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Alto Villainess
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A subtrope of Evil Sounds Deep. In musical theatre, Voice Types are often stereotypes too: the main hero will often be tenor if male or soprano if female. If the villain is female, however, she will often sing alto. This is quite often the case if the villainess is Large and in Charge. Altos themselves frequently refer to their options as "witches, bitches, and britches" (crossdressing roles as boys or young men). This would be the "bitches" part of that triad. Compare other tropes for characters with deep voices: Authority Sounds Deep, for socially powerful characters; Baritone of Strengthnote Despite the name, it applies to characters of all genders for strong characters; and finally, Power Makes Your Voice Deep, when a character's voice becomes deeper after they gain some sort of power. |
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In Into the Woods, the Anti Villainous Witch sings alto (and, unusually, raps too), which helps set her voice apart from the soprano ingenue part of Rapunzel. | |
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Sindel has been depicted as a villain since Mortal Kombat 11 and has a deep voice. | |
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The Basic Eight: murderess Flan Culp is (fittingly) an alto, albeit a rather off-key one. | |
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Katrina Stoneheart from the 1980s Pound Puppies series (who was voiced by the same actress as Ursula). | |
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Mrs. Meers from Thoroughly Modern Millie. The owner of the Hotel Priscilla, she runs the business as a front for her real stock in trade; white slavery. | |
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Lucy from 13. Lucy is the Alpha Bitch and has learned how to manipulate her friends. | |
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Madame Morrible from Wicked. Though the wizard is the one initially responsible for the oppression in Oz, Madame Morrible pushes him to greater levels of tyranny and summons the storm that brings Dorothy's house to Oz. Then again, she barely has a singing part. | |
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Shenzi the hyena in the stage adaptation of The Lion King. | |
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Mortal Kombat: Sheeva is a female member of the Shokkan race. She is often on the side of the villains and speaks with a deep, commanding voice. Sindel has been depicted as a villain since Mortal Kombat 11 and has a deep voice. |
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Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson, the leader of the Sanderson sisters and the main antagonist in Hocus Pocus, played by Bette Midler. | |
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Anyone Can Whistle has Cora Hoover-Hooper, the corrupt Mayoress, displaying plenty of chest voice in her opening number. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Sunset Shimmer in has an alto voice that gets even deeper after going One-Winged Angel. Although Sunset retains her alto voice after having switched to the good side. The Dazzlings in the sequel, Rainbow Rocks, especially Adagio Dazzle, though Sonata Dusk averts this. |
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In Matilda: The Musical, the evil headmistress Trunchbull has traditionally been a Crosscast Role played by baritone-tenors. | |
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Glee: The more antagonistic roles are played by the actors with lower voices, including Quinn and Santana (altos in the group) and Sue Sylvester. Kurt's voice is also in a much higher range than his antagonists. | |
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Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. She goes into business with Sweeney Todd, baking pies. | |
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Hélène from Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. | |
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In Hadestown, the three Fates sing a three-part harmony in a lower register than the other female leads. The Fates are a trio of women who use half-truths and pessimism to manipulate people into making terrible choices. | |
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Eartha Kitt provides the voice of the villainous Yzma in The Emperor's New Groove. | |
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Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors. Though voiced by a man, she does refer to herself as a mother. And she eats people. | |
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Rock of Ages : Both Catherine Zeta-Jones and Mary J. Blige play antagonists to the main heroes, and sing in a lower range than the heroine. | |
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The Dazzlings in the sequel, Rainbow Rocks, especially Adagio Dazzle, though Sonata Dusk averts this. | |
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| Alto Villainess / int_c32a966f | comment |
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Sunset Shimmer in has an alto voice that gets even deeper after going One-Winged Angel. Although Sunset retains her alto voice after having switched to the good side. | |
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In The Musical of Howl's Moving Castle, the Witch of the Waste is a contralto. | |
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In the 2018 reboot of She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Shadow Weaver (voiced by Lorraine Toussaint) has a deep, silky voice. | |
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Evillious Chronicles: There are a lot of characters who fulfill this role depending on which Vocaloid he uses. Banica Conchita/Master of the Graveyard (Meiko); Irina (Iroha); and Kayo and MA (Luka) are the most obvious examples, but there are numerous aversions: The Master of the Court, Riliane, Arte, Margarita, and Eve all have very high voices, being played by Rin or Miku. | |
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In a speaking-only version of this trope, Amy, the calculating, manipulative title character in the film Gone Girl. Rosamund Pike pitches her voice to be low and husky, as opposed to her voice in other roles. | |
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Mother Gothel, witch and main antagonist in Disney's Tangled, is voiced by Donna Murphy. | |
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In The Love of the Three Oranges Prokofiev averts it with Fata Morgana (soprano), plays it straight with Princess Clarisse (alto), and turns it up to eleven with the cook (a bass in drag). He also scores Hélène as an alto in his operatic adaptation of War and Peace. | |
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Resident Evil Village: Lady Dimestrescu is one of the villains of the game. She has a deep voice to go with her imposing height. | |
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Ursula the sea witch, the main antagonist in The Little Mermaid (1989), has Pat Carroll's throaty alto, opposing the more crisp and pure higher range of Ariel, the protagonist. The contrast is most clear at the end of Ursula's "Poor Unfortunate Souls", when she commands Ariel to sing. (This is reduced in the stage version, where Ursula sings in more of a mezzo register.) | |
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Averted in Across the Universe (2007), in which the female lead has a mezzo-soprano voice that borders on alto, as do most of the women. | |
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