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** Late in the second anime, {{spoiler|Father}} takes a much younger form, but his voice remains the same.
** Alphonse's voice in the second anime is actually playing this much straighter when you take into account the [[The Reveal|revelation]] that {{spoiler|Al's real body is intact, connected to his armor-bound soul, and continuing to grow}} yet his voice remained the same.
* In Episode 148 of [[Inuyasha]], we briefly witness an interesting variation: When Naraku takes Kikyo's form to make the protagonist think she betrayed him, his voice sure sounds like Kikyo's, but his internal monologue still sounds like himself, which leaves one weirdly surreal impression considering that you hear a deep male voice comming from a frail-looking girl. Something similar can be seen in a flashback when he transforms into a pretty girl to fool one of the protagonist's grandfather but stops bothering to disguise his voice when he finally confronts him and curses his family. This is averted both in thought and speech when he takes the form of a young nobleman, but this can be traced to Naraku's decision to [[Shapeshifter Default Form|permanently keep]] that appearance, and by extension, the voice, presumably because he liked them.
* Originally averted in ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'''s [[Freaky Friday Flip]], but then played straight in the dub. Kero and Shaoran Li's voices remain the same, but their speech patterns and mannerisms are noticeably swapped.
* ''[[Girls Bravo]]'''s [[Pool Episode]] not only had mental voices, but ''mental allergies''.
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* In ''[[Naruto]]'' {{spoiler|all of the different bodies used by Pain}} except the female one have the voice of the first one we saw, even though that's not the same voice as the one controlling them.
** Averted with Ino; when she uses her Mind-Body Transfer jutsu, she always speaks with her host's voice.
* In original Japanese dub of ''[[Murder Princess]]'' Alita and Falis switch voices when they switch bodies. However, this trope was purposely averted in the English dub.
* Subverted very creepily in ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' with {{spoiler|Hansel and Gretel. When they switch identities, their voices switch too. When there is only one "twin" left, the voice switching is creeeeepy.}}
* Inverted in the Japanese and Latin American versions of ''[[Detective Conan]]''. [[Fountain of Youth|"Conan's"]] young voice isn't just used when he's talking but also most of the time when he is ''thinking.'' In the dub he thought in the older voice.
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== Fan Works ==
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in a [[Freaky Friday Flip]] fanfiction of ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' in which each body uses the right voices for each body -- ''even the accents''. So using the body of someone German automatically gives one a German accent.
* Impressively averted in ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' when Goku and Ginyu switch bodies but are stuck with each other's voices ''and'' talk like themselves.
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* 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|Hand Waved]] by the fact that the coma patient was [[All There in the Manual|his twin brother.]]}}
* In the 2006 movie ''[[Its a Boy Girl Thing]]'', voices stay with the bodies, but the thoughts of the characters are given as voiceovers in the possessors' voice.
* ''[[Night Watch|Day Watch]]'' has Anton and Olga switch bodies in order to avoid Anton being dragged in by the Day Watch for a suspected murder. The voices carry over with the personality, and they each have to perform a small glamour in order to sound like who they look like.
* The [[Ur Example]] may be Universal's ''[[The Ghost of Frankenstein]]'' (1942), in which the monster takes on the voice of Ygor ([[Bela Lugosi]]) after a brain transplant.
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** In "[[Star Trek/Recap/S3 E1 Spocks 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}}.
** The trope is averted when Victor is imprinted with Topher's personality, though the viewer might think it was followed: Victor's actor Enver Gjokaj manages an '''uncannily''' good impersonation of Topher's voice.
** This is actually playing the trope straight - the person swapped (or in this case imprinted) into a different body sounds exactly the same as they normally do. The show's creators just accomplished this in an unusual way.
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* In an episode of ''[[Warehouse 13]]'', Pete and Myka switched bodies (thanks to an [[Monster of the Week|artifact]]), but their voices [[Averted|remained the same]]. To emphasis the switch, the actors (rather impressively) mimicked the other character's mannerisms.
* [[El Chapulin Colorado]] redubbed [[For the Lulz]] when swapping the High-Toned [[Damsel in Distress]] and the baritone [[Big Guy]]. And when everyone got better they did it again with one scientific and the [[Right-Hand-Cat|Right Hand Dog.]]
* In ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', this trope was averted in the body-swapping episode. The various actors did a hilariously good job of adopting each others' mannerisms, so it was still obvious who was in whose body.
* Averted in an episode of ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' when two enemy agents switch bodies with Steed and Mrs. Peel. Sort of unavoidable, since the bad guys were supposed to be infiltrating British intellence.
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* Averted and played straight in ''[[Nicktoons Unite!|Nicktoons: Globs of Doom]]'' whenever [[Big Bad]] Globulous Maximus speaks through [[SpongeBob SquarePants]]. First, it's merely SpongeBob acting evil; the second time, we start with evil SpongeBob who switches to Globulous' voice ''mid-sentence'' (which is the cue needed for [[Jimmy Neutron]] to note that [[Captain Obvious|he's speaking through him]] and for [[Invader Zim]] to complain about Globulous being a [[Large Ham|larger ham]] than him. Yep.) and after that, it's pretty much a hammy Dee Bradley Baker "voicing" the yellow guy.
* Averted in the video game adaptation of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' part five. Near the end of the game, everyone switches bodies, but they retain the voice of the bodies owner. Their Stands swap with them, though.
* In response to the ninth ''Pokémon'' movie example above, strangely averted in ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' with Manaphy's Heart Swap attack when it comes out of a Poke Ball. Of course, making Zelda sound like Donkey Kong and vice versa would be a little weird, in retrospect.
* When Momohime is being controlled by Jinkuro in ''[[Muramasa: The Demon Blade]]'' she still uses her own voice actor, but at a noticeably lower register. [[Japanese Pronouns|She also switches pronoun use to a pronoun commonly used by old men.]]
* ''[[Remember 11]]'' goes back and forth on this. When Kokoro and Satoru switch bodies, they retain the same voice actors (ie. Kokoro in Satoru's body still has Kokoro's voice), but the fact that people have trouble telling them apart, as well as things such as recordings made by Satoru-in-Kokoro's-body having Kokoro's voice, imply that their voices ''do'' stay with the bodies in-universe, but the player hears [[Translation Convention|them with the associated mind for convenience]].
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* [[Red vs. Blue]] plays with this trope a few ways. The first time Church possess someone (Sarge) he speaks as Church pretending to be Sarge, later when possessing Donut, he speaks in his normal voice, who Tucker and Caboose hear as Church and Grif and Simmons hear it as Donut. Later, when Church possess Lopez, he speaks in his normal voice ''in a different language'', apparently because Lopez is physically unable to speak English, Grif and Simmons still dont notice a change however.
** 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 thier 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.
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* Happens in ''[[Captain N: The Game Master|Captain N the Game Master]]''.
* Happens in ''[[Darkwing Duck]]''.
* ''[[The Tick (animation)]] 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]]'' played this straight in "Switched"
** 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.
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** Again played straight in "Ghostfreaked Out" whenever Ghostfreak possesses someone. (Also, [[Uh-Oh Eyes|their eyes]] [[Mind Control Eyes|change.]])
** Later averted in ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'', when an alien is turned into a clone of Ben that's just has much more serious and stilted inflection. Of course, this was probably so it would be hard for the audience to figure out before [[The Reveal]], and because the guy was apparently an alien like Greymatter before it would have sounded even more ridiculous than usual.
** The largest aversion is that Ben's alien forms are voiced by several different voice actors, all of them different from Ben's normal voice actor but Upgrade (who seems to be synthesizing his voice). In contrast, Ben's [[Evil Counterpart]] Kevin 11 retained the same voice in all his forms when he was shapeshifting into several of Ben's different alien forms.
** Played straight in an episode of ''Ultimate Alien'' where Kevin and Gwen are each turned into several of Ben's alien forms, all of which were their voice actors impersonating the voices those aliens normally had (including Gwen's VA impersonating [[John Dimaggio|Rath]]).
* Averted in the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HINrM_Y8kEk&feature=channel_page The Great Brain Robbery]", when Lex Luthor and Flash exchange bodies. They use the voices belonging to the bodies. The writing staff wrote the ep solely as an [[Actor Allusion]] for ''[[Smallville]]'' fans, since live action Lex and animated Flash are both played by Michael Rosenbaum. A significant portion of the episode's comedy also comes from the usually sinister vocal stylings of Lex's voice actor, Clancy "[[Highlander|The Kurgan]]" Brown, playing the goofball Flash for an episode. Among the jokes that [[Rule of Funny|saved the episode]]:
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'''Dr. Polaris:'''Aren't you going to wash your hands?
'''Lex:'''No, because ''I'm evil.'' }}
** 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|Freaky Friday Flipped]] 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]]'' plays this straight. In "A Fine Mess", when a computer glitch in Lyoko [[Freaky Friday Flip|switches Odd's and Yumi's bodies]], they also switch voices. The same in episode "Nobody in Particular", where a disincarnated Ulrich still retain his own voice while possessing Jim -- or ''Kiwi'', actually talking through the dog.
** 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 subtlely different from Wolf.
* Averted similarly in ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' with Blitzwing, who also has three personalities and, bizarrely, associated faces; they use the same voice and accent (mostly, since Hothead actually has an [[The Ahnold|Austrian]] rather than German accent), but have remarkably different inflection.
** 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.
** Both averted and subverted in the original ''G1'' series. Starscream's ghost possessed Cyclonus, and could do both his voice and Cyclonus' voice. When he cried out in surprise, however, his troops noticed that he sounded like Starscream.
* Also averted in the [[Freaky Friday Flip]] episode of ''[[Pirates of Dark Water]]''. Probably for the sake of hearing the [[Mix-and-Match Critters|monkey-bird's]] voice do [[Hulk Speak]].
* Partly averted in ''[[Tale Spin]]''. Baloo and Kit switch bodies but don't switch voices. Instead, the voices stay with the bodies, but Kit's voice is pitchshifted down and Baloo's is pitchshifted up.
** Notably, it's shown that it's not just a case of [[Rule of Perception]] but something ''other characters can notice'', as they had to trick Rebecca into thinking there was something wrong with her hearing.
* Subverted in an ''[[I Am Weasel]]'' short. Owing to a surgical mishap, Weasel and Baboon's brains are switched. Michael Dorn (Weasel-in-Baboon) imitates Charlie Adler's goofy way of speaking, while Adler (Weasel-in-Baboon) speaks with Dorn's dry precision. The effect is pretty hilarious.
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** It's a bit odd given that the body's real voice is also accessible.
*** Perhaps he practiced so as not to creep himself too much.
* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' had Egon and Slimer switch minds and voices. On top of that, Egon's ''vision problems'' apparently transferred over with his mind, because Egon (in Slimer's body) insists on wearing his glasses.
* Averted in an episode of ''[[Two Stupid Dogs]]'': the dogs switch minds, but they still have the same voices. It's their mannerisms and the way they talked that switched.
* Happens in a ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode, where Peter and Lois accidentally switch bodies, when they try one of Stewie's inventions.
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* Ditto in ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' episode "Presto-Change-O", though you could just say it was due to [[A Wizard Did It|the magical way they switched bodies]].
** An early episode where Timmy changed bodies with Vicky's dog averted this: when in Timmy's body Doydle sounded like Timmy and when in Doydle's body Timmy could only bark/"speak dog" and there's what's obviously a voiceover to let us know what he's really trying to say.
* Shown in the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "The Prisoner Of Benda", where virtually the entire cast, plus a washbucket and an Emperor, switch bodies but retain their voices. It's necessary, though, since the sheer amount of body-swapping would confuse anyone if they didn't keep their original voices. Additionally, it may be for the audience's benefit, since the characters still need to tell each other who's who.
** Considering at least 3 of the chars switching are played by Billy West...
* ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]'' once had Kay [[Fountain of Youth|turned into a baby]] but retain the same voice. This wasn't just for the audience, he sounds the same to all the characters, which [[Talking Animal|Frank]] [[Hypocritical Humor|finds weird.]]
** Another episode takes this trope to its logical conclusion when Zed's brain is removed, and the disembodied brain talks with Zed's voice.
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