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2012-08-01, 08:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
Like, if you could give the characters any voice actors you wanted, who do you think they sound like the most?
My personal list so far is:
Roy: J August Richards
Father: Morgan Freeman
Grandfather: Michael Clark Duncan
Elan: Alan Tudyk
Haley: Beth Riesgraf
V: Justin Bieber
Blackwing: Paul Blackthorne
Belkar: Trey Parker
Nale: Wil Wheaton
Sabine: Gina Bellman
Thog: not sure
Xykon: Patrick Stewart
Redcloak: Vincent Caso
Tsukiko: Jewel Staite
Miko: Amy Okuda
Shojo: Ian McKellen
Tarquin: David Boreanaz
Malack: Roger L Jackson
Empress: Tina FeyLast edited by Wightsbane; 2013-01-04 at 06:48 PM. Reason: I thought of a new idea
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2012-08-01, 08:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
Xykon: Justin Bieber
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2012-08-01, 09:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
I don't normally hear characters in the voices of specific real-life people, but ever since I saw it suggested in a misguided "voice actor" thread, George Takei is the voice of Lord Shojo to me. I can't unhear it now.
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2012-08-01, 09:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-01, 10:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
Cannot unhear
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2012-08-01, 10:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-01, 10:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
I seem to remember that Mel Brooks was the "win" suggestion for Xykon. And that there was this silly argument over whether Neil Patrick Harris was too old to voice Elan.
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2012-08-01, 11:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-01, 11:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
No. There's a difference between asking "Who do you hear a character as?" and "Who should voice that character?" The latter periodically crops up, but this is the first time I've seen the former.
I personally prefer this thread, since the other one didn't really seem to know that much about how voice casting works.
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2012-08-01, 11:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
Agreed. Voice Acting is not the same as screen acting. Somebody can be an excellent screen actor and an utterly inept voice actor.
Also, I nominate Kotono Mitsuishi for Lien.
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2012-08-01, 11:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
To answer the question in the thread's title, I actually have no idea. I hear most of the male characters(Roy, Redcloak, Tarquin,O Chul, Jirix, Hinjo, Tahn, Nale, Girard, Malack etc) in a similar voice, as if I had one personal narrator reading all the lines, only slightly changing his voicetone depending who ''he'' is voice acting. And I think the same is true for most female characters (Haley, Sabine, Miko, Lirian, Celia, etc), as if I had a second voice actor in my mind. But I don't know at all where these two voices come from.
Only a few specific characters have a different voice, such as Durkon (A weird-sounding voice that I can't really describe, nothing like a real scottish accent, sounds more like a redneck medieval peasant), the Oracle (some kind of old man high-pitched voice), Thog (well, Thogish voice, I also somehow read forikroder's posts the same way incidently, same as Enor), Xykon (pirate-like voice), Belkar (kid voice, even though he'd harvest my kidneys for saying this).
I actually envy those able of reading with each character having a different voice :(
That's the answer for what voice I hear the characters in, as for what voice I'd LIKE to hear the characters in, I can't really tell since I don't know the names of many voice actors. I might think about it later.Last edited by Caivs; 2012-08-01 at 11:54 PM.
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2012-08-01, 11:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
I don't hear specific actors, but these are close approximations.
Roy: Will Friedle
Haley: Jewel Staite
Elan: Michael Sinterniklaas
V: Summer Glau
Blackwing: Tara Strong
Belkar: Alan Tudyk
Durkon: John Rhys Davies
Eugene: Kevin Michael Richardson / Ed Asner
Shojo: Mark Hamill
Hinjo: James Franco
Miko: Hynden Walch
Xykon: John Hurt
Redcloak: Neil Patrick Harris
MiD: CH Greenblatt
Nale: Christopher McCulloch
Sabine: Gina Torres
Thog: Christopher Sabat
Tarquin: Richard Dean Anderson
Malak: Dee Bradley Baker
Cedric: Doc Hammer / Christopher McCulloch
Lee: Doc Hammer / Christopher McCulloch
Nero: Doc Hammer / Christopher McCulloch
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2012-08-02, 12:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
I find it somewhat odd that I'm the only person who hears professional voice actors. Characters who don't sound like anyone in particular are left out.
Elan: Yuri Lowenthal
Haley: Jennifer Hale
V: Karen Strassman (Not meant to be a statement about gender)
Belkar: Steve Blum
Nale: Johnny Yong Bosch
Sabine: Michelle Ruff
Thog: Fred Tatasciore
Tarquin: Grant George
Xykon: Christian Freeman
Redcloak: Liam O'Brien
Tsukiko: Laura Bailey
MitD: Dave Wittemberg
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2012-08-02, 06:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
Shojo: Professor Farnsworth's voice (Billy West). I'm absolutely serious.
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2012-08-02, 11:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
thog: me
eveyone else: depends on whose reading oots to me that night : )Last edited by Gift Jeraff; 2012-08-02 at 11:33 AM.
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2012-08-02, 11:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
Saffron Henderson would make a really annoying Miko, but I think she deserves better.
I'm also going to say Lisa Ortiz for Haley and Rachel Lillis for Celia.
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2012-08-02, 12:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
Roy: Stephen Russel (gruff and sarcastic)
Elan: Jason Marsden (charming and great for singing)
Vaarsuvius: Jean Gilpin (Feminine and boastful)
Haley: Tara Strong (slightly high-pitched)
Belkar: No reference, but high-pitched and gruff
Durkon: Mel Brooks (Old, but energetic)
Nale: Jason Marsden (Like Elan, but with a sophisticated accent)
Sabine: Tara Strong (slightly low-pitched)
thog: robin williams (dim and slow)
Lord Shojo: Robin Williams (weak and goofy while acting, deep and wise as himself)
Hinjo: Neal Patrick Harris (smooth and confident)
Miko: A female dog (think about it...)
Xykon: Charles Dennis (deep and demonic)
Redcloak: Little Kuriboh (High-pitched and very, very british)
MitD: Carolyn Lawrence (childish)
Tsukiko: Whoever the heck voices Tira (High-pitched and annoying)
Tarquin: BRIAN BLESSED (super, super hammy)
Celia: Maryl Streep (Low-pitched, but motherly)Last edited by Chaotic Queen; 2012-08-02 at 12:24 PM.
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2012-08-02, 12:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
I've always heard Xykon as John Cleese. Not quite sure why.
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2012-08-02, 07:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
It's weird, but when I read the comic I don't really 'hear' the characters as anybody in particular.. with the exception of one. For some odd reason I always hear Malcolm McDowell when I read Xykon's dialogue.
Last edited by ThomasMink; 2012-08-02 at 07:53 PM.
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2012-08-02, 08:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
Belkar: Kelsey Grammer. Sure he's a psychopath, but he's a highly articulate psychopath with a vocabulary that Sideshow Bob would respect.
"None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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2012-08-02, 09:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
Roy is Will Smith. No question.
SpoilerThis is the thief who likes to hoard,
That loves the bard with the puppet Lord
That admires the fighter with the green-hilted sword,
That employs the Wizard, whose bird is ignored,
That has the gender unexplored
That intrigues the Halfling, usually bored,
That slew a mountain of the goblin horde,
That follows the cleric,
That serves the lich,
That seeks the gate,
That guards the snarl,
That lives in the prison the gods built.
guess what I was gone but now I'm back
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2012-08-03, 08:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
xykon sounds like skeletor
all other characters sound like me, but redcloak has an english accent
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2012-08-03, 02:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-03, 11:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
That would explain his aversion to the traditions of the Bard class...
Belkar: Trey Parker, if he toned down the Cartman voice to the point where it sounds like a real person.
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2012-08-03, 11:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
Xykon is Siri.
Yeah, from the iPhone 4s...SpoilerThis is the thief who likes to hoard,
That loves the bard with the puppet Lord
That admires the fighter with the green-hilted sword,
That employs the Wizard, whose bird is ignored,
That has the gender unexplored
That intrigues the Halfling, usually bored,
That slew a mountain of the goblin horde,
That follows the cleric,
That serves the lich,
That seeks the gate,
That guards the snarl,
That lives in the prison the gods built.
guess what I was gone but now I'm back
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2012-08-04, 12:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
I hear Keith David (the voice of Goliath from Gargoyles, Spawn, Mary's stepfather in Something About Mary) for Roy. When he's live acting, his characters get this kind of high pitched sputtering when they're upset/annoyed by something, which I always think of for Roy's reaction to his team's antics.
Roy's Dad is very Samuel L. Jackson. Voice, attitude, and all.
I don't have a particular person's voice in mind for Thog, but he does have the same voice in my head as Skull from PvP Comic. Kind of sounds like the big good-guy gargoyle from Gargoyles. Either Brooklyn or Bronx.
Xykon is a very Rowan Atkinson (Johnny English, Black Adder) sounding fellow in my head. The confident, cold hearted bastard Atkinson, not the suck-up R.A.
I always hear Sabine's voice as really sultry. No particular actor who I can recall off the top of my head.
No one else gets a real "voice", except that V sounds like a snot no matter what else.I used to live in a world of terrible beauty, and then the beauty left.
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2012-08-04, 02:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
I have to confess, I've heard Redcloak as the character Zim from Invader Zim for years now. Watched a marathon, then read oots, and I could never unhear it.
Uh, Wikipedia tells me his voice actor is Richard Horvitz.
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2012-08-04, 05:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-08-04, 06:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
I'm doing a combination of screen actors and voice actors whose voices would fit well IMO:
Roy: Steve Blum or Crispin Freeman
Elan: Mark Hamil (Sorry but I can't hear him as anyone other than that)
Haley: Tara Strong
V: Karen Strassman (Can do a pretty good androgynous voice)
Belkar: Dave Wittenberg (I always pictured his as sounding like Teddie from Persona 4)
Durkon: Steve Blum (He has the range)
Nale: Cam Clarke
Sabine: Tara Platt
Thog: Dave Wittenberg (he has the range)
Miko: Jennifer Hale
Shojo: Geroge Takei
Xykon: Doug Bradley
Redcloak: Liam O'Brien
Tsukiko: Michelle Ruff
MitD: Dave Wittenberg
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2012-08-04, 08:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Who's voice do you hear the characters in?
I always imagine V with the same voice as Edwin from BG