To-do list:
- Rename Guttural Growler to Raspy And Tough and retool it directly (as opposed to launching a new trope) to refer to where a raspy voice is used to symbolize the character being tough, and make it a unisex trope about the general "raspy=tough" idea.
- Rewrite the description at Sandbox.Raspy And Tough.
- Clean up on-page examples.
- Clean up wicks.
From what I saw on this site, Guttural Growler seems to have a confusing definition. It is often stated to be "character has a low, raspy voice", which isn't exactly a trope and would fit much better on things like Evil Sounds Raspy (raspy voices signifying evil characters) or Tomboyish Voice (a girl with a raspy voice to signify her as a tomboy). So I think a wick check is in order.
Here's the check (with organizing help from Yindee) and the results:
- Gruff/Raspy voice with some context (10/50)
- Chairs (22/50)
- ZCE (14/50)
- Unsure (4/50)
Solutions:
- Create a trope where a raspy is voice is used to symbolize the character being tough. Make a male-centric example to a "Tough guy with raspy voice" example and move female examples to Tomboyish Voice. If not, we can create a unisex trope about the general "raspy=tough" idea. (though that might also need a seperate wick check for TV).
- Rename and redefine the trope (in-line with the first solution)
Wick check:
From what I saw on this site, Guttural Growler seems to have a confusing definition. It is often stated to be "character has a low, raspy voice", which isn't exactly a trope and would fit much better on things like Evil Sounds Raspy (raspy voices signifying evil characters) or Tomboyish Voice (a girl with a raspy voice to signify her as a tomboy). So I think a wick check is in order.(50/50)
- Gruff/Raspy voice with some context (10/50)
- Chairs (22/50)
- ZCE (14/50)
- Unsure (4/50)
- Characters.Condemned Criminal Origins (Director Ike Ferrel) /Guttural Growler: While he sounds perfectly normal in the first game, the second game has him speaking in a very harsh and gravelly voice. The metal implants in his body may have something to do with it. has some context
- Characters.Dishonored Daud And Billie Lurk (Daud) /Guttural Growler: Regardless of your chaos level his voice will always be deep and raspy which does help his intimidating presence. Gruff/Raspy voice with some context
- Characters.Dragon Calling Antagonists And Villains (Sadukravon) /Guttural Growler: Being a manticor, he often rumbles and growls in what one would imagine a lion-like manner. has some context
- Characters.Fire Emblem Three Houses Dimitri /Guttural Growler: Post-timeskip on the Azure Moon and Verdant Wind routes, Dimitri has a deeper, more aggressive voice and growls nearly every line he speaks. On the Azure Moon route, after he realizes what kind of person he's become and takes a turn for the better, his voice softens a little, though he still growls at his enemies in battle. has some context
- Characters.Five Nights At Freddys William Afton (Scraptrap) /Guttural Growler: He speaks with a creepy, growling voice. Seeing as Afton spoke more clearly in the opening to Sister Location, it's fair to say that decades trapped in a rotting suit didn't do his vocal cords any good. has some context
- Characters.Malus Darkblade (Malus' Family/Isilvar) /Guttural Growler: He has a low, rasping voice, the result of Malus stabbing him in the throat when the Cult of Slaanesh's hideout was raided by Khainite warriors. has some context
- Characters.The Righteous Gemstones Other Characters (The Devil) /Guttural Growler: This is actually a plot point. Scotty has a low, scary voice but he lowers it even further into a harsh snarl to disguise his identity when blackmailing Jesse. has some context
- Characters.Spec Ops The Line (Walker) /Guttural Growler: As the campaign goes on and Walker continues losing his mind, his combat barks become more feral and psychotic and he starts straight growling, throat tearing and all, a lot more. has some context
- Characters.Star Wars The Mandalorian Character Sheet /Guttural Growler: He speaks with a tough-sounding rasp. It usually seems due to his helmet distorting his voice, but he still sounds hoarse even without it. has some context
- Characters.Uncut Gems (Phil & Nico) /Guttural Growler: Phil has a deep and raspy voice* . has some context, but it's kinds written as natter
- Characters.Bloodborne Secondary Characters (Valtr) /Guttural Growler: He has a very deep, guttural voice, unlike Solaire. chairs
- Characters.Critical Role Darrington Brigade (Buddy) /Guttural Growler: Liam plays him with a very deep, gravelly voice. chairs
- Characters.Dark Souls II Secondary Characters (Benhart of Jugo) /Guttural Growler: Speaks with a deep, gravelly voice: his heavy Scottish accent only makes it more recognizable. chairs
- Characters.DCEU General Zod /Guttural Growler: Zod normally has an even-toned voice, but when he's feeling aggressive his voice will suddenly become noticably coarse. chairs
- Characters.The Despair In Our Stars (Female Students/Natsuki Sumeragi) /Guttural Growler: Her actual voice is rather low, especially for a girl. chairs
- Characters.El Cid 2020 Kingdom Of Leon (King Fernando I of León) /Guttural Growler: Has an impressively growling voice when speaking. chairs
- Characters.Escape From New York (Snake Plissken) /Guttural Growler: His voice is raspy and hoarse. Kurt Russell said he inspired it by Clint Eastwood. chairs
- Characters.Genshin Impact Zhongli /Guttural Growler: His grunts and combat voicelines make him come across as this, though in English Keith Silverstein gives him an even more noticeable growl. chairs
- Characters.Grandmaster Of Demonic Cultivation Mo Dao Zu Shi Nie Clan Of Qinghe (Nie Mingjue) /Guttural Growler: In the Japanese audio drama, kudos of his voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda, Nie Mingjue had a deep and raspy voice. chairs
- Characters.Immortals Fenyx Rising (Ares) /Guttural Growler: Even as a chicken, he talks in a booming, raspy voice. chairs
- Characters.The Land Before Time Sequel Films (Archie) /Guttural Growler: His first scene has him growling at an isolated Littlefoot in a way that makes him look like a threat, but he quickly mellows out once he sees that Littlefoot is just a lost kid and not a Sharptooth. seems like chairs
- Characters.Little Miss Sunshine (Secondary Characters/The Biker Dad) /Guttural Growler: Has a very raspy voice. chairs
- Characters.The Man In The High Castle Series Resistance (Gary) /Guttural Growler: He speaks with a low, raspy voice. chairs
- Characters.Masters Of The Universe The Evil Horde (Hordak) /Guttural Growler: In the 1980s She-Ra cartoon, Hordak has a raspy, abrasive voice. chairs
- Characters.Mortal Kombat 2021 (Scorpion) /Guttural Growler: As Scorpion, Hanzo's voice takes on a harsh, gravelly quality, especially evident in his iconic "GET OVER HERE!". chairs
- Characters.Popeye (Popeye The Sailor) /Guttural Growler: Has a low, gruff voice. chairs
- Characters.Regular Show Main Characters ( Muscle Man) /Guttural Growler: Has an exaggeratedly deep, growling voice, in contrast with the light, high voice of Pops and the more monotonous, slightly nasal tone of Benson (all performed by Sam Marin). chairs
- Characters.Saints Row The Third Street Saints (Oleg Kirlov) /Guttural Growler: He has a distinct gravelly voice. chairs
- Characters.A Song Of Ice And Fire Essos The Dothraki (General) /Guttural Growler: The Dothraki language is described as rough and harsh-sounding. chairs
- Characters.Star Wars Zygerria (Darts D'Nar) /Guttural Growler: He snarls and growls like an animal when he speaks. chairs
- Characters.Still Waters 1 (American Division Agents/Max Linell) Guttural Growler: His voice is deep and very rough sounding. chairs
- Characters.Zeno Clash (Playable Charactrs/Ghat) /Guttural Growler: Has a very harsh, yet actually somewhat quiet voice. Unless he's yelling, then he loses the rasp. chairs
- Characters.Arrowverse Hunter Zolomon /Guttural Growler: His disguised voice is even deeper and more demonic than the Reverse-Flash's voice. zce
- Characters.Batman Arkham Series Gotham Citizens (Alberto Falcone) /Guttural Growler: When he makes a threatening phone call to Roman Sionis in what sounds like his Holiday Killer persona. ZCE
- Characters.Citadel Of The Heart Digimon Re Tamers (Protagonists (canon)|Impmon) /Guttural Growler: How his Beelzemon form maintains his Badass Baritone of a fully evolved Digimon, due to the fact the English Dub of the original series had him constantly slip into his Impmon voice due to how rarely calm he was. ZCE
- Characters.Dragon Ball Tournament Characters (Giran) /Guttural Growler: He normally speaks in a deep growl. zce
- Characters.Final Fantasy Type 0 ( Marshal Cid Aulstyne) /Guttural Growler: His voice has a decent edge to it. zce
- Characters.Halo The Banished (Atriox) /Guttural Growler: Most noticeably when speaking in gameplay. zce
- Characters.Highlander (Connor MacLeod) /Guttural Growler: Part of his unique accent is a raspy intonation. zce
- Characters.I Am Alive (The Protagonist) /Guttural Growler: Not too deep but deep enough to sound like nails. zce
- Characters.Jade Empire (The Black Whirlwind) /Guttural Growler: He speaks with a growling baritone. zce
- Characters.Metal Gear Big Boss /Guttural Growler: Like father, like son. zce
- Characters.Oz Homeboys (Omar) /Guttural Growler: He has a very gravelly voice. zce
- Characters.Play Station All Stars Battle Royale Third Party And DLC (Raiden)/ Gutteral Growler zce
- Characters.Spider Man Shattered Dimensions (The Goblin) /Guttural Growler: Less so as a human, but his monster form ramps it up considerably. zce
- Characters.Syrellia (Recurring Characters/ A'idhul Rahman) /Guttural Growler: Remarked on a lot, as his voice is completely different from everyone else's. He knows it creeps people out. zce
- Characters.ERB Season 3 (Blackbeard) /Guttural Growler: He doesn't talk as much as he roars in the form of words. unsure
- Characters.Godzilla The Godzillas (Heisei Godzilla) /Guttural Growler: From 1984 to 1991, this Godzilla had a deeper, aggressive roar more akin to that of the original Godzilla, complete with ferocious growling sounds and snarls. Unsure
- Characters.Soul Eater Troubled Souls Project Omega (Primordial Form) /Guttural Growler: All it does is rasp and roar. It precedes the First Form, so it’s even more primitive than that prototype, despite being implied to possess more power. Unsure
- Characters.Yakuza 0 Sotenbori Residents (Wen Hai Lee) /Guttural Growler: His huge, muscular build is well-complemented by a coarse, gruff voice. unsure
Solutions:
- Create a trope where a raspy is voice is used to symbolize the character being tough. Make a male-centric example to a "Tough guy with raspy voice" example and move female examples to Tomboyish Voice. If not, we can create a unisex trope about the general "raspy=tough" idea. (though that might also need a seperate wick check for TV).
- Rename and redefine the trope (in-line with the first solution)
Edited by GastonRabbit on Jul 2nd 2023 at 2:19:22 PM
~Tropers/Ayumichan
Macron's notes~Ayumi-chan , since the lack of a dash screwed Macron's ping up
TRS Queue | Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper Wall~Tropers/Ayumi-chan (missed the hyphen)
Macron's notesRenaming would work. Raspy And Tough?
The old location can be a disambiguation.
she/her | TRS needs your help! | Contributor of Trope ReportI'm leaning on the second solution currently.
Leaning toward doing this and disambiguating the old name.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.Sorry, just woke up.
Anyways, I think Raspy And Tough is a good trope idea so .
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And when it comes up, I have an entry that would fit...
- Goblins in the Castle: Igor almost always speaks in a growling tone, which Fauna notes in book 2 isn't because he's angry (usually) — it's just the way he talks. He's also incredibly strong, as evidenced in the first book when he shoves aside a massive boulder.
Until next time...
Anon e Mouse Jr.
If you're responding directly to one of my posts, please ping me to make sure I see it.to Gaston's suggestion.
If we have Evil Sounds Raspy, does that mean that Guttural Growler was intended to be the Good Counterpart to that trope? And if so, should the name reflect that?
Trust no one.Not exactly. Being evil and being tough are two different things but there is a lot of overlap.
She/Her | Currently cleaning N/AYeah, I was asking because I've mostly seen Guttural Growler associated with tough and abrasive heroes, though sometimes villains have it as well.
Just wanted clarification.
Trust no one.Evil Sounds Raspy was created in 2013, Guttural Growler in 2009, so the latter wouldn't have been defined or conceived in relation to the former.
Edited by MorganWick on Jun 23rd 2023 at 5:25:28 AM
I hooked a crowner with four options; two cover sending the retool to TLP and two cover renaming and retooling without TLP (since both were suggested in the OP), and the options for retooling with TLP and retooling without TLP both have two separate options to address whether the retool is Always Male or unisex (with female examples being moved to Tomboyish Voice if it's made Always Male).
Edited by GastonRabbit on Jun 24th 2023 at 3:03:57 AM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.Is there enough consensus to call, or no?
TRS Queue | Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper WallCalling crowner in favor of:
- Rename Guttural Growler and retool it directly (as opposed to launching a new trope) to refer to where a raspy voice is used to symbolize the character being tough, and make it a unisex trope about the general "raspy=tough" idea
Any other names besides Raspy And Tough?
Edited by MacronNotes on Jun 27th 2023 at 2:56:15 PM
Macron's notesMaybe Raspy Rapscallion? Or Raspy Rogue?
Trust no one.I feel like Guttural Growler can also apply to more animalistic or nonhuman characters that talk in a low, raspy voice, and feel that isn't being considered. Isn't something like Inhuman Rasp more appropriate?
It's not about the gold; it's about the glory.I hooked a crowner for name suggestions for the "raspy=tough" idea we decided to go with. I left out Inhuman Rasp because that doesn't fit the definition we went with (we went with a focus on toughness because most of the non-Chairs examples fit that description), but it could be Yarded or taken to TLP.
Edited by GastonRabbit on Jun 29th 2023 at 12:34:35 PM
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.Calling thread in favor of renaming Guttural Growler to Raspy And Tough. A sandbox (Sandbox.Raspy And Tough) can be used to rewrite the page.
Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 2nd 2023 at 3:17:51 PM
Macron's notesI pinned a to-do list, archived the wick check, and redirected Raspy And Tough for now.
Patiently awaiting the release of Paper Luigi and the Marvelous Compass.Added some stuff Sandbox.Raspy And Tough, please modify as you see fit and some examples.
Sorry for the lateness of this. Life and laziness kinda got in the way.
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Crown Description:
Consensus was to rename Guttural Growler and retool it to refer to where a raspy voice is used to symbolize the character being tough, and make it a unisex trope about the general "raspy=tough" idea. What should the trope's new name be?
To-do list:
From what I saw on this site, Guttural Growler seems to have a confusing definition. It is often stated to be "character has a low, raspy voice", which isn't exactly a trope and would fit much better on things like Evil Sounds Raspy (raspy voices signifying evil characters) or Tomboyish Voice (a girl with a raspy voice to signify her as a tomboy). So I think a wick check is in order.
Here's the check (with organizing help from Yindee) and the results:
Solutions:
Wick check:
From what I saw on this site, Guttural Growler seems to have a confusing definition. It is often stated to be "character has a low, raspy voice", which isn't exactly a trope and would fit much better on things like Evil Sounds Raspy (raspy voices signifying evil characters) or Tomboyish Voice (a girl with a raspy voice to signify her as a tomboy). So I think a wick check is in order.(50/50)
Solutions:
Edited by GastonRabbit on Jul 2nd 2023 at 2:19:22 PM
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