Meet Loud Kiddington. The "loud" in his name isn't an adjective. Loud is his actual name.
Dogbert: A disturbing number of you have requested the return of Loud Howard. Loud Howard is one-dimensional. There is nothing clever nor insightful about him. He is simply loud. It is a mystery why anyone would want more of this guy. Loud Howard:THEY LOVE ME!!
SOME ACTORSSEEM TO THINK THAT GOOD ACTING IS LOUD ACTING. THEY DON'T RESTRICT YELLING TO WHEN THEIR CHARACTERS ARE ANGRY, UPSET OR AT THE BOTTOM OF A WELL CALLING FOR HELP — THEY SHOUT ALL THE TIME!DIFFERS SLIGHTLY FROM CHEWING THE SCENERY IN THAT IT'S NOT THE ACTING THAT'S CRANKED UP TO MAXIMUM — JUST THE VOLUME. HOWEVER, IF AN ACTOR INSISTS ON DOING IT IN SO MANY SITUATIONS THAT THE DRAMATIC IMPACT IS LESSENED, HE MAY WELL GO FROM A LARGE HAM TO JUST HAVING NO INDOOR VOICE.
If the above two paragraphs gave you a headache, you can see how this trope can be a problem. Not only is it irritating, but the dramatic impact is lessened.
Some categories of television shows seem more prone to this type of acting than others:
Programs going for dark and edgy, where the constant shouting is supposed to reinforce how permanently angry/edgy/completely bonkers the character is. Police procedurals in particular fall victim to this.
Children's programs with young actors who constantly shout at each other and EMPHASIZE every WORD they THINK is IMPORTANT! — the audio equivalent of Bold Inflation.
Adult presenters on children's TV who assume not only that their young Viewers Are Morons, but also that they can't hear sounds quieter than brass band.
The occasional infomercial, especially if it's by Billy Mays.
"... If they're not laughing, it's not comedy. Well either that, or you're just not SPEAKING LOUDLY ENOUGH!"
The irony is that while the actors seem to think that their loudness will increase their emotional impact, it usually does the opposite. If someone shouts all the time, the viewer stops caring about it, undermining the instances where the volume would be justified ("What's he shouting about this time? Oh, right, his wife just died..."), and lines that would sound more effective in a quieter voice are ruined since they're delivered with a megaphone. It also breaks the Willing Suspension of Disbelief, since it will eventually cross most viewers' minds that anyone who really spoke like that would need a lifetime's supply of throat medicine, thanks to the stress they're putting on their vocal cords.
In extreme circumstances, a character will become so loud that the show can be watched only with the volume turned down, making it a problem when the quieter characters speak. In the worst case scenario, the character will become such a headache that the viewer might be put off watching. These are the shows that you can't have on in the background when you're talking to someone; you'll be drowned out.
Can be justified if the actor in question has had a stage career, where voice projection is critical, or if the show is being taped in front of an audience where people in the back row might otherwise have trouble hearing what's happening on stage. However, the fact that many shows with an audience manage to achieve an "indoor voice" suggest that the trope can be avoided.
See also:
Cute, but Cacophonic, when characters you wouldn't expect are this, hence it's often used in comedies.
Large Ham, who probably lacks an indoor voice but gets away with it by virtue of sheer charisma.
Billy Mays fully realized what a Large Ham he was in his commercials, and was more than willing to make fun of himself for it. This made his on-screen persona's "ALL YELLING ALL THE TIME" policy strangely hilarious.
In an interview he did with the Washington Post he describes how he was stuck at home recovering from a hip operation and forced to see repeated commercials starring himself. He was getting sick of his own voice!
Lampshaded in the advertisement for Pitchmen, a show starring Billy Mays and Anthony Sullivan about pitching product, which of course featured Billy Mays in his on-screen persona.
Anthony Sullivan: There's more to selling than just the yelling! (points to Billy Mays, who looks insulted)
Awesomely parodied by himself here, as he shows you how pros order food at McDonald's.
Also parodied in Horrible Histories.
Shouty Man: I'M A SHOUTY MAN, AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU ABOUT...
Roni Lynn Deutch.
Barry Scott, known in Australia as BAM! AND THE DIRT IS GONE! Apparently the only difference between American and Australian audiences is the number of letters we tolerate in our product names. He also advertises on British television, to the extent that jokes are made about that advert on Mock the Week.
He's in New Zealand too.
Car dealership ads are infamous for this:
Gesswein Motors in Milbank, South Dakota! That guy used to be at LEAST as bad as Billy Mays in his commercials on the local CBS station.
There's also Tarbox Toyota of North Kingstown, Rhode Island, whose radio and TV advertisements star the dealership's owner, Ed Tarbox, known throughout Southern New England as someone who's voice will wake you up from a deep sleep at 2:30 in the morning.
Another infomercial maven who lacks a "quiet" mode: Tony Little, hawker of plenty of exercise machines. Lampshaded when one of the girl hosts in his infomercials says "Can you calm down?" "NO!"
Matthew Lesko, a strange man who wears question mark suits and appears in TV commercials advertising his book on government programs from which people can get money. He needs decaf, and he needs it badly.
Reason TV came up with a good use for him and his style once, though.
A TV advertisement for Staples (an office supply store) involves a man shouting "WOW! THAT'S A LOW PRICE!" at every item on the shelf.
Clerk 1: How many products do we carry? Clerk 2: Over seven thousand.... Clerk 1: ... I'll get him a cart.
A second advertisement follows it up with a second man who is equally surprised.
Man 2: I'm sorry, did you say something about a low price...? (first man points at shelf, second man examines the tag) Man 2: WOW! THAT'S A LOW PRICE! Man 1: I KNOW!
That guy from the newest Old Spice commercials. You know which guy:
"Block! Building Kick! EXPLOSION!!"
A commercial for a sports league had on a funeral, while the priest was talking, a man yelling ("I HAD JUST SEEN HIM LAST WEEK! HE WAS OKAY!"; "THE FLOWERS ARE REALLY NICE!").
The English dub version of Naruto is an egregious example of this. His voice does calm down noticably as he matures through the series; especially in Shippuden.
For a prominent example in the dub, listen to Kaiba in the first episode of the edited version. Then listen to him in the uncut dub — he's a lot louder and sounds more like Brock from Pokémon (which is little surprise, as they're both voiced by Eric Stuart).
In the Singapore dub of the series, most of the characters (especially Yami) simply yell out all their lines. Even so, it is often preferred to the 4Kids version due to the script's closer translation of the original.
The worst offender might be Espa Roba, who seems to scream every single line. Lampshaded in the abridged series with Joey saying "Stop yellin' at me!" to which Espa Roba replies "WHAT? THIS IS MY NORMAL SPEAKING VOICE!"
In the Pokémon anime, Byron, the Canalave City Gym Leader. Dan Green seems to be trying to make him the Pokémon world's answer to BRIAN BLESSED.
Jessie in the 4Kids dub of the anime. Also when competing in contests as "Jessilina".
Black of Pokémon Special is also an example, as when he's not training or helping White, he's standing around yelling he's going to win the Pokémon League.
Although the Digimon dub is generally a lot louder than the original, Doug Erholtz (T.K.) gets the cake. It doesn't matter how the scene is or what kind of voice tone it requires, it always seems the actor is yelling into the mic at the studio.
Tileston is apparently incapable of speaking at anything less than a shout. People are forced to accommodate this and make him stand far away when speaking to him.
This was largely the case of Luffy's voice actress when it was dubbed by 4Kids.
Schwardzwald from The Big O speaks extremely loudly, all the time.
In Bakuman。, Nanamine initially yells so loudly when talking on the phone with his editor, Kosugi, that people sitting near Kosugi in the editorial offices can hear him.
Super Atragon: Captain Hayate has volume control issues, even when issuing otherwise routine/mundane orders.
Captain Hayate(after a battle is over & the Ra is still airborne) "GO TO SURFACE MODE!!"
Sanada Freaking Yukimura. His voice seems to have two modes. Quiet contemplation, and SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS A LOT!
COMICS — BOOKS
Black Bolt. He literally can't speak without blowing something up. An alternate universe version of him once shouted, and it killed the entire population of a city.
Centurion Nebulus Nimbus in Astérix and the Big Fight. Only time he speaks at a normal volume is an attempt at whispering. The rest of the time, HE IS VERY LOUD. In the original French, his name is Langélus, a type of church bell. And church bells need to be...? That's right, LOUD.
The character's equivalent, General Caous, in the british dub of the Animated Adaptation, was dubbed by none other than BRIAN BLESSED.
"YOU INSOLENT FOOL! How DARE you not give Doom the GLORIOUS entry he DESERVES!?"
In Hitman, due to a series of strange events the favorite pub and hangout of the main cast ends up with a short demon as the bartender and cook. He only seems to know three words: "I AMBAATOR!"
The kids' comic Billy Boom:Loudboy. The title says it all.
COMICS — NEWSPAPER
In an intentionally comedic example, this was the entire joke of the minor character Loud Howard from the Dilbert comic. For the TV series, he was combined with fellow minor character "Nervous Ted" and made into a supporting cast member. The character was constantly shouting about trivial and sometimes bizarre worries as if they were significant.
This is the gimmick behind the Peanuts character Charlotte Braun.
FAN WORKS
In Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, Espa Roba and his brothers are always talking in very loud voices, so they end up flat out broadcasting the fact that they're cheating.
Sailor Mars in "Megami 33's" Abridged Series of Sailor Moon has a voice like a shrieking harpy, as well as being an Emo, Satanist, masochist and generally Ax Crazy. These traits combine somehow to form one of the biggest fan favourites. You might want to turn down the volume during episode 7, if you value your eardrums.
In a spoof of 300, United 300, the parody Leonidas definitely qualifies. Lampshaded when King "Jerxes" [sic] asks him why he shouts so much.
Leonidas:I'M NOT YELLING. I'M JUST PASSIONATE.
Randy Hayes of My Way Entertainment is pretty much the poster boy for this trope, but it actually isn't annoying, it makes the ridiculous things he's saying even funnier.
Randy:HATTE MOTHERFUCKIN' KUDASAAAAIII!
Deserving so very, very much. Barely a chapter goes by without at least one character yelling.
As well as the over-all great guy, Kharne the Betrayer. Even when doing something completely mundane...
"I WAS TRYING TO DRAW A DUCK."
Avatar: The Abridged Series: "GENTLEMEN, THE YU-YAN ARCHERS! AND YOU CAN'T BORROW THEM!" "Sorry, got a bit carried away. The answer's still no though."
A Hero is a Doctor Who/Puella Magi Madoka Magica crossover, which has this trope in the form of Dalek Sec who, being a Dalek, has no concept of an Indoor Voice. Or of subtlety.
Midnight Green is deaf to his own powerful voice, and casts a spell to keep it to normal levels. When he deactivates the spell, this happens.
Used in a scene from the film Anchorman. Ron Burgundy and the news team are complaining to each other about Naďve Newcomer Veronica Corningstone, shouting out their feelings rather than calmly talking about the situation. The normally quiet and reserved Brick Tamland has no idea why they're yelling about when they're all in the same room, but plays along with them anyway.
Leonidas from 300. Just thought we'd mention that.
Spoofed in Austin Powers because shortly after he was unfrozen he had trouble controlling THE VOLUME of his voice.
Beowulf: "I! AM! BEOWULF!" He wasn't just shouting in This! Is! SPARTA! fashion. He shouted CONSTANTLY. 3/4 of his dialogue was SCREAMED at the top of his lungs. Little to no exaggeration.
The entire female cast of Mamma Mia! whenever they are together. Why are they shouting all the time?
Max Bialystock from The Producers, when he gets angry.
I'M IN CHARGE OF THIS MONKEY FARM NOW, FRANKENSTEIN, AND I WANNA KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE DOING WITH MY TIME!!!
CROKER in Evil Alien Conquerors. Justified because he's a 100 foot tall giant who's been shrunken down to about six feet, and hasn't even noticed yet, much less learned to tone down his voice accordingly.
YOUR TINY VOICE BARELY REACHES MY HUGE EARS!!!
In Bus Stop, Don Murray's character Bo ALWAYS SEEMS TO BE YELLING about something and causing a scene. One of the many, many facets of his inherent jerkassery.
While Jim Carrey often falls for it, he yells the most in Liar Liar. During the trial scenes it's justified (a lawyer needs to be passionate) but on other scenes he's just frustrated ("STOP BREAKING THE LAW, ASSHOLE!").
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. "DO YOU BITE YOUR THUMB AT US SIR?" "NO I DO NOT BITE MY THUMB AT YOU SIR BUT I BITE MY THUMB SIR!" Made even more ridiculous when Sampson's comic aside to Gregory, "Is the law on our side if I say 'Ay'?" is screamed so that the two enemy servants can clearly hear him.
Rob Schneider's character in Down Periscope as the jittery Number Two on a World War II diesel submarine which is supposed to go up against a modern-day navy. While's it's his job as an XO to relay The Captain's orders for everyone to hear, he does this even when just talking to someone.
King Henry II in The Lion in Winter never stops yelling. EVER. The whole film is a two and a half hour shouting match between him and 4 other Large Ham characters and it's as exhausting as it sounds.
Christian Bale in Terminator Salvation. His portrayal of the elder John Connor as a military genius seems to consist of CONSTANTLY SCREAMING AT THE TOP OF HIS VOICE NO MATTER WHAT IS HAPPENING.
Every character in every film ever made by Ron Atkins.
The children in Woodchipper Massacre.
LITERATURE
Stephen Colbert shouted the entire transcript into a tape recorder for I Am America and So Can You!
The Big Bad of The Wheel of Time, Shai'tan, communicates to his followers telepathically with all caps.
Actually, any time Terry Pratchett writes the Death character...
Actually, it's not yelling - Death's voice is at a normal and quite tolerable volume. His voice is just very deep, heavy, weighty - "a voice like the closing of coffin lids" - and Pratchett represents this using caps. It's distinguished from yelling in that 1) words that would normally have capitals at the front still do; 2) the font is different from when other characters yell; 3) Death does yell occasionally, and it's pointed out; and 4) He's never mentioned as speaking overly loudly, which Pratchett tends to mention.
Harry Potter has a lot of difficulty keeping his voice at a normal volume in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Even when he's not in CAPSLOCK!Harry mode, you can make a drinking game out of the number of times Ron or Hermione indicate that he's getting unnecessarily loud for the situation.
Semi-justified in that Harry appears to be suffering from a mild form of PTSD and gets frustrated a lot.
Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver has to develop this when he was in Brobdingnag in order for the sixty-foot tall inhabitants to even hear him. Naturally, when he got back to England he was still yelling out of habit.
In the Phantom Tollbooth, Dr. Kakofonous A. Dischord, Doctor of Dissonance, whose middle name is AS LOUD AS POSSIBLE!
Despite not having what we would call a "voice", Visser Three of Animorphs fits this trope to a "T". He seems to have no concept of private thought-speak, and constantly broadcasts everything he says to everyone in range.
Similarly, Jake describes Crayak's "voice" as Crayak screaming at the top of his lungs.
LIVE-ACTION TV
Trigger Happy TV has the giant cellphone man who answers his ridiculously large phone and shouts into it as loud as possible, and does it in traditionally quiet places, such as a restaurant, or a movie theater, or an acapella concert, or even a book store.
Peter Boyd in Waking the Dead is surely one of the most obnoxious examples of the trope. Constant shouting is supposed to reinforce how mentally edgy the character is — if the police harassment, property damage and general violence haven't tipped you off already. Might be a case of Chewing the Scenery gone badly wrong... especially in later episodes, when every other regular character follows suit. The fact that they're always interrupting each other makes it even more frustrating.
CBBC seems to have "must be audible from overhead aeroplanes" as a requirement for its presenters.
Charlie in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
Timmy Mallet made a career out of this trope, in his case to increase his image of wackiness. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it just deeply irritated everyone who saw him. This was illustrated rather nicely in an episode of Room 101 where one prop was a "scale of children's TV presenters" with the zones "Loud", "Very Loud", "Obnoxious", and finally "Timmy Mallet".
Tom Baker, who played the Fourth Doctor, is well-known for this. Off-screen he's even hammier.
The Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) also suffered from this quite badly in his TV Movie, though he has got over it in the audio dramas to the point he has actually been described as soft-spoken.
Doctor:The Master wants to take all my remaining lives... SO THAT HE WILL LIVE AND I WILL DIE!
The Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) was possibly the shoutiest of the lot, to the point that Peri sometimes had to cover her ears during their seemingly endless arguments in the TARDIS.
When Davros removed the genes for emotions and conscience from the Daleks, he must have also removed the ones enabling them to speak quietly. As a consequence, the Daleks, even in casual conversation, scream every word out.
The Doctor: Sealed inside your casing. Not feeling anything... ever. From birth to death, locked inside a cold metal cage. Completely alone. And that explains your voice! No wonder you scream.
Azal, in the Third Doctor serial "The Daemons". For once, the effect is awesome. Partly justified by the fact that he's a 30-ft tall megalomaniac.
The Tenth Doctor isn't immune to this trope; he does have an indoor voice, but he seems to forget this a lot.
The Captain from "The Pirate Planet". Even the Doctor called him on that:
What do you want? You don't want to take over the universe, do you? No... you wouldn't know what to do with it, beyond shout at it.
24. JACK BAUER DEMANDS TO KNOW WHO THE TRAITOR IS AND WHERE YOU'VE HIDDEN THE PLANS. When he's not dramatically whispering, that is.
As Entertainment Weekly put it whilst discussing Kid Nation, "MY NAME IS JONATHAN KARSH! I YELL LOUDER THAN ANY OTHER HOST IN REALITY SHOW HISTORY!"
Bob Fossil in The Mighty Boosh yells (and yells nonsense) at least 90% of the time he's onscreen (of the remaining screen time, 8% is spent dancing).
The Supernatural boys have no concept of this. Perhaps they learned it from their father?
The Gumbies. "DON'T STAND THERE GAWPIN'! LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THE HAND O' GOD BEFORE!"
As well as this instance from the skit "Interesting People":
David: ... With me now is Mr. Ken Dove, the most interesting man in Dotking. Mr. Dove, I do believe you're interested in shouting. Mr. Dove: YEAH THAT'S RIGHT DAVID! I'M VERY INTERESTED IN SHOUTING ALRIGHT! I THINK SHOUTING IS WONDERFUL! David: What does your wife think about it? Mrs. Dove: I AGREE WITH HIM!
The writers of All That apparently thought that if you couldn't think of a joke, just have a character act loud and obnoxious. Ms. Hushbaum in particular. The fact that she was a rather noisy librarian in addition to enforcing the rules by constantly screaming at the top of her lungs made her an example of Hypocritical Humor. Not to mention Billy Fucco.
Dustin Hoffman in the TV movie version of Death of a Salesman. He starts at about 7 or 8, cranks it up to 11 in the first five minutes and then never backs down a peg. It makes the whole play Dustin Hoffman SHOUTING AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS! YOU CAN'T EAT THE ORANGE AND THROW THE PEEL AWAY!!!! A MAN IS NOT A PIECE OF FRUIT!!!! It gets tiring.
Anything played by Matt Berry (Douglas Reynholm, Dr. Lucian Sanchez). "WHAT?! AM I HOLDING A CROCK OF SHIT? IS THIS HOSPITAL CALLED 'ST. CROCK OF SHIT'?"
FBI Agent Gordon Cole — played by David Lynch himself — in Twin Peaks is deaf and yells nearly every line of dialogue. Combined with his Cloudcuckoolander personality, this makes for one odd character.
The Young Ones: Rick and Vyvyan shout constantly at the top of their lungs. The latter gets bonus points for already possessing the vox humana equivalent of a cat dying a slow, horrible death in a wood chipper.
Entourages Ari Gold punctuates almost every conversation with A LOUD AND OFFENSIVE COMMENT TO ANYONE STANDING NEARBY. Hell, he even starts conversations this way... LLOYD'!
One of Will Ferrell's recurring characters on Saturday Night Live was Jacob Silge, a correspondent on Weekend Update who suffered from "Voice Immodulation Syndrome", which caused him to speak in a uniformly loud voice.
Frasier: Chopper Dave got a little too used to reporting from a helicopter.
The Cat:SHUT UP!!! Lister: Will you stop doing that? The Cat:I'M TRYING TO WATCH THE FILM!!! Lister: I'm only eating! The Cat:(puts down megaphone)No, eating is when the food goes in your mouth!
Played for laughs on Chappelle's Show, when Dave does his "Samuel Jackson Beer" sketch. He spends the entirety of it pretending to be Jackson and shouting his lines at people, which he acknowledges that he does.
Consumer: Could you stop yelling at me, please? Chappelle: NO, I CAN'T STOP YELLING, 'CAUSE THAT'S HOW I TALK! AIN'T YOU NEVER SEEN MY MOVIES? DEEP BLUE SEA? THEY ATE ME! A F*** ING SHARK ATE ME! JURASSIC PARK?
Crazy Steve from Drake & Josh. Someone even once told him to use his indoor voice, and he continued shouting.
Zoey 101 had Coach Keller, who had few appearances but was always loud.
Ty Pennington, on Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Not only does the man usually forget he has an indoor voice, but the producers decided to give him a loud-hailer, like police use in crowd control, as a gimmick.
On Parks and Recreation, Andy Samberg's head park ranger is pretty much always yelling, much to the annoyance of the staff.
"LESLIE, HAVE YOU SEEN AVATAR? I NEVER SAW AVATAR. I WANTED TO READ THE BOOK FIRST, BUT THEN I REALIZED THERE'S NO BOOK VERSION OF AVATAR."
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers has Jason Lee Scott, the first Red Ranger. He was pretty loud most of the time out of suit, but morphed, he shouted everything. The man was living evidence of why this trope works best mixed 1:1 with Captain Obvious.
Mad Money host Jim Cramer.
Jack McCoy on Law & Order, even during his version of "normal" speech. In the courtroom, he shouts for real. In the office, it's not always exactly shouting, but his normal speech is much more aggressive and loud than even the cops he works with; he sort of stays in "badgering" mode. Happens more in the later seasons before he's the D.A.
Dalton Rumba on Glee. Partially justified because he's deaf in one ear, but DAMN! SCARLET FEVER!!
Jeremy Brett's performance as Sherlock Holmes features ample amounts of this trope; Holmes is prone of shifting from near-whisper to shouting his lungs out at a moment's notice, sometimes accompanied by complete ignorance of furniture or other obstacles as he skips to meet his newest client, or Watson with some new clue at hand.
G4 TV's show That's Tough — because you know things are tough when EVERY WORD OF THE NARRATOR IS DELIVERED LIKE A JERRY BRUCKHEIMER MOVIE TRAILER FILLED WITH EXPLOSIONS! THAT'S TOUGH!!!
X-Play comedy character CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY CRAAAAAAZY ADAM!!!
In On the Buses it seems every character uses their outdoor voices all the time, especially when the family is at home. I love the series but you can get ear fatigue.
Inverted for laughs with the Saturday Night Live character "Man Without a Shout" played by John Goodman. A fake television series where the main character feels so guilty of killing his friends by triggering an avalanche that he is incapable of anything higher than a hushed whisper. He constantly gets placed in situations where he is required to scream and fails to do so.
Hard Gay is almost always shouting. Lampshaded in one episode when a clerk tells him to keep his voice down, and he responds, "NO VOLUME CONTROL, HOOO!"
Horrible Histories invokes this at various times. Most notably with the "I'M A SHOUTY MAN!" sketches which crop up in various episodes. Other notable sketches include one from S1E5 with Caligula "THINK YOU'RE BIGGER THAN ME?".
Super Sentai has a string of Red Rangers who fell into this category starting from the early 2000s: Yousuke in Hurricanger, Ryoga in Abaranger, Ban in Dekaranger, Kai in Magiranger, Jan in Gekiranger, and Sousuke in Go-Onger. Many of these can also be classified as Keets as well. Gokaiger avoided this trope for Gokai Red, but boy howdy did they ever bring it back for Gokai Silver.
The one rule of National Bingo Night: you need a loud commissioner that can pull off a good "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~ BINGO!". Preferably Indian.
Sometimes, this came from the announcer's booth on The Price Is Right. When longtime announcer Rod Roddy fell ill in the early 2000s, Paul Boland did a week of guest announcing. The staff asked him to tone down his delivery; he refused, and never set foot in studio 33 again. Rod's successor, Rich Fields, started out with a reasonably pleasant voice, but quickly became much, much louder (not to mention increasingly high-pitched and shrill). And then there are the contestants...
Wheel of Fortune is also known for having very loud contestants. Sometimes host Pat Sajak lampshades this by asking the louder ones to "speak up".
And don't forget Skip Lackey when he hosted Think Fast.
The Iron Sheik these days doesn't seem to have a setting lower than this.
Heck, this is how professional wrestlers in general are depicted speaking. Lampshaded in Mad Magazine's 1989 movie parody Battyman, in which "Battyman" theorizes that "The Jerker" has such a wild voice because he watched too many wrestling shows as a kid.
PUPPET SHOWS
The Guy Smiley character from Sesame Street has this problem. There is one skit where he's doing a news piece in the jungle and the guide is telling him to keep quiet so as not to scare the rare animals, and the third time he does it he says, "WELL THIS IS AS QUIET AS I CAN TALK!"
SPORTS
While shouting from sports announcers is kept to when it's arguably appropriate, the amount of gratuitous shouting increases the further from the actual sporting event the "sports show" happens. Interviews with athletes outside of the game or official announcements become louder as the relevance of the questions decreases. "Sports chat" shows, generally consisting of a small group of men (and sometimes one female) talking about the statistical and business side of sports, are almost as bad as sports interviews. Sometimes gratuitous harsh language is thrown into the mix, just for edginess or something.
Legitimate example of No Indoor Voice: Hall of Fame basketball announcer Dick Vitale. This is not so much a case of always shouting (although he does plenty of that, too) as just a case of having an unusually loud regular speaking voice.
Dick Bremer, television announcer for the Minnesota Twins, personifies this trope when anything interesting on the field is happening.
Gus Johnson, a football and basketball announcer for CBS and the new voice of John Madden Football. Some examples can be found here and here. And here. (And how.)
STAND-UP COMEDY
In Dane Cook's routine regarding the horrors of working the drive-thru at Burger King, he asks why some people feel the need to YELL at the speaker.
Customer:WHOPPER! (Dane, on headset, recoiling in pain) Customer:WHOPPER! NO ONION! LARGE FRIES!
Ahem. ALL SINNERS FEAR THE EMPEROR'S WRATH!!! Oh, wait, the sinners in the back couldn't hear me. *Ahem* '''ALL SINNERS FEAR THE EMPEROR'S WRATH!!!''' There. Now all the sinners in the building are deaf.
In the grim dark future of the 41st millennium, the people with the loudest voices hold the highest ranks. How else are the soldiers going to hear your orders across a noisy battlefield?
Somewhere hidden deep within years of canon are the Shoutaboyz, orks with abnormally loud and carrying voices, who yell to comunicate between villages, airplanes, AND GARGANTS!!!!
In Exalted, Malfeas, the DemonCity, has particular talents in ostentatiousness, force, and rulership. A common fan depiction has him spending his entire time with his volume turned up to about nineteen.
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney's titular protagonist is notable in-universe for his loud voice. Kinda lampshaded in Case 1, where he mentions his daily "Chords of Steel" training.
And from the first game, Officer Mike Meekins, who sometimes SHOUTS INTO HIS MEGAPHONE TO GET HIS POINT ACROSS with accompanying "feedback" sound effect.
When we see him without the megaphone in Investigations he's a little more subdued.
TV-Head Shout Guy (AKA "The Director") from Mondo Medicals. "DO YOU KNOW WHAT A CANCER IS?"
Made even WORSE by the fact that his spoken 'language' sounds like the result of asking a really bad voice synthesizer to say "thjedhg!!2@#@." At maximum volume.
Kratos from the God of War series. Though he is a man of few words, when he actually speaks he does so in such a powerful, loud voice that all of Greece can probably hear him threatening the gods with bloody death. Then again, given the size of the opponents he fights (the Colossus of Rhodes, the Hydra, he's communicated on several occasions with Titans), maybe he's just trying to make sure they don't have to strain to hear him. Regardless, Kratos can out-shout even Leonidas any day. Must be something about those Spartans... Add to that his overly dramatic dialogue and inflection and it can sound almost cheesy.
Team Fortress 2: "CRY SOME MORE!!!" "HEY BOYS IT'S A SPAH!" "THIS IS MY WORLD, YOU ARE NOT WELCOME IN MY WORLD!" "THAT'S THE WAY Y'DO IT!" "GO ON, RAGE QUIT, MAKE US BOTH HAPPY!" "I AM FULLY CHARGED!" "JAA-RATE!"
I think the only class that doesn't yell is Spy since he's supposed to be stealthy. Pyro yells, but you can't understand a word anyway.
"I AM BOOLITPROOOOOOOOOF"
In F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, Colonel Richard Vanek does not talk quietly. Even when he's talking in a "normal" tone, he's practically yelling at the top of his lungs. This is typically punctuated by lots of swearing.
Some demons in Shin Megami Tensei games speak in all caps when they speak.
The two resident Large Hams that illustrate the difference between that trope and this quite well. While Hakumen is merely overly dramatic all the time, Bang Shishigami apparently doesn't come with a volume knob that goes lower than 11 (oddly enough, it works for him). Consider the following, which could come from any match with Bang:
"Instant Ninpo! Critical Super Crash! Hurricane Bang Kick! To rid this world of evil, I will become... the HAMMER OF JUSTICE!"
Captain Cid in Final Fantasy X has just two kinds of speaking: Shouting and yelling.
Also Fujin from Final Fantasy VIII. She speaks explicitly in ALL CAPS. And few words. For example, rather than ask "Where is Ellone?" she says "ELLONE. WHERE?" It was actually meant to translate the fact that in the original Japanese version, her speech is entirely in Sino-Japanese ideographs (i.e. no phonetic hiragana/katakana at all, which is very unusual for ordinary Japanese speech and writing).
Doctor N. Gin in the Radical Entertainment Crash Bandicoot games. That is all.
"Still... no... SLIPPERS?!?!" "THANK YOU AGAIN!!! Hotter than the first!!" "NOT MY THROAT!! I need that for swallowing!! GUARDS!!"
Blue Dragon gives us Marumaro, whose combination of no volume control, screeching virtually all of the time, and a oddly disturbing crush on Zola makes him The Scrappy to many fans. And even if he's not, they usually agree on his voice.
Fallout 3: Let's just say that the Lone Wanderer shouldn't even try to sneak when Fawkes is around. He has more control over his voice when out of combat, though.
This toper just pretends Fawkes is being a distraction to help the Lone Wanderer make Sneak Attacks. Yes, go fight the big shouty guy while I stab you in the back...
THIS is LOUDRED'S Verbal TIC. He ALTERNATES between SCREAMING ALL THE TIME and JUST emphasizing random WORDS. OH, and the FLAT OUT SCREAMING tends to HAPPEN when he WAKES YOU UP EVERY MORNING.
Palkia LIKES TO TALK IN ALL CAPS IN A COMPLETELY SERIOUS, ANGRY, ENRAGED, IMPATIENT TONE. ALL THE TIME. HE TALKS MORE LOUDLY MORE OFTEN THAN LOUDRED!!! DIALGA DOES TOO, BUT HE HAS LESS DIALOGUE THAN PALKIA!!! IN CASE YOU HADN'T FIGURED IT OUT, PALKIA AND DIALGA HAVE LOUD, BOOMING VOICES.
They're also mildly Eldritch gods of space and time. This is probably their idea of a whisper because their real voice would make black holes start exploding around them or something.
Misha of Katawa Shoujo. Generally seen translating for the deaf-mute Shizune (to and from sign language, in case you were wondering). The game's set in a school for the disabled, so some fans think Misha's partially deaf.
Inverted with boss dialogues which are shown as "X yells Y," yet the actual audio files are (generally) spoken at a normal level.
Played straight just as often, however, with many bosses and NPCs relentlessly roaring their dialogue at the top of their lungs.
"AAARRRTHAAASSS!"
Princess Daisy from Super Mario Bros. gradually got louder as games went on, getting particularly loud in games such as Mario Party 8. And irritating.
EVERY CHARACTER IN CHRONO CROSS HAS A PERSONAL VERBAL TIC. ZOAH'S IS TO SPEAK IN ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME LIKE THIS AND FANS TEND TO INTERPRET IT AS HIM YELLING CONSTANTLY.
Steven from Dead Rising would like to remind you all that THIS IS HIS STOOOOORE!.
In the Telltale Sam & Max games, Bluster Blaster of the C.O.P.S. shouts all of his dialogue in a manner resembling Sinistar(except in Episode 203: Night of the Raving Dead, where an accident has considerably quieted him).
Ishut, protagonist of Gloria Union, is like this; he's very enthusiastic and has the maturity level of a six-year-old. His allies (and even his voice actor!) find it extremely annoying. The Japanese fanbase has declared him a Fountain of Memes.
In Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, we have the british soldier guy who is yelling to the character across a room on how to complete a puzzle involving moon segments and rotating platforms. He constantly yells things like THATS IT and ONE MORE TO GO
Neverwinter Nights 2 - Male, Brooding Dark Hero. His volume range goes from Loud to Really Really Loud. Hell, even his call to the group to be quiet is loud!
Messenger Sparks from Armed And Dangerous. This is either a cause or an effect of his near-deafness, which leads to Hilarity Ensues when he's forced to conduct negotiations between the Evil Overlord and the noble bandits who have 'kidnapped' his son.
"I, remember now. You Bastards! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
In Ghost Trick, one of the major characters is an occasionally-deceasedPomeranian named Missile. He often gets A LITTLE OVEREXCITED!!! and starts speaking in giant text.
WEB ANIMATION
Strong Mad, from Homestar Runner. Strong Bad lampshades this at one point in the SBEmail "The Facts" by asking him to keep it down, to which Strong Mad replies, "I CAN BE THE QUIETEST MOUSE. I LIVE IN THE QUIETEST HOUSE!". "No Volume Control" indeed!
Also Crack Stuntman. Oddly, the character he voices doesn't have that problem.
Caboose misses the point of an argument between Church and Wash in Red vs. Blue:
Church: Why didn't you tell me that it was taking technology from the Freelancers? Wash: Why didn't you tell me that Wyoming was on the ship? Caboose: And why didn't someone give me something to yell about?
WEB COMICS
T-Rex from Dinosaur Comics talks loudly all the time. The series lampshades this, when T-Rex claims that "If we were indoors right now, I'm pretty sure I'd just be as loud and proud as ever." He then proceeds to rebel against the concept of the indoor voice, but notes "the revolution has ended due to lack of interest!"
In The Order of the Stick, the gang is sneaking invisibly around a bunch of goblins. They all make "Move Silently" checks.
Roy:I got a 17. Haley:I got a 24. Vaarsuvius:I got a 19. Elan: I GOT A 4! DID YOU HEAR ME? I GOT— Roy: Shut up. Now.
Looking for Group has Tim, a none-too-bright troll who at one point uses "DIS MY INSIDE VOICE" as a warcry. That may have also been his internal monologue.
Philia, Phobia's sparring partner from her Amazon days, in GastroPhobia.
Philia:AND ANOTHER THING, WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH PHILOSOPHERS? Klepto:(whispering) Was she, uh, always this... loud? Phobia:(whispering) Yeah, I must've had a much higher tolerance for whining as a teenager.
Karkat isn't the only troll who incorporates at least some all caps text in his chats and speech, but he's the one who best plays this trope straight.
Equius is assumed to often fall within this trope, even though he uses all caps sparingly.
If Homestuck partially defines this trope as a character who types or speaks in some variant of all caps, then Tavros and Terezi subvert it. Ax Crazy Gamzee falls within this trope half the time. The WV, the AR, and other Exiles speak like this in the kids' and trolls' heads at times.
Tiren (feels human ears):"GODS, I HATE THIS PLACE!"
WEB ORIGINAL
Marcus of Mega 64 is always yelling. Once when asked to be quiet, he said that "THIS IS AS QUIET AS I GET! I CAN GO LOUDER IF YOU WANT!" In a weird twist, Marcus only lowers his voice when he is extremely angry.
JACK ATLASLOVES TO SCREAM"CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!!" EVEN WHEN IT'S COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE. WHEN HE SHOUTS INTO A MICROPHONE (THAT ISN'T EVEN PLUGGED IN), IT CAUSES AN EXPLOSION.
Larry of Nitro Game Injection is, according to himself, "a very loud black man." Even when he does try to be quiet, he's loud.
WESTERN ANIMATION
Histeria! has a character called Loud Kiddington (depicted as page image), whose name should be self-explanatory.
The character Hollywood's catchphrase was "Isn't that cute?... But it's WROOOOONNNNGGGG!!", which was always delivered over the top no matter how minor the matter was. (When he wasn't shouting, his voice wasn't particularly loud, but it still felt loud with a sort of gruff, obnoxious quality.)
And don't forget Little Red Riding Hood, whose voice seemed to randomly fluctuate between what would be expected of a little girl and a yell with an almost foghorn-like quality.
The king of constant yelling, Yosemite Sam, has a voice so loud and boisterous that it eventually took a huge toll on Mel Blanc's voice. (Sam also liked to punctuate his sentences by firing off one or more of the loaded pistols he kept about his person. In case you've only seen guns on television, they are VERY LOUD when they go off in real life.)
Bugs:(impersonating Theodore Roosevelt) I speak softly, but I carry a BIIIIIG STICK! Sam:OH YEAH? WELL I SPEAK LOOOOUUUUUDDD! AND I CARRY A BIIIIIIIIIGER STICK!
Tex Avery's MGM short Rock-a-bye Bear has Spike the Bulldog hired as a winter caretaker for a hibernating bear who keeps demanding quiet in the loudest voice imaginable.
Siren of the Transformers has been written this way:
Siren was raised in the Sonic Canyons, where constant ear-splitting noise is a part of everyday life. He's probably never going to adjust properly, all told. Also, he's an police car; do you really want him to be quiet?
Ollie combines this trope with Beige Prose to get the point across...
Tom: And now we go to Ollie Williams with the Blaccuweather Forecast. Ollie? Ollie:IS' GON' RAIN! Tom: Thank you, Ollie.
And of course...
Tom: In local news, we have more on the approach of Hurricane Rupaul as it makes his or her way up the coast. Let's go live to Ollie Williams with the Blaccuweather report. Ollie? Ollie:IS' RAININ' SIDEWAYS! Tom: Sounds rough, Ollie. Do you have an umbrella? Ollie:HAD ONE! Tom: Where is it? Ollie:INSIDE OUT, TWO MILES AWAY! Tom: Is there anything we can do for you? Ollie:BRING ME SOME SOUP! Tom: What kind? Ollie:CHUNKY! Tom: All right, we'll get on that.
From the opening of "Lois Kills Stewie":
Tom Tucker: And now, here's Ollie with a recap of the last episode of Family Guy. Ollie? Ollie:STEWIE KILLED LOIS! Tom Tucker: Then what? Ollie:PETER GOT BLAMED! Tom Tucker: Then what? Ollie:PETER WENT TO COURT! Tom Tucker: Then what? Ollie:LOIS CAME BACK! Tom Tucker: How? Ollie:WASN'T REALLY DEAD! Tom Tucker: Thanks Ollie, and now part two!
(After Tucker's son is arrested for possession of drugs):
Tucker: The student was sentenced to 200 hours' community service and is a very. bad boy. We now go to Ollie Williams for the Punishment Forecast. Ollie? Ollie:HE GON' GET IT!
When marijuana is legalized in Quahog and the entire population is perpetually stoned, he finally speaks at a normal indoor voice.
Tucker: How's the weather, Ollie? Ollie: Ain't too bad.
Parodied in one episode where Homer is mad about something and is yelling. Marge tells him to use his indoor voice, and he replies "I DON'T HAVE AN INDOOR VOICE!"
Parodied again in another: everyone is complaining increasingly loudly about how Mr. Burns is ruining their lives, to the point where Marge screams, "HE'S CAUSING US ALL TO YELL!" Maggie, being The Voiceless, just sucks her pacifier harder than usual.
Lampshaded in the Band Geeks episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, Squidward mentions that "Being loud makes you sound smart" in response to the mediocre quality of the band he is in (which Plankton backs up by shouting "CORRECT!"). Squidward then goes on to suggest that if the band plays really, really loudly, people will think they're good. Of course, it backfires....
Orpheus: Do not be too hasty in entering that [bath]room, I had TACO BELL for lunch!
Also, the Grand Galactic Inquisitor shouts everything over its built-in loudspeaker, then shouts, "IGNORE ME!" if someone responds.
The Man Who Yelled, from the Mo Willems short film of the same name.
The Red Guy from Cow and Chicken randomly turns this on and off. The rest of the characters lack inside voices altogether.
Behold!Mighty Thor rejects the notion of an Indoor Voice!
The cast of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends can be easily divided between those who do have an indoor voice (Mac, Herriman, Wilt) and those who don't (Bloo, Cheese, Eduardo, Coco).
One could say Dil, of Stickin' Around had No Indoor Voice, if his voice wasn't ridiculously loud for being Outdoors as well.
In the Daria episode "Fair Enough", Quinn's role in a school play causes her little worry until Sandi comments on the "unusual inflections" in the way Quinn says her lines. This gets under Quinn's skin. A later resultant line is spoken with emphasis on every word: "I will make a dainty garland for my head and sing! Laa, la la LAH!..."
Phil Ken Sebben is a more than a little guilty. "I'M SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU NOTICED BUT I'VE GOT JUST THEONE EYE!"
Shado the Brain Thief takes this trope to its logical conclusion. Not only does he have no indoor voice, he has no indoor thoughts. Literally every thought he thinks is broadcast into the minds of everyone nearby at a deafening volume. A custodian takes a broom to a nearby PA speaker in an attempt to silence the noise.
On The Fairly OddParents, this applies to a lot of characters, including Timmy, Cosmo, Vicky, and Crocker.
Zim from Invader Zim shouts almost every sentence.
And Dr. Rockso the Rock n' Roll clown yells constantly, too. Though there's a reason for that. He likes to remind everyone (and squirrels) that HE DOES COCAINE! A LOT OF COCAINE!
Johnny Test. It seems with every passing season, the characters yell more frequently. Sometimes, the screen even shakes and and the ground rumbles when they yell.
The Brak Show has Thundercleese, who pretty much shouts all the time, as well as Rhonda of the Seventh Level of Yar:
Mom: Well, Rhonda, I think the table is quite squared away— Rhonda of the Seventh Level of Yar: I AM RHONDA, OF THE SEVENTH LEVEL OF YAR! Mom: Yes, you've mentioned that quite a few times. Is there anything I can do to help in the kitchen? Rhonda of the Seventh Level of Yar: NO! THE FOOD HAS BEEN ARRANGED! Mom: Well then, I suppose we should join the boys in— Rhonda of the Seventh Level of Yar: THE DAY OF JUDGMENT IS AT HAND! Mom: Um, alright, if you say so— Rhonda of the Seventh Level of Yar: YOU WILL BE JUDGED! SO SAYETH THE SCRIBES OF YAR! Mom: You know Rhonda, I'm not even sure if I know where "Yar" is. Rhonda of the Seventh Level of Yar: YOU'LL FIND OUT... WHEN YOUR SOUL IS BELCHED FORTH AND DEVOURED UPON THE SHORE OF THE RIVER OF HEADS! Mom: Oh dear. Rhonda of the Seventh Level of Yar: THE RIVER OF HEADS IS IN YAR! THIS I CAN ASSURE YOU! AH HA HA HA HA HA!
Duckman. One example from an episode where Duckman was going through hallucinations of alternate realities:
Alternate Duckman: I AM NOT FROM ANY UNIVERSE IN PARTICULAR BUT WHERE I COME FROM EVERYONE TALKS LIKE THIS!!
"THIS IS THE TRADITIONAL ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE! IT IS TRADITION TO SPEAK USING THE ROYAL 'WE' AND TO USE THIS MUCH VOLUME WHEN ADDRESSING OUR SUBJECTS!!!"
The possession of a cellphone seems to induce this trope in anyone using one, along with an extreme lack of situational awareness. Believe it or not, you need not shout into the phone to make yourself heard. Sorry, Pet Peeve Trope.
This was referenced in the British real-life trolling hidden camera show Trigger Happy TV where a man would attend various events with a gigantic mobile phone and bellow a one-sided and obnoxious conversations into it ("HELLO! I'M IN AN ART GALLERY! NAH, IT'S RUBBISH! CIAO!").
Dr. Karl explained this one as people holding their phones the wrong way, finding the other end of the conversation too soft, and increasing volume to compensate. Knowing this makes it no less annoying.
Unfortunately, this is how rock singers are stereotypically viewed by some people. On the other hand, it's especially true of many underground heavy metal singers especially in the sub-categories of black metal, death metal, and "metalcore", among others.
This is often due to hearing damage, both from playing loud and from cranking up the music volume louder to compensate for existing hearing damage, thus making the damage worse.
Military Drill Instructors, regardless of what service or country you are in, have their indoor voices removed as part of their instructor training.
Most kids simply don't know that loud tones are inappropriate and have to be taught. Teenagers, on the other hand, just don't seem to care. This troper once had a classmate (who was seventeen) proudly declare she had no indoor voice.
The loudness of the conversation seems to correspond with just how much inappropriate information it contains.
On a more serious note, this can be a symptom of mental illnesses.
Or, more simply imply that the shouter has hearing problems. Especially people with single-sided-deafness sometimes find it difficult to clearly understand voices even in situations other people would not consider noisy. Like many mobile phone users, they subconsciously start speaking louder to influence the other person to speak louder, too. This can easily lead to seemingly having no indoor voice.
Bill O'Reilly has a naturally loud voice, but it often gets even louder when he wants to emphasize a word or he's ticked off. (Ironically, he seems to really dislike rap music, which is stereotypically thought of as loud.)
Spaniards. All the time. Especially on TV, but outside of it too. To the point Viggo Mortensen was criticized when he played the eponymous character of Alatriste because he wasn't loud enough (To hide his accent).
Davina McCall, whose presentation of Popstars: The Rivals was likened by Charlie Brooker to Concorde crashing into a saucepan factory and Jupiter exploding over a foghorn convention.
Can often happen to normal people who forget they are wearing headphones.
