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Speech-Impeded Love Interest
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Imagine yourself meeting a gorgeous girl that seems to have come from the pages of a romance novel. She seems perfect in every way... That is, until she opens her beautiful mouth. Once she does, you realize that she either has pwofound twouble with her w's, s-st-tutters, lithpth or cannot speak clearly at all. Basically, you have a downplayed version of a disabled love interest or even a Tragically Disabled Love Interest if said speech impediment is Played for Drama. When the speech impediment is shown to be debilitating (like a severe stutter), it is usually given to a fragile Shrinking Violet who is waiting for her knight in shining armor. Often, though not always, she recovers from the impediment by the end of the story; in this case, that's part of the Adrenaline Makeover with possible Unfortunate Implications because it makes out that a hero wouldn't want a disabled or otherwise "imperfect" love. At other times, though, the impediment serves as an endearing quirk which only adds to the character's charm (it may even be lampshaded in-story). In some cases, the Love Interest may even be unwilling to undergo speech therapy for exactly this reason. Compare with Cute Mute. An inversion of this trope is a speech-impeded protagonist. |
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Smartie, the main character's stuttering love interest, from Young and Dangerous movie series. | |
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Shoko from A Silent Voice is deaf. Most of the time she uses sign language or writes in a notepad, however when she does speak she has a very pronounced speech impediment. Her Love Confession to Shoya is ruined by him misunderstanding her. | |
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Ophelia from Hamlet is occasionally played as having a lisp (most notably, she lisped in her mad scenes in the Stanislavski-Craig Moscow Art Theatre production). As believed by some, this was actually intended by Shakespeare, which gives Hamlet's line "You jig and amble, and you lisp" a literal meaning. | |
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In In the Company of Men Christine, the female main character, is one of the most beautiful girls in the firm. However, she's deaf with a thick, barely intelligible deaf accent and a labored, strained way to speak. Subverted and Played Straight: while someone gets to appreciate her even more because of efforts, most people (including the resident Jerk) pick on her exactly because of that. | |
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Judy from Shakes the Clown has rhotacism. | |
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In Pearl Harbor, Goose has a terrible stammer when talking to his girlfriend/love Betty. | |
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Inverted in Jem. The protagonist Jerrica mispronounces certain words, mainly "very". She has some Dude Magnet qualities and has two love interests: her sort-of boyfriend Rio who also loves her alter ego Jem (but doesn't know they're the same person), and Riot who loves Jem but not Jerrica. | |
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In Fire Emblem Fates, Princess Sakura of Hoshido is a Shrinking Violet who tends to go from stuttering to Suddenly Shouting, and remains as such even if she marries. She can potentially be romanced by the Male Avatar, the first generation Hoshido men (save Ryoma and Takumi) and the two Nohrian Princes, Xander and Leo, in the Golden Path. | |
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While not the protagonist's love interest, Mag in Breakfast at Tiffany's invokes this with her pronounced stutter. She will exaggerate it, especially in front of men, when it benefits her. Apparently the impediment makes her more appealing. | |
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Ennui GO!: Calixta is a Shrinking Violet that speaks with a stutter. It becomes more noticeable when she's around and/or thinking about her crush/boyfriend Max. | |
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Annie, John Glenn's wife from The Right Stuff, has a severe stutter (Truth in Television actually). | |
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Bob's Burgers: Tina's main love interest, Jimmy Jr., has a pronounced lisp (in part because of his braces). In "Ain't Miss Debatin'," Tina confesses she has a thing for boys with speech impediments in general. | |
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Inverted in The Anthem of the Heart. The protagonist, Jun, rarely speaks—and sounds squeaky and stuttery when she does—because it gives her severe anxiety attacks, supposedly due to a "curse." (As a child, she believed that her parents' divorce was her fault because she accidentally revealed her father's infidelity, and convinced herself her life would spiral out of control unless she never spoke again.) She starts to open up and discovers that singing avoids the curse when she develops a crush on a boy in her class. Ultimately double-subverted, as well as inverted. He doesn't feel the same about her, not because of her speech issues, but because he's still in love with his old girlfriend. But her personality shift catches the attention of a different guy, who suddenly delivers a Love Confession to her at the end. | |
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Doctor Who: "Forest of the Dead" has a gender-inverted case: while trapped in a simulated world, Donna gets married to a man who has a severe stutter. At the end, she surmises that he was a manifestation of her subconscious perfect mate, i.e. unable to talk back to her. He's actually real, and fails to reconnect with her because he is unable to say her name while being teleported off the planet. | |
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Fang of My Time at Sandrock finds speaking painful after internalizing years of abuse and homelessness. So he tends to avoid speaking at all, and what little he does say is often fragmented, terse, breathless, and full of awkward pauses, as though he can only manage two or three words per breath. Though the player does help him reclaim enough of his voice in a Heal the Cutie arc that he can manage complete (and sometimes rather poetic) sentences, he never comes to speak "normally," and still requires help from X or the player to effectively communicate with patients even in end-game content. | |
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Asami from The Legend of Korra has a lisp according to certain scenes. She ends up the Official Couple with Korra. | |
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Inverted in Tangled. The protagonist Rapunzel has a small lisp while her love interest Flynn doesn't. | |
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In Katawa Shoujo, the Student Council President Shizune Hakamichi is deaf and tends to talk through others either through a sign language interpreter (her best friend Misha) or, like Shouko above, via writing in notepads. There's just one time where she attempts to actually use her voice and that's during the last sex scene in her path. Hisao is rather surprised and awed. Hanako Ikezawa also counts. Due to the trauma of the house fire that scarred her and killed her parents, and the subsequent bullying she received because of said scars, she's an extreme Shrinking Violet whose speech is either stilted, stuttery, or both. |
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In The Little Mermaid, Ursula takes Ariel's voice for herself when giving her human legs, which makes it tricky (but not impossible) for Ariel to gain Prince Eric's heart. | |
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In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Beryl Stapleton has a lisp. She's not English-born and raised, so it might just be an accent. | |
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