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| - Basic Trope: A panel lacks speech or thought bubbles.
* Straight: In one panel, Alex says something stupid. The next panel shows Bob, without a word, walking away.
* Exaggerated: And so do the next 84 panels.
* Justified: It is necessary to convey an awkward or otherwise silent moment.
* Inverted:
* One panel shows Alex deep in thought, with words absent. In the next, he says something stupid to Bob.
* Or: In one panel, Alex says something stupid. Bob fills the next with a Wall of Text.
* Subverted: In a comic, a panel depicts a loudspeaker calling for a moment of silence. Until this moment is up, the kids in the class are as loud as they can be, with words in every panel.
* Double Subverted: At least, until the final panel of "silence", when the teacher per
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| - Basic Trope: A panel lacks speech or thought bubbles.
* Straight: In one panel, Alex says something stupid. The next panel shows Bob, without a word, walking away.
* Exaggerated: And so do the next 84 panels.
* Justified: It is necessary to convey an awkward or otherwise silent moment.
* Inverted:
* One panel shows Alex deep in thought, with words absent. In the next, he says something stupid to Bob.
* Or: In one panel, Alex says something stupid. Bob fills the next with a Wall of Text.
* Subverted: In a comic, a panel depicts a loudspeaker calling for a moment of silence. Until this moment is up, the kids in the class are as loud as they can be, with words in every panel.
* Double Subverted: At least, until the final panel of "silence", when the teacher performs a Death Glare and they shut up.
* Parodied: There's one in a middle of an intense fight scene.
* Deconstructed: Upon Bob's silent exit, Alex begins to wonder if he's worthy of Bob's friendship, and this puts a strain on their relationship.
* Reconstructed: Upon Bob's silent exit, Alex says, "Okay, maybe that joke wasn't that good."
* Zig Zagged: ???
* Averted: Every panel has text.
* Enforced: The editor feels the joke doesn't flow well without a beat.
* Lampshaded: "Let's just have a beat panel so I can catch my breath."
* Invoked: Someone in the comic shoves a picture of what the scene looks like into the camera and invents a single-panel speech bubble-blocker.
* Defied: Someone makes a machine to form speech bubbles in panels without them.
* Discussed: "A moment ago, when I was silent and my mind was blank, I felt so . . . singled out!"
* Conversed: "This comic tries too hard to get a beat panel in. The panels surrounding it are walls of text." Back to …
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