Unclear Description: Basso Profundo

Note: This thread was proposed by AudioSpeaks2.

The problem: The description of Basso Profundo currently describes characters with exceptionally low voices with no discussion of narrative meaning. The on-page examples list a mix of fictional characters and real actors/musicians with very deep voices, with no significance given for most entries. It overlaps with the tropes listed under the now disambiguated Badass Baritone for "cool"/"manly" characters with deep voices and Evil Sounds Deep for evil characters with deep voices.

Giant Cicada created the initial writeup, the summary seen above, a wick check, and one of the solutions, while AudioSpeaks2 finished the wick check and wrote the other solutions.

Here the results:

• Overlap with or Evil Sounds Deep or the tropes listed under Badass Baritone: 12/50 or 24%
• Low bass with some other significance: 3/50 or 6%
• Character uses a very deep voice for a gag: 3/50 or 6%
• Character is a low bass but given no context or no context given at all: 24/50 or 48%
• Real person is a low bass: 8/50 or 16%
• Unsortable: 1/50 or 2%

Analysis: The wick check has shown it to be mainly plagued with Zero-Context Examples and examples that overlap with Evil Sounds Deep, Baritone of Strength, Authority Sounds Deep or any of the other tropes under Badass Baritone.

Proposed Solutions:

• Retool it "Suddenly Deep Voice Gag": A character suddenly adopts a much deeper voice than usual. Often used to exaggerate how angry, mean, loud, or forceful they are at the moment. Sometimes for no reason except because it sounds funny - common in YouTube Poop and other types of Web Video.
• Disambiguate it by making it a redirect to Badass Baritone.
• Turn it into a music-related Useful Notes page, like the Circle of Fifths. Or if not music related, then just a Useful Note in general.
  
  Even the original TLP draft (then titled "Dish Rattler") reads more like a Useful Note.

• Characters.The Last Blade: [under Zantetsu] Guttural Growler: Ryûzaburô Ôtomo gives Zantetsu a very deep, gravel tone to his voice, almost to Basso Profundo levels if it wasn't for Zantetsu's stoicism.
• WebVideo.Ahoy: Stuart has a deep and commanding voice, and this is mentioned in the comments on pretty much every video he releases.
  Typical Comment: This guy could talk about a paperclip for two hours and make it sound dangerous and intimidating.
• Characters.Persona Recurring: Following his recast in Japanese, Igor's voice has gone from an impish high pitched one to an extremely deep reverberating (though still soft-spoken) thunder. This is actually the voice adapted by his impostor, however, as the real Igor still sounds very much like he always had. Doesn't directly state that Igor's new deep voice is badass, but does contrast how impish his previous one sounded so I guess this is supposed to signify he sounds cool
• Characters.Schmigadoon: Lets out a very impressive low note at the end of his first solo song. Given that he's played by Patrick Page (of Hadestown fame), this is not suprising.
• Codex Equus Trimortidae: [both under Rock Plower]
  • Baritone of Strength: In life, he was known for his deep singing voice, which added to Type C Negative's fame as a band. He is presently a Death god who happens to be unusually powerful compared to other deities of his generation because he is magically linked to Equus' entire biosphere after he impressed the planet's world spirit by trying to heal it of its corruption despite his own injuries.
  • Basso Profundo: Like Peter Steele, he has a deep singing voice, which partially factored into his fame as a Gothic Metal musician and the frontmane of band Type C Negative.
• Characters.A Song Of Light And Dark: Lyrian's singing voice is described as a silk-smooth bass-baritone who, according to Anakin, makes Mace Windu sound like a soprano.

• Characters.Over The Garden Wall: [under The Beast] His voice actor is a professional opera bass, and he puts his talents to good use, as he gets his own Villain Song.
• VideoGame.Clone Drone In The Danger Zone: The robots are led by a totalitarian dictator. He happens to be absolutely massive, and speaks with a very deep voice.
• Characters.Diablo: [under Zoltun Kulle] Evil Sounds Deep: His voice naturally registers in the Basso Profundo range.
• Characters.One Piece Kaido: Tesshō Genda provides the deep, booming voice of Kaido in the anime. In the Funimation dub, David Sobolov lends his equally thundering growl to the Emperor.
• Innocent Soprano: Contrast the likely musical theater antagonists, the Alto Villainess or Basso Profundo (if Evil Sounds Deep is in play).
• Characters.Middle Earth Film Saurons Evil Forces: [under Sauron] Evil Sounds Deep: Sauron has one of the deepest, if not the very deepest voice in Middle-earth. That's no mean feat when you contend with the likes of Christopher Lee.

• Characters.Detectives United: [under Richard Gray] His voice is extremely deep; he also speaks rather slowly and deliberately, possibly to highlight the fact that he's speaking across death itself. Deep bass = undead
• Characters.GTA Radio: He is pretty much Barry White and every other baritone romantic singer of the 70's. Aroused by Their Voice
• Music.Sixty Nine Love Songs: "Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old" and "Xylophone Track" are both sung in the lowest register Merritt can muster. The lead vocalist singing outside of his natural range

• Funny.Retro Game Master: Abe pausing the game to gesture Daisuke to take over:
  Abe: PAAAAUSEEE...
• Funny.Zero Punctuation 1: Yahtzee mentioning that he bought the game illegally (from GAMETRADERS ROBINA) due to it not being officially released in Australia.
• Funny.Twisted Wonderland: Azul secretly makes a trade with Floyd to temporarily have Bind the Heart to counter Jamil's Snake Whisper. What makes this funny is that Floyd does so in exchange for a deeper voice and complains when he has to give it back because he thinks it's cool, while Azul comments that he finds it disturbing to hear Floyd without his usual voice.

• Film.Moms Night Out: Trace Adkins plays a tattoo artist names Bones and he displays his usual deep voice.
• Characters.Paladins Support: Grover's voice is pretty deep, but Doom Shroom Grover's voice is even deeper and huskier.
• Characters.Albert Campion: In contrast to Campion's tenor voice and fast-paced chatter, Lugg has a very, very deep, sepulchral voice.
• WesternAnimation.Testament The Bible In Animation: Elijah's speaking voice is a rumbling baritone, but when he sings with the voice of opera singer Bryn Terfel he definitely falls into this category.
• YMMV.Hadestown: Patrick Page and Amber Gray's extremely unique, rich, and deep voices combined with playing Hades and Persephone to universal acclaim in each production leading up to and including the Broadway one will likely make it hard to not think of them when future actors step into these roles.
• WesternAnimation.Peter Pan: Badass Baritone: The Indian Chief, as with any character voiced by Candy Candido, has one of these, almost becoming Basso Profundo.
• Characters.Brooklyn Nine Nine Family Members: [under Zeke] Has a deep, deep voice.
• Characters.Mid Fight Masses: [under Ruv] His voice sounds like a deep Russian bass beat.
• Creator.Ray Porter: His voice as Darkseid is very deep.
• Characters.The Legend Of Zelda Skyward Sword: [under Levias] Basso Profundo: His vocals are the lowest out of the four.
• AwesomeMusic.The Lion King II Simbas Pride: "Not One Of Us" is equal parts painful, epic and catchy. A small detail, but an impressive one nonetheless, is the bass part sung by a hippo.
• Theatre.Hadestown: Both Greg Brown and Patrick Page portray Hades this way, with Page's bass tones described by reviews as "practically a special effect".
• Basso Profundo: Sonic.exe's voice is so deep, in fact, that most of his singing is in Oktavist range! Commented out Example
• Series.Perfect Harmony: Dwayne has a deep and resonant voice.
• Music.Hadestown: Greg Brown as Hades speaks and sings very low.
• Characters.Wurr: The reason for the heavy outlines on his speech bubbles. He was once described by Papermonkey as "quite a sub-woofer.

• Creator.Thurl Ravenscroft: While his deep voice was perfectly capable of shaking gods and chilling audiences, Thurl preferred to provide children's fare, and his voice also possessed a very friendly vibe to it, much like a giant teddy bear.
• Vocal Evolution.Music: When Leonard Cohen started making recordings, his voice was somewhat normally pitched. It was only during the early to mid-1980s that his trademark Basso Profundo voice came into being.
• Truck Driver's Gear Change: Basso Profundo singer Richard Sterban (who does the song's "giddyup, ba oom papa oom papa mow mow") makes the key change along with everyone else, but the fact that it's in a higher key allows him to then drop it an octave.
• Funny.Pentatonix: A post to the group's Instagram account shows a video clip of Avi, the group's Basso Profundo singing "Thrift Shop"...after inhaling helium.
• Creator.Tetsu Inada: So anyway, Tetsu Inada (born July 1, 1972) is one of the seiyuus known around since the '90s, gracing the world of voice acting with his natural bass
• Yello: Dieter Meier's voice is famously low-pitched. Several songs such as "Oh Yeah" or "Rubberbandman" mechanically lowers to even more into a Basso Profundo.
• FaceOfTheBand.HipHop: Although each rapper in the Jurassic 5 has roughly equal microphone time, Chali 2na is easily the best known thanks to his incredibly distinctive voice, as well as for having the most notable solo career of the bunch.
• Music.Johnny Cash: Though normally a baritone, his booming voice (which was his trademark) could reach the lower bass range. Sadly, this was technically averted later in life when fading health and the after effects of pneumonia (among other conditions) caused his voice to rise in timbre considerably.

• Music.Heathen: Bowie reaches the lowest point of his voice register, a G1, in "I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship". Seems to imply there's a reason he's using this register but doesn't give context.
• The Cover Changes the Gender: The cover of "Zero To Hero" by Jonathan Young and Savannah Stuckmeyer doesn't change the pronouns, which makes sense considering the subject matter is Hercules. What is hilarious is all the lines where the Muses are Distracted by the Sexy are sung in Young's Basso Profundo. Not clear if this is intentional as a gag or just the result of who's singing.
• Music.Maxinquaye: The effect given to the Isaac Hayes sample in "Hell is Round the Corner". Intentional, but no context given.
• Series.The Sing Off: Many, but season 3's Avi Kaplan from Pentatonix and season 4's Tim Foust from Home Free are the most prominent examples. ZCE
• Ride.Indiana Jones Adventure: Mara. A one-word ZCE
• Characters.Count Duckula: Thanks to his voice actor Jack May.
• WesternAnimation.The Hair Bear Bunch: In courtesy of John Stephenson, who voiced Mr. Peevly and The Superintendent.

• For music, see Harsh Vocals (for the use of growled vocals), and Basso Profundo (same).