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* Henry Mallett in ''{{Spirited}}'', whose appearance appears to have been based off a combination of Adam Ant and [[Music/TheRollingStones Keith Richards]].

One particular trait is that they're likely to avert IAmVeryBritish, opting for a [[LondonTown cockney]] or [[OopNorth Northern accent]] (usually Liverpudlian or Mancunian, thanks to the existence of famous rock bands from those cities).

* ''Film/StillCrazy'': The story concerns Strange Fruit, a fictiobal British Rock band, led by Creator/BillNighy

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch "Needs More Cowbell" has the British producer/rock star [[ChristopherWalken Bruce Dickinson]] (not to be confused with [[Music/IronMaiden the real]] Music/BruceDickinson, who is also British).

* Once on ''Series/QuantumLeap'' Sam leaped into a British Rock Star, whose band had taken up Music/{{KISS}}esque facial makeup as a gimmick. He has a stalker who claims to be his son from a tryst with his mother 16 years previous (which would make this band a popular British band in America [[TheBritishInvasion pre-Beatles]]).

* ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' "Mel's Rock Pile" has punk band The Queen Haters playing "I Hate the Bloody Queen", which underwhelms the AmericanBandstand style audience.

** In ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'', you must escort Love Fist, a Scottish band that is very similar to [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap Spinal Tap]] around.
** In ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]]'' you meet up with two characters associated with a band who are largely parodies of this trope (though their style leans more towards pre-Britpop, like Music/TheStoneRoses, Music/{{Suede}} and Music/HappyMondays). The lead singer's name is [[Music/TheBeatles Maccer]] (he even wears a Reni hat).
** ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories Liberty City Stories]]'' has Crow, an ahead-of-his-time, egotistical humanitarian crusader.
* ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' has heavy rockers named Jeanna Slick, Floyd Stone, and Allen Ash who are members of the band Angel Lust. The trio mistook the zombie horde for fans. Well it's not that much of a stretch to be fair. They had such lines as "Oi mate get off the bloody stage" and "Zombies? Blimey!" They even destroy a crowd of zombies through the Power of Rock.
* Death Metal from ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' was one of these before he became the 10th ranked assassin in the UAA..

* Fred Armisen's Ian Rubbish of Ian and the Bizarros (Mentioned in Television above) has subsequently appeared in several web videos, released a few parody songs and interviewed Music/TheClash.

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* In ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'', England invokes this trope in his character songs and versions of "Maru Kaite Chikyuu" and "Hatefutte Parade", all of which have distinctly rock feel to them.
** Just look at the front cover of his [[http://www.horror-vacui.net/hetarchive/images/images/other/character_cd_covers/englandcdcover.jpg Character CD]].

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* There are several examples in the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' series.

* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', a future version of Mordecai and Rigby, who are famous rock stars, speak in vaguely Liverpudlian accents despite being American.
** It turns out that it's fake.

* Punk Rocket from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', who was the villain in the Lost Episode.

* Jetta, the [[SixthRanger later addition]] to The Misfits on ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''. She's apparently [[AmericansHateTingle not popular in her home turf]] but is a part of one of the most popular bands in America. Jetta honestly doesn't like going back to Britain either.
* Angus Scattergood from ''WesternAnimation/RockDog'' is a FunnyAnimal version of this trope.

** ''SNL'' marked {{Margaret Thatcher}}'s death with a sketch about Ian Rubbish, a fictional British punk rocker who confounded his bandmates by writing ''pro''-Thatcher songs.

** Self-parody, because when you substitute "comedian" for "rock star", a lot of Aldous Snow's character is like that of RussellBrand.

TheBritishInvasion helped cement British artists as big players in the international market. As such many bands or singers found in American media will turn out British. They're generally of the Metal or Rock genre with [[ImpossiblyTackyClothes horrible fashion sense]], who [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll take lots of drugs, drink lots of booze]], have [[TheCasanova incredibly high sexual tallies]] (often [[AnythingThatMoves going for the weird stuff]], too), [[TrashTheSet trash hotel rooms]] and [[ApplianceDefenestration throw TVs out the window]], and are either indifferent or throwing themselves behind [[CharityMotivationSong whatever good cause]] [[ProtestSong might be available]]. Pierced nose and spiky mohawk optional.

* AngusScattergood from ''WesternAnimation/RockDog'' is a FunnyAnimal version of this trope.

* Very early example - the Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures movie ''Bikini Beach'' (1964) had Frankie Avalon playing pop star Potato Bug (a ShallowParody of a [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishInvasion British Invasion]] pop star) in very cringe-worthy IAmVeryBritish mode (apparently all Britons acted like Creator/TerryThomas at the time.)

* Very early example - the Creator/AmericanInternationalPictures movie ''Bikini Beach'' (1964) had Frankie Avalon playing pop star Potato Bug in very cringe-worthy IAmVeryBritish mode (apparently all Britons acted like Terry-Thomas at the time.)

* Stillwater in ''Film/AlmostFamous'' is this trope applied to an American band (given its main inspiration was Music/LedZeppelin...).

* ''Film/GetCrazy'' - among the players at a New Years Eve show at a venerable ballroom venue is jaded MickJagger expy Reggie Wanker, played by Malcolm Mc Dowell.
* ''Film/StillCrazy'': The story concerns Strange Fruit, a fictiobal British Rock band, led by BillNighy
* Film/BillNighy took on a strikingly similar role to the above in the better known ''Film/LoveActually'' as [[TheDanza Billy Mack.]]

* Fred Armisen's Ian Rubbish of Ian and the Bizarros (Mentioned in Television above) has subsequently appeared in several web videos, released a few parody songs and interviewed TheClash.

* ''{{SCTV}}'' "Mel's Rock Pile" has punk band The Queen Haters playing "I Hate the Bloody Queen", which underwhelms the AmericanBandstand style audience.

** In ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'', you must escort Love Fist, a Scottish band that is very similar to SpinalTap around.

** There's also Spiggy Topes of Spiggy Topes and the Turds (later "[[KnightFever Sir Spigismond Topes]]") who is essentially a combined parody of every fading sixties rock star. Unusual in that this RunningGag actually started at the time of the British Invasion itself, so it has carried on in real time with the real thing.

* Screamin' Lord Byron in the music video/short film ''Jazzin' for Blue Jean'' (1984) may be far more glamorous than the norm, but he still lives a wild lifestyle (when your entourage has oxygen tanks and B12 vitamins at the ready...), can be snobby to the help, and despite his super-smooth posturing is a quivering wreck when the protagonist, who is trying to maintain a CelebrityLie, literally falls into his dressing room. And [[Main/ActingForTwo both characters]] are played by DavidBowie, [[Main/AdamWesting an actual rock star from Britain who had infamously wild days in the 1970s]] and TheRockStar, period.

* Aldous Snow in ''ForgettingSarahMarshall'' and ''GetHimToTheGreek''. Snow is interesting in that he combines [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggeration]], [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], and SelfParody:

** In ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]]'' you meet up with two characters associated with a band who are largely parodies of this trope (though their style leans more towards pre-Britpop, like TheStoneRoses, Music/{{Suede}} and HappyMondays). The lead singer's name is [[Music/TheBeatles Maccer]] (he even wears a Reni hat).

* In ''RegularShow'', a future version of Mordecai and Rigby, who are famous rock stars, speak in vaguely Liverpudlian accents despite being American.

TheBritishInvasion helped cement British artists as big players in the international market. As such many bands or singers found in American media will turn out British. They're generally of the Metal or Rock genre with horrible fashion sense, [[SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll take lots of drugs, drink lots of booze]], have [[TheCasanova incredibly high sexual tallies]] (often [[AnythingThatMoves going for the weird stuff]], too), [[TrashTheSet trash hotel rooms]] and [[ApplianceDefenestration throw TVs out the window]], and are either indifferent or throwing themselves behind [[CharityMotivationSong whatever good cause]] [[ProtestSong might be available]]. Pierced nose and spiky mohawk optional.

* Jetta, the [[SixthRanger later addition]] to The Misfits on ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''. She's apparently [[AmericansHateTingle popular in her home turf]] but is a part of one of the most popular bands in America. Jetta honestly doesn't like going back to Britain either.

* ''SaturdayNightLive'' sketch "Needs More Cowbell" has the British producer/rock star [[ChristopherWalken Bruce Dickinson]] (not to be confused with [[Music/IronMaiden the real]] Music/BruceDickinson, who is also British).

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* In Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia, England invokes this trope in his character songs and versions of "Maru Kaite Chikyuu" and "Hatefutte Parade", all of which have distinctly rock feel to them.