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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Shakespeare in Love]]'', where Wabash can barely speak because of his stammer, and is only included in the play because Phillip Henslowe (the "producer") owes him money. But, after a brief false start, he delivers ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'s'' prologue with perfect eloquence.
* Subverted in ''[[
* Michael Palin's character K-k-k-Ken in ''[[A Fish Called Wanda]]'' has a terrible stutter throughout the movie. It vanishes when he gets his revenge on Otto, his major adversary, at the end of the movie. [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue|Final credits reveal]] he now works as an MC at Sea World.
** In an earlier scene, Jamie Lee Curtis' character kisses him while to get some information out of him, leaving him ironically un-tongue-tied for a few moments afterwards.
** Palin actually [[Shown Their Work|did quite a bit of research on how stuttering works in real life]] and incorporated it into his performance. Ken's stutter is not as bad when he's around peeople he's comfortable with (Wanda and George), and becomes worse when Otto (whom he can't stand and is scared of) is around.
* In the [[John Wayne]] film ''[[The Cowboys]]'', one of the boys on the cattle drive wasn't able to warn them of danger due to a stuttering problem. Wil Anderson (Wayne's character) proceeds to give him a brutal tongue-lashing, and the boy stutteringly calls Anderson a "s-s-s-s-s-son-uh-uh-uh-of-a-buh-buh-bitch". Anderson then continues to antagonize the boy until the youth explodes into a verbal tirade of completely stutter-free profanity. Anderson then calmly congratulates him on getting over his stutter, and warns the boy to not get used to cursing at him like that. The boy never stutters once for the rest of the film.
* Billy in ''[[One Flew Over the
* King George VI ("Bertie") in ''[[The King's Speech]]'' spends most of the movie stammering terribly, but his therapist Lionel Logue finds that he doesn't stammer when he's very angry and/or swearing.
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* Bill Denbrough from [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[IT]]''. Both Richie Tozier and Beverly Marsh remark on the fact that "Stuttering Bill doesn't realize that he doesn't, always".
* In [[Isaac Asimov]]'s short story "Galley Slave", sociology professor Simon Ninheimer stuttered almost all the way through to the end, where he gives a eloquent speech of the evils of AI proofreaders.
* Simon has a stutter throughout most of the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[Discworld
* ''[[Erast Fandorin]]'' has a stutter/verbal tic that goes away when he's in disguise/in more [[Let's Get Dangerous]] moments.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Lieutenant Reginald Barclay in ''[[Star Trek:
** Although on some occasions it was evidence he'd been hit by the [[Negative Space Wedgie]] and was [[Not Himself]].
* Happens at least once to the title character in the TV version of ''[[I, Claudius]]''.
** The title character of ''[[I, Claudius]]'' eventually trains himself so that he largely loses his stutter. What makes it fit this well is that he had achieved this well before most people thought he had... and so right up until becoming Roman Emperor, he's still seen as poor, stupid, stuttering C-C-C-Claudius. Soon after, he drops the [[Obfuscating Stupidity]], much to his enemies' dismay.
* A character on ''[[Joan of Arcadia]]'' had a terrible stuttering problem, made worse by the fact that he was on the Debate Team. So how did he find his voice? Joan discovers that he has an exceptional talent for finding/gathering evidence and arranging excellent presentations.
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