Basic Trope: Someone who has a problem with how they speak in some way.
- Straight: Alice has a tendency to involuntarily pause in the middle of a w... ord.
- Bob has a re-re-really bad stu-stutter.
- Exaggerated:
- Addi... tionally, Alithe lithpth, can't pwonounce hew "R"s, and s-stammers too.
- Al... ice pauses in the middle of words, Chawlie can't pwonounce his "R"s, Diane lithpth, and Edward can't pronounce his "L"s.
- Bob stutters on every other word, making him borderline unintelligible.
- Downplayed: Alice has a very slight lisp.
- Justified: Alice has a fluency disorder.
- Inverted: Alice tries to talk with a speech impediment but can't.
- Subverted:
- Alice starts out with a speech impediment, but undergoes speech therapy.
- Or, it suddenly disappears after a few episodes.
- Alice was only three.
- Double Subverted:
- She then gets it back.
- Then, Bob is introduced, who stutters.
- She still has it at age 15.
- Parodied:
- Zigzagged:
- Averted: Alice does not have a speech impediment.
- Enforced:
- Alice and Diane are voiced by the same actress, so the writers gave Alice a speech impediment so they don't sound the same.
- Alice's actress has a speech impediment too.
- Lampshaded: "Wh... y do I talk like this?"
- Invoked:
- Exploited: Alice is in disguise, but the villain recognises her because her speech impediment gives her away.
- Defied: Alice gets speech therapy.
- Discussed: "I had this coworker with a bad speech impediment..."
- Conversed: "What's that show with the lady that talks l... ike this?"
- Implied:
- Deconstructed: People make fun of Alice's speech impediment. Her self-esteem suffers.
- Reconstructed: Alice is very intelligent, or has some other reason for people to respect her.
- Played for Laughs: Charles hits Alice on the head, and it cures her speech impediment.
- Played for Drama:
Ba... ck to Speech Impediment.
