Brief Accent Imitation: Difference between revisions

== [[Film]] - Live-Action ==

* Towards the end of ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' antagonists Archie (British) and Otto (American) exchange brief versions of the other's "national" accent.

* ''[[National Treasure]] 2'' has [[Nicolas Cage]] affect a truly horrendous amalgamation of various British accents in order to cause a rucus at Buckingham Palace allowing his friends to sneak into the Queen's private office. After a while he runs out of comments and just starts spouting words like crumpet and haggis.

* Used pretty creatively in the ''Mr. Moto'' films, where Moto takes his ''own'' accent from vaguely Japanese to "Herro, officel-san!"-level to [[Obfuscating Stupidity|make the bad guys think he's much less capable than he really is]].

* Jean Reno doing an Elvis impression in [[Godzilla|the big fake lizard flick]].

* Alec Baldwin as Jack Ryan graces us briefly with his [[Sean Connery]] impersonation in the movie version of ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]''. An actual Sean Connery impersonation, which is supposedly a Captain Ramius impersonation.

** Earlier in the film, he also mockingly impersonates Fred Thompson's Southern accent and deliberate way of speaking - "A Russian, son, doesn't take a dump, without a plan"

* ''[[Forgetting Sarah Marshall]]'': "Oh! I'm Aldous Snow! Boo-shit boo-shit boo-shit boo-shit!"

** Also done by Jonah Hill's character.

'''Matthew:''' (''devastated'') Unfortunately, yes. }}

* Used totally out of nowhere in ''Les Spécialistes'': when thugs grab Carrela and pull them into their car, he very loudly says with a Belgian accent: "You must be mistaken, I'm from Budges!"

* ''[[Don Juan Demarco]]'' provides a rare instance of the trope being used with serious intent. The title character, though American born-and-raised, speaks with a Spanish accent in imitation of the original [[Lord Byron's Don Juan|Don Juan]]. When he threatens to jump from a rooftop, the doctor sent to 'talk him down' affects the same accent, hoping to sound more persuasive (it works.)

* Jon Hamm tries out [[Ben Affleck]]'s working-class Boston accent during the interrogation scene in ''[[The Town]]''.

* Captain O'Hagan's catch phrase in ''[[Super Troopers]]'' is "I'll believe that when me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet" in a fake Irish accent whenever one of his troopers tries to bullshit him. Later on, Farva does an awful imitation of O'Hagan with this phrase and an accent. When O'Hagan drunkenly asks if he really sounds this awful, the others look uneasy.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

{{quote|'''Sheridan:''' As Londo would say, ''(puts on fake accent)'' The Narn are Barbarians...}}

* Adam Savage in ''[[Myth Busters]]'', but all the others bar Jamie do it too. Just not to the extent he does.

** Likewise, Amy Pond imitates the Doctor's accent while reading his post-it notes in footage from the online History Hunt.

*** The first time Amy meets the Doctor again as an adult, she puts on an English accent, so he doesn't work out she's the Scottish little girl he met (for her, 12 years ago, for him, less than a minute).

*** "Clues? What clues?" (Complete with head bobble.)

** In the same episode where the Doctor "fakes" a Scottish accent, Rose tries to do the same... much worse. To the point where the Doctor tells her to just stop.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[No More Heroes]]'', Travis is about to battle Letz Shake when his rival Henry {{spoiler|steals his kill, dropping down from the sky and destroying Shake and his machine in one fell swoop}}. Almost immediately after Henry introduces himself, Travis begins mocking his Irish accent.

* ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' has [[Cute Monster Girl|tiefling]] [[Loveable Rogue|Neeshka]] (American accent) imitating [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|Khelgar]] (Scottish accent): "Oohh me stomach! This boat rocks like a baby cradle!"

* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'': The Spy sometimes does this to mock his opponents while dominating them. Given that he's Basque, while his VA is not, this leads to the VA having to sound like a guy with a fake accent impersonating another accent that is also fake.

* In the ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'' review, Yahtzee does part of the review in "A ridiculous oirish accent".

** He later did his ''[[Far Cry]] 2'' review in a South African accent.

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', Kanaya claims to have done this during an instant-message conversation with Eridan. She also does it in text, by imitating Eridan's typing quirk.

{{quote|'''GA''': Has It Occurred To You She May Have Blocked You Because You Are Vvery Ovverbearing

* On ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'', Marlene imitates King Julien's accent while offering him a drinking cup of himself as a replacement crown.

* In ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police (animation)|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'', Max's voice actor was a great impressionist and so [[Throw It In|did this a lot]], dropping into hillbilly accents or doing impressions of famous people apropos of nothing. It worked with the character well enough that the creator, Steve Purcell, [[Sure Why Not|worked it back into Max's canonical character]]. The entire purpose of the ventriloquist dummy in ''The Devil's Playhouse'', for instance, is to make him do this, although Sam complains that he makes Scottish Grandpa Stinky sound like 'an Irish pirate'.

== [[Real Life]] ==