History Main / CreepyMonotone

* Cortana from the eponymous level in Halo 3. You hear her deranged cries for help throughout the mission. Although most of her lines are anything but monotone she says, "This is UNSC AI Serial Number CTN 0452-9. I am a monument to all your sins." What makes this especially creepy is that the "monument to all your sins" is something the Gravemind said in Halo 2, implying that he has a great deal of control over her.

* Agent Smith in ''Film/TheMatrix'' films. "As you can see, we've had our eyes on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson." He also stresses his words oddly and unnaturally, almost like a synthesiser. His exchange with Morpheus about how humans were not really mammals, but a disease, was genuinely creepy.

* The animated Statues in ''{{Thief}}: Deadly Shadows''. They have one purpose only and, as a result, come across as rather single-minded. "A noise and find and crush and kill and crush and kill..."

** Also characteristic of autism spectrum disorders.

* ChristopherHitchens.

* Robert California of ''TheOffice''.

* The robotic clones in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries''.

* ''DeadliestWarrior'' gives us Brahm Galligher, who seems to be incapable of speaking in anything ''but'' a CreepyMonotone. Unless he's swinging a halberd around.

* The promo material for ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' features a geth named Legion speaking in this manner. It is absolutely ''terrifying'' when you hear him speaking on how the geth use fear in such a cold mechanical voice.

** [[spoiler:Then you play the game and find out the promos lied to you, and Legion's voice just makes it adorable.]]

* Mr. Freeze on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' never really deviated from his cold, chilling (no pun intended) monotone, providing juxtaposition to the emotional depth of the character. Needless to say, it was effective. WordOfGod has it that his voice actor, Michael Ansara, struggled with this element of the role -- his instinct was to ''act'', and he had to be constantly reminded to be flat and robotic.

** At the ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing The Clock King]]'' the eponymous villain always talks naturally , without any emotions to display except maybe annoyance. So, he can deliver a YouHaveNoChanceToSurvive speech without any emotional intonation. Justified because he is TheSociopath and TheStoic: He has no emotions to display.

*** Slade is played by RonPerlman, who used the exact same monotone when narrating as Fire Lord Sozin from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' in "The Avatar and the Fire Lord."

* [[BigBad Amon]] in ''TheLegendOfKorra''. Scary enough on his own, but combine his CreepyMonotone with voice actor SteveBlum using his scariest voice...

* Jeffrey Combs as both Scarecrow in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and The Question in ''JusticeLeague''. The difference being that Scarecrow's was creepy and Question's was hilarious.

*** Now THAT'S an Understatement!

* In ''Fanfic/TheVerySecretDiary'', based on Ginny's story in HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets, Ginny has this voice while possessed, and it starts to bleed into her conscious voice.

* ''[[LightNovel/Vamp Vamp!]]'' has the character of Shizune, who is notorious for speaking with one of these.

* In [[Fanfic/TheVerySecretDiary The Very Secret Diary]], based on Ginny's story in HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets, Ginny has this voice while possessed, and it starts to bleed into her conscious voice.

* Hugo Weaving in ''Film/TheMatrix'' films. "As you can see, we've had our eyes on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson." He also stresses his words oddly and unnaturally, almost like a synthesiser. His exchange with LaurenceFishburne about how humans were not really mammals, but a disease, was genuinely creepy.

* ''StarTrekIntoDarkness'' has the subdued [[BenedictCumberbatch John Harrison]] as its villain, employing a monotone which barely shows any emotion (other than anger). It's a contrast with the hammy Nero from [[StarTrekXI the previous movie]], [[spoiler: and Ricardo Montalban's [[StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed original incarnation]] of the character.]]

* Uncle Charlie from ''Shadow of a Doubt''
* Bruno Anthony from ''Strangers on a Train''
* Hannibal Lecter from the ''TheSilenceOfTheLambs, Red Dragon, Manhunt, Hannibal'', and ''Hannibal Rising''. Anthony Hopkins based his performance on HAL 9000
* Travis Bickle from "TaxiDriver" often does this, especially when narrating.
* Reverand Harry Powell from ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter''.

* Would-be presidential assassin Mitch Leary from InTheLineOfFire.

* Sy Parrish in OneHourPhoto spends the majority of the film talking in a very soft-spoken, almost robotic monotone, reflecting his disturbing lack of a personality, although he does show emotion at times, especially near the end of the film when he starts to lose it.

* The nameless narrator in Film/FightClub sometimes slips into this, both in his narration and his dialogue in the film.