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* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' managed to make ''[[VideoGame/Tekken1 Heihachi Mishima]]'', of all people, whimper like a little girl after getting hit in the groin by one [[VideoGame/FatalFury Geese Howard]]. To add insult to injury, Howard had blocked Mishima's attack before hitting him square in the Kazuyas.

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-->-- '''Drunk''' responding to Larry kicking him in the nuts, ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards''

Less slapstick-oriented works sometimes reference this phenomenon, as when a DeadpanSnarker taunts a male with a high-pitched voice about his VocalDissonance, or TheSnarkKnight narrowly ''avoids'' a Groin Attack and muses how close he came to playing this trope straight.

A comic follow-up to a GroinAttack, this is when a male character whose gonads have suffered injury cries out or speaks in a much higher frequency than his voice usually displays. Most often it's just a brief squeak of anguish, surprisingly high-pitched; in more extreme cases, he may talk, whine or even sing in falsetto for a time, or have his voice dubbed temporarily by an actress.

Subtrope of VocalDissonance. Works that overplay it follow it up with ShareTheMalePain. HeliumSpeech is a non-painful variant. If he's trying to say his {{Catchphrase}} while this trope is in play, it's a case of AlternateCatchphraseInflection.

* An animated commercial for Duluth Trading Company's [[IncrediblyLamePun Ballroom]] jeans shows a large man squatting in a competitor's brand, and singing soprano while doing so.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode "Seth" Daniel had previously informed the team that past cults of Seth sometimes turned their men into eunuchs. When Seth gasses them later:

* A non-painful variant from ''Series/DoctorWho''. In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth New Earth]]", when Cassandra - in Rose's body - kisses the Doctor completely out of the blue, the latter freezes for a couple of seconds during PostKissCatatonia, before muttering how he's "still got it" in a ''very'' squeaky voice.
* In the ''Film/CityLimits'' episode of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', while viewing a brawl between a would-be Clippers gang member and some thugs, one of the bots quips about a GroinAttack:
-->Look, now he's a Vienna Boys Clipper!

[[folder:Stand-up Comedy]]

* Happens to Topper's unfortunate opponent in the opening scene of ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux''.

* The ''Film/InspectorGadget'' movie has Gadget accidentally [[GroinAttack grab a guru's testicles]] when told to "reach out and grab the balls" (meaning the marbles on a pedestal). The guru's reduced to squealing "TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF!" in a very high voice. The poor guru is then loaded into an ambulance holding a huge icepack on his crotch and ''still'' in a high squeaky voice.
-->'''Guru''': He's not a man, you know! He's a monster! *''sobs in pain''*

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' Has a Jack Bauer expy whose JackBauerInterrogationTechnique consists entirely of [[GroinAttack repeated kicks to the nuts]]. After a particularly tough detainee refuses to divulge information on a terrorist attack, he puts on a metal boot heavy enough to clang with each step, and walks down the hall to get a ''running start''. The terrorist breaks just before he hits, with a cut to outside as he screams the coerced information, his voice rising in pitch.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':

[[folder:Fanfiction]]

** Harry himself gets subjected to a GroinAttack, and subsequent involuntary MickeyMouse impression, in ''Literature/ColdDays''.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''

* In ''[[Literature/GarrettPI Cold Copper Tears]]'', Garrett refers to members of a nihilistic cult as "sopranos" after finding out that they're all ritually castrated.
* Happens several times in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':

* The Literature/{{Discworld}} ''[[AllThereInTheManual Fools' Guild Diary]]'' mentions an incident in which King Harold the Rampant neglected to comply with his jester's suggestion that he adjust his chain mail. This negligence, together with the very good aim of a Pseudopolitan archer, is why the Battle of the Field of Cloth and Ants ended on such a remarkably-high note.

* In ''Literature/TheCaliforniaVoodooGame'', one character glares at another with such hatred that, if looks could cut, the other would've been eligible for First Soprano in the Vienna Boys Choir.
* The {{Music/Gorillaz}} autobiography ''Rise of the Ogre'' discusses the filming of ''Clint Eastwood'', which had a zombie grabbing Murdoc in the balls. According to Murdoc, it really hurt and he was "singing falsetto for weeks".

-->-- '''Drunk''' responding to Larry kicking him in the nuts, ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'''