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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.

 

 

Common inversion is an unnaturally high, cold voice, especially laugh. Some characters with an [[Evil Laugh]] do high-pitched cackling, or be a [[Giggling Villain]], instead of the deeper, traditional one. These are usually a more unnatural and degenerate kind of evil. Taken further, anyone speaking the [[Voice of the Legion]] is incredibly dangerous.

 

 

[[I Thought It Meant|Has nothing to do with]] [[Fauxlosophic Narration]] or [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]].

 

* Anyone voiced by [[Norio Wakamoto]].

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

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

** Or [[Crispin Freeman]]'s wonderful low menace.

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

** In the same series this trope is inverted in Jet Black's deep voice

** 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.

** During season zero, even Yugi's spirit partner (the pharaoh) could easily be interpreted as evil, or at least a [[Sociopathic Hero]]. Even this early on when his voice was rather soft, it was still deeper than Yugi's.

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

** Light Yagami actually plays this trope straight. When he is having his Kira-ish inner monologues, his voice tone gets deeper.

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

** Itachi Uchiha also has a deep voice. {{spoiler|Subverted in that he is actually [[Good All Along]].}}

* In ''[[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}}.

* [[Show Hayami]], who voices notable villains like Muraki Kazukaka in ''[[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.

** Lust is a female example, especially since both her [[Kikuko Inoue|seiyuu]] and [[Laura Bailey|English VA]] in Brotherhood are [[Playing Against Type]]. While Lust [[Heel Face Turn|eventually averts]] this in the 2003 anime, she plays it ''[[Manipulative Bastard|very]]'' straight in Brotherhood.

* Type-Moon ''loves'' this trope, or to be more specific, [[Joji Nakata]]. An interesting example is seen in Archer; {{spoiler|his voice is much deeper than Shirou's, even though they're the same person. Proof that your moral alignment directly influences your tone!}}

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

** Cell gets a bit of this too in the English dub. His voice starts out as a sort of hissing rasp, and then grows deeper and more cultured as he gets more powerful. But it drops to downright Satanic levels when Cell gets ready to do something truly evil, {{spoiler|like killing Piccolo}}.

* Akira Touya in ''[[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.

 

* According to [[Deadpool]] of [[Marvel Comics]], [[Genius Cripple]] [[MODOK]] makes Terrence Stamp sound like [[Michael Jackson]].

* It's often mentioned how deep the voice of the Gollywog is in ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]''. His balloons are typeset with a heavy bold. He's supposedly made of very dense non-baryonic matter. One of his best moves is causing an earthquake with a loud bellow. One more example of repurposing his ''very'' racist characterization and design into happy coincidences and heroic traits.

 

* The Kurgan, of ''[[Highlander]]'' fame.

* Obvious ''[[Star Wars]]'' example: Darth Vader. (Let's face it, this trope is pretty much the reason [[James Earl Jones]] gets hired so often.) Also, [[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Darth Malak]].

** [[Christopher Lee|Count Dooku]] needs no cyborg enhancements to sound deep!

** [[Evil Overlord|Palpatine]]'s voice drops a whole octave when he becomes [[The Emperor]].

** Jabba the Hutt, anyone?

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

* Sartoris in ''[[The Final Sacrifice]]'' has a rather deep voice, humorously altered in post-production.

* Played with in ''[[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 (film)|Legend]]'' was an electronically-deepened [[Tim Curry]]. And you thought he was scary ''normally''.

* In ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera|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:

'''Nathan''': (normal) Nothing, Shilo, nothing. Go to bed. }}

* Dana's voice when possessed by Zuul in ''[[Ghostbusters]]''. "There is no Dana. [[That Man Is Dead|There is only Zuul]]."

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

* The Ripper in ''[[My Soul to Take]]''.

* Anton Chigurh in ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'' speaks with a grizzly, low voice, which essentially acts as a death rattle considering his character.

 

* Inverted with [[Harry Potter (novel)|Voldemort]], who is described as having a high, cold voice.

** Inverted again with [[Reverse Mole|Snape]], who has a deep, ominous voice; it doesn't really help either that he's portrayed by [[Alan Rickman]] in the films.

*** Since Snape is intended to appear evil or at least dark and brooding {{spoiler|right up to the end}}, it's played straight more than inverted.

** Oh-so-inverted with Umbridge.

* In ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor]]'', Cronal, unseen by his troops or his enemy, called himself Lord Shadowspawn and had his wheezy old man voice amplified and made deep. Luke thinks of it more than once as a "faux-Vader" voice.

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

* The ''[[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".

* When the High Seekers in the [[Emberverse]] really want to intimidate, they'll let loose a deep voice that borders on the aural equivalent of [[Alien Geometries]].

* [[Sword of Truth|Emperor Jagang]] is described to have a "deep, grating voice". Averted with Darken Rahl, who has a "clear, almost liquid" voice... and a trope fitting [[The Dragon|right hand man]].

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

 

* The [[Stargate Verse]] has the Goa'uld and the Wraith. The Asgard have a vocal effect, too (toned down in later seasons) but it's a lot friendlier-sounding than the ones used by the baddies. The Goa'uld, in fact, do this on purpose to sound more intimidating, and can turn it off at will when they want to blend in or just be more personable. By the end of the series, Ba'al almost always drops the voice effect when he's talking to the heroes.

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

* In ''[[Power Rangers Jungle Fury]]'', Dai Shi has an artificially deepened voice even in human form. ([[Exaggerated Trope|It gets deeper still when he's in his armored form]].)

** In ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'', Trent's stint as the evil White Drago Ranger is accompanied by an artificially deepened voice. When an accident turns him back to normal, so is his voice.

** And the Page Quoter, Koragg, also has his voice deepened.

* In ''[[Smallville]]'', the Phantom Zone criminal that borrowed Clark's DNA and made a clone body out of it (becoming the show's incarnation of Bizarro <ref>In classic Smallville [[Not Wearing Tights]] and [[Not Using the Zed Word]] fashion. "I'm ''you''. Just a little more... bizarre."</ref>) has a deeper voice than the real Clark, though it's not always obvious, and can be turned off at will, apparently (he impersonated Clark for some time with the viewers and other characters unaware.)

* On ''[[Knight Rider]]'', Michael Knight's [[Evil Twin]] Garthe Knight had a noticeably deeper voice than Michael (as well as a [[Beard of Evil|goatee]], of course.)

** KITT's [[Evil Twin]] KARR also has deeper voice than KITT does.

** Subverted with some of the Dalek Supremes in the classic series and the [[Big Finish]] stories - their voices tended to be higher than the average Dalek's, making them sound even more unstable and [[Incredibly Lame Pun|highly-strung]] than the norm.

** The Black Guardian, voiced by [[Valentine Dyall]], who, in life, could've challenged [[Brian Blessed]] in a booming voice contest.

* [[Played for Laughs]] in an ''[[All That]]'' sketch called Bridget's Slumber Party; the goth girl Claudia who has supernatural powers would often talk in a demonic voice especially if she was angry. Also in the Poetry with Claudia short which had her read poetry to children, she would alternate the lines of the rhymes to sound creepy - at the end she would scare the kids by saying the final line in a demonic voice.

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

'''Westley:''' Hm, not sure, could be the low scary voice that's giving me trouble. }}

** Also, it is revealed that his vessel, Jimmy, has a much higher voice.

** Definitively inverted in the Season 6 finale. {{spoiler|When Castiel becomes a not-so-nice god, he loses the Batman voice. It's fantastically creepy.}}

* The drug dealer who {{spoiler|may have ordered Becket's mother's murder}} in season three of ''[[Castle]]'' has a deep, scary voice.

* On ''[[Heroes]]'', Sylar's voice gets very deep and starts to echo a bit when he's about to do something evil.

* Red John from ''[[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.

 

* Inversion: When [[Tom Waits]] wants to be creepy, he usually goes for a higher voice. Compare "Hold On" with "In the Coliseum".

* DMX's ''Damien'' songs occasionally fall in to this, especially when Damien reveals his evil nature-- "You sold me your soul when you didn't say 'no.' Just let a human with dark skin go? Well '''Give me what you owe!'''" If you listen closely, in the first song, Damien's voice even sometimes has a deep reverb to it.

* Lupe Fiasco does this occasionally as well, such as the intros to the songs ''Little Weapon'' and ''Put You On Game.'' In ''The Coolest', the last seven words of "The ones that had deadbeat daddies, and well-to-do mommas, '''But not well enough to keep 'em from us...'''" are spoken with a second, deeper voice behind his own.

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

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

* Inversion: the predominant vocal style in [[Death Metal]] consists of a low, menacing and almost completely incomprehensible [[Guttural Growler|growling]], while in [[Black Metal]], mid- to high-pitched shrieking and screaming tend to be used. The inversion becomes apparent when you learn of the violence (church burnings, murders and one particularly infamous suicide) that was part and parcel of the [[Black Metal]] scene around the time of its inception. Additionally, the death metal growl as a style is much-derided in many circles, pejoratively referred to as [[Sesame Street|"Cookie Monster vocals"]].

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

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

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

 

 

* Scarpia in ''[[Tosca]]'' is a baritone, but lately, often sung by bass-baritones. He's an evil son of a bitch who wants to kill the tenor and rape the soprano.

** The rare case of this trope in Puccini's operas. His other low-voiced characters, like Colline in ''[[La Boheme]]'', Timur in ''[[Turandot]]'' and Sharpless in ''[[Madame Butterfly|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]].

* The Grand Inquisitor in ''[[Don Carlo]]''. 90-years-old, blind, and he sings the other bass, King Philip, literally off the stage. On the other hand, the baritone Rodrigo is [[Averted Trope|the nicest]] [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|and purest]] character ever to happen in a Verdi's opera.

* Nick Shadow in ''The Rake's Progress'' - see "Samuel Ramey" above.

* Osmin in ''Abduction from the Seraglio'' is a very low bass, but he's a funny and human villain.

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

* This was taken one step further in Baroque Opera, wherein any character anywhere within the actual male voice range -i.e. not meant to be played by a castrato- is INVARIABLY evil. Yes, even tenors.

** There's a good tenor guy Bajazet in Handel's ''Tamerlano''. Still, no bass in any Baroque opera could ever be good.

* Bartolo was cast as a bass by Paisiello, Rossini ''and'' Mozart.

* 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]].

* In general, contralto roles in opera are somewhat limited, sometimes described as being "witches, bitches, and breeches".

* In oratorios, however (basically operas without sets or costumes and meant for church), the parts of God and Jesus were often sung by basses.

 

* The cyclops Gargarensis in ''[[Age of Mythology]]'' has a guttural voice.

* Somewhat subverted in ''[[Guilty Gear]]''. Potemkin has the voice of a [[TI 83]] running a voice module at quarter speed, and the extremely threatening looks to go with it ; he's also one of the nicest and most polite characters in the series.

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

* Played straight in ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' (and expansion ''Hordes Of the Underdark'') with Paladin/Blackguard {{spoiler|Aribeth}}.

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

** Her voice also has a tendency to drop in tone at the end of some lines throughout the game to denote that she doesn't exactly have your best intentions in mind...

** At the end of ''[[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!'''"

* In ''[[Soul Series|Soulcalibur IV]]'', Tira has [[Split Personality]] Disorder. Her Jolly side has a disturbingly pure and innocent voice, but once her Gloomy side comes out, her voice becomes deeper and raspier.

** [[Big Bad|Nightmare]] plays this trope completely straight in the third and fourth games, with a digitally altered, deepened inhuman voice.

** Averted, however, in that Thrall and Varian (both voiced by Metzen himself~) along with a good number of protagonistic chars have pretty deep voices as well. Meanwhile, look at, say, Kael'thas. And no, being a blood elf doesn't justify the lack of trope, as one of the blood elves in MGT has at least a deeper voice by comparison: [[A God Am I|"I! AM! A GOD!!"]] Kael's was definitely especially high even by standards of his race, but not high enough to register the shrill creepy opposite-end of this trope either.

** Grom Hellscream changed from having a scratchy, high-pitched voice in Warcraft II, to a deep, gravelly one in Warcraft III.

** ''[[Dawn of War]]'' has the Demon Prince unit in Dark Crusade. '''''[[Large Ham|YOU DARE TO ORDER ME!? DO NOT THINK I SERVE YOU, FOOL.]]'''''

* Inverted in ''[[Myst]] IV: Revelation'', where the good guys {{spoiler|Achenar, Atrus, your spirit guide}} have low tenors or baritones, whereas the bad guys{{spoiler|, that is to say Sirrus,}} are nearly countertenors but not squeaky or unpleasant to hear. This is, of course, leaving out Yeesha, who is neither bad nor deep-voiced, but also prepubescent and female, excusing her soprano tones.

* In the ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max: Freelance Police|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.

* The voice of the [[Dungeon Keeper|Dungeon Keeper's]] advisor. Conversely, if the in-game vocal "taunts" are to be any guide, the Keepers themselves almost sound like they're on helium.

** Harbringer follows in his footsteps in ''[[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."

** {{spoiler|The Shadow Broker has a ridiculously deep voice as well, even without vocal modulation.}}

** {{spoiler|Teddie's}} shadow is also an interesting meta case, its voice has a [[Power Echoes|reverb effect]] to it, but otherwise is ''much'' deeper than the normal character's speech, sounding like a completely different person entirely. However, both roles are done by the same voice actor.

* 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]]''), one neutral (Captain Claw in, well, ''Claw''), and one evil (Caleb in ''[[Blood]]'').

* In ''[[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]]'' brings us [[Amoral Attorney|Manfred]] [[The Von Trope Family|von Karma]]'s '''''{{color|red|OBJECTION!}}'''''s.

** Though she doesn't have a voice clip, [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|Dahlia Hawthorne]] is said to have a soft, sweet, high voice. She also happens to be the {{spoiler|most evil character}} that Phoenix Wright has ever encountered.

* The [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Zuul]] from ''[[Sword of the Stars]]'' have an impressively guttural voice.

* ''[[Fallout 2]]'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y1neKU87Uk Frank Horrigan] has one of the deepest voices in video games. Justified, he's a huge super mutant.

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

* Inverted in ''[[Fable (video game)|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.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* ''[[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.

** This is lampshaded with the imp Qarr; Lien actually [[Medium Awareness|recognized him as evil ''because'' of his red speech bubble]].

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

** Excerpt from Fighter's Journal (DAY WHATEVA) [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/07/30/episode-1158-its-that-time-again/ "Black Mage has been well. He's radiating pure darkness now. He's got some kind of screaming demon background noise reverb thing going on with his voice. I think he just wants attention." ]

* Richard, the [[Token Evil Teammate]] of ''Waiting For Group'', has a rather deep voice if his singing voice in the "Slaughter Your World" video is any indication.

 

* Played for laughs in [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses|Ask That Guy]], where The Guy's voice will spontaneously drop a few octaves when he feels particularly evil.

* Parodied in the French web series ''Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk'', where all the evil guys have deep, low voices. Subverted since the friendly ogre travelling with the... hem... heroes also has a low voice, and the fiery demon living in the dungeon has a rather high, metallic voice. The series also provides good examples of [[Evil Laugh]].

'''Caboose:''' Of course! '''For starters.''' }}

* In [[All Your Base]] videos, CATS is usually voiced by Microsoft Sam at his lowest pitch setting. Other characters usually get higher-pitched, and less robotic sounding voices.

 

* Scar in ''[[The Lion King]]''; though Mufasa's voice is deeper, Scar's voice is much deeper than the main hero (and tenor), Simba.

* Ursula in ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''.

** His voice also takes on a british accent at the same time (again, for the creepy effect)

* The [[Disney Animated Canon]] version of ''[[Beauty and the 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.

* [[Captain Scarlet|"THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE MYSTERONS."]]

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

** He does, but when he gets serious/angry/just wants to be extra dramatic, his voice goes from high-pitched to really deep and growly.

* Makuta Teridax of the first two ''[[Bionicle]]'' films has a REALLY deep voice. Becomes a bit jarring when you realize the actor playing him secondarily plays the high-pitched Pewku.

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

* When [[Satan|Trigon]], the main villain of the fourth season of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|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 TV series)|Spider-Man]]'' cartoon, where Peter Parker deepened his voice significantly every time he put on his Spidey mask.

* Heihu, the demonic [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Shaolin Wuzang]]'', despite the fact that he's [[Demonic Possession|possessing]] a woman's body.

* Aku, nemesis of ''[[Samurai Jack]]''. As his voice actor [[Mako]] once put it, "Evil comes from the ''belly''."

* In ''[[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).

** [[Smug Snake|Darius Dun]] has a nice deep voice as well, complete with a british accent.

 

* Any villainous character ever played by [[Christopher Lee]]. Thus automatically subverted whenever he plays a good guy, like {{spoiler|Ansem}} in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'' or {{smallcaps|[[Don't Fear the Reaper|Death]]}} in the two [[Discworld]] animated miniseries.

* Inverted in ''[[The Adventures of Superman (radio)|The Adventures of Superman]]'', in which Superman's transformation from Clark Kent to Superman would be signalled by his voice going deeper, often mid-sentence: "This looks like a job... '''''for Superman'''''!"

* Any character played by [[Shozo Iizuka]], [[Ryuzaburo Ohtomo]], and [[Norio Wakamoto]].

* Inverted with [[Thurl Ravenscroft]]. Despite his incredibly deep voice and macabre name, the roles he took were usually sympathetic.

** One exception to this was his contributing to the Goblin-songs in the animated adaptation of ''[[The Hobbit]]''.

** On that note, [[Tony Jay]] and Michael Wincott also deserve a spot.

* [[Adolf Hitler]] had a very deep, rasping voice in private conversation. Averted elsewhere, as he used a high, piercing voice when making [[Large Ham|his grandiose speeches]], because a high-pitched voice carries better.

* Perennial [[The Three Stooges]] villain Kenneth MacDonald.

* Any villain played by [[Clancy Brown]]. Inverted whenever he plays a good guy.

 

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