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Thissss iss a [[Self-Demonstrating Article|Ssssself Demonssssstrating Article]]
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Ssometimess appliess sssso broadly it affectsss any reptilian creature - even when it doessn't make any sssenssssse. Asss much asss a talking reptile can make sssenssssse anyway, even if every other [[Talking Animal]] isss perfectly capable of talking.
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{{quote|'''Kaidoh''': "Fssssssshhhhhhhhuuuuuuuu..."}}
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* ''[[Judge Dredd (comics)|Judge Dredd]]'': The crime issss life, the ssssentence issss death!
* [[Spider-Man]] villains the Lizard, [[Venom (Comic Book)|Venom]], and Stegron.
* Subverted by King Tyrant Lizard in ''[[Empowered]]'', who has a prominent lisp and simply cannot properly make "s" sounds, a fact that he is very sensitive about.
* [[Twisted
* [[The DCU|DC Comics]] snake cult/terrorist organization Kobra requires this as a stage of initiation for all their convert.
* The lizards and reptiles in the ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]]'' ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' comic book all speak like this.
* This style of speaking, as employed by Reptile in ''[[Mortal Kombat 4]]'', originated in the ''MKII'' comics.
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* Averted and lampshaded in the ''[[Undocumented Features]]'' story ''Twilight'' ([[Twilight (novel)|no relation]]), where Jormungand's speech is "perfectly atypical for the world's largest snake to have", because it doesn't use ssnakeTalk.
* Esmé in ''[[Pawn to Queen]]'', to an incredibly [[Narm]]y degree, especially with the fic otherwise being a [[Darker and Edgier]] angstfest.
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* In the theater adaptation of the old Chinese legend ''White Snake'', both White Snake (Lady Bai) and Green Snake (Greeni) speak this way whenever they're turning back into snakes or particularly upset about something.
== Theatrical Productionsss - Ssstage
* In ''[[Children of Eden]]'', a musical based on the book of Genesis, the Serpent's number, "In Pursuit of Excellence," is carefully designed around this trope.
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* The Rattler on [[Cool McCool]].
* In ''[[The Owl House]]'', Piniet is a lizard-like [[Villain of the Week]] who talks like this.
* This is nearly Averted completely with the Reptoids in the ''[[Inside Job]]'' episode "Blue Bloods", the one instance being at the end of the episode where the doctor tells Andre that his ill-advised participation at [[A Party - Also Known as an Orgy|the Reptoid's "party"]] has given him "ssssyphilus", among other Reptoid-specific STDs.
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