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Spock Speak (as in Mr. Spock from Star Trek) is a dispassionate, precise and technical way of speaking, indicating the speaker's distance from human society, but also gives the sense that the speaker is very smart. Common for aliens, robots, people from the past or future, geniuses and/or people from stereotypically formal cultures. Similar to Robo Speak - smarter robots will use Spock Speak. Specific affectations usually include: Excessively rigid adherence to proper word use and grammar Total (or near-total) avoidance of contractions (except when the actor forgets) Avoidance of slang Clipped tones and a very precise way of speaking, underplaying emotions (except for a certain stiffness or a sort of mild disappointment in the listener) Heavy use of the Expospeak Gag An inability to learn metaphor and figures of speech Inability to get or tell jokes, including sarcasm Preferring longer or more technical terms to simpler ones ("Affirmative" instead of "Yes") Heavy use of understated, single-word reactions ("Fascinating," "Indeed."), without any intensifiers: "Indeed" would work equally well as a response to "Would you like some coffee?" as to "They're going to kill us all!" A preference for the passive voice over active voice ("It is done" vs. "I did it") Ludicrous Precision in estimates of numbers, most often time and distance Deadpan Snarking Characters having English as their second language, and avoiding contractions because it is easier for them to speak this way. Bizarrely, these affectations can be combined with Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe in some examples of Flowery Elizabethan English. Much of literal Spock Speak, spoken by the character of Mr. Spock himself, can be traced back to (of all things) American commercial aviation. Gene Roddenberry served as a US Army Air Forces pilot in World War II and then worked as a Pan Am (Pan American World Airways) pilot before he moved to Los Angeles (where he made his living as a cop). The limitations of 1940s and 1950s communications equipment made it hard for a listener to tell the difference between a quick "yes" and a quick "no" - both would sound like a staticky "uh". "Affirmative" and "negative" were easier to differentiate. Standard, precise language also made it easier for pilots to communicate in emergencies — they didn't have to stop to think what to say. Roddenberry may have based the character of Spock on pilots he knew, in the same way that he based the character of Kirk on Daryl Gates of the LAPD. Yes, that one. Contrast with: Totally Radical/Jive Turkey, when someone uses too much slang or totally outdated slang. Delusions of Eloquence, when someone tries to speak like an educated person but ends up doing it all wrong. Gibbering Genius, when someone's advanced intellect is indicated by realistically informal, motor-mouthed diction. Hulk Speak, when sumwon talk in really bad Inglish. You No Take Candle, which is basically Hulk Speak applied to an entire culture. Compare with: Antiquated Linguistics, much like Spock Speak but with an old-fashioned feel. Formal Characters Use Keigo, when a Japanese-speaking character consistently uses formal phrasings and avoids contractions. Proverbial Wisdom, when someone who is wise, enlightened or spiritual tends to speak in riddles, old proverbs, and flowery metaphors. Robo Speak Sophisticated as Hell, Spock Speak mixed with Totally Radical or outbursts of profanity. Technical Euphemism, when people use Spock Speak or similar to avoid saying something unpleasant. |
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Terminator: T-800 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and 3: Rise of the Machines, quite surprising for being an early '90s robot; notice, however, that as he starts spending time with John Connor, he also starts picking up American mannerisms. In the extended version of T2 he only starts mimicking John after his learning chip is set from Read to Read/Write. Seems SkyNet doesn't want its cyborgs thinking for themselves and sets the chip this way when they leave the factory. Notably, the T-1000 does not show this behavior, and exhibits more "natural" speech patterns. Apparently Arnold Schwarzenegger had qualms about saying the historic "I'll be back" line, since he, as an ESL foreigner, would never use contractions. Fortunately, James Cameron recognized that "I will be back" just didn't have the same ring to it. Terminator Genisys has the "Pops" T-800 use this kind of language. Sarah Connor seems to understand him fine, but Kyle Reese doesn't, repeatedly asking questions like "Does he have a button to turn it off?" |
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Towards the end of the Adventure Time episode "Rainy Day Daydream," Jake loses his imagination and therefore talks like this, including some gratuitous Elizabethan. | |
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T-800 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and 3: Rise of the Machines, quite surprising for being an early '90s robot; notice, however, that as he starts spending time with John Connor, he also starts picking up American mannerisms. In the extended version of T2 he only starts mimicking John after his learning chip is set from Read to Read/Write. Seems SkyNet doesn't want its cyborgs thinking for themselves and sets the chip this way when they leave the factory. | |
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X-23: X-23, having never been exposed to the outside world while growing up, speaks in a very rigid, measured way. She also doesn't use slang and has never once used a contraction. Though this is her accepted "canon" manner of speaking, it otherwise is very much Depending on the Writer. She uses Spock Speak in her solo series, but in other books such as her origin story (Innocence Lost) and her very first first appearance in the comics (NYX), she has a more relaxed speech pattern. When she chooses to speak at all. |
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Nagare Hisui, the Green King in K: Return of Kings, speaks this way. His Sanctum's theme is the internet. | |
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X-Men: Storm, as well as Magneto and Colossus (and many other minor characters) as written by Chris Claremont. Storm always speaks this way, even in other-media adaptations, though she doesn't in the live action movies. | |
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Grizzle of Adventures in Care-a-Lot created 'the smartest robot ever' in one episode, which turned out to be a little too logical and spoke entirely using Spock Speak. | |
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RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse: Midnight talks in a highly eloquent fashion at nearly every occasion, even when talking to a foal. It's shown to be an affectation. Maybe. | |
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Fire Emblem: Hawkeye answers everything with the same phrase: "Is that so?" Miriel, from Fire Emblem: Awakening, speaks in an overtly verbose manner. Her future son, Laurent, has shades of this as well. Flayn, from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, speaks very formally and never uses contractions, although she isn't aware she's speaking unusually. It's actually Antiquated Linguistics from having been in a thousand-year coma. |
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Temperance Brennan of Bones due to being a literal minded forensic anthropologist did this in the first couple of seasons. Usually saying "I don't know what that means." when her colleagues would make pop culture references. In later seasons however she's loosened up a bit, although she does still sometimes get her slang terms mixed up. | |
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The normal implications of this trope are unpleasantly subverted in a flashback in Osmosis Jones, when Frank talks to a boy whose science project can supposedly leach all the toxins out of polluted oysters. Frank, being Frank, pulls one of the oysters out of the water and eats it, then discovers that the boy doesn't talk that way because he's smart — he talks that way because "the doctors say he's got a brain the size of a tangerine." The oysters are still polluted, and Frank throws up at the worst possible moment. | |
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Nearly everybody in Manticore talks like this in the Honor Harrington series, often taking a dozen more words to get their point across than is really necessary, with absolutely flawless diction all around. It's somewhat justified in that the main characters are all either highly trained and educated starship crews, nobility, or both, but there's no excuse for them still speaking that way when, say, they've been stuck on a prison planet for a year and a half and the narration goes at length to point out how casual they are with each other. | |
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The character of Dominil in Martin Millar's Lonely Werewolf Girl is generally considered the most intelligent member of her family, with a double degree from Oxford. She is also considered icy and enigmatic, and when she tries to help her cousins with their band, she tells their guitarist that their stage fright is not something she can empathize with, and his reply makes her ask if he thinks she is lacking in empathy. He lampshades this by responding: "Well, yeah, if you go around saying things like 'It is not something with which I can easily empathize'." | |
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In The Simpsons, Principal Skinner has an overly precise, formal, and clinical way of speaking; he never uses a short, simple word when a longer one is available, and he tends to say such lines in a stiff, stilted manner. As examples, he claimed that newspapers contain "much-needed roughage and essential inks," responded to being pantsed by announcing that his "trousers have descended," and hoped that a visiting Superintendent Chalmers is "prepared for an unforgettable luncheon." As this blog post points out, Skinner's way of speaking is simultaneously intelligent, because "it uses long, intellectual-sounding words", and stupid because people don't really talk like that. | |
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The Hire. In "The Escape", the Driver is hired for a Live-Action Escort Mission for 5, a human clone raised entirely in a laboratory. | |
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All of the Observers in Fringe. | |
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Omega the Unknown: James-Michael, due to being raised by robots. His Spiritual Successor, Titus-Alexander, has the same stilted speech patterns. | |
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Fallout: Equestria: Xenith the zebra uses little to no contractions in her speech and usually talks in a more sophisticated manner than her comrades. | |
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Nia from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, being a princess, tends to speak in Spock Speak. (At least in translation; in the original Japanese she speaks fluent keigo.) Memorable is her use of "Well met" over "Hello" as a greeting. Even on her answering machine. Repeatedly lampshaded. Most famous is her rendering of the Gurren-dan motto: "Are you aware of exactly who I am?" |
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Evindr in Emerald Prince. He is one of the top sorcerers in his country, and in this setting, that comes from being incredibly intelligent. | |
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In DC Showcase: Green Arrow, this exchange between Green Arrow and Princess Perdita as they narrowly avoid being hit by a coasting airplane while avoiding assassins: | |
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Dr. Max Bergman of Hawaii Five-0 speaks with a markedly clipped tone. While his level of formality does seem to have diminished slightly over the series as he warmed up to Steve and Danny, he's still very precise in his language. This is probably partly due to being a medical examiner, where precision is imperative. | |
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Paranoia: The Bot Abusers Manual encourages bots to talk this way as a means of hosing their buddies: why say "Get out of the way!" when you can say "Excuse me, citizen, but my sensors indicate an 84.7% probability that the approaching transbot will terminate your biological functions within 0.5 secondcycles after the completion of this sentence"? | |
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Wonder Woman: Depending on the Writer, Wonder Woman often speaks without contractions. | |
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Vampire Girl: The Vampiress has a particularly articulate manner of speaking, nor does she use any contractions in her speech either. | |
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Castiel from Supernatural: he rarely uses contractions, has a formal way of talking ("I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition"), and doesn't (initially) get pop culture or human jokes. Understandable, since he's an angel who hasn't walked among humans for two thousand years. | |
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Grover of Sesame Street insists on avoiding the use of contractions because he is obsessed with doing everything right, according to his original performer, Frank Oz. | |
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Mojo Jojo on The Powerpuff Girls compulsively repeats his statements, with each repetition sounding more like Spock Speak as he dredges the depths of his mental thesaurus. In one episode, Mojo wallops Bubbles with an I-beam, which causes her to have amnesia and act like she's Mojo, right down to his compulsively repetition, Spock Speak and all. Mojo is quite surprised at what happened. |
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Nor do the vehicles from Team Knight Rider, but his Evil Twin KARR, and TKR's Evil Counterpart KRO do. | |
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In the first season of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Billy, being the smart one of the group, used lots of Spock Speak, and required the use of Trini to translate what Billy said to the rest of the group. Needless to say that this stopped on the second season when the actress playing Trini left. | |
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Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory is like that. Just let this example speak for itself: At least he uses contractions. He gets better over time. At least, he tries. Apparently, he's "getting remarkable fluency at" urban slang. |
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In Steve Miller and Sharon Lee's Liaden Universe space operas, Liadens speak in very polite and frequently roundabout form. This is in part because the stories often draw inspiration from Edwardian romances, and partly because Liadens are a culture where the slightest insult might provoke a lethal duel, depending on the temperament of the one insulted. It also frequently serves as a Translation Convention to give readers a sense of the formalized structure of the Liaden, especially High Liaden, tongue. | |
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Theo in Gold Coin Comics. | |
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Vaarsuvius, from The Order of the Stick. Lampshaded by Xykon in "No Respect for the Wicked". | |
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Lei'ella in Inverloch speaks in a stilted, formal matter without using contractions as part of her act as a cold thief-catcher until Acheron and Varden tease her out of it. | |
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In Coffee Talk, Neil tends to speak formally and use technical terms, prompting the other patrons to tell him to speak "normally" when the Barista teaches him how to talk to them on his first day working at the coffee shop. This is the same for Amanda, another alien of the same species as him, in Episode 2. | |
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Ethan Zobelle, from Sons of Anarchy. There's a reason: he's not a real American, and needs to put some effort into hiding his slight European accent! | |
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Kryten from Red Dwarf sometimes does this: | |
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Damian Wayne in Batman: Wayne Family Adventures speaks this way. While he's always had a big vocabulary for his age in the comics, in this series he almost always speaks precisely and technically while rarely ever using slang or even contractions. This highlights both his prodigious intelligence and his difficulty relating to other people. | |
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Stargate-verse: All the Jaffa in Stargate SG-1, although the "indeed" is a Verbal Tic unique to Teal'c. Indeed. (When Teal'c guest stars in Stargate Atlantis, Ronon is apparently the first person to ever mention Teal'c's penchant for such speech, and he is surprised to discover that he does, in fact, say "indeed" a lot.) Parodied in the series finale "Unending," when "indeed" becomes the last word ever said in the show — but this time, it's said by everyone but Teal'c. Subverted in "Message in a Bottle" Subverted with a twist in "Reunion" from Stargate Atlantis Given that everybody in the galaxy (in fact, more than one galaxy) seems to speak perfect idiomatic English, even to the point of grasping American slang, with nary a Translator Microbe in sight, the Jaffa's use of excessively formal language is probably meant to convey their highly disciplined culture. That doesn't mean they don't have a sense of humor — it's just that Jaffa humor doesn't translate well. |
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Sten in Dragon Age: Origins. It appears to be intentional; at least some of the time he's just using it as an excuse to be evasive, and he often gives approval when the Warden points it out. | |
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invoked Codex Alera: Part of what makes the Vord Queens so intensely unnerving is the chillingly clinical and Literal-Minded tone that they use when talking to non-Vord, as if it's meant to serve as yet another reminder of what an Outside-Genre Foe they are. | |
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Kurau from Kurau Phantom Memory talks in a very emotionless and analytical fashion very unfitting for a twelve-year old right after she merges with the Rynax-entity. She starts talking more normally when she regains her human memories, much to the relief of her father. | |
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Terminator Genisys has the "Pops" T-800 use this kind of language. Sarah Connor seems to understand him fine, but Kyle Reese doesn't, repeatedly asking questions like "Does he have a button to turn it off?" | |
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In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Asgardians usually speak like this and not in Flowery Elizabethan English like Tony Stark likes to joke. | |
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Nicole from Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM). Like in the "Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2" and "Flight of the Navigator" examples, when in one episode Sonic insists she "Talk in English!" she starts using more slang than even Sonic. He approves. | |
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Baymax from Big Hero 6 regularly speaks this way as part of his programming. Despite this, he does use contractions in rare cases. | |
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Smallville: In "Crusade", the newly Brainwashed persona of Clark, Kal-El speaks in a cold, robotic and emotionless tone. | |
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All the Jaffa in Stargate SG-1, although the "indeed" is a Verbal Tic unique to Teal'c. Indeed. (When Teal'c guest stars in Stargate Atlantis, Ronon is apparently the first person to ever mention Teal'c's penchant for such speech, and he is surprised to discover that he does, in fact, say "indeed" a lot.) Parodied in the series finale "Unending," when "indeed" becomes the last word ever said in the show — but this time, it's said by everyone but Teal'c. | |
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On Arthur, the Brain is well, brainy, knowing math and other things far beyond any of the fourth grade characters on the series and as a rule speaks in this manner. | |
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Yuki Nagato from Haruhi Suzumiya always speaks very precisely and technically, and in the anime adaptation her speech is delivered in a calm nonotone. She speaks like that because she's an "alien-human interface"; in plain English, she's the mouthpiece of an incredibly intelligent and rational alien entity that cannot communicate through speech. | |
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Most of Presea's lines in Tales of Symphonia are some variation on this trope. "I suggest that conversation while in transit impairs our rate of travel." Kunzite in Tales of Hearts does the same. Even in combat, where the usual poetic spell chants are replaced with stuff like "Dark weaponry charging complete. Fire!" This is because he's an actual robot Tin Man, and later, he starts declaring things along the lines of "this is my own will!" against his "rival" and the final boss. |
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Mass Effect: EDI almost exclusively uses this, occasionally dipping into Robo Speak. Legion also tends to use a gestalt of Robo Speak and Spock Speak. The Elcor as a race do an extreme version of this. Apparently their usual social cues within their race are incredibly subtle, to the point that non-Elcor races don't notice them at all. As a result their speech is very basic and monotone, and they even go the extra mile to directly state the emotion they are intending to convey before their words in order to properly convey their intent. |
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Lightly poked fun of in one episode of Phineas and Ferb, when the title characters had been planned an Inception esque trip into the subconscious of Baljeet to cure his fear of contractions (Baljeet considering them the grammatical equivalent of Frankenstein's Monster). | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: Antimony uses Spock Speak, due to a very unusual childhood. When this guest comic was posted, several fans complained that Annie saying "Yeah" in the first panel was out of character. However, she seems to use it less when she's at ease, around friends. Apparently, Annie learned it from her father, Anthony, who spoke this way when he was her age: |
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Dr Harrison Wells, from The Flash (2014). He uses quite technical, precise language, as well as speaking in clipped tones without undue emotion. This fits his character as, in addition to being a brilliant scientist with highly specific knowledge of his field, he is quite a reserved man and the resident Spock of his team. After Team Flash learns his true identity, he becomes a lot more emotive, but never quite loses his slightly unusual speech pattern, which is probably a hold-over from him being from the future. Earth-2 Wells is noticeably more casual about his language, and is shown (in flashbacks) to be much more personable than his Earth-1 counterpart. His daughter, also a super-genius, uses standard idiomatic American English. |
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Ellingham, frequently on Doc Martin. | |
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Transformers: Armada's Red Alert thankfully stops after the first use. | |
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On Llama Llama, Euclid is immediately obvious as an intellectual type and very much speaks like this, both in word use and his general tone and style of speaking. | |
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Starfire of Teen Titans (2003) acts like a Granola Girl but uses classic Spock Speak: misplaced articles, misinterpreted puns, lack of contractions (she uttered a couple of them, though), the works. The reason for this being that she's both an alien speaking English as a second language (though gained through Translator Microbes), and royalty. Her sister Blackfire speaks fluent English, though. | |
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Luca in The Meek doesn't use contractions, since his he actually speaking his third language according to Word of God. | |
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Fi from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword frequently analyzes situations in the form of percentages. | |
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Kai from Lexx does probably the best Spock Speak in television history, superior even to the Trope Namer. Lexx, the titular ship, does a pretty decent job of it himself, as does 790 and several other of the less human characters on this show. The only ones who don't talk this way are the thoroughly human characters of a quite low level of knowledge about things, Stanley and Xev/Zev, the ones who are typically having things explained to them in perfect expository Spock Speak. | |
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Ziva David from NCIS speaks very properly, at one point asking "What are contractions?" | |
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Knight Rider: Telling example: in the original series, KITT does not use Spock Speak for the most part (though he does once go medieval on a hacker for compelling him to say "ain't"). Nor do the vehicles from Team Knight Rider, but his Evil Twin KARR, and TKR's Evil Counterpart KRO do. Also, the KITT of the 2008 series engages in Spock Speak, but his patterns of speech appear to be slowly getting more natural as his AI develops. |
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Aximili from Animorphs... when he's not in human form. (When he's in human form, he's just crazy.) Ax's internal monologue is not quite as formal as his speech, though it is still clearly the thought process of someone foreign to American culture; when speaking, he's actively affecting a formal tone because he believes that's how a soldier in the Andalite military should act. | |
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BattleTech: Variation: the Clans speak a sort of slang based on Spock Speak; for example, they use "Aff" and "Neg" (short for Affirmative and Negative) in place of "Yes" and "No". This is added to a host of Russian-derived terms and Wiki Words to form an alien but comprehensible dialect of English. They have so long since forgone the use of contractions that they react to contractions as swear words. That's not that far-fetched; using contractions in Japanese (for instance "korya" instead of "kore wa") is perceived as harsher. | |
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Clank from the Ratchet & Clank series definitely fits this, however because he doesn't usually speak in monotone it can be hard to notice. It is definitely more prevalent in the original game and decreases as time goes on, due to him being more exposed to galactic culture over time. An amusing behind the scenes outtake from the second game's Behind the Scenes video gives us this: |
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Jeeves is a master of Spock Speak who predates Spock by about half a century! This trope could legitimately be called "Jeeves Speak", but "Spock Speak" is much snappier. Despite using this speech pattern and having a generally stoic demeanor, Jeeves does understand humor and sarcasm, and his Spock Speak lends itself well to the occasional Stealth Insult. The Jeeves-like later adaptations of Alfred Pennyworth do this, too. |
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Parodied constantly in Futurama, playing off the fact that historical records seem unusually unreliable, yet people often take them at absolute face value. For example, at a museum, an exhibit refers to "auto-mo-cars" as being constructed by "primitive robots". This is technically correct; however, the robots are revealed to be nothing more than robots dressed in primitive human dress (i.e. they're cavemen). It also refers to the car being powered by a "tank of burning fossils", mis-interpreting "fossil fuels" and "gas tank". Many of the alien characters on the show use Spock Speak, particularly the Nibblonians and their archnemeses the Brainspawn. |
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Faye in Questionable Content, early on in the series when she's deliberately trying to conceal her southern accent, having moved from Georgia to Massachusetts to escape a personal tragedy. | |
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The Emily-Clone from World of Tomorrow almost-constantly speaks in a verbose monotone. She claims that Clone Degeneration has affected her ability to express her emotions. | |
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None of the characters in Deltora Quest are capable of using verbal contractions. ...unless they're either A.) in severe distress or B.) evil. |
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Life on Mars. DI Sam Tyler when interviewing witnesses, because he comes from an era where every word is recorded and saying the wrong thing can get a case thrown out of court. However this only confuses people in The '70s. | |
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In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, a sci-fi novel by S. M. Stirling. The Martian language can convey a lot of information simply, but sounds formal when translated into English. Thus Your pleasantly agreeable personality contrasts in an intriguing manner with the brutish power of your appearance is actually You look macho but you're actually sweet and gentle. | |
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The Lords of Creation | hasFeature |
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Parodied mercilessly in the Saturday Night Live sketch (and subsequent movie) Coneheads. | |
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Saturday Night Live | hasFeature |
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Kunzite in Tales of Hearts does the same. Even in combat, where the usual poetic spell chants are replaced with stuff like "Dark weaponry charging complete. Fire!" This is because he's an actual robot Tin Man, and later, he starts declaring things along the lines of "this is my own will!" against his "rival" and the final boss. | |
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As much Spock Speak as she uses in the comics, Storm has it worse in X-Men: The Animated Series. For whatever reason, the writers of the show felt the need to have her invoke her power over the weather through long, over-the-top incantations. This may be partly because they felt viewers wouldn't understand what she was doing if she didn't spell it out, partly because she had comparatively little actual dialogue outside of those invocations. As Lampshaded in a Spider-Man/X-Men cartoon crossover: | |
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Miyu in My-HiME. It is not particularly obvious, though, and the later revelation of her being a Robot Girl has been known to take some people by surprise. In My-Otome, her manner of speech is more naturalistic, indicating a more favorable role overall. | |
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Wind Whistler and Kimono from My Little Pony both speak in Spock Speak. Peach Blossom (one of the Flutter Ponies) spoke this way in at least one episode. | |
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Borat plays by default the language school English version with a couple of funny words and cussing every now and then. Example: | |
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Also exhibited by Cameron and Chromartie on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. It may shed some light on this, showing Terminators — sometimes even the same Terminator — doing both. It appears to be a simple matter of whether or not the Terminator in question considers convincing acting to be relevant to the mission at hand. In particular, those that go back in time wouldn't have to worry about being outed as killer robots except in extreme circumstances. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Craftworld Eldar are usually depicted as speaking this way. It's most usually used to play up how inhuman and creepy they are — they may be Space Elves and the most humanlike of all aliens in the setting, but as said, they're aliens and oh boy do they act like it. However, their method of speech does lead to a Funny Moment in the novel Path of the Warrior when one of them makes a dirty joke without breaking his tone. | |
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In Transformers: Animated, Prowl is constantly saying things like "Fascinating", "Impressive" and "Incredible" when observing organic life. | |
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Noah of El Goonish Shive very rarely uses contractions and just comes across as awkward in the flow of his speech. | |
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Aquaman and Aqualad in Young Justice, both of whom eschew contractions and slang despite the fact that the latter is a teen. Fellow Atlantean Lagoon Boy seems a bit more informal with his speech. | |
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Discord from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic regularly does this due to his archaic chaos god status, but he has occasional times when he would not. Twilight Sparkle also tends to dip into this. note Except when she doesn't. Rarity is this in spades. Befitting of her character as a proper lady, she often talks in a more refined, sophisticated vocabulary, but does use contractions regularly, unlike other versions of this trope. Princess Luna fits as well. Even if she no longer speaks in ancient english, she constantly speaks in a more refinned manner and uses less contractions than the other alicorn characters, even her own sister. She also still occasionally uses Antiquated Linguistics. Each of the four has her own flavor of it, too. Wind Whistler is basically a Vulcan in cartoon pony form. Peach Blossom has Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness as her "thing." The result is that Wind Whistler sometimes uses big words because she's The Smart Guy, but is still quite formal when not using them. Peach Blossom, on the other hand, never uses a short word when a long one will do and only Wind Whistler speaks her language. Kimono is quite formal but doesn't use overly long words or technical jargon. As for Twilight Sparkle, her personality isn't anywhere near as calm as the others; she easily gets worked up if things aren't going right or excited if she sees something she's interested in. Most of the time, she talks normally, but when describing what something is, how something works, or one of the things only she is quite so deeply into, she can get extremely technical and leave listeners scratching their heads. When it's high-end magic or technology, best to just smile and nod and accept that you're not going to get it. (Hilariously, one time Pinkie Pie found it all quite simple and easily explained everything, to the jaw-drop of everyone else.) |
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Doctor Who: K-9, and a number of "advanced" aliens. "Affirmative, Master." The Daleks and Cybermen (both species actually cyborgs, rather than actual robots) spoke this way before switching over to Robo Speak. The future guerrillas in "Day of the Daleks" do not use contractions because that is how people speak in the 22nd Century. Except it doesn't quite work in practice: they slip up every now and then. |
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It Takes a Village: Almost every dragon that isn't Spike speaks this way. The wyvern ambassador only uses contractions when he's nervous, and the Magician of Coal Crater uses more contractions because of his accent, but he still uses Spock Speak whenever he is too serious or wants to emphasize something. | |
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Child of the Storm has both Sinister and his Living Weapon, Maddie Pryor a.k.a. Rachel Grey, Jean's Separated at Birth twin sister speak this way - in the latter case, it's specific conditioning, and it fades following her Heel–Face Turn. | |
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Star Wars: Lost Stars: Jude mostly speaks with a clipped, very precise manner and also often doesn't use contractions, usually doing so in a scientific way. | |
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Zen, Orac, and Avon in Blake's 7. Confirmed. | |
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Blake's 7 | hasFeature |
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Shane Drinion in The Pale King, who may not be human. | |
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In Yokoka's Quest, Moon language is typically spoken without any contractions, though they may be used if the speaker is too emotional to speak formally (unnamed woman chasing Betelgeuse in the prologue), is an idiot (Yokoka), or doesn't care enough (Fahrin). The longest dialogue is between Azha and Misha in chapter 9, and shows how stiff the language can be when spoken correctly without contractions: | |
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Survival of the Fittest version 4's 'Bounce' speaks with excessive formality, which is possibly because English wasn't her parents' first language, although intelligence plays a part. | |
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True Grit's Mattie Ross has many examples. | |
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True Grit | hasFeature |
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The Avengers: The Vision, who was physically modelled after Leonard Nimoy himself, often talks in this fashion, as befitting a hyper-advanced synthezoid. In Roy Thomas's run, an issue begins with him and Quicksilver both engaging in this, which the far less reserved Scarlet Witch teases them about. Quicksilver, ever the Jerkass, declares it a point of pride that he has not been "contaminated" by American colloquialisms like his sister. | |
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Agents of Atlas: Bob Grayson (The Uranian / Marvel Boy) speaks with no contractions. He didn't in his earliest appearances in the fifties, but he does on his reappearance in the modern day, to indicate his general "alien-ness" and detachment from humanity as a whole. | |
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EVERYONE in the future California of Demolition Man who isn't Sylvester Stallone or Wesley Snipes talks like this. | |
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Princess Kidagakash Nekdah from Atlantis: The Lost Empire speaks English this way. The same applies to all the other Atlanteans as well. For bonus points, Kida's father was voiced by Leonard Nimoy himself. | |
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Jeanette the Chipette in Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks. | |
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Revonnahganders in Ben 10: Omniverse treat contractions the same way humans would treat swear words. If a Revonnahgander uses one then it's either a slip of the tongue or they're angry enough to drop their equivalent of an F-bomb. | |
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Those who speak in Mark Trail have incredibly strange diction, using no contractions to speak of and sounding painfully formal, all while using too many exclamation points!! | |
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Chance the Gardener in Being There, especially in the film version when we hear him speak, invokes the autistic variation of this trope, albeit without high intelligence. He is mentally challenged and grew up with little human contact, spending most of his time watching TV (before that, he listened to the radio). Because of this, his tone, inflection, etc. is based on how people on TV speak - and Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic. His limited intelligence leaves him unable to understand many questions, statements, etc., but he knows he has to say something in response. Thus his responses are usually quite simple and blunt once he starts interacting with others. Because he sounds intelligent, he is chronically misinterpreted by many of the other characters, who often think he is speaking in metaphors. | |
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Double subversion: Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2 features a robot who initially talks in Spock Speak... but when the main character asks him to speak in a more understandable way, the robot starts using Totally Radical slang. He later goes back to Spock Speak, much to the relief of both the main character and the player. | |
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The character of Two in Tales of MU speaks with a variation of this: as a freed golem, she speaks fairly formally, and especially does not wish to voice any opinion or preference. In the early chapters, she had serious problems saying that she wanted anything. This can be seen in the "Two's Diary" Bonus stories, where she crosses out any line that expresses any emotion or desire. She's gotten better as the story has gone on, however. Another example is Two's former roommate, Dee, whose formal speech matches a formal upbringing. She also apologises at a frequency that approaches a verbal tic. |
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Astro City: Several characters speak like this, most notably the robot Beautie. | |
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Flayn, from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, speaks very formally and never uses contractions, although she isn't aware she's speaking unusually. It's actually Antiquated Linguistics from having been in a thousand-year coma. | |
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Notable exception: TIM in The Tomorrow People (1973) actually speaks much more naturally than many of the non-electronic advanced aliens. One of the Big Finish audios comments extensively on how unusual this is. | |
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Subverted with a twist in "Reunion" from Stargate Atlantis | |
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XCOM: A soldier converted to a MEC Trooper in the Enemy Within Expansion Pack of XCOM: Enemy Unknown speaks in a slightly monotone and very formal version of their language. Whether this is a side-effect of the process or something they choose to put on for the sake of in-universe Rule of Cool is never specified. Similarly, Skirmishers and SPARKs that aren't Julian in XCOM 2 speak in eloquent sentences with barely any word truncation. SPARK speech is robotically emotionless, but Skirmishers are definitely capable of inflection. |
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Miriel, from Fire Emblem: Awakening, speaks in an overtly verbose manner. Her future son, Laurent, has shades of this as well. | |
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In Flight of the Navigator, Max, the spaceship AI, originally talked like this... until he downloaded the required info from David's brain. Then he speaks like a Totally Radical version of Pee-Wee Herman though it's because it is Paul Reubens supplying the voice. | |
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Fujin in Final Fantasy VIII, due to how they translated her single-kanji lines, uses Hulk Speak sentences with Spock Speak words. For instance, she replaces "yes" and "no" with "AFFIRMATIVE" or "NEGATIVE". | |
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The Transformers (Marvel): Perceptor speaks like this, so much so that other character have trouble understanding him. Shockwave too, but to a lesser extent. |
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In Durarara!! Vorona's speech tends to be a mix of this and Strange Syntax Speech, thanks to the fact that she learned how to speak Japanese entirely from textbooks. | |
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Seven of Nine and Tuvok the Vulcan from Star Trek: Voyager. The differences. Seven does this on purpose as part of her need to cling to the logic of Borg thinking. To Tuvok, its just the most sensible way to speak. Data actually tries to avert this trope, using slang, metaphors, and humor (often incorrectly), but perpetually struggles with grasping the subtleties. |
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Fantastic Four: The Super-Skrull talks like this, like most of his race we've seen so far. In an issue of Young Avengers, his lack of contractions even used to identify him posing as another character. | |
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Buffyverse: Anya developed into this, first as a consequence of being a former demon with limited knowledge of humans. Later it was revealed that she had when she had been an ordinary human she had always used Spock Speak. Charitably we may assume she was an Aspie. (Her lack of understanding about mortality on the other hand... well, a thousand years is a long time.) Lampshaded when Anya says of April, "She speaks with a strange evenness and selects her words a shade too precisely," and Xander responds, "Well, some of us like that kind of thing in a girl." Later on, Illyria used this as well, though she occasionally managed to confuse others when using a longer word instead of a short, convenient one. (One humorous example was when she said she and Wesley were "no longer having intercourse." Spike assumed sexual intercourse and did a Double Take before her real meaning kicked in.) The Groosalugg. "Hail, potential client!" Subverted in one (unfortunately cut) scene, where he's trying to record a message for the team's answering machine. |
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Lennier in Babylon 5. "Informal speech would be... inappropriate." | |
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Tales of the Undiscovered Swords: Sasanoyuki, being an Emotionless Boy who values efficiency. However, he doesn't use lengthy formal speech, instead opting for short speech, as longer would a/ defeat the purpose of efficiency, b/ indicate politeness, this being Japanese, which he flat-out doesn't have. | |
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Transformers: Transformers: Armada's Red Alert thankfully stops after the first use. In Transformers: Animated, Prowl is constantly saying things like "Fascinating", "Impressive" and "Incredible" when observing organic life. |
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Youngblood: The Occupant from Alan Moore's run talks like this. It's even Lampshaded: | |
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On Dexter's Laboratory, Dexter himself is quite The Smart Guy, and often uses Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, very few contractions and lots of technical terms combined with a rather almost monotone way of speaking to prove it. How severe his spock speak is often fluctuates between episodes, however. | |
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Sousuke from Full Metal Panic! was raised as a child soldier and thus always uses very rigid military speech. He almost always prefers "affirmative," speaks in short phrases, has a complete lack of understanding of slang and all of the more normal behavior for someone his age. Tessa utilizes a much milder case when she's in command, but in her case it's a choice, and her Not So Stoic moments are more numerous, especially around Sousuke. | |
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The title character of I Dream of Jeannie spoke with an unusual tone of voice and no contractions. She also misunderstood metaphors, but no more often than any other Literal Genie. | |
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Candy from Gravity Falls has a tendency to use a very stilted, formal and unexpressive tone. Given her Asian and Nerdy characterisation, this both serves to highlight that she's very intelligent, and also that English may not be her first language. | |
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Also, Data of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Indeed, the way to tell him apart from his Evil Twin Lore was that Lore did use contractions. (Ironically, at the end of the very episode which introduced Lore, Brent Spiner flubbed one of his lines, causing Data to use a contraction.) (Or did he? It's so blatant you have to wonder if it was intentional.) This was also a plot point in the episode, "Future Imperfect", one of the manners in which Riker was able to tell he was inside a hologram. |
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