History Main / VoiceChangeling

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

* [[spoiler:Miles Axlerod]] during the Lemon meeting in Italy in ''WesternAnimation/Cars2''.

* In ''Literature/TheHobbit'', andalf uses this trick rather handily against a group of trolls.

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So we've all seen a [[{{Shapeshifting}} shapeshifter]]. And we all know that when a shapeshifter shifts themselves into another entity, they usually assume the voice of the entity they are copying. Meaning, a perfect imitation of another character's ''voice'' is a RequiredSecondaryPower of anyone who would change their ''physical'' form.

It is important to realize that the Voice Changeling creates a perfect and flawless imitation -- not one that is merely different from their own. So in other words, if Bob is annoyed with Alice, and decides to [[CopycatMockery mimic her in his most obnoxious-sounding girl voice]], that is not a Voice Changeling. If, however, Bob's imitation of Alice requires a voiceover from the actress who plays Alice, then the trope is in play. As a general rule, it is only a Voice Changeling if there is a momentary change in voice actors. That's the kind of ability we're talking about.

* ''Manga/CaseClosed'' has a voice-changing bowtie that does this, basically.

** And there is [[spoiler:Vermouth]], while she does not show the huge repertoire as Kaito Kid, she pulls off acting as [[spoiler:Dr. Araide, Jodie, and her own mother]]. It's basically in-lore that you can't trust ''any'' voice.

* In ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}'', Francoise Arnoul aka 003 has sound-related powers in the graphic novel, which she uses to defeat 0011[[spoiler:+/-]] by [[spoiler:mimicking each brother's voices so they'll be tricked into running into each other, causing them to suffer a fatal electrocution due to the polarizing nature of their electric powers]].

* In ''Manga/HighSchoolDebut'', Asaoka shows the ability to imitate Koh's voice well enough to fool Haruna [[spoiler: after they've been going out for some time]].

** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'': Two examples 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.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Diamond is Unbreakable]]'': In the spin-off; ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureCrazyDiamondsDemonicHeartbreak Crazy Diamond's Demonic Heartbreak]]'', Pet Sounds can mimic just about any voice, from human speech to the sound of a helicopter flying. Hol Horse theorizes that Pet Sounds has memorized voices from at least ten years prior.
** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]'': The [[OurMonstersAreWeird Radio Gaga]] has this as a part of its hunting strategy, in which it mimics the voices of other people to get people close enough to devour them.

* In ''Anime/KamisamaMinaraiHimitsuNoCocotama'', the robotic Cocotama Picota has the power to copy people's voices, which he often uses so he can speak to troubled people while emulating the voices of their loved ones.

* In the original ''Manga/{{Unico}}'' manga by Creator/OsamuTezuka, the [[{{Unicorn}} eponymous unicorn]] has the ability to mimic animal noises and a person's voice. In "The Tale of the Fangs of Athens" chapter, Unico reveals to [[OurSphinxesAreDifferent Piro]] that he's able to do this immeditely after first hearing their voices. During a training session, he has a difficult time training Piro to become brave and strong due to stillmourning his mother's death. Noticing this, Unico decides to change his voice to Sphinx (Piro's deceased mother) as he voices encouragment to Piro during the session.

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* ''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.
* ComicBook/{{Batman}} has the ability to perfectly impersonate many people's voices; ''his'' voice, in turn, can be perfectly impersonated by ''Alfred''.

* ComicBook/{{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 fiancée Ginko from a disguised Diabolik, nor Ginko can tell Altea from a disguised Eva.

* From the ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics have a few:

*** ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' adds One, Two, Solomon Hicks, Geena, the Raider, Grrodon, and Trauma. Most of them are {{justified|Trope}}, 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 [[NinjaZombiePirateRobot shape-shifting alien]] SuperSoldier. Trauma, on the other hand, is just unexplained.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Don Enrago can mimic others voices to perfection, and later uses this ability to impersonate one of his students, a young woman, after abducting her and chaining her in his torture dungeon.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': ComicBook/{{Artemis}}, Euboea and Io hunt down and recapture an escaped Leucrocota that tries manipulating them by imitating the voices of other Amazons.

* ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'': Despite being a clone of Saya, Kappa-10/[[spoiler:Penny Polendina]] doesn't sound anything like her. As she reveals in Chapter 40, this is because she has very precise control of her vocal cords and can completely disguise her original voice. The only times she reverts back to her old voice are when she's in immense distress, such as when she sees Ragna get impaled and in the aftermath of Tukson's death.

* Disney's telling of ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' has Peter perfectly replicating the voice of Captain Hook. This is used to trick Mr. Smee a number of times.

* [[spoiler: Miles Axlerod]] during the Lemon meeting in Italy in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}''.
* WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}} can do this as an extension of his ability to speak with animals. At one point, he perfectly imitates a ''gunshot''.
* ''WesternAnimation/BambiII'' eerily depicts a hunter's deer call this way, with Bambi hearing it as his mother's voice.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Soul}}'', Joe asks 22 why she sounds like [[Creator/TinaFey "a middle aged white lady"]]. She explains that, as a soul not born to Earth yet in a hypothetical world, she can sound like someone else if she wants, demonstrating when she uses the voice of an old man, a child and even Joe himself. She just chose the voice she has because it annoys people.

* The killer robots in the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' franchise are capable of mimicking people's voices.
** ''Film/TheTerminator'' mimicks the voice of the cop whose vehicle it stole in order to gleen information from police dispatch, and later mimicks the voice of Sarah's mother to find where Sarah and Kyle are staying.
** 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 {{Required Secondary Power|s}} to impersonate the mom while on the phone]].
** Also in ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'', where a T-800 imitates the teenage Kyle to catch John Connor off guard.

* In ''Film/Scream3'', 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.

* Creator/MichaelWinslow also does this trick in ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', only he imitates "the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps," as well as imitating the sound of speaking through a speaker.
* Juni from ''Film/SpyKids1'' runs perpendicular to both this and imitating one's voice. Justified as he is just that good. That and he gets it from his mother (although we never hear her do such).

* John Milton in ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'' can do this. Justified. [[spoiler: He's the Devil.]]
* The entity in ''Film/{{REC}}''.
* The early Creator/StephenChow comedy ''Film/RoyalTramp'' has a RebelliousPrincess who's learned to imitate the voice of her brother ie. the ''Emperor'' for whichever schemes she had in mind. It's also a ChekhovsSkill.
* In ''Film/WhateverHappenedToBabyJane'', the fact that Jane can perfectly imitate Blanche's voice is a ChekhovsSkill.
* 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. [[ActingForTwo He even "tells" them to be quiet]].
* In a throwaway gag in ''Film/{{Dogma}}'', Serendipity perfectly imitates Azrael. {{Justified|Trope}} in that she is a divine being.
* This is one of Trantor the troll's abilities in ''Film/ErnestScaredStupid'', first he imitates Ernest's voice to fool Joey, then later uses Elizabeth's voice to try to lure Kenny to him.
* In ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'', Freddy Krueger imitates Tracy's voice while retaining his normal form to mess with the Doc.
* In ''Film/Wishmaster2EvilNeverDies'', the Djinn lures Morgana to the casino over the phone by impersonating the Russian gangster he became acquainted with.
* 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 ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'', Evil Robot Bill and Ted imitate the real duo's girlfriend's voices to prank call them into believing they're breaking up with them - all in order to set the real Bill and Ted up for their demise.
* Barty Crouch Jr. has this ability in the movie version of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''. He doesn't have it in the book since [[spoiler: Polyjuice Potion allows for vocal mimicry in the books but not the film]].
* In ''Film/MenInBlackII'', [[BigBad Serleena]] mimics Frank the Pug's voice to fool J.
* In the ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'', 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. For ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'', [[https://literalminded.wordpress.com/2006/05/05/a-panphonic-poem-for-mission-impossible-3/ 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]].
* In the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' series, the titular alien hunters achieve this through recording and playing back human speech. While they are limited to specific phrases [[IronicEcho they tend to pick appropriate times to employ them]], suggesting they know a bit of English.
* ''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 psychopathic personality]].
* In the "Kalahari" episode of the NatureDocumentary series ''Africa'', a fork-tailed drongo bird imitates the alarm cry of a meerkat sentry, tricking the foraging meerkats into abandoning their prey to retreat to their burrows. The drongo then scarfs down the abandoned meal.
* In ''Film/LittleVoice'', ShrinkingViolet Laura develops the ability to mimic famous singers' voices from all her time spent listening to records which her greedy mother and boyfriend try to exploit to get rich.
* Frank N. Furter from ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' was able to mimic Brad when doing his BedTrick with Janet and vice versa.
* A particularly [[NightmareFuel horrific]] example from ''Film/Annihilation2018'', in which the protagonists are hunted by a mutant [[BearsAreBadNews bear]] with the [[CannibalismSuperpower ability]] to [[LegoGenetics absorb]] its prey's [[AppendageAssimilation vocal cords]] into its own respiratory system, allowing it to mimic their dying cries to lure out or unnerve their allies.
* In ''Film/SilentFall'', Tim's "[[HollywoodAutism echolalia]]" is portrayed bizarrely - not only can he repeat what other people say, he can make his voice sound exactly like theirs. He can even come up with his own sentences using other people's voices. Jake explains that Tim uses other people's voices because he's afraid to be himself, which doesn't explain how he can reshape his vocal cords at will.
* ''Film/OuijaMummy'': By grabbing onto the back of Chase's head, Ahotep the 1st is able to speak in his voice.
* ''Film/{{M3gan}}'': The titular robot can mimic sounds and voices she hears, as well as record sounds and messages.

** Literature/{{Mort}} when he was beginning to slip into Death's role, and his daughter Susan when she feels like it, have the ability to [[AC: speak like Death]].
* Literature/WaysideSchool's substitute teacher Mr. Gorf steals the kids' voices through his third nostril. He's able to deceive numerous parents, but he gets found out by the lunch lady when he says something uncharacteristically nice using a meaner student's voice.
* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Tyson, like all cyclopes, can mimic voices and even entire conversations verbatim. It's considered incredibly creepy, so he doesn't use it that frequently.

* Erik in the original ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' novel. He uses it against Carlotta and several other characters.
* Gandalf in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' used this trick rather handily against a group of trolls.
* In ''Literature/BookOfTheNewSun'', the alzabo is a semi-sentient alien creature that gains access to the memories of anyone that it eats. It also gains the ability to perfectly imitate their voice. It uses these as a hunting technique to lure prey out of hiding, and it is especially effective when it has eaten somebody's loved one.
* [[TheTrickster Tzigone]] from ''Literature/CounselorsAndKings'' has this in her bag of tricks (in her youth, she was briefly part of a troupe of travelling entertainers who billed her as "the Human Mockingbird", though apparently [[NoodleIncident there were problems with the feathers that were part of the costume]]). Throughout the trilogy, she mimics other characters' voices frequently and with an almost alarming degree of accuracy. It's unclear if this ability is purely mundane or if such precise vocal control is somehow connected to her MagicMusic.
%%* ''Literature/AllTheWrongQuestions'' has [[spoiler: Hangfire]].
* In ''{{Literature/Horns}}'', one of the powers Ig develops while transforming into the BigRedDevil is voice mimicry.
* Richie Tozier from ''Literature/{{It}}'' has this ability, as one of the uncanny knacks all the kids get after defeating the monster for the first time. It's described as "not an imitation or even a likeness, exactly; it was more like an auditory painting."
* ''Literature/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'': Musician of the Forest, Cranberry has powers related to sound which allows her to imitate voices.
* In Alexei Pekhov's steampunk novel ''Mockingbird'', the protagonist, Till, belongs to a MasterRace called luchars. Each luchar is born with a unique superpower. Till's? Imitating other people's voices and sounds. This "talent" is deemed absolutely useless, but the author uses it as a ChekhovsGun and eventually gives Till his [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman A Job For Aquaman]] moment.

* In the ''Literature/BrotherbandChronicles'' by John Flanagan, Stefan is an excellent mimic. He's good enough to completely destroy the other team's tactics in a war game, just by calling out contradictory instructions in their leader's voice.
* The wilderness-guide [[MechanicalLifeforms steamman]] Ironflanks from ''Literature/TheKingdomBeyondTheWaves'' 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.
* Vihrik, a mischievous warm wind in ''[[Literature/RulerOfTheMagicalKeys A Girl Named Glazastik]]'', can perfectly imitate any voice. It comes in handy when he distracts a [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy guard]] with the voice of the latter’s fiancée.
* 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.
* ''Literature/NoGodsForDrowning'': Glories have the ability to copy the voices of their prey. They can then mimic the voice perfectly when they're communicating with others. They use this to lure people into coming close so they can kill them.
* In Richard Powell's ''Don Quixote, U.S.A.'' Arthur has the ability to mimic anyone he hears. When El Gavilan and Eduardo start fighting over the mike at the end of a pirate radio broadcast because El Gavilan likes to hear himself talk too much, Arthur grabs the flying mike and flawlessly imitates both of them to bring the program to a close.
* ''Hit Man'' by Creator/LawrenceBlock. Keller uses an electronic voice changer to make himself sound like a teenage girl to lure the mark to a NoTellMotel where he can be murdered. He has the advantage that he doesn't have to mimic a particular person--'she' just rings him up and pretends to be someone he gave his phone number to at a party.
* [[SapientShip Helva]], the ''[[Literature/TheShipWho Ship Who Sang]]'', trained her voice to have an astonishing range, from bass to coloratura. Normally she just uses it to, well, [[FamedInStory sing]], but in ''The Ship Who Killed'' she and her [[HandyHelper brawn Kira]] end up at a CultColony following the directives of Lia, another [[SapientShip brainship]], who crashed at the colony's edge and is constantly playing back her dead brawn's voice. Thinking quickly, Helva imitates his recorded voice, which distracts Lia for long enough that Kira can administer a MercyKill. Then as the cultists close in, Helva mimics Lia's voice and orders them to return Kira to her ship. The cultists, addled by long-term exposure to hallucinogenic gases, obey their "Temple" without question.
* In Lawrence Treat's "Jackpot" Darrel, the head of Darrel's Detective Agency, not only can imitate anyone's voice, but a wide range of sound effects as well, from a dog barking to a revving motorcycle. His favorite imitation is the sound of a cash register.

* Gilligan, of ''Series/GilligansIsland'' fame, occasionally does perfect voice imitations.
* ''Series/HenryDanger'': In "Stuck in Two Holes" when Jake calls Jasper in the Man Cave and wonders where Henry is, Schwoz uses a headband which electronically disguises his voice as Henry's so he can cover for him.

* [[TheComputerIsYourFriend Zein]] in ''Series/KamenRiderOutsiders'' is capable of mimicking anyone's voice to a perfectly terrifying degree. By impersonating [[spoiler:[[Series/KamenRiderExAid Nico Saiba]], it tricks the CEO of a video game company to relaunch a certain DeadlyGame in order to hasten the extinction of the human race.]]

* In ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' a few characters are shown to have this ability, complete with actor voiceovers.
* In one episode of ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'', the MonsterOfTheWeek has this ability. He uses it to great advantage with Eric's [[HumongousMecha Q-Rex]]; as is typical for a SixthRanger, his Zord was on par with the other five Rangers put together, but the technology controlling it was less advanced, relying on voice recognition rather than DNA recognition.
* In the ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel'' episode "Monkey Business", the MonsterOfTheWeek is Phonepanzee, a monkey/telephone hybrid that can record voices once and then play them back saying anything he wants. He uses this to fool the other Rangers into ambushes, stealing their [[MacGuffin Ninja Power Stars]]. The Rangers eventually get the upper hand because ItOnlyWorksOnce and destroy him. His ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger'' counterpart was even the yokai Yamabiko, described in the "Myths and Religion" section below.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E7WhatAreLittleGirlsMadeOf What Are Little Girls Made Of?]]", the android Ruk does perfect imitations of Kirk's and Nurse Chapel's voices.
** In "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E23ATasteOfArmageddon 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 "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E22TheSavageCurtain The Savage Curtain]]", the fake Kahless is able to perfectly mimic the voices of both Surak and Lincoln.
* ''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 "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS4E8FutureImperfect Future Imperfect]]", perfectly imitates Dr. Crusher's voice.
* The Doctor in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' also is capable of this, being a computer program.
* ''Series/Batman1966'': In one episode, Bruce Wayne is missing, so Alfred dresses up in the Batman outfit and talks with Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara. He uses a special voice synthesizer to make himself sound like Batman and stands at a distance so that they can't identify him. "Batman" explains that he has a cold and doesn't want them to catch it.

** Castiel presumably employed this ability in "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E15DeathTakesAHoliday 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 "[[Recap/SupernaturalS03E14LongDistanceCall Long-Distance Call]]", the crocotta has the ability to perfectly mimic voices, which it uses to catch people to eat.
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', this is a Time Lord power:
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster 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 "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora 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 pilot of ''Series/WonderWoman1975'' shows Wonder Woman 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 ''Series/TheFlash2014''. 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]]).
* This trope was used as a one-off gag in an episode of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', when Zack is trying to get the two out of school by perfectly mimicking their mother Carey's voice. He does it again after Cody compliments him, telling him to tuck in his shirt.
* Dorian in ''Series/AlmostHuman'' can do this. John hates it when Dorian imitates him.
* ''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 "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS05E07 QSO]]" when the host of a conspiracy theory 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]].
* The ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS01E05RmWAVu RmWAVu]]" had Dennis' mother, as a ghostly spirit mimicking Angel's voice to lure Cordelia inside the haunted apartment she built.
* This is Suki Sato's power in ''Series/TowerPrep'', allowing her to perfectly copy ''any'' voice she hears.
* ''Series/{{Happy}}'': The voice of Very Bad Santa's sock puppet is ''female'', making the already bizarre sock puppet ventriloquism scenes that much more surreal.
* ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'': In "Ghost in the Machine", one of Jordan Collier's followers has the ability to perfectly imitate people's voices. He lures Kevin Burkhoff into a trap using Tess' voice, allowing Kyle to capture him and bring him to Promise City.

* In ''Series/LabRats'': Bree is given this ability much later. At one point she could use her HolographicDisguise but it glitched and was never seen again.

* Echo in Myth/ClassicalMythology was famous for having a gift with speaking and a beautiful voice -- but one day she misused her ability, and Hera cursed her to only ever repeat the last thing that had been said to her. Eventually her heart was broken so that she faded away to nothing ''but'' her voice -- and obviously, an echo can always reproduce exactly what was said before.
* In Japanese legend, the ape-like {{youkai}} known as "Yamabiko" are known for stalking people in the mountains, terrorizing them by repeating everything they say back to them in their own voice. Now, guess what "yamabiko" means in Japanese...?[[note]]It can be translated as "echo"[[/note]]
* The Leucrotta or Crocotta, a hooved hyena-like creature with a lion's tail and jagged bone instead of teeth, is described in medieval bestiaries as capable of imitating humans to attract curious people or dogs to be eaten.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Arduin}}'' RPG, ''The Compleat Arduin Book 2: Resources''. The Greater Demon Gorog-Nor, the Hungry One, can mimic the voices of creatures he eats. He uses this ability to lure the victim's friends to him so he can devour them as well.

** Ahuizotls are amphibious monkey-jaguars that lure humanoids in by mimicking cries for help, before [[EyeScream slashing out their victims' eyes]] and [[SinisterSuffocation pinning them underwater to drown.]]

* The BigBad of ''[[VisualNovel/GyakutenKenji2 Ace Attorney Investigations 2]]'' possesses this talent. It's represented with playing Edgeworth's "Objection" audio clip instead of their own.

* ''Videogame/DeadlyRoomsOfDeath:'' One secret room reveals that [[EldritchAbomination the Pit Thing]] has this ability, though he only uses it that one time to {{Troll}} Beethro.

* 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.]]

* ''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.

* Both Alex Mercer from ''Videogame/{{Prototype}}'' and James Heller from ''Videogame/Prototype2'' can use the voice of anyone they shapeshift into after eating them. Mercer uses this to call artillery strikes at desired targets. Interestingly, this apparently requires additional conscious effort given both characters grunt and monologue in their default voices even while disguised, which leads to this gem:

%% Needs context * The ''Anzu'' in the upcoming dinosaur game ''VideoGame/{{Saurian}}'' will have the ability to do this.
* ''[[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords]]'': [[spoiler:This is how the HK-50 unit managed to kill '''nearly everyone''' on the Peragus Mining Facility. Atris still refuses to believe the Exile's saying that pretty much '''everyone''' on the manned staff of the Peragus Mining Station was already dead, [[CassandraTruth despite it being nothing but the actual truth.]]]]

* [[spoiler:The wendigos]] from ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' can mimic others' voices, although this ability is only displayed once [[spoiler:in the tunnels connecting the lodge with the asylum]]. If you fall for it, [[spoiler:Ashley, Chris or both can die]].

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* [[TheStoic Taffe]] [[{{Tomboy}} Torbern]] of ''Webcomic/{{Pacificators}}'' is especially talented at imitating others' voices, and that's ''before'' you toss her MakeMeWannaShout powers into the mixture. [[spoiler:All this despite the fact that she's [[DisabilitySuperpower deaf]].]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Selkie}}'': The lakes the [[FishPeople sarnothi]] inhabit are also home to massive [[SlipperyAsAnEel eel]] that [[http://selkiecomic.com/comic/selkie957 mimic sarnothi voices]] to bring them into attack range.
* Willis from ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'' can "recreate almost any voice to perfection." Pretty good for someone with no discernible mouth.

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* One of the powers Vox uses the most in the Literature/WhateleyUniverse. She's a Siren, so she can do a lot more than just Voice Changeling. Including perfectly imitating a pop singer and the singer's backup singers and the singer's background musicians, all at the same time.
* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Screamer, a former member of the Slaughterhouse Nine, could mimic people's voices, which she used to sow chaos and disrupt communications.
* The Website/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.

* In one episode of ''WebOriginal/SearchAndRescueWoods'' CreepyPasta series, the narrator remembers a time he heard a child crying and went to investigate, only to stop himself when [[SpottingTheThread he realizes the crying is the exact same every time he hears it...]]
* The Kane Pixels version of ''WebOriginal/TheBackrooms'' has a strange spindly creature only known as Bacteria. Its appearance in ''Pitfalls'' shows that it can mimic human voices it hears to lure in potential victims.
* The image for the page is based off of a short creepypasta where someone hears their mother call them downstairs, but then hears their mother right behind them going "I heard it, too!" It's up to the reader to decide which voice, if any, actually belongs to the narrator's mother.

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* In ''WebVideo/FixingRWBY'', Melanie Malachite has a Semblance that lets her perfectly mimic any voice she hears. She demonstrates it in the finale of season six by [[spoiler:disguising herself as a male Atlas pilot for her and Cinder to ambush a supply depot. She then mimics Cinder's voice to tease her, to Cinder's displeasure]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': The episode "The Parasite" opens with Anais' voice narrating her diary entry about making a new friend at school, but at the end of the scene it's revealed that the voice-over was just Gumball doing a perfect imitation of her, and he and Darwin stole her diary and were reading it in secret. Darwin compliments Gumball on his perfect impression of Anais, and Gumball thanks him in her voice. Gumball uses his Anais voice several more times throughout the episode, on one occasion prompting retribution by the real Anais.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': In "Adventures in Catsitting", Hop Pop is able to mimic the confirmation sound of a bus card reader, and later copies a fire alarm to drive the customers out of a shawarma restaurant.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'', 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]].
* In an episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/WatchMyChops Corneil & Bernie]]'', after Corneil learns Bernie basically made him risk exposure solely to return a videotape to Romeo, he obtains a voice modulator to disguise his voice as the school's principal to make a call to Bernie by telling him they witnessed Corneil's secret, causing Bernie a {{freak out}}.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', Dexter uses a machine to copy the exact voices of his babysitter and her boyfriend to [[RelationshipSabotage sever their relationship]], [[PrecociousCrush so that he could move in himself]].
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' had Prof. Farnsworth invent a machine that made anyone sound like him (needless to say it was quickly borrowed by Hermes's son Dwight and Farnsworth's [[TrulySingleParent clone]] Cubert). His explanation?
-->'''Dwight:''' What's this device's marketability? Who's its target consumer?\\
'''Farnsworth:''' There is no target consumer, only ''targets''. [[TakeOverTheWorld Targets who will tremble in fear, as their new masters]] hand down edicts in my GLORIOUS BOOMING VOICE!
* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':
** [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries Superman]] has this ability. It's [[LampshadeHanging explained]] as "precise muscle control".
** [[PowerParasite The Parasite]] can mimic the voices of people whose energy he's absorbed. In his debut episode, he power-drains Clark / Superman and imprisons him so he can keep feeding. When Clark points out his co-workers will start asking questions, Parasite reveals he can perfectly mimic Clark's voice, allowing "Clark" to call in sick.
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'', when Jenny provides a spot-on impression of her mother...by playing a tape she has recorded internally. She puts on her mother's glasses for full effect.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Angelica steals an invention of Stu's which allows her to speak in the voice of her mother Charlotte and uses it to buy things and throw a party for herself, though it still contains her usual childish inflections such as "bestest" and "ezackly".
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'': Arnold does a perfect impression of his grandpa over the phone as he calls in sick to school when he and Gerald cut class.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DonkeyKongCountry'' episode "Kong for a Day", it is revealed that Krusha can perfectly imitate voices. K. Rool has Krusha use his imitation of DK's voice to insult Dixie and Diddy, making the both of them get angry at DK.

*** Mrs. Beakley is able to imitate Roxanne Featherly's voice perfectly to practice with Scrooge in "Jaw$!"
*** While possessing Lena in "The Shadow War!", Magica speaks with her own voice, Lena's voice, as well as Scrooge's voice.
*** Louie mimics Huey's voice while he's disguised as him twice in "[=GlomTales=]!" and "Beaks in the Shell!"
*** 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.
* An early Creator/ChuckJones ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' short, "Robin Hood Makes Good," had a small squirrel save his older brothers from a fox preparing to cook them in his cabin by perfectly imitating a group of human hunters and their hounds, complete with his voice going from sounding like a prepubescent young child ([[CrossdressingVoices voiced by a woman]], no less!) to sounding like adult males (with his imitations being provided by Creator/MelBlanc.) The imitations are so convincing the fox gets so terrified that [[ThroughAFaceFullOfFur he turns all yellow]] and tries to get out the back door to the point where he loses his grip on reality and manages to break free, he's still panicky and banging on the door clinging to his body while running down a pathway. Even the older squirrel brothers are fooled, opening the front door and saying in unison, "Gee, fellas, thanks a lot," only to find no one there but their little squirrel brother.
* A ''WesternAnimation/TheNewScoobyAndScrappyDooShow'' episode had the MasterOfDisguise villain The Chameleon perfectly pull off Scooby-Doo's voice when disguised in [[LatexPerfection a Scooby-Doo mask]] and body costume. The fake Scooby voice was even [[CastAsAMask provided by Don Messick]] instead of the Chameleon's regular voice actor.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' had Francine do this to Stan during her "kidnapping" of Roger.
* In "The Wild, Wild Goose Chase," WesternAnimation/DangerMouse does an uncannily accurate imitation of Baron Greenback's voice in order to operate a device that will tell Greenback where his next hideout will be when present coordinates are entered.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', Soundwave utilizes his voice-modulation systems to forge messages on the phone line and Autobot comlink.
* In ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'''s third season, Starscream's ghost uses this ability when he possesses and poses as other Decepticons. He and Octane also joke about this trope, taking turns imitating each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Hassle in the Castle" shows that Timmy can perfectly imitate Wanda's voice.
** In an earlier short that was presented on ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'', "The Really Bad Day," Timmy calls up Vicky to try and get a bad idea for Cosmo to carry out. He disguises his voice to pretend to be a "completely random survey", and pulls off a perfect deep, smooth adult male voice while doing so.
** In the episode "Information Stupor Highway," when Cosmo and Wanda fool Timmy's dad into thinking Timmy is using the bathroom, Cosmo turns his head into Timmy's and does a perfect Timmy voice saying "Do you mind? I'm doing my homework." Though it's [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in that [[AWizardDidIt Cosmo is a fairy and could presumably change his vocal chords by magic.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' episode "Gailbreak!", Blythe, Russell, and Sunil attempt to break their friends and Zoe's sister Gail out of Largest Ever Pet Shop's day camp, but can't get past Monban, the robot security guard that only responds to the Biskits' voice. They devise a plan in which they attach a pair of cordless headphones to Monban's auditory sensors, and Blythe, over a walkie-talkie, perfectly mimics the Biskit Twins' voice [[note]]Both twins are voiced by Creator/ShannonChanKent[[/note]] to command the robot to release the pets in the day camp.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'', Clam can mimic people's voices, as shown in the episode "Being Edward".

* Cyborg on ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' once mimicked his own grandmother's vocal tones to taunt a villain, only to find himself adopting her personality when his voice got stuck that way for days.
** In "Pig in a Poke", Robin, Beast Boy and Cyborg make impressions of [[Creator/JackNicholson various]] [[Creator/HeathLedger incar]][[Creator/JaredLeto nations]] [[Creator/MarkHamill of]] ComicBook/TheJoker to fool his goons and enter his lair. Note that the three characters are usually voiced respectively by Creator/ScottMenville, Creator/GregCipes and Creator/KharyPayton, but when they do the Joker impressions they're all voiced by Creator/EricBauza.

* In a short web episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'', ComicBook/TheJoker and The Trickster both kidnap famous (voice) actor Creator/MarkHamill. Hamill (who actually [[ActingForTwo voices both characters for the show]]) [[SetAMookToKillAMook gets them to fight each other]] by imitating their voices. (They're rescued by, incidentally, Swamp Thing, who is ''also'' voiced by Hamill in this series!)
* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': Played with in a "Fan Club" sketch, where Boris does impression act for a telethon and pulls off a perfect imitation of Bullwinkle. It turns out the "imitation" is his ''real'' voice, and that his "normal" voice is just a bad accent.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'', Belfry's cousin Beauregard is capable of deceiving the bad guys by imitating voices, flawlessly imitating Prime Evil's voice in the episode "Country Cousin" and that of Jake Kong in "Whither Why".
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'' episode "Pity The Prize", Cassandra mimics the voice of the Weather Girl as part of her disguise of her, though she accidentally speaks in her regular voice for a few times.
* Hordak's Imp from ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' can apparently repeat any conversation he overhears using the participants' actual voices. Very handy when your underlings are keeping secrets from you. Whether or not he can use the voices he samples to remix an original conversation is unknown, however.
* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'', the second Samurai X has this ability, which she uses to obfuscate her real identity to Nya. [[spoiler:The fact that she can alternate between voices on the fly so effortlessly foreshadows that she's the {{fembot}} P.I.X.A.L.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/HerselfTheElf'', Willow Song demonstrates this ability by mimicking Thorn's voice as a ruse, but this effect wears off quickly.
* ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'': Munki-Gu, a villain introduced in season 4, has this ability, and uses it to great effect to play pranks on people.
* ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog'': Fittingly for a MasterOfDisguise, Transfer has the ability to imitate perfectly the voices of others. This includes Fog and Dix, whom he impersonates so convincingly that it even fools those who are familiar with them.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'':
** In "Yesterday's Lie", [[spoiler:Vee]] demonstrates the inate ability to perfectly mimic other people's voices. It's apparently a competely mundane skill for their species as [[spoiler:she's able to freely swap between Luz's voice and her own even after she's completely run out of magic reserves to shapeshift.]]
** Amity uses a spell that makes her sound like her father in "Reaching Out" to send an [[MechaMook Abomaton]] on a SnipeHunt. Unlike the previous example, this spell is more akin to a voice changing microphone since her real voice can still be heard underneath his.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'': In "To Catch a Spider", Spider-Man defeats Green Goblin, Vulture, and Electro by throwing his voice and imitating them to make them think they insulted each other. The villains angrily attack each other and knock each other out.

* The Lyrebird can mimic almost any sound it hears. The more complex the better. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cARj5-UE2Lc It's not limited to other birds songs]].
** Mockingbirds and crows are also famously good mimics.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': The episode "The Parasite" opens with Anais' voice narrating her diary entry about making a new friend at school, but at the end of the scene it's revealed that the voice-over was just Gumball doing a perfect imitation of her, and he and Darwin stole her diary and were reading it in secret. Darwin compliments Gumball on his perfect impression of Anais, and Gumball thanks him in her voice.

* A particularly [[NightmareFuel horrific]] example from ''Film/Annihilation2018'', in which the protagonists are hunted by a mutant [[BearsAreBadNews bear]] with the [[CannibalismSuperpower ability]] to [[LegoGenetics absorb]] its prey's [[AppendageAssimilation vocal cords]] into its own respiratory system, allowing it to mimic their [[HellIsThatNoise dying cries]] to lure out or unnerve their allies.

* In ''Manga/CityHunter'':

* 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.

* In ''Franchise/LupinIII'', this is one of the many talents of the titular protagonist.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords:'' [[spoiler: This is how the HK-50 unit managed to kill '''nearly-everyone''' on the Peragus Mining Facility. Atris still refuses to believe the Exile's saying that pretty much '''everyone''' on the manned staff of the Peragus Mining Station was already dead, [[CassandraTruth despite it being nothing but the actual truth.]]]]
* 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]]).

* The ''Anzu'' in the upcoming dinosaur game ''{{VideoGame/Saurian}}'' will have the ability to do this.

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* [[WesternAnimation/HeyArnold Arnold]] does a perfect impression of his grandpa over the phone as he calls in sick to school when he and Gerald cut class.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E2Armstrong Armstrong]]", Armstrong perfectly imitates Gyro's voice to deter the triplets from coming to investigate.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' is full of these. For example:
** Mrs. Beakley is able to imitate Roxanne Featherly's voice perfectly to practice with Scrooge in "Jaw$!"
** While possessing Lena in "The Shadow War!", Magica speaks with her own voice, Lena's voice, as well as Scrooge's voice.
** Louie mimics Huey's voice while he's disguised as him twice in "[=GlomTales=]!" and "Beaks in the Shell!"
** 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.

* The ''[[VisualNovel/GyakutenKenji2 Ace Attorney Investigations 2]]'' game's BigBad possesses this talent. It's represented with playing Edgeworth's "Objection" audio clip instead of their own.

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

** Literature/{{Mort}} when he was beginning to slip into Death's role, and his daughter Susan when she feels like it, have the ability to speak like Death.

* Team Rocket from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' have sometimes used voice-changing megaphones to imitate other characters, including Ash. When Meowth uses one, however, it fails to mask his Brooklyn/Joisey accent.

* The short-lived character Kylun from ''ComicBook/ExcaliburMarvelComics'' has this as his mutant ability, able to mimic any sound or voice he heard flawlessly (his favorites are birdsong). A childhood spent stranded in a magic dimension also affords him a cat-like body and magic swords that can cut through anything that isn't "pure of heart" to shore up the lack of combat ability that this apparently provides.

** 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 {{Required Secondary Power|s}} 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.

* A particularly [[NightmareFuel horrific]] example from ''Film/{{Annihilation}}'', in which the protagonists are hunted by a mutant [[BearsAreBadNews bear]] with the [[CannibalismSuperpower ability]] to [[LegoGenetics absorb]] its prey's [[AppendageAssimilation vocal cords]] into its own respiratory system, allowing it to mimic their [[HellIsThatNoise dying cries]] to lure out or unnerve their allies.

* Now possible with audio deep fakes and similar technology. This can be done with permission, such as [[Creator/JamesEarlJones James Earl Jones]] authorizing a voice synthesizer that replicates his voice to enable him to retire while more media are made featuring Darth Vader. But it is most commonly used illegally for frauds.

* 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:

If someone gets suspicious about the identity of the Voice Changeling, expect BluffingTheImposter or SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay to come into play. The Changeling may even give themselves away with INeverSaidItWasPoison or SayingTooMuch.

* Konrad Beezo from Life Expectancy by Creator/DeanKoontz has the ability to mimic other people's voices with frightening perfection. He's an [[MonsterClown insane clown]] with many tricks up his sleeve, and uses this ability, along with some good plastic surgery, to impersonate an FBI agent.

* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': Soundbite can mimic any sound he's ever heard, backwards, forwards, or any other way you can think of. This is, however, the only way that he can speak, which results in him using an amalgamation of different voices for his sentences. Chapter 17 reveals that he's fully capable of picking one voice and sticking with it, and he explains his reasoning for doing otherwise: when he gives animals the ability to speak with his powers, he determines their voices based on what/who they are. The voices he gives them suit them, but his own voice is all of the voices.

* 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).

* 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 a short web episode of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'', ComicBook/TheJoker and The Trickster both kidnap famous (voice) actor Creator/MarkHamill. Hamill (who actually [[TalkingToHimself voices both characters for the show]]) [[SetAMookToKillAMook gets them to fight each other]] by imitating their voices. (They're rescued by, incidentally, Swamp Thing, who is ''also'' voiced by Hamill in this series!)

* ''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 "[[Recap/PersonOfInterestS05E07 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]].