1 | '''Basic Trope''': A man sees something that makes him scream in a feminine way, whether for joy or terror. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Bob sees a dead body on his front porch and screams. When he screams, he has a high voice like a woman. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Bob's scream is so high, that only dogs can hear it. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': |
5 | ** When Bob screams, he goes from a baritone to a tenor. |
6 | ** Bob's normal voice isn't very deep, and when screams, it's higher than usual, but you can still tell it's a man. |
7 | * '''Justified''': |
8 | ** Bob is trans and still undergoing treatment for his voice. |
9 | ** Adrenaline can make people sound higher because it tightens your muscles, including your vocal cords. |
10 | ** Bob is a little boy whose voice hasn't changed. |
11 | ** Bob is a teenager whose voice is going through the phase where it cracks and changes a lot. |
12 | ** Bob is a ManOfAThousandVoices who accidentally slipped in one of his CrossDressingVoices. |
13 | * '''Inverted''': |
14 | ** Bob sees a dead body and does a strangely low roar. |
15 | ** Bob [[VocalDissonance sounds like a woman]], except when he's shouting. |
16 | * '''Gender Inverted''': |
17 | ** Alice sees a dead body on her front porch and she does a strangely low-pitched roar. |
18 | ** Alice is an alto usually, but when she screams, she sounds super high-pitched. |
19 | * '''Subverted''': Bob appears to be screaming, but it turned out that was Alice behind him. |
20 | * '''Double Subverted''': It seems like it was Bob screaming... then it seems like it was Alice... then it turns out to be Charlie. |
21 | * '''Parodied''': Bob screams like an anime girl when he meets a creepy otaku. |
22 | * '''Zig Zagged''': |
23 | ** A group of people, both men and women, see the body. We hear a high-pitched scream and it's unclear who screamed. |
24 | ** During Bob's scream the pitch changes repeatedly. |
25 | * '''Averted''': |
26 | ** Bob still sounds like a man, even when screaming. |
27 | ** Bob does not scream. |
28 | * '''Enforced''': Bob's voice actor (or physical actor, in the case of a live-action film) has this kind of scream as their natural scream. (Extra enforced if Bob's voice role is [[CrossDressingVoices played by a woman]].) |
29 | * '''Invoked''': Bob deliberately does a high-pitched scream to get Alice's attention. |
30 | * '''Exploited''': Bob's scream is so high-pitched that it hurts the ears of the murderer at his porch, giving Bob a window to either run away or fight back. |
31 | * '''Defied''': Bob avoids screaming, knowing that his scream is ridiculously high. |
32 | * '''Discussed''': "I have a confession to make, when I scream, I sound like a little girl." |
33 | * '''Conversed''': "Why do the men in films always scream like girls?" |
34 | * '''Implied''': |
35 | ** Bob and a few others go into a haunted house carnival ride while the camera stays outside. Various sound effects including high-pitched screams are heard. Everyone else exiting is okay, but Bob emerges a little twitchy and insisting that the screams were all part of the show [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial and not him]]. |
36 | ** Charlie hears his roommates Alice and Bob cooking, a high-pitched scream, and a mighty thwack on the kitchen wall. Charlie runs to the rescue, to see Bob, RollingPinOfDoom in hand, twitching and agitated near a rat hole. Alice, cool as a cucumber, deadpans "You missed the rat." |
37 | * '''Deconstructed''': ??? |
38 | * '''Reconstructed''': ??? |
39 | * '''Played For Laughs''': CringeComedy ensues when the [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes arachnophobic]] Bob threatens to kill a spider, then screams like a woman, and the neighbours think he was threatening to kill a woman, leading to a very awkward conversation. |
40 | * '''Played For Drama''': The body is of a woman, so the police assume, due to the feminine-sounding scream, that it was the woman who screamed [[MistakenForMurderer as Bob killed her]]. He gets arrested. |
41 | * '''Played For Horror''': |
42 | ** Whatever Bob saw that made him scream like a little girl means it must be so horrible that not even the men could stand up against it! |
43 | ** Bob has just reached his RageBreakingPoint, and he screeches with a pretty high voice... One that belongs to a [[OurBansheesAreLouder banshee]], of course. |
44 | * '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
45 | * '''Untwisted''': ??? |
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