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Varieties of Evil Laugh and their Onomatopoeia

  • Writer: Laurent Bolli
    Laurent Bolli
  • Jan 27
  • 1 min read

Stumbled upon this thread form 2013, on a forum called Yack Fest, on a website called TV Tropes.

The question that started the discussion was:


What would the onomatopoeia be for the evil laughs of certain kinds of villains?


It goes like this:

"HUWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!"

Kekekekekeke - goofyish laugh

BWAAAHH hahahaha

"Teeheehee!" - An Enfant Terrible.

Oh Ho Ho!

Some sort of deep voiced Victorian Villian!

"YAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA" - Plankton from Spongebob.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Laughing Mad/The Joker

Then of course there's 'ufufufu'.

Muhahaha....

MUHAHAHAHAHAAA...

MUHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAAA!


etc.



I find this interesting because it emphasizes the difficulty to write sounds and the cultural differences lying under such attempts.

 
 
 
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