Evil Sounds Deep / Western Animation

• The Lich from Adventure Time, what with his voice being provided by Ron Perlman.
• In American Dad!, it's revealed that Steve's obese friend Barry has to take medication to, essentially, not be evil. When Barry's off his meds, his voice gets deeper and acquires a Creepy Monotone... and a British accent.
• In American Dragon: Jake Long, after time traveling, Jake finds out that as a teenager, his Arch-Enemy the Huntsman had an incredibly high, crackly voice and was taunted by the entire Huntsclan for it. After an incident with a Kraken, he developed the voice that most magical creatures fear.
• Arcane: Silco speaks with a deep and chilling tone for the most part.
• As his Marvel Cinematic Universe counterpart, Thanos on Avengers Assemble has a deep voice.
• The Batman:
  • Unlike other versions, The Joker had this going on, thanks to being voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.
  • Solomon Grundy was voiced by Kevin Grevioux, who voiced the aforementioned Raze and Black Beetle. However, this was Clayface in disguise and Steve Harris's voice as Ethan Bennett/Clayface isn't near as deep.
• Darkseid's DCAU voice-actor Michael Ironside also did the voice of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Batman in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Legends of the Dark Knight".
• Belphegor, the antagonist of the Belphegor series, voiced by Denis Mercier (who sounds like a mix between Steve Blum and Dr. Claw, if they spoke French). His voice is always deep, even when screaming or talking loudly. A small example can be seen here.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog:
  • When the mattress demon possesses Muriel, her voice becomes deep and masculine.
  • Le Quack and Katz have very smooth and deep voices. They're also evil and recurring foes of Courage.
• In The Crumpets episode "Amnesia", Ms. McBrisk's voice is heard with a brief deep voice effect as she arrives for the clash with Ma Crumpet over the custody of King.
• Danny Phantom:
  • Dark Danny.
  • Also briefly with Sam when Undergrowth brainwashes her. Not only is it deeper, it's seductive.
  • Skulker has one as well.
• One of the differences between Darkwing Duck and his Evil Twin Negaduck is the latter's deeper voice.
• DC Animated Universe:
  • Darkseid, once again, this time courtesy of Michael Ironside. His son Kalibak also has a very deep voice; it helps that he's voiced by Michael Dorn. Then there's Despero...
  • Granny Goodness, who, being voiced by Edward Asner, has a voice deeper than any normal woman.
  • John Dee's voice was rather nasal initially, but as soon as he got his Dream Weaver powers and became Doctor Destiny one of the first things he changes about his avatar in others' dreams was his voice, made to sound much deeper.
• Officer Shallowgrave on The Fairly OddParents!. It's even lampshaded by Cosmo.
• Final Space: All of the Titans speak in very deep voices, and all of them except Bolo are evil monsters with planet-killing powers who are bent on destroying the universe as we know it.
• Inverted in the animated version of Flash Gordon; Ming the Merciless has a somewhat high-pitched and nasal voice^note it's pretty much the same voice Alan Oppenheimer would use a few years later for Skeletor, while Flash's loyal ally Thun the Lion Man speaks in a deep growl.
• Killface, from Frisky Dingo, who is also electronically deepened.
• In Futurama, Morbo the Annihilator subverts this by having a deep voice and an expressed desire for destruction of all of humankind, but only works as a news anchor. In the first episode, his voice was digitally lowered, but in the rest of the series, Maurice LaMarche simply lowered his voice to match.
  • Any similarity between Morbo, Horrible Gelatinous Blob, and Lrrr, RULER OF THE PLANET Omnicron-Persei 8 is just your imagination. So LaMarche insists. And indeed, if close enough attention is paid, there are major differences. The Blob's voice is more guttural than Lrrr, and Morbo's is deeper. Where exactly Mr. HGB and Lrrr fall on the evil spectrum depends on the episode.
• Subverted in Gargoyles. Not only does Goliath have a deeper voice than the main antagonist, but he has the deepest voice in the entire primary cast. Played completely straight with Goliath's Evil Twin, Thailog.
• Both subverted and played straight in G.I. Joe; Cobra Commander has a very high pitched, whiny voice, while Destro has a suitably deep one and Zartan's is relatively normal, but with an electronic echo effect that makes it sound louder than it is.
  • Played straight in the live action movie, where the Doctor who later upgrades to the Commander pulls the deepest and most menacing voice he can do.
    • Same goes for the sequel, G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
• Inverted in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983), where Skeletor's voice gets rather shrieky, complete with cackling, after he loses his face. Played straight with Marzo, when being freed from his dwarfing curse.
  • Played straight in the Italian dub of the 2002 version, where Skeletor's voice sounds like a deep growl.
• The Head: The normally screechy Gork affects a deep psuedo-British hypnotic baritone when he is confident and sure of himself (or if he's feeling snarky).^note The implication is that the screechy voice is him speaking his native language, which is translated for our benefit, while the deep voice is a genuine effort to converse in English His Evil Overlord boss also has deep, gravelly voice.
• Dr. Claw. (Unless the voice comes from excessive chain-smoking, and he just puts the echo on for effect...)
• Darkseid (again) in Justice League Action, this time voiced by Jonathan Adams — the same guy who voiced Vaatu in The Legend Of Korra (see below).
• Kaeloo: The show's Villain Protagonist, Mr. Cat, has the deepest voice of all the characters and sounds like an adult despite being less than 13 years old. Olaf the emperor penguin, another antagonist, also has a deep voice and sounds like a grown man. The trope is averted with Stumpy and Pretty, whose voices are high-pitched.
• Kim Possible: "Rufus In Show" subverts this with the villainous Falsetto Jones who was caught in a "freak helium accident" that raised his voice's pitch.
  • Warhok, the Big Bad of the Grand Finale, is the rare KP villain who actually does have a deep voice. Makes sense, as he's voiced by Ron Perlman.
• In The Legend of Korra, evil is deeper than the bottom of the ocean. Given that Amon and his Lieutenant, are voiced by Steve Blum and Lance Henriksen. Which is exactly as awesome as it sounds.
  • Not to mention non-equalist bad guys, Tarrlok and his father Yakone.
  • Now there's Vaatu, who may have the deepest voice in the series.
  • The previous series had Firelord Ozai, with possibly vary small traces of rasp.
• Miraculous Ladybug:
  • Hawk Moth's voice is noticeably deeper than that of his civilian identity, Gabriel Agreste. Since his Super-Empowering requires him to converse with his victims and get them to agree to become his minions, he most likely does it to prevent anyone from recognizing him by his normal voice. His civilian identity is quite famous, after all.
  • In "Sandboy", Cat Noir's nightmare made real of a Ladybug who hates him and tries to kill him has a far deeper and more growly voice than the genuine article.
• Subverted by King Nixel in Mixels. He has a deep and threatening voice...when he's in his battle armor. Strip that away, along with his voice-changing mustache, and he has a voice that's just as high pitched-and whiny as his minions, who he matches in size.
• Latanya Hippo from My Gym Partner's a Monkey may not be evil but she does talk in a deep, scary demonic voice especially when she is angry. It was later revealed that she's an alien named Hipeon in drag.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic provides a couple of examples:
  • Nightmare Moon of the pilot has a pretty deep voice and a great Evil Laugh. Justified by the fact that her larger stature (roughly 1.5 times the size of the main characters) would give her longer vocal cords, and thus a lower-pitched voice.
  • King Sombra of the Season 3 opener has probably the deepest voice of any character in the series. The rare times he does speak, anyway.
  • In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, Sunset Shimmer has a notably deeper voice than the other girls, and retains it even after her Heel–Face Turn.
  • At first in "Twilight's Kingdom, Part 1", Lord Tirek's voice is frail and old, but he later gains a deep, booming voice as he returns to his original power.
  • Two of the Dazzlings in Rainbow Rocks, Adagio Dazzle and Aria Blaze, have alto-range voices, but Sonata Dusk subverts this trope with her Valley Girl-esque soprano voice.
  • Season 8 gives us Chancellor Neighsay, the deeply prejudiced EEA head that takes full advantage of Maurice LaMarche's famous Orson Welles voice. This enhances his role as a massive Red Herring compared to actual Season 8 villain, Cozy Glow.
• The Beast in Over the Garden Wall, voice provided by operatic bass Samuel Ramey.
• Pete in most of his appearances is this, especially the ones where Jim Cummings or Arthur Burghardt provide his voice. Meanwhile his longtime antagonist Mickey Mouse has a very high voice, as does Pete's walked-upon Nice Guy son, PJ from Goof Troop. Interestingly enough, PJ didn't always have a high voice — in his prototype Enfant Terrible form, his voice was far too low to make sense for a child his age, making him an example too.
• In the early Popeye shorts, Bluto's voice was baritone. Especially notable if he were being played by Gus Wickie.
• Inverted with the villainous HIM from The Powerpuff Girls (1998), who normally speaks in a creepy falsetto voice. But when he gets serious/angry/just wants to be extra dramatic, his voice goes from high-pitched to really deep and growly.
• Aku, nemesis of Samurai Jack. As his voice actor Mako once put it, "Evil comes from the belly."
• Heihu, the demonic Big Bad of Shaolin Wuzang, even though he's possessing a woman's body.
• In She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Hordak has a fairly deep and intimidating baritone, courtesy of Keston John. Shadow Weaver also has a silky alto voice, courtesy of Lorraine Toussaint.
• Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons. Kelsey Grammer gives him a chilling deep voice, which makes it all the more appropriate for Bob.
• In the same vein as Dr. Claw, there's Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM). Easily the most intimidating incarnation of the character, his dramatically reverberating voice usually stayed at the level of a whisper (at least in the first season), but its menacingly low tones are among the most memorable aspects of the series.
• Even though he's very small, Plankton of SpongeBob SquarePants has a very deep baritone voice.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Terminal Provocations", Badgey's voice drops a couple of octaves when he says "hurt you" to Rutherford.
• Asajj Ventress from Star Wars: Clone Wars has a deep, gravelly voice.
• Superfriends: Darkseid has a deep, rough voice, courtesy of Frank Welker.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), the Shredder has a nice deep voice with a Japanese accent, which, while wearing his armor, sounds like it echoes robotically. Sh'Okanabo's voice in Fast Forward, of course, is surprisingly deeper than that of the Shredder. It even has an almost alien-like echo added to it (which is no surprise as Black Doom from Shadow the Hedgehog sounds exactly like him).
  • Darius Dun has a nice deep voice as well, complete with a British accent.
  • Though much deeper sounding in tone, Shredder's deep and menacing voice was retained in the 2012 series, courtesy of Kevin Michael Richardson.
• When Trigon, the main villain of the fourth season of Teen Titans (2003), had to be even more evil and threatening than Slade, the creators decided that he also had to have an even deeper voice than Slade's already quite deep Creepy Monotone, and this was done thanks to the thundering bass of Kevin Michael Richardson.
• Darkseid's example is famous enough to be outright parodied on Teen Titans Go!: when he first appears, he has a deep, echoing, gravelly voice that leaves the Titans quaking in fear...until Starfire offers him a lozenge for his sore throat. He immediately turns into "Weird Al" Yankovic, at which point none of the Titans can take him seriously anymore.
• Mumm-Ra of the Thunder Cats.
• When not pretending to be Mike, his evil personality, Mal, in Total Drama All-Stars speaks with the Voice of the Legion (complete with reverb, sometimes).
• Transformers:
  • The Transformers averted it with Megatron and Starscream both having very high, whiny voices (Starscream's being much higher than Megatron's). In fact, there were a number of Decepticons with high-pitched voices, while others had particularly deep voices, such as Thundercracker (deep but somewhat "normal" otherwise), Dirge (very deep and droning, befitting his name), and Motormaster (gravelly with an undercurrent of rage).
  • In The Transformers: The Movie, Unicron played it very straight, with his voice about as deep as you can get. Galvatron's voice in the movie was also much deeper than Megatron's (switching from Frank Welker to Leonard Nimoy), though it was subverted with Galvatron post-movie as he spent months in a pool of plasma going insane, and his voice (again provided by Welker) is actually higher-pitched than Megatron's. In both The Movie and post-movie episodes, Cyclonus and Scourge have deep voices as well.
  • Inverted in G1 in that some of the Autobots are known for their deep voices, particularly Optimus Prime and Rodimus Prime, both of whom have deeper voices than their pre-Prime identities of Orion Pax and Hot Rod.
  • Beast Wars Megatron features a rich, deep vocal performance courtesy of David Kaye, yessss. Kaye used the same voice for Unicron Trilogy Megatron, but without BW Megatron's Verbal Tic.
  • Transformers: Animated Megatron has a very deep, artificial sounding voice. His most loyal servant Lugnut also has a deep voice, and wants you to know it. Starscream is still high and scratchy despite being a bigger threat to more people than before. Lockdown has Lance Henriksen's voice, and it wouldn't be surprising if he actually had Lance Henriksen's vocal cords.
  • The live-action movie played it straight by making Megatron's voice very deep as well as Barricade's. Movie Starscream is the first incarnation of 'Screamer to have a very deep voice as well — though ever so slightly higher than the others.
    • Galvatron's voice in the fourth movie was Frank Welker, and the performance has been noted for its similarity to the voice he used for Megatron in Transformers: Prime (see below).
  • Welker's performance as Megatron in Transformers: Prime is nothing like his G1 voice, much deeper and subdued, and much more intimidating as a result.
    • Most of the Decepticons from Prime have some very deep voices, in fact. Dreadwing and Shockwave are perhaps the deepest, but even Knock Out has a deep voice! Starscream's voice is still higher-pitched, but less so than in G1 or Animated, particularly on those rare occasions when he's not panicking or groveling. The Predacons also have deep voices, especially Predaking when he reveals his voice.
    • As is traditional, the Prime portrayal of Unicron also possesses a deep, imposing voice... In fact, this portrayal of Unicron gets the type of voice typically used for God, which is somewhat unsettling.
  • Transformers: Robots in Disguise also has a number of Decepticons with deep voices, including the suave baritone of Steeljaw and the gruff New York accent of Thunderhoof. Special mention goes to Megatronus, who sounds like they're trying to conceal his voice actor's identity.
• Whenever Lord Dominator is fully wearing her armor, her voice turns low and growly, courtesy of Fred Tatasciore.
• Vandal Savage, Big Bad (or at least the founder of the group that collectively forms the Big Bad) of the first season of Young Justice (2010), has a very deep, growling voice.
  • Black Beetle from the second season has an even deeper voice (and that's his voice actor's actual voice), as does Mongul, who is voiced by Keith David.
• Zeroman: The Castrato's voice drops multiple octaves once he gets the Zero Suit. It returns to normal after he gets hit in the crotch with a shoe.

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