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  • 007: From Russia with Love, a video game adaptation of From Russia with Love, had Sean Connery reprising the role of James Bond. However, in the forty years between the film and game, Connery's Scottish accent had become even thicker, which can be jarring hearing his younger self use.
  • Akanesasu Sekai de Kimi to Utau's Yamato Takeru is a boy, but their voice actor, Rie Kugimiya, uses her Kagura (a girl) voice when voicing him.
  • Akatsuki Blitzkampf
  • AMC Squad:
    • Zaxtor Znort speaks in a high-pitched, scratchy voice that is at complete odds with his muscled "1980s action hero" appearance. Considering that the other fossa he speaks to in the mission "Jungle Base" talks in a similar register, and one might think that this is the case for Zaxtor's species.
    • Merlijn van Oostrum also speaks in a rather high-pitched voice; though his is nasally in tone, but it still clashes against his knightly aesthetic, albeit not to the extent of Zaxtor's voice. Except in one case with one of his "weapon pickup" lines, where he instead speaks in a slightly lower-pitched and raspy tone.
    Merlijn: "Run to the hills, 'cause I'm ready to kill!"
  • Baldur's Gate III allows you to give male voice lines to a female character, and vice versa. There's another rather disturbing use of vocal dissonance in a hidden conversation you can have with a Giant Spider (you need the Speak with Animals spell, so you need to be a ranger or a druid), where the hideous and chittering creature's voice is translated into that of a sultry Scottish woman.
  • Battleborn's Orendi talks and sounds like a screaming laughing little maniacal homicidal gremlin. However, there are times when she talks and sounds like a saner older young woman, a dissonance that doesn't match her appearance but goes in line with her chaotic nature. Basically, she sometimes sounds like the young adult characters her voice actress voices.
  • Bendy and the Ink Machine: Henry may be The Ghost, but even if he quit working for Joey Drew Studios in his 20s, he'd probably have to be at least in his 50s by the time the game begins. His voice sounds too young for that.
  • BioShock Infinite: A very effective example with the Songbird. You would typically expect to hear deep, booming "raaaaawr" noises from a hulking, mechanical abomination gunning for your sorry ass, not ear-splitting, banshee-like screeching that sounds just as hauntingly beautiful as it is pants-shittingly terrifying to hear.
  • Bloodborne: The Old Hunters
    • Ludwig the Accursed spends the first half of his boss fight shrieking like the giant horse monster that he is, but when When the light of the Moonlight Greatsword restores a measure of his sanity and he becomes Ludwig the Holy Blade again, he's revealed to have a lovely, smooth baritone voice that's very much at odds with being the most grotesque boss in the entire game.
    • Over in the Research Hall of The Old Hunters, Blood Saint Adeline is a horrible, mutated brain monster that still has a gentle female voice, which does exactly nothing to make the phrase "mushy, murky Brain Fluid" less nauseating.
  • Castlevania:
    • Symphony of the Night: Alucard has the appearance of a well-dressed Bishōnen dandy, with vaguely feminine facial features and long, silver-blond hair. His Japanese voice and original English dub, however, are both very deep and commanding, sitting right on the edge between baritone and basso. Given what a badass he is in canon, it fits his character perfectly even if it doesn't match his appearance.
    • In Order of Ecclesia, Dracula is over eight hundred years old by this point but almost sounds like a teenager in the English dub.
  • Cookie Run: Kingdom's Affogato Cookie is noted for looking very feminine even for a game where Viewer Gender Confusion runs rampant. His voice, on the other hand, is both rather deep and distinctly male. It can take some getting used to.
  • Dead by Daylight.
  • In Demon's Score, the player can infuse Serenity with the power of various demons she has slain. In doing so it causes both her clothes to change and her to take on the voice of whatever demon she is currently infused with. Some of those demons are male leading to this trope.
  • Disgaea:
    • In Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days, there's Actress, a female Entei who has a voice that's easily the among most feminine sounding in the entire series, despite the fact that she's a towering, musclebound, humanoid dragon.
    • In Disgaea D2: A Brighter Darkness, Porkmeister from the first game hit puberty and look like any regular adult Nether Noble, yet still sounds the same as before.
  • Manah from Drakengard had the voice that you would expect from a 6-year-old girl and a deep creepy male voice that she can randomly switch. Can you imagine a little girl saying "lalalalala"? Good, now try to imagine her saying it with a deep male voice. Yes, it's just as creepy and off-putting as you imagine.
  • In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Yagrum Bagarn, the last living Dwemer sounds nothing like one would expect. The Dwemer were Genius Bruiser Naytheists fond of constructing Humongous Mechas and warping the very laws of physics and nature in order to make their creations last. The only force in history that seriously challenged them was an army of Nords led by masters of the Thu'um, and even then the Dwemer were victorious after allying with their rival Chimer. Given all of this, it would not be unreasonable for one to expect a deep voice. However, Bagarn's voice sounds like a stereotypical nerd with a bad case of the sniffles. (This is possibly Justified, considering that Bagarn is actually suffering from the Corprus Disease and his voice may well be another example of how badly Corprus can affect its victims.)
  • Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth and Etrian Odyssey Nexus have no restrictions on portraitnote -voice combinations. As such, it is entirely possible to create an elderly man character with the voice of a young girl, among other silly possibilities.
  • In Fallout 4, Assaultrons have a Fem Bot design, but a masculine voice (played by actress Colleen Delany). Weapons vendor KL-E-0 of Goodneighbor makes the Assaultron voice sound dangerous and sultry.
  • In both Fate/EXTRA CCC and Fate/Grand Order, Hans Christian Andersen appears to be a ten-year-old boy... but he has the deep voice of Takehito Koyasu. Explained in-story since he actually is a grown man, but a peculiarity in his summoning as a Servant Caster resulted in him showing up in a child's body instead.
  • Feed the Cat has kittens along with full-grown cats, but the kittens' meows sound exactly the same as the adults'.
  • Final Fantasy:
    • Final Fantasy X-2's Lenne has a rather husky voice for a young woman who looked no older than her 20s.
    • Final Fantasy XII: Ashe's deceased husband Rasler looks like a typical Bishōnen but his voice is surprisingly deep. It's jarring because he doesn't talk at all in his earlier appearances until a flashback late in the game.
    • Final Fantasy XIV:
      • In the 2.5 main story, Midgardsormr has a very booming and deep voice that is suited to him because he's a dragon that is nearly the size of an airship. Later on, he gains a new body that is no bigger than a person's head, yet he still retains the same deep voice.
      • Near the end of the Shadowbringers story, the player character is Suddenly Speaking due to Arbert fusing his soul with theirs and use their voice in that one scene regardless of the player's gender.
      • In 6.3, Cagnazzo speaks with an accent more befitting one of Limsa Lominsa's pirates and not the hulking turtle demon he actually is.
    • Final Fantasy XV:
      • Noctis looks like your typical Bishōnen protagonist, but in the English Episode Duscae demo he has a surprisingly deep and raspy voice. This was due to the voice acting being rushed and is averted in the game proper where his voice is younger and lighter.
      • Dino Ghiranze is a svelte pretty boy on par with Noctis, which has thrown players for a loop when he speaks with a thick, stereotypical New York accent.
  • Fire Emblem
    • Fire Emblem: Awakening:
      • In the Japanese version, the shy yet sensual and ladylike dancer Olivia has a voice that sounds more fitting for a child or preteen than for a late teenager/young woman - in fact, her voice actress (Rei Matsuzaki) also voices Nah, a preteen-looking (and, occasionally, preteen-acting) girl who is more fitting for that voice overall. Karen Strassman, who voices her in English, gives her a voice more befitting of her probable (teens/early twenties) age.
      • All three of the English voice options for a male Avatar are very deep and mature, and they clash with the fact that one of the Avatar's three body types includes a childlike appearance. A similar effect carries over to the Avatar's youthful-looking child, Morgan, while this only applies to the female version in English, Male Morgan has deep voice in both languages.
      • In the dub, Eden Riegel gave Nah a more mature-sounding, late teens/early 20s voice, possibly to match Nah's personality being mature for her age.
    • The English voice for Nyx in Fire Emblem Fates is very high and mouse-like in contrast to her age. Effie also has a gruff voice despite being a Lady of War.
    • Fire Emblem Heroes:
      • Regular Lachesis is the most notorious example of this trope in the English dub. Though Christina Vee gave her a mature yet fitting voice for the character, her art makes her look way younger that she normally is. Her Dancer variant averts this by making her look more mature.
      • In the Japanese version of the game, Kosuke Toriumi gave all variants of Young Hector an age-appropriate voice, which clashes too much with his design, and, ironically, said design looks way too mature for a teenager like him.
      • Zig-zagged with his daughter Lilina's case in the English Dub. For her first two variants, as well as a resplendent of her regular self, this was played straight, as she has a voice that just sounds a bit too high pitched and raspy for someone who's 15 and very meek, whereas her summer variant's voice sounds a bit lower. This was subverted with her younger self, but it was played straight yet again with her Legendary Variant, though this time with a very low-pitched voice that sounds more like it belongs to an adult woman instead. However, this is justified, as her Legendary variant seems to be an older version of Lilina that came from a time after The Binding Blade when she now leads the Lycia Alliance.
      • Some younger (or young-looking) characters, most notably Sara and Young Zephiel, are given voices that sound deeper than anyone would expect from them. In Sara's case, it's also extremely jarring, since she's the youngest non-manakete female character in the franchise's history, whereas Jamieson Price just uses Zephiel's adult voice instead of a more age-appropriate one, which the Japanese dub does give him.
  • Played for laughs in Five Nights at Freddy's World. A post-game area contains a minigame called "Foxy Fighters," which has actual voice acting given to the animatronics. (Whereas before, dialogue was simply displayed as text on the screen.) As this is one of the intentionally absurd "spinoffs" you're supposed to destroy, most of the voices don't exactly match up. Fredbear, a smiling yellow bear animatronic, sounds like an old man. JJ's voice sounds a bit too mature for an animatronic with a child's appearance, and so on.
    Fredbear: Holy crap! Is that my voice?! Voice acting?! NOOOOO! He's gone too far this time!
  • Friday Night Funkin':
    • Despite being 19 by Word of God, Boyfriend's beeps and boops are somewhat high-pitched coming from a dude that went through puberty. If KawaiSprite's vocals on "Fresh (Boyfriend Remix)" are BF's true voice, then the deep vocals combined with his tiny frame make it look even more dissonant.
    • On the same token, Daddy and Mommy Dearest are both are tall, menacing figures with glowing red eyes, and rather toned physiques, but their voices are extremely high pitched, to the point you'd imagine they'd be coming out of a teen couple, rather than two demons married long enough to have a possible stepson.
  • Guilty Party's Butch appears large and powerfully-built, however, his voice is high pitched and slightly lisping. While never the subject of an actual joke, it is suggestive of his nature as a Gentle Giant and is definitely one of the more comedic aspects of his character.
  • Harvest Moon: Magical Melody: The game uses a Super-Deformed style, and despite their cutesy and young-looking designs, several male characters retain deep voices.
  • Kingdom Hearts:
    • During most of the series, Xemnas is a Bishōnen with a fairly deep, monotone voice, in the original Japanese.
    • In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Sora is supposed to be the same age as he was in Kingdom Hearts I, at fourteen years old, and his battle quotes in the original Game Boy Advance release reflect this by reusing his voice clips from the first game. The remake was made after Kingdom Hearts II, and since Haley Joel Osment's voice had already deepened by then, Sora instead sounds the way he does in Kingdom Hearts II, albeit in a slightly higher pitch. The same instance occurs in Re:Coded and Dream Drop Distance, but as the consequence for the latter is a case of Mental Time Travel it could just as easily be interpreted as Voices Are Mental.
    • The Tyranto Rex Dream Eater in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] doesn't sound nearly as fearsome as it looks, making noises resembling those of a ticked-off housecat rather then the terrifying roars the creature it's based on (presumably) made. You'll learn to dread/love the sound regardless, since it still means some pain is on the way for you/your enemies.
  • In the Kirby series, Meta Knight has a deep and mature voice, befitting his role, but he's still just a Waddling Head, and is just as cute as Kirby when he's unmasked.
  • In Klonoa: Door to Phantomile, Klonoa has a high-pitched voice fitting for a boy. The Wii remake, on the other hand, exchanges his Phantomiliannote  for proper voice acting that sounds much deeper, making him sound more like Sonic the Hedgehog.
  • Legacy of Kain: Tony Jay voiced many characters in the series, usually powerful and intimidating beings. He also voiced the kindly, polite and unsure boy King William the Just. His delivery was fine, but his voice was too low and mature.
  • The Legend of Zelda:
    • Link from A Link to the Past looks like a teenager in official art, yet his voice in the Game Boy Advance remake was reused voice clips of Young Link from Ocarina of Time. That Link seems several years younger than the Link in A Link to the Past. This kiddie voice was kept in A Link Between Worlds and the remake of Link's Awakening (which uses the same Link design).
    • In Majora's Mask, Majora's Wrath, the final form that Majora's Mask takes, is a hulking and muscular Humanoid Abomination, yet its shrieks are very high-pitched and child-like. It serves to emphasize this monster's Psychopathic Man Child nature.
    • Breath of the Wild:
      • Yunobo is a young adult Goron with a hulking body and well-toned abs. Gorons are known for their deep and burly voices and grunts. Yunobo sounds like a teenager in the beginning stages of puberty. In fact, in the Japanese version, he has a female voice actor.
      • The same could be said for the English voice of Prince Sidon — his soft-spoken, polite tone is somewhat appropriate considering the mannerisms and elegance of the Zora in general, but fans have commented on their surprise when this tall, well-built, muscular, badass-looking shark prince with a mouth full of sharp teeth speaks in a respectful, quiet voice, at least in the English dub.
      • In a bit of Significant Double Casting, the past and current chiefs of the Gerudo tribe, Urbosa and Riju, are both voiced by Elizabeth Maxwell in the English dub. But while Urbosa is an adult Lady of War and the Team Mom for the Champions, Riju sounds only slightly younger than her despite being no older than 13. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity would give Riju a more appropriately young-sounding voice, albeit still from the same voice actor.
  • Many dub voices across the Mega Man series:
    • Mega Man 8 has some of the most infamous examples:
      • The worst case is probably Mega Man himself. While he was voiced by a woman in both English and Japanese, the former made his voice too feminine, to the point of sounding like a little girl.
      • Duo, a huge, bulky, powerful-looking space robot, has an actor whose voice is so soft that it hardly goes above a whisper, to the point that a large portion of his voiced dialogue is drowned out by sound effects or background music.
    • Mega Man 11:
      • Mega Man again, although not for the same reasons as in 8. The English dub averts Crossdressing Voices and gives him the voice of a young teenager a la the Mega Man (Ruby-Spears) cartoon series, but at the same time retains his preteen design from the rest of the Classic games.
      • Considering Mega Man 8 gave him a voice more or less appropriate for his design, it can be a little jarring to hear the rotund, square-jawed mechanic Auto open his mouth and speak with a high-pitched, nasally New York twang.
      • Bounce Man is by far the largest Robot Master in the game and a contender for the largest in the series but sounds like an excited 7-year-old. Possibly justified in that he was originally built as the mascot for a kids' indoor activity center.
    • In Mega Man X4, X himself is a robot built to resemble a young man in his early twenties, but is voiced by the same squeaky-voiced woman as Mega Man in Mega Man 8.
  • Minecraft's Guardians and Elder Guardians appear to be one-eyed fish-like creatures encased in ancient stone. They make ominous droning sounds that befit their looks when in their natural habitat underwater. Outside the water, they make cute, high-pitched squeaky noises.
  • Mr. Hopp's Playhouse: Mr. Hopp, a lanky stuffed rabbit, has a voice befitting that of a big, hulking monster's.
    "PLAY WITH ME, RUBY!"
  • Seishi Bosatsu of Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA- is a well-built Hunk taller than his older brother (not to mention his being tallest in the entire cast), but has the sweet, high-pitched voice of Kōhei Amasaki to go with his deeply moe Manchild personality.
  • The Neverhood has a weird case with Klaymen. Every character has a voice that is fitting to their personality: Klogg's voice is high and haughty, Hoborg's voice is deep and relaxed, and Willie Trombone's voice is goofy and scratchy. Klaymen doesn't talk often, but when he does, but his voice sounds extremely normal compared to everyone else's. Adding onto this, he's a Top-Heavy Guy with a goofy face and awkward, gangly movements.
  • NieR: Automata has the Terminals, the Big Bad of the game. While they initially sound like little girls befitting their appearance, during the Very Definitely Final Dungeon their voices change into old mens' voices.
  • In No More Heroes III, Travis' pet cat, Jeane, became Suddenly Voiced in the last game, and now that the audience can hear her speak, she sounds like a man with a deep baritone voice.
  • Vide from Octopath Traveler II is a dark god that is clearly referred to with masculine terms, and his boss sprites also clearly look like men, but his voices in both Japanese and English dubs are feminine.
  • Onmyōji (2016)'s Kurodōji is a cute, if not androgynous, little boy with a deep and honestly frightening voice that is always either cackling, hissing or growling provided by Tomokazu Sugita of all people.
  • Teddie from Persona 4 is a mascot character who looks like he should be voiced by a woman, but is voiced by Dave Wittenberg and Sam Riegel, doing an impression of a typical mascot character in the English version. (Albeit his Japanese voice actor, Kappei Yamaguchi, does actually fit the character to a T.) Of course, being a mascot character, this isn't really all that noticeable, until he gains a human form, who most definitely should be voiced by a woman, as this is what you would expect from a prepubescent boy with his ultimate Bishounen looks, but the voice actors go, in fact, for an even deeper tone of voice when voicing Teddie as a human, which can be quite jarring in the first few scenes after the human form's first appearance and takes some time to get used to. For the Japanese version, Yamaguchi stated at one point that he originally even intended to use the same pitch of voice for both of Teddie's forms, but the Dissonance was so startling that he needed to change one of his different voice-types instead. And once you've gotten used to Teddie's voice, Shadow Teddie appears, whose voice is a deeply unfitting baritone rasp.
  • Pokémon:
  • Power Bomberman: Every character, regardless of their appearance, is given Kazuko Sugiyama's voice. This also applies when selecting the Atomic Bomberman-style voices from the options menu, as they are stereotypical and obviously male.
  • In Princess Maker 2 Refine, the "Young Officer" aka the Prince that the Daughter can befriend in January and marry in the end if they have enough love points is supposed to be around the girl's same age (starting the game as an 11-year-old), and yet even in the early stages he sounds like an older teen.
  • In Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box Anton's boyish face and deep, seductive voice don't seem to match.
  • [PROTOTYPE]:
    • Captain Cross (also known as "the Specialist") is the sort of person with a reputation of being a hardened, experienced badass capable of taking on Alex Mercer in a straight fight and getting away alive. He also has the softest voice of anyone in the game (except maybe Karen Parker), particularly when compared to Alex.
    • Additionally, Alex Mercer can shapeshift; in cutscenes, he can also mimic voices but in normal gameplay, he doesn't. Which means you can be disguised as a young woman, but keep the gravelly voice.
  • Psychonauts:
  • Punch-Out!!, when remade for the Wii system, gave Glass Joe (a scrawny loser) an incredibly deep and pleasing baritone voice.
  • Ratchet & Clank series
    • Libra. She's female, but her voice is that of a man's, thus, explaining why Dr. Nefarious sounded annoyed when he said her name.
    • In Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters, there is also Luna. At first, it's averted, as she sounds like an adorable little girl. But once you free her from Mungo, she suddenly speaks like an adult woman when she pulls a Face–Heel Turn. It's later revealed that "she" is actually a genderless puppet-ship shaped like a child, and is The Dragon to Otto Destruct. When you finally confront Luna on Dayni Moon, it speaks with a male voice.
  • In the Saints Row series, starting with the second game, the Player Character is completely customizable down to the voice, with zero restrictions. You want to make a beefy Top-Heavy Guy with a huge Manly Facial Hair and then give him the Spicy Latina voice? You got it.
  • Sengoku Basara's Xavi is one of the biggest characters in-game, yet his voice sounds quite odd and high.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog:
    • The English dub of Sonic Adventure gave Tikal an adult woman voice that sounds like something you would hear in a computer program with a navigator voice. It was probably chosen because she voices the tutorial sections and hints, which she does as a ball of light, but it sounds really out of place when she's in her physical form and you hear the voice coming out of a young girl.
    • Shadow the Hedgehog is in a body of a teenage hedgehog similar to Sonic's, but his voice sounds deep. Justified, as he's in fact over 50 years old and supposed to have a dark nature.
    • Rouge's second English voice actress (done by Caren Manuel) matches her design well. The problem is that despite her looks, Rouge is only eighteen at oldest. It's a bit odd hearing the sultry voice of an older woman coming out of a teenager's mouth.
    • Roger Craig Smith's voice for Sonic is controversial mainly because he gives Sonic a deep voice for a character that is supposedly fifteen years old.
    • Espio and Knuckles have mature-sounding voices for teenagers.
  • In The Space Bar, you spend a lot of time chasing after a hidden criminal who taunts you occasionally over your PDA with a deep, very creepy and threatening voice. When you finally catch up with him, you find out that his true form as a shapeshifter is a tiny little utterly adorable blue alien thing.
  • Splatoon 3:
    • The shopkeep Mr. Coco is a very large and muscular coconut crab, but his Voice Grunting is high and gentle.
    • The Megalodontia is the largest King Salmonid by a good amount, yet its roars are very high-pitched and shrill.
  • During the Space Stage of Spore since voices of aliens contacted by the player are chosen based on class, regardless of how the aliens in question actually look. This tends to result in things like attractive females with gruff masculine voices, Eldritch Abominations with soothing lyrical voices, and hulking Humongous Mecha with overexcited high pitched voices
  • In Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, there's a sidequest involving reuniting a Land Blubber and Breezebuilder, appropriately named Romeo and Juliet. When you finally reach the latter, the pretty, colorful bird turns out to have a harsh, grating, masculine voice. This changes for the Reignited Trilogy, where she is given has a more appropriate-sounding female voice instead.
  • Star Fox 64's raccoon teacher from the training mode originally spoke in clicks, but in the 3DS remake, they were finally given a smooth, deep voice.
  • Street Fighter:
    • Street Fighter IV: T. Hawk, in the English version, is a Native American man that's built like a mountain, but the voice of a teenager.
    • In Street Fighter V, Seth has transferred from the destroyed male body used previously into a female body. Seth's deep, masculine voice has not changed to match the new body. It is extremely off-putting.
  • Super Mario Bros.:
    • Mario (since he gained a voice actor in Super Mario 64) has a very high falsetto voice, especially when he's excited. Especially noticeable when contrasted to Luigi's more down-to-earth tenor.
    • Wario and Luigi in Mario Party sound very odd when compared to their voices in Mario Kart 64, which was released before Mario Party. In Mario Kart 64, Luigi sounds deeper than Mario while Wario sounds high-pitched and nasally. Mario Party has Luigi with a very high pitched voice that somehow is higher pitched than Mario's voice while Wario's voice sounds very gruff and deep. It turns out that Nintendo recycled the voice clips used in the Japanese version of Mario Party for Luigi and Wario, even though they had Charles Martinet voice the two of them previously in the English version. Nintendo would use Martinet to voice Luigi and Wario in all future games.
    • Bowser's appearance in Super Mario Sunshine is infamous for his goofy voice, especially compared to the demonic roars more fitting for a giant dragon turtle he gives in other games.
  • Super Smash Bros.:
    • Lyn appears as an Assist Trophy, Her Japanese voice fits her given age of 15/18 (Respectively in the Japanese and English versions), but her English voice is much deeper, and more fitting for a woman in her thirties. Fire Emblem Heroes replaces Lani Minella with Wendee Lee, and she sounds more properly youthful.
    • In Brawl, Ivysaur/Fushigisou has a surprisingly high-pitched voice in the Japanese version, this is coming from a mini-dinosaur with a plant on its back. The English version gave it a much deeper voice in contrast.
    • Greninja's cries in English are in a high-pitched, squeaky and nasally voice despite being a stealthy and serious adult-like ninja frog Pokémon. The voice actor is retained from Ash's Froakie (its unevolved form) from Pokémon the Series: XY, using a slightly deeper tone than what he used for Froakie (at that point in the anime, Ash's Froakie hadn't even evolved into Frogadier).
    • Mewtwo's (telepathic) voice is appropriately deep and masculine for a semi-muscular human-shape Pokémon that is technically genderless but appears to identify as male. Where this trope comes into play is when it takes its Y-type Mega Evolution in for 3DS/Wii U and Ultimate, acquiring a more condensed figure that looks much closer to its progenitor, Mew... but retains the deep masculine voice.*
    • Ness and Lucas are voiced by women that gives them prepubescent high pitched voices (Although Lucas' is a bit deeper than Ness'), which fit their "little boy" appearances... but not so much their ages of 13.
  • Tales of Vesperia:
  • In Tales of Xillia 2, you'll occasionally run into some very unusual sounding cats. Said cats are actually voiced by the actors who provided the voices of the main cast, and they generally aren't even trying to sound convincing. For instance, one is obviously Alvin going "Nyao, nyao" in a sarcastic manner, while another is clearly Gaius meowing in his usual tone.
  • Twisted Wonderland: Lilia Vanrouge is the second shortest organic character in the main cast and is drawn to look quite young, but he is voiced by Hikaru Midorikawa utilizing a deep tone. This likely has to do with the fact he's a kooky elderly man despite his appearance. In flashbacks to his time serving as an army general, he sounds even deeper.
  • Rosie in Valkyria Chronicles smokes quite a bit in the manga and apparently off-screen as well, leading one of the character artists in the VC Design Archive to wonder if this could give her singing voice a gravelly tone. It doesn't, and no part of this habit is reflected by her Japanese or English actresses during the scenes where she can instead be heard singing with perfect clarity.
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: In Blood and Wine, Geralt can take a brew that lets him talk to his mare Roach. One of the dialogue options has Geralt lampshading that for a young mare, Roach has a masculine voice. Roach's response is to say that since she is Geralt's first experience with talking animals, he's in no position to judge how animal voices are "supposed" to work.
  • World of Warcraft:
    • The XT-002 Deconstructor is an absolutely enormous killer robot... with a child's voice and personality.
    • Deiza Plaguehorn is a draenei Master Pet Tamer in the Eastern Plaguelands, who (despite appearing to be a Death Knight with necrotized skin and brown Acherus Knight gear) has a regular draenei female voice instead of the gravely voice that Deak Knights usually have.
    • Alexstrasza the Life-Binder's voice in patch 4.0 was that of an old woman. You could see what they were going for— she's the Aspect of Life, so a comforting, grandmotherly voice makes sense for her from a story point of view. Problem is, she takes the form of a young elf bombshell who runs around in a Chainmail Bikini. The effect was extremely disconcerting. Later patches gave her humanoid form a new voice more suited for its appearance and made the older voice only play when she's in her dragon form, before eventually removing it entirely.* XCOM: Chimera Squad could just as well be called Vocal Dissonance the Game. Or at least regarding the aliens, which all have completely human voices.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles:

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