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Talks Like a Simile

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52 feature instances
46 referencing feature instances

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Talks Like a Simile	comment	A character who talks like a simile uses similes in their speech pattern the way a machine gun uses bullets: swiftly, mercilessly, and in quick succession, to the point where this quality becomes a prominent character trait. In a lot of these cases, the similes they use will be about as unusual as a school of fish in the Sahara and more complex than space shuttle wiring, but still the offender will churn them out as they talk, either in casual conversation or in the narration, as though coming up with them as they go along was as natural an act to them as picking on Acceptable Targets. A staple of the Private Eye Monologue and of characters from the Deep South. Has some similarities with Dissimile. Also see Strange-Syntax Speaker, Like Is, Like, a Comma. Truth in Television: there are many people who have this as a Verbal Tic. In certain regions, like the Southern US, it borders on being a facet of the local dialect, sure as a prickly pear's got spines.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_1145d0f7	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_1145d0f7	comment	Eddie Valiant in Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Wolf. This quality did not carry over into the movie.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_117116ef	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_117116ef	comment	The Penguins of Madagascar: The Armarillo Kid often throws around bizarre similes in his dialogue, such as something being "longer than a yellow snake in a bowl of red bean chili".
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Talks Like a Simile / int_18596868	comment	Memoirs of a Geisha is full of these, to the point of distraction at times. The main character's entire motive throughout most of the plot is to get with this one guy, and nearly at the end, when she thinks she's lost her chance forever and has resigned herself to an empty life, they have a scene together where they both admit their mutual attraction. The prose is all tense and brimming with emotion, and he finally goes to kiss her... and she ends the chapter by comparing him to a maid she once saw sneaking a pear in her old geisha house. Caves and eels.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_1cef28ae	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_1cef28ae	comment	Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators: In "Most Wicked Speed", Joe Venice, the L.A.-based Private Investigator who hires Frank and Lu to complete his investigation after he is arrested, always talks like he is providing his own Private Eye Monologue.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_21a4e905	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_21a4e905	comment	Cathy from Monster Buster Club (usually in Gratuitous Rhapsodian).
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Talks Like a Simile / int_2247a14a	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_2247a14a	comment	Eilonwy of The Chronicles of Prydain seasons this with a heavy dash of Cloud Cuckoolander.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_27b0262b	comment	MythBusters: Narrator Robert Lee does this quite a bit, though it's often forgotten because he performs more wordplay than a British crossword.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_2c1809f5	comment	Periodically, Clover from Totally Spies! talks like this.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_342c8c91	comment	Sonic High School is a High School AU fanfiction of Sonic the Hedgehog, except on krokodil. Aside from having Canon Defilement, offensive content and misspellings, this fic stands out because of the frequent, improbable similies. A relatively tame example would be:
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Talks Like a Simile / int_34f616fc	comment	Foghorn Leghorn
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Talks Like a Simile / int_36c89d24	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_36c89d24	comment	In Hannibal, Will Graham will often use a complex metaphor to describe his emotional state. He's from Louisiana.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_3ddddb25	comment	Clay from Xiaolin Showdown. Kimiko often gets annoyed by it and makes fun of him for it.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_400469e	comment	Calvin, when in character as Tracer Bullet.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_4b5e321c	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_4b5e321c	comment	On Doc McStuffins, Hallie is full of unusual phrases that she pulls out at moment's notice.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_50bcf7a6	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_50bcf7a6	comment	This trope is a staple of Dave Strider's vernacular in Homestuck. Other characters also do this, but not to the same extent.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_562e8a6e	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_562e8a6e	comment	Max Payne in spades. Also the in universe show Dick Justice.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_57e02043	comment	Danny's father in Danny, the Champion of the World uses similes a lot, especially when describing doped pheasants falling out of trees: They will be falling out of the trees like raindrops. They will be falling out of the trees like apples. We'll be picking them off the ground like pebbles.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_59151283	comment	The entire cast of Metal Gear, who all talk exactly like Hideo Kojima.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_5a63b046	comment	Amilyn Holdo from Leia, Princess of Alderaan tends to speak in weird metaphors. For instance, she compares a person who works for both sides of a conflict with a muffin: "a muffin always falls the cream side down, so if you cover it with cream entirely, it wouldn't fall". This habit of hers may have to do with her upbringing: she's from a planet Gatalenta known for its deeply spiritual culture reminiscent of Eastern religions; its inhabitants are very much into astrology, meditation, etc. And speaking in koans and metaphors is very common for Eastern religions as well.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_6338b24	comment	Parodied by Jon Lajoie's deliberately terrible "Show Me Your Genitals" trilogy, whose lyrics are roughly 50 percent lazy comparisons — most of which result in some kind of Analogy Backfire ("I'm bad, like the movie Attack of the Clones").
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Talks Like a Simile / int_6a82aa53	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_6a82aa53	comment	Sonty Mick from Unwinder's Tall Comics, a parody of over-the-top Caustic Critics, is very fond of this.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_71275911	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_71275911	comment	In The Long Goodbye, Chandler gets in a bit of self-deprecation, with alcoholic novelist Roger Wade complaining in the course of a drunken rant that writers these days (himself included) use the device too much.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_7219e05	comment	Massie Block from The Clique series continually uses "Are you an X? Then why are you Y?"
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Talks Like a Simile / int_747dc664	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_747dc664	comment	The eponymous character of Fangbone! (and the original Fangbone! Third Grade Barbarian books), as part of his Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_755fadab	comment	Kyon of Haruhi Suzumiya. As per his Little Professor Dialogue nature as a narrator, and the Viewers Are Geniuses nature of the series, it's up to the audience to decide how effective these comparisons actually are to paint a meaningful enough picture.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_7e155b68	comment	Clutch loves this, some songs are filled with similes. Walking In The Great Shining Path of Monster Trucks: "Well I rolled Jesse Helms like a cigarette / And smoked him higher than the highest of the minarets / Jesse James couldn't even handle it / Started looking at me like I was Sanskrit"
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Talks Like a Simile / int_7f624b67	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_7f624b67	comment	Given his time period, Sly Cooper's ancestor, Tennessee "The Kid" Cooper, is sure to say much of these anytime he's on screen in Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_83768720	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_83768720	comment	Philip Marlowe, Trope Codifier for the Private Eye Monologue. (Raymond Chandler's other less famous detectives all do it too; he developed his style when he was writing for the magazines and being paid by the word.) Here's Marlowe giving his first impression of Moose Malloy in Farewell, My Lovely: In The Long Goodbye, Chandler gets in a bit of self-deprecation, with alcoholic novelist Roger Wade complaining in the course of a drunken rant that writers these days (himself included) use the device too much.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_8930ab06	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_8930ab06	comment	In The Pickwick Papers, this is part of Sam Weller's shtick. His father, Tony, does it too.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_94377b17	comment	One of President Valentine's henchmen from Part 7 repeats the phrase "docile like a winter catfish" or some minor variation of it five times in the single chapter he's in, making him one of the most memorable minor characters in the part.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_994af351	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_994af351	comment	Angel Starr from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney talks like this, and all the similes are about lunch. The metaphors are somewhat forced, though, as Phoenix silently notes.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_9c5ce692	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_9c5ce692	comment	Invoked in The Fox and the Hound 2 over and over again.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_9f438539	comment	Doglands: Pace frequently uses odd similes, like saying his master is "blind as a can of sardines".
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Talks Like a Simile / int_a485ad0f	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_a485ad0f	comment	Outrageous like-simile-talking seems to be a favorite trait of comedic video game critics, seeing that The Angry Video Game Nerd is also well known for his scatological similes regarding the shitty games he plays. Certainly you've heard about this business with diarrhea dumps in his ear and roadkilled skunks and the downing-with-beer thereof?
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Talks Like a Simile / int_a5549ed0	comment	Jesus and his parables. Socrates, too.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure DIO does this all the time in Part 3: he compares Jotaro's stoic power talk towards him to a student rushing to meet deadlines, and asks a cashier to bring him his severed leg "like a stewardess serving champagne and caviar to a passenger in first class". Jotaro throws it back in his face during the climax, comparing being able to perceive frozen time while unable to move like being pulled underwater right before you come up to the surface for a breath. One of President Valentine's henchmen from Part 7 repeats the phrase "docile like a winter catfish" or some minor variation of it five times in the single chapter he's in, making him one of the most memorable minor characters in the part.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_b618b457	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is chock full of them, particularly negative similes describing exactly what something is unlike:
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Talks Like a Simile / int_b86fe5e5	comment	A Prairie Home Companion's Guy Noir, Private Eye is fond of these.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_b9d947a4	comment	The Script Assassin from Kappa Mikey.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_c0c57462	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_c0c57462	comment	This trope is invoked quite a bit in Chrono Trigger, most notably by Queen Zeal.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_c35714d6	comment	Happens a few times in Blackadder: "You really are as thick as clotted cream, that's been left out by some clot, and now the clots are so clotted, you couldn't unclot them with an electric de-clotter, aren't you, Baldrick?" "... as cunning as a fox what used to be Professor of Cunning at Oxford University but has moved on, and is now working for the UN at the High Commission of International Cunning Planning..." "The stickiest situation since Sticky the Stick Insect got stuck on a sticky bun."
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Talks Like a Simile / int_c3c3dfc	comment	DIO does this all the time in Part 3: he compares Jotaro's stoic power talk towards him to a student rushing to meet deadlines, and asks a cashier to bring him his severed leg "like a stewardess serving champagne and caviar to a passenger in first class". Jotaro throws it back in his face during the climax, comparing being able to perceive frozen time while unable to move like being pulled underwater right before you come up to the surface for a breath.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_c4282b71	type	Talks Like a Simile
Talks Like a Simile / int_c4282b71	comment	Applejack from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. It comes standard with her stereotypical Deep Southern drawl.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_cad487df	comment	Maguro of Sushi Pack has a tendency to do this.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_cfc70bf6	comment	Beret Girl in An Extremely Goofy Movie, introduced by performing a poem containing a series of similes for life, uses metaphors liberally in her common speech as well.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_d4efb984	comment	Blanche of The Golden Girls, being from deep southern Georgia, sometimes ends up doing this, especially when waxing poetic about her youth and looks. Big Daddy, her father, does it even more.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_d68df17d	comment	Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear (and also in his newspaper articles). The effect is amplified by the fact that many of them reference random subjects pulled out of nowhere apparently on the spur of the moment. "It's an Audi! It weighs as much as the moon!" "(Critic has said car X is better than car Y)? Yes, in the same way that treading on a rusty nail is better than having sex with the entire sixth form of a girls' school!" He could probably make good money selling a best hits compilation DVD of his similes over the years. "Tastes exactly like a hot Turkish urinal"? In one interview, Clarkson actually attributed his success to this, saying that when he first became a motoring journalist, cars were more boringly samey than they had been for years, and he stuck out by his strategy of picking on something really minor and using an outrageous metaphor to describe it ("that rev counter looks like a woman's bits!")
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Talks Like a Simile / int_e5ae92df	comment	The theme song of F.A.T.A.L. was likened by one reviewer to the Cookie Monster chasing a drum kit being pushed down a flight of stairs.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_e8d46fd6	comment	Similarly, in Pibgorn, a noir-ish detective (who was actually a demon but didn't know that until fairly recently) always uses this for his dialogue.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_ec80dae4	comment	Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw does this quite often, his similes being outrageous and bizarre, often to illustrate the negative aspect of the video games he reviews. He's mentioned insults being as offensive as "being smacked in the balls with your own dead dog," voice acting as unpleasant as "being raped in the ear by a man wearing a sandpaper condom," (but that was his roommate, and "not in those exact words, obviously") and Mario as "as big a sellout as a character can get without turning tricks for a penny on the New Jersey turnpike."
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Talks Like a Simile / int_f31d7d98	comment	Drawn Together is extremely fond of these.
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Talks Like a Simile / int_f3c3ca42	comment	The Tick, moreso in the cartoon than the comic book series.
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