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While it may be wrong to judge a book by its cover, it's something that happens. You see a person, you expect certain things. This extends even to their voice. If you see a muscular man, you expect a deep macho voice. The Vamp will have a sexy, sultry voice. A child's voice is high pitched. And so on. This trope is about when those expectations don't match up. For when the muscular man has the sultry voice, The Vamp has the childish voice, and the child has the deep macho voice. Examples of Vocal Dissonance include:

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  • Vocal Dissonance
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  • While it may be wrong to judge a book by its cover, it's something that happens. You see a person, you expect certain things. This extends even to their voice. If you see a muscular man, you expect a deep macho voice. The Vamp will have a sexy, sultry voice. A child's voice is high pitched. And so on. This trope is about when those expectations don't match up. For when the muscular man has the sultry voice, The Vamp has the childish voice, and the child has the deep macho voice. Examples of Vocal Dissonance include:
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  • While it may be wrong to judge a book by its cover, it's something that happens. You see a person, you expect certain things. This extends even to their voice. If you see a muscular man, you expect a deep macho voice. The Vamp will have a sexy, sultry voice. A child's voice is high pitched. And so on. This trope is about when those expectations don't match up. For when the muscular man has the sultry voice, The Vamp has the childish voice, and the child has the deep macho voice. This trope is generally played for comedy, since the idea of a squeaky voice off a big person or vice-versa is is generally seen as absurd. For better or for worse, this can sometimes come about by chance, depending on how casting in a voiced work goes. Cute but Cacophonic is a subtrope of this, specifically referring to when "an extremely cute and/or tiny animal turns out to have a surprisingly loud cry." Not to be confused with Larynx Dissonance, which involves an actor attempting to impersonate their opposite gender, or Lyrical Dissonance. Examples of Vocal Dissonance include:
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