History Main / LarynxDissonance

* Ugly old crone Uranai Baba in ''Manga/DragonBall'' was initially voiced by Creator/JunpeiTakiguchi, who gave her a hoarse, wizened voice.
** In ''The Revenge of King Piccolo'' video game, Creator/ChristopherSabat does her voice, trying his best to imitate Creator/LindaYoung.
*** Before Linda Young ever voiced the character, Baba was voiced in Majin Buu arc and her one appearance in the Cell arc by Christopher Forbis (mainly Dr. Brief and Dodoria) who gave a rather convincing rasp to his performance. Many mistook it for Laurie Steele, the actress for young Krillin.

* In the first sequel series of ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'', the villain Gel Sadra is a woman, but is voiced by Masaru Ikeda, who gave her a voice more like that of a flamboyant man. This was to drive home how X's alterations made her inhumanly creepy, although this confused producers of the ''Anime/EagleRiders'' dub, who initially [[ShesAManInJapan translated her as a man]] until they had to explain away later episodes.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''s PSA announcement on how the Internet is different from real life: an obvious guy in a pink suit saying "I ''am'' a girl. Tee hee hee."

* While less common than the inverse, trans men may end up with this issue and need to take up vocal training. Plus, as mentioned above, there are other ways to change others’ perception even if you are not lucky enough to hit your desired tone naturally.[[note]]Trans men transitioning under the age of 30 generally have their voice naturally deepen as a part of the testosterone taking effect. Though whether it’s considered “enough” is up to the individual person, it tends to be enough to avoid this issue.[[/note]]

** There is absolutely no effort to make the voices of any female character in [[https://www.youtube.com/user/purpleeyeswtf PurpleEyesWTF's]] ''[[WebVideo/CodeMENT Code Ment]]'' sound female, and it works perfectly. It is worth a mention that C.C., the MysteriousWaif in [[Anime/CodeGeass the source anime]], does sound sufficiently feminine and the same goes to Milly and [[IllGirl Nunnally]].

* In their appearances in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', and ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', Princess Zelda and Sheik always have the same voice actress[[note]]Jun Mizusawa for ''Ocarina'' and ''Smash''; Saori Seto for ''Warriors''[[/note]], resulting in Sheik having a muffled yet feminine voice. Sheik is Zelda [[SweetPollyOliver in disguise as a male Sheikah]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

* To avert this in real life, you have to remember that doing a convincing female voice is ''not'' a matter of how high you can go. It's a matter of ''resonance''. Most male voices have more "boom" than females', so taking that out will get a much more convincing result (you may sound like Creator/BeaArthur if your voice is particularly deep, but you'll at least sound like a woman), compared to the standard comedic routine of someone on helium and/or crack.

* {{Drag Queen}}s are a mixed bag on this. Some manage to sound like typical women because their natural male voices are [[CampGay that high]], but others...it can be a little jarring to watch a queen elegantly lipsynch a Music/JanetJackson number, then turn on the microphone and say in a gravelly voice, "'''How the fuck is everyone?!'''" But for many queens, the jarring difference between speech and appearance is part of the fun.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' gives Luffy a raspy woman's voice, courtesy of Creator/MayumiTanaka. She is really able to highlight Luffy’s childish nature and easily brings out his serious, angry and tragic sides when needed. [[https://youtu.be/LLpeOXAepXU This is most definitely award deserving voice acting]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' gives Luffy a raspy woman's voice, both in Japanese and in English. It's not so bad pre-New World, as he looks young and lanky enough for it to be a normal case of CrossdressingVoices, but it's much more jarring after the series hits its time skip, with Luffy looking more obviously masculine and muscular.

* LetsPlay/{{Pitchingace88}} does the voice works for both the male and female characters in his commentary of ''VideoGame/CriminalCase'', although he doesn't actually make any attempts to make himself sound female when voicing a woman.

** In ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', the Pythons take the logical next step by having a man imitating a woman imitating a man.

* Done in the ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' episode "A Shot in the D'Arc" when Joan of Arc poses as a boy in order to play on the basketball team. The disguise is basically a baseball cap, a fake mustache, and a terrible baritone. Somehow, her mask never seems to slip.

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* In ''Theater/HedwigAndTheAngryInch'', Miriam Shor plays [[AmbiguousGender Yitzak]], who is presenting a male gender identity throughout the movie (Yitzak's biological sex is left ambiguous in the finished version of the movie). His distinctly feminine voice is the only giveaway underneath the fake facial hair and men's clothing, which emphasizes that Yitzak is a feminine person who is forced to act masculine.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' showcases this spectacularly during the cross-dressing pageant.

* Creator/DustinHoffman does a pretty convincing female voice in ''Film/{{Tootsie}}''.

* ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'''s very premise is about two male muscicians dressing up as women to join an all-girl band to hide from the mob. Jack Lemmon had a fairly high voice already, and was able to do a decent tongue-in-cheek female voice while not having to adjust his natural voice very much. Tony Curtis on the other hand had to rely on a professional voice actor (Paul Frees) to dub his female voice.

* In one episode of ''The Friday Night Project'', guest host David Tennant appeared in a Doctor Who sketch as the female companion. He doesn't look half bad, but the voice is just weird- it's like he sounds like a woman and doesn't sound like one at the same time.

* In 1964 in honour of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's 400th birthday Music/TheBeatles performed a skit on a part of ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' in their show "Around The Beatles". Music/JohnLennon played the role of Thisbe in a very deep male voice. [[https://youtu.be/y24geONER0k Can be found on YouTube multiple times]].

** Female Shakesperian characters are mostly played by Adam Long. This is ''authentic'', people!

* In ''Theatre/{{Matilda}}'', Miss Trunchbull, traditionally played by a tall baritone-voiced man, often suffers from this, most notably when Bryce Ryness played her on the first US tour, although Bertie Carvel, the originator of the role, performed a very convincing female voice.

** Speaking of which, there have been cases of Creator/MelBlanc voicing one-shot female characters when Bea Benaderet or June Foray weren't available.

* In ''VideoGame/RockBand'', a lot of the time the on-screen singer will make for something of an incongruous contrast with the original vocals. Female characters somewhat more ''often'', since most of the available songs are sung by men, but it's just as bizarre to see a big hulking mountain of a man singing in the voice of Alanis Morisette. Or, even worse/[[SoBadItsGood better]], [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} GLaDOS]].

* Audio books are pretty much the biggest source of Larynx Dissonanace. Most have one person playing EVERY character so, unless the book being read only has characters of one gender, this is going to happen. That said, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Tropes Are Not Bad]]; most audio book narrators are good at acting as the characters and making the Larynx Dissonance sound less weird (and audio books are great when you want to read but aren't able to actually read the book).

* Music/{{Eminem}} frequently does a falsetto for female characters in his songs.

CrossDressingVoices is a SubTrope, which is an animation trope about adult women doing young boys' voices or adult men doing falsettos. DisguisedInDrag and SweetPollyOliver are related tropes for visually impersonating the other gender. Not to be confused with VocalDissonance, which is when a person's natural voice does not seem to fit their appearance.

* To avert this in real life, you have to remember that doing a convincing female voice is ''not'' a matter of how high you can go. It's a matter of ''resonance''; most male voices have more "boom" than females', so making your voice less resonant will get a much more convincing result (you may sound like Creator/BeaArthur if your voice is particularly deep, but you'll at least sound like a woman), compared to the standard comedic routine of someone on helium and/or crack.

* Disney's version of ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'', about a young Chinese woman who secretly takes her father's place in the army, has her affecting a ridiculous deep baritone every time she speaks as a man, for comic effect. And it ''works''. It helps that her cohorts aren't any too bright... You'll notice that she does the ridiculous gravelly baritone less and less as time goes on until the big battle, when she's speaking in pretty much her normal voice (or a slightly deeper version thereof). [[FridgeBrilliance They assume that when she first met them she was faking a deep voice because she was a man with a high pitched voice. Also, by the time she's speaking in her normal voice they've accepted her as a friend, so they overlook "his" feminine voice, believing that it was a high pitched man.]] To add to the above, it was pretty clear she wasn't the most masculine of people - they might have assumed it was just her age and that her voice hadn't cracked yet.

* Furlecia of ''WesternAnimation/ArloTheAlligatorBoy'' is a female hairball with a masculine sounding voice, courtesy of [[Series/QueerEye2020 Jonathan Van Ness.]]

** There is absolutely no effort to make the voices of any female character in [[https://www.youtube.com/user/purpleeyeswtf PurpleEyesWTF's]] ''[[WebVideo/CodeMENT Code Ment]]'' sound female, [[CrazyAwesome and it works perfectly]]. It is worth a mention that C.C., the MysteriousWaif in [[Anime/CodeGeass the source anime]], does sound sufficiently feminine and the same goes to Milly and [[IllGirl Nunnally]].

* There's Alice in ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'', but the voice is certainly not feminine, in fact all that's feminine about her is her breasts and her name. {{Justified}}, since she's a MTF transgender.

* The drag queens of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' can go either way depending on the queen. Some, like Jade Jolie, Jinkx Monsoon, and Willam Belli, have naturally high voices that work great in drag, but become jarring when we see them as men. Others, like Rebecca Glasscock, Raja, and Latrice Royale have very deep male voices that they don't disguise in drag, leading to scenes where you'd have a gorgeous female body in front of you speaking in a baritone male voice (especially Rebecca who's one of the more passable queens...until she opens her mouth).