History Main / NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent

* Perennial favorite foreign stuntman/actor Creator/MarkMusashi (''Series/CuteyHoneyTheLive'', ''Series/{{GARO}}'', ''{{Series/Sh15uya}}'') makes no attempts to mask the fact that Japanese isn't his first language. He doesn't roll his 'r's, he puts inflections in all the wrong places, and his mouth movements are all wrong. There's a ''reason'' he's usually cast as foreigners and mythical beings.

** In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', Connery played the father of the red-blooded American Creator/HarrisonFord. Connery's character was an immigrant, and, according to ''Series/TheYoungIndianaJonesChronicles'', Indy has his mother's accent, presumably due to how strained his relationship with his father was.

* True to many of the real-life films it's parodying, Seth Meyers' spoof trailer ''Boston Accents'' has this, and invokes it as "[[https://youtu.be/rLwbzGyC6t4?t=1m18s one actor who decided at the last minute not to do a Boston accent at all]]", promptly shown walking across the street saying he's going to "park my car in the Harvard Yard" with all the "r"'s pronounced. The trailer also features the "British actor who's trying his best", who essentially uses a regular British accent with some "wicked smaht"s thrown in.

* In the version of Music/NoahKahan's "Homesick" where he duets with Music/SamFender (from ''Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever)''), Fender's verse has been altered to be about his UsefulNotes/NorthEastEngland background, rather then the usual UsefulNotes/Vermont setting of Kahan's songs. But he still sings "I'm mean because I grew up in New England" in the chorus, in his distinctive Georgie accent.

* In the version of Music/NoahKahan's "Homesick" where he duets with Music/SamFender (from ''Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever)''), Fender sings about growing up in New England in his distinctive Geordie accent.

** The anime shorts WebAnimation/PokemonTwilightWings all take place in Galar, the region based on the United Kingdom. The games reflected this by having characters use actual British slang and their speech mannerisms implied they had accents. Despite all of that and most likely to be consistent with the original anime, the English dub chose to stick with American accents.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Uhura is from Kenya, and her first language is Swahili, yet she speaks in Nichelle Nichols' own American accent. She also sounds American in ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'' as played by Celia Rose Gooding.

* The pilot of ''WesternAnimation/HazbinHotel'' introduces us to [[SpicyLatina Vaggie from El Salvador,]] Alastor from New Orleans, and [[AwesomeAussie Cherri Bomb from Australia]]...although all three speak with generic North American/US/Canada accents. This is somewhat {{Justified|Trope}} with Alastor, who was a professional radio host in the 1920's-1930's, and so would most likely have trained himself to speak less with a Southern accent and more with a "generic American" accent. The series proper would see the characters be recast, with Cherri's new voice appropriately having an Australian Accent. Alastor's would remain the same, as would Vaggie's, but hers is given a different justification, namely [[spoiler:that she's not a Sinner from El Salvador, she's a FallenAngel.]]

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* The pilot of ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' introduces us to [[SpicyLatina Vaggie from El Salvador,]] Alastor from New Orleans, and [[AwesomeAussie Cherri Bomb from Australia]]...although all three speak with generic North American/US/Canada accents. This is somewhat {{Justified}} with Alastor, who was a professional radio host in the 1920's-1930's, and so would most likely have trained himself to speak less with a Southern accent and more with a "generic American" accent.
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** Commander Worf was raised (and presumably, taught English) by a heavily-accented Eastern European couple[[note:possibly Russian, Ukrainian, or Belarusian, going by various hints]], yet has a pretty vanilla American accent. Possibly justified, since he grew up on the colony Gault until he was at least 13, but after moving back to Earth, he claims that he lived close enough to the Urals that his father took him there fairly frequently.

* Played in ''Series/TheVampireDiaries''. Apparently, the show takes place in the part of Virginia where no one has a Southern accent and Matt Davis makes no effort to give Alaric a Boston accent.

* In Creator/RankinBass's ''WesternAnimation/TheWindInTheWillows1985'', while Ratty and most of the secondary characters have appropriate British accents, the voice actors of Mole, Toad, and Badger don't seem to attempt such.

* In Creator/RankinBass's ''WesternAnimation/TheWindInThevWillows1985'', while Ratty and most of the secondary characters have appropriate British accents, the voice actors of Mole, Toad, and Badger don't seem to attempt such.

* ''WesternAnimation/CastlevaniaNocturne'' has Richer and Maria, who despite growing up in France and the latter having parents with accents (her mother Tera, Russian [[spoiler:her father Abbot Emmanuel, french]]) both have british accents instead of french ones.

* ''Series/OnePiece2023'' has Luffy played by Iñaki Godoy using his natural Mexican accent while Sanji played by Taz Skylar and Garp played by Vincent Regan use their natural British and Scottish accents respectively rather than having American accents like Zoro, Nami and Usopp. In Garp's case it is rather strange, since Luffy is explicitly his grandson, unless Dragon or Luffy's MissingMom are also played by Mexicans. For Sanji it's hilariously ironic given Oda claimed Sanji would be French (England's greatest rival) if he existed in RealLife and he still shouts his French-named attacks while fighting.

Compare with OohMeAccentsSlipping and WhatTheHellIsThatAccent. Also compare with MisplacedAccent, where they ''do'' bother with the accent, just the wrong accent. See also PeriodPieceModernLanguage, where the writers have characters speak in modern slang regardless of time period (aka "not even bothering with the historical way of speaking").

** Commander Worf was raised (and presumably, taught English) by a heavily-accented Russian couple, yet has a pretty vanilla American accent. Possibly justified, since he grew up on the colony Gault until he was at least 13, but after moving back to Earth, he claims that he lived close enough to the Urals that his father took him there fairly frequently.

** The same can be said with their dubs of ''Manga/DGrayMan'' and ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' which feature several European characters but none speak in an accent from their respective countries (including their titular characters Allen and Index who are supposedly British but have no any instance of a British accent at all).
*** Although, it is justified in ''D. Gray Man'', as it takes place in an alternate 19th century ([[AnachronismStew and because of how it's presented]], people will forget that this takes place in 19th century Europe at all).

** The English dub of ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' never bother giving the foreigners in the MultinationalTeam any accents. This is most likely because NationalStereotypes isn't the plot point of the series and the fact that the characters speaking here are [[{{Moe}} cute teenage girls]].

** Their dub of ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' completely subverts this as it takes place during the Great Depression in America and is a serious mob story. Everyone has very convincing American accents and is surprisingly diverse: Ladd Russo, who's based in Chicago, has a Chicago accent. Firo Prochainezo and most of the others have New York accents. Claire Stanfield, Nice Holystone and Graham Specter all have Jersey accents. Isaac Dian has an Appalachian or Southern accent, and Miria Harvent has a rather modern Midwestern accent. On the other hand, Jacuzzi Splot has a very, ''very'' faint New York accent. But it's there.
** ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' is another subversion due to it being a show about NationsAsPeople (complete with NationalStereotypes).

** Like Funimation, they too sometimes avert this trope with shows like ''Anime/PrincessPrincipal'' where like ''Black Butler'' and ''Moriarty the Patriot'', take place in Britain (or at least an alternate one) and most of the characters (specifically those who are British) were given British accents. Hell, even the Japanese characters were given Japanese accents in the dub.

* The dubbed version of ''Literature/InfiniteStratos'' gives the international characters accents from their nations of origin (in some cases, Laura and Charlotte using GratuitousGerman and [[GratuitousFrench French]], respectively), but in the original sub, accents aren't used at all.

** Their dub of ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' completely subverts this as it takes place during the Great Depression in America and is a serious mob story. Everyone has very convincing American accents and is surprisingly diverse: Ladd Russo, who's based in Chicago, has a Chicago accent. Firo Prochainezo and most of the others have New York accents. Clair Stanfield, Nice Holystone and Graham Specter all have Jersey accents. Isaac Dian has an Appalachian or Southern accent, and Miria Harvent has a rather modern Midwestern accent. On the other hand, Jacuzzi Splot has a very, ''very'' faint New York accent. But it's there.

** Like Funimation, they too sometimes avert this trope with shows like ''Anime/PrincessPrincipal'' where like ''Black Butler'' and ''Moriarty the Patriot'', take place in Britain (or at least an alternate one) and the characters were given British accents. Hell, even the Japanese characters were given Japanese accents in the dub.

** ''Samurai Champloo'', on the other hand, is entirely based on RuleOfCool and thus doesn't care about it.

** Like Funimation, they too sometimes avert this trope with shows like ''Anime/PrincessPrincipal'' where like ''Black Butler'' and ''Moriarty the Patriot'', take place in Britain (or at least an alternate one) and have characters be given British accents. Hell, even the Japanese characters were given Japanese accents in the dub.

** ''VideoGame/XCOM2'' gives you the option to have soldiers speak their own language instead of English, avoiding the need for an accent at all...unless they're from a non-European country, in which case they don't have their language in the game and are automatically assigned English without a proper accent.