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Apr 12,`08 12:07pm | Quote |

Do your characters have any catch phrases? Intentional ones or things that they just happened to say over and over again?

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Apr 12,`08 2:51pm | Quote |

Haha, no. But one of my friends has the catch phrase "Dear GOD!" (say it in a high tenor-ish sort of voice for full effect.)

 
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Apr 13,`08 4:04am | Quote |

Nope. Catch-phrases tend to work better in a comical story, and mine's more of a drama.

My main character does tend to say "Well..." a lot, but that's less of a catch-phrase and more of a common speech-pattern.

 
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Apr 13,`08 4:12am | Quote |

My character Cc will prolly say "hehe, Die" more often. It was quite popular the first time...

 
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Apr 13,`08 2:08pm | Quote |

Sally has one where she says "Oh fluff." when something bad occurs.

She's only said it like twice in all my near 200 pages though so I'm not sure if you can count it as a catch phrase =p

 
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Apr 13,`08 5:12pm | Quote |

Not really "catch phrases" but some repeating speech patterns. Like Yuki almost never uses "real" curse words. When in dire peril, she tends to utter a mellow "Crap." In less dire peril (usually an accident that was her fault), she says "Darn it."

Also do nicknames count? My characters each have several nicknames depending on who is addressing them.


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Apr 13,`08 7:11pm | Quote |

I try to be conscious of each individual character's "voice", i.e. certain speech habits like the fact that Vector always talks like someone out of an 80s army movie, but I think if I went as far as assigning catchphrases, it would come out awkward. This probably works for other people, but not for me. Well, unless the fact that Shyft says "f*ck" a lot counts. Teehee.

 
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Apr 13,`08 10:25pm | Quote |

No one in my comic has really had a "catch phrase". Some of them have had limited vocabularies in cases and tend to repeat a lot of phrases. Maybe Izz's "Okay" counts, since she basically just says it whenever she doesn't quite understand something or otherwise feels a line of discussion is over, which happens a lot.

 
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Apr 13,`08 11:11pm | Quote |

I guess speech patterns should really count under this subject. Character tend to have certain ways of speaking more often than particular catch phrases.

...though Kate tends to say "Holy Hecate" when surprised.

 
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Apr 14,`08 2:21pm | Quote |

Due East's characters don't specifically have any catch phrases. Each character has a unique personality and way of saying things, though.

I did have Phira/Chance use "spit and bother!" in Off Hours once, but I don't think I'll have her make a habit of it...

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Apr 15,`08 4:16pm | Quote |

Sun of Rival Angels has been prone to saying 'you got ninja'd' after she clobbers you from behind.

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Apr 15,`08 8:50pm | Quote |

I'm not especially surprised that few people use catch phrases in their comics. Catch phrases work much better when you can actually hear them, and tend to just come across as cheesy when they're read. Sort of like how some dialogue that seems fine when you read it sounds really dorky when somebody says it out loud. Sin City is a good example of that.



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