Basic Trope: The young and idealistic romantic lead in theater tends to sing in the tenor range.
- Straight: Tenma, the main character of Tropers: The Musical, is a dashing and naive young princeling who tries to save his princess from the villain. He has a high singing voice.
- Exaggerated: The Incorruptible Pure Pureness Tenma is a countertenor.
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified: At his birth, the spirits blessed Tenma with a high singing voice to emphasize his goodness.
- Inverted:
- Tenma is the hero and sings in basso profundo.
- Despite Tenma's tenor range, he is a villain.
- Evil Sounds Deep
- Subverted: Tenma later reveals himself to be a worldly villain pretending to be a naive prince.
- Double Subverted: He's a Decoy Protagonist who dies at the end of the first act. The real prince, Tennyson, has a tenor voice.
- Parodied: Upon performing a Heel–Face Turn Tenma's vocal range jumps an octave.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Everyone in the cast is a baritone regardless of morality.
- Enforced: After watching Tenma and the princess's love duet, the producers think Tenma's baritone clashes with her Innocent Soprano, so they have the writer transpose the song for a tenor.
- Lampshaded: "This lovestruck fool sure has a high singing voice, huh."
- Invoked: When pretending to be a lovestruck prince, Tenma sings in falsetto.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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