History Main / SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish

* Comicbook/DoctorDoom in the second season of ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFour''; in the first series, he was vaguely Eastern European.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' (and by extension the spin-off ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}''), it is implied that Lucifer speaks this way; after quitting Hell, he relaxes on a beach in Australia and the man he's talking to asks him if he's a "pom" (Australian slang for a British person). Given that Lucifer doesn't come from any earthly country, nor has he pretended to do so for the purposes of disguise in this scene, it seems likely that his voice sounds British, and given his sophisticated vocabulary and general mannerisms, it would be somewhat jarring if he ''didn't'' speak the Queen's English. Overlaps with [[EvilBrit Evil, (or at least amoral, selfish, arrogant and ruthless,) Brit]].

* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'': The elderly Professor Charles Xavier is played by Creator/PatrickStewart while the younger version is portrayed by Creator/JamesMcAvoy. The character is half-British through his mother's side, and his posh accent was further refined after living for several years in Oxford, England, where he had earned his doctorate in genetics.

** Charles Xavier has an upper-class English accent (he's a full-blooded [[AdaptationalNationality Englishman]] in the show); Farouk recognizes him as a scientist, and there's a scene where the former is building Cerebro, a {{Telepathy}}-enhancing mutant-detection device, from scratch.

** Charles Xavier has an upper-class English accent (he's a full-blooded [[AdaptationalNationality Englishman]] in the show); Farouk recognizes him as a scientist, and there's a scene where the former is building Cerebro, a {{Telepathy}}-enhancing device, from scratch.

* ''Series/Legion2017'':

This doesn't apply to brainy RP-speaking characters who are in a setting where everyone is British unless it's obvious that only the smart characters speak with this accent and the others all have regional British accents (eg. Cockney, OopNorth, etc). The examples are in two groups, with one being characters who actually ARE stated to be from England within the story and the other being characters who are not, yet still have the Received Pronunciation accent.

If the character is neither American nor British, he/she can be made to sound intelligent without being given the above dialect, [[TheQueensLatin but many writers and dramatists simply don't bother]]. In this context it is worth recalling that until the late 20th century e. g. most continental European schools taught an English pronunciation very much like RP and that is probably still the most frequently taught accent, even if some teachers will use e. g. Standard American.

* ''Series/Legion2017'': Charles Xavier has an upper-class English accent (he's a full-blooded [[AdaptationalNationality Englishman]] in the show); Farouk recognizes him as a scientist, and there's a scene where the former is building Cerebro, a {{Telepathy}}-enhancing device, from scratch.

** Curiously, when a spell makes him behave like a surly teen, he speaks in a working class accent. In an earlier episode, he relates how, as a youth, he rebelled against his upbringing and fell in with 'the worst crowd that would have me' - so which accent was the put-on is up for debate.

* Jemma Simmons in ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' speaks RP, or at least attempts to. Simmons, a biochemical scientist, is described as a genius, along with her partner Leopold Fitz (who, like Iain De Caestecker, is Scottish). As Elizabeth Henstridge is Yorkshire-born (i.e. from OopNorth) she makes a commendable effort with Simmons's RP accent and SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, although it occasionally slips.

* The Creator/4Kids 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.)

* Arguably, Stewie from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. There's some controversy as to whether his accent is supposed to be British or Bostonian Brahmin (e.g., Charles Emerson Winchester III from ''Series/{{Mash}}'', Thurston Howell III from ''Series/GilligansIsland'').
** [[WordOfGod One episode has him explicitly stating that he has a British accent.]]

** Roose Bolton is a clean-shaven SoftSpokenSadist speaking RP in a sea of [[BadassBeard bearded]] LargeHam [[OopNorth northmen with northern accents]], which sets him apart from all the other Stark bannermen. (This was presumably a deliberate choice, as the actor Michael [=McElhatton=] is Irish.)

->'''[[Creator/GavinFree Woody]]:''' Pardon me, old chap. I have a question…
->'''[[Creator/MichaelJones Zach]]:''' Why the hell does he sound British now?!
->'''Scientist:''' Woody is a stupid person, and that's what stupid people think smart people sound like.
->'''Woody:''' Fair play.

* In the UK dub of ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'', the HigherTechSpecies High Entia all speak the queen's English, in contrast to the main characters' middle- and working class accents that are typical of Homs. Reyn even lampshades it upon first meeting one, remarking on her 'posh accent' ([[FridgeLogic how he would even know it's a posh accent when none of his own species speaks it is another matter]]).

* Puzzlemint from ''MyLittlePony'' (the G3 series).

* 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.

* Frasier and Niles in ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' both have a sort of Americanized version of RP. There is a logic to this, in that it is established that both their characters are theater trained from their prep school and college days -- are clearly nerdy about the theater (and, of course, the theater in academia is a context where, traditionally, such accents are quite literally "received"). They are also both deliberately "high cultured" -- they have striven to this all their lives and the overly chaste RP is part of that aspiration/affection. To that point, Niles admits to Daphne in the pilot episode that he is "quite the anglophile".

* Comicbook/DoctorDoom in the second season of ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFour''.

* ''WesternAnimation'': Parmon Sean is TheSamrtGuy of Penn Racing and speaks with a British accent.

* Notable subversion/playing around of this trope is Charlize Theron's character from ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''. Her English accent is (according to the narrator) the reason that people don't figure out that she's [[spoiler: mentally retarded]]. Of course, Theron isn't even English (she's South African, but is a naturalized American), which is of course lampshaded in the show.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': The schoolteacher in the far future speaks with an English accent.

* Averted with Kevin from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNmugxejn_U ''C STUDENTS'']]. He is probably the least intelligent character in the setting.
* T.N. Honey from ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' (she basically speaks only in stereotypical English phrases)

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'': Scar (also doubles as EvilBrit).

* Jemma Simmons in "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.", an American television show with a large British audience, speaks RP, or at least attempts to. Simmons, a biochemical scientist, is described as a genius, along with her partner Leopold Fitz (who, by the way, is Scottish). As the actress who plays her is Yorkshire-born (i.e. from OopNorth) she makes a commendable effort with her character's RP accent and SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, although it occasionally slips.

* Scar from ''Disney/TheLionKing'' (also doubles as EvilBrit).

* In ''Toys/TheGrosseryGang'' webseries arc "A Gooey-ful Mind", Egghead gains this accent when he becomes super-smart after an electric shock, and loses it when he's brought back to normal.

* ScoobyDoo in ''[[Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed Monsters Unleashed]]''.