Basic Trope: A character has an instrument in place of their voice.
- Straight: When Lennon speaks, it sounds like a theremin.
- Exaggerated: Everyone 'talks' like this.
- Downplayed: Lennon's voice sounds like a normal voice that's been put through a theremin filter.
- Justified: Lennon is a robot with an on-board synthesizer.
- Inverted: When someone plays Lennon's guitar, it sounds like a human voice.
- Subverted: It turns out Lennon has been lip syncing to an actual theremin in his back pocket the whole time.
- Double Subverted: When he actually speaks, he still sounds like a theremin.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Throughout the series, Lennon’s voice alternates between a theremin, several other instruments, lip syncing to an actual theremin, silly sound effects, and a text-to-speech engine.
- Averted: Voices are voices, instruments are instruments, and there is no in-between.
- Enforced:
- The creators of Lennon's story couldn't find a proper voice actor, so they settled for an instrument and some subtitles.
- The creators of Lennon's story aimed for an international audience and, deciding that music is THE universal language, made it a (not quite) Mime and Music-Only Cartoon.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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