Strange Minds Think Alike / Comic Books

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• In All-Star Batman & Robin, the Boy Wonder, both Dick Grayson, Age 12 and Black Canary comment that the term "Bat-mobile" is "kind of queer."
• In Asterix in Corsica, a young Roman soldier eager for his career prospects volunteers for duty in Corsica — which has "good chances for promotion" due to most of the Romans there being hopeless cases sent to Corsica as punishment, is compared to Salamix, a Corsican who hit his head and was never quite right again by some old Corsicans discussing things. Later, when trying to capture the heroes, he orders his men to "search the Maquis", leading one of them to say "He's as crazy as that nut Salamix!"
• At the start of Grant Morrison's run on Batman, Commissioner Gordon was hit with a dose of The Joker's laughing gas. It wasn't fatal, but he had to spend some time in a hospital. One morning has him reading in the paper about a fat guy who got beheaded in Iraq, laughing about how they could have found his neck. Batman later pays him a visit, and makes the same comment. That actually scares Gordon.
• Everyone who meets Batman comments on his height, it seems, usually to the effect of "I thought you'd be taller." (For the record, he's 6'2".) This even extends to other members of the Bat-family. At this point, it's gone far beyond merely this trope to full-blown Running Gag territory.
• Depending on the Writer, this applies to Batman and Superman. In an issue of No Man's Land they have a short talk, before they see something they have to deal with, saying that they will come back soon, going to opposite sides at the same time and coming back at the same time apologizing for making the other wait.
  • Played With (but usually Inverted) in Superman/Batman, where Batman's thoughts always somehow echo Superman's own, and vice versa - when Clark is thinking "Bruce is probably thinking this", Bruce will be thinking "Clark is probably thinking this", or one will say "I love X thing" and then the other will think "I hate X thing", etc. Or they'll talk about their mutual love/hatred of two separate things, but the important thing is that they always think these things at the exact same time.
• In Cable & Deadpool, everyone who meets suave superthief the Cat immediately asks if they can see the tattoo on his stomach. How, exactly, any of them even knows that he has one is never really explained. Also, in the finale, Deadpool decides it should be symbiont instead of symbiote. Bob, on the other end of the city, decides the same thing.
• Italian stories for the Disney Ducks Comic Universe tend to use this to explain why exactly Donald and Daisy are still together:
  • In a Paperinik (Donald's superhero/antihero alter ego) story Donald had Gyro invent a device that brings someone an hour forward in time, so Daisy would understand how he felt every time he was late to their dates due him having to arrest criminals as Paperinik. After finding out about the device (that he had used as a crime-fighting weapon as Paperinik) Daisy is initially outraged...but when Donald comes to apologize, she thanks him for helping her understand, even saying it was very romantic.
  • Donald and Daisy have independently come up with the same excuse to justify their apparent closeness to their respective superhero alter-egos, namely that they're very good friends.
  • In Double Duck, Donald at one point disguised himself as the villain and lay in ambush until the right moment to unmask himself. Kay K, Donald's partner in the series, was really upset and took a while to get over it...but Daisy shrugged it off after a moment of anger because she does the same all the time when working for Scrooge's Private Intelligence Agency.
• In the first arc of Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol, an imaginary world has taken over this dimension. Professor Caulder persuades the philosopher who created it to tell him the way to shut the world down: By confronting its leaders with a paradox that will prove they don't exist. Meanwhile, Rebis, who is trapped in the imaginary world with no outside contact, looks around and decides the only way to stop it from existing is to confront its leaders with that paradox.
• Iznogoud: When Iznogoud decides to learn to draw, Wa'at Alahf says "it's a difficult art for beginners to master. Many try, but few succeed, and the standards required of young people these days are...". Later on, Iznogoud's art instructor Tahbari al-Tardi says the same thing word for word. The narrator later says the same thing.
• In Justice League International's inaugural "Moving Day" story, both Captain Atom and Boris Razumihin use, on separate occasions and not yet having met each other, the excuse "a tiny accident. A minor mishap. A slight misunderstanding. An infinitesimal error" when having to account for their mistakes.
• In Marvel Adventures: The Avengers A.I.M.'s secret base was in the sewer, because that was the most secret place that existed. And the Leader also had a secret base, in the sewer, right next to A.I.M. Thank you Karl!
• In Mini Marvels: Paperboy Blues, Harry Osborn frantically gives Spidey the money for his newspapers while saying "All funds said and dunds!" (to distract him from the fact he was taking his girlfriend out on a date). Later on, Quicksilver says the same thing for no reason as he answers The Avengers call.
• In My Little Pony Micro Series Issue#1 when Twilight reveals she had lied about Celestia threatening to replace her if she turned Twilight away from assisting her. Jade actually laughs and reveals that's how she got the job of looking over the library in the first place.
• In the first issue of the second volume of Runaways, with supervillains starting to appear in Los Angeles after the death of the Pride, a friend of Victor Mancha comments on how there are usually never any superhumans around there, adding, "Except Wonder Man, but he don't count." Later, supervillain team The Wrecking Crew are robbing a bank. Their leader, Piledriver, tells the rest of the crew that with the Pride gone, the city is ripe for the taking, since there had never previously been any superheroes with the Pride driving supervillains away — "Except Wonder Man, but he don't count."
• Scooby-Doo! Team-Up: Subverted. In Issue #59, two government agents agree there's only one team to call to deal with a mysterious supernatural menace. One of them called Mystery Inc., and the other called the Challengers of the Unknown.
• In She-Hulk, She-Hulk and four other superheroines suddenly find themselves trapped in an alternate dimension by a mysterious entity:
  Thundra: SHOW YOURSELF, COWARD! FACE THE UNFETTERED FISTS OF THUNDRA!
  She-Hulk: Too bad her name isn't "Fundra", because that would have sounded cool.
  Sue Richards: I was just thinking that...which scares me a little bit.
• Ultimate Spider-Man: After Peter gets fired from the Daily Bugle, he goes on a internal tangent while web-swinging about having to get a job at the mall selling corn dogs on sticks. Later, after having a change of heart, Jameson gives him his job back and then asks if he thought he was gonna work at the mall selling corn dogs on sticks.
• Mark Waid and Grant Morrison: According to their collaborators on 52, they would often come up with story ideas simultaneously and started Finishing Each Other's Sentences, and not the kinds of sentences you'd expect:
  Waid/Morrison: "Ralph and Sue Dibny. Ghost Detectives!"

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