History Main / SpeechImpediment

* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' the character [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Jasper]] speaks with a huge stutter. At least it ends when [[spoiler:he turns into a KingMook and harasses Henry as a gurgling [[ManOnFire ghost]]]].

** Coach Z. "I'm prertanding I'm the craptain of a foortball torm!"

* ''Literature/MollyMoon'': The villain of the third book, the Maharaja of Waqt, often unintentionally speaks in spoonerisms, meaning that he says many words "frack to bunt," for example saying "maby Bolly" instead of "baby Molly."

* Neliel Tu Odelschwanck of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has a rather pronounced lisp in the Japanese anime and manga, causing cute mispronunciations of some words and the main character's name (Isygo). Crosses a little bit into FangThpeak as the source of Nel's lisp seems to be her [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/19373/420518-vlcsnap-247045.png broken]] [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/1/19373/420513-Nel__child__by_oshidark.jpg teeth.]]
* Nicholas from ''Manga/{{Gangsta}}'' has been deaf since birth and speaks in a noticeably clipped and awkward manner, including {{AcCENT Upon the Wrong SylLABle}} to the point that even the original Japanese subtitles his speech, which is why he usually prefers to communicate via UsefulNotes/SignLanguage.

* Potpourri of ''Anime/HeartCatchPrettyCure'' has a lisp, most likely because he's a young fairy, leading him to call his partner Itsuki "Itshuki" and his VerbalTic "-desu" "-deshu".
* For [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext whatever reason]], [[NationsAsPeople Sweden]] in ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' can't pronounce his vowels.

* Suzu, the blind girl who "sees" using {{Magitek}} sonar from ''Literature/HorizonInTheMiddleOfNowhere'', has a speech impediment which FridgeLogic states is because said device relays her own voice back to her. [[TruthInTelevision Which is a real condition]], albeit without the Magitek.
* Suletta Mercury, the heroine of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury'' has a very pronounced stutter. It worsens when she's nervous (which is often), and eases up when she's comfortable (particularly when piloting her Gundam).
* Brief from ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', particularly around Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa-Panty.
* Sakura Kyouko of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has a slight lisp.
* Shoko from ''Manga/ASilentVoice'' is deaf, and when she speaks, her words are quite slurred. This is most noticeable when she was bullied by Shoya as an elementary schooler and later [[spoiler:when he doesn't understand her AnguishedDeclarationOfLove (mistaking "love"/"suki" for "moon"/"tsuki").]]

* In ''Animation/MotuPatlu'', one of John the Don's goons, Number 2, speaks with a noticeable lisp that sometimes makes it difficult for other characters to understand him.

* Gussie Mouseheimer in ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail''.

* Z the ant who is the main character from the first animated [=DreamWorks=] movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'' is known to have a stutter when he speaks and also has a slight lisp. Especially when he talks to General Mandible.
* Kathy from ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' has a lisp. But she speaks more often in ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'' which in that film it is more noticeable. You can tell she has a lisp because of her big buck teeth like a bunny.

* Sid from the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' movies has a "lateral lisp". His voice actor claims that he gave him one based off the fact that real-life sloths store food in their mouths.
* Hubie from ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin'' has a stutter. Especially when he sings the musical number "Sometimes I Wonder."
* Prince Froglip from ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheGoblin'' speaks with a lisp, especially when he threatens to tear out the humans thbbbt-ingernailthhhhs.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'' Peepers the Mouse has a lateral lisp, which Snipes the Magpie makes fun of at one point.

* Norman, the guinea pig from ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' has a wet and spitty lisp when he talks.
* In a rare example of the protagonist, Rapunzel from ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' seems to have a small lisp.
* King Candy from ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'' speaks with a lisp, although not constantly.

* Julio from ''Film/ChangeOfHabit'' has a severe stutter, which makes him feel isolated and like less of a man. Michelle works with him to improve it, and by the time he [[spoiler:tries to rape her]], he seems to be mostly over it, although he still doesn't like talking in complete sentences.
* ''Film/{{Chinatown}}''. Evelyn Mulwray stutters whenever she mentions her f-father. This turns out to be a ChekhovsGun.

* Cleveland's stutter from the ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' is an important part of his characterization.

* [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Pontius Pilate]] and Biggus Dickus in ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''. The former has ElmuhFuddSyndwome and the latter has a pronounced lisp.

* Livingson Dell of ''Film/OceansEleven'' seems to stutter.

* A resistance fighter suffers from one in ''Film/PansLabyrinth''. The evil [[BloodKnight Captain Vidal]] even taunts him about it, claiming that if he can count to three without stuttering, he would be free to go. [[NightmareFuel/PansLabyrinth It's one of the most horrifying moments in the movie]].
* In ''Film/{{Paulie}}'', the titular bird's beloved owner Marie was a severe stutterer as a child, which was strongly hinted to have been caused by her overbearing father.

* The priest (referred to as "The Impressive Clergyman" in the credits) in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': "Mawwidge! Mawwidge is what bwings us togevah today!" In the book, it's compounded by him being somewhat senile and deaf as a post.
* Norman Bates of ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' has an occasional stammer. Initially, it adds to his early dorky charm, and seems to be due to nerves. It becomes more unsettling later, when it becomes apparent that Norman stammers over significant words.

* Rob from ''Film/WeTooTogether'' has a severe stutter as a child, which makes him a BullyMagnet. It mostly goes away with the help of speech therapy.

* Eve of ''Literature/TheAliceNetwork'' speaks with a stutter, which gets stronger when she's scared and weaker when she's drunk or angry. Although it’s genuine, she still uses it to her advantage in her spy work via ObfuscatingStupidity.
* In the ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' series, Anne's youngest child, Rilla, has a lisp. She outgrew it by the time she was fourteen, though in times of nervousness or stress she often relapsed.

* Chloe from ''Literature/DarkestPowers'' stutters terribly when nervous.
* {{Subverted|Trope}}/{{Lampshaded}} in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', where [[TheIgor Igors]] are ''expected'' to lisp, and almost all of them do so. The females don't do it as often, and some younger, "modern" Igors also drop the lisp on occasion.

* Karl Sadeghi, in the ''Series/DoctorWho Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' novel ''The Year of Intelligent Tigers'', has a slight stutter. A few sections written from his perspective also seem to suggest he has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia synesthesia]]. So he's a bit of an odd duck.

* Frederica from ''Literature/TheGamekeepersLady'', an example of a LoveInterest. She always stumbles on the protagonist's name ("R-Robert"), which doesn't stop them from falling in love.

* In the original ''Literature/HowToTrainYourDragon'' books, Toothless has a prominent stutter, and combines it with ThirdPersonPerson speech and a bit of YouNoTakeCandle, leading to sentences such as “Toothless help you. [[{{Tsundere}} B-b-but NOT because me being n-n-nice or anything yucky....]]” [[LetsGetDangerous If he’s feeling particularly feisty, though, Toothless will drop the stutter.]] Eventually, by the time the [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon movies]] [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2 came]] [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld out]], the stutter and third-person speech became {{Fanon}} translations for some people translating Toothless’ speech as a MythologyGag- though it was ''slightly'' [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]].

* The villain of the third ''Literature/MollyMoon'' book, the Maharaja of Waqt, often unintentionally speaks in spoonerisms, meaning that he says many words "frack to bunt," for example saying "maby Bolly" instead of "baby Molly."

* Cordelia Naismith briefly acquires a stutter in ''Literature/ShardsOfHonor'' due to post-traumatic stress; it goes away when she resolves her issues and takes action.
* [[MeaningfulName Twitch]] has a noticeable stutter in ''Literature/SkateTheThief'', which might be related to the nervous jerks and shuffles that he exhibits.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. The PsychoForHire Vargo Hoat, captain of the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Brave Companions]], has a swollen tongue from some unknown malady that causes him to lisp, which is represented in his dialogue. He's occasionally mocked behind his back for "slobbering" his words. Jaime jokes that the reason he lied about Brienne's family fortune in sapphires is because he wanted to hear Vargo say "thappireth."

* Joseph Olivera from ''Literature/TimeRiders'' has a horrible stutter that flares up when he's nervous. Waldstein finds it amusing.

* Iseult of ''Literature/TheWitchlands'' stutters when she's nervous. She used to stutter all the time, but learned to control it, so it's a sign that she's incapable of keeping calm.

* Walter "Flynn" White Jr. on ''Series/BreakingBad'' -- notable because the actor actually has cerebral palsy, although Flynn's condition is actually significantly worse than R. J. Mitte's (Mitte doesn't need crutches, for a start). When it comes to the associated speech issues, it's clear that Mitte is exaggerating Flynn's impediment; Mitte's natural speech is clearly that of someone with mild cerebral palsy, speaking very fluidly with a bit of a "thick tongue" effect (since cerebral palsy affects muscle control and the tongue is a muscle), while Flynn also stutters a bit.

* La Popis in ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' originally spoke like if she had Cleft lip, this was abandoned after a concerned father told Chespirito that kids in the school were mocking his son who had Cleft lip because of that, so after the first two seasons Popis started to speak normally.
* Spinner from ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' seems to have a mild speech impediment, although it might have to do with his tongue piercing.
* The Third Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho'' had a mild lisp, because his actor (Creator/JonPertwee) had one.

* In the ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch "Travel Agent," Mr. Smoketoomuch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2LaJOVAiA has]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz7QhiYhaE0 a speech impediment]]: he can't pronounce the letter "C", instead pronouncing it as the letter "B". He can get around it by replacing the "C" with a "K" for words with hard "C"s. It's all due to a trauma he suffered when he was attacked by a Siamese bat as a sbool boy.

* The ''Series/QuantumLeap'' episode "Trilogy, Part 2" has Sam adopting the stutter of the man that he leaped into for nearly the entire episode.
* Donkeylips from ''Series/SaluteYourShorts'' speaks with a very pronounced lisp, which his actor, Michael Ray Bower, also has.

* Baby Bear on ''Series/SesameStreet''. "Powwidge, powwidge, powwidge..."
* J.J. from ''Series/{{Speechless}}'' has cerebral palsy and either can't speak vocally or is uncomfortable doing so. To communicate he uses a head-mounted laser pointer and a board filled with words and letters to form sentences.
* In an unusual main character example, Kendall Roy from ''Series/{{Succession}}'' has a stutter/stammer that becomes prominent whenever he's anxious and turns his dialogue into "uh uh uh"s.
* [[TortureTechnician Alistair]] in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' has a lisp. Given that he has in two different hosts, the demon itself is apparently the one that has it. That or he took the time to specifically possess people with a lisp for some reason. It in no way detracts from how terrifying he is.

* ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy'': Diego had a stutter as a child. It now only comes out when he is very upset.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'':

* Suzu, the blind girl who "sees" using {{Magitek}} sonar from ''LightNovel/HorizonInTheMiddleOfNowhere'', has a speech impediment which FridgeLogic states is because said device relays her own voice back to her. [[TruthInTelevision Which is a real condition]], albeit without the Magitek.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'': Agnus also stutters, and Nero mocks him for it once. [[spoiler:It doesn't seem to be an issue in his angel form, however.]]

* Pooja Vijay, the Indian stuttering stand-up comedian. [[TakeThatMe Her stammer is a frequent topic of her jokes]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Freaktown}}'', Princess Boo-Boo is cast a spell by Sparkles in the episode Princess Blourgh-Blourgh to be an alien that has a lisp. Not only that, Sparkles is shown to have a lisp.
* Goomo of ''WesternAnimation/JellyJamm'' has a noticeable lisp.

* ''WesternAnimation/NatureCat'': When Nature Cat was a kitten, he used to have 2 speech impediments. He had a lisp and rhotacism so his catchphrase "Tally Ho" would sound like "Tawwy Ho". This is heard in the episode Call it a Night.

* Creator/RobPaulsen voiced Pinky (of ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'') with a speech impediment because he thought the mouse would have difficulty speaking properly with those huge front teeth ([[VocalEvolution this is most pronounced in the earliest episodes]]).

* Princess Morbucks from ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'' mispronounces her "s"' as "-th".
* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', the titular characters both have a noticeable stutter that cause them to repeat words multiple times in sentences.
* There was an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretShow'' where Victor Volt spoke with a lisp for the entire episode much to Anita Knight's disapproval because Dr. Hypno caused him to have his face numb and talk with a lateral lisp.

* On ''WesternAnimation/SnooperAndBlabber'', Blabber Mouse slurs his "S"'s when he talks.
* Timmy and Jimmy from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Timmy is mentally disabled and can only say a few words (most notably [[PokemonSpeak his own name]]) and Jimmy has a st-st--a st-st--a ''stuh-''uttering problem.
* When Morocco Mole loses his front gold tooth in the ''Super Secret WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'' episode "Goldflipper," he's left with a glaring lisp that Secret lampshades, to Morocco's irritation.

-->'''Pooh:''' Can you ssspare a sssmall sssmackeral?
-->'''Gopher:''' [[HypocriticalHumor Sssay, you oughta do sssomthing about that ssspeech impediment, sssonny.]]

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* Reoccuring background character Maria from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' has never spoken a word in the series. In her LowerDeckEpisode the reason given is that she is embarrassed by her pronounced stutter and thus canonically only ever speaks around her best friend. She's visiting a speech therapist but it's not easy to better her speech. Due to being put on the school news she has to speak more, and by the end of the episode she's learned to control much of her stuttering.
* Brandon from ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' has a a lisp which Carl finds very annoying. It doesn't help Brandon insists on talking in a high-pitched, sing-songy voice most of the time.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'''s Zuko has a lisp. It's pretty noticeable in the episode "The Western Air Temple," where Zuko is awkwardly trying to join the group.

* Becky of ''WesternAnimation/TheBagelAndBeckyShow'' speaks with a noticeable lisp. It's worth noting that her lisp is also that of her voice actress Nikki Payne, who possesses a cleft palate.
* Brother Minister That Bastard Kurtis (son of the late That Frog Kurtis) from ''WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite'' has a very mechanical stutter when speaking, almost like ''Series/MaxHeadroom''.
* Jimmy Jr. from ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' has quite a pronounced lisp, though this does not stop his popularity at school. The only time it is brought up as a negative is when [[TheDitz Tina]] decides to win him over by mocking him.
* [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Amanda]] from ''WesternAnimation/BunsenIsABeast'' has a lateral lisp due to her BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill. In one episode, she meets a security guard named [[AlliterativeName Steve Stevenson]] with the same problem.

* Urpgor from ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' speaks with a terrible lisp, which wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't constantly making (Pfft!) random thoundth in between.

* Jerrica from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' mispronounces "very". It's probably her voice actress having a speech impediment though instead of an intentional choice.
* WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'s lisp - albeit relatively mild - is frequently made fun of by the other characters, as is the fact that she's always spraying copious amounts of saliva everywhere when she talks. In the original French version, she not only has a classic lisp, but also substitutes a "Z-" or "S-" sound in place of "J-" or "Ch-".

* [[ChildProdigy Lisa Loud]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' speaks with a lisp.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' Daffy Duck, [[PorkyPigPronunciation Porky Pig]], [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Elmer Fudd]] and Sylvester. Daffy and Sylvester both lisp, Elmer is a textbook example of rhotacism, and Porky stammers. ("T-T-T-That's all, folks!")

** Quite a few of Mel Blanc's characters, in fact. If you've ever wondered what Mel Blanc ''actually'' sounds like, Sylvester without the lisp.
* On ''WesternAnimation/MackAndMoxy'', Shelfish Sheldon speaks with something of a lisp.
* William Murderface from ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' talks with a very thick lateral lisp, to the point you may need subtitles.
* Bessie Higgenbottom (the main character of ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyB'') also lisps, except she doesn't wear braces, and it's more dragging on certain syllables.
* Tanya from ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'' sputtered badly during most of her speaking, but mostly when she tried to explain something.
* Splasho from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' has a lisp, thanks to the water stored in his mouth.

* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony:''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{NatureCat}}'' When Nature Cat was a kitten, he used to have 2 speech impediments. He had a lisp and rhotacism so his catchphrase "Tally Ho" would sound like "Tawwy Ho". This is heard in the episode Call it a Night.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' episode "Pups Save a Toof", Chase develops a lisp when he knocks a fang loose.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Peanuts}}''' Linus van Pelt had a rather thick lisp in the first couple of ''Charlie Brown'' TV specials, due to his voice actor being a school-age child who may not have had any front teeth at the time.
* Brucho from ''WesternAnimation/{{Plasmo}}'' has a thick lateral lisp, which highly contrasts the heavy and threatening armor he always wears.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Asylum}}'' Rainbow Dash has a speech impediment and a stutter due to [[spoiler:ChildhoodBrainDamage]].

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic has a noticeable lisp that he appears to have a degree of control over -- he can be heard to play it up or tone it down, depending on the song and/or character he's voicing.

* Princess Morbucks from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' mispronounces her "s"' as "-th".

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic has a non-severe but noticeable lisp that he appears to have a degree of control over -- he can be heard to play it up or tone it down, depending on the song and/or character he's voicing.

* Creator/BenedictCumberbatch has a slight lisp, which is more noticeable in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpvYssxp1jU earlier films.]] He controls it very well, and now it only seems to come out when he's really comfortable with someone or tired.

* Copy X MK-II in ''VideoGame/MegaManZero3'' occasionally stuttered because he [[spoiler:CameBackWrong, because[[OmnicidalManiac Dr. Weil]] intended him to be a total pawn, so he only made a partial rebuild of Copy X and then waited for Zero to fight and kill him, thus Weil become a DragonAscendant immediately afterwards.]] In the Japanese version, he randomly alternated between hiragana and katakana.

* Sid from the ''WesternAnimation/IceAge'' movies has a "lateral lisp".

* Literature/ErastFandorin, after the f-first book. [[LetsGetDangerous Except when he gets dangerous]].

* Copy X MK-II in ''VideoGame/MegaManZero3'' occasionally stuttered because he [[spoiler:CameBackWrong, due to the fact that [[OmnicidalManiac Dr. Weil]] intended him to be a total pawn, so he only made a partial rebuild of Copy X and then waited for Zero to fight and kill him, thus Weil become a DragonAscendant immediately afterwards.]] In the Japanese version, he randomly alternated between hiragana and katakana.

* Quite a few of Mel Blanc's characters, in fact.
** If you've ever wondered what Mel Blanc ''actually'' sounds like, Sylvester without the lisp.

* Jerrica from ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' mispronounces "very". It's probably her voice actress having a speech impediment though instead of an intentional choice.
* Brandon from ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' has a a lisp which Carl finds very annoying. It doesn't help Brandon insists on talking in a high-pitched, sing-songy voice most of the time.
* Urpgor from ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' speaks with a terrible lisp, which wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't constantly making (Pfft!) random thoundth in between.
* Reoccuring background character Maria from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' has never spoken a word in the series. In her LowerDeckEpisode the reason given is that she is embarrassed by her pronounced stutter and thus canonically only ever speaks around her best friend. She's visiting a speech therapist but it's not easy to better her speech. Due to being put on the school news she has to speak more, and by the end of the episode she's learned to control much of her stuttering.
* Princess Morbucks from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' mispronounces her "s"' as "-th".
* Splasho from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' has a lisp, thanks to the water stored in his mouth.
* [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Amanda]] from ''WesternAnimation/BunsenIsABeast'' has a lateral lisp due to her BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill. In one episode, she meets a security guard named [[AlliterativeName Steve Stevenson]] with the same problem.
* Brucho from ''WesternAnimation/{{Plasmo}}'' has a thick lateral lisp, which highly contrasts the heavy and threatening armor he always wears.
* On ''WesternAnimation/MackAndMoxy'', Shelfish Sheldon speaks with something of a lisp.
* Jimmy Jr. from ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' has quite a pronounced lisp, though this does not stop his popularity at school. The only time it is brought up as a negative is when [[TheDitz Tina]] decides to win him over by mocking him.
* Becky of ''WesternAnimation/TheBagelAndBeckyShow'' speaks with a noticeable lisp. It's worth noting that her lisp is also that of her voice actress Nikki Payne, who possesses a cleft palate.
* ''Animation/MrKrbecAndHisAnimals'': Kocanda the Jackdaw suffers from rhotacism and rhotacism bohemicus -- she's unable to pronounce consonants r and ř correctly (two contrasting alveolar trills, an apical trill and a laminal trill). It's a fairly common speech impediment in real life among Czech speakers; those consonants are incorrectly pronounced in the back of the throat. Stereotypical for absent-minded p-rrr-ofesso-rrr-s, sma-rrr-t and eage-rrr cha-rrr-act-rrr-s. Kocanda is very smart, assiduous and always eager to help.
* Doc Croc from ''Simsala Grimm'' has a stutter. It seems to get worse when he gets nervous.
* Brother Minister That Bastard Kurtis (son of the late That Frog Kurtis) from ''WesternAnimation/BlackDynamite'' has a very mechanical stutter when speaking, almost like ''Series/MaxHeadroom''.
* On ''WesternAnimation/SnooperAndBlabber'', Blabber Mouse slurs his "S"'s when he talks.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' episode "Pups Save a Toof", Chase develops a lisp when he knocks a fang loose.

* King George VI, as depicted in ''Film/TheKingsSpeech''.

* Pooja Vijay, the Indian stuttering stand-up comedian. [[TakeThatMe Her stammer is a frequent topic of her jokes]].
* CountryMusic singer Mel Tillis is well-known for stuttering while speaking but having no problem while singing. Roger Miller tells a joke on Mel about when they were sharing a room on the road back in the day, and someone broke in while they were sleeping. Mel says, "Ro-Rog-Rog-Rog bur-burg-burg there's-there's bur-burg (switches to singing) '''''Roger, there's a burglar in our room!!!'''''"
* Representative Barney Frank has a Sylvester-esque method of speaking.

* Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse has a rather noticeable lisp, and it affects the way he sings.
* Porky's original VA, actor Joe Dougherty had a stammer in RealLife, which the character inherited. The main reason that Creator/MelBlanc took the role was that Dougherty couldn't control his stutter, which made the recording sessions last hours.
* Creator/JonathanRoss (also known as "Wossy") has a rhotacism.
* The computer scientist Katie Bouman, who developed the algorithm for black hole imaging, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIvezCVcsYs hath quite a notitheable lithp.]]

* Demosthenes,[[note]]Anyone who has seen "Don Gato y su Pandilla" (the Latin-American Spanish dubbed version of ''WesternAnimation/TopCat''), will known this name. It was given to Brain, the CloudCuckooLander of the group.[[/note]] one of the most famous orators of the ancient era, had a serious speech impediment in his youth. There are several anecdotes about how he overcame it, such as that he used talk with pebbles in his mouth, recited verses while running and to strengthen his voice, he spoke on the seashore over the roar of the waves.
* Not one, but two of UsefulNotes/HernanCortez's closest lieutenants, Juan Velázquez de León and Diego de Ordás, were apparently stutterers, and a third one, Gonzalo de Sandoval, had a nasty lisp. One wonders whether Cortés hired them on purpose.
* Creator/BorisKarloff had a stammer and a lisp, which almost discouraged him from acting.
* Nicholas Brendon, Xander from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', used to suffer from stuttering. He's been a major spokesman for the Stuttering Foundation of America.
* Creator/JamesEarlJones went into acting precisely to overcome a very strong stutter.
* Creator/RowanAtkinson suffers from a slight stutter and has issues with the letter "B." He found that the way he compensates for that letter can be quite comedic, which is why his particular pronunciation of "Bob" in the second series of ''Series/BlackAdder'' elicited so many laughs. It's also why he made a joke about Crufts in ''Blackadder Goes Forth''. He was originally supposed to say "Battersea Dog's Home," but his stutter kicked in badly during taping and the script was hastily rewritten to something easier for him to production could keep moving.
* Disney animator Milt Kahl developed a stutter later in life, Creator/BradBird said because of this during the time he studied under him he was better at showing him his drawing techniques than explaining them.
* Singer Music/{{Oliver}} had a slight lisp.
* Twitch streamer Forsen exhibits this trope while trying to pronounce the word [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRKfviBg-r0 "specimen."]]
* Jean Chrétien suffered from Bell's Palsy and partial deafness which started in his youth and affected his speech, making it somewhat difficult to understand him in both French and English (leading to jokes that he lacks fluency in Canada's two official languages[[note]]Canadian politicians who try to ascend to national office without some degree of bilingualism face the prospect of alienating either Anglophone or Francophone Canadians. Chrétien is a remarkably successful politician despite both major demographics struggling to understand what exactly he's saying[[/note]]). When Prime Minister Kim Campbell attacked Chrétien's disability, not only did he become a 3-term Canadian Prime Minister but he also sent the Progressive-Conservative Party to the [[Main/KarmicDeath Trash-Heap of Canadian Politics]].
* UsefulNotes/JoeBiden is a [[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/joe-biden-stutter-profile/602401 lifelong stutterer,]] which is partly responsible for his history of OpenMouthInsertFoot. He worked to overcome his stutter by reading Irish poetry out loud, which led to his habit of mentioning poets -- like William Bulter Yeats and Ralph Waldo Emerson -- and quoting verses in his speeches. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Biden's interactions with Brayden Harrington, a student with a stutter, became a trending news story as he gave Brayden the confidence to speak on live TV and show the world how he himself is working to overcome his speech impediment.

** Tara stutters when she's nervous in her earliest appearances in the fourth season, notably when we first meet her in "Hush", and when Faith-in-Buffy grills her in "Who Are You?" She later gains enough self-confidence to overcome the stutter, and even face down other characters. (Note that Willow noticeably stuttered in the first season as well, and occasionally tripped over syllables well into the series, though any impediment was almost gone by the last season.) Tara's stutter was clearly a side-effect of her abusive childhood as it gets worse when her family comes to town.

* There's also Rick in the ''Series/TheYoungOnes'', who can't pronounce his R's. Presumably it's to emphasize how childish he is.
* La Popis in ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'' originally spoke like if she had Cleft lip, this was abandoned after a concerned father told Chespirito that kids in the school were mocking his son who had Cleft lip because of that, so after the first two seasons Popis started to speak normally.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'': One patient that passed through the camp was bullied by his squad mates for his stutter, to which Major Winchester quickly came to the man's defense before encouraging him and sending him off with [[Literature/MobyDick some reading material]] "fitting for his intelligence" (the other soldiers had been calling him "stupid"). As it turns out, Charles' beloved sister has a similar stutter and he couldn't help but relate.
* In the Philippine comedy sketch TV series Bubble Gang, Cecilio Sasuman, or "Tetilio Tatuman", has a speech impediment: he pronounces the letters "C" and "S" as the letter "T". One of the pieces he spoke is titled "Sino ang dapat sisihin?"/"Tino ang dapat titihin?" [[note]]Translation: Who should blame?[[/note]] His speeches upon saying it are hilariously shocking for a Filipino. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pALSuiKFSqM Watch one of his speeches here.]]
* The ''Series/QuantumLeap'' episode "Trilogy, Part 2" has Sam adopting the stutter of the man that he leaped into for nearly the entire episode.
* Donkeylips from ''Series/SaluteYourShorts'' speaks with a very pronounced lisp, which his actor, Michael Ray Bower, also has.
* In an unusual main character example, Kendall Roy from ''Series/{{Succession}}'' has a stutter/stammer that becomes prominent whenever he's anxious and turns his dialogue into "uh uh uh"s.

* "K-K-K-Katy".
* The singer Music/{{Grimes}} has a quite notitheable lithp; she stated that she "likes it", and has no desire to correct it.

* Fox (UK)'s "S-s-s Single Bed".
* Verse four of the Scaffold's "Lily the Pink":
-->Johnny Hammer had a tuh-tuh-tuh-terrible stammer
-->He could hardly suh-suh-suh-say a word
-->Then they guh-guh-guh-gave him medicinal compound
-->And now he's suh-suh-suh-seen but never heard

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* OlderThanFeudalism: While not present in adaptions of the stories in question, ''Literature/TheBible'' notes that Moses had a terrible speech impediment, brought on in infancy by his placing a hot coal in his mouth that burned his lips and tongue.

* Less noticeable but Wrestling/KurtAngle and Matt Morgan have lisps as well, Morgan even had a stuttering gimmick

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' Daffy Duck, [[PorkyPigPronunciation Porky Pig]], [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Elmer Fudd]] and Sylvester. Daffy and Sylvester both lisp, Elmer is a textbook example of rhotacism, and Porky stammers. ("T-T-T-That's all, folks!")
** In one very early cartoon, Porky's stuttering was so bad, he actually stuttered when [[RuleOfFunny writing his name.]]
** In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Daffy rather hypocritically (especially given his extensive catalog working with Porky Pig) complains about Donald. "This is the last time I work with anyone with a speech impediment!"
* Quite a few of Mel Blanc's characters, in fact.
** If you've ever wondered what Mel Blanc ''actually'' sounds like, Sylvester without the lisp.
* Timmy and Jimmy from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Timmy is mentally disabled and can only say a few words (most notably [[PokemonSpeak his own name]]) and Jimmy has a st-st--a st-st--a ''stuh-''uttering problem.
* 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/{{Freaktown}}'', Princess Boo-Boo is cast a spell by Sparkles in the episode Princess Blourgh-Blourgh to be an alien that has a lisp. Not only that, Sparkles is shown to have a lisp.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Leaky Leona, an ugly classmate at Gallagar Elementary, has a lot of trouble speaking properly. Not only does she always pronounce s as "th", but she also stutters and sometimes even spits while she is talking. This is actually justified since she is Really700YearsOld and never got out of her braces.
* Creator/RobPaulsen voiced Pinky (of ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'') with a speech impediment because he thought the mouse would have difficulty speaking properly with those huge front teeth ([[VocalEvolution this is most pronounced in the earliest episodes]]).
* William Murderface from ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' talks with a very thick lateral lisp, to the point you may need subtitles.

* Asami from SequelSeries ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' also has a slight lisp as shown in "Venom of the Red Lotus" when she comforts Korra and during her letter reading scene in "Korra Alone".
* Often characters who wear braces or night braces have lisps as well in cartoons (for example, Beth in ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'')

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Peanuts}}''' Linus van Pelt had a rather thick lisp in the first couple of ''Charlie Brown'' TV specials, due to his voice actor being a school-age child who may not have had any front teeth at the time.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangbone}}'' from his show of the same name speaks with some sort of lateral lisp as explained in the episode The Cavity of Terror when he battles Toothsbane at the end of this episode. "I learnth that you can overcome fear with the greather fear of lothing fwiendth. And pluth, I got thith delithiouth orb of thweetneth."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{NatureCat}}'' When Nature Cat was a kitten, he used to have 2 speech impediments. He had a lisp and rhotacism so his catchphrase "Tally Ho" would sound like "Tawwy Ho". This is heard in the episode Call it a Night.

** Don't forget P-P-P-Piglet from ''[[WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh Winnie the Pooh]]''.

* WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'s lisp - albeit relatively mild - is frequently made fun of by the other characters, as is the fact that she's always spraying copious amounts of saliva everywhere when she talks. In the original French version, she not only has a classic lisp, but also substitutes a "Z-" or "S-" sound in place of "J-" or "Ch-".
-->'''Kaeloo''': [[BlatantLies I do not have a lisp!]]\\
'''Mr. Cat''': You're right, it's a total impedement.
* Goomo of ''WesternAnimation/JellyJamm'' has a noticeable lisp.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', the titular characters both have a noticeable stutter that cause them to repeat words multiple times in sentences.
* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony:''
** 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.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Twist's lisp (exaggerated in fandom to the point that she's nearly TheUnintelligible, but still pretty bad in the show.) Fleetfoot, the Wonderbolt, also has one. Not nearly as bad, but noticeable, and you can even hear her trying ''not'' to do it by overemphasizing S sounds to get them right. For example, "Soarin,' pick up the pace!" becomes "'''SSS'''oarin,' pick up the pathe!" Definitely not a quirk of the actress, because none of Creator/AndreaLibman's other characters do it.
* When Morocco Mole loses his front gold tooth in the ''Super Secret WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'' episode "Goldflipper," he's left with a glaring lisp that Secret lampshades, to Morocco's irritation.
* Spooky, the ghost in the [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Cool Cat]] cartoon "Big Game Haunt" speaks in Elmer Fudd-ese.
* Count Duckula speaks with the mixed impediments of Porky Pig ''and'' Daffy Duck in his ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' appearances.
* [[ChildProdigy Lisa Loud]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' speaks with a lisp.

* ''ComicBook/KillingAndDying'': Jesse has a stutter. Her mother is supportive of the stand-up comedy class in part because she thinks it'll be good for her daughter to gain confidence.

* 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"

* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8347440/1/Legends-of-the-Lion-Kings "Legends of the Lion Kings,"]] a fanfic of ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', shows that when Mufasa was younger, he had a stuttering problem, and Scar teases him about it. The author mentions that they like the idea of a powerful and grand-speaking king having a problem with stuttering when they were younger before overcoming it.
* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': In the sequel ''Diplomat at Large'', per canon, Grubber speaks with a noticeable lisp.
* Candace from ''Fanfic/DoYouBelieveInFairies'' has a pronounced stutter that gets even worse when she's nervous. Julius' past bullying is a large reason behind the stutter.
* In the ''Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}}'' series, ex-hosts with [[FictionalDisability Post-Infestation Affective Blunting Syndrome]] tend to slur their words together or sound monotone, which [[FirstPersonSmartass Tom]] affectionately calls "zombie-mumble". The two ex-host children in ''THX 1138'' hardly talk at all.

* ''Fanfic/ShipsAhoy'': At four years old, Oscar has a noticeable stutter due to his ShrinkingViolet nature. As he grows up, he loses the stutter, but it comes back just as quickly as it left when he gets wind that Opal is going to be hired into the Medical department, and then it's nearly gone for good by the time Olive arrives and is partnered with him, only reappearing when he becomes stressed or upset.

* Julio from ''Film/ChangeOfHabit'' has a severe stutter, which makes him feel isolated and like less of a man. Michelle works with him to improve it, and by the time he [[spoiler:tries to rape her]], he seems to be mostly over it, although he still doesn't like talking in complete sentences.
* In ''Film/LikeNormalPeople'', Roger stutters and has trouble pronouncing his R's, and Virginia has a very nasally voice, with lots of uptalk.
* Late in ''Film/AndYourNameIsJonah'', Jenny and Connie attend a club for deaf adults. The ones who can speak almost all have a strong "deaf accent."

* Frederica from ''Literature/TheGamekeepersLady'', an example of a LoveInterest. She always stumbles on the protagonist's name ("R-Robert"), which doesn't stop them from falling in love.
* 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.

* Leda from M. P. Shiel's ''Literature/ThePurpleCloud'' pronounces her r's as l's.
* ''Literature/JackyHaHa'' tends to stutter under stress. She hates it when people call it a speech impediment, though.

* Billy Bibbit in ''Literature/OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'' stutters. His name even ''sounds'' like a stutter.
* "Stuttering" Bill in Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{IT}}''.

* In the ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'' series, Anne's youngest child, Rilla, has a lisp. She outgrew it by the time she was fourteen, though in times of nervousness or stress she often relapsed.
* In the ''Literature/BardicVoices'' series by Creator/MercedesLackey, the character Kestrel/Jonny has a stutter (except when singing) due to a fever and a really awful scare he had as a child, though he eventually manages to overcome it.
* A character in the Literature/{{Redwall}} book ''Taggerung'' has a stutter, until he learns to overcome it, mainly due to the fact that he doesn't stutter when he's singing.
* In ''Literature/WieldingARedSword'', Mym (who later takes over as War) has a stutter when speaking and therefore sings in order to avoid it.
* The French SciFi novel ''Literature/{{Malevil}}'' has Momo. Because of [[ManChild severe mental handicaps]], Momo speaks with a severe slur and extra "H" sounds. For example, "Leave me alone, for God's sake!" comes out as "Heevheeahone, hor Hodhake!!"
* P-p-p-poor p-p-p-pathetic P-p-p-professor [[Franchise/HarryPotter Quirrell]]! [[spoiler:Subverted when it's revealed at the end this is an ObfuscatingDisability]].
* Karl Sadeghi, in the ''Series/DoctorWho Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' novel ''The Year of Intelligent Tigers'', has a slight stutter. A few sections written from his perspective also seem to suggest he has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia synesthesia]]. So he's a bit of an odd duck.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. The PsychoForHire Vargo Hoat, captain of the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Brave Companions]], has a swollen tongue from some unknown malady that causes him to lisp, which is represented in his dialogue. He's occasionally mocked behind his back for "slobbering" his words. Jaime jokes that the reason he lied about Brienne's family fortune in sapphires is because he wanted to hear Vargo say "thappireth."

* Chloe from ''Literature/DarkestPowers'' stutters terribly when nervous.
* In ''Literature/OttoAndTheFlyingTwins'' by Charlotte Heptie, all the Karmidees (the magical people) have a very specific impediment: they cannot pronounce the word "lemon". This serves as a way to distinguish them from "normies" (i. e. ordinary people).

* The villain of the third ''Literature/MollyMoon'' book, the Maharaja of Waqt, often unintentionally speaks in spoonerisms, meaning that he says many words "frack to bunt," for example saying "maby Bolly" instead of "baby Molly."
* ''Literature/{{Felidae}} On The Road'' features a Somali cat named Ambrosius who can write by dipping his claws into ink and carefully scratching words on paper, and he stammers all the time. He's even stuttering when he's dying from his wounds inflicted by the wildcats.
* In the original ''Literature/HowToTrainYourDragon'' books, Toothless has a prominent stutter, and combines it with ThirdPersonPerson speech and a bit of YouNoTakeCandle, leading to sentences such as “Toothless help you. [[{{Tsundere}} B-b-but NOT because me being n-n-nice or anything yucky....]]” [[LetsGetDangerous If he’s feeling particularly feisty, though, Toothless will drop the stutter.]] Eventually, by the time the [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon movies]] [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2 came]] [[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragonTheHiddenWorld out]], the stutter and third-person speech became {{Fanon}} translations for some people translating Toothless’ speech as a MythologyGag- though it was ''slightly'' [[{{Flanderization}} flanderized]].
* In ''Literature/AnythingButTypical'', the bully Eric Doyle can't pronounce his R's.
* ''Literature/EyeContact'': Derek, a boy from Morgan's social skills group, stutters so badly he can hardly talk.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': One of the traces Locke retains from his book counterpart (Vargo Hoat) is the lisp, though his is less noticeable.
* The title character in ''Series/IClaudius'' suffers from a stutter.

* Tina on ''Series/{{Glee}}''--at least for part of the first season. Her stutter was dropped because it turned out she was faking it to push people away.
* Walter "Flynn" White Jr. on ''Series/BreakingBad'' -- notable because the actor actually has cerebral palsy, although Flynn's condition is actually significantly worse than R. J. Mitte's (Mitte doesn't need crutches, for a start). When it comes to the associated speech issues, it's clear that Mitte is exaggerating Flynn's impediment; Mitte's natural speech is clearly that of someone with mild cerebral palsy, speaking very fluidly with a bit of a "thick tongue" effect (since cerebral palsy affects muscle control and the tongue is a muscle), while Flynn also stutters a bit.

* No love for Creator/BobbySherman's Jeremy Bolt and his stutter on ''Series/HereComeTheBrides''?
* Spinner from ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' seems to have a mild speech impediment, although it might have to do with his tongue piercing.
* In the BBC adaptation of ''Series/TheScarletPimpernel'', [[PrettyBoy cute]] Lord Tony Dewhurst played by Creator/JamieBamber stutters adorably.
* On ''Series/ThePajanimals'', Squacky (a duck) sometimes speaks with a lisp.
* The Third Doctor in ''Series/DoctorWho'' had a mild lisp, because his actor (Creator/JonPertwee) had one.

* In the ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch "Travel Agent," Mr. Smoketoomuch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz2LaJOVAiA has]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz7QhiYhaE0 a speech impediment]]: he can't pronounce the letter "C", instead pronouncing it as the letter "B". He can get around it by replacing the "C" with a "K" for words with hard "C"s. It's all due to a trauma he suffered when he was attacked by a Siamese bat as a sbool boy.
* J.J. from ''Series/{{Speechless}}'' has cerebral palsy and either can't speak vocally or is uncomfortable doing so. To communicate he uses a head-mounted laser pointer and a board filled with words and letters to form sentences.

* The religious writer Dawn Eden has a stutter.

* {{Wrestling/ECW}}'s B-B-Bubba Ray D-D-Dudley, who also did this in the early days of his Wrestling/{{WWE}} career. D'Von would slap him in the back of the head to allow him to speak normally.