History Main / LostVoicePlot

* In the ''[[Series/TheSootyShow Sooty & Co.]]'' episode “A Magical Voice”, Matthew gets a sore throat loses his voice, so Sooty and Scampi build a magical voice box in order to bring his voice back. However, the spell goes awry and it switches everyone’s voices; Sooty and Sweep end up SuddenlySpeaking, but Sweep gets Soo’s voice while Soo begins squeaking like Sweep.

* On arc of ''Series/MissionTopSecret'' involves BigBad Neville Savage trying to steal a singer's voice with one of the devices he stole from Sir Joshua at the start of the season.

* In one episode of ''Series/WorzelGummidge'', Mr Peters loses his voice and he thinks it's laryngitis. He seems fine otherwise, and appears to have gotten it back when they sing in the choir, though.

* The plot of ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' begins with Peach's voice getting stolen by the evil Cackeletta, sending the Mario Bros. to the Beanbean Kingdom in persuit. [[spoiler:In a surprise PlotTwist, it was actually ''Birdo's'' voice that was stolen, and Peach heard of Cackeletta beforehand, but was too late to warn the Bros.]]

* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': His review of ''Film/TheGoodSon'' is done silently because he threw out his voice ranting about the movie. His only line comes at the end, when he manages to whisper "Ass".

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Chuggington}}'', Old Puffer Pete loses his voice. [[spoiler: It turns out he just needed oiling.]]

-->-- '''Rarity''', referring to Big Mac, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E14FilliVanilli Filli Vanilli]]", ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''

!!Examples

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* In an episode of ''Anime/{{Macross7}}'', Basara Nekki loses his voice, making him unable to sing. Since his singing is [[ThePowerOfRock his weapon]] against the Protodevlin, he has a hard time dealing with them and Mylene has to sing "Holy Lonely Light" on her own. In the climax, Basara gets his voice back and aids Mylene in singing "Holy Lonely Light" together.

** Another ''Mork and Mindy'' fanfiction, entitled ''Together'', has a chapter entitled "Finding Lily's Voice", in which Lily (the neighbour) loses her voice and so Mork and Mindy have to sing her songs for her.

[[folder: Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid'' actually had her voice ''stolen'' as part of a [[DealWithTheDevil bargain]] with Ursula the Sea Witch to become human.

[[folder:Web Original]]

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', Eddy loses his voice due to a fly getting stuck in his throat. He is frustrated when other people do not know what he's saying.

* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' actually had her voice ''stolen'' as part of a [[DealWithTheDevil bargain]] with Ursula the Sea Witch to become human.

* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyAndTheRoadsterRacers'': In "Mickey's Perfecto Day", Donald loses his voice after eating spicy Mexican food, a dilemma complicated by the fact that he has to sing with [[Disney/TheThreeCaballeros Panchito and Jose]] later that day.

-> ''A turkey call?! You lost your voice to a turkey call?!''

!! Examples

* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush Hush]]", one morning the whole town of Sunnydale wakes up voiceless. Chaos erupts with the rest of the country claiming its a case of laryngitis. However, when Giles' friends see creepy men floating around the streets at night and people are turning up murdered with their hearts removed, Giles makes a connection between these "Gentleman" and a fairy tale called "The Gentleman". The gang soon figures out what needs to be done to save the town before more people are killed.

* In the ''Radio/TheLoneRanger'' radio show, they used it to explain a voice actor change, [[Website/{{Snopes}} Snopes]] has the story [[http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/radio/lonerangerdeath.asp here]].

[[folder: Films:Animation]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Filli Vanilli", Big Mac loses his voice and Fluttershy has to lip-synch him with a deep voice that she gets from the poison joke flower.

* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'' dis this with Rocky in "Parroting Pups". Rocky has lost his voice and can't use his voice-activated Pup-Pack, therefore Carlos has to get Matea, a parrot, to repeat Rocky's lines to get the Pup-Pack to work.

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[[folder: Fan Works]]

[[folder: Films: Animation]]

[[folder: Literature]]

[[folder: Live-Action TV]]

[[folder: Radio]]
* In the ''Radio/TheLoneRanger'' radio show, they used it to explain a voice actor change, [[Website/{{Snopes}} Snopes]] has the story [[http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/radio/lonerangerdeath.asp here]].

[[folder: Video Games]]
* In the ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' mission "Pop Goes the Boo Boo", Baby Rox has a lost voice minus the sore throat. It turns out that it got stolen by a robot duck, [[spoiler: so that the bad guys could mutilate its frequency into one high enough to break Rox down so they could be melted and power an evil machine they were making to destroy the sun. Thankfully, she gets the voice back.]]

[[folder: Western Animation]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Filli Vanilli", Big Mac loses his voice and Fluttershy has to lip-synch him with a deep voice that she gets from a potion.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/Bunnicula'', Chester, Bunnicula, and Harold unwittingly hatch a bird that steals their voices and uses them to make a catchy beat. The bird doesn't stop there though. It steals any sound that it hears, including the voices of Mina and her father. The pet trio are forced to chase the bird and get everybody's voices back before it can silence the whole city.

Losing one's voice is what happens when someone's vocal chords are affected so that their throat feels sore and they either cannot talk or have difficulty talking. [[note]] This can also be achieved with magic, without the sore throat. [[/note]]

* The WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb fanfic ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/kicsterash/art/PnF-Vocal-Blues-ch1-200834638 Vocal Blues]]'' features Phineas having mysteriously lost his voice right before a big Christmas concert that the band he and Ferb are part of is playing at. [[spoiler: Ultimately it turns out Phineas' fiddling with one of Ferb's inventions just rendered his voice too high to be heard and a specially built and set mike fixes the problem though Ferb does give poor Phin a heart attack by forcing him onstage to sing without explaining.]]