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* The 1990s ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' cartoon, while free of the first two, gave its portrayal of ComicBook/{{Storm}} a very off-putting habit of giving the weather ''verbal commands,'' which usually ended up sounding like a mix between "Luckily My Powers Will Protect Me" and a mystic incantation. Storm's verbal commands were lampshaded during the '90s [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries Spider-Man animated series]] in the first X-Men crossover episode. Upon witnessing Storm's dramatic "[[CallingYourAttacks Power of lightning, strike again!]]", Spidey jokingly raised his hand and declared, "Power of webshooters, get... really sticky!" Heck, they were lampshaded in the first episode. Rogue's first lines in the series are telling Storm to ease up on it. Storm also has the odd habit of trying to attack Magneto with lightning in every fight, at which point Magneto will shout something like "Fool! Have you forgotten that electricity and magnetism are related?"

** ComicBook/{{Venom}} seems to be friends with this trope, as whenever someone pulls out a gun and shoots him, he'll say something along the lines of "Ha! My other protects me from the bullets!" Similarly, every time another character takes advantage of one of his main weaknesses, he'll say, "No! My symbiotic other cannot stand fire/loud noises!" Although arguably, that creates a bit of fridge logic because the only time you don't hear the bang of a gun is when you're hit with it, but seeing as the symbiote protects him, it really shouldn't.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'', Superman informs readers he survived his rocket crashing on Earth because of his Kryptonian invulnerability.

** Any old issue will include early scenes where the characters call each other "Brother-in-law" or the like. Nobody really talks like this, especially when they're in the middle of combat. However, the authors felt the need to explain each character's family relationships to new readers, which resulted in unrealistic and redundant dialogue. Even in the late 90s Chris Claremont's run, when the characters had been around for almost 40 years, would sporadically show Johnny addressing Reed as "brother-in-law", but that might just be Claremont being his usual verbose self.

** Spider-Man can't enter a fight without letting everyone there know he is using his spider-sense to anticipate and dodge their attacks. One would think he would would try to keep his most valuable and hidden ability a secret to ''at least'' his most ingenious enemies. But no, of course not. This makes Spider-man's thoughts particularly funny later in a ''Civil War''-based issue where he becomes suspicious of Tony Stark for ''somehow'' knowing about his spider-sense, stating he had only told Aunt May and Mary Jane about it. Sure.

** In ''ComicBook/ActionComicsNumber252'', Superman informs readers he survived his rocket crashing on Earth because of his Kryptonian invulnerability.

** Spider-Man, especially in the older issues, but still pretty often today. Its like he can't enter a fight without letting everyone there know he is using his spider-sense to anticipate and dodge their attacks. One would think he would would try to keep his most valuable and hidden ability a secret to ''at least'' his most ingenious enemies. But no, of course not. This makes Spider-man's thoughts particularly funny later in a "Civil War"-based issue where he becomes suspicious of Tony Stark for ''somehow'' knowing about his spider-sense, stating he had only told Aunt May and Mary Jane about it. Sure.
*** Though everyone knowing about it has occasionally worked to Spider-Man's advantage. At one point, he interrogates a Mook, claiming that spider-sense makes him a LivingLieDetector. As he internally notes, that not how it works, but very few people actually know enough about it to understand he's bluffing.

* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}:
** In ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 1972}} the first volume]]'', setting aside Linda Danvers' need to inform readers that she is Supergirl, she is about to use her XRayVision or how her powers work, in issue #2 she flies to The Fortress of Solitude and explains that is [[Franchise/{{Superman}} her cousin's]] Fortress of Solitude, which only he and she can unlock with a special massive key.
** In the third page of ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 1982}} Supergirl Vol 2]]'' #1 Linda Danvers explains she is Supergirl -as is changing clothes and flying off- and she has SuperSenses. One page later she comments she is using her freezing breath as she blows away and freezes a shower molten steel.
* Any old issue of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' will include early scenes where the characters call each other "Brother-in-law" or the like. Nobody really talks like this, especially when they're in the middle of combat. However, the authors felt the need to explain each character's family relationships to new readers, which resulted in unrealistic and redundant dialogue. (Even comics in Chris Claremont's run in the late 90s, when the characters had been around for almost 40 years, would sporadically show Johnny addressing Reed as "brother-in-law", but that might just be [[SignatureStyle Claremont]] being [[PurpleProse Claremont]].)
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** For several ''years'', ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} managed to say "Only my ruby-quartz visor can contain my optic blasts," in literally every single issue of ''Uncanny X-Men''... quite possibly the worst CatchPhrase of all time.
** Which is surely rivaled by the vast number of times ComicBook/{{Psylocke}} referred to her psychic knife as "the focused totality of my psionic powers"[[note]]Fortunately, she no longer HAS her psychic knife, so this trope has since seen its day.[[/note]]. That kind of thing happened a lot in ''X-Men'' back in those days, although this one happened less often than a lot of fans like to believe. It is remembered so well because of its inherent clunkyness.

--->''Magneto:'' You haven't defeated me yet! I can still escape you, flying by means of magnetic repulsion!

** From an ''X-Men'' comic circa the OZT saga: "What's happening? Mutant power to randomly deflect any other mutant power thrown at me isn't working!" -- said by Random while being blasted into a puddle. Who the hell talks like this when they're being ''blasted into a puddle''?

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Mr. Fantastic finds himself trapped in a small room, slowly being filled with poisonous gas. "Luckily," he says aloud, "I can expand my lungs to hold my breath for an extended time!" [[FridgeLogic Imagine how much more air you could have had in your lungs if you hadn't said that out loud!]] [[FridgeLogic Especially since a thought bubble would've worked just fine.]] In #17 he talks about how he can slip through the air holes in cement, and how he must quickly slip through.

* ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueCryForJustice'' has several of the silliest examples of this trope in recent memory, with a good bit of PurpleProse thrown in as well. The height of stupidity comes during the battle between Prometheus and the [[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League]], where he ''explains to ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} that he is about to shoot her with a [[MagicBullets magic bullet]] that will wound her despite her FlyingBrick status. [[WhatAnIdiot And then Supergirl just stands there and lets him shoot her]]''.

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* Any old issue of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' will include early scenes where the characters call each other "Brother-in-law" or the like. Nobody really talks like this, especially when they're in the middle of combat. However, the authors felt the need to explain each character's family relationships to new readers, which resulted in unrealistic and redundant dialogue.

* This was parodied relentlessly and to great effect in the episode "Survivor Man" from ''Series/{{The Office|US}}''.

* ''Franchise/StarWars: ComicBook/{{Legacy}} 28'', introducing new readers to the ''Legacy'' series and the ''Vector'' CrossThrough at once, was probably the most egregious example of this in ''StarWars'' comics, when almost all characters engaged in this kind of exposition.

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* Skyhawk, superhero in Boston, in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse''. He comes across as a big dork ''all'' the time, so this is just one of his annoying traits.
* [[MemeticMutation "Silly bitch, your weapons cannot harm me! You don't know the fuck I am? I'm the Juggernaut!"]]
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** Another character who seemed compelled to remind the reader of her powers every other issue is Rogue, who would constantly have an internal dialogue about how "Ah cain't touch another human bein', or mah powers'll absorb their thoughts and abilities."

* This was parodied relentlessly and to great effect in the episode "Survivor Man" from ''Series/TheOffice''.

In modern times, this has largely been abandoned. Readers are expected to be familiar with the characters or use the internet to fill in their knowledge gaps. [[ModernAge More recently]], [[DramatisPersonae introductory text pages at the beginning of the issue]] have come into fashion. Also, fans can just look up whatever the character can do online these days, anyways. Even if it's someone really obscure like Stiltman. (But then, perhaps surprisingly, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin his name pretty much says it all]]. He was a pretty lame villain. [[RuleOfThree You can read about him on the Internet.]])

* When ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' included stories about other Creator/{{Sega}} games, the magician Xavier in the ''EternalChampions'' adaptation was prone to declaring, "Your barbaric weapons are no match for the power... of magick!" or something similar. Unfortunately, [[{{Narm}} his magic never actually seemed to work very well.]] However his staff ''was'' sufficient enough to turn brains to jelly.

* When ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' included stories about other {{Sega}} games, the magician Xavier in the ''EternalChampions'' adaptation was prone to declaring, "Your barbaric weapons are no match for the power... of magick!" or something similar. Unfortunately, [[{{Narm}} his magic never actually seemed to work very well.]] However his staff ''was'' sufficient enough to turn brains to jelly.

** In ''Comicbook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'' -Supergirl's first story-, while Superman examines a rocket's wreckage, he thinks he survived his crash because he came from Krypton, a world of super-gravity, which gave him powers and invulnerability. Later, as Kara tells the history of Argo City, a random Argonian tells "The nuclear explosion converted our shattered planet into Kryptonite, an element whose radiations can poison and destroy us in time!"

* Bear Grylls of ''Series/ManVsWild'' regularly employs a real-life version of this trope; he pauses at some point in the episode just to explain to the viewers how particularly dangerous a certain course of action would be, often with a story about someone who was killed trying that exact same thing. Then he does precisely that, followed by his crew. To date, he is not dead. Of course, it helps that Bear is [[{{Badass}} ex-SAS]] and is well-trained for all kinds of crazy shit like that.

** In the first page of ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 1982}} Supergirl Vol 2]]'' #1 Linda Danvers explains she is Supergirl -as is changing clothes and flying off- and she has SuperSenses. One page later she comments she is using her freezing breath as she blows away and freezes a shower molten steel.

** Spider-Ma, especially in the older issues, but still pretty often today. Its like he can't enter a fight without letting everyone there know he is using his spider-sense to anticipate and dodge their attacks. One would think he would would try to keep his most valuable and hidden ability a secret to ''at least'' his most ingenious enemies. But no, of course not. This makes Spider-man's thoughts particularly funny later in a "Civil War"-based issue where he becomes suspicious of Tony Stark for ''somehow'' knowing about his spider-sense, stating he had only told Aunt May and Mary Jane about it. Sure.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan''. Especially in the older issues, but still pretty often today. Its like he can't enter a fight without letting everyone there know he is using his spider-sense to anticipate and dodge their attacks. One would think he would would try to keep his most valuable and hidden ability a secret to ''at least'' his most ingenious enemies. But no, of course not.
** This makes Spider-man's thoughts particularly funny later in a Civil War based issue where he becomes suspicious of Tony Stark for ''somehow'' knowing about his spider-sense, stating he had only told Aunt May and Mary Jane about it. Sure.

* For several ''years'', ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} managed to say "Only my ruby-quartz visor can contain my optic blasts," in literally every single issue of ''Uncanny Comicbook/{{X-Men}}''... quite possibly the worst CatchPhrase of all time.

** ''Comicbook/NewMutants'' used to do this all the time, constantly reminding readers what the kids' powers were. Sunspot: "Careful Bobby, you're strong, not invulnerable!"; Cannonball: "Good thing ah'm invulnerable when ah'm blasting."; Magik griping about Limbo; etc.
* LampshadeHanging in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', when ComicBook/WonderGirl makes fun of ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'s tendency to explain that he's using tactile telekinesis. Kon-El (and by extension, the writers who want to make him distinct from Super''man'') protests that he has a very unusual power and it's not always clear to onlookers how it actually works.
** ''Everyone'' on YJ made fun of that.
*** At least once every issue, Superboy will explicitly state that he's doing something with his tactile telekinesis, and at least once every issue, [[TheFlash Impulse]] will Lampshade the fact that at least once every issue, Superboy will explicitly state that he's doing something with his tactile telekinesis.
** It started in the very first issue:
-->'''Robin''': Superboy, you think you can manage to..?
-->'''Superboy''': Pull it out? Not a problem. All I have to do is touch it and my tactile telekinesis can-
-->'''Impulse''': Man, will you stop blabbering about your stupid power?! You act like you're filling in someone who's just met you!
* ''StarWarsLegacy 28'', introducing new readers to the ''Legacy'' series and the ''Vector'' CrossThrough at once, was probably the most egregious example of this in ''StarWars'' comics, when almost all characters engaged in this kind of exposition.
* [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Mr. Fantastic]] finds himself trapped in a small room, slowly being filled with poisonous gas. "Luckily," he says aloud, "I can expand my lungs to hold my breath for an extended time!" [[FridgeLogic Imagine how much more air you could have had in your lungs if you hadn't said that out loud!]]
** [[FridgeLogic Especially since a thought bubble would've worked just fine.]]
** In #17 he talks about how he can slip through the air holes in cement, and how he must quickly slip through.
* From an ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' comic circa the OZT saga:
--> "What's happening? Mutant power to randomly deflect any other mutant power thrown at me isn't working!"
--> said by Random while being blasted into a puddle. Who the hell talks like this when they're being ''blasted into a puddle''?
* Used during a Paul Jenkins remake of the original ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' story. Unlike other examples it was not ridiculous, as it was a mix of LuckilyMyPowersWillProtectMe and ToThePain. Magneto was explaining how he was using his magnetic powers to torture and kill a trio of teens who brutally murdered a young mutant girl to the teens as he was killing them.
* ComicBook/{{Venom}} seems to be friends with this trope, as whenever someone pulls out a gun and shoots him, he'll say something along the lines of "Ha! My other protects me from the bullets!"
** Similarly, every time another character takes advantage of one of his main weaknesses, he'll say, "No! My symbiotic other cannot stand fire/loud noises!"
*** Although arguably, that creates a bit of fridge logic because the only time you don't hear the bang of a gun is when you're hit with it, but seeing as the symbiote protects him, it really shouldn't.

* When ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'' included stories about other {{Sega}} games, the magician Xavier in the ''EternalChampions'' adaptation was prone to declaring, "Your barbaric weapons are no match for the power... of magick!" or something similar. Unfortunately, [[{{Narm}} his magic never actually seemed to work very well.]]
** However his staff ''was'' sufficient enough to turn brains to jelly.
* Particularly hilarious examples can be found in British comics of a certain period, when even ''slapstick'' strips were prone to this, resulting in such dialogue as "Oh no! The dishes have slipped out of my wet hands!" and "Yahoo! I've sat on a red-hot horseshoe!"

* The ''ComicBook/MetalMen'' were kinda-sorta an "educational" superhero team, with its members being robots constructed of the metals that give them their names. Naturally, their personalities and powers are informed by the properties of those metals. In their earliest appearances, they never passed up a chance to talk about those properties out loud. For instance, in Metal Men #2, a fallen power line is repaired by Lead, who notes that he's a non-conductor and can safely handle exposed electrical wiring.
** This facet was lampshaded during DC's 52 event. While Will Magnus was repairing Mercury, he became prone to constantly and excitedly asking, "Did I ever tell you I was the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?"

* On the other hand, the [[ComicStrip/SpiderMan newspaper comic]] version of Franchise/SpiderMan plays this trope straight. Spidey spends more time telling the audience what he can do than he does actually doing it.

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* The cheesy-yet-strangely-fascinating English dub of the Japanese sci-fi film ''Film/PrinceOfSpace'' has many examples of the eponymous Prince conspicuously ''not'' being harmed by evil alien laserbeams, and smugly declaring "Your weapons are useless against me!". Though it does seem kind of necessary considering ''they keep shooting at him every single time''. Prince of Space was ''not'' immune to weapons in the original Japanese script, which also explains why he keeps dodging them.
** To quote the riffers, "But they scare the crap out of me anyway".
---> '''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Servo]]''': Empirical data suggests the accuracy of my earlier contention that your weapons against me are without merit! Ha ha!
** “It is my considered advice that you discontinue use of said weapon, ha ha!”

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* Bear Grylls of ''ManVsWild'' regularly employs a real-life version of this trope; he pauses at some point in the episode just to explain to the viewers how particularly dangerous a certain course of action would be, often with a story about someone who was killed trying that exact same thing. Then he does precisely that, followed by his crew. To date, he is not dead.
** This was parodied relentlessly and to great effect in the episode "Survivor Man" from TheOffice.
** Of course, it helps that Bear is [[{{Badass}} ex-SAS]] and is well-trained for all kinds of crazy shit like that.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' averts this quite well most of the time, where it's frequently left ambiguous what a character's exact abilities are. We still don't know the full extent of what Sylar is ([[spoiler: or was, since WordOfGod states he lost all powers but his telekinesis and his "intuitive aptitude" after the infection in season 2]]) capable of; it wasn't revealed until more than halfway through season 1 that Peter could mimic others' powers when he wasn't in proximity to them, etc. On the other hand, Knox is the living embodiment of this trope. What powers him up again? Oh yeah, ''fear''. Wait, what was it? He seems to be over it by episode 9, but good grief.
** [[FanWank He could simply be trying to intimidate his enemies in order to become stronger]], but the Peter example was just a result of him learning [[HowDoIShotWeb how to shot web]].

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* In ''XMenLegends II'', villains are constantly using this to explain their powers and weaknesses to the heroes, to the point that it's clear the writers believed that Players Are Morons:
-->'''Living Monolith''': "You cannot hurt me so long as I am in the sunlight!" [Which, once you've started blocking the mirrors, leads to-] "No! Don't do that! I neeeeed the sunlight!"
* ''{{Starcraft}}'' II instructions as provided by Zeratul in Wings of Liberty: "This chasm is vast. It is fortunate that I can phase through the shadows to the other side."

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* Parodied in [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2007/10/13/episode-906-fair-warning/ this]] ''WebComic/EightBitTheater''. And probably justified, since Thief talking about his common sense and memory like they were exclusively elven traits, and bragging about them, is [[CulturalPosturing totally in character]].

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* The 1990s ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' cartoon, while free of the first two, gave its portrayal of ComicBook/{{Storm}} a very off-putting habit of giving the weather ''verbal commands,'' which usually ended up sounding like a mix between {{Luckily My Powers Will Protect Me}} and a mystic incantation.
** Storm's verbal commands were lampshaded during the '90s [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries Spider-Man animated series]] in the first X-Men crossover episode. Upon witnessing Storm's dramatic "[[CallingYourAttacks Power of lightning, strike again!]]", Spidey jokingly raised his hand and declared, "Power of webshooters, get... really sticky!"
** Heck, they were lampshaded in the first episode. Rogue's first lines in the series are telling Storm to ease up on it.
** Storm also has the odd habit of trying to attack Magneto with lightning in every fight, at which point Magneto will shout something like "Fool! Have you forgotten that electricity and magnetism are related?"
* After acquiring the ability, Tony Stark in IronManArmoredAdventures was incredibly fond of explaining what Extremis was and what it did whenever he used it, which was about once every episode, usually by giving a play by play exposition about him accessing the bad guy's computer system. It got to the point where "it's called Extremis!" became a kind of CatchPhrase.
* ''{{Batfink}}'': his two catchphrases were; "my supersonic sonar radar will help me" and "your bullets cannot harm me, my wings are like a shield of steel". It's almost always subverted, in that his wings are exactly like a shield of steel, and most of the thing aimed at Batfink are entirely capable of bypassing steel shields one way or another (say, by being capable of cutting through steel). The villain typically points this out just after Batfink has delivered the line.
** They lampshaded it in ''Hugo's Hoke'', when Hugo Agogo's HatePlague prompts The Capable Karate to sarcastically ask "Why don't you get some new dialogue?"
* ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Batman: The Brave And the Bold]]'':
--->'''Batman''': Don't bother with mind control, Grodd. I'm blocking it with a technique I learned in Tibet!
** A bit ironic use of this trope, because isn't Batman ''not supposed to have powers?''
*** "[[CrimefightingWithCash Luckily this rare ability I was able to do because I spent my summer in a foreign country on a trip that I paid for likely in small bills as a way to grieve for my parents will protect me!]]" doesn't flow as well, though.
** Batman is referring to a mental exercise. Same way he has prevented Martian Manhunter from reading his mind in several media. It's a very effective technique, it goes something like this: [[spoiler: Na-na-na-na-na-na-na, BATMAN!]] Or [[spoiler:"[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Frere Jacques]]"]].
--->[[spoiler: ''This is the song that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend.'']]
* The ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' had ''everyone'' narrate what they were doing. For example, when ComicBook/LexLuthor blasts Superman with a "molecular disintegrator" and it fails, Superman goes, "Nice try, Luthor. My HeatVision will disintegrate your disintegrator!"

[[folder:WebOriginal]]
* Skyhawk, superhero in Boston, in the WhateleyUniverse. He comes across as a big dork ''all'' the time, so this is just one of his annoying traits.
* [[MemeticMutation "Silly bitch, your weapons cannot harm me! You don't know the fuck I am? I'm the Juggernaut!"]]

* The 1990s ''WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}}'' cartoon, while free of the first two, gave its portrayal of {{Storm}} a very off-putting habit of giving the weather ''verbal commands,'' which usually ended up sounding like a mix between {{Luckily My Powers Will Protect Me}} and a mystic incantation.

* LampshadeHanging in ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', when WonderGirl makes fun of ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'s tendency to explain that he's using tactile telekinesis. Kon-El (and by extension, the writers who want to make him distinct from Super''man'') protests that he has a very unusual power and it's not always clear to onlookers how it actually works.

** Let's not forget Meredith in Season 3. It's a good thing that ''almost every single one of her appearances'' is heralded by her holding out a tongue of flame in her hand, because [[ViewersAreMorons otherwise we wouldn't remember]] [[PlayingWithFire her pyrokinesis.]]

* In ''XMenLegends II'', villains are constantly using this to explain their powers and weaknesses to the heroes, to the point that it's clear the writers believed that [[ViewersAreMorons Players Are Morons]]: