History Main / MachineMonotone

** Sovereign has an absolute monotone despite the fact that its lines are incredibly hammy.

Compare SyntheticVoiceActor.

->''[[SugarWiki/MostTriumphantExample I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.]]''

->''[[MostTriumphantExample I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.]]''

* In ''[[AssassinsCreed Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood]]'', findings voids in the Animus' software will drop you into a set of puzzles narrated by an emotionless female voice...which becomes extra creepy when the voice begins to speak as though it's lost and alone, wandering through endless darkness. [[spoiler: This is because Subject 16 can only speak in a machine voice once he's [[BrainUploading uploaded]] ''himself'' [[MindScrew into the Animus]] (until he loads his real one).

* EDI, the rogue plane of ''Stealth'', is particularly cruel when says "Goodbye." to Jamie Foxx, one second before jamming him and his plane against a cliff.

->[[MostTriumphantExample ''I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.'']]

->I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.

** There's also Perceptor, who according to {{Word of God}} supposedly removed his personality to have more room for information storage. And he's one of the good guys. In fact, his synthesized voice is basically the same as StephenHawking.

** The hero Roger has just literally kicked her into the middle of a crossfire - she emerges with her shell sootied, her clothes tattered, and her frazzled hair sticking out every which way. Her comment? "You're a louse, Roger Smith".

[[AC:Machines that speak have been a common element in SpeculativeFiction almost since the beginning of the genre. Usually, such voices have been portrayed as either an electronic monotone, or as an endlessly calm human voice that, while certainly warmer than the electronic buzz of the synthesizer, is unsettling to listen to because of a lack of basic emotional content. This is because, for the most part, machines are incapable of actually feeling emotions.]]

[[AC:When delivered in a flat monotone voice (that is usually free of contractions or slang), even SpockSpeak can take on creepy undertones.]]

[[AC:This is especially evident when [[AIIsACrapshoot an artificial intelligence goes nuts]]. Despite going crazy and deciding to to KillAllHumans or simply to [[TheComputerIsYourFriend take over and rule us for our own good]], all the threats and casually vicious comments the machine makes are made in the same level, calm mode of talking, making them [[NightmareFuel that much more creepy]].]]

[[AC:A subtrope of CreepyMonotone. (Also a [[JustifiedTrope justification]] if the voice comes off as creepy.)]]

[[AC:This can be an aspect of the UncannyValley.]]

[[AC:Compare SyntheticVoiceActor.]]

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** Who ends up sounding more like [=GLaDOS=] for [=HL2=] Episode Two.

** Not only that, but her voice changes comparing to what's happening to her. In the beginning she sounds like a hyperadvanced Microsoft Sam, then when you escape her [[spoiler:deathtrap]] her voice, and reasoning, becomes more disjointed, and when you destroy her morality core her voice becomes less Microsoft Sam-ish, but more smooth and... one might even say sexy, were it not that she is a computer, and were it not that [[spoiler:she hates your guts and wants to murder you real bad]].

[[AC:Machines that speak are a common element in SpeculativeFiction almost since the beginning of the genre. Usually, such voices have been portrayed as either an electronic monotone, or as an endlessly calm human voice that, while certainly warmer than the electronic buzz of the synthesizer, is unsettling to listen to because of a lack of basic emotional content. This is because, for the most part, machines are incapable of actually feeling emotions.]]

* Series: ''{{Transformers}}''. Example: Soundwave. Behavior: Always uses monotone. HAL 9000 voice synthesizer: Comparatively flexible. Outcome: Enduring fame and popularity.

** Doubly creepy because the Overwatch Dispatcher refers to Overwatch assets and objectives with mostly medically-inspired jargon: turrets are "sterilizers", soldiers are "protection teams", and the kill order is "expunge".