History Main / TalksLikeASimile

* [[EverythingIsBigInTexas Sandy Cheeks]] from ''{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}''. It comes standard with her stereotypical {{Deep South}}ern drawl.

* Cathy from ''MonsterBusterClub'' (usually in Gratuitous Rhapsodian)

* Periodically, Clover from ''TotallySpies'' talks like this.
* Rolf from ''EdEddNEddy''.

* Outrageous like-simile-talking seems to be a favorite trait of comedic video game critics, seeing that the AngryVideoGameNerd 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?

** ZeroWingrish-spewing Fawful in the handheld ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi Mario & Luigi]]'' games does it as well.

* This trope is a staple of Dave Strider's vernacular in {{Homestuck}}. Other characters also do this, but not to the same extent.

* {{Nightwish}}'s song 'whoever brings the night' begins with the line "We seduce the dark with pain and rapture, like two ships that pass in the night."

A staple of the {{private eye monologue}}. Has some similarities with {{Dissimile}}. Also see StrangeSyntaxSpeaker, LikeIsLikeAComma.

* Similarly, a noir-ish detective [[spoiler:(who was actually a demon but didn't know that until fairly recently)]] ''always'' uses this for his [[PrivateEyeMonologue dialogue]] in ''Pibgorn''.

** ZeroWingrish-spewing Fawful in the handheld ''MarioAndLuigi'' games does it as well.

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, [[SelfDemonstratingArticle 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 [[AcceptableTargets acceptable targets]].

-->-- '''Dimentio''', ''[[PaperMario Super Paper Mario]]''

* The mysterious Dimentio in ''[[PaperMario Super Paper Mario]]''. See the page quote.

* ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''

A staple of the {{private eye monologue}}. Has some similarities with {{Dissimile}}. Also see StrangeSyntaxSpeaker.

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, [[SelfDemonstratingTrope 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 [[AcceptableTargets acceptable targets]].

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 [[AcceptableTargets acceptable targets]].

* [[ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] does this quite often, his similes being outrageous and bizarre, often to [[AccentuateTheNegative 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 this troper's particular favorite, [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] being "as big a sellout as a character can get without turning tricks for a penny on the New Jersey turnpike."

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* [[{{Discworld}} Terry Pratchett's narration]]

** That [[{{Dissimile}} Doesn't work]].

* Angel Starr from ''Phoenix Wright: AceAttorney'' talks like this. The metaphors are somewhat forced, though, as Phoenix [[FirstPersonSmartass silently]] notes.