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* Country music singer Mel Tillis has a terrible stutter. Until he sings, that is. This is even the premise for a joke, where someone says that after Mel was having trouble informing someone that they were in danger, someone else told him to just sing it.

* 1990s musician Stuttering John

-->''"W-w-w-w-was th-th-this th-th-the f-f-f-face..."

-->''"Two households! Both alike in dignity, in Fair Verona where we set our scene..."''

* In ''[[Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality WieldingARedSword]]'', Mym (the future Mars, Incarnation of War) has a bad stutter. He learns that he can overcome this by singing his remarks.

* Subverted in ''Film/PansLabyrinth'': [[BigBad Captain VIdal tells a captured resistance fighter with a noticeable stutter that he will let him go if he can count to ''tres'' without stuttering. The man tries his hardest, makes it past ''dos'', but fails and so gets tortured and executed. Of course, knowing Vidal, it probably wouldn't have ended well even if he had succeeded.

* Subverted in ''Film/PansLabyrinth'': the BigBad tells his stuttering prisoner that he will let him go if he can speak without a stutter. The man tries, fails, so gets tortured and executed. Of course, even if he had succeeded, it probably wouldn't have ended well.

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A character has a stutter or a stammer, and it affects how he communicates with others... badly. But then, usually at some key dramatic moment, his stammer disappears and he is able to speak with surprisingly smooth and eloquent diction.

-->'''Necalli:''' ''(After defeating Vega)'' You can never ho...hope to cut me with such a feeble blade.
-->'''Necalli:''' ''(After defeating Ken)'' Give u...up. I'll dr...drink your flames.

* A story posted on [[ImageBoard 4chan]] tells the tale of an autism caretaker witnessing the [[SoBadItsHorrible infernal badness of Sonic Boom]] overpowering the speech impediments of one of his students. [[http://i.imgur.com/D84saHj.png Behold!]]

* In ''We Will Rock You'' the main character Galileo has a heavy stutter that slowly disappears after meeting Scaramouche to the point where she points it out to him before they sing ''Who Wants To Live Forever''

* Used for TheReveal in the first ''Literature/{{Harry Potter|and the Philosophers Stone}}'' book. The villain was p-p-p-poor s-s-stuttering Professor Quirrel all along.

* An advert for Malibu had two beautiful women in a nightclub turning down the advances of various CassanovaWannabe types. A nervous man with a stutter tries his luck by asking if he can buy then a ma-ma-ma-- before smoothly segueing into them DuetBonding over the delights of drinking Malibu.

* ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'', where Wabash can barely speak because of his stammer, and is only included in the play because Phillip Henslowe (the "producer") owes him money. But, after a brief false start, he delivers ''RomeoAndJuliet's'' prologue with perfect eloquence.

* Bill Denbrough from Creator/StephenKing's ''{{It}}''. Both Richie Tozier and Beverly Marsh remark on the fact that "Stuttering Bill doesn't realize that he doesn't, always".

* Subverted in ''Film/PansLabyrinth'': the BigBad tells his stuttering prisoner that he will let him go if he can speak without a stutter. The man tries, fails, so gets tortured and executed.

* Music/TheWho's most famous song "My Generation" from ''Music/TheWhoSingsMyGeneration'' makes use of stuttering while singing, probably the most famous instance in music history:
--> ''Why don't you just all f-f-f-f-fade away!''

* ''ShakespeareInLove'', where Wabash can barely speak because of his stammer, and is only included in the play because Phillip Henslowe (the "producer") owes him money. But, after a brief false start, he delivers ''RomeoAndJuliet's'' prologue with perfect eloquence.
* Subverted in ''PansLabyrinth'': the BigBad tells his stuttering prisoner that he will let him go if he can speak without a stutter. The man tries, fails, so gets tortured and executed.
* Michael Palin's character K-k-k-Ken in ''AFishCalledWanda'' has a terrible stutter throughout the movie. It vanishes when he gets his revenge on Otto, his major adversary, at the end of the movie. [[WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue Final credits reveal]] he now works as an MC at Sea World.

* In the JohnWayne film ''TheCowboys'', one of the boys on the cattle drive wasn't able to warn them of danger due to a stuttering problem. Wil Anderson (Wayne's character) proceeds to give him a brutal tongue-lashing, and the boy stutteringly calls Anderson a "s-s-s-s-s-son-uh-uh-uh-of-a-buh-buh-bitch". Anderson then continues to antagonize the boy until the youth explodes into a verbal tirade of completely stutter-free profanity. Anderson then calmly congratulates him on getting over his stutter, and warns the boy to not get used to cursing at him like that. The boy never stutters once for the rest of the film.
* Billy in ''OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'', after he has sex with Mac's girlfriend, but before Nurse Rachet threatens to tell his mother.
* King George VI ("Bertie") in ''TheKingsSpeech'' spends most of the movie stammering terribly, but his therapist Lionel Logue finds that he doesn't stammer when he's very angry and/or swearing.

* A character on ''JoanOfArcadia'' had a terrible stuttering problem, made worse by the fact that he was on the Debate Team. So how did he find his voice? Joan discovers that he has an exceptional talent for finding/gathering evidence and arranging excellent presentations.

** Tillis was one of the innumerable celebrities to star in ''CannonballRun''. He actually has to sing some of his lines just to get them out.
* World famous [[{{Scatting}} scat singer]] ScatmanJohn states in his song "Scatman" that the reason why he sounds so good singing and has trouble stuttering off stage is because he's actually stuttering in his songs. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Geiq0FP13uQ&feature=related Take a listen]].

* Actor Nicholas Brendon has a stutter that he says he beats by using a handful of tricks he learned when he was a kid to get around his speech problem. One is turning everything into a song lyric in his head before he says it. Another is pretending that he's actually is twin brother (actor Kelly Donovan) instead of himself, as he never stutters when he's performing.

* ''ErastFandorin'' has a stutter/verbal tic that goes away when he's in disguise/in more LetsGetDangerous moments.

* ComicBook/Starman: Nash stops stuttering when her brother is killed and she becomes the heir to the Mist legacy. When asked how she stopped, Nash claimed that she was "[[ThatManIsDead someone else]]".

* Creator/JamesEarlJones has a stutter that is present whenever he is speaking extemporaneously without time to prepare what he is going to say. It is ''never'' present when he is performing, unless the character he is playing is specifically designated as a stutterer.

** Palin actually [[ShownTheirWork did quite a bit of research on how stuttering works in real life]] and incorporated it into his performance. Ken's stutter is not as bad when he's around peeople he's comfortable with (Wanda and George), and becomes worse when Otto (whom he can't stand and is scared of) is around.