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Electronic Speech Impediment

 Electronic Speech Impediment
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A good indication that something has gone wrong with your computer is when its voice starts acting up. Symptoms include slllurrrring, stu-stu-stu-stuttering, goingo utofs ync, gauwrblrwed audio, speedingup or SLOOOOWING DOOOOWN. This can be happen to anything from superintelligent mainframes to damaged Cyborgs. Why? Must be another handy feature of the Viewer-Friendly Interface.
Subtrope of Computer Voice and an example of Acceptable Breaks from Reality. Probably influenced by real life audio devices exhibiting similar symptoms (analog media like records and tapes may speed up or slow down if there is a calibration error, and some computer programs will "stutter" when they freeze up, rather than simply going silent).
If the computer has a futuristic AI, there is a good chance the next symptom will be turning evil. Oh, and if it starts speaking quicker and quicker, best stand back.... If it's trying to say its catchphrase, see Alternate Catchphrase Inflection. Compare Dying Vocal Change.

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In Shin Megami Tensei IV, Pluto orders the main characters to repair it after being defeated. Or at least, it tries to.
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In the Japanese/European version of Sonic the Hedgehog CD:
Palmtree Panic's Bad Future theme has the cheering soundbyte from the standard theme play in a low, distorted tone that makes it sound positively nightmarish. Later in the theme, it plays as its regular pitch, but in a stuttery fashion:
Metallic Madness' Bad Future theme has a synthesized voice spout several mocking phrases at you, finishing with a stuttery, "Sonic, dead or alive... is m-m-mine".
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A few of the more dilapidated animatronics in Five Nights at Freddy's speak in this manner, particularly in Ultimate Custom Night. Notable examples include Withered Bonnie* Speaks in a monotonous mechanical drone, with ominous buzzing, Withered Chica* Speaks with a lot of mechanical shuddering, Nightmarionne* A deep, evil voice that skips and loops randomly, and Rockstar Bonnie* A heavily, but poorly autotuned voice.
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The Jetsons: In "Rosie, Come Home", Rosie malfunctions and so ends up saying the end of every third (approximately) sentence three times, three times, three times.
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Logan's Run: In the pilot, the robot Siri repeatedly says "Cannot allow" after Logan shoots her with his Ray Gun.
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This happens twice to C-3PO in The Empire Strikes Back. The first time is when Princess Leia switches him off. The second time is when Chewbacca repairs him after his unfortunate run-in with an Imperial Stormtrooper.
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Pee-wee's Playhouse: Co-ooonky Two—THOUUUUUUUsand! Re-re-re-ready to aaaaa-ssist you, P-P-Pee-wee!" Complete with McQueen smacking him on the forehead to stop stuttering and complete the sentence once the torture damage starts to work.
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This happens to Aiko in an episode of Magical Pokaan when the humid weather causes mold to start building up around her circuit boards, giving her a stutter.
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Andor: The droid B2EMO speaks with a stutter. This not only portrays the Used Future world, but is a sign that his owners can't afford to repair him or buy a newer model. A flashback scene taking place a decade or so earlier shows B2EMO speaking without the stutter.
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Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space:
When a Tin-Can Robot tries to arrest them, Captain Proton and Buster Kincaid keep it busy while TuMok sneaks up behind it and yanks out its power cord.
When the Great Calculator is sabotaged, it starts to sing "Daisy Bell", only for Proton to tell it to knock off the karaoke.
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The Simpsons:
In a Deleted Scene from "Burns' Heir", after the robotic Richard Simmons scares off Homer and accosts Smithers, Mr. Burns and Bart, Smithers shoots it in the face with a shotgun. It then goes critical while singing and dancing, ultimately exploding.
In "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?", Homer sets up a dummy Homer at work while he's off doing something else, one part of which is a cassette tape of himself singing "She Works Hard for the Money". The dummy gets promoted because it has a good attitude, and gets moved to a corner office. Then the tape machine breaks, causing the song to slow down, then speed up, and after getting to the end saying "turn tape over". Somehow, reaching the end causes the whole thing to light on fire.
In "Trilogy of Error": "Linguo... is... deeeeead..."
In the "Treehouse of Horror XII" story "House of Whacks", when the Simpson family are dismantling their insane electronic housekeeper and take out the chip meant to give it a suave English voice, it starts slurring insults at them.
In "Don't Fear the Roofer", Stephen Hawking appears As Himself, telling Homer he owns the local Little Caesar's restaurant, and writes "Pizza, pizza" with his synthesizer, when it starts repeating over and over.
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At the end of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the "Colonel" and "Rose" start to stutter and say random, nonsensical things due to the virus corrupting their systems.
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In an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), an evil artificial intelligence that is literally power-hungry seems to be unstoppable... until he abruptly cries out "Warning! Warning! Insufficient powerrr to commmplete missssionnnnn...". As it turns out, April pulled his plug.
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The Devices in Lyrical Nanoha do this when heavily damaged, as shown by Raising Heart in A's (stuttering) and Mach Caliber in StrikerS (garbled audio).
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Shin Megami Tensei:
Whenever Aigis is knocked out in Persona 3 (and its Updated Re-release), she will mutter a distorted apology before falling down.
Persona 4: Arena enters into creepy territory with the very appropriately named Eerie Voice, a mysterious man who took control of Labrys.
In Shin Megami Tensei IV, Pluto orders the main characters to repair it after being defeated. Or at least, it tries to.
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Hera, the AI autopilot in Wolf 359, has a glitch similar to a stutter. It's always there, but becomes especially pronounced when she's emotional or under a lot of pressure. This is eventually revealed to have been caused deliberately by her creator as part of a mental block, akin to Imposter's Syndrome, in order to keep her in line. As the series goes on and Hera becomes more independent, this glitch happens less and less.
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Abaddon", the computer of the interplanetary hauling vehicle Pequod suffers from one periodically.
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In the original Half-Life and the expansion packs, damaged retinal scanners have garbled speech. In Opposing Force, the voice of the automated transit system, which is otherwise functional enough for Adrian to ride it to the next area, randomly speeds up and slows down.
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Half-Life 2: Episode One provides a variation with the Overwatch voice, which can be heard spewing random, nonsensical orders due to being damaged by the Citadel's reactor exploding.
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Kamen Rider Zero-One: HumaGears' convincingly human, though emotionless voices becomes increasingly distorted and artificial as their systems shut down after suffering enough damage to count as a lethal injury.
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Doonesbury in the late 1980s had Ron Headrest, a cross between Max Headroom and Ronald Reagan, complete with Headroom-esque stutter.
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In The Dark Tower (2004), Roland and his crew encounter a housekeeping robot called Nigel. They see Nigel a few times, and he starts speaking nonsense (counting in Japanese and German for example) indicating he is under extreme stress from Mordred commanding him as well as Susannah shooting out his eyes. Eventually, Nigel malfunctions completely and shorts out.
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Half-Life:
In the original Half-Life and the expansion packs, damaged retinal scanners have garbled speech. In Opposing Force, the voice of the automated transit system, which is otherwise functional enough for Adrian to ride it to the next area, randomly speeds up and slows down.
Half-Life 2: Episode One provides a variation with the Overwatch voice, which can be heard spewing random, nonsensical orders due to being damaged by the Citadel's reactor exploding.
In Black Mesa, the HEV-wearing zombies encountered in Xen repeatedly give garbled status readouts through their suits. Also, the automated intercom system actually has a human-sounding female voice, but when the HECU take control, it switches back to a droning voice similar to the original Half-Life, in mid-broadcast.
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One of the trailers for Jurassic World has a computer voice repeating "Welcome to Jurassic World" and slowing and distorting as scenes of the dinosaurs escaping come on the screen.
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One "muppet" in Sesame Street called Sam the Robot tells anyone who's around that machines are perfect... except he always gets stuck, so he says "Machines are perfec-are perfec-are perfec-are perfec..." *bang* "Thank youuuu."
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In Discworld, this occurs to the Gooseberry Mark I from the alternate reality as it lists off the consequences of what would have happened if Sam Vimes had stayed in the city, though that's due more to temporal confusion.
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Iron Man: During The Stinger, when Tony Stark enters his Smart House, JARVIS's voice is lower and stuttering slightly. This may be because Nick Fury infiltrated Tony's home so he could talk to him about the Avengers Initiative.
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A text-based version of this is used in Marathon: as the game progresses, the written communications from Leela, your AI Mission Control, become increasingly filled with error messages and strange glitches. A second AI, Durandal, has a brief moment on a hidden computer system where you can see a message by him that's devoid of capitalization and punctuation. Once you meet him properly, his grammar is back to normal, but his speech demonstrates a rather different sort of impediment — he's much more emotive than an AI is supposed to be.
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A Very Long Rope to the Top of the Sky: After damaging a robot, its voice starts going strange, represented by strange capitalization and large gaps between words:
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Danganronpa Despair Avenue: Used a lot in the later chapters of Final Danganronpa: Curse III. When the simulation starts to glitch out, everyone begins to do this, especially Harmony and Dissonance. Justified with the latter two, as the simulation glitching out means that they are destabilizing at the basic level.
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Throughout the Penumbra expansion Requiem, a computer will periodically chime in with automated messages. At one point the recording will start stuttering. When you fix it, the computer thanks you personally before resuming its message.
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "Uncle Simon", the robot repeatedly says "According to plan" soon after it is first activated.
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Father & Son Game", the first sign that Darius Stephens' new Cyborg body is failing is when he begins to repeat his words. The problem grows worse over the next two weeks.
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In Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015), Fixit's damage results in him sometimes screwing up the end of his sandwiches, Sontarans, sonograms [THWACK] sentences.
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In the Batman: Arkham Series starting with Batman: Arkham City, whenever the Riddler talks to others through a broadcasted message, his dialogue is filled with SHODAN-like stuttering. Given how much of an Insufferable Genius he is, it's likely a stylistic choice rather than an actual glitch.
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Warframe:
Though Ordis, the Cephalon AI of your ship, normally speaks in a calm, pleasant tone, he tends to occasionally slip into a harsher, more bloodthirsty tone. It's residual memories from his former life as Ordan Karris, the Beast of Bones, before his brain was uploaded as a new Cephalon AI.
A later quest has Cephalon Jordas, whom seems to have a similar disposition to Ordis. Jordas has been overtaken by the Infestation Hive Mind by the time you get to him.
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Red Dwarf:
During the first series, Lister tries to get breakfast from a malfunctioning dispensing machine which has developed a lisp.
This is Kryten's response to trying the android equivalent of alcohol for the first time in "The Last Day".
Quoth the malfunctioning AI in "Demons and Angels":
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
This happens quite often to Mecha Freeza, often accompanied with sparking from his head.
Android 19, after he's hit with Vegeta's Big Bang Attack, has his speech sped up briefly before slowing down:
A more realistic example occurs in Super Android 13, in which the drivers for Android 14's sound card are corrupted, rendering his speech as unintelligible static.
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Screamers: After a character is revealed to be one of the killer robots, he's shot in the face to little effect on his monologue except this trope.
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In Total Annihilation: Kingdoms, the Automatons (basically steampunk cyborgs) have the death quote "MAAAAAAAALfuuuuuunctioooooon".
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In the original Fallout, the Master's speech patterns are a combination of this and Word-Salad Horror. His voice doesn't glitch and stutter, but he speaks in several different voices that overlap and repeat what another has just said.
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All robots in Fallout 3 slur slightly when killed. Deputy Weld's speech ability is badly damaged if you destroy Megaton, leaving him as just a face plate — likewise for Liberty Prime after being Kill Satted.
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In Fallout 4, the elevator announcer voices often suffer from this, e.g. "Bwaarbub Floor".
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The Singularity from Dead by Daylight has a warbled robotic stutter in many of its voicelines, highlighting its inhuman nature and going beyond its programming.
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Baymax from Big Hero 6 sounds slurred when his battery runs low, talking and acting as if he were drunk.
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In Sword Art Online Abridged, Sachi lives out in the boonies and has a crappy internet connection, so sometimes she'll start stuttering and repeating herself when she tries to talk to other players. Unfortunately, this is what gets her killed, so her last words to Kirito come out as "this isn't your fault-your fault-your fault-YYOOUURR FFAAUULLTT", which traumatizes the little Jerkass so much that the words "your fault" become a Trauma Button for his Chronic Hero Syndrome.
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "The Forsaken", the computer becomes infected with an alien digital life-form. In order to get the invading program out, the crew first give the computer multiple difficult assignments to keep it busy while the engineers pull out its isolinear rods. As it replies to each request, the computer's voice starts stuttering and slowing down.
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Doom:
At the end of Doom³: Resurrection of Evil, the PA system goes haywire in stutters and pitch changes after you deactivate most of the base's basic systems to redirect power to a teleporter.
A similar thing happens to VEGA in Doom (2016).
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The nurse robot at the beginning of BioForge starts stuttering upon receiving damage.
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In BioShock 2, the AI "secretary" at Fontaine Futuristics stutters and changes speed randomly, but is otherwise in perfect working order.
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Persona 4: Arena enters into creepy territory with the very appropriately named Eerie Voice, a mysterious man who took control of Labrys.
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Mass Effect 'mechs' tend to jam and stutter when badly damaged, as do Virtual Intelligences.
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The Destiny 2 DLC Warmind is about reactivating Rasputin, the titular Warmind, a solar-system-spanning military AI that Grew Beyond Their Programming a long time ago and went Ambiguously Evil, in the hopes that his creator can persuade him to become humanity’s mightiest line of defense once again. At the end, Rasputin declares that he will not be used as a dumb weapon, and that he will protect humanity on his own terms, all in booming Russian rife with digital artifacts. For some reason a lot of it is reversed, too.
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The Nemesis from gen:LOCK speaks with a warped electronic stutter. Understandable, since it's an instance of Julian Chase, thoroughly corrupted from being trapped on a cyberbrain. Its impediment is bad enough that in its first speaking appearance, many viewers not only couldn't understand it but didn't even realize it was speaking, making the beginning of the next episode, in which all the characters ponder the implications of the many Wham Lines it dropped, somewhat incomprehensible. Fortunately, it's mostly intelligible from then on.
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Fallout:
In the original Fallout, the Master's speech patterns are a combination of this and Word-Salad Horror. His voice doesn't glitch and stutter, but he speaks in several different voices that overlap and repeat what another has just said.
All robots in Fallout 3 slur slightly when killed. Deputy Weld's speech ability is badly damaged if you destroy Megaton, leaving him as just a face plate — likewise for Liberty Prime after being Kill Satted.
In Fallout 4, the elevator announcer voices often suffer from this, e.g. "Bwaarbub Floor".
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A similar thing happens to VEGA in Doom (2016).
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In I, Robot, VIKI's voice slows down and becomes much deeper as its core is being eaten by nanites.
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Girl Genius:
A mysterious machine revealed to be the muse Otilia has a very atmospheric and creepy stutter.
Castle Heterodyne's resident AI speaks with a st/st/stutter (and unique text boxes) early on, as a result of catastrophic damage and neglect. As the castle systems recover, it becomes less pronounced, until it vanishes entirely.
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2010: The Year We Make Contact: When Dr. Chandra begins reactivating HAL, he initiates a vocal test that has the computer read back six words after he reconnects each circuit. With each connection, the vocal distortion is altered, gradually disappearing. One connection causes HAL to repeat the words in rapid-fire gibberish. Eventually, Chandra completes the restoration, and HAL begins conversing normally.
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VIC from Red vs. Blue has plenty of weird mannerisms in his speech. Season 14 explained this was triggered by short-circuiting his mainframe.
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In one episode of ReBoot, Dot becomes ill when she comes into contact with a magnet. In addition to being semi-transparent, she also speaks like this.
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The SAL-3000 in Recess is an obvious parody of the HAL-9000, with the twist that he's actually malfunctioning pretty badly; toward the end, his voice starts stuttering as well. When they have taken out a lot of its parts it starts singing "School Days" in a distorted way.
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In The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes, Dexter's voice slows as the computer effect wears off.
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The Robotic Fizzarolli replica from Helluva Boss has a voice that constantly glitches, changes pitch, and stutters as he speaks, even before his covering gets burned off from the fire engulfing Loo Loo Land.
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Star Trek: The Original Series likes to do this when Captain Kirk drops a Logic Bomb on an AI.
"The Return of the Archons": The computer Landru starts babbling, saying "Help me help me help me...", beseeching its long-dead creator and namesake.
"The Changeling": Nomad starts speaking slowly and in a variable-pitched voice, with occasional static.
"I, Mudd": With Harry Mudd's help, Norman the android is trapped in a logic loop and reduced to mindlessly repeating phrases.
"The Ultimate Computer": The M5 starts speaking slowly, with a pause between each word. "This... unit... must... die."
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In Prominence, when you first restart the power on the Laeril, its onboard computer ANNIE talks this way, spouting phrases at random until you find her CPU chamber, where she asks, "Are you here to fix me?" She exhibits less and less of this trope as you repair more of her systems and the ship over time.
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In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, when some singing mascots catch fire, one of them stops singing and simply states its lyric in a deep, slow voice with a pause after each syllable.
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Squid, the AI antagonist of Will You Snail?, tends to stutter and sound more garbled whenever he has a Villainous Breakdown or when he gets physically broken.
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The Incredible Machine on top of Altru Inc. in Pokémon Ranger starts glitching out this way when you start destroying the shield generators.
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A variant appears in Dream C Club with Robot Girl Airi, who sings with an off-key autotune effect whenever she's drunk.
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In the final level of Command & Conquer: Renegade, the main computer of the Temple of Nod starts to say some completely random phrases due to being damaged by the ion cannon: "Intruder alert! Alert cancelled. Intruder alert! Alert cancelled. Intruder alert! Intruder cancelled. All intruders please report to the detention center!" On the other hand, CABAL was designed to be evil from the start. Plus, the version in Renegade is a prototype.
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In Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, after the FLDSMDFR starts overworking, its "cool computer voice" frequently gets lower, skips, and/or slows down, making something as mundane as naming various food items sound a lot more menacing. Once it becomes the Meateor, its speech becomes near incomprehensible.
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Throughout Dark Fall 2: Lights Out, Malakai, an insane sentient space probe, speaks to you in an eerie male voice that randomly slows down and speeds up, most times making his sentences echo in the background, and at one point gets stuck mid-sentence. The creator, Jonathan Boakes, voices him, as well as Mr. Bones in the third game who also has a strange-sounding voice.
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The voice of GLaDOS in Portal speeds up so much it is completely undecipherable on her death. Throughout the game, she occasionally stutters or dissolves into static, usually just before revealing pertinent information. The malfunctions earlier in the game were intentional on her part, as she was posing as a recording at the time. When it becomes clear she is an AI, she stops doing this until the final battle.
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Brawl Stars: Stu is a stunt robot who has been heavily damaged over his lifetime, and as such nearly all his lines have some sort of electronic stutter or distortion going on.
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Barbarella: Barbarella's spaceship is damaged in a space hurricane. The computer tells her that chances of survival are 0 point 00000h... 0h... 0h... 0hhhhh...
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Eerie, Indiana: In "The ATM with the Heart of Gold", the artificially intelligent ATM Mr. Wilson displays one.
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Max Headroom: Max is an experimental and somewhat accidental AI creation, which causes him to stutter not just his words, but his animation as well, as if his playback is being scratched by a DJ. It's a signature part of his character. During in-character interviews, Max refers to it as "hesitancy".
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In Unreal, the Vortex Rikers computer suffers this, illustrating just how bad that crash was.
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Batman & Robin: A virtual version of Alfred Pennyworth the butler in the Batcave has a case of the Max Headroom electronic stutters.
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Back to the Future Part II: The barkeeps at the '80s Café are avatars of Ronald Reagan, Ayatollah Khomeini, and Michael Jackson, all of course with a deliberately added Max Headroom-style impediment.
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Nope: When the blackout happens, the record that Emerald is dancing to grinds to a slow, distorted halt. It is later revealled that it has to do with the UFO's ability to shutting down any electronics in its vicinity. Under its prescence, if someone is on the phone with someone or using walkie talkies, the receiver's voice will recieve the same effect as the record due to the electronic shutting down.
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2001: A Space Odyssey: When Bowman disassembles HAL's neural circuitry, it reverts to demo mode and sings "Daisy Bell" in an increasingly slow, distorted manner before finally shutting down, thus creating an eerie effect. Very possibly the Trope Maker.
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One FoxTrot strip shows a toy robot declaring "I AM THE MIGHTY VOLTAR!" several times, its speech dragging down then going back to normal repeatedly. The joke being that the toy's batteries die fast, and Jason has been taking batteries out of the ones that his dad stockpiled for Y2K to restart it.
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Toontown: Corporate Clash:
Being locked in the dungeon of Ye Olde Toontowne for so long, the Public Relations Representative went insane and eventually became glitchy. His dialog would have stuttering, errors, and would eventually crash. This is best seen with his mannerisms and movement throughout his boss battle.
Prethinker had attacked Duck Shuffler at some point, damaging his speech protocol and causing him to speak in Elmuh Fudd Syndwome. C.O.G.S. Inc. was unable to repair it, and Buck Ruffler filed a restraining order against Brian. Duck Shuffler takes this further when fused with Major Player during the High Roller fight.
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In Humanity Has Declined, the first hint that there's something wrong with a certain cat-eared girl is that her voice distorts whenever she tries to remember her name.
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Space: Above and Beyond: Elroy El is subjected to interrogation by Colonel McQueen after he is captured during a sabotage mission on the Saratoga. When he refuses to give any information, McQueen proceeds to apply some Cold-Blooded Torture, using a knife to cut Elroy open and start ripping electronic components out of him. Elroy's protests, while otherwise sounding very casual and calm, come out in an electronic stutter, finally giving the location of Chiggy Von Richtofen just before he fades out and expires.
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In Dark Empire, when Han and Leia Solo try to take shelter in Han's old quarters on Nar Shaddaa, he finds his decrepit housebot ZeeZee waiting with an ominous message:
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All the AI characters in Achron exhibit this when damaged or in pain, but Echo, an AI core found in some ancient alien ruins, does it all the time.
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In Judge Dredd, Walter the Wobot caught his lisp out of fear when he was kidnapped by Call-Me-Kenneth. It never wore off.
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This Pinkie Pie storytelling plushie goes into full-on Demonic Possession mode when the batteries start to die.
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The Cybermen from Doctor Who exhibit this in their very first appearance, in the story "The Tenth Planet", speaking in a creepy, broken singsong voice.
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Katzenjammer: Starscream wakes up from a bout of over-energization to find that his vocal processor is on the fritz and causing him to involuntarily make a nyaeeee! sound every few seconds.
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Blake's 7:
In "Time Squad", Zen tries to warn the crew that the course of action they're about to embark on is highly dangerous. However, some kind of Override Command is preventing it from doing so.
In "Redemption", Blake is being interrogated by a cyborg when Orac starts to hack into the Artificial Intelligence that controls their society and work mischief, leading to this trope.
Played for Tear Jerker effect in "Terminal".
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In Up, the dogs have collars which make them able to talk. When a wire in Alpha's collar becomes loose, he talks in Helium Speech.
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This happens to EMET in Evolve whenever his ultra-violent psychotic Demon Core personality takes over.
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The Spoony Experiment: During his Let's Play of Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh, when the creature that has been hunting and tormenting Chris dies, Noah Antwiler references the trope, his singing of Linkin Park slurring and deepening:
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In Touhou Luna Nights, Akyuu calls Sakuya before fighting Patchouli and gives her a tip about how to manage with the maid's time-manipulation abilities being limited. However, Sakuya mentions that she already got her abilities back. This causes Akyuu to stay silent then suddenly starts malfunctioning by repeating her talk to Sakuya when they first met in the fake world in a malfunctioning tone. The reason for Akyuu to malfunction is because, as it turns out, Sakuya shouldn't actually be able to get her abilities back while she's inside the world and Akyuu wasn't programmed with that possibility in mind.
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In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, after becoming a machine, Arnim Zola develops one.
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At the end of Doom³: Resurrection of Evil, the PA system goes haywire in stutters and pitch changes after you deactivate most of the base's basic systems to redirect power to a teleporter.
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A good chunk of Cortana's dialog in Halo 4 due to her rampancy. It manages to be very creepy and sad at the same time.
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Power Rangers RPM sees this trope being exploited. In "Ancient History", Doctor K converses with the Power Rangers seemingly in person as Colonel Truman is out for her blood. When he comes in and tries to arrest her, they realize that she's just a Hologram whose voice seemingly starts glitching out, causing him to search elsewhere for the source... and when he leaves, she promptly drops the act, revealing her hologram is not a recording and continues her message.
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When Orianna from League of Legends dies, her voice synthesizer malfunctions, and her death scream ends up sounding more like a Dukes of Hazzard car horn.
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Subject Sixteen from Assassin's Creed II has this, tending to stutter slightly in places:
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Deltarune: Spamton G. Spamton is unbelievably messed up for reasons unknown, and so the parts of his dialogue that aren't in screaming all-caps are replaced with bracketed [terms] that are either vaguely related but interpretable or vaguely relevant sales pitches. And sometimes, certain higher concepts and shady offers result in [[Hyperlink blocked]]. He ends up coming off like an Orz spambot ran through an ineffective spam filter as a result. His speech is somehow even worse in the Japanese localization. His spelling switches wildly between katakana, hiragana, romaji, English words that sound like parts of Japanese ones, and Goroawase Number.
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One the player character causes — in episode 105 of Sam & Max: Freelance Police, there are four computers controlling a virtual reality. One of them is a smarmy, chatty telephone who sounds like a mix of a film trailer voice-over, an infomercial narrator and a pre-recorded telephone tree. To get through a certain puzzle, you have to place a bug on him. After that, he sounds like someone lodged an harmonica in his throat.
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In Mega Man Zero 3, after being resurrected by Doctor Weil, Copy X-2 speaks with a stuttering voice, just like a broken record, due to being an imperfect reproduction of the original. This can be more appreciated on the drama tracks of the Remastered Tracks Rockman Zero Telos. It makes more sense when you consider that the original Copy X was imperfect as well, making Copy X-2 imperfect twice over.
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One of the posters for Westworld features the tagline "Where nothing can possibly go w-o-r-n-g...", with the letters of "worng" falling out of place.
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In Invincible (2021), Machine Head's voice seems to use Auto-Tune; thus, his hamminess increases when it sounds like he's starting to sing.
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Both Gorf ("Long live Gorf") and Wizard of Wor ("Fight me, the Wizard of Wor") use the exact same monotone voice, courtesy of the Votrax SC-01 speech synthesizer chip.
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Teddy Ruxpin was renowned for this. For those who don't remember, Teddy Ruxpin was a teddy bear with a tape player inside. You'd put in the tape and mouth and eyes would move and seem like it was telling the story... until the batteries ran low. Then the demonic voice of EVIL Teddy would issue out. Stuart McLean had one of his characters discuss it in a Vinyl Cafe story.
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In Black Mesa, the HEV-wearing zombies encountered in Xen repeatedly give garbled status readouts through their suits. Also, the automated intercom system actually has a human-sounding female voice, but when the HECU take control, it switches back to a droning voice similar to the original Half-Life, in mid-broadcast.
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Happens in an episode of Jabberjaw after the Neptunes sabotaged a computer to keep the bad guys from finding a treasure.
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System Shock: SHODAN is pretty much the defining video game example of this trope and it's creepy as hell. When she starts getting delusions of godhood thanks to her coding for ethical restraint being disabled, her voice becomes very distorted and broken (this was deliberately designed by the game's developers to mimic a malfunctioning sound card). She didn't have this previous to the disabling, instead speaking in a monotone (though more natural) voice. Notably, the second game makes it clear that she is capable of speaking normally, until she drops her charade and the distortion immediately starts back, implying she's doing this on purpose.
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StarCraft II has a mission where you recover an old Confederate cyborg advisor. Given that the way you recover it is most definitely not careful and delicate, it gets slightly damaged, causing its voice to glitch and stutter but otherwise working fine.
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At the end of Logan's Run, this happens to the central computer as Logan 5 is being interrogated to reveal the location of Sanctuary, but cannot reconcile that Sanctuary does not exist.
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In The Lorax (2012), when Ted breaks the meowing robot cat, it says "Meooowww" in a slowed-down voice.
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Star Trek: Voyager:
The ship's computer has been known to slur when compromised, such as when the gel packs degrade in "One".
Also happens with the walking boiler... er, Killer Robot in the holodeck program The Adventures of Captain Proton. In one scene from "Bride of Chaotica!", the robot starts blaring away at alien intruders, only to receive a Dope Slap from the others, who are trying to make peaceful First Contact; it then shambles away muttering "IN-TR-UDERS..." sulkily. Earlier, when Seven of Nine is supposed to be playing the Damsel in Distress in "Night":
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Wander over Yonder: As a result of his crash-landing, Beep-Boop from "The Bot" has a bit of a stutter and his voice fluctuates in pitch.
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In Machine Man, this is an indication that Dr. Charles Neumann's humanity is slipping away. Once he becomes a Man in the Machine, he gasps for every syllable of speech. As a Brain in a Jar, he loses punctuation and inflection altogether.
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ANTI the slightly murderous AI from Dead Space 2 slurs and changes speed when the player takes a plasma cutter to her processors. Even before this her speech is slightly off, indicating to the player she is malfunctioning.
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Sunshine: The Icarus computer overheats and so can't talk properly if taken out of the coooolannnt...
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Happens to, of all people, Ursula, at the climax of The Little Mermaid (1989). After Eric has stabbed her and she dies, her voice, for some reason, goes all slow-motion. Likely a mixture between Rule of Drama and Rule of Scary.
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In Heart of Steel, the A.I. Arthur starts stuttering and skipping badly just before Rampant!Jim takes him out. This is doubly disturbing to Alistair, who is connected mentally to Arthur and thus aware of the exact moment he goes down, taking Alistair's network connection with him.
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The Naked Sun has as a major plot point that after a robot almost kills a human by accident (it gave him poisoned tea without realizing it was poisoned), its speech center is nearly fried by the Three Laws violation, and it has a noticeable lisp and stammer. This is a clue as to how a murder was committed early on, leaving only the body and a broken robot. (The murderer ordered a robot to detach its arm and give it to a woman while she was arguing with her husband. Finding herself in possession of a blunt weapon, and agitated enough to use it, the woman bashed her husband's head in — the robot, realizing part of it had just killed a human, shorted out.)
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: When Data gets hit by a ray in one episode, he stutters and becomes less articulate.
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Robot Roll Call
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 I, Robot / int_c4e4e17f
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