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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 ''[[MaiMy-HiME]]'', which partially underlines the otherworldliness of both characters.
* ''[[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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* 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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* In any given Roleplaying 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]]).
** 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 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).
 
 
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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 (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]].
** 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 (Disney1997 film)||Hercules]] sharing the same voice. Luckily, they never really met in the game.
** 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.}}
** ''[[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.
* 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 (Anime)|Gym Ghingham]] (all [[Takehito Koyasu]] characters), Mu will say "Looks like I've - I mean ''we've'' got a lot of work ahead!"
* 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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** [[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 [[Talking to Themself|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.
*** [[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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* 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 Odd ParentsOddParents]]''
** [[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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* 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 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—even if Scotty and Nurse Chapel aren't in on the conversation.
* ''[[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 ''[[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.
* 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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