History Main / Fauxreigner

* Adam Klaus of ''JonathanCreek'' is a fake American in Britain.

** And to top it off, in the TimBurton version, he's played by [[{{Borat}} someone known for intentionally annoying,]] [[{{Brüno}} exagerrated stereotypes]] [[{{DaAliGShow}} of several different ethnicities]].

** And to top it off, in the TimBurton version, he's played by [[{{Borat}} someone known for intentionally annoying,]] [[Film/Brüno exagerrated stereotypes]] [[{{DaAliGShow}} of several different ethnicities]].

** And to top it off, in the TimBurton version, he's played by [[{{Borat}} someone known for intentionally annoying,]] [[{{Brüno}} exagerrated stereotypes]] [[{{DaAliGShow}} of several different ethnicities]].

** And to top it off, in the TimBurton version, he's played by [[{{Borat}} someone known for intentionally annoying,]] [[{{DaAliGShow}} exagerrated stereotypes of several different ethnicities]].

* Sacha Baron Cohen, whose characters {{Borat}} and {{Brüno}} are based around this trope.

* Sacha Baron Cohen, whose characters Borat and Brüno are based around this trope.

* Sacha Baron Cohen, whose characters Borat and Ali G are based around this trope.

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** It is unknown if his student from ''TinyToonAdventures'', Fifi LaFume, is actually French or just pretending to be like her teacher.

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* The DJ in the ''DoctorWho'' story "Revelation of the Daleks" broadcasts an American-style radio show with an American accent, but really speaks with a British one in private conversations with Peri and when making snide comments.

* [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob Wealthy playboy]] Rodney Gaynor adopted a Mexican accent whenever he became the Whip, an obscure GoldenAgeOfComicBooks hero in TheDCU. A modern-day retelling of his origin retconned him to actually having Hispanic ancestry.

* [[RichIdiotWithNoDayJob Wealthy playboy]] Rodney Gaynor adopted a Mexican accent whenever he became the Whip, an obscure GoldenAgeOfComics hero in TheDCU. A modern-day retelling of his origin retconned him to actually having Hispanic ancestry.

* General Wolfram, a wolf-themed villain claiming to be "the genetic terror of the Third Reich". Apparently he faked the Nazi angle and the accent for distinctiveness' sake/to draw heat away from his real identity. Venom, impersonating Spider-Man, calls him "Castle Wolfenstein" and eats his arm for his trouble.
* Kasper Cole affects a Wakandan accent and speech patterns in his guise as the White Tiger, mainly to throw people off his identity (because how many white Wakandan Jews do you know?)

* The PreCrisis version of Wonder Twins become this after a human heard the name of their home planet from their mouth.

* "Madame Lulu" and "Gunther" in ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents, whose "foreignness" derives mostly from their [[JustAStupidAccent strange accents,]] mangled syntax, and [[VerbalTic overuse of the word "Please"]].

* John Steinbeck's ''East Of Eden'' uses this with the Chinese Lee. He speaks when he first appears in the book in stereotypical YouNoTakeCandle fashion, but when a character comments he can't possibly talk like that all the time, he drops the act and speaks normally for the rest of the book.

* Chada of Niea_7 is an alien that pretends to be an Indian. To be precise, he's a dark skinned alien that purchased a cheap turban and started acting like an indian.

* In the operetta ''Die Fledermaus'', several of the characters attend Prince Orlovsky's ball incognito as foreign noblemen and -women. Lindy Hume's English-language adaptation, first produced by Opera Australia in the 1990s, goes one better by revealing at the very end that Orlovsky himself is not really a foreign nobleman either.

* A flashback at the beginning of the ''Venture Brothers'' episode ''"Now Museum, Now You Don't"'' shows Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. infiltrating Scaramantula's inner circle as the Japanese Dr. Fandragon. The disguise includes using his fingers to pull his eyelids back and a superfluous third nipple (on his chin). Scaramantula seems to notice that Fandragon isn't actually Japanese, but can't seem to put together that it's specifically Dr. Venture.

** He was just picky because he doesn't like his pasta fried.

** In ''Discworld/{{Pyramids}}'', Ptraci speaks Ephebian with a ptrace of her Dejelibeybi accent, because it sounds more exotic. Pteppic understands: "An assassin is supposed to be a little bit foreign wherever he goes. [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand I'm good at that part]]".

* Fantomex (aka [[spoiler: Weapon XIII]] from ''XMen'' uses a French accent -- not because he's French, but because the accent "annoys people" according to him -- making it easier to catch them off guard.

* The end of ''TheDresdenFiles'' book ''White Night'' shows Thomas pretending to be a gay Frenchman to play up to the expectations of his beauty salon's customers.

* Another RealLife example: BorisKarloff, who was actually a rather pleasant British gentleman by the name of William Henry Pratt.
** To be fair, Karloff never pretended to not be British; he just thought the name Pratt lacked suitable flair for an actor (and might make people think of pratfalls).
** Fun fact: Karloff picked up his name while working in northern British Columbia among Ukrainian-Canadian miners.
* Yet another real life example: Sacha Baron Cohen, whose characters Borat and Ali G are based around this trope.
* Another British woman, the wife of a diplomat, come back from Borneo claiming to be an adopted priestess inducted in the native (read: fictional) practices of Indonesia. She became an international sex symbol in Europe. Unfortunately for her, the MoralGuardians of the time (World War I) had her executed as a German spy.
** If you mean Mata Hari, she's Frisian. Especially weird considering most Frisians are tall, and have blue eyes and blonde hair.

* When I'm in the U.S., I say 'G'day' a lot... which I almost never do at home (Australia). I'm not even sure why that happens.
** This was discussed in this troper's university class in depth. It seems that when people travel, their accents either become stronger than the normal, or fade, acquiring the regional accent. This also happens when one watches too much media from another country (take, for an Australian, ''RedDwarf'' marathons or the like).

* Australia and New Zealand as a whole do this towards tourists, particularly Americans. It's essentially one giant elaborate joke.
** Yes, make fun of the idiots who won't get it. Well the joke's on you. We really are that dumb. (No, really. All you have to do is say "terrorist" and sorta point and we'd totally shun Jesus.)

* In the movie ''TradingPlaces'', the protagonists disguise themselves as exaggerated foreigners, with Dan Ackroyd pretending to be a [[{{Black Like Me}} Jamaican]], JamieLeeCurtis' HookerWithAHeartOfGold as a NorseByNorsewest Swede, and Eddie Murphy as an African (who oddly [[{{Expy}} acted in much the same way]] as the African prince character he would portray in ''Coming to America,'' a few years later).

* While he is ''a'' foreigner, Bandit Keith in ''YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' isn't actually from America, despite his American jingoism. He's Canadian, in America.