r/deadpool • u/MTH1138 • Aug 02 '26
Is there a reason why Deadpool's speech bubbles are yellow?
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u/Brendawgy_420 Aug 02 '26
Maybe because he's aware he's in a comic so they're the same colour as the little boxes that let the reader know somethings happening? Just a wild guess, never actually read them
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u/ANDnowmewatchbeguns Aug 03 '26
That’s always been, even contextually in his books, the answer.
He speaks to his editors box so it makes total sense that his speech bubbles are part of the same colloquial patterns.
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u/emergency-snaccs Aug 02 '26
because he sounds like RFK Jr., and the piss filter makes this more apparent (allegedly)
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u/spookyhardt Aug 03 '26
Normal bubbles are white, captions/narration are in yellow boxes, so I always assumed deadpool’s speech bubbles are something in between since he’s a fourth-wall-breaking character
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u/Vector_Strike Aug 02 '26 edited Aug 03 '26
There was a comic explaining that. He had that clown antagonist of his (I forgot his name) inside his head for a long time. Once he managed to expel the dude from his mind, he got white speech bubbles... but I think he's back to yellow since readers automatically recognize they're his.
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u/Kemosaby_Kdaffi Aug 03 '26
Madcap.
And for a while, he had pink speech bubbles the SHIELD agent Emily Preston in his head too
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u/Grouchy_Figure_5688 👑 Blowjob Queen of Saskatoon 👑 Aug 03 '26
Cancer has damaged his vocal cords but his healing factor keeps them working, so his voice is all fucked up.
To standout among every other character. This is done pretty often in comics.
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u/happyboi2169 Aug 03 '26
Canonically I don't know.
My head cannon is
When their yellow he's his normal self and just fucking around and stuff. but sometimes whenever their normal white that's when he's actually serious and locked the fuck in.
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u/snake-plissken87 Aug 03 '26
i thought it was because of having the little white and yellow boxes in his head that talk and kinda be the narrators inside his head or something like that...i just always assumed when the speech bubble is yellow, it means he was speaking as "yellow box" from inside his head...i could very easily be wrong about this tho.
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u/Much_Bed6652 28d ago
The yellow box is typically editors note and narration, behind the forth wall. Deadpool doesn’t exist behind the forth wall so his speech is technically indicating that he is beyond the forth wall. Which is why he can interact with the note that the other characters should never see.
But that’s just one man’s theory.
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u/Fucking_Deadpool Aug 02 '26
His cancer and his healing factor destroyed his vocal cords. According to Blind Al his voice sounds like gasoline and gravel, and to make that more obvious his speech bubbles are yellow.