Voices Are Mental: Difference between revisions

 

[[Voices Are Mental]] is the "sound" aspect of [[Morphic Resonance]]. See also [[Eyes Are Mental]].

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* Variation in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]''; Al sounds the same when his soul becomes affixed to a suit of armor, even though he doesn't even have a body anymore.

** Played somewhat straight in the movie, where {{spoiler|Al's voice has deepened, due to his growing up after regaining his body (at the same age he lost it), but when he transfers his soul through a suit of armor (that just ''happens'' to look almost exactly like the one he was in) to our world, his voice is back to being high-pitched}}.

** 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.

** 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.

* 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.

== Live Action TV ==

* The ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' episode "Out of Their Minds" begins with this, just so the viewers get what's going on immediately, by blending the voices of the two people involved. Later in the episode, though, the characters have all reverted to the body's voice, with each actor just using the other's body language and vocal patterns (or trying to).

** And by the end, a cat and dog are speaking with the voices of the scientist and his mook.

* In the first episode of ''Now and Again'', John Goodman's character is heard "speaking" to Dennis Haysbert who informs him that he's just a brain hooked up to a computer now. Still sounds like Goodman. However, this may just be the character's mental reconstruction of his own voice; when he wakes up in his new body, we still see him as John Goodman until he takes a look in the mirror, at which point he becomes played and voiced by Eric Close for the remainder of the series.

* Subverted in the ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'' episode "Metamorphosis-The TV Show" where Mork and Mearth switch bodies. They talk in each other's voices but in this case there are no dubovers involved - instead [[Robin Williams]] and Jonathan Winters expertly imitate one another.

* 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.

* 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)|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.

** {{spoiler|It's revealed that in 2, Ocelot was legitimately possessed by Liquid, hence adopting Cam Clarke's voice. However, in 4, Ocelot was under self-hypnosis to believe he was Liquid (he replaced Liquid's arm with a prosthetic one so Liquid couldn't possess him). Hence he used Patrick Zimmerman's voice, as he was Ocelot pretending to be Liquid.}}

* 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.

* 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.]]

** Although they [[Averted Trope|averted this trope]] in the episode with the [[Our Vampires Are Different|Chinese Vampire]]. Through a series of "Chi transfusions" Tohru acquires Jade's mannerisms and Jade acquires Uncle's, while everyone's voice actors stay the same.

* At first averted, then played straight in the ''[[Ben 10 (Animation)|Ben 10]]'' episode "A Change of Face".

** Later averted in ''[[Ben 10 Alien Force (Animation)|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.