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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.]]]]

 

 

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]]).

* ''[[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.

 

 

* 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.

 

 

* 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.

** 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.]

'''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.

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** 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 & 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).