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** Notably averted in the original, where each girl has a different VA, quite impressive.
* ''[[Shaman King]]'''s dub also had this with the main hero [[Brilliant but Lazy|Yoh Asakura]] and the [[Big Bad]] [[Evil Twin|Hao]] being voiced by the same actor, Sebastian Arcelus, which made the later interactions and fight scenes all the more impressive.
* Because of its [[Loads and Loads of Characters]], some of the voice actors in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** [[Chiwa Saitou]] voiced lead [[Action Girl]] Subaru, her antagonist counterpart Nove, ''and'' [[The Dragon]], Quattro. Particularly impressive considering that one is a [[Genki Girl]], one is angry all the time, and one is dripping villainy.
** [[Shizuka Ito]] did Shari, Otto, Cinque, ''and'' Deed.
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** 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].
* The titular characters of [[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2]] and [[Inuyasha]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inJnkSqNpAY get a moment of this.]
* ''[[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]]''.
** [[Christopher Sabat]] is most notable in the dub, playing Vegeta, Piccolo, and Yamcha, among numerous bit characters. This led to a hilarious slip-up when Vegeta's line of "Now what?" in internal monologue came out in Jeice's voice instead.
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** Also, Josh Martin plays both Fat Buu and Kid Buu in the dub, who spend about four episodes fighting each other.
*** Same with Kozo Shioya in the Japanese version, who voices all of Boo's forms--so in addition to the above, there's also Fat Boo and Skinny Evil Boo's brief fight.
** In the Mexican dub of ''[[
** 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 (
* Mashiro Kazahana and Fumi Himeno share [[Yukana|a voice actress]] in the original Japanese version of ''[[Mai-HiME]]'', which partially underlines the otherworldliness of both characters.
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED
** In one scene of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny
** Prior to ''Destiny'', in ''[[
* Rie Tanaka (see above) must have had deja vu when she voiced Chi and Freya in ''[[
* Even as a guest star, Tanaka-san doesn't seem to avoid this. Consider ''[[
* Out of 8 characters played by Rina Satou in ''[[
* Yukino Satsuki as well as her dub counterpart Megan Hollingshed, as Mion and Shion Sonozaki in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* This trope appears in an episode of ''[[Zettai Karen Children]]''. With [[Rie Kugimiya]] playing the teleporter Mio and the psychic squirrel Momotaro, she gets a few chances to talk to herself and once, Momotaro becomes Mio's [[Head Pet]].
* ''[[Naruto]]''
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* Michelle Ruff also does a large portion of the incidental female characters in ''[[Zatch Bell]]''.
* Barely averted in ''[[Lucky Star]]'', where she does Tsukasa and Minami... Minami's in Yutaka's group though, and she's also [[The Quiet One]].
* ''[[Pokémon (
** In the 4Kids dub, there were a few examples of this, and ''all of them were main characters''. Veronica Taylor -- Ash, May, and Delia Ketchum ("The Right Place At The Right Mime" had May and Delia sounding ''very'' similar). Rachel Lillis -- Misty and Jesse. Eric Stuart -- 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.
** ''PUSA'' isn't innocent of this either. Jimmy Zoppi/Billy Beach, as well as still doing Gary, took over as James and Meowth, while Michelle Knotz voiced Jessie, May and Misty.
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** [[Steve Blum]] barely avoided it in ''Adventure 02'' (neither Flamedramon or Raidramon got to chat up BlackWarGreymon, though Poromon gets awfully close in episode 33), but in ''Tamers'' he voices three main characters that sound completely different: Guilmon, Kenta, and Yamaki!
** In the Latin American dub of ''Digimon Savers'' Rolando de la Fuente voices both Thomas and Agumon, funny because [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wyIftdG96Q they have completely different voices].
** ''[[
** Then there's the fact that Miki and Megumi are both voiced by Karina Altamirano.
* Both the title character of ''[[
* ''[[Blood Plus]]''
** 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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** Raivis/Latvia is a VERY weird case. In the CD dramas he was voiced by the female [[Rie Kugimiya]], who voices the [[Token Mini-Moe]] Liechtenstein. In the anime, he's voiced by the male Kazutada (later "Kokoro") Tanaka, who also voices Poland.
** 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 dub of ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'' does this frequently, with [[Steve Blum]] and [[Wendee Lee]] voicing several major and minor characters.
* Sara Werec of ''[[Soukou no Strain]]'' and Mariette, the bully who torments her, are voiced by Kawasumi Ayako in Japanese and [[Caitlin Glass]] in English. Tanaka Rie also played two characters, but they never spoke to one another.
* In ''[[Ghost in
* 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]]'' [[OA Vs]], Sasami and Tsunami talked to each other in both the Japanese ([[Chisa Yokoyama]]) and English ([[Sherry Lynn]]) versions.
* In the OAV ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka
* In the Japanese version of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]: Brotherhood'', both Alphonse Elric and the miniature panda Shao May are voiced by [[Rie Kugimiya]].
* The Swedish dub of ''[[Cyborg 009]]'' is ridiculously blatant about this. How bad is it, then? ''One person'' does all the voice for all characters. Men, [[Cross-Dressing Voices|women,]] children, what-have-you. Any scene where any two or more characters are talking thus falls under this trope.
* Magnificently averted in ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'', where only two characters in a [[Loads and Loads of Characters|cast of 660]] share a voice actor, and they never interact.
* Occurs in ''[[
* Some combinations imitate ventriloquism. ''[[Vampire Princess Miyu]]'' has Megumi Ogata voicing both [[An Ice Person|Reiha]] and her [[Creepy Doll
* Early European Portuguese dubs had this bad: ''[[
* ''[[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'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}}.
* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has ''a lot'' of characters played by the same person in the Japanese version. For example: Jet, Macao, Horologium, and Sagittarius are voiced by Masaki Kawanabe.
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* All of the five characters from ''[[Mori no Ando]]'' are voiced by Takishi Taniguchi.
* In one episode of ''[[Detective Conan]]'', Conan voices one of that week's victims, a female pop star. Many jokes are had at Conan's expense, especially considering that he can't sing for his life, but his voice actress is really a singer.
* ''[[The Idolmaster (
* Spanish group Luk Internacional is infamous for this, having only a few voice actors, yet doing many series with [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]. An example of this was the same VA, with the exact same voice, doing ''[[Crayon Shin
* 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]
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== Fan Works ==
* ItsJustSomeRandomGuy does all of the male voices in ''[[I'm a Marvel And
* The internet radio drama ''Fobbies Are Borange'', at one point, had a voice actor have a ''knife fight'' with himself.
* Every character in ''[[Reynaldo the Assassin]]'' is voiced by the same man. This is very noticeable at some points.
* [[Little Kuriboh]] of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
* 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 ''[[
== Films -- Animation ==
* ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]''
** In the Disney animated version, in the scene where Mr. Smee is harassed and threatened by some of the other pirates, that's Bill Thompson having one long conversation with himself.
** Also, as part of a tradition, Hans Conreid, the voice of Captain Hook, also does the voice of Mr. Darling.
** And in the film's sequel, as well as several spinoffs such as ''[[House of Mouse]]'', ''[[
* Repeat ''[[The Ten Commandments]]'' Moses/God example below for Val Kilmer in ''[[The Prince of Egypt]]'', due to a few last-minute changes in recording times.
* In its original language, the animated film ''[[Terkel in Trouble]]'' had [[Loads and Loads of Characters|a pretty huge cast]] all voiced by ''one single person'', including songs.
* In ''[[
* [[Robin Williams]] was the voice actor for both Ramon and Lovelace in ''[[Happy Feet]]''.
* In ''[[
* In the Brazilian dub of ''[[Beauty and
* 90% of [[Disney]]'s new ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' is basically [[Jim Carrey]] showing the viewer he is still insane.
* Likewise the film of ''[[The Polar Express]]'' is [[Tom Hanks]] enjoying his own company and then narrating it all.
* ''[[
* In ''[[Lady and
* In ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'', both [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|the Air Conditioner and the Hanging Lamp]] are voiced by the late [[The Simpsons|Phil Hartman.]]
* ''[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]]''
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** Likewise Alvin, Simon, and David are all voiced by Ross Bagdasarian Jr., and in the original records and cartoon his father Ross Bagdasarian Sr. voiced David as well as all Alvin and Simon. Theodore was voiced by Janice Karman (voice of the Chipettes).
* ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'': Chris Sanders actually not only voiced Stitch, but also his [[Evil Counterpart]] Leroy as well.
* 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]] at the end of the film.
* 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:
* 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|Hamm]], [[A Bug's Life
** 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
* ''[[Bionicle]] 2: Legends of Metru Nui'' has Lhikan, Krekka (Both voiced by Michael Dobson), Onewa and Matau (both voiced by Brian Drummond). Expect a fair amount of this trope happening amongst them. ''Web of Shadows'' continues the trend with Onewa and Matau again.
* In ''[[Spirited Away]]'', the sisters Yubaba and Zeniba are voiced by the same actress both in Japanese and English. The English actress, Suzanne Pleshette, indicated that she changed the differences between the two voices; the Japanese voice of Zeniba was lower-pitched, whereas she changed her voice to be higher-pitched.
* J. Pat O'Malley actually voiced both Colonel the sheepdog and Horace Badun in ''[[101 Dalmatians
== 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
* ''[[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.
** In a later scene, an elderly Biff Tannen converses with a young Biff Tannen, both played by Thomas F. Wilson. [[Visual Effects of Awesome|One even hands a book to the other]].
** Not forgetting the scene where 1985 Doc Brown has a conversation with his "1955 counterpart".
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{{quote| '''Dr. Arliss Loveless:''' We'll take 'em BOTH!}}
* [[Peter Sellers]], after honing his gift for voices on radio (see below), became famous for this on film:
** He plays three characters in ''[[
** Two of his three characters in ''[[Dr. Strangelove]]'' share scenes and converse.
** He plays both the hero and the prince he's impersonating in 1979's ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda]]''.
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* The late Alec Guinness played ''eight'' roles in the 1949 comedy ''[[Kind Hearts and Coronets]]''. Only two at a time ever had a conversation, though.
* ''[[Kung Pow]]: Enter the Fist'' is essentially a dubbed-over wuxia film with some new footage spliced in. Steve Oedekerk did all the dubbing himself, with a single exception (the new character "Whoa"). Essentially it's an entire movie of him talking to himself, with a single scene in which another performer is heard.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** Lawrence Makoare has a short scene giving orders to himself, as he plays both the Witch King and Gothmog (the butt-ugly chief orc).
** Gimli (played by John Rhys-Davies) talking to Treebeard (voiced by John Rhys-Davies).
** 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:
* ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]'': Graham Chapman voices God and plays Arthur in just one example.
* ''[[
* ''[[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.
* Warner later did this trope again in the film ''Quest of the Delta Knights'', where he played both [[The Obi-Wan]] and the [[Evil Overlord]], including a scene where the former is arrested by the latter.
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* In both versions of the 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 ''[[
* In ''[[The Spiderwick Chronicles]]'', Freddy Highmore plays both the Grace brothers including one fistfight where they are rolling around the ground with each other.
* In ''[[Paulie]]'', Jay Mohr provides the voice of the titular parrot, as well as playing one of Paulie's owners.
* In the German dub of ''[[The Expendables]]'' Thomas Danneberg who is known for dubbing [[Sylvester Stallone]] and [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] dubbed their brief conversation with each other.
* [[Peter Jackson]]'s debut movie ''[[Bad Taste]]'' has one character ([[Directed
* 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
* [[Jeremy Irons]] played identical twins in [[David Cronenberg]]'s psychological thriller ''[[Dead Ringers (
* In ''[[Oh God You Devil]]'', [[George Burns]] plays both God and Satan.
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' has this in the prequel films where Temuera Morrison plays Jango Fett and also provides the voices for all of the clone troopers. Justified as it is firmly established in the plot that Jango's DNA was the genetic template from which the clones were created. The clones are usually wearing full body armor, allowing them to be physically portrayed by stuntmen, though Morrison does physically portray a few of the clones himself for scenes when they are seen with their helmets removed.
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* This happens in ''[[Sanctuary]]'' any time Bigfoot and John Druitt/Jack the Ripper share a scene. Both characters are physically portrayed by actor Chris Heyerdahl, although when he is Bigfoot, he has quite a bit of make-up and prostheses on.
* [[Gene Roddenberry]]'s ''[[Andromeda]]'': there was a three-way conversation between the ship's computer, a hologram generated by the ship's computer, and the robotic version of the ship's computer (all played by the same actress, of course).
* In a segment of ''[[
* ''[[Beetleborgs]]'' did this in the episode "Buggin Out" where Flabber slowly turns into Kombat Gnat. Kombat Gnat's provided by Billy Forester who played Flabber.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
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* In ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' episode "Allison From Palmdale," Cameron has several lengthy and creepy conversations with Allison, the girl who her physical appearance was copied from, and at the end {{spoiler|breaks Allison's neck}}. Naturally, both of them are played by [[Summer Glau]].
* Chuck (ventriloquist) and Bob (dummy) regularly had conversations with each other on ''[[Soap]]''. (Also see below)
* ''[[Star Trek:
** Majel Barrett once played both sides of an argument between Lwaxana Troi and the Enterprise's computer.
** In "Brothers", there's a scene between Data, Lore and Dr. Soong -- all played by Brent Spiner.
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* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''
** Michael Shanks plays both Daniel Jackson and the Asgard character Thor. (Asgard look so different from humans that they get only voice actors, although this is a live-action show). Teryl Rothery, who plays Janet Fraiser, also does the voice of an Asgard named Heindall, but these two characters never interact or even meet.
** In the film ''[[Stargate: Continuum]]'', Ben Browder played both Cameron Mitchell and Mitchell's unnamed [[Identical Grandfather|grandpa]].
** Another Michael Shanks example -- 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!
* In one episode of ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'', Mork met Robin Williams and discussed clothing tastes.
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* 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 -- 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.
* On ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', at least one of the "Mads" played one of the 'bots at all times. (Dr. Forrester/Crow, Dr. Erhardt/Tom Servo, Brain Guy/Crow, Bobo/Tom Servo)
* In ''[[Mortal Kombat: Conquest
* Phoebe and her [[Evil Twin]] Ursula on ''[[Friends]]'', (both played by Lisa Kudrow) sometimes interacted with each other.
* An Australian talkshow had a pre-recorded interview with Rolf Harris. However, apparently when Harris arrives the host wasn't there, so Rolf interviewed himself.
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* In ''The Peter Serafinowicz Show'', the titular comedian plays ''all four of [[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]]''
** In the teaser for the episode "Caged Heat," [[Mark Sheppard]] plays both {{spoiler|Crowley and the Alpha Skinwalker.}} [[Large Ham|You can tell that Sheppard has a lot of fun with this.]]
** Jensen got to play two Deans in "Dream a Little Dream of Me" and "The End". The former was a demonic version of Dean, the latter Dean's future self in a [[Crapsack World]].
** Jared Padalecki plays three different versions of Sam in "The Man Who Knew Too Much", and while only two of them are ever onscreen at the same time, it still veers into this trope a couple of times.
* The nonexistent budget ensured that PJ Katie from ''[[PJ
* In multiple episodes of ''Fringe'', Anna Torv plays two version of Olivia Dunham -- 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 -- meaning Torv is fighting herself.
* Happens in any episode of ''[[
* Peter Tuddenham did the voices of the various talking computers in ''[[Blake's Seven|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.
{{quote| '''Slave:''' Uh, I don't wish to interrupt, Master...<br />
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'''Orac:''' You were attempting to override a superior system. Be silent! }}
** Unfortunately, Slave was trying to warn the crew about an impending attack on the ship. Way to go, Orac.
* In ''[[Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
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* The lyrics to ''Thank You Pain'' by [[The Agonist]] consist of a back-and-forth between a judge and a defendant. Both are voiced by the same singer, who uses growling vocals for the judge's lines and clean vocals for the defendant.
** Alissa has admitted that she considers singing this song live [[Difficult but Awesome]].
* [[
** In "The Dooright Family," he voices all five members of a fictional gospel family band.
** In "Dudley Doright of the Highway Patrol," he has a conversation between himself and the title character, also voiced by himself.
** In "Theme from ''[[The Monkees (
** In "Gitarzan," he voices the title character, Jane and the monkey, all of whom sing together at the end.
** In "Moonlight Special," he voices the host of a fictional rock & roll show and all the "acts" on it. This includes a hilarious [[Lampshade Hanging]] in which a lead singer questions why the backing vocalists keep repeating her.
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* In the title track of Rush's 2112, Geddy Lee voices both the unnamed protagonist and the priest in an argument about music.
* 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 [[
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** Becomes even more amazing when you realise that most of the roles were done by the three main cast members and Harry Secombe only played one of them (main character Neddie) most of the time. Sellers was doing well over 90% of the one-off characters.
* Former Goon Michael Bentine also did a radio sketch show where he performed all the voices, but that was done by editing. The Goons did it live on stage.
* ''[[
** This trope has been known to occur quite a bit, especially when farmer Tom Riley and shady businessman Bart Rathbone were running against each other for mayor. Ed Walker, who played both, switched voices in ''real time'', meaning he was literally debating with himself.
** This also happens when Dr. Regis Blackgaard runs his brother Edwin out of town.
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* ''The Phil Hendrie Show'': All the guests on his spoof talk radio show.
* In the entirely improvised sitcom ''The Masterson Inheritance'', each performer would inevitably end up playing several different roles, most of them made up on the spot and many with ridiculous voices. Naturally, they often ended up talking to each other. Paul Merton ended up doing this pretty much ever episode (especially when the others deliberately arranged things so he'd have to). He'd sometimes wriggle out of it by having one character tell the other(s) to shut up while he spoke, or just have whichever one had the most annoying accent drop dead from a heart attack.
* ''[[
** In the spin-off ''You'll Have Had Your Tea?: The Doings of Hamish and Dougal'', all the characters (except in the [[Christmas Episode|Hogmanay Special]]) are voiced by four actors, only one of whom is female. This is frequently [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]].
{{quote| '''Mrs MacAllister:''' How can you stand here and say that to me?<br />
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"Now, a man whose voice isn't done by me. Good evening. Except on special occasions." }}
** In one episode, Jo Kendall uses the same voice for two different characters, simply by introducing every other sentence with "in a different voice".
* ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
** In one spectacular example, John Cleese is required to have one of his characters eaten by another. There are almost twenty seconds of discussion whether it's physically possible, before he is told to get on with it.
{{quote| '''John:''' I don't come here and grace you with my acting skills to be eaten. Anyway, if there's animal eating to be done, I want to do it.<br />
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'''John:''' Well, that's even worse. That's auto-cannibalism. Makes you deaf. }}
** In another episode, Tim Brooke-Taylor, playing Tim Brown-Windsor, Lady Constance and Lady Constance's sister Flossie, genuinely gets mixed up when the three of them have to share a scene. Naturally, they [[Throw It In]].
** In yet ''another'' episode, two of Graeme Garden's characters have an argument together. The scene is introduced by [[
** And in the end of that season, Graeme takes over the serial -- and is, at that point, playing the main hero (Professor Prune), the main villain (Fetish), and the narrator. Naturally, chaos ensues.
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* 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 -- often with Ray's other character Webley Webster chiming in -- with Bob and two or more of ''his'' characters.
* One ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Sound]]'' sketch features a radio debate on the death penalty between two men both played by Robert Webb, who sound exactly the same. It degenerates into chaos as the moderator, played by David Mitchell, desperately tries to find a way to tell the two men apart. At the very end, Webb starts playing the moderator as well.
* On the sketch show ''[[
** In one episode, a sketch is completely derailed as the cast change their roles around in an attempt to avoid talking to themselves.
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* Charles Ludlam's ''[[wikipedia:The Mystery of Irma Vep|The Mystery of Irma Vep]]'' heavily invokes this trope (and occasionally lampshades it in the script). It's a show with four male characters and four female characters, with two male actors playing all of the roles. In particular, the actor playing Nicodemus and Enid not only holds conversations with himself during costume changes, but also plays out a scene involving playing the monster that's mauling Nicodemus off-stage.
* This was commonly done in-story in [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] plays by his "clown" characters (played by comic actors who were presumably able to do multiple voices):
** Feste in ''[[
** Launce in ''[[
** Launcelot Gobbo in ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' parodies the conventions of a medieval morality play by playing himself, [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|his conscience, and the "fiend" who wants him to run away from his master.]]
** In ''[[A Midsummer
* In ''[[The Wizard of Oz (
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* In ''[[Half Life]] 2'', there is only one voice actor each for all male and female rebels. This means any time two same-sex rebels have a conversation, it's with the same voice.
* 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
* ''[[
* ''[[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.
* ''[[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice]]'' has Salvatore and the returning Etna both voiced by Michelle Ruff.
* 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.
* Many of the voice actors in the ''[[Fatal Frame]]'' series play multiple roles as attacking spirits. In ''Fatal Frame 2'' and ''Fatal Frame 3'', this is done deliberately, doubling several seiyuu as both major protagonists and major antagonists, to blur identities as the living characters are drawn deeper into the ghosts' stories.
* ''[[Fallout 3]]'' and ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' have the same problem, running on the same engine (and with ''Oblivion'' and ''Fallout 3'' being made by the same company). Liam Neeson and Matthew Perry both voice-act one character each, and each of the companions have their own unique voice (except Charon, who has the generic "male ghoul" voice, though Raul does not). Pretty much everyone else boils down to the same handful of voices. It's most jarring with Ghouls, who, with a handful of exceptions (Raul, Desmond...and I think that's it) have 1 male voice and 1 female voice per game.
** ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' seems to introduce the player to a world inhabited by clones of Gregory Alan Williams.
* In ''[[The Adventures of Sam
* Speaking of Jackson, ''[[
** William Kasten also voices Max, Jurgen and the Mariachi spaceship's computer AI, in four different styles (Politically Correct, Abusive, Suggestive and Passive-Aggressive)
** 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.
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** And in the E3 2006 trailer, David Knowlin noticeably voiced both Sam and Max.
* A particularly terrifying example of this trope takes place in the first level of ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] II'', as {{spoiler|HK-50}} relates {{spoiler|the Maintenance Officer's}} agonized last words.
* Charles Martinet does the voice of not only both of the [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario Bros.]], but their [[Evil Twin|evil counterparts]] Wario and Waluigi, their baby versions, and Toadsworth. And the Boos all appear to be voiced by the same actor who plays [[Big Bad|Bowser.]] Do you know how you actually figure this out? If you play a Boo's laughter very slowly, it'll actually sound like Bowser, and vice versa!
* In ''[[
* ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''
** Luke and Asch are voiced by the same voice actor {{spoiler|and reasonably so, as one is a clone of the other}}. Thus, a climactic scene near the end of the game where their enmity plays out is possibly more impressive when you realize it's just one guy screaming at himself.
** 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
** It gets better. In one of the ''Z2'' game over screens, [[Macross Frontier|Ozma]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00
** 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 [[V As]] 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 (Disney 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.
** Don't forget the most literal example of this in RE:Chain of Memories, with David Gallagher playing both Riku and the Riku Replica.
* In the original ''[[Warriors Orochi]]'', when Zhuge Liang sniggers at Zhao Yun's inability to comprehend why [[The Strategist]] is working under Orochi, it's the same seiyu (Masaya Onosaka) acting out this trope. Also, since the game has a character switching system, it's possible to hear the same seiyuu doing the "swop-in" lines for two very different characters. By hearing them, you won't believe that Date Masamune and Fuma Kotaro are done by the same person.
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] and his [[Evil Counterpart]] [[Shadow the Hedgehog]] share the same voice actor (Jason Griffith) as of the latter's spin-off game. In ''[[Sonic Shuffle]]'', Sonic and Knuckles are both voiced by Ryan Drummond, and ''[[
** Before the 4Kids voice actors took over, Sonic's voice actor Ryan Drummond also voiced Metal Sonic in ''Sonic Heroes''.
** After they changed voices AGAIN, now in ''Sonic Free Riders'', both Tails and Wave the Swallow are played by [[Kate Higgins]], both Storm the Albatross and Knuckles are played by [[Travis Willingham]], and both Omochao and Blaze are voiced by [[Laura Bailey]].
** In ''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]'' and ''[[Sonic Heroes]]'', Omochao shared its voice actress with Rouge.
* The ''[[Thief]]'' series, at least at first, only had a handful of voice actors, which resulted in Stephen Russell playing Garrett (the [[Deadpan Snarker]] [[Anti-Hero]]), Benny (the resident [[Butt Monkey]] and [[Running Gag]]), Father Karras (a [[Big Bad]]) and many other extras and bit parts, all of which are very different characters with distinct voices (fortunately). At one point, he complains about himself prattling on.
* Chris Metzen, best known as a story-writer, also voice acts two characters in ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Star Wars]]: [[The Force Unleashed]]'', [[Sam Witwer]] (somehow) voices both [[Villain Protagonist]] Galen Marek and '''Emperor Palpatine'''. In the final battle, he ends up having rather lengthy conversations with himself, switching back and forth between what is apparently his natural voice (Galen) and an excellent impression of Ian McDiarmid's [[Large Ham]]-ish Palpatine voice.
* In a bit of ''[[
* In ''[[Gears of War]]'', [[John Dimaggio]], aka [[Futurama|Bender]], voices both Marcus and Hoffman, which is amusing when the two of them lock horns.
* ''[[
** [[John Dimaggio]] also voices both Wakka and Kimahri, although Kimahri talks so little that it doesn't matter all that much. Still, the guy's got amazing vocal range.
** A minor example in ''[[
* There is a scene in ''[[
{{quote| '''Gabriel:''' ''(very sarcastic)'' Thank you very much! I had a ''looovely'' time! Aw shit...}}
* Also a [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]], ''Dengeki Gakuen RPG: Cross of Venus'' had some fun with this at the expense of [[Rie Kugimiya]] ([[Shakugan no Shana|Shana]], [[Toradora
* At the same time, it averts this with ''[[Mamiko Noto]]'', offering no interaction between [[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu|Haruka]] and [[Bonus Boss]] [[Shakugan no Shana|Hecate]] (despite Haruka being a non-playable party member, so technically they do meet). Ditto for Kazuhiko Inoue and Kimiko Koyama, who both reprise roles across two different series; their respective characters don't meet at all
* And yet 'nother [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] example: For ''[[Nicktoons Unite!|Nicktoons: Globs of Doom]]'', THQ figured that [[Rob Paulsen]] talking to himself [[Crack is Cheaper|is cheaper]] and since [[Danny Phantom|Nicolai Technus]] is already a playable character, they decided to let him reprise the role of ''[[Tak and
* ''[[Oracle of Tao]]'': the voice actress for Ambrosia, the lead character, also plays her evil twin (which is an example, even though they are technically the same role, since the evil twin is a [[Literal Split Personality]]), and the villain Estheriel. Oddly, there's an inversion, as she is supposed to be one and the same with God, but this role has its own actor.
* ''[[Street Fighter]]''
** In the ''[[
** Not so, nowadays. In ''[[
** In fact, ''[[
** The Japanese version of ''[[Street Fighter IV
* Even if the voice-acting is minimalistic to barely existent, in ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* The [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|consciences]] in ''[[Black and White]]'' are voiced by the same actor, and frequently disagree between eachother on what the player should do in any situation. This is lampshaded in the downloadable outtakes, where the voice actor gradually morphs his voice from the good conscience's to the bad one's and back, in the middle of a conversation between the two.
* The ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' series manages to avert this for most part, even though many of the voice actors in both, the Japanese and English versions, voiced various different characters thorough the games. A notable exception in which this trope is played straight is in the Japanese version of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty]]'', in which Akio Ohtsuka played both Solid and Solidus Snake.
** Notably averted in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots|Guns of the Patriots]]'', where {{spoiler|Big Boss has a new voice actor to avoid having the big payoff of the entire series wind up as a conversation between David Hayter and David Hayter}}.
* ''[[Legacy of Kain]]''
** Michael Bell is Raziel, and occasional minor roles, like the first of Raziel's brothers he kills in ''Soul Reaver.'' Bell being a [[Man of a Thousand Voices]], it's hard to tell without knowing beforehand. This happens ''literally'' in ''Soul Reaver 2'' when two versions of Raziel from different time periods meet.
** The series purposefully ''averted'' this trope on one occasion; Tony Jay voiced Mortanius in the original game, and then the Elder God for the next two, spurring no small amount of speculation on how the characters could be related. When the two characters finally ended up in the same game, a different actor was cast as Mortanius as a way of telling the audience that the characters aren't meant to have a connection, because the plot is so crazy at times that a simple absence of a confirmation that they're related would be seen ''as'' a confirmation.
* In yet another [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]], ''[[
** And in the American version, [[Yuri Lowenthal]] plays both Rozeluxe Meitzen and Zelos. Of course, one's his normal voice, and the other is his [[Soul Nomad|Gig voice]]
* ''[[Professor Layton]]''
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** {{spoiler|Main character, Pharos, Ryoji Mochizuki, and Nyx Avatar}} share the same VA in both [[Yuri Lowenthal|English]] and [[Akira Ishida|Japanese]]. {{spoiler|All 4 are more or less the same person}}.
** This also applies to Shinjiro and Jin (Grant George) and Chidori and Ken (Mona Marshall) while in ''[[Persona 4]]'', both Nanako and the gas station attendant are voiced by Karen Strassman and both the main character and Adachi are voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch. However, at no point do any of these characters directly talk to each other; as Shinjiro and Jin only have one scene together where Jin doesn't talk, Chidori and Ken don't have any scenes together, and the silent protagonist obviously doesn't talk. Nanako and the gas station have one scene together where they both talk, but not to each other.
* American video gamers are so used to voice actors being tasked with several roles in a single game that it's no surprise to hear the same voice actor for both Warden Quincy Sharp and {{spoiler|the Spirit of Amadeus Arkham}} in ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]''; the same actor also has a few other minor roles. What makes this noteworthy is {{spoiler|that the two characters of [[Nominal Importance]] are related. Bravo, Eidos, using [[Wrong Genre Savvy|our knowledge of the industry]] to [[Magnificent Bastard|lead us]] to ignore the most obvious solution!}}
** In [[Batman: Arkham City|the sequel]], [[Kevin Conroy]] voices both [[Batman]], naturally, as well as {{spoiler|Thomas Elliot}}. Given the latter's motivation, this is probably [[Fridge Brilliance]] again...
* The English version of ''[[Snatcher]]'' narrowly avoids this trope literally, even though there's only three male voice actors (Jeff Lupetin, Jim Parks, and Ray Van Steen) out of seven in the whole game for all the characters.
* Michael Bell also voices multiple characters in the ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' series, with minimal interaction, but at one point narrates a mini game featuring another of his characters. Similarly, both Captain Qwark and his mascot Skrunch are voiced by Jim Ward.
* In ''[[Halo]]'', the pilot of the escape pod Master Chief rides in has the same voice as Cortana (Jen Taylor). Also, Pete Stacker voiced one of the Sergeants as well as Capt. Keyes. And sometimes, there's two or more [[Redshirt Army|Red Shirt Marines]] with the same voice onscreen at the same time.
* In the voiced versions of [[Key Visual Arts]] [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Little Busters
* In ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Skateboarding]]'', Marky, Pete, Pablo, and Erik are voiced by the same [[Cross-Dressing Voices|woman]]. The latter three can try Marky's challenge, so when they talk, it is Talking To Herself. This is averted in the other games, however, as there is no dialogue.
* In ''[[Syphon Filter]]: Dark Mirror'', Maggie Powers and Mara Aramov are both voiced by [[Jennifer Hale]].
* ''[[Strong
* Lorne Lanning is not only the co-founder of [[Oddworld]] Inhabitants and director of all of their games, but he also voiced 80% of the cast in those games
* Like ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum|Arkham Asylum]]'' above, ''[[Singularity]]'' uses this to toy with the player; {{spoiler|[[Nolan North]]}} lends his distinctive voice to two characters, but one of them only has one line, and he delivers it when he can't be clearly seen; if you notice his voice and you don't assume it's the other character, you'll assume it's just this trope.
* [[Nolan North]] voices more than a few pedestrians in ''Mafia II'' which occasionally leads to him talking to himself as demonstrated in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpRkT9JxdnE&feature=player_embedded this video].
* The Phoenix Games version of ''Peter Pan'' has one low-quality voice actor doing narration and characters. Figuring out who is saying what is a minigame in itself.
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* In ''[[Comic Jumper]]'', [[Christopher Sabat]] plays both Captain Smiley and his belligerent sidekick Star.
* ''Interstate76 Nitro Pack'' has a mission in which Skeeter and Natty Dread do battle. They also have a few conversations over the radio. Both characters are voiced by [[Tom Kane]].
* At the end of ''[[Enslaved:
* The ''Infinity'' series ''loves'' this trope. In short, if two characters share a voice actor or one character has their voice actor hidden, you can bet it's going to be important.
** ''[[Never 7]]'': {{spoiler|Haruka}} and {{spoiler|Kurumi, because the former is a clone of the latter.}}
** ''[[
** ''[[
*** {{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
** ''[[Input Output
* 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
* 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.
* Marc Graue voiced everyone in ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[Phantom Brave]]'', while Flonne and Marona have the same voice actress and the exact same voice, they scenes they share are the only ones in the entire game that aren't voiced.
* ''[[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.
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== Web Animation ==
* ''[[
** 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]] 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.
** Talking to Himself also occurs in-universe: The "Teen Girl Squad" sketches are created and completely voiced by Strong Bad, and the "Powered by the Cheat" animations are all voiced by the The Cheat, imitating the regular characters' voices (these imitations are voiced by Mike Chapman, doing his darnedest to sound like his brother).
* Because many webtoons are a one-person operation, they tend to have only one voice actor: Matt Wilson does all the voices in ''[[Bonus Stage (
* The characters in ''[[Retarded Animal Babies]]'' are all voiced by creator David Lovelace, but tuned to different pitches. In one episode, the exact pitch levels he uses for each character are even revealed in the credits.
* ''[[Unforgotten Realms]]'' may justify this, in that the whole premise is [[Deep-Immersion Gaming|two guys playing a homebrew tabletop RPG]] (and a little brother), and so it makes sense that there wouldn't be too much variation.
* While other people play minor characters, all three main characters in ''[[
* The antagonism between ''[[The Leet World]]'''s [[Jerk
* 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.
* 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.
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== Web Original ==
* [[Doug Walker]] is known for his roles as [[Ask That Guy With
** Almost everyone on [[That Guy With
* In the series ''[[There Will Be Brawl]]'', Kirby and Meta-Knight are both voiced by Matthew Mercer.
** ...Who also does the live acting for Ganondorf.
* ''[[Lego Pirate Misadventures]]'' has, for its first two episodes, all but a single character voiced by Mayhem. This trope is mentioned by name in the third episode, which coincidentally was the first episode to have an expanded roster for the other actor. Actually becomes noticeable when two characters voiced by Mayhem are conversing with each other, as they have fewer distinct pauses between their lines and may end up [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping|sounding a bit more like each other]] than normal.
* [[
== Western Animation ==
* On ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', Lee Kanker and Sarah have [[Janyse Jaud]] as their voice actor. Marie Kanker and Kevin have Kathleen Barr voicing for them. And May Kanker and Nazz have [[Erin Fitzgerald]] as their voice actor.
* ''[[The Simpsons (
** Most of the [[Loads and Loads of Characters|cast of hundreds]] are voiced by about a dozen people. Yeardley Smith (Lisa) and Marcia Wallace (Edna Krabappel) are the only ones with a single regular character (though Yeardley Smith has voiced girls who were similar in personality to Lisa, such as the island girl in "Missionary Impossible" and Lisabella from "Last Tap Dance in Springfield.") This trope plays out most often with Mr. Burns and Smithers, who interact in almost every episode that contains either of them, and who are both voiced by Harry Shearer (making the [[Ho Yay]] between them a strange case of [[Screw Yourself]]).
*** ''The Simpsons'' also called attention to this trope in "The Itchy and Scratchy and Poochie Show", where the same voice actress was revealed to do the voices of both Itchy and Scratchy (which she demonstrated for Homer). Which is awkward, because Itchy and Scratchy are voiced by [[Dan Castellaneta]] and Harry Shearer, and the voice actress's normal speaking voice was played by [[Tress MacNeille]].
** Other examples include [[Dan Castellaneta]] as Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor "Diamond" Joe Quimby, the Mexican bumblebee man, Arnie Pie (the hapless helicopter pilot who hates Kent Brockman), the Squeaky-Voiced Teen (real name: Jeremy Freedman), and the Crazy Old Jewish man; Julie Kavner as Marge Simpson and all the women on Marge's side of the family (twin sisters Patty and Selma, her mom Jackie, her Great Aunt Gladys from "Selma's Choice," and an unnamed grandmother in "Fear of Flying"); and [[Nancy Cartwright]] as Bart Simpson, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, Lewis (one of Bart's friends from the early seasons. He was a black kid with a grayish-black afro), Nelson Muntz, and Kearney Zzyzwicz (the bald bully who [[Older Than They Look|looks like a teenager, but isn't]]).
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in one episode, where the sound of Bart's "conscience" turns out to be a record of barnyard sounds recorded by [[Tress MacNeille]]. Later, Homer muses that the PA system in a slaughterhouse also sounds like her.
* And speaking of [[Tress MacNeille]], she did many female voices on ''[[
* This is very common in ''[[Transformers]]'' media:
** On ''[[
*** It's worth mentioning that Scott himself gets a real kick out of this trope, and frequently recites some of his more popular Talking To Himself scenes (particularly from [[
** [[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 Sex 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 ''[[
* [[Billy West]] has an exceptional range, playing four [[Recurrer|recurrers]] 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.
** Besides Billy West, there's also [[Tress MacNeille]], who doesn't do any regulars, she does pretty much every secondary female character, most notably Linda, the female reporter. There's also [[Lauren Tom]], who voices both Amy and her mother.
{{quote| '''[[John Dimaggio]]:''' ''(commentary)'' I love it when Billy gets to talk to himself during scenes.}}
* John DiMaggio has been known to do bit roles in the same episodes in which he features. On ''[[Kim Possible]]'', a voice he did as a joke between takes (an homage to the motorheads that he grew up around in New Jersey) was given his own villainous character, Motor Ed. Ed was then [[Retcon|revealed to be]] the cousin of DiMaggio's main role, Doctor Drakken. He plays random background characters in many episodes without Drakken or Ed. Seriously.
** One ''[[
* [[Charlie Adler]] played the three main characters on ''[[
* In ''[[Jem]]'' he was the voice of villain Eric Raymond and his henchman Zipper. As well as Techrat, Eric Raymond's pet mad scientist.
* Everybody in the UK dub of ''[[Magic Roundabout]]'' is voiced by Eric Thompson.
* In ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' he voiced Ed Bighead and his wife Beverly as well as his boss Mr. Dupette.
* [[Tom Kenny]] voiced numerous minor or recurring characters along with one or two regulars in shows such as ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'', ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'', ''[[
* [[Maurice
{{quote| '''David X:''' Tell me, can you show us the difference between Morbo, Lrrr, and the H.G.B?<br />
'''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!
* [[Rob Paulsen]] played many roles on ''[[
* Series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone do most of the male voices on ''[[
* 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.
** And if they ''did'' need a female voice, it was usually June Foray.
** In the cartoon "Hollywood Steps Out" Kent Rogers voiced all of the male celebrities with the exception of Jerry Colonna (voiced by Blanc), while Sara Berner voiced all the female celebrities.
* In the short lived 1999 cartoon ''Rayman: The Animated Series'', Danny Mann voiced both Rigatoni and Lac-Mac, and [[Carlos Alazraqui]] voiced both Razorbeard and Cookie. So not only did Mann get to order himself around, Alazraqui got to argue with himself...''in the same episode. ''
* [[Seth
** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in one episode, in which Peter (Seth MacFarlane) tells Dr. Hartman (Seth MacFarlane) that he sounds almost exactly like his father-in-law, Carter Pewterschmidt (Seth MacFarlane). Just to drive the point home, Carter randomly shows up at that moment and has a conversation with Dr. Hartman where they wonder how they hadn't noticed it before.
** In the 1996 [[Cartoon Network]] short ''Larry and Steve'', which Seth MacFarlane made when he was at [[Hanna-Barbera]] (and was essentially a ''[[
** It becomes a [[Family Guy
** In the original ''Life of Larry'' (MacFarlane's student film for animation), to which ''Larry and Steve'' was a sequel, he did ''all'' the voices, including Larry's wife Lois.
* ''[[
** They even both [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade it]] in their own ways, Roger dressing up as Stan and upon, ironically, not being able to get Stan's voice right, just makes him sound like ''[[Sean Connery]]'' and Stan after imitating the voice of his own [[Body Double
** Also pointed out in MacFarlane's Hulu commercial, which has him going from one voice to another throughout the commercial.
** [[Seth Green]] also does multiple voices. Two main characters, Chris Griffin and Neil Goldman, and many walk-ons. He also does most of the voices on ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', so he no doubt talks to himself a lot on that.
** [[Seth
** It's really neat when there's a musical number. For example, in the Freakin' FCC number, Seth does a trio with himself and himself. It's pretty sweet.
* ''[[Bump in
* An older example is ''[[Wacky Races]]'' and both of its spinoffs, especially ''[[Dastardly and Muttley
** Don Messick voiced the female pooches in the ''Magnificent Muttley'' segments.
* On ''[[
* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' has roughly five main characters (if you count Rocko's dog Spunky), and a ''lot'' of recurring characters, yet, the show had only five people in the main voice cast; four of them male actors, and only one actress. They consisted of [[Carlos Alazraqui]] (voices Rocko, Spunky, Leon Chameleon, Squirmy, and a few other incidental male characters), [[Tom Kenny]] (voices Heffer, Chuck Chameleon, Mr. Smitty, Peaches, Flecko, Really Really Big Man, Bloaty, the Newscaster, and practically half of the incidental male voices on the show, as well as a few incidental females), Doug Lawrence (voices Filburt, Peter Wolfe, and a few other incidental characters), [[Charlie Adler]] (voices Ed and Bev Bighead, George Wolfe, Grandpa Wolfe, Gladys the Hippo Lady, Mr. Dupette, and several other incidental males and a few females as well), and Linda Wallem (voices Dr. Hutchison, Virginia Wolfe, Cindy Wolfe, Tammy, and many other incidental female characters.) Though there were a few minor exceptions, such as Richard Simmons voicing ''himself'' in an early episode, and series creator Joe Murray voicing Ralph Bighead (and himself in one episode).
* A ''[[Static Shock]]'' episode, "A League of Their Own", had [[Phil
* They do it to him again in the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode(s) "The Once And Future Thing". The episode also has Batman talking to his future self. The differences are subtle.
* ''[[Justice League]]''
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** [[Jennifer Hale]] handles Killer Frost and Giganta. In the latter's first episode, Grodd puts them through [[It Makes Sense in Context|a series of trust exercises]], with little Frost catching immense (6' or so) Giganta... who is letting herself fall off a cliff into Frost's arms. Predictably, [[Hilarity Ensues|pain ensues]].
** And in the episode "Injustice For All", [[Mark Hamill]] voiced both Joker and Solomon Grundy, who of course start arguing.
** In the ''[[Batman:
** 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]].
** All these examples of Batman are ''literalised'' examples of the ''character'' talking to himself, so it's no real surprise...
* Tim Daly, the voice of the titular character from ''[[Superman:
** 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.
* An early episode of [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s version of ''[[The Little Rascals]]'' had [[Patty Maloney]] doing at least one brief exchange between Darla Hood and her beauty-pageant rival, whose family had just moved to Greenpoint.
* It would seem that [[Phil
* ''[[The Boondocks]]'' does this a lot because two of the main characters (Huey and Riley) have the same [[Cross-Dressing Voices|woman]], Regina King, doing their voices.
* ''[[Drawn Together]]'' makes extensive use of this practice by having its actors voice numerous minor characters in addition to their regular roles. Most of the female characters are voiced by Cree Summer or Tara Strong while most of the male characters are voiced by Jess Harnell or James Arnold Taylor. Strong, in fact, voices two regular characters, Princess Clara and Toot Braunstein. In one DVD commentary, the creators state that they often give Clara and Toot scenes together just to watch Tara have conversations with herself.
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** 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. [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.
** In the original English-language version, [[Ben Diskin]] voices both Numbuhs 1 and 2.
** Also, [[Lauren Tom]] is [[Futurama|again]] her own mother, with Number 3 and Mrs. Sanban; and [[Cree Summer]] is 75% of an entire family, being Number 5, her older sister [[The Danza|Cree]], and their French-accented mother, all seen having dinner together in one episode.
** And [[Dee Bradley Baker]] voices Numbuh 4 along his baby brother Joey and many villains like Mr. Fibb, The Toilenator, Lunk, and Heinrich,and many of the monsters.
* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (
** [[Tress MacNeille]] played both Gadget and, yes, Chip. They talked to each other. (And spoke simultaneously in other situations, including but not limited to "Rescue Rangers away!", but that's another story.)
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKTPyxAJB2s This] video shows just how similar their voices are: the pitch (but not the speed) is increased to achieve Chip's voice.
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** And [[Jim Cummings]] voice Fat Cat and his [[Mook]] Wart, as well as Monterey Jack (replacing Peter Cullen); The [[Five Part Pilot]] "To the Rescue" has a few instances of this.
* ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' already has a few instances of this. [[John Dimaggio]]'s Hammerhead coaxes his Flint Marko into adopting the Sandman identity. [[Clancy Brown]]'s Captain Stacy tries to order his Rhino to stand down. [[Daran Norris]] performs both sides of a conversation between J. Jonah Jameson and his son John. [[Steven Jay Blum]] plays both the Green Goblin and a thug that he recruits.
* ''[[Teen Titans (
** [[Hynden Walch]] played both Starfire and her evil sister Blackfire -- 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.
** Not to mention when Beast Boy faught Adonis in "The Beast Within". Both characters were voiced by [[Greg Cipes]].
** Taken to a bit of an extreme with the episode "Hide and Seek", which has [[Tara Strong]] as Raven and baby Teether, and Russi Taylor (voice of Minnie Mouse since the mid-1980s) as Melvin and Timmy. The four characters spend the entire episode together, starting from before the theme song even starts. Of course, there were only a total of six main characters in the episode, but still...
* On ''[[
* Likewise, every female character on ''[[
* ''[[Daria]]''
** Wendy Hoopes voiced both Helen and Quinn Morgendorffer. In the [[Musical Episode]], she even sings a duet with herself. Plus she voices Jane Lane, who also converses with each of the other two at least once.
** There's also Timothy O'Neill and Anthony Demartino (Both voiced by [[Marc Thompson]]), who have a lot of conversations together.
* 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
* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]''
** [[Grey
** Cosmo, Jorgen, Anti-Cosmo and Mr. Turner all have the same voice actor, [[Daran Norris]].
* [[Grey
* And best friends Ingrid and Lupe in ''[[My Gym
* 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:
** With [[Richard Horvitz]] doing both Billy and his father Harold, Greg Eagles doing Grim and Sperg, and of course [[Phil
** 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
* ''[[Home Movies]]''
** H. Jon Benjamin does the voices of both Coach McGuirk and Jason, and converses with himself quite often.
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** [[Frank Welker]] voiced both Baby Kermit and Baby Beaker, while Greg Berg voiced both Baby Fozzie and Baby Scooter, and in the first two seasons, Howie Mandel assumed triple duty as Baby Animal, [[Cross-Dressing Voices|Baby Skeeter]] and Baby Bunsen Honeydew. In the third season, Howie Mandel left the show, and Dave Coulier (a.k.a. Joey Gladstone of ''[[Full House]]'') took over as Baby Animal and Baby Bunsen, while [[Frank Welker]] took over the triple-duty, voicing Baby Skeeter in addition to Kermit and Beaker.
** Dave Coulier also voiced Bean Bunny, Janice, Statler and Waldorf. Russi Taylor voiced Gonzo and Robin.
* ''[[Star Wars:
** [[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.
*** Umbara arc would be the best example. Nothing but clones and one Jedi general for ''four'' episodes.
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* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'', [[Mike Judge]] voices Hank Hill, Boomhauer and Stuart Dooley; [[Lauren Tom]] voices Connie Soupanoosinpone and her mother Mihn; Toby Huss voices Cotton Hill and Kahn Soupanoosinpone; Pamela Adlon voices Bobby Hill and Clark Peters, and [[Stephen Root]] voices Bill Dautrieve and Buck Strickland.
* [[Jim Cummings]] (a voice actor of considerable talent) is the voice of both [[Winnie the Pooh]] and his best friend Tigger, ever since halfway through the late-1980s Saturday morning series (although Paul Winchell did return for the sequel film).
** ... And the voice of [[Darkwing Duck (
** And Bonkers and his partner, Lucky Piquel, in ''[[
* [[Kath Soucie]] voiced Cadpig, Rolly, ''and'' Anita in ''101Dalmatians the Series''. The first two are half of the show's main cast.
* In the ''[[Legion of Super
* Similar to the example for [[Tom Kenny]] above, both he and fellow ''Handy Manny'' VA Nika Futterman have this happen a lot to their characters; Tom Kenny voices Pat, of the main cast and Mr. Lopart of the supporting, who occasionally have dialogues. Nika Futterman has it happen a bit more though, because ''both'' her main characters (Stretch and Squeeze) will frequently chat between themselves, and she also voices many of the adult female supporting cast members. Another VA, Carlos Alazraqui, also has this happen to a degree because besides Felipe in the main group, he also voices many of the adult male supporting cast.
* In the series ''[[
* ''[[G.I. Joe: Resolute]]'' has a cast of roughly twenty characters, each voiced by [[Charlie Adler]], [[Steve Blum]], [[Grey
* In ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[
** 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.
** Over the years some of the minor characters have started sounding more like the major characters voiced by the same actors. This is finally [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] when Larry comments that he had always thought Archibald was the announcer for the "Silly Songs with Larry".
* On ''[[
* ''[[
** Averted: despite the fact that [[Keith David]] voices both Goliath and Officer Morgan, the two only ever met in the comic.
** Although David does get to do it whenever Thailog shows up, you know, since Thailog is an evil clone.
** Also played straight with David Warner when the Archmage has conversations with his future self in "Avalon, Part Two."
** Not to mention [[Kath Soucie]] does this when Princess Katharine is talking to Ophelia on Avalon.
* ''[[
** An episode has the Mayor and the Narrator (both voiced by [[Tom Kenny]]) talking to each other.
** Other examples in the show include Brick and Boomer of the Rowdyruff Boys are voiced by [[Rob Paulsen]], the Gangreen Gang is voiced by two people ([[Jeff Bennett]] voices Ace, Big Billy, and Grubber and [[Tom Kenny]] voices Snake and Arturo), and all three members of the Amoeba Boys are voiced by Chuck McCann.
* ''[[X-Men: Evolution
* Bernard Cribbins provided the voices of all the main characters on the original ''[[The Wombles]]''.
* Occurs in the frist two ''[[
** The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987
** Although rarer in [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
** In the Mexican dub of the first cartoon, both Shredder and Krang were voiced by voice actor Herman López.
* Happens constantly in ''[[
** The season 4 episode "The Revenge Society" has Urbaniak in a three-way conversation with himself.
** The season 3 episode "Shadowman 9: In the Cradle of Destiny", an episode with over a dozen characters, was voiced entirely by three people.
* In ''Jungle Cubs'', [[Jason Marsden]] in the first two seasons voiced both Shere Khan and Louie who often had arguments.
* The Mexican dub of ''[[Dennis the Menace US]]'' had voice actress Patricia Acevedo do the voices for Joey, Margaret and Alice [Dennis' mom]. Likewise, Dennis and Gina are both voiced by voice actress Gabriela Willert.
** Likewise in the English version, [[Phil Hartman]] and later [[Maurice
* A crossover episode of ''[[The Mask (
* Cartoon Network's relatively new Marvel project, ''[[The
* The only Omnitrix aliens in ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force
** [[Yuri Lowenthal]] voices Ben and Albedo. Justified in that the latter was stuck in Ben's human form (long story).
** 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 Blam!]]'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 ''[[
** In that same vein, [[Kath Soucie]] voiced both Princess Sally and her computer {=NICOLE=} in ''[[Sonic
* An episode of ''[[Nightmare Ned]]'' had [[Kath Soucie]] voicing a set of twins, essentially repeating what she had been doing on ''[[
* [[Jeff Bennett]] voiced both Pith Possum and his villains on ''[[The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show]]'', meaning he was essentially fighting himself.
* ''[[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.
* On ''[[Jimmy Two
* Happens with many characters on ''[[The Mr. Men Show]]''. Perhaps the strangest example is Mr. Grumpy and Mr. Happy in the US dub.
* ''[[Willow the Wisp]]'' was voiced by Kenneth Williams (or in [[The Remake]] James Dreyfuss). That's it. Six main characters, [[Larynx Dissonance|two of whom were female]], and various guest roles, all done by one man.
* [[Frank Welker]] also voices both Odie (reprising the role from ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'') and Garfield on ''[[The Garfield Show]]''. Welker also voices various extras and secondary characters. In one episode, Garfield is terrorized in a nightmare by a talking scale (also voiced by Welker); over the course of the dream, the scale slowly changes its shrill voice until it winds up with Welker's [[Inspector Gadget|Dr. Claw]] voice. [[Jason Marsden]] also does several voices on the show.
* On ''[[
** And, on a sinister note, {{spoiler|the voice of [[Artifact of Doom|the Cube]]. [[Hearing Voices|Talking to Himself]] [[Through the Eyes of Madness|indeed]]}}.
* Cle Bennett voices both DJ and DJ's mother in ''[[Total Drama]]''. He also voices Chef Hatchet, who has frequently interacted with DJ.
** From the same program, Peter Oldring voices Cody, Ezekiel, & Tyler, which meant ''Total Drama World Tour'' must have been a fun experience for him.
** A better example would be Scott [[Mc Cord]], who plays both Owen & Trent, who've interacted a few times.
* In the PBS animated show ''[[Arthur (
* On ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** Rainbow Dash and Applejack are both voiced by [[Hey Ocean
** Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie are voiced by Andrea Libman.
*** Which leads to a bit of [[Fridge Brilliance]], as Pinkie Pie won't play any pranks on Fluttershy, as she claims Fluttershy is too sensitive and would take it seriously. However, it's often implied that Pinkie Pie is well aware of the [[Fourth Wall]].
** Rarity's voice actor, [[Tabitha St. Germain
*** [[Tabitha St. Germain
*** She also voices Twilight Sparkle in the recordings done at [[The Ocean Group]] ([[Tara Strong]], Twilight's voice actress, is based in Los Angeles, [[The Ocean Group]] is in Vancouver), so while she does a lot of this (for example, most of season 2 episode 4 is Twilight talking to Luna, not to mention all the times Rarity and Twilight have a conversation), most of it is dubbed over later.
** In "Party Of One", Pinkie Pie [[Sanity Slippage|goes a little crazy]] when she believes her friends don't attend her parties anymore. So she makes new friends...out of a pile of rocks, a dust bunny, a bucket of turnips and a sack of flour. And then starts arguing with them. They argue back (she's voicing them, of course.)
* ''[[
** [[
** Alan Oppenheimer: Prime Evil, (possibly) Long John Scarechrome, (possibly) Fangster
** [[Peter Cullen]]: Eddie Spenser, Jr., Eddie Spenser, Sr., Haunter, etc.
** Lou Scheimer (also Filmation's founder): Tracy, Ansabone, Sir Trance-a-Lot, Fib Face
*** This, of course, is to say ''nothing'' of the [[Loads and Loads of Characters|myriad one-shot characters.]]
* On ''[[
* ''[[Batman:
** [[John Dimaggio]]: [[Aquaman (Comic Book)|Aquaman]], Black Mask, Vigilante, Ubu, [[Black Adam]], Gorilla Grodd, etc.
** [[Tara Strong]]: Billy Batson, Mary Marvel, Toddler Batman, Huntress, etc.
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** [[Jeff Bennett]]: [[The Joker]], Captain Marvel, Batman's singing voice
* In ''[[The Problem Solverz]]'', Ben Jones voices Alfe and Roba.
* In ''[[
* ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
** [[Fred Tatasciore]] voices not only [[Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|The Incredible Hulk]], but also Graviton, the first villain the Avengers defeated together.
** Tatasciore also does some taking to himself in an episode guest-starring the [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]], as rivals The Hulk and The Thing.
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** Rick D. Wasserman voices [[The Mighty Thor]] and the Absorbing Man, who have a fight in "Gamma World" while exchanging battle cries.
** [[Robin Atkin Downes]] voices Baron Zemo and The Abomination, the two Masters of Evil who argue the most.
* ''[[
* ''The Adventures of [[
* Most of the characters in ''[[Taz
* ''[[Young Justice (
** Bruce Greenwood: Batman, Pieter Cross
** Danica Mckellar: Miss Martian, Marie Logan
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** Vanessa Marshall: Black Canary, Firebrand/Red Inferno, Amanda Spence
** Kelly Hu: Cheshire, Huntress/Paula Crock
* ''[[Ultimate Spider-Man (
** [[Tom Kenny]]: Doctor Octopus, Curt Connors, Wizard
** [[Tara Strong]]: Mary Jane Watson, Thundra
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* [[Beatles Cartoon|The Beatles cartoon]]: Paul Frees was John and George, Lance Percival was Paul and Ringo.
* 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 ''[[
*** And speaking of Huey, Dewey, and Louie appearances, we might as well add in ''[[
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