soy banter

English

Etymology

See soy boy.

Noun

soy banter (uncountable) (Internet slang, derogatory)

1. Synonym of Buffyspeak (“jocular and irony-laden style of film and TV dialogue pioneered by Joss Whedon”).
   • 2019 November 25, @cushbomb, Twitter‎^[1], archived from the original on November 25, 2019:

     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

   • 2021 December 11, @Dok845, Twitter‎^[2], archived from the original on December 11, 2021:

     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.

   • 2022 June 28, hotdrinkformat34, r/redscarepod‎^[3], archived from the original on 2024-04-14, comment section of "Things you hate from the past decade? (2010s)":

     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.

   • 2023 January 25, Dani Di Placido, “The Backlash Against ‘Forspoken,’ Explained”, in Forbes‎^[4], archived from the original on January 25, 2023:

     most of the attention the game has received focuses on the game’s “Whedonesque” dialogue, also known as “soy banter.”