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*** Many of his characters are recognizable by their smart aleck attitude. Well, except for the gun crazy, time-traveling, macho redneck, [[Time Squad|Officer Buck Tuddrussel]]...

* [[Pat Fraley]] has one of the longest credit lists ever, and he is so proficient in voice acting that he beat out several talented nominees like Bob Bergen for the voice over lifetime achievement, which takes at least ''25 years'' or more to be nominated for. Considering that he did the voices for [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Krang, General Traag, Baxter Stockman, Burne Thompson]] and many other characters all on the same show, [[Talking to Himself|and sometimes in the same scenes]], his award was definitely earned with his vast talent.

* Although not yet ''prolific'' as such, [[Michelle Ruff]] has admirable range and completely avoids [[Pigeonholed Voice Actor|pigeonholing]] herself. Among others, she does the deliciously snarky [[Disgaea|Etna]], the [[Kuudere]] [[Wild Arms 5|Avril]], serious noble [[Bleach|Rukia]], the emotionless [[Haruhi Suzumiya|Yuki]], the ditzy [[Lucky Star|Tsukasa]], and nervous heroine [[Valkyrie Profile 2|Alicia]].

* Beyond cartoons, [[Peter Sellers]]' initial fame as a radio performer was built on this, whether he was doing celebrity impersonations or character roles. In ''[[The Goon Show]]'' -- where everyone voiced multiple roles, major and minor -- he voiced Major Bloodnok, Bluebottle, Hercules Grytpype-Thynne and Henry Crun out of the major characters alone. Sellers could also substitute for absent performers and their characters as needed. When [[Spike Milligan]] - who had roughly as many characters as Sellers - was absent, Sellers could do all of them himself. When ''he'' was absent, ''four'' performers had to be brought in to substitute for all his roles.