History Main / FangThpeak

* Mr. Scarface in ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' comics had this problem, pronouncing all 'B's as 'G's. This was because he was actually a ventriloquist dummy who was the split personality of Arnold Wesker (appropriately titled the Ventriloquist), and Batman has used it to figure out his identity a few times when Scarface was trying to pretend he was somebody not made of wood. This speech impediment was not carried over to Scarface's appearances in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' or ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', since it was deemed too awkward.

** Cribbins, from ''Discworld/MakingMoney,'' talksh like thish due to the poorly-fitting dentures he stole from a man just before killing him.
** Cohen the Barbarian had difficulties of this sort in ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'' due to his lack of teeth, but resumed speaking normally after having dentures crafted from a troll's diamond teeth.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' Beth has these in season one because of her braces. She loses it in season two and onwards due to them being removed.

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

* In the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Manga/Claymore'', the monstrous features of Clare's [[OneWingedAngel partially-Awakened form]] include enlarged teeth which force her to speak like this.

* In Living Color has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEnefkpRfHE Fire Marshal Bill]], who's prominent teeth cause him to pronounce

* Any vampire LARPG player who's just gotten a new set of fake fangs tends to lisp slightly until they get used to the elongated incisors.

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* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d 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."

* Vargo Hoat from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. He's a normal human, but monstrous in morality and LaughablyEvil.

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* ''Fanfic/ChrysalisVisitsTheHague'' has a ''bad'' grammatical case of this; It's largely justified when ponies are holding platters and swords in their mouths, but that doesn't explain why any character's speech is reduced to comical 'shlurs' when they have as much as a single cigarette between their lips. Edith's subtler slurring is justified at least, since [[spoiler:a falling rock almost ends up breaking her jaw]].

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* ''Wapthi Thquare'', uh, ''Webcomic/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]].

* Sometimes this trope may be just linguistic, as in certain Spanish dialects. The "official" pronunciation in Spain is the Castilian one, where the soft "c" sound is pronounced "th" as in "thin" rather than "s". So "cero" (zero) would sound like "thero", and "cazador" (hunter) would sound like "cathador," and so on. Ironically, this is the ''least'' common pronunciation -- the southern half of Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of South and Central America mostly use the "s" sound ("sero", "casador"...). And then there is the lower class Andalusian phenomenon of pronouncing every s/z ce/ci as "th". More on this on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceceo Wikipedia]].

* Sometimes this trope may be just linguistic, as in certain Spanish dialects. The "official" pronunciation in Spain is the Castilian one, where the soft "c" sound is pronounced "th" as in "thin" rather than "s". So "cero" (zero) would sound like "thero", and "cazador" (hunter) would sound like "cathador," and so on. Ironically, this is the ''least'' common pronunciation -- the southern half of Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of South and Central America mostly use the "s" sound ("sero", "casador"...). More on this on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceceo Wikipedia]].

* Mametchi from ''VideoGame/{{Tamagotchi}}!'' averts this and VampireVords.

* 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'.

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

* ''Fanfiction/ChrysalisVisitsTheHague'' has a ''bad'' grammatical case of this; It's largely justified when ponies are holding platters and swords in their mouths, but that doesn't explain why any character's speech is reduced to comical 'shlurs' when they have as much as a single cigarette between their lips. Edith's subtler slurring is justified at least, since [[spoiler:a falling rock almost ends up breaking her jaw]].

->''"The teeth, I had to put fangs in. I didn’t want to, but I was told to. I went to an orthodontist, and they put in these fangs, with a bit of plasticine, but I found it very hard to speak, very hard to speak clearly, so I took the bottom ones out after a while. Bad continuity, that."''\\
--'''Anthony Ainely''' [[http://drwhointerviews.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/anthony-ainley-1991/ on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival "Survival"]]

* Another fang-induced lisp is that of the Cafou, a giant, [[TalkingAnimal talking]] [[{{Badass}} sabertoothed cat]] in ''ComicBook/LesLumieresDeLAmalou''.

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