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Imagine yourself meeting a gorgeous girl that seems to have come from the pages of a romance novel. She seems perfect in every way... That is, until she opens her beautiful mouth. Once she does, you realize that she either [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome has pwofound twouble with her w's]], [[SpeechImpediment s-st-tutters, lithpth]] or [[TheUnintelligible cannot speak clearly at all]]. Basically, you have a downplayed version of a disabled love interest or even a TragicallyDisabledLoveInterest if said speech impediment is {{played for tragedy}} or {{played for drama}}.
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Imagine yourself meeting a gorgeous girl that seems to have come from the pages of a romance novel. She seems perfect in every way... That is, until she opens her beautiful mouth. Once she does, you realize that she either [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome has pwofound twouble with her w's]], [[SpeechImpediment s-st-tutters, lithpth]] or [[TheUnintelligible cannot speak clearly at all]]. Basically, you have a downplayed version of DisabledLoveInterest.
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Imagine yourself meeting a gorgeous girl that seems to have come from the pages of a romance novel. She seems perfect in every way... That is, until she opens her beautiful mouth. Once she does, you realize that she either [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome has pwofound twouble with her w's]], [[SpeechImpediment s-st-tutters, lithpth]] or [[TheUnintelligible cannot speak clearly at all]]. Basically, you have a downplayed version of DisabledLoveInterest.
a disabled love interest or even a TragicallyDisabledLoveInterest if said speech impediment is {{played for tragedy}} or {{played for drama}}.
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* Fang of ''VideoGame/MyTimeInSandrock'' finds speaking painful after [[spoiler:internalizing years of abuse and homelessness]]. So he tends to avoid speaking at all, and what little he does say is often fragmented, terse, breathless, and full of awkward pauses, as though he can only manage two or three words per breath. Though the player does help him reclaim enough of his voice in a HealTheCutie arc that he can manage complete (and sometimes rather poetic) sentences, he never comes to speak "normally," and still requires help from [[TranslatorBuddy X]] or the player to effectively communicate with patients even in end-game content.
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* Fang of ''VideoGame/MyTimeInSandrock'' ''VideoGame/MyTimeAtSandrock'' finds speaking painful after [[spoiler:internalizing years of abuse and homelessness]]. So he tends to avoid speaking at all, and what little he does say is often fragmented, terse, breathless, and full of awkward pauses, as though he can only manage two or three words per breath. Though the player does help him reclaim enough of his voice in a HealTheCutie arc that he can manage complete (and sometimes rather poetic) sentences, he never comes to speak "normally," and still requires help from [[TranslatorBuddy X]] or the player to effectively communicate with patients even in end-game content.
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* Fang of ''VideoGame/MyTimeInSandrock'' finds speaking painful after [[spoiler:internalizing years of abuse and homelessness]]. So he tends to avoid speaking at all, and what little he does say is often fragmented, terse, breathless, and full of awkward pauses, as though he can only manage two or three words per breath. Though the player does help him reclaim enough of his voice in a HealTheCutie arc that he can manage complete (and sometimes rather poetic) sentences, he never comes to speak "normally," and still requires help from [[TranslatorBuddy X]] or the player to effectively communicate with patients even in end-game content.
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* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', the StudentCouncilPresident Shizune Hakamichi is deaf and tends to talk through others either through a sign language interpreter (her best friend Misha) or, like Shouko, via writing in notepads. There's just one time where she attempts to actually use her voice [[spoiler:and that's during the last sex scene in her path. Hisao is rather surprised and awed.]]
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* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', the StudentCouncilPresident Shizune Hakamichi is deaf and tends to talk through others either through a sign language interpreter (her best friend Misha) or, like Shouko, Shouko above, via writing in notepads. There's just one time where she attempts to actually use her voice [[spoiler:and that's during the last sex scene in her path. Hisao is rather surprised and awed.]]
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When the speech impediment is shown to be debilitating (like a severe stutter), it is usually given to a fragile ShrinkingViolet who is waiting for her knight in shining armor. Often, though not always, she recovers from the impediment by the end of the story; in this case, that's part of the AdrenalineMakeover with possible UnfortunateImplications because it makes out that a hero wouldn't want a disabled or otherwise "imperfect" love. At other times, though, the impediment serves as [[CharmPoint an endearing quirk which only adds to the character's charm]] (it may even be lampshaded in-story). In some cases, [[KeepingTheHandicap the Love Interest may even be unwilling to undergo speech therapy]] for exactly this reason.
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When the speech impediment is shown to be debilitating (like a severe stutter), it is usually given to a fragile ShrinkingViolet who is waiting for her knight in shining armor. Often, though not always, she recovers from the impediment by the end of the story; in this case, that's part of the AdrenalineMakeover with possible UnfortunateImplications because it makes out that a hero wouldn't want a disabled or otherwise "imperfect" love. At other times, though, the impediment serves as [[CharmPoint [[SexyFlaw an endearing quirk which only adds to the character's charm]] (it may even be lampshaded in-story). In some cases, [[KeepingTheHandicap the Love Interest may even be unwilling to undergo speech therapy]] for exactly this reason.
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* Honey from Louise Rennison's novel series ''The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey'' has both a lisp and a rhotacism. Which doesn't prevent her from being TheChick and a boys' boy magnet.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Tina’s main love interest, Jimmy Jr., has a pronounced lisp (in part because of his braces). In "Ain't Miss Debatin'," Tina confesses she [[HasAType has a thing]] for boys with speech impediments in general.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Tina’s Tina's main love interest, Jimmy Jr., has a pronounced lisp (in part because of his braces). In "Ain't Miss Debatin'," Tina confesses she [[HasAType has a thing]] for boys with speech impediments in general.
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->''"Her struggle with the "R" enunciation gets laughs yet, but then and now it served as endearing equalizer for a woman who'd have seemed too perfect otherwise."''
-->-- ''A [[http://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.ru/2008/09/kay-rations-at-tcm-somebody-at-turner.html movie reviewer]] about Creator/KayFrancis''
Imagine yourself meeting a gorgeous girl that seems to have come from the pages of a romance novel. She seems perfect in every way... That is, until she opens her beautiful mouth. Once she does, you realize that she either [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome has pwofound twouble with her w's]], [[SpeechImpediment s-st-tutters, lithpth]] or [[TheUnintelligible cannot speak clearly at all]]. Basically, you have a downplayed version of DisabledLoveInterest.
When the speech impediment is shown to be debilitating (like a severe stutter), it is usually given to a fragile ShrinkingViolet who is waiting for her knight in shining armor. Often, though not always, she recovers from the impediment by the end of the story; in this case, that's part of the AdrenalineMakeover with possible UnfortunateImplications because it makes out that a hero wouldn't want a disabled or otherwise "imperfect" love. At other times, though, the impediment serves as [[CharmPoint an endearing quirk which only adds to the character's charm]] (it may even be lampshaded in-story). In some cases, [[KeepingTheHandicap the Love Interest may even be unwilling to undergo speech therapy]] for exactly this reason.
Compare with CuteMute. An inversion of this trope is a speech-impeded protagonist.
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* Inverted in ''Anime/TheAnthemOfTheHeart''. The protagonist, Jun, rarely speaks--and sounds squeaky and stuttery when she does--because it gives her severe anxiety attacks, supposedly due to a "curse." [[spoiler:(As a child, she believed that her parents' divorce was her fault because she accidentally revealed her father's infidelity, and convinced herself her life would spiral out of control unless she never spoke again.)]] She starts to open up and discovers that [[LoopholeAbuse singing avoids the curse]] when she develops a crush on a boy in her class. [[spoiler:Ultimately double-subverted, as well as inverted. He doesn't feel the same about her, not because of her speech issues, but because [[FirstGirlWins he's still in love with his old girlfriend]]. But her personality shift catches the attention of a ''different'' guy, who suddenly delivers a LoveConfession to her at the end.]]
* [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata Hyuga]] from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' had a stutter for a good chunk of her life due to her [[AbusiveParents abusive family]] and [[HeroicSelfDeprecation self-confidence issues]]. By Part II, [[CharacterDevelopment she stops stuttering so much]], even around [[FanOfUnderdog her crush]], Naruto. She completely loses her stutter by the Invasion of Pain arc. [[spoiler:She and Naruto ''finally'' become an OfficialCouple in ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'']].
* Shoko from ''Manga/ASilentVoice'' is deaf. Most of the time she uses sign language or writes in a notepad, however when she does speak she has a very pronounced speech impediment. [[spoiler:Her LoveConfession to Shoya is ruined by him misunderstanding her]].
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Anime/YokaiWatch''. Blazion can only say "roar". When Flushback makes Blazion flashback to past traumatic events, it's shown that ''this'' individual Blazion is the only one with that issue. One of his girlfriends dumped him precisely because inability to speak bored her.
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* Genevieve St. James from [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5701596/1/Genevieve the eponymous fanfic]], a beautiful girl who is the love interest of Sherlock Holmes, has a stammer.
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[[folder:Films — Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', Ursula takes Ariel's voice for herself when giving her human legs, which makes it tricky (but not impossible) for Ariel to gain Prince Eric's heart.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. The protagonist Rapunzel has a small lisp while her love interest Flynn doesn't.
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[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/AttentionBandits'' by Claude Lelouch, Marie-Sophie (the main character's daughter) has a stammer. The movie [[https://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/media/movietext.html#bandits received praise]] for its positive portrayal of stuttering: it was presented just as a distinctive quirk, rather than a disability or a drawback.
* Irene, the famous writer Dashiell Frank's girlfriend from the movie ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Jealousy Mr. Jealousy]]'', also stutters.
* In ''Film/InTheCompanyOfMen'' Christine, the female main character, is one of the most beautiful girls in the firm. However, she's deaf with a thick, barely intelligible deaf accent and a labored, strained way to speak. Subverted and PlayedStraight: while someone gets to appreciate her even more because of efforts, most people (including the resident Jerk) pick on her exactly because of that.
* In ''Film/PearlHarbor'', Goose has a terrible stammer when talking to his girlfriend/love Betty.
* Annie, John Glenn's wife from ''Film/TheRightStuff'', has a severe stutter (TruthInTelevision actually).
* Judy from ''Film/ShakesTheClown'' has rhotacism.
* Smartie, the main character's stuttering love interest, from ''Film/YoungAndDangerous'' movie series.
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* While not the protagonist's love interest, Mag in ''Literature/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' invokes this with her pronounced stutter. She will exaggerate it, especially in front of men, when it benefits her. Apparently the impediment makes her more appealing.
* In ''The Commandant'' by Jessica Anderson, Letty, Patrick Logan's young beautiful wife, has a lisp. It is highly possible that Anderson drew inspiration for this from her own lifelong stammer.
* Horatia from ''The Convenient Marriage'' stutters. Her future husband remarks that he likes it.
* Lauren Young from "The Doctor's Flawed Bride with a Lisp" (in the ''Literature/MailOrderBride'' series) has '''both''' a limp and a lisp.
* Ellen, the protagonist's friend from ''Gypsy Heiress'' by Laura London, is a beautiful girl with a small and charming stammer. Robert, the young master of Brockhaven's domain, becomes enamored of her.
* Marta, the attractive 16 year old Mexican girl, from ''The Hardest Ride'' by Gordon Rottman is mute due to a brain trauma; the protagonist gradually falls in love with her, and they eventually marry.
* In ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'', Beryl Stapleton has a lisp. [[spoiler: She's not English-born and raised, so it might just be an accent.]]
* Honey from Louise Rennison's novel series ''The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey'' has both a lisp and a rhotacism. Which doesn't prevent her from being TheChick and a boys' magnet.
-->'''Honey:''' I know I have a lithp. I lithp and I like it. And boyth theem to like it too!
* In ''Prairie Preacher'' series by P. J. Hoge, Savannah got a stutter after a car accident. She marries Harold Effan aka "Kid", one of the protagonists.
* In ''Reviens'' by Samuel Benchetrit, the main character falls in love with Suzanne, a pretty stuttering nurse.
* In ''Tickle Amongst The Cornstalks'' by Bob Bishop, Lady Charlotte, the series' main beauty, cannot pronounce her r's.
* In ''Literature/TheVow'', a Medieval romance by Mary Spencer, Lady Margot le Brun also stutters. Unusually for the genre, her stutter does not disappear or even diminish by the end of the novel.
* Evie Jenner, a shy red-haired beauty from Lisa Kleypas' ''Wallflowers'' series, has a stutter. She becomes this in "Devil in Winter" (after a happy marriage, her stutter somewhat diminishes, but never disappears completely).
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]" has a gender-inverted case: while trapped in a simulated world, Donna gets married to a man who has a severe stutter. At the end, she surmises that he was a manifestation of her subconscious perfect mate, i.e. unable to talk back to her. [[spoiler:He's actually real, and fails to reconnect with her because he is unable to say her name while being teleported off the planet.]]
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* The novelty song "Little Eefin' Annie" has the singer describe his girlfriend Annie, who is incapable of saying anything without having it preceded by lengthy babbling.
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* Ophelia from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is occasionally played as having a lisp (most notably, she lisped in her mad scenes in the Stanislavski-Craig Moscow Art Theatre production). [[http://www.hamletonline.com/hamletwiki/index.php/Explication As believed by some]], this was actually intended by Shakespeare, which gives Hamlet's line "You jig and amble, and you lisp" a literal meaning.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', Princess Sakura of Hoshido is a ShrinkingViolet who tends to go from stuttering to SuddenlyShouting, and remains as such even if she marries. She can potentially be romanced by the Male Avatar, the first generation Hoshido men (save Ryoma and Takumi) [[spoiler: and the two Nohrian Princes, Xander and Leo, in the GoldenPath.]]
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* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', the StudentCouncilPresident Shizune Hakamichi is deaf and tends to talk through others either through a sign language interpreter (her best friend Misha) or, like Shouko, via writing in notepads. There's just one time where she attempts to actually use her voice [[spoiler:and that's during the last sex scene in her path. Hisao is rather surprised and awed.]]
** Hanako Ikezawa also counts. Due to the trauma of the house fire that scarred her [[spoiler:and killed her parents]], and the subsequent bullying she received because of said scars, she's an extreme ShrinkingViolet whose speech is either stilted, stuttery, or both.
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* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': Calixta is a ShrinkingViolet that speaks with a stutter. It becomes more noticeable when she's around and/or thinking about her crush/boyfriend Max.
--> '''Calixta''': *''when asked what's her New Year's resolution''* I just want to have my first k-k-kiss with Max...
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Tina’s main love interest, Jimmy Jr., has a pronounced lisp (in part because of his braces). In "Ain't Miss Debatin'," Tina confesses she [[HasAType has a thing]] for boys with speech impediments in general.
-->'''Gene''': She likes 'em not quite a man and hard to understand.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''. The protagonist Jerrica mispronounces certain words, mainly "very". She has some DudeMagnet qualities and has two love interests: her [[WillTheyOrWontThey sort-of boyfriend]] Rio who also loves her alter ego Jem (but doesn't know they're the same person), and Riot who loves Jem but not Jerrica.
* Asami from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has a lisp according to certain scenes. [[spoiler:She ends up the OfficialCouple with Korra]].
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* The actress Creator/KayFrancis, one of Hollywood's top beauties, had [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome a speech impediment which made her pronounce her r's and l's like w's]], which added to her MsFanservice appeal.
* Another renowned cinema beauty Creator/MarleneDietrich had a similar speech impediment.
* The 1950s sex symbol Creator/MarilynMonroe stuttered; though she managed to tame her condition onstage (her famous throaty way of speaking was probably a way of hiding the stammer), it resurfaced in her last movie.
* Phyllis Potter, the first wife of Fred Astaire, likewise couldn't pronounce her r's.
* Mary Louise Dowell, a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sam_0.png really gorgeous Broadway showgirl]], was nicknamed "Stuttering Sam" because of her strong speech impediment. She didn't mind her stutter at all, was very popular with the opposite sex, and married in 1944 (reportedly she didn't stutter when she said "I do").
* Elizabeth Inchbald, a 18th century novelist, actress and playwright, known for both her beauty (which surrounded her with admirers) and her severe stutter.
* Another Hollywood beauty Creator/MarionDavies had a very noticeable stutter which made her concerned about the transition to sound in movies. Fortunately she didn't stutter onstage, but in everyday life, her stutter never went away.
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->''"Her struggle with the "R" enunciation gets laughs yet, but then and now it served as endearing equalizer for a woman who'd have seemed too perfect otherwise."''
-->-- ''A [[http://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.ru/2008/09/kay-rations-at-tcm-somebody-at-turner.html movie reviewer]] about Creator/KayFrancis''
Imagine yourself meeting a gorgeous girl that seems to have come from the pages of a romance novel. She seems perfect in every way... That is, until she opens her beautiful mouth. Once she does, you realize that she either [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome has pwofound twouble with her w's]], [[SpeechImpediment s-st-tutters, lithpth]] or [[TheUnintelligible cannot speak clearly at all]]. Basically, you have a downplayed version of DisabledLoveInterest.
When the speech impediment is shown to be debilitating (like a severe stutter), it is usually given to a fragile ShrinkingViolet who is waiting for her knight in shining armor. Often, though not always, she recovers from the impediment by the end of the story; in this case, that's part of the AdrenalineMakeover with possible UnfortunateImplications because it makes out that a hero wouldn't want a disabled or otherwise "imperfect" love. At other times, though, the impediment serves as [[CharmPoint an endearing quirk which only adds to the character's charm]] (it may even be lampshaded in-story). In some cases, [[KeepingTheHandicap the Love Interest may even be unwilling to undergo speech therapy]] for exactly this reason.
Compare with CuteMute. An inversion of this trope is a speech-impeded protagonist.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Inverted in ''Anime/TheAnthemOfTheHeart''. The protagonist, Jun, rarely speaks--and sounds squeaky and stuttery when she does--because it gives her severe anxiety attacks, supposedly due to a "curse." [[spoiler:(As a child, she believed that her parents' divorce was her fault because she accidentally revealed her father's infidelity, and convinced herself her life would spiral out of control unless she never spoke again.)]] She starts to open up and discovers that [[LoopholeAbuse singing avoids the curse]] when she develops a crush on a boy in her class. [[spoiler:Ultimately double-subverted, as well as inverted. He doesn't feel the same about her, not because of her speech issues, but because [[FirstGirlWins he's still in love with his old girlfriend]]. But her personality shift catches the attention of a ''different'' guy, who suddenly delivers a LoveConfession to her at the end.]]
* [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata Hyuga]] from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' had a stutter for a good chunk of her life due to her [[AbusiveParents abusive family]] and [[HeroicSelfDeprecation self-confidence issues]]. By Part II, [[CharacterDevelopment she stops stuttering so much]], even around [[FanOfUnderdog her crush]], Naruto. She completely loses her stutter by the Invasion of Pain arc. [[spoiler:She and Naruto ''finally'' become an OfficialCouple in ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'']].
* Shoko from ''Manga/ASilentVoice'' is deaf. Most of the time she uses sign language or writes in a notepad, however when she does speak she has a very pronounced speech impediment. [[spoiler:Her LoveConfession to Shoya is ruined by him misunderstanding her]].
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Anime/YokaiWatch''. Blazion can only say "roar". When Flushback makes Blazion flashback to past traumatic events, it's shown that ''this'' individual Blazion is the only one with that issue. One of his girlfriends dumped him precisely because inability to speak bored her.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Genevieve St. James from [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5701596/1/Genevieve the eponymous fanfic]], a beautiful girl who is the love interest of Sherlock Holmes, has a stammer.
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[[folder:Films — Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', Ursula takes Ariel's voice for herself when giving her human legs, which makes it tricky (but not impossible) for Ariel to gain Prince Eric's heart.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. The protagonist Rapunzel has a small lisp while her love interest Flynn doesn't.
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[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/AttentionBandits'' by Claude Lelouch, Marie-Sophie (the main character's daughter) has a stammer. The movie [[https://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/media/movietext.html#bandits received praise]] for its positive portrayal of stuttering: it was presented just as a distinctive quirk, rather than a disability or a drawback.
* Irene, the famous writer Dashiell Frank's girlfriend from the movie ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Jealousy Mr. Jealousy]]'', also stutters.
* In ''Film/InTheCompanyOfMen'' Christine, the female main character, is one of the most beautiful girls in the firm. However, she's deaf with a thick, barely intelligible deaf accent and a labored, strained way to speak. Subverted and PlayedStraight: while someone gets to appreciate her even more because of efforts, most people (including the resident Jerk) pick on her exactly because of that.
* In ''Film/PearlHarbor'', Goose has a terrible stammer when talking to his girlfriend/love Betty.
* Annie, John Glenn's wife from ''Film/TheRightStuff'', has a severe stutter (TruthInTelevision actually).
* Judy from ''Film/ShakesTheClown'' has rhotacism.
* Smartie, the main character's stuttering love interest, from ''Film/YoungAndDangerous'' movie series.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* While not the protagonist's love interest, Mag in ''Literature/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' invokes this with her pronounced stutter. She will exaggerate it, especially in front of men, when it benefits her. Apparently the impediment makes her more appealing.
* In ''The Commandant'' by Jessica Anderson, Letty, Patrick Logan's young beautiful wife, has a lisp. It is highly possible that Anderson drew inspiration for this from her own lifelong stammer.
* Horatia from ''The Convenient Marriage'' stutters. Her future husband remarks that he likes it.
* Lauren Young from "The Doctor's Flawed Bride with a Lisp" (in the ''Literature/MailOrderBride'' series) has '''both''' a limp and a lisp.
* Ellen, the protagonist's friend from ''Gypsy Heiress'' by Laura London, is a beautiful girl with a small and charming stammer. Robert, the young master of Brockhaven's domain, becomes enamored of her.
* Marta, the attractive 16 year old Mexican girl, from ''The Hardest Ride'' by Gordon Rottman is mute due to a brain trauma; the protagonist gradually falls in love with her, and they eventually marry.
* In ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'', Beryl Stapleton has a lisp. [[spoiler: She's not English-born and raised, so it might just be an accent.]]
* Honey from Louise Rennison's novel series ''The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey'' has both a lisp and a rhotacism. Which doesn't prevent her from being TheChick and a boys' magnet.
-->'''Honey:''' I know I have a lithp. I lithp and I like it. And boyth theem to like it too!
* In ''Prairie Preacher'' series by P. J. Hoge, Savannah got a stutter after a car accident. She marries Harold Effan aka "Kid", one of the protagonists.
* In ''Reviens'' by Samuel Benchetrit, the main character falls in love with Suzanne, a pretty stuttering nurse.
* In ''Tickle Amongst The Cornstalks'' by Bob Bishop, Lady Charlotte, the series' main beauty, cannot pronounce her r's.
* In ''Literature/TheVow'', a Medieval romance by Mary Spencer, Lady Margot le Brun also stutters. Unusually for the genre, her stutter does not disappear or even diminish by the end of the novel.
* Evie Jenner, a shy red-haired beauty from Lisa Kleypas' ''Wallflowers'' series, has a stutter. She becomes this in "Devil in Winter" (after a happy marriage, her stutter somewhat diminishes, but never disappears completely).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]" has a gender-inverted case: while trapped in a simulated world, Donna gets married to a man who has a severe stutter. At the end, she surmises that he was a manifestation of her subconscious perfect mate, i.e. unable to talk back to her. [[spoiler:He's actually real, and fails to reconnect with her because he is unable to say her name while being teleported off the planet.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* The novelty song "Little Eefin' Annie" has the singer describe his girlfriend Annie, who is incapable of saying anything without having it preceded by lengthy babbling.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Theatre]]
* Ophelia from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is occasionally played as having a lisp (most notably, she lisped in her mad scenes in the Stanislavski-Craig Moscow Art Theatre production). [[http://www.hamletonline.com/hamletwiki/index.php/Explication As believed by some]], this was actually intended by Shakespeare, which gives Hamlet's line "You jig and amble, and you lisp" a literal meaning.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', Princess Sakura of Hoshido is a ShrinkingViolet who tends to go from stuttering to SuddenlyShouting, and remains as such even if she marries. She can potentially be romanced by the Male Avatar, the first generation Hoshido men (save Ryoma and Takumi) [[spoiler: and the two Nohrian Princes, Xander and Leo, in the GoldenPath.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', the StudentCouncilPresident Shizune Hakamichi is deaf and tends to talk through others either through a sign language interpreter (her best friend Misha) or, like Shouko, via writing in notepads. There's just one time where she attempts to actually use her voice [[spoiler:and that's during the last sex scene in her path. Hisao is rather surprised and awed.]]
** Hanako Ikezawa also counts. Due to the trauma of the house fire that scarred her [[spoiler:and killed her parents]], and the subsequent bullying she received because of said scars, she's an extreme ShrinkingViolet whose speech is either stilted, stuttery, or both.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': Calixta is a ShrinkingViolet that speaks with a stutter. It becomes more noticeable when she's around and/or thinking about her crush/boyfriend Max.
--> '''Calixta''': *''when asked what's her New Year's resolution''* I just want to have my first k-k-kiss with Max...
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Tina’s main love interest, Jimmy Jr., has a pronounced lisp (in part because of his braces). In "Ain't Miss Debatin'," Tina confesses she [[HasAType has a thing]] for boys with speech impediments in general.
-->'''Gene''': She likes 'em not quite a man and hard to understand.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''. The protagonist Jerrica mispronounces certain words, mainly "very". She has some DudeMagnet qualities and has two love interests: her [[WillTheyOrWontThey sort-of boyfriend]] Rio who also loves her alter ego Jem (but doesn't know they're the same person), and Riot who loves Jem but not Jerrica.
* Asami from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has a lisp according to certain scenes. [[spoiler:She ends up the OfficialCouple with Korra]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Real Life]]
* The actress Creator/KayFrancis, one of Hollywood's top beauties, had [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome a speech impediment which made her pronounce her r's and l's like w's]], which added to her MsFanservice appeal.
* Another renowned cinema beauty Creator/MarleneDietrich had a similar speech impediment.
* The 1950s sex symbol Creator/MarilynMonroe stuttered; though she managed to tame her condition onstage (her famous throaty way of speaking was probably a way of hiding the stammer), it resurfaced in her last movie.
* Phyllis Potter, the first wife of Fred Astaire, likewise couldn't pronounce her r's.
* Mary Louise Dowell, a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sam_0.png really gorgeous Broadway showgirl]], was nicknamed "Stuttering Sam" because of her strong speech impediment. She didn't mind her stutter at all, was very popular with the opposite sex, and married in 1944 (reportedly she didn't stutter when she said "I do").
* Elizabeth Inchbald, a 18th century novelist, actress and playwright, known for both her beauty (which surrounded her with admirers) and her severe stutter.
* Another Hollywood beauty Creator/MarionDavies had a very noticeable stutter which made her concerned about the transition to sound in movies. Fortunately she didn't stutter onstage, but in everyday life, her stutter never went away.
[[/folder]]
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[[caption-width-right:200: Awww...we lub moo too.]]
->''"Her struggle with the "R" enunciation gets laughs yet, but then and now it served as endearing equalizer for a woman who'd have seemed too perfect otherwise."''
-->-- ''A [[http://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.ru/2008/09/kay-rations-at-tcm-somebody-at-turner.html movie reviewer]] about Creator/KayFrancis''
Imagine yourself meeting a gorgeous girl that seems to have come from the pages of a romance novel. She seems perfect in every way... That is, until she opens her beautiful mouth. Once she does, you realize that she either [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome has pwofound twouble with her w's]], [[SpeechImpediment s-st-tutters, lithpth]] or [[TheUnintelligible cannot speak clearly at all]]. Basically, you have a downplayed version of DisabledLoveInterest.
When the speech impediment is shown to be debilitating (like a severe stutter), it is usually given to a fragile ShrinkingViolet who is waiting for her knight in shining armor. Often, though not always, she recovers from the impediment by the end of the story; in this case, that's part of the AdrenalineMakeover with possible UnfortunateImplications because it makes out that a hero wouldn't want a disabled or otherwise "imperfect" love. At other times, though, the impediment serves as [[CharmPoint an endearing quirk which only adds to the character's charm]] (it may even be lampshaded in-story). In some cases, [[KeepingTheHandicap the Love Interest may even be unwilling to undergo speech therapy]] for exactly this reason.
Compare with CuteMute. An inversion of this trope is a speech-impeded protagonist.
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!!Examples:
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Inverted in ''Anime/TheAnthemOfTheHeart''. The protagonist, Jun, rarely speaks--and sounds squeaky and stuttery when she does--because it gives her severe anxiety attacks, supposedly due to a "curse." [[spoiler:(As a child, she believed that her parents' divorce was her fault because she accidentally revealed her father's infidelity, and convinced herself her life would spiral out of control unless she never spoke again.)]] She starts to open up and discovers that [[LoopholeAbuse singing avoids the curse]] when she develops a crush on a boy in her class. [[spoiler:Ultimately double-subverted, as well as inverted. He doesn't feel the same about her, not because of her speech issues, but because [[FirstGirlWins he's still in love with his old girlfriend]]. But her personality shift catches the attention of a ''different'' guy, who suddenly delivers a LoveConfession to her at the end.]]
* [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata Hyuga]] from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' had a stutter for a good chunk of her life due to her [[AbusiveParents abusive family]] and [[HeroicSelfDeprecation self-confidence issues]]. By Part II, [[CharacterDevelopment she stops stuttering so much]], even around [[FanOfUnderdog her crush]], Naruto. She completely loses her stutter by the Invasion of Pain arc. [[spoiler:She and Naruto ''finally'' become an OfficialCouple in ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'']].
* Shoko from ''Manga/ASilentVoice'' is deaf. Most of the time she uses sign language or writes in a notepad, however when she does speak she has a very pronounced speech impediment. [[spoiler:Her LoveConfession to Shoya is ruined by him misunderstanding her]].
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Anime/YokaiWatch''. Blazion can only say "roar". When Flushback makes Blazion flashback to past traumatic events, it's shown that ''this'' individual Blazion is the only one with that issue. One of his girlfriends dumped him precisely because inability to speak bored her.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Genevieve St. James from [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5701596/1/Genevieve the eponymous fanfic]], a beautiful girl who is the love interest of Sherlock Holmes, has a stammer.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films — Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', Ursula takes Ariel's voice for herself when giving her human legs, which makes it tricky (but not impossible) for Ariel to gain Prince Eric's heart.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. The protagonist Rapunzel has a small lisp while her love interest Flynn doesn't.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/AttentionBandits'' by Claude Lelouch, Marie-Sophie (the main character's daughter) has a stammer. The movie [[https://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/media/movietext.html#bandits received praise]] for its positive portrayal of stuttering: it was presented just as a distinctive quirk, rather than a disability or a drawback.
* Irene, the famous writer Dashiell Frank's girlfriend from the movie ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Jealousy Mr. Jealousy]]'', also stutters.
* In ''Film/InTheCompanyOfMen'' Christine, the female main character, is one of the most beautiful girls in the firm. However, she's deaf with a thick, barely intelligible deaf accent and a labored, strained way to speak. Subverted and PlayedStraight: while someone gets to appreciate her even more because of efforts, most people (including the resident Jerk) pick on her exactly because of that.
* In ''Film/PearlHarbor'', Goose has a terrible stammer when talking to his girlfriend/love Betty.
* Annie, John Glenn's wife from ''Film/TheRightStuff'', has a severe stutter (TruthInTelevision actually).
* Judy from ''Film/ShakesTheClown'' has rhotacism.
* Smartie, the main character's stuttering love interest, from ''Film/YoungAndDangerous'' movie series.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* While not the protagonist's love interest, Mag in ''Literature/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' invokes this with her pronounced stutter. She will exaggerate it, especially in front of men, when it benefits her. Apparently the impediment makes her more appealing.
* In ''The Commandant'' by Jessica Anderson, Letty, Patrick Logan's young beautiful wife, has a lisp. It is highly possible that Anderson drew inspiration for this from her own lifelong stammer.
* Horatia from ''The Convenient Marriage'' stutters. Her future husband remarks that he likes it.
* Lauren Young from "The Doctor's Flawed Bride with a Lisp" (in the ''Literature/MailOrderBride'' series) has '''both''' a limp and a lisp.
* Ellen, the protagonist's friend from ''Gypsy Heiress'' by Laura London, is a beautiful girl with a small and charming stammer. Robert, the young master of Brockhaven's domain, becomes enamored of her.
* Marta, the attractive 16 year old Mexican girl, from ''The Hardest Ride'' by Gordon Rottman is mute due to a brain trauma; the protagonist gradually falls in love with her, and they eventually marry.
* In ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'', Beryl Stapleton has a lisp. [[spoiler: She's not English-born and raised, so it might just be an accent.]]
* Honey from Louise Rennison's novel series ''The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey'' has both a lisp and a rhotacism. Which doesn't prevent her from being TheChick and a boys' magnet.
-->'''Honey:''' I know I have a lithp. I lithp and I like it. And boyth theem to like it too!
* In ''Prairie Preacher'' series by P. J. Hoge, Savannah got a stutter after a car accident. She marries Harold Effan aka "Kid", one of the protagonists.
* In ''Reviens'' by Samuel Benchetrit, the main character falls in love with Suzanne, a pretty stuttering nurse.
* In ''Tickle Amongst The Cornstalks'' by Bob Bishop, Lady Charlotte, the series' main beauty, cannot pronounce her r's.
* In ''Literature/TheVow'', a Medieval romance by Mary Spencer, Lady Margot le Brun also stutters. Unusually for the genre, her stutter does not disappear or even diminish by the end of the novel.
* Evie Jenner, a shy red-haired beauty from Lisa Kleypas' ''Wallflowers'' series, has a stutter. She becomes this in "Devil in Winter" (after a happy marriage, her stutter somewhat diminishes, but never disappears completely).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]" has a gender-inverted case: while trapped in a simulated world, Donna gets married to a man who has a severe stutter. At the end, she surmises that he was a manifestation of her subconscious perfect mate, i.e. unable to talk back to her. [[spoiler:He's actually real, and fails to reconnect with her because he is unable to say her name while being teleported off the planet.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* The novelty song "Little Eefin' Annie" has the singer describe his girlfriend Annie, who is incapable of saying anything without having it preceded by lengthy babbling.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Theatre]]
* Ophelia from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is occasionally played as having a lisp (most notably, she lisped in her mad scenes in the Stanislavski-Craig Moscow Art Theatre production). [[http://www.hamletonline.com/hamletwiki/index.php/Explication As believed by some]], this was actually intended by Shakespeare, which gives Hamlet's line "You jig and amble, and you lisp" a literal meaning.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', Princess Sakura of Hoshido is a ShrinkingViolet who tends to go from stuttering to SuddenlyShouting, and remains as such even if she marries. She can potentially be romanced by the Male Avatar, the first generation Hoshido men (save Ryoma and Takumi) [[spoiler: and the two Nohrian Princes, Xander and Leo, in the GoldenPath.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', the StudentCouncilPresident Shizune Hakamichi is deaf and tends to talk through others either through a sign language interpreter (her best friend Misha) or, like Shouko, via writing in notepads. There's just one time where she attempts to actually use her voice [[spoiler:and that's during the last sex scene in her path. Hisao is rather surprised and awed.]]
** Hanako Ikezawa also counts. Due to the trauma of the house fire that scarred her [[spoiler:and killed her parents]], and the subsequent bullying she received because of said scars, she's an extreme ShrinkingViolet whose speech is either stilted, stuttery, or both.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': Calixta is a ShrinkingViolet that speaks with a stutter. It becomes more noticeable when she's around and/or thinking about her crush/boyfriend Max.
--> '''Calixta''': *''when asked what's her New Year's resolution''* I just want to have my first k-k-kiss with Max...
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Tina’s main love interest, Jimmy Jr., has a pronounced lisp (in part because of his braces). In "Ain't Miss Debatin'," Tina confesses she [[HasAType has a thing]] for boys with speech impediments in general.
-->'''Gene''': She likes 'em not quite a man and hard to understand.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''. The protagonist Jerrica mispronounces certain words, mainly "very". She has some DudeMagnet qualities and has two love interests: her [[WillTheyOrWontThey sort-of boyfriend]] Rio who also loves her alter ego Jem (but doesn't know they're the same person), and Riot who loves Jem but not Jerrica.
* Asami from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has a lisp according to certain scenes. [[spoiler:She ends up the OfficialCouple with Korra]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Real Life]]
* The actress Creator/KayFrancis, one of Hollywood's top beauties, had [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome a speech impediment which made her pronounce her r's and l's like w's]], which added to her MsFanservice appeal.
* Another renowned cinema beauty Creator/MarleneDietrich had a similar speech impediment.
* The 1950s sex symbol Creator/MarilynMonroe stuttered; though she managed to tame her condition onstage (her famous throaty way of speaking was probably a way of hiding the stammer), it resurfaced in her last movie.
* Phyllis Potter, the first wife of Fred Astaire, likewise couldn't pronounce her r's.
* Mary Louise Dowell, a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sam_0.png really gorgeous Broadway showgirl]], was nicknamed "Stuttering Sam" because of her strong speech impediment. She didn't mind her stutter at all, was very popular with the opposite sex, and married in 1944 (reportedly she didn't stutter when she said "I do").
* Elizabeth Inchbald, a 18th century novelist, actress and playwright, known for both her beauty (which surrounded her with admirers) and her severe stutter.
* Another Hollywood beauty Creator/MarionDavies had a very noticeable stutter which made her concerned about the transition to sound in movies. Fortunately she didn't stutter onstage, but in everyday life, her stutter never went away.
[[/folder]]
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[[quoteright:200:[[Manga/ASilentVoice https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/b06975005db11d536ae21ebeafdbcda2_9.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:200: Awww...we lub moo too.]]
->''"Her struggle with the "R" enunciation gets laughs yet, but then and now it served as endearing equalizer for a woman who'd have seemed too perfect otherwise."''
-->-- ''A [[http://greenbriarpictureshows.blogspot.ru/2008/09/kay-rations-at-tcm-somebody-at-turner.html movie reviewer]] about Creator/KayFrancis''
Imagine yourself meeting a gorgeous girl that seems to have come from the pages of a romance novel. She seems perfect in every way... That is, until she opens her beautiful mouth. Once she does, you realize that she either [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome has pwofound twouble with her w's]], [[SpeechImpediment s-st-tutters, lithpth]] or [[TheUnintelligible cannot speak clearly at all]]. Basically, you have a downplayed version of DisabledLoveInterest.
When the speech impediment is shown to be debilitating (like a severe stutter), it is usually given to a fragile ShrinkingViolet who is waiting for her knight in shining armor. Often, though not always, she recovers from the impediment by the end of the story; in this case, that's part of the AdrenalineMakeover with possible UnfortunateImplications because it makes out that a hero wouldn't want a disabled or otherwise "imperfect" love. At other times, though, the impediment serves as [[CharmPoint an endearing quirk which only adds to the character's charm]] (it may even be lampshaded in-story). In some cases, [[KeepingTheHandicap the Love Interest may even be unwilling to undergo speech therapy]] for exactly this reason.
Compare with CuteMute. An inversion of this trope is a speech-impeded protagonist.
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!!Examples:
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Inverted in ''Anime/TheAnthemOfTheHeart''. The protagonist, Jun, rarely speaks--and sounds squeaky and stuttery when she does--because it gives her severe anxiety attacks, supposedly due to a "curse." [[spoiler:(As a child, she believed that her parents' divorce was her fault because she accidentally revealed her father's infidelity, and convinced herself her life would spiral out of control unless she never spoke again.)]] She starts to open up and discovers that [[LoopholeAbuse singing avoids the curse]] when she develops a crush on a boy in her class. [[spoiler:Ultimately double-subverted, as well as inverted. He doesn't feel the same about her, not because of her speech issues, but because [[FirstGirlWins he's still in love with his old girlfriend]]. But her personality shift catches the attention of a ''different'' guy, who suddenly delivers a LoveConfession to her at the end.]]
* [[ShrinkingViolet Hinata Hyuga]] from ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' had a stutter for a good chunk of her life due to her [[AbusiveParents abusive family]] and [[HeroicSelfDeprecation self-confidence issues]]. By Part II, [[CharacterDevelopment she stops stuttering so much]], even around [[FanOfUnderdog her crush]], Naruto. She completely loses her stutter by the Invasion of Pain arc. [[spoiler:She and Naruto ''finally'' become an OfficialCouple in ''Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie'']].
* Shoko from ''Manga/ASilentVoice'' is deaf. Most of the time she uses sign language or writes in a notepad, however when she does speak she has a very pronounced speech impediment. [[spoiler:Her LoveConfession to Shoya is ruined by him misunderstanding her]].
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Anime/YokaiWatch''. Blazion can only say "roar". When Flushback makes Blazion flashback to past traumatic events, it's shown that ''this'' individual Blazion is the only one with that issue. One of his girlfriends dumped him precisely because inability to speak bored her.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Genevieve St. James from [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5701596/1/Genevieve the eponymous fanfic]], a beautiful girl who is the love interest of Sherlock Holmes, has a stammer.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films — Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', Ursula takes Ariel's voice for herself when giving her human legs, which makes it tricky (but not impossible) for Ariel to gain Prince Eric's heart.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. The protagonist Rapunzel has a small lisp while her love interest Flynn doesn't.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/AttentionBandits'' by Claude Lelouch, Marie-Sophie (the main character's daughter) has a stammer. The movie [[https://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/media/movietext.html#bandits received praise]] for its positive portrayal of stuttering: it was presented just as a distinctive quirk, rather than a disability or a drawback.
* Irene, the famous writer Dashiell Frank's girlfriend from the movie ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Jealousy Mr. Jealousy]]'', also stutters.
* In ''Film/InTheCompanyOfMen'' Christine, the female main character, is one of the most beautiful girls in the firm. However, she's deaf with a thick, barely intelligible deaf accent and a labored, strained way to speak. Subverted and PlayedStraight: while someone gets to appreciate her even more because of efforts, most people (including the resident Jerk) pick on her exactly because of that.
* In ''Film/PearlHarbor'', Goose has a terrible stammer when talking to his girlfriend/love Betty.
* Annie, John Glenn's wife from ''Film/TheRightStuff'', has a severe stutter (TruthInTelevision actually).
* Judy from ''Film/ShakesTheClown'' has rhotacism.
* Smartie, the main character's stuttering love interest, from ''Film/YoungAndDangerous'' movie series.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* While not the protagonist's love interest, Mag in ''Literature/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' invokes this with her pronounced stutter. She will exaggerate it, especially in front of men, when it benefits her. Apparently the impediment makes her more appealing.
* In ''The Commandant'' by Jessica Anderson, Letty, Patrick Logan's young beautiful wife, has a lisp. It is highly possible that Anderson drew inspiration for this from her own lifelong stammer.
* Horatia from ''The Convenient Marriage'' stutters. Her future husband remarks that he likes it.
* Lauren Young from "The Doctor's Flawed Bride with a Lisp" (in the ''Literature/MailOrderBride'' series) has '''both''' a limp and a lisp.
* Ellen, the protagonist's friend from ''Gypsy Heiress'' by Laura London, is a beautiful girl with a small and charming stammer. Robert, the young master of Brockhaven's domain, becomes enamored of her.
* Marta, the attractive 16 year old Mexican girl, from ''The Hardest Ride'' by Gordon Rottman is mute due to a brain trauma; the protagonist gradually falls in love with her, and they eventually marry.
* In ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'', Beryl Stapleton has a lisp. [[spoiler: She's not English-born and raised, so it might just be an accent.]]
* Honey from Louise Rennison's novel series ''The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey'' has both a lisp and a rhotacism. Which doesn't prevent her from being TheChick and a boys' magnet.
-->'''Honey:''' I know I have a lithp. I lithp and I like it. And boyth theem to like it too!
* In ''Prairie Preacher'' series by P. J. Hoge, Savannah got a stutter after a car accident. She marries Harold Effan aka "Kid", one of the protagonists.
* In ''Reviens'' by Samuel Benchetrit, the main character falls in love with Suzanne, a pretty stuttering nurse.
* In ''Tickle Amongst The Cornstalks'' by Bob Bishop, Lady Charlotte, the series' main beauty, cannot pronounce her r's.
* In ''Literature/TheVow'', a Medieval romance by Mary Spencer, Lady Margot le Brun also stutters. Unusually for the genre, her stutter does not disappear or even diminish by the end of the novel.
* Evie Jenner, a shy red-haired beauty from Lisa Kleypas' ''Wallflowers'' series, has a stutter. She becomes this in "Devil in Winter" (after a happy marriage, her stutter somewhat diminishes, but never disappears completely).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]" has a gender-inverted case: while trapped in a simulated world, Donna gets married to a man who has a severe stutter. At the end, she surmises that he was a manifestation of her subconscious perfect mate, i.e. unable to talk back to her. [[spoiler:He's actually real, and fails to reconnect with her because he is unable to say her name while being teleported off the planet.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* The novelty song "Little Eefin' Annie" has the singer describe his girlfriend Annie, who is incapable of saying anything without having it preceded by lengthy babbling.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Theatre]]
* Ophelia from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is occasionally played as having a lisp (most notably, she lisped in her mad scenes in the Stanislavski-Craig Moscow Art Theatre production). [[http://www.hamletonline.com/hamletwiki/index.php/Explication As believed by some]], this was actually intended by Shakespeare, which gives Hamlet's line "You jig and amble, and you lisp" a literal meaning.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', Princess Sakura of Hoshido is a ShrinkingViolet who tends to go from stuttering to SuddenlyShouting, and remains as such even if she marries. She can potentially be romanced by the Male Avatar, the first generation Hoshido men (save Ryoma and Takumi) [[spoiler: and the two Nohrian Princes, Xander and Leo, in the GoldenPath.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', the StudentCouncilPresident Shizune Hakamichi is deaf and tends to talk through others either through a sign language interpreter (her best friend Misha) or, like Shouko, via writing in notepads. There's just one time where she attempts to actually use her voice [[spoiler:and that's during the last sex scene in her path. Hisao is rather surprised and awed.]]
** Hanako Ikezawa also counts. Due to the trauma of the house fire that scarred her [[spoiler:and killed her parents]], and the subsequent bullying she received because of said scars, she's an extreme ShrinkingViolet whose speech is either stilted, stuttery, or both.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': Calixta is a ShrinkingViolet that speaks with a stutter. It becomes more noticeable when she's around and/or thinking about her crush/boyfriend Max.
--> '''Calixta''': *''when asked what's her New Year's resolution''* I just want to have my first k-k-kiss with Max...
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Tina’s main love interest, Jimmy Jr., has a pronounced lisp (in part because of his braces). In "Ain't Miss Debatin'," Tina confesses she [[HasAType has a thing]] for boys with speech impediments in general.
-->'''Gene''': She likes 'em not quite a man and hard to understand.
* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''. The protagonist Jerrica mispronounces certain words, mainly "very". She has some DudeMagnet qualities and has two love interests: her [[WillTheyOrWontThey sort-of boyfriend]] Rio who also loves her alter ego Jem (but doesn't know they're the same person), and Riot who loves Jem but not Jerrica.
* Asami from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has a lisp according to certain scenes. [[spoiler:She ends up the OfficialCouple with Korra]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Real Life]]
* The actress Creator/KayFrancis, one of Hollywood's top beauties, had [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome a speech impediment which made her pronounce her r's and l's like w's]], which added to her MsFanservice appeal.
* Another renowned cinema beauty Creator/MarleneDietrich had a similar speech impediment.
* The 1950s sex symbol Creator/MarilynMonroe stuttered; though she managed to tame her condition onstage (her famous throaty way of speaking was probably a way of hiding the stammer), it resurfaced in her last movie.
* Phyllis Potter, the first wife of Fred Astaire, likewise couldn't pronounce her r's.
* Mary Louise Dowell, a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sam_0.png really gorgeous Broadway showgirl]], was nicknamed "Stuttering Sam" because of her strong speech impediment. She didn't mind her stutter at all, was very popular with the opposite sex, and married in 1944 (reportedly she didn't stutter when she said "I do").
* Elizabeth Inchbald, a 18th century novelist, actress and playwright, known for both her beauty (which surrounded her with admirers) and her severe stutter.
* Another Hollywood beauty Creator/MarionDavies had a very noticeable stutter which made her concerned about the transition to sound in movies. Fortunately she didn't stutter onstage, but in everyday life, her stutter never went away.
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* In ''Film/InTheCompanyOfMen'' Christine, the female main character, is one of the most beautiful girls in the firm. However, she's deaf with a thick, barely intelligible deaf accent and a labored, strained way to speak. Subverted and PlayedStraight: while someone gets to appreciate her even more because of efforts, most people (including the resident Jerk) pick on her exactly because of that.
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* Inverted in ''Anime/TheAnthemOfTheHeart''. The protagonist, Jun, rarely speaks--and sounds squeaky and stuttery when she does--because it gives her severe anxiety attacks, supposedly due to a "curse." [[spoiler:(As a child, she believed that her parents' divorce was her fault because she accidentally revealed her father's infidelity, and convinced herself her life would spiral out of control unless she never spoke again.)]] She starts to open up and discovers that [[LoopholeAbuse singing avoids the curse]] when she develops a crush on a boy in her class. [[spoiler:Ultimately double-subverted, as well as inverted. He doesn't feel the same about her, not because of her speech issues, but because [[FirstGirlWins he's still in love with his old girlfriend]]. But her personality shift catches the attention of a ''different'' guy, who suddenly delivers a LoveConfession to her at the end.]]
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* Inverted in ''Anime/TheAnthemOfTheHeart''. The protagonist, Jun, rarely speaks--and sounds squeaky and stuttery when she does--because it gives her severe anxiety attacks, supposedly due to a "curse." [[spoiler:(As a child, she believed that her parents' divorce was her fault because she accidentally revealed her father's infidelity, and convinced herself her life would spiral out of control unless she never spoke again.)]] She starts to open up and discovers that [[LoopholeAbuse singing avoids the curse]] when she develops a crush on a boy in her class. [[spoiler:Ultimately double-subverted, as well as inverted. He doesn't feel the same about her, not because of her speech issues, but because [[FirstGirlWins he's still in love with his old girlfriend]]. But her personality shift catches the attention of a ''different'' guy, who suddenly delivers a LoveConfession to her at the end.]]
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* In ''Film/PearlHarbor'', Goose has a terrible stammer when talking to his girlfriend/love Betty.
* In ''Film/PearlHarbor'', Goose has a terrible stammer when talking to his girlfriend/love Betty.
* While not the protagonist's love interest, Mag in ''Literature/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' invokes this with her pronounced stutter. She will exaggerate it, especially in front of men, when it benefits her. Apparently the impediment makes her more appealing.
* Ellen, the protagonist's friend from ''Gypsy Heiress'' by Laura London, is a beautiful girl with a small and charming stammer. Robert, the young master of Brockhaven's domain, becomes enamored of her.
* Marta, the attractive 16 year old Mexican girl, from ''The Hardest Ride'' by Gordon Rottman is mute due to a brain trauma; the protagonist gradually falls in love with her, and they eventually marry.
* In ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'', Beryl Stapleton has a lisp. [[spoiler: She's not English-born and raised, so it might just be an accent.]]
* Marta, the attractive 16 year old Mexican girl, from ''The Hardest Ride'' by Gordon Rottman is mute due to a brain trauma; the protagonist gradually falls in love with her, and they eventually marry.
* In ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'', Beryl Stapleton has a lisp. [[spoiler: She's not English-born and raised, so it might just be an accent.]]
* In ''Reviens'' by Samuel Benchetrit, the main character falls in love with Suzanne, a pretty stuttering nurse.
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* In ''Reviens'' by Samuel Benchetrit, the main character falls in love with Suzanne, a pretty stuttering nurse.
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* In ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'', Beryl Stapleton has a lisp. [[spoiler: She's not English-born and raised, so it might just be an accent.]]
* Marta, the attractive 16 year old Mexican girl, from ''The Hardest Ride'' by Gordon Rottman is mute due to a brain trauma; the protagonist gradually falls in love with her, and they eventually marry.
* Ellen, the protagonist's friend from ''Gypsy Heiress'' by Laura London, is a beautiful girl with a small and charming stammer. Robert, the young master of Brockhaven's domain, becomes enamored of her.
* While not the protagonist's love interest, Mag in ''Literature/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' invokes this with her pronounced stutter. She will exaggerate it, especially in front of men, when it benefits her. Apparently the impediment makes her more appealing.
* Marta, the attractive 16 year old Mexican girl, from ''The Hardest Ride'' by Gordon Rottman is mute due to a brain trauma; the protagonist gradually falls in love with her, and they eventually marry.
* Ellen, the protagonist's friend from ''Gypsy Heiress'' by Laura London, is a beautiful girl with a small and charming stammer. Robert, the young master of Brockhaven's domain, becomes enamored of her.
* While not the protagonist's love interest, Mag in ''Literature/BreakfastAtTiffanys'' invokes this with her pronounced stutter. She will exaggerate it, especially in front of men, when it benefits her. Apparently the impediment makes her more appealing.
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* In ''Attention Bandits!'' by Claude Lelouch, Marie-Sophie (the main character's daughter) has a stammer. The movie [[https://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/media/movietext.html#bandits received praise]] for its positive portrayal of stuttering: it was presented just as a distinctive quirk, rather than a disability or a drawback.
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* In ''Attention Bandits!'' ''Film/AttentionBandits'' by Claude Lelouch, Marie-Sophie (the main character's daughter) has a stammer. The movie [[https://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster/media/movietext.html#bandits received praise]] for its positive portrayal of stuttering: it was presented just as a distinctive quirk, rather than a disability or a drawback.
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* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': Calixta is a ShrinkingViolet that speaks with a stutter. It becomes more noticeable when she's around and/or thinking about her crush/boyfriend Max.
--> '''Calixta''': *''when asked what's her New Year's resolution''* I just want to have my first k-k-kiss with Max...
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* ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': Calixta is a ShrinkingViolet that speaks with a stutter. It becomes more noticeable when she's around and/or thinking about her crush/boyfriend Max.
--> '''Calixta''': *''when asked what's her New Year's resolution''* I just want to have my first k-k-kiss with Max...
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Tina’s main love interest, Jimmy Jr., has a pronounced lisp (in part because of his braces). In "Ain't Miss Debatin'," Tina confesses she [[HasAType has a thing]] for boys with speech impediments in general.
-->'''Gene''': She likes 'em not quite a man and hard to understand.
-->'''Gene''': She likes 'em not quite a man and hard to understand.
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* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Tina’s main love interest, Jimmy Jr., has a pronounced lisp (in part because of his braces). In "Ain't Miss Debatin'," Tina confesses she [[HasAType has a thing]] for boys with speech impediments in general.
-->'''Gene''': She likes 'em not quite a man and hard to understand.
-->'''Gene''': She likes 'em not quite a man and hard to understand.
