Tropescilloscope: Evil Sounds Deep

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

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