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* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': The comically Texan Half-Orc Fjord speaks with a British accent while dreaming or in some moments after he wakes up. [[spoiler:This is because Fjord's natural accent is British and he adopted the Southern accent of his mentor as a way to remember him after he was lost at sea]].

* Marika Tachibana from ''Manga/{{Nisekoi}}'' usually speaks with {{Keigo}} to come across as more refined, but she'll slip back into her native dialect (Tosa dialect in the manga, [[AccentAdaptation but Fukuoka dialect in the anime]]) whenever she gets flustered or angry.

# A speaker who speaks "standard" English due to assimilation, but isn't actually how they speak natively.

* Nozomi from ''Anime/LoveLive'' speaks in a {{Kansai regional|Accent}} dialect but with a Tokyo accent. When flustered her Kansai dialect slips.

* Nanami from ''Literature/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'' is from Osaka, and relapses into a KansaiRegionalAccent whenever she is angry or flustered.

* Reeve Tuesti of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' usually speaks with a Kanto accent (in Japanese - it's the region Tokyo's in, so it's seen as a "neutral" accent) or a Standard American accent (in English). When piloting the robotic party member Cait Sith, he uses his native accent - [[KansaiRegionalAccent Kansai]] in the Japanese version, Scottish in the English version. At one point, while dealing with an impending EarthShatteringKaboom, he mixes the two up. Cait Sith switches to the "standard" accent, while Reeve uses the Kansai/Scottish one. He's promptly identified as TheMole that Shinra's been having trouble with and arrested.
* In ''{{VideoGame/Yakuza}}'', Goro Majima normally speaks with a ''very'' exaggerated KansaiRegionalAccent, which complements his [[TheIdiotFromOsaka bombastic and erratic personality]]. When he gets serious, however, his accent becomes much softer, and he even begins using words from Tokyo-ben instead of their common Kansai replacements. This is a big clue that Majima isn't actually from Osaka, and that his "Mad Dog" image is a facade. He gets called out on this during a flashback in ''VideoGame/Yakuza4''.[[note]]It's actually a bit of SerendipityWritesThePlot, as originally Majima's VA Creator/HidenariUgaki couldn't convincingly pull a KansaiRegionalAccent, until the directors realized that [[ActorInspiredElement Majima's character worked better because of it]].[[/note]]

* "Iron Mask" Duval from ''Manga/OnePiece'' will lapses into his native TohokuRegionalAccent when he gets angry.

* Epel Felmier from ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'' occasionally lapses into his native accent (depicted as TohokuRegionalAccent) due to his CountryMouse origin.

* Nanami from ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'' is from Osaka, and relapses into a KansaiRegionalAccent whenever she is angry or flustered.

* ''Fanfic/{{Asylum}}'': Applejack is a doctor who uses a less thick version of her Southern accent while on the job. Occasionally her actual accent will shine through when agitated.

** ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles'': As a Shakespearean actor, [[MeaningfulName William Shamspeare]] constantly speaks this way, but he [[AccentSlipUp falters and speaks normally]] when he's startled or angered during his testimony; he eventually drops the act completely once [[spoiler: he's revealed as Duncan Ross's killer.]]

** ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles'': As a Shakespearean actor, [[MeaningfulName William Shamspeare]] constantly speaks this way; he only [[AccentSlipUp falters and speaks normally]] when he's startled or angered during his testimony, and he eventually drops the act completely once [[spoiler: he's revealed as Duncan Ross's killer.]]

* In the second ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' game, when you meet the defendant of the third case, a very flamboyant and vain circus performer named Maximillion Galactica, he doesn't really grasp that he's been arrested and is on trial for murder. Once you seriously spell it out for him, he begins frantically speaking in a country bumpkin accent, revealing himself to be a hillbilly whose actual name is [[HayseedName Billy Bob Johns]]. After he calms down, he speaks normally again.

* Kobato from ''LightNovel/{{Haganai}}'' tries to act like her favorite anime character -- down to speaking in a haughty tone -- but will snap back into her natural Kyushu accent whenever she gets flustered.

* Nanami from ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'' is from Osaka, and relapses into a KansaiRegionalAccent whenever she is angry or flustered.

* ''Literature/UnderThePendulumSun'': The gnome Mr. Benjamin affects a proper Oxford accent among [[CuriosityCausesConversion the other human customs he's adopted]], but slips into an [[WhatTheHellIsThatAccent unplaceable Fae accent]] when he's distracted or distraught.

* ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'': Siryn (also of ComicBook/XForce fame) normally speaks without any discernible accent, so much so that the only way to know she was Irish would be if the reader already knew. During the fight with Cortex ([[spoiler:A heavily altered version of one of Jamie Madrox's dupes, whom she's already violently angry with]]) she gets so mad, she starts "getting her Irish up".

* In ''{{VideoGame/Yakuza}}'', Goro Majima normally speaks with a ''very'' exaggerated KansaiRegionalAccent, which complements his [[TheIdiotFromOsaka bombastic and erratic personality]]. When he gets serious, however, his accent becomes much softer, and he even begins using words from Tokyo-ben instead of their common Kansai replacements. This is a big clue that Majima isn't actually from Osaka, and that his "Mad Dog" image is a facade. He gets called out on this during a flashback in ''VideoGame/Yakuza4''.

* ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances'': The SocialClimber Hyacinth Bucket ("it's ''[[PretentiousPronunciation Bouquet]]'', dear") deliberately speaks in [[IAmVeryBritish plummy received pronunciation]] even though the show is set in the West Midlands. In some moments of stress, her real regional accent slips through.
* ''Series/Avenue5'': Captain Ryan Clarke has an authoritative American accent when on duty as a figurehead captain of a starship. When he slips up, or when he's off the clock, he speaks in a rather lower-class English accent with a noticeably more nasal voice. He occasionally gets in trouble when people notice that he's started speaking differently.

* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' does this as a WhamLine to reveal that a character is more than the UnfazedEveryman he has up to this point appeared to be: when the woman he's becoming sweet on is badly hurt right before his eyes, [[spoiler:Airman Higgs]] lets just the tiniest edge of a Jagermonster accent show as he prepares to [[LetsGetDangerous take on her attacker]].

* ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'': While disguised as a blind peddler, Robin briefly slips out of his "old man" voice in shock when he finds out that Friar Tuck is due to be hanged.

* In the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', the Zora, Kokiri, and Goron all have {{Verbal Tic}}s. Zora end their sentences with "zora" while Goron end theirs with "goro". Kokiri have "jora" as their tic however they don't actually use it in-game. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Prerelease screenshots]] show that they once used it constantly, however in the final product it's [[DevelopmentGag only referenced once]]. Saria gets excited when you show her the Keaton mask and accidentally slips into the Kokiri accent, causing her to become embarrassed.

* A non-regional accent version, but played very straight in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''. Naoto Shirogane, the so-called 'Detective Prince', is a stoic teenage boy who is always serious, polite and correct. [[spoiler: Starting from when [[SweetPollyOliver 'he']] meets his Shadow, Naoto's voice has a habit of sliding into its true tone - a softer female register - when angered, embarrassed or otherwise caught off-guard. This is in keeping with her maintaining a masculine façade that forms an integral part of her character - Naoto believes that the police service is a man's world where women don't belong.]]

* ''Series/KeepingUpAppearances'': The SocialClimber Hyacinth Bucket ("it's ''[[ItIsPronouncedTropay Bouquet]]'', dear") deliberately speaks in [[IAmVeryBritish plummy received pronunciation]] even though the show is set in the West Midlands. In some moments of stress, her real regional accent slips through.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''FanFic/{{Asylum}}'', Applejack is a doctor who uses a less thick version of her Southern accent while on the job. Occasionally her actual accent will shine through when agitated.
* In Creator/AAPessimal's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9998634/1/Hear-them-chatter-on-the-tide Hear Them Chatter On The Tide]]'', a part-time Watchwoman finds herself surrounded by the Discworld equivalent of black "Africans" who are armed, angry, and having a street confrontation. She knows that if she spoke with her usual accent she would be identified as a [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra White Howondalandian]] among a hundred or so people with no reason to love people of her ethnicity. She ''tries'' to refine her accent to something more Ankh-Morporkian. But the assumed accent slips, her [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica native accent]] shows through, and attracts unwanted attention.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' series ''Fanfic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'', Trixie will slip back into her Neigh Orleans accent when drunk.
* In the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' fanfic, ''FanFic/TheTrainerFromAFarAwayLand'', Satoshi is mostly fluent in Isshu (English), but his native Kanto (Japanese) accent shows when he tries to pronounce N's name.
* In the ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' fic ''Fanfic/GreensMyFavoriteColor'', Harleen downplays her accent while on the job. She lapses when her guard is down.
* In ''Fanfic/BuckyBarnesGetsHisGrooveBackAndOtherInternationalIncidents'', Steve Rogers sometimes lapses from his usual generic "1940s newscaster" accent (which he was likely coached into by the USO) into a full Brooklyn brogue if he's worked up enough. Sam tries to encourage this because he finds Steve's accent hilarious, and it's accompanied by Steve going into full [[GrumpyOldMan old-man "get off my lawn you damn Millennials"]] rants.
* In ''Fanfic/AintNoGrave'', as a young man, Steve worked hard to get rid of his Brooklyn-Irish accent because he was tired of people making fun of him for it in art school. The USO gave him elocution lessons to get rid of it the rest of the way, and as a result, he can now sound like a forties radio announcer (likely with a Mid-Atlantic accent) at will. Whenever he talks about Bucky, he lapses into a distinctly vintage-sounding Brooklyn accent. It reminds Daredevil of his late father.

* How Wayne [[SpotTheImpostor spots the impostor]] in ''Literature/ShadowsOfSelf''. Wayne is a MasterOfDisguise with particular expertise in accents, and spent a lot of time in the company of immortal kandra [=MeLaan=]. The impostor, also a shapeshifting kandra, says her a's the same way as [=MeLaan=].

* During a chat with Mad Moxxi in ''{{VideoGame/Borderlands 2}}'', she recounts her past history as a member of the Hodunk bandit clan. She gets so worked up, that she slips out of her seductress voice, and into the same thick, hillbilly accent the rest of the Hodunks speak in (including Scooter and Ellie, her children). She quickly catches herself, resumes her regular way of speaking, and asks you not to tell anyone.