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2[[caption-width-right:350:The [[FunWithAcronyms North America Marlon Brando Look Alikes]].]]
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4They [[Film/OnTheWaterfront coulda been a contender]]. They coulda been somebody more original, instead of being imitations of Creator/MarlonBrando, which is who they are not.
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6A Mumbling Brando will tend to speak in a hesitant drawl, with a few non-verbal grunts thrown in.
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8Compare TheAhnold, BruceLeeClone, CharlieChaplinShoutOut, ElvisImpersonator, FreddieMercopy, HoaxHogan, LorreLookalike, MrAltDisney, ShirleyTemplate and {{Trumplica}} for other parodic depictions of real-world celebrities.
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16* An advert for throat lozenges had the Godfather ordering his henchmen to get a packet of Soothers from the store, and getting annoyed that they couldn't tell he had a sore throat from the way he was talking.
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21* The Latin American dub of ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' adapted Principal Takakura's speech this way. It's even lampshaded as Shin-chan calls him "El Padrino" (lit. "The Godfather").
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27* Creator/AlanMoore was sure to include a [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bDUK5U-yua8/SvnmBMq2jjI/AAAAAAAAAIA/jtHp_4M-nnk/s1600-h/D.R.%20&%20Quinch%20-%20Fleetway%20Definitive%20Edition%20-%20074.jpg caricature]] of [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bDUK5U-yua8/SvnmA4_N86I/AAAAAAAAAH4/7CYI0h2bc2Q/s1600-h/D.R.%20&%20Quinch%20-%20Fleetway%20Definitive%20Edition%20-%20075.jpg Marlon]] in ''ComicBook/DRAndQuinch Go to Hollywood''.
28* Done in ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'''s parody of "The Godfather" ("The Odd Father") where someone says: "I can't believe it's Brando." Brando then mumbles, whereupon the other character: "NOW I believe it's him..."
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34* Mr. Big from ''{{WesternAnimation/Zootopia}}'', has this; his whole character is a {{Homage}} to ''Film/TheGodfather''.
35* Any scene with Space Dad in ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', which spoofs Brando's role of Jor-El in ''Film/SupermanTheMovie'' as well as the mumble.
36-->"Unfafomble... unfaf... without fathom!"
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41* Evoked with Creator/StellanSkarsgard's portrayal of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in ''Film/Dune|2021'' and ''Film/DunePartTwo''.
42* Creator/MarlonBrando really did talk like this, especially in his early films like ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' and especially ''On the Waterfront''. In ''The Godfather'' he went the extra mile by stuffing cotton balls into his mouth. Of course, he was perfectly capable of precise diction when he needed to be, like when he played Mark Antony in the 1953 version of ''Film/{{Julius Caesar|1953}}''.
43* Done with that very intention in ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland''. During the song "Professional Pirate", many of the pirates list jobs they coulda had. One guy says "he coulda been a contender" in a very familiar sounding voice.
44* Jokingly justified in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'', where the Brando-analogue Don Giovanni has cotton balls in his mouth (which, incidentally, was the reason Brando had his distinctive mumble in ''Film/TheGodfather'').
45* The movie ''Film/Ricky1'', reviewed by WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd, has a direct spoof of Don Corleone from ''Film/TheGodfather'' who ONLY talked in grunts.
46* Andy Garcia's character in ''City Island'' does [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQFKWbBSvSM a particularly silly Brando impression.]]
47* ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'' - Woody Allen is undergoing a deprogramming - something goes wrong and he assumes the persona of Blanche du Bois from ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. To give them time to sedate him, Diane Keaton plays Stanley Kowalski, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IF8-QQSDbk seen here.]]
48%%* Creator/JohnnyDepp did this in ''Film/OnceUponATimeInMexico''.
49* ''Film/RevengeOfThePinkPanther''. While infiltrating the French Connection, Inspector Clouseau dresses in his Godfather disguise, consisting of an [[FatSuit overly-padded pin-striped suit]] and stuffing cotton balls in his cheeks. While drinking a toast with a genuine Mafioso, he accidentally swallows a cotton ball and starts choking.
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54* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In the episode "The Bard", actor "Rocky Rhodes" is a Brando-esque guy played by Creator/BurtReynolds(!).
55* ''Series/SpittingImage'': Done in a sketch where Creator/RodSteiger and Creator/MarlonBrando mimick their famous scene from ''Film/OnTheWaterfront''. Steiger complains how he never became a big star like Brando. Brando starts talking to Steiger, but takes a very long time to end his sentence. Finally it turns out that he scolds Steiger because "you... never... never, never... knew ... how... to make one sentence last... for minutes."
56* A first-season skit on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' featured Creator/PeterBoyle and Creator/JohnBelushi as "Dueling Brandos", trading Brando quotes interspersed with DuelingBanjos musical phrases.
57* ''Series/FullFrontal''. In a parody of ''Film/TheGodfather'', Don Corleone decides to pass on the torch to Sonny... by willing him the cottonballs he stuffs in his cheeks.
58* Creator/AdrienBrody's Luca Changretta in ''Series/PeakyBlinders'' also speaks in a muffled, lispy, ''Godfather''-ish voice. He obviously doesn't much resemble Marlon Brando, however.
59* The short-lived sketch comedy show ''Hollow Men'' parodied this with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWxL0fMTk-U Advanced Brando Syndrome skit]]. Young men would do mumbling impersonations of [[Film/TheGodfather Don Vito Corleone]] and then they would get stuck in the routine of impersonating him, even going so far as to dress up like the Don with no means of stopping. It's treated as a life-threatening epidemic spreading across the country.
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65* Creator/StanFreberg's parody cover of "Sh-Boom" has a Brando-alike with an assistant named Stella telling the singers to mumble like he does, since rhythm and blues numbers are supposed to have IndecipherableLyrics. It ends with a Stella Scream.
66* A stammering Brando was one of the impressions Creator/SammyDavisJr did during his rendition of "Because of You", along with Creator/CaryGrant and Creator/JamesStewart.
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72* In ''Theatre/BellsAreRinging'', Blake Barton is an aspiring actor who talks like this all the time. Ella finds him in a whole MaltShop filled with Brando imitators lounging around in motorcycle jackets and jeans. She herself enters this place with a leather jacket, flat shoes, and a bunch of marbles which she keeps in her mouth just long enough to introduce herself with a [[Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire Stanley Kowalski-like]] cry of "Hey, Fellaaaa!" Her message for Blake is to stop mumbling and buy a suit if he wants to get the part.
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78* The Squidfather in ''VideoGame/FreddiFish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds'' is very similar to the Godpidgeon below.
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84* Winfred "Big Wins" Kitaki in ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' is a rare Japanese example, down to his FaceFramedInShadow and his limited speech animation to denote mumbling. At the end of his featured case, it is revealed that [[spoiler: the shadows covering his eyes are actually his ''[[BigOlEyebrows eyebrows]]'', and they were just covering his BlackBeadEyes because he was so stressed. He also speaks more clearly after the happy ending.]]
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90* In WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory's MeleeATrois between [[Film/DieHard John McClaine]], Film/JohnWick, and [[Franchise/{{Rambo}} John Rambo]], the latter of the three is naturally portrayed with the trope in full effect.
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96* [[Film/TheGodfather The Godpigeon]] from the [[Film/{{Goodfellas}} Goodfeathers]] segments on ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''; he actually requires a translator (Or, in the shorts when a translator isn't around when he's talking, subtitles).
97* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Done in an episode where the Truckasaurus speaks in a Brando voice, only to be followed by a disclaimer: "voice of celebrity imitated".
98* When ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]]'' are stranded on a tropical island, Stimpy is befriended by a Brandoesque native (who at one point mumbles [[Film/ApocalypseNow "ack, I swallowed a bug"]]).
99* ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' depicts Napoleon in this manner, in a nod to Brando's role in the 1954 movie ''Desiree''. He caps off returning to France with a BigWordShout of JOSEPHINE!
100* ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' includes regular cameos by Brando, although he is not specifically named. His voice is impersonated by Creator/MauriceLaMarche in this style.
101* Done for a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Brando in the ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' episode "Party Planning", where the girls obsess over a 1950's heartthrob actor named Nick Vance. [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys His attractive "mysteriousness"]] comes entirely from the fact that he mumbles all of his lines, and nobody can understand a single word he says.
102* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Geneticist Dr. Mefisto, along with his colleagues in the North American Marlon Brando Lookalikes Association (who unfortunately share an acronym with that ''other'' NAMBLA).
103* ''Westernanimation/SylvesterAndTweetyMysteries'' had one episode with a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Brando who owned an island in the South Pacific, with the mumbles subtitled (except the final one, where he speaks right but the subtitles are mumbled)
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