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Fake American
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The United States has the largest native English-speaking population in the world — about 300 million — and due to the tremendous global influence of American-produced media, most non-Americans are familiar with the country's dialects and accents, and assume them easy to imitate. Thus it's not uncommon for any non-American actor to be asked to sound American for a part. Fake Americans are usually Canadians (the two countries' generic accents are virtually identical), Brits, Australians, or Irish, although New Zealanders and even South Africans have been known to fake American. This is usually done for biographical reasons, to allow for a familial relationship with another character with an American accent, or to portray a character as stereotypically American. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })According to a documentary, in 2008 one-third of all piloted American TV series had British people in a starring or main supporting role, so this is expanding almost beyond the boundaries of trope. There are honestly so many actors playing fake Americans in games, TV shows, and movies as of late, most people that aren't familiar with many of the actors from across the pond assume they're American. Britons who essay an American accent will usually opt to make the accent "colorful", and preferably Eastern. Expect to hear something along the lines of a) "salty" New Englander; b) Connecticut "blue-blood"; c) New Yorker, typically of the "Brooklyn" variety; or d) Southern, usually something from Georgia or the Carolinas but occasionally Appalachian, Ozark, or even Texan. This is because the Eastern accents share many phonetic quirks with British dialects, such as the broadening of vowels or the dropping of "r's." It is rare to hear one of these actors attempt, say, a California accent - but it is not unheard of. In those cases, overcorrection of final "r"s is a common tell ("picture" pronounced "pickshurr", say). Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Note that this trope does not apply to non-American actors who are not trying to disguise their accent or origin. Nor should it apply to foreign-born actors raised in America such as Natalie Portman or Mila Kunis, as long as they don't have to fake an accent. America is a nation of immigrants after all, and it isn't all that unusual to meet people who were born or raised overseas, or natural-born Americans who carry an accent from growing up in an ethnic neighborhood. Expect such situations to be Lampshaded, however, especially if the actor in question has a relatively heavy accent, like Arnold Schwarzenegger (who, for the record, does not qualify for this trope because while he was born in Austria, he is now a naturalized American). Note also that the majority of Canada is within the USA's dialect continuum, thus most Canadian actors have absolutely no difficulty faking being a generic American (it's when the accent required isn't a generic one that this comes into play). Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })A version of Fake Nationality, along with Fake Brit and Fake Irish. If the character is called upon to "fake" the accent that's really theirs, it's a case of Lampshade Hanging, of the sub-type How's Your British Accent?. Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping is quite common, and a few careless examples end up Not Even Bothering with the Accent. This can also be done within the United States, if an American is expected to speak with a very distinctive accent other than their own, e.g. actors with "neutral"note the default American accent is usually assumed to be Iowan, or perhaps Nebraskan accents doing a Minnesota or Georgia accent. |
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Edge is also Canadian (and Sean Morley's ex-brother-in-law, for that matter), but always tried to do an American accent when playing a heel. As a face, he generally spoke in his native accent. | |
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Patlabor's Kanuka Clancy is supposed to be a NYC cop of Hawaiian descent, but her voice actor's awkward, heavily accented English says otherwise. | |
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Jessica Lee Rose of lonelygirl15 adopted an American accent for the character Bree. Occasional lapses into her New Zealand accent prompted early speculation on whether or not the blog was a hoax. Jessica was born in the USA (Salisbury, Maryland) but moved to New Zealand at age 8. | |
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Similarly, MasakoX (English) in Naruto: The Abridged Series. Masako also plays a fake Canadian (Rock Lee, eh?). | |
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Hiroshi Fukuda, aka Trans*Am Hiroshi of DDT and BASARA. He doesn't do an accent or speak English but is said to be American, often even wearing an American flag bodysuit. For some reason he's also lightly inspired by Curt Hennig, using both the Perfectplex finisher and the name "Mr. Perfect." | |
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Iggy Azalea's dirty South accent in her rapping is apparently pretty good, but it's also extremely divisive among hip-hop fans. Her real accent is rural Australian. | |
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The English Dub for Mad Bull 34 was done by a British company, thus the voice actors speak in really cheesy (and profanity-laden) New Yorker accents. | |
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Revy in Black Lagoon is a Chinese-American, born in New York. In the episodes set in Japan, she gets a few lines in thickly-accented and stilted English, laden with profanity.note This is why the dub is preferred by many fans; Revy actually has an American accent...sort of—Maryke Hendrikse, like everyone else in the dub's vocal cast, is Canadian. | |
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Deliberately invoked in the dub for Video Girl Ai, which was recorded by The Ocean Group in Vancover. An omake for one episode in the original Japanese had the seiyuu re-record a scene using thick Osaka accents. The dub adapted this to the voice actors acting like they were from the Deep South. They're... not that good at it. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: Australian Emily Browning in The Film of the Book. | |
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Celtic Championship Wrestling had DOC, who claimed to be from Texas, but was actually from Cork (with the accent slippage to prove it). Upon a Face–Heel Turn, he dropped the accent. | |
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Justice League: Doom sees British Paul Blackthorne and Olivia D Abo as Metallo and Star Sapphire respectively. D'Abo had earlier voiced Star Sapphire Justice League, only using her natural accent. | |
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For whatever reason, Yoji Anjo appeared in Fighting Opera HUSTLE speaking Japanese with a thick American accent and even at times slipping into Poirot Speak. He also wore a Mardi Gras mask and was called "An Joe"; it's HUSTLE, just go with it. The joke, evidently, is that everybody knows Yoji Anjo (a semi-notable figure in Japanese wrestling) is not American and never lived in the United States. | |
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In the comicbook Preacher, an Irish vampire on one occasion impersonates his Texan friend, le stories. | |
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The Florida Brothers late of Dragon Gate. Taku Iwasa and Raimu Mishima took Western names (becoming Michael Iwasa and Daniel Mishima), dyed their hair blond, wore American flag patterned singlets, and engaged in acts of cheating commonly seen in mainstream American wrestling. They were later joined by Johnson and Jackson Florida, who were also played by Japanese wrestlers (Takayuki Yagi and Koji Shishido, respectively) but at least wore masks. | |
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He did the same thing, albeit more successfully, in Disney's dub of The Cat Returns as the Cat King. In an interview included with the film, Curry says he played the Cat King as "an unreconstructed hippie". | |
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Tim Curry in The Pebble and the Penguin as Drake, doing what is supposed to be a Californian surfer accent. He did the same thing, albeit more successfully, in Disney's dub of The Cat Returns as the Cat King. In an interview included with the film, Curry says he played the Cat King as "an unreconstructed hippie". |
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The very English Cary Elwes plays against type by providing a Texas accent to Donald Curtis in the Disney dub of Porco Rosso. YMMV on the results. | |
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The vocalists of Alabama 3 are white Brits who do reasonably good impressions of southern African-American accents; on the album version of The Sopranos' theme "Woke Up This Morning", if it wasn't for some distinctly British pronunciations in the opening monologue, you'd never notice. | |
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