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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"[Black Mage] has got some sort of screaming demon background noise reverb thing going on with his voice. I think he just wants attention."''
|'''Fighter'''|''[[8-Bit Theater]]''}}
Evil characters get a lot in the way of cool toys, [[Bad Powers, Bad People|powers]], and even [[Spikes of Villainy|wardrobe]] [[Evil Costume Switch|options]], but one of the coolest additions a sufficiently evil and powerful character gets is being able to speak with the Voice of the Legion.
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This trope is named for [[I Am Legion]], the mental version. Sometimes this overlaps with [[Voices Are Mental]]. May contain [[Vader Breath]], may be used when [[Hearing Voices]]. Compare [[Speak in Unison]], where many people speak as one.
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== [[Anime]]
* In ''[[Dragon Ball Kai]]'', Goku's voice turns [[Nightmare Fuel|slightly demonic]] for a short while just as he turns Super Saiyan for the first time.
* In ''[[Birdy the Mighty
* Parodied in ''[[Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]'' when Bo-bobo, Don Patch, and Jelly Jiggler merge to form Bo-Patchiggler. He talks in all three voices, just not at the same time. All the other Bo-bobo Fusions, however, only speak with one voice.
* ''[[Digimon]]'' characters performing a [[Fusion Dance]] speak with the voices of both entities involved in the process (though each individual will speak on his/her own at times).
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* The original ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' had Baron Ashura, who would speak in a female voice when only its female half was visible, a male voice from the other side, and both at once when both sides of its face were visible.
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]: Brotherhood'', there's The Truth, Hulk!Envy, Pride, and Father toward the end of the series.
* In the
* The Visored from ''[[Bleach]]'' talk like this when using their Hollow mask. Ichigo's own [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Inner Hollow]] talks like this regularly as well. Baraggan Luisenbarn also acquired this after his release.
* [[The Slayers|The Lord of Nightmares]].
* ''[[Pokémon: The
* ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' had {{spoiler|Jasdevi speak in this fashion when the two combine}}.
* In ''[[Transformers Energon]]'', the Alpha Quintesson's fifth, unseen "true face." {{spoiler|It sounds like many voices talking at once because it is -- "the voice of all those lost" when Unicron made a meal of his solar system.}}
* When [[Claymore]]s begin to [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Awaken]] they start to speak like this. Yoma and Awakened Beings speak with an Evil Echo whenever they're not disguised as humans.
* One of a the first of a series of horror stories stories from the manga
== [[Comic Books]] ==
== Comics ==▼
* V in ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', at least in the comic.
* [[Ax Crazy|Jei-san]] in ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]'' {{spoiler|and anyone who is possessed by him/it.}}
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* Alpha One of ''[[The Mighty]]'' has this by showing a unique outline in his speech balloons.
* [[The Spectre]], who typically speaks in dripping green speech balloons.
* In ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'', Jesse's words are in red when he's using [[Compelling Voice|the Word of God]]. Except when the typographer slips up, which happens.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Played straight in
▲* Played straight in a written fanfiction no less. [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4695538/1/Angel_of_Massacre Samael/The Boy in the Theater] speaks in an alternating Bold and Italic accent. [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1053449/Numbnut10 The Author] has complained about the difficulty involved.
* B-3-K, of ''[[Yukari Is Free]].'' Portrayed in written form via different colors of text.
* In the
{{quote|''a billion different voices in a billion different tones, a low flanging and echo present in it's ominous timbre.''}}
** This is represented via text with bold italicized block capital letters colored red.
* In ''[[Halo Combat Deformed]]'', the Master Chief speaks in a deep, satanic rumble whenever he gets very angry.
== [[Film]] ==
== Films -- Animation ==▼
* Played with in the Disney film ''[[Chicken Little]]''. The title character is abducted and put in a black room where a sinister bunch of eyes yells at him in a deep voice... and then a woman is heard telling said bunch of eyes to "turn off the Big Voice." A door opens and we find out that the owner of those eyes is about the size of [[Kirby]].
* One of the experimental voices of God in ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'' involved using every voice Moses had ever heard in life at once. After creating "many excellent voices for Satan" and apparently running out of time they dropped all the special effects in favor of {{spoiler|[[Talking to Himself|just having God use Moses' own voice]].}}<ref>Which unintentionally added a [[Genius Bonus]] for anyone familiar with ''[[w:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind|The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind]]'' by [[w:Julian Jaynes|Julian Jaynes]].</ref>
* ''[[
* Aisling briefly speaks with this in ''[[The Secret of Kells]]'' as she's attacked by Crom Cruach.
* [[The Mysterious Stranger]] in ''[[The Adventures of Mark Twain]]'' is voiced by a male and female speaking simultaneously.
* In ''[[Care Bears]] 2'', the villain Dark Heart speaks this way occasionally.
* Used for the voice of Drazuul in the film ''The Gamers: Dorkness Rising''
* Regan from ''[[The Exorcist]]'' might be the ur-example of this trope.
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* Dr. Emilio Lizardo/Lord John Whorfin sounds this way in ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension]]''.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* A rare literary example of the tandem voice occurs in ''[[Perdido Street Station]]'', where the representative of the demons appears as a perfectly normal human man with a perfectly normal voice... followed on a slight delay by the faint and far more unsettling voice of his true form.
*
** An apparent literary example would be {{small-caps|Death}}. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9bJgZ5y5jU Theatrical example!]
** An arguably more creepy version is actually a subversion. The Auditors of Reality do not have voices as one would think of them. Instead, they simply alter the nature of reality such that ''they have already spoken''. The words appear fully formed in the mind.
*** Which is represented as their dialogue being without speech marks. Unfortunately this was replaced with more generic italics in ''[[
** The voice of the [[Big Bad]] in ''The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents'', like the Auditors', goes directly into the mind without entering the ears:▼
{{quote|It was all hisses, and it slid into the mind like a knife. }}▼
*** Death's voice is often described as going to the brain while skipping the ears completely. The Auditors don't do even that. You just suddenly remember that something was said moments ago.
▲** The voice of the [[Big Bad]] in ''[[The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents]]'', like the Auditors', goes directly into the mind without entering the ears:
** In ''Sourcery'', the Archchancellor's Hat plays this trope straight, which is appropriate for something that derives its intelligence from its hundreds of previous wearers.▼
▲{{quote|It was all hisses, and it slid into the mind like a knife. }}
▲** In ''[[Sourcery]]'', the Archchancellor's Hat plays this trope straight, which is appropriate for something that derives its intelligence from its hundreds of previous wearers.
* In Dennis L. McKiernan's ''Mithgar'' series, all necromancers must deal with this when trying to find out information. Nothing is hidden from the dead, but whenever a corpse is raised hundreds of spirits try to speak through it, and only a necromancer's intimidating power can force the voice he wants to speak just ever so much more loudly. [[Nightmare Fuel|Considering]] [[Body Horror|what most]] [[Complete Monster|necromancers]] [[Cold-Blooded Torture|are like]], this is hardly a surprise.
* In Jonothan Stroud's ''The Amulet of Samarkand'', the demon Ramuthra's voice sounds as if spoken by a large group.
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* In ''[[Belgariad|Polgara the Sorceress]]'', an adolescent Polgara shows off at one point by singing with three voices (and three different vocal ranges) at once.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' has invoked the trope on more than one occasion, including Willow in the midst of her black magic rampage, Caleb after merging with the First, and The Anointed One, who being a [[Creepy Child|child]] had a high regular voice.
** A non-evil version happens when a ritual grants Buffy the [[The Power of Friendship|combined power]] of the Scooby Gang, she speaks with all four of their voices simultaneously.
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* In the "Small Worlds" episode of ''[[Torchwood]]'', the fairy things sound like multiple voices as once whenever they talk.
== [[Music]] ==▼
▲== Music ==
* Used a lot in Black, Gothic and Death Metal. The precursor is most probably King Diamond.
** Behemoth's album ''Demigod'' was both lauded and criticized for extensive use of this technique. The backwards Sumerian at the beginning of the single, "Slaves Shall Serve", stands out, but the vocals for the majority of the album are heavily layered for this effect.
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* Strangely, makes a brief appearance in the Coldplay song "Rainy Day" in one verse. Hearing Chris Martin singing near the top and bottom of his vocal range simultaneously is both creepy and very cool sounding. (Likely the way it was meant to come off, considering the hodgepodge tone of Rainy Day.
== [[New Media]] ==▼
* "Scary"/"in G Major" videos (ab)use this effect. There are various ways of achieving it, from simple reverb to layering multiple "voices" in different pitches over each other.▼
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], [[Myth and Legend]] ==
* In ''[[The Bible]]'', Daniel sees a vision of a man who spoke with "the voices of a multitude" (Daniel 10:6).
* And, of course, Legion, the [[Trope Namer]].
== [[Puppet Shows]] ==▼
▲== New Media ==
▲* "Scary"/"in G Major" videos (ab)use this effect. There are various ways of achieving it, from simple reverb to layering multiple "voices" in different pitches over each other.
▲== Puppet Shows ==
* ''[[Captain Scarlet]]'': "This is the Voice of the Mysterons. We qualify in all the above respects, Earthmen."
== [[Theatre]] ==
▲== Theater ==
* [[Older Than Radio]]: [[Our Dragons Are Different|Fafner]] in [[Richard Wagner]]'s ''Siegfried'' has a bass voice amplified by megaphone, and sings mostly in tritones before being mortally wounded by Siegfried.
* The extra-terrestrial "messenger" Astron, in Michael Tippett's opera ''The Ice Break'', is sung simultaneously by a tenor and a mezzo-soprano, to emphasise its alien-ness and sexlessness.
== Toys ==
* Zaktan from ''[[Bionicle]]'', being [[The Worm That Walks|composed of millions of small insects]]. It mixed with [[Demonic Possession]] in one scene, when the [[Evil Sounds Deep|deep voice]] of [[Big Bad|Makuta Teridax]] could be heard over his own words.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* In the new{{when}} ''[[Prince of Persia]]'', the god of darkness has a two distinct voices (one male and one female) that alternate speaking and will sometimes overlap. Each individual voice also has a reverberating echo to it.▼
▲== Video Games ==
▲* In the new ''[[Prince of Persia]]'', the god of darkness has a two distinct voices (one male and one female) that alternate speaking and will sometimes overlap. Each individual voice also has a reverberating echo to it.
{{quote|Ahriman: ''All you have to to, is'' '''ask.''' THE ASKING IS YOURS.
The Mourning King: You know that is that I ask!
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** And the Zerg Overmind. The Terran hero units also get a bit of it if they've been infested.
** Samir Duran, who already had the Voice of the Legion when he posed as an infested terran in Kerrigan's service, cranked it [[Up to Eleven]] when he met Zeratul on the Dark Moon.
* The Collective in ''[[Warzone 2100]]'' address the player and their own units in a menacing, reverb-laden voice. {{
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' plays this trope completely straight with {{spoiler|Sovereign, the game's [[Big Bad]]}}. For bonus points it even says that "we are legion" at one point.
** ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' has Harbinger, who attains this when possessing other collectors.
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* The Draug in ''[[The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings|The Witcher 2]]'' uses this to great effectiveness.
== Web Animation ==▼
* When The Meta from ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' talks (as opposed to snarling), you can make out a number of distinct voices speaking in unison, as befitting a composite consciousness.
▲== [[Web Comics]] ==
== Web Comics ==▼
* From ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]'', there's He-Who-Must-Be-Watered, who speaks from many mouths and with many voices. (Humorously undercut by one mouth that speaks out of turn, paraphrasing whatever the other mouths just said [[Layman's Terms|in a more colloquial style]].) He is, apparently, the personal servant of Lord Thezmothete, who is considered a Class 1 Power. (Humanity, by way of reference, is a Class 12 power.)
* In ''[[Looking for Group]]'', Richard's undead warlock voice comes across as red and black [[Speech Bubbles]].
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* The Xul'kgmarhin aliens from [[The FAN]] have no word bubbles, and their lines switch between red and green to create the impression that they use two distinct voices that speak in tandem.
* Winnie-the-freaking-Pooh gets one in ''[[Dirty Potter|Dirty the Pooh and the Hundred-Acre Shitpile, Chapter Three]]'': "I want souls... Thousands and thousands of doomed souls..."
* This effect is pretty much the whole point of a minor [[YouTube]] fad called "[[Nightmare Fuel|Extra Scary]]", where the video is placed in a weird colour scheme and the voice track has several pitches playing in equal widths apart in a voice-of-the-legion-esque style.
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* Representatives of the [[Image Boards|Anonymous movement]] are typically rendered this way, such as in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrXyLrTRXso&feature=related this video], which is about the danger of [[Big Brother|NDAA]].
* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
▲* In ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'', whenever Junior [[Shapeshifting|takes the form of another person]], he speaks with his original voice overlaid with theirs.
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', when Aang enters the [[Unstoppable Rage|Avatar State]], he speaks with the voices of all the Avatars. All 1000+ of them. When he's mad, [[Nightmare Fuel|the effect is quite terrifying]].
** [[Berserk Button|"TELL ME WHERE APPA IS!"]]
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** Queen Chrysalis also has it, which adds to her already creepy appearance.
* In ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' we have a (mostly) heroic example. Dr. Fate (Nabu) speaks with his very deep voice overlying the voice of his host.
* In the ''[[Ben 10
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Tuvan Throat Singing is an art form practiced by the Tuvan people of southern Siberia. In this style two or more pitches sound simultaneously over a fundamental pitch, producing a mesmerizing, even entrancing sound. They literally sing in more than one voice as they are able to sing harmonies with one person.
* A live chorus will give this effect while performing, preferably in a music hall or a cathedral with good acoustics.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Paranormal Tropes]]
[[Category:Word Power]]
[[Category:This Index Is Not an Example]]
[[Category:Older Than Feudalism]]
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