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* 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]] Decode'': Birdy is human, alien galactic superheroine who merges her body with Tsutomu, a typical high school boy who she [[Accidental Murder|mistakingly kills]] during an intense battle with an alien criminal. Over time, Tsutomu's mind begans to claim dominance over Birdy's, his memories eventually melding with hers. This leads to Tsutomu inhabiting Birdy's body instead of his own for a short period, resulting in his (and her body's voice) speaking in sync of each other. However, no one else can hear this since this is in his own thoughts.
* Parodied in ''[[Bobobo Bobobobo Bobobo]]'' 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).
* Any Fusion character from ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', which might be the originator of this variation.
** The original English dub for Cell's first form has him drop into an ''extremely'' deep register when he {{spoiler|kills Piccolo}}. Very creepy and effective.
** And although the Portuguese dub may not be perfect, one thing they did well was giving Piccolo this kind of voice, suits him very well considering his status as alien and former status as "Demon King".
* Yami Bakura from ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' In the dub, his accent becomes noticeably harsher (his hair rises [[Anime Hair|and accentuates the pointiness of it]]) when the spirit of the Millenium Ring takes over Bakura's body.
** How about Dark Marik? Normal Marik has a high, nasal whine. Dark Marik's voice is lower and snarlier, and overlaid by at least two or three others, some lower, some higher. Throw in the constantly stretching face, and you get the impression that something even worse than our resident [[Complete Monster]] is fighting to get out.
** 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.
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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 late ''[[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Ranma One Half]]'' manga, the cursed form of Rouge is the Vedic demon Ashura, who got three faces. The three mouths tend to talk simultaneously... though they don't always agree.
* The Visored from ''[[Bleach (Manga)|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: theThe First Movie (Anime)|Pokémon the First Movie]]'' touches on this trope for a few lines, though there's a somewhat mundane explanation: Mewtwo is communicating telepathically with the heroes as himself while, at the same time, the possessed Nurse Joy is speaking his dialogue aloud. He quickly realizes it and releases his mental hold on her. It's a shame, as the sound of their combined voices, particularly when both of them respond to a failed attack with "child's play", makes for one of the creepiest moments in the movie.
* ''[[D .Gray Man-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|Claymores]] 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.
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* 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 [[My Little Pony]]: [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|Friendship Is Magic]] / [[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]] Crossover [[Time Lords and Terror]], the G1 villain known as the Smooze is [[Darker and Grittier|reimagined]] as [[Adaptational Badass|The]] [[Eldritch Abomination|S’Müz]], a being so infused with unreality that its voice is described as
{{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 (Fanfic)|Halo Combat Deformed]]'', the Master Chief speaks in a deep, satanic rumble whenever he gets very angry.
 
 
== Films -- Animation ==
* Played with in the Disney film ''[[Chicken Little (Disney)|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' voice]].}}
* [[Film/Coraline The|Other Bobinsky,]] towards the end of the film. [[Nightmare Fuel|"Not even that...]]''[[Nightmare Fuel|anymore."]]''
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== Films -- Live Action ==
* Used for the voice of Drazuul in the film ''The Gamers: Dorkness Rising''
* Regan from ''[[The Exorcist (Film)|The Exorcist]]'' might be the ur-example of this trope.
* Also used in ''[[The Exorcism of Emily Rose]]'' when the priest orders the possessing demon to name itself. Several voices answer back, in different languages, each overlapping. One of them actually identifies itself as Legion.
* ''[[Ghostbusters]]'': "There is no Dana. [[That Man Is Dead|There is only ZUUL!]]"
* Blackheart from ''[[Ghost Rider (Filmfilm)|Ghost Rider]]'' because he's possessed by hundreds of evil souls.
** He even says the line "[[I Am Legion|I am Legion]], for we are many!"
** Blackheart also has the [[Voice of the Legion]] before he gains the thousand evil souls; however, he originally only has the reverberating echo effect on his voice. It is not until the end of the film that this effect is enhanced, first used with the additional emphasis when he says the line above.
* [[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 (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]'':
** "In place of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen! Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Treacherous as the sea! Stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me, and despair!" This scene is almost [[Large Ham]] levels of [[Narm]] in the movie.
** 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.
** The Mouth of Sauron from the extended version of ''Return of the King''. As the envoy for the undisputed lord of Darkness across all of Middle-Earth, the Voice of Sauron's actual voice is six kinds of creepy -- a hammy Russian accent, turned up to 11 and distorted considerably.
* In ''[[Howard the Duck (Filmfilm)|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.
* [[Grim Reaper|The Angel of Death]] in ''[[Hellboy (Filmfilm)|Hellboy]] II''. Interestingly, one of its voices sounds a lot like [[PansPan's Labyrinth|The Faun]], both of whom were played by Doug Jones.
* {{spoiler|Tia Dalma/Calypso}} in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End''.
* ''[[Paranormal Activity]]'': A mockumentary, Blair Witch-like movie about a guy, Micah, who videotapes his girlfriend, Katie, as she is repeatedly tormented by a vicious unseen "demon" that has haunted her since her childhood. The attacks get progressively worse until the demon drags her from her bed and bites her. Right after the incident, she hysterically pleads to get out of the house. When making preparations for leaving, Micah finds Katie in bed, noticeably calm and wishing to stay despite her earlier pleas. When Micah leaves the room in confusion, Katie (in one of the scariest moments in the movie) whispers "I think we'll be OK now", her voice layered with a chilling undertone, and then smiles eerily, suggesting she has been possessed by the demon. {{spoiler|This is boosted by the fact that they die that very night, or [[Revised Ending|Micah anyway]].}}
* ''[[Five Girls]]'', appropriately used for people possessed by Legion.
* Good ol' Satan from ''[[The Last Temptation of Christ]]'' speaks in quite a few voices, one of them being this.
* In the ''[[Stargate (Filmfilm)|Stargate]]'' movie, Ra's voice definitely sounds like it's coming from the bowels of Hell.
* Dr. Emilio Lizardo/Lord John Whorfin sounds this way in ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension]]''.
 
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** [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 ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]''.
** 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. }}
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* 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.
* Raezazel the Cunning from the ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' novel ''[[Grey Knights (Literature)|Hammer of Daemons]]'' is said to speak with a hundred voices at least.
* In a non-demonic example, the two-headed Puppeteers in Larry Niven's [[Ring World]] series are the only species ''physically able'' to speak their native language, because all other races in Known Space only have one throat.
* The Goddess Verra in the ''[[Dragaera]]'' series. Vlad compares it to two identical voices speaking slightly out of sync.
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** Although usually only one at once, each with regular human intonation; listeners still get freaked out by the rapid switching of gender, age and mood, though.
* Used by the Raggedy Man in Stephen King's ''Cell''. The Raggedy Man himself is {{spoiler|the psuedopod of a massive hive-mind}}, and can only speak through other characters.
* The [[Silicon -Based Life|Silicoids]] in [[Sergey Lukyanenko]]'s ''[[Line of Delirium]]'' are floating columns of rock which natively communicate via modulated electromagnetic fields. Since most races communicate vocally, the Silicoids have learned to vibrate their entire bodies to produce sound, turning them into huge speakers. Due to this effect, a Silicoid sounds as if an entire choir is speaking. This is a non-evil example, though.
* 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.
 
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* ''[[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.
* The Goa'uld from ''[[Stargate SG-1 (TV)|Stargate SG-1]]'' can do this at will, along with [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] for the sole purpose of intimidation. The idea behind is that they're manipulating the vocal chords directly rather than talking indirectly through their host's brain. They ''can'' talk normally, and do so at length to infiltrate their enemies' strongholds. For fun too, I guess.
** The Tok'ra also do this, but only so people can tell if it's the host or symbiote speaking.
** The Goa'uld seem to see their unique vocal pattern as symbolic of their claims of being [[A God Am I|gods]]; hence Baal (who unlike most Goa'uld doesn't fall for his own propaganda, instead being rather flippant about his "godhood") being prone to speaking normally to people who know he's not a god, reserving the Voice of the Legion effect for intimidation and for maintaining the illusion among his true believers.
* [[Stargate Atlantis]]: The voice of the Wraith have a bit of reverb too. Wraith queen's mind control also echoes in the victim's head.
* '''[[Star Trek|WE ARE THE BORG.]]'''
* The new ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' has an excellent example of this appear in the Season 2 two-parter "The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit". It is played very effectively. WE ARE THE LEGION OF THE BEAST!
** Quite literally, since an [[Expy]] for [[Satan]] is mind-controlling a legion of [[Keystone Army|service industry workers]] who share a [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?|single consciousness]] that has to be orbiting over an [[Eldritch Location]].
** "I Am THE MIGHTY JAGRAFESS of the HOLY HADROJASSIC MAXARODENFOE!" (AKA Max)
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** In contrast, ''[[Super Sentai]]'' only rarely uses this trope, with most villains and monsters speaking in normal human voices. Desumozorlya from from ''[[Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger]]'' is a rare counterexample.
* In contrast to Super Sentai, [[Ultraman]], when aliens speak, applies effects to their voices, especially the reverberating laughter of [[Ditto Aliens|Baltan]]-seijin.
* Arch-villain Sylar occasionally talks like this on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', although there's no real plot-related reason why he does. The writers have admitted they put it in just because it sounds cool.
** Eden McCain would also do this when influencing people with her ability. A clear [[Shout -Out]] to [[David Lynch]]'s ''[[Dune]]'' and the [[More Than Mind Control|Voice]].
* In ''[[True Blood]]'', Sookie hears people's thoughts with this effect. This gets specially creepy when she tries to read {{spoiler|Maryann's mind}} where [[Creepy Monotone]] and [[Gratuitous Greek]] are added to said effect.
* In the "Small Worlds" episode of ''[[Torchwood]]'', the fairy things sound like multiple voices as once whenever they talk.
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{{quote| Ahriman: ''All you have to to, is'' '''ask.''' THE ASKING IS YOURS.<br />
The Mourning King: You know that is that I ask!<br />
Ahriman: ''[[Deal Withwith the Devil|If you would have your wish]]''...[[Deal Withwith the Devil|THEN GIVE ME]] ''[[Deal Withwith the Devil|MINE.]]'' }}
* Xel'lotath in ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'' has two voices with apparently different personalities. Its Greater Guardian has a standard Voice of the Legion.
* The Dormin in ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'' speak with a male and female voice. Even in [[Speaking Simlish|Simlish]], it's creepy.
* ''[[Star Fox (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox]]'s'' Aparoid Queen speaks with a very low voice and a high voice simultaneously, which makes them sound sinister.
* ''[[System Shock]]'''s SHODAN starts alternating between thousands of distinct voices after being hacked to remove her [[AI Is a Crapshoot|morality controls]]. Her distorted voice, which also stutters, slows or speeds up, and has a lot of background noise, is actually meant to mimic a malfunctioning sound card.
** See also: The Many from ''System Shock 2'' who has three voice actors. A variation, as each voice speaks distinctly and separately, but with identical tempo and diction.
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** 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 entirely justified as Thaddius is "[[Nightmare Fuel|built from the flesh of women and children, it is said that their souls are fused together -- eternally bound within that foul prison of flesh.]]" Upon killing him, they say "Thank... you..."
** In ''[[War CraftWarcraft]] III'', when Arthas and Ner'zhul merged into the new Lich King, their only line was the two voices speaking in unison. In WoW, however, this was scrapped and it's just a single (completely original) voice actor with echo added.
*** 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.
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** {{spoiler|Nyx Avatar}} from ''[[Persona 3]] '' has it too. It sounds pretty cool, which is a [[Sequential Boss|very]] [[Marathon Boss|good]] [[That One Boss|thing]].
* The Great Mizuti in ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'' has this, presumably due to the mask Mizuti's always wearing. It comes off at one point, taking the Voice of the Legion with it.
** Similarly, Guillo of ''[[Baten Kaitos]] Origins'' has two voices: one [[Samuel L. Jackson]] impersonation, and the other a [[Sassy Black Woman]]. It works well with his constant sarcasm, as well as seeming quite inhuman.
* The Dark Eldar in ''[[Dawn of War]]'' all speak with this voice, most notably with the Scourge and the Haemonculus.
** Your [[Mission Control]] while playing as the [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Tyranids]] in ''[[Dawn of War]] II'' is apparently part of the [[Hive Mind]], and sounds like male and female voices speaking in monotonous unison.
* The B&B corps from ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots]]'' speak with two voices overlapped, one female, different for each member, and the male beast, shared between all 4.
* Dark Archons from ''[[Starcraft]]''.
** The Protoss in general, including the regular Archon.
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* The monster/demon/zombie/thing boss Chaos from the old [[Lucas Arts]] game ''Loom'' does this.
* The Master from ''[[Fallout]]'' has four voices that he alternates between. The dominant one is of an old man, another of an aggressive man, a sultry woman, and a [[Creepy Monotone]] computer-like voice. Creepy.
* In ''[[BaldursBaldur's Gate]] 2: Throne of Bhaal'', there is one point where you are spoken to by a future version of yourself, voice acted with practically every reasonable possibility simultaneously. Male and female voices of both higher and lower pitch can be distinctly singled out if one listens closely. Also, in the beginning of the same expansion the "spirits" speak a prophecy in this sort of voice.
* God Rugal in ''Capcom vs. SNK 2'' uses this. It's actually a bit less intimidating than regular Rugal's voice in the eyes of some players.
* The Beast in ''[[Homeworld (Video Game)|Homeworld]]'': Cataclysm has overlapping male and female voices, along with other disconcerting verbal habits... like referring to the units in its fleet as 'parts'.
** Actually, "parts" are enemy ships. Own ships are "selves".
** Probably justified in that it may use parts of all the transmissions it ever heard to synthesise it's own messages.
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* Jack of Blades in ''[[Fable]]'' does this. Ironically, the higher-pitched voice in the original ''Fable'' sounds a lot more impressive and evil than the deep voice in The Lost Chapters.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'':
** Riku gets to do this in ''[[Kingdom Hearts (Videovideo Gamegame)|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.
** In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358 Days Over 2 (Video Game)|Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2]]'' -- Xion's voice has a reverberating quality when she shifts into her final battle form.
** 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]]''.
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* The souls which created the Soul Cube in ''[[Doom]] 3''.
* Countess Ingrid from ''[[Battalion Wars]]'' literally gets a Voice of the Legion; the undead soldiers (named the Iron Legion) souls fuse into a demon and possess her, giving her [[Evil Eye|Evil Eyes]] and an echoey voice. It becomes more pronounced when anguished.
* The mysterious child {{spoiler|(later revealed to be [[Big Bad|the Firstborn]])}} from ''[[Clive BarkersBarker'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.
* Zappa in ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' does this occasionally; several of his lines, both during fights and in Story Mode conversations with other characters, are delivered in his own voice and S-ko's at the same time.
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* [[Cosmic Horror|Black Doom]] from ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' had this to an extent. {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Not that]] [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|it helped him.]]}}
* Taken from ''[[Alan Wake]]'' fluctuate from their normal voice to a strained voice to a creepy deep, snarly voice.
* In ''[[God of War (Video Gameseries)|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.
* In ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'', {{spoiler|Aribeth de Tylmarande gets a [[Voice of the Legion]] when she [[Face Heel Turn|goes over]] to the [[Dark Side]].}}
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** Listen to any character possessed by a demon. If you listen closely, you can just make out another, appropriately demonic, voice under their own.
* In ''[[Mortal Kombat]] 2011'' the otherworldly ninja Ermac is composed of the souls of thousands of slain warriors, and speaks with a strongly echoed/reverbed voice to reflect this. Going a step further, Ermac refers to himself with the first-person plural: "We are Ermac. We are many. You are but one."
* In ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]'', {{spoiler|Wheatley}} says, "Welcome," and then, in a much deeper tone (with an echo): "TO MY LAIR!"
** In the credits, {{spoiler|[[G La DOS]]}}'s song "Want You Gone" has this effect at some points, hinting that {{spoiler|she might not have deleted Caroline after all.}}
* Gaol in ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'' has this.
* In an English translation patch of ''[[Fire Emblem Jugdral|Fire Emblem 4]]'', killing the final boss {{spoiler|Julius, who is the reincarnation of the dark dragon Lopoutosu}} with {{spoiler|Julia and her Narga tome}} causes him to utter his final dying words in all caps, except the first letter of each word is in lowercase, kIND oF lIKE tHIS. Intentional or otherwise, it really made his death that much more awesome.
* The Draug in ''[[The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (Video Game)|The Witcher 2]]'' uses this to great effectiveness.
 
 
== Web Animation ==
* When The Meta from ''[[Red vs. Blue (Machinima)|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 ==
* From ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire|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 (Webcomic)|Looking for Group]]'', Richard's undead warlock voice comes across as red and black [[Speech Bubbles]].
* ''[[A Miracle of Science (Webcomic)|A Miracle of Science]]'' does this to the extreme by having the box filled with echoing voices when a martian is channeling the [[Hive Mind]].
** They also get [[Black Eyes of Evil]], even though they aren't. Evil, that is.
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'', Xykon's creepy speech is represented with black [[Speech Bubbles]]. In his case, we actually have in-comic (well, in-prequel-book) confirmation that he speaks with the Voice of the Legion:
{{quote| '''Xykon:''' Hey, what's up with my voice?<br />
'''Redcloak:''' Well, you're undead now, you don't have a trachea or a larynx, much less lungs to expel air through them. So your voice is magically created by the negative energy that powers you now.<br />
'''Xykon:''' Sweet! I like the little bit of reverb on it. Really gives it that "evil mastermind" vibe. }}
** The demonic-based characters like Qarr the imp get this effect too, along with {{spoiler|V after he/she makes a [[Deal Withwith the Devil]].}}
* In ''[[Girl Genius (Webcomic)|Girl Genius]]'', Castle Heterodyne gets double bordered [[Speech Bubbles]], rectangular with rounded corners.
** Seeing as the castle is basically [[Malevolent Architecture|a living building with the personality of one of a past evil heterodyne]] I'd probably liken it to having one voice come from every direction on a surround sound system.
* The Sidera in ''[[Earthsong]]'' get big [[Speech Bubbles]] with multicoloured, multifonted speech all saying the same words, which tend to be few. They are the [[Hive Mind|collective consciousness]] [[Genius Loci|of the stars.]]
* Possibly the case in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'': in chapter 7, Robot's regular speech-bubble effect (pointed and white) is covered up by a round, purple speech bubble. This is Annie's first clue that he is [[Not Himself]].
* ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'': When Black Mage is at his most evil his voice gets a "screaming demon background noise reverb" and is shown with a different bubble.
** Presumably applies to {{spoiler|Sarda}} as well.
* The Xul'kgmarhin aliens from [[The FAN (Webcomic)|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.
 
 
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* 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].
* The Administrator from ''[[Echo Chamber (Web Video)|Echo Chamber]]'' speaks for the whole wiki -- he uses a [[Royal We]] whenever he speaks {{spoiler|except for [[The Stinger]] in episode 10}} and has punished a troper for "refer[ing] to himself in the first person."
* 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]].
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* 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 (Animation)|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!"]]
* Desiree from ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. Quite spooky.
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** And it is ''[[Nightmare Fuel|damned creepy]].''
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfTD1NDNFIg a set of examples], though really only the first line is necessary.
* In ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'', the Delightful Children From Down the Lane literally are a voice of a legion. I mean, five kids acting like just one kid?
* When Luthor and Braniac merge into one being in ''[[Justice League]]'', so do their voices. Sometimes one or the other is slightly dominant, based on the subject of conversation: Luthor tends to do the egotistical boasting, while Brainiac is only interested in the task at hand.
* In ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|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: theThe 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 Thethe Center of Thethe Mind]] episode.) It is awesome. For some reason, Spidey wearing the black suit never has the voice.
** One possibility is that Peter is still fighting the violent instincts it gives him, while Eddie has fully embraced it -- Spider-Carnage of the 90s cartoon finale had the [[Ax Crazy]] nature of Carnage and the voice to go with it.
* This trope is masterfully used in the ''[[Gargoyles (Animation)|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 (Animation)|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.
* Used by two different characters in ''[[TMNTTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'': the first was The Ultimate Drako -- the [[Biological Mashup]] of villains The Ultimate Ninja and Drako -- who used in whenever it said something both characters felt. The second was the Ring of Ying-possessed April O'Neil in the episode "The Engagement Ring".
* [[Transformers Generation One1|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: theThe 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 (Animationanimation)|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}}.
* This is [[Horny Devils|Callie's]] version of shouting in ''[[Ugly Americans]]''.
* Tiamat in the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons (Animationanimation)|Dungeons and Dragons]]'' cartoon.
* Baron Violent in ''[[The Tick]]'' cartoon, when he's wearing his power belt. When Arthur starts using the belt, he starts speaking like this.
* Buufo in ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]''. Justified, because he's actually a group of poliwogs, and it's hard to understand them if they talk out of sync.
** Also Princess Monster Wife, a [[Biological Mashup]] of body parts the Ice King stole from various princess to make his own princess. Because her misshapen head is made from the face parts of Princess Bubblegum, Lumpy Space Princess, and Turtle Princess, she speaks in all of their voices.
* In the episode "Aftershock" of ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'', Raven speaks like this during her fight with Terra.
** She also does this when she freaks out on Dr. Light during "Nevermore".
* Master Cyclonis of ''[[Storm Hawks]]'' occasionally had ''just enough'' of a creepy reverberation in her voice to drive the point home that there's something ''very'' wrong with her.
* Normally Princess Luna of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' just has [[No Indoor Voice]] (she's running on extremely outdated etiquette where shouting at your subjects is proper), but when she gets angry she moves into this category.
{{quote| '''''"BE STILL!"'''''}}
** It doesn't help that said outdated etiquette causes her to use the [[Royal We]] when referring to herself.
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** Queen Chrysalis also has it, which adds to her already creepy appearance.
* In ''[[Young Justice (Animationanimation)|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 Generator Rex Heroes United]] crossover, Alpha-Omega speaks this way.
 
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