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** In ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', the T-800 uses John Connor's voice on the phone with the foster parents [[spoiler: one of whom is actually the shape-shifting enemy Terminator, using the RequiredSecondaryPower to impersonate the mom while on the phone.]] This is a throwback to the earlier film ''Film/TheTerminator'', where it copies the voice of Sarah Connor's mother.

* ''Film/JamesBond''
** In ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', Bond impersonates a genealogist while undercover in Switzerland, mimicking his voice perfectly as part of the act. This was achieved by dubbing the genealogist's voice over Bond's actor, ''Creator/GeorgeLazenby''.
** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''. Ernst Stavro Blofeld is able to impersonate [[TheHermit Willard Whyte]] and [[MasqueradingAsTheUnseen run his business empire by remote control]] thanks to an electronic voicebox that can change his voice to sound like Whyte's. A smaller transistorized version is implanted in the neck of Blofeld's {{Body Double}}s so they'll have his voice. After seeing this, Bond has Q jury-rig up a similar device to fool Blofeld into revealing the location of the real Willard Whyte.
* In the movie ''Film/{{Scream 3}}'', the Ghostface villain uses a voice changer that mimics many of the other characters' voices. In the rest of the series, Ghostface just uses the device to put on a deep, creepy-sounding voice to mask his or her identity.
* Sgt. Jones from the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' series is so good at imitating sounds, he has been shown to foil his opponents using his voicebox alone. That's actually [[TheCastShowoff one of Michael Winslow's main real-life talents]].
* In ''Film/PoliceAcademy6CityUnderSiege'', the BigBad uses this trope, combined with LatexPerfection, to impersonate Commissioner Hurst. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, his deception is foiled when the real Commissioner shows up, and one of the heroes figures out how to SpotTheImpostor.]]

* Len Parker in the Film/{{Apocalypse}} film series movie ''Revelation'' imitates the voices of Thorold Stone's wife and daughter through a walkie-talkie in order to deceive Stone into thinking that he has them in his custody. [[TalkingToHimself He even "tells" them to be quiet]].

* In ''Film/TheLastOfSheila'' [[spoiler: Richard Benjamin imitates James Coburn's voice to make a snarky comment. That prank comes back to trip him up later.]]

* In the ''Film/MissionImpossible'' films, the standard-issue LatexPerfection masks also come with tiny circuitry patches that go over the masked character's throat, altering their voice into a perfect imitation of the target's.
** [[https://literalminded.wordpress.com/2006/05/05/a-panphonic-poem-for-mission-impossible-3/ For the third film, the filmmakers contacted a linguistics professor and had him write a poem that included every English phoneme.]] The target recites the poem into a recording device, which then builds a "voice mask" for the imitating agent. [[MST3KMantra The professor noted how unrealistic this is, but admits it didn't detract much from the film.]]

* ''Film/Saturn3''. Alex and Adam watch helplessly as a passing spacecraft is convinced that everything is alright because the KillerRobot is imitating their voices on the radio. It also imitates the voice of the man [[AIIsACrapshoot from whom it got its psychotic personality]].

** In "The Savage Curtain", the fake Kahless is able to perfectly mimic the voices of both Surak and Lincoln.
** In "A Taste of Armageddon", the High Council of Eminiar 7 uses a voice duplicator to imitate Captain Kirk's voice and order the Enterprise crew to beam down to their doom. William Shatner provided the imitated voice.
** In "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", the android Ruk does perfect imitations of Kirk's and Nurse Chapel's voices.
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Commander Data is shown doing this a few times. First seen in the pilot, when Picard asks him to repeat what he and Q just said.
** Notable in that whenever Data imitates Picard (but not other characters), no voiceover from Creator/PatrickStewart was needed, as Creator/BrentSpiner [[TheCastShowoff is able to do a near-perfect Patrick Stewart impression]].
** For a brief moment in time, Barash, the alien disguised as Commander Riker's future son in the episode "Future Imperfect", perfectly imitates Dr. Crusher's voice.

* The '60s TV series ''Series/Batman1966'' - One time Bruce Wayne was missing, so Alfred dressed up in the Batman outfit and talked with Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara. He used a special voice synthesizer to make him sound like Batman and stood at a distance so they couldn't identify him. "Batman" explained that he had a cold and didn't want them to catch it.
* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', angels have the ability to imitate voices. In "The Song Remains The Same", Anna uses it when she calls John Winchester posing as his boss to lure him away.
** Castiel presumably employed this ability in "Death Takes A Holiday" when he calls the brothers with a job pretending to be Bobby. However, since the call is shown from Sam's perspective, we don't actually see him do it.
** In the episode "Long Distance Call", the crocotta has the ability to perfectly mimic voices, which it uses to catch people to eat.

** In "The Time Monster", the Master tries to trick Sergeant Benton into leaving the TOMTIT device unattended by impersonating the Brigadier over the telephone. However, while the Master does produce a perfect imitation of the Brigadier's voice, he gives himself away by addressing Benton as "my dear fellow", something the real Brigadier would never do.
** In "The Masque of Mandragora", the Doctor masquerades as Heironymous by imitating his voice perfectly. Impressively, Creator/TomBaker isn't actually dubbed in the scene and was doing the impersonation himself.
* Cameron from ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' can do this. She uses this memorably in one scene, where she's talking to the principal about an emotional rant that a classmate had in the bathroom to Cameron. Cameron usually speaks with a CreepyMonotone, but in this one instance, Cameron recites what the classmate said, word for word, inflection for inflection. It's more than slightly unsettling.
** She later makes John Connor cry by perfectly imitating the voice of his dead girlfriend, while trying to convince that girlfriend's foster father that she's alive and has simply run away.
* The [[Series/WonderWoman pilot of the Wonder Woman TV series]] shows Franchise/WonderWoman perfectly impersonating a German spy's voice.
** She uses this ability a few more times in season one but never in the subsequent seasons.

* A mild example in the 2014 version of ''[[Series/TheFlash2014 The Flash]]''. When "the Streak" finally introduces himself to Iris, he disguises his identity as her best friend by keeping his face in the shadows (sometimes rapidly shaking his face to blur it), [[FlashStep constantly zipping around]], and disguising his voice by vibrating his vocal cords to create a heavy flanging effect. When he later demonstrates the voice to Joe, the latter is amazed that Barry can do it. The Reverse-Flash does the same thing, except he vibrates his whole body to blur it, somehow causes his eyes to glow red, and the voice is a lot more disguised.
** Both of the above were achieved through voice changing software in RealLife. Played more straight with Zoom, whose voice actor as Zoom (Creator/TonyTodd) is different from the actor playing him, mostly to hide the eventual [[TheReveal Reveal]]. The same thing is done with Savitar, whose voice actor (Creator/TobinBell) is completely different from Savitar's real identity ([[spoiler:Barry Allen's future time remnant]]).

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. The [[BenevolentAI Machine]] and [[EvilCounterpart Samaritan]] are capable of this, despite usually communicating with either a mish-mash of assembled voice clips or via human avatars. A chilling example occurs in "QSO" when the host of a UsefulNotes/ConspiracyTheory radio show has stumbled on a secret that Samaritan would rather did not get out. During a live broadcast, his soundboard and phone lines go dead, yet he continues to hear ''his own voice'' talking over the radio, announcing that [[OhCrap he intends to commit suicide]].

* In ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'', Cranberry has powers related to sound, which also allows her to imitate voices.

Compare VoluntaryShapeShifting and VoicesAreMental. Not to be confused with ManOfAThousandVoices.

** Mockingbirds and crows are also extremely good mimics.

** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''. Ernst Stavro Blofeld is able to impersonate [[TheHermit Willard Wyte]] and [[MasqueradingAsTheUnseen run his business empire by remote control]] thanks to an electronic voicebox that can change his voice to sound like Whyte's. A smaller transistorized version is implanted in the neck of Blofeld's {{Body Double}}s so they'll have his voice. After seeing this, Bond has Q jury-rig up a similar device to fool Blofeld into revealing the location of the real Willard Whyte.

* In ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', Bond impersonates a genealogist while undercover in Switzerland, mimicking his voice perfectly as part of the act. This was achieved by dubbing the genealogist's voice over Bond's actor, ''Creator/GeorgeLazenby''.
** In ''Film/DiamondsAreForever''. Both Blofeld and Film/JamesBond use voice duplicating machines to fool other people.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation holds several specimens of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-939 SCP-939]], which that can perfectly imitate the voices of dead humans. This of their tools used to lure in prey. Naturally, this is one of their [[NightmareFuel less creepy]] traits.

* Chisato of ''VideoGame/SuikodenV'' is known as The Woman of a Thousand Voices, and for good reason: she can do ''astounding'' things with her voice. Her range is so fantastic that, at one point, she perfectly duplicates the voice of a pirate captain to trick his crew into lowering their guard at a critical moment. As a member of the Loyalist Army, she also functions as the Voice Changer, enabling the player to alter the sound of the Prince's voice.

* WesternAnimation/PeterPan once again demonstrates this ability of his in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'', drawing Captain Hook out of hiding by imitating Smee's voice from the other side of a door.

* In ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'', voice mimicry is among Wataru's ''many'' entertainment skills. He also taught it to his apprentice Natsume.

* In ''VideoGame/AlQadimTheGeniesCurse'', this can be done by stealing the original voice and bottling it (as opposed to simply duplicating it).
* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda:'' Ryder manages to pull this off with a little help from SAM, imitating a kett goon to get through a door. Their teammates are a little creeped out by it.
* The reworked [[{{ScaryScarecrows}} Fiddlesticks]] in ''Videogame/LeagueOfLegends'' absorbs the voices of people he kills, as demonstrated in his ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNn2F39G-6s teaser trailer]]).
* Connor and Markus both display this ability in ''VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman''. In "The Stratford Tower", Markus uses it to distract a human receptionist by posing as a fireman, a teacher, or a parking attendant over the phone. Connor can optionally use it in "Last Chance, Connor" to mimic the voice of either Markus or one of the Traci androids from an earlier chapter, and [[spoiler:if he became deviant]] he can copy a guard's voice while [[spoiler:infiltrating [=CyberLife=] Tower.]]
* In a few of her intros in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', Mileena reveals that while she normally speaks with [[ContraltoOfDanger a slightly deep and occasionally guttural voice]], she can perfectly imitate Kitana's refined LadyOfWar voice on command. This makes an amusing amount of sense given that Mileena is a clone of Kitana, and both characters are usually voiced by the same actress (in the case of ''11'', by Creator/KariWahlgren).
* The second ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigations'' game's BigBad possesses this talent. It's represented with playing Edgeworth's "Objection" audio clip instead of their own.

* The Baddacelli [[VampireVarietyPack bloodline]] in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheRequiem'' [[DisabilitySuperpower compensate for their blindness]] with a Discipline that, among [[MakeMeWannaShout other things]], lets them perfectly imitate any voice they have ever heard. It's how they hunt:
-->''"Mommy? Mommy, is that you? Please! I'm in here. It's so dark! I can't see you, Mommy... come closer."''

** The monster known as the leucrotta can mimic the voice of any creature it has heard in order to lure its prey into an ambush.
** The Kenku, a race of humanoid corvids, also do this in place of having an actual language of their own, since they can only mimic back voices or words they've heard before.
** A Rogue Assassin sub-class ability, "Imposter", allows the character to perfectly mimic another's speech, as well as their writing and behaviour, after a few hours of close study.

* The Qurupeco from ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter Tri'', it can mimic an array of monster cries. Which can turn a simple hunt into a [[ThatOneBoss nightmare]]

'''Robin:''' Don't. Do that. Again!

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** Webby demonstrates this ability in the episode “Escape from the Impossibin!” where she perfectly mimics Dewey’s voice to throw Huey off guard while also disguised as him. She also does this in the series finale while she's disguised as June.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Ellen's copy spell includes [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2010-03-10 the ability to sound like her target]] after morphing into their form. This, however, requires her target to have a human voice so when she copies an animal she still speaks in her own voice.

* The second ''VideoGame/AceAttorneyInvestigations'' game's BigBad possesses this talent. It's represented with playing Edgeworth's "Objection" audio clip instead of their own.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', "Knight Time" ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vCQpeQ6TQs Video clip]])

* ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}} from Creator/MarvelComics.
* ComicBook/GloomCookie: Isabella imitates Lex's voice and tricks Damion into thinking that she hurt Lex. Later on Moon Raven is able to imitate Lex's voice and trick Vermillion into meeting her at his house.
* Franchise/{{Batman}} has the ability to perfectly impersonate many people's voices; ''his'' voice, in turn, can be perfectly impersonated by ''Alfred''.

* Franchise/{{Superman}} as well, DependingOnTheWriter and franchise, either through "Super Ventriloquism" or just being an excellent actor.
* ComicBook/{{Diabolik}} and Eva Kant. They usually combine it with LatexPerfection and very good acting, and between those Altea can't tell her fiancee Ginko from a disguised Diabolik, nor Ginko can tell Altea from a disguised Eva.

*** ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' adds One, Two, Solomon Hicks, Geena, the Raider, Grrodon, and Trauma. Most of them are {{Justified}}, as One, Two and Solomon are artificial intelligences, Geena is a droid from the 23rd century, the Raider uses 23rd-century technology for his disguises and Grrodon is a {{shapeshifting}}, [[NinjaZombiePirateRobot alien]], SuperSoldier. Trauma, on the other hand, is just unexplained.
** Fantomius the GentlemanThief and his fiancee/accomplice Dolly Paprika.
* Franchise/WonderWoman:

* Short-lived character Kylun of Excalibur fame from ''Franchise/XMen'' had this as his mutant ability, able to mimic any sound or voice he heard flawlessly (his favorites were birdsong). A childhood spent stranded in a magic dimension also afforded him a cat-like body and magic swords that would cut through anything that wasn't "pure of heart" to shore up the lack of combat ability this apparently provided.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Mermaid|1989}}'', Ursula acquires Ariel's voice through a magic spell.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', Grubber copies the Mayor's voice (and even Miss Bellum's voice to fool the Mayor!) to make fake crises and divert the Powerpuff Girls. What makes it doubly funny is that Grubber is usually TheUnintelligible. Though in "Buttercrush", [[BadImpressionists he did an absolutely terrible impression of Buttercup]].

** [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Superman]] has this ability. It's [[LampshadeHanging explained]] as "precise muscle control."

* ''Literature/AllTheWrongQuestions'' has [[spoiler: Hangfire]].

* The wilderness-guide [[MechanicalLifeforms steamman]] Ironflanks from ''The Kingdom Beyond The Waves'' frequently mimics the cries of various jungle animals when he's excited, perfectly re-creating their vocalizations. His human companions take a while to catch on that this isn't just an affectation: he does this to vent excess steam from his boiler without betraying his position to enemies or rainforest predators, the way a normal steamman's pressure-release whistle would.

** Also in ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'', where a T-101 imitates the teenage Kyle to catch John Connor off guard.

%% Used for AdultFear in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BCGf8FjBPE this]] horror short.

* Agatha Christie's Miss Marple is revealed to have this ability in ''Literature/AMurderisAnnounced'', when she mimics a recently murdered woman in order to guilt the murderer into confessing.

* Two examples from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'' that overlap with VoluntaryShapeshifting, being Music/RubberSoul of the [[TarotMotifs Temperance card]] and Music/{{Oingo|Boingo}} of the [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Khnum card]]. Yellow Temperance allows Rubber Soul to change his face, body, and voice to match any target, but he can't mimic their [[VerbalTic vocal mannerisms]]. Meanwhile, while Khnum can't allow Oingo to copy a target's body, he can copy their face, voice, ''and'' vocal mannerisms. Problem is, neither are very good at capturing their targets' personalities.