History Main / WallOfBlather

* ''Webcomic/WildAdventures'': In this ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' fan webcomic, protagonist Vanya is finally allowed to take a break from her job to reduce burnout. When her friend Sono says it must have been rough getting her dad to agree to the break, Vanya says "Yeah... agreeing..."; cue DescriptionCut to a panel of her dad and the family Dusknoir (who's advocating on her behalf) having an argument about the matter that's partially obscured by said two characters while Vanya bemoans that they're doing it again.

* Genos's backstory in the [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/2d922126b6582368bf54a69c489c4f37/tumblr_mj5emjY9oC1qbxqfpo1_1280.png manga version]] of ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' is recounted by two panels full of deliberately-undersized text, the latter of which Saitama [[MediumAwareness stares up at annoyance]] before yelling at the cyborg to shorten to 20 words or less. The anime depicts this by having Genos rattle off progressively faster while cutting to Saitama's exasperated expression.

* Genos's backstory in the [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/2d922126b6582368bf54a69c489c4f37/tumblr_mj5emjY9oC1qbxqfpo1_1280.png manga version]] of ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' is recounted by two panels full of deliberately-undersized text, that latter of which Saitama [[MediumAwareness stares up at annoyance]] before yelling at the cyborg to shorten to 20 words or less. The anime depicts this by having Genos rattle off progressively faster while cutting to Saitama's exasperated expression.

* Genos's backstory is revealed like this in the [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/2d922126b6582368bf54a69c489c4f37/tumblr_mj5emjY9oC1qbxqfpo1_1280.png manga version]] of ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan''. Saitama doesn't listen to it (he's too busy being irked by it) and yells at the cyborg to shorten it to 20 words or less.
** The anime depicts this by having Genos rattle off ''all'' that text, cutting to Saitama's exasperated expression and having Genos speed up throughout the scene.

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** When GeniusBruiser Roy and his (unknown to him yet) EvilCounterpart, DumbMuscle Thog [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0051.html go in a dungeon together]], the trope is taken UpToEleven with Roy's BlahBlahBlah speech bubble being obscured with Thog's thought bubbles.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'''s Kankri Vantas is an over-the-top [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad social justice warrior]] who loves to go on [[WallOfText long sermons]] given the slightest provocation (or, in fact, none at all). Particularly ridiculous ones are displayed in several columns of unreadably tiny text just to drive the point home.

* Vaarsuvius of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has had this treatment a few times. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0010.html Here's the first of several]].

* Izuku Midoriya can fall into this frequently when analyzing someone's Quirk in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia''.

* ''Webcomic/{{Hollowtale}}'': In the Part 4, when Papyrus learns the Knight's name, he immediately starts blathering about the Royal Guard of the Knight's world, with his MotorMouth speech obscured behind himself, the Knight and Sans.

* ''Webcomic/DorkTower''
** [[http://www.dorktower.com/2003/01/22/comics-archive-380 Recounting the adventure]].
** [[http://www.dorktower.com/2008/07/14/archived-comic-1059 And laughter]].
** [[http://www.dorktower.com/2011/02/28/dork-tower-monday-february-28-2011 And lists]].
* ''Webcomic/DreamKeepers'' has a few in the prelude:
** [[http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=107 When they are looking to corral you]].
** [[http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=187 The children talk in the background]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Footloose}}'': [[http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=385 Sisterly concern]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}'' has [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2009/03/31 two]] [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2010/06/12 examples]].

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-06-08 Pooch blathering to Percy's girlfriend]].

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* ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'': [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/2011/05/12/333-advice/ Kaepora Gaebora bores Link to tears.]]
* ''Webcomic/CritterCoven'': Florence has a habit of rambling on about subjects like [[http://crittercoven.com/comic/chapter-1-page-7/ the origins of witch’s hats,]] or [[http://crittercoven.com/comic/chapter-3-page-31/ how ghosts can be banished.]]

** [[http://www.dorktower.com/2003/01/22/comics-archive-380/ Recounting the adventure.]]
** [[http://www.dorktower.com/2008/07/14/archived-comic-1059/ And laughter.]]
** [[http://www.dorktower.com/2011/02/28/dork-tower-monday-february-28-2011/ And lists.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Footloose}}'': [[http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=385 Sisterly concern.]]
* ''Webcomic/YangChild'': [[http://yangchild.comicgenesis.com/d/20030826.html Rambling.]]
* ''Webcomic/DreamKeepers'': Prelude
** [[http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=107 When they are looking to corral you.]]
** [[http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=187 The children talk in the background.]]
* Sometimes used in ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures''. For example, in the Abel's Story bonus arc, Abel's friend Mink is quite the chatterbox, [[http://missmab.com/Comics/Ab_060.php as shown here.]]
* Vaarsuvius of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has had this treatment a few times. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0010.html The first of several.]]
* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'' has a lot of fun with this. It also has speech bubbles through which show a small patch of what's obviously a larger WallOfText.
* ''Webcomic/{{Precocious}}''
** [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2009/03/31 An example.]]
** [[http://www.precociouscomic.com/archive/comic/2010/06/12 Another.]]
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/view.php?date=2002-01-24 Too whoozy to attend.]]
* ''Webcomic/DreamScar'' [[http://www.dream-scar.net/index.php?id=125 She's really rambling.]]

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2008-06-08 Pooch blathering to Percy's girlfriend.]]
* In ''Webcomic/AntiHeroes'', [[http://www.antiheroescomic.com/comic/72 overriding a monologue.]]
* In ''Webcomic/MeatShield'', [[http://www.meatshield.net/archive/182-hmm-no-i-was-listening-really/ Leonid isn't exactly listening to Disparoxus.]]
* In the first strip of ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'', the characters talk amongst themselves and their speech bubbles partially hide the DM's captions, who is rattling off the campaign's endless backstory in the background.
* In the second strip of ''Webcomic/OurLittleAdventure'', Angelika and Rocky's loud argument is [[http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0002.html the background of the last panel.]]
* ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'', often uses a variant where we only see the part that fits within in a speech bubble, as if viewing a Wall of Blather through an elliptical window. [[http://dresdencodak.com/2007/06/30/in-the-company-of-science/ For instance, rambling on and on about a new found robot.]] This creates the effect that the listener is drifting in and out of a spiel they can't be bothered to pay full attention to, or [[TechnoBabble couldn't follow if they tried]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Widdershins}}'' [[http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-2nd-2011 Malik blathers about the gun without realizing what its being real means.]]
* In ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest'',
** [[http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/archive/page-63/ Grizzlygum's complaints about their being in the forest.]]
** [[http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/archive/page-305/ Tomato's attempts to get the Nightmare Knight to put him down.]]
** [[http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/cq/page-498/ Peridot's distraught recitation of her problems.]]
* In ''Webcomic/ThreeJaguars'', [[http://threejaguarscomic.net/?comic=good-marketing-4 the clipboard of slogans while Artist and Business Manager discuss marketing.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'''s Kankri Vantas is an over-the-top [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad social justice warrior]] who loves to go on [[WallOfText long sermons]] given the slightest provocation (or, in fact, none at all). Particularly ridiculous ones are displayed in several columns of unreadably tiny text just to drive the point home.
* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' uses this [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-01-20 here]] and [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-10-21 here]] with the WallsOfText fading out and [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-09-20 here]] with an argument continuing in the background. In the last two examples the full text is given in the commentary.
* In ''Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit'', [[http://brunothebandit.com/d/19980720.html the introduction strip had Bruno's speech bubble over the narration -- which he can apparently hear.]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}'': [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1181 Asako does this to Yuki]] only to be abruptly interupted [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1182 a few panels later]] when Yuki realizes there was vital information in that wall of blather.
* ''Webcomic/SandraOnTheRocks'': When Lavali (for reasons of her own) gets Sandra to talk at length about her work, the details that Sandra offloads are unimportant to the plot, [[http://www.sandraontherocks.com/strips-sotr/lets_talk_about_youuuu so the trope shows up.]]
* In an early ''Webcomic/FlakyPastry'' strip, a potential roommate [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=2 fails to grasp the meaning of "tell us a LITTLE about yourself"]].

* In an early ''Webcomic/FlakyPastry'' strip, a potential roommate [[http://flakypastry.runningwithpencils.com/comic.php?strip_id=2 fails to grasp the meaning of "tell us a LITTLE about yourself"]].

* ''Webcomic/CritterCoven'': Florence has a habit of rambling on about subjects like [[http://crittercoven.com/comic/chapter-1-page-7/ the origins of witch’s hats]], or [[http://crittercoven.com/comic/chapter-3-page-31/ how ghosts can be banished]].

** [[http://www.dorktower.com/2003/01/22/comics-archive-380/ Recounting the adventure]]
** [[http://www.dorktower.com/2008/07/14/archived-comic-1059/ And laughter]]
** [[http://www.dorktower.com/2011/02/28/dork-tower-monday-february-28-2011/ And lists]]

* ''Webcomic/YangChild'': [[http://yangchild.comicgenesis.com/d/20030826.html Rambling]].

* Describing delicious food will cause ''Manga/ShokugekiNoSoma's'' Leonora Nakiri to break into this. It's especially notable as Leonora normally speaks very broken Japanese, but when the Wall of Blather kicks in she's instantly fluent.