History Main / TheQueensLatin

** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' somewhat muddies the waters. Almost every human has a British accent of some kind, regardless of whether they're from Ferelden (England) or the Free Marches (the petty states that would one day become Germany). Some of the Elves now speak with Welsh accents, which is reasonable given [[FantasyCounterpartCulture the elves' position]] as an older culture (Britons) that was marginalized by a newly organized invader one (Anglo-Saxons/Fereldans).

* This trope's lampshaded in WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob's review of ''Caligula'', which featured cameos from Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses contributors impersonating Caligula. Then [[WebVideo/BadMovieBeatdown Film Brain]] pops in pissed off that ''he'' didn't get to impersonate Caligula, particularly since ''he'' actually was British (and therefore had the British accent) unlike the others (who didn't even bother faking one).

* In the film ''Film/{{Valkyrie}}'', all the actors speak with their natural accents: Creator/TomCruise (Stauffenberg) speaks General American, Creator/KennethBranagh speaks RP, Matthias Freihof (Himmler), speaks with a German accent, etc. The only exception is David Bamber (Hitler), who affects a German accent.
** Branagh's natural accent is Belfast; his adopted working accent is RP.
** A review snarked that with all the well known British actors in the cast it felt like a ''Film/HarryPotter'' movie.

** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' primarily uses Southern English accents, though the accents are haphazard and don't have that much thematic origin. The High Entia, however, are the only ones who exclusively speak with RP accents.

This trope also allows for some subtle characterization for UK audiences: sometimes regional British accents are used to reflect a character's class or social status by playing up to stereotypes in the collective British psyche. The most common convention, however, is to employ formal English parlance. Depending on the antiquity of the era portrayed, the characters may lapse into a form of Early Modern English or its contrived cousin, YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe. In any case, it is perhaps British audiences who expect this trope to be ubiquitous most of all -- to an American or Australian the use of their native accent for ancient characters could at least be a believable translation convention, to British ears it smacks of deliberately choosing an accent with entirely the wrong connotations -- new-world modernity and the rejection of old-world traditions.

* In ''Film/{{Troy}}'', ''most'' of the cast seem to be using their native accents. Brad Pitt ''might'' be attempting a British accent, but it sounds rather Americanized. Sean Bean even uses his native Northern British accent instead of a more cultivated one.[[note]]Because he ''always'' does[[/note]] Curiously, the only performers conspicuously ''not'' using their native accents are the two Australians, Eric Bana and Rose Byrne. One has to assume that the director/producer felt that the Aussie accent was the only one that couldn't be believably set in Ancient Times. The Irish Creator/BrendanGleeson subtly softens his regular brogue to play Menelaus.

* Probably parodied in ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''. Sure, it's a British comedy production, so obviously everyone has the accents, but the Jews all have modern-day English names to go with it. While Creator/MichaelPalin plays UpperClassTwit Pontius Pilate speaking RP with [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome highly exaggerated non-rhoticism.]]