Voice of the Legion: Difference between revisions

The cause can be anything from channeling spirits, a [[Freaky Friday Flip]] situation, [[Demonic Possession]], or an [[Eldritch Abomination]] (or its servants) deigning to [[Aliens Speaking English|speak in English]] rather than the [[Black Speech]], except their accent bleeds through (like blood from the throats of so many virgin sacrifices) and makes the English they speak in sound positively scary and nightmarish. This is distinct from the [[Creepy Monotone]] in that the character may not speak in a monotone, but the voice ''itself'' is creepy.

 

 

In [[Manga]] and [[Comic Books]], this is represented with [[Painting the Fourth Wall|stylistic indicators]] (e.g., using very large, heavy strokes) used in [[Speech Bubbles]] for "monster voice".

** The English dub of Yugioh liked this Trope considerably. Whenever Malik possessed someone, they would receive a slightly distorted reverb sound effect to make it sound two voices at once. This effect was also used repeatedly to give villainous characters an "evil" voice, the "Dark" Malik for example.

* When Chrono from ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' begins to transform into his [[Older Alter Ego|true form]], his voice takes on an ethereal-sounding echo. (However, once he transforms his voice sounds normal, only deeper.) This is particularly noticeable in the second episode, when he's trying to transform without Rosette releasing the seal.

* Lots of examples in ''[[Inuyasha]]''; standard anime monster speech.

* 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.

* ''[[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.}}

* One of a the first of a series of horror stories stories from the manga "Gakkou de Atta Kowai Hanashi" had the main character, Ootsuka Kaho, and her three friends receive a cursed text message. When two of her friends suddenly disappear, Ootsuka begin to panic fearing she will be next, but is calmed by her remaining friend, Maaya, who reassures her that the other two will be found eventually. When Ootsuka, though her texts, finds Maaya on the roof, she notices her talking in a completely different voice, which then become many voices. In a [[Twist Ending]], it's revealed that it was Maaya who was sending her the cursed texts. Her negative emotions were absorbed and amplified by malevolent spirits, covering her body in misshapen faces, including Ootsuka's two missing friends who were jealous of Ootsuka's relationship with a popular boy they were attracted to.

 

* Blackheart from ''[[Ghost Rider (film)|Ghost Rider]]'' because he's possessed by hundreds of evil souls.

** He even says the line "[[I Am Legion]], for we are many!"

* [[Hamlet]]'s father, in [[Kenneth Branagh]]'s movie, has a Darth Vader rasp, a deep voice, and there's a mike (not shown, but you can hear it) inside his helmet. Possibly done to show just how scary [[Shakespeare]] meant it to be when Hamlet is visited by his father's ghost.

* [[Peter Jackson]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'':

** And don't forget Gandalf's voice overlaid with Saruman's in the second film, purely for the purpose of confusing the viewer as to which character is speaking (as his face is obscured). Both the overlayed voices imitate each other's style of speech for extra confusion.

** When Gandalf speaks the Ring verse in Rivendell, which is only seen in the extended cut of the film, but present in the book.

* In ''[[Howard the Duck (film)|Howard the Duck]]'', Dr. Jenning often has this sort of voice after the Dark Overlord possesses him (especially when he and the main characters are conversing at the truck stop).

* [[David Lynch]], in his film version of ''[[Dune]]'', depicts the Voice used by the Bene Gesserit to control minds in this way. It gets especially creepy when Alia does it, being not yet 7 years old at the time.

*** And SHODAN in her appearance in the same. And it is [[Nightmare Fuel|terrifying]].

*** With her inconsistent diction, she can alternate between [[Evil Sounds Deep]] and its inversion for equal menace, especially when all her distinct voices join in the same pitch change simultaneously.

* Death knights in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' have this as a selectable option in the game's sound menu.

** Thaddius, one of the main bosses in Naxxramas, also has such a voice. If you listen carefully, you can hear a female voice when he speaks.

*** This is because {{spoiler|the evil side of Arthas has taken control and proverbially killed both his good side and Ner'zhul.}}

*** Ner'zhul also had the echoing version of this trope before the merge.

** Members of the Infinite Dragonflight tend to speak with an echoing voice.

** Although now impossible to loot, the Corrupted Ashbringer would speak to the player. In the first eleven speeches, Highlord Mograine, the Ashbringer himself, speaks as does an unknown voice. In the twelfth final speech, the voices merge. They closely resemble that of the Lich King and command the player to "kill them all."

** The Protoss in general, including the regular Archon.

** And the Zerg Overmind. The Terran hero units also get a bit of it if they've been infested.

* The Collective in ''[[Warzone 2100]]'' address the player and their own units in a menacing, reverb-laden voice. {{smallcaps| "Warriors of the Collective, attack! Attack and destroy all who resist the machine!!"}}

* ''[[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.

** That's true. To quote the Naggarok:

{{quote|For millions of years, we have been trapped in this ship, listening to the electromagnetic chatter of your tiny self/worlds. We know you better than you know yourselves.}}

*** ... Which devolves into [[Narm]] when you notice the scream is going on long after the Naggarok has exploded.

* In [[Super Robot Wars|Super Robot Taisen: Original Generations]]: During her tenure being forced into the ODE plug, Lamia Loveless will gain this voice, the other voice is either Wilhelm von Juergen or Duminuss, depending on who's managing the ODE.

* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'':

** Riku gets to do this in ''[[Kingdom Hearts (video game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'' after {{spoiler|allowing Ansem to take partial possession of him}}. Their voices speak in a creepy-yet-awesome as hell unison for the next few scenes, until Riku starts to disagree with some of the decisions they're making and tries to reassert his own will.

** And in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'' when Ven is possessed {{spoiler|by Vanitas. [[Jesse McCartney]]'s and Haley Joel Osment's voice qualities are similar enough that their voices mesh a little ''[[Nightmare Fuel|too]]'' well.}}

* Algol and Nightmare in ''[[Soul Series|Soul Calibur IV]]''.

** In Soul Calibur V, there is an option to add varying levels of this to custom characters. It is referred to in-game as "malfestation".

* The souls which created the Soul Cube in ''[[Doom]] 3''.

* The mysterious child {{spoiler|(later revealed to be [[Big Bad|the Firstborn]])}} from ''[[Clive Barker's Jericho]]'' speaks with an echoey, high-pitched, childlike voice, and a deep, booming male voice at the same time.

* Tear in ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' speaks with the Voice when Lorelei possesses her so it can communicate with the party.

* In ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]] 2'', Lahkesis speaks like this at first, {{spoiler|because Atropos is inside her body.}}

* The eponymous Darkness from ''[[The Darkness]]'' video game speaks in a form like this. Sometimes guttural, a dry whisper or demonic screeching, often changing in between words in a sentence. Extra super creepy points go to [[Mike Patton]] for voicing the part and not using any post-processing to achieve the effects, just his own voice.

* A lot of the characters in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', particularly those of undead, eldritch, demonic, or deity based origins. Examples include:

** Aeonus the dragon of the Infinite Dragonflight, who appears to speak with several voices at different time intervals, a result of him being "lost" in time.

* In the ''[[Dragonball Z Abridged]]'' version of ''Lord Slug'', Goku develops a Legion-esque voice when he goes pseudo-Super Saiyan.

* The voice given to ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]''' Tabuu in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUsh2zETGk4 The Dubspace Emissary].

* In the [[Metro City Chronicles]], Squid Kid will occasionally adopt a voice that's described as "three-part Harmony-of-the-Damned."

* 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 ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', Shendu, his son Drago and the other Demon Sorcerers all have eerie effects added to their voices, indicating their ancient, mystical evil.

* Venom of ''[[Spider-Man]]'' fame. The [[Spider-Man: The Animated Series|90s]] and ''[[Spider-Man Unlimited|Unlimited]]'' version is your standard voice-with-effect-added, which doesn't suck, but the ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man|Spectacular]]'' version '''really''' sounds like two entities talking at once, with the voices not in synch or always at the same speed. (Namely, Eddie's voice, and the voice the symbiote used when speaking to Spidey in the [[Journey to the Center of the Mind]] episode.) It is awesome. For some reason, Spidey wearing the black suit never has the voice.

* This trope is masterfully used in the ''[[Gargoyles]]'' episode "Grief", where two characters, a villain and a hero, fuse with [[Egyptian Mythology|Anubis]] one after the other. Both fusions use Anubis' and the other characters' voice on top of each other, but in the case of the villain-Anubis, they are out of sync, creating a very disturbingly chaotic and insane impression while when the hero does the fusion, his and Anubis' voices are one, in harmony. This is backed up by the [[Aesop]] of the episode: The heroic character learns after assuming the death god's power to accept the passing away of his son, thus reaching harmony with death itself, while the villain just wanted the power to kill everyone.

* In ''[[Code Lyoko]]'', people possessed by XANA's specters and Polymorphic Clones talk like this, at least once they're unmasked (along with [[Hulk Speak|serious reduction of vocabulary]]). Also happens to the mind-controlled heroes on Lyoko, most notably William who spends the whole Season 4 like this.

* In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Petergeist," when Stewie is sucked through the television in a parody of "[[Poltergeist]]", he speaks to the family in a wavy, disjointed semi-multi-voice from the other side. He takes this opportunity to sing the beginning of "In The Air Tonight" by [[Phil Collins]].

** Partial example: In a [[Cutaway Gag]], Brian dresses in a barbershop quartet outfit and sings 'Moonlight Bay' for the Griffin family, singing in full four-part harmony with himself.

* [[Transformers Generation 1|Devastator]] (and the other G1 combiners, at least on the Decepticon side) has/have a very effective version of this, to represent a gestalt entity speaking. Some non-gestalt examples would be the giant Omega Supreme, both G1 and Animated, and Astrotrain. The Insecticons have one, but Shrapnel really is repeating the end of his sentences, ''sentences''. [[Big Good|Primus]] [[Transformers Cybertron|gets this too]], and [[Planet Eater|Unicron]] in [[Transformers: The Movie]]. Of course, what did you expect from [[Physical God]] [[Transforming Mecha]] with planets as their altmodes? It's really something else with Unicron, because in addition he's such a [[Large Ham]] he should have a curly tail.

* Phobos talks like this in the first season finale of ''[[WITCH (animation)|WITCH]]'' after getting a power-up by stealing some of Elyon's magic. Later on, Cornelia briefly has this kind of voice when wielding the powers of all five Guardians, as does anyone who uses the Seal of Nerissa {{spoiler|and Cedric, after eating Phobos and absorbing both his powers ''and'' those of the Seal}}.