Basic Trope: Speaking without inflections makes the person scary.
- Straight: Ray speaks in a constant low tone, and people find it to be unsettling.
- Exaggerated: Ray speaks with zero inflections and his tone is always flat and low, and whenever he utters a word, anyone who hears his voice automatically shit themselves in terror.
- Downplayed: Ray does speak with some inflections but it's noticeably less than average.
- Justified:
- Ray is an alien or a robot or an Artificial Human.
- Ray has been demonically-possessed, Brainwashed and Crazy, mind-controlled, or Not Himself.
- Ray has Asperger's Syndrome or is suffering from an ambiguous disorder that makes him hard with emotions.
- Ray just too self-controlled.
- Ray is in a rather... not too happy mood.
- Inverted:
- Ray always speaks in a bombastic manner, and people find it scary.
- Ray always speaks in a bombastic manner, and people find it bland.
- Evil Is Hammy
- Subverted: Ray is doing it as an act.
- Double Subverted: But then it ends up becoming part of his natural character.
- Parodied: Ray has a Frozen Face, talks short with zero inflections, and whenever he talks, the atmosphere changes into a horror movie.
- Zig Zagged: Ray alternates between talking in a monotone and talking normally.
- Averted: Ray speaks normally with appropriate inflections.
- Enforced: The author wants to make Ray stand out more.
- Lampshaded: "Ray, your voice is starting to make people freak out".
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Ray tries to talks normally.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Ray's voice is scaring alot of people, and I'll be honest with ya, I'm also terrified."
- Deconstructed: Ray's monotone voice causes people to fear him and view him as a freak, even if he isn't any threatening.
- Reconstructed: Ray's monotone is what makes him his character.
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