Voices Are Mental/Playing With

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Basic Trope: Two characters switch bodies and retain their voices.

  • Straight: Alice and Bob are struck by a radioactive meteorite and switch bodies, but they still have same voices; Alice looks like Bob and sounds like Alice.
  • Exaggerated: ???
  • Downplayed: ???
  • Justified: The meteorite's subjects switch both their brains and their larynges.
  • Subverted: Alice wakes up in Bob's bedroom and talks in her own voice...until she sees Bob in the mirror.
  • Double Subverted: ???
  • Parodied: ???
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted: Alice switches bodies with Bob, and notices that her voice has changed.
  • Inverted: When switched, Alice speaks not only in Bob's voice but also in his language.
  • Enforced: ???
  • Lampshaded: "If I'm Bob now, why do I still have my voice? That doesn't make any sense."
  • Invoked: Alice and Bob can do many different voices, including each other's. This is how everyone knows who's who.
  • Exploited: Alice wants Bob to disappear, so she commits crimes to get Bob arrested when the effects wear off, but Charlie notices Bob has Alice's voice and call the police.
  • Defied: ???
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Implied: "I saw Alice the other day. Somehow she sounded just a tad manlier."