History Main / SameVoiceTheirEntireLife

* Creator/ChrisPatton played Joshua Christopher from ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' even when he was shown as a child. The audio commentary shows that they used a mixture of Patton speaking higher and editing. Subverted in the Japanese version, which used a voice actress.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Subverted with Stan and [[spoiler:Ford]]. While the flashbacks to them as children are voiced by actual kids, they’ve had the same voices by Creator/AlexHirsch and Creator/JKSimmons since they were teenagers

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Subverted with Stan and [[spoiler:Ford]]. While the flashbacks to them as children are voiced by actual kids, they’ve had the same voices by Creator/AlexHirsch and Creator/JKSimmons since they were teenagers.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''

** Adults like Homer and Marge also possessed the same voice when in flashbacks to when they were kids. Although one episode did make fun of this by having a young Homer singing in a choir with an appropriate sounding child voice, before his voice [[InopportuneVoiceCracking suddenly breaks]] and his adult voice abruptly emerging and [[DreadfulMusician singing terribly]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresofSuperMarioBros3'' episode, "Toddler Terrors of Time Travel", King Koopa and Kooky, using Kooky's invention, try to go back in time to prevent the Mario brothers from ever leaving Brooklyn. However, they go too far back in time, causing them all to [[BabyMorphEpisode become babies]]. King Koopa, Kooky, Mario, Luigi, and Toad all retain their normal voices, despite being babies. The absolute strangest thing though, is that Mario and Luigi even ''[[BeardedBaby retain their mustaches]]''.

* Steven from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is voiced by Zach Callison regardless of his age, which is noticeable when he's shown as a baby. Likewise, Sour Cream is voiced by Creator/BrianPosehn, both as a baby and his present teenage self.

* ''WesternAnimation/LegoDCComicsSuperHeroes'': In ''Shazam! Magic And Monsters'', The Justice League are turned into children by Mr. Mind Doctor Sivana and excluding Batman, mind-controlled, but all of them retain their adult voices.

This trope is about exceptions to the rule. It's about when a character's voice actor stays the same in flashbacks, or more rarely when a young character's voice actor plays them as an adult. This usually doesn't cause issues if it's a female character, or if the character is an adult in all scenes, however, male ones can cause VocalDissonance easily. If a male character is voiced by an adult man even in flashbacks then his voice is usually too deep, while on the opposite side boys who are voiced by women but keep their voice actresses even past puberty often come off as high-pitched sounding.

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* In both ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' and ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Brotherhood'' Ed, Al, and Winry are played by the same voice actors no matter their age. This causes VocalDissonance in the English dub when it comes to Ed and flashbacks, as he's voiced by an adult man which causes him to have a rather deep voice for a pre-adolescent. It creates the opposite issue in the original Japanese, as Ed has a woman's voice even as an adult.

** Creator/YuriLowenthal voices Sasuke even in pre-series flashbacks in the dub. Sasuke already had a low voice for a 12-year old at the start so it's not too jarring, plus he sounds young enough in the flashbacks. He also voices Sasuke as an adult using virtually the same tone he did when Sasuke was twelve.

* Used in the epilogue of ''Have Dreams, Will Travel'', where protagonist Benjamin Reynolds (portrayed by a then 12-year-old Cayden Boyd) grows up, becomes a baseball player, retires from the field to become a writer in his 40s, gets old, has a wife eventually passing away, until he's a lonely old man by himself... but the narration until the end is still done in Cayden Boyd's child voice.

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'': With the TimeCrash, several of the present-time characters meet their older selves, without their voices changing (even though they're voiced by different actors in their original game and ''11''), such as Johnny Cage[[note]]Voiced in ''9'' by Jeff Pilson; voiced in ''11'' by Andrew Bowen.[[/note]], Scorpion[[note]]Voiced in ''9'' by Creator/PatrickSeitz; voiced in ''11'' by Ron Yuan.[[/note]] and Kano[[note]]Voiced in ''9'' by Creator/MichaelMcConnohie; voiced in ''11'' by J.B. Blanc.[[/note]]. Raiden never gets to meet his future self because [[spoiler:the rule doesn't really work with Gods]] while Sonya's present self [[spoiler:died before the TimeCrash]].

** Mackenzie, Brittnay, and Rachel have the same teenage voices as third graders in "Third Grade". It's especially notable in Rachel's case, as she's still [[CrossdressingVoices voiced by a man]].

** Creator/WillArnett voices [=BoJack=] through all stages of his life in flashbacks, including an awkwardly high-pitched voice as a child. This is averted in the Japanese dub, where young [=BoJack=] is dubbed with a child's voice.

* ComicBook/{{Robin}} keeps his voice actor in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' when shown as ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, as do his friends. This itself is not unusual however he keeps his same teen-sounding tone of voice as an adult. ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' [[VocalEvolution changed it]] so that he sounds deeper as Nightwing.
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* This is done with Impa in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild", where Andi Gibson plays the Sheikah elder again in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'' 100 years before the events of Breath of the Wild.

** InvertedTrope in the DistantFinale episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E26TheLastProblem The Last Problem]]", in which adult!Spike's voice is [[VocalDissonance only slightly deeper]] than his childhood voice.

* Parodied in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', where Creator/LittleKuriboh uses the same voices of grown up characters for when they were kids or babies. This leads to hilarious scenes where babies are shown crying in adult voices.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': The episode "The Perfect Pear" goes into detail on the Apple siblings' parents. In one scene, Bright [=McIntosh=] and Pear Butter are shown using the designs used for infants. However, their voices aren't remotely childish. [[VocalDissonance They sound like full-grown adults in 1-year-old bodies]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Creator/JasonLee voices Syndrome both as an adult and a young boy. In the DVDCommentary, this was stated to be due to Creator/BradBird being unable to find a child actor who sounded like a younger version of Lee.

* ''WesternAnimation/RayaAndTheLastDragon'': Creator/KellyMarieTran voices Raya all throughout the movie, even in the beginning, when Raya is only 12 years old.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': Terk is voiced by Rosie O'Donnell as a child during AMinorKidroduction, and even after she becomes an older gorilla, she sounds mostly the same (albeit a bit deeper).

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* ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'': The Fifteen arc showcases Dazai and Chuuya back when they were fifteen, keeping the same dub and sub actors that portray the present-day versions in their twenties. Dazai sounds normal enough overall, though Chuuya is still given an incredibly deep voice in the sub which can be jarring to hear since he's extremely small and OlderThanTheyLook.

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* Combined with FountainOfYouth in ''Film/NuttyProfessorIITheKlumps'': after Buddy is tricked into ingesting a dose of Sherman's youth serum, he regresses into a toddler - but retains an adult voice!

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* David from "WebAnimation/CampCamp" has the same voice actor as a young child and an adult, albeit his child voice is literally just Miles Luna doing some kind of weird falsetto. Though, this could be because he's telling the events as a story in the present and putting on a voice for his younger self.

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* ''FlowGo'' is a now-defunct comedy website that [[SpinoffBabies has various TV shows with the characters reimagined as toddlers and babies]]. Usually, the babies have higher voices, but the one for ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' has the characters with their adult voices. Particularly odd-sounding is Scotty, who is portrayed as being about one year old, but [[VocalDissonance is a baritone]].
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* In AMinorKidroduction scene of ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'', the four penguins sound exactly the same as they do when they're adults. It's particularly conspicuous with Skipper and Kowalski, who both have deep male voices.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'': Joseph in both Part 2 and 3 is voiced by Creator/UnshoIshizuka, even as he becomes older (as in, being a BadassGrandpa) in the latter part. Ishizuka does the old man impression well, too.

In flashbacks it is customary for characters to [[TimeShiftedActor have different voice actors if they're shown significantly younger]]. This either involves ChildrenVoicingChildren or CrossdressingVoices where a woman voices a young boy.

This trope is about exceptions to the rule. It's about when a characters voice actor stays the same in flashbacks, or more rarely when a young characters voice actor plays them as an adult. This usually doesn't cause issues if it's a female character, or if the character is an adult in all scenes, however male ones can cause VocalDissonance easily. If a male character is voiced by an adult man even in flashbacks then his voice is usually too deep, while on the opposite side boys who are voiced by woman but keep their voice actresses even past puberty often come off as high-pitched sounding.

* Mark from ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'' kept his voice actress even into adulthood in ''Go''. Incidentally he's voiced by Creator/JunkoTakeuchi, who is best known for voicing Naruto (who also kept her voice into adulthood).

* Hiccup ages between the events of ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' and ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' from lanky 15 year-old to strong, handsome 20 year old and he still has Creator/JayBaruchel's nasally voice.

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* Played for laughs in ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' when Greg has an ImagineSpot of himself as a muscular, rich adult and Quentin as his employee. They still sound like middle schoolers.

* In the end of ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'', Cortex turns into a baby due to the Time Twister's malfunction. He's still voiced by Creator/ClancyBrown, but he uses a different tone of voice to better fit a (talking) baby.

** Johnny Cage, Kenshi and Sonya Blade retain their older selves' voices during Chapter 1 (Johnny Cage's flashback, which happens almost instantly after the end of ''9'') and the Chapter 5 (Sonya Blade's) flashback. Johnny's flashback takes place [[WritersCannotDoMath nearly]] 25 years before the events of ''X'' (meaning no member of the cast which was present in ''9'' in this flashback is voiced by their [=VAs=] from ''9''), while Sonya's take place 12 years before.

** PlayedForLaughs with Matthew Derringer, as a third grader he's depicted as having the same deep, baritone voice and speaking in the same eloquent manner he does as a seventeen year old.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Various flashbacks in episodes (including "Turkey in a Can", "Hamburger Dinner Theater" and "The Trouble with Doubles") show that Tina had a [[LarynxDissonance deep voice]] even as a toddler.

** Zigzagged whenever baby Stewie is shown as an adult, as he still has the same adult voice with British accent.
** Brian has the same mature voice when he as a puppy.

* ''WesternAnimation/LegoDCComicsSuperHeroes'': In ''Shazam! Magic And Monsters'', The Justice League are turned into children by Mr. Mind Doctor Sivana and excluding Batman, mind controlled, but all of them retain their adult voices.

** Adults like Homer and Marge also possessed the same voice when in flashbacks to when they were kids. Although one episode did make fun of this by having a young Homer singing in choir with an appropriate sounding child voice, before his voice [[InopportuneVoiceCracking suddenly breaks]] and his adult voice abruptly emerging and [[DreadfulMusician singing terribly]].

** This most famously happened with Goku; several instances of women voicing adult men in anime are inspired by him. In Japan, Goku's voice was so iconic that his voice actress kept on voicing him even when he became an adult. She wasn't changed so that Goku's childish mindset could be expressed through his voice. Subverted in most dubs, where he's voiced by a man in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' and all "adult Goku" material. They instead portray Goku's boyishness through acting.
** Also in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', probably because it runs InTheBlood, Son Goku's sons, Son Gohan and Son Goten, also retain their child voices during adulthood, especially seen in Gohan and also in Goten during ''Anime/DragonBallGT''.

* In the [[GagDub Engilsh Dub]] of ''Anime/GhostStories'', Satsuki and Hajime travel back in time to 1973, where it's revealed that Satsuki's mother Kayako spoke with the same masculine voice she has as an adult when she was in elementary school.

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