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Surrogate Soliloquy
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Your character is alone, but (if literature) you're not using a first-person POV. If a dramatic medium, no one else is in view. On stage, you can get away with a soliloquy (if you're William Shakespeare) because the audience is, you know, right there. If you don't mind Breaking the Fourth Wall you can even do it on screen. You could use Inner Monologue...but for whatever reason, you don't want to go there. So how does one get a lone character to talk without making it look as if they are Talking to Themself? They talk to something, making it The Confidant. An Empathy Pet. A Companion Cube. The mirror (but that's a special case). They ask rhetorical questions of things that are conveniently incapable of answering. They do dialog-based exposition that no one capable of repeating it can hear...but you, the reader/viewer, DO. Unlike Trick Dialogue, it's generally played straight up, but the two can shade into each other. Note that if you are in fact the aforementioned William Shakespeare, you can pull this off with others on stage, if you just ignore them and concentrate on the object at hand (see picture adjacent). Convenient for when you don't want to bring on another character for whatever reason but still want to make them spill their guts. A common variation of the trope involves the speaker using the object as a substitute for a particular person, whether a love interest around whom they Cannot Spit It Out or a deceased relative (here a picture or the grave/tombstone itself is often the patient listener). Another variant: the "object" happens to be both invisible and godlike, i.e., the soliloquy is actually a prayer. Compare Thinking Out Loud, where a character is in fact voicing their thoughts to the open air, or Companion Cube, where the object is treated as an actual character, sometimes for a good chunk of the story (think Wilson in Cast Away); also Captain's Log, where the object is a recording device of some sort (electronic or journal), and they're expected to relate to it. Super Trope of Talking to the Dead. |
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In Sherlock, Sherlock has a skull (a real skull) lying around on his mantlepiece. He later reveals that he talks to it when he's trying to figure out a case by thinking out loud. When John Watson begins to fill the role of the listener, he no longer needs it. | |
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In Dept Heaven Apocrypha, Kylier takes some time to sort out her emotions concerning Nessiah by talking to her griffon, Al, in a solo log. | |
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In "Bitchin' in the Kitchen" from Shock Treatment, Brad and Janet, in separate rooms, address a variety of household appliances. | |
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As does Mulan, using a fountain. | |
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Subverted in Ranma ½; Akane frequently talks to her pet pig P-Chan without knowing that P-Chan is really Ryoga. | |
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Connor from Angel talked to Cordelia - who was in a coma. Does Lorne telling an entire episode to an empty theatre count? |
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Captain Archer of Star Trek: Enterprise does this with his dog, Porthos. | |
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Disney Animated Canon: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Even though Snow White has the typical Friend to All Living Things critters to talk to, she also talks to her reflection in the well from time to time. As does Mulan, using a fountain. Aladdin: Jasmine, ditto. Beauty and the Beast: Belle has a book discussion with some sheep and later complains about Gaston to some goats. However, unlike with most princesses, they don't seem to be able to understand her at all. The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Esmeralda's song "God Help the Outcasts" is delivered to the image of Christ hanging on the cross inside the cathedral. |
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Dexter sometimes confesses his secrets to his son, Harrison, who isn't even a year old. At one point he remarks that he has to stop doing this before the baby is able to understand him. He also confessed to Rita as she lay in her casket at her funeral. | |
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In the Full House episode "The Trouble with Danny", Danny is upset when he overhears his family ranting about how much of a Neat Freak he is. He then goes to the mountains to think and starts talking to the donkey he's riding on. | |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Even though Snow White has the typical Friend to All Living Things critters to talk to, she also talks to her reflection in the well from time to time. | |
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In Pokémon Live!, Giovanni often tells MechaMew2 about his plans and how unstoppable it will be. | |
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Hamlet: | |
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The DCAU: Graveside version in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. And in Static Shock, episode "Tantrum". Virgil's introductory chat with his mother's tombstone leads into a Whole Episode Flashback. |
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In a Garfield strip, camping with Jon and Odie gets on Garfield's nerves, and he tries to start a conversation with a rock. | |
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Speaking of stuffed animals, Bubbles in The Powerpuff Girls would frequently converse with her stuffed octopus, Octi. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Esmeralda's song "God Help the Outcasts" is delivered to the image of Christ hanging on the cross inside the cathedral. | |
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And in Static Shock, episode "Tantrum". Virgil's introductory chat with his mother's tombstone leads into a Whole Episode Flashback. | |
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Very commonly used in Deadwood. Jane and Charlie frequently talk to Wild Bill's gravestone, and Ellesworth speaks to his dog. Most notably, Swearengen speaks to an Indian's head in a box, which he refers to as "Chief," and this becomes a minor plot point when Dan Dority begins doubting his sanity and confronts him on the issue. Sometimes characters will deliberately address people who have no hope of responding or even understanding what they're talking about. Farnum frequently addresses his thoughts to the borderline-retarded Richardson, and Swearengen often talks to the prostitute giving him a blow-job, snapping at her if she ever tries to respond. | |
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Peter Parker calls Mary-Jane on a pay phone in Spider-Man 2, but she doesn't answer. His quarter runs out, but he doesn't hang up, and spills the beans about his Secret Identity and how It's Not You, It's My Enemies to her the dead phone. | |
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Cast Away: Tom Hanks spends four years talking to his Wilson-brand volleyball, which he names Wilson. The screenwriter took the idea from his own experience, when he stranded himself for a week as research and began chatting with a volleyball that washed ashore. | |
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In The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward, to evade The Promise to never tell a person what the steward had done to him, the lord addresses his complaints to a horse. Ignoring the lady sitting there listening; that could be passed off as Exact Eavesdropping. | |
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In New Tricks, Jack would often discuss the details of his current case with his wife's memorial stone. | |
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Farscape—In the episode "Prayer," the former Peacekeeper Aeyrn Sun (whose people dispensed with religion centuries ago), imprisoned on an enemy ship, recounts a story to herself about a vengeful goddess who punished her ancestors for no reason, and arbitrarily chooses this goddess to pray to for the rest of the episode. | |
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The first half of The Confession is done this way, but an affecting variation: the reader doesn't immediately know who or what Tony Stark is talking to; the realisation dawns as the monologue progresses and Tony breaks down, ending with a splash page revealing that he has, indeed, been addressing the bullet-ridden corpse of Steve Rogers. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Aang does this with Momo. After Zuko's Heel–Face Turn, but before Aang has accepted him, Zuko spends a lot of time rehearsing what he's going to say to Aang in front of a large frog with markings that coincidentally resemble Aang's Air-tattoos. |
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Beyond Good & Evil, Jade addresses her Heroic B.S.O.D. to her dog: | |
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In the infamous Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "In the Pale Moonlight," Sisko narrates the story by composing a Captain's Log entry alone in his quarters, shot in a way that makes it look like he's Breaking the Fourth Wall. | |
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Tycho Celchu performs the graveside variant. Apparently it is an Alderaanian ritual called "The Return". Something of a Tearjerker. It also has Holocaust overtones, making it that more depressing. |
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Woo, of Sandra and Woo acts as this to Larissa in this strip from a longer story arc, revealing the fact that Larisa has a secret. Later revealed to be that she has a rare genetic disease that will probably kill her before she's twenty years old. The medication she passes off as insulin is really just a treatment for early symptoms like extreme muscle fatigue and lethargy. | |
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Both the anime and manga finales of Chrono Crusade have a character speaking to Rosette's grave. | |
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Sophie in Howl's Moving Castle likes to converse with hats, mannequins, sticks, scarecrows, and pretty much anything else. But, little does she know that her conversing with inanimate objects actually brings them to life. | |
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The eponymous protagonist of Caitlin's Way would occasionally talk with her horse, Bandit, when she needed to work out a problem. | |
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M*A*S*H has a variation of this in Season 4's "Hawkeye": Hawkeye gets in a jeep accident and walks to the home of a Korean farm family. Finding that he has a concussion, he conducts an episode-long running commentary to keep from falling asleep, addressing the various family members (none of whom speak English), the family dog, even some oxen in the farmyard. Not objects, true, but none of them can talk back. | |
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Yuna from Mahou Sensei Negima! addresses a photo of her mother as though it were her deceased mother. | |
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Similarly, in Marvel: The End, Thanos has destroyed the whole universe, killed everyone else, and, alone in the emptiness, recites how it happened for the benefit of the reader. In the last issue, we discover he was talking with the other survivor, his nemesis Adam Warlock. | |
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The various Duel Spirits for their duelists in Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, particularly Jaden's Winged Kuriboh. | |
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Graveside version also used extensively in Maison Ikkoku. Although half the time there would be another character hidden in the bushes, eavesdropping. | |
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In I Am Legend, the protagonist often talks to his dog, and sometimes to mannequins. | |
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At one point in Preacher, Jesse was separated from Tulip and Cassidy for a long stretch. Fortunately, he adopted a dog to talk to. | |
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Due South: Fraser tells a sleeping Ray V about a woman he once loved. ("You Must Remember This") | |
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In The Goose Girl, the princess forced into a goose girl job laments her fate to an iron stove, since she has made The Promise not to tell a living soul. | |
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Graveside version in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. | |
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Questionable Content: Faye at her father's grave. Lampshaded by Dora here |
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Done in Joe Dirt. Clem practices giving a threatening line to a fire-extinguisher, and later repeats the line to a bully trying to mock the main character. | |
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Oh, God! You Devil opens with the protagonist's father praying. | |
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In Season Three of Danny Phantom, Vlad is seen discussing evil plans with his new cat. | |
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Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. After her daughter is killed, Mrs. Clark goes to the place her body was found to talk to "her" and that's how the police know that she was the murderer. | |
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Kanako and Father Kanae from Maria†Holic both give monologues to their deceased mothers. | |
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Aladdin: Jasmine, ditto. | |
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In Kick Buttowski, the titular character does this with his goldfish (supposedly to make light of the fact that he's directing most lines to his computer screen) when he flips out over Kendall placing as number one on an internet site in "Rank of Awesome". | |
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The Order of the Stick: Roy has an epiphany during a speech to his late father. Roy thinks his dad might actually be listening, but even if he was (at the time, he was stuck in a summoning circle in Azure City), he couldn't or wouldn't reply. Later, Haley would hold these with Roy's corpse, completely unaware that he's there listening. Elan has a one-sided conversation with Therkla's grave. |
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Fruits Basket has Tohru talking to a picture of her dead mother to think things through. | |
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In one episode of the 2000s Strawberry Shortcake series, Raspberry Torte vents her frustrations with her friends to a nearby bird, eventually coming to the appropriate conclusion. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sometimes it involves an inanimate object being used as a stand-in for someone real—there's an episode where Giles asks a chair out on a date. That scene could be interpreted as Trick Dialogue as well. There's also the episode where Spike uses a mannequin to practice confessing his feelings to Buffy, eventually getting mad and beating the crap out of it. And then there was the Buffybot... |
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In Family Guy, Stewie often explains his thoughts and plots to his teddy bear, Rupert. Rupert's also a source for another trope. | |
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Graveside version is used in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. | |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle has a book discussion with some sheep and later complains about Gaston to some goats. However, unlike with most princesses, they don't seem to be able to understand her at all. | |
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About Schmidt: Warren Schmidt, played by Jack Nicholson, has a hard time dealing with his mandatory retirement from his mundane job as an insurance actuary. Feeling useless, he responds to a TV ad by "adopting," for a few dollars a month, an African foster child named Ndugu Umbo to whom he writes a series of frank letters describing his many problems, humiliations and misadventures. Schmidt's voice-over narration of these letters, which must make little sense to Ndugu in far-away Tanzania, reveals his troubled inner life with tragic-comic directness to the film's audience. | |
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - The Tertiary Phase (based on the book Life, the Universe and Everything), the story opens with Arthur living alone on a prehistoric Earth. Most of the story for this section is expressed through him talking about what's happening in a one-sided conversation with some trees, which he talks to in a desperate attempt to prevent himself from going mad. Ironically, his attempt to explain to Ford who he's been talking to all this time ends up with him forgetting the word 'trees' and explaining it as "those things people think you're mad if you talk to, like George III". Also, from the one-sided conversation, it's implied that he's rather racist towards elms. | |
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The prayer-as-soliloquy version: Conan's prayer to Crom before the big battle in the first Conan flick. | |
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