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* TIOSEAFJ from ''FanFic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami''
-->"I ART TIOSEAFJ. I ART SHAKESPEERS SHINIGAMI?!"

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* TIOSEAFJ from ''FanFic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami''
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''FanFic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami'':
**TIOSEAFJ speaks like this.
--->"I
ART TIOSEAFJ. I ART SHAKESPEERS SHINIGAMI?!"SHINIGAMI?!"
**Of course, [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Jimmy Shakespeer]] himself is also an example, as shown when he gives a speech at [[spoiler: Dark]]'s "funreal":
--->And for soothe [[spoiler: dark]] art the besteth dude\\
Even though he art sometimes rude\\
He hadeth a pet fish called rexing\\
And really loveth the sexing\\
He hadeth all the looks and smarts\\
He will liveth fore ever in our harts\\
Except he art dead so he wont

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* In ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''/''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' crossover "ComicBook/FateIsTheKiller", the dialogue of the Eternian characters is peppered with "Aye!", "ye", "thou", "thy", "yonder" "'tis", "nay", "whilst" and the like so that it looks more archaic...regardless proper Early Modern English grammar.

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In ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''/''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' the ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' crossover "ComicBook/FateIsTheKiller", the dialogue of the Eternian characters is peppered with "Aye!", "ye", "thou", "thy", "yonder" "'tis", "nay", "whilst" and the like so that it looks more archaic...regardless proper Early Modern English grammar.


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** "ComicBook/ThePhantomSuperboy": When Superboy activates an old Kryptonian device and listens to a mental playback, some few old-fashioned English words are used to make the message sound more archaic (even though it was recorded only twenty years before):
--->'''Mental recording:''' ''"Harken, wearer of this helmet! Until outlawed by the rulers of Krypton, yonder weapon was used as a m eans of punishing criminals!"''

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* Parodied in ''Fanfic/DimensionalLinks'' when the three goddesses of Hyrule discuss ways to guide the different incarnations of Link.
-->'''Din:''' Have we considered just sending them a message? You know, have the local Great Fairy turn up and say, 'Hero, thou must goeth into yonder hole'?\\
'''Farore:''' (looking flatly) Nobody talks like that.
* Parodied in ''Fanfic/EventHorizonStormOfMagic''. Littlefinger's ([[spoiler:later his [[TheStarscream underling's]]]]) newspaper (printed using a [[MegaCorp Company]]-supplied press) is deliberately written in Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe. In the North, the Wintertown town crier yells out news and advertisements in this way as well. Meanwhile, everyone else from the Westerosi to the visitors from Earth speak normal English.
* An extract from ''Chaffinch's Mythology''[[note]]A parody of the seventeenth century compendium of myths and legends by Thomas Bulfinch[[/note]] quoted in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9998634/4/Hear-them-chatter-on-the-tide Hear Them Chatter On The Tide]]'' does this, when telling the tale of Bissonomy, a [[SevenHeavenlyVirtues Virtue]] Who Fell From Grace:
-->Errata also knew thatte other Goddesses had had their Noses put Outte of Jointe by Bissonomy's elevation. Mutterings there were, of Thatte Bittche Hath Slept Her Way To The Toppe, and Evidently Hard Work Counts no Longer, and It's Notte What you Knowwe, It's Who You Knowwe.\\
Thus, in full awareness thatte Bissonomy was not Popular amongst the Goddesses, and knowing allso that both she and Tubso hadde let their Duties as Virtues slip to the point that mortals were forgetting what virtues they represented, Errata spread whisper and rumour among the Goddes, until one day, Harmony threw up her hands in Desppair, and fled sobbing even unto the privy.



-->'''Jericho:''' What price does it demand of thee?! Lie not to me, witch! None but the unholy can the future see! Speak’st thou to me of sorcery, witchcraft, ''[[GratuitousGerman Bruchmagie]]''!? Thou hast clearly to me dealing with a demon been. ''[{{Beat}}]'' I appear to only be able to speak in weird, half-sensical archaisms when dealing with demons. Should probably see a doctor about that.

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-->'''Jericho:''' What price does it demand of thee?! Lie not to me, witch! None but the unholy can the future see! Speak’st Speak'st thou to me of sorcery, witchcraft, ''[[GratuitousGerman Bruchmagie]]''!? Thou hast clearly to me dealing with a demon been. ''[{{Beat}}]'' I appear to only be able to speak in weird, half-sensical archaisms when dealing with demons. Should probably see a doctor about that.that.
* ''Fanfic/TheOfficialFanfictionUniversityOfMiddleEarth'': Parodied. During Grammar Booth Camp, Dwimordene teaches Elizabethan English to the students while reminding them it is ''their'' fault that they are doing this. She would much rather teach them to speak and write modern English properly, but since they insist on using older forms of English even though Tolkien hardly used them...
-->'''Dwimordene:''' If you can't use older forms of English properly, stick to contemporary English forms--Tolkien used those, too, you know. [...] You know, we wouldn't even be working on this but for you lot. Who talks like this, anyway? Aragorn, maybe twice in ''[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the entire trilogy]]''. The Mouth of Sauron, once Eowyn, once. Not many characters use older forms of English, and they barely use them at that. I'd much rather discuss the common, erroneous substitution of the contraction, "it's," for the possessive, "its." A far more basic mistake, yet the egregious misuse of older English is so blatant that it causes headaches.
* ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'': Baraqijal speaks with a real and hilariously fake Shakespearean accent:
-->'''Baraqijal:''' ''Forsooth, the Lilim doth arriveth in their constructs of false flesh. No matter, it shall taketh more than that to striketh down I, Baraqijal the Lightning of God! So shall ye faceth my acidic wrath Lilim! Have at thee!''
* Do not write Asgardians with this speech pattern in ''Fanfic/SuperheroRPF'' or Sassgardian; [[spoiler:aka Loki]] will personally FanWank at you!
* ''Fanfic/TrollingTheToad'': In Chapter 17, in response to Umbridge restricting the language used in schoolwork to the medium of instruction, i.e. English ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]), Harry submits a DADA assignment written in ''Shakespearean'' English as an act of LoopholeAbuse, just to mess with her.



* Do not write Asgardians with this speech pattern in ''Fanfic/SuperheroRPF'' or Sassgardian [[spoiler:aka Loki]] will personally FanWank at you!
* Parodied in ''Fanfic/EventHorizonStormOfMagic''. Littlefinger's ([[spoiler:later his [[TheStarscream underling's]]]]) newspaper (printed using a [[MegaCorp Company]]-supplied press) is deliberately written in Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe. In the North, the Wintertown town crier yells out news and advertisements in this way as well. Meanwhile, everyone else from the Westerosi to the visitors from Earth speak normal English.
* An extract from ''Chaffinch's Mythology''[[note]]A parody of the seventeenth century compendium of myths and legends by Thomas Bulfinch[[/note]] quoted in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9998634/4/Hear-them-chatter-on-the-tide Hear Them Chatter On The Tide]]'' does this, when telling the tale of Bissonomy, a [[SevenHeavenlyVirtues Virtue]] Who Fell From Grace;
-->Errata also knew thatte other Goddesses had had their Noses put Outte of Jointe by Bissonomy's elevation. Mutterings there were, of Thatte Bittche Hath Slept Her Way To The Toppe, and Evidently Hard Work Counts no Longer, and It's Notte What you Knowwe, It's Who You Knowwe.\\
Thus, in full awareness thatte Bissonomy was not Popular amongst the Goddesses, and knowing allso that both she and Tubso hadde let their Duties as Virtues slip to the point that mortals were forgetting what virtues they represented, Errata spread whisper and rumour among the Goddes, until one day, Harmony threw up her hands in Desppair, and fled sobbing even unto the privy.
* ''Fanfic/TheOfficialFanfictionUniversityOfMiddleEarth'': Parodied. During Grammar Booth Camp, Dwimordene teaches Elizabethan English to the students while reminding them it is ''their'' fault that they are doing this. She would much rather teach them to speak and write modern English properly, but since they insist on using older forms of English -even though ''Tolkien hardly used them-...
-->'''Dwimordene:''' "If you can't use older forms of English properly, stick to contemporary English forms--Tolkien used those, too, you know. [...] You know, we wouldn't even be working on this but for you lot. Who talks like this, anyway? Aragorn, maybe twice in ''[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings the entire trilogy]]''. The Mouth of Sauron, once Eowyn, once. Not many characters use older forms of English, and they barely use them at that. I'd much rather discuss the common, erroneous substitution of the contraction, "it's," for the possessive, "its." A far more basic mistake, yet the egregious misuse of older English is so blatant that it causes headaches."
* ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheMinisukas'': Baraqijal speaks with a real and hilariously fake Shakespearean accent:
-->'''Baraqijal:''' ''Forsooth, the Lilim doth arriveth in their constructs of false flesh. No matter, it shall taketh more than that to striketh down I, Baraqijal the Lightning of God! So shall ye faceth my acidic wrath Lilim! Have at thee!''
* Parodied in ''Fanfic/DimensionalLinks'' when the three goddesses of Hyrule discuss ways to guide the different incarnations of Link.
-->'''Din:''' Have we considered just sending them a message? You know, have the local Great Fairy turn up and say, 'Hero, thou must goeth into yonder hole'?\\
'''Farore:''' (looking flatly) Nobody talks like that.
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* ''WebAnimation/IfDisneyCartoonsWereHistoricallyAccurate'': Some of the signs, like those in the barber-surgeon's office, are filled with excessive "ye"s and flowery language.

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