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{{quote|''"[[Insult Backfire|A snake, am I]]? [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|Perhaps you'd like to see]] [[Scaled Up|how ssnake-like]] [[One-Winged Angel|I can BE]]!"''
Thissss iss a [[Self-Demonstrating Article|Ssssself Demonssssstrating Article]]
Ssometimess appliess sssso broadly it affectsss any reptilian creature - even when it doessn't make any sssenssssse. Asss much asss a talking reptile can make sssenssssse anyway, even if every other [[Talking Animal]] isss perfectly capable of talking.
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[[Black Speech|Black Sssspeech]] takess thiss a ssstep further, and consssstructs a whole language out of it, albeit far lesssss pleasssing to the ear.
Often employed by [[Lizard Folk]], [[Snake People|Ssssnake People]], and [[The Reptilians
Ssee also [[Fang Thpeak]], [[Vampire Vords
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== Japanesssssse Media - Anime and Manga ==
* Rokudo Mukuro from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' tends to do this.
* The [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]] Ekans.
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** Largely because his voice is already so creepy that he doesn't need it.
* Kaoru Kaidou from ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]''. [[Berserk Button|But don't call him out on it.]]
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* ''[[Judge Dredd (comics)|Judge Dredd]]'': The crime issss life, the ssssentence issss death!
* [[Spider-Man]] villains the Lizard, [[Venom (Comic Book)|Venom]], and Stegron.
* Subverted by King Tyrant Lizard in ''[[
* [[Twisted
* [[The DCU|DC Comics]] snake cult/terrorist organization Kobra requires this as a stage of initiation for all their convert.
* The lizards and reptiles in the ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star
* This style of speaking, as employed by Reptile in ''[[Mortal Kombat 4]]'', originated in the ''MKII'' comics.
▲== Fan Ficssssss ==
* Averted and lampshaded in the ''[[Undocumented Features]]'' story ''Twilight'' ([[Twilight (novel)|no relation]]), where Jormungand's speech is "perfectly atypical for the world's largest snake to have", because it doesn't use ssnakeTalk.
* Esmé in ''[[Pawn to Queen]]'', to an incredibly [[Narm
* In ''[[Those Lacking Spines]]'', Saïx's [[Seme]] Secks talks like this. [[It Makes Sense in Context]]. Well, kind of.
* Has been seen in quite a few ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fics whenever Voldemort says anything. Despite the fact that he doesn't talk like that in the books.
== Motion Picturessssss - Animated ==
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* Completely averted in ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'', with Viper being voiced by the lovely Lucy Liu.
* The Spirit from the ''[[Care Bears]]'' movie tends to speak like this on occasion, most notably in her first line.
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* The Fat Dog-on-a-Skateboard from ''[[Tom and Jerry: The Movie]]''.
== Motion Picturessssss - Live Action ==
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'': Gollum. "Sssneakinggg, my preccciousss, yesss..."
* The Snake in the musical version of ''The Little Prince''.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)|Harry Potter
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* Agent Smith from ''[[The Matrix]]'' series tends to drag out the end of a lot of his words, but the s sounds are the most noticeable.
* ''[[The Producers]]'': Carmen Ghia goes [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL3OOnPfgoY&feature=related Yesssssssssssssssssssssssss?] as he greets Max and Leo into his house.
** Also, the joke was done earlier in ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' with [[Dom De Luise]] playing Buddy Adler.
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'''"French Mistake" Dancers''': "Yessssssssss."
'''Buddy''': ''"Sounds like steam escaping..."'' }}
== Bookssssssss and Other Literature ==
* Adder and Sinuous in ''[[The Animals of Farthing Wood]]''.
* In ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'', this is [[Incredibly Lame Pun|part and parseltongue]] of speaking to snakes. The snake in ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' does this even when [[Translation Convention|translated into English]].
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* In ''[[Animorphs]],'' the Taxxons have tongues so long they ''can't'' speak any language but their own, which is filled with "S's."
* In [[Tanya Huff]]'s novel ''[[Confederation of Valor|Valor's Choice]]'', the reptilian race is heard this way by the protagonist ''even though their native language is being run through a [[Universal Translator]].'' This is explained as the protagonist's translator being either old or broken and her needing a replacement. The rest of the Marines hear the Silsviss speaking normally. [[Bellisario's Maxim|Don't think about it too hard.]]
* Gollum in [[J. R. R.
** Not just probably: Tolkien once spotted an "error" in ''[[The Hobbit (novel)|The Hobbit]]'' as printed, where Gollum said the correct "I like riddles" instead of "likes". As he said, "Not that Gollum would miss the chance of a sibilant!"
* The criminal Ssnake in [[Perry Moore]]'s ''[[Hero (novel)|Hero]]''. {{spoiler|Is [[Hand Wave|handwaved]] when Thom unwittingly makes out with Ssnake in his civilian identity (Simon Hess, ironically enough) at a gay bar. The hiss is stereotypically explained away as a lisp.}}
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* Strangely enough, used in Jane Yolen's ''Heart's Blood'' series. Heart's Blood's offspring in the later books all have names with prominent hissing sssssyllables. [[Fridge Logic|The dragons are telepathic and communicate mostly through projecting visuals, and grow up around humans who would typically give them noun-based names like their mother's]]...
▲== Live Action Television Showsssss ==
* The reptilian Ice Warriors in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', but only in earth atmospheres, they don't hiss in their own.
* Mesogog in ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]''. He manages to do it with ''non-''sibilants, actually, making his speech a lot breathier than non-reptile characters. Many other snake or lizard based [[Monster of the Week]] characters do this as well, to varying degrees.
* Notably subverted by the Gorn in ''[[Star Trek: The
* In the ''[[Farscape]]'' two-part episode "Self-Inflicted Wounds," the villain, Pathfinder Neeyala speaks like this- despite being more [[Fish People|piscine]] than reptilian.
== Tabletop Gamesssss ==▼
* Tevesh Szat, from ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]''.▼
* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'', the Skaven do this, but are hideous rat men instead of reptiles. Lizardmen do not conform to the trope.▼
== Theatrical Productionsss - Playssssss ==
* In the theater adaptation of the old Chinese legend ''White Snake'', both White Snake (Lady Bai) and Green Snake (Greeni) speak this way whenever they're turning back into snakes or particularly upset about something.
== Theatrical Productionsss - Ssstage Musicalsssss ==
* In ''[[Children of Eden]]'', a musical based on the book of Genesis, the Serpent's number, "In Pursuit of Excellence," is carefully designed around this trope.
▲== Tabletop Gamesssss ==
▲* Tevesh Szat, from ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]''.
▲* In ''[[Warhammer]]'', the Skaven do this, but are hideous rat men instead of reptiles. Lizardmen do not conform to the trope.
== Video Gamesssss ==
* The boss of Guffawha Ruins in ''[[
* Mordak in ''[[King's Quest V|King's Quest V Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder]]'' says "Sssssay goodbye, sssssswine!" Mind you, he is actually taking the form of a snake at this point.
** Also, Graham CAN talk to that [[Memetic Mutation|pOIsonous snake]] and it says "Sssssstay back!"
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* The online virtual pet game ''[[Neopets]]'''s NPC Sssidney. Even his ''name'' has ssnaketalk.
** And his species is a Nimmo, which is a lot closer to a frog than a snake.
* The Bangaa race in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]''. Thankfully they dropped this in ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' and ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics
** In another ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' example, ''[[Final Fantasy IV]] DS'' has one of the Four Fiends Scarmiglionne using this trope. Though he's a bit inconsistent.
* The T'Rang from the ''[[Wizardry]]'' games speak like this, despite being insectoids.
* Sssssam the snake in ''[[
* Komodo Joe in ''[[Crash Team Racing]]''
* The Argonians from the ''[[The Elder Scrolls|Elder Scrolls]]'' universe use this trope, although it's less noticeable with the females. One of the [[In-Game Novel|stories]] in ''TESII: Daggerfall'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20090402152707/http://www.imperial-library.info/dfbooks/b100_complete_edward.shtml King Edward], even describes the Argonian healer of the story as "a strange looking lizardlike man, who spoke with such a hissing accent that Edward couldn't understand him at all" ("I cannn fixxxx thissss, it'ssss cleeean"). A later installment in the series, [[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]], is a little bit lighter with this trope, retaining the raspy, "lizardlike" drawl, but dialing down on the hissing. As of ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' none of the Argonians have this.
* Some of the ''[[
* ''Spiderweb Software'' likes this one. In ''[[Exile]]'' and its [[Video Game Remake|remake]] ''[[Avernum]]'', [[Lizard Folk|sliths]] talk like this. So do the [[Our Dragons Are Different|drayks (and drakons)]] in ''[[Geneforge]]''. However, the sliths and drayks that spend most of their time dealing with people lose the speech pattern.
* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' with Reptile of course when the story got a little more vocal.
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* In ''[[Fallout Tactics Brotherhood of Steel]]'', hairy deathclaws speak this way. Yes, [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091030012639/fallout/images/thumb/4/4f/FoT_Matriarch_MardinMap.png/200px-FoT_Matriarch_MardinMap.png they talk].
* Reptile men and Serpent men (in previous versions, Lizardmen and Snakemen) in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]''.
** This is determined by the "[LISP]" [
* ''[[X (video game)|X]]'' has the local reptiloid race, the Teladi, talk like this. It's especially annoying since they are a race made exclusively of profiteering maniacs, and so have a tendency to put words like "profitssss" and "creditssss" where other races wouldn't.
* Variant: ''[[Dragon Quest IX]]'' has {{spoiler|Drak after eating the Fygg}}, a giant taking '''l'''izard, who does this with the letter l instead of s.
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* The [[The Reptilians|Sakkra]] homeworld in ''[[Master of Orion]]'' is called Sssla. However, you won't see them hissing much in their speech to you during diplomatic meetings. This is likely due to the use of [[Translator Microbes]].
== Web Comicsssssss ==
* The Lizardmen from ''[[Bruno the Bandit]]''.
* The Ghouls from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' did a lot of "his"ing.
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* In [http://www.selkiecomic.com/ Selkie], the titular character adds an "s" to many of her words, but it's not particularly exaggerated most of the time.
* Shannon in [[Bloody Urban]], who has a forked tongue, hisses slightly when he says certain wordss.
== Wesssstern Animation ==
* Mac does this on one of his [[G-Rated Drug|sugar rushes]] in ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends|Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends]]''.
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** This is, of course, an indirect example, being an obvious parody of Gollum (who himself is listed a couple sections up)
* Madame Snake in ''[[Teamo Supremo]]''.
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* Snake of the Gangrene Gang in ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''. He even at one point goes out of his way to say "yess" instead of "no", the correct answer to the question being asked. When Ace [[Dope Slap|slapped him]] he wised up and said "I means no."
* Dr. Viper in ''[[Swat Kats]]'', who was half kat/half lizard.
* The Cobra Queen on ''[[Freakazoid!]]'' occasionally slips into this trope but thankfully doesn't overuse it.
** It is also apparently Cave Guy's [[Fetish Fuel]].
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'''Cave Guy:''' I ''love'' the way you say eyes! }}
* The incredibly appropriately named Dr. Hiss in ''[[The BOTS Master]]'', who extends this to Z sounds (pronouncing them as if they were "S"es instead), as well.
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* Mr. Burns from ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. "Exxxxxxxxxxxxcellent..."
* The Rattler on [[Cool McCool]].
* In ''[[The Owl House]]'', Piniet is a lizard-like [[Villain of the Week]] who talks like this.
* This is nearly Averted completely with the Reptoids in the ''[[Inside Job]]'' episode "Blue Bloods", the one instance being at the end of the episode where the doctor tells Andre that his ill-advised participation at [[A Party - Also Known as an Orgy|the Reptoid's "party"]] has given him "ssssyphilus", among other Reptoid-specific STDs.
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[[Category:Self-Demonstrating Article]]▼
[[Category:This Trope Name References Itself]]
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