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* Most of the characters in the 2000s ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'' speak with American accents, but there are a handful of characters who speak with other recognizable accents -- Britishaccents—British, New Zealand, and Irish in particular. Why they should speak this way is never explained, as it's otherwise implied that human civilization is linguistically homogeneous. In one episode, Baltar claims his "British" accent to be a result of him, an Aerelon, attempting to affect a Caprican accent -- whenaccent—when he uses his "natural" tongue, it's a heavy Yorkshire accent. See [[Useful Notes/British Accents|British Accents]].

* Of course, Japan has all aliens, magical beings, etc. speak Japanese as they speak English in English-speaking countries, but one episode of ''[[Mahou Sentai Magiranger]]'' challenged [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] when the Heavenly Arch Saint Magiel, the building-sized highest-ranking member of a group of magical beings from the [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]]-like dimension of Magitopia, insisted on not being addressed with a certain [[Japanese Honorifics|honorific]] by the [[Big Bad]] (building-sized leader of the Scary Pit Hell-like dimension of Infershia.) Usually, [[Aliens of London]] draw the line at speaking the same language and don't go as far as to be particular about being treated according to specific social niceties of the culture they've ''never experienced.'' The American equivalent wouldn't be [[Aliens Speaking English]], it'd be Aliens Insisting On Being Addressed As 'Ms.' or Aliens Being Offended By Being Called 'Gringos' or something like that. Finding a slightly less ''distinctly'' Japanese way of having the two characters disapprove of each other would have helped sell the premise a bit better.

* Speaking of Claudia Black, she played Vala on ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' with her native Australian accent. Similar to the above ''Next Generation'' example, it was [[Hand Wave|Hand Waved]]d that she had gotten her accent from her mother when Fred Willard was cast as her father and, of course, used his American accent. So apparently there's some alien planet out there where people have Australian accents. (The show didn't last long enough after that to give Vala's mother a chance to show up.)

* While ''[[Babylon 5]]'' gave each of its alien ambassadors noticeable accents, the other members of their respective races didn't share them -- whichthem—which implies a great deal of regional differences on those planets, similar to Earth culture. While Londo Mollari sounded like an over-the-top Russian nobleman, his aide, Vir Cotto, sounded like he was from New Jersey (or perhaps Northern Virginia, where actor Stephen Furst was from). G'Kar spoke with something resembling Received Pronunciation (and not a not too shabby one, at that, given that Andreas Katsulas was from St. Louis); most Narns had some kind of American accent. While Mira Furlan's (real!) Slavic accent brought an exotic air to Delenn, Bill Mumy's Lennier merely had a clipped, precise mode of speaking not too different from any other incarnation of [[The Spock]].

** Also pops up in the [[Transformers (film)|films]], when [[Black Dude Dies First|the first Autobot to die happened to be voiced by a black man]]. <ref>In their defense, Jazz's death is due to [[Heroic Sacrifice]] - he bravely stands his ground against Megatron to protect the fleeing humans, even though he knows he stands no chance against the Decepticon.</ref> In the second film, Skids and Mudflap are two idiotic robots who seem to have based their mannerisms on hip-hop culture. Specifically; they're wiggers. There's also an Australian 'Bot.