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* ''Film/BladeRunner2049'': Niander Wallace speaks like this in a non-comedic fashion, with a lot of unusual pauses and odd, lilting shifts in pitch. Like the [[VideoGame/HalfLife G-Man]], it's not played for comedy but rather makes him more [[UncannyValley robotic and unsettling.]]

And I'm pins and I'm needles

* Captain Sisko from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' does this, although it at least stays plausible throughout.
** Michael Dorn also once said in an interview that he did this when playing Worf so he would have a distinct speech pattern from the rest of the (mostly human or {{Human Alien|s}}) crew.
** Worf's ''ho-NORR'', ''va-LORR'' pronunciation of "honour" and "valour" echoes Spock in the original series, who did exactly the same.
** The Ferengi pronounce "human" as "HEW-mon". Quark does this the most.
* In an episode of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', Peter Weller played a terrorist who threatened to release a virus if a global video conference involving every nation's capital on Earth was not cancelled. His right hand man told him "there are no plans to halt the summit in Can-BERRA or Berlin". The writer having known that Canberra exists and is the capital of Australia is more than Canberrans have come to expect, but it's pronounced CAN-bra, with the last vowel cut off to sound like a hard "u".
* One episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' has [[PhysicalGod Q]] meddling in on Captain Picard's shoreleave. Being the trickster that he is, he dresses up as a message courier and plays this trope just to annoy him.
-->''I have a package for a... Jeen Luck... Pikerd?''

Compare StrangeSyntaxSpeaker. See also PretentiousPronunciation and NoPronunciationGuide.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', the titular CardCarryingVillain's pronunciation of "Metro City" as "[=MeTROcity=]" (rhymes with "atrocity") becomes an important plot point. He also has trouble pronouncing a few other words, such as "school" and "hello." Presumably this is because [[EvilNerd he spent more time reading than interacting with his classmates]].

* In the first ''Film/AloneInTheDark2005'' movie, Tara Reid's character stresses the "found" in Canadian province "New-FOUND-land" when analyzing the origin of artifacts brought in to her by Creator/ChristianSlater's character. In Canada, the name is pronounced, "Noofin' Land". Or Noo-Fundland. At least with some people.
* Anything that comes out of Tommy Wiseau's mouth in ''Film/TheRoom'' is like this. It's actually his real accent.
* In ''Film/HaroldAndKumarGoToWhiteCastle'', everyone pronounces Kumar as "KU-mar", whereas in real life, it's pronounced "ku-MAR".
* In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', Tony Stark mentions the video game ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' with the stress in the first syllable, the original developers stress the middle one: [[http://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/blog/Entries/2012/7/14_Entry_1.html "ga-LAG-a."]] Both pronunciations are common.
* In the trailer of ''Film/CasaDeMiPadre'', Will Ferrell is called Will Fe''rr''ell.

* From ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'''s [[VillainSong "Be Prepared"]]: "deCADES of denial." As usual, [[PainfulRhyme the pronunciation was forced in order to fit the melody]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'', Marcia's name is pronounced incorrectly in series 2's credits song ("Marsh-ah" instead of "Mar-see-ah").
* From ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "It's About Time", Twilight pronounces Tartarus as "Tar-TAR-us", rather than the correct "TAR-tar-us". All instances of the name in later episodes use the proper pronunciation.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''

* In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Peggy's poor grasp of Spanish usually results in this.
* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny:

** In "WesternAnimation/TheIcemanDucketh", WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck does this to Bugs when he first confronts him for his pelt, the duck aiming his gun at him in the process:

* The ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'' cartoon does this once with Cecil's title and creator Bob Clampett's name in the theme. First instance:

* Jacques [=LeLean=] the weightlifting skeleton pronounces WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'s name as "Be-EH-tlezhuice" (as his dialect is of French nature).

* In many American movies, American actors pronounce UsefulNotes/{{Melbourne}}, the Victorian capital city, as ''melbORNE'' instead of ''[=MELBen=]'' (or - more accurately - ''[=MALBen=]'') as used by the locals. Her Majesty the Queen also used to do this, using the traditional pronunciation of the English title, but has in recent years adopted the 'correct' pronunciation when referring to the Victorian city.

* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': Adora puts weird emphasis on certain words while pretending to be a university student. Apparently she thinks that's how a posh ''Historián scólar'' sound. She even uses it with her [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull transformation invocation]], complete with her affected pronunciation of Grayskull getting dramatic echoes.

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': In "Tankin' It To The Streets", Dale Gribble finds classified Army documents suggesting that Bill Dauterive was subject to an experimental drug test as part of a secret project named "Operation Infinite Walrus", which supposedly altered the subjects' bodies to make them fatter so as to be able to survive in an arctic climate. Bill blames this drug for his failing physique. In the end, it turns out Bill was part of the control group of the experiment, but Dale misread placebo (pla-ce-bo) as "place-bo"; thus Bill's failing health was his own fault, not the government's.

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'''s Strong Bad does it all the time when reading his email messages, often done to accentuate spelling errors. All the speaking characters have spoken this way at least once. [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Deliberately_Poor_English There]] [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/Multiple_Consonants are]] [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/%22Er%22_pronounced_as_%22Oi%22 even]] [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/-èd a]] [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/-or_pronounced_with_a_long_O few]] [[http://www.hrwiki.org/wiki/-ant_pronounced_with_a_hard_A pages]] on the Wiki/HomestarRunnerWiki listing their occurrence.

* The opening song to ''VideoGame/Persona3'', combined with JapaneseRanguage. "My GHOST-ry sha-DOW"...
** "When the Moon's Reaching Out Stars" has "Ba-BY stay WITH me" and "Feeling hap-PY, so close".

* Music/{{Sabaton}} of all bands manages to combine this with TrollingCreator with their track "A Secret", which warns the listeneer that an illegal download has been detected and that it is executed spyware protocol six hundred sixty-six. Yes, it speaks the number aloud in proper word form, but the computerized voice messes with the stress pattern, so it can be extremely difficult to understand what is being said.

--> aFTer ThaT i DId soMe reAdiNG!

We have a natioNAL characterISTic which is very strong\\

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* Machinima/MinecraftDiaries includes a character by the name of Lilith Garnet. Her name is ''always'' pronounced gar-NET.
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* In the WebVideo{{Stoogeposting}} video "The Three Stooges challenge God," Curly pronounces "Catholic" as Ca''THOL''ic.

* The somewhat obscure {{Trope Namer|s}}, "Sing a Tropical Song," a parody of calypso music, was written by Frank Loesser (lyrics) and {{Jimmy McHugh}} (music) for the 1943 movie musical ''Happy Go Lucky''. Music/TheAndrewsSisters also recorded it. The chorus goes (with the bigger words all deliberately mis-accented):

* The somewhat obscure {{Trope Namer|s}}, "Sing a Tropical Song," a parody of calypso music, was written by Frank Loesser (lyrics) and Jimmy McHugh (music) for the 1943 movie musical ''Happy Go Lucky''. Music/TheAndrewsSisters also recorded it. The chorus goes (with the bigger words all deliberately mis-accented):
--> Upon the island FROM which we come\\

* The somewhat obscure {{Trope Namer|s}}, "Sing a Tropical Song," was written for the 1943 movie musical ''Happy Go Lucky''. Music/TheAndrewsSisters also recorded it. "Rum and [=CoCAAA=]-Cola"

* Jim Gaffigan has a bit where, before a show in Ireland, someone references a famous performer named "Billy [=JorrEL=]" who also recently played the venue, and is astonished Jim has never heard of him, since he's American. (Jim quips about him being "{{Franchise/Superman}}'s dad"). As it turns out, he's referring to Music/BillyJoel, but the combination of a strong Irish accent and pronouncing "Joel" as two syllables rendered the last name incomprehensible to Jim. When more than one other people around him start agreeing with this pronunciation, Jim wonders if ''he's'' the one who's been pronouncing "Billy Joel" all his life - then remembers that he's heard Billy Joel say his own name before.

* In ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'', Mia is [[InsistentTerminology constantly]] referred to as "PrinCESS of Genovia."

-->Big Willie style's all IN it

* In the original Japanese version of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', the Chosen Children owned power-ups for their Digimon called Digimentals. When these were activated, they [[CallingYourAttacks shouted, "Digimental UUUUP!"]], which, though a little hammy, is nevertheless an aversion of this trope. Come the English Dub, and for some reason or another it was decided to change this call to "Digi-armour ENERGISE!". Due to the lip-flaps, however, the syllable of this shout that was stretched out was the "er" in "energise". The result was "Digi-armour enEEEEEEEEERgise!"

* In ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', the episode where they prepare for their trip to Europe has a character who constantly sings, "Because I'MMA GOING to EUR-ope!"

** A surprisingly eerie example is with the Mondasian Cybermen in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet "The Tenth Planet"]].