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Terse Talker
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Character talks in shorthand. Often avoids "being" verbs or sentence subjects. Often due to keeping journal. Makes character more distinctive/memorable. Annoying to some. Prone to Punctuated! For! Emphasis!. Likes Laconic Wiki. Contrast Motor Mouth, Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. Compare Beige Prose, The Quiet One. |
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Rorschach from Watchmen is always like this when talking, but his journal and internal monologue switches between this and outbreaks of fluency. Still skips articles and pronouns in journal. This seems to emulate shorthand writing, a preferred method of writing in journals or reports when one wants to quickly take note of something, focusing on writing as little as possible while still being able to maintain a cohesive narrative. The overall point of this style of writing is putting practicality before presentability, which seems to be Rorschach's mantra on how he lives out his day-to-day life in general. | |
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Divinity: Original Sin II: The Sallow Man prefers to communicate through non-verbal Telepathy; when he speaks out loud, he hoarsely forces out one word at a time, as though it's difficult or painful. | |
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In the Continental Op stories by Dashiell Hammett, one of the Op's fellow operatives, Dick Foley, is described as talking "like a Scotchman's telegram." | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): The speech patterns of San and Thor tend to slip into this at times when they're agitated, distressed, or, in San's case, just excited. | |
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Gwen from Sleepless Domain is rather stoic and rarely speaks in more than one or two words at a time. | |
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Subverted in Death Race 2000. Frankenstein talks this way when being interviewed by the press, as befits a cold-blooded villain whose face has undergone extensive reconstructive surgery. However, it's all an act—Frankenstein is actually a Legacy Character and this trope is only to conceal this fact. When the mask comes off, he looks and talks like anyone else. | |
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Noël from Sound of the Sky likes one word answers if possible. More talkative when drunk. | |
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On Gilmore Girls, Jess liked talking this way largely because he can't stand Stars Hollow's cutesy ways and to troll the adults. He's only seen speaking more eloquently when he's speaking to Rory or trolling Dean. Frequently lampshaded by him and everyone else. | |
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The telepod saleswoman in MS Paint Fanventure PAY DAT RENT!!! only ever speaks in single-word sentences. | |
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From the Angel episode "In the Dark", Oz and Angel catch up on Sunnydale gossip: | |
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Parodied by The Simpsons. | |
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In Justice League Unlimited, the Question, Rorschach's reverse-double-Expy, does this when he's figuring out the conspiracy and hadn't slept in days. "Not alternate universe. Time loop!" It highlights his increasing Sanity Slippage at the time, as he usually speaks in a normal - if monotonous - manner. | |
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Yandere Simulator: Geiju Tsuka, leader of the Art Club, is described as "a man of few words", and lives up to his description. He talks in sentences of two or three words, in stark contrast to other characters in the game. The default task of the students doesn't work for him because of this. | |
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Mac in The Dresden Files hoards words. he almost never speaks in complete sentences, usually limiting his communication to single words or phrases. In Changes, when Harry explains that his daughter has been kidnapped, the event is so shocking that Mac actually speaks an entire paragraph. | |
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Mannie, narrator of The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, talks like this, skipping short pronouns (such as "it") and articles (such as "the") when not strictly necessary for clarity. Makes him sound vaguely Russian, and is not common in Luna, but experience as a computer programmer has gotten him into the habit of dropping extraneous 'null terms', as he sees them, from vocabulary. | |
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Ulath in the Sparhawk series. Often will sum up a complex idea with one word and let others figure it out. | |
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Transformers: Just about everything Omega Supreme ever said was two-word sentences, on the order of noun-adjective ("Repairs complete. Disaster averted.") Characters may do this if badly injured or fatigued. |
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A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky: Nox has a sermon on people who don't talk much, directed at people who don't talk much: | |
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Parodied on Freakazoid!. | |
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L'le in The Keys Stand Alone speaks this way. He blames the big scar on his throat, saying it makes speaking painful. Mostly a put-on; it's part of a personal myth (he can speak normally if need be). | |
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It happens sometimes in Penny Arcade when they make a joke that falls short of expectations, and they try to explain it in sentence fragments. | |
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Eustace Scrubb writes like this in his journal entries. | |
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Zz'dtri from The Order of the Stick, Evil Counterpart to Vaarsuvius, never speaks in complete sentences. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas: One of the Courier's companions, Boone, will alternate between this method of speech and speaking in complete sentences. These also tie in to the two personalities he displays in the course of conversations with him—the classic Cold Sniper and a more emotional, generally decent, but heavily traumatized man who just happens to be one of the most lethal people in the Mojave. There's Ulysses in the Lonesome Road add-on, who somehow manages to combine this with Warrior Poet. |
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Happens in Undertale if you decide to kill everyone. Save point fluff changes to just "X left" and "Determination." New description text from the Fallen Child is also terse. It's a marked change from a neutral or pacifist playthrough where the prose is fairly loose and comical. | |
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In the Red Dwarf episode "White Hole", Holly has her intelligence increased by an enormous amount at the expense of her lifespan: 3.17 minutes, thus she switches to this way of speaking to conserve her life (when she isn't shut off completely). This comes to full effect when the titular White Hole shows up: she and Rimmer (eventually) have a few-worded conversation that ends with Holly disappearing and producing the solution for them on a data drive in less than a second. | |
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Sten in Dragon Age: Origins. | |
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Abathur from StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, and also a geneticist, speaks like this quite a bit. | |
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The "That Yellow Bastard" yarn of Sin City starts with Hartigan's introduction: "One hour to go. Last day on the job. Not my idea. Doctor's orders. Heart condition. Angina, he calls it." | |
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In The First Law trilogy, Grim is The Quiet One, often staying silent for days. When he does talk, it's usually only a few words. Dogman notes that when he does make an observation, it's usually to say something that doesn't need saying. | |
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Jack Wynand in Haven talks in short, sometimes fragmented, sentences due to his throat injury making speaking difficult. | |
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Strix from Paladins is a quiet Cold Sniper who only speaks when he has to. When he does speak, he usually doesn't use more than four words. | |
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In an episode of The Office, Kevin decides to use fewer and simpler words to save time, to the annoyance of his co-workers. They point out that he's not saving time with it because he confuses them and therefore need clarification of what he means. | |
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In Brave10, Sasuke finds it easier to talk with animals than with people and tends to use Hulk Speak to communicate. | |
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The Walking Dead (2010): The Whisperers use this as part of their lifestyle of living among Walker herds. They speak to each other in low whispers and keep their sentences as short as possible when guiding groups of walkers. | |
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Or, as alternative sources would have it: "Fuck you." | |
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Superman would sometimes do this when severely injured or exposed to Kryptonite. | |
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Mad Max, with the exception of the first film (where he even explains detailedly to a bandit about the Life-or-Limb Decision he's now in). | |
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Willa Dragonfly from Latchkey Kingdom. Some people call her mute, though it's unclear whether they're joking or actually believing it. | |
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Dee Vasquez in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney speaks almost exclusively in short sentences. This can make it difficult to get any information from her in the cross-examination. | |
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Bug Fables: The NPC running the Termite City Bomb Shop never says more than two words at a time. Such as "[Price] berries." when purchasing an item, "Done." when one is bought, and "No space." if the party's inventory is full. | |
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Maria from Angel Down talks like this, to the point of rarely speaking in full sentences. | |
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Ken Ellis in morphE speaks like this when Asia gets to call him in Chapter 3. | |
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IT-HE Software does this with Am-Shaegar's diary. | |
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The Batter from OFF tends to give one or two-word answers to things. | |
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Primary narrator Candy in Emergence considers standard English syntax inefficient. There are occasional parts with a different narrator (such as Kim), written in more normal style. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: Surprisingly to modern audiences, the Hulk originally talked like this prior to the rising popularity of the Savage Hulk personality, speaking perfectly grammatical English but very gruffly. In most of his more intelligent personas, particularly the Green Scar, he often speaks like this. Betty Ross in her "Red Harpy" form only ever talks in short sentences, usually only going up to seven words at the most. Mainly because even when she's not bad-tempered in that form, she's just generally grouchy and irritable, since it's an expression of her many, many anger issues. |
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Granblue Fantasy has Galleon. In her mortal form, she only ever says one word at a time, using telepathy to convey what that word is supposed to mean. In her dragon form, she uses Hulk Speak and is a little more verbose, but not by much. | |
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Lyle from the Animal Crossing series. He talks like this often. Bang. | |
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From the Gensokyo 20XX series, we get this with Youmu, who mostly said "Muh." being about two years old and, often, either when translated or not, they tend not to be in a complete sentence. | |
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After a long night patrolling and slaying, Buffy often can't be bothered giving detailed after action reports, replying with "Vampires, killed 'em." However, in "Bad Eggs", it's because she doesn't want people to know she'd been making out with Angel instead of searching for the vampire Gorch brothers. | |
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Kratos speaks this way in God of War (PS4) and its sequel. He is, after all, from Laconia. The Raising Kratos documentary on the making of the earlier game calls out the casting of Chris Judge including the question, "How much can you convey in a grunt?" | |
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The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction Flash Fog features an Obstructive Bureaucrat named Greg who speaks like this because he thinks it makes him sound authoritative and intimidating. | |
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Drax the Destroyer also spoke like this, at least during Annihilation and volume 2 of Guardians of the Galaxy. After being revived for volume 3, he began moving towards the movie's Literal-Minded interpretation. | |
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Evolve has the tracker Crow and cyborg Torvald, neither of which are keen on conversation (particularly Crow). They even have a "conversation" to highlight it. | |
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Text messaging or Twitter character limits tend to cause this. Although, some people tend to create threads with multiple posts or use the twitlonger application. | |
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Honest Trailers did the trailer for Moonfall like this to highlight the movie's stupidity ("China good. Halle Berry nice NASA lady, and also mom. Patrick Wilson sad NASA man, and also dad. [John Bradley] eats pills and says funny words."). | |
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Rammus of League of Legends responds to any and all orders from his summoner (you, the player) with stuff like "Yup" and "Okay." In fact, Rammus has a whopping six lines, only two of which make it as far as two syllables. The most that anyone has ever heard him say in the lore itself was "Shut up." | |
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Agent Superball from the Telltale Sam & Max: Freelance Police games does it all the time. | |
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Two characters have this habit in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Dedue, Prince Dimitri's loyal vassal, and Shamir, the Cold Sniper mercenary. The two actually bond over their brevity, liking how they both get to the point and don't waste time on needless banter. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Oz. Witness this exchange from "The Zeppo": From the Angel episode "In the Dark", Oz and Angel catch up on Sunnydale gossip: There's a hilarious scene in "Earshot". Oz's internal dialogue is a long monologue on the philosophical implications of Buffy being able to read their thoughts. His only spoken dialogue is "Huh." After a long night patrolling and slaying, Buffy often can't be bothered giving detailed after action reports, replying with "Vampires, killed 'em." However, in "Bad Eggs", it's because she doesn't want people to know she'd been making out with Angel instead of searching for the vampire Gorch brothers. |
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The crux of Ah... and Mm... Are All She Says. Tanaka is the roommate and editor for a young hentai artist named Toda who is an Elective Mute that usually speaks in moans rather than complete sentences due to being "slow at arranging her thoughts." Despite this, Tanaka can fully comprehend all of Toda's odd vocalizations and is able to serve as a translator for the rest of her colleagues. | |
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Ronon Dex on Stargate Atlantis. Witness his entire mission report: | |
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Family Guy has Ollie Williams, the Channel 5 weatherman who speaks in quick, loud, and short sentences. His speech pattern even somehow runs in the family: |
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The Surgeon General from Give Me Liberty talks in exactly the same way as Rorschach. | |
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Final Fantasy VIII: In the original Japanese script, Fujin's dialogue boxes only contain single Kanji symbols. The English translation copes with this by having her speak IN ALL CAPITALS, and in sentences one or two words in length. In both cases she drops the shtick at the end of the game when she pleads Seifer to turn back and abandon his insane crusade. | |
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Sport-otoko from Please Tell Me! Galko-chan always talks laconically. | |
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Suske en Wiske: Jerom talks in telegram language. | |
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In the original French and Matthew Ward's popular English translation, the narrator of The Stranger talks like this. | |
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Cassandra does this a fair bit in Angel of the Bat, in an attempt to bring attention to her poor speaking skills. | |
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The narration of "This Is The Title Of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times In The Story Itself" by David Moser slips into this periodically: | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Worf tends to speak in extremely short sentences. Maybe six words at most. No more. Especially given that he Hates Small Talk. For example, in "The Survivors": | |
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