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{{quote|"''The pitch of my voice is digitally lowered to make it sound more sinister!''" <ref>This is a blue faced lie: it's done by playing the tape at half speed. There's nothing "Digital" about it at all.</ref>|'''Koragg''', ''[[Power Rangers Mystic Force]] [[The Abridged Series|Abbreviated]]''}}

An [[Obviously Evil|easy way to tell if someone is evil]] is that their voice is much deeper than a normal character, often artificially so. If someone undergoes a [[Face Heel Turn]], then along with their [[Evil Makeover]] their voice will either drop a few octaves, get put through a voice modulator or be combined with another voice speaking in a much deeper tone of voice. If an [[Anti -Hero]] decides to move a few notches down the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]], then he will start talking in a deeper, more serious tone of voice. Male characters almost always get an unapproachable, commanding cadence. Villainesses usually get a [[Evil Is Sexy|sultry, suggestive one]], unless they're supposed to be in command or ''actually'' scary in which case their cadence will be dismissive and forbidding.

A deep voice makes the character sound strong and competent, so it is a common trait for major villains that the audience is supposed to fear and respect. Consequently, such villains will usually speak in [[Badass Baritone|baritone register]], more rarely in [[Basso Profundo|bass ragisterregister]].

May be justified if the evil character becomes a huge [[One -Winged Angel]] with longer vocal chords, since that would make their voice deeper.

** Yes, including [[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Chiyo's dad]].

* Lucy in ''[[Elfen Lied (Manga)|Elfen Lied]]'' has a much deeper voice than her "good" personality, Nyu.

* Gauron, the [[Big Bad|main bad guy]] from the first season of ''[[Full Metal Panic (Light Novel)|Full Metal Panic!]]!'' has the deepest voice of all characters in the show. This is somewhat subverted in ''Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid'', where new villainous character [[White -Haired Pretty Boy|Leonard Testarossa]] has a voice almost as soft and gentle as a girl's -- though it's still deeper than that of [[White -Haired Pretty Girl|his sister]], who is naturally one of the good guys...

* ''[[Slayers]]'': (Anime)|SHABURANIGUDO!]] Especially in Japanese, the Dark Lord's voice is so artificially low as to be comical.

* Alucard from ''[[Hellsing (Manga)|Hellsing]]'' is technically a good guy, but monstrous enough to freak out undead super-Nazis, and speaks in [[Joji Nakata]]'s ultra-deep drawl.

* Lelouch of ''[[Code Geass (Anime)|Code Geass]]'' who is sort of like a "flamboyant, possibly [[Villain Protagonist|evil]] Batman" canonically has a voice changing device in his Zero costume which deepens his voice when he's wearing it.

* Wei in the ''[[Darker Than Black (Anime)|Darker Thanthan Black]]'' dub; also, particularly in the dub, Hei seems to do the [[Anti -Hero]] route also, speaking in a deeper voice when being BK-201 than when being the friendly and harmless Li. Averted though with Mao who has a very deep voice but is a nice guy. And a [[Intellectual Animal|cat]].

* Vicious of ''[[Cowboy Bebop (Anime)|Cowboy Bebop]]''. [[Norio Wakamoto]] is famous for these kinds of roles.

* In ''[[Blood Plus (Anime)+|Blood Plus]]'', [[Flamboyant Gay]] chiropteran Nathan Mahler changed his voice to a demonic rumble whenever he wanted to sound threatening. {{spoiler|Even the [[Dragon -in -Chief]] Amshel will back down when this happens, because Nathan is ''far'' more powerful and dangerous than he seems. Good thing he's not actually evil.}}

* ''[[Gao Gai Gar (Anime)GaoGaiGar|Gao Gai Gar]]'' has Pasdar and Palparepa.

* Xanxus from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn (Manga)|Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' has a much deeper voice than most of the good guys in the show - though most noticeably, much deeper than Tsuna ([[Cross -Dressing Voices|who is voiced by a girl]]).

* Marik Ishtar's shadow self in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (Animeanime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]''. His normal self's voice is actually higher-pitched than a normal man. There's also Bakura, who, on top of being deep-voiced, is [[Evil Brit|British]], which increases his evilness.

** Bakura both plays it straight and subverts it in the original Japanese. His [[Super -Powered Evil Side]] has a deeper voice than his normal self, but he was [[Larynx Dissonance|voiced by a woman]], so his voice is considerably high and effeminate.

*** And that was before he was voiced by '''[[Dan Green|DAN GREEN]]'''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaK2SMotm_0 Now quiet down so he can COMPLETE HIS TURN!]

* Nakago from ''[[Fushigi Yuugi (Manga)|Fushigi Yuugi]]''. {{spoiler|Yui's voice changes from sweet and sunny to rough and dramatic when she undergoes a [[Face Heel Turn]].}}

* Ryuk of ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'' has a rather deep voice in both Japanese and the English dub. While he does have more [[Even Evil Has Standards|standards]] than the soft-spoken [[Villain Protagonist]] Light, he is still rather evil, given his method for relieving boredom. Perhaps averted by L, who has a deeper voice than Light and is the [[Hero Antagonist]].

* Several of the villains in ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'' have displayed this trait and changes in tone to indicate shifts in character.

* In ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'', the character Rob Lucci {{spoiler|1=could at first only "speak" through his high-pitched pigeon Hattori. However, when he is unveiled as the immensely powerful evil leader in CP9's plot to capture Nico Robin, his 'real' voice is revealed to be much, much deeper. Interestingly, this was not done through the use of any synthesizers - the [[Tomokazu Seki|same seiyuu]] performed both parts}}.

** [[Everything Is's Even Worse Withwith Sharks|Arlong]], [[The Chessmaster|Crocodile]], [[Big Bad|Blackbeard]], and [[Complete Monster|Hody Jones]] also have rather deep voices.

* [[Show Hayami]], who voices notable villains like Muraki Kazukaka in ''[[Yami no Matsuei (Manga)|Yami no Matsuei]]'' and Sousuke Aizen in ''[[Bleach]]''.

** Ichigo, on the other hand, has a [[Super -Powered Evil Side]] whose voice is high and [[Ax Crazy]] sounding.

* Giovanni of ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' has a very deep, echoing voice every time he appears on a television or computer screen in the earlier episodes. This appears to be the result of computer editing. However, even when he appears in person, his voice is still quite deep.

* ''[[Soul Eater (Manga)|Soul Eater]]'''s Medusa, being a [[Consummate Liar]], has a pleasant, normally-pitched voice when she's pretending to be on the good side, and a deep, throaty voice when she's being her violent self. {{spoiler|It's particularly alarming when coming out of the [[Body Snatcher|borrowed]] [[Sleep Mode Size|child's body]] later in the series.}}

* Used in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]] Brotherhood'' with the Greed/Ling relationship. Greed isn't [[Affably Evil|necessarily]] [[Noble Demon|evil]], but he is given a very deep voice on the show. In contrast, his human host, Ling has a fairly soft voice.

* In the first ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' light novel, Kyon uses the term "clear soprano" to describe Ryoko Asakura's voice. Later on that day, {{spoiler|she tries to kill him rather violently...because she got bored.}}

* In ''[[Yami no Matsuei (Manga)|Yami no Matsuei]]'', Muraki's voice is very deep. In the dub, however, he sounds like [[The Rocky Horror Picture Show|Riff Raff.]]

* The English dub of ''[[Dragon Ball (Manga)|Dragon Ball]] Z'' does this with Frieza (portrayed then by Linda Young). Each time he transforms his voice is artificially deepened. At first it was just digital pitch-lowering with the 2nd form, but his 3rd form is more of a [[Voice of the Legion]] deal. The 4th form, in a subversion, brings it back to normal - high-pitched.

** The dub of ''Kai'' takes this a step further in a brilliant move: by having Frieza's voice recast (now played by Chris Ayres), having a high voice at the start and gradually getting deeper with each transformation - without the use of artificial pitch altering. By the time Frieza reaches form 3, Chris is using his natural voice and considering that form 3 Frieza looks like a fish demon, it makes him sound like the [[Complete Monster|devil]] he truly is.

* Akira Touya in ''[[Hikaru no Go (Manga)|Hikaru no Go]]'' doesn't fit in the "evil" category (he's just [[The Rival]] to Hikaru with a tendency to look down on him), but he has a serious, introspective deep voice mode.

* In ''[[Bleach]]'', most of the main villains like Aizen have deep voices.

** Oddly, [[James Earl Jones]] has played few evil overlords aside from [[Star Wars|Darth Vader]] and [[Conan the Barbarian|Thulsa Doom]]. But he got his start as a [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|substitute]] for [[Paul Robeson]] in theater.

* Laufey, the leader of the Frost Giants in ''[[Thor (Filmfilm)|Thor]]''.

* Xerxes in ''[[Three Hundred (Film)300|Three Hundred]]'' also had his voice deepened, to the point of [[Voice of the Legion|sounding inhuman]].

* This is present in many of the [[Batman]] films:

** In ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]'', [[Batman]] invokes the trope by affecting a deep growl while he's in character. When people are tripping on the Scarecrow's drug, they perceive others as evil monsters with inhumanly deep voices. Also, while the Joker's voice is usually high-pitched and nasally, he often slips down very low for his choice lines, such as, "Look at me!"

** [[Michael Keaton]] also speaks lower as [[Batman (Filmfilm)|Batman]], though the effect is more mild than [[Christian Bale]]'s.

* Played with in ''[[Spaceballs (Film)|Spaceballs]]'', wherein Dark Helmet's voice is only deep when his mask is in place. [[Justified Trope|Justified in-universe, as the mask actually impedes his breathing]].

* The Lord of Darkness in ''[[Legend (Filmfilm)|Legend]]'' was an electronically-deepened [[Tim Curry]]. And you thought he was scary ''normally''.

* Khan Tusion, the sadistic [[Hannibal Lecture]]-prone director of the ''Meatholes'' series of porn, often has his voice shift in and out of the electronically deepened range while he's verbally abusing the performers.

* In ''[[Repo! theThe Genetic Opera (Film)|Repo the Genetic Opera]]'' Nathan's voice becomes much deeper when he's in his [[Psycho for Hire|Repo Man]] persona. It's lampshaded at one point:

{{quote| '''Nathan''': (deep) So Rotti thinks he can take Shilo from me.<br />

'''Shilo''': Dad?<br />

** [[Memetic Mutation|ZUUL]], [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|Muthafucka, ZUUUUUL!!]]

* Demon-possessed Regan in ''[[The Exorcist (Film)|The Exorcist]]'' has a very loud, deep bellow, like getting yelled at by a truck horn.

* ''[[Lifeforce (Film)|Lifeforce]]'': The male vampire at the end.

* Played with in ''[[Up (Filmanimation)|Up]]''. The otherwise intimidating dog Alpha has an incredibly high and squeaky voice that causes the other dogs to laugh at him; apparently his voice box malfunctions sometimes, but when it's adjusted it does sound quite deep. Naturally, it breaks down again when he's defeated.

* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' combines this with [[Voice of the Legion]] when Galadriel gets drunk on the [[Drunk Onon the Dark Side|Ring's power]].

* Subverted by Judge Doom in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''; for most of the movie, he sounds like, well, [[Christopher Lloyd]], but when he reveals his true self, his voice could crack glass.

* Subverted in the ''[[Underworld (Filmfilm)|Underworld]]'' film series where Kevin Grevioux's character is a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Lycan]] named Raze with an unnaturally deep voice. He is brutish and violent, but he is not an inherently evil character. In the ''Rise of the Lycans'' prequel, he is decidedly a positive character. Even more jarring is that this is Grevioux's ''actual voice''.

* In the Disney version of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' Frollo is given a deep baritone by the late great [[Tony Jay]].

* In the ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers]]'' movies, instead of [[Frank Welker]]'s [[Transformers Generation 1|screechy, gravelly]] delivery as Megatron, we get a deep, growly performance by Hugo Weaving. The sequel also gives us [[The Man Behind the Man|The Fallen]] and {{spoiler|[[Broken Pedestal|Sentinel Prime]]}}.

* [[Alan Rickman]] has plenty of nice, sweet characters in his filmography, but thanks to his very deep voice it's his nastier characters people tend to remember. Namely, [[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Filmfilm)|Judge Turpin]], [[Die Hard (Film)|Hans Gruber]], and [[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves|the Sheriff of Nottingham]].

** And, of course, [[Harry Potter (Filmfilm)|Severus Snape]].

* [[The Fifth Element (Film)|Mr. Shadow]], being more or less evil incarnate, has the requisite '''very deep''' voice.

* The Ripper in ''[[My Soul to Take (Film)|My Soul to Take]]''.

* German voice - actor Tilo Schmitz everytime he dubs a villain, usually tall and big, thanks to his deep, sonorous, basso voice.

* In ''[[The Dunwich Horror (Literature)|The Dunwich Horror]]'' by [[HPH.P. Lovecraft]], Wilbur Whateley spoke with a frighteningly low voice. Justified in that he grew more than twice as fast as any other child, and reached a height of seven feet (among other things). The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society "radio play" of the story electronically pitched the actor's voice to [[Stargate SG -1|Goa'uld]] levels.

** The narrator does mention that Wilbur sounded like his voice-producing organs were somehow different from a normal human's - which, naturally, they were.

* {{smallcaps|Death}} from the ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'' is definitely a subversion; he's [[Don't Fear the Reaper|not nearly as bad]] as he looks or sounds.

** Doubly so in the animated miniseries of ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'' and ''[[DiscworldSoul Music (Literaturenovel)/Soul Music|Soul Music]]'', where he's voiced by [[Christopher Lee]], who practically based his career around the trope.

* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] have an antagonist called Sabbath, who, due to not-exactly-evil motives and frequent [[Enemy Mine]] situations, is about as non-evil as you can get when you perform [[Meatgrinder Surgery]] and continually try to screw up [[The Multiverse]]. His voice, described as a "low rumble" and a "resonant bass", gives him villain points, though. Extra villain points for the fact it functions as a mild, mundane version of [[Charm Person]]. It probably goes along with the [[Stout Strength]] and "hands like hams".

* In the [[Horus Heresy]] series from the ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 4000040,000]]'', First Captain Ezekyle Abbaddon of the Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus is described as being a big man with an incredibly low voice, even for an [[Super Soldier|Astartes]]. In the "present day" of the franchise, he has since became [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Abaddon the Despoiler]], Warmaster of the Black Legion. As such, he is the closest thing the [[The Corruption|Chaos]] [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil|Space Marines]] have to a [[Enemy Civil War|cohesive leader]].

* Ma'el Koth from ''[[The Acts of Caine (Literature)|The Acts of Caine]]'' is usually described as rumbling.

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

** Ra in ''[[Stargate (Filmfilm)|Stargate]]'' sounds a lot like [[Three Hundred (Film)300|Xerxes]], bordering on [[Voice of the Legion]] territory.

** In ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]'', Hunter and Blake got pitched down before their reveal as Rangers and stayed with their normal voices through their [[Heel Face Turn]] and [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] stints.

** In Season 8 {{spoiler|Lex}} pulls this off courtesy of a respirator, complete with [[Vader Breath]]. His protege [[Dark Action Girl|Tess]] [[Well -Intentioned Extremist|Mercer]] isn't as extreme an example, but she has the lowest voice of any of the girls in the cast.

* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', several villains have deep voices. The Beast and Sutekh, both voiced by Gabriel Woolf, have deep voices to represent their ancient, primal evil. Meanwhile in the new series, the Dalek Emperor from "Parting of the Ways" and both Supreme Daleks seen so far have deep voices to denote their supremacy. The Cybermen have had either high or deep voices, depending on when the episode was made, and the Sycorax chief from "The Christmas Invasion" has a low, rough voice.

** Interestingly played with the Cult of Skaro - Dalek Sec has a higher pitched voice than any of his followers, but as it turns out, he is also slightly less evil than your average Dalek - not that it's saying all that much.

** From new series 6, we have [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S32 E1/E01 The Impossible Astronaut|The]] [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S32 E2/E02 Day of the Moon|Silence]] and [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S32 E4/E04 The DoctorsDoctor's Wife|House]].

* Inverted in ''[[Kings]]'': [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] William Cross has a high, thin voice. Evil is relative in a [[Deadly Decadent Court]], but he seems to be the only one {{spoiler|(still alive, anyway)}} who wants war.

* Lampshaded in ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' when Holtz tries to convince Westley that he's trying to protect Connor.

{{quote| '''Holtz:''' You don't believe me?<br />

* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'''s Castiel is an interesting example. Ambiguously played straight in the first and second episode he appeared in, as we didn't know whether the angels are on the Winchesters' side or not. Averted later, when it is revealed that, unlike the other angels, he doesn't want the world to be destroyed and genuinely cares about Dean and Sam. With his sacrifice in 4x22, he ultimately became a part of the family.

* Although his [[Well -Intentioned Extremist|evilness is debatable]], [[Magnificent Bastard|Scorpius]] from ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' is tall, imposing, vicious, wears all black and speaks...[[Subverted Trope|quite a few octaves higher than everyone else]]. He is ''definitely'' a [[Badass]] though.

* On ''[[Game of Thrones (TV)|Game of Thrones]]'', Tywin Lannister is played by Charles Dance, and has a [[Badass Baritone]] voice that makes him sound twice as serious and menacing as he would be otherwise. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47MazYDnmaU See here].

* Red John from ''[[The Mentalist (TV)|The Mentalist]]'' is a subversion of this trope in that even when his voice is seemingly manipulated, he ''still'' has an odd, higher sounding voice.

* Played straight with the original incarnation of the [[Psychopathic Records]] supergroup [[Dark Lotus (Music)|Dark Lotus]], where the darkest lyrics were delivered by deep, [[Harsh Vocals|gravelly voiced]] rapper Marz. The rest of the label averts it:

** [[Insane Clown Posse (Music)|Insane Clown Posse]]: Shaggy 2 Dope, who has a scratchier, higher voice than Violent J, is usually the one to perform the "evil" parts of any given song. He's also more vicious in their wrestling matches. In fact, the fact that his voice ISN'T a stereotypical deep, booming bass makes him just that bit more intimidating.

** [[Twiztid (Music)|Twiztid]]: Neither Monoxide nor Madrox has a particularly deep voice.

** [[Anybody Killa (Music)|ABK]], who has a prominent lisp.

* [[Rammstein (Music)|Rammstein]]'s Till Lindemann is ''made'' of this trope.

* [[Eminem (Music)|Eminem]] does this in the song "My Darling", where his separate identity (Slim Shady) is heard in a deep, demonic voice.

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic (Music)|Weird Al Yankovic]] in the song ''Your Horoscope For Today'' when he gets to Sagittarius.

{{quote| ''All your friends are laughing behind your back.'' '''''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|KILL THEM.]]'''''}}

* Dimmu Borgir's song "The Sacrilegious Scorn" has [[Satan]] appearing as [[Hot Asas Hell|a beautiful woman]], who turns out to have a deep voice as she performs a spoken-word rendition of one verse.

=== Opera ===

** The rare case of this trope in Puccini's operas. His other low-voiced characters, like Colline in ''[[La Boheme (Theatre)|La Boheme]]'', Timur in ''[[Turandot]]'' and Sharpless in ''[[Madame Butterfly (Theatre)|Madama Butterfly]]'' are nice, or at least sympathetic, like Michele in ''Il Tabarro'' and Rance in ''La Fanciulla del West''. And Gianni Schicchi is a [[Loveable Rogue]].

* Claggart in ''[[Billy Budd (Theatretheatre)|Billy Budd]]'' is a super-low bass. One of the most satanic characters ever.

** Completely inverted in ''[[The Magic Flute (Theatre)|The Magic Flute]]'', when the villain is an EXTREMELY high soprano, and the low bass is the good guy.

* Also, Eric Halfvarson, a famous Wagner bass. The man even looks like a psychopath, and plays mostly... psychopaths. ([[Mean Character, Nice Actor|But he's nice in real life]].)

* Subverted in ''Khovanshchina'': Dosifey, the bass, is a good, wise priest.

* Iago in ''[[Othello (Theatre)|Othello]]'' is a baritone - sometimes sung by bass-baritones.

* ''Regina'' is all over the place with this one. The title role, greedy and morally bankrupt, was initially supposed to be a mezzo-soprano, but ended up a soprano. Her husband, Horace, and servant, Addie, are a bass and contralto respectively, but are good guys, as are Birdie and Zan, who are sopranos. Ben and Oscar, also greedy, are both baritones, and their son Leo, a much less endearing version of [[The Ditz]], is a tenor.

* The title role in ''Boris Godunov'' is something of a [[Villain Protagonist]], and is a bass (though is occasionally sung by baritones). Interesting in that he's a bit of an [[Anti -Villain]].

* ''[[Der FreischuetzFreischütz]]'' gives us one straight-play and three subversions. Kaspar, the main antagonist, is a basso, but so are the kindly old hermit and Kuno, the protagonist's [[Mentor]] and father-in-law-to-be. Samiel is a speaking role, but generally high-pitched.

* Inverted in ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'' with Kefka and his trademark [[Evil Laugh]]. [[Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|Seymour]], on the other hand, plays this straight with his commanding bass voice, which becomes [[Voice of the Legion|distorted]] when he transforms into Seymour Natus or Seymour Flux.

** ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' gave voice acting to characters from the first twelve games of the franchise. Apparently, [[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|Garland]], [[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Golbez]] ([[Anti -Villain|kinda]]), [[Final Fantasy V|Exdeath]] and [[Big Bad|Chaos]] subscribe to this trope.

** In the DS version of ''[[Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV]]'', [[Face Heel Revolving Door|Kain]] has a ''much'' deeper voice than Cecil, which kind of tips off the player as to what kind of role [[Rival Turned Evil|he'll play later on in the game.]]

* Exemplified by the character Dagri'Lon in the [[Skyrim]] [[Game Mod|mod]] ''[[Interesting NPCs (Video Game)|Interesting NPCs]]''.

* Both the [[Final Boss]] and the [[Bonus Boss]] in ''[[Paper Mario: theThe Thousand Year Door (Video Game)|Paper Mario the Thousand -Year Door]]'' get white text in black balloons, which is the visual expression of this trope.

* When GLaDOS's Morality Core is destroyed in ''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]'', her voice drops from a tinny, childish drone to a low, seductive tone.

** At the end of ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'', {{spoiler|Wheatley}} greets you with a more or less cheery "Well, well, well. Welcome..." followed by considerably darker and deeper "'''to MY LAIR!'''"

* CABAL in the ''[[Command and& Conquer: Tiberium]]'' series.

* ''[[Tales of the Abyss (Video Game)|Tales of the Abyss]]'': {{spoiler|Asch}} has a much deeper voice than {{spoiler|Luke}}, reflecting his [[Anti -Hero]] tendencies.

* ''[[World of Warcraft (Video Game)|World of Warcraft]]'': Death Knights have slightly altered voicesets compared to anyone else with the same race but different class. The original Death Knight hero in ''Warcraft 3'' and other evil heroes also have deep voices.

** Also, in ''Warcraft III'' the [[Anti -Hero]] demon hunters have a high voice, but when they activate their [[Super -Powered Evil Side]], their voice becomes a deep bass.

* Played with in most games based off ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 4000040,000]]'': The voices of loyalist Space Marines are almost as deep as their Chaos counterparts. Then again, this is ''Warhammer 40,000'', where '''everyone''' is evil sooner or later.

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' goes with the "normal voice combined with another voice" variation for the Beauty And Beast Corps.

* In the ''[[The Adventures of Sam and& Max: Freelance Police (Video Game)|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' episode ''What's New, Beelzebub?'', all the demons who impersonate other characters have artificially deepened voices when they break character.

* ''[[Mass Effect (Video Game)|Mass Effect]]'': {{spoiler|Sovereign has a very deep, ominous timbre, with all the flanging one might expect from a synthetic being}}. At high enough volumes, it almost feels like it's rattling your teeth.

** Harbringer follows in his footsteps in ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]''. The main difference between the their voices is that Sovereign sounds detached, uncaring, which is pretty much what you'd expect from an ancient sentient starship that considers "organic life nothing but a genetic mutation." Harbinger, on the other hand? There's actual emotion there. You can tell that Harbinger actually has emotion. HATE. There's just more malevolence in that voice, not to mention the way it says "THIS HURTS YOU, SHEPARD."

* In ''[[Persona 4 (Video Game)|Persona 4]]'', most of the [[Enemy Without|Shadows]] speak with a [[Voice of the Legion]] involving the victim's actual voice layered over a deeper echo of it. {{spoiler|Naoto's}} shadow is an exception though, it's layered with a higher-pitched voice.

* Stephan Weyte has gone between subverting this and playing it straight; among his other roles in video games are three that he used the same deep, gravelly voice for - one good (Greil in ''[[Fire Emblem (Video Game)|Fire Emblem]]''), one neutral (Captain Claw in, well, ''Claw''), and one evil (Caleb in ''[[Blood]]'').

* In ''[[Tekken]]'', when [[Super -Powered Evil Side|Devil Jin (manga)]] talks, his voice is much lower than the normal Jin Kazama's. And in ''Tekken 6'', though it's subtler, [[Face Heel Turn|regular Jin (manga)]] has a slightly lower-sounding voice as well.

* Both of the villains in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' have deep bass voices, especially [[Norio Wakamot|Xem]][[Paul St Peter|nas]]. It helps that most of the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]]s are different incarnations of the same deep-voiced man. Also inverted in that the guy voiced by [[Christopher Lee]] is an [[Anti -Hero]].

** A variation occurs in ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]''. {{spoiler|Vanitas, [[The Dragon]] to Master Xehanort (yes, as in the original form of the same guy responsible for all that's gone wrong in the ''KH'' universe) is [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|Ven]]'s [[Enemy Without]], an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Complete Monster]] who is [[Made of Evil|the personification of all the evil stripped out of Ven's heart]]. He takes the appearance of series' hero Sora (going into that right now would require a lengthy explanation) and is voiced by [[Miyu Irino]] and [[Haley Joel Osment]] (respectively, Sora's seiyuu and voice actor). Both voice Vanitas nearly identical to that of Sora, but with a deeper, more smug and sinister inflection.}}

* In ''[[Iji (Video Game)|Iji]]'', Tor's voice basically sounds like Darth Vader with laryngitis. This was so prevalent, the game's creator had to explain what he was saying in his speedrun videos. {{spoiler|Subverted, he's really a good guy inside.}}

* ''[[Ace Attorney (Visual Novel)|Ace Attorney]]'' brings us [[Amoral Attorney|Manfred]] [[The Von Trope Family|von Karma]]'s '''''{{color|red|OOBJECTION!}}'''''s.

** Used again in ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations Miles Edgeworth (Visual Novel)|Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth]]'' by [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Quercus Alba}}

* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As (Anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha AsA's]]: The Battle of Aces'', Nanoha's Evil Twin Material-S has a deeper version of her voice.

* The Transcendent One from ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' has a terrifically deep voice.

* Inverted in ''[[Fable I (Videovideo Gamegame)|Fable I]]'' with Jack of Blades having a creepy, high-pitched voice. Played straight in The Lost Chapters expansion, where his voice has been artificially lowered to a more demonic tone.

* ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'' does this sometimes with speech balloons---several characters have theirs colored, with the colors often meant to imply their personalities.

** Lampshaded with [[Big Bad|Xykon]]. In ''[[Start of Darkness]]'' we see his (somewhat less evil) human form, which has a normal speech bubble; it becomes black when he becomes a lich, and he ''comments'' that his voice sounds deeper, [[Star Wars|comparing]] [[The Lion King|it]] [[CNN|to]] [[James Earl Jones]]'s.

** Also {{spoiler|Vaarsuvius}} gets a colored speech bubble after {{spoiler|his/her [[Deal Withwith the Devil]]}}

* In ''[[Eight 8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', Garland complains that his evil voice hurts his throat.

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'' plays this straight with the gate keepers, with their speech in a different font (until they were told not to). The subversion is used for psychological advantage with [http://www.schlockmercenary.com:8080/2006-01-09 TAG]{{Dead link}}.

* One of the signs that the AI O'Malley/Omega is possessing someone in ''[[Red vs. Blue (Machinima)|Red vs. Blue]]'' is their voice suddenly going deep and random psychotic comments ("So you ''didn't'' threaten to cut off my head and give it to Church as a birthday present?")

{{quote| '''[[Cloudcuckoolander|Caboose]]:''' Fix the tank so I can [[Robo Ship|talk to Sheila]]. '''And start killing everyone.'''<br />

'''Tucker:''' You mean all the reds, right?<br />

* Played with in ''[[DoctorDr. HorriblesHorrible's Sing Along Blog (Web Video)|Doctor Horribles Sing -Along Blog]]''. [[Villain Protagonist|Dr. Horrible]] ''does'' speak/sing a bit deeper and more harshly when he's in evil mode, but he's still a normal, non-creepy/cold tenor either way. Meanwhile, [[Hero Antagonist|Captain Hammer]] is a baritone, and [[The Ingenue|Penny]] is an alto.

* ''[[Echo Chamber (Web Video)|Echo Chamber]]''{{'}}s Mr. Administrator.

* [[Reflets D d'Acide]] parodies this with the villainess Alia-Aenor, who is a giant black dragon with a very deep voice... in contrast with her human form, who has a little girl's voice.

* ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' averted it with Megatron and Starscream both having very high, whiny voices. In [[The Movie]], Unicron played it straight. Megatron in ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' and ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' are another story, though. ''Animated'' also has Lugnut, but Starscream still has a high, scratchy voice despite being a bigger threat to more people than ever before.

** [[Transformers (Filmfilm)|The live-action movie]] played it straight by making Megatron's voice very deep as well as Barricade's. Movie Starscream is the first incarnation of 'Screamer to have a very deep voice as well - though ''ever so slightly'' higher than the others.

** ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' era Megatron, ''yeeessss''...

* Inverted in ''[[He-Man and Thethe Masters of The Universe (Animation)|He-Man and The Masters of Thethe Universe]]'', where Skeletor's voice gets rather shrieky, complete with cackling, after he loses his face. Played straight with Marzo, when being freed from his dwarfing curse.

* When Flippy from ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' is reminded of war and converts to his [[Super -Powered Evil Side]], he gains this trait.

* ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]]'' used this not only for Batman (see the entry for "Film") but also for their version of Two-Face: Harvey Dent's voice was relatively high and lively, while his darker personality's voice was gravelly and deep.

** Played straight in [[G.I. Joe: theThe Rise of Cobra (Film)|the live action movie]], where the Doctor {{spoiler|who later upgrades to the Commander}} pulls the deepest and most menacing voice he can do.

* One of the differences between [[Darkwing Duck (Animationanimation)|Darkwing Duck]] and his [[Evil Twin]] Negaduck is the latter's deeper voice.

* In ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'', it's revealed that Steve's obese friend Barry has to take mind altering medication. When Barry doesn't, he becomes malicious and gains the matching deeper and a [[Creepy Monotone]] voice.

* The [[Disney Animated Canon]] version of ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and Thethe Beast]]'' ''almost'' subverts this one by giving its hero a growly, artificially-deepened voice as long as he's in Beast form and not. So why isn't it a subversion? Gaston's voice is still lower.

** Also nearly subverted with Belle herself. She is a mezzo-soprano while her foils, the three Bimbettes, are [[The Soprano|breathy sopranos.]] They aren't evil, however--justhowever—just air-headed fans of Gaston.

* [[Big Bad|Mumm-Ra]] of the ''[[Thunder CatsThundercats]]''.

* In ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'', Morbo the Annihilator subverts this by having a deep voice and an expressed desire for destruction of all of humankind, but only works as a news anchor.

* [[Dark Action Girl|Asajj Ventress]] from ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'' has a deep, gravely voice.

* In the same vein as Dr. Claw, there's Dr. Robotnik in ''[[Sonic Sat AM (Animation)|Sonic Sat AM]]''. Easily the most intimidating incarnation of the character, his dramatically reverberating voice usually stayed at the level of a whisper (at least in the first season), but its menacingly low tones are among the most memorable aspects of the series.

* In the early ''[[Popeye (Comiccomic Stripstrip)|Popeye]]'' shorts, Bluto's voice was baritone. Especially notable if he were being played by Gus Wickie.

* Inverted with the villainous HIM from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]]'', who possesses a creepy falsetto voice.

* Subverted in ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|Gargoyles]]''. Not only does Goliath have a deeper voice than the [[Big Bad|main antagonist]], but he has the deepest voice in the entire primary cast. Played completely straight with Goliath's [[Evil Twin]], Thailog.

* Officer Shallowgrave on ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]''. It's even [[Lampshaded]] by Cosmo.

* Latanya Hippo from ''[[My Gym PartnersPartner's a Monkey (Animation)|My Gym Partners a Monkey]]'' may not be evil but she does talk in a deep, scary demonic voice especially when she is angry.

* [[Danny Phantom|Dark Danny]].

** Also briefly with {{spoiler|Sam}} when Undergrowth brainwashes her. Not only is it deeper, it's ''seductive''.

* When [[Satan|Trigon]], the main villain of the fourth season of ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'', had to be even more evil and threatening than [[Big Bad|Slade]], the creators decided that he also had to have an even deeper voice than Slade's already quite deep [[Creepy Monotone]].

* Inverted in the 1960's ''[[Spider -Man (1967 (AnimationTV series)|Spider-Man]]'' cartoon, where Peter Parker deepened his voice significantly every time he put on his Spidey mask.

* Oogie Boogie from ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas (Film)|The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' has quite the deep voice. Also played with the hero Jack Skellington, as he uses a deep voice both for his more creepy scenes ''and'' when he tries to be Santa.

* Despite the fact that he's very small, Plankton of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants (Animation)|SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' has a very deep baritone voice.

* In ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]],'' evil is deeper than the bottom of the ocean. Given that [[Big Bad|Amon]] and his [[The Dragon|Lieutenant]], are voiced by [[Steve Blum]] and Lance Henriksen. Which is ''exactly'' as awesome as it sounds.

* [[Vandal Savage]], [[Big Bad]] (or at least the founder of the group that collectively forms the [[Big Bad]]) of the first season of ''[[Young Justice (Animationanimation)|Young Justice]]'' has a very deep, growling voice.

* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003]]'', [[Complete Monster|the Shredder]] has a nice deep voice with a Japanese accent, which, while wearing his armor, sounds like it echoes robotically. [[The Blob|Sh'Okanabo's]] voice in Fast Forward, of course, is surprisingly deeper than that of the Shredder. It even has an almost alien-like echo added to it (which is no surprise as [[Complete Monster|Black Doom]] from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' sounds exactly like him).

* [[Tim Curry]]'s voice seems like this at times, but it isn't so much deep as it is a suave brand of tenor.