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:edgeworth: So he's got the foofy thing...and he likes tea. You know, there are people who like to be fashionable and like tea. I dunno. I just hate the idea of him being British. It just doesn't suit him, in my opinion. What do you think?
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I dunno. I actually think British suits him a bit. Not that I really care. I mean, he's Edgeworth and he rocks. Who needs to know much more than that?

Edit: I agree that his voice is a big hint. I also agree that Edgey just can't be American. He's too cool to be American. Most everyone in America is an idiot. (I'm American, ftr)

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Well... Edgey's got a smexy British accent. That's what made me believe that he's British. :x
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I would say 'Because he's gay', but that doesn't make sense.

His vocabulary kind of alludes to it. And he did study in Germany, where everyone learns English in a British accent. And DEFINATLY the tea. That kind of forces him to be british.

And most Americans think that people who dress in 'older fashions' come from England.

I really think that British suits him. I can't really imagine him being American though (although I can imagine him being Canadian D:)

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For the most part, I think it's his voice that makes people think of him as being British... plus, the name Edgeworth, to me, sounds rather British for some reason too XD I think someone stated somewhere that there's a town called Edgeworth in the UK... *goes to check*
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I would say 'Because he's gay', but that doesn't make sense.

Yeah... because there's :chef: so...

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I'll have to agree with the above posters and say it's his voice.
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He's not gay, just really British.
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I also think it's the voice....but it's also the face, I mean, just look at him, I think there is a "distinct British look."
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He's not gay, just really British.

Oh! Like Bakura from Yu-Gi-Oh!
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MoronSonOfBoron wrote:
He's not gay, just really British.

I agree! :edgy: His voice does seem to have a slight British accent (more obvious in his "Take That") and his tea drinking habits were what convinced me that he at least spent a decent amount of time in Britain if not coming from there originally. The cravat is obviously from Von Karma as Manfred has one and Franziska wears the bow thing which is rather similar).
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MoronSonOfBoron wrote:
He's not gay, just really British.

Oh! Like Bakura from Yu-Gi-Oh!

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Bakura is British? I don't think so. No one from Yu-Gi-Oh appears British. Now, him being gay: I'm not even going to get into that cause I know nothing about it.
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His voice, and the fact one of his lines read:

"Er... verily, I say! Ergo!"
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I never understood the Edgeworth = British thing either.

I had always made the assumption that he was born and raised in the US until he was adopted by the von Karmas and abruptly moved to Germany. We have nothing to prove he was born outside of the US, and the simplest answer is usually the best answer. Also, remember, he was originally written as a presumably Japanese child (Mitsurugi Reiji is about as Japanese sounding as possible) who was moved to America.

His fashion sense is clearly derived from von Karma. As for his tea drinking habit, I know plenty of people who are quite American (we're talking Midwest here) that drink tea frequently. Although, I will credit that his tea set is distinctly English looking, however considering the game was originally Japanese and we know he was living in America not Germany the tea set becomes a moot point. It's just a "western" tea set as opposed to a "Japanese" tea set. And then there are Chinese tea sets and I tell you some people take their tea quite seriously.

I'm not a big fan of the English voice acting, especially in GS3, alas, that seems to be the number one reason people have declared him British (which covers a vast cultural area). Vocabulary-wise, I had always assumed he was simply quite well educated. In high school I had someone ask me if I had been raised in England because "I didn't use slang" and "used bigger words" than most people.
I'm from Ohio. I talk like everyone else in Ohio as far as I can tell, apparently my word choice is unusual. So I definately wouldn't base his British-ness on his vocabulary and the whole 3 phrases we hear him say.

Honestly, it appears to me to be a fanon based belief because we want our gay men to have sexy British accents when they're engaging in the manprawnz? I'm pretty sure that's actually it. British accents are sexy and Edgeworth is probably considered one of the sexier male characters in the game by the fanbase..
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Edgey can be British while having a past entirely centered around the US and Germany. Don't ask how, he just can. Because he's awesome.

also: I have never met anyone named Miles who was not British.
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We had a topic like this once. It turned into a topic about loofahs, for some reason... :/

And, yeah, I don't get why people think he's British. I mean, come on. It's not like Capcom of America gave him a voice actor who uses a cheesey British accent in T&T just to piss of/confirm the beliefs of fans or something, right?
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We had a topic like this once. It turned into a topic about loofahs, for some reason... :/

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And, yeah, I don't get why people think he's British. I mean, come on. It's not like Capcom of America gave him a voice actor who uses a cheesey British accent in T&T just to piss of/confirm the beliefs of fans or something, right?

I don't think he sounds all that British at all >_>
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^Oh? Not even "Take That"?
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To be fair, we know relatively little about where Miles came from (he's nine by the time we first meet him and know nothing about his life before that except that he admired his father a great deal) and its not inconceivable that Von Karma had him study abroad. Living for an extended period of time in one place can cause a person to pick up the accent and customs of that culture. We know Von Karma had money and was out to shape Miles in his image, so I can see him spending the money to have him trained in a few different countries to complete his "perfect" education. It could well be that England was simply the area he spent the longest in or the last place he was before returning. The accent is only really pronounced on his "Take That's," which would make sense if he developed it over a shorter period of time so that it was never fully developed. I do have a harder time believing he was born there because an accent would not have survived from his childhood to adulthood without reinforcement, so I prefer the studying there theory.
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Really? Huh... it sounds British to me. I guess we have different takes on accents, eh?

I still think his "Take That" sounds like a completely different VA than his "Objection" even though they're supposedly the same guy.
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Given that Gregory Edgeworth is suspiciously Gregory Peck-ish, I think that Southern gentleman suits him pretty well. I really can't imagine his father not having the Peck accent. I therefore conclude that Edgeworth was born somewhere in the South, moved to Los Angeles with his father, went to an excellent British public school with Franziska (partly to keep the two of them well out of von Karma's hair until they'd passed their more vexing years), and then studied in the von Karma ancestral home in Germany.
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Really? Huh... it sounds British to me. I guess we have different takes on accents, eh?

I still think his "Take That" sounds like a completely different VA than his "Objection" even though they're supposedly the same guy.


It could just simply be that the guy who did his US voice was "out of practice"? He never had to say "Take that!" until the third game after all, and they had to record his "Objection!" voice for the first game, which was several years earlier. Or, the voice actor's voice changed during that time gap, or maybe after 3 games with this character, the director decided to tell the voice actor to put in more of an accent.. the list goes on. :yogi:

In any case, I could see why some people might say his "Take that!" sounds mildly British, but I don't quite agree with that. It actually sounds a little "Engrish" to me O.o...
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The Capcom localization team did all of the voices rather than a team of voice actors. The most likely explanation is that over three years, Mr. Seon King probably didn't remember exactly how he recorded his first Objection and they were probably using different voice recording equipment.
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Probably...

To be honest, he also just seemed British to me even before the sound clip...
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To tell the truth... I don't even think his 'Take That!' is very British sounding and I've heard my share of various types of British accents being that I live in Scotland and come into contact with people from down south all the time.

But I do agree with the idea that Edgeworth might have studied in the UK and throughout that period, he could have picked up a slight accent; which explains why his accent isn't that strong. I can totally picture him having studied at Oxford for some reason :yuusaku:

On a side note, there really is a town called Edgeworth in the UK >_>;
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Its the cravat and his cold glares. Period. End of discussion.
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Same reason everyone I know offline thinks Gumshoe is from Brooklyn, Von Karma from Germany, and Gregory as originally coming from the South.
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Ehh, it's several different things for me. It's really the cravat, but the fact that he drinks tea, the looks on his face, and he way he acts point to being British for me.

I've been slacking in my T&T playing, so I have yet to hear the "take That!" I must find voice clips. *_*
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^Oh? Not even "Take That"?

Gyakuten Phoenix posted the voice clip earlier. Click on "Take That" in the quoted segment.
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Ah! I didn't see that. Thank you!

Now that I've heard that, I'd say he's British. It's not as evident in his 'Objection!', but it sounds like Edgy's got a british accent to me.
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*just read the topic title*

:lana: - British

:edgeworth: - Some guy who idolizes Austin Powers with inaccurate "stereotypes".

That's how I see it.
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The way I imagined him talking in the first game was based on his Objection voice, so I can't even picture him sounding British.
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The way I imagined him talking in the first game was based on his Objection voice, so I can't even picture him sounding British.

That's exactly what I thought, until I heard his other voice clips in T&T. "WTF" was all I could think of.
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I always pictured him to be British because I had fun voicing him with a British accent while I played. :lana:
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Luke is most likely british, I can give you that much.
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I don't see anything wrong with being British. :sadshoe:

Anyway, his Objections and the like sound like the 'American trying to sound British' kind of voice. I think that's why.

The only logical reason I could think of that would explain the weird accent would be that his father was probably from some part of England. If you want to read into it that much.
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I don't see anything wrong with being British. :sadshoe:

Anyway, his Objections and the like sound like the 'American trying to sound British' kind of voice. I think that's why.

The only logical reason I could think of that would explain the weird accent would be that his father was probably from some part of England. If you want to read into it that much.


Off topic, but that is an adorable avatar you've got of Edgey there; got the image of Edgeworth trying to pick those 'Psycholocks' with the magatama in my head now XD
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I don't see anything wrong with being British. :sadshoe:

Anyway, his Objections and the like sound like the 'American trying to sound British' kind of voice. I think that's why.

The only logical reason I could think of that would explain the weird accent would be that his father was probably from some part of England. If you want to read into it that much.


Off topic, but that is an adorable avatar you've got of Edgey there; got the image of Edgeworth trying to pick those 'Psycholocks' with the magatama in my head now XD

She's not the only one with a cute Edgy icon- i said "Aww!" when I looked at yours. xD <3
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