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** In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', the redeemed Darth Vader is mortally wounded by the Emperor and his life support system is damaged beyond repair; so, in his final moments, he has Luke remove his mask so he can see him with "his own eyes." Without the mask, Vader's voice goes from his usual electronically enhanced [[MediaNotes/VoiceTypes basso profundo]] to Anakin Skywalker's natural speaking voice -- an aged, dying whisper.

** In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', the redeemed Darth Vader is mortally wounded by the Emperor and his life support system is damaged beyond repair; so, in his final moments, he has Luke remove his mask so he can see him with "his own eyes." Without the mask, Vader's voice goes from his usual electronically enhanced BassoProfundo to Anakin Skywalker's natural speaking voice -- an aged, dying whisper.

* In the finale of ''Series/TheHauntingOfHillHouse'', Steve ends up getting trapped inside [[EldritchLocation the Red Room]] and pacified with [[LotusEaterMachine an illusion of a happy life]] with Leigh -- who is now pregnant. However, the moment Steve realizes that none of this is real, the Room turns the scenario into a nightmare: Leigh's belly begins to swell to horrific proportions as black mold eats her from the inside out; now speaking in the VoiceOfTheLegion, she remarks that this will continue until [[{{Chestburster}} she bursts open]] -- though Nellie is fortunately able to awaken Steve from the nightmare before this happens.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'', after defeating [[HonestJohnsDealership Spamton]] [[spoiler:[[{{Superboss}} NEO]]]], his post-battle cutscene will feature him talking with proper grammar as opposed to his normal [[CapsLock all-caps speech]], and without his ElectronicSpeechImpediment. He then [[NotQuiteDead turns into a weapon or an armor item]] depending on how the player defeated him.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'', after defeating [[HonestJohnsDealership Spamton G. Spamton]], his post-battle cutscene will feature him talking with proper grammar as opposed to his normal [[CapsLock all-caps speech]], and without his ElectronicSpeechImpediment. He then [[NotQuiteDead turns into a weapon or an armor item]] depending on how the player defeated him.

** Android 19 is meant to be the ObviousBeta of Dr Gero's creations, and is voiced by a computer text-to-speech program; as such, when Vegeta finally blows him to pieces and reduces him to a malfunctioning head, 19 suffers an ElectronicSpeechImpediment before finally winding down into a slow-motion drone as he informs his killer that "[[ThirtyDayFreeTrial Your 30-day trial has expired]]. [[NonSequiturThud Would you like to purchase WinRAR]]?"

** In ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho014TheHolyTerror The Holy Terror]]'', the prison dimension finally ceases to exist when Eugene Tacitus commits suicide with the Child's assistance. With the prisoner dead, the Child's purpose is complete and thus slowly ceases to exist as well; as he does so, his voice [[RapidAging audibly ages]] into that of Eugene himself before fading away entirely. For good measure, both Eugene and the Child are voiced by the same actor, albeit digitally altered to sound more childlike in the latter case.

** Another Cyberman example crops up in ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho058TheHarvest The Harvest]]''. Here, a Cyber-Leader known as Subject One has been partially converted into a human being at his own request, and as a result, his voice is almost completely human for most of the story. However, graft rejection undermines the process Subject One's voice turning metallic towards the end of the story; when his minions are switched off and he can no longer force the Doctor to perform surgery, he's [[VillainousBreakdown quickly reduced to hysterically begging for help]] in an electronically-distorted voice before ultimately flatlining.
** During the climax of ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho076Singularity Singularity]]'', Great Quel is about to be evicted from Dr Pushkin's body and flushed back to the end of time with all the other [[PathOfInspiration Somnus cult]] leaders. However, Pushkin realizes that Quel cannot be allowed to escape or else she'll just start the plot all over again, and instead uses her willpower to trap Quel's mind inside her body [[TakingYouWithMe so that they'll die together]] when the [[EvilTowerOfOminousness Somnus Tower]] explodes; the two of them spend their last few minutes fluctuating wildly between two different voices -- one speaking in Quel's Received Pronunciation, the other speaking with Pushkin's Russian accent.
** In yet ''another'' Cyberman example, ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho135LegendOfTheCybermen Legend of the Cybermen]]'' features a Cyber-Planner attempting to take over the Land Of Fiction; however, thanks to the efforts of The Doctor, Captain Nemo, and Count Dracula, it's successfully hacked with a cybermat and forced to use [[RealityWarper the power it's usurped]] to [[RetGone edit itself and the Cybermen out of existence]]. As a result, the Cyber-Planner's [[EvilSoundsDeep normally-low voice]] turns high-pitched and shrieking as it declares that Cybermen do not exist, before vanishing in a PuffOfLogic.

* For most of ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', the T-1000 has been speaking in perfectly legible English with Robert Patrick's distinctive voice. However, after being blown out of shape with a grenade launcher and tumbling into the molten steel below, it can only emit high-pitched metallic screeching sounds in lieu of speech; as a result, the T-1000's ShapeshifterSwanSong is spent screaming like fingernails on a blackboard as it slowly melts.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', [[ParentalSubstitute Toriel]] and [[BoisterousBruiser Undyne]]'s voices significantly lowers in pitch just before they die.

** Demonstrated by Android 19 ''again'' in Dragon Ball Z Kai episode 3.1 -- this time exhibiting a low-pitch drone while remarking "Father, I wish to be a real boy..."

Whatever the case, their voice changes as they slowly expire. May involve DyingAsYourself in some cases. This trope plus {{Catchphrase}} equals PreMortemCatchphrase and AlternateCatchphraseInflection.

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays The Parting of the Ways]]": Jack Harkness tries to slow the Dalek attack on Satellite 5 by deploying the [[Series/TheWeakestLink Anne-Droid]] against them. To her credit, she manages to stop three of them with her transmat beam and a snappy recitation of "[[{{Catchphrase}} You are the weakest link!]]" But then another Dalek arrives and blasts her head off, leaving her voice to wind down to a digitally-distorted drone as she concludes "Goodbye..."

* ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'': Parodied in Spoony's playthrough of ''VideoGame/Phantasmagoria2'' when Curtis manages to prevent the Hecatomb from pulling a GrandTheftMe, destroying his psychic projection in the process. Spoony jokingly dubs the Hecatomb with a FinalSpeech -- groaning that his "emo powers" are fading, then belting out "[[Music/LinkinPark craaaaaaaawling in my skiiiiiiiiin]]" in an increasingly lower voice before dying.

** In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', the redeemed Darth Vader is mortally wounded by the Emperor and his life support system damaged beyond repair; so, in his final moments, he has Luke remove his mask so he can see him with "his own eyes." Without the mask, Vader's voice goes from his usual electronically enhanced BassoProfundo to Anakin Skywalker's natural speaking voice -- an aged, dying whisper.

** Played with in "[[Recap/FarscapeS01E09DNAMadScientist DNA Mad Scientist]]": the mad geneticist [=NamTar=] normally speaks in a [[EvilSoundsDeep deep, refined voice]]. However, when [[TheDogBitesBack Kornata]] injects him with a serum that reverses his genetic self-modifications, his voice gets higher and more primitive as he grows progressively less advanced, until he finally reverts to his original form -- that of an unintelligent laboratory rodent. This doesn't ''physically'' kill the rodent, but it's made abundantly clear that [[DeathOfPersonality NamTar's evolved personality is gone and isn't coming back]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond:'' when his program is finally erased, [[BrainUploading Robert Vance]]'s voice regresses back through childhood, stating progressively less impressive calculations until he's reduced to reciting "one potato two potato" in a child's voice, before [[IWantMyMommy calling out for his mother]] in the voice of an infant -- then finally breaking down.

** Mecha-Freeza frequently bugs out and electronically stutters his next lines, apparently because his cyborg implants run on Windows 95. When he's finally cut in half by Trunks, he suffers a ''literal'' Blue Screen Of Death, and his horrified scream glitches into a hanging repeat of itself before he finally splits right down the middle - and then he goes silent as Trunks slices him to pieces and blasts him into oblivion.

** Demonstrated by Android 19 ''again'' in Dragon Ball Z Kai episode 3.1 - this time exhibiting a low-pitch drone while remarking "Father, I wish to be a real boy..."

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* The Gemini Saint in ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' has two personalities in one body. After he is struck by Athena's staff during their first (and last) confrontation, his 'good' half briefly emerges and asks the goddess to forgive the 'evil' half. In the anime, this is marked by a change in hair color and voice. In the Italian dub, the voice actor of the 'good' half is female.

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'':
** Mecha-Freeza frequently bugs out and electronically stutters his next lines, apparently because his cyborg implants run on Windows 95. When he's finally cut in half by Trunks, he suffers a ''literal'' Blue Screen Of Death, and his horrified scream glitches into a hanging repeat of itself before he finally splits right down the middle - and then he goes silent as Trunks slices him to pieces and blasts him into oblivion.
** Android 19 is meant to be the ObviousBeta of Dr Gero's creations, and is voiced by a computer text-to-speech program; as such, when Vegeta finally blows him to pieces and reduces him to a malfunctioning head, 19 suffers an ElectronicSpeechImpediment before finally winding down into a slow-motion drone as he informs his killer that "[[ThirtyDayFreeTrial Your 30-day trial has expired]]. [[NonSequiturThud Would you like to purchase WinRAR]]?"
** Cell's victims exhibit lower and lower voices as he consumes them, resulting in their final screams being rendered as unintelligible growls until he finally drains them dry.
** Demonstrated by Android 19 ''again'' in Dragon Ball Z Kai episode 3.1 - this time exhibiting a low-pitch drone while remarking "Father, I wish to be a real boy..."
* In ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'', [[BigBad The Major's]] voice takes on a distinct mechanical reverb after Seras blows him in half and [[RoboticReveal it's revealed he's a cyborg]] as if he's speaking through a radio transmission or speech program. When he's shot through the head he eerily sings "So Long, Farewell" from ''The Sound of Music'', gradually sounding distorted like a machine losing battery power, before finally dying.

* In the climax of {{Film/Childs Play}}, as Chucky lays dying, his last words are to recite his Good Guy Doll catchphrase, with his voice rising at the end from his natural adult-sounding one to the childlike voice of the doll.

'''Needless to say, this is a DeathTrope. Expect unmarked spoilers ahead.'''

** In ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho014TheHolyTerror The Holy Terror]]'', the prison dimension finally ceases to exist when Eugene Tacitus commits suicide with the Child's assistance. With the prisoner dead, the Child's purpose is complete and thus slowly ceases to exist as well; as he does so, his voice [[RapidAging audibly ages]] into that of Eugene himself before fading away entirely. For good measure, both Eugene and the Child are voiced by the same actor, albeit digitally altered to sound more childlke in the latter case.

** Android 19 is meant to be the ObviousBeta of Dr Gero's creations, and is voiced by a computer text-to-speech program; as such, when Vegeta finally blows him to pieces and reduces him to a malfunctioning head, 19 suffers an ElectronicSpeechImpediment before finally winding down into a slow-motion drone as he informs his killer that "[[ThirtyDayFreeTrial Your 30 day trial has expired]]. [[NonSequiturThud Would you like to purchase WinRAR]]?"

* In ''Fanfic/TheLandOfWhatMightHaveBeen,'' the monster known as the Hellion speaks in a ShiftingVoiceOfMadness rendered in a jumbled patchwork of bold, italic, underlined and all-caps text. When Dorothy manages to fatally wound her, however, the shifting factor begins fading away as the Hellion slowly succumbs to her injuries, leaving her with an ordinary human voice in her final moments.

* In ''Film/Hellboy2019'', Gruagach ends up [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outliving his usefulness]] and is fatally shrunk back down by Nimue. Over the course of the next few seconds, his deep voice rises higher and higher, until a two-foot-tall Gruagach is left screaming his last-words in a childish falsetto. Then he pops like a blister.

* In the finale of ''Film/TheWitches1990'', the Grand High Witch is [[BalefulPolymorph transformed into a mouse]] along with all the other witches at the banquet; with her voice having audibly changed along with her, she can only squeak incomprehensible orders... right before the hotel manager chops her in half. It's not known why this happened, given that Luke, Bruno, and even other transformed witches have all been heard to speak in perfectly ordinary human voices as mice, but there you go.

* Crops up in ''Film/{{Constantine}}:'' after being shot in the head and having his face reduced to a clump of talking shards, Balthazar's otherwise-human voice becomes a haunting, ethereal whisper -- up until Gabriel destroys him, causing his last word to drop to a low, deep roar as he's disintegrated.

* Pointedly averted in ''Film/NuttyProfessorIITheKlumps'': during his DeathByDeaging, Buddy Love ''somehow'' retains an adult voice even after being regressed into a toddler and then into a puddle of rapidly-dissolving slime.

** In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', the redeemed Darth Vader is mortally wounded by the Emperor and his life support system damaged beyond repair; so, in his final moments, he has Luke remove his mask so he can see him with "his own eyes." Without the mask, Vader's voice goes from his usual electronically-enhanced BassoProfundo to Anakin Skywalker's natural speaking voice -- an aged, dying whisper.

** After getting blasted by the delusional Central Committee in ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho034SpareParts Spare Parts]]'', Cyberman Commander Zheng's [[AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle distinctive sing-song speech]] grows slower and more ponderous as he breaks down -- apparently dying after helping the Doctor save Mondas from the Committee. However, this is later subverted when Zheng [[UnexplainedRecovery turns up alive at the end]], [[HereWeGoAgain ready to begin the Cyberman project once again]].
** Another Cyberman example crops up in ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho058TheHarvest The Harvest]]''. Here, a Cyber-Leader known as Subject One has been partially converted into a human being at his own request, and as a result, his voice is almost completely human for most of the story. However, as he begins to suffer organ rejection, Subject One's voice becomes more metallic; when he can no longer force the Doctor to perform surgery, he's [[VillainousBreakdown quickly reduced to hysterically begging for help]] in an electronically-distorted voice -- before ultimately flatlining.
** During the climax of ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho076Singularity Singularity]]'', having lost her grip on her human host, Great Quel is about to be flushed back to the end of time with all the other [[PathOfInspiration Somnus cult]] leaders. However, said host realizes that Quel cannot be allowed to escape or else she'll just start the plot all over again. So she traps the possessing mind inside her own body so that they'll die together when the tower explodes; as a result, the two of them spend their last few minutes fluctuating wildly between two different voices -- one speaking in Quel's Received Pronunciation, the other speaking with her host's Russian accent.
** In yet ''another'' Cyberman example, ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho135LegendOfTheCybermen Legend of the Cybermen]]'' features a Cyber-Planner attempting to take over the Land Of Fiction; however, thanks to the efforts of The Doctor, Captain Nemo, and Count Dracula, it's ultimately hacked with a cybermat and forced to use [[RealityWarper the power it's usurped]] to [[RetGone edit itself and the Cybermen out of existence]]. As a result, the Cyber-Planner's [[EvilSoundsDeep normally-low voice]] turns high-pitched and shrieking as it declares that Cybermen do not exist, before vanishing in a PuffOfLogic.
** In ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialsIDavrosCorruption I, Davros: Corruption]]'', the title character's mother ends up getting fatally mutated by [[TakingYouWithMe deliberately exposing herself and an enemy spy]] to one of Davros' machines. By the time Lady Calcula is found, she's dying and her voice has degenerated into a warped, VoiceOfTheLegion-style drone complete with VaderBreath.

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* The Gemini Saint in ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' has two personalities in one body. After he is struck by Athena's staff during their first (and last) confrontation, his 'good' half briefly emerges and asks the goddess to forgive the 'evil' half. In the anime, this is marked by a change in hair color and voice. In the Italian dub, the voice actor of the 'good' half is female.
* Roboppi in ''Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS'' gained sentience and free will after being affected by Ai's backup program. While he was fine at first, it later became clear that the program became too much for him since he was originally made for household work. As a result, he broke down during his duel against Soulburner and his voice started shifting till he regressed to his original voice and form until Soulburner gave him a MercyKill.
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* In ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'', [[BigBad The Major's]] voice takes on a distinct mechanical reverb after Seras blows him in half and [[RoboticReveal it's revealed he's a cyborg]] as if he's speaking through a radio transmission or speech program. When he's shot through the head he eerily sings "So Long, Farewell" from ''The Sound of Music'', gradually sounding distorted like a machine losing battery power, before finally dying.

* In the climax of {{Film/Childs Play}}, as Chucky lays dying his last words are to recite his Good Guy Doll catchphrase, with his voice rising at the end from his natural adult-sounding one to the childlike voice of the doll.

** Also played with in any instance where it looks like [[BigBad Scorpius]] is going to kick the bucket: usually, he speaks in a [[WickedCultured calm, refined]] [[CreepyHighPitchedVoice and rather high-pitched voice]]; when he gets angry -- say, by being badly wounded -- [[EvilSoundsDeep his voice drops several octaves as he reverts to his bestial Scarran half]]. For example, after his coolant system is sabotaged, Scorpius is last seen crawling for the only undamaged coolant rod in the area, furiously calling for help in a demonic snarl. However, on every single occasion, [[JokerImmunity Scorpius somehow manages to survive]] due to "[[CrazyPrepared foresight and preparation]]".

* ''Series/TheOrville'': After Isaac kills [[spoiler:Kaylon Primary]] by ripping his head off, the latter continues functioning just long enough to curse Isaac, as his voice slows down and sounds [[spoiler:more robotic]].

** In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIQueeg Queeg]]", Holly is executed by deletion in a pretty clear shout-out to HAL-9000: in this case, while singing a farewell song, his voice drops lower and lower until he finally fades away... up until it turns out that the events of the episode were faked by Holly, including his "death".

** In the episode "Descent," Data's brother [[RoboticPsychopath Lore]] is finally deactivated for good, his voice slowly winding down into a slow-motion drone as Data forcibly shuts him down.

* In ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'', [[spoiler:[[BigBad The Major's]] voice takes on a distinct mechanical reverb after Seras blows him in half and [[RoboticReveal it's revealed he's a cyborg]] as if he's speaking through a radio transmission or speech program. When he's shot through the head he eerily sings "So Long, Farewell" from ''The Sound of Music'', gradually sounding distorted like a machine losing battery power, before finally dying.]]

* ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' provides one of the most famous examples of this trope, with HAL-9000's mostly human voice growing steadily lower and more ponderous as he is slowly lobotomized.

* Having been speaking in an ordinary human voice for the last third of ''Film/TheMummy1999'', after getting stabbed in the stomach by Rick, Imhotep reverts to his original [[EvilSoundsDeep deep, booming]] VoiceOfTheLegion as he decomposes back into a mummy and sinks down into one of Hamunaptra's deep pools.

* After the player destroys the last of the personality cores in ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', [=GLaDOS=]'s voice begins to speed up as she undergoes her fatal malfunction, rendering her BossBanter in unintelligible chipmunk speech before she finally explodes.

* After the player destroys the last of the personality cores in ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'', [=GLADoS=]'s voice begins to speed up as she undergoes her fatal malfunction, rendering her BossBanter in unintelligible chipmunk speech before she finally explodes.