Tropescilloscope: Evil Sounds Deep

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

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