Evil Sounds Deep/Playing With
Basic Trope: A villain has a deep voice, signifying their evilness.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz has a deep voice.
- Exaggerated: Evulz has a voice so inhumanly deep that it destroys the eardrums of all who hear him speak.
- Downplayed: Evulz’s voice is only slightly deeper than Bob's.
- Justified: His voice just naturally sounds like that.
- Inverted:
- Evulz has a high voice.
- Bob has a deep voice.
- Subverted: Evulz has a deep voice, but when he takes off his helmet, it turns out to have been the result of his mechanical suit.
- Double Subverted: ...But the unmasked voice is the result of a separate voice modulator he used as a ploy to make himself seem less evil. His voice really is that deep.
- Parodied: Evulz's voice is so deep that his subordinates can't even understand what he's saying.
- Deconstructed: Evulz has significant trouble getting into a position of power, because anyone with half a brain can tell that he's evil on account of how he sounds.
- Reconstructed: This angers him to such an extent that he starts actively using his voice to terrorize all who dare oppose him.
- Averted:
- Evulz has a normal voice.
- Or everyone has a deep voice in the setting, the heroes included.
- Enforced: "We need to let the audience know that Evulz is a villain. Let's make his voice really deep and menacing."
- Invoked: Evulz designs a voice modulator that will deepen his voice, so that he'll be more recognizably evil and intimidating.
- Defied: Evulz has a deep voice, but then he realizes that this is an easy way for others to tell that he's evil, compromising his plan for power. He decides to use a voice modulator that will make his voice sound normal.
- Lampshaded: "Evulz is definitely evil. Just listen to that voice of his."
- Discussed: "Haven't you heard? Villains always have deep voices."