History Main / AccentAdaptation

* In the video game ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'' was adapted from, Cala Maria had a cute, high-pitched voice. In the series itself, she now has an ambiguous European accent that has been interpreted as either Russian or Greek.

* The Norwegian dub of ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' kind of did an about-face -- the first trailer gave the characters distinct Telemark dialects, but the actual dub has everyone speak standard Eastern Norwegian (except the trolls, who all speak New Norwegian -- ''i.e.'' the stereotypical "Old Norse" accent). It's not certain why they changed it, with some speculating that they were thinking early on to play off the film's heavy use of Norwegian scenery but decided against it (if only because it's the ThemeParkVersion of Norway). In any event, the trailer has since been removed from Disney's Norwegian Website/YouTube channel.

** Yajirobe's nasal and obnoxious Nagoya-ben dialect is adapted as a sort of husky, thuggish, "smokes a pack a day" accent (think [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Dr. Girlfriend]]), to preserve the stereotype of an uncivilized mountain man who's actively hostile to human contact. Not only is the original Nagoya dialect highly associated with "the hill people" in Japanese, it's also Creator/AkiraToriyama's natural accent (so he's [[SelfDeprecation kind of making fun of himself as well]]).

** Bill's Kansai dialect is translated as a Southern accent in ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', though future games lose it.
** Averted with Whitney, who possibly has the thickest Kansai accent depicted in the series but is translated the same as everyone else in the English translation.

-->-- ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' (adapting Bill's Kansai accent)[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke They're talking about]] a [[PlayingWithFire Flareon, who was breathing ''fire'']].[[/note]]

-->-- ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' (adapting Bill's Kansai accent)[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke They're talking about]] a [[PlayingWithFire Flareon]].[[/note]]

* The Spaniard dub of both ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' and ''Film/TheColorPurple'' replaces the slaves' (and former slaves') dialect with a stereotypical rural, uneducated Castilian accent.

*** The Canadian dub is a bit more interesting, because it's not a particularly straight dub and adds local references to Canadian politicians and celebrities. The accents are used to draw a class divide -- most characters have a Quebec accent, the blue-collar workers like Homer and Barney speak in a very strong "joual" drawl typical of working-class Montrealers, and the town elite (like Principal Skinner and Reverend Lovejoy) speak in Parisian French, which would sound snobby and stuffy to Quebecois ears. Apu is given a creole dialect, Carl speaks with the accent of a black immigrant from Haiti and the episode where the family goes to Toronto (and also the one in London) gives everyone Anglophone accents typical of Torontonians who had to learn French in school and showed no interest in it. The accent also allows for a more comical resolution to Bart's attempt to communicate with a Parisian policeman for help who doesn't understand him -- in the original English he realises that he can speak French thanks to exposure, in the European dub he accidentally words his plight in a way that sounds like he's just a homesick kid on a school trip and then realises he should tell him about how he's being abused and that his abusers are making wine with anti-freeze but in the Canadian dub, the cop doesn't understand Bart's accent and once Bart figures it out (after musing, "I thought they spoke French in France"), he speaks with a exaggerated Parisian accent.

* In the Russian dub of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' prequel trilogy, the Gungans' accents were rendered as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chukchi_people Chukchi]] accents, which has its [[RussianHumour own stereotypes in its country]]). The German dub gives the Neimodians French accents. The French, Italian, Spanish, and Czech dubs use Russian accents.[[note]]The Czech use of a Russian accent is probably a lot more gleeful than it is in the former languages, for [[UsefulNotes/WarsawPact Reasons]].[[/note]]

*** The Canadian dub is a bit more interesting, because it's not a particularly straight dub and adds local references to Canadian politicians and celebrities. The accents are used to draw a class divide -- most characters have a Quebec accent, the blue-collar workers like Homer and Barney speak in a very strong "joual" drawl typical of working-class Montrealers, and the town elite (like Principal Skinner and Reverend Lovejoy) speak in Parisian French, which would sound snobby and stuffy to Quebecois ears. Apu is given a creole dialect, Carl speaks with the accent of a black immigrant from Haiti and the episode where the family goes to Toronto (and also the one in London) gives everyone English accents typical of Torontonians who had to learn French in school and showed no interest in it. The accent also allows for a more comical resolution to Bart's attempt to communicate with a Parisian policeman for help who doesn't understand him -- in the original English he realises that he can speak French thanks to exposure, in the European dub he accidentally words his plight in a way that sounds like he's just a homesick kid on a school trip and then realises he should tell him about how he's being abused and that his abusers are making wine with anti-freeze but in the Canadian dub, the cop doesn't understand Bart's accent and once Bart figures it out (after musing, "I thought they spoke French in France"), he speaks with a exaggerated Parisian accent.

* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'': Most of the main characters were given different accents in the English dub; as such, King Dedede was given a thick southern accent not unlike [[WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn Foghorn Leghorn]], Meta Knight was given a Spanish accent as an obvious nod to ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'', Lady Like being given a French accent, Sir Ebrum being given a British accent, and Blade Knight being given an Scottish accent so thick that it makes nearly all of his dialogue [[IntelligibleUnintelligible incomprehensible]].

** Fantina from ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' has this apply to her between versions. In the original Japanese Version, she speaks in an American accent, while in the English translation, she speaks with an French accent, and in the French translation of the game, she speaks in a Japanese accent. The former two were preserved for her voiced lines in the anime and ''VideoGame/PokemonMasters''. This was done by the developers to make Fantina [[KeepItForeign seem like a foreigner]] no matter which version you played.

* The Italian dub of ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'' [[DubNameChange renamed]] Thomas O'Malley "Romeo" and made him Italian -- more specifically Roman, complete with the accent. The Italian member of the cat jazz band was then given a Sicilian accent, to make him more distinct.

** ''Anime/YuGiOh'' likes to do this with its villains. It's most notable with Bakura in the original, whose overly polite speech patterns were rendered as [[IAmVeryBritish a very British accent and mannerisms]] by [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] -- it was so ridiculous that ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' (whose [[Creator/LittleKuriboh creator]] happens to be British) never missed a chance to play it up. In ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', Daichi/Bastion Misawa had the same thing happen to him, and Jack Atlas had some sort of British-Australian thing going on (which nobody can figure out). Season 4 had a variant where [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Valon/Varon]], Joey's opposite number among the villains, is given a Cockney accent (which most people thought was Australian).

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': The Seanchan Empire, introduced in Season 2, is an empire that dominates the large western continent across the sea, founded by essentially conquistadors ''from'' the Westlands who left centuries before and lost contact with their motherland. Culturally, they're a vast slave-holding empire with a mish-mash of influences from Meso-America and Imperial China. The novels describe them as having a distinctive "drawl", and author Robert Jordan outright said it's supposed to sound like a Texan accent. The TV series does have them speak with American accents - general American accents but not really Texan or even Southern ones. Apparently the producers told the Seanchan actors to use whatever "American" accent they're most comfortable with from the wide range of "American" accents - given that Seanchan is indeed an entire continent and probably has some regional variation; however they don't film in the USA and thus most actors playing Seanchan characters aren't using their natural accents - therefore most of them only had experience performing a "general American" accent than a Texan/Southern one. This caused some mild disappointment from fans of the novels but many still felt it conveyed the jarring contrast between Seanchan's accent and the RP British English accent characters from the Westlands speak with.

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': The Seanchan Empire, introduced in Season 2, is an empire that dominates the large western continent across the sea, founded by essentially conquistadors ''from'' the Westlands who left centuries before and lost contact with their motherland. Culturally, they're a vast slave-holding empire with a mish-mash of influences from Meso-America and Imperial China. The novels describe them as having a distinctive "drawl", and author Robert Jordan outright said it's supposed to sound like a Texan accent. The TV series generally follows this, though it's a bit less pronounced in upper-class ones like Lady Suroth - who still sounds like she has a standard American English accent, in contrast with the RP British English accent characters in the Westlands speak with.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'':

* ''Manga/MusukoGaKawaikuteShikataganaiMazokuNoHahaoya'': Some of the characters, such as Veronica and Eliza, use certain Japanese dialects that are commonly considered difficult to understand for other Japanese, so when fan-translators got to them, they substituted their own difficult to understand accents. However, while Veronica has consistently been depicted with a heavy southern accent, Eliza wasn't fully decided on. The initial translator started out by giving her a heavy, almost impossible to understand Scottish accent, with the translation shown in side notes, then they dropped the accent, before finally deciding on a strong Scottish accent while still being mostly understandable. Meanwhile, when the manga got a new translator, they dropped the idea of giving Eliza an accent altogether.

'''In-Universe examples:'''

* Several characters in ''Series/OnePiece2023'' are given accents that they didn't have in either of [[Manga/OnePiece the anime]]'s English dubs. Some notable examples being Garp being given a thick Scottish accent and Sang being given a London accent.

* Several characters in ''Series/OnePiece2023'' are given accents that they didn't have in either of the English dubs. Some notable examples being Garp being given a thick Scottish accent and Sang being given a London accent.

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': The Seanchan Empire, introduced in Season 2, is an empire that dominates the large western continent across the sea, founded by essentially conquistadors ''from'' the Westlands who left centuries before and lost contact with their motherland. Culturally, they're a vast slave-holding empire with a mish-mash of influences from Meso-America and Imperial China. The novels describe them as having a distinctive "drawl": for years, book fans had largely settled on that it must sound like specifically a ''Texan'' accent. The live-action TV series, however, uses a standard American English accent - still in contrast with the RP British English accent characters in the Westlands speak with.

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': The Seanchan Empire, introduced in Season 2, is an empire that dominates the large western continent across the sea, founded by essentially conquistadors ''from'' the Westlands who left centuries before and lost contact with their motherland. Culturally, they're vast slave-holding empire with a mish-mash of influences from Meso-America and Imperial China. The novels describe them as having a distinctive "drawl": for years, book fans had largely settled on that it must sound like specifically a ''Texan'' accent. The live-action TV series, however, uses a standard American English accent - still in contrast with the RP British English accent characters in the Westlands speak with.

:::->'''Donna:''' Vini vidi vici?\\
:::'''Roman:''' Er, sorry? Me-no-speako-Celtic.

->'''Donna:''' Vini vidi vici?\\
'''Roman:''' Er, sorry? Me-no-speako-Celtic.

->"Vini vidi Vici"?
->"Er, sorry? Me-no-speako-Celtic."

** When the Tenth Doctor [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii visited Pompeii in 79 AD]], he explained to his new companion Donna Noble how the translation matrix works: they not only hear Latin-speaking Romans as speaking English, but are themselves speaking in Latin. Donna then asks what happens if you intentionally try to speak in Latin instead - and the Doctor is a little surprised, explaining that in all his centuries of time-travelling he never tested that because it was just easier to rely on the auto-translation. Donna then experiments with this by walking up to Romans and repeating classic Latin phrases...and everyone is convinced she has a heavy ''Welsh'' accent.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' occasionally had to do this with accents that were described but not [[FunetikAksent shown]] in the original books: