History Main / CuteButCacophonic

** [[Characters/TotalDramaCourtney Courtney's]] high pitched and childish voice does not mesh well with her uptight personality. In particular, in "Get a Clue", she whines to Chris about wanting a prize after she solves his first riddle then after she brought in two samples of DNA, with Chris giving her his bag of cheese puffs to shut her up.
** Lindsay's high pitched and childish voice is appropriate for her [[SimpletonVoice level of intellengence]], but in "Not So Happy Campers - Part 1", Lindsay whines about the communal bathrooms, in which Gwen covers her ears. Shortly thereafter, Lindsay screams bloody murder when she finds a cockroach in the cabin.

* ''WebComic/PrincessPrincess'': Amira goes to rescue Sadie because she thinks she is screaming in distress... turns out she was actually singing.

** In ''Pahkitew Island'', Ella is an [[TheCutie adorable]] faux-princess with a BeautifulSingingVoice; however, her teammates find her constant and often inopportune singing to be annoying, especially Sugar. Chris is also annoyed by Ella's singing [[spoiler:to the point where he threatens to boot Ella from the show if she sings again, and actually follows through with his threat]].

** Rosie from ''Mariel of Redwall'' and "The Bellmaker'' (both of which were published before ''Lord Brocktree'', but take place later chronologically) is another cute female hare whose singing leaves a lot to be desired. She also has a very loud laugh which she likes to let rip at every opportunity.

* In the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' series, Dorothea Duckfontein Dillworthy is a very sweet and pretty hare-girl who just happens to have the worst singing voice ever. Nobody has the heart to tell her.

** The Chimeron princess from "Delta and the Bannermen" has the ability to produce a shrill warning cry which the Bannermen ([[MonsterOfTheWeek the story's antagonists]]) seem particularly sensitive. The Doctor exploits this by using some sound equipment to amplify her cry, leading to the defeat of the Bannermen.

* One ''Series/DoctorWho'' companion, Victoria, had a notoriously powerful scream. In one episode, they're on an oil rig being attacked by killer seaweed, so the Doctor hooks a microphone up to a sonic gun and has Victoria scream into it. This kills it.

** Whenever Jen of the Fashion Bloggers freaks out, she screeches like a banshee.

This trope is the flipside of KillerRabbit, wherein the cute thing looks innocent, fluffy and harmless, but is actually vicious and deadly. Note that some Cute but Cacophonic animals are ''also'' {{Killer Rabbit}}s. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Beware the Cute Ones]].

* Creator/FourKidsEntertainment’s Anime/OjamajoDoremi dub is known for its terrible voice acting, but Pop Harukaze/Caitlyn Goodwyn's voice is quite a migraine to the ears, even when compared to the main characters. '''[[https://youtu.be/nqgtQzODUu8 Just listen for yourself.]]'''

%%* Dear, god.. Pop Harukaze aka. Caitlyn Goodwyn in Creator/FourKidsEntertainment’s Anime/OjamajoDoremi dub, '''[[https://youtu.be/nqgtQzODUu8 listen for yourself.]]'''

** Also [[CuteGhostGirl Perona's]] personal pet peeve. She adores all her [[NightmareFetishist macabre]] living stuffed animals (which she calls "cute"), but hates their monstrous voices and forbids them from talking. The cuter they are the less they're allowed to talk, such as her favorite companion, a man-sized stuffed bear named Kumashi. For that matter, Perona herself is a pretty cute young [[OlderThanTheyLook woman]], but her voice can get pretty loud and high-pitched.

* Popular opinion of Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s locker room reporter Leticia Cline. [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Vinny]] suggested she apply to be a Wrestling/{{CMLL}} ring girl, [[MsFanservice play more to her strengths.]]

* Cherry Bomb
-->Amber Gertner: "I wish the collar bone injury had done something to the screechy voice, just saying."
* The Beautiful Brenda, Famous B's valet on Wrestling/LuchaUnderground, is certainly very attractive (if [[DumbBlonde not very bright]]) but she has a voice that can strip the paint off the walls when she gets excited.

* R&B singer [[http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/michel_le/bio.jhtml Michel'le]] is known for the vast difference between [[https://youtu.be/1IvtYAp7rVY her sultry singing voice and her cartoonishly high-pitched speaking voice]].
* At an early Music/LedZeppelin show, the sound system broke down, but they kept playing anyway, and legend has it even the ''back row'' could hear Robert Plant's voice perfectly.
* Music/HelloProject:
** Former member Yaguchi Mari; she's only 4'8'' or so tall with big brown eyes and a generally sweet disposition. She's also HotBlooded and tends to have NoIndoorVoice when she does get riled up, which is [[BerserkButton not difficult at times]].
** Her former bandmate Takahashi Ai fits the other side of the trope, her scream is much lower than what you'd expect from a woman of her size.

* Music/RebeccaBlack, as seen in the "Friday" music video.
* Japanese musician, Music/{{Kana}} (or MOON Kana she is now called) is actually very cute but seems to be aiming at this trope ''too'' hard. If not in her [[https://youtu.be/Td7VXWRPhjc punk or rock image using her screechy vocals]], she'll be an [[UncannyValleyGirl uncanny]] GenkiGirl who sings songs about moons, cats, bunnies, fruits, dragons, or anything, all with a nasally small, sometimes tone-deaf, voice. [[https://youtu.be/iYmIEg4Zl5A Tries to talk like one, too.]]
* Music/{{Bjork}}. Holy hell, the woman can ''yowl''.

* Seiko Oomori dresses like a typical IdolSinger, but her music sounds like, as she puts it, "Disneyland from hell." For instance, her single, ''[[https://youtu.be/1qlEeVS2vMU Kyuru Kyuru]]''.

* Music/{{Eminem}}, circa 1999, had a PrettyBoy appearance and boyish mannerisms that more resembled the [[TeenPop mass-manufactured boyband stars]] of the age than the other popular TurnOfTheMillennium rappers, and many interviewers remarked on how, when speaking out-of-character, his voice is unexpectedly soft and pleasant. The reason this was surprising is because his ''rapping'' voice was an obnoxious [[NerdyNasalness high-pitched, nasal squeak]], even leaving aside the [[ShockRock obscene]] and [[GrossoutShow revolting]] things he'd use that voice to describe. While he toned down the squeaking on his later albums, he had fun inventing new ways for his voice to grate, such as experimenting with MetalScream-influenced techniques, singing out-of-tune with no pitch correction, and (a decade later) dabbling with ironic AutoTune. His bio for his Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction described his voice as "somehow guttural and nasal simultaneously".
* Music/EmilieAutumn deliberately invokes this when singing raspily as part of her asylum inmate shtick.

* The Trope Inspirer was a cute little bird, something like a [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Tawny Frogmouth]], in the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSwamp The Swamp]]". It is all fluffy and precious, and then it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Zuv5PsXRY emits a loud call that sounds disconcertingly like a woman being murdered]].
** This particular instance doubles as the mother of all {{Jump Scare}}s.
* This is the basis of the WesternAnimation/MGMOneshotCartoon "Little Gravel Voice"; the short is centered on a little donkey who is very cute and friendly, but his bray is not only extremely obnoxious (and keeps botching his attempts to befriend the local animals) but literally ''harmful'', as the wolf it encounters later finds out the hard way. Even after he wins over the other animals by scaring off the wolf, they still tie up his snout with his ears, just so they won't have to hear his braying anymore.
* Dr. Girlfriend from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' looks like Jackie Onassis but sounds rather like Harvey Fierstein. She says it's from smoking a lot but has inspired rumors that she's UsefulNotes/{{transgender}}.
-->"Do you smoke cigarettes, or do you ''eat'' them?"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** The episode "The Frying Game" had the endangered screaming caterpillar (or "screamapillar"). It ''is'' cute when not screaming... or laughing at Homer being executed...
** In "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington", Mayor Quimby redirects airplane traffic away from the motel where he conducts his affairs so he can hear his partner's (Miss Springfield) voice. When he discovers that she falls under this trope, Quimby laments "Now I regret buying you that opera house!"
*** The above is a reference to ''Citizen Kane'', where Kane uses his fortune to finance his mistress's opera career -- until everyone else finds out that her singing voice is horrendously mediocre.
** "Margical History Tour": During the story of King Henry VIII, Henry (Homer) is looking for a new queen, spotting an attractive woman in the corner. Cut to their wedding, and when she gives her vows, she speaks in a shaky nasal voice. Henry has her executed ''immediately'' after the wedding.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** A relatively early example in animation is the WesternAnimation/BugsBunny short ''WesternAnimation/LittleRedRidingRabbit''. Little Red is extremely loud and boisterous, with a grating voice. She annoys Bugs and the Big Bad Wolf so much, it gets to the point where they decide to punish ''her'' (and since she annoys the audience too, it's a pretty satisfactory ending).
--->'''Red:''' ''GRANDMA! HEY, GRANDMA!''\\
'''Bugs:''' I'll do it, but I'll probably hate myself in the morning.\\
''[cue Red switching places with the Wolf holding up the mountain of junk over a shovel of hot coal]''
** There was also a despondent duckling with a briefcase who, whenever Daffy Duck tried to comfort him or ask [[MacGuffin what was inside]], would shout in a loud man's voice, '''[[BrattyHalfPint NYAAAAAAAH, SHUT UP!!!]]''' By the end of the short, Daffy and the hunter chasing him have had enough of the little Jerkass, so they just take the briefcase and open it [[spoiler:revealing something they both dread: a THE END title card!]]
** Bob Clampett seems to have enjoyed this gag. Tweety Bird and other cute little creatures in his shorts could suddenly have a deep and ''very'' loud voice. This is also one of his DistaffCounterpart [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Sweety Bird]]'s signature gags.
--->Aw, da poor puddy tat. He fall down an' go... '''''BOOM!'''''
** Another ''Looney Tunes'' short featured a bird whose cry for some reason, sounds like an old-timey car horn.
* ''WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs'' had a recurring character based on the aforementioned Little Red Riding Hood. Her voice tended to fluctuate between a voice you'd expect from a young girl and something akin to a foghorn that learned English.
* ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' character Vavoom was a cute little Eskimo fellow who could be called upon to make a Sonic Attack by saying his name. Walls would shatter. Mountains could be tunneled through if he said his name repeatedly.

* Sally Avril from ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan''. Cute cheerleader, but has a voice that could peel paint from the walls. [[AlphaBitch Her personality]] doesn't help much either.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', "Day of the Flecko", while Rocko is trying to sleep, a cute little bird flies into a tree branch, chirping. But soon its chirps become louder and more obnoxious to the point of yelling "CHOIP! CHOIP! CHOIP!" Rocko retaliates with a BigShutUp, causing the bird to fall from the tree.

* [[Music/YokoOno Yoyo Nono]] from the ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode "All You Need is Narf."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'':
** Caitlin's speaking voice is fine when she's calm, but she has a seriously loud, ear-piercing scream, and her bawling can be grating as well.
** The Khaki Barn clones all have childish, high-pitched voices. Although it [[SimpletonVoice befits their lack of intelligence]], they tend to group {{squee}}, which annoys Nikki to no end.
* Brittany Taylor from ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}''. Her high-pitched voice can make it hard to understand her sometimes, especially when she is hysterical. However, in "The Old and the Beautiful", residents at a retirement home take a liking to her voice.

* Gus from ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' is adorable, and his speaking voice sounds fine when he's calm. When he starts screaming, especially in "Germ Warfare", it gets annoying.
* Darwin the adorable [[UpliftedAnimal walking, talking goldfish]] and Gumball's adopted little brother in ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' can scream high enough to break glass. Taken to extremes in "The Castle" when Gumball makes fun of his voice and he lets out a scream so shrill, it almost renders Gumball and Anais catatonic.
* A lot of gags concerning Brak in ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'', ''WesternAnimation/TheBrakShow'', and ''WesternAnimation/CartoonPlanet'' invoke this trope. He has adorable mannerisms, but his easily-excited demeanor and tendency to sing about everything makes him less endearing to those around him.

** In ''Pahkitew Island'', Ella is an [[TheCutie adorable]] faux-princess with a BeautifulSingingVoice; however, her teammates find her constant and often inopportune singing to be annoying, especially Sugar. Chris is also annoyed by Ella's singing [[spoiler:to the point where he threatens to boot Ella from the show if she sings again, and actually follows through with his threat]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': [[Characters/DCAUHarleyQuinn Harley Quinn]] is pretty cute both in and out of costume in a PerkyFemaleMinion way, but her voice provided by Arleen Sorkin is very nasally and screechy. Of course, this is intentional and based on RuleOfFunny, and the episode showing [[http://youtu.be/gd_Puz9ngRE her origin]] shows that she's capable of speaking in a more normal voice and only switched to the screechy one once she donned the costume.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheSecretDoor'', Malucia's singing is so loud and high-pitched it shatters Grodlin's glasses while he's busy covering his ears.
* Elsa the ghost angelfish from the "Monster Tail" segments of "Wake, Rattle, and Roll" she has a very sweet and soft voice but she shouts at the end of most of her sentences.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': [[Characters/StevenUniverseStevenQuartzUniverse Steven Quartz Universe]] may be an adorable little boy, but has a tendency to get rather shouty at times.
* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'': Misery sure is adorable, but her banshee wailing can shatter glass miles away.
* In special ''WesternAnimation/TootAndPuddle: I'll Be Home for Christmas'', this is true of all of the puppies except for "Golden," named such because "Silence is golden."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':
** Angelica pretends to be this. She's just plain bratty-yelly, though.
** Tommy’s baby brother Dil when he cries, in the movie where he is introduced the other babies cover their ears when he cries and comment on how loud and annoying he is, Angelica complains at one point that he’s so loud she can’t hear the tv.
* In ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'', Ming tried to wipe out the zuffoids because he couldn't stand the incessant sing-song chant they produce when several of them get together. Zuffy was thought to be the only zuffoid to have escaped the massacre, but, towards the end of the "Prince Kro-Tan" arc, the Defenders discover a whole colony of zuffoids on Mongo and use their chant as a weapon against the MonsterOfTheWeek. However, Mandrake at least seems to share Ming's sentiments about the noise:
-->That's why Ming tried to destroy all the zuffoids!
* Olga Pataki of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' has a very grating high-pitched voice, especially when she gets excited or cries.
* Nancy Gribble of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' is the resident MsFanservice and speaks in a sultry tone most of the time, but tends to sound very shrill when she loses her cool.
** Luanne Platter's voice gets very shrill when she get emotional, and as of season 3 her voice is permanently shrill.
* ''WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart:'' Adorabat, as the name indicates, is indeed adorable. She's also terribly shrill when raising her voice, and tends to screech wildly at the slightest bit of excitement or anger.
* Timmy Turner from ''WesternAnimation/FairlyOddParents'' when he gets upset his screaming and yelling can get very shrill and grating.
* Moofy from the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' episode "Girl Who Cried Gnome". She's very adorable and hilarious with the personality of GenkiGirl, but her voice is awfully shrill whenever she loses it. It doesn’t help that she's emotionally unstable, this is due to her being a very spoiled young girl.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'': Augie's [[DreadfulMusician song]] in the first episode is so awful that it sends a bedridden patient into cardiac arrest, as well as making Yogi lose his appetite. [[ChekhovsGun The latter ends up saving the day.]]
* [[{{Keet}} Chum Chum]] from ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' is Fanboy's best friend and sidekick who is energetic and high spirited. Thanks to his actress Creator/NikaFutterman, he has a high pitched voice and his screams are so loud that it could [[https://youtu.be/ToZuZ-Oe-kI send Lenny flying!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/LetsGoLuna'': Vlad from "Lullaby for Baby Vlad". He's a cute little bear cub, but his crying is extremely loud.
* ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'':
** George Pig can easily fit this trope due to his constant ProneToTears.
** In the Spanish dub, when Richard cries, he sounds like he's shrieking.
** Baby Alexander's wailing is loud enough to be heard from quite a while away. Although it's justified, since he ''is'' a baby.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'': Caillou is a cute looking child who easily [[TantrumThrowing throws tantrums]] especially in the infamous circus episode.
-->'''Caillou''': [[MemeticMutation Silly old car, silly, silly, silly!]] '''''[[InelegantBlubbering WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!]]'''''
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': [[AnnoyingYoungerSibling D.W. Read]] is also notorious in her early seasons up until season 15 in where she was a tantrum thrower and fits especially in "[[Recap/ArthurS2E18ArthurVsTheVeryMeanCrossingGuardDWsVeryBadMood D.W.'s Very Bad Mood]]" in where she constantly throws fits over not getting invited to her friend's party and "[[Recap/ArthurS2E3DWThePickyEaterBusterAndTheDaredevils D.W. The Picky Eater]]" where she gets [[BerserkButton berserk]] over finding that her plate has [[StockYuck spinach]] which D.W. [[DoesNotLikeSpam hates]].
* ''WesternAnimation/KidVsKat'': Millie Burtonburger looks very adorable, but she screams and whines a lot to the point that [[EarthShatteringKaboom creates earthquakes and holes]].
* ''WesternAnimation/LittlePrincess'': The titular character is always prone to screaming at the top of her lungs when she is scared or frustrated, making a [[NightmareFace very wide open face]] which is scary for kids contrasting her cute appearance.
* Stitch of the ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' franchise has an incredibly nasal voice that is made worse by his gibberish-sounding alien native language, his broken and childish English, and his often manic behavior. (Although, several fans of the character heavily disagree with this and even find his voice cute as he is.) His creator and primary voice actor, ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' co-writer and co-director Creator/ChrisSanders, stated that before he wound up voicing his character, he would use that same voice to mess with and annoy his co-workers.[[note]]Sanders became Stitch's voice because the production staff got used to his vocalizations, and that he and his co-writer/co-director Creator/DeanDeBlois didn't want a professional voice actor or a celebrity to voice Stitch out of fear that Disney [[ExecutiveMeddling would force them to record more dialogue than what is absolutely necessary]] for the film.[[/note]] Despite this, Sanders also admitted in a ''Vulture'' interview in 2022 that Stitch's voice was so poorly received by test audiences that it was consistently the lowest-rated aspect of the film on their scorecards.
* WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse may be adorable in several instances, but her voice is so high that it can grate on your nerves. Kaitlyn Robrock's performance as Minnie managed to tone down her cute voice compared to Russi Taylor.
* WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}:
** Bluey is initially overjoyed to find her lost Chattermax toy, until its incessant noisemaking starts wearing on her nerves.
** Muffin is adorable, but also very easy to set off. (Especially in "Sleepover" when she was underslept due to being in the middle of transitioning away from daytime naps.)