Basic Trope: Characters who change bodies have the same voice as their native body.
- Straight:
- Alice and Bob are part of a "Freaky Friday" Flip, thus switch bodies. Despite this, Alice-in-Bob's-body still sounds like Alice, and vise versa.
- Charlie is turned into a non-human form, but when he talks his voice is the same as ever.
- Exaggerated:
- Morphic Resonance: Not only do the people who change bodies take their voices, but they also start to look like their old selves.
- Alice is a human and Bob is a non-speaking animal. Despite this, both characters maintain their voices in the other's body.
- Downplayed:
- Alice and Barbara's actors do impersonations of each other, though the voice impersonation is really spot-on.
- The non-human version of Charlie has the body's vocal cords, but uses Charlie's manner of talking including word choice and cadence.
- Alice has an American accent while Barbara has a British accent. Once they swap bodies, their accents also swap but they keep their actual voices.
- Once a demon possesses Alan, he starts speaking with the Voice of the Legion. With both the demon's voice and Alan's voice speaking in unison.
- Justified:
- The voice of a character is tied to their soul, due to the swap being magic.
- A wizard wanted to teach Alice and Bob how to walk in each-others shoes, so they still sound like themselves to make the change less startling.
- The transfer specifically keeps the muscle memories of the body but swaps higher consciousness.
- Alice and Bob already have very similar voices physically, it's their accent and speech patterns that differentiate them, and it makes sense for them to switch.
- Inverted:
- Alice and Bob swap voices, but are otherwise the same selves in the same bodies.
- Daniel and Marco not only swap bodies, but Daniel starts speaking in Spanish and Marco in English.
- Subverted: The first time we hear Alice's voice as she notices she's swapped with Bob, we only hear her inner monologue. After that, she talks out loud... and finds out her voice has changed!
- Double Subverted:
- The local mage, in order to ease his own confusion, swaps Alice and Bob's voices back to their proper bodies until he can find a proper counter-spell.
- When the demon possessing Charlie is revealed, it switches from using his voice to its own.
- Parodied: Alice goes around committing crimes in "Bob's" name, and nobody can tell a swap occurred despite Alice sounding off. "She must have a bad cold!"
- Zig Zagged: Early on, Alice and Bob sound like themselves, but the longer they stay in their bodies, the more they become like the other, including their voices.
- The voice is influenced by both body and mind as minds tend to come with a native 'affect' to them. Lance tends to speak an octave deeper regardless of bodily sex. Alice finds herself stumbling over her words in guy's bodies as she tries to talk a bit too fast for her pitch. Bob always seem a quarter octave higher or lower than the body usually speaks.
- Averted: Voices Are Not Mental: Alice and Bob swap bodies, but Alice-as-Bob has Bob's voice-actor doing an impression of Alice and vise versa.
- Enforced:
- The target audience are children, and they might get confused as to who's who, so a voice-swap is used.
- Alice and Bob's actors couldn't do good impressions of each other, so they simply swap voices to cut costs.
- In a comedic scene, multiple characters (and animals, and plants...) rapidly switch bodies with each other; their voices also switch, to immediately establish who's who without slowing down the pacing.
- Alice and Bob share the same voice actress.
- Lampshaded: "But why is my voice coming out of your body?"
- Invoked: Alice and Bob have enough precise vocal control to still sound like themselves.
- Exploited: A shapeshifter's disguise is foiled because he cannot change his voice to match his disguise.
- Defied: "The process will be complete, down to your voices!"
- Discussed: "Well, at the very least I can tell who's who by your voices..."
- Conversed: "Sigh, why do these cartoons always swap the voice actors?"
- Implied: "Well, Alice did sound kinda hoarse today..."
- Deconstructed: Alice and Bob cannot pretend to be each other and people will immediately note something is wrong the instant one of them opens their mouths.
- Reconstructed: Alice and Bob use the fact that they cannot hide their true identities to convince their friends to assist them in finding a counter-spell.
- Played For Laughs: The fun of the episode comes from Alice's squeaky kid voice coming out of Bob's burly body, and the cute Alice sounding like a chainsmoker.
- Played For Drama: Bob isn't trying to disguise himself as Alice, but is committing Grand Theft Me on her; he doesn't care what Alice sounds like, and is more interested in her power. This can lead to unsettling imagery of Bob's sinister voice coming out of Alice's body.
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