Tropescilloscope: Evil Sounds Deep

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

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