Cross-Dressing Voices/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character has a voice actor of the opposite gender.
 * Played Straight:
 * Bob (a prepubescent boy) is voiced by a woman.
 * Alice (a grown woman) is voiced by a man.
 * Exaggerated:
 * Bob is supposed to be 28 years old (well past puberty)...and is still voiced by a woman
 * Alice has a very low baritone or bass voice.
 * Inverted:
 * Bob is voiced by a 10-year-old boy like he himself is.
 * Alice is voiced by a woman.
 * Justified:
 * Bob is a prepubescent boy, and with both child labor laws and the fact that little boys' voices change, it's easier to just have a woman voice him.
 * Bob is a Bishounen, to the point of being an outright Dude Looks Like a Lady
 * Alice is a tough female (or even Butch Lesbian character)
 * She's a Man In Japan
 * Subverted: Bob starts out voiced by a 10-year-old boy in a Long Runner cartoon series.
 * Double Subverted: But then his voice actor undergoes puberty, and they hire a woman to do the voice work.
 * Deconstructed: The voice actor can't speak like their gender again.
 * Reconstructed:
 * Parodied:
 * A grown man is voiced by a 10-year-old girl.
 * An older married couple has the same voice actor Talking to Himself.
 * See Deconstructed.
 * Averted: All characters are voiced by members of their own gender.
 * Enforced: See "justified"
 * Invoked: Bob is a child character in a Long Runner series that doesn't get older...but his voice actor does, and his voice is beginning to crack.
 * Defied: The casting department simply hires a new boy to voice Bob.
 * Discussed:
 * Conversed:
 * Played For Laughs: A man voices an older woman, similar to Monty Python dressing in drag to play the same role.
 * See Deconstructed.
 * Played For Drama: Bob is revealed to be Roberta.

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