Playing With / Electronic Speech Impediment

• Basic Trope: Electronics that are capable of speech have trouble speaking when damaged.
• Straight: Bob-Tron suffers an Anvil on Head, and his voice becomes distorted.
• Exaggerated: Bob-Tron's entire head is blown off, except the part that allows him to speak. His voice becomes a string of borderline inaudible beeps.
• Downplayed: Tim punches Bob-Tron as a form of Percussive Therapy. The latter's voice sounds a bit off, but only if you pay close attention.
• Justified:
  • The damage to Bob-Tron's head messed up a few wires.
  • Resource management has redirected some of the CPU power used by the speech routines to the maintenance routines to speed up repairs.
  • The speech synthesis has electromechanical components (some portions are^* , or (at least) were, cheaper to do that way than electronically, and allows for natural sounding imperfection-induced-uniqueness in the voice
• Inverted: Bob-Tron, who has a horrible speech impediment, gets utterly demolished. His voice works perfectly afterward.
• Subverted: Bob-Tron was pretending that his voice was damaged as a joke.
• Double Subverted: But as the days go by, his voice shows signs of being a bit messed up.
• Parodied: Bob-Tron tries to yell "Ouch!" when he gets hit, but his broken voice renders him unable to. He gets frustrated, whacking himself on the head in order to fix his voice...which only makes it even worse.
• Zig Zagged:
• Averted: Bob-Tron is not capable of speech.
• Enforced:
  • It's one of the cheaper ways of indicating the robot character is damaged.
  • Rule of Funny.
• Lampshaded:
  "What happened to your robot's voice?"
  "Just a little Tap on the Head."
• Invoked: Tim damages Bob-Tron's head as much as possible.
• Defied: Tim puts huge, durable armor on Bob-Tron's head.
• Discussed:
• Conversed: "That's gonna leave a mark...on his vocal cords. Er, wires."