before reaching them. Averted in "Mama Said", when the giant flying mushroom monster attacks Jake in the middle of his one-liner.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_128b2fe5	comment	Averted in the Golden Age series. The highblood captain repeatedly attacks Queen Jane as she offers his crew asylum. Of course, since she showed up as a hologram, his attacks weren't exactly doing anything.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1367cea0	comment	The aversion is discussed in the Worm fanfic El-Ahrairah, during Administrator's game against Jack Slash in Las Vegas.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_14b52449	comment	In 2012, John Cusack's character is given a pretty short Exact Time to Failure before going to unjam some machinery — but the time he takes to speak to his family doesn't count.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1670bd19	comment	Averted in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, where the game doesn't pause when you talk to someone, making it very easy to be attacked while you read the dialogue. This also applies to using your PDA, and looking in your inventory. Better to find somewhere quiet, than risk getting your face chewed off.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1a4b3ea2	comment	Digimon: While Digimon V-Tamer 01 at one point lambasts the "Calling Your Attacks" trope, and while it explicitly states the digivice 01 was created specifically for non-verbal communication, the characters are still able to hold conversations in situations where they logically shouldn't be able to understand one another (e.g. while submerged) or even be able to vocalize (e.g. with their mouths full of energy attacks). In Digimon Tamers, when Beelzemon shoots his bullets on Takato and Megidramon, the others, who try to warn Takato, suddenly talk in slow-motion, as do the flying bullets. During this time, Takato and the de-volved Guilmon have apparently an extremely fast talk which takes about two minutes of screen-time. Exaggerated in an episode of Digimon Fusion: Zamielmon can Flash Step, but after doing so he freezes for a split second. When Taiki realises this after he does so for the last time, it takes him a good ten seconds to explain it to the audience before Shoutmon DX actually gets in there and kills him, but Zamielmon is still frozen.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1aa9d9f4	comment	Batman (1966) had a scene where Batman and Robin are pursuing a villain only to find a civilian placed in a Death Trap by the villains. Batman pauses to explain to Robin that a hero must always cease pursuing a villain to save a life. During this conversation, they do nothing to free the endangered person.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1abd98ae	comment	Parodied in Endless Frontier: at one point, the appearance of a boss causes your party members to have a whole conversation among themselves until it politely coughs to remind them of its presence.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1b604019	comment	In the manga Area 88 moreso than in the anime adaptation. In the fight against the Wolfpack, one of the Wolfpack members is actually explaining the "bloody screw" attack while carrying it out. Keeping in mind that aerial combat with jet fighters takes place in the realm of seconds. Another instance is when Charlie reveals that he was sent to assassinate Shin and attempts to shoot him down while of course, failing. The manga has four pages of dialogue while in the anime, the whole affair is over is fifteen seconds. The mercenaries do a lot of exposition while actually engaging in high speed aerial combat. Mainly it's an excuse for Kaoru Shintani to show how much of an aviation otaku he is. Sometimes, the air combat will be filled with Shin's existential thoughts about how much he hates what he has to do, as if a real combat pilot would be thinking about anything other than what's on his heads up display. Conversations while just flying tend to get a pass, however. The anime keeps this to a minimum but in the English dub of the 2004 TV series, they add a lot of Calling Your Attacks to Shin's dialogue, presmuably as an homage to Top Gun, even though Area 88 is in every way antithesis to Top Gun.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men member Banshee has to scream constantly in order to fly. This often manifests itself as talking to himself or others while flying.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1beda93b	comment	Sluggy Freelance: Blacksoul Blacksoul and Bun-bun monologue during their fight. In "The Circle", Master Urja tries to say "Isabella is here? How serendipitous." during (at most) the time it takes for a quickly swinging chain to go from the level of her face to that of her thigh. Only the last syllable is left unsaid when she's cut off as the chain hits her thigh. She may have trained up her vampire abilities to the point of having Super-Speed, but for speech as well? "Six Months Later" has the line, "For example, watch my silent speed as I cover your mouth with a chloroform-soaked rag and..." The line is conspicuously silly if you think about it and it's not clear whether the character just thinks that talking is a free action. He does get interrupted, only because his target passes out instantly as soon as the chloroform bottle opens.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1c417919	comment	Strange School: During the Enraged Meatlet Jr fight:
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: During Ichigo's second fight with Grimmjow, his hollow mask stays active for around eleven seconds, but it lasts the whole fight. The dialogue alone during the fight would take much longer than eleven seconds; the fight as a whole easily lasts a few minutes, even taking into account the characters' superhuman speed. During Ichigo's final fight with Byakuya, he proves to be much too fast for Byakuya — and he uses this advantage to taunt him rather than just stab him in the back. Fortunately, Byakuya is too stunned to react until he's finished taunting. D-Roy tries to subvert this by attacking Rukia in the middle of her introductory speech, but he waited five minutes before doing even that, and it gave him no advantage anyway. Kido uses spells with obscenely long incantations, even for basic things like fireballs. More advanced users can get away without them, but the resulting spell is much less powerful. The only way to truly master this art is to be a Motor Mouth. The first half of the Soifon-Vega fight started out well, but eventually lapsed into this trope — as the fighters lampshade the trope and spend all their time talking about how they don't do this. However, Soifon then states near the end that she intentionally did this to drag out the fight and test the Arrancar's mettle, and when Vega tries to push his luck with the sister trope, Soifon proceeds to two-shot him and helpfully explains what she did to him before he dies. Some fighters have been known to defy this trope and attack their opponents in the middle of their exposition. Ichigo did this to Ishida on two separate occasions, and Love did this to his only ally Visored Rose to get him to shut up and focus on the battle. Old Aizen is impervious to this, though; he just No Sells the attempt (occasionally cutting down whoever tried to interrupt him) and continues talking. Kenpachi Zaraki likes to parody this trope: In the Lost Substitute Shinigami arc, while Giriko is explaining how his current contract with the God of Time makes him more powerful than ever, Kenpachi slices him in half and says the battle was boring. In the Thousand Years Blood War arc, he shows up with corpses of three Sternritter members. One of them is Berenice Gabrielli, whom he killed while she was explaining her powers instead of defending herself. Kenpachi further mockingly points out he couldn't hear her explanation anyway because of the other Sternritter's loud screaming.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1db412d3	comment	One of the characters in Mistborn: The Alloy of Law has the ability to create bubbles of slowed-down time; it's repeatedly used to create moments where the characters can have a quick chat in the middle of combat.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1e015a5d	comment	In The Empire Strikes Back, Vader tries psychological warfare on Luke, which Luke resists at first. But then Luke gets disarmed of both his hand and weapon, so Vader has all the time in the world to do the famed I Am Your Father speech that leads Luke into a Heroic BSoD.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1ed98120	comment	Gawn, from Wild ARMs 4, having already defied physics to shoot down 11 missiles in mid-air and punching the last one with his bare hands, decides to twist up the flow of time too. In the one second or less it takes for the last missile that he had just punched to explode, Gawn manages to give the protagonists an entire speech on reaching for the future. Of course, everyone else has to move in slow motion while it happens. You don't believe me, do you? There is proof.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_1f76648	comment	A Certain Magical Index frequently had minutes-long conversations in improbable timeframes, including one in the span of a character running across a room no more than twenty feet wide. The light novel (but not the anime) explains the room as being much larger than it seemed thanks to a magical optical illusion.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_20bc24a7	comment	Niko and the Sword of Light - Combined with the fact that Niko tends to call his attacks and makes use of Large Ham a lot, this is bound to happen.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_2161674a	comment	Parodied in The Gamers, which chronicles a Tabletop RPG session: one character repeatedly tries to shoot a side villain in the middle of his Evil Gloating, only for the Dungeon Master to Retcon it and insist on finishing the villain's speech first.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_21bf1f01	comment	Subverted in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. A bounty hunter who tried unsuccessfully to kill Tuco at the beginning of the movie locates him again much later, in the bath, naked. He's clearly got the jump on him, but can't resist going into a speech about how glad he is to have finally cornered him. Tuco immediately whips out the revolver around his neck and kills him, saying to the corpse, "If you have to shoot, shoot! Don't talk!" A memorable case of Throw It In!.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_22030366	comment	Suicide for Hire does this a lot. Lampshaded in the sidenote here.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_2590d8fa	comment	Discworld: Maskerade parodies the use of Singing is a Free Action common in opera, when the villain with a stage sword between his arm and chest takes five minutes to die, while repeatedly jumping up and delivering yet another infodump each time. Later invoked by Tiffany in I Shall Wear Midnight:
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: This occurs whenever the family is watching a Coincidental Broadcast: They all briefly stop to have a conversation regarding the report, spew pop culture reference jokes, bring up past adventures related to it, etc. then when they finally get back to watching, the report is exactly where they left off, almost as if the world stopped just for their conversation. Naturally, it's been lampshaded a few times. Also directly parodied during Homer's insanity pepper-fueled hallucination: "An oncoming train! And so little time to get out of the way! ... Now less! ... Now NONE!!"
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_26674ed5	comment	Metal Gear Solid 2's codec conversations, even if they are purely an act of thought on the part of Raiden (at least when they need to be), are pretty unbelievable. Particularly infamous is the three-minute argument over weapon naming conventions with the AI construct the Patriots built to rule the world that occurs during the final boss battle. And this is just after a twelve-minute long Infodump from the same guys, while Solidus Snake just stands there, waiting to deliver his shocking revelation. Don't worry, he'll wait.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_27286fb2	comment	Spider-Man: No Way Home features a battle in which Spider-Man and the two other Spider-Men from alternate universes are fighting no fewer than three supervillains. They still have enough time to spend a good minute discussing strategy and cracking a joke or two while the villains seem to politely wait.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_2af19179	comment	In Juni Taisen: Zodiac War, it is tradition to introduce oneself before attacking. Played for laughs during the Ox versus Tiger fight, when Snake launches a sneak attack before they can finish it, offending them.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_2ba1d958	comment	The Matrix: An Agent is about to shoot a helpless Neo, but pauses for a second to mock him. This gives Trinity time to appear behind the Agent and pull her gun on him. Trinity then decides to take a second to mock the Agent before shooting him. Despite his Super-Speed, the Agent is too slow to pull his trigger before dying.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: Wile E. Coyote does this in his first encounter with Bugs Bunny in "Operation: Rabbit." Instead of grabbing Bugs as he comes out of his hole, Wile E. bores him to death with a long-winded spiel about his supposed superiority.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_2c2a56e3	comment	The Phantom Menace is notable because of the absence of this trope. There is no dialogue whatsoever during the lengthy duel between Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan, and Darth Maul. This wound up with the opposite problem, as it gets hard to remember why they're fighting to begin with.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_2c4a4759	comment	People in Huntik: Secrets & Seekers can hold incredibly long conversations before releasing their titans... all while an enemy titan is rushing toward them.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_2db74939	comment	In Call of Juarez, characters you've just duelled with get last words, despite having just been shot in the head at extremely short range.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_2e74fae	comment	Subverted in the first Guardians of the Flame book, The Sleeping Dragon. Karl Cullinane attempts a Bond One-Liner in the middle of a fight, only to get attacked from behind in mid-sentence. Lampshaded immediately after when he mentally tells himself "You know better than to talk while a fight's going on!"
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_2e9ef429	comment	In the Batman: Arkham Series, this is mostly averted, since Batman usually canâ€™t trigger any conversations with enemies nearby. However, there are still a few places where if heâ€™s fast enough, he can trigger a conversation and the thugs that just noticed him will wait until heâ€™s finished before attacking.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_2eaf61d6	comment	Blaze and the Monster Machines has this happen almost every time when thereâ€™s a situation where Blaze has to hurry to get it done. For example, in â€œRunaway Rocketâ€� as Crusher and Pickle are blasting toward a garbage dump and are getting very close, Blaze has time to ask the viewer to help him transform into a pogo stick so he can catch up with them and save them. It takes Crusher and Pickle about three minutes for them to reach the dump before they jump to safety.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_2f1032e5	comment	Subverted in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans. Carta Issue shows up and introduces her squad with a Large Ham monologue, only to be interrupted by Akihiro by shooting her subordinate. Done again during Tekkedan's 2nd encounter with Carta Issue. Mikazuki sees the opportunity to attack her during all her Large Ham boasting. Carta's men call him out on it.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. The action in any fight will typically pause so that the bad guy can listen to whatever Kamina has to say. For example, episode 4 has him delivering a speech on the true nature of combining, while individual mecha from the 16-part combiner just orbit Gurren Lagann rather than dare interrupting such a suspiciously homoerotic speech.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_300b0c1f	comment	Later invoked by Tiffany in I Shall Wear Midnight:
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_3038d75c	comment	Diablo II: In the cinematic between Act II and Act III, Tyrael somehow finds the time to deliver a ten-second monologue to Marius while ostensibly in battle with two Prime Evils. The background clearly shows that time has stopped while he does this. Also, he's an angel. And furthermore, the moment his time-stop ends, Baal catches him off-guard and disarms him. Triple justified.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_30450a9a	comment	Averted in Alien: Isolation: outside of scripted events that place xenomorphs elsewhere, you are very much liable to get killed while talking with someone or using a computer.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Frequent in Naruto; most characters can spout off exposition in the middle of a fight. Specifically: Lee has a habit of kicking his opponent into the air, jumping after him, and expositing for 30 seconds before finishing him off. Zabuza tries to defy this trope early in the series when he tries to interrupt Naruto's explanation of how he broke Kakashi out of his water prison; Kakashi blocks his sword with his kunai, and they all remain still while Naruto finishes his exposition. Sakura, when fighting Sasori, injects herself with an antidote that will protect her from poison for three minutes. They then spend the next five minutes talking, but this apparently doesn't count against this limit. The fight between Kisame, Killer Bee, and Sabu sees a lot of banter and exposition of this sort between the fighters, including characters expositing on attacks being thrown at them less than two feet away. What's amazing is that they're doing this underwater. Itachi or rather his underling-clone-thing stays completely still while Kakashi and Chiyo have a long discussion of how to defeat him. He was sort of counting on this, as he only needed to delay them. Characters have been known to get in perfect position for a surprise attack — and then exposit for several seconds about how awesome the attack will be before actually launching it. The victim could presumably hear them (and thus easily turn around and avoid the attack), but this never happens, so such attacks always work anyway. In particular, Pain does this to Jiraiya, and Danzo to Sasuke. Naruto's fight with Pain mostly averts this, with both of them barely talking during the actual fight, except when Katsuyu provides some Infodump to Naruto regarding Pain's abilities, the anime is even more blatant, when Naruto's going against one of the Pain paths in close combat, the camera goes slow motion to give him time to talk. And then it's played straight during the last part of the fight (after Naruto comes back to his senses), where two of the times Pain uses Shinra Tensei, one takes 78 onscreen seconds of cooldown instead of the informed 5 seconds, and the other takes more than 90 seconds (which Naruto uses to give the final Rasengan). The Fourth Shinobi War deconstructs this to an extent; the enemies are Came Back Wrong ninja whose bodies are being manipulated but whose mouths are not. Since they're often acquainted with the ninja on the other side of the war, this leads to a lot of friendly or emotional conversations in the middle of the fight. All sorts of Explaining Your Power to the Enemy, almost-surprise attacks, and even a lampshade from Kabuto when he allows (and sarcastically thanks his opponents for) discussing strategy on how to beat him right in front of him. Naruto himself, despite being an Idiot Hero, exploits this trope in chapter 642 when he devises a strategy to defeat his opponent while he's in the middle of a Hannibal Lecture. Parodied in Naruto: The Abridged Series, where attacking someone mid-sentence or mid-flashback is considered rude or dishonorable.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_31a8701b	comment	In a 1960s The Flash comic, Flash and a villain have a badass conversation, even though the Flash is apparently travelling faster than the speed of light (never mind the speed of sound).
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_32c541e6	comment	Frequently subverted in Fullmetal Alchemist, as many fighters are Combat Pragmatists: During the Curb-Stomp Battle between Roy Mustang and Envy, Roy almost never lets Envy finish a complete sentence. In the 2003 anime, Basque Grand is killed by Scar in the middle of his speech explaining just how outmatched the latter is against him. Played straight twice in Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa, where both Wrath and Hohenheim are somehow able to say their last words while inside the jaws of Gluttony (who's been turned into a mindless eating machine) and Envy (whose entire life goal is to kill this man) respectively.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: Late in Volume 3, while the Grimm are invading Beacon Academy, Weiss and Blake have time to stop and watch the entire thing happening and comment on how terrible it is, before making a quick phone call and then summoning their weapons to get into the fight. It gets horrifically subverted in the next episode when Roman Torchwick is making an angry, grandiose Motive Rant at a battered Ruby while they're surrounded by hundreds of Grimm. After several scenes where he's been making speeches and rants at her, and then beating the crap out of her, he starts telling her how, unlike idealistic Huntsmen, he stays alive by being a liar, a cheater, a thief, and then he gets eaten by one of the Grimm with zero warning. In Volume 4, this gets subverted when Qrow is confronting Tyrian. The two are bantering, and then Tyrian abruptly cuts off one of Qrow's taunts by charging him mid-sentence. Later on, when Qrow rescues Ruby from a falling beam, the two pause to look at each other, and Qrow flashes Ruby a reassuring smile... only for Tyrian to interrupt by stabbing him with his scorpion tail. Volume 5 uses this a lot. One of the most notable examples occurs in "A Perfect Storm." Blake uses an ice substitution to immobilize Corsac and Fennec. She then converses with her father and Sun, who tell her they can finish them off alone, while standing a few feet away from them. Corsac and Fennec don't break out for thirty seconds.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_37ae7a2	comment	Fate/Gamers Only: Defied at the start of the rematch with Blackbeard, where Rikku interrupts his speech by trying to fire a cannon at him, but misses because she never used one before and her hand slipped. Blackbeard calls her out on it, saying that it's a common anime trope to not interrupt a transformation sequence or an enemy's monologue, but Rikku says that anyone who lets the former finish deserves to lose, and the latter only happens if both sides are idiots.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter: In Chamber of Secrets, Harry fails to stop Lockhart from casting a Memory Charm to wipe his brain, in spite of the fact that Harry has a wand in his hand and Lockhart has been gloating for four lines. He lucks out that Lockhart was using Ron's busted wand, which backfired on him. In Half-Blood Prince, we see a different problem; in a duel between Harry and Malfoy, Malfoy gets his "Crucio" out first, except that Harry can yell "Sectumsempra!" faster than Malfoy can say the last syllable. Possible subversion in that Malfoy is clearly hesitant to cross the line into actual villainy (such as by casting an Unforgivable Curse), and the scene creates a What Have I Done moment for Harry.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_3c912cc2	comment	Tales of Vesperia takes a jab at this trope when Yuri and Flynn work together to defend a village of refugees from monsters. Yuri can't concentrate if he isn't talking and Flynn can't concentrate when someone is talking. And then they fight each other and trash-talk each other while they're kicking each other's ass.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_3d776ce3	comment	A variant of this trope is used in Alpha Protocol: when talking to his handler over his earpiece, Mike speaks at normal conversational volume, even while in hiding. Every patrol is apparently deaf to it.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_3e374b30	comment	Averted in The Dark Knight Rises: Talia's Evil Gloating over a wounded Batman allows Gordon time to attach a jammer to the fusion bomb, preventing her from triggering it remotely.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_3e8c09b9	comment	In Attack on Titan, the characters use grappling devices to swing rapidly between buildings or trees, and must retract and re-launch their cables every few seconds as they fly past each grapple point. They can also blast themselves along, jetpack-style, but only for very short periods. When they need to have a lengthy in-flight conversation, though, all these rules go out the window, and they can levitate through the air horizontally at a constant speed, seemingly on cables that are thousands of feet long.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_432e5c6f	comment	Stone Ocean: During the battle with Donatello Versus, Jolyne and Ermes get trap in the memory of a plane that's going to crash at a specific time. When one exact minute is left, Jolyne manages to contact Emporio who looks up information about the plane on a computer to learn there's a safe spot where Jolyne and Ermes won't get hit by the explosion. Afterwhich with mere seconds, Donatello drops children into the plane to prevent Jolyne from escaping, with all the remaining 'seconds' being enough time for Jolyne and Ermes to formulate a plan to protect themselves and the children. In a particularly extreme example, the final battle includes a sequence where Ermes uses Kiss to let the gang ride on a bullet. Anasui then manages to explain a strategy to defeat Pucci, go over multiple concerns that his allies have about said plan, and receive a heartfelt speech from Jolyne, all in the time it takes for the bullet to hit its target.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers and Super Sentai all have lengthy morphing, zord summoning, and weapon invocation scenes. The giant monsters never seem able to step on the Rangers in the minute or so it takes them to summon and assemble their Megazord. Power Rangers Ninja Storm embraces the Spider-Man version of this trope fully. Almost all the fights in the series are filled to the brim with snarky dialogue, Lampshade Hanging, and You Fight Like a Cow. In Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, when the characters first get the Rescue Zords, it takes forever for them to get the Zords out of the Lightspeed Aquabase, alter the Zord modes, and finish their conversations; it's a wonder the people stuck in the elevator weren't already dead by the time they got there. Sometimes you come across subversions: In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, the Rangers finish morphing only to discover their opponents have vanished, and then have to track them back down. In Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, the Monster of the Week attacks the Red Ranger while he's in the middle of his Transformation Sequence. Double Subversion in an episode of Mahou Sentai Magiranger, where an enemy monster attempts to fire on the heroic mecha as it's going through the motions invoking its final attack. We discover that the graphics superimposed over the motions actually function as an energy shield, and divert the attack. It's not limited to the good guys, either; Tenaya 7 of Power Rangers RPM had an early gag where people would interrupt her monologues with attacks or quips. Gekisou Sentai Carranger, an Affectionate Parody of Super Sentai, spoofed this with the series' Psycho Rangers, the Zokurangers. ZokuRed attempts to use his Finishing Move, whose name is at least fifteen words long before getting Killed Mid-Sentence by the Carrangers' Humongous Mecha. The name appears to be an homage to other series' mecha finishers, and there are a lot of them. Subverted in Shuriken Sentai Ninninger episode 29. The Monster of the Week, Sugoroku Ninja Ikkakusai, sets up a city-wide board game once he goes big, but then prattles on about the history of board games. This bores the Ninningers so much that they go ahead and kill him.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion: Apparently, there isn't enough time for Rei to dodge the sixteenth Angel's attack in the incredible fast and agile EVA-00 during the 23rd episode, but there's certainly enough time for Hyuga to point that out.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_45a5beb2	comment	Talking most definitely seems to be a free action for WordGirl when she stops in the middle of a pitched battle to define a word.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_4811a5a6	comment	Played around with in Asura's Wrath; at certain points during certain deity fights, you can shut them up by punching them in the face. You even get a few trophies for it.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_48cf61a6	comment	Superfriends is just as bad with exclamations like "I've only got a fraction of a second to avoid that car!". One episode even had Superman moving at a normal speed, but monologuing about how his super speed could help him rescue Lois Lane. Apparently, when Superman talks, everything becomes a free action.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_495f277f	comment	Hayate the Combat Butler has been known to poke fun at this trope: During the Hakuou Gakuin marathon, Nagi is getting cold feet, so Hayate gives her a Dare to Be Badass speech to encourage her — only for the starter to interrupt them to tell them that the race had started in the interim. A flashback chapter showing Nagi and Tama's first meeting has Nagi saving the then-baby Tama from a group of wild animals in the African jungle. She makes a dramatic resolution to protect Tama, only to see that the animals had closed in on them while she was doing so.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft many NPCs have prolonged conversations with other NPCs before a fight where they are not viable targets (even killing them with you totally incapable of stopping them), chat arrogantly while you fight them, and give speeches of varying lengths when they die. You can't do that because it would mean you have to stop clicking on the battle keys to talk back. Played especially straight in the original Kael'thas boss fight in Tempest Keep, where he delivered a several minutes-long speech every time you initiated the fight, with you being forced to stand and listen to it. Particularly bad are times when an NPC or mob will say something and die before they're apparently done talking. One of the most blatant examples of this would be the captured blood elf on Bloodmyst Island, who, as he's being taken back to his cell, commits Suicide by Cop by mocking one of the stronger draenei's dead friends. In this case, his mocking is a long speech, which he's scripted to be killed by in the middle of, at which point the bubble containing his text hovers over his corpse for a good twenty seconds afterward, making it look like his dead body is still talking.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_4a94a5fc	comment	Maskerade parodies the use of Singing is a Free Action common in opera, when the villain with a stage sword between his arm and chest takes five minutes to die, while repeatedly jumping up and delivering yet another infodump each time.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_4ab17360	comment	In Inuyasha, characters often explain what's going on during a Fight Scene or speak defiant lines to their opponent in the middle of the action. The most extreme example is in the Final Battle, when Sesshoumaru is in one panel about to get a faceful of Combat Tentacles, he speaks a whole sentence about what's going on, and then effortlessly destroys the attacking tendrils before they hit.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_4aeeae62	comment	My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator: Zig-zagged. While it occurs between Miruko, Izuku, Curator and Volcano in Chapter 17, it's largely to either buy time (on Izuku and Miruko's end) or to sew doubts (Curator and Volcano's end). When the Slayer shows up and Curator tries to speak in Chapter 18, the Slayer instantly pulls out his Super Shotgun and blasts Curator in the face, destroying his helmet and disorienting him.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_4b87fcc2	comment	Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: Defied in "Beyond the Valley of the Dogs", where Wolf discourages Kipo from chatting during a fight sequence by saying "Lesson 68: Never talk during a fight".
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_4c87a7ea	comment	In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, the Rangers finish morphing only to discover their opponents have vanished, and then have to track them back down.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_4da11f30	comment	In Return of the Jedi, Luke turns this trope around by trying to convince Vader to return to the Light Side, while Vader tries to do the opposite to him. Ultimately, Luke is successful.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_4e549f11	comment	Dreamscape: Usually this is played straight, but it ends up being subverted at one point in episode 7. In the middle of the battle with Melinda, Dylan tells the group how he and Pita (who was one of Melinda's minions) met. It later turns out the other heroes of the group used this time to come up with a plan to restrain Melinda while she was listening to Dylan's story.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_4e866cb9	comment	At the 2002 Royal Rumble, Maven pulls off a huge upset by eliminating The Undertaker from the ring when 'Taker has his head turned. Ordinarily, the match would continue with new entrants coming out every 90 seconds or so, but this time, the match stops dead for several minutes just so 'Taker can dish out some Disproportionate Retribution (which culminates in them leaving the ring, Maven getting slammed into a concession stand on the arena concourse, and 'Taker stealing some of the popcorn lying around). Only then does the TV camera cut back to the actual ring, where the next scheduled entrant is only starting to make his way toward the ring. It's almost as if it were scripted for TV.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_513c73f3	comment	Played in full force by Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World where there is some quite lengthy dialogue between the party and some bosses, while running round shouting out arte names and casting spells that require incantations. Played for Laughs when the party is running from Alice and Decus in the Ice Temple. When they try to hold a conversation in a skit like they always do, Tenebrae reminds them that they're supposed to be running like hell and declares a ban on speaking. It doesn't take long for the party to turn this on him and prevent him from speaking as well.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_51455a02	comment	This occurs quite a bit in Claymore. The characters will face off against enemies that can bring them to their knees within seconds (and they do). Instead of killing them, though, their opponent will politely wait while they discuss how they were beaten and how they might be able to turn the fight around.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_51b1cab8	comment	Critical Hit, a real play Dungeons & Dragons podcast, follows the Trope Namer as per the game rules. The characters do not usually abuse it in combat and restrict themselves to a few short sentences. The players, however, are another matter, with quips, pop-culture references, and tactics discussions spanning the majority of combat time.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_526d4c5c	comment	Averted in both Knights of the Old Republic games, where occasionally you'll be dragged into dialogue while your party members and possibly even your character will still be fighting. Gameplay doesn't stop at all during dialogue, which makes it a good way to pass time while your Mana regenerates.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_55428e7d	comment	The Tainted Grimoire: Played straight when Crow takes time out of a duel with Luso to explain how a certain spell was possible. Averted/subverted:
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_56cb92c3	comment	In Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket, standing on Groot's shoulders in the open, has enough time to cock a machine gun dramatically and exclaim "Oh... yeah." This despite hovering drones blasting at Groot with automatic weapons mere inches away from his feet. Wonderfully averted later when Nebula, confronting Gamora for her betrayal, begins to deliver a scathing insult only for Drax to blow her across the room with a rocket launcher before she can finish. Similarly, Ronan starts getting into a big Evil Gloating monologue at his moment of triumph, only for Peter to interrupt by challenging him to a dance-off, baffling Ronan long enough for Drax to shoot him.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_5755b96a	comment	Obviously, being a D&D comic, The Order of the Stick not plays it straight after Haley makes a speech to Roy and then proceeds to say "Relax, talking is a free action". Not to mention that they talk a lot while fighting, even though they don't mention this trope explicitly. Except sometimes that they do. Subverted when Vaarsuvius ends up taking twelve seconds to explain that the remaining duration of a spell was three turns. Well, one turn now.note For those not in the know, a turn in D&D is roughly six seconds. V is rather long-winded. In On the Origin of PCs, they spend most of their hour to prepare for the "Iron Mage" competition rambling about their power and only stops at the "one minute" warning. Malack takes this for granted; Durkon exploits the absence. In this strip the Lord Speaker manages to say two sentences between the letters of one short word said by another character.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_58602f09	comment	At the climax of Point Break (1991), Johnny Utah and Bodhi fall out of an airplane at four thousand feet and have a ninety-second shouting match which, as MythBusters demonstrated, is about three times as long as it would take to actually fall that distance. And that's not getting into the problems with being able to hear someone in free fall.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_5874fe63	comment	Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon: Ami invokes her first transformation into Sailor Mercury during a 20-foot fall — and she does it by reciting a trigger phrase that takes about three or four times longer to say than she should have taken to fall. Usagi, Rei, and Ami have to defeat a monster that can split into three parts, all of which must be destroyed at the same time. To accomplish this, they try to sync their attacks to the beat of a pop song. They don't get it right the first (or second, or third) try, but the monster just stands there and taunts them until they get it right. It probably didn't think they could pull it off. Averted at other points in the series; one episode's Monster of the Week hits Rei in the stomach while she's trying to utter her transformation phrase.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim averts it for the first time in the series. Even when engaged in a conversation, the game world continues to go on around you. While more realistic, this has downsides as well. For example, it opens up the possibility of you and the person you are talking with being attacked while conversing. In some cases, the conversation is involuntary, such as when a Courier runs up to you to initiate a conversation and deliver a letter. If he does this when you're say, fleeing from a Giant, it will likely result in both of your deaths. It can also result in NPCs wandering up to you and delivering their atmospheric lines while you're in the middle of a different conversation.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: Actually evoked by Liquid Snake at one point in Metal Gear Solid. He actually tells Snake to "call your precious Colonel Campbell" and sits back and waits while Snake does exactly that. He wants Snake to hear from Campbell himself that Snake was played and that B-52 Bombers are en-route to nuke the entire compound, for seemingly no reason other than taunt the man and make sure he knows that he's dead no matter what the outcome of their Final Battle. Metal Gear Solid 2's codec conversations, even if they are purely an act of thought on the part of Raiden (at least when they need to be), are pretty unbelievable. Particularly infamous is the three-minute argument over weapon naming conventions with the AI construct the Patriots built to rule the world that occurs during the final boss battle. And this is just after a twelve-minute long Infodump from the same guys, while Solidus Snake just stands there, waiting to deliver his shocking revelation. Don't worry, he'll wait. Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater has a time limit on the final boss battle of ten minutes - when those ten minutes are up, MiG-21's will arrive and bomb the field you're in, killing you both. You can defeat the boss with only one minute to spare, at which point another multi-minute-long cutscene happens, with no MiGs in sight until you're attempting to escape another 5+ minutes later. There is, however, a jokey version of this featured in the Secret Theater short "Metal Gear S", wherein Snake manages to defeat the final boss (after having Sigint steal every other significant accomplishment in the game from him), only to be left behind in the escape and subsequently bombed into oblivion.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_5a1506e6	comment	Talking is a free action for characters in Eternal Sonata when they deliver their lines prior to delivering a charged-up special attack. Which is good, because some of these lines seem to take longer to deliver than all of the time on the Action Gauge. "When the plants die, the earth does not tremble. When the hills crack, the flowers are bright. Morning Frost! Shadow Beam!" (Well, good for your own characters anyway, but the human villains get their own lines and are granted the same sort of immunity.)
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_5aa8910b	comment	Averted in Distortionverse Chapter 5 - Rumori di Fondo. When the Big Bad kills Akima, Michelle starts speaking with her, completely neglecting the Eldritch Abomination which is going to devour her as well. When Michelle exits her Heroic BSoD, she realizes she's still alive only thanks to FranÃ§ois's intervention. Obviously, FranÃ§ois yells at her in anger:
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_5ae0bec6	comment	WWE frequently uses commercial breaks as a free action. Sometimes, a wrestler will start posing or spouting his catchphrase at they cut away and be shown doing the same thing when the show resumes, leaving the TV audience wondering if they have just been standing there doing the same thing for several minutes. In reality, the audience at the live shows tends to get some smack talk, promos, or the kiss cam to keep them entertained. You're pretty much guaranteed that nothing interesting will happen during a match, nor will it end, during a commercial break. With the development of second screen technology, however, this trope is averted. Action can and does continue during the commercial break, and people watching on the second screen through the WWE App (now the WWE Network) can see it all. This leads to a different manner of confusion for the TV audience, where a wrestler who was dominating the match before it went to commercial can suddenly end up being the one dominated when it comes back from commercial. Fortunately, the TV Broadcast usually shows an instant replay of the major events that took place during the break so the TV Audience is brought up to speed on how the other wrestler took control.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Mostly downplayed in Undertale, where enemies deliver monologues during battle but it's split up into short chunks that are frequently only a fraction of a sentence each. You may very well lose track of what they were saying in the time it takes to dodge their attack and choose your next action. Meanwhile, if you choose to talk to your opponent, that takes up a turn. Parodied/subverted in one scene: While you're fleeing from Undyne, you get a phone call from Papyrus, who talks about how he thinks you and Undyne would be great friends and should hang out sometime. Somehow, you manage to do this without being attacked. After befriending Undyne and calling her from the same place you received the phone call, you find out that Undyne saw you were on the phone and waited for you to finish.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_5b42bbed	comment	Gets lampshaded by Almaz in Disgaea 3, after the savvy side of Mao waits for Raspberyl and her friends to complete their impromptu graduation ceremony before he attacks.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_5b5183fb	comment	Used to a ridiculous extent in NEEDLESS. A common occurrence involves the main group fighting two or more enemies, only for the enemy that is currently being focused on to actually be doing anything, with the others apparently standing completely still as if waiting for their turn. On top of that, the heroes will often involve themselves in lengthy speeches to each other while in the middle of battle with all of the surrounding enemies seeming to have nothing better to do than politely wait for them to finish speaking.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_5b8abe25	comment	In Rusty and Co., averted with a lampshade in Alt Text.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_5bd6bb99	comment	Averted in Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse in the "Explosive Epidemic in Mikado" DLC, in which you have 25 turns to defeat all waves of enemies and when you confront the last enemy of the mission, you can hear their story out...at the cost of one of those turns.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_5f6f0132	comment	Disgaea 2 has a truly remarkable example of this; the party bursts into the middle of a fight, where the brother of one of the main characters is in the middle of a suicidal assault on the Big Bad's bodyguard. Apparently, however, Mook Chivalry prevents them from attacking while brother and sister share a lengthy retrospect, debate the value of life, make plans for the future, and learn new super-moves from their combined powers. Of course, it IS a turn-based game, and the characters are almost universally Genre Savvy, so maybe they were just aware that the enemy couldn't move until someone hit the "End Turn" button... Then again, the trope is subverted in Disgaea, in which Etna takes out two out of three Power Ranger knockoffs in the middle of their intro speech, before all their colors combine. This does earn her a stern lecture, though. Later, Laharl gets a scolding from Flonne too when he suggests that they should attack while The Rival is busy monologuing It's also subverted by the prinnies at the beginning of Disgaea 2, where they're A-OK with scoring a cheap critical hit while Rozalin is busy with an Internal Monologue. It's also lampshaded in the tutorial, where Etna notices that the monsters apparently have the courtesy to wait for their asses to be beat. Gets lampshaded by Almaz in Disgaea 3, after the savvy side of Mao waits for Raspberyl and her friends to complete their impromptu graduation ceremony before he attacks.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_60f02ddb	comment	Parodied in American Dad!, where Roger (disguised as a Russian exchange student) is wrestling Barry and gets pinned. The referee starts doing a 3-count and Stan tells him to use is super leg strength to get free, but it's apparently opposite day. The two go back and forth until Stan tells Roger to quit screwing around before the ref stops politely waiting for them to finish the conversation and says "3". Also parodied in "Escape From Pearl Bailey" when Steve and his friends manage to escape from the school unscathed(due to Lewis putting out a bounty on them for Steve getting his revenge on his daughter) and they see Francine waiting to pick them up and they stand and celebrate having made it only for the students to close in on them causing Snot to remark that they should've been running instead of celebrating.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_61b1bd67	comment	In Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-, mid-battle conversation makes the final fight with the Big Bad last for a dozen chapters, each of which seems to cover about two seconds and eight pages of exposition.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_6209d3ce	comment	Trauma Center has a time limit on each patient you treat as well as other conditions that can drop their vitals or even kill them. Whenever one of the characters is speaking, the timer and vitals will pause until the character(s) is done talking.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_629cd094	comment	The final boss of Dragon Age: Origins will sit there on the brink of death, politely waiting while you and Alistair (or Loghain) discuss which of you should be the one to finish it off. Of course, it is on the brink of death. An often hilarious side effect of accidentally clicking on a party member with the wrong mouse button during combat. The scripted conversations can happen anywhere, not just at camp, which can lead to things like Wynn grilling you about your romantic relationship while spattered in blood and surrounded by darkspawn. Who will politely stand and wait until you finish. In the sequel, however, Meredith only monologues during an attack that temporarily stuns everyone in your party—except Aveline who, if she has the Indomitable ability, is immune and can continue whaling away on her.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_62b21b5c	comment	Ramen Fighter Miki, being a deconstruction of the Fighting Series Played for Laughs, plays this trope so straight it could be a parody in episode 2B. Kankuro and Miki are less than ten meters apart before their fight. Kankuro begins to run towards Miki to attack her, and he manages to imitate the sound of a local train. Miki stays immobile while she begins to imitate the sound of a bullet train and adopts an Ass Kicking Pose. Then she begins to run towards Kankuro. Akihiko desperately cries to Kankuro to stop. Kankuro manages to answer that he will increase the power. Miki and Kankuro take one minute and ten seconds running into themselves a distance of less than ten meters. And itâ€™s epic.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_62de3b45	comment	Used fairly frequently in Genesis of Aquarion. Basically, any time the focus is in the Vector cockpit, you can rest assured that the Monster of the Week will wait patiently for the pilots to finish whatever strategic discussion, Character Development, or general exposition may be going on.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_63230cb	comment	In Dragon Ball Z Abridged this has been defied for the sake of comedy in the case to Jeice by Goku with the latter repetitively punching Jeice in the face, even cutting off a memory too.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_63d89b7f	comment	Sidekicks: Averted by Snatcher who attacks Lightning while he is in the middle of a speech. Later lampshaded somewhat in season 2 by a villain while he is fighting against Lamia and Jina.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_63efdfd1	comment	The Tales of... series loves this; typically there will be cutscene exposition before a plot-important fight and then the characters will banter during it, apparently not even needing to breathe. Tales of Vesperia takes a jab at this trope when Yuri and Flynn work together to defend a village of refugees from monsters. Yuri can't concentrate if he isn't talking and Flynn can't concentrate when someone is talking. And then they fight each other and trash-talk each other while they're kicking each other's ass. Played in full force by Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World where there is some quite lengthy dialogue between the party and some bosses, while running round shouting out arte names and casting spells that require incantations. Played for Laughs when the party is running from Alice and Decus in the Ice Temple. When they try to hold a conversation in a skit like they always do, Tenebrae reminds them that they're supposed to be running like hell and declares a ban on speaking. It doesn't take long for the party to turn this on him and prevent him from speaking as well.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_65aabcf0	comment	Buso Renkin: During a kendo sparring session between Kazuki and Shusui, four people comment on Shusui's reverse-dou strike between the time he starts swinging and the time it connects. This then Lampshaded when one of Kazuki's fainds says that it is taking too long.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_69071a1b	comment	Mutants & Masterminds has a mechanic called "Monologuing" in which you trick the villain into talking on and on for several rounds, thereby giving your characters a chance to escape. Beyond using this trick, however, the villain can monologue as much as he wants, as talking is a free action, and Monologuing is a full round action.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_699dbb95	comment	Duly mocked by Door Monster in "Free Speech", where the adventurers discuss their strategy mid-combat.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Avengers: When Coulson confronts Loki, he talks about how the gun he's holding is a Super Prototype, but is cut off by Loki stabbing him. He still manages to monologue about Loki's eventual downfall while dying, however. Loki does this himself later, in Large Ham fashion, before The Hulk... well, smashes. Puny god. Exploited in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which Armin Zola only keeps talking to distract Cap and Natasha and give time for an inbound missile to arrive. In Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket, standing on Groot's shoulders in the open, has enough time to cock a machine gun dramatically and exclaim "Oh... yeah." This despite hovering drones blasting at Groot with automatic weapons mere inches away from his feet. Wonderfully averted later when Nebula, confronting Gamora for her betrayal, begins to deliver a scathing insult only for Drax to blow her across the room with a rocket launcher before she can finish. Similarly, Ronan starts getting into a big Evil Gloating monologue at his moment of triumph, only for Peter to interrupt by challenging him to a dance-off, baffling Ronan long enough for Drax to shoot him. Spider-Man: No Way Home features a battle in which Spider-Man and the two other Spider-Men from alternate universes are fighting no fewer than three supervillains. They still have enough time to spend a good minute discussing strategy and cracking a joke or two while the villains seem to politely wait.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_69daf29	comment	Grrl Power: The comic likes subverting this one. People get attacked in the middle of talking all the time, and Math once got grabbed because he tried to take a selfie during a fight. Harem, a Hive Mind with five teleporting bodies, will often act as a relay between two groups to exchange information, which tends to result in people staring at her and wondering what's taking so long.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_6a42af90	comment	Subverted in Shuriken Sentai Ninninger episode 29. The Monster of the Week, Sugoroku Ninja Ikkakusai, sets up a city-wide board game once he goes big, but then prattles on about the history of board games. This bores the Ninningers so much that they go ahead and kill him.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_6b2dba8c	comment	SPYÃ—FAMILY plays with this: Zig-zagged during the dodgeball game in Episode 10. Some players are struck by Bill Watkins while in mid-speech, while others have plenty of time to finish what they're saying before he throws. The funniest example is what Emile takes a hit meant for Damian; as he launches into a parodic "death speech", Ewen cradles him and assures him everything will be okay, only to be unceremoniously hit by a dodgeball mid-sentence. Justified on another occasion - when Yuri demands that Loid and Yor kiss to prove that they're a real married couple, Loid launches into an Inner Monologue that takes up a decent amount of screentime, while an on-screen clock establishes that it's only taking him a fraction of a second in real-time. Defied in Chapter 52. When Yor has to protect Olka Gretcher and her infant son from a Carnival of Killers sent to kill them, a Razor Floss assassin introduces herself when attacking Yor. The very next panel shows her dead on the floor with a hole through her forehead. The same happens to the Chakram-wielding assassin right after, except he doesn't even get to finish his sentence. The anime adaptation plays this straight at another point in the same arc. Realising another of the killers is heading straight towards Yor and Olka, intent on attacking them in the open, Anya manages to distract Loid so that he won't see it. This takes her about two minutes of screen time - including a brief Time Skip - and when she finally manages to slip away, Yor and the killer are still approaching one another. It's not even a particularly long corridor.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In Fallout 3, if you manage to Mezmerize an enemy during combat, you can run right up and talk to them, pick their pockets, take their weapons, and slap a slave collar on, all while their allies patiently wait for your conversation to end. That's just the start of it... While under enemy fire, you can run up to a computer terminal and access it, then spend as long as you want patiently figuring out the password - as long as you don't quit or use up your four tries - and then browse the terminal's contents at a leisurely pace. When you finally exit, you'll still be in the thick of the firefight - unless one of your free actions was to shut down the turret connected to the terminal! At the end of Operation Anchorage, after you open the fortress door, you can waste as much time as you like talking to General Jingwei despite all the fighting happening around you.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_6c5725a2	comment	Abused in Transformers: Super-God Masterforce when Ranger is introduced; Ginrai is able to give him a tutorial on transformation while Ranger is falling from a cliff.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_6cd3b44f	comment	Averted in Black Lagoon when Fritz Stanford talks about how amazing he and (especially) his gun are. Revy takes the time to reload her empty pistols before shooting him and asking if he was trying to sell her the damn gun.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_6d7c7f1c	comment	In SomethingPositive, not only is talking a free action, but interrupting someone with a highly-detailed threat is even more of a free action. However that works.*
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_6d832403	comment	Parasyte! uses this to highlight an increase in the main character's reaction time. We see a punch fly at his head, he pauses to muse on the source of his new found strength for a couple of paragraphs, and then parries the attack without difficulty.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_6ea0c1f4	comment	One of Joseph's moves in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle is a counter taunt that, if triggered, has him stop everything to guess what his opponent is going to say. In a amusingly odd way, the target only gasps in surprise after fully saying their (sometimes rather long) expected catchphrase.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_6ff8b00a	comment	Some episodes of Dora the Explorer may be contenders for the crown, though: when Baby Gorilla falls out of a tree, Dora has time to ask the viewer for help. "Will you help us catch baby gorilla? <2 second pause> Great! We have to hold out our hands like this! Can you hold out your hands?". The gorilla takes about 20 seconds to fall 3 meters.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_70ef7722	comment	In Run Lola Run, anachronic editing makes it look like Lola drops a bag full of money, then walks over to her dying boyfriend, remembers a lengthy flashback, and shares a few words with the boyfriend, all before the bag hits the ground.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_73d7930f	comment	In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Julian falls foul of this not working during a holonovel when Odo pops in to ask for some advice... which gives O'Brien, playing the villain, time to sneak up on him with both an in-character quip and a casual "Hi, Odo!" Julian protests to no avail.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_747a18bc	comment	Talking tends to be a free action in Battle for Wesnoth - no matter what the interlocutors are doing (even if they're engaged in a fight to the death), if someone has a message for them, they'll stop to have word. Not to mention the time they'll spend parleying with the enemy general(s) at the beginning of a battle. It's worth noting that all messages can reach any character at any point, and the people don't even have to move, even when they're in opposing fortresses, or over the other side of the battlefield.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: In both A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening, all other action pauses while Link is either listening to someone speak or reading. In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, you only have a limited amount of time on any given cycle to do things. Any cutscene or dialogue pauses the timer until it's over. This is only really visible during the last 6 "hours" of the game. This is probably best demonstrated in the good ending to the Anju/Kafei sidequest: Kafei's entrance stops the timer at 1:27, only allowing it to continue when they tell you they'll greet the morning together. Probably a good thing, as the moon would likely crash into Termina while they were talking, otherwise. On the other hand, listening to an old lady ramble on and on and on (and falling asleep in the middle of it) is a great way to skip ahead in time.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_762de69d	comment	The subversion is a plot point in Blazing Transfer Student. The delinquent villain wins every fight because he can call his attack, "Insect Punch", faster than his opponents (who have elaborate names for their attacks) thus allowing him to get in his strike first. You're apparently not allowed to actually do the attack before you say it. He is defeated in the end when the Love Interest convinces him to adopt an extremely long-named attack, allowing the protagonist enough time to pronounce his own attack and do it.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_76d4fb05	comment	Anyone Can Whistle: Fay sings "There Won't Be Trumpets" while on the run from the local authorities, who abruptly freeze in mid-pursuit as the lights go down for the song.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_7785278d	comment	BioShock: In the first two games, the important plot-essential monologues will continue no matter what you do, but you can interrupt random lines of dialogue with various actions.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_77a899a	comment	From Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG:
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe has an aversion of this trope in "Steven the Sword Fighter", when Pearl is trying to explain sword techniques in the middle of a spar... Her Holo-Pearl opponent takes advantage of the distraction and stabs her in the back. Luckily, because gems regenerate after "dying", it's not permanent.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_78eece84	comment	Teen Titans Go! To the Movies: The Teen Titans clearly think this is in effect when they decide to introduce themselves to Balloon Man with a rap song, but they get so caught up in singing that they don't notice Balloon Man walk away and continue to terrorize the city. Superman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern show up and defeat Balloon Man just as the song ends, then the Titans assume that their song was what defeated him.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_7988cb68	comment	Subverted several times in Mass Effect. While certain conversations are in designated cutscenes and therefore enemies will not attack during them, there's a number of times when squadmates make comments or talk to one another without going into a cutscene. If you then enter combat or do anything else, it will interrupt the conversation abruptly. Mass Effect 2 has a notable scene with a krogan who goes on a rant that lasts several minutes until the player gets tired of waiting and hits the interrupt key. "You talk too much." The Extended Cut of Mass Effect 3 contains a very noticeable example of this. During the desperate charge against Harbinger, your squad mates are injured. The Normandy flies down, picks up your squadmate (complete with a heartwarming goodbye), and then flies away, all without Harbinger firing a single shot. As soon as the Normandy is gone, the charge resumes as though nothing happened. The same DLC allows you to have a very long conversation with the Catalyst while spaceships are battling with the Reapers outside. Some of them protect the Crucible, which, if you don't take any of the ending options after the conversation for a couple of minutes or so, will be destroyed, resulting in a Non-Standard Game Over. The Catalyst will even lampshade this at certain points, pointing out how they're short on time, and sometimes even refusing to elaborate on its answers. Before the Extended Cut was released, there was much less dialogue with the Catalyst - kinda more logical, considering the circumstances, but providing much less closure and answers.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_798e6a69	comment	Subverted in DM of the Rings, where the Player Characters normally try to kill villains during monologues since they'd rather get on with it already. This leads to Legolas killing Grima and Saruman, much to the Dungeon Master's frustration. And Gollum.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_79af69ea	comment	Averted in How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse: The Pollyanna April has a moment of enlightenment and starts philosophizing, while Duff and Lucas yell at her to shut up and help them fight off the zombie horde.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_79b17f0f	comment	An all-time prize-winner happens at the start of Tales to Astonish #53 (published 1964), where the Porcupine knocks Giant-Man and The Wasp off a not-very-tall roof. During a fall that should take less than 3 seconds, Hank and Jan have a back-and-forth conversation totaling 163 words, including Hank reminding a forgetful Jan that she could shrink down and fly away and Jan complimenting Hank on his quick thinking.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_7aaf9e41	comment	In the climax of the Batman storyline A Death in the Family, The Joker releases a deadly gas at a UN meeting. Superman saves everybody by inhaling the gas and then, with his mouth securely shut to prevent any gas from escaping his lungs, shouts some instructions to Batman before flying off. Ahhh, but this was Pre-Crisis Superman, who possessed the power of super-ventriloquism, which was always handy in a pinch.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_7ceff43d	comment	True to its superhero setting, Super Powereds goes to town with this trope. The characters don't merely make speeches in the middle of action scenes, often they'll have entire conversations. And that's not counting all the internal monologues and narrative asides.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_7cf5a07	comment	The Flash (2014): When Barry is running around the city or in battle, he often has conversations with his Mission Control, despite the fact that with his Super-Speed, they shouldn't have time to talk to him, or even be able to hear him.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_7d7fbcc	comment	Daredevil: An old man who can beat up ninjas and talk while doing a flip, as seen here.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_7f5bc680	comment	Fallout: In Fallout 3, if you manage to Mezmerize an enemy during combat, you can run right up and talk to them, pick their pockets, take their weapons, and slap a slave collar on, all while their allies patiently wait for your conversation to end. That's just the start of it... While under enemy fire, you can run up to a computer terminal and access it, then spend as long as you want patiently figuring out the password - as long as you don't quit or use up your four tries - and then browse the terminal's contents at a leisurely pace. When you finally exit, you'll still be in the thick of the firefight - unless one of your free actions was to shut down the turret connected to the terminal! At the end of Operation Anchorage, after you open the fortress door, you can waste as much time as you like talking to General Jingwei despite all the fighting happening around you. Zig-Zagging Trope in Fallout 4. Unlike in previous games, conversing with NPCs does not pause the game, and if you and the people you are talking to are attacked, the conversation will be cut short. Hacking and lockpicking, on the other hand, pauses the action.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_81d2ccfa	comment	In the Service takes Lyrical Nanoha's tendency to talk a lot and exploits it; usually, if somebody is talking or allowing their opponent to talk, they're doing it to buy time for more serious firepower to arrive.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider: Kamen Rider Decade: Tsukasa loves making big speeches and people love standing around to listen to them. Pulling out cards, swiping them, and using the K-Touch, however, is blatant off-the-clock action. Subverted twice in episode 14 of Kamen Rider Drive. Kamen Rider Mach gets attacked by the Monster of the Week while doing his pose-tastic pre-asskicking routine ("Come on, man, at least let me finish!"). Then he fights back and subdues the monster long enough just to go back and do the speech again, which is uninterrupted this time, but Mach realizes the enemy just used the opportunity to run the hell away and is long gone. The next time Mach transforms, he starts doing his catchphrase then just goes "eh, you know the rest" to cut straight to the point and avoid losing the enemy again.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_82d0db97	comment	In Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, this occurs when David has to fight someone else with a reflex boosting implant. The most blatant example is after the Time Skip, when David fights the leader of a Maelstrom gang. The overall fight takes less than a second in real time, however, the slow-mo shows the two conversing with one another while it happens.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_83c60227	comment	Averted in An Outcast in Another World. The only times that people are able to talk in the middle of a fight is during brief lulls where enemies are sizing each other up.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_843f6f3f	comment	Averted in Bushido Blade - while the enemy is introducing themselves, you are free to walk up and stab them. However, this is blatantly dishonorable, and a quick way to disqualify yourself from seeing the ending.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_847a1ace	comment	In Attack of the Clones, Dooku tries to intimidate Obi-Wan with threats and Force lightning, but Obi-Wan disregards it. He also tries to intimidate Yoda with his Force powers, but Yoda just responds by blocking all of his attacks.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_8558d643	comment	Phantom Blood: Jonathan, Dio, and Zepelli manage to have a full conversation while two of them are hanging in midair. As Jonathan and Dio are falling down the chimney shaft, the two of them exchange insults and boasts for a good five minutes in the anime, even though exterior shots of the mansion show the chimney can't possibly be taller than 40 meters or so.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_8645d677	comment	In Spellsinger, main character Jon-Tom casts spells by playing rock songs. This trope is the only explanation for how he can pull off countering an enemy who's coming at him with a knife or has already cast a spell that ought to hit him before he can get three notes out.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_86616890	comment	Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor: Orc captains and above will introduce themselves for about one to fifteen seconds while Talion remains motionless and the rest of the uruks completely ignore their existence. The same goes for one of the first clashes of weapons that will go on without either opponent pressing their attack until the orc is done talking.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_86814e56	comment	Perhaps played most notably straight in Final Fantasy VI, in which the first time you have Terra use magic in battle with Locke and Edgar in the party, the Active Time Battle system will pause for a looooooong conversation in which they freak out, break off to the side to whisper among themselves, FAINT, recover, and finally get back to fighting. Naturally, the enemies wait patiently throughout this entire exchange.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius doesn't seem to be immune to this either Lampshaded at one point Subverted at another Magnificently so in this strip.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_883844ed	comment	Lampshaded in Princess Holy Aura, where making long pre-asskicking speeches are not only free actions, they are mandatory.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_8889afa3	comment	In Rogue Trader, you can even play an Astropath and have "mindtalk" as a free action. Only War, though, specifically says that the GM should place limits on how much one can say without it being a Half-Action or Full Action.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_898bd243	comment	In Armageddon (1998), Bruce Willis knows that he has only a few minutes to press the detonator that will destroy the giant asteroid and kill him in the process. So naturally, he finds a camera and spends several of those minutes giving a tearful goodbye to his daughter, still managing to press the button at the last second.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_8b2d4580	comment	In The Prince of Tennis, tennis players can not just call their attacks, but also fully describe their moves or deliver other exposition, during a single shot. Inui in particular is fond of this, especially when he rattles off the percentage chance of any particular event happening during the game.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	In A New Hope, Vader taunts Obi-Wan during their duel, but Obi-Wan calmly dismisses him.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_8ba4613a	comment	The final volume of Death Note features an entire chapter of infodumping which supposedly takes less than 30 seconds. It's even more blatant in the anime, in which the monologuing takes a good nine minutes of screentime to deliver, but it's still portrayed to be confined to a less than 30-second timeframe. In one case, time even appears to stop while an infodump takes place.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_8d81bb26	comment	Inverted in the Season 7 opener of NCIS, where Tony babbles on for several minutes to the terrorist villain, even stopping him from shooting McGee, so he could explain his plan for escaping (borrowed from True Lies). The point of his monologue was to Hold the Line for Gibbs to show up in a sniper's nest and shoot the terrorist through the window.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_8dd8ec81	comment	While its source material's panel blocking is ambiguous, Act 1 of Sailor Moon Crystal has Tuxedo Mask fully introducing himself and assuring Sailor Moon he'll remember her in mid jump, while looking over his shoulder at her, almost suggesting full power of Flight.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_8e09ebf	comment	Power Rangers Ninja Storm embraces the Spider-Man version of this trope fully. Almost all the fights in the series are filled to the brim with snarky dialogue, Lampshade Hanging, and You Fight Like a Cow.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_8eccda10	comment	Villains & Vigilantes, though, was the first to actually have this mechanic, explicitly calling talking a "free action" in the early 1980s. It was then popularized by Champions, the originalnote although Villains & Vigilantes was published 2 years earlier superhero roleplaying game (in which the rule was that soliloquies take no time), and its generic outgrowth HERO System after that.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_8ee238c9	comment	Played straight with the Persona series when it comes to cutscenes. People will go on Motive Rants and all sorts of emotional speeches even when they're surrounded by enemies or right in the middle of performing a Heroic Sacrifice.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_9068877a	comment	Played with a bit in Red vs. Blue, where characters will frequently talk to each other while fighting an enemy (or each other), though fighting is still evident, usually through stray shots crossing the camera or striking visible scenery. Lampshaded by Wash in season 6.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: On and off, but "The Twin Factor" has plenty of examples of characters visibly hanging about waiting for others to finish their lines instead of taking advantage of the moment.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_90f94684	comment	Fire Emblem Engage deconstructs this in Merrin and Yunaka's supports. Merrin is annoyed that Yunaka went straight for her throat during their sparring matches, but Yunaka points out that Merrin's monologuing only serves to give her opponents opportunities to go in for the kill, and tries to break Merrin of that habit.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_920bdb7c	comment	Subverted in Kill Six Billion Demons; White Chain has a tendency to call their attacks, until one time where they donâ€™t get it out fast enough and a Mook manages to score a nasty hit on them while theyâ€™re speaking. Unfortunately for said Mook, White Chain is so startled by the sudden aversion of this trope that they reflexively hit back with a series of ultra-powerful punches that pretty much obliterates the poor guyâ€™s head.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_92ef018a	comment	In Ferris Bueller's Day Off, narrating is a free action for Ferris, and none of the other characters are aware that he's doing it.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_95521c97	comment	The Spectacular Spider-Man, though a very talky series by nature, has a notable subversion. When a net is launched at Spider-Man from behind, he takes the time to say "Woah! My Spider-Sense is tingli—!" only to be caught in the net before he can finish. Afterwards, his sense is shown, but never announced again.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_95bd5a8e	comment	Averted/inverted in Dishonored. Because of it's sandbox-y type gameplay, time-stopping dialogue would be impractical. Conversely, the developers created a lot of fluff/non-critical dialogue to ensure that characters and the world would seem alive while the player was wandering around. They intentionally made any plot-critical dialogue very very short and succinct since the player could conceivably kill the character at any time.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_960062b7	comment	Subverted painfully in the My Hero Academia fic Erased Potential: after freeing themselves of their bonds, Izuku and Bakugo stumble in one of their kidnappers, who starts a Motive Rant and gets interrupted by Izuku with a punch to the throat.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_976efc02	comment	Mocked by Mystery Science Theater 3000: Whenever an egregious example appears, the characters riff, "Oh, he got away," or "Oh, he's dead now," when the hero or villain monologues for too long.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_9776174	comment	Ex Machina: Zig-zagged. While facing off against an enemy, Hundred blabs away about what he's doing. Then in turns out that the fight was just a training exercise with his friend Kremlin, who tells him that he shouldn't talk so much when he's fighting. However, since some of the training is just simulated role-playing, it actually makes sense for Hundred to be stating out loud to his trainer what he'd be doing in a real-life situation.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_9794445c	comment	Sweet Home (2017): Averted. Every time characters stop to talk in the middle of a fight or tense situation, it's only because the action is currently happening somewhere else. These side conversations also have a tendency to be interrupted.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_97a34dd1	comment	Averted in the final duel in Rob Roy. Neither Cunningham nor MacGregor speaks a single word during the fight — even though for much of it, Cunningham is toying with MacGregor, enjoying drawing out his death. Then, at the end, when he has MacGregor unarmed and on his knees, a sword at his throat, Cunningham pauses for a moment to speak just four words — which is enough of a pause for MacGregor to rally, trap his sword, and strike a single, deadly, blow.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_98359872	comment	Soul Eater: Troubled Souls: The Brother and Sister of the Gemini just stand there and watch as Maka, Soul, Caius, and Claudia settle on using Chain Resonance. Itâ€™s somewhat mitigated by the fact that the Brother said itâ€™s better to counter their attack and kill them in the ensuing chaos, but still. Happens again with they confront Project Omega in Venice. The thing just stops advancing and decides to listen to everything like itâ€™s watching a soap opera. This is lessened by the fact Project Omega was just a prototype, but realistically, it had them dead to rights.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_985ad25d	comment	The Tournament of Power in Dragon Ball Super constantly uses this trope. Since the characters move at superhuman speed even while having a normal conversation, it's a bit of a stretch but still somewhat justified. The whole tournament lasts 48 minutes in-universe, which takes up 34 episodes. The first episode of the tournament alone (which is about 20-25 minutes long) took only 1 minute in-universe, and by that time, two of the 80 contestants were knocked off the ring.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_989c6002	comment	The Law of Ueki does this quite often, both with the standard talking and occasional flashbacks. Apparently, it takes less time to revisit all your motivations for becoming a fighter (taking five minutes of screen time) than it does for a fist to cross a foot or two. At one point, Ueki pole vaults onto someone, and they manage a four-line dialogue explaining his move before he even gets close to landing. On the other hand, in one episode, Ueki defeats an opponent in one blow in the middle of his adversary's explanation about his powers, perhaps because it was just that boring.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_9910cc85	comment	Averted in Mulan. Just as Yao is on the verge of saving Mulan and Shang from getting knocked off the cliff by the avalanche by firing a rope-tied arrow to them, he takes the time before grabbing the rope to say out loud that he should grab it, causing him to just miss it.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_9948df42	comment	In Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, all the talking between Goku and Beerus actually lasts long enough to run out the time limit on the Super Saiyan God transformation.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_9cc9639	comment	Then again, the trope is subverted in Disgaea, in which Etna takes out two out of three Power Ranger knockoffs in the middle of their intro speech, before all their colors combine. This does earn her a stern lecture, though. Later, Laharl gets a scolding from Flonne too when he suggests that they should attack while The Rival is busy monologuing
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_9d2ccdf9	comment	The Marvel Comic incarnation of Micronauts had this in spades given that it was written by Bill Mantlo. Acroyear and Marionette tended to do this a lot (both with a big dollops of Purple Prose that Shakespeare would be proud of), despite the fact that their weapon of choice was swords. Swordplay, in real life, leaves little time or breath for long speeches. Baron Karza regularly did a lot of Trash Talk whenever he was beating the Micronauts or whomever to a pulp (like he did in Issue 50 note The issue noted where most of the supporting characters are killed off and The Bad Guy Wins).
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Throughout much of the series, engaging in conversation with a NPC effectively freezes time around you. This occurs even if you are in the middle of battle surrounded by enemies. Because game time is frozen, this also has the consequence of making the effects of spells/potions/enchantments with set durations freeze as well. You can, for example, create a fairly cheap spell which boosts your Personality attribute or Speechcraft skill by a large amount for one second. The short duration will make it cheap to create and cheap to cast (in terms of Magicka). However, if you enter a conversation immediately after casting it, the effect will persist for the entire duration, allowing you to be a Charm Person and get whatever you need from that person. Oblivion lampshades it at one point early in the main quest. When you return to Weynon Priory and find it under attack, you are informed by a NPC after a reasonably long conversation that he's fairly sure a Mythic Dawn agent is right behind him. Sure enough, when you exit the conversation, the agent is there and immediately attacks. Skyrim averts it for the first time in the series. Even when engaged in a conversation, the game world continues to go on around you. While more realistic, this has downsides as well. For example, it opens up the possibility of you and the person you are talking with being attacked while conversing. In some cases, the conversation is involuntary, such as when a Courier runs up to you to initiate a conversation and deliver a letter. If he does this when you're say, fleeing from a Giant, it will likely result in both of your deaths. It can also result in NPCs wandering up to you and delivering their atmospheric lines while you're in the middle of a different conversation. Averted rather annoyingly in The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard spin-off game, where opening dialogue with an NPC leaves you open to attack from any nearby enemies.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_9d7264f	comment	Averted in an episode of CSI: Miami, where Horatio is facing off against a bad guy with a More Dakka weapon. While the guy is going on about how he can fire a thousand rounds before Horatio can shoot a single- Boom, Headshot!.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_9e003c9	comment	In Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica, Chris battles with Alexia despite the countdown of the base's self-destruct system (A franchise staple). No matter how quickly you beat her, Chris barely outruns the countdown and escapes. However, the Updated Re-release adds in a lengthy conversation/fight scene with Wesker after you defeat Alexia, but does not change the countdown timer.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_9e2f90f4	comment	During the climax of One Piece's Arabasta arc, the Straw Hats are able to call out to each other and execute an improvised plan in the course of less than a minute (three in the anime), in spite of the dialogue taking much longer. It's not like they're not aware of this, though; Luffy had taken advantage of it earlier in the arc when he attacked Crocodile mid-sentence, though it fails to do anything aside from pissing him off: Happens again in Enies Lobby as Luffy is running around clobbering large groups of Marine soldiers tasked to defeat him. Spandam, leader of CP9, a secret branch of law enforcement, asks for a report on how many men Luffy has taken down. The man in the office running the numbers intends to say "five thousand," but Luffy crashes through his office's window and knocks him out when he's only said "five." This leads Spandam into thinking Luffy's trying to cause as little harm as possible when it's the exact opposite. This aversion becomes a Running Gag whenever Caesar Clown is involved: Caesar is a Mad Scientist and is prone to Evil Gloating, but he never gets to finish whenever Luffy is around, as Luffy tends to deck him in the face mid-monologue. This is played with even more later on, as Caesar's monologues start containing his so-called secret plans, and Luffy beating him up as he's talking makes it harder to know how to stop him. Another frequent example involves two characters having a lengthy conversation or a touching moment in the middle of a fight, while other combatants stand around and let them. Happens over and over in Marineford, for example.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Averted in the Tintin story The Crab With The Golden Claws — Tintin needs a cab to follow a car, but first needs to convince another man to get out of the cab. The short conversation allows the car to get away, so there's nothing left to follow.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a183d57f	comment	Deconstructed in the Futurama episode "Mars University". Gunther the super-intelligent monkey is sitting on a log attached to a vine which is breaking. He is suspended over a waterfall, and begins to debate with himself whether to climb up the vine or not. After listing reasons why he shouldn't bother, he says "On the other hand-" and the vine snaps. He survives, though.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a1daa9ff	comment	The all-time winner of this trope is The Marvel Super Heroes cartoon from 1966. These barely-animated six-minute gems were often directly adapted from '60s Marvel Comics scripts — in their full-blown long-winded Stan Lee glory. It often included such moments as Captain America giving an inspiring speech as he leaps across the screen — with the leap dragged out to fill the full length of the speech. Watch a few of these, and you'll see just how damned silly this trope can get in a medium where time actually, you know, happens.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a331546f	comment	Generally averted in Game Theory, another Lyrical Nanoha fanfic. People trying to hold a conversation in the middle of a fight are likely to get smacked in the face.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a33d74a4	comment	Subverted in Sword of Truth: Confessor, when Snakeface, as Richard is approaching him with a sword, launches into a speech about how he's been looking forward to the throw down. Or tries to. Five words in, he loses his head, and Richard barely breaks his stride. Apparently, he thought he was the good guy.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a3748187	comment	Golden Wind: In the battle with Ghiaccio, Mista fires several bullets that get reflected back by ice crystals, and the time Ghiaccio takes to talk back to Mista shows the bullet is still ricocheting off the crystal before flying off. After striking Cioccolata with a bullet, Giorno immediately assumes he's Playing Possum and takes the time to explain how he knows Cioccolata is faking it, accounting the injuries he sustained on his body during the fight, and how he'll be able to heal himself with Gold Experience after explaining its abilities. Cioccolata then exposes himself and rushes to kill Mista... just as a stag beetle pops out from his head as Giorno used the time he was talking to him allowed the bullet that was lodged in Cioccolata to transform after being hit by Gold Experience.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass often does this in a Gundam-like manner, especially with pilots talking during Knightmare battles — Urabe's sacrifice is probably the best example. Lelouch also has a habit of making dramatic remarks even when his opponents are standing there pointing guns at him, as they never take the opportunity to just shoot him.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a5549ed0	comment	In The Bible, Joshua needed the Israelites to shout when the trumpets were blown on the seventh lap around Jericho. So when the moment comes, he tells them to shout...and then proceeds to keep talking for three more verses. The next verse, however, says that the people shouted as soon as they heard the trumpets.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a57cf54d	comment	In Darths & Droids the players have a long, complex discussion, while insisting their characters are holding their breath. Also lampshaded here.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a599305d	comment	Bosses in Mega Man Zero (after the first one) always take the opportunity to chat up the hero just before exploding. Even if they've just been visibly bisected down the middle.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a5b8b965	comment	The Iliad: Lampshaded, which is not what you'd expect from the Iliad. Then again, Patroclos stops to give the lampshade in the middle of battle. Also, just before Hector is killed, king Priam sees Achilles charging toward Hector as fast as he can. In the time it takes the two of them to meet, Priam gets out a 45-line speech about what he would do to save his son, how much he hates Achilles, how great his wife is, and why it's going to suck when he dies of old age rather than in a fight.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a606596a	comment	Chrono Cross: The enemies are refusing to attack since they're the ones giving the rules and game information; apparently the heroes just stand there and listen.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a61ca024	comment	In Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, when the characters first get the Rescue Zords, it takes forever for them to get the Zords out of the Lightspeed Aquabase, alter the Zord modes, and finish their conversations; it's a wonder the people stuck in the elevator weren't already dead by the time they got there.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a6ad6222	comment	In The Back-up Plan, the main character goes into labor, but miraculously stops having contractions to have some important dialogue with the male lead.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a81325d3	comment	Several Final Fantasy games have dialogue scenes for character development or rules description during battle screens, with enemies present, but refusing to attack. Final Fantasy V (ab)uses long dialogue in two of the instances where gameplay is timed (the Karnak Castle escape and the underwater Walse tower); in the case of Karnak, you can skip the boss entirely if you kill the enemies quick enough, but there's no getting past Gogo's introductory dialogue, the Sheathe Your Sword puzzle, or the final string of congratulatory text Gogo gives if you "battle" Gogo properly unless you forego the fight. Since so many of the bosses have unskippable text, the Career Day randomizer (which shuffles what bosses can appear at which locations) has opted to remove the 1-minute timer at the Odin fight. Perhaps played most notably straight in Final Fantasy VI, in which the first time you have Terra use magic in battle with Locke and Edgar in the party, the Active Time Battle system will pause for a looooooong conversation in which they freak out, break off to the side to whisper among themselves, FAINT, recover, and finally get back to fighting. Naturally, the enemies wait patiently throughout this entire exchange. Zig-Zagging Trope in Final Fantasy XIV. This trope is played straight in cutscenes, but averted when conversing with NPCs outside of towns and sanctuaries; if you draw aggro from a monster and they attack you in mid-conversation, the conversation will be cancelled and you'll need to start the dialogue over after dealing with the monster. In Final Fantasy Tactics, some battles are programmed to have characters exchange dialogue if the objective hasn't yet been achieved. If one of the dialogue's participants is a Dragoon, and has been set to do a Jump attack, they'll fall back to the ground just to deliver their line before vaulting into the stratosphere again. Both averted — in the same way as above — and played straight in Final Fantasy Tactics A2; Sometimes main characters go into lengthy monologues mid-battle, and other times you have to use your turn to talk. It seems mostly dependent on if you're talking to yourself or not.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_a8729c90	comment	Played straight in The Fairly OddParents!: School's Out! The Musical. When Cosmo and Wanda are fleeing Fairy World, there is a rapidly approaching wave of Pixie Magic just behind them and the bridge to Earth is rapidly dwindling. However, Cosmo and Wanda can still discuss the situation for two minutes.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ab3076a5	comment	VG Cats subverted the trope with this comic parodying frequent offender Metal Gear Solid 2.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ad34ca69	comment	Both averted — in the same way as above — and played straight in Final Fantasy Tactics A2; Sometimes main characters go into lengthy monologues mid-battle, and other times you have to use your turn to talk. It seems mostly dependent on if you're talking to yourself or not.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ae9cb6ef	comment	Parodied in Radioactive Man: A character is standing next to a huge mainframe when it topples toward him. His reaction: "No time to leap out of the way! Only time to talk about it!" Humorously subverted in a scene in the first issue where Radioactive Man is punching out a Communist sympathizer:
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_aea45493	comment	Gekisou Sentai Carranger, an Affectionate Parody of Super Sentai, spoofed this with the series' Psycho Rangers, the Zokurangers. ZokuRed attempts to use his Finishing Move, whose name is at least fifteen words long before getting Killed Mid-Sentence by the Carrangers' Humongous Mecha. The name appears to be an homage to other series' mecha finishers, and there are a lot of them.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_b0028436	comment	Taken to ridiculous extremes in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The manga is full of lengthy situational analyses, often spoken out loud, and often delivered in the time it takes for a bullet to travel less than a dozen feet. But the anime takes the ridiculousness even further: Phantom Blood: Jonathan, Dio, and Zepelli manage to have a full conversation while two of them are hanging in midair. As Jonathan and Dio are falling down the chimney shaft, the two of them exchange insults and boasts for a good five minutes in the anime, even though exterior shots of the mansion show the chimney can't possibly be taller than 40 meters or so. Battle Tendency: During Joseph's first encounter with Wamuu, the Pillar Man cuts his wrist, explicitly stating that he's only got one minute to stop the bleeding before passing out ("Here is an hourglass measured in blood.") In that time, he manages to hit Wamuu with his Clacker Boomerang attack, follow that up with a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, then gets hit by the Divine Sandstorm, survives, plays dead for long enough to fool the Pillar Men into thinking he's dead while slowly sneaking towards a minecart, rides down a tunnel, then talks Wamuu into letting him go. This takes up more than half the episode. Adding another layer to the free-action-ness of this, Joseph lights a stick of dynamite after getting on the minecart. It doesn't go off until after he's finished giving Wamuu his speech and Esidisi's swallowed it, several real-time minutes later. When Joseph and Kars tumble off a cliff in St. Moritz, the narrator explicitly states that they have five seconds of falling until they impact the ground below. Yet, the both of them seem to have enough time to fight for the Red Stone and attempt to outwit each other. Stardust Crusaders: Although Dio's time-stopping ability explicitly only lasts nine seconds at its maximum seen duration, it can easily turn into nearly a minute of gloating even when the limit was initially five seconds. Taken to truly impressive extremes when Dio uses his five-second time-freeze to fatally-stab Joseph. He stops time, drops to the ground, monologues about his ability, kills a cat and pushes past some people in the frozen time, walks up to Joseph, almost attacks with his hand before reprimanding himself and monologuing some more before pulling out a knife and throwing it at Joseph's throat... and then has the balls to say he still has one second left before time goes back to normal and counts it down himself. And when Jotaro's Star Platinum stops time for the first time (right after Dio's roadroller attack), Dio freezes completely, as he should, but he's still able to move his mouth to talk! Diamond is Unbreakable: Rohan Kishibe has an internal monologue to weigh his options as an attack is speeding toward his head. An onscreen stopwatch determines that Rohan analyzes his foe, estimates his success rate, and decides to act within 0.2 seconds. Yoshikage Kira, the main antagonist of Part 4, gets beaten up by Jotaro Kujo using Star Platinum. While he is going flying from an onslaught of ORA's, he has time to have a brief soliloquy to himself about how Jotaro's attacks are so fast "it's like he stopped time". Golden Wind: In the battle with Ghiaccio, Mista fires several bullets that get reflected back by ice crystals, and the time Ghiaccio takes to talk back to Mista shows the bullet is still ricocheting off the crystal before flying off. After striking Cioccolata with a bullet, Giorno immediately assumes he's Playing Possum and takes the time to explain how he knows Cioccolata is faking it, accounting the injuries he sustained on his body during the fight, and how he'll be able to heal himself with Gold Experience after explaining its abilities. Cioccolata then exposes himself and rushes to kill Mista... just as a stag beetle pops out from his head as Giorno used the time he was talking to him allowed the bullet that was lodged in Cioccolata to transform after being hit by Gold Experience. Stone Ocean: During the battle with Donatello Versus, Jolyne and Ermes get trap in the memory of a plane that's going to crash at a specific time. When one exact minute is left, Jolyne manages to contact Emporio who looks up information about the plane on a computer to learn there's a safe spot where Jolyne and Ermes won't get hit by the explosion. Afterwhich with mere seconds, Donatello drops children into the plane to prevent Jolyne from escaping, with all the remaining 'seconds' being enough time for Jolyne and Ermes to formulate a plan to protect themselves and the children. In a particularly extreme example, the final battle includes a sequence where Ermes uses Kiss to let the gang ride on a bullet. Anasui then manages to explain a strategy to defeat Pucci, go over multiple concerns that his allies have about said plan, and receive a heartfelt speech from Jolyne, all in the time it takes for the bullet to hit its target.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_b0666b59	comment	Neverwinter Nights averts this by not letting you enter conversations in combat and immediately stopping conversations if one of the participants is attacked. Neverwinter Nights 2 keeps the first part, but cinematic conversations pause the rest of the game while they are occurring, so it both averts and plays this trope straight. In the expansion, Mask of the Betrayer, the player character becomes a spirit-eater and has to replenish their energy by devouring spirits or die, because you constantly lose it as the time passes. Fortunately, the energy meter freezes when you engage in a conversation.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_b1884b51	comment	Averted rather annoyingly in The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard spin-off game, where opening dialogue with an NPC leaves you open to attack from any nearby enemies.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_b29ee516	comment	Averted in River City Ransom: The player can attack bosses while they're still talking. In the GBA remake, doing this has one of the greatest effects on your character's invisible Karma Meter, and the bosses will lament the interruption with lines like, "You can't do that!"
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog seems to like this trope a bit. Whenever he has a conversation with someone while running, he suddenly goes in a straight line and doesn't need to look where he's going. The most prominent example of this is in his team's intro in Sonic Heroes. While running through a rather rocky and cactus-heavy desert, Tails shows up in the X-Tornado and hands him a letter from Eggman, which Sonic reads while running backwards. Tails himself seems to have forgotten to pilot the plane during this, and him and Knuckles eventually just ditch it and run after Sonic.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: Spider-Man has a reputation for panels mostly dedicated to the protagonist talking. Sometimes it's done artistically — Spidey will be drawn in several places in the same panel to showcase his agility, so presumably he has more time to say all that. Other times it's really an Inner Monologue. But one way or another, that's a lot of talking. Fortunately, it works for the character; Spider-Man is known for using witty banter to annoy the hell out of his enemies (and hide his own insecurities) during battle. In fact, he came off as more "emo" in the movies because it's hard to work this battle tactic into a live-action fight scene. Subverted by Spider-By. Bailey's Spider-Sense doesn't alert him to danger, leaving him reliant on his expanded field of vision to see incoming threats. But he also has a habit of running his mouth and arguing with others, which often distracts him long enough to get into deep trouble. In one flashback, Arcade captures Bailey while the boy was too busy arguing with Peter over the phone to notice Arcade driving up behind him. In another, Bailey argues with Otto (who Bailey doesn't know took over Peter's body) long enough for Mr. Negative to clap a hand on Bailey's shoulder.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_b67b702b	comment	Baki the Grappler: Taken to an extreme in Chapter 147 of Baki Dou, where there's an on-page timer counting the passing seconds during the fight. At the 6-second mark, we cut to three onlookers calmly commenting on the fight for several panels... and after their conversation is over, the timer shows 7 seconds.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_b704a08a	comment	Especially evident in the Rain Guardian battle in Reborn! (2004), where the fight stops every minute for Combat Commentator Reborn to explain what Yamamoto just did.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_b80c3b	comment	Averted in the Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog song "Slipping", as singing that song wastes all of the time his Freeze Ray had to hold Hammer in place.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_b8db9337	comment	Saffron And Sage: After disabling Sage with a sneak attack, Cinnamon introduces herself in a monologue only to be interrupted by an ax thrown at her. Her attempt to restart her speech results in the same thing so she doesn't bother with the rest of the speech and goes back to attacking.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_b8eb4fe5	comment	Sakura Wars displays a similar behavior to Super Robot Wars. In Sakura Taisen 4, there are even occasions where several minute long cut scenes occur between turns.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_b962c879	comment	Fairy Tail has been known to subvert the trope: As the Quirky Miniboss Squad are introducing themselves in Chapter 32, Natsu hurls two giant fireballs at them mid-sentence. In Chapter 81, one of the other slaves tries to confess his love for Erza. He happened to be doing that in the middle of a violent revolt and gets violently gunned down for his trouble, losing an eye and getting his jaw badly scarred in the process. During the "battle" between Wizard Saint/Spriggan Twelve God Serena and Dragon King Acnologia in Chapter 470, the latter doesn't even give the former time to finish boasting before tearing a massive hole in his side and leaving him to die.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_b9bfa3d5	comment	Crank has a character fall out of a helicopter (at what looked like a relatively low altitude), have a fight to the death, and still have time to pull out his phone, connect to an answering machine, listen to a whole message, leave one of his own, and hang up.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_b9c1650d	comment	Scarlet Lady has two aversions in back-to-back episodes. When Reflekta demands to know where ChloÃ© is, Scarlet Lady starts bragging about getting her to safety, only to be interrupted by a blast of Reflekta's power shooting past her ear in a narrow miss. Unfortunately, she learns nothing from this incident; when Marinette calls her out for lounging on a rooftop while everyone else struggles against Timebreaker, she hops down to yell at her for an implied threat (namely sharing the footage she was shooting of her ignoring the akuma). Timebreaker interrupts the argument by tagging her in the back, absorbing her energy in a One-Hit Kill.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ba3d2748	comment	Subverted in The Incredibles. During the initial encounter between Mr. Incredible and Syndrome, Mr. Incredible attempts to catch Syndrome off guard by attacking him while he's explaining the source of his powers. Unfortunately, Syndrome dodges the thrown tree and catches Mr. Incredible with his tractor beam. Earlier in the movie, Mr. Incredible and Frozone reminisce about a time where the latter faced a villain with a death ray. The villain had him dead to rights, but instead of shooting he starts to monologue. The audience doesnâ€™t hear the rest of the story, but the implication is that Frozone took advantage of the villain being distracted. Subverted again even earlier in the movie when Bomb Voyage tries to sneak away while Mr. Incredible and Buddy/Incrediboy are arguing. Incredible spots the attempt and grabs him.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ba666650	comment	Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater has a time limit on the final boss battle of ten minutes - when those ten minutes are up, MiG-21's will arrive and bomb the field you're in, killing you both. You can defeat the boss with only one minute to spare, at which point another multi-minute-long cutscene happens, with no MiGs in sight until you're attempting to escape another 5+ minutes later. There is, however, a jokey version of this featured in the Secret Theater short "Metal Gear S", wherein Snake manages to defeat the final boss (after having Sigint steal every other significant accomplishment in the game from him), only to be left behind in the escape and subsequently bombed into oblivion.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ba6cc3a1	comment	Granblue Fantasy: When Pholia takes on the energy orb that Gilbert fires at his sister, the siblings exchange dialogues while Gilbert does absolutely nothing else but watch. This allows the Grandcypher crew to catch up on Gilbert and fight him head-on.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Danny Phantom: In the midst of heated battle, foes often seem to just stop and let Danny finish his superheroic, corny jokes. A subversion of this appears as well. Danny apparently has no qualms about attacking Technus during his usual lengthy monologues.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_bc39d46a	comment	Kyoshi Rising: during most fights, both combatants have enough time to say a few things, but they usually keep it simple. Averted when Kyoshi gets into a fight with a Fake Ultimate Hero, who stops fighting briefly to try and make a Badass Boast. Unfortunately, Kyoshi keeps attacking him, wearing him down until she is able to knock him out.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun recommends the Game Master limit players to somewhere around 25 words in a round and no more than one gesture as a free action.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_bd310eaa	comment	Seen shortly after Ellen's creation in El Goonish Shive. Sure, she may not have said that much and got interrupted at the end, but it was still a lot more then should have been possible during the time it takes to fall from a second story window.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_bdbcdadf	comment	Subverted in Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!. Izuku stops to mutter about what he should do next after blasting away the Sludge Villain with Heat Vision and Super-Breath. He considers running away and trying to find a Hero to subdue the Villain, but figures that the latter would move on to another target. He then considers freezing the villain with his freezing breath, but decides against it because it might be considered vigilantism. After this, he wonders if the police will go easy on him because he's fighting out of self-defense, but decides that it isn't worth it. After all this deliberation, the Sludge Villain has more than enough time to pull himself back together and attack Izuku again. Then All Might arrives.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_bddc4ebe	comment	In Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, the Monster of the Week attacks the Red Ranger while he's in the middle of his Transformation Sequence.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_beac6ffb	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, you only have a limited amount of time on any given cycle to do things. Any cutscene or dialogue pauses the timer until it's over. This is only really visible during the last 6 "hours" of the game. This is probably best demonstrated in the good ending to the Anju/Kafei sidequest: Kafei's entrance stops the timer at 1:27, only allowing it to continue when they tell you they'll greet the morning together. Probably a good thing, as the moon would likely crash into Termina while they were talking, otherwise. On the other hand, listening to an old lady ramble on and on and on (and falling asleep in the middle of it) is a great way to skip ahead in time.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c00034c2	comment	Beetle Bailey: "That's it, Beetle! Now roll with the punch!" Given as actual advice during a fight.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c03c2b44	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: When Will and Elizabeth ask Barbossa to marry them during the final battle, they are constantly interrupted by Davy Jones's crew. He finally has enough and yells, "Just kiss!" Funnily enough, Will and Elizabeth kiss for several seconds, and their enemies are too preoccupied to kill them during that time.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c14f8495	comment	Elf Only Inn subverts this right before a server reboot here.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c1df404a	comment	In Achaea, talking is one of the few actions that doesn't require balance (which is lost when most actions are used, and takes a few seconds to come back). Even emoting requires balance, which can result in the rather odd circumstance of the character apparently having the composure to recite entire paragraphs, but not being able to blink. Talking is also instant, although this effect is limited by the time the player spends typing it out.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c2297a9c	comment	Judge Dredd: A crooked doctor has time to stutter "A- A- Homing bullet!" before said bullet drills into his head. Even with a bullet flying a zigzag course, it would be most likely impossible - try it.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c2463c53	comment	Final Fantasy V (ab)uses long dialogue in two of the instances where gameplay is timed (the Karnak Castle escape and the underwater Walse tower); in the case of Karnak, you can skip the boss entirely if you kill the enemies quick enough, but there's no getting past Gogo's introductory dialogue, the Sheathe Your Sword puzzle, or the final string of congratulatory text Gogo gives if you "battle" Gogo properly unless you forego the fight. Since so many of the bosses have unskippable text, the Career Day randomizer (which shuffles what bosses can appear at which locations) has opted to remove the 1-minute timer at the Odin fight.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c2b8c574	comment	Body Harvest actually says that when you get blurbs from the girl in your lander, your receiver injects a drug into you that speeds up your perception hundredsfold for a fraction of a second, gives you the transmission, and then dispenses another drug to bring you back down to normal speed.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c326acd9	comment	Played with in one scene of Inazuma Eleven with Megane talking to Shuuyou Meito, a team of Otaku. As he's kicking the ball down the field, Megane starts with an annoyed lecture about Shuuyou Meito's reliance on dirty tactics. One of the opponents tries to steal the ball mid-speech; Megane's response directly mentions this trope:
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c3c3dfc	comment	Stardust Crusaders: Although Dio's time-stopping ability explicitly only lasts nine seconds at its maximum seen duration, it can easily turn into nearly a minute of gloating even when the limit was initially five seconds. Taken to truly impressive extremes when Dio uses his five-second time-freeze to fatally-stab Joseph. He stops time, drops to the ground, monologues about his ability, kills a cat and pushes past some people in the frozen time, walks up to Joseph, almost attacks with his hand before reprimanding himself and monologuing some more before pulling out a knife and throwing it at Joseph's throat... and then has the balls to say he still has one second left before time goes back to normal and counts it down himself. And when Jotaro's Star Platinum stops time for the first time (right after Dio's roadroller attack), Dio freezes completely, as he should, but he's still able to move his mouth to talk!
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Subverted when Rainbow Dash lets her reputation as a hero go to her head. She insists on making grandiose speeches before she actually does anything to save ponies in danger, until they ask her to just save them already. Ironically, the request to stop screwing around took far longer than the remainder of her catchphrase. In "Twilights Kingdom Part 2", after Twilight surrenders her alicorn magic to Tirek, Tirek immediately grows to monstrous proportions and should be able to easily squash the heroes...yet Discord has plenty of time to explain his sincerity in giving the medallion to Twilight as a sign of their friendship. At the climax of "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?", the Tantabus, having grown powerful from Luna's sense of guilt, is big enough to walk to the portal to real world in just a few seconds. However, the Mane Six seem to have enough time to talk to Princess Luna to get her to stop blaming herself. Subverted in "All Bottled Up". The Friendship Song that the Mane 6 sing during their friendship retreat happens to occur in real time and causes them to miss their intended escape room record by two seconds.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The Doctor often lapses into long, mocking speeches during battle; he usually gets away with it because his enemies are stunned by his sheer audacity. It doesn't always go as you'd expect, though: The Daleks usually take time to shout "Exterminate!" before actually shooting at the Doctor, which gives him time to get away. Not always, though: the Dalek in this instance does yell "Exterminate!", but still manages to catch the Doctor by surprise and actually shoot him. "The Parting of the Ways": A group of Daleks get in a shootout with a robot that's designed to spout a catchphrase before firing. The robot defeats the first wave due to the Daleks hesitating in confusion at encountering it, but the next wave simply blow it away before it can finish its sentence. "The Idiot's Lantern": The Doctor starts: "Hold on a minute! There are three important, brilliant, and complicated reasons why you should listen to me. Oneâ€“" and is promptly KO'd with a punch to the face. "The Satan Pit": The Ood pursuing the crew through the ventilation shafts stops several feet out of range of killing the security chief, apparently for no other reason than to let the captain and the chief of security finish their goodbyes. "Partners in Crime": The Doctor and Donna spy on Miss Foster detailing her plan to a captive reporter, spot each other from their vantage points, and begin to mouth at each other. Foster conspicuously pauses as they prattle on, and when Donna eventually looks at her again, she's just standing, hands on hips, waiting for them to finish. "The Vampires of Venice": The Doctor attempts to stall the pursuing vampires by yelling, "Tell me the whole plan!" They don't even pause, causing him to turn and run, muttering "One day, that will work..." "Heaven Sent": It's revealed that the Doctor has the power to accelerate his consciousness, experiencing hours or days mentally in a second or less. It's the secret source of his ability to always come up with a plan or idea in a pinch.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c51b8d7a	comment	Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne and Shin Megami Tensei IV avert this: a Press Turn will be consumed if you try Talking to a demon (unless you can't). How many Press Turns are taken up depends on whether you're successful or not. Other MegaTen games with demon dialogue also suggest an aversion if not outright declaring it - in many games, if you try to talk to a demon that's hostile or unable to talk, or anger it in dialogue, the demon gets a free attack because it's implied you left yourself open or just wasted too much time trying to talk to something that would rather gnaw off your face. Played straight with the Persona series when it comes to cutscenes. People will go on Motive Rants and all sorts of emotional speeches even when they're surrounded by enemies or right in the middle of performing a Heroic Sacrifice. Averted in Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse in the "Explosive Epidemic in Mikado" DLC, in which you have 25 turns to defeat all waves of enemies and when you confront the last enemy of the mission, you can hear their story out...at the cost of one of those turns.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c72021c5	comment	Deus Ex features some intricate dialogue with friendly characters -that can thankfully be fastforwarded- while enemies are either advancing on the player or waiting to attack. Notable instances: Paul blabbing away to JC in his room at the 'Ton Hotel while a gaggle of Men In Black and UNATCO troopers are converging on their location, and Illuminati contact Stanton Dowd briefing JC on his next assignment in the middle of a street patrolled by mooks and bots, while a thug visibly hovers behind his back. This video is a shining example.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c96cfe29	comment	In both A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening, all other action pauses while Link is either listening to someone speak or reading.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_c9867e34	comment	Unintentionally subverted in the Western RPG Aces and Eights: Shattered Frontiers; combat time is tracked in tenths of a second, so in the time it takes to yell "Stop!" the typical gunfighter has already opened fire.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ca48b60b	comment	The sundry supernatural menaces of the Ghost Finders series seem remarkably polite about waiting for the trio of heroes to speculate, plan, or snark off to one another before actually attacking them. Sometimes the menaces are merely toying with the heroes, but even mindless entities seem to do the same.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ca7eba72	comment	Parodied in Star Wreck: In the Pirkining. The film's parody version of John Sheridan spends so long making a dramatic speech to his enemies that they plan their attack and open fire before he finishes, and he goes on for another minute before he notices this.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_cae652c	comment	Hunter Ã— Hunter has fun with this trope. In one chapter, a character (Knuckle) thinks several paragraphs' worth of stuff, then realizes that he's thought entirely too much in so short a timeframe. He then realizes that the reason this is happening is because one's perception of time slows greatly in the seconds before death. Zoom out to reveal the guy he's fighting (Menthuthuyoupi), all set to beat the shit out of him.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_cb6abea3	comment	Since a lot of the card game in Yu-Gi-Oh! and its sequels involves somebody attacking and the other guy making a miraculous recovery, giant blasts of raw holographic energy must understandably be paused while the card is activated and its effects are explained. This gets especially obvious when the shot is drawn so that the attack is in view, like when Red Daemon's Dragon/Red Dragon Archfiend patiently waits with a glowing fist so that it can punch into the oddly named Scrum Force.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_cb6abef3	comment	The Avengers: When Coulson confronts Loki, he talks about how the gun he's holding is a Super Prototype, but is cut off by Loki stabbing him. He still manages to monologue about Loki's eventual downfall while dying, however. Loki does this himself later, in Large Ham fashion, before The Hulk... well, smashes. Puny god.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_cc474052	comment	Discworld Roleplaying Game does list talking as a free action, and says that realistically, you're limited to one sentence per round, but it's more fun if you ignore this.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ccbaad5d	comment	Exaggerated in an episode of Digimon Fusion: Zamielmon can Flash Step, but after doing so he freezes for a split second. When Taiki realises this after he does so for the last time, it takes him a good ten seconds to explain it to the audience before Shoutmon DX actually gets in there and kills him, but Zamielmon is still frozen.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_cd1550c5	comment	The Dark Tower: At the end of Treachery, in the small fraction of a second during which Roland turns, aims and fires, he has enough time to utter a 21-syllable Badass Creed. But not enough time to realize he's shooting his mother.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z abuse this trope frequently; every villain has an urgent need to exposit or otherwise yammer at the heroes. Freeza destroys Namek's core during the fight with Goku and gives the planet five minutes before it blows up. Infamously, it took ten episodes, about 3 hours of screentime, and over 300 lines of dialogue for those "five minutes" to happen. This made Dragon Ball Z a by-word for the Inaction Sequence. Dragon Ball Z Abridged mocks this by having Goku ask Freeza if he's even sure what a minute is. In spite of its reputation, though, Dragon Ball has more than its share of fighters who will take advantage of this tendency: Goku attacks Jeice mid-sentence during the Namek arc. Dragon Ball Z Abridged parodies this by having him get hit like this eight times in a single conversation. In Goku's fight with Piccolo Jr., he takes advantage of Piccolo's monologuing to rest up for the next phase of the fight. Piccolo lets Cell yammer on about himself, where he came from, and his end goal, while he buys time to recover his strength (with the added bonus of learning everything there is to know about Cell). In Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods, all the talking between Goku and Beerus actually lasts long enough to run out the time limit on the Super Saiyan God transformation. Super Buu gets sick of Gotenks' conversations with Piccolo and responds by blowing stuff up. The Tournament of Power in Dragon Ball Super constantly uses this trope. Since the characters move at superhuman speed even while having a normal conversation, it's a bit of a stretch but still somewhat justified. The whole tournament lasts 48 minutes in-universe, which takes up 34 episodes. The first episode of the tournament alone (which is about 20-25 minutes long) took only 1 minute in-universe, and by that time, two of the 80 contestants were knocked off the ring.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ce9c80bf	comment	In Slam Dunk, characters sometimes manage to have long conversations in the time it takes to sprint from one end of the court to the other. Sakuragi and Rukawa once had a heated argument while attacking on a fast break, both insulting the other all the way down the apparently very lengthy basketball court.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_cf6917ab	comment	In American McGee's Alice, the action pauses and enemies disappear whenever dialogue comes up, reappearing and causing the action to start where it left off when the dialogue ends.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_cf69b21e	comment	The Beast Warriors sometimes abused this, giving speeches to each other before an ambush, then transforming and fighting. Somewhat subverted in the final episode:
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d0c4538c	comment	Mocked in Real Bout High School. After Ryoko effortlessly takes out a powerful hood, his friends get angry. The leader is calmed by his Dragon, who wishes to test his sword skills against hers. Or at least that's the sentiment he was trying to express — he got as far as "She's good. I'll g-" before she smashed his face in with her wooden sword.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d2f4b8ae	comment	Battle Angel Alita, especially in the Last Order sequel: Characters can exchange threats or discuss each other's every move while fighting at supersonic speed (which makes you wonder how they can hear each other). The two Combat Commentators of the television network are an odd example. On the one hand, they frequently have to resort to slow-motion replays, as the actual attacks were way too fast for them to even see. But on the other hand, they watch and comment those replays while the combat is still going on. Presumably, the characters take a minute's break between each series of blows to allow the commentators to catch up.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d3381e70	comment	Exploited in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which Armin Zola only keeps talking to distract Cap and Natasha and give time for an inbound missile to arrive.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d3b17858	comment	In Final Fantasy Tactics, some battles are programmed to have characters exchange dialogue if the objective hasn't yet been achieved. If one of the dialogue's participants is a Dragoon, and has been set to do a Jump attack, they'll fall back to the ground just to deliver their line before vaulting into the stratosphere again.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d452935b	comment	Spoofed in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: Ramona has enough time to tell Scott about Roxy's Achilles' Heel while Roxy is throwing a kick at his face. The lines are slightly slowed down, which mostly just makes them sound drunk. In the final battle with Gideon well, its first attempt, Scott manages to tell both Ramona and Knives that he cheated on both of them. Only for Gideon to sneak up on Scott and stab him from behind, killing him. However, Scott did get better, thanks to the 1-Up.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d46fd79f	comment	At the climax of Chapter 2 of MARDEK, when Deugan declares he has to make a Heroic Sacrifice to stop the dracelon from attacking their escape pod when they flee the self-destructing saucer, Vehrn spoils the drama by wondering why the dracelon is just standing there while they have this conversation. The self-destruct timer seems to have stopped as well.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d5b7d2aa	comment	In Sonny, the majority of dialogue in both games takes place during battle scenarios rather than traditional cutscenes (though they've got a few of those too). Veradux, Roald, and Felicity all join your party in a battle scene (Veradux appeals to you for help when ZPCI soldiers chase him down after he takes an experimental armor from them, Roald joins you after he and his ally lower their weapons once they realize that you're not like the other zombies, and Felicity meets up with your party in Hew (complete with Sonny warning Veradux to cover his face)).
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: Flashing your PokÃ©dex at an unknown PokÃ©mon causes all other activities to cease. Even if it is hellbent on the protagonist's destruction, it will politely wait until the protagonists know exactly what they're up against. We actually saw this averted in SM018. While RotomDex does its Wiki Walk for Mallow's newly-evolved Steenee, she's beating the ever-loving shit out of Meowth. Trainers have been known to give their PokÃ©mon complex battle instructions. One even gave some very detailed maneuvers, complete with degree measurements, all in the heat of battle. The Team Rocket motto, which happens Once per Episode, is usually a free action; the Rockets will drop everything to introduce themselves, and the heroes will usually wait for them to finish (occasionally even being visibly bored waiting for that to happen). Some don't, though, especially Barry, who has never actually heard the entire motto for this reason; the Rockets get pissed whenever their motto gets interrupted. The biggest lampshades are when the heroes take the opportunity to rescue PokÃ©mon or people during this time.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d5e9a8ed	comment	The Ultimates: Discussed by Hawkeye and Black Widow. Black Widow complains about the poor resistance of the Chitauri in the office building, but Hawkeye protests: unlike her, with her cyborg implants, he can not have a superhero fight and hold a conversation at the same time.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d62356da	comment	In Sugar Plums this is averted by the protagonist who frequently interrupt monologues to attack people and has done death blows on opponents who otherwise had the upper hand but then stopped to gloat.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d6c9c0a4	comment	In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Motoko Kusanagi exploits this trope in order to take down an assassin. The assassin is hired to kill a low-profile billionaire. She walks up to his bed and points her gun at him, thinking that she's all alone in the room, and decides to monologue about the problems with capitalism. Motoko uses this time to sneak up and arrest her.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d716d915	comment	Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto has 16-year-old Cesare Borgia rather soundly defeating the leader of the France's student association, Barbaric Bully Henri, who made racist comments against Cesare's Jewish best friend and their home country of Spain. In the manga source material, Cesare's lectures on tolerance and the benefits of diversity, delivered in between whipping and choking Henri with a cape (yes, a cape — he's playing toreador), are this trope in its classic form. But when the manga was adapted into a musical? Of course he struts up and down the stairs while singing the lines, and Henri stands by and waits for him to finish, because even he knows better than to interrupt such fabulousness.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Averted for laughs in Sailor Moon Super S, when Cere Cere summons a Monster of the Week named Toge Toge Jo. While Toge Toge Jo is arguing with Cere Cere, Sailor Moon and Chibi Moon then attack Toge Toge Jo and defeat her. The "defeated monster" screen then shows, with Toge Toge Jo saying, "I haven't even done anything!"
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d7e4b70e	comment	Gantz. To excess. Then again, everything in Gantz is a free action, and nothing happens unless directly caused by such a free action, in what can only be described as the anime equivalent of event-driven programming. It's probably the only show where even sex is a free action. This is necessary, as the show's protagonists are perhaps the single most hesitant gaggle of mooks in all of anime. The aliens OR ARE THEY? seem to be getting about as tired of this as us, with Inaba being stomped to paste after his triumphant return and the Hiroshima team member having an arm and part of his head taken off mid-conversation.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_d908efc	comment	In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the anime gives one egregious moment in the climax of the Red-Light District arc, in which the manga version didn't quite give the same vibe. During the final maneuver to kill Daki and Gyutaro for good, while Tanjiro tries to behead Gyutaro, Zenitsu is doing his part by giving it all to behead Daki with his Thunderclap and Flash: God Speed attack; after ripping across half of the whole district Zentisu remarks that he is losing speed and strength before Daki is beheaded, that's where the previously thought to be dead Inosuke intercepted Zenitsu and Daki, to say he can shift his organs around, so Gyutaro failed to pierce his heart, the anime has Inosuke be suspended in mid-air, effortlessly following Zenitsu's trajectory, while saying that, to only then help Zenitsu behead Daki. Inosuke following Zenitsu like a magnet to say his line comes off a little odd in the anime, in the manga it was clear Zentisu was already crawling to a halt before Inosuke just jumped to help, without actually following him; some anime viewers actually thought Inosuke just simply caught up to Zenitsu's top speed.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_da92c130	comment	Erfworld: Apparently, the Arkendish (satellite dish in a tabletop-fantasy world) makes talking a free action. Or maybe Charlie is lying. Talking is not a free action otherwise.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_dac7c837	comment	In A Wizard in Rhyme, magic is controlled by spoken verse. Although rhyming couplets will usually work, longer (and older) poetry tends to work the best, which leads characters to spouting long passages in the middle of battle. Despite this, talking is not always a free action in this verse, as people have been known to stop spellcasters through physical force — or even just a faster poem.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_db30cf92	comment	In the Warrior Cats novel The Last Hope, Graystripe is overjoyed to see Whitestorm again when the StarClan shows up for the Final Battle, but Whitestorm cuts him off, saying, "This is a battle, not a reunion." Then, on the next page, a random Dark Forest mook offs Mousefur when she stops fighting to talk with Longtail. However, when Tigerstar shows up, he stands around talking with Firestar for a few pages before they actually fight.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ddf3c3ac	comment	The Mayfair Exponential Game System allows one or two free Bond One Liners per phase of combat; however, if the dialog takes more than four or five seconds to deliver, it costs the player an Action.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_de38bcf4	comment	Played with in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014). When clinging onto a structure falling from a 54-story building, Raphael makes a long-winded speech to his brothers about how he loves them despite being hard on them — while the structure and accompanying debris falls in slow motion. Right as he's caught up in the speech, however, he discovers that they have made it safely to the ground in the time that he's taken to make the speech.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_de6659ec	comment	In the season 3 mid-season finale of Once Upon a Time, there's a terrible curse about to descend on the town, with clouds billowing through the streets to indicate its arrival — and our heroes are still perfectly fine taking 20 minutes or so to discuss how they can stop it, what the result of stopping it will be, and anything else they feel like talking about. This curse pops up again several times over the course of the series, and the same thing happens, leading one to suspect that it only takes effect when the characters have finished their conversations.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_de8f1f24	comment	Kingdom Hearts III: In the battle at the Keyblade Graveyard, Sora and his friends fight against 2-3 members of the Seekers of Dark at different locations. After one of the members is defeated, a scene follows with the beaten member talking with Sora for a few minutes before vanishing, then the fight between the other members resumes.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_dea37b6c	comment	Ironclaw states that while talking is a free action on your turn, you need to wait for another's response until their turn. "Talking may be free, but a conversation is not."
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_e05a2543	comment	If internal monologues during the bouts of Hajime no Ippo took place in real time, every single character would have been counted out. Oftentimes the flow of time is shown slowing down for dramatic effect, but even when the characters are speaking normally it feels like the ten-count takes ages.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_e144ba19	comment	In the sequel, however, Meredith only monologues during an attack that temporarily stuns everyone in your party—except Aveline who, if she has the Indomitable ability, is immune and can continue whaling away on her.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_e1d691be	comment	Played straight, reconstructed, and averted in A New Order. Sailor Moon occasionally indulges in her In the Name of the Moon speeches, but she's been attacked in the middle of a few of them, and consequently sometimes skips the speech, or uses it to stall and distract. A youma also attacks Tuxedo Kamen in the middle of speech and begins mocking him for talking, only for Moon to cut it off mid-sentence with an attack of her own.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_e290dce3	comment	Watchmen: During the climactic fight, Ozymandias manages to get in an entire Just Between You and Me Monologue revealing all the twists and turns of the mystery plot, while dodging attacks by Rorschach and Nite Owl — without even interrupting his dinner. Any scene where Rorschach's journal is read while the "camera" zooms in and out comes off like this. It's made more obvious in the Motion Comic, which is made up of animated panels of the book, where the zoom-out is done rather slowly, even though barely half of the dialog in that scene is shown.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_e293455a	comment	Subverted in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "The Zeppo" where Xander starts making a speech and the other guy runs off. "I wasn't finished!"
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_e381e71f	comment	In Digimon Tamers, when Beelzemon shoots his bullets on Takato and Megidramon, the others, who try to warn Takato, suddenly talk in slow-motion, as do the flying bullets. During this time, Takato and the de-volved Guilmon have apparently an extremely fast talk which takes about two minutes of screen-time.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_e388fcf7	comment	DSBT InsaniT: Lampshaded by Monster Andy when he, Monster Martha, and Monster Bill are fighting Tyrannomon.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_e4b1e91e	comment	Henry Stickmin Series: Subverted for laughs in Completing the Mission in the Government/Allies ending route, where, when Henry, Ellie and Charles tried to come up with a plan to stop the Toppats' rocket, Charles' plan had him explain his signature plan (to crash his helicopter into the rocket window) to Henry and Ellie, and Ellie gets confused with how that might help. Ultimately, Charles manages to convince her, but their talk lasted for so long the rocket was already beyond the helicopter reach.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_e5ae92df	comment	Averted in F.A.T.A.L.; you have stats for both average talking speed and maximum talking speed (and, being FATAL, it's entirely possible for your maximum to be less than your average).
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_e5c5bc22	comment	Talking is technically not a free action in GURPS (with its one-second combat rounds), but the Basic Set points out that unless you're going for hyper-realism, it's usually best to use this trope. Discworld Roleplaying Game does list talking as a free action, and says that realistically, you're limited to one sentence per round, but it's more fun if you ignore this.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: At one point in Solo Command, Wedge is updated about the current situation, realizing that the squadron is likely heading towards a trap. He closes his eyes and has a complex internal monlogue about the necessity and morality of walking into the trap anyway, and when he opens his eyes to respond back, a nearby chrono (clock) shows that only a second has passed.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_e67a7d6c	comment	In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, talking is explicitly not a free action; Negi has to speak in order to use magic, and he has to plan his spellcasting so as not to be cut off in the middle of it. In his first fight with Evangeline, he was very easily dealt with when Chachamaru punched him in the face every time he started to recite a spell. That said, he has at least once been able to teleport to an opponent to gain a surprise advantage — only to negate that advantage by spouting a two-sentence declaration before attacking.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_e68decb8	comment	Star Control: subverted in the backstory, when the Mael-Num demanded to know why the Kohr-Ah, their former friends and allies, were suddenly killing them all, the Kohr-Ah's guilty conscience lead them to take so long explaining themselves that it bought time for the Kzer-Za to show up and distract the Kohr-Ah by attacking them. The Mael-Num used this opportunity to evacuate their homeworld and escape destruction.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_e89f120b	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam saga just loves doing this, especially during epic battles. It does vary series to series; some will have more pragmatic fighters than others. But Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack takes the cake with its shameless use of this type of exposition.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ea505892	comment	World Trigger had fun with this trope. When Miwa and Yoneya fought against an enemy, they started to talk to the enemy when the fight was stuck in a stalemate. The enemy lampshaded that talking to enemy mid-fight was foolish. Cue both sides incapacitating each other mid-talk. Turns out that both sides used the talk just to earn a few seconds to set up sneak attacks.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ea77c5ab	comment	In Captain Tsubasa's adaptations, especially the original 1994 anime, characters spend so much time monologuing the field seems twice as long as it should be. The newer adaptations use slow motions and abridged matches, which causes another problem where everybody is capable of thinking illogically fast.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_eb0c9938	comment	Diamond is Unbreakable: Rohan Kishibe has an internal monologue to weigh his options as an attack is speeding toward his head. An onscreen stopwatch determines that Rohan analyzes his foe, estimates his success rate, and decides to act within 0.2 seconds. Yoshikage Kira, the main antagonist of Part 4, gets beaten up by Jotaro Kujo using Star Platinum. While he is going flying from an onslaught of ORA's, he has time to have a brief soliloquy to himself about how Jotaro's attacks are so fast "it's like he stopped time".
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ecd2d797	comment	Frequently occurs in Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, and the other Infinity Engine game. Depending on the circumstances, it's even possible to have lengthy dialogs with some of the villains while arrows and fireballs are hovering in midair, politely waiting for the conversation to end before they explode.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ed1edf37	comment	Demon Hunter: The Return of the Wings: Gun and Chu's ghost manage to make an entire conversation between the Blood Demon's attacks.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ee66462b	comment	Dr. STONE: During Chrome's fight against Magma in the Grand Bout, Senku explains to him and the others on their team how Chrome needs to hold the lens steady for at least a minute to start a fire, the explanation of which takes well over a minute in the anime. Magma is surprisingly patient, not immediately attacking Chrome.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_eef5470a	comment	Rurouni Kenshin: During Saitou's fight with Usui, they jump and meet each other in midair. Saitou tries to use a stab, but Usui deflects it with his shield. In between deflection and counterattack, while still midair, Usui gets off a couple lines about how round his shield is.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ef588d92	comment	Contraptionology!: Rarity stops running from a swarm of mutant bees long enough to compliment Applejack on her outfit. She then promptly goes back to running away while screaming in terror.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ef9ba9b4	comment	In Revenge of the Sith, Dooku taunts Anakin, which just angers him and drives him to defeat Dooku particularly brutally. General Grievous tries verbal intimidation on Obi-Wan during their duel, but it doesn't work. Obi-Wan and Anakin exchange words during their duel with Obi-Wan trying to reason with Anakin, but it doesn't work in that case either.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_f2041376	comment	In Charmed (1998) whenever using the Power of Three, the demons always remain motionless or nearly so, awaiting their destruction for no obvious reason, during sometimes-long rhymes. There's some evidence to suggest that the spell can affect the demon while it is being said (only blowing the demon up at the end), and when they first defeated the Source, the heroes needed a destruction chant so long that they needed to find a way to hold it down while they said it.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_f36dbe2e	comment	Team Umizoomi may be even worse than Dora in this regard. During almost every chase sequence in the show, the team will be stopped dead by some sort of puzzle for several minutes. But no matter what, even if it takes five minutes to get past the obstacles, whatever they're chasing will apparently also stop just out of frame and wait for them to catch up before continuing the chase.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_f4559fd1	comment	Happens all the time in Kinnikuman and Ultimate Muscle. One of the most blatant examples is the match between the newly-returned Ramenman and Motorman in the Throne arc. Although one of the shorter fights in the arc, it still goes on for a solid nine or so minutes during the anime — even though they clearly state in the next episode that the fight only lasted 37 seconds.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_f565604d	comment	Happens all the time in Eyeshield 21. Football players and spectators can have entire conversations in the middle of plays that last five seconds. The pinnacle is the Deimon-Shinryuji game, where Agon demeans Sena during every block, and Sena has roughly five flashbacks in the course of scoring a single touchdown.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Assassination targets in Assassin's Creed have the uncanny ability to freeze gameplay in order to deliver cryptic, rambling speeches about their motives and how you aren't so different. This despite their having been stabbed through the neck immediately prior. These speeches take place in the Animus White Void Room, implying that the scene in reality may not have played out exactly as it did in the game.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_f8705c18	comment	Hellsing: In Volume 7, a vampire manages to explain how he can tell the difference between bloodtypes by taste — all the while a shell from Harkonen II floats ominously over his shoulder before impact in the next panel. Father Anderson reels off whole Bible passages before he actually starts fighting his opponent, who usually waits patiently for him to walk over and engage them.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_f8956ef3	comment	Happens all the time in YuYu Hakusho. Particularly egregious examples include: When the super-fast flier Jin is flying at Yusuke with his Tornado Fist, Hiei and the Masked Fighter take several seconds to explain what will happen if Yusuke fires his Spirit Gun point blank into the tornado fist. Then Yusuke has time to say, "Let's see who can take a bigger ass-kicking" and call out his attack. During the Dark Tournament, the announcer Koto is very lax on counting when a fighter has left the ring or collapsed on the ground. She often won't start as long as someone is talking. Lampshaded several times, most notably when the games committe rules that Yusuke lost a fight after staying outside the ring for too long, which causes Koto to yell, "Since when do we pay attention to that?". Justified because Koto and several demons in the crowd say that the count is always intentionally delayed to make things more entertaining. Toguro is running at Yusuke to punch him, Yusuke prepares to catch it, and Kuwabara has time to say "Are you crazy?! There's no way in heck you can block his straight-on punch!"
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_f8f51b13	comment	The Unreal Tournament Game Mod Operation Na Pali has the talkative 046. During certain set-pieces such as the imprisonment near the beginning and after being captured a second time, he engages in long monologues that stop the player from moving (they can only take a look at the surroundings).
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_f91de837	comment	In Half-Blood Prince, we see a different problem; in a duel between Harry and Malfoy, Malfoy gets his "Crucio" out first, except that Harry can yell "Sectumsempra!" faster than Malfoy can say the last syllable. Possible subversion in that Malfoy is clearly hesitant to cross the line into actual villainy (such as by casting an Unforgivable Curse), and the scene creates a What Have I Done moment for Harry.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_fa738078	comment	Sailor Moon: While its source material's panel blocking is ambiguous, Act 1 of Sailor Moon Crystal has Tuxedo Mask fully introducing himself and assuring Sailor Moon he'll remember her in mid jump, while looking over his shoulder at her, almost suggesting full power of Flight. Averted when Eudial whips out her flamethrower during Sailor Moon's Moon Spiral Heart Attack — and successfully deflects it. It hits the Daimon she summoned and destroys it, though. Averted for laughs in Sailor Moon Super S, when Cere Cere summons a Monster of the Week named Toge Toge Jo. While Toge Toge Jo is arguing with Cere Cere, Sailor Moon and Chibi Moon then attack Toge Toge Jo and defeat her. The "defeated monster" screen then shows, with Toge Toge Jo saying, "I haven't even done anything!"
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_fadb491e	comment	Episode 3 of Ginga Densetsu Weed has a especially ridiculous example. Weed and the other dogs blabber on and on, and Kaibutsu even has time to turn around and prepare to attack, while Weed is in mid-air. He was not near far enough away before he jumped for them to have done and said all that. He had to have just floated there or something, despite the action lines that seem to indicate he's moving very quickly through the air.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_fb8549c	comment	Deadpool: Deadpool's lung capacity cannot be matched. It has been acknowledged that his endless, inane banter is actually his most dangerous ability, since most opponents are too distracted to pay attention to his moves. Parodied in issue #27 of Vol. 3. Wolverine gives a long speech during a single leap, making Deadpool's friend Ilaney wonder how that's even possible. Former supervillain (and current therapist) Doctor Bong then posits that lengthy mid-air speeches are some kind of mutant power.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_fcf34eec	comment	Subverted throughout Full Metal Panic!, where not only do people not have time to talk in the heat of a big Humongous Mecha battle, but they also lose more time searching for radio frequencies that they keep losing. In the final episode of Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu, Tsubaki's pre-battle speech is so long that Sousuke has time to calmly find his bag, take out his gun, load it with rubber bullets, aim carefully for his head, and shoot him.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_fd314ec1	comment	Kamen Rider Decade: Tsukasa loves making big speeches and people love standing around to listen to them. Pulling out cards, swiping them, and using the K-Touch, however, is blatant off-the-clock action.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_fd7a473d	comment	Subverted in Loki: Agent of Asgard: After a Princess Bride reference by Sigurd, Loki begins to say he has seen the movie as well — and is kicked out the window by Sigurd, taking advantage of the distraction.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_fe8ef766	comment	The Captain America story "Yesterday's Shadows!" has two ordinary guys jump at Captain America. They then somehow manage to yell "He—he jumped back so quickly—we're gonna fall!" while falling from a metre-high stage◊.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ff5835e3	comment	Fractured (SovereignGFC): Discussed Characters often lampshade that this trope is not in effect, as battles that started while they were talking have kept going, or them talking actually takes them away from something they need to be doing.
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Talking Is a Free Action / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In the Next Generation episode "Encounter at Farpoint", Q makes his first appearance before a commercial break. Returning from the break, Picard somehow manages to record a log summing up the current situation and wondering whether to oppose Q, while Q is standing right in front of him.
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Over The Gun (Lets Play) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Something Awful: Dungeons & Dragons (Lets Play) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
TeeQueue (Lets Play) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Terrible Secret of Animal Crossing (Lets Play) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Let's Ramble With Rae (Lets Play) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Chivalry of a Failed Knight / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Coffin Princess Chaika / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Date A Live / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Goblin Slayer / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Heavy Object / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
High School D×D / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Rebuild World / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Shangri-La / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Strike the Blood / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Devil Is a Part-Timer! / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
A Certain Magical Index / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
An Outcast in Another World / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
And You Thought There Is Never a Girl Online? / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Battle Royale / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Best Served Cold / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Bofuri: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense. / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Book of Joshua / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Chivalry of a Failed Knight / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Ciaphas Cain / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Coffin Princess Chaika / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Date A Live / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Deathbound Duke's Daughter / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Everybody Loves Large Chests / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Fever Pitch / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Full Dive / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Ghost Finders / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Goblin Slayer / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Green Eggs and Ham / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Guardians of the Flame / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Heavy Object / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
High School DÃ—D / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
How NOT to Write a Novel / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
I May Be a Guild Receptionist, But I'll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
I'm a Guild Receptionist, but I Hate Overtime So I'm Going to Slay the Boss Solo / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Infinite Stratos / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Isekai Cheat Magician / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Katanagatari / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Magical Warfare / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Momokyun Sword / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Mortal Engines / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
My Name Is Red / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Oathbringer / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Only Sense Online / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Otherland / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
REAMDE / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Rebuild World / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Record of Lodoss War / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Second Apocalypse / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Shangri-La / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Small Favor / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Spellsinger / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Strike the Blood / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Super Powereds / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Super Sales on Super Heroes / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Sword Oratoria / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Tales of MU / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Tara Duncan / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Bone Season / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Bone Season Tenth Anniversary Special Edition / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Devil is a Part-Timer! / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Eye of Argon / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Garden of Sinners / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Hero is Overpowered but Overly Cautious / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Iliad / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Martian / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Pilot's Love Song / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Wax and Wayne / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Wayside School / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Wizarding School Mysteries / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Bud0011	seeAlso	Talking Is a Free Action
DeffSkwadron	seeAlso	Talking Is a Free Action
EdnaAndHarveyTheBreakout	seeAlso	Talking Is a Free Action
FireWalk	seeAlso	Talking Is a Free Action
ModernWarGearSolid	seeAlso	Talking Is a Free Action
TalkingIsaFreeAction	sameAs	Talking Is a Free Action
TalkingisaFreeAction	sameAs	Talking Is a Free Action
TheUnofficialMKVsSFSaga	seeAlso	Talking Is a Free Action
VGExiles	seeAlso	Talking Is a Free Action
AKB49 – Renai Kinshi Jourei (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Air Gear (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
ALL OUT!! (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Aoharu × Machinegun (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Arpeggio of Blue Steel (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Baki the Grappler (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Black Lagoon (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Blame (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Blood Lad (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Boruto (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Brynhildr in the Darkness (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Buso Renkin (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Captain Tsubasa (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Cesare - Il Creatore che ha distrutto (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Chronicles of the Going Home Club (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Claymore (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Deadpool: Samurai (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Digimon V-Tamer 01 (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Dream Eater Merry (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Dropkick on My Devil (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Eyeshield 21 (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Future Diary (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Gantz (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Haikyuu!! (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Hajime no Ippo (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Hayate × Blade (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Hellsing (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
High School Exciting Story: Tough (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Hunter Ã— Hunter (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Inuyasha (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Isuca (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Kill Me Baby (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Kuroko's Basketball (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Love Is in the Bag (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Medaka Box (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Minami Kamakura High School Girls Cycling Club (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Nisekoi (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Noragami (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Phantasy Star Online 2 EPISODE 0 (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Real Bout High School (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Reborn! (2004) (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Rurouni Kenshin (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Sakigake!! Otokojuku (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Soul Eater (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
TerraforMARS (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Hunters Guild: Red Hood (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Law of Ueki (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Triage X (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Trinity Seven (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
UQ Holder! (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Ushio and Tora (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
World Trigger (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Yozakura Quartet (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Zatch Bell! 2 (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Ruler Of The Land (Manhwa) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Veritas (Manhwa) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Critical Hit (Podcast) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
House to Astonish (Podcast) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
PokÃ©mon World Tour: United (Podcast) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Random Assault (Podcast) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
SAYER (Podcast) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Welcome to Night Vale (Podcast) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Bleak Expectations (Radio) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Twitch Trolls Pokemon Loreplay (Roleplay) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
A Destiny of Strife, a Hollow's Quest (Bleach) (Roleplay) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
A Destiny of Strife, a Hollow's Quest (Bleach) (Roleplay) / int_9bf0cce8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Character Development Thread (Roleplay) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
City of Lost Characters (Roleplay) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Freedom City Play By Post (Roleplay) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Record of Lodoss War (Roleplay) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Shadows of the Mind (Roleplay) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Shadows over the South (Roleplay) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
TTR (Roleplay) / int_6c519d08	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Veritable (Roleplay) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Abbott Elementary / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Class (2016) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Coronation Street / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Firefly / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Kamen Rider Build / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Mystery Science Theater 3000 / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Power Rangers RPM / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Square One TV / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Star Trek: Discovery / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Star Trek: The Original Series / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
That Mitchell and Webb Look / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Flash (2014) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Letter People / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Ultra Galaxy Fight: The Absolute Conspiracy / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Brikwars (Tabletop Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Champions (Tabletop Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Cyberpunk (Tabletop Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
DC Heroes (Tabletop Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Fighters United (Tabletop Game) / int_9bf0cce8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Inquisitor (Tabletop Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Ironclaw (Tabletop Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Mutants & Masterminds (Tabletop Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Princess: The Hopeful (Tabletop Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
SenZar (Tabletop Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Dresden Files (Tabletop Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
A Very Potter Musical (Theatre) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Electra (Theatre) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Hadestown (Theatre) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Hamilton (Theatre) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
L'Orfeo (Theatre) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Musical Touken Ranbu (Theatre) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Sera Myu (Theatre) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Magic Flute (Theatre) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier (Theatre) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
AdventureQuest 3D (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Alpha Protocol (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Among Us (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Armageddon MUD (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Assassin's Creed (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Azure Striker Gunvolt 2 (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Battle for Wesnoth (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
BLUE GUARDIAN: Margaret (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Bunny Must Die (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Bushido Blade (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Cave Story (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Champions of Norrath (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Chrono Cross (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Corruption Expanded (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Crusader Kings III (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Dankira!!! -Boys, be DANCING!- (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Dawngate (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Dead Space (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Dead Space (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Deception (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Deltarune (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Demon Hunter: The Return of the Wings (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Desperados: Wanted Dead or Alive (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Deus Ex (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Diablo II (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Distorted Travesty (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Dota 2 (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and The Blight Below (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Dragon Quest VII (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Edna & Harvey: The Breakout (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Elona (Video Game) / int_9bf0cce8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Elona (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Ensemble Stars! (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
FTL: Faster Than Light (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Fear & Hunger: Termina (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Final Fantasy VI (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Fire Emblem Engage (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Front Mission 5 (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Game of Thrones (Telltale) (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Ghost Trick (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Gloria Union (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Guacamelee! 2 (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Guardians of the Galaxy (2021) (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Half-Minute Hero (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Hatred (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Inazuma Eleven (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Kid Icarus: Uprising (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Kingdom Hearts III (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
La Pucelle (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Lifeline (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Lunarosse (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
MARDEK (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Magic Twins (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
MapleStory (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Marvel: Avengers Alliance (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Mega Man ZX (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Mega Man Zero (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Metal Gear (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Middle-earth: Shadow of War (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Mortal Kombat X (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Nexus War (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
no-one has to die. (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Operation Na Pali (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Paper Mario: Color Splash (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Pathologic (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Pokémon Uranium (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Przygody Reksia (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Rakenzarn Tales (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Remothered (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Resident Evil 4 (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
River City Ransom (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Saint Seiya Ougon Densetsu (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Sewer Shark (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Siege of Avalon (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Sly 2: Band Of Thieves (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Standstill Girl (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Star Control (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Starlancer (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Super Mario RPG (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Super Robot Wars (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Tactics Ogre (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Tales of the Abyss (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Tales of Vesperia (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Tales Series (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Last Story (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Longest Five Minutes (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Several Journeys of Reemus (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Sims (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Sims (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Time Bandit (2023) (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Trauma Center (Atlus) (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Urban Dead (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Vandal Hearts (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
X-Men: Next Dimension (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Blue Port J: Summer Sky Prelude (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten / Videogame / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Aoi Shiro (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Coμ - Black Dragon in a Gentle Kingdom (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Dies Irae (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Gyakuten Kenji 2 (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Hakuouki (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Higurashi: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Juuzaengi (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Rewrite (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Slay the Princess (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Umineko: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Virtue's Last Reward (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Yandere-chan (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Zero Escape (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Zero Time Dilemma (Visual Novel) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Arenas (Web Animation) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
But Really Really Fast (Web Animation) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Dorkly Originals (Web Animation) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged (Web Animation) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
gen:LOCK (Web Animation) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Girl-chan in Paradise (Web Animation) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
How It Should Have Ended (Web Animation) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Inanimate Insanity (Web Animation) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Nazo Unleashed (Web Animation) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Star Wreck (Web Animation) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Berserk Abridged (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Bleach (S) Abridged (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Critical Role (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Door Monster (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Epic NPC Man (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Fate/Cero (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Abridged (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Let's Game It Out (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Marble Hornets (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Oxhorn (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
ProZD (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Super Academy (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Sword Art Online Abridged (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon Vietnamese Crystal (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: The Abridged Series (Web Video) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Aware (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Bandette (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Blade Bunny (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Captain SNES: The Game Masta (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Cindersong (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Collar 6 (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Crimson Dark (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
DM of the Rings (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Darken (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Darths & Droids (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
DOUBLE K (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
EATATAU!!! (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Earthsong (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Fake News Rumble (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Fate/Gamers Only (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Goblins (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Grrl Power (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
How I Became Yours (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Kid Radd (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Kill Six Billion Demons (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Klonoa: Dream Crusaders (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
MSF High (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Manly Guys Doing Manly Things (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Nan Quest (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
One-Punch Man (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Our Little Adventure (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Persona 4TW Add-On (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Rusty and Co. (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
SMGPMD (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Scoob and Shag (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Star Mares (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Station Square (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Strange School (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Suicide for Hire (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Super Effective (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Suppression (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Survival Anxiety (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Sweet Home (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Sweet Home (2017) (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Tails Gets Trolled (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Team Fortress 2 (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Chosen Four (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Law of Purple (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Water Phoenix King (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Way of the Metagamer (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
unOrdinary (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Unsounded (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Will Save World For Gold (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Neopian Times Writers Forum (Website) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Ben 10: Omniverse / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Blaze and the Monster Machines / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Darkwing Duck / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Exchange Student Zero / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Gnomeo & Juliet / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
House of Bloo's / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Isle of Dogs / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Kid Cosmic / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Legend Quest / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Little Einsteins / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Marvel Mash-Up / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Marvel's Spider-Man / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Sir Billi / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Sita Sings the Blues / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Superfriends / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Teen Titans Go! / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Dover Boys / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Incredibles / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Incredibles / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The LEGO Batman Movie / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The New Adventures of the Wonder Twins / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Penguins of Madagascar / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Spectacular Spider-Man / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Trollhunters / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Turtles Forever / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Wild Kratts / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
WordGirl / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Zootopia / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Zorro: Generation Z / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
The Acclaimed (Wrestling) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE! / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
R.O.D the TV / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
A Gift of Love / Fan Fic / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Clash of the Elements / Fan Fic / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
talkingisafreeaction	sameAs	Talking Is a Free Action
Akame ga Kill! (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (Manga) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Asura's Wrath (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Eternal Sonata (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
[PROTOTYPE 2] (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Wild ARMs 4 (Video Game) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action
Errant Story (Webcomic) / int_ff5a74c8	type	Talking Is a Free Action

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