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* Evie Jenner from LisaKleypas' Wallflower series has a quite pronounced stutter, which is partly the result of her unhappy life and abuse. After her marriage in "Devil in Winter", it becomes much less prominent, but it never completely goes away.

* [[Creator/CillianMurphy John Skillpa]] but not Emma in ''Film/{{Peacock}}''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai''. RebelliousPrincess Akemi spends most of Season One running away from her marriage to the shogun's second son, said to be an abusive monster who kills his wives and won't even deign to speak to women. When Akemi gets him alone, however, it's revealed that he's actually silent to conceal his stutter, while the stories of his brutality are invented by his mother and her servants to terrify his wives. Akemi, having learnt something of how to bend men to her will by then, coaxes him into being at ease with her so he doesn't have to put up a tough facade.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'': William Murderface talks with a very thick lateral lisp, to the point you may need subtitles.

* Verse four of the Scaffold's "Lily the Pink":

* In the WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts, Franchise/DonaldDuck and his three nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie all speak in a raspy voice [[AnimalSpeciesAccent that sounds like quacking]]. Donald's voice is so distinctive, in order to preserve it, [[MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor the same voice actor dubbed Donald's voice in every single language with the aid of phonetic scripts]]. The end result is that Donald is about equally hard to understand in all languages. This trait is significantly toned down with the triplets in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' and entirely absent in ''WesternAnimation/QuackPack'', but Donald's voice remains the same, and is portrayed more like an in-universe, character-specific speech impediment. Huey, Dewey, and Louie went back to sounding exactly like Donald in ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseWorks'' and ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'', but again had no impediment at all in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017''.

** In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3'', nearly everyone had a catchphrase, and some of the {{Catch Phrase}}s could border on Tourette's-level with how frequently they were used. Most noticeably, Thistle Whistle couldn't talk without randomly stopping to make whistling noises. She was the most temperamental of the pegasus team, but it ''really'' costs you badass points to interrupt a snide comment with whistling.

** In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyG3'', nearly everyone had a CatchPhrase, and some of the {{Catch Phrase}}s could border on Tourette's-level with how frequently they were used. Most noticeably, Thistle Whistle couldn't talk without randomly stopping to make whistling noises. She was the most temperamental of the pegasus team, but it ''really'' costs you badass points to interrupt a snide comment with whistling.

* Max's girlfriend Calixta in ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'' [[SpeechImpededLoveInterest speaks with a stutter]].

* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'': Spinner seems to have a mild speech impediment, although it might have to do with his tongue piercing.

* ''Fuddy Meers'' has two examples: Limping Man speaks with the classic lisp, and Gertie's words come out oddly due to her aphasia (she provides the title "Funny Mirrors").

* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' has you doing a series of missions in the town of Overlook for the town's administrator, Karima, who speaks with a stutter due to suffering from skull-shivers like everyone else in town. It goes away after you deliver medicine to the town, however it was {{Retcon}}ned to be a permanent affliction unrelated to the shivers after a fan messaged Gearbox thanking them for giving people with stutters some positive representation. And indeed, when Karima appears in the ''Claptastic Voyage'' DLC for ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'', well before Overlook's skull-shivers problem, she still has her stutter.

---> Talking-is-irrelevant. It-only-delays-progress. Disengage-your-speech-circuits-and-switch-to-battle-mode-like-the-other-combatants.

---> I-I-I-I'[=mgonnadestroyeverythingI=]'mgonnadest... Uh, y-y-y-yeh, y-y-yer right."

* In ''VideoGame/{{Thief}} 2: The Metal Age'', [[BigBad Father Karras]] has both a very high-pitched voice as well as an impediment that makes him sound like he's talking with a bunch of marbles in his mouth. Despite this, he is a highly respected person by the elite of the city, and his followers (the Mechanists) practically worship him. One could even call him charismatic.

* Franchise/{{Batman}} villain Ventriloquist has a unique one when speaking through the puppet Scarface where he replaces his "B"s with "G"s, leading to Scarface defiantly calling Batman and Robin "Gatman and Rogin"
* DependingOnTheWriter, Cloak of ''ComicBook/CloakAndDagger'' sometimes has a stutter when he's forced to revert to being Tyrone Johnson.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Issue #168 mentions a [[InsubstantialIngredients speech impediment]] passed down by one of the seven families of the map is one of the seven parts needed to put together a map to the usually unmappable [[TheShangriLa Nanda Parbat]].

** Abel stutters heavily. The stutter goes away when he's telling a story and seems to be nerves due to his brother's cruel habits. In the same series and ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'', Mazikeen can only talk with half her face (the other half rotted away); she borders on TheUnintelligible.

* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheKillersOfKrypton'', the owner of a space bar located at the far end of the Vega system mispronounces words and has a slight but noticeable lisp.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Byrna Brilyant has a stutter, which gives away her villain identity when she speaks for herself while in disguise instead of having one of her robotic duplicates do so, which is why she usually has the robots do the talking.
** In the ''ComicBook/{{Huntress}}'' feature the mob enforcer Milo has a very prominent lisp that presents itself as a lot of ssssh-es at the beginning of words.