Basic Trope: A character speaks in a hard-to-identify accent.
- Straight: Victoria, a side character in The Adventures of Alice and Bob, speaks in an accent that sounds like a mix between a Japanese and a Scottish accent.
- Exaggerated:
- Unintelligible Accent.
- Victoria's accent could be anything, from Japanese, to Scottish, to French, to just plain weirdness. She often switches accents, too, and sometimes it's impossible to understand what she's saying.
- Nobody in "The Adventures of Alice and Bob" speaks in an accent that's clearly recognizable.
- Downplayed:
- Victoria's accent can be identified as a Japanese accent, but it's somewhat butchered and easy to tell that the actor is just doing an impression of a Japanese accent.
- Victoria's accent is a combination of Scotish, Irish, and Cockney English.
- Justified:
- Victoria picked up the dialectal speech patterns of both her Japanese father and Scottish mother.
- Victoria is from a fictional society that really does have an accent like that.
- Victoria traveled a lot as a child, so she picked up multiple accents and blended them together.
- Victoria underwent voice training to have a different accent.
- Victoria, having Learned English from Watching Television, speaks a dialect all her own as there was no-one to 'correct' her.
- Inverted:
- Victoria's accent is very clear.
- Victoria is supposedly Japanese-Scottish but speaks with an American accent.
- Subverted: Victoria is introduced as being difficult to understand, but it turns out that it's just because the characters don't know what nationality she is.
- Double Subverted:
- Then her accent changes.
- Victoria's friend, William, has an even more difficult to understand accent.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Victoria never talks to begin with.
- It's easy to identify Victoria's accent.
- Enforced:
- As Long as It Sounds Foreign, but for accents.
- Victoria's actor really does have a hard to place accent, so they made it an Actor-Inspired Element.
- Victoria's actor was told to do a Japanese accent, but it didn't turn out well, so instead they just decided to Throw It In!
- Lampshaded: "Victoria, what part of the world are you from!?"
- Invoked: Victoria willingly speaks in a foreign accent for a play, but the results aren't perfect...
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed:
- Conversed: "What accent is this character even speaking with? It sounds like Japanese mixed with Scottish and something weird."
- Implied:
- Victoria is from a non-auditory work (such as a book), but is written with a Funetik Aksent and/or other characters commonly find themselves wondering what kind of accent she's speaking with.
- Victoria is The Ghost, but characters say she "has a confusing accent".
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