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* Doctor Bashir from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. Mostly notable in the episode where we meet his parents (at the same time as revealing his intelligence was augmented), who do not share his flavour of British accent at all.[[note]]It's more the accent we'd identify as "Cockney Jewish", ie east-end London with an eastern Mediterranean flavour[[/note]]

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* Doctor ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Julian Bashir from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. Mostly is a medical doctor who speaks with a Received Pronunciation accent. It's mostly notable in the episode where we meet his parents (at the same time as revealing his intelligence was augmented), who do not share his flavour of British accent at all.[[note]]It's more the accent we'd identify as "Cockney Jewish", ie i.e. east-end London with an eastern Mediterranean flavour[[/note]]
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* In the RomanceNovel ''Whisper To Me Of Love'', the hero realizes that the heroine and her brothers are smarter than they let on when he overhears them speaking the King's English perfectly rather than the cockney accents they initially used when they first met him. She later tells him that their mother insisted on them learning to speak and act properly so that they could infiltrate high society as necessary.
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scare quotes, really? I get not liking the dic terms ("sailor scouts" is kinda dumb) but that's not necessary


* The Creator/DiC dub version of Sailor Mercury from ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is given an accent that is at least slightly English. Luna also would fit in the dub since she's an intelligent MentorMascot who does a lot of strategy planning for the "Scouts" and is generally portrayed as more intelligent than Artemis.

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* The Creator/DiC dub version of Sailor Mercury from ''Anime/SailorMoon'' is given an accent that is at least slightly English. Luna also would fit in the dub since she's (Her original voice actor, before she was [[TheOtherDarrin recast]], was actually English, and later voice actors had to imitate her accent -- to varying degrees of success, of course.) Luna, an intelligent MentorMascot who does a lot of strategy planning for the "Scouts" Scouts and is generally portrayed as more intelligent than Artemis.Artemis, also has a British accent.



* The Creator/FourKidsEntertainment dub of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' gives Bakura a posh English accent primarily as an AccentAdaptation of his polite speech patterns in Japanese, but he's also apparently fairly smart, given that he spends most of the Duelist Kingdom arc as the apparently most clued-in CombatCommentator for most of the duels, at least in the dub, and explains whatever is going on to the other non-duelists like he's usually the first to have figured it out. (After Duelist Kingdom, [[DemotedToExtra you're not going to see much of him]] in the anime anyway.)

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* The Creator/FourKidsEntertainment dub of ''Anime/YuGiOh'' gives Bakura a posh English accent primarily as an AccentAdaptation of his polite speech patterns in Japanese, but he's also apparently fairly smart, given that he spends most of the Duelist Kingdom arc as the apparently most clued-in CombatCommentator for most of the duels, at least in the dub, and explains whatever is going on to the other non-duelists like he's usually the first to have figured it out. (After Duelist Kingdom, [[DemotedToExtra you're not going to see much of him]] in the anime anyway.)
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* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Dr. Fareed Bhansali is a medical doctor who talks with a Received Pronunciation accent.
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* Averted with Kevin from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNmugxejn_U ''C STUDENTS'']]. He is probably the least intelligent character in the setting.

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* Averted with Kevin from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNmugxejn_U ''C STUDENTS'']]. "C STUDENTS."]] He is probably the least intelligent character in the setting.
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* [[ConversedTrope Conversed]] and [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. Michael's [[FourthDateMarriage fiancée]] Rita is English, and he's smitten by her fun-loving personality and accent. [[spoiler:In actuality, she's intellectually disabled.]] The reason he and his family don't seem to pick up on this is because they're listening to her ''accent'', not her ''words''. Indeed, her uncle suggest that most Americans have trouble noticing.

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* [[ConversedTrope Conversed]] {{Conversed|Trope}} and [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] {{Subverted|Trope}} in ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. Michael's [[FourthDateMarriage fiancée]] Rita is English, and he's smitten by her fun-loving personality and accent. [[spoiler:In actuality, she's intellectually disabled.]] The reason he and his family don't seem to pick up on this is because they're listening to her ''accent'', not her ''words''. Indeed, her uncle suggest that most Americans have trouble noticing.



* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': The cultured high-men of Numenor speak with the PR accent, in contrast to the rustic low men of the Southlands, who speak with Northern English accents.

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* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': The cultured high-men of Numenor speak with the PR RP accent, in contrast to the rustic low men of the Southlands, who speak with Northern English accents.
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* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': The cultured high-men of Numenor speak with the PR accent, in contrast to the rustic low men of the Southlands, who speak with Northern English accents.
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* Subverted and parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad''. Steve befriends an English boy who turns out to be a complete idiot whose ideas end up with Steve getting hurt. Steve still ends up following all his stupid advice because his accent makes him sound so smart.
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* The Creator/FourKidsEntertainment version of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' gives Tecna an English accent.

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