History Main / EvilSoundsRaspy

* At first in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilights Kingdom Part 1]]", Lord Tirek's voice is frail and old, but he later gains [[EvilSoundsDeep a deep, booming voice]] as he returns to his original power.
* Played for Laughs with [[DarkIsNotEvil Mr. Green]] in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', where pretty much the same joke as the one in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' is used to introduce him.

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': Rita Repulse has an iconically raspy voice that makes her sound like she has throat cancer.

* Butch from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has a very raspy voice. Cassidy and Butch were originally depicted as more intimidating versions of Jessie and James. Butch's deep voice contrasts with James' slightly high pitched and effeminate one.

* Starscream in ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' was voiced with a rasp in the English dub.
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist: Brotherhood'', Envy's English dubbed voice sounds raspy. The raspiness, to an extent, obscures Envy's [[AmbiguousGender gender]].
** Gluttony's on the raspy side as well, though a bit more so [[VocalEvolution early on]].

* Butch from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' has a very raspy voice. Cassidy and Butch were originally depicted as more intimidating versions of Jessie and James. Butch's deep voice contrasts with James' slightly high pitched and effeminate one.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Emperor Palpatine/Darth Sidious is given a raspy voice, which he doesn't have while he poses as Chancellor Palpatine, though he takes it up once the Empire gets formed.
** And, of course, there's General Grievous, who has this combined with a cough.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' when the albino in the dungeon starts out speaking in a raspy voice. Suddenly he clears his throat, and for the rest of the film, he speaks in a perfectly normal voice with a slight Cockney accent.
* Freddy Krueger from ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' has a distinctive demonic-sounding raspy voice. This is achieved by slowing down (the already raspy-voiced) Creator/RobertEnglund's dialogue to sound even more menacing.
* Riff Raff from ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' has a somewhat raspy voice to go with his creepy persona, though he's not exactly "evil" (at least less evil compared to Frank). The concept is PlayedForLaughs parodying the "creepy butler with a raspy voice" character from old cheesy horror/sci-fi films. His singing voice is also pretty raspy-sounding.
* The Killer's threat to Mark in Creator/DarioArgento's ''Film/DeepRed'' is delivered in a creepy raspy voice. [[spoiler: When her true identity is revealed, her voice is normal.]]
* ComicBook/ThePenguin speaks with a rather raspy tone in ''Film/BatmanReturns''.
* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'': Franchise/{{Batman}} (not evil, but scary) has a very raspy effect throughout all three movies, while the third movie's villain, ComicBook/{{Bane}}, has a ragged voice due to a respiratory problem. Note that Batman's rasp is an [[InvokedTrope invocation]] of the trope; Bruce Wayne has a normal, smooth voice, but he uses the raspy one deliberately to make him more intimidating as Batman.

* The same can be said for Creator/MichaelRooker any time he plays a bad guy, whether it's a serial killer or a racist survivor of the zombie apocalypse.
* The Biff Tannen of 1985-A in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' has a gravelly voice thanks to years of smoking and drinking as an insanely powerful CorruptCorporateExecutive.
* The Wheel King in ''Film/ReignOfAssassins'' talks in a raspy whisper, which at first sounds odd and somewhat out of place. [[spoiler: But towards the end of the movie it's revealed that he does it and wears a fake moustache to hide that he's a eunuch.]]
* Balem Abrasax in ''Film/JupiterAscending'' ([[SuddenlyShouting when he's not shrieking]]).
* [[BigBad Lord Voldemort]] in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is described this way in the books. Less so in the films, though, wherein he's played by the [[EvilSoundsDeep deep-voiced]] Creator/RalphFiennes. Voldemort does have a raspy voice when he appears [[spoiler:on the back of Quirrel's head]] in ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', though.

* In the final scene of ''Film/TheWitch'', [[spoiler: Black Phillip]] speaks in a high-pitched whisper.

* Spang in ''Film/TheQuickGun'' has a very gravelly voice.
* Stripe the leader of the gremlins from ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' speaks in a low raspy voice, his reincarnation Mohawk from the sequel has the same kind of voice.
* Pazuzu the demon that possessed the body of Regan from ''Film/TheExorcist'' speaks in a low raspy elderly woman voice.

* Justified in ''Literature/TheFirstLaw'' with Shivers, who undergoes a FaceHeelTurn in ''Literature/BestServedCold'' after he's captured and tortured and one of his eyes is [[EyeScream burnt out]]. His screaming in pain damaged his vocal cords, causing him to have a raspy voice from that point onward- so, the evil and the raspy voice have a common cause.

* Mr. Slant, the AmoralAttorney supreme from the Literature/{{Discworld}}, is noted to have a particularly dry-sounding voice ''even for a zombie''.

* In ''Literature/TheBridgeKingdomArchives'' Serin, the spymaster of king Silas Veliant of Maridrina, is called "Magpie" not without reason--his voice sounds very unpleasant. And he is the mastermind behind most of his king's backstabbing schemes.

* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': Rita Repulse has an iconically raspy voice that makes her sound like she has throat cancer.

* Magikoopas in the ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]'' franchise, including Kamek, are given a high-pitched raspy voice for their VoiceGrunting.
* While Ganondorf of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' was introduced as having a more straightforward EvilSoundsDeep voice in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', he is given a much raspier voice in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' both because he's older and because he's basically undead in those games.

* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', Bi-Han/Noob Saibot's voice is inhumanly raspy. This is most likely due to the fact that he's [[TheUndead a wraith]] and his voice is altered to match his appearance. Players have drawn comparisons to [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Dr. Claw]] because of this.
** Actually, there's more than just Bi-Han. [[CyberNinja Frost]], [[MonstrousHumanoid Baraka]], [[PsychopathicWomanchild Mileena]], and [[MultiArmedAndDangerous Kollector]] are all depicted with frightening raspy voices. In Frost's case, it's because she's a Cyber Lin Kuei with an electronically-altered voice. In Mileena's case, it's because she's half Tarkatan.
* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', Raiden's voice gets raspier, harsher, and more guttural the more he reverts to his [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Jack The Ripper]] persona.
* [[WickedWitch Ravel Puzzlewell]] from ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' (voiced by Flo Di Re). The in-game text describes the voice as if it's "trying to force itself through a thick layer of dust.''

* [[JerkassGods Myrkul]] in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2: Mask of the Betrayer'' (voiced by S Scott Bullock). This is in perfect accord with his ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' description from AllThereInTheManual, which described his voice as "a high whisper".

* Corypheus, a [=DLC=] villain in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', has a very dry, raspy voice to help sell how ancient he is, having spent over a thousand years in stasis. [[spoiler: He uses a much deeper voice when he returns as the next game's central villain.]]

* [[BitchInSheepsClothing Nagito Komaeda]] from ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' generally sounds pretty normal, but when he gets LaughingMad... hoo boy. Think an asthmatic [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]] in a dust storm and you're pretty close.

* Starting from ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' and going on through [[VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird 3]] and [[VideoGame/SaintsRowIV 4]], [[VillainProtagonist The Boss]] can be given an English accent, and both English voice actors, Charles Shaughnessy and Creator/RobinAtkinDownes, portray that version of Boss with a raspier voice than all the others. And that's not even getting into Creator/SteveBlum as [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombie Boss]], who's practically unintelligible.
* Creator/LiamOBrien as [[TheCaligula Count Waltz]] in ''VideoGame/EternalSonata.'' It's the most noticeable when he's [[EvilLaugh laughing.]]

* One of the reasons that Elly from ''Webcomic/BloodStain'' initially assumes that Dr. Vlad Stein, her new employer, is some form of MadScientist is his voice, which is described in-universe as sounding like "sandpaper polishing a rusty can". {{Subverted|Trope}} in that Dr. Stein is ''not'' evil in any way, but merely happens to have an intimidating voice.

* Creator/MarkHamill's [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]] from the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse is a classic and one of the most iconic examples. Also, ComicBook/TwoFace has a raspy, gravely voice, much more so than his former Harvey Dent personality.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': Nox has a slightly raspy-sounding voice when he isn't speaking in a low tone.

* Baron Silas Greenback from ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' has an extremely raspy voice, bordering on VaderBreath.

* At first in the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilights Kingdom Part 1]]", Lord Tirek's voice is frail and old, but he later gains [[EvilSoundsDeep a deep, booming voice]] as he returns to his original power.
* Played for Laughs with [[DarkIsNotEvil Mr. Green]] in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', where pretty much the same joke as the one in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' is used to introduce him.
** Played straight with several villains such as Mojo Jojo, Arturo of the Gangreen Gang, and HIM when he switches to anger mode.
* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' has the central villain Aku. Of course, {{guttural growl|er}}ing is par for the course with any character voiced by the late great Creator/{{Mako}} Iwamatsu.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': So common among villains that in Creator/MarkGatiss's 1999 ''Doctor Who Night'' sketch/minisode ''The Web of Caves'', a SissyVillain in [[FashionVictimVillain dreadful]] RaygunGothic SpaceClothes tries out several different voices in which to announce his evilness to the Doctor, including his natural one and a low booming one, eventually settling on an ominous rasp which he immediately comments sounds just right. Notable instances include:
** [[Characters/DoctorWhoMasters The Master]], the Doctor's arch-frenemy, particularly pronounced in the Peter Pratt and Gordon Tipple incarnations of the character. At the end of the Series 3 episode ''Utopia'', the Master also begins to speak in a low raspy voice after he remembers who he really is, to signify the switch from the harmless professor to the villainous Time Lord.
--->'''Yana/The Master:''' [[spoiler:I... am... The Master...]]
** The Dalek voice effect, a ring modulator at 30Hz, also gives this kind of quality to their voices; this was spoofed in the "Cards Against Gallifrey" fanmade ''TabletopGame/CardsAgainstHumanity'' expansion pack, with the card "Smoking 1000 cigarettes just so you can sound like a Dalek when you talk." A similar example where RoboSpeak created a raspy voice effect is in the case of the Mechanoids (one of the many short-lived attempts by the series to [[ReplacementScrappy create the new Daleks]] in the wake of rights-holder Terry Nation threatening to withdraw the pepperpots themselves from the programmed), whose voices have an odd stuttered effect that sounds like a hoarse whisper, possibly created by an early vocoder.

** And of course there's General Grievous who has this combined with a cough.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' when the albino in the dungeon starts out speaking in a raspy voice. Suddenly he clears his throat, and for the rest of the film he speaks in a perfectly normal voice with a slight Cockney accent.

* ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'': Franchise/{{Batman}} (not evil, but scary) has a very raspy affect throughout all three movies, while the third movie's villain, ComicBook/{{Bane}}, has a ragged voice due to a respiratory problem. Note that Batman's rasp is an [[InvokedTrope invocation]] of the trope; Bruce Wayne has a normal, smooth voice, but he uses the raspy one deliberately to make him more intimidating as Batman.

* Smeagol from ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' sounds like this after centuries of corruption by the One Ring. He's nicknamed Gollum because of the distinctive swallowing noise he makes.

* The same can be said for Creator/MichaelRooker any time he plays a bad guy, whether it's a serial killer, or a racist survivor of the zombie apocalypse.

* The Wheel King in ''Film/ReignOfAssassins'' talks in a raspy whisper, which at first sounds odd and somewhat out of place. [[spoiler:But towards the end of the movie it's revealed that he does it and wears a fake moustache to hide that he's a eunuch.]]

* The Wheel King in ''Reign of Assassins'' talks in a raspy whisper, which at first sounds odd and somewhat out of place. [[spoiler:But towards the end of the movie it's revealed that he does it and wears a fake moustache to hide that he's a eunuch.]]

* Starting from ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' and going on through [[VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird 3]] and [[VideoGame/SaintsRowIV 4]], [[VillainProtagonist]] can be given an English accent, and both English voice actors, Charles Shaughnessy and Creator/RobinAtkinDownes, portray that version of Boss with a raspier voice than all the others. And that's not even getting into Creator/SteveBlum as [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombie Boss]], who's practically unintelligible.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ''

* Likewise, [[BadBoss Bad Bosses]] Wrestling/VinceMcMahon and his daughter Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon get very raspy when delivering their famous CatchPhrase "''YOU'RE FIIIIRRRED''".

* Phantom the GiantSpider demon from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' has a very harsh, hard-to-hear voice, probably due to the fact that he's, well, a magma spider.
* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', Bi-Han/Noob Saibot's voice is inhumanly raspy. This is most likely due to the fact that he's [[TheUndead a wraith]] and his voice is altered to match his appearance. Players have drawn comparisons to [[WesternAnimation/{{InspectorGadget}} Dr. Claw]] because of this.

* [[JerkassGods Myrkul]] in ''VideoGame/{{Neverwinter Nights 2}}: Mask of the Betrayer'' (voiced by S Scott Bullock). This is in perfect accord with his ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' description from AllThereInTheManual, which described his voice as "a high whisper".
* ''Franchise/FarCry''

* One of the reasons that Elly from ''Webcomic/BloodStain'' initially assumes that Dr. Vlad Stein, her new employer, is some form of MadScientist is his voice, which is described in-universe as sounding like "sandpaper polishing a rusty can". [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that Dr. Stein is ''not'' evil in any way, but merely happens to have an intimidating voice.

* Krang in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' is a classic raspy, hissing BigBad next to his [[EvilSoundsDeep deep-voiced]] [[TheDragon Dragon]] Shredder.

* Hoyt Volker, the [[AmoralAfrikaner South African slaver]] and BigBad of ''VideoGame/FarCry3'', has a harsh, raspy voice combined with a thick accent that makes him come across as nightmarishly malicious. It's most likely justified by the fact that he's a [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking smoker]]- as he points out, on the Rook Islands, [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou "Cancer won't be what kills you."]]
* Speaking of ''VideoGame/FarCry'', ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'' has two villains, Ull and Dah, from the [[CannibalTribe Udam tribe]], who speak with distinct rasps in their voices, though Dah more-so than Ull. The rasps are possibly due to the fact that they, like the rest of the Udam, are suffering from "[[DiseaseByAnyOtherName skull fire]]", [[spoiler:contracted via their cannibalistic tendencies.]]

* ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger'': One trait shared by all of Darth Nihilus's incarnations is his scratchy voice. Ever since he was a Jedi, Nihilus spoke with a raspier voice than his peers. After becoming a Sith, his voice became noticeably more hoarse due to his body being in a state of constant starvation. After becoming a Force ghost, he's described as sounding "gravely and distorted" whenever he chooses to speak. [[spoiler:While possessing Jaune's body, those who can understand Nihilus's BlackSpeech hear him talk with his raspy-sounding voice [[VoiceOfTheLegion layered on top of Jaune's own.]]]]

* Ginnarbrik, the DepravedDwarf (of the [[OurDwarfsAreAllTheSame fantasy variety]]) and {{Dragon}} of the White Witch in ''Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', speaks with a voice which is partially this, partially CreepyHighPitchedVoice, as we can tell when his EstablishingCharacterMoment consists of him running after Edmund, tripping him up with a whip, then pinning him to the ground and threatening to kill him for speaking to the "Queen of Narnia".

* The same can be said for Michael Rooker any time he plays a bad guy, whether it's a serial killer, or a racist survivor of the zombie apocalypse.

* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Many of the demons and monsters have this or EvilSoundsDeep, or both. Humans who have been [[DemonicPossession possessed by a demon or turned into one]] usually get their voices changed to match.

* The ruthless Carface from ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' smokes cigars and roars at his underlings. Much of his menace was supplied by the late character actor Vic Tayback.
* Fidget, Professor Ratigan's [[BatOutOfHell bat]] henchman from ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective''.
* Flotsam and Jetsam, Ursula's two [[SlipperyAsAnEel moray eel]] {{Dragons}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{TheLittleMermaid1989}}.

** Also the GiantSpider population of Mirkwood, when Bilbo understands their language wearing the One Ring.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Vincent Crabbe is said to have a low rasp in the final book, just before he unleashes {{Hellfire}} in the castle.

* While Ganondorf of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' was introduced as having a more straightforward EvilSoundDeep voice in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', he is given a much raspier voice in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' both because he's older and because he's basically undead in those games.

* ''Advertising/SupermanVsNickOTeen'': In the TV ads, the evil Nick O'Teen is voiced with a deep rasp. This is probably because the character [[JohnBarleycornAndFriends is so strongly associated with cigarettes]] and smokes a lot.

* The Wheel King in ''Reign of Assassins'' talks in a raspy wisper, which at first sounds odd and somewhat out of place. [[spoiler:But towards the end of the movie it's revealed that he does it and wears a fake moustache to hide that he's a eunuch.]]

* Hoyt Volker, the [[AmoralAfrikaner South African slaver]] and BigBad of ''VideoGame/FarCry3'', has a harsh, raspy voice combined with a thick accent that makes him come across as nightmarishly malicious. It's most likely justified by the fact that he's a [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking smoker]]- as he points out, on the Rook Islands, [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou "It won't be cancer that kills you."]]

* ''{{VideoGame/SpiderMan}}'': Scorpion has a very raspy voice.