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• Mayumi Iizuka
  • Miyuki = Misty. Nuff said.

• Shozo Iizuka
  • In most series, anime or toku Shozo Iizuka does villain work using a similar tone and voice. Especially apparent in the Space Sheriff Trilogy, where he voices all 3 of the Big Bads, but in Gavan, only for 10 eps before he came down with bronchitis and called in Takeshi Watabe. In Sharivan, voice effects are applied to him whenever Psycho speaks.

• Asami Imai
  • Will forever be Chihaya Kisaragi, her most popular character. It doesn't help that she has a very distinctive singing voice and did a lot of singing for that part: any time she sings a song, this trope is very likely to come into effect.
    • I suppose she broke away from it. I mean, look at Tsubaki Yayoi...
    • Kurisu Makise is now her role that's competing with Chihaya as Imagine's best known.

• Yuka Imai
  • Yuka Imai, who was also Nabuca, Renamon, Arisa, Wakaba, Kaoru, Rutee Katrea, Priscilla Dolphan, and Mayu.

• Tetsu Inada
  • Holy crap, Elzam von Branstein Ratsel Feinschmeker is Harry Ord!
    • UNIVEEEEEEEEEEERSE!
  • There's a reason why we have the term of Inada Furry. Look at Komamura Sajin or Doggie Kruger

• Kazuhiko Inoue
  • It took only 3 seconds for this troper to recognize Hatake Kakashi's voice in The Sacred Blacksmith, he voices Hugo Housman.

• Kikuko Inoue
  • I-No being voiced by the same actress as Belldandy is... weird.
  • So is the fact that she's also the mercenary Carmen99.
  • As well as Chitose the landlady from Chobits.
  • And Claire Majoram of Mitsumete Knight too.
  • And Durga from Asura's Wrath. And dies in the same episode she first appeared in.

• Jeremy Irons** In National Geographic's The Last Lions, Uncle Scar is telling us a (long, involved and sleepy) bedtime story.

• Michael Ironside
  • In Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited, he showed us that DARKSEID IS!
  • In the Episode "Legends of the Dark Knight" of the retooled Batman the Animated Series, he provides the voice of Batman in a sequence based off of Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.
  • So Darkseid was the bad guy from Scanners, huh? Well, he seems like the type of guy who could blow your head off just by thinking about it.
  • Sam Fisher
    • As pointed out in one interview when someone recognised him. "No, no I'm not Sam Fisher, my name is...well...actually yes I am."

• Mariya Ise
  • Has anyone else noticed how much Stocking and Cure Lemonade sound alike?

• Unshou Ishizuka
  • Augus is a member of the Mishima family, the Narrator of Pokémon as well as Alder, and Zabuza Momochi.

• Miki Ito
  • Asa-senpai and Fuji-nee sound almost exactly alike. Takano sounds like both if you tweak her voice a bit.
  • Don't forget our beloved onee-sama Rosa Chinensis
  • Hmm doesn't this voice also remind you of Android18

• Shizuka Ito
  • When I watched the Puppet Butler battle Hinagiku in Hayate the Combat Butler, I half-expected Hinagiku to say, "Taka-bou, I like you."

• Mitsuo Iwata
  • There are some similarities between Kusanagi of The King of Fighters and Street Fighter III's Sean Matsuda. Both are Hot-Blooded (literally so in Kusanagi's case), both have tan skin, and they even have a similar moveset. To top it off, they're both voiced by the same guy: Mitsuo Iwata.

• Samuel L. Jackson
  • I always though Officer Tenpenny's voice sounded familiar (Okay, I did not check the instruction booklet), until the very last mission when he calls you a "**** ******* ************ "....There it hit me in the face: Samuel L. Jackson!
  • HONEY!? WHERE IS MY SUPERSUIT!?
  • He was "Gin" Rummy on the The Boondocks, a white gangsta.
  • Between moments of badassitude, he also got another paycheck signed by Quentin Tarantino, as the narrator of Inglourious Basterds.
  • Seriously? Nobody's going to mention Afro Samurai?
  • He also narrated the Disney-produced documentary African Cats. He is possibly the most intense narrator ever.
  • He also narrates the "children's" book, "Go the Fuck to Sleep."

• Roger L. Jackson
  • The title character in American McGee's Grimm considers cats to be ideal pets, since his voice actor, Roger L. Jackson, previously voiced a feline of the Cheshire variety. Grimm also is a complete and total fanboy for the fairytale figure, GodFather Death...
  • And speaking of American McGee's Grimm, he does every single voice in the game. That guy has an impressive vocal range.
  • Not to mention that he's Mojo Jojo.
    • Oh yes, so that's why when Keldorn Firecam is yelling his righteous yells of justice, it sounded like Mojo Jojo having a Heel Face Turn and goes on hammy justice.
  • And Butch of the Rowdyruff Boys.
  • In the Sam and Max episodic games, if a character has a deep voice, it's Roger L. Jackson. He's voiced Abe Lincoln, Baby Jimmy Hoffa, Satan, Sexy Peepers...
  • What about the movie role that put him on the map: The Killer's phone voice in Scream

• Janyse Jaud
  • I was recently on a message board talking about Lady Frenzy, a character from the French animated series Botsmaster, who has a sexy voice. I posted a link to an episode like so, and another poster remarked "That's Kagura from Inuyasha!" Indeed, as anyone who has seen the dubs for a number of anime series can attest, Janyse Jaud tends to play bombshells, especially in anime based on Rumiko Takahashi's manga. See also Hinako Ninomiya in Ranma ½ and Bottle Fairy Akemi Roppongi in Maison Ikkoku.
  • Jarring... A pony that loves balloons is actually evil, only a few inches tall, and owns a store in Berry Bitty City. All, well, more reasons to hate the 2009 reincarnation I suppose. For those who still didn't get it, she is Pinkie Pie in the G3 My Little Pony series and Orange Blossom in the 2009 Strawberry Shortcake relaunch.

• Tony Jay
  • Happens within the Legacy of Kain series, where the late Tony Jay played at least three different characters (four if you include the demon possessing one of them), using more or less the same voice.
  • Of course Tony Jay has what some would describe as the "perfect" bad guy voice... so you can expect to hear him cast in a generic bad guy role for tons of other videogames and animated shows. Of course, he was ReBoot‍'‍s Megabyte!
    • Tony Jay also voiced the character Spiderus in Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends and was also in both the television series Beauty and The Beast and the Disney film version of Beauty and the Beast.
      • And as Judge Frollo in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
    • "We've got to have...MONEY!" (Inevitability ensues.)
  • Nor should we overlook his contribution as the suavely sinister industrialist-financier incarnation of Shere Khan in Tale Spin.
  • Let's not forget Dr. Lipschitz in Rugrats. Cue me imagining the child psychologist singing "Hellfire."
  • As much as she loved Tony Jay in all his roles, his most memorable performance to this troper was in this series of commercials.
    • Taken offline. Tony Jay often credited with the line, "behold the power of cheese," actually spoken by Roscoe Lee Browne. However, he did narrate a couple Mazda commercials, saying "Mazda Six-Two-Six!" like a villain arming his superweapon.
  • Arguably the king of this trope in English-language voice acting.
  • This troper once heard Tony Jay in a radio commercial for Nabob Coffee. BEST. COFFEE COMMERCIAL. EVER.
  • Not forgetting the nefarious Chairface Chippendale
  • "I shall write my name across the face of the moon! GIMME A C!"
  • The narrator of the modernized incarnation of The Bard's Tale.
  • Of the above mentioned examples, two of Tony's characters, namely Chairface Chippendale and the Elder God, were essentially faceless. This made it very, very easy to picture any of his other characters whenever he spoke.
  • This troper has trouble taking that guy seriously after hearing him in Secret Squirrel. He was a much sillier character than usual.
  • "On the clearest of nights, when the winds of the Etherium were calm and peaceful..." Exactly Frollo's voice!
  • He was also the Lamp Seller, the Arch Druid, and Captain Salidin in King's Quest VI Heir Today Gone Tomorrow.
  • He was Anubis on Gargoyles, aka DEATH.

• Ashley Johnson
  • Gretchen, Terra, Jinmay and now a teenaged Gwen.

• Wes Johnson
  • Speaking of Fallout, when this troper first heard Fallout 3's Mr. Burke in this gameplay video (Second from the top), he first thought "Holy crap! Lucien Lachance is back and he wants to nuke us all!"

• James Earl Jones
  • James Earl Jones has an instantly recognizable voice whether he's playing a lion, a Galactic Overlord, or doing the station identification for CNN. Or even an immortal magical rock.
  • For a time, Jones was also the official voice of phone company Verizon (and before the merger, Bell Atlantic), which meant that Darth Vader thanked you for using Verizon every time you made a long-distance call.
  • His Spanish counterpart, Constantino Romero, has been dubbing movies for decades and is instantly recognisable as the voice of the aforementioned James Earl Jones (and Vader), Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood, among dozens of other Hollywood stars.
    • Wow, that would add surrealness to Conan the Barbarian.
    • In that movie Romero only dubbed Thulsa Doom, but he's dubbed Arnie in the three Terminator films.
  • This is referenced in The Simpsons in "Round Springfield". Bleedin' Gums Murphy, dies and later gives a speech to Lisa via a cloud (itself a reference to The Lion King), with the three characters above chiming in at the end.
  • Also played with in Kung Pow with the Mufasa parody.
  • In Stargate SG-1, he gives his voice to one of the bad guys of the first-season episode "Thor's Hammer"... It gets odd when you can't shake the feeling that Col. O'neill and Teal'c are talking to Darth Vader.

• Alessandro Juliani
  • Battlestar Galactica videos on YouTube have lately been blasted by reams of Death Note fans squealing about the voice of their beloved L.
  • He also was Toa Vakama and Nightscream. And as a kid, Kid Icarus.

• Takeshi Kaga
  • Chariman Kaga is the voice of Golbez in the Updated Rerelease of Final Fantasy IV for the DS. He also reprises the role for Dissidia Final Fantasy.

• Hiroshi Kamiya
  • Ever since this troper found out that the voice actor for Itoshiki Nozomu and Shinji Matou were the same, he's had many, many mental images of Shinji going, "I'm in despair!" Especially appropriate since Shinji has a lot to despair about.
  • He also voices Trafalgar Law and Kouji Minamoto.
  • Don't forget Tieria Erde!
  • And Izaya and Recruit and Koyomi all sound strangely similar

• Mika Kanai
  • It can be very creepy when watching Code Geass when the voice of Kaguya was Satoko "NI-NIIII" Houjou. Turns out Mika Kanai also plays Chikorita and Bayleef and Mimette and Wapiko...
  • She also played Vanilla in Galaxy Angel. Vanilla and Satoko sound very, very similar.
  • This Troper just started watching the Three-Tails Arc in Naruto Shippuuden. I thought at first that Yuukimaru's voice sounded familiar. It was only when he started screaming (in pain from being hooked up to a device designed to use his chakra to summon the Three-Tailed Beast) that he recognized Satoko's voice. 'Cause... come on... everyone screams in pain/fear in Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. Is it sad that this troper only recognized Satoko's voice when it was in distress/pain?

• Tom Kane
  • Plays like every Imperial Officer in Star Wars video games, as well as a few characters in The Force Unleashed and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
  • Also notable for being MAG-FREAKING NETO!.
  • Don't forget Professor Utonium.

• Boris Karloff
  • The man born to voice horror-movie villains. Ironically, the role that made him famous, the Monster in Frankenstein, doesn't have that much dialogue.
  • Supplied the narration for the seminal animated adaption of How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

• Casey Kasem
  • The voice of America's Top (whatever) Countdown, Casey Kasem, also gave voice to:
  • Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers in the Scooby Doo franchise
  • Flakey Fakem in an episode of Tiny Toon Adventures
  • Cliffjumper in the Transformers cartoon
  • Robin (Dick Grayson) in all incarnations of Superfriends cartoons.
    • This is the character he's voiced the second longest after Shaggy. And it's his own natural voice. When this troper first heard America's Top 40, he wondered, "What's Robin doing on the radio?"
  • Meriadoc Brandybuck in the animated Return of the King.
  • Mark in Battle of the Planets aka G-Force.
  • Alexander Cabot III in Josie and the Pussy Cats.
  • A handful of characters in one episode of The Batman/Superman Hour (but not Robin this time).
  • An announcer at the Rugrats in Paris movie.
  • The bumpers for NBC's Saturday morning shows in the 1985-86 season.

• David Kaufman
  • This troper watched Freakazoid! for the first time since she was a youngster, and the minute Dexter Douglas first spoke, she thought "Danny Phantom?!" Apparently, David Kaufman must like voicing losers who turn into superheroes.
  • Don't forget Jimmy Olson from Superman the Animated Series.
  • This troper, in addition to hearing Danny in Freakazoid!, also can't help but hear him instead of Aldrin or Kaufman's narration during several commercials. Perhaps Danny's overshadowed all these people.
  • It had a reverse effect on this troper- He heard Danny and thought "Marty?!"

• Tomoko Kawakami
  • You can easily tell that Sayuri and Misuzu have the same seiyuu, because Misuzu's "Nihaha" sounds exactly like Sayuri's "Ahahaha"
  • Rounding off Key Visual Arts, Tomoko Kawakami also voices the Girl in the Illusionary World in Clannad.
  • Mika! "Dr. Tokioka told me...about you. That you're a friend of my mother."
  • Wait, why does this destructive little girl sound familiar? (checks seiyuu) ...Sayuri = Mariko?!
  • No mention of Hikaru Shindo?
  • Or for that matter, Utena Tenjou?

• David Kaye
  • Transformers Animated Optimus Prime is a really odd one. His best known role before that was Beast Wars Megatron. Cue the "yesss..." He's also the voice on the Enzyte commercials, Protoman.EXE, and even has the same general voice tone as Soun Tendo.
  • "Wait, why is Optimus Prime trying to sell me beer?"
    • And if none of those ring a bell, how about Sesshoumaru or Treize Khushrenada or Lear Dunham? David Kaye's voice credits go on and on.
  • He was not just Megatron in Beast Wars and Beast Machines, but the Unicron Trilogy as well. In other words, he was Megatron in five different series.
  • He was also Clank in Ratchet and Clank games.

• Michael Keaton
  • Batman voicing the rival car in Cars and Ken in Toy Story 3.

• Brandon Keener
  • Go look up any clips of Keener's live-action roles on YouTube (He's Just Not That Into You, Raising the Bar, and commercials for Geico and Budweiser, for one) and you'll be hard-pressed to find a comment made within the last 5 months that doesn't have anything to do with Garrus Vakarian. Just try.
  • Or for that matter the 'Causeway' mini-campaign in Company of Heroes. Hey, I didn't know Garrus fought in World War Two! And, appropriately enough, in the 'Normandy' campaign!
  • He also had a two-minute scene in The Pacific as a West Point graduate who missed the war. It was a particularly memorable scene too.

• Garrison Keiller
  • Garrison Keillor of A Prairie Home Companion is instantly recognizable whenever he steps into another voiceover role, such as his ads for Honda UK.

• Tom Kenny
  • From Transformers Animated. Tom Kenny generally has a very wide range, but it's still somewhat noticeable when he voices Starscream that it's also SpongeBob SquarePants due to them both being high-pitched and grating. Oddly enough, it works... probably since the original Starscream's voice (Mr. Latta, noted below) was also high-pitched and grating.
  • While he sounds a bit like Spongebob he sounds a lot like the Penguin in The Batman.
    • Speaking of Transformers and Kenny, Wheelie in Revenge of the Fallen definitively sounds like a modified SpongeBob.
  • A particularly specific example: In an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob, voiced by Tom Kenny, becomes "normalized", and affects a new "normal" voice; one nearly identical to the voice used by Tom Kenny for one-shot character Adlai Atkins on Futurama, who also has a penchant for normalcy.
  • This "50's narrator-ish" voice was also used as many of the automated machines in Idiocracy.
  • In the prom episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, Heffer says, "Go wreck someone else's prom!"
  • Can you believe that the person who voices Spongebob is the same one who voices Hal Gibson?
    • Can you believe that the person who voices Spongebob and Patchy the Pirate are THE SAME PERSON?
  • On the other hand, the voice he used for Spongebob is almost exactly the same as the one he used for Carl in Johnny Bravo.
  • What no Powerpuff Girls mention? Tom Kenny voices the Mayor and the Narrator.
  • Why wouldn't he be versatile? Plastic Man can expand!
  • How can Dog be versatile when he's joined to his brother?
  • He appears to use an identical voice for SpongeBob's dad and Wally from Mission Hill. If you've seen the show, you'll know that some of the things Wally's said would be both creepy and hilarious coming from SpongeBob's old man.
  • Rabbit in the new Pooh movie. This is either going to be really good, or really bad.

• Daniel Dae Kim
  • Jin from Lost puts his DHARMA security guard training to good use on the streets of Stilwater as Saints lieutenant Johnny Gat.

• Mami Kingetsu
  • It feels really strange to hear Nagisa Shiozaki and Izumi Himuro with the same voice as Shiori Fujisaki. Even more creepy, is that Alice sounds like what the Superstar of Kirameki High would be if she turned evil.

• Eri Kitamura
  • Eri Kitamura's done a lot: she's been Ami Kawashima, Rin Kokonoe, Seira and Cure Berry.

• Eartha Kitt
  • We would like to take a moment of silence to honor the loss of Eartha Kitt aka Yzma, Catwoman and Vexus. RIP.

• Hidenobu Kiuchi
  • Hei is Tenma.

• Sanae Kobayashi
  • Allen Walker is Lucy? I don't think I'll ever sleep again.
  • Lucy is apparently also the silver-haired avatar of an ancient magical tome that can destroy worlds.
  • And, Allen Walker is Namie Yagiri from Durarara... that's pretty hard to believe... a badass and messiah Exorcist is a brother-obsessed sister.
  • Better yet, they apparently are also an androgynous vampire.
  • She was, for at least twice, 2 Eskimo children.

• Katsuyuki Konishi
  • When I first heard Wataru Kurozuma open his mouth, I half-expected him to break into a Kamina speech. Their voices are absolutely identical.
  • Ever heard Altair speak in Japanese? Hell YES he's voiced by Kamina in the dub!

• Ami Koshimizu
  • This troper nearly fell off her chair when she noticed that Ace Pilot Kallen Kouzuki had the same voice as Gag Boobs Moe Moe Nodoka Haramura. And then she fainted when she heard her again as Abusive Parent Rosa Ushiromiya.
    • Abusive? Badass mother is more like it, if the brat gets on your nerves as much as mine.
    • Like above, this troper almost had an a heart attack when he realized that the same Ace Pilot, Kallen, had also the same voice of the Cloudcuckoolander Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter and Cute Monster Girl with surgical skills Fran Madaraki.
    • Speaking of pilots we cant forget our speed loving babe Shirley Yeager who was based from that Legendary Dude.
    • Almost as stubborn as Kallen, and still a pilot, there's Mintao from Sora O Kakeru Shoujo

• Yuka Komatsu
  • Can you believe that in the Japanese dub of Avatar, Neytiri sounds just like Cure Passion? That's because they're both voiced by Yuka Komatsu. If you don't believe me, check this commercial (it's at 00:42).

• Satomi Koorogi
  • Togepi, meet Snarf. Or better yet, Arnold!

• Takehito Koyasu
  • Odds are that if you've watched even just two different anime series, you'll have heard his voice at least once. This guy really gets around, especially if you watch Humongous Mecha series.
  • Just from Gundam:
    • Zechs Merquise
    • Gym Ghingnham
    • Mu La Flaga
  • Asuham Boone
  • Il Palazzo
  • Adam Blade

• Rie Kugimiya
  • Obviously, there exists Shana, Louise, Nagi, and Taiga, so just shut up, shut up, and SHUT UP ALREADY!
  • Though there are a few boy roles in the mix of tsunderes, like Alphonse Elric and Ikuto Noguchi.
  • And Kagura, aru.
  • Mizore is stalking this article right now...
  • And Yuuki, who's more than fond of tacos.
  • Not to mention Dark Lemonade.
  • Don't forget Liechtenstein!
  • And a Cat.
  • And a Non Violent Priestess.
  • She's Ruby Gloom!

• Mila Kunis
  • It's hard to take all of the ugly jokes seriously, when you realise Meg actually looks like Mona Sax and Solara
  • She also plays a lot of the bit parts in Robot Chicken

• Natsuko Kuwatani
  • This Troper immediately recognized Yue's voice in Mahou Sensei Negima, but couldn't remember from where. Looking it up, it turns out she's also Suiseiseki, although they don't sound too much alike. Listening to Yue's first line again, it's clear: it ends in "desu".
  • Even more obvious in Haruhi-chan; Achakura using an umbrella to open a door is a reference to Rozen Maiden.

• Maurice LaMarche
  • Best known for being The Brain, 89% of Maurice LaMarche's voice work sounds like he's doing an impression of Orson Welles (whom he's DIRECTLY impersonated at least four times), so it's very distinctive whenever it's heard.
  • This also means that Father is voiced by the Brain?
  • Note that he is almost completely unrecognizable as The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight, but quite recognizable as Morbo and Kif Kroker on Futurama, among many others.
  • He is also the narrator in Pom Poko
  • Also did a really good job of capturing Harold Ramis' quirky mannerisms in the role of Dr. Egon Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters
  • Very recognizable in Guild Wars, but it helps that Vekk is a little guy whose entire species likes to talk about how much smarter than you they are.

• Phil LaMarr
  • Hermes Conrad on Futurama, The Green Lantern, John Stewart, on Justice League and Justice League Unlimited; Wilt and Jackie Khones on Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends; Static from Static Shock; Samurai Jack; Jazz from Transformers Animated, and some non-superheroes on The Spectacular Spider-Man. And don't forget Vamp!
  • And Gambit.
  • Hilarious Lampshading in an episode of Static Shock where Static helps out Green Lantern John Stewart take on Sinestro. Did Phil LaMarr get paid for voicing two parts?
  • Phil LaMarr voices both Vamp (sexy Eastern European bisexual possibly-a-vampire) from the above series, and Hermes Conrad from Futurama. The worst part is that you can hear it.
  • Phil had also voiced Reddas, a key character in the plot and a Guest Star Party Member in Final Fantasy XII.
  • A couple roles in the Knights of the Old Republic series as well - the good gangster Gadon Thek in the first, and Captain/Major Riiken in the second. Identical to his John Stewart voice in both cases, which makes playing the games a bit hilarious at times.
  • He's also ExOps mercenary Chris Jacobs. Apparently ex-Delta Force.
  • He's the Earth King as well.
  • Phil also played the part of Mr. Sunshine in Saint's Row 2. Its not very obvious though, just like Neil Patrick Harris as Veteran Child.
  • He also provided some voices for Doom 3, for instance a minor character by the name of T. Washington that shows up walking out of a restroom in the intro level.
  • And in Dead Island, you can hear him perform the title song as the rapper Sam B.
  • His voice can be distinctively heard in Mass Effect 2 on the Citadel when you listen in on two NPC krogan talking about fish.

• Campbell Lane
  • First Hybrid and Bentusi, anyone? Campbell Lane really has ominous voice.
  • Considering that the two characters are essentially the same concept, extra points to the BSG writers for being such nerds.
  • Lane is also the narrator in the English dubbed version of Gundam Wing.

• Lex Lang
  • After watching Fist of the North Star (dubbed) I heard Kenshiro and after I had to think for a while, I finally remember where I've heard that before: Goemon.
  • Speaking of the FOTNS dub, listen to Shin's voice, even for a little while. This troper was half expecting Shin to summon Manda and sic him on Ken before declaring "Bang!". And who voices him? Only a certain Steven Jay Blum.
  • Meanwhile, in ancient China, he is both an eloquent if monotone strategist and a grammar-deficient masked hooligan.

• Carolyn Lawrence
  • Hey, doesn't Cindy Vortex sound a lot like Sandy Cheeks?
    • Not only that, but both characters do karate!
  • HELP ME, LEON!

• Denis Leary
  • It came as a surprise to learn that the smooth-talking sabre from Ice Age is the same as the temperamental Francis "Just-because-I'm-a-ladybug-automatically-makes-me-a-girl?" Ladybug from A Bugs Life.

• Amanda Winn-Lee
  • It might surprise you to learn that the original voice of Rei Ayanami is also Konoko from Oni, Yukiko from Persona 4, Pandy from Dead Leaves, "Miss Deep" from the Read or Die OVA, the original voice of Etna from Disgaea, Lucia from Luminous Arc, Argilla from Digital Devil Saga, and Maria from Trauma Team. Or, hey. Maybe not.

• Christopher Lee
  • Christopher Lee; Dracula, Saruman, Count Dooku... Ansem the Wise? Suprisingly not evil in Kingdom Hearts, though chillingly immoral to the point where there's more than a little fan speculation that DiZ is a Nobody himself....
  • One rather weird example of voice recognition will occur if you ever watch the German dub of The Last Unicorn. That King Haggard sure sounds familiar...because it's actually Christopher Lee doing the dubbing. And may I add, he's pretty damn good at it.
  • Hardly surprising—Lee speaks German, French, Spanish, and Italian fluently, and has some facility with even more languages.
    • Including the dark tongue of Mordor.
  • Death. 'Nuff said.
  • And in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, he gives an appropriately sinister voice to the Jabberwock!

• Peggy Lee
  • Peggy Lee, also a popular singer, played a major part in the making of Lady and the Tramp. She was given three, er, four roles, too: the Siamese Cats, Mrs. Darling, and Peg.

• Wendee Lee
  • Wendee Lee sounds the same dubbing both Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop and Angel from The Big O. This became evident to this troper in any scenes she had with Roger Smith, voiced, amusingly enough, by Spike Spiegel's voice actor Steve Blum.
  • This happens with those two a lot.
    • This troper once played a single mission of Ace Combat 5 for hours just to hear Angel and Roger or Fay and Spike flirt.
  • Weda is sad and whining in one scene, and suddenly, Konata's voice comes out!
  • One of the few kicks of the Tsukihime anime was noting how Normal Schoolgirl / Church Militant Ciel sounded like Jaded Schoolgirl / Nascent God-being Haruhi.
  • As well as a miniature goddess and a surprisingly tender-hearted Bottle Fairy.
  • Oddly enough, saying just Steven Jay Blum and Wendee Lee, is a good way to get somebody to watch Samurai Girl Real Bout High School
  • Apparently Xianghua sounds like Haruhi... This was scrutinized by a Channel Awesome member toward her tendency to land a role in anything she tries out for!
    • Exactly like Haruhi, at points. Which leads to much amusement when Xianghua says things like "I choose to believe in myself", because, well, with Haruhi and all...
  • It took me a little bit to catch it, but Haruhi Suzumiya in genki-mode sounds like Tina Foster without the southern accent used for Tina's Kansai Regional Accent. They also have grabbiness in common, as Mikuru discovers.
  • Takeru "T.K." Takaishi, without Steven Blum, but she was also MarineAngemon in Tamers, who's partner was Kenta, voiced by Blum.
  • You can hear Konata in Haruhi when Haruhi is mad or snarky. (Reverse, not so much). At one point, Konata cosplays as Haruhi, and even DOES THE VOICE!
  • Wendee Lee also voices Xing Cai from Dynasty Warriors and Rozalin from Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories, both with her signature Haruhi voice.
  • Once you've heard one role by Wendee Lee, it's insanely easy to pick out the rest. Faye Valentine in Cowboy Bebop, Yui in Fushigi Yuugi, Tina Foster in Ai Yori Aoshi, Urd in Adventures of the Mini-Goddesses, Nel Zelpher in Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Aribeth in Neverwinter Nights, Haruhi...the list goes on and on.
  • Wendee voices Selphie from Rune Factory.
  • I recognized her as Loretta Oratorio in Wild ARMs: Twilight Venom.
  • And she's teamed up with Jim Hawking.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Scorpina sometimes sounded a bit like Haruhi.
  • It took me a shamefully long time to pick up on the fact that she is also Lily in the mage origin of Dragon Age.

• Julie Lemieux
  • She uses a very similar, gravelly for Batty on Almost Naked Animals that she did almost 13 years prior for Sleepy Bat on Birdz.

• Andrea Libman
  • Listen to a song from the second season of The New Adventures of Madeline where the titular character sings (this troper recommends A Crown Of Gold from Madeline and the Lost Crown). Now listen to G4 Fluttershy singing in The Cutie Mark Chronicles with your eyes closed. If you have a visual image of Madeline being lifted by a flock of butterflies, congratulations! You have realized that Madeline is Fluttershy!
    • In a TalkingToHerself moment, she is also 4G Pinkie Pie, but Pinkie Pie has Shannon Kent-Chan (A fellow Madeline alumni) as her singing voice.
  • Also, Lemon Meringue is Harmony Bear and Emmy!
  • And on another note, Fluttershy becomes even more Badass, when you consider she provided the voice of X-23.
  • And on another note, there's ReBoot's young AndrAIa.

• Jason Liebrecht
  • Luck Gandor sounds like Hei with a Brooklyn accent.
  • Who in turn sounds like an older version of Syaoran.

• David Lodge
  • He's a Kenpachi, a Jiraiya, Don Whitehorse, a Archimonde AND Puppetmon. Oh, and he's The Scarecrow.

• George Lowe
  • George Lowe played Space Ghost on The Nineties Adaptation Space Ghost Coast to Coast. His voice lasted the show, appearing on Aqua Teen Hunger Force & The Brak Show as many other characters.

• John Patrick Lowrie
  • If you've played Half-Life 2 you know him as the voice of most of the male citizens: "Hey, it's Freeman! Let's follow him!" He's also John Slater in Left 4 Dead, the Sniper in Team Fortress 2, and Bruno Lawrie in the No One Lives Forever series. He also shows up in several roles in the two Suffering games; he's unmistakable as the first CO Torque meets after his escape. More surprisingly, in the first Suffering he's also the ghostly executioner Hermes and the perpetually stoned Russian prison guard Sergei.

• Yuri Lowenthal
  • Teenage Ben or Superboy? Sasuke Uchiha, Simon, or Suzaku speaking English? Yuri Lowenthal's your man.
  • Hearing Ben as Sasuke was weird enough. Watching him and thinking of Suzaku? Nearly broke my brain.
    • Finding out he also voiced the British-sounding Prince of Persia from the recent trilogy shocked this troper as well.
    • He voiced Cecil Harvey, but this troper was surprised when he saw that he also voiced Solo Wing Pixy, and Strigon 12. Add his roles together, combine with Johnny Yong Bosch, and let the Hilarious in Hindsight good times roll.
    • He also voices a character in The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie.
  • You get to Bury him alive in Saints Row 2. He plays Shogo Akuji.
  • He's one of the few male voice actors capable of playing younger teenage male characters and sounding convincing. As a result he gets these roles a lot.
    • And how as Luke fon Fabre and Yosuke.
    • Hey don't forget that when he wasn't killing Shadows, he was one.
  • Haseo and Gig sound an awful lot alike.
  • Little Guy and Derek Stiles, both from the same game series, have his voice.
    • Similarly, Charlie MacDonald and Jasper Batt Jr. from No More Heroes 2 Desperate Struggle.
  • He voiced Iceman from Wolverine and the X-Men as well.
  • And of course, half of these voices become instantly hilarious if put into the context of Sun Ce, ruler of Wu.

• Sherry Lynn
  • Sherry Lynn, the much less obscure voice of Sakura, Skuld, and the Tachikoma units.
  • She's also the voice of virtually every incarnation of Sasami as well as MOMO (the young, video game version, that is)

• Seth MacFarlane
  • Causes a lot of this on Family Guy, where in addition to his long list of major and recurring characters (below), he plays literally hundreds of one line wonders and bit parts.
  • Good luck trying not to think of American Dad whenever Johann Krauss speaks in Hellboy II.
  • Sorry, all this troper hears is Dick Rogers from Crank Yankers and Emperor Palpatine.
  • He does Peter, Stewie, Quagmire, Carter, Tom Tucker, Jake Tucker, Dr. Hartman, Seamus, and Brian on Family Guy and Stan and Roger the Alien on American Dad. The guy has a surprising voice range.
  • Although the voice of Brian is pretty much MacFarlane's normal voice.
    • Gee, I wonder why...
  • Also causes a lot of Hey It's that Singing Voice, because besides singing as all the above characters, he's heard on the sound track of his own shows and sometimes others.

• Tress MacNeille
  • Tress MacNeille. If you've watched a cartoon in the past twenty years or so, you've heard her voice—a sampling of her numerous roles over the years includes Gadget Hackwrench and Chip [?!] (Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers), Dot Warner and Hello Nurse (Animaniacs), Toast and Pepper Mills (Histeria!), Babs Bunny and Rhubella Rat (Tiny Toon Adventures), Principal Skinner's mother Agnes (among several other The Simpsons voices, including The Simpsons Movie, where she was Lisa's boyfriend Colin), Mom and "Good Morning Earth" co-host Linda (Futurama), Lady Bane and Marzipan (Gummi Bears), Callie Briggs (Swat Kats), Colleen (Road Rovers)...chances are, you've heard her voice.
  • And yes, This Troper can confirm beyond mere cast listings that Tress did Chip in Rescue Rangers. How? Just watch this video.
  • Petrie's mom, Ducky's and Spike's mom (The Land Before Time), certain incarnates of Daisy Duck and Wilma Flintstone, Charlotte Pickles (Rugrats), and you forgot on Futurama: Hattie, the suicide booth, Leela's mom, Tinny Tim, Ndnd, Fanny, The Grand Midwife, and just about every adult female extra voice. To name a few more...
  • If you watch Avatar: The Last Airbender and hear Hama, there's a good chance you'll do a double take and go "Agnes Skinner?" To this day I'm not sure if this makes the episode more or less creepy.
  • Hey, look! Hoodsey from As Told by Ginger leaves calls on Minerva Mink's answering machine!
  • She even got to be in nearly EVERY Studio Ghibli dub done by Disney!
  • This troper remembers a commercial for Twinkies from around 2001 (I think) with some vultures that mistaken a yellow VW beetle for a Twinkie, and then one of the vultures says "HEY! Where's the cream filling? Now THAT'S the stuff! Hostess." Right when I heard that vulture talk, I thought, "Hey that's Agnes Skinner!" Yes, Tress MacNeille even gets into junk food commercials!
  • Arnold's Crazy Awesome grandma, anyone?
  • However, she's not Tommy! Hahahahahaha!

• Julie Maddalena
  • A bizarre coincidence, or Actor Allusion? Julie Maddalena is the English voice of Sakuya Kumashiro and Myu. If you've seen both series, you'll know the connection.
  • She's also the Tachikomas!
  • She was also a frog for some time. They've since replaced the voice actor for the series (along with giving the series an Art Shift), but this troper will always remember her as a smart and sweet frog.
  • This troper knows her best as Dita Liebely, the future Mrs. Alien.
  • Not to mention Hikaru Shidou.

• Mitsuako Madono
  • This Troper found it amusing that while Issei sounds nothing like Kon, Mitsuaki Madono does use practically the same voice for Kon's Image Song.
    • He also sounds exactly the same for Papillon. Characters could not be more different.
  • Strangely enough, I was surprised when I found out that Mitsuaki Madono played Prince Toma in the second Ranma ½ movie, and it was even stranger that when I found out Allesandro Juliani (Prince Toma's dub VA) played L in Death Note

• Mako
  • The late Mako. It's really weird to think of Aku, Master Splinter, and Iroh as the same guy. Though those last two aren't much of a stretch. Also, he narrates Conan the Barbarian.

• Dave Mallow
  • The Anti-Spiral King from Gurren Lagann is a nihilistic Angemon or (more appropriately) an all-powerful Amarao. Weird. What's weirder... is that two of them are both produced by GAINAX!
  • Sounds more like MagnaAngemon with the reverb. Gate of Destiny!
    • Ever want to hear Amarao talk with a mouth full of toothpaste? Just look at Kensei!

• Patty Maloney
  • In Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School, Patty used her Darla Hood voice for Tanis the mummy girl.

• Sharon Mann
  • In Code Lyoko, Sharon Mann plays both Jeremie and Aelita. So the Beta Couple is talking to themselves!
  • By the way, the show has a limited (and obscure) voice cast, so there's a lot of Talking to Himself going on there.

• Jason Marsden
  • Jason Marsden gets around a lot. Haku in Spirited Away, Kovu in the second Lion King, Chase Young in Xiaolin Showdown. Also Tino from The Weekenders, Richie from Static Shock, Chester and Gary from The Fairly OddParents, and Max Goof. So he sort of switches from deep and sexy to sort of nerdy. He is also Rosh whose voice work is a common reason he is seen as The Scrappy...
  • Maybe that's why I get nervous every time I see him as Jaime Reyes' buddy Paco. As deep as Batman the Brave And The Bold digs, I'm nervous that Vibe is gonna show up some episode...
  • Adding to the list: a young Clark Kent (as well as Snapper Carr, another, unrelated reporter) in the DCAU and the annoying Dustil "Carth's Son" Onasi (and gang leader Brejik too) in Knights of the Old Republic.
  • He was Haku in Spirited Away.
    • This troper actually yelled "TINO TONITINI" when watching Spirited Away and hearing Haku's voice.
  • And he's Nermal in The Garfield Show, with the same voice he uses for Chester.
  • Let's not forget his contributions to Black Isle Studios: Cernd (Baldur's Gate II) and Myron (Fallout 2). ... Actually, on second thought you might want to forget the latter.
  • He was also recognizable as Schnookums in The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show, using a voice similar to Chester's.
  • He was also the voice of the cat, Thackery Binx, in Hocus Pocus.
  • Crest in Dark Cloud 2. Poor, poor Crest.
• Mona Marshall
  • Mona Marshall is instantly recognisable whenever she is cast in the role of a little boy, which is often.
  • This troper was so familiar with Marshall as Toboe in Wolf's Rain that he found it incongruous when she replaced Petrea Burchard as the voice of Ryoko in Tenchi Muyo!. He can't help thinking she sounds like Toboe doing a fair-to-middling impression of Ryoko.
  • That may have happened because Ryoko's JP actress has done cute little boy roles. Genis of Tales of Symphonia, for example.
  • Koushiro 'Izzy' Izumi and Ken Amada.
  • Hell, go watch Last Exile. The two creepy albino Guild guys are voiced by Tai and Izzy. It's quite unnerving.
  • Hell, Izzy and King Drasil! Jeff Nimoy claims this comparison was on purpose. Like Ichigo/Lelouch.
  • Feldrance of Mahoromatic is voiced by Mona Marshall, which is why he sounds like Izzy Izumi.
  • Also in the Pigeonholing, Ascot from Magic Knight Rayearth.
  • Out of mold, but the same voice was also Nataku
  • A perfect androgynous voice I might add, for a genderless character.
  • She used her exact same Izzy/Toboe voice for the moose kid in the pilot for the aborted The Get Along Gang CGI Revival.
  • Dude. She's the Brave fencer, Musashi!
  • As mentioned above, her role as cute little boy Seere in Drakengard is instantly recognizable, but perhaps not so obvious—and considerably more brain-breaking—is the fact that she also provides the voice of Angelus, the huge, snarky red dragon in the same game.
  • This troper first got weirded out by recognising a voice from her past in Shu and recognised the aforementioned Izzy Izumi. About a month later she started Naruto and recognised Marshall as Inari (the little kid with the hat in the Wave Country, anyone? Aka Gilligan) and Young Haku.

• Vincent Martella
  • Those with sharp ears will reconize the English voice of Final Fantasy XIII's Hope as the voice of Phineas and Ferb.
    • Forcing one scene in FFXII to hit harder for the Phineas and Ferb fans.

Hope (in Phineas' voice): Mommy? Mommy! His mother's dead. He's seeing an illusion. And he uses a more mature tone normally so...

• He was also the young Robin that gets his arse handed to him by the Joker and a crowbar in Batman: Under the Red Hood.

• Charles Martinet
  • The Homunculus in Shadow of Destiny is voiced by Charles Martinet, who is better known as the voice of Mario. These may be the two least similar characters in the history of video games.
  • He also did all the voices in Super Punch-Out!! including all the opponents, the referee (ironically) and the blond Little Mac.

• Tim Matheson
  • The voice of Jonny Quest in TOS.
  • Besides extensive live action work in TV and film, he would also do voice-work on Sinbad, Jr., Space Ghost, Batman the Animated Series, and The Legend of Calamity Jane.

• Miyu Matsuki
  • Isumi Saginomiya, Yukari (no not that one), and Yoriko/Misaki at your service.

• Yuki Matsuoka
  • Tsuruya, Osaka, and Nana are one and the same. And don't forget Orihime and Aiko.

• Rick May
  • Went from doing five distinct voices in Star FOX 64 to doing one instantly recognizable voice in Team Fortress 2.

• Rik Mayall
  • Rik "The Young Ones" Mayall has a fairly recognizable voice. He voiced Prince Froglip, the villain of the 1992 movie The Princess And The Goblin; King Arthur in King Arthur's Disasters, a German falcon in Valiant and a germ in a Domestos advert. He also provides numerous voices for Hogs of War, including one with a Rick-style voice.
  • And, in live action, Drop Dead Fred.

• Anndi McAfee
  • This troper recently learned that Cera is Monica of Dark Cloud 2/Dark Chronicle.

• David McCallum
  • When Doctor Paradox was telling his story in a recent Ben 10 Alien Force episode, it finally clicked for me..."Ducky?"
    • This troper just watched an episode of Alien Force today and, being a fan of NCIS, was shocked to discover what the above troper found out. There was no way of mistaking David McCallum's voice for any other.

• James McCaffrey
  • Max Payne and Edward Carnby.

• Michael McConnohie
  • This troper will forever associate Michael McConnohie with noble baddie Commander Margulis from Xenosaga. This makes his appearances as noble baddies in Tales of the Abyss and Star Ocean 3 seem like deja vu, and his voice is very noticeable in Haibane Renmei and as Gordon, DEFENDER OF EARTH! in very different roles.
  • Or that Emperor Charles is The Director in Crackdown and Seth.
  • There's also a character that I'm sure few people have heard of. He's known as The Lich King...
    • Make that two Lich Kings he's voiced.
  • The Lich King was a tribal elder dude? Weird...
  • Wait, Vampire Hunter D and the narrator from Dynasty Warriors 6 and Warriors Orochi are the same guy?

• Kevin McDonald
  • Kevin McDonald uses pretty much the same voice for several animated characters, including Pleakley from Lilo and Stitch, Invader Zim's Almighty Tallest Purple, Waffle from Catscratch, and Ivan, a character who appeared in an episode of Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends...and Waffle. Splee!
  • He's also the announcer at the convention at the end of Galaxy Quest.

• Norm MacDonald
  • Years ago, I watched an ep of something on YouTube where Norm MacDonald played some kind of psychologist that was talking to a kid that believed he was Ash Ketchum. Then I watched The Fairly OddParents a few years later and he was Norm the Genie. That was very ironic, since on the YouTube thing, he had trouble controlling Pokémon and could somehow create Poké Balls from thin air. I recognized the tone of scorn. Very hilarious.
  • He's also Death on Family Guy.

• Jesse McCartney
  • Yes, this singer also was the voice of Roxas and Ventus in the Kingdom Hearts series, as well as Terence in the Tinker Bell series, Theodore in Alvin and the Chipmunks, JoJo in Horton Hears a Who!, and Huxley in The Clockwork Girl.
• Jessica Martin
  • The voice of Samus Aran in Metroid: Other M is also a prominent actress in the Seattle theatre scene.

• Malcolm McDowell
  • Fallout 3 apparently Mr. Linderman apparently has become president. The best part is that he barely bothers with the accent. Kentucky, my ass.
  • This troper would love to have heard his campaign speeches: "Vote for me, John Henry Eden. Because there's plenty more bridges where that one came from."
    • ALLO DUCKIES!
  • A double dose in the DCAU: Arkady Duvall, AKA Ra's Al Ghul's son on Batman the Animated Series and Metallo on Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League.
  • Voices the animated version of his character from Wing Commander III and Wing Commander IV, in Wing Commander Academy (as does Mark Hamill and Tom Wilson, for their respective characters).

• Roddy McDowall
• This troper knew Snowball was crazy but upon closer observation realized he was Mad as a Hatter.

• Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
  • Supreme Commander had a female commander voiced by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, who also does Maj. Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex.
  • The icing on the cake? Batou is her second-in-command.
  • She also voices Estelle Oratorio, elder sister of Loretta, on episode 9 of Wild ARMs: Twilight Venom.
  • If you'd like to hear her sing she's done numerous songs for the Silent Hill games.

• Julia McIlvaine
  • While not a profilific voice actress, this troper was watching MAD for the first time, and was thinking...June!?

• Ellen McLain
  • Valve has spawned some notorious WMG by using the same voice actress (Ellen McLain) for the Combine Overwatch, GLaDOS, and the Announcer.

• Scott McCulloch
  • Chris Redfield in the original Resident Evil.
  • Wild Dog in the Time Crisis series.
    • Derrick Lynch in Crisis Zone.
  • Dracula in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
  • Greg in Bloody Roar.

• Patrick McKenna
  • The more you listen to Nestor, the more he sounds like Harold. This is particularly evident when either character yells. Patrick's Two-Legs Joe voice, on the other hand, is much deeper.

• Scott McNeil
  • In Transformers Armada and Transformers Energon, Jetfire sounds a heck of a lot like Duo Maxwell, who himself sounds suspiciously like Proto Man. The odd thing about this is that their shared voice actor, Scott McNeil, normally avoids this effect completely (see Beast Wars, where he voiced Rattrap, Waspinator, both versions of Dinobot, and Silverbolt!).
  • This troper was a fan of Beast Wars and X-Men: Evolution back when they were new. It took him several trips to The Other Wiki to learn that Badass Dinobot and Badass Wolverine are one and the same guy.
  • Still, he does seem to have a few favorite voices. In particular, if he's voicing a reptilian character, he will likely sound exactly like Dinobot. And Koga the feral wolfy guy sounded just like Evolution's Wolverine the feral wolfy guy.
  • Snarling, psychotic Lord Bale loses some of his menace when you learn he has the same voice actor as Funshine Bear.
    • He loses more of it once you find out that he's also the same voice actor that plays a tree that cracks bad jokes in Dragon Tales.
  • How has Lord Raptor not been mentioned yet?!
  • This troper once saw part of the So Bad It's Good Street Fighter cartoon, and literally said "Rattrap, is that you?" once Ken opened his mouth.
  • And don't forget Piccolo of Dragonball Z.
  • The titular Sealed Evil in a Can in Ys: The Ark of Napishtim.

• Courtland Mead
  • In The Nineties he starred in three different Disney shows: Gus Griswald in Recess, Lloyd Nebulon in Lloyd in Space, and Ned Needlemeyer in Nightmare Ned

• Scott Menville
  • Scott Menville did the voice of the main character in Dark Cloud 2.
  • He also did the voice of the main character in Tales of Symphonia.
  • THIS troper noticed on his second playthrough of Tales of Symphonia that Scott Menville also voiced one of the villagers of Isalia in one of the cutscenes. The irony? This particular villager was among the group of villagers blaming Lloyd for the attack on the village. He was essentially advocating his own exile!
  • This troper however had the horrible fortune to first hear him as Kevin French in Mission Hill. It took a long, long time to untrain that reference.
  • He also played Yaibal in FFX-2.
  • The only time this troper has heard him voice a character with anything other than the distinctive Robin voice is when he did Ma-Ti's horrendous accent in Captain Planet and the Planeteers.
  • Genome Soldier 2. A low point. Or not, if you enjoy beating, shooting and snapping the neck of Robin as often as you want.
  • An episode of Scrubs had J.D. be followed around by an imaginary guy in a rabbit costume. And when that rabbit speaks, guess who's voice comes out? Robin/Ma-Ti/Lloyd!
    • Again using his Kevin French voice.
  • He played the actor playing Sokka in "The Ember Island Players", with a voice almost identical to the one he uses for Kevin French from Mission Hill
  • This Troper knew all along that it had to be Red Herring!.
  • He plays Egon Stetmann in StarCraft II using his Max voice. It is really apparent when he says "Just fascinating!".
  • He also played King in the Wild Cards episode of the Justice League. Given that this is in the same universe as the Teen Titans it was awkward to hear Robins voice coming out of a villain.
  • On top of that he did extra voices in a ton of video games including FFXII in which he gave one bystander the voice of Robin.

• Matthew Mercer
  • Matthew Mercer? Let's see...Kurtis Stryker, Rei, Fei-Long, Keiji Maeda, Skelter Helter...
    • And now? Kurtis Stryker. Way to go to rescue someone from the Scrappy heap!
  • Outside of fighting games, he also voices Albert Genette and Edge Maverick. Both with a similar-sounding opening narration, too!

• Don Messick
  • Voice actor Don Messick (RIP) was in dozens of Hanna-Barbera cartoons, most notably as Ranger Smith and Boo Boo in Yogi Bear and as Dr. Benton Quest and Bandit in Jonny Quest. If you were very young and watched both shows, you started expecting Race Bannon to show up in Jellystone Park with a picnic basket.
  • If this troper remembers correctly, Don also voiced Hamton in Tiny Toon Adventures.
  • And Scooby Doo!
  • And Papa Smurf.

• Vic Mignogna
  • A minor role in Bleach for Vic Mignogna was a screaming character in the 11th squad (Ikkaku Madarame). The voice was the same as the voice used for the main character in Fullmetal Alchemist, and therefore a bit confusing to this troper.
  • This troper, a fan of Vic, has learned to pick out his voice in the most minor of roles, including a Professor in Dirty Pair and as random goons in Noir.
  • This troper was flabbergasted when watching the first episode of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle and could only wonder why Edward Elric in a quiet mood was voicing Fay D. Fluorite.
  • There is an exception where it's almost not recognizable at all: Broly. Unfortunately, Vic has made it clear at various cons that he loses his voice for a while afterwards and so doesn't like doing him (considering that the games aren't stopping...yeah.).
  • This Troper was shamed that he could not tell that he voiced Junpei of Persona 3 fame. However he could tells very quickly that he voiced Kurz Webber of Full Metal Panic! fame.
  • Did we mention we can add Tamaki to that list? That was the sound of a thousand fangirls doing a group Squee, especially since the same person that was Winry plays Haruhi.
  • How can you forget Antoinette?! He played a DOG.
  • This Troper can't believe nobody added Kensei Ma or Dark yet.
  • Neal Givens has a, shall we say, strange Scottish accent, but you'll know it's Vic when you hear him barking orders at the crew of the Zelana.
  • He also voices One-Scene Wonder Femio from Princess Tutu, which is downright hillarious. It's made all the more awesome when you realize how similar he is to Tamaki.
  • And he had a small part opposite Roy Mustang in Mushishi.
  • Recently cast as Spirit Albarn for the English dub of Soul Eater.
  • Here's a voice that nearly killed this troper due to laughter: Lacerta Misty in the English dub of Saint Seiya. I have never heard Vic Mignogna pull a voice like that ever in my life, but I guessed it due to too much watching of Fullmetal Alchemist! It's the laugh.
  • He's also Bui in Yu Yu Hakusho, in which his voice is much deeper than expected and rather nice.
    • And Uraurashima from the same show, which sounds a bit more typically "him."
  • He's also the main character, Mao, in Disgaea 3.
  • This troper has trouble finding an anime that he ISN'T in, courtesy of countless small roles in Tactics, Moeyo Ken, Kaze No Stigma, Mushishi, Darker Than Black, Spiral, Orphen, Pumpkin Scissors, D.Gray-Man... the list goes on and on. Every time this troper tries a new series, there he is.
  • Very soon, he's going to be voicing Zero from Vampire Knight
  • He's the newest voice for Omega from Sonic the Hedgehog.
  • Let's not forget a very interesting turn as Kensei of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple.
  • He's played a pair of Mitsuhide Akechis, one good, one... not so much.

• Shinchiro Miki
  • Shinichiro Miki, better known as Urahara, Lockon Stratos, Takumi Fujiwara, Kurz Weber, Batman in Gotham Knight, Shannon Casull, Leiot Steinberg, and Yoji Kudo.
    • Don't forget Kojirou.
    • He was also the Japanese voice of the titular character in Aladdin. Yeah.
    • And now he's Roy Mustang

• Lara Jill Miller
  • Lara Jill Miller has had a bit of an illustrious voice acting career, immediately recognizable as the English dub voice Kari Kamiya from the Digimon Adventure series, the teacher in Digimon Tamers, one of the Tachikomas in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Scheris Adjani from the anime S-Cry-ed, and as the eponymous Juniper Lee. Each character having essentially the same voice.
  • Gaara's student Matsuri is played by her, and sound a lot like Kari.
  • Same with Misao Kusakabe in the Lucky Star dub.
  • She's also Clifford the Big Red Dog, when he's a puppy. I started laughing when I first heard that fact.

• Shirley Millner
  • Though she's appeared in relatively few shows compared to some other VA's on this page, her distinctive syrupy, nasal voice is instantly recognizable to fans, no matter who she plays. She has had roles in shows such as Dragon Tales and Silverwing, but this troper shall forever remember her as Hexadecimal from ReBoot.
  • Same, here. Anytime this troper watches any of her other roles, all she can think is, "AHHHHHH, HEXADECIMAL!!!".

• Candi Milo
  • She's done characters from Coco all the way to Dexter.
  • What would Tuck sound like with a Bronx accent? That's Snap for ya.
  • Shantotto. OHOHOHOHO!!!

• Junko Minagawa
  • She's voiced Ryoma Echizen and Ritsuka Aoyagi, who sound exactly alike.
  • Not to mention she also voiced Ayaka Yukihiro. and Cornelia li Britannia. She may sound the same when she does boys, but that doesn't make her any less talented!

• Lani Minella
  • Her Interactive has established her as the video-game voice of Nancy Drew, which leaves one wondering why the girl detective moonlights as a talking bat in Sonic the Hedgehog.
  • She's also a blond psychic and an angel warrior in the third game of the Super Smash Bros. series. Both are male.

• Kotono Mitsuishi
  • Excel's Japanese voice actress in Excel Saga also did the voice of the title character in Sailor Moon. This troper has been reassured that both characters have roughly the same personality.
  • Lampshaded in the English dub, during a Sailor Moon parody, where Excel claims "No fair! I wanted that part, but it was dubbed in Canada!"
  • Even more fun is the gag at the end of one episode where Hyatt, for whatever reason, starts saying lines from Omi Minami's past roles (Monica Rial's in the dub). Excel realizes this, of course. "Hey Hatchan... wrong character!"
  • One that goes against almost every other character she's done, and astonished it's not mentioned--Katsuragi Misato Hearing Usagi's voice in hers is... yikes.

• Yuko Miyamura
  • It took a few moments to sink in, but imagine the shock when finding out that Asuka is the lone girl (excluding Xion) of Organization 13! (Though she could never really match Larxene's psychotic little giggle)

• Mamoru Miyano
  • This Death Note fan had a hard time thinking about anything else whenever Tamaki spoke in Ouran High School Host Club.
  • This troper had the opposite problem as the original poster; he could not stop hearing Tamaki in Light and that made it so much harder to take Death Note seriously.
  • Watch the cutscenes from Kingdom Hearts in Japanese, then. ... Or don't. Comparing Light and Riku kind of hurts my brain.
  • And This Troper found it extremely difficult to avoid seeing Light behind both LA from El Cazador de la Bruja and Setsuna from Gundam 00. What with being a psycho and a Well-Intentioned Extremist, respectively...
  • Unfortunately, this troper gets the same feel even when listening to Chaoji in D.Gray-man, although he is neither as smart as Light, nor as handsome as Light or Tamaki.
  • Also noticeable is the fact that Mamoru does the voice of Death the Kid in Soul Eater and does a fairly good job of changing from deathly serious son of the grim reaper to wacky symmetry obsessive at break neck speeds.
  • He's also the Japanese-dubbed voice of Nite Owl II.
  • Recently, he's started voicing Ling Yao in Fullmetal Alchemist:Brotherhood.
  • And even more recently, Dento in the latest season of Pokémon, which... at least, isn't too far from his roles as Tamaki or Kida Masaomi in Durarara!!.

• Kouki Miyata
  • He voices Yamada Hanataro in Bleach and Labrador in Zero Seven Ghost and it's easy to recognize him.
  • Also Picodevimon from Digimon Adventure and young Vash the Stampede

• Kaori Mizuhashi
  • We've got Kaori Mizuhashi, who has done Culotte, Laharl, Marona, Pram, Hanako, Shauna and Miyako.

• Kaoru Mizuhara
  • The excitable girl yelling "Hiiragi!", Misao, is also the girl who yells "Don't call me your older sister!", Yomi in Ga-Rei Zero.

• Nana Mizuki
  • Speaking of Nanoha-related connections, this troper thinks the similarities between Hoshina Utau and Fate Testarossa are...a lot. Same VA? Check. Uses a lot of black clothing? Check. Blonde hair? Check. Twintails? Check! Wait, is this a Shout-Out?
    • It doesn't help that she is an Idol Singer and she sings Mizuki Nana's song. While Fate may not, every opening songs of the Nanoha series is sung by this very woman. Likewise, Yukari Tamura, Nanoha's seiyuu, sings every ending songs of this series.
  • So Cure Blossom's voice is done by the same gal as Princess Kraehe's even if they are complete opposites? Wow.

• Yuko Mizutani
  • I found myself watching Kashimashi, and I couldn't help but to suddenly like clumsy teacher Namiko Tsuki. Then I said: "Wait a minute!", I did a quick search on The Other Wiki to found something I should have noticed earlier: She's Excellen Browning!! (voiced by Yuko Mizutani) That's not so obvious with other of her characters, like Ill Girl Miyuki Aiba, but Namiko is so Excellen-like, down to the goofy voice and noisy persona.

• Dominic Monaghan
  • This Troper burst out laughing when she realized that Merry from The Lord of the Rings also did the voice for Glenn/Glenda in Seed Of Chucky.
  • Hell WORMTONGUE of all people voiced Chucky!!
    • Hate to rain on your parade, but it was Billy Boyd, Pippin from Lord Of The Rings who voiced Glenn/Glenda in Seed Of Chucky.

• Ricardo Montalban
  • And now a moment of silence for Ricardo Montalban, aka Gutierrez and Señor Senior, Sr. RIP.
  • A very brave cow in Family Guy.
  • I scared the crap out of my little sister while she was watching Kim Possible by yelling KHAAAAAAAN! at the screen when I heard Señor Senior, Sr. speak.

• Toshiyuki Morikawa
  • Japanese voice actor, has borrowed his voice to Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, Tom Cruise and... Katsuya Jounouchi in the Toei version of Yu-Gi-Oh!

• Masakazu Morita
  • This troper has fell out of her chair when she was listening to Beck and she heard Kurosaki Ichigo talking. The voices were so identical that she was really wondering why she hadn't notice before. Masaru Hyoudou is a side-character so by the time she realised his voice, he was already out of the picture...

• Kirby Morrow
  • While watching Barbie and the Nutcracker with my little sister, I immediately recognized the Nutcracker Prince's voice as the guy who did Miroku on the English dub of Inuyasha! It's even more awesome when you realize that Barbie happens to be Sango from the same show!
  • He's also Cyclops in X-Men: Evolution.
  • Rad in Transformers Armada and Energon, and The Other Darrin for Hot Shot in Cybertron.
  • What would happen if Miroku got his hands on a Death Note? DELETE! DELETE! DELETE!!

• Kate Mulgrew
  • This troper had this rather spectacularly subverted on her. Since she heard Janeway's voice before she actually saw the visuals from the show, her first thought was, "Holy shit, Katharine Hepburn's been reincarnated!" Well, then she saw the Fan Nickname for the aforementioned Captain and busted a gut laughing.
  • Per the Gargoyles tradition of casting Star Trek actors in voice roles, we have Captain Janeway as Titania, Queen of the Third Race.
  • ...Did Captain Janeway really just turn into a dragon and attack me?
  • She also played The Claw, a minor Batman villain.

• Bill Murray
  • Bill Murray voiced the film version of Garfield as an homage to Lorenzo Music. Among many other notables, Music voiced Murray's Ghostbusters character, Dr. Peter Venkman. See below.

• Brian Doyle-Murray
  • Brian Doyle-Murray. You know, the flying dutchman? You'll know him when you hear him.
  • Hell, any character played by Brian Doyle-Murray.
  • I swear, everytime that granddad in The Goode Family speaks, I can't help but think of Captain K'Nuckles.
  • Mayor Jock Mulligan in Ghostbusters: The Video Game.

• Lorenzo Music
  • As a child, this troper liked Adventures of the Gummi Bears. Later in life, the wonders of cable television syndication introduced her to Garfield and Friends. She then started to watch another cartoon which had previously failed to interest her, The Real Ghostbusters, due to accidentally hearing a few seconds of dialogue from Peter. A few years later, she found Gummi Bears on the air again, and tuned in for nostalgia's sake. "Gee, it's been so long," mused the tropette. "I don't even remember which was my favorite gummi bear..." A few seconds later, Tummi opens his mouth and: "Oh. It must have been that one." In conclusion, Lorenzo Music.
  • Speaking of which, Music also did the voice of Peter Venkman on The Real Ghostbusters, which surprised This Troper when he first heard Garfield speak. He also thought it a nice touch when, after Music's passing Bill Murray (who of course was Venkman in the movies) voiced Garfield for his movie.
  • To Tropers of a certain age Lorenzo Music will always be Carlton The Doorman from Rhoda, which was his first VO part.
  • Mr. Music (heh) also provided the voice for Sgt Dunder, in the Disney cartoon Tale Spin.

• Hitomi Nabatame
  • Apparently, Ruko Ayase sounds like a more violent, but no less drunk Yukiji Katsura.

• Mai Nakahara
  • Saki's big sister sounds awfully familiar in those flashbacks of hers... wait a minute, Teana? Is that you?
  • When not affected by Hinamizawa Syndrome and when not taking things/Rika home, Rena Ryuugu sounds exactly like |Nagisa Furukawa. This troper is now kept awake at night because she always imagines Rena taking the Big Dango Family home, or conversely, Nagisa having one too many bad days and suddenly screaming "USO DA!"

• Yuichi Nakamura
  • This editor's fiancee has a massive fangirl crush on Tsukiyomi Ikuto. This editor knows his voice actor best as being Graham Acre. The looks he gets from his fiancee when he refers to Ikuto as Tsukiyomi HOWWAAAARRRD MAAASOOOOON Ikuto are increasingly hilarious.
  • Kafuka and Fuko DO technically share eccentric traits. Well, it took this troper to realize until certain episodes involving baseball and random Ho Yay jokes in Clannad that Tomoya (the male lead) is Tayaka Abe from Ookiku Furikabutte. Although not to the point of practically having Expy qualities, the two characters share the same sarcasm and wittiness traits as well. Does Yuichi Nakamura ever change his voice?
  • What about someone as Hot-Blooded as Graham "TODAY I SURPASS THE ASHURA!!!" Aker?
  • Try someone as EVIL as Terumi Yuuki, easily summable with "Give Graham more HAMS and evil." "THIS WORLD IS NOTHING BUT LIES!! LET ME SHOW YOU JUST ONE TRUTH, ONE TRUTH THAT IS 'I AM A GIGANTIC HAM!!'"

• Ryusei Nakao
  • This person is possibly best known as Bleach's aptly nicknamed Captain Freakshow, Mayuri Kurotsuchi. Bet you didn't know he also provided the japanese dub voices for Buster Bunny, Yakko Warner, and Jon Arbuckle.
  • He also killed an entire warrior race. Twice.
  • He also voices Demon Lord Ghirahim.

• Joji Nakata
  • Hearing Kotomine's voice come out of a small catlike creature was disconcerting. Then again, Joji Nakata has a role in most parts of the Nasuverse.

• Liam Neeson
  • This troper was thrilled to recognize Oskar Schindler Qui-Gon Jinn Aslan Jean Valjean Ra's Al Ghul Liam Neeson as the voice of the Player Character's father in Fallout 3.
  • There have been reports that watching Taken shortly before seeing Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea results in the impression that Ponyo's father is going to kill everybody to get his daughter back...

• George Newburn
  • Superman is Sephiroth? Wait- WHAT?

• Richard Newman
  • M. Bison wants to know if you NEED A HUG!?

• Leonard Nimoy
  • In the fourth installment of the Civilization series, a quote is read to you whenever you have finished researching a technology... by Mr. Spock.
    • That isn't his first time doing voices in video games though. Remember Seaman for the Sega Dreamcast? Yep, he was the strange fish AND the narrator.
  • Spock and Galvatron have more than resurrection in common. They're both voiced by Leonard Nimoy. Possibly the most diametrically opposed characters ever played by the same guy.
  • And while watching Atlantis: The Lost Empire, one can't help but notice the King of Atlantis sounds an awful lot like Spock...
  • It seems that a character in the upcoming American release of Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep will be voiced by none other than Mr. Spock, yes THAT Mr. Spock
  • As soon as Sentinel Prime speaks, one can't help but think "Crap, it'sMaster Xehanort!" This, and Wheelie seeing the Star Trek episode "where Spock goes nuts", foreshadows Sentinel's Face Heel Turn.

• Ai Nonaka
  • When this troper first started watching Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei, he almost immediately thought "Holy crap, it's |Fuko!"
  • She also plays Sageusa Miko. This troper was like "So when is she gonna start calling Yurie Pink Supervisor?"
  • It took this troper less than three seconds after hearing Kafuka start talking to think "Konoka-chan!". The fact that Setsuna is in this show too makes it moreso.

• Nolan North
  • Nathan Drake, Desmond Miles, The Prince, Deadpool, this guy has really been busy lately. In Singularity, his distinctive voice is actually used as a Red Herring.
  • Elliot Salem in Army of Two: The 40th Day, replacing the voice actor from the first game.
  • Male Jedi Consular from The Old Republic, who, interestingly, starts the game searching for an ancient treasure, and then has to deal with a plague/curse.
  • Madara-fucking-Uchiha.
• A little mod for Skyrim made by Valve resulted in the Space Core from Portal 2 appearing in Skyrim, with Nolan North doing the voice work. From the official mod description:

Also, since Skyrim was the only major release of 2011 without Nolan North in it, you should consider this mod a patch to fix that problem. You can now feel free to include Skyrim in the "Nolan North" section of your video game library, which is to say, your video game library.

• Mamiko Noto
  • This troper did a double take when she watched Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu and realized that |Kotomi was an Otaku. The same thing happened in Girls Bravo, crossdressing voice notwithstanding.
  • Also, Nodoka playing Masane. Quite the transition.
  • And now she also plays a ghost from a horror film... wait, never mind, it's just Sawako. Still, the combination is remarkably effective...
  • Also, Noto-san is either a boy named Kouta or a girl who is pining after a boy named Kouta.
  • How can we forget Angol Mois our lovely ganguro girl who is in love with her uncle. Sweet and Gentle but take note this girl can destroy Planets

• Jerry Orbach
  • Jerry Orbach voiced Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, and that voice is instantly recognizable at The Enchanted Tiki Room: Under New Management as Pierre
    • Not to mention the very different Law and Order he was enforcing as Zachary Foxx of the Galaxy Rangers.
  • He's also Sa'Luk in Aladdin and the King of Thieves.

• Liam O'Brien
  • While it's quite obvious that Liam O'Brien plays a very good Dist the Runny, Lezard in Silmeria, and Cumore, all characters who have that rather demented and arrogant sounds to them, you can also hear that he's Captain Utitake and that he doesn't always make his characters sound rather...demented.
  • For the single line that Red XIII speaks, its' him.
  • ...You mean that Lezard Valeth and Dist the Runny, all insane geniuses, is actually of all people, GAARA?!?!?!?!
  • ...And Akihiko?! (Well you shoulda guessed because several of his other roles are white-haired men.)
    • He's also Levin. The two roles are a little alike: he's a fistfighting tank who battles for his sister. Except for the bit where that was all a lie, and Akihiko isn't somewhere on the wrong side of the Moral Event Horizon. Perhaps I should have mentioned that he also plays Raksha?
  • As well as being Vincent Law and Kain Highwind. It's no wonder Kain constantly feels like he's doing an emo monologue.
  • He is also Kenzo Tenma in the English dub of Monster. This Troper did a double take when she realized that Tenma is voiced by the same person who did Lloyd Asplund.
  • It's quite odd hearing an effeminate scientist, Lloyd Asplund as the evil pope, Sanctus in Devil May Cry 4.
  • And now apparently Archer has been reborn as a Ghost.
  • And before that, he was Tokugawa Ieyasu, in the most GAR form available.
  • He's Spanish fighter Miguel Caballero Rojo in Tekken 6.
  • Don't forget Caius Ballad.

• Richard O'Brien
  • Laurence (the father) from Phineas and Ferb is voiced by Riff Raff.
  • To make things even crazier, Brad Majors (Asshole!) plays the grandpa and Dr. Frank N Furter makes a guest appearance in one episode.
    • It's like a Rocky Horror voice reunion...in a kids' cartoon!
    • Maybe Marvin Lee Aday will show up as an adult Buford?

• Megumi Ogata
  • Because it resulted in an I Knew It!, Megumi Ogata. Known for playing boys (Kurama, Yukito, Shinji) or tomboyish girls (Haruka), she also played the art thief Clayman in GetBackers. Having already recognized her distinctive husky voice, the second Ban mentions that nobody knows anything about Clayman, including the thief's gender, this troper thought "I see you!! You're going to be a girl for the twist!"
  • This troper will like to challenge the above troper to listen to Ogata in Samurai Deeper Kyo, and try to determine the two characters she voices. Yukimura Sanada is the easy one; try picking out Kosuke Anayama without the visual cue.
  • Shinji Ikari IS Ring Mao. And they meet. Repeatedly. With Ring piloting a machine that's called the "Berserker".
  • This troper not only picked out Ogata as Masaya in Tokyo Mew Mew, but also eagerly awaited Masaya to at some point be given the opportunity to go into full Engrish mode. The series did not disappoint.
  • The only reason Toei's Yu-Gi-Oh! anime is watchable is because hearing Yami Yugi talk like Sailor Uranus is undoubtedly awesome.
  • Exception! Emeraude and Maya Kitajima, anyone?

• Sayaka Ohara
  • This troper shat bricks when she discovered that Beatrice was also Milly Ashford and Ryuuji's mom.
    • She also voices Ichihara Yuuko opposite Watanuki, aka Lelouch Lamperouge. This explains quite a lot of things.

• Ikue Ohtani
  • This troper's anime illiterate boyfriend was able to quickly recognize Chopper's voice from One Piece as that of Pikachu.
  • It's also kind of hard to listen to Gash Bell without thinking "Pika pika unu!"
  • Pororin Pyurarin Hanahana Pi! Amusingly, Hana-chan has a habit of donning Blush Stickers when at her damn cutest.
  • Let's not forget Mitsuhiko of the Detective Boys!
    • I keep expecting all of these characters to break out in a spontaneous case of Ike Ike Go Go JUMP, when they're not being halfway purified by Eternal Sailor Moon...
  • I'll raise you Dot Warner for that!

• Ryotaro Okiayu
  • He voices Kuchiki Byakuya in Bleach and Siegfried in The Sacred Blacksmith and it took only 3 lines for this troper to recognize him.
  • Don't forget Ban-kun himself!
  • Not to mention Tezuka Kunimitsu off The Prince of Tennis, Mitsui Hisashi in Slam Dunk and Scar himself from Fullmetal Alchemist just to name a few.

• Tony Oliver
  • The narrator from Gurren Lagann and Old Simon is Lancer.
  • For video game dubbies, one might also recognize his hammy Ma Chao voice...as Bang Shishigami.
  • Not to mention the titular character of Lupin III and Rick from Macross

• Olivia Olson
  • She plays both Vanessa Doofenshmirtz on Phineas and Ferb and Marceline the Vampire Queen on Adventure Time. What's frightening is the similarities between both characters. They both have more than human powers (Vanessa has martial arts skills, Marceline's a vampire who can transform into an Eldritch Abomination / One-Winged Angel), daddy issues, a penchant for the goth culture and an incredible singing voice reserved for the best songs on both programs.

• J. Pat O'Malley
  • J Pat O'Malley is all over the place in the Disney canon. He's Cyril Proudbottom, Tweedledee, Tweedledum, The Walrus AND The Carpenter, Jasper, Colonel Hathi, and others. If you hear a Cockney accent in a Disney film, it's most likely O'Malley.

• Chiaki Omigawa
  • Nazuna = Maka Albarn. Beware the Nice Ones indeed.

• Daisuke Ono
  • Yukito sounds a lot like Akasaka and Hagiyoshi. Make him sound a bit more lighthearted and you get Koizumi. Give his voice a little "perverted feel" and you get Battler.
  • Throw in some rage and you get Shizuo Heiwajima
  • Shigure Shinguji from Sora O Kakeru Shoujo which was only noticed by this troper after watching Black Butler, where he voices Sebastian Michaelis

• Alan Oppenheimer:
  • Several Transformers
  • Skeletor
  • Darm and the opening narrator in Ys Book I and II.
  • Dr. Ivanovich in Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix.

• Lisa Ortiz:
  • You can easily tell that Lina Inverse is Lisa Ortiz if you have heard her Amy Rose voice.
  • Her first role was that of Deedlit in Record of Lodoss War.
  • And her Serenity Wheeler voice.
  • And her Tony Tony Chopper voice.
  • And pretty darn EVERY voice she's ever done on Pokémon.
    • Lisa Ortiz's Sabrina (Abra And The Psychic Showdown) is different, however.
  • She doesn't even make much effort to make Musa, Digit, and Mitzi sound different. She does put in the effort for Icy, though.

• Colleen O'Shaughnessey
  • Sora! What are you doing in my Danny Phantom?!
  • Of course, after Sora died, she was reincarnated as a bratty blonde kunoichi who was then trapped as thecutest widdle Arrancar
  • And she was the voice of Genis in Tales of Symphonia... at least, in the first game.

• Otsuka Hochu
  • He voices Jiraya in Naruto, Metastacia in Bleach and August Arthur in The Sacred Blacksmith. This troper thinks that these 3 voices are so alike that it's impossible to miss the link!
  • What you might miss is that he is Xigbar and his hearted counterpart Braig in Kingdom Hearts, well, you'll miss it if you turn off the sound anyway.
• He's also the voice of Gates, from Full Metal Panic: Second Raid.
  • And Earth's greatest hero.

• Gary Owens
  • Gary Owens is the narrator of Space Quest 6. However, once you realise that he also provided the voice of one Roger Ramjet, you'll never hear it the same way again.
  • Not to mention the original (pre Coast to Coast) Space Ghost.
  • As well as Powdered Toast Man on The Ren and Stimpy Show.
  • He also played the announcer in Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. "And Morgul as the friendly Drelb!"

• Frank Oz
  • Watch The Muppet Show, and then watch The Empire Strikes Back. Frank Oz voices Yoda in a very similar manner to the way he voices Fozzie Bear (and Bert). Wakka Wakka Wakka!
  • And Grover. Not so close to Miss Piggy, though.
  • It is (perhaps appropriately) a bit of a shock when one realizes that Mr. Collins from the American embassy in An American Werewolf in London sounds exactly like Bert.
  • Back on The Muppets, Oz also plays Sam the Eagle and Animal.

• Jason Paige
  • The guy who performed Walkie-Talkie Man and Canned Heat in Elite Beat Agents was the guy who sang the Pokémon theme. Yes, I know this may not be that shocking, but still!

• Hayden Panettiere
  • There are those who know her not so much as an indestructible cheerleader or a pre-teen football freak than as Kairi.
  • She's also been Cheetara.
  • And Little Red Riding Hood.
  • And one of Steve Smith's potential love interests.
  • And though some would say she's more of a fox, a wolf.
  • And for Disney (okay, and Pixar) she's played a bug, a dinosaur, and (in a case of Playing Against Type even by cartoon standards) a Japanese girl.

• Mike Patton
  • There are many statements that Mike Patton, the same guy who voices the Infected in Left 4 Dead, also voices the anger sphere in Portal.
  • The Infected are actually victims of The Darkness.
  • He was also every monster in I Am Legend, plus one of the Constructicons in Revenge Of The Fallen
  • He's the de facto voice of Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, and Fantomas, among others.

• Robert Patrick
  • If you hear Piandao, you'll probably be wondering why Sokka is taking swordsmanship lessons from the T-1000.
  • Robert Patrick was also the voice of Race Bannon in the early seasons of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest.

• Rob Paulsen
  • Planescape: Torment becomes somewhat more interesting when you learn that Yakko Warner is your friendly neighborhood disembodied talking skull, Morte.
  • Now I'll be expecting it to blurt out "NARF!" at some point.
  • He's also Bubsy the Bobcat. Or was, anyway, before that PS 1 game that did possibly go wrong.
  • This troper is thinking Major Glory once he hears Jack Fenton speaks.
  • Carl Wheezer, PJ, and the Box Ghost all have similar "fat guy falsettos" from this guy.
  • He is also the voice of Grey Fox in the Metal Gear Solid remake, The Twin Snakes.
  • It's not surprising that he gets around, since he can duplicate. (Ditto was basically Yakko with Me's a Crowd powers)
  • The Trublador in Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers.
  • He also appears in several bit parts scattered along the Monkey Island franchise, most noticeably as Bob the Ghost Pirate in the Special Edition re-release of The Secret of Monkey Island.

• Romi Paku
  • Let's just say that Edward Elric = Toshiro Hitsugaya = Shirou Amai, okay?
    • And Ken.
    • And Switzerland.
    • And Nana Oosaki.
    • And Higepiyo.
    • And Loran.
    • Not to mention Popo and Heimdall.
    • More recently, Zoroark from Pokémon Zoroark Master of Illusions. In Japanese AND English.
    • And also recently, Komatsu
    • And Temari.
    • She shall soon dub Finn the human.

• Barry Pepper
  • Cpl. Dunn must be really hungry.

• Ron Perlman
  • War. War never changes.
  • He also did a great job as the ultra-creepy/awesome Slade on Teen Titans. Every other voice he does sounds like a less creepy version of Slade.
  • Which makes his role as Mr. Lancer so much more bizarre, considering Mr. Lancer is a well-meaning teacher.
  • And Hellboy. And he was even in a brief scene in Looney Tunes: Back in Action as the VP of Never Learning (if you miss him, he's the guy who was eaten by the Tasmanian Devil)
  • Kurtis Stryker in the Animated Adaptation Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm.
  • He's also Clayface and Orion in the DCAU.
  • Interesting that he got Clayface (possibly the ultimate "heavy makeup" role?) after becoming known as the REALLY heavy makeup Vincent, "the Beast" to Linda Hamilton's "Beauty".
  • Mr. Perlman also provided the voice for Daimon Karnes, in the Wing Commander Academy episode "The Last One Left", as a former Confederation hero turned renegade.
  • He would also like to know what the Master Chief is doing on that ship (finishing this fight, naturally).
  • The current narrator of 1000 Ways to Die.

• France Perras
  • Bulma in some older episodes of Dragonball Z.
  • Terra and Crevia in Ys: The Ark of Napishtim.
  • Carla in Barbie Presents: Thumbelina.
  • Sandra Roslin in Battlestar Galactica.
  • Various survivors/zombies in Dead Rising 2.

• Ethan Phillips
  • One of the colonists on Dantooine is Neelix. And not a douche.
  • He also played some mercenary on Manaan in the first game. But he was a douche.

• David Hyde Pierce
  • Niles Crane as Abe Sapien in the first Hellboy. Doug Jones got to do his own voice in the second, though.
    • Because David Hyde Pierce was blown away by Doug Jones' physical performance, what with it being fucking incredible. Pierce refused to take credit for the VO work in the first movie and insisted Jones get full credit.

• Tara Platt
  • Gives a wonderful performance as Mitsuru Kirijo and Elizabeth in Persona 3.
  • Hmmm... Where have I heard Claves's voice before...
  • Ugh, they changed Raine's voice actor for Dawn of the New World. Wait is that Tara Platt? Ok I'm fine with it now.
    • She also voices Raine in Radiant Mythology.

• Alexander Polinsky
  • When Alexander Polinsky voices Headmaster in Transformers Animated, it's hard not to think of Control Freak.

• Mike Pollock
  • Had voiced Dr. Eggman in Sonic X wich lead him to voice him later in the games.
  • Mayor Len in Samo from Kirby Right Back At Ya.
  • Lanston Lickatoad and Big-O Riki.

• Tony Pope
  • Tony Pope, best known as Wreck-Gar and the voice of Furby.

• Laura Prepon
  • Wow, Halo 2 rocks! Wait, why is Donna telling me to move my ass?! She also showed up on an episode of King of the Hill.

• Jamieson Price
  • Lord Genome sounds so much like Diethard Ried it's scary. He also sounds like Norb, which is just slightly less weird.
  • He also played Reeve Trusti who helps the player party in Final Fantasy VII , as well as playing a prominent role in it's video game sequel Dirge of Cerberus. Among other roles, he was a Belkan Ace Pilot, a Jelly Man, the First Hokage in Naruto and the leader of a counterterrorism special forces group.
  • Papa NieR must have a GIGANTIC TAGER.
  • "Can't anyone provide me with a decent challenge!?"
  • This troper will never forget watching Akira after a BlazBlue marathon only to hear Iron Tager barking out orders in the form of the Colonel.

• Derek Stephen Prince
  • In Bleach, Uryu Ishida is voiced by Derek Stephen Prince who is sounds like Sasuke Uchiha. It doesn't help that Uryu looks like a cross between the two.
  • For this troper, Uryu's dub voice actor's best known as Shino in Naruto.
  • You can tell Attenborough is voiced by the same guy as Uryu Ishida, which is pretty weird even though he does a pretty good job, since Uryu's pretty much The Stoic while Attenborough is moderately Ax Crazy (though his laugh sounds like a less evil Ken Ichijoji).
  • This troper wishes she could unhear Ken Ichijoji as Vexen... once she heard his voice, she wanted to cry.
  • Hey, at least you don't hear him as Takaya. * shudder* (He sounds like Vexen, only a lot creepier.)
  • Speaking of Digimon Adventure 02, Derek also voiced Veemon there. Another example of Talking to Himself.

• Greg Proops
  • While we're on the topic of Star Wars, the podrace from The Phantom Menace is announced by Greg Proops.
  • And he uses the same exact voice for one of the commentators in MadWorld.

• Moira Quirk
  • Remember Nickelodeon Guts? The referee, Moira "Mo" Quirk, has an interesting amount of voices she did. She was Brit Krust, one of the two Krust Cousins, in My Life as a Teenage Robot.
  • Also, she played against her heroic/anti-heroic(ish) type when she voiced Ax Crazy Meido Daniella in Haunting Ground. If you're hearing your childhood screaming in horror, that's why.

• John Ratzenberger
  • Lampshaded in the movie Cars, where one of the characters, played by John Ratzenberger (Cliff Clavin on Cheers), is watching a bunch of movies and complains that the same guy is doing all the voices, and it's because he's the one who did those characters in those movies. (P.T. Flea in A Bugs Life, Ham from Toy Story, and the Abominable Snowman from Monsters, Inc..)
  • He's the Underminer! NOTHING is beneath him!
  • It's become rather a Running Gag at Pixar for Ratzenberger to be a voice in all their films. He's their "good luck charm". Because it's Pixar, the joke never gets old.
  • Cars also had cameos by NPR mechanic talk show hosts Tom and Ray Magliozzi as Rusty and Dusty Rust-Eze, even using catch phrases from their show.
  • When John Lasseter produced the English adaptation of Spirited Away, he gave John Ratzenberger a role in that too.

• Thurl Ravenscroft
  • Best known as the voice of Frosted Flakes mascot Tony the Tiger, he has also done Kirby in The Brave Little Toaster, sang "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch", and several rides at Disney Theme Parks, including The Haunted Mansion.
  • He was also a member of Disney's stock vocal team the Mellomen, so you'll often hear his voice in vintage Disney animated features and shorts, especially when a good bass-baritone voice is required.

• Paul Reubens
  • Paul Reubens, best known as Pee-Wee Herman, usually does the distinct laugh when doing other characters. This includes Flight of the Navigator and REX in the Star Tours ride at Disney Theme Parks.
  • Anyone who's seen the pilot movie for Out of Jimmy's Head might recognize Lock as Golly Gopher.
  • Also Reuben in Chowder.

• John Rhys-Davies
  • John Rhys-Davies, mentioned below and known for playing a dwarf and a talking tree, also voiced the narration in the adventure/rpg hybrid Quest for Glory 4. Anyone who's played this game has probably had his "That didn't do anything!" ingrained in their memories after frustratingly clicking on every inch of screen.
  • The best part is the annoyed tone he uses, like the narrator is pissed at you doing things that lead nowhere.
    • This just shows that John Rhys Davies would be an AWESOME Game Master for any Tabletop RPG
  • Mr. Davies also provided the voice of Prince Thrakhath nar Kiranka, in Wing Commander III.
    • Which happened to be a double shot as he was also live-acting the role of James "Paladin" Taggart at the same time.
  • His voice was also a pleasant surprise in Freelancer as Tobias, who, of course, is the closest thing Freelancer's got to a Boisterous Bruiser.
  • John Rhys-Davies of Indiana Jones and The Lord of the Rings fame plays Hades in a couple episodes of Justice League Unlimited.
  • He was also Aladdin's dad Cassim in the third movie.
  • And Macbeth in Gargoyles.
  • And Ma-ma-ma-mamama, ma-ma-ma-mamama, MANRAY!
  • Professor Arturo's not that short!
  • Watch him play a russian with a british accent in The Living Daylights.

• Monica Rial
  • Compare Monica Rial as vampire pseudo-catgirl Hazuki to Monica Rial as dating sim fangirl Renge....or Hyatt to Momoko to Lumiere to Konoka Konoe. You're welcome.
  • Hyatt sounds a lot like Nyamo if she was very, very sick.
    • How about even MORE of an Ill Girl, as Misuzu Kamio.
      • And Sakura from Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. who is also a somewhat Ill Girl.
        • One more Ill Girl for you, Angelica from Gunslinger Girl.
  • Asa Shigure from Shuffle! sounds almost exactly like Konoka Konoe from Mahou Sensei Negima. Right down to the mischeviousness...
    • Ironic since she is also Kazumi and Satsuki ALSO from Mahou Sensei Negima.
  • She is also Fiore in Chrono Crusade, this troper did not recognize her at all, especially since her first work he heard was Towa from D.N.Angel.
    • Another one out of character for her is Lara in School Rumble.
  • She has another niche as the "Shy, cute, but funny girl" such as her role in Pani Poni Dash! and Rumbling Hearts.
  • She does a pretty funny cockney accent as the maid from Black Butler

• Kevin Michael Richardson
  • So Jolee Bindo is a captive Earthbender, huh?
  • In the Grand Finale of Avatar: The Last Airbender, you can easily tell that the Lion Turtle is Kevin Michael Richardson, using a similar voice as he did in Transformers Animated for Omega Supreme. However, his voice for Tyro (Haru's dad), while not quite as similar, is still noticeable.
  • Teen Titans season 4 leads to an interesting revelation: The voice, the glowing eyes, the Omnicidal Maniac... Sarevok's back! Doing well for himself, isn't he?
  • This troper just returned from the Revenge of the Fallen midnight premiere held in his area, and immediately recognized Kevin Micheal Richardson's voice coming from the only one of the Primes that spoke before they brought Sam back to life.
  • He also played Lucius Fox in the Gotham Knights tie-in. And couple other guys too.
  • And he also played Antauri.
  • Also does a mean Keith David impression; a lot of viewers thought it was David doing Despero again on Batman the Brave And The Bold.
  • And plays Corrupt Corporate Executive Chairman Drek (eventually Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Drek) in the first Ratchet and Clank game.
  • He even replaced Keith David (after the first episode) as Tombstone.
  • And a Bill Cosby one as well. Compare Dr. Lincoln and the man himself.
  • Replaces Cedric the Entertainer as Maurice on The Penguins of Madagascar. Also does recurring secondary character voices.
  • Speaking of all the roles he's done for Batman, is everyone intentionally ignoring the fact that The Batman cast him as the goddamned JOKER? Come on, crowning achievement right there.

• Alan Rickman
  • Speaking of King of the Hill, this troper kept expecting King Philip (from the episode "Joust Like A Woman") to address Hank as "Mister Potter".
  • No mention of Joe? This troper remembers the ads for the movie kept referring to both Alan Rickman and Terry Jones.
  • There's an icon floating around LiveJournal involving Marvin the Paranoid Android dressed as Snape.
  • Don't forget Alexander aka Dr. Lazarus in Galaxy Quest.
  • And this troper could never take the movie version of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street seriously, since not only did Rickman use the same voice for Judge Turpin that he did for Snape, but Timothy Spall played opposite him as Beadle Bamford, who is basically Turpin's Wormtail. Helena Bonham Carter didn't help things either.

• Don Rickles
  • If you visit The Enchanted Tiki Room: Under New Management at Disney World, you'll be able to hear |Mr. Potato Head get into a fight with Troy McClure

• Sam Riegel
  • One wonders if Shino Aburame has named any of the bugs inside him Wormmon.
  • Oh, dear heavens, this happens a lot with Naruto. While watching, one will wonder if Izumo will bust out his Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu, Genma will use Zangetsu, or if Homura will start hassling someone for always losing the bounty.
  • He was also Clovis. And he sounded fairly obvious in that role, too.
  • He generally has two voices: smug bastard (Zaku, Clovis), and largely normal guy (Taniguchi, Shiro Emiya, Minoru Shiraishi). With Viral, he's usually the first, and sometimes the second.
  • Besides the technically-inclined Shirou, he was the technically-inclined Ninja Turtle Donatello ('03 version).
    • When I heard Reid Hershel's voice, I thought he would say Go dance with the angels.
  • Sam plays Pull in the Ergo Proxy episode "The Girl with a Smile". He sounds like a pitched-up Donatello.
  • About the only thing Azel is missing is the shark teeth, but in terms of voice the two are practically indistinguishable.
    • I'm surprised the developers didn't give Starscream teeth.
  • And here, I was thinking, "Hey! It's Allegretto!"
  • The first role that got this troper interested in him was the demented Pandora from Yu-Gi-Oh!
  • Phoenix Wright in Marvel vs. Capcom 3 sounds like Minoru and, by extension, Taniguchi.

• Shane Rimmer
  • I always smile whenever I hear Shane Rimmer's voice on TV, film, Internet, or wherever, mainly because I have always had this big crush on Scott Tracy from Thunderbirds, whose voice is provided by Shane, and he never puts too much variation on that voice of his. (Except when he sings of course... ^{[dead link]})

• Susan Roman
  • This troper was horrified when she first started playing Mega Man Legends 2, only to hear Sailor Jupiter.

• Christy Carlson Romano
  • Yuffie from Advent Children and the original Kingdom Hearts sounds like Kim Possible.
  • She can do anything, even say "f*ck, it sucks to be me".

• Freddy Rodriguez
  • Who woulda thought that Rico y El Wray voiced both Más Y Menos?

• Michelle Rodriguez
  • The "tough" female Redshirt Marines in Halo 2.
  • Calita in Driv3r.
  • Humongous Mecha pilot Liz in IGPX.

• Michael Rosenbaum
  • In an episode of Justice League Unlimited where The Flash and Lex Luthor switched brains. Unlike most animation, this did not involve the characters switching voices. This gave Micheal Rosenbaum a chance to use his Smallville Lex Luthor voice.
    • Think it was jarring hearing Flash's voice as Lex Luthor? Try the episode of Smallville where the spirit of General Zod possess Lex. Worse thing than hearing Flash's voice as Lex? Hearing the Flash say "Kneel Before Zod".
  • And Clancy Brown was a riot as Flash-stuck-in-Luthor: "Aren't you going to wash your hands?" "No, because I'm EVIL!"

• Michelle Ruff
  • Michelle Ruff, best known as Euphemia Li Britannia, Yoko, Kiki, Etna, Tsukasa, Minami, Izumi, Yuki Nagato, and Rukia.
  • Hey! Etna sounds a lot like Takeba!
  • Whoa, Aoi Sakuraba is the Brainwashed and Crazy Laila Lie/Gina Angel/Goddess? The latter's "sad" voice sounds a lot like the former.
    • Ruff shares another series with an Ai Yori Aoshi voice actor. Dave Lelyveld (Whittenburg) played Kaoru Hanabishi and plays Commander Irving Vold Valeria on Wild ARMs Twilight Venom.
  • Interestingly, she's also the mercenary Carmen 99 in Gun X Sword. You can't say it's Playing Against Type, since Michelle's characters vary so much.
  • Cream the Rabbit from Sonic Free Riders and Sonic Generations sounds like Tsukasa.
  • Have we all forgotten Lupin III's main squeeze and unknown betrayer Fujiko Mine?
  • It's not really fair to list Michelle (I doubt a self respecting VA would want to be listed on this page) because she's actually one of the few very versatile VAs. She can do quite a large range of voices and emotions, including young boys which is a sign of a wide vocal range. Visit her website for a good audio sample.

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