History Main / FangThpeak

* All of the Trolls in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' have fangs, but Sollux is the only one that has been stated to have a lisp. This is because Sollux is also the only one with ''doubled'' incisors (and it is only the incisors, and their counterparts in the lower jaw, that are doubled). [[spoiler: Which is why it vanishes when Karkat accidentally knocks those extra fangs out.]]
-->[[spoiler: TA: lips, lips, lipsssss. w0w, it feels s0 great t0 say that w0rd!]]

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* ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'': "It's a myth! A MYTH!"
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* Nixie the Tiefling of ''WebVideo/OneForAll'' has fangs and speaks with a lisp, which complements her [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathic womanchild]] personality.
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Nixie the Tiefling of ''WebVideo/OneForAll'' has fangs and speaks with a lisp, which complements her [[PsychopathicManchild psychopathic womanchild]] personality.

* The werewolves and other fanged supernatural beings in "Series/TeenWolf". Most noticable with Peter and Decualion, since their fangs are larger than normal.

* Many of the Klingons and Ferengi on ''Franchise/StarTrek'''s various series, particularly since they typically had entire mouths full of awkward prosthetic teeth. Particularly noticeable when recurring actors had to wear the makeup -- such as in the episodes of ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' where Odo, Sisko, and O'Brien go undercover as Klingons. O'Brien even points it out. And Michael Dorn (who played Worf, a Klingon, for at least 13 years) found their plight rather amusing.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. Spoofed in "LARP And The Real Girl" when a [=LARPer=] dressed as an orc has his false fangs fall out in the middle of a slurred BadassBoast. As he's held in the stocks, someone else has to put them back in for him.

Nixie the Tiefling of ''WebVideo/OneForAll'' has fangs and speaks with a lisp, which complements her ''PsychopathicManchild psychopathic womanchild'' personality.

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Nixie the Tiefling of ''WebVideo/OneForAll'' has fangs and speaks with a lisp, which complements her personality.

* Many kids in the ''Comicbook/{{Asterix}}'' comics speak like this, including kid-ified versions of most of the main cast during the Flashback story ''How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion''.
* Krurgor in ''ComicBook/LesNaufragesDYthaq'' belongs to a race that can basically be described as bipedal walrusses, including speech-hindering fangs.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'', the villain King Tyrant Lizard (a human turned intelligent dinosaur) and the hero Homunculoid talk like this; the former has a tyrannosaur's jaws and teeth, the latter has oversized lips and tongue.
* The [[Literature/BeautyAndTheBeast Beast]] in ''Comicbook/{{Fables}}'', whenever his curse is only partially in effect -- he's got fangs but not a big enough mouth to fit them in, so they get in the way.

* Iacar from ''WebComic/{{Wurr}}'' haf a diftinctive lifp.

* Mametchi from ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}!'' averts this and VampireVords.

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin mentions that saber-toothed tigers probably did this. Hobbes is not amused.

A {{speech impedimen}}t that strikes vampires (and other fanged creatures, as well), where their spoken ''s''[='s=] become ''th''[='=]s or, more often, ''sh''[='s=].

A speech impediment that strikes vampires (and other fanged creatures, as well), where their spoken ''s''[='s=] become ''th''[='=]s or, more often, ''sh''[='s=].

Here's the technical explanation for why it happens: False teeth tend to cause sibilants (''s''; soft ''c'', like the first ''c'' in "circus"; and sometimes ''z'') to be mispronounced because the prosthetics force a change in the position of the tongue. Interdentals (''th'') are made by the tongue going against the upper incisors - sibilants are more likely to be mispronounced as interdentals when the '''incisors''' are altered or missing, as with fake buck teeth or missing front teeth[[note]]hence the stereotypical gap-toothed child's lisp.[[/note]] More common with prosthetic '''fangs''' are for the sibilants to become post-alveolar fricatives (''sh''), caused by the tongue being forced back by the wider and longer ''canines''. For example, listen to anything The Master says in ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' season one. When he comments, "Nice dress", he pronounces it "Nishe dresh", not "Nithe dreth".

* It's not vampires that suffer from this in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''; rather, it's their servants, the Igors (and Igorinas), though they can turn it off to be understood better. This varies from Igor to Igor. The hip young Igor who works for the City Watch has it intermittently (his relatives call it a thpeech impediment), while another Igor was able to shut it off for a complex explanation. Given the nature of Igorhood this could have something to do with what dental surgery a particular Igor has dabbled in.
** Vimes believes people in drought-stricken countries would pay good money for Igor to say "sausages".
** Offler the crocodile god has this problem due to, well, having a crocodile's head and so has an impressive set of uniform teeth and no proper lips.
** Gargoyles have their mouths stuck permanently open, and talk in a manner that reflects this.
** Angua of the City Watch and other werewolves speak like this mid-way through the change into wolf, due to elongated fangs.
** Cribbins, from ''Literature/MakingMoney,'' talksh like thish due to the poorly-fitting dentures he stole from a man just before killing him.
** Cohen the Barbarian had difficulties of this sort in ''Literature/TheLightFantastic'' due to his lack of teeth, but resumed speaking normally after having dentures crafted from a troll's diamond teeth.

* Vargo Hoat from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. He's a normal human, but monstrous in morality and LaughablyEvil.

** Armin Shimerman noted that the hardest word for him to pronounce with the Ferengi fangs was "hellhole".
** On an aside, one of the more common Klingon expressions seen on-screen is teeth-grinding for annoyance. One imagines that at least some of that annoyance is method-acting.

* In Living Color has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEnefkpRfHE Fire Marshal Bill]], who's prominent teeth (caused by Jim Carrey pushing his lower lip back) making "Let me show you something!" come out as "Lemme show ya shumthin!"

** [[RunningGag Yeth?]]
* Any ventriloquist dummies that are actually voiced by competent ventriloquists.

* A common result of wearing ordinary non-fang dentures, SelfDemonstrating/SeanConnery's distinctive speech being a notable example.
* Anyone with a freshly pierced tongue, lip, or cheek tend to talk like this until they heal, as will anyone who's just had dental work and still has numb lips from the anesthetic.
* Talking while wearing a dental retainer can often cause this, especially if the retainer is new and you're not used to it yet.
** Ermahgerd! Gersberms! Mah favrit berks! [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ermahgerd]]
* Try speaking a language that isn't your native one right after getting braces. Not pretty.
* Legendary Notre Dame Fighting Irish coach Lou Holtsh.
* Germans trying to speak English may thometimes do this as a form of overcompensation.
* Listening to a recording of people speaking, which has a lot of static in it, may, for some reason, also sound like everyone has a lisp.
* Sometimes this trope may be just linguistic, as in certain Spanish dialects. The "official" pronunciation in Spain is the Castilian one, where the soft "c" sound is pronounced "th" as in "thin" rather than "s". So "cero" (zero) would sound like "thero", and "cazador" (hunter) would sound like "cathador," and so on. Ironically, this is the ''least'' common pronunciation -- the southern half of Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of South and Central America mostly use the "s" sound ("sero", "casador"...). And then there is the lower class Andalusian phenomenon of pronouncing every s/z ce/ci as "th". More on this on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Spanish_coronal_fricatives Wikipedia]].
* Same for Portuguese accent. In Portuguese many words are written like in Spanish, but pronounced differently. This includes "sh" in place of "s".
** One step above for people from Rio de Janeiro, who have the tendency turning "s" into "sh" or "sch" (their accent is easy to detect in phrases with lots of plurals).

Related to VampireVords and SssssnakeTalk. Though Creator/JossWhedon uses it, not related to BuffySpeak at all.

* Another fang-induced lisp is that of the Cafou, a giant, [[TalkingAnimal talking]] sabertoothed cat in ''ComicBook/LesLumieresDeLAmalou''.

* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin mentions that Sabre Tooth Tigers probably did this.

* In ''Chinese Paladin 3'', the temporarily-vampirized hero has a ''huge'' problem with this. Not only does he struggle obviously and markedly with pronounciation, he often sprays innocent bystanders with spit in the process.

* Juliet Van Heusen from “Wizards of Waverly Place” has a slight lisp once her fangs grow.

* Vampire Camille in ''Webcomic/BloodyUrban'', when she was applying for Australian citizenship she only passed the dictation test[[note]]something Australia used to restrict non-white immigration pre-1958[[/note]] by mind-controlling the proctor.

* Camille, Shannon's fragile little sister from ''Bloody Urban'' has crooked, front-facing fangs which result in a speech impediment.

* The Jagermonsters in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' show enormous fangs when they speak or smile, some even have tusks, but for reasons somewhere between plot development and RuleOfFunny, they speak with FunetikAksent - cod-German or East European, in their case. The harshness of the accent ''could'' be put down to the fangs, but the handful of Jagers without these dental excesses talk the same way, so it seems to be cultural.

* Lisa Loud from “The Loud House”.

Here's the technical explanation for why it happens: False teeth tend to cause sibilants (''s''; soft ''c'', like the first ''c'' in "circus"; and sometimes ''z'') to be mispronounced because the prosthetics force a change in the position of the tongue. Interdentals (''th'') are made by the tongue going against the upper incisors - sibilants are more likely to be mispronounced as interdentals when the '''incisors''' are altered or missing, as with fake buck teeth or missing front teeth [[note]]hence the stereotypical gap-toothed child's lisp.[[/note]] More common with prosthetic '''fangs''' are for the sibilants to become post-alveolar fricatives (''sh''), caused by the tongue being forced back by the wider and longer ''canines''. For example, listen to anything The Master says in ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' season one. When he comments, "Nice dress", he pronounces it "Nishe dresh", not "Nithe dreth".

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