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[[Cross Dressing Voices]] is a [[Sub Trope]], which is about adult women doing young boys' voices or adult men doing falsettos. Not to be confused with [[Vocal Dissonance]], which is when a person's natural voice does not seem to fit their appearance.

==== {{smallcaps|Imitating a Female Voice}} ====

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* [[Robin Williams]] managed an almost convincing voice in ''[[Mrs. Doubtfire (Film)|Mrs. Doubtfire]]''. It may have helped that he played an old woman, not a young one. [[Acceptable Targets|A British one, at that]].

* Edna Turnblad in ''[[Hairspray]]'' '''is''' this trope. She's a female character who was played by drag queen Divine in the original movie. [[Harvey Fierstein]] originated the role on Broadway.

** [[John Travolta]] in the 2007 movie plays it more realistically, with a distinctly softer lilt than Fierstein's. Other stage versions have Ednas that barely try to sound feminine at all.

** [[John Travolta (Creator)]] in the 2007 movie plays it more realistically, with a distinctly softer lilt than Fierstein's. Other stage versions have Ednas that barely try to sound feminine at all.

** Many fans of the original stage show despised Travolta's interpretation specifically because he was too believable a woman. Edna was intended to be played like a drag queen, and Travolta said there was "nothing gay about Hairspray" and somehow managed to de-gay the word "fabulous."

* In ''[[Orgazmo]]''. One of the women the titular character has to do a porno with is nicknamed "T-Rex" because she's so rotund. She probably has the deepest voice of any character in the film. Anyone who's since seen ''[[South Park]]'' will recognize that Trey Parker is dubbing her. Apparently the overweight middle-aged actress who was such a good sport to appear in the film didn't have a scary enough voice.

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* Benjamin "Katon" Carignan's female voice, as heard on [[Fobbies Are Borange|Loids are not Christmas]].

* ''The [[Firesign Theatre]]'', being all men, do both male and female characters on their albums. The eeriest is definitely Phil Austin.

* ''[[I'm Sorry ~~Ill~~ Read That Again (Radio)|I'm Sorry Ill Read That Again]]'' had Tim Brooke-Taylor as Lady Constance and [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals|various women with a strong similarity to Lady Constance]]. Lady Constance made a comeback as one of the Ugly Sisters in the Radio 4 [[Panto]] ''Black Cinderella II Goes East'', along with Graeme Garden as Moaning Minne; as Queens Victoria and Boudicca in the ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio)|I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'''s [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]]; and as the Duchess (with Minnie as the Cook) in ISIHAC's ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Literature)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' parody.

* ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (Radio)|I'm Sorry Ill Read That Again]]'' had Tim Brooke-Taylor as Lady Constance and [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals|various women with a strong similarity to Lady Constance]]. Lady Constance made a comeback as one of the Ugly Sisters in the Radio 4 [[Panto]] ''Black Cinderella II Goes East'', along with Graeme Garden as Moaning Minne; as Queens Victoria and Boudicca in the ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio)|I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'''s [[Yet Another Christmas Carol]]; and as the Duchess (with Minnie as the Cook) in ISIHAC's ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Literature)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' parody.

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Pulled off to varying degrees of success by Mayo Suzukaze in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''--the [[Super Powered Evil Side|Battousai]] voice is a very convincing heroic tenor. The goofy, boyish voice Kenshin is meant to have the rest of the time drifts between believable and obviously female.

* Pulled off to varying degrees of success by Mayo Suzukaze in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''--the [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Battousai]] voice is a very convincing heroic tenor. The goofy, boyish voice Kenshin is meant to have the rest of the time drifts between believable and obviously female.

* All over the place in ''[[Simoun]]'': there isn't a single male voice actor in the show. [[Justified Trope]] in that everyone in the world of ''[[Simoun]]'' is born female, and any men are women who either chose to be so or allowed the Spring to randomly chose for them.

* ''[[Pokémon (Anime)|Pokémon]]'''s [[Maddie Blaustein]] is an interesting case. Besides Meowth, she mostly played males, including the [[Narm Charm|ridiculously gruff]] Lt. Surge. Of course, Maddie is transgender, which could possibly make her an exception if that wouldn't also make her an exceptional case of [[Cross Dressing Voices]] as she also played young, soft-voiced boys [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and A.J.]]

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== [[Literature]] ==

* [[Lies Damned Lies and Statistics|About 97.5%]] of books recorded on audio have a) just one narrator and b) several characters of both genders. Even most of the very old and um, traditional books will have at least a [[Most Writers Are Male|few]] female characters. The upshot is a narrator having to voice characters of the other sex a great deal of the time. Success varies wildly.

* [[Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics|About 97.5%]] of books recorded on audio have a) just one narrator and b) several characters of both genders. Even most of the very old and um, traditional books will have at least a [[Most Writers Are Male|few]] female characters. The upshot is a narrator having to voice characters of the other sex a great deal of the time. Success varies wildly.

* More of a "not-sounding-like-you'd-expect", but applies to several characters in the ''[[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]]'' series. The titular character is a 6'5" [[Heavyworlder]] [[Lady of War]], who has a soprano voice. Thandi Palane is a genetically modified [[Hot Amazon]] who can literally punch a guy's face in, and a mezzo-soprano (one step down from soprano). The [[Memetic Badass]] (both in-verse and out) Victor Catchat is a tenor (highest male voice within the modal register).

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Rock Band]]'', a lot of the time the on-screen singer will make for something of an incongruous contrast with the original vocals. Female characters somewhat more ''often'', since most of the available songs are sung by men, but it's just as bizarre to see a big hulking mountain of a man singing in the voice of Alanis Morisette. Or, even worse/[[So Bad ~~Its~~ Good|better]], [[Portal (Video Game)|GLaDOS]].

* In ''[[Rock Band]]'', a lot of the time the on-screen singer will make for something of an incongruous contrast with the original vocals. Female characters somewhat more ''often'', since most of the available songs are sung by men, but it's just as bizarre to see a big hulking mountain of a man singing in the voice of Alanis Morisette. Or, even worse/[[So Bad It's Good|better]], [[Portal (Video Game)|GLaDOS]].

** The same goes for [[Guitar Hero]], where you can have [[Heavy Metal Umlaut|Lars Umlaut]] sing 'Stop staring at my D-cup'.

*** Even better, the vocalist generally acts on stage as if their sex was based on that of their singing voice. So not only will he sing like a girl but also sway his hips.