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** ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' - Blood Elf Male, Malygos
** ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'' (2002) - He-Man
** ''[[
* [[Jim Cummings]]
* Jim Dale, the reader for the U.S. audiobook editions of the [[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]] books. He won an award for managing to come up with a few ''hundred'' unique character voices for ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire''.
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** Granny for most of the [[Looney Tunes]] shorts using that character. (though Granny was played in the pre-1955 shorts by Bea Benaderet)
** Rocket J Squirrel/Natasha Fatale/Nell Fenwick/ any other female role (''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'')
** Cindy-Lou Who in the original ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (animation)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]''
** Jokey Smurf (''[[The Smurfs (animation)|The Smurfs]]'')
** Granny Gummi (''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'')
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** One notable example is ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', where he not only voices Starscream, but also half a dozen of his clones, each with their own personality quirk. (Slipstream, the female clone, is played by Tara Strong, who is also on this page.)
* [[Seth MacFarlane]], who voices pretty much all the major male characters in ''[[Family Guy]]'', and two of the main characters in ''[[American Dad]]''. Just... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CMWkesiVD4 see this Hulu commercial]. He can also sing in all of his voices.
* While many people don't realize it due to his [[Badass Baritone|baritone voice relating to badasses]], [[Crispin Freeman]] has a very wide vocal range. Compare [[Haruhi Suzumiya|Kyon]], [[Code Geass|Orange]], [[Chobits|Hideki]], [[Digimon Frontier|Koichi]], [[Hellsing|Alucard]], and [[Durarara!!|Shizuo]].
* [[Tress MacNeille]] , [[Kath Soucie]], [[Grey DeLisle]] and [[Tara Strong]]. Basically any American cartoon will have one of these four voices in it at some point. If a character is female and in an American cartoon, it's one of them. (Unless she's Asian, in which case it's [[Lauren Tom]], or if [[Sassy Black Woman|black]], [[Cree Summer]].)
* While the ''characters'' [[Grey DeLisle]]'s put in are very much pigeonholed, her range is anything but. Rarely do any of her voices sound alike (except when they scream). [[Danny Phantom|Sam]] sounds nothing like [[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy|Mandy]] who sounds nothing like [[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends|Frankie]] or [[Fairly Oddparents|Vicky]] (or [[Baldur's Gate|the other Vicky]]).
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** Billy West seemed to have actively set out to become one, claiming to have been heavily influenced by Mel Blanc, Dawes Butler and Don Messick.
** Also notable is that his already impressive range also includes voices that you could swear they were digitally edited, like a semi-reccuring [[Energy Being]] from [[Futurama]]. But nope, that flangy alien voice is all from Billy's mouth.
* Like [[Billy West]] above, [[John Dimaggio]] has developed a wide range of voices himself. From [[Futurama|robots]] to psychotic [[The Penguins of Madagascar|penguins]], [[Kim Possible|mad scientists and bikers]] to [[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien|aliens]], even [[American Dragon: Jake Long|annoying]] [[Talking Animal]] [[Generator Rex|sidekicks]], this dude has been around the curve more than once.
** He's also grizzled space marine [[Gears of War|Marcus Fenix]] and a talented beatboxer. Anytime there's beatboxing done on ''Futurama', it's all him.
** He was the voice of Hak Foo in ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', replacing Jim Cummings from the second season on. And you can hardly tell the difference.
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* Go to youtube and watch any video that features [[Naruto|Gaara]] speaking in the english dub. Now do the same thing for [[Code Geass|Lloyd.]] Both are voiced by [[Liam O'Brien]].
** He also voices [[The Hero|Vayne]] in [[Mana Khemia]].
* Sadly, Jim Ward doesn't get nearly as much coverage as his skill deserves. He's the resident [[Man of a Thousand Voices|Voice Deity]]/ConspiracyTheorist on ''[[The Stephanie Miller Show]]'', and gets plenty of requests for his imitations of Wolf Blitzer, Kim Jong Il, and Tom Brokaw. He's also the voice actor of [[Ben 10|Diamondhead, XLR8, Wildvine]], [[The Fairly Odd Parents|Chet Ubetcha]], [[Ratchet and Clank|Captian Quark]], [[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines|Maximillian Strauss, Baron Isaac Abrams, Brother Grünfeld Bach,]] [[Porco Rosso|and]] [[Spirited Away|background]] [[Dragon Age|voices]] [[Destroy All Humans!|in]] [[
* Lani Minella is definitly one. She's been voicing video game characters since 1994, IMDB lists at least 400 acting credits to her name. She's been in [[Starcraft]], [[Diablo]], [[World of Warcraft]], [[Nancy Drew]], well, it would be easier to list the games she isn't in. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm1BGVfqWC0 That video really shows her talent.]
* [[Tabitha St. Germain|Tabitha St Germain]]. She's voiced 15 different characters (and possibly more, we're not sure) across two and a half generations of ''[[My Little Pony]]'' according to [[The Other Wiki]]. And then there's all the anime and Canadian animation roles she's had, check out her [http://www.tabithastgermain.com/have-a-listen.html demo video] on her website. [[Shakugan no Shana|Shana]]? [[Black Lagoon|Roberta]]? [[Death Note|Naomi Misora]]? [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy|Nazz]]? [[Jimmy Two-Shoes|Heloise]]? All her. Also on ''[[Martha Speaks]]'' she's everyone from the title character (a talking dog) to an 18-year old baby to an 80-year old lady. If that's not range I don't know what is!
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** And he's [[Pokémon (anime)|Lucario]].
** He also voices BOTH [[Axis Powers Hetalia|North and South Italy]].
* [[Toshiyuki Morikawa]] does [[The Hero]] roles ([[Street Fighter|Ryu]], [[Tekkaman Blade|Takaya aka D-Boy]]), [[The Stoic]] roles ([[Super Robot Wars|Kyosuke]]), Evil Bastard roles ([[Tekken|Kazuya Mishima]], [[Final Fantasy VII|Sephiroth]])... very affable [[Hot Shoujo Dad]] that sounds so light ([[
* [[Miyuki Sawashiro]] is what some people call versatile, she can be voicing spunky boys with an cheery attitude like Milanor from ''[[Yggdra Union]]'' or Carl Clover from ''[[Blaz Blue]]'', a demanding [[The Ojou|Ojou]] such as Perrine or Shinku or cute bubbly Nekomimi girls like [[Mana Khemia Alchemists of Al Revis|Nike]] or [[Galaxy Angels|Mint]]. Younger characters are not her only forte either. [[Stripperiffic]] troubled [[Odin Sphere|Velvet]] and [[Little Miss Badass]] [[Woman Scorned]] [[Basilisk|Hotarubi]] would like a word for you.
* [[Takehito Koyasu]] has probably ''literally'' voiced a thousand roles... from [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|a fallen prince who fights for world peace]], to [[Turn A Gundam (Anime)|a displaced samurai piloting an apocalyptic machine with a lust for fighting]]. [[The King of Fighters|Even a comic relief Ascended Fanboy who wants to shoot fire.]] So, yeah...
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