Talking to Themselves: Difference between revisions

** [[Marina Inoue]] did both Wendi and Erio, so this is played straight.

** While ''StrikerS'' hasn't been dubbed yet, the first season of Nanoha had a similar moment when both Momoko and Falin (both voiced by Michelle Ann Dunphy) had a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlPrbo1Pc4Q scene together].

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' Most voice actors who dub Yugi Muto also voice Yami Yugi in the second anime series. Also, [[Megumi Ogata]] in the first.

* Both the Japanese and English versions of ''[[Dragonball Z]]''.

** 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]].

* ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate]]'' was apparently so cheaply filmed, the camera could not record sound and as such, all the voices had to be dubbed in later and were done so with just four people. As Joel pointed out in the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' version, there is a scene where it is fairly obvious that one person is voicing two characters in conversation.

* ''[[Moon]]'': Other than his robot buddy and a few barely-seen side-characters, this movie is entirely Sam Rockwell {{spoiler|and his clone, interacting and at one point even having a fistfight.}}

* ''[[Tron]]'' has David Warner playing Senior Executive VP Dillinger, the Master Control Program, and a villainous program named Sark. Sequences in both worlds have the MCP interacting with the other two. In this case, he deliberately makes no effort to change his voice for the various characters; in ''Tron'', programs are meant to resemble their creators and are all played by the same actors; Dillinger wrote both Sark and the MCP, so all three share the same actor. Though for the MCP, Warner's voice was modulated to a lower pitch.

* The Italian version of ''[[Rayman]] 3: Hoodlum Havoc'' featured Dario Oppido who voices: Rayman, Globox as well as Reflux, resulting in quite some moments of him actually talking to himself.

* The English version of ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' had far fewer voice actors than any other version, resulting in some interesting conversations. Most of the side female characters are quite clearly the same woman, especially obviously in the case of [[The Faceless]], the Science Center woman, and the governor. Even funnier, the [[Elite Mooks]], the Alpha Sections, obviously have the same VA as [[Playful Hacker]] Nino, leading one to wonder just whose side that guy is on.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' has Rozalin and Taro voiced by [[Wendee Lee|the same woman]] in English. This leads to the [[Unfortunate Implications|disturbing fact]] that the [[Cute Shotaro Boy]] has an unhealthy obsession with ''himself''. In the original audio, [[Yukari Tamura]] provides the voice of Rozalin, and Hiro Shimono voices Taro.

* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]'', one actor performs every character of the same race and gender, sometimes doubling up, and they rarely try to change it up by character. If you hear a female wood elf and a female dunmer talking to one another, they sound like the exact same person, sometimes repeating bits of the same conversation back and forth. The exception is the characters voiced by Patrick Stewart, Terence Stamp and Sean Bean. This is mainly due to the rumour function, which is randomised. If the actors gave each character distinct vocal traits, they'd have to re-record the rumours hundreds of times more. This is exemplified with the beggar in Bruma who actually does sound weak and decrepit, but switches to upbeat and healthy as soon as you ask about the weather.

** The page quote is from Zero Punctuation's review of ''Oblivion''. Yahtzee's biggest gripe with the game was this, claiming that it completely yanked the immersion of the game out, as you're having a fabulous adventure of some sort, only to hear one of the NPCs' stale voice acting, sounding exactly like a guy you just killed or bought stuff from, and you're suddenly back in your room, staring at a screen and listening to shitty voice acting.

** 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]].

** 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.

** ''[[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.

* 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.

* 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.

'''Maurice:''' This is Morbo! ''(virtually identical voice)'' This is Lrrr! ''(virtually identical voice)'' And this is the Horrible Gelatinous Blob! }}

* His lack of variety thing can be seen in ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' as well -- 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!

* Series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone do most of the male voices on ''[[South Park]]'', but they intentionally call attention to their own lack of range. Everyone really does sound the same. Before her death, Mary Kay Bergman did ''all'' the female voices on the show. Now, they are split between [[April Stewart]] and [[Mona Marshall]].

* Almost the prototype example, [[Mel Blanc]] did ''all'' the male voices in most of the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts (with some minor exceptions, like Elmer Fudd), so unless Granny or another female character was needed, Mel Blanc was the only voice actor. He did, among others, [[Bugs Bunny]], [[Daffy Duck]] (which was his Sylvester voice sped up), [[Porky Pig]], Tweety, Yosemite Sam, Pepe le Pew, Foghorn, Marvin, The Tasmanian Devil, Wile E. Coyote (when he spoke), Elmer Fudd (after the death of Arthur Q. Bryan), and Sylvester (apparently the closest to his natural voice). ''The Bugs Bunny Show's'' theme song even features a duet between Bugs and Daffy.

** Likewise in the English version, [[Phil Hartman]] and later [[Maurice LaMarche]] voiced Henry Mitchell, Mr. Wilson and Ruff, Marilyn Lightstone voiced Alice Mitchell and Mrs. Wilson, and Jeannie Elias voiced Joey, Margaret, Tommy and P.B.

* A crossover episode of ''[[The Mask (animation)|The Mask]]'' had the main character interact with [[Ace Ventura]]. The Mexican dub had both characters being voiced by voice actor Mario Castañeda.

* The only Omnitrix aliens in ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'' and ''[[Ben 10: Ultimate Alien|Ben 10 Ultimate Alien]]'' who are '''not''' voiced by [[Dee Bradley Baker]] are Alien X, [[Jeff Bennett|Ghostfreak]] and [[John Dimaggio|Rath]]; even then, the latter two have voices outside of the aliens (Azmuth and Will Harangue, respectively and for starters). But since the aliens hardly interact with one another (being part of the same person and all), it's mostly averted.

** [[Yuri Lowenthal]] voices Ben and Albedo. Justified in that the latter was stuck in Ben's human form (long story).