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[[File:Billy 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.]]]]
{{quote|''"Don't get me wrong, I love the voice acting in this game. But occasionally we have Chris Metzen congratulating Chris Metzen for slaying Chris Metzen."''
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▲{{quote|''"Don't get me wrong, I love the voice acting in this game. But occasionally we have Chris Metzen congratulating Chris Metzen for slaying Chris Metzen."''|'''[[World of Warcraft]] forums'''}}
Professional voice actors pride themselves on range. So, hiring a few good VAs means you can take care of [[Loads and Loads of Characters|many, many characters]] with a small cast (especially if one or two actors are a [[Man of a Thousand Voices]]).
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This is sometimes actually invoked on ''purpose'', as it can make you think, "Ohey, they're a clone? Why didn't I realize that before?"
Not to be confused with [[Adventure Narrator Syndrome]], [[Sounding It Out]], [[Thinking Out Loud]] or [[
▲Not to be confused with [[Adventure Narrator Syndrome]], [[Sounding It Out]], [[Thinking Out Loud]] or [[Talking to Themself]]. Compare [[Holding Both Sides of the Conversation]], which is an in-universe example of this trope, where a character is pretending to hold a conversation with another non-present (or non-existent) character, in order to maintain some kind of charade.
{{examples}}
== Anime ==
* 1977's ''Yatterman'' by Tatsunoko Production had the Dorombo gang consisting of Doronjo (Noriko Ohara), Boyacky (Jouji Yanami) and Tonzura (Kazuya Tatekabe). Following Yatterman is Zenderman, Rescueman, Yattodetaman, Ippatsuman, and Itadakiman, and they all featured expies of the first trio all voiced by the same trio of seiyuu. So you can imagine what happens when all of these trios would meet in the 1993 Time Bokan OVA....
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** Let's not forget how Laura Torres voices Goku, Gohan AND Goten as children. They got different male VA's for their adult selves, though. Though this may not count, since kid Goku, kid Goten and kid Gohan do not interact with one another. (Except in the video games.)
* This is actually a plot point in ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'': The Great Will of the Macrocosm is, in reality, {{spoiler|just another facet of Pedro's Wife}} simply on the grounds that they share the same voice actress. Lampshaded with a quick title card mentioning: "Tough; she still only gets one paycheck."
* Mashiro Kazahana and Fumi Himeno share [[Yukana|a voice actress]] in the original Japanese version of ''[[
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Gundam SEED]]''
** In one scene of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|Gundam SEED Destiny]]'', the two idols, Lacus Clyne and Meer Campbell face off in the ruins, resulting in their voice actress (both Japanese and English dubs -- [[Rie Tanaka]] and [[Chantal Strand]], respectively) acting out this trope.
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** Then there's the fact that Miki and Megumi are both voiced by Karina Altamirano.
* Both the title character of ''[[Afro Samurai]]'' and his annoying sidekick/hanger-on Ninja-Ninja are voiced by [[Samuel L. Jackson]]. {{spoiler|Turns out it's like this ''in series'' to some degree, as Ninja is a figment of Afro's imagination.}}
* ''[[Blood
** Saya's adopted little brother, Riku, and the [[Big Bad]], {{spoiler|her twin sister}}, Diva, are both voiced by Akiko Yajima in the original. {{spoiler|So she not only talks to herself, she ''rapes'' and ''kills'' herself. Of course, poor little Riku doesn't actually do much talking during that particular interaction as opposed to [[Moral Event Horizon|whimpers of absolute terror.]] It also makes Diva's later transformation into Riku's appearance and using his voice all the more flawless and disturbing.}}
** In the English dub, [[Kari Wahlgren]] voices both Saya ''and'' Diva. [[Crispin Freeman]] voices Hagi, Van Argeno, Joel Goldscmidt, and ''several'' other characters. Wally Wingert voiced Amshell, Nathan, and George.
* 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.
* Briareos and Tereus share the same voice actor in ''[[Appleseed]] Ex Machina'', by the virtue of having nearly identical genetic makeup.
* In the ''Horitsuba Gakuen'' [[Omake|CD dramas]] for ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' and ''[[
* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''
** Namikawa also voices twins, where he uses a Fay-like voice for spacey North Italy and a deeper, louder voice for grumpy South Italy.
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** While this trope is mostly averted in the English dub, Eric Vale plays America and Canada in pretty much the exact same way.
** Atsushi Kousaka takes the cake by voicing the [[Jerkass]] Prussia, [[Meganekko]] Estonia, and [[The Philosopher]] Greece.
** Raivis/Latvia is a VERY weird case. In the CD dramas he was voiced by the female [[Rie Kugimiya]], who voices the [[Token
** While Namikawa voiced the younger South Italy for a line in the first episode, both him and Chibitalia are now voiced by the same actress, Aki Kanada. While Chibitalia's voice is shrill and the epitome of [[Tastes Like Diabetes]], Chibiromano's voice is rougher and more fitting of his brattier, grumpier personality.
* ''[[Shugo Chara]]'' has lead heroine Amu and Dia, one of her [[Ghost in the Machine|Charas]], voiced by Kanae Itou. Dia is essentially a part of Amu herself, but Amu's other charas have different voices.
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* In ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'', the nine [[Spider Tank|Tachikomas]] are all voiced by [[Sakiko Tamagawa]], and they frequently chatter with each other. The English dub uses several different actresses.
* In ''[[Ronin Warriors]]'', Sage and Cye are both voice-acted by Michael Donovan, which is why Cye has an inexplicable sort-of-British-like accent.
* In both ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' and the ''[[Pretty Sammy]]'' [[
* In the OAV ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka de|Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 2 - Shiroki Ryuu no Miko]]'', [[Ikue Ohtani]] voices both Fujiwara no Yukari and Fujiwara no Misono. Justified in that not only they are twins, but both are clearly [[Expy|expies]] of Fuji-hime from the original ''Harukanaru Toki no Naka de'' (also voiced by Ohtani in the first OAV and the TV anime series). The voices are slightly different, as [[Half-Identical Twins|Yukari is female and Misono is male]].
* In the Japanese version of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]: Brotherhood'', both Alphonse Elric and the miniature panda Shao May are voiced by [[Rie Kugimiya]].
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* The English dub of ''Let's Go Quintuplets'' features [[Chantal Strand]] voicing best friends, Vanessa and Bridget. Due to their friendship, this tends to happen.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CwMRywKPRY&t=205 A sample]
* ''[[Risky☆Safety]]'': Rie Iwatsubo plays both of the title characters in the original Japanese. In episode 23, she [[Solo Duet|sings both sides of their duet.]]
* In the original Japanese version of ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'' and ''[[A Certain Scientific Railgun]]'', [[Sasaki Nozomi]] plays all of the [[Send in the Clones|Misaka Sisters]] except for the much younger Last Order. In the English dub, [[Brittney Karbowski]] plays all of the Misaka Sisters ''including'' Last Order, and the original Misaka Mikoto as well.
* [[Eddie Izzard]] does this on-stage, as would most stand-up comedians who do voices. However, he regularly lampshades it. Also, the only voices he can really do are [[Sean Connery]] and James Mason. Which he lampshades too.▼
* [[Jeff Dunham]] is an exemplary showcase of this trope, what with being a ventriloquist and all. Epically lampshaded by Peanut in ''Spark of Insanity'', after Peanut jokes about the pronunciation of Jeff's name:▼
{{quote|'''Peanut:''' You know, the weird part is I ''am'' actually pissing him off. And he would like to ''kill me''! But he will not because that would be a form of ''suicide''!}}▼
* Michael Mcintyre has been known to perform conversations with himself on stage, often adopting different voices while doing so.▼
{{quote|'''Mcintyre:''' I've been down there and it's not pretty, they're all wearing trousers, so we're gonna open with a skirt. Modelling it here is Scott. You alright, Scott? I'm alright. But you've got me in a skirt. I'm not happy about that yet.}}▼
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* Generally averted in the ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/user/Sonic90127 fandub] of "Rise From The Ashes", with one notable exception: Phoenix and Edgeworth are the same actor. Of course, [[Ham-to-Ham Combat|there is much shouting back-and-forth between them.]]
* A minor one in ''[[Turnabout Storm]]''; one of the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Ponyville]] Detention Center's guards that [[Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright]] speaks with is voiced by the same guy that voices Phoenix.
* [[Played With]] in the shared-world story ''[[My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character]]'', in that the story is in a text-based medium and thus doesn't have voice actors, but — it being a [[Mega Crossover]] with [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] — some characters had the same canon voice actor or seiyuu. This ranges from dozens of actors having played two characters each to [[Aya Hisakawa]] having voiced six-and-a-half of the characters in this story.<ref>"and-a-half" because she shared the voice role of [[Cardcaptor Sakura/Characters#Kerberos/Kero|Kerberos]] with [[Masaya Onosaka]].</ref> There has been at least one scene of [[Sailor Moon|Ami Mizuno]] and [[Ah! My Goddess|Skuld]] talking with each other, and another scene [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] the trope by referring to two of [[Kana Ueda]]'s four characters in the setting.
== Films -- Animation ==
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* Lea Salonga actually does the singing voice of both [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Jasmine]] and [[Mulan]]. This is especially noticeable in several [[Disney Princess]] CDs and music videos where the two are both singing at the same time.
* If you listen very closely at the very beginning of ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]'', you can actually hear [[Cree Summer]] voicing the former Queen of Atlantis. Cree is normally the voice of Kida, {{spoiler|who ends up becoming [[The High Queen|a queen]] at the end of the film, and is the ''only'' princess created by Disney to ever actually become one.}}
* 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 the sequel, both Luigi's Aunt Topolino and the Queen of England are voiced by the same actress, as with the actors playing Siddeley and Leland Turbo and Fillmore and Tony Trihull.
* Subverted in ''[[The Little Mermaid|The Little Mermaid II]]'' where Pat Carroll (the voice of [[Big Bad|Ursula]]) actually does the voice of Morgana, Ursula's younger and skinnier sister and the film's main antagonist, but Ursula is now long dead when the sequel took place (which explains why Morgana was the villain in the first place).
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* Over the course of the three ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movies, Mike Myers played Austin Powers, Dr. Evil, Fat Bastard, and Goldmember. So, in the scenes between Austin and any of the villains, Mike Myers was basically talking to, or fighting, himself.
* 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.
* ''[[Back to The Future Part II]]'':
** There's a scene in which future Marty McFly, played by [[Michael J. Fox]], sits down at the dinner table with his son, played by Michael J. Fox, and his daughter, also played by Michael J. Fox.
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* Voice actor Paul Frees was known for doing voice dubbing in many live-action movies. In ''[[Spartacus]]'', he was said to have dubbed three people having a conversation.
* In the film ''[[Adaptation]]'', [[Nicolas Cage]] appears to simultaneously play the hero, Charlie, and his twin brother (and total opposite), Donald.
* 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 Ten Commandments]]'' had Charlton Heston as [[The Bible|Moses]] talking to Charlton Heston as [[God]].
* In ''[[Fanboys]]'', Seth Rogen plays three roles; Admiral Seasholtz, Alien, and Roach. In one scene, Admiral Seasholtz and Roach get in a fist fight.
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* In ''[[Vampire in Brooklyn]]'', [[Eddie Murphy]] as Maximillian the vampire king briefly speaks to two of his victims Preacher Pauly and Guido also played by Murphy before he kills them and assumes their forms.
* Brendan Fraser plays three different characters in ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]'': D.J., himself and the voice of Taz. Towards the end of the film, he even punches himself.
* ''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]]'': [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] playing twins who are enemies.
* [[Jeremy Irons]] played identical twins in [[David Cronenberg]]'s psychological thriller ''[[Dead Ringers (film)|Dead Ringers]]''.
* In ''[[Oh God You Devil]]'', [[George Burns]] plays both God and Satan.
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** It also occurred when Clark's [[Mirror Universe]] counterpart, Ultraman, showed up in Season 10.
** Smallville even had one [[Monster of the Week|Freak of the Week]] whose meteor ability was to literally clone himself. Predictably, the original guy and the clone appeared on-screen together being played by the same actor.
* 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 on episode of ''[[Frasier]]'', the title character tricks Niles into doing this for a [[Show Within a Show|radio play]].
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''
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* In [[Pink Floyd]]'s ''[[The Wall]]'', the last full-length song, "The Trial", has lots of characters, all voiced by Roger Waters. And it's awesome.
* 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, singing to himself in triplicate.
* Postive K's "I Got A Man" consists of a rapped conversation where a man tries to pick up a woman and she very bluntly rejects him. Both parts are played by Positive K himself, with added pitch-shifting to make the woman's voice more convincing. For the music video, they had an actress lip-syncing the woman's lines.
* "Keep Punching Joe" by Daniel Johnston begins with "someone" introducing Daniel Johnston, followed by Daniel thanking the person and then he starts singing. Both voices clearly belong to the same person.
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* A [[Mitch Benn]] song has him sing both halves of a duet between Barry Gibb ([[In the Style Of]] [[The Bee Gees]]) and [[Johnny Cash]]'s house (in the style of Cash).
* In the [[Dream Theater]] song "The Case That Stumped Them All", vocalist James LaBrie portrays a baffled doctor and a female nurse who trade vocal lines during the verses. The result are...slightly disturbing. Their concept album ''Scenes from a Memory'' could also be an example as he plays most of the characters when singing, but he doesn't try to do special voices for them.
* Frequently heard in recordings made by [[Filk]] singer [[Tom Smith]] where he multi-tracks himself, such as in his song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCdNRPmCv9s "Talk Like a Pirate Day"].
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* The Muppet feature films, on the other hand, enabled more of this to occur. ''[[The Muppet Movie]]'', for instance, features a ''duet'' with Kermit the Frog and Rowlf the Dog, both voiced at the time by Jim Henson.
* Big Bird and Oscar are both voiced by Carroll Spinney; in scenes with the two of them together Spinney would pre-record Oscar's dialog and someone else would operate him, since he's easier to handle than full-body Muppet Big Bird. This has changed a little as the performers have grown older, retired, and/or had health issues. Carroll Spinney still operates Big Bird; they cast a replacement, Matt Vogel, only when Spinney is unavailable. Jerry Nelson, on the other hand, now handles only the voices of his characters, not the puppetry.
* One impressive bit by ventriloquist [[Jeff Dunham]] involves him getting in a
** Technically this trope applies to ''all'' ventriloquists, as the traditional format is of them having a conversation with the dummy. The fact that Dunham can do this with multiple dolls at the same time just shows what a master of the technique he is.
** In one of his early skits, his puppet, Peanut, has his ''own'' puppet. It involved Dunham, Peanut, Peanut's puppet Mini-Jeff, Jose Jalapeno (On A Stick), and the worm at the bottom of a bottle of wine. You can see it for yourself [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWThRmRW6GE here.]
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'''Tim:''' Isn't it confusing enough as it is? Let me explain...John was playing Klaus, so Barry took over the role of Klaus so Klaus could talk to Mungo...no, wait, Barry's playing Mungo...er, when Mungo became Jeffrey, John started playing Jeffrey but he's also playing Klaus... }}
* Done literally by Brian Phelps of the ''Mark & Brian Radio Program''. One sketch one the show had him portraying George W. Bush ''and'' Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking to one another. Brian also challenges his co-host Mark to try and trip him up at the end of the sketch, which he does by rapid firing questions to Arnold and then Bush.
== Recorded and Stand Up Comedy ==
▲* [[Eddie Izzard]] does this on-stage, as would most stand-up comedians who do voices. However, he regularly lampshades it. Also, the only voices he can really do are [[Sean Connery]] and James Mason. Which he lampshades too.
▲* [[Jeff Dunham]] is an exemplary showcase of this trope, what with being a ventriloquist and all. Epically lampshaded by Peanut in ''Spark of Insanity'', after Peanut jokes about the pronunciation of Jeff's name:
▲{{quote|'''Peanut:''' You know, the weird part is I ''am'' actually pissing him off. And he would like to ''kill me''! But he will not because that would be a form of ''suicide''!}}
▲* Michael Mcintyre has been known to perform conversations with himself on stage, often adopting different voices while doing so.
▲{{quote|'''Mcintyre:''' I've been down there and it's not pretty, they're all wearing trousers, so we're gonna open with a skirt. Modelling it here is Scott. You alright, Scott? I'm alright. But you've got me in a skirt. I'm not happy about that yet.}}
== Tabletop Games ==
* In any given
** Some campaigns have two Game Masters, averting the trope. On the other hand, in some games (such as Ars Magica) even the players will have several characters.
* In one hilarious game of ''[[Dungeons
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** In the same vein, Fon Master Ion and Sync the Tempest are also voiced by the same person, {{spoiler|as they are both clones of the same person. This is actually [[Lampshade Hanging|used]] by Sync to deal a ''very'' low blow towards Anise at one point.}}
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' has a lot of fun with this one, whether it's actually done or merely implied; many characters involved in this [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] are played by the same voice actors in their respective [[Humongous Mecha]] [[Anime]].
** 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
** It gets better. In one of the ''Z2'' game over screens, [[Macross Frontier|Ozma]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Johann]], and [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina]] talk with one another about how they're all stuck with a little sibling. They're all voiced by [[Katsuyuki Konishi]]. Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb4BP3VNlsA Amuro gets to fight Ribbons].
** F/Final the first fully voiced SRW game probably has the most of this. To save money perhaps nearly all the original and [[Masou Kishin]] characters are voiced by [[VAs]] that all had another role in game and usually a main character one as well. (Hikaru Midorikawa for example is Heero Yui, and also was cast as Masaki Ando) Although most of these characters haven't appeared since, a few of them have and nearly eclipse the other characters in popularity. Masaki for example became one of Midorikawa's favorite roles, despite initially only getting the part to save time while he was recording Heero.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''
** 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 (
** And in the English version, there's Corey Burton in both games with ''five to seven roles''. Thankfully, they still never meet.
** In the Japanese version we have Kôichi Yamadera, who voices [[Donald Duck]], Genie, Sebastian, Beast, Mushu, and Stitch.
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*** {{spoiler|1=In addition, Keiko, Hotori, and Sayaka all share the same voice actor, due to [[Freaky Friday Flip|Hotori only speaking when in Keiko's body]] and Sayaka ([[Epileptic Trees|probably]]) [[Split Personality Takeover|being the same person as Keiko]]. In one of the Drama CDs, a fourth character, only known as "Alice", also shares the same voice actor as them.}}
*** {{spoiler|Also occurs literally in Bad Ending #28, where 2012!Satoru ends up in 2011, and meets 2011!Satoru. Notably, while 2012!Satoru has a standard "young man" voice, 2011!Satoru has a cold, deep voice.}}
** ''[[
** ''[[
* In the ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] 2'' games, Hikari Tachibana voices both of [[Different As Night and Day|the Shirayuki]] [[Twin Switch|twin sisters]], and as such this trope applies in the few scenes where [[Theme Twin Naming|Miho and Maho]] are together and talking to each other.
* 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
* The 2009 edition of ''[[Punch-Out!!]]'' features Canadian singer Riley Inge as both Little Mac's trainer, Doc Louis, and the final boss, Mr. Sandman. Both are African-American boxers (one retired, one the champion), and strangely, both refer to Mac as "Mac, baby."
* ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' has a lot of this. Just to name a few, we have Harumi Ikoma as King, Blue Mary and Yuri; Monster Maezuka as Benimaru Nikaido, Choi Bounge and Ralf Jones; and Haruna Ikezawa as Athena, Foxy and Diana.
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* ''[[Dawn of War]]'' has quite a bit of this, with [[Paul Dobson|Paul]] and [[Michael Dobson]] playing pretty much every non-named unit in the game, [[Keith Ferguson]] playing Mr. Nailbrain, Heretics, Ronahn and Plague Marines, [[Steve Blum]] playing Cyrus, Martellus, and Eliphas, and [[Fred Tatasciore]] playing Davian Thule, Ulkair, Bloodletters, and Veldoran.
* Surprisingly averted in ''The Operative: [[No One Lives Forever]]''. Kit Harris voices both Cate Archer (the main character) and Inge Wagner (one of the major villains, who is eventually a boss), but the two never actually talk to each other.
* In the ''[[Shantae]]'' games, any dialogue between the heroine and her arch-foe Risky Boots counts, as both characters are voiced by [[Christina Vee]].
** Additional example occurs in ''The Seven Sirens'', where Vee also does Harmony's voice.
== Web Animation ==
* ''[[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]]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.
** It's all the more impressive when one of his characters starts doing impressions of another character.
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* The antagonism between ''[[The Leet World]]'''s [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] terrorist leader Cortez and counter-terrorist [[Team Dad]] Westheimer is made all the more interesting by the fact that they are both voiced by Eddie, who also voices the [[Camp Gay]] terrorist Montrose. Fellow crew member Daniel voices both hard-drinking fratboy Chet and the creepy [[The Chessmaster|Producer]].
* J.I.M., creator of ''[[Neurotically Yours]]'', voices every male character on the show regardless of species. It is obvious this trope would come up at one point or another.
* Much of the main cast on "The Loud Ponies" share voice actors: we have all 4 male main characters (Lincoln, Clyde, Bobby and Spike) and Applebloom voiced by Jason Griffith, Scootaloo, Lynn, Lana, and Rainbow Dash being voiced by Ashley Johnson, Luan and Lola voiced by Natalie Wilde, and Lori and Twilight being voiced by Kira Buckland.
* Several characters on ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' share voice actors. Cub, Giggles and Petunia (whose VA was replaced twice); Splendid and Lumpy (VA replaced once); Pop and Flippy. Lifty and Shifty also shared a voice actor until their VA left the show and was replaced by Kenn Navarro, also the VA for Cuddles. More recently, Pop and Flippy's VA left the show as well; while said VA is sampled for Pop and Flippy's evil side, Kenn now voices Flippy's good side.
* Animator [[Brad Neely]] voices (almost) all of the characters in his cartoons, notably the eponymous Frank and Steve Smith of ''The Professor Brothers'' and Cox and Combes of the viral "Washington Rap." Just in these two examples, Neely has not only had lengthy talks with himself, but has duet-rapped.
* Two of the main staff members from Rooster Teeth, Burnie Burns and Matt Hullum, voice multiple main characters from ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''. In fact, Burnie made a point of voicing all of the {{spoiler|1=Alpha AI fragments (except Delta, who is voiced by Mark Bellman), which are [[Literal Split Personality|Literal Split Personalities]] of his original character, Church}}.
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] at a particularly memorable occurrence during a live table read where Matt Hullum must voice [[Guttural Growler|Sarge]] and the effeminate [[Butt Monkey|Doc]] conversing all while reading the script for the very first time. Things seem to be heading toward a phone conversation between Church and Vic, both voiced by Burnie Burns, but unfortunately it's averted at the last moment.
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** [[Peter Cullen]] played both Optimus Prime and his right hand man, Ironhide (meaning that he's talking to himself in the first post-credits scene of the 1986 movie). [[Frank Welker]] voiced Megatron, Soundwave and most of the first-year Decepticons aside from Starscream. This is perfectly demonstrated in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQWWG1r2e7k this clip], in which he voices all the Decepticons.
** 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 [[
*** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in a script-reading called ''Bee In The City'', which had Bumblebee suggest to ''[[Beast Wars]]'' Megatron (also voiced by David Kaye, who was doing Prime in the same reading) that they try to get help from Lugnut or Grimlock. Megatron responded, "Who do I look like, Scott McNeil?"
* [[Billy West]] has an exceptional range, playing four [[recurrer]]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.
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** He also has a long argument about ways and means with alternate-universe Batman in the episode "A Better World". Even better is that the two Batmans (Batmen?) are deliberately hidden in shadows the entire time, making it so that the conversation could be interpreted as either one starting it.
** The ultimate example in [[The DCAU]] comes in the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "[[For the Man Who Has Everything]]", where Batman, voiced by [[Kevin Conroy]], has a flashback of his father, voiced by [[Kevin Conroy]], being mugged by Joe Chill, voiced by [[Kevin Conroy]].
** And again in the JLU episode "Future Shock", holding both sides of the conversation between present-day Batman and the elderly Bruce Wayne from ''[[Batman Beyond]]''. As fans of both series know, while both characters are the same person, the personality of the [[Older and Wiser]] Bruce is very different from his younger self, and Conroy is still able to alternate between them with near perfection.
** All these examples of Batman are ''
* Tim Daly, the voice of the titular character from ''[[Superman: The Animated Series]]'' also voiced Bizarro, which is justified in that Bizarro is a clone of Superman, but they sound different as the former sounds more guttural and simple and backwards than the first. In one sequence, a yet to be corrupted Bizarro does talk as Superman and at one point saves Clark Kent from falling.
** This was carried over to ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', following (though with a three-year delay) the change of Superman's voice actor from Tim Daly to George Newbern, even though he and Superman don't interact directly here.
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** This show features a situation where two characters, Jérémie and Aelita, are voiced by the same actress [Sharon Mann]. Because the two characters are both best friends and the show's most [[Official Couple|blatant and canonical couple]], this must've been fun to watch for everyone in the voice acting studio.
** Another example from the same show is David Gasman, who has a laundry list of voiced characters: a gruffer "older guy" voice used for the likes of Jim, Mr. Ishiyama, and various minor MIB, TV reporters, and teachers, and a lighter "kid voice" used for Herb, William, Chris [Jim's ''nephew''] and various students.
** 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.]
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]''
** In the Mexican dub, voice actor Óscar Flores often does the voice of Nigel Uno and one of the several secondary characters that he also interprets. Still, in an episode where three of his characters appeared, he voiced only two.
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* Gets a bizarre [[Lampshade Hanging]] in the season finale of ''[[Stroker and Hoop]]'', where it turned out {{spoiler|all of the extras that had the same voice were actually all the same guy, who was taking revenge after the title characters ruined his life over and over again}}. Doubly so because Jon Glaser does the voice of both that guy and Stroker.
* [[Grey DeLisle]] does this on the finale of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' where she as Princess Azula berates herself as a handmaiden for leaving a pit in her cherry. Though they didn't actually end up talking to each other she ended up playing Ta Min [Roku's wife] and Kya [Katara and Sokka's mother], as well as the actress-playing-Katara in the episode ''Ember Island Players.'' [[Dee Bradley Baker]] is also most of the animals on the show (and Chong), so there's all the time Momo and Appa were bickering with each other.
* ''[[The Fairly
** [[Grey DeLisle]] also plays sisters Vicky and Tootie.
** Cosmo, Jorgen, Anti-Cosmo and Mr. Turner all have the same voice actor, [[Daran Norris]].
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* And best friends Ingrid and Lupe in ''[[My Gym Partner's a Monkey]]''.
* 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 herself.}}
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
** With [[Richard Horvitz]] doing both Billy and his father Harold, Greg Eagles doing Grim and Sperg, and of course [[Phil LaMarr]] doing Irwin's entire family (sans him and his mom, whom were ''also'' voiced by the same person, [[Vanessa Marshall]]); his father, his grandmother, and {{spoiler|grandfather [[Dracula]]}}.
** 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>
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* In the series ''[[The Animals of Farthing Wood]]'', Rupert Farley voiced Fox, his sons Bold and Friendly, his grandson Plucky, Mr. Hare, Mr. Peasant, Measley and Mr. Newt; Stacey Jefferson voiced Vixen, her daughters Charmer and Dreamer, Adder, Kestrel, Lady Blue and Mrs. Rabbit; Ron Moody voiced Badger, Toad, Mr. Hedgehog, Mr. Vole, Mr. Fieldmouse and The Great White Stag; Jon Glover voiced Scarface, and his sons Ranger and Bounder; Jeremy Barrett voiced Whistler, Mr. Rabbit, Mr. Shrew, Mole and his son Mossy; Sally Grace voiced Owl and Weasel, and Pamela Keevilkral voiced Whisper, Mrs. Squirrel, Mrs. Hedgehog, Dash, Cleo and others.
* ''[[G.I. Joe: Resolute]]'' has a cast of roughly twenty characters, each voiced by [[Charlie Adler]], [[Steve Blum]], [[Grey DeLisle]], or Eric Bauza.
* In ''[[Star Trek: The
* ''[[Veggie Tales]]''
** Most of the main characters are voiced by either Phil Vischer or Mike Nawraki, the series' creators. A recurring trick is that whenever there is a pair of closely-associated characters (Jimmy and Jerry Gourd, the French Peas), one is voiced by Phil and the other by Mike, but the voices are performed similarly.
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** We also have [[Ashley Johnson]], who, in one episode, provides the voice for main character Gwen and her distant cousin, Sunny.
** In fact, this was intentionally avoided in the episode "Fused": by having Lowenthal as the voice of Omnitrix alien AmpFibian in his first appearance because Baker was already Ra'ad (the alien who supplied the DNA but was temporarily [[Sharing a Body|still a part of Ben]]). In future episodes, Baker had replaced Yuri as the voice of AmpFibian.
* Due to the limited amount of main characters of ''[[
* From 1999 to 2001, Scott Innes voiced both [[Scooby-Doo]] and Shaggy Rogers. You only have to watch half an episode to understand how often those two interact.
* Jaleel White voices all three of the characters in ''[[Sonic Underground]]'' (Sonic, Manic, and Sonia), which takes talking to himself to a whole new level.
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** Matt Lanter: Harry Osborn, Flash Thompson, Klaw
* [[King Leonardo and His Short Subjects]]: Jackson Beck was King Leonardo and Biggy Rat; Allen Swift was Odie Cologne, Itchy Brother, the narrator, and the King's twin nephews Duke and Earl.
* [[The Beatles
* In all the old school [[Donald Duck]] cartoons not only was Donald voiced by Clarence Nash but so were his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie; so every short that exclusively focused on the four of them was simply just Mr. Nash providing all the voices. Not only that, but in her first few appearances [[Cross-Dressing Voices|Nash voiced Daisy Duck as well]]. The short "Mr. Duck Steps Out" solely features Donald, Daisy, ''and'' the nephews, with Nash voicing all five.
** For that matter, with the exception of ''[[Quack Pack]]'' which gave them each a distinct voice, this trope always counts for the nephews. All three are always voiced by one singular actress or actor.
*** 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.
* [[Tara Strong]] does the voices of Harley Quinn and Batgirl in both the ''[[DC Animated Universe]]'' and ''[[DC Super Hero Girls]]'', so she clearly has to do this a lot.
* [[Paul Frees]] is every adult male character in ''[[Santa Claus is Comin' to Town]]'' except for [[Fred Astaire|S.D. Kluger]] and [[Mickey Rooney|Kris Kringle/Santa Claus]]. Any scene where the Burgermeister and Grimsby are talking is Paul Frees on both sides of the conversation.
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