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{{quote|'''Harley''': [[Repeating So the Audience Can Hear|Huh? What was that? I “should kill everyone and escape”?]]
'''Harley''': Sorry... The voices.
'''Harley''':
|''[[Suicide Squad (2016 film)|Suicide Squad]]'' [https://youtu.be/CmRih_VtVAs?t{{=}}53'']<ref>That video is from the trailer, a couple words were cut out of it but were in the movie.</ref>}}
Whenever characters start hearing the [[Voice of the Legion]] whisper in their ear, or the [[Black Speech]] dancing on the wind, there's something bad in store for them... and it comes in two flavors! -- Insanity Berry and Evil Sauce.
'''Insane''' -- Bob's completely lost his mind, but how can we make that plain to the audience? Simple—Have him mention [[Hallucinations|hearing voices in his head]], or depict him [[
'''Evil''' -- The evil version can come from a lot of sources. [[Demonic Possession]], nearby [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghosts]], [[Artifact of Doom|Artifacts of Doom]] and [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|Tomes of Eldritch Lore]]. The Demon/Spirit/Artifact(s) possessing Bob may serve as the "evil" [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|shoulder angel]], and rather than (or in addition to) force(ing) him to do evil, tells him to. As Bob realizes [[Evil Feels Good]], the demon can then claim that it didn't make Bob do anything he didn't want to.
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* Michael from ''The Republic of Trees'' suffers those near the end of the book. Though he refers to them as "demons", they all keep screaming at once, so he never hears them clearly enough to figure of what they want.
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* Subverted in ''[[NCIS]]'' when they investigate a case of a naval officer that was diagnosed with schizophrenia after her husband was killed in action and she starts hearing voices in her room. It turns out the "voices" were from a radio transmitter planted in her air vents. She had vital information regarding the whereabouts of a large sum of stolen money, and the criminals who wanted it were trying to get her out of the picture by [[Gaslighting|having her declared insane]].
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* "Skullcrusher Mountain" by [[Jonathan Coulton]]: "The voices that control me from inside my head say I shouldn't kill you... yet."
* "Absolutely Bill's Mood" by [[They Might Be Giants]]. Formerly the page quote.
* [[Harvey Danger]]'s "Flagpole Sitta": "I hear the voices in my head, I swear to god it sounds like they're snoring..."
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmLFVATlt5s "Inner Voice"] by [[Worm Quartet]] is ''probably'' this, given <s>some</s> most of the things it suggests, but hey, it's worked for the narrator so far. He's not too happy about that last one, though.
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=== Film ===
* Used in the ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' movies, to hint at the One Ring's corrosive mental effects.
* ''[[Poltergeist]]''. While Carol Anne is watching a TV set to a dead channel, the static starts to sound like whispering. This is apparently the sound of the ghosts on the "other side".
* ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]''. Picard keeps hearing the voice of the [[Voice of the Legion|Collective]] in his head.
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* ''[[Harry Potter]]''
** In ''[[Harry Potter and
** Ron hears these in ''[[Harry Potter and
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' [[Horus Heresy]] novel ''Fulgrim'', this is {{spoiler|how Chaos corrupts Fulgrim.}}
* Celmomas in ''The Second Apocalypse'' has a voice in his head. It's probably not a good voice considering what a creepy psychopath he is.
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=== Professional Wrestling ===
* [[Randy Orton]] in his heel role for the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] uses Rev Theory's 'Voices' as his theme song and at one point claimed to be unable to control himself. Not sure if this counts as 'insane' or 'evil' but whatever it is, he's good at it.
* Former WWE Diva Victoria used a similar theme to Orton (All The Things She Said by Tatu) in her early career.
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