Basic Trope: Someone has a high-pitched voice shortly after being hit with a Groin Attack.
- Straight: Bob is kicked in the crotch and starts having Helium Speech for a little while afterwards.
- Exaggerated: After Bob is hit in the crotch, he permanently has a chipmunk voice.
- Downplayed: Bob briefly screams in a high-pitched note, but after that doesn't have much ill effect.
- Justified:
- Bob already has a tendency to scream in a rather high-pitched voice when scared/injured.
- Bob was singing at the time, causing his voice to go even higher.
- Inverted: Bob has a very low-pitched voice after getting hit in the crotch.
- Subverted: "Bob" turns out to be Alice in disguise, whose voice is naturally high-pitched.
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob does not get hit in the crotch and/or his voice has no effect.
- Enforced: "Maybe the viewers will Share the Male Pain after seeing Bob get hit there, but having his voice be high-pitched right afterwards could be funny!"
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Bob tells Alice: "I don't know if I can hit these notes! Try punching me in the balls!"
- Exploited: A Sweet Polly Oliver covers up their vocal disguise slipping after being startled by pretending they got hit in the groin.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I mean, I'd be doing the same if I were Bob..."
- Deconstructed: Bob's crotch is injured.
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