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Comic #2627

1 Head Death: {into phone} Eaten by an Allosaurus? That hasn't happened for 145 million years.
2 Head Death: I see... I see. I see. And yes, I know Time doesn't work that way.
3 Head Death: Get me Wrestled To Death By Steve.
4 Head Death: And whatever you do, don't let the Paradox Department find out.

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I expected a phone trope explaining the one-sided phone conversation in fiction, where you only hear one side of the conversation and have to imagine what the other person is saying. It seems like such a commonly depicted thing that I was sure there'd be a page about it on TV Tropes.

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Oh look! There is! ;-)


2024-09-04 Rerun commentary: Hmm. I just looked through all the Phone Tropes on TV Tropes, and I still don't see any about the one-sided conversation where the audience can only imagine what the other party is saying.

I wonder if it's been proposed but rejected as not trope-worthy?

EDIT: There it is! Thanks to the reader who located it for me. Sometimes it's impossible to locate tropes when you don't know the name of them.

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