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** Jean-Luc Picard is played by [[Patrick Stewart]], a Brit, even though Picard is from the French countryside. He doesn't seem to modify his accent for the role; on the rare occasions when he [[Foreign Cuss Word|uses French terms]], however, his accent is impeccable. Whenever his relatives appear, they also speak with English accents (or Scottish in the case of his brother) -- except for a vision he has of his mother in the first season, who speaks with a French accent.
** Jean-Luc Picard is played by [[Patrick Stewart]], a Brit, even though Picard is from the French countryside. He doesn't seem to modify his accent for the role; on the rare occasions when he [[Foreign Cuss Word|uses French terms]], however, his accent is impeccable. Whenever his relatives appear, they also speak with English accents (or Scottish in the case of his brother) -- except for a vision he has of his mother in the first season, who speaks with a French accent.
** Commander Worf was raised (and presumably, taught English) by a heavily-accented Belarusian couple, yet has a pretty vanilla American accent. Possibly justified if he grew up in America, as children adopt the accent of their native country and not of their parents.
** Commander Worf was raised (and presumably, taught English) by a heavily-accented Belarusian couple, yet has a pretty vanilla American accent. Possibly justified if he grew up in America, as children adopt the accent of their native country and not of their parents.
*** Worf apparently spent a fair portion of his (among humans) youth on a colony world. Since his human brother also doesn't share his parents' accent, it's probably safe to assume that the colony was not primarily Belarusian. Though it's also probably safe to assume that Worf's accent is ''Klingon'' and that its resemblance to a generic American accent is coincidental (easy to get away with that sort of thing in sci-fi, after all). The show actually does provide some support for this, though... while all Klingons have "American" accents, Gowron (a born and bred nobleman and politician) uses a softer, more fluid way of speaking than Worf, while Martok (a commoner) uses an even deeper and more bombastic way of speaking, leaving Worf's clipped, deep tones a sort of "middle of the road" among Klingon accents.
* Memorably [[Averted]] in ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]'' when Stewart plays KGB mastermind Karla. {{spoiler|He doesn't speak. At all.}}
* Memorably [[Averted]] in ''[[Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy]]'' when Stewart plays KGB mastermind Karla. {{spoiler|He doesn't speak. At all.}}
* Something of a subversion occurs in the extremely short-lived British sitcom ''[[wikipedia:Heil Honey I'm Homechr(21)|Heil Honey I'm Home!]]'', which features Hitler living next door to an annoying Jewish couple and pretends to be a long-lost American TV show. Hitler speaks with an American accent, as does everyone else, except for Neville Chamberlain.
* Something of a subversion occurs in the extremely short-lived British sitcom ''[[wikipedia:Heil Honey I'm Homechr(21)|Heil Honey I'm Home!]]'', which features Hitler living next door to an annoying Jewish couple and pretends to be a long-lost American TV show. Hitler speaks with an American accent, as does everyone else, except for Neville Chamberlain.
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** This is the standard ''Mitchell and Webb'' procedure: Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, Abraham, God, St Mark, American government officials, the Chancellor of the Great Galactic Endeavour of Vectron, the SS, and Christopher Columbus were all apparently from Wiltshire.
** This is the standard ''Mitchell and Webb'' procedure: Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz, Abraham, God, St Mark, American government officials, the Chancellor of the Great Galactic Endeavour of Vectron, the SS, and Christopher Columbus were all apparently from Wiltshire.
* Colin Hanks on ''[[The Good Guys]]'', Colin Hanks plays Texan police detective Jack Bailey. He still sounds straight out of California. Granted, he plays a character who is supposed to seem kind of out of place in Texas. Diana-Maria Riva also uses a midwestern accent (she is an Ohio native in real life), but also seems out of place in Dallas.
* Colin Hanks on ''[[The Good Guys]]'', Colin Hanks plays Texan police detective Jack Bailey. He still sounds straight out of California. Granted, he plays a character who is supposed to seem kind of out of place in Texas. Diana-Maria Riva also uses a midwestern accent (she is an Ohio native in real life), but also seems out of place in Dallas.



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