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6->''"The first rule of thumb for all radio personalities is to look absolutely nothing like how they sound."''
7-->-- '''[[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Strong Bad]]''', ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' #120 [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE120Radio "radio"]]
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9While it may be wrong to judge a book by its cover, [[TruthInTelevision it's something that happens]]. You see a person, you expect certain things. This extends even to that person’s voice. If you see a muscular man, you expect a [[BaritoneOfStrength deep macho voice]]. TheVamp will have a sexy, sultry voice. A child's voice is high-pitched. And so on.
10This trope is about when those expectations don't match up; e.g., when the muscular man has the sultry voice, TheVamp has a childish voice, and the child has a deep voice.
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12This trope is generally played for comedy since the idea of a squeaky voice from a big person or a deep voice from a small person is generally seen as absurd. For better or for worse, this can sometimes come about by chance, depending on how casting in a voiced work goes. Of course, after a bit, [[CantUnHearIt you'll have trouble hearing that character with any other kind of voice except their own.]]
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14CuteButCacophonic is a subtrope of this, specifically referring to when "an extremely cute and/or tiny animal turns out to have a surprisingly loud cry." InstantSoprano, another subtrope, occurs when this trope arises in response to a GroinAttack. This trope also could be the result of an InopportuneVoiceCracking. Often overlaps with MostWritersAreAdults (when young children in animation are depicted with somewhat deep, adult-like voices), ProfessionalVoiceDissonance (where the voice a person uses for their job sounds very different to how they talk normally) and SingingVoiceDissonance (where a person's singing voice is noticeably different than their speaking voice). Not to be confused with LarynxDissonance, which involves an actor attempting to impersonate their opposite gender, or LyricalDissonance, which involves song lyrics. If a character who didn't initially have this suddenly does, it can lead to VoiceChangeSurprise.
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16!!Examples:
17[[index]]
18* VocalDissonance/AnimeAndManga
19* [[VocalDissonance/AnimatedFilms Film — Animated]]
20* [[VocalDissonance/LiveActionFilms Film — Live-Action]]
21* VocalDissonance/LiveActionTV
22* VocalDissonance/{{Music}}
23* VocalDissonance/VideoGames
24* VocalDissonance/WesternAnimation
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28[[folder:Advertising]]
29* In a couple of Pepsi commercials, when cute little Hallie Kate Eisenberg asks for a Pepsi and gets a Coca-Cola instead, she breaks out the ''man's voice''.
30* Hilariously used in one of the ''Advertising/LaLlamaQueLlama'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_uNsZWKVR spots]] for an Argentinian telecom. The baby of the llama family is about to say his first words and his relatives (parents, older brother, grandfather) are waiting anxiously to hear them... and he speaks in the voice of a grown old man.
31* Bud Light once had a [=TV=] ad where a guy was being introduced to his biker friend's sister. He was nervous because he figured she would sound normal but look like the biker in drag, but instead, she was a [[EveryoneLovesBlondes blonde bombshell]] with a voice made of cigars and shrapnel.
32* A Japanese commercial about the Ajinomoto Stadium [[ItMakesSenseInContext reveals the reason]] why the beautiful women's voices sound like raspy old men: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1deuxpyqMdA they're shouting so loud to the point where their voices cracked.]]
33* A [=DirecTV=] ad compares normal Peyton Manning with high-pitched voice Peyton Manning, [[StrawmanProduct who has cable.]]
34* The booming bass in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAe97xmVRhM J.G. Wentworth "Bus Opera" commercial]] comes from a woman. A woman who looks like she ought to have a low voice ''for a woman'', mind you, but not lower than some of the men in the commercial.
35* An anti-smoking radio advertisement had a deep and raspy-voiced person talk about smoking a lot and then reveal their name to be [[SamusIsAGirl Helen]], which is supposed to come as a surprise to the listener.
36* A spot for Allstate has a man looking at some car damage when his little daughter comes up and in Dennis Haysbert's voice assures him that his Allstate policy has him covered. (Several spots for Allstate employ this.)
37* Frankenberry from the ''Advertising/MonsterCereals'', despite being the biggest and strongest of the monsters, has a light and high-pitched English accent. This is thanks to his voice being an impersonation of Creator/BorisKarloff, the actor to portray the original monster, who is more often stereotyped as just making deep groans instead of actually talking.
38* One of the mascots of Creator/{{Cartoonito}} is Glob. While he is designed to look cute and acts childlike, he has a surprisingly deep male voice.
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41[[folder:Asian Animation]]
42* In the English dub of ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'', Jetybory has a deep, mature voice despite being the smallest and shortest of the main cast.
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45[[folder:Comedy]]
46* Creator/GabrielIglesias describes times he uses a high-pitched cheerleader voice to mess with drive-thrus that mess up his orders. He orders in his girly voice, pulls up with an intimidating look on his face, waits until they ask if he's the one who ordered, and proceeds to hit them with "Oh my God, yes!" The drive-thrus in his neighborhood have wised up though. He tries it on them and their response is "Okay, Gabriel, pull up."
47* Korean-American comic Henry Cho was born and raised in Tennessee and it shows when he speaks. The last thing you expect to hear out of someone who looks like him is a southern drawl. Lampshaded in [[https://youtu.be/qtLrwovCIa8 one of his routines]] when he mentions traveling in Korea, and being asked for directions by an American in a patronizing, faux-Asian pidgin "EXCUSE ME, IS THIS THE BUS-Y GOES-Y DOWN-Y TOWN-Y?". He replied with an exaggeratedly twangy "...I reckon so."
48* Creator/GilbertGottfried is known for the high-pitched, whiny, fingernails-on-chalkboard voice he uses when he's performing and giving interviews. It's become so associated with him that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3G3VH2jto hearing him talk in a more "normal" manner]] is quite shocking.
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51[[folder:Comic Books]]
52* One ''Creator/{{Gotlib}}'' strip on dubbing shows who provides the translated voices of the rugged cowboy, demure young lady, and stoic Indian chieftain in a Western: [[https://www.lemonde.fr/mmpub/edt/zip/2016/12/05/151528827-05a24a1211ce5adceed5337c8c30f7431bbee6a8//assets/images/content/02-doublage-02-1024.jpg an overweight average-looking guy, a heavyset older woman towering above the other two, and a short Chinese man]] respectively.
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56* PlayedForLaughs in ''Animation/{{Krisztoforo}}''; Krisztofóró finds out to his dismay in the 11th episode that his "stallion" Treffhetes is female. Of course he had no idea, given that she has the a raspy voice of a middle-aged man. Not that it actually matters beyond a throwaway joke.
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59[[folder:Fan Works]]
60* In ''Fanfic/CodeGeassThePreparedRebellion'', [[CoolOldGuy Reuben Ashford]] is mentioned to have a surprisingly deep voice for a rail-thin man like himself.
61* In ''Batman: Melody for a Mockingbird'', Nightwing jokes more than once that the Scarecrow's Mississippi accent detracts from his "Master of Terror" supervillain shtick as much as his skinny {{Geek Physique|s}}. [[spoiler:Nearly getting a lobotomy from the professor seems to change his mind.]]
62* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'': Justified in that, unless a guest voice actor is involved, every character in the series is voiced by its creator Creator/LittleKuriboh and that it's intended to be PlayedForLaughs.
63** In episode 22, one of Duke's fangirls (the {{Gonk}} one) has a very deep voice.
64** Mai Valentine and Serenity both have male voices (Mai sounds sort of like a drag queen while Serenity sounds almost like [[Franchise/StarWars Jar-Jar Binks]], minus the Caribbean accent). As of recently, Mai has officially been given a woman's voice. Which seems to be this trope InUniverse.
65--->'''Joey:''' Nyeh, Mai! What happened to ya voice?\
66'''Mai:''' What do you mean? I have a woman's voice now.\
67'''Joey:''' Yeah, but all of a sudden it makes me less attracted to you somehow!
68** Yami and Odion retain their rather deep voices as babies.
69** ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' Cell lampshades on how Yami's voice is ridiculously deep for a 14-year old kid.
70---> '''Cell:''' That is a deep voice for a fourteen year old, [[LampshadeHanging my God.]]
71* In ''WebVideo/FiftyPercentOff'', [[Anime/{{Free}} Nagisa Hazuki]] is a small blond teenager who's a {{Gayngster}} with the voice of a ScaryBlackMan.
72* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'' has a lot of this. CrossDressingVoices abound, because one guy does all the voices for the show, while the cast is primarily female. The most pronounced examples are Rarity (an elegant fashionista with a nasally voice and an Australian accent) and Sweetie Belle (an adorable youngster with the voice of a death metal singer).
73* Sweetie Belle also gets this in ''WebVideo/MyLittlePonyTheMentallyAdvancedSeries'' and its spinoff ''WebVideo/RainbowDashPresents'', where she has a hammy, deep voice (coming from being possessed by the demon Thrackerzod.)
74* This is occasionally used in ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft'' for a comedic effect. For example, Princess Molestia (or "Luna" as she calls herself) has a regal design, but a geeky sounding teenage-esque voice with an UnexplainedAccent that characters even in-universe don't understand the origin of.
75* In ''Fanfic/BurningCoals'' the short and cutesy looking Neo has a hoarser voice than you'd think. This is due to a throat injury she received as a child.
76* [=TheInvertedShadow=]'s ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHK43TJoVNRJ85mxMLzWT9bDTViWzNHUM Lyrish]]'' series: Bon Bon, a female pony, was given a very gruff masculine voice for the latter half of the series. Prior to that, what few noises she made were provided by miscellaneous audio clips.
77* In some ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fan works, like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJpxc5XUCXk&t=87s certain editions of the]] WebAnimation/TouhouM1GrandPrix or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af8ysEresQ8 "The Cruel Sisters and the Suffering Maid"]] by Innocent Key, Remilia, who is physically a child, is given a voice more befitting of a young woman in her late teens to early twenties.
78* It's mentioned in ''Fanfic/TheLoveClub'' that Glinda didn't expect the soft-looking Munchkinlander Boq to have such a deep voice.
79* This is downplayed with Sam Winchester in ''Fanfic/CrossCases'' -- when Harry first hears him speak, he notes that Sam's voice is surprisingly light for such a big guy.
80* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/2170677 The Zero Context Series]]'', Acutus is described as a well-muscled dragon-girl who is almost eight feet tall and has a voice like a squeaky can opener.
81* ''WebVideo/TheBuggerAnthology'': The Dalek mutants in "Not My Daleks", which look like very gross octopi, are revealed to speak with jovial [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents Yorkshire accents]] when outside of their casings.
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84[[folder:Literature]]
85* ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'': Andrea Abati, also known as ''[[NomDeGuerre Il Prosperino]]'', is a former Papal singer, and is famous for being an [[TheDandy extravagant dresser]], [[TheCasanova intrepid womanizer]], skilled duelist, AttentionWhore and all-round scandal-magnet. Abati is also a ''castrato'' [[note]] Exactly what it sounds like; in the 17th century boys with particularly beautiful singing voices were commonly castrated to prevent their voices from breaking[[/note]] and his voice is described as a "soprano with a hauntingly beautiful timbre". To give you some idea of his vocal quality, when Franz Sylvester composes his {{Opera}} ''Myth/KingArthur'', he writes the part of [[TheVamp Nimue]] specifically for Abati. Even people who know about his condition are usually shocked by the contrast between his appearance and his voice.
86* In ''Literature/TheAndromedaStrain'', the secret research installation plays pre-recorded messages spoken by a female voice described as "luscious". Dr. Hall is bemused to learn that this voice belongs to a 60-year-old woman.
87* The radio soap actors in ''Literature/AuntJuliaAndTheScriptwriter'' are described as quite unattractive with very wonderful voices. The author even says explicitly that many men would get BlueWithShock if they realized that the very sweet, silky voice of the soap heroines comes from an old, fat, badly dressed and worse groomed lady. The titular scriptwriter is also a radio actor: he is short and thin, but with a powerful voice and such a big charisma he gets a lot of admirers even with his poor looks, at least until the burnout begins to hit him hard...
88* [[BigBad Link]] in the ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'' is an AI from millions of years in the future that uses specific women as host bodies, transferring to the next body whenever one dies. As a result, the age of its host bodies over the story ranges from seventy to eight, and while it ''can'' use its host's normal voice, it usually uses a vaguely described but utterly inhuman and emotionless voice that most people find highly unsettling.
89* Played with in ''Literature/TheBuilders''. [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Captain]] is a grizzled, stoic military commander who has a [[FacialHorror unnervingly scarred]] face and a deserved terrible reputation. However, he has a squeaky voice described as a falsetto. On the other hand, every character in the work is an IntellectualAnimal and the Captain is a mouse -- and so his voice is actually quite fitting for his species (he sounds like Micky Mouse in the audiobook); it's just that it is greatly at odds with his personality.
90* ''Literature/DrGretaHelsing'': {{Mumm|y}}ies tend to pick up the regional accent from wherever they were awoken from slumber, leaving Greta a bit nonplussed to hear ancient Egyptian undead speaking with British- or German-accented voices.
91* During the [[spoiler:final confrontation with [[BigBad Victoria]]]] in ''Literature/Eclipse2007'', Bella is shocked to see that the [[SuperPersistentPredator obsessed vampire]]'s voice is less of a menacing growl and more of a high and childish squeal.
92* In ''Literature/EvaLuna'', Eva's CoolBigSis Mimi is a beautiful woman with a very deep voice. [[spoiler:She is [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} the re-invented and finally able to transition Melecio]]; she manages to find a medium of sorts, voice-wise, and "reserves" her deepest pitch [[BewareTheNiceOnes for when she needs to make a point]].]]
93* ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'':
94** Bremer dan Gorst is a bull of a man and a LightningBruiser to boot, but he's got the piping voice of a child, to his eternal shame.
95** Stranger-Come-Knocking is a towering giant of a barbarian warlord who speaks in a surprisingly soft voice.
96** Despite being a savage and ruthless cannibal barbarian armored in human bones, Stand-i'-the-Barrows sounds completely mundane when he speaks.
97* Shadowslinger, an elderly, morbidly obese sorceress from the ''Literature/GarrettPI'' novels, has a voice that sounds like she's eight years old. As this conflicts with her self-promoted image as a terrifying wielder of dark magic, she usually has her son Barate Algarda speak for her.
98* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
99** Remarkably, Voldemort, the BigBad, is a notable aversion of EvilSoundsDeep, as he is described as having a quite high-pitched voice.
100** Harry has this reaction the first time he hears Dolores Umbridge speak in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix''. She speaks with a high, girlish voice, whereas due to her froglike face, Harry had expected a croak.
101** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', Harry is surprised to hear Goyle's low voice and Crabb's soft one.
102* Applies to several characters in the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series. The titular character is a 6'5" HeavyWorlder LadyOfWar, who has a soprano voice. Thandi Palane is a genetically modified AmazonianBeauty who can literally punch a guy's face in, and a mezzo-soprano (one step down from soprano). The MemeticBadass (both in-verse and out) Victor Catchat is a tenor (highest male voice within the modal register).
103* ''Literature/KeeperOfTheLostCities'': Sandor is a tall, muscled goblin with a soft, high voice described as sounding more suited for a bunny or chipmunk.
104* ''Literature/TheLandMine'': Derek felt this way about the headmaster of the school in Stow-In-The-Wold, where his mother was spending her time after the roof of their house is blown off. The headmaster had a very short, egg-shaped body, from which Derek expected a rather high-pitched voice to come. The headmaster speaks in a very deep voice.
105* ''Literature/{{Malarkoi}}'': The vicious PsychoForHire assassin Anatole has a lovely singing voice, a remnant of a more innocent life. Less charming is his habit of singing to his victims about [[ToThePain the horrors he'll inflict on them]].
106* In ''Literature/{{Maledicte}}'', Maledicte is a slight, pretty [[SweetPollyOliver young man]] with an incredibly harsh, rasping voice. {{Justified|Trope}} in that he purposefully took poison to damage his voice.
107* ''Literature/LesMiserables'': Eponine is a young woman in her early twenties, but near-life-long homelessness and alcohol abuse have left her with a voice that is described as easily mistaken for that of a middle-aged ''man''. This does not carry over to the stage, where Eponine is a mezzo-soprano.
108* Nunzio from the ''Literature/MythAdventures'' series is known to have this issue, often including it in his initial descriptions when he makes his first appearance in a book.
109* In ''Literature/ThePaleKing'', Nugent's little sister can imitate [[Film/TheExorcist Regan MacNeil]]'s voice perfectly, much to the delight of Nugent's bored coworkers.
110* ''Literature/ThePlaneteers'': Near the beginning of "The Brain Stealers of Mars", Rod Blake meets something on the surface of Mars that looks like his partner Ted Penton -- but it's new to [[VoluntaryShapeshifting imitating humans]], and when it first speaks, it speaks in Rod Blake's voice.
111* A dwarf, Owen Meany from ''Literature/APrayerForOwenMeany'', is by far the smallest kid in his class... and he has NoIndoorVoice.
112* In the first scene of the fourth book of the ''Literature/{{Safehold}}'' series, ''A Mighty Fortress'', male [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Merlin]] speaks to Sharleyan using the voice of [[GenderBender Nimue Alban]].
113* Dire wolves in ''Literature/WolvesOfTheBeyond'' have whispering voices despite their huge sizes.
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117* ''Pinball/{{Spectrum}}'' has the bald, female ArtificialIntelligence "Computor" speak with a distinctly masculine MachineMonotone voice.
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121* Current WWE wrestler and ex-MMA fighter/Wrestling/{{TNA}} wrestler Wrestling/BobbyLashley sounds like Mike Tyson without the lisp, or at least, not as noticeable.
122* Another wrestling example (albeit not as dramatic) was the strange incongruence of the voices of Wrestling/ChrisBenoit and Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} (who were tag-team champions together on two occasions) to their respective physical appearances. Benoit was [[PintSizedPowerhouse a short but very muscular man]] who often sported a [[ManlyFacialHair "hobo beard"]], but his voice was relatively high-pitched. Edge was tall, rather lanky, and had perfectly styled long blond hair, but his voice was often a low growl and noticeably more masculine than Benoit's. (And just to add to the irony, both men were Canadian.)
123* Yet another wrestling example: Wrestling/ShawnMichaels, who was slightly small for a wrestler and adopted a somewhat effeminate ring persona for his "Sexy Boy" character, had a deep, gravelly voice like an Old West mountain man (the result of his childhood in Arizona and Texas). In the later years of his career, he grew a beard and began dressing and acting more like how he actually sounded.
124* Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon is a rather interesting case. Starting around mid-2002, her voice on [=Raw/SmackDown=] immediately changed from a high pitched screamy voice to a much deeper and more womanly voice. This was actually her natural voice from the beginning (ie. her screamy/high-pitched voice from 1999-2002 was basically manufactured for her stage persona), but it's definitely an interesting contrast.
125** This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFIQpAeFTkA interview from 2000]] and this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UJcevBAyyo interview from 2012]] show that, other than talking in a considerably lower tone now, her voice has changed a lot less over the last twelve years than one would think based on her Raw/Smackdown VocalEvolution (it's more her ''way of speaking'' that's changed over the years).
126* Another Diva example: [[Characters/WWECommentators Lilian Garcia]]. A cute, skinny blonde girl...with a surprisingly deep, resonant voice that sounds not unlike that of an announcer at a monster-truck rally.
127* One more for the road, former WWE Diva Wrestling/{{Chyna}} was an Amazon any way you look at it. 5'10", very muscular and carried enough of a presence to hold her own against male wrestlers, her rather high, soft, nasal voice is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_bSWpuYzfg fairly surprising]] (she also had a slight lisp, making her voice about as surprising as Mike Tyson's.)
128* Wrestling/LowKi is a small wrestler with the voice of a giant.
129* Wrestling/BethPhoenix is muscular like Chyna, and also has a very soft, sweet sounding voice. She doesn't have a lisp, though.
130* Wrestling/AJLee: 5'2" and looks like a Latina Creator/MirandaCosgrove, but has a really low, throaty voice.
131* AJ's former partner-in-crime Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}} qualifies too. She is an AmazonianBeauty and looks more feminine than Beth or Chyna but still has a higher-pitched voice with ValleyGirl-esque inflection that one might not expect from a woman with her figure.
132* [[Wrestling/BellaTwins Brie Bella's]] voice is even lower than AJ's, which is one of the many ways she can be told apart from Nikki [[note]] before she got breast implants, that is[[/note]].
133* Wrestling/BrockLesnar has a famously large and imposing figure with the strength to boot, but his voice is infamously a bit higher than what one would expect. When he gets angry, his furious "screams" have a tendency to come off less like badass roars and more high-pitched screeches coming from a medium-sized bird. It's probably a good reason why he gets Wrestling/PaulHeyman to do the talking for him in promos.
134* [[Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} Bill Goldberg]] is a big, muscular, wrestling monster like Lesnar, and has a high-pitched nasal voice.
135* Wrestling/NatalyaNeidhart has a very deep voice for a female of fairly average height. Although considering she's part of the Hart family and how Badass she is it might actually work.
136* Wrestling/BrookeAdams also has a pretty low-pitched voice for a female, especially since she's also a model. She is a Texan, though.
137* Wrestling/TorrieWilson is also a bit lower than one might expect from a statuesque blonde.
138* Wrestling/SeanWaltman who, like Shawn Michaels, is small for a wrestler. He has a very raspy, baritone voice, probably brought on by age and years of marijuana use since his voice used to be a bit higher, though still low for a guy his size.
139* Wrestling/TerryFunk is one of the toughest [=SOBs=] in the wrestling industry (having wrestled for 50 years and counting) and he certainly looks the part. However, Funk happens to have a rather soft and kindly voice, which can be quite jarring to hear coming out of a man who has fought in more hardcore matches than you can shake a stick at.
140* [[Wrestling/{{Melina}} Melina Perez]] A SpicyLatina with a soft, almost baby-ish high-pitched voice.
141* [[Wrestling/{{BeckyLynch}} Becky Lynch]] has a very athletic yet feminine figure, and her voice is deeper than a good portion of the ''male'''s WWE roster.
142* Listen to WWF monster heel Nailz in this Wrestling/{{A|mericanWrestlingAssociation}}WA [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK7-0tY7ZGs promo]]. That's his real voice. Now listen to him in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OADMBOwUcH4 WWF promo]].
143* The muscular Apollo Crews sounds nothing like the deep-voiced [[Characters/{{Rocky}} Apollo Creed]] and Terry Crews.
144* Wrestling/{{Sting}} zig-zags this. Steve Borden, the man behind the paint, sounds the way you'd expect him too, as does the early blond Surfer-dude Sting. However, once he started dressing up in his trademark black and white ''[[Film/TheCrow Crow]]''-inspired look, his medium-pitched voice and California accent clashed with his ghostly appearance (he actually [[TheVoiceless stopped talking for a while]] perhaps due to this).
145* Wrestling/GregoryHelms (previously known as The Hurricane or Shane Helms) speaks with an accent that to many viewers sounds African-American, despite being white. This is largely because he's from North Carolina, which is a state not often represented in wrestling.
146* Killer Kowalkski was known for being tough as nails and vicious in the ring, yet had a very quiet and soft voice.
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150* Stephanie Miller of ''Radio/TheStephanieMillerShow'', a morning political and comedy show, is a skinny, white, middle-aged, brunette woman. Many a listener, however, call in and express surprise after seeing pictures of her on the show's website that she is not a blonde and/or fat. One caller even thought she was black.
151* From his voice, one would definitely not expect John Tesh to have blonde hair and blue eyes.
152* Creator/JonPertwee's character [[TheDanza CPO Jon Pertwee]] on ''Radio/TheNavyLark'' doesn't sound anything like he does in real life.
153* High Pitch Eric from ''Radio/TheHowardSternShow'', who is 6'1", probably weighs close to 400 lbs, and sounds like WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse with a New York accent.
154* Beulah, the maid on ''Radio/FibberMcGeeAndMolly'' (who later got her own {{spinoff}} series), was played by a Caucasian male named Marlin Hurt.
155* ''Amos 'n' Andy'' starred a pair of white men (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll) as the title characters. When the show moved to television, the roles were re-cast with African American actors.
156* CBS Sports radio host Scott Ferrell is self-described as "having the body of Olive Oyl and the voice of ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}."
157* Anyone who's seen the gung-ho [[Franchise/{{Rambo}} Col. Trautman]] would definitely be forgiven for reacting incredulously to the idea that the [[Creator/RichardCrenna same actor]] also played the nerdy Walter Denton on ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'' on radio, TV and film.
158* This is a common occurrence for actors doing AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho. As Big Finish has gone the extra mile and contracted nearly every living ''Series/DoctorWho'' actor to reprise their roles from the classic series, naturally there is going to be aging issues with actors who played their roles forty, fifty, and now even ''sixty'' years ago. Chief among these is Creator/PeterDavison, who while trying to sound a bit more youthful still has a gruffness to his voice as the Fifth Doctor that wasn't present in his thirty-year-old self in 1982, and Creator/ColinBaker, who likewise has started unavoidably showing his age in his voice in recent dramas. At the same time, they are still recognizably those characters and perform admirably. This even informed a brief story arc for the Fifth Doctor's team, starting in "Cobwebs", where Nyssa had returned from her LongBusTrip after the TV episode "Terminus", rejoining Five, Tegan and Turlough after fifty years from her perspective (only a week or so from theirs). Since Trakenites age slower than humans, it allowed Nyssa to be at the same biological age that Creator/SarahSutton currently was (somewhere in her late 40s-early 50s) so that Sutton could use her natural speaking voice and give the pitching up to sound like her 20-something self a hiatus.
159** Averted, however, with Creator/TomBaker, whose Fourth Doctor sounds almost exactly like it did when he left the show at "Logopolis", even though he's now in his 90s.
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163* ''Theatre/ShrekTheMusical'' has a couple:
164** The dainty-looking Sugar Plum Fairy often speaks with a very deep, throaty voice.
165** Often, Dragon is represented as a huge puppet, but has a high and jazzy singing voice.
166* On the 2015 US tour of ''Theatre/{{Matilda}}'', Gabby Gutierrez, despite being somewhat smaller than most girls playing the title role, had a rather deep singing voice for a 9-10 year old, as heard in [[http://theatrethoughts.tumblr.com/post/119636980608/matilda-the-musical-naughty-gabby-gutierrez this audio clip of "Naughty"]].
167* Aerial artist [[http://tanyabrno.com/ Tanya Brno]] is an AmazonianBeauty with a tiny [[Creator/KristinChenoweth Cheno-esque]] voice.
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171* In Disney's ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'', during the "Grim Grinning Ghosts" song we are treated to a line of various ghosts singing the song, one featured a small bearded old prisoner speaking in the deep gravely voice of Candy Candido while the executioner leading him away has a high pitched WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse-like voice (by Bill Days).
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175* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'':
176** ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'': A common complaint of the English dub is that Komaru Naegi's voice sounds far too deep and mature for a 15-to-17-year-old, while her Japanese voice doesn't have this problem.
177** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': Ryoma Hoshi is pretty much the polar opposite of ''Anime/Danganronpa3'''s Daisaku Bandai. His goofy {{Gonk}} appearance combined with his dwarfism makes him look like a little kid in elementary school, but he speaks in a low voice and has a serious, brooding personality to match.
178* ''VisualNovel/DramaticalMurder'' has Ren, [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter a very cute dog]] [[ArtificialIntelligence All-mate]] with a low voice, which contrasts greatly with his cuddly appearance. [[spoiler:It matches his humanoid form perfectly.]]
179* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'':
180** Rika is [[VagueAge at youngest 9 and at oldest 12]] but can put on an incredibly adult voice when she wants to. This is apparently not just for the audiences, as it's implied (and even stated in one of Keiichi's character songs) the other characters hear it but never say anything.
181** Hanyuu can pull off a menacing adult woman's voice despite being the same age as Rika. She can even pull off an inhuman voice, as she is a PhysicalGod. PlayedWith as Hanyuu is [[spoiler:a CuteGhostGirl who died as an ''adult''. Her "adult" voice is simply the voice she had at the time at her death while her current voice is, presumably, the voice she had as a child]].
182* Akira Totsuka a.k.a. [[GenderFlip Amaterasu]] from ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'' is a delicate, elegant, kimono-wearing DudeLooksLikeALady with a deep, rich manly baritone.
183* In ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'', one scene features a Twitter user who has a cutesy MagicalGirl for an avatar, but has [[{{GIRL}} a man's voice]].
184* Rourkie in ''VisualNovel/ThePiratesFate'' is a tiny anthropomorphic rabbit in oversized clothing who happens to have a booming voice. The dissonance is entirely intentional; his internal vision of himself is out of whack, and is reflected in outward things.
185* In the UpdatedReRelease of ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'', this is PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:In the game, Creator/ChiakiTakahashi voices [[HugeSchoolgirl Nanami]] with a rather deep voice, but when she and her boyfriend Kyouchi have sex she uses a far girlier tone as a part of [[CasualKink their foreplay]]. This is revealed ''to the whole school'' after Nanami and Kyouichi are [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown videotaped having sex]] during the SchoolFestival and the tape is shown in public. Naturally, [[HeroicBSOD poor Nanami breaks down in tears]].]]
186* Unlike the other gruesome-looking spirits in ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', whose voices are modulated to sound unnaturally low or high, the Screaming Author's voice sounds exactly like a timid young girl. [[spoiler:Which is what she was in life, until she was mutilated into the murderous, bird-like horror that she is now.]]
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190* ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'':
191** Even as a third-grader, Matthew had a very deep and sultry voice.
192** Quite a few of the teenage girls in this show have the deep, suave voices of men. Viewers get used to the girls' voices much faster than they do with Matthew's kid voice.
193** Ashley Katchadourian, one of the smallest teenagers, has the deepest female vocal range.
194* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':
195** In the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "radio", Strong Bad demonstrates that radio personalities usually look nothing like how they sound by making his mopey, soft-spoken younger brother Strong Sad talk like [[DumbassDJ an obnoxious]] [[LargeHamRadio disc jockey]].
196--->'''Strong Sad:''' Hey hey hey, it's the Deathly Pallor, coming at you on numbitty 902, [=WA3D=] FM, "The Sturge." Coming up next, we got some hot new tracks from double-O ballyhoo!
197** In the sbemail "alternate universe," da Huuuuuudge (a massive BlobMonster version of Strong Bad that he came up with in the earlier sbemail "animal") joins the other Strong Bads in singing their number-one jam. It has a remarkably high-pitched, quavering voice.
198* ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'':
199** In one of the episodes, fallen angel Cypher (who looks like [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/warhammer40k/images/5/5b/Lord_Cypher.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131227103607 this]], by the way) gets all excited and starts talking in high-pitched, squeaky and nigh-unintelligible voice.
200** The seven-feet-tall SuperSoldier Cato Sicarius has a similar problem, except very much constant.
201** And finally Lucius the Eternal, a horrendously mutated and similarly huge Chaos Space Marine, beats them both and sounds like a psychopathic WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, which in this case makes him creepier.
202* The ladybug in ''WebAnimation/BeeAndPuppycat'', voiced by Creator/TomKenny, has a very deep voice.
203* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Cardin Winchester of team CRDL is a big, bulky guy[[note]]going by Jaune's official height of 6'1", Cardin's easily around 6'4" or taller[[/note]], leading one to expect him having a deep, intimidating voice. In actuality, however, Cardin has a fairly very high-pitched, almost nasally-sounding voice.
204* [[https://www.deviantart.com/darkkomet/art/Donald-Drump-689827613 Donald]] from ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/darkkomet/art/The-Lightningbolts-Light-of-The-Sun-778805875 The Lightningbolts: Light of The Sun]]'' has the appearance of a PrettyBoy, but has a voice that gives more of a FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit impression[[note]]without the fat[[/note]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otIKyqCswxY when he was voiced for the first time]].
205* ''WebAnimation/MonsterHigh'': The Wolf sisters all have Brooklyn accents while their brother Clawd and mom Harriet don't.
206** You'd expect Spectra to have a snooty voice since she goes around spreading tall tales. Instead, she has a high-pitched whispery voice.
207** Elle has a staticky robot voice. Robecca just has a British accent.
208** The Phantom of the Opera is from France, so why does his daughter Operetta have a Southern accent?
209** NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Kiyomi is Japanese but has an American accent. Deuce and Viperine are both gorgons (snake-haired monsters from Greek mythology), but Deuce has an American accent while Viperine has a Spanish one.
210*** Most of the zombies can't talk. And then you have Spanish-accented Moanica.
211* ''WebAnimation/ButtonsAdventures'': Button Mash's voice is significantly deep for an eight-year old colt. He sounds as if he's going through puberty already.
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215* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick makes this complaint in her review of the ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' movie.
216* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic was similarly surprised to hear She-Ra's WingedUnicorn Swiftwind speak in a deep, growling voice in the ChristmasEpisode.
217* In WebVideo/TheWithVoicesProject, Frisk, in Undertale With Voices [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0Ydx1Kg7Gk Genocider]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYSE6wBQtQY Pacifist,]] speaks with the voice of a gravelly older man.
218* In ''The Dr. Steel Show'', Episode 1, Music/DoctorSteel [[FourthWallMailSlot receives email from a fan]]. While the letter says the fan is 34 years old, the voiceover sounds like he's three.
219* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR6TwEDFyDI#t=9m38s this]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sQTApFQg1c playthrough]] of ''[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Perfect Cherry Blossom]]'', one of the commentators decides to do a dramatic reading of Yuyuko's lines before actually seeing her face. And keeps the same voice after. HilarityEnsues.
220* Similarly, Boltage [=McGammar=]'s LetsPlay of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages]]'' featured reading [[BigBad Veran]]'s lines as a breathy SouthernBelle. And accidentally uses it for one of Ralph's lines when he couldn't tell who was talking.
221* Smokefield from ''Roleplay/WarriorCatsRPG'' is a sadistic, possibly psychopathic Maine Coon/Ragdoll cross who's an unrepentant rapist and part of quite possibly the worst group in the game. His voice is very soft. This is TruthInTelevision, as Maine Coons are a very soft-voiced breed of cat.
222* [=HuskyMudkipz=], known for his deep voice, looks like [[http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/H831WpjMK9Q/maxresdefault.jpg this.]]
223* LetsPlay/{{Darkmindedsith}} sounds a lot older than he really is. In his playthrough of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', he says that he's in his late teens, but he sounds like a man in his thirties.
224* ''WebVideo/IdolsOfAnime'': Viga calls out shows where a character's speaking and singing voices don't match up well.
225* LetsPlay/DaithiDeNogla has a typical angry Irish voice, yet he looks more or less like a 20-something man.
226* Lauri and Anni, the hosts of the ''WebVideo/HydraulicPressChannel'', do not usually show their faces in videos for their main channel, leading to a lot of viewers assuming from their rather deep voices they're at least middle-aged. As of 2016, Lauri is 30, and Anni is 26.
227* WebVideo/{{Phelous}} references this in his review of the Creator/DingoPictures version of 'Pocahontas' when a soldier character starts talking with a distinctly feminine voice.
228* PlayedForLaughs when LetsPlay/SimonLane from [[LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} the Yogscast]] plays ''VideoGame/KittyPowersMatchmaker'' for the Tap channel. When reading Kitty's dialogue he makes her sound like a male trucker.
229** Also in [[LetsPlay/KimRichards Kim's]] play-through of ''VideoGame/TheYawhg'' with LetsPlay/HatFilms. Smithy gives a very deep and rather sultry voice to a talking rat.
230* LetsPlay/VideoGameDunkey, who is Caucasian, is ''very'' often mistaken for being African-American by new viewers of his due to his voice. This has actually become a running joke amongst his fans, with lines such as "I don't watch Dunkey because he's black" or "Dunkey was black. Now he's not" being seen in his comments section on a regular basis.
231* [=F1NN5TER=]'s popular [[WholesomeCrossdresser egirl persona]], Rose Evergreen, is considered very {{attractive|BentGender}} by the fanbase. His otherwise convincing appearance is offset by his deep, masculine voice. During one stream, Finn, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_l59Rb6HIA in character as Rose]], explained that "she" sounds like that due to a past incident where "she" was punched in the throat while playing soccer.
232* PlayedForLaughs on ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' in comics that feature [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] as a child -- Linkara gives him the gravelly "Batman voice" regardless.
233* DD from ''WebVideo/CreamHeroes'' is a large, fluffy forest cat who towers over all the others, is pretty much the leader and given a deep [[HulkSpeak Hulk voiceover]] by Claire. His meow is a ''squeak.''
234** Momo, at least in comparison to the deep, gruff voice Claire gives him. His meow is incredibly high pitched and sad sounding despite his boisterous personality.
235* WebVideo/{{ProZD}} has a round, almost childlike face that's contrasted by his rather deep voice. He himself has made several jokes about this fact, such as in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NORGVZ1_VSA Your voice doesn't match your face]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbzfVOJLHwM audition sides i get sent for my voice vs my face]]".
236* Played with in the ''[[WebVideo/YogscastMinecraftSeries Shadow of Israphel]]'' machinima series, since all but one of the voices are done by one person putting on accents (even within the plot, and without the actual characters ''knowing'' they're being voiced), leaving several characters with either incredibly out of place voices or voices that change with every appearance.
237* ''WebVideo/MangaKamen'' has a very "pretty boy" looking avatar that contrasts his moderately deep and rough dudebro voice.
238* Atsuover, the creator of ''VideoGame/VsAnnie'', looks somewhat skinny when she does show her face, which you don't really expect when you hear her often deep speaking voice.
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