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** The voice difference was only to distinguish him from Goku, as to the characters, the voice that came out of Goku's mouth was Goku's own. Maybe they thought we wouldn't be able to tell or something?
* In ''[[Darker than Black]]'', [[Intellectual Animal]] Mao is actually a Contractor with the ability to possess animals. He switches bodies a couple of times, so we get to see that he sounds exactly the same as a cat, a bird, or {{spoiler|a flying squirrel}} - all of which sound like his original voice, as seen in a flashback.
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** One [[Omake]] in which Rukia and Renji swap [[Meat Puppet|gigai]] plays this completely straight.
* Used in the second bonus OVA of ''[[Daphne in the Brilliant Blue]]'' when Maia and Gloria are switched. The switch in voices is brought up, but treated in such a way as though the other characters fully expect it to come with the territory.
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== Films -- Live Action ==
* Inverted in ''[[Face Off|Face/Off]]''. The swapped guys have the voices of the actors who play them- but not before and after...
* Happens on and off in the ''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'' films, via the Polyjuice Potion, though it's averted in the books and is most likely for the audience's benefit since in ''[[
* Happens in [[The Movie]] of ''[[Scooby-Doo (film)|Scooby-Doo]]'' when the cast's souls were trying to find their original bodies.
* Happens at the end of ''[[X-Men (film)|X-Men: The Last Stand]]'' {{spoiler|after the credits when Prof. X reappears in the body of the mindless coma patient. It's [[Hand Wave]]d by the fact that the coma patient was [[All There in the Manual|his twin brother.]]}}
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* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode "Return to Tomorrow", several ''Enterprise'' personnel were (voluntarily) possessed by alien mental entities. When speaking, their voices were very different (louder and a different pitch, like in an echo chamber).
** The trope is averted in the actual bodyswap episode "[[Star Trek/Recap/S3/E24 Turnabout Intruder|Turnabout Intruder]]".
** In "[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S3/E01 Spock's Brain|Spock's Brain]]", the disembodied organ of the title manages to speak through the computer system it's plugged into. For some reason, it talks in Spock's voice without having his vocal cords. And this is actually not the biggest logic failure in the episode.
* In the ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'', Mario gets his mind swapped with that of Frank N. Stein's monster. It's not exactly the best dub job out there, but they did follow the trope. A knock on the noggin with a hammer for each of them is enough to swap them back.
* In the ''[[Dollhouse]]'' episode "A Love Supreme", {{spoiler|Alpha downloads Ballard's personality into himself. When Ballard briefly manages to take control of Alpha, he speaks with his own voice}}.
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** The reason behind the first change is because the writers couldn't decide if Burnie (Church's VA) would pretend to be the character he was possessing or if they would have the possessed character's VA do their voice different or try to sound like Church. Ultimately Burnie decided that because his Donut impression sounded too much like another character, that they would do away with it and just have Church's voice.
** Another curious example, Church's second robot body is seen only speaking French, yet Church speaks English in his normal voice when inhabiting it, inverting the Lopez example.
* ''[[RWBY]]'':
** Deliberately averted with Ozpin and Oscar in Volume 5. According to the writers' V5 commentary track, the production team felt that having Shannon McCormick's Ozpin voice coming out of Oscar's mouth would have been ridiculous. Instead, they lucked out in that Aaron Dismuke, Oscar's voice actor, could ''perfectly'' mimic Ozpin's cadence and delivery in Oscar's voice. Even so, the aversion wasn't ''total'' -- several times ''both'' performers' voices were carefully blended together for special moments.
** Played straight four volumes later: When the Curious Cat [[Demonic Possession|possesses]] [[Cute Mute]] villain Neo in V9E8, he still speaks with his own voice.
== Western Animation ==
* Given that [[Freaky Friday Flip]] is one of many stock [[Plots]] in
* Played straight and averted in ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]''. When Jimmy and Cindy switches bodies, the "brains" retains their voices, but when Jimmy creates imperfect clones of himself, each has a different voice related to their personalities.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has this happen whenever someone is possessed, leading at least twice to one character arguing with themselves with two distinct voices.
** Like the temporary eye colour change of possessed people, it is somewhat confusing as to whether this is actually happening in the DP world or merely [[Rule of Perception|a cue to help the audience follow what's going on]]. The other characters never notice it, at any rate.
* Happens in the pilot of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'', where Dexter and Dee-Dee end up in each others' bodies at the episode's conclusion.
* The original ''[[DuckTales (1987)|DuckTales]]'' episode where the Beagle Boys impersonate Huey, Dewey and Louie, thanks to Magica DeSpell's magic.
* Happens in ''[[Lilo & Stitch: The Series]]'', where the title characters swaps bodies in one episode.
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* Happens in ''[[Darkwing Duck]]''.
* ''[[The Tick (animation)|The Tick]]'' episode "The Tick vs. Science" had a lot of fun with this, with human characters suddenly saddled with the vocalizations of a giant sentient tongue and so forth.
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''
** A fun story from one of the writers: the voice actresses for Raven and Starfire were originally ''supposed'' to switch roles, with [[Emotionless Girl|"Starfire" speaking in monotone]] and [[Genki Girl|"Raven" speaking cheerfully]]. It then turned out that both actresses were so good at mimicking the other character's voice that they could barely tell a switch had been made, leading the writers to simply drop the idea.
** An aversion (in a sense) from the same show comes in the form of [[Body Surf|Jericho]], a [[Heroic Mime]] who is only able to speak when he's possessing someone who can speak. As he has no voice of his own, it can be assumed that he uses their voice to speak (though this would be a more definite assertion if the only time the viewer was shown this wasn't when he was possessing [[The Brute|Cinderblock]]...)
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** Also averted in the episode "Dead Reckoning", where characters don't change voices when possessed by Deadman. They do, however, gain his accent and mannerisms.
* In ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'', when the girls were [[Freaky Friday Flip]]ped with the Professor, the Mayor, and Miss Bellum, they not only retained their voiced but their '''''[[Powers as Programs|powers]]''''', too. Granted, it was mainly because as the Professor's [[Techno Babble]] explained, they switched outer "layers" rather than their entire bodies being swapped.
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]''
** That last part is actually quite ironic since Ulrich and Kiwi have [[Cross-Dressing Voices|the same voice actress]].
* Notably averted in ''[[Gargoyles]]''; Coldstone has three different personalities, all of which use Coldstone's voice with minor inflections when they're in control of the body. The female personality, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3tHy08ZJ98&feature=related first time she controlled the body], even said "My voice. It's different!" In a later episode, Puck switches the minds of various members of the cast (including all three of Coldstone's alternate personalities) and everyone's voice matches the body, rather than the mind, of the speaker.
** This is worked into the plots of said episodes, as it allows them to conceal which personality is in control of a body until [[The Reveal]].
** Between those two it was sort of used, sort of averted when Wolf was possessed by the Viking Hakon, his ancestor. Both characters are voiced by [[Clancy Brown]], and the ep was written to highlight his ability to [[Talking to Himself|talk to himself]] in the voice of either character, making possessed Wolf sound subtly different from Wolf.
* Averted
** Averted again, later in "Where Is Thy Sting?": {{spoiler|Wasp tries to switch places with Bumblebee and one of the things he does is switch their voice processors. So after the switch Wasp has speaks with Bumblebee's voice while still maintaining his weird speech patterns and Bumblebee has Wasp's buzzing voice by still talks normally}}.
** Speaking of ''Transformers'', played straight in the ''[[Beast Wars]]'' episode "Possession" where Waspinator is possessed by Starscream's spark; he consequently sounds like a ''G1'' Starscream soundalike.
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* ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' had a [[Freaky Friday Flip]] with his little sister, with this trope hard at work.
* Averted in a [[Freaky Friday Flip]] episode of the 1980s version of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''. Splinter and Shredder were swapped, but the voices stayed with the bodies.
* Played straight and averted with Deadman in ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'': when he possesses Batman, Deadman's VA speaks, but when he possesses Speedy, the same VA just imitates Deadman's New York accent. Later, when Batman and Batwoman go through a [[Freaky Friday Flip]], they keep their voice actors, who imitate each others' acting (albeit Bader [[Rule of Funny|is acting much more effeminate than Batwoman ever really did]]).
* In ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', this trope serves as the [[Reveal]] that {{spoiler|Ra's al Ghul pulled a [[Grand Theft Me]] on his daughter Talia.}}
** It's a bit odd given that the body's real voice is also accessible.
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* Subverted in ''[[The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest]]'': Jeremiah Surd performs a "neural cyber-transfer" with Race Bannon. At first he talks in Surd's voice but then when he explains how he plans to sneak up on and kill Dr. Quest, he clears his throat, then finishes his sentence in the voice of Race Bannon, hammering home how perfect his possession of Race's body is. Race-in-Surd's body talks like Race but with a noticeable electronic echo, representing the breathing apparatus Surd's crippled body uses.
* ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'': When the [[Power Parasite|Parasite]] absorbs Earl Garver's personality, Garver takes control of the Parasite's body and talks in his own voice. Makes sense since the Parasite already demonstrated the ability to copy the voice of a person whose energy he drains.
* Averted in the ''[[Sonic Boom]]'' episode "The Meteor" where Sonic and Eggman touch a meteor at the same time and switch bodies. Sonic only has his own voice in his head in the scene where he wakes up in Eggman's lair.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Larynx transplants have been possible since 1998, and, in at least one case, the recipient sounded like he did before his own larynx was crushed, rather than sounding like the donor
** The larynx actually has very little to do with how voices sound, but it's not much mental, either. The larynx is a bit like the mouthpiece of a brass instrument. All mouthpieces sound about the same alone, but the sound quality changes drastically depending on whether
* Of course, any accent or [[Verbal Tic]] would not be removed if [[Head Transplantation|switching bodies]] was somehow made possible.
** [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!|For the mind or the body?]]
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