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** The main villain of Season 6's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E17InGodsHands In God's Hands]]", Kroeger, [[spoiler:who was responsible for firing the bullet that injured 6-year-old [=Danny McGee=] when engaging Trivette in a shootout when he was being pursued by him and Walker, which Trivette [[TurnInYourBadge took the rap for]] until Walker proved what really happened,]] appears to speak in a heavy British or Irish accent.

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** The main villain of Season 6's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E17InGodsHands In God's Hands]]", Kroeger, [[spoiler:who was responsible for firing the bullet that injured 6-year-old [=Danny McGee=] when engaging Trivette in during a shootout when he was with Trivette while being pursued by him and Walker, which Trivette [[TurnInYourBadge took the rap for]] until Walker proved what really happened,]] appears to speak in a heavy British or Irish accent.
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** The main villain of Season 6's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E17InGodsHands In God's Hands]]", Kroeger, [[spoiler:who was responsible for firing the bullet that injured 6-year-old [=Danny McGee=], which Trivette [[TurnInYourBadge took the rap for]], until Walker proved what really happened,]] appears to speak in a heavy British or Irish accent.

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** The main villain of Season 6's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E17InGodsHands In God's Hands]]", Kroeger, [[spoiler:who was responsible for firing the bullet that injured 6-year-old [=Danny McGee=], McGee=] when engaging Trivette in a shootout when he was being pursued by him and Walker, which Trivette [[TurnInYourBadge took the rap for]], for]] until Walker proved what really happened,]] appears to speak in a heavy British or Irish accent.
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** The main villain of Season 6's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E17InGodsHands In God's Hands]]", Kroeger, [[spoiler:who was responsible for firing the bullet that injured 6-year-old [=Danny McGee=], which Trivette [[TurnInYourBadge took the rap for]] until Walker proved what really happened,]] appears to speak in a heavy British or Irish accent.

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** The main villain of Season 6's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E17InGodsHands In God's Hands]]", Kroeger, [[spoiler:who was responsible for firing the bullet that injured 6-year-old [=Danny McGee=], which Trivette [[TurnInYourBadge took the rap for]] for]], until Walker proved what really happened,]] appears to speak in a heavy British or Irish accent.
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** The main villain of Season 6's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E17InGodsHands In God's Hands]]", Kroeger, [[spoiler:who was responsible for firing the bullet that injured 6-year-old [=Danny McGee=], which Trivette [[TurnInYourBadge took the rap for]] until Walker proved what really happened,]]] appears to speak in a heavy British or Irish accent.

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** The main villain of Season 6's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E17InGodsHands In God's Hands]]", Kroeger, [[spoiler:who was responsible for firing the bullet that injured 6-year-old [=Danny McGee=], which Trivette [[TurnInYourBadge took the rap for]] until Walker proved what really happened,]]] happened,]] appears to speak in a heavy British or Irish accent.
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** The main villain of Season 6's "[[Recap/WalkerTexasRangerS6E17InGodsHands In God's Hands]]", Kroeger, [[spoiler:who was responsible for firing the bullet that injured 6-year-old [=Danny McGee=], which Trivette [[TurnInYourBadge took the rap for]] until Walker proved what really happened,]]] appears to speak in a heavy British or Irish accent.
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* ''Anime/BeybladeBurst'' has a British antagonist in the seventh season complete with a healthy dose of SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish and a side of elemental power called Pax Forsythe.
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[-[[caption-width-right:350:He uses mind control to take over the city, invades it with [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs British pop culture]], [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and makes everyone say]] [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage "biscuits" instead of "cookies"]].]]-]

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[-[[caption-width-right:350:He uses mind control to take over the city, invades it with [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs British pop culture]], culture, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and makes everyone say]] [[SeparatedByACommonLanguage "biscuits" instead of "cookies"]].]]-]
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Doesn't really apply in British works, of course. In those, this role is often [[AcceptableTargets given to the]] [[FrenchJerk French]], [[GermanicDepressives Germans]], [[BalkanBastard people from the Balkans]] or (rarely, especially nowadays) [[EvilStatesOfAmerica Americans]].

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Doesn't really apply in British works, of course. In those, this role is often [[AcceptableTargets given to the]] the [[FrenchJerk French]], [[GermanicDepressives Germans]], [[BalkanBastard people from the Balkans]] or (rarely, especially nowadays) [[EvilStatesOfAmerica Americans]].



** Inverted in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderI'', ye olde 1996 entry that started it all. Lara Croft is our heroine, a sophisticated British [[GentlemanSnarker Gentlewoman Snarker]], facing off against Jacqueline Natla and her mercenary henchman Larson Conway - who are loud and brash Texans. The other baddie is an annoying Frenchman CowardlyBoss, [[AcceptableTargets because of course]].

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** Inverted in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderI'', ye olde 1996 entry that started it all. Lara Croft is our heroine, a sophisticated British [[GentlemanSnarker Gentlewoman Snarker]], facing off against Jacqueline Natla and her mercenary henchman Larson Conway - who are loud and brash Texans. The other baddie is an annoying Frenchman CowardlyBoss, [[AcceptableTargets because of course]].CowardlyBoss.
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* Crowley, crossroads demon and eventual King of Hell, in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. It turns out that he was Scottish while human, so maybe it's the body he's possessing or something he picked up over centuries.

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* Crowley, crossroads demon and eventual King of Hell, in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. It turns out that he was Scottish while human, so maybe it's the English accent is due to the body he's possessing or something he picked up over centuries.
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* ''Film/BlueThunder'': Gave us Col. F.E. Cochrane, complete with irritating CatchPhrase and requisite accent.

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* ''Film/BlueThunder'': Gave us Col. F.E. Cochrane, complete with irritating CatchPhrase catchphrase and requisite accent.
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* "[[https://youtu.be/d1jhWizYuFw Accent of Evil]]" by Dr Geoff Lindsay goes into some of the subtleties of this trope. In particular, because Received Pronunciation is the accent of ''authority'', it can also be for mentor characters, e.g. Obi Wan Kenobi from ''Film/ANewHope'', or Gandalf from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''.
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* ''ARG/TheNoedolekcinArchives'': Kirk Odd is a malevolent entity responsible for the Nickelodeon broadcast errors, and he talks in a low, British accent.
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** Megatron in both [[Film/{{Transformers}} the live-action movie]] and ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', has a vaguely British accent.

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** Megatron in both [[Film/{{Transformers}} the live-action movie]] ''Film/Transformers2007'' and ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' has a vaguely British accent.
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* ''Film/{{RRR}}'': The huge Tollywood hit RRR has Ray Stevenson and Alison Doody lead a whole host of evil Brits, and in line with the rest of the film it is extremely over the top.
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* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon|The Original Series}}'' English dub went out of its way to show us what a bastard Ash's Charmander's original owner was by giving him a god-awful Creator/DickVanDyke-esque cockney accent.

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* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon|The Original Series}}'' ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' English dub went out of its way to show us what a bastard Ash's Charmander's original owner was by giving him a god-awful Creator/DickVanDyke-esque cockney accent.
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* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' English dub went out of its way to show us what a bastard Ash's Charmander's original owner was by giving him a god-awful Creator/DickVanDyke-esque cockney accent.

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* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' ''Anime/{{Pokemon|The Original Series}}'' English dub went out of its way to show us what a bastard Ash's Charmander's original owner was by giving him a god-awful Creator/DickVanDyke-esque cockney accent.
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** Oswald Cobblepot, otherwise known as The Penguin, has dual citizenship by descent and tends to use more English expressions, slang, and swears than Americanisms.

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** DependingOnTheWriter, Oswald Cobblepot, otherwise known as The Penguin, has dual citizenship by descent and tends to use more English expressions, slang, and swears than Americanisms.
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* Albert Simon of ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' plays this to a T, complete with sharing a spot of tea with his minions while scheming, tossing dry British wit at "rival" baddies, and being a proper gentleman even in the midst of dooms-day scenarios, hell, [[AffablyEvil ESPECIALLY in the midst of dooms-day scenarios!]] [[spoiler: though ultimately subverted when we find out [[WellIntentionedExtremist he was going to put it all right when he was done.]]]]

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* Roger Bacon of the first ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts1'' ([[spoiler:actually his former pupil Albert Simon of ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'' Simon]]) plays this to a T, complete with sharing a spot of tea with his minions while scheming, tossing dry British wit at "rival" baddies, and being a proper gentleman even in the midst of dooms-day scenarios, hell, [[AffablyEvil ESPECIALLY in the midst of dooms-day scenarios!]] [[spoiler: though ultimately subverted when we find out [[WellIntentionedExtremist he was going to put it all right when he was done.]]]]
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* LowerClassLout Billy Butcher in ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' had high-functioning [[AmbiguousDisorder psychopathy]] and was more ChaoticNeutral than full-on evil. Though he was violent, unstable, and manipulative, he was very much capable of concern for his fellow man. Though this concern was largely kept to his closest allies. Everyone else meant little to him, and he outright ''[[FantasticRacism hated]]'' [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual supes]] [[spoiler: to the point of [[HeWhoFightsMonsters trying to enact a]] FinalSolution against them]].

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* LowerClassLout Billy Butcher in ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' had high-functioning [[AmbiguousDisorder psychopathy]] psychopathy and was more ChaoticNeutral than full-on evil. Though he was violent, unstable, and manipulative, he was very much capable of concern for his fellow man. Though this concern was largely kept to his closest allies. Everyone else meant little to him, and he outright ''[[FantasticRacism hated]]'' [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual supes]] [[spoiler: to the point of [[HeWhoFightsMonsters trying to enact a]] FinalSolution against them]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': explains the [[UnexplainedAccent otherwise inexplicable fact]] that EnfantTerrible Stewie has a British accent when born into an American family,

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* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': explains the [[UnexplainedAccent otherwise inexplicable fact]] that EnfantTerrible Stewie has a British accent when born into an American family,family.
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* This trope explains the [[UnexplainedAccent otherwise inexplicable fact]] that EnfantTerrible Stewie from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has a (supposed to be) British accent when born into an American family,

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* This trope ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': explains the [[UnexplainedAccent otherwise inexplicable fact]] that EnfantTerrible Stewie from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has a (supposed to be) British accent when born into an American family,



* Evil mastermind Ra's Al Ghul has a cultured British accent in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', courtesy of Creator/DavidWarner.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Evil mastermind Ra's Al Ghul has a cultured British accent in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', accent, courtesy of Creator/DavidWarner.
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* Averted, similar to ''Spider-Man 2'', in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Creator/JasonIsaacs plays the first season's BigBad Admiral Zhao as a FakeAmerican, seemingly to specifically avoid the most villainous man seen at that point in the Fire Nation also being the only Englishman. At this point, we hadn't seen Ozai or Azula...

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* Averted, similar to ''Spider-Man 2'', Averted in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''. Creator/JasonIsaacs plays the first season's BigBad Admiral Zhao as a FakeAmerican, seemingly to specifically avoid the most villainous man seen at that point in the Fire Nation also being the only Englishman. At this point, we hadn't seen Ozai or Azula...
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** Even more interesting when we remember Jason Isaacs portrayed Lucius Malfoy in ''Film/HarryPotter'' films.
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** Although that was more incidental since union rules for British films at the time required a minimum number of speaking parts for British actors, so a lot were cast as Imperial officers. [[note]]Part of it was Lucas objecting to being told he had to, and demonstrating his contempt for the policy[[/note]] Both the Imperials and Rebels were played by mostly British actors but all the Rebels' voices were later dubbed by American actors. A few sources claim that the upper-class English accent is the default accent on Coruscant; everyone listed below (except C-3PO) either grew up or spent large amounts of time living there.

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** Although that was more incidental since union rules for British films at the time required a minimum number of speaking parts for British actors, so a lot were cast as Imperial officers. [[note]]Part of it was Lucas objecting to being told he had to, and demonstrating his contempt for the policy[[/note]] Both the Imperials and Rebels were played by mostly British actors actors, but all the Rebels' voices actors either faked American accents or were later dubbed by American actors.Americans. A few sources claim that the upper-class English accent is the default accent on Coruscant; everyone listed below (except C-3PO) either grew up or spent large amounts of time living there.



*** In fact, all major bad guys were played by Brits: The Emperor (Creator/IanMcDiarmid is Scottish), Darth Vader (although not his voice actor, as the voice of Creator/DavidProwse was too west-country, earning him the nickname Darth Farmer), Count Dooku (Creator/ChristopherLee), and Darth Maul (London-based Scot Creator/RayPark's voice was dubbed by British voice-actor and comedian Creator/PeterSerafinowicz).

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*** In fact, all major bad guys from the George Lucas era were played by Brits: The Emperor (Creator/IanMcDiarmid is Scottish), Darth Vader (although not his voice actor, as the voice of Creator/DavidProwse was too west-country, earning him the nickname Darth Farmer), Count Dooku (Creator/ChristopherLee), and Darth Maul (London-based Scot Creator/RayPark's voice was dubbed by British voice-actor and comedian Creator/PeterSerafinowicz).Creator/PeterSerafinowicz). Even Darth Vader's voice actor Creator/JamesEarlJones shifted his accent to a more Mid-Atlantic register.
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** This trend is continued in the sequel trilogy. General Hux (played by Irishman Domhnall Gleeson) has a British accent, while Resistance fighter Finn (played by Englishman John Boyega) has an American accent.
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* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' - both in-universe and real life.

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* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' ''Franchise/TheFastAndTheFurious'' - both in-universe and real life.
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* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' has [[BigBad Mustache Girl]], who has a British accent, as well as [[spoiler:The Conductor if you side with him in the Battle of the Birds, being a Scottish example of the trope]].

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* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' has [[BigBad Mustache Girl]], who has a British accent, as well as [[spoiler:The Conductor if you side with against him in the Battle of the Birds, being a Scottish example of the trope]].
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* Mad Mod, a minor ComicBook/TeenTitans villain from TheSixties, who is probably better known for his appearance in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' cartoon, was a Carnaby Street fashion designer whose assumed name is derived from the Mod style popular in England at the time. He used his label as a front to smuggle goods inside his clothing. After being foiled, he later hatched a plot to steal the Queen of Britain's scepter but was stopped as well.

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* Mad Mod, a minor ComicBook/TeenTitans villain from TheSixties, who is probably better these days known for his appearance in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' cartoon, was a Carnaby Street fashion designer whose assumed name is derived from the Mod style popular in England at the time. He used his label as a front to smuggle goods inside his clothing. After being foiled, he later hatched a plot to steal the Queen of Britain's scepter but was stopped as well.

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