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** Creator/CharlieHunnam 's hybrid American/ British accent often leads people to sarcastically why California golden boy Jax Teller has such a peculiar speech pattern.

* In Creator/AAPessimal's take on ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica appears in its Discworld alternate of "Rimwards Howondaland". Sam Vimes accepts that a people living so close to the Rimfall at the edge of the world are going to be a little bit ''strange'', and notes they succeeded in winning a bitter and protracted [[UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar War of Independence]] against Ankh-Morpork, so they're entitled to be a bit bloody-minded. Even so, he is fascinated by [[BlackSpeech the way they talk]]. [[TranslationConvention Vowel shifts]] occur a lot in their language and he wonders why they seem so keen to eliminate the perfectly inoffensive vowel "a" from their spoken Morporkian. As well as the guttural "g's" and "k's" that make their native language -- and spoken Morporkian -- sound like the product of a bad throat. Not to mention [[TrrrillingRrrs rhoticity]]. Elsewhere, wizard Ponder Stibbons is fascinated by his Rimwards Howondalandian girlfriend's spoken Morporkian, which makes her sound as if she's chewing bricks and spitting gravel. He does note that she's also very attractive. And interested in him.

* [[AvertedTrope Averting this trope]] is the reason why Black Widow from ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' speaks English in a plain American accent. After all, she wouldn't be a very good spy if everyone remembered a beautiful Russian woman. ''Series/AgentCarter'' revealed that the Red Room trains its spies to speak foreign languages like native speakers.
* Played with in ''Film/GhostbustersII''
-->'''Venkman''': Where are you from, originally?
-->'''[[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent Janosz]]''': [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Ze upper-vest side]].

* ''Literature/TheFifthSeason'': The veteran MageKiller Guardian Schaffa has a unique accent that several viewpoint characters remark on. [[spoiler:An ancient Stone Eater]] eventually identifies it as a sign that he's [[spoiler:[[TimeAbyss tens of thousands of years old]]]] -- telltale linguistic quirks last even though [[spoiler:he's long since forgotten their source due to the FogOfAges]].

* In ''Literature/TheCosmere'' novels by Brandon Sanderson, this is usually a hint to readers that someone is a Worldhopper.

'''Gen:''' *''giggles''* I love that!

* [[AvertedTrope Averting this trope]] is the reason why Black Widow from ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' speaks in a plain American accent. After all, she wouldn't be a very good spy if everyone remembered a beautiful Russian woman. ''Series/AgentCarter'' revealed that the Black Widow program trains its spies to speak English like Americans.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/PeterCapusottoYSusVideos'' with Quiste SebÁceo. He's a satanist who sings about the evilness in the world, but what gets people interested in him is the weird way he pronounces the Z and soft C letters in Spanish.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/PeterCapusottoYSusVideos'' with Quiste Sebáceo. He's a satanist who sings about the evilness in the world, but what gets people interested in him is the weird way he pronounces the Z and soft C letters in Spanish.

SisterTrope to ArousedByTheirVoice, where this attention has an erotic or amorous intent. Can lead to an InUniverse version of WhatTheHellIsThatAccent. Often TruthInTelevision, as most people who have moved to an area with a very different accent to theirs can attest.

SisterTrope to ArousedByTheirVoice, where this attention has an erotic or amorous intent. Can lead to an InUniverse version of WhatTheHellIsThatAccent Often TruthInTelevision, as most people who have moved to an area with a very different accent to theirs can attest.

* Averting this trope is the reason why Black Widow from ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' speaks in a plain American accent. After all, she wouldn't be a very good spy if everyone remembered a beautiful Russian woman. ''Series/AgentCarter'' revealed that the Black Widow program trains its spies to speak English like Americans.

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* ''Videogame/MassEffectAndromeda'': In one early conversation with Suvi, the science officer aboard the ''Tempest'', a female Ryder can flirt with her and quickly begins stammering about how attractive Suvi's accent is in particular.
--> '''(Female) Ryder:''' "I think you're cute and I like having you up here!"\\
'''Suvi:''' "Oh my goodness! ''Ryder!''\\
'''Ryder:''' Also, the accent. The accent is...I mean...it's not the ''only'' thing, but...uh...okay, I should just go over there to the piloting thing..."

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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Duane's accent attracts unfriendly interest more than once because it marks him as a native of Alderode, an insular, xenophobic country that's currently escalating hostilities with its neighbors. His knee-jerk PatrioticFervor whenever Alderode is criticized doesn't help either.
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* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/PeterCapusottoYSusVideos'' with Quiste Sebáceo. He's a satanist who sings about the evilness in the world, but what gets people interested in him is the weird way he pronounces the Z and soft C letters in spanish.

'''Ryder: Also, the accent. The accent is...I mean...it's not the ''only'' thing, but...uh...okay, I should just go over there to the piloting thing..."

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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Duane's accent attracts unfriendly interest more than once because it marks him as a native of Alderode, an insular, xenophobic country that's currently escalating hostilities with its neighbors. His knee-jerk PatrioticFervor whenever Alderode is criticized doesn't help either.

* Averting this trope is the reason why Black Widow from ''Film/Avengers2012'' speaks in a plain American accent. After all, she wouldn't be a very good spy if everyone remembered a beautiful Russian woman. ''Series/AgentCarter'' revealed that the Black Widow program trains its spies to speak English like Americans.

SisterTrope to ArousedByTheirVoice, where this attention has an erotic or amorous intent. Can lead to an InUniverse version of WhatTheHellIsThatAccent. Often TruthInTelevision, as most people who have moved to an area with a very different accent to theirs can attest.

SisterTrope to ArousedByTheirVoice, where this attention has an erotic or amorous intent. Can lead to an InUniverse version of WhatTheHellIsThatAccent.

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* In Creator/AAPessimal's take on ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica appears in its Discworld alternate of "Rimwards Howondaland". Sam Vimes accepts that a people living so close to the Rimfall at the edge of the world are going to be a little bit ''strange'', and notes they succeeded in winning a bitter and protracted [[UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar War of Independence]] against Ankh-Morpork, so they're entitled to be a bit bloody-minded. Even so, he is fascinated by [[BlackSpeech the way they talk]]. [[TranslationConvention Vowel shifts]] occur a lot in their language and he wonders why they seem so keen to eliminate the perfectly inoffensive vowel "a" from their spoken Morporkian. As well as the guttural "g's" and "k's" that make their native language - and spoken Morporkian - sound like the product of a bad throat. Not to mention [[TrrrillingRrrs rhoticity]]. Elsewhere, wizard Ponder Stibbons is fascinated by his Rimwards Howondalandian girlfriend's spoken Morporkian, which makes her sound as if she's chewing bricks and spitting gravel. He does note that she's also very attractive. And interested in him.

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-->'''Abigail''': I am an American, I just wasn't born here.

-->'''Officer Garfield''': You talk funny, Nash, where're you from?\\
'''"Nash"''': Lots of different places.

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-->[''from "High School Poppycock"'']: Well, I've had many accents over the years, but this one is clearly the best.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Duane's accent attracts unfriendly interest more than once because it marks him as a native of Alderode, an insular, xenophobic country that's currently escalating hostilities with its neighbours. His knee-jerk PatrioticFervor whenever Alderode is criticized doesn't help either.

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* When looking for a [[SixthRanger new addition to their band]], The Misfits from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' come across Jetta, a British saxophonist with a Cockney accent. Roxy hates her from the start, but when she asks Stormer if Jetta should be allowed in, all Stormer replies with is "I love her accent!".

* In ''Literature/EarthsChildren'' almost every character in the last book, The Land of Painted Caves, comments on Ayla's accent.

* ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'': In a few stories, Conan is noted to speak the local language of wherever that particular story takes place "with a barbarous accent." [[MrFanservice This, along with his hard, bronzed limbs, blue eyes shining like balefire, and mighty thews]], often serves to make the GirlOfTheWeek that much more taken with him.

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Duane's accent attracts unfriendly interest more than once because it marks him as a native of Alderode, an insular, xenophobic country that's currently escalating hostilities with its neighbours. His knee-jerk PatrioticFervor whenver Alderode is criticized doesn't help either.

-->'''Officer Garfield''': You talk funny, Nash, where're you from?
-->'''"Nash"''': Lots of different places.

-->'''Gen:''' ...I just learned everything about you, but keep talking. I am, like, obsessed with your accent.
-->'''Tahani:''' We have made so much progress and all we ask is an audience with you to prove it.[...]
-->'''Gen:''' Say 'aluminum'.
-->'''Tahani:''' Alyuminnium.
-->'''Gen:''' *''giggles''* I love that!

* In Creator/AAPessimal's take on ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica appears in its Discworld alternate of "Rimwards Howondaland". Sam Vimes accepts that a people living so close to the Rimfall at the edge of the world are going to be a little bit ''strange'', and notes they suceeded in winning a bitter and protracted [[UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar War of Independence]] against Ankh-Morpork, so they're entitled to be a bit bloody-minded. Even so, he is fascinated by [[BlackSpeech the way they talk]]. [[TranslationConvention Vowel shifts]] occur a lot in their language and he wonders why they seem so keen to eliminate the perfectly inoffensive vowel "a" from their spoken Morporkian. As well as the guttural "g's" and "k's" that make their native language - and spoken Morporkian - sound like the product of a bad throat. Not to mention [[TrrrillingRrrs rhoticity]]. Elsewhere, wizard Ponder Stibbons is fascinated by his Rimwards Howondalandian girlfriend's spoken Morporkian, which makes her sound as if she's chewing bricks and spitting gravel. He does note that she's also very attractive. And interested in him.

SisterTrope to ArousedByTheirVoice. Can lead to an InUniverse version of WhatTheHellIsThatAccent.

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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica appears in its Discworld alternate of "Rimwards Howondaland". Sam Vimes accepts that a people living so close to the Rimfall at the edge of the world are going to be a little bit ''strange'', and notes they suceeded in winning a bitter and protracted [[UsefulNotes/TheSecondBoerWar War of Independence]] against Ankh-Morpork, so they're entitled to be a bit bloody-minded. Even so, he is fascinated by [[BlackSpeech the way they talk]]. [[TranslationConvention Vowel shifts]] occur a lot in their language and he wonders why they seem so keen to eliminate the perfectly inoffensive vowel "a" from their spoken Morporkian. As well as the guttural "g's" and "k's" that make their native language - and spoken Morporkian - sound like the product of a bad throat. Not to mention [[TrrrillingRrrs rhoticity]]. Elsewhere, wizard Ponder Stibbons is fascinated by his Rimwards Howondalandian girlfriend's spoken Morporkian, which makes her sound as if she's chewing bricks and spitting gravel. He does note that she's also very attractive. And interested in him.