Creepy High-Pitched Voice

"Later," said a second voice. This too belonged to a man, but it was strangely high-pitched, and cold as a sudden blast of icy wind. Something about that voice made the sparse hairs on the back of Frank's neck stand up.

— Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The inverse of Evil Sounds Deep. Just as characters with unnaturally deep voices can sound scary, so can characters with unnaturally high voices. May be combined with Evil Sounds Raspy for a very shrill, unpleasant-sounding voice.

As noted on Evil Sounds Deep, deep voices are usually seen as attractive, which can lend itself well to villainous characters. This has the opposite effect, by making villains sound sickly and grotesque. This works especially well when the heroes have "manly" voices.

It should be noted that, unlike Evil Sounds Deep, which is usually just plain intimidating, this trope can be used to make villains sound creepy or comical... or both.

Also note that for the most part, this trope does not generally include evil women or children because they usually do have higher voices. However, a villainess or Creepy Child could count if their voice is exceptionally high, especially considering that villainesses sometimes have a low voice. The Wicked Witch is a specific female villain that can count for this trope, because actresses who play evil witches typically raise their voices above their normal pitch to sound elderly and haggardly. If the actor of a scary character is clearly making their voice higher-pitched than normal, they are almost certainly going for this effect.

Types of villains who may have high-pitched voices

• Animals:
  • Heinous Hyena
  • Maniac Monkeys
  • Wicked Weasel
  • You Dirty Rat!
• Clowns:
  • Monster Clown
  • Practically Joker
  • Villainous Harlequin
• Depraved Dwarf
• Eunuchs Are Evil
• Griping About Gremlins
• The Imp
• Mad Scientist, or other Evil Geniuses
• Our Imps Are Different
• Our Goblins Are Different
• Psychopathic Manchild
• Scary Skeleton, especially if they're based on Skeletor
• Sissy Villain
• The Starscream, to fit their backstabbing nature.^note The Trope Namer, Starscream, is usually an example of this trope as well.
• Subverted Kids' Show cast members like Depraved Kids' Show Host, Evil Toons and the Perverse Puppet
• Toys:
  • Creepy Doll
  • Demonic Dummy
  • Killer Teddy Bear
  • Scary Jack-in-the-Box
  • Vengeful Abandoned Toy
• Wicked Witch

Related to Helium Speech, Effeminate Voice and Nerdy Nasalness. May overlap with Vocal Dissonance, Giggling Villain, and Soft-Spoken Sadist.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Death Note: Unlike his nemesis and Nominal Hero L, Light speaks in a very youthful tenor voice that doesn't particularly do much to dull his levels of moral absolutist murderous insanity.
• In Dragon Ball Super, Goku Black is a sadistic, sociopathic mass-murderer and the Evil Twin to Goku, who shares his voice actress and the same high-pitched voice as his good counterpart, albeit in a lower register.
• Karakuri Circus: Most of the lesser automata have almost-annoying high-pitched voices even before they reveal their monstrous true forms.
• Yami Bakura from Yu-Gi-Oh! is voiced by a woman in the Japanese version despite looking like a teenage boy, which creates an impish, Creepy Child effect and an odd juxtaposition with his rude speech patterns. He also giggles.

Comic Books

• Paul The Apostle Graphic Story Bible by Mario Dematteo is a graphic novel retelling the story of Paul from the Acts of the Apostles as a sci-fi epic with an alien cast. In the book's trailer, which includes voice acting, Paul (then known as Saul) initially speaks with a sniveling, high-pitched voice as he leads a violent purge of Christians. After his Heel–Faith Turn and subsequent name change to Paul, he has a much more normal, human-sounding voice.

Films — Animated

• The Emperor's New Groove: Yzma's voice is already quite energetic and high-pitched compared to previous female Disney villains such as Maleficent and Ursula. However, this trope is exaggerated and Played for Laughs late in the movie when Yzma is transformed into a kitten. She gets a chipmunk-like voice, but still attempts to kill Kuzco.
  Yzma: Is that my voice? Is that... my voice? Oh well.
• The Nightmare Before Christmas:
  • Jack Skellington, who is regarded as the Pumpkin King and the scariest of all the monsters, has a tenor voice. Although he sometimes lowers his voice when he's trying to be intimidating, he is also prone to high-pitched Evil Laughs, cementing him as a Horrifying Hero.
  • As you would expect from a creepy clown, the Clown with the Tear-Away Face has a very screechy voice, at least until he tears away his face.
  • The Creature Under the Bed. What we hear of its voice is surprisingly high-pitched, but it's still a creepy creature. The creature's gender is unknown, but it's voiced by a woman, Carmen Twilie.
  • The Creature Under the Stairs has a Basso profundo voice in the English version (and a similarly deep voice in most dubs), but the Russian dub inverts the pitches of it and the Creature Under the Bed's voices: The CUTB has a deep, growly voice, while the CUTS has a high-pitched voice.
• The Prince and the Pauper: The weasel Mooks, especially the ones voiced by Charlie Adler, have high-pitched voices that fit their thin, gangly appearances. This contrasts with their boss, Pete, who has a deep, booming voice. However, there is also at least one weasel voiced by Bill Farmer who has a deeper Simpleton Voice.
• In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Evil Queen starts out with a low voice. But when she concocts a spell to disguise herself as the Witch, one of the ingredients is "an old hag's cackle" to age her voice, making it much more high-pitched. She laments the change in her voice during her transformation into the Witch.
• In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the Snifit that captures and brings Luigi to Bowser has a high-pitched, raspy voice, fitting because it's a small but eerie creature.
• King Candy from Wreck-It Ralph has a goofy high-pitched voice complete with a lisp, which helps his image as a Sissy Villain and a comical Expy of Ed Wynn's performance as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. He keeps this voice even as we start to learn that he's not as friendly as seems. His true form as the psychopathic Green-Eyed Monster Turbo has an almost identical voice, minus the lisp, which serves as an early hint that Candy is Turbo when we first hear Turbo's voice in a flashback sequence. And his voice gets even more terrifying in the climax when he starts glitching between his forms as King Candy and Turbo, heavily distorting his voice.
• The Chief Blue Meanie from Yellow Submarine speaks in a very high pitched effeminate voice, it becomes deeper and more menacing when he gets angry.

Films — Live-Action

• Aladdin (2019): The Evil Chancellor Jafar has a high-pitched, almost effeminate-sounding voice, unlike the version from the original who had a very deep voice.
• The Joker's pitch fluctuates throughout The Dark Knight, but whenever he's joking or mocking someone, he puts on a very nasally voice to do it, only succeeding in making him look more unstable and dangerous.
• Doll Factory: The titular dolls speak in high-pitched voices and are a bunch of killing machines.
• In Goosebumps (2015), Jack Black gives the Demonic Dummy Slappy a high-pitched voice reminiscent of Mark Hamill's performances as the Joker.
• Late Soviet (premiered already after dissolution of USSR) film rendition of Moliere's Theatre/Tartuffe, in the end song after Tartuffe is caught as criminal but escapes arrest and reveals himself as personification of immortal hypocrisy rather than just a person. Even creepier since he is played and sung by actor and singer Mikhail Boyarsky, probably the quintessential Badass Baritone of Soviet cape-and-sword films since 1970s (d'Artagnan, Don César de Bazan, Black Jack, etc).
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit:
  • The Big Bad Judge Doom's voice turns squeaky when he is revealed to be a psychopathic Toon in disguise. Due to his Uncanny Valley-looking transformation and extra-hammy behavior, it's absolutely terrifying. He'd also just inhaled a bunch of helium in order to reinflate his flattened body, but his comment implies he always talks like that when out of disguise.
  • Smarty, the leader of the Wicked Weasels, has a low voice, but the others' voices are higher, especially Psycho.
• Evil Eunuchs in many a Hong Kong Wuxia movie will more often than not have this kind of voice.

Literature

• Harry Potter:
  • The Dark Lord Voldemort is described as having a high-pitched and very cold voice, reflective of his utterly sociopathic and violent nature.
  • Dolores Umbridge is described as having a very high-pitched, girlish voice that grates on Harry's nerves. She turns out to be one of the most vile characters across the series.
• The Hellbound Heart: One of the sadomasochistic Cenobites has a voice that's "light and breathy — the voice of an excited girl", in stark contrast with the dozens of pins driven into its head, face, and tongue. This and its sexual ambiguity are scrapped in the film adaptations, which make Pinhead deep-voiced and male.
• The orc Grishnakh from The Lord of the Rings is described as having a voice that is high yet still menacing and evil. This is in contrast to fellow orc Ugluk who is more Evil Sounds Deep. This trait is also in the films where Grishnakh's voice is high and raspy, which highlights that he is a nasty piece of work even for an orc.
• In Ruslan and Ludmila, Naina the witch is mentioned to have a "squeaky" voice.
• Secret Series: The villainous Ms. Mauvais is frequently described as having a high, tinkling voice like glass. This is fitting because she puts on a front of being a cheerful, bubbly socialite.
• Toothguard in Tailchaser's Song all talk in a high-pitched whisper accentuated by slithering their words. It makes them look all the more like deformed newborn kittens.
• Toy Academy: Chancellor Thornbones, the leader of Evil Toy Academy, is described as having a grating, high-pitched voice. This is most likely because he's an Expy of Skeletor, who has a similar voice.
• Scourge from Warrior Cats, in addition to being The Napoleon, had a very high-pitched and brittle voice. This made him even creepier as a villain, as he gave off the appearance and sound of a kit, but with the mind of a sociopathic and murderous dictator.

Live-Action TV

• Batman (1966): Cesar Romero's flamboyant, silly portrayal of the Joker was helped greatly by the clownish voice he used for the role.
• Doctor Who:
  • The average Dalek screams every single word with a shrill monotone. This tips viewers off to the Daleks' inhuman natures immediately, if that wasn't given away by the salt shaker-shaped tanks they live in or by their delightful catchphrase, "Exterminate".
  • Dalek leaders such as the Dalek Supreme or the Emperor fall firmly under Evil Sounds Deep. The Dalek Prime Minister on the other hand is definitely this trope. Combined with his oddly conversational manner, instead of the usual No Indoor Voice Robo Speak, and the effect is bizarrely creepy. And let's not even get started on Dalek Caan...
• Played with in Farscape: series Big Bad Scorpius normally speaks several octaves higher than most of the cast; combined with his soft-spoken delivery and urbane manners, it serves to contrast his monstrous, leather-clad appearance. However, it turns out that this is a deliberate affectation on his part, and when Scorpius gets angry, his voice drops to a demonic snarl.
• Mr. Blobby speaks in a distorted, high-pitched voice that fits his very disturbing design. This is fitting because he was intended as a parody of children's show characters.
• Capt. Simcoe, the seething psychopath villain of Turn, has a high-pitched piping voice, to go along with being very tall and having a cold stare. The overall effect is unsettling.

Music

• Many Black Metal vocalists use high-pitched, raspy shrieking and screaming in order to sound evil and inhuman.
• Eminem pitched his naturally high-pitched and nasal voice up even higher to portray his Heroic Comedic Sociopath persona Slim Shady on The Slim Shady LP - particularly on "My Name Is". He mostly dropped it after this album, to make it easier to blend his personas.
• While Danny Brown doesn't always use it, he's particularly famous for rapping in an insane falsetto squawk, reflecting his nihilistic Undiscriminating Addict persona. He was inspired by Eminem above to develop this — he'd been trying to find a specifically Detroit element for his sound, and assumed from Eminem's success that people would expect Detroit rappers to rap in a high pitched voice about being crazy and doing drugs.
• The Atlanta rapper 645AR is famous for rapping about drugs and guns in an extreme high pitched falsetto (his natural voice is a baritone). While often laughed at online, he's been noted for his technical innovations in using his thyrohyoid muscle to produce the squeak tone, something that is not a conventional part of a singer's toolbox and contributes to the weird feel of his music.

Professional Wrestling

• Paul Bearer, in his role as an evil mortician, used a very high-pitched voice, most evident when he said his catchphrase, "Oh, yes!"

Puppet Shows

• The slimy, power-hungry Skeksis Chamberlain in The Dark Crystal speaks in a sinister whine, peppered from time to time with a grating Verbal Tic ("Hmmmmmmmmm!").

Tabletop Games

• In D&D, Manticores, the Lawful Evil race of man-eating, common speaking, flying, spike shooting race of bat winged lion with four-too-many rows of iron teeth speaks, against all odds, in a constant falsetto. Note: "Manticores were known to be savage man-eaters and allies of evil creatures. Manticores were intelligent creatures and often worked beside other evil beings to bring strife and suffering to the world.."

Theatre

• Der Freischutz: This is the most common way to play Samiel, possibly to contrast him with the Hermit, who is a basso.
• In Jasper in Deadland, Little Lu's voice is noticeably higher and/or squeakier than the voices of the slaves trapped in his factory.

Video Games

• Downplayed with Lance from Balan Wonderworld. His tenor voice isn't as high-pitched as most other examples of this trope, but it's still noticeably higher-pitched than the voice of his Good Counterpart, Balan. He's still the Big Bad, though.
• Banjo-Kazooie: Gruntilda is a Wicked Witch who speaks in high-pitched grunts and does some creepy cackles as well. This is especially notable because she was voiced by a man (Chris Seavor.)
• Batman: Arkham Asylum's version of The Scarecrow has a really high pitched voice courtesy of Dino Andrade that doesn't make him any less unsettling, completely inverted the next time we see him though due to being Darrin'd by John Noble.
• Bioshock Infinite: Songbird, the giant mechanical bird that hunts and potentially kills Booker, has a high pitched scream.
• CarnEvil:
  • Umlaut, the magical Villainous Harlequin head who taunts you throughout the game, has a very shrill voice. It goes especially high when he does his Signature Laugh.
  • Dr. Klot, the Mad Doctor clown enemy found in the Big Top level, speaks with a high pitched voice. Funnily enough, there's also a midget clown enemy called Smeek who has a deep, gravelly voice!
• Ickybod Clay from ClayFighter series has a high-pitched voice, specially notorious in CF63 1/3. Also his stage in this game (a haunted house) has high-pitched ghostly laughs.
• Conker's Bad Fur Day:
  • Downplayed with Conker himself. He has a gentle, high-pitched voice that fits his appearance as a seemingly kid-friendly cartoon animal. However, while he may not be the cruelest character in the game, he is still a sociopathic Anti-Hero. He has no problem with brutally murdering his enemies (along with at least one other creature that isn't an enemy: that poor baby dino.)
  • Played straight with Professor Von Kriplespac. His wispy, high-pitched voice is not only fitting for a Mad Scientist weasel, but it also helps paint him as a pathetic, scheming traitor.
• Crash Bandicoot: Ripper Roo is a Laughing Mad kangaroo who is almost always wrapped in a straitjacket. He speaks, laughs, and grunts in a very high-pitched voice.
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Cicero is a psychotic jester with a very high-pitched voice for a man.
• Far Cry 3: The secondary antagonist Vaas Montenegro, as voiced and performance-captured by Michael Mando, has a rather high-pitched and at times raspy voice with a vague Colombian accent. Vaas' voice tends to almost crack at times by how high-pitched he gets when he launches into his many rants; these speeches varying from poetic to psychopathic.
• Fate/Grand Order: Mephistopheles has a screechy falsetto and No Indoor Voice. Given that he's styled himself as a Monster Clown, and sometimes drops into Takehito Koyasu's deep voice, he may be doing it himself, on purpose.
• Figment: The Plague, an evil nightmare representing the fear of disease, has a screechy, sickly high-pitched voice.
• Five Nights at Freddy's:
  • Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location: Despite being a bulky robotic bear, Funtime Freddy's voice is surprisingly high-pitched and clownish, making him perhaps the most Laughably Evil of the game's Hostile Animatronics.
  • Molten Freddy from Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator has the same voice, but somewhat more distorted. Although Molten Freddy's body is made up of several animatronics, this would seem to indicate that Funtime Freddy is the one "leading" them all.
  • Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach: Played with in regards to the Daycare Attendant. Its Sun form has a manic high-pitched voice, but it's a Harmless Villain who is only a problem because it wants to play with Gregory, a child that wandered into its area. Even then, it is incapable of giving a Game Over, instead serving as a brief obstacle. When it undergoes its Nighttime Transformation into its Moon state, it switches to a raspy voice as it attempts to "punish" Gregory for being up past his bedtime, becoming a more active threat in the process. It's implied that the Daycare Attendant is particularly disliked among the PizzaPlex guests, crew members, and even its fellow animatronics for being too creepy for a robot intended to look after young children. ^note Fun fact: the Daycare Attendant and Funtime Freddy also share the same voice actor.
• Gears of War: Therons and Kantuses has a noticeably shrill and raspy voice in contrast with the regular Locust Drones.
• Granny: Granny has a very high pitched and raspy voice that makes her sound menacing. Justified somewhat by the fact that she is an elderly woman, though it's noticeable even compared to real life elderly women.
• Vortigaunts from the first Half-Life game have high pitched voices which sound arguably creepy. Averted in the second game, in which their voices are low and gravely.
• The titular antagonist of I. M. Meen has a very high-pitched voice. Fitting, considering that he's a bit of a Psychopathic Manchild.
• I Spy: Skelly the skeleton from Spooky Mansion speaks with a hushed, feminine voice. Skelly isn't too evil, just kind of mischievous, but the overall effect is still pretty creepy.
• Judge Dredd: Dredd vs. Death: Judge Fire sounds unnaturally high-pitched.
• Joka from Klonoa has this in all of his appearances. How exactly it sounds depends on who's voicing him - his voice may sound like a Creepy Child, or more clownish, but either way, his voice is always high-pitched - barring the scene before his boss battle in Door To Phantomile, where he suddenly gains a Voice of the Legion.
• Like a Dragon: Goro Majima's natural voice, which he uses when he is being serious, is a smooth, cultured, butter-rich baritone. However, when he is playing up the Ax-Crazy "Mad Dog"-part of his persona, his voice rises at least two octaves and gains a screechy quality, and he puts on a Kansai accent thick enough to cut with a knife. The effect is unsettling at best, and flat out terrifying at worst.
• Metroid: Ridley’s piercing, high-pitched screech whenever he appears for a boss fight is infamous in the fanbase for how loud it can be.
• Mask of the Betrayer has One-of-Many, whose initial voice is an electronically processed, high-pitched whisper speaking an extremely creepy variant on Simlish.
• Nightmare Ned: The rats in the Bathroom level, who have chipmunk-like voices, throw electrical objects at you while singing a Villain Song about how they enjoy electrocuting people.
• Two examples from Octopath Traveler II:
  • Castti's Arc Villain, The Plaguemaster (or Trousseau), has a naturally high voice, initially meant to showcase how innocent he was. Once he snaps, however, his voice constantly wavers between sounding like he's three seconds away from a breakdown and being filled with unhinged glee, which combines with his young-sounding voice to be even creepier.
  • The Voice in Hikari's head which serves as a manifestation of his Clan Ku curse is slightly higher and significantly more bloodthirsty-sounding than his regular speaking voice.
• Overwatch: The villainous Mad Bomber Junkrat has a high-pitched voice, fitting for his Animal Motifs. His partner Roadhog, on the other hand, has a very deep voice.
• Polyroll: The game's villain, Kaiser Kiwi, has a high-pitched squawk for a voice, fitting for a smallish bird like him.
• Ratchet & Clank:
  • Recurring villain Dr. Nefarious speaks with a somewhat screechy voice.
  • Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction: Emperor Percival Tachyon, the game's Big Bad, has an extremely shrill and loud voice, fitting, considering his stature.
• Resident Evil has featured this in varying... variants in its penchant for Psychopathic Manchild characters.
  • Alfred Ashford from Resident Evil – Code: Veronica has a high-pitched voice that emphasizes his theatrically flamboyant delivery and susceptibility to becoming dangerously flustered, takes his already high-pitched giggling and cackling over the top, and gives him a feminine feel that furthers his similarity to his sister Alexia, with whom he forms a Half-Identical Creepy Twins duo. Speaking of Alexia, it also lends plausibility in advance to The Reveal that the Alexia who the player encounters throughout the first half of the game is actually Alfred impersonating her to a T.
  • Ramon Salazar from Resident Evil 4 is a Depraved Dwarf with a voice so high that there are times that he sounds like a hyena.
  • Lucas Baker from Resident Evil 7: Biohazard has a somewhat harsh voice on the higher side, and can regularly be heard singsonging, giggling, or screeching with laughter all the higher into it as he taunts victims, matching with his darkly playful and almost Keet-y personality.
• Hugh Bliss from Sam & Max: Freelance Police has a rather effeminate high-pitched voice, which combined with his Dissonant Serenity, as well as being albino, lend him an air of creepiness, which turns out to be fitting when he is revealed as the Big Bad of Season 1.
• Carnage from Activision's Spider-Man has a high pitched raspy voice.
• Sunset Overdrive: Fizzie has a high-pitched voice that fits him as a cutesy corporate mascot, but he is also a sadistic AI who enjoys killing people.
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • Recurring villain Kamek is almost always given a high-pitched voice. In the Yoshi's Island games, he makes funny-sounding high-pitched noises, but in the later Mario games, he does more of a shrill screech.
  • Since Super Mario 64, the recurring ghost enemy Boo has been assigned a high-pitched laugh and voice. King Boo's voice is lower, but still pretty raspy.
  • Fellow undead enemy Dry Bones has, in some games, used some of Boo's old voice clips.
  • Shadow Mario from Super Mario Sunshine has some voice clips in a distorted version of Mario's already high-pitched voice, while others are just squeaks. His true form, Bowser Jr., has a high-pitched voice, as well, due to being a small child.
  • Cosmic Mario from Super Mario Galaxy, along with Cosmic Luigi from the same game and the Cosmic Clones from the sequel, have Mario's voice but pitched-up.
• Super Solvers: Morty Maxwell, the self-proclaimed Master of Mischief and Big Bad of the series, has a high-pitched voice.
• Undertale: Flowey the Flower has high-pitched sounds for his Voice Grunting, and as we quickly learn, he is cruel and sadistic. Justified in that his true form is that of a child.
• Richard Epcar gives the Joker this type of voice in the Mortal Kombat series, the Injustice series, and Infinite Crisis, befitting his status as a Monster Clown.

Visual Novels

• Spirit Hunter: NG:
  • When the Urashima Woman speaks, her voice is modulated so that it comes out in an unnaturally high, warbling tone.
  • Like the Urashima Woman, Killer Peach's voice is edited to be unnaturally high-pitched, first heard by Akira and the player when she laughs wickedly while stalking them.

Web Animation

• The Commander of Blue Laser, the enemy fighting force in Cheat Commandos, speaks in an incredibly shrill, high-pitched screech. This also applies to his in-universe voice actor, around whom Crack Stuntman, another actor in the cartoon, seems to feel uncomfortable.
• Father Tucker: Father Tucker is a Pedophile Priest, the most prolific pedophile in the history of mankind in fact with 6'273'410 counts of pedophilia including infantophilia. Fitting for such a mega uber creep, he has an extremely high pitched voice that lets you know he is bad news.

Web Video

• Acquisitions Incorporated: Played for Laughs and lampshaded in the intro of the episode "Five Heads are Better than None", which starts with The Narrator narrating in a high-pitched voice, but then it is paused, a sound options menu is opened, and the voice being changed from "Weird old creep" option to "Regular voice".
• Dragon Ball Z Abridged: The dub of Episode of Bardock has the villainous Lord Chilled speak in a cartoonishly high falsetto, similar to Tiny Tim.
• The Runaway Guys: In their playthrough of Kirbys Return To Dreamland, Chugga gives Magolor a silly, high-pitched voice that the others compare to Elmo. When Magolor turns out to be Evil All Along and goes One-Winged Angel, Chugga shouts Magolor's lines, making the "Elmo" voice sound downright demonic. The other players are initially freaked out before eventually laughing it off.

Western Animation

• Starting with Batman: The Animated Series and continuing in other series in the DC Animated Universe, Mark Hamill became famous for giving the Joker a high, thin voice that lent itself well to psychotic laughter.
• For similar reasons, many animated iterations of Spider-Man go this route with the Green Goblin, with Neil Ross’s and Steve Blum’s portrayals from Spider-Man: The Animated Series and The Spectacular Spider-Man respectively being the most notable examples.
• Aaahh!!! Real Monsters: Downplayed with the Gromble. He has a high-pitched voice and is a Large Ham, and acts like a Sadist Teacher sometimes, but deep down, he seems to really care for his students.
• The Dover Boys: Dan Backslide speaks - or rather, shouts - with a very shrill voice.
• Herbert the creepy elderly pedophile who lusts after Chris Griffin and other boys from Family Guy speaks in a very high pitched effeminate voice, it sometimes gets raspy when he gets irritated or angry.
• Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls has a loud high-pitched voice by default. When he's entirely pissed off, it changes in the opposite direction.
• The evil Skeletor from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) has a very reedy voice.
• Eric's tech-savvy peer Techrat from Jem has a nasal, high pitched voice. He helps Eric with his schemes.
• The Legend of Zelda (1989):
  • As the first person to give the villainous Ganon a voice, Len Carlson gave Ganon a raspy, monstrous voice that was often very high-pitched. He did sometimes briefly lower his voice for creepy effect, though.
  • In "Stinging a Stinger," the backstabbing con man Sleezenose has a similarly raspy voice, although even higher-pitched than Ganon's. It fits because he seems elderly, and it also shows how pathetic and repulsive he is.
• The Mad Scientist Dr. Doofenshmirtz on Phineas and Ferb speaks in a high-pitched voice with a vague Ruritanian or Uberwaldian accent to boot.
• HIM from The Powerpuff Girls has a very effeminate-sounding voice, fitting for his status as a Sissy Villain. Although the reverb effect in his voice is one of the things that actually make him legitimately scary.
• Demongo the Soul Collector from Samurai Jack is a demonic henchman working for Aku, who has an amusingly high-pitched voice that contrasts greatly with his overall appearance. Jarringly enough he's voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, who's better known for playing many other characters on the same show that have very deep voices.
• Silverwing: The evil rat king Remus has a snivelling, high-pitched voice. His good brother, Romulus, has a much deeper voice.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): Snively, The Dragon, is aptly named for his snivelly high-pitched voice. This is a strong contrast to the Big Bad, Dr. Robotnik, who has a menacing deep voice. In the last episode, when Snivelly takes over as the new Big Bad, he does an especially high-pitched Evil Laugh.
• On South Park, Mickey Mouse still speaks in his trademark squeaky voice while brutalising The Jonas Brothers to keep them in line. The rather anvilicious point here is that companies like Disney maintain a stranglehold over their young stars' lives by imposing lofty standards of Contractual Purity and keeping the poor kids from enjoying a normal adolescence.
• Aquamarine from Steven Universe has a childlike, pixie-ish voice and appearance, and Steven at first mistakes her as a kid like him. It doesn't take long for him to be rid of that notion as Aquamarine swiftly kidnaps citizens of Beach City and threatens to use them as a Human Shield in a fight if necessary.
  • Spinel from Steven Universe: The Movie is one of the most dangerous foes seen so far in the series, effortlessly destroying the Gems in their first fight, but has a cutesy voice and appearance that harken back to the Betty Boop style of animation.
• Strange Hill High had one Villain of the Week being the Tooth Fairy, who has a squeaky high-pitched voice. This is actually lampshaded In-Universe where none of the characters are able to take him seriously as a villain with a voice that high.
• The late Chris Latta voiced villains with shrill and high voices in several of the 1980's Hasbro cartoons: Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Starscream in The Transformers and D'Compose in Inhumanoids.

Real Life

• In normal conversation, Adolf Hitler had a deep, raspy voice but during his speeches, he shouted with a high-pitched, maniacal screech. This was because of a scar on his neck incurred from a piece of shrapnel during World War I.
• The public speaking voice of Joseph Stalin was not what you would have expected at all. Recordings of Stalin delivering speeches show that his voice was higher-pitched, nasal, and rather reedy, marked by a non-standard regional accent. People who remember the British prime minister Harold Wilson have remarked that Stalin's voice is basically Wilson speaking Russian. ^note Wilson's speaking voice was nasal, reedy and higher-pitched with a North-West/Liverpool accent; this was beloved of comic impressionists at the time, such as Mike Yarwood, as it was regarded as comedy gold. Although a Russian Mike Yarwood seeking to "do" Stalin would have lasted perhaps thirty seconds.
• Paul Michael Stephani was a Serial Killer who was nicknamed the "Weepy-Voiced Killer" due to a series of telephone calls he made to police, anonymously reporting his crimes in a remorseful and high-pitched voice. (CAUTION: May be disturbing to some individuals!)

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