soy banter en · NOUN
Etymology
Blend of soy boy + banter.
Meanings
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(Internet, derogatory, uncountable) Synonym of Buffyspeak (“jocular and irony-laden style of film and TV dialogue pioneered by Joss Whedon”).
Everything having Joss Whedon soy banter sucks, but it's also gonna suck 5-10 years from now when the backlash hits and all genre stuff will be a Villeneuve riff with zero jokes allowed.
2021 December 11, @Dok845, Twitter, archived from the original on 11 Dec 2021:The Soy Banter (TM @fender_splendor) 'jokes' in these and Marvel movies are all just variations on the line: "Okay, so I guess THIS is happening..."
2019 November 25, @cushbomb, Twitter, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2019:the quippy soy banter that started in Marvel movies and has permeated all movies/TV. [user Reindeeraintreal's quote reply:] The Joss-Whedon-inification of culture.
2022 June 28, hotdrinkformat34, r/redscarepod, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2024, comment section of "Things you hate from the past decade? (2010s)":most of the attention the game has received focuses on the game's "Whedonesque" dialogue, also known as "soy banter."
2023 January 25, Dani Di Placido, “The Backlash Against ‘Forspoken,’ Explained”, in Forbes, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2023: