Punctuated For Emphasis / Webcomics

Examples! Of! Punctuated! For! Emphasis! In! Webcomics!

• Aecast: "Out! Of! My! Way!"
• Tower of God — Lurker uses this while killing Nia.
  "You see, I hate guys like you the most. The moment you enter this world you become a bad guy. Don't pretend to be a good guy. Because you END! UP! LIKE! THIS!"
• Sleepless Domain: "Maybe if I wasn’t the strongest one, and also the LEA. DER."
• The Order of the Stick:
  • Roy: "YOU! BROKE! MY! SWORD!!"
  • And, despite the effects being undone in the very same comic: The cart. Is. Full.
  • "ONE! WORD!"
  • "What. Did you. Say?"
  • "ONE! MINUTE!"
  • Also the title of this strip: Saddest. Comic. Ever.
  • "I just wanted to make sure you understood that you are wasting. Your. Time."
• xkcd:
  • FUCK. THAT. SHIT.
  • Mission. Fucking. Accomplished.
• The Sparks in Girl Genius do this when they are in "intimidate mode".
  • What. Do. You. Want.
    • That example could in fact be considered a Spartan Staredown since it involves two characters glaring at one another and exchanging Punctuated For Emphasis lines until one backs down.
  • Do. You. Understand?
  • This! Was! Not! My! Plan!
• Thog Infinitron: LET... HER... GO... NOW!
• Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures: "YOU! BEEPED! MY! NOSE!"
  • "What. Did. You. Call. Me?"
  • Dan: MY GRANDMOTHER! DESTROYED! A CITY!?!
• The Adventures of Dr. McNinja:
  • "You. Lit. Yourself. On fire. WHY DID YOU LIGHT YOURSELF ON FIRE."
  • Close. The. Dooooooors!
  • That. Was. Pathetic.
    • Please. Don't. Stabmeintheeyeballs.
  • However, subverted with this guest comic by Ryan North:
  Dr. McNinja: I DON'T! EVEN! Think his work after Ghostbusters was that good anyway! Do you?
• Breakfast of the Gods: I... SHALL NOT... CRUMBLE!!
• From Digger:
  • "That. Ain't. Right." The statement was made in response to the heart of a dead god, forced to beat.
  • Also, the cold servants speak exclusively like this; each word gets its own bubble with them.
  • "Has a name! NAME — IS — ED!"
• Mike from Sexy Losers: I...AM NO...ORDINARY...MAN! His delivery of this line was what elevated him from simple comedy to being actually sort of awesome. That is, if you look past the fact that he's masturbating and just see it from his own artistic perspective.
• From Eversummer Eve:
  Alasdair: That! Is! Not! A! Mage!! That! Is! A! Freaking! Dragon!!
  Amadan: Did I forget to mention that?
• Darths & Droids:
  • "You. Killed. My. Partner."
  • And, of course, "It. Was. Pasta!"
  • From earlier on: "What. Did. You. Do?"
  • Cyborgs. Under. My. Command!
  • In the comments!: WHY? DOES? GRIEVOUS? STILL? HAVE? A? BUNCH? OF? INTERNAL? ORGANS???
  • You don't. Need. To. Shout.
  • Also, there's Pete's line in this comic.
• Parodied on VG Cats with Super Mario Bros. characters.
• Sam & Fuzzy: "WHY?! ARE?! YOU?! HERE?!"
• Lampshaded (as so many things are) in Narbonic, here.
  Titus: That many periods in one sentence can't be good for your brain.
  Helen: Nor yours. Sorry, Titus.
• Looking for Group — "Worst. Portal. Ever."
• Erfworld: royalty. is. obsolete.◊ I think not
• Questionable Content: "Go. Eat. A. Cookie."
  • I SAID SUMMON. THE. WHOOOOOOOOOOOOORES
  • WE! ARE! BROS!
• Triquetra Cats recently has this exchange;
  Gemini: You have the right to remain silent, you have-
  Platinum: Dozens of civilian hostages, why do you think I travel coach?
  Gemini: We will still bring you in-
  Platinum: Over a pile of corpses? Do it! Show your mother that no matter what you claim to be, You. Are. Just. Like. Me.
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:
  • "Not. Wearing. Pants."
  • "This. Is. Warrior science!"
• Taken to extremes in Achewood: "Dear. God. I. Am. Not. A. Religious. Man. But. Please. Help. Me. See. The. Connection. Here."
  • "I...AM...RUUUDE!"
  • "RAY! YOU WERE A FAT CHILD! YOU... WERE... A... FAT... CHILD!"
• Megatokyo: STOP. TEASING. ME.
• In Freefall:
  Florence: Sam. Remove. Your facial tentacles. From my arm.
• The Last Days of FOXHOUND: I. Don't. Speak. WOLF!
• Stick Figure Hamlet manages to find one of these in its Shakespearean text: "Tell me, Laertes... Why. Thou. Art. Thus. Incensed?"
• Errant Story: "I have a third of an entire species' knowledge sodomizing my frontal lobe... And. Yet. You. Are. STILL! ...Giving me shit about my stupid grades."
• Slightly Damned: WE! ARE NOT! HOOKERS!!
• Buttersafe: Every. Genital. You. Own.
• From Homestuck: This... Is... Motherfuckin... BlAsPhEmY!!
  • This... Is... STUPID
  • YOU SAID. PUT THE BUNNY. BACK IN. THE BOX!!!!
  • Caliborn's "quirk" is this (he speaks in all caps and ends every clause with a period).
• Hi to Tsuki to Hoshi no Tama: When people can guilt-trip you about freeing a slave, what do you say?
  Rowan: That. Was so. Screwed. Up.
• Looking for Group: THIS! IS! SOOBA!
• Joe Loves Crappy Movies: Parodied when Joe and Phil ponder how Leondias would translate into modern life. It is visualized as an Imagine Spot.
  "This! Is! SODA!"
• The Word Weary: Parodied:
  • Harry the Hipster: This sounds familiar. Is this At the Drive-In?
  • Morris: No. This is Sparta.
• In The Fourth, Lord Skärva is less than impressed with his tour of a lava dungeon.
  Skärva: Let's. Just. Move. On.
• Sarilho: SHUT. YOUR. MOUTH.
• Sluggy Freelance ("The Research and Development Wars"): "Orbital. Weaponized. Dimensional. Flux. Agitator." It makes more sense in context than usual for this comic: Riff is referring to a Doomsday Device made by setting up a network of "flux agitators" that can not only be used as the ultimate weapon to blast absolutely anything on a world-wide scale into another dimension but is also prone to rip the fabric of reality in the dimension where they are used, while parallel uses in different dimensions will have had caused a cross-universe disaster in the future from which he has returned. And all of that makes sense in context, too.
  • "Because if that bunny ever got the power of a god we would all painfully know about it and it '''wouldn't... be... pretty!'''
• Times Like This:
  • Fuck. You.
  • That's! Fucking! Enough!!!
• Ménage à 3 gives us an awesome example when Yuki lays the smack down on Didi. "Gary. Is. Mine."
• Bittersweet Candy Bowl has a few examples:
  • "Get. Away. From her."
  • "What. The hell. Are you doing?"
• Kevin & Kell:
  • "Don't. Mess. With. Burrowers."
  • "They're...encroaching...on...my...territory?"
• Outworld: Melissa: "STOP! STARING! AT! MEEEEEEEE!"
• Precocious: "THE BAKE SALE IS SCIENCE!!"
  • Brick Joke: It's also salable.
• Not a Villain has a couple by Kleya:
  • "Pathetic. All. Of. You."
  • "I. Will. Be. Nice."
• Eerie Cuties has this piece after three girls end up in a closet instead of openly at a party:
  Tia Darkness: Who. Drew. The. Circle?
  Neige and Sorbet: (pointing to the other) She did!
• Ctrl+Alt+Del has one issue where Ethan, after playing an unnamed video game, calls the game company to complain that the game sucks. After three hours of being escalated to various "higher-ups" in the company, having to repeat himself over and over again, by the end of it Ethan is so frustrated and worn out that all he can manage is "GAME! SUCK! THE ASS!"
• From Namesake: "How... dare... YOU!"
• El Goonish Shive: "Do. You. Understand. Me?"
• Godslave has Turner and his "Why won't. You. Break?!"
• When Pebble jokingly claims he eats cats to Wren in Pebble and Wren, she says, "You. Eat. Cats?1?"
• Sticky Dilly Buns: Ruby learns from Dillon that he got his false info on "being on the down low" from Nathan, who claims to have seen it on Oprah. Dillon adds that Oprah never lies. When Ruby points out, "NATHAN WASN'T OPRAH," each word is in its own speech bubble.
• Tales from Somewhere:
  • In The Legend, "The Spot", a fight breaks out over a faceless character declaring that a seat at the bar was their favourite spot.
    "This.Is.My.Spot."
  • In The Legend, "Nose Problems", Nandiel expresses his anger over Morten having bit the bridge of their nose.
    "You! Bit! My! Nose!"

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