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* In the ''Film/ShortCircuit'' movies, it's surprisingly not [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Number Five]] who has this problem, but rather the [[FunnyForeigner wacky]] [[BollywoodNerd Indian sidekick]] Ben:

** However, Johnny 5 ''does'' exhibit this in ''Short Circuit 2'' after [[spoiler:he is brutally attacked by the bad guys]]...

'''Raimundo:''' What Omi did to that sentence is [[ToThePain what we're going to do to you!]]

* Omi in ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' (and carried into ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinChronicles''), so much it became a RunningGag. The page quote is one time that Raimundo used how badly he mangles phrases into a pre-asskicking ''threat''.

** Everyone, friends and enemies alike, have moments of confusion from the little monk.

'''Wuya:''' Somebody translate!? I'll be up all night!\\

'''Wuya:''' Oh please...that wasn't even close.
** In one episode ''the villain Jack Spicer'' had to translate one of Omi's double-jointed sentences for everyone else.
--->'''Omi:''' ''[to Wuya]'' The jig is down, you are at the top of your rope, spoon over that Wu!\\
''[very, very, VERY long pause and everyone is looking around at each other waiting for someone to say something then cuts to Jack with his finger on his chin thinking]''\\
'''Jack:''' Oh, oh I got it! The jig is up, you are at the end of your rope, fork over the Wu! ''[does a little victory dance and opens his jacket which has a ribbon that says "Evil Genius"]''

'''Raimundo:''' ''No!'' Omi it's on fire, ''on fire!!''

'''Raimundo:''' What Omi did to that sentence is what we're going to do to you!

* {{Subverted}} in ''FanFic/TheDragonKingsTemple''. Over the first several chapters, Zuko and Toph repeatedly and increasingly urgently ask SG1 to "let them see sunlight". SG1, due to encountering this trope frequently among offworlders, assume that this is just a metaphor for feeling confined. It isn't until Zuko collapses and goes into a seizure that they realize that Zuko will actually die if cut off from Sun for too long.

* In ''Literature/CountToTheEschaton'', Menelaus is a little careless in his speech to Oenoe, a member of a race genetically engineered to be [[AnythingThatMoves sexually omnivorous]]:

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' and sequels, Biff does this about once in each movie. An example that he uses just once is "Make like a tree and get outta here." And in the second film, he uses "That's as funny as a screen door on a battleship," to which Marty quips from out of earshot, "Screen door on a submarine, you dork." English isn't his second language though, he's just a dumb side of beef. Even his older self gets fed up with his butcherings of idioms:

* ''Series/PerfectStrangers'''s Balki, due to being a LiteralMinded FunnyForeigner. It's even in one of his {{Catch Phrase}}s, "Get out of the city!" (as opposed to "Get out of town!")

* Hermes, a talking motorcycle from ''LightNovel/KinosJourney'', seems to have this problem a lot (examples include "Vanity is not for the sake of Mothers" and "When in Rome do as tigers do").

--->'''Londo:''' "What are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet...go 'quack'?"\\
'''Vir:''' "Cats."\\
'''Londo:''' "I'm being nibbled to death by cats!"

** The 7th doctor was prone to doing this immediately following his regeneration, although it was dropped after a couple of stories. his first episdoe alone gave us:

--> '''Lee:''' "Hey, after this is over, do you know what I'll do?"
--> '''The Master''', ''visibly irritated'': "''I don't want to know.''"
--> '''Lee''', ''laughing'': "Hah! You kill me."
--> '''The Master''', ''baffled'': "………You ''want'' me to kill you?!"

* The Heavy in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' does this a bit. [[http://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/8/8a/Heavy_laughlong02.wav "Oh, that slaps me on the knee!"]]
** Also, he once covered for the Soldier's job of posting on the official blog. [[http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=5244 He mentions something he calls a "button board"]]... Heavy, do you mean "keyboard"?
** It runs in the family, it seems: In the ''Blood in the Water'' comic, his sister Zhanna thinks assaulting a base "with extreme prejudice" means "be racist at them". Then again, Soldier seemingly made that mistake before.

* Almost everything L'cirufe (or just [[OneLetterName L]] if it please you) says in ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'', mainly because he's self-taught to speak other species' languages [[spoiler: and not relying on Mira's universal translation magic]].

* Omi in ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' (and carried into ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinChronicles''), so much it became a RunningGag. The page quote is one time that Raimundo used how badly he mangles pharsaes into a pre-asskicking ''threat''.