History Main / OneWordVocabulary

* A toddler Youmu in ''Apartment Gensokyo''mostly says "Muh". She does have variations of the word (and can say other things besides the word) but "muh" is all she ever says.

* In ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFuckboys'', Chica, as well as her Withered and Phantom counterparts, is only capable of saying "Devour my hot bird ass Freddy". Sometimes, she adds "dead" before Freddy when talking about him being dead, or replaces "Freddy" with other name of whoever she addresses (like Splash Woman), or just drops "Freddy" entirely, but otherwise, she's incapable of saying anything else. The only time when she said something other than her usual phrase is when she and her fellow animatronics got trapped in the 80's, resulting in Chica uttering a single "[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck]]". Though, as her conversation with Freddy in Act 3 of the third game shows, she can convey different meanings with her phrase, which can be understood by anyone who knows her closely.

* Tisiphone from ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'': Her vocabulary consists purely of "murder" and "murderer", usually spoken with plenty of TrrrillingRrrs. Zagreus starts out somewhat creeped out by both this and [[NightmareFace her appearance]], but soon learns to take it in stride and begins openly snarking at her.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Shmebulock is the only forest gnome who's cursed to say his own name and nothing else. He tends to communicate with body language to compensate for the lack of verbal diversity.

* Most zombies in the ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' can only say the name of their favorite food and greatest desire, "[[BrainFood brains]]".

** [[spoilers: In Campaign 2, after Mollymauk is revived, he is only able to say "empty", though he eventually calls the other members of the Mighty Nein he knows by the tarot cards he made of them; Yasha is Love, Beau is Rumors, Veth is Tinkerer, Caleb is Magician, Fjord is Sea, and Jester is Joy.]]

* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': After Doty [[spoiler:is left in the Nine Hells]], Taryon [[spoiler:creates a new Doty,]] and gives him the ability to speak one word: "Tary".

'''[=CL4P-TP=]''': SHUT THE @#$% UP STEVE. And people say [[SmallAnnoyingCreature I'm annoying]].

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* ''Comicbook/{{Saga}}'' has Lying Cat, whose spoken vocabulary only consists of "Lying", spoken when [[LivingLieDetector she hears a lie]].
* ''Comicbook/XMen'' has Rover the Sentinel, who can only say "Destroy!"
* ''Comicbook/TheBoys'' has Groundhawk of the G-Men; all he does is growl the word "Gonna!"

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* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', the boy known as "Errand" only says the word "Errand" for the first part, mainly because the only thing Zedar ever told him was "I have an errand for you". He eventually learns to talk normally.

* Frazzle a monster from ''Series/SesameStreet'' can only say "Arrrrgh!", in a song dedicated to him his friends tell the audience how he says certain words or expresses emotions, all of which are "Arrrgh!".
** Also from ''Sesame Street'', in the early 90s, a female construction worker Muppet named Stella was often seen with Biff and Sully, and all she could say was "Yo!"

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* Creator/StanFreberg's famous record "John and Marsha" is a spoof of soap operas consisting of just the main characters saying each other's name ("John!" "Marsha!") in different dramatic intonations.
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* In one of ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'''s commercial reviews, this is used for a joke in the commercial about Denny's "Red, White & Blue" pancakes. When the old man says "America" in response to the question about what the pancakes taste like, the Critic goes off on an inspired tangent about how the entire history and everything the country stands for is contained within these pancakes, only to realize shortly after that "America" is all that the old man can say.

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* Seen in the Newgrounds flash series ''Larry the Littlest Freakin Knight'', with a minion who can literally only say "yes". The big bad thinks it's hysterical, and makes him say yes to increasingly absurd and embarrassing questions.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''

* Neurologist Paul Broca identified a brain region important for speech after learning that it was damaged in a patient only able to say the word "Tan."

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* The invading Martians in Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/MarsAttacks'' can speak only one syllable, changing its timing to change the meaning. Somehow, Doctor Kessler is able to translate this monosyllable language into English.

* ''Anime/AggressiveRetsuko'': The instructor at the yoga class Retsuko starts taking in episode 4 can only communicate by saying the word "Protein!"