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.īut on the other hand, they watch and comment those replays while the combat is still going on.

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. They can also blast themselves along, jetpack-style, but only for very short periods. He was participating in a speed eating contest for Trix cereal disguised as a young girl named Trixie Lee.īy the time he finished talking and was ready to start eating, the contest was over. See also Year Inside, Hour Outside, Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me, Plot Time, Acoustic License, and Magic Countdown.īut he takes so long that by the time hes finished, theyve already crashed into the ground, prompting the other to say, Too late. Talk to the Fist is this tropes feared enemy, Killed Mid-Sentence is its biggest subversion, and Exposition Beam can bypass it.Ĭontrast 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. This is a case of Rule of Fun spouting a Bond One-Liner during combat is awesome, but no one would do it when it would impair combat performance. 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 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.Įnemies will often be present, but theyll hold off on attacking for this purpose. Its 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.

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. The Superhero can quip to his hearts content and explain his abilities while dueling one insignificant mobster, or deliver a Kirk Summation during the course of a single Finishing Move.

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