History Main / IAmVeryBritish

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Zelda, as befitting a Princess, speaks in a received accent. (Her father, however, less so.) the Zora princess Mipha also speaks with a British accent. [[OohMeAccentsSlipping Opinions may vary on her brother prince Sidon.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Zelda, as befitting a Princess, speaks in a received accent. (Her father, however, less so.)
** [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] with her ancestor Sonia in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'', who seems to speak with a mix of an American and British accent, whilst maintaining a mature, motherly tone of voice.

** The series plays with this constantly; the Doctor [[TheNthDoctor has been played by over a dozen actors]], but remains as British as an alien can be. Most Doctors have used RP, with a few exceptions: Creator/SylvesterMcCoy and Creator/PeterCapaldi use their natural Scottish accents, Creator/DavidTennant uses Estuary (despite being naturally Scottish), and Creator/ChristopherEccleston and Creator/JodieWhittaker use their natural Northern accents.

** [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged]] with Sonia in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'', who seems to speak with a mix of an American and British accent, whilst maintaining a mature, motherly tone of voice.

** [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-zagged] with Sonia in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'', who seems to speak with a mix of an American and British accent, whilst maintaining a mature, motherly tone of voice.

The tendency of English or British characters in American works to speak with upper-class accents (the academic term is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation Received Pronunciation]]; more colloquially, it's called the Queen's English or [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] English) even when played by actual Brits, who may well "posh up" their accent. It's a case of BritainIsOnlyLondon but even more so. It's like Britain Is Only Mayfair (a very high-class area of London, which also is the "Boardwalk" of the London version of ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'').

* Done deliberately on ''Series/CallTheMidwife,'' where nearly all of the midwives, who are not Poplar natives, speak with upper-class accents, while their patients speak with working-class ones. This is meant to highlight the stark class divide that often leads to clashes in culture and priorities. This is PlayedForDrama with Jenny Lee, the POV character for the first few seasons, who speaks with a crisp, upper-class accent befitting her background and does a lot of middle-class moralizing. More PlayedForLaughs with Chummy, who speaks with a heightened RP accent because she's from a high society family. Though she is enthusiastic and not at all afraid of getting her hands dirty, her mannerisms and ways of speaking (lampshaded in the 2013 Red Nose Day Special as "reassuring posh 50's speak") often get her weird looks and reactions.

* Done deliberately on ''Series/CallTheMidwife,'' where nearly all of the midwives speak with an upper-class accent, while their patients speak with working-class ones; it's meant to accentuate the class divide between them that leads to culture conflict. This is particularly noticeable in the POV character for the first few seasons, Jenny Lee, who speaks with a crisp, well-educated accent befitting her background and often does a lot of middle-class moralizing that puts her at odds with her patients and her colleagues.

* Film reviewer WebVideo/MikeJ on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, whose opening catchphrase is "Hello, I'm a British person!"

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' uses an AccentAdaptation with a dash of FantasyCounterpartCulture. Southern Westerosi characters speak in this type of voice to establish them as more privileged. Low-born Southerners such as Gendry, Davos etc do not use this accent. The Northern characters speak with OopNorth dialects. Non-Westerosi characters speak with other accents. The exception seems to be Melisandre, whose origins are vague and she's played by the Dutch Carice van Houten using her own voice to make the character sound more mysterious.

* Film reviewer WebVideo/MikeJ on Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, whose opening {{catchphrase}} is "Hello, I'm a British person!"

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': ZigZaggingTrope - First, Pip has this accent. In "The Snuke," the Queen has one too, but her underlings don't. They also give UsefulNotes/GordonBrown a London accent that sounds a bit like their version of Russell Crowe even though Brown has a fairly pronounced Glaswegian (i.e. 'Scots', think Creator/BillyConnolly) accent. Finally, they don't give UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins this accent even though he ''does'' have one. (When asked about his portrayal in RealLife, Dawkins responded that they could have at least hired an actual British actor.) Creator/MalcolmMcDowell makes a surprise guest appearance on the episode "Pip," beginning the episode with, "Hello. I'm a British person."

* Surfaces in the original Creator/DicEntertainment dub of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' as the accent used by ''Minako'' when speaking English. {{Justified}} as, in the anime (but not the manga), she ''did'' live in London for a while...

* Likewise generally averted with the ''Xenoblade'' games; ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' features a variety of Southern Englander accents from Cockney to Estuary to RP, while ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' expands on this with Northern Englander, Scottish, Welsh, Australian and ''American'' accents, to the point that one can count the number of RP-speaking characters on one hand.

->''"People tell me, 'Oh, I love your accent!' So I tell them, 'Well, actually, I don't '''have''' an accent; I'm from England. This is just how words sound when they're pronounced properly.'"''

The tendency of English or British characters in American works to speak with upper-class accents (the academic term is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation Received Pronunciation]]; more colloquially, it's called the Queen's English or BBC English) even when played by actual Brits, who may well "posh up" their accent. It's a case of BritainIsOnlyLondon but even more so. It's like Britain Is Only Mayfair (a very high-class area of London, which also is the "Boardwalk" of the London version of ''TabletopGame/{{Monopoly}}'').

To contrast, the trope ''is'' often lamented by Britons who speak one of myriad other accents available and rarely get recognition, and can fuel stereotypes and people assuming there's a (nonexistent) 'British Accent'. As the page quote suggests, this might stem largely from the fact that many people think any 'non-rhotic' accent (where the 'r' is pronounced 'aa' as opposed to 'arr' in words like ''car'' and ''guard'') is English (Estuary accent, as a result, is often confused with RP itself). In reality, [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English both the UK and the USA have their fair share of both rhotic and non-rhotic accents to go around]] (for example, most Scottish accents are rhotic, while New England and New York accents are non-rhotic).

--> '''Elizabeth:''' [[{{Understatement}} We manage]].[[note]]Elizabeth is of course UsefulNotes/HMTheQueen.[[/note]]

* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' uses a wide variety of accents: searats TalkLikeAPirate, moles are country bumpkins ("burr aye, zurr" - based on UsefulNotes/TheWestCountry accent - the double r is to emphasise that it is rhotic), and hares use the "tally ho, wot wot"-type of speech (based on the [=WW2=] RAF no less). Scottish accents show up in later books.

** Rey in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' speaks with a strong RP accent, as do General Hux and Captain Phasma. Daisy Ridley is less posh in real life, and has explained that she was asked to adopt RP because her "gabble" was difficult for Americans to understand. John Boyega notably has a more typical London accent, and as such he's a FakeAmerican.