Spoken language

Spoken language is an event occurring in a few Nitrome games where a character or the game will verbally speak English, as opposed to written English. This type of communication can be heard by the player, instead of read, although in many cases spoken language will be accompanied by written text of what is said.

Spoken language is very rare in Nitrome games, usually appearing in "special" Nitrome games, such as Test Subject Complete or Nitrome Must Die. It should be noted that spoken language is different than the more common grunts and groans, as, although these are spoken, they do not convey any words.

Most Nitrome games, when containing spoken language, usually use a male voice and all language is English, with the exception of Off The Rails which contains Spanish words, and Rainbogeddon, Bad Ice-Cream 2 and Test Subject Complete, which have language spoken with a female voice.

Occurrences of spoken language

Skywire

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
All	Game	A childish male voice	"Ready? Go!"	Starting a level
All	Game	A childish male voice	"Well done!"	Completing a level

Toxic

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
All	Game	A male voice	"Initializing transport"	Starting a level
All	Game	A male voice	"Activating transport"	Going on to a red teleporter
All	Game	A male voice	"Mission failure"	Dying
All	Hazmat Hero	Male	"Oh!"	Being caused harm

Off The Rails

The below quotes can be heard in all levels, although only one is heard for each event. All quotes are spoken by a single cactus man in a male voice. For each event, three possible quotes are listed - the first three in the table being quotes for starting a level, the next three three for quotes heard when dying, and the last three for quotes heard when completing a level.

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
All	Cactus men	Male	"Let's go amigo!"	Starting a level
All	Cactus men	Male	"¡Ándale ándale!"
All	Cactus men	Male	"¡Arriba!"
All	Cactus men	Male	"¡Ay caramba!"	When dying
All	Cactus men	Male	"¡Ayayay!"
All	Cactus men	Male	"What am I, Piñata?"
All	Cactus men	Male	"We did it!"	Completing a level
All	Cactus men	Male	"Let's get tacos!"
All	Cactus men	Male	"Well done, amigo!"

Yin Yang

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
All	Game	Male	"Yin"	Switching to Yin
All	Game	Male	"Yang"	Switching to Yang

Dirk Valentine

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
Most levels	Dirk Valentine	Male voice	"Don't mind if I do!"	Dirk Valentine picking up a cup of tea
All	Dirk Valentine	Male voice	"Back out"	Dirk Valentine dying
A level with prisoners	A prisoner	Male voice	"Free!"	A prisoner being freed
A level with a prisoner (male voice)	A prisoner	Male voice	"Yoohoo!"

Snot Put/Super Snot Put

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
All	Snot	N/A	"Achoo!"	Snot dropping out of the nose

Skywire 2

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event	Notes
All	Bean person	A childish male voice	"Ready? Go!"	Starting a level
All	Bean person	A childish male voice	"Well done!"	Completing a level
All	Bean person	A childish male voice	"Mommy!"	Falling off the cable car	This is one of the possible cries a bean person will let out when it falls off the cable car
All	A bean person	A childish male voice	"Not again!"
All	A bean person	A childish male voice	"I feel sick!"
All	A bean person	A childish male voice	"Wheee!"
All	A bean person	A childish male voice	"Why me?"
All	A bean person	A childish male voice	"Not fair!"

Mutiny

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
All	Pirate captain/soldier	A male voice	"Aye"	Clicking a pirate captain/soldier
All	Pirate boys	A male voice	"Aye"	When it's pirate boys turn
All	Blind pirates	A male voice	"Who?"	When it's blind pirate's turn
All	English navy	A male voice	"Surrender"	When it is the English navy's turn
All	Retired pirates	A male voice	"Grumble"	When it's retired pirates turn

Final Ninja

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
Menu	Game	Male	"Final Ninja"	Getting to the menu after watching the startup

Toxic 2

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
All	Hazmat Hero	Male	"Oh!"	Being caused harm
All	Game	Male	"Initializing transport"	Entering the level
All	Game	Male	"Activating transport"	Stepping on a red/blue teleporter
All	Game	A male voice	"Mission failure"	Dying

Final Ninja Zero

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
Menu	Game	Male	"Final Ninja Zero"	Getting to the menu after seeing the startup

Double Edged

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event	Notes
Startup	Man with a chisel	Male	"Oh, my statue!"	A Spartan in the opening destroying the statue that is over the Nitrome logo.	One of the few occurrences of spoken language accompanied by English subtitles, these subtitles being what the main says in the speech bubble
Menu	Game	Male	"Double Edged"	A sword impacting the game's logo
All	Game	Male	"Fight!"	Level starting
All	Game	Male	"Clear!"	Level completion

Castle Corp

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
All	Knight	Male	"Free!"	Causing a Knight to parachute off the level

Rush

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event	Notes
Menu	Game	Female	"Rush"	Entering the main menu	The sound can be heard when the game has just loaded or when coming back from either a level select, help, scores or credits page

Test Subject Arena

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
All	Game	Female	"Ready? Fight"	Starting a level
All	Game	Female	"Blue has won"	Blue wins the match
All	Game	Female	"Green has won"	Green wins the match
All	Game	Female	"Green is winning"	Green has more goo in its spawn cylinder that Blue has
All	Game	Female	"Blue is winning"	Blue has more goo in its spawn cylinder than Green has
All	Game	Female	"Subjects are equal"	Both Green and Blue has the same amount of goo in their spawn cylinder; this is not said at the start of a match
All	Game	Female	"Sixty seconds remaining"	When a minute is left of the match
All	Game	Female	"Thirty seconds remaining"	When 30 seconds are left on the timer
All	Game	Female	"Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one"	This is heard during the last ten seconds of the match. Each number is said when that number is come to on the timer
All	Game	Female	"Draw"	When the match ends with both players having the same amount of goo

Steamlands

These speaking characters appear and talk only during the shop portion of the level.

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event	Notes
Gun Shop, Unarmed, The Mirror of Venus, Hook Line and Sinker, Voyage of the Titanic, You're the best around!	Mechanic	Male	"What can I do for you, mate?"	Accessing a level with his shop on it
Bargain Hunt, Assembly and Assimilation, Mr. Fix It, Steel and Gunpowder, Grab and Run, The Pitter-Patter of Shells, Rearrangements	Rich British Man	Male	"My prices are most agreeable!"	Accessing a level with his shop on it
Top Down, Bang on Time, Trading Cards	Rich British Woman	Female	"What my lovely?"	Accessing a level with her shop on it	The quote for this level seems unusual, as it sounds as though she is responding to a question from the player
Sky's the Limit, Right Back at You, Rain and Hail, Big Ben	Salesman	Male	"Hacha wanna gut here"	Accessing a level with his shop on it	The quote was likely meant to mean "What [you] want [to] get here" with "Hacha" being a variant of the slang "What ya"
Yoga Flame, The Hatchet Brothers, Mjolnir, Battle Engine Blackhammer, Punch Buggy, Descent	British Army Pilot	Male	"Come on sonny, I ain't got all day"	Accessing a level with his shop on it
Man of Steel, Like a Butterfly	Strong Man	Male	"Beeno breetners for you doctor"	Accessing a level with his shop on it	The quote was possibly meant to be "Clean your sneakers for you doctor"
The Escourt, Ricochets, Leave no man behind, Big Jobs, Progression, Armed Guard, Endurance	Drifter	Male	"I've got goods from across the world"

Nitrome Must Die

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
Menu	Game	Male	"Nitrome Must Die"	Accessing the menu
Challenge floors	Game	Male	"Challenge"	Starting a Challenge floor
Lift	Game	Group of males	"Yeah!"	Gambling the score
Lift	Game	Group of males	"Hmm"
Lift	Game	Group of males	"Oooh!"	Banking the score

The Bucket

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
Startup	Game	British male	"Hey, this isn't the game I ordered"	Lifting the game's cartridge out of the box

Rainbogeddon

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
Menu	Game	Female	"Play"	Heard when hovering over the "Play" button
Menu	Game	Female	"Help"	Heard when hovering over the "Help" button
Menu	Game	Female	"Scores"	Heard when hovering over the "Scores" button
Menu	Game	Female	"Credits"	Heard when hovering over the "Credits" button
All	Game	Female	"Rest in peace player one"	When the first player dies
All	Game	Female	"Rest in peace player two"	When the second player dies
All	Game	Female	"Level Up"	When the player collects a power up they currently have
All	Game	Female	"Multiplier times two"	When the player gets "Multiplier x2"
All	Game	Female	"Multiplier times three"	When the player gets "Multiplier x3"
All	Game	Female	"Multiplier times four"	When the player gets "Multiplier x4"
All	Game	Female	"End of multiplier"	When the player's multiplier ends, which causes the words "End of multiplier" to appear
All	Game	Female	"Finish"	When the player collects all the pills in a level
All	Game	Female	"Bomb"	When the player gets the Bomb power up
All	Game	Female	"Bullet"	When the player gets the Bullet power up
All	Game	Female	"Heart"	When the player gets the Heart power up
All	Game	Female	"Bubble"	When the player gets the Bubble power up
All	Game	Female	"Teleport"	When the player gets the Teleport power up
All	Game	Female	"Drill"	When the player gets the Drill power up
All	Game	Female	"Level (current level)"	When the player starts a level, which includes instructions for the item in the level. The word "Level" is pronounced along with the name of the number, the number pronounced being the number that level is, for example, the number pronounced would be "one" if the level was level 1

Bad Ice-Cream 2

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
Character select	Vanilla ice cream character	Male voice	"Vanilla"	When vanilla is selected
Character select	Strawberry ice-cream character	Raspy male voice	"Strawberry"	When strawberry is selected
Character select	Chocolate ice-cream character	Deep male voice	"Chocolate"	When chocolate is selected
Character select	Sorbet ice-cream character	Female voice	"Sorbet"	When sorbet is selected
Character select	Mint choc-chip ice-cream character	Male voice	"Mint choc-chip"	When mint choc-chip is selected
Character select	Bubble gum ice-cream character	Male voice	"Bubble gum"	When bubble gum is selected

Test Subject Complete

Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event	Notes
Game's opening cinematic	Unknown, presumably The Machine	Male	"Welcome Doctor Nastidious" (Nastidious pronounced Na-stid-ee-us)	The opening of the game, after the startup	The opening is actually the ending of Test Subject Green
Menu	Rex209	Female	"Test Subject Complete"	Menu being accessed
1	Rex209	Female	"Welcome aboard Blue"	Blue starting level 1	This is the only level which includes this quote
All	Rex209	Female	"Sleep mode activated"	Blue begins to sleep	Blue sleeps after the player has not controlled the game for a certain amount of time
All	Rex209	Female	"Reconstruction in process"	Blue is killed
8-17, 19-25	Rex209	Female	"Scanning proximity... clear"	Blue rises out of a transporter
18	Mercenary	Male	"Huh?"	The mercenary passes the cylinder Blue is under
19	The Machine	Male	"Active scan operational. Search and destroy escaping enzyme."	The start of level 19	Most of the quote is almost inaudible, notably the words "Active scan" and "escaping"
19-25	The Machine	Male	"You cannot hide forever"	When the player hides for a moderate amount of time behind the metal that protects him/her from The Machine's laser
19-25	The Machine	Male	"I will destroy you"	When The Machine fires its lasers and fails killing the player four times
19-25	The Machine	Male	"Stand still"	When the player causes the reticule to come close to them, but the player moves to another location farther away from the previous location. This done three times will cause The Machine to say this	Due to the requirements for this quote to be said, it is possible to complete Test Subject Complete without hearing it, as the requirements for the quote are encountered rarely. This quote is most easily heard on level 23

Spoilers
Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event	Notes
End of level 17 (cutscene)	Rex209	Female	"I'm sorry Blue, the Professor is dead"	Blue shocked at the Professor's dead body
End of level 25 (cutscene)	Rex209	Female	"It has been a pleasure serving you. Doctor Nastidious must be stopped. The professor is the only one that can help. You know what you have to do. Shutting down."	Blue jumps out of Rex209	Doctor Nastidious's name (Doc-tor Nas-tid-ee-us) is mispronounced Doctormestidies (Doc-tor-mes-tid-ees). Along with this, the final sentence requires very very close listening to Rex209's voice, as what was intended to be "Shutting down" is instead pronounced "Shallbeweln" (shall-be-weln)
26-30	Mercenary	Male	"Huh?"	A mercenary spots the Professor.	This is a different "Huh?" then for level 19
30	The Machine	Male	"Fire laser"	The Machine is firing its laser and is being ridden by Dr. Nastidious
30	The Machine	Male	"Enemy located!"	The Machine drops from the ceiling, when he spots the professor
30	Game	Female	"Self destruct sequence activated"	Dr. Nastidious activates that Self destruct sequence
30	Game	Female	"Self destruct in T-minus thirty seconds"	The professor has thirty seconds to get out of Dr. Nastidious's exploding base
30	Game	Female	"Self destruct in T-minus twenty seconds"	The professor has twenty seconds to get out of Dr. Nastidious's exploding base
30	Game	Female	"Self destruct in T-minus ten seconds"	The professor has ten seconds to get out of Dr. Nastidious's exploding base

Ditto

Spoilers
Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
Ending	Girl and the reflection	Female	"Noooooooooo... ...ooooooooooN"	While vanishing by the mirror, with the girl left shocked

Bump Battle Royale

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Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
Game Menu	Narrator	Male	"Welcome to Bump Battle Royale!"	When the player enters the menu screen
Start a level	Narrator	Male	"3, 2, 1, battle!"	When the player enters a level
In a level	Narrator	Male	"xxx(a contestant) is falling!"	When a contestant falls off stage
In a level	Narrator	Male	"xxx(a contestant) is out!"	When a contestant falls off stage
In a level	Narrator	Male	"You lose!"	When a player lose in a round
In a level	Narrator	Male	"Better luck next time!"	When a player lose in a game
In a level	Narrator	Male	"You win!/player x/red team/blue team wins! xxx(accolates)!"	When a player or a team wins in a round

Gunbrick (mobile)/Gunbrick: Reloaded

Spoilers
Level	Speaker	Gender	Quote	Event
Pack 1 - Cutscene 3	Gunbrick dude	Male	"Yeehaw!"	When the Gunbrick dude goes to the Pack 2's location
Ending	Gunbrick dude	Male	"Woo Hoo! Awright!"	When the Gunbrick dude celebrates the defeat of the Brain ring

Trivia

• There are only two characters that can be heard talking outside of any game:
  • Cuboy can be heard talking in the "Icebreaker Now Has Achievements!" trailer.
  • Yolk can be heard talking at the end of Leap Day's Update 4 trailer.