Cross-Dressing Voices: Difference between revisions

Compare [[Crosscast Role]].

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* In ''[[Tears to Tiara]]'' Rathty is voiced by [[Greg Ayres]] in the Sentai English dub.{{spoiler|Except Rathty's a girl.}}

** Justified in that Rathty {{spoiler|is mistaken for a boy when she first appears.}}

* In ''[[ICE]]'', Julia is played by a man in both [[Akira Ishida|Japanese]] and [[Chris Patton|English]].

 

* The androgynous {{spoiler|Tobio}} in ''[[Wild Zero]]'' was played by a man and voiced by a woman.

* In the film version of Lionel Bart's successful stage musical ''Oliver!'', the singing voice of Mark Lester, who played the eponymous hero wasn't up to snuff, so his singing was dubbed Kathe Green, whose father Johnny was the film's music arranger. It makes for very eerie watching.

 

 

* Every narrator for an audio version of a book not done with a full cast fits this trope. In particular, Jim Dale, the American reader for the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, received an award for doing over 500 distinct voices for ''Order of the Phoenix'', including Hermione, Ginny, Minerva McGonnagall and Dolores Umbridge.

 

 

* Parodied in an episode of ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]''. Zack calls up the school that he and Cody goes to and "disguises" his voice as his mom, while it is obvious that they taped his mom's voice for the scene and he is lipsynching.

* One episode of ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' sort of qualifies. Oliver tells Miley and Lilly that he has to leave soon lest he invoke his mother's wrath. Cue a decidedly ''not'' feminine voice to ring through the air, telling Oliver to hurry up.

 

 

* In [[Queen]]'s song ''Brighton Rock'', the vocals are supposed to be a duet between a man and a woman, but Freddie Mercury ended up doing both voices.

* Dudley Moore's "Die Flabbergast" is likewise a fake "male/female" duet, but played for laughs.

 

 

* In ''Spitting Image'', [[Margaret Thatcher]] was voiced by Steve Nallon.

** Nallon actually appeared in live action as Thatcher in an episode of ''[[The New Statesman]]'', though to hide his gender he had to be shot in sinister silhouette.

 

 

* In the ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' ''[[Radio Drama|Radio Edition]]'', Marche was voiced by Yuka Imai (who also voiced {{spoiler|[[Final Fantasy XII|Larsa]]}}), Mewt was voiced by Asami Sanada, Montblanc by Kumiko Yokote, Nono by Masako Jo, and Babus by Kumi Sakuma.

* [[The BBC]] produced an adaptation of ''[[The Jungle Book (novel)|The Jungle Book]]'' in which Mowgli was played by an Indian actress.

 

 

* [[Vocaloid|Len Kagamine]].

** Valshe, a ''female'' singer, does quite a few covers of Len songs, leading to a recursive example of this trope.

 

 

* In the Latin American Spanish dub of ''[[Animaniacs]]'', Wakko is voiced by a woman, Giset Blanco, who is rather inconsistent with his voice: sometimes, it's low and hoarse; other times, it's nasally; still other times, it's very high pitched.

* In the Japanese dub of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', Patrick and Plankton are voiced by women who sound nothing like their originals. Plankton has a very cutesy voice despite being very small and irritable. In the movie dub, both characters are voiced by men.

 

 

* Tiny Kong in ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' is voiced by Kevin Bayliss. This was eventually subverted, as in subsequent appearances she and Dixie are voiced by Jen Taylor.

* [[Colleen O'Shaughnessey]] plays Genis, a 12-year-old boy, in the English-language adaptation of ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]''. In the sequel, the 14-year old Genis is voiced by the still-female Tara Sands.

 

 

* Jenny in ''[[Park Bench]]''.

* Sniffles the anteater from ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]''.

 

 

* [[Tara Strong]] voices Timmy Turner of ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'', Omi of ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'', and Ben Tennyson of ''[[Ben 10]]'', among others.

** [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152839/ Lots of others.]

** This was somewhat revisited some fifty years later in a TV special called ''Down and Out With Donald Duck'', in which Daisy is voiced by Tony Anselmo, the same actor who also voices Donald presently.

 

* ''[[Grave of the Fireflies]]'' deserves special recognition for hiring an actual five-year-old actress to voice the protagonist's young sister.

* The English dub cast of ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]'' is notable for casting three actual kids in the lead roles, although one child actor has to do a [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|sometimes-convincing, sometimes-overdone French accent]].

** The English dub actor [[Chris Patton]] has played the younger versions of two of his characters as well: Joshua Christopher in ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' (who was played by a woman in the Japanese version) and Fakir in ''[[Princess Tutu]]''. In the audio commentary for ''Chrono Crusade'', it's revealed that they used a mixture of Chris speaking higher and some editing to make it work.

** Similarly, in the dub of ''[[Naruto]]'', [[Yuri Lowenthal]] voices Sasuke even when he was a kid and later he voiced Simon of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' both before and after the [[Time Skip]], though not in the [[Distant Finale]] (which happen the same in the original language as well). The same goes for Rossiu, though only in the dub (while in the Japanese version he retains a female voice actor even when we briefly see him in his ''fourties'')

** Which happen for all characters... except Sasuke. Before the [[Time Skip]] he was voiced by Adolfo Moreno, a 30-something voice actor famous for voicing Ash Ketchum from ''Pokémon'', Sora from ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'' and [[Scott Pilgrim]], among many others. However, after the [[Time Skip]] he was replaced by Eduardo Bosch, whose voice sounds way more mature... so much that some people believe they overdid it.

* [[Akira Ishida]] himself is a popular inversion. His distinctive ''effeminate'' voice means he regularly gets parts normally played by women.

** This has come to the point where he voiced an ''actual woman''. Now ''that'' is something that you don't hear every day.

* Sixteen-year-old Tsukiyono Omi of ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' is played by Yuuki Hiro, actually the oldest of the four lead voice actors of the series; his youthful voice means that he is often cast as cute young boys.

** If you can't get a woman to play a boy, you can get Yuuki Hiro.

 

 

* Exceptions to this can easily date back as early as when [[Walt Disney]] himself decided to continue his [[Disney Animated Canon|legacy of full-length animated feature films]] after the success of ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'' with ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'' by casting 11-year-old Dickie Jones to voice the titular character.

* Chihiro from ''[[Spirited Away]]'' was voiced by an actual young girl in the English dub, then-11-years-old Daveigh Chase.

 

 

* One who is familiar with the trope would think that the squeaky-voiced 4- to 6-year-old Elmo on ''[[Sesame Street]]'' is voiced by a woman. No, he's voiced by Kevin Clash, an African-American man who is almost 50. Clash also performs Hoots the owl.

** He also voiced the mischievous Baby Sinclair from ''[[Dinosaurs]]'' whom like his name suggests is a baby, with a voice similar to Elmo's.

 

 

* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' games originally averted it with Tails, who was voiced by the then-teen Corey Bringas in ''Adventure'' 1 and 2 and William Corkery in ''Heroes'', ''Battle'' and ''Advance 3'' after Bringas hit puberty. He's then been voiced by women from 2005 on.

* In the original ''[[Lunar]]'' game for the Sega CD, ''Lunar: The Silver Star'', 15-year-old protagonist Alex is actually voiced by a then ''preteen'' Ashley Parker Angel. For the first remake, ''Silver Star Story'', Working Designs was considering on replacing Angel because he hit puberty, but they let him return anyway, feeling that this "new" Alex was a bit more "grown-up" than the original. This trope is played straight for the third remake, ''Silver Star Harmony'', where [[Yuri Lowenthal]] plays Alex.

* According to the official Japanese website for the game, this averted by ''[[Gotcha Force]]'''s English version. This is not a good thing.

 

* Aang of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' is voiced by Zachery Tyler Eisen (b.1993). Another main character, Toph Bei Fong, is voiced by Jessie Flower, who turned twelve the very same year her character was introduced. Any other kids their age or younger are voiced by children of the same gender and approximate age, and most teenager are played by same gender voice actor that are usually at least a bit older (for instance Sokka is 15 and his VA was 18 when they started).

** A [http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=23222 new interview] reveals that the series creators "really wanted" a real kid to play Aang, rather than Cross-Dressing Voices, and that as Eisen's voice has been deepening, the show's sound people have been artificially pitching it up, without the creators even noticing.