Basic Trope: An adult, teenager, or older child who has a significantly younger-sounding voice. Often leads to Vocal Dissonance.
- Straight: Bobby is 14, but has a voice that sounds more like a much younger boy.
- Exaggerated: Bobby is 100 years old, but he sounds like he's 3.
- Downplayed: Bobby is about 10, but his voice is somewhat higher-pitched than most kids his age.
- Justified:
- Bobby is a late bloomer.
- Bobby is of a species that retains a childlike voice for a longer period of time (or even their whole life).
- Inverted: Bobby is only 10, but sounds like a grown man.
- Subverted: Bobby was only pretending to have a youthful voice.
- Double Subverted: As it turns out, his real voice is even more high-pitched.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Bobby's voice changes throughout the series.
- Averted: Bobby is 14, and sounds like an average 14 year old boy.
- Enforced:
- Bobby is being played by a younger person.
- "How do we show that Bobby is a Kiddie Kid? Let's give him a younger-sounding voice."
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bobby goes to a vocal training class to make himself sound more like someone in his age group.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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