Basic Trope: Children generally have American accents, even if adults such as their parents have the correct accents for their nationality.
- Straight: Even though Alice and Bob are British, their son Charlie speaks in an American accent.
- Exaggerated:
- The story takes place in 1300s England, before America was even discovered, and yet all of the children speak in American accents anyway for some reason.
- Alice and Bob's family are of a variety of nationalities, and all of the adults in that family speak in their appropriate accents, but the children only speak in American accents.
- Downplayed: Charlie does speak in a mostly American accent, but there are occasional British-accented speech patterns to his voice.
- Justified:
- Charlie was sent to America for safety due to an event such as a war at a young age. Upon returning home after the danger had passed, he'd naturally developed an American accent.
- Charlie has an American accent because his parents faked one until he was seven, wanting a child with an American accent.
- Alice and Bob came to America before Charlie was born, and he picked up an American accent from his peers.
- Inverted: Charlie's parents are clearly shown to have American accents, but Charlie himself has an unexplained British accent.
- Subverted: It turns out that Alice and Bob aren't actually British either - they were just faking an accent.
- Double Subverted: But their real accent is Irish, which Charlie also doesn't have for some reason.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Charlie has a British accent just like his parents do.
- Enforced:
- The kid who plays Charlie can't do a British accent, and they also can't find any children with British accents, so they just let him keep his usual accent.
- It's a kids' show made in America, and they want the kids to be more relatable to the children in the audience.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice and Bob would rather either teach Charlie how to speak British English properly or send him to America.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Charlie, who speaks in an American accent, gets charged with identity fraud after learning that his parents are British.
- Reconstructed: Charlie decides to move to America so he can socialize with the country's locals better, while Alice and Bob stay in England and do their chores.
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