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* In all of Creator/NoonboryKedabory's ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' fanfics[[note]]''Fanfic/MaFille'' and ''Shining and Sweet'', ''A Berry Bad Idea'', ''Fanfic/HoldMe'', ''Fever Moon'', ''Full Moons and Silver Spoons''[[/note]], several boxers speak only their native language instead of English. In most instances, them speaking English is a major case of OOCIsSeriousBusiness.
* ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf:'' While the Wolf speaks intelligibly, he only speaks the Westeros tongue because he was made an {{omniglot}} by explicitly magical means. Anytime the Wolf speaks in a language that's made intelligible to the reader (such as Valyrian, Naath, or Dothraki), it's because there's a speaker of that language in earshot, whenever he's speaking to his crew it involves a pseudo-Norse language.

* ''Film/TheHobbit''

* The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse uses AliensSpeakingEnglish with nary a HandWave in sight. For pure RuleOfScary purposes, Cull Obsidian's few lines in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' are in an alien language, most of them in a brief exchange of BilingualDialogue with his adoptive brother Ebony Maw.
* ''Film/{{Midway|2019}}'': The Japanese destroyer Captain who apprehends [[spoiler:Gaido and O'Flaherty]] only speaks Japanese during his brief screentime, with none of his lines subtitled. Instead, he has his TranslatorBuddy, one of the ship's lower-ranking officers, question the two men for him.

* ''Series/{{Lost}}''

* On ''Series/SesameStreet'', Ovejita the lamb only speaks Spanish.

* In the National Theatre's 2014 stage adaptation of ''Theatre/{{Treasure Island|2014}}'', one of the pirates is from South America and apparently speaks no English, instead chattering incomprehensibly in a foreign language. In his final scene, he reveals to Jim that he can speak fluent English, but considers it a "very ugly language" and prefers not to use it unless he has to.

* ''VideoGame/ExtrapowerAttackOfDarkforce'': Everyone in the ''VideoGame/{{Extrapower}}'' universe is capable of understanding each other, regardless if they're a human from any continent on Earth or [[AliensSpeakingEnglish one of many space aliens]] or demons. Except for Nimon, the resident fish man, who speaks exclusively in variations of ''Puho!!'' and requires translation... from other fish people.
* The Al Bhed in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' have their own language (actually [[CypherLanguage a cipher]] that the player can learn to translate over time). Among major Al Bhed characters, Rikku and Cid can speak the main Spiran language just fine, and Rin can speak it with a strong accent, but Rikku's brother (who is actually named Brother) speaks exclusively Al Bhed through the entire game, save one line that he forces out near the end of the game. By [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2 the sequel]], Brother has been practicing the Spiran language and uses it freely--though he's not up to Rin's level, much less his sister and father's.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' have several Laguz characters who use an ancient language and struggle with the modern one, most notably Leanne and Volug.

* In ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' on the Wii, every opponent speaks exclusively in their native language, so only Disco Kid, Super Macho Man, Mr. Sandman (American), Bear Hugger (Canadian), and Aran Ryan (Irish) speak English.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' has Sofia, the camel assistant to the human Thomas who speaks only in Arabic. Despite this, Thomas only responds in English, and the two seem to have no trouble understanding each other. When we next see Sofia after a timeskip and several years living in a zoo, she seems to be making an effort in learning English, but still speaks in YouNoTakeCandle broken sentences.
--> '''Sofia:''' [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2019/10/16/office-space/ Domas, I am stand right over here. And we not have coffee, we are camel.]]

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* In WebVideo/LelePons's sitcom ''Amigos'', Hannah Stocking's character speaks entirely in Spanish, seemingly to make up for being the TokenWhite in the otherwise Latino cast and generally being a CloudCuckoolander. Her Spanish is rudimentary and atrociously accented, but she makes few enough mistakes that the rest of the cast can generally understand her, though they stick to speaking English.

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* In ''WebAnimation/GenLock'', Kazu only speaks Japanese. AugmentedReality provides in-universe subtitles and is so ubiquitous that the fact that one of the five main characters participates in all conversations in a completely different language passes entirely without comment.
* Doll in ''WebAnimation/MurderDrones'' speaks only in Russian (or English, in the Russian dub). No character brings attention to this, and everyone can understand her without issue. This is justified by most of the cast being robots who are multilingual as part of their programming; specifically, the "Maintenancing Insane Daughter Unit" instruction manual used as a sight gag in "The Promening" highlights English, French, and Russian.
* Lopez in ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' is an android who, due to a faulty language circuit, can only speak in broken Spanish. None of his teammates understand ''any'' amount of Spanish, resulting in much frustration.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'': In "Camping", Bluey meets a Labrador named Jean-Luc who only speaks French, though they still manage to play with each other despite the language barrier. This ends up being PlayedForDrama when Jean-Luc can't tell Bluey that he's [[spoiler:leaving the campsite the next day.]] However, during the [[spoiler:TimeSkip ending, the teenage Jean-Luc says, "[[WhamLine Hello, Bluey,"]] in English.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Littlest Pet Shop|2012}}'': In "Tongue Tied", Jebbie the ferret only speaks Korean, which causes some confusion for Blythe, who can't understand what she's saying. It takes Blythe getting Youngmee to translate her speech to find out that Jebbie's been separated from her owner.

** Celts and Vikings have been encountered in Season 2, and likewise their dialogue has not been in English. It seems to be a quirk of humans in this universe to speak as little as possible - Mira has indeed become a main character but spoken only once in Season 2 - so a few other cultures have appeared without speaking a word. As a result, the fact that main character Spear's use of language is thus far limited to Mira's name has not posed a problem to him.

* In both ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' and its SpinOff ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', Más y Menos only speak Spanish. At one point in the original, Control Freak temporarily makes them speak English by using his remote on them.
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'': Season 2 introduces a group of teenage [[WesternAnimation/SuperFriends Superfriends]] expies called the Runaways. One of them, Asami Koizumi, speaks entirely in Japanese, occasionally saying English words when she's repeating what someone else said.

* Played with in ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}''.

* ''Fanfic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'': [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove Kuzco]] primarily speaks Spanish, with Pacha translating for other Palace members. Similarly, [[WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012 Jebbie]] only speaks Korean, though in the fanfic she's a human and Youngmee can translate more directly than in canon, and [[WesternAnimation/MonkieKid Red Son]] mentions that Demon Bull King neither speaks nor reads English.

* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets'' has Sofia, the camel assistant to the human Thomas who speaks only in Arabic. Despite this, Thomas only responds in English, and the two seem to have no trouble understanding each other. When we next see Sofia after a timeskip and several years living in a zoo, she seems to be making an effort in learning English, but still speaks in YouNoTakeCandle broken sentences.

-->--'''Pablo Sanchez''''s character description, ''VideoGame/BackyardBaseball''

* Bomb Voyage, a briefly-seen supervillain in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', only speaks French, to the point of exclaiming "''Monsieur Incroyable!''" when confronted by Mr. Incredible.[[note]]Which veers into GratuitousFrench territory because the French version of the movie, instead of translating the name and title literally, uses ''Indestructible'' instead.[[/note]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', Guido only speaks Italian, seemingly out of personal preference, as he can understand what's going on around him and holds BilingualDialogue conversations with fellow Italian Luigi.

* [[AmbiguousDisorder Shankar]] of ''Literature/QAndA'' speaks in a CypherLanguage.

* In WebVideo/LelePons's sitcom ''Amigos'', Hannah Stocking's character inexplicably speaks entirely in Spanish.

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