Enrrrique Mas: You can call me Enrrrique!
Rrrose: No, I don't think I can.
Rrrose: No, I don't think I can.
Usually the Hammy Evil Overlorrrd will constantly rrroll his tongue. Forrreign people arrre also frrreqently porrrtrrrayed in media as speaking like this. This is occasionally justified because the Rrr is prrronounced like this in severrral languages and dialects (think Slavic languages in generrral, Italian, Dutch, Afrrrikaans, most Norrrdic countrrries, some Gerrrman and Rrromannian dialects, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, Spanish in cerrrrtain situations, Thai, Malay and Indonesian), otherrr than in English. Also frrrequently employed when the speakerrr is rrrelated to felines in some way, imitating a cat's purrring.
In Japan, it's a marrrkerrr of being rrreallyyy angrrry orrr intentionally rrrude, being a Japanese Delinquent such as a Bōsōzoku or yankii, orrr someone trrrying to imitate one.
Not to be confused with the way pirrrates constantly say "Arr!". Comparrre Sssssnake Talk. The feline connotations of this trrrope is a Subtrrrope to Animal Species Accent.
Examples:
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Adverrrtising
- "Rrrruffles have rrridges". You prrrobably have to be of a certain age to rrrremember that ad campaign.
- And prrrobably the definitive adverrrtising example: Rrricarrrdo Montalban extolling the virtues of the Chrrryslerrr Corrrdoba and its "rrrich Corrrinthian leatherrr". You definitely have to be of a cerrrtain age to rrremember that one.
- The Tim Horrrton's Donut/Coffee shop in Canada occasionally has a contest called "Rrrrolll up the rrrim to win." Bonus points for those who can rrroll the R's.
- Rrrrolling Wrrrrriter!
- There is a Taco Bell commercial where two lions are talking about a roast beef burrito. The one says to the other, "No, say it like Ricardo Montalban." So the other lion says, "Okay. Carrrrne asada."
- There's a Zaxby's commercial in which two ladies are engaging in increasingly over-the-top trilling in an effort to outdo one another. It culminates in "Have you met my friend, RrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrRR... Ricardo?" note
- Tony the Tiger's "They're grrrrrrrrrEAT!" slogan for the ad campaign of Kellogg's Frosted Flakes cereal brand is an interesting variation, in that the "r" sounds are stretched out, but not exactly trilling.
- Dairy Queen Lips: One ad has the Lips practicing saying "tortilla" with a rolling R, then advertising a wrap (there are variants of the ad with different wraps) and referring to a tortilla on the wrap with the rolling R. They don't use rolling R's for any other words.
Anime & Manga
- Soul Eater has Soul and Blackstar comically running to give each other a bro hug as they call "SSSOOORRRRRRRRRRRUUUUU!!!" "BUUURRRRRRRRRRRAAAKKUUSSSSTTTAAAAAAA!!!"
- Sgt. Frog. Noo prrrooblem!
- According to the editor's notes in the Dark Horse Comics translation, Reina Gorn from The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service rolls her Rs to reflect her imperfect Japanese.
- Kamichama Karin gives us Student Council President of Love and Justice, Prince Kirrrrio!
- Scanty and Kneesocks from Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt sure do love their
"Rrrules"RRRUUURRRUUU.- To the point that the protagonists eventually mock their pronunciation.
- Fairy Tail: Happy tends to say "De dekiteirrrru!" (translated as "S/He liiiiiiiiiikes you" in English) whenever he's being a Shipper on Deck. Characters who borrow it will even copy the trill.
- Germany from Hetalia: Axis Powers has a tendency to trill his r's, especially when he's singing.
- In the English dub, all the Italy family is prone, but the best is definitely Ian Sinclair as Romano, the hammy incarnation of Southern Italy. PREPARRRE TO MEET YOURRR BOOORRRRING GOD IN YOURRR BORRRING GE-AR-MAN HE-A-VEHN
- Franky from One Piece. "Good smell! Frrravor!"
- Onsokumaru from Ninja Nonsense usually tacks these in his lines - as if he wasn't hammy enough.
- Golden Time: Nana senpai roll the Rs as part of her rather rude speech pattern.
- The massively hammy introduction of Demon King Nobunaga, from Sengoku Basara. (It helps that he's voiced by Norio Wakamoto).
- Code Geass gives us "RRRUUUUURRRRUUUSSSHHUUU!!".
- Not to forget the empire's motto "All hail Buuurrrrrritaaaaniaaaa!" which packs so much ham, you can find the whole pig in there.
- A fairly mild example pops up a couple times in Michiko & Hatchin to rrrreflect the Porrrtugese language influence in the setting.
- Uta No Prince-sama gives us the GIGANTIKKU HYAMMU Prrrincipal 'Shining' Saotome who not only rrrolls his Rrrs but also strrrrrrrrrretches them to rrrrrrridiculous extrrrrremes and mixes it all up with a heavy dose of grrrrrrrratuitous ENGURRRRRRRRRRISSHU.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency: Rudolf von Stroheim says "Bakamono ga" (You utter fool) by inserting lots of R's in between, turning it into "BRRRRRRRRRAKAMONO GA!!!" (followed by the memetic "German Science is the best in the world!")
- Later in Stardust Crusaders, during the Absurdly High-Stakes Game of poker with Daniel J. D'arby, Jotaro plans to raise the pot once again despite seemingly having no more chips. Prompting D'arby to go "Reizu da to?!" (Japanese)/Rrrrrrrr-raise the pot?!" (English dub).
- Later in Stardust Crusaders, during the Absurdly High-Stakes Game of poker with Daniel J. D'arby, Jotaro plans to raise the pot once again despite seemingly having no more chips. Prompting D'arby to go "Reizu da to?!
- The translators of The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You have Tama do this, as well as purr and make cat puns in her sentences, to adapt her Verbal Tic of ending sentences with “nya”.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Chronos de’ Medici, who is Italian and speaks with a strange accent, does this in the original Japanese, even when uttering a Gratuitous English word that properly has an L, such as “DYUERR!”translation The character does not do this in the English dub, where all indication that he is a foreigner compared to the rest of the cast is omitted.
Audio Books
- Stephen Fry sometimes does this for emphasis in the Harry Potter audio books, especially when portraying Binns in Chamber of Secrets ("There is not a shrrred of evidence...") and Trelawney's Grrrim in Prisoner of Azkaban.
Comedy
- The Japanese comedy group Rahmens, in the Italian version of their language-class skit. "Tokyo... Osaka... Ibarrraki!"
- Greg Behrendt once made a joke about how Jesus Christ is always depicted as having rock-hard abs, and he says that he wants to train every day so that he can be "rrrripped, like Jesus."
- Patton Oswalt's "Sumerian prankster god" has a wickedly campy personality, which naturally extends to the way he talks.note
"Did someone in Burbank just say there's no rrrrats? Well! Beans and grapes, what jokes and japes I'll play!"
Comic Books
- Catwoman tends to do this, in reference to a cat's purr.
- The villain Katastrophe from Empowered. (It's not an accent, rather him purring to fit in with the sabertooth theme. Although sabertooth tigers probably are unlikely to purr.)
- In Bone, Roque Ja the mountain lion often has his name mispronounced as "Rock Jaw". A correction he makes in his very first scene implies that the only difference is that, to say his name correctly, you roll the R. If true, this means that the speaker does this every time you see his name spelled correctly.
Fan Worrrks
- This Ponyville strip.
- In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, there are characters from the barely-there but hinted at canonical region of Rimwards Howondaland. The convention evolved thet White Howondalandian cherecters spoke Morporkian in a way thet, on the page, comprissed their vowel sounds from "a" to "e". Just to emphasise their particular ethnic origin. Doing this consistently with every quirk of a South African accent would, as Pessimal points out, make their discourse hard to read, even if it was phonetically accurate. Of course, one quirk of South African English - and Afrikaans - is rhoticity - the Trilled R. This would elso be herrrrd to rrrrread if ixprrrrissed phoniticelly. Pessimal suggested it should be taken as read and the reader could infer the general concept from the "a - e" thing. This is lampshaded in a discussion about Rimwards Howondalandian Assassin Johanna Smith-Rhodes. One observer remarks about her magnificently rolling R's. Another, who was privileged to see her in a dress from behind, agrees. note
- In Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Story of Arceus, it's the Fictional Accent spoken by Illaminian Pokemon. If you hear someone rolling their R's, it's obvious Illaminain is their first language.
Films — Animation
- Lady and the Tramp: Jock the Scottish terrier does this while he's singing a song: "forrr me own", "back yarrrd".
- The Loud House Movie: Morag calls the 1600s Louds "rrroyal rrruffians" when talking to her painting of Aggie.
- In Cars 2, McQueen lampshades this trope when Sally pronounces Francesco Bernoulli's name:
McQueen: [frustrated] And don't say it like that. It's three syllables, not ten.
- Charlotte's Web: The old goosenote , especially noticable in her part during the "Veritable Smorgasbord" number.
- The Great Mouse Detective: Ratigan does this quite frequently, especially during "The World's Greatest Criminal Mind."
"An even grrrrimer plot has been simmerrring in my grreat crrriminal brrain!"
- The Tigger Movie: "Rrrabit's Rock Remover!"
Films — Live-Action
- Braveheart: Scottish rebels have rrrrouted one of my garrisons and murdered the noble lord.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: "What arrr ye doin'?"
- Superman Returns: Krrryptonite!
- Grand Moff Tarkin from Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. "You may fire when rrready," and "We will deal with yourrr rrrebel frrriends soon enough."
- Any character played by 1930's actor Herman Bing (who was usually typecast as a comic German foil).
- The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz does this.
- Street Fighter's M. Bison does this so hammily that it becomes delicious! I darrre you to watch this.
- Could be a drinking game in The Lord Of The Rings. Sophisticated characters, like wizards and elves, will have a great go at this; more rustic folk like Hobbits just won't bother. "Morrrdorrr," "A Balrrog of Morrrgoth," "Isildurr's Heirr," etc. Gimli does this frequently as the dwarves are supposed to have a "Scottish" accent, but Gimli's actor is Welsh (both Scottish and Welsh accents heavily trill the Rs). See the Literature entry below for background on this.
- The Golden Compass: I am queen of the witches of Lake Enarra."
- In Star Trek Into Darkness Scotty warns that the warp core is a rrradioactive catastrophe waiting to happen.
- Stepsister from Planet Weird: The Emperor of Zircolon definitely does this.
"Step into the teleportation grrrid."
- Dad's Army (1971): Frazer does so when telling Mr. Mainwaring of his time in the Rrroyal Navy.
- Doctor... Series:
- Doctor at Sea: When Captain Hogg asks Trail for balloons, he specifies that he wants "rrround ones".
- Doctor in Distress (1963): When angrily spelling his surname, Sir Lancelot tells one of the medical students, "'R' for 'Rrrump'!".
- No Kidding: Angus' Scottish accent makes him prone to this, such as when he calls Mrs. Spicer an "interfering old trrrollop".
- Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: During the "I Want It Now" musical number, Veruca Salt sings, "10,000 tons of ice crrream".
Literrraturrre
- The Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland does this.
- In the Heralds of Valdemar series, gryphons both hissss their essess and trill their arrrs. Skandranon of the Mage Wars trilogy can and usually does speak carefully and deliberately to make his speech as articulate as any human's, but when he's tired or angry, or trying to convince someone that he's feeling that way, he reverts.
- Outcast of Redwall gives us the spy Wrrrraith.
- The Lady of the Green Kirtle in The Chronicles of Narnia gets as her introduction: "Good day, t-r-r-avellers," she cried out in a voice as sweet as the sweetest bird's song, trilling her R's delightfully.
- The Grand High Witch from The Witches, along with Vampire Vords; it's said to be derived from a Norwegian accent as witches originated in Norway.
- The Wee Free Men
- Gonnagles of the Nac Mac Feegle tend to roll their Rs in their battle poetry, and even in casual converrrsation.
- Spoofed by John Smith the not-Vampire, who rolls his Ws. Somehow.
- Cluny Morvish from Scrivener's Moon talks like this. Fever appreciates it.
- The Dresden Files: Warden Ramirez rolls his R's through a tongue-twister to show off in White Night.
- From page one of Jerry Spinelli's children's novel, Fourth Grade Rats:
First grade babies!Second grade cats!Third grade angels!
- In Tolkien's Legendarium, the Elvish languages Sindarin and Quenya have their written "r" pronounced as a trill. This is never directly indicated in the main story texts, however, and comes from scholarly works on the languages and notes published in material like The History of Middle-earth.
- Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome: In the audiobook of Portentum, Garth Marengthi (and by extension the actual author Matthew Holness) trills his R's when performing the Taffer's stereotypical Welsh accent.
Live-Action TV
- Our Miss Brooks: Osgood Conklin on occasion, just to be all the more pompous.
- Doctor Who:
- The Seventh Doctor turns this into an art form as a means of underlining Sylvester McCoy's status as the first Scottish Doctor, which leads to extreme Narm when he has to face Rrrrasillon and the Gods of Rrrragnarrrok.
- The number of r's he can put into a word such as "rrrrrule" is one of the hammier qualities of Roger Delgado's incarnation of the Master. In "The Daemons", the daemon he summons tries to do it too, but there's really no competition.
- The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: The Elves have the sophisticated Welsh Accent, and therefore they will pronounce many words with a rolling "rr": "Galadrriel", "Elrrond", "Durrin", "Halbrrand", etc.
- Monty Python's Flying Circus:
- Gavin Millarrrrrrrrrr.
- The Two Fat Ladies frequently do this. Lampshaded in the show's intro: "Grrrrab that crrrrab, Clarissa."
- Batman (1966):
- King Tut.
- The Joker, particularly when he enunciates "Batman and Robin."
- All three Catwomen, especially Eartha Kitt.
- Played with in Blackadder Goes Forth:
George: I spy, with my little eye, something beginning with R.
Baldrick: Army.
Blackadder: For God's sake, Baldrick, "army" starts with an A. He's looking for something that starts with an R. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Baldrick: Motorbike! Motorbike starts with an rrrrrrrrrrr, rrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... - Fez in That '70s Show: "You know how he rolls his Rs? He did that in my mouth!"
- In Greetings From Tuscon, a whole episode focuses primarily on the fact that one of the daughters can't roll her r's despite being Hispanic.
- Rico in Hannah Montana does this a lot. In one episode, he trills for so long that he actually passes out.
- Star Trek: Voyager: Dr. Chaotica in the holodeck program The Adventures of Captain Proton, as he's an Affectionate Parody of 1930's sci-fi Film Serial supervillains.
Dr. Chaotica: I'm afrrraid your SEC-cretarrry has alrrready been prrromised to Queen ArrrrACK-nia as a SUPrrreeeeme sACKrrrrifice!
- In El Chavo del ocho, Doña Clotilde ("La Bruja del 71") does this whenever she mentions "Don Rrrramón".
- In the Granada TV Sherlock Holmes series, Jeremy Brett, as Holmes, occasionally trills his Rs for emphasis.
- Mathnet: A character (played with an Orson Welles-like Large Hamminess), Mr. Stoutman, who once said, "If you had asked me yesterday, the answer would have been a rrresounding yes!"
- Stephen Fry does this on occasion when presenting QI. Brrrilliant!
- In The Office (US), Dwight does this when announcing the names of his garden party guests, ostensibly because he interprets this as a "fancy" way to say things:
Dwight: Misterrr Rrrrrrrrobert Califorrrrrrnia!
- Toei's Supaaaaaaa Heeeeeerrrrrrrroooooo Time prrrrograming block intros from Magirrrrrrrangerrrrrrr and Hibiki to Gekirrrrrrrrangerrrrrrrr and Kiva.
Supaaaaaaa Heeeeeerrrrrrrroooooo Time! Starts now.
- Castle: In "The Final Nail", Beckett interrogates a suspect with a thick Slavic accent (Beckett's response was unscripted; Stana Katic did it by accident, but the producers decided to Throw It In):
Hasberg: Mrs. Westlake, she find ring. She call to me to come there. And then she say, "sorry to accuse." She crrry.Beckett: She crrry—she cried?
- On the British archaeology program Time Team, Dr. Jonathan Foyle occasionally did this when addressing Field Archaeologist Raksha Dave.
- Father Ted: Bishop Brennan had to be in Rrrome tomorrow for an audience with the Pope!
- Kamen Rider Build: The Sclash Driver gets this, courtesy of Norio Wakamoto providing the voice for it. Kamen Riders Cross-Z Charge and Grease's transformation calls end with "BURRRRRRRAH!!!" while Kamen Rider Rogue's ends with "ORRRRRRRAH!!!" Additionally, Cross-Z Charge's Finishing Move has "RRREADY GO! LLLET'S BRRREAK!/FINISH!"
- When Mike Myers was a cast member on Saturday Night Live, one of his recurring character skits was Stuart Rankin, an angry Scot with exagerrated R's. But it really peaked in the final appearance of this skit, when Stuart sought therapy with "Phil McCracken, Scottish Therapist" played by Patrick Stewart:
McCracken: You arrre suferrrring frrrom what most therrrrapists call angerrrr... but what we Scottish therrrrapists call ANGERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
- Blake's 7:
- Secretary Rontane in "Seek, Locate, Destroy": "...this one vulnerable, lucky man is still frrree to cause havoc."
- Mad Scientist Egrorian in "Orbit": "This is a grrrreat honor for us."
- Crisis on Earth-X. Paul Blackthorne hams up his Nazi Alternate Self, Kommandant Lance, especially rolling his Rs.
"So these arrrrrre....the herrroes!""Well I know how much you enjoy executing rrrulebrrreakers..."
- Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Todd Rivers as Dr. Sanchez.
- The Last of the Baskets: When Pilkington-Smythe hears that Mrs. Basket will choose Theobold to be his successor in "It's a Living", he fears that Mrs. Basket is very susceptible to the "rrrough male approach".
Music
- The Beatles rrroll up, roll up for the "Magical Mystery Tour".
- Also in a line from "It's Only Love" from Help!:
"Just the sight of you makes night time brrright."
- Also in a line from "It's Only Love" from Help!:
- Rrrammstein. Even Germans make fun of Till Lindemann's use of overly theatrical rolling R's.
- Gorillaz bassist Murdoc tends to do this in interviews.
- John Lydon from the The Sex Pistols.
- "Anarchy In The UK".
Lydon: RRRRRRRRRIGHT!
- "God Save The Queen".
Lydon: They made you a MORRROOON.
- "Anarchy In The UK".
- The singer from Specimen does this a lot.
- Lotte Lenya was famous for this.
- The singer from the Tiger Lillies does this very often in live performances.
- Two words: Nina Hagen. Then she goes and covers a Rammstein song, and rolls an R for an entire measure.
- Tony Bennett.
- Billy Stewart, in "Summertime".
- Japanese singer Shiina Ringo.
- Morrrrissey likes doing it on his live albums, even when there isn't an 'r' to begin with.
- "Shabondama" by Morning Musume.
- IAMX singer Chris Corner often rolls his R's in songs.
- Rin Kagamine. "Don't MyList Me!" It's really subtle, but once you can hear it, it's really awesome.
- Rrrroza Rrrrymbaeva will roll her Rrrrs a lot, as seen in "Love Has Come". Not that it's a bad thing in any way.
- Eartha Kitt.
- Kraftwerk: "Wirrr sind die Roboterrr" on The Man-Machine.
- The Comedian Harmonists, a German A cappella band active during the 20's and 30's, because that's how people used to sing back in the time of the Weimar Republic.
- The Present Day singer Max Raabe, because he is basically a walking homage to the music of that era.
- Luke Spiller from The Struts loves to do this.
- In Merv Griffin's '40s novelty hit "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts", he does this on one of the choruses. ("Rrrroll or bowl a ball...")
- "Rubber Biscuit" (originally by The Chips, later covered by The Blues Brothers) has one of these at the end.
"What do you want for nothin'? Rrrubber biscuit?!!"
- Peter Steele does it very often.
- Christopher Lee doing the dramatic narrative parts for Rhapsody of Fire.
- A trademark of Édith Piaf when she sang.
- Cerys Matthews of Catatonia.
- BUTAOTOME vocalist Ranko used to roll her R's frequently, but has toned it down a lot after the release of Getsumen Tansa in December 2015. She still does it occasionally.
- Joakim Brodén of Sabaton does this a lot.
An offerrrrr of surrrrrenderrrrSaigo ignorrrrre contenderrrr("Shiroyama")
- Ghost's song "Rats" has Cardinal Copia dramatically rolling the R's when he sings "(Them) R-r-r-rats!" in the chorus.
- The Ice Nine Kills song "Wurst Vacation" is based on the movie Hostel, in which American tourists visiting Central Europe are kidnapped and tortured to death. Spencer Charnas took the film's Central European setting as an opportunity to do the song as a Rammstein homage, complete with a reasonably good imitation of Till Lindemann's rolled Rs.
- Bad Brains' "Redbone In The City" has HR extending the r sound in the title drop - fittingly the whole song seems to be an Affectionate Parody of the Sex Pistols.
- Kendrick Lamar utilized this trope in "Not Like Us" (his acclaimed Diss Track towards Drake,) by way of the infamous line: "Tryna strike a chord and it's probably A-Minorrrrrrrrrr..." The line has since reached Audience Participation Song levels of popularity because of it.
- Italian singer Dalida was known for rolling her r’s both in songs and while speaking.
Podcast
- Jill Whelan's character in The Brian & Jill Show "Shakespearean Actor" sketches (in which Shakespearean actors re-enact celebrity arguments) does this. Brian does this to a far lesser extent.
Prrrofessional Wrrrestling
- Alberto Del Rio. Or, as he's introduced by his personal ring announcer, Ricardo Rodriguez, Albertooo del Rrrriooo.
- Brock Lesnar, introduced by his personal advocate Paul Heyman as Brrrock Llllesnarrr.
- Introduced by the Singh Brothers, the modern day Maharrrrrrraja, Jinder Mahal!
Puppet Shows
- In The Muppet Show Star Wars episode, before Luke Skywalker, C-3PO and R2-D2 literally crashed into the theater, the intended guest star was a Muppet called Angus McGonagle, the Argyle Gargoyle (He gargles Gershwin). Being a caricature of a Scotsman, he naturally trills his Rs. "Gorrrgeously!"
- The leaderrr of the Errrdman Gang in the Thunderrrbirrrds episode "Thirrrty Minutes Afterrr Noon".
Rrradio
- On Car Talk, the hosts once had a caller they referred to as "Rrroberrrt Burrrns!" (Probably no relation to the famous poet, but they joked about it a lot.)
Tabletop RRRPG
- Paranoia:
- The Acute Paranoia adventure "Me and My Shadow (Mark IV)" has two encounters with Communists who trill their R's.
- Clones in Space has the McShmegegus of Shmegego.
"...the shimmerrring currrtains through which ye ha'e passed on yourrr explorrration of the ship."
Theatrrre
- When the Reduced Shakespeare Company assumes fake Scottish accents to perform Macbeth, they inevitably fall back to simply trilling their R's. A lot.
- In the 1979 BBC productions of Richard II and Henry IV, Jon Finch did this all the time when playing a suprisingly hammy Bolingbroke/Henry IV.
- In The Soldiers Tale, the cadences of "The Devil's Song" have trilled R's coinciding with snare drum flourishes, though the effect is partly lost in the English translation.
Video Games
- The Legend of Zelda CD-i Games: Join me, Link, and I will make your face the grrreatest in Koridai!note
- Zhang Jiao does it in Dynasty Warriors, and the effect is absolutely hilarious.
- And a certain E3 conference gave us Rrrriiidge Rrracer!
- Mithra in Final Fantasy XI do this for the most part. The Miqo'te, a similar cat-like race from Final Fantasy XIV, don't talk like this.
- Velo is particularly fond of doing this in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled.
(Upon winning a race): "I rrrrrrrrule!"(Upon losing a race): "Next time I'll beat you, wrrrrrrretched Earthling!"
- Team Fortress 2: "CRRRRY SOME MORE!! AAAAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAA!!!!! CRRRY SOME MORE!!!"
- 'MERRRRASMUS ARRIVES ON A TIDE OF BLOOD!'
- The 7th Guest: Stage Magician Hamilton Temple came to Stauf Manor hoping its owner could teach him "Rrrreal magic!"
- Various examples from Xenoblade Chronicles 2:
- Chairman Bana talks this way consistently, which becomes absolutely glorious during his boss fights where he pilots Gigantic Artificial Blade Rrrrrrrrrrrrrosa.
Bana: CRRRRRRRUSH HER, RRRRRRRROSA!!!
- The Nopon Archsage will sometimes delve into this if you win a challenge battle by exclaiming "Verrrrrrrry good going!"
- Zeke goes into this during one of his in-battle quotes:
Zeke: Looks like the Zekenator is ready to rrrrrrrrrrumble!
- Chairman Bana talks this way consistently, which becomes absolutely glorious during his boss fights where he pilots Gigantic Artificial Blade Rrrrrrrrrrrrrosa.
- Your yoo-ay-vee rrrecon is rrready for deployment. UAV online.
- The Great Mighty Poo from Conker's Bad Fur Day does this during his villain song.
- Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc: Razoff initially averts this in his introductory cutscene, only for the boss fight to begin and he suddenly begins emphasizing his Rs by rolling them all while taunting Rayman about hunting him down and turning him into a trophy.
Razoff: I've always wanted a Rrrrayman skin rrrrug in frrrront of my firrrreplace!
- Resident Evil 5: Wesker does this a bit when saying "Urrroborrros", but not so much the rest of the time. The voice actor, D.C. Douglas, even mentioned he enjoyed saying the name because of this trope.
- Rask from Atlas Reactor. Being a Russian cat-bear-man leaves him with a lot of these, both in trilling and snarling form.
- Tisiphone from Hades tends to roll her 'R's when saying murder. Which is all she ever says.
- A Hat in Time: The Conductor tends to elongate certain Rs, as part of his accent. Sometimes he just goes utterly ham with it though.
The Conductor: Yer givin' me the quiet treatment, eh? That's what a MYERRRRRDERRRRERRRR would do!
- Amitie's alternate voice in the English version of Puyo Puyo Tetris has her speaking in a British accent and rolling her R's, a reference to part of the game's story mode where she and Ess speak in British accents for a puyo match. After that specific stage is beaten, Amitie suggests they should roll their R's next time.
- Anska, a minor character from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, is on a quest for some scrrrrrrolls located in some ancient ruins.
- Cadilosh from Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest often does this, fittingly for a hammy, megalomaniacal Mad Scientist.
- Five New-Fangled Nights: Foxy trills his R in one of his death quotes where he calls Charlie an "exasperrrrrrating hoodlum."
Web Animation
- Homestar Runner:
- Parodied in Limozeen's hair metal cover of Sloshy's emo hit song "We Don't Really Even Care About You." At one point, Larry Palaroncini sings "We don't rrreally even care," but a minute later changes it to the tongue-twisting "Rrre rrron't rrreally rrreven care!"
- Also parodied in the Cheat Commandos short "Next Epi-Snowed," when Agent Chimendez takes the lead on the Commandos' catchphrase.
Chimendez: Let's rrrrrrock rrrrock on!
Everyone else: Ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-ruh-rock ruh-ruh-ruh-rock on!
- "Rrraquelle", being who she is, sometimes does this in Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse.
- Cruddy Cat Food in The Grossery Gang webseries trills to sound like a cat purring.
- Usada Pekora of hololive is a big fan of rolling her r's. Often heard when she goes ORA or in the memetic "ogey rrat"
- Phase-Connect: Nitya Nil's South African accent causes her to roll most of her r's, which she'll occasionally deliberately exaggerate for comedic effect.
Webcomics
- Grim-Eyes in Digger used to do this, especially when dealing with that pesky Earrrrth Rrrrat.
Web Video
- American High Digital: One video shows the difficulties of teaching students in Spanish class how to roll Rs. It ends with the entire school vibrating from all the trilling.
- Analyst Bronies React: Thespio has tons of fun with how Chinch says "reputation", and takes it up a notch.
- Caddicarus sometimes does this when he's emphasizing a word for effect.
- A subtle one occurs in Team Four Star's Dragon Ball Z Abridged episode 26. After transforming into his final form, Freeza, who up until now has spoken with a somewhat posh accent but not really rolled his R's, gets a brief trill down his tongue whilst showing his satisfaction at killing dende, the group's White Mage.
Freeza: Oh, I feel rrreal good about my life right now...
- Epic Rap Battles of History: The Season 2 finale, "Rasputin vs Stalin", who actually is a succession of various figures froom Russian history, and some of them tend to abuse of it at some moments. Stalin's introducing verse is a prime example:
"Look into my eyes, you perverted witch! See the soul of the man who made MotheRRR RRRussia his bitch!"
- Antfish's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Abridged gives Dio Brando an exaggerated British Trrrilling Rrrs accent. Will A. Zeppeli also talks like like, having an equally exaggarated Scottish accent, but he's not evil.
- In the The Nostalgia Critic's review of Once Upon a Forest, he makes a Running Gag out of Cornelius (voiced by Michael Crawford) rolling the R in "rheumatism".
Critic: Yes, what is rrrheumatism? Is it when RRRuffles have rrridges? I’d rrreally, rrreally, RRREALLY like to know!
- Alfred's Dr. Eggman from Real-Time Fandub does it twice. First, he concludes his infamous "pissing on the moon" announcement by saying that there's 23 hours before the "piss drrrroplllllets" hit the Earth. Later, during his drunken rant at the end of the Last Story, he manages to extend the r in a word that doesn't even have any r's in it.
Eggman: SHE HAD TO HO HERSELF OUT AND BE THE BIGGEST THHRRRRROT THAT YOU'VE EVER SEEN!
- Sir Ron Lion Heart: Rrrrupees!
- Marvin the Martian does this in the Looney Tunes webtoon "Who Wants To Be a Martian-aire?" (Marvin normally doesn't do this when he speaks.)
- Marik Ishtar from Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, likewise voiced by LittleKuriboh, enjoys doing this as part of his general Evil Is Hammy schtick—that is, when his Evil Brit accent allows for it.
Grrreetings!
Westerrrn Animation
- Many of Jim Cummings' characters do this.
Moosk: Purrrrre Polyesterrrrr
- Dr. Robotnik from Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog does this all the time:
Robotnik: Sonic fell for it! Tails is ours! I'll have to give myself a PRRROMOTION!
- Scrooge McDuck, another Scottish character, often does this on DuckTales (1987).
- In an effort to show how perfect her Spanish is, Peggy Hill does this way too much.
- Principal Luna from Class of 3000 does this, but then again, he's Latino.
- The early Looney Tunes short Daffy Duck in Hollywood features a pig movie director with a thick German accent named von Hemberger, a parody of Josef von Sternberg, who keeps doing this.
- Bugs Bunny imitates an elderly Scotsman: "Poachin' rrrrrabbits on m' prrrroperty! I'm displeased, Mac Rrrrrrrary!"
- Groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons:
Willie: Bonjourrr ... ya cheese eatin' surrender monkeys!
- Sideshow Mel fits this trope to a tee, combined with his theatrical British/Shakespearean accent and Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. "Offi-sahs, you have arrrrrrrested an innocent man!"
- The "Grrreat and Powerful Trrrixie" from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
- Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law has a trilling R and a trilling M:
Phil Ken Sebben: And as a reward for hard work people get-Harvey Birdman: Promotions!Phil Ken Sebben: Prrrromotions!Harvey Birdman: And raises![awkward pause]Harvey Birdman: Uh, promotions!Phil Ken Sebben: Prommmmotions!
- This is all Phineas and Ferb's pet platypus Perry can do.
- Rose in the remake of Bill & Ben, The Flowerpot Men.
- Lokar does this in Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
- Mr. Herriman from time-to-time in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.
- Paul Winchell's voice of Dick Dastardly makes judicious use of trilling Rs, especially where words that start with "R" come up or when he uses his catchphrase "Drrrrat and double drrrrat!"
- Linda from Bob's Burgers can do this. In "Fast Time Capsules at Wagstaff High", Linda repeatedly does it when she realizes that Bob can't.
Rrreal Life
- The weak English "r" sound is actually quite rare among languages. The "r" is trilled in Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Finnish, and certain dialects of Norwegian and Swedish. Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Albanian, Welsh, Gaelic, and some Portuguese dialects have both a tapped "r" and a trilled "rr". The trilled "r" appears in dialects of other languages, such as Scottish and Welsh English and Wenglish. French and German speakers don't normally trill the "r", but instead pronounce it at the back of the throat (though it’s a fairly recent evolution — the r’s were trilled in those languages up until the early-to-mid 19th century).
- Ancient languages:
- Proto-Germanic and Old Latin evidently had trilled "r"'s, as in Classical Latin and the northern and western branches of Germanic, Z merged with R. That's why we say to hear rather than to heaz, and talk of honor rather than honoz.
- In Old and Middle English, the "r" was invariably trilled, but come Shakespeare's time the trill had largely disappeared and today only survives in a few dialects of Modern English, most notably Scots and Welsh.
- Some older Quebec French speakers use trilled "r"'s, as opposed to a guttural R, which is the standard in European French and modern Quebec French.
- Esperanto, the Universal Language is meant to be pronounced with trilled R's, but native English speakers usually omit them.
- Norio Wakamoto really loves doing this when he's voice acting ... and even when he's not voice acting.
- Several German dialects trill their R's, particularly Swiss, Bavarian, Upper Austrian, Tyrolean and even Transylvanian (Siebenbürgen Saxon). Exaggerating this trope has also become a straightforward way of imitating Adolf Hitler (a native of the Upper Austrian-Bavarian borderlands), so outside these regions, it has become almost impossible to roll Rrrrs while speaking German anymore without reminding everyone of him, as the Reichstropen page points out. South African comic Trevor Noah ran into this after learning German as a native Afrikaans speaker.
- Jon Gaunt.
- Patrrrrick Stewart.
- Brazilian sportscaster Galvão Bueno (yeah, that Galvão) is a great fan of Ronaldo, I mean, RRRONALDINHO! (Anyone who parodies him exaggerates his "Rs"). His usage of the trope regarding Formula One driver Rubens Barrichello was referenced and parodied in a commercial where a sandal saleslady is excited to meet Rrrrrrubinho!
- Mexican sportscaster José Ramón Jiménez also used to signal the beginning of a match with "¡ARRRRRANCA la primera mitad!"
- One possible way to identify someone from El Salvador is whether or not they roll their "r"s exaggeratedly at the end of sentences that end with words that end in an r. A longer trill correlates with high Salvadoran-ness.
- Jack Black. Through the skies, he flies, he doesn't know the RRREASON why, but he flies... so high... you'll know that it's TRUE!
- Everyone's favorite dirty old little lady, Dr. Rrrrruth Westheimer is known particularly well for this.
- Christopher Lee was famous for this, along with his baritone and cool British accent.
- Björk, as it's a feature of Icelandic.
- Mixed Martial Arts announcer Lenne Hardt's signature announcing style involves rolling every R in each fighter's name, often holding them for several seconds. They didn't call her "PRIDE Crazy Lady" for nothing.
- Tim Cur-r-r-ry
- Bob Barker on The Price Is Right would do this quite often when saying the number three in any situation ("Thr-r-ree").
Otherrr
- Megatron as voiced by Earl Hammond in the Transformers book and record sets by Kid Stuff Records.
- The "haha money printer go brrrrrr" meme is pronounced like this.
- UrinatingTree, as the Large-Ham Announcer "Hurricanes Man", once said NHL team returned to the playoffs opened his celebration with "Rrrrrrraleeeeeeigggggh!"
