Tropescilloscope: Evil Sounds Deep

Deep voices just scream villainy. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Not So Above It All The Brute Curb-Stomp Battle Artistic License – Biology Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Tagline Black Best Friend Whole Plot Reference Evil Plan Straight Gay Badass Boast The Starscream Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Ironic Echo Redshirt Army Evil Laugh Match Cut Mood Whiplash She's Got Legs Fantasy Films Foreshadowing Distracted by the Sexy Plucky Comic Relief Blatant Lies Badass Normal Defrosting Ice Queen As Long as It Sounds Foreign Asshole Victim Ascended Extra Nothing Is Scarier Improbable Aiming Skills Manic Pixie Dream Girl Villain with Good Publicity No Name Given As Himself An Aesop Affably Evil Artistic License – Gun Safety Card-Carrying Villain Composite Character Your Cheating Heart Poor Communication Kills Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie It's All About Me Stuff Blowing Up All There in the Script Gratuitous English Disappeared Dad For Want of a Nail Light Is Not Good Rated M for Manly Humiliation Conga Brick Joke Morality Pet Early Installment Weirdness Sinister Minister Obviously Evil Four-Temperament Ensemble An Axe to Grind Retirony Sacrificial Lion Artistic License – Law Artistic License – History Demoted to Extra Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Lampshade Hanging Brutal Honesty One Steve Limit Bunny-Ears Lawyer Arc Words The Atoner Made of Explodium Cluster F-Bomb Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Say My Name Grievous Bottley Harm Manipulative Bastard Big Eater Mr. Fanservice Public Domain Feature Films Sir Swears-a-Lot Broken Aesop A God Am I Obfuscating Stupidity Hero of Another Story Big "NO!" Dramedy Romantic Comedy Belligerent Sexual Tension Sci-Fi Horror Once More, with Clarity! Heterosexual Life-Partners Tap on the Head Five-Man Band Together in Death Self-Deprecation Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Dull Surprise Rule of Funny Vomit Indiscretion Shot No Antagonist Woman Scorned Berserk Button Flashback Driven to Suicide Frame-Up Rousing Speech Facial Horror Russian Films Sexy Discretion Shot Put on a Bus Badass Longcoat Babies Ever After Foregone Conclusion Interrupted Suicide Ghost Fiction Sequel Escalation Dying Moment of Awesome Knife Nut The Bully Domestic Abuse Truth in Television Bond One-Liner Accidental Murder The Chessmaster Hoist by His Own Petard Adaptational Heroism Soft Glass Expy "Awesome McCool" Name Catch-Phrase Catapult Nightmare Shoot the Shaggy Dog Gold Digger Your Head A-Splode Deal with the Devil Only One Name Does Not Like Shoes Index of Film Westerns A.I. Is a Crapshoot Badass in a Nice Suit Improvised Weapon MacGuffin I Did What I Had to Do Line-of-Sight Name Punny Name Humans Are Bastards Wretched Hive Advertised Extra Bi the Way Historical Hero Upgrade Spanner in the Works Cat Scare You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Everyone Has Standards Fantastic Racism Maybe Ever After Rasputinian Death Earn Your Happy Ending Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Cavalry Fire-Forged Friends Foil Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Wrong Genre Savvy Historical-Domain Character No-Sell Genre Savvy Exactly What It Says on the Tin Blood from the Mouth Male Gaze Death by Adaptation Sanity Slippage Mooks Black and Gray Morality Demonic Possession Market-Based Title Slasher Smile Scenery Porn Oh, Crap! Bury Your Gays Credits Gag Totally Radical Let's Get Dangerous! Bad Boss Up to Eleven Dirty Cop Hypocritical Humor Papa Wolf Damsel in Distress Closed Circle The '90s Car Fu Auto Erotica Freeze-Frame Bonus Historical Villain Upgrade Ominous Latin Chanting Politically Incorrect Villain Historical In-Joke Immune to Bullets Kick the Dog Big-Bad Ensemble Villain Opening Scene Coming-of-Age Story Never My Fault Manly Tears Taking the Bullet Comically Missing the Point The '80s As You Know Insane Troll Logic Training Montage Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Horror Films Mugging the Monster Unusually Uninteresting Sight Romantic False Lead Video Credits Improbable Weapon User Henpecked Husband Bittersweet Ending Refuge in Audacity Eldritch Abomination Bloodless Carnage Dumb Blonde Broken Bird Annoying Younger Sibling Badass Grandpa You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Sports Stories Bottomless Magazines Gone Horribly Right Dropped a Bridge on Him Break the Cutie All for Nothing Attempted Rape Love at First Sight Crazy Jealous Guy Red Herring The Hero Older Than They Look Spiteful Spit Pay Evil unto Evil Badass Bookworm Cowboy Cop Retcon All There in the Manual Disney Death Fourth Date Marriage Zombie Stories The '70s Psychological Thriller Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Race Lift Man on Fire Room Full of Crazy Psycho for Hire Big Fancy House "Shaggy Dog" Story Intergenerational Friendship O.O.C. Is Serious Business Genre Throwback Disproportionate Retribution Dissonant Serenity After the End Vampire Fiction The Lost Lenore Evil Is Petty Agony of the Feet Motor Mouth Nice Hat Despair Event Horizon Apocalypse How Police Brutality Dutch Angle The Vamp Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Easily Forgiven Spell My Name with an "S" Cool Shades Anti-Hero Television Movie Index Token Minority Double-Meaning Title Would Hit a Girl And the Adventure Continues All Men Are Perverts Death by Irony Military and Warfare Films Back from the Dead Author Avatar Major Injury Underreaction Italian Films Extremely Short Timespan Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Hell Is That Noise Fatal Family Photo Undying Loyalty Retired Badass Villain Ball Take a Third Option Age Lift Calling the Old Man Out Shout-Out Sassy Black Woman Body Horror Cool Guns I'm a Humanitarian Offscreen Teleportation Artistic License – Military The '60s Anti-Villain Posthumous Character The '50s Last-Name Basis Brainless Beauty Obstructive Bureaucrat Almost Kiss Evil Sounds Deep The Film of the Book Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Dual Wielding Action Survivor Adaptational Attractiveness Throwing Your Sword Always Works Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Adapted Out One-Man Army Anachronism Stew The Smurfette Principle Pyrrhic Victory Cain and Abel Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Mexican Standoff Daddy's Girl Jerkass Bait-and-Switch World of Ham And I Must Scream Serious Business Faking the Dead Break the Haughty You Killed My Father Crucified Hero Shot Irony Pretty Little Headshots Adaptational Badass Curse Cut Short Mistaken for Gay Hero Antagonist Breaking the Fourth Wall Aside Glance Rule of Cool Would Hurt a Child From Nobody to Nightmare Dramatic Irony Paper-Thin Disguise Silence Is Golden Chekhov's Gun Took a Level in Badass Mythology Gag Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil And Starring Ambiguously Gay Laughing Mad Homage What You Are in the Dark In Medias Res Be Careful What You Wish For Take That! Drowning My Sorrows Never Trust a Trailer My Beloved Smother Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Moment Killer Playing Gertrude Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Rich Bitch Jitter Cam Mundane Made Awesome Naïve Newcomer Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Star-Crossed Lovers Not Quite Dead Large Ham Dirty Coward Fish out of Water Armor-Piercing Question Rewatch Bonus Worthy Opponent Abhorrent Admirer Jerkass Has a Point Gilligan Cut Corrupt Corporate Executive Product Placement Department of Redundancy Department Have a Gay Old Time Adaptation Name Change Gender Flip Canadian Movies Unspoken Plan Guarantee Word of God Bavarian Fire Drill Deadpan Snarker Madness Mantra Conspicuous CG NO INDOOR VOICE The Dreaded Loads and Loads of Characters Super Strength Early-Bird Cameo The Casanova Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! BFG Combat Pragmatist Dramatic Gun Cock Show Within a Show Good Is Not Nice The Power of Love Canon Foreigner Japanese Films The End... Or Is It? German Films Anguished Declaration of Love Real Life Animal Title Index Yandere Unresolved Sexual Tension Jerk with a Heart of Gold Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Offscreen Moment of Awesome Ungrateful Bastard The Reveal Death by Sex Tranquil Fury Hope Spot Crazy-Prepared Bad "Bad Acting" "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Smart Guy Arch-Enemy Cool Old Lady A Minor Kidroduction Protagonist Title Half the Man He Used to Be She Cleans Up Nicely Eagleland Did Not Get the Girl Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Betty and Veronica Translation Convention Well-Intentioned Extremist La Résistance Big Bad Actor Allusion Sole Survivor Parental Abandonment Heel–Face Turn Mad Scientist Parental Incest Imagine Spot Tempting Fate Awesome, but Impractical Toplessness from the Back Fat Bastard folderlabel Knight Templar Author Appeal The Hero Dies Creator Cameo Kill It with Fire Deliberately Monochrome Skewed Priorities Bloody Hilarious Our Vampires Are Different Cruel and Unusual Death What the Hell, Hero? Ms. Fanservice The Mafia Left the Background Music On Call-Forward Evil Brit Bilingual Bonus Unwitting Instigator of Doom Creative Closing Credits Action Girl Riddle for the Ages Diabolus ex Machina Shut Up, Hannibal! Outrun the Fireball Black Comedy Rape Alliterative Name All Just a Dream Bond Villain Stupidity Important Haircut Eureka Moment In Name Only Defiant to the End Pragmatic Adaptation Victoria's Secret Compartment The Ditz Lock and Load Montage The Bad Guy Wins Genre Shift Pretty in Mink War Is Hell Hate Sink Corpsing Leitmotif Amusing Injuries Precision F-Strike Femme Fatale Police are Useless Death Glare Award-Bait Song Horror Comedy Smoking Is Cool Brother–Sister Incest Famous Last Words Becoming the Mask As the Good Book Says... Meaningful Echo Not So Stoic B-Movie Flipping the Bird Face Death with Dignity Christmas Movies Index The Stinger Instant Death Bullet Here We Go Again! Serial Killer Ax-Crazy Plot Hole Woman in White Casting Gag Drill Sergeant Nasty Naked People Are Funny Title Drop Properly Paranoid N-Word Privileges Destination Defenestration Never Found the Body Wham Line Only a Flesh Wound Empathic Environment Affectionate Parody Chiaroscuro Framing Device Works Set in World War II Adults Are Useless Stepford Smiler Suspiciously Specific Denial Cold-Blooded Torture Took a Level in Jerkass Bald of Evil Artistic License – Geography Sequel Hook Stock Footage Face–Heel Turn Chase Scene Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Time Skip Suspiciously Similar Substitute Soundtrack Dissonance Dwindling Party The Remake Lighter and Softer Daylight Horror Married to the Job Friend to All Children Reasonable Authority Figure Cool Car Stalker with a Crush Establishing Character Moment Celebrity Paradox Heel Realization Death of a Child Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Action Prologue Blood Knight The Ghost Rule of Symbolism Costume Porn Jump Scare Killed Mid-Sentence Random Events Plot Shirtless Scene The Faceless Logo Joke Double Entendre Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Adaptation Expansion Biopic My God, What Have I Done? Love Triangle The Stoic Off-into-the-Distance Ending Setting Update Vacation Films 20 Minutes into the Future The Ace The Dragon Handicapped Badass One-Word Title Superhero Bolivian Army Ending Aluminum Christmas Trees Not So Different Made of Iron Beta Couple Stealth Pun Spiritual Successor French Films Faux Affably Evil Butt-Monkey Fate Worse than Death Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Abusive Parents Bloodier and Gorier Leave the Camera Running Dark Is Not Evil Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! The Voiceless Very Loosely Based on a True Story Overprotective Dad Determinator Mercy Kill Chekhov's Gunman Insult Backfire Beard of Evil Anachronic Order Kids Are Cruel Central Theme Ship Tease Storming the Castle Failed a Spot Check Nice Guy Captain Obvious Sadistic Choice Shown Their Work Unusual Euphemism Big Applesauce Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Decoy Protagonist Same Language Dub The Alcoholic Deliberate Values Dissonance The Alleged Car Narrator Pimped-Out Dress Enemy Mine Animal Motifs Adorkable Adaptation Dye-Job Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Karma Houdini Character Development Due to the Dead Rape as Drama Ambiguous Ending Mind Screw Fainting Small Name, Big Ego Arranged Marriage Really Gets Around I Have Your Wife Music Stories Psychopathic Manchild Groin Attack Actually Pretty Funny Wounded Gazelle Gambit No OSHA Compliance Leaning on the Fourth Wall Fanservice Kick the Son of a Bitch Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Reality Ensues Green-Eyed Monster Gainax Ending The Great Depression The Load Blackmail Trailers Always Spoil Mr. Exposition Red Right Hand Call-Back I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Every Car Is a Pinto Those Two Bad Guys Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Epic Movie Happily Married Neck Lift Documentary My Greatest Failure Camp Gay Wicked Cultured Dark Reprise Punch-Clock Villain Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Film Series "Well Done, Son!" Guy Based on a True Story Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Running Gag Hair-Trigger Temper Slasher Movie Hidden Depths Heroes Want Redheads Fun with Acronyms Bring My Brown Pants Implacable Man Epic Fail The Quiet One Guns Akimbo The Sociopath Slap-Slap-Kiss Beware the Nice Ones Evil Cannot Comprehend Good timeperiod Redemption Equals Death The Musical Contrived Coincidence Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Needs Wiki Magic Love Ass Shove Fan Disservice Grey and Gray Morality Didn't Think This Through Broken Pedestal Heroic BSoD Accidental Misnaming Expository Hairstyle Change Darkest Hour Spared by the Adaptation It Can Think Only Known by Their Nickname Reality Has No Subtitles Big Damn Heroes Rule of Three More Dakka Hollywood Law Meaningful Background Event Scenery Gorn Exact Words Overly Long Gag Only in It for the Money Evil-Detecting Dog Fingore No Ending Re-Cut Children Are Innocent Danny Peary Cult Movies List Boom, Headshot! He Who Fights Monsters Only Sane Man Mighty Whitey Scary Black Man The Stoner British Films Race Against the Clock Not What It Looks Like "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Recycled IN SPACE! Parental Substitute Big Bad Duumvirate Thriller Alas, Poor Villain The Dog Bites Back The Oner Downer Ending Even Evil Has Standards Gorn Visual Pun Chewing the Scenery Unreliable Narrator Cassandra Truth All Girls Want Bad Boys Men Are the Expendable Gender You Have Failed Me Artistic License – Physics The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Red Eyes, Take Warning Disney Villain Death Even Evil Has Loved Ones No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Developing Doomed Characters Pet the Dog Red Shirt Sealed Evil in a Can Fake Shemp Manchild Peek-a-Boo Corpse Red Oni, Blue Oni Neck Snap Cloudcuckoolander How We Got Here Beauty Is Never Tarnished Evil Counterpart Martial Arts Movie '80s Hair Those Wacky Nazis Get Out! Bowdlerise Evil vs. Evil Deus ex Machina Dark Action Girl The X of Y May–December Romance Eye Scream Funny Foreigner Amoral Attorney No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Slashed Throat Honor Before Reason Too Dumb to Live A Father to His Men Gory Discretion Shot Creepy Child Meet Cute A Date with Rosie Palms Shower Scene Better to Die than Be Killed Novelization Noodle Incident Screw This, I'm Outta Here! No Celebrities Were Harmed Action Genre Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Insistent Terminology Non-Indicative Name The Chick Cat Fight The Lancer Malevolent Masked Men The Cameo Taking You with Me Does This Remind You of Anything? Evil Is Hammy Missing Mom There Is No Kill Like Overkill Loophole Abuse Twist Ending Determinator aka: The Determinator Kill 'em All Those Two Guys Pragmatic Villainy An Arm and a Leg Cool Old Guy Fiery Redhead Stealth Hi/Bye Villainous Breakdown Kubrick Stare Reality Is Unrealistic Science Fiction Films This Is Gonna Suck Getting Crap Past the Radar Funny Background Event Mama Bear It's Personal Film Noir Greater-Scope Villain Make It Look Like an Accident In the Back True Companions Heroic Sacrifice Bound and Gagged Drugs Are Bad Extreme Doormat Dark and Troubled Past What Happened to the Mouse? Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Shell-Shocked Veteran Batman Gambit Covers Always Lie Not Using the "Z" Word Our Zombies Are Different Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Meaningful Name Bar Brawl Off with His Head! Villain Protagonist Vitriolic Best Buds Adult Fear Darker and Edgier Crapsack World Informed Ability Chekhov's Skill Big Brother Instinct Adaptation Distillation Male Frontal Nudity Anyone Can Die Australian Movies Ripped from the Headlines Guile Hero Fanservice Extra Film Noir Index Final Girl Camera Abuse Villain Song Reckless Gun Usage Book-Ends Names to Run Away from Really Fast Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Air-Vent Passageway Mystery and Detective Films Black Dude Dies First Disguised in Drag For the Evulz Eiffel Tower Effect Black Comedy Karmic Death Revenge Hypocrite Idiot Ball Continuity Nod Bland-Name Product Wham Shot Dirty Old Man Vomit Discretion Shot Death Seeker Silent Movie Drives Like Crazy Ambiguous Disorder Alpha Bitch Real Life Writes the Plot The Place I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Jerk Jock Depraved Bisexual Adaptational Villainy Shipper on Deck Roaring Rampage of Revenge Country Matters Hooker with a Heart of Gold Authority Equals Asskicking Bullying a Dragon Stylistic Suck Intrepid Reporter I Need a Freaking Drink Dressing as the Enemy Dies Wide Open The Un-Reveal Scare Chord He Knows Too Much Pre-Mortem One-Liner The Mole Dogged Nice Guy Hong Kong Films Not Even Bothering with the Accent Parental Neglect It Will Never Catch On Hollywood Darkness Smug Snake From Bad to Worse Fatal Flaw Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Bare Your Midriff Freudian Excuse Captain Ersatz Suddenly SHOUTING! Deconstruction Monumental Damage The Big Guy Laser-Guided Karma Antagonist Title Animated Credits Opening Eyepatch of Power