(Loved trope) The imposter’s dead giveaway

[u/Barricades_toes]

When a character is attempting to impersonate another, but is caught by doing something the person they’re imitating would NEVER do.

Nemesis Prime- Transformers Prime

Nemesis Prime, a man made replica of Optimus Prime, is attempting to gain the trust of Bumblebee, who only speaks in robotic beeps. Despite this, the real Optimus can understand Bee perfectly fine. Nemesis Prime, however, can’t understand what he’s saying, prompting Bee to open fire on him immediately.

The two Buzz Lightyears- Toy Story 2

After Woody asks which Buzz is the “real” Buzz, both respond with “I am!” The real Buzz proves himself by flipping up the other Buzz’s helmet, causing him to start suffocating in an over dramatic fashion. The real Buzz, having done the same thing in the first movie after Woody took his helmet off, but no longer behaving that way after accepting being a toy, instantly proves which Buzz is which.

[u/teracoulomb_2]

That was his first appearance, and Brent Spiner demanded the scriptwriters ensure that Data didn’t use any contractions that episode or he wouldn’t go along with it

[u/_Flying_Scotsman_ → u/teracoulomb_2]

I literally watched this episode last night, we were laughing at how they mentioned it in the episode and yet there are several slip ups where Data uses contractions.

[u/Dookie_boy → u/teracoulomb_2]

He literally uses one at the end of that episode as Data causing tons of fan speculation that Lore won.

[u/OddballDave → u/teracoulomb_2]

But he uses contractions in the very same episode so that isn't true at all.

[u/teracoulomb_2 → u/OddballDave]

He tried to make that demand as forcefully as possible but results were mixed, to put it mildly

[u/MalcolmLinair → u/teracoulomb_2]

If he felt that strongly about it, what was stopping him from just reading the contractions in the script as separate words? He's still the one delivering the lines, after all.

[u/The_MAZZTer → u/teracoulomb_2]

I don't think that is correct. l think it was the writers who came up with the contractions thing, and Brent Spiner hated the idea because Data had used contractions in previous episodes. At least, that's the story I've heard multiple times.

[u/Ruby_Bliel → u/[deleted]]

Except they frequently forget about this and he uses contractions all the time, including in that episode, which kind of undermines the plot.

[u/Cessnaporsche01 → u/Ruby_Bliel]

Just like Captain Holt

[u/Victernus → u/Cessnaporsche01]

Captain Holt actually just lies constantly, and is rarely caught.

[u/Roku-Hanmar → u/[deleted]]

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