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* All of the Trolls in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' have fangs, but Sollux is the only one that has been stated to have a lisp. [[spoiler: He later loses it after Karkat accidentally knocks his fangs out.]] Sollux is also the only one with ''doubled'' incisors (and it is only the incisors, and their counterparts in the lower jaw, that are doubled). [[spoiler: Which is why it vanishes when Karkat accidentally knocks those extra fangs out.]]

* Similar to the example from Homestuck, members of Species X from ''Webcomic/{{DNA}}'' have mouths full of sharp teeth but only one of them, named Orion talks like this, and he gets picked on for it. His teeth stick out noticeably more than the rest of the Xs'.

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* Many of the Klingons and Ferengi on ''Franchise/StarTrek'''s various series. Particularly noticeable when recurring actors had to wear the makeup -- such as in the episodes of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' where Odo, Sisko, and O'Brien go undercover as Klingons. O'Brien even points it out. And Michael Dorn (who played Worf, a Klingon, for at least 13 years) found their plight rather amusing.

--'''Anthony Ainely''' [[http://drwhointerviews.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/anthony-ainley-1991/ on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival}} "Survival"]]

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* Many kids in the ''{{Asterix}}'' comics speak like this, including kid-ified versions of most of the main cast during the Flashback story ''How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion''.

* Mooch the cat in ''{{Mutts}}''. He has a speech impediment that causes him to insert an sh into words when he "shpeaks", such as yesh (yes), shmilk (milk), and shmousie (mousie).
* In CalvinAndHobbes, Calvin mentions that Sabre Tooth Tigers probably did this.

* Creator/TimBurton's PlanetOfTheApes fell into this with a lot of the ape actors. TimRoth had it particularly bad, and his character's name was Thade. That's rough.

* {{Lampshaded}} in ''Literature/RedDragon'', particularly the book. Dolarhyde has a corrected harelip and cleft palate and avoids sibilant words, for example, always using "Mmm-hmm" instead of "Yes."

* Betsy Taylor in MaryJanice Davidson's ''Undead and Unwed'' thpeakth like thith.
* Vargo Hoat from ''ASongOfIceAndFire''. He's a normal human, but monstrous in morality and LaughablyEvil.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/{{Angel}}''. In the DVD commentary for the first season of ''Buffy'', Josh Whedon explains that the prosthetic fangs the actors wear make particular sounds [[SpeechImpediment difficult to pronounce properly]]. The makeup artists and the actors learned a few tricks to get around this; custom prosthetics for major characters eased this problem. Whedon even invoked this trope in the first season ''Buffy'' DVD commentary by apologizing to one of his guest-stars for making him use the phrase "excruciating loser" in full vamp-face.
** Juliette Landau wore her fangs for an extended period before taking up the role of Drusilla specifically to learn how to speak properly with them. Unfortunately, guest vamps lacked the time for this and some had more trouble than others.
* Many of the Klingons and Ferengi on ''Franchise/StarTrek'''s various series. Particularly noticable when recurring actors had to wear the makeup -- such as in the episodes of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' where Odo, Sisko, and O'Brien go undercover as Klingons. O'Brien even points it out. And Michael Dorn (who played Worf, a Klingon, for at least 13 years) found their plight rather amusing.

* Not so much in the show TrueBlood (although it does happen) but in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEqk3MwnX_4 parody video]] of the show.

* ''TheMuppetMovie'': "It's a myth! A MYTH!"

* ''VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' has a few examples that make you wonder whether the VA was wearing prosthetics, among the youngest of the vampires.

* All of the Trolls in ''{{Homestuck}}'' have fangs, but Sollux is the only one that has been stated to have a lisp. [[spoiler: He later loses it after Karkat accidentally knocks his fangs out.]]
** Sollux is also the only one with ''doubled'' incisors (and it is only the incisors, and their counterparts in the lower jaw, that are doubled). [[spoiler: Which is why it vanishes when Karkat accidentally knocks those extra fangs out.]]

* JustForFun/TropeTan, in ''TheWayOfTheMetagamer'', lisps occasionally due to her CuteLittleFang.

* the Jagermonsters in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' show enormous fangs when they speak or smile, some even have tusks, but for reasons somewhere between plot development and RuleOfFunny, they speak with FunetikAksent - cod-German or East European, in their case. The harshness of the accent ''could'' be put down to the fangs, but the handful of Jagers without these dental excesses talk the same way, so it seems to be cultural.
* ''Wapthi Thquare'', uh, WapsiSquare: Monica [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/thankth-to-you/ ekthperientheth]] a temporary(?) bout of this as a result of [[spoiler: her Jaguar Girl identity coming to the fore in the Bibliothiki]].

* Penny from ''ChalkZone''.

* [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Phineas]] gets this when he dresses as a vampire for Halloween.

* A common result of wearing ordinary non-fang dentures, Sean Connery's distinctive speech being a notable example.

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* The Cat on RedDwarf suffers a little bit of this from time to time.
* ''{{Supernatural}}''. Spoofed in "LARP And The Real Girl" when a [=LARPer=] dressed as an orc has his false fangs fall out in the middle of a slurred BadassBoast. As he's held in the stocks, someone else has to put them back in for him.

Here's the technical explanation for why it happens: False teeth tend to cause sibilants (''s'', soft ''c'', like the first ''c'' in "circus", and sometimes ''z'') to be mispronounced because the prosthetics force a change in the position of the tongue. Interdentals (''th'') are made by the tongue going against the upper incisors - sibilants are more likely to be mispronounced as interdentals when the '''incisors''' are altered or missing, as with fake buck teeth or missing front teeth [[note]]hence the stereotypical gap-toothed child's lisp.[[/note]] More common with prosthetic '''fangs''' are for the sibilants to become post-alveolar fricatives (''sh''), caused by the tongue being forced back by the wider and longer ''canines''. For example, listen to anything The Master says in ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' season one. When he comments, "Nice dress", he pronounces it "Nishe dresh", not "Nithe dreth".

* ''The WNUF Halloween Special'' has a scene where a costumed audience outside of a haunted house is being asked about the house's history. A tall, scared-looking man in a vampire costume, complete with cheap plastic fangs, says, "Shomebody died in thish houshe?"

* TimBurton's PlanetOfTheApes fell into this with a lot of the ape actors. TimRoth had it particularly bad, and his character's name was Thade. That's rough.

** Angua of the City Watch and other werewolves speak like this mid-way to becoming a wolf (when the half-moon is out), due to elongated fangs.

* Beth from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'' had this is season one, because she had braces.

* ''{{Supernatural}}''. Spoofed in "LARP And The Real Girl" when a [=LARPer=] has his false fangs fall out in the middle of a somewhat slurred BadassBoast. As he's held in the stocks, someone else has to put them back in for him.

* the Jagermonsters in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' show enormous fangs when they speak or smile, some even have tusks, but for reasons somewhere between plot development and RuleOfFunny, they speak with FunetikAksent - cod-German or East European, in their case.