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[[File:Billy_West_smallBilly West small.jpg|link=Futurama|frame| [[Man of a Thousand Voices|Three of those characters are in the main cast. And three more are recurring characters.]]]]

*** Same with Kozo Shioya in the Japanese version, who voices all of Boo's forms--soforms—so in addition to the above, there's also Fat Boo and Skinny Evil Boo's brief fight.

* Mashiro Kazahana and Fumi Himeno share [[Yukana|a voice actress]] in the original Japanese version of ''[[MaiMy-HiME]]'', which partially underlines the otherworldliness of both characters.

** Prior to ''Destiny'', in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED]]'', [[Houko Kuwashima]] performs the voices of both Natarle Badgiruel and Fllay Allster, and ends up [[Talking to Himself|Talking To Herself]] on at least one occasion towards the end of the series.

* Yukino Satsuki as well as her dub counterpart Megan Hollingshed, as Mion and Shion Sonozaki in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''. Justified -- theyJustified—they are identical twins.

** Barely averted inwhere ''[[Luckythe Star]]'',same whereEnglish-dub shevoice actress does Tsukasa and Minami. (In the original Japanese, they have different seiyuu..) Minami's in Yutaka's group though, and she's also [[The Quiet One]].

** In the 4Kids dub, there were a few examples of this, and ''all of them were main characters''. Veronica Taylor -- AshTaylor—Ash, May, and Delia Ketchum ("The Right Place At The Right Mime" had May and Delia sounding ''very'' similar). Rachel Lillis -- MistyLillis—Misty and Jesse. Eric Stuart -- BrockStuart—Brock and James. Oh yeah, Ted Lewis did James for the first several episodes, didn't he? Well, he went on to do Giovanni and Tracey, though that's not an example.

** In one of the more bizarre incidents of [[Talking to Himself|Talking to Themself]] in the English dub, Professor Ivy and all three of her [[Creepy Twins|triplet research assistants]] were voiced by Kayzie Rogers.

* The American dub of ''[[Seven of Seven]]'' only avoids this (it prefers [[Hey, It's That Voice!]] instead), if you consider the various Nanas to be one character; if not, you have Veronica Taylor doing all seven different charactersNanas (and two of them use her "Ash" and "May" voices!). The original Japanese version used seven different actresses for the sevendifferent Nanas. {{spoiler|We later find out that it's actually EIGHT different characters}}

** ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'' has [[Daisuke Kishio]] voicing both Zenjirou, Beelzebumon, Blastmon and, in [[Digimon Xros Wars: theThe Young Hunters Leaping Through Time|the sequel series]], Dracmon. Then there's [[Bin Shimada]], who voices Tactimon, Omegamon and Starmon.

* ''[[Blood Plus+]]''

* [[Talking to Himself]] is relatively rare in Brazilian dubs, especially nowadays, since there are rules about it, but there were some exceptions. In ''[[Inuyasha]]'''s dub, voice actress Leticia Quinto voices both Kagome and Kikyo. In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', Marik and Odion were both voiced by voice actor Jose Parisi Jr... A season later they must've noticed that the move was not wise, as Marik's voice actor was changed.

* In the ''Horitsuba Gakuen'' [[Omake|CD dramas]] for ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' and ''[[xxxHolic×××HOLiC]]'', twin brothers {{spoiler|Fay and Yuui}} are both voiced by [[Daisuke Namikawa]].

** Raivis/Latvia is a VERY weird case. In the CD dramas he was voiced by the female [[Rie Kugimiya]], who voices the [[Token Mini-MoeLoli]] Liechtenstein. In the anime, he's voiced by the male Kazutada (later "Kokoro") Tanaka, who also voices Poland.

* In both ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' and the ''[[Pretty Sammy]]'' [[OA VsOAV]]s, Sasami and Tsunami talked to each other in both the Japanese ([[Chisa Yokoyama]]) and English ([[Sherry Lynn]]) versions.

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' had a couple of shared seiyuu ([[Keiko Han]] as both Luna and Queen Beryl, [[Chiyoko Kawashima]] as Haruna-sensei, Shingo and Sailor Pluto), but usually the characters were too different, not allowing even for a small conversation between them. Then came the fifth season and brought in Chibi-Chibi, voiced by Usagi's seiyuu [[Kotono Mitsuishi]] -- it—it's rather easy to pull off this trope when one of the characters has a trait of [[Pokémon-Speak]].<br />Worth noting that the last pair actually ends up playing the role of a [[Red Herring]], especially with all the guesses and jokes about Chibi-Chibi being Usagi's second daughter. Had the anime followed the manga closely, the shared voice would've had a justification, as Chibi-Chibi is {{spoiler|Sailor Cosmos, who is hinted to be a form of Usagi from a distant future}}. In the anime, she is a completely different entity, {{spoiler|namely, Galaxia's own Star Seed -- meaning that in this continuity she has nothing to do with Usagi apart from wanting to encourage her to defeat Galaxia}}.

** Special mention goes to episode 98, which features Cana and Aquarius bickering with one another--bothanother—both voiced by [[Eri Kitamura]]. Lucy even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] how similar the two are (note while Lucy makes such a statement in the manga, it's arguably more effective in the anime to compare just how similar the two sound together).

* ItsJustSomeRandomGuy does all of the male voices in ''[[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC]]''. Mostly, he's very good at making each voice different -- withdifferent—with the exception of the strangely gentle Captain America voice, they're all similar, but distinct. However, when characters are worked up they all sound the same.

* In ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'', both [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|the Air Conditioner and the Hanging Lamp]] are voiced by the late [[The Simpsons (animation)|Phil Hartman.]]

* An early example would be fact that in ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'', Charles Judels actually voiced both Stromboli and the Coachman, both villains that became [[Karma Houdini|Karma Houdinis]]s at the end of the film.

* Lampshaded at the end of ''[[Cars]]'' where [[Pixar Regulars|Pixar Regular John Ratzenberger]], who voices Mack the semi truck in this film, is actually making comments about the fact that "some cheap production company" is using the same voice for the automobile versions of [[Toy Story (franchise)|Hamm]], [[A Bug's Life|P.T. Flea]], and [[Monsters, Inc.|Yeti the Abominable Snowplow]], respectively.

* In ''[[Resident Evil: Extinction|Resident Evil Extinction]]'', Doctor Isaacs clones Milla Jovovich's character Alice. While these clones do not interact for most of the movie, in the final battle sequence between Alice and Isaacs, Alice watches a clone of herself die in her arms - therefore Jovovich was watching herself die. The movie ends with Alice and a clone standing side-by-side and looking at dozens more clones. The fourth movie, ''[[Resident Evil: Afterlife]]'', starts with Alice and her clones bringing down an Umbrella facility, resulting in two or three Alices, all played by Jovovich, featuring in shots at the same time.

** Andy Serkis, famous for portraying Gollum, does the voices for a number of orcs and Uruk-hai. Particularly, the argument at the beginning of ''Two Towers'' about whether they should eat the hobbits? All Andy Serkis, [[Talking to Himself]].

* In both versions of the film ''[[The Parent Trap (1961 film)|The Parent Trap]]'', the two twin daughters are played by the same actress (Hayley Mills in the original; [[Lindsay Lohan]] in the 1997 version).

* ''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]]'': [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] playing twins who are enemies.

* Nicholas Briggs voices both the Daleks and the Cybermen in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', leading to a rather memorable scene in the second-season finale "Doomsday". (This also means any conversation between Daleks is Briggs [[Talking to Himself]].)

** In "Brothers", there's a scene between Data, Lore and Dr. Soong -- allSoong—all played by Brent Spiner.

** Another Michael Shanks example -- inexample—in the episode "Holiday", he plays both Daniel and an alien character, Ma'chello, under heavy makeup. Ma'chello uses a machine to swap bodies with Daniel, leading to an interesting scene where Michael Shanks, as Ma'chello is Daniel's body, argues with Michael Shanks, as Daniel in Ma'chello's body!

* Subverted in ''The 7:30 Report'', an Australian current affairs programme that has a weekly political satire sketch of a fake current affairs interview, starring Bryan Dawe (usually the interviewer) and John Clarke (the interviewee -- ainterviewee—a different character each episode but usually portraying an actual person. Often it's a politician). On rare occasions there will be multiple interviewees, with John playing each one. The most confusing aspect of it is that John makes no attempt to imitate who he's impersonating (i.e. they all look and sound like John Clarke in real life, as well as having a habit for dodging Bryan's questions) so at times it looks as though he really is talking to himself.

* In ''The Peter Serafinowicz Show'', the titular comedian plays ''all four of [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]'' in the same sketch. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1G3vnc6WhY It's quite impressive.]

* In multiple episodes of ''Fringe'', Anna Torv plays two version of Olivia Dunham -- oneDunham—one from "our" universe and one from another universe. While the two characters are usually seen separately, in the season two finale "Over There", our Olivia and alternate Olivia engage in hand-on-hand combat -- meaningcombat—meaning Torv is fighting herself.

* Peter Tuddenham did the voices of the various talking computers in ''[[Blake's Seven7|Blakes Seven]]''. On one occasion Slave and Orac get into a brief tiff; Tuddenham was asked if he wanted to record one of the voices first but he did them both live.

* Bryn Terfel's [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002TCAFVQ/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=103612307&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B002L16PLO&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=176Y0JFQATNVSTBMQXQW "Bad Boys" album]{{Dead link}} includes a scene from [[Don Giovanni]] that features the titular character, his manservant and his ghostly nemesis. All three parts are within Terfel's vocal range, and he duly performs all of them, [[Talking to Himself|singing to himself]] in triplicate.

* One impressive bit by ventriloquist [[Jeff Dunham]] involves him getting in a rapidfirerapid-fire three-way argument with two of his characters. In another routine, the same two characters start having a conversation in presumably fluent Spanish, and Jeff remarks that he feels left out because "I don't speak Spanish!" No wonder one of his shows is called ''Arguing with Myself''.

* British kids' show ''Rainbow'' features George and Zippy, a classic [[Odd Couple]] who are permanently arguing with each other, interrupting and talking over each other -- despiteother—despite being both products of the same actor who is not only Talking To Himself but doing it ''live''.

** And in the end of that season, Graeme takes over the serial -- andserial—and is, at that point, playing the main hero (Professor Prune), the main villain (Fetish), and the narrator. Naturally, chaos ensues.

* Often happened to [[Bob and Ray]], as a consequence of playing both hosts and (often multiple) guests on their various shows, assisted by their uncanny timing and familiarity with each other. The effect is most spectacular when baritone Ray and his [[Larynx Dissonance|falsetto character Mary McGoon]] hold rapid-fire discussions -- oftendiscussions—often with Ray's other character Webley Webster chiming in -- within—with Bob and two or more of ''his'' characters.

* In any given Roleplayingroleplaying game, the Game Master will, by necessity, be voicing all the NPCs. More talented or imaginative Game Masters will even give them distinct voices ([[Cross-Dressing Voices|which can get damn funny at times]]).

* In one hilarious game of ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'', one player simultaneously played an elf and a dwarf who were [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] on the best of days. He used hand signals to indicate who was who whenever they got in an argument (again).

* ''[[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness]]'' has [[Bob Papenbrook|one man]] playing General Carter, Thursday, and Archangel Vulcanus. While Thursday never has any lines with either of the other characters, both Vulcanus and Carter get a whole scene together.

** Then there's Jared Emerson-Johnson, who voices three of the C.O.P.S. They're never seen apart, so [[Talking to Himself]] occurs very frequently.

** The most extreme one is in ''[[Super Robot Wars]] Z'' in one save-quit dialogue, whereas [[Overman King Gainer|Asuham Boone]] and [[Turn A Gundam (Anime)|Gym Ghingham]] had a contest of who is the [[Large Ham|larger ham]] by shouting at each other, while [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|Neo Roanoke]] nonchalantly comments on it. The catch? They're all voiced by [[Takehito Koyasu]].

** The German version of faces the problem that most male heroes in Disney movies are voiced by the same person in German, resulting in [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]], [[The Little Mermaid|Prince Eric]], and [[Hercules (Disney1997 film)|Hercules]] sharing the same voice. Luckily, they never really met in the game.

** A minor example in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'', notable only for the "[[Subtext|oh man, what are the odds]]" factor: The same actress voices Seymour's mother and his wife in English--andEnglish—and Seymour canonically has one ''hell'' of an [[Oedipus Complex]].

* In ''[[Dragon Age]]'', [[Steve Blum]] voices three major characters. The notable instance of [[Talking to Himself]] is when the dwarven companion Oghren is talking to a dwarven man, Gorim. The only real change in voice a bit more grit to Oghren's voice.

** ''[[Twelve Riven|12Riven]]'': {{spoiler|Shinkuro}} shares a voice with {{spoiler|Ohtemachi}}, {{spoiler|Maina}} shares a voice with {{spoiler|Narumi}}, and {{spoiler|Omega}} shares a voice with {{spoiler|Renmaru. The first one is because the former is an RSD program created in the likeness of the latter, in the second, the former is the physical manifestation of a part of the latter's mind that she lost ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]), and the third one is because the two are the same person.}}

** ''[[Input Output|I/O]]'': Twins Mayumi and Masami Shinozuka have the same voice actress. {{spoiler|He}} shares a voice with {{spoiler|Hinata, "Ashur", and Isaiah}}, and {{spoiler|Lem}} shares a voice with {{spoiler|Mutsuki, "Marduk", and Ereshkigal.}} A bunch of other characters share voice actors, but this is because the voice cast is about half the size of the cast.

* Like ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', the ''[[Gundam]]'' crossover games (including ''[[SD Gundam G Generation]]'' and the [[Gundam vs. Series]]) have this as a result of combining characters from over 30 years worth of animation. ''Gundam vs Gundam Next Plus'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it: if you partner [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|Mu La Flaga]] with [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Zechs Merquise, Milliardo Peacecraft]], or [[Turn A Gundam (Anime)|Gym Ghingham]] (all [[Takehito Koyasu]] characters), Mu will say "Looks like I've - I mean ''we've'' got a lot of work ahead!"

* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' has nine main characters voiced by Matt Chapman. Nearly every conversion in the show is an example of this trope, since there are only three main characters not voiced by him (Marzipan, Pom Pom, who is [[The Unintelligible]] anyway, and The Poopsmith, who has made a vow of silence. {{spoiler|In order to celebrate Strong Bad checking his 200th email, the Poopsmith finally broke his vow of silence to sing the intro song. Here he is voiced by John Linnell of [[They Might Be Giants]]. As of his subsequent appearance, he's gone back to being silent, though.}}) The ultimate example is in [https://web.archive.org/web/20131112131845/http://www.homestarrunner.com/onetwo.html One Two, One Two], which has Matt singing/talking to himself in six different voices at once. The only time that this isn't the case is if circumstances render it too difficult for Matt to do a voice; for instance, his brother has had to voice Strong Sad at least once, as Matt had strained his vocal cords.

** Matt also voices nearly all of the secondary characters as well, including the cast of show-within-the-show ''Cheat Commandos'', alternate [[Anime]] and "old-timey" versions of the main cast, and the lead vocals for [[Fake Band|Fake Bands]]s Limozeen and Taranchula, the former in an impressive '80s-metal falsetto and the latter in a deep death-metal growl. Matt could give Mel Blanc a run for his money.

** Daniel Riordan was both Optimus Prime (well, his combined form, anyway) and ''Megatron'' in ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise]]''.

** In ''[[Transformers Animated|Animated]]'', David Kaye is Prime, Grimlock, Lugnut, and Highbrow. Jeff Bennett is Prowl, Ultra Magnus, Captain Fanzone, Soundwave, Angry Archer, and Mixmaster. Bumper Robinson is Bumblebee, Porter C. Powell, Blackout, and does ''three'' voices for Blitzwing, whose [[Split Personalities|Split Personality]] occasionally [[TalkingInner to ThemselfDialogue|talk amongst themselves]]. Tom Kenny is Starscream ({{spoiler|as well as all of the [[Me's a Crowd|Starscream clones]] except the [[Opposite SexGender Clone|female one]]}}), Isaac Sumdac, Scrapper, Wasp, and Jetfire. Corey Burton is Megatron, Ratchet, Shockwave (reprised from G1), Longarm Prime ({{spoiler|who ''is'' Shockwave but has a slightly different voice}}), Colossus Rhodes, Ironhide, and [[Yuppie Couple|Spike]]. Besides Sari, Tara Strong is pretty much every female and child except Blackarachnia, Arcee, and a brief appearance by Flareup. Bill Fagerbakke is Bulkhead and Hot Shot. While he only voiced Jazz for the first two seasons, in the third Phil LaMarr is also Oil Slick, Jetstorm, and [[The Other Darrin|replaces]] Kevin Michael Richardson as Omega Supreme. Most of them also do a few minor characters. Come to think of it, ''Animated'' has this at least as bad as the original did.

* [[Billy West]] has an exceptional range, playing four [[Recurrer|recurrersrecurrer]]s on ''[[Futurama]]'' (Fry, Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan, President [[Richard Nixon]]'s head, [[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Zoidberg]]), as well as both Ren and Stimpy from ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' (after Ren's original voice actor, John Kricfalusi, was fired from Nickelodeon) and also playing the modern versions of most of the characters Mel Blanc was known for. Hell, Billy can do things with his voice that normally require electronic alteration to achieve.

* His lack of variety thing can be seen in ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' as well -- anwell—an episode wherein Winston plays a game of baseball that will decide the fate of a single human soul, Maurice provides the voice for the Umpire as well as for Egon. It's vaguely amusing, actually, since the Ump was just Egon with a large reverb!

** In the ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' episode "Perchance to Dream", Bruce Wayne talked to his father -- alsofather—also [[Kevin Conroy]]. Even better: in that same episode, Bruce has an argument with his alter-ego. Conroy is said to have switched between his "Bruce Wayne" and "Batman" voices in real time, rather than recording the characters separately.

** All these examples of Batman are ''literalisedliteralized'' examples of the ''character'' talking to himself, so it's no real surprise...

** Nine voice actors cover all the voices in the English dub of the show. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120809162422/http://codelyokothings.tumblr.com/post/8360303699/code-lyoko-english-voice-list Here's a breakdown.]

** [[Hynden Walch]] played both Starfire and her evil sister Blackfire -- andBlackfire—and the characters ended up fighting pretty much every time Blackfire showed up. [[Scott Menville]] also played Robin and Red X — which made sense since the first time the character showed up he really ''was'' Robin, but all of his subsequent appearances were when an unnamed villain stole the old Red X suit.

* ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]''

* And twins Jeanette and Therese in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]'', who can often be found arguing with one another. Very loudly. {{spoiler|And, in fact, turn out to be a single person -- Tourette -- with severe split-personality disorder, meaning that she is ''literally'' [[Talking to Himself|talking to herself]].}}

* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'' has a few:

** Note, though, that Irwin, a young black boy, is voiced by an adult white [[Cross-Dressing Voices|woman]]. ComicCon panel interviews confirm that she was unaware of Irwin's ethnicity when first introduced to the character's design as a colorless sketch. <ref> Before people cry [[Unfortunate Implications]], note that this is no [[Double Standard]]; the aforementioned Lamarr, who ''is'' African-American, has voiced several Caucasian and [[Samurai Jack|at least]] ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender|two]]'' Asian characters.</ref>

** [[Dee Bradley Baker]] does the voices of ''all'' the clones. The episode ''[http://www.starwars.com/video/view/000711.html Rookies]'' becomes almost the ultimate example of this trope, as the main plot features a number of rookie clones in over their heads being led by older, more experienced clones. The actor barely varies his voice from one to another. If you choose to annoy [[Karen Traviss]] and assume they're all one person, it's almost in-world [[Talking to Himself]]. Justified in this case, since all the clones are cloned from the same man and raised in the same setting.

** The entire [[Five-Man Band]] is voiced by two people. Toki and Murderface are both played by Tommy Blacha (who also voices Dr. Rockso and more); Nathan, Pickles, and Skwisgaar are all played by Brendon Small (who also voices Ofdensen), meaning he does the most [[Talking to Himself]] of the cast.

* In ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series|Star Trek the Animated Series]]'', the regulars also did many of the one-shot guests (and even secondary and recurring characters). With rare exception, ''any'' woman you hear that wasn't a member of ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series|Star Trek the Original Series]]''' main cast will be voiced by Majel Barrett (when they're not voiced by Nichelle Nichols), and any ''man'' will be voiced by [[James Doohan]] (a.k.a. Scotty). This means there are several conversations in which the two Talk To Themselves -- evenThemselves—even if Scotty and Nurse Chapel aren't in on the conversation.

* Due to the limited amount of main characters of ''[[Ka BlamKaBlam!]]'s'' Henry and June shorts, many of the one-appearance characters will be done by a member of the regular cast (most notably is Billy West, who did most of the recurring characters). One of the most shown examples was in "A Nut in Every Bite!", in which Dawn, the executive's grand-daughter comes to visit the show. Dawn was done by Julia Mcilvaine, who did June, one of the main characters.

* ''[[Fanboy and Chum Chum]]'' has him voicing a good 60% of the cast, and there are ''three'' straight cases of [[Talking to Himself]] - in "Sigmund the Sorcerer", where Sigmund and the Necronomicon have a conversation, in "A Bopwork Orange" where Boog and Agent Johnson talk to each other several times, and on a few occasions when Man-Arctica and his [[Arch Enemy]], The Global Warmer are interacting.

** Rainbow Dash and Applejack are both voiced by [[Hey Ocean!|Ashleigh Ball]]. Carried to extremes in "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 /E13 Fall Weather Friends|Fall Weather Friends]]", where both ponies spend the entire episode arguing with each other.

* [[The Beatles Cartoon(animation)|The Beatles cartoon]]: [[Paul Frees]] was John and George, Lance Percival was Paul and Ringo.

*** And speaking of Huey, Dewey, and Louie appearances, we might as well add in ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]'' as well. Russi Taylor voiced not only the nephews but also Webby, and the four often worked together being the main kids on the show. The four main Beagle Boys (Big Time, Bouncer, Burger, and Baggy) were voiced by two actors each: Frank Welker as Big Time and Baggy, and Chuck McCann as Bouncer and Burger. Hal Smith also provided the voices of Flinthart Glomgold and Gyro Gearloose, and although not as common as the previous two examples, the two characters did share a couple scenes together; for example one early episode has Glomgold hire Gyro to build giant construction robots for him.

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